[Emirates 24/7] A 60-year-old Saudi husband doused his clothes with kerosene and set himself ablaze to prove his love for his wife after she abandoned him, the Arabic language Sharq newspaper reported on Monday. I'm burning
I'm burning
I'm burning for you...
After persistent disputes, the wife decided to abandon her husband and live with her parents, prompting him to send many pleas to her to come back. Awwwwww, c'mon baby. I never stopped having the hots for you...
"But she adamantly refused to return home...so he went to her parents' house, poured kerosene on his clothes and set himself ablaze in front of the house." I'll show you! I'll show everybody!
The paper said passers-by succeeded in putting the fire out and rushing him to hospital in the southwestern town of Jazan. It did not elaborate on his condition or say whether his wife has returned to him. My guesses? Severely burned and no...
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At least 20 police officers responded to a melee in Moorhead, Minn., early Sunday that involved up to a dozen young African immigrants fighting not only with hands and feet, but also with a taser, knives, a replica handgun and a shovel.
Still dealing with the global warming in Minnesota, it appears.
More than 100 people looked on, many yelling, in the parking lot of a bowling alley on the city's north side, police said.
Not much entertainment in Moorhead?
Nobody was seriously injured, but 20-year-old Mohamoud Sharif of Fargo, N.D., was treated for a superficial stab wound to his buttock.
A pin prick in the fleshy upper part of the thigh, as they used to say, but wounded mostly in his pride. How does one explain a wound there, on one's wedding night?
An 18-year-old man refused treatment after police saw him get hit in the head with a shovel.
Clearly he won't miss the brains that leaked out as a result.
Also refusing treatment was a man pistol-whipped with the replica handgun.
But it's a replica! How cool is that?!
It was the latest eruption in ethnic tension in the Fargo-Moorhead area between young men from the two war-torn African countries of Sudan and Liberia, authorities said.
The latest eruption?
The hostilities worry cultural leaders in those communities, including Gibson Jerue, a 43-year-old Liberian immigrant from Fargo, N.D. He told of incidents dating to 2008, including one that sent a young Liberian man assaulted in Fargo to the hospital. In the past two months, there have been more incidents, including windows smashed or other damage to Liberian and Sudanese residences, Jerue said.
Send all those involved back to where they came from.
Now the violence has spread across the Red River to nearby Moorhead. Most, if not all, of those involved Sunday were from Fargo and had immigrated within the past decade, Moorhead Police Lt. Jim Nielsen said.
Jerue said he and other Liberian elders worry that innocent older African immigrants could be walking down the street and be attacked because of the feuding. "Our concern is what is happening is not in the interest of both communities," Jerue said.
Police don't know yet what caused the violence Sunday.
I wonder if this isn't an action for the FBI.
Refugees traveling across state lines in a premeditated conspiracy to commit shovel whacking and butt stabing probably should be a Federal crime.
Cultural leaders...in Fargo? I've been to Fargo. Fargo is where the railroad and river meet. Fargo was a beautiful little old farm town in the middle of nowhere full of, well...farm people, with soda fountains and home cookin' cafes.
Now it's a dumping ground for the world's trash?
Somebody tell me it ain't true!
Could it be that Allah is displaying his displeasure with those ruling Iran in his name?
[Dawn] At least seven people were killed in a 6.5-magnitude earthquake that jolted southeastern Iran on Monday, damaging buildings in outlying mountainous areas, the region's governor said.
"Seven people have been killed and hundreds have been injured. Hundreds of people are still trapped under the rubbles," Esmail Najjar, governor of Iran's Kerman province, the centre of the quake, told the semi-official Mehr news agency.
State television said at least three villages had been destroyed.
The US. Geological Survey put the quake's magnitude at 6.3.
The official IRNA news agency said nine aftershocks had hit since the main quake, including one of magnitude 5. Telephone lines had been cut.
Mohammad Javad Kamyab, an employee of Kerman province governor's office, told Rooters there were 30 villages in the quake-hit area.
"These villages are not heavily populated...We are not expecting a high corpse count and so far 25 people have been injured," he said.
Another local official said access to the damaged villages "was very difficult".
"Rescue teams have been dispatched to the quake-hit area ...and are communicating via walkie-talkies," Hossein Baqeri, head of Iran's National Crisis Management unit, told state television.
