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Only 30 million worldwide? That doesn't really seem a lot, under the circumstances. Perhaps Oxfam misplaced a decimal point somewhere in the calculations.
(Bloomberg) -- South Africa's ruling party added its voice to growing international criticism of President Robert Mugabe as Zimbabwe's opposition officially withdrew from this week's presidential runoff poll.
Jacob Zuma, the leader of South Africa's African National Congress, described the situation in Zimbabwe as ``out of control,'' while the party said in an e-mailed statement it is ``deeply dismayed'' at the actions of Mugabe's government.
The criticism comes after Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, announced he won't participate in the second round of voting on June 27. He pulled out after 86 people died and 200,000 fled their homes because of what he called the state's ``violent retributive agenda.''
The ANC's statement and Zuma's remarks contrasted with the cautious approach of South African President Thabo Mbeki, who lost control of the ANC to Zuma in December. South Africa ``joins other members of the Security Council in expressing regret at the continuing violence and intimidation'' in Zimbabwe, Mbeki's office said in a statement published today on the SAPA PR wire.
Mbeki fought against apartheid from exile and was for a time sheltered by Mugabe, whose Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front won independence from the U.K. in 1980 after a civil war against white minority rule. The South African president was appointed by the 14-nation Southern African Development Community to mediate in the Zimbabwean crisis.
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They got enough problems in their own dung heap.
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Tutu was in the news this morning condemning Bob. Nobel laureate Archbiship Desmond Tutu also called for peacekeepers to be sent to Zimbabwe.
Mugabe "has mutated into something quite unbelievable. He has really turned into a kind of Frankenstein for his people," Tutu told ABC television in Australia.
Not that it means much. (Praised with faint condemnation?)
Influential leaders in South Africa and Senegal on Tuesday joined the global condemnation of Zimbabwe's lethal political violence and called on President Robert Mugabe to cancel Friday's election on grounds it would not reflect the free will of voters.
At campaign stops Tuesday, Mugabe vowed to go forward with the runoff vote even though his only rival, opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, has dropped out of the race at the demand of supporters terrorized by months of killings, beatings, arrests, torture and kidnappings. As Jacob Zuma, the head of South Africa's ruling party, and Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade expressed rising concern, Mugabe mocked Tsvangirai's decision to boycott the vote and take refuge in the Dutch Embassy.
Tsvangirai's withdrawal has intensified the criticism of Mugabe and his determination to cling to power after 28 years despite sharply declining popularity and an economy that has gone from terrible to cataclysmic in recent months. A single U.S. dollar is now worth 14 billion Zimbabwean dollars on the black market, pushing an ever-growing number of people into poverty and hunger.
As several regional leaders prepared to meet Wednesday in Swaziland for a summit on Zimbabwe, Zuma said the situation in the country was "out of control," according to news reports. His African National Congress issued a sharply worded statement calling for Friday's election to be canceled in favor of an urgent new round of negotiations between Mugabe and the opposition. The statement went far beyond the comments made previously by South African President Thabo Mbeki, who has been widely criticized for treating Mugabe with excessive deference. It accused the government of "riding roughshod" over the opposition.
"The ugly incidents and scenes that have been visited on the people of Zimbabwe persuade us that a run-off Presidential election offers no solution to Zimbabwe's crisis," the statement said. "The very legitimacy of the run-off has already been severely compromised by the actions of both ZANU (PF) militants and those of state officials who do not even conceal their partiality in favor of the governing party." The Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front, or ZANU-PF, is Mugabe's party. The statement, issued a day after a tough U.N. Security Council statement about Zimbabwe, also rejected suggestions of outside intervention, saying that the Zimbabwean people must solve the crisis on their own. "Any attempts by outside players to impose regime change will merely deepen the crisis," it said, going on to list injustices of British colonial rule.
Major international powers, however outraged by the recent wave of torture, beatings, arrests and killings, have few obvious tools for ejecting a ruling group that controls every important lever of power in Zimbabwean society. Many Zimbabweans are hoping for decisive intervention from the Southern African Development Community, the region's most important intergovernmental group. Its members have grown increasingly critical of Mugabe -- once a nearly universally revered leader of African liberation -- since March 2007, when Tsvangirai was arrested and viciously beaten along with 50 other party activists.
