psychosis dianna agron million hoodie march tebow trade mike the situation jacksonville jaguars jacksonville jaguars
Monday, 25 March 2013
Cyberattackers Brewed Special Malware Cocktail for South Korea
Cybersecurity news had a distinctive international flavor last week. In South Korea, a cyberattack from unknown sources disrupted portions of the nation's banking and broadcast industries. During the attacks, a North Korean Human Rights website based in Washington, D.C. was also defaced.
My Chemical Romance split after 12 years
Steve Thorne / Getty Images Contributor
Mikey Way and Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance in 2011.
By Tim Gaynor, Reuters
Alternative rock group My Chemical Romance announced on their website on Friday that they were calling it quits after 12 years.
The punk-popsters from New Jersey had played together since 2001, recording four studio albums and notching up an international hit with "Welcome to the Black Parade" in 2006.
In a statement, they said being in the band "has been a true blessing" that allowed them "to see and experience things we never imagined possible."
"We've shared the stage with people we admire, people we look up to, and best of all, our friends. And now, like all great things, it has come time for it to end."
The group thanked fans for their support and "for being part of the adventure."
More in NBC News Entertainment:
walking dead season finale matt flynn denver news frozen planet creighton new smyrna beach st. joseph
Sunday, 24 March 2013
Police: No sign of 3rd party in Berezovsky death
British police officers cordon off a road near a residence in Ascot, a town 40 kilometers (25 miles) west of London, Saturday, March 23, 2013. Boris Berezovsky, 67, a self-exiled and outspoken former Russian oligarch who had a bitter falling out with Russian President Vladimir Putin, was found dead Saturday in southeast England. Thames Valley police said his death was being treated as unexplained. They would not directly identify him, but when asked about him by name they read a statement saying they were investigating the death of a 67-year-old man at a property in Ascot. A mathematician turned Mercedes dealer, Berezovsky amassed his wealth during Russia's chaotic privatization of state assets in the early 1990's. The one-time Kremlin powerbroker fell out with Putin and sought political asylum in Britain in the early 2000's. He has lived in the U.K. ever since. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
British police officers cordon off a road near a residence in Ascot, a town 40 kilometers (25 miles) west of London, Saturday, March 23, 2013. Boris Berezovsky, 67, a self-exiled and outspoken former Russian oligarch who had a bitter falling out with Russian President Vladimir Putin, was found dead Saturday in southeast England. Thames Valley police said his death was being treated as unexplained. They would not directly identify him, but when asked about him by name they read a statement saying they were investigating the death of a 67-year-old man at a property in Ascot. A mathematician turned Mercedes dealer, Berezovsky amassed his wealth during Russia's chaotic privatization of state assets in the early 1990's. The one-time Kremlin powerbroker fell out with Putin and sought political asylum in Britain in the early 2000's. He has lived in the U.K. ever since. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
FILE - In this Jan. 26, 2000 file photo Russian tycoons Boris Berezovsky, left, and Roman Abramovich, then both lawmakers, walk after the session of the State Duma, parliament's lower house, in Moscow, Russia. United Kingdom police have said that Berezovsky has been found dead Saturday March 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev, File)
British police officers cordon off a road near a residence in Ascot, a town 40 kilometers (25 miles) west of London, Saturday, March 23, 2013. Boris Berezovsky, 67, a self-exiled and outspoken former Russian oligarch who had a bitter falling out with Russian President Vladimir Putin, was found dead Saturday in southeast England. Thames Valley police said his death was being treated as unexplained. They would not directly identify him, but when asked about him by name they read a statement saying they were investigating the death of a 67-year-old man at a property in Ascot. A mathematician turned Mercedes dealer, Berezovsky amassed his wealth during Russia's chaotic privatization of state assets in the early 1990's. The one-time Kremlin powerbroker fell out with Putin and sought political asylum in Britain in the early 2000's. He has lived in the U.K. ever since. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
FILE - A Wednesday, July 18, 2007 photo from files showing Russian exile Boris Berezovsky, a close friend of former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko who was poisoned by Polonium 2-10, speaking to the media in a news conference in London. United Kingdom police have said that Berezovsky has been found dead Saturday March 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Sang Tan, File)
FILE - A Friday, Aug. 31, 2012 photo from files showing Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky talking to the media after losing his case against Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich as he leaves the High Court in London. United Kingdom police have said that Berezovsky has been found dead Saturday March 23, 2013.(AP Photo/Sang Tan, File)
LONDON (AP) ? British police said Sunday they have no evidence to suggest third-party involvement in the death of Boris Berezovsky, the self-exiled Russian tycoon who went from Kremlin kingmaker to fiery critic.
