True? Italian PM Berlusconi owns all TV stations & most Newspapers - Charged for Tax Fraud and Bribery - Legislate to avoid Courts

 

Ten of thousands of Italians have demonstrated in Rome against Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, over his attempts to evade justice.

Mr Berlusconi is on trial in two corruption cases.

But legislation being discussed in parliament would help him avoid court.

The protesters accuse the PM of seeking to undermine the legal system.

Banners said : "Enough, the law is the same for everyone."

"We are starved of legality,"

"Today, the real Taliban is Berlusconi''

 ''Berlusconi wants to tie hands of Magistrates."

Italy's National Association of Magistrates condemned Mr Berlusconi.

Mr Berlusconi is on trial for allegedly bribing British lawyer David Mills into providing false testimony in previous trials.

And for alleged tax fraud relating to business before he entered politics.

Two bills being considered by MPs would suspend legal proceedings.

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Microsoft was allowed by US court to shut down 277 internet domains so 90,000 PCs would stop help ''hackers'' to send out spam.

Microsoft has won court approval to shut down a global network of computers which it says is responsible for more than 1.5bn spam messages every day.

A recent analysis by the firm found that between 3rd and 21st December "approximately 651 million spam e-mails were sent by Waledac directed to Hotmail accounts alone.
   
Microsoft advises to STAY SAFE  ONLINE
Use anti-spyware and anti-virus programs
On at least a weekly basis update anti-virus and spyware products
Install a firewall and make sure it is switched on
Make sure updates to your operating system are installed
Take time to educate yourself and family about the risks
Monitor your computer and stay alert to threats

It said Waledac was one of the 10 largest botnets in the US.

Machines in a botnet have usually been infected by a computer virus or worm. Typically, users do not know their machine has been hijacked.

Microsoft said that although it had effectively shut down the network, thousands of computers would still be infected with malware and advised people to run anti-virus software.

The court order was part of what was called "Operation b49".

Along with intelligence organisation Shadowserver, the University of Washington and security firm Symantec, Microsoft managed to get a court in Alexandria, Virginia, to force Verisign, which manages the .com domain, to temporarily switch off the domains.

Microsoft said it was the result of months of investigation and described it as a legal first.

"This action has quickly and effectively cut off traffic to Waledac at the .com or domain registry level, severing the connection between the command and control centres of the botnet and most of its thousands of zombie computers around the world."

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Lasantha Wickramathunga murdered Lankan ''53rd World Press Freedom Hero'' of IPI & UN's World Press Freedom Prize 2009

Colombo Page reports, Lasantha Wickramathunga, of Sunday Leader was shot in January 2009 in broad daylight in Colombo,  Sri Lankan when he was on his way to his Newspaper office.

He wrote of the dirty tricks of government and the ruthless murder group Tamil Tigers who held the Tamils at gun point and shouted to the whole world it was fighting for the ''freedom of Tamils''.

Before his death he wrote accusing President Mahinda Rajapaksa of his murder.

The nomination of Lasantha Wickramathunga was unanimously approved by the five-member IPI World Press Freedom Hero jury, the IPI said.

He will be one of 60 World Press Freedom Heroes honoured in a ceremony to commemorate IPI's 60th year of defending press freedom worldwide, at the IPI World Congress in Vienna and Bratislava, from 11-14 September 2010.

The United Nations cultural and education agency UNESCO posthumously awarded the World Press Freedom Prize 2009 to Wickramathunga in April 2009

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Feb 18, 2010,''Colombo Page'' reports good news for North Lanka - Funds for Development and Promises from Prime Minister for Good Governance

பிரதமர் மகிந்த றாஜபக்ச அவர்களின் அறிவுரையினால், ''உதுறு வசந்தய'' என்னும் திட்டத்தின் கீழ் சுமார் மூன்று பிலியன் ரூபா பணத்தை யப்பான் வளங்கும் ---

சுமார் ஏழாயிரம் சதுர அடி கொண்ட நான்கு மாடி கட்டடத்தில் சகல வசதிகளும் கொண்ட அறுவை சிகிச்சை,
இருதய சிகிச்சை மற்றும் மூழை சக நரம்பு சிகிச்சை பகுதிகள் கொண்டிருக்கும் ---

உதுறு வசந்தய திட்டத்தின் கீழ் நூறு மிலியன் ரூபா பாடசாலைகளுக்கு ஓதுக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது ---

இத் தொகையில் இருபத்தி மூன்று பாடசாலைகள் உடனடியாக திருத்தப் படும்.

