Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki's government warned opposition supporters on Monday it would crack down on planned new protests against his disputed poll win, after it lashed out at critics, including Britain's ambassador.
About 650 people have been killed in violence since Kibaki's re-election last month and 250,000 displaced in a country that is more used to taking refugees from war-torn Sudan and Somalia.
Many of the deaths occured in ethnic clashes involving machete-wielding youths, although police have also shot dead scores of demonstrators in Nairobi and Kisumu in a largely successful bid to crush opposition rallies.
More violence is feared as the opposition has called for further "mass action" on Thursday. Police have banned it. "Mass action only provides an opportunity for criminals to loot and commit other crimes ... and interfere with the freedoms of other Kenyans who may not wish to participate," State Internal Security Minister George Saitoti said in a statement. "No freedom is absolute ... A few people will not be allowed to continue causing disruption. All illegal acts will be dealt with accordingly," he added.
Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) leader Raila Odinga returned to the opposition stronghold of Kisumu, for the first time since the disputed Dec 27. election, to a rapturous welcome. "I'm saddened by the brutal killing of innocent unarmed people demonstrating peacefully," Odinga told Reuters as thousands sang his name and six coffins of people said to be shot by police were laid out in a stadium in the western town. "Kibaki has proved he has no respect for democracy."
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State Internal Security Minister George Saitoti said in a statement. "No freedom is absolute ... A few people will not be allowed to continue causing disruption......we will kill you all if we have to.
HARARE - Zimbabwes opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) set the stage Monday for a new showdown with the security forces by vowing to ignore a ban on a mass protest against President Robert Mugabe.
After reading a notice from Harares police commander ordering the party not to proceed with a march set for Wednesday, MDC secretary general Tendai Biti said there was no reason to renege on a previous agreement to stage the rally. We are going ahead with our procession as agreed between the ZRP (Zimbabwean Republic Police) and ourselves, Biti told reporters. We are proceeding as per the route agreed with the ZRP. The illegality of the action by the police is in blatant disregard of the new provisions of the Public Order and Security Act.
MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai and several other senior opposition figures were beaten up by the security forces when they tried to stage a banned mass rally in Harare last March.
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March heavily armed, you WILL be attacked.
Defend yourselves or prepare to die.
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Democratic Republic of Congo's government and warring rebel and militia factions will sign a deal on Tuesday to end fighting in the country's conflict-torn east, government officials and diplomats said on Monday.
The agreement, which will include a ceasefire, was announced after more than two weeks of talks in Goma, capital of North Kivu province, that brought together government officials, local leaders and rival armed factions.
"(A ceasefire) will be signed tomorrow at the closing ceremony," Vital Kamerhe, spokesman for the peace conference and head of Congo's lower house of parliament, told Reuters.
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The Saudi lawyer who represented a woman kidnapped and raped by seven men said his license to practice has been reinstated. Lawyer and human rights activist Abdul Rahman al-Lahem told CNN's Nic Robertson that the Justice Ministry has reinstated his license.
Al-Lahem had previously told CNN that the Saudi judge revoked his license as punishment for speaking to the media about his client's case, which attracted international attention. His client, an engaged teenager, was raped by seven men who found her alone with a man unrelated to her. She has said she was meeting with the man to retrieve a photograph. The attack took place in Qatif in March 2006. Seems to me the seven men ought to be tried for vigilantism as well. Might stop three quarters of this crap. If they didn't have the idea that the government and society would look the other way under these circumstances.
The seven rapists were sentenced to two to nine years in prison but she also was sentenced to 200 lashes and six months in prison for having violated the kingdom's strict Islamic law by being alone with an unrelated man. The woman's sentence provoked outrage in the West and cast light on the treatment of women under Saudi Arabian law.
In challenging what he said were his suspension and disbarment, al-Lahem said he had received threats on his life from the religious right. Last month, Minister of Justice Abdallah bin Mohammed al-Sheikh, in a phone call to a Saudi Television newscast, said the lawyer's license had never been revoked. Uh, yeah. Another big misunderstanding?
