tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67490001644703175782024-03-13T20:07:39.362-07:00Article of the daycollection of valuable information for Social media best practices, Sustainability, Zero Waste and minimizing our carbon footprint, plus help in maximizing your positive exposure and influence on othersYosi Fischerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05371293778067504892noreply@blogger.comBlogger88125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6749000164470317578.post-70572469865173449692013-09-24T12:44:00.000-07:002013-09-24T12:44:06.550-07:00Brazilian President Lashes Out over U.S. Spying<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">September 24, 2013 2:38 PM <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil was so angry about
reports that the National Security Agency was spying on her and others in her
country that she recently called off a high-profile visit to the U.S.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Brazilian leader was still in a fighting mood Tuesday as
she used her speech at the United Nations General Assembly to deliver a
broadside against U.S. spying. She also called for civilian oversight of the
Web to ensure the protection of data.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">"Tampering in such a manner in the affairs of other
countries is a breach of international law and is an affront to the principles
that must guide the relations among them, especially among friendly
nations," she said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">"The right to safety of citizens of one country can
never be guaranteed by violating fundamental human rights of citizens of
another country," she added. "The arguments that the illegal
interception of information and data aims at protecting nations against
terrorism cannot be sustained."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">As Eyder Peralta over at our Two-Way blog has noted,
President Obama spent time during the G-20 summit in Russia earlier this month
trying to smooth relations with Brazil. Obama told her at the time that the
U.S. relationship with Brazil was "very important."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Revelations about the U.S. spying came in a series of stories
published by journalist Glenn Greenwald in Brazil's O Globo newspaper.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The stories detailed NSA spying on Brazilian citizens and
companies as well as political leaders, including Rousseff. Brazilians reacted
with anger.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">As NPR's Lourdes Garcia-Navarro said at the time Rousseff
postponed her trip:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">"Brazil has reacted a lot more strongly to the spying
scandal than other countries who've been implicated, like Mexico, Colombia.
There's a couple of reason for this. First off, issues of sovereignty. Brazil takes
this extremely seriously. Brazil has a massive economy, a growing political
clout in the world stage, aspirations, for example, for a seat at the U.N.
Security Council.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">"And you also have to remember the U.S.'s long history
in the region of bloody intervention. And so, any act of perceived American
overstepping is taken very seriously. But of course there are always domestic
politics at play and Dilma's position has been precarious since protests swept
Brazil over the summer. Her approval ratings have nose-dived, and, yes, there
is an election coming up."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The allegations about the NSA's spying activities have
created ripples far beyond Brazil. Documents released by former NSA contractor
Edward Snowden indicated the agency was also spying on the U.N. as well as U.S.
allies in the European Union<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Yosi Fischerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05371293778067504892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6749000164470317578.post-79493708708450369002013-09-23T16:08:00.002-07:002013-09-23T16:08:51.889-07:008 Things to Know About a Government Shutdown<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">An empty Senate meeting room, just outside the chamber, is
seen Monday in Washington. Only a week remains for Congress to pass a funding
bill in order to avoid a government shutdown.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In seven days, the federal government runs out of money.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">While the Republican-controlled House of Representatives
passed a resolution Friday that keeps the government funded through Dec. 15,
the measure also defunded President Obama's signature health care law — which
means it has virtually no chance of passing the Democratic-controlled Senate.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">If a budget resolution doesn't hit President Obama's desk
before Oct. 1, that's a big problem: the government will be forced to close its
doors.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">With that prospect looming, here are eight things you should
know about the possible shutdown:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">It won't be the first time<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Since a new budgeting process was put into place in 1976,
the U.S. government has shut down 17 times. Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald
Reagan each dealt with six shutdowns during their terms in office, lasting
anywhere from one day to two and a half weeks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The last actual shutdown came in 1996 — though the
government came close during budget negotiations in 2011.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The last shutdown lasted three weeks<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The three-week shutdown that lasted from December 16, 1995
to January 6, 1996, ranks as the longest in U.S. history. As a result, about
284,000 federal workers were furloughed, and around 475,000 essential employees
went without a paycheck, although they were eventually reimbursed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">They weren't the only ones inconvenienced. Some benefits for
military veterans were delayed and cleanup at more than 600 toxic waste sites
was stopped. The government also shut down for six days in mid-November 1995,
initially resulting in the furlough of 800,000 federal employees. The
Congressional Research Service reported the shutdowns cost taxpayers a combined
$1.4 billion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Only the "essentials"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Only federal employees deemed "essential" would
continue to come to work during a shutdown. Employees who qualify as essential
include those involved in national security, protecting life and property and
providing benefit payments.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">That means members of the military, border control agents,
air traffic controllers, the FBI and the TSA are among those who would remain
on duty. The president and members of Congress are also exempt from furlough
and must decide which of their respective staff members to keep around during a
shutdown.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The checks are in the mail<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Even in the event of a shutdown, Social Security
beneficiaries will still find their checks in their mailboxes and doctors and
hospitals will receive Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements. However, if the
government does not resolve the budget situation by Nov. 1, those entitlement
program payments could be delayed by up to two weeks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Even in a shutdown, the Postal Service delivers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">One reason Americans will get their entitlement checks: a
government shutdown would not hit the operations of the U.S. Postal Service.
Government agencies that the Treasury Department does not directly fund, like
USPS, would be relatively unaffected in the short term by a shutdown. Some
postal employees would likely face furlough, but it wouldn't be enough to
completely close down the agency.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">National parks and museums? Forget it<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Have plans to visit a national park or go sightseeing in the
nation's capital? You might want to cancel them. During the Clinton-era
shutdowns, 368 national parks closed, resulting in the loss of 7 million
visitors. In Washington, D.C., the public would be unable to visit the
monuments and museums that millions of tourists flock to every year. The
Capitol building would remain open, though.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Visa and passport delays<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Those hoping to enter or leave the country during a shutdown
would likely experience some difficulty. The government was unable to process
around 200,000 pending passport applications and a daily average of 30,000 visa
and passport applications by foreigners during the 1995-96 shutdowns. This
would not only result in a headaches for would-be travelers, but a loss in
millions for the airline and tourism industries.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Who would be blamed for a shutdown?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Generally speaking, no one comes out looking good if the
government shuts down. A Pew Research poll conducted Sept. 19-22 shows 39
percent of Americans would blame Republicans if a shutdown were to occur,
compared to 36 percent who would fault the Obama administration and 17 percent
who would hold both sides responsible. According to a Pew poll from a
comparable period during the 2011 budget battle, the public spread the blame
around nearly identically.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Yosi Fischerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05371293778067504892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6749000164470317578.post-66181348851368219332013-09-20T19:50:00.000-07:002013-09-20T19:51:16.597-07:00What tripples my risk of being depressed?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<em><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">By Jim Clifton and Deepak
Chopra</span></em><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">If economics aspires to be a
science — “the dismal science” as it was traditionally called — it must
recognize that the most relevant economic data are human. The rise and fall of
GDP, mean household spending, and consumer confidence are useful statistics,
but ultimately the “units” of the American economy are bodies and souls. What’s
going on with them?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Even as the stock market soars,
the unequal distribution of wealth, which reached an all-time U.S. high in 2012
(with the top 1% grabbing 20% of all incomes), also implies inequality in
physical and mental well-being. We are breaking recent records there, too. It
is well documented that the greatest burden on the economy is skyrocketing
healthcare costs.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">At $2.5 trillion annually,
America’s healthcare bill is three times the size of the defense budget and
nearly twice the size of the whole Russian economy. It is also roughly twice
the size of the entire Indian economy, and India has a billion-plus population.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">When you compare America’s per
person health care spending to comparable societies, things look even worse.
The U.S. spends more than $8,000 annually per person on healthcare, where
Canada and Germany each spends roughly $4,500 per person, while the United
Kingdom spends about $3,500, according to the Organisation for Economic
Co-Operation and Development. Yet even as we lavishly outspend those countries,
Americans have shorter life spans and generally worse health outcomes. In other
words, citizens in comparable societies live longer but spend half the money we
do on healthcare or less.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">What’s afflicting our bodies to
such an extent that the medical system may not be able to manage a turnaround?
One big answer: epidemic <a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/152945/Obesity-Chronic-Diseases-Stable-Across-States-2011.aspx" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">rates of obesity and diabetes</span></a>. Obesity is the primary cause
of Type 2 diabetes and a major contributor to chronic disease in general,
including hypertension and coronary artery disease. If the United States solved
the obesity problem, its economy would arguably roar back, unburdened by
unsustainable healthcare costs. The news that our obesity epidemic has stopped
rising and in the case of school children may even be declining, is a start,
although long overdue.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">But the country can’t reliably
tackle obesity, which is correlated with low income levels, or turn the economy
around, if many of its citizens are depressed. The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being
Index just uncovered that being unemployed, dropping out of the workforce, or
working part time while wanting full-time work are the <a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/164090/employment-linked-depression-free.aspx" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">strongest predictors of having depression</span></a>. Unemployed
adults and those not working as much as they would like to are <em>about twice
as likely</em> to be depressed as Americans who are employed full time.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Clearly our society has a crisis
of body and soul – and often both together, since depression significantly
raises a person’s risk for disease almost across the board. Economists don’t
realistically figure these human factors into their predictions, and we’ve only
scratched the surface. Well-being also declines from a host of things specific
to America: chronic stress, uncertainty over keeping a job, anxiety over lost
pensions, pressure to increase productivity (already the highest in the world
but constantly pushed to rise even higher), and the longest work week in the
developed world, along with the lowest vacation time.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">The cure for the worst things is
a full-time job. Gallup workplace data show that the ultimate job is one in
which you get to do what you do best every day, your manager encourages your
development, and your opinion counts. When and if every American can have this
“therapy” of full-time meaningful employment, then depression, stress, and
anxiety will subside, and the average person will become much more motivated to
tackle chronic health problems like obesity. The human factor can never be
over-emphasized if we intend to get the economy roaring again, but more
importantly, if we intend to take well-being seriously and not simply raw
economic data.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Scientists: Mallika Chopra – Part 1</span></strong><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h4>
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Yosi Fischerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05371293778067504892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6749000164470317578.post-29088036689216244262013-01-28T09:25:00.001-08:002013-07-12T11:12:28.638-07:00As 'Aunt Barbara,' Robert Suchan draws a cult following among visiting hipsters from New York. Last year he made $275,000 in sales – a Tupperware 'milestone.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Tupperware party means big bucks for 'hostess' in drag</h1>
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Hometown U.S.A.: Paramus, N.J. </h2>
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As 'Aunt Barbara,' Robert Suchan draws a cult following among visiting
hipsters from New York. Last year he made $275,000 in sales – a Tupperware
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Growing up in a big, bubbly, close-knit family with six brothers and
sisters, Robert Suchan's role models were his beautiful mother Janene
("like Barbara Eden meets Grace Kelly meets Carol Brady and June
Cleaver"), whose picture he keeps in his wallet, and his Aunt Barbara
("Eve Arden meets Jo Anne Worley meets Mrs. Roper, with a touch of Bea
Arthur").<br />
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In time they would provide the ruggedly handsome Irish Catholic Long Island
native — he looks like a cross between Alec Baldwin and Vince Vaughn —
inspiration and a livelihood.<br />
The awakening came with the Dawn. As in dishwashing liquid. Suchan
(SOO-hahn) was pushing 40 and earning peanuts as a social worker.<br />
"My credit cards were maxed out; I was spraying my clothes with Febreze
because I'd run out of quarters for the laundromat; I had no soap or
shampoo," says Suchan, now 44. "One day I had to shower and shampoo
with Dawn."<br />
Around then he remembered his sister Janene (named after their mom), who
used to host Tupperware parties. They were tragic.<br />
"Five people would show up," Suchan recalls, "three of whom
were us and the Tupperware saleslady. My sister was always in tears. 'Nobody's
here!'"<br />
Suchan loved the products and thought the demonstrator could sell more if
she jazzed up her sales pitch. He had been a communications major at the State
University of New York — graduated with a 3.9 in 1992 — and loved drama,
excelling in comedic character roles.<br />
"I could do that, but as a comedy routine, Like Dustin Hoffman as
Tootsie."<br />
As "Aunt Barbara," Suchan has in four short years become the
highest-selling Tupperware consultant in North America.<br />
Suchan racked up about $275,000 in sales in 2012, a "milestone for Tupperware,"
said Nora Alonso, a spokeswoman for the Orlando-based company. "Bobby is
witty, has a great business mind and is fabulous with people," she said.
Alonso also noted that of the 10 top-selling consultants — who are independent
contractors — three work in drag.<br />
On a winter night at Abbe Estevez's house, the 6-foot-1 Suchan is holed up
in the upstairs bathroom, transforming himself into herself: a massive black
beehive wig, a ton of makeup (Aunt Barbara favors MAC products), a faux Pucci
dress in a hot pink and black paisley print, two pairs of L'eggs pantyhose to
cover leg hair.<br />
(Suchan is a moderately hairy guy who draws the line at shaving anything
beyond his face: "I have to maintain some of my manhood; Aunt Barbara has
enough of my life.")<br />
When a reporter suggests a photographic before-and-after, Suchan demurs.
