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Girls Gone Google
I have always been interested in technology: computers, video games, and even music players. My parents never held me back from these interests. In fact, often we purchased new technology based on my interests, but none of my female friends showed the same interest. Then in school, all the computer classes were heavily male dominated, so I did not fit in. I still pursued my own interests and taught myself, but it would have been nice to have formal training and a group of others interested in technology to help support me. Plus, having role models would have made my experience even better. But females were noticeably lacking in technology.
Within the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) disciplines, all suffer from a gender imbalance. Males dominate these fields, and so most are working very hard to bring the imbalance to more balance between the genders. Google is actively working to help out with technology by hosting a $50 million coding initiative focused on young girls, as USA Today recently published. Google's entire initiative is called "Made with Code," and the focus is helping young girls and young women learn just what fun they can have with coding as well as its versatile uses.
The effort could not come sooner as statistics show that males vastly outnumber females in the coding field. In fact, Google's work force consists of a 70 percent male crew, and they are certainly not the only technology company with such a male-dominated workforce. Moreover, there are more and more coding jobs going left unfilled because there is a lack of experts to fill the spots. By 2020 there will be 1.4 million coding jobs but only about a quarter of those will get filled because of a lack of qualified candidates.
The USA Today article explains that interested parties like Chelsea Clinton and Mindy Kaling as well as experts like Google Vice President Megan Smith show that one major obstacle is that there is a lack of female role models in the field. Facebook and Yahoo have Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Mayer, respectively, and Google has Megan Smith, but these simply are not enough. These women are paving the way, but the coding field needs more women to sit as role models in order to inspire the younger generation.
This is partially why Google is hosting the Made with Code events. The company wants to catch the interests and attentions of young girls so that these females grow to want to study technology and coding. If females are introduced when they are younger to the myriad ways that coding can be used, then the field is more likely to interests females for the future. And since the majority of college graduates today are female, it only makes sense to help females experience the fun and variety of coding.
For decades women have had to break into different fields that were previously dominated by males, which include medicine and law. With the rate at which computer technology has grown, it is slightly surprising that women are just now breaking into the field. Of course, without role models to lead the way, it can be very hard to find one's way into a field that is stereotypically associated with white males.
All I know about computers, I taught myself, so it makes me really happy to see technology companies like Google providing events focused on helping other young girls learn about technology like coding in a much easier way. Coding is not just about video games; it is used in medicine, science, law, engineering, business, and education. This is why it is so important to teach everyone, but especially females, about its purposes, benefits, and uses. Way to go Google!
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The head of Eli Lilly never expected to be leading the company when he took his first job in a lab, but he believed in his talents and adapted to changes to work his way to the top.
If the 2014 graduates of Franklin College dream big, look for the upside in tricky situations and maintain their personal standards, they too can achieve similar success, Eli Lilly president, chief executive officer and chairman of the board John C. Lechleiter said.
"What we are celebrating is not an end, but for you, a beginning," Lechleiter said.
Lechleiter, the keynote speaker at Franklin College's commencement Saturday, has worked for Eli Lilly since 1979, serving in more than a dozen different roles including research and development, regulatory affairs, product development and administration.
He has shown his ability to succeed in different roles and is proof of what a person can accomplish by taking the knowledge from a focused course of study and backing it with a broader liberal arts education, Franklin College President Jay Moseley said.
Lechleiter shared a little history and recent events at Eli Lilly, as well as personal stories about his own experience, with the nearly 175 graduates.
He told the graduates about George Walden, a 1917 Franklin College graduate who joined Eli Lilly and worked to find ways to better produce insulin, which had only recently become available for use as a drug. In his first few years out of school, Walden was able to create a new process that produced insulin that was purer and more potent than ever before.
Walden later worked on processes to mass-manufacture penicillin, leading to better treatment for thousands of diseases, Lechleiter said. Any student could be bound for that kind of success, as long as they believe in their skills and the education they've built to this point, he said.
"None of us can predict the future," Lechleiter said. "But you can certainly choose to accept and acknowledge the gifts that are uniquely yours."
Not being able to know what comes next requires each person to be flexible, adaptive and innovative, because plans go awry and problems come up without warning, he said.
While preparing for surgery on a shoulder injury after a ski trip, doctors found an inflamed artery in Lechleiter's heart, requiring emergency surgery. The procedure kept him out of work for two months, requiring him to trust his co-workers at Eli Lilly to run the company.
The experience not only made Lechleiter better appreciate the skills of his co-workers, but also the love and appreciation of family and friends helping him through recovery, he said. It would be an opportunity he would have missed without a sudden, unexpected heart surgery.
"Things don't always work as we might plan," he said. "You must be prepared to seize the upside."
Changing direction sometimes is necessary to continue succeeding, but doing so requires a person to follow their own set of beliefs.
In the day-to-day of running one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies, Lechleiter is bombarded with advice, comments and criticism from multiple people — from an Internet blogger spouting their thoughts to analysis by worldwide business and financial experts.
