[BBC] The dismembered body of a young albino boy has been found in a river on the Burundi-Tanzania border, reports say.
The boy, aged nine, was taken from Makamba province in Burundi by a gang that crossed the border, the head of Burundi's albino association said. Kassim Kazungu told AFP the remains had been recovered from the Malagarazi river and given a formal burial.
Albino body parts are prized in parts of Africa, with witch-doctors claiming they have special powers.
Mr Kazungu told the AFP news agency that Tanzanian police had arrested five people, although there was no official confirmation from Tanzania. In Tanzania, the body parts of people living with albinism are used by witch-doctors for potions which they tell clients will help make them rich or healthy. Dozens of albinos have been killed, and the killings have spread to neighbouring Burundi.
In August a court in Tanzania sentenced a Kenyan to 17 years in jail on charges of trying to sell an albino person. Tanzanian authorities have promised to crack down on albino traffickers, and several people have been sentenced to death in connection with killings.
One hopes profoundly that the rapid spread of Christianity in sub-Saharan Africa will make this viciousness rare.
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A Black Panther accused of 156 counts of plotting to bomb New York public buildings and murder police officers has died. He and 12 other Black Panthers were later acquitted.
Michael Tabor and another defendant, Richard Moore, had fled to Algeria four months into the eight-month trial -- one of the longest in New York history.
Tabor, 63, who went by the name of the 19th century Zulu king Cetewayo, died from complications after several strokes on October 17. He had been living in Zambia.
As a captain in the New York City faction of the Black Panthers, he was accused of abandoning his brothers by the party's supreme commander Huey P. Newton. Despite being acquitted, he never returned to the United States.
Unlike Mr. Moore, who quickly fled back to the familiarity of America, and was arrested in June, 1971 while holding up a club in the Bronx, and has spent a very long time in prison.
For a time, he and Mr. Moore were guests of the Algerian government, Mr. McCray said, but they were eventually expelled. Mr. Tabor and his first wife, Connie Mathews, who had been the party's international coordinator, moved to Zambia in 1972. Note: The original article incorrectly cited as the BPP supreme commander Mr. Huey P. Lewis. I guess it's hip to be square.
A Nigerian blogger tells about Mr. Tabor's life in Zambia. Unlike Mr. Moore, who yields pages of Google hits between 1971 and now, Mr. Tabor was forgotten in the land of his youth, until he made the mildly interesting move of dying.
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I remember this dude from when I lived in Zambia. He DJ'd on Sunday afternoons I think. He played good stuff but he his selection was small so he played them over and over. He also talked and rang a stupid bell over the music a lot and made it difficult to record his stuff.
Good, deep voice for radio though. Too bad about his past.
Fittingly enough, the battle occurred on the feast day of St. Crispin:
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
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Last Stand of the Tin Can Soldiers
-James Hornfischer, Bantam 2005
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I saw some survivors of the Gambier Bay in a parade, and at age 50 I was jumping up and down like a little kid. I yelled "They're getting away!" a few times but the old vets couldn't hear me and no one in the crowd understood the reference. But it was a great parade. Not a whole lot of sailors engage a cruiser with a five-inch gun and live to tell the story. As for the destroyermen, what can anyone say.
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] A baby was killed and several more people seriously injured when a family of 11 threw itself from a third-floor flat to flee a man they mistook for the devil, French investigators said. Y'know, I think I used to live next to these folks...
The bizarre tragedy came to light yesterday when firefighters were called to the village of La Verriere on the outskirts of Paris following reports that several people had jumped from a balcony in a social housing block. ... but they're not relatives. Honest...
Among the injured they found an entirely naked man of African origin with a knife wound in his hand and two children, a baby and a two-year-old girl. The baby died later after receiving hospital treatment in Paris.
The assistant prosecutor from Versailles, Odile Faivre, told reporters the incident began in the early hours when a group of 13 people were watching television in an apartment and the naked man heard the baby cry.
Prepare a bottle "The man got up to prepare a bottle for the baby when his wife, seeing him, screamed 'It's the devil, it's the devil'," she explained.
In the confusion following this apparent case of mistaken identity, the naked man's sister-in-law stabbed him in the hand and he was ejected through the front door of the flat. When he attempted to get back in, panic erupted.
"The other occupants of the flat fled by jumping out of the window," Mr Faivre said. According to police, one man jumped with the two-year-old in his arms and crawled two blocks away to hide in bushes, screaming: "I had to defend myself." Investigators found no trace of hallucinogenic substances in the apartment and no evidence that any occult ritual had taken place. "They ain't on drugs, yer honor. They're just stoopid."
