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drum of baghdad s mixed population of seven million there is serious talk of baghdad being divided into east and west he said we are extremely worried one highly placed source even spoke of busying himself on government projects despite a sense of their futility only as a way to fight his growing depression over his nation s future sectarian violence has mounted to claim perhaps 100 lives a day and tens of thousands flee their homes on the eve of the first meeting of a national reconciliation commission and before maliki meets president george w bush in washington next week other senior politicians also said they were close to giving up on hopes of preserving the 80 year old multi ethnic religiously mixed state in its present form the situation is terrifying and black said rida jawad al takki a senior member of parliament from maliki s dominant shiite alliance bloc and one of the few officials from all the main factions willing to speak publicly on the issue we have received information of a plan to divide baghdad the government is incapable of solving the situation he said a senior official from the once dominant sunni minority concurred everyone knows the situation is very bad he said i m not optimistic some western diplomats in baghdad say there is little sign the new government is capable of halting a slide to civil war maliki and some others seem to be genuinely trying to make this work one said but it doesn t look like they have real support the factions are looking out for their own interests pundits told reuters that broadly speaking iraq could split in three a shiite south kurdish north and sunni arab west but there could be fierce fighting between arabs and kurds for mosul and for kirkuk s oil as well as urban war in baghdad resembling beirut in the 1970s an observation why is it that global metropolises with names beginning with the letter b berlin beirut now baghdad always get so thoroughly screwed over by foreign accentuated divisions i suppose that indians should be pleased that their country s most populous city is now called mumbai written by randy mcdonald july 27 2006 at 4 14 pm posted in assorted tagged with imperialism iraq nationalism brief note the score so far israel 9 hezbollah 0 from the globe and mail defence officials were still awaiting confirmation thursday that a canadian peacekeeper classified as missing and presumed dead was killed in fatal bombing of a un observation post in lebanon a spokeswoman for national defence in ottawa said there had been no further word on major paeta derek hess von kruedener early thursday major hess von kruedener who was serving with the united nations truce supervision organization is believed to be one of four un peacekeepers killed when a bomb hit their post in the town of khiyam near the eastern end of lebanon s border with israel ottawa has only said that major hess von kruedener is considered missing and presumed dead officials would not say thursday how long it would take to conclude the investigation the incident which also claimed the lives of un observers from finland china and austria sparked rage around the globe with prime minister stephen harper saying he wants explanations from both the un and the israeli government about the circumstances surrounding the terrible tragedy mr harper who spoke with israeli prime minister ehud olmert on wednesday afternoon has offered no condemnation of that government but has questioned why the un post was still being manned despite the dangerous circumstances the israeli prime minister has offered his country s regret over what was called the unintentional killing of the un observers liberal leader bill graham criticized mr harper s reaction as completely unacceptable arguing that canada has been part of un missions for decades the question of the degree of responsibility israel bears for this is seems to be centered on the question of whether or not hezbollah was in fact operating rocket launchers near the now demolished un base written by randy mcdonald july 27 2006 at 3 57 pm posted in assorted tagged with canada clash of ideologies israel lebanon brief note the new british melting pot and europe s future matthew hickley s recent article in the daily mail britain s biggest wave of migrants in history provides an interesting survey of new british immigration trends britain is experiencing the largest ever single wave of immigration in its history two years after ministers opened the door to millions of eastern european leading academics have claimed poland has produced the largest ever single national group of entrants and poles have now overtaken the irish as the largest group of foreign workers in the uk according to a study headed by a respected migration expert an estimated 600 000 eastern europeans have flocked into the uk since 10 new states joined the eu in 1994 of whom around 300 000 are polish easily outnumbering 175 000 irish workers who were previously the largest group britain was the only major eu economy to give the new citizens free access to its labour markets along with ireland and sweden while others such as germany and france opted to keep them out ministers claimed at the time 13 000 eastern europeans would arrive each year but the true figures have shown that prediction to be ludicrously wrong professor john salt director of university college london s migration research unit and co author of today s report claims the eastern european invasion is the largest wave of immigration britain has ever seen his findings raise fresh questions about labour s claims to operate a managed migration policy and are likely to strengthen calls for firm limits on immigration from beyond the eu the huge influx has changed the face of the uk labour market especially in london and the south east and in some areas has begun to effect public services last month slough council in berkshire warned that local schools were struggling to cope following the arrival of 10 000 poles in the space of a few months the invading army of cheap labourers has been welcomed by employers in the building catering and farming sectors and the archetypal polish plumber is a popular figure in many areas however economists warn that the influx is hitting british workers by keeping low skilled wages at rock bottom and pushing up unemployment professor salt co wrote today s report with professor phil rees of leeds university s school of geography for the economic and social research council their study shows the number of foreign workers in britain rising sharply in recent years topping one million in 1998 and reaching 1 5 million last year one in every 25 workers net immigration into the uk has more than trebled since labour came to power from 106 000 in 1997 to 342 000 in 2004 irish workers have traditionally been the largest group in the uk in the eighteenth and nineteenth century huge numbers of irish navvies arrived to help build canals and railways but the irish never matched the scale and speed of recent immigration from eastern europe and they have shrunk as a proportion of britain s foreign workforce from one in five 1995 to one in ten last year by which time they only just outnumbered eastern europeans on 11 2 per cent and were about to be overtaken one observation if relatively well off poland is providing such a huge number of immigrants to the united kingdom the numbers of romanians and bulgarians who will make their way north and west in 