[USATODAY] Some news organizations are refuting the existence of an alleged phenomenon known as the "knockout game" that has been the subject of media warnings in recent weeks.
According to reports by CNN, the Today show, USA TODAY and others, the game takes place when young people randomly assault strangers in an attempt to knock them out with one punch.
The attacks are leading to arrests, more officers on the streets and warnings for vigilance among the public, law enforcement officials and victims advocates told USA TODAY. In New Haven, Conn., police front man David Hartman said police are investigating six incidents in the past month as possible "knockouts."
But police officials in several cities where the attacks have been reported say the knockout game is an urban myth, and that attacks that have received recent attention in the media have been random assaults, the New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... is reporting.
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Please file under the general category of 'Holocaust deniers' and await the appearance of supporting websites and international conferences.
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Desperately trying to plaster over the huge cracks developing in the Permanent Party Propaganda Media's attempt to cover up the gross disproportionate amount of crime prevalent in the community as though ignoring it will make it go away.
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About five years ago a friend of mine was sucker-punched while walking to his car in New Orleans. Puncher was a young black kid, presumably fulfilling some kind of gang initiation. He picked the wrong guy & wound up unconscious and bleeding in the gutter. Fist & feet. Friend continued to his car & went home. Did not see a killing listed for that address the next day so we figured he didn't die.
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Media continues to try to cover anything racist done by blacks, under some stupid assumption hat blacks cannot be racist - which incidentally protects all the racist behavior coming from the White House and executive branch, like Holder. q..v. Black Panthers case, et al.
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Any man that hits a woman should get life in prison. Prevents him from ever having a chance to ever date, marry, or even get near a woman again, without being behind steel bars.
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Sorry, folks, I saw several incidents filmed in the DC area even before the news hit the 'Burg.
It was on one of the news channels (prolly ABC)at dinner time. Several folks went straight down on the sidewalk, hard. I figger they had a concussion before they hit the concrete sidewalk.
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Like Bobby said, this has been going on for a while. Come across something every once in a while, just thought it was stupid shit city people do. I wish I could find the link, think it was IOTW a few days back, but there was an interview with the local kids and they talk like it is, at least, past the year of fad.
Hey NYT readers, you love them some puzzles
14. Across (8 letters)
being struck in the head, as in boxing.
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One of the interesting things is that the supposed "Black Race Warriors" are trying to discourage the attacks, while white liberals are trying to be "Blacker than Black" and claim that Blacks can do no wrong.
Today Al Sharpton publicly condemned players of the knockout game and called them racist. (Yeah. I was shocked too). The limousine liberals at MSNBC had an epileptic fit. It shows that White liberals do not care about the wellbeing of Blacks. They just want to use Blacks and throw them away.
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But police officials in several cities where the attacks have been reported say the knockout game is an urban myth
Are these the same police officials that say that their officers will be at your door soon when a forced entry to your house happens?
[NEWYORK.CBSLOCAL] Police are investigating if a 72-year-old woman is the latest victim of the so-called "knockout game," a violent trend in which youths sucker-punch unsuspecting strangers for kicks.
Mira Harpazi was walking two blocks from her home at the Starret City housing complex in Brooklyn when she was punched in the face by a man in his 20s, CBS 2′s John Slattery reported Tuesday.
Like other alleged "knockout" victims, she was not robbed, but left on the street injured.
The attack was the most recent in what may be a disturbing series of similar assaults. Online videos from various cities show young suspects randomly punching innocent victims.
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly was asked Tuesday whether these are bias attacks.
"The seven core ones happened in the Crown Heights area, which certainly has a Hasidic population and some of the victims were Hasidic males and children and I actually think a woman as well. So, we're not discounting that," Kelly said.
The commissioner added that each case is being examined individually.
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[CA.NEWS.YAHOO] A horse pulling a buggy with an Amish family aboard in rural Pennsylvania was struck by a bullet fired from a moving car and later died, police said on Tuesday.
No people were maimed in the drive-by shooting, which occurred on Sunday in the village of Ronks in the heart of Lancaster County's Amish country, said Lieutenant Robin Weaver of the East Lampeter Township Police Department.
The buggy was about a mile from home when the two adults and three children aboard heard a loud crack, police said.
