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“That meeting was convened secretly and thus, we the undersigned aspirants, statutory delegates and critical stakeholders were kept in the dark and were not invited. It was therefore a meeting of like minds, persons who are prepared to perpetuate illegality to satisfy the whims of a single individual who has totally lo...
“We, as aspirants, statutory delegates and stakeholders want to unequivocally dissociate ourselves from the purported resolution which was done in bad faith and is bound to affect the image and chances of our great Paty in the forthcoming elections.
“The larger majority of the APC family in Adamawa received the news of the adoption of Direct Primaries by NEC of the Party with pleasure and enthusiasm. Our members are pleased that they are going to help the Party in nominating credible, acceptable and marketable candidates to fly the Party’s flag. We, therefore, can...
“It is equally necessary to remind all the parties concerned of the pendency of an appeal filed in respect of the outcome of the ward, local government and state congresses in Adamawa state in May, 2018. Step taken to over reach or disregard the legal processes may result in the nullification of whatever the outcome so...
“The focus of our APC government on integrity exemplified by transparency, accountability and total eradication of corrupt practices should have no room for Indirect Primaries.
“It is in his commitment to the culture of probity and accountability that President Muhammadu Buhari opted for Direct Primaries. As we stated in our letter to our dear National Chairman NEC, we affirm support for Direct Primaries based on our firm belief that encapsulates the following among other merit.
“Direct Primaries is an inclusive way of deciding who flies the party flag with all bona fide members of the party having a chance to make their choice. It gives meaning to membership of the party as followers are included in taking vital decisions like who represents their party in the general elections.
“Democracy differs from feudalism. It is by popular definition a means of governance by the people and for the people. Making contests open and transparent, with everybody having a say, as in Direct Primaries, is a true expression of democratic values which the APC strives to uphold.
“Because Direct Primaries happen at different places at the same time, it enables peace and tranquility, as well as orderly conduct by all involved in the process.
“The Indirect Primaries (delegate system) is long discredited for wanton use of money and sheer corruption. With a notice of pending appeal already served on the Party and seven others, Indirect Primaries is not an option at all.
“To cap it all, in his wisdom and culture of ethics and uprightness, President Muhammadu Buhari chose to have the Presidential Primaries in direct form, and wonder why anyone else, with even smaller constituency would oppose the popular choice of the people and that of our dear President.
“We also want to assure the Chairman, and by extension the National Secretariat, that Adamawa State is fit and ready for Direct Primaries. There is the needed tranquility and peace to guarantee peaceful election all over the state.
“It amuses us, and all those who care to ponder, that the same persons who claimed to have conducted congresses in all wards of the state will now change overnight to make a case against Direct Primaries because of alleged insecurity.
“The exclusion of well-meaning members of our party like us did not start today, or with the purported stakeholders meeting of September 3. Long before now, the Party and its affairs are skewed to exclude persons considered as threats to the ambition of some individuals.
“We and our supporters were completely shut out of the congresses at all levels in the state in May this year. Forms were hoarded by State Party officials and our supporters only managed to purchase forms after we protested to the National Headquarters and an extension was granted to accommodate us. Yet, the process wa...
“Some of us have written letters to draw attention to this plight and reject outcome of the so called congresses, but were shockingly ignored by the party, thus the concerned parties decided to go to court to protest the clear fraud perpetrated in the name of congresses.
“We therefore feel there is no legitimacy for a set of people whose purported election is still being challenged before the courts to be allowed to conduct or participate in the primaries. Rather, the process should be opened up and thrown at all Party members to take decisions in who they want to fly the party’s flag.
Those who attended the briefing include Engineer Babachir D. Lawal, Senator Ahmed Abubakar Mo’Allayid, Senator Abubakar Halilu Girei mni, Senator Bello Tukur, Engineer Marcus Gundiri mni, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu mni, Sadiq Muhammed (Walin Ganye), Dr. Mahmoud Halilu.
SINGER, songwriter and performer Neil Diamond today announced his retirement from touring due to his recent diagnosis of Parkinson's disease.
