[Dawn] A Dubai court has rejected the appeal of an Emirati man sentenced to death for raping and then murdering a four-year-old Pakistani boy, newspapers reported on Sunday.
The man was sentenced to death on January 27 by lower court judge Fahmi Fahmi.
Lawyer Abdullah al-Mudharreb argued before the appeals court that the man "requires social and psychological care more than he needs to be punished," Gulf News reported.
Mudharreb said the man went through "difficult life conditions" including his mother dying when he was young, dropping out of school and alcoholism, the newspaper said.
According to daily The National, the case will now go to Dubai's supreme court.
The condemned man, 30, confessed during his initial trial to raping and murdering the boy in a mosque as worshippers offered prayers nearby on the first day of Eidul Azha on November 27.
Although the United Arab Emirates has the death penalty on its statute book, executions are rarely carried out in the Gulf country.
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The condemned man, 30, confessed during his initial trial to raping and murdering the boy in a mosque as worshippers offered prayers nearby on the first day of Eidul Azha on November 27.
Although the United Arab Emirates has the death penalty on its statute book, executions are rarely carried out in the Gulf country..
I'm happy to hear they are making an exception in this case.
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Mudharreb said the man went through "difficult life conditions" including his mother dying when he was young, dropping out of school and alcoholism, the newspaper said.
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If the guy is an Arab I am atonished he was sentenced at all for the murder of a Pakistan boy: a few months ago an Arab who had tortured and murdered an Afgan and videotaped the whiole thing was judged not guilty. But of couse he was of the master race.
John "Jack" Agnew, one of the original members of a U.S. Army unit that operated behind enemy lines in World War II and is often credited with having loosely inspired the movie "The Dirty Dozen," has died at age 88.
Agnew belonged to the Filthy Thirteen, an unofficial unit within the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. He was pronounced dead Thursday at Abington Memorial Hospital after becoming ill at his home in the Maple Village retirement community in Hatboro, where he and his wife moved about a year ago, his daughter Barbara Agnew Maloney said.
On D-Day, the Filthy Thirteen parachuted into France to take a bridge over the Douve River. It was "a mission that would cost most of the men their lives," according to an article in the winter 2008-09 edition of American Valour Quarterly, a publication of the nonprofit American Veterans Center.
Before the Battle of the Bulge, Agnew and other members of the unit were requested for pathfinder duty and parachuted into Bastogne, which was besieged by German forces. Agnew operated a beacon to help guide in planes carrying badly needed supplies.
Tales of the unit's exploits and a Stars and Stripes military newspaper photograph are said to have inspired "The Dirty Dozen," not because any of the unit's members were convicts like the movie's characters -- they weren't -- but because of their reputation for brawling, drinking and spending time in the stockade.
In interviews, Agnew, a private first class, said that came directly from the unit's leader, Jake McNiece.
"We weren't murderers or anything, we just didn't do everything we were supposed to do in some ways and did a whole lot more than they wanted us to do in other ways," he told the quarterly. "We were always in trouble."
Agnew was among those interviewed in a documentary, "The Filthy Thirteen: Real Stories from Behind the Lines," that was included in a 2006 special edition DVD of "The Dirty Dozen."
The 1967 movie, about an Army major who has to train and lead 12 convicts into a mission targeting German officers, starred Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Telly Savalas, Donald Sutherland and Jim Brown.
Maloney said her father told her about 30 percent of the movie was true.
"And, actually, the scene where they captured the officers, Dad said that was true and he really coordinated that," she said Sunday.
Two months ago, Maloney said, she accompanied her father to a military history convention in Louisville, Ky., where she met with three of the four surviving Filthy Thirteen members and three members of Easy Company, which was the focus of the HBO series "Band of Brothers."
"Dad, when we were little kids, he'd always say, 'I won the war; I know you don't believe me, but someday you'll know,'" she said. "We didn't really realize it until the 'Band of Brothers' came out."
Agnew will be buried with full military honors Tuesday at Forest Hills Cemetery in Huntingdon Valley, in the Philadelphia suburbs, where he and his wife, Elizabeth Agnew, lived for 56 years, Maloney said.
