[Straits Times] TWO police reports were lodged against the three individuals who said they were responsible for showing a sex video implicating opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.
The reports claimed the trio had broken the law by possessing and distributing pornographic material under Section 292 of the Penal Code and Section 5 of the Censorship Act.
The reports were lodged by Kelana Jaya MP Loh Gwo Burne and a representative of the Selective Prosecution Movement (Gapet), a non-governmental organisation.
In both reports, they urged the police to arrest Tan Sri Rahim Tamby Chik, Datuk Shazryl Eskay Abdullah and Datuk Shuib Lazim and investigate the matter thoroughly.
In the report, Mr Loh also said the trio had threatened Datuk Anwar and his wife Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ahmad saying the video would be made public if they did not step down.
Gapet representative, Khairul Anuar Othman said they want police and Internal Security Ministry to investigate the matter without the involvement of Umno and Perkasa.
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If AG Warming doesn't provide sufficient cloud cover in Qatar.
Dr Saud Abdul Ghani, head of the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Qatar University, unveiled a design and construction of an artificial cloud to shade and cool the open playgrounds to be used in the 2022 World Cup in Doha. More of a shade, actually, according to the graphic at the link.
He said the artificial cloud will move by remote control, made of 100 percent light carbonic materials, fuelled by four solar-powered engines and it will fly high to protect direct and indirect sun rays to control temperatures at the open playgrounds. You just can't make up this stuff.
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Considering everything that's going on the Muddled East right now, are they sure there's even going to be a Qatar in 2022?
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Solar blocking? Truly an oncologist's worst nightmare.
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This is probably just an oddly shaped balloon, with a little extra lift from the four fans, which also give a downward air current. With a four point tether to the stadium, I can imagine it working. Think "inflatable roof".
Does this mean that NASA's JPL's, post-SR71 "AURORA" CRAFT GETS TO BE OUR "SECOND" SUN IN THE SKY???
["2010:A SPACE ODYSSEY" DOUBLE-SUN End-Scene here].
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OTOH "2022"
versus
* PRAVDA = THIRD WORLD WAR TO BEGIN DURING WINTER GAMES IN 2014 [Sochi = 2014 Winter Olympics], as per various RUSSIAN SEERS, ASTROLGERS, PROGNOSTICATORS, etc.
ARTIC:
> Year 2011 = akin to 1939 + PRE-WW2.
> AFRICAN REVOLUTIONS will devol steadily taowards RUSSIA.
> MASS PROTESTS to occur in CENTRAL ASIA.
> BRAID-HAPPY UKRAINIAN BABE to covertly rule Russia behind the facade, Power + Authority, of her Hubby a PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA???
> RUSSIA WILL SURVIVE + PREVAIL WHILE OTHERS FAIL OR COLLAPSE.
{OWG MADONNA, BRADGELINA, + PAULA "DELILAH/
BATHSHEBA" ABDUL + VEGGIE JIHAD, ..@ETAL. here].
[Emirates 24/7] Post-election violence claimed 52 lives in the Ivory Coast in the past week, bringing the corpse count this year to 462, as strongman Laurent Gbagbo ... President of Ivory Coast since 2000. Gbagbo lost to Alassane Ouattara in 2010 but his representtive tore up the results on the teevee and Laurent has refused to leave despite the international community's hemming, hawing, and broad hints... refuses to cede power, the UN mission said Thursday.
The United Nations ... aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... Operation in Ivory Coast (UNOCI) said the west of the country was wracked by violence and confusion, and a warehouse belonging to the UN refugee agency had been looted by a group of militia.
Bloodshed has become a daily occurence in the world's top cocoa producer, thrust into crisis after November 28 presidential polls which sparked festivities between pro-Gbagbo forces and those backing internationally recognised president Alassane Ouattara.
During the week "shelling and indiscriminate violence against civilians claimed at least 52 lives including five children and seven women, as well as several dozen injured," the UN mission's deputy human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... director Guillaume Ngefa told a presser.
"The total number of deaths has gone up to 462 since mid-December" 2010, he added.
The UN on Thursday warned both Gbagbo's Defense and Security Forces and local militias backing Ouattara that "deliberately launching generalised or systematic attacks against civilian populations could constitute crimes against humanity."
Ngefa said residents of the commercial capital Abidjan "continue to massively flee their suburbs due to the violence and a lack of access to food and medicine."
In the west of Ivory Coast, rival forces battled for strategic towns.
