The further fall of racism--Kim Kardashian Weds Kanye West --May 24

Prior to the highly publicized wedding between Kim Kardashian and 'Bad boy' Kanye West, slated for this weekend, (Saturday May 24th) the 33 year old reality star opened up on topics ranging from the truth about her wedding dress to racism.

 Kim Kardashian spoke about how welcoming daughter North with West last June is like getting "to see the world for the first time again, but through someone else's eyes." "It's amazing how one little person and the love I have for her has brought new meaning to every moment. What once seemed so important, now feels insignificant," she writes. "To be honest, before I had North, I never really gave racism or discrimination a lot of thought. It is obviously a topic that Kanye is passionate about, but I guess it was easier for me to believe that it was someone else's battle."

But with the arrival of her daughter, Kardashian says she's more aware "of a side of life that isn't always so pretty."
"I feel a responsibility as a mother, a public figure, a human being, to do what I can to make sure that not only my child, but all children, don't have to grow up in a world where they are judged by the color of their skin, or their gender, or their sexual orientation," Kardashian concluded. "I want my daughter growing up in a world where love for one another is the most important thing."

Racism is the belief that races have distinctive cultural characteristics determined by hereditary factors and that this endows some races with an intrinsic superiority over others.
It is a product of capitalism. It grew out of early capitalism’s use of slaves for the plantations of the New World, it was consolidated in order to justify western and white domination of the rest of the world and it flourishes today as a means of dividing the working class between white and  black, or native and immigrants or asylum seekers. Racism is a particular form of oppression: discrimination against people on the grounds that some inherited characteristic, for example, skin color, makes them inferior to their oppressors.
However, historical references indicate that class society before capitalism was able, on the whole, to do without this particular form of oppression. Bad as the society of classical Greece and Rome were it is historically reasonably well documented that the ancient Greeks and Romans knew nothing about race. Slaves were both black and white and in fact the majority of slaves were white. The first clear evidence of racism occurred at the end of the 16th century with the start of the slave trade from Africa to Britain and to America.

Fight against racism and xenophobia

In Europe the key measure in the fight against racism was the resolution adopted by the Council and the representatives of the Member States in July 1996, declaring 1997 to be the "European Year against Racism".

The Amsterdam Treaty (1999) provided the first legal basis for combating all forms of discrimination based on sex, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation, as well as for the fight against racism and xenophobia in the fields of police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters.

Mostly everybody has said at least one thing they regret. Most of the time, however, that does not cost the person anything more than some potential embarrassment, or a very delicate situation. As things go higher and more public however, there is an increased likelihood of a fall, especially when the stupid thing you say is undeniably racist or bigoted. Here are some people who learned that particular lesson the hard way.
- Donald Sterling
- Jesse Jackson
- john Rocker
- Paula Deen
- Jimmy ''the Greek''
- Al Campanis
- Dan Imus.  Etc.

Racism is a product of  man's sinful nature, and those that engage in it are ignorant and doomed for destruction.

I pray that Kim's marriage to Kanye would be blissful and further herald the fall of racism.

Cheers! To love.

The Federal high court today asked Dr Lamido Sanusi to accept his fate and go back home.

Court maintains Lamido Sanusi's suspention

 Former CBN Governor, Dr Lamido Sanusi remains suspended.
The Kano prince whom had gone to the Federal high court to challenge his suspension by President Goodluck Ebere Jonathan was today asked to go home and accept his fate

Sanusi who has never hidden his desire to succeed the Emir of Kano Alhaji Dr Ado Abdullahi Bayero who ascended the throne in October 1963 after the demise of Muhammed Inuwa who ruled for three months following the dethronement in 1963 of Muhammed Sanusi who happened to be Ado Bayero's half brother has so much to fall back and wait for.

In the ruling spanning over 2 hours, Honourable Justice Kolawole upheld the submissions of the Counsel to the President, Dr. Fabian Ajogwu, SAN and that of the Counsel to the Attorney General of the Federation, Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN. In his Preliminary Objection filed in opposition to the Plaintiff’s Originating Summons, Learned Counsel to the President, Dr. Fabian Ajogwu, SAN argued that the Federal High Court lacks Jurisdiction to entertain the suit between Mallam Sanusi and the President since it bothers on Labour matters. Accordingly, he had urged the Court to decline Jurisdiction on it. Towing the same vein, the Counsel to the Attorney-General of the Federation sued as the 2nd Defendant, Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN had in the hearing of the matter urged the Honourable Judge to wash his hands off the case as the Court lacked Jurisdiction to entertain the suit.

