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[Paul]

a to...ocem rec, i dalje ne kontam :D

[Shan Jan]

Traje svedocenje u vezi Marikane, za sada samo sa fokusom na ono sto je prethodilo masakru od strane policije. Veliko je pitanje koliko je svedok uopste autentican

 

 

 

 

Murdered Lonmin guards pleaded for their lives - Mr X2014-07-17 21:54

 

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Pretoria - Two Lonmin security guards apologised and pleaded for mercy before protesting mineworkers killed them, the Farlam Commission of Inquiry heard on Thursday.

"They apologised but no one listened to them. We just killed them," a police witness identified only as Mr X told the inquiry in Pretoria.

"They apologised from inside the car. Their car was damaged before they were killed."

Mr X was questioned by Karel Tip, for the National Union of Mineworkers. He also represents the widow of Hassan Fundi, one of two security guards strikers killed on 12 August 2012. The other was Frans Mabelani.

"With connection to Mr Fundi and Mr Mabelani, can you tell us whether those security officers got the opportunity to say anything, to plead for their lives?" Tip had asked him.

Mr X may not be named to protect his identity. He is under police witness protection and is testifying at the commission via video link from an undisclosed location.

He claims he was part of a group of striking Lonmin mineworkers at Marikana, near Rustenburg, who underwent traditional rituals and participated in the murders of Fundi and Mabelani.

He has detailed in an affidavit how flesh was cut from Fundi's face, how sangomas cut this into smaller pieces, mixed it with blood, and burnt it to ashes for the miners to eat. This was apparently to prepare them for a confrontation with police.

Tip said contrary to Mr X's evidence, post-mortem results did not indicate a gunshot wound to Fundi's head, but a fractured skull and jaw.

Mr X said Fundi sustained the fractures when the protesters attacked him.

"I saw Magubane [a mineworker] attacking him. These people have said I should not say their names in this commission.

"Magubane, Xolani, Boy, Anele and others attend the commission and are inside this commission," said Mr X.

Thirty-four people, mostly striking Lonmin mineworkers, were shot dead in a clash with police in Marikana on 16 August.

In the preceding week, 10 people, including two policemen and the two security guards, were killed. The commission is investigating the 44 deaths.

- SAPA

 

 

Svasta se desava u RSA ove godine ali vrlo malo dobrog. 5-mesecni strajk rudara je doveo do pada ekonomije u prvom kvartalu. Istog trenutka kad je on zavrsen krenuo je strajk metalaca (po nekima iz ciste zelje da se ovaj sindikat pokaze, sobzirom da se sindikati cesto izmedju sebe bore za clanove), ukupno 220 000 ljudi zvanicno u strajku, stopirane su sve fabrike automobila i vecina fabrika metalnih delova. Medjutim strajk je pogodio daleko sire ekonomiju - gradjevinski sektor je u zastoju, stalo se sa izgradnjom izuzetno potrebnih elektrana a i veliki broj malih firmi koje nisu clanovi sindikata su zatvorile vrata iz straha od unistavanje imovine i premlacivanja neposlusnih radnika koji bi da rade. Rand vec nedeljama pada li pada.

Takodje se prica o tome da se 50% sherova svih farmi da radnicima a vec je pokrenut ponovo proces zahteva za otetom zemljom. Najveci potrazivalac je kralj zulua, tvrdi da mu pripada otprilike pola RSA :D

[Prospero]

Nisam siguran da je to baš vest ali Argentina će izgleda da bankrotira.

[Gandalf]

Nisam siguran da je to baš vest ali Argentina će izgleda da bankrotira.

  nije vest.

[Prospero]

Nego...
 

Clashes with Russia point to globalization’s end
By Mark Leonard
JULY 30, 2014

 

As the European Union and the United States ramp up their sanctions on Russia, President Vladimir Putin’s plans for retaliation seem to include an attack on McDonald’s. There could not be a more powerful symbol that geopolitics is increasingly undoing the globalization of the world economy.

The burger chain was celebrated in the 1990s by the journalist Thomas Friedman’s “Golden Arches theory of conflict prevention,” which argued that the spread of McDonald’s around the world would bring an end to war. But almost 25 years after a McDonald’s restaurant opened in Moscow, it seems that deep interdependence has not ended conflict between great powers – it has merely provided a new battlefield for it.

