Looks like organized crime (chinese???) shooting.
CTV.ca News Staff
Two people are dead and six are injured after gunmen burst into a restaurant in Vancouver and opened fire early Thursday morning, city police confirmed to CTV News.
Vancouver Police Const. Howard Chow said two men burst into The Fortune Happiness restaurant and opened fire at about 4:30 a.m. local time.
"Eight people have been hit -- two have died, a third is in very serious condition and the other five would have been transported to hospital for treatment," Chow told CTV.ca from Vancouver.
No one has been arrested and police have no leads.
"The suspects took off, they are still at large," Chow said.
CTV British Columbia reported that one of the gunmen was carrying a .40-calibre weapon while another was holding a nine-millimetre firearm.
Police described the shooting scene as a chaotic one with tables overturned and bullet holes, riddling the entire restaurant.
The late-night Chinese restaurant is located at 654 Broadway East just west of Fraser Street.
CTV British Columbia's Kate Gajdosik said there are eyewitness reports that one of the shooters entered from the back of the restaurant, while the other came in from the front.
She told CTV Newsnet that bullet holes are visible in the front window of the restaurant, which is located in a quiet neighbourhood not known to be especially dangerous.
Police told CTV the gunmen appear to have targeted the victims.
A number of witnesses are being interviewed by police. In the meantime, Broadway has been shut down and police expect it to be closed for a number of hours as the investigation continues, Chow said.
Police intend to hold a press conference to elaborate on details some time on Thursday morning.
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Local gangs tit-for-tat. Not sute what the tit was, but musta been deadly serious.
Of coure Canada has quite a strict gun control of the lawful, but te lawless don't think it applies to them. Sounds familiar? It should... it never has been otherwise in the whole human history.
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Grahamstown- Five youths, three of them convicted rapists and two found guilty of housebreaking, were not a danger to society, the Grahamstown High Court heard on Monday.
This assessment came from Fort Beaufort social worker Vathiswa Mbanzi, who had prepared pre-sentencing reports on the five.
She told Judge Ronnie Pillay she had considered their ages, their personal circumstances and social and economic background and did not consider them to pose "a threat to society".
Convicted and awaiting sentence for breaking into a Fort Beaufort House and raping and robbing a 16-year-old girl in the early morning of June 3, 2006 is Akhona Ndashe, 21.
The court heard that the girl was raped on three occasions.
Two others in the dock, aged 17 and 15, have been convicted of rape, housebreaking with intent to steal and theft.
The remaining two, aged 15 and 16, were convicted only of housebreaking with intent to steal and theft.
All live in Kanana, Fort Beaufort.
State advocate Selwyn Gounder questioned the validity of Mbanzi's assessment when she recommended a "partial" sentence for Ndashe and correctional supervision for the four juveniles.
He pointed out that Ndashe had been sentenced to two years in prison for robbery in 2004 by a King William's Town magistrate and was on parole when the offence before the current court was committed.
"All four juveniles willingly accompanied Ndashe from the shebeen where they had been drinking and went to the girl's house with the intention to rob and rape her. How is that not a threat to society?"
Mbanzi said: "In my professional opinion that is my view after considering their circumstances and the partial sentence I have recommended for Ndashe actually means that part of the sentence should be suspended."
The five were all found guilty.
The girl, who lived with two other young women, was from the Transkei and residing in Fort Beaufort where she attended a local high school.
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if Vathiswa Mbanzi thinks these clowns aren't a "threat to society," then their sentence should be that they go live with HER.
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To paraphrase Charles Schulz, "I love society, it's people I can't stand" or in other words: "They're not a threat to society, they're a threat to people"
A powerful undersea earthquake has hit Indonesias West Java island, a telephone text message from the countrys Meteorological agency said on Thursday.
The agency did not give a tsunami warning and there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties, but the quake caused panic in parts of the densely inhabited Java island.
The Indonesian agency said the quake had a 7.0 magnitude, while the U.S. geological survey said on its Web site the magnitude was 7.4.
The quake struck 75 km (46.60 miles) northwest of Indramayu and was at a depth of 286 km, the Indonesian agency said.
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Also here on Guam in dark AM - initially reported as a 5.4 magn but methinks was closer to 6.5-7.0. Occurred at same time as relative's passing/death.
