A 5.9 MAGNITUDE quake has struck close to Tonga and Samoa, seismologists said today, the latest in a series of earthquakes to hit the South Pacific.
There was no tsunami alert after the tremor, which hit at a shallow depth of 10km early this morning, the US Geological Survey said.
The epicentre was 344km northeast of Tonga's Neiafu and 260km southwest of Apia, in Samoa, the USGS said.
More than 180 people died after a violent Pacific earthquake at the end of September caused a tsunami that crashed into Tonga, Samoa and American Samoa.
Myanmar authority is planning to push a large number of Rohingyas into Bangladesh, sources said.
Muslim ethnic group with Bengali roots. Thousands fled into Bangladesh in 78 after the Burmese army went a-hunting in the area. Been living in camps there since. Now the junta wants to finish the ethnic cleansing & is erecting fences to keep them from returning.
Several thousands of Rohingyas have been assembled by the NASAKA (Myanmar border guards) in Mongdu, a town near Bangladesh-Myanmar border, for pushing them into Bangladesh, local representatives of Ghumdum union parishad yesterday told journalists quoting the Rohingyas who were pushed by the NASAKA into Bangladesh recently.
Local elected representatives said that everyday dozens of Rohingyas were being forced into Bangladesh. On the other hand, the Myanamar authority has been continuing the barbed wire fencing along Bangladesh border since October 2. People of Ghumdum union said that the Rohingyas who had been pushed into Bangladesh recently were farced into through the areas where the erection of the barbed wire fencing were yet to start.
Local people said that if the Myanamr efforts in 'push in' continued, it would be difficult for Bangladesh to push them back into Myanmar after the erection of the barbed wire fence.
yep, that's the intention all right.
On the other hand, the local government officials said that they were watching the situation closely and the BDR troops were on high alert in the region.
It is learnt that Chittagong sector commander of BDR Colonel Didarul Alam visited the border area recently and asked the BDR personnel to remain vigilant.
Local representatives of Ghumdum area said that though Myanmar authority earlier informed that they were erecting the fence on their own land, the fences in some places, were erected within 50 yards of the zero point violating the international rules.
[Bangla Daily Star] Schoolgirl Rokeya Parveen Mou has been passing her agonising days in a hospital bed at Sherpur upazila in Bogra for 23 days as she sustained burn wound when a 22-year-old youth threw acid on her.
Selim Ahmed, brought up for long 14 years by Mou's parents, poured acid on Mou on September 17 just three days before Eid-ul-Fitr as he was asked to leave the house in June after he became addicted to drug, said family members and police officials.
Mou's mother, Kohinur Begum, filed a case against Selim whom she had raised since 1995.
As he was under the influence of drug Kohinur turned Selim out of the house for the sake of other family members, family members said.
Mou is a student of class-X at Sima Bari SR Girls' High School at Sherpur of Bogra who has been staying in Dhaka for about three months with her brother and sister to receive better coaching.
"I went to Bogra just four days before the Eid but I had to move from one hospital to another for treatment even on the Eid day," Mou said.
"I saw Selim clearly as it was a moonlit night. It was about 10:00pm of September 17, the night of Shab-e-Qadr," she added.
"I went to toilet which had no roof. I saw Selim on a jackfruit tree just above the toilet. He suddenly began to pour some liquid down on me. As I felt burning sensations on my shoulders, back and the other parts of my body I screamed in fear," said Mou as she described the harrowing experience of that night.
On hearing her scream her brother Abdur Rahman Jewel dashed to the spot and caught Selim who somehow managed to flee the scene. "Acid-burnt Mou was rushed to the hospital in the morning," said Jewel.
Mou is now under treatment at the Burn and Plastic Surgery Unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) with burns on different parts of her body.
"Selim used to live with us but he had never disturbed me or even my elder sister. It is hard to believe that Selim should throw acid on me," said Mou at the burn unit of DMCH.
Her mother Kohinur said, "I think Selim poured acid on my daughter to avenge his turning out of the house."
No sooner had Mou's expatriate father, Abdur Rashid, come to know about the horrible incident than he returned from Saudi Arabia where he had been working for the past couple of years.
"We want justice. Why did he ruin my daughter's life," Mou's father said in a choked voice.
