In The Name Of Immortal Love

Why you look so sad?

Am I?

Yes my dear. I know you're fairly disappointed with the result.

Well, what can I say? How could I possibly beat this Obama phemomenont...

Indeed. So will you cheer up?

No I won't. Because I still think there's another person who's more likely to take over Obama.

That's interesting...who would that be?

That of course is Wen Jiabao, the Premier of China, who has committed sickening crimes time after time but still got away. I've heard the ATV and CCTV are going to produce a reality show called " In the name of immortal love ", praising him as an immoral hero. Co-starring by his secret lover Stephen Harper as his puppet love, isn't that disgusting for all of us to put up with?

Look at the bright side my dear, is there any love scene demonstrating by these two loving bisexual drama kings? Oh don't get me wrong, I'm not being judgmental but can't wait to see such a lovely drama. All in all they've been acting consistently and coherently. I believe they're well deserve to be nominated in the up-coming Oscar, since their love stories have been fully covered all over the North, South and Central America.

Alright let's see how it goes...ho ho ho...Stephen Harper.

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Bomb Threat At Printemps

By Ladka Bauerova and Helene Fouquet

Dec. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Paris luxury department store Printemps reopened for public after police found and removed explosives this morning.

The store, full of Christmas shoppers, was evacuated and closed shortly after 11 a.m. today after police alerted the management to the possibility of a bomb, Printemps said today in an e-mailed statement. The store partially reopened at 2 p.m. and was working normally by 4 p.m.

Detectives were alerted to the package by a note sent to Agence France-Presse, police spokeswoman Celine Diguignard said by telephone. French President Nicolas Sarkozy said the explosives couldn’t be set off as they didn’t have detonators. Sarkozy, speaking at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, told reporters he was “vigilant” and wouldn’t compromise with terrorists.

Responsibility was claimed by a previously unknown group calling itself the Afghan Revolutionary Front which sent the note to AFP. The group is demanding the withdrawal of French troops from Afghanistan before the end of February, according to a copy of the note obtained by Bloomberg.

“Pass this message to your president and tell him to withdraw his troops from our country, otherwise we will take direct action in your capitalist department stores, and this time without warning you first,” the group said in the note.

Five sticks of dynamite were placed between the first and the second floor of the men’s section of the department store, AFP said, citing Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie.

“The police are right now analyzing the substances that have been used,” Sarkozy said. “The one thing we know is that there were no detonators.”

France has “not stopped being vigilant since 2002 when I was first interior minister,” he said. “Vigilance toward terrorism is the only line we can follow.”

France is going to step up security by adding more police officers, Alliot-Marie said today. The national security alert system, known as Vigipirate, remains at “red,” the second highest alert level.

“This Revolutionary Afghan Front is unknown, I have never heard of them,” said Dominique Thomas, a researcher at EHESS, a Paris-based social sciences university, who specializes in international terrorism. “The French authorities are going to step up strongly their security procedures, which are already very high during the Christmas season.”

Further reading at:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601100&sid=aB8Ct9mWIdhw&refer=germany

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Strangers In Elevator

from Connie Missipi
to Palmina Maccari
cc Westoneboard@gmail.com,
c_agostinho@andrejsmanagement.com,
mayor_miller@toronto.ca,
board@tpsb.ca,
pm@pm.gc.ca
bcc conniemissipi@gmail.com
date 16 December 2008 14:01
subject Stranger In the Elevator
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Dear Palmina

I'm the tenant staying at suite xxxx of xxxxxxxx, I'd filed quite a few complaints regarding personal and public safety in this building but nothing seems improved.

