A notorious beer bandit wanted for a recent rash of five-finger discounts in South Florida was arrested after he dropped his cellphone at the scene of one of his crimes, police said. Now to call my girlfriend and let her know I've got the beer--Wait, where is it?
Gabriel Gelpi Rodriguez, 25, was given connected bracelets Wednesday on multiple theft charges, Miami Police said. He was being held on more than $12,000 bond Friday, and it's unknown if he's hired an attorney.
According to Miami Police arrest reports, Rodriguez walked out of a Publix grocery store at 911 Southwest 1st Avenue Tuesday with several boxes of Corona beer in a shopping cart but paid a grand total of $0.00 for it.
He was followed by a store's general manager, who confronted him. Rodriguez made tracks but dropped his cell phone, which was recovered by the manager, the reports said.
Later that night, Rodriguez was able to steal beer from the Winn-Dixie at 1525 Coral Way, the reports said. He was checked in at the Gray-Bar Hotel after information on the phone led police to his home, the reports said. "Where is it!?"
"Police!"
"****!"
Police said the Broward Sheriff's Office is looking at Rodriguez as a possible suspect in similar cases in Broward, including an incident of larceny at a Weston Publix last month.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Toamalama Scanlan and Juanita Davila are in critical condition after being repeatedly shot in the head and neck
Police say Thong Vang, 37, shot them at Fresno County Jail on Saturday
Vang, a convicted child rapist, arrived at the jail and was acting erratically
Cops say he opened fire when Scanlan and Davila tried to sit him down
Vang eventually surrendered to armed cops saying he wanted to be jailed
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Too complacent, perceiving they were empowered by their uniforms. Much like Obama in china.
Honestly stating the enemy as Islamist theocratic fascism, banning muslim migration, and prosecuting or deporting those who preach, promote and practice sharia is what will win it.
and effectively communicating to the public why this is.
and purging academia, media, the government and intelligence agencies of Muslim Brotherhood infiltrators.
Ah, who am I kidding? She's a Democrat, so we get these instead:
[RealClearPolitics] Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton greeted the press who are traveling on her new airplane on Monday morning and took a few questions.
Clinton, under pressure for not holding a press conference for nearly 280 days, was peppered with questions like, "How was your Labor Day weekend?" Another question: "Are you ready?"
"Do you have a Labor Day message?" one reporter asked.
"I do, you'll hear it," Clinton answered. "I definitely, I definitely do. If you want more happy Labor Days, you know who to vote for."
"Thanks, I'll come back later," Clinton said as she exited the cabin that holds the press. "If you were a tree, what kind of a tree would you be?"
[DAWN] The former women's minister of the Indian capital, who was sacked over a "sex tape", has now been tossed in the clink Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! following a claim by a woman shown in the tape that he raped her, an investigator said Sunday.
Sandeep Kumar was arrested on Saturday, days after he was dismissed as women's and children's minister of the region covering Delhi following the video leak to television channels which showed him kissing two women.
"He was arrested on a complaint filed by one of the woman seen in the video. She has alleged Kumar raped her. The investigations have just started," Vikramjit Singh, deputy police commissioner of Delhi, told AFP.
The married woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said in her complaint to police that Kumar spiked her drink with sedatives before sexually assaulting her last year at his residence, the officer said.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Tens of thousands of pilgrims - rich and poor, powerful and homeless - filled St. Peter’s Square on Sunday for the canonization of Mother Teresa, the tiny nun who cared for the world’s most destitute and became an icon of a Catholic Church that goes to the peripheries to find lost souls.
Pope Francis is declaring Mother Teresa a saint at a morning Mass, making her the model of his Jubilee Year of Mercy and in some ways his entire papacy. For Francis, Mother Teresa put into action his ideal of the church as a merciful "field hospital" for the poorest of the poor, those suffering both material and spiritual poverty.
Throughout the night, pilgrims prayed at vigils in area churches and flocked before dawn to the Vatican to try to get a good spot for the Mass being celebrated under a searing hot sun and blue skies.
"Her heart, she gave it to the world," said Charlotte Samba, a 52-year-old mother of three who travelled with a church group from Gabon for the Mass. "Mercy, forgiveness, good works: It is the heart of a mother for the poor."
