[NYDAILYNEWS] Somehow that's just ever so appropriate.
A Queens mom spoke to her 16-year-old son by phone about 10 p.m. on New Year’s Eve, telling him to stay inside. “He said that he would,” a tearful Marguerite Tolson-Jackson, 52, told the Daily News. Lied through his teeth, did he?
It was the last time she would hear her boy’s voice. The teen went to hang out with friends and was fatally shot in the neck around 11:30 p.m. Thursday near a pal’s home at Merrick Blvd. and 109th Ave. in Jamaica. Now that I think about it, I've never had a "pal" like that.
Jihad Jackson became the last murder victim of 2015, a year that saw a 4.5% increase — from 333 to 348 — in homicides. It was the first time the number of murders increased from year to year in New York since 2010. There were 471 homicides in 2009 and 536 in 2010 — a spike of 13.8%. The police questioned two men in connection with Jackson’s murder, but no arrests have been made. The motive was still unclear late Friday. He had a neck, they had a bullet?
Jackson, his parents and siblings had taken a bus to Washington, D.C., for a two-week visit to celebrate his older brother’s birthday. But the teen grew bored and homesick and begged his mom to let him come back to New York. He left on a return bus Thursday, and was supposed to go straight to his house in Rosedale. Instead, he went to the friend’s house where he had his final phone conversation with his mom. “I just told him to stay inside,” Tolson-Jackson told The News. You can't even ridicule this mess. It comes pre-ridiculed.
Jackson, a junior at Law Enforcement High School,
He was meant to become a policeman? That's a tragedy.
later sent Snapchat photos to his cousin in D.C. He seemed at ease, sporting a green hoodie, jeans and a pair of Timberlands he’d gotten as a Christmas gift.
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Just a note - Before you decide to name your child Jihad, get a mental picture of a conservatively dressed row of HR professionals rifling through a stack of applications from potential job candidates. Now picture every application from a person named Jihad being tossed in a garbage can. Just name the kid Mohammed, Omar or Barrak, if you must, and things will turn out
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Jihad Jackson became the last murder victim of 2015, a year that saw a 4.5% increase — from 333 to 348 — in homicides. It was the first time the number of murders increased from year to year in New York since 2010.
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Compared to the beef stew C-Rat, MREs are culinary masterpieces. I still remember cold mornings putting the partially opened can on the 1/4 ton exhaust manifold to melt the white congealed fatty topping.
Hope those fellas know what they are doing. Rumor is the FBI have moved their HRT teams in. I thought this was s'posed to be an armed protest.
Bundy and his supporters were in Oregon after two men were scheduled to go to prison on Monday for setting fires on federal land, according to a report by Oregon Public Broadcasting. The case has caused a stir in eastern Oregon because the two men were charged under anti-terrorism laws.
The two men, Dwight and Steve Hammond, appealed their cases multiple times, the report stated. They were required to report to prison on Monday.
The militia groups say the Hammond's were illegally prosecuted for setting what they claim was a controlled fire because the federal government has no authority at the county level.
"The facility has been the tool to do all the tyranny that has been placed upon the Hammonds," Ammon Bundy told the Oregonian.
Cliven Bundy, a rancher who engaged in an armed standoff with federal officials due to a dispute he had with the Bureau of Land Management, was not present.
Local MSM report on the incident. Mike Vanderboegh has been critical of several of the individuals involved, saying that the blowback will hurt every Threeper and patriot. I withhold my judgement.
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A Threeper is three percent of the entire population of the United States that will actually take up arms in defense of the Constitution, and against unconstitutional government actions.
The name is derived from the fact that only three percent of the population of the colonies actually fought the British during the American Revolutionary War back in the 1770s.
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Felons in waiting helpfully deliver a portion of the guns they will soon be prohibited from owning into federal possession. No wonder the country has gone to Hell in a hand-basket.
Harney county, Oregon update: I just got off the phone with Blaine (Cooper) who is AT the wildlife refuge. To dispel any rumors, this is a vetted update. There is NO hostile takeover. The land and building is public, and there are NO, do not trespass signs, or hours of operation posted. The doors were NOT locked. There is NO armed standoff at this time. They are simply occupying a building owned by We The People. Many of the town folk work for BLM, hence the problem. Most town folk are also very supportive of the Hammonds. This is a peaceful protest, and is following a redress of grievances with thousands of signatures. For all other vetted info, see the Bundy Ranch Facebook page. Ammon is on scene in Oregon. Again, I just got off the phone. This info is vetted, and they are looking for more peaceful, cool heads, and rationaly minded patriots to join them in support of the Hammonds, and America...
