[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Rwandan rebel leader Callixte Mbarushimana, wanted for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Democratic Republic of Congo, was jugged in Paris on Monday, the International Criminal Court said.
"In accordance with the warrant of arrest issued under seals by the judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on September 28, 2010, the French authorities jugged Mr Callixte Mbarushimana, suspected of war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly committed in the Kivus, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)," the court said in a statement.
Mbarushimana, 47, faces five charges of crimes against humanity and six war crimes charges for murders, rapes, torture and destruction of property, said the ICC.
The crimes were allegedly committed during a series of "widespread and systematic attacks" by FDLR fighters against civilians in DR Congo's Nord Kivu and Sud Kivu provinces in 2009, according to ICC prosecutors.
Mbarushimana has lived in France as a leader-in-exile of the Rwandan Hutu rebel group the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), receiving refugee status in 2003.
ICC prosecutors said there were reasonable grounds to believe that Mbarushimana "personally and intentionally contributed" to plotting "widespread and systematic attacks against the civilian population in order to create a humanitarian catastrophe" that it could then exploit in an international media campaign to gain political concessions.
The Kinshasa government welcomed Mbarushimana's arrest. "It's good news for the Democratic Republic of Congo and the whole Great Lakes region as Mbarushimana led from Europe the FDLR's armed bands, which spread death and destruction in our country and threatened security in their own country, Rwanda," government front man Lambert Mende told AFP.
The FDLR traces its roots to Rwandan army and Hutu Interahamwe bad turban militia members who decamped to DR Congo (then Zaire) when Tutsis took power in Kigali in July 1994 following the genocide in Rwanda.
In Nord Kivu, they created the Army for the Liberation of Rwanda (Alir) and launched murderous attacks in 1997-98 into northwest Rwanda, to which Kigali responded violently.
In May 2000, Alir became the FDLR, a political-military movement whose bid to topple the Kigali regime in 2001 was a resounding failure.
At the end of 2008, the FDLR battled alongside the DR Congo army to defeat a rebellion led by former general Laurent Nkunda.
But on January 20, 2009, Kigali and Kinshasa launched a joint military operation against the FDLR. Rwandan troops pulled back but the DR Congo army continued to pursue the FDLR with support from the UN Mission in DR Congo (MONUC).
The campaign drove the FDLR back into the forests, with more than 1,300 of its fighters captured and sent back to Rwanda, but the group was blamed for carrying out during that time numerous atrocities against civilians including killings, rape, burnings and looting.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Four outlaws were beaten to death by a mob at Nolkola village of Kushtia Sadar upazila early yesterday.
They were operatives of outlawed Purbo Banglar Communist Party (PBCP-ML) -Janajuddho faction, police said.
The deceased were identified as Rezaul Karim, 23, Robiul Islam, 30, Sirajul Islam, 40 and Sagar alias Sagar Dakat, 39.
All of them hailed from villages in Mirpur upazila of Kushtia.
Chokdar Abdul Halim, assistant superintendent of police (ASP-circle), Kushtia, said a gang of 10 to 12 men of the outfit equipped with firearms entered Nolkola around midnight.
"Sensing danger, the villagers organised themselves and encircled the outlaws," the ASP said adding, "The villagers beat the four to death and later informed the police."
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Huh. Some sort of variation on a shootout? The article is written in the same pattern.
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I recall reading that in WW2 we had an entire tank Corps that was cardboard, new matrials, not new concept.
That said, those are gerat inflatables, look almost real.
Just wait, some prankster will fill one with helium and it'l fly away to the embarrassment of the soviets.
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Operation Fortitude in WWII, using General Patton as the primary draw. First Army Group was headed by Patton, with inflatable tanks and half-tracks in bases, fake division patches ordered and produced, and radio traffic to and from the fake bases all of the time. The Germans were convinced that Patton, being our best armor general, would lead the invasion of Europe; and that he would strike the Pas de Calais. It was a complete success.
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ION WMF > IS TURKEY QUIETLY SWITCHING FROM NATO: CHINA TO HELP TURKEY DEV LONG-TANGE STRATEGIC ROCKETS AGZ ISRAEL???
and
* TOPIX > IRANIAN DEFENSE MINISTER TO PROPOSE SECURITY PACT WID AZERBAIJAN [bilateral Sefense, Econ cooperation].
* TOPIX > US DOES NOT CARE ABOUT THE TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY OF AZERBAIJAN, i.e. US GEOPOL INTERESTS IN SOUTH CAUCASUS versus territorial
"fairness" to Muslim Azerbai vee Armenia + Nagorno-Karabakh issue???
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I'll bet he's studied enough History to realise his neck is on the chopping block when Kimie senior kicks the Bucket.
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Kid, you might want to start practicing that "keeping your mouth shut" thing the secret police talked about when they let you leave, before something heavy falls on you from a great height.
