[Dawn] Thousands of people were marooned in up to 10-foot-deep waters in Gandakha town on Saturday as rescue work could not be launched even though 24 hours had passed since the inundation of the tehsil.
The town cut off from the rest of Jaffarabad district was facing a shortage of food, drinking water and medicines.
About 70 per cent of the town's people had left for safe places themselves, while others were awaiting government help and had taken refuge on high grounds in the west of the town and on roof tops of buildings.
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RELATED > PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUMS > THE ASIAN FLOODS - SIGN OF CLIMATE CHANGE CATASTROPHES TO COME?
* SAME > ANALYSIS: PAKISTAN FLOOD, RUSSIA HEAT [Wave] FIT CLIMATE TREND. Noted Scientists believe events should be seens as de facto proof = evidencia of GLOBAL WARMING despite inability to formally determine iff Mankind is the sole or primary cause of same.
* SAME > {EUTIMES.Net] TOP US SENATOR ASSASSINATED AS OBAMA'S "WEATHER WAR"[HAARP] PLUNGES WORLD INTO CHAOS | RUSSIA BURNS, CHINA DROWNS, US TO BLAME?. Russian GRU Report on alleged strange or mysterious death of former US Senator Ted Stevens.
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BHARAT RAKSHAK > [RIAN.ru] WATER COULD BECOME A "STRATEGIC RESOURCE": RUSSIAN SECURITY CHIEF, espec as Russia's water deficit is anticpated to increase. POSSIBLE WORLD WATER CRISIS may occur in 2035.
* Also from BR > [Kyodo News]CHINA TO BUILD NUCLEAR CARRIER? + CONTAINING CHINA IN NEW COLD WAR [Pro-Democracy Work-in-Progress Russia + Muslim States watchful of China's rise + milpol "true intentions" = alterior motives].
* SAME > COUNTNG CHRISTIANS IN CHINA! New book by DAVID AIKMAN argues that Christinaity may achieve cultural + possible political hegemony in Chin by 2030. NOT QUITE PER SE "DOMINANCE" BUT NOT A "WEAK/POWERLESS MINORITY" EITHER.
* SAME > {Foreign Policy] CHINA'S JAPANESE FUTURE.
As floodwaters reached the outskirts of Hyderabad and Thatta on Saturday, more villages and towns were inundated.
As the water level in Indus River near Kotri Barrage increased to 760,511 cusecs, floodwater entered Hyderabad's suburbs of Hussainabad and Lab-e-Mehran Park. The army breached illegal dykes to save Hyderabad city from floods.
The Hyderabad district coordination officer (DCO) called an emergency meeting to take precautionary measures to save the city from floodwater.
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oh, cry me a river...
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I'm waiting for cholera and typhus to make an appearance.
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The UN says cholera has been found at Mingora in the Swat Valley. One person has been confirmed with the disease and up to 36,000 others have similar symptoms.
[Bangla Daily Star] At least 10 people died and three were hospitalised in a span of 24 hours due to drinking of toxic liquor at a village in Osmani Nagar till yesterday.
About 15 to 20 people consumed the poisonous liquor at Paschim Goalabazar between Friday afternoon and yesterday afternoon and fell sick within the next few hours, said Nirmalendu Chakravarty, officer-in-charge of Osmani Nagar Police Station.
The patients were severely vomiting and had other complications when they arrived, hospital sources said.
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Flesh eating bacteria got a young fellows hand. They had to remove some hand that had died. Nurse saw red lines running up the arm. A bruise, or cut could allow natural occurring bacteria to attack.
* State broadcaster predicts a hung parliament as both parties have failed to secure 76 seats needed to govern in their own right
* Australian PM says vote too close to call
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tremendous
real democracy
the entire lower house should have to vote on every piece of proposed legislation thinking very carefully with people crossing the floor. no more party line
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The mining tax is still extremely unpopular in the big mining states of Western Australia and Queensland. Even after Labor caved in and exempted gold miners and existing mines.
The media is even more dismally awful than usual in explaining the issue(s). Prior to being dumped, Rudd was running around saying the tax was justified because the resources belonged to the 'people of Australia', which they don't (they belong to the people of each individual state. Almost all land in WA and QLD is owned by the state).
It is precisely because they don't belong to 'the people of Australia' that the tax was formulated in the first place. Essentially its a royalty implemented as a tax because the Australian federal government can't charge a royalty because it doesn't own the resources.
Of course, none of this is explained by the media.
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This is going to take up to 10 days. Then it will be out with the axes and knives in the Labor party. They are being sharpened as we speak.
The independents are a bunch of fools in this case.
Dear God, Argentina here we come!
There won't be any crossing of the floor in parliament nor the end of the party system.
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hey Phil B yes the media are hopeless at explaining mining royalties mostly because it takes time to research and most reporters have no time in the day to do that reading.
You are actually incorrect. Anything more than a metre below the surface of the soil is actually the property of the Commonwealth - ie all citizens of Australia. Not the citizens of the state.
But the state charges royalties on extraction to the mining companies for all commodities except Uranium. For gas and oil there is an extra Federal Government royalty on top of the state royalty called the resource rent tax.
