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military's aging arsenals, but "We have the money, all we need continued to rely on obsolete fully combat worthy. immediate cease-fire Friday,
sternly warned arms industries is to establish order," he said. equipment and aging workforce, And the much-touted GLONASS trying to fend off international
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which have mostly relied on remodeled versions of Soviet- as a key factor that slows down or GPS, has been unable to reach prevent the regime from striking
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analysts say that the ambitious prices. "The shape of the military- equipment flaws and other spokesman said Moammar
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(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed) fact of the resolution itself, which be judged on "action" not words. to-air missile batteries, SA8 at his sons, and his family, and all
Submitted at 3/18/2011 9:37:49 AM was passed without a Russian or "This is a fluid and dynamic low levels (5,000 metres, 16,000 those with him are liars,"
Chinese veto, but also how situation. We are going to be not feet) or SA2 and SA6 batteries at Heftir, who defected from
1520 GMT: Loud but sporadic expansive it is, authorising all responsive or impressed by higher altitudes (7,500 to 8,000 Kadhafi's army, added that
and distant explosions have just necessary actions. words. We would have to see metres). Kadhafi "must surrender the
been heard Friday from the centre "Arab participation was a critical actions on the ground," Clinton 1425 GMT: Details assembled by weapons and himself to the
of Tripoli by journalists and other factor allowing for the Americans has told reporters. AFP correspondents show that the Libyans, which would be better
witnesses in the Libyan capital. to fall in line with this, but it's still "We will continue to work with West has a vast military than to surrender to the foreign
Some six to eight blasts were not clear, the extent or nature of our partners and the international advantage over Libya as it braces forces."
heard but their cause or even their that participation. community to press Kadhafi to to strike Moamer Kadhafi's 1416 GMT: CANADA TO
precise direction are impossible to "This will be the first time Arab leave and to support the legitimate regime. SEND WARPLANES TO
determine. and Western militaries have aspirations of the Libyan people," -France has Rafale and Mirage ENFORCE LIBYA NO-FLY
1518 GMT: More from RUSI fought on the same soil together she said. 2000 warplanes stationed in ZONE: PM
analyst Shashank Joshi: jointly since 1991, the Gulf War. 1459 GMT: Yemeni President southern Corsica. 1414 GMT: In addition to
"At this point, there is a certain So this is a momentous occasion, Ali Abdullah Saleh has -A naval air base at Sigonella in providing new houses, Saudi King
elation inside Libya that this and what it does is put pressure on announced a state of emergency Sicily hosts American F-15 and F- Abdullah says he will give all
resolution has been passed, and other Arab states like Syria, Iran, as medics said 41 people were 16 fighter jets as well as British civil servants and the military the
there's widespread support in Yemen, who may be considering killed when pro-regime loyalists Tornado and Typhoon attack equivalent of two-months salary,
many parts of the Arab world... using force against their own and police opened fire on aircraft. and the same to university
"That could change if this protesters as well." protesters in Sanaa. -Britain has also pledged to students, the king said.
becomes a prolongued campaign 1510 GMT: Italy will only take "The national security council deploy air-to-air refuelling and The monarch also ordered a
of severe bombings that see part in a coalition against Libya announces a state of emergency surveillance aircraft. minimum monthly wage of 3,000
civilian casualties mount, that see a f t e r a v o t e i n p a r l i a m e n t across Yemen," Saleh told -Canada has pledged to deploy six riyals ($800) for civil servants and
attacks on urban areas, the authorising the use of its military, reporters. CF-18 fighters expected to arrive introduced monthly
d e s t r u c t i o n o f L i b y a ' s Defence Minister Ignazio La 1454 GMT: ITALY READY TO in Italy as early as Friday. unemployment benefits of 2,000
infrastructure, and the rebels Russa says. OFFER USE OF AIR BASES -Britain has an air base in Cyprus riyals for job-seekers. Payments
themselves may also commit 1506 GMT: Jordan says it backs FOR LIBYA ACTION: minister where three of its airborne will start after about eight months.
atrocities, may commit attacks on a Security Council resolution that 1445 GMT: SALH IMPOSES warning and control system 1411 GMT: More details of
unarmed individuals themselves - imposed a no-fly zone in Libya STATE OF EMERGENCY (AWACS) planes were recently Saudi King Abdullah's new
we don't know how the situation but will not take part in possible ACROSS YEMEN stationed and other bases in largesse to citizens of the oil rich
will play out. airstrike. 1436 GMT: BAHRAIN GOVT Malta. nation.
"In 1999, when we intervened in "Jordan definitely supports the DEMOLISHES SYMBOLIC -AWACS from the 28-nation Among other things, he ordered
Kosovo, everyone thought this UN Security Council resolution, PEARL SQUARE MONUMENT NATO military alliance have been the pumping of 250 billion riyals
would be a quick campaign over which has been called for by the 1433 GMT: The West's military flying 24-hours a day in the ($67 billion) into accommodation
in weeks, and it lasted months, A r a b L e a g u e , " I n f o r m a t i o n might faces a modest Libyan region for the past week as part of welfare to build as many as
because it's clear that a resilient Minister Taher Adwan told AFP. army equipped with only around an anti-terror mission and NATO 500,000 housing units.
and resolved government can "But the kingdom will not 20 warplanes believed operational may have to change their mandate This is in addition to a package of
cling on long after it's lost all p a r t i c i p a t e i n a n y m i l i t a r y -- Russian-made Sukhoi and Mig to act in Libya. social benefits worth an estimated
legitimacy and popular support." o p e r a t i o n s a g a i n s t L i b y a . " fighter jets as well as old French- 1421 GMT: Libyan rebel $36 billion, mostly aimed at
1515 GMT: Some comments 1503 GMT: Secretary of State made Mirage F1 warplanes -- spokesman Khalifa Heftir told a youth, civil servants and the
from Shashank Joshi, associate Hillary Clinton has renewed US according to experts contacted by press conference in Benghazi: unemployed, announced earlier
fellow at the Royal United demands for Libyan leader AFP. "Kadhafi does not speak any truth this month.
Services Insitute: Moamer Kadhafi to leave power The biggest threat for the West ... All the world knows that
"I was surprised not only at the and says reports of a ceasefire will would be Libya's mobile ground- Moamer Kadhafi is a liar. He and LIBYA page 3
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1409 GMT: The UN rights chief
has expressed fears that Libya's
pro-regime forces could carry out
reprisals on the opposition, saying
that there are no illusions of what
the regime is capable of.
"We are extremely worried about
reprisals against opposition
supporters by pro-government
forces and security agents in
Libya," said Rupert Colville,
spokesman for the UN High
Commissioner for Human Rights.
1408 GMT: Spanish Prime
Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez
Zapatero warned that the
international community "will not
be fooled" by the Libyan regime
and will verify compliance with
the UN resolution.
1407 GMT: Al Jazeera says it is
getting unconfirmed reports of
continuing fighting in Misrata.
1404 GMT: More from Libya's
royal heir apparent, Muhammad
al-Senussi, who has lived in exile
in Britain since 1988, 19 years
after Kadhafi overthrew his great-
uncle, King Idris, and his father,
the crown prince, in a coup and
held the royal family under house
arrest.
"I am in support of all Libyan
tribes and groups, including the
national transitional council in
Benghazi, as long as they
continue to act in the best interests
of the Libyan people, and they all
need immediate help from
overseas governments," he said
earlier this month.
The "crown prince" has
previously said a return to power
is not his aim.
1400 GMT: EU SCRUTINISING
LIBYA CEASEFIRE OFFER:
Ashton
1359 GMT: Al Jazeera says it
"understands" fighting still going
on in Misrata.
1356 GMT: "INTERNATIONAL
COMMUNITY WILL NOT BE
FOOLED BY KADHAFI":
Zapatero
1352 GMT: Khadafi's forces are
still shelling Misrata, east of
Tripoli, despite Libyan Foreign
Minister Mussa Kussa's
announcement of an immediate
ceasfire, according to Twitter
messages from people in the
beseiged Libyan town.
1349 GMT: US stocks have
opened sharply higher after the
G7 major economies acted to curb
the yen and Libya announced a
ceasefire in the face of UN-
approved air strikes.
The Dow Jones Industrial Index
was up 137.13 points (1.16
percent) at 11,911.72 in the first
10 minutes of trade, extending
yesterday's gains.
The tech-rich Nasdaq Composite
leaped 25.41 points (0.96 percent)
to 2,661.46, while the S&P 500-
stock index gained 13.18 points
(1.03 percent) at 1,286.90.
1342 GMT: The UK's Stop the
War Coalition says it opposes the
imposition of a no fly zone and
any other Western military
intervention in Libya.
"A new war has been declared in
the Middle East. With the bloody
and failing occupations of Iraq
and Afghanistan still in place, the
USA, Britain and France are now
committed to an escalating armed
intervention in Libya," the
organisation told AFP.
The coalition, initially formed to
oppose the US and UK's invasion
of Iraq in 2003, is calling a protest
tonight outside the Downing
Street office of UK Prime
Minister David Cameron.
1342 GMT: The commander of
rebels fighting to overthrow
Libyan strongman Moamer
Kadhafi says the government's
announcement of an immediate
ceasefire is "not important to us,"
saying Kadhafi is "bluffing."
1339 GMT: Egypt has suspended
all flights to Libya in compliance
with the UN Security Council's no
-fly zone resolution.
"After the Security Council issued
the resolution, flights between
Libya and Egypt were cancelled,"
said Sameh al-Hifni, head of
Egypt's Civil Aviation Authority.
1338 GMT: NATO allies have
agreed to speed up planning for
possible military action in Libya,
but the alliance has yet to decide
whether to intervene in the
conflict, a NATO official said
1336 GMT: KADHAFI
CEASEFIRE 'NOT
IMPORTANT TO US': rebel
commander.
1336 GMT: More than 1,000
Jordanians have demonstrated in
Amman's city centre to demand
constitutional reforms and
dissolution of parliament.
"The people want to reform the
regime and constitution. The
people want to dissolve
parliament. Change and reform is
a popular demand," the protesters
chanted outside Al-Husseini
mosque after midday prayers.
"We want a fair electoral law.
Together we can achieve political
and economic change. It is a
national necessity," read one of
the banners they carried, along
with national flags and a large
picture of King Abdullah II.
1333 GMT: US stocks soar on
G7-yen, UN-Libya; Dow opens
up 100
1332 GMT: NATO SPEEDS UP
LIBYA MILITARY PLANNING:
official
1329 GMT: There is no
immediate indication of what
targets in Libya the military
action may go for, but last week a
source close to Sarkozy said the
French president was looking at
Kadhafi's Bab al-Azizia command
headquarters in Tripoli, a military
air base in Sirte, east of Tripoli,
and another in Sebha in the south.
1325 GMT: YEMEN DEATH
TOLL REACHES 32.
Regime loyalists have raked pro-
democracy protesters with bullets
in Yemen's capital Sanaa, killing
at least 32 people in the bloodiest
clash in nearly a month of
protests, medics and witnesses
have told AFP.
According to witnesses, pro-
Saleh "thugs" opened fire on
protesters killing at least 32 and
wounding more than 200, taking
the reported death toll past 70
since the demonstrations against
President Ali Abdullah Saleh
began.
AFP's Hammoud Mounassar says
the shooting began from rooftops
around a square at Sanaa
University after demonstrators
attempted to dismantle a
3
barricade. Thousands of people
have camped out in the square
since February 21, demanding the
departure of Saleh, an autocratic
US ally in the war against Al-
Qaeda who has been in power
since 1978.
1322 GMT: One situation still
very much unresolved is the Ivory
Coast, where former president
Laurent Gbagbo has refused to
stand down after being voted out
of office.
Gbagbo's government has denied
blame for a mortar attack which
the United Nations said killed up
to 30 people, saying it was victim
of a conspiracy.
The UN mission says Gbagbo's
forces fired mortars into the
northern Abidjan suburb of
Abobo, a stronghold of
internationally recognised
president Alassane Ouattara, and
killed between 25 and 30 people.
"To us, it is a real conspiracy,"
government spokesman Ahoua
Don Mello told AFP.
1315 GMT: Libya will halt all
military operations immediately
in compliance with the UN
Security Council resolution,
Foreign Minister Mussa Kussa
announced in Tripoli.
"Libya has decided an immediate
ceasefire and an immediate halt to
all military operations," Kussa
told a press conference, adding
that because Libya is a UN
member it is "obliged to accept
the UN Security Council's
resolutions."
1314 GMT: Four New York
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Times journalists missing in
Libya since Tuesday were
captured by government forces
and will be released on Friday, the
newspaper says.
"Missing NYT reporters found
and to be released on Friday,"
Times spokesman Robert Christie
said in a message on his Twitter
feed.
The New York Times reported
the disappearance of the four on
Wednesday. They went missing
around the port city of Ajdabiya
during fighting between rebels
and Moamer Kadhafi's forces.
1309 GMT: Brent oil slumped $3
today after major crude exporter
Libya called a ceasefire with
rebels, easing fears about possible
damage to its energy facilities.
Brent North Sea crude for
delivery in May dived $3
compared with its level before the
announcement, to $113.07 a
barrel.
1302 GMT: David Cameron tells
UK MPs he is "sure the house will
accept that the situation requires
us to move forward on the basis
of the Security Council resolution
immediately."
1258 GMT: LIBYA TO
RELEASE FOUR MISSING
NEW YORK TIMES
JOURNALISTS
1256 GMT: BRENT OIL PRICE
SLUMPS 3 DOLLARS AFTERV
LIBYA ANNOUNCES
CEASEFIRE
1254 GMT: An AFP
correspondent in London notes
that Britain has an airbase on
Cyprus which could be used to
launch attacks and it also has two
frigates, HMS Cumberland and
HMS Westminster, already in the
Mediterranean.
1250 GMT: Ayatollah Ahmad
Janati, head of Iran's powerful
Guardians Council, condemned
the dispatch of Saudi troops to
Bahrain after pronouncing Friday
prayers.
"It is painful that when the
authorities were about to be
beaten, it called for help and
asked Saudi Arabia to send in
reinforcements. It is against
international law."
He also called on Libyan rebels
to pursue their struggle. "You
must not accept humiliation. One
must fight. Die or succeed, there
is no other choice," he said adding
that Libyan leader Moamer
Kadhafi is "shell-shocked."
"With one look at his face you can
see he is shell-shocked. Today,
the Libyans woke up. The no-fly
zone (adopted by the UN Security
Council) will help a little... We
hope the Libyans will win," he
said as the crowd chanted "death
to Kadhafi."
1246 GMT: Libya will halt all
military operations immediately,
Foreign Minister Mussa Kussa
says in Tripoli.
1245 GMT: World oil prices
have risen after the UN Security
Council resolution backed a no-
fly zone over Libya.
"The potential damage to the
country?s oil infrastructure is
obviously bullish (supportive) for
oil prices," PVM brokers analyst
Tamas Varga told AFP.
1244 GMT: Thousands of
Iranians have marched in Tehran
in support of the revolts rocking
Bahrain, Libya and Yemen, state
television reported.
Chants backing the protests of
majority Shiites in Bahrain,
dominated the demonstration
which unfolded in the capital after
Muslim Friday prayers
"The Saudis are committing
crimes and the US supports
them," and "Death to America"
chanted protesters. "Death to
Israel," cried others.
1239 GMT: LIBYA
ANNOUNCES IMMEDIATE
HALT TO ALL MILITARY
OPERATIONS
1230 GMT: A recap of the
situation:
- The UN Security Council has
voted in favour of"all necessary
measures" to impose a no-fly zone
over Libya, to protect civilian
areas and to pressure Moamer
Kadhafi into accepting a ceasefire.
- Libyan forces have ignored the
resolution and are pounding the
town of Misrata east of Libyan
capital Tripoli.
- Military action against Libya
will come within "hours",
according to French government
spokesman Francois Baroin.
- UK Prime Minister David
Cameron says preparations to
deploy aircraft have already
started.
- Kadhafi says "hell" awaits
anyone who attacks Libya. "If the
world goes crazy, so will we," he
says in remarks to Portuguese
television. "We will respond. We
will turn their lives into hell."
- Saudi King Abdullah says
security forces will "hit" anyone
who "considers" undermining the
kingdom's security and stability.
He also announces massive new
social benefits including higher
unemployment payments, better
health care and improved housing.
- In Yemen more than 30 anti-
regime protesters have been shot
dead and over 100 wounded
during a demonstration in the
Yemeni capital Sanaa on Friday,
according to medics and
witnesses.
1226 GMT: Belgium is ready to
take part in military action in
Libya under a NATO umbrella
with six F-16 fighter planes and a
frigate, European Affairs Minister
Olivier Chastel announced.
-Sweden says it supports the UN
resolution but will only consider
military action against Libya in
the event of a NATO request.
1225 GMT: UN chief Ban Ki-
moon is to join a meeting on
Libya in Paris tomorrow
involving the European Union,
the Arab League and the African
Union, the head of the League's
secretariat says.
1222 GMT: Just a final detail on
the refugee situation at the Libyan
border: UNHCR says there has
been an increase in the number of
Libyans fleeing into Egypt lately.
Some 1,490 Libyans crossed the
border on Wednesday and the "the
majority of those interviewed at
the Egypt border said that they
left because of fear of being
caught up in fighting.
"Many mentioned the threats
made by the government in recent
days to bombard Benghazi,"
UNHACR spokeswoman Melissa
Fleming said.
1219 GMT: Spain will allow
NATO to use two military bases
and also provide air and naval
forces for use in air operations
over Libya, Defence Minister
Carme Chacon has announced.
1215 GMT: In Syria, plain-
clothes police broke up a protest
after Friday prayers at the main
mosque in central Damascus,
dragging away at least two
activists, AFP reporters
witnessed.
"There is no God but God," a
crowd inside the men's section of
the Omayyed Mosque started
chanting in crescendo after Friday
prayers. It was unclear what had
sparked the chants.
Dozens of security forces, who
had gathered outside the mosque
during the prayers, pulled out
batons as soon as the chants broke
out and detained at least two
people, dragging away one who
resisted while beating him with
batons and kicking him in the
nose.
At least 200 people immediately
gathered in a square outside the
mosque, chanting support for
President Bashar al-Assad and
waving Syrian flags. Some carried
portraits of his late father and
predecessor Hafez al-Assad.
Terrified families could be seen
fleeing the square, with many
children in tears.
1211 GMT: In his appearance on
Portuguese television, Khadafi
said the UN Security Council had
"no mandate" for its resolution to
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approve a no-fly zone, "which we
absolutely do not recognise."
"This is not a war between two
countries that permits the council
to intervene," he argued, saying
the UN Charter "does not permit
interference in the domestic
affairs" of a country.
1209 GMT: SPAIN TO
PROVIDE AIR BASES,
FORCES FOR LIBYA
OPERATION: defence ministry
1203 GMT: Witness of the
Yemen violence have told AFP
pro-regime "thugs" opened fire
from houses close to the square at
Sanaa University on protesters
calling for the resignation of
President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
Medics say more than 30 were
killed and more than 100
wounded. "Most of the wounds
were to the head, neck and chest,"
one medic says.
Thousands of people have
camped out in the square since
February 21, demanding the
departure of Saleh, who has been
in power since 1978. Today's
bloodbath came after five Yemeni
protesters were wounded in an
attack on Wednesday night by
masked men on the Sanaa
University sit-in.
Anti-government activists told
AFP that the attackers wielding
guns, clubs and daggers were
"thugs" loyal to the regime.
1159 GMT: On the mounting
death toll today in Yemen:
Witnesses now say more than 30
people were killed and scores
wounded during a demonstration
in the Yemeni capital Sanaa.
1154 GMT: In a statement
released by public relations firm
Bell Pottinger, the exiled crown
prince of Libya, Mohammed El
Senussi has welcomed the UN
resolution.
"The UN's resolution to protect
the civilians of Libya is the
greatest news that our nation has
heard for decades.? The
international community's
commitment to help us achieve
peace and freedom in Libya will
succeed and I hope and pray that
this day will be soon," he says.?
1153 GMT: MORE THAN 30
DEAD IN YEMEN PROTESTS:
medics
1152 GMT: In Diraz, one of
Ahmed Farhan's cousins told
AFP's Ali Khalil that the funeral
would go ahead despite a ban on
all public gatherings and the
authorities' initial reluctance to
release his body from Manama's
main hospital, which has been
taken over the security forces.
"We're not scared -- every drop of
blood that is shed emboldens us.
If we were scared we wouldn't
have left our houses," she said.
1147 GMT: AFP's Ali Khalil has
filed more details from today's
protest in Bahrain:
As buses packed with security
personnel arrived at the rally in
Diraz, just outside the capital
Manama, the crowd set off for the
nearby village of Sitra where the
funeral was being held of a young
unemployed man killed in clashes
with police on Tuesday.
Relatives said Ahmed Farhan, 28,
died instantly when he was shot in
the head from a helicopter shortly
after the US-backed government
declared martial law in a bid to
put down a month of Shiite-led
unrest. Pictures shown to AFP by
doctors who attended to Farhan
showed his head had been blown
apart.
1145 GMT: UK Prime Minister
David Cameron tells parliament:
"I can tell the house that we will
deploy Tornado and Typhoon as
well as air-to-air refuelling and
surveillance aircraft.
"Preparations to deploy these have
already started and in the coming
hours they will move to airbases
from where they can take the
necessary action," he said
1144 GMT: More from Saudi
King Abdullah's speech on state-
run Al-Ekhbareya television.
"You are the hitting hand against
whoever considers undermining
the nation's security and stability,"
King Abdullah said, addressing
Saudi security forces.
He announced the creation of
60,000 more military and security
jobs and the establishment of an
anti-corruption committee to fight
graft.
1143 GMT: Credit rating agency
Standard & Poor's said it has cut
Bahrain's long- and short-term
local and foreign currency
sovereign credit ratings because
of mounting political unrest in the
Gulf monarchy.
1140 GMT: More about Moamer
Kadhafi's threaten to turn into
"hell" the lives of anyone who
attacks Libya:
His remarks came in an interview
with Portuguese state television, a
tape of which AFP has obtained a
copy, just hours before the
Security Council voted last night
to permit "all necessary measures"
to establish a no-fly zone.
"If the world goes crazy, so will
we," the defiant strongman said.
"We will respond. We will turn
their lives into hell. What is this
racism, this hatred?" he asked.
"What is this madness?"
1137 GMT: NEW TOLL FROM
YEMEN: Eleven anti-regime
protesters have been shot dead
and over 100 wounded during
today's demonstration in the
capital Sanaa, medics and
witnesses have told AFP.
1132 GMT: In a carrot-and-stick
speech, Saudi King Abdullah has
coupled a threat to crack down on
protests with an announcement of
massive social benefits including
higher unemployment payments,
better health care and improved
housing.
1129 GMT: More details on
Yemen, where four anti-regime
protesters have been shot dead
and dozens wounded during a
demonstration in the capital
Sanaa:
According to witnesses, pro-
regime "thugs" opened firefrom
houses close to the square at
Sanaa University on protesters
calling for the resignation of
President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
1128 GMT: Any indiscriminate
attack on civilians in Benghazi
would constitute "war crimes", the
prosecutor of the International
Criminal Court has warned the
Libyan government.
"Any indiscriminate attack against
civilians would constitute war
crimes," prosecutor Luis Moreno-
5
Ocampo told journalists in The
Hague.
"The commanders will be
responsible. As the prosecutor of
the ICC, I will request an arrest
warrant against them."
1127 GMT: STANDARD &
POOR'S DOWNGRADES
BAHRAIN RATING TWO
NOTCHES
1124 GMT: Saudi King Abdullah
has warned that security forces
will "hit" anyone who "considers"
undermining the kingdom's
security and stability, in a speech
aired on state-run Al-Ekhbareya
television.
1124 GMT: Plainclothes Syrian
security men broke up an
apparently spontaneous
demonstration by dozens of
people after Friday prayers at the
main mosque in Damascus, AFP
reporters witnessed.
1122 GMT: Libya has denied
shutting down its air space while
European governments have
decided to ban all civilian flights
to the country after the UN
approved air strikes, Europe's air
traffic agency says.
"Libyan authorities informed us
that the air space is open," a
Eurocontrol spokeswoman told
AFP after the agency earlier cited
Maltese authorities as saying that
Tripoli was not accepting traffic
"until further notice."
Separately, all 39 member states
of Eurocontrol, which includes
the European Union's 27 nations
as well as Russia, asked the
agency to "ban all flights" flying
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Frantic Cooling Efforts Continue at Japan's Crippled Nuclear

