Nkunda was arrested on the 22nd of January. The DR Congo, in collaboration with Rwanda, will be working to wipe out all hostile militias in the area. It came as a surprise when Rwanda supposedly pulled the plug on the CNDP.
The contract between Washington and Blackwater Co. expires in May. Obama doesn't plan on renewing the contract. However, we must keep in mind that Obama still has a few months to use Blackwater.
There are two other groups just like Blackwater currently operating in Iraq. So cutting ties with one company is just a publicity stunt. Obama will use the other two companies to commit America's war crimes.
The elections of the US puppet government in Iraq have been called a success by Washington and the Baghdad puppets. There are questions about the fairness of these elections, and the UN said there must be an investigation into the accusations. Voter turnout was lower than expected at just over 50%.
The International Red Cross says a helicopter has departed to pick up four hostages that Colombia's leftist rebels promised to free.
Three police officers and a soldier are among six hostages the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia says it is freeing unilaterally.
The police and soldier have been held for two years or less. The two politicians set to be released Monday and Wednesday have been held far longer.
The Red Cross says those picked up Sunday will be flown to the provincial capital of Villavicencio in Colombia's eastern lowlands.
The unilateral releases are the guerrillas' first in nearly a year, but analysts say chances for a peace dialogue with Colombia's government are far off.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert threatened on Sunday a "disproportionate" response to the continued rocket and mortar fire into Israel from the Hamas-elected Gaza Strip.
Shortly after Olmert spoke, three Israelis were wounded by mortars, medics and the Israeli army said. The wounded included two soldiers and the first Israeli civilian hurt since a January 18 truce ended Israel's 22-day offensive in the coastal enclave.
Two rockets struck southern Israel earlier on Sunday, causing no damage or casualties. A wing of al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a group belonging to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction, claimed responsibility for that attack.
No group made an immediate claim for the mortar shootings.
"The government's position was from the outset that if there is shooting at the residents of the south, there will be a harsh Israeli response that will be disproportionate," Olmert said at the weekly cabinet meeting.
"We will act according to new rules which will ensure that we will not be drawn into a war of incessant shooting on the southern border, which would deprive the residents of the south of a normal life," he said, without elaborating.
A spokesman for the Hamas government in the Gaza Strip condemned what he described as Olmert's "aggressive statement."
But the spokesman, Taher al-Nono, also urged all Palestinian factions to "respect the national consensus" on the ceasefire the Islamist group declared two weeks ago after Israel announced it was halting the Gaza offensive.
Israel was criticized internationally for the deaths, according to the Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza, of more than 1,300 Palestinians, including at least 700 civilians.
Critics said Israel had responded disproportionately, in its air and ground offensive in heavily populated areas, to cross-border rocket attacks over the previous eight years that killed 18 people.
During the Gaza campaign, 10 Israeli soldiers and three civilians were killed.
Since the truce, in addition to Sunday's injuries, an Israeli soldier was killed and three others were wounded when a bomb exploded next to their patrol. Israeli air strikes since January 18 have killed three Palestinians and wounded 10.
Israel said Hamas militants bore responsibility for civilian deaths in Gaza by operating inside its towns and refugee camps.
Egypt has been trying to broker a long-term ceasefire that would end Hamas weapons smuggling into the Gaza Strip and also lead to a reopening of Gaza border crossings, one of the Islamist group's main demands.
Olmert's comments were echoed by Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, a candidate for prime minister in Israel's February 10 election. Olmert, who quit in a corruption scandal in September but stayed on as caretaker prime minister, is not running.
"Israel will respond," said Livni, who replaced Olmert as head of the ruling, centrist Kadima party. "This is my position. It was clear before, during and after the operation, and this is how I will conduct myself as prime minister."
Opinion polls in the final stretch of an election campaign dominated by security issues and promises by candidates to keep Hamas at bay, suggest the right-wing Likud party of former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will win the most votes.
A Democratic senator closely allied with President Obama said Friday she was introducing legislation to cap compensation for employees of companies taking U.S. government aid during the economic downturn.
Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri announced the action a day after Obama said he was outraged by a report of some $18 billion in Wall Street bonuses paid at a time taxpayer money was being used to shore up the crumbling financial system.
Obama called the bonuses "shameful," adding the actions of Wall Street represented the "height of irresponsibility."
Under the bill by McCaskill, an early endorser of Obama's presidential candidacy, employees would not be able to make more money than the U.S. president -- $400,000 a year -- until their companies no longer relied on government aid, such as the Troubled Asset Relief Program that bails out banks.
"We have a bunch of idiots on Wall Street that are kicking sand in the face of the American taxpayer," an enraged McCaskill said on the floor of the Senate. "They don't get it. These people are idiots. You can't use taxpayer money to pay out 18 billion dollars in bonuses."
McCaskill's proposed compensation limit would cover salaries, bonuses and stock options.
Jesus Christ could you get anymore of an obvious theft? Could there be anymore of a blatant slap in the face to the people of America? Could there be any bigger of a "Fuck You" and a middle finger to the working class? Could you get anymore of a sign of contempt from these people?
This is the very essence of capitalism. The accumulation of wealth by any means possible and a big screw you on top of it. The very wealth that the people struggled to obtain. (Poor unprivlidged middle class we're told.) This could not be any better of fact slapped in your face that capitalism was meant to bilk you out of YOUR money.
And people think that this executive order by Barak Obama will put a stop to that. No it won't, because the damage is done and it will not be undone. I gaurentee you that in like a month there will be a lawsuit by finnancial executives. Probably paid for by the bailout money, claiming that placing a salary cap on them violates the consitiution. That same consitution that was not there to prevent the theft to begin with.
I'm reminded for something I said last year:
"The more things appear to have changed, the more they stay the same."
In other words, nothing really changes. So I think of Mao:
"Change must come through the barrell of a gun."
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