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-Lurid Crime Tales-
How an extra GPS tracker on a drug dealer's car unraveled a corrupt Baltimore police force that robbed homeless people and resold confiscated heroin and ecstasy back on the street
[Mail] It was a case that would rock Baltimore to its core. An elite police squad robbing its own citizens, stealing thousands of dollars and re-selling confiscated drugs.

There were homeless men and construction workers who were robbed, prisoners who claimed they were framed, and a shed where ecstasy and heroin were stored.

What sounds like a plot out of a Hollywood film became reality in March 2017 when seven of the eight men who made up the Gun Trace Task force were arrested.

They became one of America's most corrupt police force, and their entire world came crashing down due to one rogue GPS tracker, according to the BBC.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/04/2018 05:23 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sounds about right for Blueistan.
Posted by: Iblis || 04/04/2018 13:58 Comments || Top||


Strzok and Page Texts Reveal FBI, DOJ Rush to Obtain Anti-Trump FISA Warrant
[PJ] Congressional investigators have uncovered text messages between FBI lovebirds Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, revealing that the bureau may have improperly coordinated with Department of Justice officials in an effort to rush the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant on former Trump campaign volunteer Carter Page, investigative journalist Sara Carter reported in an exclusive Tuesday. The communications were released to congressional investigators last week.

The texts reportedly show then-FBI Special Agent Strzok and his colleague, FBI lawyer Lisa Page, discussing the bureau’s difficulty in securing the warrant to spy on Carter Page. They finally succeeded in obtaining the warrant on Oct. 19, 2016, approximately one month after the conversation took place. There were then three subsequent renewals every 90 days for the warrant on Page.

As reported by Carter last week, the communications also suggest that there was coordination by Obama White House officials, the CIA, and the FBI in the investigation into President Donald Trump’s campaign. According to congressional sources, the documents revealed that former Obama White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough was involved in the initial investigation into Trump’s campaign and that "Comey, Brennan, and McDonough were working in concert to ensure an investigation was initiated."
Emphasis added.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/04/2018 01:56 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Shooter dead, at least 3 injured in YouTube shooting
SAN BRUNO (KRON) - A woman shot multiple people Tuesday before turning the gun on herself at YouTube's headquarters in San Bruno, according to police.

Sources tell KRON4 that the shooting appears to be the result of a domestic dispute. A woman shot her boyfriend, who was the intended target. The others injured were caught in the cross fire.

The woman drove up from San Diego Tuesday, according to KRON4's source.

The shooter is believed to be dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, San Bruno Police Chief Ed Barberini confirmed during a press conference at 2:30 p.m.

There are at least three victims being treated for gunshot wounds at San Francisco General Hospital. A fourth person injured has a twisted ankle.

Police say the shooter used a handgun. The shooting happened while employees were having lunch on a patio.

At 12:46 p.m., police received numerous 911 calls reporting gunfire at the YouTube campus located at 901 Cherry Avenue.
Ulaigum Ebbineng7056, thank you for submitting this when it was an active shooter situation. As it happened, by the time the moderators checked the articles in the hopper, this had been updated to what is now here, and so it was no longer an active situation deserving immediate publication.

One of the reasons we added some new moderators is to have more eyes looking for such posts from y’all, so we can watch the updates together in real time. Again, thank you for helping make Rantburg the wonderful place it is.

— trailing wife for the moderators
Posted by: Ulaigum Ebbineng7056 || 04/04/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  She was a self proclaimed Persian activist, a vegan, and an animal rights activist. A California nut job...
Posted by: 40 Pan || 04/04/2018 0:16 Comments || Top||

#2  Whoops —yesterday was a busy day, so I completely missed that g(r)omgoru posted this story yesterday afternoon. My apologies.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/04/2018 0:37 Comments || Top||

#3  Breitbart - YouTube Shooter ID’d as Iranian Azeri Vegan Activist Nasim Aghdam

The shooter who took her own life after wounding four YouTube employees at the video hosting website’s San Bruno, California, offices on Tuesday has been identified as Nasim Aghdam in multiple reports, after being described as a “white woman in a headscarf” earlier in the day.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/04/2018 1:26 Comments || Top||

#4  So we won't see any more stories cause they will bury this
Posted by: Silentbrick || 04/04/2018 1:31 Comments || Top||

#5  Summary: The liberal elite epicenter of multi-culturalism was attacked today by one of their very own globalist/internationalist zealot nut jobs. If you look at where this one is from, everything in that culture is settled by death and destruction.
Posted by: Ulaigum Ebbineng7056 || 04/04/2018 1:47 Comments || Top||

#6 

  • YouTube tried demonetizing and censoring conservatives using an algorithm.