While big, the crowds were not expected to reach the 300,000 who turned out for Mother Teresa’s 2003 beatification, thanks in part to security fears in the wake of krazed killer terrorist attacks in Europe. Those fears prompted a huge, 3,000-strong law enforcement presence to secure the area around the Vatican and close the airspace above.
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The service plans to field the new bomber by the mid-2020s. The Air Force plans to acquire as many as 80 to 100 new bombers for a price of roughly $550 million per plane in 2010 dollars, Air Force leaders have said.
So that's $1.2B/plane in 2025 dollars?
The fad of using the surgical strike to moderate local governments will have faded by then.
I choose the hyper-velocity option. That will at least advance boost technology in time for the alien landing.
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No figuring where you are going to get spare parts and maybe some aviation fuel for your existing fleet after the economic collapse?
Augustine' Law XVI - In the year 2054, the entire defense budget will purchase just one aircraft. This aircraft will have to be shared by the Air Force and Navy 3-1/2 days each per week except for leap year, when it will be made available to the Marines for the extra day.
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Built: 744xB-52's .... 104xB-1's .... 21xB-2's.
Following the progression (7,5,3): 7 B-21's.
All gold-plated hanger queens too expensive to risk in combat.
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On a more serious note: the greater the surface area the harder it is to "stealth" it. A long-range stealthy drone that is semi-disposable (if it comes back fine, if not, shrug) seems a more practical goal.
[NYT] SAN FRANCISCO -- Want to invisibly spy on 10 iPhone owners without their knowledge? Gather their every keystroke, sound, message and location? That will cost you $650,000, plus a $500,000 setup fee with an Israeli outfit called the NSO Group. You can spy on more people if you would like -- just check out the company’s price list.
The NSO Group is one of a number of companies that sell surveillance tools that can capture all the activity on a smartphone, like a user’s location and personal contacts. These tools can even turn the phone into a secret recording device.
Since its founding six years ago, the NSO Group has kept a low profile. But last month, security researchers caught its spyware trying to gain access to the iPhone of a human rights activist in the United Arab Emirates. They also discovered a second target, a Mexican journalist who wrote about corruption in the Mexican government.
Now, internal NSO Group emails, contracts and commercial proposals obtained by The New York Times offer insight into how companies in this secretive digital surveillance industry operate. The emails and documents were provided by two people who have had dealings with the NSO Group but would not be named for fear of reprisals.
The company is one of dozens of digital spying outfits that track everything a target does on a smartphone. They aggressively market their services to governments and law enforcement agencies around the world. The industry argues that this spying is necessary to track terrorists, kidnappers and drug lords. The NSO Group’s corporate mission statement is "Make the world a safe place."
Ten people familiar with the company’s sales, who refused to be identified, said that the NSO Group has a strict internal vetting process to determine who it will sell to. An ethics committee made up of employees and external counsel vets potential customers based on human rights rankings set by the World Bank and other global bodies. And to date, these people all said, NSO has yet to be denied an export license.
HANOI—India on Saturday agreed to provide Vietnam with a $500 million loan for defense purposes, a further sign of warming ties between two countries in separate territorial disputes with China.
Bet the Chinese are happy about this one...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Vietnamese counterpart Nguyen Xuan Phuc also announced after their meeting in Hanoi that Vietnam and India have upgraded their diplomatic relations to the level of comprehensive strategic partnership from strategic partnership.
“Our decision to upgrade our strategic partnership to a comprehensive strategic partnership will provide a new direction and momentum to our bilateral cooperation,” Mr. Modi said. “Our common efforts will also contribute to stability, security and prosperity in this region.”
The alliance between India and Vietnam is set to develop further in the wake of Mr. Modi’s visit. India is negotiating to sell supersonic Brahmos cruise missiles to Vietnam, a deal that might also include the stationing of Indian technicians there to maintain the hardware.
Defense analysts say the weapons are ideally suited to taking out naval targets. In seeking to upgrade military capabilities as China improves its own capabilities, Vietnam has emerged as the world’s eighth-largest arms importer from 2011 to 2015, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
Military cooperation between the two countries has moved forward quickly over the past decade. There have been several high-ranking military exchanges, and in 2014 India signed an agreement to lend Vietnam $100 million to buy defense equipment.
