[CNN] Richard Matt, one of two escaped murderers from an upstate New York maximum-security prison, was shot and killed by officers involved in a massive three-week manhunt, Gov. Andrew Sonny Cuomo said Friday.
Officers are still pursuing runaway David Sweat but Cuomo said there was nothing to confirm his location as of Friday night. Still, "several leads" were being pursued on his whereabouts, the governor said.
The search involving about 1,100 officers has transformed life in sleepy hamlets and towns shadowed by the Adirondack Mountains.
For three tense weeks, residents have coped with incessant rumors, constant roadblocks, the buzz of helicopters, state troopers in the schools and homes under lockdown as authorities have pursued more than 2,000 tips into the escapees' whereabouts.
Law enforcement finally closed in on Matt around 1:30 p.m. when police received a call of shots fired near Route 30 in the vicinity of Malone, New York, according to law enforcement officials briefed on the matter. About 20 minutes later, more gunshots were heard.
The driver of a recreational vehicle called 911 when he heard the initial shots. He kept driving and called 911 a second time when he realized his camper was hit, the officials said.
Investigators traced the site of the initial gunshots to about eight miles back from where the driver stopped and discovered the bullet hole in the back of his camper. Officers came upon a cabin where they smelled gunpowder, as if a weapon recently had been fired, New York State Police Superintendent Joseph D'Amico said.
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Breaking: Fugitive David Sweat Shot And Captured… [LINK]
[Zero Hedge] It turns out that kids don't like to be told how their food should be prepared either. In fact, they absolutely hate it. Congress just received an update on the "unintended consequences" of Michelle Obama's school lunch rules. Apparently the stuff she wanted to push on children just tastes really crappy and now a black market in salt, pepper and sugar has developed:
"Children are creating their own black markets to trade and sell salt due to First Lady Michelle Obama's school lunch rules.
During a hearing before the House Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education, chaired by Rep. Todd Rokita (R., Ind.), a school administrator told Congress of the "unintended consequences" of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act.
"Perhaps the most colorful example in my district is that students have been caught bringing--and even selling--salt, pepper, and sugar in school to add taste to perceived bland and tasteless cafeteria food," said John S. Payne, the president of Blackford County School Board of Trustees in Hartford City, Indiana.
"This 'contraband' economy is just one example of many that reinforce the call for flexibility [with the rules]," he said.
Payne noted other problems with the "one-size-fits-all" approach to providing healthier meals to students, including fewer kids participating in the program and higher food waste. The trend started in 2012, when the school lunch law, which was championed by Mrs. Obama, went into effect.
"Students are avoiding cafeteria food," Payne said. "More students bring their lunch, and a few parents even 'check out' their child from campus, taking them to a local fast-food restaurant or home for lunch." Payne also said school fundraisers like bake sales, have been canceled due to the rules, and "whole-grain items and most of the broccoli end up in the trash" in his district.
Dr. Lynn Harvey agreed that the whole-grain requirement is not working, as kids refuse to eat dense and dry biscuits, and "unpalatable" grits.
"When it comes to whole grain-rich variations of biscuits, grits, crackers and cornbread, all too often, students simply toss them into the trash cans," said Harvey, who serves as chief of school nutrition services at the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, which oversees lunch programs for schools that enroll 1.5 million students.
"This product dissatisfaction has contributed to a decline in breakfast participation in 60 percent of North Carolina's school districts," she said.
"Biscuits and corn muffins are part of the state's cultural and regional food heritage, just as bagels are traditional in the Northeast and tortillas in the Southwest," Harvey added. "These foods are very popular breakfast items; the addition of whole grain flour has created products that are dense, compact, dry, and crumbly instead of light, moist, tender, and flaky."
More than 1 million students fled the lunch line during the first year the standards went into effect."
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Excellent training for their future. Start with salt, pepper and sugar. Learn the ropes. Move on to drugs and guns in high school. Then on to politics and Wall Street. And if they're really really good they may get to be a Banker.
I suspect 15.5 grams of salt, pepper, and sugar should be allowed for personal use. Beyond that, licensing and taxation should come into play. It's only fair.
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Pssssst: Bobby look at this shit.
What is that?
