Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Egypt's president denounces sectarian killings

CAIRO (AP) ? President Mohammed Morsi's office on Monday condemned the killing of four Shiite Muslims by a Sunni mob, reportedly incited by ultraconservative Salafis, in a village near Cairo.

It said in a statement that authorities will not be "lenient" with anyone who interferes with the nation's security and stability or harm its society.

The statement echoed one issued earlier by Prime Minister Hesham Kandil.

Both said the culprits must be quickly found and brought to justice.

Egypt is an overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim nation with a tiny minority of Shiites. About 10 percent of its 90 million people are Christians.

According to security officials, the Sunday attack came after Salafi preachers in the village of Zawiyet Abu Muslim gave a small local Shiite community an ultimatum to leave the town by sundown. They said Salafis also joined the crowd. They spoke anonymously as they were not authorized to talk to reporters.

The incident also comes among a broad rise in hostile statements made against Shiites, including by the president's hard-line allies, fed in part by the growing sectarian overtones of Syria's civil war.

The killings came a week after Salafi clerics insulted Shiites during a June 15 rally attended by Morsi, who listened silently.

One cleric, Mohammed Hassan, called on Morsi "not to open the doors of Egypt" to Shiites, saying that "they never entered a place without corrupting it."

Egypt's Salafis have vehemently objected to the arrival in Egypt of tourists from Shiite Iran, forcing authorities to suspend their tours before allowing them to resume later. The tourists are not allowed in Cairo, home to some religious shrines revered by Shiites, flying directly to southern Egypt or Red Sea resorts.

Morsi's government has implicitly sanctioned travel to Syria by Egyptian volunteers who wish to join the mostly Sunni rebels fighting forces loyal to President Bashar Assad, a member of the Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiism.

Assad's forces are backed by fighters from Lebanon's Shiite Hezbollah group, a longtime ally of the Syrian regime. Shiite Iran is Assad's chief foreign backer.

Egyptian volunteers have been fighting on the side of the Syrian rebels for over a year now, but the involvement of Egyptians in that nation's civil war is likely to widen after Morsi's decision to break diplomatic relations with Damascus and calls at the June 15 rally for jihad, or holy struggle, in Syria.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/egypts-president-denounces-sectarian-killings-114554019.html

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Funeral plans set for actor James Gandolfini

NEW YORK (AP) ? Funeral services for actor James Gandolfini will be Thursday at the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine in New York City.

An HBO spokeswoman speaking on behalf of the family says the funeral is scheduled for 10 a.m.

The 51-year-old star of "The Sopranos" died Wednesday in Rome. Family spokesman Michael Kobold says Gandolfini died of a heart attack.

Port Authority of New York & New Jersey spokesman Steve Coleman tells the Star-Ledger of Newark that a Signature Airlines flight carrying Gandolfini's body arrived at Newark Liberty International Airport from Rome Sunday night. The body was taken from the airport around 11:20 p.m. but Colman did not say where.

The actor had been headed to Sicily to appear at the Taormina Film Festival, which paid tribute to him Saturday.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/funeral-plans-set-actor-james-gandolfini-233347225.html

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Monday, June 10, 2013

Mac OS X Mavericks to integrate iOS notifications

OS X Mavericks capable of receiving iOS notifications

If you have a Mac and use an iOS device, Apple just announced an enjoyable feature to go along with the new version of OS X, also known as Mavericks: the ability to push iOS notifications directly to your Mac, regardless of whether or not Safari is open. The alerts show up as a banner in the top right corner of your display, much the same as any other Mac-related banner; additionally, any missed notifications will pop up in your lock screen any time you wake up your device.

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Legal bullies - Ezra Levant

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A $32 billion energy corporation has filed a massive lawsuit against an Ontario environmentalist named Esther Wrightman.

It?s a SLAPP suit: Strategic litigation against public participation.

It?s not really about legal arguments. It?s about crushing Wrightman with legal bills and burning up her time, so she can?t spend time campaigning against them.

