Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Vows to Help Kurdistan in War Against Isis

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Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses the 69th United Nations General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York(Reuters)
Jack Moore
International Business Times UKBy -September 29, 2014 
Turkey has pledged to support the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan in its fight against Isis (now known as the Islamic State).
The Kurdish region has been faced with an IS offensive and a potential humanitarian crisis by the influx of refugees from embattled regions of northern Iraq.
Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Vows to Help Kurdistan in War Against Isis by Thavam

Hong Kong: The ‘Umbrella Revolution’


| by Nilantha Ilangamuwa
( September 30, 2014, Hong Kong SAR, Sri Lanka Guardian) The “Hong Kong Wall of Shame” is filling up with yellow ribbons which are giving a sharp tone to the true sound of freedom. The barrier is no longer a barrier, it has turned into a tool of expression and expectation of the future. Iron bars surrounding the legislative council, known as LegCo, has been renamed the “Hong Kong Wall of Shame” by the protestors.

ஜெர்மன் அகதி முகாம்கள் : தனியாரின் சித்திரவதைக் கூடங்கள்

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2014
ஜெர்மனியில், அகதி முகாம்களில் தங்க வைக்கப் பட்டுள்ள அகதிகள், பாதுகாவலர்களினால் அடித்து, உதைத்து, சித்திரவதை செய்யப் படுகின்றனர். கெல்ன் (Köln, ஆங்கிலத்தில்: Cologne) நகருக்கு அருகில் உள்ள, பூர்பாஹ் (Burbach) எனும் கிராமத்தில் உள்ள அகதி முகாமில் நடந்த சித்திரவதைகள் தொடர்பான படங்கள் வெளியாகியுள்ளன. 
கலையகம்ஓர் அல்ஜீரிய அகதியின் தலையை, இரண்டு பாதுகாவலர்கள் காலில் போட்டு மிதிக்கும் காட்சிகள், ஊடகங்களில் காட்டப் பட்டன. அதன் பின்னர், ஜெர்மன் அகதி முகாம்களில் வாழும் அகதிகள் சித்திரவதை செய்யப் படுவது பற்றிய தகவல்கள், நாடு முழுவதும் பரபரப்பாக பேசப் பட்டு வருகின்றன. இது வரையில், கைத்தொலைபேசியால் எடுத்த வீடியோவும், நிழற்படமும் வெளியாகி உள்ளன. இந்த மனித உரிமை மீறல்கள் குறித்து ஆராய்வதாக கூறிய பொலிஸ் தரப்பு பேச்சாளர், “ஜெர்மனியின் குவாந்தனமோ பே” என்று வர்ணித்தார். 
கெல்ன் நகரம் அமைந்துள்ள, நோர்ட்ரைன்-வெஸ்ட்பாலின் மாநிலத்தில், உள்ளூர் தொலைக்காட்சி சேவையான WDR, இது தொடர்பாக அதிக கவனம் செலுத்தி வருகின்றது. அகதிகள் துன்புறுத்தப் படுவதாக படுவதாக, வேறு இடங்களில் இருந்தும் தகவல்கள் கிடைத்ததாக அறிவித்துள்ளது. எஸ்சென்  (Essen) நகரில் உள்ள அகதி முகாமில் வசிக்கும் அகதிகள், வன்முறைக்கு உள்ளான ஆதாரங்கள், மருத்துவ அறிக்கைகளில் பதிவு செய்யப் பட்டுள்ளதாக தெரிவிக்கின்றது.
