[Bangla Daily Star] A seven-year-old girl died on Thursday morning after being beaten allegedly by her employer in the capital.
A man along with two others took the girl named Shampa to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) with a head injury around 11:45pm on Wednesday.
The man, who gave his name as MA Rashid, said Shampa was a domestic help at his house in Uttara.
A seven-year old?
Khandker Rezaul Hasan, officer-in-charge of Uttara Police Station, told The Daily Star that police found the Uttara Sector-6 address given by Rashid fake after they went there for investigation.
Moreover, other residents of the six-story building could say nothing about Rashid or Shampa.
Rashid gave his residence address at the hospital during Shampa's admission.
Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... after the girl was brought to the hospital, DMCH police jugged three people including Rashid.
Replying to police queries, Rashid told police that Shampa fell on the floor of the bathroom and got injured.
Two persons posing as the parents of the girl came to the police camp and got Rashid and the two others released.
DMCH morgue sources said there were many injury marks on the body of the girl.
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Rashid? The employer of the seven year old "servant" was named Rashid. ( how much was the seven year old "servant" being paid, by the way, and who was managing her money?)
[Straits Times] THIRTEEN Vietnamese women, seven of them pregnant, have been rescued from an 'illegal and inhuman' surrogate baby breeding ring in Thailand, officials said on Thursday.
Police said the company, called Baby 101, received orders by email or via agents from childless couples and in some instances the male partner would provide sperm to inseminate the women.
'This is illegal and inhuman. In some cases it looks like they were raped,' said Public Health Minister Jurin Laksanawisit, who added that those carrying children would be cared for in a private hospital.
The Vietnamese women, some of whom were offered thousands of dollars per baby, were held in two houses in Bangkok and had had their passports confiscated.
The women were freed after they were able to send an email to the Vietnamese embassy, which tipped off Thai authorities.
'Nine of the women said they had volunteered to work because they were told they would earn US$5,000 (S$6,400) for each baby. Four said they were tricked,' said Deputy Immigration Commander Major General Manu Mekmok. Sometimes I think we should have a "Depths of Depravity" category.
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Sometimes I think we should have a "Depths of Depravity" category.
Which should most certainly include our very own legalized 'anchor baby' immigration and welfare schemes.
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'Nine of the women said they had volunteered to work because they were told they would earn US$5,000 (S$6,400) for each baby. Four said they were tricked.'
Er, so five weren't tricked?
It seems to me that there are a heck of a lot of poor women who would be more than willing to have surrogate children for that kind of money. The average annual wage in Vietnam is $500, or 1/10th that amount.
Officer Al Raimi, 29, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Newark. He admitted that for nearly a year, he stole between $10,000 and $30,000 in cash from travelers as they passed through a security checkpoint at the airport.
Raimi admitted that he would "kick up" some of that money to a supervisor, who in turn allowed him to keep stealing.
Raimi was secretly recorded stealing about $5,000 from a female traveler's handbag.
Arato was recorded stating that he didn't feel bad stealing from foreigners because they were "leaving this county with our money." Gee, then maybe he should give the money to the Federal Treasury to help lower all of our tax burdens for all of us, or did he decide to selfishly spend it on himself?
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What comes to mind is their rating system. Just because a place was acceptable to visit, doesn't mean it had good food, amiable people, or comfortable lodgings. And it's not just destinations they had to rate, but routes.
Oddly enough, what probably really killed the book was not the Civil Rights movement, but the Interstate highway system, at about the same time.
Travelers no longer had to take State highways and back roads for most of their travel. Which doesn't sound like much today, but back then, some of those State highways and back roads were awful.
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Ike started the Interstate system and beltways for several reasons. Trips that took 6-8 hours now are cut dramatically. Problem then was development.
[Straits Times] AN ELDERLY Swiss woman was trampled to death and four other tourists were maimed when elephants they were riding fought with each other in Thailand, police said on Thursday.
The 63-year-old woman was thrown onto the ground and fatally injured during an elephant trek with friends in the south of the country on Tuesday.
'It happened because the elephants quarrelled with each other. One lifted its feet so the tourists fell on the ground and it stamped on her,' said Lieutenant Colonel Apidej Chuaykuar, the police officer in charge of the case.
He said a total of five tourists, who were staying in the nearby resort of Phuket, were riding two male elephants when the creatures became aggressive.
The woman was pronounced dead at a hospital in Surat Thani province that evening. She was travelling with two other Swiss nationals who were maimed, according to an official source, who said some members of the group were forced to jump from one of the animals when it began running through the jungle.
Two more tourists, whose nationalities were not immediately clear, were also believed to have been injured. The Swiss embassy in Bangkok confirmed it was aware of the situation and was providing assistance to the victims and their families.
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[Arab News] A battle between forces for the country's two political rivals involving rocket-propelled grenades left at least 10 coppers dead, an official said Wednesday after some of the heaviest fighting since the disputed election three months ago.
