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The latest rumor circulating online asserts that Facebook
will begin charging users for membership. The rumor is gaining traction
due to a chain message hoax spreading virally, although the company
promises "It's free and always will be."
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The message comes shortly after Facebook rolled out an overhaul of new changes including Timeline profiles along with a revamped homepage.
A few versions of the chain message stating that Facebook will begin
charging for the profile changes have been spreading through status
updates, since the new changes emerged early last week.
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CHARGING DUE TO THE NEW PROFILE CHANGES... IF YOU COPY THIS ON YOUR WALL
YOUR ICON WILL TURN BLUE AND FACEBOOK WILL BE FREE FOR YOU. PLEASE PASS
THIS MESSAGE ON, IF NOT YOUR ACCOUNT WILL BE DELETED IF YOU DO NOT
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Another message outlined the false membership subscription prices and
the ability to opt out of the charge by re-posting the message.
"FACEBOOK JUST RELEASED THEIR PRICE GRID FOR MEMBERSHIP. $9.99 PER
MONTH FOR GOLD MEMBER SERVICES, $6.99 PER MONTH FOR SILVER MEMBER
SERVICES, $3.99 PER MONTH FOR BRONZE MEMBER SERVICES, FREE IF YOU COPY
AND PASTE THIS MESSAGE BEFORE MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. WHEN YOU SIGN ON
TOMORROW MORNING YOU WILL BE PROMPTED FOR PAYMENT INFO...IT IS OFFICIAL
IT WAS EVEN ON THE NEWS. FACEBOOK WILL START CHARGING DUE TO THE NEW
PROFILE CHANGES"
While there's no telling where the chain message began, it is not the
first time Facebook has been the target of hoaxes surrounding charging
users to maintain their membership on the social network. Many bogus
chain messages and groups, like one group created in 2010 called
"300,000 MEMBERS NEEDED TO STOP FACEBOOK FROM CHARGING £/$14.99 A
MONTH," have put forth the assertion that Facebook will no longer remain
a free service.
The ongoing rumor continues to resurface every so often, regardless
of the fact that Facebook has a message on its homepage reading, "It's
free and always will be," when prompting its 800 million users to log
in.
The chain message stating Facebook will charge a fee is proven to be
just a hoax, as Facebook's advertising revenue is expected to reach
$4.27 billion in 2011, according to ZDNet.
A fanatical terrorist has escaped being thrown out of the UK because it would breach his human rights.
Hate-filled Siraj Yassin Abdullah
Ali, graded the highest possible risk to the public, was released after
serving just half of his nine-year sentence for helping the July 21
bombers.
He now mingles freely among the Londoners his co-plotters tried to kill six years ago.
Threat: Siraj Yassin Abdullah Ali has been using public transport
Government officials are desperate to
deport the Islamic fundamentalist back to his native Eritrea but have
been told they cannot because he could face ‘inhumane treatment or
punishment’.
Ali was convicted of helping a gang
of five Al Qaeda suicide bombers in their bid to repeat the carnage of
the attacks of July 7, 2005, two weeks later.
Graham Foulkes, whose 22-year-old son David was killed on July 7, said he was ‘filled with despair’.
He said: ‘These people were plotting to commit mass murder - what about the human rights of victims and families?
‘These people had no consideration
for the women and children they were trying to kill. How can they claim
we should look after and support them?’
Accomplice: Siraj Yassin Abdullah Ali knew about the terrorist plot and failed to tell the authorities
The case is the latest to highlight
how human rights laws have left the authorities powerless to remove some
terrorists and convicted criminals.
Imposed human rights laws have left
the authorities powerless to remove some terrorists and convicted
criminals. Imposed by unaccountable European judges, they place the
rights of the most dangerous wrongdoers above the risks faced by
ordinary people. The five would-be suicide bombers
were jailed for life after trying to detonate bombs at Shepherd’s Bush,
Warren Street and Oval Tube stations and on a bus in Shoreditch.
Thwarted: Terrorist Ramzi Mohammed is chased by
passengers at Oval Station after he had attempted to detonate a bomb
during the failed attack on July 21, 2005
Ali, 35, knew about the potentially murderous July 21 conspiracy and helped the fanatics clear up their explosives factory. He
was jailed for 12 years in February 2008 for aiding and abetting the
Al Qaeda cell. Judge Paul Worsley QC said he must have ‘harboured the
hope’ the bombers would ‘destroy society as we know it’. The
sentence was reduced to nine years on appeal and after time Ali spent
in jail while awaiting trial was taken into account, he was
automatically released on licence several weeks ago. He is now living at
a bail hostel on a leafy residential street in north-west London. He
has been seen travelling on the Tube and catching buses. With
music headphones plugged into his ears and a bag slung casually across
his shoulder, he appeared to be caught on camera chatting on a mobile
phone. It is understood
that Ali is being monitored around the clock and must obey a curfew and
other conditions, including a ban on using the internet. He
is the second high-risk terrorist linked to the July 21 attacks to win
the right to remain in the UK on human rights grounds in recent weeks.
Still here: Ismail Abdurahman also helped the July 21 plotters and has since escaped deportation
Ismail Abdurahman, 28, who hid
would-be bomber Hussain Osman for three days, escaped being deported to
his native Somalia after judges feared for his safety. Abdurahman is
also living at a bail hostel in London despite the protests of police
and Home Office officials. The
release of Ali and Abdurahman underlines the challenges faced by
police, probation and MI5. There are fears that they will be stretched
to the limit as they try to monitor dozens of freed fanatics in the
run-up to the Olympics next year. Research
by one think-tank found that more than 230 people have been convicted
of terrorist offences since 2001, but only around 100 remain in prison. Under
Article 3 of both the European Convention on Human Rights, and Labour’s
Human Rights Act, individuals are protected against torture, inhuman or
degrading treatment. The
clause allows foreign terror suspects to fight deportation on the
grounds that they would be tortured in their home countries if returned. In February, Lord Carlile warned that European judges have turned Britain into a ‘safe haven’ for foreign terrorists.
