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Tuesday, January 14, 2014
Monday, January 13, 2014
Mexico ( Vigilantes Take Control of 2 More Towns in Western Mexico )
Vigilantes entered El CeƱidor, a town outside the city of Paracuaro, and occupied it on Saturday, a Federal Police spokesman said.
Paracuaro is one of the more than one dozen cities and towns where self-defense groups have been formed to fight the Caballeros Templarios drug cartel.
Vigilantes also took control of Zapotan, a coastal community outside the city Coahuayana.
Twelve trucks, buses and automobiles were burned in the wave of violence that hit Paracuaro and the city of Apatzingan earlier this weekend, the Michoacan Attorney General’s Office said.
Several businesses were torched by gunmen opposed to the community self-defense groups, the AG’s office said.
The plan is to also occupy the cities of Uruapan, Los Reyes and Apatzingan, community self-defense group leader Hipolito Mora told Efe.
Apatzingan is the main bastion of Los Caballeros Templarios.
Los Caballeros Templarios, which was founded in December 2010 by former members of the La Familia Michoacana cartel, deals in both synthetic drugs and natural drugs.
The gang commits murders, stages kidnappings and runs extortion rackets that target business owners and transport companies, affecting everyday life.
The cartel uses Michoacan’s 270 kilometers (168 miles) of coastline to smuggle chemical drug precursors for the production of synthetic drugs into Mexico.
The community self-defense groups emerged in Michoacan in February 2013 to fight the cartel.
Community self-defense groups and community police forces have been formed in 15 of Michoacan’s 113 cities.
Self-defense groups have been formed in the cities of Buenavista Tomatlan, Coalcoman, Aguililla, Tepalcatepec, Los Reyes, Chinicuila, Aquila, Paracho, Cheran, La Huacana, Tancitaro, Churumuco, Paracuaro and Coahuayana, as well as in a community outside Apatzingan, to fight drug traffickers.
The Federal Police, marine corps and army launched a series of operations last week along the coast and in the Tierra Caliente region of Michoacan to fight drug-related violence
Libya ( Deputy Minister killed by hard -line militants )
TRIPOLI: Gunmen killed Libya’s Deputy Industry Minister as he drove home from shopping in the coastal city of Sirte late on Saturday in an attack security officials blamed on hard-line militants.
Libya is still plagued by widespread violence and targeted killings more than two years after the civil war ousted Muammar Qaddafi, with militants, militia gunmen and former rebels often resorting to force to impose demands on the fragile government.
The minister, Hassan Al-Drowi, was shot several times, a senior security official said, asking not to be identified.

“They opened fire from another car while he was driving, he was shot multiple times,” the official said. “Later, they found explosives attached to his car. The theory is, the bomb failed, so they shot him instead.”
The official blamed militants who have been trying to extend their influence in Sirte, which has been more stable recently than the coastal capital of Tripoli, about 460 km to the west, or the eastern city of Benghazi.
Sirte was the last bastion of Qaddafi loyalists in the war, and the strongman ruler was killed there on Oct. 20, 2011.
Prime Minister Ali Zeidan’s central government, weakened by political infighting and with only nascent armed forces, is struggling to wrest control back from areas where militias are still dominant.
Libya’s General National Congress and its members have still to finish key parts of the country’s transition to democracy since Qaddafi’s fall, with secular parties and hard-liners deadlocked over the way ahead.
The country’s new constitution is still unfinished, and militias who once helped fight Qaddafi have refused to disarm, claiming the central government is too weak to provide security and stability
Libya is still plagued by widespread violence and targeted killings more than two years after the civil war ousted Muammar Qaddafi, with militants, militia gunmen and former rebels often resorting to force to impose demands on the fragile government.
The minister, Hassan Al-Drowi, was shot several times, a senior security official said, asking not to be identified.
“They opened fire from another car while he was driving, he was shot multiple times,” the official said. “Later, they found explosives attached to his car. The theory is, the bomb failed, so they shot him instead.”
The official blamed militants who have been trying to extend their influence in Sirte, which has been more stable recently than the coastal capital of Tripoli, about 460 km to the west, or the eastern city of Benghazi.
Sirte was the last bastion of Qaddafi loyalists in the war, and the strongman ruler was killed there on Oct. 20, 2011.
Prime Minister Ali Zeidan’s central government, weakened by political infighting and with only nascent armed forces, is struggling to wrest control back from areas where militias are still dominant.