  • The AI starts indiscriminately targeting basically everyone on YouTube.

  • A crazy left wing Iranian gets censored and shoots up YouTube HQ for revenge.

Posted by: Herb McCoy || 04/04/2018 1:47 Comments || Top||

#7 
Posted by: Gronter Smiter of the French9585 || 04/04/2018 3:06 Comments || Top||

#8  And she didn't use shampoo because they use animal experimentation in testing new kinds?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/04/2018 3:11 Comments || Top||

#9  tINA pATEL: BREAKING: Just spoke to the father of Nasim Aghdam. He says his daughter had been missing for several days. When cops found her in NorCal last night, he warned them she was angry with YouTube. @CBSLA
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 04/04/2018 7:49 Comments || Top||

#10  ...so another known wolf.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/04/2018 7:55 Comments || Top||

#11  Will this case become an argument for why women should not be allowed to have guns? Just asking.

Actually, I predict that this will disappear from the news cycle around the middle of next week due to the lack of Scary Black Rifles and murderous heterosexual white males as perps.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/04/2018 7:59 Comments || Top||

#12  Good morning California!

Iran is on the 8 country Trump ban list you keep shutting down via your activist judges, so you can't blame President Trump!
Posted by: Omeger Gray6606 || 04/04/2018 9:58 Comments || Top||

#13  Indeed, Omeger. Now the logical thing to do would be deport her father and any other family members who reside here.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/04/2018 10:31 Comments || Top||

#14  Er...that is, unless we find the father is an FBI informant. /sarc
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/04/2018 10:32 Comments || Top||

#15  At least the father warned the police as did her brother. The brother of the YouTube shooter says he called police to warn that "she might do something"
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 04/04/2018 15:20 Comments || Top||


#17  Clearly the range practice she got was not effective.

Tbh, I feel kind of bad for her. Not a lot, but a little.
That she hated YouTube is a major mark in her favor. Some of the other stuff makes me feel she was a little nutty, and needed help.
Posted by: Blackbeard Bumble5724 || 04/04/2018 20:57 Comments || Top||

#18  SoCal cops got a good report from her family that she was pissed at YouTube, was missing, and might be headed there. SoCal cops added her to the missing list. Bay Area cops find her sleeping in her car 500 miles north, near YouTube. Talk to her for 45 minutes, don’t search car (apparently), take her off missing list. So it goes.
Posted by: KBK || 04/04/2018 21:17 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
German army rolls out line of maternity uniforms for pregnant troops after successful field tests
[Mail] Germany's military is rolling out a line of maternity uniforms for pregnant soldiers following successful field tests last year.

Germany's defense ministry says some 80 volunteers tested a range of uniforms as well as underwear and tights, and their feedback will be considered.

It said 'our goal in the end is to buy uniforms that best meet the requirements of the users.'

In a statement on Tuesday, the ministry confirmed a report by German news agency dpa that it plans to buy 500 sets of uniforms for about €650,000 euros ($800,865).

It said that about two percent of Germany's 20,000 female soldiers are pregnant.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/04/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  How have the mighty fallen.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/04/2018 3:34 Comments || Top||

#2  Nah. The American Army was the last service to introduce a preggie uniform. It resisted for a long time. The females wore civilian clothes with their class A name tag. After another round of denial by the Army Uniform Board, the head JAG advised the CoS of the Army that due to the significant number of females deployed in Europe (circa 1980s), that any such female captured out of uniform was not covered by the various Conventions and could be classified as an illegal combatant (which the other side was free to execute as spies et al). Guess who would be blamed? /rhet question. Shazam! A quick meeting of the Army Uniform Board and the authorization of a preggie uniform!
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/04/2018 7:53 Comments || Top||

