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Saturday, December 31, 2011
After deaths in Detroit, Backpage.com advertising comes under scrutiny
Several women found dead in Detroit over the weekend had profiles on Backpage.com, a website offering escort services. The website has received attention before for a potential connection to illegal activity.
Four women in Detroit were found dead in two car trunks Sunday. Their connection to a website offering escort services is reviving an ongoing debate about the right of online media outlets to host advertising that many say enables criminal activity.
Skip to next paragraphOn Tuesday, Detroit police officials said they were pursuing warrants for Internet and cellphone records linked to the women. Three had profiles on Backpage.com, a controversial free classified service owned by Village Voice Media, which operates 13 weekly newspapers across the United States.
Steve Suskin, an attorney for Village Voice Media, confirmed in a statement that the police investigation involves advertising on Backpage.com. Village Voice Media is cooperating with police, Mr. Suskin also said.
However, this is not the first time that Backpage.com has been scrutinized for a connection to illegal activity ? in particular, the sex trafficking of minors.
In August, 46 state attorneys general in the US sent Village Voice Media a letter requesting that it remove adult-services advertising from the website. ?While Backpage.com professes to have undertaken efforts to limit advertisements for prostitution on its website, particularly those soliciting sex with children, such efforts have proven ineffective,? the letter read.
The attorneys general report that, over three years, they tracked more than 50 instances of charges filed that involved the trafficking minors on the website.
A month after the letter was sent, a coalition of clergy published a full-page ad in The New York Times requesting that Village Voice Media remove such advertising to prevent ?compromising the lives of our nation?s boys and girls.?
Village Voice Media insists it has cooperated fully with law enforcement to prevent sex trafficking and says it is one of many sites that host adult advertising. The core of its argument is free speech: ?Neither government officials nor God?s advocates can dictate such arbitrary control of business or speech,? it said in a statement.
Websites like Backpage.com are protected under Section 230 of the federal Communications Decency Act of 1996, says Joe Obenberger, an attorney in Chicago who specializes in adult entertainment law. That act protects online operators from criminal wrongdoing even if the advertising they host promotes prostitution or other illegal acts, such as advertising under which housing discrimination is present.
In several instances, federal courts have upheld the law despite police concerns about safety. One notable example: an October 2009 decision in Chicago that struck down an attempt by Cook County Sheriff Thomas Dart to hold Craigslist responsible for 156 prostitution arrests linked to postings on that website.
The Internet, Mr. Obenberger says, is no different from the phone company or other telecommunications services in that it is not responsible for how people use the technology.
?If people were liable for all the bad things the Internet was used for, criminally or civilly, it would be foolhardy for people to invest [in it], and the Internet would not grow,? he says.
What protects online sites like Backpage.com is that ?for there to be a crime involving speech, there must be a close proximity between the speech and the criminal activity,? Obenberger says. Advertising for prostitution does not qualify under this standard, he says.
Backpage.com represents 30 to 35 percent of Village Voice Media?s annual revenue, reports The New York Times. The company benefited when Craigslist voluntarily removed its adult-services advertising in September 2010, after pressure from law-enforcement authorities.
According to the Advanced Interactive Media Group, which tracks interactive media and classified revenue, Backpage.com generated $2.1 million in revenue in November, a 16.7 percent increase from the same month one year prior. The website received 2.9 million unique visitors in November, an 11 percent jump from the previous year.
The website accounts for two-thirds of all prostitution advertising on the Web, according to Advanced Interactive Media, which defines prostitution advertising as that for escorts and body rubs.
Human rights advocates say that Village Voice Media has a responsibility to protect minors and that that their free-speech argument is not enough.
?If I tried to sell crack online through Backpage, the Village Voice would not stand up and say this is about the First Amendment,? Malika Saada Saar of the Rebecca Project for Human Rights in Washington told The Daily Beast in October. ?It?s convenient and politically easy for them to frame this as a free-speech issue, and it?s not.?
Others point out that online advertising creates records of transactions that can help law enforcement. The removal of such advertising might cause the trade to go underground, which would make it harder to protect vulnerable workers from coercion.
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Friday, December 30, 2011
Etta James condition better, taken off respirator (AP)
RIVERSIDE, Calif. ? Etta James' manager says the terminally ill blues singer is breathing on her own after being taken off a respirator.
Lupe De Leon says Friday that the change in her condition is great news and that the singer's blood pressure is normal.
De Leon says James was put on a respirator when she was hospitalized in Southern California on Dec. 21 because she was having trouble breathing.
James has been diagnosed with terminal leukemia and is suffering from dementia. She has been receiving mostly at-home care.
Earlier this month, a judge set aside $350,000 for her medical care.
James is best known for the hit "At Last."
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Bad economy puts Jamaica opposition back in power (Reuters)
KINGSTON (Reuters) ? Jamaica's main opposition party rode a wave of discontent with a bad economy to a big win at the polls on Thursday, in general elections that swept former Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller back into office.
Despite pre-election surveys predicting a close and hard-fought race, preliminary official results showed Simpson Miller's People's National Party, or PNP, winning roughly two-thirds of the parliamentary seats at stake.
"We have plenty of work ahead of us," Simpson Miller told supporters in a nationally televised address at a raucous late night victory rally outside her party's Kingston headquarters.