Libya’s General National Congress and its members have still to finish key parts of the country’s transition to democracy since Qaddafi’s fall, with secular parties and hard-liners deadlocked over the way ahead.
The country’s new constitution is still unfinished, and militias who once helped fight Qaddafi have refused to disarm, claiming the central government is too weak to provide security and stability
India ( Man arrested for the torture of his " 11-year-old maid " )
MUMBAI: Indian police have arrested a trader for allegedly torturing a 11-year-old maid who was forced to eat chillies which were also rubbed on her body, an official said, in the latest abuse of domestic servants.
Sarjil Ansari, a 38-year-old napkin seller, was arrested at the weekend and his wife Farhat was being questioned, said an investigating police officer in Thane district neighboring Mumbai.
The couple bought the girl in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh for 15,000 rupees ($240) from her parents about a year ago on the pretext that she would be well looked after and given a better education, the officer said, declining to be named.

“They used to regularly torture and beat up the girl. The girl complained that she was forced to eat chillies, which were also applied on her body,” he said. This would happen when she urinated out of stress or fear, he added.
“Often the family would turn up the volume on their home music system to muffle her cries for help.”
Local media reported that the couple rubbed chillies on the girl’s genitals as punishment, but the officer said he was not aware of the claim.
He said police were alerted when neighbors notified them about possible mistreatment of the girl, whose tasks included cleaning and looking after the couple’s baby, despite her own young age.
The girl is now in the care of a local non-governmental organization, and a case will be registered against the couple once the investigations are completed, the officer said.
The case is the latest of alleged abuse of domestic servants in in India, where thousands of workers, often children trafficked from remote and poverty-stricken states, toil for long hours in homes with almost no legal protection.
In October last year, a teenage girl working as a maid in New Delhi was hospitalized after being rescued from a home where campaigners said she was slashed with knives and mauled by dogs.
In 2006 India passed legislation banning employment of children under 14 in households, roadside eateries and hotels, but the law is widely flouted in the country of 1.2 billion people
Sarjil Ansari, a 38-year-old napkin seller, was arrested at the weekend and his wife Farhat was being questioned, said an investigating police officer in Thane district neighboring Mumbai.
The couple bought the girl in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh for 15,000 rupees ($240) from her parents about a year ago on the pretext that she would be well looked after and given a better education, the officer said, declining to be named.
“They used to regularly torture and beat up the girl. The girl complained that she was forced to eat chillies, which were also applied on her body,” he said. This would happen when she urinated out of stress or fear, he added.
“Often the family would turn up the volume on their home music system to muffle her cries for help.”
Local media reported that the couple rubbed chillies on the girl’s genitals as punishment, but the officer said he was not aware of the claim.
He said police were alerted when neighbors notified them about possible mistreatment of the girl, whose tasks included cleaning and looking after the couple’s baby, despite her own young age.
The girl is now in the care of a local non-governmental organization, and a case will be registered against the couple once the investigations are completed, the officer said.
The case is the latest of alleged abuse of domestic servants in in India, where thousands of workers, often children trafficked from remote and poverty-stricken states, toil for long hours in homes with almost no legal protection.
In October last year, a teenage girl working as a maid in New Delhi was hospitalized after being rescued from a home where campaigners said she was slashed with knives and mauled by dogs.
In 2006 India passed legislation banning employment of children under 14 in households, roadside eateries and hotels, but the law is widely flouted in the country of 1.2 billion people
Sunday, January 12, 2014
Saudi Arabia ( Sabria S. Jawhar reporter - Stop blaming Western Media for Gender Crimes )
It is all pretty disconcerting.
In my mother’s day, such abuse hardly existed. Although statistics are not available that addressed Saudi social demographics in the 1960s and 1970s, anecdotal evidence of the period suggest that fathers and husbands generally took their faith seriously and put an emphasis on harmonious family relationships.
Today, the family dynamics are radically different. The Internet, satellite television, the ease of traveling abroad and educational opportunities for women have changed the Saudi landscape. The intellectual growth of women in education and at the workplace has had a profound impact on Saudis. And the consequences are, well, many people do not like it. These changes have pushed both men and women out of their comfort zones. Many women are embracing it. Many men are not.
And as a result many people are acting out, betraying our Islamic faith and our obligations to Saudi society. And the abuse is heaped on women, who are benefiting the most from the changes in society. We see with sickening regularity video clips of men chasing women from malls into the parking lot. A man just the other day was videotaped reportedly molesting a young girl. So-called religious men advocate abusing women in the workplace so they will quit and return home.