Plant - Voice of America
(Top Stories - Google News) they are also worried because
Submitted at 3/18/2011 9:37:14 AM food and other items in markets
quickly vanished from shelves.
Steve Herman | Koriyama, Japan A number of foreign
March 18, 2011 Photo: governments, including the
REUTERS/Kyodo United States, are making
Aerial view of Fukushima chartered aircraft available from
Daiichi nuclear power plant in the capital for their nationals who
Fukushima, March 18, 2011. want to flee the country.
Japan is continuing its attempts to Some Japanese observers call the
cool damaged reactors and radiation fears by those in Tokyo
exposed fuel rods at the crippled an overreaction, noting those
coastal nuclear power plant hit by returning home overseas would be
the tsunami following the exposed to higher levels during
magnitude nine earthquake a the high-altitude flights than if
week ago. they stayed put.
Japan's Prime Minister, Naoto My sincere condolences for those
Kan spoke bluntly when a who lost their lives. All my
reporter Friday evening asked him prayers are with the Japanese
about the situation at the people. Japan helped immensely
Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant. when Maldives was hit by
The prime minister says it is Tsunami of 2004. We will never
"very grave" and people are forget the kind assistance
risking their lives at the crippled provided by Japan.
plant. But Kan expresses Since the earthquake and tsunami
confidence that things will be a week ago, fires, explosions and
resolved soon. trying to repeat Thursday's water reactors at the Fukushima-1 plant. serious challenge to keeping the partial melting of cores have been
He made the remark hours after drops, by helicopter, on the Officials say the number three rods from being exposed. experienced at four of the six
personnel in fire trucks sprayed damaged reactor buildings. reactor remains the priority. Japan's government says although reactors at the Fukushima-1 plant.
w a t e r o n d a m a g e d r e a c t o r Meanwhile, utility workers are Mixed oxide (MOX) fuel rods, elevated levels of radiation are They sprayed water on damaged
b u i l d i n g s , m a k i n g w h a t i s extending an emergency power partly composed of especially being detected kilometers away reactor buildings, making what is
considered a risky attempt to cool cable to the 40-year-old complex. toxic plutonium are partially from the crippled plant, they do considered a risky attempt to cool
highly radioactive fuel rods. That would allow a steady supply exposed. Without water they will not pose a risk to human health. highly radioactive fuel rods.
Powerful hoses were used to of electricity to run water pumps. continue to heat and potentially People as far away as Tokyo are God bless Japan. You are a
shoot 50 tons of water directly on But government officials say it spew radiation beyond the coastal not reassured. Families have courageous and intelligent people.
the buildings, but the military and could be Sunday before cooling facility. decided to head to Osaka or I am amazed at how you are
civilian firefighters have to keep units can be re-started at the The Los Angeles Times and The farther south and west. Many dealing with this tremendous
their distance and limit the time number two and three reactors. New York Times newspapers flights to surrounding countries tragedy. You give humanity hope!
they can be inside the complex Since the earthquake and tsunami report that there is a hole in either are reported full with people A prefecture is not a state and
because of the radiation. The a week ago, fires, explosions and the floor or sides of the spent fuel trying to leave Japan amid news
military appears to have given up partial melting of cores have been pool of the Number 4 reactor. reports of the possibility of FRANTIC page 8
experienced at four of the six That would present another meltdowns. Some foreigners say
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over and heading to Libya, the
spokeswoman said. "We are
rejecting any flight plan that
requests any overflight over Libya
or flying into Libyan airspace."
1120 GMT: Four anti-regime
protesters were shot dead and
dozens wounded during a
demonstration in the Yemeni
capital Sanaa today, medics and
witnesses told AFP.
1117 GMT: SAUDI KING
WARNS AGAINST SEDITION
1116 GMT: Moamer Kadhafi
threatened today to "turn into hell
the lives" of anyone who attacks
Libya in line with a UN Security
Council resolution passed
overnight.
1115 GMT: ATTACKS ON
BENGHAZI CIVILIANS
WOULD BE 'WAR CRIMES':
ICC prosecutor
1114 GMT: BRITAIN TO
DEPLOY TORNADO,
TYPHOON JETS FOR LIBYA
OPERATION: PM
1113 GMT: SAUDI KING
ANNOUNCES FINANCIAL AID
AND BENEFITS: decree
1111 GMT: BRITISH FORCES
TO JOIN INTERNATIONAL
OPERATION ON LIBYA:
Cameron
1107 GMT: TWO
PROTESTERS KILLED,
DOZENS HURT IN YEMEN:
medics
1107 GMT: KADHAFI SAYS
'HELL' AWAITS ANYONE
WHO ATTACKS LIBYA: TV
1104 GMT: EUROPE BANS
ALL FLIGHTS TO LIBYA: air
traffic agency
1104 GMT: LIBYA DENIES
SHUTTING DOWN LIBYAN
AIR SPACE: Europe air traffic
agency
1103 GMT: PROTESTERS
DISPERSED BY SYRIA AT
DAMASCUS MOSQUE: AFP
1100 GMT: NATO minnow
Lithuania says it has offered the
use of an aircraft it shares with its
allies to help the potential
operation in Libya.
1055 GMT: Details from the AFP
correspondent at the scene of
today's protests in Bahrain: "We
sacrifice blood and soul for
Bahrain," the protesters are
chanting, as well as urging
restraint and non-violence in the
face of a bloody crackdown on
pro-democracy demonstrations in
recent days.
Thousands gathered to listen to a
Friday sermon in Diraz by Sheikh
Issa Qassem, Bahrain's senior
Shiite cleric, before the
demonstration began.
People demanding rights and
reform "do not believe in violence
that authorities are trying to push
them to," Qassem said in his
sermon. "The peaceful approach
has been our choice since day
one," he said. The crowd chanted
"Allahu akbar" (God is greatest),
and "we will not be humiliated!"
1052 GMT: Qatari troops are part
of the Gulf forces deployed to
Bahrain to put down Shiite-led
protests against the Sunni dynasty
there, says a Qatari military
official.
"The duty of the Qatari force
participating in the Peninsula
Shield force is to contribute in
restoring order and security" in
Bahrain, Qatar news agency QNA
quoted Colonel Abdullah Al-Hajri
as saying late yesterday.
This is the first official
confirmation of Qatar's
contribution to Gulf troops in
Bahrain. Qatar said earlier today
will contribute to international
efforts to protect Libyan civilians
and has urged quick action to
impose the proposed no-fly zone.
1050 GMT: DOZENS
WOUNDED BY GUNFIRE IN
YEMEN PROTESTS: medics
1045 GMT: Some 300,000
people have fled Libya since
clashes broke out between rebels
and pro-regime forces, and many
more are expected to leave, the
UNHCR and IOM say.
"This is one of the biggest
humanitarian evacuations in
history," said William Lacy
Swing, who heads the IOM, an
inter-governmental organisation.
"We expect the needs to continue.
People keep arriving at the border.
There're different flows according
to different circumstances in
Libya," said Melissa Fleming,
spokeswoman for the UN High
Commissioner for Refugees, "But
we're estimating that there'll be at
least 1,500 to 2,500 people
everyday in need of evacuation
for the time to come."
1038 GMT: Up to 2,500 people a
day will need to be evacuated
from Libya's borders with Tunisia
and Egypt for the forseeable
future in one of the biggest
humanitarian evacuations in
history, the UNHCR and IOM
have said.
The agencies acknowledged there
will be repercussions following
the UN Security Council's
decision that cleared the way for
air strikes.
"With the installation of a no-fly
zone, we are not clear on what
will be the outcome in terms of
outfows. However, we see that
there will be repercussions on
migrants," said Fernando Calado,
who heads the International
Organization for Migration's
emergency and post-crisis
division.
1029 GMT: Several thousand
Bahraini Shiites are protesting in
the town of Draz following Friday
prayers, chanting anti-regime
slogans, despite a government ban
on demonstrations, an AFP
correspondent reports.
1024 GMT: Fighting between
rebels and forces loyal to
strongman Moamer Kadhafi is
raging in the rebel-held towns of
Zintan, Nalut and Misrata in
western Libya, witnesses and
rebel sources have told AFP.
1022 GMT: Italy's TM News
agency says the bases of Trapani
Birgi in Sicily and Gioia del Colle
in the southern region of Apulia
could be made available for the
operation to enforce the LIbyan
no-fly zone.
Italy and Libya are bound by a
friendship treaty signed in 2008
that officially forbids the use of
air bases in Italy to bomb Libya
but Foreign Minister Franco
Frattini earlier declared the
document is "de facto suspended."
The use of air bases in Italy and
of Italian air space is seen as
crucial for the enforcement of any
7
no-fly zone over Libya because of
its location.
1018 GMT: THOUSANDS OF
SHIITE BAHRAINIS PROTEST
AFTER FRIDAY PRAYERS
1017 GMT: "REBELS,
KADHAFI LOYALISTS
FIGHTING IN WESTERN
TOWNS": witnesses
1014 GMT: For anyone just
starting to read this live report, the
Kadhafi regime is defying the
military crackdown on Libya
approved by the UN Security
Council and Kadhafi's forces are
pounding the rebel bastion of
Misrata, east of Tripoli, after a
night of heavy gunfire.
"Dozens of bombs of all sorts
have fallen on the city since last
night," a rebel spokesman told
AFP, adding the bombing was
"still intense."
1009 GMT: Italy's government is
to hold emergency talks on Libya.
The meeting in Rome of Italy's
top defence and security chiefs
hosted by Prime Minister Silvio
Berlusconi is expected to examine
"Italy's contribution in the
implementation of the no-fly
zone," a government source said.
1000 GMT: British Prime
Minister David Cameron has held
an emergency cabinet meeting
after the UN Security Council
authorised air strikes on Libyan
targets.
Cameron will give a statement to
parliament at around 1100 GMT,
when he is expected to lay out
what role British forces may play,
his Downing Street office says.
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Japan is not a federation of states.
Can we get this straight? Not all
the countries in the world look
like the USA.
when in Japan, do as the
Japaneses do. Take a look at the
way Japaneses behave in the
worst time. I wonder why
foreigners want to flee from the in
- need - help country. The more
we admire hero - Japanese, the
more we should give them a hand
to abate their pain in this difficult
situation.
MAY GOD SOLF YOUR
PROBLEM
The people are always told the
full truth after the fact, however,
leaving Japan is what any soul
with a sense of self preservation
and concern for family should do.
The winds are about to shift, and
there is no way to stop the drift of
radiation. Get the hell out of there
whilst you can.
This is Japan we are talking
about. A nation with its citizens
industrious, hard working, with a
fierce sense of pride about their
work, family, tradition and nation.
They will overcome this episode,
and will rise taller and stronger
than before. There is and will be
loss of life and will be put to a lot
of hardships, but that is not going
to deter them. They do not whine
or crib, but will go about this
entire sad saga diligently. God
give them strength
I think that we need to separate
each reactor and isolate the
reactors which starts melting fuel
rods by coverage of cup like what
they did in mexico oil crisis in
order to reduce the emission of
radiation . That could help
workers to cope with other
cooling reactors specially the
number three which could be able
to be re-started once again . The
expansion of evacuation indicates
that the situation is critical and so
dangerous .
The US administration should
interfere in this crisis to get the
best way which could relieve this
catastrophe wisely . Any delay
could be costly and painful .
Why not attempt to flood the
entire site? Build the world fasted
artificial salt water pond?
I am suggesting an emergency
work plan to avert catastrophe by
assessing the maximum exposure
time and breakdown all tasks in
bits and pieces and line up as
many workers as possible and
completing these tasks with
minimal exposure. Saving all
those already exposed at the
plants.
japan is unlucky with nuclear
technology.The best way for its
citizens is to evacuate emedietly
or else many lives will be lost like
in 1945.
Thank. God it is not happening to
India or else. Everyone would be
dead.
I hope japan can tell the truth to
all over the world
The Japaneses are a great people.
I pray everyday that this will pass
as all things do, And the world
will see what a strong united
country of people the Japaneses
are. If only the USA would take
note of how to act when an event
as big as this happens instead of
wining about who will take care
of them. Be Strong Japan we love
you.
What happened in Japan has a
moral story to tell. Everyone of us
is hoping for a safe dwelling place
for our families and loved ones.
The nuclear plants we may say
"weren't natural disasters safe" so
because of this http://fms.nu/
erpZUl all countries with the
same plants should be protected,
amidst any incident, so the people
are equally protected. Lets just
pray for Japan.
we hope Japan could tell the real
truth of this crisis---earthquake???
why??????
As a ChineseI have to sayJapan is
so great.
I'm sorry to hear the news. I want
that Japanese have hope and don't
despair of their bad situation.
"...those returning home overseas
would be exposed to higher levels
during the high-altitude flights
than if they stayed put." I love the
irony!
in this situation we can only hope
that brave people on the scene can
cool down the cores of the
reactors.this is a very dangerous
situation so we all are with them
at the moment.
Dump ice-cubes (vs water)?;
Robots (vs Humans...Japan is a
leader in robotics)?; US parachute
food supplies to Northern Japan
(like in India); Aerial balloons
guided by a long-lines continually
cycling across the reactors and
dropping water (or ice-cubes)?;
Kamikazi workers (or terminally
ill volunteers) cycling through the
reactor area....Crazy ideas?
Maybe, but it's time to get
creative....in parallel!
The Japanese people and the rest
of the world deserve better
information than they have been
getting. The plant operator Tokyo
Electric Power Co (TEPCO) is
not fulfilling its community
responsibility in keeping people
fully informed on a subject that is
of immense importance to all of
us.
What then happens to the water?
It is possibly contaminated, right?
Will the structures be further
weakened by all the water they
are dumping on them? Does this
further risk the stability of the
reactors? Good luck, heroes
Praying and hoping the best for
Japan! We stand with you in your
time of need, and I just hope we
can get the needed donations sent
over in a timely manner. Stay
strong.
why would you think it unwise
for a bunch of people able to do
so to evacuate? do you think
ordinary "no body special" people
who aren't nuclear technicians of
some form are going to be able to
do anything but take up more of
the already slim supplies as far as
food, shelter, etc go right now?
Honestly in this issue it's better
more people leave who can, that
way desperately needed supplies
to those who can't leave are not
stretched as thin...
It 4 accidents not one...What
about see water used to cool
reactors, any radioactivity there
...?
May the victims rest in peace.
May the nuclear power station
become stable and safe. May
those suffering find relief, safety
and comfort.
Most of the ideas put forward
here would fail for one or both of
two simple facts: nobody can go
near the reactors for long enough
to do useful construction work,
such as putting up walls to allow
flooding of the area; or they need
lifting or electrical power that isn't
available. How much would a
cover for an 80" high building
weigh, for instance.
The men and women who are
risking their lives to help cool the
reactors are heros. I hope and pray
their effort pays off.
Why not setup large mobile
generators by the site and use
them to get power to the pumps
instead of waiting for this power
cable to be extended to the site. I
know the backup generators got
damaged but why not bring in
new ones?.
father god in the name of jesus
my heart is heavy right now father
i only ask you to watch and god
over japan and the lives that were
lost last week god i ask that you
supply all there needs.
father god in the name of jesus
my heart is heavy right now father
i only ask you to watch and god
over japan and the lives that were
lost last week god i ask that you
supply all there needs.
Why call the reactor crippled? It's
doing a good job of kicking
everyone's as$. Call it beserk
instead. Message brought to you
by global disabled citizens
50 tons of water thats it? That
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0952 GMT: We've already
mentioned the uprisings in Libya,
Egypt and Kuwait but the
groundswell of protest is affecting
many other countries across the
region. Here are some highlights
from yesterday's events:
KUWAIT: Hundreds of Kuwaiti
Shiites demonstrated against a
violent police crackdown on
Shiite-led protests in Bahrain and
to thank Kuwait's emir for not
sending troops there.
SAUDI: Hundreds of Saudi
Shiites rallied in the east of the
kingdom to show solidarity with
their fellow Shiites at the centre of
protests in Bahrain, witnesses
said.
YEMEN: At least 20 people were
wounded in Yemen and some 200
suffered from tear-gas inhalation
when anti-regime protesters
clashed with loyalists, backed by
police. Yemen sacked the security
chief in the main southern city of
Aden.
TUNISIA: Hundreds of
Tunisians, including Islamists,
marched through central Tunis to
protest against a visit by US
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
SYRIA: Syria charged 32
demonstrators with attacking the
reputation of the state a day after
they joined a rally calling for the
release of political prisoners, a
rights group said.
JORDAN: Faced with growing
demands for reform, King
Abdullah II hinted that Jordan
could hold early elections by the
end of 2011 at a meeting with
young activists.
ALGERIA: Algerian youths
seeking political change and a
movement of unemployed people
said they plan to hold separate
demonstrations in Algiers late this
week.
PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES:
Sixteen protesters briefly took
refuge in a UN compound in Gaza
City on Thursday after Hamas
police broke up their
demonstration calling for an end
to Palestinian divisions.
0951 GMT: Libya has shut down
its air space to all traffic until
further notice, Europe's air traffic
agency announced.
Eurocontrol, citing information
from Maltese authorities, says in a
brief statement on its website that
Tripoli "does not accept traffic
UFN (until further notice)."
0950 GMT: Britain's Royal Air
Force is expected to send Tornado
attack aircraft equipped with
precise weapons from their bases
in Marham, east England, and
Lossiemouth in Scotland.
0942 GMT: Here's a summary of
the likely international action
against Libya:
The United States, Britain and
France are expected to scramble
fighter jets against Kadhafi's
forces. Paris has warned military
strikes will come "rapidly...
within a few hours."
The three military powers may be
joined by Canada, which
according to Canadian media
plans to deploy six CF-18 fighter
jets. Norway will take part but
Denmark is awaiting parliament
approval before joining the action
with F-16 warplanes. Poland is
offering logistical support but no
role in a military strike force.
NATO is holding a meeting to
decide what, if any, role it may
take. The West could be joined by
Arab nations in the endeavour
after the Arab League pressed for
a no-fly zone against Kadhafi's
forces. Qatar's foreign ministry
says the Gulf state will
"contribute in the efforts aiming at
stopping bloodshed and protecting
civilians in Libya"
0939 GMT: Turkey has called for
an immediate ceasefire and an end
to bloodshed in Libya. "We want
the bloodshed and violence
against civilians (in Libya) to end
as soon as possible and ask for an
immediate ceasefire," says a
statement from the prime
minister's office.
Turkey has emphasized that the
UN resolution is binding for all
member countries and it
welcomed the establishment of a
no-fly zone.
"Turkey from the begining has
stressed the need for an
international legitimacy of any
initiative regarding developments
in the Middle East and North
Africa," it said.
0936 GMT: More than 5,000
Iraqis have rallied in northern
Diyala province to denounce a
crackdown on Shiite-led
demonstrators in Bahrain, with
many volunteering to join the
protests in the Gulf kingdom.
The biggest turnout is about
3,000 protesters in the city of
Jadidat al-Shat, with another
2,000 in Khales and some 500 in
the provincial capital of Baquba.
"Thousands of volunteers are
asking the Iraqi government to
open the way for them to go to
Bahrain to support their brothers
there," said Fadel Mohammed
Saeed, a religious leader in
Jadidat al-Shat, which has a large
Shiite population.
0935 GMT: "LIBYA SHUTS
DOWN AIRSPACE": Europe air
traffic agency
0929 GMT: Russia has ruled out
taking part in a military operation
against Libya, chief of staff
General Nikolai Makarov is
quoted as saying.
0921 GMT: Egypt's young
activists, along with a string of
secular political parties and
opposition figures, say the
timetable proposed by the military
in the referendum is way too tight
for movements stymied by three
decades of authoritarian rule to
organise grass-roots support.
They also argue that the package
of amendments, hastily drawn up
by the panel in just 10 days, does
not go nearly far enough in
overhauling the Mubarak-era
charter, which they say needs to
be completely rewritten.
"It is your responsibility to use
your vote, don't boycott the March
19 revolution -- say 'no' for a
better Egypt," the youth activists
say in a message on their
Facebook page.
0920 GMT: "Russia rules out
participating in Libya military
operation": general
0918 GMT: France's Francois
Baroin Baroin hailed the role of
the 22-member Arab League in
calling for action in Libya,
without which "it would probably
9
have been difficult to get the
international community to do
something."
"What counts is what was done
last night," he said. "I'm not sure,
given the positions of Kadhafi and
his son Seif al-Islam Kadhafi, that
anything can make these terrorist
and bloodthirsty dictators see
reason."
0915 GMT: In Egypt, pro-
democracy activists who
spearheaded the mass rallies that
ousted president Hosni Mubarak
are poised for a new protest on the
eve of a referendum on the
military's transition plans.
The Coalition of the Youth of the
Revolution has called the rally in
Cairo's Tahrir Square to urge
voters to reject an amended
constitution intended to underpin
fresh presidential and
parliamentary elections this year
and a swift return to civilian rule.
The military council, which took
over when Mubarak quit on
February 11, has said it will not
try to stop the rally even though a
ban on all media analysis or
opinion pieces on the referendum
came into force yesterday and will
last until the close of polls at 1700
GMT on Saturday.
0909 GMT: In Bahrain, the Shiite
opposition have called for fresh
demonstrations after Friday
prayers, in defiance of martial law
and a violent crackdown by the
US-backed kingdom's security
forces.
Hundreds of people have
gathered at the village of Sitra
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comes out to 11,982 gallons of
water...An olympic size
swimming pool holds around
660,000 gallons of water. This is a
joke, its like trying to put out a
house fire with a squirt gun.
Sad and tragic beyond belief. The
discussion of what Japan (and the
rest of us) do about powering our
energy-thirsty society can wait, it
will certainly play out. In the
meantime let us all remember that
this catastrophe (not just the
nuclear part) is a call to
mindfulness of our
interconnection on this small blue
miracle we call earth. Our
brothers and sisters in Japan are
part of our bigger family.
We "deserve" more information?
The non-sensationalist Japanese
have shared information, but
because they do not use the
superlatives that the north
american media and government
use, people assume there is some
kind of suppression. The world
will almost immediately know
when it gets worse. News outlets
give out measurements in sieverts,
and report every crack and plume.
The company, news outlets, etc.
are fulfilling their "community
responsibility", to quote Nick.
One can only admire the
Japanese for their courage, their
ability to remain calm and their
perseverence. Let´s hope and pray
they will succeed. My
condolances to all people who
have lost (or are about to lose) a
loved one because of the tsunami /
nuclear disaster.
The Japanese people are acting so
docile and subservient to their
inept rulers, and corrupt TEC Co's
statements, rather than standing
up and loudly challenging TEC's/
Gov false findings and ridiculous
public statements over this most
dire situation. Instead they simply
sit back like sheep being led to the
slaughter house. "Love your
country, but fear your
government" aptly applies in this
situation...
I live in Totsuka south of Tokyo.
I travel by train to Tokyo. We are
having some shortage of food and
rolling blackouts. Trains are
crowded and you cannot fit one
more person in each car during
peak time. People stand in lines
just as they did before the quake
and do it with patience. This is a
great country with amazing
people. Don't make foolish
comments or give silly advice.
We are doing what can be done
and thank those who help. I live
here, love it here, and I am not
leaving.
I wonder if freezing the reactor
with liquid nitrogen would help.
The Japanese people have been
courageous and inspiring
throughout this entire situation.
The world is watching and wants
to help these wonderful people.
My sincerest condolences for the
great loss suffered by this country,
but I know they will persevere
and do their best to overcome
these obstacles. The Japanese
people have shown great honor in
this time of crisis, and as an
American, I hope we honor their
courage with help and shelter in
any way we can.
It is easy to sit back and criticize
what you are trying to do as half
the world is doing. Keep the faith
and God be with you.If anyone
ever needed his help your Country
needs it now. I as an American
apologize for the speech that the
guy who now sits in our Oval
office made the other day
regarding your Country. He does
not speak for all the Americans.
We are with you Japan stay strong
and our friend. God bless
Praise the heroes who are
working to cool the ponds and
reactors. But in our panic over
possible radioactive effects, do
not forget the thousands of real
deaths, the thousands more who
have lost everything in the
tsunami who still need help.
The worker risking their lives
trying to remedy the situation
should be given Japan's highest
awards for honor. The Japanese
people's grace under extremely
trying circumstances should be a
model for the rest of the world.
The Japanese are some seriously
incredible, selfless people. The
rest of the world would be rioting
and looting, panicing and back
sliding into the stone age. What a
beautiful display of humanity.
Good luck brothers and sisters,
and may the rest of us help you in
every way we can!
Can't they drop ice or snow to
more accurately hit the area
around the core? Can helicopters
drag a waterline closer?
Can't imagine the stress and
sadness all over Japan. I pray for
them. I just wish they were
getting the WHOLE truth and not
being spoon fed a little at a time.
Let the people decide what they
will do if it is worse than they are
being told right now. We ALL
want to know how bad the
situation really is with the reactors
and what we can expect....the
TRUTH!
TEPCO coporate leaders and
Japanese government policy
makers need to fly to Fukushima
with their families. They need to
roll up their sleeves and fight the
disasters INSIDE the stricken
plants. They have reaped the
rewards of their successes. Time
to reap the rewards of their
failures.
You are aware that nobody but
the ones reading this story see
these comments. Suggestions to
fix this, while they feel good, are
pointless. Everyone is doing what
they can without trying to kill the
people on the front lines.
7 days has passed, but the
situation is worse and worse. they
have missed the best time to deal
with it. the officials always said it
is ok , it is no harmful to your
healthy, who believe??????
We are better off to leave off our
arrogant belief that we can safely
manage nuclear energy. The
sooner we reduce our dependency
on technology and return to a pre-
industrial society, based on
agriculture and regional economy,
the better. The post-petroleum,
post-nuke era will be healthier
and saner.
My heart goes out to the people
in Japan. Hopefully, everything
will be resolved very soon and the
rebuilding of the devastaion
happens as soon as possible.
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I hope those brave workers in the
plant will be recognized and
compensated for risking their
lives. Their future will be bleak
with the amount of radiation
exposure they are undergoing. I
bow with respect to these brave
souls trying to prevent a
worldwide catastrophe.
Thousands of people in Japan
have been killed by the
earthquake and tsunami, and
thousands more are now homeless
and in dire circumstances. Yet this
tragedy is being largely ignored,
as people focus entirely on a
situation which has so far not
killed anybody, and may possibly
be contained without any loss of
life whatsoever. People need to
put things into perspective.
I am suprised that the plant did
not have back up diesel generators
sitting on springs or sliding
foundations designed to withstand
earthquakes in such an earthquake
prone area. Since coolant flow is
so critical it would seem wise to
have multiple back up systems.
I wish all good for Japan and all
people there. We are with them
and pray God that soon things will
come under control. Hey God
please help the nation which has
been good and has good people...
after KAtrina there was looting,
rioting, corruption and crime -
Japan goes through a 100x worse
and there is patience, blue collar
sacrifice and order , not one loot,
not one riot - and they even have
had the feeling they don't know
the whole story....its amazing at
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti –
Former Haitian President Jean-
Bertrand Aristide returned home
from seven years in exile to a
celebrity welcome Friday,
mobbed by close allies and
journalists outside his private
plane before being hustled into an
airport VIP lounge as crowds of
supporters rallied in the streets
outside the terminal.
Aristide waved and blew a kiss to
the small crowd at the runway,
then began to deliver a speech in
which he thanked his chanting,
jubilant supporters. His wife,
Mildred, wept.
"This man is our father, without
him we haven't lived," said 31-
year-old Sainvil Petit-Frere, one
of about 3,000 cheering and
chanting supporters in a quickly
growing crowd. "This is the
doctor who will heal the country."
Twice elected president and twice
deposed, Aristide is a popular but
also polarizing figure. The former
priest is an advocate of the poor,
who make up the vast majority of
Haiti's more than 9 million
people, and he was a leader of the
movement that shook off a hated
dictatorship. But he has many
critics, who say he led a corrupt
government, orchestrated violent
attacks on foes and was as hungry
for power as the leaders he
denounced. He was last ousted in
a violent 2004 rebellion that
swept the country.
The U.S. and others fear his
presence — despite his supporters'
insistence that he will not get
involved in politics — will bring
further disarray to a country
struggling to emerge from a
political crisis, a cholera epidemic
and the devastation of the January
2010 earthquake.
Following his arrival, there was
no sign of any unrest in the
Haitian capital, where life went on
as usual. Many Aristide
supporters were simply joyous.
"We are going to party," said 36-
year-old mechanic Assey Woy,
discussing the news of the ousted
leader's return with friends on a
street corner downtown. "It will
be like New Year's Day."
During a refueling stopover early
Friday in Dakar, Senegal, Aristide
reiterated that he wants to work in
education. His comments also
reflected his awareness of his
huge popularity and influence
among Haiti's majority poor.
"I think that the Haitian people are
very happy," Aristide told
Democracy Now!, a U.S.-based
news program. "Happy to know
that we are on our way heading to
Haiti. Happy to know that finally
their dream will be fulfilled by
things on the ground because they
fought hard for democracy. They
always wanted the return to
happen and now it is happening."
Energy spread through Aristide's
followers Thursday as word
spread across Haiti that he was
heading home. Some joined in a
raucous, horn-blaring victory
procession. Others decorated the
courtyard of his foundation
headquarters with Haitian flags
and photos of the former
president. One woman waited
with a bouquet of flowers.
"We just want to see him," said 30
-year-old Lesley Jean-Giles.
But Aristide could sway the
outcome of the election with an
endorsement of either candidate.
"We're going to stay wherever he
is until he tells us what to do,"
said Tony Forest, 44, a minibus
driver. "We will vote for the
candidate he picks."
Aristide did not mention politics
as he board the plane for home in
a blue suit with his wife, Mildred,
and two daughters.
"The great day has arrived! The
day to say goodbye before
returning home," he said in Zulu,
a language he studied in South
Africa. "We are delighted to
return home after seven years. In
Haiti also they are very happy. ...
Their dream will be fulfilled.
Together, we will continue to
share this endless love."
He took no questions from the
dozens of journalists who
gathered to see him off.
Aristide, a former slum priest
who became Haiti's first
democratically elected president,
did not fully serve either of his
terms. He was ousted the first
time in a coup, then restored to
power in a U.S. military
intervention in 1994. After
completing that term in 1996, he
was elected again in 2001, only to
flee a rebellion in 2004 aboard a
U.S. plane. Aristide claimed he
was kidnapped. U.S. officials
denied that.
In exile, he has been reclusive,
doing university research and
polishing his academic credentials
with a doctorate awarded by the
University of South Africa for a
comparative study on Zulu and
Haitian Creole.
Obama was concerned enough
about Aristide's possibly
destabilizing influence to call
South African President Jacob
Zuma on Tuesday and discuss the
matter, U.S. National Security
Council spokesman Tommy
Vietor told The Associated Press.
"The United States, along with
others in the international
community, has deep concerns
that President Aristide's return to
Haiti in the closing days of the
election could be destabilizing,"
Vietor said.
Aristide's aides say he feared that
if he waited, the winner of
Sunday's vote might block his
return.
In the past, both candidates —
university administrator and
former first lady Mirlande
Manigat and popular singer
Michel "Sweet Micky" Martelly
— opposed Aristide. Her
husband, Leslie Manigat, who
was elected in a criticized 1988
election under a military junta that
quickly ousted him in a coup, has
called Aristide a communist.
Now, both Martelly and Manigat
stress their support for his right to
return as a Haitian citizen under
the constitution. Both candidates
would like to attract votes from
followers of Aristide's Lavalas
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Family party.
Haiti's electoral council barred
Lavalas from the presidential
election for technical reasons that
supporters said were bogus. Its
members are boycotting Sunday's
runoff.
In front of Haiti's crumbled
National Palace, a man who is
supporting Martelly in Sunday's
election told Associated Press
Television News that he had
mixed feelings about the arrival.
"Yes, I support Aristide. I love
Aristide," said the man who gave
only his first name, Carlos. "But I
don't want him to come back right
now because it can be trouble for
the election."
The initial Nov. 28 vote was so
troubled by fraud,
disorganization, instances of
violence and voter intimidation
that 12 of the 19 candidates
including the front-runners
initially called for it to be tossed
out.
Aristide emerged as a leading
voice for Haiti's poor in a popular
revolt that forced an end to the
Duvalier family's 29-year
dictatorship. He has said he will
not be involved in politics in Haiti
and wants to lead his foundation's
efforts to improve education in
the impoverished Caribbean
nation devastated by last year's
catastrophic earthquake.
___
Associated Press writer Jacob
Kushner contributed to this report.
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outside Manama to bury two
victims of a week of violence
which has left at least eight dead,
including protesters and police,
and hundreds of demonstrators
wounded.
But they have been left waiting
as the authorities are refusing to
release the bodies from Manama's
main hospital, which has been
taken over by security personnel
amid UN fears of "shocking and
illegal" abuses in the tiny Gulf
state.
0905 GMT: In case you missed
the overnight details, the defence
ministry in Tripoli has warned
that "any military operation
against Libya will expose all air
and maritime traffic in the
Mediterranean to danger."
Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled
Kaaim immediately after the UN
resolution was passed said Libya
is ready for a ceasefire but wants
to discuss its terms.
He told reporters in Tripoli the
regime will "react positively to
the UN resolution, and we will
prove this willingness while
guaranteeing protection to
civilians."
0858 GMT: Germany says it
remains "eminently sceptical on
the option of military
intervention."
"We see in it considerable risks
and dangers. That is why we
could not approve this part of the
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0855 GMT: Poland will offer
logistical support but will play no
military role in Libya, Defence
Minister Bogdan Klich says.
"We are ready to help with our
transport plans. We can deploy
some of our forces and our
resources for humanitarian aid,"
Klich told TOK FM radio station.
"As regards the military no-fly
zone (in Libya), we do not
envisage taking part in its
implementation with our armed
forces," he said.
0847 GMT: "Based on the UN
Security Council resolution, Qatar
has decided to contribute in the
efforts aiming at stopping
bloodshed and protecting civilians
in Libya," QNA quotes a foreign
ministry official as saying.
The gas-rich Gulf emirate
"welcomed" the UN resolution
and urged "quick action to impose
(it)... to stop bloodshed and bring
security and stability to the
Libyans," says the statement.
0841 GMT: More from French
government spokesman Francois
Baroin:
The military action "is not an
occupation of Libyan territory"
but seeks to "protect the Libyan
people and to allow them to go all
the way in their drive for freedom,
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radio.
Baroin declined to say "when,
how, on which targets, in what
form," the strikes will come. "The
French who were at the vanguard
of this call (for intervention) will
naturally be part of the military
intervention."
0836 GMT: Indian Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh says
he wants citizens of North Africa
and West Asia take their own
decisions "free of outside
interference". India abstained lat
night in the UN Security Council
vote on a no-fly zone.
"As a democracy, we are happy to
see our brothers in West Asia and
North Africa taking an increasing
role in determining their own
future," Singh told a conference in
New Delhi.
But "these are decisions for
countries and their citizens to take
for themselves, free of outside
interference or coercion," he said.
0834 GMT: NATO will today
discuss what role the alliance may
take in Libya after the UN
approved military action in the
strife-torn country, NATO's
spokeswoman has announced.
0827 GMT: A son of Libya
strongman Moamer Kadhafi has
said his family is "not afraid" after
the United Nations approved air
strikes against forces loyal to his
father's regime.
"We are in our country and with
our people. And we are not
afraid," Seif al-Islam Kadhafi told
ABC News Nightline from
Tripoli.
"We will not be afraid. Come on!
We will not be afraid. I mean, you
are not helping to the people if
you are going to bomb Libya, to
kill Libyans. You destroy our
country. Nobody is happy with
that."
0821 GMT: Qatar will contribute
to international efforts to protect
Libyan civilians and has urged
quick action to impose a no-fly
zone on the North African
country, state news agency QNA
reports.
0812 GMT: Kadhafi's forces are
pounding the rebel bastion of
Misrata, east of Tripoli, after a
night of heavy gunfire, a rebel
spokesman has told AFP.
"Dozens of bombs of all sorts
have fallen on the city since last
night," the spokesman says,
adding the bombing is "still
intense."
0800 GMT: Libyan rebel bastion
Benghazi has erupted with
celebratory gunfire after the UN
Security Council cleared the way
for air strikes to halt Moamer
Kadhafi's offensive on Libyan
insurgents.
The 15-member Security Council
in a resolution approved "all
necessary measures" to impose a
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and pressure the veteran Libyan
leader into accepting a ceasefire.
The UN vote passed 10-0 with
five abstentions -- permanent
members China and Russia, who
did not wield their vetos, plus
Germany, Brazil and India.
Military action against Libya will
come within "hours" and France
will participate in the strikes,
government spokesman Francois
Baroin said this morning. The
strikes will come "rapidly...
within a few hours," he told RTL
radio.
Diplomats have indicated that air
strikes from a coalition led by
Britain, France and the United
States could be imminent.
However, the resolution rules out
sending in foreign ground troops.
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Phil "Captain 3-D" McNally Is DreamWorks' Animated

Megamind
Austin Carr (Fast Company)
Submitted at 3/18/2011 11:23:52 AM

When DreamWorks Animation's

Phil Captain 3-D McNally first
entered Wednesday's Samsung
showcase in New York City, he
wasn't drawn to many of the shiny
gadgets blanketing virtually every
wall, floor, and ceiling. Not the
Maxell blow-your-hair-back
display of the latest and highest-
definition TVs, tablets, or
smartphones. Rather, McNally
immediately made a dash toward
the three screens playing
Megamind--a film he was
intimately involved in as
DreamWorks' stereoscopic
supervisor--and began fiddling
with the settings. A company rep
later told me later that Phil
"wanted it to look good--he didn't
want someone to look at the 3-D
and say this doesn't look right."
As his (legal) middle-name
suggests, McNally lives and
breathes 3-D. He's been working
box office, but at home, the third- Samsung execs peddled the Wall Street, that you have to McNally says. "But the best 3-D
in the field for decades, long
dimension has been less of a hit. company's latest gadgets on stage, deliver every quarter," McNally experience you can get right now
before James Cameron made it
Despite hot holiday predictions, 3 promising to bundle the products says. "The expectation is so short- is with glasses--it's no more
the mission of every exec in
-D televisions have yet to catch with Megamind and Shrek. term. Because of those stupid unusual than wearing headphones
Hollywood. With his earrings and
fire among consumers and have But "Captain 3-D" is far from iPhones and their fantastic sales, to hear really good sound."
flowing hair, the Irish-born
failed to meet retailers' losing faith in his own namesake. we have gotten into that McNally recognizes that it'll be
animator looks equal parts Bono
expectations. The technology has While understanding the mentality!" years, maybe even decades,
and David Foster Wallace--a
not translated from the big to drawbacks and limits of the Skeptics have also pointed to 3-D before 3-D "just becomes part of
definite standout among the
small screen, making medium, McNally is still gung-ho glasses as being one obstacle to our normal content," and realizes
event's Samsung suits.
DreamWorks and McNally's that 3-D will become ubiquitous, mass consumer adoption. "If we that with such a big push for the
McNally's work in 3-D (Shrek
presence at the event all the more both in theater and on TV. could snap our fingers and have technology, there's the potential
Forever After, How to Train Your
noticeable (sure, McNally's teal- "It seems like if you don't sell a fantastic 3-D content without for consumer fatigue. "We have to
Dragon, Monsters vs. Aliens) has
leather shoes might've helped). bazillion units in two months, it's any glasses, everyone would
no doubt seen huge success at the PHIL page 14
This was especially true as a failure--it's partly the fault of agree that would be better,"
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continued from page 10
their level of support for their own
and their refusal to point fingers
... its the Americans that are
trying to point their fingers for
them.
May Japan be strong and may
God watch over them in there
time of tragedy!
Hats off to the Japanese people
for your civil order, unlike the
looting that occured New Orleans,
USA. Japan your in my thoughts
daily.
The prime minister is
wrong.There is so little
information. I want to escape, but
huge number of people are
suffering and rescue people are
working in dangerous area.I can't
ignore them.I do what I have to do
here now.
Japan needs help!! All the
countries in world there should be
no reason that they run out of
food!!!! I know I would give up
my meals and send it if I could!!!
No excuses.
What stoicism the Japanese
people are showing in this
catastrophe. Still bowing to each
other in thanks for a service
PHIL
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be careful that we don't exhaust
everyone, turn things over so fast
that everyone ends up like, well,
I'm just going to wait for the next
new thing," he says. "That can
actually be pretty fatiguing."
Even for someone who writes
"Captain 3-D" on his taxes,
McNally isn't immune to this
fatigue himself. "It's kind of an
rendered. Many other peoples
could learn from this. May they
find the strength to perservere into
the future.
Japan is very inventive. Maybe
they can invent floating offshore
nuclear power plants. Then, if
there's a breach in the reactor, it
can automatically disconnect
power cables and then robotically
move to a far away location.
There are lots of people available
to do this dangerous work --
namely those who designed these
reactors and built them in
hazardous locations -- including
all the politicians and other
decision-makers along the way.
Why should innocent firemen and
other brave souls have to die
young when we can simply draft
the culpable? These would
probably include folks from
outside Japan. If they can't handle
a fire hose or other high-tech
equipment, give them a bucket of
water and a ladder to climb.
I am deeply saddened to see such
devastation and loss of human life
in Japan. I pray that nothing will
happen at the nuclear power plant.
irony," he says, ticking off the
devices his family has at home: a
5-year-old projector, a kitchen-
size TV.
"I don't actually watch that much
content at home--if we're just
watching the news, it's on this
little TV, an ancient 13-inch TV
in fact," he adds. "A lot of people
that work in places like
May God bless Japan and its
courageous and brave people.
hats off for putting up a
courageous effort defying all odds
to bring sanity to the horror
painted of the end result, putting
duty first knowing fully well if
anything goes wrong for no fault
of theirs they will be saving
mankind, and setting gold
standard for future generations to
come, wish all the brave people
best wishes in their glorious
effort.
Japan is very wealthy and has
without a dought the intelligance
to overcome the situation,I hope
they will succeed.
I feel for the sacraficing
employees that are working near
this plant trying to cool this beast
- it is a job no one in their mind
would want to think of at any
price. How can you put out a fire
that you can't even get near-even
12 miles is too near.
I feel for the sacraficing
employees that are working near
this plant trying to cool this beast
- it is a job no one in their mind
would want to think of at any
DreamWorks are surrounded by
the latest technology all day--you
don't want to take your day job
home." (McNally says one of the
higher-ups who worked on
Megamind doesn't even have a
computer at home.)
But for the rest of us, the
technology clearly hasn't caused
too much fatigue--roughly 33% of
price. How can you put out a fire
that you can't even get near-even
12 miles is too near.
There is no easy cleanup. They
tried robots at Chernobyl and the
robot circuits were destroyed.
Water sprayed on Chernobyl
gathered underneath in a sub floor
and almost caused a second larger
explosion. Fuel rods do not just
cool down from 5000 degrees,
and they do not just stop
producing radiation. The
Chernobyl sarcophagus, covering
the radioactive site, is falling apart
and needs tp be replaced. Nuclear
energy is not safe.
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earnings are now generated from
3-D films. In 2010, six of the top
10 highest-grossing movies were
shot in three dimensions.
Regardless of its slow adoption
outside Tinsel Town, there's no
question 3-D is in the early stages
of what likely will be a long
boom.
As McNally told me recently: "3-
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after West threatens
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Reuters - Muammar Gaddafi's
government said it was declaring
a unilateral ceasefire in its
offensive to crush Libya's revolt,
as Western warplanes prepared to
attack his forces.
Italy allows base
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-fly action (AP)
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his nation will allow its military
bases to be used for the U.N.-
backed military intervention to
enforce a no-fly zone over Libya.
D isn’t going away until we stop
seeing with two eyes."
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Intel Bets on Egyptian Mobile Tech

Neal Ungerleider (Fast technology is the first of its kind company introduced at MWC its
Company) for Intel in the Middle East […] Medfield smartphone processor,
Submitted at 3/18/2011 10:39:43 AM The acquisition shows Intel’s which is seen as better equipped
continued long-term strategic than previous chips to compete
Intel's purchase of Egyptian commitment to the region and its with processors based on the
mobile software firm SySDSoft appreciation of its young, growing designs of ARM Holdings, which
isn't just a massive cash infusion talent pool.” dominates the mobile phone and
in a post-revolution economy: It's But for Intel, investing in tablet market. Medfield, which is
also Intel's savvy way of getting SySDSoft has little to do with expected to enter mass production
in on the LTE fanfare. “strategic commitment” to Egypt this year, is smaller and consumes
The Egyptian Revolution, as a n d t h e M i d d l e E a s t a n d less power than any other
might be expected, has taken its everything to do with their processor Intel has made for
toll on the nation's economy. But cheerleading for the WiMax smartphones.
computer giant Intel is finding protocol. If an Egyptian software firm can
conditions favorable enough to Intel has been vocal in pushing help give Intel the edge it needs to
invest there: Intel just purchased WiMax, a competitor protocol to gain market share for what's likely
the bulk of 4G Egyptian wireless DSL and cable internet capable of to be the next major broadband
firm SySDSoft's assets as part of handling VoIP phone calls and platform, that is good news for
their ongoing WiMax push. Internet television with far fewer companies in Egypt and Tunisia.
Terms of the transaction were not challenges than conventional The new governments of both
disclosed. SySDSoft, based in broadband protocols. The USB countries need to show that they
Cairo with approximately 100 modems marketed by American can both offer foreign firms
engineers in Egypt and the United mobile phone providers are the transparency and local
States, will be folded into the Intel best known examples of WiMax. entrepreneurs the opportunity to
Mobile Communications division. LTE functons as a successor make cash on a worldwide scale.
process. and 75 mbps upload rate.
The bulk of SySDSoft's work is protocol to WiMax. Acquisitions like SySDSoft's can
In October, SySDSoft announced InformationWeek's Antone
dedicated to developing software While WiMax-based services only help.
that they had managed to create Gonsalves notes that the
and circuitry for 4G LTE mobile have acquired a large market [Image via Flickr user JBTaylor]
staggeringly high throughput rates acquisition coincides with
technology. share in Europe and Asia, they For more stories like this,
from their LTE UE protocol growing intrusion by Intel into the
According to Intel Capital have yet to crack the all-important follow@fastcompany on Twitter.
stacks that, in practical terms, mobile market: Intel's focus on
president Arvind Sodhani, “The North American market in a Email Neal Ungerleider, the
mean it could become the fastest communication-related
acquisition of engineering and significant manner. Intel is hoping author of this article, here.
option for broadband internet. semiconductors complements its
design talent from an Egypt-based that LTE will succeed where
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A man walks by a display screen
which shows the Libyan no fly
zone, highlighted in blue at
bottom right, at Eurocontrol in
Brussels, March 18, 2011
The Libyan government declared
a cease-fire Friday in its battle
with rebels, apparently answering
the U.N. Security Council's
resolution less than 24 hours ago
authorizing "all necessary
measures" to protect civilians in
the north African country,
including a no-fly zone imposed
by U.N. member states.
Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa
announced the cease-fire in
Tripoli. He said his government
wants to open a dialogue with all
parties interested in Libya's
territorial unity. Referring to
reports that airstrikes against
Libya's air-defense system could
begin "within hours," the Libyan
minister encouraged foreign
powers to "check the facts on the
ground" by sending fact-finding
missions before taking direct
action against Libyan leader
Moammar Gadhafi's government.
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Koussa criticized the Security
Council's authorization of the
possible use of military force as
"strange and unreasonable." He
said enforcement of a no-fly zone
would increase the suffering of
the Libyan people.
Anti-government demonstrators
in Libya have said one of the
main reasons they took to the
streets last month to denounce
Gadhafi was to protest against
years of economic hardship they
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than any time in the last 18 years.
Sure, it will only be a few percent
closer than on average, and appear almost indistinguishably
have already suffered.
Libya closed its air space to all
traffic earlier Friday, as
diplomatic sources in France said
airstrikes could be imminent.
Hours after the Security Council
vote late Thursday, French
government spokesman Francois
Baroin and Norweigian Defense
Minister Grete Faremo announced
that their countries would join any
international military action
against Libya.
The U.N. resolution is intended
to prevent Libyan military forces
from pursuing their violent
crackdown to suppress civilian
unrest.
Pro-Gadhafi forces bombarded
the western rebel-held town town
of Misrata Friday as NATO
envoys in Brussels discussed
ways to enforce the U.N. Security
Council resolution.
Ten council members voted in
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of Benghazi, applauding the U.N.
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At least 35 people have been shot
dead and hundreds wounded in
Sana'a after soldiers and plain-
clothed government loyalists
opened fired on protesters trying
to march through the Yemeni
capital.
The death toll, which is expected
to rise, is the highest seen in more
than a month of violence in
Yemen, with protesters
demanding that President Ali
Abdullah Saleh step down.
The protest on Friday had started
peacefully. Tens of thousands
filled a mile-long stretch of road
by Sana'a University for a prayer
ceremony mourning the loss of
seven protesters killed in similar
violence last weekend.
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however, the sight of black smoke
from a burning car caught the
attention of protesters, who began
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of an increasingly violent
crackdown on protesters.
Anti-government demonstrations
were held in other cities,
including Taiz, Ibb, Hodeidah,
Aden and Amran, following
Friday prayers at midday.
Yemen, the youngest and poorest
country in the Arab world, has
been hit by weeks of protests set
in motion by uprisings in north
Africa that toppled long-serving
leaders in Tunisia and Egypt and
spread to the Gulf states of
Bahrain, Oman and Saudi Arabia.
Saleh has maintained a firm grip
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decades and has rejected calls for
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iPhone 5 Rumors Heating Up: All Metal, Wireless Payment,

and NFC Logins to Macs
Kit Eaton (Fast Company)
Submitted at 3/18/2011 11:18:10 AM

The iPhone 5 rumors continue,

and this time they're backing up
something we've suspected for a
while--Apple's next phone may be
all metal. It also looks to be
simply a better phone all around.
A few rumors from a while back
suggested that Apple's next
iPhone revamp would ditch the
glass back and adopt a metal one
instead--added to the stainless
steel antenna-frame of the iPhone
4, this means the iPhone 5 would
be an all-metal affair. Now there's
an extra boost to this rumor
courtesy of a previously reliable
source inside Foxconn (Apple's
Chinese manufacturer partner)
who's seen a prototype edition, would be more resilient, it could back like the iPhone 4, and would NFC login powers to its next OS sometime soon: After all, it was
and notes that the factories are reduce production costs, it reflects largely follow its design format. upgrade, OSX Lion. Supposedly June last year when it revealed the
ramping up into mass production Apple's unibody design for its This is consistent with Apple's tied to the new App Store and a iPhone 4--although Gizmodo
for the device. computers, and in one swoop it design evolution ethos, and tallies revamp of MobileMe, the idea leaked the prototype a month
An all-metal back makes sense ditches the production problems with a number of leaked iPhone 5 would be that a user could login earlier. The ensuing criminal
for a bunch of reasons: The glass associated with light leakage and cases that assume an almost to a different Mac simply be investigation over that episode is
back of the iPhone 4 was bad paint that delayed the white identical format, except for the swiping their iPhone over the now reported to be near its end.
beautiful, but it meant there were iPhone 4. A metal back could also larger screen rumor that we've Mac's sensor (implying NFC Will something similar happen
two fragile surfaces that could be shallower than the glass one seen before. Also 9to5Mac looked powers in upcoming Macs) and this year?
shatter if you dropped the phone, would allow, which could let at internal circuitry, apparently their desktop environment would To read more news like this,
it added a lot of weight to the Apple back a bigger battery inside from the iPhone 5, that shows its appear as if they were at home. follow Fast Company on Twitter:
device's construction, and it was the case--a move that would boost design similarities. Combined with the metal back Click here.
subject to a stress-fracture rumor the iPhone's powers, and add back Meanwhile that wireless credit rumor, which would probably not Read More: Most Innovative
involving sliding cases. Replacing some of that "quality feel" weight. payment NFC rumor has emerged be radio transparent, we have to Companies: Apple
the glass back with a metal one The Foxconn leaker who spoke to again, after being squashed wonder if Apple could use a novel
solves several of Apple's 9to5Mac about the phone also recently, and there's some new in-screen NFC antenna design.
production problems. The phone confirmed it would have a flat evidence that Apple is building Apple is bound to reveal the truth
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Ditch Your Business Card for These Apps

