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Endgame for Sankara's murderer: Burkinabés move against Blaise Compaore in a giant rally

Endgame for Sankara's murderer: Burkinabés move against Blaise Compaore in a giant 1 million-match 

At last Burkinabés have been able to muster enough courage to move against their 'eternal' leader Blaise Compaore. Compaore, who led the coup d'état  that overthrew Burkina Faso's visionary leader, Thomas Sankara, has ruled the country for 27 years. Burkinabés organised a massive rally against plans by Compaore to further extend his rule of the country. AFP reports that thousands of demonstrators with some wielding iron bars and stones battled police in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso capital on Tuesday.

Security forces firing tear gas,  charged the protesters after they ventured close to the parliament in one of the strongest challenges to President Blaise Compaore. SInce the assasination of Sankara, Sankara with the backing of France has suppressed all oppositions until now.

The violence erupted at the end of a march in Ouagadougou that drew up to a million people, according to opposition leaders fighting to prevent what they see as a constitutional coup by supporters of Compaore.

AFP reports that the demonstrators blew whistles and vuvuzela trumpets and carried banners reading "Blaise Get Out!" and "Don't Touch Article 37", in reference to the constitutional term limit that risks being scrapped to let the president seek reelection.

Police battled the stone-throwing demonstrators for hours and dismantled makeshift barricades put up by them to block traffic.

The opposition has called for a blockade of parliament on Thursday when the legislature examines a proposed constitutional amendment to prolong Compaore's rule by allowing him to seek another term next year.

Pre-dawn violence had already broken out early Tuesday as gendarmes fired tear gas at dozens of youths barricading the country's main highway, who hurled stones in response, according to an AFP reporter.Schools and universities have closed for the week of protests planned in the impoverished west African nation.

Senior opposition figures Benewende Sankara and Ablasse Ouedraogo claimed a million-strong turnout. AFP reporters could not confirm that figure but estimated the crowd's number at well above a previous rally in August.

- 'This is our final warning' -

Several hundred people also occupied the Place de la Nation, a central square in the capital but later dispersed without incident.

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Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaore speaks at the Presidential Palace in Ouagadougou on July (AFP)

"Our march is already a huge success, phenomenal," said opposition leader Zephirin Diabre. "Our struggle has entered its final phase. It's make or break time -- the nation or death!"

"This is our final warning for Blaise Compaore to withdraw today" the draft amendment to be brought before the National Assembly.

However, government spokesman Alain Edouard Traore late Tuesday issued a statement hailing the "vitality" of Burkina Faso's democracy despite incidents of what he quaintly termed as "misbehaviour"

Compaore was only 36 when he seized power in an October 1987 coup in which his former friend and one of Africa's most loved leaders, Thomas Sankara, was ousted and assassinated. Compaore was fingered to have carried out the assassination although he had always denied it.

He has remained in power since then, reelected president four times since 1991 -- to two seven-year and two five-year terms.

In 2005, constitutional limits were introduced and Compaore is therefore coming to the end of his second five-year term.

The opposition fears the new rules -- which are not expected to take previous terms into account -- would enable Compaore to seek reelection not just one, but three more times, paving the way for up to 15 more years in power.

The third largest party in parliament said at the weekend it would back the amendment, setting the ruling party on course to obtain the two-thirds majority it needs to make the change without resorting to a referendum as first promised.

Protesters have erected barricades and burned tyres in the capital since the proposal was announced on October 21, with hundreds of women demonstrating with spatulas in their hands and secondary school children deserting classes to join the protests, creating major disruption.

Civil society groups have also asked for the project to be dropped, saying the country risks being paralysed if the amendment goes through.

Compaore's bid to cling on to power has angered the opposition and much of the public, including many young people in a country where 60 percent of the population is under 25.

Many have spent their entire lives under the leadership of one man and -- with the poor former French colony stagnating at 183rd out of 186 countries on the UN human development index -- many have had enough.

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A Prostitute Arrested for Killing Google Executive.

Associated Press in Santa Cruz-

Some guys can be so fortune/luxurious and yet under a curse!
Guy billionaire sleeping with a prostitute. 
DAMN!

Prostitute' accused of injecting Google executive with lethal dose of heroin

Alix Tichelman appears at Santa Cruz superior court following the death of Forrest Hayes, a Google executive.
Photograph: AP

An alleged prostitute, accused of injecting heroin into a Google executive on his yacht in California and leaving him to die when he overdosed, appeared in court on Wednesday on manslaughter and heroin charges.

Alix Tichelman, 26, in handcuffs and a red jumpsuit, did not enter a plea and was appointed a public defender. She is being held on $1.5m (£900,000) bail.
Surveillance footage from the yacht shows Tichelman gather her belongings, including the heroin and needles, step over the 51-year-old victim's body to finish a glass of wine and then lower a blind before leaving the boat, Santa Cruz police said.