With an investigation underway, police are treating the death of Berezovsky ? who fled to Britain in the early 2000s after a bitter falling out with Russian President Vladimir Putin ? as unexplained. But the former oligarch survived assassination attempts and recently faced financial difficulties, prompting speculation as to whether his death was part of a conspiracy ? or suicide.
Police said Sunday it would be wrong to speculate on how Berezovsky died pending the results of an autopsy but that they had no reason to suspect
"We are at the early stages of the investigation and we are retaining an open mind as we progress," said Detective Chief Inspector Kevin Brown. "The investigation team is building a picture of the last days of Mr. Berezovsky's life, speaking to close friends and family to gain a better understanding of his state of mind."
Police released some details on the circumstances that triggered their investigation into his demise and a subsequent check for hazardous materials at the property in Ascot, a town 40 kilometers (25 miles) west of London where Berezovsky's body was found on Saturday.
A call came into police from the local ambulance service at 3:23 p.m. GMT (11:23 a.m. EDT) Saturday saying a man had been found dead, Thames Valley Police said in a statement on Sunday.
The police said an employee of Berezovsky told how he had called an ambulance after becoming concerned for Berezovsky's welfare and forced open a bathroom door locked from the inside to find the tycoon's body on the floor.
The employee was the only person in the house when Berezovsky's body was discovered, police said. Members of the ex-oligarch's family arrived at the home while the paramedic was on scene.
Police explained that after a paramedic declared Berezovsky dead and left the scene, a device measuring his exposure to radiation was triggered, which is why chemical and radiations experts were called to examine the property.
"Officers found nothing of concern in the property and we are now progressing the investigation as normal," a statement from police said earlier, adding that the majority of the cordon put in place around the property has now been lifted.
Berezovsky ? who had survived a number of assassination attempts ? amassed a fortune through oil and automobiles during Russia's chaotic privatization of state assets following the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s.
Once a member of Russian President Boris Yeltsin's inner circle, Berezovsky fell out with Yeltsin's successor, Putin, and fled Britain in the early 2000s to escape fraud charges that he said were politically motivated.
He became a strident and frequent critic of Putin, accusing the leader of ushering in a dictatorship, and accused the security services of organizing the 1999 apartment house bombings in Moscow and two other Russian cities that became a pretext for Russian troops to sweep into Chechnya for the second war there in half a decade.
Putin's spokesman acknowledged Sunday that the Russian president considered Berezovsky an enemy with clearly stated intentions to fight.
"We know for certain that he spared no expense in support of processes, within Russia and beyond, that could be said to have been directed against Russia and Putin," spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on the independent cable television channel Rain. "He definitely was Putin's opponent, and unfortunately not only his political opponent, but most likely in other dimensions as well."
In recent years, Berezovsky fended off legal attacks that often bore political undertones ? and others that bit into his fortune.
Russia repeatedly sought to extradite on Berezovksy on a wide variety of criminal charges, and the tycoon vehemently rejected allegations over the years that he was linked to several deaths, including that of slain journalist Anna Politkovskaya and ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko.
Berezovsky won a libel case in 2010 against a Kremlin-owned broadcaster that aired a show in which it was suggested he was behind the poisoning of Litvinenko, who had fled Russia with Berezovsky's help after accusing officials there of plotting to assassinate political opponents.
He took a hit with his divorce from Galina Besharova in 2010, paying what was at the time Britain's largest divorce settlement. The figure beat a previous record of 48 million pounds ($73.1 million) and was estimated as high as 100 million pounds, though the exact figure was never confirmed.
Last year, Berezovsky lost a multibillion-pound High Court case against fellow Russian Roman Abramovich and was ordered to pay 35 million pounds ($53.3 million) in legal costs.
Berezovsky had claimed that Abramovich, the billionaire owner of Chelsea Football Club, cheated him out of his stakes in the oil group Sibneft, arguing that he blackmailed him into selling the stakes vastly beneath their true worth after he lost Putin's good graces.