He's him. Aunt Barbara is her. "You want to believe in Aunt Barbara the
way you want to believe in Santa Claus. Some people may think drag queens are
mean-spirited and raunchy. But Aunt Barbara is always a lady."<br />
Thanks to her Facebook presence and hilarious YouTube videos — don't miss
"Aunt Barbara Italian Style!" — she's amassed a cult following among
New York City hipsters who rent Zipcars and drive into deepest Jersey to see
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Malala, Shot For Speaking Out Against Pakistan's Taliban, To Stay In U.K.</h1>
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by <a href="http://www.npr.org/people/104192887/mark-memmott">Mark
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In November, Pakistani students in Karachi participated in a "Malala
Day" to show support for the girl who was shot when she spoke out against
the Taliban.<br />
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<span class="credit">Masroor </span><span class="creditwrap">/</span><span class="rightsnotice">Xinhua /Landov</span> </div>
Malala Yousafzai, the 15-year-old girl who was <a href="http://www.npr.org/2012/10/16/162988690/medical-update-on-malala-yousafzai" target="_blank">shot in the head</a> by a Taliban gunman because she had been
speaking out against that group's efforts to stop Pakistani girls from going to
school, will be staying in Great Britain.<br />
<a href="https://twitter.com/voadeewa/status/286540334878564352" target="_blank">Voice of America reports</a> that Wajid Shamsul Hassan,
Pakistan's high commissioner to the United Kingdom, says Malala's father has
been named an education attaché at Pakistan's offices in Birmingham, England.<br />
The BBC is <a href="https://twitter.com/BBCBreaking/status/286536201954029569" target="_blank">also
reporting the news</a>. ITV <a href="http://www.itv.com/news/update/2013-01-02/malala-set-for-uk-stay-after-father-given-consular-role/" target="_blank">says the job</a> Malala's father has been given will last at
least three years.<br />
Malala was shot last October near her home in Pakistan's Swat Valley and
later flown to the U.K. for treatment. This week, it was announced that <a href="http://www.herald.ie/news/girl-shot-by-taliban-wins-world-peace-award-3340447.html" target="_blank">she's being honored with Ireland's Tipperary International
Peace Award</a> for her courage that has "proved to be an inspiration
around the globe."<br />
Meanwhile: "<a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/01/01/168410647/attack-on-aid-workers-in-pakistan-leaves-7-dead" target="_blank">Attack On Aid Workers In Pakistan Leaves 7 Dead</a>."<br />
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Are women safe in India? </h1>
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if the country's existing laws and the attitude of law enforcers are serving
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The gang-rape of a medical student on a moving bus last week in New Delhi
has triggered mass protests on the streets of India, with calls for change
and justice for a young woman.<br />
She was raped for about an hour and thrown out of the bus. She is recovering
in the intensive care unit after undergoing multiple surgeries. Her injuries
were so bad that she was only recently able to give a statement to the Indian
authorities.<br />
The 23-year-old told police six men took turns sexually assaulting her.
The suspects allegedly used a metal rod to assault the victim and her friend.<br />
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<b>"The rape laws are crying out for change because according to
the present laws, insertion of an object in a woman's body is not
considered rape, marital rape is not considered rape, there are no specific
provisions relating to custodial rape. So there are huge problems with the
way in which sexual harassment is described as something silly as outraging
the modesty."</b><br />
<b>- Kavita Krishnan, the secretary of the All-India Progressive Women's
Association</b><br />
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Angry Indians are hitting the streets, defying a ban on mass
demonstrations. Police have been using tear gas and water cannon against the
protesters.<br />
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So, just how widespread a problem is sexual abuse against women in India?<br />
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There are reports that suggest that in India, a woman is raped every 20
minutes.<br />
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More than 24,000 rape cases in the country were reported last year alone, of
which 570 were reported in the Indian capital, where already this year 635
rape cases have been registered.<br />
The legal news service Trust Law says India is the worst country in the
G20 to be a woman. It says women and girls continue to be sold, married off
at a young age, exploited and abused as domestic slaves.<br />
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The number of crimes recorded against women, including kidnapping, abduction,
and human trafficking exceeds 2.5 million.<br />
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Many activists say Indians are protesting against what they say is a culture
of impunity.<br />
There are 40,000 pending rape cases in the country and survivors have to
wait years for their cases to be heard – even then the conviction rate is
just 34.6 percent – according to the National Crimes Record Bureau.<br />
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<b>"Section 376 [Indian Penal Code] takes care of punishing each
and everybody [for sexual abuse] … as far as preventing such incidents are
concerned our basic problem [in] policing is they are punitive and not
preventive in nature .… Similarly political will is lacking because we keep
crying about the judicial process as being very low but the question is, it
is the government's duty to provide proper infrastructure."</b><br />
<b>- Rajeev Aswathi, a Delhi high court lawyer</b><br />
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The Indian Penal Code lists punishments of up to life behind bars, but
those convicted are often let off after serving a short sentence.<br />
<br />
Undercover reporters in India gathered evidence of how the police in the
Delhi region view rape survivors. The investigation published by the Indian
weekly <i>Tehelka</i> exposed how the system often blames the survivors.<br />
Senior police officers were caught on hidden camera talking about survivors,
saying: "She asked for it”; "It's all about money"; "They
have made it a business"; "It's consensual most of the time".<br />
Seventeen officers in over a dozen police stations were caught on spy cameras
blaming everything from revealing clothes to having boyfriends or going to
pubs as the main reasons for rape.<br />
The investigators came to the conclusion that the officers encountered do not
fulfil the basic standard of policing, which requires investigating a case
without any cultural, class or gender bias.<br />
In this episode, <i>Inside Story</i> discusses if women are safe in India.<br />
Joining the discussion, with presenter Hazem Sika, are guests: Kavita
Krishnan, the secretary of the All-India Progressive Women's Association;
Rajeev Aswathi, a New Delhi high court lawyer who has previously represented
rape survivors; and Lawrence Saez, a professor of political economy at the
School of Oriental and African Studies, and the author of <i>New Dimensions
of Politics in India: The United Progressive Alliance in Power</i>.<br />
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"This case has alerted people to the problem primarily because the
victim was a middle-class student and the alleged rapists are people who
migrated to the city so there's an element of social class struggle. But
rape is sadly quite common in the villages, sometimes by the police and by
people who are wealthy against people who are very poor, and they escape
with impunity."<br />
Lawrence Saez, a professor of political economy<br />
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Rape capitals of the world in 2010:<br />
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rates, with 277,000 reported cases. The same year a survey by the
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Yosi Fischerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05371293778067504892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6749000164470317578.post-42567795101920129292012-12-24T14:39:00.000-08:002012-12-24T14:39:15.632-08:00#26Acts of kindness: San Antonio third-graders rack up 115 good deeds<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A third-grader at Thomas L. Hatchett, Sr. Elementary School in San Antonio,
Texas wrote this message about the value of performing acts of kindness for
others.<br />
<i>After covering the tragedy in Newtown, Conn., NBC News’ Ann Curry
wondered what could be done to ease the national suffering over the loss of 26
children and teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary. Why not, she tweeted, commit to
doing one act of kindness for every child killed there? People responded </i>— <i>and
wanted to up that to 26 acts of kindness for every child and adult lost at the
school. Now people around the country are committing random acts of kindness
— connected <a href="http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12/17/15972814-inspired-to-help-26acts-of-kindness-to-honor-those-lost-in-newtown-conn?lite" target="_blank">through the hashtag #26Acts</a> (#20Acts and others are
also trending). Get inspired: You can start your own acts of kindness right
now.</i><br />
Like many school teachers across the country, Susan Garcia was nervous. On
the Monday after the unthinkable school massacre in Connecticut, how would she
handle the inevitable tears and questions from her third-grade students? What
could she possibly say?<br />
Then she saw a tweet from <a href="https://twitter.com/AnnCurry" target="_blank">NBC News’ Ann Curry</a>. The tweet mentioned the idea of doing
26 acts of kindness in response to the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Garcia thought, “That’s it!”<br />
“I knew this could be a way to spread positivity at our school and honor
those victims,” said Garcia, 44, a teacher at Thomas L. Hatchett, Sr.
Elementary School in San Antonio, Texas.<br />
She sat down with her 8- and 9-year-old pupils on Monday and floated the idea
of doing random acts of kindness throughout the week.<br />
“They ran with it,” Garcia said. “They are SO excited.”<br />
The kids enthusiastically began dreaming up thoughtful deeds they could do
for teachers, students, school administrators, custodians, parents, siblings
and others. Their ideas included:<br />
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Inspired by Curry’s original tweet, Garcia did some sleuth work online to
find ways to make the random acts of kindness concept resonate with 8- and
9-year-olds. She found ideas on Pinterest and on the blog <a href="http://www.3rdgradethoughts.com/" target="_blank">3rdGradeThoughts.com</a>,
which ran <a href="http://www.3rdgradethoughts.com/2012/12/getting-ready-for-rack-week.html" target="_blank">a post about orchestrating Random Acts of Classroom Kindness at
school</a> and having students log their kind deeds on Random Acts of Classroom
Kindness, or “RACK,” sheets.<br />
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Third-graders filled out "RACK sheets" like this one and logged
their kind deeds throughout the week.<br />
By the end of this week, Garcia’s class collectively completed 115 acts of
kindness.<br />
“They want to keep doing this in January after we come back from (winter)
break,” Garcia said. “I told them, ‘We don’t have to stop! We can definitely
keep doing it if we want!’<br />
“We were all so shocked and devastated by what happened. This has been a way
to turn it into a positive.”<br />
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origins of #26Acts of Kindness</a></li>
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goes viral</a></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><a href="http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12/19/16024526-26acts-of-kindness-nebraska-woman-spreads-good-will-one-dollar-at-a-time?lite" target="_blank">#26Acts of kindness: Nebraska woman spreads good will one
dollar at a time</a></li>
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Yosi Fischerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05371293778067504892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6749000164470317578.post-44542489422658500782012-12-20T09:09:00.003-08:002012-12-20T09:10:15.936-08:0011 Surprising Things that Affect Your Dreams<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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You hate how your mother-in-law meddles in your marriage, so it's no shocker
when you tell her off in your dream-dreams are, after all, your brain's way of <a href="http://www.womansday.com/sex-relationships/dating-marriage/getting-past-the-same-old-fights-109797?link=emb&dom=yah_life&src=syn&con=blog_wd&mag=wdy" title="">working through unresolved conflicts</a>. But what can explain that
recent string of random nightmares or incredibly vivid visions? "We know a
bit about things that affect dream recall and make for more nightmares,"
says Deirdre Barrett, PhD, assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at
Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA, and author of <i>The Committee of Sleep</i>.
So here, 11 surprising things that can influence what pops up in your dreams or
how likely you are to remember them. <i>Photo by iStock.</i> <br />
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<b>Smells</b> <br />
Do sweet smells lead to sweet dreams? One small study found that sniffing
flowers at a particular point in the sleep cycle led to more positive dreams,
while a sulfur odor was linked to negative ones. Though researchers say you
can't replicate those results in your bedroom (by the time you're dreaming,
that lilac blossom scent you spritzed pre-bedtime can't stimulate you), there's
a possibility that a sudden aroma-bacon wafting up from the kitchen, for
example-could infiltrate your dream. "Dreams are sleep protective,"
says J. Catesby Ware, PhD, Chief of the Division of Sleep Medicine at Eastern
Virginia Medical School, in Norfolk, VA. "So instead of waking up, you
incorporate those stimuli into your dream." <br />
<br />
<b>Sounds</b> <br />
You wake up after dreaming you're stuck in a burning building-and realize
that the fire alarm you heard was actually your alarm clock. What's with that?
There's a narrow window for sounds to get through to your brain during sleep,
says Dr. Barrett: "They need to be low enough that they don't wake you but
high enough that you perceive them." So let a recording of ocean waves
play softly throughout the night. You might recall a dream about a beach
vacation or wake up feeling relaxed. <br />
<br />
<b>Spicy Food</b> <br />
It's simple: Anything that could cause indigestion-cheese, spicy foods, a
big meal-makes you stir more, meaning you have a better shot of remembering
that nightmare. "The rule of thumb is that you need to wake up within five
minutes of having a dream to recall it," says Dr. Ware. For rest that's
more peaceful all around, eat dinner at least two hours before bedtime, and
choose nighttime snacks wisely (read: no Haagen-Dazs if you're lactose
intolerant). Since caffeine can have the same disruptive effect, it's best to
cut off your coffee intake post-2 p.m. too. <br />
<b><br />
Sleeping on Your Stomach</b> <br />
Are you prone to racy dreams? Well, sleeping in the prone position (that is, on
your stomach) might have something to do with it. A new study published in the
Journal <i>Dreaming</i> found that lying on your belly in bed was linked to
blush-worthy dream themes, like having sex with a celebrity or being tied up.