Indian warships have also made a point of visiting Vietnamese ports, part of Hanoi’s own policy of encouraging more international navies into the contested waters of the South China Sea, where both Vietnam and China have overlapping claims to some of the world’s busiest shipping lanes. New Delhi, in turn, has made Vietnam a focal point of its policy to expand its economic and diplomatic ties in East Asia.
Vietnam and India on Saturday also signed an agreement for India’s Larsen & Toubro Ltd. to design and build vessels for the Vietnam Coast Guard, and to transfer shipbuilding technologies to Vietnam. The two countries also signed several other cooperation agreements, covering cybersecurity, information technology, health care, environment and naval-information issues.
The commercial relationship between India and Vietnam—two of Asia’s fastest-growing economies—is also deepening, aiming to triple trade to $15 billion by 2020. Indian energy firm ONGC Videsh Ltd. is working with Vietnam’s state-run oil company PetroVietnam to develop oil and gas reserves off Vietnam’s coast.
Preeti Saran, a senior official in India’s foreign ministry, told reporters in New Delhi on Thursday that negotiations have started for Indian energy firms to acquire additional exploration rights in Vietnamese waters. She also pointed to Tata Power Co.’s $1.8 billion thermal-power project in Vietnam as a key to placing India among the top 10 investors in Vietnam.
Still, China’s expanding influence both in the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean colors Mr. Modi’s visit. India, too, has its own territorial dispute with China, with the two nations disagreeing on the exact location of the nearly 2,200-mile border that separates them.
Carlyle Thayer, emeritus professor and a Vietnam expert at the Australian Defence Force Academy, notes that the Indian leader’s visit to Vietnam follows high-level Chinese visits to Pakistan last year, where China is helping to finance the development and expansion of the deep-water port at Gwadar on the Arabian Sea. The port is an important component in Beijing’s efforts to expand trade and influence across Asia and into the Middle East and Africa.
Mr. Modi leaves Vietnam today for Hangzhou, China, where he will join U.S. President Barack Obama, Chinese President Xi Jinping and other world leaders for the Group of 20 summit.
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-- trailing wife at 2:13 p.m. ET
Soccer star Megan Rapinoe pulled a "Kaepernick" Sunday, kneeling during the National Anthem in an echoing nod to the San Francisco quarterback’s controversial protest.
Rapinoe took a knee as "The Star-Spangled Banner" played before her Seattle Reign’s game against the Chicago Red Stars in Chicago in what she called "a little nod" to NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick.
"It was very intentional," the midfielder told American Soccer Now after Seattle’s 2-2 tie in the National Women’s Soccer League game You're a regular Rosa Fucking Parks, Megan - no Xmas card for you this year! Enjoy getting those quarters & batteries tossed your way. Looks like Crystal Dunn's my new favorite now; you're dead to me...
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I feel so awful for all these poor professional athletes being forced to take icky white people's (they invented slavery, you know) money to play children's games.
In the spirit of racial reconciliation, I think yucky white people should stop paying money for tickets and merchandise, and giving business to the advertisers.
Then those poor athletes won't be forced to take our blood money (which we got from the slaves or something) anymore.
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If any of these kids would offer a plan, what to do, how to fix the problems they are protesting, I'd be willing to listen/read.
Other than cries of racism and chants about police, I haven't heard or read anything that purports to address how to effect the change being asked for. I'm not even really sure what this protest protests.
There was a time when allowing young men or any race to appear in public looking like thugs was proscribed behaviour. Parents, neighbors, teachers, peers all exerted core cultural values that exhorted self-respect and responsibility for one owns actions. Even if you were poor there was no excuse for being dirty or slovenly. Being polite was a demonstration of respect for others, and yet more importantly, a demonstration of self-respect.
Now, if the kids in my yard would please leave...
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I understood it that way, Raj, truly -- and incidentally fixed the HTML so that it didn't get a 404. (it didn't like CLASS="") But the standard is for all, and must be seen to be, because in these fraught times it could cause problems for Fred.
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They're doing this for BLM, maybe people should start using BLM posters for toilets. Or targets. They can do what they want and we can express our own displeasure in our way.
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.
A notorious beer bandit wanted for a recent rash of 
