Egypt is saved! Or not, but at least they will have fewer competitors for the grain going to Chinese pigs.
This year's corn harvest is 40 per cent bigger than that of 2011, officials at the Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock said.
The harvest yielded 6.3 million tonnes of corn this year. This is only the second time in 35 years the harvest has been this big.
As well as corn, the country produced 5 million tonnes of wheat, 500,000 tonnes of rice, and 300,000 tonnes of maize.
Ministry officials said that Afghanistan requires 6.7 million tonnes of corn this year so will import 400,000 tonnes of corn from abroad.
Deputy agriculture minister Abdul Ghani Ghoryan said: "We are optimistic about the coming years: Afghanistan will become a good exporter of corn in ten years."
Japan pledged $11 million to the agriculture ministry for buying and distributing modified seeds to Afghan farmers.
The Japanese ambassador to Afghanistan, Reiichiro Takahash, said the project is sign of his country's commitment to Afghanistan. The project will implemented by the Food and Agriculture Organisation.
A Chinese group that includes major oil company Sinopec is in advanced talks to put up to $1 billion in a Texas clean-energy project, in what would mark one of the biggest investments by Chinese companies in the U.S. power sector. The graphic suggests it's a carbon-capture plan.
China Petrochemical Corp., known as Sinopec, together with Chinese banks are in talks to acquire an equity stake in and provide financing to the roughly $2.5 billion Texas Clean Energy Project, said people familiar with negotiations.
Sinopec is looking to build favor in the U.S. as it aggressively acquires energy reserves and seeks U.S. production expertise, currently through minority stakes and partnerships with Western companies. The company under has already invested billions in U.S. shale-gas fields, for example.
The project has already secured $450 million in grants from the U.S. Department of Energy, in addition to tax benefits. Tax benefits? For special interest groups? For the CHINESE???
It also has the necessary permits and contracts, including a contract with San Antonio to buy its electricity for 25 years. Aha! here it is!
The Texas plant, located near Odessa, will convert coal into a combustible gas and use it to make electricity, much like a conventional gas-fired plant. In the process, it also will tease out chemicals for resale and carbon dioxide, which will be piped to the western Texas Permian Basin and used for enhanced oil recovery.
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Sounds like the Chinese are investing in things Bernanke's yield killing photocopier cannot ruin.
Fierce anti-Japan protests erupted in more than a dozen Chinese cities after a group of Japanese activists landed on islands at the centre of an increasingly acrimonious territorial dispute.
One banner said: "Even if China is covered with graves, we must kill all Japanese."
The most serious protests appeared to be in Chengdu, where the mob overturned a Japanese-made police car, and in the southern city of Shenzhen, where rioters smashed the windows of Japanese restaurants and businesses.
In one image posted on Sina Weibo, China's version of Twitter, the crowd in Chengdu appeared to be tens of thousands strong. One banner said: "Even if China is covered with graves, we must kill all Japanese."
In another demonstration, an estimated 1,000 people chanted anti-Japanese slogans in the city of Hangzhou and caused damage to Japanese cars and restaurants.
Other disturbances were reported in Guangzhou, Shanghai, Shenyang, Harbin and Qingdao.
The demonstrations were sparked after a group of Japanese nationalists landed on Uotsuri island, part of an uninhabited archipelago that is claimed by both nations.
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Many China Blogs-Posters want Beijing to use military force to settle its ECS, SCS sovereignty disputes wid Nippon + ASEAN once + forever.
as illustrated, among other, by ...
* WORLD MILITARY FORUM > PEOPLE'S DAILY: ONE DAY, A RECKONING BETWEEN CHINA + JAPAN.
and
* CHINESE MILITARY FORUM >[TopSecretWriters.com]
CHINA WILL FORCE CONFONTATION OVER DISPUTED ISLANDS, espec as per the South China Sea = West Philippine Sea.
versus
* WORLD MILITARY FORUM > HK MEDIA: RUSSIA TO SEND PACIFIC FLEET WARSHIPS [Amphibs, Service] TO SOUTH KURILS, JAPAN ATTACKED FROM FRONT [North = Kurils, Sakhalin] AND REAR [South = Okinawa, Daoyus] AS RUSSIA MOVES TO BEGIN NEW CIVILIAN CONTRUCTION, GROUND-SEA-AIR MILITARY BUILDUP IN FORMER JAPANESE "NORTHERN TERRITORIES".
