tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89288257474177725722024-03-13T15:18:07.161-07:00News Front Pages OnlyNews From Front Pages OnlyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8928825747417772572.post-45019280665594249792014-10-08T11:38:00.001-07:002014-10-08T11:38:14.083-07:00Man dies of Ebola in Texa<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A Liberian man who was the first
person diagnosed with Ebola outside of West Africa died in a Texas
hospital Wednesday, as Washington stepped up airport screening against
the deadly virus.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"Mr. Duncan succumbed to an
insidious disease, Ebola. He fought courageously in this battle," said a
statement from Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Duncan is believed to have been infected with Ebola before he left Liberia and boarded a plane to visit family in Texas.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said there was "zero
risk" that he had infected any fellow travelers because he was not
symptomatic until days after the flight.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Duncan's case however raised global fears, leading to a spike of
suspected Ebola cases and forcing governments to consider stronger
methods of keeping the virus at bay.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The world's largest outbreak of
Ebola has killed more than 3,400 people in Liberia, Guinea, Sierra
Leone, Nigeria and Senegal since the beginning of the year.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hours
after Duncan died, the White House announced that stricter airport
screenings would be implemented at five major US airports.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
measures will include sending extra CDC staff to select airports and
taking the temperatures of people arriving from Ebola-hit nations.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The "vast majority of people"
coming from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone -- the three countries hit
hardest by the epidemic -- will be screened, White House spokesman Josh
Earnest said. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The airports
implementing the measures are John F. Kennedy International in New York,
Washington Dulles International, Chicago O'Hare International,
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International and Newark Liberty
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />The Japanese parliament Wednesday passed a law prohibiting the
possession of photos and videos pertaining to child pornography although
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The law, that could come into effect next month, is an amendment of the
1998 law which banned the circulation and production of pornographic
photos and videos with minors for the first time although it did not
make illegal the possession of such content.</span></span></div>
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Under the new law, possession of this material will be punishable with
up to a year of imprisonment or fines of up to 1 million yen (nearly
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The law also urges internet providers and other connected companies to
collaborate in police investigations on law violations and compels them
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Till now, Japan was the only G7 country where possession of child pornography was not punishable by law.</span></span></div>
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The revised law defines child pornography as photos and videos designed to show or focus on the intimate parts of children.</span></span></div>
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Three political groups proposed that the law include "the investigation
of possible links between materials related to child pornography in the
manga (comics), animation, computer graphics and other media and the
violation of children's rights".</span></span></div>
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Nonetheless, the lack of support from the main opposition Democratic
Party and pressure from the publishing, computer graphics and
audiovisual industry as well as renowned cartoonists and illustrators
forced them to retract the revision.</span></span></div>
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These powerful industries have blocked several initiatives seeking to limit the production and distribution of their contents.</span></span></div>
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Their argument is that these recreational activities do not violate the
rights of any child and that broadening the definition of child
pornography will result in a vague and subjective concept that could
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Meanwhile, groups in favour of extending the scope of the law argue that these products promote stereotypes of negative conduct.</span></span></div>
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Japan, along with Russia and the US, is considered one of the principal
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In all, 1,633 child pornography cases were uncovered by the Japanese
police in 2013, 10 times more than in 2000, an increase believed to be
due to the rising use of smartphones.</span></span></div>
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However, experts and groups advocating stricter laws say that the actual number of cases is much higher in the Asian country. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> PYONGYANG, <span class="yshortcuts cs4-visible" id="lw_1361618287329_1">North Korea</span> (AP) — North Korea warned the top American commander in <span class="yshortcuts cs4-visible" id="lw_1361618287329_2">South Korea</span> on Saturday of "miserable destruction" if the U.S. military presses ahead with routine joint <span class="yshortcuts cs4-ndcor" id="lw_1361618287329_5">drills</span> with South Korea set to begin next month.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Pak Rim Su, chief of North
Korea's military delegation to the truce village of Panmunjom inside the
Demilitarized Zone, sent the warning Saturday morning to Gen. <span class="yshortcuts cs4-ndcor" id="lw_1361618287329_4">James Thurman</span>, Pyongyang's official <span class="yshortcuts cs4-visible" id="lw_1361618287329_3">Korean Central News Agency</span> said, in a rare direct message to the U.S. commander.</span></span></div>
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North Korea for conducting an underground nuclear test on Feb. 12 in
defiance of U.N. Security Council resolutions banning Pyongyang from
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">North Korea has characterized the nuclear test, its third since 2006,
as a defensive act against U.S. aggression. Pyongyang accuses
Washington of "hostility" for leading the charge to punish North Korea
for a December rocket launch that the U.S. considers a covert missile
test.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The U.S. and North Korea fought on opposite sides of the three-year
Korean War, which ended in a truce in 1953, not a peace treaty, and left
the Korean Peninsula divided by a heavily fortified border monitored by
the U.S.-led U.N. Command.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Washington also stations 28,500 American troops in South Korea to protect its ally against North Korean aggression.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">South Korea and the U.S. regularly conduct joint drills such as the
Key Resolve and Foal Eagle exercises slated to take place next month.
North Korea calls the drills proof of U.S. hostility, and accuses
Washington of practicing for an invasion.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"You had better bear in mind that those igniting a war are destined to meet a miserable destruction," KCNA quoted Pak as saying in his
message to Thurman. He called the drills "reckless."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, meanwhile, has been making a round
of visits to military units guiding troops in drills and exercises since
the nuclear test, KCNA said. <a href="http://adf.ly/Jgq9L">Get <span style="font-size: small;">full article here</span></a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Victims of
Myanmar's latest explosion of Muslim-Buddhist violence fled to already
packed displacement camps along the country's western coast Sunday, with
a top U.N. official saying the unrest has forced more than 22,000
people from their homes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">State
television reported the casualty toll has risen to 84 dead and 129
injured over the past week in nine townships in Rakhine state. The
figures have not been broken down by ethnic group, but New York-based <span class="yshortcuts cs4-ndcor" id="lw_1351440308_0">Human Rights Watch</span> has said <span class="yshortcuts cs4-ndcor" id="lw_1351440308_3">Rohingya Muslims</span> bore the brunt of the unrest and the true death toll may be far higher.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">On
Sunday, wooden boats carrying some refugees arrived outside the state
capital, Sittwe. The people trudged to the nearby Thechaung camp, a
place already home to thousands of Rohingya who took refuge there after a
previous wave of violence in June.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"I
fled my hometown, Pauktaw, on Friday because there is no security at
all," said 42-year-old fisherman Maung Myint, who arrived on a boat
carrying 40 other people, including his wife and six children. "My house
was burned to ashes and I have no money left."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Another Muslim refugee said she fled her village, Kyaukphyu, on Thursday after attackers set her home on fire.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"We don't feel safe," said
40-year-old Zainabi, a fish seller who left with her two sons, aged 12
and 14. "I wish the violence would stop so we can live peacefully."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Human
Rights Watch released dramatic satellite imagery of Kyaukphyu on
Saturday showing a vast, predominantly Rohingya swath of the village in
ashes. The destruction included more than 800 buildings and floating
barges.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There were no reports
of new violence Sunday. It was unclear what sparked the latest clashes,
but ill will between Muslims and Buddhists in <span class="yshortcuts cs4-ndcor" id="lw_1351440308_2">Rakhine state</span>
goes back decades and has its roots in a dispute over the Rohingya's
origins. Although many Rohingya have lived in Myanmar for generations,
they are seen as foreign intruders who came from <span class="yshortcuts cs4-ndcor" id="lw_1351440308_1">Bangladesh</span> to steal scarce land.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Today,
the Rohingya also face official discrimination, a policy encouraged by
Myanmar's previous military regimes to enlist popular support among
other groups. A 1984 law formally excluded them as one of the country's
135 ethnicities, meaning most are denied basic civil rights and are
deprived of citizenship.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Neighboring
Bangladesh, which also does not recognize the Rohingya as citizens,
says thousands of Rohingya refugees have sought to flee there by boat.