Appalling legislation: Tory MP Pritti Patel says the law needs to be changed
Tory MP Priti Patel said: ‘This is
yet another example of how we have got to abolish this appalling human
rights legislation that allows terrorists and violent criminals to waltz
out of prison and stay in our country. ‘They should be deported instantly back to where they came from.’ Solicitor
Cliff Tibber, who represents the families of several July 7 victims,
said: ‘There is no doubt it is uncomfortable for the families to see
someone like this back on the streets after what feels like an extremely
short period of time.’ A
UK Border Agency spokesman said: ‘We will do everything we can to
remove this individual from the UK and are extremely disappointed by the
court’s decision to grant bail, which we vigorously opposed. ‘In the meantime, we are working closely with public protection agencies to ensure that appropriate monitoring is in place.’ A
Ministry of Justice spokesman insisted that public protection remains
‘top priority’ and that serious offenders face ‘strict’ controls and
conditions.
The worse their crime, the more they're protected
ANALYSIS by JAMES SLACK Such is the perversity of human rights law that the worse the crime, the easier it is for the culprit to dodge deportation. This is particularly true when countries with a history of ill-treatment and torture, such as Eritrea and Somalia, are involved. The British government will at least try to persuade the courts to send the convict back home.
Flashback: A London double-decker bus targeted
by bombers during the 7/7 attack. A judge said the failed 21/7 bomb plot
could have caused even more carnage
But, when the foreign prisoner
appeals, he will say that the gravity of his offence means he now has
notoriety back home, and that he therefore will be a marked man to his
homeland’s security services. Routinely, prisoners claim they will be met from the plane and immediately tortured. The
British courts normally agree not to deport them – creating the bizarre
situation where a terrorist or a killer has more chance of being
allowed to stay in the UK than a foreign shoplifter or a simple failed
asylum seeker. Siraj
Yassin Abdullah Ali certainly falls into the category of being an evil
man, given that he knew of the July 21 bomb plot, but did nothing to
alert the authorities.
Chilling evidence: A handwritten note detailing
the make-up of devices used during the 21/7 bomb attack found in Siraj
Yassin Abdullah Ali's flat
He was brought up in the same foster
family as July 21 conspirator Yassin Omar, and lived in the flat
directly above Omar’s eighth-floor bomb factory. He was also a close friend of ringleader Muktar Said Ibrahim, who had a key to his flat and often stayed there. Ali
housed the members of the plot when the fumes in Omar’s bomb factory
became overwhelming, and helped with the clear-up afterwards. At Ali’s
home, police found handwritten documents relating to the construction of
the bombs ripped up in his waste paper bin. On one piece of paper were the words ‘detonator, charge and Allah’ in Arabic. The
second man linked to July 21 who is using human rights law to dodge
deportation, Ismail Abdurahman, showed a similar hatred for the British
public. The Somalian provided a safe house for Shepherd’s Bush bomber Hussain Osman before he fled the country on July 26, 2005. He
also acted as a ‘runner’, retrieving a video camera and passport for
Osman. The camera was apparently used to record suicide messages. The judge who jailed five men convicted of helping the bombers, including Ali and Abdurahman, said they had shown no remorse. Paul
Worsley, QC, said: ‘You concealed your knowledge of the would-be
bombers who were set to inflict even greater devastation than that of
7/7 which claimed the lives of 52 innocents. ‘You then helped them escape justice, leaving them free to strike again.’ It
is a bitter irony that human rights judges have now decided that –
regardless of the enormity of their crimes – they should be free to stay
in Britain for good.
British men charged with terrorism
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UK police arrest seven in anti-terrorism sting
Six men have been charged with terrorism offences,
one week after they were arrested in a police operation in Birmingham,
Britain's second largest city.
Four of the men were charged with
preparing for acts of terrorism in the UK, while the other two were
charged with failing to disclose information, West Midlands Police said
in a statement.
Irfan Nasser, 30, of Sparkhill, and Irfan Khalid,
26, of Balsall Heath, are accused of preparing for an act of terrorism,
and travelling to Pakistan for training in terrorism, said police.
Ashik
Ali, 26, of Balsall Heath, and Rahi Ahmed, 25, of Moseley, face charges
related to planning a bombing campaign in the UK, the force added.
Two
other suspects, Bahader Ali, 28, and Mohammed Rizwan, 32, both from
Sparkbrook, are both charged with failing to disclose information about
acts of terrorism.
The six men will appear at West London
Magistrates Court on Monday. They were arrested in a counter-terrorism
operation in Birmingham on Monday last week.
The men, all from
Birmingham, allegedly committed the offences between Christmas Day last
year and September 19, the police said.
A seventh man, aged 20 and also from Birmingham, who was arrested on Thursday, was still bring questioned.
Officers have until September 29 to charge, release or apply for a further warrant of detention for the detained suspect. Reuters
British police said they have arrested six men and a woman in Birmingham as part of a major counter-terrorism operation.
The
men, aged between 25 and 32, were detained on suspicion of the
commission, preparation or instigation of an act of terrorism in
Britain, Birmingham-based West Midlands Police said in a statement.
Unarmed
officers arrested the male suspects at or close to their homes in
Britain's second biggest city between 11:30pm on Sunday and 1:00am on
Monday (local time), it said.
In addition, a 22-year-old woman was
arrested on suspicion of failing to disclose information which could
have been used in assisting the prevention of an act of terrorism,
police said.
Police said the suspects were being held for questioning in the Birmingham area.
"The
operation is in its early stages so we are unable to go into detail at
this time about the nature of the suspected offences," police assistant
chief constable Marcus Beale said.
"However, I believe it was necessary to take action at this time in order to ensure public safety."
Police
said the arrests were not connected to the conference of the Liberal
Democrat party, the junior partner in the coalition government,
currently taking place in Birmingham. AFP
Three men charged with plotting suicide bombing campaign
Six men in total – all from Birmingham – charged over terrorism offences after arrests in city last week
Police forensic officers cover a car in
Sparkbrook, Birmingham last week, following the arrest of six men, who
were charged with terrorism offences on Sunday. Photograph: David
Jones/PA
Three men from Birmingham who were arrested a week ago as part
of a major operation by counter-terrorism police in the Midlands have
been charged with plotting a suicide bombing campaign in the UK.
