[AP] COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) ‐ A South Carolina prisons spokesman says seven inmates are dead and 17 others required outside medical attention after hours of fighting inside a maximum security prison.
Prisons spokesman Jeff Taillon announced the grim outcome after State Law Enforcement Division agents helped secure Lee Correctional Institution around 3 a.m. Monday.
Taillon said no officers were wounded after multiple inmate fights broke out at 7:15 p.m. Sunday.
Lee County Fire/Rescue said ambulances from at least seven jurisdictions lined up outside the prison to tend to the wounded. The local coroner’s office also responded.
The maximum-security facility in Bishopville houses about 1,500 inmates, some of South Carolina’s most violent and longest-serving offenders. Two officers were stabbed in a 2015 fight. One inmate killed another in February.
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They'd be more peaceful 6 feet under. They'll be there eventually anyway. Only a rich society can afford to warehouse so many imminent threats to the lives and security of its productive citizenry. Meanwhile, how many of those productive citizens are executed without due process in their homes, their neighborhoods, their businesses, their communities? /rhet question
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Allowing this is stupid. They should have sent the guards in with orders to shoot anyone fighting. Anyone who doesn't immediately lay on the floor and put hands on head gets an immediate summary justice application.
What they really should do is set the prison up to flooded with N2 so that any riot cleans out the prison and you have a now empty prison to fill. No more prison riots after the first hits the news.
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..stay with N2, otherwise the environmental impact study will be a cluster. Remember all the obstructions to lethal injections. Madame Guillotine is quicker, no environmental or FDA approval required.
[FOX] R. Lee Ermey, a former Marine Corps drill instructor known to millions of moviegoers as the sadistic Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in Stanley Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket," died Sunday morning, according to his longtime manager. He was 74.
In a statement posted on Twitter, Bill Rogin said Ermey had died due to complications from pneumonia.
"He will be greatly missed by all of us," Rogin wrote. "Semper Fi, Gunny. Godspeed."
A Kansas native, Ermey enlisted in the Marine Corps and age 17 and spent 14 months in Vietnam before he was discharged in 1972. He served as a technical adviser in Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 Vietnam War epic, "Apocalypse Now," in which he also had a small role as a helicopter pilot.
But Ermey didn't get his big break until eight years later, in Kubrick's own take on Vietnam. He was originally supposed to be a technical adviser, but Kubrick offered him the role of Gunnery Sergeant Hartman after seeing a demo tape of Emery railing at extras.
In his role as a drill instructor breaking in new Marines at boot camp on Parris Island, S.C., Ermey roared his way into film history by berating his unfortunate charges.
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Very good man. Among his many films he made a very good USMC training video on Improvised Explosive Devices (IED). Never took a penny for it as I recall. Bound to have saved lives or gave a few people an increased awareness. Perhaps that's why he was sent to us.
[Washington Examiner] CBS News accidentally published an obituary Sunday prematurely celebrating the life of former first lady Barbara Bush after a spokesman revealed she was in "failing health," according to multiple reports.
The article, titled "DO NOT PUBLISH ‐ Former first lady Barbara Bush d*es at age 92 DO NOT PUBLISH," went live on the cbsnews.com website before shortly being taken down, per the Sacramento Bee.
Bush announced Sunday that she was choosing to focus on comfort care rather than seek additional medical treatment for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and congestive heart failure.
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Layers and layers of fact checkers and editors.
Maybe they were tricked by the "DO NOT PUBLISH" heading. Kind of like that big red button on the control panel marked "DO NOT PRESS". You just can't help it.
[Business Insider] A Russian journalist who wrote about Russian mercenaries in Syria has died from injuries he sustained after falling from a balcony.
Maxim Borodin, 32, died at a hospital on Sunday after falling from his fifth-floor balcony in Yekaterinburg on Thursday, according to the Associated Press and RFERL.
The Associated Press reported that it was unclear how Borodin fell, but RFERL reported that officials are considering his death to be a suicide.
Borodin wrote for a news website called Novy Den where he covered crime and corruption, RFERL reported. He recently helped break the story about the deaths of Russian Wagner Group mercenaries from Asbest who were killed in Syria during a fight with the US militar y in February.
