In the space of 24 hours last week, two spectacular rescue operations were carried out in southern Germany.
Both involved men who had become trapped deep inside cave-like structures, and a large team working to set them free. But if explorer Johann Westhauser is expected to soon tell the world how he got trapped inside Germany's deepest cave, an anonymous exchange student might prefer to keep quiet about the story of how he got into a tight spot. Hey Mom! Turn on CNN!
On Friday afternoon, a young American in Tübingen had to be rescued by 22 firefighters after getting trapped inside a giant sculpture of a vagina. The Chacän-Pi (Making Love) artwork by the Peruvian artist Fernando de la Jara has been outside Tübingen University's institute for microbiology and virology since 2001 and had previously mainly attracted juvenile sniggers rather than adventurous explorers.
According to De la Jara, the 32-ton sculpture made out of red Veronese marble is meant to signify "the gateway to the world".
Police confirmed that the firefighters turned midwives delivered the student "by hand and without the application of tools".
The mayor of Tübingen told the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper that he struggled to imagine how the accident could have happened, "even when considering the most extreme adolescent fantasies. To reward such a masterly achievement with the use of 22 firefighters almost pains my soul."
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Poor Johann. He spent 9 months trying to escape the first time. He'll no doubt spend the rest of his life in incidents just like this, attempting to get back in.
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Sourcesclose to the investigation confirmed to The Telegraph on Sunday that a deleted flight path had been recovered from Capt Zaharie's simulator which had been used to practice landing an aircraft on a small runway on an unnamed island in the far southern Indian Ocean.
I believe the simulator was sent to the FBI's forensics lab in Quantico. The article provided no source for the reporting, and as far as I know the FBI has not publicized any findings. Obviously however, any public discourse regarding the Bureau's well acknowledged 'system data recovery' would be particularly ill-advised in light of the IRS scandal.
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The southern Indian Ocean, between Indonesia and Australia, is broken up only by the Australian territories of Christmas Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. These remote islands, with a population of fewer than 1,000 people, have a small airport.
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Never found them Mullah, Flight Sim 1-3 used to come with an auxiliary dog-fighter game, which supposed used the same co-ordinate system as the regular flight sim, the fighting area was surrounded by mountains on all sides and i could never get the SPAD over them. But my understanding is that they do (did) exist in early versions of flight sim. And yeah, Flight Sim 3 in EGA blew up my head, it got better graphics over time and more planes, but for sheer HOLY COW look at this! It never got better.
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When a new version of Flight Simulator or a new Harpoon scenario pack arrived I tended to go into what DaveD used to call VIP, Vacation In Place. I can't focus like that anymore. I blame BusHitler and the Time Lords.
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I did a loop around the Golden Gate Bridge in a Sopwith Camel.
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Deacon, there's this Dam a big mother right outside Vegas, it's all famous and such, in gorgeous 3D (make sure you have a get video card), come up canyon 100 ft. above the Colorodo and climb like a cat on Meth at the last minute, then repeat, I've gotten wheels touching the wall while climbing, it's kinda like a skate park for the terminally insane pilot.
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I know that Dam, it's named after a vacuum cleaner.
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Pssst, for a good time, dc3airways.com. They've got propheads over there with 1000's of hours in DC3s. Fly the Hump! Take the Scottish distillery tour! Great virtual airline. Use the MAAM DC3.
[AnNahar] Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan ... 14th President of Nigeria. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau... and his embattled ruling party have wrested a key state from the opposition ahead of general polls next year, results showed Sunday.
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate Peter Ayodele Fayose was elected governor in southwestern Ekiti state, beating the incumbent John Kayode Fayemi by a two-to-one margin, the electoral commission said.
The PDP -- never out of power nationally since Nigeria returned to civilian rule in 1999 -- lost Ekiti to the All Progressives Congress (APC) four years ago and until Saturday controlled none of the six southwestern states.
The victory will boost the party's chances in elections next February by creating a possible foothold in the southwest region.
But nationally, the party still faces an uphill battle after several defections of influential state governors, mostly from the north, last year that prompted dozens of PDP politicians to switch to the APC.
The defections were caused in part by Jonathan's expected bid for re-election in defiance of an unwritten PDP rule calling for the presidency to rotate between Christian southerners and northern Moslems.