MSG Bobby, the good stuff.
What does it do?
It coats your tongue with rapture, it allows you to understand the spices, it substitutes for salt
Let me try a little. How much?
First is free, bring a dollar if you want ,ore tomorrow.
I think my ma, has some of this stuff in the cabinet.
Bring it in Bobby, paying 30 cents a gram cash, no questions.
Okay.
See ya Bobby.
Let!s play who's the NARC! Is it Bobby or the narrator?
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"Diversity," food naggers sputter,
"Does not include contraband butter
Or unapproved sauces
Or garlic or crosses
Or bags of lime pickle or zaatar!"
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Iff MSM-Net Blog Artics are correct as per desriptions + pics of Euro + Asian lunches for their Kiddies, EITHER FLOTUS MICHELLE'S FOOD PROGRAMS OR THE USDOE-FDA HAS SCREWED UP BIG TIME SOMEWHERE???
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Almost one year to date I wuz confined (LOL) at Shands Teaching Hospital in dawg damn Gainesville Fl. Superior care everywhere, except, except wait for it, all bread and the tray holding it was full bran. Inedible shit. Look, I know what you are think, yeah well hospital food. You would be RONG! Food at TMH is outstanding and an exceptional morale booster. Difference? Mooch standards applied at Shands. Good news is I had hot and cold running relatives and Shands had the sense to allow a Wendy's.
[AnNahar] Egypt faces treacherous weather conditions as a sandstorm blanketed the north of the country and a 5.2 earthquake centered in the Sinai peninsula shook buildings more than 200 miles away in the capital, Cairo.
They've been having a heatwave, too, to punctuate the whole Ramadan thing.
Airports near Alexandria and Marsa Matrouh, along the Mediterranean coast, closed and diverted flights to Cairo due to poor visibility from the day's sandstorm, Civil Aviation Minister Hossam Kamel said.
In the Red Sea town of Dahab, near the epicenter of the quake in the Sinai peninsula, the tremor shook loose clouds of dust that enveloped nearby mountains, according to a witness. The quake appeared to startle local residents and tourists.
Fierce winds whipped through the capital as many residents took cover from the sand by staying indoors.
No damage was immediately reported from the earthquake.
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When does the plaque of locusts come?
The locusts swarmed in that part of the world in 2013, Glenmore. Link I'm not aware that there have been swarms since -- when was it that al-Sisi and the army replaced the Muslim Brotherhood's man? ;-)
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OTOH see DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [KAUST Discovery] BIRTH OF VOLCANIC ISLANDS IN THE WATERS OF YEMEN + KSA [Southern Red Sea].
Iff my childhoods dreams,visions prove true, these islands will continue to grow + expand in coming years until such time it ... ...
> ALTERS = CHANGES THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE SOUTHERN RED SEA, I.E. CHOKES OFF OR BLOCKS NORMAL ACCESS TO SUEZ CANAL VIA SAME.
> THREATENS THE UNDERGROUND STABILITY, VIABILITY OF THE KSA'S OIL FIELDS.
THE PROVERBIAL CLOCK IS TICKING ON THE KSA'S DAYS AS WORLD OIL'S #1, AS THE GEOGRAPHY + GEOLOGY OF THE ENTIRE ARABIAN PENINSULA WILL BE CHANGED.
D *** NG IT, MORIARITY, THIS IS WHY "FAMILY GUY"S GREAT AMERICAN-IRISHMAN PETER GRIFFIN SAYS WE MUST CONQUER + DESTROY THE SUN IN ORDER TO SAVE THE EARTH!
[REUTERS] Two Oregon hikers who were assaulted by a beaver after they climbed onto its dam have been hospitalized for injuries incurred during the rare attack, law enforcement officials said on Friday.
Clayton Mitchell, 23, told the Deschutes County Sheriff's Office that he and a friend had been hiking along a river near his central Oregon home on Thursday when they climbed onto a beaver dam.
A resident beaver emerged from the dam, knocking Mitchell into the Deschutes River and trapping his friend, 31-year-old John Bailey, in a tangle of submerged logs, according to the sheriff's department incident report.
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[AnNahar] Opium cultivation and production in Afghanistan have reached record levels, triggering "a large increase" in cheaper heroin supply in the U.S., the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... said on Friday.