#3  Yeah - I always thought the idea of a maternity BDU was odd (Battle Dress Uniform).
Posted by: Blossom Hupager6063 || 04/04/2018 16:39 Comments || Top||

#4  We aren't talking the Chelsea Mannings, right? The real wymyns?
Posted by: Frank G || 04/04/2018 20:56 Comments || Top||

#5  gotta admit, very curious about those "field tests".....
Posted by: Mercutio || 04/04/2018 21:08 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
4 Marines Dead At US/Mexico Border - Helicopter Crash
[FoxNews] A U.S. Marine Corps helicopter crashed Tuesday -- killing its four crew members -- during exercises along the U.S.-Mexico border near Plaster City, Calif., military officials said.

"We are currently still responding to what we have confirmed as a single helicopter incident," said a Facebook post from the nearby Naval Air Facility El Centro.

The naval facility sent fire and security units as well as other helicopters to the scene of the crash, KYMA-TV reported.

The Marine Corps CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter reportedly belonged to the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing in San Diego.

The Marine Corps was withholding the identities of those killed for 24 hours until next of kin notifications are complete.

"The status of all four is presumed dead pending positive identification," read a statement from the aviation unit.

The cause of the crash was under investigation. The crash would be the deadliest for the Marines since a July crash in the Mississippi Delta, which killed all 16 aboard.

Earlier Tuesday, a Marine Corps Harrier jet crashed in the East African nation of Djibouti. According to U.S. Naval Forces Central Command based in Bahrain, the pilot ejected shortly after takeoff and was in stable condition.
Posted by: Ulaigum Ebbineng7056 || 04/04/2018 01:56 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  during exercises along the U.S.-Mexico border near Plaster City, Calif

Plaster City is nothing. Odd that it should be remarked as a waypoint rather than the El Centro facility.

Is there a border OP out of the NAF?
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/04/2018 5:06 Comments || Top||


POTUS Says He Will Guard Mexican Border With Military Against Caravan of Illegal Aliens (VIDEO)
[Gateway Pundit] "We are going to be guarding our border with our military. That’s a big step," Mr. Trump told reporters.He said he has been speaking to Defense Secretary Jim Mattis about deploying the military on the border.

About 1,000 immigrants from Central America, mainly Honduras, are moving in a group through Mexico toward the U.S. Some of them are expected to seek asylum if they reach the U.S.

"We cannot have people flowing into our country illegally, disappearing, and by the way never showing up for court," Mr. Trump said at the White House. "If it reaches our border, our laws are so weak and so pathetic ... it’s like we have no border."
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/04/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So, now we'll see if Latin Americans are smarter than Gazans.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/04/2018 1:57 Comments || Top||

#2  I read Mexico is breaking up some of this band of illegals coming from Central America and deporting and sending them back to from where they came. The rest will be turned back from our border.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/04/2018 12:25 Comments || Top||

#3  Here's hoping the group heads towards the California-Mexico border, and Governor Moonbeam sends the guard to stop the units sent to California from turning back the illegals. They'll still be turned back, and we'll see the California Governor in leg-chains.
Posted by: Ptah || 04/04/2018 13:10 Comments || Top||

#4  Mc Dave Baldwin faces a terrible challenge. Gov Brown is his boss on state active duty and Federal Title 32 status. But, at the mobilization by the Army, his boss becomes the President. Posse Commitatus does not apply in state or 32 status, but does in Tirle 10. If Brown resists the President, a real mess will ensue inside OTAG.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 04/04/2018 19:39 Comments || Top||

#5  MG Dave Baldwin ....
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 04/04/2018 19:40 Comments || Top||


Britain
UK Ministry of Defense (MOD) cannot prove novichok nerve agent came from Russia
[Independent] Accusations and recriminations between Britain and Russia are set to escalate with the news that scientists at the Porton Down military research facility have been unable to establish exactly where the novichok nerve agent used to carry out the Skripal attack was manufactured.

The admission comes the day before Moscow convenes an emergency meeting of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague in which it is expected to demand access to samples from the Salisbury poisoning for analysis by Russian scientists.

