[Chicago Tribune] As Drew Peterson wrapped up his 25-minute speech in court Friday, he turned in his chair and spoke directly to the prosecutor he tried to have killed.
"And Jim Glasgow, there was never any intent to have you killed," he said in a matter-of-fact tone, as prosecutors objected.
"That's all right," the former Bolingbrook police sergeant said, leaning back into his chair. "I'm done."
Moments later, Randolph County Judge Richard Brown sentenced Peterson to 40 years in prison.
Peterson's demeanor was markedly different from the last time he spoke in public, at his 2013 sentencing hearing for the murder of his third wife, when he shrieked his innocence and angrily accused Will County State's Attorney James Glasgow and Illinois State Police Sherlocks of railroading him.
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He got more time than the guy that shot a president, not bad...
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He deserves scaphism. Unfortunately taxpayers must feed him and provide for his medical needs for the remainder of his existance.
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taxpayers must feed him and provide for his medical needs for the remainder of his existance
That can be rectified at any time, by the governor's choice. Wait til he gets old & decrepit & then release him. Taxpayers will still be stuck with some bills, but not at the prison level of opulence.
[MIAMIHERALD] An Orlando man was charged with possession of crystal meth with a gun, but a state crime lab proved him right -- it was actually glaze from Krispy Kreme doughnuts. Driving while white. Happens all the time.
When the man stopped by the 7-Eleven without buying anything and left with an employee in his car, cops were suspicious.
Orlando police were staking out the convenience store, 938 W. Colonial Dr., after neighbors complained of drug activity, the Orlando Sentinel reported. Police saw the man in the silver Chevy leave without stopping at the stop sign and speed off going 42 miles per hour in a 30 mph zone, according to the report. They pulled him over.
The officer saw his concealed weapon license, asked to hold onto his gun for safety and had the driver get out of the car. That’s when the veteran officer saw four flakes of a white substance on the floor.
"I recognized through my 11 years of training and experience as a law enforcement officer the substance to be some sort of narcotic," the officer wrote in her report. The driver let her search the car, and she found more chunks, which two roadside tests showed were crystal methamphetamine.
If there's anything in the world I would have counted on, it's that a police officer would know the difference between doughnut frosting and crystal meth...
Daniel Rushing was locked away Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! , charged with possession with a weapon, strip-searched and incarcerated Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! in December.
The 64-year-old Orlando man told officers he’d never done drugs in his life, and the crumbs were from his Krispy Kreme doughnut.
Weeks later, a state crime lab proved him right.
"I kept telling them, 'That's ... glaze from a doughnut. ... They tried to say it was crack cocaine at first, then they said, 'No, it's meth, crystal meth," Rushing told the Sentinel.
The 7-Eleven stop was a favor for a church friend, an elderly woman who worked at the service station, he told the paper. Rushing used to treat himself to a Krispy Kreme doughnut every other Wednesday and enjoyed the snack in his car.
The state attorney’s office dropped the case, the Sentinel reported, but Rushing hired a lawyer. He plans to ask the city for damages.
"It feels scary when you haven't done anything wrong and get arrested," he told the paper. "It's just a terrible feeling."
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two roadside tests showed were crystal methamphetamine.
Kinda shows how reliable these 'roadside tests' are.
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It's early I know, but Docs inline is an instant classic.
[Reuters] At least 16 people were feared dead after a hot air balloon caught fire and crashed in a pasture near the central Texas city of Lockhart on Saturday morning in one of the deadliest balloon accidents on record.
The Federal Aviation Administration said the crash occurred near Lockhart, about 30 miles (50 km) south of Austin and at least 16 people were on board the balloon. It did not comment on fatalities.
"It does not appear at this time that there were any survivors of the crash," Caldwell County Sheriff Daniel Law said in a statement.
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I may be killed tomorrow, or yet this evening, but it likely won't be from an extension ladder, non-mandatory helo ride, glider, balloon, hang-gliding, ultralight, base jumping, free climbing, motorcycle, jealous husband, sushi, or some other thrill seeking cock-up.
"Hey Besoeker, fast movers dropping MK82's at Udairi Range tomorrow morning, wanna go watch? Huh no. That Mongolian BBQ didn't set well with me. Think I'll sleep in. Thanks just the same."
