The dirty little secret is ACORN is changing its name. In a June 21 Washington Examiner interview with Marcel Reid, a dissident ACORN whistle blower, the name is being changed to Community Organizations International.
Weve known for many months now that the name ACORN is going to be retired, [Marcel] Reid said. The name has been so damaged to the point where the leadership knows it simply cant go on as it has with the ACORN label out front and center, especially after all of the reporting.
In fact, the process has already begun, she noted. Wade Rathke, who founded the organization, announced on his blog that ACORN International has officially changed its name to Community Organizations International.
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Will people swallow this one? I hope there are a couple more videos out there that can be released about the same time the Dinosaur Media grudgingly print this.
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This is a little misleading. Wade Rathke, who founded ACORN, was pushed out of the main body when his brother's embezzlement / fraud was uncovered.
He clung to the name, however, calling his new organization ACORN International. The ACORN board and some whistleblowers who uncovered the fraud have now forced him to stop using the name.
Bringing down COI might be possible too, but it's not the main ACORN syndicate.
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I heard the same thing LOTP, But I believe the corruption was there before the brother was pushed out. I gotta do more homework on that one though. It just smells like a different name but more of the same to me.
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The Washington Post did some of the work for you, 49 Pan. Fresh from yesterday's edition, to make up for ignoring the story previously ("We didn't publish before because we were still doing the research.")
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Here's a line you don't want to read in a story about buck naked 91 year olds and their Rotties: ",,.giving his best bud Rett all the credit for the happy ending."
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I sleep nude, and have an SKS-56(2-30 round mags)within reach.
Never have any problems or need to get out of bed YET.
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Both Mr. Pascual and I are glad no pictures were taken.
By MICHAEL SLACKMAN
CAIRO -- It is unlikely anyone has ever come to this city and commented on how clean the streets are. But this litter-strewn metropolis is now wrestling with a garbage problem so severe it has managed to incite its weary residents and command the attention of the president.
"The problem is clear in the streets," said Haitham Kamal, a spokesman for the Ministry of State for Environmental Affairs. "There is a strict and intensive effort now from the state to address this issue."
But the crisis should not have come as a surprise.
When the government killed all the pigs in Egypt this spring -- in what public health experts said was a misguided attempt to combat swine flu -- it was warned the city would be overwhelmed with trash.
The pigs used to eat tons of organic waste. Now the pigs are gone and the rotting food piles up on the streets of middle-class neighborhoods like Heliopolis and in the poor streets of communities like Imbaba.
Ramadan Hediya, 35, who makes deliveries for a supermarket, lives in Madinat el Salam, a low-income community on the outskirts of Cairo.
"The whole area is trash," Mr. Hediya said. "All the pathways are full of trash. When you open up your window to breathe, you find garbage heaps on the ground."
What started out as an impulsive response to the swine flu threat has turned into a social, environmental and political problem for the Arab world's most populous nation.
It has exposed the failings of a government where the power is concentrated at the top, where decisions are often carried out with little consideration for their consequences and where follow-up is often nonexistent, according to social commentators and government officials.
"The main problem in Egypt is follow-up," said Sabir Abdel Aziz Galal, chief of the infectious disease department at the Ministry of Agriculture. "A decision is taken, there is follow-up for a period of time, but after that, they get busy with something else and forget about it. This is the case with everything."
Speaking broadly, there are two systems for receiving services in Egypt: The government system and the do-it-yourself system. Instead of following the channels of bureaucracy, most people rely on an informal system of personal contacts and bribes to get a building permit, pass an inspection, get a driver's license -- or make a living.
"The straight and narrow path is just too bureaucratic and burdensome for the rich person, and for the poor, the formal system does not provide him with survival, it does not give him safety, security or meet his needs," said Laila Iskandar Kamel, chairwoman of a community development organization in Cairo.
Cairo's garbage collection belonged to the informal sector. The government hired multinational companies to collect the trash, and the companies decided to place bins around the city.