Russia’s embassy in London responded that Porton Down’s assessment "proves that all political declarations on the Russian origin of the crime are nothing but assumptions not stemming from objective facts or the course of the investigation".

The development also comes after Russia’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, suggested that British intelligence services carried out the attempted assassination of the former MI6 agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia and claimed that it had proved "beneficial" in distracting attention from Theresa May’s government having to make major concessions to the European Union on Brexit.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/04/2018 02:51 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Theresa May’s concessions on Brexit were indeed overshadowed. We're still awaiting the Christopher Steele dossier on Skripal.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/04/2018 2:58 Comments || Top||

#2  Can we have a look at Skripal's finances?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/04/2018 3:09 Comments || Top||


London murder rate overtakes New York as stabbings surge
[DAWN] A surge of stabbings in London was blamed on Monday for the city overtaking New York's monthly murder tally for the first time in modern history.

Fifteen people were murdered in London during February, compared to 14 in New York, according to police figures.

The British capital also suffered 22 fatal stabbings and shootings in March, higher than the 21 in New York.

There have been 10 fatal stabbings in London in the last 19 days, following on from the 80 fatal stabbings recorded in the city last year.

London's murder rate has grown by nearly 40 percent in three years, while police figures show that New York's has fallen by 87 percent since 1990, raising pressure on mayor Sadiq Khan and Metropolitan Police chief Cressida Dick.

Despite the recent surge, New York, which has a slightly smaller population than London, has still suffered more murders since the start of the year.
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#1  I'm sure this will be buried by the "Why can't we be just like Europe" crowd.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/04/2018 7:57 Comments || Top||

#2  Police chief Dick meanwhile blamed social media for the soaring rate, with 31 fatal stabbings so far this year.

Chief Dick, social media did the stabbings? Really? C'mon now, anything to do with the hoard of immigrants coming into London?
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/04/2018 12:20 Comments || Top||

#3  Data Tidbits

Chicago (2016 pop. 2.705M) is at 155 murders to date in 2018 and Baltimore (2017 pop. 620,961) at 60.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 04/04/2018 14:57 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
China raises tariffs on $50B of US soybeans, other goods
[Breitbart] BEIJING (AP) ‐ China on Wednesday issued a $50 billion list of U.S. goods including soybeans and aircraft for possible tariff hikes in an escalating technology dispute with Washington that companies worry could set back the global economic recovery.

The country’s tax agency gave no date for the 25 percent increase to take effect and said that will depend on what President Donald Trump does about U.S. plans to raise duties on a similar amount of Chinese goods.

Beijing’s list of 106 products included the biggest U.S. exports to China, reflecting its intense sensitivity to the dispute over American complaints that it pressures foreign companies to hand over technology.

The clash reflects the tension between Trump’s promises to narrow a U.S. trade deficit with China that stood at $375.2 billion last year and the ruling Communist Party’s development ambitions. Regulators use access to China’s vast market as leverage to press foreign automakers and other companies to help create or improve industries and technology.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/04/2018 08:27 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Guess we’ll need to tariff Fentanyl.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/04/2018 8:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Raise the prices to cover the increase in tariffs and drive on. If the Chinese decline to purchase, find new customers and markets. In fact, begin the search for new customers and markets now.

Suggest to Walmart, Home Depot, Lowes, J.C. Penny, and Target that they may wish to begin looking for Made In America products, just in case.

Don't bother telling Sears, Montgomery Ward, Schwinn Bicycle, Brown Shoe Co., or K-Mart to 'Buy American'....too late for them.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/04/2018 8:43 Comments || Top||

#3  ...more likely relabeling in Central America. Who really checks that stuff? You'd think the union cabals would find it in their own interest to do so, but the leadership is all proggie now and embarrassing 'new' arrivals.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/04/2018 8:48 Comments || Top||

#4  The bean farmers around here are quite nervous about this. Almost 35% of the local crop heads to China.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 04/04/2018 8:56 Comments || Top||

#5  China is super vulnerable to tariffs. This retaliation won't hurt America while our tariffs are going to really hurt them. This should have been done decades ago but our traitorous State Department decided to screw the American people on trade deals. Good job putting us out of work, assholes.
Posted by: Lumpy Jones3477 || 04/04/2018 8:58 Comments || Top||

#6  The bean farmers around here are quite nervous about this. Almost 35% of the local crop heads to China.

