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Judi Lynn's JournalOn Centennial of Passenger Pigeon Extinction, Dove Hunting Flourishes
October 14, 2014
Who Remembers This About Mark Sanford
On Centennial of Passenger Pigeon Extinction, Dove Hunting Flourishes
by MARTHA ROSENBERG
Unlike former South Carolina Governor, now Congressman Mark
Sanford, the mourning dove is known for not leaving its mate. While many remember that Sanford left his gubernatorial duties in 2009 to “hike the Appalachian Trail ” in the arms of his Buenos Aires consort, few remember that part of the official delegation was dove hunting in Cordoba, Argentina.
Dove hunting is big in Argentina. “It is normal to shoot between 1,000 to 1,500 shells per hunter per day,” say promoters of the sport. “Hunters regularly use two guns and a reloader to prevent barrel overheating, as they may go through 1,000 (a thousand) rounds in a morning.”
Exultations from volume killers are not hard to find. At daybreak, “the birds started flying, and it was non
stop until we quit shooting at 11:30 or around 5 pm. Notice I said we quit shooting. The doves were still flying when we left as we were completely worn out from shooting,” writes Mike Bland of Houston, TX about the dove killing. “I have never seen so many dove (sic) and have never (sic) a more fulfilling hunt in my life,” wrote William Holliday of New York.
“Both of my boys became members of the Club 1000 for shooting more than 1000 birds in a single day–a proud papa moment,” wrote a beaming John Horton of Austin, TX.
More:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/10/14/on-centennial-of-passenger-pigeon-extinction-dove-hunting-flourishes/
Brazil: The 'El Dorado' for international migrants
Brazil: The 'El Dorado' for international migrants
Wyre Davies
Rio de Janeiro correspondent
14 October 2014 Last updated at 10:36 ET
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The jungle state of Acre is a long way from anywhere. Tucked into the north-western corner of Brazil, it is closer to the big towns of eastern Bolivia and southern Peru than it is to the industrial heartland of southern Brazil.
Yet it is through here that many migrants looking for a better life or escaping persecution in their own countries choose to enter Brazil.
On the edge of town, where the paved road runs out and where the jungle meets the last few buildings, several times a day small convoys of mini-vans come down the track and people get out.
Like new arrivals anywhere, they look slightly bewildered, trying to get an immediate bearing on their surroundings. But they have little need to worry.
Informal understanding
For the time being, this is quite possibly one of the most welcoming places on the planet for a migrant or refugee to arrive.
More:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-29617698
Too little too late? Colombian police colonel gets house arrest 20 years after burning suspect’s pen
Too little too late? Colombian police colonel gets house arrest 20 years after burning suspect’s penis
Oct 14, 2014 posted by Adriaan Alsema
Twenty years after burning a kidnapping suspect’s penis, a Colombian police colonel was sentenced to six years house arrest for torture on Tuesday.
Retired Colonel Luis Enciso was convicted for the torture of a kidnapping suspect in 1994 when the police official and a colleague tried to get the suspect to confess by burning his reproductive organ with matches.
More than 20 years after the crime and seven years after the Inter-American Human Rights court condemned the Colombian state for torture, a Bogota court confirmed prosecution allegations that the police official had tortured victim Wilson Gutierrez.
According to Gutierrez, he had been asked to come to a Bogota coffee shop on August 24, 1994 by local businessman Ricardo Dalel, who the victim suspected of criminal activity. On arrival, he was arrested and taken to the local base of the UNASE, a now-defunct police unit to fight extortion and kidnapping.
While being interrogated, Dalel allegedly held down the victim while Enciso burnt the suspect’s penis with matches and shoved a broom handle up his anus.
More:
http://colombiareports.co/little-late-colombian-police-colonel-gets-house-arrest-20-years-burning-suspects-penis/
Televangelist Ernest Angley encouraged vasectomies, abortions, Akron Beacon Journal reports
Televangelist Ernest Angley encouraged vasectomies, abortions, Akron Beacon Journal reports
John Harper, Northeast Ohio Media Group By John Harper, Northeast Ohio Media Group
on October 13, 2014 at 7:05 AM, updated October 13, 2014 at 9:03 AM
CUYAHOGA FALLS, Ohio -- Grace Cathedral, the church run by Pentecostal evangelist Ernest Angley, is being accused of operating like a cult, where women were pressured to get abortions and men were persuaded to have vasectomies, according to the Akron Beacon Journal.
