Thursday, 20 November 2014

SPAIN DUCHESS ALBA IS DEAD


Maria del Rosario Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart had more titles than any other aristocrat and owned palaces and an extensive property portfolio as well as paintings by Goya and Velazquez.
She died at home on Thursday after a short illness.
The duchess is survived by her husband of three years, Alfonso Diez, who is 25 years her junior.
The Duchess of Alba was the head of one of Spain's oldest noble families.

The frizzy-haired eccentric aristocrat was one of Spain's most-loved figures whose antics filled the nation's gossip magazines and gripped the audiences of TV chat shows even during the final months of her long life.
Described as the "rebel noble", she spurned convention to forge her own path in life, following her passion for flamenco and, as a patron of the arts, amassing a private collection of masterpieces said to rival any in Europe.
Her exuberant character, complete with squeaky voice and flamboyant dress-sense, enraptured Spaniards who followed the vicissitudes of her 88 years.
The Duchess of Alba, seen here in 1947, had bequeathed her inheritance to her six children
Once a famed beauty who turned down a request to be Picasso's muse, she shocked the establishment when she married her confessor, a defrocked Jesuit priest, in 1978, six years after the death of her first husband with whom she had six children.
But it was her third marriage to a civil servant 25 years her junior in 2011 that provoked an even bigger scandal, a union that was opposed by her children as well as King Juan Carlos of Spain, but that was welcomed by Spaniards as a colourful drama.

Wednesday, 19 November 2014

Jule Bianchi F1 Driver out of coma

Jules BianchiThe Marussia driver, 25, suffered severe head injuries when he crashed in wet conditions into a recovery vehicle at the Japanese GP on 5 October.
The Frenchman has been flown from hospital in Yokkaichi to intensive care in Nice, where he arrived earlier.
However his condition is still "critical" and he remains unconscious.
"Almost seven weeks after Jules' accident at Suzuka Circuit, and following a challenging period of neurological intensive care, we are able to announce Jules has made an important step," his parents Philippe and Christine Bianchi said in the statement.
"His treatment now enters a new phase concerned with the improvement of his brain function.
"Although the situation continues to be serious, and may remain so, it was decided that Jules was sufficiently stable to be repatriated to his native France."
Bianchi suffered a diffuse axonal injury  when he crashed into a tractor vehicle at Suzuka that was recovering Adrian Sutil's Sauber
The Marussia team ran with one car at the Russian Grand Prix in Sochi the following week, where Lewis Hamilton dedicated his win to Bianchi.
His parents praised the "outstanding care" Bianchi received following the accident from doctors at the Mie General Medical Centre in Yokkaichi, adding they owed "an enormous debt of gratitude".
"We are thankful the next phase of Jules' treatment can continue close to home, where he can be surrounded and supported by his wider family and friends," they said.
Since the crash, Formula 1's governing body the FIA has begun working on a plan for a 'virtual safety car' to force drivers to slow for warning flags in an accident zone.
Drivers tested such a car

Tuesday, 18 November 2014

Ivory coast_Abijan

Soldiers blocked roads in the main city Abidjan and the second city Bouake to demand unpaid allowances.
Mr Koffi promised that he would address their grievances.
It is the biggest protest involving the Ivorian military since President Alassane Ouattara took office in 2011, ending a civil war.
Bouake is a stronghold of the president, and the protest there suggests he is losing the confidence of some loyalists, correspondents say.
Soldiers sealed off roads around the offices of the national radio and television station in the city, said a witness, who spoke to the BBC on condition of anonymity.
Health care demand The protest forced shops and banks in the city to close, the witness added.
Ivory Coast's President Alassane Ouattara (standing) gestures as he reviews troops on 7 August 2014 in the courtyard of the presidential palace in Abidjan President Ouattara's rise to power ended conflict in Ivory Coast
In Abidjan, soldiers demonstrated near an army base in the neighbourhood of Abobo.
"The soldiers are on the streets," Reuters news agency quoted a witness as saying.
"They used tyres, old cars, everything they could find to block the road. You can't get in. All the shops are closed," the witness said.
There were also protests in three other cities, including Daloa, a hub of Ivory Coast's cocoa industry, according to Reuters.
Speaking on state television, Mr Koffi said he would hold talks with the soldiers to find "a definitive solution" to their demands for back-pay.
Reuters said Mr Koffi acknowledged that the government had agreed to pay them housing allowances, overdue travel stipends and to allocate money for soldiers' health care.
Mr Ouattara took power in 2011 after his then rebel forces, backed by UN and French troops, captured his predecessor Laurent Gbagbo.
Mr Gbagbo had refused to step down despite the UN declaring Mr Ouattara the winner of presidential elections the previous year.
About 3,000 people were killed in the conflict between the two sides.
Mr Gbagbo is in the custody of the International Criminal Court. He is due to go on trial next year on charges of crimes against humanity, which he denies.