The semi-official Fars news agency said the quake was also felt in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan, which borders Afghanistan and Pakistain.
"Many people left their houses in the city of Zahedan ... It was also felt in the towns of Bam, Khash and Iranshahr," Fars reported.
Ali Reza, a resident of Bam, told Rooters by telephone: "There was no damage in the city of Bam but we felt the quake."
The province of Kerman is highly prone to earthquakes. Some 31,000 people were killed when an earthquake razed Bam in 2003.
Kerman is not one of the oil-producing regions of Iran, the world's fourth-biggest crude exporter. Iran is criss-crossed by major faultlines and is frequently hit by earthquakes.
In 2008 a magnitude 6.1 quake struck the southern port of Bandar Abbas, killing at least seven people and injuring 40.
An official in the governor's office of Kerman province told Rooters by telephone: "The quake-hit area is a deserted area."
State television, quoting an unnamed local Red Islamic Thingy official, said: "In some rural parts of the region ... the quake has caused heavy damage to buildings, especially in Hosseinabad village, where the houses were made of earthen bricks."
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YJCMTSU
The city of BAM hit by earthquake.
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Wake me when they're hit with consecutive 9.9 quakes. THEN we'll know Allan is angry with them.
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"The city of BAM hit by earthquake."
They seem to get hit a lot, Jim.
Maybe they should change their name....?
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[Arab News] A dog in Germany has given birth to 17 cute puppies, leaving their owner thrilled but exhausted after having to feed them with a bottle for several weeks as their mother couldn't cope with the demand.
Ramona Wegemann says she barely slept for more than a couple of minutes without interruption during about four weeks in an "exhausting" struggle to make sure all 17 would survive.
She said Monday that when she was "finished feeding the last puppy, the first was hungry again." Wegemann's Rhodesian Ridgeback gave birth to eight female and nine male puppies on Sept. 28 in Ebereschenhof near Berlin.
Wegemann, an animal psychiatrist, said when dogs give birth to so many puppies several of them die within the first week. "But all of our puppies survived. This is incredible and wonderful."
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Rhodesian Ridgeback sounds so, um, Politically Incorrect, surely Bob Mugabe would claim them to be Zimbabwean Ridgebacks.
Ivory Coast Interior Minister Emile Guirieoulou has rejected UN allegations of human rights ... which are not the same thing as individual rights, mind you... abuses, despite a barrage of criticism from the international community.
Most of the victims of last week's violence in the streets of Abidjan were from loyalist security forces, Guirieoulou told news hounds at a presser on Monday and warned the United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society not to deal with Alassane Ouattara's shadow government, which is calling for President Laurent Gbagbo to step down.
On Sunday, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) Navi Pillay condemned human rights violations in the Ivory Coast, saying the post-election crisis in the country has claimed 50 lives and injured 200.
Pillay also accused elements of the Defense and Security Forces (FDS) of supporting alleged night-time raids by kidnappers and death squads.
In addition, the head of the UN mission in the Ivory Coast and the civilian chief of the 10,000-strong UNOCI (UN Operation in Cote d'Ivoire) peacekeeping force, Choi Young-jin, accused the FDS of harassing his troops and threatening international envoys.
But Guirieoulou rejected both allegations and demanded that UNOCI leave the country. "It should not act against our will on our territory," AFP quoted him as saying.
Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... in New York, the UN Security Council warned that Gbagbo's camp could face new sanctions, and has renewed the six-month mandate of its peacekeeping mission in the Ivory Coast in defiance of the incumbent government's demand that the UN troops leave.
On Monday, the White House repeated its call for Gbagbo to step down, and in Brussels the European Union took its first concrete steps, imposing visa bans on the 65-year-old, his powerful wife Simone, and 17 members of his inner circle.
Gbagbo has refused to hand over power to Ouattara, who was recognized by the entire international community as the winner of the November 28 presidential election.
Ouattara obtained 54 percent of the vote against Gbagbo's 46 percent, according to an announcement made by the Electoral Commission on December 2.
But the pro-Gbagbo Constitutional Council rejected the results, and Gbagbo has remained in control of the country with the help of the army.