"Such decisions are made through institutions in the kingdom," he said. "The punishment of the lawyer or any lawyer does not come from a reaction; it comes from a carefully examined procedure within a special council in the ministry." He said the council charged with deciding law license revocations had not issued any decisions in the case. So how did his license get revoked? Or is it true that it never was? Perhaps the judge needs 200 lashes and six months in prison?
Read the article for opinions on whether investors there are overly pessimistic or realistic.
What interests me is the impact of financial chaos on Britain's role in the GWOT and on their choice to try to keep military capability or just merge into the Euroforce.
A huge natural gas field has been found a short distance off Rio de Janeiro's coastline, Petrobras, Brazil's state-controlled oil company, says.
The company believes the new field, Jupiter, could match the recently discovered Tupi oil field in size. Tupi is thought to be one of the largest fields discovered in the past 20 years. But Petrobras officials say further work needs to be done to establish Jupiter's exact dimensions.
The new field is located just 37km (23 miles) from Tupi, some 5,100m (5,600 yards) below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, around 290km from Rio de Janeiro, Petrobras says.
While not providing any specific details on the size of the new reserve, Petrobras said "its structure could have dimensions similar to Tupi". Petrobras estimates Tupi contains between five and eight billion barrels of light oil.
When the oil field's discovery was announced last November, the Brazilian government said Tupi could turn the country into one of the World's major oil suppliers. Analysts were more cautious, pointing out the difficulty of extracting Tupi's oil from beneath deep layers of rock and salt.
Petrobras, though, is a world leader in deep water oil production, and the find was hailed as a major discovery for Latin America's largest country.
The discovery was made by a consortium made up of Petrobras - which has an 80% stake in the find - and Portugal's Galp Energies. A number of surveys will now have to be carried out to try to establish the scale of the new field.
Brazil's government has recently been forced to deny there was a risk of energy shortages caused by drought at hydroelectric plants which are the country's main source of energy. It currently relies on Bolivia for much of its natural gas.
And there goes Morales' leverage, when/if this field is opened.
Mexico's army has arrested a leading member of one of the country's most notorious drug cartels, the attorney-general's office said on Monday.
Soldiers detained Alfredo Beltran Leyva on Sunday in the northwestern city of Culiacan, a spokeswoman for the office said. Beltran Leyva and three other people arrested with him were carrying some $900,000 in cash in two suitcases.
Prosecutors say Beltran Leyva is a close associate of Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, Mexico's most wanted man and the head of an alliance of smugglers based in Sinaloa state.
The Sinaloa gang is in a bitter fight with the rival Gulf Cartel, based just south of Texas, for control of smuggling routes. More than 2,500 people died last year, despite a military-led crackdown by President Felipe Calderon's government.
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QUAGMMIRE!
oops. Sorry thats Mexico. Home of Cheap Labor and future McCain/Kennedy amnesty Dem Voters and Jorge Bush's political buddies.
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something tells me he wanted too be caught or this wouldn't have happened. Drug kingpins in mexico just don't get caught.Either rivals where about too cath up or he will be out in a matter of mins.
Venezuela's controversial President Hugo Chávez has revealed that he regularly consumes coca the source of cocaine raising questions about the legality of his actions.
Chávez's comments on coca initially went almost unnoticed, coming amid a four-hour speech to the National Assembly during which he made international headlines by calling on other countries to stop branding two leftist Colombian guerrilla groups as terrorists and instead recognize them as ``armies.''
''I chew coca every day in the morning . . . and look how I am,'' he is seen saying on a video of the speech, as he shows his biceps to the audience.
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I'm in the middle of reading Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism and man! I look at Hugo Chavez, and it's like he jumped off the pages. Messianic world-transforming program: check. Disdain for parliamentary process: check. Demonization of opponents as enemies of the people: check. He's like Mussolini, but without the charm, grace, and style.
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Ima sending Chavez a box of Schwetty Balls. Happy licking Hugo.
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no damn wonder he likes too make 4 hour speeches. He is too wired too shut the hell up
Hat tip the Corner. As Mark Krekorian says, "'Target the Jews' has got to be a whole chapter in the 'Dictatorship for Dummies' handbook."
Caracas, Venezuela When two dozen heavily armed policemen came to search the Hebraica community center in the Venezuelan capital one night last month, the Jewish community here finally snapped.