The onset of the disease has made it difficult to travel and perform on a large scale basis but will allow Mr. Diamond to continue his writing, recording and development of new projects.
Based on his doctors' advice, the third leg of Diamond's 50th Anniversary tour, set to land in Australia and New Zealand this March, has been cancelled.
It included a Sunshine Coast show at Kawana, one in Brisbane, one in Townsville, and one at Hervey Bay.
"It is with great reluctance and disappointment that I announce my retirement from concert touring. I have been so honored to bring my shows to the public for the past 50 years," said Neil Diamond."
"My sincerest apologies to everyone who purchased tickets and were planning to come to the upcoming shows.
"I plan to remain active in writing, recording and other projects for a long time to come.
"My thanks goes out to my loyal and devoted audiences around the world. You will always have my appreciation for your support and encouragement. This ride has been 'so good, so good, so good' thanks to you."
The Australia and New Zealand leg of the 50th Anniversary tour (announced by TEG DAINTY in November, 2017) was scheduled to visit a number of outdoor stadiums as well as arena and winery shows in Australia and New Zealand.
This would have been the third leg of the 50th Anniversary tour with Diamond selling out shows in the U.S. and Europe throughout 2017.
In making the announcement, Paul Dainty, President and CEO of TEG Dainty stated: "I am devastated and saddened to hear the news of Neil's illness and his retirement from touring.
"I have had the honour of promoting Neil's numerous tours in Australia and New Zealand, he is one of the world's greatest artists and we and his thousands and thousands of fans here will miss seeing him tour down under."
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Jailed paramilitary leader says banana companies financed the killing of thousands.
The hearing was closed to the press.
Mancuso testified that "each one paid one [US] cent for each box of bananas they exported", according to Vargas.
Mancuso's lawyer, Hernando Benavides, confirmed his client's testimony.
Mancuso did not specify why the companies paid the illegal militias but paramilitaries commonly exact "war taxes" from businesses and ranchers in areas where they operate.
Across the country, the paramilitaries countered leftist rebel extortion. They also served as union busters, and killed hundreds of labour rights activists.
A spokesman for California-based Dole Food denied the accusation.
"Recent press accounts implicating Dole with illegal organisations in Colombia is absolutely untrue," said Marty Ordman.
A Del Monte spinoff, Del Monte Fresh Produce, has a subsidiary in Colombia that buys bananas. It did not immediately return phone calls from the Associated Press.
Chiquita Brands International has previously acknowledged that a subsidiary, Banadex, paid paramilitaries $1.7m over six years.
The Colombian chief federal prosecutor's office says a Banadex ship was also used to unload 3,000 Kalashnikov rifles and more than 2.5 million bullets in 2001.
It agreed to pay a fine of $25m in a deal with the US justice department.
Chiquita says the payments were made to protect the safety of its workers but Colombia's chief prosecutor has said companies that made such payments shared the responsibility for paramilitary murders.
Labour and human rights activists say Colombia companies and multinationals routinely paid paramilitaries to act as union busters and kill union leaders.
Mancuso, testifying as part of a peace deal with the government, also accused Colombian beverage and coal companies of paying "taxes" to the paramilitaries.
Wealthy landowners and drug traffickers first created the paramilitaries in the early 1980s to protect them from rebel extortion and kidnapping but the groups have since largely degenerated into murderous gangs.
The paramilitaries, known by their Spanish acronym AUC, were listed as a "foreign terrorists organisation" in 2001 by the US government.
The prosecutor's office estimates the paramilitaries left at least 10,000 bodies across this war-scarred terrain in mass graves.
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A luxury property on Kauai that has been listed as a vacation rental for as high as $18,000 per night is hitting the real estate market for an incredible price.
Hale 'Ae Kai, a fifteen-acre beachfront compound along Kauai's North Shore, boasts a 9,000 square-foot living area and working palm, coconut and citrus farm. The home was recently listed for $70 million, according to Hawaii Life Real Estate's Neal Norman.
