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[PF:165710] More Citibank Thefts... This Time An Inside Job!

A former Citigroup Inc. employee was arrested and charged with allegedly embezzling more than $19 million from the bank in "the ultimate inside job," federal prosecutors said on Monday.

Gary Foster, who worked in Citigroup's internal finance department, allegedly wired about $19.2 million in a series of transactions from the bank's corporate accounts to his personal account at a unit of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. between May 2009 and December 2010, according to a criminal complaint unsealed on Monday.

Mr. Foster, a former vice president who monitored financial contracts based on other assets known as derivatives,

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Re: [PF:165711] Sunset......

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[PF:165709] Failing Economy drives Greeks loony

This post is in partnership with Worldcrunch, a new global-news site that translates stories of note in foreign languages into English. The article below was originally published in Le Monde.

While the rest of Europe may be tormented by the thought of having to cough up ever more money to bail out Athens, the once carefree Greeks are getting more depressed by the day. Psychiatrists say that the economic crisis has triggered a 25% to 30% increase in the number of patients seeking their help.

"There is an increase in the number of patients suffering from minor psychiatric conditions: anxiety, panic attacks and depression," says Dimitris Ploumidis, head of a mental-health center in eastern Athens. "In September 2010, people had to wait two weeks for a consultation, now it's more like two and a half months."

Before the crisis started, Greece was proud to be at the bottom of the list in Europe for the number of suicides, with a rate of 2.8 per 100,000 inhabitants. But that might be changing. Experts believe that in 2009 the rate of Greek suicides increased by 18% increase compared with 2007, with that figure expected to have climbed even higher in 2010.

Most people who commit suicide come from Athens or the island of Crete, where several business people killed themselves in the midst of grave financial problems. "The desire to commit suicide always has more than one cause, but a lot of those who come to us for help are people who used to make a good living and who are now having financial difficulties," says Aris Violatzis, a psychiatrist from the Klimaka NGO, which runs a suicide hotline.

If experts believe these national blues to stem mainly from economic troubles, they also suspect worries about the future of Greece to be at work too. "The Greek identity has suffered a tremendous blow," says Violatzis. "[People] are ashamed. The entire world today thinks that the Greeks are cheaters and the black sheep of Europe. This is very hard to accept."

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Re: [PF:165708] Re: UNDERWATER DIVER TO SEARCH FOR OSAMA BODY

I think you didn't read the complete article.
the guy who decided to go underwater is also in doubt, that's why he is going to search the body for proof.

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body?? for a body underwater, its neccessory that OSAMA is dead.. and if, Americans CIA-Obama is just lied as they lied before on raymond davis case.. that what will be happend.. its just a big LOL on Pk's and all the ways international agencies and media.

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Whatever Happened to Hitler's Body?  http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/91215

On Jun 23, 1:50 pm, Rehan <rehansh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>  *Moscow:*
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> * * Eccentric California salvage diver and entrepreneur Bill Warren, 59,
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> has announced that he wants to find Osama Bin Laden's body
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> as proof the Al Qaeda leader is really dead.
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> "I'm doing it because I am a patriotic American who wants
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> to know the truth. I do it for the world," Warren told the *New York Post*.
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> The nearly decade-long hunt for the elusive Al Qaeda leader,
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> believed to be the mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks, ended
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> on May 2 after US Navy Seals gunned him down in the Pakistani
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> garrison town Abbottabad.
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> The terrorist's body was buried at sea. The White House said
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> it would not release graphic images of Osama's corpse,
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> but the CIA did later show the photographs to select US lawmakers.
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> "I have a Russian girlfriend, and she tells me that over there,
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> in intelligence circles, they don't believe bin Laden's really dead,"
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> Warren said. "I do not trust my government or Obama."
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> Warren expects the search will cost about $400,000 and will rely
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> on several boats and high-end technology. If Warren finds the body,
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> he will hold a DNA test at the ship
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[PF:165698] Illinois Ex-Gov Blagojevich Fails to Escape Crime Charges... Why?

Two weeks ago, as the prosecution made its final points in his corruption trial, a pale Rod Blagojevich listened nervously as his wife, Patti looked on, sullen and indignant, from the bench, the arms of her brother around her. It was as if they could feel what was coming.