Toxoplasmosis can cause schizophrenia, apparently. Were there cats in the neighborhood?
Seven of those who jumped were taken to hospital, some with multiple injuries. "A number of points remain to be cleared up," Mr Faivre understated.
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The baby died later after receiving hospital treatment in Paris.
[Al Arabiya] A cholera epidemic in Haiti has killed more than 250 people, the government said on Sunday, but it added the outbreak which has sickened more than 3,000 may be stabilizing with fewer deaths and new cases reported over the last 24 hours.
"We have registered a diminishing in numbers of deaths and of hospitalized people in the most critical areas ... The tendency is that it is stabilizing, without being able to say that we have reached a peak," Gabriel Thimote, director-general of Haiti's Health Department, told a news conference.
The accumulated deaths since the cholera outbreak began around a week ago in the earthquake-ravaged Caribbean nation stood at 253, while total cases were 3,015, mostly in central rural regions straddling the Artibonite river.
Thimote said that whereas previously the hospital in Saint-Marc in the Artibonite region was recording deaths by dozens, it had registered only one on Saturday.
Cholera, transmitted by contaminated water and food, can kill in hours if left untreated, through dehydration. But it can be treated easily with oral rehydration salts or just a simple mix of water, sugar and salt. TV and radio ads in Creole recommended that treatment to the population.
Hundreds of thousands of people are still living in impoverished tent cities, particularly around Port-au-Prince, where sanitation is poor and where relief groups say the diarrhea-causing illness could spread rapidly.
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[Al Jazeera] Egypt's supreme court has ordered the government to ban coppers from university campuses.
Saturday's ruling came after the high court rejected a government appeal against an earlier ruling which declared the permanent presence of police inside Egyptian universities as "unconstitutional".
The case was brought against the government two years ago by a group of professors, campaigning for the independence of academic institutions.
They are also part of a broad coalition of muscle who are opposed to the rule of Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, who has been in power for more than 30 years.
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[BBC] A Nigerian high court has dismissed a case brought by a 26-year-old woman who says her father forced her to marry a senator.
The judge said her human rights ... which are not the same thing as individual rights, mind you... had not been violated and it was a matrimonial matter for an Islamic court.
Zainab Isa Mayana was married to the senator of Zamfara State, Sahabi Ya'u, 54, in July at a ceremony where she was represented by her father.
She says she has never met him and her father knew she was already engaged.
Sokoto, where the trial took place, was one of several northern states to re-introduce Sharia law after the return to democracy in 1999.
'Courageous'
The BBC's Haruna Shehu Tangaza in Sokoto says that these days forced marriages are frowned on in the predominately Mohammedan north of Nigeria.
Yes, we can see that.
People have generally supported Ms Mayana and she has been seen as courageous in bringing the case against her father and Senator Ya'u, he says.
Why is she courageous if the act is so generally frowned upon in by the neighbors? The question comes to mind of how a politician who must run for reelection was so brave and foolhardy as to engage in a marriage whose distastefulness must soon become generally known.
Judge Isiyaku Mohammed said under the constitution, the federal court could not intervene in the affairs of an Islamic court.
Ms Mayana was not in court for the ruling,
Did her father represent her there, too, or did her husband, now the man in her life?
but her lawyers told the BBC they would not relent in their efforts to dissolve the marriage as she was not married to a man of her choice.
They said they would file a new case at "an appropriate court", which by implication would be an Islamic court, our news hound says.
Ms Mayana, who is studying at Ahmadu Bello University, says she has been engaged to another man for five years.
Senator Ya'u was already married before his wedding to Ms Mayana in July, although it is not known exactly how many wives he has, our correspondent says.
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"where she was represented by her father"
hmmm she should make the case that it was her father who got married
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[Iran Press TV] The Angolan government is reported to have expelled nearly 200 Congolese citizens, prompting fears of a new wave of mass deportations and human rights ... which are not the same thing as individual rights, mind you... abuse.
The front man for the UN humanitarian affairs office, Maurizio Giuliano, noted reports of more than 190 expulsions.
He said, "There is a possibility that this could be a new wave of mass expulsions -- perhaps both ways."
"If things develop as they did last year, the number could potentially grow to tens of thousands quite rapidly," Rooters quoted him as saying.
Giuliano said an estimated 51,000 Angolans were deported from the Congo throughout 2009 while 160,000 Congolese were expelled from Angola, peaking last October.
The Bandundu Province in the southern region of Congo saw a wave of people arriving from the northern Angola region.
A report from Italian aid agency CISP sent to the UN peacekeeping mission and agencies working on civilian protection in the Congo said, "All have been stripped completely: they come only with underwear, without shoes, and several are injured."
