Congratulations for visiting Bangladesh. I like to draw your kind attention that my daddy Mr. M Ilias Ali, ex parliament member is a patriotic political leader and Organizing Secretary of Bangladesh nationalist party (BNP). On 17, April 2012 he was kidnapped at around midnight by some unknown thugs. No one is able to give my daddy back to me, It has been too long since he last kissed me. Everyday before going to school, He used to kiss me but now there is none. I feel very sad and lonely. My world is empty without my dad. I know you love the people of Bangladesh very much. You are also a mother. I want to hug and kiss him again. I firmly believe that if govt is interested then my dad will soon come back to me. So please raise the issue to the govt of Bangladesh and help them to get my dad.
Wish you a brilliant success.
Best regards,
Saiara Nawal
Daughter of M Ilias Ali
This above letter has been written by Saira Nawal, who is the daughter of M Illias Ali, Ex-Member of Bangladesh Parliament and political leader and Organizing Secretary of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). Since he kidnapped, she is missing her father too much. And also expressed what is she feeling for her father. Saira Nawal wrote this letter to the USA Foreign Minister Hillary Clinton, wife of former USA President Bill Clinton. Recently she visited at Dhaka officially.
Elias Ali is the recent kidnapping case. Elias Ali, Ex-Member of Bangladesh Parliament and political leader and Organizing Secretary of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) is missing from 17, April 2012 he was kidnapped at around midnight by some unknown thugs and his family and other's suspected that he has kidnapped and they are also suspecting that some members of Bangladesh Awami League (BAL) is involved in it.
Recently a lots of people's dead when they has been Kidnapped. Home Minister and Prime minister told that, "The people who got murdered after kidnapping was terrorists in before." What rubbish?
What will we give reply to Saira? And what will we reply to Megh? Did you guys forgot about him? The only child of Sagar-Runi who has been killed recently at their own flat. Shagar-Runi murder case is not justifying properly. Police, RAB and Government have the clue. But they are not trying so hard because snake will comes out if they do so.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Told that, "Government can't watch over someone's bedroom." What was that?
You guys just tell me what will I say then? A lots of things influenced me to say that "Revolution is coming". I don't want to go to jail that's why I don't want to see our Political leaders to be dead.
Change we need. And Yes we can. We have to prove that. Otherwise I will wish to ALLAH that he give death of our 160 million people. Only it can solve the problem.
And by the way, Bangladesh Awami League told that "160 Million people of Bangladesh is in their side." Also Bangladesh Nationalist Party told that "160 Million people of Bangladesh is in their side."
It means Bangladesh is a well populated country with 320 Million people!
Am I out of the 160 Million? Are you in this 160 Million?
The House of Representatives has approved CISPA with a vote count of 248-168. The bill is now headed for the Senate. President Barack Obama will be able to sign or cancel it pending Senate approval.
Initially slated to vote on the bill Friday, it decided to pass it Thursday after approving a number of amendments.
The snap vote took place after Congressional legislators approved a number of amendments to CISPA. Apart from cyber and national security purposes, the bill would now allow the government to use private information obtained through CISPA for the investigation and prosecution of “cybersecurity crime,” protection of individuals and the protection of children. The new clauses define “cybersecurity crime” as any crime involving network disruption or hacking.
CISPA was introduced in the House last November. Since then, a number of amendments have been adopted. Critics chided the bill, saying its broad wording could allow the government to spy on individual Internet users and block websites that publish vaguely defined ‘sensitive’ data. The White House issued a statement Wednesday saying President Barack Obama would be advised to veto the bill if he receives it.
Have you received an email from "Helen Smith (Ms.) CPA" at "AMERICAN MEGA MILLIONS LOTTERY" telling you that "your email address won in the second category" or something similar, and to contact "Mr.PHILIPS GEORGE" to collect your winnings? It is a scam. No legitimate, legal lottery notifies winners via email (see footnote) The scammers may change the names and details, but it is still a scam! There are plenty of other clues... such as a phone number in Philadelphia (area code 215) yet an address in Waco, Texas!
Below is another example of a fake lottery; this email claims to be from the "AMERICAN MEGA MILLIONS LOTTERY".
Although the most important clue is that no legitimate lottery will ever email a winner, there are many other signs that this is a fraud. We have highlighted some of these in the email below, not the least of which are:
Email address ballot: There is no such thing as a "computer ballot system" or "computer email draw". No one, not even Microsoft has a database of email addresses of the type or magnitude they suggest.