She pledged "growth and development with job creation" but also alluded to the Caribbean nation's huge debt burden and possible new austerity measures, as part of a $1.27 billion bailout agreement with the International Monetary Fund.
"We will hide nothing from you. When it is tough and rough we'll let you know," Simpson Miller said. "But I can also ensure you, as we move to balance the books, we will be moving to balance people's lives as well."
The election delivered what outgoing Prime Minister Andrew Holness described as a "humbling" defeat for the governing Jamaica Labour Party, or JLP. The 39-year-old former education minister had hoped to keep the JLP in power for a second consecutive term.
The country's youngest-ever prime minister, Holness took office in October after the party suffered a blow when his predecessor surprisingly resigned amid weak public backing.
Holness' predecessor, Bruce Golding, had been dogged by a long-brewing scandal over his handling of a U.S. request for the extradition of a notorious Jamaican gang leader who was associated with the JLP.
The scandal ended with the extradition to New York of long-time fugitive Christopher "Dudus" Coke, but only after a brutal police and military raid on a Kingston slum that left 76 people dead.
"The people of Jamaica have spoken," Holness said late on Thursday, after his party conceded defeat.
CHALLENGES AHEAD
"I wish the new government well," he said. "There are challenges that they will face, challenges that we are quite well aware of. And we hope for the benefit of the country and for the interest of the people of Jamaica that they will do a good job."
The center-right JLP is considered slightly more conservative than Simpson Miller's PNP, which narrowly lost a general election in 2007 after she briefly served as Jamaica's first female prime minister.
But there are no major ideological differences between the parties, and neither Simpson Miller nor Holness are considered charismatic or especially strong public speakers.
Simpson Miller had the PNP's well-oiled political machine behind her, however, and it appeared to work well in many of the island's low and middle-income communities.
"This is a great moment for me," said Desmond Barnes, a 29-year-old computer analyst in the capital Kingston.
"I voted for the PNP because our economy is in shambles and this is the only party that I believe can rebuild it," he said.
Despite the reggae-crazed island nation's past reputation for political bloodletting and vote tampering, there were no reports of any serious irregularities or violence on election day.
Voting proceeded at a glacial pace in some areas, however, and there were complaints about slow-working electronic voter identity machines at some polling places.
Analysts have said neither party would have much room to maneuver as it dealt with a public debt load totaling more than 120 percent of gross domestic product and unemployment that has risen to about 13 percent from just under 10 in 2007.
Simpson Miller did not spell out any belt-tightening or other economic measures in her long and sometimes rambling victory speech.
But she has vowed to appeal to the IMF to extend the period Jamaica has to repay any loans to give the Caribbean island more leeway to jump-start the economy.
Calling for "concertation" and "dialogue," the matronly prime minister-elect said she would work to "unearth the greatness that lives in every single Jamaican," from sun-drenched beach resorts to mountain villages and urban slums.
"To all business persons, from large investors to medium and small enterprises, to youth, to mother, to father and children, know you have a government now that you can trust," she said.
(Writing by Tom Brown; Editing by Paul Simao)
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Thursday, December 29, 2011
New "Hobbit" production video shows captures cast and crew (omg!)
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Welcome back to Hobbiton.
The fifth, 12-minute production video capturing the making of Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit," was posted Saturday on The Hobbit Blog, the official site for the two upcoming movies based on J.R.R. Tolkien's classic novel. The first film, "An Unexpected Journey," arrives in theaters December 14.
The new video captures Jackson and his crew on location throughout New Zealand. It sheds light on the logistics of location shooting and offers peeks at some of the scenic spots where filming is taking place.
"After 110 days in the studio, we finally make it out into the sunshine. It's weird when you come back to a place you literally thought you'd never see again," Jackson says as he surveys the reconstructed Hobbiton.
Elijah Wood also admires the village, recalling how his first trip there was 11 years ago, when he was 19 years old.
"There are so many feelings of nostalgia and history," he says.
The video also features appearances by "Lord of the Rings" franchise regulars Ian McKellen and Andy Serkis.
"I just wish I could move into one of these Hobbit holes," Jackson says toward the end. "This would be an absolutely idyllic place to live. This is the sort of place I would happily retire to."
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NBA Rumors: New York Knicks Shouldn't Wait for Kenyon Martin
The New York Knicks still have a $2.5 million exception to use, and one name that's been bantered about is long-time Denver Nuggets forward Kenyon Martin. Carmelo Anthony's former teammate can't sign until March, however, which means the Knicks should avoid making any promises.
Marc Berman of the New York Post reported that Anthony is pushing for Martin to get New York's final bargaining chip:
The source said Martin considers the Knicks his top choice, partly because of his friendship with Anthony. They became tight during their nearly seven seasons together in Denver. Martin could fill the role of another gritty big man off the bench with athleticism.
Martin signed a contract with the Xinjiang Flying Tigers during the NBA's lockout, but it didn't include an out clause to allow him an immediate return. So, he's barred from signing a new deal until his Chinese team's season is over.
Even though Martin wouldn't be a bad signing by the Knicks, he's not so valuable that they need to commit to him right now. A lot can change between now and March, especially considering the league's condensed schedule, and the front office doesn't want its hands tied.
The former first overall pick averaged just nine points and six rebounds in a career-low 26 minutes per game for the Nuggets last season. His play in China was also less than inspiring, but that may be due to his heart never being fully committed to his new gig. That said, the extra time off should ensure he's 100 percent for the stretch run and would provide some valuable depth up front.
