[An Nahar] Egyptian Islamist candidate Abdel Moneim Abul Fotouh on Friday urged his supporters to "confront the corrupt regime," in an implicit appeal against Mubarak-era prime minister Ahmed Shafiq.
His statement came after figures showing that Moslem Brüderbund candidate Mohammed Mursi and Shafiq appeared to have won the first round of Egypt's presidential vote, setting them up for a run-off.
"I am beginning communications and meetings and dialogue with all national forces to rally our efforts and votes and confront the corrupt regime," said Abul Fotouh, who appeared to have come fourth or fifth in the race.
"We will build a national revolutionary consensus on all the current political issues and form a single front against the symbols of corruption, injustice and tyranny," he added.
"Our revolution will be victorious and Egypt will be strong, God willing."
The statement fell far short of an endorsement of Mursi, the candidate of the Moslem Brüderbund organization which Abul Fotouh left to make his run for president.
But its reference to the "corrupt regime" appeared to be directed against Shafiq, who served as both aviation minister and prime minister under ousted president Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... and has been slammed for his regime ties.
Despite being considered an early frontrunner, Abul Fotouh appeared to have fared badly in the final count, which put Mursi in the lead, followed by Shafiq, and Nasserist candidate Hamdeen Sabbahi in third place.
Abul Fotouh touted his broad support, with backers ranging from liberal activists to members of the ultra-conservative Salafi movement.
Egypt's election commission is not expected to announce official results from the country's first free presidential elections since last year's uprising until Tuesday.
But the results have been trickling in via the Moslem Brüderbund's network of campaign observers, who are considered to be providing reliable figures on the final tallies.
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[Al Ahram] Results in 25 governorates aggregated by Ahram Online shows that with about 41.8 per cent turn out, the Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Mursi is in the first place so far, followed by Ahmed Shafik, Mubarak's last prime minister, while the leftist candidate, Hamdeen Sabbahi, who proved to be the main surprise so far, fell back to the third place. Still waiting for Cairo and Giza results. Will we witness more surprise
1. Mursi 4,406,782 (26.48 per cent)
2. Shafiq 4,115,840 (24.74 per cent)
3. Sabbahi 3,329,519 (20.01 per cent)
4. Abul-Fotouh 2,959,937 (17.79 per cent)
5. Moussa 1,778,244 (10.69 per cent)
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[Bangla Daily Star] At least 30 people have been killed after festivities erupted between Dogon farmers and nomadic Fulani herders along the Mali-Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and may be in the process of being chased out now... border, Burkina authorities said late on Thursday.
The fighting, which began on Tuesday, took place near Sari, a Malian town about 15 km from the border with Burkina Faso, Khalil Bara, governor of Burkina Faso's northern region, said on state radio.
Bara said the dispute originated from an agreement between the two west African nations, which allows Burkina herders to take their livestock to camps in Mali where there was available pasture land.
During the rule of former Malian president Amadou Toumani Toure, Fulani herders were allowed into Mali through special corridors. However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... Mali has descended into chaos since a March 22 military coup ousted Toure and left over half of the country occupied my Tuareg rebels and Islamist hard boys.
"The Dogons, who have always opposed the opening of these corridors, taking advantage of the crisis in Mali, have decided to solve the problem by attacking Fulani settlements," Bara said, adding that most of the deaths were Fulanis.
The governor said over 1,000 people, mostly herders, have fled back into villages in Burkina Faso.
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[Bangla Daily Star] UN rights chief Navi Pillay yesterday urged the West to suspend sanctions against Zim-bob-wean leader Bob Muggsy Mugabe Octogenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case... and his close aides to give the country a chance to implement much needed reforms. Ummmn... It's not the sanctions that make Zim a kleptocratic state with an oppressive one-party system. The former Breadbasket of Africa didn't tank because of the sanctions.
"I would urge those countries that are currently applying sanctions on Zim-bob-we to suspend them, at least until the conduct of the elections and related reforms are clear," she said in Harare after a five-day visit. The sanctions don't do a thing to inhibit the one-party system.
"Sanctions should be entirely suspended for people to entirely focus on economic issues that need to be addressed."
"I have yet to hear a single Zim-bob-wean inside the country say they definitely think sanctions should continue," she said.
Zim-bob-we immediately welcomed Pillay's calls with Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa saying the embargo should be scrapped "unconditionally".
"We want sanctions to be lifted unconditionally. We do not want any talk about suspension of sanctions, they have to be lifted unconditionally because in the first instance they are illegal," he told a news conference shortly after Pillay spoke.
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The British and US oil embargo of 1966 was never a issue for the United Nations. I simply do not understand. [cynicism off]
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Isn't there some international old folks home that Mugabe and Fidel Castro can be sent to?
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The Rhodesians built up an excellent economy exactly because of sanctions (whilst waging a war on two fronts). About the only things they imported would have been oil and helicopters. Is Zimbabwe any more demo ratic now than Rhodesia was then? No, and it's a lot more violent, the war aside. Keep the sanctions, tighten the travel restrictions until ZANU-PF, spit, cease to exist.
The Government is drawing up plans for emergency immigration controls to curb an influx of Greeks and other European Union residents if the euro collapses, the Home Secretary discloses today.