As in any relationship that turns sour, many of the things that initially tie the parties together are now being used to drive them apart. For the past two decades we have heard that the world is becoming a global village because of the breadth and depth of its trading and investment links, its nascent global governance and the networks of the information age. But those forces for interdependence are degenerating into their opposite; we could call it the three faces of ‘splinterdependence’:

FROM FREE TRADE TO ECONOMIC WARFARE

Economic interdependence was supposed to defuse geopolitical tensions over time – or at least allow the two to be compartmentalized. But today the West is using Russia’s participation in the global economy to punish it for its actions in eastern Ukraine. The EU has announced sanctions that will hit Russia in the banking, oil and defense industries. When China felt its interests were threatened, it was also willing to use economic sanctions in its territorial disputes with the Philippines and Japan. In May, Beijing found itself on the receiving end as Vietnam turned a blind eye to anti-Chinese riots targeting Chinese plants when China put an oil rig in the disputed Paracel Islands.

FROM GLOBAL GOVERNANCE TO COMPETITIVE MULTILATERALISM

Many saw global trade relations as a prelude to global government, with rising powers such as Russia and China being socialized into roles as “responsible stakeholders” in a single global system. But multilateral integration now seems to be dividing rather than uniting. Geopolitical competition gridlocks global institutions; the Ukraine crisis came about because of a clash between two incompatible projects of multilateral integration – the European-led Eastern Partnership and Russia’s Eurasian Union.

There is a global trend of competing mini-lateral friendship organizations. On the one hand, the “world without the West” encompasses the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India and China), the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and a host of sub-regional bodies. On the other, the West is creating new groupings outside the universal institutions — such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership in Asia and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership — that deliberately exclude China and Russia. Rather than seeing international law as a way of de-escalating disputes between countries, people are increasingly talking about its use as a weapon against hostile countries – “lawfare.”

FROM ONE INTERNET TO MANY

Even the Internet is leading to hostile fragmentation rather than a global public square. Putin might have offered Edward Snowden refuge, but it is America’s closest allies — such as Angela Merkel in Germany and President Dilma Rousseff in Brazil — who are the most concerned about the National Security Agency’s prying into their citizens private lives. Anupam Chander and Uyen P. Le of the University of California at Davis contend that “Anxieties over surveillance … are justifying governmental measures that break apart the World Wide Web … the era of a global Internet may be passing.” They claim that countries such as Australia, France, South Korea, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Malaysia and Vietnam have already moved to keep certain types of data on servers within their national borders.

After the end of the Cold War, when the apostles of globalization argued that trade would soon eclipse warfare, the military strategist Edward Luttwak predicted that they would soon be proved wrong. Although capital would replace firepower as a weapon of choice, and market penetration would play the role that bases and garrisons had in earlier generations, the driving force of international relations would be conflict rather than trade. As he put it, we would have “the grammar of commerce but the logic of war.” Luttwak’s prediction seemed misplaced at a time when countries such as Russia, China, India and Brazil were rushing to join the global economy.

The post-Cold War world these countries entered was marked by the development of an U.S.-led unipolar security order and a European-led legal order that sought to bind the world together through free trade, economic interdependence, international law and multilateral institutions. Today, we can see that the U.S.-led security order is fraying both as a result of war-weariness and the emergence of new powers internationally. As a result, great powers such as the United States are increasingly trying to weaponize the international legal order through sanctions to compensate for their unwillingness to use military force.

Interdependence, formerly an economic boon, has now become a threat as well. No one is willing to lose out on the benefits of a global economy, but all great powers are thinking about how to protect themselves from its risks, military and otherwise. China is moving toward domestic consumption after the threat of the U.S. financial crisis. America is moving toward energy independence after the Iraq War. Russia is trying to build a Eurasian Union after the euro crisis. And even internationalist Germany is trying to change the EU so that its fellow member states are bound into German-style policies.

In the years after the Cold War, interdependence was a force for ending conflict.  But in 2014, it is creating it. After 25 years of being bound together ever more tightly, the world seems intent on resegregating itself.

 

... počeo sam prošle godine da pišem neki tekst o neomerkantilizmu kao jednoj od novih normi globalnih odnosa, i stao na pola jer nisam imao inspiraciju. Eto je sad.  :(

[Shan Jan]

Jedan WTF momenat u RSA, nakon zavrsetka strajka rudara i metalaca krenuli i djaci da protestuju. WTF je i sto niko ne zna zasto. 