The Knicks have been searching for another forward for quite some time despite guard seemingly being a bigger area of need.
Since the exception is the only thing the Knicks have to lure potential free agents to Madison Square Garden, they need to keep their options open should a more intriguing option become available. If March rolls around and they still haven't found anybody else worth pursuing, then it will be time to strongly consider Martin. If they were to make a verbal commitment now and a veteran shooting guard became available, it would put the team in an awkward position.
Should the Knicks commit their exception to Martin?
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Yes, he'll be worth the wait.
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No, keep their options open.
Should the Knicks commit their exception to Martin?
Should the Knicks assert themselves as contenders, and yesterday's win over the Boston Celtics was a good start, veterans will be literally lining up to join the team. That $2.5 million deal could turn into gold by March.
All told, Martin is a name to keep in mind, but the Knicks can survive without him should another target become interested in New York.
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Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Vikings expect Peterson back for start of 2012 (AP)
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. ? The athletic abilities of star running back Adrian Peterson led the Minnesota Vikings to give him a seven-year, $100 million contract extension before the season started.
Now, they hope his recuperative abilities are just as good and he is able to live up to being the highest-paid running back in the NFL.
Minnesota expects Peterson to be recovered from left knee surgery for two torn ligaments in time to start the 2012 season.
"We expect most people to recover from this injury in eight to nine months and instead of comparing Adrian to any other player at any level that's had an anterior cruciate ligament, and they happen every day, I would really like Adrian to stand on his own merit because Adrian, I feel, is very unique," Vikings head trainer Eric Sugarman said Monday.
"Adrian has a great work ethic. Adrian has the DNA to heal quickly, which he has shown in the past. He certainly will have the desire and the mental toughness to be able to get through the rehab process, which will take months and months, as you know. So, I think if anyone can get better quickly and safely in that time period, it would be Adrian Peterson."
Peterson tore his ACL and MCL when he was hit in the side of the knee by Washington Redskins safety DeJon Gomes in the third quarter of Saturday's 33-26 win at Washington. An MRI on Saturday evening revealed the ligament tears and meniscus damage, and Peterson will undergo surgery within the next seven to 10 days.
Backup Toby Gerhart, who started three games earlier this season when Peterson was out with a high ankle sprain, will start Sunday in the season-finale against the Chicago Bears. A second-round pick in 2010, Gerhart has filled in well for Peterson and notched the first 100-yard rushing game of his career with 109 yards on 11 carries Saturday. But the Vikings expect Gerhart's time as the starter to be short-lived.
"He sets his goals extremely high and he's one of those guys who, when he puts his mind to it, there's no reason to ever doubt that he can achieve what he sets his mind to," Minnesota coach Leslie Frazier said of Peterson. "We're looking forward to his attacking this rehab like he's attacked every offseason, to come back and play and be even better than he was before. I know with Eric and our medical staff, they're going to do everything they can to get him back on the field and ready to go when we line up in that first football game next season."
Gerhart's emergence over the past month at least offers optimism if Peterson has to miss extended time next season.
Gerhart has had the top three rushing days of his career in the past four weeks. On his first carry after Peterson left Saturday's game, Gerhart showed some big-play ability of his own, busting free for a 67-yard run, the longest of his short career.
Believing Peterson will be ready for the first game of 2012 and knowing Gerhart is available if needed, Frazier said the team wouldn't change its run-first offensive approach.
"One of things about Adrian's absence earlier in the season, we had a chance to get Toby some extended snaps and we really haven't altered the offense by any means," Frazier said. "Toby has done a very good job in Adrian's absence. Did a great job (Saturday) of stepping in and performing and rushing for over 100 yards. So we really haven't had to alter things. We really don't plan to. We look forward to eventually getting Adrian back on the field, but we don't think we have to really alter the offense."
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Conn. fire victim was Ky. company's safety chief
Yellow tape stretches across the driveway, Monday, Dec. 26, 2011, at the house where a fire left five people dead Christmas Day, in Stamford, Conn. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg)
Yellow tape stretches across the driveway, Monday, Dec. 26, 2011, at the house where a fire left five people dead Christmas Day, in Stamford, Conn. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg)
Rubble left after the demolition of a house where a fire left five people dead Christmas Day lies on the ground, Monday, Dec. 26, 2011, in Stamford, Conn. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg)
Firefighters are seen on the roof of a house where an early morning fire left five people dead Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011, in Stamford, Conn. Officials said the fire, which was reported shortly before 5 a.m., killed two adults and three children. Two others escaped. Their names have not been released. (AP Photo/Tina FIneberg)
Firefighters spray water on the roof of a house where an early morning fire left five people dead Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011, in Stamford, Conn. Officials said the fire, which was reported shortly before 5 a.m., killed two adults and three children. Two others escaped. Their names have not been released. (AP Photo/Tina FIneberg)
FILE - In this Aug. 25, 1998 file photo, Madonna Badger, president and creative director of what was then called Badger Worldwide Advertising, now Badger and Winters Group, poses in her New York office. Badger is the owner of a tony Connecticut home that burned in a blaze that killed five people on Christmas morning Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011. (AP Photo/Jim Cooper, File)
STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) ? A department store Santa Claus who died with his wife and three grandchildren in a Christmas morning house fire in Connecticut spent a long career trying to prevent danger as safety chief at a liquor company in Kentucky.
