A Russian man trying to sleep off a night of after-work drinking failed to notice a six-inch (15-cm) knife in his back - until his wife woke him up.
Yuri Lyalin, 53, took a bus home, ate breakfast and apparently slept like a baby before his spouse noticed a handle sticking out of his back. He was rushed to casualty but doctors found no vital organs damaged. His liver is his most vital organ.
Mr Lyalin shrugged the episode off but the drinking partner who stabbed him faces trial, Russian media report. "Unique and intriguing the case may be, but the accused faces a severe punishment," said Pavel Vorobyov, a deputy prosecutor in the northern city of Vologda.
'We were drinking, we're russians, what did you expect?'
Mr Lyalin, an electrician, had spent the evening drinking with a watchman at his workplace when they got into an argument, Interfax news agency reports. The morning found him waking up in the watchman's office but instead of going back to work, he decided to take the bus home.
At home, Mr Lyalin had some sausage from the fridge and lay down to sleep, the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper says. After a couple of hours, his wife noticed the handle sticking out of his back and called an ambulance.
Viktor Belov, a surgeon who treated him, found a kitchen knife in Mr Lyalin's back but "by good fortune, it had gone through soft tissue without touching his liver vital organs".
His alleged attacker reported the crime to the police himself, Interfax adds. Mr Lyalin apparently feels fine and bears no ill-will. "We were drinking and what doesn't happen when you're drunk?" he was quoted by Komsomolskaya Pravda as saying. "Well, at least, he didn't bugger me. I think. Not this time, at least."
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Anonymoose, on the bugger comment. What makes you think the victim would feel it, assuming he wasn't buggered by John Wayne Bobbit he may never know?
Art major Aliza Shvarts '08 wants to make a statement.
Beginning next Tuesday, Shvarts will be displaying her senior art project, a documentation of a nine-month process during which she artificially inseminated herself "as often as possible" while periodically taking abortifacient drugs to induce miscarriages. Her exhibition will feature video recordings of these forced miscarriages as well as preserved collections of the blood from the process.
The goal in creating the art exhibition, Shvarts said, was to spark conversation and debate ...
That's usually what 'artists' say when they're doing something particularly grotesque ...
... on the relationship between art and the human body. But her project has already provoked more than just debate, inciting, for instance, outcry at a forum for fellow senior art majors held last week. And when told about Shvarts' project, students on both ends of the abortion debate have expressed shock, saying the project does everything from violate moral code to trivialize abortion.
But Shvarts insists her concept was not designed for "shock value."
"I hope it inspires some sort of discourse," Shvarts said. "Sure, some people will be upset with the message and will not agree with it, but it's not the intention of the piece to scandalize anyone."
No, she just wants to provoke us to 'think', the implication of course being that we don't ...
The "fabricators," or donors, of the sperm were not paid for their services, but Shvarts required them to periodically take tests for sexually transmitted diseases. She said she was not concerned about any medical effects the forced miscarriages may have had on her body. The abortifacient drugs she took were legal and herbal, she said, and she did not feel the need to consult a doctor about her repeated miscarriages.
So not only is a depraved, amoral 'artist', she's aboundingly stoopid ...
Shvarts declined to specify the number of sperm donors she used, as well as the number of times she inseminated herself.
Why not tell us? Wouldn't that just lead to more 'discourse'?
Art major Juan Castillo '08 said that although he was intrigued by the creativity and beauty of her senior project, not everyone was as thrilled as he was by the concept and the means by which she attained the result.
He was also hoping to get into her pants, and not just as a 'fabricator' ...
"I really loved the idea of this project, but a lot other people didn't," Castillo said. "I think that most people were very resistant to thinking about what the project was really about. [The senior-art-project forum] stopped being a conversation on the work itself."
Although Shvarts said she does not remember the class being quite as hostile as Castillo described, she said she believes it is the nature of her piece to "provoke inquiry." "I believe strongly that art should be a medium for politics and ideologies, not just a commodity," Shvarts said. "I think that I'm creating a project that lives up to the standard of what art is supposed to be."
Okay, you want politics, fine. My politics says you should be held in a public stock for a week followed by a prison term. And a public prohibition on anyone ever buying any piece of art from you.
