Saturday, November 13, 2010

Unrest rocks Bangladesh capital

Bangladesh police clash with demonstrators over the state's bid to evict opposition leader Khaleda Zia from her home.

Police in Bangladesh fired tear gas and rubber bullets on demonstrators trying to prevent authorities from evicting the leader of the opposition from the house where she has lived for 40 years.

At least 50 people were injured on Saturday, and more than 20 demonstrators detained in the capital Dhaka, police said.

Witnesses and security officials said up to 4,000 protesters armed with sticks and stones set fire to vehicles and attacked officers near the headquarters of former prime minister Begum Khaleda Zia's Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).

Several thousand protesters skirmished with police close to Khaleda's residence in the garrison area, and the clashes intensified as security forces cordoned off the building as a High Court deadline for her to vacate the house neared.

Khaleda later told a news conference she had been forcibly evicted from the house where she had lived for 40 years.

"They entered my bedroom and ransacked all the furniture. They even beat my personal staff," said a
tearful Khaleda, speaking at her party office at Gulshan.

"I am not only humiliated but ashamed at the behaviour of the government. Now I seek justice from the people," she added.

Spreading violence

Violence erupted in more than 20 other towns and dozens of people were injured in clashes with police. Around 50 people were injured in Serajganj, 150 km northwest of Dhaka, local television channels reported.

At least three people were killed and five, including a lawmaker of the ruling party, injured in a possible suicide attack on Saturday, police said.

According to authorities, the bomb was detonated at the residence of Afaz Uddin, an Awami League member of parliament, near Khustia, 300 km west of the capital Dhaka. Authorities would not say whether they thought the attack was related to the widespread violence over Khaleda's eviction.

Rising tensions

The situation remained tense as the BNP called for a one-day strike.

"To protest the (eviction) order we have called for a countrywide dawn to dusk general strike on Sunday," Khondaker Delwar Hossain, secretary general of the BNP, told journalists. The Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry asked the BNP to call off the strike.

Khaleda's residence in a sprawling compound was leased to her by the government in 1982, after her husband and ex-president, General Ziaur Rahman, was killed in an abortive coup. They had lived in the house for several years.

The current government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina cancelled the lease last year, intending to put up multi-storey buildings for families of army officers killed in a mutiny in a paramilitary unit headquarters in Dhaka.

Hasina was elected for the first time in 1996 and again in 2008 in an election held under an army-backed interim government.

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Mobile Touch Screen Presenter

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Now it is time for you to allow your customers and potential customers to engage and interact on a very personal level with your presentation. By doing this you are going to see almost instantly the benefits, results and impact of allowing people the opportunity to engage them in the presentation itself and no longer sit on the sidelines with their hands tied and mouth gagged.

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source: sitepronews.com

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Obama joins call to end congressional earmarks

Reporting from Washington — President Obama and House Republican leaders have found something to agree on: the need to eliminate congressional earmarks from the federal budget.

These designated projects represent less than 1% of federal spending, but they have come to symbolize Washington's wasteful ways. When huge spending bills are working their way through Congress, legislators often tuck in a provision that requires the government to fund a particular local project, even when the agency officials think the money could be better spent elsewhere.

In his Saturday radio address, Obama said that curtailing or eliminating earmarks would be a first step toward restoring fiscal responsibility.

"I agree with those Republican and Democratic members of Congress who've recently said that, in these challenging days, we can't afford what are called earmarks," Obama said. "We can't afford 'Bridges to Nowhere' like the one that was planned a few years back in Alaska."

On Friday, the top two House Republicans said they planned to hold a vote in the Republican conference to call for "an immediate ban on earmarks" in the new Congress.

"Earmarks have become a symbol of a dysfunctional Congress and serve as a fuel line for the culture of spending that has dominated Washington for too long," said Reps. John Boehner of Ohio, the incoming House speaker, and Eric Cantor of Virginia, who will be the majority whip. "We welcome President Obama's remarks on earmark reform, and we call upon him to urge congressional Democrats to vote on a similar measure next week."

But it is not clear that Republican leaders on Capitol Hill agree on eliminating earmarks.

In the Senate, Republican Jim DeMint of South Carolina has also called for a ban on earmarks, but Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has questioned the idea now that the GOP has taken control of the House.

Ending earmarks would give the Obama administration a "blank check" on deciding where to spend federal money, McConnell said recently.

In the past, lawmakers have defended earmarks by arguing that elected officials, rather than "bureaucrats," should decide where public money is spent.

"You could eliminate every congressional earmark and you would save no money," McConnell said in a speech to the Heritage Foundation. "It's really an argument about discretion."
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Friday, November 12, 2010

Parma beat Sampdoria in the fog

Parma climb three places from the bottom of the table, while Sampdoria continue a string of non-scoring games.

Parma have beaten Sampdoria in Serie A in a fog-shrouded match, to raise themselves to third from bottom of the league table.