Two
of them, Irfan Nasser and Irfan Khalid, aged 30 and 26 and from the
Sparkhill and Sparkbrook areas, also face charges of making a martyrdom
film, travelling to Pakistan for training in terrorism – including bomb
making, weapons and poison making – collecting money for terrorism, and
constructing a home-made explosive device.
Ashik Ali, 26, from
Balsall Heath, was charged with collecting money for terrorism, stating
an intention to be a suicide bomber, and involvement in recruiting
others for terrorist acts.
A fourth man, Rahin Ahmed, 25, from
Mosely, was charged with assisting others to travel to Pakistan for
terrorism training, and investing and managing money for terrorist acts.
It
is alleged that between Christmas Day 2010 and 19 September this year,
they were preparing, or helping others prepare, to commit acts of
terrorism.
Two other men, Bahader Ali and Mohammed Rizwan, aged 28
and 32 and from Sparkbrook, were also charged with failing to disclose
information. It is alleged that between 29 July and 19 September this
year, both had information which they knew may help prevent the
commission of an act of terrorism.
Bahader Ali, who is Ashik Ali's brother, was also charged with terrorist fund raising.
Last
week's arrests were unarmed, pre-planned and intelligence-led,
according to West Midlands police, which added that a seventh man from
Birmingham, aged 20, continues to be questioned. Officers have until
Thursday to charge him, release him, or apply for a further warrant of
detention.
The six charged men will appear at West London magistrates court in Hammersmith on Monday.
The
arrests took place from 11.30am on Sunday 18 September, with the last
suspect detained at about 1am on the Monday morning. The raids took
place in several deprived areas of the city that have sizeable Muslim
populations.
The operation involved MI5, with officers from Scotland Yard's counter-terrorism command supporting the Birmingham-based force.
West
Midlands police said last week the "large-scale operation" had been
running for some time and had been subject to regular review, adding
that the action was necessary "in order to ensure public safety".
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Tony Blair’s close relationship to Colonel Muammar
Gaddafi has come under fresh scrutiny after it emerged he had six
private meetings with the dictator in the three years after he left
Downing Street.
Five of those meetings took place in a 14-month period before the release of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the Lockerbie bomber.
Mr Blair is coming under increasing pressure to make public details
of all his meetings and discussions with Gaddafi. It follows the
disclosure in The Sunday Telegraph last week that on at least two
occasions Mr Blair flew to Tripoli on a private jet paid for by the
Libyan regime.
Among the new meetings uncovered by this
newspaper is a visit to Gaddafi in January 2009, when JP Morgan, the US
investment bank which pays Mr Blair £2 million a year as a senior
adviser, was trying to negotiate a deal between the Libyan Investment
Authority (LIA) and a company run by the Russian oligarch Oleg
Deripaska, a friend of Lord Mandelson. The multi-billion dollar deal,
which later fell through, would have seen the LIA provide a loan to
Rusal, the world’s largest aluminium producer.
JP Morgan’s involvement in the deal is revealed in an email sent to
the LIA by the bank’s vice-chairman, Lord Renwick, in December 2008, in
which he sought to “finalise the terms of the mandate concerning Rusal
before Mr Blair’s visit to Tripoli”.
JP Morgan said Mr Blair had no knowledge of the Rusal proposal. A
spokesman added: “JP Morgan declined to participate on such a
transaction and thus Mr Blair was never involved, and it was never
discussed with him.”
A spokesman for Mr Blair said: “Neither Tony Blair nor any of his
staff raised any issue to do with a Russian aluminium company.” He added
that the “bulk of the conversations” with Gaddafi had been about Africa
and how Libya could develop infrastructure. While Gaddafi raised the
issue of Megrahi’s release, Mr Blair always repeated that “it was a
matter for the Scottish government”, the spokesman added.
Global Witness, an anti-corruption campaign group which obtained the
Rusal email, said Mr Blair’s links to the LIA raised potential conflicts
of interest between his roles as a Middle East peace envoy, fund-raiser
in Africa and business adviser. Robert Palmer, a spokesman, said: “It’s
hard to see how being Middle East peace envoy squares with doing
business with a tyrant.”
Mr Blair’s spokesman said: “Tony Blair has never had any role, either
formal or informal, paid or unpaid, with the Libyan Investment
Authority or the Government of Libya and he has not and has never had
any commercial, business or advisory relationship with any Libyan
company or entity.”
This newspaper can also disclose that the Foreign Office granted a
visa for Gaddafi’s daughter Hana to come to Britain last year, even
though she was supposedly killed in a US bombing raid in 1986. Evidence
has also emerged of the full extent of Britain’s deals with Khamis
Gaddafi, the tyrant’s feared son, whose Khamis brigade has been accused
of committing atrocities.
Tony Blair's six secret visits to Col Gaddafi
Tony Blair’s close relationship to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has come under
fresh scrutiny after it emerged he had six private meetings with the
dictator in the three years after he left Downing Street.
Image 1 of 2
Tony Blair at a meeting with Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi at his desert base in 2007
Five of those meetings took place in a 14-month period before the release of
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the Lockerbie bomber.
Mr Blair is coming under increasing pressure to make public details of all his
meetings and discussions with Gaddafi. It follows the disclosure in The
Sunday Telegraph last week that on at least two occasions Mr Blair flew to
Tripoli on a private jet paid for by the Libyan regime.
Among the new meetings uncovered by this newspaper is a visit to Gaddafi in
January 2009, when JP Morgan, the US investment bank which pays Mr Blair £2
million a year as a senior adviser, was trying to negotiate a deal between
the Libyan Investment Authority (LIA) and a company run by the Russian
oligarch Oleg Deripaska, a friend of Lord Mandelson. The multi-billion
dollar deal, which later fell through, would have seen the LIA provide a
loan to Rusal, the world’s largest aluminium producer.
JP Morgan’s involvement in the deal is revealed in an email sent to the LIA by
the bank’s vice-chairman, Lord Renwick, in December 2008, in which he sought
to “finalise the terms of the mandate concerning Rusal before Mr Blair’s
visit to Tripoli”.