But a judge threw out the case in August, ruling that Berezovsky was a dishonest and unreliable witness, and rejected Berezovsky's claims that he was threatened by Putin and Alexander Voloshin, a Putin ally, to coerce him to sell his Sibneft stake.
It also recently emerged that Berezovsky ran up legal bills totaling more than 250,000 pounds in just two months of a case against his former partner, Elena Gorbunova, with whom he had two children and who claimed the businessman owed her millions.
Earlier this week, The Times of London newspaper reported that Berezovsky was selling property ? including an Andy Warhol portrait of the former Soviet Union leader Vladimir Lenin ? to settle his debts and pay expenses owed to lawyers.
News of Berezovsky's death has prompted conspiracy theories along with speculation as to his state of mind, given his recent financial setbacks.
Ilya Zhegulev, a journalist with the Russian edition of Forbes magazine, said he spoke with Berezovsky the day before he died and discussed the tycoon's decision to flee Russia in 2000.
The journalist quoted Berezovsky as saying that during his years in London he had lost the meaning of life.
"I no longer want to be involved in politics," Zhegulev quoted Berezovsky as saying in a story published Saturday on the Forbes.ru website.
He said Berezovsky told him that he wanted nothing more than to return to Russia. The former oligarch said he had changed his views on Russia, saying he now understood that it should not look to Europe as a model.
"I had absolutely, idealistically imagined that it was possible to build a democratic Russia. And idealistically imagined what democracy was in the center of Europe. I underestimated the inertia of Russia and greatly overestimated the West. This took place gradually. I changed my understanding of Russia's path," he quoted Berezovsky as having said.
___
AP writer Lynn Berry in Moscow contributed to this report. Cassandra Vinograd can be reached at http://twitter.com/CassVinograd
Associated Presspower ball april fools pranks livan hernandez soledad o brien mega ball lottery winner lottery numbers
Broad Recognition ? Trans Woman Denied Admission to Smith ...
By Sarah Giovanniello
March 23, 2013
About six months ago, I wrote a piece about my friend Calliope Wong?s attempt to apply to Smith College as a trans woman.? At her request, I?m here to present the conclusion to her story.
Calliope announced in a March 10th post on her blog that Smith had returned her application for the second and final time. The first time, her application and fee were returned due to a ?male? gender marker on her transcript. Calliope and her guidance counselor, despite some confusion, finally managed to correct the error and sent the application materials back to Smith. On March 5th, her application was once again mailed back to her. Debra Shaver, Dean of Admissions at Smith, told Calliope that the ?male? marker on her FAFSA forms rendered her ineligible for consideration.
Observing this ?technicality? a bit more closely, two important problems come to light. First of all, using an applicant?s FAFSA information as a determining factor in their eligibility for admission presents an inherent classist bias. Secondly, the Department of Education does not cross-reference the FAFSA gender marker with what is written on one?s current Social Security card or other federal documents. Members of Smith Q&A, a group working for trans woman inclusion at Smith, contacted Jon O?Bergh, Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of the US Department of Education. O?Bergh referred them to Cameron Washington, the Web Usability Specialist at FAFSA. Both O?Bergh and Washington emphasized that the gender marker on the FAFSA is used to make sure those who mark ?male? sign up for the Selective Service before receiving federal aid. The US Department of Education does not in any way track, check, or cross reference the gender students mark on the FAFSA. Therefore, a women?s college which chooses to accept an applicant whose FAFSA gender marker reads ?male? faces no legal federal consequences whatsoever.
FAFSA forms aside, even if Calliope had not needed or requested financial aid, would she have been eligible for admission? Quite frankly, probably not. If this had been the case, the admissions office could have found myriad other reasons not to admit her. In fact, they never needed a reason at all: private colleges can deny admission to anyone without justifying their decision. Dean Shaver?s decision to deny Calliope the right to have her application read at all therefore communicates a clear and deliberate message to the school?s applicants, current students, and alumni.
Calliope is not the only trans woman to have applied to Smith in recent years with unfavorable results. Bryn Kelly, a former applicant to Smith?s Ada Comstock program for non-traditional students, replied to Calliope?s tumblr post with her own story. In 2010, Kelly applied to Smith with an excellent community college GPA, an impressive reputation as an up and coming performing artist, and glowing recommendations. She had all her gender markers in order, including those on her FAFSA, except one: her high school transcript, which was impossible to change. Kelly had a friend in the admissions office who advocated for her, resulting in the admissions officers ?allowing? her application to be read and processed despite the inconsistency in gender. She was not admitted. Again, since private colleges are not legally obligated to accept anyone, we cannot definitively say that it was because she was trans. She writes, ?Certainly my rejection letter contained that old soft blow, ?we received so many qualified applicants this year?? and I?m sure they did. But given that I have never heard of an out trans woman being accepted at Smith, I have to wonder?
