Indian Kashmir shut down after 4 killed by troops

SRINAGAR, India -- Protesters clashed with government troops in several parts of Indian-controlled Kashmir on Friday, defying a government curfew imposed to quell large scale demonstrations over the killing of four villagers in the disputed Himalayan region.

Locals, responding to a call to protest by separatist groups, threw rocks as police and paramilitary soldiers tried to stop them by hitting them with batons and firing tear gas and, at one location, live ammunition, a police officer said on customary condition of anonymity.

Six police and paramilitary troops and at least two protesters were injured in the clashes.

The unrest follows the fatal shootings of four villagers by government troops on Thursday. More than 40 others were injured as troops clashed with locals protesting the alleged desecration of the Muslim holy book by border guards in a remote, mountainous village in the region.

The protesters have accused the Indian Border Security Force of tearing pages of several copies of the Quran and beating a school caretaker at a religious seminary during a search for militants Wednesday night.

Rajiv Krishna, a senior Border Security Force officer, rejected the desecration charges.

Indian Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde ordered a probe into the incident. Rights groups say such investigations rarely lead to prosecutions and are mainly used to try to calm public anger.

The violence, which comes during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, could trigger widespread protests in the disputed Himalayan region, with separatist groups that reject India's sovereignty over the region calling for three days of strikes and demonstrations.

In response, the government put a curfew in place. On Friday, thousands of police and paramilitary soldiers erected checkpoints and laid barbed wire on roads in Srinagar, the main city in Kashmir to try and enforce the curfew and prevent any anti-India protests. They drove through neighborhoods warning people to stay indoors and barred Friday prayers in Srinagar's main mosque.

Several other Kashmiri towns were also deserted as shops, businesses and public transportation shut down due to the curfew and strike. Authorities have postponed university examinations scheduled for Friday and blocked Internet services on cell phones in an attempt to prevent demonstrators from organizing.

Kashmir is divided between India and Pakistan, with both countries claiming the region in its entirety.

Anti-India feelings run deep in Indian-held Kashmir, where about a dozen rebel groups have been fighting against Indian rule since 1989. More than 68,000 people have been killed in the conflict.

The rebel groups have largely been suppressed by Indian troops in recent years, and resistance is now principally expressed through street protests.

Source: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/07/19/3508101/indian-kashmir-shut-down-after.html

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DIEDRICH: On Libertarianism and golf - (The Business of Living)

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MADISON, Wis., July 20, 2013 ? Individuals of all makes and models enjoy golf. Men and women, vegetarians and carnivores, statists and anarchists all take pleasure in the joy of the swing. Unrealized by them all, however, is the game?s inherent libertarianism.

A golfer can choose to tee up his ball in the middle of the fairway. A golfer can choose to ground his club in the sand. A golfer can choose to talk while someone is swinging. A golfer can lie about his score.?

None of these offenses will result in conventional punishment. The police won?t arrest the golfer. He won?t be put on trial. There won?t be eager lawyers lining up to take his case.?

That being said, if the golfer repeatedly commits such offenses on the course, eventually nobody will want to play with him. Others will boycott his company, and ostracism will be his fate. From his sour reputation will come loneliness.?

Yet there is nary a soul on the planet, especially of the golfing variety, who wishes to walk the fairways of life alone. For that reason, the golfer will voluntarily obey the rules of the game that demand his acquiescence.?

In order to ?protect and preserve the game and its challenges,? the USGA recently announced a controversial ban on the use of the popular anchored putting stroke.

The USGA, unlike state governments that rely on force, is much more sensitive to public opinion. If the ban, which is scheduled to take effect in 2016, reduces participation in the game (and thereby reduces the profits of golf courses), then it could very well be reversed.?

A curious question resulted from the ruling: would the PGA and PGA Tour (the governing bodies of professional competitive golf in the United States) honor the ban? Or would the rules of the game be bifurcated??