The display of Schvarts' project will feature a large cube suspended from the ceiling of a room in the gallery of Green Hall. Schvarts will wrap hundreds of feet of plastic sheeting around this cube; lined between layers of the sheeting will be the blood from Schvarts' self-induced miscarriages mixed with Vaseline in order to prevent the blood from drying and to extend the blood throughout the plastic sheeting. Schvarts will then project recorded videos onto the four sides of the cube. These videos, captured on a VHS camcorder, will show her experiencing miscarriages in her bathrooom tub, she said. Similar videos will be projected onto the walls of the room.
Words fail ...
School of Art lecturer Pia Lindman, Schvarts' senior-project advisor, could not be reached for comment Wednesday night.
"Why me, why me, why didn't I just become a plumber ..."
Few people outside of Yale's undergraduate art department have heard about Shvarts' exhibition. Members of two campus abortion-activist groups . Choose Life at Yale, a pro-life group, and the Reproductive Rights Action League of Yale, a pro-choice group, said they were not previously aware of Schvarts' project.
Alice Buttrick '10, an officer of RALY, said the group was in no way involved with the art exhibition and had no official opinion on the matter.
Sara Rahman '09 said, in her opinion, Shvarts is abusing her constitutional right to do what she chooses with her body. "[Shvarts' exhibit] turns what is a serious decision for women into an absurdism," Rahman said. "It discounts the gravity of the situation that is abortion."
CLAY member Jonathan Serrato '09 said he does not think CLAY has an official response to Schvarts' exhibition. But personally, Serrato said he found the concept of the senior art project "surprising" and unethical. "I feel that she's manipulating life for the benefit of her art, and I definitely don't support it," Serrato said. "I think it's morally wrong."
Shvarts emphasized that she is not ashamed of her exhibition, and she has become increasingly comfortable discussing her miscarriage experiences with her peers. "It was a private and personal endeavor, but also a transparent one for the most part," Shvarts said. "This isn't something I've been hiding."
Rather hard to hide it at this point, isn't it ...
The official reception for the Undergraduate Senior Art Show will be from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on April 25. The exhibition will be on public display from April 22 to May 1. The art exhibition is set to premiere alongside the projects of other art seniors this Tuesday, April 22 at the gallery of Holcombe T. Green Jr. Hall on Chapel Street. Speaking of "fabricators," I smell a hoax. True, Yale admins and art faculty would be far too depraved to stop this on anything like moral grounds, but they probably would on medical (ie liability) grounds. We also have to consider whether it is even possible to selectively induce abortions with non-prescription drugs and without catastrophic physical consequences from doing so repeatedly over such a short time.
Interesting point. It's possible to induce an early-term abortion, but the 'herbal remedy' likely won't do it. She may have obtained mifeprostone from a local doctor and just wants to conceal that.
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This is just beyond the pale. The cavalier attitude that facilitates this is what disturbs me the most. To actually think that this is in some way, "ok," no matter where you stand on the abortion issue is simply incomprehensible to me.
Her parents must be very proud, I'm sure. So much for the value of an Ivy Leage education.
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Jeebus, the mind boggles on this one. Art has gone downhill *quickly* since the 60s/70s. It erupted in "P!ss Christ" and other grusome/disturbing "mediums" and has (assumed) reached bottom with this crap.
As one whose wife has experienced a miscarriage and having to deal with all the medical implications (not to mention emotional ones) afterwards, I can tell you this girl is "crying for help." Either she's going to seriously regret doing this, OR she has absolutely *NO* conscience and is just one step away from treating all life in such reckless abandon. In fact, I'd willingly label her as one step away from the Nazis.
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destined for a Nat'l Endowment of the Arts award for her "courageous" work. I see a Ruth Bader Ginsburg Chair at a institute of academia for her, if she doesn't sell out and get a fast-food job to pay bills
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Ah. Another Great Moment in "Performance Art"...
The Yale Daily News reported this morning that Aliza Shvartss senior project, set to go on display next week, included video of her bleeding in her bathtub, as well as plastic sheeting layered with a mixture of Vaseline and the post-abortion blood.
"Ms. Shvarts is engaged in performance art," a Yale spokeswoman, Helaine Klasky, said. "She stated to three senior Yale University officials today, including two deans, that she did not impregnate herself and that she did not induce any miscarriages. The entire project is an art piece, a creative fiction designed to draw attention to the ambiguity surrounding form and function of a womans body."
Ms. Klasky went on to suggest that Yale would not have permitted a project of the sort described in the student newspaper. "Had these acts been real, they would have violated basic ethical standards and raised serious mental and physical health concerns."
Some vids at link.