The head of state, under fire for his handling of the Islamist Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... insurgency and especially his response to the mass kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls in April, has not officially declared his intention to run.
But the rebel governors are convinced that he will.
[AnNahar] At least 43 people have died in opposition protests against President Nicolas Maduro that began in February, a non-government group said Saturday after a student died from a bullet wound.
Alfredo Romero, who heads the Penal Forum group, said Josue Farias died in the western city of Maracaibo from a gunshot injury sustained during an anti-government protest nearly a month ago on May 29.
Farias was an accounting student at a Zulia state university.
Demonstrators have taken to the streets to march against rampant crime, runaway inflation and shortages of basic goods in the country with the world's largest proven oil reserves.
Government authorities have yet to add this latest death to its own official count of those who died in the sometimes bloody protests.
In their latest report on June 11, they counted 42 deaths and 873 people injured in the demonstrations that have decreased in intensity in recent weeks.
Efforts to resolve differences between the government and opposition through dialogue have faltered in the wake of the arrest of more than 200 students last month, when authorities demolished protest camps.
Venezuela, an OPEC nation, is struggling with inflation near 60 percent, as well as rampant crime and shortages of goods as basic as toilet paper, milk and sugar.
Most economic experts blame the South American country's problems on a decade of rigid currency and price controls, as well as rising debt, dependence on imports and stagnant growth.
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True that, TW. I knew we (the U.S.) was on the rise, but is that statement true based upon the "previous" rankings? Or is it shoddy news work?
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i've no idea, BA. it's not the kind of thing I pay close attention to, caring only that we become less dependent on those who use our money to finance terror. But I'm sure there are those here who do know and will tell us. :-)
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Venezuela has massive, massive reserves of very, very heavy oil in the Orinco. This oil is not much lighter than bitumen and requires upgrading pretty much on the spot to travel. Upgraders are expensive has hell and maintenance heavy. So yeah, it's there, but no one will invest without a major change in government. Which means not in the next 100 years.
Meanwhile they will fuck up what medium weight oil they have, by deferring maintenance until such a time as is politically and financially feasible. which means not in the next 100 years. The Chinese are starting to understand the game and not loaning any cash except under credit cards terms. This is the absolute perfect case of screwing up a piss-up in a brewery.
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Shipman: if you look at Venezuela as being run for Russia's, China's, Saudi Arabia's and Iran's benefit rather than for Venezuela's, it makes more sense. Yes, it's screwed up for the Venezuelans, but they don't matter in the New Colonial World Order. As far as China's concerned, they got to resell Venezuelan oil at a couple thousand percent markup, and Russia/Iran/Saudi Arabia make money out of Venezuela's production being further crippled.
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To be more exact Snowy, Venezuela is being run for the Castros benefit in particular and Cuba in general. It's shameless. Pretty much everyone here knows I have a major soft spot for the Cuban people, but their hanging on to the Venezuelan teat is killing them both.
I kinda wonder what they would do to get water if this keeps up.
North Korea's rivers, streams and reservoirs are running dry in a prolonged drought, state media said on Monday, prompting the isolated country to mobilize some of its million-strong army to try to protect precious crops.
The drought is the worst in North Korea for over a decade, state media reports have said, with some areas experiencing low rainfall levels since 1961.
Office workers, farmers and women have been mobilized to direct water into the dry floors of fields and rice paddies, the official KCNA news agency said. With what, their hands?
In the 1990s, food shortages led to a devastating famine which killed an estimated million people but gave rise to a fledgling black market that in some areas now provides the food the government can no longer supply.
Linda Lewis, of the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker-led NGO, confirmed the media reports and said managers on its North Korean partner farms had seen lower-than-usual rainfall levels in March and May.
"They expressed concern about 'serious drought' conditions and the impact this was having on spring ploughing and paddy field preparation," Lewis told Reuters via email.
In some areas, she said, farm managers had experienced 70 days without rain.
Higher-than average temperatures have exacerbated damage, affecting wheat, barley and maize, state media said.
North Korea has previously blamed drought and floods for chronic food shortages which observers say are the result of bad planning and a highly centralized economy.
[AnNahar] South Korean troops shot it out near an elementary school Sunday with a cornered conscript soldier who had fled after shooting dead five members of his unit on the border with North Korea.