Researchers hypothesize that it might have to do with your breathing patterns
in this position. To stop the sexy thoughts-or keep 'em coming-adjust your
sleep posture accordingly. <b><br />
<br />
Vitamin B6 </b><br />
While there's no research on whether or not taking B6 leads to more lucid
dreams, the Internet is awash with anecdotal reports that it does-which,
according to Dr. Barrett, makes good biological sense. "B6 is the
co-factor our body uses to turn some of the amino acids we eat into the
neurotransmitters that affect our dreaming," she says. To stop the vivid
dreams, stop the supplements. But if you're looking to encourage dreaming, stay
within the recommended amount of B6 daily-too much could cause nerve damage or
numbness over time. <br />
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<b>Antidepressants </b></div>
Yes, those pills that are supposed to calm you down-especially the SSRI
(selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor) class of antidepressants, like Prozac,
Paxil and Zoloft-might be upping your nightmares. "They've been shown to
make REM bursts more intense in the people who take them," says Dr.
Barrett, referring to rapid-eye movement sleep, the stage during which we
dream. "And most of those people seem to have more nightmares as a side
effect." If you're feeling tormented, talk to your doctor about switching
to a similar drug. While all SSRIs can cause nightmares, Dr. Barrett says each
variation tends to affect each person's brain differently. <br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b>Quitting Smoking </b></div>
Vivid dreams have been shown to be a symptom of kicking the habit, and in
one study, 63% of smokers still dreamed about smoking a year later. Granted,
you may just be working through your main issue at the moment (the fact that
you <i>really</i> want a cigarette), but nicotine withdrawal also enhances
brain activity in a way that can make you dream more<i>,</i> says Patrick
McNamara, PhD, Director of the Evolutionary Neurobehavior Laboratory at the
Boston University School of Medicine in Boston, MA. His advice: Stick it out.
Those neurons will eventually calm down again-and your lungs will be much
healthier. <br />
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<b>Black-and-White TV </b></div>
File under quirky but possibly true: If you grew up before color TV sets
were commonplace, you might be more likely to recall your dreams in grayscale
rather than color, according to one study by a British researcher. The sweet
spot for being exposed to black-and-white media might be between about three
and 10 years old (when most people start remembering their dreams), so there's
not much you can do to change your dream palette now. Still, it's interesting
to think about if you grew up on a steady diet of classic movies or <i>I Love
Lucy</i>… <br />
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<b>Going to Bed Hungry </b></div>
You're struggling to keep yourself on that diet-and you might be having the
dreams to prove it. Low blood sugar can rouse you from sleep, meaning you may
remember more dreams and those dreams may star a juicy burger or a piping-hot
piece of pizza. In fact, Dr. Ware's anorexic patients almost always dreamed
about food in one sleep study. Luckily, a small nighttime snack of a banana and
a glass of skim milk isn't just filling, healthy and waistline-friendly-it also
contains tryptophan (the amino acid in turkey that makes people drowsy after
Thanksgiving dinner), which can help you sleep more soundly. <br />
<b><br />
Scary Movies Before Bed </b><br />
You've been hearing it since you were a kid: Spooky movies cause spooky
nightmares. But is there any truth to that mom-knows-best scare tactic? Dr.
Barrett says the last thing you do before bed matters, period. "The music
you're listening to, the book you're reading, the TV show you're watching, the
conversation you're having with your spouse-all those things are likely to be
influencing," she says. So if you suffer from nightmares and happen to
catch a horror flick, take a few minutes to reprogram your brain with happy
thoughts-like vacation memories or favorite moments with your kids-before
settling down to sleep. <br />
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<b>Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period </b></div>
Your baby's lost, so you search for her wildly, ripping at your bed sheets
or even grabbing your husband for help. Is this nightmare typical pregnant
woman/new mom anxiety? According to research, yes. Studies have found that it's
common to have extremely vivid dreams during pregnancy and your baby's infancy,
likely due to a mix of emotions, lack of sleep and fluctuating hormone levels.
Just like so many things that happen to our bodies around pregnancy and
childbirth, there's not much you can do to control them. But these dreams are a
sign that your brain is helping you adapt to this huge life change-let that
serve as a source of comfort. <br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i>Original article appeared on WomansDay.com.</i> </div>
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Having a robust and relevant environmental policy is a must in
today’s competitive market. A good environmental policy can set you
apart from your competitors and help you respond to environmental
questions in tenders.<br />
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The purpose of an environmental policy is to <strong>set the tone and direction for your organisations commitment to improved environmental performance.</strong>
As such it should be a living document that is widely communicated
internally and externally. Below we highlight some of the top tips to
remember when writing your environmental policy. <a href="http://www.sustainablebusinesstoolkit.com/how-to-be-green">How to green your business</a> builds on these principles and provides the necessary templates and guides to help you complete your environmental policy.<br />
1. <strong>State who you are and what you do</strong> – it sounds
obvious but you will be surprised how many companies do not mention who
they are or what line of business they are in. The result is a very
generic policy that procurement bodies can see directly through<br />
2. <strong>Highlight what has been achieved thus for</strong>. You
could include any environmental awards or certifications (i.e. ISO14001)
here. It is always more compelling if you use facts and figures to
illustrate your achievements – i.e. we reduced our carbon footprint from
x tonnes to y tonnes of CO2e in the past year<br />
3. If you are aware of <strong>environmental legislation</strong>
that impacts your business, state that your company complies with these
regulations. Be explicit – i.e. we comply with EU packaging and
packaging waste directive<br />
3. <strong>State your main commitment or environmental objective</strong>
and in doing so recognise that your activities have an impact that can
be reduced to achieve that commitment. For example: we recognise that as
a widget factory our activities have an impact on the environment. As a
business that strives for excellence our overall environmental
objective is to reduce our <em>waste</em> and <em>emissions</em> per tonne of product.<br />
4. State what actions or <strong>how you aim to achieve that objective</strong>.
Here you can list the actions that may already be underway or highlight
the actions you are going to undertake over the next year. Example
actions include – reduce waste consumption by 10%; measure our carbon
footprint; implement a recycling scheme; switch all our lights to energy
efficient alternatives<br />
5. <strong>State clearly how your policy will be communicated to staff an customers</strong>.
For example, all staff are made aware of our environmental policy
through their employee handbooks. In addition we display our policy on
our company website and in our office reception<br />
6. <strong>State when the policy will be reviewed and how</strong>. A food rule of thumb is that a policy should be reviewed annually and actions added and removed where relevant<br />
7. <strong>Ensure the policy is signed by the managing director and dated.</strong> Senior commitment to a policy is critical if the objectives and actions are to be achieved<br />
<em>Note: your policy only need be one A4 page long. All supporting information can be appended to the policy</em><br />
I hope these tips help you get started. Check out <a href="http://www.sustainablebusinesstoolkit.com/how-to-be-green">how to green your business</a> if you want full templates and guides to facilitate this process.<br />
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<article>TORONTO — Canadian immigration officials believe a Romanian
smuggling ring has been bringing Gypsies into the U.S. through Mexico in order
for them to eventually gain asylum in Canada.
Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said Wednesday that 85 people, including
35 children, who arrived in Canada since February have now been classified as
“irregular arrivals,” which means they can’t apply for permanent residence
status for at least five years.<br />
</article>“Quite frankly we really haven’t seen anything like this in our
immigration system before. People from Europe that go to Mexico, that go
through the U.S. to come to Canada and then go to Toronto where many of them
got involved in criminal activity,” Kenney said at a news conference in Stanstead,
Quebec, a town that borders Vermont.
Thirty of the irregular arrivals have been arrested under newly enacted
immigration laws that allow for the mandatory detention of those suspected to
have arrived in Canada via smugglers, Kenney said.<br />
Over the past year, cars loaded with ethnic Roma asylum seekers have run the
border between Derby Line, Vermont and Stanstead, Quebec. The border crossing
was previously all-but-non-existent before 9/11. The once-open streets between
Vermont and Quebec have now have become the preferred route into Canada for
refugees who carry Romanian passports. Only recently has Canada beefed up
security in Stanstead.<br />
Kenney declined to identify their ethnicity but said the groups of Romanian
nationals illegally crossed into Canada between February and October.<br />
Kenney said the Romanians would typically spend a few days in Mexico before
illegally crossing the U.S. border and then driving north into Quebec, where
police would typically hold them until they requested asylum and would be released.<br />
He said many of the Romanians went to Toronto and some to Montreal. Canadian
officials said many arrived in indebted to a criminal organization and in some
cases engaged in crime to pay back the smuggling debts. Twelve have been
charged in unrelated crimes since arriving in Canada.<br />
Kenney noted that Canada has one of the most generous immigration systems in
the world but said they won’t tolerate those who abuse that generosity or cheat
the system to jump the queue.<br />
“We are sending a strong message to those who are thinking of using the
services of criminal human smugglers to sneak their way into Canada - don’t do
it,” Kenney said.<br />
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials in California have
noticed a spike in Romanian border crossers.<br />
“You don’t normally find people from Romania crossing in El Centro,” said
ICE San Diego spokesman Lauren Mack. The agents apprehending them know they are
dealing with gypsies. “We have noticed and are aware of an increase in
the number of Roma who are being smuggled into the United States and are
concerned about it.”<br />
Mack said they are also aware the Romanians are headed to Canada.<br />
Associated Press writer Wilson Ring in Burlington, Vermont contributed to
this report.<br />
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may
not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<br />
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far, intelligence sources say, bombs loaded with the components of
sarin haven't yet been loaded onto planes. NBC's Jim Miklaszewski
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The
Syrian military is prepared to use chemical weapons against its own
people and is awaiting final orders from President Bashar Assad, U.S.
officials told NBC News on Wednesday.<br />
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The military has loaded the precursor chemicals for
sarin, a deadly nerve gas, into aerial bombs that could be dropped onto
the Syrian people from dozens of fighter-bombers, the officials said.<br />
As
recently as Tuesday, officials had said there was as yet no evidence
that the process of mixing the "precursor" chemicals had begun. But
Wednesday, they said their worst fears had been confirmed: The nerve
agents were locked and loaded inside the bombs.<br />
Sarin is an extraordinarily lethal agent. Iraqi President Saddam
Hussein's forces killed 5,000 Kurds with a single sarin attack on
Halabja in 1988.<br />
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U.S. officials stressed that as of now, the sarin bombs hadn't been
loaded onto planes and that Assad hadn't issued a final order to use
them. But if he does, one of the officials said, "there's little the
outside world can do to stop it."<br />
Secretary of State Hillary
Rodham Clinton reiterated U.S. warnings to Assad not to use chemical
weapons, saying he would be crossing "a red line" if he did so.<br />
Speaking
Wednesday at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Clinton said the Syrian
government was on the brink of collapse, raising the prospect that "an
increasingly desperate Assad regime" might turn to chemical weapons or
that the banned weapons could fall into other hands.<br />
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Secretary
of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, speaking Wednesday at NATO
headquarters in Brussels, said the fall of Syrian President Bashar
Assad's government was "inevitable."</div>
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"Ultimately, what
we should be thinking about is a political transition in Syria and one
that should start as soon as possible," Clinton said. "We believe their
fall is inevitable. It is just a question of how many people have to die
before that occurs."<br />
Aides told NBC News that Clinton was
expected next week to officially recognize the main opposition movement,
the National Coalition of Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces,
with which she is scheduled to meet in Morocco. Britain, France, Turkey
and some key Arab leaders have already recognized the opposition.<br />
Fighting
intensified Wednesday in the 21-month civil war, which has left 40,000
people dead. The U.N. withdrew its personnel from Damascus, saying
conditions were too dangerous.<br />
The government said this week that
it wouldn't use chemical weapons on its own people after President
Barack Obama warned that doing so would be "totally unacceptable."<br />
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But U.S. officials said this week that the government had
ordered its Chemical Weapons Corps to "be prepared," which Washington
interpreted as a directive to begin bringing together the components
needed to weaponize Syria's chemical stockpiles.<br />
That process
would involve mixing "precursor" chemicals for the deadly nerve gas
sarin, which could be used in artillery shells, U.S. officials told NBC
News, stressing that there was no evidence that process had as yet
begun.<br />
<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/21426473"><strong><br /></strong></a>
<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/21426473"><strong> </strong></a>U.S.