ஜெர்மனியில், அகதிகளாக வருவோர், முகாம்களில் தங்க வைக்கப் படுகின்றனர். குறைந்தது ஒரு வருடத்திற்கு, அகதிகள் வேலை செய்ய அனுமதி கிடையாது. அது மட்டுமல்லாது, குறிப்பிட்ட தூரத்திற்கு அப்பால் பிரயாணம் செய்ய முடியாது. 
முந்திய காலங்களில், அகதிகளின் பராமரிப்பை அரசு பொறுப்பேற்று நடத்தி வந்தது. தற்போது, அந்தப் பொறுப்பை தனியார் நிறுவனங்களிடம் ஒப்படைத்து விட்டார்கள். முழுப் பொருளாதாரமும் தனியார்மயத்தை நோக்கி நகரும் பொழுது, அகதிகளை மட்டும் விட்டு வைப்பார்களா?
நோர்ட்ரைன்-வெஸ்ட்பாலின் மாநிலத்தில், “European Homecare" எனும் தனியார் நிறுவனம் பல அகதி முகாம்களை நிர்வகித்து வருகின்றது. அந்த நிறுவனம், முகாம் தொடர்பான பல்வேறு வேலைகளுக்கு, பிற தனியார் நிறுவனங்களுடன் ஒப்பந்தம் போட்டுள்ளது. 
முகாமில் பணி புரியும் பாதுகாப்பு உத்தியோகஸ்தர்கள், SKI எனும் தனியார் நிறுவனத்தை சேர்ந்தவர்கள். அந்த நிறுவனத்தின் இரண்டு பாதுகாவலர்கள் தான், சித்திரவதை குற்றச்சாட்டில் சம்பந்தப் பட்டிருந்தனர். அவர்கள் தற்போது பணியில் இருந்து இடைநிறுத்தம் செய்யப் பட்டுள்ளனர். 
பூர்பார்க் முகாமில் சுமார் 700 அகதிகள் வசிக்கின்றனர். சித்திரவதை குற்றச்சாட்டு சம்பந்தமாக அவர்களில் பலர் வாக்குமூலம் அளித்துள்ளனர். இருந்தாலும், சம்பந்தப் பட்ட பாதுகாவலர்கள் இனவெறியர்கள் என்பதை அரசாங்கம் மறுத்து வருகின்றது. 
சித்திரவதை குற்றச்சாட்டு சுமத்தப் பட்டுள்ள பாதுகாப்பு உத்தியோகஸ்தர்கள், “கடந்த காலங்களில் போதைவஸ்து பாவனை, வன்முறையில் ஈடுபட்ட முறைப்பாடுகள் பதிவு செய்யப் பட்டுள்ளதாக,” பொலிஸ் தெரிவிக்கின்றது. “கிரிமினல்களை கடமையில் ஈடுபடுத்தும் பாதுகாப்பு நிறுவனங்கள் மீது கடும் நடவடிக்கை எடுக்கப் படும்” என்று மாநில அரசின் அமைச்சர் ஒருவர் கூறியுள்ளார். 
சாதாரணமாக, ஒருவர் விமான நிலையத்தில் கழுவித் துடைக்கும் வேலை செய்வதற்கு விண்ணப்பித்தாலே, பொலிஸ் சான்றிதழ் இல்லாமல் சேர்த்துக் கொள்ள மாட்டார்கள். பாதுகாப்பு நிறுவனங்களில், ஒருவரின் கடந்த காலத்தைப் பற்றி, பொலிஸ் பதிவுகளில் ஆராயாமல் சேர்த்துக் கொள்வார்களா? 
அகதி முகாம்களில் நடக்கும் சித்திரவதை தொடர்பாக, ஜெர்மன் பாராளுமன்றத்தில் கடுமையான வாக்குவாதங்கள் இடம்பெற்றன. குறிப்பாக, இடதுசாரிக் கட்சிகளான die Linke மற்றும் பசுமைக் கட்சி உறுப்பினர்கள், அரசாங்க கொள்கைகளை விமர்சித்துப் பேசினார்கள். 
"அகதிகளை முகாம்களில் தங்க வைப்பதை இத்துடன் நிறுத்திக் கொள்ள வேண்டும். அது மனிதாபிமானமற்றது. அதிகார துஸ்பிரயோகத்தை உருவாக்குகின்றது. முகாம்களுக்குப் பதிலாக, அகதிகள் தாம் விரும்பிய இடத்தில் வசிக்கும் உரிமையை வழங்க வேண்டும்." என்று die Linke பாராளுமன்ற உறுப்பினர் Bernd Riexinger தனது கருத்தைத் தெரிவித்தார்.

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Is Dissolving the Palestinian Authority an Essential Next Step?