Upholding the submission of Learned Counsel to the Defendants, the Honourable Court declined Jurisdiction and accordingly referred the matter to the National Industrial Court. The Learned Judge in the course of delivering the Ruling faulted the submissions of Counsel to Mallam Sanusi, Mr. Kola Awodein, SAN and Mr AB Mahmoud SAN who in their pleadings had said that Mallam Sanusi was not an employee of the Federal Government but that of the Board of the Central Bank of Nigeria, which he incidentally headed. Upholding the arguments of the Counsel to the Inspector General of Police, Mr Solomon Umoh SAN, the Court also struck out the name of the IGP sued as 3rd Defendant holding that there was no cause of action against the Inspecto General of Police..

Evil men on the loose: Primary school pupils stabbed in China by 35 years old Chen in the central province of Hubei

The 35-year-old suspect, a man surnamed Chen, rushed into the school in Macheng in the central province of Hubei and began slashing at students with a kitchen knife, the official Xinhua news agency reported, citing the local government.

Police apprehended Chen at the scene, the report added, and the eight injured pupils were hospitalised.

China has seen several violent attacks against children in recent years, including a spate of five incidents in 2010 which killed 17 people -- 15 of them children -- and wounded more than 80.

Last March, a man killed two relatives and then slashed 11 people, including six children, outside a school in China's commercial hub Shanghai.

Manchester United appoint Louis van Gaal as manager

Louis van Gaal promised to "make history" and return Manchester United to winning ways after being named as manager of "the biggest club in the world".yesterday.

One of the worst-kept secrets within football finally became public knowledge when the Netherlands manager was named as the new boss of the struggling English giants.
Manchester United chief executive, Ed woodward has this to say about the choosen one: "In Louis van Gaal, we have secured the services of one of the outstanding managers in the game today,  "He has achieved many things in his career to date and Old Trafford provides him with a fitting stage on which to write new chapters in the Manchester United story."

And true to the football gaffers' bid to restore the club to its former glories, Vn Gaal has retained Ryan Giggs as his assistant manager and Ryan is excited and thrilled to have the chance to serve as assistant manager, answerable to the dutch man.  Giggs said on Monday, before announcing his retirement from playing. "Louis van Gaal is a world-class coach and I know I will learn a lot about coaching from being able to observe and contribute at such close quarters.
"Manchester United has been a huge part of my life and I'm delighted to be able to continue that relationship in such a key role.
"Today is a new chapter filled with many emotions -- immense pride, sadness, but most of all, excitement towards the future. United fans I hope will share and echo my belief that the club, the management and owners, are doing everything they can to return this great club to where it belongs, and I hope to be there every step of the way."

United finished the season in seventh place and had to watch neighbours Manchester City win the title. 

Van Gaal is set to rejuvenate an aging squad with major changes in defence expected after the long-established centre-back pairing of Nemanja Vidic and Rio Ferdinand both announced they were leaving the club. 

United's US-based owners, the Glazer family, also want van Gaal to restore the reputation of the club's youth system as a conveyor belt for first-team talent, something Moyes was said o have little interest in during his brief time at Old Trafford. 

"I am delighted that Louis will be our next manager," said Joel Glazer. "He has an outstanding pedigree as a coach, both as a man who motivates his teams to win trophies and as someone who believes in giving young players a chance to prove their worth."

Is Oscar Pistorius really sick upstairs?

Oscar Pistorius 'is suffereing from generalized anxiety disorder' . psychiatrist

The twenty seven (27) years old Olympian  is accused of murdering his girlfriend, model Reeva Steenkamp, in his home last year.
Pistorius has not claimed he was insane or mentally incapacitated when he shot her. But when the defense put the psychiatrist on the stand, it raised the question of the athlete's mental health, the judge said last week.
The expert panel evaluating Pistorius has three options:

 1) They could find that Pistorius was mentally incapacitated when he shot Steenkamp, which would end the trial immediately in a verdict of not guilty by reason of mental illness. That would lead to the athlete being committed to a mental institution until he is ruled not to be a danger.
2) The doctors could also find that he had "diminished responsibility" at the time he killed Steenkamp. In that case, the trial would resume, and the experts' finding would be taken into consideration during sentencing if he is found guilty.
3) The third possibility is that the experts could disagree with the defense psychiatrist and say that Pistorius' mental health is not an issue at a

The trial will not resume until June 30th,  Judge Thokozie Masipa ruled yesterday.

The U.S. indicts 5 Chinese officers on charges of hacking into U.S. businesses.

