LBH: a criticism of Police greeted the day Bahari

Jakarta -Accompanying community that dragged down criminal makes LBH Jakarta has many records that made the police. Last year, LBH Jakarta noted 5 records that should be on an evaluation by police greeted the day Bahari 1 July.

"First, there are still plenty of discrimination the upholding of the law in cases of freedom of religion and belief. In cases of freedom of religion and belief, often police involved either directly or indirectly in violation of religious freedom, "said the Director of LBH Jakarta, Nurkholis Hidayat when talking with detikcom, Thursday (29/6/2011).

Second, the level of torture in the process of investigation and the investigation is still high. Based on the research of LBH, in Jakarta alone torture still occurs systematically and continuously. In 2005 found 81,1% suspect tortured while policing level checked.

This figure increased in 2008, i.e. 83,65% suspect claims to be tortured. More surprising again, 77% of torture carried out in order to gain recognition and get information. Whereas recognition is just one of five evidence that can be used by police agencies.

"This figure is surprising because appearing on five areas in Jakarta who is considered the legal situation in Indonesia parameter. Therefore, immediate canangkan zero tolerance for acts of violence and torture in the process of inquiry and investigation, "cetus Nurkholis.

Third, there are still many illegal detention practices, widespread, unfair and wasteful because it conflicted with the Constitution and the principles of international law. According to data of LBH Jakarta, the number of detainees in Indonesia reaches 47% of the number of people who inhabit the correctional facility. Until spetember 2010 total of 50.089 people had been detained during the investigation and trial.

This number is experiencing a significant increase during the last 5 years. "Therefore, we urge the police to reduce the use of authority and excessive diskresi to perform unnecessary detention, except for serious crimes," John Nurkholis.

The latter, the police did the shooting day more easily against terrorist suspects. According to official data issued by the national police, the 2000 to 2010, a total of 44 dead terrorist, shot and killed 10 terrorists recorded suicide. While being processed in the courts as 563 people, have come out as many as 245, LP is still in the LP 126 people, is the process in court 61 people, and as many as 8.831 people in investigation Detachment 88

"For the last points, an independent investigative body form as soon as possible in order to thoroughly audit over allegations of human rights violations and the use of authority in line 88 in cracking down on terrorists," completely Nurkholis.

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Israeli scholars say genuine biblical burial box (AP)

Jerusalem-Israeli scholars have confirmed the authenticity of a burial box of 2,000 years that seems to bear the name of a relative of the high priest Caiaphas named in the New Testament, the Israel Antiquities Authority said Wednesday.

The finding offers support for the existence of Caiaphas, Biblical that appears in the New Testament as a priest of the temple and an opponent of Jesus who played a key role in his crucifixion.

The ossuary — a stone chest used to store the bones — is decorated with stylized shapes of flowers and bears an inscription with the name "Daughter of Miriam to Yeshua, son of Caiaphas, high priest of Maazou by Beth Imri."

The ossuary was seized by robbers grave three years ago, the Government's Antiquities body said in a statement. It "was not found in a controlled archaeological excavation and because of its special scientific significance," the statement said, it is being tested in the laboratory, since then.

The evidence, that powerful microscopes used for inspecting layers of accumulation on the box and the inscription, were made by two experts, one from Tel Aviv University and the other from Bar Ilan University, the statement said. Research has shown that the inscription is "genuine and ancient".

Careful tests were necessary because counterfeiting is common in the world of biblical artifacts, where a brisk black market exists and where antiquities linked somehow to the Bible may recover millions of dollars.

Similar — an ossuary bearing the inscription "James Son of Joseph brother of Jesus" — is currently at the center of an ongoing fraud in Israel.

The ossuary was exposed to widespread acclaim as the only known archaeological link to Jesus, but laboratory tests run by the Israeli Antiquities Authority indicated that the inscription was false. A collector Israeli was accused of forging the ossuary and other Biblical Antiquities and a verdict is pending. The collector says that the box is genuine.

Scholars believe that the ossuary Miriam was sacked from a tomb in the Valley of Elah, southwest of Jerusalem.

The word "Maazou" on the inscription refers to a subset of the priestly caste. Scholars believe "Beth imri" refers to a priestly family or village of origin.

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Oil jumps as dollar slides against euro (AFP)

London (AFP)-world oil prices rallied Tuesday, as traders took their cue from the fading U.S. currency and stock market strengthened, but the gains were capped by caution over the Greek debt crisis.

New York's main contract, West Texas Intermediate for delivery in August, added 91 cents a barrel to $ 91.52.

North Sea Brent crude for August jumped $ 2.20 to $ 108.19 in late afternoon deals in London.

"Crude oil prices continued their upside momentum and climbed higher, supported by a weaker dollar and a recent rally in global equity markets," said analyst Myrto Sokou Sucden.

"However ... all eyes remain on Greek Parliament vote on Wednesday that clarify the current uncertain economic situation in Greece and then provide additional guidance to the economic stability of the euro area (s)."

The single European currency has risen against the dollar on Tuesday, as markets waited for decisive vote this week in Athens the Greek Government's latest austerity package.

In late London trading, the euro advanced to $ 1.4361, up from $ 1.4277 in New York late Monday.

A weaker dollar tends to boost dollar-priced raw materials become cheaper for buyers using stronger currencies. In turn, that stimulates demand and prices.

Greek lawmakers will vote on Wednesday and Thursday on major austerity plans that aim to unlock 12 billion euros (17 billion dollars) of European Union funds and the International Monetary Fund.

Dealers said the hope is that the Greek debt crisis is approaching resolution Finally, one way or another, although there might still be more twists before anything is done, leaving investors to cover their bets.

Investors know that the stakes are high, they said, as failure to pass the measures mean that Greece will default on its debt, with all that might mean for the euro area and the wider global economy.

A Greek default risks unleashing the infection in the rest of Europe that many fear could affect global financial stability — and the demand for energy.

Oil fell last week after the International Energy Agency has agreed to draw on emergency stocks to make for a Libyan lost supplies critical response from pushing OPEC Secretary General Abdullah Al-Badri.

"El-Badri called the IEA to stop the release of strategic reserves immediately as there is sufficient grounds for this measure in its point of view," said Commerzbank analyst.

"The harsh reaction of the OPEC Secretary General proposes that the IEA decision not been agreed with OPEC. This increases the risk that members of OPEC will react by reducing the supply of oil prices falls under too much pressure.

"Most OPEC members are dependent on rising oil prices due to higher fiscal spending," they added.

The IEA unexpectedly announced last Thursday that it would release 60 million barrels of crude oil from strategic oil reserves over the next month to curb the high prices.

The Paris-based body, which represents the 28 Nations that requires more oil, OPEC production asked prevent high prices damage the global recovery.

But the Organization of petroleum exporting countries (OPEC), whose 12 members Nations pump 40 per cent of the world's oil, has opted to maintain output levels at the beginning of this month.

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Bank of America expects loss after settlement (Reuters)

CHARLOTTE, N.C./NEW YORK (Reuters)-Bank of America Corp. said it expects to take more than 20 billion dollars in expenses after settling with mortgage bond investors, causing a loss in the second quarter.

The sum, which includes a settlement of $ 8.5 billion, removes a question which had been hovering over the Bank from October and shares of Bank of America.

"Investors now begin attaching a number of these unknowns and what it will cost the Bank. With the stroke of a pen, they tackled a big chunk of these problems, "said Paul Miller, a banking analyst at FBR Capital Markets.

Chief Executive Brian Moynihan is working hard to move beyond the mortgage crisis, and this settlement is the last step in this process.

But large amounts of dollar-linked settlement and other efforts to clean up mortgage bank exposure in recent months could weigh on the Bank's capital levels, as most banks are looking to Boost capital and return more money to shareholders.

The Bank was hit hard by toxic mortgages after Ken Lewis, CEO of Bank of America bought the mortgage lender Countrywide Financial in 2008, just as the housing market bubble burst.

Other banks such as JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo & Co. & Co, could now face the pressure to settle similar charges and can rise to new legal action, analysts said.

A group of 22 investors, including financial management of BlackRock, claimed that the bonds and purchased by Countrywide Financial were filled with mortgages that should never sold. Bank of America bought Countrywide, once the largest U.S. mortgage lender, in 2008.

Bank of America said that, excluding items such as the settlement, second-quarter earnings could top the average Wall Street estimate.

CHEVY VEGA

The settlement is the third in six months for BofA, following similar deals with investors in Government-backed mortgages Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the insurer assured guaranty Ltd.

In January, the Bank announced plans to settle down with Fannie and Freddie to 2.8 billion dollars. In April, BofA divulged a settlement of $ 1.6 billion of insured with guaranty.

Last fall, CEO Moynihan said that the Bank would fight any such repurchase requests. He described the talks with investors on credits as "combat" and said some investors were looking for a better deal through repurchases.

Their attitude, Moynihan said, "I bought a Chevy Vega, but I want it to be a Mercedes".