A day after fire engulfed his daughter's upscale house in Stamford, Lomer Johnson was remembered fondly as a stickler for safety by a former boss at Louisville, Ky.-based liquor maker Brown-Forman Corp., where Johnson retired from his job as safety and security director several years ago.
"He spent his career trying to keep others safe," retired Brown-Forman executive Robert Holmes Jr. said Monday in a telephone interview. "And the irony is that he dies in a fire."
The home's owner, New York advertising executive Madonna Badger, and a male acquaintance escaped the blaze, which killed her parents, who were visiting for the holidays, and her three daughters, a 10-year-old and 7-year-old twins, police said.
The severely damaged $1.7 million house was torn down after the buildings department determined it was unsafe and ordered it razed, local fire Chief Antonio Conte said.
Neighbors said they awoke shortly before 5 o'clock Christmas morning to the sound of screaming and rushed outside to help but could do nothing as flames devoured the large, turreted home.
The acquaintance who escaped the fire with Badger was a contractor working on the home, police said. He was identified by the Stamford Advocate newspaper as Michael Borcina.
Interviews with them would be finished Monday, Conte said. He had no details on the investigation, and no information about the cause of the fire was released.
Johnson most recently worked as a Santa this year at the flagship store of Saks Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, a store spokeswoman said.
"Mr. Johnson was Saks Fifth Avenue's beloved Santa, and we are heartbroken about this terrible tragedy," spokeswoman Julia Bently said in a statement.
Holmes, who worked with Johnson for more than a decade at Brown-Forman, remembered his co-worker as a big man with white hair and a commanding presence.
"He was a man of not a lot of words, but when Lomer spoke or gave his opinion, it was always well thought out," Holmes said.
He said he was a bit surprised that the longtime security chief had become a department store Santa but added, "I could see Lomer doing something like that because Lomer had a passion for people."
During Johnson's long career with Brown-Forman, whose many brands include Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey and Southern Comfort, he was responsible for security and safety at the company's headquarters and production plants. His responsibilities included helping plan fire drills, Holmes said.
"He spent his life as a safety professional making sure our facilities were safe from fire," Holmes said. "And in the event there was a fire, that people knew what to do in terms of getting out of the buildings."
Badger, an ad executive in the fashion industry, is the founder of New York-based Badger & Winters Group. She was treated at a hospital and was discharged by Sunday evening, a hospital supervisor said. Her whereabouts Monday were unknown.
The contractor also was hospitalized, but his condition wasn't released.
Property records show Badger bought the five-bedroom, waterfront home for $1.7 million last year. The house was situated in Shippan Point, a wealthy neighborhood that juts into Long Island Sound.
The lot where the house stood was covered with charred debris and cordoned off by police with tape on Monday. Passers-by left floral bouquets, stuffed animals and candles.
Neighbor Tim Abbazia, who did not know the victims, said the fire occurred in a neighborhood where century-old homes are common and would make everyone assess fire safety. He said it could not have been any more tragic.
"Regardless of which day it happened, I don't think it could be any worse than it is," he said.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, a former mayor of Stamford, offered his condolences to Badger and her family in a statement and said her loss "defies explanation."
The fire was Stamford's deadliest since a 1987 blaze that also killed five people, Conte said.
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Associated Press writers Bruce Schreiner in Louisville, Ky., and Tom Hays in New York contributed to this report.
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Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Holiday greetings to State Journal-Register community
On behalf of all the employees at The State Journal-Register and our newspaper carriers who do an amazing job delivering your paper every day, I would like to extend my warmest wishes for a safe and happy holiday season to the entire SJ-R community.
As we celebrate and close out 2011, we should give thanks and a warm welcome home to the local men and women who have served overseas and will get to spend Christmas with their families this year. For those whose service will continue to keep them away from family and friends during the holidays, you are in our hearts and prayers. May you keep safe and quickly return home. Thank you for keeping us safe and ensuring the freedoms we sometimes take for granted.
Once again, a special thanks to all the volunteers, business partners who contribute their products, services and facilities, and to the many individuals and organizations for their cash donations that raised more than $250,400 for Friend-In-Deed this year. Springfield continues to show a tremendous heart and giving spirit that symbolizes what this time of year is all about. My family and I are honored to be a part of it.?
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
Walt Lafferty, publisher
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Australia hit back against India
Wicketkeeper Haddin reached 21 before the close at the MCG
Brad Haddin and Peter Siddle helped Australia recover on an even opening day of the Boxing Day Test against India at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
The pair shared an unbroken stand of 63 as the hosts closed on 277-6.
Earlier, debutant opener Ed Cowan (68) and Ricky Ponting (62) added 113 for the third wicket.
When Zaheer Khan removed Michael Clarke and Mike Hussey in successive balls, Australia slid from 205-3 to 214-6 but Haddin and Siddle steadied things.
The late intervention of the seventh-wicket pair gave Australia a parity that they will feel they deserve after two controversial moments at the MCG.
The touring Indians has refused to give consent to the use of the Decision Review System (DRS) during the four-Test series and twice the hosts suffered.
Both Cowan and Hussey were given out caught behind when they appeared to have made no contact with the ball.
