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February 27th, 2010 / Author: admin
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February 27th, 2010 / Author: admin
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February 27th, 2010 / Author: admin
Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which grilled top Toyota officials on Wednesday, said in a statement that the documents, which were obtained under subpoena from a former Toyota lawyer-turned-whistleblower, “indicate a systematic disregard for the law and routine violation of court discovery orders in litigation.”
The committee subpoenaed documents held by former top Toyota North America lawyer Dimitrios Biller. From 2003 to 2007, Biller represented Toyota against liability claims of Toyota drivers who were injured in crashes. Biller said that the documents showed that Toyota refused to release documents it legally was required to turn over, because they would have allowed the cases against Toyota to go forward.
The documents include Biller’s recounting of a 2006 arbitration case against Toyota involving a vehicle rollover that left the driver paralyzed. Toyota was willing to pay a premium settlement to prevent the plaintiff’s lawyers from getting access to Toyota’s Books of Knowledge, which, Biller writes, “contain highly sensitive information that rises to the level of trade secrets and highly confidential information.”
In the documents, Biller explains: “The Books of Knowledge contain information on how to design vehicles and component parts (including safety systems like seat belts, side curtain airbags). The information does not relate to any one particular vehicle; the information relates to all vehicles. The information is essentially design principles and philosophies that serve the foundation for how Toyota designs its vehicles.”
Toyota did not respond to a request for comment.
Also on Friday, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said that it purchased the 2007 Lexus ES350 that took Tennessean Rhonda Smith on a six-mile, 100-mph terror ride in 2006 when, she said, the accelerator stuck. Smith recalled the incident in gripping testimony on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. The NHTSA said it will test the vehicle to try to find the cause of the runaway acceleration.
The NHTSA said that it paid $42,500 to buy the car from its current owner; Smith sold it after the incident.
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February 27th, 2010 / Author: admin
If you’re still having trouble selling your house, you’re not alone.
Sales of previously owned homes in January stumbled considerably for the second consecutive month. The National Assn. of Realtors in Washington said Friday that sales fell 7.2%.
January sales were the lowest since June but 11.5% higher than in January 2009.
Previously owned homes make up the bulk of the nation’s buying activity. Economists said that last month’s sales drop from December was another sign the market is critically weak and unlikely to recover robustly this year as the potential for more foreclosures looms.
Friday’s report follows news this week that sales of newly built homes hit a record low in January and that mortgage applications plunged to their lowest level in nearly 13 years.
The poor-sales data on all these fronts indicated that Congress’ attempt to stimulate the market by extending and expanding a home-buying tax credit through April was having little to no effect on consumer sentiment, economists said.
The credit was extended in November as it neared its expiration and buyers were flooding the market, boosting sales.
“The tax credit wore off,” said economist Christopher Thornberg, a principal with Beacon Economics in Los Angeles. “Now that the tax credit has been extended, it is no longer functional.
“We will get a push close to the end of it, probably in March.”
He said sales could plunge after the tax credit expires April 30.
The Realtors group’s data are based on its proprietary multiple listing service. The group reports an annual sales pace every month that is adjusted to take into account seasonable variations.
Last month’s sales pace was 5.05 million units for the year, the Realtors group said, meaning that many units would be sold if January’s rate carried through for the rest of the year.
The dour housing news came as the government reported that the U.S. economy grew at a slightly faster pace in the final three months of 2009 than estimated.
Gross domestic product rose at an annual rate of 5.9% in the fourth quarter, according to the U.S. Commerce Department. That was up 0.2% from the previous estimate reported by the department.
Private inventory investments, exports, personal consumption expenditures and nonresidential fixed investment were the biggest contributors to that growth, even as imports increased.
Most of that growth was related to business inventory restocking, a temporary factor that is expected to fade in the coming months.
In the Realtors group’s report, the number of existing homes for sale at the end of January fell 0.5% to 3.27 million. That represents a 7.8-month supply at the current sales pace, up from a 7.2-month supply in December. Raw inventory is at its lowest level since March 2006.
Washington policymakers have taken several measures to support the housing market, keeping interest rates low and insuring mortgages for many buyers through the Federal Housing Administration. Last year the Obama administration launched a $75-billion effort to reduce mortgage payments for troubled borrowers, though that program has struggled to make mortgage relief permanent.