Terrible spelling, punctuation, syntax and grammar - Scammers apparently don't know how to use spell checkers. We assume they dropped out of school before that class. They use almost excessive and random CapItaLiZAtion. They often can't even spell "February" or know that "22th" ought to be "22nd". These scammers usually write at the 3rd grade level. Being non-native English speakers, they also often get first names and surnames (last names reversed), so you will frequently see names like "Mr. SMITH JAMES.", instead of "Mr. James Smith", along with the peculiar usage of periods (full stops) and spaces or the lack thereof. Real lotteries also proofread their emails and look and read more professional.
Using free email account: The scammer is writing to you from a FREE email account (Yahoo, Hotmail, Excite, AIM, Gmail, etc.). Don't you think a real organization would use its own email, its own domain and website?
Keep Confidential - Real lotteries THRIVE on publicity - they don't want you to keep anything secret - the publicity causes people to buy more tickets. there is NO risk of "double claiming" because they can validate where the ticket numbers were sold. The scammer want you to keep quiet because they don't want the police or ConsumerFraudreporting to hear about them! It should read: "For our own security, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential until we have finished scamming you!"
Email notification: NO REAL LOTTERY SENDS AN EMAIL TO NOTIFY WINNERS. Period. Full-stop. End of story. There mere fact ALONE that you received an email saying you won a lottery is proof that it is a scam.
Here is a typical scam lottery winning notification.
Actual scam email (One example - the scammers constantly change names, dates and addresses!):
AMERICAN MEGA MILLIONS LOTTERY.
17740 Preston RD, Dallas, Texas 75252.
AMERICAN MEGA MILLIONS Are Affiliate of MEGA Millions Jackpot
Attention,
CONGRATULATIONS: YOU WON $2,500,000.00.
We are pleased to inform you of the result of American Mega Millions Lottery, which was held earlier this month. Your e-mail address attached to e-ticket number: 25-64-46-74-11 (03-07), with Prize Number (match 8): 0073627169 drew a prize of $2,500,000.00. (Two Million Five Hundred Thousand, American Dollars Only) This lucky draw came first in the 4th Category of the Sweepstake.
You will receive the sum of $2,500,000.00 from our authorized bank. Because of some mix-up with sweepstake prizes, including the limited time placed on the payment of your prize of $2,500,000.00 we advice that you keep all information about this prize confidential until your winning prize of $2,500,000.00. (Two Million Five Hundred Thousand, American Dollars Only) have been transferred to you by the authorized paying bank. You must adhere to this instruction, strictly, to avoid any delay with the release of your winning to you in person. This program has been abused severally in past, so we are doing our best to forestall further occurrence of false claims.
This sweepstake was conducted under the watchful eyes of 8,000 spectators. Your e-mail address attached to e-ticket number: 25-64-46-74-11 (03-07), was selected and; it came out first by an electronic-ballot draw from over 250,000 e-mail addresses (personal and corporate e-mail addresses). This program is sponsored by CFI to compensate faithful internet suffers around the globe. Congratulations for becoming one of the few lucky winners.
With your permission, your e-mail will also be included in the next sweepstake of 200 Million American Dollars. You must claim your prize: $2,500,000.00. Not later than 7-days from the moment you receive this e-mail. In order to avoid unnecessary delays with your claim from the bank; please contact your claims officer below, and quote your winning and personal information now, and in all your correspondence with the claims officer. Here is the contact information:
Claims Manager:
Mr.PHILIPS GEORGE
American Mega Millions Lottery Claims Department
300 South 5th Street, Waco, Texas 76701
E-mails: ammlphilips@aol.com
TEL/FAX: 001 215 326 2589
Furnish them with the following:
VERIFICATION FORM:
1.) FULL NAME:
2.) AGE:
3.) SEX:
4.) ADDRESS:
5.) ZIP/POSTAL CODE:
6.) STATE/PROVINCE:
7.) COUNTRY:
8.) PHONE:
9.) OCCUPATION/POSITION:
10.) COMPANY:
11.) EMAIL ADDRESS:
12.) E-TICKET NUMBER:
(Including amount won and how you intend to receive the amount you won).