But they failed to understand the ethos of the community. People do not take their garbage out. They are accustomed to seeing someone collecting it from the door. Reminds me of a recurring complaint about "diverse populations" living in the West... funniest one I ever heard was an illegal african gal living in a squatted building in France, bitterly complaining about having to live among heps of trash in the court, in the stairs,... and blaming the authorities. Those damn Racist People! Sneaking up on those families at night to throw their own garbage from their own windows! The nerve.
For more than half a century, those collectors were the zabaleen, a community of Egyptian Christians who live on the cliffs on the eastern edge of the city. They collected the trash, sold the recyclables and fed the organic waste to their pigs -- which they then slaughtered and ate.
Killing all the pigs, all at once, "was the stupidest thing they ever did," Ms. Kamel said, adding, "This is just one more example of poorly informed decision makers."
When the swine flu fear first emerged, long before even one case was reported in Egypt, President Hosni Mubarak ordered that all the pigs be killed in order to prevent the spread of the disease.
When health officials worldwide said that the virus was not being passed by pigs, the Egyptian government said that the cull was no longer about the flu, but was about cleaning up the zabaleen's crowded, filthy, neighborhood. Plus, killing pigs is Holy, it's just like killing jooooos, except that they don't shoot back and beat you on the battlefield. And, besides, it's only Christians, so, who cares???? Teach them to stay in their place (in a ghetto).
That was in May.
Today the streets of the zabaleen community are as packed with stinking trash and as clouded with flies as ever before. But the zabaleen have done exactly what they said they would do: they stopped taking care of most of the organic waste.
Instead they dump it wherever they can or, at best, pile it beside trash bins scattered around the city by the international companies that have struggled in vain to keep up with the trash.
"They killed the pigs, let them clean the city," said Moussa Rateb, a former garbage collector and pig owner who lives in the community of the zabaleen. "Everything used to go to the pigs, now there are no pigs, so it goes to the administration." Must... resist... joke... about egyptian civil servants.
The recent trash problem was compounded when employees of one of the multinational companies -- men and women in green uniforms with crude brooms dispatched around the city -- stopped working in a dispute with the city.
The government says that the dispute has been resolved, but nothing has been done to repair the damage to the informal system that once had the zabaleen take Cairo's trash home. "Informal system" = let the dhimmis take care of that, The Master Religion has other loftier things to think about (like seething).
The garbage is only the latest example of the state's struggling to meet the needs of its citizens, needs as basic as providing water, housing, health care and education.
The government announced last week that schools would not be opened until the first week of October to give the government time to prepare for a potential swine flu outbreak, a decision that could have been made anytime over the past three months, while schools were closed for summer break, critics said.
Officials in the Ministry of Health and other government ministries said they had not made this decision -- and that they had counseled against pre-emptive school closings. It appears to have been ordered by the presidency and carried out by the governors, who also ordered that all private schools, already in class, be shut down as well.
"We did not propose or call for postponing schools, so the reason is not with us," said an official in the Ministry of Health who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to speak to the news media.
The heads of three large governorates, or states, in Egypt announced Wednesday that their strategy for keeping schoolchildren safe was to take classes, which on average are crowded with more than 60 students, and split them in half and have children attend school only three days a week, another decision that was criticized. There have been more than 800 confirmed cases of H1N1 in Egypt, and two flu-related deaths. Damn, only two?
"The state is troubled; as a result the system of decision making is disintegrating," said Galal Amin, an economist, writer and social critic. "They are ill-considered decisions taken in a bit of a hurry, either because you're trying to please the president or because you are a weak government that is anxious to please somebody."
Cairo's streets have always been busy with children and littered with trash. Must... resist... joke... about muslim kiddies.
Now, with the pigs gone, and the schools closed, they are even more so.
"The Egyptians are really in a mess," Mr. Amin said. Gee.
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Old Spin: We need to slaughter them to stop Swine Flu
New Spin: perhaps they were all Zionist Pigs?
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"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."
Douglas Adams
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I just know my nano-violin is around here somewhere....