Gregory Ferenstein (Fast
Company)
Submitted at 3/18/2011 10:37:52 AM

Who needs paper to share contact

info when you've got Blinx and
Hashable?
For all of SXSW’s cutting edge
digital technology, the primary
connection tool is still a paper
product: the business card. Post-
conference, participants may
spend spend hours imputing
contact info and responding via
email. As a solution, two business
card apps, Blinx and Hashable,
will help network-hungry
entrepreneurs ditch the antiquated
model of exchanging tiny
rectangular slices of printed
paper. For those who have process of having this message businesses are already of the new contact and reference it business cards taller than the
returned from the conference, automatically downloaded into transmitting business card info by the meeting location or keep Sears Tower, Cardmunch is an
Cardmunch will help digitally the phone’s contacted database through SMS. Blinx claims the the meeting private between an efficient way to digitally archive
archive them accurately, based on via a widely recognized card file patent is for "Transmitting inner circle of friends. them. The app sends out a picture
pictures of card sent to a human format called Vcard. And, unlike business cards through SMS or Additionally, email introductions of the card to be manually
transcriber. previous SMS or app attempts, MMS," according to an email sent are a simple with four-step imputed by an actual human
Blinx facilitates contact Blinx web client keeps track of to Fast Company. With or without process: select "make an intro" on being. The data can then be
information sharing through SMS who and when SMS requests were the patent, the process of the iPhone landing page, click the emailed to oneself or exported
messages that automatically sent to the system for easy recall. automatic database integration is first recipient, then the second into a CVS format for easy
download into a smartphone’s Blinx officials tell Fast Company still novel. recipient, and a customizable integration into Gmail or Outlook.
contact database. Users text a pre- that the "automatic download" For social butterflies who need email is setup in the iOS mailing Follow Fast Company on Twitter.
determined five-digit phone feature won’t be available until the additional feature of sharing system. Finally, Hashable activity Also, Follow Greg Ferenstein on
number with a short code, such as April, and an iPhone app is contacts within their network, and features are also available Twitter or email him.
“greg," and are sent a customized currently on the company’s to-do Hashable has a slick iPhone through their website.
list of business card information list. interface for easy sharing info [youtube DY4HpvPPIk0]
(email, title, cell, etc.). Also, we aren't sure how far over Twitter and through email For those readers who returned
SMS business cards are nothing Blinx's patent extends, since other introductions. Hashable will tweet from SXSW with a stack of
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Liveblogging The Goldman Sachs Conference Call About
Japan (GS)
Courtney Comstock (Business
Insider)
Submitted at 3/18/2011 10:25:00 AM
Goldman Sachs is hosting a
conference call on the situation in
Japan for its clients right now.
Here's what's happening:
11:27: Host asks Lester, what's
your assessment on the range of
outcomes?
LESTER SAYS:
Let me add a footnote about the
spent fuel pool -
I think there's a broad divergence
of opinion.
The spent fuel pool is out of
water, or it isn't. We'll have to
wait to find out.
Concerning where things might
go from here -
11:19: Host asks Denning, what's
your assessment of the spent fuel
pools:
DENNING SAYS: Unit 4 has no
fuel - it was offloaded into the
spent fool sometime in early
November. So it's generating
quite a bit more heat than other
fuel that's in that pool.
There was a hydrogen explosion
that occurred in the building. This
is speculative, but here's what the
current assessment going around
is about why the explosion
occurred:
The Japanese have denied that
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the core has been uncovered, but
clearly some uncovering has
occured.
What happened what, the pool
got to the point where it was
effectively at its boiling point and
there's a circulation point at the
bottom there that circulates and
had been keeping the pool cool.
Ass soon as there was some
boiling, we believe that the
pressurization occured in that pool
so that it became very hot even
though there was water above it.
The fuel reaction then created a
hydrogen reaction that caused the
explosion.
I DONT SEE ANY PUBLIC
PERSON WHO'S GOING TO
DIE BECAUSE OF
RADIATION.
If the doses get extremely high in
some areas, the people can be
relocated. The other issue with the
cesium that could be released is
the deposition.
If the wind blows the other way.
you could definitely have land
contamination. (Right now it's
blowing out to see) In my own
opinion, that could be the biggest
expense, in my opinion.
The damage clean up will cost
billions but the land
contamination is another thing
that we have to be concerned
about.
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have hit 4 times, and aftershocks
over 6.0 have occured 48 times.
There's agency estimates that
aftershocks as high as 5.0 until
March 19th.
There are some similarities with
Kobe, but some differences that
should be noted.
15-16
3-4% of GDP. This is roughly 1/2
the size of Kobe. A number of
people have asked whether the
bank of Japan having to intervene
is a risk to Japan's fiscal
sustainability. Will it tip the
scale? No, compared to the
overall debt burden, the cost of
the earthquake
Fiscal sustainibility is a risk 5-10
years down the road, but not now.
11:14: Dr. Richard Lester, Head p r o v i d i n g s h i e l d i n g o f t h e
Affects on currencies: The dollar
of the Department of Nuclear r a d i a t i o n .
S c i e n c e a n d E n g i n e e r i n g , In one of the units there has been has depreciated marginally. The
M a s s a c h u s e t t s I n s t i t u t e o f a b r e a c h o f t h e p r i m a r y yen has appreciated marginally.
Technology, spoke first. c o n t a i n m e n t . T h e r e a r e Questions they'll be answering:
LESTER SAYS: There's a lot of indications that, although this has How should we think about the
uncertainty of course. We've had not been confirmed, somewhere r i s k o f a m a j o r r e l e a s e o f
partial melting of the fuel at 3 in the primary containment area, r a d i a t i o n ?
reactors. It's not going to be clear there was a breach in unit 2 that What are implications for yen
how much melting has taken led to some significant release of and the Japanese?
Global contagion a risk?
place for quite some time. radioactive activity.
At 3 mile, it took years before the 11:00: THE CALL BEGINS The nuclear question is the most
amount of fuel Before the guests spoke, a host important one, and with our
We don't know what fraction of gave a brief overview of the crisis speakers, we'll try to assess the
base case scenario and the worst
the cores has melted. going on in Japan. Here it is:
The fuel is not being well cooled, The initial earthquake was a 9.0, casr scenario.
and the water is no longer and since then, aftershocks of 7.4 Join the conversation about this
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Think The Japanese Gov. Are Handling
Fukushima Poorly? Check Out This 1979 'Meet
The Press' Clip On Three Mile Island
Noah Davis (Business Insider)
Submitted at 3/18/2011 10:22:00 AM
The Fukushima disaster officially
became a Level 5 crisis on Friday
morning, matching the Three-
Mile Island partial meltdown in
1979.
The similarities between the
incidents are similar, maybe
moreso than people realize.
Matt Bai posted a clip from 40
years ago in which Senator Gary
Hart - then the chairman of the
Senate subcommittee on nuclear
regulation - appeared on Meet
The Press to talk about the crisis.
It's an amazing listen, for the
information provided as much as
the calm, reasoned discussion
from both the interviewers and the
interviewee.
Unfortunately, the United States
government's response to the
crisis was less than perfect.
In the very first question,
moderator Gary Hart asked is
there "the risk of a catastrophic
accident."
"Yes Mister Herman, I do believe
that risk exists," Hart said. "It’s
very difficult to quantify because
this is a unique occurrence. There
And Now Syria
Joe Weisenthal (Money Game)
Submitted at 3/18/2011 9:55:00 AM
are teams of experts, as you know
on the scene both private and
public officials. They are trying to
determine the best course of
dealing with this unique situation.
But until this situation is dealt
with, until the reactor is in what is
called a “cold shutdown
situation”, the risk you’ve
described does exist."
Later, another reporter wondered
if people would have to be
evacuated.
In addition to everything else, (via Nowlebanon.com)
now Syria. Join the conversation about this
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Business/ Economy/
the many lessons we've learned
out of this is that we have to
improve the crisis management
situation. I've already recommend
for my own part that I intend to
put legislation in as quickly as
possible to drastically increase the
federal government's monitoring
capability of these plants
nationwide and drastically
increase the federal government's
ability to move in and in effect
take over operational decisions of
a reactor that is in a critical
situation."
Audio below.
Join the conversation about this
story »
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Hart's response:
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"Well, I think that goes back to
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Mr. Herman's first question, and
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the answer is yes because we are
Recoveries After Nuke Events,
in a unique area. We're in a
Earthquakes, Tsunamis, And
situation no one has dealt with
Storms
before - and I think all the
• The Most Ridiculous Thing
officials at all levels want to do
We've Read About Japan Today
everything with an abundance of
caution. Without trying to panic
people, you have to look after the
wellfare of the people in the area.
I think one of the lessons, one of
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The World's 15 Biggest Landowners Analyst Calls: AMTD, COG,
Thornton McEnery (Business
Insider)
Submitted at 3/18/2011 10:27:05 AM
The world's total land mass
consists of 36.8 billion acres of
inhabitable land.
An incredible 21 percent of this
land is owned by a short list of
landowners, according to The
New Statesman.
Of course that includes the Queen
of England, who nominally owns
places like Canada and Australia.
The list also includes American
billionaires like Ted Turner and
the Irving family.#15 Ted Turner
Land: Acreage totaling over 2
million. In The United States, he
owns thousands of square miles of
hunting grounds in Georgia and
Montana. He also has roughly
11,000 acres of land in the
Patagonia region of Argentina.
Background: Turner, an iconic
America entrepreneur founded the
Turner Broadcasting System that
launched CNN and several others
before being sold to Time Warner
for yet another Turner fortune.
The eccentric Turner is an
avowed outdoorsman and has
acquired land to use in his passion
for fishing and hunting.
Acreage estimates provided by
The New Statesman.
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The New York Times(NYT)
paywall has arrived: it's going up
#14 Sheik Hamad Bin Khalifa of
Qatar
Land: Basically... Qatar. The
King owns the country and all
4,415 miles of it.
Background: Bin Khalifa has a
been a modernizing voice and
Western-friendly face in the
Middle East since taking the
throne in 1995.
Acreage estimates provided by
The New Statesman.
#13 James, Arthur and John
Irving
Land: The approximately 3.6
million acres of land held in
in Canada today, and then
worldwide on 28 March. The
most comprehensive source for
the gritty details is this FAQ, which does things like explain the
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DO, F, GM, HUM, LEA,
MMI, NKE, SI, TRW ...
Eric Buscemi (BloggingStocks) • Janus Capital ( JNS) to hold
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Volunteers: Startup 2011 Needs General Mills Likes Yoplait

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on Oil's Rise the U.S. coastline that it would
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on the weekend and to brief the
Joseph Lazzaro VIENNA -- Radioactive fallout residents. IAEA's 35-nation board in an
(BloggingStocks) from Japan's crippled nuclear While set up to monitor emergency session Monday.
Submitted at 3/18/2011 10:40:00 AM plant has reached Southern atmospheric nuclear testing, the In Geneva, the World Health
California but the first readings CTBTO's worldwide network of Organization said Tokyo's
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Schlumberger ( SLB), which I The diplomat, who has access to Japan's northeastern coast that to Japan because of its nuclear
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Japan on Alert for Nuke Crisis as Threat Level Rises
(FOXNews.com)
Submitted at 3/18/2011 10:41:03 AM
Japan reached out Friday to the
U.S. for help in reining in the
crisis at its dangerously
overheated nuclear complex as the
country raised the severity of the
accident on-hand.
Japan's nuclear safety agency has
raised the rating of the country's
nuclear accident from 4 to 5 on a
7-level international scale.
The hallmarks of a level 5
emergency are severe damage to a
reactor core, release of large
quantities of radiation with a high
probability of "significant" public
exposure or several deaths from
radiation. The alert level applied
to reactors No.1, No. 2 and No. 3
at the troubled Fukushima Dai-
ichi nuclear plant.
The scale defines a level 4
incident as having local
consequences, while a level 5
incident can bring wider
consequences.
The U.N.'s atomic energy chief
said Friday that the disaster is a
race against the clock that
demands global cooperation said
IAEA chief Yukiya Amano. The
official plans to brief his agency's
35-nation board on Monday on
the nuclear crisis in Japan after
returning from Tokyo.
At the stricken complex, military
fire trucks again sprayed the
troubled reactor units for a second
day, with tons of water arcing
over the facility in desperate
attempts to prevent the fuel from
overheating and spewing
dangerous levels of radiation.
"The whole world, not just Japan,
is depending on them," Tokyo
office worker Norie Igarashi, 44,
said of the emergency teams
working amid heightened
radiation levels at the complex on
the northeastern coast.
Last week's 9.0 quake and
tsunami set off the nuclear
problems by knocking out power
to cooling systems at the
Fukushima Dai-ichi plant on the
northeast coast. Since then, four
of the troubled plant's six reactor
units have seen fires, explosions
or partial meltdowns.
The unfolding crises have led to
power shortages in Japan, forced
factories to close, sent
shockwaves through global
manufacturing and triggered a
plunge in Japanese stock prices.
"We see it as an extremely serious
accident," Yukiya Amano, the
head of the U.N.'s International
Atomic Energy Agency, told
reporters Friday after arriving in
Tokyo. "This is not something
that just Japan should deal with,
and people of the entire world
should cooperate with Japan and
the people in the disaster areas."
"I think they are racing against the
clock," he said of the efforts to
cool the complex.
One week after the twin disasters
-- which left more than 6,500
dead and over 10,300 missing --
emergency crews are facing two
challenges in the nuclear crisis:
cooling the reactors where energy
is generated, and cooling the
adjacent pools where used nuclear
fuel rods are stored in water.
Both need water to keep their
uranium cool and stop it from
emitting radiation, but with
radiation levels inside the
complex already limiting where
workers can go and how long they
can remain, it's been difficult to
get enough water inside.
Water in at least one fuel pool --
in the complex's Unit 3 -- is
believed to be dangerously low.
Without enough water, the rods
may heat further and spew out
radiation.
"Dealing with Unit 3 is our
utmost priority," Chief Cabinet
Secretary Yukio Edano told
reporters.
Edano said Friday that Tokyo is
asking the U.S. government for
help and that the two are
discussing the specifics.
"We are coordinating with the
U.S. government as to what the
U.S. can provide and what people
really need," Edano said.
A U.S. military fire truck was
used to help spray water into the
crippled Unit 3, according to Air
Force Chief of Staff Shigeru
Iwasaki, though the vehicle was
apparently driven by Japanese
workers.
The U.S. vehicle was used
alongside six Japanese military
fire trucks normally used to
extinguish fires at plane crashes.
The fire trucks allowed
emergency workers to stay a
relatively safe distance from the
radiation, firing the water with
high-pressure cannons. The
firefighters also are able to direct
the cannons from inside the
vehicle.
Officials shared few details about
the Friday operation, which lasted
nearly 40 minutes, though Iwasaki
said he believed some water had
reached its target.
Meanwhile, tsunami survivors
observed a minute of silence
Friday afternoon at the one-week
mark since the 9.0-magnitude
quake, which struck at 2:46 p.m.
Many were bundled up against the
cold at shelters in the disaster
zone, pressing their hands
together in prayer.
Low levels of radiation have been
detected well beyond Tokyo,
which is 140 miles south of the
plant, but hazardous levels have
been limited to the plant itself.
Still, the crisis has forced
thousands to evacuate and drained
Tokyo's normally vibrant streets
of life, its residents either leaving
town or holing up in their homes.
The Japanese government has
been slow in releasing
information on the crisis, even as
the troubles have multiplied. In a
country where the nuclear
industry has a long history of
hiding its safety problems, this
has left many people -- in Japan
and among governments overseas
-- confused and anxious.
At times, Japan and the U.S. --
two very close allies -- have
offered starkly differing
assessments over the dangers at
Fukushima. U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission
Chairman Gregory Jazcko said
Thursday that it could take days
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and "possibly weeks" to get the
complex under control. He
defended the U.S. decision to
recommend a 50-mile evacuation
zone for its citizens, wider than
the 30-mile band Japan has
ordered.
Crucial to the effort to regain
control over the Fukushima plant
is laying a new power line to the
plant, allowing operators to
restore cooling systems. The
operator, Tokyo Electric Power
Co., missed a deadline late
Thursday but hoped to completed
the effort late Friday, said nuclear
safety agency spokesman Minoru
Ohgoda.
But the utility is not sure the
cooling systems will still function.
If they don't, electricity won't
help.
President Barack Obama
appeared on television to assure
Americans that officials do not
expect harmful amounts of
radiation to reach the U.S. or its
territories. He also said the U.S.
was offering Japan any help it
could provide.
Police said more than 452,000
people made homeless by the
quake and tsunami were staying
in schools and other shelters, as
supplies of fuel, medicine and
other necessities ran short. Both
victims and aid workers appealed
for more help, as the chances of
finding more survivors dwindled.
About 343,000 Japanese
households still do not have
electricity, and about 1 million
JAPAN page 29
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Amid Crises, Obama to Take Trip to Latin America

(FOXNews.com) Obama's planned departure was a reiterate his goal of engaging with first met the leaders of this Treasury Secretary Timothy
Submitted at 3/18/2011 10:41:03 AM day after the U.N. Security countries in the region as equals hemisphere, he created a lot of Geithner, Commerce Secretary
Council approved a no-fly zone and emphasize their own role in expectations." Gary Locke and Energy Secretary
WASHINGTON – A nuclear over Libya and authorized "all becoming better neighbors. Still, Riordan Roett, director of Steven Chu.
crisis in Japan, fighting in Libya, necessary measures" to protect Obama is not traveling with a Western Hemisphere Studies at Still, Obama is not likely to
turmoil in the Mideast and the c i v i l i a n s f r o m a t t a c k s b y basket of ready-made the School of Advanced deliver on key Brazilian issues,
threat of a government shutdown Moammar Gadhafi's forces. accomplishments or major International Studies of Johns including Brazil's desire to be a
at home. It's a tough time for In Latin America, Obama will agreements to feature during the Hopkins University, said Obama permanent member of the United
President Barack Obama to leave m e e t w i t h r e c e n t l y e l e c t e d trip. Indeed, when it comes to is "seen very, very positively" in Nations Security Council and its
on a foreign trip -- to Latin B r a z i l i a n P r e s i d e n t D i l m a trade, he embarks on the trip much of Latin America. desire for changes in U.S. farm
America. Rousseff, Chilean President empty-handed. According to Gallup, majorities policy that would ease or remove
Over the next five days, Obama S e b a s t i a n P i n e r a a n d E l Pending free-trade agreements ranging from 67 percent in Chile tariffs on Brazilian ethanol.
is to travel to Brazil, Chile and El Salvadoran President Mauricio with Colombia and Panama to 55 percent in Brazil approve of Chile is a U.S. trading partner
Salvador in what the White House Funes. remain unfinished, provoking Obama's job performance, though that has displayed solid economic
is casting as a mission to build job Each country chosen by the demands from the business sector those numbers have been slipping. growth and has a broad-based
-creating opportunities for the administration offers Obama a and Republicans that he complete Brazil is quickly becoming an middle class. The dictatorship of
United States and to address different look at a diverse the deals. economic powerhouse -- the Augusto Pinochet now behind it,
regional security concerns. hemisphere. First Lady Michelle Obama, her seventh largest economy in the Chile has established itself as a
The trip, considered by many in Yet in selecting those three, mother and the Obamas' two world, considered an emerging resolute democracy. It enhanced
the hemisphere as long overdue, is Obama is reaching out to nations daughters will conduct their own power along with Russia, India its international image by its
a l s o a n e f f o r t t o s o l i d i f y whose political leaders have brand of diplomacy on the trip, and China, and a force in the response to the earthquake and
relationships that have slipped displayed a pragmatic governing attending a series of separate group of 20 influential economies. tsunami that struck it last year and
two years after Obama declared "a style and where anti-Americanism events focused on young people, Rousseff has indicated a desire to by heroic efforts in the rescue of
new chapter of engagement" with is on the wane. As such they stand particularly in disadvantaged improve relations with the U.S. 33 miners stuck deep underground
the region. in stark contrast to Venezuela and communities. that had grown strained under her for 69 days last year.
In that time, China has expanded Bolivia, led by leftist populists Obama first traveled to the region predecessor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Chile is seeking an agreement
its economic footprint in the known for agitating against the in April 2009 when he attended a Silva. with the U.S. for civilian nuclear
region and has surpassed the U.S. 34-nation summit in Port-of- Roett said Obama as an African- cooperation, including programs
United States as Brazil's top trade At the same time, in Brazil, Chile Spain, Trinidad. Since then, American president has the to train Chilean engineers in the
partner. and El Salvador, Obama's however, the president's greatest potential of being especially well- United States. Pinera has said that
Despite the competing, pressing showcasing three democracies attention to Latin America has received in Rio de Janeiro, given despite Japan's nuclear crisis and
demands on the president's that have emerged from turbulent been devoted to drug-related the strong presence of African Chile's earthquake prone
attention, the White House has p a s t s a n d t h a t , i n h i s violence in Mexico as other issues culture in Brazil. geography, nuclear power is a
been determined to proceed with administration's view, serve as in the region took a back seat to Obama is making an overt bid for necessary option for Chile.
the trip, emphasizing the potential examples of a pathway out of the domestic and international U.S. investment in Brazil and is In El Salvador, Obama is looking
t h e r e g i o n h o l d s f o r U . S . current upheaval in the Middle priorities. seeking to find economic for a partner to fight poverty and
economic growth. East. "I think his honeymoon in the advantage in Brazil's offshore oil drug-related violence that has
"It's imperative that the United The trip also presents Obama region is about to end. He's aware reserves and the infrastructure bedeviled Central America. Under
States not disengage from these with an opportunity to spell out of that," said Mauricio Cardenas, demands it will face hosting the Funes, El Salvador's economy
regions," deputy National Security his doctrine for the region -- much a former Colombian economics 2014 World Cup and the 2016 grew at a rate of 3.3 percent last
Adviser Ben Rhodes said. "When like he did for the Middle East in minister and head of the Latin Olympics. He plans to address a year and is projected to grow at
we disengage, our ability to Cairo in June 2009. Obama is American Initiative at Brookings. business summit organized by the 5.3 percent in 2011, greater than
advance partnerships that serve saving that moment for Monday "So he now needs to go and U.S.-Brazil Business Council.
our interest suffers." in Santiago, Chile, where he will deliver on his promise. When he Also in Brazil for the visit will be AMID page 31
Newstablet Edition News Wire/ 27

Sebring 12 Hours: Peugeot Sets the Pace at Sebring

(Epoch Times | All headlines) Ayari in the #26 Signatech Oreca GT
Submitted at 3/18/2011 7:33:21 AM Nissan. These three also traded Scott Sharp
the lead throughout the practice Ferrari F458 Italia
Sebring champs Peugeot took session. 2:02.380
first and third in Night Practice. Ryan Dalziel in the #005 Core 24
(James Fish/The Epoch Times) Autosports Oreca led the LMPC #04
SEBRING, Fla.—Anthony ranks followed by Genoa GT
Davidson set the fastest time in Racing’s Dane Cameron in the Jan Magnussen
night practice for the Twelve #36 and Woodard Racing’s Corvette C6 ZR1
Hours of Sebring in his #7 Johnny Mowlem in the #38. 2:02.678
Peugeot 908, followed closely by The 458 Ferrari’s of Scott Sharp 25
Audi driver Tom Kristensen in his ( E x t r e m e S p e e d ) a n d T o n i #062
#2 R15++. Vilander (Risi Competizione) GT
IndyCar star Ryan Hunter-Reay were split by Jan Magnussen’s Toni Vilander
led the LMP2 class. (By James #04 Corvette in GTE. Ferrari F458 Italia
F i s h / E p o c h T i m e s S t a f f ) Nic Jonsson led GT-Am in the 2:02.715
Davidson gave reigning Sebring Krohn Racing Ferraro 430 despite 37
champ Peugeot the lead with a lap going off at Turn 16, and Lee #57
of 1:48.901 at 122.313 mph, K e e n w a s t h e f a s t e s t G T C GTE-AM
besting Kristensen’s 1:49.370 at P o r s c h e . Niclas Jonsson
2 #33
121.788 mph by .469 seconds. The 59th running of the Mobil 1 Ferrari F430 GT
#2 LMP2
Stephane Sarrazin put the #8 Twelve Hours of Sebring starts at 2:05.448
LMP1 Joao Barbosa
Peugeot 908 third in class. 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, March 38
Tom Kristensen Lola Honda
The factory diesels traded the 19. Tickets are available online at #62
Audi R15+ TDI 1:57.544
lead throughout the session, with t h e S e b r i n g I n t e r n a t i o n a l GTE-AM
1:49.370 14
the #7 Peugeot with Aleexander Raceway website and at the box Pierre Ehert
3 #005
Wurz and Anthony Davidson office. Ferrari F430
#8 LMPC
driving, coming on strong in the Watch the race on the web at 2:05.486
LMP1 Ryan Dalziel
last half-hour. None of the E S P N 3 . c o m a n d s e e t h e 42
Stephane Sarrazin Oreca FLM09
privateer cars led at any time highlights on ABC at 12:30 p.m. #60
Peugeot 908 1:58.500
during the session. Sunday, March 20. GTE-AM
1:50.111 16
The #016 Dyson Lola only turned Sebring 12 Hours Night Practice Fabien Giroix
10 #036
a few laps, apparently having a Results Aston Martin Vantage
#055 LMPC
number of problems. The #06 # 2:07.094
LMP2 Dane Cameron
M u s c l e M i l k A s t o n M a r t i n Class 46
Ryan Hunter Oreca FLM09
managed to get on track with 45 Driver #023
Reay Lola Honda 1:59.382
minutes left in the session, after Car GTC
1:56.276 17
the very scary fire which sidelined Time Leh Keen
11 #038
the car in early practice. 1 Porsche 911 GT3 Cup
#26 LMPC
Level 5 Racing captured first and #7 2:07.737
LMP2 Johnny Mowlem
third in the LMP2 class, with LMP1 48
Soheil Ayari Oreca FLM09
Ryan Hunter-Reay in the #55 Anthony Davidson #030
Oreca 03 Nissan 2:00.233
Lola Honda and Joao Barbosa in Peugeot 908
1:56.738 23 SEBRING page 31
the #33 car bracketing Soheil 1:48.901
13 #001
28 News Wire/ Newstablet Edition

Mighty Popo Brings a Royal Touch to Junos

(Epoch Times | All headlines) Popo this week by email. four-four time has resulted in
Submitted at 3/18/2011 2:04:19 AM ET: One of the first things “Westernization,” and the loss of
listeners notice about you is your a portion of a generation of
O t t a w a - b a s e d R w a n d e s e / use of vocal timbre. You have so musicians during the genocide. As
Burundian guitar player Mighty many voices. a seasoned artist from the region,
P o p o . ( B e n W e l l a n d ) A s a Popo: I was influenced by many do you have any ideas on how to
member of CBC Records’ African singers, although I don’t consider revive and modernize the best
Guitar Summit, Ottawa-based myself a singer. I try to adapt my parts of tradition? Popo: The
singer-songwriter Mighty Popo voice to the mood and the American pop culture has taken
has been to the Junos before, and message of my songs. When the over the whole continent of Africa
won. song has an urgent message the musically. It’s so appealing to the
Guitar Summit is a hugely listener should be able to detect youth with all its glittering and
popular group comprised of that and when the melody is artificial ways. The youth think
seasoned African musicians from melancholic then the voice it’s a shortcut to stardom to
across Canada. They have been somehow follows that vibration. emulate what they see on MTV
less active lately, but Popo has ET: We are living in a time of and what they hear coming from
been busy. His 2007 solo release, tremendous musical choice. You urban American radio in a place
“Muhazi,” won the Canadian Folk seem to put so many elements to (Rwanda) where cultural industry
Music Award for Best World use in your music, but you end up and [a viable] record industry are
Music Group that year and he has with music that is truly original. absent. It becomes absurd to my
been touring constantly ever Popo: I was born and raised with ears to even hear someone
since. so many musical genres, way too attempting to do commercial
Popo’s latest release, “Gakondo” many great singers and instrument music! To revive and modernize
(meaning origin or tradition) is p l a y e r s . C o m i n g t o N o r t h the old music tradition one must
nominated for a Juno on March 27 America where I've lived now for start by presenting it to the masses
in Best World Music category. 24 years allowed me to see and again, encourage live performance
T h e q u a l i t y o f G a k o n d o ’ s jam with some of my heroes. of those who are creating and
production stands out, as does the Although I picked up and learned performing Rwandan music. I
m a t u r i t y o f t h e s o n g s . A l l so much from both places, I’ve have to find a way by making this
acoustic, this enduring work is always been scared of sounding music cool by combining it or
markedly beautiful, embracing like someone else, so I worked fusing it to other forms of popular
t r a d i t i o n a l v o c a l t i m b r e s and am still working on being music in a most organic way
unabashedly. There are no digital myself. possible. The other thing that I
sounds. The naturalness and ET: This new album has songs plan to do is bring international
sincerity of the singing and from the ancient world in Rwanda music artists to Rwanda and the
instrumental performances make and Burundi. Can you tell us a bit youth could learn first-hand how
t h i s r e c o r d i n g v e r y about that civilization and your 16th to the 19th and 21st century Rwanda... it’s done—make the Rwandan
intimate—almost nourishing. process of digging out these lost Rwanda. As for the Rwandan ET: You have been critical of the musician collaborate with other
Dedicated in part to the ancient treasures? civilization, it'll take long to current music scene in Rwanda African and international artists.
royal court of Rwanda, some Popo: My new album “Gakondo” explain but the people who taught and Burundi, finding it somewhat ET: What are you working on
songs are centuries old, while is 100 percent Rwandan and sung me these songs are the Batwa sterile. In previous discussions we now?
others spring from Popo’s own solely in Kinyarwanda. These are (Pygmy) people of Rwanda. I sat spoke of two possible causes: the Popo: I’m putting on an annual
c r e a t i v e i m a g i n i n g s o f h i s songs and poems from the royal and learned many enchanting murderous effect of trying to
ancestral past. We caught up with court days in Rwanda from the songs, poems, and history of squeeze polyrhythmic music into MIGHTY page 30
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Japan weighs need to bury nuclear plant; tries to
restore power
(Reuters: Top News)
Submitted at 3/18/2011 10:26:16 AM
A police officer stands at an area
destroyed in Kesennuma city,
Miyagi Prefecture, March 18,
2011.
Credit: Reuters/Kyodo
By Shinichi Saoshiro and Yoko
Nishikawa
TOKYO| Fri Mar 18, 2011
11:13am EDT
TOKYO(Reuters) - Japanese
engineers conceded on Friday that
burying a crippled nuclear plant in
sand and concrete may be a last
resort to prevent a catastrophic
radiation release, the method used
to seal huge leakages from
Chernobyl in 1986.
But they still hoped to solve the
crisis by fixing a power cable to
two reactors by Saturday to restart
water pumps needed to cool
overheating nuclear fuel rods.
Workers also sprayed water on
the No.3 reactor, the most critical
of the plant's six.
It was the first time the facility
operator had acknowledged
burying the sprawling 40-year-old
complex was possible, a sign that
piecemeal actions such as
dumping water from military
helicopters or scrambling to
restart cooling pumps may not
work.
"It is not impossible to encase the
reactors in concrete. But our
News Wire/ 29
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Libya declares ceasefire after West threatens
attack
(Reuters: Top News)
Submitted at 3/18/2011 10:27:45 AM
Protesters are seen through a
Kingdom of Libya flag during
celebrations after a U.N.
resolution authorizing a ''no-fly''
zone, in Tobruk, east of Tripoli,
March 18, 2011.
Credit: Reuters/Suhaib Salem
By Maria Golovnina
TRIPOLI| Fri Mar 18, 2011
11:17am EDT
TRIPOLI(Reuters) - Muammar
Gaddafi's government said it was
declaring a unilateral ceasefire in
its offensive to crush Libya's
revolt, as Western warplanes
prepared to attack his forces.
But government troops pounded
the rebel-held western city of
Misrata on Friday, killing at least
25 people including children, a
doctor there told Reuters.
Residents said there was no sign
of a ceasefire.
And in the rebel-controlled east,
the government declaration was
dismissed as a ruse or a sign
Gaddafi was desperate.
"We have to be very cautious. He
is now starting to be afraid, but on
the ground the threat has not
changed," a French spokesman
said. Britain, like France a strong
advocate of armed action, said it
would judge Gaddafi by "actions,
not his words."
Turkey, an opponent of military
action, said the ceasefire should
go into effect immediately.
"We decided on an immediate
ceasefire and on an immediate
stop to all military operations,"
Libyan Foreign Minister Moussa
Koussa told reporters in Tripoli
on Friday, after the U.N. Security
Council passed a resolution
authorizing military action.
He called for dialogue with all
sides. Gaddafi had vowed to show
"no mercy, no pity" on Thursday,
and rebels pleaded for foreign aid
before time ran out.
The ceasefire offer was probably
prompted by Gaddafi's realization
that air strikes could seriously
degrade the Libyan military, said
John Drake, senior risk consultant
at AKE.
"The Gaddafi regime may be
willing to negotiate," he told
Reuters. "With talk of strikes
against military convoys he may
be concerned about a significant
attack on his military." Western
officials said military action could
include France, Britain, the
United States and one or more
Arab countries.
"Britain will deploy Tornadoes
and Typhoons as well as air-to-air
refueling and surveillance
aircraft," Prime Minister David
Cameron told parliament.
"Preparations to deploy these
aircraft have already started and
in the coming hours they will
move to airbases from where they
can start to take the necessary
action."
Gulf state Qatar said it would
take part but it was unclear
whether that meant military help,
while Italy said it would make
military bases, equipment and
troops available.
Denmark and Canada said they
planned to contribute warplanes.
France is to host talks on Saturday
to discuss the action with British,
Arab League and other leaders.
People in Misrata said the rebel-
held western city was under heavy
bombardment by Gaddafi's forces
on Friday.
"They are bombing everything,
houses, mosques and even
ambulances," Gemal, a rebel
spokesman, told Reuters by phone
from the last big rebel stronghold
in the west.
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Sebring 12 Hours: Muscle Milk
Aston Martin Catches Fire
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Submitted at 3/18/2011 7:00:32 AM
Greg Pickett had a scary moment
when his car caught fire while he
was traveling at nearly top
speed.James Fish/The Epoch
Times () SEBRING,
Fla.—Sebring 12 Hour Thursday
afternoon practice brought a
serious scare to Muscle Milk
driver and team owner Greg
Pickett as his #06 Aston Martin
caught fire.
Pickett was traversing the middle
portion of the course, Turns, 7, 8,
and 9, when the engine of his
Aston Martin started burning.
Pickett drove up the escape road
at Turn 10, where rescue workers
extricated him from the car, after
a tense time looking for the door
handle, which was not clearly
marked.
Pickett was uninjured, and the car
was rebuilt and running again by
night practice.
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Beyond Boundaries in East Africa: Part V
(World Politics Review: Articles)
Submitted at 3/18/2011 1:33:00 AM
Editor's note: This is the last of a
five-part series examining
security and development aid in
East Africa. Part I provided an
overview of the challenges facing
East Africa. Part II examined the
overlap between public health and
security challenges. Part III
examined the overlap between
small-arms trafficking and WMD
nonproliferation. Part IV
examined the overlap between
counterterrorism and efforts to
contain criminal violence. Part V
provides success stories for the
security-development model and
discusses next steps.
In East Africa, pressing regional
challenges -- including the
inability to detect and treat
disease, the flow of illicit firearms
across unsecured borders and the
spread of deadly terrorist
operations-- are intimately
connected to, and directly
undercut, international efforts to
prevent the proliferation of
weapons of mass destruction.
Enduring armed conflicts,
organized criminal activity and
poor health all contribute to
poverty and hamper economic
development, which in turn
diminishes governments' ability to
effectively address national
security objectives. Meanwhile,
determined proliferators are likely
to thrive in places where security
infrastructure is weak, taking
advantage of lax monitoring and
regulation. Limited capacities
across the region, combined with
diminishing foreign assistance as
a result of the global financial
crisis and the growing confluence
of security and development
challenges, suggest that we can no
longer manage these issues in
isolation.
Hence, the case for better
leveraging foreign assistance
dollars with a dual-benefit
approach has never been stronger.
Traditional security-related
assistance can be tapped to help
meet internal development goals
and human security priorities
while simultaneously addressing
international counterterrorism and
nonproliferation obligations. This
assistance can go further than
single-purpose aid and is more
sustainable. U.N. Security
Council Resolutions 1373, on
counterterrorism, and 1540, on
nonproliferation, offer
opportunities to do just that. The
net result is a durable and
sustainable relationship for
governments working toward
similar goals and a regional
dialogue that better meets both
recipient and donor objectives.
An example of this kind of
creative approach can be found in
the Caribbean Basin and Central
America, where governments
have applied these international
assistance tools to mutual benefit.
Throughout the 1990s, Caribbean
governments began making
significant investments in their
ports and transportation
infrastructure in order to diversify
their tourism-based economies.
These moves were intended to
capitalize upon global trade flows,
given these countries' strategic
location at the mouth of the
Panama Canal, and became a
central component of their
economic development strategies.
However, these plans were
jeopardized when the
international community stiffened
mandatory security standards for
cargo traffic in the wake of Sept.
11. As a result, Caribbean
governments, which had reached
the limits of their ability to invest
in further port upgrades, saw their
economic development strategies
eviscerated.
Tapping into nonproliferation and
counterterrorism assistance
provided governments with new
access to capital that had the
added effect of resuscitating their
economic diversification plans.
With nonproliferation funding
from the U.S. departments of
Energy and State as well as from
the Canadian government,
Caribbean governments are once
again pursuing port modernization
that will allow them to both
compete internationally and more
effectively prevent proliferation.
A similar model has been applied
successfully(.pdf) in Central
America. There, the Central
American Integration System, a
regional organization,
successfully requested assistance
through a Resolution 1540
mechanism to hire a full-time
regional coordinator to help
members report progress on
implementing measures under the
U.N. mandate. The coordinator is
also tasked with identifying dual-
benefit streams of assistance to
meet countries' needs related to
small-arms trafficking, the drug
trade, youth gangs and other high-
priority security and development
concerns. The resulting initiatives
would also go far toward building
the necessary regional
infrastructure to implement
Resolution 1373.
Just as in the Caribbean Basin
and Central America, important
dual-benefit opportunities can be
applied in East Africa. But as we
begin to consider concrete steps to
secure this assistance for the
region and beyond, it will be
important to promote coordination
among recipient and donor states.
Today, there are copious
initiatives -- by states, multilateral
organizations, private-sector
actors and nongovernmental
organizations -- designed to
ameliorate all types of
international security threats.
Developing a comprehensive and
organized approach to identifying
existing assistance programs will
require a system to catalogue
them and monitor their progress.
What is needed is an international
security-assistance database that
identifies the available global
security assistance, communicates
ongoing security programming
and ultimately links that
assistance to defined in-country
needs. This database, which
would be offered as a global
good, would help the international
community avoid duplication of
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donor efforts and would provide
potential recipients easy access to
aid information. It would meet a
longstanding need for enhanced
awareness and information-
sharing for donors, recipients and
other interested actors in the
counterterrorism and
nonproliferation policy and
program arena.
The advantages of such a "one-
stop-shopping" system abound. It
would provide donor governments
with a comprehensive view of
existing and potentially
leverageable activities across
regions, functional specialties and
donor agencies. It would offer
recipients an opportunity to better
target their assistance requests. It
would present private actors with
the opportunity to enhance the
coordination of their activities
with public-sector allies. And it
would strengthen the public-
private dialogue on security and
development challenges
worldwide.
Many transnational threats and
development issues have common
solutions. Developed countries,
however, have yet to respond with
a comprehensive strategy that
focuses on both security and
development objectives. This can
be attributed in part to the
tendency of national and
international actors to silo policy
within distinct departments and
agencies, whose relationship is
more often characterized by
competition than by cooperation.
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The Realist Prism: U.S. Leadership not at Stake in Libya