U.S. farmers are always bitching and moaning about something. Too wet to plant, too dry to plant, too cold, too hot, beef, pork, corn and soy bean prices too low...on and on it goes.

Farming b-hard. Always has been.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/04/2018 9:03 Comments || Top||

#7  The 'Amish of the Orient.' These people were 'trading' thousands of years before 'temple doves' went on sale. Whom do you think you are dealing with? Come on people, let's get our heads out of our arses.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/04/2018 9:31 Comments || Top||

#8  You can get an array of Chink made shoes at Walmart for $10 a pair. If the tarrifs cause the price to go up to $11 or $12 dollars a pair, that is still lower than what US manufacturers can make a pair for. Buys a little breathing room but at least it is a start.
Posted by: Omeger Gray6606 || 04/04/2018 9:33 Comments || Top||

#9  China may shoot itself in the foot.

Top 10 soybean producing countries,

USA, by far grows the most soybeans.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/04/2018 12:13 Comments || Top||

#10  Stock market panicked again.
Posted by: 3dc || 04/04/2018 12:16 Comments || Top||

#11  Will Trump be able to stand up to the all powerful soybean cartel? The suspense is killing me, so wake me when it's over.
Posted by: regular joe || 04/04/2018 13:55 Comments || Top||

#12  Tariffs never work, and consumers pay the bill.
Posted by: Iblis || 04/04/2018 13:58 Comments || Top||

#13  I remember twenty years ago when computers were much more expensive, and I could afford one.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 04/04/2018 14:06 Comments || Top||

#14  China targets US beef also, which means beef prices here should drop.
Posted by: Omeger Gray6606 || 04/04/2018 15:14 Comments || Top||

#15  Tariffs never work? WTF? They've been working fantastically well for China. Their domestic markets are shielded from malevolent forces and their own people are employed and create wealth. Who cares if a pound of peaches is $1.79 instead of $1.59?

Maximizing GDP growth over benefiting your own people is wrong. People can't buy cheap goods if they have no jobs. Better to have expensive goods that people can afford than cheap garbage they can't pay for.
Posted by: Herb McCoy || 04/04/2018 16:02 Comments || Top||

#16  Tariffs never work, and consumers pay the bill.

That's why our high end defense equipment is so expensive? Should buy foreign, right?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/04/2018 16:48 Comments || Top||

#17  You can get an array of Chink made shoes at Walmart for $10 a pair.

Uh-huh. I saw a pair of Ni-kes approaching $232, and people were buying them. Tariffs don't mean much to many.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/04/2018 16:54 Comments || Top||

#18  >Tariffs never work, and consumers pay the bill.

That's only true if the Cost of Living is the same in both countries.

Think of it as equalizing out for the base prices of Labo(u)r.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 04/04/2018 18:11 Comments || Top||

#19  >Think of it as equalizing out for the base prices of Labo(u)r.>

I would, except that I have been formally trained in economics. Trade is the source of all wealth, and comparative advantage is the foundation of trade. Raising prices on goods you can't produce competitively is just that -- raising prices. No thanks.
Posted by: Iblis || 04/04/2018 21:45 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Erdogan, Putin mark start of work on Turkey's first nuclear power plant
Goody.
[AlAhram] The leaders of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire....
and Russia marked the official start of work to build Turkey's first nuclear power station on Tuesday, launching construction of the $20 billion Akkuyu plant in the southern province of Mersin.

The plant will be built by Russian state nuclear energy agency Rosatom and will be made up of four units each with a capacity of 1,200 megawatts.

Russian President Vladimir Putin
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
and Turkey's Tayyip Erdogan marked the start to construction, watching by video link from Ankara.

"When all four units go online, the plant will meet 10 percent of Turkey's energy needs," Erdogan said, adding that despite delays Turkey still planned to start generating power at the first unit in 2023.

