[Bangla Daily Star] Villagers flogged a criminal to death after he and his four accomplices gang-raped a 10 year-old girl in a village of Bishnupur union under Baderganj upazila Monday night. The victim, student of a local primary school, has been admitted to Rangpur Medical College Hospital with critical injuries.
According to her father, she was accompanying him to a relative's house at a nearby village around 8:00pm, when five thugs appeared and surrounded them. The gang-leader Banu Dakat and his partners then tied up the girl's father and violated his daughter. Hearing his cries for help, hundreds of villagers rushed to the spot. They caught Banu Dakat and beat him mercilessly causing him to die on the spot. Sometimes, it does "take a village". I don't quite think this is what Hillary had in mind.
However, his accomplices managed to flee the scene, police said.
Banu, son of Mabud Mian of Chhoto Hajipur of Baderganj was a notorious bandit, police added. None has been arrested so far.
Arrested for what: beating a rapist to death, or raping a child?
Father of the victim filed a case with Baderganj Police Station.
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(Bloomberg) -- Russia's ZAO Atomstroyexport signed an agreement to build a power plant with four nuclear reactors on Turkey's southern coast at a cost of as much as $20 billion after more than a year of negotiations.
"This will be the first case in which Russia not only builds a power plant, as we have in Iran and India, but will also own it," Sergei Kiriyenko, head of Russian state nuclear holding company Rosatom Corp., told reporters in Ankara during a trip by President Dmitry Medvedev to the Turkish capital.
Atomstroyexport, Russia's reactor builder, will own 100 percent of the project, and may later sell as much as 49 percent to investors, Kiriyenko said. "Turkish investors are interested. We're also holding talks with European investors."
(Reuters) - Russia may help build a nuclear power plant in Syria, Russian Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko told Reuters on Tuesday as the Kremlin moved to strengthen ties with a Soviet-era ally in the Middle East.
On the first state visit to Syria by a Kremlin chief since the Bolshevik Revolution, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev played up prospects for nuclear power cooperation and said Washington should work harder for peace in the Middle East.
The nation has been plagued for years with huge electricity shortages, with power generation falling one-third short of demand and the population expanding at 2.5 percent a year.
Israel has opposed Russian arms sales to Syria in the last several years, and nuclear energy cooperation between Damascus and Moscow may anger the Jewish state.
Moscow backed Syria through the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the Kremlin is seeking to reinvigorate ties in the Middle East nations. It forgave most of Syria's multi-billion dollar debt.
Russia has also improved ties with Israel and tried to increase its clout to advance the Middle East peace process.
MORE ATOMIC PLANTS IN IRAN?
He also suggested Russia might build more nuclear power reactors in Iran beyond the one it plans to switch on this year near the city of Bushehr despite likely U.S. disapproval. "We are in favour of continuing cooperation with Iran in the energy sphere to the full extent, including in building light-water reactors," Shmatko told journalists.
Russia says all nations have the right to peaceful nuclear power programmes and is aggressively seeking contracts abroad to build nuclear power plants.
Hope you weren't counting on unemployment going down. Via InstaPundit.com
Chinese automakers are finally making their move on the U.S. auto scene. Geely Automotive in March finalized a deal to buy Swedish automaker Volvo from Ford. And BYD, the fastest growing Chinese automaker, has opened an office in Los Angeles and hopes to deliver its first vehicles to California consumers by the end of 2010.
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Would *you* buy a Made in China car?
Don't have a link at the moment, but there was an article floating around the interwebs on Chinese business practices. The basic idea is make a deal then skimp, cut corners, under perform or otherwise screw your business partner. If they have enough invested, they will put up with being cheated because backing out entirely would be a bigger loss. Utterly charming, but not surprising for a people raised in a totalitarian environment.
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if it boiled down to GM(govt motors) and a Chinese car, i think i might go Chinese on principal.
of course, if that were the only 2 options, i think i might buy a moped.
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Would *you* buy a Made in China car, computer, electronics, electrics, appliances, furniture, gadgets, tires, clothes, shoes, toys, food, medicine? Screw this, how about a much shorter list of stuff you wouldn't buy from China.
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We poked fun at JAPAN'S products in the 1950's + '60's didn't we, + the YUGO + GEO + NEO???
MOUD + IRAN, KIMMIE, + even HUGO? are undoubtedly waiting for their turn.