Failure to provide the above details might result to the disqualification of your winning so kindly adhere to the simple instructions
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — The tornado hurtled toward the nursing home. Physical therapist Patti Gilroy said she saw the swirling mass barreling down through the back door, after she herded patients into the hallway in the order trained: walkers, wheelchairs, then beds.
"It wasn't like a freight train like everybody says it is," said Gilroy, who rounded up dozens to safety at Green Oaks Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. "It sounded like a bomb hit. And we hit the floor, and everybody was praying. It was shocking."
Texas Army National Guard Cpl. Brock Fischer of Charlie Troop, 3-124 Cav., searches a vehicle in front of a tornado damaged home Tuesday, April 3, 2012, in Forney, Texas. Tornadoes tore through the Dallas area Tuesday, peeling roofs off homes, tossing big-rig trucks into the air and leaving flattened tractor trailers strewn along highways and parking lots. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
The National Weather Service said as many as a dozen twisters touched down in a wrecking-ball swath of violent weather that stretched across Dallas and Fort Worth. The destructive reminder of a young tornado season Tuesday left thousands without power and hundreds of homes pummeled or worse.
As the sun rose Wednesday over the southern Dallas suburb of Lancaster, one of the hardest hit areas, it was clear that twisters had bounced in and out of neighborhoods, destroying homes at random. Vehicles were tossed like toys, coming to rest in living rooms and bedrooms.
At one house, a tornado had seemingly dipped into the building like an immersion blender, spinning directly down through an upstairs bedroom and wreaking havoc in the family room below before lifting straight back up and away. A grandfather clock leaned slightly but otherwise stood pristine against a wall at the back of the downstairs room that was filled with smashed furniture and fallen support beams.
Despite the intensity of the slow-moving storms, only a handful of people were hurt, a couple of them seriously, and no fatalities were reported as of late Tuesday.
The Red Cross estimated that 650 homes were damaged. Around 150 Lancaster residents stayed in a shelter Tuesday night.
"I guess 'shock' is probably a good word," Lancaster Mayor Marcus Knight said.
The exact number of tornadoes won't be known until surveyors have fanned across North Texas, looking for clues among the debris that blanketed yards and rooftops peeled off slats.
April is typically the worst month in a tornado season that stretches from March to June, but Tuesday's outburst suggests that "we're on pace to be above normal," said National Weather Service meteorologist Matt Bishop.
An entire wing at the Green Oaks nursing home in Arlington crumbled. Stunning video from Dallas showed big-rig trailers tossed into the air and spiraling like footballs. At the Cedar Valley Christian Center church in Lancaster, Pastor Glenn Young said he cowered in a windowless room with 30 children from a daycare program, some of them newborns.
Ten people in Lancaster were injured, two of them severely, said Lancaster police officer Paul Beck. Three people were injured in Arlington, including two Green Oaks residents taken to a hospital with minor injuries, Arlington Assistant Fire Chief Jim Self said.
Gilroy said the blast of wind through Green Oaks lasted about 10 seconds. She described one of her co-workers being nearly "sucked out" while trying to get a patient out of the room at the moment the facility was hit.
Joy Johnston was also there, visiting her 79-year-old sister.
"Of course the windows were flying out, and my sister is paralyzed, so I had to get someone to help me get her in a wheelchair to get her out of the room," she said.
In one industrial section of Dallas, rows of empty tractor-trailers crumpled like soda cans littered a parking lot.
"The officers were watching the tornadoes form and drop," Kennedale police Chief Tommy Williams said. "It was pretty active for a while."
Most of Dallas was spared the full wrath of the storm. Yet in Lancaster, television helicopters panned over exposed homes without roofs and flattened buildings. Residents could be seen walking down the street with firefighters and peering into homes, looking at the damage after the storm passed.
Hundreds of flights into and out of Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and Dallas Love Field were canceled or diverted elsewhere Tuesday. About 500 flights remained grounded Wednesday, airport officials said.
The storms knocked out power for thousands. Utility Oncor said nearly 14,000 homes and businesses, mainly in the Arlington area, still had no electricity early Wednesday.
Meteorologists said the storms were the result of a slow-moving storm system centered over northern New Mexico.
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Dixon reported from Lancaster. Associated Press writers Nomaan Merchant, Terry Wallace and David Koenig in Dallas, Betsy Blaney in Lubbock, Angela K. Brown in Fort Worth and Robert Ray in Lancaster contributed to this report.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Down & dirty done, He already sleeps with the fish....