Its policy, however, is to refuse them entry.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Rights groups say Myanmar's failure to address the root causes of the crisis means the situation may get worse.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Over
the weekend, Border Affairs Minister Lt. General Thein Htay traveled to
the affected areas with the U.N. resident and humanitarian coordinator
in Myanmar, Ashok Nigam.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Nigam said 22,587 were displaced and they included both Muslims and ethnic Rakhine Buddhists, but he gave no breakdown.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Speaking
to The Associated Press on Sunday while visiting Thechaung camp, Nigam
said getting aid to the new wave of displaced people will be a challenge
as some fled on boats and others have sought refuge on isolated
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8928825747417772572.post-75959745280766407572012-10-17T17:35:00.003-07:002012-10-17T17:35:54.389-07:00Lance Armstrong steps down from charity, Nike drops him from sponsorship<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Lance Armstrong stepped down as chairman of the Livestrong cancer
support charity he founded, as Nike Inc dropped the disgraced cyclist
over the doping scandal that will likely cost him his seven Tour de
France titles.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Armstrong's Livestrong foundation is best known for the more than 70
million iconic yellow rubbery wrist bands that have been distributed
worldwide, but the scandal threatened to overshadow the group's wider
work with cancer patients. So far, donations have actually increased
despite the scandal.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">"To spare the foundation any negative
effects as a result of controversy surrounding my cycling career, I will
conclude my chairmanship," Armstrong said in a statement on Wednesday.
He will continue to serve on the board.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">At around the same time
that the foundation announced Armstrong's resignation, Nike posted a
statement to its website saying the athletic apparel maker would still
back the charity but could no longer sponsor the man behind it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">"Due
to the seemingly insurmountable evidence that Lance Armstrong
participated in doping and misled Nike for more than a decade, it is
with great sadness that we have terminated our contract with him," the
company said.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Beer maker Anheuser-Busch said it too would end its
relationship with Armstrong when his contract expires at the end of
this year, though it would also continue to back the foundation and its
athletic events.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Oakley Inc, the sunglasses brand also associated
with Armstrong, said in a statement it was reviewing the reports into
the cyclist's conduct and awaiting a final decision from the sport's
international authorities. A Radio Shack spokesman said the electronics
retailer remains a sponsor of Armstrong and Livestrong.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">ESPN
reported two other sponsors, Trek Bicycles and the energy drink maker
FRS, were also ending their relationships with the cyclist.
Representatives of the two companies were not immediately available to
comment.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Armstrong, now retired, is set to lose his record seven
Tour de France titles after the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency published a
1,000-page report last week that said the American took part in and
organized an elaborate, sophisticated doping scheme on his way to his
unrivalled success.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Cycling's world governing body, the
International Cycling Union, has yet to rule on the USADA report. They
can either confirm Armstrong's life ban and strip him of his seven Tour
titles or take the matter to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The
report accused Armstrong, as head of the US Postal Service Pro Cycling
Team, of running "the most sophisticated, professionalized and
successful doping program that sport has ever seen." It included sworn
testimony of 26 people, including 15 riders, who described years of
performance drug use. </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">'WHAT ARE YOU ON?'</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Armstrong, 41,
has always denied he took banned substances during his glittering career
but decided not to challenge the USADA charges against him.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">That
defiance was such a part of Armstrong's personal brand that Nike made a
commercial in the early 2000s featuring him being tested for drugs.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">"Everybody
wants to know what I'm on. What am I on? I'm on my bike, busting my ass
six hours a day. What are you on?" Armstrong said in a voice<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>over to the
ad.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Before Armstrong, the most high profile athlete dropped by
Nike was probably the football player Michael Vick, cut loose in 2007
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KUWAIT (Reuters) - <span class="yshortcuts cs4-ndcor" id="lw_1349038685_4">Palestinian authorities</span> are aiming to securitize an initial $200 million of some $1.3 billion worth of <span class="yshortcuts cs4-ndcor" id="lw_1349038685_0">government debt</span> by the first quarter of 2013 to help reduce state borrowing from local banks, a top banker said on Sunday.<div class="yom-mod yom-art-content yahoo-analyze-include" id="yui_3_5_1_22_1349049423270_216">
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"The <span class="yshortcuts cs4-ndcor" id="lw_1349038685_2">Ministry of Finance</span> is much more ready for securitizing the old debt rather than creating new debt, because we are not even rated," <span class="yshortcuts cs4-ndcor" id="lw_1349038685_1">Palestinian Monetary Authority</span> Governor <span class="yshortcuts cs4-ndcor" id="lw_1349038685_3">Jihad al-Wazir</span> said ahead of a Monday meeting of Arab central bankers in Kuwait.</div>
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"This will be only
to the primary market, only to the banks, not to the public and not to
overseas public," he told reporters.</div>
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The Palestinian Monetary Authority (PMA), which oversees operations in both the West Bank - where the <span class="yshortcuts cs4-ndcor" id="lw_1349038685_5">Palestinian Authority</span>
is based - and the Gaza Strip controlled by the Islamist group Hamas,
will manage the securitization on behalf of the Finance Ministry.</div>
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"What is important about this is that it will transfer
some of the existing debt that is direct borrowing from the government
into securities which are tradable between the banks," Wazir said.</div>
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"It will add to stability, it will generate an
interbank market and additionally as an incentive it will be used as
daily collateral in our payment system."</div>
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The securitization would likely see the PMA convert a
chunk of outstanding Palestinian debt into bonds or other tradeable
securities that would then be sold to local banks, in order to cut its
direct borrowing requirements.</div>
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The Palestinians, a stateless people, do not have their
own currency and the Israeli shekel is used for most day-to-day cash
transactions.</div>
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The PMA, which has reserves of $1 billion, regulates
banks operating in the Palestinian territories, occupied by Israel in a
1967 war.</div>
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The government budget deficit was likely to be around
$1.3 billion this year, up from a $950 million gap projected in the
budget, Wazir also said, adding $1.36 billion was a red line for state
borrowing from banks.</div>
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"The difference is likely to come from donors. There
are a number of talks with Arab countries, particularly in the Gulf," he
said.</div>
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"Also maybe through the World Bank, maybe through the
World Bank trust fund. The situation is still in a crisis mode."</div>
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In September, the
United Nations UNCTAD agency issued a gloomy outlook for the Palestinian
economy, arguing that tougher Israeli policies and settlement expansion
were pushing the occupied territories and Gaza deeper into poverty.</div>
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The situation had
been aggravated in 2011 by a sharp drop in foreign aid, which for years
provided a vital support, dimming any hope for an upswing even in the
longer term, it said.</div>
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Wazir said the
economy was doing "Ok" under the circumstances with inflation-adjusted
gross domestic product seen growing around 5 percent this year, down
from over 6 percent in 2011.</div>
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"If the Israelis
lift restrictions we can grow by 14-15 percent annually for a number of
years," he said. (Reporting by Martin Dokoupil and Sylvia Westall;
Editing by Sophie Hares)</div>
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Major Japanese brand name firms announced factory shutdowns in China
yesterday and urged expatriates to stay indoors ahead of what could be
more angry protests over a territorial dispute between Asia’s two
biggest economies.<br />
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China’s worst outbreak of anti-Japan sentiment
in decades led to weekend demonstrations and violent attacks on
well-known Japanese businesses such as car makers Toyota and Honda,
forcing frightened Japanese into hiding and prompting Chinese state
media to warn that trade relations could now be in jeopardy.</div>
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“I’m
not going out today and I’ve asked my Chinese boyfriend to be with me
all day tomorrow,” said Sayo Morimoto, a 29-year-old Japanese graduate
student at a university in Shenzhen.</div>
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Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei (洪磊) said the government
would protect Japanese firms and citizens and called for protesters to
obey the law.</div>
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“The gravely destructive consequences of Japan’s
illegal purchase of the Diaoyutai Islands (釣魚台) are steadily emerging,
and the responsibility for this should be borne by Japan,” he told a
daily news briefing.</div>
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The islands, called the Senkakus in Japan, are also claimed by Taiwan.</div>
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“The
course of developments will depend on whether or not Japan faces up to
China’s solemn stance and whether or not it faces up to the calls for
justice from the Chinese people and adopts a correct attitude and
approach,” Hong said.</div>
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China and Japan, which generated two-way
trade of US$345 billion last year, are arguing over the Diaoyutais, a
group of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea, which are the source
of a long-standing dispute that erupted last week when the Japanese
government decided to buy three of them from a private Japanese owner.
The move infuriated Beijing.</div>
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Yesterday, a flotilla of about 1,000 Chinese fishing boats was sailing for the islands.</div>
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The
weekend protests mainly targeted Japanese diplomatic missions, but also
shops, restaurants and car dealerships in at least five cities. Toyota
Motor Corp and Honda Motor Co said arsonists had badly damaged their
stores in Qingdao at the weekend.</div>
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However, Toyota said its
factories and offices were operating as normal yesterday and that it had
not ordered home its Japanese employees in China.</div>
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Honda will
suspend production in China starting today for two days. Fast Retailing
Co, Asia’s largest apparel retailer, said it had closed some of its
Uniqlo outlets in China and may close yet more.</div>
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Japan’s top
general retailer, Seven & I Holdings, said it would close 13 Ito
Yokado supermarkets and 198 7-Eleven convenience stores in China today,
while Sony Corp is discouraging non-essential travel to China.</div>
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Mazda
Motor Corp will halt production at its Nanjing factory, which it
jointly operates with Chongqing Changan Automobile Co and Ford Motor Co,
for four days.</div>
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Japanese electronics group Panasonic said one of
its plants had been sabotaged by Chinese workers and would remain closed
through today — the anniversary of Japan’s 1931 occupation of parts of
China, a date that Tokyo fears could trigger more anti-Japan sentiment. </div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b> </b></span>An <span class="yshortcuts cs4-ndcor" id="lw_1344791167_6">Israeli soldier</span> implicated in <span class="yshortcuts cs4-ndcor" id="lw_1344791167_7">the killing</span> of two <span class="yshortcuts cs4-ndcor" id="lw_1344791167_3">Gaza</span> women carrying a white flag faces a 45-day jail term under a plea bargain approved by a <span class="yshortcuts cs4-ndcor" id="lw_1344791167_4">military court</span> on Sunday, local media said.</div>
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The sniper, identified by <span class="yshortcuts cs4-ndcor" id="lw_1344791167_8">Israeli media</span>
as "staff sergeant S," was charged with manslaughter in 2010 over the
fatal shooting of an unnamed individual, which Palestinian witnesses
linked to the killing of 64-year-old <span class="yshortcuts cs4-ndcor" id="lw_1344791167_0">Riyeh Abu Hajaj</span> and her daughter <span class="yshortcuts cs4-ndcor" id="lw_1344791167_1">Majda Abu Hajaj</span>, 37, during Israel's "Cast Lead" Gaza offensive.</div>
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But the Israeli military said the charge had on Sunday been reduced from manslaughter to using a weapon illegally.</div>
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"Following a mediation process
and upon examination of the evidence with the recommendation of the
military court, both sides have reached a plea bargain in which the
indictment will be adjusted, and he will be convicted of using a weapon
illegally," a military statement said.</div>
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Under the deal, "S" would be jailed for 45 days, media reports said.</div>
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</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">The <i>Slumdog Millionaire</i> director’s opening ceremony for the London 2012 Olympics started with such verve and promise. There were fireworks! There were sheep! There were geese! There was electricity in the stadium, not just the kind generated by 80,000 people in a state of excited anticipation but also a clever arrangement of LED panels at every seat that sent pulses of color across the stands. See official website<a href="http://adf.ly/BEyKa"> Olympics London 2012</a></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Rustic folk strolled beneath fluffy cumuli and disported themselves in a vision of the green and pleasant Britain celebrated in verse by William Blake at the beginning of the 19th century, as the industrial revolution gathered steam. By 1916, when Sir Hubert Parry set the poem to music, creating the greatest of all anthems, “Jerusalem,” ever more Britons lived in cities and worked in factories; world war would soon further threaten Blake’s idyll. Boyle’s history appeared to cast industrialists as the greater danger, though the program notes made clear that the engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, played by Kenneth Branagh, should be regarded as a hero. Great chimneys sprouted from the stadium floor and the once carefree yokels were transformed into drudges. It was powerful and surprisingly scary for an event that at previous Games has dazzled but never daunted. “This is ****ing terrifying!! i want my mummy,” tweeted the British critic and journalist Giles Coren.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">And it got better, at least if what you wanted from London 2012 wasn’t a poor man’s Beijing or an updated Sydney, all spectacle and not much substance. In the segment entitled “Happy and Glorious,” Boyle served up great dollops of the quirky humor that sustains his compatriots. A filmed sequence showed James Bond, in his current, Daniel Craig-shaped iteration, on a mission to Buckingham Palace. He is greeted by a pair of corgis and then by the Queen, “in her first acting role,” according to the Olympics organizers though she’s arguably been performing as the Queen since 1952. </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">They board a helicopter and fly to the Olympic Park, and in a <i>coup de théâtre</i>, a real helicopter materialized above the stadium, and 007 and Q (or their stunt doubles) parachuted to the ground. And Her Majesty, in the same fetching apricot-colored gown she wore for the filmed sequence, took her seat in the box.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">The VIP tiers were already well stocked with royals and more than 80 heads of state and would-be heads of state. Three former British Prime Ministers, John Major, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, bookended the current Prime Minister David Cameron, and the opposition leader Ed Miliband. Michelle Obama represented the United States; Mitt Romney represented the ambition to do so in the future.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Whether the next sequence impacted his views on the benefits of universal, taxpayer-funded healthcare remains to be seen. The arena filled with dancing nurses and doctors pushing beds occupied by young patients, to symbolize Britain’s National Health Service (NHS). Initially jolly, this scene too turned dark, as nightmare figures from children’s literature multiplied until a phalanx of Mary Poppinses chased them away. After the show, still in costume, four of the “nurses” told <i>TIME</i> that they were real-life medics, who had gladly joined Boyle’s show in the hopes of chasing away nightmares of their own. </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">“The NHS is a huge part of British history,” said Nadia Gildeh, a junior doctor. “It’s a significant part of what we are.” She hoped Boyle’s tribute would help persuade Prime Minister Cameron to preserve the NHS. “Hands off the NHS!” agreed Hilary Sharpe, a transplant nurse. “We love the NHS.”</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">The audience in the stadium loved the NHS too, or at least its musical version. In fact, they had loved the whole show up to that point. It was weird in places, patchy, a bit preachy sometimes. But as with so many top British sports stars, the wobbles made the watching even more compelling. Like Andy Murray at Wimbledon, Boyle had the crowd believing he could win, <i>willing</i> him to win. And like Murray at Wimbledon, he showed flashes of genius but just couldn’t sustain it. You knew he had lost when British creativity was represented in a montage of clips of music and film and TV and a meandering narrative about young folk texting before putting down their smart phones just long enough to kiss.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Britain is creative, prodigiously so. The clips showcased some of the things the nation does brilliantly: subverting genres, inventing new ones, and always, always laughing at itself. Mr Bean made an appearance, though not, as suggested by this author <a href="http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1836464,00.html" target="_blank">in a 2008 piece</a>, as the carrier of the Olympic flame. That honor was given to seven young athletes, who lit a wonderfully, crazily deconstructed cauldron dreamed up by British designer Thomas Heatherwick.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">But Boyle couldn’t overcome two fundamental problems. Britain is good at the sort of solemn pageantry surrounding royal occasions. It’s less good at solemnity without a traditional framework. It’s hard to disagree with Boyle’s messaging—for example about the dangers of unfettered capitalism and about how generations of immigrants have enriched and renewed Britain and about the value of the NHS—but it was clunky and worthy.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">That’s because the other banana skin is the idea that last 100 years of British history, with its loss and confusion as well as its triumphs and achievements, lends itself to the lobotomized format of an Olympics opening ceremony. Monty Python might have done it à la <i>Life of Brian</i>, but the Olympic powers would never have approved. So we got something that almost worked, and captivated in parts. And that is as true a reflection of Britain as it’s possible to imagine.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">The government of Guangxi region's Liuzhou is asking people to hunt the alien South American species, which badly bit two people earlier in the week who were paddling in the Liujiang River, the <a href="http://www.reuters.com/places/china" title="Full coverage of China">China</a> Daily said.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span>A southern Chinese city is on the alert for piranhas after two people were attacked in a river, and is offering a 1,000 yuan ($160) reward for every fish caught, dead or alive, state media reported on Thursday. </span><br />
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<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"> "Fishing with nets is not allowed in the section of the river that flows through the city, but we have made an exemption. Five fishing boats with experienced fishermen have been deployed on the river since Monday," Liuzhou official Wei Yongwen told the newspaper.</span></div><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: small;"><span id="midArticle_2" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span></span><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"In addition, more than 40 other fishermen from the local fishing association have joined us as well. They all use small pieces of pork as bait."</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-size: small;"><span id="midArticle_3" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span></span><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Other people have taken up position along the river's banks with rods, it added.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-size: small;"><span id="midArticle_4" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span></span><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"It's horrible to know that the river has such fish. I will not swim there anymore," resident Liu Junjie was quoted as saying. "I'll pray they catch them soon."</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-size: small;"><span id="midArticle_5" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span></span><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">However, their days may be numbered anyway, as piranhas die when the water temperature drops below 15 degrees Celsius (59 degrees Fahrenheit), as it will do in Guangxi over the winter, the China Daily added.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span class="kt_fnt_black9">WHEN PLESTINIAN leader <a href="http://adf.ly/AOVmp">Yasser Arafat</a> died under mysterious circumstances at a Paris military hospital, at the age of 75 in November 2004, many in the Arab world suspected something was amiss following the manner the entire episode was handled. Arafat, who was virtually under house arrest for more than two years following a siege by the Israeli army of the Ramallah headquarters of his Fatah party, was flown out in a helicopter and then taken to a Paris military hospital for treatment of some mysterious ailment.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Two weeks later he was declared dead, but the cause of his demise was never revealed. Hospital records pertaining to his ailment were also not made public, though there were leaked media reports of him having suffered a stroke following a bleeding disorder. But most Palestinians suspected Israel’s hand in his death with the Fatah believing that he had been poisoned by Israeli agents.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Nearly eight years after the passing away of one of the most popular and admired Palestinian leaders, the mystery behind his death is finally unraveling. Arab satellite network Al Jazeera has come out with shocking findings relating to the death of Arafat, following a comprehensive, nine-month-long probe into the incident. The report, based on an analysis of the personal belongings of the late Palestinian leader — including his clothes, toothbrush and head-dress — by the respected Institute of Radiation Physics, Lausanne, in Switzerland, have revealed elevated levels of <a href="http://adf.ly/AOWHk">polonium-210</a>, a highly radioactive element.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Arafat’s widow, Suha, who was determined to find the truth behind her husband’s demise, provided the personal belongings to the television network and the Swiss institute. The findings have shocked the global community, especially the Arab world, as it exposes the shallow claims about respect for human rights that are frequently parroted by Israel and its sympathisers in the west.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mahmoud Abbas, the President of the Palestinian Authority, is likely to clear the demand for an exhumation of the remains of Arafat, whose body was flown back to Ramallah and buried there. His remains are kept in a state mausoleum. Religious authorities and Arafat’s close relatives, including Suha, have backed the call for exhumation of the remains. An aide to the President has sought an international inquiry into the death of Arafat, on the lines of the UN-backed tribunal that looked into the assassination of Rafik Hariri, the former Lebanese premier.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">The international community should back the demand for a thorough probe into the death of Arafat. Governments have been known to eliminate fiercely independent and popular leaders such as Arafat by means fair and foul. Fidel Castro, the Cuban leader, survived several such attempts in the past by the CIA. Its rival, the KGB, was more successful, managing to kill Alexander Litvinenko, a former agent and foe of Russia, by lacing his tea with Polonium-210 in London in 2006. Source : </span><a href="http://adf.ly/AOVsI"><span style="font-size: small;">khaleejtimes</span></a></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">Astronauts in the orbiting lab module Tiangong-1 received their first e-mail from Earth on Tuesday afternoon, the Beijing Aerospace Control Center (BACC) confirmed.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">The e-mail containing photos, text and videos was sent through a special communication channel between the control center and the lab module, a statement from the center said.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">Through this communication channel, astronauts can maintain instant contact with Earth, which facilitates their work and contributes to the quality of their spare time, the statement said.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">The three astronauts, including the country's first female in space,entered the cabin of the Tiangong-1 on Monday afternoon, becoming the first group of Chinese to enter an orbiter in space, shortly after a successful automatic docking procedure between the orbiter and the Shenzhou-9 spaceship.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">Deng Yibing, chief engineer of the astronaut training center, told Xinhua that the astronauts had been busy checking the facilities and doing experiments over the past day.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">The environment inside the orbiter has been quite comfortable, with the temperature at 22 to 23 degrees Celsius and the humidity at 40 percent, Deng said.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">Although they experience 16 sunrises and sunsets every 24 hours as the orbiter circles Earth every 90 minutes, astronauts wake up and rest in line with Earth time. (<a href="http://adf.ly/8aNDV">How Chinese astronauts see TV from space</a>)</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">"They got up at 6 a.m. Beijing Time today and will go to bed in the evening," Deng said.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">One will remain on duty while the others sleep, and the three will take turns sleeping, he said.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">(<a href="http://adf.ly/92NlA">How Chinese astronauts make multiple income from space</a>). Source : <a href="http://adf.ly/9rmG5">xinhuanet</a></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8928825747417772572.post-66338549617371507372012-05-08T11:07:00.000-07:002012-05-08T11:07:52.774-07:00South Korea seizes capsules containing powdered flesh of dead babies<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1k8qzsHRxRE/T6lgsJaDluI/AAAAAAAABm0/assTwOpFtk8/s1600/baby.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1k8qzsHRxRE/T6lgsJaDluI/AAAAAAAABm0/assTwOpFtk8/s320/baby.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="first" id="yui_3_4_0_22_1336499676450_310" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">The South Korean government revealed Monday that it recently seized thousands of capsules filled with the powdered <a href="http://adf.ly/8IbLu" target="_blank">flesh of dead babies</a>. Reportedly, some people believe the powder has medicinal purposes and was created in northeastern China. <a href="http://adf.ly/8IcUq">More story about this matter.</a></span></div><div class="first" id="yui_3_4_0_22_1336499676450_310" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div id="yui_3_4_0_22_1336499676450_312" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">South Korea has reportedly been reluctant to criticize China directly over the incident, out of fears of creating diplomatic friction with the country. But the process by which the powder is allegedly created is one of the most disturbing stories imaginable.</span></div><div id="yui_3_4_0_22_1336499676450_312" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div id="yui_3_4_0_22_1336499676450_313" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">According to the Korea Customs Service, the bodies of dead babies are chopped into small pieces and dried on stoves before being turned into powder. The customs officials have refused to say exactly where the babies come from or who is responsible for making the capsules.</span></div><div id="yui_3_4_0_22_1336499676450_313" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div id="yui_3_4_0_22_1336499676450_314" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">China has already been in the spotlight over activist Chen Guangcheng, whose work involves protesting the government's sterilization and forced abortion policies. It was recently reported that China is working to "soften" its <a href="http://adf.ly/8IbX4">one-child policy slogans</a>, though not the actual policy itself.</span></div><div id="yui_3_4_0_22_1336499676450_314" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Last year, Chinese officials ordered an investigation into the manufacturing of drugs made from dead fetuses or newborn babies. Nonetheless, South Korean officials said in a statement they have discovered 35 smuggling attempts since last August, during which 17,450 capsules labeled as "stamina boosters" were discovered. Rather than containing any inherent medicinal properties, the capsules are said to contain dangerous bacteria and other harmful, unspecified ingredients.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span id="more-4679"></span></span></div><div id="yui_3_4_0_22_1336499676450_328" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Amazingly, none of the smugglers have been arrested in the various confiscations because the South Korean customs officials said the amounts of human flesh contained in the capsules were too small and were not intended for direct sale. The smugglers claimed to have no knowledge of the human flesh content, saying they believed the capsules were ordinary stamina-boosting pills. Source : <a href="http://adf.ly/8Ibca">Yahoo</a></span></div><div id="yui_3_4_0_22_1336499676450_328" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8928825747417772572.post-92002447750880024252012-04-03T17:39:00.000-07:002012-04-03T17:39:14.316-07:00Indonesian Maid Steal RM500,000<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-H_aq56Kl6MY/T3uWVdfI7aI/AAAAAAAABgY/g7bxXI7EmdQ/s1600/images222.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WAF4LgKlxnI/T3uYBSi6ciI/AAAAAAAABgg/5nAveVxjPfU/s1600/edited1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WAF4LgKlxnI/T3uYBSi6ciI/AAAAAAAABgg/5nAveVxjPfU/s320/edited1.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">GOMBAK: While their employers were away on a weekend business trip, two Indonesian maids made off with valuables worth about RM500,000.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">The two emptied their employers' jewellery boxes containing designer watches, diamond rings and earrings as well as designer clothing and stacks of cash.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">“They even took their passports with them,” said Datin Ira Ghani a 35-year-old businesswoman, at her home here. (See <a href="http://www.facebook.com/people/Datin-Ira-Ghani/1007382464" target="_blank">Datin Ira Ghani Facebook</a>)</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">She said she received a voicemail on Sunday from her son, saying that the maids were not at home.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-H_aq56Kl6MY/T3uWVdfI7aI/AAAAAAAABgY/g7bxXI7EmdQ/s1600/images222.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-H_aq56Kl6MY/T3uWVdfI7aI/AAAAAAAABgY/g7bxXI7EmdQ/s1600/images222.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">The 13-year-old boy told her that his eight-year-old brother's and his iPads and iPhones were missing.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">When Ira and her husband returned on Monday, they were dismayed to discover that their valuables were missing even though they had been kept under lock and key.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">“My room door as well as the drawers where I keep my jewellery were still locked. They must have found the spare keys which my husband keeps at home,” she said.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">Her sons told her that the maids had ordered them to go straight to bed after they came home from a day out with their cousin on Saturday.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">“I suspect that is when they ran away. Luckily, they locked up the house before they sneaked out. Imagine if the doors were unlocked while my children slept upstairs,” she added.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">Ira later found a set of keys in the refrigerator and the automatic gate remote control in the mailbox. The maids had also thrown away their old clothes.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">Her husband <a href="http://adf.ly/71POU" target="_blank">Datuk Dr Ibrahim Ahmad<span class="knx-annotation"></span></a> lodged a report at the Gombak police station the same day and had notified the Immigration Department to cancel the maids' work permits.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">Ira said she had not expected the maids to run away after working for over a year.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">“We treated them well and they had been very honest employees. They even said they wanted to continue working for us,” she said.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">Dr Ibrahim said this was an expensive lesson for not being more careful with their valuables.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">“Employers cannot trust their maids completely,” he said. <a href="http://adf.ly/71P14" target="_blank">Source</a> : <a href="http://adf.ly/71P4u" target="_blank">TheSundaily</a></span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8928825747417772572.post-31324256546040496242012-03-14T11:40:00.000-07:002012-03-14T11:40:32.658-07:00I can never play with him again<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zJS8TtJLArw/T2Dl5QO1ntI/AAAAAAAABbw/s9cPphjvwVg/s1600/n_26boy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="235" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zJS8TtJLArw/T2Dl5QO1ntI/AAAAAAAABbw/s9cPphjvwVg/s320/n_26boy.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DcWnaLbmx4I/T2DkaWfo5nI/AAAAAAAABbo/o6Z2oGgwdPI/s1600/ferri.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">PETALING JAYA: “I cannot play with him again, I miss him very much.” - <a href="http://adf.ly/6IVXX" target="_blank">Read story before this</a></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div> </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tears kept streaming down as 10-year-old Foong Chun Wai uttered these words while looking at his younger brother’s coffin.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">He was at Chun Yuan’s wake in Kampung Cempaka here, along with his parents and relatives.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chun Yuan, five, died at the Sultanah Bahiyah Hospital intensive care unit at 6.30am last Monday after being in a coma following a tragedy where he walked into a tinted glass door panel at the Kedah Ferry Terminal.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">A shard had pierced the artery in his thigh after the glass panel shattered at 6.10am last Friday.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">His distraught mother Angie Ng Lai Kean, 38, said: “Enough tears have fallen but nothing can bring him back.”</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">She is planning legal action against the <a href="http://adf.ly/6IVHk" target="_blank">Kuala Kedah Ferry Terminal authority.</a> “I demand justice for my son,” she said.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">At the wake, one of Chun Yuan’s uncles recalled the moments he had spent with his nephew.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">“He always tagged along on my motorbike,” he said, holding back tears.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Kedah MCA youth secretary Loh Eng Chong, who has been assisting the family, said he had contacted several lawyers to help the family.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DcWnaLbmx4I/T2DkaWfo5nI/AAAAAAAABbo/o6Z2oGgwdPI/s1600/ferri.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DcWnaLbmx4I/T2DkaWfo5nI/AAAAAAAABbo/o6Z2oGgwdPI/s1600/ferri.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Meanwhile, the operator of the ferry terminal said it had recommended to the Northern Region Marine Department to remove the tinted glass door panel which Chun Yuan had walked into.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Its supervisor Ahmad Fauzi Abidin said the removal of the glass door panel would make movement easier during the rush hour.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">He also suggested that the lighting in the waiting area be switched on as early as 6am for safety reasons.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ahmad Fauzi said safety measures would be tightened as the terminal was the main entrance to Langkawi from mainland Kedah.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">On a short messaging system (SMS) sent by an employee of the ferry terminal to Chun Yuan’s father Kwok Mun demanding compensation for the broken glass door, Ahmad Fauzi said “it was a misunderstanding”.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Since the terminal is government property, we also had to lodge a police report to claim for the panel,” he said, denying that the report was made to threaten the father to pay. <a href="http://adf.ly/6IVBi" target="_blank">Source</a></span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8928825747417772572.post-29986737907772331152012-02-26T21:34:00.000-08:002012-02-26T21:34:31.691-08:00Minyak Masak Perisa Tuala Wanita<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jgilF3XXcKY/T0sVzx8ArNI/AAAAAAAABZQ/cg-gUNzLgDs/s1600/pix_middle.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jgilF3XXcKY/T0sVzx8ArNI/AAAAAAAABZQ/cg-gUNzLgDs/s320/pix_middle.jpg" width="235" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">JELEBU: "Apabila diamati, saya percaya ia tuala wanita," kata pekedai, Mohd Ifzal Dzulkiffli, 31, yang terkejut apabila menemui tuala wanita di dalam peket minyak masak yang diterimanya di Kampung Titi, Kuala Klawang, di sini.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"> Mohd Ifzal berkata, minyak masak seberat satu kilogram (kg) itu diterima daripada pemborong dua bulan lalu, namun berikutan tidak sahih ia adalah tuala wanita dia tidak membuat laporan. Definasi <a href="http://adf.ly/5o2DN" target="_blank">minyak masak</a>. </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">“Bagaimanapun, selepas berfikir kejadian ini mungkin terjadi kepada orang lain, saya bertindak melaporkan kepada pihak berwajib.<br />
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“Saya mahu tindakan tegas diambil terhadap pihak berkenaan berikutan ini membabitkan soal kesihatan dan kebersihan,” katanya.</div><div class="advisland" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
Menceritakan penemuan mengejutkan itu, Mohd Ifzal berkata, perkara itu terjadi apabila seorang pelanggan mahu membeli minyak masak datang ke kedainya. <a href="http://adf.ly/5o2Gw" target="_blank">Metro</a></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"> ** <a href="http://adf.ly/5o2Ju" target="_blank">Jangan guna minyak masak banyak kali, </a></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8928825747417772572.post-13005192028166119822012-02-20T09:54:00.000-08:002012-02-20T09:54:38.648-08:005 Tips to Find the Cheapest Gas Prices<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8SNGgc3qeas/T0KImMrvfQI/AAAAAAAABYs/Izcg8FFDgDs/s1600/gasprices.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8SNGgc3qeas/T0KImMrvfQI/AAAAAAAABYs/Izcg8FFDgDs/s320/gasprices.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> </div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">Just as the economic recovery begins to accelerate, another roadblock has jumped in the way. In this case it's America's old familiar enemy: Rising prices at the gas pumps. The national average cost for regular unleaded gasoline is already 8% higher this year alone, now at $3.529 a gallon, according to AAA.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">This is the highest price point ever seen this early in the year. Seasonally prices rise heading into the Summer driving season, but never has the average price of gasoline topped $3.50 this earlier in the New Year.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">Furthermore, gasoline demand has dropped 10%; meaning Americans are driving less but the amount of money we're spending on gasoline is rising.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">As individuals we can't do much about price hikes but Gregg Laskoski of GasBuddy.com says there are some things we can do to minimize the damage done to our personal finances every time to fill the tank. In the attached clip Laskoski discusses 5 ways to find cheap gas prices.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><b>1. Track Prices Via Websites and Mobile Apps</b></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">Is your local station gauging you? The only way to know is to be aware of what you <i>should</i> be paying. Thanks to the Internet, drivers can drill down and find the average price by zip code. Laskoski's Gasbuddy.com, Gaspricewatch.com or scores of other web sites or mobile applications make it easy to find gas stations taking the least amount of profit from consumers.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span id="more-11407"></span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><b>2. Inconvenience Yourself</b></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">It shouldn't come as much of a shock but the easier it is to find a gas station, the more you're going to pay. Laskoski says gas stations just off the highway cost more than others just down the way. If you're willing to spend an extra ten minutes in your car you can find stations that make it time well spent. And, avoid affluent areas; that gas station conveniently existing right in the middle of town is likely charging a premium.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><b>3. Fill Up at the Right Time</b></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">Urban legend says gas prices are lowest during hours when most folks are sleeping, from midnight to 5am. Laskoski debunks that myth, but says there is a best time to fill-up that most people wouldn't think of: Wednesday. Gas prices are highest on weekends when the most people are out on the road. Filling up in the middle of the week saves you both sleep and money.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><b>4. Mind the Fine Print on Your Credit Card & Reward Programs<br />
</b></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">Many companies offer "club" membership at their stations but the real savings come somewhere else. Liskoski says to look for partnerships between your local gas retailer and other merchants. Often times pairing the right card with the right grocery store is where you'll find the benefits.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><b>5. Get Out of the Car (Opt for Self-Service)<br />
</b></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">Despite the near-death of full-service, many gas stations will give you the option of having an attendant fill it up. The next time you're tempted, take note of the premium being charged per gallon and start doing some math. At a reasonable-sounding quarter per gallon premium, you're going to pay $5 more to fill a 20 gallon tank. One stop per week for a year works out to $260 a year for the right to sit in your car.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
The bottom line is gasoline prices are going higher for all of us, and likely to get much worse. We can't reverse that trend but with a few simple tips we can ease the pain, if only a little bit. </div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8928825747417772572.post-8250294834350071542012-01-03T20:27:00.000-08:002012-01-03T20:27:52.938-08:00Year's Best Cameras for Avid Travelers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gcs8xfc9fYc/TwPVO_fhvzI/AAAAAAAABUc/tRe8oAXaUVA/s1600/nikon-coolpix-s1200pj.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="226" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gcs8xfc9fYc/TwPVO_fhvzI/AAAAAAAABUc/tRe8oAXaUVA/s320/nikon-coolpix-s1200pj.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><h3 style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><strong>BEST FOR: Mega-zoom in a mini size</strong></i></h3><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><em>Canon PowerShot ELPH 510 HS</em><br />
There's never been a bigger zoom in such a compact package. When it's not in use, Canon's 28 mm wide-angle lens with 12x optical zoom (good for detailed, expansive landscapes) collapses into a camera body that's only .86" thick. The 3.2" touch-screen display lets you manually select a focal point and activate the shutter with a tap. <em>$350, </em></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
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</div><h3 style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><strong>BEST FOR: Simultaneous video and stills </strong></i></h3><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><em>Sony Cyber-shot TX55</em><br />
It's one of the great quandaries of memory-making: Is this a video moment or a photo moment? (Usually, by the time you've decided, the toucan has already flown off your daughter's head.) Sony's double-duty shooter lets you take 12 MP photos and 1080i video at the same time, without sacrificing image quality. <em>$350,</em></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
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</div><h3 style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><strong>BEST FOR: Locating landmarks</strong></i></h3><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><em>Fujifilm FinePix F600EXR</em><br />
Part compass, part guidebook—oh, yeah, and a swell camera, too—this 16 MP number goes way beyond just taking great photos. Using GPS and augmented reality (which overlays data on the screen as you frame a shot), it can direct you to over a million preloaded landmarks, suggest worthy sites nearby, and even plot your route on a map</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
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</div><h3 style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><strong>BEST FOR: Slide shows on the go</strong></i></h3><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><em>Nikon S1200pj</em><br />
Time was, treating your family and friends to a post-trip slide show required bulky equipment (and possibly handcuffs). Now, Nikon's pocket-size projector-slash-camera lets you stage a screening anywhere you can dim the lights and clear some wall space. It even hooks up to iPads and other devices to increase your feature-presentation options.<em> $430</em></div><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Read more: </span><a href="http://adf.ly/4XLiK" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Budgettravel</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8928825747417772572.post-28147306108992695772011-12-22T15:49:00.000-08:002011-12-22T15:49:29.054-08:00Hugo Chavez: Obama’s a ‘Clown’ President<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ifFQvaKh8uQ/TvPB7V4p8HI/AAAAAAAABRQ/XdaOh154ZME/s1600/hugo+chavez.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ifFQvaKh8uQ/TvPB7V4p8HI/AAAAAAAABRQ/XdaOh154ZME/s320/hugo+chavez.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">Hugo Chávez blasted President Barack Obama as a “clown” and an “embarrassment” who has turned the United States into a “disaster” after Obama criticized Venezuela’s ties with Iran and Cuba, according to a report Tuesday.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">Chávez’s comments came in the wake of Obama’s Monday written interview with the Caracas paper El Universal, where the U.S. president questioned Venezuela’s connections to those countries. Chávez hit back strongly at Obama on state TV Monday, according to The Guardian, saying the president gave the interview only to “win votes” in the 2012 election.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div id="continue" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">“Mr. Obama decided to attack us,” Chávez said. “Now you want to win votes by attacking Venezuela. Don’t be irresponsible. You are a clown, a clown. Leave us in peace … Go after your votes by fulfilling that which you promised your people.”</div><div id="continue" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">“Focus on governing your country, which you’ve turned into a disaster,” Chávez said, according to The Guardian.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">Chávez’s comments were prompted by Obama’s response to an El Universal question about what the U.S. government thinks of Venezuela’s ties to Iran and Cuba. Obama told the paper, “It seems to me that the ties between Venezuela’s government and Iran and Cuba have not served the interests of Venezuela and its people.”</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">“We are concerned about the government’s actions, which have restricted the universal rights of the Venezuelan people, threatened basic democratic values and failed to contribute to the security in the region,” Obama said, according to The Guardian.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">Referencing Iran, Obama wrote, “Sooner or later, Venezuela’s people will have to decide what possible advantage there is in having relations with a country that violates fundamental human rights and is isolated from most of the world.”</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">On Tuesday, Chávez landed in Uruguay for a summit of South America’s trade bloc, Mercosur. This is the Venezuelan president’s first trip abroad since he was diagnosed with cancer.<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Read more : <a href="https://spn.sr/pDz" target="_blank"><b>Hugo Chavez</b></a></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Read biography : <a href="http://adf.ly/4M1Zh" target="_blank"><b>Hugo Chavez</b></a></span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8928825747417772572.post-42356208346216578262011-12-08T16:32:00.000-08:002011-12-08T16:32:40.673-08:00Mysterious planet-sized object spotted near Mercury<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sZQnpWARRhs/TuFW1f1wnrI/AAAAAAAABPM/K8l_HEhRbZE/s1600/mercury.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sZQnpWARRhs/TuFW1f1wnrI/AAAAAAAABPM/K8l_HEhRbZE/s1600/mercury.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Is a giant, cloaked spaceship orbiting around </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1323272687_2" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Mercury</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">? </span><br />
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<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">That's been the speculation from some corners aftera camera onboard NASA's STEREO spacecraft caught <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/mysterious-planet-size-object-spotted-near-mercury-165402135.html">a wave of electronically charged material</a> shooting out from the sun and hitting <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1323272687_3">Mercury</span>.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Theorists have seized on the images captured from the "<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1323272687_0">coronal mass ejection</span>" (CME) last week as suggestive of alien life hanging out in our own cosmic backyard. Specifically, the solar flare washing over <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1323272687_4">Mercury</span> appears to hit another object of comparable size. "It's cylindrical on either side and has a shape in the middle. It definitely looks like a ship to me, and very obviously, </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">it's cloaked," <a href="http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/SIG=120i6lmdb/EXP=1324600122/**http%3A//www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv=6X96xI1gLdQ">YouTube-user siniXster said in his video commentary</a> on the footage, which has generated hundreds of thousands of views this week. Now, how this user was able to determine that the object was "obviously" a cloaked spaceship with no other natural explanation remains as much a mystery as the object itself.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Of course, there's another scientifically sanctioned explanation for the curious images, though we're not certain that skeptics and UFO enthusiasts such as SiniXster will endorse it. Natalie Wolchover of Life's Little Mysteries put the question to scientists in the solar physics branch at the <a href="http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/SIG=11csskmlv/EXP=1324600122/**http%3A//www.nrl.navy.mil/">United States Naval Research Laboratory</a> (<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1323272687_6">NRL</span>). They're the people who analyze data from the Heliospheric Imager-1 (HI-1)--better known in this context as the camera that shot the footage in question.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><iframe width="460" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/6X96xI1gLdQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span id="more-583"></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Head NRL group scientist Russ Howard and lead ground systems engineer Nathan Rich say the mysterious object is in fact <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1323272687_5">Mercury</span> itself. And what we're seeing in the footage is the equivalent of Mercury's wake, "where the planet was on the previous day," as it travels through the solar system on its natural gravitational path:</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The analysts say the practice works even better when applied to far-off objects such as stars, which don't move much relative to the sun. But for moving objects, especially planets, the process is a little more complicated. And making matters even trickier is Mercury's staus as <a href="http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/SIG=135koebj5/EXP=1324600122/**http%3A//science.nationalgeographic.com/science/space/solar-system/mercury-article/">the closest planet to the sun.</a></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">"When [this averaging process] is done between the previous day and the current day and there is a feature like a planet, this introduces dark (negative) artifacts in the background where the planet was on the previous day, which then show up as bright areas in the enhanced image," Rich explained in an email.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8928825747417772572.post-48983758535670837752011-11-26T15:51:00.000-08:002011-11-26T15:51:01.722-08:0026 Pakistani Troops Killed in NATO Helicopter Attack<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="firstPar"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BJf9l77JgUw/TtF7Wrw5SbI/AAAAAAAABNE/SxapoDwZgyM/s1600/heli.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="202" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BJf9l77JgUw/TtF7Wrw5SbI/AAAAAAAABNE/SxapoDwZgyM/s320/heli.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Government officials immediately blocked Nato supplies to</span><strong style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> <a href="https://spn.sr/JNo" target="_blank">Afghanistan</a></strong><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> and condemned the early morning airstrike on the Afghan border as a “grave infringement” of </span><a href="https://spn.sr/JNo" target="_blank"><strong>Pakistan’s</strong></a><strong style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </strong><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">sovereignty. </span><br />
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</div></div><div class="secondPar" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> Pakistan’s prime minister, Yousuf Raza Gilani, called an emergency meeting of his cabinet’s defence committee to consider the response.<br />
</div><div class="thirdPar" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> In a late-night statement the committee condemned the attack and asked the US to vacate the Shamsi air base, where the CIA is believed to base predator drones, within 15 days.<br />
</div><div class="fourthPar" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> “The Government will revisit and undertake a complete review of all programmes, activities and cooperative arrangements with US/Nato/Isaf, including diplomatic, political, military and intelligence,” it added.<br />
</div><div class="fifthPar"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> The incident seemed certain to inflame already tense relations with America. Nato forces in Kabul said an investigation was underway and admitted it was “highly likely” the coalition had killed the soldiers in the Baizai area of the Mohmand region. <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/" target="_blank">Telegraph</a></span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">In inflammatory remarks certain to fuel uncertainty in the volatile region, Ali Akbar Salehi warned that Tehran would ‘not hesitate’ to retaliate if attacked.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">His posturing came as Foreign Secretary William Hague urged Israel’s defence minister not to fan the flames during top-level talks in London.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Iran has come sharply back into focus following the end of the Libya conflict.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mr Hague made it ‘very clear’ to Ehud Barak – who reportedly favours a pre-emptive strike against the rogue Islamic state – to pursue a diplomatic solution.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span> </div><div> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Iran’s hardliners, led by president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, have been increasingly aggressive in recent weeks sparking fears that the belligerent regime is close to producing a nuclear bomb.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Israel reacted on Wednesday by test-firing a new long-range missile.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Downing Street has also been warned that Iran is concealing technology to enrich uranium – used in atomic weapons – in a mountain base beneath the city of Qom to protect it from air strikes.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Britain is now developing plans for military action against Iran amid mounting alarm about the nuclear threat from Ahmadinejad, who has vowed to ‘wipe Israel off the face of the earth’.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Submarines armed with Tomahawk cruise missiles and Royal Navy warships could be deployed within range of Iran and RAF planes could carry out reconnaissance, surveillance and air-to-air refuelling.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Diplomats in Whitehall are keen to rein in Iran using a diplomatic solution but admit that ‘all options should be kept on the table’. However, the UK would take part only if the U.S. launched an attack. </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Barack Obama is unlikely to strike before seeking re-election in a year, but the president is aware that action is needed before Iran acquires a nuclear bomb.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Last night, Mr Salehi, Iran’s foreign minister, said the regime was ‘ready for war’ while on a visit to Libya.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">He said: ‘We have been hearing threats from Israel for eight years. Our nation is a united nation. Such threats are not new to us. </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">'We are very sure of ourselves. We can defend our country.’ He warned of retaliation a day after Iran’s chief of staff said Israel and the West would be ‘punished’ for any attack on its nuclear sites.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">General Hassan Firouzabadi said: ‘We take every threat, however distant and improbable, as very real, and are fully prepared to use suitable equipment to punish any kind of mistake.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">‘The United States is fully aware that a military attack by the Zionist regime on Iran will not only cause tremendous damage to that regime, but it will also inflict serious damage to the U.S.’</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WzCh4niIUtg/TrMvnxMOdHI/AAAAAAAABJs/z3akAU1X4So/s1600/obama-netanyahu.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WzCh4niIUtg/TrMvnxMOdHI/AAAAAAAABJs/z3akAU1X4So/s320/obama-netanyahu.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Iran insists it has a nuclear programme only to produce energy. </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">But a report by the International Atomic Energy Association, the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog, to be published next week, will conclude that Iran is attempting to produce nuclear weapons in defiance of UN sanctions. </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Yesterday Mr Hague said it was vital to continue tackling ‘shared concerns such as ... the threat posed by Iran’s nuclear programme’.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jim Murphy, Labour defence spokesman, said: ‘Iran’s efforts to acquire and weaponise nuclear capabilities are well known. </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">'The international community has a responsibility to prevent this from happening through a combination of economic sanctions and diplomatic efforts.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">‘Should the Government be thinking of going beyond that, this would be a very serious development indeed.’</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Meanwhile, Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered a probe into alleged leaks of plans to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ministers in Tel Aviv believe that domestic opponents who authorised the leaks were undermining the government and ‘gambling with Israel’s national interest’.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">In other developments, </span><span style="font-size: small;">Mr Hague accused Israel of undermining peace efforts by accelerating settlement building in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">He condemned the decision to build at least 2,000 apartments in Jewish-held areas in retaliation for Palestinian efforts to secure recognition as a state at the United Nations.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Speaking after yesterday’s talks, Mr Hague insisted the UK remained ‘fully committed to Israel’s security’.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">But he said: ‘I urged Israel to revoke the plan for new settlements and to avoid further provocative steps which only make more difficult the attempt to facilitate a return to talks. </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">'These steps undermine efforts to achieve peace, and increase Israel’s isolation. </span>Read more at <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2057210/Iran-ready-war-Tehran-vows-retaliate-Israel-West-attack-nuclear-plants.html?ito=feeds-newsxml">http://www.dailymail.co.uk</a></div><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2057210/Iran-ready-war-Tehran-vows-retaliate-Israel-West-attack-nuclear-plants.html?ito=feeds-newsxml"></a></span><div style="background-color: transparent; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><br />