officials had long believed that the Syrian government was stockpiling
the banned chemical weapons before it acknowledged possessing them this
summer.<br />
<a href="http://openchannel.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/07/27/12970606-syria-regime-reeling-armed-to-the-teeth-with-chemical-weapons?lite">NBC News reported in July</a>
that U.S. intelligence agencies believed that in addition to sarin,
Syria had access to tabun, a chemical nerve agent, as well as
traditional chemical weapons like mustard gas and hydrogen cyanide.<br />
Officials
told NBC News at the time that the Syrian government was moving the
outlawed weapons around the country, leaving foreign intelligence
agencies unsure where they might end up.<br />
Syria is one of only
seven nations that hasn't ratified the 1992 Chemical Weapons Convention,
the arms control agreement that outlaws the production, stockpiling and
use of such weapons.<br />
Bombshells filled with chemicals can be
carried by Syrian Air Force fighter-bombers, in particular Sukhoi-22/20,
MiG-23 and Sukhoi-24 aircraft. In addition, some reports indicate that
unguided short-range Frog-7 artillery rockets may be capable of carrying
chemical payloads.<br />
In terms of longer-range delivery systems,
Syria has a few dozen SS-21 ballistic missiles with a maximum range of
72 miles; 200 Scud-Bs, with a maximum range of 180 miles; and 60 to 120
Scud-Cs, with a maximum range of 300 miles, all of which are mobile and
are capable of carrying chemical weapons, according U.S. intelligence
officials.<br />
Secretary
of State Hillary Clinton echoed President Obama's recent vow to take
action if Syrian President Bashar Assad uses chemical weapons during the
ongoing clashes within his country. U.S. officials are also concerned
about the rising influence of extremist groups within Syria. NBC's
Andrea Mitchell reports.</div>
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<tr><td class="DetailedSummary" id="tdTextContent">In the waning days of the election campaign, the suppressed topic of climate change was dramatically thrust front-and-centre by Hurricane Sandy. Since the election, the under-discussed subject of US foreign policy has had its turn. Not surprisingly, it has done so in the style of a fun-house mirror, hiding what is essential, while magnifying the superficial, even the imaginary, as overlapping wild-eyed distortions produce pure phantom imagery in the place of substance. <br />
We can summarise the topics involved as Gaza, Petraeus and Benghazi. In Gaza, Israel is engaged in an eerily familiar echoing of its attacks four years ago just before Obama took office. As with that earlier attack, virtually nothing of the actual substance gets through to the American public - the Palestinians remain a faceless un-people, while only right-wing talking points are deemed acceptable. <br />
As for General David Petraeus, he has been forced to resign as CIA chief because of a sex scandal, while the real scandal - the neo-con's "long war" strategy that he has helped Obama embrace in a more technocratic style - remains quietly ignored, despite bipartisan majorities who now oppose even the current US presence in Afghanistan. <br />
Finally, there's Benghazi, the terrorist attack on the embassy which has become the focal point for neo-con yahoos and conspiracists to aim their fire at America's real enemies: the President, his advisers and appointees. <br />
<strong>US invasion of Iraq</strong><br />
Despite all the distortions involved, this fun-house mirror can bring some things into very sharp focus - most notably, the profound continuity of American foreign policy, its profound insularity and its profound disconnect from the real world. <br />
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<!-- PAGELOADEDSUCCESSFULLY-->With regard to the Israeli/Palestinian situation, Americans are repeatedly told that the Palestinians - d Arabs more generally - don't want peace. This is the enduring foundational lie on which every manner of additional lie can readily be constructed. <br />
The "fact" that they don’t want peace means they are animals, they are implacable, all they understand is violence, there is no point in trying to reason with them, etc, etc, etc. Keeping this foundational lie in place requires erasing one particularly inconvenient piece of history - the <a class="internallink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Peace_Initiative" target="_blank">Arab League peace initiative</a>, first proposed in 2002 and reaffirmed several times since then, which offers Israel the explicit promise of peace with its Arab neighbours. <br />
The Saudi-crafted initiative was unanimously approved by 22 members of the Arab League at a summit in Beirut on March 28, 2002. The "Beirut Declaration", as it came to be known, had the appearance of a dramatic gesture, promising to explicitly recognise Israel's right to exist, in exchange for a return of the Occupied Territories. <br />
Most Americans have never heard of the Arab League peace initiative - and for good reason: Despite initial support from then-Secretary of State Colin Powell, then-President Bush virtually ignored it, along with another resolution passed unanimously at that meeting, opposing the proposed US invasion of Iraq. <br />
Although it was secret at the time, the Bush administration had already decided to invade Iraq - as was later confirmed by the Downing Street memos - and had no interest in getting side-tracked, even if the "side-track" would actually do far more to combat terrorism than the chosen course of action, since it would remove the most widespread grievance of the Arab world, which terrorists have long exploited. <br />
Powell, ever the good soldier, went along with Bush's leadership. Eventually, this would lead to the most public blunder of his career, fronting the Bush administrations lies about Iraq to the world in a presentation before the UN's General Assembly. <br />
But Powell's man on the ground at the time, special envoy Anthony Zinni, a retired Marine Corps general, was much more outspoken. By late August, as the Bush administration's public push for war got under way, Zinni gave a speech to Economic Club of Florida in Tallahassee that was widely reported in which he argued against the invasion, running down a long list of higher priorities that he said would suffer as a result. <a class="internallink" href="https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/bush/zinni2.htm" target="_blank">According to the <em>Tampa Tribune</em></a>, which first reported the speech: <br />
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<em>"Zinni said a war to bring down Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein would have numerous undesirable side effects and should be low on the nation's list of foreign policy objectives. </em><br />
<em>"I can give you many more [priorities] before I get to that,'' Zinni said when asked if the United States should move to remove Saddam.</em><br />
<em>Zinni said the country should instead concentrate on negotiating a peace accord between Israel and the Palestinians, and on eliminating the Taliban in Afghanistan and the al-Qaeda terrorist network that launched the September 11 terror attacks.</em><br />
<em>"We need to make sure the Taliban and al-Qaeda can't come back,'' he said...</em><br />
<em>"We need to quit making enemies that we don't need to make enemies out of.''</em></blockquote>
<strong>Immune to any sort of criticism</strong><br />
There were, in short, a whole parade of reasons why invading Iraq was a really bad idea for the United States. But for the people of Israel and Palestine - whose suffering continues to this day - the failure to follow up on the Arab League initiative towered over everything else. <br />
Two months later, a relatively obscure state senator from Illinois also gave a speech against the coming war. His name was Barack Obama, and when he became President six years after that, many of his supporters hoped that it would signal a dramatic change in direction. Perhaps even the taking up of the Arab League initiative, those who knew about it might have dreamed.<br />
That, of course, was not to be. Even before he took office, Israel launched a savage attack on Gaza, claiming, as always, that it was the real victim. Obama, characteristically, fell in line with all the tired tropes of Washington, rather than challenging them and thinking outside the box, as his most passionate supporters had hoped that he would do. <br />
Six months later, when he gave his unprecedented speech to the Muslim world in Cairo, hopes were rekindled briefly, but as far as the Palestinian question is concerned, nothing significant has changed at all, as underscored by the most recent attacks on Gaza. The Arab League initiative remains ignored, in effect, a deliberate choice to make it seem to the American people as if only Israel and America have any interest in peace, and only the Palestinians terrorise their adversaries.<br />
Although Zinni was hardly a professional contrarian - he later came to support Bush's surge in Iraq, for example - at least he had the virtue of having been right about one of the major blunders of the Bush era, as well as having direct knowledge about the Arab Peace initiative.<br />
He is just the sort of figure - a top military man who supported George W Bush in 2000, but didn't drink the kool aid - who seemed a perfect fit for candidate Obama. But, despite brief talk about him becoming ambassador to Iraq, it was not to be, any more than Obama gave any real power to anyone who saw the financial crisis coming. <br />
Instead, Obama turned primarily to those who were already in place, including General Patraeus, who up until the last few weeks seemed utterly immune to any sort of criticism - even though he'd always been a policy chameleon, promising positive outcomes with whatever the policy <em>du jure</em> happened to be that never actually materialised as originally promised. <br />
He'd been dead wrong in his optimistic 2004 <a class="internallink" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49283-2004Sep25.html" target="_blank">pre-election <em>Washington Post</em> op-ed</a> about Iraq, supporting the policy at the time. His great claim to fame, the Iraq "surge", largely "succeeded" for external reasons - most notably the Sunni Awakening, and the fact that hyper-violent ethnic cleansing had finally run its course - while solidifying Iranian influence, rather than securing US strategic goals.<br />
What's more, it was justified in terms of a philosophy (counter-insurgency - "winning hearts and minds") strikingly at odds with the counter-terrorist drone-strike strategy he took over at the CIA. <br />
The striking inconsistencies between the doctrines he embraced at different times should have been obvious to anyone. But Petraeus himself clearly understood the primacy of appearances over reality. "What policymakers believe to have taken place in any particular situation is more important than what actually occurred," he wrote in his 1987 Princeton dissertation.<br />
As Wired's Seth Ackerman ruefully admits (<a class="internallink" href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/11/petraeus-cult-2/" target="_blank">"How I Was Drawn Into the Cult of David Petraeus"</a>), Petraeus was a highly media-savvy insider super-celeb, whose judgment no insiders ever seriously questioned, even though we know now that his judgment was deeply flawed - a point that still seems lost on most of the legions of insiders who still seemingly adore him.<br />
<strong>Multi-generation long war </strong><br />
But author <a class="internallink" href="http://lailalalami.com/about/" target="_blank">Laila Lalami</a> took a more realistic view. "The Petraeus scandal: from James Bond to Austin Powers to Real Housewives to Jersey Shore in 72 hours," she tweeted. <br />
<!--SSI--><!-- PAGELOADEDSUCCESSFULLY-->MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell also sees things more clearly. "The judgment issue is the only one worth examining here, and what we see at every stage of this story is David Petraeus' judgment is terrible," O'Donnell said on his <a class="internallink" href="http://tv.msnbc.com/2012/11/17/odonnell-petraeuss-real-failing-was-reckless-judgements/" target="_blank">November 16 show</a>.<br />
His emails about sex were just begging to be discovered, O'Donnell went on to argue, and the military groupies he palled around with (the Jersey Shore part of the scandal) were textbook examples of why groupies should be avoided at all costs.<br />
One good thing about the affair, O'Donnell noted, was that "he is finally getting some balanced coverage in the news media," quoting an edited passage from a <em><a class="internallink" href="http://nation.time.com/2012/11/14/the-rise-and-fall-of-general-peaches/" target="_blank">Time</a></em><a class="internallink" href="http://nation.time.com/2012/11/14/the-rise-and-fall-of-general-peaches/" target="_blank"> magazine story</a>:<br />
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<em>"Petraeus is a remarkable piece of fiction created and promoted by neocons in government, the media and academia," argues Douglas Macgregor, a retired and outspoken Army colonel.... "How does an officer with no personal experience of direct fire combat in Panama or Desert Storm become a division commander?"</em></blockquote>
The full passage is even more damning, as Macgregor refers to Petraeus as a "man who for 35 years shamelessly reinforced whatever dumb idea his superior advanced regardless of its impact on soldiers, let alone the nation, a man who served repeatedly as a sycophantic aide-de-camp, military assistant and executive officer to four stars" - an assessment in keeping with his dramatic about faces noted above.<br />
Which brings us, finally to Benghazi, which Obama's hyper-ventilating congressional critics have histrionically called out as worse than Watergate. Before the election, John McCain went ballistic. On CBS's Face the Nation, <a class="internallink" href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2012/10/28/video_mccain_compares_benghazi_libya_to_watergate_calls_it_cover_up_or_incompetence.html" target="_blank">he called it</a>, "The worst cover-up or incompetence I have ever observed in my life."<br />
Apparently 9/11 was a walk in the park, so far as McCain was concerned. "Somebody the other day said to me, 'This is as bad as Watergate'," McCain said. "Nobody died in Watergate." Or on 9/11 either, apparently, in John McCain's world.<br />
One might have expected such hyperbole to die off after the election results came in. But if anything, McCain grew increasingly adamant in the last two weeks, while California Congressman Dana Rohrabacher - who proudly hung out with the Taliban back in the 1980s - eagerly took up his "worse than Watergate" line.<br />
On November 14, McCain was so busy telling the media how outrageous it was that Obama administration was hiding the truth about Benghazi that he didn't have time to attend a Senate committee hearing, where the administration answered senator's questions on precisely that very subject.<br />
The sad fact is that there is very little <em>purposive</em> difference between Obama's foreign policy and George Bush's. There's a great deal of difference in effectiveness, perhaps, as well as in reducing the bluster and improving the PR. The façade has been totally revamped. No flight suits, no codpieces on deck! But the US is still committed to fighting a multi-generation long war in dozens upon dozens of different countries around the world, with the barest minimum of public discussion or debate, and a maximum of secrecy. <br />
One cannot help but think that what's really got John McCain and his neo-con buddies so steamed is not how alien Obama is to them, but how much of a doppelganger he is. That, and just how much better he is than they are at pulling it off.<br />
Eat your heart out, John McCain. And, for that matter, David Petraeus, too.<br />
<em><strong>Paul Rosenberg is the senior editor of Random Lengths News, a bi-weekly alternative community newspaper.</strong></em><br />
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Investigators from France and Switzerland will
conduct parallel probes into the death of Palestinian leader Yasser
Arafat, Palestinian officials said Monday. His remains will be exhumed,
at a date kept secret, to give each team a chance to draw samples to
test for poisoning.</div>
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RAMALLAH, West Bank — Investigators from France and Switzerland
will conduct parallel probes into the death of Palestinian leader
Yasser Arafat, Palestinian officials said Monday. His remains will be
exhumed, at a date kept secret, to give each team a chance to draw
samples to test for poisoning.<br />
The two teams are acting separately on behalf of Arafat's widow Suha
Arafat and the Palestinian Authority, who each had misgivings about the
other's investigation.<br />
The push to re-examine Arafat's 2004 death come after a Swiss lab's
recent discovery of polonium-210, a deadly radioactive isotope, on
clothes said to belong to the Palestinian leader. This fueled new
suspicions of poisoning.<br />
The French team is composed of criminal investigators acting at the
request of Suha Arafat, while the Palestinian Authority invited the
Swiss lab to also come to examine the remains of the longtime leader and
determine how he died eight years ago. A spokesman for neither team
could be reached immediately for comment.<br />
Arafat's death in a French hospital in November 2004 has remained a
mystery for many. While the immediate cause of death was a stroke, the
underlying source of an illness he suffered in his final weeks has never
been clear, leading to persistent, unproven conspiracy theories that he
had cancer, AIDS or was poisoned.<br />
Suha Arafat has long had rocky relations with the Palestinian
Authority's president Mahmoud Abbas, and the probes' potential to be
politically explosive appears to have fueled more distrust. She had
asked the Palestinian Authority to suspend any other probe or ensure
that it was coordinated with the French investigation. Some Palestinian
officials, for their part, said they were unhappy with the way Suha
Arafat had forced a foreign investigation on them.<br />
While their probes are separate, the French and Swiss investigators
are set to visit the grave together and will only be allowed one chance
to draw samples, said Tawfik Tirawi, head of the Palestinian committee
investigating the death.<br />
"The grave will be opened only one time for the two teams to take the samples," he said.<br />
That precaution may be part of an attempt by Palestinian officials to
keep the exhumation out of the public eye in hopes of avoiding a
spectacle.<br />
A senior Palestinian official said the process of digging out
Arafat's remains will be conducted privately. He spoke on condition of
anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss plans for the
exhumation.<br />
But keeping the event a secret will likely be a challenge. Arafat
lies in a giant mausoleum built by the Palestinians outside government
headquarters in a central area of Ramallah. The official declined to
discuss how the public and media would be kept away.<br />
A date for the exhumation is also being kept under wraps. Tirawi
refused to reveal a date, saying only that the teams were working on
coordinating their arrival.<br />
Arafat, who was 75, died at a French military hospital on Nov. 11,
2004, two weeks after he was rushed there from his West Bank
headquarters with a mysterious illness.<br />
According to French medical records, he had suffered inflammation,
jaundice and a blood condition known as disseminated intravascular
coagulation, or DIC, before the stroke.<br />
The records were inconclusive about what brought about the DIC, which
has numerous causes including infections, colitis and liver disease.
