A nameless student was shot in the buttocks by a second nameless fellow student Tuesday afternoon at Miami Norlan Hafday Senior High School, according to Miami-Dade public school officials.
The butt shooting happened an hour after school was dismissed, about 3:45 p.m., on the sports field of the school, located at 1050 NW 195th St., schools spokesman John Schuster said. The two students, both male, both dumb as rocks, one armed with a 9mm, one with only a penchant for insults, got into a fight, then one jis up an chot da other in the buttocks, Schuster said.
The injured student now known as OnePop2Butt, was taken to Memorial Hospital West in Pembroke Pines. His injuries were not life threatening, Schuster said.
Police searched afterward for the butt shooter. Miami-Dade schools police were working with Miami Gardens police to find the nameless him, Schuster said.
Schuster said Norland Senior High, Norland Middle, Norland Elementary and Norwood Elementary were all temporarily placed on lockdown after the shooting and a school-wide weapons serial number inventory was conducted.
Japanese scientists were warning Thursday that Tokyo could soon be hit by a massive earthquake, following a surge in seismic activity.
Seismologists at the University of Tokyo detected a huge increase in the number of small quakes in the tectonic plates below the capital.
And the scientists measuring the quakes did not rule out the possibility that a combination of earthquakes in two or more points in the earth's crust could unite -- doubling their destructive power.
"Because of the March 11 quake, the possibility of a big quake occurring in Tokyo has increased," according to Shinichi Sakai, assistant professor at the university's Earthquake Research Institute. "It is necessary to make preparations on the assumption that a big quake could come to Tokyo at any time and that the danger is greater than before."
[Al Jazeera] Uruguay has announced the dismissal of a navy commander with the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... mission in Haiti after a video was circulated of an alleged sexual assault on a young Haitian man by members of a Uruguayan peacekeeping unit.
The defence ministry said on Sunday in a statement that it had begun a "repatriation of the troops involved" in the incident.
Send in home the mighty Uruguayans!
In addition to the dismissal of the navy commander - who was not immediately named - a military justice board had been convened and paperwork was started to arrange for the return home of the five soldiers allegedly involved.
"The navy wants to go beyond the simple fact of the video [to determine] if there are other violations of conduct," Sergio Bique, the front man, told local media. The suspects will be tried and sentenced appropriately, he stressed.
The Uruguayan defence ministry last week ordered an "urgent investigation" into allegations that its troops had committed "aberrant acts," after video footage surfaced allegedly showing the soldiers sexually assaulting an 18-year-old Haitian man.
Haitian President Michel Martelly said on Sunday that he "vigorously condemned'' the actions of those involved, asking the relevant authorities to meet with UN officials to prevent "such acts'' from happening, a statement from his office said.
Video 'copied via Bluetooth'
Ansel Herz, a journalist in Port Salut, where the incident is alleged to have occurred, said the video footage was passed around via mobile phones after two Haitian men saw the video and copied it while they were exchanging music with a Ururguayan soldier via Bluetooth.
"The video was originally taken by a UN soldier who was there at the time," he told Al Jizz.
On Friday, a Haitian magistrate said he had turned the case over to prosecutors after the alleged victim and his mother gave depositions.
"Everybody was watching this video in the court case as the mother was making a complaint against these soldiers," said Herz.
The one-minute long video pans out from a sideways close-up of the alleged victim's strained face to reveal his body being held down on a mattress by light-skinned men wearing camouflage-coloured clothes.
Some of them are seen wearing sky-blue caps in the style of those worn by UN peacekeeping forces. As the men's laughter grows in volume, a shirtless soldier kneels behind the man, slaps him and appears to thrust towards him.
Eliana Nabaa, a spokeswoman for the UN's Haiti peacekeeping mission, MINUSTAH, said on Friday that the UN inquiry had not yet proven the video's authenticity, but that an investigation was under way to "determine the facts".
In Sunday's statement, the Uruguayan defence ministry said its investigation would determine the reponsibility of those allegedly involved and punish them "with greater severity and rigour".