"At the time, they believed it was a firecracker," Weaver said. "They didn't realize it was a gunshot."
The family continued home, where they realized the animal had been injured.
"When they got to the farm, the farmer noticed blood from the horse's mouth," Weaver said. The horse died before a veterinarian arrived.
Weaver said the Amish are sometimes victims of harassment, and it is not uncommon for passing motorists to throw firecrackers, eggs or other food at them. One reason may be that the Amish religion includes a belief in pacifism.
"They're an easy target. They can't fight back," Weaver said. "If I knew why people thought that was funny, I'd be rich."
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[Daily Caller] Busted indeed! Enjoy your cell you cowardly bastid! Posted as Non-WoT, but it actually is "terror" to the innocent, unsuspecting victim.
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If the victim had a firearm instead of a cell phone, she could have prevented this thug from future attacks. But then again, she probably considered the protests, rioting, burning, looting, and lawsuits and decided it just wasn't worth it.
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I've been reading about these things for years.
Thing is, even if it wasn't real, it is now.
JohnQC - that's what I thought purse lady was getting ready to do, seems she was just checking to see if she was robbed. Wasn't the motivation. Not sure what a good name for random victim ambush assaults targeting the head?
[An Nahar] A Slovak pensioner has opened a zoo like no other: one filled with dozens of abandoned stuffed animals.
Tibor Marko, a 70-year-old retired construction worker and grandfather, told Agence La Belle France Presse the idea behind his inanimate menagerie sprang from his own reluctance to dispose of his adult children's teddy-bears.
Then, "about a year and a half ago, a friend gave me an old teddy bear and several other animals and told me to do something with them. That's when I thought the old toys could bring joy to other children," he said.
Today a small public garden near his house is home to more than 70 toy animals including a huge lion, an elephant, a snake, a dinosaur, several monkeys and teddy bears.
"The first animals got stolen but now all the neighbours bring me their old toys and my wife helps me arrange them," he said at the garden where they also tend the flowers.
The zoo -- which has no cages, fences, entry fees, or closing hours -- has been a hit with neighbours young and old.
"I come here often with my two-year old daughter, she likes to play with the animals a lot," local resident Maria told AFP.
"Say good night to the lion, we have to go home," she then called out to the girl, who was hugging the stuffed king of the jungle.
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Probably a very small zoo compared to some adolescent or young adult females' collections in their bedrooms. Not to be confused with the comic book and toy collectables stash of their male counterparts.
[PAGESIX] Alec Baldwin has been fired by MSNBC, sources say.
The rage-aholic's weekly show, "Up Late With Alec Baldwin," has been canceled because of the actor's foul-mouthed rant at a photographer he called a nasty name.
"The decision has been made. He's gone," an insider at the cable channel told me. "The [parent company] Comcast guys have decided. Word is spreading through the building."
Baldwin's dismissal was decided on partly because of his diva-like behavior toward co-workers, a source said.
Besides demanding a humidifier because he claimed the air at 30 Rock was too dry, Baldwin alienated staffers when he demanded a separate makeup room being used by a woman with cancer who is sensitive to hairspray.
When Baldwin was told he couldn't have his way, he allegedly bellowed at the top of his lungs, "I don't give a f - - k if she has cancer or not, I want that f - - king makeup room."
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I have never heard what Alec Baldwin actually called the "Gays". ( is it PC to call them "Gays" I dont want to not be absolutely and completely PC? ).
We don't want the thought police to come and take us away for thinking improper thoughts about our twinkle-toed limp wristed Fag friends, the queerboys, the Pogiebait buttslammers with a taste for the Hershey highway.Oh, no.
Why some of my best friends are sword swallowers.
Let's call them something like "Gays"..it sounds so..umm, Pink. Or is that punk?
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I swear I saw a commercial for MSNBC last night on another channel that basically declared that the (heavily subsidized by cable/satellite bundling) network was now openly the Obama Channel.
We can only hope. Myself, I refuse to refer to homosexuals by their preferred euphemism.
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So its okay to slur white female Republican politicians, white males in general, the military, Catholics, Protestants, Jews, and the Amish but heaven forbid calling a homosexual anything but "gay" is strictly forbidden.