For Tasmanian Cowan, who had survived the setback of seeing David Warner and Shaun Marsh fall to Umesh Yadav (3-96) in the opening session, it brought to an end the most successful display by an debuting Australian opener since Wayne Phillips' 159 against Pakistan 1983-84.
His stand with veteran Ponting, who unfurled three trademark pull shots off Zaheer and Yadav, dominated the afternoon session before Yadav tasted revenge by having the former captain caught at second slip.
The balance then swung in India's favour after tea when Zaheer (2-49) first trapped Clarke lbw and then, with the next ball, had under-pressure Hussey adjudged caught by Mahendra Dhoni when replays showed that the ball had missed the bat by some distance.
And when Cowan suffered similar misfortune off the bowling of Ravichandran Ashwin, Australia had lost three wickets for nine runs in 19 balls.
But Siddle (34 not out) and Haddin (21 not out) ensured there would be no further drama.
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/sport2/hi/cricket/16331946.stm
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Monday, December 26, 2011
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Monday, December 19, 2011
US frets as deadly Egypt clashes enter 4th day
CAIRO?? The United States said it was worried by violence in Egypt and urged the army rulers to respect human rights Monday as security forces wielding batons and firing tear gas fought with protesters demanding an end to military rule for a fourth day.
Egypt's Health Ministry said Monday that at least three more protesters had been killed in clashes with army soldiers in central Cairo, bringing the four-day death toll to at least 14.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon also condemned excessive use of force by security forces in Cairo protests that have widened a rift among Egyptians over the role of the army and cast a shadow over the country's first free election in decades.
Ban "is highly alarmed by the excessive use of force employed by the security forces against protesters, and calls for the transitional authorities to act with restraint and uphold human rights, including the right to peaceful protest," Al-Jazeera English quoted his office saying in a statement.
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Police and soldiers using batons drove stone-throwing protesters out of Cairo's Tahrir Square, hub of the uprising that ousted Hosni Mubarak in February, late Sunday but by dawn they had trickled back into the square. Security forces took up positions again behind barricades in nearby streets.
Protester had fled down sidestreets, away from sensitive areas where parliament, the cabinet offices and Interior Ministry are located. Security forces used tear gas in nearby streets to drive protesters away.
Story: Violence flares in Tahrir Square after Egypt's army tries to crush protestThe violence broke out just after the second stage of a six-week election for Egypt's new parliament that starts the slow countdown to the army's return to barracks. The military has pledged to hand power to an elected president by July.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she was "deeply concerned" about the violence and urged the security forces "to respect and protect the universal rights of all Egyptians."
In a statement to a nation which has received billions of dollars in U.S. military and other aid, she also called on protesters "to refrain from acts of violence."
Many Egyptians want to focus on building democratic institutions, not street activism, but have nevertheless been shocked by the tactics of security forces in and around Tahrir that have killed at least 14 people and wounded hundreds.
Video: After year of turmoil, Arab Spring still churning (on this page)Soldiers in riot gear have been filmed beating protesters with batons even after they have fallen to the ground. A Reuters picture showed two policemen dragging a woman lying on the street by the shirt, exposing her underwear.
Protesters said they had seized four soldiers who had been part of formations who launched a charge in the early hours.
"We quickly got the four into vehicles and drove them away from the square, otherwise they would have been beaten to a pulp by angry protesters who experienced the army's vicious attacks," said Sayyid Abu Ella, speaking by telephone from Tahrir.
Late on Sunday, protesters had hurled petrol bombs at lines of security forces and chanted "Down with Tantawi" a reference to Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi who heads the army council and was Mubarak's defence minister.
Overshadowing elections
The violence has overshadowed a staggered parliamentary election that is set to give Islamists the biggest bloc.
The West, which long looked to strongmen in the region like Mubarak to keep a lid on Islamists, have watched warily as Islamist parties swept elections in Morocco, Tunisia and now Egypt.
A hard core of activists have camped in Tahrir since a protest against army rule on Nov. 18 that was sparked by the army-backed cabinet's proposals to permanently shield the military from civilian oversight in the new constitution.
Who's in charge? Mixed signals from Egypt's rulersTough police and army tactics combined with hot-headed youths bent on keeping up pressure also sparked a flare-up last month that killed 42 people.
A small group of activists approached protesters hurling stones on Sunday and called on them to stop, but they refused, citing the deaths of 10 people as a reason not to "negotiate".
Other activists handed over to the army people they said were making Molotov cocktails.
The violence has deepened the frustration of many ordinary Egyptians, who want an end to months of unrest that has left the economy in tatters.
"There are people who wait for any problem and seek to amplify it ... The clashes won't stop. There are street children who found shelter in Tahrir," said Ali el-Nubi, a postal worker, adding the army should have managed the transition better.
The Health Ministry said on Sunday that 10 people had been killed in the violence since Friday and 505 injured, of whom 384 had been taken to hospital.
The latest bloodshed began after the second round of voting last week for parliament's lower house. The staggered election began on Nov. 28 and will end with a run-off vote on Jan. 11.
The Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist parties repressed in the 30-year Mubarak era have emerged as strong front-runners.
Reuters, The Associated Press and msnbc.com staff contributed to this report.
Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45720153/ns/world_news-mideast_n_africa/
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Sunday, December 18, 2011
Israel set to complete swap for captured soldier (AP)
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip ? Israel is releasing 550 Palestinian prisoners in the second and final phase of a swap with Hamas militants that brought home an Israeli soldier after five years in captivity.
