On Friday, residents in Mumbai, India were still dealing with the aftermath of the terror attacks that left 143 dead. In Germany, commentators were wondering whether the incident puts India's rising economy in jeopardy -- and whether it was a harbinger of more violence to come. On Friday, the battle to regain control of the city of Mumbai was continuing as special forces regained control of one of the luxury hotels attacked by militants on Wednesday. Commando units stormed a Jewish center and are soldiers are deployed at another hotel, where at least one militant is still holed up. While most of the 143 killed in the coordinated attacks were Indians, there are some Europeans among the dead. On Friday France sent a special flight to Mumbai to bring back up to 150 Europeans caught up in the terror attacks. Ties between Europe and India have been increasingly close in recent years -- a fact underscored by the presence of seven EU members of parliament who were in Mumbai on a trade delegation at the time of the attacks. On Friday some German commentators wonder whether this relationship needs to be reevaluated in the light of this week's events. Some editorialists suggest treating India with more caution in the near future.
On Friday, residents in Mumbai, India were still dealing with the aftermath of the terror attacks that left 143 dead. In Germany, commentators were wondering whether the incident puts India's rising economy in jeopardy -- and whether it was a harbinger of more violence to come.
On Friday, the battle to regain control of the city of Mumbai was continuing as special forces regained control of one of the luxury hotels attacked by militants on Wednesday. Commando units stormed a Jewish center and are soldiers are deployed at another hotel, where at least one militant is still holed up.
While most of the 143 killed in the coordinated attacks were Indians, there are some Europeans among the dead. On Friday France sent a special flight to Mumbai to bring back up to 150 Europeans caught up in the terror attacks. Ties between Europe and India have been increasingly close in recent years -- a fact underscored by the presence of seven EU members of parliament who were in Mumbai on a trade delegation at the time of the attacks. On Friday some German commentators wonder whether this relationship needs to be reevaluated in the light of this week's events. Some editorialists suggest treating India with more caution in the near future.
Fresh explosions and gunfire have been heard at Mumbai's Taj Mahal Palace hotel, one of several sites targeted in attacks that have killed at least 130. Indian troops battled with the gunmen for most of the day after swooping on the building at first light. The bodies of five hostages were found inside a Jewish centre, Israeli diplomats said, after a long battle. India's foreign minister said "elements with links to Pakistan" were involved in the attacks.
Fresh explosions and gunfire have been heard at Mumbai's Taj Mahal Palace hotel, one of several sites targeted in attacks that have killed at least 130.
Indian troops battled with the gunmen for most of the day after swooping on the building at first light.
The bodies of five hostages were found inside a Jewish centre, Israeli diplomats said, after a long battle.
India's foreign minister said "elements with links to Pakistan" were involved in the attacks.
SLAMABAD, Pakistan-- The chief of Pakistan's powerful intelligence organization will make an extraordinary visit to India to assist in the investigation of the Mumbai attacks, Pakistani officials said Friday. The decision to send Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha, the director general of Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI, will mark the first time an ISI chief will visit rival India. It was not immediately clear, however, when General Pasha would leave for India. The move is being seen as an attempt by Pakistan's civilian government to allay Indian concerns after accusations of Pakistani involvement in the attacks surfaced almost immediately. In a televised speech Thursday, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India blamed forces "based outside this country" of involvement in the attacks. A day later, India's foreign minister, Pranab Mukherjee, was quoted by the Press Trust of India as saying that, according to preliminary reports, "some elements in Pakistan are responsible."
SLAMABAD, Pakistan-- The chief of Pakistan's powerful intelligence organization will make an extraordinary visit to India to assist in the investigation of the Mumbai attacks, Pakistani officials said Friday.
The decision to send Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha, the director general of Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI, will mark the first time an ISI chief will visit rival India. It was not immediately clear, however, when General Pasha would leave for India.
The move is being seen as an attempt by Pakistan's civilian government to allay Indian concerns after accusations of Pakistani involvement in the attacks surfaced almost immediately.
