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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Down to the wire, GOP collect $ last hopes (AP)

WASHINGTON-former Governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney were poised to collect as much 20 million during the quarter of fundraising that ends Thursday, advisers said, as his rivals for the GOP Presidential nomination struggle to keep pace with the Front-Runner's campaign.

With the end of the reporting period three months ahead, the crowded field of contenders GOP made final-hour pitches for the contributions that will be a first measure of the strength of their campaign — or weakness.

Romney, scheduled for fundraisers in Washington Wednesday and in Philadelphia on Thursday, was positioned to outraise away other Republicans seeking to challenge the re-election campaign of President Barack Obama safeguard for 2012.

Romney, however, is the candidate to beat now. Has raised more than 10 million dollars in one day in Las Vegas and has been working hard the GOP donor community. Wednesday, He held a fundraiser at $ 2,500 per person in a suburb of Washington after meeting privately with Senators on Capitol Hill to pass himself as the candidate in a stronger position to make Obama a President of a term.

Romney is expected to report an increase of 16 million to $ 20 million for the quarter, said two advisers who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss raising money before maturity. Romney, who in his presidential race of 2008, pumped up 42 million dollars of his own fortune, was not going to write himself a check this time and instead gathered GOP donors outbreaks such as Texas, California and New York.

Romney's rivals were not expected to match these sums.

"Your investment and commitment will send a clear message to President Obama: failure is not an option for our nation. Please make a secure online donation through my website, "the former Governor of Minnesota, Tim Pawlenty, who is struggling to attract money, said in a message to supporters.

"I wanted to reach out, as I just got another call from my financial director. She reminded me that our fundraising deadline is 30 June — this Thursday — and asked if I could reach out to our supporters nationwide, "former Senator Rick Santorum wrote to his supporters.

"In the coming months, Mary Kaye, children and I will be traveling across the country with Americans like you while talking about our plan to make America great again. But we will need your help, "former Utah gov. Jon Huntsman wrote to his supporters.

The campaigns have until July 15 to disclose their officers cale — and costs, which could be raised for some candidates — but advisers plans to release highlights in the coming days. Those numbers help still undecided donors choose which candidates to support.

"You must be a little crazy and a bit brave to talk about putting together a campaign that would love to see that others put money in," Hunter said during a recent interview.

Pawlenty, who for years has laid the groundwork for a presidential bid, has faced obstacles to raising money, and some of his advisers are working without pay. Pawlenty aides say the fulltime staff continues to collect salaries and the campaign will report raising enough money to finance their operations in the early States nominates Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina.

Expected former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who has amassed more than 1 million dollars in counterfeit bills, disorders of fundraising report would leave him in red. When you run a network of non-profit, advocacy and advice, Gingrich was able to raise millions from a small web of donors. Now a presidential candidate, is limited by federal election laws and not invested the time to build its donor lists.

His senior campaign aides, including two of its leaders of fundraising, the resignation en masse earlier this month disagreement with Gingrich.

Santorum, who spent nearly 26 million dollars in her 2006 Senate re-election attempt unsuccessful, was footpath of the fundraiser, despite early efforts and frequent visits in the States before having the nomination contests. His previous race placed him under the national spotlight as Republicans tried to defend the seat of the Senate of Pennsylvania, but Santorum has been in Office since 2007 and donor interest has waned.

Rep. Michele Bachmann, which formally began his election campaign earlier this week, is a collection of proven funds; She has raised more than $ 13 million for his re-election to his Minnesota district and could tap into those donors who see it as a chief spokesman for the tea party. But she was not a serious candidate long enough to test its fund-raising to reach a national race.

Texas Republican Ron Paul, a libertarian and tea party favorite, always draws impressive fundraising monies from its loyal followers, but has not yet made inroads on his third White House bid. And Herman Cain, businessman from Georgia who ever held the Office elective, might surprise with the results: an unexpected third place position in the Des Moines Register poll this week of Iowa caucus participants gave him a buzz.

"It is not easy," said the Huntsman, who has raised 1.2 million dollars during an event in New York last week. "And, generally, does not get money from them on your visit.