Then we have a new poll from the King Abdul Aziz Center for National Dialogue, which found that a majority of the 992 men polled said that women wearing eyeliner and mascara are responsible for men sexually assaulting women. Typical victim blaming.
Part of the problem is that Saudi law enforcement remains mired in the 19th century and is far from catching up with 21st century technology and the 21st century lifestyle of Saudi youths. The Saudi Ministry of Justice has been talking about codifying its legal system for years now, but we have seen little evidence of any intent to a standardize legal system that will make sexual assault, harassment and abuse illegal with real-world consequences.
Now, we have a new study that reports that 73 percent of all Saudi women suffer some form of verbal abuse. Verbal abuse is defined by the study as humiliating a wife in public, demanding that a woman be silent in public, threats of physical abuse, denigrating a woman’s personal appearances, using sexually explicit profanities against her, and not speaking her name. Sadly, 31 percent of the 285 women polled said they consider themselves responsible for their husband’s verbal abuse, while 17 percent apologize for their actions that purportedly caused the abuse.
There have been suggestions that Hollywood movies are to be blamed for the increase in verbal abuse of women. That is all pretty much hogwash since it allows men — like the guys who sexually assault women who wear too much eye makeup — off the hook for their behavior.
We have a neighbor next door to use who screams at his wife and children every single day, sometimes from morning until night. The daughters, whom all seem to be under 14, wear no makeup and are as quiet as mosque mice when they step out of the apartment on those rare occasions. The mother is never seen. The girls do not wear makeup, and given their age, I see no evidence that they deserve his reign of terror.
But what I do hear is the kids behaving in the same manner as their father. What I fear is the cycle of verbal abuse will be handed down from one generation to another. Those fathers who verbally abuse their wives and the brothers who harass women at malls and claim they were provoked into raping a woman are setting an example for the younger generation of men to wage war on women.
Answers can be found in Islam, but blaming western media and educated women who happen to wear makeup is the coward’s way out of solving the problem.
Email: sabria_j@hotmail.com
India ( Handgun named after rape victim " Fearless 32. cal " Activists mad ) Nirbheek "fearless"
NEW DELHI: An Indian handgun designed for women and named after the victim of a fatal gang-rape in Delhi was condemned by rights activists on Sunday as a disgrace to her memory.
The lightweight .32 calibre revolver was developed by the state-run Indian Ordnance Factory (IOF) and can fit inside a small purse or handbag, according to a newspaper report.

The factory in the northern city of Kanpur has received 20 orders since the titanium-alloy, six-shot gun — costing 122,360 rupees ($1,976) — was launched earlier this month, the Times of India said.
"At least 80 percent of the bookings are from women," IOF general manager Abdul Hameed told the newspaper, adding that more orders were expected soon.
"Expectedly, the weapon has received a very good response," he said.
The gun is called "Nirbheek" meaning "fearless" in Hindi and was intended as a tribute to the 23-year-old student whose brutal attack in India's capital in December 2012 sparked outrage about the levels of violence against women in India.
The student was given the nickname Nirbhaya (also meaning fearless) by the media and authorities after the attack because she could not be named under Indian law.
But activists said the gun showed Indian authorities "completely misunderstood" how they were supposed to protect women from high levels of violence across the country.
"It really is an insult to the memory of Nirbhaya," said Binalakshmi Nepram, founder of the Manipur Women Gun Survivors Network said Sunday.
"Our research shows that a person is 12 times more likely to be shot dead if they are carrying a gun when attacked," she told AFP.
"It also shows that the government of India has failed to protect women by resorting to this. Arming women is not a responsible way to secure their safety and security," she said.
The Indian government was introduced tougher laws for rapists and other offenders and a range of other judicial and policing reforms in the wake of outrage over the student's attack on a moving bus.
The attack shone a global spotlight on India's treatment of women, sparked protests and unleashed seething public anger about the daily harassment and violence facing women.
The lightweight .32 calibre revolver was developed by the state-run Indian Ordnance Factory (IOF) and can fit inside a small purse or handbag, according to a newspaper report.
The factory in the northern city of Kanpur has received 20 orders since the titanium-alloy, six-shot gun — costing 122,360 rupees ($1,976) — was launched earlier this month, the Times of India said.
"At least 80 percent of the bookings are from women," IOF general manager Abdul Hameed told the newspaper, adding that more orders were expected soon.
"Expectedly, the weapon has received a very good response," he said.
