April 8, 2011
BRUCE A. BRENNAN BLOG FROM THE WORLD AND MY MIND
The news as I see it and the views as I want them.
April 8 is … All Is Ours Day
What is happening today? The White Sox won their home opener. They can hit the ball but chucking and catching the ball have proved troublesome.
It happens everywhere, unfortunately. A gunman opened fire at an elementary school in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday and at least 13 people were killed, including the shooter. It was not clear whether the gunman, who is believed to be a former student at the school, shot himself or was killed by police. At least 20 people, including children, were wounded in the shooting at the school for students aged 10 to 15, fire department spokesman Evandro Bezerra told the Globo television network. A fire department spokeswoman confirmed for The Associated Press that there were deaths, but she did not know how many. She spoke on condition of anonymity as she was not authorized to discuss the matter. Terrified parents rushed to the school and television images showed them crying and screaming for information about their children. The gunman was a 23-year-old man and former student at the school, a police spokeswoman told the AP. She also spoke on condition of anonymity, saying that she was not authorized to discuss the matter.
Local police commander Djalma Beltrame told Globo TV that the gunman left a letter at the scene indicating he wanted to kill himself, but that it did not give a clear motive for the shooting. Television images showed three helicopters landing on a football field next to the school and then ferrying the wounded to nearby hospitals. The shooting began about 8:30 a.m. local time (7:30 a.m. EDT; 1130 GMT). Witnesses said police responded quickly and traded fire with the gunman.
We should bomb Mexico. Apparently, many innocent people are being killed in that country and it is much closer than Libya. Another fact is we know this is happening not just working on our superior intelligence or lack thereof. Fifty-nine bodies were found buried Wednesday in a series of pits in the northern Mexico state of Tamaulipas, near the site where suspected drug gang members massacred 72 migrants last summer, officials said. Security forces investigating reports that a passenger bus had been hijacked in the area conducted a raid that netted 11 suspected kidnappers and freed five kidnap victims. Then they made a grisly discovery - a total of eight pits, containing a total of 59 corpses. One of the pits held 43 dead. The bodies are being examined to determine whether they were bus passengers who were reportedly abducted March 25, the Tamaulipas state government said in statement in which it "energetically condemned" the crimes.
The statement did not identify what drug gang, if any, that the 11 arrested suspects belonged to, or why they might have hijacked the bus. The pits were found in the farm hamlet of La Joya in the township of San Fernando, in the same area where the bodies of 72 migrants, most from Central America, were found shot to death Aug. 24 at a ranch. The area is about 80 miles (130 kilometers) from the border at Brownsville, Texas. Authorities blamed that massacre on the Zetas drug gang, which is fighting its one-time allies in the Gulf cartel for control of the region.
The victims in the August massacre were illegal immigrants from El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Ecuador and Brazil. An Ecuadorean and Honduran survived the attack, which Mexican authorities say occurred after the migrants refused to work for the cartel. Mexican drug cartels have taken to recruiting migrants, common criminals and youths, Mexican authorities say. It was unclear if the victims found Wednesday were migrants. Migrants frequently travel by bus in Mexico/ But drug gunmen also operate kidnapping rings, and erect roadblocks on highways in Tamaulipas and other northern states, where they hijack vehicles and rob and sometimes kill passengers. San Fernando is on a major highway that leads to the U.S. border. Drug gangs across Mexico also sometimes use mass graves to dispose of the bodies of executed rivals. The wave of drug-related killings - which has claimed more than 34,000 lives in the four years since the government launched an offensive against drug cartels - drew thousands of protesters into the streets of Mexico's capital and several other cities Wednesday in marches against violence. Many of the protesters said the government offensive has stirred up the violence. "We need to end this war, because it is a senseless war that the government started," said protester Alma Lilia Roura, 60, an art historian.