JP Morgan said Mr Blair had no knowledge of the Rusal proposal. A spokesman
added: “JP Morgan declined to participate on such a transaction and thus Mr
Blair was never involved, and it was never discussed with him.”
A spokesman for Mr Blair said: “Neither Tony Blair nor any of his staff raised
any issue to do with a Russian aluminium company.” He added that the “bulk
of the conversations” with Gaddafi had been about Africa and how Libya could
develop infrastructure. While Gaddafi raised the issue of Megrahi’s release,
Mr Blair always repeated that “it was a matter for the Scottish government”,
the spokesman added.
Global Witness, an anti-corruption campaign group which obtained the Rusal
email, said Mr Blair’s links to the LIA raised potential conflicts of
interest between his roles as a Middle East peace envoy, fund-raiser in
Africa and business adviser. Robert Palmer, a spokesman, said: “It’s hard to
see how being Middle East peace envoy squares with doing business with a
tyrant.”
Mr Blair's spokesman said: "Tony Blair has never had any role, either
formal or informal, paid or unpaid, with the Libyan Investment Authority or
the Government of Libya and he has not and has never had any commercial,
business or advisory relationship with any Libyan company or entity."
This newspaper can also disclose that the Foreign Office granted a visa for
Gaddafi’s daughter Hana to come to Britain last year, even though she was
supposedly killed in a US bombing raid in 1986. Evidence has also emerged of
the full extent of Britain’s deals with Khamis Gaddafi, the tyrant’s feared
son, whose Khamis brigade has been accused of committing atrocities.
Blair had six 'secret meetings' with Gaddafi
By ANI | ANI go
London,
Sept 25 (ANI): Tony Blair had held secret talks with Libyan dictator
Colonel Muammar Gaddafi six times in three years after he stepped down
as British Prime Minister, it has emerged.
According to the Telegraph, five of those meetings took place in a
14-month period before the release of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the
Lockerbie bomber. arlier it was revealed that on at least two occasions
Blair flew to Tripoli on a private jet paid for by the Libyan regime.
The new meeting uncovered is a visit to Gaddafi in January 2009, when
JP Morgan, the US investment bank which pays Blair two million pounds a
year as a senior adviser, was trying to negotiate a deal between the
Libyan Investment Authority (LIA) and a company run by the Russian
oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
The multi-billion dollar deal, which later fell through, would have
seen the LIA provide a loan to Rusal, the world's largest aluminium
producer, the paper said.
Global Witness, an anti-corruption campaign group that obtained the
Rusal email, said Blair's links to the LIA raised potential conflicts of
interest between his roles as a Middle East peace envoy, fund-raiser in
Africa and business adviser.
Blair's spokesman, however, denies the former PM had any role in the deal.
"Tony Blair has never had any role, either formal or informal, paid
or unpaid, with the Libyan Investment Authority or the Government of
Libya and he has not and has never had any commercial, business or
advisory relationship with any Libyan company or entity," the spokesman
said.
Meanwhile, Blair is coming under increasing pressure to make public
details of all his meetings and discussions with Gaddafi. (ANI)
Além dele, outros dois homens foram baleados e um deles também morreu
após ser socorrido. Segundo a polícia, um homem não identificado chegou
ao campo em uma motocicleta e efetuou vários disparos.
O campeonato era organizado pela prefeitura de Nova Andradina e contava
com a participação de oito equipes. Os times de Casa Verde A e 17 de
Abril disputavam a final da competição quando o crime aconteceu.
Após desentendimento, estudante de 17 anos foi até a casa do funcionário da escola e efetuou vários disparos
Um
aluno da Escola Estadual Pedro Aleixo, no bairro Mangabeiras, região
Centro-Sul de Belo Horizonte, é suspeito de tentar matar o auxiliar de
serviços gerais Marco Túlio Miranda Dias, de 38 anos, na manhã de ontem,
no bairro Serra.
De acordo com a Polícia Militar (PM), o rapaz
de 17 anos foi até a casa de Marco Túlio e, armado com um revólver
calibre 38, atirou várias vezes na direção dele. As balas perfuraram a
porta da casa do servidor, mas ele não foi atingido. Segundo a polícia, o
motivo para a ameaça seria um desentendimento que ocorreu durante a
semana. O auxiliar de serviços gerais chamou a atenção do aluno, que
ficou insatisfeito com a "bronca".
A Secretaria de Estado de
Educação informou que não foi comunicada sobre o ocorrido. O adolescente
consegui fugir antes da chegada dos militares. A ocorrência foi
encaminhada ao Centro Integrado de Atendimento ao Adolescente Autor de
Ato Infracional (CIA).
Violência Escolar
Esse
é o terceiro caso de violência escolar ocorrido nos últimos dois dias
na capital. Uma estudante, de 12 anos da Escola Municipal Marconi, no
bairro Santo Agostinho, região Centro-Sul, foi agredida anteontem pela
mãe de uma colega de sala. De acordo com informações da Polícia Militar,
a adolescente foi espancada por uma mulher de 28 anos após ter
presenciado uma briga entre duas estudantes, sendo que uma delas era
filha da suposta agressora.
A vítima, que foi agarrada pelos
cabelos, teve ferimentos na boca e arranhões por todo o corpo. A mulher
suspeita de agredir a jovem pode pegar de um a três anos de prisão por
lesão corporal. Além disso, ela pode ser condenada a prestar serviço
voluntários para a comunidade.
No bairro Gameleira, na região
Oeste de Belo Horizonte, um adolescente de 12 anos, foi apreendido,
anteontem, após ameaçar duas meninas que estavam na porta da Escola
Estadual Doutor Paulo Diniz Chagas. De acordo com a Polícia Militar, ele
teria intimidado as garotas com um revólver.
O adolescente
fugiu quando percebeu que outras pessoas tinham percebido que ele estava
armado, mas foi encontrado em casa pelos policiais.