On Monday, June 27, the jury returned from 10 days of deliberation and everyone gathered to hear its decision. Blagojevich blew an air kiss to his weeping wife and then clasped his hands as courtroom deputy Donald Walker began reading the verdict. The first finding of guilt led Blagojevich to purse his lips. Patti pushed back into her brother's arms. With each new pronouncement of guilt, the ex-governor grew more stonefaced even as his wife wept beneath closed eyes. When Walker was done reading, Blagojevich had been found guilty on 17 of the 20 counts against him, including 12 of the most explosive ones, among them wire fraud and conspiracy and attempted extortion stemming from when he tried to sell the Senate seat of then President-elect Barack Obama (As governor, it was Blagojevich's prerogative to name a candidate to complete Obama's uncompleted term). Later, as he held his wife's hand, Blagojevich told the press, "Obviously I was really disappointed with the outcome, I was frankly stunned and there isn't much else to say." On most counts, he faces a maximum of 20-years each and $250,000 in fines. Judges are unlikely to impose maximum sentences, however. It is also not known if the prison terms will be served concurrently. The parties return to court on Aug. 1 to determine sentencing.

The members of the jury, 11 women and one man, spoke to the media afterward but did not provide their names. They indicated that Blagojevich's infamous quote – taped by the FBI – about the Senate seat being "F-in' golden" made it easier for them to decide, after some initial debate, on his guilt. "The Senate Seat was most clear, we felt he made a trade for the senate seat," said Juror 140, a Hispanic woman who teaches third and fourth grade.The forewoman, a retired Director of Music and Liturgy at a Naperville church, said they were sending a message that the American people should be proud of a process that works even when you throw 12 people in the room who had no knowledge of the legal system. But she said the experience did not make her feel any better about Illinois politics. "I told my husband if he was running for politics he'd have to find a new wife."

This was the second trial Blagojevich faced on most of the same charges. His defense had dramatic success the first time around with the successful deployment of the element of surprise. In a stunning move last summer, Blagojevich's attorneys rested their case instead of presenting a single shred of evidence, despite their original promise that the defendant himself would take the stand. That left the jury drowning in the government's complex evidence of intent that nevertheless had no fully completed act of bribe-taking. Irredeemably hung, the jurors were unable to convict Blagojevich or his brother Robert except on one count (lying) out of the original 24 charges.

But you can't surprise all the people all the time. For the second trial, the trio of U.S. assistant attorneys who made up the prosecution took to straightforward, focused outrage more than anything else. First they decided to drop charges against Robert Blagojevich. And then they streamlined the charges down to 20 and made it clearer that just asking for a bribe was just as bad as getting the bribe itself. In the government's final statement, U.S. assistant Carrie Hamilton, a thin petite woman with blond hair tucked back in a pony tail, asked the jury to remember how Blagojevich swore under oath in 2003 and again in 2006 to uphold the state constitution, pledging to use his powers for the people of Illinois. "You have learned that the defendant violated that oath," she said staring down her audience. "He used his power to get things for himself and tried to trade the signing of a bill, state funding for grant, roads, appointment of senate seat to try and get things for himself. This was not only a profound violation of his oath, but a violation of the law."

For the second trial, the defense had a trio as well, made up of Blagojevich's long time friend Sheldon Sorosky, a short balding man, who wore loud, dangling ties, and a pair of 30-something attorneys, Aaron Goldstein and Lauren Kaeseberg. Over the objections of the prosecutors and even Judge James Zagel, the defense tried to give the appearance that missing facts, not allowed into trial, would help tell all, hinting that all Blagojevich was doing was business as usual in the state of Illinois. This time around, though, they also had Blagojevich testify on his own behalf. The results were riotous.

At one point, during a particularly voluble exchange with the prosecution, Blagojevich in the witness stand ignored calls from his own lawyers to keep quiet and blasted out retorts to the government's questions. Goldstein later joked that he may be one of the few attorneys in history to have a client talk over him. Still, the Blagojevich team may have thought that the exchange might have helped to prove not only that the ex-governor liked to be heard but that he was mostly talk and little action. The defense was all about crafting an image that would nullify the prosecution's arguments of a guileful, corrupt public official. They wanted to have the jury believe that the defendant was a buffoon who couldn't really do anything criminal because he wasn't competent enough to see it through.

