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Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Breaking the Basketball Bracket: A Guide to the South Region

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Monday, March 10, 2014

Masses of Aerosol Trails Around Coast Of Northland & Auckland To Dry Out Region?

Posted on March 9, 2014 by Clare Swinney

Thank-you to Sarah Hornibrooke for advising us of the many aerosol trails evident in the Rapidfire satellite imagery for New Zealand for Saturday, March the 8th, 2014. The following images are taken from both the Terra and Aqua Rapidfire shots for that date. The web address for some shots can be found at the top of the image.

The masses of aerosols sprayed over the sea adjacent land will probably significantly reduce the amount of rainfall ultimately, as they will inhibit precipitation, and thus development of rain clouds, as they are blocking the sunlight from reaching seawater, thereby contributing to the ongoing dry conditions in the north.

Below: Notice all the trails over the sea adjacent land, in particular over the Hauraki Gulf, in the vicinity of Rangitoto Island and those running up the west coast of Auckland and Helensville. From: http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/imagery/subsets/?subset=NewZealand.2014067.terra.250m

Below: Northland, large aerosol trails on the east coast.

Below: West of Northland, aerosol soup. From Aqua images.

Below: This double-banded part-circular indentation was in the Terra image over the lower North Island.

Above: What created the holes in the cloud cover over Lower North Island?

Below: Aerosols to east of South Island. They were not created by commercial air traffic.

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Masses of Aerosol Trails Around Coast Of Northland & Auckland To Dry Out Region?

Sunday, March 2, 2014

Crimea forms its own fleet as Ukraine Navy chief sides with region

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Thursday, January 9, 2014

Six bodies riddled with bullets found in Russian region bordering Sochi

Russia on Thursday launched a counter-terrorism operation after six bodies riddled with bullets were found in a region bordering that of Winter Olympic host city of Sochi, just weeks before the start of the Games.

Two districts in the southern Stavropol region were placed on high alert after the bodies were discovered in or close to parked cars, at least one of them apparently booby-trapped, in the rural area on Wednesday, the regional authorities said.

The Stavropol region borders the Krasnodar region where the Black Sea resort of Sochi is located.

“A counter-terrorism operation has been launched from midnight on January 9 in the Predgorny and Kirov districts of the Stavropol region,” the regional administration said in a statement.

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Rossiya 24 state television showed riot police patrolling a Kirov district filled with one-storey houses.

Three of the male victims have been identified, with one working as a taxi driver, it said.

On Tuesday, the authorities launched the most sweeping security operation in Olympic history, a month before Russia’s first post-Soviet Games kick off on February 7.

Russia particularly fears attacks by Islamist militants from the North Caucasus during the prestigious event, after two suicide bombings at a rail station and in a trolleybus last month in the southern city of Volgograd killed 34.

No one has claimed responsibility for that attack, but Russian media said the attackers came from the restive North Caucasus region of Dagestan.

Under Russia’s counter-terror legislation, security officials have sweeping powers to temporarily evacuate residents, stop cars and pedestrians, search premises and monitor phone calls and emails.

As police examined one of the cars in Stavropol, which contained the body of a local resident who had been shot in the head, an improvised explosive device (IED) went off around 20 metres (65 feet) away, causing no injuries, the regional interior ministry said in a statement.

Officers then defused another device nearby, Interfax news agency cited the FSB security agency as saying.

A security source told Interfax the two devices were packed with small metal elements such as screws to cause maximum injury and resembled those previously used by insurgents in southern Russia.

Two further bodies were found on the back seat and in the boot of Lada cars. Two more bodies were found in another parked car, while another lay nearby.

The Investigative Committee, which probes major criminal cases in Russia, opened probes into murder, arms trafficking and attempts on the lives of law enforcement officials.

It said Thursday that the series of murders, which took place within 24 hours, was to be treated as a single investigation.

A law enforcement source told Interfax that investigators were seeking three men from a village in the neighbouring Kabardino-Balkaria province.

Security fears

In a recent attack in the Stavropol region, which is a popular tourist destination, three police officers were killed in a car bombing in a historic spa resort, Pyatigorsk, in late December.

Islamist militants who are seeking their own state in the North Caucasus have vowed to strike civilians in an effort to undermine the Games and President Vladimir Putin, whose prestige is linked closely to the event’s success.