"They are inching toward a more proactive resolution of the crisis," said Jonathon Moyo, a former information minister in Mugabe's government who is now an independent member of parliament loosely aligned with the opposition. "They can persuade the Zimbabwean government to take a certain course of action. They are the only ones who can do that."
DHAKA: Bangladesh President Iajuddin Ahmed has been admitted to hospital here with a viral fever, a spokesman said Tuesday.
The 77-year-old president fell ill two days ago and was admitted to the Combined Military Hospital in the capital Dhaka late Monday evening as a precaution, press secretary Abdul Awal Hawlader told AFP. The president has been suffering from fever for two days and he was admitted to hospital because his temperature was very high. Medical reports show it is a viral fever, and his temperature is now improving, he said.
Ahmed was elected president by the parliament in September 2002 after the resignation of AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury, who fell out with then Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, the leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party. The head of state has had little authority over day-to-day affairs since a change in the constitution in 1991 vested most powers in the prime minister.
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(Bloomberg) -- Thirty-eight people were killed in violence tied to Mexican drug cartels yesterday, the highest single-day tally this year, El Universal reported.
Eighteen of the deaths happened in the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez, the Mexico City-based newspaper said, citing its own tally. More than 2,800 troops have been stationed in the state where Ciudad Juarez is located to crack down on the cartels, the newspaper reported.
More than 1,833 people have been killed this year in violence tied to the drug trade in Mexico, the newspaper reported.
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CJ is off limits to the military at Ft Bliss. Someday in the future, whoever shifted that combat division from Ft Hood to Ft Bliss, for whatever real reason, will look a visionary.
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I'd just point out that Mexico doesn't have the legal restraints that US law enforcement does. No bill of rights, no nothing. They could drag all these guys out in the street and shoot them dead on the spot if they really wanted to.
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I keep saying that Mexico is slowly sliding down the slope. America needs to have a de-integration plan ready.
The $64 question is what does the typical Mexican on the street think? The theme of attempted military coups and violent revolutions keep cropping up in their recent movies.
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I think the typical Mexican wants to be able to stay at home and raise his or her family without all the killing and corruption. Just my take from people I know who live in Mexico. They can't understand our Nanny State rules and regulations for almost anything.
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I'm a total fence hardass, but I believe most Mexicans are friendly, law-abiding, hard-working people. It is the sheer economic asshatedness, kleptocracy, and mismanagement that makes Mexico a "fucked-up" neighbor.
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asshattedness, dammit
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Here's three more news articles [average] on the Gang Violence down Mexico Way AND Southern Caliphornia, Southern Arizona, Southern New Mexico and South Texas.
Morning Edition, May 18, 2007 · Vowing to topple drug cartels in Mexico, President Felipe Calderon has deployed thousands of troops to fight deadly drug gangs. The bloodiest gunfight recently occurred along the border with Arizona when armed assailants killed 22 people, including five policemen, in a five-hour gun battle. More than 900-1500 people were killed in drug-related incidents in Mexico this year.
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Eventually this mess is going to spill over the border and some Border Patrolman or local official or citizen and his family are going to get wiped out. Maybe at that point "border control" will become more of an important and something will be done. Amnesty will cease to be an issue.
The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of a U.S. serviceman, missing in action from the Korean War, have been identified and will be returned to his family for burial with full military honors.
He is Sgt. Gene F. Clark, U.S. Army, of Muncie, Ind. He will be buried June 28 in Muncie.
Representatives from the Army met with Clark's next-of-kin to explain the recovery and identification process, and to coordinate interment with military honors on behalf of the secretary of the Army.
In September 1950, Clark was assigned to Company L, 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division then occupying a defensive position along the Nammyon River near a bend known as the Camels Head. On Nov. 1, 1950, parts of two Chinese Communist divisions struck the 1st Cavalry Divisions lines, collapsing the perimeter and forcing a withdrawal. Clark was reported missing on Nov. 2, 1950, and was one of the more than 350 servicemen unaccounted-for from the battle at Unsan.