Beacon Journal reporter Bob Dyer interviewed 21 former members of Angley's church, many of whom have left Akron, about their experiences. He is publishing their revelations in a multi-part series this week.
The 93-year-old Angley, a native of North Carolina, settled in Akron in 1954 and in 1994 bought the round, 5,400-seat Cathedral of Tomorrow, formerly operated by televangelist Rex Humbard, in Cuyahoga Falls. Angley has churches in Springfield Township and Cuyahoga Falls, broadcasts sermons on WBNX television and flies a Boeing 747 on missionary trips around the world. His Cuyahoga Falls church includes the Cathedral Buffet.
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One former congregation member Dyer interviewed compared Angley to Jim Jones, the missionary preacher infamous for orchestrating a mass Flavor Aid suicide in Jonestown, Guyana, in 1978.
Other members told the reporter that Angley and his church controlled everything from what members were allowed to read to the most private aspects of their lives. They talked of three- to five-hour church services, several times a week.
More:
http://www.cleveland.com/akron/index.ssf/2014/10/cuyahoga_falls_evangelical_chu.html
Demonstrations over missing Mexico students turn violent
Source: Associated Press
AP/October 13, 2014, 11:13 PM
Demonstrations over missing Mexico students turn violent
ACAPULCO, Mexico - Hundreds of students and teachers smashed windows and set fires inside a state capital building in southern Mexico on Monday, as fury erupted over the disappearance of 43 young people believed abducted by local police linked to a drug cartel.
The protesters called for the 43 students from a rural teachers' college in Guerrero state, missing since Sept. 26, to be returned alive, even though fears have grown that 10 newly discovered mass graves could contain their bodies.
AP photographs showed smoke billowing from the government building in Chilpancingo, the capital of Guerrero, and flames licking from office windows. Firefighters battled the blaze.
Jose Villanueva Manzanarez, spokesman for Guerrero's government, said the protesting members of a teachers' union initially tried to get into the state congress in Chilpancingo but were repelled by anti-riot police. They then headed to the state government palace.
Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/demonstrations-over-missing-mexico-students-turn-violent/
Another Look at the Mind-Boggling Underwater River Located Inside a Water-Filled Cave
10/12/2014
Another Look at the Mind-Boggling Underwater River Located Inside a Water-Filled Cave
At first glance, the image above appears to show a diver in a lake of some sort, but in reality, it's an underground river called Cenote Angelita in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. They are common geological forms in low latitude regions, particularly on islands, coastlines, and platforms with young post-Paleozoic limestones that have little soil development. The Yucatan Peninsula contains a vast coastal aquifer system, which is typically density-stratified. Continue reading for more pictures and information.
http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/another-look-at-the-mind-boggling-underwater-river-located-inside-a-water-filled-cave
Uribe sent $500K to FARC mediator to appease rebels: Report
Uribe sent $500K to FARC mediator to appease rebels: Report
Oct 13, 2014 posted by Adriaan Alsema
The administration of former Colombia President Alvaro Uribe tried to convince guerrilla group FARC to agree to peace talks in 2006 by sending $500 thousand to “social projects” in rebel-controlled territory, reported weekly Semana on Sunday. According to Daniel Coronell, a columnist at Semana and executive at US television network Univision, Uribe’s own office signed off on at least ten development projects in rebel-controlled areas in 2006.
Sending the money to the FARC
The funds were sent to entities created by economist Henry Acosta, who the government at that moment was trying to convince to mediate with regional FARC commander “Pablo Catatumbo.”
Then-Peace Commissioner Luis Carlos Restrepo was recorded on tape while promising to send the funds to the mediator in order to appease the guerrillas. Additionally, the top government official referred to more funds coming from The Netherlands. Restrepo ended up on tape because investigators were wiretapping the phone of Acosta, reportedly to investigate the FARC’s civilian support network in the Valle del Cauca state.