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IOW, they weren't afraid to kick "the System/Establishment" in its ass to accomplish the very same Mission-Objectives "the System/Establishment" were supposed to be doing to begin with.
* "LAW ABIDING CITIZEN" Movie > NO ONE IS MORE EVIL THAN A PISSED-OFF GOOD GUY WHOM PUNISHSES = DESTROYS ALL SIDES.
* BIBLE > NOT EVEN THE DEVIL CAN STOP = IS EQUAL TO THE [righteous] WRATH/HAND OF GOD.
Hundreds of well-bred rabbits took the opportunity to make new acquaintances and reproduce when a roof collapsed at Sweden's premier rabbit show in Nyköping in February....When the roof collapsed in the wake of a spate of heavy snowfalls, many of the prize pets found their cages had opened and they were at liberty to roam as they pleased amid the debris.
Workers tasked with clearing the fallen roof soon found that the quality bunnies had not lain idle. "They made new friends and they became a bit aroused by the incident. The builders told me it was a veritable circus in there," one rabbit breeder told public broadcaster SVT's local Sörmland affiliate.... "You could have called it a hare-raising experience."
When the dust had settled and relieved owners returned home with their rescued rabbits, some 50 to 70 breeders found they were the beneficiaries of surprise litters, local newspaper Södermanlands Nyheter reports.
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Uh, uh, THERES NEVER A BAD TIME FOR SEX???
Or GREECE + TURKEY fighting the TROJAN WAR, FAV BIKINI CALENDAR, etc. on the Net after a mere 3000 years.
MADISON, Wis. - An independent film is bringing to light a well-kept secret in these parts: Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's only daughter has lived incognito for much of the past two decades in small towns in Wisconsin.... Sounds like she's had a reasonably happy life, though it's not revealed if she's a Packers fan or what her position is on Brett Favre.
Her daughter and grandchildren were born here; the dictator's descendants are living free in the decadent capitalist country that put Stalin's Socialist Motherland out of business. Makes you feel good, don't it.
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When she first came over she married Paolo Soleri (sp?) and lived in his archcology commune acrosanti
(blows on finger - hows that for memory - last heard the story in 1975)
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whoops she never married him. just hung with him an his wife at the commune...
like Madam Mao would say .... sex is like a glass of water ...
or a certain yesteryear hollywood starllet on cock-a-doodle-do...
[Maghrebia] Mauritanian imams and religious scholars are working together to develop a strategy to prevent HIV/AIDS and to support afflicted patients in a way that honours Islamic tradition. Does that mean they're gonna stop porking madrassah students? No, I think it means they'll pork 'em and then stone the ones who turn out to have AIDS ...
"The role of religious scholars in combating this disease and caring about its patients is important to our Islamic society," said Health Minister Cheikh Mokhtar Ould Herma at the opening of a two-day workshop on April 5th, held under the banner "Vision and Design of Islamic Mechanisms for Mobilising Support to Combat AIDS".
Minister Herma praised the imams for their prior assistance in AIDS education and care.
Imams "were a good example when their convoys toured the western and central African regions in 2005, as reformers, preachers and guides", Herma said, adding that Mauritanians must "win against the disease by containing its social and economic implications and attending to its patients".
The workshop is a product of the US Agency for International Development's "Aware 2" campaign, launched in West Africa to curb the spread of the immunodeficiency disease.
Workshop participants received a guidebook of recommendations on how to provide support for AIDS victims in ways that lessen their sense of marginalisation and deprivation. Participants also discussed how Islamic precepts can be used to encourage prevention, express solidarity with patients and combat the stigma of the illness.
The training also focussed on bringing religious awareness campaigns to remote, isolated areas of the country.
AIDS-afflicted Mauritanians expressed gratitude to event organisers.
"As people infected with the disease, we're attaching great hopes to this workshop because imams will explain to the Mauritanian people our rights under Islamic sharia" not to be marginalised, said National Anti-AIDS Programme representative Fatimeta Ball.