The statement did not identify what drug gang, if any, that the 11 arrested suspects belonged to, or why they might have hijacked the bus. The pits were found in the farm hamlet of La Joya in the township of San Fernando, in the same area where the bodies of 72 migrants, most from Central America, were found shot to death Aug. 24 at a ranch. The area is about 80 miles (130 kilometers) from the border at Brownsville, Texas. Authorities blamed that massacre on the Zetas drug gang, which is fighting its one-time allies in the Gulf cartel for control of the region.
The victims in the August massacre were illegal immigrants from El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Ecuador and Brazil. An Ecuadorean and Honduran survived the attack, which Mexican authorities say occurred after the migrants refused to work for the cartel. Mexican drug cartels have taken to recruiting migrants, common criminals and youths, Mexican authorities say. It was unclear if the victims found Wednesday were migrants. Migrants frequently travel by bus in Mexico/ But drug gunmen also operate kidnapping rings, and erect roadblocks on highways in Tamaulipas and other northern states, where they hijack vehicles and rob and sometimes kill passengers. San Fernando is on a major highway that leads to the U.S. border. Drug gangs across Mexico also sometimes use mass graves to dispose of the bodies of executed rivals. The wave of drug-related killings - which has claimed more than 34,000 lives in the four years since the government launched an offensive against drug cartels - drew thousands of protesters into the streets of Mexico's capital and several other cities Wednesday in marches against violence. Many of the protesters said the government offensive has stirred up the violence. "We need to end this war, because it is a senseless war that the government started," said protester Alma Lilia Roura, 60, an art historian.
Several thousand people joined the demonstration in downtown Mexico City, chanting "No More Blood!" and "Not One More!" A similar number marched through the southern city of Cuernavaca. Parents marched with toddlers, and protesters held up signs highlighting the disproportionate toll among the nation's youth. "Today a student, tomorrow a corpse," read one sign carried by demonstrators. The marches were spurred in part by the March 28 killing of Juan Francisco Sicilia, the son of Mexican poet Javier Sicilia, and six other people in Cuernavaca. "We are putting pressure on the government, because this can't go on," said the elder Sicilia. "It seems that we are like animals that can be murdered with impunity." That sure is how it appears to the world.
Born on this date:
0563 -BC- Gautama Buddha (as celebrated in Japan-Kambutsue)
1963 Julian Lennon Liverpool England, John's son/singer (Too Late for Goodbyes)/subject of Beatles' "Hey Jude"
Important deaths on this date:
1947 Henry Ford US industrialist (Ford cars), dies
1973 Pablo (Ruiz y) Picasso Spanish/French painter (Guernica) dies near Mougins France at 91
1981 General Omar Bradley last 5-star General dies in New York at 88
Important events on this date throughout history:
1766 1st fire escape patented, wicker basket on a pulley & chain FAT CHANCE I’LL USE IT
1789 House of Representatives 1st meeting, also the last useful meeting
1865 General Robert E Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court House in Virginia
1963 Tigers claim young pitcher Denny McLain from the White Sox for $25,000
1968 40th Academy Awards postponed to April 10th due to death of Martin Luther King Jr
1968 Baseball's Opening Day is postponed because of Martin Luther King Jr assassination
1968 Baseball's Opening Day is postponed because of Martin Luther King Jr assassination
1971 1st legal off-track betting system begins (OTB-New York)
1974 Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits 715th homerun, breaks Babe Ruth's record
1975 47th Academy Awards - "Godfather II", Ellen Burstyn & Art Carney win
1975 Frank Robinson debuts as 1st black baseball manager (Cleveland, beats New York 5-3)
1977 Israel premier Yitzhak Rabin resigns
1979 204th & final episode of "All in the Family"
1974 Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits 715th homerun, breaks Babe Ruth's record
1975 47th Academy Awards - "Godfather II", Ellen Burstyn & Art Carney win
1975 Frank Robinson debuts as 1st black baseball manager (Cleveland, beats New York 5-3)
1977 Israel premier Yitzhak Rabin resigns
1979 204th & final episode of "All in the Family"
1991 Jockey Bill Shoemaker paralyzed in a car accident
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