Wednesday, December 18, 2013
NSA's goal is elimination of everyone's privacy worldwide - Greenwald to EU.
The NSA’s ultimate goal along with its UK partner, the GCHQ, is to eliminate individual privacy worldwide, journalist Glenn Greenwald has told an EU inquiry.
Ex-Guardian journalist Greenwald testifies before EU Parliament over NSA
Glenn
Greenwald, the former Guardian journalist known for publishing Edward
Snowden’s leaks, is testifying before the European Parliament’s
Committee on Civil Liberties and Home Affairs via video connection. He
is participating in an inquiry into the NSA’s surveillance on EU
citizens. Follow live updates here.
The inquiry was set up to discuss ratcheting up the security of the internet and telephone networks in the European Union.
Snowden is also expected to testify before the Civil Liberties Committee in January as part of the inquiry.
RTEx-Guardian journalist Greenwald testifies on NSA spying before EU parliament. LIVE UPDATES
Greenwald, the former Guardian
journalist known for publishing Edward Snowden’s leaks, is testifying
before the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties and Home
Affairs via video connection, contributing to an inquiry into the NSA’s
surveillance on EU citizens.
- Free press: it is hard to overstate how important it was for me to speek out on surveillance. But UK gov't threatens journalists who cover surveillance prog - Greenwald
West continues to put "overt pressure" on Ukrainian gov't - Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov
Russia is "surprised by attempts to put overt pressure on the Ukrainian government, which continue despite the decisions made in Moscow yesterday," Lavrov said in remarks to Russia's upper house of parliament.
Reuters
Russian-Ukrainian action plan 'provides President Yanukovych and his government with breathing space' - expert
Gazprom will sell gas to Ukraine at
268.5 dollars per 1,000 cubic meters, Russian President Vladimir Putin
said on Tuesday. Also, Russia will convert 15 billion dollars worth of
its National Welfare Fund - a rainy day fund - into Ukrainian securities
to help it stave off financial crisis. The deal was signed after talks
in Moscow between Mr Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor
Yanukovych. The issue of Ukraine joining the Customs Union was not
discussed during the talks. The two presidents met in Moscow to chair
the Russian-Ukrainian inter-governmental commission. Our source
discussed it with Lilit Gevorgyan, Commonwealth of Independent States and Russia analyst at UK-based economic organization IHS Global Insight.
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Barbaric: Commercial Bus Driver Rápes Passenger From 7p.m To 10a.m
According to the prosecution counsel, Mr Francis Ajagu, the driver plies the New Market-Gariki route and the victim was one of his passengers.
On that fateful day, the driver noticed only the victim was remaining in the bus and drove to an uncompleted building beside the Mayor Market and started ráping the victim.
Explosion Rocks Rivers state Deputy Governor’s office
Ms. Semenitari said the explosion is suspected to have occurred after a dynamite was thrown into the building at about 3 am Tuesday.
Sweet Yoruba Actress,Lola Ajibola Loses Mum To Cancer!
Crime: Lagos Pastor Beats Accused Witch Woman To Death In Lagos Church [Phot'd]
Reportedly, Mrs. Oluranti Adesina, Tawakalitu’s mother said that Razak, his father and the leader of a white garment church where her daughter died, know something about the young woman’s strange death.
Heartless: Ghanaian Man In UK Stabs Wife to death For Flirting With A Nigerian [PICTURED]
Minta Adiddo sent Akua Agyeman a Christmas card as she was being treated in hospital, blaming the attack on 'devils', the Old Bailey heard.
The 32-year-old mother of two died two months after the brutal stabbing, which was witnessed by her five-year-old daughter. Adiddo, 38, was today given a life sentence after being convicted of murder, with a minimum term of 17 years.
60-Yr-Old Man Nabbed in Bed Making Love With 11-Yr-Old Girl Freed Bcos They Are in Love
Culled from coloradonewsday
A court has annulled a five-year jail term for a 60-year-old man who was caught having sex with an 11-year-old-girl because they have a ‘romantic relationship’. The supreme court in the southern Italian town of Catanzaro ruled that it was a ‘real relationship’.
The young girl is said to be from a disadvantaged background and was in the care of a man who works for the town’s social services department. However, police raided the man’s seaside villa to find the pair unclad in bed together.