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[El Universal] The arrival of a vessel with raw materials such as fluoride and cryolite has extended the operations of the Venezuelan aluminum company CVG Alcasa at least until February, but disinvestment remains a latent threat on its operation.
The state-run industry is operating above (200 cells) the minimum nominal molten steel capacity of 150 cells, but union representatives have warned that sinking production in 2010 is significant. Venezuela's aluminum output hit 114,000 tons in 2009. However, The infamous However... it could reach 90,000 tons this year, a 21 percent drop compared to 2009.
José Gil, secretary general of Venezuela's aluminum company CVG Alcasa, said that the vessel came last week to stabilize the cells. "With these inputs, operation is secured until at least until February, but inputs for processing, smelting and rolling operations are still necessary."
The use of magnesium and manganese, among other raw materials, is a priority in areas such as processing, smelting and rolling. "In this case, operations have been carried out with a low amount of materials but there are some agreements to borrow inputs from Alcasa and Venalum," he said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... Fernando Serrano, Venalum labor's director, said that the government must increase investments in Guayana due to deterioring basic industries and quality of life. "This year has been the worst in history as far as aluminum workers demands and fights is concerned," he said.
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[El Universal] A farm called Bolívar now belongs to the Bolivarian government. "A Bolivarian Bolívar farm. I want to give it that name," Hugo Chavez said in his weekly program Aló, Presidente (Hello, President).
This is just one of the 47 farms seized by the government in South Lake Maracaibo, western Zulia state. "Liberation of those workers has arrived. Therefore, the fight against a perversion such as large estate should escalate ... We need to liberate up to the last inch of the Venezuelan territory," Chavez said.
However, The infamous However... the Venezuelan president acknowledged that the government would respect 16 out of the 47 seized ranches.
Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... farmers in South Lake Maracaibo and Andean Mérida state, who have been affected by takeovers, promised to defend their properties in court.
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Oogo continues to follow the Zimbob path to socialist nirvana. He'll be adding a lot more zeroes to the currency soon...
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I was thinking the same thing pbcml, what makes ppl think they can make something succeed that no one else has so far?
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Chirs---It's the care and feeding of the insatiable ego.
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It's the care and feeding of the insatiable ego.
Which is why you know Ogabe's taking very careful notes (hmmm...maybe I wouldn't look bad in a red beret myself...note to self, run that by Michelle's stylist...).
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And of course it elicited the usual merciless reaction, as clear as a pikestaff.
On Monday, the North's major newspaper warned the South against resuming propaganda activity, saying it could serve as the starting point of a full-scale war.
[Pak Daily Times] International observers and Western governments accused Belarus' strongman leader of using fraud and violence to remain in power after more than 16 years of repressive rule, saying on Monday that President Alexander Lukashenko's re-election had been seriously flawed.
The Organisation for Security and Coooperation in Europe said the count in Sunday's vote was 'bad or very bad' in half the country's precincts. It also strongly criticised the violent dispersal by riot police of a post-election protest rally. US and European leaders criticised Lukashenko for a wave of violence directed at rival presidential candidates and their supporters in the hours after the election.
Tens of thousands of protesters gathered late on Sunday to denounce alleged fraud in the vote. Police beat and nabbed hundreds and jugged seven of the nine candidates opposing Lukashenko. One of the top opposition candidates, Vladimir Neklyayev, was beaten in a clash with government forces as he tried to lead a column of supporters to the protest. He was taken to a hospital, but his aide said seven men in civilian clothing later wrapped Neklyayev in a blanket on his hospital bed and carried him away as his wife screamed.
The country's election commission declared on Monday that Lukashenko got almost 80 percent of the vote in a preliminary count, handing a fourth term in office to the man who was run the former Soviet state with an iron hand since 1994. Lukashenko has allowed no independent broadcast media, kept 80 percent of industry under Soviet-style state control and suppressed opposition with police raids and pressure. The election had raised a glimmer of hope that Lukashenko was relaxing his grip.
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The bi-monthly seminars are part of the Tea Party caucus - a group Bachmann helped launch - and will "bring up principles that are already familiar to the members," including the bill of rights and role of government, Sachtleben said. Warning: This class is being offered pass/no-pass only.