* SAME > US ONCE AGAIN REITERATES THAT DISPUTED DAOYUS [Japan = Senkakus]FALL WITHIN SCOPE OF US-JAPAN SECURITY TREATY.
* CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > SOUTH KOREA-JAPAN DISPUTE [ROK = Dokd,JPN = Takeshima], COULD AFFECT US PLANS ["Pivot"] FOR ASIA, i.e. Asia-Pacific/AsPac.
#2
We should have settled that long ago when in seat. I am not personally a fan of Japanese aggression again even if so soft. But maybe yes - maybe yes Japan gets that Island.
#3
Japan's recent history of militarism vs. China's long history of regional hegemony. It's almost like a power struggle between Hillary C. and Nancy P. It's not a pretty sight and the rest of us just want to be left out of it.
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I'd bet the average rioter in Chengdu knows absolutely nothing about the Senkakus. In fact, I'm thinking China's one child policy in which boys were favored over girls has led to an abundance of frustrated young males who are experience an extreme case of nationalism. Very dangerous.
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I'd bet the average rioter in Chengdu knows absolutely nothing about the Senkakus. In fact, I'm thinking China's one child policy in which boys were favored over girls has led to an abundance of frustrated young males who are experience an extreme case of nationalism. Very dangerous.
The Fraudian explanations are juvenile. Fraud's drug-addled theory for what drives people was to resort to a combination of Greek mythology and sexual urges. Frankly, to say that's retarded is an insult to retards.
These people aren't sexually-frustrated - they're religious nuts in a country where empire-building, a kind of yellow-skinned mission civilisatrice (pardon my French) (1) has been the state religion for thousands of years and (2) started back when the Gauls and the Britons were running around in animal skins. They have a pre-modern world-view where strong countries bend the weak to their will, and all the rest of that. Think Genghis Khan and the classic line attributed to him: The greatest pleasure is to vanquish your enemies and chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth and see those dear to them bathed in tears, to ride their horses and clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters. Like it or not, the religious fanaticism of the Chinese masses was such that 1m Chinese died on the battlefields of Korea convincing Truman that the Korea peninsula could not be re-unified - after the Chinese intervention - at a cost acceptable to the UN coalition opposing the Chinese expeditionary force in Korea.
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I take it you mean that Freud was a fraud. Having never studied the subject I won't argue. But why would you want to clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters when your own wives and daughters are begging you to stay home and take care of them?
Anyway, whether they were motivated by religion, government provocateurs or Fraudian hangups, the Chinese are doing a lot of sabre rattling lately.
#12
Chinese instigated conflicts over control of various rocks in the sea are pointless when considered from the Mahan perspective of sea control. These rocks are also useless for ports or resupply. Even if they were invested with anti-ship missiles, they are immobile and easily bombarded. So, militarily useless.
Therefore, the Chinese are pushing this issue for either domestic politics or economic advantage. In either case, it is in the interest of the U.S. to diffuse this issue and reduce its ability to produce either outcome the Chinese are looking to achieve for their advantage.
A strategy to do that could be to accept Taiwan as a legitimate proxy in these disputes. If Taiwan and Japan come to an agreement to co-exist in these areas, then Taiwan gets the benefits rather than mainland China, and the people of mainland China are invested in the success of Taiwan in advocating for their issues.
"One country, two systems", is both a shield and a sword. The U.S. should be adept at utilizing both of its aspects.
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These rocks are also useless for ports or resupply. Even if they were invested with anti-ship missiles, they are immobile and easily bombarded. So, militarily useless.
I don't know the specific geology of the Senkaku islands, but land reclamation efforts might be a factor. Singapore has added 20 square miles to its land area. It's certainly possible the Chinese could do even better, given their massive financial resources.
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CHINA DAILY FORUM > CHINA'S MINIAL DETERRENCE POLICY ["Soft Power/Diplomacy"] IS CAUSING EXTERNAL AGGRESSIONS, by regional foreign Govts-States.
* WORLD MILITARY FORUM > UPHEAVALS IN ASIA-PACIFIC IS BEST TIME FOR CHINA TO IMPROVE AND EXPAND MILITARY.
