Kashif Parvaiz, Husband Accused Of Planning Hit On Wife, Claimed Killing Was Bias Attack: Cops
August 20, 2011 No Comment
MORRISTOWN, N.J. — A Pakistani-American man whose wife was gunned down while they and their son strolled a quiet suburban street plotted the killing with another woman and told police his family had been attacked by a group of men who called them terrorists, authorities said Friday. Kashif Parvaiz, 26, suffered non-life-threatening wounds in the shooting in Boonton, N.J., that killed his 27-year-old wife, Nazish Noorani. They were walking with their 3-year-old son to a relative’s house when shots rang out Tuesday night. The boy was unharmed. Parvaiz and 26-year-old Antoinette Stephen, of Billerica, Mass., both face charges of murder, conspiracy and weapons offenses. He also faces child-endangerment charges. According to Morris County Prosecutor Robert Bianchi, Parvaiz’ initial accounts of the attack were inconsistent and immediately raised suspicions. Parvaiz had told investigators the couple was attacked by a different combination of black and white males who shouted ethnic slurs at the Pakistani couple, authorities said. In his initial story, the group shouted something about the family being “terrorists,” authorities said. Bianchi said investigators were deeply concerned when Parvaiz suggested it was a bias crime, but within hours “it was obvious to investigators that this was sadly the alleged handy work of the victim’s husband who allegedly did the unthinkable and plotted to murder his wife.” Bianchi didn’t characterize the relationship between Stephen and Parvaiz, but investigators wrote in an arrest affidavit that Parvaiz and Noorani had a turbulent relationship. Authorities said he met Stephen in Brooklyn and the two discussed the murder plot. Bianchi wouldn’t say who pulled the trigger. The affidavit quotes a text message from Noorani to her brother in which she wrote “Someday u will find me dead but its cuz of kashi … He wants to kill me.” Bianchi said Friday that Parvaiz, who has been in the hospital, was arrested “a few days ago.” Stephen was arrested Thursday night in Massachusetts. Parvaiz was being held on $1 million bail, while Stephen was awaiting extradition and being held on $5 million bail. Noorani was a native of Karachi, Pakistan, while Parvaiz was originally from Brooklyn, relatives have said. The couple were wed in an arranged marriage six years ago. They were in Boonton, which has many Pakistani-American residents, visiting relatives. Parvaiz told family he was attending graduate school at Harvard, but the school has no record of him studying there. New Jersey authorities gave the spelling of Stephen’s first name as Antoinette, but it is spelled Antionette in public records.
Continue reading …Actress/Singer Alicia Witt Sticks with Obama Who Gave Her ‘Passion’ for America
August 20, 2011 No Comment
Actress/singer Alicia Witt ( IMDb page ), who came to semi-fame playing Cybill Shepherd’s teenage daughter “Zoey” on the late 1990s CBS sit-com Cybill , traveled to Washington, DC this past week, which she told the Washington Examiner was her first visit to the nation’s capital since “President Obama’s inauguration, which she says made her feel more patriotic than she ever has in her life.” That gave her a “passion” for the U.S. and it “still gives me chills even though the darkness has sort of overcome our country again.” The paper’s August 18 “Yeas & Nays” item, “ Witt performs at W, votes for O ,” quoted her as saying “I would vote for Obama over Romney, but I think there are worse candidates over Romney.” The actress who starred on Law & Order: Criminal Intent during its 2007 season and had a recurring role on NBC/DirecTV’s Friday Night Lights , and who was in town to play piano and sing at the W hotel (her My Space page ), recalled her time at the 2009 inaugural: It was an amazing time to be in the capital, that's for sure. I have never experienced in my life anything like the swarms of people and the passion that I felt for the country. The diversity, people from all over the country, all ages and money groups — it was just astonishing and overwhelming and still gives me chills even though the darkness has sort of overcome our country again.