"We must invest not only in the delivery systems and platforms that will preserve our nuclear delivery capability, such as the next generation bomber, nuclear submarines and a new Intercontinental ballistic missile, but also in the strike aircraft and naval forces required to control the Pacific Rim as economic growth and the military capabilities of China increase." Save your breath for the next President, Mitch.
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BHARAT RAKSHAK > US ENCOURAGING JAPAN TO TAKE A MORE FORCEFUL STANCE ["aggressive defensive" strategic posture in NE Asia agz China].
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* SAME > CHINA [PLA] HELPED CREATE INSTABILITY IN PACIFIC ISLANDS. New Zealand complaining about Chin influence on Pacific Isles. i.e turning same away from NZ, Australia, + US-WEST towards CHINA, CUBA, etc.
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Now Mitch, we must not anger our kind and wise Chinese benefactors or our respectable Russian comrades. Besides, if we throw out our nukes everyone else will too, and then we can sing campfire songs and have pillow fights to settle our differences.
At a posh farmhouse outside Delhi, a group of gun enthusiasts gathered on a recent Sunday afternoon to compare weapons, do a little shooting and talk strategy. Software professionals, executives and salesmen in their 30s and 40s, they're typical upper middle-class Delhiwallahs. Except for one thing: While liberal India bemoans the gun culture taking over its metropolitan cities, they're fighting to make sure one day every Indian gets the right to bear arms American-style.
"Everyones life is precious. And everyone has the right to defend their life and liberty. And that right is meaningless without the means to do so," said Abhijeet Singh.
With some 40 million guns in civilian hands making India the second-most heavily armed nation in the world and a steady rise in violent crime, the debate over gun control is heating up. Gun control advocates are pushing India to crack down on guns and sign a United Nations Arms Trade Treaty that would tighten restrictions on small arms, while supporters of gun rights are fighting to make the country's gun laws less restrictive. And with both groups citing Gandhi as precedent, at stake is the very identity of India itself.
[Dawn] President Asif Ali President Ten Percent Zardari ... husband of the late Benazir Bhutto, who showed remarkably little curiosity about who actually done her in ... on Monday said that the government will not allow anyone to misuse the blasphemy law against any one for settling personal and political scores.
"The government will take all appropriate measures whether administrative, procedural or legislative to stop growing incidents of misuse of the blasphemy law," he said.
The President was talking to a delegation comprising MNAs of minorities led by Shahbaz Bhatti, Federal Minister for Minorities, that called on him here at the Aiwan-e-Sadr.
The President said that "our faith Islam teaches us deep respect for rights of all human beings", adding, it upholds the eternal values of equal rights, social justice and peace and also banishes discrimination on the basis of class, colour or creed.
Briefing journalists about the meeting, Spokesperson to the President Farhatullah Babar said that the President hailed the role being played by the minorities in the socio-economic development of Pakistain.
The President said that increasing job quotas, greater representation in the representative forum and allocating more development funds are some of the steps taken by the Government for the welfare of minority communities in the country and reiterated that the Government was keen to incorporate minorities into the mainstream and safeguard their Constitutional rights.
He said that any discrimination on the basis of one's faith was not acceptable and the PPP had committed in its manifesto that it will not allow such discrimination.
The delegation thanked the President for meeting and appreciated the efforts of the PPP led Government for the welfare of minorities in the country.
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[Dawn] As revelations relating to the Haj fiasco continue, a Senate committee was informed here on Monday that the government had charged pilgrims an extra Rs153 million in the name of 'royalty' and paid the amount to two airlines.
According to information placed before the Senate Standing Committee on Religious Affairs, each of the 85,000 pilgrims under the government scheme paid $20 -- around Rs1,800 -- over the cost.
Answering a question, recently removed religious affairs secretary Agha Sarwar Qazilbash informed the committee that the money had gone to the Pakistain International Airlines and the Saudi Airlines which were primarily responsible for transporting Pak pilgrims to Soddy Arabia.
Under an agreement between the airlines, each of them has a 50 per cent share in the pilgrimage from Pakistain.
In the event of one airline failing to fly its allotted quota of pilgrims, the other would be paid an additional $20 per pilgrim to do the job, the official said.
"Nobody can understand the logic behind this extra charge. Instead of penalising the failing airline, how come poor pilgrims are asked to foot the additional bill," Haji Mohammad Adeel of the ANP, who had earlier raised the issue in the Senate, said.