The relationship between the Congo and Angola has deteriorated following rows over border demarcation and offshore oil ownership.
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Saudi man awarded death sentence for sexual harassment
A judge in Saudi Arabia has sentenced a man to death for sexually harassing a woman -- in what is believed to be the first verdict of its kind in the country.
According to a local Saudi news reports Saturday, a judge in the town of Arar found the man guilty of trying to blackmail the woman with intimate pictures of herself. The woman, who was a government employee, allegedly complained several times to the Virtue Police, a force tasked with enforcing Islamic Sharia law as defined by the government. Police then arrested the man as he tried to harass her at her place of work.
The accused man has 40 days from the date of the verdict to appeal the case. Meanwhile, another judge in Saudi Arabia sentenced a man this week to four months in prison, 140 lashes and fined him 2,000 riyals (about $533) for defaming two men on the internet by suggesting they were promiscuous. This led to slander against their family names as well, according to the court.
Saudi Arabia has been widely criticised by international groups for its interpretation of Islamic Sharia law and for its application of punishment in criminal cases.
I don't know that I'd jump to any conclusions about Saudi justice based on this, other than that I like their punishments.
Bahrain's embattled Shiite opposition movement won big in the Persian Gulf island state's parliamentary elections, according to results announced on Sunday.
The Shiite bloc called Al-Wefaq on Saturday won all 18 seats it had contested, a one-seat gain from 2006 elections, making it again the largest force in Bahrain's 40-member Council of Representatives. No candidate secured a majority in nine districts, setting the stage for runoffs Saturday. Turnout was 67 percent, with over 300,000 ballots cast.
Nice to see such participation in such a young democracy.
"We were having difficulties yesterday because lots of names were dropped [from the voter rolls]," said Khalil Al-Marzooq, a returning Al-Wefaq member of parliament, in an interview Sunday. "However, because of the massive participation, we managed to win."
The vote in the Sunni-led kingdom — a strategic base for the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet — comes amid heightened tensions between the government and the Shiite majority.
On Thursday, 23 Shiite opposition members will go on trial for charges of plotting a coup. The men were arrested two months ago following weeks of escalating Shiite street riots. Human rights groups allege that hundreds more have been detained, deprived of due process, and in many cases tortured — claims the government vehemently denies. Authorities also shut down dozens of opposition websites, including Al-Wefaq's.
Mr. Al-Marzooq said the crackdown was regrettable and that in addition to pursuing its priority of housing for low-income Shiites, Al-Wefaq would seek democratic reforms. "We want more authority for the Council of Representatives — this is the main thing — and we are looking in the future to have a peaceful transition of power so that the prime minister is elected directly or indirectly from the people of Bahrain," he said.
The prime minister and members of the Shura Council, the upper legislative body, are currently appointed by King Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifa.
The election was the third since the king began his political-reform project nearly a decade ago, paving the way for Bahrain's first elected parliament since the 1970s. While the reforms resulted in greater enfranchisement of the country's Shiites — and of women, who were granted suffrage — it has led to an intra-Shia debate over whether the system is rigged to the point that participation is futile, with four opposition groups having called for an election boycott.
One common complaint of critics involves gerrymandering, which effectively ensures the majority Shiites — 60 percent to 70 percent of the population, estimates say — cannot win a parliamentary majority.
Perhaps they would do better if they persuaded the Sunnis that they could fairly represent the citizenry regardless of religious faction... But they are a young democracy, and many of the more subtle concepts have doubtless not yet been thought of.
Hadi Al-Mosawi, a newly elected Al-Wefaq member of parliament (MP), stated that his bloc had conceded 22 districts, contesting "the only 18 which allow us to be competitive — the Shiite areas." He said there were wide differences in the number of people across districts — differences that tended to favor Sunnis. "One MP can represent 16,000, and another can represent only 1,000," he said, calling the discrepancy a violation of the "one-man, one-vote" principle.
Mr. Al-Marzooq said that despite the difficulties, Bahraini Shiites stood more to gain by working within the system, appearing to regret Al-Wefaq's boycott of the 2002 elections.
An Orthodox California rabbi running for state senate under the Tea Party banner marched yesterday with a pro-England group in Britain outside the Israeli Embassy.
Rabbi Nachum Shifren, an ex-lifeguard known as the surfing rabbi, is hopes to represent west Los Angeles in the California senate. He has spoken at Tea Party events and says he is a member of the group.
The English Defence League has said it wants to foster ties with the American Tea Party, a patriotic group that has also taken anti-Islamist and anti-unrestricted immigration stances, and the rally, at which Shifren spoke, was meant as a first step toward that goal.