Kinda gives you a glimpse behind the curtain on the mindset of the liberal media. MSNBC is just the big three with no impulse control, they all basically think the same thing.
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Myself, I refuse to refer to homosexuals by their preferred euphemism.
Yeah. And we'd like to get our rainbow back too.
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The hypocrisy of MSNBC is mind numbing. Its ok to say what the guy said to Sara Palin, but when a guy is being harassed in the streets in his anger he lets out a slur he fired??? As much as Alec is an idiot, this one was wrong and MSNBC is showing itself to be the fascist network it is....
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He was fired NOT for blowing up at fags, But for making his bosses look bad, The bosses can't stand to LOOK bad, whether or not they ARE bad, they HAVE to LOOK good.
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#6 So its okay to slur white female Republican politicians, white males in general, the military, Catholics, Protestants, Jews, and the Amish but heaven forbid calling a homosexual anything but "gay" is strictly forbidden.
As you strong-minded, industrious folks have probaby noticed, tens of millions of Americans are craving simplicity these days. Simplicity of thought and effort, sure (guilty!), but mostly simplicity of message and purpose. Confidence and purity of heart, even. As we prepare ourselves to sit down with family and friends, knives and forks clutched in tremorous hands, brittle smiles on our faces, to give thanks for the bounty fate, providence, and the electorate have bestowed upon us, could one of you magisterial types (no irony intended) please take a moment to explain why we're destined to lose on this euphemism thing? Why despite decades of mockery and passive resistance, there doesn't seem to be any broad LCD effort to roll it back? No "Words Mean Things" amendment? No "Meaning in Language Protection Act" (viva la raza!)? Why, if these kinds of initiatives exist, they'll never work? Okay, I think I've shamed myself into doing my own homework. Never mind, thanks, and happy Thanksgiving, you bastards (present company excepted).
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Alec Baldwin is not secret. He was hired to be Alec Baldwin, so spread the liberal news and perhaps have some loose cannon moments to attract viewers. When nobody cared about either hook they had to find a reason to cancel him, and being Alec Baldwin they knew it only was a matter of time before anything which could be trumped up, would be.
I think he should take up sports casting with Olberman. Set them across a table from each other, random topics, and each have a knife taped under their side of the table but do not know the other also has a knife.
Take heart, though the Black Friday Marketeers can only surround Thanksgiving. It is the Sappers of Anti-History who have the ability to destroy it, and this year they call for rakes to open the gates from the inside.
If I had this problem of people not able to shut up for a half hour of good food, and I headed the table, I'd begin, "Cheers and bless you for making it safe to this time of Thanks (group salute and drink). As a matter of protocal, while at this gathering and for 2 hours after our first toast, I must let you know anyone who speaks politics of any sort will not receive the antidote (raises glass for toast, takes big drink, and politely asks those who do not drink to leave the table)."
Obamacare applicants across the country are finding their premiums are tripling, their favorite doctors aren't available, the physicians they can see are often far away and many prestigious hospitals offering specialized care are off-limits to them, according to a Washington Examiner survey of health insurance agents and brokers across the country.
If you work within an Accountable Care Organization you can't rebel. I know...
Agents associated with the National Association of Health Underwriters were contacted in 16 cites across the country. The agents were all certified by state insurance regulators to sell health insurance policies within and without the Obamacare exchanges.
Their responses provide an alarming picture of the profound changes Obamacare is forcing on patients and health care providers.
In parts of California, for example, low reimbursement rates have resulted in a doctor rebellion, as nearly seven out of 10 doctors refuse to participate in the exchanges.
San Diego broker Neil Crosby told the Examiner that "65 to 70 percent of the providers have declined the reimbursement schedules the carriers are offering. They will not be providers in the exchange marketplace."
Similarly, agent David Fear in Sacramento said, "Roughly a third of the doctors are going to be accepted in the networks. I'm finding very few specialists in either the Anthem or Blue Shield networks."
United Healthcare, who partnered with AARP in support of ObamaCare's passage, is one of the most frequent companies refusing to participate in the Exchanges. Go figure!
[Tolo News] Local Police officers in Baghlan killed a young boy and a girl who bravely ran away from home on Saturday night, according to local reports.