Their release Sunday night completed the deal to exchange 1,027 Palestinian prisoners for Sgt. Gilad Schalit, who was captured by Gaza militants in June 2006. Schalit returned home in October when Israel freed the first batch of prisoners.
That group included many Palestinians serving life sentences for involvement in bus bombings and other deadly attacks on Israeli civilians that killed hundreds.
Most of the prisoners released in the second phase were serving light sentences. They were freed at Israeli crossings into the West Bank and Gaza.
The release late Sunday set off celebrations in the Palestinian territories.
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JERUSALEM (AP) ? Israel was wrapping up preparations to release 550 Palestinian prisoners late Sunday, in the second and final phase of a swap with Hamas militants that brought home an Israeli soldier after five years in captivity.
Under the Egyptian-brokered deal, Israel has agreed to exchange a total of 1,027 prisoners for Sgt. Gilad Schalit, who was captured by Gaza militants in June 2006. Schalit returned home in October when Israel freed the first batch of 477 prisoners. Sunday's release will complete the swap.
The release, expected to take place late Sunday, was not infused with the same drama as the first phase since the most significant players in the trade have already been released.
The Oct. 18 return of Schalit, who appeared pale and thin but otherwise healthy, was the first public sighting of him since his capture, and the plight of the young man had captured Israel's attention for years.
The prisoners freed in the first round included dozens of militants serving life sentences for involvement in deadly attacks. Their releases set off ecstatic celebration in the Palestinian territories, particularly Hamas' Gaza stronghold.
Under the terms of the deal, Israel chose the prisoners to be freed Sunday. Prison officials said most were serving light sentences or near the end of their terms, and only 41 were returning to Gaza.
More than 500 were being sent to the West Bank, which is ruled by Hamas' rival, President Mahmoud Abbas, and most of them were believed to be linked to Abbas' Fatah movement. Israel is interested in bolstering Abbas at a time when Islamic groups like Hamas are gaining in power throughout the Middle East. Hamas enjoyed a huge boost of popularity following the October release.
The Palestinians have been divided between two rival governments since Hamas expelled Abbas' forces and seized control of Gaza in 2007. Abbas, who favors a negotiated peace settlement with Israel, has governed only in the West Bank since then.
"This phase of the swap is shallow, because most of those coming out had served short sentences," said Issa Karake, the prisoners affairs minister in the West Bank government. "It did not live up to the expectations of the Palestinians."
In Gaza, Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said the movement welcomed the release of all prisoners, regardless of their political affiliation. "We are proud of this great achievement," he said.
Israeli-Palestinian peace talks have been frozen for three years, in part because of continued Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank and east Jerusalem. The Palestinians claim both territories, captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war, as parts of a future state.
On Sunday, Israel's Housing Ministry published advertisements seeking contractors to build some 1,000 apartments in both areas.
The apartments were approved long ago. Last month, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered construction to be sped up after the U.N. cultural agency UNESCO granted the Palestinians membership. Israel opposes Palestinian efforts to join the U.N. in the absence of a negotiated peace deal.
Also Sunday, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression condemned the militant Islamic group Hamas for cracking down on journalists in Gaza.
The official, Frank La Rue, said that Hamas security forces arbitrarily arrest and hit journalists and beat Palestinian demonstrators.
La Rue also spoke out over allegations that Israeli soldiers fire tear gas directly at Palestinian protesters in the West Bank, which is against Israeli military regulations and can be lethal.
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Daniella Cheslow contributed to this report.
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Saturday, December 17, 2011
Discover 4Q profit leaps 46 pct as card use rises (AP)
NEW YORK ? Shoppers spent more with Discover cards as the holiday shopping season began, helping lift the credit card company's fiscal fourth quarter profit 46 percent.
Discover Financial Services said Thursday that sales volume on its namesake cards rose 8 percent to $25.03 billion in the quarter. The total number of transactions Discover's networks processed rose 5 percent.
Discover executives said during a conference call to discuss the results that the increased use shows that its customers are reaching for their cards more often compared with other cards they carry ? Discover is becoming their "primary card." The trend is partially because more merchants accept Discover now, and also because consumers are seeking benefits like Discover's cash-back rewards when they make purchases.
Also helping boost results during the quarter was an improvement in customer payment habits. Rates of late payments and defaults fell.
Reflecting a broader trend across the credit card industry, the Riverwoods, Ill.-based company said the number of customers paying off their card balances each month increased.
Keefe, Bruyette and Woods analyst Sanjay Sakhrani noted that economic shakeout of the last few years has left credit cards in the hands of more affluent consumers who are better able to pay their bills in full each month, while those with lower credit scores and presumably less ability to pay are now less likely to use credit.
For the three months ended Nov. 30, Discover posted net income available to common shareholders of $508 million, or 95 cents per share, compared with $347 million, or 64 cents per share in the year-ago period.
A 3 percent decline in outstanding shares also helped boost per-share results.
Revenue rose 13 percent to $1.81 billion from $1.6 billion last year.
Analysts, on average, expected earnings of 89 cents per share on $1.81 billion in revenue, according to a survey by FactSet.
Growth in the company's private student loan and direct banking businesses provided added boosts during the quarter. During the period, Discover purchased an additional $2.4 billion in student loans, as total loans other than credit cards rose to $10.7 billion.