The government officers who entered the sprawling, country club-like complex were ostensibly looking for a stash of weapons and for evidence of subversive activity. They found neither. In the subsequent days, the Venezuelan Jewish communitys umbrella organization, the Confederation of Israelite Associations of Venezuela, fired off a statement denouncing the raid as an unjustifiable act aimed at creating tensions between the community and the government of socialist President Hugo Chavez.
This would not be remarkable in the United States, where Jewish groups routinely state their views with little trepidation. But their counterparts abroad have tended to be less confrontational, especially in countries with small communities and a volatile political environment. In Venezuela this has been the case until recently, despite a long series of problems that includes an earlier raid on the Hebraica center, antisemitism on state-controlled media and anti-Israel pronouncements by Chavez. The calculated quiet ended with last years December 1 raid.
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There is a way that this can be done: division gentrification. That is, subdivide the ghettos with an entire block of new buildings for businesses, that bisect them. With a police station as part of it.
Effectively cutting the ghetto in half, and putting a lot of cops right in the middle of it.
You set up small businesses run by locals in the new block, with tax incentives, on condition they hire locals.
Using the Giuliani method, you put police all over the place on the two outward blocks, with orders to nit pick for every offense. This tends to drive out the troublemakers. And once a neighborhood is "cleaned", it takes far fewer cops to keep it "clean".
This technique busts up the big ghettos in such a way that they tend to stay busted up, and it has a carrot as well as a stick.
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"Despite an ambitious urban renovation plan, with hundreds of millions of euros poured into the town since the 1980s, jobless rates remain sky-high..."
What's different this time you may ask. Isn't it obvious? Finally, after 3 decades, someone figued out they neeed a Blueprint.
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Wondering if this article had something to do with assault plans into a fortified position.
I like the plan Anonymoose. The difference I see between New York and Paris is that the youts have insta-riot programmed on their speed dial, the population is sympethetic (stories of people throwing down bottles of water to counter the tear gas), and have some victories against the unarmed police. With stories about makeshift hospitals already set up and blunderbusses for use against police there may be -real- defenses and plans in place for police/military incursions.
France, it seems to me, will have to take a major blow to its international image as the happiest place on earth in order to clean up the ghettos.
An historic visit by the imam of Rome's mosque, Ala Eldin Mohammed Ismail al-Ghobashy, to the Rome synagogue tomorrow has been called off at the last moment on instructions from Muslim authorities in Cairo.
Abdullah Redouane, secretary of the Rome Islamic Cultural Centre, who was to have accompanied the imam, claimed the cancellation was for "organisational reasons". However Italian reports quoted Abdul Fattah Allam, spokesman for Sheikh Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, head of Al Azhar University in Cairo, as saying the sheikh had ordered the imam not to meet Rome's Jews while Israel continued to "refuse to restore the rights" of Palestinians. Reports said the Israeli blockade of Gaza had been "the final blow".
Corriere della Sera said the cancellation of what would have been the first ever visit to Rome's synagogue by a senior Muslim cleric was proof that "even so called Muslim moderates share the ideology of hate, vilolence and death towards the Jewish state". It said Al Azhar, which in the absence of a central Muslim authority constituted a "Vatican of Sunni Islam", had in effect issued "a kind of fatwah." The paper said that "What the Cairo statement really means is that Muslim dialogue with Jews in Italy is only possible once Israel has been eliminated". The synagogue visit was planned two years ago when a Jewish delegation headed by Riccardo Di Segni, Rome's Chief Rabbi, visited the Rome mosque.
Rabbi Di Segni said he had not been officially notifed of the reason for the imam's cancellation and therefore could not comment. However he told Il Messaggero, the Rome daily, that while he detested Islamophobia as much anti Semitism, the Muslim world was "having to confront in a single generation problems of intolerance, identity and integration which the Jews have been confronting for two thousand years".
Souad Sbai, head of the association of Moroccan women in Italy, said the cancellation was "short sighted and a grave mistake".
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Corriere della Sera said the cancellation of what would have been the first ever visit to Rome's synagogue by a senior Muslim cleric was proof that "even so called Muslim moderates share the ideology of hate, vilolence and death towards the Jewish state".