The uncertainty fanned to speculation about the cause of his death,
including the possibility of AIDS or poisoning.<br />
Many in the Arab world believe he was killed by Israel, a charge Israel vociferously denies.<br />
Arafat was the face of the Palestinian struggle for independence for
four decades and remains a beloved figure in Palestinian society.<br />
Israel viewed him as an obstacle to peace, holding him responsible
for the Palestinian uprising that broke out in 2000 and confining him to
his headquarters in Ramallah in his final years.</div>
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will open its exit doors wider than at any time in 50 years as a result
of migration reforms announced on Tuesday that will make it easier for
citizens to travel overseas.<br />
Under the new government policy, most
islanders will no longer require an exit visa or a letter of invitation
to leave the country, raising the prospect of increased travel to the
United States and elsewhere.<br />
However, there will continue to be
restrictions on certain sectors of society, including doctors,
scientists and members of the military, in an effort to prevent a brain
drain of personnel who have benefited most from Cuba's highly regarded
state education and health systems.<br />
The major shift in migration
policy follows economic and social reforms by the president, Raúl
Castro, that loosen controls on sales of private property, mobile phone
ownership and hotel stays and aim to make the island more attractive to
foreign investors.<br />
The exit visa system dates back to 1961, when
the government tightened border controls to stem a flood of migrants
amid tensions with the US and unease among some sectors of society about
the 1959 revolution that put Fidel Castro in power.<br />
Its abolition
– which will come into effect before 14 January – is likely to be
popular because it will save time and money for tourists and those who
want to work overseas or visit relatives among the large diaspora in the
US. Exit visas currently cost about $150 – about a third of the average
monthly wage.<br />
The change – which was promised by Raúl Castro when
he became president in 2008 – was announced by the Communist party
newspaper Granma.<br />
"As part of the work under way to update the
current migratory policy and adjust it to the conditions of the present
and the foreseeable future, the Cuban government, in exercise of its
sovereignty, has decided to eliminate the procedure of the exit visa for
travel to the exterior," read the notice.<br />
The government has also
extended the length of time that Cubans can stay overseas – without
losing their social security, health benefits and voting rights – from
11 to 24 months.<br />
The reform will have political ramifications
beyond the island's borders. There are thought to be more than a million
Cubans in the US, which has a longstanding policy of granting
citizenship to almost all migrants from the island, on which Washington
has imposed an economic embargo.<br />
Sharp economic disparities,
political differences and migration controls have prompted countless
Cubans to migrate illegally in recent decades. Thousands travel via
Mexico and other countries in Central America each year, sometimes at
great risk in unsafe boats.<br />
Under the new system, travellers
should only need a passport and a visa from the country they intend to
visit. But government critics said controls on the movement of
dissidents were likely to continue, through denials of passports and
other restrictions.<br />
"The devil is in the details," tweeted <a href="https://twitter.com/yoanisanchez" title="">Yoani Sánchez</a>,
a dissident blogger who was detained by the authorities earlier this
month. She said the new law could be used to prevent overseas travel by
Cubans who "organise or participate in actions that are hostile against
the country's political foundation".<br />
Most citizens were thought likely to welcome the change.<br />
"There
have been many expectations for many years about a new travel law. It's
a big step forward that will save us money and simplify the process,"
the office worker Rafael Pena told Reuters reporters in Havana.</div>
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Taliban gunmen shot teen activist</h1>
<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6749000164470317578" name="em0"></a><strong>Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN)</strong> -- Malala
Yousufzai's courageous blogging against the <a href="http://topics.cnn.com/topics/the_taliban" target="_blank">Taliban </a>set
her apart from other 14-year-old Pakistani girls.<br />
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Growing up in a region once dominated by the Islamic
extremists, she knew the fear associated with the word Taliban.</div>
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One of her fears came to pass Tuesday, when gunmen
sought her out and opened fire on her school van, leaving her seriously wounded
along with two other classmates.</div>
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The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the
attack, Taliban spokesman Ihsnaullah Ishan told CNN. Ishan blamed the shooting
on Malala's activist blogging.</div>
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Although she is now hospitalized in stable condition
and "out of immediate danger," a bullet is lodged in Malala's neck
and will be difficult to remove, her doctor said.</div>
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The attack began when armed militants stopped a van
as it was taking her and two other girls home from school. The attackers asked
which girl was Malala, said Kainat Bibi, one of the wounded girls. When the
girls pointed Malala out, the men opened fire, Bibi said, wounding the girls
before the van's driver was able to speed away. The other two girls' injuries
were not considered life-threatening.</div>
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Malala lives in northwest Pakistan's Swat Valley --
one of the nation's most conservative regions. Her frustration with the
Taliban's restrictions on female education in her town prompted her to use the
Internet and speak out, effectively making herself a target.</div>
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She reached out to the outside world online, taking
a stand by writing about her daily battle with extremist militants who used
fear and intimidation to force girls to stay at home.</div>
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"I had a terrible dream yesterday with military
helicopters and the Taliban," she wrote in January 2009. "I have had
such dreams since the launch of the military operation in Swat. My mother made
me breakfast and I went off to school. I was afraid going to school because the
Taliban had issued an edict banning all girls from attending schools."</div>
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Malala's shooting has sparked national outrage --
forcing Pakistanis to take a harsh look at how extremist elements are shaping
the nation. "Our society is going through a very critical phase,"
said Aazadi Fateh Muhammad, a <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/22/opinion/fateh-pakistan-islam-protests/index.html" target="_blank">professor of mass communications at Federal Urdu University
Karachi</a>, in an e-mail to CNN. "Civil society and civilians are in a
war with militants and terrorists in every part of the region."</div>
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The attack on Malala, Muhammad said, is an example
of this war. "Dark hands," she said, tried to attack Malala's cause,
"but it will discourage many others who are fighting for light."</div>
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<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7834402.stm" target="_blank">Read
Malala's blog here</a></div>
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The Taliban controlled Malala's valley for years
until 2009, when the military cleared it in an operation that also evacuated
thousands of families.</div>
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Last year, Malala told CNN she feared "being
beheaded by the Taliban because of my passion for education. During their rule,
the Taliban used to march into our houses to check whether we were studying or
watching television."</div>
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She described how she used to hide her books under
her bed, fearing a house search by the Taliban.</div>
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Malala's online writing against the Taliban led to <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2011/11/24/world/asia/pakistan-peace-prize/index.html" target="_blank">her being awarded Pakistan's first National Peace Prize</a>
last November. Former Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani directed Pakistan's
Cabinet to award the prize each year to a child under 18 who contributes to
peace and education.</div>
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President Asif Ali Zardari strongly condemned the
attack, which prompted outrage among residents on local media sites. Also condemning
the attack was Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf, who spoke with Malala's
father on the phone Tuesday, according to a statement from the prime minister's
office.</div>
<div class="cnnstorypgraphtxt">
<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/17/world/asia/pakistan-taliban-polio-vaccine/index.html">Read
more: Taliban's vaccination ban may affect 280,000 children</a></div>
<div class="cnnstrycbftrtxt">
Journalists Nasir Habib and Noreen Shams contributed
to this report.</div>
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<span class="fn"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Fundraising in a Recession</span></span></h1>
<h2>
</h2>
<div id="by">
Yes, we agree that "desperate times require desperate
measures," but we also like the saying, "don't let them see you
sweat." </div>
Marc A. Pitman, author of <i><a href="http://nonprofit.about.com/od/fundraisingbasics/fr/fundraisingfear.htm">Ask
Without Fear!</a></i>, has <a href="http://stepbystepfundraising.com/succeed-at-fundraising-despite-a-recession/" target="_blank">written</a> that fundraisers need to <b>avoid these
"deadly" mistakes</b> during a <a href="http://nonprofit.about.com/od/fundraising/qt/Recession-Tactics-Continue-To-Be-Relevant-For-Nonprofits.htm">recession</a>:
<br />
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">spend less
on fundraising </li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">become
pessimistic </li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">apologize
when you're asking </li>
</ul>
In that spirit we offer these suggestions:<br />
<h3>
1. Don't become or sound desperate.</h3>
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Instead, emphasize to your donors that every year, good or bad, your needs
continue. Don't talk about grand plans for expansion, but do talk about solid
plans for today. Don't lose your enthusiasm and optimism about your cause.
Donors will notice and pull back if they think that you, the fundraiser, has
doubts. <br />
If your organization is in human services and the need for those services
increases during a recession, let the public know. Emphasize that your
organization's survival is crucial because of the clients you serve. Tell your
client's <a href="http://nonprofit.about.com/od/socialmedia/a/youthstory.htm">stories</a>
but not in a desperate way that demeans them. Show their strength in the face
of diversity and invite your supporters to help them.<br />
<h3>
2. Prove that you are responsible.</h3>
Let your donors know that you are doing your part by being <a href="http://nonprofit.about.com/od/nonprofitmanagement/a/finmgmt.htm">fiscally
responsible</a>. <a href="http://nonprofit.about.com/od/nonprofitmanagement/tp/cuttingcosts.htm">Cut
costs</a> where you can, make sure you have good controls in place, and that
you are examining marginal programs for possible deletion. Keep your money safe
by making sure it is in FDIC insured banks. Avoid non-insured investments.<br />
<h3>
3. <a href="http://nonprofit.about.com/od/fundraising/a/causemarketing.htm">Don't
give up on your corporate and cause-marketing activities.</a></h3>
Gifts may decrease, but keep your <a href="http://nonprofit.about.com/od/glossary/g/corpgiving.htm">corporate</a>
contacts strong. It is very hard to get back on the corporate charitable list
if you are dropped. Avoid this by staying visible, and keep cultivating your
contacts within the company. Likewise, don't give up on <a href="http://nonprofit.about.com/od/glossary/g/crm.htm">cause-related marketing</a>.
Companies are finding that these activities <a href="http://nonprofit.about.com/b/2008/10/22/companies-urged-not-to-cut-cause-marketing-during-downturn.htm">pay
off for them</a> with consumer loyalty. <br />
Remember too that just because a company's stock price has been depressed
doesn't mean that it is not a strong company. Look at the balance sheet to
identify companies that are in a good position, and that will likely come back
strong from the economic meltdown.<br />
<h3>
4. <a href="http://nonprofit.about.com/od/fundraising/a/fundraising101.htm">Diversify
your funding sources by identifying all types of financial support.</a></h3>
Avoid depending on one or two <a href="http://nonprofit.about.com/od/fundraising/a/majordonorprosp.htm">major
donor</a>s or <a href="http://nonprofit.about.com/od/pq/g/privfound.htm">foundations</a>.