SHOCKER: Commercial Bus Driver Rapes Passenger From 7p.M To 10a.M
According to the prosecution counsel, Mr Francis Ajagu, the driver plies the New Market-Gariki route and the victim was one of his passengers.
On that fateful day, the driver noticed only the victim was remaining in the bus and drove to an uncompleted building beside the Mayor Market and started defiling the victim.
Israel sends 150 protesting African migrants back to jail
Aided by rights groups, the migrants had travelled to Jerusalem to demonstrate outside the Israeli parliament, which last week passed a law allowing authorities to hold illegal migrants in an "open facility" until they leave the country. The Israeli government says that most of the 50,000 African migrants, mostly Sudanese and Eritrean, who have since 2006 crossed over the Egyptian border into its territory, are illegal job-seekers who threaten the Jewish state's social makeup.
Reuters
9/11 suspect removed from Guantanamo Bay prison hearing after outburst
One of the men accused of planning the September 11, 2001 attacks was removed from a US military court on Tuesday after making an outburst about a secret CIA prison. Yemeni defendant Ramzi Binalshibh, accused of helping the hijackers enter the United States and of financing the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people, was ejected from a pre-trial hearing at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp on the judge's orders.
His
removal came shortly after Binalshibh's lawyer suggested that guards at
the US military prison in Cuba were deliberately depriving his client
of sleep.
"He
could not sleep at all last night because of the noise he is exposed
to," said Navy Lieutenant Commander Kevin Bogucki. "He is too tired to
pay attention."
Ukraine-China: 'third alternative'
The Europe-Ukraine-Russia triangle may turn into a quadruple if China enters the game. Faced with a contracting labor market and limited credit resources, East and Central European countries approach Ukraine’s associated membership in the European Union with caution, fearing that it all may end up in Kiev claiming its fair share of the pie.
EU
strategists are racking their brains over how to lure Kiev, while
keeping East European member states less concerned about it. Ukraine’s
hopes to negotiate more favorable terms failed. When President Viktor
Yanukovych requested 150 billion euros in aid to speed up the economy’s
transition to the European technical standards, even “senior” EU members
got scared. Europe just can’t afford it.
Islamic Jihad: is Islam the first target? (Must Read)
Radical Islam, which today is growing in numbers all over the world, could ruin traditional Islam. The “Jihad for the purity of faith” proclaimed by the fanatics is trying to destroy not only the non-Muslim population of the planet, but even Muslims themselves. Radicalism has nothing in common with the Prophet Muhammad's religion and is founded on political ideology of people far from faith, experts are convinced.
A
few days ago Syrian Islamists executed 15 peaceful residents of the
town of Arda, located 40 km away from Damascus, which they seized. The
bloodbath lasted for several hours. All people killed were Muslim. Such
events today take place in many countries considered as purely Muslim.
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You're a liar, hypocrite & manipulator, Iyabo Obasanjo writes 11-page letter to dad.
About fourteen days after he wrote an 18-page open letter to President Jonathan, former president Olusegun Obasanjo is now a recipient of an alleged open letter. Unconfirmed: His daughter, Iyabo obasanjo, has written him an 11-page open latter where she said'it is the conclusion of her communication with him for a lifetime '.
In the letter dated 16 December 2013 and exclusively obtained by vanguard newspaper, Sen. Iyabo Obasanjo described her dad as a liar, two faced hypocrite and a legendary women maltreater. She accused him of beating her mum when these were young and described him being an absentee father and grandfather.
She also said her father is decided to foist on President Goodluck Jonathan what no one would contemplate with him as president. She called him an egoistic craving for power and living a life where only men of low esteem and intellect thrive.
How do you say all this to your own father? Oh well, read the full letter after the break...
India launches reprisals against US over diplomat arrest
India on Tuesday launched a series of reprisals against the US over a diplomat's arrest in New York, including pulling identity cards for American consular officials in the country, foreign ministry sources said.
"We
have ordered the withdrawal of all ID cards that are issued by the
Ministry of External Affairs to the officials at the US consulates
across India," a senior ministry source told AFP on condition of
anonymity.
"These
cards facilitate speedy entry and movement of the people carrying them
as they travel to Indian airports or other public areas," the source
added.
