[Bangla Daily Star] BNP leaders have warned that the party will call a series of hartal ... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ... after that on November 30, if necessary, to stop government repression on leaders and activists of the party.
Moudud Ahmed, Goyeshwar Chandra Roy and ASM Hannan Shah, national standing committee members of BNP and other leaders gave the warning at two programmes in the capital yesterday.
And BNP Secretary General Khandaker Delwar Hossain criticised the government for "mass arrest" of party leaders across the country ahead of the November 30 hartal.
In a press statement, he said around 250 party leaders of different ranks were jugged yesterday and several hundred others were maimed in police baton charge while campaigning in support of the hartal.
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's adviser Abdul Awal Mintoo and a number of party leaders conducted the campaign at different points in the capital.
They also circulated leaflets mentioning the government's "wrongdoings" and "failures" in running the country.
At a discussion meeting at the Jatiya Press Club, Moudud Ahmed said, "We are warning the government of a series of hartal after November 30 if it does not stop repression on opposition parties."
He ruled out BNP's joining parliament session as, he said, the government does not allow opposition politicians to criticise its wrongdoings.
"The government has made parliament almost dysfunctional. Bypassing the House, they (govt) are reprinting the constitution. But the Supreme Court in a verdict asked them to reprint the constitution after bringing amendments to it in parliament," Moudud said at the discussion on "Rule of law, human rights ... which are not the same thing as individual rights, mind you... price hike of essentials and nepotism in administration."
Talking to journalists at the grave of president Ziaur Rahman, BNP standing committee members Goyeshwar Chandra Roy and Hannan Shah said the party will be bound to call a series of hartal if the government creates an 'anarchic' situation centring the hartal on November 30.
"We do not believe in destructive politics. The government alone will be responsible if any untoward situation on the hartal day due to its oppression," Goyeshwar said.
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My eyes keep crossing when I read that headline. I don't know why, maybe Pan's influence, but it keeps coming up as harlots and hotels.
[El Universal] Radicalization and seizure. These are the tips of Alan Woods, the new ideological adviser of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, to ensure a successful Bolivarian revolution.
"As long as key points of the economy remain in the hands of the bankers, landlords and capitalists, they will use their economic power to sabotage the Revolution. Therefore, there must be a sense of urgency. (...) As long as this situation is allowed to continue, there can be no question of a planned economy, and therefore of socialism in Venezuela." Woods' words in his analysis "Where is the Venezuelan revolution going? released last October 29 is the roadmap seemingly followed by President Chavez after the election for parliament.
"It is quite alarming that the advisors to the President of the Republic are people who mean nothing in the world of ideas; this is the case of (Heinz) Dieterich and now the case of Woods," sociologist and Master of Political Science Carlos Raúl Hernandez said.
Hernandez thinks that the brand-new ideological adviser "is a very peculiar person, because he always represented a minority, a minority in international communism, for being closely related to Trotskyism (...) his is a hardcore leftist vision."
Based on Woods' analysis of the Venezuelan situation, "the September election showed increasing unrest and impatience of the masses about the slow pace of the Revolution and the way of winning it is by taking action to expropriate big capitalists. They must be convinced that the revolution is invincible."
Luis Vicente León, the director of pollster Datanalisis, agrees with Woods. "The only possible answer for Chavez under current circumstances is total radicalization in the political field and absolute control of institutions (...) He cannot leave anything free if the election scenario gets complicated."
In the opinion of political expert Edgard Gutiérrez, the government faced a dilemma when pondering on the results of the parliament election on September 27. "Radicalization means the possibility of losing strong support and the abstention of Chavez's supporters could be a signal, whereas relaxation meant fading away and losing the toughest voters. However, The infamous However... judging by the latest events, it seems that the Woods Doctrine prevailed."
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These "socialist" dictators keep popping up because it works. When this is over, he and those around him must pay a price that will make others think twice about going this direction.
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hopefully Mr. Woods will get to enjoy the fruits of his Bolivarian Revolution work - stabbed to death in the perpetual dark (no electricity) by starving Venezuelans
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Alan Woods? I guess Paul Krugman and Thomas L. Friedman were too busy to take the job.
Even as President Dmitry Medvedev announced a three-fold increase in the basic pay of the servicemen, the Defence Ministry has opened the doors for foreigners to join the Russian Armed Forces. Speaking before the army commanders in the Nizhnynovogorod region, Medvedev promised that in spite of budget deficit a lieutenant rank officer will get the basic pay of 50 thousand roubles.
According to the amended law posted on the Defence Ministry website, a citizen of any foreign country, aged 18-30, can now sign an initial 5-year contract to join the Russian army.
A good command over Russian language and absence of criminal record are the basic requirements for joining the Russian Armed Forces. As an incentive, the recruits will be offered Russian citizenship after three years of service.
In 2009, about 350 foreign citizens, mostly from CIS countries were serving in the Russian Armed Forces, however, there were also from Latvia, Germany, and Israel.
According to RIA Novosti, in the past year 699 foreigners applied to join the Russian military but most were rejected for having poor knowledge of Russian, health problems, or low level of education.
In line with an ongoing military reform, the Russian Armed Forces will be downsized to 1 million personnel by 2016, with 150,000 officers and about 745,000 soldiers.