Analyst Chris Brendler of Stifel Nicolaus said called the results "impressive," and pointed to the growth in student loans and also private loans made by Discover Bank as positive. "It was a good quarter," he said.
For the full fiscal year, Discover reported net income of $2.2 billion, or $4.06 per share, up from $1.53 billion, or $2.84 per share, for the previous year.
Discover said the results enabled it to raise its dividend by 67 percent to 10 cents from 6 cents. The dividend is payable Jan. 19 to shareholders of record as of Dec. 29.
One issue that concerned investors was that Discover set aside $319 million to cover uncollected bills. That was down from $383 million a year ago, but up from just $100 million in the fiscal third quarter. The company attributed the move to economic uncertainty, despite the fact that defaults and late payments are near historic lows.
The move was a factor in a slide for the stock in midday trading, Discover shares fell 77 cents, or 3.2 percent, to $23.05. The stock has traded between $17.86 and $27.92 in the past 52 weeks, and closed Wednesday up about 30 percent since the start of the year.
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Metrea - Member for 0 years
Can you reserve the Injured Male Bird for me? I don't have time right now to create the charrie skeleton yet.
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I'll take a female paradise bird and will have her up by tonight. Is that alright?
"Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry. Seriously, you should even nickname your friends with names that end with vowels. It makes the world spin.
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Akantha - Member for 1 years
Hm. I think I might create a male Paradise bird.
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Friday, December 16, 2011
Barbara Walters' Most Fascinating Person of 2011 is ...
Even Bill O'Reilly will have a hard time arguing this one.
On Wednesday, Barbara Walters announced her annual 10 Most Fascinating People list, and overtaking big names like Simon Cowell, Pippa Middleton, Katy Perry and the Kardashians was one person whose impact and legacy transcend all of them combined:
The late Steve Jobs.
The co-founder of Apple and the man responsible for numerous technology innovations that shape our lives on a daily basis, Jobs passed away this fall at age 56.
First diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2004, Jobs recovered, but it returned, and in 2009, he underwent a liver transplant. He resigned this summer as CEO.
At that point he became Walters' choice immediately, even though she never got to interview the man. Jobs is the first deceased Most Fascinating Person.
Truly a once-in-a-generation mind, Jobs was taken from us far too soon, but not before transforming technology - and modern life - in profound ways.
His fingerprints are on everything from the iTunes store to the iPod, iPhone, iPad, Pixar films and even the mouse. Yes, the mouse. In a word, he was awesome.
Steve Jobs: Good choice for Most Fascinating Person?
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Obama winds down Iraq war but verdict elusive (Reuters)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? "Mission Accomplished" are two words President Barack Obama will not use as he winds down the most unpopular U.S. military venture since Vietnam and declares an end to another war without victory.
Obama's visit to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, on Wednesday will be a chance to tout the completion of a troop pullout from Iraq by year-end, fulfilling a promise that helped him win the presidency in 2008 and which he hopes will help him keep it in 2012.
But even as the last American forces pack up and leave in the final days of a costly, nearly nine-year engagement, the debate over Obama's exit strategy remains as heated as ever at home - and most experts say it could be years before history delivers a clear verdict.
"War-weariness means most Americans just want to see Iraq over and done with," said Thomas Schwartz, professor of history and politics at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. "But like Vietnam, there are risks and unintended consequences that will take time to sort out."
Having inherited the Iraq war as well as the withdrawal timetable from his predecessor George W. Bush, Obama is gambling that Iraq is now stable enough to deal internally with a still-dangerous insurgency and externally with any threat from neighboring Iran.
Yet to paraphrase Bush's former defense secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, unknowns - both known and unknown - abound.
Will violent Islamic radicals, never completely defeated, resurge? Will Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's government drift, as critics charge, toward a strong-arm model? Will Iraq's minority Kurds be satisfied with their partial autonomy?
Obama, however, has never wavered from his pledge to end a war that claimed the lives of nearly 4,500 U.S. troops and tens of thousands of Iraqis and inflicted lasting damage to America's standing worldwide.
"It's cost us probably over $1 trillion, when all is said and done," Obama told a Virginia television station on Tuesday.
The president's critics, from Republican presidential challengers to neoconservative policy experts, contend that the timing of the U.S. pullout is based on electoral considerations and will jeopardize gains on the ground and embolden Iran.
'BUSH'S WAR' VS 'OBAMA'S WAR'
Along with the U.S. economic downturn in 2008, Obama owes his presidency in no small measure to his opposition to the Iraq war. As an Illinois state legislator, he gave a stirring speech in 2002 warning that invading Iraq would plunge the United States into a "dumb war." Bush launched the invasion in 2003 based on claims of weapons of mass destruction and al Qaeda ties that turned out not to exist.
Obama gained momentum using his anti-war stance to distinguish himself from top Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in the 2008 presidential primaries by insisting that unlike her he never would have voted in Congress to go to war in Iraq.
He then capitalized on voters' growing disillusionment over Iraq to help him defeat Republican opponent John McCain, a leading supporter of Bush's Iraq policy.
In office, Obama moved quickly to scale back what his aides had dubbed "Bush's war" and to shift military focus to Afghanistan and its border with Pakistan, which he called the neglected battleground in the fight against al Qaeda.