"We want to benefit from the support that Islam gives us as poor and sick people who need assistance," she told Magharebia.
Imams who attended the seminar were fully supportive of the project's aims in bringing greater AIDS awareness to the Mauritanian public.
Union of Imams chief Mohamed Ould Mahoud thanked the project for the attention it pays to AIDS patients in the country and for its campaign to spread a culture of prevention.
Imams appreciate being trusted with the responsibility to change public opinion on the disease and will work hard to enlighten the public on AIDS and its consequences, Mahoud added.
Mauritania was chosen to host the workshop because of its "rich and effective experiment of its clerics in combating AIDS," project administrator Dr. Martin Laourou told Magharebia. The country led an AIDS-awareness campaign in 2005 in six African countries, including Senegal, Mali and Nigeria, he said.
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ION WORLD NEWS > ALLAFRICA.com > AFRICA: FORGET PIRACY - THE NEXT BIG THREAT IS FISH GRABBING! Africa's nations are collectively facing DECLINING FISH RESOURCES DUE TO PERVASIVE ILLEGAL OR UNREGULATED OVERFISHING along WEST, SOUTH, + EAST COASTS OF CONTINENT??? FISH is a cheap but vital FOOD SOURCE for Africa's poor, espec in riverine + coastal vilages, as well as urban ghettos.
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"The country led an AIDS-awareness campaign in 2005 in six African countries, including Senegal, Mali and Nigeria"
Yawn. Get back to me when they lead a "don't screw everybody you run across" campaign.
Do these clowns even know how one normally contracts AIDS? Do they care?
Health Minister Herma: "win against the disease by containing its social and economic implications and attending to its patients"
Sounds just like a Lefty. Lots of pretty words, but what the hell does it actually mean?
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Don't worry Lions Of Islam! Female genital mutilation will ensure your safety from the western plague of HIV/AIDS. Islamic tradition continuing into the 9th century!
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Sounds just like a Lefty. Lots of pretty words, but what the hell does it actually mean?
Sounds like a high level bureaucrat. The righty ones are just as bad.
[Bangla Daily Star] West Bengal police arrested a top Bangladeshi outlawed leader from Nadia district early yesterday.
Sahin Alam Rumi alias Sahin Rumi, son of Sultan Rumi of Kalishankarpur in Kushtia, is the military commander of outlawed Gono Mukti Fouz.
Police said Sahin has been staying in India with a name of Sohel Ahmed Mondol alias Dipu for last several months.
Mr. Rumi has considerably more than his fair share of names. There must be men going around with none, to balance out.
A police team led by Sub-Divisional Police Officer Soumendranath Das raided the house of Mikail at Shantipur in Nadia at about 2:30 am and arrested Rumi.
The proper time, although without the proper cohort of henchmen.
Police recovered his passport, one ration card issued by West Bengal government, two mobile handsets and six SIM cards five of which are Bangladeshi and one Indian.
Police Super of Kushtia Sahabuddin Khan confirmed the arrest.
Indian police arrested Sahin as he is the accused in two murder cases filed with Bongaon Police Station in India.
When contacted Soumendranath told this correspondent that Sahin has been arrested as a main accused in a case filed for killing an Indian woman in Shantipur of Nadia on November 2009.
That's pretty quick grinding for the mills of justice.
Indian police yesterday produced Sahin before a Bongaon court seeking a seven-day remand. The court granted five days' remand.
Around 55 cases including 25 killing cases have been recorded against Sahin with various police stations of Kushtia, Chuadanga and Jhenidah in last 10 years.
Not so quickly after all. Mr. Rumi is clearly a very badman miscreant, wanted on many, many systems.
Police said Sahin himself claimed responsibility for those killings of local journalists and police over phones.
The West Bengal police need to take a training course with the Rab. They've got the general idea, but the details! It's the details that make the Rab the masters of this form.