On the big screen, films like Robocop, Universal Soldier and forthcoming release Iron Man show man-machines with superhuman powers. But in Utah they are turning science fiction into reality.
We are at a research facility on the outskirts of Salt Lake City, ringed by beautiful snow-capped mountains. Once they held the Winter Olympics here; now they are testing endurance in other ways. The aluminium limbs gleam in the brilliant sunshine, as the strange metal skeleton hangs from a safety harness at the outdoor testing site. It seems to be treading water; actually its programme is telling it to keep the hydraulic fluid in its joints moving.
Rex Jameson, a software engineer here at laboratories run by Sarcos, the robotics firm which designed the XOS exoskeleton, steps up and into the suit.
The lightweight aluminium exoskeleton, called XOS, senses Rex's every move and instantly moves with him; it is almost like a shadow or a second skin. It is designed for agility that can match a human's, but with strength and endurance that far outweigh our abilities. With the exoskeleton on and fully powered up, Rex can easily pull down weight of more than 90 kilos, more than he weighs.
For the army the XOS could mean quicker supply lines, or fewer injuries when soldiers need to lift heavy weights or move objects around repeatedly. Initial models would be used as workhorses, on the logistics side. Later models, the army hopes, could go into combat, carrying heavier weapons, or even wounded colleagues.
There are still problems to solve, not least how to create a mobile power supply that can last an effective length of time. And making sure it is dextrous enough to be able to rip of a jihadi's head..
But the US military expects to take delivery of these early prototypes next year, and hopefully deploy some refined versions within eight years. It is a long way off before we see robot soldiers that can fly or fire missiles - like in the movies - but the designers are already imagining future versions more reminiscent of Hollywood.
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1. "Serve the public trust"
2. "Protect the innocent"
3. "Uphold the law"
4. "Any attempt to damage haliburton property results in shutdown"(classified)
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the suit could do a lotta things the Chain of command wouldn't allow now for Strykers and M-1's. The issue isn't the level of force that can be brought to the spearhead. The issue is political will, and always has been, for the modern American military's command
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Personally I'm holding out for a Gundam Wing Zero.
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What puzzles me is that the suit prototype they were using was built of conventional, not advanced materials.
It is all the difference in the world when you can replace, for example, a 1 inch steel bar with a 1 cm advanced ceramic that is lighter, stronger and more durable than the 1 inch steel bar.
This could turn the bulky exoskeleton into almost an exo-suit. Instead of it weighing nearly 200 pounds, it might weigh 20 or 30, yet do everything the steel suit does.
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STARSHIP TROOPERS > RICO - "NAVY does the Flying, MOBILE INFANTRY does the Dying".
See WAFF, DEFENSETECH, + AVIATION INTERNATIONAL for the new configuration/re-design of the CH-46 CHINOOK hekp trasport. ONCE AGAIN, THE US ARMY-DARPA FEELS THE POWER OF THE COCONUT.
* SERPENTOR > "Do you see how easy it is, COBRA COMMANDER"!
Christians in the Middle East are facing persecution because of British and American foreign policy, the Archbishop of Canterbury will claim today. Dr Rowan Williams will say that many Christians have been forced to flee their homes in the Holy Land because of 'appalling pressure' from extremist Islamic groups.
And he will warn that historic communities risk becoming mere 'museum pieces' in the 'theme park' Middle East because of the military policies of the West.
During an appearance in London yesterday, he said there was a risk that the region could become a "monochrome" area dominated by an "unfriendly" form of Islam. Indigenous Christian groups were increasingly being seen as a 'foreign and aggressive' presence, he added.
The Archbishop will make the comments in a speech at Westminster Cathedral later today. He will say that historically Christians have played a leading role in social, cultural and intellectual change in the Middle East.
But historic communities now risked becoming mere 'museum pieces' in a 'theme park' region as a result of persecution. In part this was due to an extremist form of Islam filling the void left following the peak of Arab nationalism, the head of the Church of England will claim.
But he also blames the role of Western governments.
Couldn't possibly be the fault of the Moose-limb loonies, of course, it's gotta be us ...
Dr Williams will say: 'Indigenous Christian community throughout the region have suffered from being associated with the American global project, and indeed the British global project as part of the American global project.'
He cites a recent visit to Syria in which he met some of the half million refugees who had fled Iraq since 2003.
