Friday, January 23, 2009

Drying Acetone With Sodium Chloride

Nkunda, who end!


had become inconvenient for its supporters. And so they did outside. Laurent Nkunda was arrested last night while trying to flee Rwanda.
The announcement was made by the Joint Staff of the military operation in Congo and Rwanda game Wednesday surprise: bitter enemies for some time, the two countries were suddenly joined forces against the Tutsi general, leaving everyone stunned. The Rwanda had always denied its support to Nkunda, until, on 12 December, the UN published a report with direct evidence of support of the rebel Kigali.
Immediate reactions were international, so that the Netherlands and Sweden have suspended bilateral cooperation with Rwanda and other states threatened to do so. A defeat that the small country could not afford to "clean" image that President Kagame is trying to build and especially because half of its budget is based on international donations. Perhaps for this reason, in a few weeks, Kigali has removed support for Nkunda and agreed with the "enemy" Congolese to stop it. Everyone knew where Nkunda was living, but so far no one, including MONUC, had tried to flush him out. The rebel general would
now housed in a military base in Kigali. Over the next few days, and maybe you will understand what will happen to him now and will evolve as the relationship between the two countries after his dramatic arrest. Will finally be a breakthrough toward peace or just a new chapter of infinite war Kivu?

Saturday, January 17, 2009

Accelerated Emt Courses

Anniversary ...


Patrice Lumumba died 48 years ago. The first Prime Minister of independent Congo, father of the country, an ideal that inspires dreams never realized and achieved independence from Belgium, just three months after he was deposed from his office, then stop by the then Colonel Mobutu was made and executed January 17, 1961 .

declassified U.S. documents and the testimony of a former CIA agents long held that the murder of Lumumba was ordered and planned in full coordination with U.S. intelligence, that ill-digested a nationalist leader who wanted to expand dangerous communist ideas in the heart of black Africa.

With an official ceremony at the monument dedicated to him, the "Father of the Nation" was celebrated today by the Congolese President Kabila in the lead. But who knows what they think of Lumumba, today if they saw the work and if he knew how to be reduced, and sold off its rich, very poor country.

Friday, January 9, 2009

Blue Prints In Building A Swing Set

Power wears out ... Just a thought

Yes, the power wears out. It creates dissension, struggles, internal feuds. We lasaciato the "General Nkunda solid on the outskirts of Goma besieged, triumphant in his pure white boubou, receiving the mediator Obasanjo or flocks of Western journalists. Now his power is under siege. The number two of the CNDP, Bosco Ntaganda, has challenged as a leader, accusing him of mismanagement of the leadership. As a counter move, Nkunda has accused him of treason. Ntaganda, who is wanted by the international tribunal in The Hague, appears willing to make shoes to his boss. For some time he had suspected, since, in the warm days of the march on Goma, had been circulating a curious document of the CNDP, which indicated the death occurred of the power entrusted Nkunda and - coincidentally - in the hands of Bosco Ntaganda. After the initial fanfare, it was understood to be a bluff and had not given weight to thing, but now that document deserves renewed interest.
More difficult to understand what it shake beneath the surface of this crevice. Local sources tell us that even those inside the rebellion does not know best for what purpose you are fighting. Ntaganda would therefore be a voice to this discontent. Others say that the rebel movement would be split in two: on one hand those of Masisi, Rutshuru other ones. Yet others argue that Ntaganda has received - how to say - an "incentive" to rebellion by the government in Kinshasa.
But perhaps there is another possible reading: that Nkunda, after the UN report that nails him, after repeated stagings in which poses as a charismatic leader, begin to be uncomfortable and unmanageable for the nearby Rwanda, its backer. Rwandan President Kagame himself, not long ago, had clear words to that effect.

Upcoming events will tell us which of these assumptions is true. Meanwhile, however, it remains true that if the CNDP has so many internal problems, perhaps the people of Kivu can stand at the moment a bit 'quieter.

Sunday, January 4, 2009

How Much Signal Does Ps3



Images that have been necessary. Instead, again, is death in Palestine, just as the Christian world celebrates the birth of Jesus in that tormented land.
I've never been to Gaza, but in the West Bank. And I still see many harrowing images of everyday horror. Weapons everywhere. I hate it. Blindness. Children who challenge soldiers to go to school. Adults humiliated every day in silence. Land of many contrasts, a land of sorrow and hope. Earth who gives birth nonsense. But even unimaginable courage. I think of my Israeli friend who refused to serve in the army, paying with jail. I think my friend Vik is now the only Italian in Gaza and its presence resist the stupidity, madness, the inability to remain human beings and look in his eyes.
http://guerrillaradio.iobloggo.com/
http://www.carta.org/articoli/5409