In an interview in The Daily Telegraph, Theresa May says "work is ongoing" to restrict European immigration in the event of a financial collapse. People from throughout the EU, with the exception of new member countries such as Romania and Bulgaria, are able to work anywhere in the single market.
However, there are growing concerns that if Greece was forced to leave the euro, it would effectively go bankrupt and millions could lose their jobs and consider looking for work abroad.
The crisis could spread quickly to other vulnerable countries such as Spain, Ireland and Portugal, although Britain is regarded as a safe haven because it is outside the single currency.
Details of the contingency plan emerged as the euro crisis deepened further yesterday.
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A number of Perts + Posters believe the collapse of the single-curency EuroDollar will likewise induce the collapse of the EU/EUZ = OWG Regional, Continental, Trans- ... "Unions" as well as NATO per se.
Again, I don't think the "Globalists" [Space Federalists?] + aligned will let that happen, although IMO there will be major delays in implementating same. THE BIRTH PANGS OF OWG = SPACE GOVT-ORDER WILL BE LONG + HARD.
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See also WAFF > [Daily Mail]"GREECE WILL LEAVE THE EUROZONE ON JANUARY 1, 2013"; CITIGROUP BOSS [Michael Saunders]PREDICTS EXIT DATE + WARNS OF "MASSIVE WAVE OF CONTAGION ACROSS EUROPE".
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* SAME > [Institute of International Finance's Managing Director CHARLES -]DALLARA SAYS GREEK EXIT MAY EXCEED ONE TRILYUHN EUROS.
From Canada to Colombia to Brazil, oil and gas production in the Western Hemisphere is booming, with the United States emerging less dependent on supplies from an unstable Middle East. Central to the new energy equation is the United States itself, which has ramped up production and is now churning out 1.7 million more barrels of oil and liquid fuel per day than in 2005. Perhaps the WaPo thinks Zero should take credit for this. Thank you, fracking. And oil workers. And steel workers. And geologists. May you one day finally have a government that lets you do your job.
Since 2006, exports to the United States have fallen from all but one major member of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, Anybody want to guess which one? I didn't find it.
the net decline adding up to nearly 1.8 million barrels a day. Canada, Brazil and Colombia have increased exports to the United States by 700,000 barrels daily in that time and now provide nearly 3.4 million barrels a day.
Six Persian Gulf suppliers provide just 22 percent of all U.S. imports, the nonpartisan U.S. Energy Information Administration said this month. The United States' neighbors in the Western Hemisphere, meanwhile, provide more than half -- a figure that has held steady for years because, as production has fallen in the oil powers of Venezuela and Mexico, it has gone up elsewhere.
Exports from Mexico and Venezuela have fallen in recent years, attributed to mismanagement and lack of investment at the state-owned oil industries in those countries. Even so, there is a possibility that new governments in Mexico and Venezuela -- Mexico elects a new president July 1, and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has cancer -- could open the energy industry to the private investment and expertise needed to boost production, analysts say.
Perhaps the biggest development in the worldwide realignment is how the United States went from importing 60 percent of its liquid fuels in 2005 to 45 percent last year. The economic downturn in the United States, improvements in automobile efficiency and an increasing reliance on subsidizedover-priced biofuels all played a role.
But a major driver has been the use of hydraulic fracturing. By blasting water, chemicals and tiny artificial beads at high pressure into tight rock formations to make them porous, workers have increased oil production in North Dakota from a few thousand barrels a day a decade ago to nearly half a million barrels today. Gotta get that stuff regulated! To protect the environment, of course!
A host of new discoveries or rosy prospects for large deposits also has energy companies drilling in the Chukchi Sea inside the Arctic Circle, deep in the Amazon, along a potentially huge field off South America's northeast shoulder, and in the roiling waters around the Falkland Islands. All without drilling in ANWR or off the sacred coasts of the US.
Production has risen strikingly fast in places such as the tar sands of Alberta, Canada, and the "tight" rock formations of North Dakota and Texas -- basins with resources so hard to refine or reach that they were not considered economically viable until recently. Also Colorado
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Now, with increased domestic and near domestic crude supplies increased, we need more domestic refining capability. Then we can get the cost of gas and diesel down.
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I don't see the cost of gasoline or diesel going down by much. Best hope I have is that it won't go up as much as Zero and his cronies would like to see. That, and no rationing.
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.
[An Nahar] Egyptian Islamist candidate Abdel Moneim Abul Fotouh on Friday urged his supporters to "confront the corrupt regime," in an implicit appeal against Mubarak-era prime minister Ahmed Shafiq.
[Al Ahram] Results in 25 governorates aggregated by Ahram Online shows that with about 41.8 per cent turn out, the Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Mursi is in the first place so far, followed by Ahmed Shafik, Mubarak's last prime minister, while the leftist candidate, Hamdeen Sabbahi, who proved to be the main surprise so far, fell back to the third place. Still waiting for Cairo and Giza results. Will we witness more surprise
UN rights chief Navi Pillay yesterday urged the West to suspend sanctions against Zim-bob-wean leader 
From Canada to Colombia to Brazil, oil and gas production in the Western Hemisphere is booming, with the United States emerging less dependent on supplies from an unstable Middle East. Central to the new energy equation is the United States itself, which has ramped up production and is now churning out 1.7 million more barrels of oil and liquid fuel per day than in 2005.