The gun is called "Nirbheek" meaning "fearless" in Hindi and was intended as a tribute to the 23-year-old student whose brutal attack in India's capital in December 2012 sparked outrage about the levels of violence against women in India.
The student was given the nickname Nirbhaya (also meaning fearless) by the media and authorities after the attack because she could not be named under Indian law.
But activists said the gun showed Indian authorities "completely misunderstood" how they were supposed to protect women from high levels of violence across the country.
"It really is an insult to the memory of Nirbhaya," said Binalakshmi Nepram, founder of the Manipur Women Gun Survivors Network said Sunday.
"Our research shows that a person is 12 times more likely to be shot dead if they are carrying a gun when attacked," she told AFP.
"It also shows that the government of India has failed to protect women by resorting to this. Arming women is not a responsible way to secure their safety and security," she said.
The Indian government was introduced tougher laws for rapists and other offenders and a range of other judicial and policing reforms in the wake of outrage over the student's attack on a moving bus.
The attack shone a global spotlight on India's treatment of women, sparked protests and unleashed seething public anger about the daily harassment and violence facing women.
Eric Snowden News ( Aliens on earth " Tall Whites " working with U.S in Nevada ) Hmm
A stunning Federal Security Services (FSB) report on the nearly two million highly classified top-secret documents obtained from the United States Department of Defense (DOD) run National Security Agency-Central Security Service (NSA/CSS) by the American ex-patriot Edward Snowden states that this information is providing “incontrovertible proof” that an “alien/extraterrestrial intelligence agenda” is driving US domestic and international policy, and has been doing so since at least 1945, Whatdoesitmean.com reported.
Edward Snowden is a computer specialist, a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee, and former NSA/CSS contractor who disclosed these classified documents to several media outlets in late 2012 and was granted temporary asylum in Russia in 2013 after his designation by the Obama regime as the “most wanted man on earth.”
This FSB report further states that Snowden, in December, 2012, contacted the highly respected American columnist, blogger, and author Glenn Greenwald by an email headed with the subject line stating, “I and others have things you would be interested in.?.?.?.”
In Snowden’s own words, this report continues, he outlined to Greenwald the reason for his highly secretive group obtaining and releasing these documents by warning that that there “were actually two governments in the US, the one that was elected, and the other, secret regime, governing in the dark.”
As to who is running this “secret regime” Snowden and his cohorts were warning about, FSB experts in this report say, was confirmed this past weekend by former Canadian defense minister Paul Hellyer who was given access to all of Snowden’s documents by Russian intelligence services and stated they were, indeed, “accurate.”
Even though Defense Minister Hellyer’s exact statements to the FSB in regards to Snowden’s documents remain classified, shortly after his “extensive electronic interview” by the FSB he was allowed to appear on Russia Today’s program SophieCo this past fortnight where he shockingly admitted that aliens have “been visiting our planet for thousands of years” and described several types of these extraterrestrials, including “Tall Whites” who are working with the US Air Force in Nevada.
Of the many explosive revelations in this FSB report, the one most concerning to Russian authorities are the Snowden’s documents “confirming” that the “Tall Whites” (further revealed by Defense Minister Hellyer as noted above) are the same extraterrestrial alien race behind the stunning rise of Nazi Germany during the 1930’s.
In just one example of the many outlined in this FSB report, it shows that with this “alien assistance,” at the end of the 1930’s, when Nazi Germany possessed just 57 submarines, over the four years of World War II it built 1,163 modern technologically advanced submarines at its dockyards and even put them into operation.
Snowden’s documents further confirm, this report says, the “Tall Whites” (Nordic) meetings in 1954 with US President Dwight D. Eisenhower where the “secret regime” currently ruling over America was established.
Most disturbingly, this FSB report warns, is that the “Tall White” agenda being implemented by the “secret regime” ruling the United States calls for the creation of a global electronic surveillance system meant to hide all true information about their presence here on earth as they enter into what one of Snowden’s documents calls the “final phase” of their end plan for total assimilation and world rule.
Unbeknownst to the FSB, this report confirms, are those still in the US government backing Snowden, but whose presence Russian intelligence experts note is “unmistakable” and shows a cataclysmic power struggle is currently underway against this “secret regime” now headed by Obama by “forces unknown.”
Most to be feared by Russian policy makers and authorities, this report concludes, is if those opposing the “Tall White” “secret regime” ruled over by Obama have themselves aligned with another alien-extraterrestrial power themselves.
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