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ION DAILY MAIL.UK > "HE DID IT": THE THREE MEN POINTING FINGERS AT EACH OTHER AS BP TRIES TO SHIFT BLAME FOR OIL SPILL.
HMMMM, HMMMM, wehell America = Amerika, OWG Mighty USSA = OWG Weak USRoA, IFF YOU WANNA KNOW WHY FOR DETROIT'S WOES + WHY COMET APOPHIS 2029-2036 MAY SLAM INTO THE MOON IN 2030 INSTEAD OF SAFELY PASSING TERRA FIRMA + LUNA BY, WONDER NO MORE!
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Indian vehicles are coming too. Mahindra sells a no frills pickup in Australia, which is a couple of $ thousand cheaper than the China offering (Great Wall).
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I have a Mahindra tractor. I'd buy their truck if its the same quality/price. China would have to prove their quality way before I'd consider buying one.
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Sad to know the answer to the question: Which country taxes the creation of wealth by capital, and which does not?
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One of the quotes on that youtube clip , Procopius2k , made my day :
"At least the airbag will knock you out before you get squeezed to death. Could be worse!"
Painfully true - I'll stick with my Range rover thanks
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I believe China makes Buicks for Chinese consumption. The Chinese like them. So much of the consumer stuff that comes from China is just cheap crap. We handicap American business with regulation but we have little control over what China sends us. The CPSC doesn't appear to do much to control the flow of crap. I can't believe that we can't produce the stuff here at a better quality and still be competitive.
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I can't believe that we can't produce the stuff here at a better quality and still be competitive.
Sure we can. We only have to work for $150-200/month. But lunch and a barracks cot is free. I think I will bring up the proposal at the next Gm board meeting.
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If they meet our air and fuel quality standards then perhaps they'll use the same standards/assembly lines to create cars for the INdian and Chinese markets and the world will be a bit better off.
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The ensuing clash between the People's Liberation Army and the plaintiffs' bar could be epic.
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Sure we can. We only have to work for $150-200/month. But lunch and a barracks cot is free. I think I will bring up the proposal at the next Gm board meeting.
Good luck ed. I don't think the union is going to buy the proposal.
In the end, the screwing we get ain't worth the screwing we get.
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We (the department) were shopping for boots the other week. One boot was made in China, another boot, same company brand but had proudly union made usa on side, was twice the price. Basically, same boot different stitching.
However, every shoe I have bought which has said made in china has de-laminated on its own (little real wear tear) within a year...looking at you adidas and raichle...hope that doesn't happen while in-gear.
Perhaps, made in the USA at only 1.5 times china cost would have made the cut. Its not like there's a bunch of cobblers sitting out in Wisconsin, sewing needles and hand-molding materials, putting boots together - its mechinized.
ITALIAN police smashed a drug trafficking ring secretly using a nun's convent outside Milan and seized 40kg of cocaine, the country's paramilitary police said today.
The nuns at the convent in Piacenza "had no idea it was going on", Carabinieri Colonel Edoardo Cappellano said.
"A Colombian security guard let in accomplices under the false pretext of pilgrimages or spiritual retreats," Colonel Cappellano said. "Instead of prayer books, he let cocaine through."
Thirty-three arrests were made, including a dozen Colombians, and another 80 people are under investigation.
Italian police believe the Calabrian mafia and at least two Colombian drug cartels to be behind the operation, and said the arrests dealt "a major setback to cocaine trafficking" in northern Italy.
During their three-year investigation Italian police also discovered the smugglers had set up a storehouse in Ghana by diverting aid from the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation intended for the fishing industry.
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"Unless you count all the times he sold dope disguised as a nun."
God, I must have heard that line forty times, running 16mm prints of Heavy Metal for our semesterly fundraisers for a university club in the early Nineties.
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Much of the cash for the Greek Bailout & the pending bailout of the rest of the PIIGS is coming from Germany. If it is not paid back, the taxpayer will be left out of pocket. The German electorate is not going down quietly.
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I wondered when the German people would tire of being The Rube?
The last time the rest of Europe stuck it to the Germans [Versailles 1919] things didn't turn out too good for everyone in the long run. We really don't want to see Germans marching in the streets again do we? Let the Wookie win.
[Iran Press TV Latest] More than 50 percent of the people in Norway are opposed to their country's entry into the European Union, a recent poll has suggested.