Boring life? Yes perhaps, but I enjoy the simple things.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] An elderly Afghan holy man has been tossed in the slammer Book 'im, Mahmoud! after he married a six-year-old girl, officials said Friday, in the latest case highlighting the scourge of child marriages in the war-battered country.
Mohammad Karim, said to be aged around 60, was held in central Ghor province as he claimed her parents gave him the girl as a "religious offering", officials said.
But they cited the family of the girl, believed to be in shock, as saying that she was kidnapped from western Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... province, bordering Iran.
"This girl does not speak, but repeats only one thing: ’I am afraid of this man’," said Masoom Anwari, head of the women affairs department in Ghor.
The girl is currently in a woman’s shelter in Ghor and her parents are on their way to the province to collect her, the local governor’s office said.
"Karim has been locked away Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! and our investigation is ongoing," said Abdul Hai Khatibi, the governor’s front man.
The arrest comes just days after a 14-year-old pregnant girl was burned to death in Ghor, in a case that sparked shock waves in Afghanistan.
The family of that girl, Zahra, said she was tortured and set alight by her husband’s family. But relatives of the teenager’s husband insisted her death was by self-immolation.
The incidents underscore rising incidents of child marriages in Afghanistan.
"In some regions because of insecurity and poverty the families marry off their daughters at a very early age to get rid of them," Sima Samar, head of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, told news hounds this month.
Afghan civil law sets the legal age of marriage at 16 for girls, yet 15 percent of Afghan women under 50 were married before their 15th birthday and almost half were married before the age of 18, according to Save the Children.
"So many children who are married off at a young age are deprived of their right to education, safety and the ability to make choices about their future," the international charity said this month.
"This is such a fundamental breach of a child’s basic rights."
The latest case comes after a young woman was stoned to death in Ghor last November after being accused of adultery.
And in March last year a woman named Farkhunda was savagely beaten and set ablaze in central Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... after being falsely accused of burning a Koran.
The mob killing triggered angry nationwide protests and drew global attention to the endemic violence facing Afghan women.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A 22-year-old woman was rubbed out dead by unknown gunnies in northern Faryab province of Afghanistan for having relations with a man over the telephone. The woman has been identified as Gul Jan and has allegedly been killed by the family of her husband in Pashtunkot district.
Provincial police front man Abdul Karim Yurish confirmed that the woman was married and the incident took place as her husband is Iran for work.
No suspect has been nabbed Book 'im, Mahmoud! in connection to the brutal murder of the woman so far.
The latest incident involving the murder of a woman for honor comes amid growing violence against women across the country during the recent months.
Earlier a woman was rubbed out by her relatives as she was trying to elope with a man in western Ghor province of Afghanistan. The woman was identified as Aziz Gul and was rubbed out in Ahangaran area of Ghor in mid-June this year.
A teenage girl was also burnt alive by her brother’s wife in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province of Afghanistan earlier last month, while three sisters were rubbed out, allegedly by the Death Eaters in Pashtun-infested Logar province.
The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) in its report released late in November last year said "statistic of violence against women, obtained from the registered cases of violence against women during the first six months in 1394 exceeds 2579 cases."
The report further added that figure was reported 2403 cases during the six months in 1393 which shows 7.32 percent increase in 1394, the last solar year.
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A new decree by Venezuela's government could make its citizens work on farms to tackle the country's severe food shortages.
Next is the decree against the kulaks...
That "effectively amounts to forced labor," according to Amnesty International, which derided the decree as "unlawful."
Good to see Amnesia Int'l say something. The world will do nothing, of course...
In a vaguely-worded decree, Venezuelan officials indicated that public and private sector employees could be forced to work in the country's fields for at least 60-day periods, which may be extended "if circumstances merit."
Better get the sugar cane in on time, comrades...
"Trying to tackle Venezuela's severe food shortages by forcing people to work the fields is like trying to fix a broken leg with a band aid," Erika Guevara Rosas, Americas' Director at Amnesty International, said in a statement.
President Nick the Mad Nicolas Maduro is using his executive powers to declare a state of economic emergency. By using a decree, he can legally circumvent Venezuela's opposition-led National Assembly -- the Congress -- which is staunchly against all of Maduro's actions.
