Thursday, February 24, 2011

In Eastern Libya Tobruk celebrates the freedom

Gaddafi of Libya in the east has largely verln the power, security forces have fled. Citizen militias controlling cities such as Tobruk and the main roads. But their joy is mixed with fear of retaliation against a tumbling regime. The journey into the shadowy realm of Muammar al-Gaddafi begins uncomfortable.

Just behind the fleeing Egyptian border crossing to the desert state, on the morning thousands of Egyptian workers, bag and baggage, we are stopped by a group of young men. All are wrapped up with blankets, some wearing uniforms of the army, under the jackets stuck pistols and AK-47 assault rifles.

What happens if the Gaddafi regime no longer protects the borders?

Libya is divided - but what happens if the Gaddafi regime no longer protects the borders? According to human rights activists could tens of thousands to flee for fear of violence, discrimination, poverty. Europe will stop the new wave can not stop yet. It is cruel scenes which people flee. On the streets of Libyan cities subject bodies, eye-witness report, the injured could not be supplied.

Libya, "summary executions in the hospitals' offensive Zawia and Measured

Gaddafi calls under siege on TV and accused the rebels of being led by Al-Qaeda. Meanwhile, the offensive of Saddam will not stop. Barricaded himself in his bunker in Tripoli, Colonel goes on in the suppression of riots. And after the rockets in Benghazi, the mass graves, now raises attacking Zawia, a town in western Libya, and measured on the Gulf of Sirte.

Hundreds have already died, according to Al Arabiya television reported quoting eyewitnesses. Libya is divided into two with the eastern part controlled by the rebels. Alitalia suspends flights to Tripoli. EU: "Can a humanitarian military intervention". Meanwhile, others resign Libyan ambassadors in the world: the last case, that of Morocco.

The IMF is in favor of dollar depreciation

In a note to the G20 finance ministers published Wednesday, February 23, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is calling for a weaker dollar, which he said would help the U.S. reduce its deficits vis-à-vis other countries in the world and rebalance the global economy. In this document, the institution of Washington indicates that according to his calculations, the exchange rate of the dollar is overvalued, rather, those of the euro and the yen "broadly consistent" with economic fundamentals, and that many emerging Asian currencies are "dumped".

Toyota to revision additional 2.2 million cars by the throttle problem

The saga of unintended acceleration in Toyota appears to be reaching an end. The Japanese automobile review now calls another 2.17 million motor vehicles in the United States, in addition to 19 million since 2009 had to go through the workshop around the world. These are mostly models that were not included in the original call.

Toyota says there is a risk that those cars, the accelerator pedal is trapped by the mats under the feet of the driver. The affected models are the Lexus RX330, RX350 and RX400h, manufactured between 2004 and early 2007, and the GS300 and GS350 sedans. It also now includes the Toyota Highlander SUV.

Call it genocide

It is incitement to commit genocide on TV say that the rioters are "rats to be exterminated"? It is genocide or not to implement it, as we are seeing in these hours? According to the UN to give meaning to the term genocide, yes, it is. It is not only "crimes against humanity," not just "violations of human rights," not merely "war crimes" (civilian, in this case).

For the UN genocide means the decision, planning and implementation of the elimination of an entire political, religious, ethnic or social. That's exactly what Gaddafi announced yesterday, and that's exactly what he has started doing since last night (actually even before, but only the numbers from yesterday are now dramatically showy).

Obama believes the law against gay marriage "unconstitutional"

The Minister of Justice U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced Wednesday, February 23 that President Barack Obama asked his administration to stop defending the law against gay marriage during litigation on this issue. Obama believes that the federal law known as "defense of marriage", which stipulates that marriage must be the union of one man and one woman is "unconstitutional," Mr.

Holder wrote in a statement. Mr. Obama concluded, "after careful consideration of many elements, including a detailed documentation of discrimination," the issue of gay marriage should be decided "on the basis of more sophisticated". The President is specifically Section 3 of Act passed in 1996, which defines marriage as "only a legal union between one man and one woman" and requires that the spouses are of "opposite sex".