Can we file this under "Quis custodiet ipsos custodies"?
[An Nahar] A Chinese runaway has been discovered working as a prison warden a decade after he went on the run to escape assault charges, the Beijing News reported on Thursday.
Wang Zhijia, 37, was accused of attacking his wife with a brick 10 years ago after the pair argued about a domestic issue.
Police discovered this week that he was working at a prison in eastern China's Anhui province -- around 260 kilometers (160 miles) away from his home in central China, the newspaper reported.
Wang posed as his brother to get a job as an assistant with the police force in Anhui in 2008 and began working at the jail two months ago, it said.
He was caught after police checks found that two people were using the same name and identity card number.
The local police force said Wang had been hired for "temporary work" and that they were investigating what had gone wrong.
Wang's wife has since divorced him and married another man. She still suffers from headache, amnesia and deafness, the report said.
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[An Nahar] Bloggers in the United States are seizing upon a couple of exploding toilets in a federal building to make light of Washington's many political woes.
Two federal employees were hurt when a backup of air pressure caused by faulty plumbing caused two toilets to blow up at the General Services Administration's regional headquarters on Monday.
"Do not flush toilets or use any domestic water," said the independent federal agency, which provides support services to U.S. government departments, in an urgent memo to staff in the building, WUSA television reported.
But bloggers with a sense of irony had another take on the incident.
"A new way to get government employees off their butts. Now we need to install the same equipment in the halls of Congress," wrote one Huffington Post blogger.
"What do you expect?" added another blogger named Themama. "It happened in DC. No one produces as much manure as politicians and as the manure decomposes it gives off methane. Ergo boom."
On washingtonpost.com, 172pilot alluded to President Barack B.O. Obama's health care reforms: "Obamacare ran out of funds for the second victim. He's been assigned an 'end of life counselor'."
For water engineers, "domestic water" means potable water, but CatChick74 said: "If the federal government begins using imported water in all the toilets, it will really impact the budget."
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I always thought an Elton John was a 2000 npound toilet.
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[Dawn] Four more patients, including a staff nurse and a police constable, died of dengue fever in the city on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth had turned a paler shade of blue. Star-A-Star had struck again... the number of dengue fever patients confirmed officially has touched 10,000 in Lahore after 459 new cases were
reported on Wednesday.
Reports said 17-year old Asma Kanwal of Kot Addu, staff nurse at the Lahore General Hospital, was assigned duty at the "dengue ward".
LGH Principal Prof Tariq Salahuddin said she suffered dengue fever some 10 days back when she was busy in serving patients at the dengue ward. She suddenly fainted and was immediately shifted to the ICU where she remained under treatment of senior doctors but to no avail. He said in a condolence meeting held at LGH on Wednesday, the hospital administration demanded that the government award Tamgha-i-Shujaat to Asma for sacrificing her life for a national cause.
He further said the hospital also stressed the government ensure financial assistance for the bereaved family.
Deployed at the Lytton Road cop shoppe, 26-year old constable Muhammad Fayyaz also died at the LGH. He was shifted to the health facility some days back and was diagnosed as dengue fever patient in the clinical reports.
A young woman, Irshad Bibi of Lohari Gate was tested positive for the dengue virus at Mayo Hospital. On Wednesday she died owing to decreasing platelet counts and bleeding while an elderly woman, Gulzar Bibi, also died at the same health facility owing to dengue fever.
A health department report said some 530 new dengue patients were reported in Punjab during the last 24 hours, of which 459 belonged to Lahore. The total number of dengue patients in the province has touched 11,584 whereas 10,244 relate to Lahore.
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Allan will protect you
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For a map, click here. To read previous exclusive Rantburg reports on the Moreira debt scandal, click here, here and here
By Chris Covert
The leader of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) suffered another political setback as the new Mexican Minsiter of Finance filed a second complaint in Coahuila's state debt scandal Wednesday, according to Mexican news accounts.
And in a late related development, Coahuila state and bank negotiations are expected to be concluded Friday with a total of MP $26 billion (USD $189,987,720.00)in short term financing, according to the online news website Animal Politico.
If the article is accurate, the Coahuila Chamber of Deputies voted Thursday to pledge 100 percent of the Coahuila state payroll tax as collateral in exchange for short term financing.
The new deal will likely mean deep cuts in Coahuila state government spending especially in income supports, and possibly in security.
Jose Antonio Meade, newly appointed Finance minister through the Procuraduria Fiscal de la Federacion (PFF) filed a complaint with the national attorney general's office Wednesday against unspecified individuals involved in the alleged falsification of online documents and "irregularities" in the contracting of new debt.
At the center of the controversy is Humberto Moreira, who served as governor of Coahuila from 2007 to 2010,when he was elected as leader of the PRI.
Moreira is said to have increased the debt load of Coahuila state from MP $233 million (USD $25,934,832.80) to MP $32 billion (USD $256,939,520.00) during his three year term.
Moreira came into his current job as a populist, an image he has carefully crafted, and as it turned out, funded through the massive expansion of state contracted debt during his term.
The issue was pressed earlier this summer by Partido Accion Nacional (PAN) leader Gustavo Madero, and has since expanded into a major political headache for Moreira. He has been forced to deal with calls within his own party to suspend his duties as PRI's leader until the crisis is resolved or contained.
Moreira has so far resisted those calls, and has even fought back.
Two weeks ago an article appeared in the local section of El Diario de Coahuila, a Saltillo, Coahula based daily which described several ordinary citizens who benefited from the massive expansion of income support programs funded by the state.