BREAKING! SHARE! Standing for the rights of Men & Women. Calling all freedom loving people to come to Harney County Oregon, come to the Malhuer Wildlife Refuge. The people are finally getting some good use out of a federal facility.
Posted by Bundy Ranch on Saturday, January 2, 2016
Not that it's an "in your face!" to Boko Haram or anything...
[AnNahar] Nigeria on Friday unveiled a nine-meter tall statue of Jesus Christ carved from white marble, thought to be the biggest of its kind in Africa.
Standing barefoot with arms outstretched, the "Jesus de Greatest" statue weighs in at 40 tonnes.
More than 100 priests and hundreds of Catholic worshipers attended the nine-meter (30-foot) statue's official unveiling in the village of Abajah in southeastern Nigeria.
It was commissioned by Obinna Onuoha, a local businessman who hired a Chinese company to carve it and placed it in the grounds of a 2000-capacity church that he built in 2012.
In his homily at a Mass before unveiling the statue, presiding bishop Augustine Tochukwu Okwuoma said it would be a "very great symbol of faith" for Catholic worshipers and passers-by alike.
"It will remind them of the importance of Jesus Christ," said Okwuoma.
The cost of the statue has not been revealed.
Earlier in the week, Onuoha told AFP it would be "the biggest statue of Jesus on the continent."
The 43-year-old boss of an oil and gas distribution company timed the statue's unveiling to coincide with his parents' 50th wedding anniversary.
Nigeria, Africa's most populous country with 170 million people, is split between a more prosperous Christian south and a poor Muslim north -- an occasional source of tension.
More than 17,000 people have been killed in Islamist group Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... 's six-year quest to create an independent state but the violence has been mainly confined to Nigeria's Muslim-majority north.
And even as Nigeria rings in 2016, the ever-present threat of violence by Boko Haram hangs heavy over the country, despite official claims that the battle against the Islamist group has been "technically" won.
"We think religions can exist side by side," Onuoha said. "We hope that people can live in harmony."
He said the idea of building a giant statue of Jesus came to him in a dream nearly 20 years ago.
And when his 68-year-old mother fell seriously ill a few years ago, she made him promise that he would build a church if she survived.
Cuernavaca, Mexico -- Several gunmen burst into the home of a newly elected Mexican mayor and shot her dead on Saturday, just hours into her tenure, police said.
Gisela Mota, 33, a left-of-center former member of Congress, was gunned down barely 24 hours after taking her oath of office in the city of Temixco, which is about 90 kilometers (55 miles) from the capital Mexico City. Temixco is plagued by organized crime and rampant drug trafficking -- problems the slain mayor had vowed to help clean up.
The government of central Morelos state said that two of the suspected gunmen had been killed and one was in custody. State Governor Graco Ramirez pledged there would be "no impunity."
Sure. Now then, who wants to be the new mayor?
Morelos has been one of the Mexican states most affected by drug violence plaguing the country, including kidnappings and murders.
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How can you tell an honest politician in Mexico?
[ALMANAR.LB] North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un said raising living standards was his top priority in an annual New Year's address on Friday.
The 30-minute televised speech was not without the normal bellicose rhetoric -- threatening a "sacred war" if provoked and stressing the need to develop "varied" military strike options -- but the clear thrust was economic development in the isolated, cash-strapped state.
"The Workers Party of Korea gives top priority to the issue of improving people's living standards among millions of other national tasks," Kim said.
"We must create a turnaround in economic development," he added.
On relations with South Korea, Kim said he was open to talks but warned Seoul against any activity that might threaten a tentative cross-border agreement reached in August to reduce tensions.
In particular, he stressed the provocative dangers inherent in the South's annual joint military exercises with the United States -- a perennial thorn in North-South ties.
"If aggressors and provocateurs touch us even slightly, we will not hesitate to respond with a merciless sacred war for justice and national reunification," he said.
His speech came a day after the state funeral of North Korea's top official in charge of relations with South Korea, Kim Yang-Gon, who state media reported as having died in a car accident on Tuesday.
Kim Jong-Un, wearing black-rimmed glasses and his trademark black Mao suit, delivered his speech from behind a lectern in a wood-paneled room in the ruling Workers' Party Central Committee Office Building in Pyongyang.