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ION TOPIX > NAXALS WARN, THERE WILL BE BIGGER ATTACKS; + NAXALS WARN OF MORE DANTEWADA ATTACKS + NAXAL INSURGENCY GREATEST THREAT, CHALLENGE FOR RISING INDIA.
* SAME > VARIOUS > RAO: "ARMED CONFLICT/WAR IS INEVITABLE" AS LONG AS LOWER CLASSES ARE ABUSED, GOVT REFUSES TO STOP CORRUPTION.
Patients are paying record amounts out of their own pockets to buy private treatment from the National Health Service, which was set up to offer services for free.
Middle-class and wealthy people now routinely receive better or earlier treatment on the NHS, including cancer diagnosis, heart bypasses and hernia operations.
An Observer investigation has revealed that the NHS last year earned £340 million by renting out operating theatres, scanning machines, and beds to private patients.
The NHS's private income has grown from £249m before Labour was elected, according to the health market analysts Laing & Buisson. The figures show that income from private patients is growing faster than that from the Treasury.
Cash-strapped hospitals are desperate to earn money by treating fee-paying patients out of normal hours. People unable to afford the NHS fees wait longer, with delays often so protracted that treatable conditions can become fatal.
To cash in on the bonanza, the Department of Health is building private wards for fee-paying patients. In many towns, the NHS has become the only provider of private treatment. Hospitals such as Burton General, Hinchingbrook, Luton and Dunstable, St Mary's on the Isle of Wight and Yeovil District Hospital have new facilities that are the sole providers of private medical treatment in their areas.
Some leading NHS hospitals have become dependent on private revenues. The Royal Marsden in London, the country's leading cancer hospital, earns 23 per cent of its income - £18.1 million last year - from the treatment of private patients, half of whom are from over seas. Foreign fee-paying patients gain access to NHS doctors, nurses and equipment denied to non-paying NHS patients.
A recent academic study showed NHS delays in bowel cancer treatment were so great that, in one in five cases, cancer which was curable at the time of diagnosis had become incurable by the time of treatment.
Last year, the Royal Brompton Hospital, which specialises in heart surgery, earned 13 per cent of its income from private patients, according to the healthcare analyst William Fitzhugh. For non-paying NHS patients, the average wait for a heart bypass is about a year.
The NHS has about 3,000 beds dedicated to private patients, making it one of the biggest providers of private medicine in Britain. Many of Britain's biggest private medical insurers, including PPP, now routinely pay for treatment for customers at NHS hospitals.
Christopher Denne, a former British diplomat, learnt to his cost earlier this year that having money helped to get better treatment in the NHS. He was diagnosed with prostate cancer, seven months after being referred by his GP, but was told he could not see a consultant until he had a scan to see if the disease had spread to his bones.
The bone scanner at Derriford Hospital in Plymouth was so busy that he faced an eight-week wait for diagnosis. However, Denne was told that the NHS scanning machine was reserved for private patients for a certain period each day and was often unused. He paid £180 to have the scan done within three days.
'It was the same scanner, in the same hospital, with the same people. It amazed me,' Denne said.
To paraphrase Uncle Joe, "How many divisions has Richard Dawkins got?" It's also sad to see Hitchins getting involved in this juvenile, undergraduate street theatre stunt.
RICHARD DAWKINS, the atheist campaigner, is planning a legal ambush to have the Pope arrested during his state visit to Britain for crimes against humanity'.
Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, the atheist author, have asked human rights lawyers to produce a case for charging Pope Benedict XVI over his alleged cover-up of sexual abuse in the Catholic church.
The pair believe they can exploit the same legal principle used to arrest Augusto Pinochet, the late Chilean dictator, when he visited Britain in 1998.
The Pope was embroiled in new controversy this weekend over a letter he signed arguing that the good of the universal church' should be considered against the defrocking of an American priest who committed sex offences against two boys. It was dated 1985, when he was in charge of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which deals with sex abuse cases.
Benedict will be in Britain between September 16 and 19, visiting London, Glasgow and Coventry, where he will beatify Cardinal John Henry Newman, the 19th-century theologian.