Investigation Officer Sub-inspector of Sherpur Police Station Alhajuddin told The Daily Star yesterday, "Everything will be clear once Selim is arrested."
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I could suggest in rather detailed terms a suitable punishment for the 'youth', but it would violate Fred's guidelines for civil and reasoned discourse.
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He's a drug addict. Stake him down and let him dry out without any form of blockers. THEN do nasty things to him, so he understands the consequences of his actions. Of course, MY ideas of what nasty things to do would also get me banned from Rantburg for several centuries. I can be VERY nasty when I want to be - part of my childhood past-time of torturing rats.
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I was thinking a little lower than his stomach, Redneck Jim.
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Let him join his Papa in Saudi Arabia, where they both can work to pay off the girl's medical bills. Young Selim will there learn all the drawbacks of being a "girl" with none of the benefits, as I'm sure Papa does not have the status to protect him -- had he had the status, he would have kept young Selim in Saudi Arabia, rather than relying on the charity of his sister's husband.
North Korean authorities have apparently stepped up regulations and monitoring of Chinese residents there since Beijing backed UN sanctions against the North in June. Sources in China and North Korea say North Korean intelligence officials are increasingly treating Chinese residents who recently visited their home country as spies.
Red on deep pink ...
Sources say this has prompted many Chinese residents to avoid visiting China. The number of Chinese residents passing through customs in Rajin has dropped to one-third of the number seen last year after rumors spread that a Chinese resident in Pyongyang who had recently been back to China was hauled off by intelligence agents and charged with espionage.
There are an estimated 8,000 to 10,000 Chinese living in North Korea in Pyongyang, Sinuiju and Chongjin. They are better off on average than typical North Koreans since they make a living selling products from China. They had been free from regulations and faced no punishment even if they criticized North Korean leader Kim Jong-il. But they are now said to be subject to the worst repression ever, apparently as a result of North Korean anger at China's backing for the sanctions.
North Koreans are accusing Chinese residents of selling information about the reclusive country to the U.S. and Chinese governments.
Sources in North Korea say Chinese staff of businesses in the Rajin-Sonbong special economic zone also face tougher restrictions. In some parts of China, a growing number of companies are refraining from doing business with North Korean companies because there has been a rise in incidents where North Koreans lure Chinese investments but run off with the money.
You have communists on both sides of the deal acting like capitalist robber barons ...
There is speculation that massive economic aid announced during Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's recent visit to North Korea may have been aimed at alleviating such repression. It remains to be seen whether Chinese residents in North Korea will be treated better now.
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Faulting the Bush administration, the Interior Department barred oil and gas development at eight of the sites and said 52 others would be subjected to further study.
Good thing we don't need oil or natural gas ...
Because then we would continue to be prosperous and exceptional ... and the left is bound and determine to destroy that capability once and for all time.
Were they pushing safe nuclear power as a substitute it would be one thing. But they're not ... which tells you that this is what it looks like, namely an all-out assault on America by transnational 'progressives'. It's intentional and so far it's winning because the American people are not rising up to stop it.
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Not that, in my view, is a lot more significant, and alarming, news than a bunch of euro elitist degenerates (sorry about the tautology) giving Obama Peace Nobel for defeating the horrible, horrible USA racism.
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Folks, did you not understand the election of 2008?
This is all part of "Change" the President of the United States of America, Nobel Prize winner, Barack Hussein Obama promised you during the election of 2008.
Please watch the great and wonderful "Change" which will take place in America by "conserving our natural resources".
Oh it must be done, after all this one of the promises the President of the United States made to you while on the campaign trail.
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The 77 government-owned parcels, covering some 100,000 acres in eastern and southern Utah, were leased in the last weeks of the Bush administration. But the leases were immediately challenged by conservation groups, and in January a federal judge blocked drilling on the ground that the Interior Department had failed to follow its own procedures for reviewing the appropriateness of lands designated for oil and gas extraction.
Looks like it was stopped by one of the Princes of the realm.
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Colorado's own super-green, Ken Salazar, in action. Glad he's no longer our senator, but the way he's handling Interior does not bode well for the United States. We're going to have to do a thorough house-cleaning in Washington, to include the various "departments" and "agencies", including the EPA, that are all trying to destroy our nation. Cleaning up the cesspit called "California" would also help, especially working on the lower two thirds (from Sacramento to San Diego).