"I am coming to the UK to express my solidarity with the patriots in England who are on the front line in the war on jihad and stealth jihad," Shifren told the Jewish Chronicle last week. "Multiculturalists have brought us to the brink, insisting on degrading our own cultures while pandering to forces of darkness that threaten to completely transform our societal foundations."
Shifren is believed to have previously trained Israeli paratroopers and worked as a driver for Kach head Rabbi Meir Kahane.
The rally was meant as a show of support for Israel and Shifren was invited to give a speech about Sharia law.
At a rally earlier this month, 1,000 EDL activists clashed with police and pro-Islamist demonstrators in Leicester.
A nuclear-powered submarine may have run aground on a shingle bank because the charts it was using were out of date, sources say. The vessel is understood to have strayed several hundred yards outside the safe sea lane marked on Admiralty charts.
Not quite the same as being 6 km out of the way.
HMS Astute was on sea trials when the rudder of the vessel is thought to have become stuck on the bank on the west coast of Scotland about on Friday.
One of the possibilities being explored is the possibility that out-of-date charts had not accurately mapped the shifting sea channels off the Isle of Skye.
*blink*
It is believed a crew transfer from the shore to the submarine under way when the incident happened between the Isle of Skye and the mainland.
The vessel, described by the navy as Britain's most powerful attack submarine, was towed free by a tug at about 6pm on Saturday and sailed to nearby deep water under its own power.
BAT-munching rocker Ozzy Osbourne is officially a caveman. Scientists who mapped his genes found he was linked to the Neanderthals and has a body programmed for booze.
The Black Sabbath singer is one of the first people in the world to have tests to unravel his DNA. They also revealed he was related to Romans who died in Pompeii when the volcano Vesuvius erupted almost 2,000 years ago.
Ozzy, 61, was told he was part- Neanderthal just months after experts first proved the primitive race had bred with humans.
He said: "That won't come as much of a surprise to the missus, or various police departments around the world. This is big news for blokes everywhere, if the Neanderthals could get laid, there's hope for us all."
He also joked about sharing DNA with the Vesuvius victims. "If any of the Roman Osbournes drank nearly as much as I used to, they wouldn't have even felt the lava. They could have just walked it off."
The results showed Ozzy was 6.13 times more likely than the average person to get hooked on booze and 1.31 times more prone to cocaine addiction. Doctors found a twist in a gene that means he can soak up more alcohol than most.
But the former addict joked: "I used to drink four bottles of Cognac a day. "I'm not sure I need a Harvard scientist to get to the bottom of that mystery."
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Drinking to excess, so easy a caveman could do it?
Beer is a very efficient way to absorb a large amount of calories, and the Neanderthals apparently required more than twice the caloric intake of Homo sapiens sapiens. Under the circumstances, it would be useful that it took quite a lot of alcohol to become drunk. Someone like me would have starved in the midst of plenty, as I lay in an alcohol-induced coma while the rest of the tribe continued ingesting their alcoholic fuel.
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The man was also is what many would call a swinger.
He would then be a chimp off the old block or he may let the chimps fall where they lay. He certainly has a chimp on his shoulder.
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These are the coming consequences of decades of self-indulgent governance and foolish policies, including the insane immigration policies that have bred a permanent underclass that has fractured the basic culture of the mother country. Sadly, unless this election proves to be more than a bump in the road, this is a preview of coming attractions, and the Chinese superpower will have much less foolish, honest or altruistic behaviors in world affairs.
Hope the people in Goose Green are thinking about Spanish lessons or updating their passports.
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The US + UK don't know it yet, SSSSSSSHHHHHHHH but as goes the Falklands so [indirectly] also goes GUAM-WESTPAC + PACIFIC FOR THE US.
ISLANDS, ISLANDS EVERYWHERE, TO "MAKE-OR-BREAK" THE GEOPOL POWER OF THE CONTINENTS???
* BHARAT RAKSHAK > [Asia Times]CHINESE SCHOLARS ENTER OKINAWA FRAY.
ARTIC = A number of Chin Scholars-Perts support the return of OKINAWA TO CHINA = CHIN CONTROL, SPHERE OF INFLUENCE, DITTO NORTH KOREA as per CHINA-DPRK BORDER ISSUES, ee the ancient KOGURYO/KORYE KINGDOMS WERE ACTUALLY "CHINESE", NOT KOREAN PER SE. Chin ambiguously leaving open the scenario that it will annex or dominate the DPRK + KOREAS once again in future time.
* BHARAT RAKSHAK > CHINA'S PLAN TO SPLIT ASIA.