Witnesses in the volatile Abobo district of Abidjan described hours of heavy machine gunfire and grenade kabooms Tuesday. At least two civilians also were believed to be killed.
The corpse count could not immediately be confirmed, but one official said at least 10 officers were dead. A senior adviser to internationally recognized winner Alassane Ouattara said that at least 30 troops were killed, while another employee of the mayor's office in Abobo put the corpse count at 40.
The officials all spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.
Col. Hilaire Gohourou, a military front man for incumbent Laurent Gbagbo's government, denied any knowledge of the incident.
It was the fourth consecutive day of violence in Ivory Coast's commercial capital since Ouattara's Prime Minister Guillaume Soro called for an "Egypt-style" uprising in the country.
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BEIJING (AP) - China widened its Internet policing after online calls for protests like those that swept the Middle East, with social networking site LinkedIn and searches for the U.S. ambassador's name both blocked on Friday.
Searches for Ambassador Jon Huntsman's name in Chinese on popular microblogging site Sina Weibo were met with a message saying results were not available due to unspecified "laws, regulations and policies."
A video circulating online shows Huntsman, who has been mentioned as a potential Republican presidential candidate, scanning the crowd at the site of a tiny protest in Beijing last weekend. An unidentified Chinese man asked Huntsman what he was doing there and whether he wanted to see chaos in China. Huntsman walked away from the scene after that comment.
The U.S. Embassy was aware that Huntsman's name was being "restricted on some searches" on China's domestic Internet, spokesman Richard Buangan said, but declined further comment on the issue.
He said the ambassador and some family members were passing through the bustling Wangfujing shopping street on Sunday and it was a coincidence that they were there at the same time as the planned protest.
Notices that began circulating last week on an overseas website and called for protests in cities across China every Sunday have so far attracted few overt demonstrators but nevertheless unnerved the authoritarian government.
In addition to increased filtering of the Internet, police have also questioned, placed under house arrest and otherwise detained more than a hundred people, the monitoring group China Human Rights Defenders said. At least five have been detained on subversion or national security charges, in some cases for passing on information about the protest calls.
The Beijing police department on Friday, in an unusual move, summoned The Associated Press and several other foreign news organizations for brief meetings to restate regulations requiring foreign reporters to receive permission from government agencies, companies and individuals for interviews.
LinkedIn does not have a strong following among Chinese users, who make up one million of its 90 million-plus members, but the site had previously been accessible. On Friday, it could not be opened within China.
The Mountain View, California-based company said in a statement that the site was blocked for some people and they were continuing to monitor the situation, which was apparently "part of a broader effort in China going on right now."
The appearance of the U.S. ambassador at Sunday's protest feeds into a frequent theme in state-controlled media: that the U.S. is trying to subvert China. One website that focuses on criticizing Western media coverage, anti-cnn.com, said Huntsman's presence at the protest site "obviously reflected" a "coordinated campaign to disrupt China."
The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Thursday sidestepped questions asking whether Beijing believed Huntsman was there by coincidence. Spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said he was not aware of specifics of the case.
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You read the story on Rantburg yesterday. The MSM wouldn't have even bothered to report it except for this ban. You'll notice that the story was not "US ambassador attends protest that nobody showed up to" but rather "Evil China blocks his name" with the incident barely mentioned in passing.
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Here's some commentary from someone who claims he showed up in Guangzhou, but was frightened off by the massive security presence (translation from Roland Soong's East South West North):
2:30pm, 2:40pm, 2:50pm. The pedestrian traffic was thinning out. All those people like my type have left. I knew that there would be no show today. That was all there was today. So I strolled around the park. I spotted some signs. The police were everywhere in the park. During my walk in less than half the park, I saw several hundred police officers and several dozen police vehicles. My former company was located in a building by the park. One morning, I saw a large group of police officers in the building lobby. I asked my colleague who told me quietly that there was a sit-in demonstration. I realized that we were right next to city hall and the police were reserve forces who were staying out of sight. So I figured that there must be over one thousand police officers in the surrounding buildings.
I went back to the plaza. Apart from park tourists, there was hardly anyone around. So I had to go home. On the subway, I began to think about why the jasmine flowers didn't bloom today. Fang Bingxing* is the main perpetrator. The Great Firewall kept all the news out of China. The news was originally posted at the Boxun website, which has been inaccessible for several days already. Even a veteran wall-climber like myself only saw it at Epoch Times in the middle of the night. So others are even less likely to know. Not many people in Guangzhou would know, unless they work for the government. How many people can come? If too few people show up, nobody dares to take the lead. So this bastard Fang Bingxing is evil. Someday we will hold a public trial for this old bastard and send him off to jail for the rest of his life.
Some people say that the Chinese are cowardly and feeble. This is an excuse. If you read the Twenty-Four Histories, there is nothing except for rebellions. The entire history of China is about rebellions. We have five thousand years of rebellions. Xiang Tang started it, and Liu Bang, Xiang Yu, Zhu Ruanzhang, Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong were all rebels. There are far too many Chinese persons who are unafraid to die. The key is whether they can be mobilized and organized. We don't want a violent revolution that will smash everything. We want a peaceful revolution.