** Fred's Note: Although I don't really give a rats ass, it seems to me that by dropping the corpse in the ocean, the body will come back to haunt us....gotta be violating some sort of obscure heathen religious rule that will inflame islam? I was sleeping thru that class at Langley.
The US Govt needs to make body pics available like the MX's do, with OBL's pants pulled down, to shout down the lunatics like Alex Jones and Glenn Beck.
To analysts@stratfor.com, friedman@att.blackberry.net
List-Name analysts@stratfor.com
Body is Dover bound, should be here by now.
On 5/2/2011 6:35 AM, George Friedman wrote:
Eichmann was seen alive for many months on trial before being sentenced to death and executed. No one wanted a monument to him so they cremated him. But i dont know anyone who claimed he wasnt eicjhman. No comparison with suddenly burying him at sea without any chance to view him which i doubt happened.
Though it's nothing new for WikiLeaks to publish information belonging to a private company, Monday's release of Stratfor e-mails might be an indication that for the first time, Anonymous and WikiLeaks have worked together. And that could have legal consequences for WikiLeaks' editor Julian Assange, experts say.
In December, Anonymous claimed it had hacked Stratfor, the Austin, Texas-based private company that produces intelligence reports for clients. On Monday, WikiLeaks began releasing 5 million e-mails it said belonged to Stratfor that reveal, WikiLeaks says, a litany of injustices by the company. WikiLeaks is calling the leak The Global Intelligence Files.
WikiLeaks has not said where it got the e-mails. Anonymous, an amorphous group of hackers worldwide, is claiming on Twitter and on other social media that they gave it to the site. Numerous media outlets such as the Washington Post and Wired are reporting the partnership.
"Their [WikiLeaks and Anonymous] working together made sense. Anonymous did the hack, had the stuff and in the end decided that someone else would be better-suited to comb through this and release it," said Gregg Housh, who acts as a spokesperson for Anonymous. "Anonymous just didn't have the ability to go through all the e-mails themselves. This was a happy partnership. WikiLeaks did such an awesome job categorizing the [State Department] cables."
WikiLeaks became megawatt famous in 2010 with the Iraq and Afghanistan war leaks, and then followed up by leaking nearly a quarter million State Department cables. Meanwhile, Anonymous was making its first international headlines by disabling the Web sites of MasterCard, PayPal and Visa when the corporations stopped doing business with WikiLeaks. With intense attention on WikiLeaks and Assange's subsequent legal woes, it seemed that Anonymous might take over if WikiLeaks couldn't survive. Assange last year said that he had nothing to do with the site disabling of the companies.
Housh is a web developer in Boston and says that he observes Anonymous' IRC chat portal and communicates with anons but he doesn't participate in any hacks. Through Housh, CNN has requested phone interviews with anons, people who associate themselves with Anonymous. On Monday those requests were rebuffed – although across the Web, anons claimed credit for the Stratfor hack. The hackers behind the Stratfor hack may be part of an Anonymous sect called "Anti-Sec," which Wired reports is known for hacking into servers.
Stratfor confirmed Monday that company e-mails had been stolen, but said in a statement that some of the messages may have been altered.
Because the Global Intelligence Files are allegedly stolen from a private company, WikiLeaks could likely be held liable for that theft, said Hemu Nigam who has worked for two decades in computer security.
"There's a huge difference between publishing information and publishing information you know to be stolen," said Nigam, who has collaborated with the U.S. Secret Service, Interpol and the FBI to implement a hacker identification program for Microsoft. He now runs SSP Blue, an advisory firm that tells major corporations how to protect against hackers and insiders looking to leak. "There are a host of criminal statues that I have no doubt Stratfor's attorneys are going over thinking about how best to sue WikiLeaks. Information that is privately owned is not the same as information that is public, that essentially belongs to the public."
Hemu says that it appears to him that the 5 million e-mails were taken by a hacker who penetrated an unprotected server and copied the entire server. "Any company that's keeping valuable or confidential information has to take a multilayered approach to Internet security," Nigam said. "There are so many ways to access a system, and a company has to stay several steps ahead of all of them."
The Stratfor leak isn't the first time that WikiLeaks has published information from a private company, said Rebecca Jeschke of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which defends free speech and online privacy. In 2008, Swiss bank Julius Baer filed suit in federal district court in California against WikiLeaks for hosting 14 allegedly leaked documents regarding personal banking transactions of bank customers. According to Jeschke, Baer ultimately moved to dismiss the case.