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> The garbage is only the latest example of the state's struggling to meet the needs of its citizens, needs as basic as providing water, housing, health care and education.
Maybe they shouldn't try to? State provision is always badly directed.
"Paging the Pied Piper to the white courtesy phone. The Pied Piper to the white courtesy phone, please."
The thing is, labour is so cheap in Egypt they could easily afford to have the garbage carted out to the desert, which is sometimes only yards/meters from the inhabited area. Scoop out a large depression in the sand, fill with trash, cover over... and voila! Instant archeological site!
The MDC says it will begin a series of consultations and feedback rallies this weekend to assess whether to remain in the shaky power-sharing government with ZANU PF. In a press statement issued Friday the party said it would consult its supporters and 'the people of Zimbabwe...on the progress and the challenges facing the inclusive government.'
Starting this weekend 9 major rallies have been lined up across the country, with a least 39 ward consultations in six provinces meant to gauge the feeling of its members. The MDC said this 'engagement' is in line with resolutions made by the National Council in Bulawayo last weekend. On Wednesday, party spokesman Nelson Chamisa told Newsreel they had given themselves one month to finish the exercise and make a decision about their continued participation in the unity government. He said the exercise would look at whether the inclusive government was a worthwhile and sustainable 'vehicle for real change and democracy in Zimbabwe'.
There is growing disillusionment within MDC ranks over the refusal by ZANU PF to honour its obligations under the unity deal. Over 7 months since the government was formed MDC appointed governors have not yet been sworn in and attempts continue apace by ZANU PF to take the telecommunications sector from the ministry controlled by Chamisa. Farm seizures and disturbances continue unabated, while the disputed unilateral appointments of Reserve Bank governor Gideon Gono and Attorney General Johannes Tomana remain unresolved.
The coalition in general has been plagued by a lack of sincerity from ZANU PF. Mugabe's spokesman George Charamba has been given unfettered control of the state media and has been abusing it to spew hate speech against Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, the MDC and private independent Zimbabwe media. Parliamentarians from the MDC and other party officials continue to be selectively victimized by the police and the Attorney General's office. The same AG's office refuses to prosecute ZANU PF thugs responsible for last year's bloody election violence.
In different parts of the country MDC activists continue to be victimized. Last week in Mt Darwin two activists, Rebecca Chavunduka and Paul Chamboko, fled their homes in Kapiripiri village after being threatened by ZANU PF supporters. A colonel Zonge in the Zimbabwe National Army is said to be carrying out a 'clean-up exercise' of MDC supporters in the area. Zonge has even promised his hired thugs a new vehicle to use in their terror operations. Last year the same colonel was one of over 200 senior army officers deployed countrywide to carry out a campaign of terror and murder against opposition supporters, ahead of the one-man presidential run-off vote.
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To which another Muslim advocacy group replies: "Quit treating us like hypersensitive babies". Good for them.
A five-page advice booklet tells civil servants that eating lunch near a colleague who is fasting can make them feel hungry. The Home Office Islamic Network produced the advice which said: "In practical terms, please be sensitive when eating lunch near a Muslim colleague who is fasting. This can make an individual feel hungrier and make it more challenging to observe the fast."
It also urged Home Office managers to be flexible over working hours because Muslims may be following a different routine during Ramadan, which finished this weekend. "The most likely need Muslim staff may present to managers during this period is for flexibility around working hours and break times as those fasting will have a slightly different routine from usual. Managers and Muslim staff should discuss what their needs are and be responsive and sensitive," the document said.
Managers were also told: "Muslim staff who are fasting and whose environment allows it may wish to set out for work earlier than usual and finish their working day correspondingly early...in line with flexi-time arrangements."
During the holy month devout Muslims do not drink or eat from dawn until sunset and, according to the document, must avoid 'all obscene and irreligious sights and sounds'.
The Islamic Network is one of a number of staff faith and equality groups within the Home Office and paid for by the taxpayer.