Police said Tichelman did not provide first aid or call emergency services as the man, identified as Forrest Timothy Hayes, suffered medical complications and lost consciousness during the November overdose aboard his 50ft (15-metre) yacht, Escape.

His body was discovered the next morning by the boat's captain, police said.
Police are also investigating Tichelman in connection with a similar incident in another state, the Santa Cruz deputy police chief, Steve Clark, said. "There's a pattern of behaviour here where she doesn't seek help when someone is in trouble," he said.

Tichelman's lawyer, Diana August, did not immediately return a call seeking comment. Assistant district attorney Rafael Vazquez said authorities are still investigating the case and may file more serious charges.

Tichelman was arrested on 4 July after police said a detective lured her back to the Santa Cruz area by posing as a potential client and reaching agreement on a price of more than $1,000.

Police said Tichelman, who boasted she had more than 200 clients, met her clients through the websites which purports to connect wealthy men and women with attractive companions.

Her clients included other Silicon Valley executives, Clark said.
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Mauritius Africa: Five Years City Evolution

Yet not claiming African giant as concentration-camp Nigeria does with backwardness.

Nigerians remain in slave and mockery so long as greed and corruption is source of their pride. 

Educated illiterates! Arrogate African millionaires and billionaires but living in dirty and dark world.

 These is little Mauritius that understand love for their country and people at large.

This Chart Explains Every Culture In The World

Cultures are complicated, and anyone attempting to explain or group them will struggle to avoid giving offense.

Political scientists Ronald Inglehart of the University of Michigan and Christian Welzel of Luephana University in Germany put forth their best effort by analyzing data and plotting countries on a "culture map." Their system stems from the World Values Survey (WVS), the largest "non-commercial, cross-national, time series investigation of human beliefs and values ever executed," which dates to 1981 and includes nearly 400,000 respondents from 100 countries.

The latest chart, published several years ago, includes data from surveys conducted from 1995 to 1999, 2000 to 2004, and 2005 to 2009.

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So what's going on in this chart?

On the y-axis, traditional values emphasize the importance of religion, parent-child relationships, and authority, according to WVS. People who embrace these tend to reject divorce, abortion, euthanasia, and suicide. These societies usually exhibit high levels of nationalism and national pride, too. In the U.S., these values would likely align more with conservative ideologies. Oppositely, secular-rational values represent the other extreme and tend to relate to liberal ways of thinking.

On the x-axis, survival values revere economic and physical security and safety and are linked to low levels of trust and tolerance. On the other side, self-expression values give high priority to protecting the environment, promoting gender equality, and tolerating foreigners and gays and lesbians.

The chart also groups nearby countries with shared characteristics such as "Islamic" or "English Speaking," showing how much things like language and religion shape culture.

Here's how WVS explains the main trends:

A somewhat simplified analysis is that following an increase in standards of living, and a transit from development country via industrialization to post-industrial knowledge society, a country tends to move diagonally in the direction from lower-left corner (poor) to upper-right corner (rich), indicating a transit in both dimensions.

However, the attitudes among the population are also highly correlated with the philosophical, political and religious ideas that have been dominating in the country. Secular-rational values and materialism were formulated by philosophers and the left-wing politics side in the French revolution, and can consequently be observed especially in countries with a long history of social democratic or socialistic policy, and in countries where a large portion of the population have studied philosophy and science at universities. Survival values are characteristic for eastern-world countries and self-expression values for western-world countries. In a liberal post-industrial economy, an increasing share of the population has grown up taking survival and freedom of thought for granted, resulting in that self-expression is highly valued.

For example, Morocco, Jordan, and Bangladesh (all Islamic countries) score high in traditional and survival values, while the U.S., Canada, and Ireland (all English-speaking countries) score high in traditional and self-expression values.

Russia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, and Moldova (all Orthodox countries) score high in secular-rational and survival values, while Sweden, Denmark, and Switzerland (all protestant Europe countries) score high in secular-rational and self-expression values.

In their 2005 book "Modernization, Cultural Change, and Democracy," Inglehart and Welzel argue that "socioeconomic development tends to bring predictable changes in people's worldviews." Notably, these developments tend to democratize countries, and modernization — "a syndrome of social changes linked to industrialization," as the duo define in a 2005 Foreign Policy article — kick-starts the process.

For example, Inglehart and Welzel link industrialization with a move from traditional to secular-rational values, leading to separation of religion and authority. Next the post-industrial phase of modernization produces a shift from survival to self-expression values, which brings greater freedom from authority.

But cultural and historical traditions, like Protestantism or communism, matter, too. They "reflect an interaction between driving forces of modernization and the retarding influence of tradition," Inglehart and Welzel write in their book.

WVS is currently preparing data from wave six with surveys conducted from 2010 to 2014.

Another attempt to explain world cultures, the Lewis Model based on observations from linguist Richard Lewis, charts countries in terms of "reactive," "linear-active," and "multi-active" tendencies. 

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