Foreclosure properties and other distressed homes remain a big part of the market, accounting for 38% of sales last month and contributing to a drop in prices. The national median price was $164,700 in January, an 8% decline from $178,300 in December, but unchanged from a year earlier.
“For people trying to sell their homes, they are going to be competing with distressed home sales,” said Celia Chen, a housing economist with Moody’s Economy.com. “In order to really understand or predict when the housing market will recover we need to have a good handle on when foreclosures are going to hit the market, and I think there is a lot of uncertainty around that.”
Regionally, previously owned home sales fell 5.2% in the West, 7.4% in the South, 6.9% in the Midwest and 10.9% in the Northeast.
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February 27th, 2010 / Author: admin
A tsunami warning was initially issued, but later lifted. There are no reports of major damage or casualties.
The Japan Meteorological Agency gave the strength as 6.9 while the US Geological Survey put it at 7.3.
Japan is often hit by earthquakes. In 1995, a magnitude-7.2 quake in the port city of Kobe killed 6,400 people.
The latest tremor occurred at 0531 on Saturday (2031 GMT on Friday).
BBC News website reader Ivan Brackin, who lives on Yoron Island, said it was the biggest quake he had felt in his 40 years in Japan but there had been no visible effects in his area.
“We’re 30 yards [metres] from the sea and no sign of a tsunami,” he said.
“I woke up to violent shudders that lasted about six seconds then a pause followed by a couple of sharp jumps. Jumpers are the most dangerous so that sent me under the desk.”
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February 27th, 2010 / Author: admin
Political commentators are warning the decision to seize more than $1 billion belonging to Thailand’s former prime minister might precipitate a ‘final showdown’ between his red shirt supporters and the yellow shirts who support the army and the monarchy.
Thailand’s Supreme Court had prepared for the trial for weeks and the interest in it was so high that the entire seven-hour verdict was broadcast live on television.
Thaksin Shinawatra still has many supporters in Thailand, and as the decision was read out his red shirt supporters were seen crying on television.
An extra 20,000 security personnel have poured into Bangkok in recent weeks in the expectation it would provoke riots.
On the one hand the decision legitimises the army’s decision to stage the 2006 coup on the grounds Mr Thaksin was corrupt, while letting him keep the assets he earned prior to becoming prime minister.
Pavin Chachawanpunpang, from the Institute of South East Asian Studies, says the verdict was seen as something of a compromise.
“Thaksin has always claimed that prior to becoming prime minister for 2001 all the assets and the money he earned honestly, so this portion of money Thaksin says that the court should not take it away,” he said.
“So it’s a good decision for the court, but obviously because of the military coup in 2006 they had to find some kind of justification.”
Violence to come
Suni Phu Sook, another experienced analyst of Thai politics, believes the decision will anger Mr Thaksin’s supporters as well as his enemy yellow shirts.
“The yellow shirts and those who supported the overthrow of Thaksin wouldn’t be very happy with that decision that compromised the aim to cripple Thaksin’s wealth,” he said.
“On the other hand for the red shirts, the decision to give back assets to Thaksin will embolden them.”
Mr Suni believes the decision may force a final confrontation between the millions in Thailand who still support Mr Thaksin and the yellow shirts.
“It may be the first step of a final showdown in Thai politics; [which has] been left unfinished since the coup in 2006,” he said.
While there was no violence on the streets of Bangkok as the decision was read out, many are concerned about what the coming weeks will bring.
Mr Suni is concerned radical elements may try and provoke violence.
“It is not at all reassuring when we see those who claim themselves to be leaders of the hardcore red shirts going public with the boast that they have been training military wings, they have been providing military expertise to the network, they have been gaining access to weapons,” he said.
“And they are calling for their members for example to bring now a million bottles of gasoline to Bangkok.”
For his part, Mr Thaksin responded to the verdict from Dubai, where he is hiding out from Thai authorities.
He swore that he would die within seven days if it were true he gained his assets illegally and urged his supporters to keep on fighting.
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KABUL — A crew of suicide bombers armed with grenades and Kalashnikov rifles attacked two guesthouses frequented by foreigners here early Friday, setting off a gun battle with Afghan police and killing at least 16 people.