Dawkins and Hitchens believe the Pope would be unable to claim diplomatic immunity from arrest because, although his tour is categorised as a state visit, he is not the head of a state recognised by the United Nations.
They have commissioned the barrister Geoffrey Robertson and Mark Stephens, a solicitor, to present a justification for legal action.
The lawyers believe they can ask the Crown Prosecution Service to initiate criminal proceedings against the Pope, launch their own civil action against him or refer his case to the International Criminal Court.
Dawkins, author of The God Delusion, said: This is a man whose first instinct when his priests are caught with their pants down is to cover up the scandal and damn the young victims to silence.'
Hitchens, author of God Is Not Great, said: This man is not above or outside the law. The institutionalised concealment of child rape is a crime under any law and demands not private ceremonies of repentance or church-funded payoffs, but justice and punishment.
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Nice idea. ut I prpose to extend this to all people who raised in arms to defend Polanski. I propose to extend this to all atheists who said nothing to the gfact that proportion of children raped is sevaral times higher in secular (aka atheist) institutions than in catholic ones. I popose to extend this to all atheists who said and say nothing about the nearly systematic abuse of children in Esast Germany's orphanages. I propose to extnd this to all atheists who don't try to have Ahmedinajad and other leaders of countries who have eagal rape of nine year old girls. I ropose arresting all atheists wh say nothing about socialists in Spain who have lowered age of consent to tewleve years so their pedophilic athesistic partisans can fulfill their lust.
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Dawkins is a brilliant man whose work on the theory of evolution I admire. Unfortunately, he he subscribes to cranky left wing causes.
Having said that, he may have a point. The Pope should be no more immune to prosecution for covering up crimes, than say the CEO of a large corporation like Enron.
But 'crimes against humanity' is just the usual UN sponsored BS.
BTW, the Pope is the head of state of the Vatican, nominally a sovereign state and would generally be immune from prosecution in other countries. 'Crimes against humanity' is probably framed to allowed prosecution of heads of state, such as Charles Taylor.
Overall I'd say, more leftwing abuse/exploitation of vague UN sponsored 'sounds good' laws.
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Dawkins is a brilliant man whose work on the theory of evolution I admire.
Dawkins doesn't have any work on the theory of evolution---just popularization of the work of others. His own, few, professional papers are way below par.
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Having said that, he may have a point. The Pope should be no more immune to prosecution for covering up crimes, than say the CEO of a large corporation like Enron.
Look above for an incomplete list of people who should be prosecuted in case the Pope is.
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Look above for an incomplete list of people who should be prosecuted in case the Pope is
Your examples makes no sense. All (?) athesists should be prosecuted for the crime (?) of not comdemning things in other countries that have little or nothing to do with atheism (Ahmedinajad? Roman Polanski?)
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See OldSpook's masterful summary of the flaws in the case against the pope.
Mr Dawkins is more than a bit of a crank, I quite agree, one of those who think that achievement in one area guarantees the ability to succeed in all. On the other hand, if g(r)omgoru doesn't think much of his output within his field, that may explain Mr Dawkins' insistence on being acknowledged wherever his interest turns.
My examples make much sense for one side because they highlight this guy's hipocrisy and for the other side because except for the xample about islamic pedophilia they higlight the above averagee rates of pedophilia between agressively atheistic types (cf Spain's socialists and East Germany's orphanages)
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I liked Richard Dawkins' ideas way back when, but currently I think it doesn't account sufficiently for material culture's effects in making humans more stupid.
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I don't know about Dawkins, but one of the war correspondents (Michael Totten?) had a story about Hitchens defacing Syrian Nazi posters in Lebanon and getting a beating for it, so I'm guessing Hitchens has a little spunk.
Dawkin's The Selfish Gene is a fascinating read, but he has gone a little nutty with the whole atheism shtick. Whatever they do, I hope they have giant puppets. I love giant puppets.
