BOE Pushed Back on Tougher Libor Oversight. 'It's all about Iran! Don't be duped by US & UK, "the great humanitarians" - remember Iraq' 'Turken moeten Syrië iets uitleggen' Dinsdag 26 jun 2012, 13:54 (Update: 26-06-12, 16:38) Strijders van het Vrije Syrische Leger AFP Door buitenlandredacteur Esther Bootsma Het waren vooral grote woorden van Turkije en de NAVO vandaag op de NAVO-bijeenkomst over het neergeschoten Turkse vliegtuig. Want natuurlijk protesteren ze formeel tegen de Syrische beschieting. Maar NAVO-lidstaat Turkije is zelf ook niet brandschoon. "De Turken voelen nattigheid", zegt defensie-specialist en Clingendael-directeur Ko Colijn. Want het neergeschoten Turkse toestel, een F-4 Phantom-straaljager, is volgens Colijn ook een verkenningstoestel waarmee foto's kunnen worden gemaakt. Wapenleveranties De Amerikaanse krant New York Times onthulde onlangs dat een klein aantal CIA-agenten sinds een paar weken in het geheim in het zuiden van Turkije opereert.
De Amerikanen en Turken willen daarmee voorkomen dat de wapens in handen komen van extremistische facties die banden zouden hebben met al-Qaida. Www.ap.org. Assuring-that-we-can-continue-our-vital-mission-is-my-priority. July 9, 2012 Gary Pruitt has officially joined The Associated Press as its new president and CEO. He succeeds Tom Curley, who will remain at AP through a transitional period ending in mid-August. Here is a letter Pruitt sent to AP’s global staff today.
Hello, AP colleagues: I’m excited to join you today as AP’s new president. Gary-Pruitt-of-McClatchy-to-become-new-president-and-CEO-of-The-Associated-Press. March 21, 2012 NEW YORK -- The Associated Press today named Gary Pruitt as its new president and CEO. Pruitt, currently chairman, president and CEO of The McClatchy Co., will join AP in July. He succeeds retiring AP President and CEO Tom Curley to become the 13th leader of AP in its 166-year history. “In Gary, we have chosen a seasoned and worthy successor to Tom Curley to continue AP’s transition to a digital news company,” said Dean Singleton, outgoing chairman of the AP Board of Directors and chairman of MediaNews Group Inc. “Gary has deep experience in the changing world of the news industry, an acute business sense and an overriding understanding of and commitment to AP’s news mission.
Wins-Pulitzer-Prize-for-Investigative-Reporting-on-NYPD-surveillance. Www.ap.org/Content/Press-Release/2012/Trevor-Tompson-named-director-of-the-Associated-Press-NORC. April 25, 2012 CHICAGO -- Trevor Tompson, global director of polling for The Associated Press, has been named director of the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. In his new position, Tompson will have overall responsibility for managing operations of the AP-NORC Center, which combines the journalistic strength of AP with the social science research power of NORC at the University of Chicago.
Officially launched in August 2011, the AP-NORC Center carries out research projects on issues in which there is a potential for social impact, including education, health care, race, unemployment, aging and poverty. Four-AP-news-execs-named-regional-director-to-meet-market-customer-needs. May 2, 2012 NEW YORK -- Four veteran news service executives have been named regional director at The Associated Press, responsible for leading business development and responding quickly to member and customer needs in changing markets.
The regional directors -- Dale Leach, Eva Parziale, Kevin Walsh and Michelle Williams -- will be AP’s primary liaison with major member groups and commercial entities, lead AP bureau chiefs in each region and address regional issues with colleagues across the AP. Associated-Press-Google-award-six-scholarships-to-new-journalists. April 5, 2012 WASHINGTON, DC, April 5, 2012 — The Associated Press and Google today announced the first recipients of a new national scholarship program targeted at college students whose innovative projects exemplify the new journalist in the digital media age. The Online News Association, the world’s largest membership organization of digital journalists, administers the program.
The AP-Google Journalism and Technology Scholarship provides $20,000 scholarships for the 2012-13 academic year to six promising undergraduate or graduate students pursuing or planning to pursue degrees at the intersection of journalism, computer science and new media. A key goal is to promote geographic, gender and ethnic diversity, with an emphasis on rural and urban areas. The students were selected by a committee of digital media leaders from applications across the country. Emily Eggleston, 24, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, studying journalism and geography. Debate-on-Democracy-to-stream-online-from-economic-forum. Jan. 25, 2012 Are the democratic institutions of the 20th century fit for the 21st? This will be the focus of a debate among international leaders on Thursday, Jan. 26, hosted by The Associated Press, in partnership with the World Economic Forum, now underway in Davos, Switzerland.
You can view a webcast of the debate on Livestream at 9:30 a.m. ET (15:30 in Davos) – part of AP’s extensive, multiplatform coverage of the gathering for its customers worldwide. The debate, moderated by AP Senior Managing Editor for U.S. News Mike Oreskes, will include Rep. Participants gather during the first day of the 42nd annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012. Captures-7-awards-in-the-Pictures-of-the-Year-International-competition.