The 23-year-old army sergeant, surnamed Lim, had opened fire on fellow soldiers at a guard post on the eastern section of the heavily guarded frontier Saturday night.
The shooting spree left five dead and seven maimed -- and triggered a massive manhunt after Lee expeditiously departed at a goodly pace armed with a K-2 assault rifle and a stash of ammunition.
A defense ministry front man said Lim, who had an apparent record of instability, had been tracked and cornered just before 2:30 pm (0530 GMT) Sunday to a location 10 kilometers (six miles) from the border.
"He shot at the pursuing troops and they returned fire," the front man said, adding that one officer had been maimed in the arm.
"The situation is still ongoing," he said.
Yonhap news agency said Lim's parents had been brought to the scene and had pleaded with their son to surrender.
Kim So-Rae, a college student who lives in a nearby village, said she had heard at least three separate exchanges of gunfire.
"It's pretty scary," she told YTN television shortly before the army ordered the villagers to evacuate their homes.
According to the military, Lim was due to be discharged in the next few months after completing his compulsory military service.
All those killed or maimed in Saturday's incident were members of Lim's unit, the 22nd infantry division, in the eastern province of Gangwon.
The army issued its highest state of alert in nearby areas during the search for Lim, which involved thousands of soldiers, Colonel Roh Jae-Chun told news hounds.
Special forces units and army helicopters were also brought in, while local residents were warned to stay indoors.
Lim had difficulty adapting to the military, and past psychological evaluations had advised senior officers to pay him special attention, a defense ministry official who wished to remain anonymous told AFP.
This is not the first time the 22nd infantry has been involved in such an incident.
In 1984 a private belonging to the same division opened fire and threw a grenade at fellow soldiers in their barracks, killing 15.
The soldier, Cho Jun-Hee, then crossed the border to defect to the North, a move which Pyongyang's state media later confirmed.
The site of Saturday's shooting is just south of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) -- a buffer strip that runs the full length of the 250-kilometer (155-mile) frontier.
The four-kilometer-wide DMZ -- known as the world's last Cold War frontier -- features guard posts manned by the rival armies, barbed wire and roads bisecting minefields.
Because the 1950-53 Korean War ended with a ceasefire rather than a peace treaty, the two Koreas technically remain at war.
Many of the South Korean soldiers on border duty are young male recruits doing their mandatory two-year military service.
These young men make up a large part of the South's 691,000-strong troop presence, compared to 1.17 million in the North.
Most of the victims in Saturday's shooting were conscripts, aged from 19 to 23.
The defense ministry issued a "sincere apology" over the incident.
"We pray for the souls of the victims and express our deepest regret for the victims, the injured and their families," it said.
Bullying and cruelty in the barracks have long tarnished the armed forces, and been blamed for suicides and similar shooting incidents.
In July 2011 a 19-year-old marine conscript killed four colleagues in a shooting spree on Ganghwa island near the border.
In June 2005 eight soldiers were killed and two seriously maimed when a 22-year-old conscript threw a grenade and sprayed bullets over sleeping colleagues at a front-line guard post north of Seoul.
In both those cases the men were court-martialed and sentenced to death, although the penalty was not carried out.
The armed forces have in recent years taken steps to stamp out bullying, which they called part of a "distorted military culture".
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"Troops surrounded Yim so closely Monday in the forest about 7 kilometres from the border outpost that they could toss him a mobile phone to talk to his father. Yim, who still refused to surrender, had ammunition and officials feared he South Korea Border Shooting"
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South Korea Border Shootingmight "commit an extreme act" - an apparent reference to suicide - Defence Ministry spokesman Kim Min-seok said at a briefing."
[THETIMES.CO.UK] The mother of a young South Korean soldier who shot dead five of his comrades at a base close to the border with North Korea is pleading with him to surrender, as troops closed in on the school where he is making a final stand.
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Not a good day for Moms, as a UK Mom is also making pleas for her Son-turned-Jihadi to come back home.
[AnNahar] Ukraine's unilateral ceasefire hung in the balance Sunday after festivities engulfed the separatist east and Russian President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... put troops on "full combat alert".