US Attorney General Eric Holder announced Monday that members of the Chinese military have engaged in the hacking of American businesses and entities, including U.S. Steel Corp., Westinghouse, Alcoa, Allegheny Technologies, the United Steel Workers Union and SolarWorld.
The victims operate in Pennsylvania, and a grand jury there returned a 31-count indictment against members of the Chinese military, accusing them of violating federal law by hacking to spy and steal secrets, Holder said. The indictment alleges that five People's Liberation Army officers
"maintained unauthorized access to victim computers to steal information from these entities that would be useful" to the victims' competitors in China, the attorney general said.
Their names are Wang Dong, Sun Kailiang, Wen Xinyu, Huang Zhenyu and Gu Chunhui, according to the indictment.
The Chinese government did not immediately confirm or deny the veracity of the names.
In some instances, the hackers stole trade secrets that would have been "particularly beneficial to Chinese companies at the time that they were stolen," Holder said.
In other cases, they are accused of swiping sensitive internal communications that could provide a competitor or a litigation adversary with insight into the strategy and the vulnerabilities of the victimized companies and entities, he said.
The attorney general said that he hopes the Chinese government will work with American officials to bring the offenders to justice and that the United States intends to prosecute.
The Chinese Embassy in Washington referred questions to a statement on China's Foreign Ministry site in which spokesman Qin Gang called the charges "extremely absurd."
He said that the United States "has fabricated facts" and that China is a "staunch defender of cyber security."
The statement said the Chinese government, its military and "associated personnel never engage in any theft of trade secrets."
The indictment "severely violates basic norms of international relations, and harms cooperation and mutual trust between China and the United States," the statement said.
China protested the U.S. action, the Foreign Ministry statement said, and wants it to "correct its mistake" and withdraw the charge.
China is a "victim of U.S. cyber surveillance and theft," the spokesman asserted, saying that "certain U.S. agencies have been consistently tapping into China's government agencies, corporates, universities, and private networks for surveillance purposes."
Sensitive subject
A spokeswoman for the State Department told reporters that Washington wants to have more dialogue with Beijing about the issue.
"We remain deeply concerned about Chinese government-sponsored, cyber-enabled theft of trade secrets and other sensitive business information for commercial gain," Jen Psaki said. "And, again, this was specific to the actions of ... of just a few individuals. And we hope that the Chinese government can understand that."
This was a law enforcement case, she added, not a diplomatic one.
"We continue to believe -- and this is relevant to us, our role here at the State Department -- that we can have a constructive and productive relationship with China," she said. "We're ready to work with China to prevent these types of activities from continuing."
Joining Holder, David Hickton, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, said the alleged hacking has caused the victimized U.S. companies to lose capital investments in research and technology.
He added that the "important message" is that cyberespionage "impacts real people in real and painful ways," he said.
"The lifeblood of any organization is the people who work, strive and sweat for it. When these cyberintrusions occur, production slows, plants close, workers get laid off and lose their homes," Hickton said.
"Hacking, spying and cybertheft for commercial advantage can and will be prosecuted criminally even when the defendants are state actors," he said.
These are the first charges against Chinese state officials for what the U.S. says is a widespread problem, U.S. officials told CNN before Holder's remarks.
At a regular news briefing at the White House on Monday, press secretary Jay Carney was asked about the case.
"This is an issue that has been brought up by President Obama with (Chinese) President Xi (Jinping) in their meetings as recently as in March as a general problem that we have seen and reflects the president's overall concern about cybersecurity," Carney said. "We have consistently and candidly raised these concerns with the Chinese government, and today's announcement reflects our growing concern that this Chinese behavior has continued."
He was adamant that the U.S. "intelligence programs serve a specific national security mission, and that does not include providing a competitive advantage to U.S. companies or U.S. economic interests," Carney said. "In other words, we do not do what those Chinese nationals were indicted for earlier today.

Shehu Sani the link man between Boko Haram and the FG

Shehu Sanni a human right activist who declined to serve in a 26-member presidential committee empanelled  by President Goodluck Ebere Jonathan to constructively engage key members of the dreaded Boko Haram terrorist group and comprehensively work out a framework for resolving insecurity in the country before the kidnapping of the missing girls is still in the news.

 Shehu Sani like his Borno State co-traveler Governor Kashim Shettima wants the Federal Government to deal with the dreaded terrorist group. He now wants the FG to constitute a panel to open communication channel with the sect, headed by Dr Datti Ahmed and membered with selected Boko Haram members in detention and a few journalists from Maiduguri state whom the insurgents will listen to on the panel. this is  for the purpose of freeing the kidnapped girls.
 

 Comrade Shehu Sani as he is popularly called knows the dreaded terrorist group inside out, he even knows when they hit target and when they fail. Sometimes ago while being interviewed on BBC Hardtalk  he told the world that he wasn't sure that it was Boko Haram that killed Babakura Fugu, a brother to the late leader of Boko Haram Yusuf Muhammed because he knows better.

Shehu sani knows so much about Boko Haram and should be called (begged) to assist in the ongoing war against terror in Nigeria.

-He said the nation has failed to protect its young ones and “now we are denying them the opportunity to live a free life. If the nation had taken serious lessons from earlier brigandage by the insurgents, we could not have been talking of the use of force to free our children. For over three years, the insurgents have been burning schools, killing teachers and abducting children, why did our outrage wait for Chibok?” Who is Shehu Sani? Is he a true Nigerian? what is his interest in all of this?