The booklet was distributed to staff and posted on the department's internal intranet system but the Home Office said it was not "formal departmental guidance."
But the Muslim Public Affairs Committee, which claims to be fighting a 'political jihad against Islamophobia', attacked the document. It said: "It is designed to create more hatred in the hearts of non-Muslims. We don't care how much non-Muslims eat in front of us. It's never been an issue and never will be and we have never asked for any special treatment or sensitivity from non-Muslims whilst fasting."
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Another article I read said the employees were "warned" against eating near fasting Muslims, which implies consequences if they do. Ridiculous. Next they'll be wanting to give Muslim food service workers paid leave during Ramadan because, omg, being around food during a fast is just too tempting!
My Muslim coworkers not only fast during Ramadan, they also fast every Monday. Depending on the sect, some also fast every Thursday, as well. We frequently joke around about it. I can only imagine the resentment such a 'warning' would have caused in my place of employment.
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What bullsh*te. I ate large (beef, pork and seafood) with a fellow honky (heh), a (admittedly non-observant) muslim friend and my hindu ex last night. Didn't hear any complaints
A coroner expressed outrage Friday that police did nothing to protect a woman who killed herself and her teenage daughter after years of being tormented by a gang of local youths.
Fiona Pilkington, 38, set fire to her parked car on Oct. 24, 2007 while she and her severely disabled daughter, Francecca Hardwick, 18, known as Frankie, sat inside with the family's pet rabbit, an inquest jury heard.
The women's charred remains were found by a truck driver. The bodies were so badly burned that authorities had to use DNA samples to identify them.
Witnesses, including Pilkington's mother, told the inquest in Leicestershire, England, that the single mother and her two children were repeatedly harassed in an ordeal that lasted more than a decade. The witnesses said a gang of "street kids," some as young as 10, tormented the family for simply "existing," The Times of London said.
The gang members threw flour, eggs and stones at the family's home in Barwell, Leicestershire, smashed windows and shouted obscenities, the inquest heard. They shouted at Frankie to lift up her nightgown. They thrust fireworks through the family's letterbox. They urinated against the home's walls. When Frankie tried to go for a walk with her mother, they followed her, imitating her unusual gait.
Pilkington's son, Anthony, who had severe dyslexia, was locked in a shed at knifepoint and beaten with a metal bar, the inquest was told, according to the Daily Mail. Anthony, now 19, was with his grandparents on the night his mother and Frankie died in the fire.
Pilkington, who was a full-time caregiver to her children, called police more than 30 times in the seven years before her death, but no action was taken. At one point, police told Pilkington that she was "overreacting," the inquest heard.
On Friday, the second day of the inquest, Assistant Deputy Coroner Olivia Davison demanded to know why "common sense and basic old-fashioned policing" had not prevailed.
"It seems to me that , given the history and the context of the abuse, it would not have been anti-social behavior but a crime because we had people being hounded in their own house," she said.
Pilkington's mother, Pamela Cassell, 72, said that her daughter had been especially dreading the approach of Halloween, when the local youths upped their harassment of the family.
Pilkington left five letters addressed to family members, the Leicester Mercury said. In one, which was read at the inquest, she said: "11 years of misery, no wonder my hair is coming out. What do to? Take another 11 years of criminal damage and years of abuse? What do I have to do to get my street back to a normal one so people can go out at night?"
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They thrust fireworks through the family's letterbox.
Okay, so she left some letters, so maybe it's clear. But am I the only one to think that setting fire to yourself in your car is a very unusual method of suicide? The quote, "What do I have to do to get my street back to a normal one so people can go out at night?" hardly sounds like a suicide statement. I can't help wondering if they were murdered and the very same authorities who did nothing for 11 years are covering it up. Nobody lights themselves on fire in a car.
Home Office staff were officially warned not to eat in front of their fasting Muslim colleagues during Ramadan in case it made them feel hungry.
The advice came in a taxpayer-funded internal document listing dos and donts during the Muslim holy month, which ends this weekend.