Hacker group Anonymous began its promised week of Christmas hacks, assaulting a long list of targets. The first Anonymous hack resulted in stolen emails and credit card data from Stratfor, an Austin-based think tank that concentrates on security issues.
A Twitter account associated with "Anonymous" celebrated the Christmas-Day hacking of security group Stratfor.
One alleged conspirator said the goal was to use that credit card data to steal a million dollars, and give the money away as Christmas donations, the AP reports. Online images, posted to Twitter, show receipts from the donations.
Twitter account @YourAnonNews, which is supposedly linked to the group, tweeted Sunday that the reason it was able to steal the credit card data was because it had not been encrypted by Stratfor -- an embarrassing mistake for a company specializing in security.
Among the private clients on Stratfor's tightly-guarded list -- whose information Anonymous says it accessed -- are the U.S. Army, the U.S. Air Force and the Miami Police Department. The list also includes banks, law enforcement agencies, defense contractors, and technology firms such as Apple and Microsoft, the AP reports.
'Anonymous' hackers attack intel company
Anonymous also posted images showing receipts of charitable donations made to non-profits. One theft victim, Alan Barr of Austin, did not know his credit card data had been stolen until an AP reporter called him for comment.
"It was all charities, the Red Cross, CARE, Save the Children. So when the credit card company called my wife she wasn't sure whether I was just donating," Barr said.
@YourAnonNews tweeted that Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, Kim Kardashian and Taylor Swift were among the next targets.
What do you think of Anonymous's ironic first target of the week?
Who's next?
UPDATE: A press release is circulating, saying that the Stratfor hack is not the work of Anonymous. However, it is difficult to tell who is correct.
The assumption that the US has the technological know-how to cripple a competing nation has always been just that: as assumption. In a recent sit-down interview, however, a former spy chief confirmed that America has already waged cyber attacks.
Confirmed: US has already waged cyberattacks
Mike McConnell, the former director of national intelligence at the National Security Agency under George W Bush, tells Reuters this week that cyber war is more than a distant possibility. According to the current vice chairman at Booz Allen Hamilton, the US has already launched attacks on the computer networks of other nations.
McConnell did not add any input as to what countries have been hit with American cyber warfare in the past, but he did confirm that the US has already used the ability. When asked by Reuters if the United States had the capability to destroy the computer system of an adversary, McConnell responded “Yes.” When asked if it worked, he confirmed “yes” as well.
"Do we have the ability to attack, degrade or destroy? Sure. If you do that, what are the consequences? That is the question,” added McConnell.
Although the former spy chief neglected to name any countries that have been the target of American attacks, the US is believed by some to be the culprit behind a virus that targeted computer systems in Iran in 2010. Stuxnet, an advanced computer worm discovered in June of that year, impacted the computers used in conjunction with Iran’s nuclear program. In a January 2011 article in the New York Times, an American nuclear intelligence expert speaking on condition of anonymity said that the Israelis were behind Stuxnet, placing the blame on one of America’s most important allies. The expert adds in the article that Israel did indeed work hand-in-hand with the US in perfect Stuxnet before sending it to the Iranian networks, but that Washington wanted “plausible deniability.”
Other sources have since all but confirmed America’s involvement in the worm. German cyber security expert Ralph Langner told National Public Radio last year that the virus seemed like something out of science fiction, but added that, "Thinking about it for another minute, if it's not aliens, it's got to be the United States.” He went on to call the US “the leading force” behind Stuxnet, an assumption that many in Iran believe as well. While the Iranians have never officially recognized retaliation on their part, rumors of revenge via cyberwar have been rampant in recent weeks, particularly after news broke out of Mexico last month that hackers south of the border were being recruited by Iran to participate in an infiltration of American computers.
Before it launched an airstrike` attack on Libya in 2011, a cyberattack was considered as a route to oust Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, an Obama official said to the New York Times last year. In the end, however, America relied on other techniques. “These cybercapabilities are still like the Ferrari that you keep in the garage and only take out for the big race and not just for a run around town, unless nothing else can get you there,” the insider, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the Times.