Champ and Hilarity are jealous...
Pen + phone = decree.
According to the decree from July 22, workers would still be paid their normal salary by the government and they can't be fired from their actual job.
Nothing to do at their regular jobs anyway since the economy has failed.
It is a potent sign of tough conditions in Venezuela, which is grappling with the lack of basic food items like milk, eggs and bread. People wait hours in lines outsides supermarkets to buy groceries and often only see empty shelves.
Venezuela once had a robust agricultural sector. But under its socialist regime, which began with Hugo Chavez in 1999, the oil-rich country started importing more food and invested less in agriculture. Nearly all of Venezuela's revenue from exports comes from oil.
Whoa! CNN actually called them 'socialist'!!
With oil prices down to about $41 a barrel from over $100 about two years ago, Venezuela has quickly run out of cash and can't pay for its imports of food, toilet paper and other necessities. Neglected farms are now being asked to pick up the slack.
Maduro's actions are very similar to a strategy the communist Cuban government used in the 1960s when it sought to recover sugar production after it declined sharply following the U.S. embargo on Cuban goods. It forced Cubans to work on sugar farms to cultivate the island's key commodity.
With predictable results...
It's important to note that Maduro has issued decrees before and they often just languish. In January, his government published a decree that put in place mechanisms to restrict the access and movements to the money in the accounts. In other words, a kind of bank freeze.
The National Assembly is expected to discuss the decree on Tuesday. But it would largely be symbolic: under Venezuelan law, the Assembly can't strike down a decree. Worked well in Cambodia. Only 7 million died.
This latest action by Maduro may also be a sign that at least one other leader may be calling the shots on this issue. Earlier in July, Maduro appointed one of the country's defense ministers, Vladimir Padrino, as the leader of a team that would control the country's food supply and distribution. It's powerful role, especially at a time of such scarcity in Venezuela.
"The power handed to Padrino in this program is extraordinary, in our view, and may signal that President Maduro is trying to increase support from the military amid a deepening social and economic crisis," Sebastian Rondeau, an economist at Bank of America, wrote in a research note.
It's an "Army First" policy. We've seen that before...
Venezuela is the world's worst economy, according to the IMF. It's expected to shrink 10% this year and inflation is projected to rise over 700%. Beyond food shortages, hospitals are low on supplies, causing many patients to go untreated and some to die.
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Ever onwards until the quota is met.
All and everything for The Front!
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You have to know what you're doing, even with a hoe. Not that it takes a lot of training to, say, weed with a hoe, but you do need to know what's a weed and what somebody will eat.
Although, come to think of it, there may be no difference.
Anyway, a bunch of amateurs is going to mess up more than they produce.
How about decreeing 24 hours of sun per day and no rain 'til after sundown?
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Ah, yes, those Donk talking points about mandatory 'public service' they are do fond about come to mind. Again, for the little people.
THE WESTERN AUSTRALIAN town of Norseman has a serious case of the shakes ‐ with a staggering 50 earthquakes hitting the area in the last two months.
The gold-mining town ‐ located about 720km east of Perth ‐ has had over 30 quakes this month, with 18 alone on 8 and 9 July.
It all began after a 5.0 magnitude earthquake shook the town in the middle of the night on 28 May, followed by an even stronger 5.1 magnitude aftershock about an hour later.
John Fry, works manager at the Dundas Shire, said he heard a loud rumbling, and soon after, got a call from the Department of Fire and Emergency Services, checking if the town needed assistance.
"I thought it was just a train coming through," he said. "The last thing you think of is an earthquake."
The Baltic Exchange’s main sea freight index, tracking rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities, fell on Thursday on weaker capesize, panamax and supramax vessel rates.
The overall index, which factors in rates for capesize, panamax, supramax and handysize shipping vessels, was down 14 points, or 2.06 percent, at 665 points.
The capesize index fell 23 points, or 2.86 percent, to 780 points.
Average daily earnings for capesizes, which typically transport 150,000-tonne cargoes such as iron ore and coal, were down $193 at $5,530.
The panamax index was down 33 points, or 4.39 percent, at 719 points.