கொழும்பு நகரில் உள்ள 1,492 குடிசை வீடுகள் நகமு புறவற திட்டத்தில் புனரமைத்து ஆசியாவின் பெருமைக்குரிய நகரமாக்கப் படுமாம் !

கிழக்கில் பிள்ளையான் கட்சி வடக்கை சேர்ந்தோரை நிறுத்தி மந்திரி டக்லஸ் தேவானந்தா கட்சியுடன் போட்டியிடும் ---

ஓட்ட வீராங்கனை சுசிந்திக்கா ஜயஸிங்க காகல்லை பகுதியில் பிரதமர் மகிந்த வினது கட்சியில் போட்டி ---
          இவர் 2000-ம் சிட்னி ஓலிம்பிக்ஸ் ல் வெள்ளி
பதக்கம் எடுத்தாராம் --- அன்று இவர் இரண்டாவதாக ஓடி வெல்லவில்லை -- முதலாவதானவரது தங்கம் பறிபட்டதால் கிடைத்த பிறிக் வெற்றி ---
          கண்டி யை சேர்ந்த டங்கன் வய்யிற் 52  வருடங்கள் முன்னர் Hurdles பாய்ந்தோடி 1948 ல் லண்டன் ஓலிம்பிக்ஸில் வென்றதை நாம் மறக்கின்றோமே !

Senior DIG Gamini Navaratne தேர்தல் பொறுப்பாளர் ஓரு அவசியம் நாட்டுக்கு தேவையான புதிய நடவடிக்கையை அமுல் படுத்துகின்றார் ---
இன்று தொடக்கம் தேர்தல் முடியிம் வரை பேரணி ஊர்வலம் சகலவற்றையும் தடை செய்துள்ளார் ---

தேசிய தமிழ் கூட்டணியை விட்டு விலகிய தங்கேஸ்வரி கதிராமன் அரசாங்க கட்சியில் வாக்கு கேட்பாராம்.

Thangeswari Kathiraman, Pathmini Sithamparanathan, are S. Kajendran, S.Jeyanandamurthy, Sivanathan Kishor, T. Kanagasabai, S. Sathasivam. ஆகியோருக்கு  தலைவர் சம்பந்தன் ரற்ரா காட்டீற்ராம் !!!

  

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In 2007, Stan O’Neal got a “retirement package” of $161 million from Merrill Lynch it lost $12 billion in one year

Like all of us, President Barack Obama is angry how out of control executive bonus pay has become.

Then-Merrill Lynch Chairman and CEO John Thain, left, and then-Bank of America Chairman and CEO Ken Lewis shake hands after a 2008 news conference announcing the sale of post-meltdown Merrill Lynch.
Both men have been highly criticized for their performance as executives, and yet both have done quite well for themselves.

By Moshe Adler

When it came to bailed-out banks he used strong language.   He called them “fat cats” and “reckless.”
Obama now says that his new reform, giving shareholders a “say on pay,” will work because it will give shareholders the incentive to “mind the store.”

It won’t work.

Shareholders simply do not have the incentive, time or knowledge to mind the store, and say-on-pay won’t change this.

Why would a well-diversified shareholder, a person who has spread savings among a range of corporations and who therefore does not own more than a billionth of any single corporation, invest the time and money required in order to learn whether Smith at $150 million is a better CEO hire than Jones at only $125 million?

Is this supposed to be repeated for every corporation.

The financial institutions that own corporate stocks are themselves corporations with their own executives, and this means there are two layers of executives getting a cut.