That kind of lawyerly sleight of hand didn't work this time. The jurors later said that Blagojevich's droning seven-day testimony helped them decide that he was not guilty of the charge that he attempted to extort a road builder. However, they said the same long-winded performce made it clear that Blagojevich was being manipulative.

That played into the prosecution's simpler strategy. In her final argument, like a college professor, Hamilton took the jury through conviction school, talking them through a three-hour PowerPoint presentation of the 20 counts, summarizing the most important evidence, explaining what constitutes soliciting a bribe, extortion and wire fraud. "He repeatedly broke the law," Hamilton told the jury. "It's about the destruction of the faith and trust he destroyed." The case, Hamilton says, comes down to one question: "Did the defendant try to get a benefit for himself in exchange for an official act?"

Over three hours, split between two days, Hamilton walked through five major acts, that consistent soliciting a bribe, extortion and wire fraud. "The defendant intended to defraud, it was not a mistake or accident He does not need to know he was breaking the law," Hamilton reminded the jury. And then she played the FBI tape where Blagojevich talks about how he isn't giving Obama's Senate seat up for "F-in' nothing." "Listen to his voice," she told the jury. "You can hear him smiling. He's giddy."

"Among the many lessons I've learned through this whole experience is to speak a little less," Blagojevich said after the verdict was read. Perhaps knowing their client and knowing the odds, his original defense team of Sam Adam Jr. and Sam Adam Sr. opted out of the rematch with the government. You can only use the element of surprise once.

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Re: [PF:165707] ایک قتل معاف ہو تو آپ کس کو قتل کرینگے ؟

2. Asif Ali Zardari
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Donoo ko Maroo ga :)))

2011/6/27 alza zam <zaman.297@gmail.com>

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[PF:165692] Illinois Ex-Gov gets Multiple Guilty Verdict!!!

A jury convicted former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich on Monday, June 27, of nearly all the corruption charges against him, including that he tried to sell or trade President Barack Obama's old Senate seat.

Blagojevich had faced 20 charges, including the Senate-seat allegation and that he schemed to shake down executives for campaign donations. He was convicted on all charges regarding the Senate seat.

Jurors delivered their verdicts Monday after deliberating nine days.

Blagojevich had testified for seven days, denying wrongdoing. Prosecutors said he lied and the proof was on FBI wiretaps. Those included a widely parodied clip in which Blagojevich calls the Senate opportunity "f—ing golden."

Jurors in his first trial deadlocked on all but one charge, convicting Blagojevich of lying to the FBI. Blagojevich already faces up to five years for the lying conviction.

Blagojevich, 54, had arrived at the courthouse accompanied by his wife, Patti, and walked past the crowds that lined the street outside the building.

Prosecutors, defense attorneys and dozens of reporters filed into the courtroom Monday after the court announced it had received word of a note from jurors.

"The jury has come to a decision on 18 of the 20 counts," Zagel said, clutching the note and reading it aloud. Jurors added they were deadlocked on two counts and "were confident" they couldn't agree on those charges "even with further deliberations."

Blagojevich was arrested in December 2008, after the FBI had wiretapped hundreds of his telephone calls at work and home. The Illinois Legislature impeached him a month later.

Both trials hinged on whether the former governor's bold ramblings to aides and others on the telephone was just talk, as he insisted, or part of "a political crime spree," in the words of U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald.

Before a national audience, the Blagojevich saga exacerbated Illinois' reputation for graft. The convictions mean Blagojevich is the second Illinois governor in a row facing a prison sentence for corruption. His predecessor, George Ryan, is serving a 6½ year sentence.

The case also became a media spectacle, as the indicted governor and his wife appeared on TV reality shows, and as the loquacious Blagojevich made theatrical appearances daily outside the courthouse during the first trial to profess his innocence and hug his remaining fans.

In a case full of high-level name dropping, defense attorneys in the retrial pulled into court Chicago's new mayor, Rahm Emanuel, and U.S. Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. Emanuel's appearance on the witness stand, the most anticipated by a Chicago mayor in a federal courtroom in decades, was over in just five minutes. Jackson was done in about half an hour.