The very possibility of bifurcation, regardless of whether or not it would be beneficial or disastrous, demonstrates the fundamental difference between golf governance and state government. Obviously, multiple golf governing bodies can operate simultaneously and harmoniously. On the contrary and by definition, a state government is a monopoly on the provision of its ?services? within a given territory.?

When it comes to governance and rules, the game of golf is self-regulating. Examples of golfers penalizing themselves abound.?

In 2009, J.P. Hayes inadvertently ?penalized himself out of a job? for playing with a non-conforming golf ball. He could have easily kept quiet and nothing would have happened. Nevertheless, he chose to publicize his transgression.

Six days after a round of golf, Blayne Barber could not expel uneasiness from his conscience. After much thinking, he disqualified himself ex post from the 2012 PGA Tour qualifying tournament, even though nobody else but he was questioning the authenticity of his scorecard.?

In 2008, Michael Thompson called a penalty on himself in the Masters when his ball oscillated after he addressed it. While he ended up missing the cut in that tournament, some positive press for his honesty did result.?

?I think that?s one of the things that I love about golf, that there is a defined set of rules and it?s a gentleman?s game,? Thompson said of the incident. ?It?s based on honor and I think what sets golf apart from every other sport is that you hold yourself to higher standards than anybody else does.??

Contrary to popular opinion and even more popular clich?, golf is not, in fact, a sport of ?gentlemen.? Like any other humans, golfers are just as frequently crass, filthy, and ungentlemanly. The honesty associated with the game does not emanate from some naturally superior class of men who play it.?

Rather, golf is a sport of individuals, and upstanding character is a symptom of that fact. We play by ourselves and for ourselves. We own our equipment, our performance, our bodies, and our minds. With exclusive control comes full responsibility.?

Nobody assesses penalties on themselves in team sports. And while there is certainly nothing wrong with team sports, they do form one half of a poignant analogy. In football, for example, character becomes like a common lake: polluted. Any incentive for propriety is minimal.

Like golf, the free market is self-regulating. The unrelenting determination of every individual to enjoy a fortuitous reputation fosters honest, mutually beneficial interaction. Force is not needed to relegate cheaters, manipulators, and anti-socialites to the rough.

Golf is libertarian.

Joseph S. Diedrich also writes for the MacIver Institute,?The College Fix, Young Americans for Liberty, Conbustible, LibertyBlog.org, Young American Revolution, and Musings of a Superfluous Young Man. Find him on?Facebook,?Google+, LinkedIn and?Twitter?@JSDiedrich.

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Ford's 100th birthday: Second Vietnam orphan remembers the man who saved them

PALM DESERT, Calif. -

Sunday marks what would have been President Gerald Ford's 100th birthday. ?After leaving the White House, Mr. Ford made the Coachella Valley his home until his death the day after Christmas in 2006.

Many remember him for pardoning President Nixon after Watergate,but, others remember Mr. Ford for saving the lives of thousands Vietnam orphans. ?

Now, those orphans are all grown up and celebrating the life of the man who saved their lives.?

Alison Doerr's biological parents abandoned her as a baby in South Vietnam. ?An American family took steps to adopt her when the country was on the verge of collapse.

"My family found out that they were set up with me and they happen to find a friend fighting in the army in Vietnam who would go over and take pictures of me and check in on their behalf," said Doerr.

As the region grew more and more unstable, Doerr's life along with thousands of other orphans were in danger.?

"It was known that if something didn't happen to take all of those orphans out of there that something really bad was going to happen to them," said Vietnam veteran Joe Snyder.

That's when President Ford stepped in. ?He commissioned 30 flights to rescue these children, many of whom were fathered by American servicemen.?

"He said we have to do this, this is something that we have to do and we are going after as many orphans that we can get and we are going to bring them out of South Vietnam and that is exactly what happened," said Snyder.

Doerr was set to leave on the first flight and was to be carried off the plane by President Ford himself.?

"I got the chicken pox and I was really ill so they decided to hold be back and go to the next flight," said Doerr.