The resurgence of violence in the 11-week pro-Russian uprising threatening to splinter the ex-Soviet state came as Washington accused the Kremlin of covertly arming the rebels and sternly warned Putin against sending troops into Ukraine.
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O owns 2 utilities, 2 rails roads and Marvin Gardens and Park Place. 4 Monopolies have formed and houses are going up.
O sells Marvin Gardens for $1200 and feels good.
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g(r)omgoru stern still lives quietly in the north and still has MIRV if it make you feel any better. Stern is rarely seen anymore and even less frequently heard, but stern is still there.
[NEWS.YAHOO] A Polish magazine said Sunday it has obtained recordings of a conversation in which Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski says the country's strong alliance with the U.S. "isn't worth anything" and is "even harmful because it creates a false sense of security."
In a short transcript of the conversation, a person identified as Sikorski by the magazine Wprost tells former finance minister, Jacek Rostowski, that Poles naively believe the U.S. bolsters their security. Using vulgar language, the person argues that such beliefs are nonsense, and that the Polish-U.S. alliance alienates the Russians and Germans.
There has been no official confirmation that it is Sikorski who speaks in the conversation.
Wprost last week set off a political storm in Poland with the release of a recording of a conversation between central bank head Marek Belka and Interior Minister Bartlomiej Sienkiewicz. In the recording the two discussed how the bank could help the governing party win re-election in 2015, an apparent violation of the bank's independence.
That publication has already threatened to bring down the government of Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, and the new recording is expected to add to the troubles. Although the latest conversation doesn't reveal any illegal actions, the strong language and opinions would likely put the foreign minister on the defensive if they are confirmed to be true.
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Again, unlike from Libya to the Ukraine + now possibly ISIS-threatened Iraq [Jordan?], there are several sovereign countries = US Allies andor US-leaning Neutrals in East Asia that could poten be hit at one time if "Mahanist", "post-US", #1 wannabe China decides to strike.
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See also BLOOMBERG > CHENEY SAYS US HEADED FOR "BIG TROUBLE" IN TERRORISM.
As due to the Bammer's refusal to recognize reality, + emphasis on withdrawing or pulling the US from that part of the world.
Looks like my Ancestors + dead HUGO CHAVEZ's RED BERET, PARROT may still end up being precognitive as per the US destroying or sinking strategic Pacific islands, e.g. Guam + Other, wid "Earthquake/Tectonic Bombs" as the US falls back across the Pacific towards CONUS.
* TOPIX > KERRY: "WE [us] WON'T PICK SIDES".
Therein lies the OWG Globalists greatest boon, as well as its greatest danger.
* REALTED GLOBAL TIMES > US WON'T TRY TO PICK IRAQ'S LEADERS: KERRY, IRAN SUPREME LEADER CONDEMNS US ROLE AS ISIS ADVANCES FURTHER.
VERSUS
* VOICE OF RUSSIA > OBAMA COULD BE IMPEACHED IFF ARMY [US Milfors] SENT TO IRAQ, WARNS WAR POWERS ACT AUTHOR [Paul Findley], iff he acts widout the US Congress.
* SAME > TERRORISM MOST DANGEROUS MIDDLE EAST THREAT, MAY TRIGGER NEW WAVE OF [Country] DISSOLUTIONS; LAVROV.
Yuuuppp, + see my Post above.
* GLOBAL TIMES > OPINION: US HAS LEFT REGION WRACKED BY SECTARIAN SPLITS.
D *** NG IT, MORIARITY, DON'T BE SILLY - THESE "SECTARIAN SPLITS" ARE INTENTIONAL!
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OOOOOPPPSSSSIES, forgot WORLD NEWS > OBAMA: ISIS COULD POSE A "MEDIUM TO LONG-TERM THREAT" TO THE US.
Clearly no Global Jihad is indicated or to be inferred, let alone a SOON-TO-BE-NUCLEAR-GLOBAL-JIHAD = "NUCLEAR ISLAM/CALIPHATE" IRONICALLY WID US, WESTERN [also read, JudeoChristian = non-Muslim/Islamic]] HELP + SUPPORT.
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Polish minister says US ties worthless
Bears poop in the woods and the Pope is Catholic.