Thursday, 13 November 2014

Princess Diana Funeral - Elton John - Candle In The Wind (Goodbye Englan...

"Candle in the Wind 1997" is a re-written and re-recorded version of
Elton John's 1973 hit song "Candle in the Wind". It was released on 13
September 1997 as a tribute single to the late Diana, Princess of Wales.
In many countries it was pressed a double A-side with "Something About
the Way You Look Tonight". It was produced by Sir George Martin.

Philae(spacececraft)

Philae   is a robotic European Space Agency lander that accompanied the Rosetta spacecraft  until its designated landing on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko (67P), more than ten years after departing Earth. ] On 12 November 2014, the lander achieved the first-ever controlled touchdown on a comet nucleus.  Its instruments are expected to obtain the first images from a comet's surface and make the first in situ analysis to determine its composition. Philae is tracked and operated from the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) at Darmstadt, Germany. 
The lander is named after Philae Island in the Nile, where an obelisk was found and used, along with the Rosetta Stone, to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics.Philae '​s mission is to land successfully on the surface of a comet, attach itself, and transmit data from the surface about the comet's composition. Unlike the Deep Impact probe, which by design struck comet Tempel 1's nucleus on 4 July 2005, Philae is not an impactor. Some of the instruments and the lander were used for the first time as autonomous systems during the Mars flyby on 25 February 2009. ÇIVA, the camera system, returned some images while the Rosetta instruments were powered down; ROMAP took measurements of the Martian magnetosphere. Most of the other instruments need contact with the surface for analysis and stayed offline during the flyby. An optimistic estimate of mission length is "four to five months".

US PARCIPATITION IN THE CENTAL AFRICA WAR

https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTeGDGZIzKmonME1KYyT9pdRyToGTkhqf-RlEKCqSA91sllGbbIInaccord to [Keith Harmon Snow]   “Hillary Clinton.  should be indicted for war crimes. She should be brought up in a criminal tribunal and put on the stand. And we should be told who was involved in the war crimes in Central Africa from 1994 to 2001. And the assassination of all these people and the massive killings. So we can name these officials. Susan Rice is another one. She’s the architect. Susan Rice and a guy named Roger Winter are the architects of genocide in Rwanda. They should not be in the foreign policy establishment in any sense of the word. And, by the way, this is exactly what we’ve seen going down in Sudan. It’s a guerilla war, it’s backed by the Pentagon. It’s using Uganda as a proxy army, and also Chad and also Egypt. And creating this propaganda that the government of Sudan is creating genocide. When, in fact, we are all over it. It doesn’t look like that at all. It’s war. It’s open war.”

The genousite in RWANDA

The Pentagon invaded Rwanda using Uganda. There were almost no Rwandans involved in the invasion of Rwanda from 1990 to 1994. The idea that there were all these Tutsis in exile who deserted. That’s the whole Jews thing. The Jews are a people without a State. They made this article up about the Tutsis. A people without a State. So the Tutsis have been given this moral currency as being supposedly the victims of genocide. To get away with absolute murder. And we’re talking from 1990 to 1994. Millions and millions of people being killed in Uganda, Rwanda and Congo, because of this relationship. And so Kagame, and Paul Kabarbai, and Lawrence Nkunda and some other top officials are responsible for some of the worst crimes against humanity, genocide and war crimes in the history of the world. And this is completely unknown. Because as soon as someone like me and you or anyone, especially a Rwandan comes along and says this they are accused of genocide and they’re accused of being a genocide denier. Because the average listener out there has heard over and over and over again, through the media, through Hollywood, through Philip Gourevitch, through The New Yorker, etc. etc., that there was one hundred days of genocide. 800,000 Tutsis were killed. And the Kagame regime stopped the genocide. Which is completely upside down. And so today you’ve got Kagame, he sent out three hundred agents in the world, they’re tracking down anyone who speaks against the Kagame regime. As they just did with this professor from [Inaudible] College, in West Virginia, in the United States who was just arrested and targeted by the Kagame regime and never involved in genocide. There is no remote connection with this poor fellow, with genocide in Rwanda. And this is how the Kagame machine, with its very tight relationships with Clinton officials and Bush officials.