Saturday, 10 May 2014

Lawyer for doctor in Bin Laden case quits after death threats


Lawyer Samiullah Afridi, the lawyer for a doctor accused of helping the US find Osama Bin Laden has quit the case after receiving frequent death threats and fled to Dubai due to his safety.

Dr Shakil Afridi is accused of using the cover of a door-to-door vaccination campaign to help the US find Bin Laden which led to the raid that killed him in 2011.

Dr Shakil Afridi was convicted of alleged ties to militant groups and sentenced to 33 years in jail by a tribal court in 2012. The sentence was widely seen as punishment for his alleged role in the Bin Laden raid, which he denies.


The story of Alibaba - From English teacher to billionaire


Jack Ma went from English teacher to billionaire with Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce company he co-founded. Also the Alibaba chairman, Ma now has a higher net worth than U.S. moguls such as Google's Eric Schmidt (worth $8.5 billion) and Tesla's Elon Musk (worth $8.8 billion).

The firm has been a dominant force in e-commerce in China and is now the biggest online retailer in the country. The firm generated revenues of 40.5bn yuan ($6.5bn; £3.8bn) in the nine months to the end of December 2013, making a net profit of $2.9bn.

Ma created the company with $60,000 in cash, gathered from 80 friends, back in 1999.  He created a basic web page for a Chinese translation service with a friend, which received a global response within hours. He then left teaching to set up an online business.

Ma holds a mass wedding annually for Alibaba employees and employees can apply for interest-free loans to buy first homes.

Apple buying Beats Electronics for $3.2 billion


Apple is proposing a $3.2 billion deal to acquire Beats Electronics LLC, the high-end headphone maker that recently launched the Beats Music subscription service.

Beats was founded by music industry veteran Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre, the hip-hop producer and artist.

Apple and Beats declined to comment on the potential deal, which was earlier reported by the Financial Times.

Michelle Obama outraged at abduction of girls but ....


Michelle Obama has come out full guns blazing, talking about how the recent mass kidnap of Nigerian girls is part of a wider pattern of threats and intimidation facing girls around the world who pursue an education.

She said that she and her husband were outraged and heart broken over the abduction of more than 200 girls from their school.

Here she is, carrying the flag of justice with her husband who presses the kill switch to allow drone strikes over innocent women and children in Pakistan and other Middle eastern countries which has claimed countless lives over the years but the Obamas were never outraged at those events cause they were probably not worthy to enter the media frenzy phase mixed with celebs and hashtags to just show how serious this is getting.

I mean "hashtags", you all know its extremely serious when celebrities sitting around the globe in their million dollar villas start posting selfies with words written on cardboard papers to show they actually care because this time it isn't an American drone bombing someone so they can all breathe a sigh of relief and jump on the hooey bandwagon and get some good publicity after all their antics of renting out prostitutes and going to strip clubs. 

All this does seem like a cool flick which could enter the next best precarious hogwash category for the Oscars which could be hosted by the eccentric Kim Jong-un himself so that we could find out just how lovely all these tyrannical hypocrites look together on stage singing "cry me a river" duet.

Thursday, 8 May 2014

Journalists fight on air over Syria



 Journalists fight on air video

Two Jordanian Journalists Shaker al-Johari and Mohammad al-Jayousi were debating the conflict when the fight broke out on air.

Al-Jayousi accused al-Johari of supporting the revolution in Syria, and was in turn accused of backing President Bashar al-Assad in exchange for money.

No major harm was done as both were taken away from each other by people on the set.