Because he once torn Dawkins & Maynard Smith a new one
NOTE ON EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGIES IN ASYMMETRIC ANIMAL CONFLICTS
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JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY Volume: 84 Issue: 1 Pages: 93-101 Published: 1980
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Dawkins Replicator theory is IMO the most important theoretical contribution to the theory of evolution since Darwin himself.
(a) It's not Dawkins', see
George C. Williams
Adaptation and Natural Selection
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1966.
(b) And it's not a theory but a metaphor---immensely popular with laymen, but otherwise ...
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I'm deeply impressed by the analysis of Old Spook (I'm a practising Catholic, too).
I respect anyone who wants to be an atheist or agnostic. But Dawkins and Hitchens aren't doing them a favor.
And of course, the "not recognized by the UN state" is nonsense. Switzerland has only been a UN member since 2002. Before it had an observer status like the Vatican. And of course their heads of state had diplomatic immunity.
Pope Benedict is an absolutely honest, deeply moral person with the highest integrity. Yes, the Church has bad apples like any organization has. And of course an organization that works a lot with young people will have its share of pedophiles. But the house cleaning is under way.
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I respect anyone who wants to be an atheist or agnostic.
I'm a hard-shell agnostic, and I have nothing but contempt for anyone who *wants* to be an atheist or agnostic. It's a religious-philosophical position built upon the wreckage of hope and the failure of faith. Anyone who desires the negation of faith as a goal is someone not to be trusted with so much as a pocket-knife, because dollars will get you donuts they're half-way to sociopathy.
Agnosticism and atheism honestly arrived at is the failure to discover any truth in religion. That's sad, and socially disastrous. Don't come over here, folks, it sucks on this side of the fence.
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And it's not a theory
The Replicator theory elegantly explains what was previously a puzzle - where did the most primitive organisms as we know them today come from? The previous explanation that they somehow randomly arose in the primeival soup was deeply unsatisfactory, but was the generally accepted explanation when I was taught genetics.
Otherwise, few ideas in science are genuinely original to one person.
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Hitchens defacing Syrian Nazi posters in Lebanon and getting a beating for it, so I'm guessing Hitchens has a little spunk. had a little Dutch courage.
A senior Russian judge who presided over the high-profile trial of a gang of racist killers was assassinated in Moscow today.
Eduard Chuvashov was shot in the stairwell of his central Moscow home as he was leaving for work. Police said that they suspected that he had been killed by ultranationalists in a revenge attack for his work at Moscow City Court.
Mr Chuvashov, 47, was hit three times in a contract-style killing and died at the scene from gunshot wounds to the head and chest, the Investigations Committee of the Russian Prosecutor-General's Office said in a statement.
The judge dealt with the trials of members of extremist organisations and had jailed nine members of a Russian fascist group, the White Wolves, in February for the murders of migrant workers from Central Asia.
The skinhead gang, mostly teenagers, were sentenced to between 6 and 23 years for their parts in stabbing and beating to death 11 people. Prosecutors said that the group, which had formed two years earlier on Adolf Hitler's birthday, had filmed their attacks on mobile phones and uploaded them to Slavic nationalist websites.
Mr Chuvashov also jailed three ultranationalists last week for racially-motivated murders, Anna Usacheva, a spokeswoman for the Moscow court, told Ekho Moskvy radio. Threats against him had been posted on several radical websites after both trials, said Galina Kozhevnikova, of the Sova Centre, a rights group that monitors racist crimes.
They published his picture and extracts of audio tapes from court cases, profiling him as a danger to all Russians,' she said. Sova said that 306 people were hurt and 60 killed in hate crimes in Russia last year.
Video from surveillance cameras in the building showed that the gunman was a man of Slavic appearance aged between 25 and 30, dressed in a black shirt and hat and blue jeans, a police source told Ria Novosti news agency.
The judge had been offered protection by the Federal Security Service (FSB) in relation to the threats but had refused to accept a bodyguard, Interfax news reported.
3D TV arrives in Australia next week, but soccer fans thinking about watching the game with a beer might want to check the fine print.
Samsung today revealed the first range of 3D TVs to go on sale in Australia next week, beating rivals Sony and Panasonic to the shelves.