Professora deve ter alta
Deve
receber alta entre a próxima terça e quarta-feria, a professora de
português Rosileide Queiros de Oliveira, de 38 anos, que foi baleada por
um aluno de 10 anos, na última quinta-feira, dentro de uma escola em
São Caetano do Sul, no ABC paulista. O menino pediu para ir ao banheiro e
quando voltou atirou na professora dentro da sala onde estavam 23
crianças. Após o crime, ele se matou com um tiro na cabeça.
O motivo do crime ainda é investigado pela Polícia Civil.
Rio - O aposentado Calistrato Martins, de 87 anos, morreu na
tarde deste domingo na porta do Hospital de Saracuruna, em Duque de
Caxias, na Baixada Fluminense, enquanto aguardava atendimento médico. O
idoso acabou morrendo dentro do carro, e a família soube que não havia
maca, nem maqueiro para levá-lo a emergência.
Na manhã deste domingo, Calistrato caiu no banheiro de casa. Por volta
de 12h30, a filha dele, Maria Rita do Vale, que é auxiliar dentista de
uma firma tercerizada que atua no próprio hospital, chegou ao local com o
pai. Foi quando recebeu a informação da falta de equipamentos para
encaminhá-lo ao setor de atendimento.
Cerca de 20 minutos após chegar ao local, o aposentado acabou falecendo.
Segundo a família, funcionários do hospital tentaram retirar o corpo do
carro onde chegou para tentar atendimento mas os familiares impediram.
Policiais civis estão no local e já colhem as primeiras informações com
os parentes, que estão inconsoláveis na porta do hospital, aguardando a
remoção do corpo do idoso. "O sentimento é de muita revolta, porque a
gente vê acontecer com os outros, mas, nunca imagina que vai acontecer
com a gente", disse Maria Rita. Idosa segue na UTI de hospital
A Secretaria Estadual de Saúde do Rio de Janeiro informou neste domingo
que a idosa encontrada viva pelos familiares no necrotério do Hospital
Estadual de Saracuruna (Adão Pereira Nunes), em Duque de Caxias, segue
internada na Unidade de Tratamento Intensivo (UTI) da instituição. Rosa
Maria Celestrino de Assis, 60 anos, apresentava quadro de saúde
inalterado nesta manhã.
A direção do hospital abriu sindicância para apurar as circunstâncias do
atendimento à paciente. O médico que emitiu a declaração de óbito pediu
demissão, e os demais profissionais envolvidos no caso foram afastados.
Segundo a Secretaria de Saúde, às 10h de sexta-feira Rosa Maria deu
entrada na unidade com atrofia cerebral com múltiplas áreas de sequela
de infarto. Avaliada pelo clínico geral e pelo neurocirurgião, foi
constatado um acidente vascular cerebral (AVC) e uma pneumonia que seria
a causa do quadro de infecção generalizada.
Às 19h20, ainda segundo a secretaria, houve piora do quadro e
constatação de morte pelo médico plantonista. No entanto, por volta das
22h os familiares foram fazer o reconhecimento do corpo no necrotério e
perceberam que a paciente apresentava movimentos musculares
involuntários. Ela foi levada para a Unidade de Terapia Intensiva (UTI),
onde permanece internada.
25/09/11 às 20:42 | * Josianne Ritz com a colaboração dos editores do Jornal do Estado.
O prefeito de Curitiba, Luciano Ducci, é
médico e servidor de carreira da Secretaria Municipal de Saúde, que
comandou entre 2006 e 2010, acumulando o posto com o cargo de
vice-prefeito. A proximidade de Ducci com o tema, porém, não parece ter
produzido grandes resultados para os curitibanos que dependem da saúde
pública. Pacientes do Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS) na Capital com
problemas graves continuam correndo o risco de morrerem antes de
conseguirem atendimento especializado. Depois de esperar quase um ano
para conseguir um exame de tomografia, uma moradora de 64 anos da Vila
Hauer, que já foi vítima de um AVC, tem hipertensão e problemas
cardíacos, foi informada pelo posto de saúde municipal que terá que
esperar até mais dois anos para conseguir uma consulta com um
neurologista para que o resultado do exame seja analisado. Longe de ser
um caso isolado, o episódio se repete em outras áreas, onde faltam
médicos especialistas — e a espera por atendimento é a regra. Enquanto
isso, o prefeito ocupa a propaganda partidária para exaltar a suposta
excelência dos serviços de saúde de sua administração.
Menos declarações
O
volume de declarações de utilidade pública na pauta de proposições da
Assembleia Legislativa no último mês diminuiu sensivelmente. Embora isso
ocorra habitualmente à medida que avançam as legislaturas, desta feita
há outro motivo para tanto: está em vigor desde o dia 1º de agosto, data
em que foi sancionada e publicada em Diário Oficial, a Lei nº 16.888,
aprovada pelos parlamentares e nascida de uma iniciativa do deputado
Luiz Eduardo Cheida (PMDB), que torna mais exigentes os requisitos a
serem seguidos para a concessão desses títulos. A declaração de
utilidade pública confere tratamento diferenciado a instituições que o
detêm, como a possibilidade de receber recursos públicos, isenção de
taxas e tributos, regime de preferência na distribuição de verbas
destinadas a ações sociais e descontos tributários em relação aos
encargos sociais. A lei atual, ao contemplar critérios mais objetivos
para a concessão do benefício, deixa de fora as Organizações Sociais de
Interesse Público (OSIPs), cooperativas e outros.
Contas Públicas (I)
O
balanço das contas públicas do segundo quadrimestre do ano será
apresentado pelo secretário da Fazenda, Luiz Carlos Hauly, em audiência
pública, hoje, no Plenário da Assembleia Legislativa, a partir das
14h30. Em junho, quando falou sobre os dados dos primeiros quatro meses
de 2011, Hauly frisou que o governo está cumprindo as metas da Lei de
Responsabilidade Fiscal (LRF), apesar das dificuldades com o orçamento
elaborado pelo governo anterior. Na oportunidade ele falou também da
aprovação, no final do governo passado, de gastos permanentes que
sobrecarregaram os cofres públicos.