Between 1991-94, North Korea turned over to the United States 208 boxes of remains believed to contain the remains of 200-400 U.S. servicemen. Among several boxes turned over in 1993, one contained a dog tag for Clark, and the accompanying North Korean documents indicated that the remains were exhumed near Chonsung-Ri, Unsan County, North Pyongan Province. This location correlates with where Clarks unit fought during the battle at Unsan.
Among other forensic identification tools and circumstantial evidence, scientists from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory also used mitochondrial DNA and dental comparisons in the identification of Clarks remains.
For additional information on the Defense Departments mission to account for missing Americans, visit the DPMO Web site at http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo or call (703) 699-1169.
China has developed a new-generation supersonic trainer aircraft with state-of-the-art turbines and a full authority digital engine control. The L15-03 trainer plane, developed by the Hongdu Aviation Industry Group based in Nanchang of Jiangxi Province, had a successful maiden flight last month, according to a press release from the conglomerate.
Zhang Hong, chief engineer for the L15-03 program, said in comparison with its prototype, the new plane shows improved engine function and reliability. Other improvements, such as the adoption of an aeroastrodynamics layout from a third-generation fighter plane, enable the new plane to bring precision and immediate responsiveness to the control of the engine's operation for a change of the plane nose's orientation, said Zhang.
The L15-03 can be used for advanced training and strategic pilot drills, said Zhang, adding that it would take two to three years to get the new trainer plane into mass production.
Hongdu is a division of the China Aviation Industry Corp. and was the maker of the first plane in New China.
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Zhang Hong says "After translating stolen designs provided by the government, we were able to make a almost exact copy. The money saved for R&D and cuts in safety will be used to pay buy more stolen designs."
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No pictures of the plane in the article. I wonder how much of a copy of the Aero L-159 ALCA that this new "Chinese-designed and -developed aircraft" truly is? The Czechs had trouble with a couple members of the Chinese embassy staff several months back, and those staff members left the country in a hurry.
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Be prepared to air drop joints around the convention center. The anarchists will be sidetracked on the spot by their favorite abuse substance, light up and tune out. For the non-smoking comrades drop brownies.
Have public address systems inform them that free munchies are available at White Bear Lake.
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Bloomberg poll is the cheerleading section for the dhimocrats. They still had Kerry up by 5-7 points, as I remember, on election night. Never mind the fact they other polls showed him getting trounced.
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The Gallup Poll surveyed registered voters. Likely voters will give McCain the lead already, even though up to now all the news coverage has been about Obama.
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I looked it up. In June '04 LATimes had Kerry up by 7. Newsweek had Kerry up by 12.
HE DOESN'T NEED YOU ANY MORE: "Only weeks into the general election campaign and already a notable tension is beginning to materialize within the Democratic Party. At question is Sen. Barack Obama's relationship with the progressive netroots, the online community that helped aid the Senator's rise to the presidential nomination, but has since seemingly played second fiddle in terms of courted constituencies."
Sorry, guys. You were useful, but now you're looking like a liability, and liabilities go under the bus with all the other liabilities. Say hello to Jeremiah Wright for me! And Father Michael Pfleger!
And Samantha Power! And Jim Johnson!
And that fake Presidential seal. And his grandma!
And, heck, even Scarlett Johansson!
That's right. Scarlett Johansson. And you guys think he won't drop you?
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FREEREPUBLIC > seems like US Muslims feel they're recently snubbed by DEM BARACK OBAMA just for being Muslim???
Someone should remind Barack what POTUS FDR said, i.e. HAVING NOTHING TO FEAR EXCEPT FEAR ITSELF.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday outlawed executions of people convicted of raping a child. In the usual a 5-4 vote, the court said the Louisiana law allowing the death penalty to be imposed in such cases violates the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
'The death penalty is not a proportional punishment for the rape of a child,' Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in his majority opinion. His four liberal colleagues joined him, while the four more conservative justices dissented.
Patrick Kennedy, 43, was sentenced to death for the rape of his 8-year-old stepdaughter in Louisiana. He is one of two people in the United States, both in Louisiana, who have been condemned to death for a rape that was not also accompanied by a killing.