Putin called last month’s Volgograd bombings an “abomination” and assured the nation he would “fight against terrorists until their total destruction”.

Security measures introduced around Sochi on Tuesday include special permits for private cars or lorries to enter the city or access Olympic venues.

In unprecedented measures, Russia is also deploying drones to monitor the region and soldiers in armoured vehicles will patrol the city during the Games, which run until February 23.

Beyond Sochi, Moscow’s international airports have introduced a ban to last throughout the Olympic and Paralympic Games on carrying any liquids in hand luggage.

The Russian Post Office has also introduced compulsory searches of any parcels sent to the Krasnodar region around Sochi.

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Friday, August 30, 2013

UK Votes Against Syrian Strike While Obama Presses on Adding Fifth Destroyer to Region

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Barack Obama‘s plans for air strikes against Syria were thrown into disarray on Thursday night after the British parliament unexpectedly rejected a motion designed to pave the way to authorizing the UK’s participation in military action.

The White House was forced to consider the unpalatable option of taking unilateral action against the regime of Bashar al-Assad after the British prime minister, David Cameron, said UK would not now take part in any military action in response to a chemical attack in the suburbs of Damascus last week.

Although Britain’s support was not a prerequisite for US action, the Obama administration was left exposed without the backing of its most loyal ally, which has taken part in every major US military offensive in recent years.

Caitlin Hayden, a spokeswoman for Obama’s national security council, indicated the administration would consider acting unliaterally. “The US will continue to consult with the UK government – one of our closest allies and friends. As we’ve said, President Obama’s decision-making will be guided by what is in the best interests of the United States.

“He believes that there are core interests at stake for the United States and that countries who violate international norms regarding chemical weapons need to be held accountable.”

There is not a single shred of evidence that indicates Assad’s Syria used chemical weapons. Now the war mongering nations of the world are backing down, however, war is still imminent. The United Nations investigation team is expected to leave Syria on Friday or Saturday. In the meantime the man in the White House has order yet another destroyer to the Mediterranean.

The Pentagon is moving a fifth warship armed with cruise missiles to the eastern Mediterranean Sea, giving the U.S. more firepower for a possible attack on Syria in response to alleged use of chemical weapons, a defense official said.

The guided-missile destroyer Stout is expected to arrive in the area Thursday, joining four other missile-carrying U.S. destroyers within range of Syria.

Each can carry up to 90 cruise missiles, though experts say they are likely carrying about half that number. Cruise missiles have a range of nearly 1,000 miles, allowing the vessels carrying them to stay well out of range of Syria’s anti-ship missiles, even when they launch the missiles.

Last week, reports indicated a U.S. led strike on Syria would begin this week. Then the stalling started. First it was Wednesday, then Thursday, Friday and now the latest has it as Saturday. We must watch and wait, please say a pray for the safety of our Christian brothers and sisters.

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Tuesday, August 20, 2013

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Friday, June 28, 2013

Violence Erupts Anew in Volatile Western China Region

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Chinese paramilitary police in the volatile far western Xinjiang region on Friday.

HONG KONG — Deadly violence erupted on Friday in China’s volatile far western Xinjiang region, the second time in three days that tensions between the largely Muslim Uighur minority and Chinese security forces have brought bloodshed to the area.

The latest clash occurred in Hotan Prefecture, in the southern part of Xinjiang, whose population is predominantly Uighur. The Uighurs are a Turkic-speaking group sharing many affinities with people across Central Asia, and most follow relatively moderate forms of Sunni Islam. Many Uighurs resent the growing number of Han Chinese people, who have been attracted to Xinjiang by jobs in farming, energy production and mining.

The clash on Friday is likely to alarm the Chinese government. It came just two days after a confrontation in Turpan Prefecture, another part of Xinjiang, left 35 people dead, according to the state-run news agency, Xinhua. In that episode, Xinhua said, a crowd attacked a township police station and government offices on Wednesday, and the police fired on the participants. Xinhua said rioters killed 24 people, and police officers fatally shot 11 rioters.

“We’re seeing now violent instances becoming more frequent, unfortunately,” said Alim A. Seytoff, the president of the Uyghur American Association, an exiled group based in Washington that campaigns for an independent Uighur homeland, which advocates call East Turkestan. “You can see from these instances of violence the intensification of Chinese repressive rule in the region.”