Maybe if some people spent their own money on their own defense instead of suckling on the American military welfare tit for generations, others would have the ability to step in and really take up the slack. This is just playing out as the old Monty Python skit 'What have the Romans ever given us'. And in the other hand was all that Euro money pumped into the American speculative paper market because it couldn't find a decent return on investment back in the home markets. That ultimately lead to the financial chaos, exploited by the usual suspects, that leaves the old welfare coffers now dry beyond much more sustainment. Oh, and the Americans have picked up that Euro disease of socialism redirecting the old republic's responsibilities of national defense with the new oligarchy's politics of robbing the Treasury to buy votes. Yep, you're on your own. Meanwhile, we have our own invasion to deal with right here in this hemisphere. Good luck.
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Fuck him. He's equating America to that poser in office. America fought two wars in europe. We, the United States, not Poland defeated Russia and gave them opportunity for their solidarity movement. We are weak right now, granted. We were weak before WWI and weak before WWII. Don't ever underestimate us.
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Poland has been spending money to modernize and upgrade their military. And to be fair, we weren't all that dependable for Georgia, back when George W. Bush was president
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TW, I was referring to the old West. Somewhere around 1980 Western Europe (vs the old Soviet empire) exceeded the US in combined GDP and population, yet instead of picking up the responsibilities, choose to keep the Americans as their defense nanny at great cost to the American taxpayer so they could enjoy the benefits of redistribution. Those same nations haven't done much to readjust their budgets recently. These are first world nations. Also, while everyone has been concerned with casualties the last 10 years of the WOT, no one likewise concerned themselves with the body count in Cold War Europe due to training and on site work accidents and the usual road kill. We're not talking just handfuls.
For the Poles, its all a matter of (historical) timing. They're stuck in the same place they found themselves in 1939, between Germans and Russians looking out for their own interests and gains. I suspect they find the Brits and French as useful as they were back then, unprepared to do anything beyond words. Just as America had no play in those events, if ever adults get back in charge in the Beltway again, I doubt the will or means will change that status either. After twice being dragged into European affairs in the 20th Century, it's going to be hard to convince people to do it again at great expense and commitment.
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Bush wanted to base a European ABM defense in Poland. This would have housed US Troops. Just as US troops in the ROK are a tripwire and a guarantee of US support, so would this have been for Poland. But the 'beamer killed the project.
[BBC] It will be a curious nomination. Almost certainly this week the EU's heads of government will nominate the centre-right politician Jean-Claude Juncker to be the most powerful official in the EU.
Why curious? Because very few officials or heads of government believe he is the best man to lead the EU at a moment of growing disenchantment with the European project.
He is the classic Brussels insider, with an encyclopaedic knowledge of Europe's rules; a man who prefers the secret, early-hours deal-making to the role of open persuader; a man deeply committed to further European integration.
So a typical conversation - which I have had many times over the past week - goes like this: "Do you think Mr Juncker is the right face for the EU at this time?"
Answer: "We're not interested in faces or personalities, it is the agenda that counts." So the question is neatly side-stepped.
Private misgivings
It is very difficult to find anyone who can explain why Mr Juncker is the best candidate to lead the EU in a fresh direction.
From various conversations it seems that several heads of government are likely to back him at a summit later this week while not believing in him.
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"...a man who prefers the secret, early-hours deal-making to the role of open persuader..."
Completely contrasting UKIP's Nigel Farage, now MEP, who is adept at convincing open forums and probably a non-bureaucrat. It'll be interesting to see who comes out the best between the two.
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This guy is the EU equivalent of the IRS crashed hard drive.
They're saying "When we want your opinion, we'll give you one."
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lead the EU in a fresh direction
WTF? This is equivalent to expecting the MoBros to lead the Muslims in a fresh direction. This is a strong statement in favor of complete integration of all the EU into an un-democratic centrally controlled state.
India has decided to enhance transparency of its nuclear infrastructure by ratifying an Additional Protocol with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) — a step that in a single stroke can be leveraged to boost energy security and lift international confidence.
With the proposal languishing for over five years, the new government has decided to go ahead with the ratification process, clearing the decks for large imports of nuclear technology, boosting power generation and other civilian purposes. “The move is clearly tied to the new government’s push for enhancing energy security, which is slated to have a significant nuclear component. It will not be surprising if countries such as Japan, France and the United States now enhance the level of their civilian nuclear trade with India,” official sources said.