Speaking at a later news conference with Putin, Erdogan said the cost of the project may exceed the planned $20 billion for the 4,800 megawatt (MW) plant, part of Erdogan's "2023 vision" marking 100 years since the founding of modern Turkey and intended to reduce Turkey's dependence on energy imports.

Since Russia was awarded the contract in 2010, the project has been beset by delays.

Last month, sources familiar with the matter said Akkuyu was likely to miss its 2023 target start-up date, but Rosatom, which is looking for local partners to take a 49 percent stake in the project, said it is committed to the timetable.

The Interfax news agency cited the head of Rosatom saying the sale of the 49 percent stake was likely to be postponed from this year until 2019.

Ottoman Turkish companies have been put off by the size of the financing required as well as by concerns they will not receive a sufficient share of the lucrative construction side of the deal, two industry sources have said.

Erdogan told the news conference Turkey may cooperate with Russia on defence projects besides the S-400 missile defence system which Moscow has agreed to supply to Ankara. He did not give further details.

Turkey signed an agreement to buy the S-400 system in late December in a move which raised concern in the West because it cannot be integrated into NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
's military architecture.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani will join Erdogan and Putin for a three-way summit on Syria in Ankara on Wednesday.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/04/2018 00:45 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  Erdogan's islamic Turkey should never be allowed to have nuclear weapons the same as Iran and NorKor.
Posted by: boomerc || 04/04/2018 6:22 Comments || Top||

#2  Playing both sides are they? You must admit, it worked well for the DNC's Awan brothers.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/04/2018 8:25 Comments || Top||

#3  So it was awarded in 2010, but they still don't have half the money, just Photo Ops
Posted by: Frank G || 04/04/2018 8:48 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Youth kills girl, self over rejected marriage proposal
[DAWN] SAHIWAL: A youth allegedly killed a girl for rejecting his marriage proposal and did away with himself at village Kot Maan Singh, tehsil Pakpattan, on Monday.

Muhammad Afzal, son of Muhammad Iqbal, sent a marriage proposal through his parents for one Jameel’s eldest daughter, Maria.

The villagers told the police that Jameel rejected the proposal. After the rejection, Afzal went to Jameel’s house again on Monday and asked for a reply to his marriage proposal. When Jameel refused to accept it once again, the infuriated Afzal brought out a pistol and shot up Maria who went titzup. After shooting the girl, Afzal ran out of house but after covering 200 yards in the street, he stopped and shot himself.

Chak Badian Police Station House Officer Rana Muhammad Imran said both the bodies had been sent for an appointment with Dr. Quincy.

Posted by: Fred || 04/04/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:


Protests continue against 7-year-old's 'rape', murder in Jaranwala
[DAWN] Protests continued in Faisalabad
...formerly known as Lyallpur, the third largest metropolis in Pakistain, the second largest in Punjab after Lahore. It is named after some Arab because the Paks didn't have anybody notable of their own to name it after...
's Jaranwala tehsil on Tuesday following the alleged rape and murder of a minor girl whose body, bearing multiple torture marks, was found in a field two days ago.

Shops and private schools remained shut in the area as a large number of civil society activists and relatives of the victim staged demonstrations. Lawyers in the area also boycotted court proceedings to take part in the protest.

The protesters encircled the Jaranwala City cop shoppe and demanded justice for the minor girl.

While speaking to DawnNewsTV on the condition of anonymity, a medico-legal officer called the postmortem examination report ‐ which was released yesterday ‐ confusing, saying it "doesn't clearly state whether the child was sexually assaulted or not".

"The report seems to indicate that there were signs of sexual assault," the medico-legal officer said, sharing the suspicion that "the police may have wanted to bury the evidence".

"Most importantly, the report does not state the cause of the child's death," the officer added.

The medico-legal officer said that DNA samples have been taken from the body and dispatched to the Lahore forensic lab.

Posted by: Fred || 04/04/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Iraq
Iraq plans to boost southern oil refining capacity before 2018 end
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Iraq plans to boost the refining capacity of its southern oil fields before the end of the current year, its oil minister said in a statement on Tuesday.

