Click here to view this media As we reported earlier, Rebekah Brooks had resigned from News International just the other day. Things just got much worse for the former News of The Day editor. Rebekah Brooks has been arrested by police investigating allegations of phone hacking by the News of the World and allegations that police officers were bribed to leak sensitive information. The Metropolitan police said a 43-year-old woman was arrested at noon on Sunday, by appointment at a London police station. Brooks, 43, resigned on Friday as News International’s chief executive. She is a former News of the World editor and was close to Rupert Murdoch and the prime minister, David Cameron. A spokesman for Brooks said she did not know she was going to be arrested when she handed in her resignation. Brooks was taken into custody at midday on Sunday, after agreeing to attend a London police station for questioning. Her spokesman, Bell Pottinger chairman David Wilson, said she did not know she was to meet with police until late on Friday, and that she did not know the appointment would result in her arrest. The News International chief executive announced her immediate departure from the company on Friday morning. She had agreed to give evidence this coming Tuesday to the culture select committee’s inquiry into allegations of phone-hacking at the News of the World. Her lawyers are currently in discussion with the committee about whether she should attend. Wilson said: “It’s left Rebekah in a very difficult position and has left the committee in a very difficult position”. The BBC is reporting that the timing of the arrest undermines what the MP’s can ask her at the committee: Liberal Democrat MP Adrian Sanders, a member of the select committee, questioned the timing of the latest arrest. “In whose interest was it for this arrest to take place before Tuesday? Because if it does impede what we can ask, that’s not going to go down well with my fellow committee members. “Quite why now, just a few hours before our select committee meets, an arrangement has been made for an arrest. A lot of people are going to think this is very, very odd. “If this is designed to take the spotlight off the police at the same time giving a shield to Rebekah Brooks, that’s a very serious matter indeed. We don’t know how much this is going to impede our questioning until we’ve been able to sit down and talk it through with the parliamentary counsel.” Another member of the select committee, Labour MP Jim Sheridan, said he hoped her arrest would not affect her appearance before MPs. “The police will do whatever it is they feel necessary to do, and if they feel it’s necessary to arrest Rebekah Brooks at this time, then so be it. “I don’t buy into the conspiracy theories that the police are doing something underhand. I think it’s just that if they feel it necessary, then so be it. Their inquiry, it’s far, far more important than any other inquiry.” Labour MP Chris Bryant, who believes his phone was hacked, also has concerns about the timing of the arrest. Either way there’s serious pressure being applied to Rupert Murdoch and his empire.
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Click here to view this media Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain said Sunday that any community should be able to ban mosques because there was a big difference between Islam and “our other traditional religions.” Last week, Cain came out again a proposed mosque in Murfreesboro, Tennessee on the grounds that it was an “infringement and an abuse of our freedom of religion.” “They have operated, Muslim worshipers at another site there for more than 20 years,” Fox News Chris Wallace noted in an interview with Cain. “What is your objection for them building a new mosque?” “Our Constitution guarantees separation of church and state,” Cain explained. “Islam combines church and state. They are using the church part of our First Amendment to infuse their mosque in that community and people in the community do not like it, they disagree with it. Sharia law is what they are trying to infuse… What I am saying is American laws in American courts.” “Couldn’t any community then say we don’t want a mosque in our community?” Wallace asked. “They could say that,” Cain admitted. “They are objecting to the fact that Islam is both a religion and set of laws, Shariah law. That is the difference between any one of our other traditional religions where it’s just about religious purposes. The people in the community know best. I happen to side with the people in the community.” “You are saying any community if they want to ban a mosque,” Wallace pressed. “Yes, they have the right to do that. That is not discriminating based on religion against their particular religion,” Cain insisted. In March, Cain also used Sharia law as an excuse for saying that he would not appoint a Muslim to his cabinet or as a federal judge. “No, I will not. And here’s why. There is this creeping attempt, there is this attempt to gradually ease Sharia law and the Muslim faith into our government,” he said.