* SAME > US SCHOLAR: MILITARY DESTRUCTION OF THE JAPAN SDFS [ditto as per Vietnam + PHIL]IN WAR BY THE PLA IS CHINA'S BEST POLICY TO FINALLY SETTLE DISPUTED ISLANDS' ISSUES. JAPAN'S PERSISTENT REFUSAL TO GIVE UP "ACTUAL CONTROL" OF DAOYUS ISLANDS [Japan = Senkakus]. CHINA'S INTERESTS IN EAST AND SOUTH CHINA SEAS, AND "FIRST ISLAND CHAIN", CAN NEVER BE ACHIEVED UNLESS CHINA HAS "ACTUAL CONTROL" OF DISPUTED ISLANDS.
The good news for China is that India's Navy may yet prove to NOT be much of a factor in the SCS, as indic by ...
* BHARAT RAKSHAK > [India] NAVY'S WAVERING DELAY [indigenous = India-built] WARSHIPS BY YEARS.
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OOOOPPSIES, forgot TOPIX, WORLD NEWS > USE ICJ SUIT TO EMPHASIZE JAPANESE SOVEREIGNTY, oer disputed Dokdo.
and
* WORLD MIL FORUM > POLL SURVEYS REVEAL THAT OKINAWA NATIVISTS DON'T TRUST JAPAN'S SDFS OR THE US TO SERVE OR PROTECT THEIR INTERESTS.
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All things equal, a country's claim to territory(s) is decided by whom can best defend it agz all comers, present + future.
As per WAFF, CHINA has recently test-fired its new LR MIRV/MIRV ICBM DF-41A which is capable of striking CONUS - JAPAN HAS NO NUCWEAPS + NO STRATEGIC LRBMS TO DETER OR COUNTER CHINA, DESPITE THE WELL-KNOWN PROFICIENCIES OF ITS CONVENTIONAL [read, NOT NUCLEAR = NUKE-ARMED] JSDFS.
To base on an old Mil Adage, REALITY > the Best Mil Plans are usually stopped once the first bullet in anger is fired.
Despite having no horses, the water and sewerage department for the city of Detroit employs a horseshoer.
Yet even with a department so bloated that it has a horseshoer and no horses, the local union president said it is "not possible" to eliminate positions.
Union rules have turned the department into a government jobs program, some critics say.
The horseshoer's job description is "to shoe horses and to do general blacksmith work ... and to perform related work as required." The description was last updated in 1967.
The Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD) has a large debt, rising water prices and inefficient services -- using almost twice the number of employees per gallon as other cities like Chicago.
A recent independent report about the DWSD recommends that the city trim more than 80 percent of the department's workforce. The consultant who wrote the report found 257 jobs description, including a horseshoer. Capitol Confidential sent a Freedom of Information Act request to the department for the salary, benefits and job description of the horseshoer position.
In response to the report, John Riehl, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 207, which represents many of the DWSD employees, told the Detroit Free Press that the department needs more workers.
"They don't have enough people as it is right now," Riehl said. "They are just dreaming to think they can operate that plant with less." Sorta like Chicago...
But critics say this is just another example of city departments operating as a jobs program for union employees.
"They have said for years that they don't have enough people," said Roi Chinn, a former city administrator and 2013 mayoral candidate for Detroit. "As the bureaucracy thickens and union power grows, there is always a built in reflex ... to want more.
"Whenever you think you've heard the bad about the city of Detroit, it gets worse."
Chinn said if he was mayor he would sell the water department.
Stephen Henderson, editorial page editor for the Detroit Free Press, wrote last week about the "intolerable waste" in the water department.
"For unions and the whole idea of collective bargaining, this is the kind of report that just makes any sort of future very, very hard to negotiate," Henderson wrote. "It suggests that collective bargaining turns government into a provider of jobs instead of public services."
Daniel Edwards, a construction contracts manager with the DWSD, said the employee was transferred from the Detroit Police Department five years ago. The police department has horses, though the DWSD horseshoer no longer works with animals.
"DWSD has a blacksmith shop in our Central Services Facility," Edwards said. The shop "also ... repairs equipment and works with various metals and welding for the department when needed." The horseshoer now works at the Central Services Facility.
The city pays $29,245 in salary and about $27,000 in benefits for the horseshoer position. So the benefits equal the salary? That's another problem...