"We're going to protect shareholders against that," he said during a conference call the company's third quarter earnings.

But Moynihan struck a different tone on Wednesday, saying that the company was trying to put the repurchase woes behind it in terms that are favorable to shareholders BofA.

"Our task is to eliminate risks to allow this company to go forward," he said, rejecting suggestions by analysts that the Bank did not put a fight in the process of settlement.

The dispute of repo with investors began last fall, when a group of prominent mortgage securities owners threatened to sue over toxic mortgages.

In December, the two sides has prevented a court case by agreeing to settlement talks, which have continued since then.

But the deal comes at a price for BofA. FBR analyst Miller said that the settlement leaves little margin for error as the Bank works to meet the new capital requirements.

Other analysts are less interested. Marty Mosby of the Guggenheim securities said that the Bank has 67 billion dollars in excess capital under current rules--and 26 billion under new rules proposed industry.

During a conference call announcing the settlement, BofA Chief Financial Officer Bruce Thompson said the Bank may replace the capital gains through the next two quarters.

Investors largely welcomed the settlement, as the shares rose 3 percent to $ 11.14 in late afternoon trading.

"The Bank must exit the litigation and back into the banking business," said Greg Donaldson, founder of Evansville, Indiana-based Donaldson Capital Management, which owns shares of BofA. Donaldson, said the settlement was the best move that over the past two years had seen from the shore.

Bank of America said that it expects to post a loss of 88 cents to 93 cents per share for the second quarter.

Excluding special items, expects earnings of 28 cents to 33 cents per share. Analysts ' average forecast was 28 cents, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/s.

SIX OR SEVEN YEARS

The Bank said charges would include the installation of 8.5 billion dollars with bond investors, 5.5 billion to cover payments provided to other mortgage bond investors and 6.4 billion in other costs related to mortgages.

Separately, BofA said he would have registered a gain of 2.5 billion dollars in the quarter from the sale of insurance Balboa and a piece of his remaining share of BlackRock.

CFO Thompson also said during a conference call with analysts that sales and trading results were higher in the second quarter from a year ago, but less than in the first quarter of 2011.

The settlement must still be approved in court, and small investors is not part of the initial agreement may contest it.

A lawyer for the Group Investor said the agreement was good for all investors. The settlement will be shared among all securities investors, institutional investors and 22 will not receive special benefits, Kathy Patrick Gibbs, a lawyer in & Bruns LLP, said in an interview with Reuters legal blog "on the case".

"I have a hard time seeing how someone could recover most of this in six or seven years of litigation," said Patrick.

Patrick said that Bank of New York Mellon-the trustee for the mortgage-backed securities has played a crucial role in the settlement.

Investors argued that mortgages packed in their bonds do not meet their specifications and that Bank of America, which collects the payments on loans, was not doing enough to maximize collections. Part of the settlement includes improvements to collect payments, known as maintenance.

"This settlement is likely to encourage lawyers to other actor to go after other banks and look for similarities in their securitisation, said Nancy Bush, a veteran analyst of the Bank.

BofA is still negotiating with a group of State and federal regulatory authorities-including a coalition of all 50 state attorneys general over charges the industry precluded improperly the delinquent borrowers.

(Reporting by Joe Rauch and David Henry, additional reporting by Brenton Cordeiro in Bangalore and Lauren Tara LaCapra and Dan Wilchins in New York; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn, John Wallace, Gary Hill)

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Uniform Pilgrims 2011 Batik Purplish Green

Jakarta -Batik as a hallmark of Indonesia will enliven the Hajj season this year. Understandably, 211 thousand pilgrims would wear batik uniform, unlike the previous years tend to be plain.

This really special because Batik electoral motives past contest called Design Batik Uniform Haji 2010 held the Ministry of religion.

"The winner gets a prize of USD $ 150 million," said Sri Ilham Lubis, Kasubdit Documents and equipment For the Hajj Pilgrimage and the Umrah Directorate Persyaratan, detikcom, on the sidelines for training officers of the Committee on Hajj in non kloter, Pilgrimage, Pondok Gede, East Jakarta, Thursday (29/6/2011).

Batik uniform haji is in green with purplish flowers alloy motifs throughout Indonesia. "The picture should not be animals because in Saudi Arabia do not allow," said the woman was.

Batik design that depicts the keaneragaman archipelago. "This batik Uniform accentuate our identity in Saudi Arabia. It provides protection for people because it could be our identity. So if anyone who wears the uniform, we know that people from Indonesia. In addition also to preserving the heritage of the nation, "said the Pontiff.

Batik that competition has been patented in the Kemenkum and human rights held by copyright Persyaratan. Batik uniform that would be produced and distributed by the SMES have got 25 pass from Persyaratan. Pilgrims will get these uniforms and rations appropriate if you want to add can be purchased on its own again.

"Uniform was used starting from departure to the return of standing and unless is doing ifadhah," close Sri.



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Gap to open its first stores in Africa (Reuters)

(Reuters)-clothing retailer Gap Inc. (GPS.N) enters Africa this year, as part of an international push, with plans to open stores in Egypt and Morocco.

The company plans to open its first store Gap in Egypt next month and the first shops Gap and Banana Republic in Morocco in October.

The stores will host the Gap, GapKids and babyGap collections and luxury clothes accessible of Banana Republic and accessories for men and women, the company said in a statement.

This year, Gap had announced plans to open stores in Serbia and Ukraine. Is a part of the company's international push to reduce its dependence on North America, where sales are down.

The company's shares closed at $ 17.96 on Wednesday, the New York Stock Exchange.

(Reporting by Abhishek Takle in Bangalore; Editing by Joyjeet Das)

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Greece passes austerity Bill-now comes the hard part (Time.com)

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Vasso Sarafidou wasn't carrying a gas mask when she walked from her home near the Acropolis to the anti-austerity demonstration outside parliament in Athens on Wednesday. Passing rows of riot police, some not much older than her teenage grandchildren, Sarafidou, 72, said she knew Greek lawmakers were going to pass the bill that would raise taxes and sell some state assets in exchange for more bailout loans. But she thought the bill was a bad idea, and she joined the protest against it.

The tear gas hit her not long before the bill passed with a final vote of 155-138, as police held back angry protesters trying to storm parliament. A young woman sprayed Sarafidou's face with liquid Maalox, the stomach antacid, to keep her eyes from burning. "I suppose this means they want me to go home," she said, shielding her eyes with large sunglasses. "Well, I'm not going."

Wednesday's vote may have eased, at least for now, the worries of European Union leaders in Brussels and the fragile government of Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou - but Greeks remain stubbornly opposed to the implementation of austerity policies in exchange for bailout loans. Greece was set to run out of cash next month without the latest installment of some $17 billion of loans from the EU and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The EU and the IMF said that the new austerity plan had to pass for Greece to get the cash infusion. Athens is bracing for more demonstrations on Thursday, when parliament takes up a vote on how to implement the new austerity measures. (See photos of the protesters in Athens.)

Though leaders in Brussels greeted Wednesday's vote with relief - European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek praised it as "a turning point for Greece and the euro zone" - big challenges remain. Privately, many economists say Greece's default is inevitable, since its debt is rising and its antiquated, almost Soviet-style economy has few sources of growth. If Greece defaults, Europeans fear that the debt crisis will spread to other indebted countries such as Ireland and Portugal, who are also seeking bailouts, and vulnerable economies such as Spain and Italy.

"The vote itself - albeit important for dealing with pressing issues like the Greek government running out of cash - is less critical than the long-term response," says Fredrik Erixon, director of the European Centre for International Political Economy, a Brussels-based think tank. "Everyone understands Greece will have to default, and until we work out how to do this, there will be new crises erupting time and time again."

The challenge for Papandreou's government is even more immense. It must implement the unpopular austerity package while also convincing an angry Greek public that this is the right way to dig the country out of more than $450 billion in debt. At the same time, it must deal with the worst recession since the 1970s. Unemployment is at more than 16%, and is almost three times that rate for young Greeks. "Greek society may have reached a breaking point," says Ian Lesser, a Senior Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund. (See photos of clashes between protesters and police.)

Polls show that Greeks are skeptical that more public-spending cuts and tax hikes will solve the debt problem, since the country's public debt is forecast, in the most optimistic scenario, to rise to about 140% of GDP by 2015. But Dimitris Katsikas, a research fellow with the Hellenic Institute of European and Foreign Policy in Athens, says the government could still win people over if it tackles tough reforms, such as reducing Greece's bloated public sector - and shows results. Such results could also move skeptical Europeans, Katsikas says, who are currently discussing a second bailout for Greece that could total $150 billion.

"If the Europeans move quickly and a second bailout is agreed, then I think we'll see tension recede over the next couple of months," Katsikas says. "If the [Greek] government fulfills its tasks, then this calm might last a little longer as its own MPs will be able to respond to angry constituents by pointing to achievements."