Members of the Provincial Council told TOLOnews that the two bravely ran away from their homes in the Dahan-e-Ghori District, but were stopped at a police checkpoint. There, they were forced out of a car, beaten and executed by officers.
There were no details provided regarding the number of officers involved, or their identities.
"The Baghlan incident is so shocking," Provincial Council member Nida Kaihani said. "Local police forced to youth out of their car, and they held court at the police check post. Those involved in the incident should be prosecuted."
The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) has condemned the incident and has urged government officials to do something about the incident.
"Actually, this is a serious concern for the Human Rights Commission," AIHRC Commissioner Qadria Yazdanparast said. "And we ask the government to take legal action and not ignore the rule of law."
Baghlan Police Chief Gen. Aminullah Amarkhil has assured that action would be taken against the officers if they are found responsible.
"The incident is against the law and whoever is responsible will be convicted," he said.
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The International Criminal Court has reversed a ruling that allowed Kenyas President Uhuru Kenyatta to attend only parts of his trial, saying the African leader as a general rule must be present in court.
Any future requests to be excused from attending parts of his trial will be considered on a case-by-case basis, The Hague-based ICC said in a statement on Tuesday.
Kenyattas trial on charges of masterminding some of the 2007-8 post-election violence in Kenya that left over 1000 people dead and several hundred thousand displaced is set to start on February 5.
Judges previously partially excused Kenyatta to allow him to deal with the aftermath of a Nairobi mall siege in September. Two weeks later, the court postponed the trials start date after Kenyattas lawyers said the mall attack claimed by Somalias al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab insurgents triggered a national and international crisis.
Kenyatta, who was elected president in March, has long said that the trial in the Netherlands would hamper his running of the country.
Prosecutors however argued Kenyattas situation was the same as that of fellow accused and Kenyas Vice President William Ruto, who was instructed last month to be present at his own trial.
Both Kenyatta and Ruto face crimes against humanity charges in separate trials. They were political opponents at the time of the post-poll violence that shattered the east African countrys image as a beacon of stability in the region.
Ruto went on trial in September, becoming the highest-ranking serving official to do so before the ICC. Both men have pledged full cooperation with the court.
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[Libya Herald] The Amazigh language, Tamazight, is to be taught as an official subject in schools in Amazigh areas as of January 2014, Mustafa Ajala, head of the Minister of Education's office, has told the Libya Herald.
The minister, he said, had given instructions to commence lessons in the language in the second term of the current school year. Classes will be given to elementary school pupils (1st to 4th grade). It will be taught three times a week in the 4th grade.
"Tamazight will be a basic subject in Amazigh area schools and it will have a space in the school report," Ajala explained. "On 25 September, the ministry gave instruction to start printing [Tamazight] books ," he added.
Existing Amazigh teachers are being trained to take classes the language, Ajala disclosed.
Tamazight is already taught in a number of Amazigh-area schools, but on an unofficial basis.
There are no plans as yet for Tamzight-medium schools where all subject are taught in the language.
Its status is currently a source of contention. On Sunday, a majority of Congress members voted to make it an official language, but it failed to make it into law because, as a constitutional change, 121 votes were needed to approve it. Although most Libyans appear unconcerned whether the language is recognised or not, there is a small anti-Amazigh group in Congress determined to see Arabic as Libya's sole official language.
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[Al Ahram] A Yemeni court on Tuesday released into UN custody a Saudi woman who had crossed the border illegally to elope with a Yemeni man defying tradition in both conservative countries.
In a case reminiscent of Shakespeare's star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet, Huda al-Niran, 22, defied her family and crossed the border illegally to be with her Yemeni beloved Arafat Mohammed Tahar, 25.
Niran was tossed in the calaboose I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! in Yemen for illegal entry and placed on trial, amid mounting pressure from her family and Saudi authorities for her to return home.
But she stuck her ground, pleading in court to be able to stay and marry Tahar, and applied for asylum through the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
On Tuesday a Yemeni judge decided to release Niran into the custody of the UNHCR for a period of three months during which she should be able to obtain the refugee status.
A UNHCR representative confirmed to AFP that Niran had initiated proceedings to be granted refugee status in Yemen.