And yes, in fact the people of Australia have been totally robbed. State Governments have sold off those publicly owned resources for a song.
The deals are not transparent and Governments refuse to reveal how much individual project resources change hands for.
But here's a hint... in the Northern Territory, Swiss giant Xstrata paid NOT ONE CENT in royalties for all the zinc, lead and silver it mined at McArthur River for more than a decade.
No wonder Governments hide behind "commercial in confidence" to avoid telling the truth to the people.
Imagine BHP is paying 5 per cent on the profit based regime only to see Xstrata paying nothing - it's a recipe for turmoil and rightly so.
Royalties should be transparently charged and administered and the information should be public knowledge.
Especially as the public owns the asset that is being sold.
I don't doubt there has been corruption in the Mines Ministries and Departments all round the country to allow this fiasco.
The mining companies all cried poor when Rudd tried with the new profit-based tax which would have been a doddle anyway as it gave plenty of scope for creative accounting by miners AND guaranteed Government paid 40% of costs.
They tried to argue they pay massive taxes, including company and payroll tax. But every company pays those taxes and we don't give them a billion dollars worth of public assets for free.
Australia should overhaul its resources taxation system introducing a blanket 5% royalty on Gross Value of Production (not profit).
IN addition there should be a 15% domestic reservation policy for all oil, gas, coal, and any other strategic assets we have.
This should replace all state-based systems and it should be open to public scrutiny.
We should also prevent the Chinese Government from buying more than 30 per cent of the shareholdings of any miner operating in Australia, or from operating Australian mines through their state-owned, state-controlled subsidiary corporations.
[Arab News] The deepwater drilling moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico costs at least 23,000 jobs, according to a federal document that weighed the economic impact and alternatives to the drilling ban.
What's 23,000 jobs when B.O. & Joe have created or saved millions, maybe billions of other jobs?
Not to mention those whose "lives were touched..."
... all of which were green ...
A six-month suspension would directly put 9,450 people out of work and indirectly affect nearly 14,000 other jobs, according to a memo from Michael Bromwich, America's top drilling regulator. The July 10 memo to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar outlined several options regarding the suspension of offshore drilling.
Salazar issued a moratorium in June, but it was struck down by a federal judge in New Orleans after oil and gas drilling interests said it wasn't justified following the Gulf oil spill.
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Not a problem,really. BP will be forced to pay for all the people who lost their jobs, since the moratorium was their fault.
Of course, BP will be forced to pay for people from Minnesota who suffered mental anguish over the spill, too.
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Further dependence on Mooslim oil. Barry's goal is achieved through yet another crisis. We should never waste a good crisis you know.
(Those cra**er, off-shore rig workers all vote for Pubs anyway)
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Not to worry. The next $400B stimulus bill will have $50 M for training the oilfield workers to make windmills. Not turbines - they're too muscle-bound for such fine work.
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#4 Windmills yes. My son is an Iron worker doing the rebar work. Hardest work he has ever done. Put in 80 hours last week. They go in the ground as far as they are high. Trade competition between an Iron worker, carpenter, and plummer. Three large steel bearings to make something with. All but the Iron worker complete the task. Judge looks at the single bearing of the Iron worker and asked what happened?. I lost one, broke another and couldn't do anything with the last one. Joke is Iron workers break their tools,and steal stuff. Profession joke.
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#1 Hello. I believe Bp will be off the hook. Tax payer is on the hook now. They will be off for a years vacation. Why work ?. Then vote in people who will keep the more flowing.
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Yes but where are the Russians, the Chinese, and the Mexicans going to get workers? May be a zero sum game.
Someone may have to break it to the One but his moratorium does not apply to those folks....as the environmentalists are now discovering to their great discomfort.
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I know you are close to this. I believe they will get assistance one way or another but it does take time. I just keep hearing people looking forward now to getting mini or long vacations. My son has even adapted to the routine. Work like a dog then get laid off and collect unemployment. He just does all sorts of projects when laid off.
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Dale, I suspect most of the management is doing what they can to avoid firing or laying off people. This divides into several categories:
* Switching people to production instead of exploration.
* Switching people to exploring elsewhere in the US.
* Sending those people overseas.
Item 2 is rather limited, because the administration has limited a lot of leases in the intermountain area. And Item 1 means that production in the Gulf will be declining faster so that whoever's President in 2013 will have a larger problem to deal with. And Item 3 means that we're going to have problems if there's a production crunch worldwide and we need the equipment and personnell back.
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I mean, there's always a way to rob Peter to pay Paul while we wait for the US's civilizational Alzheimer's to go away. We've been doing it for twenty years.
In the meantime I suggest you look for instances where someone's alzheimer's went away on its own, to encourage us to keep robbing.
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Dag Nab it! Moombeam always wrecks my train of thought. TFSM - I like your train of thought. Options are indeed limited now. I have a saying; we rob Peter to pay Paul and Sam is left out.
Russia has handed a new nuclear-powered submarine over to India for a 10-year lease, Russian news agencies reported on Friday, two years after an accident during testing killed 20 people.