Germany's Merkel voted in for third term
Angela Merkel is elected to a third term as chancellor in a vote in the German lower house of parliament on Tuesday, paving the way for her new "grand coalition" government to be sworn in and formally take power later in the day (12 30 GMT). Merkel's conservatives scored their best result in over two decades in a German election on September 22 but were forced into lengthy coalition talks with the rival Social Democrats (SPD), whose members only approved the deal last weekend.
The
vote in the Bundestag was a formality as the ruling parties hold an
overwhelming majority of the seats. A total of 462 lawmakers backed
Merkel for chancellor, with 150 voting against and 9 abstaining.
The
new government faces a host of challenges, from bedding down European
reforms aimed at shielding the bloc from future crises, to seeing
through Merkel's costly switch from nuclear to renewable energy.
Merkel joins fellow conservatives Konrad Adenauer and Helmut Kohl as the only post-war chancellors to have won three terms.
German state of Hesse agrees conservative-green coalition deal
The
German state of Hesse's centre-right Christian Democrats and its
environmentalist Green Party finalized a coalition agreement on Tuesday,
just as the country's nationwide grand coalition government was being
sworn in.
The
deal marks the first time in Germany's history that the conservative
Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the centre-left Greens have agreed
to govern jointly in a larger state.
There has been one such coalition previously at a city-state level.
The
two parties have been in coalition talks since November 22, two months
after the regional election in the central German state took place.
The vote coincided with Germany's nationwide election.
Party
leaders Volker Bouffier (CDU) and Tarek Al-Wazir (Green Party) are set
to present the coalition agreement to their members on Wednesday.
The
only other CDU-Green coalition to have existed in Germany came into
force in the city-state of Hamburg in 2008, with the parties breaking
off the alliance two years into the term.
Merkel is due to be sworn on Tuesday for rare third term as German chancellor ending political limbo
Asked
in September how long she expected coalition negotiations to take,
chancellor Angela Merkel joked that "Christmas comes sooner than you
think." Christmas is coming and Angela Merkel is due to be sworn on
Tuesday for a rare third term as German chancellor, capping months of
political uncertainty as she bartered with her rivals to help govern
Europe's top economy. Eighty-six
days after Merkel, 59, swept to victory in elections but failed to grab
an outright majority, the Bundestag lower house of parliament will vote
on handing her another four-year term. The ballot is secret but the outcome likely holds little surprise.
With
a whopping 504 of the 631 seats, Merkel's conservatives and their new
centre-left partners, the Social Democrats (SPD), hold a comfortable
majority under their hard-fought 'grand coalition' deal.
Afterwards
she must be confirmed by President Joachim Gauck at the presidential
palace before returning to the Bundestag to be sworn in as Germany's
only third post-war chancellor to win a third mandate.
The
ceremony and later swearing-in of ministers followed by the first
cabinet meeting will enable Merkel to finally get back down to business
in earnest after the longest government-building period since World War
II.
Merkel
is then due to address parliament Wednesday and travel to Paris for
talks with President Francois Hollande the same day, ahead of an EU
summit at the end of the week.
A
parliament debate after Wednesday's address will be the first
opportunity for a face-off across the floor since the SPD moved off the
opposition benches. Merkel
has defended the time spent haggling over policy and posts with an
initially reluctant SPD as time well spent, voicing appreciation on
signing the coalition pact Monday "that we listened to each other."
Few observers doubt though that the road ahead will be bumpy.
AFP, dpa, Reuters,VOR
5,000 US teachers and scholars support anti-Israel boycott.
The American Studies Association (ASA) has become the largest US group of scholars to boycott Israel. The scholars' group of more than 5,000 US teachers and researchers voted to launch an academic boycott of Israeli colleges and universities in a move condemned by the World Jewish Congress as "moral bankruptcy." Israeli officials have denounced the campaign as an attempt to delegitimize the Israeli state.
The
group, which is devoted to the study of American culture and history,
announced Monday that its nearly 5,000 members voted in favor of the
boycott by a 2-to-1 margin on Sunday night. A total of 1,252 members
voted on the issue, with 66 percent voting "yes" and 30 percent voting
"no." Three percent abstained from voting altogether.
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Operation Northwoods techniques on 9-11: US fake terrorist attacks to create war
Many of the leaders in the United
States are beginning to realize that the policy of destroying countries
in the Middle East for Israel is not really in the US’s best interests.