 

 

Joburg school kids wreak havoc in CBD2014-07-30 14:05

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Johannesburg –  Thousands of school children have descended on Johannesburg CBD, reportedly wreaking havoc and looting from shops and vendors.

Was anybody hurt? Were you caught in the chaos? Send us your eyewitness accounts. Upload photos HERE, stories HERE, or e-mailHERE.

Tara Weber, who works at an art gallery in the CBD, told News24 that a group of learners in school uniforms were looting from vendors in the streets outside their building.

“The gates to the gallery had to be locked. We are not sure what is going on or where they are coming from.”

She said the children were seen running down the street just after lunch time.

Weber said: “We are following the incident via Twitter and I have heard police sirens outside.”

News24 user, Silindile Sibusisiwe Ntumba, said: “These children are hooligans! I have no idea why they are marching and I do not care, but harassing us, snatching our food and threatening to hit us with bricks was just not on!”

Sapa reported that the group was in Albertina Sisulu and Eloff streets around 14:00, and majority were standing in front of the education department building.

Metro police spokesperson Wayne Minnaar said there had been reports of the group misbehaving by picking up hawkers' stands and throwing them on the ground.

He advised motorists to avoid the streets and use Marshall Street as an alternative.

Metro officials were monitoring the situation.

News24 users who witnessed the looting, sent these reports:

“I came across the school kids on Claim Street in Joubert Park, looting an alcohol truck while offloading and running away with multiple cases of alcohol some were even drinking,” wrote Khongoteri Michael Nkondo.

“A restaurant was almost looted as the pupils sang ‘we are hungry’. We spoke with one pupil he informed me that the police forums around the CBD are harassing them making them to learn in fear,” said Gillen Tshabangu.

“They were a lot of school kids around Johannesburg CDB throwing fruits which they loot from vendors. They forced many shops to close for some few minutes because the owners were scared to lose their stuff. I've haven’t seen any injuries I only saw an Indian man hit with an orange on the knee. This happened between Commissinor and Delvers streets but we don't know where they were coming from and the reason why,” wrote Ronald Frank.

People in the CBD have tweeted that the children are armed and threatening vendors and shop owners.

 

School kids armed with mashetes looting and running a mock in 

#johanneburg

 

#CBD

. street stalls overturned but no visible injuries!

 

— Mike Slater (@MikeDPSlater) 

July 30, 2014

 

Thousands of school kids wrecking havoc in Johannesburg cbd looting from shops and vendors. What's this world coming to?

— Mthabisi Moyo (@Mtha82) 

July 30, 2014

 

Outside Parkstation RT"@News24: Reports of school kids on the rampage in the Joburg CBD, looting shops... > pic.twitter.com/BiYqjd2gNN

— Nomazwi Majola (@NomaFabulAAs662) July 30, 2014

 

School kids in JHB city looting and beating up people as they march for tablets to be installed at their schools.

— Prof. Vusani (@Vusani_) July 30, 2014

 

Why do ppl expect the schoolkids to protest w/out looting & chaos when the adults can't manage it? Do as I say not as I do? #joburgprotest

— Melanie Blignaut (@melbli) July 30, 2014

 

 

[Gandalf]

Evan Hill@evanchill · 26m

Abusalha's narrative is pretty much: America was boring, I wasn't rich or happy, so I decided to blow myself up in Syria.

 

Evan Hill@evanchill · 28m

Global jihad in one picture.

Edited July 31, 2014 by Gandalf

[Roger Sanchez]

Možda ipak smak svijeta uskoro.

:ph34r:

[Muwan]

Erm, malkice se otelo kontroli u Nagorno-Karabahu. Desetak poginulih azerbejdžanskih vojnika u nekoliko napada i kontranapada koje su obe strane izvele ovih dana. Azeri tvrde da su Jermeni imali dvostruko veće gubitke dok Jermeni tvrde da nisu imali žrtava i pokazuju fotke navodno zarobljenog oružja i opreme.

 

U isto vreme, u Jerevanu su počeli protesti protiv aktuelne vlade. Ne zbog ovog gore nego zbog poskupljenja struje.

[Prospero]

Pay your debt, beatch!
 