Borodin's editor at Novy Den, Polina Rumyantseva, said on Sunday that she doesn't believe he committed suicide, RFERL reported. Nor does anyone else.
Reporters Without Borders tweeted on Sunday that the circumstances of Borodin's death were "suspicious," and that they want "a thorough, impartial investigation."
The Wagner Group has about 2,500 mercenaries in Syria, according to the BBC.
[MAIL] Passengers aboard a flight bound for New Orleans were screaming, crying, vomiting, and texting loved ones farewell as the pilot struggled to land the plane in the midst of stormy weather.
The scary incident took place aboard Southwest Airlines Flight 3461 from Fort Lauderdale to New Orleans on Saturday.
The New Orleans area was experiencing tornado watches and heavy rainfall on Saturday.
Weather reports also said that New Orleans was due to experience wind gusts of up to 70 miles per hour and hail. "Takeoffs are optional, landings are mandatory."
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Weather here was quite rough at times yesterday, though the worst didn't last an hour. Either several other flights had similar experiences or everyone else diverted or delayed and SW should have.
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Having landed in a storm and looked out the right side window and seen the center stripe of the runway we were landing on crossing diagonally under the plane, with a sudden right turn when the gear touched down, I can sympathize.
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Reminds me of a KAL stretch 757 flight from Seoul to Narita. I sat on the aisle in the back (last to hit the ground you know!). When we skirted a typhoon the tube flexed so much I could no longer see first class.
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Scariest landing I've ever had was in Hong Kong back in the 90s. Perfect weather but that airport with the hard right right just before landing, right after passing a line of buildings on that side, was crazy scary.
[Dallas News] The feds maintain that the 70 million-year-old skull that belonged to a relative of Tyrannosaurus rex was among a horde of dinosaur fossils stolen from Mongolia years ago. Interesting we have Feds worried about 70-million year old hordes.
The government says a U.S. fossil dealer traveled to Mongolia to obtain fossils and then shipped them to China to avoid a U.S. Customs inspection. From there, the fossils were shipped to the United Kingdom and then into the U.S., the forfeiture lawsuit says. Illegal immigrants, all!
The stolen property act was used to recover Nazi-looted art as well as antiquities stolen from the Middle East, Turkey and Greece and "has a richer body of precedent that a prosecutor can draw on." However, the attorney said he and his client will fight on. So far, he appears to be the only person putting up a fight over a Mongolian dinosaur fossil.
Since federal authorities began a crackdown in 2012 on the little-known black market in dinosaur bones, more than 18 specimens have been returned to Mongolia. Two men were convicted in federal court of smuggling fossils into the U.S. Lessee, who was POTUS in 2012? Who ran the DOJ?
Actor Nicolas Cage was among buyers who agreed to part with their bataar skulls. After having paid six figures for it. Will the Feds help recover the losses of U.S. citizens?
The stolen property act is one of the key federal laws that address antiquities trafficking, a New York lawyer wrote in an article last year. An expert in that area, said in the article that the art and antiquities trade is the world's third largest black market, behind only drugs and arms, with an annual estimated value of up to $8 billion. How we doin' on the drugs and weapons black market? What's the value of human trafficking/illegal immigration, I wonder?
The law professor, said fossil smuggling may seem at first like a victimless crime. The harm, however, is in the fact that scientists are unable to study the items and give them historical context due to the handiwork of "unskilled looters," he said. Does the skull in question have a home waiting for it in Mongolia, or is it destined for the Obama Presidential Library?
There's no indication that the government is seeking criminal charges against (the Texas former owner of the artifact). How about the stuff in the Smithsonian? British Museum?
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[Al Jazeera] The arrest of a former top FARC commander last week has put an already fragile peace deal under further strain, but could help bolster the grinding of the peace processor in the long run, depending on how the charges are carried out, according to analysts.
The deal between the left-wing rebel groups Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia FARC or FARC-EP, is either a Marxist-Leninist revolutionary guerrilla organization or a drug cartel based in Colombia. It claims to represent the rural poor in a struggle against Colombia's wealthier classes, and opposes United States influence in Colombia, neo-imperialism, monopolization of natural resources by multinational corporations, and the usual raft of complaints. It funds itself principally through ransom kidnappings, taxation of the drug trade, extortion, shakedowns, and donations. It has lately begun calling itself Bolivarian and is greatly admired by Venezuela's President-for-Life Chavez, who seemingly fantasizes about living in the woods and kidnapping people himself. He provides FARC with safe areas along the border. (FARC) and the state, signed in late 2016, formally ended 52 years of conflict that had left an estimated 222,000 people dead and more than seven million displaced.