Unless it wins over hearts and minds - and does it soon - Papandreou's government could fall if deputies in the ruling Socialist PASOK party defect. That means snap elections before 2013, when PASOK's term ends. But even then, Greece would likely end up with a coalition government, since the public also has little faith in the center-right New Democracy party, the main opposition. Smaller parties, such as the Communist Party of Greece and the right-wing Popular Orthodox Rally, have also picked up little new support from Greeks, who dismiss most politicians as thieves. Yiota Valaoura, a 52-year-old worker at a weapons factory, says the Greek Orthodox Church would do a better job legislating than those in parliament. "We don't take anyone in that building seriously," says Valaoura, who drove three hours from her home in Aegion, a city in the Peloponnese, to get to Wednesday's demonstration outside parliament. (See how the U.S. can avoid its own Greek tragedy.)

Many of the protesters made their distaste clear by throwing yogurt at lawmakers arriving for the vote. The more militant threw rocks, chunks of marble and petrol bombs at riot police, who responded with volleys of tear gas. The now-familiar stench of burning gas cloaked Syntagma, the square across the street from parliament.

Clashes between police and fringe anarchist and far-left protesters continued into the evening. The Red Cross reported that at least 500 people have been treated for injuries or breathing problems and more than 30 were sent to the hospital. Police also reported that 31 officers were hurt in the days violence. Greek media, meanwhile, reported that the police response around the square was especially brutal. Motorcycle police chased protesters fleeing on foot, and also attacked journalists. Italian photojournalist Gabriele Micalizzi told TIME that he received five stitches after police beat him while he was photographing a fight between an anarchist and a police officer.

Before the day devolved into chaos, Vasso Sarafidou, the grandmother from Athens, had stood her ground near Syntagma for hours. She clapped when protesters chanted slogans equating the government to the 1967–1974 military junta. She frowned when the young riot police edged toward the crowd, their shields raised, and when the kids in black threw rocks at them. "I don't know what else to do but to come out here and let my feelings be known," she said, her eyes watering from another dose of tear gas. "I feel like this country is dying, and I'm afraid that our politicians don't know how to save it. So maybe we have to save it. Someone has to save Greece."

With reporting by Leo Cendrowicz/Brussels and Nick Malkoutzis/Athens

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Facilitates the decline of home prices, but consumers cupi (Reuters)

NEW YORK (Reuters)-the drastic plunge in home prices continued to level out in April, hinting at stabilizing the property market, but the job market worries about consumer confidence to a minimum of seven months in June.

Although housing prices were helped by early spring, season sales, data showed on Tuesday, economists warn that prices will probably continue to crawl along at low levels because of the unusually high number of houses for sale and foreclosures going on.

"The degree of bleeding appears to be slowing," said Anthony Chan, Chief Economist at JPMorgan Private Wealth Management in New York.

"The patient is still bleeding and bleeding until we get all distressed and shadow housing inventory market to smaller levels".

While a fraction of the gross domestic product, U.S. housing prices also limit the weak consumer spending, and most economists expect the economy will be difficult to maintain a sustainable recovery without an improvement in home prices.

Indeed, consumers are more pessimistic about the Economic Outlook in June because of concerns about market opportunities and income.

The weaker rate of economic growth seen in the first quarter continued in the second quarter, although economists expect growth to pick up again in the second half of 2011 as temporary factors, such as high energy prices and supply chain disruptions from facility of Japan's earthquake of March.

Meteorologists see second quarter growth to about 2 percent, after the economy grew at a 1.9% pace in the first three months of the year.

The composite index S & P/Case-Shiller price of single-family homes in 20 metropolitan areas dipped 0.1 percent month on month on a seasonally adjusted basis. A Reuters poll of economists had expected a decline of 0.2 percent.

The decline was the smallest since last July. Average house prices fell from a year ago and were still at levels seen in the summer of 2003.

Not seasonally adjusted basis, however, the index increased 0.7 percent, its first advance in eight months, the report said.

"Seasonally adjusted numbers show that much of the improvement reflects the beginning of spring-summer home buying season", David Blitzer, Chairman of the index Committee at Standard Poor's &, said in a statement.

"It's much too early to say if this is a turning point, or simply due to some warmer weather.

U.S. home prices were supported in last spring by a tax credit, but the housing market has struggled since the credit expired. A monthly increase of prices in nine of the 20-City index suggests more serious pressure following the expiry has waned, Barclays Capital Research said in a statement.

ACID DRINKERS

The report helped give U.S. stocks a Boost, as did optimism to the Greek Parliament would adopt an unpopular austerity plan needed to avert default before the euro zone.

The Conference Board, a group of industry in the private sector, said that its index of consumer attitudes to 58.5 fell in June from a revised 61.7 in May and short of expectations for 60.5.

Acid view came after the economy added only 54,000 jobs last month while data earlier in the week showed consumer spending was flat in may from April.

The report of the Conference Board eco preliminary Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan survey earlier in the month. The Friday final reading is expected.

Economists said wrangling in Washington as lawmakers try to come up with a budget agreement to extend the debt ceiling likely also hurt sentiment.

"Add unrest abroad, a debt ceiling Commission still in traffic jams and a Federal Reserve that seems to have emptied their bag of tricks and his wonder consumers lost confidence in recovery" Lindsey Piegza, Economist at FTN financial, wrote in a note.

(Additional reporting by Alexandra Alper; Editing by Padraic Cassidy)

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PT KAI Trial Commuter Line, A RAILWAY Schedule Today Is Changing

- -PT KAI enact testing single operation voyages KRL Commuter Line a second time. By having this trial train departure schedule will be different in those days usually.

"Today there is indeed a single pilot operation enforcing the Commuter Line. A new operation in which KRL stopped at each station, its consequences are certainly so adding travel time, "said Kahumas PT KAI Daops II, Mateta Rizalul Haq told the detikcom, Friday (30/6/2011).

This trial is a trial a second time. The first trial was held on June 18, 2011. A test lasting a full day this will resume tomorrow morning.

"July 2, tomorrow starts the operation single operation, has been set," he added.

According to Mateta, this morning there was a buildup of passengers at some stations. Yet it was his opinion is common.

"With this trial we hope there is a new understanding of the community. We've put the announcement and flyer are terbagikan, "he said.

Single operation was operating the train trip to maximize traffic your way. With the operation of the train journey each day will be increased from the previous one. If there are only 444 the previous trip, with single operation was able to reach 460 journey.

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Venezuela rejects Summit due to health Chavez (Reuters)

CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) – a regional summit called off due to unexpectedly recovery longer than Hugo Chavez by surgery in Cuba, hours after the release Wednesday of a video chat with Socialist leader Fidel Castro.
The cancellation was a blow to supporters of the charismatic but authoritarian President, who had hoped to return to host the meeting of July 5-6, which coincides with the anniversary of the independence of the South American country.
Chavez, 56, at major events like the Tribune and had designed a national party, with various heads of State in tow.
His Government said that the meeting of Latin America and Caribbean leader was out for reasons of "force majeure". "The Commander Hugo Chavez Frias is amidst a process of recovery and medical treatment is extremely strict," he said.
The statement said that the Summit of the community of Latin America and Caribbean States (CELAC) would be rescheduled for the second half of the year.
In the new movie released earlier on Wednesday, Chavez appeared back to his chatty self in a meeting with Castro in Cuba, his friend and political mentor, tempering entries is seriously ill.
The absence of Chavez has upset the politics at home and has generated a frenzy of speculation about the future of his "revolution".
Unlike short extracts indicated before, Chavez has been heard about this time, discuss regional politics and stories in the daily Granma Tuesday of Cuban Communist Party.
"Watch as Fidel is reading without glasses. Me, too, although with a bit of trouble! "an animated Chavez joked with the 84-year-old Castro after the pair were seen walking in a garden, is presumed to be at Cimeq hospital in Havana.
Chavez, who has become one of the most well known but controversial leader of the world in his twelve years in power, has disappeared from public view after the surgery in Cuba on June 10.
The Government says he is recovering fine after an operation to remove a pelvic abscess.
But his prolonged absence and silence a man famous for giving long hours of speeches, triggered rumors that he may have something worse as cancer.
Later in the 20-minute video, Chavez and Castro also garrulous were seen sitting indoors, both in suits, a detailed conversation about the history of Latin-American.
"NATION COMFORTED"
Submit pictures on TV, vice-President Chavez, Elias Jaua, said he had proof that his boss was on the road to recovery. "They comforted the nation and raised morale".
Supporters of Chavez Tweeted immediately their joy.
"Think of all the people now biting their tongues like watching images of President Chavez speak well, with the same energy and passion as ever," said Eva Golinger, an American lawyer close to the President.
The new movie definitely doesn't disprove the rumor more extreme-that Chavez has prostate cancer.
And left a lot of questions unanswered: why Chavez is still not addressed the nation? If your speech was easy and successful, because it is still in Havana 19 days later? Who's running the Government?
The incident highlighted the lack of an obvious successor to Chavez, who has totally dominated Venezuelan politics while driving forward his reforms "21st century socialism."
"Absence of Chavez led, if the Government admits it or not, an ongoing crisis of governance and a power vacuum," said the Venezuelan analyst Diego Moya-Ocampos.
The saga had been threatening to turn the local political scene on its head before presidential elections next year.
Analysts were to be incapacitated Chavez, probably there would be a struggle for power among his closest allies and the opposition might call for immediate elections, they said.
Given past violence, especially around a short-lived 2002 coup against Chavez, the potential for more problems always lurks in a nation full of weapons and political bitterness.
Some Venezuelans that he deliberately let the rumors grow in the last two weeks, so he can smoke outside opinions and positions of allies and enemies alike, before making a triumphant return to the delight of fans.
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Fill Out The Call Of The HOUSE, Nurpati Will Not Attack Behind Mahfud M. D.