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Senators concerned from the obligation of photo ID to vote (AP)

WASHINGTON-sixteen Democratic Senators want the Justice Department to examine if voting rights are being compromised in States that require photo identification so that the people to vote.

The lawmaker wrote Attorney General Eric Holder Wednesday to express concern that millions of voters do not have an ID issued by the Government — in particular the elderly, racial minorities, low-income voters and students.

Senators say photo ID requirements have the potential to block millions of eligible persons from exercising their right to vote.

Justice Department spokeswoman Tracy Schmaler said the Department is monitoring, as does normally, this type of legislative activity States.

"We urge you to protect the voting rights of Americans using the full power of the Justice Department to review these laws of voter identification and scrutinizing their implementation," the Senators said in the letter to the Attorney General.

The 16 senators, including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, Michael Bennet of Colorado, Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Dick Durbin of Illinois, Patty Murray of Washington, Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, Sherrod Brown of Ohio, Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley of Oregon, Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, Benjamin Cardin of Maryland, Mark Begich of Alaska, Tom Harkin of IowaKohl grass of Wisconsin and Tom Udall of New Mexico.

"Many of these laws effectively because thousands of eligible voters," Bennett said in a statement.

Senators are looking vigorous enforcement of the Voting Rights Act and the federal civil rights law, which bars different standards being applied to individuals within a jurisdiction. Section 5 of the voting rights Act gives the authority significant Department of Justice to review the laws before they are implemented in States with a history of discriminatory voting practices. Three States subject to section 5 — Georgia, Texas and South Carolina — require a photo ID to vote. Texas and South Carolina promulgated their laws last month.

Other States with a photo ID requirement are Indiana, Wisconsin, Kansas and Tennessee, according to the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, which collects national data on the electoral law.

Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Louisiana, Michigan, and South Dakota have photo ID requirements for voters, but not necessarily prevent voters from casting ballots, according to data collected by Moritz. Voters can, for example, signed an affidavit in lieu of a photo ID.

Other States where the issue is pending or where these proposals were rejected:

_ In Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire and North Carolina, Democratic Governors vetoed legislation.

_ In Pennsylvania, State House Republicans pushed through a mandate this month that the voters of Pennsylvania have a photo ID issued by the Government. The measure was sent to the State Senate.

_ In Ohio, the State House passed a Bill to require voters to show a photo ID at the polls. The measure is likely to be considered in the Senate GOP controlled this fall.

Photo IDS are not the only controversial issue in the context of the requirements of the voters.

In Arizona, minority groups are to court challenging a State law that requires people to show proof of citizenship when registering to vote. The Department of Justice of the United States urged the courts to overturn the law, saying that contrasts with the voter registration Act. This federal law allows people to submit a paper mail-in voter registration and swear that they are citizens under penalty of perjury.

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FBI joins investigation army at Arlington Cemetery (AP)

WASHINGTON-the FBI has joined the army agents investigating possible criminal practices at Arlington National Cemetery that may have surrounded the burial of eight sets of cremated human remains, found in URNs in a single grave.

Investigators are examining whether there was fraud at the cemetery and burial if reservations were made correctly, Chris Grey, spokesman for the criminal investigation command, the army said Wednesday.

A series of embarrassing revelations came out about the most hallowed burial ground of the nation, since the post of General Inspector of the army said last year he found hundreds of serious discrepancies between sites, burials and maps as well as a host of other problems. New leaders were brought, a series of other problems discovered and tombs have also been reopened as part of the probe.

Last week it was revealed that 69 boxes of scanning record from Arlington, including personally identifiable information such as social security numbers were found in a private storage facility, though gray said Wednesday that they were able to connect the boxes to any crime.

Gray said three of the eight sets of remains have been identified and the remains of two were buried at the request of their families. Four sets cannot be identified while continuing the investigation on one, he said.

An Assistant United States Attorney said of the Act of burying multiple URNs in a grave in itself constitutes a crime, but the incident is still part of the investigation into possible fraud of contract and improper reservations, gray told reporters at a news conference.

The Washington Post reported earlier Wednesday that the Justice Department began an extensive criminal investigation with the FBI and the issuing of subpoenas from a federal grand jury for witnesses and records.