According to an opinion poll conducted by the Norstat institute for public broadcaster NRK, only 32.3 percent of Norwegians support the EU admission and another 12.7 percent are yet to decide on the issue.
"It is clear that what is currently happening in Europe has caught the attention of Norwegians," Heming Olaussen, who heads the No to EU organization, told NRK.
A similar poll administered by NRK last month almost rendered the same results, putting 55.8 percent in favor of the decision, 30.6 percent opposed to the plan and 13.6 percent undecided about the issue.
Despite earlier opposition to the plan, some analysts maintain that the public debt crisis in the block -- particularly in Greece -- and economic tensions in the Union have contributed to the recently-announced results.
"This is exactly the kind of crisis the EU was created to resolve," Paal Frisvold, head of pro-European movement Europabevegelsen, told NRK.
To conduct its survey, Norstat examined 969 respondents from April 27 to May 3.
Norway had previously rejected EU membership in referendums in 1972 and 1994.
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Only 55%?
It's like the IRA said to Thatcher: 'we only have to be lucky once; you have to be lucky all the time'. Once in, no one can get out.
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Cyber Sarge: Too late. Getting the budget under control will only happen once there is a collapse. In the final analysis, the US will no longer have Social Security, Obamacare, Medicare, or Medicaid, and the Defense budget will have to be slashed, as well as the overall size of the federal government, by 50%.
The federal government has become so ineffectual and bloated that it is ungovernable. The three branches have lost control, the political parties as well. Though they *want* to correct the situation, they cannot.
This is why I advocate a constitutional convention. Unlike the public school propaganda that, "It is unthinkable, it would be controlled by radicals", the truth is that the only thing that 38 States can agree on is that State power must be increased at the expense of federal power.
To do this requires a laundry list of changes, some of which have been obviously needed since the ink on our current constitution was still wet. They can be boiled down to this list:
1) Money. Repeal the 16th amendment (Income Tax), and create a new means of funding the federal government. Create a balanced budget and line item veto amendment. Renounce the national debt. Prohibit federal largess.
2) Limit Presidential Power. Constitutional provision authorizing cabinet officers, and that they must be approved by the senate, and impeached and removed like the president and VP. All presidential power flows through the cabinet. (No more memos, signing statements or Czars.) Limits on martial law declaration, establishment of Posse Comitatus and War Powers Act powers.
3) Structural reorganization. Repeal of the 17th Amendment (direct election of US Senators). Actual reduction of size of government and elimination of agencies. Return of federal State land takings. A numeration only census. Congressional and judicial term limits. Single subject bills, and strict limits on "off budget" items. Abolition of the FED. Limitation of federal police and security apparatus. Controls over delegation of authority to the bureaucracy. Abolition of government employee unions.
4) Judicial reform and reorganization. Creation of a Second Court of the US, with one judge appointed by each US State, through which all federal appeals originating in the States must pass. Original jurisdiction for State lawsuits against the federal government. Structural reform of the judiciary. Federal judges no longer able to force State appropriations, or establishment of special masters over States.
5) Other. Oligopoly Antitrust. Corporate Civil Rights as unique from Civil Rights of living persons. Indian tribe and indigenous peoples treaty renegotiation and establishment of commercial law. Administrative corrections to the constitution.
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Don't forget enforcement of the 10th admendment. And not 'xxx clause of the preamble...' That means abolishing Welfare, Social Security, EPA, Education, Labor, etc... Push those programs down to the states where they belong (and the people have closer control).
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Moose, the changes you propose can be done any time the electorate gets its mind to it. If the current federal system is ungovernable, I see no reason (why) nor process (the how) by which a constitutional convention can do better. Perhaps the nation as a whole has become ungovernable.
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And make the Supreme court members impeachable. It would require the president and 2/3 of congress (so a basic act of God), but doable.
Congress without any help from the Executive can impeach now for 'bad behavior' which is really up to Congress to define. The means are there, just not the will.
As far as a Constitutional Convention, you can get enough states to agree on one big point - ending federal mandates from the legislative, judicial and executive branch. That one act will free the states of massive obligated funding and basically bankrupt the central government if it chooses to run social welfare programs.
Congress faces a crush of votes on big-ticket items before the Memorial Day recess, setting up a debate on deficits less than six months before the November elections.