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Tempted by the promise of a $99 TouchPad , in spite of its imminent demise ? Well, it looks like American Best Buys won’t be enjoying the same liquidation sale as our neighbors to the north. A couple of tipsters have reported that the big box electronics retailer has pulled the webOS tablets from its shelves and is shipping them back to HP. The slates have also disappeared from Best Buy’s website, though you can buy $30 screen protectors for one. You can still try to score one on the cheap straight from HP, but both the 16GB and 32GB models are currently listed as out of stock. Don’t get upset if you already plunked down $400 for 10-inches of webOS goodness — HP will refund you the difference. Call up the company or the retail partner you purchased it from, and ask. Just be prepared to sit on hold with all the rest of the folks trying to get their cash back. [Thanks, Alex and David] Best Buy stops selling the TouchPad, HP offers refunds to owners originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 20 Aug 2011 13:18:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Vice-chancellor attacks ‘poorly timed’ government closure of scheme as steep rise in tuition fees looms Critics have condemned the closure of a higher education outreach programme amid evidence that poorer students are likely to be put off by the trebling of tuition fees next year. Professor Les Ebdon, vice-chancellor of the University of Bedfordshire, said the coalition government’s closure in July of Aimhigher, a body that spent £78m last year on visiting schools in the poorest areas to promote higher education, was “poor timing”. Universities now have complete responsibility for outreach to families in which no member has previously continued their education beyond school. But the additional money universities need to fund such work will not be available until 2012-2013, when students start paying up to £9,000 in fees. It is the latest row over higher education in a week in which record numbers of successful A-level candidates applied for university places in a scramble to avoid higher tuition fees. The website of the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (Ucas) crashed on Friday amid a surge of interest for places. Speaking to the Observer , Ebdon, who is also the chairman of the higher education thinktank Million+, said there appeared to be a lack of joined-up thinking within government, “particularly at a time when the new fee structure is likely to dissuade a lot of youngsters from aiming to go to university”. “We have drawn ministers’ attention to this. What is happening is that they have abolished Aimhigher in the year before the additional money from access arrangements becomes available to universities. It is crucially important in this year to speak to students and to explain the situation to them around tuition fees, to provide that vital guidance. And it is not just those soon to go to university: Aimhigher worked with younger schoolchildren too, which is very important. “In these tough times, when budgets have been cut, universities will have a choice of whether to dig deep and continue to spend on outreach or wait until next year to rehire people when they have the money.” The social class gap at university has widened since the mid-1990s, with students from the richest 20% of families seven times more likely to go to elite universities than the most disadvantaged 40%. It is feared that next year students from less affluent backgrounds will be put off by potentially huge debts, despite the generous payback scheme for student loans. Studies show students starting in 2012 will face an average of £56,000 of debt on graduation. An analysis of universities’ spending plans from the Commons library shows that there will be a 60% cut in spending on outreach over the next 12 months compared with last year. Then, Sir Martin Harris, director of the Office for Fair Access, the government body monitoring universities’ efforts to widen participation, said there was “mounting evidence” that “targeted outreach which boosts achievement and aspirations among disadvantaged young people at a much earlier stage” was the most effective way to encourage the poorest students into higher education. Bursaries and fee waivers only helped students choose between universities rather than providing them with the initial motivation to apply. Gareth Thomas, Labour’s shadow universities minister, said: “This is yet another example of the government saying one thing but not being willing to commit the resources, effort and money to make things really happen. Such a significant drop in outreach funding could mean too many potential students from less privileged backgrounds, who have the ability, don’t get encouraged to go to
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President Bashar al-Assad increases military patrols along frontier to dissuade Turkey from intervening in domestic unrest Syrian officials have ordered military units to increase patrols near the restive Turkish border in what amounts to a warning to its increasingly irate northern neighbour not to establish a buffer zone inside Syria. Diplomats in Beirut and Ankara believe that the Syrian advance on the border village of Khirbet al-Jouz Thursday – initially portrayed by Damascus as a sweep to rout dissidents – was instead a veiled threat to Turkey, which is steadily turning on President Bashar al-Assad as his regime’s fierce crackdown on dissent continues. Following a speech last week by the besieged Syrian leader, Turkish officials gave Assad a week to begin reforms and stop the violent suppression of protests, in which more than 1,400 people are believed to have been killed in less than four months. At least another 18 died and dozens were wounded in fresh nationwide protests on Friday – a relatively low toll compared to the last few Fridays, which have been a weekly flashpoint in the uprising. However, the pattern of anti-government activists being attacked by armed members of the security forces remains the same, and is unlikely to convince Ankara that its former ally is committed to reform. British government officials travelled during the week to the southern Turkish border region to interview Syrians who have crossed the frontier to safety and are now living in refugee camps. A Foreign Office official told the Observer that diplomats were compiling accounts of what happened in the now abandoned border town of Jisr al-Shughour and the villages surrounding it during the first two weeks of June, when the Syrian army mounted a series of raids, followed by a full assault that led almost all of its 41,000 residents to flee, first for the nearby hills and then across to Turkey. Among the claims being investigated are persistent reports that Iranian soldiers had been operating with the Syrian forces. The European Union last week adopted sanctions against three key officers of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, among them the highly secretive Major General Qassem Suleimani, the leader of its elite al-Quds force, who is widely regarded as the head of all Iran’s clandestine military missions abroad. A senior diplomat in Beirut on Friday said that intelligence agencies had established evidence that Iran had sent weapons and logistical support to Syria, but were yet