Afghan poppy fields covered some 224,000 hectares (553,500 acres) in 2014 -- a seven-percent rise from the 209,000 hectares the previous year, according to a new study by the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
As the world's largest opium producer, Afghanistan's steady increase has had a direct impact on global opium cultivation, which with 310,891 hectares is now at its highest since the late 1930s, UNODC noted in its annual World Drugs report.
Estimated global production of opiates meanwhile doubled in two years from 3,700 tons in 2012 to 7,554 tons in 2014.
Afghanistan accounted for 85 percent of the global output.
As a result, "we have been seeing signs in the U.S. and the UK of a large increase of supply," UNODC research branch chief Angela Me told AFP.
"In the U.S. there's been an increase in heroin-related deaths and also signs of more and cheaper heroin available. The same goes for the UK where heroin-related deaths have increased recently."
Me noted that while drug-related deaths in the U.S. had primarily been linked to the misuse of prescription opioids over the past few years, heroin was now "almost replacing" the trend.
The number of Americans dying from heroin abuse rose from 5,925 in 2012 to 8,257 in 2013, reaching the highest level in a decade, the UNODC report said.
Globally, some 32.4 million people -- or 0.7 percent of adults -- are users of opiates like heroin and opium.
Asia remains the world's largest market for opiates, accounting for an estimated two thirds of all users, while the number of registered heroin users in China is increasing, UNODC said.
The agency also highlighted the "increasing importance" of Africa as a transit hub for Afghan heroin bound for Europe and other regions, reflected in the growing figure of seizures being reported in recent years by some African countries.
But although heroin seizures increased by eight percent in 2014, "we have not seen big signs of increased supplies in terms of seizure", said Me.
This suggests that traffickers may be seeking out new smuggling routes.
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IIUC, recently naloxone (Narcan) injectable is being widely distributed in the USA to provide faster reversal of life-threatening opiate toxicity among abusers. This affects death rate statistics.
[AFP] Armenia said Azerbaijani troops on Friday killed an Armenian soldier in the latest border clash. Armenian Defense Ministry spokesman Artsrun Hovannisyan said, "Today (Friday), Azerbaijani armed forces violated the ceasefire," at the common border.
"An Armenian serviceman has been killed in action," he said, claiming that the Azerbaijani side, which he accused of "military provocations", had suffered "substantial losses".
Azerbaijani officials were not immediately available for comment.
It's something to do on an otherwise boring Friday night...
[Iran Press TV] North Korea says it will take "tougher countermeasures" against the United States after Washington said the communist country has one of the worst human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. situations in the world.
The US State Department's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2014, released on Thursday, showed that North Korea "remained among the worst in the world".
The report said Pyongyang commits "systematic, widespread, and gross human rights violations," adding that those violations constitute "crimes against humanity."
In response, a North Korean Foreign Ministry representative said in a statement on Saturday that "the US is dreaming a foolish dream that any 'change' would take place in the DPRK (the Democratic People's Republic of Korea)".
"Now that the US persists in the hostile policy toward the DPRK, it will take tougher countermeasures," said the statement carried by the North's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).
Pyongyang also said that the report by the US State Department is a "sinister attempt" to bring down the North Korean government under the pretext of protecting human rights.
North Korea has accused US President Barack Obama Because I won... of plotting with regional allies to overthrow its government. Pyongyang says it will not relinquish its nuclear deterrence unless the US ends its hostile policy toward North Korea and dissolves the US-led UN command in South Korea.
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[Huffpoo] ATHENS, June 27 (Reuters) - More than a third of automated teller machines across Greece ran out of cash on Saturday before they were replenished as Greeks pulled out money on fears their country was set to crash out of the euro, three banking sources said.
Anxious Greeks lined up outside ATMs after Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras made a surprise call for a referendum on austerity terms demanded by lenders, throwing talks with lenders in disarray and putting Greece on the verge of a default.
About 35 percent of the ATM network - some 2,000 out of the 5,500 ATMs across Greece - ran out of euro banknotes at one point during the day and were being replenished, the bankers said. Banks were working in coordination with the central bank to keep the network fed with cash, they said.