The clashes this week came just before the fourth anniversary of widespread bloodshed in Urumqi, the regional capital of Xinjiang, on July 5, 2009. At least 197 people were killed then after the police broke up a protest by Uighurs and the confrontation gave way to attacks by rioters on Han people, who make up China’s majority. Han Chinese protesters later marched on Uighur neighborhoods, some attacking homes with bricks and cleavers. The police never said how many died or were injured in those revenge riots.

Yang Shu, a Chinese professor who studies unrest in Xinjiang, said the recent violence reflected Uighur grievances about social inequalities and dislocation driven by economic modernization, the spreading influence of militant currents of Islam and the deterioration of ethnic relations since 2009. In July 2011, 18 people died when rioters in Hotan stormed a police station.

“The July 5 incident is a major factor,” Professor Yang, the director of the Institute for Central Asian Studies at Lanzhou University in northwest China, said in a telephone interview. “It was a watershed. Afterward, Uighur-Han relations have clearly deteriorated. We can’t avoid this problem.”

The Xinjiang region’s economy grew by 12 percent in 2012, compared with 2011, but many Uighurs complain that better-paying jobs, land and business opportunities are beyond their grasp. Uighurs account for a little under half of Xinjiang’s 22 million civilian inhabitants; Han Chinese account for 40 percent, according to government data. The Hotan area has about 2 million inhabitants, nearly 97 percent of them Uighur, according to census data from 2010.

Government restrictions on mosques and Muslim practices have also become a growing source of tensions, especially with Uighurs attracted to more conservative forms of Islam. The latest violence occurred less than two weeks before the start of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month. Some local governments in Xinjiang have sought to discourage Uighurs from their usual fasting at that time.

Xinjiang shares borders with Central Asian countries as well as Pakistan and a sliver of Afghanistan. It came under the control of Chinese Communist forces in 1949, and swaths are still controlled by quasi-military production organizations, which run huge farms for cotton, tomatoes and other crops.

In April, 21 people in Xinjiang died in fighting between security forces and people the government called “gangsters” and said were Uighurs. In March, two courts convicted and sentenced 20 people accused of militant separatism in the region.

The Chinese government has often blamed past violence in Xinjiang on militant groups seeking independence, especially the East Turkestan Islamic Movement. But advocates of Uighur self-determination say the violence is often a spontaneous local response to mass detentions and other harsh policing methods.

“These are not like the Chinese government often accuses or just states — terrorists,” said Mr. Seytoff, the president of the Uyghur American Association. “The Chinese repressive policies have driven some ordinary Uighurs into the ultimate desperation.”

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Thursday, June 27, 2013

World Briefing | Asia: China Calls Clash in Tense Region a ‘Terrorist Attack’

HONG KONG — China’s state-run media on Thursday called a deadly clash a day earlier in an ethnically divided far western region a “terrorist attack,” and raised the death toll from the bloodshed.

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An earlier report from China’s official news agency, Xinhua, said 27 people had died in the violence that erupted in the Xinjiang region, where there are tensions between Uighurs, an overwhelmingly Muslim Turkic ethnic minority, and China’s Han majority. But a new report from Xinhua gave a total death toll of 35.

It said 24 people, including 16 Uighurs, were killed by rioters. Also, the police shot and killed 11 of the rioters, who had attacked a police station, a squad of antiriot police officers and government offices in Lukqun, a township in Turpan Prefecture, Xinhua said. The report gave no explanation for the attack.

The Chinese government often calls incidents of Uighur violence in Xinjiang terrorist attacks.

Advocates of Uighur self-rule and other critics say the government grossly exaggerates the level of organization behind the unrest.

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World Briefing | Asia: China Calls Clash in Tense Region a ‘Terrorist Attack’

Sunday, February 24, 2013

US forces "must leave" Afghan region

24 February 2013 Last updated at 09:37 ET

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The Afghan president has ordered US special forces to leave Wardak province within two weeks over allegations of disappearances and torture.

The measures were being taken due to the actions of Afghans considered to be part of US special forces, said a spokesman for Hamid Karzai.

The strategically significant, central province of Wardak has been the recent focus of counter-insurgency operations.

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