The Additional Protocol will cover only those facilities which are monitored by the IAEA, and will have no bearing on the non-safeguarded facilities which are used for building weapons.
Sources pointed out that unlike the “model” document that the IAEA has signed with several Non-Nuclear Weapon States, the Additional Protocol inked with India is far less intrusive. “It essentially will ensure the collection of data of India’s nuclear exports, to guarantee that the material is not diverted for unauthorised use,” the sources said.
The new arrangement would also facilitate regular entry and exit of the IAEA personnel by providing them with multi-entry visas, apart from guaranteeing “free communication” generated by the surveillance or measurement devices of the IAEA that are already in place in facilities that are under international safeguards. Analysts point out that the Additional Protocol’s ratification, ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Washington in September, sends the right signals to the U.S. It fulfils India’s commitment anchored in the Indo-U.S. joint statement of July 2005, which stated unambiguously that New Delhi would conclude “an additional protocol” with the IAEA.
The ratification, concluded last week, also appears well timed with the meeting on Monday in Buenos Aires of the Nuclear Suppliers Group — the elite 45-country club India aspires to join, which controls the global flows of nuclear wherewithal.
The safeguards agreement with the IAEA covered 20 facilities that include the Nuclear Fuel Complex in Hyderabad, Tarapur atomic power plant, Rajasthan Atomic Power Station, both units at Kudankulam, and the Kakrapar Atomic Power Station.
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[DAWN] A free-will couple along with their four-year-old child were killed by relatives in Almas Road area of Quetta, police said.
Mehmood Notezai, the Superintendent of Police told Dawn that family members had killed the couple to punish them for love-marriage.
Police reached the mud-walled house where the couple was living for past five years.
"Husband, wife and their son, all were beaten to death", Notezai said.
He said the accused had used blunt weapons to kill the couple adding that, "The accused family members escaped after committing the heinous crime."
The couple belonged to Sibi city of Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... and had secretly married five years ago against the will of the girl's family members, Notezai added.
The bodies were shifted to Civil Hospital Quetta for postmortem.
Police had yet to make any arrests in relation to the case.
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Malaysia's top court ruled Monday that non-Muslims cannot use the word "Allah" to refer to God, delivering the final word on a contentious debate that has reinforced complaints that religious minorities are treated unfairly in the Muslim-majority country.
In a 4-3 judgment, the Federal Court rejected a challenge by the Roman Catholic Church and upheld a government ban on the use of the word. Most Christians in Malaysia worship in English, Tamil or various Chinese dialects, and refer to God in those languages but some Malay-speaking people on Borneo island have no other word for God but "Allah," a Malay word derived from Arabic.
The church had argued that the ban failed to consider the rights of all minorities in the largely Muslim nation. The lengthy court cases, which began in 2009, had also raised the fundamental question whether freedom of religion guaranteed by the constitution is real.
The controversy has provoked violence in Malaysia.
Some experts believe the Allah issue is an attempt by Prime Minister Najib Razak's ruling Malay party to strengthen its conservative Muslim voter base. Religion has become an easy tool because government policies have made Islam and Malay identity inseparable.
The issue hasn't surfaced in other majority Muslim nations with sizeable Christian minorities.
"My question is, if in other countries, 'Allah' as a term for God is not made exclusive, I am surprised how come the use of the term can be limited by any religion elsewhere in the world," said Fr. Francis Lucas, president of the Catholic Media Network Corp., the broadcast arm of the Catholic Church in the Philippines. Shocked! Amazed! Who could have foretold such a thing!
Fine, we'll call your false god "$#!+ for brains" then.
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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.
In the space of 24 hours last week, two spectacular rescue operations were carried out in southern Germany.
Goodluck Jonathan
[AnNahar] At least 43 people have died in opposition protests against President Nicolas Maduro that began in February, a non-government group said Saturday after a student died from a bullet wound.
North Korea
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
[BBC] It will be a curious nomination. Almost certainly this week the EU's heads of government will nominate the centre-right politician Jean-Claude Juncker to be the most powerful official in the EU.
Malaysia's top court ruled Monday that non-Muslims cannot use the word "Allah" to refer to God, delivering the final word on a contentious debate that has reinforced complaints that religious minorities are treated unfairly in the Muslim-majority country.