Geopolitically the US would be better off dealing more diplomatically
with Russia but they continue to attempt to surround Russia with nuclear
weapons and try to achieve a first strike capacity while risking World
War III. Doctor Kevin Barret, one of the first people to suffer at the
hands of the US military industrial complex after speaking about and
questioning 9-11, spoke to the Voice of Russia about all of these issues
and more and places the blame for 9-11 on the neo-conservative Projest
for the New American Century (PNAC) and Zionists who have infiltrated
western security and intelligence services.
Hello
this is John Robles, I am speaking with Dr. Kevin Barret, he is a
Doctor in Arabic and Islamic Studies, the owner and manager of
TruthJihad.com and a member of Scientific Professionals Investigating
9-11. This is Part 1 of a longer interview.
Monday, December 16, 2013
Choosing New York Hotels
New York Hotels.
You are able to choose hotels in New York in accordance with your allowance, conference preferences, the conference facilities that the hotels offer, located area of the hotels, and other parameters. If you decide on wisely, you'll stand to get in lots of ways because New York has plenty to offer. The cityscape of New York that many luxury New York hotels capture is beautiful as the poverty and squalor in the ghettos of New York is shocking and sad. A very important factor should be said of all New York hotels, whether they're luxury hotels or boutique hotels or airport hotels or family hotels or cheap hotels - they enable you to get a sense of the town and experience the town from different angles and perspectives.2nd Hand Rolex Watches.
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If you're buying a Rolex watch, you then are looking an authentic Rolex, not really a cleverly constructed fake (or blatant rip off). Until you have plenty of cash to spare, you're probably buying a good used Rolex watch as buying these luxury watches used can provide you with a great discount without sacrificing quality. Obviously, only reliable sellers sell authentic Rolexes.Check out how to Use the Facebook Like Button on Your Blog/site
One of many questions we're hearing a great deal today is: "What's this Facebook'like'button exactly about?"
Even as we explain it, another question we get is: "How fast can I get that on my website?" So I decided to create out a reason for how it's done that everyone can read, understand and placed into action for their particular website.
"Prayer Is The Best Weapon Against Boko Haram Insurgency" - Cleric
Video: 2 of the 6 men who ra*ped a 16 year old girl in Akure, Speak up on Camera.
The men, said to members of a cult group known as Blue Angel, saw the girl as she was returning from school, they stopped her, took her to their hideout and raped her. All six of them. They recorded the act with a mobile phone and threatened to post the video online if she told anyone what happened.
South Africa unveils Big Nelson Mandela unity statue in Pretoria
US Website Blasts Mariah Carey For Performing In Nigeria
Mariah Carey proudly posted a pic of herself in a slinky yellow dress and wrote, “Backstage in Nigeria” on Saturday.
But maybe the songbird should have done some homework before agreeing to the gig?
We The North Are Ready To Go; We Are Tired Of Being Called Parasites + 40% Southern rule is meaningless.
We the north of Nigeria are ready for a separation process, which will either involve regionalism or total disintegration.
On the topic, Sagir Aliyu said: Yes, I’m in support of BREAK UP. Because most Nigerian minds are full of hatred, sentiments, ethnicity, religious differences and tribalism. Some are calling for revolution, but instead of loosing lives and property; let the romance end. Also if the 2015 election will result to loss of lives and property, the romance should end before then, Please!
On the topic, Sagir Aliyu said: Yes, I’m in support of BREAK UP. Because most Nigerian minds are full of hatred, sentiments, ethnicity, religious differences and tribalism. Some are calling for revolution, but instead of loosing lives and property; let the romance end. Also if the 2015 election will result to loss of lives and property, the romance should end before then, Please!
Idris Musa also commented on the subject: Break up is long overdue.
Yemeni parliament passes law banning Washington drone attacks
Yemen's parliament on Sunday called for a stop to drone attacks in a symbolic vote that reflected growing public anxiety about Washington's use of the unmanned aircraft to combat al Qaeda in the impoverished country. Motions passed by the Yemeni parliament are not binding and can be struck down by the president, and are seen as no more than recommendations to the government.
"The Yemeni public is angered by the drone strikes," said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he's not authorized to talk to reporters. "The people's representatives reflected on the tone of the streets."
What do you think about this Lawyer's Hot Outfit ?
Another pic after the break.