Despite having received near-universal praise on the international stage, domestically, Colombia's landmark peace accord has never received the same level of popularity.
Following delays in its implementation and corruption scandals, the process encountered another setback this week when Seuxis Hernandez, better known as Jesus Santrich, was charged by US courts and the Colombian general prosecutor with conspiracy to ship 10,000kg of cocaine - with a street value of $320m - to the United States.
According to analysts, the charges pose some serious issues for the peace accord by further damaging trust with the FARC, potentially frightening ex-rebels into joining dissident rebels and potentially swelling support for reversing an already unpopular agreement.
"This is a serious blow for the political standing of the FARC," said Jorge Restrepo, director of the Conflict Analysis Institute, CERAC.
"They did not get more than 50,000 votes in the elections - [the arrest] shows there was reason in the majority of Colombians who did not trust them to abandon organised crime," he added, referring to last month's elections that saw the FARC participate as a political party for the first time.
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[APNEWS] Montenegro’s ruling party leader Milo Djukanovic swept a presidential election on Sunday, preliminary results showed, and he pledged to keep the small Balkan country firmly on a European path after it joined NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... last year in defiance of Russia.
Djukanovic won 54 percent of the ballots, securing a victory in the first round and avoiding a runoff, according to results released by the independent Center for Monitoring and Research. His main opponent, Mladen Bojanic, won 33 percent.
If confirmed in the official vote count, the result will present a major boost for Djukanovic and his ruling Democratic Party of Socialists.
Sunday’s vote, the first since Montenegro joined the Western military alliance in December, was seen as a test for Djukanovic, who favors European integration over closer ties to traditional ally Moscow.
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[DailyMail] A drug-resistant strain of typhoid is spreading through Pakistan and has infected at least 850 people since 2016. The strain which is resistant to five types of antibiotics is predicted to spread across the globe, according to the National Institute of Health Islamabad.
It is expected to replace the weaker strains in areas where they are common as experts recognise just one remaining working antibiotic. Azithromycin is the only remaining method of combating the disease however just one more genetic mutation could void the use of the drug.
Campaigners are predicting that if modern sanitation systems don't tackle the pathogen then we could be faced with a return to the pre-antibiotic era. Emphasis added. Perhaps if the Land Of The Pure spent more on sewage treatment and less on Madrassahs, Jihadis, Nukes, and proxy war on their neighbors I might even be sympathetic
[DAWN] An assistant sub-inspector has been enjugged Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! along with some other police personnel for allegedly sexually abusing a woman at a police post in Dera Murad Jamali.
Deputy Inspector General of Police, Nasirabad Range, Nazeer Ahmed Kurd told news hounds here on Saturday that a medical examination report had confirmed the victim had been abused.
He said that ASI Ghulam Sarwar Gola, his guard Muhammad Din and driver Nazeer Ahmed had been suspended and taken into custody.
He said they had been booked under 376/200 of the PPC. A five-member team of senior police officials headed by police officer Khawind Bakhsh has been formed to investigate the case.
He said a constable posted at the Uch Power Plant police post was also arrested for interrogation.
The DIG said the investigation team had recorded the statement of the woman who had been shifted to Darul Aman in Quetta.
He said the woman, a resident of Bhag tehsil of Bolan district, came to the Rabi Canal area of Nasirabad district to see her relatives. She forgot the address of her relatives and went to the Uch Power Plant police post for help. The coppers informed their in-charge, ASI Gola, about the matter and he came to the post and took her with him.
He said ASI Gola allegedly raped her and forcibly kept her at the police post for the night.
The next day the woman was left near the district hospital in an unconscious condition. She later found her relatives and reported the matter to the Dera Murad Jamali cop shoppe.
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[DAWN] Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) Kuldeep Singh Sengar, who is the main accused in the rape of a 17-year-old girl in Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao, has been sent to seven-day CBI custody.