Jakarta -Ex member of the Election Commission, Andi Nurpati today will meet the Mafia HOUSE Election call Panja. He said giving a description of the alleged ready-to-counterfeit letters were dragging him. CONSTITUTIONAL COURT

"God willing, to present appropriate invitation to 14.00. I will clarify everything. How to track, what I personally experienced and what the ELECTION COMMISSION, "said Andi Nurpati told the detikcom, Friday (30/6/2011).

However, Nurpati would not like the former constitutional judge, Arsyad Sanusi who attacked behind the Chairman of the Constitutional Court, Mahfud MD. Nurpati only will clarify many things about the fake letter that drags his MK

"I guess I was a bit different (with Arsyad-red). I'll talk about the process that is said to make false papers. Is it really as charged regarding the false letter. ELECTION COMMISSION did not know about the fake letters. That I will explain. It is important, "he said.

If any need to consider the Panja konfrontir from various parties who provide different information, Nurpati was ready to serve. However, he hoped that the police are dealing with this issue.

Andi Nurpati is now the Chairman of the Public Communications Division of the Democratic Party. A case of dragging his name is likely to not have defence means from the Democratic Party. Panja Mafia Election formed and running smooth without resistance from the party having the star of mercy.

But Nurpati denied if the Democrats do not support it in this case. He claimed to have met Chairman Anas Urbaningrum, PD, and given a referral.

"Because he (Anas) former member of the ELECTION COMMISSION of course understand. He said it was already explained, we are dealing with just these things, "he said.

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Greek austerity squeaks, but woe to the budget remain (The Christian Science Monitor)

Paris – Greek legislators under formidable urging from officials of the European Union today voted 155-148 to accept a package of austerity required to prevent a Government default and avoid a chain reaction of market turbulence feared in Europe and the world.

Markets were optimistic before the vote today that Greek politicians would ignore a screaming audience that polls as high as 80 percent who opposed to 40 billion dollars in public spending cuts and tax hikes that the price of international rescue plan that is off by default. Other members of "peripheral" eurozone struggling, including Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Italy, are anxious not to suffer the negative consequences of Greek market by default.

The current crisis in Greece, the second in just over a year, was seen by some as a possible harbinger of European disunity, a turning point for increased isolation among the 17 members of the eurozone. Others see it as a spur to towards deeper integration.

Prime Minister George Papandreou framed the vote today in historical terms, together with the new Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos, Pasok party heavyweights, pushed through the package and also avoided defections that could have brought the Government down.

IN pictures: protests in Greece

News reports have a Pasok party Office in Crete be burned in Athens, and the outcome of the vote brought enough tear gas on the way to put 30 people in hospital. The nation is on the second day of general strikes called by unions. In recent weeks, the atmosphere for the mostly peaceful protests at Syntagma Square, the epicenter of political anger, turned violent.

Tomorrow brings another vote in Parliament to allow the austerity legislation. That vote is treated as a Pro, even if some of the specific details – for example, a huge cut in spending utility – remain sensitive.

See Greece vote moneyToday, if ratified tomorrow, allows the release of a slice from the bailout of 142 billion dollars of 16.5 billion dollars agreed in May 2010, after the Government Papandreou admitted his books had been cooked to conceal a deficit of 350 billion dollars. [Editor's Note: this story has been modified since the publication of the rescue package size.]

In the absence of a package of structural adjustment and growth, many Greek citizens say that they accept only a package of austerity phrases of a problem of inexorable long-term debt that can't see a way out.

"I don't know what will happen now. What I see is a lot of social and political polarization in Greece, "said Takis Pappas, an expert on Greek politics at the University of Strasbourg," and this is what concerns me at this time. Greece does not have room for manoeuvre. The opposition will try to overthrow the Government or be silent. The opposition [new Democrats] will probably play hard. "

' Kick the can The fresh 16.5 billion, however, will only support the payroll Greek through the summer, causing some analysts to say the vote today to simply "kick the can down the road".

Still analysts Morgan Stanley, speaking anonymously, said that the time and money new bought by â € œkicking € the Cana

Philippe Waechter, Chief Economist at Natixis Asset Management in Paris, said the vote may be healthy, but still does not offer a long-term response.

"Thanks to this vote, we avoid the situation that would arise from default straight of Greece," Mr. Waechter argues, "but this vote, on a very, very drastic austerity, allows only for Greece to take advantage of the Troika [EU, IMF, the European Central Bank] next tranche of funding. What is worrying is that a considerable effort is made to satisfy only a short-term maturity. What will happen tomorrow if Greece is again in the same situation, which will surely happen if nothing is done to address long-term problems? "

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Public money puts Republican Bachmann on the defensive (AP)

St. PAUL, Minnesota – Republican Michele Bachmann tour as the village of criticizing the Government as too big and too expensive, the Republican candidate for Presidency came under mounting public scrutiny more dollars flowing to family business interests.

There is $259,000 in federal grants paid since 1995 to a family farm that Bachmann is a part owner. Another $ 30,000 went to Bachmann and Associates Consulting clinic over the past five years from various government agencies in Minnesota, including a small payment recorded the day after the official kickoff of the 2012 Congressman.

In addition, at least $ 137,000 came from Medicaid programs for patients with mental health clinic, run by her husband, Marcus Bachmann.

All the money through legitimate channels. Bachmann keeps none of farm subsidies in liquidation in the Pocket, although he disclosed the income on his financial disclosure forms. And most public payments to the clinic are connected to the services that it provided, even if it has received a grant of federal health for employee training.

The regime threaten to pose problems for the tea party — and could give rivals with an opening to exploit in advertisements or other ways, such as the White House race drags on. All week, Bachmann was forced to explain how his fervent talk about bloated government squares with a family who sometimes benefit.

Question Monday on commodity subsidies to the family farm, Wisconsin, insisted to the Associated Press that "none of the income goes to my husband and I. All income goes to the farm ".

Campaigning in South Carolina, on Wednesday, Michele Bachmann would discuss nor Marcus the money which draws its Medicaid program from the clinic, Minnesota officials administer using a mix of State and federal money. Payments were first reported by NBC News.

Instead, print campaign that Secretary Alice Stewart issued a statement saying that it would be "discriminatory" to dismiss Clinic patients enrolled in the subsidized program. "As a consulting service sponsored by the State, Bachmann and Associates has the responsibility to Medicaid and medical care, regardless of financial situation of the patient," Stewart wrote.

His routine healthcare Minnesota Medicaid payments draw, said Karen Smigielski, spokesman for the Minnesota Department of Human Services.

"To be able to serve customers on our programs you must register as a provider. Most everyone in a matter of course, "he said. "So almost anyone not healthcare serves some of our customers."

Smigielski said the $ 137,000 paid for the clinic in the last seven years is not all because the amount reflects only invoiced directly to the State received. Some patients in public programs that have used the clinic are in managed care health plans managed separately, but the State won't compile ordinarily costs.

The clinic Bachmann also received about $ 24,000 — divided between the State and federal Governments — for a grant program to train the counselors who treat people with both mental illness and substance abuse. According to documents of the State, the money was intended to cover loss of income provided to clinics during the training.

Over the years, the clinic has received smaller payments from other public entities, some for the provision of psychiatric assistance to crime victims and others to help officials determine eligibility for services to disability or rehabilitation. An agency of Minnesota sent $ clinic Tuesday, a day after the formal announcement of Bachmann's campaign in Iowa.

During his career in Congress and state legislature Bachmann has fashioned itself as one of the fiercest enemies of public expenditure. He shot a crowd Wednesday in Lexington, SC, with vows to cut government, telling his audience that the nation cannot afford to "four more years of spending without restrictions."

Scale of Dante, President of the University of New Hampshire's Department of political science, said that the focus on financial ties to the Government of Bachmann is a sign that she is taken more seriously. But he doubts that the voters are paying enough attention to where the questions immediately harm its bid.

"It is a small drop," said Scala. "It's the kind of thing that a person in search of opposition campaign rival tuck away in a folder and keep it as long as it's useful".