The lawsuit doesn?t allege Wrightman vandalized their property, or trespassed, or anything like that. Their complaint is that, on her homemade website, Wrightman mocked the company?s name. She even had the temerity to publish a satirical version of their logo.

That?s it. That?s why they hired three lawyers at one of Canada?s largest law firms, McCarthy Tetrault, to sue her into the ground.

And the only reason you have not heard of this lawsuit ? the Canadian Civil Liberties Association is not defending her free speech, the CBC has not put this on their nightly news ? is because the corporate bully here is not an oil company like Exxon. It?s a wind turbine company called NextEra.

See, that kind of bullying is OK.

Wrightman isn?t a professional activist, jet-setting around. She?s real. Her husband is on disability. She works at the family tree nursery.

But when she heard

NextEra is building skyscraper-high wind turbines all around her town ? surrounding the local school, in fact ? she decided to fight back.

What she found out is that she can do nothing. Unlike other industrial development in Ontario, wind turbines are exempt from local planning reviews. You can?t build a new deck in Ontario without a permit, but the Ontario government exempts these huge, noisy, flickering, ugly, 400-foot-high wind factories from public review.

By contrast, the proposed oil pipeline from Alberta to B.C. has already had five years of community consultations. A three-person independent review panel has been travelling the route, hearing from local residents.

They actually pay people ? Indian bands, environmental groups ? to come testify, and pay for their lawyers and experts, too. That?s how oil companies are scrutinized.

Wind turbine companies like NextEra? None of that. Their five registered lobbyists at the Ontario legislature are all they need to keep things running smoothly.

One morning Wrightman heard NextEra was chopping down an eagle?s nest to make way for their construction. She went out there and filmed it herself and put it on YouTube.

You?d think the big environmental NGOs would be upset. But they don?t care. They have decided that, for the sake of wind turbines, birds must become a sacrifice species.

A few years ago, the oilsands company Syncrude was prosecuted under the Criminal Code, and fined $3 million, when some ducks landed in a tailing pond. Ducks aren?t endangered like Ontario eagles are. But it?s NextEra. It?s exempt. And they?ve got five lobbyists on the speed-dial.

And three lawyers, too. When Wrightman started mocking NextEra on her website ? calling them Nexterror ? they started badgering her, phoning her day after day after day.

She ignored them. So they contacted her website company, and bullied them into deleting parts of her website.

I guess that?s what happens to $32 billion companies exempt from normal rules. They start to believe they?re above democracy. A company that would chop down an eagle?s nest probably isn?t scared of a young mom.

Except they obviously are. Since they sued her. Because she ?advertised her services in association with a trademark that was confusing with the Plaintiff?s registered trademarks.?

NextEra is saying, with a straight face, that by mocking their name on her website, this country mom is confusing NextEra?s customers. As in, wind turbine customers might think the nursery worker is really NextEra.

And in their confusion, they might try to buy wind turbines from her.

Any court in Ontario will see this as a ridiculous excuse for legal bullying. But this will never get to court. Wrightman can?t afford a lawyer. She?ll be crushed by NextEra long before then. Just like that eagle?s nest.

And just like that eagle?s nest, no one will care.

This column was written for Sun News June 9 2013.

Source: http://ezralevant.com/2013/06/legal-bullies.html

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The Baby Bachelor, Episode 3: Wesley Tells Uncle Jimmy Kimmel He Isn't Ready For Kids (VIDEO)

During episode 3 of Jimmy Kimmel's "The Baby Bachelor," one of the last girls standing makes a shocking confession over a romantic Lunchables dinner. Gabrielle tells Wesley that she has a baby ... doll. Our boy is skeptical at first, but points out that this is not unusual for a preschooler when he brings out his own stuffed friend: Monkey. After mulling it for a while, however, Wesley tells his uncle Jimmy he isn't ready for kids. So what happens? We'll have to wait until next week to find out!

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