March 8, 2012 The Associated Press has been cited for seven awards in the Pictures of the Year International competition. David Guttenfelder led the way for AP photographers with citations in three categories. Pictures of the Year International is a program of the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism. Below, see the list of categories for the five AP honorees who captured seven awards, including Guttenfelder, Matt Dunham, Pavel Rahman, Anja Niedringhaus and Misha Japaridze.
In the listing, "HM" refers to Honorable Mention or Award of Excellence, as POYi refers to it. Good sources are no substitute for open government. June 13, 2012 AP reporter Matt Apuzzo this week accepted the New York Press Club’s Gold Keyboard Investigative Journalism Award, bestowed on him and three of his colleagues for their series, "NYPD Spies on NYC. " The series, which began last August and also earned the quartet a Pulitzer Prize and other journalism honors this year, has documented the New York Police Department’s post-9/11 surveillance activities – surveillance of Muslim communities, on college campuses and in nearby municipalities. The AP stories can be seen at www.AP.org/nypd.
In Apuzzo’s remarks at the Water Club in Manhattan, he called on his fellow journalists to demand greater access to public documents now parceled out by the NYPD. “If we won’t argue for openness, who will?” World-War-II-memoir-highlights-censorship-and-embargo. May 2, 2012 Sixty-seven years after AP fired correspondent Ed Kennedy for breaking a military embargo to report the end of World War II, President and CEO Tom Curley is apologizing for how the situation was handled. In an introduction to a newly published, posthumous memoir, Curley and Louisiana State University Provost John Maxwell Hamilton defend Kennedy’s actions. Calling him an “American hero,” they conclude that “Kennedy was the embodiment of the highest aspirations of the Associated Press and American journalism.” Www.stopimperialism.com. Iran Plans Ballistic Missile Drill To Counter US, Israel. Iranian Revolutionary Guards drive speedboats during a ceremony to commemorate the 24th anniversary of the downing of Iran Air flight 655 by the US navy, at the port of Bandar Abbas on Monday.
TEHRAN – Iran said it was readying ballistic missile war games simulating a counter-attack against US or Israeli targets in the region in the event of air strikes on its nuclear facilities. The three-day drill in Iran’s central desert region was starting days after the European Union and the United States imposed severe new sanctions, and on the eve of another round of negotiations with world powers seeking to curb Tehran’s nuclear ambitions. “All units and missile bases have commenced their preparation and movement to the designated areas,” the Revolutionary Guards, Iran’s powerful elite military force conducting the exercise, said in a statement published by the official IRNA news agency.
And Xinhua sign historic photo distribution agreement. June 7, 2012. Tanzania’s China-Funded Gas Pipeline to Be Started This Year. Tanzania will borrow the money it needs so that it can start construction in the next year on a natural gas pipeline, for which China has already offered a $1.2 billion loan, Finance Minister William Mgimwa said. Tanzania will use part of 1.2 trillion shillings ($757.1 million) in non-concessional loans it expects to take in 2012-13 to pay its portion of the construction cost, Mgimwa said in his annual budget presentation today in parliament in Dodoma, the capital. He didn’t give further details. “The government will implement the gas pipeline construction project from Mtwara to Dar es Salaam,” he said, referring to the southern coastal town where the facility will start and its terminus in Tanzania’s commercial capital.
Statoil ASA (STL), Norway’s biggest energy company, today said it found an estimated 3 trillion cubic feet of gas off Tanzania’s Indian Ocean coast. Syria's Assad Rejects Comparison With Egypt, Libya. West clings to Arab influence with airstrike democracy - Putin. Business & Financial News, Breaking US & International News. CIA director meets Saudi king in Jeddah. Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (R) meets with CIA Director David Petraeus in Jeddah on July 9, 2012 . The director of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), David Petraeus, has met with the Saudi king in Saudi Arabia as Riyadh intensifies its crackdown on anti-government protesters.
Petraeus met with ailing Saudi King Abdullah in the city of Jeddah on Monday, Arab News reported. There have been no reports on what was discussed during the meeting. However meetings between Saudi and US officials have spiked in recent weeks amid Washington’s concerns over an internal power struggle in the royal family that seems deeply split as the several thousand princes and princesses are setting up their own coalitions as well as street protests against the monarchy.
[Pakistan's Hardline Activists Protest Reopening of NATO Routes] - [VOA - Voice of America English News] Seven coalmine workers kidnapped in Balochistan. 08 July, 2012 QUETTA: Seven coalmine workers were kidnapped on Saturday in the So Range mining fields, some 20 kilometres from the provincial capital. A coalmine trade union leader Bhakht Nawab told this scribe that the workers were sleeping at a mining site when unidentified armed men entered their tent in the early hours of Saturday and kidnapped them, adding that they had been taken to an unknown location.