#3
Chicago has no money to pay for anything, but underwater mortgages have no value, so they don't need to pay anything for them. It's just a bookkeeping move, taking the debit off the mortgage lenders' books and putting it on the taxpayers books. The banks ought to be paying Chicago to take the mortgages.
#4
When the federal government forces lending agencies into bad practices, sub prime loans, then when it all goes bad does nothing, our local government will act. The sub prime debacle drove prices out the roof. This all needs a reset, it will happen from city to city until the market stabilizes.
The bank threats of not lending in that community is mute. They can't loan 200percent for a house. The local gov will garentee the loan and the houses will again sell. This not much different from taking an abandoned home from the bank.
I wish they would do it in Phoenix....
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There is a genuine problem. House prices were pushed up too high with cheap money, and there is no good mechanism to bring those prices back down.
So long as prices are too high, the market won't recover. Right now the only options are foreclosure, short sale (which the bank has to approve), wait for inflation to catch up or just walk away. All far less than ideal.
Using Kelo to fix it doesn't sit right. Two wrongs don't make a right. I would look instead to the bankruptcy code where the mortgage industry slipped in some language that protects their industry specifically.
#6
It would be better to play by the books at the county treasurers' offices to sheriff sale anyone delinquent beyond a 180 days. However, we're talking Chicago.
Too many people with jobs in the offices who are there by patronage rather than skill.
Meanwhile the banks and paper holding institutions are sitting on their hands waiting for the Treasury/Fed induced inflation to get their books floated back to par.
Too many people looking the other way in the office.
Too many of the people with 'connections' would probably be caught up in the process.
Too many of the 'special interests' groups would probably be caught up in the process.
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by what legal principle does Chicago ED these properties if the tax payments are current? They have legal mortgages that are just higher in value owed than the property is worth.
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..Kelo
That Justice Kennedy court decision that turned upside down the concept of private property.
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Da Mare (that's "the mayor" for those who don't speak Chicagoese) recently said he was against the idea, so I wouldn't put much stock in it. Not that I wold be surprised if they did it.
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Frank,
I think they are using the rule on abandoned property for this. I believe SanBernardino is doing this as well. We have a ton of abandoned houses in Phoenix. They are turning into crack houses and the crime is growing.
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So does this mean we can use Kelo to assume control of California, kick out all the illegals and liberals and rewrite the entire state's laws?
#14
Might be a good time for a franchise to come in and buy up a lot of property for a sports arena or stadium. Normally I would approve of a city buying up such land and making parks or whatever but if the city is broke that's just foolishness.
#15
The more Buildings, Homes + Lands the Gubbermint controls, the more Assets it can claim as its own + thus the more it can borrow so that Politicos can once again engage in glorious excessive pork or deficit spending.
D *** NG IT, EXCESSIVELY HIGH DEBT-TO-GDP RATIOS ALA JAPAN + GREECE, ETC. ISN'T GOING TO BE ACHIEVED BY ITSELF, YA KNOW!
A Jewish mother from France locked in a custody battle with a Saudi prince fell to her death from an apartment window in Paris. Candice Cohen-Ahnine died last week, less than a month before she was to see her 11-year-old daughter for the first time in four years.
It is unclear whether Cohen-Ahnine's death was accidental or the result of foul play, "Ummm... Golly, Sarge. I just don't know. I mean, she was prob'ly trying to walk around the balcony on the top of the rail when a gust of wind caught her and blew her clean off."
"Or she might have been tossed off the balcony by a saturnine man about 5'10" tall wearing a cheap, dark suit and sunglasses in the pay of a vicious and unfettered royalty from a country on the Arabian Peninsula..."
"Oh, I dunno, Sarge. That sounds pretty far-fetched."
"True. Those cameras are not to be trusted, mon vieux..."
according to the Daily Telegraph, which reported that French media have suggested Cohen-Ahnine had slipped and fallen to her death "as if she was escaping something dangerous."
A Paris criminal court ruled in January in favor of Cohen-Ahnine's plea to have her daughter, Haya, returned to her. Cohen-Ahnine claimed that Haya has been held captive by the girl's father, Prince Sattam al-Saud, a member of the Saudi royal family, since September 2008. The court also ordered Sattam to pay child support.
Sattam continued to refuse to turn the girl over after the ruling, but had agreed to next month's visit.