* WMF > OUTER MONGOLIA MAKING INROADS TOWARDS EVENTUAL REUNIFICATION WID CHINA.
Read, NOT RUSSIA.
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ION NOT-NECESSARILY-UNRELATED .....
To wit,
* FREEREPUBLIC/TOPIX > US TO BUILD US$8.0BILYUHN SUPERBASE ON GUAM.
Wanna make it look good iff the CHINESE + ISLAMISTS/MUSLIMS takeover the Pacific in future from the USA.
VERSUS
* BHARAT RAKSHAK [India]/PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > THE ARABIAN SEA: CENTER OF THE WEST'S 21ST CENTURY WAR, to include the US.
US-BRIT milbase on DIEGO GARCIA in the INDIAN OCEAN is surrounded by CHIN-BUILT REGIONAL PORTS + NEWLY AGGRESSIVE RESURGENT INDIA, + also assertive BANGLA + NUKE-MINDED MYANMAR [burma], etc.
ARTIC = There are many indicators to believe that the WAR = GWOT which started at the beginning of the new 21st Century IS BECOM "PERMANENT"???
[Iran Press TV] Data on regional and state unemployment for September shows joblessness rates in some US states near record highs amid sluggish labor market across the country.
The data shows a record hike in unemployment rates in Nevada, Michigan and Caliphornia as the three states continue to struggle with double-digit unemployment, the US DailyFinance reported on Sunday.
According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Nevada's unemployment rate was 14.4 percent followed by Michigan's (13 percent) and Caliphornia (12.4 percent). North Dakota had a 3.4 percent jobless rate followed by South Dakota at 4.4 percent and Nebraska at 4.4 percent.
Lay-offs in construction, gaming and auto companies have added to the US unemployment woes. The rates rose or remained unchanged in 27 states.
"Twenty-three states and the District of Columbia recorded unemployment rate decreases, 11 states registered rate increases, and 16 states had no rate change", the report added.
Despite a slight decline in jobless rates in 23 states, nationwide, the unemployment rate was unchanged last month, looming at 9.6 percent.
The figure indicates a meager declined in the past year, falling 0.2 percent from 9. September 2009.
Republicans point to the state of unemployment as evidence that the stimulus package backed by the B.O. regime has failed.
The details show that the number of individuals who are employed fell in 48 of 50 states since February last year when the stimulus was approved.
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FREEREPUBLIC > "60 MINUTES" JUST BLEW THE LID OF THE UNEMPLOYMENT SITUATION IN THE USA | [Video]SHOCK REPORT: "60 MINUTES" - THE REAL US UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IS 17% [ e.g. California = 22%].
JM - As the Aussie would say you are spot on.
We will get most of the bad news after the elections when O is out of the country on vacation.
Some information will slip out. Main stream media, hollywood, and the government have done their best to manipulate information. Like the little fellow in Holland putting his fingers in the dike holes is running out of fingers. Meanwhile people like soros I understand are trying to shut down alternate media outlets in the background.
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That real unemployment rate is just one of the other measures, surely. It's a number I've seen around before... I'm sorry I can't remember what it's called.
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tw: there are all sorts of unemployment rates. The official government rate are just those that have been laid off in the last six months. Right now, that is hovering around 10%.
Then there is the rate (U-6) that includes unemployed as well over six months, but within the 99 week limit for the cut off of unemployment benefits. Now, around 17%, I believe.
Then there is the list that includes them, and those over 99 weeks, and those that are short-term "discouraged" and no longer seeking work. It is about 23%.
Finally, there is the all-inclusive long term unemployment rate, which is every adult who could be employed full time, but are not employed full time. While this one is a sky high 47%, this number is deceptive.
It includes people like housewives, those who are wealthy and investors who do not seek employment, those in the underground economy, who are employed, but not officially. It does not count adult students, however.
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Don't minimize it too much TW.
Its worse than it looks.
BTW.... Siemens-Nokia bought Motorola Networks. End of this month they are all technically terminated and then rehired or not at new levels and pay scales. The Israeli guys in Mot and Mot Israel are likely S**t out of luck!
The rest in a bad bad place.
Oh and pension dates are reset.
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I don't mean to discount it, Water Modem. It's just that it's not that the jobless rate has suddenly soared, but that it's remaining stubbornly high or creeping higher, regardless which measurement is used.
As for the clever men and women in Israel, I imagine they'll be snapped up pretty quickly -- high tech is booming there, last I heard. Siemens-Nokia has a regional headquarters in Dubai, I think... or Bahrain. A friend of mine was in management there. At any rate, I imagine you're right that they wouldn't be hiring a great many Israelis.