One of the first events to make use of the technology will be the World Cup, with FIFA announcing 25 matches to be filmed in 3D including Australia's game against Germany on June 13.
But if you're planning on watching it with a beer, think again.
Viewers under the influence of alcohol are among the list of people warned not to watch 3D TV by Samsung's safety guidelines.
Others include pregnant woman, the elderly, those who suffer from epilepsy and those who are sleep deprived.
And despite Samsung showing off its new 3D technology with a screening of kids' film Monsters vs Aliens at a press conference in Sydney, children under the age of six are ruled out as well.
The safety guidelines also warn people to be careful where they place their 3D TV in the house because of possible disorientation.
"DO NOT place your TV near open stairwells, cables, balconies, or other objects that can be tripped over, run into, knocked down, broken or fallen over," Samsung says.
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After reading the guidelines, why do I get the impression that if I want to watch the damn thing, I will be looking like the guy in clockwork orange?
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Warning: Pregnant women, the elderly and children under 10 should avoid prolonged exposure to Samsung 3D TV.
Caution: Samsung 3D TV may suddenly accelerate to dangerous speeds.
Samsung 3D TV contains a liquid core, which, if exposed due to rupture should not be touched, inhaled or looked at. Do not use Samsung 3D TV on concrete.
Discontinue use of Samsung 3D TV if any of the following occurs:
* Itching
* Vertigo
* Dizziness
* Tingling in extremities
* Loss of balance or coordination
* Slurred speech
* Temporary blindness
* Profuse sweating
* Heart palpitations
If Samsung 3D TV begins to smoke, get away immediately. Seek shelter and cover head. Samsung 3D TV may stick to certain types of skin.
When not in use, Samsung 3D TV should be returned to its special container and kept under refrigeration. Failure to do so relieves the makers of Samsung 3D TV, Samsung 3D TV Incorporated, and its parent company Samsung 3D TV Unlimited, of any and all liability.
Ingredients of Samsung 3D TV include an unknown glowing substance which fell to Earth, presumably from outer space.
Samsung 3D TV has been shipped to our troops in Afghanistan and is also being dropped by our warplanes on Iraq.
Analysts have warned that Japan may go bankrupt next year with a public debt figure larger than that of any other industrialized nation.
Dai-ichi Life Research Institute cautions about surging public dept of Japan, estimating that it will hit 950 trillion yen next year. That is 200 percent of the country's GDP.
Experts say that Japan cannot avoid bankruptcy unless it issues more government bonds.
Japan has the world's second-largest economy by nominal GDP and the third largest in purchasing power parity.
Deflation, high public debt and weak domestic demand have had a drastic impact on Tokyo's finances. The Japanese economy shrank 5.2 percent last year.
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I actually hope that several nations go bankrupt before long, so that they can be economic laboratories. The trick is to stabilize the other at-risk countries so it doesn't create a domino effect.
If two or three countries went belly up at about three month intervals, it could turn into a "rolling" problem, which is always better than a simultaneous collapse.
Are you sure about this? Because back in the '80s there was a whole slew of books about Japan, Inc. and how this rising economic power was going to dominate the world economy.
I admit I've been a little out of touch since reading Ehrlich's The Population Bomb and The Club of Rome's Limits to Growth back then. I figured with the coming world-wide famine, resource shortage and general societal collapse, the best thing was to hide in the basement. For all I know, we have had the Zombie Apocalypse and the US is now an over-taxed socialist welfare state on the European model.
MOSCOW -- Investigators examining the crash of the Polish president's plane appeared Sunday to be focusing on why the pilot did not heed instructions from air traffic controllers to give up trying to land in bad weather in western Russia.
Their inquiry may lead to an even more delicate question: whether the pilot felt under pressure to land to make sure that the Polish delegation would not be late for a ceremony on Saturday in the Katyn forest, where more than 20,000 Polish officers and others were massacred by the Soviets during World War II.