(World Politics Review: Articles) attempt against Gadhafi -- in stood by as Hussein subsequently There is also a moral dimension More broadly, Barnett argues that
Submitted at 3/18/2011 1:34:00 AM order to fit the country into the crushed a major rebellion against that cannot be ignored. A Gadhafi the U.S. unwillingness to act in
narrative of an "Arab spring." Had his rule. victory would show the limits of Libya threatened its ability to act
Writing in his World Politics the specifics of the Libyan The second mistake has been to Washington's willingness to as a guarantor of security
R e v i e w c o l u m n t h i s w e e k , situation been better appreciated, link U.S. action to the decisions support popular movements in the elsewhere in the world. "If the
Thomas P.M. Barnett warned that particularly how the 1993 coup taken by international region, especially in light of United States cannot step up and
the United States' response to the attempt began and was crushed, organizations, but unlike Barnett, Bahrain's Saudi-supported crack help topple such an evil and
Libyan uprising risks turning Ian the Obama team might have been I think this might force the down on its own protest vulnerable regime when there is
Bremmer's and David Gordon's more careful in its public reaction administration's hand rather than movements. so little standing in our way," he
prediction of a "G-zero" world to the current uprising. constrain it. I could be mistaken, But I disagree with Barnett when writes, "then how can we pretend
into a self-fulfilling prophecy. The administration's first mistake but I suspect the rapid he argues that "if Gadhafi does to balance 'rising' China in East
Specifically, Barnett argued that was in announcing a preferred endorsement by the Arab League survive, we are far more likely to Asia, or temper Russia in its 'near
by failing to take the lead in outcome. As Judah Grunstein of a no-fly-zone for Libya caught face negative consequences, abroad,' or contain Iran in the
organizing an intervention to tip wrote here at WPR, "If President off guard Western governments because he will have plenty of 'Shiite crescent,' and so on?" To
the scales in the Libyan civil war Barack Obama made one misstep, that might have been hoping to be incentive to return to his rogue, the contrary, I would argue that
on behalf of the opposition to it was in allowing his rhetoric to "let off the hook" by Arab terror-peddling ways." In all there is a quiet sigh of relief
Moammar Gadhafi, the Obama get out in front of his willingness unwillingness to sanction an likelihood, Gadhafi's regime has among U.S. allies, particularly in
administration was "purposefully to act . . . The words, 'Gadhafi intervention. According to the been mortally wounded. Indeed, East Asia, that the U.S. was
abdicat[ing] its global leadership must go,' mean something very National Journal, "Administration this could be Gadhafi's version of reluctant to get involved in Libya.
role." different coming from the officials did not stand in the way the 1905 Russian Revolution, And despite Moscow and
Another reading is that the president of the United States than of the recent Arab League another uprising that appeared to Beijing's formal opposition to
administration's reaction to the they do coming from the president communiqué calling for 'all fail but laid bare the fundamental intervention, my guess is that they
Libyan uprising reflects the of any other country in the necessary steps to impose weaknesses of the tsarist regime, would be perfectly happy to see
degree to which it allowed itself world." immediately a no-fly zone for which ultimately collapsed under the United States entangled in yet
to be swept up by the "Al-Jazeera It was perfectly appropriate for Libyan military aircraft,' but the next wave of revolutionary another Middle East conflict,
effect" into assuming that the Obama, Secretary of State Hillary neither did they encourage it." By blows. Gadhafi will have to spend because a U.S. overly distracted
authoritarian regimes in North Clinton and other key officials to taking this step, the Arab League time and resources to shore up his in this region, of necessity, is
Africa were lined up and ready to condemn Gadhafi for his violent gave the United States and NATO rule. Using what happened after forced to neglect its interests and
fall like dominos, and that Libya's repression of protests and even to sufficient grounds, even in the the failed 1993 coup as a guide, its allies in other parts of the
"Brother Leader" would soon w a r n t h a t t h e r e w o u l d b e absence of yesterday's U.N. that will mean repression directed world. Perhaps this is why both
follow Egypt's Hosni Mubarak consequences to his actions. But Security Council resolution, to against certain tribes and Moscow and Beijing abstained
and Tunisia's Zine al-Abidine Ben once the bar is set at regime take action, depriving Washington communities in Eastern Libya from the U.N. Security Council
Ali into involuntary retirement. In change, anything that falls short of the excuse that the West was combined with efforts to buy the resolution establishing a no-fly
s o d o i n g , t h e O b a m a of that is viewed as an automatic prepared to intervene, but chose loyalty of others. If the "Brother zone for Libya, rather than
administration ignored much of failure. Indeed, should Gadhafi not to do so because of regional Leader" continues to hold on to vetoing it altogether. Russia and
Libya's particular context -- survive and successfully crush opposition. power in Tripoli, he will be China were able to radically
including the long history of this rebellion, Obama might face So yes, U.S. leadership has extremely loath to do anything increase their power and influence
failed uprisings against Gadhafi the kind of criticism President suffered because of these that might serve as a casus belli. in Eurasia and East Asia over the
ever since he seized power in George H.W. Bush engendered missteps. Washington lost some And while Gadhafi might ensure past decade precisely because, as
1969, the longstanding resentment when, having labeled Saddam credibility, especially since the his short-term survival, the odds one Russian foreign policy expert
in Eastern Libya over being ruled Hussein "the new Hitler," he most recent developments suggest that he or another Gadhafi will told me, the U.S. was "bogged
by a government in Tripoli and allowed Hussein to remain in that the rebellion is faltering and still be in power five years from down" in Iraq. There has been a
the parallels between what is place as the president of Iraq that Gadhafi can re-establish now are dramatically lower that
happening now and the 1993 coup following the Gulf War, and even control, at least in the short term. they were as of January. REALIST page 36
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Transparency at the Crossroads for Extractive Industries
(World Politics Review: Articles)
Submitted at 3/18/2011 1:40:00 AM
When it comes to good
governance in the information
age, transparency has few
competitors as the fix du jour.
This is especially true when it
comes to oil, gas and mining
revenue in developing countries,
where many people rightly
consider transparency an essential
first step in curbing government
corruption. But the discussions at
the "Transparency Counts"
conference, held by the Extractive
Industries Transparency Initiative
(EITI) in Paris earlier this month,
strongly suggest that knowing
how much money is coming in to
government coffers is not enough
if that money does not improve
people's lives.
Natural resources are hot right
now, as the turnout at the
conference highlighted. More than
900 participants from more than
70 countries attended, including
dozens of ministers hawking their
various countries to the extractive
companies as well as heads of
state congratulating themselves on
achieving compliance despite
their sometimes-dubious
international reputations. They
were joined by billionaire
philanthropists with advice to
share; leaders of Western
nonprofits; members of African
civil society, often screaming in
frustration at the shortcomings of
the current process; and the
quietly nervous, sometimes-
exasperated executives from
multinational companies, there to
lobby against the recent U.S.
Dodd-Frank financial reform bill
and to keep an eye on happenings
at the other end of the extractive
spectrum.
EITI was launched in 2003 as a
voluntary initiative by then-
British Prime Minister Tony
Blair. It was designed as a way for
companies and countries to show
good faith by publicly reporting
their oil, gas and mining income.
A candidate country must develop
a process in collaboration with
domestic civil society to regularly
publish independently audited
payments to its government from
extractive companies working in
the country. To date, 35 countries,
including Afghanistan and the
Democratic Republic of the
Congo, are candidates. Eleven are
considered fully compliant,
including Liberia and Azerbaijan,
although six of these were
conveniently added to the
compliant list the day before the
conference started. After early
trial and error, EITI has come to
be considered a success as an
international norm, setting itself
up as a win-win-win initiative for
civil society, governments and
business.
But the conference made clear
that despite its past
accomplishments, EITI is now at
a crossroads. To date, the
initiative has limited itself to
publicizing countries' income
from contracts with oil, gas and
mining companies. Yet, as more
countries that meet EITI standards
find their corruption problems not
disappearing, a question
inevitably arises: Shouldn't
transparency also mean that a
government has to show whether,
and how, the money has been
spent to improve general living
standards in the country?
Many leaders are much more
comfortable with the status quo.
Civil society stakeholders in these
countries, on the other hand, are
becoming increasingly vocal,
rejecting current guidelines as
insufficient and demanding to
know where the money is going.
At the conference, civil society
attendees demanded that the vast
sums of money be tracked to keep
it from being squirreled away by
corrupt leaders. They want
disaggregated company reporting,
in order to ascertain the adequacy
of each contract and the amount
each company pays. And, most
explosively, they want
subnational reporting, to track
who gets the money further down
the food chain. This would make
it possible to find out if provincial
or local leaders are siphoning off
revenue, for instance, or if money
is being diverted to shell
companies run by political
cronies. Each of these proposed
rules is far more threatening to the
governments in question than the
results of simple financial
reporting.
There also were widespread pleas
by both civil society and country
leaders for making more of the
considerable amount of
information currently generated
for private use by extractive
companies available to
governments and civil society.
Without better information, fairer
contracts are a long way off.
By contrast, the main bone of
contention for the companies is
the Cardin-Lugar provision of the
Dodd-Frank law, which requires
transparent disclosure of
payments by all extractive
companies listed on U.S. stock
exchanges. Mildly put, the
companies do not like it. They
hinted at expropriation in non-
EITI countries -- notably Angola
and Venezuela, where it is
theoretically possible -- while
privately grousing about how
much more work it adds to
accounting and reporting
procedures. But their reservations
got very little traction.
More broadly, EITI faces two
dilemmas. First, it has always
been obvious that the
transparency approach was
supposed to be a polite and
nonconfrontational way to address
wholesale thievery by certain
corrupt governments. The
problem is that real thieves are not
going to play along. Too often,
the operating philosophy of many
of these countries is reminiscent
of St. Augustine: "God, make me
good -- but not yet." Worse still, a
surreal moment at the
conference's opening reception
illustrated how EITI can even
have perverse unintended
consequences, when a deputy
minister from Zimbabwe praised
how the initiative could help his
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government get more money from
better contracts. Obviously,
ensuring more money for the
Mugabe government was not the
driving motivation behind EITI.
Second, the process is entirely
voluntary. If EITI sides with civil
society, it risks alienating the
many heads of state who would
rather forego EITI rather than risk
their financial prerogatives. On
the other hand, if the revenue
helps a country's nominal GDP
but not its development or its
people, then what was the point of
the exercise to begin with? As one
conference speaker, Bennett
Freeman of Calvert Asset
Management, said, "Many of us
recognize that EITI alone cannot
realize transparency and
empowerment of civil society."
Where EITI goes from here will
determine whether transparency
becomes just another meaningless
international norm, where merely
signing up is the end of the
process.
Jodi Liss is a former consultant
for the United Nations
Development Program. She has
written about extractive issues for
the Foreign Policy Association
blog, the World Policy Journal
blog, and the Punch (Nigeria).
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Peruvian mining city of La Oroya
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SXSW: LightBox, Gorgeous New Photo App Goes Android-
First
Sarah Perez (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 3/18/2011 11:30:59 AM
LightBox is a beautifully
designed new Android
application, debuting at this
week's SXSW conference in
Austin, Texas. The app, which
describes itself as a "social
camera roll," is notable not only
for its attractive design, still
somewhat of a rarity in the
Android world, but also for its
business model: LightBox is
building for "Android First."
What that means is that
LightBox's founders, Thai Tran
and Nilesh Patel, are building
Android applications that will
eventually be ported to iOS, and
not the other way around.
The LightBox photo app, a
combination camera and photo
gallery, is only the first of many
the company plans to build. These
apps, for the most part, will be
designed to replace default
Android features with
professionally designed
counterparts.
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several months now after
switching from iPhone, I have to
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gotten used to the far more
"geeky" nature of the apps I find
on the Android platform. It's an
ecosystem where functionality
and feature set takes precedence
over design - not that there's
anything wrong with that - but it's
a startling shift after years on the
iPhone. There are exceptions to
this, of course. The major
application makers (Foursquare,
Twitter, etc.) tend to deliver a
relatively consistent experience
across devices. And there are
apps, like LauncherPro for
example, that have an almost
Apple-like feel and quality. But
many of Android's most exciting
and unique apps have more to do
with geeking out with your device
than ogling mobile eye candy. A
perfect example of this is Tasker,
a complex but powerful tool that
allows you to control every aspect
of an Android phone. (Read more
about Tasker here.)
In other words, there's a lot you
can do on Android, but it isn't
always pretty. LightBox may
change that.
A Social Camera Roll
If you're a die-hard iPhone user,
you may or may not think
LightBox is anywhere near iOS-
quality. But you might be making
the mistake of judging the app in
In this cartoon by RSA, the idea
that current technology is a force
for good is challenged by Evgeny
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sharing options and configure News Here
privacy settings. Photos are But what's most exciting about
always synced to LightBox's own LightBox, is not just this app, it's
servers, either publicly or the company's agenda going
privately, plus the app supports forward. LightBox will focus on
Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr for building great Android
now. Integration with Foursquare experiences first, and iOS ones
is in the works, as is support for later. That's a shift in thinking
other social sites like flickr, that's well overdue, especially
Picasa, Posterous and more. given Android's market share
Your photos can also be viewed numbers.
within the app, as can popular TechCrunch recently wrote up
public photos others are sharing. details regarding the company's
terms of Apple's design standards. The nice thing here is that the initial round, which will help the
Instead, this app uses Android- photos are continually synced company grow its team. Investors
specific user interfaces, like tabs with LightBox servers, so they include Index Ventures, Accel
at the top and option menus. load quickly in full resolution, Partners, SV Angel, 500 Startups
These are things Android users even when being pulled down and angel investors Beth Ellyn
know well and expect to see, but from the Web for display. This McClendon (formerly UX
leave some iPhone fans cold. So syncing, we're told, is done Designer/Product Manager for
let's just say this: for Android, this effectively so there won't be a hit Google Maps, YouTube, Android,
is a very attractive app. to the device's battery, but I and Google.org), Brian
LightBox is easy to use, too. The haven't used the app long enough McClendon (VP Engineering at
built-in camera function lets you to determine whether this is true. I Google), Charlie Oppenheimer
snap a pic, optionally apply haven't noticed any negative (EIR at Matrix), Michael Herf
c o l o r f u l f i l t e r s t h r o u g h a effects so far, however. (formerly CTO of Picasa), Pasha
scrollable interface above the At present, there are some issues Sadri (founder and CEO of
photo and then tap "OK" to save with application crashes, but to be Polyvore), Shishir Mehrotra (head
the photo. On the next screen, you fair, the app is actively being of Monetization at YouTube).
can add a brief description of the coded now. It's very early. I won't LightBox will launch into private
photo, set its privacy options and judge this app's bugginess or lack beta soon - a sign up sheet is here
share it to your social networks. thereof until its developers say it's on its website if you want to
This screen is definitely my ready for testing. I'm assuming the participate in the upcoming tests.
favorite. Everything you do here problems I'm experiencing now Discuss
is a simple tap of a button. You will be dealt with in future
can choose to include location, set updates."Android-First" is the Big
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NFC News Round-up: RIM Fights Carriers; iPhone 5
Speculation Continues
Sarah Perez (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 3/18/2011 10:44:21 AM
Research in Motion (RIM),
maker of BlackBerry
smartphones, is in a battle with
mobile operators over its plans to
use NFC in its forthcoming
devices. NFC, short for "near field
communication," is a technology
that will enable mobile payments
and mobile wallet-type
applications, allowing customers
to wave or tap their phones at
point-of-sale to pay for purchases.
According to a report from The
Wall St. Journal today, the
disagreement between RIM and
the carriers has to do with where
the credentials for these mobile
payments will be stored - on a
SIM card inserted into the phone,
or, as RIM would have it, in a
secure area within the BlackBerry
device itself.
Meanwhile, in other NFC-related
news, it appears that the iPhone 5
may have NFC capabilities after
all, despite earlier reports saying
plans for this had been scrapped.
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There are several ways NFC can
be implemented on a smartphone
to enable mobile payments. It can
be fully integrated into the
handset, such as is the case with
Google's latest flagship phone, the
Nexus S. It can exist on a
removable microSD card which
fits into slots on the phone, or can
be inserted into accessories like
cases or sleeves, such as is the
case with Visa's iPhone case for
its In2Pay solution. Or it can be
integrated into a SIM card - the
card that identifies a mobile
subscriber on an operator's
cellular network.
The method of implementation is
what's causing the rift between the
carriers and RIM, according to the
report from the WSJ today.
Although the carriers expected to
be cut out of the deal when Apple
launched its NFC-enabled iPhone,
RIM has traditionally been more
carrier-friendly. For example,
RIM did not preload its mobile
app store on some of its devices
so carriers could preload their
own stores instead, reports WSJ.
The carriers say that putting NFC
onto the SIM card is good for
consumers because it doesn't tie
the users to one device - they can
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Independent newspaper cited top-secret NFC project, the article
sources at several of the largest claims.
mobile operators in the U.K. as Elsewhere, Cult of Mac claims to
saying that Apple does not plan to have more details. It says that
implement NFC technology in the Apple will use NFC in a system
iPhone 5. Reportedly, Apple is that will allow users to log into
concerned about the lack of an another computer using an NFC-
industry standard for the equipped iPhone. The iPhone will
technology. pair with the host machine and
To us, that first report seemed load files and settings over the
misleading, not only because NFC Internet.
has been an approved standard While that would certainly be a
move their SIM card from phone since 2003, but because the way neat trick, we find it hard to
to phone as they see fit. But the carriers are joining forces now believe that's the extent of Apple's
obviously, having the technology t o p r e p a r e t h e i r o w n N F C NFC plans. As everything moves
present on the carrier-provided initiatives seems to imply some to the cloud, the idea that iPhones
SIM would be good for the sort of immediate threat on the have to physically pair with a
operators too, as it would allow horizon. At last month's Mobile computer in order to properly
them to be actively involved in World Congress in Barcelona, 16 function becomes more and more
the mobile payments system. operators teamed up to announce passé, no matter how many new
However, both RIM, and their intentions to launch bells and whistles you introduce
supposedly Apple, have plans to commercial NFC services. And in to make that process easier.
integrate the NFC technology into the U.S., three of the four top At the end of the day, the
the phone itself, cutting the carriers have formed Isis, a question is not whether Apple is
operators out of the deal. Now, mobile payments venture that will working on an NFC-enabled
the WSJ reports that the carriers provide NFC-enabled credit, debit iPhone, the question is how much
are putting pressure on RIM, and prepaid accounts to users. of the NFC functionality, if any,
which is reaching out to banks on Today's report from Forbes, will be available in iPhone 5 as
its own, to reconsider the way its while not as well-sourced at The opposed to the iPhone 6 and later
choosing to implement NFC. Independent's, simply feels more devices. But NFC is coming to the
iPhone 5 to have NFC (Rumor) accurate. The source for the report iPhone, that much you can count
In a related story, a new rumor is is an Apple employee, who's a on.
circulating today that contradicts f r i e n d o f s o m e u n n a m e d Discuss
an earlier report regarding NFC in entrepreneur, which puts this
the next iPhone release, the decidedly in "rumor" territory.
iPhone 5. On Monday, U.K.'s The Reportedly, Apple is working on a
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Report reveals U.S. nuclear plant safety issues

(CNET News.com) problems in other cases. testing, according to the UCS, but ratchet up its oversight to ensure
Submitted at 3/18/2011 9:37:23 AM As one of several positive failed to respond properly. issues are being addressed in a
examples of the NRC's
As Japan grapples with a nuclear effectiveness, the UCS cited the
The UCS did acknowledge that
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timely manner. The NRC does not
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The NRC said further: "It is
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slideshows
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significant as it coincided with company corrected the problems." findings, a spokesman for the than 40 years ago with nuclear photo on Flickr's website from
President Obama's announcement But the report highlighted several NRC told CNET that the agency power plant safety its initial focus, your desktop browser.
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INQ’s Cloud Touch budget Facebook phone up

for pre-order
Chris Davies (SlashGear) to use one-touch links to Chat,
Submitted at 3/18/2011 10:24:10 AM Friends, Messages, Wall and
Notifications allow users a direct
The INQ Cloud Touch, the click-through to friends’ updates,
company’s first attempt at a
Facebook phone, has been priced
pictures, videos and webpages.
The phone is also the first to use
Nasa's Messenger
and dated for the UK, with pre- the Facebook social graph API, probe enters orbit
sales of the handset opening today which enables users to follow
and shipments expected to kick updates from the friends they around Mercury
off from April 6. The budget- interact with most.
Submitted at 3/18/2011 7:32:00 AM
minded Android 2.2. Froyo Consumers can also check in to
handset has a 3.5-inch 480 x 320 their favorite shops, restaurants After more than six years of
touchscreen and 5-megapixel and clubs with Facebook Places, space travel, a flyby of Venus
camera, but more interesting is which is also active on the central and a final 15 minute blast of its
INQ’s custom Facebook app home screen. If that wasn’t main thruster engine, Nasa's
which heavily integrates with the enough, Facebook Events fully robotic probe Messenger has
homescreen. integrates with the Google glided into orbit around the solar
Facebook chat, friends, Calendar on both devices. system's innermost planet,
messages, the Facebook Wall and The INQ Cloud Touch is the first Mercury.
notifications are all pulled into the mobile phone to hit the market Messenger launched from Cape
homescreen, along with Facebook that has been designed Canaveral in August 2004 on a
Events integration with the specifically for Facebook users. 4.9-billion-mile journey towards
Google Calendar. There’s also a More devices are expected in the the dense and rocky planet, in
Places widget, again on the coming months, including the hopes of studying its chemical
homescreen, and one-touch access INQ Cloud Q in June, which will composition, geology, and
to galleries and other content. also be exclusive to The Carphone magnetic field.
Hardware, meanwhile, includes exclusively at The Carphone www.carphonewarehouse.com, Warehouse and Best Buy. Despite its close proximity to
WiFi and Bluetooth, 3G, GPS and Warehouse and Best Buy and will be available from 6 April Relevant Entries on SlashGear Earth, we know very little about
an FM radio. In June, it will be March 18, 2011 – The Carphone f r o m j u s t £ 2 0 a m o n t h o n • INQ Cloud Touch Could be the the planet, and Messenger is only
followed by the INQ Cloud Q, a Warehouse and Best Buy are contract, £199.95 on PAYG or Facebook Phone the second spacecraft to have
version with a physical QWERTY pleased to announce the arrival of £299.95 SIM free. • INQ Mobile’s First Attempt At ever visited it. From 1974 to
keyboard. Pricing is free on a £20 an exclusive new Android device, The INQ Cloud Touch is a sleek Facebook Phone 1975, Nasa's Mariner 10 probe
or above contract, £199.95 on a the INQ Cloud Touch. Specially touch screen device which runs on • HTC Facebook Phones tipped did a flyby of the tiny planet and
pre-pay deal or £299.95 SIM-free. designed for social media fans, it the latest Android operating for MWC 2011 mapped around 45 percent of the
[ via Android Community] has Facebook at its heart and system providing super-fast • More HTC / Facebook Phone planet's surface. In 2008, when
Press Release: provides quick access to the latest access to all the latest functions Details Emerge Messenger first reached Mercury,
PHONE FOR THE SOCIAL news and whereabouts of friends. and apps. It features a new • INQ Facebook phone: Spotify it imaged a further 30 percent.
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ARRIVES IN THE UK f r o m feed to the homescreen while easy
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Study: Streaming music use to AT&T aggressively

explode in five years moving against
(CNET News.com) percent in 2010. Digital sales marketplace in the industry, could
Submitted at 3/18/2011 9:52:34 AM were up just 1 percent.
Part of the significant growth of
stand to lose quite a bit as
streaming services expand.
unauthorized tethering
If you think music-streaming s t r e a m i n g s e r v i c e s w i l l b e Then again, it might not. Richard Gaywood (TUAW)
services are big now, just wait attributable to the sheer number of Last month, a report in the Wall Submitted at 3/18/2011 8:35:00 AM

five years. people using mobile handsets. As Street Journal claimed that Apple
According to data compiled by more people opt for smartphones, is working on turning its AT&T is ruining a lot of people's
ABI Research, music-streaming they will increasingly turn to MobileMe online-storage service days with a customer mailshot
s e r v i c e s a r e s e t f o r r a p i d streaming options to find the into a cloud-based entertainment explaining that its "records show
expansion in the coming half- content they want to hear, ABI platform that would allow users to that you use [tethering] but are not
decade, and they have mobile said stream digital content over the subscribed to our tethering plan."
phones to thank for it. By the end The Asia-Pacific area will Web. That report followed a iOS, of course, will disable the
of this year, ABI said, subscribers become the largest regional similar story in which music and built-in tethering facility if you do
to paid music services who access m a r k e t f o r m o b i l e m u s i c film sources told CNET last year not have an appropriate carrier
them from a mobile phone will streaming at some point in 2012, about Apple's intentions to deliver plan.
n u m b e r a b o u t 5 . 9 m i l l i o n according to ABI. Once it hits the a cloud-based music and movie There are a few jailbreak apps,
worldwide, and by 2016, that top, that market's consumption of platform. the most popular of which is
figure will grow to more than 161 streaming services will continue This entry passed through the MyWi ( previous TUAW
million subscribers. That amounts to expand and help lead the Full-Text RSS service — if this is coverage), that bypass the plan
to an annual growth rate of about explosion in streaming services. your content and you're reading it check and enable tethering
95 percent, the research firm said. Looking ahead, ABI Research on someone else's site, please read independently. When you run an extra $20 per month compared
The growth of streaming services believes that Rhapsody and our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/ MyWi or similar apps, your to the normal smartphone data
comes as digital sales remain Spotify, which offer paid access content-only/faq.php iPhone creates a wireless hotspot plan. Any customers on the
relatively stagnant. to their music tracks to mobile Five Filters featured article: that allows you to connect other grandfathered unlimited data
In a report released earlier this devices, will benefit most from Comment Is Free But Freedom Is devices without the explicit plans from older iPhone plans
year by Nielsen SoundScan, the the growth of streaming music. Slavery - An Exchange With The permission of your carrier. Until would also lose that facility if
definitive source on the state of For now, it would seem that Guardian's Economics Editor. now, people have assumed that they moved to DataPro. ( Update:
the music industry, overall U.S. Apple, which offers the top pay- AT&T either doesn't care or reworded this paragraph for
music sales were down 2.4 p e r - d o w n l o a d d i g i t a l - m u s i c cannot determine that the traffic clarity based on feedback from @
comes from a connected device GlennF and @ Chartier; thanks
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Nokia Windows Phone launch target still Q4 insists CEO

Chris Davies (SlashGear)
Submitted at 3/18/2011 9:26:38 AM
Nokia CEO Stephen Elop has
said the company is still aiming to
release a Windows Phone device
in Q4 2011, despite previous
suggestions from Nokia execs that
we shouldn’t expect a smartphone
running Microsoft’s platform until
the tail-end of Q1 2012. “We’re
right now, today, having people
work on the first Windows Phone
devices from Nokia” the CEO
said, “that work is already under
way.”
Meanwhile, Elop also denied that
Microsoft was considering buying
Nokia outright, saying that not
only could he not envisage a
suitable motivation for such a
strategy, but that doing so would
negatively impact the company’s
smartphone push. “I’m not aware
of a strategic interest that
Microsoft would have in the rest
of the business,” he said, “To the
extent that a partnership has been
formed around what they’re really
interested in, then what would an
acquisition bring other than a
good year of anti-trust
investigation, huge turmoil,
delays?”
Of course, Elop has always said
2011 would see the first Windows
Phones launched, but rumors
about Microsoft’s delayed “
Mango” update to the platform –
which is now tipped to arrive
early next year – have led to
unsurprising that Elop would
change his tune at this stage of the
game.
[ via WMPowerUser]
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• No Nokia Windows Phone for
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• Nokia allowed to modify
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OEMs locked out
suggestions that the Nokia plans • Nokia Microsoft partnership
would be unavoidably altered. video
Still, Microsoft hasn’t officially • Phone Round-up: Nokia N97,
c o m m e n t e d o n t h e M a n g o LG enV3 and more
timeline, and as such it’s

Official PayPal App Quietly Published On Nokia’s Ovi Store

Robin Wauters (TechCrunch) The application is free, but the world’s largest manufacturer
Submitted at 3/18/2011 9:02:53 AM apparently lacks support for of mobile phones with a global
displaying in landscape mode and device market share of 31% in the
PayPal has quietly released a consumes an excessive amount of fourth quarter of 2010.
mobile application for Nokia RAM according to some early PayPal, meanwhile, says it
devices on the Finnish mobile users. supports more than 94 million
p h o n e m a k e r ’ s O v i S t o r e According to the blog posts active accounts in 190 markets
marketplace, a tipster points out. linked above, the application and 24 currencies around the
Indeed, while I can’t find the app functions much like its iPhone, world.
f r o m w h e r e I ’ m s e a r c h i n g Android and BlackBerry siblings: Screenshots of the app – in
(Belgium), other TechCrunchers you can use it to send money, French – below courtesy of Blog-
in the United States can find the manage your account, split a n8.fr.
app just fine (see screenshots check and transfer money to your little fanfare. I’ve asked PayPal and requested a list of countries in CrunchBase Information PayPal
above and below). I’ve also bank account. for confirmation as they have yet which the app can be downloaded Nokia Information provided by
tracked down blog posts from From what I can gather, the app to effectively announce the from Nokia’s Ovi Store. CrunchBase
eagle-eyed bloggers in France and was made available on the Ovi existence of any mobile It is important news for an
Italy. Store earlier this week with very applications for Nokia handsets, obvious reason: Nokia remains

Alrosa: profile of the Russian diamond producer

(Finance News - Business news Russia's Alrosa, the world's the company.
from the UK and world) biggest producer of diamonds, is
Submitted at 3/18/2011 6:52:24 AM planning a major expansion. Here
are some facts and figures about
Newstablet Edition Technology/ Culture/ 43
Hovering Japanese
Houses - Apollo
Architects Create a
Tranquil Oasis in a
Crowded Neighborhood
(TrendHunter.com)
(TREND HUNTER - The Latest
Trends)
Submitted at 3/18/9702 8:00:46 AM

( TrendHunter.com) This single-

family home located in downtown
Sendai, Japan is certainly an eye-
catcher. Designed by Apollo
Architects and Associates, the
house features an upper floor that
juts outward, which provides...

Moki.tv Is an All-
iPhone 5 slots metal back into fourth-gen chassis? Encompassing Directory
of Streaming Movies
Chris Davies (SlashGear) engineering renders purportedly assembly for the iPhone 5, with Relevant Entries on SlashGear
Submitted at 3/18/2011 9:49:32 AM showing the iPhone 5 design, the parts all very similar in • Huntkey outs H405 computer and TV on the Web
which suggested an almost design. That could well suggest chassis
Further leaks regarding the i d e n t i c a l p h y s i c a l b u i l t – the physical layout of the fifth- • iPhone back case replacement
[Video]
physical design of the iPhone 5 including the edge antenna – to gen Apple smartphone is hardly • Sharkoon Scorpio 1000 ATX Whitson Gordon (Lifehacker)
have emerged, with more signs the iPhone 4. Earlier rumors changed. mid-tower case debuts Submitted at 3/18/2011 8:00:00 AM
pointing to a generally similar raised the possibility of a metal As for the bigger display, that’s • Leaked iPhone 5 renders claim
shape to the existing iPhone 4. back panel, presumably aluminum believed to come in at 4-inches same style but bigger screen Services like Netflix, Hulu Plus,
According to 9 to 5 Mac‘s trusted but potentially Liquid Metal, with and be paired with the new 1GHz • NZXT unveils Tempest Evo and Amazon Instant are great for
source at Foxconn, Apple is Apple switching over durability dual-core Apple A5 processor. computer chassis catching up on your movies and
currently testing prototypes which and production concerns. NFC still remains controversial, TV on demand, but they all have
fit metal back plates and larger The image above is said to show with conflicting reports claiming different selections. Moki.tv
d i s p l a y s i n t o t h e c u r r e n t - the charging assembly from the Apple will and won’t be including searches all the popular movie
generation form factor. iPhone 4 GSM and CDMA it, while dual-mode GSM/CDMA and TV show outlets from one,
That fits with previously leaked variants along with the same support is also rumored. unified engine. More »
44 Technology/ Culture/ Newstablet Edition

Glonass Russian GPS coming from Qualcomm &

more to boost LBS
Chris Davies (SlashGear)
Submitted at 3/18/2011 9:17:34 AM
The next generation of
smartphones and mobile devices
could be far quicker to lock onto
their physical location for
mapping and LBS, with the news
that big-name chipset
manufacturers are adding Glonass
support to their upcoming
products. ST-Ericsson and
Broadcom both support Glonass –
the Russian-installed rival to GPS
– in their new location chips, and
Qualcomm has confirmed it will
add support for the system in its
28nm integrated GPS offerings.
In development since 1976, and
with the first satellites installed in
October 1982, Glonass was
completed in 1995 but
subsequently fell into disrepair.
Since then, the Russian space
agency has shunted a huge
amount of its budget – one-third
in 2010 – to restoring Glonass,
with full global coverage expected
to be achieved later this year.
Accordingly, the Russian
government now apparently
mandates that devices on sale in
the country must also support
Glonass if they offer GPS
functionality. Whether handsets
and gadgets on sale outside of
Russia will do the same remains
to be seen, though the upside for
the consumer would be faster fix
times and boosted performance in
urban canyons.
[ via GigaOm; image via
Wikipedia]
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• Russian launch fails to put three
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• Russian Theater installs a cell
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• Russian dual-display 4G
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demo
• Never lose your car in a dark
alley
Spice Up Your Rooted
Android Phone with
Over 300 Different
Fonts [Friday Fun]
Whitson Gordon (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 3/18/2011 7:00:00 AM
We love customizing our phones
here at Lifehacker, and if you're
bored of the humdrum font on
your Android phone, modder
Fachadick has over 300 fonts
that'll help you brighten it up.
More »

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop: Work On First Windows Nokia

Phones Has Begun
Robin Wauters (TechCrunch) partnership with Microsoft along To the extent that a partnership their labor.
Submitted at 3/18/2011 9:17:43 AM with a series of management and has been formed around what It better be worth the trouble:
organizational changes. they’re really interested in, then Nokia’s decision to dump its
N o k i a C E O ( a n d f o r m e r Nokia’s chief executive, who what would an acquisition bring software platform in favor of
Microsoft executive) Stephen transitioned to that role after other than a good year of anti- Microsoft’s unproven Windows
Elop has told Reuters that the leaving his position as president trust investigation, huge turmoil, Phone software already wiped 29
mobile phone giant has begun o f t h e M i c r o s o f t B u s i n e s s delays? percent off its share price.
work on the first smartphones Division, also commented on Elop said he hopes to produce a CrunchBase Information Nokia
based on Microsoft’s software. speculation that Microsoft might Nokia-Windows phone by the end Stephen Elop Windows Phone 7
The tidbit of news comes about a lodge an attempt to acquire of this year, although we might Information provided by
month after the Finland-based Nokia: interest that Microsoft would have have to wait until well into 2012 CrunchBase
c o m p a n y a n n o u n c e d t h e I’m not aware of a strategic in the rest of the business. to really start seeing the fruits of
Newstablet Edition
College Grads Looking for Work at a Footbo Raises $2.5 Million,
NYC Startup? Try the NYC Startup Swings For The Fences With
New Fantasy Baseball Game
Job Fair
Audrey Watters
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 3/18/2011 9:00:09 AM
It's that time of year again, when
college seniors start thinking
about the next phase of their lives.
In other words, that means it's
time to start looking for a job,
polishing up the resume, and
hitting the campus career fairs.
As we've discussed here before in
relations to internship programs,
many campus events and
recruitment efforts still cater
primarily to large, established
companies. This can make it
challenging for startups looking to
hire new talent and difficult for
graduates hoping to find work
opportunities at small or new
companies.
The NYC Startup Job Fair-
Use a Smart Cover to stick your iPad to the fridge
Chris Ward (TUAW)
Submitted at 3/18/2011 9:15:00 AM
OK, so this one definitely comes
under the heading "Don't try this
at home," with the sub-heading
"Unless you're completely crazy
... and even then maybe not."
Robin Wauters (TechCrunch)
booths, which certainly puts it on Submitted at 3/18/2011 10:36:25 AM
track to outdo its last year's sell-
out event. Exclusive - Footbo, a provider of
According to organizer Alex interactive sports sites and
Horn, the NYC Startup Job Fair is applications, has raised an
additional$2.5 million from
trying to attract a diverse group of
companies this year, including Pitango, the Israeli VC firm who
has now invested about $4.5
green tech, fashion, and food
startups. But says Horn, "Our million in the startup. Footbo
announced the financing round as
goal continues to be bringing
more awareness of the growing it formally launches its latest
venture, 11Runs, a new fantasy
NY startup scene especially
among young qualified job baseball game.
scheduled for the afternoon of seekers. We hope the fair leads to The new initiative is Footbo’s
April 8 - hopes to address this resume exchanges and converting latest move as it vies for a leading
with an event expressly aimed at some would-be bankers and position in the world of fantasy
matching graduates with startups. lawyers into the entrepreneurial sports – the site complements the
Sponsor company’s 11Kicks(‘real’
path."
Now in its second year, the job Job seekers and startups can still football, which Americans call
fair is hosted by the Columbia apply for a spot, but the event did soccer) and 11Rush(for the sport
Venture Company and the NYU sell out last year, so you might Americans, in turn, call football)
Venture Company. Over 50 want to do so soon. Discuss websites.
startups have already applied for 11Runs basically enables fans to
play fantasy baseball in quick
weekly competitions and win cash
prizes. The site features
integration with social networks,
That's right, that's what the hundred dollar (or more) chunk of
picture shows: someone's worked magic can be held to a refrigerator
out that the bevy of magnets in an door by the magnets in its cover --
iPad 2 Smart Cover are strong and then actually try it? Also, will
enough to hold the iPad to a AppleCare cover this when it all
refrigerator door. turns to tears?
This raises at least two questions: need to wonder if your five [Via Gizmodo]
first, what kind of mind do you Use a Smart Cover to stick your
Technology/ 45
allowing users to sign up using
their Facebook, Twitter or Yahoo
profiles. Users can also post
updates about their winnings
directly to social networking
services to brag to their friends.
The company is set to release an
accompanying iPhone application
early next week, and is also
working on a custom application
for Android handsets.
Footbo was founded in 2007 by
co-founder and CEO Mani
Honigstein. The company
originally started out as an online
social community for football
lovers from across the globe.
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Pitango Venture Capital
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iPhone 5 again rumored Risk of Meltdown Decreases as Workers
to have NFC Attempt to Restore Power; NHK Confirms
Kelly Hodgkins (TUAW)
Submitted at 3/18/2011 10:00:00 AM
It's a game of rumor volleying
when it comes to the iPhone 5 and
Near Field Communication. Early
rumors suggested the iPhone 5
would include NFC technology,
but recent information from UK-
based The Independent hinted
Apple would launch its own NFC-
based payment system with the
iPhone 6. Now that we have
adapted to the idea of an NFC-less
iPhone 5, Forbes has charged in
with another rumor that places
NFC back in the upcoming
smartphone.
The source of this rumor is a
friend of an entrepreneur who is
working with Apple on a "top
secret" NFC product. The
unnamed individual believes the
fruits of the friend's labor will
debut in the iPhone 5. The source
also claims manufacturers of NFC
readers are preparing for a deluge
of business when the iPhone 5 hits
this summer.
While the possibility of NFC is
exciting, the Forbes report is
based on second-hand information
and cannot be corroborated. Yes,
it is possible the iPhone 5 will
include an NFC mobile payment
Turn a Pair of $30 Headphones into a $300 Pair [DIY]
Whitson Gordon (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 3/18/2011 6:30:00 AM
that Water Pumps Have Been Restarted
noreply@blogger.com (Michael
Shedlock) (Mish's Global
Economic Trend Analysis)
Submitted at 3/18/2011 2:35:00 AM
There is a string of good news
out of Japan this morning.
Bloomberg reports Workers
Prepare to Connect Power to
Stricken Nuclear Plant Power may
be restored to one of the crippled
reactors at Japan’s damaged
Fukushima Dai-Ichi power plant,
possibly today, improving the
odds that workers can prevent a
meltdown and further radiation
leaks.
The U.S. military, which is flying
system, but it is not a guarantee unmanned surveillance drones
by any stretch of the imagination. over the 40-year-old power station
Sit tight and wait for the iPhone 5 about 135 miles (220 kilometers)
rumor mill to kick into overdrive north of Tokyo at Japan’s request,
in the next few months before you said it is “cautiously optimistic”
start investing in VeriFone and that the damage to the reactors
other NFC makers. can be contained. The risk of a
iPhone 5 again rumored to have meltdown has lessened after water
NFC originally appeared on was dumped on the site yesterday,
TUAW on Fri, 18 Mar 2011 said Thomas Graham, chairman
10:00:00 EST. Please see our of Lightbridge Corp., a McLean,
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“We’re optimistic that we’ll
continue to progress in this, and
If you want high-quality music
but don't feel like shelling out
hundreds of dollars for a decent pair of headphones, blogger Stacy
that worst-case scenario will
never be encountered,” Admiral
Robert Willard, head of the U.S.
Pacific Command, told reporters
by telephone from Hawaii. The
worst-case scenario would be if
the effort to keep the cores of the
reactors covered were abandoned,
he said.
The possibility of a meltdown is
“not off the table, but the more
water that goes in there,” the less
the risk of a meltdown becomes,”
Graham said. “The reactor
situation is definitely not
deteriorating as it was and
seemingly becoming stable and
perhaps becoming more under
control.” W ater Pumps Have
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Water Pumps Have Been
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There is no article. Just a news
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restarted.
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The LWOT: DOJ indicts Canadian in NY Subway plot;
Lawmakers and lawyers spar over Gitmo - by Andrew
lebovich
ANDREW LEBOVICH (Foreign
Policy)
Submitted at 3/18/2011 9:46:08 AM
Must-read: Andrea Elliott has a
lengthy profile of Yasir Qadhi, a
popular salafi imam who sits on
the fault lines of debate amongst
some American Muslims about
radicalization, jihad and Islam in
the United States ( NYT, NYT).
FBI indicts Canadian in Zazi plot
Federal prosecutors in New York
on Mar. 15 unsealed a
superseding indictment (available
here) charging a Canadian man,
Ferid Imam, with providing
material support to al Qaeda and
allegedly helping train and
provide assistance to New York
Subway plotters Najibullah Zazi,
Zarein Ahmedzay and Adis
Medunjanin ( FBI, AFP, AP,
WSJ). Medunjanin awaits trial in
the plot, while Zazi and
Ahmedzay have pled guilty to
terrorism charges. Zazi reportedly
identified Imam, who is accused
of entering Pakistan in 2007 with
another man in order to fight
American forces in Afghanistan,
as a weapons trainer in a militant
camp in Pakistan's volatile tribal
regions ( CNN). The two men
also face terrorism charges in
Canada ( Globe and Mail).
In congressional testimony Mar.
16, FBI Director Robert Mueller
said that the biggest threat facing
the United States today is from
terrorism, and especially from al
Qaeda and its affiliates ( VOA).
Also this week, a website leaked a
purported FBI report detailing the
construction of a bomb placed on
a Martin Luther King Jr. Day
parade route in Spokane, WA (
Spokane Spokesman-Review).
The father of a man arrested in
connection with the bomb plot,
Kevin Harpham said his son was
with him when the bomb was
planted, but that his son had
"racist beliefs" and could have
helped construct the bomb ( AP).
Lawmakers and lawyers spar
over Gitmo
Top Pentagon lawyer Jeh
Johnson testified in front of the
House Armed Services
Committee on Mar. 17, where he
urged the committee to allow both
civilian and military trials of
Guantánamo Bay detainees, in
part to reduce the chance that
courts will interfere when
detainees formally object to their
imprisonment ( AP). He also
pushed back on proposed
legislation by committee
chairman Buck McKeon (R-CA)
that would revise the original
authorization for the use of
military force against terrorist
groups and further limit civilian
control over terrorism detainees (
Miami Herald, Danger Room, The
Atlantic). The New York Times
this week examines McKeon's
rising influence, and Benjamin
Wittes looks closely at Sen.
Lindsey Graham's proposed
reforms of habeas standards in
terrorism detentions ( NYT,
Lawfare Blog).
Also this week, the Court for
Military Commission Review
(CMCR) heard oral arguments in
the appeal of al Qaeda
propagandist Ali al-Bahlul, in a
case that could have broad
implications for the scope of
military trials and their definition
of "war crimes" ( Lawfare Blog).
Diplomat warns of consequences
of Libya instability
Hours before the U.N. Security
Council voted to allow the use of
force in order to protect Libyan
civilians, U.S. Undersecretary of
State William Burns warned the
Senate Foreign Relations
Committee that dictator
Muammar Qaddafi could return to
supporting terrorism and regional
instability if he prevails over
rebels currently holding out
against government attacks in the
country's east ( VOA, Reuters,
CNN). In order to support its
claims of foreign leadership of the
month-old rebellion, the Libyan
government yesterday held a press
conference with a captured man
allegedly linked to the Libyan
Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) (
Telegraph, Financial Times).
The Wall Street Journal reports
yesterday that the unrest in the
Middle East and North Africa has
disrupted some counterterrorism
partnerships and caused the U.S.
to lose track of a number of
former Guantánamo detainees
sent back to the region ( WSJ).
And Egypt's ruling military
council has released from prison
the brother of al Qaeda no. 2
Ayman al-Zawahiri, detained
since his extradition from the
United Arab Emirates in 2000 (
NYT).
Trials and Tribulations
• Federal prosecutors on Mar. 15
indicted Dani Nemr Tarraf,
arrested in 2009, on charges that
he attempted to buy automatic
rifles and antiaircraft missiles for
the Lebanese terrorist group
Hezbollah ( Philadelphia
Inquirer).
• Documents released by the
website WikiLeaks this week
indicate that American authorities
in 2006 expressed serious concern
that the growing number of sharia
-compliant banks in Britain could
be used as a conduit for funds for
terrorist groups ( Telegraph).
• Der Spiegel this week examines
the role Internet communities of
jihadi writers and sympathizers
played in the radicalization of
Arid Uka, who allegedly killed
two U.S. soldiers and wounded
two others in a shooting at
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Frankfurt Airport earlier this
month ( Der Spiegel).
• A Mauritanian court on Mar. 15
sentenced Al Qaeda in the Islamic
Maghreb (AQIM) member
Mohamed Abdallahi Ould
H'Mednah to death over the 2009
killing in the country's capital
Nuakchott of American
Christopher Leggett ( AFP,
Reuters, BBC). In a speech this
week British security minister
Pauline Neville-Jones said AQIM
had made over £13 million from
kidnapping Europeans, though she
did not specify the time period in
which the money was made (
Telegraph).
• The European Commission on
Mar. 17 requested greater
transparency from the United
States into a program that taps
European banking data to track
terrorism financing ( NYT).
• Indonesian authorities accused
the militant group Jemaah
Islamiyya, linked to radical cleric
Abu Bakir Bashir, of being behind
a series of "book bombings"
targeting moderate Muslims in the
country ( AFP, AP, Sydney
Morning Herald, Sydney Morning
Herald).
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What Obama Must Do On His First Trip to Latin America