Dr Williams added: 'The military policies of the West in the last few years have firmly cemented in a great deal of the Middle East the notion that Christianity is a foreign, aggressive and Western presence. I regret it is a real tragedy that this ongoing crisis has yet to be the focus of policy declarations, or indeed recognised by some of our Western governments.'
He also calls on Christians around the world to focus on the crisis and said Government needed to pay attention to the worsening situation. Speaking yesterday, he said: There is an urgent need for people in the UK to wake up to the fact that Christians in the Middle East are living through a time of change more dramatic and more costly than anything that has been seen for a thousand years and more.'
He went on to highlight the 'tragic situation' of Christian refugees from Iraq and the 'quiet but numerically huge exodus of Christians' - particularly educated Christians - out of the entire Middle East region. 'The remaining Christian communities are left exposed to violence or extremism in many countries, and the societies they live in are deprived of some of their most creative and resourceful citizens,' he added.
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So then why are Hindus and Buddhists persecuted throughout Southeast Asia? Why are there NO religious institutions other than Muslim ones, in Saudi Arabia?
Answer: Islam is a persecutory cult.
Williams is following party line thinking at al-Guardian. Forget reason, he is bound by a perverse ideology that is based on a chimeric political unity between atheist Marxists and crusading Muslims.
The Canadian Human Rights Star Chamber has determined that it is a violation of a McDonald's employee's human rights to demand that she washes her hands.
She is awarded CDN 23,000 in lost back wages, with another CDN 25,000 for the pain and humiliation of being fired.
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Canuckistan...I love Canada and I have nothing but positive experiences with almost every Canadian I have ever met. But some of your wackos or wackier than our wackos...if that is even possible.
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This is a workman's comp claim as a result of a 21 year employee contracting some kind of skin disease. Mickey D would not make an accommodation for her "disability" and that is the basis for the claim and judgment. Sounds as dumb as US WC.
You decide who's the biggest idiot here.
A video posted on YouTube showing Philippine doctors laughing while removing an object from a patient may lead to charges against the surgeons and cost them their medical licenses, officials said Wednesday. The unauthorized nearly 3-minute video of a noisy operating room shows doctors and nurses laughing, giggling and cheering.
At one point, a hand appears with a cell phone camera taking a close-up picture of the surgery.
As a doctor gingerly pulls out the 6-inch long canister from the male patient's rectum, someone shouts, "Baby out!" amid loud cheers. The doctor then removes the canister cap and sprays the contents toward the crowd of nurses and doctors viewing the procedure.
It remains unclear who shot the video and who posted it on YouTube, but the person who posted it removed it from the Web site Wednesday.
The video has angered the unidentified patient who plans to press charges, his lawyer Guiller Ceniza said Wednesday.
The government-run Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center in the central city of Cebu, where the surgery took place, is conducting an investigation, a spokesman said Wednesday. Dr. Emmanuel Gines said more than 10 people were involved including staff and medical and nursing students from a nearby operating room.
He said the hospital takes videos of surgeries of peculiar cases, but only with the consent of the patient.
Dr. Jose Sabili, president of the Philippine Medical Association, told The Associated Press on Wednesday the group will conduct an investigation if a formal complaint is filed and doctors found violating medical ethics could be suspended or expelled from the association, which would result in the suspension or termination of their state health insurance accreditation.
The results of the investigation could also be used by the Professional Regulations Commission to suspend or revoke their licenses, Sabili said. "I believe what they did was very blatant," he said.
Health Undersecretary Alexander Padilla said the Health Department will conduct a separate investigation.
The 39-year-old patient received surgery on Jan. 3, three days after a New Year's drinking spree and a "one-night stand" with a male partner, Ceniza, the lawyer, told the AP. He said his client was too drunk to remember how the body spray canister ended up in his body.
That I believe.
Ceniza said the man was determined to file charges but will wait for the results of the hospital's investigation, expected later in the week.
As a doc I can tell you that we've seen stranger things than this in the medical profession. And that my brethern colleagues (docs and nurses both) react pretty much the same way. And that non-medical people simply don't understand our particular brand of humor.
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Medical humour is much like soldier humour... and equally incomprehensible to non-combatants. Although I wouldn't be keen on being sprayed by the contents of something that came out of a rectum.
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ION LAW-N-ORDER MARATHON > "SKY SWEET" [Shay Sweet? incident] Episode > DA MCCOY - "May be its a generational thing, but I find this music [rap music/Case]] INCOMPREHENSIBLE". Femme Cohort - "It may be incomprehensible but millions of Amer youth + music fans are buying [his] records]".