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Mauritania could lose its capital city at sea (OneWorld.net)

NOUAKCHOTT, June 28 (IPS)-over the past five years, water has been running off the ground under those parts of Nouakchott, undermining the foundations and turning in some areas of the Mauritanian capital marshes uninhabitable.

Tabara Gaye, a widow living near this coastal town, Socogim PS told IPS that her house collapsed near the 20 June. She is demanding urgent help from the Government before the rainy season this year to pay for and the cost of building embankments against the waters.

In 2007, limited flooding has been reported in several places during the rainy season. But in January 2011, residents were forced to flee their homes, when water began to invade the different neighborhoods, including Baghdad, Sebkha Socogim, and Las Palmas. Murmurs of discontent gained strength until the clamor for compensation from the Government and private developers that threw out the sites now submerged spurred the Government to act.

Mauritanian President Mohamed Abdelaziz personally visited the site in April and established an inter-ministerial Committee to examine the problem, but the Committee has yet to report.

Retiree Moktar Kane, a victim of the floods, says, "I spent 35 million ouguiyas (about 138,000 dollars) for the purchase of a plot subject to flooding. My neighbors and I, a total of 476 families need a leak of waste water discharge and runoff ... or want substantial compensation. "

Compensation of Kane and its neighbours is out of the question, according to developers, Iskan (the name means accommodation in Arabic). "The lots have been allocated in 1982 and the water table, then, was two meters," says Technical Director of Iskan, Med Ali. "All of Nouakchott is located below the water table. Only the Government can resolve this. "

Recent Government studies suggest that nearly 80 percent of the total surface area of Nouakchott could become submerged in less than a decade--to 20 years. One scenario involves the disappearance of the city around 2050.

The Director of environmental services, Ould Lefdal says simply, "Nouakchott lies in a depression 50 cm below sea level. The sea is advancing towards the city at a rate of 25 meters per year. "

Banimou Tlayor, from local non-governmental organization action for rational management of the environment, says that the port city has changed the shape of the coast and that any rise in sea level exposes Nouakchott to flooding.

Moreover, the pumping of water from the River Senegal, a rise of groundwater corresponding to sea level rise in the Atlantic and the absence of an adequate drainage are all playing a role.

Bamody Diakità ©, the Coordinator of Nouakchott of special programme to protect the city, says that 120,000 cubic metres of water from the River is dealt to the fresh water supply of the city, but much of this is lost to leaks in the antiquated network. Says this, alongside the lack of a system of sewers and storm drains, is aggravating the phenomenon of rising waters below the city.

Another contributing factor is derived from the use of sand for the construction, which-according to Diakità ©-opened 18 infringement in coastal dunes that protects the Interior from the high seas.

The Government spent eight million dollars for the program, the money goes towards restoring the duna coast as well as plant a greenbelt of protective vegetation.

Several studies carried out to assess the best way to plug gaps in coastal dune. "The project more feasible-dredging the seabed to reinforce the duna-will soon be put out of the race," said Coulibaly. He recognized the serious deterioration of the natural environment near the port of Nouakchott where 15 kilometres of the coastal bar was destroyed by wind erosion; a Chinese company is building a dam.

But Dr Marico Demba, head of coastal adaptation to climate change project in West Africa, funded by the United Nations fears that responds to calls for greater resources of Mauritania owns.

The situation-its severity made very late-is precarious. Residents of Nouakchott fear for the future of their capital. Everything depends on the climate change and global warming, says Lefdal.

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President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono Lantik Brother-in-law So At 14.00 WIB KSAD

Jakarta -End President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) choose Ltg TNI Pramono Edhie Wibowo as KSAD replace General George Toisutta. Pramono, who is also the younger brother of Ani Yudhoyono will be sworn in at the Presidential Palace.

The information gathered from the Bureau of press and the detikcom Media Presidential Palace, Friday (30/6/2011), SUSILO BAMBANG YUDHOYONO would appoint Pramono Edhie at 14.00 pm. Ani's mother also attended the inauguration was scheduled.

Before deploying the inauguration, the President received the Headquarters of Union Amateur Boxing Executive Committee Indonesia & President's Amateur Boxing Club in the President's Office.