Most <a href="http://nonprofit.about.com/od/fordonors/a/Rational-Compassion-Tips-For-Safe-Holiday-Charitable-Giving.htm">charitable
giving</a> is made up of small donations. If you are not doing <a href="http://nonprofit.about.com/od/fundraising/ss/Examples-Of-Direct-Mail-Fundraising-Letters.htm">direct
mail</a> to a large base of supporters, start working toward doing so. <br />
<a href="http://nonprofit.about.com/od/onlinefundraising/tp/onlinefundraisinghub.htm">Use
the Internet</a> to reach more people. The cost is low so that donations can be
smaller. Those add up quickly. Explore <a href="http://nonprofit.about.com/od/nonprofitmanagement/a/creditcard.htm">payment
options</a> with low transaction costs and <a href="http://nonprofit.about.com/od/fordonors/tp/Websites-for-Good.htm">online
donation sites.</a><br />
<h3>
5. Put your fundraising programs under the microscope.</h3>
Determine <a href="http://nonprofit.about.com/od/fundraising/tp/whatworkshub.htm">which
fundraising programs work best</a> and are the most efficient in terms of
resources. Then cut the least efficient ones and shift those resources to the
ones that are doing the most good. <br />
Maybe that big <a href="http://nonprofit.about.com/od/fundraising/a/specialevents.htm">special
event</a> eats up precious time and resources for very little return. Or the <a href="http://nonprofit.about.com/od/fundraising/a/fundproduct.htm">product sale</a>
you started last year just doesn't seem worth the time and effort. But, don't
let the money and <a href="http://nonprofit.about.com/od/volunteers/f/volunteerhours.htm">volunteer
time</a> you use in those efforts just dissipate. Put them to use by expanding
the <a href="http://nonprofit.about.com/od/a/g/annualfund.htm">annual campaign</a>
or making more <a href="http://nonprofit.about.com/od/fundraising/a/majordonorprosp.htm">major
donor</a> calls or doing another <a href="http://nonprofit.about.com/od/plannedgiving/a/plannedgivehub.htm">planned
giving</a> seminar.<br />
<h3>
6. Don't pull the plug on major campaigns, but do slow down.</h3>
If you were starting a <a href="http://nonprofit.about.com/od/c/g/capitalcamp.htm">capital campaign</a>
(or <a href="http://nonprofit.about.com/od/glossary/g/endowment.htm">endowment
campaign</a>) when the economic crisis hit, don't stop. But do slow down.
Recognize that getting those lead gifts in the size you want will take longer
and be dependent on how the economy is doing. <br />
If you ask for a multi-year gift, and the donor resists, fall back to asking
for part of that gift now, and plan to go back later for the rest. Donors are
understandably shy about making long-term commitments in this economic
environment.<br />
<h3>
7. <a href="http://nonprofit.about.com/od/nonprofitpromotion/tp/promotionhub.htm">Keep
up your marketing and PR.</a></h3>
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donors. The more they know and see your <a href="http://nonprofit.about.com/od/marketing/a/nonprofitnames.htm">name</a>
about, the more likely they are to contribute to your cause. Got PR professionals
on your board or committees? Seek their advice before you launch anything big.
Let them organize a PR/Marketing Committee that might bring in other
professionals to help. See if their firms can do pro bono work or work at a
discount. This kind of help is really priceless.</div>
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<b><span style="color: #184f88; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Family
businesses bring special rewards, such as inherent trust, the camaraderie of
working with loved ones</span></b><b><span style="color: #184f88; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> <b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">and the joy of building a lasting legacy.
However, running a family business also poses some special</span></b> <b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">challenges. Perhaps that's why,
according to the <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001vWsRP1UaKYJiw-gNbJltN7m-jN140qIkFhRk-1kW-q1cdCNaWjSmC-x76gVDcPAGRhbLpX84q08o1kbc1OqqFTx-lqbGIC66SK_Uty8BllqDPCv6hTMPi6MXCS5fMJ5NC7HG7uXPrVlyygUueQMGrm8W7wPolJI5zlK6Uq-_ZzPRZ1I-FqSeLQ==" shape="rect" target="_blank"><span style="color: #184f88;">Family
Business Institute,</span></a> fewer than one-third of family</span></b> <b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">businesses last beyond the first
generation and just 12 percent survive to the third generation. How can you</span></b>
<b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">make sure your family
business doesn't fall victim to those odds? </span></b></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #184f88; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> Follow these 10 tips.</span></b><span style="color: #184f88; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: #184f88; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Run
your family business like a business.</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> If most or all of your key employees
are family members, it's easy to get sloppy about things like keeping your
corporation in compliance, properly documenting decisions or maintaining
accurate financial records. Always treat your business like a business. </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: #184f88; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Create
a succession plan.</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">
If you want your business to survive, you must develop a plan for what
will happen when you retire, die or otherwise exit the company. But a
recent <b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001vWsRP1UaKYIsDIK8ih2UtU8ylGdqa7Wtya1arR73RdwfXpfo8PDvrzHQTmPOmpHJkKWiUrgMM7q6cLTlJiNhxc4Z2Z9QI7Qv61L72TZjVNRyGGansY5tuhUupRS5WyCYl1y1M1cEvsa5NS3IwufL8E0_sXHybW5cHcuizTtVflDQnUjiYmONqGGj62aE7uC4WfG1Q8Ifd_Xh1CR1SKg4qLe0jgu3jBDRdwcNdaizDLk=" shape="rect" target="_blank"><span style="color: #184f88;">PricewaterhouseCoopers</span></a>
survey</span></b> found that nearly half of family businesses had no
succession plan. Enlist your accountant, attorney, key employees and
family members in developing a succession plan that details who will take
on key roles.</span></li>
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<span style="color: #184f88; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><b><span style="color: #184f88; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Develop leadership among all employees.</span></b><span style="color: #184f88; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> Hold
regular performance reviews for family and nonfamily employees alike. Provide
training in-house, through local community college and adult education
programs, or through industry associations to develop employees' strengths and
streamline the succession process.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="color: #184f88; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><b><span style="color: #184f88; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Don't play favorites.</span></b><span style="color: #184f88; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> If non-family
employees believe they have no chance of moving up in the company, they'll quickly
become resentful and unmotivated. Set a clear path to promotion and advancement
for both family and non-family employees.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="color: #184f88; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><b><span style="color: #184f88; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Separate business and family expenses.</span></b><span style="color: #184f88; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> You
might be tempted to make loans from the company to family members, or to let
them write off personal expenses (such as the purchase of a car or vacation
home) as business expenses. Even if such actions don't get you in trouble with
the IRS, they will foster resentment among non-family employees.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="color: #184f88; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><b><span style="color: #184f88; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Set boundaries.</span></b><span style="color: #184f88; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> Decide when discussing the business
is allowed and when it's off-limits (such as during dinner, or at holiday
gatherings). This helps ensure that family relationships don't revolve solely
around business and aren't poisoned by business conflicts.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="color: #184f88; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><b><span style="color: #184f88; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Communicate openly.</span></b><span style="color: #184f88; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> Non-family employees often
feel they're kept in the dark about the inner workings of family businesses.
Whenever possible, share information openly with family and nonfamily employees
alike.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="color: #184f88; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><b><span style="color: #184f88; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Don't guarantee employment. </span></b><span style="color: #184f88; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> Each
family member should have an opportunity to work in the business, but not
everyone will be suited to continue doing so. Base hiring decisions on the
business's - not the family member's-needs. Talk to your attorney about
structuring the business so that nonemployee family members can still
have some ownership.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="color: #184f88; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">9.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><b><span style="color: #184f88; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Learn to resolve conflicts.</span></b><span style="color: #184f88; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">
Business conflicts can infect family relationships; family problems can flare
up disguised as business issues. Develop a plan for dealing with
business-related disagreements between family members, both those who work in
the business and those who do not.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #184f88; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">10.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><b><span style="color: #184f88; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Get outside input.</span></b><span style="color: #184f88; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> Whether you're dealing with
personal conflicts or trying to make business decisions, seeking opinions from
trusted outsiders such as your board of directors or an </span><b><span style="color: #184f88; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001vWsRP1UaKYJJEaPe1E2GC0jtk9bnkcUH50Sj-RAsK3AM6Ufp4WO1CkOwYNGYFWqseDuDcdVipWMM20twy3Oca4Ragekr_7dmnc0Yoy6tPfNCtRsOV7qxQA==" shape="rect" target="_blank"><span style="color: #184f88; font-size: 11.0pt;">SBDC Business Advisor</span></a></span></b><span style="color: #184f88; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> can
give you much-needed perspective.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<i><span style="color: #184f88; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Rieva
Lesonsky is founder and President of GrowBiz Media, a media and custom content
company focusing on small business and entrepreneurship. Before launching her
business, she was Editorial Director of Entrepreneur Magazine. Follow
Rieva at <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001vWsRP1UaKYKLUIb1tw_Q1fzeeuFAjw-zGWmMj1K6Le0qqeBiiBxaGiHcfyu48kmEM5cH9oCranBGfkjTCsaNou66MUWbIR6k5LMDRxQanJStCb21bSzllg==" shape="rect" target="_blank"><span style="color: #015697;">Twitter.com/Rieva</span></a>
and visit her website <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001vWsRP1UaKYIKE7TMrYnawaKIpwchXmeG3nwME54zaBGOTIJrWa1wGszXjN6ilmWM9dCfZ-BkF17i5Jw8gcJjvtgi09lCIj_rgeLoX146pVggu-DPKXVHrQ==" shape="rect" target="_blank"><span style="color: #015697;">SmallBizDaily.com</span></a>
to get the scoop on business trends and sign up for free TrendCast
reports. </span></i><span style="color: #184f88; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></div>
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Yosi Fischerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05371293778067504892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6749000164470317578.post-74841621895146205832012-10-01T09:50:00.000-07:002012-10-01T09:50:01.023-07:00Sources: Azerbaijan mulls helping Israel with Iran attack<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Reuters quotes local sources with knowledge of Azerbaijan's military policy
that say Azeri authorities explored with Israel how their air bases, spy drones
could help Israel in Iran strike.</h2>
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<span class="imagetext"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;">The Israeli army Heron TP drone, also known locally as the
Eitan, flies during a display at the Palmahim Air Force Base.</span></span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span class="imagecredit">Photo by AP</span>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Israel's "go-it-alone" option to
attack Iran's nuclear sites has set the Middle East on edge and unsettled its
main ally at the height of a U.S. presidential election campaign. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu exudes
impatience, saying Tehran is barely a year from a "red line" for
atomic capacity. Many fellow Israelis, however, fear a unilateral strike,
lacking U.S. forces, would fail against such a large and distant enemy. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">But what if, even without Washington, Israel
were not alone? </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Azerbaijan, the oil-rich ex-Soviet republic
on Iran's far northern border, has, say local sources with knowledge of its
military policy, explored with Israel how Azeri air bases and spy drones might
help Israeli jets pull off a long-range attack. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">That is a far cry from the massive firepower
and diplomatic cover that Netanyahu wants from Washington. But, by addressing
key weaknesses in any Israeli war plan - notably on refueling, reconnaissance
and rescuing crews - such an alliance might tilt Israeli thinking on the
feasibility of acting without U.S. help. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">It could also have violent side-effects more
widely and many doubt Azeri President Ilham Aliyev would risk harming the
energy industry on which his wealth depends, or provoking Islamists who dream
of toppling his dynasty, in pursuit of favor from Israel. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Yet despite official denials by Azerbaijan
and Israel, two Azeri former military officers with links to serving personnel
and two Russian intelligence sources all told Reuters that Azerbaijan and
Israel have been looking at how Azeri bases and intelligence could serve in a
possible strike on Iran. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">"Where planes would fly from - from
here, from there, to where? - that's what's being planned now," a security
consultant with contacts at Azeri defense headquarters in Baku said. "The
Israelis ... would like to gain access to bases in Azerbaijan." </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">That Aliyev, an autocratic ally of Western
governments and oil firms, has become a rare Muslim friend of the Jewish state
- and an object of scorn in Tehran - is no secret; a $1.6-billion arms deal
involving dozens of Israeli drones, and Israel's thirst for Azerbaijan's
Caspian Sea crude, are well documented. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Israel's foreign minister visited Baku in
April this year. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">But a leaked U.S. diplomatic cable from 2009
quoted Aliyev, who succeeded his father in 2003, describing relations with
Israel as "like an iceberg, nine tenths ... below the surface". </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">That he would risk the wrath of his powerful
neighbor by helping wage war on Iran is, however, something his aides flatly
deny; wider consequences would also be hard to calculate from military action
in a region where Azerbaijan's "frozen" conflict with Armenia is just
one of many elements of volatility and where major powers from Turkey, Iran and
Russia to the United States, western Europe and even China all jockey for influence.