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Compare wid TOPIX > RUSSIA WANTS NO NUKES IN NORTH KOREA.
* SAME > [ROK = SoKor] MILITARY PRPEARES FOR FLOW OF REFUGEES FROM NORTH [DPRK], i.e. setting up of Refugee Camps for an estimated 200,000-plus ordinary North Koreans anticipated to try to escape into South Korea in first wave after a major national collapse or other in DPRK.
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It is true that China's 'hoarding' (or you could call it 'saving', a totally un-American idea) has contributed to the Great Recession. (Remember Li Six-pack does not have communist-supported health care or social security to count on.) It does not answer the whole question, though. To keep the exports moving, China must keep the currency cheap. To keep the currency cheap, China manipulates its banking system so the accumulated surplus dollars never get spent.
Instead, the Chinese lent the dollars back to us..
The article begs the question of why the US is compelled to borrow so much money from China, as if borrowing were a natural phenomenon, like the rain. In a healthier world economy, instead of borrowing from China, the US would simply TRADE with China, thus recycling the dollars right back to the homeland & preventing destructive imbalances. However, the US has had a huge IMBALANCE OF TRADE with the entire world for many years, and this imbalance has to be associated with either (1) the US running out of money or (2) the US running up huge debts (borrowing from the entire world) to support the imbalance going forward. Guess what we did.
If the US were to somehow and suddenly balance its trade, China would suffer greatly. Most likely in the US goods such as those currently being imported from China would also get more expensive.
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The recession is due to deleveraging from excessive borrowing, which means develeraging from the reckless lending by both banks and the Chinese government.
Both want the US Government to save them from the consequences of that reckless lending.
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'Hoarding' (as some call saving) is nothing new over the course of Chinese history.
It used to be quite common for extended Chinese families to 'pool' their money in savings and every working member would contribute to this pool. Very agrarian in its concept.
As I've been told by my Chinese friends, back in the 50's-60's (and possibly later), a typical family in Hong Kong or Macao (don't know about the mainland) would live on about 20% of their income and place 80% into the larger family's pooled savings. This gave the family (because the individual by himself was 'nothing') enormous clout financially and ongoing mutual security in hard times and collective capability for purchasing large investment items (like buildings, farmland and factories).
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Frankly I see this article as crying "Sour Grapes" saving is good (If we do it) and BAD (If they do it)
Bullshit.
Nobody forces folks to "Buy Chinese".
I look at this and instantly understand why Zero, is forcing inflation, it makes the chinese holdings worth less each digit point.
And NO it hurts ALL who save, not just the Chin.
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Nobody forces folks to "Buy Chinese".
RN Jim
No, I suppose not. But how many men are willing to pay $265. a pair for American made Allen Edmonds loafers. Barefoot is not an option.
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Our toaster oven gave out after many years. I told the wife we would scout around and buy one made in the good old USA. There is none made in the USA. Today we looked at Martha Stewart dog toys. Made in China. Everything you look at in the stores is made in China--except our food supply. This prompted a letter to my Congressman and Senators about why we are giving our industries and jobs away. We have a huge inbalance of trade with China. We import about 4-5 times as much from them as we export to them. The point is try to buy American if you can.
Some of the reasons given for this inbalance: i) China restricts access to its markets while aggressively supporting exports by its domestic firms; ii) Chinas low-wage/low-cost advantage; iii) Chinas artificially undervalued currency. This is not free trade.
China has little regulation. On the other hand we have just about regulated ourselves out of competitive existence. Consider that the US has OSHA, EPA, all kinds of regulations concerning nuclear power, oil exploration, coal extraction, labor, transportation, etc. Our politicians have screwed us. That is why a recent poll found 85% of Americans are mad as hell about our economy.
The loss of our manufacturing capility, our spending, lack of energy independence, and entitlements, have security implications. During WWII we were the arsenal of democracy. Without America supplying everything, the war could not have been won. Reagan said America is a shining city upon a hill whose beacon light guides freedom-loving people everywhere. If we don't take care of things at home soon we will soon be reduced to a third world country that will not be a beacon for anyone.
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Everything you look at in the stores is made in China--except our food supply.
Check your food labels, JohnQC. My main grocery store carries frozen fish from China and Viet Nam as well as Alaska and Chile. The pine nuts come only from China, they seem to have discontinued the Italian ones. So we still eat salmon, but it's been about a year since we've had pine nuts.
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People do not understand balance of payments unless they have taken at least second year college economics.
A trade balance is only one side of an equation. The other side is investment balance to get the entire balance of payments picture. Basically, if we are running a trade deficit, that means that America attracts enough capital to buy more than it produces. If we ran a trade surplus, it would mean that we could no longer buy all we produce.
For every dollar we run in trade deficit, a corresponding dollar comes back in capital investment, the two accounts balance to zero.