Police brutality: JTF Police Officer Kills Newly Married Man In PH
Nigeria Loses 250 Billion Naira Every month To Maritime Crime
Nigeria is losing about 250 Billion Naira monthly to maritime crime, an official of the Nigerian Navy has said.
Smuggling, piracy and bunkering are top on the list of the crimes described by Air Vice Marshal Eko Osim as economic sabotage.
At a seminar for the junior course 76 on how to Police the maritime environment held on Friday by the department of maritime warfare, Armed Forces Command and Staff College, in Jaji Kaduna, Osim, revealed that crime in the territorial waters of the Gulf of Guinea has become sophisticated as the criminals keep devising various means to beat the law.
Catastrophe: Photojournalist Almost Lynched by Policemen in Lokoja for allege Bribe (Pictures)
About eight armed policemen were seen beating the helpless man for about 30 minutes, until he almost lost consciousness.
Ukraine-Russia loan talks said to be on up to $15 billion - sources
Ukraine is in talks with Russia for a loan of as much as $15 billion as President Viktor Yanukovych prepares to head to Moscow after a weekend of mass protest in Kiev, two people familiar with the negotiations said.
The
two sides are also discussing the price Ukraine pays for the natural
gas it buys from its eastern neighbor, said the people who asked not to
be identified because the talks haven’t been completed. Ukraine may
receive as much as $5 billion this year, one of the people said.
Russia’s finance ministry confirmed that the sides were negotiating a
loan, without further details. Vitaliy Lukyanenko, Ukrainian Prime
Minister Mykola Azarov’s spokesman, declined to comment.
Source: bloomberg.com
Check out Signs Your Lover Isn't Meant To Be Your Future Partner
Getting married is a life changing situation and something everybody wants to do right because nobody plans to walk down the aisle more than once…at least nobody within their right mind plans to.
If you're likely to walk down the aisle in the near future and with the woman you are seeing and you must be very sure she's the main one, here are qualities that when she's got, she may just not fit to the role.
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VIDE0: Nelson Mandela, Ex-South African leader buried in Qunu
Missing Or Not? Analysts Disagree On NNPC $49.8 Million Scandal
In a letter to the President of Nigeria, the Central Bank Governor, Lamido Sanusi alleged that the NNPC didn't remit a total of 49.8 billion dollars in to the Federation Account between January 2012 and July 2013.
The news of this enormous sum missing from the State's coffers is coming on the heels of accussations against the Federal Government and its purported calm disposition towards corruption in government agencies.Sunday, December 15, 2013
EFCC Mad at Bode George, others’ release
THE Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission has described as “unfortunate” that the Supreme Court set
aside the court judgment that jailed former chairman of the board of
Nigerian Ports Authority, Chief Olabode George and five former members. The five directors of the NPA whose
sentensing was also quashed are Aminu Dabo, Captain Oluwasegun Abidoye,
Alhaji Abdullahi Tafida, Alhaji Zanna Maidaribe and Sule Aliyu, an
Engineer.
The apex court discharged and acquitted
them of corruption, inflation of contracts and contracts splitting, for
which they had been convicted after prosecution by the anti-graft
agency. George, a Peoples Democratic Party
chieftain, was the NPA chairman between 2001 and 2003 when the alleged
offences were said to have been committed.
Video: See What happend to students caught watching Adult Flícks in the Classroom
See The Reason Obasanjo Is Angry With Presidnt Jonathan
Obasanjo had in an 18-page letter dated December 2, 2013 accused President Jonathan of taking actions detrimental to the unity and progress of the country.
Buhari Talks about #OBJLetter
Boko Haram Force Nigeria to import tomatoes from Benin..
Importation of tomatoes from Benin Republic and other neighbouring countries by Nigerians particularly across the Seme border is on the increase following the Boko Haram insurgence in the North- East of the country famous for tomato farming. As a result, the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has collected over N5million baggage fees from such imports in just two months. A trip to Benin Republic by Financial Vanguard reporter, where tomato farms are rapidly springing up showed that the import of the vegetable has become a big business for both the producers in Benin Republic and buyers of the produce in Nigeria.
Chinese firms sign ₦117,280,000,000 ($733m) cement deal in Nigeria, Myanmar
Reuters reported that Sinoma International Engineering Company Limited, a unit of China National Materials Company Limited, signed a $536m contract with Nigeria’s Dangote Cement Plc, Sinoma and National Materials said in separate statements on Thursday.
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