Cohen-Ahnine alleged that when she agreed to visit Sattam with her daughter in 2008 after the couple had separated, she was swiftly locked up in a Riyadh palace and separated from Haya. Accused by authorities of being a Muslim who converted to Judaism -- a capital crime in Saudi Arabia -- Cohen-Ahnine was able to escape to the French Embassy and return to France. Haya remained behind and the two reportedly spoke occasionally by phone.
Cohen-Ahnine, 34, met Sattam in London when she was 18. Despite their differences in religion and nationality, the couple continued their relationship, and Haya was born in 2001. But the couple separated in 2006; the prince allegedly said he would have to marry a cousin and could only keep Cohen-Ahnine as a mistress or second wife.
The Swedes have seen major rises in rape and assaults as immigrants in Malmo and elsewhere refuse to assimilate. Are they finally beginning to draw a line?
Greece must remain in the euro to survive according to its finance minister, as the countrys leader prepares for a week of crucial meetings with eurozone leaders which could ultimately determine its fate.
Greece must remain in the euro to survive according to its finance minister, as the countrys leader prepares for a week of crucial meetings with eurozone leaders which could ultimately determine its fate.
Yannis Stournaras said the country must press ahead with the spending cuts demanded by its fellow eurozone members because its membership of the single currency was essential.
We have to stay alive and remain under the umbrella of the euro, because that is the only choice that can protect us from a poverty that we have not experienced, Mr Stournaras said yesterday.
If we dont take the measures ... then our stay in the euro is threatened. We have the most expensive welfare state in the eurozone. We can no longer maintain it with borrowed money.
However, Greece is likely to face more pressure on meeting its targets according to German reports that it will need 14bn of spending cuts over the next two years to meet the demands made by its international lenders, 2.5bn more than originally thought.
The bigger financing gap was the result of setbacks to privatisation plans and an economy even weaker than expected.
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We have the most expensive welfare state in the eurozone
Says it all, really. Not to worry though, Germany will look after them. A guilty conscious is a beautiful thing to exploit.
#2
The health care system in this country has become one that has been created by politicians and insurance companies. They have tried to serve to many masters. Access and service are bound to suffer and costs to increase.
President Asif Ali Zardari has ordered his Interior Ministry to look into the recent arrest of a young Christian girl accused of violating Pakistan's controversial blasphemy law by desecrating pages from the Koran. This is the 11-year old they're going to put on death row... Eleven year old mentally retarded girl, according to other accounts. That detail is important in understanding exactly how vile a society Pakistan has become.
The case of Ramsha, an 11-year-old girl from an impoverished section of Islamabad, has again cast a spotlight on Pakistan's ingrained struggles with intolerance and with the application of its blasphemy law, which makes it a crime to utter any derogatory remarks or to insult in any way the prophet Muhammad, the Koran or the faith of Islam. (PTUI!)
The law is often exploited If it was truly a law that was 'exploited', that would mean that the law originally had some different purpose. But that isn't the case: the primary, essential purpose of the law is to keep minorities in their place in the Islamic paradise. That's the point.
as a means to settle scores against adversaries or persecute minorities -- particularly Christians and Ahmadis, members of a Muslim sect viewed by most Pakistanis as traitors to Islam because they revere another prophet in addition to Muhammad. It's also handy for indulging in a bit of gratuitous cruelty against resident infidels whether there's land or money involved or not. Lotsa good strokes for a certain kind of ego...
Ramsha, whose last name was not given by authorities, was accused of burning pages from the Koran on Thursday, though authorities are also investigating whether she was simply burning discarded papers she pulled from a trash bin as fuel for cooking, In a modern society, we use electricity or natural gas for cooking...
according to a statement released by Zardari's office. Y'gotta be real careful about burning garbage in Pakistain. There might be Korans in it. Better to let it just pile up and enjoy the pious smell of Islam... News of Ramsha's alleged actions enraged neighbors, Who in Pakistain isn't waiting to fly into an uncontrollable rage at an instant's notice?
who attacked the girl's sister and mother ... who weren't the ones rooting through the garbage...
and set ablaze several Christian homes in the area, ... because the infidels were probably just waiting to flame up a few Korans...
the statement said. Several Christian families fled the neighborhood, fearing further violence. "Quick, Mother! We must flee!"