(AEI.Org: Articles) Latin America team has failed to productive ties with leaders of Africa and Europe. tour will take him) are very
Submitted at 3/17/2011 11:00:00 PM follow through with any those three countries. Today, Iran uses its alliance with different countries. However,
purposeful dialogue. Secretary of Without the ballast of Venezuela to work around U.N. each of these countries are
"Eighty percent of success is State Hillary Clinton has gamely presidential engagement, and U.S. financial sanctions, mine governed by elected leaders who
showing up," said Woody Allen. traveled, more than any of her Brazilian diplomats nearly uranium, tap nuclear technology know that a mix of free markets,
President Obama's upcoming trip predecessors, to Latin America derailed the U.S. push for Iran and sow its terrorist network. In democracy, and the rule of law is
to Latin America, the first of his but her regional advisors have sanctions last year. Mexican the absence of any recognition of the only sustainable solution to
life, could jumpstart a policy that failed to formulate a single President Felipe Calderón arrived the problem, let alone an effective poverty.
has left observers here and in the concrete initiative with any one of in Washington excoriating U.S. response from Washington, Iran In addition, the president should
region wondering where he's the 34 countries or with the region diplomacy and anti-drug has expanded its influence and not be shy about saying to
been. as a whole. cooperation. Political appointees activities in Ecuador, Argentina, responsible leaders that genuine
After pledging a policy of Today, Iran uses its alliance with in the State Department have Bolivia, and Central America. partnership means confronting
dialogue and partnership, our Venezuela to work around U.N. down-graded relations with The engagement vacuum has had common threats as a community.
friends are still waiting for either- and U.S. financial sanctions, mine Colombia, a key anti-drug ally global consequences. China and To do that, he must use his trip to
as the administration has failed to uranium, tap nuclear technology and democratic bulwark in South Russia used to tread lightly as issue a wake-up call to his team
offer any novel initiative to and sow its terrorist network. America; and, thus far Obama has they foraged for raw materials or that the Americas are important
advance our common interests. Instead, Venezuela has used its been unwilling to spend political customers for their arms in the and that growing threats on our
Our foes are watching, too. A petrodollars to undermine the capital to advance a trade Americas. Today, due to doorstep can no longer be
passive policy toward Venezuela Organization of American States agreement with that country (and provocative U.S. complacency, ignored. Roger F. Noriega is a
has left strongman Hugo Chávez and has created several rival another with Panama). Our Beijing is moving slowly but visiting fellow at AEI.
pressing forward on an audacious bodies that consciously exclude friends are left thinking that they surely to displace the United Photo Credit: White House Photo
anti-U.S. agenda, including the United States. Most regional are on their own. States as a customer for South by Pete Souza
offering Iran and narcotraffickers leaders are not interested in The perceived lack of interest by American oil. And both nations This entry passed through the
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When the president was first rival vision when the United minded leaders that they can abet terrorist groups and to offer on someone else's site, please read
elected, nations in the region States seems so disinterested. corruption, illicit drug trafficking, surreptitious support to Iran's our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
welcomed the fresh approach On the bilateral front, relations Iranian adventurism and terrorism rogue nuclear program. content-only/faq.php
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He would not impose an agenda last two years. President Bush-not efforts, and Chávez has become a relations with democratic leaders Guardian's Economics Editor.
but shape a common vision with a universally beloved figure in pivotal partner with from across the political
our neighbors. Latin America-managed to narcotraffickers from Mexico and spectrum. Brazil, Chile and El
Unfortunately, the president's personally forge historically the Caribbean Basin to West Salvador (where the president's
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The President Takes a Bogey

(AEI.Org: Articles) Brooks writes, the administration surface while working tirelessly The only area where he has
Submitted at 3/17/2011 11:00:00 PM “hewed to Kennedy’s seize-the- below eye level to get where he shown sustained energy lately is
moment style. Now it seems to be needed to go. I’m open to fundraising. And even there, his
I’ve figured out Obama. He’s not copying the Eisenhower mood.” evidence that Obama is working pitch for support hinges on the
a Muslim, he’s a golfer! Really? The “Eisenhower mood” tirelessly behind the scenes, but fact that his middle name is still
That’s a reference to Russell is an awfully charitable way to where exactly does he think he’s “Hussein.” We should never take
Kirk’s semi-famous retort to the describe a president who seems to going? it for granted, the president told
conspiratorial nuts who insisted be playing hooky when he’s not Yes, yes, I know he says we’re Democratic donors, “that a guy
that Dwight Eisenhower was a hiding under his desk.
secret Commie. The revered The real problem for Obama is
on course to “win the future” with
high-speed rail and enough
named Barack Hussein Obama is
president of the United States.”
The Financial
c o n s e r v a t i v e i n t e l l e c t u a l not that he likes his exercise. It’s
responded disdainfully, “Ike’s not that he’s acting like an employee
windmills to lift the continental
shelf. But what does any of this
Uh, okay. But I thought the
important thing about his middle Crisis Just
a Communist, he’s a golfer.” who thinks he’s too good for the nonsense have to do with the name was that it would help him
For the record, while I think the job.
media’s special standard for Obama has always been offended
turmoil around us? Calm is
always good, but calmly checking
improve relations with the
Muslim world. How’s that going?
Ended
Joe Weisenthal (Money Game)
Democratic presidents’ recreation by criticism, finding it somehow out during a crisis is inexcusable. Obama added that he understands
is outrageous, I really don’t care illegitimate to disagree with him. I do not subscribe to the how easy it is to get “frustrated” Submitted at 3/18/2011 10:09:37 AM

that Obama plays a lot of golf. But his frustration is getting the mythology of the 1950s as an with politics. Why, his wife had to
And he does play a lot. In his first better of him. The New York Bank stocks are rallying, as the
uncomplicated time. But it was a stop watching cable TV it’s gotten
year in office, Obama played Times reports that “Mr. Obama Fed just released stress test results
confident and prosperous time, so bad. I bet Hu Jintao’s wife can
more rounds of golf than George has told people that it would be so giving banks more leeway to pay
and an avuncular war-hero watch the news all she likes.
W. Bush did in two full terms. much easier to be the president of dividends and buy back shares.
president taking to the links sent Go ahead, Mr. President, play
He’s now close to tripling Bush’s China. As one official put it, ‘No The Federal Reserve on Friday
the signal that the commander-in- golf. But you should never take it
eight-year total, though that’s one is scrutinizing Hu Jintao’s announced it has completed the
chief had everything well in hand, for granted that you’re a president
misleading since Bush vowed to words in Tahrir Square.’” Comprehensive Capital Analysis
not that he was fed up with the playing golf, not a golfer playing
stop golfing in 2003 because What an inconvenience it must be and Review (CCAR), its cross-
job. president.
“playing golf during a war just that the world looks to America institution study of the capital
Obama’s full-spectrum passivity Jonah Goldberg is a visiting
sends the wrong signals.” plans of the 19 largest U.S. bank
for leadership when people are simply is not the same thing, fellow at AEI.
That clarifies the golf stats, but sacrificing their lives to fight holding companies.
because we do not live in the Photo Credit: Official White
not exactly in Obama’s favor tyranny. As a result of the CCAR, some
same world. On the budget and House Photo by Pete Souza
since we’re still at war and the What an inconvenience it must be firms are expected to increase or
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P e r h a p s i t ’ s O b a m a ’ s that Eisenhower whined about and its decisions with firms that
while it’s very clear that content-only/faq.php
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Brooks to write that we are in a consonant with Eisenhower’s planning processes next month.
does is claim credit for increased Guardian's Economics Editor.
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Yemen Declares State

Of Emergency After
After Total Massacre Of
Protesters
Joe Weisenthal (Money Game)
Submitted at 3/18/2011 9:48:00 AM

Original post: Add this to the list

of brutality in the Mideast.
There has been a massacre in
Yemen today.
According to reports, more than
28 people have been killed.
Police opened fire on protesters.
Between Libya, Bahrain, and
Japan it's possible this will go
largely unnoticed.

Keeping Up with the Qaddafis - By Suzanne We'll update as details come in.
Russia Today says there were
"tens of thousands" of protesters

Merkelson in the capital.

The NYT has more. Snipers fired
down from rooftops. Violence
SUZANNE MERKELSON stead during these days of civil regime under fire, the Qaddafi daughter.
(Foreign Policy) war and threats of no-fly zones. In children have been among their Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images supposedly "dwarfed" that of
fact, in a bizarre twist on normal father's most ardent supporters, in This entry passed through the other protests.
Submitted at 3/17/2011 7:42:35 PM
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that counts -- and Qaddafi's close- values that their father hated(and According to Muammar, another Guardian's Economics Editor.
knit family has stood him in good has railed against). But with his raid that year killed his adopted
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Coordinated G-7 Yen Intervention in Progress; Currency
Interventions Never Work
noreply@blogger.com (Michael
Shedlock) (Mish's Global
Economic Trend Analysis)
Submitted at 3/17/2011 9:47:00 PM
Inquiring minds are once again
watching central banks intervene
in the forex markets. Please
consider Yen falls after G7 deal,
further downside seen Japanese
Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda
said Japan agreed with central
banks of the United States, Britain
and Canada as well as the
European Central Bank to jointly
intervene in the currency market,
the first joint action in over a
decade.
The dollar jumped nearly 3
percent on the day to as high as
81.48 yen, extending a rebound
from a record low of 76.25 yen
plumbed on Thursday. The selloff
in the previous session came after
a break of the 1995 record low of
79.75 triggered a cascade of
automatic sell orders in thin trade.
The yen has climbed steadily
since last week's earthquake, as
Japanese and international
investors closed long positions in
higher-yielding, riskier assets
such as the Australian dollar,
funded by cheap borrowing in the
Japanese currency.
Expectations that Japanese
insurers and companies will bring
money home to pay for claims
and reconstruction also
contributed to the yen's strength.
Some analysts doubted any
intervention would be effective,
given past experiences by the
Bank of Japan and the Swiss
National Bank.
"Intervention is no panacea.
Everyone knows it. Japan has a
much bigger credibility problem
and that'll weaken the impact,"
said David Gilmore, a partner in
FX Analytics in Essex,
Connecticut.
"I don't think we've seen the low
in the dollar/yen. There's still a lot
of carry trade exposure. The
world is really levered up on this."
Yet, other analysts said
intervention may be more
effective this time than it was in
September when Japan spent $26
billion to weaken the yen but
failed to ensure a lasting dollar
rally.
"This entire move can be pinned
down to speculative positioning
rather than any repatriation
flows," said Lee Hardman,
currency economist at Bank of
Tokyo-Mitsubishi.
"Since it is speculative,
intervention in this case should
work and clear out some of the
long yen positions." Currency
Interventions Never Work
Several people asked me to
comment on this. I am not sure
what I can add given my stated
position that "currency
interventions never work".
However, to add some color, I
will say this is an act of
desperation as well as a sign of
hubris by central bank clowns to
Economy/ 51
Yen 20-Minute Chart
click on chart for sharper image
Hallelujah?
Is this a trend change? How the
hell does anyone know? I don't.
What I do know is the G-7
intervention has distorted the
market, potentially sending false
signals that cannot possibly do
any good.
However, if you want a guess, we
have seen the highs for this move
in the Yen.
Moreover, and ironically, my bet
is we see intervention in the
think they are more powerful than Carry Trade Blows Up, the best reverse direction in years to come
the markets. thing for central banks is to leave as Japan struggles to fight rising
S h o r t o f c o m p l e t e s e l f - this alone. inflation with a debt-to-GDP ratio
destruction, no one can defeat the Best Move for Japan is to do ill-equipped to handle interest rate
primary trend. They can slow it Nothing hikes to stabilize the Yen.
down, or temporarily buy some Currency intervention has not Mike "Mish" Shedlock
time but not reverse it. worked ever. Pray tell what good h t t p : / /
That said, central banks certainly did it do Japan to throw $25 globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.
can enhance the current trend. billion at the Forex market in com
Indeed, asinine policies by the September? Click Here To Scroll Thru My
Greenspan Fed certainly made the The answer is none. R e c e n t
housing bubble much larger than History has proven time and time Post List Mike "Mish" Shedlock
would have happened otherwise. again that fighting currency is a registered investment advisor
Thus, there is always a slight trends is futile. Thus, the best representative for SitkaPacific
chance that by accident, central thing Japan can do with the Yen C a p i t a l M a n a g e m e n t . S i t k a
banks step in at precisely the right is to not do anything at all. Yet, Pacific is an asset management
time (as a trend is about to reverse foolish cries for intervention still f i r m w h o s e g o a l i s s t r o n g
on its own accord), giving the persist. performance and low volatility,
a p p e a r a n c e o f i n t e r v e n t i o n If that gap fills quickly with no regardless of market direction.
success. intervention from the Bank of Visit http://www.sitkapacific.com
Could this be one of those rare Japan, the blast higher is quite /account_management.html to
instances central bankers step in likely to be an exhaustion gap, l e a r n m o r e a b o u t w e a l t h
at the right time? I suppose so. signifying the end of the trend. m a n a g e m e n t a n d c a p i t a l
Nonetheless, as I said just Clearly the jackass central preservation strategies of Sitka
yesterday in Wild Moves in Yen; bankers did not listen. Thus we
Best Move for Japan is to Not have a completely distorted chart COORDINATED page 52
Intervene; Yen Hits Record High; as shown below.
52 Economy/ Culture/ Newstablet Edition

Why You Can't Expect The Japanese Consumer To Rebound

From Fukushima Like Americans Came Back From 9/11
Gregory White (Money Game) for comparison, but in our view, amount to relocate evacuees and
Submitted at 3/18/2011 9:59:37 AM U.S. consumers’ state of mind to help them find jobs. We
after the 9/11 could make a good estimate that another JPY 5-10
While the crisis in Fukushima comparison. Population generally trillion fiscal spending would be
persists, markets are struggling to avoided crowded areas for fear of required for the program. In this
come to any sort of conclusion on encountering terrorism. Consumer instance, it is likely that the
just what sort of impact this is confidence plunged in September Japanese government would be
going to have on the Japanese to October 2001 (see chart above). forced to raise taxes, instead of
consumer. However, the decline in consumer relying on more JGB issuance.
The best we've got, thus far, is c o n f i d e n c e d i d n o t m e a n Consumers are likely to be
historical comparison. And while stagnation in retail sales. In burdened with increased taxes on
Kobe is the most talked about, 9/ Japan’s “worst case scenario”, top of the collapse in confidence.
11 may be a better example. consumer confidence is likely to Not good, and that's why the
Societe Generale point out two tank as in U.S after 9/10. We are future Japanese chart will likely
opposing, but interesting facts to pessimistic that the Japanese not match this one.
ponder. After September 11, U.S. consumption trend could diverge relieve consumers with tax cut as raise taxes too. Don't miss: Our complete
consumer confidence plummeted, from confidence as it did in U.S. we detail in the next section. On top of the fiscal stimulus of economic breakdown of the $200
but retail sales sky rocketed. Only though. While there will still be The problem with Japan, is if the JPY 5-10 trillion we are already billion disaster slamming Japan >
problem is the Japanese may not demand from consumers to "worst case scenario" does occur, expecting in the aftermath of the Join the conversation about this
have the same toolkit to create replace lost consumer durables, the government will need to spend earthquake, the government will story »
that surge. we expect fiscal situation won’t so much money, they may need to need to spend an even larger
It is difficult to search for events allow Japanese government to
COORDINATED
continued from page 51

Pacific.
Get ready for Saturday’s “Supermoon”
(Holy Kaw!)
Submitted at 3/18/2011 10:03:00 AM
It’s been quite the year for lunar
events, what with the rare blue
moon, total lunar eclipse and now
what’s called a “supermoon” to be
visible on Saturday.
Tomorrow night, the full moon
will be the closest it’s been to
Earth in eighteen years, 221,567
miles away rather than the
average 238,000 miles. Though
many believe lunar events such as
this portend natural disasters and
astrological changes, NASA has
been quick to counter these ideas.
[Noted NASA scientist Jim]
Garvin, for example, said the
moon's effects on Earth have been
the subject of extensive studies.
"The effects on Earth from a
supermoon are minor, and
according to the most detailed
studies by terrestrial seismologists
and volcanologists, the
combination of the moon being at
its closest to Earth in its orbit, and
being in its 'full moon'
configuration (relative to the
Earth and sun), should not affect
the internal energy balance of the
Earth since there are lunar tides
every day," Garvin wrote.
Let’s keep our fingers crossed for
clear skies.
Full story at Huffington Post.
Wave hello to the man in the
moon.
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March 18, 1931: The Schick Hits the Fans
Randy Alfred (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 3/18/2011 6:00:00 AM
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powered by an external motor. He blade, but the shavers were
sent the idea to manufacturers, convenient. And when you factor PopSugar (PopSugar)
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1931: The first practical, electric Schick returned to active duty cream and other appurtenances
shavers go on sale. They’re when the United States entered needed for a wet shave, fans
definitely a cut above their World War I. As a lieutenant didn’t think it seemed so • Find out how much Kate
clumsy predecessors. colonel, he headed the Army’s expensive after all. Especially Middleton's famous see-through
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and after. Schick developed shaver invention, but needed Schick got rich and retired to the Arrested Development movie-
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Schick was a key member of the forerunner of the injector razor: He got rid of the flexible cable • Alyson Hannigan's too cute St.
correctly every day would be 120
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exquisite timing, he put his first was a bulky, two-handed affair.
After retiring from the Army in electric shavers on the market in appliance cord supplied power to • Unlikely rumors about a John
(National Housewares
1910, Schick explored for gold in 1929, just in time for the stock the motor, which had to be kick- Mayer and Kate Winslet hook up-
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Wired.com March 18, 2009.
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He devised rough plans, so to figured out how to make his 1937.
Guardian's Economics Editor.
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Country entertainer Ferlin Husky dies at age 85 (AP)

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How to Spin a Yarn and Get Your
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Future Mark Zuckerbergs better
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book, Tell to Win. The former
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can help close million-dollar
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Gather experiences from life and
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execs.
2. Set the Stage
Find the optimal context for
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Props can help—Guber brought a
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3. Spin the Yarn
Guber walked into the meeting
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your relatives. These silverback
gorillas are only two clicks away
from us in the gene pool.”
4. Improvise
When the exec was unmoved,
Guber sprawled across the floor
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an immediate
ceasefire
Adam Gabbatt, Mark Tran (The
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Submitted at 3/18/2011 10:39:25 AM
• Libya declares ceasefire after
UN resolution
• Resolution backed no-fly zone
and air strikes
• Britain set to deploy Tornado
and Typhoon jets
• Gaddafi denounces vote as
'flagrant colonisation'
• Unrest continues in Bahrain and
Yemen

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• Read the latest summary of
today's events
• Read the Guardian's latest news
story
3.37pm: My colleague Haroon
Siddique has shared this video,
which purports to show a
demonstration outside a mosque
in Homs, in western Syria.
Another video shows a protest
said to be in Baniyas in the
northwest of the country, while
one shows what is said to be
Syrian intelligence arresting a
man inside the Ummayad mosque
in Damscus, one of the holiest
Muslim places in the world.
These videos were featured on
Enduring America's
comprehensive round up of events
in Syria today.
3.32pm: Hillary Clinton,
providing the first US response,
said she had seen the press reports
of a ceasefire, my colleague Ewen
Macaskill writes.
"It is a fluid and dynamic
situation," Clinton said. She
added that the US was not looking
at what Gaddafi says but deeds on
the ground.
"We want to see a very clear set
of decisions operationalised on
the ground by Gaddafi's forces to
move a significant distance from
the east."
She also insisted that Gaddafi
would have to leave.
Obama is due to speak on Libya
this afternoon.
3.28pm: Ian Black, who is in
Tripoli, confirms reports that
journalists were prevented from
leaving a hotel in the Libyan
capital this morning. Ian said the
hotel in question acts as a
government media centre. He and
other journalists were not allowed
to leave in what Ian suspects was
an attempt to stifle any post-
Friday prayers protests from
publicity. The media were later
escorted out of the hotel on a tour
around Tripoli, but were closely
watched by Gaddafi forces and
limited as to where they could go.
3.10pm: Back to Libya, and Al-
Jazeera English is reporting that
loud explosions have been heard
outside the capital, Tripoli. A
correspondent reported hearing a
number of large explosions in the
past half an hour.
2.57pm – Bahrain: Martin
Chulov has spoken to us from
Bahrain and describes how the
protesters are more determined
than ever despite the brutal
crackdown this week.
This is the end of a particularly
momentous week in Bahraini life.
The streets are utterly abandoned
this morning. It's a very eerie
scene. People are still seething,
there seems to be no resolution at
the end of a violent week. People
are very determined to press on
with the rebellion.
2.48pm – Bahrain: As we're
touching on other parts of the
Middle East, here is an update
from goonerinoman in the
comments section in Bahrain.
Just got back from the Pearl
Roundabout and the Pearl is no
more. I went past it at about 12
Bahrain time and it was there and
now having just passed it, I can
tell you that it is no more. The
Pearl has come down and there
are lots of trucks levelling off the
ground by the roundabout. Maybe
they are going to turn it into a
graveyard. It is quite bizarre that
whilst there are still some tents up
and the rest of the Seef area is a
mess to say the least rather than
clean the mess of smashed up cars
and barbed wire and roadblocks,
the government are concentrating
their time, money and effort on
smashing down and destroying
the crime scene. Like any good
criminal. Less blockades than
normal but lots of tanks and APC.
2.44pm – Syria: There are reports
of more demonstrations in Syria
today. Malik al-Abdeh, London-
based chief editor of the TV
channel Barada TV, which
campaigns for democracy in
Syria, says he has reports of
demonstrations in four cities.
Activists have posted a video on
Facebook which is said to be of
demonstrations in the southern
town of Dara, near the border
with Israel. This is a Youtube
version of the same video, but the
quality is poorer.
The Sydney Morning Herald
reports on its live blog, quoting
the AFP news agency, that plain-
clothes police broke up a protest
after Friday prayers at the main
mosque in central Damascus,
dragging away at least two
activists."There is no God but
God," a crowd inside the men's
section of the Omayyed mosque
started chanting in crescendo after
Friday prayers, it reports.
A number of sources say this is a
video of the same event. Our
Arbabic-speaking colleague Mona
Mahmood says a voice can be
heard saying "it's the Omayyed
mosque", and others can later be
heard shouting "peaceful,
peaceful".
2.38pm: This video purports to
show Misrata under attack today.
Meanwhile, al-Jazeera says
Gaddafi troops have struck the
Rajban and Zintan areas in the
western mountains
(via@SultanAlQassemi).
2.34pm: Giles Tremlett in Madrid
writes that Spain is an enthusiastic
member of the anti-Gaddafi
coalition that will enforce the UN
resolution.
Socialist prime minister José Luis
Rodríguez Zapatero said he had
given the US permission to use its
military bases in Spain to help
enforce a resolution that he called
"decisive and historic". Those
include both air bases and a naval
base at Rota, near the mouth of
the Mediterranean, some 1,100
miles from Tripoli.
Spain will also provide naval and
air assets to the force, though
Zapatero said the decision would
have to be approved by the
country's parliament - which is
unlikely to oppose the move. It
had not yet been decided exactly
what would be needed from
Spain.
Zapatero, who met UN secretary
general Ban Ki-Moon in Madrid
today, said the ceasefire
announced by Gaddafi was a sign
that the UN resolution had already
had some impact, but he warned
that "the international community
will not let itself be fooled by the
Libyan regime."
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2.31pm: Our colleague, Richard
Norton-Taylor, says according to
his defence sources no UK jets
have taken off yet from their
home bases, but that hectic
meetings are going on to decide
where they will be deployed.
Akrotiri in Cyprus is one obvious
base.
2.29pm: Philippe Sands, law
professor at University College
London and a barrister at Matrix
Chambers, has welcomed the UN
resolution in that it rectifies the
damage caused by the Iraq war -
albeit with some caveats. Here's
an extract.
It is one of those rare occasions
in the history of the United
Nations in which the use of force
has been authorised under Chapter
VII...
The protracted lessons of Iraq
and Afghanistan weigh heavily,
and the language of the resolution
appears to allow more than only
defensive or reactive military
measures. And the language
precluding any "foreign
occupation force" is also
ambiguous: it might be interpreted
to allow the arming of rebel
groups and – to the extent it is
requested by those groups – feet
on the ground in the form of
support that falls short of being
characterised as "an occupation
force".
I welcome the resolution, and
strongly so. But inevitably it gives
rise to challenging questions: if
Libya today, why not Bahrain
tomorrow? at what point do such
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attacks on civilians cross a
threshold of unacceptability?
what if the attacks are led not by
Gaddafi but by an old and trusted
ally? These are serious, legitimate
questions and they will have to be
answered, now that a new door of
international action has been
opened.
2.19pm: Despite the ceasefire
announcement, Gaddafi forces are
not only attacking in Misrata but
also in Ajdabiya, according to al-
Jazeera, which reports "gunfire
and heavy artillery clashes" at the
southern entrance to the eastern
city.
2.15pm: Reuters has a very
useful round-up of who might be
contributing what to in any
military operations against
Gaddafi.
France
Likely to deploy Mirage and
Rafale fighters from air bases near
the Mediterranean towns of
Marseille and Istres or from
Corsica. Airborne refuelling
tanker aircraft are also ready to
depart from Istres. Fighter jets
could reach Libya in around an
hour and a half from the south of
France and in around an hour
from Corsica. The Charles de
Gaulle aircraft carrier is in Toulon
so would be ready to deploy fast.
Britain
Britain said it would deploy
Typhoon patrol jets and all-
weather Tornado attack aircraft
based at RAF bases in Scotland
and in Norfolk but would be
moved to unidentified bases
nearer Libya. Britain has two
frigates if needed off the Libyan
coast: HMS Cumberland and
HMS Westminster.
United States
The US navy has an aircraft
carrier, the USS Enterprise, and
other warships in the
Mediterranean, but unclear
whether they would be used.
Italy
Italy is unlikely to take part in
strikes but is expected to provide
its air base at Sigonella in Sicily.
Fighter jets leaving from Sicily
could reach Libya in around half
an hour.
Norway
Norway said it will make its F-16
fighter jets available for an
operation in Libya and could also
provide Hercules transport aircraft
to assist in humanitarian efforts.
Denmark
Denmark said it would send six F
-16 planes and one military
transport plane to support an
intervention in Libya. The planes
were ready to leave Denmark on
Saturday for a southern European
base with around 100 personnel
including pilots and support.
Reuters says Saudi Arabia, the
United Arab Emirates and Qatar
are seen as the most likely Arab
nations to provide back-up for an
operation.
2.04pm: Here's more from Owen
Bowcott's q&a on the legal
aspects of military intervention.
Q: Which targets can be
attacked?
A: Even though the resolution
establishes a 'no-fly zone',
Gaddafi's airfields, anti-aircraft
batteries, command centres in
Tripoli and grounds forces
assaulting rebel strongholds could
all come under bombardment
from allied forces. Libyan troops
engaged in battles with rebel
fighters, for example around an
arms dump, would not technically
be at risk because the resolution
specifies protecting only civilians.
"This will involve bombing
Libyan airfields and air defences,"
said Richard Piotrowicz, professor
of international law at
Aberyswyth university. "It does
not mean they only attack aircraft
in the air. However it would not
justify French or British aircraft
destroying Libyan forces just for
the sake of it."
Q: Does it matter that five states
abstained in the UN security
council vote? Is the wording of
the resolution open to rival
interpretations?
A: The fact that Russia and China
chose not to use a veto sends a
clear signal of tacit political
approval. "Sometimes these UN
resolutions are not clear,"
explained Anthony Aust, a former
Foreign Office legal adviser who
helped draft the Kuwait resolution
in 1990. "They are ambiguous
because it's the only way to avoid
a veto." The authority for military
action is immediate. A ceasefire
by Gaddafi's forces, however, will
be used to challenge the
justification for allied air strikes.
2.01pm: David Cameron says
Gaddafi will be judged by his
deeds not words when asked
about the ceasefire. He told BBC
TV.
We will judge him by his actions
not his words. What is absolutely
clear is the UN security council
resolution said he must stop what
he is doing, brutalising his people.
If not, all necessary measures can
follow to make him stop. That is
what we agreed last night, that is
what we are preparing for and
we'll judge him by what he does.
1.57pm: Our colleague Owen
Bowcott has been talking to legal
experts about the legal aspects of
military intervention in Libya.
Here is the first part of his q&a.
Q: What does the UN resolution
permit the participating allies to
attack?
A: The security council vote
gives wide-ranging authorisation
for the use of force against targets
in the air and on the ground,
according to most international
lawyers. The phrase in paragraph
4 of Resolution 1973 calls on
member states "to take all
necessary measures ..... to protect
civilians and civilian populated
areas under threat of attack..."
Malcolm Shaw, professor of
international law at Leicester
university, described it as giving
the broadest powers for
intervention since the UN
resolution deploring the Iraqi
invasion of Kuwait in 1990.
Q: Can UN-backed forces put
anyone on the ground?
A: Ground spotters to improve
the accuracy of air strikes might
even be allowed under the terms
of the resolution which explicitly
excludes "a foreign occupation
force of any form on any part of
Libyan territory", some lawyers
suggested. If the intention is not
to occupy, then their presence
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could be deemed not to conflict
with the UN's aims. "Some
supportive ground presence would
be authorised," Professor Shaw
said.
1.53pm: There are doubts already
about whether Gaddafi's forces
are observing his promised
ceasefire. The Associated Press
and Al Arabiya TV report that the
city of Misrata is still being
shelled by Libyan troops. Twenty-
five people are reported dead.
"Gaddafi's forces are bombing the
city with artillery shells and tanks.
We now have 25 people dead at
the hospital, including several
little girls," a doctor said by
satellite phone.
1.49pm: At the end other end of
Libya, in Benghazi, Chris
McGreal says the rebels do not
plan to give up the fight against
Gaddafi despite his declaration of
an immediate ceasefire.
The rebels say they don't trust
Gaddafi. They see it as a
reflection of his desperation to try
and stave off the air attacks by
France and Britain and that what
he intends to do is to divide up the
country and for that reason they
are not going to call a ceasefire
themselves. They plan to call for
uprisings across the country to get
rid of Gaddafi.
1.37pm: The New York Times is
reporting that four of its
journalists captured in Libya will
be released.
The journalists are Anthony
Shadid, Beirut bureau chief for
the NYT; two photographers,
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Tyler Hicks and Lindsey Addario;
and reporter Stephen Farrell, who
holds dual British and Irish
nationality.
Gaddafi's son Saif told ABC's
Christiane Amanpour in an
interview recorded yesterday tthat
Addario would be released. The
NYT said that Libyan government
officials told the US state
department on Thursday evening
that all four would be freed.
It is not clear whether the vote at
the UN security council in favour
of a no-fly zone over Libya,
supported by the US, would have
any effect on the decision to
release the journalists.
1.18pm: Ian Black in Tripoli has
some instant analysis of the
ceasefire declaration.
The Libyan announcement of a
unilateral ceasefire made by
foreign minister Moussa Koussa
leaves several important questions
unanswered. Is it simply a ploy to
divide the UN after the approval
of the security council resolution?
And how will a ceasefire be
monitored and verified? Will the
UN be allowed in? Fighting was
reported from the port of Misrata
shortly before his press
conference in Tripoli. His offer of
dialogue has already been rejected
by the Benghazi-based rebels. The
Gaddafi regime is pretty low on
credibility so there will be plenty
of scepticism about this statement.
And Koussa pointedly refused to
answer any questions after
dropping his bombshell.
1.09pm: On a lighter note.
Malta's tourism authority is keen
to correct what it says is incorrect
information in parts of the British
media.
Please be aware that there are NO
British military bases in Malta,
emails the Malta Tourism
Authority. Two news sources -
Sky News and Metro, have
erroneously stated that British
Military bases in Malta could be a
possible target for Libyan counter
attacks, Please be aware that this
is false and that Malta has no
British military bases and is not a
target.
12.54pm: Libya has declared "an
immediate ceasefire", but has
criticised the UN resolution,
saying the use of military power
would "violate" the UN charter.
Here's a summary, including
details of the statement from the
Libyan government:
• Moussa Koussa, the Libyan
foreign minister, announced that
the country had decided to call a
ceasefire, announcing the the
"stoppage of all military
operations" at a press conference
in Tripoli. Koussa said the
country has studied the UN
resolution, and as a security
council member it would accept
the resolution. He said Libya
encourages the "opening of all
dialogue channels" with the
international community.
• Despite this, Koussa criticised
the ruling, saying it was
"unreasonable" that it allowed the
use of military power. He said the
use of military power would
violate the UN charter and violate
the sovereignty of Libya. He
added that the UN resolution
would "increase the suffering of
the Libyan people", while the
freezing of Libya's assets would
have a "very negative impact on
normal Libyans".
• On Thursday night the security
council voted in favour of a no-fly
zone and air strikes against
Muammar Gaddafi's forces.
Resolution 1973 authorises "all
necessary measures" short of a
ground invasion to protect
civilians in Libya.
• Before the ceasefire was
announced, the British prime
minister, David Cameron, said
RAF Tornados and Typhoons
would be deployed in the
operation. They will be moved to
air bases "in the coming hours",
Cameron told the House of
Commons in London. He said:
"The attorney general has been
consulted and the government is
satisfied that there is a clear and
unequivocal legal basis for the
deployment of UK forces and
military assets."
12.46pm: Koussa steps up his
offensive: Libya also finds it
"unreasonable" that the resolution
allows the use of military power.
"There are signs that this might
indeed take place," he said.
"This goes clearly against the UN
charter, and it is a violation of the
national sovereignty of Libya.
"It is also a violation of article 42
of the charter."
12.43pm: A change in tone from
Koussa, as he criticises the UN
resolution: "My country is very
serious about continuing the
development – economic, social
of the Libyan nation," Koussa
says.
"We express our sadness towards
what the resolution has included,
and of procedures against the
Libyan nation, such as the no-fly
zone", Koussa says. He said the
inclusion of commercial flights
will "increase the suffering of
Libyan people", and says the
international community should
have exempted these flights from
the resolution.
"Also the total and inclusive
freezing of all Libyan assets and
investments will have a very
negative impact on normal
Libyans," the foreign minister
says.
12.40pm: Koussa continues to
stress that Libya's actions are
done in accordance with the UN's
resolution.
"We agree to the article on the
protection of civilians," he says.
"Therefore, building on this, the
Libyan state encourages the
opening of all dialogue channels
with everyone interested in the
territory of Libya."
12.38pm:"Libya has decided an
immediate ceasefire and stoppage
of all military operations," the
country's foreign minister Mousa
Koussa says.
12.36pm: Koussa says that Libya
has studied the resolution.
"MY country will try to deal with
this resolution," Koussa says.
"Libya has now got knowledge of
the resolution, and in accordance
with article 25 of the UN charter
and given that Libya is a member
of the UN security council, Libya
is committed to accept the UN
security council resolution."
12.34pm: The Libyan foreign
59
minister, Moussa Koussa, is
preparing to speak to journalists
in Tripoli. We'll follow it live.
12.18pm: More from Nick Watt
in the House of Commons, where
Mark Reckless, a Conservative
backbencher, has "asked the
awkward question of the day".
Reckless asked the prime
minister whether the operation
would be better if Ark Royal,
equipped with Harrier aircraft,
could take part. The aircraft
carrier was decommissioned as
part of the strategic defence and
security review last year.
Hilary Benn, the shadow leader
of the commons, welcomed the
decision to hold a debate on the
military action on a substantive
motion, followed by a vote on
Monday. Benn pointed out that it
is exactly eight years ago to the
day since MPs voted to approve
the Iraq war.
Jack Straw, the foreign secretary
at the time, set a precedent by
giving MPs a vote on a
substantive motion. Until then
debates about British military
action were technically
adjournment debates. This meant
the only vote MPs could hold was
on whether to adjourn the house.
12.12pm – Yemen: While the
prime minister has been speaking
about the planned military action
in Libya, there have been
disturbing events in Yemen,
where citizens in Sana'a have
been shot dead.
The Guardian's Tom Finn is at a
mosque in the city, and says he
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has counted 17 dead people being
brought into the building wrapped
in blankets. "The doctor says
[there are] double that in the
hospital," Tom tweets.
Al-Jazeera English is reporting
that up to 30 people have been
killed and 200 injured after
security forces opened fire in
Sana'a.
Nick says there is "strong praise"
for Cameron from both sides of
the House, "though some Labour
MPs are voicing doubts".
James Arbuthnot, the Tory
chairman of the commons defence
select committee, said the prime
minister has shown a
"breathtaking degree of courage
and leadership". Mike Gapes, the
participation in Libya.
"This will be published before a
commons debate on Monday
when MPs will vote on the
military action," Nick says. "In
another departure with Tony
Blair's approach over the Iraq war
in 2003, the prime minister
announced that the international
development secretary Andrew
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12.07pm: Our colleague, Ian
Black, who is in Tripoli, says
Muammar Gaddafi is far from
cowed by last night's vote at the
UN, although there is a mood of
nervousness in the city as well as
defiance:
Gaddafi was pretty defiant from
the start, he gave an interview to
Portuguese TV just as the vote
was about to take place and it was
clear at that stage it was going to
produce a no-fly zone and he was
very ominous. He was talking
about how the world goes crazy,
we'll go crazy too... He was
menacing about and to the people
of Benghazi. He said there would
be no mercy, no pity. If you were
a rebel in Benghazi you could be
forgiven for feeling quite anxious.
12.03pm: The Guardian's chief
political correspondent, Nick
Watt, has been following the
questions to Cameron in the
Commons following the prime
minister's statement.
former Labour chairman of the
commons foreign affairs select
committee, congratulated
Cameron, British diplomats at the
UN and the French government.
But Jeremy Corbyn, the veteran
left winger, asked why action was
being taken to protect human
rights in Libya while no action
was being taken in Saudi Arabia
and Bahrain. Natascha Engel, a
Labour MP, questioned whether
the air strikes would compound a
difficult situation. David Winnick,
a veteran Labour MP, warned that
Britain could be dragged into a
third war in ten years.
Nicolas Sarkozy has invited
members of the Arab League to a
meeting in Paris on Saturday.
David Cameron will attend.
Nick says that David Cameron
has told MPs that the government
will publish a summary of the
legal advice by Dominic Grieve,
the attorney general, which has
given formal approval for British
Mitchell is to chair a cross-
Whitehall group to coordinate
humanitarian efforts in Libya."
12 noon: Welcome to the
Guardian's continuing coverage of
the crisis in Libya as the UN
backs military action and the
British government commits RAF
jets to the operation. You can find
our earlier coverage here.
Here are the main points of the
story so far:
British and French military
aircraft are preparing to protect
the Libyan rebel stronghold of
Benghazi after the UN security
council voted in favour of a no-fly
zone and air strikes against
Muammar Gaddafi's forces.
Resolution 1973 authorises "all
necessary measures" short of a
ground invasion to protect
civilians in Libya.
The British prime minister, David
Cameron, said RAF Tornados and
Typhoons would be deployed in
the operation. They will be moved
foreign attack on Libya would
endanger air and maritime traffic
in the Mediterranean area. In a
defiant and menacing radio
address on Thursday night, the
Libyan leader sald. "No more
fear, no more hesitation, the
moment of truth has come. There
will be no mercy. Our troops will
be coming to Benghazi tonight."
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Yemen troops shoot dead protesters Bomb alert closes