Earlier, the INDONESIAN ARMY has been screening the high-ranking officers name 7 Lieutenant-General. Of the 7 names, 3 of which were declared worthy submitted to Pesiden. The rest are not chosen because of its age and retirement was near.

Three names were Wakasad Ltg Budiman (Also an alumnus, 1978 birth in 1956), Pangkostrad Ltg Pramono Edhie Wibowo (Also 1980 alumnus of birth 1955) and Dankodiklat Lt. Gen. Marciano (Also an alumnus, 1978 birth in 1954).

Of these three names, the Commander of the ARMED FORCES only apply one to President SBY i.e. Pangkostrad Ltg Pramono Edhie Wibowo. Before serving as Pangkostrad, Pramono served as Kopassus Commander Danjen III Siliwangi.



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PPP Apologize When Muktamarnya More Macetkan Bandung

Jakarta --the United Development Party (PPP) said sorry if during Mukatamar PPP will begin July 3 will make Bandung is increasingly bogged down. For, at least approximately 11,500 PPP cadres and sympathisers in the main area of the tumplek will be based at the Hotel Panhegar.

"If the show opening Every VII PPP makes the flow of traffic in the city of Bandung became very crowded and jammed. We apologize to the community in Bandung and its surrounding areas, "said the Chairman of the Organising Committee, the main VII PPP Emron Pangkapi, while conveying the immediacy of the main Office of the DPP PPP on Jl Diponegoro, Jakarta, Thursday (29/6/2011).

According to the main VII Emron, PPP will be opened by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and attended by approximately 11,500 people both participants, reviewers, and supporter. Due to the large number of those who want to witness a straight supporter opening in the main building?, Bandung.

Data obtained from each of the areas mentioned, at least 1,600 people editor and supporter of East Java that would come to Bandung uses the 40 bus.

Then from North Sumatra, he said, will present about 800 people including children's sysop-level branch of se-Sumatera Utara subdistrict. From South Sulawesi, he said, will also present some 600 people editor and supporter.

"From the counties and cities in West Java will also present a number of about 2,000 people," he said.

Anticipating the conditions of the field, the Committee banned attendee semrawut carrying private cars. This provision does not apply to VIP invite guests as State officials as well as the Chairman of the political party of which there are about 150 invited guests.

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LSE, TMX stop their merger, leaving that game (Reuters)

TORONTO/LONDON (Reuters)-plan C $ 3.6 billion (3.7 billion dollars) The London Stock Exchange to buy its counterpart in Toronto collapsed Wednesday in the face of competing bid, led by Canadian banks, leaving the UK itself vulnerable to capture.

The failure, which follows the abandoned supply Singapore Exchange Ltd for Australia ASX Ltd, is the latest sign of nationalist pride for cross-border deals frustrating capital markets highly symbolic.

The bid failed LSE opens the door to a hostile C $ 3.8 billion for TMX Group, operator of Toronto Stock Exchange, the Maple Group Consortium. The Consortium is an alternative to Canada for an acquisition that would put a big well pet in foreign hands.

"This is a group of Canadian companies that came together and stated that themselves," said Dwight Duncan, Minister of Finance of the province of Ontario and an early opponent of the deal LSE.

Having to withdraw from Canada, LSE calls attention to itself as a target TAKEOVER as exchanges consolidate to try to grow and broaden the geographical scope and battle rivals and new entrants to the market.

NASDAQ OMX Group, smarting from their failure in the United States to buy the New York Stock Exchange parent NYSE Euronext, would be a contender for an alternative combination ocean liner with the LSE.

"While the deal failed probably puts a stop to the ambitions of TMX M &, other Exchange operators probably will continue to seek partners. This strengthens my conviction that we should expect more mergers, not less, "said Ditmire, And New York-based analyst for Macquarie Securities.

NASDAQ and LSE shares rose in late trade on Wednesday, indicating that speculation about a tie-up might be brewing.

"It wouldn't surprise me to see the Nasdaq and LSE talking," said Jamie Selway, New York-based market structure expert and Managing Director of investment Technology Group strategy.