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Condolences, Joe, to you and your family. Keep your head up and your powder dry.
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IONews, NEWSCIENTIST > PREPARE FOR ANOTHER TEN SCORCHING YEARS article, + Newly discovered large planets are located in a potential "super-nova factory".
A 16-year-old boy already on probation for an explosives conviction today pleaded guilty in a New South Wales court to stockpiling chemicals for "the fun of creating an explosion". Bomb disposal experts uncovered the stash yesterday including acetone peroxide, urea nitrate, ammonium nitrate, ammonium sulphate, hexamine nitrate and nitric acid when they swarmed the boy's Sanctuary Point home, on the NSW south coast.
Police were called to the property about 3.30pm (AEST) after neighbours reported hearing an explosion. Officers were so concerned about the volatile and unstable nature of the chemicals they called in the NSW Fire Brigade and the police bomb squad and counter-terrorism command.
Today, in Nowra Children's Court, the boy admitted setting off more than 60 explosions in bushland near his home during the previous two years. He purchased the chemicals from hardware, chemical and camping shops, the court was told. The boy pleaded guilty to charges of making an explosive and possessing explosives. Magistrate Graham Blewitt called for a full report on the boy from Juvenile Justice before sentencing. He said this was warranted considering the serious nature of the charges and the fact the boy had been convicted in March of possessing explosives and placed on a year's probation.
Police prosecutor Sergeant Brett Ford said the amount of chemicals located in a shed at the boy's home was of concern, stating there were "significantly more" than the number outlined on the fact sheet prepared for the court.
However, defence solicitor Charles Shirley said the boy treated the chemicals the same way people treated fireworks. The explosives were made "not for committing a crime, but for the fun of creating an explosion", Mr Shirley argued. The chemicals stockpiled by the boy were fertilisers that were "not inherently dangerous", he added. "They only become dangerous if you treat them in a way that makes them dangerous."
Following his arrest, the teenager told police he saw on an internet site how to use the fertilisers to make explosives. Mr Shirley said the boy had "learnt his lesson" and was "frightened and realises the precarious position he is in".
But his pleas to have the boy released to the care of his family were refused by Mr Blewitt, who noted the boy had a "terrible" criminal history despite his young age. "It is quite clear, in my view, the young person is one who has had substantial contact with the law, and is well aware of his responsibilities," Mr Blewitt said. The boy burst into tears as Mr Blewitt refused him bail, remanding him in custody until August 23 when he will be sentenced. On that day the boy will also face unrelated charges of assault and breaching an apprehended violence order.
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By the time I was 13 I could make ammonium nitrate fuel oil explosives (and even knew which accelerants to add), made my own thermite and even had magensium igniters for it, and used NI3 as a contact explosive to mess with mice. I even made napalm (well sort-of - polystyrene and high octane avgas, a little bit of Tide detergent), because "Napalm sticks to kids".
Thank God these laws were not in effect when I was a kid.
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Before you get the wrong idea, I learned to use dynamite and blasting caps with my grandpa when he was clearing stumps. He was what people would term today "a character".
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Potassium permanganete, magnesium, and sulphur burn very quickly, and when confined - say in rolled-up sheet of paper with the ends sealed - can make quite a bang. Ignites quite handily with standard cannon fuse.
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My father was a science teacher and we promptly raided his chemical locker. We made our own gunpowder, "caramel candy", napalm (gasoline and Jell-O) and contact explosives (permanganate and sodium perchlorate). We subsequently discovered the joys of refilling CO2 cartridges with perchlorate and sugar then gluing in a length of underwater fuse.
My oldest brother had sufficient nerve to hand throw one of these in the air for grins down near the bottom of our one-acre lot. My mother, who was in the house at the time, thought the Southern Pacific train that ran by our house had derailed.
Our parents made all of us sign a test-ban treaty.
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Zen you should see what they do in an old water filled quarry. We staged WW2 submarine (fantasy) battles before we got caught by someone wondering who the hell had started blasting at the old quarry.
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I am proud to say that all of us were very safety conscious. Not a single one of us was ever seriously injured, just minor and some not-so-minor burns, but that was it. Kids who packed film cans with match heads never impressed us. I'm still a big fireworks fan to this day.