Replenishing ATMs usually takes one to two hours per ATM, leading to the long lines, one banking source said.
Around 600 million euros was withdrawn from the banking system on Saturday, one senior banker at one of Greece's four big lenders told Reuters. A second banker estimated the outflow at more than 500 million euros.
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The only interesting thing about this news (IMO) is that it took Greece this long to get to this point. Why any sane Greek would have kept his treasure in a Greek bank is beyond me. But then, US treasuries are now being sold at zero, or occasionally, negative interest rates, which also makes zero sense.
[NYTIMES] In an unexpected move, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras went on national television early Saturday to call for a referendum on July 5, so that Greek citizens can decide whether to accept or reject the terms of a bailout deal proposed by the country's creditors.
With his speech, Mr. Tsipras upends the stalemate in negotiations between Greece and its creditors, throwing into doubt whether Greece will be able to make a 1.6 billion euro debt payment that is due on Tuesday to the International Monetary Fund, while also deepening concerns that the beleaguered country could leave the eurozone.
Mr. Tsipras said he was calling the referendum because Greece's creditors -- the I.M.F., the European Central Bank and the eurozone countries -- had refused to negotiate in good faith and present a fair compromise.
"After five months of tough negotiations, our partners ended up with a proposal in the form of an ultimatum," Mr. Tsipras said, arguing that the creditors were calling for "new, unbearable measures," including cuts to pensions, salaries and tax increases.
"The goal of some of Greece's partners is the humiliation of an entire nation," he added.
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"The goal of some of Greece's partners court is the humiliation of an entire nation the embezzler,"
I was under the impression that the NRA was formed with the intention of allowing emancipated slaves to protect themselves against rampaging white folks of the KKK pursuasion... but I could be wrong, I suppose. [Iran Press TV] The right of Americans to keep and carry firearms was guaranteed by the Second Amendment of the US Constitution to allow white settlers in the United States to steal the land from indigenous Americans
...who also had guns, bought from white shopkeepers because Indian furs were just as good as white furs...
and control black slaves, a civil rights activist in Georgia says.
"That Second Amendment guarantees the right to bear arms was necessary at the founding of this country because the white settlers were in the process of stealing the continent, stealing the land from the Native Americans, from the Indians and many of them were slave holders," said Bruce Dixon, chairman of the Georgia Green Party and managing editor of Black Agenda Report.
Never heard of it, him, or them.
"The local officials needed to guarantee free white men the right to bear arms because these free white men patrolled the roads, looking for slaves, checking passes, and guaranteeing that Native Americans and Indians and slaves were not plotting an insurrection or travelling for unauthorized means," Dixon told Press TV on Saturday.
"When the frontier was closed and when slavery was over, the gun lobby and some other people sort of rewrote their own history, but that's the history and that's why these laws are there, and until we face up to our actual history, our hope of stemming gun violence are just not there at all," he added.
US President Barack Obama I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody... said on Friday that for too long Americans have been "blind" to the "unique mayhem" caused by gun violence in the US.
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And yet the baby kitty and fluffy bunny population thrive. What went wrong?
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Read the chronicle of early incursions of the French and British explores and pick up quickly the demand for western 'fire arms' to give one native tribe an advantage over another tribe. Many demonstrated that skill for over a hundred years. The Brits had no problems conveying 'fire arms' to the natives of the Northwest Territories in an attempt to keep them empowered to maintain the place as a buffer zone against American expansion in the period up to the War of 1812.
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Stolen, fair and square. Get over it, mates. The other [losing] aborigines exterminated by the victorious aborigines have left nothing but stone arrowheads, potsherds & coprolites with their DNA.
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Maybe because the Seminoles actually won their wars. They didn't end up shipped to OK like others. The historically illiterates in the media never picked up on that.
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Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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North Korea
[NYTIMES] In an unexpected move, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras went on national television early Saturday to call for a referendum on July 5, so that Greek citizens can decide whether to accept or reject the terms of a bailout deal proposed by the country's creditors.
[Iran Press TV] The right of Americans to keep and carry firearms was guaranteed by the Second Amendment of the US Constitution to allow white settlers in the United States to steal the land from indigenous Americans 