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Old Patriot
I'm in the Sacramento area and have smome insight to state government and the current administration/legislature. Do you think California actually can be saved? I've pretty much lost hope unless we just fire the entire legislature.
You say that as if we're looting the enemy's resources instead of paying them cash equivalent to the DoD's budget _yearly_ for it. Or as if you're willing to do the dirty, dangerous work of operating an oil rig after it's been in mothballs for twenty years.
Jammu, India:
A seven-year love story of a Muslim girl from Kashmir and a Hindu boy from Jammu has ended in tragedy: the boy is dead and the girl now his wife has accused police of colluding with her family to kill him. Two policemen have been suspended and a third transferred, and the administration is struggling to put a lid on simmering tension that has already seen two senior officials being manhandled by mobs.
On October 6, Jammu businessman Rajneesh Sharma was found hanging in a cell in Srinagars Ram Munshi Bagh police station. He had been picked up from his brother Pawan Sharmas home in Rehari in Jammu on October 2 by policemen who apparently mistook him for Pawan.
The Srinagar administration ordered a magisterial inquiry into the custodial death, and an autopsy was conducted. However, after the Sharma brothers mother Raj Rani identified the body as Rajneeshs, a second autopsy was done at the Government Medical College Hospital in Jammu.
Rajneeshs wife Anchal who used to be called Amina earlier told Jammu Deputy Commissioner Manoj Dwivedi today that she believed her family in the Valley had a hand in her husbands death. My father and brothers have killed my husband... you hang them, she shouted, distraught. She accused her family in Kashmir of lying when they said she was underage, and declared she had married Rajneesh of her free will.
When I left the Valley, my mother knew I was going to Jammu to get married. She prepared food for the journey, Anchal told The Indian Express. My family bribed the police, spent money to get my husband killed, she alleged.
According to Anchal, she first met Rajneesh seven years ago when she was 20. He used to visit Kashmir in connection with his aluminium fabrication business. We met in Gulmarg. We would meet in restaurants, and stayed in touch on cell phones. Finally, we decided to marry, she said. They were married in an Arya Samaj temple on August 21.
The same day, Anchals father Mohammad Yousuf filed a report with the Nehru Park police post in the Valley saying his 17-year-old daughter Amina was missing. On August 25, the police registered a case of kidnapping of a minor, and zeroed in on Rajneesh and Pawan through cell phone records. According to police, the family of Amina/Anchal told them they knew the brothers, who would frequently stay at their houseboat.
With the help of their counterparts in Jammu, the Srinagar police located Rajneesh in Rehari. However, it seems that when the police arrived, Rajneesh pretended he was Pawan. He was brought to Ram Munshi Bagh police station, where he, according to an initial probe by the police, hanged himself with a pheran.
The Sharmas alleged foul play and refused to cremate the body, demanding the registration of a case of murder, and the arrest of the policemen. Two policemen and the SHO of Ram Munshi Bagh police station have been taken off their posts.
Today, a mob gheraoed Deputy Commissioner Diwedi outside the Sharma home. His deputy Rohit Khajuria was manhandled. The officers were finally rescued by SP City Randeep Kumar and SDPO Swatantar Arora.
In the evening, senior civil and police officers met with the family in the presence of prominent Jammu citizens at the police control room. The administration agreed to a cash compensation and jobs for two members of the family. The family agreed to cremate Rajneesh tomorrow.
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A study on chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) has linked the mysterious and controversial disease to a recently discovered retrovirus. Just last month researchers found the same virus to be associated with aggressive prostate tumours.
CFS is marked by debilitating exhaustion and often an array of other symptoms, including memory and concentration problems and painful muscles and joints. The underlying cause of the disease is unknown; it is diagnosed only when other physical and psychiatric diseases have been excluded. Though the disease's nebulous nature originally drew scepticism from both doctors and the general public, most of the medical community now perceives it as a serious -- if poorly defined -- disease.
Now Judy Mikovits of the Whittemore Peterson Institute for Neuro-Immune Disease in Reno, Nevada, and her colleagues think they have discovered a potential pathogenic link to CFS. In patients with the disease from different parts of the United States, 67% were infected with a retrovirus known as XMRV. Less than 4% of controls carried the virus.