Carlos Latuff 2014
Sep-29-2014


Justice for the Palestinians is not on Zionism's agenda.
(LONDON) - The Obama administration or those who write its scripts must think that all of us who support the Palestinian claim for justice are stupid. It described Palestinian Authority President Abbas's statement (during his speech to the UN General Assembly) that Israel's last war on the Gaza Strip was a "genocidal crime" as "offensive and provocative" and one that "undermined peace efforts."
Peace efforts? There are no peace efforts to be undermined!
Is Dissolving the Palestinian Authority an Essential Next Step by Thavam
Obama's Islamic State Blame Game

The nation's spies feel that the president is throwing them under the bus -- again.

President Barack Obama took a shot at the U.S. intelligence community Sunday night when he told CBS News "60 Minutes" that America's spies had "underestimated" the rise of the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. It wasn't an entirely inaccurate statement, and as Obama himself noted, his own intelligence chief had made the same point a few weeks ago. But come Monday, U.S. spies were complaining the president had "thrown us under the bus," as one former official put it, by trying to shift the blame for a foreign policy crisis away from the White House and towards the nation's beleaguered intelligence community.

With the rise of Islamic State, Iraq is splintering along religious and ethnic lines



— For millennia, Iraq has been one of the Middle East’s most religiously and ethnically diverse lands. Its cities and villages are dotted with the decaying hallmarks of ancient Babylonian civilization, the mosques of the first Muslim empires, the castles of foreign conquerors, and the churches and shrines of early Christians and Jews.

Kurds seize Iraq/Syria border post; Sunni tribe joins fight against Islamic State

Volunteers with Kurdish peshmerga forces clash with Islamic State militants in the town of Daquq, south of Kirkuk, September 30, 2014. REUTERS-Ako RasheedA British Tornado fighter jet lands at the British Royal Air Force's (RAF) Akrotiri base in Cyprus September 28, 2014. Two British fighter jets on a mission to Iraq returned to an air base in Cyprus on Sunday after four hours from take off, but the details of their mission were not immediately clear nor whether the planes had carried out air strikes or surveillance. REUTERS-Andreas Manolis
Reuters
BY ISABEL COLES AND JONNY HOGG-ARBIL Iraq/MURSITPINAR Turkey Tue Sep 30, 2014 
(Reuters) - Iraqi Kurdish troops drove Islamic State fighters from a strategic border crossing with Syria on Tuesday and won the support of members of a major Sunni tribe, in one of the biggest successes since U.S. forces began bombing the fighters.
Kurds Seize Iraq Syria Border Post Sunni Tribe Joins Fight Against Islamic State by Thavam

Alan Henning's wife urges Islamic State to release her husband

The TelegraphBarbara Henning, the wife of British hostage Alan Henning, releases a video appeal to his kidnappers pleading for his release, saying "we need him back home"

Telegraph.co.ukBy video source ITN-30 Sep 2014
Barbara Henning has issued a plea for Islamic State militants to release her husband.
In an emotional televised appeal, Mrs Henning, whose husband Alan has been held in Syria for nine months, said she could not understand why the group could not acknowledge the truth about his reasons for travelling to the country.
“We are at a loss why those leading Islamic State cannot open their hearts and minds to the truth about Alan’s humanitarian motives for going to Syria and why they continue to ignore the verdict of their own justice system.
“Surely those who wish to be seen as a state will act in a statesman-like way by showing mercy and providing clemency. I ask again, supported by the voices across the world, for Islamic State to spare Alan’s life. I ask Islamic State please release him, we need him back home.”
She added that after receiving an audio file of her husband, begging for his life, contact with the group had been broken. She added that she wanted both her husband and Islamic State to know that he had not been abandoned by his family: “Alan, we miss you, and we’re dreadfully concerned for your safety.”
Henning, 47, a father of two teenage children from Eccles, Greater Manchester, was kidnapped last Boxing Day, on a return aid trip to Syria, with a group of his Muslim friends. They were taking ambulances and medical equipment to refugees in the country.
His capture went unreported at the request of the UK Foreign Office, until he appeared in a video made by the group, which also showed the murder of Scottish aid worker David Haines.
Speaking about the circumstances in which her husband was abducted, Mrs Henning said: “Some say wrong time, wrong place.” But this was not correct, she said.
“Alan was volunteering with his Muslim friend to help the people of Syria. He was in the right place doing the right thing.”
Meanwhile, a former Islamic State hostage has said he believes that the direct pleas being made by Henning’s family are a good policy.
Bunyamin Aygun, 43, an award-winning Turkish photographer, said he had been threatened with execution, regularly moved between squalid cells, and was repeatedly questioned over whether he was a spy.
He also said that one of his captors may have been British. “A guy of about 20 years old was speaking English; not Arabic or Turkish,” he said in a television interview. “He wasn’t wearing a mask. His English was like British English. And he was white.”