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Nonetheless, Rasim Musabayov, an independent
Azeri lawmaker and a member of parliament's foreign affairs committee, said
that, while he had no definitive information, he understood that Azerbaijan
would probably feature in any Israeli plans against Iran, at least as a
contingency for refueling its attack force:<br />
"Israel has a problem in that if it is going to bomb Iran, its nuclear
sites, it lacks refueling," Musabayov told Reuters. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">"I think their plan includes some use of
Azerbaijan access. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">"We have (bases) fully equipped with
modern navigation, anti-aircraft defenses and personnel trained by Americans
and if necessary they can be used without any preparations," he added. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">The administration of U.S. President Barack
Obama has made clear it does not welcome Israel's occasional talk of war and
that it prefers diplomacy and economic sanctions to deflect an Iranian nuclear
program that Tehran denies has military uses. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Having also invested in Azerbaijan's defenses
and facilities used by U.S. forces in transit to Afghanistan, Washington also
seems unlikely to cheer Aliyev joining any action against Iran. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">The Azeri president's team insist that that
will not happen. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">"No third country can use Azerbaijan to
perpetrate an attack on Iran. All this talk is just speculation," said
Reshad Karimov from Aliyev's staff. He was echoing similar denials issued in
Baku and from Israel when the journal Foreign Policy quoted U.S. officials in
March voicing alarm that Azeri-Israeli action could thwart U.S. diplomacy
toward Iran and across the Caucasus. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Israeli officials dismiss talk of Azeri
collaboration in any attack on Iran but decline public comment on specific
details. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Even speaking privately, few Israeli
officials will discuss the issue. Those who do are skeptical, saying overt use
of Azeri bases by Israel would provoke too many hostile reactions. One
political source did, however, say flying unmarked tanker aircraft out of
Azerbaijan to extend the range and payloads of an Israeli bombing force might
play a part in Israeli planning. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Though denying direct knowledge of current
military thinking on Iran, the Israeli said one possibility might be
"landing a refueling plane there, made to look like a civilian airliner,
so it could later take off to rendezvous mid-air with IAF jets". </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">A thousand miles separates Tehran and Tel
Aviv, putting much of Iran beyond the normal ranges of Israel's U.S.-made F-16
bombers and their F-15 escorts. So refueling could be critical. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">There is far from unanimity among Israeli
leaders about the likelihood of any strike on Iran's nuclear plants, whether in
a wider, U.S.-led operation or not. Netanyahu's "red line" speech to
the United Nations last week was seen by many in Israel as making any strike on
Iran unlikely - for at least a few months.<br />
Many, however, also assume Israel has long spied on and even sabotaged what the
Western powers say are plans for atomic weapons which Israel says would
threaten its very existence. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">A second Israeli political source called the
idea of Azerbaijan being either launch pad or landing ground for Israeli
aircraft "ludicrous" - but agreed with the first source that it was
fair to assume joint Israeli-Azeri intelligence operations.<br />
The Azeri sources said such cooperation was established. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">As part of last year's arms deal, Azerbaijan
is building up to 60 Israeli-designed drones, giving it reconnaissance means
far greater than many analysts believe would be needed just to guard oil
installations or even to mount any operations against the breakaway, ethnic
Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">"With these drones, (Israel) can
indirectly watch what's happening in Iran, while we protect our borders,"
legislator Musabayov said - a view shared by Azeri former military sources. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Less reserved than Israeli officials, the
sources in Azerbaijan and in Russian intelligence, which keeps a close eye on
its former Soviet backyard, said Baku could offer Israel much more, however -
though none believed any deal was yet settled. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">The country, home to nine million people
whose language is close to Turkish and who mostly share the Shi'ite Muslim
faith of Iran, has four ex-Soviet air bases that could be suitable for Israeli
jets, the Azeri sources said. They named central Kyurdamir, Gyanja in the west
and Nasosny and Gala in the east. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">The Pentagon says it helped upgrade Nasosny
airfield for NATO use. It also uses Azeri commercial facilities in transit to
Afghanistan. But U.S. military aid to Azerbaijan is limited by Washington's
role as a mediator in its dispute with Armenia. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">One of the sources with links to the Azeri
military said: "There is not a single official base of the United States
and even less so of Israel on the territory of Azerbaijan. But that is
'officially'. Unofficially they exist, and they may be used."<br />
The source said Iran had been a main topic of talks in April with Israel's
Soviet-born foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Azeri tarmac, a shorter flight from key sites
in northern Iran including the Fordow underground uranium enrichment plant and
missile batteries at Tabriz, might feature in Israeli war planning in less
direct ways, the former Azeri officers said. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">With Israel wary of its vulnerability to
pressure over air crew taken prisoner, plans for extracting downed pilots may
be a key feature of any attack plan. Search and rescue helicopters might
operate from Azerbaijan, the sources said - or planes that were hit or low on
fuel could land at Azeri bases in extremis. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Such engagement carries risks for Azerbaijan
and its oil platforms and pipelines operated with international companies. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Defending against Iran is part of public
debate in Baku. The United States has provided Azerbaijan with three Coast
Guard cutters and has funded seven coastal radar sites as well as giving Baku
other help in protecting its oil installations. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Relations have long been strained between the
former Soviet state and Iran, which is home to twice as many ethnic Azeris as
Azerbaijan itself. Tehran beams an Azeri-language television channel over the
border which portrays Aliyev as a puppet of Israel and the West, as well as
highlighting corruption in Baku. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Azerbaijan sees Iranian hands behind its
Islamist opposition and both countries have arrested alleged spies and
agitators. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Faced with an uneven balance of force,
Aliyev's government makes no bones about Israel being an ally. As one
presidential aide, speaking on condition of anonymity, explained: "We live
in a dangerous neighborhood; that is what is the most powerful driving force
for our relationship with Israel." </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">However, Israel's confrontation with Iran may
turn out, the arms build-up in Azerbaijan, including recent Israeli upgrades
for its Soviet T-72 tanks, may have consequences for the wider region and for
the stand-off with Armenia - consequences that would trouble all the powers
with stakes in the Caspian region. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">"We keep buying arms. On the one hand,
it's a good strategy to frighten Armenia," one of the former Azeri
officers said of the shaky, 18-year-old ceasefire over Nagorno-Karabakh.
"But you don't collect weapons to hang on the wall and gather dust. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">"One day, all these could be used."
</span><br />
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recent years, police in Brazil have worked on a number of confidence-building
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Police in Brazil are searching for the killers of the
former head of a Sao Paulo death squad who was shot a month after being
released from a lengthy jail term. </div>
Florisvaldo de Oliveira, an ex-policeman known as Corporal Bruno, had served
nearly 30 years for murdering at least 50 people. <br />
He was shot dead in an ambush as he drove his family home from church. <br />
During his jail sentence, he became pastor of an evangelical church. <br />
Corporal Bruno was first arrested in 1983. <br />
He was sentenced for leading a group that killed dozens of people and also
extorted shop owners in the outskirts of Brazil's largest city.<br />
He served 27 years of his sentence and was released early from prison on the
grounds of good behaviour. He left jail on 23 August.<br />
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<span class="cross-head">"Extra-judicial killing"</span>
Corporal Bruno was driving near his home on Wednesday night in Sao Paulo state
when two gunmen stopped his car and fired more than 20 shots at him.</div>
No one else was hurt in the attack in the city of Pindamonhangaba.<br />
"All the signs seem to indicate that it was an extra-judicial killing,
but we will only find out after the police investigation," said Lt Mario
Tonini.<br />
The involvement of Brazilian police officers in death squads and other
criminal organisations during the military government in the 1960s and the 70s
is well documented.<br />
The situation has changed and the police have worked on a number of
confidence-building initiatives in their communities. <br />
But the human rights group, Amnesty International, says the problem still
persists in many parts of the country.<br />
"Police officers were believed to be involved in death squads and
milicias [militias] engaged in social cleansing, extortion, as well as in
trafficking in arms and drugs," says Amnesty's latest report on Brazil.<br />
"In Sao Paulo a report by the civil police attributed 150 deaths
between 2006 and 2010 to death squads in the north and east of the city." <br />
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Yosi Fischerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05371293778067504892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6749000164470317578.post-45574395186712045792012-09-26T15:01:00.003-07:002012-09-26T15:02:15.129-07:00Who stole my cheese?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<br />
It has been a bizarre summer for Canadian culinary capers. <br />
In July we learned of a honey producer there who <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/06/bill-termeer-canada-honey-bees-stolen_n_1654221.html" target="_hplink">was robbed of 3 million bees</a>. In August, there were
reports that $30 million worth of <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/01/maple-syrup-theft-millions-of-dollars-quebec_n_1848805.html" target="_hplink">maple syrup had gone missing</a> from Quebec's strategic
reserves.<br />
Now, as summer draws to an end, reports have surfaced of a vast
cheese-smuggling operation in Ontario. No joke.<br />
The alleged scam, reports CBC News, hinges on smugglers sneaking cases of
"brick" <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/09/21/niagara-police-cheese-smuggling-allegations.html" target="_hplink">cheese from the U.S. into Canada</a>, then selling it to
restaurants and pizzerias.<br />
Because of restrictions by the Canadian Dairy Board, cheese is markedly
cheaper south of the border, meaning that a <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/09/21/niagara-police-cheese-smuggling-allegations.html" target="_hplink">case of American smuggled cheese</a> could go for $150, while
the same cheese produced in Canada would cost around $240. According to the
CBC, one trip for a cheese smuggler could earn between $1,000 and $2,000.<br />
And this isn't just <a href="http://www.ottawasun.com/2012/09/24/cops-mum-on-cheese-smuggling-ring-allegation" target="_hplink">fly-by-night cheese smuggling</a>, either. The <i>Ottawa Sun</i>
has reason to believe some Niagara Falls cops may be in on the deal. When
pressed, Const. Derek Watson told the paper yesterday the force cannot
"deny or confirm allegations of any ongoing investigation." <br />
Reached for comment by the UPI, Brandon Elms at Volcano Pizzeria in
Fonthill, west of Niagara Falls, said he'd been approached a couple times by
Canadian investigators trying to <a href="http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2012/09/24/Cheese-its-the-cops/UPI-97111348516488/" target="_hplink">track down the sources of discounted dairy</a>.<br />
"We get all our stuff legit," he said. "We thought it was a joke
at first. Who is going to go around trying to sell smuggled cheese? The cheese
bandits, the mozzarella mafia!"<br />
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<span lang="X-NONE">French Weekly Publishes Muhammad Cartoons</span></h1>
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Published: September 19, 2012 at 10:19 AM ET </h6>
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PARIS (Reuters) - A French magazine ridiculed the Prophet Mohammad on
Wednesday by portraying him naked in cartoons, threatening to fuel the anger of
Muslims around the world who are already incensed by a California-made video
depicting him as a lecherous fool. <br />
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The drawings in the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo risked exacerbating a
crisis that has seen the storming of U.S. and other Western embassies, the
killing of the U.S. ambassador to Libya and a deadly suicide bombing in
Afghanistan. <br />
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Riot police were deployed to protect the paper's Paris
offices after the issue hit news stands. </div>
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It featured several caricatures of the Prophet showing
him naked in what the publishers said was an attempt to poke fun at the furor
over the film. One, entitled "Mohammad: a star is born", depicted a
bearded figure crouching over to display his buttocks and genitals. </div>
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The French government, which had urged the weekly not
to print the cartoons, said it was shutting embassies and schools in 20
countries as a precaution on Friday, when protests sometimes break out after
Muslim prayers. </div>
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Arab League Secretary-General Nabil Elaraby called the
drawings outrageous but said those who were offended by them should "use
peaceful means to express their firm rejection". </div>
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Tunisia's ruling Islamist party, Ennahda, condemned
what it called an act of "aggression" against Mohammad but urged
Muslims not to fall into a trap intended to "derail the Arab Spring and
turn it into a conflict with the West". </div>
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In the northern Paris suburb of Sarcelles, one person
was slightly hurt when two masked men threw a small explosive device through
the window of a kosher supermarket. Police said it was too early to link the
incident to the cartoons. One small local Muslim group filed a legal complaint
against the weekly but there were no reports of reaction on the streets of
France. </div>
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The posting on YouTube of a crude video, made in the
United States and available on YouTube since July, that mocked Mohammad as a
womanising buffoon has sparked protests in many countries, some of them deadly.