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For some time I've suspected the unemployment numbers have been manipulated (artificially minimized). It feels a lot worse than they are admitting.
[Dawn] The Pakistain People's Party (PPP) on Saturday suspended the basic membership of Senator Safdar Abbasi and issued show-cause notice to MNA Sherry Rehman, both members of the party's Central Executive Committee (CEC), on charges of indiscipline, sources told Dawn.
Both Senator Abbasi and Ms Rehman were issued notices for participating in talk shows on a private TV channel in violation of the party's decision to boycott all publications of a particular group, which also owns the channel.
Talking to Dawn, Senator Safdar Abbasi confirmed that he had received the suspension letter from the party's secretary general, Jahangir Badar, through email, complaining that he was not given sufficient time to reply to a show-cause notice that was issued to him on Oct 20.
In Bloody Karachi, a group of women, mostly from Lyari and claiming to be PPP workers, gathered outside the Bloody Karachi residence of former information minister Sherry Rehman and burned her effigy to vent their "outrage over her participation in a talk show hosted by a channel which is slandering our leadership".
Ms Rehman was not at her home at the time.
Curiously enough, there was no protest when Nabeel Gabol, PPP's MNA from Lyari, appeared on the same TV channel and suggested that army should be called out in Bloody Karachi to handle the law and order situation.
Senator Abbasi regretted that he was in the process of replying to the show-cause notice, when he received the suspension letter. Under the party's rules, he said, the members should be given seven days to respond to the show-cause notice, but his membership was suspended within 48 hours.
Mr Abbasi, the spouse of Naheed Khan, former political secretary to late PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto, is among those senior party members who have been sidelined by the present party leadership for the past over two years.
Similarly, Ms Rehman who was once holding the information offices of both the party as well as the government has also been sidelined by the party leadership due to her decision to quit the federal cabinet during the lawyers' movement for the reinstatement of the deposed judges, including Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, in March, last year.
Both Mr Abbasi and Ms Rehman claimed that they were members of the party's CEC, but they were not aware as to when and where this decision of boycotting the TV channel had been taken.
Talking to Dawn, Ms Rehman said she had so far not seen the show-cause notice, but was in a shock that speaking on any channel could result in such demonstrations of violence outside an unguarded house.
"As it stands, I had no official communication from the party about any ban on any channel, because I had heard several different members speaking on all channels, but bizarrely, I am being targeted. In the absence of any communication, I followed the PM's and the President's announcements that we have no war with any media channel," she added.
In reply to a question, she said: "I have been a senior office-bearer in this party and minister in this government, and have always acted responsibly on behalf of both. I have never spoken against my party despite whatever has been done, so will see what this show cause is about and certainly respond.
PROTEST DISOWNED: The general Secretary of the Bloody Karachi PPP's women wing, MPA Shama Mittahi, and Shamim Mumtaz, information secretary, said the party had nothing to do with the protest against Sherry Rehman.
"Party workers have great respect for Ms Rehman as she has played a significant role in the struggle against the Musharraf regime, for restoration democracy and supremacy of the Constitution," a statement said.
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[Pak Daily Times] Some merciless people burnt a four-year-old boy after a quarrel between minors in Khairpur Miras, Sindh, a private TV channel reported on Sunday.
According to the details, after a quarrel between minors in Wandh area of Khairpur Miras, Abdul Wahid Abro and Riaz Abro burnt their nephew Muzammil Hussain. About 70 percent body of the child was burnt in the cruel act, while the accused fled from the scene.
Such lovely people.
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Israel on Sunday slammed critical remarks made by Middle East Catholic bishops after a meeting chaired by Pope Benedict XVI as "political attacks" on the Jewish state.
"We express our disappointment that this important synod has become a forum for political attacks on Israel in the best history of Arab propaganda," Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon said in a statement.
"The synod was hijacked by an anti-Israel majority," he added.
Bishops and patriarchs from across the Middle East on Saturday called on the international community to end the occupation of Arab lands in an official statement following a two-week synod held at the Vatican.
"Recourse to theological and biblical positions which use the Word of God to wrongly justify injustices is not acceptable," the synod said.
Archbishop Cyril Salim Bustros, head of the commission which drew up the statement, went one step further, saying: "The theme of the Promised Land cannot be used as a basis to justify the return of the Jews to Israel and the expatriation of the Palestinians."
"For Christians, one can no longer talk of the land promised to the Jewish people," the Lebanese-born head of the Greek Melkite Church in the United States said, because the "promise" was "abolished by the presence of Christ."
That's the old view. The Catholics don't speak publicly about supercession (I think that's the term, but I'm not up on the latest Catholic theological philosophy) anymore.