Average daily earnings for panamaxes, which usually carry coal or grain cargoes of about 60,000 to 70,000 tonnes, decreased $263 to $5,757.
Among smaller vessels, the supramax index fell 8 points to 676 points, while the handysize index rose 4 points to 396 points.
Source: Reuters (Reporting by Karen Rodrigues in Bengaluru; Editing by Martina D’Couto)
h/t Gates of Vienna
Across the eurozone, gross domestic product (GDP) increased by just 0.3 per cent, falling from 0.6 per cent in the previous quarter, figures from Eurostat showed.
Unemployment was also revealed to be standing at a worrying 10.1 per cent last month.
France shocked onlookers as its economy ground to a complete halt in the three months between between April and June.
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Actually, the French economy really shuts down in August and September. It's the traditional "go on vacation and sort of come back" time, and usually is celebrated by increased deaths among elderly shut-ins, whose caregivers are at the beach in Nice or swilling wine in Portugal.
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EU's death and dismemberment has been celebrated and prophesied for the last decade. It's an ongoing process, obviously.
[KFOR] The FBI and Justice Department are investigating a possible computer hack of the Clinton campaign in addition to its examination of intrusions of other Democratic Party organizations, two law enforcement officials said Friday.
The intrusion was discovered by private investigators hired by the campaign, according to one of the law enforcement officials. The private investigators believe it is similar to the Democratic National Committee hack, but federal investigators are still working to determine the scope and nature of the intrusion, the official explained.
The campaign intrusion is the latest in a series of Democratic party organizations who have had system breaches that are being investigated -- including the DNC and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC).
The Justice Department’s national security division, which was already investigating the DNC intrusion, is handling the investigation because of the believed similarities, one of the officials explained.
There is strong evidence indicating the cyber intrusion of the DNC was the work of hackers working on behalf of Russian intelligence, US officials said this week.
The computer network used by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Bainbridge Colby ...
’s campaign was hacked as part of a broad cyber attack on Democratic political organizations, people familiar with the matter told Rooters.
The latest attack, which was disclosed to Rooters on Friday, follows reports of two other hacks on the Democratic National Committee and the party’s fundraising committee for candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives.
The U.S. Department of Justice national security division is investigating whether cyber hacking attacks on Democratic political organizations threatened U.S. security, sources familiar with the matter said on Friday.
The involvement of the Justice Department’s national security division is a sign that the B.O. regime has concluded that the hacking was state sponsored, individuals with knowledge of the investigation said.
The Clinton campaign, based in Brooklyn, had no immediate comment and referred Rooters to a comment from earlier this week by campaign senior policy adviser Jake Sullivan criticizing Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and calling the hacking "a national security issue."
The Department of Justice had no comment.
It was not immediately clear what information on the Clinton campaign’s computer system hackers would have been able to access.
The FBI warned the Clinton campaign that it was a target of a cyberattack last March, just weeks before the Democratic National Committee discovered it had been penetrated by hackers it now believes were working for Russian intelligence, two sources who have been briefed on the matter told Yahoo News.
In a meeting with bigwigs at the campaign’s Brooklyn headquarters, FBI agents laid out concerns that cyberhackers had used so-called spear-phishing emails as part of an attempt to penetrate the campaign’s computers, the sources said. One of the sources said agents conducting a national security investigation asked the Clinton campaign to turn over internal computer logs as well as the personal email addresses of senior campaign officials. But the campaign, through its lawyers, declined to provide the data, deciding that the FBI’s request for sensitive personal and campaign information data was too broad and intrusive, the source said.
A second source who had been briefed on the matter and who confirmed the Brooklyn meeting said agents provided no specific information to the campaign about the identity of the cyberhackers or whether they were associated with a foreign government. The source said the campaign was already aware of attempts to penetrate its computers and had taken steps to thwart them, emphasizing that there is still no evidence that the campaign’s computers had actually been successfully penetrated.
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Residuals - Many sales and marketing people earn monthly residuals by selling a product or service that generates income months or years after the original sale.
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The DOJ and the FBI have lost all their credibility. Even if a faultless investigation won't be believed. That's what happens when trust is betrayed. Almost impossible to get it back.