In 2007, Stan O’Neal received a “retirement package” of $161 million after the institution he led, Merrill Lynch, lost $12 billion in one year. In 2006, Merrill Lynch had voted against any proposal that would have limited severance pay or tied pay to performance in all the corporations that its different mutual funds held.

A study of the 29 largest mutual funds in 2006 discovered that Merrill Lynch was not alone. More than three-quarters of the time, these funds voted for management-sponsored proposals regarding executive pay. There were exceptions, such as the fund of the teachers unions, TIAA-CREF, but these constituted a negligible minority.

and goes on to say ----

''Say-on-pay'' is a dog that won’t hunt.

The best we can hope for is that it won’t make things worse.

Boards of directors all too often fail to serve the interests of their corporations, but at least that is their legal duty.

Say-on-pay is an invitation for large stakeholders to launch partisan campaigns for executives who will do their bidding at the expense of the rest of the shareholders.

 

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The killing of opposition supporters in Guinea last year was a crime against humanity, the International Criminal Court has said.

The killing of opposition supporters in Guinea last year was a crime against humanity, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has said.

The deputy prosecutor of the ICC, Fatou Bensouda, made the statement in Guinea after a preliminary investigation into the deaths in the capital, Conakry.

Security forces have been blamed for the killings of more than 150 people at an opposition rally on 28 September.

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Chief Minister Chandrakanthan (P9llaiyan) together with National Integration Minister Vinayagamoorthi Muralitharan were believed to have supported and worked closely with the army by providing information relating to the LTTE as they themselves were

14 persons, who had supported apolitical Common Candidate Gen. Sarath Fonseka at the presidential election detained by the CID alleging they had conspired against the state, have been released without any conditions by the Colombo Magistrate.
 
Magistrate of Colombo Ms. Champa Janaki Rajaratne made this order when the suspects who were detained under detention orders were produced before Court today (17th). The Magistrate made the order as the CID was unable to produce any charges against the suspects.
 
Among the 14 persons released by the Magistrate are 13 retired Majors and a civilian.

Former Presidential Candidate General Sarath Fonseka, who is now under detention, can seek redress at an Appeals Court if he is not satisfied with the Court Martial proceedings, Minister G.L. Pieris said, according to the government information department.

Sri Lanka cricketer Sanath Jayasuriya will embark on a political career by taking part in the upcoming parliamentary polls on April 8.
Jayasuriya is seeking to become a Member of Parliament under the ruling coalition United People Freedom Alliance (UPFA) in the south coast district of Matara, his hometown.
The 40-year-old was recently dropped from the Sri Lanka ODI team but he has no plans to end his cricketing career despite his entry into politics.
"I have no plans to retire from international cricket at this stage as I believe I can successfully balance the workload of playing for Sri Lanka while also serving the people of Matara as an MP," Jayasuriya said on Thursday.
"It has been an honour representing Sri Lanka on the cricket field during the past 21 years and after careful consideration I believe now is the right time for me to serve the people of Matara."
Jayasuriya's marathon international cricket career started in 1989 and has spanned 110 Tests and a record 444 one-day internationals

The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) today informed court that they had recorded a statement from General Sarath Fonseka regarding the granting of approval on four suspicious tenders whilst serving as the chairman of the tender board.

When the inquiry into the HiCorp case was taken up before Colombo Fort Magistrate Ms. Lanka Jayaratne today, the CID informed that they recorded a statement from General Fonseka last Sunday, but stated that he was unaware about the owners of British Borneo Defense Company and HiCorp Ltd Company.

General Fonseka had further informed CID that he had followed the relevant procedure into four concerned tenders following the approval of Technical Evaluation Board.

Eastern Province Chief Minister Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan (Pillaiyan)  conceded that General Sarath Fonseka is a “war hero” because he played a key role in defeating the LTTE and did his best for the nation.

In an interview with Daily Mirror Online, the Chief Minister said that as an army commander, General Sarath Fonseka performed his duties well, especially during the stages of the war.

Chief Minister Chandrakanthan (P9llaiyan)  together with National Integration Minister Vinayagamoorthi Muralitharan were believed to have supported and worked closely with the army by providing information relating to the LTTE as they themselves were former LTTE cadres

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