2007 2008 when their countries join the european union will be significant indeed last one out turn out the lights and of course there s the european union s southeastern and eastern peripheries to take into account along with turkey and the maghreb and via spain and portugal south america all regions significantly poorer than poland all with populations already associated with the european union labour market and the western cultural sphere written by randy mcdonald july 25 2006 at 11 35 pm posted in assorted tagged with demographics european union migration brief note two news items from the canadian press 18 july 2006 israel will do whatever it can to ensure safe passage for canadians fleeing lebanon but israel s ambassador warns there s no guarantee they won t be targeted by islamic guerrillas indeed alan baker suggested tuesday that hezbollah the militant islamic group that controls much of southern lebanon might deliberately target canadian refugees in order to provoke an international incident asked if he believes hezbollah would deliberately target fleeing foreigners to create an international incident baker said absolutely look why do they put their artillery launching things in the back gardens of private homes in order to provoke a response by israel which would kill innocent people including as happened eight canadians seven canadians were killed over the weekend and another has since succumbed to wounds suffered during israeli attacks on hezbollah sites in lebanon that said baker added that he doesn t think hezbollah has any reason to harm canadians in particular the opposite they should want that canadians won t be annoyed with them from the globe and mail 25 july 2006 like most residents of her village wafa mahfouz was hiding with her family when she heard and felt the explosion 500 metres away that killed a canadian family eight days later she was still angry and confused about why it had happened what was the guilt of those canadians they were not hezbollah she shouted referring to the islamic militia israel says it was targeting in the hard hit village of aytaroun in south lebanon she and other villagers say they knew the montreal side of the al akhrass family only by sight details of the attack on the al akhrass home started to emerge for the first time yesterday as bedraggled residents of aytaroun began to arrive at an elementary school turned refugee camp in this christian town on the outskirts of beirut all said that while hezbollah had fired rockets into northern israel from the olive groves and tobacco fields that surround the village none were fired from close to civilian homes as israel contends the israeli army has called aytaroun a village of 10 000 that swells to 15 000 in the summer according to residents a launching ground for missiles fired at israel and says it warned villagers that they would be at risk if they were near missile launching sites the day of that particular attack residents say the israelis had been firing at hezbollah positions around the village with artillery rounds the al akhrass home a two storey concrete building was destroyed by an air strike in the afternoon and villagers say that either they or one of their immediate neighbours seem to have been specifically targeted it was the only attack inside the village that day two other homes were destroyed by the same bomb but both of them were empty after hearing the blast that blew out windows over a wide radius manal hassan al allawiyeh and other villagers ran to the scene of the al akhrass family home and with their bare hands dug frantically at the rubble there was little left of the structure or of the more than a dozen people who had been inside we ran toward the homes to try and save them but we found only parts of people ms al allawiyeh said we recovered six to eight bodies but they were all in pieces she and other villagers believe there are still several bodies trapped in the ruins of the home residents said the 11 deceased were buried in a quick funeral at least three others were wounded the full death count in aytaroun is impossible to determine since the village is now the effective front line in the confrontation between israel and hezbollah israel 8 hezbollah 0 written by randy mcdonald july 25 2006 at 11 24 pm posted in assorted tagged with israel lebanon middle east brief note the horn of africa at war the head heeb has more on the impending ethiopian somalian war that i wrote about yesterday what s going on first in brief ethiopia supports the autonomy of somaliland at least in part because somaliland provides ethiopian commerce with another sea outlet that isn t eritrea also in part because an autonomous somaliland nicely undercuts pan somali nationalism formerly french djibouti populated in part by ethnic somalis is another outlet yebo gogo notes that somalian islamists desire to fulfill the dream of a greater somalia has led them to support not only somali separatists in the eastern ogaden region that was the subject of the ogaden war of 1977 1978 but to help oromo separatists in ethiopia s central region of oromia the territroy of oromia not incidentally completely envelops addis ababa this leaves aside the unhelpful aid lent by eritrea to somalia s islamists sudan s potential role as a troublemaker for either side or the potential for wider involvement now that the islamic council has apparently declared a jihad against christian dominated ethiopia it goes without saying that this situation is very bad all of the potential players have entirely legitimate reasons to wage war how could they not pitted against neighbouring countries that would like to clientelize or disintegrate them entirely with no one involved interested in compromise and no one outside committed to controlling the situation things almost seem to be destined to escape mortal control yay written by randy mcdonald july 21 2006 at 10 51 pm posted in assorted tagged with africa geopolitics politique politicienne music franz ferdinand what you waiting for the compilation album q covered best of 86 06 has a few good tracks like nick cave s cover of pulp s disco 2000 corinne bailey rae s version of björk s venus as a boy the editors take on rem s orange crush and the magic numbers take on the smiths there is a light that will never go out manages to overcome its morrissey inheritance in becoming minimalist and sublime the flaming lips cover of can t get you out of my head and travis baby one more time work only as light comedy as an in joke of sorts by po faced rockers me my favourite track on the album is the first one franz ferdinand s cover of gwen stefani s what you waiting for franz ferdinand and gwen stefani can with only a bit of shoehorning be qualified as prominent members of the new wave revival stefani s strengths lie on the dance end of that spectrum in forms ancestral to modern electronica a poppish and danceable sort of ladytron and the original what you waiting for reflects this franz ferdinand lies at the other end of the spectrum a direct inheritor of new wave and indie rock with two decades worth of accumulated studio polish and electronic stylings and their guitar driven version reflects their style quite nicely the interpolation of a couple of lines of billy idol s white wedding it s a nice day for a white wedding it s a nice day to start again doesn t hurt either written by randy mcdonald july 21 2006 at 10 35 pm posted in assorted 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