The collapse of the deal TMX is a black eye for LSE Chief Executive Xavier Rolet, who staked his reputation on sealing the deal.

Should have brought a Rolet group exchange LSE-TMX, which would be a global player in the heavyweight and no. 1 in listing energy and mining companies.

But the support they got from TMX and Council was not sufficient to overcome opposition within the banking industry Canada's tight-knit.

Four of the largest banks in the country were players lead the offer from Maple, a consortium that included pension funds and financial services company. The other two large banks of Canada were consultants to the LSE proposal.

NOT ENOUGH VOTES

In short statements issued a day before a shareholder vote, the two exchanges said that they realized by an early count of proxy votes that shareholders would not give them the TMX by a two thirds majority needed to approve their agreement.

TMX Group said it would now examine opportunities, including the supply of Maple.

"LSE and TMX were both in positions where they were not large enough or enough diverse and rapidly growing enough to control their own destiny," said Justin Schack, CEO of analysis of the market structure of agency brokerage Rosenblatt securities in New York.

"They made the best deal they could probably. Now that TMX is not going to happen, Maple has while LSE is again on its own, and there are many partners out there where it might be the buyer, rather than the destination. "

Maple has offered c $ 3.8 billion for TMX, mainly in cash.

Offer mostly Commons of LSE was worth approximately C $ 49 a share.

It would have needed a green light from a Government which last year vetoed a big international acquisition as not being in the best interests of Canada.

TMX shares touched a high of C $ 44.80 after the deal was scrapped before easing back to close at C $ 44.20. That is well below the price of a share C $ 50 Maple.

Maple wants to wrap the alternative Canada's largest, Alpha, trading venue and the compensating stock-trading CDS to a post-takeover TMX. That would give it a market share of more than 80 percent and leave you facing antitrust problems.

"Now we need to see what he thinks of the Bureau of competition of Maple. We also need to see if shareholders support Maple. I think they will do, that I don't see how not, "said Alison Crosthwait, Director of global strategy of trading in Instinet.

"We're going back to more of a closely held and interested parties control the trade."

Competition Bureau of Canada has independent bared its teeth lately on many fronts, getting paid C $ 10 million from Bell Canada to Bce Inc. for misleading advertising and trying to block a joint venture between Air Canada and Continental United.

(Additional Reporting by Claire Sibonney, Andrea Hopkins, Euan Rocha, he Solarina, Jonathan Spicer, Allison Martell and Trish Nixon; editing by Janet Guttsman and Peter Galloway)

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Greek protests turn violent as EU warns of default (Reuters)

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ATHENS/BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Anti-austerity protests turned violent in Athens on Tuesday as the European Union warned Greek lawmakers the country faces immediate default unless they back an unpopular economic plan this week.

Hooded youths throwing stones and wielding sticks set fire to garbage bins and a telecoms truck outside parliament and riot police fired teargas to disperse them. Trade unions began a 48-hour strike against the EU/IMF-imposed measures.

Progress reported in talks was meanwhile to persuade European banks and insurers to voluntarily roll over maturing Greek debt under a planned second rescue package designed to give the euro zone country a breathing space.

Growing market confidence that the Greek parliament will approve the austerity program and that a French plan to roll over Greek sovereign bonds will help avert a default lifted global stocks and the euro despite the mayhem in Athens.

The EU's top economic official, Olli Rehn, stressed that any further assistance for the debt-crippled nation hinged on parliament adopting a raft of spending cuts, tax rises and privatizations in crucial votes on Wednesday and Thursday.

"The only way to avoid immediate default is for parliament to endorse the revised economic program ... They must be approved if the next tranche of financial assistance is to be released, "he said in a statement.

"To those who speculate about other options, let me say this clearly: there is no Plan B to avoid default," Rehn said, dismissing widespread reports that Brussels was working on a fallback plan to keep Greece afloat.

The blunt alternatives was underscored by the Bank of England Governor Mervyn King, who told British parliamentarians that policymakers were working on ways to limit the damage from a potential default on Greece's 340 billion euro debt pile.

"What we're doing is to say there is sufficient concern in the market about the possibility of default for us to think about contingency plans and the consequences of this event," King said.