The Smith College administration has not directly commented on or responded to the vast amounts of criticism they have received for refusing to read Calliope?s application. However, on March 22nd, Smith updated its ?Gender Identity & Expression? page with new information regarding the institutional policy on trans applicants. In response to the question, ?How does Smith consider applicants from transgender students?? the page repeats what Dean Shaver told Calliope in their previous correspondence: ?An application from a transgender student is treated no differently from other applications: every application Smith receives is considered on a case-by-case basis. Like most women?s colleges, Smith expects that, to be eligible for review, a student?s application and supporting documentation (transcripts, recommendations, etc.) will reflect her status as a woman.? The next question on the page asks, ?What documents are part of Smith?s admission process?? The response lists the standard Common Application, transcript, midyear report, and recommendations. Noticeably absent from the list is the FAFSA or any documents not directly related to admission.? Thus, according to the policy on Smith?s website, Calliope?s application should have been eligible for review.
By refusing to comment on the incident, it remains ambiguous whether Smith College acknowledges that discriminating against Calliope based on her FAFSA gender marker was a mistake. It is possible that this recent website update functions as Smith?s subtle adjustment of its policies in order to refrain from public apology. However, this policy ?adjustment? merely allows the administration to keep its trans admission policy opaque and veiled from outside criticism.? It is important to note that even if Smith were to cease discriminating against applicants with male gender markers on their FAFSA, its policy is still far too rigid to be amenable to many teenage trans women. Acquiring consistently ?female? transcripts and recommendations requires the applicant to have the full support and understanding of her school administration, making it easy for Smith to continue to return applications based on bureaucratic error. This need for the high school administration?s support automatically restricts the access of applicants who would most benefit from a women?s college environment, barring the entry of those who might have attended high schools insensitive to their identification. A more understanding policy would allow mismatching documentation if accompanied by an appropriate letter from a doctor or therapist, much in the manner of the policy of the State of Massachusetts in order to change gender markers on state identification.
Ironically, Smith College?s inhospitality toward trans women ultimately threatens, rather than upholds, their institutional image as a women?s college. As Katherine Kraschel states in her article for the Harvard Journal of Law and Gender, an educational institution may retain its single-sex status only if it can prove that it is helping to achieve a civil rights objective. Trans women in particular are excluded from women-only and men-only spaces based on their gender identity and/or genitalia. Excluding trans women from women?s colleges continues the institutional oppression and marginalization of people based on their gender identity. This therefore places Smith?s admissions policy in direct conflict with the trans rights movement and with its ?civic-minded,? ?empowering? image as a whole.
It?s also important to note that while Smith has yet to admit an out trans woman, it and other women?s colleges are rapidly becoming known as safe havens for trans men.? The ?Gender Identity & Expression? page on the Smith College website notes, ?Once admitted, any student who completes the college?s graduation requirements ? regardless of gender identity, gender expression or sexual orientation ? will be awarded a Smith degree.?? This means that a trans man whose documents still read ?female? can easily apply for admission and transition while at Smith without being asked to leave or refused a Smith degree. Because of this policy, trans men are a small but conspicuous minority at Smith, and have been for some time. Many students feel that women?s colleges are, or could be, safe havens for anyone marginalized or oppressed by their gender identity. However, the administration?s ongoing refusal to admit anyone who was not assigned female at birth continually denies these marginalized groups a safe space.
Ultimately, Smith College?s actions fail to acknowledge that civil rights discourses in the 21st century have become much more fluid and inclusive than in previous decades, especially as more and more people begin to discount the gender binary. On its ?History? page, the College describes its overarching goals and interests as, ?an uncompromising defense of academic and intellectual freedom, an attention to the relation between college education and the larger public issues of world order and human dignity, and a concern for the rights and privileges of women.? In order for Smith to continue to fulfill its stated mission, it must adjust its policies to reflect the changing discourse surrounding gender and sexuality by admitting both trans men and trans women. By deliberately excluding an entire marginalized group from admission, the college silences them and diminishes the importance of their fight to access women?s spaces.? If Smith and other women?s colleges wish to continue to move discussion of gender identity and equality forward, they must acknowledge that the process underpinning an applicant?s gender identification is more complicated than ?just checking female.?