The northern-city side won the game 1-0 at the Stadio Tardini on Thursday evening, with Valeri Bojinov, the Bulgarian striker, capitalising on confusion caused by the poor visibility to put the ball in the back of the net.

It was Parma's first win since August 29, easing pressure on Pasquale Marino, their coach.

Parma's offensive play threatened the visitors in both halves, but Sampdoria had the best chance before the goal, with forward Giampaolo Pazzini smashing a free-kick against the underside of the crossbar.

Bojinov then scored with a shot into the corner of the goal from a reverse pass by Christian Zaccardo - the club's first goal in more than 400 minutes.

Sampdoria patently lacked suspended Antonio Cassano, their inventive Italian forward, and have now failed to score a goal for four games on the trot.

The temperamental Cassano was suspended by the club for swearing at Riccardo Garrone, the president, and failing to attend an awards dinner, but the team is suffering without him.

Despite apologising several times Cassano remains unfavoured and unselected, while an arbitration panel is due to rule on the legality of the suspension.

The team from the northwest of Italy are in seventh place.

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EU 'will bailout Ireland if needed'

EU mulls support for Ireland after Irish bond yields soared to record levels on public debt fears.
Jose Manuel Barroso, the European Commission president, says the EU is able to take action to support Ireland if it is needed.

"What is important to know is that we have all the essential instruments in place in the European Union and euro zone to act if nececessary, but I am not going to make any speculation," Barroso said on Thursday.

He was speaking to journalists ahead of the Group of 20 leaders' summit in Seoul, South Korea.

Ireland is trying to tackle the worst budget deficit in the EU and convince markets it does not need a bailout. But two-thirds of economists and bond strategists polled by the Reuters news agency on Thursday said Ireland will seek international rescue funds before the end of next year.

Irish bond yields - the rate of return paid to investors holding the government debt instruments - have soared in the face of mounting investor unease at the country's shaky public finances, which were ravaged by recession and banking-sector rescues.

The country's cost of borrowing hit fresh record highs on Thursday, fuelling fears that the eurozone debt and deficit crisis could be entering a dangerous second phase just six months after a bailout of Greece.

Irish 10-year government bond yields jumped to 8.929 per cent, the highest level since the euro was created in 1999, placing Europe's bond markets under serious strain.

Monitoring developments

European banking stocks fell, with the Bank of Ireland losing 7.8 per cent, Credit Agricole down 2.4 per cent and Royal Bank of Scotland down 2.7 per cent.

European officials said they were monitoring developments but denied for a second day running that Dublin was seeking financial aid.

Major economies are battling soaring deficits after the global financial crisis forced many nations to rescue their banks, while the subsequent vicious recession also cut tax revenues.

Greece was bailed out in May by the European Union and the International Monetary Fund with an enormous €110bn [$150bn] rescue package as it came close to default, putting huge stains on the eurozone.

Ireland's bond market has been hit very badly this week despite assurances by Brian Cowen, the Irish prime minister, that the country would not be forced to seek help from a massive European bailout fund.

The government, which will unveil a four-year strategy to cut its public deficit later this month, that will involve a €15bn correction to rein in a gaping public finances deficit, has already stated that it is fully funded until July 2011 and does not need to return to bond markets this year.

However, those assurances have failed to prevent renewed speculation that Ireland may require external help.

On Thursday the government said that Brian Lenihan, Ireland's finance minister, would not be making any statement about ongoing bond-market turmoil, but the crisis has nevertheless raised the spectre of a repeat of Greece's near-bankruptcy.

Portuguese bond yields also hit historic highs on Thursday.

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Anger at Amazon 'paedophile guide'

Online retailer sparks global outrage by allowing a "guidebook" for paedophiles to be sold on its US website.

Amazon has sparked outrage for selling a self-published digital book called The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure: A Child-Lover's Code of Conduct on its website.

The reviews page for the "guidebook", available for Amazon's Kindle e-reader, were flooded with criticisms of the online retail company for offering it for sale.

Phillip R Greaves, listed as the author of the book , writes that paedophiles are misunderstood, as the word literally means to love a child.

He argues that it is only a crime to act on sexual impulses toward children, and offers advice that purportedly allows paedophiles to abide by the law.

"This is my attempt to make pedophile situations safer for those juveniles that find themselves involved in them, by establishing certain rules for these adults to follow," the author writes.

"I hope to achieve this by appealing to the better nature of pedosexuals, with hope that their doing so will results in less hatred and perhaps liter [sic] sentences should they ever be caught."

Calls for removal

The majority of the 305 reviews posted on the site urged the online retail giant to remove the book for ethical reasons.

"This is a joke, right? What reputable business would even consider allowing this book to be sold from their website?" a visitor going by the pseudonym of "Emerald Storm" wrote.

"Shame on you, Amazon, for allowing a book like this to be uploaded for purchase!" another customer wrote.