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If my son calls me from Afghanistan I'm taking the call. Granted I don't want to interupt anything at my work place which can be difficult in a hospital setting, but if the phone is set on vibrate only it shouldn't be a problem.
My supervisor knows this may occur and has "okayed" my phone call, I suppose this student should have gotten permission for this situation ahead of time as well.
Kids have been known to abuse the phone usage in the school setting so I can see the initial response, but after finding out that it was from his dad it's outrageous that they suspended him.
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My wife quit a job where they would not let her carry the phone. She explained the kid was in Iraq, but rules are rules, you know, so she quit.
I don't think the kid ever called except on a Tuesday (the Marines took turns with a satellite phone in Anbar) and mostly in the wee hours of the morning, so the chances of the kid calling on Thursday at 2 pm were almost neglible, but mothers are funny, sometimes.
OTOH, she did take a couple of calls from the other mothers, one of which was about a death in the kid's unit, which she would not have wanted to miss, either.
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IIRC, Principle's contracts are one year long. This summer, it should be a no brainer for a rational school board or senior management. I want human beings in charge. Anyone, even a computer, can operate a flow chart diagram for decision making.
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NO,he shouldn't have too get permission too answer a call from his dad in IRAQ of all places . Kidds sit there and text all the damn time and nothing is done. they should fire the principal, school board and the superintendent all in one damn bunch and if i had my way set them on fire. What the fuck is wrong with this nation now
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And since crap like this is goping on why not just go ahead and put obama in office so he can implement sharia law and get the other shit over with. see they should have left all those swammp groups alone in the 90's in Fla aand GA and they could take care of shit like this. don't ask me why but i was in a real good mood until reading this and it really gripes my ass
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sinse, I agree. I haven't been around the school setting in many years. I didn't know about students texting all the time.
The student should be able to share his conversation with the class if he wants to.
The class might just learn something or it would bring up a good discussion.
It's a public school. Don't expect rationality. lol.
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The Olympic torch relay has completed the latest leg of its world tour in India's capital, Delhi, amid heavy security to protect it from protests.
Some 16,000 police sealed off the city centre along the truncated relay route.
Truncated to farce. Each runner only ran a few paces before handing over to another torch bearer. A Chinese minder directed them on the proper manner of lighting the torch. One made a runner turn the torch so that the Olympic rings were visible. One elderly Sikh runner was waving to literally nobody. There were very few onlookers on the Rajpath.
At least 100 pro-Tibet activists were held in Delhi, police sources said, but the event passed off without the anti-China protests seen elsewhere.
Earlier, Tibetan exile groups organised a peaceful alternative torch relay involving politicians and celebrities.India is home to the world's largest community of Tibetan exiles, as well as their government-in-exile and spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama. Last week, India's foreign minister told his Chinese counterpart that the government would take steps to ensure the torch's safe passage.
The Indian press had described the capital as "Fortress Delhi" prior to the arrival of the Olympic torch from Pakistan on Thursday. Apart from about 500 dignitaries and a group of school children invited to watch, the public was kept well away from the flame as it was carried 3km (1.9 miles) along the Rajpath, from the presidential palace to India Gate. Three lines of police checkpoints guarded every entrance and exit to the ceremonial avenue and a cordon of Indian and Chinese security personnel in red and blue tracksuits surrounded the torchbearers at every moment. The route, which was cut to a third of its original 9km distance on security grounds, left the 70 runners only able to carry the torch for a few metres before having to pass it on.
The BBC's Chris Morris in Delhi says that the atmosphere was sterile at best, with no members of the public to be seen at the start and only a small crowd sitting around an Olympic cauldron at the end. Our correspondent says it was a day that probably left no-one entirely satisfied and the Olympic spirit rather tarnished. In the run-up to the ceremony, the authorities closed many main roads in central Delhi, creating huge traffic jams, and sealed off the area for five hours. Workers in the many government offices overlooking the route were told to look out of their windows to look because of the perceived security threat. Security patrols in the surrounding area were issued with blankets and fire extinguishers in case protesters set themselves on fire.
No exact times were given for the relay in advance amid fears of protests by India's 100,000-strong Tibetan exile community, some of whom had threatened to disrupt the event. Earlier in the day, hundreds of Tibetan exiles had taken part in their own, alternative torch relay in Delhi, chanting slogans against China as they set off from the mausoleum of India's independence leader, Mahatma Gandhi.