One thing I want to try in my lifetime is visiting this gang of pyros who party in Nevada. These folks have "races" where they take an old Electrolux "bullet" horizontal canister vacuum cleaner, dip the intake hose into a bucket of gasoline and then spark off the outake once the thing gets up to speed. The last one still blasting out several feet of flame "wins" the prize.
Police on Wednesday gave the all-clear after a suspicious package was found on a subway train near the center of Washington, closing three stations and disrupting traffic along a major route through the city.
A bomb squad X-rayed the box found aboard a train stopped at the Dupont Circle station on the Red Line a mile from the heart of downtown Washington and discovered it was full of papers, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority spokeswoman Candace Smith said. As a precaution, the team used a water cannon to ensure the package was not a danger, she said.
The stations were closed for about two hours after the package was reported, delaying commuters along one of the area's most heavily traveled transit lines at the start of the afternoon rush hour. Metro trains were already operating at slower speeds than usual because of hot summer weather hitting the city.
The delays in Washington followed widespread disruption to the expansive New York City subway system on Wednesday morning because of heavy rains there.
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A bomb squad X-rayed the box found aboard a train stopped at the Dupont Circle station on the Red Line a mile from the heart of downtown Washington and discovered it was full of Washington Post newspapers. The bomb squad has taken possession of the papers and is recycling them appropriately within the District as bird cage lining material.
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I think somebody's grant proposal just got hosed down.
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I think this is an answer for the mis-guided NYT writer that wanted ideas for terrorists: fill subways, busses, etc. with 'suspicious packages' at rush hour in any large city and watch the place shut down. synchronize severa; of these throughout the country and there is a ready made economic disaster.
An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) judge Shabbir Hussain Chattha sentenced to death two accused Amir and Asif on four counts.
The two men had murdered an excise inspector and a head constable and dissolved their bodies in chemicals.
The two men had murdered an excise inspector and a head constable and dissolved their bodies in chemicals. The court also fined them Rs 400,000 each. The court, however, acquitted three other people accused in the case, giving them the benefit of doubt. According to the prosecution, Excise Inspector Nadeem Jafri and Head Constable Mohammad Khalid raided Amir's chemical factory at Lower Mall. The accused had a row with the two officials, murdered them and dissolved their bodies in chemicals.
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Copts living abroad, especially those in North America, have tended to be more hostile towards Muslims and towards the Egyptian government than Copts living inside Egypt.
Copts living abroad, especially those in North America, have tended to be less likely to be arrested, imprisoned and murdered by the Egyptian government and its stooges than Copts living inside Egypt.
A low-profile Defense Department agency best known for laying the groundwork for the Internet is kicking off its 50th year of technological research this week with a conference showing off its latest projects.
More than 3,000 scientists, entrepreneurs and military brass are gathering in Anaheim through Thursday for DARPATech 2007, sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Although the group often is linked with the creation of the Web, agency director Anthony Tether reminded his audience of academic and private industry defense contractors that DARPA had been christened nearly 50 years ago after the United States, stunned by the Soviet launch of Sputnik, decided it needed a group to explore what he called the far side of technological research.
"DARPA was created by President (Dwight) Eisenhower to mine the far side so the United States would never be surprised again," Tether said.
Quickly reviewing the past half-century, Tether noted in his kickoff speech how DARPA's swing-for-the-fences research mission had spawned not just the Internet but stealth technology, night-vision goggles and, most recently, driverless cars controlled by computer software.
Robotics has been one of the agency's newest and most publicly visible thrusts, and twice in recent years it has sponsored races by driverless vehicles across the desert, including the 2005 competition won by a team from Stanford University.
On Thursday, DARPA is expected to announce the finalists in the next stage of this robotics competition, to be held Nov. 3, when robo-cars will have to travel 60 miles in fewer than six hours in an as-yet unannounced simulated urban setting that would force the driverless cars to negotiate stop signs and traffic.
Tether drew some laughs when he called for volunteers, saying, "We're short of pedestrians" for the test.
The DARPA chief also alluded to the unusual nature of his organization, which combines the stiff-backed orthodoxy of military culture with a record of risk taking that rivals that of Silicon Valley.
Trying to encapsulate what he called DARPA's secret sauce, Tether said the junior officers at the core of the agency know that they have "the freedom to fail" - as long as they learn from their mistakes - a condition that gives them "the boldness to go for big ideas." DARPA should sponsor a private trade fair for businesses to compete before a panel of DARPA judges, an annual event to showcase their new and proprietary inventions and products. But turning to the business world as an additional source of innovation, DARPA could double or triple its output.