Contas públicas (II)
Ainda
naquela ocasião, o secretário destacou que o Executivo trabalha para
ampliar a capacidade de investimento do Estado em várias frentes. As
audiências públicas na Assembleia acontecem em cumprimento à Lei de
Responsabilidade Fiscal e são oportunidades em que o Governo Estadual,
através da Secretaria da Fazenda, presta contas e divulga o cumprimento
das metas fiscais à sociedade paranaense. Estas sessões ocorrem três
vezes ao ano, quando são apresentadas as contas públicas relativas ao
1º, 2º e 3º quadrimestre do exercício orçamentário. Para visualizar os
relatórios, o cidadão pode acessar o site www.gestaododinheiro
publico.pr.gov.br.
Rampa
Dentro da política de recuperação do
patrimônio público, a Assembleia Legislativa realiza amanhã pregão
presencial para manutenção e reparos na rampa de acesso ao prédio do
Plenário. O valor máximo do objeto será de R$ 327.934,40. A licitação
acontece às 10 horas, na Diretoria de Apoio Técnico (DAT), no 4º andar
da sede do Legislativo. A rampa, que tradicionalmente é utilizada na
posse dos governadores do Estado, quando prestam compromisso perante a
Assembleia Legislativa antes de se encaminhar à sede do Executivo, era
subutilizada. Após a reabertura do acesso pelo edifício Tancredo Neves,
em fevereiro deste ano, e também com a retirada das grandes ao redor da
Praça Nossa Senhora de Salete, onde se localizam os gabinetes
parlamentares, a rampa agora facilita o acesso ao Plenário.
Novela da Pedreira
A
poucos passos de reabrir. É assim que o vereador Jonny Stica (PT)
resume a situação da Pedreira Paulo Leminski, fechada desde março de
2008 por ordem judicial. A conclusão do vereador tem motivos: a perícia
técnica, que servirá como base para qualquer decisão tomada no processo,
foi entregue e juntada ontem aos autos. “Com isso, está aberto o
caminho para um acordo entre as partes, que pode ser firmado já em
outubro”, afirma o vereador, que encabeça a campanha “A Pedreira é
Nossa!”. Nesta última quinta-feira, o parlamentar, juntamente com
integrantes do movimento, foi até a 4ª Vara da Fazenda Pública para
conversar com a juíza que hoje é responsável pelo processo, Mariana
Fowler Gusso. Ela afirmou ao vereador que vai buscar da forma mais ágil
possível a solução para o caso. “Temos certeza que a perícia foi
positiva e possibilitará a assinatura de um Termo de Ajustamento de
Conduta (TAC) bem amarrado, com limites de horários e outras diretrizes
relativas à organização dos eventos”, completou Jonny Stica. O TAC
deverá ser assinado entre o Ministério Público, autor do processo, e a
Prefeitura, que é ré, mas envolveria também os produtores locais e
moradores da região. O abaixo-assinado iniciado pelo movimento “A
Pedreira é Nossa!” pedindo a reabertura do espaço já está com 17,5 mil
assinaturas.
LOA
A Prefeitura apresentará amanhã a proposta
da Lei Orçamentária Anual (LOA) de 2012, em audiência pública no
Memorial de Curitiba, com início às 10 horas. As prioridades no
investimento dos R$ 5,03 bilhões previstos no orçamento de 2012 foram
discutidas com a população em audiências públicas nas nove regionais. Da
estimativa de R$ 5,03 bilhões de orçamento para 2012, a área de saúde
receberá R$ 987,9 milhões, a de Educação terá investimentos de R$ 821,5
milhões e as obras públicas, R$ 426 milhões. O orçamento de 2012 é 8%
maior que o atual — R$ 4,66 bilhões.
Em alta
O governo federal
deverá aumentar em cerca de 50% o investimento na área de TRANSPLANTES
de órgãos e tecidos em relação ao ano passado. Foi o que informou ontem o
coordenador do Sistema Nacional de Transplantes do Ministério da Saúde,
Héder Borba. Em 2010, o investimento foi de R$ 2 bilhões.
Em baixa
A
atual projeção do Banco Central (BC) de crescimento de 4% do Produto
Interno Bruto (PIB) para 2011 deve ser revisada para baixo e apresentada
no Relatório de Inflação no fim do mês, caso a turbulência econômica
global persista, admitiu o presidente da instituição, Alexandre Tombini.
Segundo o BC, há um risco maior de agravamento da crise global.
BAKU, Sept. 25 (Xinhua) -- Azerbaijan has totally finished a
transition to market economy, the country's minister for economic
development Shahin Mustafayev said Sunday.
According to the minister, investments in Azerbaijan's economy have
exceeded 100 billion U.S. dollars since its independence 20 years ago.
Roughly half of the amount was foreign investment, and the bulk of
them is in the energy sector, Mustafayev said at a conference marking
the 20th anniversary of Azerbaijan's independence.
From 1995 until 2003, Azerbaijan's annual gross domestic product
(GDP) growth averaged 9 percent, average monthly salary increased 5.3
times, foreign direct investments increased ten times, state budget
revenues increased three times and inflation decreased to 2-3 percent,
he said.
From 2004 to 2011, Azerbaijan recorded an annual GDP growth of 14 percent. Its GDP per capita increased by five times.
Saudi King Abdullah announced on Sunday he was giving women the
right to vote and run in municipal elections, the only public polls in
the ultra-conservative Gulf kingdom.
He also announced that women would have the right to join the
all-appointed Shura (consultative) Council, in an In a five-minute
speech opening a new term of the council.
“Because we refuse to marginalize
women in society in all roles that comply with sharia, we have decided,
after deliberation with our senior ulama (clerics) and others... to
involve women in the Shura Council as members, starting from the next
term,” he said in a speech delivered to the advisory body.
“Women will be able to run as candidates in the municipal election and will even have a right to vote.”
Women’s rights are regarded as a litmus test for the government’s
appetite for social and political reform. Saudi Arabia adheres to a
strict version of Islamic law that enforces the segregation of the
sexes.
“This is great news,” said Wajeha al-Huwaider, a Saudi writer and
women’s rights activist, according to Reuters. “Women’s voices will
finally be heard.”