"I can't wait to be able to tell my patients," says Mikovits, who is also the vice president of drug development for Genyous Biomed in Henderson, Nevada. "It's going to knock their socks off. They've had such a stigma. People have just assumed they were just complainers who didn't handle stress well."
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What next??
So anyone know if anything can be done about XMRV?
Can you be tested for it?
I used to have CFS very bad, but now I cope with it OK.
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They develop an antidote and they're Scrooge McDuck rich.
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This gives a direction for research, Bright Pebbles. There are no treatments yet, just a test for antibodies.
On the other hand, the Eppstein-Barr virus was implicated in CFS back in the 1980s -- 70% of sufferers were found to be infected with it, only for the researchers to discover that 70% of non-suffering Americans also have antibodies to the virus. Recently it was discovered that the situation is more complex. There are three varients of the E-B antibody: the antibodies of those whose systems defeated the virus, and are therefore no longer infected; the antibodies of those experiencing an acute attack, commonly known as Mononucleosis, or the Kissing Disease; and, the antibodies of those experiencing a long-term, low grade infection which acts as a steady drain on one's energy, and thus a factor in CFS. There is currently no known cure for an E-B infection; all one can do if it goes chronic is to make sure to take vitamins and eat a balanced diet, avoid other infections as much as possible, and not overtax one's strength, lest the E-B flare up into acute Mono, the key symptom of which is acute fatigue.
Or at least that's my understanding of what I was told last autumn. I am not a member of the health-related professions.
followup on Strandlof - nailed him
A man accused of posing as a decorated Marine was arrested in downtown San Diego Friday by the FBI, authorities said.
Richard Glen Strandlof, 32, was wanted on a federal warrant after being charged with violating the Stolen Valor Act, which makes it illegal to make false claims about having military decorations, according to the FBI. The warrant was filed last week in Denver.
If convicted, he could face up to a year in jail and a $100,000 fine.
Investigators say Strandlof claimed he was a Marine captain named Rick Duncan who had lost four men under his command in an attack in Iraq, was wounded there, and earned a Purple Heart and a Silver Star Medal.
He is accused of falsely representing himself to individuals, businesses and organizations in Colorado in order to obtain money
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PUT HIS REAL NAME AND PICTURE ON ALL CALIFORNIAS NEWSPAPERS FRONT PAGES.
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We are all racists, if our opinions run contrary to those that cannot reason. Welcome to the asylum.
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A question I've been wondering out:
Is it time to de-link him from the list of bloggers?
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Rantburg and LGF were my 2 original blogs I followed. I still love the burg, but I stopped going to LGF when he went after Pam Geller as a Fascist. LGF has been dropped by powerline, ace of spades, etc. Stacy McCain has REALLY gone after LGF and there are some very good vids out the about the LGF meltdown.
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I was trying to hold on to hope that Chuck hadn't really gone all wobbly, but he's finally lost me too. I'm honestly concerned that he might have an undiagnosed brain tumor or something....
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Fred - it's not the "same" Charles. If you don't believe it, post a bland non-offensive, but skeptical comment questioning his position on any of his pet issues. You'll be banned in a nanosecond, and his little toadies will rip the empty space where your comment was to shreds. Truly the Red Queen Territory
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I was also a LGF fan. He was instrumental in Rathergate.
I don't recognize what I'm reading anymore, though. It's like Charles of 2006 has been replaced by a pod person.
The few times I've gone there in the last month, I channel my inner Cartman: "Dude, WTF?"
I hadn't been visiting much, since Charles' posts were becoming less interesting to me. But I got the impression that the commenters were a closely selected group. So, when he bashed Palin once again, I tested my theory by making a comment about him kicking his cage of gibbering sycophants just to listen to the noise. Sure enough, I'm now a proud member of BALGF. Fair enough, Charles, you ban me, I unlink you, problem solved.
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.
Myanmar authority is planning to push a large number of Rohingyas into Bangladesh, sources said. 
Faulting the Bush administration, the Interior Department barred oil and gas development at eight of the sites and said 52 others would be subjected to further study.