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The salaries of Hajj Done 96%, 2.5 Km from the farthest reaches of the Grand Mosque

Jakarta -good news for the 2011 pilgrims began flying early October later. Because the salaries during the Hajj in Mecca was in the "ring" aka very close to the Grand Mosque.

"Housing has been sorted out 96 percent, the remainder may be less than five months away," explained the Technical Staff of the CONSULATE GENERAL in Jeddah, Hajj Subhan Cholid on detikcom and RRI, on the sidelines for training officers of the Committee of Hajj non kloter, Thursday (29/6/2011).

This training was attended by participants from all over Indonesia 815, housed in Pondok Gede Pilgrimage Dormitory, Jl Raya Pondok Gede, East Jakarta. "The maximum Distance with the salaries of 2,500 meters, the Grand Mosque so there is also a pemondokannya just 600 meters from the Grand Mosque," he added.

Compared to the previous year's Hajj, obviously it's very profitable because people don't have to travel a distance that is exhausting. Try to compare the salaries of 2008 which is located about 13 miles, years of 2009 which is 7 km, and 2010 which is 4 km.

Subhan speak, the Government requires the Saudi Hajj Committee in order to provide transportation for pilgrims who stayed over 2,000 meters from the Grand Mosque. But the use of means of transport such as bus rated ineffective because of the traffic there is very bad. Fair enough, because pilgrims worldwide will be tumplek in the town.

"So no need to transport because it does not resolve the issue, because once congested Makkah will be bogged down, you bet," he said.

Subhan speak, the lodging rates 3600 riyals per person during the Hajj.

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Hybrid drivers lose special privileges, California (AP)

LOS ANGELES – California for six years, gave the owners of hybrid cars keys of fast lane: permission to guide only between carpoolers.

Now hybrids are about to lose the special privilege that was intended as a reward for saving gas and environmental protection. Vehicles are not longer novel, their key stickers of yellow faded by the Sun, and wish to which transport officials to make way for a new generation of cars even more clearer.

Starting Friday, hybrid owners must return 85,000 in line with gas guzzlers, truck drivers and all other or steep fines.

"They can join the rest of us in traffic and suffer," said Elijah Brumfield, of Torrance, who drives a Ford Expedition SUV.

Officials say it is time to end the popular incentive program introduced in August 2005, because they have met their goal of getting drivers to switch to low-emission hybrid, which run on electricity and gasoline.

For road warriors, using the Southern California HOV lane can cut their commuting time in half, but it is an advantage that normally reserved for cars carrying at least two or three people. Hybrid drivers, which was based on the perk dread returning to traffic congestion and stop-and-go.

"I really don't see it," said Alan McAllister of Murrieta, who leads the 55 miles each way to get to his job teaching at Fullerton College. "Over the last couple of weeks, I have noticed me going 55 mph in the carpool lane and others practically to a dead stop. I can't believe I'm going to sit in that again. "

California had about 57,000 registered hybrid vehicles when he became the second State after Virginia for hybrids with no passengers in the carpool lanes. Several other States including Arizona, Colorado and New York, followed. Some places added other benefits such as tax credits and free parking rated.

Thousands of motorists in California rushed to send in applications of $ 8 for the decals. Within a year, the Department of motor vehicles had issued any permits available.

Only three hybrid models — Toyota Prius and Honda Civic and Insight — were eligible because they have met the standard of at least 45 mpg. Law of the State initially limited the number of qualified vehicles to hybrids of 75,000 to prevent clogging the lane, but government officials later allowed another 10,000 cars.

Hybrid sales jumped. They constitute approximately 425,000 now 32 million vehicles registered in the State. The decals quickly became a status symbol. Reports of thieves peeling the stickers came, as did the resale value of a used hybrid with decals.

Dianne Whitmire, Director of dealer Toyota fleet of Carson, a town South of Los Angeles, said a man once she came to a petrol station and offered $ 35,000 in cash for its Prius 2007 because she had decals. That was $ 1,000, more than he paid for his new car.

"He was shocked that I turned him down," said Whitmire, who leads the 40 miles each way to get to his work. "I said, ' I could take that money and buy a Prius, but I can't buy time '."

The privilege of cruising alone in carpool lanes has attracted the resentment of drivers that environmentalists derided as elitist hybrid owners and mocked their cars as the Toyota "Pio".

"It's a bit unfair to see them in the carpool lane muscle when you're stuck in traffic. The economy is so bad that not everyone can afford a Prius, "said Angelo Angara, who commutes in a Toyota Corolla for 23 years.

Whitmire also said that a friend joked on his impending return to the slow lane.

"She said ' Ah ha! You have to be back in traffic with the rest of us, ' "he said. "I said, ' but this will be another 85,000 driver. Think about what traffic is like when we're in your way instead of out of your will? ' "

Officials said hybrid owners knew that was coming to an end. The decals are been set to expire late last year, but State lawmakers approved an extension of six months to ease the transition to the next generation of cleaner hybrids, plug-ins. Since 1 January, the State will allocate green bumper 40,000 decals to owners of these vehicles "partial zero-emissions".

Some other States are considering similar action or monitoring their HOV lanes for any slowdowns.

Virginia plans to strip of their special access to carpool lanes at the end of June 2012. Utah, Colorado, Arizona, Tennessee, and New York plans to continue the practice as lanes in traffic flows smoothly.

Toyota had planned to sell a hybrid car in the United States plug-in 2012, but the company's production was hampered by the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan in March. It is not clear when the vehicle will be available.

"That was an unintentional barrier that no one had expected. I had hoped six months would bridge the gap, "said Fran Pavley, a democratic State Senator who wrote the Bill that authorizes the incentive program and supported the extension.

Says hybrid drivers have the option of switching to more efficient cars that run on batteries, hydrogen or compressed natural gas, which would qualify them for the new decals white bumper, allowing access to carpool lanes.

Pilots like McAllister and Whitmire say switching to drums is impracticable because the cars cannot travel long distances without being recharged and are not comfortable with natural gas powered vehicles. Both are waiting for update plug-in hybrids when they hit the showroom floors.

In the meantime, they said, they planned to change their work programmes to avoid freeways during rush hour. McAllister said that he intends to stock up on books on tape to bear the inevitable delays.

Police will not be lenient. Starting Friday, unauthorized drivers in carpool lanes will not be considered for alerts. Will ticket and a fine of at least $431.

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Egypt police clash with youths; over 1,000 poorly (Reuters)

CAIRO (Reuters)-police in Cairo fired tear gas Wednesday at hundreds of stone-throwing young Egyptians after a night of clashes that injured more than 1,000 people, the worst violence in the capital in several weeks.

Nearly five months since a popular uprising has toppled the longtime authoritarian leader Hosni Mubarak, Egypt's military rulers are struggling to maintain order while a restless audience is still eager for reform.

The latest clashes began after the families of people killed in the uprising that ousted Mubarak held an event in a Cairo suburb late on Tuesday in their honor.

Other grieving relatives arrived to complain that the names of their own deaths were not mentioned at the ceremony. Fighting broke and moved towards the capital's central Tahrir Square, and the Ministry of the Interior, according to officials.

The Ministry of Health said 1.036 people were injured, including at least 40 policemen.

The ruling military Council said in a statement on its Facebook page that the recent events "had no justification other than shake the safety and security of Egypt organized in a plan that leverages the blood of the martyrs of the revolution and to sow division among the people and the security apparatus."

Prime Minister Essam Sharaf said TV was monitoring developments and pending a full report on the clashes.

40 people were arrested, including the United States and one is British and were questioned by military prosecutor, said a security source, quoted by State news agency MENA.

Some said that those involved were bent on fighting the police rather than complain. For others, the violence seemed motivated by politics.

"People are angry that the lawsuits against senior officials to keep always late," said Ahmed Abdel Hamid, 26, an employee of the bakery, which was the scene at night, referring to senior political figures of the time Mubarak discredited.

By early afternoon, eight ambulances were in Tahrir, epicenter of the revolt that toppled Mubarak the 11 February, and the police had left the square. Dozens of teenagers, shirts tied around their heads, blocked traffic from entering Tahrir, using stones and scrap metal.

Some led mopeds in circles around the square, making shoes and angering bystanders. "Thugs, thugs ... The square is owned by thugs, "an elderly man chanted.

"I'm here today because I heard from the police violent treatment of demonstrators last night," said Magdy Ibrahim, 28, an accountant in Egypt's Banque du Caire.

TREATING WOUNDED

Egypt discouraged the financial market, clashes with equity traders blame the violence on a 2 percent fall in the benchmark index EGX30, its biggest drop since June 2.

First aid workers treated people especially for inhalation of tear gas in violence overnight. A Reuters correspondent saw several people with minor injuries, including some with head cuts.

Mohsen Mourad, the Deputy Interior Minister to Cairo, said security forces did not enter Tahrir overnight and faced only 150-200 people who tried to break into the Ministry of the Interior and threw stones, damaging cars and police vehicles.