On November 21st, America, UK and Canada announced more sanctions against Iran. France also proposed to adopt new sanctions to force Tehran to stop it's nuclear project. On Nov 23rd, the spokesman of Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s Foreign Ministry said in a regular press conference held in Beijing that China is opposed to unilateral sanctions against Iran.
Scholars believe that, being isolated, China and Iran need mutual support. Meanwhile, the CCP government, with internal and external difficulties, may express an even tougher diplomatic "voice".
"Reuters" reported on Nov 23rd: "The United States, UK and Canada have announced new sanctions against Iran in the areas of energy and finance. France proposed
'unprecedented' new sanctions, including freezing the assets of the Central Bank of Iran and suspending the purchase of Iran's oil.
Earlier, the "International Atomic Energy Agency" (IAEA) ad issued a report that Iran may be secretly developing nuclear weapons.
On Nov 23rd, the CCP's Foreign Ministry expressed opposition to the imposition of unilateral sanctions against Iran.
In this regard, Xia Ming, a political professor from "City University of New York" in America, believes that since the Cold War, the United States and Western
society's biggest challenges have been seen as being from China and Iran. They are both isolated by the United States and the West. Therefore, China's policy is foreseeable.
Xia Ming says: "China and Iran are facing strong Western challenges within politics, economy and culture. So these two countries basically have a kind of coordinatio
on the international stage, to support each other. So we can see that China and Iran coordinate a lot, with a lot of cooperation in matters of energy, arms and so on."
"Associated Press" also reported on Nov 23rd: "Since 2006, the United Nations have carried out 4 rounds of sanctions against Iran. But with export of energy, Iran has not been severely affected by the sanctions."
"AFP" said: "China supports Iran and purchases large quantities of oil from Iran. Meanwhile, China is Iran's biggest trading partner. Their bilateral trade totals up to $ 30 billion.
"Voice of America" reported, according to Chinese customs' data, this year (2011) Iran could become China's second largest crude oil supplier.
However, Iran disdains the new round of sanctions. Israel and Washington said in the event that other efforts were not effective, the possibility of military action would not be ruled out.
It's puzzling to some that Major General Zhang Zhaozhong, a professor from the Chinese National Defense University, said China will not hesitate to protect Iran even with a third World War.
Professor Xia Ming: "Zhang Zhaozhong said that not hesitating to fight a third world war would be entirely for domestic political needs. To some extent though, this would be completely ridiculous to encourage"
Professor Xia Ming pointed out that the United States and Western societies may deal with Iran by a method of "Jasmine Revolution", similar to what happened in Libya. From the perspective of the Libya model, NATO could not possibly involve itself in large-scale military action, and it would be impossible to start a new war.
In fact, a senior European diplomat with anonymity in Tehran said that the Iranian government was actually very worried about a military strike. Analysts also say that ordinary people don't worship their leaders so much any more.
But Professor Xia Ming said that the CCP regime itself is facing a much bigger crisis than Iran. The CCP regime not only faces challenges from Southeast Asia, the South China Sea, South Asia countries and so on, but also faces the pressure from America for the RMB exchange rate, export, and human rights issues, as well as the pressure of domestic issues meanwhile.
Professor Xia Ming says : "China is facing pressure from America. Meanwhile, current domestic pressure is also very considerable. In particular, we can see in civil society, the challenge to the Chinese government and resistance forces are growing. Therefore, the Chinese government is indeed facing the arrival of a big power shift in the 18th session. So, China may express a tougher diplomatic voice. On the one hand, it is a reaction to pressure from America. On the other hand, it needs to meet the demand of domestic nationalist groups.
Russia is another ally of Iran, with similar policy to that of China. Toward Iran.
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. manufacturing is recovering from a slump, and inflation may be peaking.
Data issued Wednesday point to an economy growing slowly but steadily. Still, surging oil prices and a possible European recession threaten to drain the economy's momentum.
This Nov. 14, 2011 photo, shows a Dell computer using the Windows 7 Home Premium operating system, at Micro Center computer store in Santa Clara, Calif. Consumers paid less for gas, cars and computers last month, as overall prices dropped for the first time since June. Inflation is easing after prices rose sharply this spring. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
"The continued resilience of manufacturing is encouraging, since this should be the sector most exposed to the global economic slowdown," said Paul Ashworth, chief U.S. economist with Capital Economics.
Industrial production rose in October at the fastest pace in three months. Output at the nation's factories, utilities and mines rose 0.7 percent last month, the Federal Reserve said Wednesday.