The chief of the Russian military's General Staff, visiting Cuba, says his country will help Havana modernize and train its military and that Moscow warships will visit Cuba soon, according to reports published Friday. The visit by Gen. Nikolai Y. Makarov as well as the head of Russian military intelligence and other high-ranking officers has sparked broad speculation about a possible renewal of the once extremely close relations between Moscow and Havana's armed forces.
``Although maintaining a military presence in Latin America has logistical and financial problems for Russia, it will still force the United States to address the Russian presence in its backyard,'' wrote Stratfor, a private geopolitical analysis firm based in Austin, Texas.
Moscow may also be interested in reopening the Lourdes electronic eavesdropping facility in Cuba that it closed under U.S. pressures in 2001, wrote Jaime Suchlicki, director of the Institute for Cuban and Cuban American Studies at the University of Miami.
Makarov has been in Cuba several days leading a delegation that the newspaper Granma reported includes Lt. Gen. Alexander Shlyakhturov, head of the Russian military intelligence agency known as GRU, and Maj. Gen. Vyacheslav M. Proshkin, head of the General Staff's International Military Cooperation department.
The Stratfor report said Makarov declared on Friday that Russia ``will aid Cuba in the near future in modernizing its Soviet-era equipment and in training the country's military personnel'' Makarov also announced ``that preparations are under way for Russian warships to visit Cuba soon,'' the report added.
Russia's Itar-Tass news agency Friday quoted Makarov as saying that during his meetings with Cuba's Raúl Castro they discussed ``issues of military-technical and military cooperation, primarily associated with the studies of Cuban specialists in Russia.''
Stratfor and Suchlicki noted that Makarov's visit was only the latest sign of warming relations between the Cuba and Russian armed forces, which cooled significantly after the Soviet Union collapsed and Russia halted subsidies to Havana estimated at $4-$6 billion a year.
Isn't this how the Soviet Union lost the Cold War last time?
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Maybe this was what Obama got in return for pulling the missile defense system from Poland and the Czech Republic.
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Let 'em waste the time and money.
To my recollection the Cuban army hasn't had a presence abroad since Reagan had them bitchslapped in Grenada. There was the day when the helped rip Africa apart, but that was a long time ago.
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Bitch slapped in Africa as well, along with a few Russian advisors. Not much discussion on it of late however. Probably some inside the beltway deal involving Russians and the UK at the time. Just a wild guess.
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If health control reform passes, Cuba will need all the help they can get to beat off the hordes of Americans floating to Cuba in GM cars for the wonderful free health care.
India has moved hundreds of troops to the Chinese border along the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh, but an army officer said on Sunday that this was a routine winter exercise.
At least 60 to 70 trucks carrying soldiers proceeded towards the Chinese border in Tawang and nearby posts, snaking through a rough mountainous terrain at an altitude of over 14,000 feet.
Army officials denied they were deploying extra soldiers in the forward posts. According to army commanders, the troop movement was part of "Operation Alert", a winter exercise that sees soldiers move into inhospitable border areas of Jammu and Kashmir and the northeast ahead of the bitter weather conditions that make the roads impassable due to heavy snowfall.
"There is no threat or no extra forces being sent to the border," said an army commander. "Reports of troop build up are rumours. Don't read too much into army convoys moving to the border."
Local residents, however, said they had not seen such military activity in recent years. "The movement of troops has surely increased," said Moni Lama, a Buddhist monk.
The border deployment comes amid persistent reports of Chinese incursions and Beijing's opposition to the visit of Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama to Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh. China has denied any incursions by its army into India. And Indian officials say the number of border breaches has shown no dramatic increase to warrant undue worries.
Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Jiang Yu said: "We firmly oppose the Dalai (Lama) visiting the so-called 'Arunachal Pradesh'." China disputes the ownership of Arunachal Pradesh.
India has said that the Dalai Lama is free to travel to any part of the country. The Tibetan spiritual leader has lived in India since fleeing his homeland in 1959 after a failed revolt against Communist rule.