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I am now thoroughly intimidated and will cease all provocation which has previously prevented North Korea from appreciably improving living standards in the half century that I have walked the Earth. Please proceed with out further imposition by me with your surely excellent plan to turn North Korea into a nationwide equivalent of an episode of MTV's hot show Cribs.
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All previous efforts were thwarted by my personal negativity, but I have hit the reset button so things will now progress towards the workers utopia that Marx envisioned originally despite the gravitational forces of everything sane people have ever discovered about economics.
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Nigel Farage believes his car was tampered with and he could have been the victim of an assassination attempt after a high speed crash on a motorway.
The Ukip leader's car left the road after one of the wheels on his Volvo came loose as he was driving back to Kent from Brussels, according to the Mail on Sunday. The police told him that the nuts on all his wheels had been deliberately unscrewed.
[DAWN] An alleged mugger was rubbed out and another injured by the local police near Khyaban-e-Jami area of the metropolis on Saturday, in a shootout that was described as 'fake' by the victim's family.
According to SHO Latif, the complainant Ahsan Salim was standing outside his residence with his friends when two men on a cycle of violence came and snatched their phones and money.
Salim and his friends chased the muggers in their car and solicited the help of a police mobile they ran into on the way. The police, along with the complainant, finally intercepted the two alleged muggers near Khyaban-e-Jami.
In a proceeding shootout, one of the two alleged robbers was rubbed out.
SHO Latif added that the suspect had recently been deported from Malaysia on December 22, where he had been living illegally on an expired visit visa.
Police officials recovered the cell phones and cash from the second man's custody, and confirmed that the belonging were of Salim and his friends.
According to the police, the robber was a resident of Lyari ...one of the eighteen constituent towns of the city of Karachi. It is the smallest town by area in the city but also the most densely populated. Lyari has few schools, substandard hospitals, a poor water system, limited infrastructure, and broken roads. It is a stronghold of ruling Pakistan Peoples Party. Ubiquitous gang activity and a thriving narcotics industry make Lyari one of the most disturbed places in Karachi, which is really saying a lot.... from where he had left with his accomplice with the intention of mugging.
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[DAWN] LAHORE: A 15-year old rape survivor who was assaulted by at least eight men in a hotel on Mall Road attempted suicide after continuous pressure from police and prosecution, her family said Saturday.
The victim's brother-in-law told Dawn that the family was about to go to sleep at night when she jumped from the terrace. She injured herself and was rushed to the Services Hospital. She is now back at home recovering.
He said she had been under duress from the police interrogations, where officials harassed her with "all kinds of questions".
"She's a child," her brother-in-law said. "You can imagine what kind of questions they ask."
The victim's sister earlier told Dawn that police were pressuring their family to exclude the name of main suspect Adnan from the FIR. She said police started action against the suspects after some TV channels aired the news and appealed to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... and Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif ...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab... for justice.
The teenage girl, an 8th grade student, had earlier said that PML-N Punjab Youth Wing additional secretary general Adnan and his accomplices kidnapped her from Multan Road and forced her to drink some intoxicated liquid after which she lost consciousness.
This was followed by a text message that was received on the girl's mother's mobile phone around 11pm last Friday. The text said: "Your daughter is lying unconscious in room number 230 of a hotel on The Mall." She said the family found the girl lying unconscious in the hotel room when they reached there along with police.
Racecourse police recovered the girl from the hotel room and shifted her to Services Hospital where reports of initial medical tests revealed she had been assaulted.
On the complaint of the survivor's mother, the police started the paperwork but haven't done much else against suspects Abdul Majid, Muhammad Umer, Ameer Ahmed, Haris, Bilawal, Zaman and PML-N Additional Secretary General of the youth wing Mian Adnan Sanaullah.
DNA tests of the eight men and the survivor were conducted by the Punjab Forensic Science Agency.
The FIR was initially registered against the suspects under Sections 376 and 506 of the Pakistain Penal Code. Police also added abduction to the list of charges against the eight accused.
All eight suspects were tossed in the slammer ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... on Saturday and Sunday, along with the hotel manager Imran. The hotel facility has since been sealed.
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I guess the plea bargaining system in Pakistan leaves something to be desired. Give her a Visa and a foster home in Texas where she can learn to fire a gun. She has suffered enough.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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