You generally run a trade surplus only in unusual times and it is not sustainable over the long term. The Chinese people, for example, can not buy all that they can produce. They have a trade surplus. That surplus means they accumulate foreign currency. There is nothing they can do with that foreign currency inside China so they send that capital abroad ... mainly to the US.
Running a trade surplus is generally not a good thing and is not a sign of prosperity of a country's people.
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If it is of importance to you, Martinelli's is 100% American apple juice. You'll find some other local or regional brands, too, often of apples locally harvested and pressed.
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I find the "Balance of Trade" argument highly deceptive. 'Example.
You go to the store (Unnamed) and buy food.
what have you sold the grocery store?
NOTHING
Damn you've got a serious trade imbalance right there, Now just what are you going to "Sell" the store to even that "Trade Imbalance"?
Get the point, it simply doesn't "balance" whatever you do.
And don't say you're "Trading Money, the imbalance is all one way, food from them to you, Unless you have a farm and sell the store your crop, there's an Imbalance.
Now I know that's a odd example, the whole point is there's NO "Imbalance" trade evens out eventually.
OK the Chin are hoarding cash, doesn't do them any good sitting in a vault, Money is designed as a TRADE tool, don't use it and you might as well not have it at all.
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POTUS BAMMER repor wants to sell C-130's to China.
D *** NG IT, TODAY ITS C-130's, TOMORROW IT'LL USAF HEAVY/STRATEGIC BOMBERS.
[post-Asteroid + Solar Storm + Peak Oil, etc. of course].
* ION CHINA DAILY > REPORT: CHINA'S GLACIERS[Continental + Ocean Ice]IN DANGER OF DRASTIC SHRINKAGE [30% by Year 2050]???
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To keep the exports moving, China must keep the currency cheap.
I usually agree with David on most issues, but in this case I must disagree.
The consensus is that theu do keep their currency cheap, but are they?
There are two currencies that governments have a lot of problems trying to control, gold and silver.
Before the invention of options most international trade was done in gold., because of its lack of volatility and ease of computation. So if you compare the main currencies with gold, you find;
each of the currency has dropped against gold from their respective October 2008 highs.
The US dollar 52.70%
The Pound 48.53%
The Yuan 45.75%
The Euro 44.75%
The Yen 39.84%
So if anyone is manipulating it's currency to keep it cheap, it would have to be the US followed by the UK.
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FUTURE CHINA > IMO its greatest single problem will remain the MILITANT/OBSESSIVE UNWILLINGNESS OF ITS GOVT + LT POLITICOS TO GIVE UP OR SHARE POWER FOR A GREATER GOOD, i.e. NATIONAL ECON IMPROVEMENT + EXPANSION.
Even when to its own unilateral advantage or benefit.
IOW, DA SPACE ROCK + SOLAR FLARE, ETC. WILL ONLY KILL OR DESTROY WHAT DESPOTIC GOVT + CORRUPT NEPOTISM HAD ALREADY KILLED OR DESTROYED LONG LONG BEFORE, only they won't know it until its too late.
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I seriously wonder what these analysts are thinking. The NATO - Russia relationship can no longer be framed in "making up for the cold war" terminology. Those in power in Russia right now seek to reassert the empire the west destroyed. That empire is older than NATO and the common Russian sure as heck has no say. Russia is a have/have not society. NATO is seen as the bulwark of America against Russian resurgence. Russia will never be a part of NATO in its current form!
[Dawn] The Pakistain Muslim League-N formally issued on Monday a charge-sheet against former president Pervez Musharraf, who had toppled its government 11 years ago, on Oct 12, and called upon the government to bring him back to the country through Interpol to try him for his "misdeeds".
The charge-sheet containing 17 allegations and seven demands comes at a time when the former army chief, after a two-year legal ban on taking part in active politics, has formed his own faction of the Mohammedan League and claims that his comeback plan has unnerved Mian Nawaz Sharif.
PML-N front man Senator Pervaiz Rashid rejected an impression that the party decided to issue the charge-sheet now out of anxiety when he was asked why the PML-N had taken well over two years after the exit of Gen Musharraf to do so.
"Nervous is he (Musharraf) who decamped the country while Nawaz returned home when the army general was in power and was claiming he would not allow the former prime minister to return home," Mr Rashid said.
He asserted that his party had been reminding the PPP government all this time to hold the army dictator accountable and this attempt would serve as a reminder and also mark the anniversary of Oct 12, 1999 martial law.
The charge-sheet contains allegations that Musharraf imposed martial law twice, undertook Kargil misadventure, misused army to serve his personal interests, declared war against the people of Pakistain, blackmailed people through NAB, murdered Akbar Bugti, kidnapped people, killed scores of people in Lal Masjid, promoted cronyism, nepotism, corruption and favouritism, attacked the judiciary, promulgated NRO, massacred people on May 12 and Oct 18 in 2007, and got himself elected unconstitutionally as President of Pakistain.