In a televised speech Thursday, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India blamed forces "based outside this country" of involvement in the attacks. A day later, India's foreign minister, Pranab Mukherjee, was quoted by the Press Trust of India as saying that, according to preliminary reports, "some elements in Pakistan are responsible."
Hungry residents allowed to take food from stores ITAJAI, Brazil -- Flood victims waded through waist-deep water into mud-filled houses yesterday in a devastated part of southern Brazil where neighbors set up patrols to keep looters away and lined up by the thousands for government food handouts. As waters from torrential rains receded after causing at least 99 deaths, returning residents hurled soaked furniture and damaged electronic goods into the streets of this coastal city along the Itajai-Acu River. Hunger and thirst were so widespread in the city of 170,000 that police were ordered to let residents take food and water from stores because they were "driven by despair to steal," said Joao Carlos Santos, the state public-safety spokesman. Officers instead focused on thieves who paddled rickety canoes to loot abandoned homes. The official death toll from the rains in Santa Catarina state rose from 97 to 99 a day earlier. Mudslides killed most of the victims, and 19 people were officially missing. The death toll could climb as high as 150, authorities said.
ITAJAI, Brazil -- Flood victims waded through waist-deep water into mud-filled houses yesterday in a devastated part of southern Brazil where neighbors set up patrols to keep looters away and lined up by the thousands for government food handouts.
As waters from torrential rains receded after causing at least 99 deaths, returning residents hurled soaked furniture and damaged electronic goods into the streets of this coastal city along the Itajai-Acu River.
Hunger and thirst were so widespread in the city of 170,000 that police were ordered to let residents take food and water from stores because they were "driven by despair to steal," said Joao Carlos Santos, the state public-safety spokesman.
Officers instead focused on thieves who paddled rickety canoes to loot abandoned homes.
The official death toll from the rains in Santa Catarina state rose from 97 to 99 a day earlier. Mudslides killed most of the victims, and 19 people were officially missing. The death toll could climb as high as 150, authorities said.
WASHINGTON (Map, News) - Despite widespread optimism that President-elect Barack Obama will adopt policies more to their liking, some European officials are preparing to be disappointed on global warming.European leaders have expressed hopes Obama would quickly break from the Bush administration and support a global agreement to limit greenhouse emissions blamed for global warming. But some are tempering their expectations that the United States can shift quickly enough to sign a deal by the end of next year.Though Obama has supported the kind of limits on emissions envisioned by international negotiators and spurned by President George W. Bush, it appears that Congress may not be ready to back him immediately.The top European Union official in Washington, John Bruton, says there is growing concern that Congress could upend a global deal to succeed the Kyoto Protocol that they hope to sign at a meeting in Copenhagen at the end of 2009.
European leaders have expressed hopes Obama would quickly break from the Bush administration and support a global agreement to limit greenhouse emissions blamed for global warming. But some are tempering their expectations that the United States can shift quickly enough to sign a deal by the end of next year.
Though Obama has supported the kind of limits on emissions envisioned by international negotiators and spurned by President George W. Bush, it appears that Congress may not be ready to back him immediately.
The top European Union official in Washington, John Bruton, says there is growing concern that Congress could upend a global deal to succeed the Kyoto Protocol that they hope to sign at a meeting in Copenhagen at the end of 2009.
BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Thursday blamed French President Nicolas Sarkozy's planned meeting with the Dalai Lama for pulling out of a China-EU summit which may have forged a joint response to the global economic crisis. France confirmed Sarkozy would meet the Tibetan spiritual leader, whom China brands a separatist, at a Dec. 6 ceremony in Poland to mark the 25th anniversary of the award of the Nobel Prize to former Solidarity leader Lech Walesa. China this month warned France, which holds the rotating EU presidency, that the European Union risked losing "hard-won" gains in ties with Beijing if Sarkozy met the Dalai Lama. The decision could make it harder for the EU and China to cooperate on a host of pressing global issues and spill over into an often tricky bilateral trade relationship.
BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Thursday blamed French President Nicolas Sarkozy's planned meeting with the Dalai Lama for pulling out of a China-EU summit which may have forged a joint response to the global economic crisis.
France confirmed Sarkozy would meet the Tibetan spiritual leader, whom China brands a separatist, at a Dec. 6 ceremony in Poland to mark the 25th anniversary of the award of the Nobel Prize to former Solidarity leader Lech Walesa.
China this month warned France, which holds the rotating EU presidency, that the European Union risked losing "hard-won" gains in ties with Beijing if Sarkozy met the Dalai Lama.
The decision could make it harder for the EU and China to cooperate on a host of pressing global issues and spill over into an often tricky bilateral trade relationship.
A Wal-Mart worker died after being trampled when hundreds of shoppers smashed through the doors of a Long Island store Friday morning, police and witnesses said.The 34-year-old employee, a temporary maintenance worker, tried to hold back the unruly crowds just after the Valley Stream store opened at 5 a.m. Witnesses said the surging throngs of shoppers knocked the man down. He fell and was stepped on. As he gasped for air, shoppers ran over and around him.
A Wal-Mart worker died after being trampled when hundreds of shoppers smashed through the doors of a Long Island store Friday morning, police and witnesses said.
The 34-year-old employee, a temporary maintenance worker, tried to hold back the unruly crowds just after the Valley Stream store opened at 5 a.m.
Witnesses said the surging throngs of shoppers knocked the man down. He fell and was stepped on. As he gasped for air, shoppers ran over and around him.
This story is unbelievable, the shoppers showed up at 5 am, thats just plain crazy, at least in my oppinion.
Thursday is traditionally dedicated to family get together and dinner (that's when the turkey bird shows up). This is pretty much the only day where almost all stores are closed throughout the USA (we were struck by that the first year we lived in California).
The day after (to compensate for one day sans shopping?), stores traditionally have a big sale event to attract shoppers on holidays and kick-off the Christmas buying season. This is called Black Friday, but it has really gotten out of proportion over the past years... Europeans think a hundred miles is a long way. Americans think a hundred years is a long time.
In the US people do not recognize the many means of self-expressions. Some are innoucous. Many more are commercial factors. Americans cannot be described stereotypically as being a creative people unless one admits the contributions of immigrants to "new" products and processes. The facts are given by demographic analyses: innovations derives from "naturalized" citizens, recruited. That pathogenic principle is evident in organizational arbitration (firm level). It is prosaic: solicitation of indifferent or impartial agents (consultants) to disrupt corporate conventions, not to mention any therapist engaged in family conflict.
The MSM sphere of influence over compulsive behavior includes named "national" events to which audiences respond. That response is unmitigated, arguably explained by broadcast consolidation of contents reproduction. "Black Friday" is one of these events or historicized phenomenon to which Americans are sentimentally attached. Although advertisers continuously implement price discounting 31 May - 30 Mar (two full quarters) to flush inventory-related impairments on earnings (ergo, leverage) in order to reconcile fiscal year reporting, American consumers are oblivious to future savings. (Otherwise "Black Friday" would occur in June.) Pavlov's dogs and rats did not calculate either.
My impression of this particular MSM item is that the reporters are aware, shoppers are desperate, not compulsive, due to commodity shortages. Either desperation or compulsive behaviors expressed like hysteria resembles chaos, incontinence, craziness, and death. The foregoing are apt descriptions of the sole alternative to law and order of Homeland Security, in general. It's all quite sordid, an excellent ad-rate multiple NOT multiplier. So shopper phobia could be "framed" as a problem to be managed to the extent monetary policies destroy the domestic economy and any semblance of a "bottom" analogous to corporate cost bases.
Yes, well, I've lived through another bizarre Thanksgiving holiday. Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