"There has been a lot of violence, a lot of confusion in Guiglo. There have been attacks and looting against a United Nations agency. The HCR warehouse was looted," UNOCI front man Hamadoun Toure said at the same presser.
"The situation is still confused, we are busy evaluating the damage," he said.
Guiglo, along with Duekoue, 30 kilometres (20 miles) to the northeast, are key crossroads leading east to the political capital Yamassoukro and south to San Pedro, the world's biggest cocoa exporting port.
Sources said Wednesday thousands were fleeing festivities on the road between Guiglo -- held by pro-Gbagbo troops -- and the town of Blolequin, some 60 kilometres (40 miles) to the west, seized by Ouattara fighters on Monday.
UNOCI raised the alarm Tuesday about the use of heavy weapons by Gbagbo forces against civilians.
Toure reiterated Thursday that UNOCI "has the means" to prevent the use of an MI-24 attack helicopter, being repaired in the military wing of Abidjan airport, as well as BM21 multiple rocket launchers in the hands of Gbagbo troops.
"It is a strong warning, and we really mean it and we will do it," he said, adding these were non-conventional weapons whose use was forbidden after World War II.
The UN mission has come under fire for failing to protect civilians and Ouattara's government has urged the UN Security Council "to authorise the immediate use of legitimate force to protect civilians in imminent danger."
Toure said the mandate of the 10,000-strong UNOCI, awaiting reinforcement of 2,000 men, was merely one of peacekeeping and not peace enforcement.
"You only return fire when you are shot at. It is not up to the UNOCI to change that, he said, adding that in a population of 20 million "it is not possible to provide security to the whole population."
West African leaders were meeting Thursday in the Nigerian capital Abuja in the final day of a summit under pressure to act on Ivory Coast, while the head of their regional bloc sent a letter to Gbagbo condemning violent rhetoric.
Leaders from West African bloc ECOWAS were expected to issue a statement on the crisis later in the day, after Nigerian 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). On 13 January 2010, a federal court handed him the power to carry out state affairs while President Umaru Yar'Adua received medical treatment in a Soddy Arabian hospital, a fatal move on his part. On 24 February 2010 Yar'Adua returned to Nigeria, but Jonathan continued as acting president. When Yar'Adua departed this vale of tears less than three months later Jonathan succeeded to the Presidency. He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau... said they may ask the United Nations to take further action.
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So after everyone has fought and killed each other, and there is only One left, the UN soldiers will make sure there is no violence, unless of course the One splits into two and fights. Then the UN will observe again.
The possible breach in the plant's Unit 3 might be a crack or a hole in the stainless steel chamber of the reactor core or in the spent fuel pool that's lined with several feet of reinforced concrete. The temperature and pressure inside the core, which holds the fuel rods, remained stable and was far lower than what would further melt the core.
Suspicions of a possible breach were raised when two workers suffered skin burns after wading into water 10,000 times more radioactive than levels normally found in water in or around a reactor, the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said.
Water with equally high radiation levels was found in the Unit 1 reactor building, Tokyo Electric officials said. Water was also discovered in Units 2 and 4, and the company said it suspects that, too, is radioactive. It was not clear whether the water in each unit came from the same source, officials said, but acknowledged the discovery would delay work inside the plant.
A breach could mean a leak has been seeping for days, likely since the hydrogen explosion at Unit 3 on March 14. It's not clear if any of the contaminated water has run into the ground. Radiation readings for the air were not yet available for Friday, but detections in recent days have shown no significant spike.
* CHINESE MIL FORUM > FUKUSHIMA ENGINEER SAYS HE HELPED COVER UP FLAW IN DAI-ICHI REACTOR #4, claiming that TEPCO used cheap = flwaed steel to build Unit #4's Reactor Pressure Vessel.
CMF POSTER > Iff Japan thinks it has probs = trubbles, wait until ITALY'S MT. VESUVIUS VOLCANO EXPLODES in 900 MEGATON, MAG 11 BOOM + QUAKE-TSUNAMI. South Europe + North Africa + Turkey + Israel + rest of ME at catastrophic risk. Major event occurs at Mt. Vesuvius every 3000 years, + is repor due = should occur soon.
* TOPIX > JAPAN PLANT OWNER FACES PRESSURE OVER TTREATMENT/COMPENSATION TO INJURED WORKERS.
Its own + any Other Non-Employees in nearby Communities exposed to abnormal or excessive radiation from Fukushima.