He urged greater transparency about sovereign exposures to prevent a sudden, broad-based loss of confidence in European banks in the event of a Greek default, which could trigger a new credit crunch.

By nightfall, several hours of clashes involving hundreds of youths had subsided and central Athens had been reclaimed by thousands of peaceful protesters denouncing measures they say hit salaried workers and the unemployed while sparing the rich.

Some 5.000 police were drafted in, mostly to protect the colonnaded parliament building on Syntagma Square, focal point of weeks of mass demonstrations, some modeled on the encampment of unemployed Spanish "indignados" in Madrid.

ROLLOVER PROGRESS

The EU and the IMF have said Turkey must enact both the five-year austerity plan, with 28.6 billion euros in savings, and key implementing laws for structural reforms and state asset sales to secure the next 12 billion euro slice of aid in July.

Without that, Athens would run out of money within weeks unless it received some outside lifeline.

Risk premia on lower-rated euro zone government debt fell on news that German banks had agreed in principle to use a French proposal as a basis for negotiating private-sector participation in a Greek debt rollovers.

The euro also hit a session high against the dollar, with fears of a Greek default offset by signs that European authorities and banks are making progress on a debt rollover.

Prime Minister George Papandreou's Socialists hold a narrow majority with 155 seats in the 300-member legislature, but a handful of lawmakers have defected and others are threatening to vote against some or all of the measures, putting the outcome in doubt.

One possible scenario that could cause trouble would be if parliament approved the five-year austerity plan but voted down some of the implementing bills, for example on privatizations.

Conservative opposition leader Antonis Samaras underlined property his opposition to the economic plan despite massive pressure from fellow center-right European leaders to back it.

"This policy is wrong, it has exhausted the Greek people and Greek society," he told parliament. "If we continued this mistaken policy, we will only make things worse, both for Turkey and for Europe."

If Greece approves the legislation, euro zone finance ministers meeting in Brussels on Sunday are likely to agree to release the next aid installment, with the IMF following on July 5.

Attention will then switch to putting together a second rescue package for Greece of about the same magnitude as the initial 110 billion euro bailout agreed last year.

The new program would involve some 30 billion euros in private sector participation on a "voluntary" rollover of maturing debt, a similar sum from privatization revenues and an expected 55 billion euros in new official funding.

Euro zone banks and insurers are considering a French plan outlined by President Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday under which private bondholders would reinvest half of the proceeds of maturing Greek debt in new 30-year bonds paying 5.5 percent interest plus a bonus linked to Greece's GDP growth rate.

Of the other half, 30 percent would be "cashed out and 20 percent would be invested in zero-coupon AAA securities with deferred interest that might be issued or guaranteed by the euro zone rescue fund, officials and banking sources said.

French banks have the largest foreign private sector exposure to Greece, followed by Germany.

Two sources close to the negotiations told Reuters that German banks had agreed to use the "French model" as a basis for talks with the German Finance Ministry on Thursday. German Deputy Finance Minister Joerg Asmussen also called the French plan a good basis for discussions.

Credit ratings agencies withheld comment pending details of the scheme.

& Standard Poor's said on Monday it was too soon to judge the ratings impact of the private debt rollover being put together for Greece, which it had not yet seen, but did not rule out avoiding a downgrade to default.

Asked if he could imagine a solution in which private creditors voluntarily contributed to a Greek rescue package without triggering an S&P downgrade, Moritz Kraemer, head of European sovereign ratings, told Austrian television:

"It is conceivable depending on the situation. That is why I say it is not possible at all to draw a final conclusion on this in the current situation. "

In Berlin, visiting Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao said Beijing had faith in the European economy and the euro and was optimistic that Europe could overcome its temporary challenge.

As in the past, he gave a vague commitment to buying euro zone debt without specifying countries or amounts.

(additional reporting by George Georgiopoulos in Athens, Philipp Halstrick and Ed Taylor in Frankfurt, Marius Zaharia and Ana Nicolai da Costa in London, Mike Shields in Vienna, Stephen Brown in Berlin; Writing by Paul Taylor, editing by Mike Peacock/Janet McBride)

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