He said the additional cost would be justified for pilgrims missing their flights. "But equally surprising is the fact the money is charged from all pilgrims for no fault of theirs," he added.
Agha Sarwar, who has been asked to report to the establishment division because of his alleged involvement in the mismanagement of Haj arrangements, said the practice had been followed for several years.
He could not come up with a satisfactory answer when the committee's members questioned his ministry's role in allowing what they called the corrupt practice of robbing people in the name of religion.
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More likely it's to cover the cost of damages, like cooking fires on the aisle-way carpet.
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"There's a mini ice age coming, says man who beats weather experts" Now that's a hobby I can support. There are a number of weather experts (actually mostly pseudo experts like Al Gore) I'd love to see beaten.
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The question is whether anthropogenic global warming is the exclusive or dominant fact that determines our climate, or whether Corbyn is also right to insist on the role of the Sun. Is it possible that everything we do is dwarfed by the moods of the star that gives life to the world?
I really hope this was just sarcasm...
"Could it be that the sun has more of an impact on our planet's climate than our CO2 output?"
WTF!? Who even asks that question?
Excuse me, my head just partially exploded...
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70's if we are lucky. 50's maybe but 30's I hope not. This is no short term spell. This could be the beginning of a 100 year spell. A very good source of information is ; http://www.iceagenow.com/index.htm
[Dawn] More than 200 Mohammedan Shiites including Iranians, Indonesians and Paks nabbed in one of the biggest swoops on outlawed Mohammedan sects in Malaysia may be charged with breaching Islamic laws, an official said Monday.
Government authorities in Mohammedan-majority Malaysia consider only the Sunni denomination to be legal. Sunni Islam is the world's largest branch of the religion, followed by Shia Islam.
Islamic officials raided a shop house in the Gombak district in central Selangor state last week and jugged the group, who were allegedly followers of the outlawed Shia sect, said Nurhamizah Othman, a public relations officer at the Selangor Islamic Religious Department.
It was the largest swoop of outlawed groups in recent months, the department director, Muhammad Khusrin Munawi, told state media. He said the Shia doctrine is a threat to national security because it permits the killing of Mohammedans from other sects who are regarded as infidels.
Nurhamizah confirmed the comments.
Malaysia, a Southeast Asian country of 28 million people, is wary of religious sects that go against mainstream Islam, fearful that they may alter its image as a moderate Mohammedan nation. Malay Mohammedans make up about 60 percent of the population, while most of the rest are Buddhists, Hindus or Christians from the ethnic Chinese and Indian communities.
The arrests of the Shia followers have been slammed by some religious scholars, who accused Islamic authorities of becoming more hard-lined.
"Malaysia is trying to become a country a la Taliban that only allows one school of thought," said prominent Mohammedan scholar Asri Zainul Abidin.
"Even though I personally don't agree with Shia teachings and even frequently criticize and debate with them, I cannot accept the approach of the allegedly democratic Malaysian government in denying the people's right to practice their faith," he said.
Nurhamizah said the detainees have all been released on bail, except two Iranians. Most are likely to be charged in an Islamic court with following the teachings of a deviationist movement, which carries a penalty of up to two years in jail, she said.
Among those nabbed were lecturers, students of higher-learning institutions, lawyers and government employees, believed to have been operating in the area for nearly two years, she said. No further details were immediately available.
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Because Allah the great and all powerful might forget these guys when the time comes and they might avoid penalty? I should think eternal hell would be worse than anything these guys can manage, so let Allah decide.
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 bi-monthly seminars are part of the Tea Party caucus - a group Bachmann helped launch - and will "bring up principles that are already familiar to the members," including the bill of rights and role of government, Sachtleben said.
"We must invest not only in the delivery systems and platforms that will preserve our nuclear delivery capability, such as the next generation bomber, nuclear submarines and a new Intercontinental ballistic missile, but also in the strike aircraft and naval forces required to control the Pacific Rim as economic growth and the military capabilities of China increase."
[Dawn] As revelations relating to the Haj fiasco continue, a Senate committee was informed here on Monday that the government had charged pilgrims an extra Rs153 million in the name of 'royalty' and paid the amount to two airlines.