The asking price makes it the most-expensive residential property currently for sale in Hawaii, the Wall Street Journal reports.
The four-bedroom, six-and-a-half bathroom home is situated on a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean, with private access to a nearby beach. Within the property are four pavilions, a media room, a gym and other amenities.
The master bedroom pavilion, according to a rental listing on Pure Kauai, encompasses more than 1,100 square feet and features a private garden and both indoor and outdoor showers.
The rental website lists prices as high as $18,000 per night during the holidays – not counting the $20,000 security deposit or the $1,600 cleaning fee.
Speakers at the Day of Learning who had personal experiences with the Holocaust shared their family histories and artifacts with the audience.
Although she has been living in Richmond for about 20 years, Margaret Lee had not been aware of the mark her fellow members of the Jewish community have left on the city. In fact, attending last week’s “Day of Learning” at the Richmond Museum of History, a gathering commemorating the Holocaust, was the first time she h...
What Lee saw left her pleasantly surprised but also nostalgic. “I am just learning about all the wonderful merchants. I am just learning that they were Jewish and that they had something to do with the prosperity of the McDonald Avenue,” she said while looking at a map displaying the businesses that used to occupy one ...
The museum at 400 Nevin Avenue is vibrant, well-kept and serves as a place that honors and protects memories—and the staff hope the exhibit will benefit more residents like Lee.
Read the rest of the story by Sabine Berzina and Roza Ismailai at Richmond Confidential.
Bennett Cerf chose not to include poems by Ezra Pound because Pound was a fascist. Some don’t assign now John Howard Yoder or Karl Barth and many others could be mentioned.
What say you? Assign, read, cite or No?
It was with surprise and dismay that I heard of the exclusion, at your request, of poems by Ezra Pound from the Modern Library anthology.
I decided not to do or say anything until you had had an opportunity to state your case; now, having read your letter in The Herald Tribune of Jan 22, I feel it my duty to write you this letter.
Let me begin by saying how much I respect you for stating your position so honestly when you could so easily have made it almost impregnable by claiming that the poems in question were fascist in content or in intention, a claim which, however unjust, would be almost impossible to refute in public because of the space ...
On this issue: “Shall a book be judged by what it contains or by the character of the man that wrote it, or, to use your terms, does a man who has sacrificed any claims to the title of ‘American’ thereby sacrifice any claims to the title of ‘Poet’?”, I have only two points to add to what Mr Gannet[t] and others have al...
As you say, the war is not over. This incident is only one sign—there are other and far graver ones—that there was more truth than one would like to believe in Huey Long’s cynical observation that if fascism came to the United States it would be called Anti-fascism. Needless to say, I am not suggesting that you desire ...
Very reluctantly, therefore, I see no alternative for me but to sever my connection with your firm which has done me the, poorly requited, honor of printing my work and from whom I have received unfailing courtesy and kindness.
March 13, 2019 Is There a Scientific Morality?
Last week was a wash-out for me because most of it was spent watching youtube. Rather than kittens playing piano or fat blokes jiggling their wobbly bits I have been hooked by 1 minute and 15 seconds of rugby, which has been on a more or less continuous loop: the last two tries from the HSBC-sponsored London Sevens.
Yet Scotland scored those two tries, both of them falling to Dougie Fife who is unwanted by Edinburgh Rugby, although both were down to Scotland’s unique passing/offloading game that you can see on any Borders circuit in the spring.
A customer who’d watched the sevens on television walked into Keith Robertson’s car dealership in Earlston last week and asked the former Scotland centre if he was Mark Robertson’s dad. The story is recounted with undisguised glee by Junior, who has finally turned the tables after being “Keith Robertson’s boy” for as l...
Mark also recounts that watching the TV at home his mum was worried that Keith had suffered a heart attack because he came over all faint at the final whistle, such was the emotion of the event.
At the age of 31, Mark Robertson has been around the houses more than once, one of the veterans in what is a relatively young and inexperienced group. He insists that everyone within the sevens squad believed they could win a tournament but understands why those on the outside might have harboured doubts. Scotland only...