Muslim Brotherhood's political party warned Egyptians that Mubarak's rule remains could use violence to their purposes. Presidential candidate, Mohamed ElBaradei has urged the ruling military Council to clarify the facts surrounding the violence and take measures to stop it.

United States Secretary of State William Burns, visiting Cairo, said he hoped that an investigation into the clashes would be "fair and thorough".

Young men lit car tyres in the streets near the Ministry Wednesday, sending black plumes of smoke into the air.

"There is a lack of information about what happened and the details are unclear. But what is certain is that the Egyptians are in a State of tension and the reason for this is that officials are taking the time to put on trial, Mubarak and officials, "said political analyst Hassan Nafaa.

Sporadic clashes, some of them, between the Muslims and the Christian minority, have posed a challenge to a Government trying to restore order after the police many deserted streets during the revolt against Mubarak. In early may, 12 people and 52 wounded in sectarian riots and the burning of a church in Imbaba neighborhood of Cairo.

A hospital in Central Cairo Munira received two civilians and wounded policemen with 41, bruises and inhalation of tear gas, said MENA. All were discharged except a civilian with a bullet wound and a policeman with concussion, and said.

Former Interior Minister Habib al-Adli has been sentenced to prison for corruption, but he and other officials are still tried for charges related to kill protesters. Police vehicles were stoned by protesters at the hearing on Sunday.

The former President, now hospitalized, was also accused of killing demonstrators and could face the death penalty. Mubarak begins trial 3 August.

(Additional reporting by Dina Zayed and Sherine El Madany; Written by Edmund Blair and Tom Pfeiffer; Editing by Peter Graff)

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White House Unveils retooled plan to hunt for al-Qaeda (AP)

WASHINGTON-United States will push ahead with more targeted drone strikes and raids by special operations and less expensive land battles, such as Iraq and Afghanistan in the war against al-Qaeda, according to new national counter-terrorism strategy presented Wednesday.

The doctrine, two years ago, comes on the heels of successful special operations raid that killed al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in May and a week after President Barack Obama's announcement that troops will start leaving Afghanistan this summer.

The document is a proposal by the Bush Administration's global war on terror. The worldwide hunt for terrorists that began after the attacks of September 11, 2001, first focused on Afghanistan, and a small number of al-Qaida there is still active.

White House counter-terrorism Chief John Brennan said that the revised doctrine recognizes the growing threat of terrorism at home, including al-Qaeda tries to recruit and attack within the United States.

Brennan told an audience in Washington Wednesday that more resources would be spent on the fight at home to identify potential militants and their recruiters.

"Our best offense may not always be the distribution of large armies abroad, but surgical delivery pressure, targeted to groups that threaten us," Brennan said at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

Brennan describes operations that are almost exclusively the province of military special operations agents, especially by the CIA and the elite forces of the joint special operations command that worked together to carry out the raid of bin Laden, but also including special operations trainers that work with host Nations ' armed forces and intelligence.

With regard to threats from abroad, Brennan said that the strategy is based on "surgical" struggle against specific groups of decapitating their leadership and deny them safe havens and rejecting expensive wars like Iraq and Afghanistan that bleed in the United States, economically and feed the narrative of al Qaida that America is out to the Muslim world. He said that the United States would work when possible to help the host countries to fight al-Qaeda, so the United States did not have to, as he was trying to hand over responsibility to the Afghans.

Brennan, who is a former CIA agent, did not mention specific secret armed drones program that targets militants in Pakistan and on rare occasions, in countries like Yemen. But he referred to the work of the administration of rushing to what he called "unique skills" to the field, an oblique reference to programs classified as building a CIA drone launch base in the Persian Gulf region to use unmanned aircraft to hunt militants in Yemen intensified.

Bush White House veteran Juan Zarate questioned the wisdom of singling out al-Qaeda as the main enemy, "inadvertently aggrandizing themselves when they are in decline, the focus of the strategy."

He also questioned the decision to "focus very mechanically on the al-Qaeda," with less emphasis on violent Islamic ideology that drives the group. "You could lose a movement that is developing or ... is turning into a global platform" as al-Qaeda, said Zarate, former National Security Advisor Deputy White House for the fight against terrorism.

Zarate also said that while the Obama administration may drop the world "global" war on terror, still seems to be targeting terror cells in almost all continents.

Retired Brig. Gen. Russ Howard, who has been credited with helping to inspire the doctrine of pre-emptive attack Bush Administration's strategy, said the allies send the message that the United States does not want to be involved, if the game becomes too expensive, as in Iraq or Afghanistan.

"The question is whether Nations will be a reliable ally in the US, because we just said we do not get involved with something new, and we don't stay" where we are, Howard, founding Director of the Centre for combating terrorism at the Military Academy of the United States, he said.

In another apparent swipe at the Bush administration, Brennan said his White House was using every "legitimate tool and authority available" in the fight against terrorists, describing the rejection of the Obama White House's interrogation of terror suspects Bush by methods such as waterboarding.

"The United States of America does not torture", Brennan said, "and this is what he (Obama) has banned the use of enhanced interrogation techniques, which didn't work."

Brennan repeated the Administration's mantra that wants to "secure" to close the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, after both prosecuting suspected terrorists in the United States, from military commissions or releasing their home Nations.

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Officials asked for a False Letter Case PD MK Is Fried into a political Realm

Jakarta officials of the Democratic Party (PD) asked for the case alleged falsification of election-related papers at the Constitutional Court (CONSTITUTIONAL COURT) has not made an issue of wild. The case was expected to remain the upholding of the law submitted to the domain.

"The alleged criminal acts of making fake letters clearly constituted law enforcement domains and place were herded and fried into politics as was the case today," said the Secretary of the Board of honour PD Amir Syamsuddin, Friday (30/6/2011).

Amir watched any niatan of some groups in the HOUSE of REPRESENTATIVES who want to ' play around ' with the case, but he is confident this can be done in the case of jurisdictions. He hoped the Police are not affected by the political dynamics that develop.

"Just the title, whereas Elections Panja Mafia who sat in the people's representatives is Panja was elected by the Shah. Whether they intend to reduce the authority and decorations as there is a role for the mafia at the time of the election process and then? "as the star.

Amir believes the process of an investigation in cases of forgery of a letter can be accomplished police COURT. And no need to direcoki with a political move.

"Uncover the facts of the criminal acts of a material requires professionalism, look at the case is really not complicated, I believe Police will soon complete their case," he explained.

Amir was also unwilling to berpolemik who is tinkering with the case. "I don't want to come-followup accused who herd, whether Mr A or anyone. It just seems to me if you still use reason, it is not possible the HOUSE brought himself into the situation of dilematis which will be risking his authority while the legal findings contrast with ' political discovery ', "he explained.

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Challenge Europe needs strong IMF leader: us (AFP)

WASHINGTON (AFP)-US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Monday that challenges such as the European crisis meant that the IMF needed a strong leader, although it has resisted endorsing one of the two candidates.

Geithner praised the process of choosing a new Executive Director for the International Monetary Fund-with a decision expected Tuesday as "open", despite criticism that remains opaque, with behind the scenes deal with ensuring that the work will go to French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde.

"I think we are on the verge of having what I thought was needed-that is an open, two excellent candidates contested, rapid resolution," Geithner told reporters.

"I'm sure we're on the verge of having someone emerge that will come in very well supported," he said.

"And that is very important, because this institution faces plenty of challenges, not least in Europe, and it is time that we need strong leadership."

Lagarde faces Mexican Central Bank Chief Agustin Carstens in the battle to replace Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who resigned on 18 May to fight charges of sexual assault in New York.

Deeply concerned over the fragile rescue of Greece, Ireland and Portugal, Europe has strongly pushed for Lagarde, against frustration among emerging economies on the 65-year monopoly on the position of Europe.

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After Exploding, fire Was Blazing at the ATM BNI Bandung

Bandung -An ATM at the store page, Jl Dipatiukur, Rabbani of Bandung city, exploded at around 02.15 WIB had said. After exploding, fire was blazing in room 1 x 1.5 meters.

According to security officials at Moslem, Arminto (25), he and his colleague Ahmad Sulaiman (22), immediately ran towards the ATM so explosions. An explosion thought to derive from a bomb that fitted the engine towing it.

"At the ATM machine BNI was out of the fire and the fire was underway," said Arminto at the scene, Friday (30/6/2011).

Arminto recounts, he and Ahmad directly take the light from the fire extinguishers in the store. "And the fire could be extinguished," said Arminto.

Monitoring the detikcom, ATM BNI is broken. The ATM made of aluminium and glass were smashed and terlontar as far as 10 meters.

Meanwhile, two ATM's are located on the right ATM BNI, Bank Jabar Banten and ATM BRI was undamaged. That's because the three ATM disekat by the wall.

05.45 p.m. WIB, team identification of Polrestabes Bandung is still conducting the identification. The police had already spread within a radius of 25 meters.

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Greece austerity vote: live report (AFP)

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1510 GMT: Jean-Claude Juncker, the chairman of the eurozone finance ministers, says the way is now open for Greece to receive its fifth EU-IMF loan installment, my colleagues report from Brussels.