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Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. By the time Jane Fonda, a famous Hollywood actress, started to tour the United States and question the U.S.-Vietnam War, she really never had a chance. American militarism and a perpetual war mentality had been so deeply embedded, so internalized by most Americans, that her fate would either be one of disgust and vilification, or a traitor and communist sympathizer. Unlike First Lady Michelle Obama, who recently visited Hollywood and-during a $1,000-plate dinner-urged Tinsel Town actresses and actors to propagate the might of the U.S. military and to encourage support for troops fighting in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and many other…
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NEW YORK — Borders Group teetered on the brink of liquidation Thursday after an offer from a private-equity investor disintegrated. The bookseller appeared to have found its white night in Najafi Cos. back in July, when the private-equity investor from Phoenix offered $215 million for the company, plus the assumption of $220 million in debt. But on Wednesday creditors objected, saying that the agreement would not prevent Najafi from taking possession of the company and liquidating it immediately for profit. Creditors said a bid from liquidators Hilco Merchant Resources and Gordon Brothers is stronger. They believe it would pay out between $252 million and $284 million in cash. That offer should be the primary, or “stalking horse” bid, instead of the one from Najafi Cos., creditors said. Creditors said in a court filing that they were hopeful Najafi would submit a higher bid, but Najafi stood by its original offer. On Thursday, Borders said it wouldn’t seek approval for Najafi’s bid in a hearing scheduled for 10 a.m. in the U.S. Bankruptcy Courth Southern District of New York and designated the liquidators as the “stalking horse” bid. Another bidder could still step in. Borders Group Inc., based in Ann Arbor, Mich., filed for bankruptcy protection in February. The company started with a single store in 1971, and helped pioneer the book superstore concept along with larger rival Barnes & Noble Inc. It was brought down by heightened competition by discounters and online booksellers, as well as the growth in popularity of electronic books. It currently operates about 400 stores, down from its peak in 2003 of 1,249 Borders and Waldenbooks. Borders said it will accept bids until 5 p.m. Sunday and will give notice by Monday if no other bid emerges.
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Atlanta Cheating Scandal KISE1 – Fantasia lynx55 says: Teachers Implicated In Atlanta Cheating Scandal Told To Resign Or Get Fired http://feedly.com/k/mP9rJG
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CARPE DIEM ”Borracho y redoblante” Acústico en radio Carpe Diem Night Rider Symphony – Carpe diem bethstonestudio says: Carpe diem …: For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured … http://bit.ly/qjMjwV
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China strongly & furiously objects to Obama-Dalai Lama meeting China Urges US To Cancel Obama’s Dalai Lama Meeting (16-Jul-11)(GLOBAL FOCUS series – China) China Urges US To Cancel Obama’s Dalai Lama Meeting…. chrisjon46 says: RT @AsiaTodayNews : @AsiaTodayNews China calls Obama-Dalai Lama meeting 'gross interference in its internal affairs': … http://bit.ly/pkf0lq – #Asia #News
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The Pitchfork Music Festival wasn’t the only big event held yesterday (and today) in the music world. The seventh annual Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival also went down with Q-Tip serving as the headliner. While he was tearing through both solo and A Tribe Called Quest joints, Tip brought out a special guest for “Award Tour.” And no, it wasn’t his Tribe cohort Phife Dawg. Instead, the Abstract called on… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : prefixmag Discovery Date : 17/07/2011 08:05 Number of articles : 3
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DGB confederation of trade unions cites benefits for workers as trend grows in Germany to re-establish midday napping tradition Angela Merkel might be calling the southern Europeans lazy these days. But German union leaders are calling for their compatriots to emulate them in at least one way: by taking siestas. The DGB confederation of trade unions argues that a short, lunchtime power nap makes sense for health and performance reasons. “Even though the siesta is something that isn’t a given anymore in the southern European countries, it is still a good idea for health reasons,” said Annelie Buntenbach, a DGB executive board member. “A short afternoon nap reduces the risk of, for example, a heart attack, and provides an energy boost,” she told Tageszeitung in an interview. Studies bear this out. Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health and the University of Athens Medical School in Greece found that Greek workers who took regular siestas had 37% lower mortality rates from coronary illnesses than their napless counterparts. The idea has caught on in Germany, where big German companies such as BASF, Opel, Hornsbach and Lufthansa provide special rooms for their workers, and employers say they benefit from the increased productivity of well-rested employees. “An afternoon nap bridges the power low (of midday) with its heightened risk of errors,” said Jürgen Zulley, a professor of biology and psychology at the University of Regensburg. “A nap can help us to react faster, be more alert, remember things better and put us in a better mood.” A study last year at the University of California Berkeley backed that up by demonstrating that healthy young adults performed better at learning task towards the end of the day if they had taken an afternoon nap. Germans used to take siestas up until the industrial revolution. But the labour needs of the manufacturing economies caused the custom to die out in much of northern Europe. It has been a diminishing custom in the south as well over the past two decades, one some are trying to bring back. But not everyone is in favour. “We have already a half-hour break for breakfast and half-an-hour for lunch,” said Frank Pahlow, a Berlin electrician. “If we had longer breaks to nap, we would get home much later, which would be really bad. It’s different in Spain and Italy, where you need a nap because it’s so hot, but here in Germany, we don’t even have proper summers.” But some workers say they would jump at the chance of a midday recharge. “Sometimes I really need a nap, but I’ve never taken one at work,” said healthcare worker Nils Gordon de Mello, also in Berlin. “If there was a room at work where you could go and lie down for a bit in the afternoon that would be great.” Germany Health Work-life balance Work & careers guardian.co.uk
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Essam Sharaf sacks ministers of finance, industry and foreign affairs amid claims he does not have the power to hire and fire Egypt’s embattled prime minister, Essam Sharaf, fired several of his top ministers on Sunday in the latest attempt to end mass nationwide protests against his government’s slow pace of reform. The ministers of finance, industry and foreign affairs all followed in the footsteps of Sharaf’s deputy, Yehia el-Gamal, who stepped down last week amid demonstrations that have called the legitimacy of Egypt’s ruling military generals into question. Protesters have demanded that the interim cabinet be purged of all politicians linked to the Mubarak regime. They are also insisting that the executive power of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (Scaf), which has controlled Egypt since February but is accused by many of deliberately stifling revolutionary progress, be curbed. Sharaf, who is under pressure to resign from many of his former supporters in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, has been locked in negotiations for days over the details of his reshuffle – a sign, according to analysts, of a power struggle behind the scenes between Scaf and the relatively impotent civilian government. In a further indication of division, a senior military official told local news sources that Sharaf was not entitled to appoint or dismiss ministers under the interim constitution. Major General Hassan al-Ruweiny said Scaf had “sole authority” over cabinet personnel – a statement likely to infuriate protesters, who have already drawn comparisons between recent public statements by Scaf and the rhetoric deployed by Mubarak’s regime. Among those leaving the cabinet is Mohamed el-Orabi, appointed foreign minister less than three weeks ago. He said he was stepping down to “honour the will of the people” after protesters charged him with being a long-time supporter of Mubarak’s rule. Joining the cabinet are two new deputies: the veteran economist Hazem Beblawi, who will take up the finance portfolio, and Ali al-Selmy, a leader of the liberal Wafd party who has been asked to oversee social reforms. The appointment of Selmy has instantly met with criticism in some quarters owing to Wafd’s initial lukewarm support for the revolution and Selmy’s record as deputy president of Cairo University, where he was accused of using state security agents to suppress teachers’ demands. Sharaf is expected to replace up to 15 ministers in the reshuffle. But his changes remain dependent on approval from Scaf, and attention will now turn to the fate of the interior minister, Mansour el-Essawy, and the justice minister, Mohamed al-Guindy, both of whom are unpopular among protesters but appear to have the support of military generals. The full lineup of the new government will be unveiled on Monday. Egypt Hosni Mubarak Arab and Middle East unrest Protest Jack Shenker guardian.co.uk
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