Whether or not they decide to pursue legal action, it is up to Smith students to respond to their administration?s blatant transmisogyny. The group Smith Q&A is currently mobilizing to fight on Calliope?s behalf. On March 13th, the group held a meeting open to all Smith students intended to clarify the week?s events and launch an awareness campaign. The group?s further plans are not known at this time, although an update on their Facebook page stated that the group ?will be organizing more specifically next week [March 24-30].? Q&A can be reached on Facebook and Tumblr. Have something to say? To contact Dean Shaver, email admission@smith.edu or call [413-585-2500].
Sarah Giovanniello is a freshman in Yale College. She is a staff writer for Broad Recognition.
sign of the times keystone pipeline purim acc tournament big ten tournament big east tournament 2012 solar storm
Saturday, 23 March 2013
How To Start A Great Video Marketing Campaign | MySpareTime.net
More and more commerce is taking place online, so businesses need to know how to reach customers on the Internet. Online videos are effective methods to expand your company?s business. Should this type of marketing be what you need, read on for some great tips.
Share your video as much as you can. Start by sharing your video with your friends and family. On your page, create a blog post sharing it. Let people know via any form of communication you can think of. Post it on all the social media networks. Spread the word as much as you can!
When you go to any public event, such as trade shows or conventions, take a camera with you. You may be able to get some great footage there. You will want someone to tape any speeches you give.
Watch the videos that your competitors are posting. This is so you can stand out, not copy competition. Model your videos after those that are successful, but make sure to make it your own. Continue to watch videos in order to see how to be unique.
TIP! When you put up a marketing video, know that you?re going to have to moderate comments. This will allow you to weed out the negative comments, which others can read and judge your business upon.Avoid making your videos look like advertisements. Your viewers will stop watching your videos if all you do is present your sales pitches. Instead, cater to your viewers? need for things like valuable insight, trivia, FAQs or tutorials.
Stick to the topic and be sure to keep your focus. You don?t want to find yourself wandering too far away from the topic. Before you film, take a few minutes to create a brief checklist of what you must cover in the video. Make sure your videos remain on topic and focused, and you can succeed.
If you suffer from shyness, consider doing a voice over. You might be one of the many people who do not feel comfortable appearing onscreen. However, you can simply show your product and use a voice over. It is as easy as recording your voice and putting it into your video.
Try doing things differently. Ensure you do something that stands out from the rest of the competition. Don?t be the same as the competition. You need to set your self apart form your competitors. Ask your customers and friends for some fresh ideas.
TIP! Never delegate to others the entire responsibility for generating video ideas. Ask all types of people for information.
YouTube offers great editing features for users. For example, you can annotate your video. That is a smart way to share links, coupon codes, and any additional information you want to share.
You are dreaming if you think you can upload a video to YouTube and it will go viral all by itself. You must promote the video through social media, blogs and emails to your customers or friends. You need people to know it exists so they can find and view it!
If you use video marketing to communicate with customers, make sure you begin with a cordial greeting. You need to give them information about your business before they read your content. At the close of your videos, ensure you sign off using a friendly tone of voice. Repeat your name and business name so that your viewers won?t forget.
Make sure to let a little of your personality show when you are creating you are videos. Viewers will appreciate being able to relate to you. When customers find you trustworthy, they will purchase from you instead of your competitors. Your customers will form a positive association between you and your products.
TIP! When it comes to video marketing, creating the video itself is only half the battle. Promotion and advertising is just as important.It takes less than 10 seconds for someone to think your video is worth watching. Once you have their attention, you will have them for the whole video. What can you do to keep their attention? Who they are and what you?re selling will tell you what it will take.
Now that you have read this article, realize how powerful and effective online videos might be. Through video, you can reach a global audience and expand your pool of potential customers. Apply the advice from this article and you will be on your way to running a successful video marketing campaign.
For more knowledge on this issue, visit:
Blogging for cash has never been easier.