If she succeeds, she will be able to marry Tahar and therefore remain in Yemen.
Tuesday's hearing had been scheduled for December 1, but it was brought forward following a request by Niran's lawyer who feared for her safety behind bars.
In court on Sunday, she refused to accept a lawyer provided by the Saudi embassy, fearing pressure to return home.
She accepted, however, a lawyer appointed by a Yemeni non-government organization called Hood who had campaigned to reunite the modern-day Romeo and Juliet.
The lovers' plight has gripped imaginations in both Yemen and 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... , where the young woman's courage is seen as astonishing
She not only went against the wishes of her family, who said she could not marry Tahar, but also dared to flee the country and follow him to Yemen.
The hearing in her trail was scheduled for December 1, but it was brought forward following a request by her lawyer who feared for her safety behind bars.
Huda's case has also come to the attention of the New York-based Human Rights Watch. ... dedicated to bitching about human rights violations around the world...
On November 19, HRW urged Yemen not to repatriate her and to take into consideration the fact that returning to her family could put her life at risk.
"She fears physical harm from her family members, whom she said have beaten her in the past, if she is returned to Saudi Arabia," HRW had said in a statement.
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[Pak Daily Times] An independent Scotland would keep Queen Elizabeth II as its monarch but create its own defence force, nationalist leader Alex Salmond said on Tuesday as he unveiled detailed proposals ahead of next year's historic referendum.
Launching his regional government's long-awaited "white paper" on independence, Salmond said he could build a "wealthier and fairer nation" if Scots vote next September to end the 300-year-old union with London.
"We'd become independent in more promising circumstances than virtually any other nation in history," Salmond, the first minister, told a packed news conference in Scotland's biggest city Glasgow.
"Ultimately at the heart of this debate there is only one question and one choice.
"Do we, the people who live and work in Scotland, believe that we are the best people to take decisions about Scotland's future?"
Among the proposals in the 670-page tome, an independent Scotland would take 90 percent of revenues from the North Sea oil reserves lying off its shores and would no longer play host to Britannia's Trident nuclear deterrent -- both highly contentious issues.
Salmond did admit however that while Scotland had "huge" hydrocarbon resources for another 50 years, "we need to build renewable wealth which will last forever".
An independent Scotland would continue to use the pound as its currency, but would ditch the BBC as its national broadcaster.
With 10 months to go until the vote, Salmond's Scottish National Party (SNP) is struggling to convince Scots -- some 38 percent are currently planning to vote for independence, according to a Panelbase survey for the Sunday Times, while 47 would vote against.
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..well, the Canadians and Aussies still have 'ties' to the monarchy. Cheaper than paying for new ones. They're sort of useful in providing something to allow the people to identify with while not actually having any power - sort of like our written Constitution.
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Recognition of one's western political and cultural heritage is a healthy and civilized accommodation. A counter-argument might be found in their rejection by many former colonies in Africa, but you must decide the merit.
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The horses are small and the cows are scrawyny Deacon. Bad Teefs everywhere, beggary and bad living abound. I would rethink. All the good 'uns like me and you were escorted out prior to 1800.... But if you insist I'll carry a brick for 'ye. I still got a good arm.
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Among the proposals in the 670-page tome, an independent Scotland would take 90 percent of revenues from the North Sea oil reserves lying off its shores
[Al Ahram] At least 10 Haitian migrants were killed and 100 others fell into the water after a freighter capsized in the Bahamas, the US Coast Guard said Tuesday. "The migrants were clinging to the hull of the grounded 40-foot sail freighter when rescue crews arrived" on Monday night, the Coast Guard said in a statement.
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[USATODAY] An American carrier battle group and a flotilla of Japanese warships will arrive Wednesday near a vast stretch of ocean claimed by China in what is shaping up as a test of how Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and the USA will stand up to the challenge.
The joint U.S.-Japan exercises in the sea are a direct challenge to China's claim. On Tuesday, the U.S. military said two Air Force B-52 bombers flew over the sea without notifying Beijing despite China's demand that it be told if anyone plans to fly military aircraft over its self-claimed "air defense zone."
The aircraft took off from Guam on Monday, part of a regular exercise, said a U.S. defense official who spoke to AFP news service on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to divulge the information.