The Supreme Court banned executions for rape in 1977 in a case in which the victim was an adult woman.
Forty-five states ban the death penalty for any kind of rape, and the other five states allow it for child rapists. Montana, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas allow executions in such cases if the defendant had previously been convicted of raping a child.
The court struggled over how to apply standards laid out in decisions barring executions for the mentally retarded and people younger than 18 when they committed murder. In those cases, the court cited trends in the states away from capital punishment.
In this case, proponents of the Louisiana law said the trend was toward the death penalty, a point mentioned by Justice Samuel Alito in his dissent. 'The harm that is caused to the victims and to society at large by the worst child rapists is grave,' Alito wrote. 'It is the judgment of the Louisiana lawmakers and those in an increasing number of other states that these harms justify the death penalty.'
But Kennedy said the absence of any executions for rape and the small number of states that allow it demonstrate 'there is a national consensus against capital punishment for the crime of child rape.' Oh, really?
Justice Kennedy cares much more for national and international consensus than he does for precedent and the Framers, so long as the consensus agrees with him ...
Kennedy also acknowledged that the decision had to come to terms with 'the years of long anguish that must be endured by the victim of child rape.'
Still, Kennedy concluded that in cases of crimes against individuals as opposed to treason, for example 'the death penalty should not be expanded to instances where the victim's life was not taken.' The decision does not affect the imposition of the death penalty for other crimes that do not involve murder, including treason and espionage, he said.
'It looks like a smashing victory on all fronts for us,' said Denise LeBoeuf, a longtime capital defense attorney from New Orleans.
The girl's mother said, 'We don't talk about that' and hung up.
The author of the Louisiana law, former Republican state Rep. Pete Schneider, said even opponents of the death penalty told him they would kill anyone who raped their children. 'When are you going to have the courage to stand up for what's right for all of the people but especially the children under 12 that have been brutally raped by monsters?' Schneider said, directing his comments to the justices in Wednesday's majority.
The last executions for crimes other than murder took place in 1964, according to a database maintained by the Death Penalty Information Center. Ronald Wolfe, 34, died in Missouri's gas chamber on May 8, 1964 for rape. James Coburn was electrocuted in Alabama on Sept. 4 of that year for robbery.
Patrick Kennedy was convicted in 2003 of raping his stepdaughter at their home in Harvey, La., outside New Orleans. The girl initially told police she was sorting Girl Scout cookies in the garage when two boys assaulted her. Police arrested Kennedy a couple of weeks after the March 1998 rape, but more than 20 months passed before the girl identified him as her attacker. His defense attorney at the time argued that blood testing was inconclusive and that the victim was pressured to change her story.
The Louisiana Supreme Court upheld the sentence, saying that 'short of first-degree murder, we can think of no other non-homicide crime more deserving' of the death penalty. State Chief Justice Pascal Calogero noted in dissent that the U.S. high court already had made clear that capital punishment could not be imposed without the death of the victim, except possibly for espionage or treason.
A second Louisiana man, Richard Davis was sentenced to death in December for repeatedly raping a 5-year-old girl in Caddo Parish, which includes Shreveport. Local prosecutor Lea Hall told jurors: 'Execute this man. Justice has a sword and this sword needs to swing today.'
The high court's decision leaves intact Kennedy's conviction, but will lead to a new sentence.
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'It looks like a smashing victory on all fronts for us,' said Denise LeBoeuf, a longtime capital defense attorney from New Orleans.
Well, if I'm sitting on a jury of a father or mother who blasted some miscreant who raped their 8 year old, I'd be hard press to come back with anything other than improper discharge of a weapon in city limits. Lawyers like the above absolutely fail to grasp that law is just an extension of government and the it all resides upon the consent of the governed. Consent can be withdrawn in so many ways.
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Buried deep in their decision was an interesting rationalization, that because the death penalty appeals process was so long, the child victim would be forced for years, or even decades, to shepherd the rapist through the process.
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The "Kennedy Rule": that when the Court decides 5-4 that any government has done anything contrary to the Constitution, and Justice Kennedy was one of the five, the case was wrongly decided. And its corollary: if Justice Kennedy writes the opinion of the Court in such a case, it will be incoherently reasoned.