(The Guardian World News) were joined by plain-clothed men disperse anti-regime rallies, but
Submitted at 3/18/2011 9:51:57 AM who fired on the demonstrators
with Kalashnikovs from the roofs
live rounds were fired on Friday
in what appears be the beginning
Edinburgh airport
At least 35 killed and hundreds of nearby houses. of an increasingly violent Severin Carrell (The Guardian evacuated from the terminal
wounded in capital of Sana'a after World News) building while police and bomb
A nearby mosque was crackdown on protesters.
government troops and loyalists t r a n s f o r m e d i n t o a c h a o t i c Anti-government demonstrations Submitted at 3/18/2011 9:17:05 AM disposal experts investigated. The
open fire on marchers makeshift hospital for injured were held in other cities, package was declared safe and the
At least 35 people have been shot protesters. The wounded, most of including Taiz, Ibb, Hodeidah, Suspicious package forces airport reopened fully at about
dead and hundreds wounded in them men in their early 20s, were Aden and Amran, following terminal to close for an hour while 12.30pm.
Sana'a after soldiers and plain- suffering from the effects of Friday prayers at midday. bomb disposal experts investigate A spokeswoman for Lothian and
clothed government loyalists teargas and bullet wounds, many Yemen, the youngest and poorest Edinburgh airport was evacuated Borders police said: "The package
opened fired on protesters trying having been shot in the chest. country in the Arab world, has and its access roads closed after a has been examined and deemed
to march through the Yemeni The dead were carried into the been hit by weeks of protests set suspicious package was found in safe and everybody has been
capital. mosque's main prayer room and in motion by uprisings in north the main terminal building, stood down."
The death toll, which is expected laid out in a line with miniature Africa that toppled long-serving a l t h o u g h n o f l i g h t s w e r e • Edinburgh
to rise, is the highest seen in more Qur'ans on their chests. leaders in Tunisia and Egypt and disrupted. • Transport
than a month of violence in "They shot people in the back of spread to the Gulf states of A tweet sent by the airport's • Scotland
Y e m e n , w i t h p r o t e s t e r s the head as they were running Bahrain, Oman and Saudi Arabia. operator, BAA, at 11.30am on
demanding that President Ali away," said Mohammed al-Jamil, Saleh has maintained a firm grip Friday said: "We're closed until Severin Carrell
Abdullah Saleh step down. an Indian doctor treating the on power for more than three 3pm due to an ongoing incident. guardian.co.uk© Guardian News
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peacefully. Tens of thousands wanted these people to die." him to step down, saying he will as the roads are closed. We'll this content is subject to our
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by Sana'a University for a prayer the violence. of office expires in 2013. Passengers and staff were
ceremony mourning the loss of "My brother is twelve years old, • Yemen
seven protesters killed in similar they shot him twice, once in the • Arab and Middle East protests
violence last weekend. arm and once in the leg," shouted • Middle East
As the prayers came to an end, a young man through a crackling
however, the sight of black smoke microphone to a roaring crowd of guardian.co.uk© Guardian News
from a burning car caught the thousands outside the mosque. & Media Limited 2011 | Use of
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Witnesses say the first shots were Until now government forces
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'Dancing With the Stars' Pro Karina

River plunge father guilty of murder Smirnoff Dishes About Partner Ralph
Peter Walker (The Guardian The jury took five hours to is what my son Ryan also went
World News) deliver an 11-1 majority verdict through on that day – not only the Macchio, Their Competition & More
Submitted at 3/18/2011 9:37:56 AM that he intended to kill his trauma of the events but that he
Pat Gallagher (TV Squad)
children. The judge, Mr Justice also lost his sister, who was also
Christopher Grady, who tried to Lindblom, adjourned sentencing his best friend." Submitted at 3/18/2011 5:00:00 AM

kill six-year-old son in same until next week but told Grady Asked about the morning of the
incident, faces life sentence that he faced a mandatory life murder, Smith said: "Horrifying, Filed under: Dancing With The
A father is facing a life sentence sentence. the worst experience ever, Stars, Features, Celebrity
a f t e r b e i n g c o n v i c t e d o f The court heard that Grady, who absolutely shook to the core. He Interviews Season 12 of ' Dancing
murdering his five-year-old had regular access to his children said, 'Be outside, you have 10 With the Stars' is here (premieres
daughter by deliberately driving following the breakdown of his seconds to say ta-ra to the Mon., March 21, 8PM ET on
his car into a freezing river with seven-year relationship with children, the kids'." ABC) which means it's time for
her inside. Smith, faced personal and Grady's mother, Valerie Hubbarb, 11 random celebrity contestants to
Christopher Grady, 42, was also financial difficulties and had been said: "Unfortunately there are no try out their dancing skills on
found guilty of attempting to evicted from his flat. winners in this case. We are all national TV yet again.
murder his son, then six, who was West Mercia police were losers, as our darling Gabby is no Back for her ninth season as a pro
also in the car. contacted six times about Grady's longer with us." partner, dancer Karina Smirnoff is
Birmingham crown court heard behaviour before the murder. The officer in charge of the case, paired up with the 'Karate Kid'
that Grady drove to the house of H o w e v e r , a n i n v e s t i g a t i o n Superintendent Steve Cullen, himself, Ralph Macchio.
This season's cast also includes: Paso Doble, Jive and Tango their
his estranged partner, Kim Smith, overseen by the Independent praised the two officers who
actress Chelsea Kane(partner way past all of them to win that
in Evesham, Worcestershire, in Police Complaints Commission rescued Ryan, adding: "I would
Mark Ballas); WWE's Chris coveted Mirror Ball trophy?
February last year, telling her: ruled that officers could not have like to mention the force's
Jericho(Cheryl Burke); NFL pro We caught up with Smirnoff to
"You've got 10 seconds to say prevented the tragedy. admiration for Gabby and Ryan's
Hines Ward (Kym Johnson); talk all about this season -- what
goodbye to your kids, and then Smith, reading a brief statement mum, Kim, and the rest of their
reality star Kendra she thinks her chances are with
they are dead." on the steps of the court, said: family for the dignity and strength
Wilkinson(Louis van Amstel); Macchio, some show
With his daughter, Gabrielle, and "Although Christopher Grady is they have shown."
actress Kirstie Alley(Maksim controversies from seasons past
son, Ryan, inside the Vauxhall facing a deserved jail term, this • Crime
Chmerkovskiy); Deejay Mike and her stress levels on
Vectra, Grady circled a field does not take away the fact that
Catherwood (Lacey Schwimmer); elimination nights. She also
before driving at speed into the myself and my family were Peter Walker
Czech model Petra Nemcova dished about her recent
river Avon. Two police officers robbed of our Gabby just over one guardian.co.uk© Guardian News
(Dmitry Chaplin); rapper Lil engagement and some of her
pulled Ryan from the water but year ago and that will stay. We & Media Limited 2011 | Use of
Romeo (Chelsie Hightower); previous high-profile
Gabrielle was trapped inside the are still living with the loss and this content is subject to our
boxer Sugar Ray Leonard(Anna relationships, with fellow
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Trebunsakaya); and talk show 'Dancing' pro-dancer Maksim
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Celebrity Watchlist: Writer Michael Jimmy Smits Goes from

Connelly's Love of Castle, Justified 'Outlaw' to Mayor of
Is No Mystery LA in New NBC Drama
Joyce Eng (TVGuide.com: Jennifer Carpenter and NCIS' Catherine Lawson (TV Squad)
Breaking News) Mark Harmon. "They inhabit their Submitted at 3/18/2011 5:15:00 AM

Submitted at 3/18/2011 8:41:00 AM characters so well and they are all

relentless in different ways," Filed under: Reality-Free, TV
Michael Connelly Connelly says. "I love the News Jimmy Smits just can't stay
After appearing on Castle twice, characters [on Dexter] and the way from fictional authority
it may not be that surprising that uniqueness of the show. ... Jethro figures: He's played cops,
The Lincoln Lawyer writer Gibbs of NCIS is relentless and lawyers, a Senator from Alderaan
Michael Connelly names the ABC reliable. I hope I'm both." and, most recently a judge. Now,
drama as one of his favorite Celebrity Watchlist: Bryan it's been announced that his next
shows. But there's more to his Cranston loves to laugh, Mad TV role will be Mayor of Los
love for the series than a recurring Men and Glee Angeles.
gig. Connelly's overwhelming According to Deadline.com,
"It's a fantasy version of what I penchant for mystery — and his Smits has signed on for the last
do!" Connelly tells TVGuide.com. whole career — can also be major lead role in Stephen
Are you going to see The Lincoln attributed to a classic crime ('Traffic') Gaghan's new drama for
Lawyer? Tell us! drama. NBC.
Indeed, the mystery author's most "I watched Kojak religiously with Formerly known as 'S.I.L.A.,' the character of Los Angeles Mayor
well-known work is his series try to have one show that we all my father," he says. "It was a as-of-now untitled project is Alfonso Morales, who's described
featuring Detective Hieronymus share"); and Justified, which is great bonding time. He loved described as a complex ensemble as a man full of ambition who
"Harry" Bosch — not unlike based on Elmore Leonard's novels shows where the stakes were high. drama in the style of 'Traffic' and cares deeply about his city, power
Castle's Nikki Heat series. and short stories. Life and death, justice prevailing, 'Syriana' set in the world of crime, and women, but not necessarily in
Castle isn't the only mystery or Celebrity Watchlist: Frances things like that. I think that helped law enforcement and politics in that order.
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American Idol Backstage Report:

Winning Isn't Everything
Deborah Starr Seibel record, three belong to famous
(TVGuide.com: Breaking News) non-winners: Clay Aiken's
Submitted at 3/18/2011 8:26:00 AM "Invisible," Daughtry's "Home,"
and Lambert's "Whataya Want
Karen Rodriguez From Me."
Last night's booted contestant, Rodriguez seems to understand
Karen Rodriguez, can take some that if she gets really lucky, and
comfort in the fact that on someone signs her to a record
American Idol, you don't have to deal, she has a shot at being on
be the winner to sell records — the next Idol CD2. "You can be
and for very important people to the winner and in a couple of
sit up and take notice. years, nobody remembers who
And that includes the producers you are," she says. "Or you could
of the show. For the first time in be in seventh place and win an
10 seasons, Idol is including also- Oscar and be a Dream Girl. I feel
rans in its opening credits. Watch
closely, because they go by
Jennifer Lopez Joins
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journey, and all the reunited
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inner peace and happiness,
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her way. Without giving anything
away, at the end of the episode
you see that this arrangement
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Point/Otherpoint: Who Would Win In A Fight, A Bobcat Or A
Person?
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Once again back it's the
incredible series that dares to go
where only drunken bar bets have
before. This time, Jason Toon and
Matthew Norman focus on a
question that barely effects us all:
Who would win in a fight, a
bobcat or a person?
My money’s on the person by
Jason Toon
Zoologists are divided on
whether the bobcat is the smallest
of the big cats, the biggest of the
small cats, or the sole member of
its own phylogeneric microclass,
medium-sized cats. But one
question about this tufty-faced
feline has been definitively
resolved through empirical
observation: a dude could totally
whoop up on a bobcat. That's
what whupped looks like.
Whether through strangling,
judicious use of a geologist’s
hammer, or strangling, alert
humans have bested the bobcat
time and again.
Some would say that the shock of
encountering a threatening bobcat
would overwhelm a typical
person’s faculties, reducing him
or her to so much defenseless
bobcat chow. But Homo sapiens
didn’t climb out of the muck by
coming in second-best to what is
essentially a steroidal family pet.
When the veneer of civilization
falls away, man’s savage animal
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nature takes over. Cupcakes and bleeds and screams, by Matthew
Snuggies aside, it turns out we Norman
can be pretty bad-ass when the Jason, you ignorant slut.
bobcat hits the fan. This is a perfect example of the
“A 62-year-old Florida man kind of inflated self-regard one
depended on his instincts when a commonly finds among people
bobcat attacked him, and it paid who die on alpine hikes, on float
off,” says the Fox News account trips, and a quarter-mile off the
of a 62-year-old Floridian’s snowshoeing trail.
bobcat triumph. Even taking into Never get out of the boat.
account that network’s notorious Yeah, lah dee dah, you unearthed
bias in favor of foxes, those words a few stories about unarmed
should give pause to any bobcat humans killing wild cats. Color
who’s considering having a go. “I me a deep shade of not
started choking it when got a good particularly impressed. You know
hold,” said Dale Rippy of Wesley why you can find stories like
Chapel, Florida. “I choked it ‘til these to cite? Because they’re
he died. I got scratched up pretty SENSATIONAL. It is NOT
good.” Does that sound like prey NORMAL. It’s CRAZY those
talking? people killed bobcats bare-
It's how the food chain works, handed. They prove a person can
Robert. strangle a bobcat the way an
Bobcats are also known to be article from ESPN might prove “a
genetically susceptible to the person” can throw a no-hitter.
“Hey, what’s that? Look over You notice there are very few
there” routine, a vulnerability that articles about people stepping on
evolution has eradicated from cockroaches and killing them?
most terrestrial predators. What you’ve done here is read a
Combined with the bobcat’s lack series of man-bites-dog pieces and
of natural defenses against the extrapolated a natural order of
two-fingered eye-gouge, we can things in which people generally
conclude that any member of the bite dogs.
Three Stooges would be well- Ask yourself why mankind, as a
equipped to survive a hostile species, outperforms the bobcat.
bobcat encounter, with the It’s simple. It’s the same reason
possible exception of Curly Joe. we have dominion over every
Don’t get me wrong: bobcats are creeping thing that creepeth upon
beautiful, enchanting creatures the earth: Because of our high-
and an essential part of the North powered, outsized brain. That big
American ecosystem. But the looking pretty and patrolling the ready to deliver the smackdown.
second it gets any ideas beyond food chain, us naked apes stand Man is the scratching post that POINT/OTHERPOINT: page 68
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Man Tries To Buy $.99
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Bedridden By Choice I going to feel this good? Yeah, I guess I’m decided, Joan. For a culture so obsessed with
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gray glob is a tremendous
advantage! And a necessary one.
Without it, we’re just slow-
moving prey. With it, we’ve
devised traps, concocted poisons,
and built weapons. We’ve
constructed cities where our
otherwise essentially defenseless
species can thrive without having
to enter into direct personal
competition with the other,
stronger beasts.
You look at humankind,
apparently prosperous and strong,
but you fail to see the playpen of
civilization that affords us the
safety to have become so. You
mistake us for being fit for
wilderness survival. WTF, dude?
Though your limbs are weak,
your lungs feeble, your teeth dull
and your nails soft, you’re
convinced that, in a do-or-die
situation, you could shrug off the
trappings of civilization—your
only edge in the struggle against
nature—like a boxer doffing his
robe before a prizefight, and best
the bobcat in a bare-handed fight
to the death. Actually, you know
Fix Your Own Broken PS3 Via Safe Mode
Phil Villarreal (The
Consumerist)
Submitted at 3/18/2011 10:15:00 AM
Sony inserted a safe mode into
PS3s, allowing determined
gamers to take a crack at fixing
their broken consoles before
making phone calls of shame to
what we might more properly call
such a competition? A test of
bobcat skills. I imagine
somewhere in the mountains of
Colorado, the Jason Toon of
bobcats is convinced he’d do
pretty well pitted against a human
on the SATs.
Do you know what most people
actually do in do-or-die
situations? They die.
Have you ever seen how badly
messed-up a person can be by a
comparatively puny domesticated
house cat?
Remember that THIS
AMERICAN LIFE episode about
the woman who got fought to a
standstill by a mere raccoon?
A bobcat, of course, can eat a
raccoon for breakfast. That’s not a
figure of speech; it’s literally true.
A bobcat can take down a full-
grown white-tailed deer. Your
average present-day American
can’t take himself up three flights
of stairs without stopping for a
breather.
And where, I wonder, do you
imagine this man-on-wildcat bout
the customer service department
to schedule repairs.
Sony offers a step-by-step
rundown on how to access and
use the little-known mode,
beginning with a red-letter
disclaimer:
We do not recommend using the
options in Safe Mode unless you
taking place? Because the bobcat
has a huge home-court advantage.
In true wilderness, far from
hospitals and taxicabs and
Neosporin, a cut that’s merely
“pretty bad” back home could be
fatal. So could a twisted ankle, for
that matter. Or damp clothes. This
is how fragile you are. A person
sits in the comfort of his TV room
watching Bear Gryllis’s fantasy
hour, or drives out to peep at the
Grand Canyon, and imagines he’s
prepared for nature’s savagery.
He is not. He’s a domesticated
marshmallow.
And this is the puny, ignorant,
baselessly self-assured sack of
soft meat you want to bet on?
seriously? Twenty-first-century,
first-world man? Against 30
pounds of feline ferocity that’s
been killing to eat for almost two
million years? Nuh-uh. A bobcat
will cut any man I know to
ribbons. The eyes of a killer
Of course, I hope a bobcat attack
never happens to anyone I know.
Likely it won’t. It is, in fact, the
extreme unlikelihood of bobcat
are experiencing issues with the
PlayStation 3. Some of these
options could result in loss of
data.
Sony recommends backing up
your data before beginning. Once
in safe mode, you can restore
default settings and the file
system, rebuild the database or
wrasslin’ that affords my friends
like Jason the luxury of their
delusions about how well they’d
fare. But if, by some truly weird
series of events, some human pal
of mine ever found himself facing
down a feral bobcat, and he
entered into this hypothetical
interspecies bout with anything
like the overconfidence on display
above, here would be the limits of
my compassion:
I would not say “I told him so” at
the funeral, and would refrain
from forwarding his Darwin
Award nomination to any grieving
relatives.
Cheeky Bobcat by dinglepup,
Bobcat by Mark Gstohl, Bobcat
(Lyxn Rufus) by Cliff1066,
Bobcat kitten by U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service and Bobcat by
Otacon are all used under the
Creative Commons License
restore the entire system.
What video game console
problems have you managed to
fix yourself?
What is Safe Mode and how do I
enable it on my PlayStation®3
computer entertainment
system?[PlayStation]
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Generally, they build vehicles that
perform well in our tests, are safe,
and reliable—all good things by
any measure.
Lately, Hyundai and its Kia
division have been on a bit of a
roll, and their cars have been
creeping up in our ratings. As a
consequence, I’ve been readying
myself for the onslaught of emails
accusing us of letting the South
Koreans take over our mortgage
payments. And that’s where the
Sedona comes in.
It’s hard to believe that the
Sedona sprang from the same
fertile minds that brought us other
recent Kias including the Sorento,
the newly redesigned Optima, and
the Elantra that now carries our
crown for the Top Pick in the
small car category. Those cars are
all laudable and well worth a test
drive. To be fair, the Sedona,
dating back to 2006, is one of
Kia’s older designs, and is a vivid
example of how fast the company
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Designers of the Sedona seem to
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minivan that spent more than its
Rock Band Weekly: Billy Joel six-pack
Alexander Sliwinski (Joystiq)
Submitted at 3/18/2011 11:25:00 AM
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machine" rolls on, as next week's
Rock Band DLC adds another six
of the piano man's legendary
songs. Hang out with your bosom
share of time at the dealership
before my wife and I finally threw
in the towel and junked it after
175,000 miles. To the T&C’s
credit, it made it that far. But none
of those miles were much fun.
Point is we’re not in the pocket of
Ford or the General either,
regardless of the emails we got
last year when we said the Lexus
GX 460 was dangerous because it
spun around in our avoidance
maneuver, or when we pulled the
recommendations from some
eight Toyota models during the
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At the time, Toyota loyalists
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Q. I have to fill out a medical
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health-management program but
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current coverage. I also have
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Gameloft brings WoW-like 'Order and Chaos Online' to iOS
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Submitted at 3/18/2011 10:25:00 AM
Earlier this week, Gameloft
revealed a new MMORPG
intended for distribution on the
iOS App Store -- a first for the
French copycat developer. Not a
first, however, is the game's
program it has in mind. A “pay-to
-participate” approach simply
offers an incentive to, for
example, attend a quit-smoking or
weight-loss class. What seems to
have you rightly worried, though,
is the “results-based” approach,
which rewards you for actually
meeting specific health goals—for
example, attaining a certain body
mass index or, you guessed it,
cholesterol level.
Even if it’s a results-based
program, by law the company
must offer alternative benchmarks
to employees for whom it’s
“unreasonably difficult or
medically inadvisable” to meet
the standard. Most doctors look at
a person’s overall risk of heart
attack when prescribing
cholesterol medications, which
are taken for extended periods of
time, may be less effective in
women, and do have side effects.
Two final points. Your worry that
your mental-health condition will
somehow result in loss of
coverage is understandable, given
concept and art style, which more
or less directly ape Blizzard's
behemoth, World of Warcraft.
As seen in the game's first trailer,
Order & Chaos Online pits the
forces of Order against those of
Chaos in a massive, multiplayer
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UCLA fights off Michigan State's rally to advance

Associated Press (ESPN.com) making a barrage of 3-pointers to keyed a 15-2 burst that had rebuilt
Submitted at 3/18/2011 1:21:17 AM get back into the game. They UCLA's lead to 23 after the
advanced to a third-round Spartans pulled within 10 early in
Team Stat Comparison matchup against No. 2 seed the second half.But the game was
MSU Florida, which beat 15th-seeded far from over.Green and Lucas
UCLA Points 76 78 FG Made- UC Santa Barbara 79-51."This is made 3-pointers to start a game-
Attempted 25-62 (.403) 22-48 not the first time that we've had a ending 35-14 run. Freshman Keith
(.458) 3P Made-Attempted 10-25 lead evaporate," UCLA coach Appling made three treys during
(.400) 4-11 (.364) FT Made- Ben Howland said. "We're now the surge, the final one pulling the
Attempted 16-21 (.762) 30-47 21-0, though, whenever we get a Spartans within 77-76 with 4.4
(.638) Fouls (Tech/Flagrant) 28 (0 10-point lead or more, and that's seconds remaining.Lee went the
/0) 20 (0/0) Largest Lead 0 23 been good. You know, we've foul line for UCLA, sinking one
Research Notes played a lot of tight games, and of two free throws, leaving
Draymond Green had 23 points, somehow we've found a way to Michigan State with one more
11 rebounds and 10 assists for the win more than we've lost, and chance and 4.4 seconds left. That
seventh "official" triple-double in that's been big for us."UCLA led opportunity disappeared when
the NCAA tournament. NCAA 42-24 at the half and by as many Lucas was called for traveling
considers triple-doubles since as 23 in the second half before while trying to dribble through a
1987 official. nearly letting the game slip away triple team."I'm crushed and
Draymond Green had 23 points, against a team hoping to make it disappointed because we just got
10 rebounds and 8 assists. The to a third consecutive Final Four. off to such a poor start, and yet
only other player to reach those The Bruins were 30 of 47 from I'm so proud of these guys,"
totals in a Men's Basketball the foul line and only made two Michigan State coach Tom Izzo
Championship game in the last 15 field goals over the final eight said."They've been knocked down
seasons was Dwyane Wade in an minutes. Draymond Green led so many times this year that I
Elite Eight game vs Kentucky in Michigan State (19-15) with 23 don't think I've ever had a team
2003 (29 pts, 11 reb, 11 ast). points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists that's gone through as much, and
ESPN Stats & Information -- just the seventh official triple- yet to battle back and almost put
Associated Press double in NCAA tournament themselves at a chance to win was
TAMPA, Fla. -- UCLA kept history. Durrell Summers added incredible. ... I give UCLA a lot
clanking free throws, Michigan 15 and Spartans star Kalin Lucas of credit. They just seemed to
State kept draining 3-pointers. It finished with 11 after going the have more energy than us early.
turned a potential rout into a first 32 minutes without scoring. We found a way to bounce back
nailbiter. In the end, the Bruins "Any time you win in this ... and we just fell a little
escaped. Barely. Tyler Honeycutt tournament it's a big deal," short."Returning most of its key
and Malcolm Lee scored 16 Howland said after improving to players from last season,
points apiece and seventh-seeded 15-5 in six NCAA tournament Michigan State began the 2010-11
UCLA held off a late comeback appearances with UCLA. He's 19- season ranked No. 2 but sputtered
by the 10th-seeded Spartans 78-76 8 overall."Beating Michigan against a tough nonconference
in the Southeast regional of the State, I mean, this is a team that added. "It's a huge win for us, and finally scoring on a steal and schedule and really never hit its
NCAA tournament. The Bruins went to back-to-back Final Fours I'm sure it's a confidence booster layup with 7:45 remaining. stride in the Big Ten, either. The
(23-10) won despite missing 17 the last two years. They are a for our players."Lucas, averaging Unfortunately for Michigan State inconsistency left Izzo and his
free throws, nine of them in the tournament tested, very hard- 20.9 over his previous 14 games, that first basket didn't come until
final 3:40 while the Spartans were nosed tough group," Howland missed his first eight shots before after Honeycutt and Joshua Smith UCLA page 77
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Submitted at 3/18/2011 8:04:22 AM
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March 18, 2011
TAMPA, Fla. -- UCLA kept
clanking free throws, Michigan
State kept draining 3-pointers. It
turned a potential rout into a
nailbiter.
In the end, the Bruins escaped.
Barely.
Tyler Honeycutt and Malcolm
Lee scored 16 points apiece and
seventh-seeded UCLA held off a
late comeback by the 10th-seeded
Spartans 78-76 in the Southeast
regional of the NCAA
tournament.
The Bruins (23-10) won despite
missing 17 free throws, nine of
them in the final 3:40 while the
Spartans were making a barrage
of 3-pointers to get back into the
game. They advanced to a third-
round matchup against No. 2 seed
Florida, which beat 15th-seeded
UC Santa Barbara 79-51.
"This is not the first time that
we've had a lead evaporate,"
UCLA coach Ben Howland said.
"We're now 21-0, though,
whenever we get a 10-point lead
or more, and that's been good.
You know, we've played a lot of
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tight games, and somehow we've
found a way to win more than
we've lost, and that's been big for
us."
UCLA led 42-24 at the half and
by as many as 23 in the second
half before nearly letting the game
slip away against a team hoping to
make it to a third consecutive
Final Four. The Bruins were 30 of
47 from the foul line and only
made two field goals over the
final eight minutes.
Draymond Green led Michigan
State (19-15) with 23 points, 11
rebounds and 10 assists -- just the
seventh official triple-double in
NCAA tournament history.
Durrell Summers added 15 and
Spartans star Kalin Lucas finished
with 11 after going the first 32
minutes without scoring.
"Any time you win in this
tournament it's a big deal,"
Howland said after improving to
15-5 in six NCAA tournament
appearances with UCLA. He's 19-
8 overall.
"Beating Michigan State, I mean,
this is a team that went to back-to-
back Final Fours the last two
years. They are a tournament
tested, very hard-nosed tough
group," Howland added. "It's a
huge win for us, and I'm sure it's a
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Lucas, averaging 20.9 over his
previous 14 games, missed his
first eight shots before finally
scoring on a steal and layup with
7:45 remaining. Unfortunately for
Michigan State that first basket
didn't come until after Honeycutt
and Joshua Smith keyed a 15-2
burst that had rebuilt UCLA's lead
to 23 after the Spartans pulled
within 10 early in the second half.
But the game was far from over.
Green and Lucas made 3-pointers
to start a game-ending 35-14 run.
Freshman Keith Appling made
three treys during the surge, the
final one pulling the Spartans
within 77-76 with 4.4 seconds
remaining.
Lee went the foul line for UCLA,
sinking one of two free throws,
leaving Michigan State with one
more chance and 4.4 seconds left.
That opportunity disappeared
when Lucas was called for
traveling while trying to dribble
through a triple team.
"I'm crushed and disappointed
because we just got off to such a
poor start, and yet I'm so proud of
these guys," Michigan State coach
Tom Izzo said.
"They've been knocked down so
many times this year that I don't
think I've ever had a team that's
gone through as much, and yet to
battle back and almost put
themselves at a chance to win was
incredible. ... I give UCLA a lot
of credit. They just seemed to
have more energy than us early.
We found a way to bounce back
... and we just fell a little short."
Returning most of its key players
from last season, Michigan State
began the 2010-11 ranked No. 2
but sputtered against a tough
nonconference schedule and
really never hit its stride in the
Big Ten, either. The inconsistency
left Izzo and his players
wondering if the Spartans would
even extend its string of
consecutive NCAA appearances
to 14 -- third longest in the nation
behind Kansas (22) and Duke
(16).
UCLA is back in the tourney
after a one-year absence with a
team that starts five
underclassmen and had just two
players -- Lee and another junior,
Jerime Anderson -- with NCAA
experience before Thursday night.
That lack of tournament
seasoning showed down the
stretch.
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turnovers, 11 of them in the
second half. The were 9 of 18
from the foul line down the
stretch.
Smith, UCLA's 6-foot-10, 305-
pound freshman center, had 14
points. Nelson Reeves finished
with 12, including a free throw
that put the Bruins up 76-66 with
less than two minutes left.
Taking advantage of four more
missed free throws, Lucas and
Appling made 3-pointers to keep
the Spartans' hopes alive. Lucas
made one of two free throws with
42.2 seconds remaining, and
Appling made another 3 to finish
the comeback.
"I just felt bad that we stepped up
there three different times and had
two shot fouls and missed all six
of them," Howland said about the
near collapse. "We've just got to
keep working at it."
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Ohio State's Jim Tressel increases suspension to five games
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Submitted at 3/18/2011 10:27:22 AM
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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Now that
the NCAA has finalized its ruling
that five Ohio State football
players who took improper
benefits are suspended for the first
five games of the 2011 season,
Buckeyes coach Jim Tressel says
he wants the same punishment.
On Thursday night, the NCAA
denied Ohio State's appeal on
behalf of the players, including
star quarterback Terrelle Pryor,
reasserting that they must sit out
the first five games this fall for
selling autographed memorabilia
and receiving discounted tattoos.
Tressel had been handed a two-
game suspension in a separate
investigation by Ohio State after it
was discovered he had not
notified the NCAA, his Ohio State
bosses or the school's compliance
department that he was aware for
more than nine months --
including throughout his team's 12
-1 season in 2010 -- of the players'
improper benefits.
"Throughout this entire situation,
my players and I have committed
ourselves to facing our mistakes
and growing from them; we can
only successfully do this
together," he said in a statement.
"I spoke with athletic director
[Gene] Smith, and our student-
athletes involved, and told them
that my mistakes need to share the
same game sanctions."
Ohio State had learned of
Tressel's knowledge of his
players' NCAA violations while
preparing a seven-page appeal to
the NCAA of the players'
suspensions. On March 8, the
university announced Tressel
would sit out the first two games
of the 2011 season.
But before the NCAA could rule
on his punishment, he added three
games to his penalty.
"Coach Tressel has requested that
he sit out the first five games of
the 2011 season. I have accepted
his request and we are taking
action to notify the NCAA,"
Smith said in a statement. He
declined further comment.
“ now include five games so that
Like my players, I am very sorry
for the mistakes I made. I request
of the university that my sanctions
now include five games so that
the players and I can handle this
adversity together.”-- Jim Tressel
The NCAA announced the
decision Thursday night -- in the
midst of the first day of the men's
basketball tournament. The
Buckeyes are the No. 1 overall
seed and will play Texas-San
Antonio in the second round
Friday in Cleveland.
Pryor, along with starting
offensive lineman Mike Adams,
leading rusher Dan Herron, first-
team receiver DeVier Posey and
backup defensive lineman
Solomon Thomas, acknowledged
they sold rings, trophies and
apparel in 2009.
In addition to sitting out the first
five games against Akron, Toledo,
the University of Miami,
Colorado and Michigan State,
they also must repay to charity the
equivalent of the benefits they
received, ranging from $1,000 to
$2,500 each.
"Like my players, I am very sorry
for the mistakes I made," Tressel
said in the statement. "I request of
the university that my sanctions
the players and I can handle this
adversity together."
Ohio State disclosed the
proposed penalties against six
football players (another was
assessed only a one-game
suspension) in December. But the
NCAA permitted all to play in the
Buckeyes' 31-26 victory over
Arkansas in the Sugar Bowl.
Tressel had repeatedly told
investigators that he knew nothing
about the players' violations. His
contract stipulates that he must
disclose any potential violations
or face dismissal.
Yet he signed an NCAA
disclosure form last September
that he was unaware of any
violations -- even though he had
exchanged e-mails in April and
June with a Columbus lawyer
who told him of his players'
relationship with a Columbus
tattoo-parlor owner and of the
benefits the players had received.
Tressel has said he didn't tell
anyone because he felt bound by
confidentiality, since the tattoo-
parlor owner was the subject of a
federal drug-trafficking
investigation. The 11th-year
coach of the Buckeyes said he
was concerned for his players'
safety, and said he never even
considered that the players'
acceptance of the improper
benefits might affect their
eligibility.
In addition to the original two-
game suspension, Ohio State also
said Tressel must pay a fine of
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$250,000 of his estimated annual
salary of $3.5 million, must attend
a compliance seminar, will
receive a public reprimand and
must apologize for his actions.
In several speaking engagements
in the past week in front of
supportive fans -- at most of his
appearances he was met with a
standing ovation -- Tressel has
said he regrets his actions and has
apologized for embarrassing the
university.
There is no timeline for any
additional actions by the NCAA
regarding Tressel.
The NCAA still could vacate
Ohio State's 2010 season because
Tressel knowingly used ineligible
players.
Copyright 2011 by The
Associated Press
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continued from page 73
players wondering if the Spartans
would even extend its string of
consecutive NCAA appearances
to 14 -- third longest in the nation
behind Kansas (22) and Duke
(16).UCLA is back in the tourney
after a one-year absence with a
team that starts five
underclassmen and had just two
players -- Lee and another junior,
Jerime Anderson-- with NCAA
experience before Thursday
night.That lack of tournament
seasoning showed down the
stretch.The Bruins finished with
18 turnovers, 11 of them in the
second half. The were 9 of 18
from the foul line down the
stretch.Smith, UCLA's 6-foot-10,
305-pound freshman center, had
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14 points. Nelson Reeves finished
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made 3-pointers to keep the
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After Messenger Spacecraft's U.S. Radiation Risks