Commentators now see that conflict as "Obama's war" and believe his legacy as a wartime president will rise and fall more on the outcome of the Afghanistan-Pakistan campaign than on any developments in Iraq.
With the curtain coming down on U.S. military involvement in Iraq, Obama will use his speech to returning troops at Fort Bragg, home of the 82nd Airborne Division, to put a capstone on a war that strained America's armed forces.
He would have preferred to keep at least several thousand troops in Iraq as trainers but failed to reach a deal with the Iraq's fractious government - another source of Republican criticism of his leadership.
As of Tuesday, there were about 5,500 U.S. troops left in Iraq, down from more than 170,000 at the height of the war.
Obama will now try to capitalize politically on the moment - even though the December 2011 deadline was actually set by Bush after he ordered a "surge" of troops that helped pull Iraq back from the brink of civil war.
But what Obama wants to avoid is the impression that he is taking a victory lap, aides say.
The White House is mindful of Bush's landing on the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln draped with a "Mission Accomplished" banner and his declaration of an end to major combat operations in May 2003. The stunt was widely ridiculed, given that the worst of Iraq's insurgency was yet to come.
'IRAQ SYNDROME'
Obama is not the first modern-day U.S. president faced with the risks and uncertainties of ending an unpopular war.
Richard Nixon won the presidency in 1968 saying he had a secret plan to end the war in Vietnam. He escalated the fighting before peace talks lead to a cease-fire. He withdrew combat forces in 1973, calling it "peace with honor." Winding down the war contributed to his re-election in 1972, but communist North Vietnamese forces overran the South in 1975.
Dwight Eisenhower made a campaign pledge in 1952 to break the Korean War stalemate and reached an armistice the next year - but only after thousands more U.S. casualties and negotiations that locked in the split between North and South for decades since. Eisenhower, too, won re-election.
Analysts believe exiting Iraq will yield little benefit to Obama in a presidential campaign dominated by economic concerns - though it could help him shore up his liberal base.
The risk, however, is that sectarian warfare explodes again and Iran moves to fill any security vacuum.
"The Obama administration can ... be held accountable for the fact that the Iraq war has no meaningful end-state and no one can as yet predict its strategic aftermath," wrote Anthony Cordesman at the CSIS think-tank in Washington.
While it could be years before the full consequences of U.S. withdrawal are clear, the lessons from Iraq have already taken root in Washington policymaking circles.
Schwartz, an expert on the Vietnam War, said that just as a "Vietnam syndrome" scarred the U.S. military for years, discouraging major intervention without a clear goal and overwhelming force, Iraq has also transformed mind-sets.
"You've got a similar 'Iraq syndrome' coming out of this - be wary of committing ground forces, especially in the Muslim world," he said, citing as proof Obama's decision to limit the U.S. military role in Libya earlier this year. "That's why we see precision bombing and drones as the weapons of choice."
(Editing by Jackie Frank)
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Good Reads: Why British diplomats consider Tehran a 'hardship post'
Yesterday's rampage by Iranian 'students' are just the latest example of how Iranian domestic anger gets focused on diplomats.
With troops pulling out of Iraq and drawing down in Afghanistan, the global war on terror appears to be all but finished. But the reverberations from that war may be felt for some time.
Skip to next paragraphEarlier this week, US-Pakistani relations took a dive because of a NATO bombing raid on a Pakistani border post that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers. Yesterday, Iranian students and members of an elite volunteer militia called the ?Basij? ? apparently not held back by Iranian police ? jumped the fence and raided the British Embassy in Tehran, prompting London to pull back most of its diplomats there. Foreign Secretary William Hague warned that there would be ?serious consequences.?
America?s and Britain?s relations with Iran ? which appeared to be moving toward rapprochement in the early days following Sept. 11 attacks ? have since taken a nosedive after Bush administration officials increasingly attempted to draw links between Iran?s security services and Al Qaeda as well as concerns about a covert Iranian nuclear weapons program. In that context, yesterday?s protests by Iranian students make sense, but what would get them so angry to raid the British embassy is a bit hard to explain. The Guardian?s Riazat Butt does write, in his penultimate paragraph, this explanation.
The storming of the embassy was triggered by the UK's decision to sever ties to the Iranian banking system and parliament, the Majlis, after the International Atomic Energy Agency published a report citing "credible" evidence that Iranian scientists had experimented with a nuclear warhead design and could be continuing to do so.
Frequent readers of the Monitor ? you know who you are ? will have read Scott Peterson?s excellent piece on Nov. 8 detailing the IAEA report on Iran?s nuclear program. Relying on intelligence reports and Iranian official information smuggled out of the country in a pilfered laptop, the IAEA concluded that Iran had continued to study ways to enrich uranium beyond the normal uses of civilian power-generation, and also continued to study ways to deliver a nuclear payload aboard Iran?s long-range Shahab-3 missiles. Iran has hotly denied that its nuclear program is for anything other than peaceful purposes, and calls the IAEA report ?politically motivated.?
The Iranian rampage has all the elements of us-versus-them that characterizes so much about international politics these days, but the Washington Post?s Thomas Erdbrink and Joby Warrick note that there are signs of dissension within the Iranian regime about whether the student raid on the British embassy was appropriate behavior. Students raiding the embassy pledged loyalty to Iran?s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamanei, the Post wrote, while a spokesman for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called the rampage ?unacceptable.?
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