The kidnapped workers were employed by a private mining company, the United Mineral Company. They were identified as Hameedullah, Abdul Hameed, Mohammad Ishaq, Faqir Khan, Mohammad Nawaz, Mohammad Akbar and Khan Mohammad. The workers belong to the Swat and Dir areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The Balochistan Levies registered a case against the unidentified kidnappers and started a search operation. Local officials said the victim was identified as Mohammad Naseem, an employee of a private company. Later, it was handed over to its heirs. End. Analysis-of-casualties-from-US-drone-strikes-in-Pakistan-the-backstory. Feb. 28, 2012 (In this Feb. 28 note below to The Associated Press staff, AP Senior Managing Editor for U.S. News Mike Oreskes explains how AP's analysis of casualties from U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan stemmed from establishing the facts behind a major issue besetting the American fight against al-Qaida and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan.)
Colleagues, Business & Financial News, Breaking US & International News. UPDATED: Egypt's constitutional court suspends presidential decree restoring People's Assembly. UPDATED: Egypt's constitutional court suspends presidential decree restoring People's Assembly In notable escalation, High Constitutional Court issues verdict freezing Sunday's presidential decree reinstating lower house of Egypt's beleaguered parliament Sherif Tarek, Tuesday 10 Jul 2012 Egypt's High Constitutional Court (HCC) on Tuesday issued a ruling suspending President Mohamed Morsi's Sunday decree reinstating the People's Assembly (parliament's lower house) – a verdict that could mark the beginning of a tense new chapter in Egypt's ongoing parliamentary saga.
Party leader Jibril calls for unity as Libya votes tallied. Top Reporter In Yemen Explains What's Really Going On In The Covert US War There. Central Africa: Rwanda in Congo - Sixteen Years of Intervention. A recent UN report on the crisis in eastern DRC indicates that senior members of the Rwandan military have been supporting Congo's newest rebel outfit, M23. Such revelations hold true to a familiar pattern that has seen Rwanda play a significant and controversial role in Congolese history since 1996. Mali: how the West cleared the way for al-Qaeda’s African march. Americans Least Green—And Feel Least Guilt, Survey Suggests. This year's Greendex report, conducted by the National Geographic Society and the research consultancy GlobeScan , also found that Americans are the most confident that their individual actions can help the environment.
Voter ID and Race. Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Arizona's 'Bull' Connor. Sheriff Joe Arpaio faces legal action, yet again, on charges that he has violated the rights of Latino citizens in Maricopa County, Arizona.
Already, the county has paid out something like $50m in damages over the years. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF) are bringing suit in federal court on behalf of several plaintiffs. Poor Joe has become something of a caricature of late. He is a symbol of mean-spiritedness, cruelty and racism. The bane of Bain and Mitt Romney's diminishing tax returns.
How Mitt Romney is turning into the John Kerry of the 2012 election. Mitt Romney has a John Kerry problem.
And I don't mean being a wavy-haired, wealthy francophone from Massachusetts (although, in this climate, that's burden enough for a Republican nominee). Top Obamacare Critic's Op-Eds Drafted by PR Firm That Reps Drug, Health Care Clients. Last Tuesday, a week after the Supreme Court's ruling upholding Obamacare, Sally Pipes appeared before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to enumerate the evils of the law. Farm Bill budget cuts will mean millions of Americans go hungry.
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
So said President Franklin D Roosevelt, over 75 years ago, in his second inaugural address. This idea could not be any more important than now, when the health of millions of children, their families and older adults are in danger. Last Wednesday, the agriculture committee of the House of Representatives voted to pass dramatic cuts to the Farm Bill. If passed by Congress, the legislation will remove $16.5bn from food and hunger relief programs that directly benefit children, seniors and families. City of London Corporation: you don't have to be in the club to get involved. Panetta orders Pentagon to monitor media for information leaks. Saudi Appointment Suggests Bigger Regional Ambition. U.K Journalist Arrested in Media Probe.
China to Probe U.S., South Korea Solar Products. Iraq gets positive Obama response on Exxon concern. Indian Workers Riot at Maruti Suzuki. Deutsche Bank Thrust Into Libor Investigation. The Real Libor Scandal. Exclusive: Banks in Libor probe consider group settlement-sources. Review & Outlook: Tim Geithner and Libor. Deutsche Bank to Cut Investment-Bank Jobs.
U.S. banks haunted by mortgage demons that won't go away. Morgan Stanley Profit, Revenue Tumble. Greece Braces for More Pain on Wages. IMF Cautions U.K. on Pace of Austerity. President-Obama-IMF-chief-Lagarde-to-speak-at-AP-annual-meeting-and-lunch. The Syrian opposition: who's doing the talking? Syrian borders in rebel hands, battles in Damascus. Oops, BBC: Iraq photo to illustrate Houla massacre? Syria massacre in Houla condemned as outrage grows. 280512shot1.jpg (1984×1219) The Houla Massacre as Pretext for Regime Change in Syria. CONSPIRACY - THE DOWNING STREET MEMO - PART 1. THE HOULA MASSACRE: Another systematic Western media manipulation. Eyewitnesses blame anti-gov’t fighters for Houla massacre. American double standard On Nuclear Question between Iran and Israel. U.N. Draft resolution on Syria is Western conspiracy to distabilise the country.