Share and Enjoy
Source: http://mysparetime.net/how-to-start-a-great-video-marketing-campaign/
groundhog day 2012 serrano staten island chuck dr jekyll and mr hyde edwin jackson punksatony phil 2012 groundhog day
Lebanese president accepts premier's resignation
BEIRUT (AP) ? Lebanon's president on Saturday asked the outgoing prime minister to stay on in a caretaking role, opening the way for what is expected to be prolonged political jockeying as parliamentary blocs try to build a majority coalition to form a new government.
Prime Minister Najib Mikati's abrupt departure has plunged the nation into uncertainty amid heightened sectarian tensions and clashes related to the civil war next door in Syria.
Sporadic clashes continued in the northern city of Tripoli between supporters and opponents of Syrian President Bashar Assad. At least one person was wounded Saturday, according to the state-run National News Agency.
Mikati stepped down on Friday amid a political deadlock between Lebanon's two main political camps and infighting within his own government.
"I hope that this resignation will provide an opening in the existing deadlock and pave the way for a (political) solution," Mikati said, following a meeting with Michel Suleiman.
Mikati has been prime minister since June 2011, heading a government dominated by the Shiite militant group Hezbollah and its allies, many of whom have a close relationship with Syria.
Their main rivals are a Western-backed coalition headed by former Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri, son of Rafik Hariri, who was also prime minister and was killed in a truck bombing in 2005.
A Harvard-educated billionaire, Mikati was chosen to lead the government after Hezbollah forced the collapse of Lebanon's previous, pro-Western government over fears that a U.N.-backed tribunal investigating the killing of the elder Hariri would indict Hezbollah members.
But Mikati's relations with Hezbollah have never been smooth. He has rejected the notion that he serves Hezbollah or that his government will act as an Iranian proxy. Hezbollah accuses him of being loyal to its rival camp.
He stepped down to protest the parliament's inability to agree on a law to govern elections set for later this year, as well as the refusal by Hezbollah and its allies in the cabinet to extend the tenure of the country's police chief. Maj. Gen. Ashraf Rifi is 58 and is about to hit the mandatory retirement age for his rank.
Rifi, like Mikati, is a Sunni Muslim who is considered a foe by Hezbollah.
In a speech on Friday, Mikati said that if Rifi was not allowed to stay on, his departure would create a "vacuum" in the police department.
Underpinning the political crisis are Lebanon's hugely sectarian politics and the fact that the country's two largest political blocs support opposite sides in Syria's civil war. Lebanon and Syria share a complex network of political and sectarian ties, and many fear that violence in Syria will spread to Lebanon.
Opposition activists celebrated Mikati's resignation by dismantling protest tents they had pitched outside the prime minister's office for months, calling for the government's resignation.
Among those was Karim Rifae, who said Hezbollah was preparing a second "coup" against the Lebanese state.
"They started with bringing such a government in, and when it fulfilled their targets, now they are removing it to create a deadly vacuum starting with the government then the parliament," he said.
There were signs of rising tensions before the resignation.
On Friday, gunmen who support and oppose Assad clashed in Tripoli, leaving six people dead and more than 20 wounded, according to the National News Agency. Clashes between the Sunni neighborhood of Bab Tabbaneh, which supports Syria's rebels, and the adjacent Alawite neighborhood of Jabal Mohsen, which supports Assad, have broken out repeatedly in recent months. Assad is Alawite, a Shiite offshoot sect.
Also in Tripoli, the Lebanese army said a soldier was killed and several others wounded during an army raid to capture several gunmen.
Mikati's resignation may be an attempt to boost his credentials among his fellow Sunni Muslims ahead of the upcoming election and amid the violence in Tripoli, his hometown.
Some Lebanese media have speculated that his decision to step down was based on "insinuations" from the U.S. and its allies to clear the way for an anti-Hezbollah majority, or at least a neutral government. Mikati in his speech denied that he had been pressured by foreign powers, insisting that it was a "personal choice without any intervention from anyone."
In Washington, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said Friday the Lebanese people deserve a government that reflects their aspirations.
"And we have grave concerns about the role that Hezbollah plays," she added.
British Foreign Minister William Hague expressed concern about the violence in Tripoli and urged all parties to work for "a more consensual government" as the challenges from Syria grow.
"It is critical that all parties in Lebanon prioritize national interests and ... reach a broad consensus to enable parliamentary elections to take place within the legal and constitutional framework," he said in a statement.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/lebanese-president-accepts-premiers-resignation-091809634.html
Heat Harlem Shake mediterranean diet chase kim kardashian pregnant papa johns dominos dominos
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)