Officials have recovered the flight voice recorder, but on Sunday they did not release transcripts of conversations in the cockpit or the control tower. Still, attention has been drawn to the pilot's state of mind because of a previous incident involving the Polish president, Lech Kaczynski, who died along with numerous other senior Polish government and military officials in the crash.
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Two elements that are at odds.
1. The pilot dumped fuel on third approach
2. A witness saw one of the wings pointing to ground before crash.
Both indicate there was a problem, maybe a mechanical failure. One dumps fuel when there is an assumption the craft would crash.
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RBers must know this for certain - aren't pilots (and captains at sea) absolute commanders? Don't we want pilots with big egos just to avoid backseat drivers, no matter who they are?
I learned from recent personal experience that the pilot signs the birth certificate for deliveries in flight, and gets to choose the country of birth for that matter.
I doubt the mechanical failure aspect - this seems to be weather related pilot disaster.
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As a former military pilot I feel justified commenting, the A/C, aircraft commander, is in total and has complete responsibility for, not only the aircraft but the passengers as well. No one, not President or even Nancy Pelosi, overrules the A/C. Period!
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Better not tell The Won,™ Flaper.
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Barbara, you're correct. If The Won were to board my aircraft I believe I'd find a mysterious mechnical problem that would prohibit me from taking Bambi to his destination. Although poorly made, my point was the A/C has the ultimate responsibility for the flight. Neither the elderly Tupolov nor ground controller were responsible for the terrible result, the A/C was in charge after being cautioned numerous times of the conditions. On the other hand, perhaps it would be best for all if I took him for a short ride. Nah, then Joe would be CIC.
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The pilot of the aircraft IS the Pilot in Command PIC. He or she can violate any regulation if need be for the safety of his aircraft and passengers. If he has an emergency, he can declare an emergency and sort it out later.
Aviate, Navigate, Communicate. In that order. The PIC has the rights AND responsibilities that go with command.
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[Straits Times] A TEMPORARY calm returned to parts of Bangkok roiled by street battles on Saturday that left 21 people dead, but the government and protesters both dug in their heels yesterday.
Troops were ordered back to their barracks, though it was clear that they could be called on again.
There was no sign of any substantive negotiations between the government and the 'red shirts' of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD).
'We have communication with them but not negotiation yet,' the Prime Minister's spokesman Panitan Wattanayagorn told foreign media at the fortified military base from where the government administers emergency measures.
'You cannot negotiate when people are...breaking the laws,' he said, referring to the UDD's protest sites - at the upscale Ratchaprasong intersection and Rajadamnoen road in old Bangkok - which have been declared illegal."
Dr Panitan also said facilities at six military bases have been prepared to house red shirts when they are arrested.
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Red Shirts = poor farmers paid by Toxin with embezzled money and promised positions of power when he returns
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The current Thai government came to power in a military coup. Thaxin's party has won the last three elections. The current goverment only retained power by disqualifying winning candidates from Thaxin's party.
This is essentially a battle between the working middle class and those aspiring to be middle class (the red shirts), and the Bangkok elites.
Unfortunately the king is old and ill. He has strongly favoured democracy in the past, which would be in favour of the red shirts and against the current government.
I suspect there may be a surprise coming, with the military rank and file turning against the senior officers (part of the Bangkok elite).
[Iran Press TV Latest] Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says his government plans to relocate millions of Tehran citizens as the capital is threatened by earthquakes.
"We can not order people to evacuate the city... but measures have to be taken," Mehr News Agency quoted Ahmadinejad as saying on Sunday.
"At least five million people should leave Tehran so it becomes less crowded and possible incidents can be controlled," he added.
Tehran Province, which has a population of 14 million, is constantly faced with threats of earthquakes as it sits on several fault lines.
Ahmadinejad said the government could offer "land, loans at four percent interest and substantial subsidies" in other provinces to encourage Tehran residents to leave the capital.
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Iran sits astride several major faults in the Earth's crust and is prone to frequent quakes.
The worst earthquake to hit the country in recent years devastated the southern city of Bam in December 2003, killing 31,000 people and destroying its ancient mud-brick citadel.
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