Yesterday around 4:30pm I came home, there're three black men and one white woman as a group followed me to the elevator, and there was another white lady seemed to be alone, hence there're six of us altogether. It happened when the group pressed the button on the xx/F they DID NOT use the key and it worked. When I questioned the group, at first one of the men said he DID use the key but I was quite certain he DID NOT. I remembered I was told that xx/F is the sky lounge that residents can actually access to the floor without using a proper key until 10pm, yet the group of people looked suspicious to me. Hence when the elevator reached my floor I didn't go out, I waited and saw the group stepped out on xx/F while they insisted they're living there. Thereafter the elevator went up to higher floor that another lady departed. By then I pressed the button to xx/F again, odd thing was the elevator stopped at xx/F the same group stepped in laughing and yelling. Needless to say I felt intimidated. My concern is, if this group of people weren't residents of this building, as I'm very much in doubt, how did they get into the building in the first place? The security guard from Pakistan was on duty at the time.

According to my past experiences, I may or may not hear from you but I'd like to set the record straight. If I don't hear from you within 24 hours I'll report this case to the police for further investigation, in hopes the police will collect the recorded types by the CCTV supporting my testimonial.

Thank you for your attention and I wish you a good day.

Regards
Connie Missipi

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MY HERO

TODAY, AND ALWAYS.

President Bush exclusive interview with ABC News, click on the title to watch.



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Support Our Troops

US President George W Bush made a farewell visit to Iraq on Sunday, just 37 days before he hands it over to the elected President Obama who has pledged to end the mission. President Bush credits the security gains in Iraq over the past year, attacks fell to the lowest record last month since 2003.

Since the war has begun, more than 4209 US soldiers have been killed, and there are approximately 149000 US troops in Iraq at the moment. A new US-Iraqi security pact will take effect next month. It tends to replace the UN mandate that gives the US-led coalition broad powers to conduct military operations and detain people without charge, if they were suspected to pose a security threat. The bilateral agreement changes some of the terms for all US troops to be withdrawn by the end of 2011 on conditions.

Obama has promised to bring all the troops back home from Iraq within a year after taking office, as long as commanders agree the withdrawal would not endanger Iraq's security and stability. More importantly, Obama stated it clear the drawdown in Iraq would allow him to shift the troops to Afghanistan, as 20000 or more forces are urgently needed and expected to sweep into southern Afghanistan next year.

Across the border, after the Mumbai strikes on November 26, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has just paid a visit to New Delhi and Pakistan to discuss the situation arising out of the attacks. Meanwhile, Germany said that banning of Jamaat-ud-Dawa is ‘not sufficient’ and Pakistan must act to prevent further Terror strikes.

Allies are determined to fight against the radical Taliban largely increased recently in the relative areas. Six Canadian soldiers have been killed respectively in two explosions on road west of Kandahar city over the past ten days. Comes up with a total of 103 soldiers have died on Canada's mission in Afghanistan.

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New Journeys Await You

New journeys await you. Decisions lie ahead, wondering what you will do, where you will go, how you will choose when the choices are yours.

Remember that good decisions come back to bless you, over and over again. Work for the ability to choose wisely, to prosper, to succeed.

Listen with your heart as well as your head, to the glimmers of truth that provide advice and inspiration to the hours of your days. And let those truths take you to beautiful places.

Touch the sky, and in your reach, believe, achieve, and aspire.

I hope your tomorrows take you to the summit of your goals, and your joys take you even higher.

~ Douglas Pagels ~

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Obscene and Indecent Articles Ordinance

Code of Practice
Practice Statement on
Regulation of Obscene and Indecent Material
Revision 1.1 4-Sep-2003

Preamble

1. To protect young people and public morals, this Practice Statement recommends guidelines for Members of the Hong Kong Internet Service Providers Association (“HKISPA”) to follow in their provision of services insofar as the regulation of obscene and indecent material transmitted on the Internet is concerned.

2. For the avoidance of doubt, this Practice Statement does not absolve any Member of the HKISPA from the relevant legislation (including the Control of Obscene and Indecent Articles Ordinance and the Telecommunication Ordinance) currently in force in Hong Kong, and its obligations under the terms of the Public Non-Exclusive Telecommunications Service License granted by the Telecommunications Authority.