Successful Orbital Burn, Mercury Minuscule; Chernobyl's
Now Has Its First-Ever Satellite Legacy & Iodine Scams
Rebecca Boyle (Popular solar orbit. Japanese researchers slow it down in preparation for (NPR Blogs: Shots - Health against radioactive iodine, one of
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Last night, NASA's Messenger Japan May Scale Back Its Space The probe is in a 12-hour roundup of radiation news. out, USA Today reports. The
probe fired its thrusters and Ambitions After Probe Misses elliptical orbit, bringing it as close With radiation from the crippled paper quotes Gary Coody, FDA's
became the first man-made Venus NASA's Messenger Flyby as 124 miles from Mercury's Japanese nuclear plant detected on national health fraud coordinator:
satellite ever to orbit Mercury. It's Captures Never-Before-Seen surface and as far as 9,300 miles. the West Coast of the United We found many different offers
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Mercury was hurtling through hour after the rocket fired, of diagnostic tests to ensure says the additional risks are that finds the risk for thyroid
space 96 million miles from Earth Messenger rotated toward Earth everything is working properly in vanishingly small: cancer 25 years after the accident
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Its First Full-Scale Tsunami Drill Next Week
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The Japan Tsunami At
Minamisoma, Japan, the tsunami
came 1.5 miles inland.
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The Caribbean is no stranger to
seismic natural disaster, and after
last week's quake and devastation
in Japan authorities in 33
Caribbean states don't need to be
told twice that it could happen
there too. As such, those nations
will participate in the first-ever
full-scale international exercise on
March 23 simulating a 7.6
earthquake off the American
Virgin Islands and the ensuing
tusnami.
Known as Caribe Wave 11, the
exercise calls for the fictitious
earthquake to trigger disaster
Psalm 71:8 (03-18-11)
(Verse of the Day)
Submitted at 3/18/2011 2:00:00 AM
My mouth is filled with your
praise, declaring your splendor all
day long.
— Psalm 71:8(NIV) Thoughts on
Today's Verse... Our mouths can
be filled with food, profanities, or
gossip. Or ... we can choose for
our mouths to be filled with praise
for God and his loving grace. We
can talk about many things and
preparedness alerts and warning
systems to ensure that they work
properly. Bulletins will be issued
per emergency protocol from the
West Coast/Alaska Tsunami
Warning Center and the Pacific
Tsunami Warning Center, and
from there emergency
speak to many different people
about many different subjects. Or
... we can choose to declare the
greatness, majesty, and splendor
of our heavenly Father all during
our day. Why don't we choose to
praise God with our mouths and
tell him of his greatness and let
others know of his grace as we go
about today's activities? My
Prayer... Holy and marvelous
Father, you are God of all creation
and also God of all grace. Thank
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in Israel
coast guard units, etc.) in all 33 Submitted at 3/18/2011 3:00:35 AM
countries will mobilize and
deploy to test their readiness and We in the West have much to
abilities to cope with a disaster in repent for in the blind eye we
realtime. have turned to the slaughter of
The tsunami will be loosely innocents.
based on historical observations ‘T he victims were sleeping as the
of the 1867 Virgin Islands killer came in. The paramedics
earthquake event, which was described children’s toys right
actually a two-epicenter event next to pools of blood. It’s the
with the earthquakes occurring worst single attack in Israel’s
five minutes and about 40 miles recent history.”
apart. It was one of 75 tsunamis That’s Giulio Meotti, describing
occurring in the Caribbean over the slaughter last week of five
the last five centuries. Such members of the Fogel family on
the West Bank. They were killed
management organization are international disaster preparedness
“while they were sleeping in their
expected to spring into action. exercises have been conducted
home on the Sabbath evening,” as
This isn't just a test of the before in the Pacific and Indian
Israeli prime minister Benjamin
communications channels. While Oceans, but this will be the
Netanyahu said in denouncing the
residents won't necessarily be Caribbean's first.
act of terrorism.
required to evacuate coastal cities, [ UNESCO]
In truth, as horrific as it was, the
emergency personnel (weather
attack was far from foreign to the
forecast offices, police forces,
lives of Israelis. As is the
widespread lack of outrage
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internationally.
#ad#As Meotti tells me, “Those
citizens lose their lives during a who profess to deplore violence
you for your kindness shared with retaliatory foray by Israel. There
me in Jesus. Thank you for your is no other conclusion to draw: on both sides of the Israeli-
powerful victory over death when When the deaths of Jewish P a l e s t i n i a n e q u a t i o n h a v e
you raised him from the dead. innocents go unmourned and remained relatively silent on the
Thank you for your patience with unacknowledged, it is because slaughtering of this Israeli family.
me as I sometimes stumble, but J e w i s h l i v e s d o n o t c o u n t . No words of condemnation about
am always desiring to more Where’s the outrage? Why is the the killing of these innocents have
perfectly reflect the character of world silent about the beheading been heard from the human-rights
Jesus. Please help me, O Lord, to of a Jewish infant? The silence groups, the same faction that is so
profess and to show my love and has been telling.” quick to vilify Israel for defending
admiration for you all during this itself from terrorist attacks,
G i u l i o M e o t t i , a n I t a l i a n especially when Palestinian
day. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen. journalist, is the author of the
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haunting book A New Shoah: The
Untold Story of Israel’s Victims
of Terrorism, dedicated to making
sure that these victims are known
and not forgotten.
Meotti does a thorough, moving
job of introducing the reader to
the victims of Islamic, anti-Jewish
terrorism. Some of those we meet
are Americans. All of them were
human. And none of them
deserved their fate. Reading
Meotti, you come to miss every
single one of them, although you
probably never physically met
them. Meotti talked to me this
week about these people who
have become victims of what he
calls the New Shoah, and what
their lives tell us about our own.--
KJL
KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ: Is
there really a new Shoah in Israel?
If that’s so, why aren’t we doing
more to stop it? All of us?
GIULIO MEOTTI: The Shoah
was a unique evil in human
history, and I had to be very
careful not to make false
comparisons. Through books,
museums, memorials, and cinema,
the Shoah has become a universal
metaphor of victimization,
invoked by everyone from AIDS
sufferers to African-American
activists (who define slavery as
the “real Holocaust”) to pro-Arab
propagandists portraying
Palestinians as the inheritors of
Nazi-era victimization. I’d prefer
to avoid using the term “Shoah,”
but I didn’t find any other term as
accurate in describing what is
happening in Israel under the
hanging sword of terrorism.
Shoah is a word that, to me at
least, links the generation of the
Holocaust to the Israelis being
killed today in their homeland.
The book describes a very
specific destructive process, a
slow-motion 9/11 launched
against civilians day after day,
week after week, month after
month, year after year, attack after
attack. We talk about 1,600
innocent dead, murdered in cold
blood, targets of a planned
genocidal program, the
proportional equivalent to 85,000
American victims.
I spent six years tracking down
and interviewing witnesses to
terrorist atrocities -- including
people who survived attacks and
family members of those who did
not. I heard about scores of young
people and children, women and
elderly, incinerated on buses;
cafés, pizzerias, and shopping
centers turned into
slaughterhouses; mothers and
daughters killed in front of ice-
cream shops; entire families
exterminated in their own beds;
infants executed with a blow to
the base of the skull; teens
tortured and their blood smeared
on the walls of a cave; fruit
markets blown to pieces;
nightclubs annihilated along with
dozens of students; seminarians
murdered during their Biblical
studies; husbands and wives killed
in front of their children; brothers
and sisters, grandparents and
grandchildren murdered together;
children murdered in their
mothers’ arms.
#page#What has been happening
in Israel is a destructive campaign
completely neglected by foreign
newspapers and television stations
and by legal forums like the
United Nations. Applying lessons
from the Holocaust to the Arab-
Israel conflict is a tricky business.
But as Prof. Yehuda Bauer of Yad
Vashem (the official Israeli
Holocaust memorial) has argued,
“Nazism, Stalinist Communism,
and radical Islam are different
from each other, but they also
have a certain similarity: All three
aim, or aimed, at exclusive
control over the world, all three
oppose or opposed all expressions
of democracy, and all three
attacked Jews.”
#ad#I also decided to adopt the
word Shoah because today in
Western democracies, the
Holocaust’s memory is a special
weapon in the hands of those who
hate Israel and the West. In the
last 15 years, hundreds and
hundreds of Jews were killed
because they were Jews, while the
guardians of memory were busy
in non-useful phony ceremonies.
The very memory of the Shoah
was betrayed. The book A New
Shoah is a lament for the most
tragic past, delivered in the
present tense. I wanted to show
the absolute character of Jewish
tragedy. I wanted to show how the
Israelis are victimized and how
they are alone, abandoned by the
world -- now just as then.
LOPEZ: How is Hamas like the
Nazis? Is it perhaps the only
organization today for which the
Nazi metaphor is appropriate?
MEOTTI: The Muslim
Brotherhood’s guru, the Egyptian
sheik Yusuf al-Qaradawi, has
ruled that even the unborn Israeli
child in the womb is a legitimate
target for death, because one day
he will wear a uniform. This
ruling has set in motion a mass
hatred that has precedents only in
Nazism. Only one nation on the
planet is regarded as having no
civilians; only one nation must
recognize that its children risk
being torn apart by nail bombs on
buses. Terrorism came not in
response to an intensification of
the occupation but in response to
Israel’s attempt to end it.
Rabbi Mordechai Elon once
referred to one area of the Mount
Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem as
the burial area for the nation’s
unborn victims (as opposed to the
section for the nation’s great
leaders). Eyal and Yael Shorek
are buried there; Yael was nine
months pregnant when she was
killed. Next to them lie Gadi and
Tzippi Shemesh, who were killed
in downtown Jerusalem
immediately after having a scan
of their unborn twins. Four
members of the Gavish family are
buried next to one another in Elon
Moreh, a settlement in the biblical
West Bank. In Gaza, a terrorist
squad opened fire on the car of
Jewish settler Tali Hatuel, who
died on the spot. Then her four
daughters were murdered, each
with a shot to the head at point-
blank range. It was an execution.
The attacks on the Park Hotel in
Netanya and in the Beit Yisrael
neighborhood in Jerusalem wiped
out entire families. Ruti Peled and
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her granddaughter Sinai Keinan
were murdered in Petah Tikva.
Noa Alon and her granddaughter
Gal Eizenman were killed at the
French Hill intersection in
Jerusalem. Five members of the
Schijveschuurder family were
killed in the bombing of the
Sbarro restaurant in Jerusalem.
Boaz Shabo lost his wife, Rachel,
and their three children in a
terrorist attack in Itamar, and he
feels as if this is “a mini-
holocaust.”
Hamas and Hezbollah, two of the
terrorist organizations that seek
the destruction of Israel, call the
Jews “pigs,” “cancer,” “garbage,”
“germs,” “parasites,” and
“microbes.” Iran’s president
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad uses the
expression “dead rats.” The
Islamist terminology is the
contemporary version of the Nazi
“ Schmattes,” the Yiddish word
for “rags.” It’s very important for
these groups to dehumanize the
Israelis before killing them.
Hamas is committed not merely
to the political goal of expelling
Jews from the land of Israel but
also to what it believes is a sacred
religious goal of exterminating all
Jews everywhere, behind every
tree in creation. There is another
metaphor, and that is the Russian
pogroms. During the Cossack
pogroms of 1648–49 whole
families were wiped out. And
that’s what is happening again in
the new Shoah.
LOPEZ: Why do so many believe
the Israelis are not the wronged
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party? It isn’t mere anti-Semitism,
is it? Israel isn’t perfect,
strategically or otherwise.
MEOTTI: There’s a river of oily,
bloody money that feeds those
who incite anti-Israeli riots,
organize anti-Israeli boycotts,
spread anti-Israeli lies in the guise
of “objective journalism” and
“academic research.” There are
careers to be made on the betrayal
of intellectual standards.
The process of Israel’s
delegitimization, which began
with the Soviets’ pathological
assault on its legitimacy, has now
come full circle. In Western
Europe today, and even among
many U.S. liberals, the old Soviet
critique of “colonialist Zionism”
has penetrated mainstream media
and intellectual circles. Don’t
forget that the Guardian, the leftist
U.K. outlet, ran an editorial titled
“Israel Has No Right to Exist.” It
is also true, though, that Israeli
diplomacy does nothing to explain
abroad the real story of Israel. The
Arabs’ propaganda is very active
in rewriting history for their own
convenience. The silence of
Jewish writers is disconcerting --
and has been for a long time now.
In Europe and in the U.S., the
public knows very well the story
of the Jewish girl from
Amsterdam, Anne Frank. But
nobody knows the Ohayon
children slaughtered in the dovish
Israeli kibbutz of Metzer. They
were the same age as Anne Frank
when the terror squad broke into
their home. They died in the arms
of their mother, who was trying to
protect them.
#page#The “civilized” world
should be ashamed for leaving the
Israelis alone, during the Second
Intifada, to be killed in cafés,
buses, supermarkets. How will it
answer when the Iranian
ayatollahs threaten to burn half of
the Jewish state with the atomic
bomb? These Israeli victims don’t
fit in the secular-humanist
mentality that is mainstream today
in the cultural industry. No book,
no movie, no CNN documentary
has been dedicated to their
memories. It’s as if these
slaughtered Israelis never really
existed. The old Nazi slogan,
“The Jews are our misfortune,” is
amplified again, in slightly
modified form. When Europeans
cited Israel as “the greatest threat
to world peace,” they meant: “The
Jewish state is our misfortune.”
That’s why they so easily
accepted the idea that Israeli kids
and Holocaust survivors have
been killed by “desperate” suicide
bombers.
#ad#LOPEZ: With the situation as
grave as you portray it, why do
Jews stay in Israel? You talk
about the Americans who have
died there. Why go there? You’d
think God would understand . . .
MEOTTI: Israel is not just
another country. The Zionist
project was based on the historical
necessity, to use a Marxist phrase,
of creating a safe haven for
European Jews as a reaction to
19th-century anti-Semitism. But
the price for freedom and
independence was very high. The
truth is that the attempted
genocide of the Jewish people has
continued for the past 63 years.
Since the day of Israel’s birth,
originally sanctioned by the
United Nations, its Jewish
inhabitants have faced the
constant threat of annihilation.
The 20,000 Israeli dead over this
period are the proportional
equivalent to more than a million
American victims. For six
decades, citizens of the Jewish
state have endured mandatory
military service for every young
man and woman, with men forced
to continue reserve duty into their
middle age, in order to protect
their families and their future. If
you visit any Tel Aviv shopping
mall today, the security guards
will search you and your bags.
Haifa, the third-largest city in
Israel, is now building “the largest
underground hospital in the
world.” And the state is
continuing the distribution of gas
masks. The Knesset, Israel’s
parliament, is building a labyrinth
of underground tunnels and rooms
where the Jewish leadership
would guide the country in case of
nuclear attack. But despite the war
for survival, Israel thrives. The
economy is booming, the
democracy is very solid,
immigration is growing, the
demography is the strongest
among the democracies.
About the Americans killed, I
was always impressed by a
specific story. Sarah Blaustein
had a comfortable life in Staten
Island with an income in the top 2
percent in America. She left
everything there to come to Israel,
where she was killed on the road
to the tomb of Rachel, the wife of
Jacob, who gave birth to two of
the patriarch’s twelve sons,
Joseph and Benjamin, the ones
most dear to their father and to the
Jewish people. A sense of sadness
and deep amazement pervades
you about people like Sarah
Blaustein.
LOPEZ: Your book is faces and
names. Gripping emotionally.
Why was that important for you?
To give current events faces and
names?
MEOTTI: It was very important
to present the story of Israel with
real stories beyond politics and
statistics. Stories with names and
faces and ideals and hopes. Who
were the Israelis killed? What
about their dreams? Why did they
come to Israel? I wanted to show
just how monstrously determined
so many of Israel’s enemies are to
kill Jews -- but I also wanted to
show the spirit of the survivors.
These families are an ethical
example to the world. I portrayed
the beauty of their lives in order
to make the unbearable bearable.
LOPEZ: Tell me about the
children.
MEOTTI: Just think about the
Beslan terror attack in 2004, when
Chechen terrorists killed dozens
of kids in the little Ossetian
school. The same attack has
happened in Israel many times:
Maalot, Avivim, Kiryat Shmona .
. . and I can go on with this list of
massacres. In 1997, a group of
Israeli girls were on a field trip to
the “Island of Peace,” along the
border with Jordan. This is where,
decades earlier, a dream had come
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true for two Russian-born Jews
who wanted to harness the water
to produce electricity, and unite
Arabs and Jews in a shared
project. The girls had come to the
top of the hill where a turret
stood, with a large Jordanian flag
waving in the wind. Seven of
them were killed by a Jordanian
soldier, who has just been praised
as a “hero” by a minister in
Amman. Yehuda Shoham was
just five months old when he was
struck in the head by a rock while
his parents were driving home to
the Israeli settlement of Shiloh,
the biblical city. In the elegant
Jerusalem street of Ben Yehuda,
many kids were killed at the
beginning of the Intifada. Danielle
Shefi, five years old, was killed
near Hebron while she was
playing in her parents’ bedroom.
Avia Malka was nine months old
when she was killed by a grenade
in the coastal city of Netanya.
Ethiopian children were killed by
rockets in Sderot, labeled as “the
most bombed city in the world.”
In Taba, al-Qaeda destroyed an
entire Jewish family, the Nivs,
because the Israelis have rendered
the city “impure” by their
presence. The worst attack took
place in the Tel Aviv promenade
one evening in 2001. Dozens of
Russian-born high-school students
were waiting to get into the disco
for an evening of dancing,
relaxation, and friendship. Twenty
dead. The witnesses described a
Dante-esque scene in which
survivors waded through large
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Naming the Crime
Submitted at 3/18/2011 3:00:21 AM
Two new books by American
historians shed light on the Soviet
past and those who still avoid its
implications.
W inter is bleak enough as it is.
This year the gloom was
deepened by the publication of
How to Change the World: Tales
of Marx and Marxism, by Eric
Hobsbawm, one of Britain’s most
feted historians, and, oh yes, a
man who stuck with the
Communist party until 1991
despite a global killing spree that
took perhaps one hundred million
lives. Naturally Hobsbawm’s new
book has triggered the usual
hosannas from the usual
congregation for, to quote the
Guardian, this “grand old man.”
There had, of course, been that
minor unpleasantness back in the
1990s when Hobsbawm had
appeared to imply that the deaths
of 15 or 20 million people might
have been justified had the
Communist utopia actually been
achieved. This ancient ogre (he is
93) is now more discreet.
Reviewing How to Change the
World in the Financial Times,
Francis Wheen, no rightist and the
author of an erudite and
entertaining biography of Karl
Marx, noted how Hobsbawm
could not “bring himself to
mention the Hitler-Stalin pact,
referring only to ‘temporary
episodes such as 1939–41.’ The
Soviet invasion of Hungary and
the crushing of the Prague Spring
were [also] skipped over.”
#ad#But who are we to quibble,
when, as his admirers like to
remind us, Hobsbawm’s life has
been “shaped by the struggle
against fascism,” an excuse
understandable in the 1930s
(Hobsbawm, who is Jewish, quit
Germany as a teenager in 1933),
but grotesque more than six
decades after the fall of the Third
Reich.
Just how grotesque was
highlighted by two books that
came out last year. In the first,
Bloodlands: Europe between
Hitler and Stalin, Yale history
professor Timothy Snyder
describes the darkness that
engulfed a stretch of Eastern
Europe in the mid-20th century.
He leaves only one convincing
response to the question that
dominates the second, Stalin’s
Genocides, by Stanford’s Norman
Naimark: For all the unique evils
of the Holocaust, was Stalin, no
less than Hitler, guilty of
genocide?
The first half of Professor
Snyder’s grim saga revolves
around the Ukrainian famine of
1932–33, a manufactured
catastrophe in which zeal, malice
and indifference conspired to
create a horror in which, Snyder
calculates, well over three million
perished (there are other, much
higher, estimates). It was, Snyder
writes, “not food shortages but
food distribution that killed
millions in Soviet Ukraine, and it
was Stalin who decided who was
entitled to what.”
The Ukrainian countryside had
already been devastated by
collectivization and the killing,
imprisonment, or exile of millions
of its most enterprising
inhabitants. Now it was to be
stripped of what little it had left.
The peasants were given targets
for the amount of grain and other
foodstuffs they were expected to
hand over to the state, targets that
would leave them with barely
anything to live on, and often not
even that. Refusal was not an
option. Starvation was not an
excuse. Nothing was left behind.
Nobody was allowed to leave.
The peasants were trapped. And
they were condemned. In the
spring of 1933 they died at the
rate of more than ten thousand a
day. “The only meat was human.”
That fall the United States
extended diplomatic recognition
to the Soviet Union.
#page#Communism has brought
mass starvation in its wake on a
number of occasions (2010 also
saw the appearance of Mao’s
Great Famine, by Frank Dikötter,
a harrowing account of the death
of millions during the Chairman’s
Great Leap Forward), but what
distinguishes the Ukrainian
Holodomor (a coinage that means
murder by hunger) is that, as
Snyder demonstrates, this
particular famine was not just
incidental to the business of
fashioning utopia. It was
deliberate, a weapon designed to
break a class enemy, Ukraine’s
embattled peasantry, and the
battered nation of which it was the
backbone.
#ad#It is this national element that
some historians would like to
deny. It unsettles the conventional
narrative under which the
ethnically based mass murders of
mid-20th-century Europe are
associated almost exclusively
with Nazis, and, in so doing, it
raises some awkward questions
about those in the democratic
world who looked so longingly to
Moscow in the 1930s. The details
of the Holodomor might have
been obscure or obscured, but
there was a fairly widespread
awareness in the West that
something had occurred. How
else to explain all that talk of
omelet and eggs? Those who
claimed to have turned to
Communism only because of the
growing Nazi threat must have
believed that those millions of
dead Ukrainians counted for very
little.
And it wasn’t just Ukrainians. As
the Thirties curdled on, the list of
peoples brutalized by Stalin grew
ever longer. The “national
operations” that were a murderous
subset of the Great Terror of
1937–38 accounted for some
250,000 deaths, including those of
at least 85,000 Soviet Poles. The
hideous ethnic persecution
developing in the Third Reich
throughout the 1930s may have
been more overt than its Soviet
counterpart, but it was in the
USSR that the cattle trucks were
already rolling. At that stage
Hitler’s haul of victims lagged far
behind.
That was to change. The second
Newstablet Edition
part of Snyder’s book details how
the Nazis brought their own flavor
of hell to the territories he dubs
the Bloodlands. With his feel for
neglected history, Snyder restores
focus to the terrible fate of the
Soviet POWs who had fallen into
German hands: “The Germans
shot, on a conservative estimate,
half a million Soviet prisoners of
war. By way of starvation or
mistreatment during transit, they
killed about 2.6 million more.”
He correctly sees this not just as a
matter of callousness and cruelty
but as an adjunct to Hitler’s wider
plans for a region that was to be
emptied of most of its original
inhabitants and re-peopled by the
master race.
And then, of course, there were
the Jews. In page after grueling
page, Snyder depicts the pogrom
that erupted across the
Bloodlands. After all these years,
after all the histories, there are
still details that appall: “By spring
1943, fires burned at Treblinka
day and night. . . . Women, with
more fatty tissue, burned better
than men; so the laborers learned
to put them on the bottom of the
pile.”
In an interesting twist, Snyder
reveals how the usual Western
understanding of the Holocaust,
centered on the almost clinical
danse macabre of deportation and
eventual extermination in a camp
far from Paris, Amsterdam, or
Rome, fails to reflect the more
typical experience to the east. The
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pools of blood, navigating around
arms and legs. If you go there and
see the place you understand the
real story of Israel, the real effects
of what has been called the
“Zionicide.”
LOPEZ: Is Israel’s story the story
of the victims of terrorism?
MEOTTI: Israel is the story of a
special miracle, the Jewish
survival and rebirth, the story of
making the desert bloom amidst
many difficulties. Despite the
endless conflict and ceaseless
hostility, Israel is a vibrant
democracy, a high-tech
powerhouse, a magnet to
immigrants around the globe. The
psychological need for
normalization is so great that it
overwhelms the clear failures in
the peace process, the continuing
terrorism, and unabated Arab
hatred. Sixty-three years after its
creation, Israel is still fighting for
its very survival. Punished with
missiles raining from north and
south, threatened with destruction
by an Iran aiming to acquire
nuclear weapons, and pressed
upon by friend and foe, Israel, it
seems, is never to have a
moment’s peace. My book tells
this hard story.
LOPEZ: How is Israel a
“metaphysical nation”?
MEOTTI: In Israel you hear
dozens of different languages, you
see different skin colors and
physical characteristics, you share
time with very liberal people and
very religious ones. Israeli society
remains stubbornly split, divided
along religious, political, and
social lines. The challenges are
immense and, to an outside
observer, might very well seem
insurmountable. So what is the
common element of the Israeli
adventure? It is the metaphysical
dimension of the survival despite
all the historical rules. The Jews
should have been destroyed in the
Shoah, and the remnant of them
should have been assimilated in a
secularized society. Israel is the
living exception. Israel is thriving.
#page#Judaism is now the
religion of 13 million people, one
million more than before the
Shoah. Israel is the miracle of a
nearly three-thousand-year
emotive and intellectual capacity
for survival amid the greatest
problems. Judaism found its
strength and its interactions with
history by building a civilization
of liberty that said no to Greek
hegemony, no to the ancient
Romans, no to Christian
conversion, no to conversion to
Islam, and, later, no to
totalitarianism. Israel is Spinoza,
Freud, Einstein, Schönberg,
Mahler, but it’s also a great
modern army, a great scientific
adventure, a great moral law, a
great democracy, a great biblical
heritage. It’s a unique experiment.
In one single day in Israel you can
see the protests of African
immigrants, pacifists who want to
safeguard the Palestinian olive
harvest, the announcement of
some scientific or technological
invention, gays insisting on
having a parade and the ultra-
Orthodox heatedly opposing
them, a kite contest in Herzliya,
and a film festival in Beersheba.
Meanwhile missiles fall on
Sderot, in Gaza the army kills a
Hamas operative, and young
Israelis get to know one another in
a bomb shelter.
Israel is a beacon of hope for
humanity.
#ad# LOPEZ: What message do
you wish you could give to
European leaders? About Israel?
About Islamists within their own
borders?
MEOTTI: Stop cultivating anti-
Semitism and the isolation of
Israel. I don’t have anything to
say to the Islamists, people who
tear apart Jewish infants and teach
their followers to kill the
“nonbelievers.”
LOPEZ: And what would you
say to the U.S?
MEOTTI: To President Obama:
Don’t abandon the only real
American ally in the Middle East.
The belief that the democracies
can sacrifice tiny Israel in order to
placate Islamism is profoundly
dangerous.
LOPEZ: You’re not Jewish. Why
do you care so much about Israel?
MEOTTI: It’s a good question
for all the Western peoples. What
is Israel? Will Israel survive?
What will happen to the
democracies if Israel falls? These
are the questions that today most
affect the debate. If you are a
Christian in the Middle East there
is only one country where you
would want to live. That is Israel,
the only Middle Eastern country
where Christians are growing in
number and existential condition.
The national rebirth in its original
homeland of a people threatened
with extinction for three thousand
years should represent, especially
in the eyes of our civilization, a
marvelous story, a promise of
redemption for all humanity -- all
the more so since this people’s
arid and tiny land is in the middle
of a region that violently contests
its existence. In Rosh Pinna in the
Galilee, or in Zikhron Ya’akov,
cultured German immigrants
discarded all their old habits and,
surrounded by stones and
marshes, sustained themselves
with a piece of bread and an
apple. In their homes, however,
they had microscopes and test
tubes for learning how to conquer
illnesses, and in the evenings they
held concerts and read European
literature together. The Bible was
always present in their lives. You
don’t have to be Jewish to
understand that.
LOPEZ: What are you thinking
as you watch the unrest in so
much of the Arab world?
MEOTTI: I’m very suspicious
about what is going on in the
Arab world, especially in Egypt.
Hosni Mubarak was not an ideal
leader, and he was immersed in
corruption, but he was also the
last obstacle to the Islamist
tsunami. Mubarak put Egypt in
the Western orbit. He was pro-
U.S. against Iraq’s Saddam
Hussein and Iran’s Ayatollah
Khomeini; he signed a 30-year
peace pact with Israel; he
survived six assassination plots;
he provided Israel with gas at a
cheap price; and he was the only
leader of a major Arab state, apart
from Jordan’s King Hussein, to
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attend the funeral of Yitzhak
Rabin. The image of Mubarak
reaching out to Leah Rabin will
forever remain. What will be the
future of Egypt? The “cold peace”
with Israel is already at risk, as is
the fate of Egypt’s Christian
minorities. We are heading
toward very hard times for the
West.
#page# LOPEZ: What did you
learn about pain during the course
of writing this book?
MEOTTI: The idea -- also
reaffirmed by Pope Benedict XVI
-- of human rationality as a form
of likeness with the Creator is
born from Judaism, which lends it
a progressive character, given that
creation aims to a point on the
horizon where one finds absolute
good, even if no one knows what
that is. Reading the stories in my
book you learn about the happy
ending to this story. There is a
moral duty of building the world
with God and of going forward, of
doing better, of working hard in
order to create a better world.
This is how I can explain the
mystery of Israeli families who
decided to dedicate themselves to
doing good to Arabs and Jews
alike after the killing of their
relatives. In that sense, Israel has
already won against terrorism.
#ad# LOPEZ: About grief?
MEOTTI: A different kind of
grief. Proud, confident, powerful,
stoic. Just an example: When the
International Court of Justice in
The Hague condemned Israel’s
security barrier, Israelis marched
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For the Love of God and Men

Submitted at 3/18/2011 3:00:29 AM
Godard’s, the film is beautifully human love to another love and boundary of the monastery to of God’s enduring presence, a
shot. Attentive to the role of “answered the call of that love,” discuss their demands. witness to God’s fidelity. The
A French-language film tells the silence in the lives of the monks, something he has been living for If viewers are left wondering same is true in Algiers in 1996.
story of martyred Catholic monks the film meticulously focuses on many decades now. Of course, the about the wider conflict, they As the monks come to embrace
in Algeria. faces, on the silent scene illustrates his human love. have more than enough to the decision not to abandon their
X avier Beauvois’s Of Gods and communication of grimaces, One of the best things about this contemplate in the lives of the community, the film wonderfully
Men is a French-language film gestures, smiles, and tears. In this, film -- something that has baffled monks themselves. As the captures a range of emotions: fear
based on the true story of the the film calls to mind both Ingmar critics who cannot decide whether violence increases and moves ever and courage, doubt and faith,
martyrdom of Catholic monks in Bergmann’s films and the recent the film is religious or humanistic closer, the monks begin to frustration and hope, the
A l g i e r s i n t h e 1 9 9 0 s . T h e documentary Into Great Silence -- is the way it displays the deliberate together, as is their temptation to despair and the love
Cistercian monks, who had lived about the lives of Carthusian inseparability, in the lives of these common practice, about what they that binds. The monks are
peaceably serving a mostly monks in the French Alps. That monks, of love of neighbor and ought to do. Government forces becoming formed in the image of
Muslim community, became film captured the rhythm of love of God. urge them to leave, and some of the One who has created and
trapped in the battle between monastic life in the strictest and The link is at the root of the their members are inclined to do redeemed them, the One whose
government forces and Islamic- most isolated order of Catholic decision of the monks to remain so. In an initial discussion, one name they announce to the
extremist groups, a battle that monks. in Algiers, even as violence member remains undecided and terrorists as the Prince of Peace.
escalated in the immediate #ad#The rhythm of silence and encroaches on the local states that they need to pray and Another great achievement in the
aftermath of the slaughter by chant is also evident in the lives community. The film is not trying talk further. And we watch them film has precisely to do with its
Islamic fundamentalists of a of the Cistercian monks in to make grand political statements do just that. restraint concerning political
group of foreign workers. The Algiers, but with this important about Islamic fundamentalism or As they chant the Psalms, engage messages. The filmmakers as
film is not so much about the difference: The Cistercian monks the West. There is a passing in communal celebration of the much as the monks featured in the
political conflict as it is about the interact quite freely with the local complaint about French Mass, and ponder religious icons, film understand that the testimony
lives of the monks, their love of Muslim community. One of the imperialism and a bit more we watch them, one by one, of the martyrs is of One who
their Muslim neighbors, and their monks, Luc (in a marvelous discussion of the way in which coming to a deeper recognition of gives peace not as the world gives
gradual realization that the God performance by Michael Lonsdale Islamic radicals distort the Koran, what it means for each of them peace. That is precisely what
they serve is calling them not to of Munich fame), serves as a but that’s it for direct political individually and as a community makes Of Gods and Men such a
abandon their post in the face of medical doctor for the local statement. What is clear is that the to follow Christ. One thing that is profound religious film, a film as
the threat of violence. Of Gods community, but he also provides monastery is to be a refuge from not spelled out in the film is that - inspiring as it is sorrowful.
and Men is a beautiful film, a film m u c h - n e e d e d s h o e s a n d the violence of the wider world. - in the tradition of St. Benedict, --- Thomas S. Hibbs, an NRO
that has the patience to allow the occasional advice about love to On that basis, the monks refuse an the founder of Western contributor, is the author of
humanity and holiness of very confused teen girls. In a quiet yet offer from the police to place monasticism -- monks take a vow Shows about Nothing. Thomas S.
simple lives to emerge slowly. It striking exchange, a girl asks him armed guards on monastic of stability, to live out their Hibbs
is the best religious film in many, how you know you are in love. grounds. When, on Christmas vocation with a particular
many years. After he lists various emotions Eve, gun-toting terrorists enter the community in a specific place. In
W i t h c i n e m a t o g r a p h y b y that one feels in the midst of love, grounds demanding medicine, the the Middle Ages, a time of great
Caroline Champetier, a long-time she asks about his own love. He monks request that they put down flux and nomadic social existence,
c o l l a b o r a t o r o f J e a n - L u c explains that he moved from mere their arms or retreat to the stability provided a palpable sign
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Democrat Lynn Woolsey: Capitol Hill’s Lindsay Questions Obama Has
Not Answered on Libya
Lohan Conn Carroll (The Foundry:
Conservative Policy News.)
Submitted at 3/17/2011 11:00:19 PM
wild-eyed, Charlie Sheen–esque simpleton chants of “No war!” ensuring that terrorists are given
media beast, or is he a boring and “Give peace a chance!” the same rights as the Americans Submitted at 3/18/2011 8:09:53 AM

Her antiwar antics are juvenile bureaucrat lulling America into In January, the far-left they are so intent on killing.”
and dangerous. oblivion? exhibitionist congresswoman The Code Pink/Move On Posted March 18th, 2011 at
A grown woman in public office This much is clear: Woolsey blasted the counter-terror efforts Democrats’ strategy of smearing 9:09am in American Leadership
who acts like Lindsay Lohan has prefers the guerilla girl tactics of in Afghanistan as “an epic failure, General Petraeus (“General Print This Post
no business comparing one of Code Pink to Petraeus’s adult a national embarrassment, and a Betray-us”) backfired miserably Yesterday the United Nations
America’s finest generals to s t r a i g h t t a l k . H e c k l i n g moral blight.” Does she know our in 2007 -- so much so that surge Security Council voted 10–0, with
Charlie Sheen. But antiwar government officials, disrupting troops, their families, and our opponent Barack Obama rode to five abstentions, to authorize
Democratic representative Lynn congressional hearings, and enemies are listening? electoral victory after flip- military action in Libya.
Woolsey has never shown any breaching Capitol Hill security are Nancy Morgan, relative of a U.S. flopping on the issue on the Specifically, the
restraint when it comes to trashing the “progressive” means of public soldier in Afghanistan, spoke for campaign trail, picked a vice- resolution“authorizes member
America’s military leaders before discourse about the war. many when she wrote an open presidential running mate who states … to take all necessary
the world. That’s because being a You may recall that protest party rejoinder to Woolsey: “Spitting on claimed credit for the surge after measures … to protect civilians
Code Pink liberal -- like being a animal Woolsey was the politician the graves of those who have died proclaiming its failure, and then and civilian populated areas under
Hollywood brat -- means never who reportedly gave State of the in their nation’s service is just one finally adopted the very winning threat of attack.” Celebrations
having to apologize for your Union tickets to antiwar crasher of the rights secured to Ms. surge tactics he once attacked as erupted across Benghazi after
reckless words and deeds. Cindy Sheehan in 2006 and was Woolsey by the blood and sweat fatally doomed. news of the vote reached rebels. A
#ad#Woolsey took to the House p a r t o f a p r o – C o d e P i n k of others,” Morgan noted. “A free So: Whose frenzied, media- 17-year-old rebel told The Wall
floor on Wednesday to report on contingent of Democrats who press is another right. This would pandering strategy looks more Street Journal: “I give Qadhafi a
her “Congressional Progressive supported the group’s 2005 be the same press that has like Charlie Sheen’s? maximum of two days.” If only.
Caucus Peace and Security Task inauguration antics -- including maintained a deafening silence Not long after the 2004 elections, In reality the U.N. resolution is
Force” hearing with critics of the chanting “Out of Iraq now!” and about this war ever since it Move On co-founder Eli Pariser nothing more than a “feel-good”
Afghanistan War. She parroted unfurling “Bring the Troops became Obama’s war -- the same famously said of Democrats, palliative measure that is not
Rolling Stone journalist Michael Home” banners in the middle of press that reports Ms. Woolsey’s “Now it’s our party. We bought it, likely to decisively affect the
Hastings (he’d be labeled an President Bush’s speech. inane pronouncements without we own it, and we’re going to fighting on the ground in Libya.
“activist,” of course, if he Instead of sober-eyed expert offering vital context.” take it back.” The failure of As Secretary of Defense Robert
supported the surge), who said: testimony on how U.S. troops are “Though Ms. Woolsey makes ten “mainstream” Democrats to Gates testified last week: “Let’s
“General Petraeus is giving us the combating the Taliban in Kabul times the money my nephew does, rebuke the troop-morale- just call a spade a spade. A no-fly
Charlie Sheen counterinsurgency and the northern and western he is the one who does the heavy undermining Woolsey shows that zone begins with an attack on
s t r a t e g y , w h i c h i s t o g i v e regions of Afghanistan, Woolsey lifting. He is the one on the front the Left never gave up its Libya to destroy the air defenses.
exclusive interviews to every favors Jane Fonda theatrics and line, braving Taliban bullets and ownership in the first place. Party That’s the way you do a no-fly
major network, and to keep saying bloody hand-waving for the following orders. Ms. Woolsey, on. zone. And then you can fly planes
‘We’re winning’ and hope the paparazzi. on the other hand, spends her — Michelle Malkin is the author around the country and not worry
public actually agrees with you.” Instead of honest assessments of time, along with fellow of Culture of Corruption: Obama about our guys being shot down.
Woolsey then went on to attack the difficulties of training an Democrats, improvising insane and His Team of Tax Cheats, But that’s the way it starts.” But is
General Petraeus’s “bland and Afghan national-security and rules of engagement which make Crooks & Cronies(Regnery, that what the Obama
tone-deaf talking points.” She civilian-defense force and waging my nephew’s job much more 2010). © 2011 Creators Administration is planning? Even
can’t make up her mind. Is he a a long war, Woolsey wants dangerous. She is also busy Syndicate, Inc. Michelle Malkin if the Administration has a plan
on Libya, it certainly has not
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Electorate Energized in the Sunshine State