“Now it is time to remove other barriers like not allowing women to
drive cars and not being able to function, to live a normal life without
male guardians.”
The king did not address the issue of women being allowed to drive.
Although there is no written law against women driving, they are not
issued licenses, effectively banning the practice.
Women in Saudi Arabia must also have written approval from a male
guardian – a father, husband, brother or son – to leave the country,
work or even undergo certain medical operations.
Those changes will come after municipal elections this Thursday, for
which women have been barred from voting or standing office.
After entering the Shura Council chamber leaning heavily on a cane, King
Abdullah, who is thought to be 87 or 88, read only a section of a
longer prepared statement that was later released in full by the
authorities.
The part he did not read included reference to Saudi foreign policy
including the kingdom’s continued support for a Gulf-brokered plan for a
power transition in Yemen.
King Abdullah has long been pushing cautious political reforms, but in a
country where conservative clerics and senior members of the ruling
family oppose even minor changes, liberalization has been very gradual.
He built a new university for students of both sexes and encouraged women to participate more in the labor market.
A campaign this summer by women who broke Saudi law by driving on the kingdom’s city streets prompted some arrests.
Saudi Arabia will hold only its second nationwide elections in recent
memory on Thursday for seats on municipal councils, but critics of the
ruling al-Saud family say the poll, in which voting is limited to men,
is a charade.
Supporters of the absolute monarchy say the elections are designed to
give Saudis a greater say in politics, but critics point out that the
elections are for only half the seats on councils that have few powers.
The Shura Council, which vets legislation but cannot veto it or enforce changes, is fully appointed by the king.
“Despite the issue of the effectiveness of these councils, women’s
involvement in them was necessary. Maybe after women join there will be
other changes,” said Naila Attar, who organized a campaign Baladi
(Arabic for My Country) calling for women’s involvement in the municipal
council elections, according to Reuters.
“I believe this is a step to involve women in the public sphere. It is
the top of the pyramid and a step in the direction for more decisions
regarding women.”
REPORTING FROM MEXICO CITY -- A woman found decapitated in the border
city of Nuevo Laredo is being mourned as an apparent member of a social
networking site used by local residents to share information on drug
cartel activity.
The victim was found early Saturday with a note nearby saying she was
killed for posting messages online about violent or criminal incidents
in Nuevo Laredo.
The Tamaulipas state attorney general's office identified the woman as Maria Elizabeth Macias Castro, 39, and said she was an editor at the newspaper Primera Hora (links in Spanish). The Associated Press, however, quoting an employee of the newspaper, identified the victim as Marisol Macias Castaneda, and said she held an administrative and not an editorial post at Primera Hora.
A web search of the newspaper's website found no mention of the
woman's death or the discovery of a decapitated female body on Saturday.
But on the website Nuevo Laredo en Vivo, a banner image appeared memorializing a member known as NenaDLaredo. "You'll always be present," the display says.
At Saturday's grisly scene, the message left with Macias's body makes
reference to the site and NenaDLaredo in particular, saying: "Nuevo
Laredo en Vivo and social networking sites, I'm the Nena de Laredo, and
I'm here because of my reports, and yours."
The message was tagged with multiple Z's, indicating a link to the violent Zetas cartel.
A blogger and Twitter user known as @OVEMEX,
who said he is based in northern Mexico and monitors social media, told
The Times via email Sunday: "Apparently, from checking out the forum,
which for the most part has been moved to private, it is her. Or at
least she has not come back online to dismiss her own decapitation."
Social media sites have been essential outlets for Mexicans seeking
to monitor or report on violent incidents and other activities linked to
organized crime, as local news organizations frequently silence
themselves under pressure from political or criminal forces. Primera
Hora, for instance, is said to be a property of Nuevo Laredo's mayor,
the daily Excelsior reported (link in Spanish).
The shift toward crowd-sourced drug-war reporting in Mexico has
resulted in tension between social media users and local governments.
The state of Veracruz attempted to try a man and woman for terrorism and sabotage for allegedly igniting a panic over attacks on schools in late August. The government later dropped the charges.
Earlier this month, two people were found mutilated and hanging from a
Nuevo Laredo bridge alongside messages threatening social media users,
but whether those victims were killed for posting messages on the
Internet has not been corroborated by authorities or reliable news
outlets.
-- Daniel Hernandez Image: Screen shot of messages posted on Nuevo Laredo en Vivo
discussing the reported death of a contributor known as NenaDLaredo.
Credit: via Twitter
Woman journalist is decapitated by Mexican drugs cartel over comments she made on social networking site
Police found a woman's decapitated
body in a Mexican border city on Saturday, alongside a handwritten sign
saying she was killed in retaliation for her postings on a social
networking site. The
gruesome killing may be the third so far this month in which people in
Nuevo Laredo were killed by a drug cartel for what they said on the
internet. Morelos
Canseco, the interior secretary of northern Tamaulipas state, where
Nuevo Laredo is located, identified the victim as Marisol Macias
Castaneda, a newsroom manager for the Nuevo Laredo newspaper Primera
Hora.
A soldier guards a crime scene in Nuevo Laredo (file picture)
The newspaper has not confirmed that
title, and an employee of the paper said Macias Castaneda held an
administrative post, not a reporting job. The employee was not
authorised to be quoted by name. But
it was apparently what the woman posted on the local social networking
site, Nuevo Laredo en Vivo, or 'Nuevo Laredo Live,' rather than her role
at the newspaper, that resulted in her killing.
The site prominently
features tip hotlines for the Mexican army, navy and police, and
includes a section for reporting the location of drug gang lookouts and
drug sales points — possibly the information that angered the cartel. The
message found next to her body on the side of a main thoroughfare
referred to the nickname the victim purportedly used on the site, 'La
Nena de Laredo,' or 'Laredo Girl.' Her head was found placed on a large stone piling nearby.