The Nerpa, under the command of an Indian crew, left its base on Russia's Pacific coast earlier this week, bound for an Indian naval base.
We've been expecting this for awhile. Nerpa will serve as a training submarine for the nuclear navy India wants to build.
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PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > RUSSIAN AIRCRAFT CONTROL INDIA'S SKIES [IAF steadily + cetainly becoming "Russianized"].
VERSUS
* SAME > INDIA BUYS MORE RUSSIAN "DUD" WEAPONS.
Shade of GET-THREE-PLUS-TV'S-FOR-THE-PRICE-OF-ONE, LUCKY-IFF-THE-TV-OR CHANNEL-TURNS-ON 1990's SOUTH KOREAN-MADE TV PROMO???
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Of the 111 cases, in 78 the accused confessed to the offences, resulting in imposition of fines totalling Rs 99,500. The cases were related to theft, street brawls, domestic quarrels and road accidents, among others.
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the judge in the small town I live in does this once a month. He just finds everyone guilty.
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International donors have come forward with nearly $500 million in aid for flood-hit Pakistan, with the US, Saudi Arabia and Britain leading the way, figures showed on Friday.
The Financial Tracking Service (FTS), a UN database that aims to track all donations, showed on Friday that $490.7 million has come in for Pakistan's floods, with another $325 million promised. Just over half came via the UN's emergency appeal fund while the rest came via bilateral aid, chiefly from Saudi Arabia, charities or private organisations and companies. The UN launched a $460 million appeal for donations on August 11, saying this was the amount it estimated was needed by Pakistan to recover from the disaster. According to the FTS, $263 million has been donated via the appeal -- 57 percent of the target -- with the lion's share of that total, 88 million, coming from the US. The UK has donated $34.7 million via the UN fund while Australia has given $26.6 million and the European Commission $18.6 million. "It is very likely that the need for donations will strongly increase because, since our estimate of August 11, the number of people in need of immediate humanitarian aid has risen from six to eight million," Maurizio Giuliano, spokesman for the UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Islamabad, told AFP. The UN will have to revise its target within 30 days following the launch of the appeal, Giuliano said.d.
More tents and plastic sheets have been secured to help 4.6 million shelterless Pakistanis, a UN spokesman said, easing pressure on aid workers hoping to stop diseases spreading in the country's flood crisis. "The good news is that we have been able to double the amount of tents and plastic sheets that are in the pipeline that are coming in," Giuliano said. Half a million people are living in about 5,000 schools, said Giuliano, where poor hygiene and sanitation, along with cramped quarters and the stifling heat, provide fertile ground for potentially fatal diseases such as cholera. Isolated rains are expected in parts of central Punjab, southern Sindh and northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the next 24 hours, officials said.
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My available extra cash is going two places: To Fred, and to my small vote-out-the-DemonCrats political donation fund.
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Let's hope it'll be at the expense of Paleosimians.
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northern pakistan... the place where Osama Bin Laden hides. The cradle of Taliban. The home of people who throw acid-in-the-face if you don't wear the burqa
where billboards get etched so they don't show a human.
sure i want to give *that* country my aid money when they flood.
didn't all that praying to allan stop the natural disasters then? If i pay them aid money they might not learn.
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who authorised my elected representatives to give $26 million of my countrymen's taxes to help Pakistan.
There are roads with potholes here. People wait 8 hours in emergency to see a doctor. We suffer water shortages because we have no infrastructure and we are giving money away?
Let people give from their own money if they want but do NOT use the tax money confiscated from me by force.
End Government aid payments NOW - charity should be VOLUNTARY
Police claimed to have arrested five desperados who clubbed to death two young brothers in Sialkot on Friday.
According to police, two police officers were also arrested and police contingents have been dispatched to arrest six other officials who were not only witnessing the barbaric torture on the innocent brothers, but had also allowed the killing by not stopping the desperados, a private news channel reported on Saturday. A station house officer, said to be the mastermind of the killing, is still at large.
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Driven by extreme poverty in their hometowns, thousands of poor housemaids moving from one city to another in order to support their families consequently fall victims to abuse and violence.
A 12-year old Tehmina Qasim from Rahim Yar Khan is one such victim of violence. Presently admitted to the Surgical Ward III of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) with a broken backbone, she was thrashed by her masters due to which, she fell off second floor of the house.
Tehmina, a skinny girl, who has been working for Najeebul Islam and his wife Rakhshinda at Bahria Town phase IV, for the last eight months. She has been counseled bed rest for six months. Doctors seem uncertain whether she would be able to walk again. "However, the treatment is on," they added.
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and we are supposed to pay aid money to this country when it floods?
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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Bangla Daily Star] At least 10 people died and three were hospitalised in a span of 24 hours due to drinking of toxic liquor at a village in Osmani Nagar till yesterday. 
[Arab News] The deepwater drilling moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico costs at least 23,000 jobs, according to a federal document that weighed the economic impact and alternatives to the drilling ban.
International donors have come forward with nearly $500 million in aid for flood-hit Pakistan, with the US, Saudi Arabia and Britain leading the way, figures showed on Friday.