[Al Jazeera] Thousands of protesters urging an end to Europe-wide austerity measures are marching in Brussels, the Belgian capital, outside a venue where regional leaders are meeting.
Police fired water cannon and tear gas to disperse groups of demonstrators close to the European Union summit on Thursday, after activists blocked key roads in the city and caused a traffic gridlock.
Unions are calling on people to challenge EU leaders' moves to commit governments to a new "Euro Pact" expected to be announced, that seeks to moderate wages to make Europe's economy more competitive in the global market.
"The European Commission's annual examination of growth as well as the competitiveness pact launched by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy ...23rd and current President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra. Sarkozy is married to singer-songwriter Carla Bruni, who has a really nice birthday suit, in 2008... will drag wages and social rights down to dangerous levels," Belgium's CES union said in a statement.
Audrey Lhoest, spokeswoman for the Socialist FGTB, said "about 15,000" people were expected to turn up for Brussels protest, corresponding with advance estimates given by local police.
Protesters are angry at austerity programmes set up across the region to control debt deficit, saying that they do not want to bear the burden of the economic crisis.
EU leaders are due to meet later on Thursday, where the resignation of Jose Socrates, the Portuguese prime minister, is expected to dominate discussions. Socrates stepped down after parliament rejected his government's latest austerity measures aimed at avoiding EU financial assistance.
European partners could come to Portugal's rescue if the crisis-hit caretaker government asks for financial assistance, Belgium's finance minister has said.
"We are obviously ready to step in and help, but Portugal has to ask first," Didier Reynders said ahead of the meeting. "I have always thought that it would be useful to organise aid, simply because that allows [Portugal] to pay less interest on its debt while undergoing restructuring, and therefore make less demands, sometimes onerous ones, on [its] people."
"If Portugal asks, we will be ready to intervene. For that to happen, there will need to be a [negotiated] plan to bring its finances back to better health, and a request to unlock European funds."
But the head of Portugal's main opposition centre-right Social Democratic party, Pedro Passos Coelho, said he "hopes" the debt-ravaged country can avoid calling in a European Union bailout.
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"Protesters are angry at austerity programmes set up across the region to control debt deficit, saying that they do not want to bear the burden of the economic crisis."
Maroons. They will have to bear it anyway. Here now at least they have a chance to end up with something relatively decent. But if they want a kick the can approach, maybe they should get it--they will end up far worse in the end.
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This might become interesting. Since many or even most of the EU leadership are not elected, what will they do when assailed by an angry mob? Their jobs are effectively for as long as they want them, so they owe the hoi polloi nothing.
"Give them a whiff of grape shot. Perhaps it will teach the ruffians their place."
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These are the people who look down upon Christian Creationists who believe that the world was created upon the whim of God, yet they believe 'value' in the monetary system is magically created out of thin air to be taken and 'redistributed'.
Angry opposition parties brought down Canada's Conservative government on Friday, setting the scene for an early May election that polls indicate the Conservatives will win.
In the early morning of Monday, 16 April 2007, 23-year old Virginia Tech student Seung-Hui Cho entered a dormitory room and killed two students. Sometime later he then entered the Norris Hall engineering building and began to systematically attack five classrooms on the second floor, ultimately killing 30 students and professors and wounding or causing injury of an additional two dozen. As police officers approached classroom 211, Cho took his own life.
Around 9:52 the police entry teams move up the stairways shouting "Police, Police!" Cho has returned to room 211 where he had previously attacked and killed several students. There is about a half minute of silence with no shots fired by Cho, then a final two shots, the last being the one turned on himself. Evidence indicates that the next to last shot would have been into Cadet La Porte who would have been dead for some time from the previous attack to the classroom.
From evidentiary photographs and from statements from the Archangel team and other investigators The body position and the wounds of Matt La Porte indicate that he had maneuvered around the room from his desk in the rear right of the classroom and attempted to attack Cho across the front of the classroom. Attired in his uniform, he fell just short of the door, lying next to the blackboard facing where Cho would have been standing while shooting. Matt's arms were outstretched in a classic football tackling position. He had eight bullet entry wounds fingers, thumb, arms and shoulders and to the front of his head that could only have been sustained while moving forward on the shooter in the very position he fell.
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.
Laurent Gbagbo
"You only return fire when you are shot at. It is not up to the UNOCI to change that, he said, adding that in a population of 20 million "it is not possible to provide security to the whole population."
... as Conyers and Clarke fight anti-Muslim sentiment