Factory output, the largest component of industrial production, increased a solid 0.5 percent. It was the fourth straight monthly gain. Factories made more trucks, electronics and business equipment.
Manufacturers "are benefiting from the strong growth in emerging markets, and domestic businesses are confident enough in the future to continue expanding purchases of capital equipment," said Daniel Meckstroth, chief economist for the Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI, a trade group.
A separate report from the Labor Department showed Americans paid less for gas, cars and computers last month as overall prices fell for the first time since June.
Slower inflation could give the Federal Reserve more leeway to lower long-term interest rates to help the economy.
"In the current soft economic environment, inflation is not an issue for policymakers," said Jennifer Lee, an economist at BMO Capital Markets.
Factory production was dragged down this spring after the Japanese earthquake and tsunami disrupted key supply chains for automakers and other manufacturers. Rising food and gas costs and shaky financial markets caused consumers to cut back on big purchases.
The auto industry has rebounded to drive most of the growth in factory output. Many U.S. auto plants, which depend upon parts from Japan to produce various models, are seeing supply chains flow more freely.
Higher output at auto plants has allowed dealers to stock popular models that were in demand this spring. As a result, October sales were 7 percent higher than the same month last year. Light trucks were the biggest contributor.
A steep drop in gas prices was a key reason the Consumer Price Index dropped 0.1 percent in October. Food prices did rise, but at the slowest pace this year. Excluding volatile food and energy costs, so-called "core" prices rose 0.1 percent.
Still, oil prices have been climbing in recent weeks and hit $100 a barrel Wednesday for the first time in four months. They have been rising as the economy improves while tensions rise in countries that hold some of the world's major sources of crude.
If those prices translate into higher gas prices, consumers could pull back on spending and slow economic growth.
Strong consumer spending helped the economy grow at an annual rate of 2.5 percent in the July-September quarter. The October gain in retail sales suggests similar growth in the final three months of the year.
Instability in Europe might also hurt the U.S. economy. A shaky euro would likely strengthen the dollar, making U.S. goods appear more expensive to overseas buyers. And exports to Europe already account for about one-fourth of U.S. corporate revenue, analysts say.
Europe's economy is barely growing, and sharp government spending cuts might tip it back into recession. If that happens, slowing output by U.S. manufacturers could hinder the broader economic recovery.
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. authorities are investigating two bullets that hit the White House, one of them apparently cracking a window on the residential level where President Barack Obama and his family live.
FILE - The White House in Washington, in this Tuesday, Nov. 18,2008 file photo. The Secret Service confirmed Tuesday Nov. 15, 2011 a bullet hit an exterior window of the White House and was stopped by ballistic glass. An additional round of ammunition was also found on the exterior of the White House. The bullets were found Tuesday. The discovery follows reports of gunfire near the White House on Friday. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)
The Secret Service was investigating Wednesday whether the shots were connected to reports of shots fired last week while Obama was headed to a summit in Hawaii. The Secret Service said it discovered the bullets Tuesday.
On Wednesday, officials could be seen taking photographs of a window on the south face of the executive mansion.
Gunfire was reported near the White House on Friday night. Officials are looking for a suspect in the shooting.
A spokesman for the Secret Service, Edwin Donovan, declined to answer additional questions about the bullets.
This is a statement from a Worker who is working with "Jaago Foundation" now. He requested to keep his name as secret. His statement was in Bengali thats why I am transleting and providing it to all of you in English.
"Kindly please don't publish my name. I am working with Jaago. The boys and girls whoare working with Jaago is thinking that they are doing something for there country but the people who are against of Jaago is not doing anything, but they are not thinking that what are they doing this is simple works, and by this simple works Jaago (backup a US Embassy) is making our young generation as Fan of them, and our Young Generation already badly effected by it!
Jaago is giving chance to the Volunteers to work and collect money from road work what is nothing more than show off because Jaago already got a huge amount of money from their sponsors. Then why they are doing something like that?
Jaago is using money to manage their 7000 Volunteers. And by this collected amount by Volunteers now a days they will not be able to buy a place and constructing a school on their. Jaago tolds thier Volunteers that to collect money for 1 day they will add rest of the money from head office, now the question is that from where their head office gets money? It gets money from Multinational company who is managed by US Embassy.