"The Navy did not allow or permit a few members who commit transgressions of this kind, affecting the high prestige and excellent relations with local people, virtues which have characterised the performance of the Armed Forces throughout its rich history serving on peacekeeping missions under the UN mandate," the statement added.
Uruguay contributes 1,110 soldiers and coppers to the UN's more than 12,000-strong peacekeeping force in Haiti, which was dispatched to help maintain order and security following last year's devastating earthquake.
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[Iran Press TV] A Turkish court has arrested and jailed the head of the intelligence department of the Turkish armed forces, General Ismail Hakki Pekin, over an alleged plot to overthrow the government.
They're going to end up with nothing higher than a colonel if they keep this up. This could prove amusing, for Turkey-watchers at least, given the historical proclivities of colonels in the Third and Fourth worlds.
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Try Sergeant. The 38 of high level officers have just resigned. More than 1000 of Military leaders are in jail. Does anyone need to refute me that Turkey is now beyond the help of NATO, speak up now.
This is the end of our engagement, kill it before it becomes too stupid to hold.
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Usually the sergeants organize coups against the regimes put in place by successful coups by captains or colonels. Well, semi-successful. It's usually a sign that the chain of command has dissolved entirely in the acid bath of serial military insurrection.
I'm not sure I've seen an example where the civilian government successfully liquidates the entire chain of command in fear of a military coup. Unless you count the Stalinist great purges - and say what you will about the AKP, they haven't been shooting their officers wholesale, not yet anyways.
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The government in Pakistan's Sindh province has decided to make the Chinese language a compulsory subject in schools from 2013, sparking a debate in the educational and political circles over the reasons behind such a move.
The decision was taken at a high level meeting yesterday presided over by Chief Minister of Sindh province Qaim Ali Shah, an official statement said.
According to the announcement, Chinese will be a compulsory subject from class six in all educational institutions, including the Cadet college of Petaro from the 2013 session.
Sindh Education Minister Pir Mazhar-ul-Haq said the decision was taken keeping in mind the close ties with China and its growing role as a economic giant in the world.
"Our trade, educational and other relations are growing with China everyday and now it is necessary for our younger generation to have command over their language," Mazhar said.
He pointed out that this move would reap benefits in the longer run for Pakistan.
Ather Mirza, the President of the Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association, said it was a move by the political leadership to gain points with China and gain financial benefits from them.
He said the introduction of the Chinese language would not only put an additional burden on parents, but also on students, who were already made to learn three languages - English, Urdu and Sindhi - as compulsory subjects.
Don't worry, guys. It's not as if they have to give up science, math, or real --as opposed to imaginary -- history to make room in the schedule for this. And they can learn Muslim stuff in Chinese as easily as in Urdu and English, so that's ok.
Another educationist said the government decision came out of the blue as it was not discussed or debated in recent meetings of the education department with the chief minister or education minister.
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[Homeland Security Committee chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Mis] stressed that the recommendation for the vaccinations was based on the potential for illnesses like Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, diphtheria, tetanus and influenza to be spread in places where large, diverse crowds gather. He said that first responders and medical professionals are inoculated against such diseases as a matter of course.
Which makes sense, if the Congressional aides were first responders and medical professionals (I have to keep mine up to date due to work). Otherwise it really seems a bit hysterical.
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You don't understand, Beltway elites have no immunity against the filth borne diseases carried by such backwoods, redneck, low-class human scum like those they imagine NASCAR fans to be.
It is hard to imagine, for them, how they can be around such people without vomiting out of sheer disgust. To be even touched or breathed on by such inferiors makes them shudder.
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I knows my NASCAR news/abuses by incompetent racist and classist assholes. It smelled like old shit
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Maybe a bit old, but now we know the real reason that half the Chase drivers have bailed from visiting with The One; any shots THEY might nee3d before visiting that place might cause a reaction and keep them from driving in Richmond this week. last race before the Chase and all that; much more important that hanging with Mr Hope and Changey.
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
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