The Dutch embassy was not available for comment on Monday, a bank holiday in Colombia commemorating the arrival of Cristopher Columbus to the Americas. The purpose of the money transfer was to demonstrate to the FARC that the government was serious in attempts to establish direct contact and facilitate the beginning of secret preliminary talks that would lead to a peace process like currently underway in Cuba.
The leaking of Uribe’s attempts to make peace with the FARC come at a time the former president and now senator has assumed the role of Colombia’s primary critic of the ongoing talks initiated by his successor, President Juan Manuel Santos.
More:
http://colombiareports.co/uribe-sent-500k-farc-mediator-appease-rebels-report/
Top criminals throw lavish parties at Colombia’s high security prison
Source: Colombia Reports
Top criminals throw lavish parties at Colombia’s high security prison
Oct 13, 2014 posted by Emil Foget
A convicted embezzler of millions in state funds has turned Colombia’s most important high security prison into his private disco with live music and smuggled rum, reported magazine Semana on Sunday.
High security prison La Picota is supposed to be one of Colombia’s most strict, watched and secure prisons as it is home to high-profile inmates including top drug lords and corrupt politicians. Therefore, for those unfamiliar with Colombia’s corrupt prison system it might come as a surprise that new videos that surfaced show the prison appearing more like a Caribbean disco with accordions, guitars, singers and an audience drinking rum and whiskey.
The happy assembly this time caught on film consisted of some of Colombia’s most notorious fraud convicted, having embezzled for more than $500 million from the Bogota treasury in an elaborate kick-back scheme.
MORE: 5 more congressmen implicated in Bogota’s $500M embezzlement scandal
The event manager of the filmed social gathering was Emilio Tapia, one of the main characters in the Bogota corruption scandal, one of the biggest robberies of public funds in recent history. Tapia alone is believed to have embezzled $4 million dollars. Besides him the assembly consist of a Venezuelan drug trafficker, three paramilitaries and another embezzler.
Read more: http://colombiareports.co/colombias-top-embezzlers-living-like-kings-prison/
(Colombia has remained the largest recipient of U.S. taxpayers' hard-earned dollars in the Americas, in foreign and military aid since 2000. Well over 8 billion.)
Bolivia’s tenacious indigenous leader
Bolivia’s tenacious indigenous leader
Monday, 13 October 2014 08:35
Posted by Parvez Jabri
LA PAZ: Evo Morales grew up in poverty on Bolivia's high plains and was a llama herder, musician, footballer and coca grower before rising to become the country's first indigenous president.
After overseeing almost nine years of nationalizations, pro-poor policies and an economic boom that has transformed Latin America's poorest country, the 54-year-old won re-election by a landslide Sunday, according to exit polls, giving him a third term in power.
He may be the region's longest-serving sitting president, but Morales remains immensely popular with Bolivians -- 65 percent of whom are indigenous -- for feats like building the world's highest cable car and launching the country's first satellite, as well as landmark gains against hunger and poverty.
It is all a very long way from his childhood herding llamas and helping his parents in the fields in a small, arid village in western Bolivia's Oruro department.
More:
http://www.brecorder.com/world/south-america/199392.html
Bolivia's President Morales wins election easily: exit poll
Bolivia's President Morales wins election easily: exit poll
By Enrique Andres Pretel
LA PAZ Sun Oct 12, 2014 8:41pm EDT
(Reuters) - Evo Morales won a third term as Bolivia's president on Sunday, one exit poll and a quick count showed, trouncing his opponents on a promise to consolidate socialist reforms that have vastly extended the state's reach into the natural gas-powered economy.
A Mori exit poll released by Unitel television showed Morales, a prominent member of the bloc of socialist and anti-U.S. leaders in Latin America, winning 61 percent of the vote. His closest rival, Samuel Doria Medina, had 24 percent.
A quick count released by local TV channel ATB showed Morales with 60.5 percent of the vote.
Morales' folksy appeal and prudent spending of funds from a natural gas bonanza to finance welfare programs, roads and schools have earned the 54-year-old wide support in a country long dogged by coups and political instability.
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If confirmed when official results come in, Morales will be in a strong position to keep pursuing his brand of "indigenous socialism", under which he has nationalized key industries such as oil and gas to finance welfare programs and build new roads and schools.
More:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/13/us-bolivia-election-idUSKCN0I103120141013?rpc=401
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