It is not a mausoleum since Mahatma Gandhi was not buried. It (the Raj Ghat) is the platform marking the site where he was cremated
The alternative torch arrived at the Jantar Mantar surrounded by Tibetan flags and young men wearing headbands saying "Free Tibet".
There were also pro-Tibet protests on Thursday outside the Chinese consulate in the Indian financial centre of Mumbai, where at least 55 people were detained by police.
In the Indian Himalayan region of Ladakh, which borders Tibet, at least 5,000 Tibetan exiles and local Buddhists participated in a march in the town of Leh.
In Nepal, more than 500 members of the Tibetan exile community were arrested in the capital, Kathmandu, during demonstrations near Chinese diplomatic buildings.
Other cities preparing to receive the torch are making preparations following the chaotic scenes in London, Paris and San Francisco.
In the Australian capital, Canberra, police have been given extra powers to search those watching the relay for items such as guns and knives.
The Chinese government has meanwhile appealed for understanding over the actions of the torch's controversial security guards, who have been criticised for being heavy-handed with protesters.
"Relevant countries should have a clear understanding of the rules of the escorts and understand their work," foreign ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said.
"They have used their bodies to protect the torch, so their acts should be praised and the violent acts of those Tibet independence elements be condemned."
Ms Jiang said that providing security escorts for the torch had been common practice during previous Olympic Games and that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) had "given its 100% support".
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ION WAFF > CHINESE GEOPOLITICS AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF TIBET. For its own national security, China has made itself into a "island" of control, and fears foreign powers - espec INDIA - from using TIBET as a BEACHEAD INTO CHINA, be it by natural population flows andor by anti-Chin milpol design.
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) fact-finding team has found that Jagdesh, who was killed on April 8 by a mob of factory workers for alleged blasphemy, was really killed because of a personal dispute with two fellow workers.
It started with an exchange of words between the two colleagues, who then spread the word throughout the factory that Jagdesh was making blasphemous remarks, bringing the mob of emotional workers to beat Jagdesh to death, the HRCP report says.
Jagdesh was axed to death while a heavy contingent of the police was present in the factory, HRCP Acting Coordinator and Field Officer Abdul Hai, who led the fact-finding team, told Daily Times.
It was nearly 10:00 a.m. when Jagdesh, who was doing his work, got into a fight with two factory workers, but this fight ended when other workers came in between. The fight continued in bits and pieces at 11:00 a.m. and 11:40 a.m., until finally at 11:45, three people attacked him. The security guard intercepted the fight and took him into the security room. The factory administration called the police at 12:17 p.m., and the police arrived at 12:30 p.m.
Abdul Hai said that three mobile units arrived and these policemen remained within the factory, rather than taking Jagdesh away to the station. It was lunch time and the rumour had spread that Jagdesh had been allegedly making blasphemous statements. All factory workers rushed to the main gate, where the security room is located, and the mob broke the security room door down, entered the room and started beating him. There was some construction work going on, where someone found an axe. The policemen only interrupted when the mob seemed ready to burn his body on the spot, Hai said.
He alleged that it was this fight that led to his brother-in-laws death, but said he didnt remember the names of the two workers who were involved in the fight.
Hai said that the police have made three arrests, but he is not sure whether or not these are the three involved in the incident. We have yet to confirm this fact, as the fact-finding report is not final. It is being delayed by the fact that the factory administration and the police are not cooperating with us, he said. Korangi Police Station SHO Ghulam Sarwar said that he was not aware of any such incident taking place in his jurisdiction. IO Raja Ulfat said that the police is doing its best and that the three arrested men will be produced before court on Thursday.
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So: Blasphemy nay not have been the cause of the fight. However, the workers inflamed their co-workers by claiming that the Hindu had blasphemed. That is what caused all the others to come in and kill him.
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Two more people were killed in fresh clashes between rival tribes of the Kurram Agency. Dawn News reported that the political administration of the region was striving to stop the clashes. The Peshawar-Parachinar Road had been closed due to the clashes, adding that the supply of electricity to the region had also been suspended.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
A Russian man trying to sleep off a night of after-work drinking failed to notice a six-inch (15-cm) knife in his back - until his wife woke him up. 
Christians in the Middle East are facing persecution because of British and American foreign policy, the Archbishop of Canterbury will claim today. Dr Rowan Williams will say that many Christians have been forced to flee their homes in the Holy Land because of 'appalling pressure' from extremist Islamic groups.