The PML-N demanded that Musharraf be brought back through the Interpol to try him for "misdeeds, invocation and execution of Article 6 of the Constitution to penalise him against his crimes against the Basic Law, the state and the people of Pakistain".
It also called for formation of a Kargil commission to fix responsibility for the misadventure, penalising Musharraf for violating human rights ... which are not the same thing as individual rights, mind you... carrying out abductions, massacre, forced disappearances and putting curbs on the media.
The party demanded that the former President's resignation be changed into dismissal and his entire fringe benefits, facilitations and immunities which he was currently enjoying as a retired government official (army chief) be revoked.
The government, it said, should also hold an independent commission to investigate the matter which he (Gen Musharraf) had admitted in his book 'In the Line of Fire' with special reference to his revelations that he had been receiving billions of dollars for the war against terror and for handing over people to US which are known as missing persons.
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(KUNA) -- The first patient who has been paralyzed by a spinal cord injury has been treated with human embryonic stem cells, it was reported here Monday.
Geron Corporation, which is sponsoring the groundbreaking study, confirmed that the patient had millions of embryonic stem cells injected into the site of the damage.
According to the Corporation, "the primary objective of this Phase I study is to assess the safety and tolerability of GRNOPC1 in patients with complete American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) Impairment Scale grade A thoracic spinal cord injuries".
It indicated that participants in the study "must be newly injured and receive GRNOPC1 within 14 days of the injury".
Commenting on this, Gerons President and CEO Thomas Okarma said in a statement that "initiating the GRNOPC1 clinical trial is a milestone for the field of human embryonic stem cell-based therapies".
He affirmed that "this accomplishment results from extensive research and development and a succession of inventive steps to enable production of cGMP master cell banks, scalable manufacture of differentiated cell product, and preclinical studies in vitro and in animal models of spinal cord injury, leading to concurrence by the FDA to initiate the clinical trial."
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Again, CHINA at minima is demanding the SAME PORTS/LANDING RIGHTS = ACCESS in Cam Ranh Bay, etc. in VIETNAM as granted by same to OTHER WORLD STATES.
Read, OR ELSE???
CHINA > is repor expanding its MIL PRESENCE on HAINAN ISLAND, aka CHINA'S "PEARL HARBOR in EAST ASIA/ASIA".
[Straits Times] A SENIOR Thai security official alleged on Monday that members of the anti-government Red Shirt movement were trained in Cambodia to assassinate top Thai leaders, including the prime minister.
Eleven men who were arrested last week in the northern Thai province of Chiang Mai were among 39 given ideological and combat training in a 'neighboring country,' Lieutenant Colonel Payao Thongsen, a senior investigator for the Department of Special Investigation, said at a news conference.
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[Straits Times] NADHDLATUL Ulama(NU) has suggested that Ahmadiyah followers no longer claim themselves as part of Islam, citing widespread rejection from Mohammedans in the country.
NU deputy secretary general Enceng Shobirin told a discussion on settlement to Ahmadiyah problems on Wednesday followers of the religious sect would suffer from isolation if they insisted on associating themselves with Islam while violating the basic teaching of the religion.
Enceng said violence against Ahmadis would recur as mainstream Mohammedans deemed the sect as a threat to Islamic teachings.
'Let's conduct a study to find a win-win solution. In other countries Ahmadiyah followers could behave themselves,' Enceng was quoted by kompas.com.
Another speaker in the discussion, NU deputy chairman Slamet Effendi Yusuf, said Mohammedans across the world did not recognize Ahmadiyah as part of Islam.
'Even in Pakistain, where Ahmadiyah was born, the religious sect is not recognized as part of Islam, but its followers could practice their religious teachings. This could be the best solution to the Ahmadiyah problem,' Mr Slamet said.
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I thought once someone 'checked in' to Islam, they couldn't leave until they 'checked out' or were otherwise forcibly removed from the human population. Violence against Ahmadis will recur as long as mainstream Muslims persist in following up their belief (along the lines of death to heretics, apostates, infidels and blasphemers) with violent practices.
[Straits Times] THAI police said on Friday they had recovered a rocket launcher and ammunition in a rented room in central Bangkok, where there has been a series of grenade blasts in recent weeks.
The owner of the property discovered the arms cache after the tenant failed to pay the rent, said Police Colonel Ekachai Boonvisut.
'One rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) launcher, four RPG rockets and 750 AK-47 bullets were found in a small room and have already been handed over to the ordnance department,' he said.
A string of minor blasts in Bangkok and a bomb kaboom on Tuesday at an apartment on the outskirts of the capital that killed four people have added to unease about security following deadly opposition protests in April and May.
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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
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