On this day, the jasmine flowers did not bloom in Guangzhou. That is okay. I will be returning next Sunday at 2pm. And the week after that. As the news spreads, more and more fellow travelers will come. There will be more and more of us.
The People of Guangzhou, see you next week at Starbucks Plaza, People's Park.
* Fang Bingxing, the father of China's Great Firewall, got himself a Twitter-style account on Sina.com. He stopped tweeting after being inundated by an avalanche of hatred from Chinese internet users.
If Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke were a soccer mom shopping for corn flakes, he would probably have a different outlook on inflation in the United States of America today.
The community organizer who became president has launched a massive pre-reelection year campaign to assemble and train an army of new community organizers to carry Obama's "movement forward for years to come."
Strengthening "our democracy" presumably has something to do with reelecting the revered leader in 2012.
However, the Organizing for America recruiting message says nothing about politics or election campaigns and strangely talks in military terms of "a grassroots program that aims to put boots on the ground and help foster a new generation of leaders -- not just to help win elections but to strengthen our democracy in communities across the country."
The same Obama campaign group was reported involved in fomenting and facilitating the ongoing Wisconsin protests against Gov. Scott Walker's budget plans.
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Mob rule is what they mean by "democracy", and they intend to control via the mob. Like Cuba. Thats why we are so very fortunate to have a republic as our truw form of government where the rights are reserved to individuals, not groups, despite the left's attempts and going to a collectivist group-based system.
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You know, I'm really starting to hate the word Democracy. Cause we aren't one. We're a republic. There IS a huge difference. It is fun to tease Liberals though, reminding them that we're not a democracy and not telling them what our actual form of government is til they are foaming at the mouth.
Though such fun is hard to come by now....so far, I haven't met any liberals in the oilfields.:p
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D *** NG IT, DATS NOT "THE THUNDERCATS" CHEETYRA!
Yokay, I'll bite, didn't GOVERNATOR DA ARNUULD already give us the Date when SKYNET became self-aware + caused "WAR GAMES" WOPR Mainframe to launch US ICBMS at the USSR???
* ION CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > NYT: GATES WARNS AGZ [US fighting] MORE WARS LIKE IRAQ + AFGHANISTAN.
IIUC, FULL + LIMITED-SCALE MAJOR GROUND WARS/CAMPAIGNS + HEAVY CONVENTIONAL FORCES ARE ALL-BUT-ABSOLUTELY-OBSOLETE VIA THE NEW USDOD "AIRSEA BATTLE" CONCEPT.
Future is GLOBAL STRIKE [Prompt Strike], SPACE STRIKE, + parallel GLOBAL-SPACE DEFENSE.
OWG "1000-FLAG" GLOBAL NAVY, AIR TASK FORCE = future GLOBAL/EARTH POLICE.
[Emirates 24/7] Discovery, NASA's oldest and most journeyed space shuttle, is poised to launch on Thursday on its final mission, wrapping up a near three-decade legacy of orbital travel. With its mothballing we officially retire from being outwardly oriented, yea, proponents of high adventure, and return to navel gazing and poring over our genealogies. We're a lot better at making movies about heroism than we are at actually doing it.
When the storied spacecraft lifts off at 4:50 pm (2150 GMT), it will mark the beginning of the end of the US space shuttle programme, with Discovery the first of the remaining three shuttles headed for retirement this year. We don't have the money and still less have we the determination to build more of them, or even better, to build successors to them using newer technology.
The closure of the US shuttle programme will forge a gaping hole in the American space mission, and leaves astronauts to rely on the Russian Soyuz space capsule for transport to the orbiting International Space Station. Ptui.
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It had a beautiful launch
(see space.com)
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We have more than enough money to develop something better IF we had the will. But for roughly the last fifteen years you couldn't get money to develop an RLV or a cheap mass-produced ELV if you actually believed that either was possible.
They took away the contract for developing the DoD RLV from McDonnell Douglas, gave it to Lockheed, and then cancelled it when they couldn't build the fuel tanks the way they said they could. They also gave sole authority to build RLV's to NASA. They've spent most of the time since then trying to build a next-generation expensive expendable launcher around a stretched version of the SRB's that brought us the Challenger Disaster.
All we really have to do is get back into the business of actually building X-vehicles and things would eventually improve a lot.
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.
Officer Al Raimi, 29, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Newark. He admitted that for nearly a year, he stole between $10,000 and $30,000 in cash from travelers as they passed through a security checkpoint at the airport.
[Straits Times] AN ELDERLY Swiss woman was trampled to death and four other tourists 
[Arab News] A battle between forces for the country's two political rivals involving rocket-propelled grenades left at least 10 
[Emirates 24/7] Discovery, NASA's oldest and most journeyed space shuttle, is poised to launch on Thursday on its final mission, wrapping up a near three-decade legacy of orbital travel.
