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Chiraq – Murdered the First Quarter

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From the ChicagoTribune, “Chicago off to deadliest start in nearly two decades“.

As the first quarter of 2016 nears an end, violence in Chicago has reached levels unseen in years, putting the city on course to top 500 homicides for only the second time since 2008.

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As of 6 a.m. Wednesday, homicides totaled 135, a 71 percent jump over the 79 killings in the same year-earlier period, official Police Department statistics show. That represented the worst first quarter of a year since 136 homicides in 1999, according to the data.

Shootings have jumped by comparable numbers as well. As of Wednesday, at Chiraq_Homicide_Mugleast 727 people had been shot in Chicago so far this year, a 73 percent rise from 422 a year earlier, according to a Tribune analysis of department data.

Worse yet, that jump follows two consecutive years in which shootings rose by double digits, the analysis found. Homicides also rose by about 12.5 percent last year over 2014.

The FBI Cracked the Code For Your iPhone

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ABC News has reported, “How the FBI Cracked the iPhone Encryption and Averted a Legal Showdown With Apple“.

As the legal battle played out, the FBI appealed to cyber experts around the world for help.

“We’ve talked to anybody who will talk with us about it, and I welcome Phone_Making_Appearance_animatedadditional suggestions,” Comey said during a House hearing four weeks ago.

In response, countless companies and hackers — including what one source familiar with matter called many “whackadoodles” — came forward claiming to have a way into Farook’s phone, sources said.

But nothing appeared viable. That is, until a company that the FBI has yet to identify came forward about two weeks ago. After initial contacts with the FBI, company officials flew to Washington to lay out their solution, sources told ABC News.

On Sunday, March 20, in a meeting at FBI headquarters, company officials demonstrated their technology on another iPhone. Convinced it would work, the FBI greenlighted applying it to Farook’s phone, sources said.

This past weekend — just days ago — the attempt was made, and “the FBI has now successfully retrieved the data stored on” the phone, according to the Justice Department.

Europe is Lost – Might As Well Grow a Beard

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What do you think happens when the terrorists know they are invincible from 9:00pm in the evening to oh, say, 05:00 in the ‘effing am?

From the Washington Post, “Bomb attacks show how Belgium became an incubator of terror“.

The Belgian police have also been hampered by bizarre rules. According to Belgian Justice Minister Koen Geens, just two days after the Paris attacks Liberal_Libtard_Head_Up_Ass_Way_UpAbdeslam was “likely in a flat in Molenbeek.” But because of the country’s penal code, which prohibits raids between 9 p.m. and 5 a.m. unless a crime is in progress or in case of fire, police were ordered to wait until dawn to pursue him. By then, Abdeslam was nowhere to be seen.

Bernie-omics Shuts Down Nation

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The nation of Venezuela discovers that Bernie Sanders style socialism is a dry hole, a “duster“, when it comes to delivering goods and services.

From Bloomberg, “Venezuela to Shut Down for a Week to Cope With Electricity Crisis“.

Venezuela is shutting down for a week as the government struggles with a deepening electricity crisis.

Bernie_Sanders_Venezula_Socialism_coolPresident Nicolas Maduro gave everyone an extra three days off work next week, extending the two-day Easter holiday, according to a statement in the Official Gazette published late Tuesday.

The government has rationed electricity and water supplies across the country for months and urged citizens to avoid waste as Venezuela endures a prolonged drought that has slashed output at hydroelectric dams. The ruling socialists have blamed the shortage on the El Nino weather phenomena and “sabotage” by their political foes, while critics cite a lack of maintenance and poor planning.

Now That Is a Moon Shot

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Forget shooting our Space Program in the foot, these Obama policies, according to The DailyCaller, “SpaceX Faces Off Against Russia To Supply Rockets To US Military“, have rammed a “Butt-Rocket” of monumental proportions up our collective suppositoriums.

Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX and Russian company NPO Energomash are locked in a struggle to supply rocket engines to the U.S. military.

NPO Energomash currently sells RD-180 rocket engines to American company Darwin_Uranus_Missle_Buttfire_animatedUnited Launch Alliance (ULA), a joint venture between defense contractors Lockheed Martin and Boeing. ULA inspects the engines, then uses them to power the workhorse rocket of America’s military space program.

ULA had almost cornered the market for national security-related rocket launches until last year, when SpaceX won U.S. Air Force certification for national security space missions.

The RD-180 is an old Soviet design built in Russia by NPO Energomash. Though the design has a record of safety and reliability, some in Congress worry that America’s dependence on Russian rocketry may give Russian President Vladimir Putin dangerous leverage over the American military.

“It is morally outrageous and strategically foolish to subsidize Vladimir Putin’s corrupt military industrial complex with the purchase of Russian rocket engines when Russia occupies Crimea and destabilizes Ukraine, menaces our NATO allies in Europe, bombs U.S.-backed forces in Syria to prop-up the murderous regime of Bashar Assad, and threatens to cut off U.S. access to space,” Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain