[Emirates 24/7] Saudi authorities nabbed an Indonesian housemaid after her employer told them she was planning to harm his family through sorcery, a newspaper reported on Tuesday.
The unnamed man told police he doubted his maid's intentions after finding talismans and other magic items in her room.
"He filed charges that his maid is planning to use magic and sorcery to hurt his family...police nabbed the maid after seizing those magic items," 'Kabar' Arabic language daily said.
It's a good thing the king ordered changes in the school curriculum to include more science and math at the secondary level. And just hating unbelievers instead of killing them.
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Global food prices have hit "dangerous levels" that could contribute to political instability, push millions of people into poverty and raise the cost of groceries, according to a new report from the World Bank. APee so summarized. Food costs soar, countries can no longer afford to subsidize the cost without bankrupting themselves leading to more riots and instability. Weather and corn shortages (read ethanol) along with energy prices are leading to rising costs. Woman and minorities hardest hit. Cats and dogs will be forced to live together.
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From The Bernank's testimony before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission: The other part, though -- and, again, I just want to say this as strongly as possible -- the reform will be a failure if we could not contemplate the failure of Goldman Sachs. That is, there needs to be a system by which Goldman Sachs will go bankrupt and Goldman Sachs creditors could lose money. If we dont have that, then we might as well treat them as a utility, because thats what they are. The 'reform' is a failure. Goldman Sachs is not only Too Big To Fail, it's gotten much Bigger in the last 3 years. There is and has been no 'recovery' only a 14% or so prop of the GDP directly from deficit spending & Quantitative Easing.
Rising world food prices are an unintended consequence of the government's efforts to prop up Pig Men like Goldman Sachs, the cost be damned.
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"unintended consequences" and grid your loins are expressions I have used for years. Neither worked for me when my wife and I would attempt economic discussions. So I have moved on. Now we have the food situation plus the new EPA efforts to over regulate coal. In each case the low income and most of us are hit adversely. The demowhit's must be stopped and the regressive(my new one)liberal.
Sexual harassment of women is an all-too-common occurrence on the streets of Cairo. But many women noted a complete absence of it in the early days of protests in Tahrir Square, where demonstrators made a point of trying to create a microcosm of the society without many of Egypt's social ills.
However, in the final days, and especially after the battles with pro-Mubarak gangs who attacked the protesters in Tahrir, women noticed sexual assault had returned to the square. On the day Mubarak fell, women reported being groped by the rowdy crowds. One witness saw a woman slap a man after he touched her. The man was then passed down a line of people who all slapped him and reprimanded him.
The attack on Logan, CBS News' chief foreign affairs correspondent, was one of at least 140 others suffered by reporters covering the unrest in Egypt since Jan. 30, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. An Egyptian reporter died from gunshot wounds he received during the protests.
Prayers for Ms. Logan. Gang-rape is an awful, awful crime.
Prayers for the other innocents injured and killed in Tahrir Square.
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Hey - while we might sometimes say that the MSM gets what it deserves - gang rape and sexual assault is *not* part of that. I don't care how far 'left' they are - nobody deserves that treatment.
Prayers for her recovery and may her attacker's suffer.
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She was "uncovered meat" and they were Muslim cats. What did she expect to happen?
That they would jump from the 7th century to the 21th just like that?
Everyone has heard how the riots have led to freedom in Egypt recently.That is a Bambi rhetorical trick, not to be taken seriously by anyone. Notice he is not giving "reconciliation" speeches in Cairo lately?
He's not stupid.
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Amen to CF's comment #2; and remember all those reporters, whoever they may be, that make the effort to actually get out of their hotel rooms and get hurt trying find out what's going on. Grom, sell that femto-violin at a garage sale; you obviously don't know when to use it.
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Everyone has heard how the riots have led to freedom in Egypt recently... not to be taken seriously by anyone.
Unfortunately many people are taking that fantasy seriously. It's unlikely the situation for the average Egyptian will be seen as an improvement 5 years from now.
A journalist and NYU law fellow has had to apologize after he posted some appalling, and insensitive, Twitter messages in response to news that CBS reporter Lara Logan was sexually assaulted by a mob while in Egypt.
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Update. According to the New York Post, CBS sources say Ms Logan's assailants shouted "Jew! Jew!" at her as they attacked -- "a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating" of 20-30 minutes, as it was described -- and that she and her TV crew had been hassled by Egyptian troops the previous day, accused of being Israeli spies.
So heads up, y'all: Western colouring apparently means Jewish Israeli in Egypt these days, and a different passport is no protection.
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The information that we are getting is incomplete. The media is doing its best to change the story. This does not fit in with Democracy in Egypt. This is an O moment. They want him to get credit for everything and this story doesn't fit in. I think the Tea party Democracy types should go to Washington and demand that O should step down. This ahead of him shutting down government.
I do believe she will return to work. She was I understand discharged from the hospital today. The shock however will take time to recover from.
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5 minutes can be a commercial break or the fight for your life. When I saw 20-30, well..I'm sure they weren't talking World Cup. I'm sure the phrasing is meant to be cordial.
Im sure Rosen will apologize at some point, and perhaps well get some tut-tutting statement from NYU about the need for civility and restraint and sensitivity. Brows will be furrowed. Maybe theyll hold a seminar about technology and emotional reactions to breaking news events.
But lets just remember one thing going forward: Nir Rosen believed this was the right moment to let the world know that he ran out of sympathy for her and that we should remember her role as a major war monger and that we have to find humor in the small things.
[Asharq al-Aswat] The man in charge of Egyptian antiquities starred in a TV show about his exploits, sports an "Indiana Jones"-style fedora and triumphantly declared that the nation's heritage was mostly unscathed after the revolt that toppled the president. On Monday, however, he was under siege, the target of angry protesters who want him to quit.
"Get out," a crowd of 150 archaeology graduates chanted outside the office of Antiquities Minister Zahi Hawass, who threw in his lot with the old order when he accepted a Cabinet post in the last weeks of Hosni Mubarak's rule.
Whether Hawass, entrusted with preserving Egypt's museums and monuments, will go the way of Mubarak and resign is uncertain. But the scorn directed him at personifies the messy business of transition in a nation, now ruled by the military, where much of the old governing structure remains intact.
The demonstration in a leafy enclave of Cairo was one of many protests and strikes that have sprung up in Egypt as people voice their grievances for the first time after Mubarak's heavyhanded reign over the last three decades.
The archaeologists' protest was also deeply personal, with protesters saying Hawass was a "showman" and publicity hound with little regard for thousands of archaeology students who have been unable to find work in their field.
"He doesn't care about us," said 22-year-old Gamal el-Hanafy, who graduated from Cairo University in 2009 and carried his school certificates in a folder. "He just cares about propaganda."
Hawass has maintained that his first love is Egypt's heritage, not himself, and that courting publicity raises the national profile.
The rally was raucous but peaceful. Several soldiers blocked protesters from entering the Supreme Council of Antiquities building in the Zamalek district on an island in the Nile that was largely spared the chaos that gripped Cairo. An armored personnel carrier parked in the street, a helmeted soldier poking out of a hatch.
The minister did not appear, and a roar of disapproval swept the crowd when someone said he had slipped out the back door. Then there was a rumor, unconfirmed but no less damaging to his image, that his car had clipped a pedestrian. The protesters dispersed at dusk, and promised to return.
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ION QUASI-EGYPTUS + "UPCOMING STRUGGLES", PEOPLE'S DAILY FORUM > EGYPT MAY DIVERT OBAMA'S ATTENTION FROM ASIA.
* SAME > RUSSIA MAY DEPLOY ROCKETS [S-400 ADMS] IN DISPUTED ISLANDS [Russ-soverign Southern Kuriles = Japan-claimed "Northern Territories"].
Russia will be able to recce, shootdown JAPAN AIR SDF, US AIRCRAFT INSIDE NORTHERN JAPAN.
* SAME > JAPAN'S MAEHARA REBUFFS RUSSIA'S WARNING ON ISLE DISPUTE.
* WMF > RUSSIA'S CONTROL OF THE KURILES MAY TURN THE SEA OF OKHOTSK INTO A CLOSED CHANNEL FOR JAPAN + USA. STALIN'S HISTORICAL DESIRE FOR THE USSR TO CONTROL THE KURILES FOR PACIFIC ACCESS. THE KURILES AS THE USSR'S + POST-SOVIET RUSSIA'S "PROTECTIVE SCREEN" FOR ITS STRATEGIC NUCLEAR FORCES BASED ON SAKHALIN ISLAND + KAMCHATKA PENINSULA.
* WMF > RUSSIAN EXPERT: NON-NUCLEAR JAPAN UNLIKELY TO WAGE WAR AGZ POST-COLD WAR RUSSIA OVER THE DISPUTED KURILES, ANY RUSSO-JAPANESE CONVENTIONAL MIL CONFLICT OVER THE KURILES IS LIKELY TO BE FOUGHT OUTSIDE OF KURILES PROPER FROM JAPAN TO SAKHALIN + KAMCHATKA PENINSULA + LITTORALS [Russian Far East], JAPAN + RUSSIA DESTABILIZED, JAPAN HEAVILY DAMAGED OR DESTROYED BY RUSSIAN TACTICAL NUCLEAR STRIKES.
* DRUDGEREPORT > EARTH TIMES = RUSSIA WARNS WEST AGZ BACKING REVOLUTIONS IN MIDDLE EAST. Moscow believes that extensive US-West support for Pro-Democracy Mass Protests, internal Govt. Reforms could easily backfire + empower the opposite.
IMO read, RUSSIA FEARS "JASMINE" WILL SPREAD TO ITS MUSLIM POPULATION + CENTARL ASIAN 'STANS.
* TOPIX > US SENATORS CALL TO DEPLOY MISSLES [BMD] IN GEORGIA, NOT IN TURKEY.
* TOPIX > ARMENIAN ANALYST:RUSSIA IN THE SOUTH CAUCASUS [Competition for AngloSaxon-vs-Russian Values, RUSSIA MAY LOSE ITS NATIONAL INTEGRITY, SOVEREIGN STATEHOOD IFF IT LOSES THE CAUCASUS].
* WAFF > FAR FROM BEING A MODEL,TURKEY IS BECOMING MORE LIKE EGYPT | EGYPT: DOUBTS ON TURKISH CLAIMS FOR MODEL DEMOCRACY.
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I've always thought, when watching the History Channel - that up until a couple of weeks ago, the most dangerous place to be in Egypt was standing between Dr. Hawass and the nearest TV camera ... Anything about ancient Egypt and he is shouldering his way to the front. I'm not surprised that he would be resented as a show-boat.
Argentina's relations with the U.S. took a sharp turn for the worse Monday as the country continued to hold military equipment it confiscated last week from a U.S. Air Force C-17 transport plane sent as part of a training course for local police. Argentine foreign minister Hector Timerman accused the U.S. of using the plane to smuggle undeclared firearms, surveillance equipment and "various doses of morphine" into the country for ulterior motives.
The Argies are doing this, of course, because they can. It's not like they fear our president...
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Quit training their police, drop the amb down to a charge de affairs and drop any aid.
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"undeclared firearms, surveillance equipment and "various doses of morphine" "
Elementary dear Watson, Any military cargo lift may have such crazy first world devices; if they are from the first world.
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Sounds like a standardish tactical training loadout. The medic, likely an 18D (God bless them) would of course have had critical care meds like morphine syringes. The Arg guy doing this is, kindly put, an attention whore and moron with an agenda. The Argentine government needs to get off its ass and leash this fool, as he is clearly out of control.
One thing that sounded off-key was the composition of the team. All officers excepting the medic? Would not be a very skilled group. SF's heart soul and guts is their NCO core, which is astoundingly good. The officers are in group to fill out the paperwork. I suspect the article was wrong in this regard, but maybe not.
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Tell them to piss off and find other Hostage Rescue trainers, possibly Chavez and his thugs. Close the mission, bring everybody out on the C-17, bag and baggage. Don't go back, and don't call. Stronger message to follow.
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Only a matter of time. Once Pakistan found they could get away with breach of Diplomatic immunity with impunity, the floodgates opened. Expect this sort of behaviour to be a regular occurrence whilst Bambi is in office.
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Get the troops back, then hit the plane with a hellfire and let the Argentines know that all aid is cut off. They do this again, we'll send in a Ranger battalion to seize the airport.
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it appears that US interests are not welcome. Cut off trade and aid and withdraw diplomats. Perhaps even ban travel. Let Dickhead explain to his countrymen what his macho move was all about
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Actually, I did it and then some. And I didn't even get to the part where I put in a flat tax or eliminate the mortgage deduction entirely (gradually/grandfathered, of course).
Last night on the radio, I heard a Dem lady say, her voice dripping with sarcasm, "You might as well say, 'Let them eat cake'."
I knew I was supposed to feel bad, but I pushed through it.
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I dont drive a Ferrari. Served in the USMCorps. I have a nice backyard garden for vegetables ( which is a productive pleasure and I do canning.)
I change my own Oil, have a fireplace and 23 Oaks in the yard for firewood...collect fallen branches year round for the winter and buy a cord or two cheaply.
Pay my bills promptly. Own a couple of guns and hunt deer every year....get one every time. Have a cabin up in the hills for the Summer and Fall weekends. Nice Creek of fresh water.
Get money back on my taxes, plan ahead. And people call me "sir." I look both ways before crossing and I am usually bigger than you are.
I dont threaten people and I know the police in my town by their first names. I vote and I drop by the Party office for my candidate button and bumper sticker and yard sign every election.
I donate books at the National Guard Armory Library and attend the Police Academy graduations. And I donate 5,000 rounds of 9mm. at the Police gun range and have a membership there.
I do a cater tray at Christmas for the Security Staff at the County Courthouse. And the secretary in the window at the Police station is named Joyce.
This is my country and my community and I have no real debts. I worked for it and I care about people. But I can shoot you in the crotch if you illegally try and take it away from me.
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Cutting the budget is easy. There are only four places to cut and have an impact, Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, Defence. The rest can be cut, but it won't make a big dent. Interesting graphic demonstrates this. Graphically.
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Many could disappear completely, and most of the rest could be cut back.
Don't even try to catch people before they intentionally break the law, hammer them when someone reports them. Over-regulating makes everyone a lawbreaker, then you just get to waltz in and pick and choose who you want to make donations to the government to make your agency look valuable.
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Strongly slanted toward President Obama's proposals and the Democratic idea that the changes should kick in just as the new president is taking the oath of office. The only way to make it work using the options is to cut the military significantly and/or raise taxes. Options such as shutting down the EPA or or rationalizing retirement schemes aren't anywhere to be seen.
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Nearly got the budget about balanced. With slightly more effort it would be balanced. That was fun but I'm not worried about getting re-elected.
Social security, medicare, medicaid needs to be reformed. First of all, the Ponzi Scheme nature of it has to be changed. There are many cuts that can be made in discretionary spending also. I don't buy that that is not where to look and that it's a drop in the bucket. Our government is far to bloated. These cuts would have a snowballing effect in the future. I don't know that all the possibilities for reductions are listed by the NYTs.
I think we have to get out from under our debt to China--pay off these guys and don't borrow from them in the future. Start making stuff in this country instead of relying on cheap shit that doesn't work from China.
If huge swaths are cut out of the Federal bureaucracies, it will increase unemployment in the short run. In the long run, this work can probably be better done competitively in the private sector.
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I completely balanced both the 2015 and 2030 budgets. Took me 3 minutes max. 84% via budget cuts and 16% via tax increases; the latter mostly the loopholes, etc.
And I did it only using the options the NYT gave me. I could get much more creative and focused if I had had additional options.
Criminy, if I can do this why can't our elected officials?
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The thing is that tax rises on transfers will largely HARM the economy.
You need to move taxation away from working and employment (that includes spending) and onto things the government creates, these are land rights, patents and copyrights.
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First, if you look at the budget, the "big three" are Medicaid and Medicare, Social Security and Defense. If you can reduce their costs, you don't have to fight over a thousand other things, and can tend to them at leisure.
The best of the three to approach is SS. The idea is to downgrade SS, which screwing as few people as possible.
Start by limiting those who will join SS in the future. The majority no longer have to pay the SS portion of their FICA, so a big tax cut to them. Then offer those who get SS benefits a deal--as an alternative to benefits, if they are still earning money, they can take a tax deduction *equivalent* to their benefits, plus some.
It would actually appear to be several times their benefits, because they only get a portion of their deductions in actual savings. This would slash the benefits being paid by SS.
Then, people who are still paying in to the system, can stop paying in, and take a double deduction by being able to deduct a second years' payments into the system as well.
Importantly, these cost savings would go into their private IRA.
At this point, the government would seemingly be losing a lot of revenue, but this is counteracted by giving all these tax benefits *instead* of renewing the Bush tax cuts.
So nobody is really screwed, though the government about breaks even at the start, SS is downgraded and the system becomes stable. So future budget savings are enormous.
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"Criminy, if I can do this why can't our elected officials?"
Because you actually want to, Dr. Steve. :-(
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84/16 Steve? Slacker - I got close to even with a 96/4 split, and didn't notice a lot of other choices (i.e. wipe out $$$ for UN, FCC, DoEd, Charitable deductions, DoT, DoEnergy, and on and on)
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No one talks about the elephant in the room. Deficit spending now accounts for about 14% of GDP. Eliminate deficit spending, and GDP falls by about 14% just from that. Then the GDP may (or may not recover). That 14% drop in GDP = economic depression. Not to mention the spike in unemployment when government workers & those being paid in government cheese lose their jobs.
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If my social security had been diverted into IRAs, annuities, or solid bonds instead, I would most likely be far better off than now with social security. A further benefit would be that there would not be this huge chunk of money to tempt progressive congresscritters to get fancy with govmint accounting practices so they could spend money on their favorite projects.
I did not see any proposals to get rid of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, TVA and the myriad of other money sucking agencies. These could be privatized and be done better by private industry. With no Freddie, and Fannie, Barney Frank would lose influence and a place to put his special friends. He would not be able to pressure banks to make dip$hit loans that nobody in their right minds would make.
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Without government support of mortgage lending, the real estate industry would crash even lower than it has & there would be even more home-owners loaners underwater. Higher mortgage interest/harder-to-get mortgages are tightly linked to lower house prices.
However, the housing bubble has to be dealt with at some point.
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Eliminate Housing and Urban development (housing is cheap and in some cities where these programs were most in place; A complete failure!) - $38.5 Billion / year
Red on red.
Whoopi Goldberg was hardly apologetic after the New York Times said The View host misunderstood the premise of an article she thought overlooked her Oscar win, saying even if the paper didn't forget her, it's still guilty of "sloppy journalism."
Here's how the brouhaha began: Goldberg, on Monday's edition of The View, claimed she was infuriated by a Sunday article by critics Manohla Dargis and A.O. Scott about the history of African Americans and the Oscars.
Goldberg thought her supporting actress Academy Award for 1990's Ghost had been overlooked, leading her to claim she was "dismissed and erased by the New York Times critics who should know better," and implored the paper to "get your facts straight!"
The Times shot back, telling EW that Goldberg had misunderstood the piece. "How dare you question us! It's your fault if you're too stupid to understand all of our preconceptions!"
"The error lies with those who are reading the story incorrectly," the paper said in a statement. "The point of the piece was not to name every black actor or actress who has been awarded an Oscar, it was to draw a comparison between the number who won prior to 2002 (the year Halle Berry and Denzel Washington won) and those who have won since.
"And the story states very clearly that in 73 years, prior to 2002, only seven black actors/actresses won Oscars."
Whoopi's reaction? "You shouldn't have to read a story five times to get the meaning," she told USA Today late Monday in retort. "It's an erasure. I've made 50 movies, and no mention?"
Link to a list of the programs proposed to be terminated by H.R. 1 and save $100 billion this year.
Only a few are identified with Climate Change [snicker] and I'll manage to get along without high-speed rail in this country ($5 billion).
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Actually, Bobby, it's $55B or so. And you know darned well that with all the inefficiencies and siphoning it will end up being $155B and a yearly burden after that since nobody wants to pay for even the $55B even if it's a bit faster.
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Roll the budget back to 2008: $3.7 trillion -> $2.9 trillion. Let Obama explain why he needs so much more money then in 2008. Particularly, since the recession is "over".
[Geo News] The National Assembly Standing Committee on Railways has asked the government to take responsibility of returning the foreign loans worth Rs16 billion borrowed by railways, Geo News reported on Tuesday.
The committee has also requested State Bank to waive off the loans worth Rs40 billion of the railways.
The committee approved charter of demand for the government regarding the Pakistain Railways.
Railways Minister and officials informed the standing committee that the ministry has yet to receive Rs11 billion bailout package announced by the cabinet.
It was further informed that the ministry has no money to buy fuel for running the locomotives from tomorrow.
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[Straits Times] CAMBODIA should listen and do what the UN Security Council (UNSC) has called for to settle the deadly border disputes with Thailand, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said on Tuesday.
Mr Abhisit was speaking after UNSC hosted a closed door session, at the request of Cambodia, on Monday with foreign ministers of Cambodia, Thailand and Indonesia, in an attempt to mediate the border festivities which erupted on Feb 1.
After the meeting, the UNSC called for a 'permanent ceasefire' between Thailand and Cambodia and called on the two sides to display maximum restraint and avoid any action that may aggravate the situation.
They were also called for both sides to resolve the situation peacefully and through effective dialogue.
'Now, Cambodia should listen to the UNSC's recommendations because it's Cambodia that called for the UN to step in. The country should now respect the UNSC which called for us to start dialogue in order to settle the dispute peacefully,' the premier said.
He also said he expected Cambodia will agree to talk about the issue when Asean foreign ministers meet in their annual meeting in Jakarta on Feb 22.
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[Straits Times] A THAI soldier was maimed on Tuesday in a new skirmish on the tense Cambodian border, Thailand's military said, just hours after the UN appealed for a permanent ceasefire in the disputed area.
'Cambodia threw hand grenades into Thailand this morning,' Thai army front man Colonel Sunsern Kaewkumnerd said, describing it as a minor incident. 'One Thai soldier was injured.'
A Cambodian military commander near the border who did not wish to be named denied the accusation, saying Thai troops regularly threw grenades but Cambodian forces did not retaliate.
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[Straits Times] EXTREMISM in any faith - be it among Muslims, Christians, Buddhists or Hindus - will leave a negative impact on the community, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said. The old "we are all responsible" argument. "Extremist" Christians have compounds in Texas harming none but themselves that the government burns out like rat holes. What does an "extremist" Buddhist do? Fall into his navel and refuse to come out?
For this reason, it was important to promote togetherness, the Prime Minister said. 'We all may be different in our (religious) beliefs but there are values we have in common that can strengthen unity and promote peace and harmony,' he told religious leaders at a luncheon held in conjunction with World Interfaith Harmony Week on Monday. There are, on the other hand, values unique to particular religions that make their adherents a danger to the rest. Not all of them, of course, but a percentage. Once the percentage reaches a certain point they become intolerant and intolerable.
'It is extremism, rather than differences in faith, that triggers tension among people,' he said, warning that if this was not dealt with, it would have adverse effects on the nation and humanity in general. If some religions are more prone to extremism perhaps they should make more effort to control themselves and their adherents.
'This was the reason, during the United Nations General Asssembly last year, I had called for the formation of a global movement of moderates. I believe this is the way forward to save the world and Malaysia (from extremism).'
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[Straits Times] MALAYSIA has nabbed nearly 100 Mohammedans in a religious crackdown on Valentine's Day, officials said on Tuesday, after Islamic authorities warned the celebration encourages 'vice activities'.
Raids across the capital and central Selangor state, saw 96 individuals jugged for 'khalwat', or 'close proximity', an Islamic law barring Mohammedans from being alone with someone of the opposite sex other than their spouse.
The mass arrests came after religious authorities in the Mohammedan-majority nation warned against 'immoral acts' during Valentine's Day, saying they wanted to promote a sin-free lifestyle.
In Kuala Lumpur, religious enforcement officers raided budget hotels and public parks ahead of Valentine's Day detaining 16 Mohammedans, mainly teenagers, a front man from the Federal Territory Islamic Affairs Department told AFP.
'The operation was part our regular raids to stop 'khalwat',' said Asmawi Umar, adding the teenagers had paid around 50 ringgit (S$21) for a hotel room for two hours.
In Selangor, 80 Mohammedans were rounded up during raids between midnight and 6am on Valentine's Day, according to media reports, quoting state religious authorities. They face up to two years in jail and a fine if convicted in an Islamic syariah court.
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Didn't the Muslim Babes complain about this heavyhandedness last week or so?
* "Mainly Teenagers" > Iff the Malay Govt. one day ever wonders why MAMA MIRIAM + GRANDMA FATIMA are upset at being related to GOAT, OTHER ANIMAL "BABIES", NOT HUMAN ONES, + WHY THE CLAN IS BEING LED OFF TO SHARIA COURT, WELL WONDER NO MORE!
FEASTERVILLE, Pa. -- A high school English teacher in suburban Philadelphia who was suspended for a profanity-laced blog in which she called her young charges "disengaged, lazy whiners" is driving a sensation by daring to ask: Why are today's students unmotivated -- and what's wrong with calling them out? APee summarized version:
She called it as she saw it. Kids were spoiled, argued and were wanting a pass-and-go. No real different from any other kids out there today. Parents got pissed that their little snowflakes were called names and got the teacher suspended. Nothing really bad in the comments from the blog that was reported and nothing different from any teacher I know that talks about students. Anyway, read at link if interested.
Corporal punishment is out. The society supports and in some cases encourages single mothers. Parents are too busy to focus because they both need to work to make ends meet in a reasonable fashion. The price of failure here isn't felt.
Nowadays people are discourage from disciplining their spawn and the kids know this. Between this and the devaluation of achievement (no winners or looser anymore - it might hurt their whittle feelings...) guarantee a bunch of lazy whiners.
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There have always been four iron rules for teachers, and they at least used to be almost the exclusive reasons that teachers would get fired.
1) Teach what you are paid to teach.
2) Maintain order and discipline in class.
3) Do not offend students, their parents, or the community.
4) Do not irritate other faculty, department head or administration.
All four of these things, teachers were *expected* to do, based on their training to be teachers.
In the case of incorrigible students, they were to be referred to the administration as soon as they demonstrated insubordination. This is based on the recognition that teachers cannot substantially coerce, so must rely on persuasion.
However, this has long been a conflict, because schools do not wish to expel students, as they will lose a substantial amount of State aid. Good schools will do so anyway, bad schools will just direct teachers to pass bad students, indifferent to their being educated, because once 18 years old, there is no further obligation to educate.
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the blog was no crime in my mind. The crime was her admission that she's been phoning it in the last year or two and didn't care about the kids, their grades, or all the super-motivational work we hear about whenever there's talk about trimming the Ed budget. She's an ed zombie. Find a new career
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Global food prices have hit "dangerous levels" that could contribute to political instability, push millions of people into poverty and raise the cost of groceries, according to a new report from the World Bank.
[Straits Times] EXTREMISM in any faith - be it among Muslims, Christians, Buddhists or Hindus - will leave a negative impact on the community, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said.
[Straits Times] MALAYSIA has 
FEASTERVILLE, Pa. -- A high school English teacher in suburban Philadelphia who was suspended for a profanity-laced blog in which she called her young charges "disengaged, lazy whiners" is driving a sensation by daring to ask: Why are today's students unmotivated -- and what's wrong with calling them out?