See TIME's photo-essay "The Remarkable World of Rod Blagojevich."

Overall, though, the retrial had far less of the circuslike atmosphere that accompanied the initial trial. Blagojevich himself also was more subdued this time.

Other major differences were in the prosecution's dramatically streamlined case, and the fact that the defense put on a case after not doing so the first time around.

Prosecutors dropped racketeering counts against the ex-governor and dismissed all charges against his then co-defendant, his brother Robert Blagojevich. They presented just three weeks of evidence – half the time taken at the first trial. They called fewer witnesses, asked fewer questions and played shorter excerpts of FBI wiretaps that underpin most of the charges.

There was also a new variable at the retrial: the testimony from Blagojevich himself. At the first trial, the defense rested without calling any witnesses, and Blagojevich didn't testify despite vowing that he would.

Retrial jurors saw a deferential Blagojevich look them in the eyes and deny every allegation, telling them his talk on the recordings was mere brainstorming.

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[PF:165700] Egypt's poorest — the revolution's real challenge- Source -The Hindu,Chennai Edition,June 27,2011





1.       Egypt's poorest — the revolution's real challenge

GETTING VOCAL: For these residents of the Dewika slum on the outskirts of Cairo who are demanding new homes, it may be a futile move as strikes and protests have been outlawed on the grounds that marginalised groups should stay quiet until the transition to civilian democracy is complete..

APGETTING VOCAL: For these residents of the Dewika slum on the outskirts of Cairo who are demanding new homes, it may be a futile move as strikes and protests have been outlawed on the grounds that marginalised groups should stay quiet until the transition to civilian democracy is complete..

Experts believe a sea change in social attitudes is needed if the gains won through the anti-Mubarak uprising are to be felt equally across Egyptian society.

The residents of al-Me'adessa street have no idea when the rocks will fall: it could be at night while the neighbourhood is sleeping, or during the day when children are up playing on the roof. But they do know that the clifftop towering 20 metres above their ramshackle homes is slowly crumbling, and that eventually it will collapse down upon them — as it has already done a few kilometres along the road, killing more than 100 people who were living below.

"Every minute of every day, we live in fear," said Umm Rahman, a mother of three. "We want to get out of here now, but there's nowhere else to go." Most Egyptians will never have heard of al-Me'adessa street, a tangle of electrical wiring, scattered construction debris and steep mounds of domestic waste nestled deep within one of Cairo's poorest informal settlements in the shadows of the Mokattam mountain. But the struggle being waged here has laid bare the staggering obstacles ahead for the architects of the new, post-Mubarak Egypt — and raised divisive questions about what the country's revolution really stands for.

Sprawling slum areas

Al-Me'adessa is home to 150 families, part of a 12 million-strong community of Egyptians living in the sprawling, unplanned slum areas — known as ashwa'iyat, literally meaning random or haphazard — that have mushroomed over the past three decades as a result of sharp demographic growth, a widening chasm between rich and poor, and the indifference of the regime. Most live in homes that are unfit for humans or at grave risk of floods and, like Umm Rahman and her neighbours, rockslides.

Despite up to one million apartments lying empty across the capital as a result of years of property speculation under Hosni Mubarak, a dearth of affordable housing means that most have nowhere else to go. But now Egypt's ashwa'iyat community is beginning to raise its voice.

"In the past we were living without any respect for our lives," explained Zamzam Mohamed Abdel Nabi, a 35-year-old resident of al-Me'adessa who has been leading a local campaign demanding that the government rehouse them. "Currently we're optimistic that things could change. But the state is still fragile and we don't want to profit from the situation."

Her dilemma is a common one among the 44 per cent of Egyptians living below the poverty line: with old certainties dissolved and the nation in flux, now appears to be the perfect time to press for a better standard of living from a revolution that has already transformed the state's political apparatus.

But the country's ruling generals have cracked down harshly on what they call "sectoral" interests, insisting that Egypt is too unstable at the moment to meet the vast array of social expectations that have exploded since Mubarak's fall. Strikes and protests have been outlawed on the grounds that marginalised groups should stay quiet until the transition to civilian democracy is complete.