China has been laying claim to nearly 1 million square miles of ocean known as the East China Sea, insisting that the sea's energy resources and fisheries belong to China. Much of the ocean territory it claims is hundreds of miles from its shore, including waters off the coasts of Japan, Taiwan and South Korea.
On Saturday China went further than ever, announcing it had designated much of the sea as an air defense zone it controls. The zone includes the Japan-held Senkaku Islands, a string of uninhabited islets that China calls the Diaoyus. The Chinese Defense Ministry said the zone was created to "guard against potential air threats."
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Obama's honeymoon with the American people with the exception of the brain dead and zombies who voted for him is about over. He is tanking in just about every category and still heading south. Once you have a reputation for lying you don't get back. No one trusts anything you say. Of course there are those who don't care whether their leaders are liars.
[Al Ahram] Silvio Berlusconi's ...former Italian prime minister, known for his plain (for a European politician) speaking and his liking for hookers a third his age or less... party formally withdrew its support for Italia's ruling coalition on Tuesday in a widely expected move on the eve of a vote to expel the billionaire tycoon from the Senate. "The conditions for continuing our cooperation with this government no longer exist," Paolo Romani, chief senator for Berlusconi's Forza Italia (Go Italia) party, said in a message on Twitter.
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[Pak Daily Times] Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... on Tuesday launched the construction of the country's biggest atomic power plant and vowed to pursue further projects to make nuclear the largest energy source.
The 2,200-megawatt plant is to be built with Chinese technical assistance on the Arabian Sea coast at Paradise Beach, 40 kilometres west of Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... . Pakistain already has three operational nuclear plants generating a total of around 740MW of power and has begun work on a fourth, in addition to the one launched Tuesday. The government hopes nuclear energy will ultimately provide a relatively low-cost solution to the power cuts.
"This is one of the first steps of our goal of racing towards a loadshedding-free Pakistain," Nawaz told the audience at the site of the plant. The World Nuclear Association has estimated the cost of the new project at nearly $10 billion. Pakistain Atomic Energy Commission engineers will work on the project with help from the China Atomic Energy Authority. As Pakistain is not party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty it is excluded from the international trade in nuclear materials and technology, and can rely only on its neighbour China for help.
Nawaz pledged to increase nuclear power generation capacity to 40,000MW in the long term as part of his energy plan. The setting up of the nuclear power plant is part of a string of projects aimed at overcoming the power shortage, which include wind energy generation of 2500MW, CASA project of 1000MW and Tarbella-V extension project, which is to be completed by 2017. The government has already initiated work on the Pakistain Power Park at Gaddani, which will have 10 coal-based power projects of 660MW each, besides plans to import LNG that will help reduce gas load-shedding from the next year.
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[Pak Daily Times] Clashes erupted between lawyers and police outside the Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday during a protest in favour of establishment of Lahore High Court (LHC) benches in Gujranwala, Dera Ghazi Khan, Sahiwal, Sargodha and 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... divisions.
Police resorted to baton charge, fired rubber bullets and used tear gas when the protesting lawyers tried to break into SC premises. Several lawyers, a DSP, four coppers and Islamabad assistant commissioner (AC) were maimed in the festivities.
Dozens of lawyers from the five cities had gathered at Constitution Avenue in Islamabad to stage a sit-in and press authorities to set up LHC division benches in their cities. The protest turned into festivities when police tried to stop lawyers from entering the court premises.
Lawyers also pelted police with stones during the protest. Police increased security around the SC following the festivities.
Later, a clash also erupted at Polyclinic Hospital Islamabad where the injured lawyers fought with doctors.
The Pakistain Bar Council (PBC) has, meanwhile, announced a nationwide strike today (Wednesday) to protest "police torture" of protesting lawyers.
Condemning police's "brutal use of force" against the "peaceful lawyers", he requested members of the legal fraternity across the country to observe strike and boycott courts today.
He also announced arranging "protest meetings" in several bar associations "to protest against the inhuman and brutal police action against lawyers".
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[Pak Daily Times] The Investigation Wing of the Crime Investigation Agency (CIA) of the Islamabad police have enjugged Please don't kill me! seven persons, including two coppers and a woman who are allegedly involved in depriving citizens of valuables at fake police pickets at Tarnol.