"This book gives advice to people about something that is ILLEGAL in every state in this nation. It needs to be removed from the site immediately."

A discussion group headed "I contacted the FBI and made a formal complaint" attracted more than 150 posts sharing advice on how to contact legal authorities.

Amazon defended the presence of the book, selling for $4.75, on the grounds of free speech.

"It is censorship not to sell certain books simply because we or others believe their message is objectionable," the US company wrote in a statement.

"Amazon does not support or promote hatred or criminal acts, however, we do support the right of every individual to make their own purchasing decisions".

But later on Thursday the company appeared to bow to pressure and pulled the page from its website.

Amazon allows authors to submit their own works and shares revenue with them. The company issues guidelines banning certain materials, including those deemed offensive.

Exactly what it considers "offensive" is not clarified.

The incident is not the first time Amazon has come under attack for selling objectionable content in its store.

In 2002, the United States Justice Foundation, a conservative group, threatened to sue Amazon, based in Seattle, Washington, for selling Understanding Loved Boys and Boylovers – a title that is still available on the site.

In 2009, Amazon stopped selling RapeLay, a video game in which the protagonist stalks and then rapes a mother and her daughters, after it was widely condemned in the media and by various interest
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Pessimism rules at G20 summit

World's leading economies hold talks in Seoul on trade imbalances and currency policies that threaten world growth.

A strong sense of pessimism has shrouded the first day of the G20 summit of rich and emerging economies, with world leaders sharply divided over currency and trade policies.

The US clashed with exporting giants China and Germany on Thursday over a plan to rebalance skewed trade between deficit and surplus countries.

The summit, held in Seoul, South Korea's capital, has become the centrepiece of international efforts to revive the global economy and prevent future financial meltdowns.

Behind the scenes, negotiators squabbled over the language in a closing statement to be issued at the summit's conclusion on Friday, but so far, officials cannot even agree on the agenda, much less a draft statement.

Barack Obama, the US president, who is working to salvage a deal at the summit after suffering an economy-linked drubbing in US elections last week, said his administration wanted to boost growth via "prudent" economic policies.

"It is difficult to do that if we start seeing the huge imbalances redevelop that helped to contribute to the crisis that we just went through," he told a news conference with the summit's host, Lee Myung-Bak, the South Korean president.

"I don't think this is a controversial proposition."

Currency controversy

Several G20 members are upset after the US Federal Reserve's decision to pump a further $600bn into the faltering US economy, in a step that foreign critics say is likely to trigger tit-for-tat currency devaluations.

Chinese officials sought to throw the onus back on the US by arguing that Beijing has an "unswerving" commitment to reform its currency regime, but needs stability in the world economy to do it.

"If you're sick yourself, don't ask others to take medicine," Yu Jianhua, the commerce ministry spokesman, said, demanding the debt-ridden US fix its own house first.

In one-on-one talks with Obama, Hu Jintao, the Chinese president, said: "I believe that with the concerted efforts of all the parties, the summit in Seoul will produce positive outcomes."

David Cameron, the UK prime minister, conceded that the G20 was not in a "heroic phase" compared to its determined response to the 2008 financial crisis, and that it needed to do "a lot more work" on fixing economic imbalances.

Harried negotiators have been meeting long into the night all week in Seoul to try to pin down language that the G20 leaders can adopt in the closing communique.

The talks were likely to drag long into Thursday night, South Korean officials said, after the G20 heads of government opened their two-day summit with a working dinner of Korean beef and halibut.

"China is being very difficult in finalising the texts, so there might be brackets left for the leaders to fill in after all," a German government source said on Thursday.

Final statement

South Korean and German officials said tha at best the G20 may settle for a watered-down deal to task the International Monetary Fund with crafting guidelines to trim the yawning imbalances between creditor and debtor nations.

Ahead of her own bilateral meeting with Obama, Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, lashed out at a more detailed US plan to rectify lopsided commerce by limiting the current account surpluses of big exporters.

The US wants the G20 to agree to curtail "excessive imbalances" as a back-door way of forcing China to realign its currency, which critics say is keeps deliberately cheap to support Chinese exporters.

But the proposal has run into trouble not just from China but from an array of nations including Germany, another export champion that insists its own trading prowess has nothing to do with any currency chicanery.

"To set political limits on trade surpluses and deficits is neither economically justified nor politically appropriate," Merkel told a G20 business summit.

Emerging economies around the world are worried that the billions in new money from the Federal Reserve will stoke speculative flows of foot-loose "hot money", and some are resorting to capital controls in a bid to stem the tide.

There is anxiety that G20 nations could be heading for a return to 1930s-style trade protectionism, with damning consequences for the world economy two years after the start of the global financial crisis.

Naoto Kan, the Japanese prime minister, said the risk was of "competitive devaluation of currencies reminiscent of the Great Depression".

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