Ayalon said he was "especially appalled" at those remarks. "We call on the Vatican to (distance) themselves from Archbishop Bustros's comments, which are a libel against the Jewish people and the state of Israel and should not be construed as the Vatican's official position."
Most religious Jews believe the land of Israel was given to them by God, and Jewish settlers often cite biblical justifications for holding onto the West Bank and east Jerusalem, territories seized in the 1967 Six-Day War.
Not quite. Most Jews believe they are a people like all others as well as a religion, and therefore as entitled to their historical homeland as a nation as any other people. They see the Bible (aka Old Testament) as the written historical record cum early literature collection that actually records what happened -- or at least the stories told about it -- back in the day when we were working up to, and then owned, the land they now claim as the national homeland of the Jewish people. Some believe that the first five books were dictated to Moses as he was leading the descendants of Abraham's grandson Jacob back to the land that A. had purchased from the locals after God promised it to him and his seed, then repurchased from the local landowners in the 19th and 20th centuries of the modern era, the bits occupied by Jews continually since ancient times not being enough to hold the immigrating population. Some take a more materialistic view, but all regard it as a historical record of more or less historical accuracy matched by the archeological record of the region. But one doesn't expect trained journalists to understand the subtle difference in those two statements.
But foreign ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said scripture had never been used by any Israeli government to justify the occupation or settlement of territory.
He also pointed out that Israel's Christian population had grown since the establishment of the Jewish state, while in much of the rest of the Middle East Christians have fled in large numbers because of war, instability and economic hardship.
Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat, meanwhile, welcomed the synod's call for a two-state solution and blamed Israel for the emigration of Christians from the occupied territories.
"Good dhimmi. Perhaps we won't kill you just yet."
"The international community must uphold its moral and legal responsibility to put a speedy end to the illegal Israeli occupation," he said.
The United States convinced Israel and the Palestinians to renew direct peace negotiations in early September but the talks ground to a halt later that month when a 10-month partial Israeli moratorium on settlements expired.
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They've been sold the line, that just get rid of Israel, and everything will go back to normal and Lebanon will be able to go back to being a free society.
Except it's now a part of Syria, which never had a history of being a free society since way before the founding of the modern state of Israel. The states in the area have been slowly bleeding away their Christian population since well before the founding of the State of Israel. Middle Eastern Christians have been emigrating to the United States since the time when it was the Ottoman Empire and they were moving to the English Colonies in America.
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That's the old view. The Catholics don't speak publicly about supercession (I think that's the term, but I'm not up on the latest Catholic theological philosophy) anymore.
I think the term you're looking for is "replacement theology," and I am under the impression that it's not only not the current position of the Church, but that the current Pope is not enamored of the idea.
But... he's very advanced in years, and those who disagree with him appear to be trying to take advantage of that fact. "Quick! Let's rush this through before anyone notices what we're doing!"
The College of Cardinals and their ilk, by protecting such child-raping crossdressing commies as Bernard Law, has wrecked the church in the United States. Trying to subordinate it to Damascus, which this document effectively does, would be the straw that broke the camel's back.
They're going to win another great victory against their infirm pope and wake up the next morning and find out another great schism has begun.
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Finally: I _don't care_ whether the founding of Israel in 1948 was just, or biblically ordained, or not. It could have been unjust. And STILL, that would not make the 62 or so years against the civilian populace _in_ Israel, and against the Sephardic Jews outside Israel who were more or less forced to abandon their homes and move to Israel BY THE ARABS, and the continuation of those efforts to the present day, just.
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You need to note the composition of this bunch. Not a single "orthodox" Archbishop or Cardinal was invited. Vatican "State" department stacked the deck.
For example, the Greek Melkite Church is about 1.3 million, and is Byzantine Rite, Melkite tradition became fused with the Arabic language and culture during the Mohammdean expansions.
The Melkites are less than 0.1% of all Roman Catholic communion world wide - so naturally AFP and anti-Israelis hand this doofus a megaphone for AFP to publish in its pro-Arab anti-Israel screed. His statement is theologically back in the 1700's and theologically dead wrong on "extinguishing" God's promises to Jews.
FYI the word is "Supercessionism", and it means that Jesus being around as Messiah canceled the original covenant and all promises attached to it. Vatican II and subsequent official Roman Catholic policy reject this view. Funny thing is this stupid son-of-a-bitch Archbishop is from Newton Mass, not Syria nor Lebanon.
One other quote caught my eye: blamed Israel for the emigration of Christians... ORLY? The Jihadis and violent Mohammedans with their gunplay, terrorism and worship of bloodshed didn't have anything at all to do with it? Really?