Jaago wasted a lots of money to make the event what was more then they collected in 1 day. They also haven't took the registration money. Theykeeps all of their money to the volunteers and they told that to Volunteers that they will not take the money and they will give them too. The question is that why they are not constructing a school and hunt for Volunteer teacher, atleast 700 will response in positive from the 7000 Volunteers. But it was not their mission.thats why they are wasting money for Volunteers and keeps them happy to think that they atleast worked hard for 1 day.
Jaago gives their Volunteers an opportunity to manage a certificate. If they stop to give them, no one will join them any more.
Watch this photos of the Jaago's Award event. [Link]
They wasted more than crore money. they are also using Walkitalki, and they are giving their Volunteer a chance to collect money to make a small school isn't it was funny? It means if our all war criminals works in road for a day, then we will forget everything what ever they done and will keep them over our head, good joke it is.
It is true that Jaago constructed 3 school from where 600+ students are learning, but no body is watching the main point! They are wasting more money for Volunteers to keep our Young Generation to their close.
This man is the Cultural Director of US Embassy, So USA running in back of our Young Generation, what influenced them to do so?
Jaago ttold about their Multinational Sponsor's that the Bangladeshi people who is working the companies what are already mentioned on their website, they provides some money for their organization. Why they are not taking money directly from the company? Think that, you giving me 100tk, for that will I able to use your company logo as sponsor?
Again telling that, Jaago is working but they are taking more than crore and wasting them in thousands. With out some of them, most of them can't speak in Bengali, who can't speak in their mother language how is this possible that they will change our country?.
I think 7000 Volunteers of Jaago can start their own Volunteer work with their friend and family, but they are sitting on their chair and waiting for when Jaago will call them cause they gives them a certificate.
1of the complaint against the Volunteers that they are following English Medium, they thinks if they know English then our country can do progress, yes its true but for that you can learn English from Bangla Medium, Street childrens never told you that they want to forget Bengali, what are they allready forgot!
Sometimes back you uploaded a photo, I tried out to upload it, Wazi Khan also have this type of photos, but all of them are now hidden, can't find.
I am giving you all the proofs to you via this message, about this Volunteer Organization. After yesterdays examintaion I searched sevaral things in their website.
To make students Volunteer they made a part named "Volunteer for Bangladesh". I am attaching its website link in here. [Link]
You can easily find out that in their logo that est.2011. And they want to cover whole Bangladesh within 2 years it means 2012-13! Never forget to check in the lower section of this website you will find there a visible US EMbassy logo, because they directly involved with it!
Now the main section I am sharing, watch this questions & answers. [Link]
1. See on their event link, you will see that now they have branches in Australia, Canada, Denmark, United Kingdom, Japan, Malaysia. But this Organization established in 2007!How they are able to work in those leading countries of the world now a days with in 3.5 years?You will understood that when you will visit their USA Facebook page that Jaago has not came from USA, their Head Office is in Bangladesh and they are working in this 7 countries when firstly the project started from Bangladesh! [Link]
2. How they find out a small slum home of Rayer Bazaar what is not found by others! And in their 1 answer to the question they told that they are not assciated with Bangladesh Government, and they don't know about Bangladesh Government in this way, but they knows United States of America's Government more.
3. Their main AIM is providing education is root levelThey are only interested in providing education in their school, but in that case they are following International system, they are creating their own syllabus, not in our Bangladeshi system!
4. In the FAQ [Freequently Asked Question] sectionthey wrote that they are totally a non-profitable organization, If so I am not understanding how they are manging 8 countries including Bangladesh in a same time?If a non-profitable organization gets that much support from their sponsor why they need to waste them? Why they are not working by this money?
5. I think it is enough for a Organization who have only 1 sponsor like "Virgin" Company. Virgin came to the Bangladesh only with a Cold Driks Product, but they have a lots of product such like as Airlines to Condom! But Virgin comes when we was too little & It losted when I was Young.
So how a Company left their business and started to Sponsor an Organization who has started a Social work at Rayer Bazaar at 2007?
When they have kept business run the other countries, Is they started Social Work in this 3rd World Country like Bangladesh?
How a 25-26 years old Guy Manged Virgin, DHL, HSBC, Standard Chartard, US Government?
How is it possible?
Is it true that Korvi Rakshand is the creator of this Organization?
This was a statement of a Anonymous who works with "Jaago Foundation". And everyone knows that It has a personal connection with US Embassy.