What the world is coming to? Even leftist organs are starting to take a notice.
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Well, fellow Fredheads, time to pick the best of the remaining availables and do what we can do to advance the ball. Fred will be back again, in some fashion (Heritage Foundation? Cabinet slot?), standing up for the cause. In the meantime, get engaged, stay engaged, work to win hearts and minds.
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I'm still gonna vote for anyone that running against Clinton.
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Further evidence that the best man for the job doesn't always get nominated/elected.
I was on the Fred bandwagon before the wagon was built. Fred is far and away the best man for the job. The more of his position papers that I read the more convinced I was that he is the man for the job. Nobody else came close.
Having stated Fred is the best man for the job, I must add he did not run a "great campaign". For this he has to take responsiblity. And he will because he is a man of integrity. And no...I don't believe that because he ran a lousy campaign would mean that he would have run a lousy administration. Thems be apples and oranges.
Here's what I'm hoping for: The eventual nominee - whoever he may be - will BEG/PLEAD with Thompson to be his running mate. At which point in time Fred will rise again to serve his country.
With that last thought in mind, I'll now say three Hail Mary's and three Our Fathers plus one Act of Contrition on behalf of my country.
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By listening to his speech after the SC vote, you could tell he was done. He never really started, was the trouble. Nothing left now but the chaff. Sounds like both Rudi & the Huckster are out of money. Romney never runs out of money. Then we have the very emblem of RINO's everywhere, McClain. This is sad for the Republican Party. It, essentially, has been done in. McCain would be a nightmare. Fat Ted would call him and tell him what was going to go down. Miss Facelift would probably take a bridle whip to him. Romney is redux of GW. He probably can lose to Barry if he tries. We need a third party for sure, but not Bloomie. We need Perot. What has happened to him ? Has he been embalmed ? Dead men make more noise than he has for the last ten years.
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I dunno .... Romney might do better than people think.
But we'll see.
I'd have to hold my nose and suppress my gag response to vote for McCain. If it's Obama I would do so, if it's Hillary I'll think about moving to the wilds of Idaho or something ....
He deserves great credit for running such a weighty campaign in terms of ideas and proposals. But he, unfortunately, demonstrates once again that if you want to make a serious run you have to make a full-on commitment to the race years in advance. He happens to be too normal to do that. So, in effect, the qualities that would have made him a good president--mental balance, seriousness, placid temperament--left him unqualified to be the nominee of a major party. There's no shame in that and there ought to be few regrets.
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Jim Geraghty @ National Review: "Fred should have punched more hippies."
Well, you can never punch too many hippies.
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In the days leading up to the Congressional Black Caucus-sponsored Martin Luther King Jr. Day debate on CNN tonight, a lot of people including me were talking about identity politics, the race card, the gender card, but the card that really got played was the personal animosity card. . . . It didnt take long for the sparks to fly between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, which made this debate far more vicious than in any of the previous debates or any other candidates. Hillary Clinton actually got booed, and it is already being reported around the world. . . .
In an almost schoolyard manner, they taunted each other over who was doing the most good while the other was engaged in the worst sleaze.
Obama said that when he was fighting the evils of Reaganomics, Hillary was sitting on the board of Wal-Mart:
Because while I was working on those streets watching those folks see their jobs shift overseas, you were a corporate lawyer sitting on the board at Wal-Mart.
And when she got her turn, Hillary returned fire and brought up the Rezko matter.
I was fighting against those ideas when you were practicing law and representing your contributor, [Tony] Rezko, in his slum landlord business in inner-city Chicago.
Frankly, I think Obama missed an opportunity there. Not that Im advocating schoolyard fighting between candidates in a debate, but since sleazy campaign contributors were all of a sudden fair game, this would have been a perfect moment for Obama to drop the Hsu (as in Norman .) Perfect opening, and Hillary was asking for it.
Hillary also slammed Obama for his present votes, and got booed for that too. Im not convinced that Obama did the greatest job in explaining why thats such great tactic in the Illinois legislature, but he seems to think it was. At least he said so. Again, the nastiness seemed out of proportion to the issue, and it showed how personal this has gotten.