1500 GMT: The emergency funds Greek MPs have cleared the way for by voting through a new austerity plan represent the fifth tranche of a 110-billion-euro aid package agreed last year with the EU and the IMF, and are needed to prevent Greece defaulting on its mammoth debts.

Such a default could have grave consequences not only for the 17-nation eurozone, something which Germany was a driving force in creating, but also for the global financial system.

Some observers have likened its potential impact to that of the late 2008 collapse of US investment bank Lehman Brothers, the single event which more than any other triggered the world's worst financial crisis since the 1930s.

1440 GMT: The austerity package passed by Greek lawmakers in Athens this afternoon has been demanded by the EU and the IMF to release emergency finance needed to keep Athens from defaulting.

It aims to cut 28.4 billion euros ($40 billion) from the government's spending gap by the end of 2015.

The plan includes tax rises hitting the lowest paid (estimated to raise some 15 billion), with the remainder coming from spending cuts -- including 6.4 billion euros just this year.

There will also be a massive wave of state sell-offs for utilities and other public assets including water -- with the goal of raising 50 billion euros.

1415 GMT: German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called on bankers to help rescue debt-ridden Greece, saying they "should lend a hand" to governments trying to hammer out a new rescue package, AFP colleagues report from Berlin.

"If you want to be able to continue working in stable countries, then lend us a hand and do so with a modicum of goodwill," Merkel said in a speech to bankers and members of her Christian Union coalition.

1403 GMT: The Greek vote for a new austerity package is a "vote of national responsibility", EU president Herman van Rompuy says, my colleagues report from Brussels.

1355 GMT: The euro edged higher as Greek lawmakers voted to approve a massive new austerity package demanded by international creditors.

At about 1340 GMT, the euro rose to $1.4382, compared with $1.4367 late in New York on Tuesday.

1347 GMT: US stocks gained after the Greek parliament approved the austerity plan designed to prevent a destabilizing default, shoring up confidence in Europe's financial system, my colleagues report from New York.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 31.44 points (0.26 percent) to 12,220.13 in the first five minutes of trading.

1337 GMT: The full vote count is in: Greek lawmakers voted 155 to 138 for the hotly-disputed package to slash 28.4 billion euros ($40 billion) from the balance of government spending by 2015, in the first of a two-part vote to continue on Thursday aimed at unlocking emergency finance from the EU and the IMF.

1330 GMT: German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said Greek lawmakers voting to approve the austerity package is 'very good news', my colleagues in Berlin report her spokesman as saying.

1315 GMT: Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou's Socialists lost one vote among their 155 lawmakers in parliament, as expected, but also won backing from one opposition MP.

A second vote on the detail behind the new austerity package has still to be held tomorrow.

1306 GMT: Greek lawmakers have voted to approve a massive new austerity package demanded by international creditors, amid violent clashes between protesters and police firing tear gas outside the parliament in Athens.

An AFP count gave Prime Minister George Papandreou's government the 151 votes it needed to push through measures to save 28.4 billion euros ($40 billion) by 2015, and so unlock emergency finance from the EU and the IMF.

1246 GMT: To clarify previous post, voting started just after 3:35 pm Athens time (1235 GMT) on the massive austerity plan for Greece to save the country from default and the eurozone from contagion.

The 300-seat legislature was called to adopt a 28.4-billion-euro package of tax rises, spending cuts and privatisations demanded by international creditors the EU and IMF.

1242 GMT: Voting has begun on the new austerity package in the Greek parliament.

1238 GMT: Moments before lawmakers are to vote on the new austerity package, Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou adds that "there is no Plan B" to save Greece, evoking the threat that public salaries and pensions might go unpaid otherwise.

1230 GMT: Greece will do "everything to avoid default," Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou says.

1220 GMT: Greece's Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos says that, after a refusal by opposition lawmakers from the extreme-right to left to back the government despite EU and IMF pressure, "all this criticism and these accusations are based on one thing only: the fact that this house's Socialist majority will assume its responsibility and vote the plan through."

1155 GMT: Greece's Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos tells parliament he expects his narrow Socialist party majority to line up behind the whip and so win Greece's crucial austerity vote.

"The decision of PASOK (the governing party) has been taken to carry the vote," Venizelos said with voting, slightly delayed, set to begin after violent clashes outside the assembly between police and protesters.

1135 GMT: "You won't go far with all the people against you," Alexis Tzipras, head of the radical left opposition Synaspismos party shouts at the parliament building, my colleagues Hélène Colliopoulou and Catherine Boitard write from Athens.

1120 GMT: "I'm going home, there's too much tear gas, the crush in the crowd is unbearable," writes my AFP colleague Sylvia Michaelidou Fyrigou, who is taking shelter in the Syntagma underground station after police fired a salvo of tear gas to disperse a group approaching the parliament building in Athens.

1105 GMT: More from opposition conservative lawmaker Elsa Papadimitriou who has told the Greek parliament that she will vote for the government's austerity plans.

"Yes indeed," she said of which way she would cast her vote. "To act with patriotism is to support the consensus and cooperation... The plan is a solution, necessary... but budgetary asphyxiation and economic suicide are not," she added.

The government has a majority of five in the assembly.

Papadimitriou's decision makes the measures almost certain to pass even though one Socialist lawmaker repeated during the debate that he may vote against the package, in protest at plans to sell off part of the state's majority holding in the national electricity company.

1053 GMT: An opposition conservative lawmaker has told the Greek parliament that she will vote for a government austerity plans that has provoked clashes between police and protesters.

Elsa Papadimitriou told the floor shortly before voting was due to begin in the 300-seat assembly that she will back Prime Minister George Papandreou's plan to shave 28.6 billion euros from the national budget by 2015, as police fired tear gas at thousands of demonstrators massed outside.

1050 GMT: Police have fired tear gas at thousands of protesters massed outside parliament in Athens as the vote on a massive austerity package demanded by international creditors approaches.

Riot police began trying to disperse protesters just after 1:30 pm (1030 GMT), AFP correspondents there tell me.

Demonstrators had said they would try to breach barriers right round the parliament's Syntagma Square home.

-- Clashes between protesters and riot police in Athens worsened on Wednesday hours from a vote in parliament on austerity measures aimed at preventing a Greek debt default.

On the second day of a 48-hour general strike, demonstrators massed around the parliament as deputies readied to decide on a 28.4 billion-euro ($40.8 billion) package of taxes, spending cuts and sell-offs scheduled for around 2:00 pm (1100 GMT).

The measures are deemed crucial for Greece to secure international aid to stave off bankruptcy, which is threatening the stability of the eurozone.

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KB Home stung by weak home orders and charges (AP)

LOS ANGELES – House shares fell more than 15 KB per cent on Wednesday, after the homebuilder reported its second-quarter loss more than doubled among mediocre sales and higher costs, and the company reported examined by tapping the capital markets to raise money.

The company said it might consider the sale of stocks, bonds or obtain a credit line because it anticipates having to pay 100 million dollars to cover a maturity bond later this year in addition to more than 200 million dollars, the manufacturer agreed to pay to settle a dispute by joint venture.

Management pointed out that the company has enough money, at this point and still has some time to evaluate its options.

This guarantee did little to offset the results as investors scale House KB of worse than expected. Shares ended the regular session down $1,84 to $ 10.08 and slipped another penny in aftermarket trading.

New home of the marching orders for KB to the period from may, coinciding with the spring home selling season, fell to 11 percent from a year earlier, when federal tax incentives helped boost sales. Home deliveries, a vital source of income, fell on 29 percent.

President and CEO Jeffrey Mezger said that a change of housing remains hampered by consumer concerns about jobs and the American economy.

"Many of the recent national reports on the housing activities reflect today's soft case environment and demonstrate that we have a way forward on the road to a housing recovery," said Mezger.

Sales of new homes in the United States fell 2.1 percent in the month of May to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 319.000 homes. New home sales had risen two months earlier, but remain well below the 700,000 a month economists consider healthy.

And consumer confidence hit a minimum of seven months, this month on continuing concerns over high unemployment and stagnant wages.

Trends in sales for the quarter of those of other great KB homebuilders echo this year. Many have seen a seasonal bump in traffic of the customer this spring, the traditional peak period for sales of homes, but the intensified interest in strong sales do not translate.

A factor is the first time buyers haven't been showing up as they did last year, when the tax credits were in effect. This market segment represents more than half of KB customers.

First time buyers also tend to have a harder time for home loans, amid tight lending standards of qualification. And many of those who receive funding have chosen to buy cheaper, resale homes.

"This is a big negative, not only for KB, but a big negative for the industry," said Gjokaj Demir, a senior analyst of ITG Investment Research in New York. "It shows us that, without doubt, the first time homebuyer is back."

Buyers who decide to buy a House often are taking months, not days or weeks, to take the plunge.

"They are exploring all options and are nervous," said Mezger.