That first flight crashed, killing nearly half the passengers on board. ?That wasn't the first time fate intervened in Doerr's life, when she returned to Vietnam 22 years later on a visit, she learned her orphanage was hit by a measles outbreak when she was there. ?She was only one of two babies to survive.?

"I defiantly believe in guardian angles after hearing those kind of things," said Doerr.

Now, 38 years old, Doerr is raising a family of her own, one that she says wouldn't be if not for President Ford.?

"I wish we could have meet him at some of our Vietnamese reunions and let him see the product of what came out of such a bold decision at that time," said Doerr. "They got out all of the children that they could but, when the communists came took over, the children that were still there they took them away and you can only guess what happened. ?I know that it would have been a bad situation for the people who couldn't have gotten out, so he saved a lot of lives."

An interesting fact, President Ford met the first planes that arrived in San Francisco in person. ?To get there, he flew in Airforce One directly from Palm Springs.?

Source: http://www.kesq.com/kesq/fords-100th-birthday-second-vietnam-orphan-remembers-the-man-who-saved-them/-/232254/20969876/-/1t6kc8z/-/index.html

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Fugitive Snowden says U.S. preventing his asylum

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Former intelligence agency contractor Edward Snowden said U.S. officials have been waging a campaign to prevent him from taking up offers of asylum, he said in a letter sent to a Human Rights Watch official and posted on Facebook.

In the letter, he said he had invited human rights groups to meet on Friday at Sheremetyevo Aiport, where he has been in limbo since he flew to Moscow on June 23, to discuss "next steps forward in my situation".

In a separate email to Reuters, Snowden confirmed that the meeting with human rights groups would go ahead but said it would be closed to the press. He said he planned to speak to the media later.

(Reporting by Alessandra Prentice and Lidia Kelly; Writing by Thomas Grove; Editing by Douglas Busvine)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/fugitive-snowden-meet-human-rights-groups-official-070112908.html

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Youth homicide rate hits lowest mark in 30 years

ATLANTA (AP) ? The homicide rate for older children and young adults has hit its lowest point in at least three decades, but the decline has been slowing, according to a new government report.

In 2010, the homicide rate for victims ages 10 to 24 was less than half the rate seen in 1993, when there was an explosion in crime tied to crack cocaine.

The report released Thursday echoes earlier findings about a national decline in killings and other crimes, but offers a more focused look at what is one of the most affected groups. Ages 10 to 24 account for about a third of slaying victims. The highest homicide rates are consistently seen in people in their late teens and 20s.

"That's what drives the national numbers. That's the ballgame," said David Hemenway, director of the Harvard University's Injury Control Research Center. He was not involved in the new study.

There are various theories for the drop in youth killings and other crimes since the early 1990s, ranging from the economy to police work or public health campaigns. None completely explain the trend, said Hemenway, a member of a National Academy of Sciences' group examining crime trends.

For the report, researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention searched a death statistics database that goes back to 1981.

About 4,800 youths ages 10 to 24 were killed in 2010, the most recent year in the analysis. That translates to a homicide rate of 7.5 per 100,000 people ? the lowest since 1981. It also appears to be lower than rates in the 1970s, a CDC spokeswoman said.

But it hasn't been a steady trend down. The rate dropped a bit in the early 1980s and then rose sharply, peaking at about 16 per 100,000 in 1993. It plummeted for several years before the decline slowed. The rate inched down about 1 percent a year, on average, from 2000 to 2010, the CDC found.

The study showed youth homicide rates fell across the board ? in males, females, whites, blacks and Hispanics. However, males and blacks continued to be killed at far higher rates than females or people in other racial and ethnic groups. The 2010 rate for blacks was nearly four times higher than the average for all youths that age.

The rate of gun-related slayings was about four times higher than of the rate of homicides using other weapons.

Based on overall rates for 2010, homicide last year fell off the nation's top 15 causes of death for the first time in almost half a century. It continues to rank among the top three leading causes of death for people ages 10 to 24, however.

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Online:

CDC report: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/youth-homicide-rate-hits-lowest-mark-30-years-162759838.html

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