For the first time, John Edwards was looking almost reasonable as he gently shamed the combatants by reminding them that none of this squabbling would help the poor. . . . On the issue of health care, Hillary and Edwards both championed state mandates, and ganged up on Obama, who for allowing that he might not use government force to imprison deadbeat patients, came close to being castigated as a capitalist roader. It was almost surreal.
Here I have to say that while Id never vote for Obama, he does at least resemble a human being in terms of style. Style does matter, and I think one of the things people forget is that theres a huge gulf between Obama the Kind and Hillary the Cruel.
It really came through in the health care debate. Hillary nearly shrieked when she said I am not running for president to put bandaids on our problems! I want UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE!
Shrill, braying, and grating. At least Obama sounds reassuring, even if his policies arent.
This may be irrational, but if I am going to have to endure socialism, cant I at least get it with a more calming and soothing voice? . . .
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I want UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE!
Just like 15 years ago! I still have the plans you never let me reveal! And now that Romney guy stole my idea and got in passed in Massachusetts! I have to get it rammed through for my legacy! Get outtah my way!
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I saw the debate where the leading donks tried to figure out who was the most womanly, who was the most black, who was the most liberal, and who was the most anti-Reagan (and trunk).
Barack Obama gambled today on a full frontal challenge to Democratic icon Bill Clinton, previously thought to be untouchable because of his status as former president and the most popular figure in the party. Clinton has made a series of personal attacks on Obama on the campaign trail since December. Obama finally retaliated today, describing the former president's behaviour as "troubling" and accusing him of distorting facts.
Tackling a figure of Clinton's stature in such a public way is risky, though less so than it would have been a few weeks ago. Clinton's derogatory and often tetchy remarks have alienated and angered many senior Democrats previously loyal to Clinton, particularly African-Americans.
In an interview with ABC television, Obama said: "You know the former president, who I think all of us have a lot of regard for, has taken his advocacy on behalf of his wife to a level that I think is pretty troubling. "He continues to make statements that are not supported by the facts... This has become a habit, and one of the things that we're going to have to do is to directly confront Bill Clinton when he's making statements that are not factually accurate."
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"He continues to make statements that are not supported by the facts... This has become a habit..... aquired during adolecense, refined during law school, and pathologicalized soon thereafter.
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I don't see how this lying, cheating criminal who performed some soft-shoe on the Arsinio Hall show being called black is in any way a positive statement concerning Blacks.
KATHMANDU - Nepal will face fresh ethnic unrest ahead of this years elections if the government fails to address the concerns of the Madheshi people living in the southern plains, the leader of the major ethnic group said.
Nepals government and the Maoists have agreed on elections for a constituent assembly on April 10, a key part of the peace deal with the former rebels who ended their decade-long civil war which killed more than 13,000 people. That body is meant to map the countrys political future, formally declare Nepal a republic and make the countrys laws.
But Mahanta Thakur, the 65-year-old former Madheshi minister who quit the government in December to form the Terai Madhesh Democratic Party, said on Monday the polls would not be possible unless the Terai region was turned into an autonomous state. We want the autonomy for the Madhesh just like the American states. The centre cant interfere in matters relating to the government and administration, the soft-spoken Thakur told Reuters in an interview. We want this to be incorporated into the interim constitution.
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These gas-and-dust rings provide the fodder for the making of planetesimals, such as comets and asteroids that can merge to form larger bodies, along with planets.
Ah, mythology! "We don't care if it has no basis in reality as long as it sounds good."
HANOI - Myanmar is going downhill on all fronts, a senior US diplomat said during a visit to Vietnam Monday, urging regional neighbours to pressure the junta running the country formerly called Burma.
The regime in Burma is absolutely refusing to take any positive steps at all, either in response to its own people or to the international community, said US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Scot Marciel. It should be a cause of concern for everybody because the way Burma is going under this regime and its policies is sort of downhill on all fronts, he told a media briefing during a Hanoi stop on a regional tour.