“This year we’ve had some boys that have come in who are extremely talented physically,” replies Robertson. “(Scrum-half) Gav Lowe has an X-factor that we haven’t had in that position before. We’ve got Jamie Farndale who’s come in and everyone has always known he’s physically capable, strong, powerful, fast, but he’s s...
The Fijians won the overall title and, hanging around to collect their medals, they seemed almost as delighted at Scotland’s unexpected success as they did for their own; offering handshakes and hugs in a show of solidarity. Some of the Fijian magic obviously rubbed off on the Scots whose off-load stats have gone throu...
“That is probably the team we are closest to because of (Fijian born, Scotland sevens player) Joe Nayacavou,” explains Robertson. “He is highly respected over in Fiji and they are always so compassionate with each other, laughing and joking and a couple of them especially spend a lot of time with us.
In a previous life Ryan coached England with notable success although the Red Rose brigade have recently slipped in the rankings to finish this season in eighth place, just two places and five points above Scotland.
Despite the fact that Scotland have beaten the Auld Enemy in seven out of their last eight meetings, Robertson is one of just five Scots and five Welsh amongst 15 Englishmen selected for the 25-strong Great Britain training squad.
They go into camp today in West London’s Lensbury Club to start preparations for the Rio Olympics. Because the UK’s three countries (Ireland put out a united side) field separate teams the GB coach Simon Amor needs to blend England, Wales and Scotland into a unified fighting force and has almost no time to do so.
The squad will send two teams to four European tournaments (Moscow, Exeter, Gdynia and Allianz Park) in the coming weeks although Amor will already have whittled his squad down to just 12 players plus two reserves by the half way stage on 19 July. Given the hurdles they face, the GB team has already been written off by...
And if Scotland can beat the rest of the world at Twickenham then the GB team should be there or thereabouts in Rio.
Gov. Deval Patrick used his annual state of the state address Monday to urge lawmakers to strengthen the state’s community colleges, lower health care costs and revise the state’s criminal sentencing laws to focus on the most violent offenders.
Patrick, a Democrat in his second term, said in the televised address that Massachusetts has stayed ahead of much of the rest of the nation economically in part because of tough political choices made during the past five years. But he said more such choices need to be made if the state is going to remain ahead of the ...
A proposal to unify the state’s 15 community colleges was the major new initiative in the address, his sixth as governor.
Patrick called for doing away with the 15 separate line items in the state budget for the community colleges that are spread around the state from Cape Cod to the Berkshires, and replace them with one line item.
The state Board of Higher Education would then allocate the funds to the schools on the basis of factors such as enrollment and student performance.
Under the consolidation, the board also would establish new curriculum standards and new guidelines for selecting presidents for the colleges.
Noting there were 240,000 people unemployed in the state at the same time there were 120,000 job openings, the governor said a unified community college system could play a vital role in training students for so-called “middle skills” jobs that employers often have difficulty filling.
Patrick made a renewed appeal for passage of a health care cost containment bill that he first proposed last February, but the Legislature has yet to act on. The measure would replace the current “fee-for-service” system for health care based on the frequency of tests and procedures to a “global payment” system that wo...
Patrick also renewed his call for new sentencing laws that toughen penalties for the state’s most violent criminals while at the same time making non-violent drug offenders eligible for parole sooner. He vowed to not sign a bill that included one without the other.
The governor said he would support a so-called “three strikes” provision imposing a mandatory life sentence without the possibility of parole for anyone whose third felony is murder or a similarly heinous crime.
But he said the state also needs better options for non-violent offenders who are subject to mandatory minimum sentences, pointing to the rising spending on prisons. He said simply warehousing offenders is a costly policy failure.
Following the speech, House and Senate leaders said they had not yet had time to study Patrick’s community college proposal, but were already working on other items on Patrick’s agenda.
Senate President Therese Murray said senators were busy crafting a health care cost containment bill that she hopes will go to the governor’s desk this year.
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