In an ironic twist of fate, Humbero's brother, Ruben Moreira, who won a slamming landslide victory last summer to finish out Humberto's term, has been in discussions with the state Chamber of Deputies to cut several of those income support programs, as negotiations continue with at least 14 banks in Coahuila and nationwide for short term financing of the coupon for Coahuila's state debt.
Moreira came into his current job as a populist, an image he has carefully crafted, and as it turned out, funded through the massive expansion of state contracted debt during his term.
The second filing Tuesday follows an original request by former finance minister Ernesto Cordero, who filed his complaint earlier this month just days before stepping down to run for president in 2012 under the PAN banner.
In that complaint, the allegations are of fraud, specifically in the public posting of online documents stating the size of debt held by the state. The allegations are not directed at anyone specifically, except the one individual responsible for those document, Javier Villareal, who was head of Coahuila's Sistema de Administraci"n Tributaria (SAT), or tax commission.
Under Mexican national law , Mexican states must keep up to date records accurately reflecting the financial state of the state, specifically on online documents. Villareal has maintained that the problem with the online documents at issue is merely a technical one, specifically in dating the documents.
Reports state that Villareal failed to do that and in fact understated the debt Coahuila has contracted.
Other charges have been made publicly, though not officially that political supporters of Moreira may have benefited from financial dealings with Coahuila state, although no specific nexus has been made.
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Does this make up for that Chinese pianist playing that nationalist Red Chinese piece for President Obama at the White House? Can the argument be made that this is what happens when the Chinese play face games? (Because this is what happens -- had they not started it, nobody would really care.)
h/t Instapundit
Obama supporter Pat Stryker, who bundled $87,500 for the president in 2008, is a major investor in Abound Solar, a company that was awarded a $400 million stimulus loan. Obama even bragged about his support for the company in a July 2010 Weekly Address. Almost a 500000% return on investment
h/t Gates of Vienna
"The Truth," leads Handelsblatt, giving short shrift to the alleged parsimony of the German state -- and the astronomical numbers support it. Officially, German debt in 2011 stands at 2,000 billion euros. But that's only half the truth, because the major portion of expenditure for pensioners, the sick and dependent persons is not included in the calculation. According to new figures, the real debt is 5,000 billion euros.
If these figures stand, Germany is in debt to the tune of 185 percent of its gross domestic product and not 83 percent, as officially declared. By comparison, Greek debt should be 186 percent of GDP in 2012, and Italy's debt is currently at 120 percent. The critical threshold beyond which debt crushes growth is 90 percent.
Since coming to power in 2005, Angela Merkel, "has created as much new debt as all the chancellors in the previous four decades together," writes the chief economist of the business daily. "These are 7,000 billion euros on a bad cheque that we have signed and our children and grandchildren will have to pay." I didn't know Germans had grandchildren
And who actually benefited from the massive expansion of credit? (Apart from governments who would otherwise be unable to hide the damage their taxation => Cronies policies have wrought?).
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For every debit there's a credit.
To whom we must ask?
At least here it seems like the government is borrowing from itself, and is thus both debtor and creditor - which is effectively printing money and thus confiscating the value of existing savings. Once savings have been devalued to nothingness, this economic tool will become useless.
h/t Gates of Vienna
Six member States refuse to allow funds from the Common Agricultural Policy to be used as food aid to the poor. On 1 January 2012, the budget for assistance to 18 million Europeans may drop from 480 to 113.5 million euros. The aid to "Palestinians" have to come from somewhere.
Old news to a lot of regular readers here at the Burg, but the writer does a nice job explaining why -- perhaps -- the Turks have become so belligerent recently. As an old man once said, "follow the money."
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I suspect the Turks have plenty of gas in their own country, if they could bring themselves to actually LOOK. I suspect they're scared of the Wrong People somehow being able to get ahead if they start drilling there.
The Russian army has ceased ordering the famed Kalashnikov rifle for its arsenal and is waiting on a newer model its manufacturer is developing.
The army already has more of the weapons than it requires, Chief of General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia Nikolai Makarov told Russian media.
The inventor of the weapon, Mikhail Kalashnikov, 91, has reportedly been deliberately kept uninformed about the decision.
"We do not want to have it on our conscience and tell him such bad news. He might not live through it," Russia's Izvestia newspaper quoted an unnamed friend of Kalashnikov as saying.
According to the weapon's manufacturer Izhmash, the AK-47 is still adopted by armed and special forces in over 100 countries.
When Kalashnikov turned 90 in 2009, the day was celebrated in Russia on a scale akin to a national holiday. He was decorated by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev with the country's highest order, the Hero of Russia.
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Probably the only Soviet invention that ever and always worked.
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Of course, it was based on the German sturmgewehr. Cleaned up the sturmgewehr's problems and made it into something that could be turned out by third world metalworkers.
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What does that have to do with the discussion, Devilstoenail? It seems to me the others were praising the AK series rather than otherwise. Fortunately, there are other things we do better than they, or you and we would all be speaking Russian now, and my husband wouldn't have put a good deal of time in traveling on business over there.
Mexican drug cartels have expanded the scope of their U.S. operations over 300 percent in two years, from operating in at least 230 cities in 2008 to more than 1,000 cities in 2010, according to a comparison of the U.S. Justice Departments National Drug Threat Assessments.
The 2011 report also declares the cartels control the U.S.-Mexico border.
Our analysis of the 873 border miles under operational control, reported by Border Patrol in fiscal year 2010, showed that about 129 miles or only! 15 percent were classified as controlled, which is the highest sustainable level for both detection and interdiction at the immediate border, he said in his opening remarks.
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.
Bloggers in the United States are seizing upon a couple of exploding toilets in a federal building to make light of Washington's many political woes.
[Dawn] Four more patients, including a staff nurse and a police constable, died of dengue fever in the city on Wednesday.