The Taliban asserted responsibility for the dramatic raid in central Kabul, which began around daybreak and wounded at least 38 people. The assault was the latest in a string of attacks to rock the Afghan capital, whose residents generally feel a world away from the raging rural insurgency that thousands of U.S.-led troops are seeking to contain in a new push in southern Afghanistan.
The attack further eroded the sense of security in the capital, challenging the government of President Hamid Karzai. It came about five weeks after a similar commando-style assault on a shopping center near the presidential palace and a large hotel.
“If we have security, why do we have this kind of drama?” asked Ahmad Haji Zada, 22, as he surveyed the damage to his mangled building-materials store, about a block from the two small hotels. “How is it possible for them to get into the city?”
The siege also seemed sure to raise tensions between two of Afghanistan’s neighbors, India and Pakistan, longtime foes whose foreign secretaries resumed peace talks Thursday in New Delhi. Indian and Afghan government statements said many guests in the facilities bombed Friday were Indian citizens, suggesting they were the targets.
Pakistan opposes India’s rising influence in Afghanistan, and U.S. and Indian officials have accused Pakistan’s military intelligence service of collaborating with Afghan militants to bomb the Indian Embassy in Kabul in 2008. Pakistan has denied the allegation.
Friday’s attack began when a driver detonated an explosives-packed van outside the Aria guesthouse, leaving a swimming-pool-size crater. A second bomber then blew himself up inside the building, said Zamaray Bashari, spokesman for the Afghan Interior Ministry.
Two other bombers entered another nearby guesthouse, the Park Residence, which is adjacent to a large, four-star hotel and the city’s biggest shopping center. There, one bomber detonated his explosives and the other hid as green-uniformed Afghan security forces descended and a firefight ensued. Police officers killed the final bomber about four hours after the attack began, said Abdul Ghafar Sayed Zada, head of criminal investigations for the city police.
After the standoff ended, police carried out bodies swathed in floral blankets from the Park Residence, their boots crunching layers of shattered window glass. Bashari said three police officers were killed, while Karzai’s office said the dead included eight Afghans, one Italian and four Indians.
India’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement that nine Indians had been killed, including government officials. The statement said the attack was meant to disturb the nation’s relationship with Afghanistan, where India has spent $1.5 billion over the past eight years — its largest-ever aid package.
“We are still digging through the rubble. It’s been a terrible day,” an Indian government official said. “It certainly appears Indians were targeted.”
Karzai condemned the attack in a statement, saying it would “not undermine our relationship with India.”
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Regardless of what SeaWorld decides as Tilikum’s long-term future, a conversation has started within the whale research and advocacy communities about what ought to be done with an orca linked to three human deaths.
Killer whale experts know the giant mammals to be highly intelligent and incredibly social beings. All of the authorities contacted by the Orlando Sentinel said they would rather see killer whales in their natural habitat — the earth’s oceans — than in tanks at an Orlando theme park.
One suggested that building a tank the size of Rhode Island wouldn’t be large enough for a six-ton male such as Tilikum, an animal capable of swimming 100 miles in a day
Re-introducing Tilikum to the wild would be costly, would include serious risks for the animal and would not guarantee his survival, they say.
Nonetheless, in the aftermath of veteran SeaWorld trainer Dawn Brancheau’s death this week, authorities such as Naomi Rose argue there is a moral obligation to release Tilikum.
“There is absolutely a risk in keeping him where he is,” said Naomi Rose, a marine-mammal scientist for the Humane Society of the United States. She predicted Tilikum will kill again if he remains in captivity.
“I will take bets on that and win,” Rose said. “Boredom, depression — these cause physical problems in human beings, chimpanzees and, believe me, killer whales.”
SeaWorld officials said Friday they intend to continue using Tilikum in performances. SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment President Jim Atchison said removing him from shows “would be a shame.” The orca’s participation in shows is “very important to his overall health and husbandry.”
That’s not the news many in the killer whale community wanted to hear. At the same time, such experts acknowledge that putting Tilikum in the wild is something that never has been done successfully long-term with a whale who has been held in such captivity.
Keiko, of “Free Willy” movie fame, was held in captivity for many years before taking off on his own from the Iceland coast. But Keiko never bonded with other orca “pods” his handlers thought might adopt the whale.
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