Jabbar al-Luaibi said his ministry’s strategy is to drive up the refining capacity of the southern refineries to 280.000 barrels per day before the end of 2018.

He made the statement inaugurating a second phase of the installation of a fourth refining unit in Basra, with a capacity of 70.000 barrels per day.

Iraq is OPEC’s second largest oil producer after Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
The country’s crude oil exports for March stood at 107.05 million barrels, a daily rate of 3.45 million barrels.

Those yielded revenues worth USD6.418 billion, according to the oil ministry’s monthly statistic.

The monthly count still does not include production from oil-rich Kirkuk province, which was halted after the military standoff between Iraq and Kurdistan Region in 2017 that followed the region’s controversial poll on independence.

While Iraq had concurred to OPEC’s decision to slash members’ production to scale up prices, it seeks to increase exports to secure sufficient cash to address financial demands imposed by the three-year war against Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
Death Eaters and consequent damage to infrastructure and economy
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/04/2018 01:11 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq


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Homeland Security finds suspected phone surveillance devices in Washington
[FoxNews] The U.S. government has acknowledged the existence in Washington D.C. of what appear to be devices that could be used by foreign spies and criminals to track individual cellphones and intercept calls and messages, the Associated Press reported Tuesday.

In a March 26 letter to Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., the Department of Homeland Security admitted that it "has observed anomalous activity in the [Washington D.C. area] that appears to be consistent with International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) catchers." DHS added that it had not determined the type of devices in use or who might have been operating them, nor did it say how many it detected or where.

However, a DHS official who spoke on condition of anonymity because the agency's reply to Wyden has not been publicly released told AP that the devices were detected in a 90-day trial that began in January 2017 with equipment from a Las Vegas-based DHS contractor, ESD America. The CEO of ESD America, Les Goldsmith, said his company has a relationship with DHS but would not comment further.

The use of what are known as cellphone-site simulators by foreign powers has long been a concern, but American intelligence and law enforcement agencies — which use such eavesdropping equipment themselves — have been silent on the issue until now.

The agency's response, obtained by the AP from Wyden's office, suggests little has been done about such equipment, known popularly as Stingrays after a brand common among U.S. police departments. The Federal Communications Commission, which regulates the nation's airwaves, formed a task force on the subject four years ago, but it never produced a report and no longer meets regularly.

The devices work by tricking mobile devices into locking onto them instead of legitimate cell towers, revealing the exact location of a particular cellphone. More sophisticated versions can eavesdrop on calls by forcing phones to step down to older, unencrypted 2G wireless technology. Some attempt to plant malware.

They can cost anywhere from $1,000 to about $200,000. They are commonly the size of a briefcase; some are as small as a cellphone. They can be placed in a car next to a government building. The most powerful can be deployed in low-flying aircraft.

Christopher Krebs, the top official in the department's National Protection and Programs Directorate, noted in the letter that DHS lacks the equipment and funding to detect Stingrays even though their use by foreign governments "may threaten U.S. national and economic security." The department did report its findings to "federal partners" Krebs did not name. That presumably includes the FBI.

Legislators have been raising alarms about the use of Stingrays in the capital since at least 2014, when Goldsmith and other security-company researchers conducted public sweeps that located suspected unauthorized devices near the White House, the Supreme Court, the Commerce Department and the Pentagon, among other locations.

The executive branch, however, has shied away from even discussing the subject.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/04/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Why do you suspect just 'foreign' powers?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/04/2018 7:58 Comments || Top||

#2  Given the recent revelations about domestic spying, the first thing to look for is an inventory tag from one of our own three-letter agencies.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/04/2018 8:02 Comments || Top||

#3  The political class has a habit of chasing foreign agents down dark alleys, hitting them over the head and then stuffing their pockets with juicy intelligence (Awan/Congress,Clinton EMail/Maid/Sciff, Weiner/Abedin's Yahoo printout scheme).