The central investigating agency locked away Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! Shashi Singh, who is named in the CBI FIR as an accomplice of Sengar in the rape case. According to the FIR, Singh had allegedly taken the girl to the MLA’s residence.
"We support fair investigation. He has been sent to 7-day CBI custody," said Sengar’s lawyer.
On Friday, Sengar was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) after a day-long interrogation.
Sengar, an MLA from Bangarmau in Unnao district, was picked up by a team of the CBI in the wee hours of Friday from his residence in Indiranagar from where he was driven to the zonal office of the CBI and interrogated for several hours.
Earlier, the Allahabad high court had directed the CBI to arrest Sengar saying the law and order machinery and officials were directly under his influence.
The victim has alleged that she was raped by the MLA at his residence on June 4, 2017, where she had gone with a relative seeking a job.
In February, the girl’s family moved court seeking to include the MLA’s name in the rape case. After this move, the victim’s father was booked by the police under the arms act on April 3 this year and put in jail on April 5.
Alleging inaction and coercion from powerful people, the victim attempted self-immolation in front of the CM’s house on April 8 and the next day, her father died in jail with post-mortem report suggesting serious injuries on his body.
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[DAWN] Indian police have made another arrest after the alleged rape of a teenager by a ruling party politician sparked protests across the country, federal Sherlocks said Sunday.
The case, along with the rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl, has brought Indians onto the streets for mass demonstrations not seen since the rape and murder of a Delhi student in 2012.
The outrage has put pressure on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whose ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is accused of trying to shield its state politician in one case and of defending the accused in the other.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has incarcerated Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! Kuldeep Singh Sengar, a politician from Uttar Pradesh state which is ruled by the Hindu nationalist BJP, for allegedly raping the 17-year-old last year.
Police only brought a case against the powerful politician last week after the young victim attempted to burn herself alive outside the state leader's residence.
The next day, her father, who had been in police custody, died from injuries he sustained in an alleged beating.
"We arrested the second person, a woman named Shashi Singh, in our ongoing investigations of the case on Saturday," R.K. Gaur, a CBI front man, told AFP on Sunday.
Sengar appeared in court the same day and was ordered detained for seven days.
The girl's family ‐ who fought unsuccessfully for nearly a year to get the police to register their case ‐ said Singh had taken their daughter to the state politician on the pretext of a job.
Singh then allegedly stood guard at the door while Sengar raped the girl, the family's initial complaint to police stated.
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[MedicalNews] Correcting the faulty gene
Next, Dr. Huang and team wanted to see whether it was the loss of APOE3 or the accumulation of APOE4 that caused the disease.
So, they compared neurons that did not produce either the E3 or the E4 variant of the protein with cells that had APOE4 added to them.
The former continued to behave normally, while adding APOE4 led to Alzheimer's-like pathologies. This confirmed the fact that it is the presence of the APOE4 that causes the disease.
As a final step, Dr. Huang and his team looked for ways in which to fix the faulty gene. To this end, they applied a previously developed APOE4 "structure corrector."
The so-called structure corrector has been shown in previous research, led by the same Dr. Huang, to change the structure of APOE4 so that it looks and behaves more like the inoffensive APOE3.
Applying this compound to human APOE4 neurons corrected the defects, thereby eliminating signs of the disease, restoring normal cell function, and helping the cells to live longer.
The researchers conclude:
"Treatment of APOE4-expressing neurons with a small-molecule structure corrector ameliorated the detrimental effects, thus showing that correcting the pathogenic conformation of APOE4 is a viable therapeutic approach for APOE4-related [Alzheimer's disease]." Faster please.
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The so-called structure corrector has been shown in previous research, led by the same Dr. Huang, to change the structure of APOE4 so that it looks and behaves more like the inoffensive APOE3.
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.
[Washington Examiner] CBS News accidentally published an obituary Sunday prematurely celebrating the life of former first lady Barbara Bush after a spokesman revealed she was in "failing health," according to multiple reports.
[Business Insider] A Russian journalist who wrote about Russian mercenaries in Syria has died from injuries he sustained after falling from a balcony.
[Dallas News] The feds maintain that the 70 million-year-old skull that belonged to a relative of Tyrannosaurus rex was among a horde of dinosaur fossils stolen from Mongolia years ago.
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