According to a police front man, Islamabad Inspector General of Police (IGP) Sikandar Hayat got information that some coppers along with their accomplices in police uniform looted people after erecting fake police pickets.
The IGP took notice and constituted a special team under the supervision of Investigations ASP Hassan Iqbal to arrest them.
The team took prompt action and succeeded to arrest seven persons including two coppers and a woman. They were found looting people at a fake police checkpost near the Islamabad Toll Plaza.
The nabbed persons have been identified as Head Constable Aun Abbas, Constable Ishtiaq Ahmed of the Tarnol Police Station, Saima, Nadir Bux, Ishtiaq Ahmed, Sheeren Hayat and Ayub.
During preliminary investigations, the accused revealed that Tarnol Station House Officer (SHO) Sattar Baig was also involved with them.
However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... the SHO managed to escape soon after their arrest and police teams have been conducting raids to arrest him.
A case has been registered against the nabbed persons at the Tarnol Police Station, while a car with fake number plates used by the SHO had been recovered from the accused.
The police recovered drugs, two 30-bore pistols, Rs 72,000 and Afghan currency from the car, while another car with fake number plates, seven mobile phones, six memory cards and one cycle of violence had also been recovered from them.
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[An Nahar] Israeli President Shimon Peres rejected theories that Yasser Arafat was poisoned, telling a Mexican newspaper Tuesday that any assassin would have found it easier to shoot the Paleostinian leader.
Swiss scientists have found that lab test results "moderately" backed the idea that Arafat died of polonium poisoning in 2004.
"I don't believe it," Peres told Excelsior newspaper in an interview ahead of a visit to Mexico. "If someone had wanted to get rid of Arafat, it would have been easier to do it with a bullet."
Peres shared the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize with Arafat and Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin after signing the Oslo peace accords. Rabin was assassinated by a Jewish right-wing myrmidon in 1995.
Paleostinian president the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... called last week for an international inquiry to decide who was responsible for Arafat's death.
Visiting Mexico with an 80-strong Israeli business delegation, Peres will hold talks with President Enrique Pena Nieto on Wednesday before meeting with the world's second richest man, telecommunications tycoon Carlos Slim.
On Thursday, Peres will inaugurate the Mexico-Israel Economic Forum and deliver a speech to the Senate.
He heads to the western city of Guadalajara on Friday to attend an international book fair where Israel is the guest of honor. He leaves Mexico on Sunday.
Israel's invitation to the biggest book fair in the Spanish-speaking world was criticized by a group of leftist intellectuals, who demanded that Paleostinians be invited to the next event.
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Hell get hung for a goat, allow it was a dirty deed but LOL yawl really missed on the poison. Oh... and did you shake hands with him in the last 20 years?
[Al Ahram] Protesters in Thailand vowed Tuesday to force the closure of more government offices throughout the country in a bid to oust Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra. Their leader announced for the first time that their goal is to topple the government and replace it with a non-elected council.
Suthep Thaugsuban, who resigned as an opposition politician to lead the protests, said the change is necessary to eradicate the political machine of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
Thaksin, Yingluck's older brother, was ousted by a 2006 military coup and fled the country to avoid a two-year prison term on a corruption conviction. He continues to sharply divide the nation, with his supporters and opponents battling for power. Pro-Thaksin parties have won every election since 2001.
The protesters began occupying and besieging several government ministries on Monday, and made the Finance Ministry their headquarters.
Police issued an arrest warrant on Tuesday for Suthep, who served as deputy prime minister under a previous Democrat Party administration, for leading the storming of the ministry. But police said he would not be tossed in the calaboose ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... at the rally as part of a pledge to avoid festivities with protesters.
However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... protesters late Tuesday blocked roads near the Finance Ministry and surrounded more than 10 police vans that had stopped at a nearby gas station. The standoff extended past midnight.
Protesters accuse Yingluck, who took office in 2011, of being a puppet controlled by her brother.
She fought a two-front political war on Tuesday, fending off sharp criticism during a parliamentary no-confidence debate, while protesters besieged several more ministries.
She called for calm and offered to negotiate with the protest leaders.