Takam Sanjay, a ruling Congress MP from Arunachal Pradesh, told IANS: "We welcome the Dalai Lama's visit to Arunachal Pradesh. China has no reason to interfere in India's internal matters."
It is through Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh that the Dalai Lama entered India.
The India-China border along Arunachal Pradesh is separated by the McMahon Line, an imaginary border now known as the Line of Actual Control (LAC).
India and China fought a border war in 1962, with Chinese troops advancing deep into Arunachal Pradesh and inflicting heavy casualties on poorly armed Indian troops.
The border dispute with China was inherited by India from British rulers, who hosted a 1914 conference with the Tibetan and Chinese governments that set the border in what is now Arunachal Pradesh. China has never recognised the 1914 McMahon Line and claims 90,000 sq km, including nearly all of Arunachal Pradesh. India accuses China of occupying 8,000 sq km in Jammu and Kashmir.
After 1962, tensions flared again in 1986 with Indian and Chinese forces clashing in Sumdorong Chu valley of Arunachal Pradesh. Chinese troops reportedly built a helipad in the valley leading to the fresh skirmishes.
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OTOH CHINESE MILITARY FORIM > POSTER THREAD > YOUTUBE - RUSSIANS ARE SLOWLY FREEZING TO DEATH. TIME FOR RUSSIA TO GIVE BACK VLADIVOSTOK.
* SAME > OTHER POSTERS > in time, CHINA will eventually take over all of EASTERN RUSSIA. OR, in alternate, KOREAS > will take back VLADISVOSTOK + HARBIN [ancient KORYE/CORE]???
Thousands of troops were deployed in Thailand as rival political groups held separate protests, one of which turned violent.
Crowds of demonstrators turned out in Bangkok to mark the third anniversary of the coup which ousted controversial Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
On the Cambodian border an anti-Thaksin group clashed with police as it tried to enter a disputed border temple. Several people were injured and one man was shot in the neck, an official said.
Security forces and local villagers had set up roadblocks to try to prevent the group entering the 11th century Preah Vihear site, the scene of deadly shootings between Cambodian and Thai troops in recent months.
In Bangkok, thousands of troops and police were ordered onto the streets ahead of the protest by Mr Thaksin's red-shirted supporters. Mr Thaksin himself is in overseas exile, and has been convicted in absentia of corruption.
In a speech to his supporters via videolink, he called for national reconciliation. "Our country has deteriorated and risks being a failed state. I have already forgiven everybody, let's start anew and decide on new elections," he was quoted as saying by AFP news agency.
Mr Thaksin won elections in 2001 and 2005, swept to office by a wave of support from rural voters whose concerns he worked to address. After he was ousted, his allies won the first post-coup elections in 2007. But protests - including a blockade of Bangkok's two international airports - by those who opposed him, the yellow-shirted People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD), forced that government from office, allowing the party they backed to form a coalition.
The red camp want fresh elections and a pardon for Mr Thaksin. Their last rally, in April, ended in violence, with several buses burned and dozens of people injured.
By early evening, several thousand demonstrators had joined the protests, police said. "This will be a peaceful protest and will end by midnight if the government does not use violence," Red Shirt leader Jatuporn Promphan said.
The yellow camp, meanwhile, battled riot police and local villagers near Preah Vihear, the temple complex at the heart of a border dispute between Thailand and Cambodia. An international court awarded the temple area to Cambodia in 1962, but disputes over land surrounding it have never been resolved. The PAD says the government must eject Cambodian troops from what they perceive as Thai territory.
About 4,000 PAD supporters had joined the protest, reports said, and had broken through barricades to reach the foot of the temple.
Both Thailand and Cambodia deployed troops there last year after the temple was awarded Unesco World Heritage status, raising nationalist sentiment on either side. Since then there have been several deadly exchanges of fire across the border.
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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.
By MICHAEL SLACKMAN
A coroner expressed outrage Friday that police did nothing to protect a woman who killed herself and her teenage daughter after years of being tormented by a gang of local youths.