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Oops, make that organized militias under the express and direct control of the state (state, in this case, being defined as the federal government).
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So what's the process for convicting 5 of the 4 Justices of the Supreme Court for treason, for attempting to destroy the United States and the constitution?
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And SAUDI ARABIA has decided thats its okay for a an INFANT GIRL TO GET MARRIED AT AGE ONE YEAR.
As for GUN OWNERSHIP, IIRC FOX NEWS AM > new legal impetus appears NOT to be on challenging the US CONSTITIONAL provion on the right of citizens to bear arms, BUT INSTEAD TO FOCII ON A STATE'S + STATES' RIGHT TO "MONITOR" AND
"REGULATE" [read- LIMIT] PRIVATE GUN OWNERSHIP, hence SSSSHHHHHH bypassing andor degrading said Constitutional provision???
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So what's the process for convicting 5 of the 4 Justices of the Supreme Court for treason, for attempting to destroy the United States and the constitution?
It starts with the impeachment process in the House which is why voting for Congress is just as, if not, more important than the lesser of two evils in the Presidential contest.
Republican John McCain said Tuesday the federal government should practice the energy efficiency he preaches, pledging as president to switch official vehicles to green technologies and do the same for office buildings.
Expanding upon his ideas to address the nation's energy crisis, the Arizona senator also called for a redesign of the national power grid so power is better distributed where it's needed and the country has the capacity to run electric vehicles that he wants automakers to supply.
"Our federal government is never shy about instructing the American people in good environmental practice. But energy efficiency, like charity, should begin at home," McCain said before conducting an energy round-table at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.
McCain drives a 2003 Cadillac CTS, a sedan the Environmental Protection Agency says gets 16 to 24 miles per gallon and emits about 9.6 tons of greenhouse gases annually. When campaigning, he's ferried by the Secret Service using a fleet of Chevrolet Suburbans, a full-size SUV the EPA estimates gets 12 to 20 mpg and emits 9 to 13 tons of greenhouse gases. Obama? Harry and Nancy? Al Gore???
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Sorry, Mods, NON-WOT please.
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Pakistan features among the worlds 10 most dysfunctional countries, according to an annual survey released on Monday.
The Failed States Index places Pakistan in the ninth slot moving it three notches up from its last years position as the 12th most failed state of the world.
Seven of the most dysfunctional countries are in sub-Saharan Africa, largely due to continuing conflict either in Somalia or in Sudans Darfur region.
The top 10, in order, are Somalia, Sudan, Zimbabwe, Chad, Iraq, Congo, Afghanistan, Ivory Coast, Pakistan and the Central African Republic. The index is compiled annually by the independent magazine Foreign Policy and Fund for Peace, an independent research organisation.
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Most seem to have either socialists or muslims in power
Prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has appointed Maulana Hamid Saeed Kazmi as Adviser to the Prime minister on Religious Affairs. Maulana Kazmi thanked the prime minister and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari for their confidence in him. He vowed to do his best and to contribute to further improvement in the Ministry of Religious Affairs. Maulana Kazmi is also secretary general of the Nizam-e-Mustafa party, which contested in the recent general elections as a coalition partner of the PPP. He has been elected twice as member of the National Assembly, and in the recent elections he was elected from Rahimyar Khan.
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A leading cardinal has called on the Islamic world to allow individual Muslims "the freedom to convert" to Christianity, arguing that this does not threaten Islamic identity. In an address delivered in Amman, Jordan.
The baptism in Rome at Easter of Magdi Allam, an Egyptian-born Italian Muslim journalist, by Pope Benedict XVI, caused outrage in parts of the Muslim world. This week death threats to Mr Allam and Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian Prime Minister, were posted on a website said to be close to al-Qaeda.
At an inter-faith meeting in religious freedom organised in Amman, the capital of Jordan, by the Venice-based Oasis Centre, Cardinal Angelo Scola, the Patriarch of Venice said that no-one, "not even Muslims", had the right to impose "the identity of community" to the point where it "violates the human freedom of the individual, included the freedom to convert".