Hong Kong protestors wait for Beijing’s response

Student activists sleep in the shade of umbrellas in Hong Kong Tuesday. Pic: AP.
Student activists sleep in the shade of umbrellas in Hong Kong Tuesday. Pic: AP.
By  Sep 30, 2014
Asian CorrespondentAs China prepares to celebrate the 65th anniversary of the establishment of the Peoples Republic of China, Hong Kong is in the process of attempting to overthrow that very same political and social order. Already into day three of the Occupy Central campaign, tens of thousands of pro-democracy protestors continue to hold Hong Kong city centre at a standstill, forcing bank branches to close in the downtown area to close and prompting Hong Kong stocks to fall 1.9 percent in the campaign’s first day. All the while the authorities keep their distance.
Hong Kong Protestors Wait for Beijing’s Response by Thavam

How did Dennis Kimetto smash the world marathon record?

Channel 4 News
MONDAY 29 SEPTEMBER 2014
It is the question everyone wants to know, after he sailed through a marathon in under two hours, three minutes. Channel 4 News speaks to the author of Running with the Kenyans about his secret.
It is not just the fact that Dennis Kimetto shaved 26 seconds off the world marathon record: it is the apparent ease with which he did it, appearing to effortlessly see off his competitors in Berlin and break away from his seven-man group.
What is more extraordinary is that Kimetto only started training seriously in 2010. Before then, he was a fulltime susbsistence farmer in rural Kenya, having managed to slip through the net of the scouts who seek out the country's talented runners.
He first got people talking when in 2012, at the relatively old age of 28, he came in very close second place in the Berlin Marathon to Geoffrey Mutai, the man who discovered him by chance and asked if he wanted to start training. And after winning Tokyo and Chicago marathons last year, expectations were high.
He's almost the most untrained, uncomplicated athlete there is, and he's proved to be the best there isAdharanand Finn
But how did he do it? If only it were thats simple. Adharanand Finn, who lived in a training camp with Kenyan athletes and wrote about the experience in his book, Running with the Kenyans, said that Kimetto is an "unusual case".
"What I find interesting about him, is that he hadn't been picked up early - he hadn't been through the mill of competition," Mr Finn told Channel 4 News. "And even without having trained professionally until he was 26, he's this good."
Kenyans in general don't do high tech training, he adds, "but his would've been even more simple and basic than all the others. He's almost the most untrained, uncomplicated athlete there is, and he's proved to be the best there is."

Low-fi training

The phenomenon of Kenya's staggering track record on running has intrigued experts and enthusiasts for years. Some have put the elegant, natural-looking style that Kimetto shares down to lifestyle, and the fact that from an early age, children will run to school, often barefoot. In rural areas with limited means of transport, running has become the most efficient way to get around.
Hundreds of Kenyans are now in training camps, where they eat, sleep and run together, and the standard is staggeringly high. Even if you can run a marathon in two hours eight minutes - just overMo Farah's two hours, eight minutes and 21 seconds in London earlier this year - you wouldn't get into some of them, Mr Finn adds.
But there is little of the high tech equipment and analysis that accompanies the running regimes of European and American athletes. And this can result in quite a different mentality.
While some athletes discuss their strategy and analyse their race mile by mile after they've finished, Kimetto simply told reporters: "When you in the race, you can look (see) the other and watch... So I think you can see when to make the push."
"I don't think he would sit and analyse a race afterwards like a western runner," said Mr Finn. "The mental approach and focus is amazing in Kenya. It's a difficult one, because you're generalising about whole group of runners, but generally, there's a less analytical approach. They don't keep training logs, and most runners wouldn't know how many miles they run every week, whereas English runners would know almost metre to metre."
With just a few miles to go, Kimetto said he had the finish line in his sights and felt that he could break the world record. And although he made it look easy, he had a few words of comfort for his fellow competitors - that is was a "tough race".