What difference at any point do a few measly phone calls or text messages make?
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 04/04/2018 8:55 Comments || Top||

#4  I have read elsewhere that the USCG has installed devices like these on their search & rescue aircraft to help find civilians lost in areas where there is no cell phone coverage, e.g. wilderness of upper peninsula of Michigan, southwest deserts, etc. They have succeeded in locating the lost who happen to have their cell phones powered on.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 04/04/2018 10:53 Comments || Top||

#5  Motorola threw together a backpackable version and sent it to NYNY just 24 hrs after 911. Found about 1000 working cellphones at the trade towers but no people.
Posted by: 3dc || 04/04/2018 12:21 Comments || Top||

#6  what appear to be devices that could be used by foreign spies and criminals to track individual cellphones and intercept calls and messages, the Associated Press reported Tuesday.

Foreign? Could be Trump what Trump meant shortly after he got elected.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/04/2018 12:28 Comments || Top||

#7  Delete be Trump.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/04/2018 12:30 Comments || Top||


Panerabread.com Leaks Millions of Customer Records in plain text
[KrebsOnSecurity] Panerabread.com, the Web site for the American chain of bakery-cafe fast casual restaurants by the same name, leaked millions of customer records — including names, email and physical addresses, birthdays and the last four digits of the customer’s credit card number — for at least eight months before it was yanked offline earlier today, KrebsOnSecurity has learned.

The data available in plain text from Panera’s site appeared to include records for any customer who has signed up for an account to order food online via panerabread.com. The St. Louis-based company, which has more than 2,100 retail locations in the United States and Canada, allows customers to order food online for pickup in stores or for delivery.

KrebsOnSecurity learned about the breach earlier today after being contacted by security researcher Dylan Houlihan, who said he initially notified Panera about customer data leaking from its Web site back on August 2, 2017.

A long message thread that Houlihan shared between himself and Panera indicates that Mike Gustavison, Panera’s director of information security, initially dismissed Houlihan’s report as a likely scam. A week later, however, those messages suggest that the company had validated Houlihan’s findings and was working on a fix.

“Thank you for the information we are working on a resolution,” Gustavison wrote.
Fast forward to early this afternoon — exactly eight months to the day after Houlihan first reported the problem — and data shared by Houlihan indicated the site was still leaking customer records in plain text. Worse still, the records could be indexed and crawled by automated tools with very little effort.

For example, some of the customer records include unique identifiers that increment by one for each new record, making it potentially simple for someone to scrape all available customer accounts. The format of the database also lets anyone search for customers via a variety of data points, including by phone number.

“Panera Bread uses sequential integers for account IDs, which means that if your goal is to gather as much information as you can instead about someone, you can simply increment through the accounts and collect as much as you’d like, up to and including the entire database,” Houlihan said.

Asked whether he saw any indication that Panera ever addressed the issue he reported in August 2017 until today, Houlihan said no.

“No, the flaw never disappeared,” he said. “I checked on it every month or so because I was pissed.”

Shortly after KrebsOnSecurity spoke briefly with Panera’s chief information officer John Meister by phone today, the company briefly took the Web site offline. As of this publication, the site is back online but the data referenced above no longer appears to be reachable.
Posted by: 3dc || 04/04/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Oh, no! Now the world knows I don't like white bread!
Posted by: Roth LaDoad || 04/04/2018 12:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Roth LaDoad quietly moves into first place in the race for.... Snark of the Day.
Posted by: Chererong Lumumba5826 || 04/04/2018 12:46 Comments || Top||

#3  Don't worry Roth, its not racist to hate white bread.

Now not liking Black or Rye.., Unleavened or Gluten free would definitely be racist! Not to mention the 4,302 other genders of... bread.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 04/04/2018 12:52 Comments || Top||

#4  I only like white bread.

Wonder Bread Power! Down with the sub-breads! Long live the Bimbo white bread race!!!

/libtardviewofeverythingtheydon'tlike
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/04/2018 15:57 Comments || Top||

#5  er...yup.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/04/2018 16:45 Comments || Top||

#6  Bimbo bakery bread

Bimbo Bakeries USA is a leader in the baking industry, known for its category leading brands, innovative products, freshness and quality. As part of Grupo Bimbo, the world’s largest baking company, BBU is proud to share the company philosophyHighly Productive and Deeply Humane in the U.S.
Posted by: 3dc || 04/04/2018 20:20 Comments || Top||



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