Real-life Pirate of the Caribbean: Billionaire New York hedge funder seizes Argentine navy's $10m flagship over country's unpaid debts
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 16:06 GMT, 5 October 2012
UPDATED: 18:04 GMT, 5 October


If pirating didn't work out, Capt. Jack Sparrow would perhaps have made a savvy hedge fund manager.
A New York hedge fund boss is being dubbed a real pirate of the Caribbean after seizing the flagship of the Argentinian navy in an attempt to settle some of the country's huge debt.
Billionaire Paul Singer took control of the tall ship the A.R.A. Libertad with a court order in Ghana this week. 

The triple-mast frigate, which stopped in the African country as it trained naval cadets, is valued at $10 million and is the ceremonial flagship of the Argentine fleet. 


The bounty: Argentina's naval flagship the A.R.A. Libertad is valued at $10 million but that's only a fraction of the billions owed

Singer's Elliot Management Corp. owns $1.6 billion of Argentine debt, a drop in the ocean of the country's record $95 billion default in 2001. 
Singer reportedly monitored the course of the ship as it sailed around world waiting for a chance to strike, according to the New York Post.
  
The Libertad had its maiden voyage in 1962. The ship set a record for transatlantic crossing using only sail navigation in 1966, traveling between Cape Race, Canada, and Dursey Island, Ireland, in 6 days and four hours.

She's also won the Boston Teapot Trophy six times, most recently in 1998. The international award is given to the sail training vessel that covers the most distance over 124 hours. 
The Libertad currently serves as a school ship providing instructive voyages for graduating naval cadets.
 

Holding course: Hedge fund manager Paul Singer has vowed to keep the seized Argentinian ship unless the country pays its debts

He finally got his chance when it docked at the African nation of Ghana carrying more 200 people, about 70 of whom were naval cadets in training.

Its seems Singer's gambit has paid off. A Ghana court backed the seizure, ordering the Argentine government to pay an undisclosed sum before the ship will be released to them. If they refuse payment, Singer can keep the ship.

In the wake of Singer's financial swashbuckling, Argentina has denounced him as an 'unscrupulous financier,' calling the move a 'sneak attack of the vulture funds' and a violation of the Vienna Convention on diplomatic immunity. 

Argentine officials have vowed not to pay the bounty, saying they wouldn't give in to 'international extortion.'

Should they change their minds, it will be the first money Singer has collected on the debt since courts awarded him the full $1.6 billion value of the defaulted bonds. 

Following Argentina's economic crisis most bondholders settled their debts for 30 cents on the dollar. Singer demands face value.

Government officials fear the Ghanian decision could embolden the country's numerous creditors, who've attempted to take seize assets as varied as planes owned by flagship airline Aerolineas Argentinas, to central bank funds deposited in New York.

PS: Izvinjavam se zbog izbora novina :D

[stena]

Azerbejdzan pozvao MZ da uvede sankcije Jermeniji. 

 

http://nvua.net/world/Azerbaydzhan-prizval-mir-vvesti-sankcii-protiv-Armenii-6469.html

[namenski]

Pay your debt, beatch!

 

PS: Izvinjavam se zbog izbora novina :D

Mogao je i datum 'ladno da bude neka 1909...

Medjunarodno pomorsko pravo na delu, svaka cast, jedina je razlika sto su ove moderne face mnogo, mnogo bezobzirnije, oni iz 1909. im nisu ni prineti...

[Utvara]

Erm, malkice se otelo kontroli u Nagorno-Karabahu. Desetak poginulih azerbejdžanskih vojnika u nekoliko napada i kontranapada koje su obe strane izvele ovih dana. Azeri tvrde da su Jermeni imali dvostruko veće gubitke dok Jermeni tvrde da nisu imali žrtava i pokazuju fotke navodno zarobljenog oružja i opreme.

 

U isto vreme, u Jerevanu su počeli protesti protiv aktuelne vlade. Ne zbog ovog gore nego zbog poskupljenja struje.

Novi momenti.

 

Živimo u eri twitter diplomatije, gde twitter nalog predsednika Azerbejdžan preti Jermenima i prosipa najprizemniju patriotsku propagandu.

[Prospero]

Bota je tamo u poseti, možda da državnički posavetuje našeg strateškog partnera iz Bakua? :D

[nemoderisani]

Nisam siguran da je to baš vest ali Argentina će izgleda da bankrotira.

Možda je vest da iza toga ne stoje argentinski političari već pogodi ko.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DnGOukmEIE 

Edited August 10, 2014 by nemoderisani