Democratic leaders are looking in the next three weeks to send President Barack Obama a slew of measures that cost more than $200 billion, including a multiyear extension of unemployment benefits, an extension of expiring tax provisions and Medicare doctor payments totaling $180 billion and a $33 billion Afghanistan war supplemental bill.
Because most of those costs won't be paid for, Republicans plan to use those bills and the Democrats' budget blueprint to highlight massive deficits ahead of the congressional midterm election. Republicans have recently been pointing to Greece's dismal fiscal situation as a warning, claiming that the U.S. will be headed for a similar fate unless the deficits are curtailed.
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The donks are likely thinking that Congress and government would be a great place to work if it were not for the damned pesky voters who screw up the gravy train for them.
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The donks are likely thinking that Congress and government would be a great place to work if it were not for the damned pesky voters who screw up the gravy train for them.
Don't worry, plans are afoot to replace them. That's replace the voters, not the politicians.
[Dawn] Three schoolboys have been arrested for murder in western India after the body of a classmate was found beheaded and tied to a tree, police said Tuesday.
A group of youngsters made the grim discovery last week as they went to play cricket by a river in the city of Pune, about 160 kilometres (100 miles) from Mumbai.
The victim, Abhishek Ghorpade, 15, is thought to have been decapitated with a sickle. His head has yet to be recovered but was believed to have been thrown into the river, police told AFP.
Ghorpade left home for a friend's birthday party last Wednesday evening and told his parents he would be home late, the Pune Mirror newspaper said.
The teenager was believed to have had a row with the three suspects at school.
Senior Police Inspector Deepak Sawant, in charge of the investigation, told the newspaper that the oldest suspect was taken to the crime scene on Saturday and he pointed out where Ghorpade was killed.
"He told (us) that after Abhishek was killed, his head was thrown in the river. Now we have started a search operation to find the head," he was quoted as saying.
The Indian Express newspaper said that all three boys were arrested on suspicion of murder and have been remanded in police custody or sent to secure accommodation.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] Opposition leaders in Thailand cast doubt on chances of a swift end to anti-government protests that have paralyzed Bangkok for two months.
On Tuesday, red-shirt leaders said conditions for ending their rallies in the capital Bangkok have not been met.
Anti-government protesters have already said they will not stop their rallies unless Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaungsuban surrenders to police.
Suthep went to the Department of Special Investigation earlier Tuesday to hear complaints filed against him by families of the victims of last month's military crackdown.
But the red-shirted protesters say they are not yet satisfied and that Suthep must be formally charged by police.
Suthep was in charge of security when troops cracked down on protesters in April. At least 25 people were killed and hundreds more injured in the crackdown.
Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has offered to hold elections on November 14, should the red-shirts end their rallies.
But in his latest remarks, Abhisit has asked demonstrators to leave Bangkok's streets or risk action from the army.
The red-shirts are mainly the supporters of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in a military coup in 2006.
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[Straits Times] THE wife and children of deposed dictator Ferdinand Marcos appeared poised to return to political power in Congress and their home province, according to partial results released on Tuesday.
With about 80 per cent of the votes tallied from Monday's polls, former first lady Imelda Marcos, her only son Ferdinand Jnr and eldest daughter Imee are all likely to be elected in their respective races.
Mrs Imelda, 80, will get a seat in the House of Representatives, Ferdinand Jnr, 52, will go to the 24-seat Senate and Imee, 56, will become governor of the family's home province of Ilocos Norte, the figures showed. Lito Gorospe, a family spokesman, said that Mrs Imelda and Imee Marcos were both expecting to be proclaimed in a few hours.
The victory of the three Marcoses marks a comeback for the family that fled to Hawaii in 1986 after a popular revolt toppled them from power and installed opposition leader Corazon Aquino, whose son Benigno is now the apparent winner of Monday's presidential vote.
Imelda Marcos became an object of scorn for her extravagant lifestyle including a gigantic collection of shoes found in the presidential palace after they fled the country.
Her husband died in Hawaii in 1989 but in the forgiving world of Philippine politics, the family has made a comeback from their old political strongholds in the far north and central islands.
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That's what's great about the post-Marcos Philippines - all the ruling families now get a share of the spoils.
[Straits Times] BENIGNO Aquino was set to become the new Philippine president on Tuesday after riding a huge wave of support from the 'People Power' movement of his democracy hero parents.