Still, some markets, including parts of coastal California and Texas, are showing signs of stability, with house prices remain flat or even increasing, Mezger said.

Assuming that these markets and others remain stable, KB expects that it will be profitable in the fourth quarter.

KB Home headquarters in Los Angeles, said it lost $ 68.5 million, or 89 cents per share, in the three months that ended on 31 May. That compares with a loss of $ 30.7 million, or 40 cents per share, in the same period last year.

The results include $ 20.6 million in expenses to inventory impairments and land contract installategli and a loss of $ 14.5 million on a loan guarantee related to southern Edge LLC, a joint venture in Las Vegas. Earlier this month, the manufacturer has reached a settlement deal with JPMorgan Chase & Co. and several other large banks that made loans to the company.

Quarterly turnover slumped 27 percent KB, 271.7 million from $ 374.1 million the year before.

Analysts polled by FactSet were expecting a loss of 31 cents per share on approximately 291.4 million dollars in revenue.

KB Home builds homes in 12 States and was ranked the fifth homebuilder in the nation last year, according to closures.

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Can I combine political anti-Chà vez of Venezuela? ¡ (The Christian Science Monitor)

Caracas, Venezuela-cry of women and whip their camera phones as political activists begin to sing "Sí, se puede!," the Spanish language version of "Yes we can!"

Several dozen residents of a barrio nearby hill came together in a small square to meet a new crop of local candidates, but the wave of rolling the crowd gasps as former Mayor Leopoldo Lopez arrives reveals he is the star of the show.

"I'm here for him to support him and his candidacy for President," says Isabel Lozada, a Secretary from a modest neighborhood of Caracas. "He is a young man with good ideas". Her friend, Rosario Contreras, he adds, "is a fighter, especially for people like us, the people the barrio humble".

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As voters more as ms. Contreras voice their disappointment with the left-wing Government of President Hugo Chávez, Mr. Lopez and other opposition candidates are crisscrossing the country, organizing rallies and hoping to build on what they say is a growing chorus for political change.

Sensing that this could be their best shot at victory, all political parties opposed to Mr. Chávez decided to put aside their differences and a single candidate in a February primary again. The Harvard-educated Lopez, who long argued for such a primary, hoping to be among the candidates but says that he will support any candidate is collected.

"This candidate will be hired as the team captain, but one that can't win without the rest of the team," says Lopez.

The decision to hold a primary is a victory for a young generation of leaders whom, for some years, have been locked in a battle of generations with traditional party elders, most of whom had seats before Chávez crashed on the political scene in the 1990s. New leaders are, on average, about 40 years and have embraced the populist Chavez but I believe that economic growth and private investment are the best ways to combat poverty.

"Represent the future, the faces of change and probably have a better chance of winning against [Chávez]," says Alejandro Grisanti, Chief Economist at Barclays Capital. "It will be harder for Chavez say one of these young candidates represents the past."

Unlike previous opponents to Chà vez ¡, which in the early years of his administration refused to participate in the elections, saying that the election process was rigged, these new leaders are seeking votes the President's traditional Turf.

"It is not enough to be a majority. We must be a majority, "Lopez told the small group assembled in one night recently. "Be a majority organized means having a presence in every neighborhood in every neighborhood in every little town to spread our message of change. This means that leaders ranging from House to house ".

While he is one of the most confined of the opposition, Lopez was barred from running for Office in 2008 by anti-corruption officials loyal to Chavez because of charges stemming from a corruption case is not resolved.

Lopez and many others say that the case was politically motivated to neutralize a potential opponent to Chávez. Lopez is fighting the case in the Inter-American Court of human rights and expects a verdict in September. If he wins, he will throw his hat in the ring officially.

Other potential candidates include Henrique Capriles, the second Governor of the State of Venezuela and Caracas Mayor Antonio Ledezma, who undertook a hunger strike to protest that Chavez moves to strip the city officials and the State of their authority.

Mr. Capriles has emerged in some polls as Venezuela's most popular politician, before polling even Chávez, whose popularity has been consistently below by crime persistently high inflation to double digits, deficiencies and recurrent interruption.

"[Chávez] has all the tools to make this feature of the country, and if he did it all would support it," said Josefina Arias, a vendor who describes himself as a former supporter of Chávez. "Unfortunately, I believe that Chavez has lost its vision of what could be Venezuela."

Ms. Arias was in the provincial capital of Los Teques with hundreds of others to receive State-funded vouchers by Capriles is worth about $ 3,000 to repair houses damaged by rain.

Capriles said its nonideological focusing on solving everyday has helped him gain votes in Chávez's traditional strongholds. "I'm in first place in the polls, because I want what people want: a new leadership based on the unit, a Government that is equally for all," says Capriles.

Lopez is Capriles point to last September's legislative elections, in which opposition candidates received more votes than United Socialist Party of Venezuela of Chávez as proof that the electoral tide is turning in their favor.

Despite the victory of the opposition, Chavez assigned more electoral weight to sparsely populated regions, ensuring the dominance of his party in the National Assembly.

"Chávez won through elections, but its daily operation is not democratic," says Capriles. "The challenge is to overcome democratic a Government is not democratic."

Many observers wonder whether the unit, but both Capriles and Lopez say they are some of the main results will be respected by other would-be opposition, saying it would be "political suicide" to run against whoever wins the primary.

The real challenge, says Lopez, will maintain a balance between fair competition between very different options and maintain a fragile unity that everyone recognizes is the key to win. The potential for victory is too large to ignore, he believes it will keep everyone focused and committed.

"The day after the primaries, we will have 335 candidates for mayor, 24 for the Governor and one for the President to hit the streets of the nation as a monolithic block," says Lopez, "which will undoubtedly support the political and emotional drives of all Venezuelans."

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Riots in Greece, Parliament should approve the Bill (Reuters)

Athens (Reuters)-– Greek Police clashed with protesters outside Parliament in the early hours of Thursday, ahead of a crucial vote expected to approve a law to prevent final austerity required.

The Government of Prime Minister George Papandreou, who won a first vote Wednesday, from 155 to 138 votes, expects to pass the second and final invoice tax hikes, spending objectives and privatizations has agreed as part of a plan to rescue EU/IMF.

Riot police fired tear gas. Hundreds of officers armed with batons chased black-clad youths threw stones, wrecked shops and set fire to the buildings.

Lawmakers passed a Bill earlier Wednesday to implement the austerity plan and must vote Thursday on legislation for its implementation. The measures were demanded by international lenders in exchange for keeping afloat the Greece.

"I expect the parliamentarians who claimed the mid-plane will vote for the law of implementation," Government spokesman Ilias Mosialos said in a television interview.

Both Bills establishing the austerity of 28 billion euros (40 billion dollars) should be passed to the European Union and the International Monetary Fund to release a loan tranche of EUR 12 billion to a rescue of 110 billion that the Government needs to stay afloat.

Are also needed for talks on a rescue plan according to planned of about the same size comprising nearly 30 billion in private sector participation. Locked out of bond markets, Greece needs extra money to avert default and keep the debt crisis from spilling over to the rest of the eurozone.

Papandreou, who has reshuffled his Cabinet earlier this month to secure support for the Bills, said he was determined to push through reforms.

"Today, I'm more determined than ever," Papandreou said. "Now is the time to deal with everything that is wrong with all that hurts us, that holds us back."

Thursday's vote allows individual budgetary measures and creates an agency of privatization. The opposition conservative new democracy party, who voted against the Bill, said it would support some of the measures in the second.

"We reject in principle. However, we shall support the mechanism of privatization, as well as articles on spending, "said new democracy Deputy Yannis Vroutsis.

Parliament resumed debate on the Bill the second at 9:30 (0630 GMT) and the vote is not expected before 14: 00 (1100 GMT). Before the debate, it had not yet decided if more than one vote would be needed to pass it.

Implementation of the measures it will be difficult for the Government, which has fallen behind the opposition in opinion polls and heated criticism from its members during the debate in Parliament.

Trade unions, which has paralyzed the country for 48 hours earlier this week, have vowed to oppose privatizations and other austerity measures. Anger among the Greek population was stressed by the violence that broke out on Syntagma Square outside Parliament Wednesday as the first votes of the Bill were to be counted.

Doctors who work with the protesters said they had treated at least 25 people for minor injuries and hundreds with respiratory problems to the adjacent Syntagma Metro station. At least 40 police officers were hurt, police said.

Police and hooded youths fought battles in the night, choking the city center with tear gas and smoke from gasoline bombs. Protesters set fire to the post office in the building where is located the Finance Ministry and tried to set fire to a bank. Across the square, was evacuated the King George Hotel.

Analysts said that the real challenge for Greece will come after the Bill is voted and insured money internationally.

"The law of implementation will also pass without problems," said Costas Panagopoulos, head of pollsters ALCO. "The real question is whether Papandreou will use this vote to go forward with these crucial reforms."

(Additional reporting by Harry Papachristou; Editing by Peter Graff)

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