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There's a difference between "lost" and "shove it into a burlap sack and toss it into Lake Democrat."
[DAWN] RAWALPINDI: A man allegedly shot and killed his sister-in-law and injured his ex-wife, who had filed a petition to dissolve her marriage (khula), in Mohalla Feroozpura in the Banni police area on Thursday, police said.
Talat Noreen, 22, sustained multiple bullet injuries after allegedly being shot by her ex-husband Waqas Haider, and was shifted to Benazir Bhutto ... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in... Hospital (BBH) where her condition was stated to be critical. Ms Noreen’s elder sister, Asma Noreen, 34, was killed in the attack.
The preliminary police investigation suggested that Asma and her two daughters, aged nine and four, were living with her stepsister Ms Noreen in a rented home in Mohalla Feroozpura since Ms Noreen filed a petition to dissolve her marriage with Mr Haider.
Police said both women were followed home by Mr Haider from a court proceeding in Taxila, where their mother lives and where Ms Noreen had filed her petition. The police said both the victims and the alleged killer were on the court premises that morning, and after he followed them home he spoke to them for around 15 minutes.
"The khula case filed by Ms Talat Noreen against her husband was decided by the court of law today, as the Nikah nama and CNIC was found at the scene of the murder," Inspector Tufail of the Banni police told Dawn.
He said Mr Haider shot his ex-wife and his sister-in-law at around 5pm and then fled. As a result, Asma was killed on the spot while Ms Noreen was severely injured.
"Waqas Haider could be seen clearly in CCTV images while fleeing and brandishing his pistol. The police team is after him and will arrest him soon," Inspector Tufail said. Both victims were shifted to the BBH, where Asma was pronounced dead.
The police said the women’s parents were contacted but they refused to own their daughters. Police said they had disowned their daughters because the elder sister was divorced while the younger was in the process of doing the same.
Police said the women’s parents also refused to follow the case or own the body of their deceased daughter. They said the parents told them both their daughters had married against their will and told the police to bury the body wherever they wanted. I promise to think of that every time I see a photo of a Moslem blubbering over some loss of an offspring.
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[DAWN] BAHAWALPUR: A man killed his three minor children from his late wife over a fight with his second wife and attempted suicide at his Quaid-e-Azam Colony house on Thursday.
According to police, Farooq administered pesticides to his children -- Adeel, 8, Zahra, 6, and Zamira, 4, who all died after consuming poison.
He himself swallowed the pesticides also in an attempt to commit suicide and fell unconscious. On being informed, police shifted him to the Bahawal Victoria Hospital (BVH) in time which saved his life.
Dawn learnt that Farooq’s first wife, Nazia, had died about three years back and he contracted marriage with Shazia. Three days ago, he had a fight with Shazia and she left his house.
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[DAWN] MULTAN: Police on Friday handed over a questionnaire to Mufti Abdul Qavi in the ongoing investigation into Qandeel Baloch's murder.
While holding a presser at his residence, Mufti Qavi said he had received a six-point questionnaire from the police. He added that a reply would be submitted by Saturday.
Qavi claimed his last contact with social media celebrity Qandeel Baloch was through mobile phone messages on June 22, and he met the model only once in his life.
Qavi said that he was in Lahore when Qandeel was murdered.
Earlier in June, Federal Minister for Religious Affairs Sardar Yousaf had suspended Mufti Abdul Qavi’s membership of Ruet-e-Hilal Committee after pictures of him with Qandeel Baloch surfaced on social media.
Qavi's membership in the National Ulema Mushaikh Council was also suspended.
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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.
[Chicago Tribune] As Drew Peterson wrapped up his 25-minute speech in court Friday, he turned in his chair and spoke directly to the prosecutor he tried to have killed.
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A new decree by Venezuela's government could make its citizens work on farms to tackle the country's severe food shortages.
THE WESTERN AUSTRALIAN town of Norseman has a serious case of the shakes ‐ with a staggering 50 earthquakes hitting the area in the last two months.
[DAWN] MULTAN: Police on Friday handed over a questionnaire to Mufti Abdul Qavi in the ongoing investigation into Qandeel Baloch's murder.