Soldiers killed five hitmen during a shootout on the road that connects Monterrey to Nuevo Laredo (file picture)
'Nuevo Laredo en Vivo and social
networking sites, I'm The Laredo Girl, and I'm here because of my
reports, and yours,' the message read. 'For
those who don't want to believe, this happened to me because of my
actions, for believing in the army and the navy. Thank you for your
attention, respectfully, Laredo Girl...ZZZZ.' The letter 'Z' refers to the hyper-violent Zetas drug cartel, which is believed to dominate the city across from Laredo, Texas. It was unclear how the killers found out her real identity. By
late Saturday, the chat room at Nuevo Laredo en Vivo was abuzz with
fellow posters who said they knew the victim from her online postings,
and railing against the Zetas, a gang founded by military deserters who
have become known for mass killings and gruesome executions.
Soldiers guard a crime scene in Nuevo Laredo (file picture)
They described her as a frequent poster, who used a laptop or cell phone to send reports. 'Girl
why didn't she buy a gun given that she was posting reports about the
RatZZZ ... why didn't she buy a gun?' wrote one chat participant under
the nickname 'Gol.' Earlier
this month, a man and a woman were found hanging dead from an overpass
in Nuevo Laredo with a similar message threatening 'this is what will
happen' to internet users. However, it has not been clearly established whether the two had in fact ever posted any messages, or on what sites. Residents
of Mexican border cities often post under nicknames to report drug gang
violence, because the posts allow a certain degree of anonymity. Social
media like local chat rooms and blogs, and networking sites like
Twitter and Facebook, are often the only outlet for residents of
violence-wracked cities to find out what areas to avoid because of
ongoing drug cartel shootouts or attacks. Local
media outlets, whose journalists have been hit by killings, kidnappings
and threats, are often too intimidated to report the violence. Mexico's Human Rights Commission says eight journalists have been killed in Mexico this year and 74 since 2000. Other
press groups cite lower numbers, and figures differ based on the
definition of who is a journalist and whether the killings appeared to
involve their professional work. While
helpful, social networking posts sometimes are inaccurate and can lead
to chaotic situations in cities wracked by gang confrontations. In
the Gulf coast state of Veracruz, just south of Tamaulipas, the state
government dropped terrorism charges last week against two Twitter users
for false posts that officials said caused panic and chaos in late
August.
Los Ángeles --
Tras varios meses de retraso y una inversión de millones de
dólares, la ambiciosa serie “Terra Nova” debutará mañana en la
televisión de EEUU, con la necesidad de demostrar que su trama está a la
altura de sus costosos efectos especiales.
Calificada como la
serie más cara de todos los tiempos, “Terra Nova”, combina elementos de
los éxitos cinematográficos “Avatar” y “Jurassic Park” para llenar el
hueco dejado en las parrillas por la popular “Lost”.
La serie
cuenta con un equipo de productores ejecutivos que incluye al cineasta
Steven Spielberg (“Jurassic Park”) por lo que, sin que sorprenda a
nadie, también ofrece la comprobada fórmula de combinar los viajes en el
tiempo y el drama de sobrevivir en un entorno hostil.
En su debut de dos horas y en horario de máxima audiencia, los
mortíferos osos polares y misteriosos humanos letales de “Lost” serán
reemplazados en “Terra Nova” por los siempre hambrientos y
temperamentales dinosaurios, cuyo ecosistema prehistórico se verá
alterado por un asentamiento de humanos dispuestos a reconstruir en el
pasado una civilización condenada a su extinción en el futuro.
La
historia se centrará en las vivencias de la familia Shannon en el año
2149, una de las que formarán parte de la décima expedición de colonos y
cuyo único escape de las restricciones de un mundo hacinado y
contaminado es regresar 85 millones de años en el pasado.
La idea
de los colonos es ir en busca de un paraíso en el que empezar de cero y a
través del cual también el espectador descubrirá ese nuevo mundo.
Además
de los peligrosos dinosaurios, los habitantes de “Terra Nova” tendrán
que lidiar con la amenaza de otro grupo de pobladores, conocidos como
los “Sixers”.
Según los críticos, aparte de los grandes efectos
especiales, la serie presenta la historia de una familia dispuesta a
luchar contra las fuerzas que amenazan con destruirla, con la que el
público pueda identificarse.
La serie nace con el aval de
Spielberg, que ejerce de productor ejecutivo, y se presentará con un
episodio piloto de dos horas cuyo coste se situó entre 10 y 20 millones
de dólares, según The Hollywood Reporter. Los capítulos siguientes, de
una hora cada uno, tienen un precio medio de cuatro millones de dólares.
En
total, “Terra Nova” constará de 13 programas que se emitirán
semanalmente en EEUU a través de la cadena Fox, que en un principio
tenía previsto lanzar la serie en enero pasado pero se vio obligada a
posponer primero hasta mayo y finalmente a septiembre por problemas
técnicos.
El programa se realizó en Queensland (Australia), donde
el equipo sufrió intensas lluvias que llegaron a inundar el set de
grabación y dificultar los rodajes y requirió de hasta 8 semanas de
postproducción por episodio para crear a los reptiles gigantes,
apróximadamente el doble de tiempo que un drama convencional.
La
elevada inversión es una muestra de la confianza de Fox en el proyecto,
que está ahora obligado a cautivar a los espectadores dentro y fuera de
EEUU para que cuadren los números a final de temporada.
El propio presidente de Fox Entertainment, Kevin Reilly, dijo que “Terra Nova” era una producción “enorme”.
“Es
una gran apuesta, va a ser gigante”, explicó Reilly, quien reconoció
que la serie planteaba desafíos de grabación y diseño pero que tiene
mucho potencial.
El reparto está encabezado por Jason O’Mara
(“Resident Evil: Extinction”) como el padre de familia Jim Shannon,
Shelley Conn (“Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”) como la doctora y
madre Elisabeth Shannon, Landon Liboiron (“Degrassi: The Next
Generation”) como Josh, hijo de los Shannon, y Naomi Scott (“Life
Bites”) como su hermana Mandy.
Entre los protagonistas se
encuentra también Stephen Lang, quien retoma el papel de autoritario
líder que ya interpretó en “Avatar”.
El primer capítulo de “Terra Nova” se emitirá mañana a partir de las 8 de la tarde hora local de EEUU (03.00 GMT del martes).
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