It is an argument that cuts little ice with Salil Shetty, Secretary General of Amnesty International, who visited Cairo recently before the publication of an Amnesty report highlighting the appalling conditions of Egyptian ashwa'iyat and calling on the interim government to seize "an historic opportunity ... to ensure that the millions of underprivileged people are treated with dignity and their human rights respected."

'Was about inequality also'

"The revolution was as much about poverty and inequality as it was about political freedoms and repression of the civil kind," Shetty told the Guardian. "The authorities cannot say they'll first deal with the political issues and then the socioeconomic issues — these have to be addressed together." In recent weeks the lack of affordable accommodation has hit the headlines after residents of El-Nahda and El-Salam cities, who claim they were illegally evicted in the midst of this year's anti-government uprising, occupied the street in front of central Cairo's radio and television building, clashing several times with security forces. Egypt's Prime Minister, Essam Sharaf, recently announced £16m of funding for upgrading slum areas, but compared with the scale of the problem it represents little more than a drop in the ocean.

'Cairo 2050'

Under Mubarak the authorities unveiled a grand vision of urban development in the capital named Cairo 2050, which aims to create an "internationally competitive" city and includes plans to "redistribute" millions of poorer residents. Public records suggest that much of the land currently occupied by ashwa'iyat is likely to be sold to luxury property developers, raising fears that Cairo 2050 is aimed more at property tycoons than at housing solutions for some of the city's most vulnerable people. Whether the plan will continue to be implemented remains to be seen.

Egypt's ashwa'iyat remain one of the great enigmas of the modern Middle East — densely packed, blighted by lack of investment and yet bursting with efficient, informally constructed support networks through which residents have built basic services for themselves.

But experts such as David Sims, author of a new book on Cairo, believe that a sea change in social attitudes is needed if the gains won through the anti-Mubarak uprising are to be felt equally throughout the population.

"The revolutionary spirit is so far focused on changing national political structures, and even if successful there is no guarantee that the manipulators and opportunists and bribers, so prominent in the past, will not still find fertile ground," he writes. "Another, more complicated revolution is needed for fundamental reform of ministries and governorates, the courts, and economic authorities so that real accountability and transparency begin to dominate urban development." — © Guardian Newspapers Limited, 2011




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[PF:165700] Gorilla Who walks upright





 

Gorilla Who walks upright
 
 

Ambam, the swaggering silverback gorilla who walks around his pen on two legs

By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 8:01 AM on 27th January 2011


Striding purposefully across the ape enclosure, he looks like a portly – and slightly grumpy – commuter in a hurry to catch a train.

While most gorillas are happy enough walking around on all fours, Ambam the silverback prefers a more human form of ambulation.

To the amusement of his keepers and fascinated onlookers, the agile ape has mastered the tricky art of walking upright on his hind legs for long distances.

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A kind of man: Ambam has become an internet hit after teaching himself to swagger like a human

The feat has placed Ambam, a Western lowland gorilla at Port Lympne wild animal park in Kent, on the brink of international stardom.

An 18-second piece of footage showing the 21-year-old male walking like a man has become the latest YouTube sensation, viewed by 150,000 people over the last few days.

Gorillas usually prefer to get around by 'knuckle walking' – using the padded backs of their front hands to support their huge weights as they move around the floors of forests or zoo enclosures.

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High and mighty: Ambam the gorilla stands up and strolls off...He sets off across his enclosure with purpose

However, they will also stand on two legs to reach branches or get a better view, and can walk upright, swinging their arms parallel to their opposite legs to counterbalance their weight.

But few gorillas are as good at it as Ambam. Keeper Ingrid Naisby, who has worked with him for 16 years, said: 'It's quite unusual in gorillas but Ambam does it quite often and he can balance very well. Other gorillas do it occasionally, but he will do it for a bit of a distance.

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Long arms swinging he really gets into his stride...and a backward glance to see if anyone's following him

'He's always liked to stand up. It's about getting his balance right and he's well practised. He has perfected it.' Ambam was born at Port Lympne's sister park, Howletts, in 1990. He was moved to Port Lympne aged seven and is now the park's largest gorilla at an impressive 34 stone. Standing upright, he is an impressive 6ft tall.

The footage of him was taken by animal researcher Johanna Watson while she was working for a project on great ape locomotion.

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Hulk: Ambam is the park's biggest gorilla, weiging in at 220kg




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