We talk about it mostly in terms of human rights and democracy and thats critically important to us, but its beyond that, he said. The economy is going downhill, the education system is getting ruined. The health care system isnt functioning, ... youre getting more and more cases of resistant strains of tuberculosis and malaria out of Burma. Youve got refugee flows out of Burma. Its just a whole series of problems.
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Burmese are among the most physically beautiful people in the world. But the planet doesn't really need a semi-successful dictatorial narco-state. Going "downhill" is probably the best we can hope for from the SLORC leadership.
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has backed parliament in a dispute with hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who had objected to several measures adopted by MPs, the ISNA news agency said on Monday.
Ahmadinejad had criticised parliament, which is dominated by fellow conservatives, for overturning his decision to dissolve several institutions -- including the Monetary and Credit Council, a key financial policy maker -- as well as his abolition of summer time in Iran.
"Laws adopted through the process defined by the constitution must be respected by all organs," Khamenei said in a letter to parliament speaker Gholam Ali Hadad Adel.
Hadad Adel had sought the opinion of the supreme leader, who has the final say on all key policy issues, after receiving Ahmadinejad's complaint.
"I was surprised by the president writing to parliament to say a bill was against the constitution. This is unprecedented," Hadad Adel said, noting that it was the prerogative of the Guardians' Council to decide whether legislation was in accordance with the constitution.
Since he came to power in 2005, Ahmadinejad has sought more control over the economy to allow him to fulfil his campaign promise to distribute oil income more evenly.
But he has come under fire from both reformists and some fellow conservatives who charge that his expansionist economic policies have fuelled inflation.
The president also drew widespread criticism by abolishing daylight saving after he took power on the grounds that the measure, which had been in force for 16 years, went against the teachings of Islam. Yeesh. Is there nothing the Kwhore'an leave to the imagination?
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That 3/4ths move is probably going to be seen as a sign of weakness by the market. So while it will buck up stocks today, there is still Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
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The problem isn't the markets, it's the potential for social/geopolitical fallout. The fact wheat hit a record high yesterday is more significant than the market falls. People don't riot over stock dividend cuts, they do over bread prices.
Global stock markets extended their slide for a second day Tuesday, plunging amid fears that a possible U.S. recession will cause a worldwide economic slowdown. The dramatic declines in Asia and Europe so far this week were expected to spread to Wall Street, where stock index futures were already down sharply hours before the trading day began.
Japan's Nikkei 225 index nose-dived 5.7 percent its biggest percentage drop in nearly 10 years to 12,573.05, a day after falling 3.9 percent. Australia's benchmark index sank 7.1 percent, the market's steepest one-day slide in nearly 20 years.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng index, which slumped 5.5 percent Monday, finished down 8.7 percent. In China, the Shanghai Composite index lost 7.2 percent to 4,559.75, its lowest close since August.
Indian Finance Minister P. Chidambaram urged investors to remain calm after trading in Mumbai was halted for an hour when the stock market there fell 10 percent within minutes of opening. The Sensex rebounded some later to finish down 4.6 percent. "There is no reason at all to allow the worries of the Western world to overwhelm us," Chidambaram said.
European markets, which fell sharply Monday, were volatile Tuesday. By midmorning the U.K.'s FTSE 100 had slipped 1 percent, Germany's DAX dropped 2.9 percent, while France's CAC 40 declined 1.1 percent.
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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.
A huge natural gas field has been found a short distance off Rio de Janeiro's coastline, Petrobras, Brazil's state-controlled oil company, says. 
Mexico's army has arrested a leading member of one of the country's most notorious drug cartels, the attorney-general's office said on Monday.
Venezuela's controversial President Hugo Chávez has revealed that he regularly consumes coca the source of cocaine raising questions about the legality of his actions.
Obama said that when he was fighting the evils of Reaganomics, Hillary was sitting on the board of Wal-Mart:
It really came through in the health care debate. Hillary nearly shrieked when she said I am not running for president to put bandaids on our problems! I want UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE!
Barack Obama gambled today on a full frontal challenge to Democratic icon Bill Clinton, previously thought to be untouchable because of his status as former president and the most popular figure in the party. Clinton has made a series of personal attacks on Obama on the campaign trail since December. Obama finally retaliated today, describing the former president's behaviour as "troubling" and accusing him of distorting facts.
