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Thursday, February 26, 2015

Some News Headlines and Tweets

Army to send headquarters group to Kandahar in first sign of revision to Afghan withdrawal plan McClatchy
I've been writing about Venezuela recently, but it's not the only place protests are happening



BiasedReporter
more than 2.2 million people in jail as of 2013 and more than 6.8 million under some form of “adult correctional systems” such as parole or probation

Israel
many people were happy to see SodaStream stock go down after 4th quarter profits fell below predictions, but I looked at the whole year

February 21st was the 50th anniversary of the assassination and martyrdom of Malcolm X, El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (الحاجّ مالك الشباز)





A dream of mine....


It turns out ISIS started way before 2003 US invasion, but out of 30 years of war in Iraq
Do we think it that implausible that generations, raised in a society that rewarded brutality, and was brutalized by countries near and far, wouldn’t themselves be so traumatized that some of them would turn to brutality, too?





 Another sniper is on trial as alleged hit-man in attempted murder of DEA agents

A former Army sergeant with the nickname Rambo pleaded guilty on Friday to conspiring to murder a federal drug agent and another man, in what the government has said was his post-military role as a contract killer.
The former sergeant, Joseph M. Hunter, 49, who had been a sniper instructor, was arrested in 2013 after he and two other men were ensnared in a sting operation in which they agreed to kill an agent of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration and one of the agency’s confidential informers for $800,000.






no outrage over depiction of Prophet Muhammad here


Iran nuclear talks






Killer cop Ralph Friedman 
“My partner fires one round, and the guy grabs his shoulder. He goes down. I run up and am standing right over him, and he starts to lift his hand up, and I shoot him right in the head. That did it. He dropped the gun. His brains fell out onto the street. And when they get him downtown, would you believe I’d hit him like nine times — in a good grouping right around the belly?”
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“I was never traumatized,” he said. “I never felt bad. I felt I saved my life or someone else’s life.”

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Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Some headlines and important stories

February 16, 2015

 Immigration
Texas judge temporarily blocks Obama plan to protect undocumented immigrants http://reut.rs/1EHwqBV

 Drones
FAA announced proposed rules for commercial use of drones.  The current proposal would affect Amazon and other drone delivery programs due to the "line of sight" language.  Once the proposal is published in the Federal Register the public will have 60 days to comment.

 New York Times article       NPR story

 Press Release
The public will be able to comment on the proposed regulation for 60 days from the date of publication in the Federal Register, which can be found at www.regulations.gov. Separate from this proposal, the FAA intends to hold public meetings to discuss innovation and opportunities at the test sites and Center of Excellence. These meetings will be announced in a future Federal Register notice.
Check here or here for Federal Register notice.

 Oil Trains derail in West Virginia and Ontario
Train Derails in Fayette County, Leaks Crude Oil Into Kanawha River http://wvpublic.org/post/train-derails-fayette-county-leaks-crude-oil-kanawha-river

 NPR reports that 14 cars caught on fire and 2 water treatment plants were shut down 
because of the derailment and explosion and oil leak.



Looking for the story from AP I found this (awful timing!)
Ontario Oil Train Derailment

 Seattle PI
Over the weekend, a Canadian National train carrying crude oil derailed near midnight Saturday in a remote wooded area of Ontario, sparking a fire that was still burning more than 24 hours after the accident.
The accident saw 29 cars of a 100-car CN train leave the tracks. Seven caught on fire. A CN spokesman confirmed that the fire was still burning on Monday.

 Fracking is suspected as cause of sharp increase of earthquakes in Oklahoma
http://www.npr.org/2015/02/16/386693615/with-quakes-spiking-oil-industry-is-under-the-microscope-in-oklahoma

 There used to be 1 or 2 a year and now there are at least 1 a day.

 Eric Holder
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/g-holder-not-seek-death-penalty-accused-terrorist-article-1.2115101
Attorney General Eric Holder will not seek death penalty against man accused of helping suicide bomb attack in 2009
Federal prosecutors disclosed the decision Friday in a one-sentence letter to Judge Roslynn Mauskopf, who is presiding over the indictment of Canadian national Faruq Khalil Muhammad 'Isa. The 36-year-old is charged with helping plan an attack that killed five serviceman in Iraq.

 Libya
Egypt bombed militants claiming allegiance to ISIS http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/17/world/middleeast/isis-egypt-libya-airstrikes.html

 Here are the names of the 21 Egyptian Copts who were killed in Libya https://twitter.com/Pundit_Pete/status/567540096304312320

 as Italy calls for NATO to intervene again in Libya I learned that right before 2011 war that started this all that in 2010 Libya was high on UN Human Development index
http://www.ly.undp.org/content/libya/en/home/countryinfo.html

 Libyan migrants are increasingly fleeing to Italy (this happens all year round all around the world for many years now)
http://www.thelocal.it/20150216/italy-rescues-more-than-2000-migrants-of-libya

 Italy closes Libyan Embassy urges UN mission
http://www.thestar.com.my/News/World/2015/02/16/Italy-closes-Libyan-embassy-urges-UN-mission/
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