One in three Mexican migrants living in states where Hispanic migration is relatively new stopped sending money home this year. Anti-immigrant sentiment may be to blame, the Inter-American Development Bank reported Wednesday.
In states considered "new destination" states for Latinos, such as Georgia, Pennsylvania and North Carolina, only 56 percent of Mexican migrants said they sent money home, compared to 80 percent the previous year. Migrants in these states previously had the highest remittance rate.
By contrast, the rate of remittance for the first six months of this year was 66 percent - down from 68 percent - in states where Latino immigrants have traditionally lived, such as Texas, California and New Mexico. An estimated 10.4 million Mexican immigrant adults are living in the U.S., according to the Census Bureau.
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Remittances totaled $11.5 billion from January to June, compared to $11.42 billion last year. The Central Bank of Mexico has reported remittances from the U.S. totaled $23.1 billion in 2006. The Inter-American bank projected only a .6 percent increase this year. Although more Mexican migrants are in the U.S., the drop in remittances offset the newcomers and kept the amounts flat, Terry said.
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Remittances to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras rose by an average of 11 percent in the first half of 2007, with a projected total for the year of $9.95 billion for Central American, up from $9.25 billion in 2006. Combined 2006 GDP of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras = $59 billion, or US remittances = 16% of GDP. Assuming a dollar exchanges hands 3 times before leaving the country, remittances drive 50% of GDP.
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Must be the increase in gasoline costs for all those 1970's Ford Fairlane vans with 15 ladders atop. Combine this with the local governments starting to act against illegal immigrants, since the Feds won't, and it's a perfect storm. Several Counties around Atlanta have now enacted ordinances that make it illegal for rental complexes (apartments, condos, duplexes, etc.) to rent to illegal immigrants.
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"Anti-immigrant sentiment may be to blame" -- BS! Massive layoffs by homebuilders are far more likely to be a major cause, that is one line of work which has employed large numbers of illegals. (Albuquerque Walmarts sell safety glasses emblazoned with the Mexican flag.) Government reports of steady or slowly rising employment overall are just not believable.
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AH, I believe it's a combination of both. The housing market and to a lesser extent, the agriculture markets (2 of the biggest illegal employers) have been hit hard.
But, Congress, the President and even local officials have FINALLY heard from "the people" about illegal immigration. I've wondered for some months now, how this will shake out as the housing market crumbles. In other words, will they simply go back home, or will they target another industry/market to saturate with cheap labor, or will they just hang around and become welfare/handout groupies (or form gangs, which is happening in many locales)? I know which answer I'd like to see, but I'd bet it's not what'll happen in reality.
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"Anti-immigrant sentiment" is a f*cking lie. I don't know anyone who's anti-immigrant. We're anti CRIME. I tire of the left's pathological need to mislabel everything.
I think it's time to start coining the counter-phrase. 'Born French, but in the wrong place' to describe the kind of Americans that use fudge words like "immigrant" when they mean "illegal Immigrant" because it helps them promote their anti-American transnationalist agenda.
As I'm reminiscing, remember the good old days when the radio waves were saturated every January with admonitions for aliens to register at their local Post Office?
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If they're not legal, they're not immigrants - they're aliens.
Yep. Even when they're legal, they are still aliens. They are called Resident Aliens. I don't think you acquire "Immigrant" status unless you're going for the whole enchilada! Naturalized Citizenship. I could be wrong.
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your bias against aliens is troubling....seek help.
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I'd like to think that the decline is a result of further assimilation but the "all relatives here now" explanation shot that notion straight to hell.
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.
A powerful undersea earthquake has hit Indonesias West Java island, a telephone text message from the countrys Meteorological agency said on Thursday.
A 16-year-old boy already on probation for an explosives conviction today pleaded guilty in a New South Wales court to stockpiling chemicals for "the fun of creating an explosion". Bomb disposal experts uncovered the stash yesterday including acetone peroxide, urea nitrate, ammonium nitrate, ammonium sulphate, hexamine nitrate and nitric acid when they swarmed the boy's Sanctuary Point home, on the NSW south coast.