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The U.S. envoy to Libya and three other Americans were
killed in an attack in Benghazi, and U.S. and other foreign embassies were
attacked in cities in Asia, Africa and the Middle East by furious Muslims. </div>
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Matthew Olsen, director of the U.S. government's
National Counterterrorism Center, branded the Benghazi assault a
"terrorist attack" and said officials were examining the possibility
that individuals involved in the attack may have links to al Qaeda, and particularly
the affiliate group al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. </div>
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INTERNATIONAL DEBATE </div>
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The furor has emerged as an issue in the U.S.
presidential election campaign and sparked international debate over free
speech, religion and the right to offend. Many Muslims consider any
representation of Allah or the Prophet Mohammad blasphemous. </div>
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In Los Angeles, an actress who appeared in the video
filed a lawsuit against a Coptic Christian man linked to the film, Nakoula
Basseley Nakoula, accusing him of fraud and slander and asking that the film's
trailer be removed from the Internet. </div>
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It was the first known civil lawsuit connected to the
film that has circulated online as a 13-minute trailer, including under the
title "Innocence of Muslims." </div>
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The actress, Cindy Lee Garcia, also named Google Inc
and its YouTube unit as defendants. Garcia's lawsuit stated that she thought
she was appearing in a desert adventure film, not a "hateful"
production about the Muslim prophet. </div>
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The United States has condemned the content of the
video while defending the right to free speech, and took a similar line on the
French cartoons. </div>
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"We know that these images will be deeply
offensive to many and have the potential to be inflammatory. But we've spoken
repeatedly about the importance of upholding the freedom of expression that is
enshrined in our constitution," White House spokesman Jay Carney told
reporters. </div>
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"In other words, we don't question the right of
something like this to be published; we just question the judgment behind the
decision to publish it." </div>
In the Lebanese city of Sidon, around 10,000 people joined a march organized
by the Shi'ite group Hezbollah to protest against the film and the cartoons,
shouting "Enough humiliation!" and "Death to America! Death to
Israel!". <br />
In Egypt, Essam Erian, acting head of the Muslim Brotherhood's
Freedom and Justice Party, told Reuters: "We reject and condemn the French
cartoons that dishonor the Prophet and we condemn any action that defames the
sacred according to people's beliefs." <br />
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At the same time, rights groups demanded the release of
a Coptic Christian computer science graduate who they said had been beaten up
and arrested in Cairo on suspicion of re-posting the anti-Islam video online. </div>
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In France, a joint statement by Catholic bishop Michel
Dubost and Mohammed Moussaoui, president of the French Muslim Council, defended
the right to freedom of expression under the cherished French principles of
"Liberty, Equality, Fraternity". </div>
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"But freedom endangers itself if it forgets
fraternity and respect for everyone's equal right to dignity," they added.
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French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius called the
publication of the cartoons a provocation. </div>
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"We saw what happened last week in Libya and in
other countries such as Afghanistan," he told a regular news conference.
"We have to call on all to behave responsibly." </div>
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CALL FOR CAUTION </div>
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France's ambassador to Iran sent French citizens there
a message urging them to exercise great caution, especially on Friday, and
around diplomatic missions and places of worship. </div>
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But Charlie Hebdo's editor, Stephane Charbonnier,
rejected the criticism. "We have the impression that it's officially
allowed for Charlie Hebdo to attack the Catholic far-right but we cannot poke
fun at fundamental Islamists," he said. </div>
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"It shows the climate. Everyone is driven by fear,
and that is exactly what this small handful of extremists who do not represent
anyone want: to make everyone afraid, to shut us all in a cave," he told
Reuters. </div>
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One cartoon alluded to the scandal over a French
magazine's publication of topless photos of the wife of Britain's Prince
William. It showed a bare female torso topped by a beard with the caption
"Riots in Arab countries after photos of Mrs Mohammad are published".
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Charlie Hebdo is no stranger to controversy. Its Paris
offices were firebombed last November after it published a mocking caricature
of Mohammad, and Charbonnier has been under police guard ever since. </div>
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Speaking outside his offices in an eastern neighborhood
with many residents of North African origin, Charbonnier said he had not
received any threats over the latest cartoons. In a message on its Twitter
account, Charlie Hebdo said its website had been hacked, but referred readers
to a blog it also uses. </div>
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In 2005, Danish cartoons of the Prophet sparked a wave
of protests across the Muslim world in which at least 50 died. </div>
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France is already on alert for attacks by al Qaeda on
French interests in West Africa. </div>
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A diplomatic source said this week that Paris had
recently foiled attacks on economic and diplomatic targets and had credible
evidence that more were planned. </div>
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"Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb is a direct and
immediate threat," the source said. </div>
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(Additional reporting by Shreya Banerjee, Thierry
Chiarello, Brian Love and John Irish, Marwa Awad in Cairo, Souhail Karam in
Tunis, Margaret Chadbourn in Washington and Alex Dobuzinskis in Los Angeles;
Writing by Mark John; Editing by Kevin Liffey and Jackie Frank) </div>
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Yosi Fischerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05371293778067504892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6749000164470317578.post-31215137832361835912012-09-14T09:15:00.000-07:002012-09-14T09:28:22.162-07:00Lessons from the 'World's Ugliest Woman': 'Stop Staring and Start Learning<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<cite class="byline vcard">By <span class="fn"><a href="http://shine.yahoo.com/blogs/author/lylah-m-alphonse-senior-editor-yahoo-shine-ycn-1137221/" rel="author">Lylah M. Alphonse</a></span><abbr title="2012-09-13T18:44:00Z"></abbr></cite></div>
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<span class="yom-figure yom-fig-left" style="width: 310px;"><img height="310" id="2501970" name="2501970" src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/.E_WmGFLPgPazGJzUiKaqA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTMxMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en-US/blogs/partner/470_2501970.jpg" title="Lizzie Velasquez, author of Be Yourself, Be Beautiful." width="310" /><span class="legend">Lizzie Velasquez, author of Be Yourself, Be Beautiful.</span></span>When she was in high school, Lizzie Velasquez was dubbed <a href="http://yhoo.it/NqBjbU" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"The World's Ugliest Woman"</a>
in an 8-second-long YouTube video. Born with a medical condition so
rare that just two other people in the world are thought to have it,
Velasquez has no <a href="http://yhoo.it/O205AH" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">adipose tissue</a> and cannot create muscle, store energy, or gain weight. She has zero percent body fat and weighs just 60 pounds.
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In the comments on YouTube, viewers called her "it" and "monster" and
encouraged her to kill herself. Instead, Velasquez set four goals: To
become a motivational speaker, to publish a book, to graduate college,
and to build a family and a career for herself.
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Now 23 years old, she's been a motivational speaker for seven years and has given more than 200 workshops on <a href="http://www.aboutlizzie.com/" rel="nofollow">embracing uniqueness, dealing with bullies, and overcoming obstacles</a>.
She's a senior majoring in Communications at Texas State University in
San Marcos, where she lives with her best friend. Her first book,
"Lizzie Beautiful," came out in 2010 and her second, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Be-Beautiful-You-Lizzie-Velasquez/dp/0764820796" rel="nofollow">"Be Beautiful, Be You,"</a> was published earlier this month.
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"The stares are what I'm really dealing with in public right now," she <a href="http://www.hlntv.com/video/2012/09/11/lizzie-beautiful-stop-staring-and-start-learning" rel="nofollow">told Dr. Drew Pinsky</a>
in an interview on CNN's Headline News this week. "But I think I'm
getting to the point where… instead of sitting by and watching people
judge me, I'm starting to want to go up to these people and introduce
myself or give them my card and say, 'Hi, I'm Lizzie. Maybe you should
stop staring and start learning'."
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Velasquez was born in San Antonio, Texas; she was four weeks premature
and weighed just 2 pounds, 10 ounces. "They told us they had no idea how
she could have survived," her mother, Rita, 45, <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2202512/Worlds-ugliest-woman-Lizzie-Velasquez-gives-courageous-interview.html" rel="nofollow">told the Daily Mail</a>.
"We had to buy doll's clothes from the toy store because baby clothes
were too big." Doctors warned Rita and her husband, Lupe, that their
oldest child would never be able to walk or talk, let alone live a
normal life. (Her two younger siblings were not affected by the
syndrome.)
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Instead, she has thrived. Her internal organs, brain, and bones
developed normally, though her body is tiny. Since she has no fatty
tissue in which to store nutrients, she has to eat every 15 to 20
minutes to have enough energy to get through the day. One brown eye
started clouding over when she was 4 years old, and now she's blind in
that eye and has only limited sight in the other.
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"Some days life doesn't make sense," she writes in "Be Beautiful, Be
You." "You just have to change what you can, ask for help and pray about
the rest."
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She notes her triumphs and posts inspirational messages <a href="http://lizziebeautiful.tumblr.com/post/30197105593/while-shopping-today-people-were-hardcore-looking" rel="nofollow">on Tumblr</a>,
and says that she's learned to embrace the things that make her unique.
Instead of trying to retaliate against people who have made her feel
badly, she sets goals for herself and pushes herself to succeed in spite
of the haters. She's even <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/lizzitachickita/videos?view=0" rel="nofollow">reclaimed YouTube</a>, video blogging about everything from bullying to hair-styling tips to staying positive.
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"I feel really glad that I don't look like the celebrities out there
that are so beautiful," she told Dr. Drew. "There's a lot of stereotypes
attached to that." Not looking like a supermodel "gives people the
opportunity to know you personally," she explains. "If they're willing
to take that extra step they'll get to know the person you really are."
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Of course, the horrible comments left on that old YouTube video stung
(the video has since been removed, but Velasquez says she read every
single comment). Now, she says, she understands that they're "just
words."
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"I'm human, and of course these things are going to hurt," she said.
"Their judgements of me isn't who I am, and I'm not going to let these
things define me."
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"I didn't sink down to their level," she said in a follow-up video on
YouTube last year. "Instead, I got my revenge through my accomplishments
and determination. In the battle between the 'World's Ugliest Woman'
video vs. me, I think I won."
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Yosi Fischerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05371293778067504892noreply@blogger.com0Algeria St, Benghazi, Libya32.1166667 20.066666725.338047700000004 9.9592447 38.8952857 30.1740887tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6749000164470317578.post-43357106510100801932012-09-13T09:38:00.000-07:002012-09-14T09:16:19.959-07:00Let the Pussy Riot go free<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Medvedev Says Rockers Have Served Enough Jail Time for Cathedral Performance</h1>
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MOSCOW — Prime Minister Dmitri A. Medvedev said Wednesday that he believed
that three female punk rockers jailed for a profane stunt in Moscow’s main
Russian Orthodox cathedral should be released rather than serve out their
two-year sentences, weighing in on a case that has drawn widespread
condemnation in the West. <br />
At a meeting with officials from United Russia, the pro-Kremlin
party that he leads, Mr. Medvedev was careful to assure his audience that he
did not approve of the women’s performance of an anti-Kremlin song at the
Cathedral of Christ the Savior, saying that even thinking about it made him
nauseated. <br />
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But he went on to say that further incarceration would
be “unproductive” — the most explicit commentary to come from a high-ranking
official <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/18/world/europe/suspense-ahead-of-verdict-for-jailed-russian-punk-band.html?pagewanted=all" title="Times article.">since the Aug. 17 sentencing</a>. </div>
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“Imprisonment is a very severe — I would even say a
frightening — responsibility,” Mr. Medvedev said. “What has already happened —
that this well-known group of girls have been in prison quite a long time — is
a very serious punishment for everything they did, regardless of the sentence.”
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The six months they have already served, he said in
remarks that were shown on television, is “fully enough to make them think
about what happened, because of their stupidity or for some other reasons.” </div>
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“So prolonging their time in conditions of imprisonment
seems not to be productive,” he added. </div>
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It is not clear whether Mr. Medvedev’s words will have
any effect, but a lawyer for the punk rockers, who perform as Pussy Riot, said
he thought that the Russian authorities might want to rid themselves of a case
that has turned out to be more damaging than expected. </div>
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“In the end the authorities got themselves caught in a
trap,” the lawyer, Nikolai Polozov, told the radio station Kommersant-FM. “The
international community gives an unambiguous assessment of this case, and
Russia’s reputation is rapidly falling, and the authorities are trying to find
some solution so that they can emerge from this episode with a pretty face.” </div>
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Mr. Medvedev, who was president from 2008 until May,
attracted support from urban liberals during his term, and his agreement to
step down to make way for<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/08/world/europe/vladimir-putin-returns-to-presidency-in-russia.html?pagewanted=all" title="A Times article."> Vladimir V. Putin’s return as president</a> helped
set off protests last winter. He has said little about the raft of repressive
measures introduced since he stepped down, or about Pussy Riot, which has been
held up by pro-Kremlin commentators as an example of dangerous radicalism that
has infected Russian society and must be stamped out. </div>
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A film that ran on Tuesday on the state-controlled
Rossiya-1 channel asserted that Pussy Riot’s performance was planned and
financed by an exiled tycoon, Boris Berezovsky, an enemy of Mr. Putin’s. </div>
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In August, shortly before the sentencing, Mr. Putin
himself said he did not believe that the three women “should be judged too
severely for this.” Though they could have received a sentence of as much as
seven years, prosecutors requested a three-year sentence, and a judge gave them
two. </div>
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Mr. Polozov noted that Mr. Medvedev had also taken a
personal interest in the case of Taisia Osipova, the wife of an opposition
activist who was charged with drug violations that her supporters said were
trumped up. </div>
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Mr. Medvedev’s involvement evidently did her no good —
a judge last month <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/29/world/europe/russian-activists-criticize-8-year-drug-sentence-for-taisiya-osipova.html" title="Times article.">sentenced her to eight years in prison</a>, double the
time that prosecutors had requested. </div>
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“Obviously, you can’t say that the judge will do
whatever Dmitri Anatolievich says,” he said. “But if the judge shares his
opinion, obviously we would consider that a plus.” </div>
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