to determine whether there had been Iranian troops on the ground taking part in the Syrian repression. In a further sign of Turkish unease with Damascus, officials from the country’s Red Crescent, which runs the five refugee camps along the border, no longer seem to be banned from talking to reporters. Concern that describing the accounts of refugees who have fled from violent assaults on northern Syrian villages may embarrass Syrian officials are clearly now less of a factor in Turkey’s estimation. Refugee accounts are being used to compile a referral to the international criminal court, which will be asked to prosecute Assad and key regime officials for crimes against humanity. The referral is being prepared by several rights groups, including Insan, an international organisation that is also compiling testimonies from a growing number of defecting Syrian soldiers. Turkey’s increasing diplomatic anger has made Istanbul an attractive hub for the Syrian opposition movement, which has received scores of defectors in recent weeks. Beirut, which is less than three hours’ drive from Damascus and offers easy access to Syrian citizens, is now considered too dangerous for anti-regime dissidents. “It is a clearing house only,” said one Syrian activist, who directs a network of dissidents across the border. “There are many ways that the regime can get to people here — they don’t even have to be here themselves. They just use their proxies.” At least 1,000 refugees crossed into Lebanon at the Wadi Khaled border point on Friday after an assault on the Syrian city of Homs, Lebanese officials reported. Among those were five men with gunshot wounds. A resident of the border village told the Observer that Syrian army units patrolling near by had opened fire towards the wounded as they tried to enter Lebanon. Syria Bashar Al-Assad Turkey Arab and Middle East unrest Martin Chulov guardian.co.uk
Continue reading …> International Big Business, the Oil Industry, serial polluters… they’ve been trying to end Bernie Sanders’ political career for many years. But, until now, weak, lax campaign rules have held them back, at least to some extent. This year, America’s preeminent tribune for working families, may not– at least according to Public Policy Polling — have a strong potential Republican opponent. But what he does have is a Citizens United empowered plutocracy who hate him more than anyone in Washington. Bernie Sanders is the Senator up for reelection endorsed by Blue America this year… the one even running for Senate at all we’ve endorsed so far. That’s because Bernie is clear and consistent and driven by values and principles to fight for the legitimate aspirations of regular American families. He doesn’t belong to any special interests. He belongs to us. Just listen to what he has to say about the Koch Brothers in the clip above. And, better, join us in the C&L comments section below at 2pm (ET) and meet Bernie for yourself. And, please do think about contributing what you can to help him stave off the attack we know is coming courtesy of a deranged and reactionary Supreme Court ruling in favor of plutocracy and against democracy. This week Bernie gave a keynote address to the delegates of the United Steelworkers of America at their convention in Las Vegas. He told us he wants to talk with us today about the same stuff he discussed with the 3,000 steelworkers Thursday and the same stuff that he’ll be talking about with the New Hampshire Democrats at the Merrimack County annual picnic on Sunday. His message, he says, is “simple, straight-forward and appears to be resonating.” Yes, deficit reduction is important, but it is not the most important issue we face. We are in the midst of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression and if the middle-class is to be saved we need to create millions of good paying jobs in the very near future. And we can do it. Here are three approaches that I will be working on to create the jobs we desperately need when Congress reconvenes after Labor Day. He’s been hammering three overarching themes. First is the need to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure, pointing out that “when we do that we not only create millions of good paying jobs, but we also make the entire country more productive and competitive in the global economy.” After that he points to the need to move our energy system away from fossil fuels and into energy efficiency and sustainable energy breaking our dependence on Middle East oil, cutting greenhouse gas emissions, decreasing air pollution and putting “millions of Americans to work building American made solar panels, building American made wind turbines, building American made heat pumps and weatherizing millions of American homes with energy efficient products and technologies– all made in America.” And his third theme is how “we have got to fundamentally rewrite our trade policy laws so that American products, not jobs are our number one export.” If his rhetoric on this scares you, you’ve been brainwashed by the plutocratic overlords “Simply stated,” he explains, “our current trade policy of unfettered free trade has been a disaster for American workers and must be reformed. Over the past thirty years, we have been told by the administrations of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and now Barack Obama that unfettered free trade will increase jobs in America. They have been proven wrong. NAFTA has led to the loss of over one million American jobs. Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) with China has led to the loss of over 2 million American jobs.” He worries that if George W. Bush’s unfettered free trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama are signed into law by this President, even more American jobs will be lost. I will be doing my best to fight against these job-killing free trade agreements and come up with a trade approach which is based on the principles of fair trade, not unfettered free trade.” “Despair is not an option,” he says. We need to “make sure that government represents all the people, not just the wealthy and powerful… This fight is not just about what happens to our lives. More importantly, it’s what happens to our kids and grandchildren. For their sakes, we cannot give up the struggle.” You can see why so many people consider him a national treasure and you can see why Blue America is so determined to help him keep his seat in the U.S. Senate. It’s The People’s seat amidst so many seats that belong to every sort of wealthy, powerful, selfish special interest. If you can help, please give what you can afford .
Continue reading …Things are looking ever more grim for Moammar Gadhafi: Libyan rebels today said they’ve gained total control of the oft-captured oil port of Brega, reports the AP , after sealing their grip on its industrial section. This follows Thursday’s capture of Zawiyah, and puts rebels just 30 miles from Gadhafi’s stronghold…
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Continue reading …North Korean leader Kim Jong Il arrived in Russia’s Far East today and will meet with President Dmitry Medvedev during a visit expected to last a week, the Kremlin said. It is Kim’s first trip to the country in nine years and a further sign of Pyongyang’s increasing efforts to…
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