Back in late 1990s, several Russian experts and lawmakers had proposed to the erstwhile Speaker of the Punjab Vidhan Sabha Charnajit Singh to promote the teaching of Russian language in the schools of the state under the three-language formula to prepare the labour force and servicemen for deployment in the sparsely populated Russian regions bordering China.
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"In line with an ongoing military reform, the Russian Armed Forces will be downsized to 1 million personnel by 2016, with 150,000 officers and about 745,000 soldiers."
One officer to five soldiers seems out of proportion unless the officer count includes noncoms.
Voters in Switzerland will go to the polls on Sunday to decide on a proposal to automatically deport foreigners who commit crimes.
Supporters of the proposal claim immigrants to Switzerland are disproportionately responsible for crime and should not be allowed to stay in the country.
The proposal is the initiative of the right-wing Swiss People's Party, the party which also masterminded last year's successful campaign to ban the building of minarets in Switzerland.
The People's Party points to the fact that foreigners are overrepresented in Swiss jails - about 70% of the inmates are foreign, while 23% of Switzerland's overall population is foreign.
"We have in Switzerland two kinds of foreigners, the foreigners who want to work and respect our laws, and these foreigners are welcome," said Patrick Freudiger, a member of the youth branch of the People's Party.
"Then we have other foreigners who commit crimes, who don't want to work," he added. "They just want to benefit from our social security, and these people should be made to leave."
The proposed new law envisages automatic deportation, with no right of appeal, for foreigners who commit a wide variety of crimes, ranging from murder and rape, to breaking and entering, drug dealing, and social security fraud.
The new proposal, opponents say, would mean people from second- and third-generation immigrant families in Switzerland could be deported to a country they have never lived in and know nothing about.
Almost one in four people living in Switzerland is not actually Swiss, although a great many were actually born in the country. Switzerland's naturalisation process is one of the toughest in Europe, and becoming Swiss remains a long, complicated and expensive process.
Just days before the vote, the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural rights delivered a critical report on Switzerland, expressing concern about discrimination against immigrants, and recommending that the Swiss government do more to combat Switzerland's 'increasing intolerance and xenophobia".
The Swiss government, worried by legal advice that the deportation proposal may violate Switzerland's obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights, has advised voters to reject it.
Meanwhile the Swiss People's Party proposal does seem to be finding favour with voters. The latest opinion polls suggest 53% would support it.
If voters do back the proposal on Sunday, Switzerland will have some of the strictest deportation laws in Europe.
And, as with the banning of minarets, the case could mean Switzerland having to defend itself at the European Court of Human Rights.
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"...recommending that the Swiss government do more to combat Switzerland's 'increasing intolerance and xenophobia".
Flippin idiot. It's the foreigners that are the problem you fool. I am glad that a few European counties are waking up to the pollution of islamic hegemony.
[Iran Press TV] A Mohammedan teacher has been dismissed form work in France for refusing to remove her Islamic Hijab or shaking hands with male colleagues due to her religious beliefs.
The teacher had just started apprenticeship at a primary school in Toulouse.
The school's disciplinary committee which expelled her says it was defending secularism in public schools.
France is home to the largest Mohammedan population among the 27 European Union member states. Nearly 10 percent of the 62 million people living in France are Mohammedan.
A ban on Mohammedan headscarves at state schools was introduced in France in 2004.
Recently, French parliament approved a bill which bans Mohammedan women from wearing burqa (Islamic veil) in public places.
With 336 votes at the 577-seat National Assembly, the burqa ban received the support of President Nicolas Sarkozy's right-wing parliament majority while the country's socialists and communists abstained from voting.
The moves have been criticized for violating French human rights ... which are not the same thing as individual rights, mind you... legislation.
According to the French government, the recent legislation will affect around 2,000 French Mohammedan women.
This is while earlier, members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) unanimously voted against any general ban against burqa in Europe, saying Mohammedan women should be free to choose their clothing.
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good. so she should be sacked. what kind of example is that to give non-muslim kids that men and women can't shake hands.
At least eight people were killed when a Russian-made cargo plane crashed in a fireball seconds after taking off from Karachi on Sunday, a spokesman for Pakistan's civil aviation authority said.
The death toll was expected to rise, with an unknown number of labourers feared killed when the Ilyushin IL-76, bound for the Sudanese capital Khartoum, Wonder what kind of cargo to Sudan needs to go by air freight - maybe some equipment for Chinese oil or mining ops? Either that or munitions of some sort. When I first saw the crawler I thought it might have been one of our Afghanistan supply flights, but fortunately it was not - not that it matters to the flight crew.
slammed into airport buildings in the Pakistani business capital.
The explosion caused by the crash was so powerful that local residents thought it was triggered by a bomb, my initial suspicion as well, and I still would not rule it out
said Karachi police chief Fayyas Leghari.
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I think the Karachi-Khartoum direct flight is sort of like the New York-DC Acela, but for terrorists. But I bet Air Pakistan has better sandwiches than Amtrak.
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Most soviet mechanical stuff is designed to be maintained by illiterate peasants. Maybe the Pakistanis need to bring in some outside advisors to get them up to speed.
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[El Universal] Radicalization and seizure. These are the tips of Alan Woods, the new ideological adviser of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, to ensure a successful Bolivarian revolution. 