Oasis was founded by Cardinal Scola five years ago to create an international network promoting inter-faith dialogue. Speaking at the conference, attended by over 80 delegates from 20 countries, he said that "in our globalised society, tension between religious freedom and the traditional identity of a people is becoming more and more troubling." This was not in itself new, as "the rich history of Venice and its millennial relationships with the Muslim Levant" showed.
But "the impressive trade and cultural exchanges that La Serenissima engaged in with the East involved only a limited elite. The overwhelming majority of people were deeply rooted in their traditional identity.Today it's not like that any more."
The" disturbing question", Cardinal Scola said, was "what happens to the identity of a community if a sizeable number of people begin to call it into question, either because they come from another religion or because they convert to another religion."
In some countries with Muslim majorities those born into another religion were tolerated, but "the identity of the people concerned would appear to be threatened if a Muslim asks to convert." The attitude of Muslim rulers was "if you want to leave Islam, you have to leave the country."
Modern Western societies by contrast saw religious freedom as "the prerogative of the individual, an inalienable right, to be sure, but something with no public relevance, as if religion was only an individual matter and not a fact of a community and a people."
Consequently Westerners felt threatened when Muslim immigrants formed a religiously cohesive bloc in the heart of Western societies. The answer was for both the Western and Eastern worlds to find a third way and achieve the "right balance" between religious freedom and the identity of a community, Cardinal Scola said. "Christians don't want to pose a risk to the basis of social relationships in countries with a Muslim majority, but, and let us be clear about this, they ask in return the same kind of respect for our own traditions from those arriving here."
As for the right to convert, "In the end, what good can truth receive from keeping within a religion people who do not believe in it anymore?" Cardinal Scola asked. Deserting one religion for another was more honest than continuing to take part in a faith "for the sake of appearances".
Vatican officials said that Cardinal Scola had met Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad of Jordan during the conference to pave the way for the first Catholic-Muslim Forum, convened by Pope Benedict and to be held in October in Rome.
Hasan Abû Ni'mah, head of the Jordanian Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies, said that dialogue between the world's great faiths based on common moral and human values was the only alternative to a "clash of civilisations" involving "war, death, violence and terrorism".
Iran on Tuesday condemned the European Unions adoption of new economic sanctions over its peaceful nuclear activities.
Such illegal and duplicitous approaches, at a time when packages are being studied, are meaningless and are strongly condemned, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini said in a statement.
EUs latest sanctions, which were approved on Monday during a meeting of EU agriculture and fisheries ministers in Luxembourg, include visa-ban on 20 individuals and asset-freeze on Iran's largest state bank, Bank Melli, and 15 other organizations. European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana visited Tehran on June 14 to deliver a revised offer of economic and political incentives from the 5+1 group (the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and China) in exchange for a suspension of Irans uranium enrichment activities.
In a counterproposal, Iran has presented its package of proposals suggesting solutions to various political, security, economic, and nuclear issues.
The policy of carrot and stick against Iran will not influence the countrys national will to progress in the field of modern technologies, and will not stop it from realizing its inalienable rights, Hosseini noted.
Such behavior will make the Islamic Republic more determined in gaining its inalienable rights, he noted, adding that such measures will weaken the opportunities related to the Europeans interests.
EUs measures do not offer any help for promoting a suitable atmosphere for implementing a diplomatic solution, he stated.
The Foreign Ministry spokesman urged the EU to avoid ostentatious moves, respect the Iranians rights, and adopt peaceful solutions based on the common grounds in the packages proposed by the two sides
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adopt peaceful solutions based on the common grounds in the packages proposed by the two sides
In other words, knuckle under, dhimmis. Oh yeah - and send us some nuclear fuel while you're at it.
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send us some nuclear fuel while you're at it.
Be glad to, from about 1500 miles away, via Trident missile submarine. Enjoy!
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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.
The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of a U.S. serviceman, missing in action from the Korean War, have been identified and will be returned to his family for burial with full military honors.
Pakistan features among the worlds 10 most dysfunctional countries, according to an annual survey released on Monday. 