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</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8928825747417772572.post-65945288693920372092011-10-20T09:10:00.000-07:002011-10-20T09:10:49.339-07:00In Israel, Joy — Israeli Soldier Freed<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xU28ddWFIcA/TqBH-rwhU_I/AAAAAAAABF8/3cZ-WwJVcko/s1600/GILAD+SHALIT+BENJAMIN+NETANYAHU.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xU28ddWFIcA/TqBH-rwhU_I/AAAAAAAABF8/3cZ-WwJVcko/s320/GILAD+SHALIT+BENJAMIN+NETANYAHU.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">The recent announcements by Israel and Hamas of the deal to free Sergeant Gilad Shalit — and his release on Tuesday — have been met by mostly joy in Israel, and by reasonable people of all faiths and nationalities all over the world, but also with trepidation about the repercussions of releasing so many murderers in exchange for Shalit.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">Hamas and Israel have long been bitter enemies. Hamas’ fundamental denial of Israel’s existence, indeed of even its right to exist, has been a major obstacle to the negotiation of a meaningful and enduring peace between Israel and the Palestinians.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">Hamas has demanded that Israel release many hundreds of convicted Palestinian terrorists who have been involved with the murder of innocent Israeli citizens. And while the Israelis have been reluctant for more than five years to release Palestinian prisoners guilty of murdering Israelis by terrorist attacks, Hamas has continued to violate the basic human rights of Shalit ever since his abduction. Hamas has refused to grant visitation rights to Israeli officials and to the international Red Cross, and has even refused to provide proof of his still being alive and healthy. This further underscores and exposes the central Hamas doctrine of terror and murder and the striking lack of respect by Hamas for any meaningful and moral peace process with Israel.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">The exchange of Shalit for more than 1,000 convicted Palestinian prisoners serving sentences in Israeli prisons is no victory for peace. While this deal is being greeted with joy by Israelis, they also reserve their celebrations knowing that many of those to be released are Palestinian terrorists who will probably return to their previous groups and continue terrorism. Israeli media have reported that many families of Israeli victims are devastated by the release of these murderers. CNN reports that an Israeli association of terror victims quote that 180 Israelis were killed by terrorists who had been freed in a previous deal in 2000. They also quote that of 238 terrorists freed in a 1985 deal, 48 per cent returned to terrorism and were recaptured by Israeli forces.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">Indeed, this has been a most difficult moral dilemma for the Israeli government to confront. Israeli governments have had to struggle with this dilemma since Shalit was kidnapped by Hamas. For several years successive governments have been reluctant to release terrorists in exchange for Shalit, but Israelis place high value on the lives of each of its citizens. And because of this code, they now have agreed to release many of the most notorious of the Palestinian terrorists to gain release of their young innocent soldier.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">In contrast, Syrian-based Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal was reported by the CBC to have pledged “that those released will return to … the national struggle,” confirming for many seeking peace that Hamas views this deal as nothing more than renewal of its brand of terror and murder. The CBC also quoted Mashaal to have said that the released prisoners would include 315 who have been serving life sentences, suggesting they were convicted of attacks that were directly responsible for the deaths of Israelis. </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">Mashaal went on to note that “This is a national achievement for the whole Palestinian people.” And yet, despite Hamas’ assertion that terrorists released from Israeli prisons will be welcomed as heroes and return to the national struggle, but makes no mention of peace, Israel has demonstrated its value for human life. They offered over a thousand convicted Palestinians in exchange for the life of one Israeli soldier, who was kidnapped at the age of 19 from Israeli territory by Hamas.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">True political leadership measures its success by seizing opportunities to make the world a better place; by replacing terror with hope and fear with vision. Hamas has an extraordinary opportunity to convert this deal to a gesture of peace, but instead seems to be choosing endorsement of its brand of terror. It’s not hard to understand why Israel, which continues to be ready to sit and negotiate a two-state solution with the Palestinians, is so torn about trusting whom they might be negotiating with.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">Former Israeli prime minister Golda Meir famously stated “We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us.”</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8928825747417772572.post-22313412317777006252011-10-14T21:44:00.000-07:002011-10-14T21:44:34.757-07:00US sends 100 military advisors to Uganda<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hpAI8Kidq_M/TpkOnfkYGtI/AAAAAAAABEw/FSkV4BgnFSE/s1600/uganda.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hpAI8Kidq_M/TpkOnfkYGtI/AAAAAAAABEw/FSkV4BgnFSE/s320/uganda.jpg" width="235" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">The Obama administration announced plans on Friday to send about 100 U.S. forces to Uganda to act as military advisers to Ugandan and African Union forces fighting the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Resistance_Army">Lords' Resistance Army (LRA).</a> The U.S. special forces will provide information and training to assist Ugandan forces trying to apprehend the LRA's top commanders and bring them to justice, and to bring about an end the guerrilla group's two-decade campaign of atrocities, plunder and destabilization of the region, the administration said. </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">President Obama announced the decision in an official notification letter to Congress Friday. In the letter, Obama said that he had sent the initial team of armed U.S. combat troops to Uganda on Oct. 12. He explained that the rest of the roughly 100 military advisers would be deployed over the next month to Uganda--as well as to the neighboring countries of South Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo, and the Central African Republic, if they permit.</div><div> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">He also said that while U.S. troops would be authorized to use force for self defense they will not be engaging in direct combat themselves.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">"For more than two decades, the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has murdered, raped, and kidnapped tens of thousands of men, women, and children in central Africa," Obama said in the letter. "In furtherance of the Congress's stated policy, I have authorized a small number of combat-equipped U.S. forces to deploy to central Africa to provide assistance to regional forces that are working toward the removal of [LRA commander] Joseph Kony from the battlefield."</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">"On October 12, the initial team of U.S. military personnel with appropriate combat equipment deployed to Uganda," the letter explained. "During the next month, additional forces will deploy, including a second combat-equipped team and associated headquarters, communications, and logistics personnel. The total number of U.S. military personnel deploying for this mission is approximately 100."</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0ViB9g8E1bU/TpkOo2GHt0I/AAAAAAAABE4/JY5S1k_rqMo/s1600/uganda2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="231" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0ViB9g8E1bU/TpkOo2GHt0I/AAAAAAAABE4/JY5S1k_rqMo/s320/uganda2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">The Lords' Resistance Army is accused of killings, plunder and widespread atrocities, including the abduction of an estimated 3,000 children, in its two decades of guerrilla warfare across central Africa.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">The LRA's commander Joseph Kony "is the leader of this small band of of guerrillas who have been raging through ungoverned spaces between the DRC, Central African Republic, south Sudan and committing the most awful atrocities," Human Rights Watch's Tom Malinowski told the Envoy Friday.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">Malinowski was among several human rights and NGO officials briefed on the decision at the National Security Council Friday. He strongly welcomed the Obama administration's decision to provide special forces to apprehend the LRA's top commanders.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">The Ugandan military "has been most dedicated to going after him," Malinowski said, but he has been hard to find."We don't know where he is at any given time.... It's very difficult ... how to find 100 guys in a vast jungle area with very poor communications."</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">LRA commander Kony "styles himself as a prophet and spirit medium and practices a blend of mysticism and apocalyptic Protestant Christianity," the Washington Post's William Branigin wrote Friday. "He formed his Lord's Resistance Army from the remnants of the Holy Spirit Movement, an armed group led by his aunt that fought the Ugandan government in the late 1980s."</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">Kony and four deputies are the subjects of arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court in the Hague in 2005.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8928825747417772572.post-32583958295574469392011-09-29T09:20:00.000-07:002011-09-29T09:20:17.724-07:00Shanghai subway trains crash - 280 injured , 40 killed<h2 style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">Rescuers evacuate passengers after a subway train collision in Shanghai on September 27, 2011. State media urged the government to "be more cautious" after the collision of two metro trains on Tuesday injured more than 280 people, just months after a deadly high-speed rail crash in the eastern city of Wenzhou killed at least </span><span style="font-size: small;">40. </span></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wPHbAIjov6Y/ToSaZj77eYI/AAAAAAAABAw/Mw4Vjknf_Jw/s1600/shanghai9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="208" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wPHbAIjov6Y/ToSaZj77eYI/AAAAAAAABAw/Mw4Vjknf_Jw/s320/shanghai9.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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