Mr Aquino steamrolled his rivals in Monday's national elections with a promise to fight corruption and reduce poverty in the nation after almost a decade under the corruption-tainted rule of President Gloria Arroyo.
An automated count showed him grabbing 40 per cent of the estimated 37.5 million votes cast, with his closest rival, former president Joseph Estrada, winning 25 per cent with only a few million votes left to tally.
Mr Estrada, 73, refused to concede until final results were in, but other candidates were already congratulating the reserved 55-year-old bachelor, a former economics student of President Arroyo who became one of her fiercest critics.
Among the winners of the thousands of other posts up for grabs across the nation were Imelda Marcos, the flamboyant widow of toppled dictator Ferdinand Marcos, and world boxing champion Manny Pacquiao.
Millions of Filipinos had turned out to vote in the country's first automated polls, which were rattled by deadly bouts of violence and complaints about problems with ballot-counting machines that led to long queues.
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I really hope he can move his country forward. We should do all we can to help him out.
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed a bill targeting a school district's ethnic studies program on Tuesday, hours after a report by United Nations human rights experts condemned the measure.
State schools chief Tom Horne, who has pushed the measure for years, said a Tucson school district program promotes "ethnic chauvinism" and racial resentment toward whites while segregating students by race. "It's just like the old South, and it's long past time that we prohibited it," Horne said.
The measure prohibits classes that advocate ethnic solidarity, that are designed primarily for students of a particular race or that promote resentment toward a certain ethnic group. It also prohibits classes that promote the overthrow of the U.S. government.
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Like the Tea Party movement, it's an indication that the old guilt game played by the Left is losing its influence. Watch them radicalize their efforts even more rather than fall back, reassess, and develop a different methodology. Ethnic groups are going to be used and victimized by the Left in a desperate attempt to regain its power. Unfortunately, there are those within those groups more than willing to be sacrificed as 'true believers' not understanding that they're just tools for the Left.
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These "La Raza" classes were an obscenity. Here is the statement of a real teacher, assigned to be the "teacher of record", for one such class, but supposed to turn the class over to instruction by non-certified, anti-American agitators.
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Meanwhile, in Ann Arbor Michigan: An elementary school principal in Michigan is under investigation for authorizing a field trip last week for 30 black students to meet with an African-American rocket scientist. Students who are not black were excluded from the outing -- a possible violation of a state law that bans racial favoritism in public schools.
"The district is investigating the allegations of violation of the State of Michigan Proposal 2," a spokeswoman for the Ann Arbor, Mich., school district told FoxNews.com. "There was no ill-intent or malice in the principal and teachers planning this field trip," she added...parental complaints turned into allegations that the school had violated Proposal 2, a newly enacted Michigan law that bans racial preference in public schools.
"If it was directed, guided, organized by the school district, they cannot say they are doing a field trip today for blacks only, or for whites only, or for Hispanics only or for Asians only," Leon Drolet, the former chairman of the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, told the Detroit Free Press.
But district spokeswoman Liz Margolis said that bridging the gap in test scores between white and black students was a serious issue that legitimized the trip. Plus, she said, the field trip was paid for by a private donation.
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And add to that this idiot UCLA history "professor" who spoke at a Stand With La Raza" rally and called for a Communist, Mexican Uprising against racist white people. Sounded more like MeCHA than La Raza.
In line with that today we also see an Illinois girl's basketball team denied a chance to play in AZ because the superintendant believes that the girls safety cannot be guaranteed. More of the violent, racist conservatism narrative again.
The left is going beserk. They know they've only a few months before their statist allies in Congress get the boot. The tension is wratcheting up and will continue to do so.
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I teach in Arizona. Efforts by uberliberals to ensure a RECONQUISTA via "ethnic studies" are obvious even to the blind. Budget cuts here in Tucson have resulted in the firing of hundreds of certified teachers (English, the Arts, Math, Science,etc.) "Ethnic Studies", however, are untouchables on the budget chopping board. Check out the left leaning Arizona Daily Star on any day for LaRaza & Aztlan rants - then check the readers comments to view opinions from the common man on the street...
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RECONQUISTA? I'm going to start a movement to conquer Mexico's border states and clean out the riffraff poison-peddling and murderous criminal element. Remember the ALAMO!
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