3. This Practice Statement shall be reviewed as and when necessary.

Terminology

4. For the purpose of this Policy Statement,

“enforcement agencies” means government agencies responsible for the enforcement of the Control of Obscene and Indecent Articles Ordinance, namely the Customs and Excise Department, Hong Kong Police Force (HKPF) and Television and Entertainment Licensing Authority (TELA);

“Member” means a Member of the Hong Kong Internet Service Providers Association;

“URL” stands for “Uniform Resource Locator” which is the address of a file of content on the Internet;

“Web Page” means a file of content accessible on the World Wide Web by a single URL;

“World Wide Web” means the network of content accessible on the Internet using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (“http”).

Conduct

5. Members will take reasonable steps to prevent users of their services from placing on the Internet or transmitting using the Internet, material likely to be classifiable as Class III (obscene) under the Control of Obscene and Indecent Articles Ordinance (“COIAO”) (Chapter 390). A summary of main provisions of COIAO is at Appendix I.

6. Members will advise subscribers that access to the Internet by a person under the age of 18 years needs to be supervised by a person over the age of 18 years.

7. Members will inform their users that material likely to be classifiable as Class II (indecent) under the COIAO should not be published or made available to persons under the age of 18 years.

8. Members will advise local content providers and distributors that all material put up by them which are likely to be classifiable as Class II (indecent) under the COIAO should be accompanied by the following on-screen warning on the Web Page before the content can be viewed:

WARNING : THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS MATERIAL WHICH MAY OFFEND AND MAY NOT BE DISTRIBUTED, CIRCULATED, SOLD, HIRED, GIVEN, LENT, SHOWN, PLAYED OR PROJECTED TO A PERSON UNDER THE AGE OF 18 YEARS.


Further reading:
http://www.hkispa.org.hk/Obscene_e.htm

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Frost Nixon

"When the President does it, that means it's not illegal", he said.

www.FROSTNIXON.net


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Stephen Harper's Call

Courtesy of CTV News

Sources said Mr. Harper phoned Mr. Ignatieff within hours of the Liberal Leader's warning that the Conservatives will be defeated if the Prime Minister doesn't shelve partisan attacks or if he fails to compromise on the budget. Mr. Harper phoned to congratulate Mr. Ignatieff on his acclamation to the party's leadership and invited him to a get-together. A spokesperson for Mr. Ignatieff said the leader neither accepted nor declined the offer.

Mr. Ignatieff later told the CBC that Mr. Harper asked to meet about the budget and parliamentary business, and that he'd be willing to meet with the Prime Minister.

"I made it clear I don't want to get into secret negotiations or backdoor deals," Mr. Ignatieff said.

"I'm there to listen to the Prime Minister because he's the Prime Minister of Canada. And then we'll decide what we have to do from there."

“I am prepared to vote non-confidence in this government. And I am prepared to enter into a coalition government with our partners if that is what the Governor-General asks me to do,” Mr. Ignatieff said.

“But I also made it clear to the caucus this morning that no party can have the confidence of the country if it decides to vote now against a budget it hasn't even read.”

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081210.wliberals11/BNStory/National


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60th Anniversary of Universal Declaration of Human Rights

1. When was the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted?

2. Who elects members of the Human Rights Council?

3. Which UN High Commissioner for Human Rights was killed in a terrorist attack?

4. What is the first human rights document adopted by the United Nations?

5. What number of children is currently forced into prostitution every year?

6. How many people currently live on less than 1 U.S. dollar per day?

7. Which document is considered to be the first to establish the principles of human rights?

8. How many languages has the Declaration of Human Rights been translated into?

9. Which institution sets out international human rights standards?

10. In the Human Rights Council, what are the “special procedures”?

11. Who was the first High Commissioner for Human Rights?

12. What series of conventions cover humanitarian questions in times of war?










ANSWERS

1. 10 December 1948
2. The General Assembly
3. Sergio Vieira de Mello
4. One million
5. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
6. 1.3 billion
7. The declaration of human and citizen rights, issued during the French revolution.
8. Over 350
9. The United Nations
10. Experts and working groups that investigate Human rights violations at the national level and report them to the Human Rights Council
11. José Ayala Lasso
12. The Geneva Conventions

http://html.knowyourrights2008.org/en/universal-declaration-of-human-rights/take-the-quiz.html


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