"If we can talk, I believe the country will return to normal," she said. She has vowed not to use violence to stop the protests.
Demonstrators surrounded the Interior Ministry and then cut electricity and water to pressure people inside to leave. Security personnel locked themselves behind the ministry's gates, with employees still inside. The transport, agriculture and tourism ministries were also closed Tuesday because of the presence of protesters.
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In 2000, economist Steven Levitt and sociologist Sudhir Venkatesh published an article in the Quarterly Journal of Economics about the internal wage structure of a Chicago drug gang. This piece would later serve as a basis for a chapter in Levitt's (and Dubner's) best seller Freakonomics. [1] The title of the chapter, "Why drug dealers still live with their moms", was based on the finding that the income distribution within gangs was extremely skewed in favor of those at the top, while the rank-and-file street sellers earned even less than employees in legitimate low-skilled activities, let's say at McDonald's. They calculated 3.30 dollars as the hourly rate, that is, well below a living wage (that's why they still live with their moms). [2]
If you take into account the risk of being shot by rival gangs, ending up in jail or being beaten up by your own hierarchy, you might wonder why anybody would work for such a low wage and at such dreadful working conditions instead of seeking employment at Mc Donalds. Yet, gangs have no real difficulty in recruiting new members. The reason for this is that the prospect of future wealth, rather than current income and working conditions, is the main driver for people to stay in the business: low-level drug sellers forgo current income for (uncertain) future wealth. Rank-and file members are ready to face this risk to try to make it to the top, where life is good and money is flowing. It is very unlikely that they will make it (their mortality rate is insanely high, by the way) but they're ready to "get rich or die trying".
...The academic job market is structured in many respects like a drug gang, with an expanding mass of outsiders and a shrinking core of insiders. Even if the probability that you might get shot in academia is relatively small (unless you mark student papers very harshly), one can observe similar dynamics. Academia is only a somewhat extreme example of this trend, but it affects labour markets virtually everywhere. One of the hot topics in labour market research at the moment is what we call "dualisation"[3]. Dualisation is the strengthening of this divide between insiders in secure, stable employment and outsiders in fixed-term, precarious employment. Academic systems more or less everywhere rely at least to some extent on the existence of a supply of "outsiders" ready to forgo wages and employment security in exchange for the prospect of uncertain security, prestige, freedom and reasonably high salaries that tenured positions entail[4]. Why is it relevant? Because the way to tenure track involves more than anything else (given modern specialization, nobody in your own university is an expert in your field) collegiality = ideological soundness. That is so-o-o-o true...
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Odds any different in getting a tenured job in academia than getting a place on a pro sports team? Seem to recall the denunciation of high school and college sports as leaving the lads short in practical skills for life when the music stopped. Doesn't seem much different in spending countless years in pursuit of a doctorate in obscure and low demand studies to find one without practical skills for life when the music stops too.
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Tenure today is becoming a rare thing in academia. In the early 1900s, professors were held in high regard--before most of them went way left and beyond. I have a little trouble drawing the analogy between academia and drug gangs--there are not many parallels. Recently, I read a letter to the editor by a purple heart marine, a declared conservative with a Ph.D. He said universities are reluctant to hire conservatives--there's just no real diversity anymore.
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Walking towards the communal coffee (free range trees, beans collected from monkey shit) pot, I knew my cover was blown. Sometimes things just happen. So I turned to face them, crushing my Lucky underfoot into the newly (looks like old Oak) refinished floor. Seeing a first opening I took it: "This room stinks of Ikea".
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.
[CA.NEWS.YAHOO] A horse pulling a buggy with an Amish family aboard in rural Pennsylvania was struck by a bullet fired from a moving car and later died, police said on Tuesday.
[PAGESIX] Alec Baldwin has been fired by MSNBC, sources say.
[USATODAY] An American carrier battle group and a flotilla of Japanese warships will arrive Wednesday near a vast stretch of ocean claimed by China in what is shaping up as a test of how Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and the USA will stand up to the challenge.
[Pak Daily Times] Prime Minister 
[An Nahar] Israeli President Shimon Peres rejected theories that Yasser Arafat was poisoned, telling a Mexican newspaper Tuesday that any assassin would have found it easier to shoot the Paleostinian leader.
