Thai Muslim Rebels,Chavez Grocers, Attacking Japan, more...

Miners Buried by Negligence and Impunity BANGKOK, Feb 19 (IPS) - Malay-Muslim militants in southern Thailand marked the arrival of the Chinese Lunar New Year with a show of force that has left the military-appointed government in Bangkok scrambling for answers. They succeeded, for the first time, in striking simultaneously in all the four provinces of Yala, Narathiwat, Pattani and Songkhla that are adjacent to Malaysia during a night of well-coordinated bombings, arson attacks and shootings. Hugo Chavez Goes Shopping President Hugo Chávez threatened Wednesday to nationalize any privately owned supermarkets and food storage facilities caught hoarding inventories or violating price controls imposed on basic goods. North Korea's "plan to attack Japan" Immediately after starting a war, Rodong missiles would be launched, targeting U.S. bases in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, and other locations in Japan, as well as more than 50 reactors at nuclear power plants. In the meantime, ballistic missiles loaded with chemical warheads would be launched at Tokyo. After that, commando units aboard submarines would enter Japan and carry out guerrilla attacks against important facilities.