I suggest this is something where biased reports may not be all that reliable.
This is merely another collection of rag-heads Arabs in Church clothing exposing their hatefulness towards Jews and Israel.
It would be wise to recall the words of St. John Chrysostom:
"The floors of hell are paved with the skulls of Bishops"
Politically involved San Franciscans received an introduction to one Harold Miller last week, when the heretofore unknown mayoral candidate sent out a mass e-mail illuminating how he'd run our fair city.
When the unemployed cabbie and president of the Sunnydale Tenants Association rails against the "crazy laws the Board of Supervisors put on the books" or admits he wants "anyone in LOVE to marry," it's hard to imagine many registered San Francisco voters disagreeing with him. That's not the case when he trots out his novel approach to combating black-on-Asian violence.
"I have been trying to set-up a meeting with Ms Rose Pak of the Asian community to teach her people to look Blacks in the eye as a sign of respect, which is all the young kids who are doing these attacks say they want," he wrote. Appeasement: has it ever not worked?
Faulting the Asian Muni passengers beaten and killed along the Third Street corridor for their own misfortunes is an unusual thing to do -- even if you aren't running for elected office. Miller tells SF Weekly, however, that he's not excusing this behavior. "It's one of the reasons that black people are so angry at the Chinese. They disrespect them by looking at their feet or away from them," he says. "You're talking about young guys and their attitude. ... If you disrespect them, they're going to mug you. Just ignore them and get the hell out of there. They are looking for trouble." For some reason, he notes, Chinatown power broker Pak hasn't returned his messages. Funny, I thought if you looked a thug in the eye, he took it as a challenge.
Differing cultural behaviours have always caused problems, even among those at a higher level of civilization. The Asian kids do need to adopt the body language of America if they don't want to attract bullying by what is seen here as submissive behaviour, but is seen in Asian culture as politeness. It also wouldn't hurt if the Asian kids learnt a martial art like we see in the Kung Fu movies -- there is a subconscious expectation of that kind of fearsomeness. At the same time, it would be helpful if the authorities beat the Black kids bloody every time they laid a finger on an Asian kid.
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Well Asians are kinda cultural racist towards anyone ,not all of them, but alot. Not too mention I'm sure alot of those blacks they are talking about more than deserve an asswhooping.
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Look at your prisons. Each group associates with their own. Same is happening in our schools and cities. Then in the world as well. I don't see the racial harmony with any group when blacks control government or a community. I have worked with people different language and race backgrounds and this conflict is very old. Spanish are not Latin,and Puerto Ricans are not Africans. The next group would have to be Asians "Not all of them, but allot". I speak of this from working with many different peoples. We are talking here of percentages. There are many that do commingle well but things are out of wack now. Examples; vote as a block, minority set asset-asides(even when they are not the minority), attack those that are perceived to have more than themselves (everyone is fair game on that one), finally change laws to fit their contemporary mindset. Hence the Constitution can be updated.
I am convinced the school educational system is driving this not families.
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From the article: "Perhaps Miller's grandest plan, however, is letting the door hit the San Francisco 49ers on the ass as they move out of the city, and starting up an expansion franchise. "I have been in talks with the N.F.L. about starting a new San Francisco 49er team and the name of the team will be the 'San Francisco 1849ers,'" he wrote in his mass e-mail. "The city will own the team and the franchises and when ever I get Jerry Rice's phone number I will be giving him a call and all of the so-called retired 49ers will get back their jobs." This, he says, will flood the city's coffers with so much dinero we won't even have to worry about pension reform."
Yeah, that'll go over well. The guy is a nut and a fool and a racist.
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Just look at Table 9 Nonmarital childbearing, and the sublisting under 'Percentage of live births to unwed mothers'. Observe the expansion from 1970 to 2006. What families?
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Liberal answer to P2k's stats remains more and younger sexual education; allowing the word "family" to have a host of meanings; denial of promiscuity as a negative trait via MSM praisings of Lady Gaga and such; denial of any form of sexuality as "deviant"; denial of the appearance of generational criminals; and denial of the spillover phenomena of grandmothers raising grandchildren from the African-American to the Latino Community (and probably soon to the white community). I speak as a longtime teacher and observer of humankind.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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A cholera epidemic in Haiti has killed more than 250 people, the government said on Sunday, but it added the outbreak which has sickened more than 3,000 may be stabilizing with fewer deaths and new cases reported over the last 24 hours.
Israel on Sunday slammed critical remarks made by Middle East Catholic bishops after a meeting chaired by Pope Benedict XVI as "political attacks" on the Jewish state. 