Arnold Ahlert (FrontPage years she represented a district anger it is likely that the other two
Magazine » FrontPage) that includes Miami Lakes and issues which did in the Mayor
Submitted at 3/17/2011 11:35:31 PM Hialeah, and was widely regarded were equally upsetting. Florida is
as the most powerful politician on one of the states that has been hit
Politicians in both parties should the Commission. Known for her hardest by the housing boom and
cast their eyes towards Miami if abrasiveness, Ms. Seijas had bust that led to the current
they believe they can continue to s u r v i v e d a p r e v i o u s r e c a l l recession. Property values have
ignore the will of the electorate. campaign in 2006 and was re- fallen over 40 percent, and yet
R e p u b l i c a n M a y o r C a r l o s elected with a comfortable margin Alvarez raised property taxes,
Alvarez who was first elected in in 2008. Both Alvarez and Seijas claiming it was the only viable
2004 and re-elected in 2008, was went to court to prevent a recall option, other than cutting social
given the boot in a recall election vote from occurring. The courts services, that could be
that was stunning in terms of rejected two lawsuits by the implemented to close a $444
percentages. With one hundred mayor. The suit filed by the million budget gap. It should be
percent of the vote counted, 88% commissioner, who had fought to noted that the taxpayer share for
of Miami-Dade voters decided separate her recall election from the baseball stadium is “$409
enough was enough. What did the one including Mayor Alvarez, million in loans loaded with
Alvarez in? Tax hikes, raises for was dropped before it was ruled balloon payments and long grace
members of his inner circle, and on by the judge. An aide for the periods. By 2049, when the debt
an ill-fated decision to have commissioner said she would prevent a $3 billion dollar re- a personal vendetta. Braman is due, the county will have paid
taxpayers underwrite a portion of make no comments or issue any development plan which included denied the charge. ”This is a b i l l i o n s , ” a c c o r d i n g t o
the building costs for a new statement regarding her ouster. putting taxpayers on the hook for referendum for change,” said Mr. Y a h o o s p o r t s . c o m
Florida Marlins baseball stadium. Miami Lakes Mayor Michael a baseball stadium that, although Braman who, like the Mayor, is a As a result, two-fifths of the
“The voters have spoken and a Pizzi was less reticent. ”Finally, partially funded by taxpayers registered Republican. county’s homeowners were hit
time of healing and reconciliation after 18 years, the people of would be privately owned by the If it was a personal vendetta it with an average hike of 13
must now begin,’’ said Alvarez in D i s t r i c t 1 3 h a v e r e s t o r e d team. Braman’s attorneys was one heartily supported by the percent, at a time when the jobless
a statement released Tuesday d e m o c r a c y , ” h e s a i d . claimed that funding for voters even before the election rate stands at 12 percent which is
night. “No matter which side of Alvarez’s recall effort was the 37,000-seat, $525 million took place. Within a three month substantially higher than the
the recall issue, one thing is spearheaded by a local car dealer, stadium with a retractable roof period, Braman, who spent $1 national average. ”I’m fed up
certain: We all care very deeply billionaire Norman Braman. and parking garage should have m i l l i o n o f h i s o w n m o n e y with my taxes being raised–we’re
about this community… I wish ” C o u n t y v o t e r s h a v e been put before the voters in a organizing the recall, submitted a l l s u f f e r i n g , ” s a i d M i g u e l
the next mayor of Miami-Dade demonstrated by their ballots that referendum. The Marlins had approximately 114,000 signatures Sanchez, a 33-year-old computer
County much success.” they are tired of unaccountable threatened to relocate to another to the Clerk of Courts, of which programmer from Doral, Florida.
Alvarez was not the only officials, of being ignored and of city if they didn’t get a permanent 95,499 were certified as valid. M r . S a n c h e z e s t i m a t e d h i s
p o l i t i c i a n o u s t e d . C o u n t y being overtaxed in this very home in Miami. Mr. Braman lost That figure represented more than property taxes would increase
Commissioner Natacha Seijas was difficult recessionary time,” he the lawsuit, and Mayor Alvarez twice the number needed to $800 this year to $4,800.
also recalled Tuesday in an said at a news conference. In contended that his subsequent engender a recall. And while the
equally resounding defeat. For 18 2008, Braman filed a suit to funding of the recall election was stadium funding generated a lot of
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frenzied killings that swept the
Bloodlands in the wake of the
German invasion -- within six
months one million Soviet Jews
had been butchered -- are the
clearest possible evidence of a
primeval savagery unleashed.
#page#To suggest, as some have,
that, by twinning his chronicle of
Nazi atrocity with a history of the
Soviet slaughters of the previous
decade, Snyder has in some way
diminished the Holocaust is
absurd. The Holocaust was
underpinned by a dream of
annihilation that was all its own,
but it was also a product of its era.
Like Communism, Nazism was a
creed with a strong religious
resonance (it’s no coincidence
that this was a time when more
conventional religions were losing
their traditional hold over the
human imagination), yet it aimed
at creating a utopia for its elect
here on earth, a dangerous enough
delusion under the best of
circumstances, let alone those
developing in the early 20th
century. For these utopias were,
quite explicitly, to be built by
bloodshed and sustained by force,
a prospect made all the more
menacing by technological
advance, the growth of the
modern state, and, critically, the
shattering of so much of European
civilization by the First World
War. That conflict opened the
door to the Bolshevik Revolution,
which in turn helped pave the way
for the Third Reich, a state that
was both reaction against and
imitation of the Soviet Union.
#ad#The Führer who,
contemplating the Holocaust,
once asked “who now
remembers” the Armenian
genocide. would certainly have
noticed how quickly the
Holodomor was allowed to vanish
down the memory hole.
In some ways it is still there. That
the Stalinist regime was guilty of
what any reasonable person would
describe as genocide has been
beyond dispute for decades. Yet
somehow there has been a
hesitation about branding the
Soviet state with the worst of the
marks of Cain, a hesitation that
still resonates -- in politics, in
diplomacy, and in high culture
and low. Would there have been
quite such an uproar if fashion
designer John Galliano had said
that he “loved” Stalin rather than
Hitler?
In Stalin’s Genocides, Professor
Naimark recounts how the
definition of genocide was diluted
before being enshrined in the
1948 United Nations convention.
At the insistence of the Soviets --
and others -- the destruction of
specific social and political
groups was excluded. It was a
distinction rooted neither in logic
nor in morality, but it worked its
sinister magic. Sparing Stalin, and
by extension the state that he
spawned, from the taint of
genocide allowed the USSR to
maintain some sort of hold over
the radiant future that -- against
all the evidence -- it still claimed
to be building, that radiant future
that has proved such a handy alibi
for all the Hobsbawms and, even,
for their successors today. It
helped ensure that Mao’s famine
too was largely passed over in
silence. It still enables Russia to
avoid the hard truths of its own
history, an evasion that poisons its
politics both at home and abroad.
Sadly, it’s no surprise that the
new pro-Moscow government in
Ukraine has been playing down
the genocidal nature of the
Holodomor.
Since the Balkan wars, the
87
jurisprudence of genocide has, as
Professor Naimark shows,
evolved to the point at which
there could be no serious legal
doubt that the architects of Soviet
mass murder would, if hauled
before a court today, receive the
judgment they deserve.
Prosecutions for the Soviet
genocides have, however, been
pitifully few and confined to the
liberated Baltic states. Thus, in
May 2008, one Arnold Meri was
tried for his role in the deportation
of 251 Estonians almost sixty
years before. He died before a
verdict could be reached. Not long
later Dmitri Medvedev awarded
Meri a posthumous medal for his
wartime service.
And if you want just one reason
why these books by Professors
Snyder and Naimark are so
important, that’s not a bad place
to start. Hobsbawm you can junk.
— Andrew Stuttaford is a
contributing editor of National
Review Online. Andrew
Stuttaford
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Foreign Policy Failures and Fumbles continued from page 85

communicated it to the American

Alan W. Dowd (FrontPage failing to recognize the threat people. Here are just some of the
Magazine » FrontPage) posed by Manning and other latter fundamental questions the
Submitted at 3/17/2011 11:45:16 PM -day anarchists to the American Administration has failed to
people. answer as our military stands on
Two recent speeches by Speaking of the ridiculous and the brink of a new and costly
administration officials—one by counterproductive, the president’s commitment:
State Department spokesman P.J. statements on Libya make him • So far, the only firm
Crowley and the other by sound more like the executive commitments are a naval
President Obama himself—speak director of a D.C. think tank than blockade, AWACS for air traffic
volumes about what’s wrong with the man in charge of U.S. foreign control, and signal-jamming
the Obama team’s approach to policy, let alone the commander- aircraft. U.S. officials said that it
issues related to foreign policy in-chief of the U.S. armed forces. would probably take several days
and national security. “We’ve organized,” the president for a full operation to be
First, let’s consider Crowley, informed us late last week, “a undertaken and that President
who called the Pentagon’s series of conversations about a Obama had not yet approved the
handling of Private Bradley wide range of options that we can use of U.S. military assets. Will
Manning, who illegally shared take.” It really does sound a lot he? Will the U.S. be using
diplomatic and military secrets like some symposium at RAND, military force against Libya?
with WikiLeaks, “ridiculous and Brookings or AEI. • If establishing a no-fly zone in
counterproductive and stupid.” information on U.S. military ups of missile attacks in Yemen, Reasonable, thoughtful people Libya is so vital to U.S. national
Crowley has since resigned, and equipment, by unit, in Iraq; gun- and support among Arab leaders can disagree about the merit of security, why did the
rightly so. c a m e r a f o o t a g e o f a U . S . to strike Iran. intervening in Libya’s civil war. Administration waste a week
While serving in Iraq, Manning helicopter attack in Baghdad; a Manning calls it “worldwide Civil wars are grey areas when it getting approval from the U.N.?
downloaded classified videos, U.S. Special Forces manual for anarchy in CSV format,” a comes to the use of U.S. force. • Imposing a no-fly zone entails
thousands of battlefield reports bolstering unpopular allied reference to the kind of files he The country has intervened in substantial costs for U.S. armed
and 251,287 diplomatic cables. “I governments; CIA strategies to surrendered to WikiLeaks. some that it shouldn’t have and forces and risks diverting scarce
listened and lip-synched to Lady shore up public support among As a result, Manning is now in not intervened in others that it U.S. military and intelligence
Gaga,” he bragged in a text allied populations for the war in custody at the Quantico Marine probably should have. assets. Will the vital missions in
exchange, “while exfiltrating Afghanistan; and, most notably, Corps Base in Virginia, faces 52 What’s less debatable is the Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, and the
possibly the largest data spillage private and often-embarrassing years in prison and is under 24- importance of what a president Horn of Africa suffer?
in American history.” diplomatic profiles about foreign hour monitoring for fear that he says and how he says it. When the • Are the rebels free of terrorist
This wasn’t a “spillage.” It was heads of state. In addition, as could harm himself. right person is behind it, when the elements, and what precautions
an intentional, premeditated USAToday reports, WikiLeaks It’s difficult to understand what is right words are spoken, the bully will we require them to take to
breach. What did Manning hand has exposed U.S. efforts to “ridiculous and counterproductive pulpit can be a powerful tool of ensure that weapons we supply
over? We don’t know exactly, but remove nuclear materials from and stupid” about the military’s A m e r i c a n f o r e i g n p o l i c y . are not sold or diverted to other
the WikiLeaks website proudly Pakistan, State Department plans treatment of this criminal. What Regrettably, President Obama has groups?
proclaims that it has published to use diplomatic personnel as would Crowley recommend? yet to grasp this in relation to the • Will we rule out supplying arms
operations manuals for the spies, quid-pro-quos offered by Group therapy? An honorable anti-authoritarian revolutions (“Stinger” anti-aircraft missiles,
detention facility at Guantanamo the Obama administration to discharge? A ticker-tape parade? roiling the Arab world. for example) that could pose a
Bay; classified reports on the persuade foreign governments to What’s really “ridiculous and potent threat to U.S. forces if they
prison in Fallujah, Iraq, and on the take on Gitmo detainees, cover- counterproductive and stupid” is end up in the hands of terrorists?
Battle of Fallujah; detailed
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Finally – Action Against Libya
Rick Moran (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage)
Submitted at 3/17/2011 11:50:23 PM
After a month of merciless
slaughter carried out by
Muammar Gaddafi against his
own people, the United Nations
Security Council has finally
bestirred itself and passed a
resolution authorizing a no-fly
zone over Libya and air strikes to
assist the rebels in toppling the
dictator. The resolution also
authorizes all military actions
“short of a ground assault” to help
the opposition bring down
Gaddafi. Some are questioning,
however, whether this maneuver
is too little, too late, and whether
U.S. leadership would have made
the difference.
Less than a week ago, the White
House was resisting an Anglo-
French proposal for a no-fly zone
and fought against including one
in a previous Security Council
resolution. Defense Secretary
Gates was strongly opposed and
the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff questioned the necessity
for one.
Few in the administration
appeared to have the stomach for
any kind of intervention – at least
any kind that would be decisive.
The exception was Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton who had
been quietly lobbying the White
House for the U.S. to come out
from behind the skirts of the
United Nations and assert its
traditional role as leader in a
world crisis.
Instead, the Obama
administration deferred to
President Sarkozy of France,
whose government almost
immediately recognized the
Libyan opposition government
while working with Great Britain
to organize the G-8 to supply
some assistance to the rebels.
Chancellor Merkel’s Germany
squashed that idea (with the
assistance of Russia), but it was
clear to anyone who cared to
notice that France, not the United
States, had taken the lead in
organizing the international
community against Gaddafi.
At a contentious G-8 meeting on
Monday in Paris, Clinton was
reduced to a sideline observer as
diplomats tried to hash out a
course of action on Libya.
Repeated urgings from
participants for a stronger U.S.
response in the near term was met
with silence from the U.S.
Secretary of State. One diplomat
told Foreign Policy
Magazine,“Frankly we are just
completely puzzled,” the diplomat
said. “We are wondering if this is
a priority for the United States.”
Later, in a private meeting with
President Sarkozy, Mrs. Clinton
could only say repeatedly that
“there are difficulties,” when
queried about a stronger U.S.
response. It is unclear whether she
was referring to difficulties
caused by Russia at the UN or
difficulties at the White House
with getting Obama to make a
decision.
Indeed, a Clinton “insider” told
Joshua Hersh of The Daily that
Mrs. Clinton was “fed up” with “a
president who couldn’t make up
his mind,” and was looking for a
way out. Clinton told Wolf Blitzer
that she had no desire to serve in a
second Obama administration, nor
did she express interest in running
for president again. The source
described to Hersh the Obama
foreign policy shop, saying, “It’s
amateur night,” and that Clinton
had grown tired of the
administration’s waffling. She had
opened the State Department to
the former staff at the Libyan
embassy, giving them an office
and worked hard to get the Arab
League to back the no-fly zone.
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Long Live
Wealth and
Innovation
Diane Katz (The Foundry:
Conservative Policy News.)
Submitted at 3/18/2011 10:00:17 AM
The Obama Administration
attempts to justify its
unprecedented torrent of
regulation as necessary to protect
Americans’ health and welfare.
But new data on U.S. life
expectancy certainly belie
regulators’ seemingly incessant
assertions that America is unfit
for man and beast.
Life expectancy at birth increased
to a whopping 78.2 years in 2009,
up two-tenths of a year from
2008—and a mere 49.2 in 1900,
according to the report issued on
Wednesday by the Centers for
Disease Control. Women outlive
men 80.6 years to 75.7, on
average, although the gap has
generally decreased since its peak
of 7.8 years in 1979.
From a statistical standpoint, life
expectancy represents fewer
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The Jasmine Revolution Comes to continued from page 88

Until these questions are government union contracts.

Asia answered, it is impossible to

endorse proposals for the use of
force based solely on a U.N.
• The House approved legislation
yesterday that would block federal
funding from reaching NPR.
Ryan Mauro (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage) resolution. Circumstances could • According to Gallup, union
change. The use of military force workers are less happy at work
Submitted at 3/17/2011 11:40:02 PM
in Libya could be justified. But than their non-union counterparts
The Jasmine Revolution and its what is of great concern here is and are also more likely to
aftereffects are usually thought of the fog of confusion the Obama consider their supervisors to be
as a regional phenomenon Administration is emitting on bosses rather than partners and
confined to the Middle East but Libya. After the U.N. resolution less likely to say that their
such a picture is incomplete. passed, France said that military supervisors create a trusting and
Barely noticed clashes have strikes could come“within hours.” open work environment.
erupted in North Korea, calls for They haven’t. What did come was • Senator Rand Paul (R–KY)
revolution are been voiced in the heavy bombardment of the introduced legislation yesterday
Vietnam and the Chinese rebel held town of Mistrata by that would balance the budget in
government is scrambling to stop loyalist forces. President Obama five years and eliminate the
protests that have been planned should be working hard to Departments of Education,
for every Sunday. identify a legitimate opposition to Energy, Commerce, and Housing
The North Korean government Qaddafi that is not Islamist and and Urban Development.
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infant deaths and the increased
longevity of seniors. Today, the
average 65-year-old woman in the
United States can expect to live an
additional 20 years, and her male
counterpart can look forward to
another 17 years.
The infant mortality rate for 2009
(preliminary) was 6.42 infant
deaths per 1,000 live births, a
decrease of 2.6 percent from
2008.
Contrary to claims that only
government can save us,
Americans are living longer
because of stunning scientific and
technological progress. The
advent of modern
pharmaceuticals, diagnostic tools,
and vaccines, as well as
chlorination, insecticides, and
refrigeration, has dramatically
reduced the risks of dying.
Indeed, the overall age-adjusted
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death rate reached a record low of
741 per 100,000 people in 2009,
some 2.3 percent lower than the
prior year. This marks the 10th
year in a row that U.S. death rates
have declined.
Moreover, deaths from 10 of the
15 leading causes declined
“significantly” in 2009, according
to the CDC: heart disease
(declined 3.7 percent); cancer (1.1
percent); chronic lower
respiratory diseases (4.1 percent);
stroke (4.2 percent); accidents/
unintentional injuries (4.1
percent); Alzheimer’s disease (4.1
percent); diabetes (4.1 percent);
influenza and pneumonia (4.7
percent); septicemia (1.8 percent);
and, homicide (6.8 percent).
Evidence abounds that improved
living standards are both a cause
and consequence of societal
wealth. Higher incomes increase
access to goods and services that
promote robust health. In turn,
healthier people are more
productive and innovative,
generating even more wealth.
These are facts the President and
his band of regulators would do
well to remember before crafting
yet more killer dictates.
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through the Dutch city to the
triangular plaza near the
courthouse, holding posters of
their relatives who had fallen
victim. Parked there was the
bombed-out shell of the No. 19
bus in which eleven people were
killed in Jerusalem. The Israeli
paramedics read out the names of
the dead. Widows read letters
about their dead husbands. A
father brought a bullet to The
Hague. He had found it under a
pile of toys in the corner of the
bedroom where his two sons
huddled with their mother while a
terrorist shot all three to death.
LOPEZ: About evil?
MEOTTI: During the intifada,
when in Jerusalem a bus exploded
almost daily, people went on
living their lives -- going to the
movies, to school, to the
supermarket, even if every corner
of the city had been blown up and
almost everyone had a family
member or a dear friend who had
been killed or wounded. But what
keeps the Jewish people together,
what makes it live and renders it
also capable of relating to others,
is a moral choice. The choice of
life over evil and death.
LOPEZ: About love?
MEOTTI: Judaism believes in a
happy conclusion to creation,
represented by the coming of the
Messiah. It’s amazing to see how
much love, faith, hope, and sense
of freedom the families wounded
by terrorism are still able to show
to the world. Many of the people
in the book had new families after
losing their spouse and children in
the attacks. The survivors were
able to rebuild; they married again
and had more babies. These are
real moral heroes, normal people
shedding light in a world that is
becoming darker. Israel is a
lighthouse of life, and life is the
most endangered value of our
times. Interview
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Weibo.
Mark Zuckerberg may have come
to China, but Facebook is unlikely
to enter anytime soon. Neither
Facebook nor the Chinese
government are interested in a
messy compromise on freedom of
expression (all Chinese networks
are censored), especially after the
Facebook-fueled revolutions in
Tunisia and Egypt.
Instead, China’s social media
scene is different from anywhere
else: Four homegrown networks
are vying for the mass market.
Renren, a faithful copy of
Facebook, is China’s leader and is
planning for an IPO soon. In
addition to its nickname-based
network ( Qzone), internet
giant Tencent is at long last
awakening to real-name social
with its new network, Pengyou.
Finally, Kaixin001 is dying, stuck
between the decline of its social
games and rise of Sina Weibo
(China’s Twitter).
In addition to the top four, China
also has a “long tail” of social
networks that are more
specialized — just for children,
gamers or lovers. Here, we take a
deeper look at those top four
networks and what makes them
tick.
Renren: The Leader
Renren is like a miniature
Facebook with a mean streak and
a quest for monetization. One year
ago, Renren was concerned that
Kaixin001 might overtake it.
Kaixin001 attracted a white collar
audience before Renren had fully
expanded out from its on-campus
origins (like Facebook, Renren
started at its nation’s elite
universities). But Renren has
since left the slower Kaixin001 in
the dust and is now China’s leader
in real-name social networking
(even though Tencent’s Qzone
has far more users overall).
As one social network operator
(who asked to remain anonymous)
described it, “Renren is all about
business. Kaixin001 has a tech
founder [Cheng Binghao] who
wants to do more than just
copy.” Kaixin001 was reportedly
offered the domain name
Kaixin.com for 500,000 yuan
(about $75,000), but the Binghao
passed. The consummate
businessman Chen Yizhou,
chairman of Oak Pacific
Interactive (OPI is Renren’s
umbrella group), jumped at the
opportunity. OPI set up an exact
clone of Kaixin001 at
Kaixin.com. That cutthroat tactic
was a masterstroke.
Anything Facebook
releases, Renren immediately
copies: Connect, Like, Places,
Groups, etc. To be fair, a few
features are localized: brand
advertising, a game layer and
emoticons.
Renren is strong when it comes
to monetization. Brand campaigns
are sold to companies at high
prices. Fan pages, while free on
Facebook, start at 600,000 yuan
(about $90,000). That said,
Renren’s fan pages are like mini-
sites, such as the example from
Nike above. Targeting is used
only sparingly and the “long tail”
of small, local advertisers has yet
to arrive in China.
The umbrella group, Oak Pacific
Interactive, is building an empire
on top of Renren. Renren users
are channeled toward Oak Pacific
Games (gaming is the traditional
cash cow for China’s Internet)
and now Nuomi, one of China’s
top Groupon clones. OPI is far
more aggressive than Facebook in
terms of monetization.
Renren has the most open third-
party ecosystem of any social
network, but unlike Facebook, it
has been unable to effectively
monetize social games. One of its
competitors is now opening up to
third-party developers. That could
be a point of weakness for
Renren.
User experience cannot suffer too
badly during Renren’s aggressive
monetization and IPO focus in
2011. Renren’s social graph is
strong and it executes faster and
better than any of its competitors,
but it’s still nowhere near as
dominant as Facebook is in the
West. Tencent: The Sleeping
Giant Awakens with Pengyou
Tencent should own real-name
social networking in China, but
has instead been sleeping on the
opportunity until now. Tencent
has similarities to AOL, circa
1998. Its walled garden is the
Internet for many Chinese,
particularly in second- and third-
tier cities. QQ, its
dominant instant messenger,
claims 637 million active
accounts, a flood of users that it
can direct at any service or
content it cares to.
Moreover, Tencent monetizes
much better than AOL was ever
able to via games and virtual
goods.
But Tencent struggles among
sophisticated netizens (though
most still use QQ Messenger) and
is playing catch-up in real-name
social. Tencent’s most popular
social network, Qzone, claims 492
million active users. It’s unclear
just how active those users are
though; many profiles are simply
skeletons. And just like on QQ,
many users go by a nickname
rather a real name. Users are
younger and from comparatively
more rural areas of China, making
it less attractive to advertisers.
Benjamin Joffe, Tencent expert
and CEO of Internet market
research firm+8*, states, ”Tencent
is definitely not the best in terms
of products or innovation —
similar to Zynga in that sense —
but their ability to deliver a ‘good
enough’ mass market service and
integrating it within their
ecosystem is impressive.”
On January 6, 2011, Xiaoyou’s
users were just merged into a new
social network, Pengyou (friends),
which is finally Tencent’s attempt
to reach the entire population of
Chinese social networkers.
With Pengyou, Tencent is
pushing into real-name social and
taking a step toward becoming a
more open and mature firm. The
network has an open platform
with about 90 applications and
games – a step forward for the
notoriously closed Tencent.
But ”open” still has limits in
China. “The problem with the
Chinese market is that the social
networks are game developers
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themselves. There is a conflict of
interest. If your games are
popular, they’re not only not
helping you but even put pressure
to squeeze you out,” says Liu
Yong, the CEO of social games
firm Rekoo. Rekoo is based in
Beijing, but focuses on the
Japanese market.
But Tencent can use QQ
Messenger to direct near limitless
traffic to its own offerings. On the
downside, it’s difficult to
persuade China’s sophisticated
netizens to “trade down” for a
service with a less urbane user
base. That’s the reason why
Pengyou is Tencent’s first major
product that is not branded with
the cute and youth-friendly QQ
penguin.
The sleeping giant is awakening
from its slumber, though it still
has a long way to go in real-name
social. 2011 should be a decisive
year in the Pengyou (friends) vs.
Renren (everyone) showdown.
Kaixin001: In Troubled Waters
In 2008 and 2009, Kaixin001
gained a widespread following
among white collar office workers
in top tier cities and threatened to
become China’s leading real-
name social network. But it’s now
in trouble.
Kaixin001s meteoric ascent was
fueled by two factors: 1) social
games, and 2) a content
forwarding feature, where users
share the hottest news, jokes or
celebrity gossip, with comments
attached.
These two attractions have since
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lost appeal. Social games have
dropped in popularity, and post
forwarding — quick updates on
the hottest news — is now
provided in a purer form by Sina
Weibo, China’s popular micro-
blogging service. The other
opportunity they missed is group
buying. Kaixin001 had a huge
amount of white collar users,
which is the perfect match for a
group buying service.
Because Kaixin001 is still
popular in tier one cities like
Shanghai and Beijing, foreigners
in China often have a warped
perception of the network’s
nationwide popularity. In reality,
Kaixin001 does not have much
traction elsewhere, nor does it
have the funds or network — like
Tencent (Pengyou) and Oak
Pacific Interactive (Renren) — to
push into China’s “lesser-tier”
cities.
All the tech insiders I’ve spoken
with tell of a site in decline. One
post on Zhihu(China’s Quora
clone) estimates that Kaixin001s
acquisition value has fallen from
500 million to 50 million ($75
million to $7.5 million).
Kaixin001s Binghao has
expressed his ambition to join the
rush of China tech IPOs, but that
seems highly unlikely.
These setbacks will test the true
strength of Kaixin001s social
graph. But not all news is bad.
The network does still command a
large, high-value audience, and it
has strong ties to the Sina
Corporation, so being acquired is
a possibility (Sina holds a stake in
Kaixin001 and Binghao is a
former Sina CTO). Sina Weibo:
China’s Red-Hot Microblogging
Service
Sina Weibo is a microblog
that far surpasses Twitter in
functionality (threaded comments,
groups, audio messages and direct
video uploads). And it is hot in
China right now. Sina Weibo has
more than 100 million registered
users, expects to keep growing
rapidly, and perhaps even exceeds
Twitter in active users. This
explosive growth has brought the
value of the network up to an
estimated$2 billion.
Yu Jin, analyst at China
International Capital Corporation,
writes: “Microblog services
became popular at the end of 2009
as [they] match the needs of
Chinese Internet users. They have
acquired users at an astonishing
speed, to some extent at the
expense of SNS websites.”
Sina, also the owner of China’s
largest portal site, has lofty
ambitions for Weibo that
could compete with traditional
social networks. It’s constantly
experimenting with new features
and already seems to have stolen
away much of Kainxin001s
audience. You don’t understand
China social if you
don’t understand Sina Weibo. The
Next Tier of Networks
In China, the difference among
the “top four” social networks and
the next tier is not as vast as the
gulf in the U.S. between
Facebook and “the rest.” Notably,
51.com and Douban are two mid-
sized networks that are neither
mass-market nor niche.
51.com started strong with
backing from Sequoia and Giant
Interactive and an audience of
users in rural areas but now has
no chance of conquering the mass
market. Social networks often
operate on an elite spread basis:
You can move down the “social
ladder” but not up. It’s no
accident that Facebook started at
Harvard and Renren started at
China’s elite Tsinghua University.
Although 51.com has dropped off
from the top ranks since last year,
it still claims to have 40 million
monthly active users. But Chinese
tech news site DoNews reports
that its peak user base is down
from 11 million to 700,000, a big
flameout for a site that once had
intentions for an IPO.
Douban, an urban network built
around fan groups for books,
music and movies, has 20 million
active users. Douban has a highly
engaged and participatory user
base, making it worth watching.
In addition, there are countless
additional Chinese social
networks for dating, business, and
any other community you can
imagine.
Despite government regulations
that make the Internet an “
invisible birdcage,” Chinese
social networks have just enough
space to fly. The social media
space is diverse and thriving, with
Renren, Qzone, Pengyou and
Kaixin001 leading the pack. Just
don’t attempt to directly port your
“global” Facebook strategy here.
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Japanese Power
Company Creates
Twitter Account for
Nuclear Plant Updates
Emily Banks (Mashable!)
Submitted at 3/18/2011 10:11:11 AM
Tokyo Electric Power Company
(TEPCO) has created a Twitter
account for its nuclear power
plants that were damaged by the
March 11 earthquake and
tsunami.
The account has amassed almost
190,000 followers in less than a
day. And so far, TEPCO has sent
seven tweets, all in Japanese.
The damage to nuclear plants has
been a major point of concern, as
radiation leaks and the threat of a
major nuclear meltdown looms.
The Twitter feed will be another
way to keep Japanese residents,
and the rest of the world,
informed about the plants.
TEPCO says it will use the
Twitter account to notify people
of power blackouts and radiation
leaks. The first tweet warned of
blackouts in Tokyo, if electricity
use wasn’t reduced, according to
AFP. The power company has
imposed rolling, three-hour-long
blackouts as it attempts to balance
electric supply and demand.
JAPANESE page 94
94 Social Media/
Photo App Faceoff: Lenses, Tilt-
Shift, Collections & HipstaPaks
Jennifer Van Grove (Mashable!)
Submitted at 3/18/2011 7:56:06 AM
The SXSW Faceoff Series is
supported by Pepsi MAX. Come
check out the Pepsi MAX Lot at
3rd Street and San Jacinto
Boulevard! Follow@PepsiMAX
on Twitter for the daily schedule
of huge concerts, happy hours,
BBQs, games and giveaways!
And, well, lots of free soda.
Between Instagram, Picplz,
Hipstamatic and Path, mobile
users have a smattering of options
when it comes to sharing stylized
photos. Each competitor brings
something slightly different to the
table, but all are paparazzi-intent
on attracting mass attention via
the crowds at South by Southwest.
Picplz, the only application of the
bunch that caters to the Android
crowd, wisely added collections,
or playlists for photos, to its
service before the festival got
underway. The smart maneuver
was especially appropriate for
SXSW as Picplz users can now
team up to curate their favorite
photos from the show.
On March 11, the kick-off of the
Interactive portion of the show,
Instagram gave its newsfeed a
sexy makeover. Photo effects
JAPANESE
continued from page 93
Social media has played a vital
role in the aftermath of the
earthquake and tsunami. People
have used social media sites to
but the fledgling mobile photo
find loved ones, and Japan’s
sharing genre still needs time to
prime minister created an English-
mature and so too do the apps
language Twitter account earlier
competing for consumer attention.
this week, too.
Mashable readers, what say you?
Here’s a roundup of our coverage
Which photo sharing app will win
aficionados will get an even the mobile photo sharing war? of social media and technology as
bigger rise out of the new Tilt- What Photo Sharing App Will it relates to the events in Japan,
Shift Effect. The effect lets app Win SXSW? survey software and ways you can help:
users add focus to their photos Series Supported by Pepsi MAX • Twitter Users React To Massive
and is unbelievably impressive in The SXSW Faceoff Series is Quake, Tsunami In Japan
action. • Google Responds to the Japan
supported by Pepsi MAX. Come
Path’s version 1.5 release— a check out the Pepsi MAX Lot at Earthquake With an Online Crisis
significant upgrade — finally hit 3rd Street and San Jacinto Center
the app store Wednesday, just in Boulevard! Follow@PepsiMAX • Watch: YouTube Footage of
time for the Music portion of the on Twitter for the daily schedule Japan Quake [VIDEOS]
festival. The new Facebook of huge concerts, happy hours, • HOW TO: Follow the Japan
sharing options and photo and BBQs, games and giveaways! Earthquake Online
video lenses make Path infinitely And, well, lots of free soda. • The ‘Godzilla’ Incident: Did
more compelling. Could this be Twitter Users Gang Up on CNN
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SXSW: a free SXSW HipstaPak • Follow Mashable Startups on • Help Japan: Facebook Click
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contenders, which one will deliver Android, Mac, iPhone and iPad • Japan Earthquake & Tsunami: 7
the knockout punch? Instagram Simple Ways to Help
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Victims With Loved Ones
• Japan Tech Shortage: Who’s
Affected?
• Gilbert Gottfried Fired Over
Japan Jokes on Twitter
• Apple Delays iPad 2 Launch in
Japan
• U.S. Military Blocks 13 Popular
Websites on Its Network in Japan
• Japan’s Prime Minister
Launches English-Language
Twitter Account for Quake
Updates
• LivingSocial’s Newest Deal:
Matching Donations for Japan
Earthquake & Tsunami Relief
• Toshiba, Hitachi Halt LCD
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Toshiba, Hitachi Halt LCD
Production in Japan
Stan Schroeder (Mashable!)
Submitted at 3/18/2011 9:42:46 AM
Due to damage from the
devastating earthquake in Japan,
Toshiba has been forced to close
down its LCD assembly line at a
plant near Tokyo for a month, a
Toshiba spokeswoman said on
Thursday.
Another LCD maker, Hitachi, has
also been forced to halt
production at one of its factories,
and Sony and Panasonic have also
suspended operations at several of
their plants.
The negative impact of these
disruptions on Japan’s economy is
obvious, but it’s hard to tell how
they will affect global LCD
supply, as Panasonic plans to
offset the damage by increasing
production in other factories,
while Hitachi might get help from
Taiwan-based Chimei Innolux
Corp.
Some analysts think that
smartphone shortages are still a
possibility, though. “Given that
the market for smartphones
outside Japan is pretty active,
supply disruptions there could
cause problems for some handset
makers of some models,” said
Damian Thong, an analyst at
Macquarie Capital Securities in
Japan.
It’s too early to point to specific
smartphone models, but the
earthquake in Japan might soon
start affecting us all in the way of
“out of stock” signs.
[via Reuters]
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Obama Re-election
Donors Urged to Raise
$350,000 Each in 2011
Politics Daily Staff (Politics not just big donors but a hugely
Daily) successful Internet drive that
Submitted at 3/18/2011 8:08:00 AM brought in much smaller
donations from first-time
A group of 450 Democratic contributors enthused by the
donors have been asked to raise I l l i n o i s s e n a t o r ' s h i s t o r i c
$350,000 each this year as part of c a m p a i g n .
President Obama's re-election With a similar grassroots effort
campaign. If successful, the effort planned once more and that elite
would amass $157 million in group of 450 expected to be asked
2011 alone, more than double for even greater output in 2012,
what that same group generated Obama could raise upward of $1
four years earlier. billion for his re-election, CNN
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Economic Issues Underpin Obama's Trip to
Brazil, Chile, El Salvador
Politics Daily Staff (Politics
Daily)
Submitted at 3/18/2011 10:02:00 AM
While still focused on the crises
in Japan and Libya, President
Obama heads to Latin America
this weekend in an effort to
promote economic ties and also
patch up relations with Brazil, the
dominant country in the region.
Obama will also visit Chile, an
ally, and El Salvador, which is
struggling with drug violence. But
the main event is Brazil, where
former President Luiz Inacio Lula
da Silva once complained that the
U.S. acted like an "empire" and
that nothing had changed under
Obama, the Washington Post
reported.
Obama, in his first visit to Latin
America as president, will meet
with Brazil's new president,
Dilma Rousseff, as the two
leaders seek to re-set relations
between their countries. Both
sides are ready to start over, Julia
Sweig, a Council on Foreign
Relations scholar, told the Post.
"Now they have to translate that
optimism and goodwill to figure
out what they can do together
that's in both of their interests and
how to mitigate the tensions that
will naturally arise."
Obama said his trip is meant to
"strengthen our economic
relationship with neighbors" who
play a growing role in the United
States' economic future. The
recent "turmoil and tragedy
around the globe" underscores the
importance of maintaining close
economic links with neighboring
countries, he said.
"Our neighbors in the Americas
are bound to us by a shared
history, values, interest," the
president wrote in an op-ed
column for USA Today. "What I
will convey this week is that we
Newstablet Edition
Donald Trump Has
'Doubt' That Obama
Was Born in the U.S.
Politics Daily Staff (Politics
more than 2 million jobs here in Daily)
the United States."
Submitted at 3/18/2011 8:58:00 AM
First Lady Michelle Obama will
also have a busy schedule during Donald Trump, who says he's
the trip, highlighted by visits to weighing a run for president next
schools and cultural events, and a year, waded into the "birther"
speech she will give in Santiago, controversy this week, telling
Chile, aimed at Latin American ABC's"Good Morning America"
youth, Politico reported. "She is that he has "a little doubt" that
extraordinarily popular overseas Barack Obama was born in the
and is a huge asset to the U.S. in United States.
terms of her ability to continue The reason? Trump said he finds
our outreach to the region," it strange that "nobody knew"
Deputy National Security Adviser Obama as a young child in
Ben Rhodes said earlier this week. Hawaii.
In preparation for the trip, the "Let me tell you . . . if I got the
a r e p a r t n e r s i n p r o g r e s s . president granted interviews
nomination, if I decide to run, you
Strengthening these partnerships Friday with televisions stations in
may go back and interview people
will advance common prosperity M i a m i , P h i l a d e l p h i a a n d
from my kindergarten. They'll
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certification of live birth showing
our trade agreements across the Guardian's Economics Editor.
he was born in Honolulu, and
region, we now export three times
Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie
as much to Latin America as we
has said he was a friend of
do to China, and our exports to
Obama's parents and remembers
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placated birthers.
On other matters, the always
outspoken Trump didn't hold
back.
DONALD page 97
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DONALD
continued from page 96
- On his intentions to run for
president: "I have never been so
serious as I am now." (After the
interview, reporter Ashleigh
Banfield said Trump told her that
he would consider running as an
independent if he didn't win the
GOP nomination.)
- On his willingness to spend
$600 million of his own money on
a campaign: "Part of the beauty of
me is that I'm very rich."
- On the turmoil in Libya: He
called for a "surgical strike" to
take out Moammar Gadhafi.
- On Somali pirates: "Give me an
admiral and a couple ships. I
would wipe them out of the sea so
fast."
- On China: "While we spend
billions of dollars a week on being
policeman for the world, China is
spending billions a day taking
Steampunk USB cufflinks are as awesome as they are pricey
Vlad Savov (Engadget)
Submitted at 3/18/2011 10:27:00 AM
You wouldn't think something
classifiable as "wearable storage"
would look so darn dapper, but
here we are, staring at just about
the finest cufflinks we ever did
see. Not only are these handmade
shirt cuffs beautiful in the most
steampunk of ways, they're also
over the world economically.
That's not a good formula for us."
- On Charlie Sheen: "I know
Charlie Sheen . . . he's wonderful,
but he's a disaster."
Watch video of the interview
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pretty useful as each features an
8GB flash storage chip with the
utterly ubiquitous USB connector
attached. Basically, they're what
James Bond would wear if James
Bond wore really awesome
cufflinks. The general idea behind
them might not exactly be original
anymore, but we can't really fault
the execution here. What we
could probably find fault with is
Vimpelcom moves forward with $6
billion Wind Mobile merger, intends
to hurdle regulatory snags
Darren Murph (Engadget)
Submitted at 3/18/2011 11:19:00 AM
If you thought Verizon Wireless
and Alltel's marriage underwent a
good bit of scrutiny, you'll soon
be swearing that Vimpelcom and
Wind Mobile are on some sort of
global watch list. The Amsterdam
-based Vimpelcom has taken a
giant leap towards the completion
of a $6 billion merger with Wind
Telecom, the latter of which has
around 117 million subscribers
spread across Algeria,
Bangladesh, Egypt, Pakistan,
North Korea and Canada. If and
when the two link hands, the
combined effort will be home to a
staggering 173 million customers,
creating the fifth largest mobile
operator by subscriber count.
Wind Mobile's head honcho
our lack of $225 of disposable
coin, the price one will have to
pay to sport this unique pair of
Technology/ 97
CRTC took issue with Globalive
Wireless -- operator of Wind
Mobile -- starting up in Canada,
primarily due to the company's
largest lender (Orascom) residing
outside of the Great White North.
As of now, things seem to be
sailing right along, but you can
bet this marriage won't be
seems more than enthused about formally recognized before a
the news, and he's hoping that the borderline-obnoxious amount of
tie-up will allow prices to sink for investigating goes down behind
just about everyone involved. the scenes.
Claiming feats such as "more [Thanks, Kelvin]
a c c e s s t o i n t e r n a t i o n a l Vimpelcom moves forward with
cooperation for roaming and long $6 billion Wind Mobile merger,
distance services" and the ability intends to hurdle regulatory snags
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Flash 10.2 hits Android today, Adobe hopes for viewable 720p
playback in a matter of weeks
Sean Hollister (Engadget) First off, you don't absolutely trouble detecting finger taps when
Submitted at 3/18/2011 10:00:00 AM need a dual-core phone to take Flash isn't played full screen, but
advantage of Flash 10.2 -- Adobe which will -- Adobe hopes -- play
Today, Adobe Flash 10.2 will hit VP Danny Winokur told us, and exactly the same inside and
the Android Market for devices we confirmed in testing, that there outside the browser when work on
running Froyo, Gingerbread and a r e s l i g h t p e r f o r m a n c e Flash 10.2 is complete. Sounds
Honeycomb, and by now you're improvements on earlier devices promising, no? Then why not
probably familiar with what it too. With our trusty Droid 2's download it yourself and give it a
brings-- increased performance 1Ghz OMAP3 chip, we saw a go?
f o r d u a l - c o r e s m a r t p h o n e s slight but noticeable boost in Flash 10.2 hits Android today,
running Android 2.2 and Android f r a m e r a t e w h e n p l a y i n g a Adobe hopes for viewable 720p
2.3, and the promise of seriously YouTube trailer at 480p, which playback in a matter of weeks
sped-up Flash content and better admittedly only took took that originally appeared on Engadget
battery life for Android 3.0 tablets p a r t i c u l a r v i d e o f r o m on Fri, 18 Mar 2011 10:00:00
(not to mention Flash, period). "unwatchable" to merely "fairly EDT. Please see our terms for use
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10.2 for Android and quizzed the videos ran perfectly smooth, even acceleration -- it's actually turned playback to a really smooth,
company thoroughly about the as the tablet had trouble rendering off right now. Though the Tegra 2 enjoyable level." The other work-
release, and there's actually a 720p content as anything but a is natively decoding video, Adobe in-progress is Flash integration
surprise to be had today, and more series of images. However, Adobe told us that hardware rendering into Google's Honeycomb
coming soon. says even that will change soon, and compositing will be added in browser, which presently has

AT&T tells customers using unauthorized tethering methods

to pay up or stop
Donald Melanson (Engadget) unauthorized tethering, and it's simply be allowed to slip by customers using unauthorized
Submitted at 3/18/2011 10:52:00 AM asking folks engaged in such unnoticed. Exactly how AT&T is tethering methods to pay up or
behavior to either pay up for a identifying users isn't clear, stop
Been using an app like MyWi to proper tethering plan or simply however, and we could well just AT&T tells customers using
e n a b l e t e t h e r i n g o n y o u r stop tethering altogether -- if it be seeing the beginning of a cat unauthorized tethering methods to
jailbroken iPhone? Then there's a doesn't hear anything back for you and mouse game as folks try to pay up or stop originally appeared
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received a message like the one says it will automatically enroll undetected. More on this one as 10:52:00 EDT. Please see our
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