"What the hell? Not again? It's only Tuesday!" "Blasphemy by anyone cannot be condoned, ... which is why they're eager to toss an 11-year-old girl into the slammer and burn her house down...
but no one will be allowed to misuse the blasphemy law for settling scores," said Zardari's spokesman, Farhatullah Babar. "Certainly not! The blasphemy laws should be reserved as a means of tormenting infidels...
Pakistan's most infamous application of its blasphemy law came in 2010, when Asia Bibi, a 45-year-old Christian mother, was sentenced to death for allegedly making disparaging remarks about the prophet Muhammad and the Koran. You mean that the Koran's a self-contradictory mess? That the Rosicrucians make more sense than al-Azhar's Learned Elders of Islam? That Mohammad was an illiterate sociopath with a liking for little girls? That sorta thing?
Bibi has always denied the allegations and remains on death row. Doesn't matter if she denies that charges. Doesn't matter of there was a camera on her the whole time that disproves the charges. If they let her off death row some Hero of Islam will be obliged to kill her. And if they leave her on death row chances are good some Hero of Islam will kill her. And her "last" name's not Bibi. Bibi means "woman" in Urdu...
In January 2011, Salman Taseer, the governor of Punjab province who criticized the blasphemy law and championed Bibi's case, was assassinated by one of his bodyguards. Guilty or innocent, it doesn't matter. Try and speak up in favor of laws being applied equitably and you're taking your life into your hands.
That officer, Malik Mumtaz Qadri, said he killed Taseer because of Taseer's opposition to the blasphemy law. Qadri was convicted last October and awaits execution in a Pakistani prison. Even though he's a Brelvi, which is next thing to being a heathen to the professionally pious, he's regarded as a hero and periodic demonstrations demanding he be freed.
Two months after Taseer's murder, gunmen assassinated Shahbaz Bhatti, the country's minority affairs minister and Pakistan's only Christian Cabinet member. ... but, really, it had nothing to do with Islam...
Like Taseer, Bhatti also had openly criticized the blasphemy law and the death sentence that Bibi had received. In civilized countries government retains an at least theoretical monopoly on violence. If somebody needs bumped off that's the state's job, not somebody hanging around a street corner named Chaudry. Islam as a religion puts the obligation to violence on the individual. It's in the Koran. "Fiery" holy men like Qazi and Fazl and Sami and Mullah Fazlullah and likely hundreds of others drone on and on about it. But, honest, Islam is a religion of peace.
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Wow ... this country is being put on my top ten list of Places That Really Suck. What are they thinking???
[Jerusalem Post] Two children aged 10 and 11 were lightly injured on Sunday night, after they were hit in the eyes by plastic bullets shot from toy guns during Id al-Fitr celebrations in the northern villages of Nahf and Jadeidi-Makr.
The children were taken to Naharyia hospital for treatment.
A group of about 50 demonstrators from western Myanmar gathered in Rangoon on Sunday to demonstrate against UN assistance for stateless Rohingya Muslims. The ethnic Rakhine convened near the regional parliament building in Rangoon holding banners reading "Stop Creating Conflicts" and "Don't Bring Terrorists To Our Land".
Zaw Aye Maung, a politician representing the mostly Buddhist ethnic group, said, "We're calling for an end to discrimination by the UN against the Rakhine people." He said the rally had official approval.
Fighting between Buddhists and Muslims in Rakhine state has left about 80 people dead on both sides since June, according to an official estimate, although rights groups fear the real figures are much higher.
Speaking a language similar to one in neighboring Bangladesh, the Rohingya are seen by many Burmese and their government as illegal immigrants. Bangladesh has turned away Rohingya who attempted to flee the violence.
Twenty four political parties in Myanmar have urged the UN to replace its human rights envoy to the country saying he is biased in favor of the Rohingya.
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Wow, at least 50 people on earth actually get it! "Stop creating conflicts!" The UN isn't about peace--it's about stirring up nationalist fervor & splintering existing states.
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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
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President Asif Ali Zardari has ordered his Interior Ministry to look into the recent arrest of a young Christian girl accused of violating Pakistan's controversial blasphemy law by desecrating pages from the Koran.
News of Ramsha's alleged actions enraged neighbors, 
"Blasphemy by anyone cannot be condoned, 