"The pressure to conform has never been so intense. 'Lilly's not going to make it.' 'Lilly needs to merge with another company.' 'Lilly needs to break itself up,'" he said.
Patents for Eli Lilly products have begun expiring in recent years, and those medicines are being replaced by generics. But the business the company loses will be replaced with new opportunities, such as a nearly released cancer drug, he said. New research and new ideas will continue to carry the company as they have since the late 19th century.
The education and skills Franklin College's graduates have achieved is just the beginning, and it's up to each student to use those tools to make their own impact, Lechleiter said. Students should also make sure to give back, whether by volunteering in the community, serving on a school board or coaching a youth soccer team.
"Much more now awaits," Lechleiter said.

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When it comes to putting album art on iTunes, or whatever service you use for music, do you need to have album art on your songs? Are you an utter perfectionist when it comes to labeling and editing the details of your music?
Does it frustrate you when it someone doesn't care about album art?
I'm not massively OCD when it comes to things in life. Things can be in a certain order, and numbers don't need to end up in a 0 or a 5 for me not to lose sleep over them. For the most part, I'm relatively amenable to things being slightly out of whack.
But all of that goes completely out of the window when it comes to album art on iTunes. I'm the biggest OCD-phile/aholic/whatever the term is when it comes to this. Everything. Needs. To be. CONSISTENT! Everything needs the same album cover, the songs need to have all of the same relevant information in them, and everything just needs to... fit!
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A lot of questions still remain unanswered in the unexpected Jan. 11 death of 16-year-old Gynnya McMillen at Lincoln Village Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Elizabethtown.
But the Deparment of Juvenile Justice has now released a statement saying the girl appears to have died while sleeping.
An Oldham County man was killed Sunday morning on in the 10,000 block of Frankfort Road.
Shelby County Deputy Rick Meadows, who is heading up the accident reconstruction team, said
Chad Ward, 21, of LaGrange, was pronounced dead at the scene.
The report said that at 4:20 a.m., crews responded to an accident with injuries in that area.
Upon arrival it was determined the accident involved a single vehicle with a single occupant.
Dan S. Bruner, 39, of 13139 Kentucky St. No. 49, was indicted for second-degree assault.
Trevor W. Riley, 19, of 5169 Cedarmore Road in Pleasureville was indicted for third-degree burglary, theft by unlawful taking $500 or more but less than $10,000, first-degree criminal mischief, criminal littering and second-degree criminal trespassing.
Colin R. Dunaway, 21, of 1603 Bonnie Brae Drive was indicted for second-degree burglary and theft by unlawful taking, over $500 but under $10,000.
Four people have been arrested in connection with a robbery at Paradise Spirits & Fine Wine in which a clerk was injured, police said.
Medea Clark, 21, of Westview, Ky., Dakota Aldridge, 23, of Mount Eden, Travis Dobbs, 22, of Simpsonville and Zachary Husband, 22, of Pleasureville, are all charged with first-degree robbery.
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Syrian army on offensive, regains control with Russia's help
Newscast Media DAMASCUS—The Syrian army on Wednesday established control over four villages near the strategic town of Salma which was liberated a day earlier.
"An army unit, in cooperation with the popular defense groups, established on Wednesday control over al-Marouniyat village, 1 km north of Salma town in the northeastern countryside of Lattakia province," SANA news agency reported.
Taking control of the village followed fierce clashes with the terrorist organizations late on Tuesday and early Wednesday that ended up in killing many terrorists, according to the source.
Tens of terrorists fled towards Rabiaa town, near the Turkish borders, SANA added.
Later, a military source told SANA that Army and Armed Forces units, in cooperation with popular defense groups, established control over Sheikh Khalil and Marj al-Khokha village east of Salma town.
The Syrian army on Tuesday took control of Salma town, which is considered a strategic bastion for Takfiri insurgents of Nusra Front and Ahrar al-Sham in Lattakia countryside.
Meanwhile, the Syrian army is making advances in the countryside of both provinces of Aleppo and Hama, while its units, backed by the Air Force, continue targeting terrorists' positions in other provinces, destroying more sites and equipment and killing many terrorists. Full Article>>
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Assad and Putin launch sweeping offensive on rebels in Aleppo
Newscast Media DAMASCUS—The Syrian military has begun a major ground offensive on the country's second city of Aleppo. The advance in northern Syria has been supported by the Russian air force.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Friday that in the past 24 hours, "dozens" of Russian airstrikes had struck the area which is controlled by a various groups including rebels, Islamist fighters and al Qaeda's Syria affiliate, al Nusra Front.
"The Syrian army started a new front on Friday and advanced to take control of the villages of Abteen and Kaddar" about 15 kilometers (9 miles) south of Aleppo city," said Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman.
According to a senior military source in Syria, the assaults are also being supported by hundreds of fighters from Iran and Lebanon's Hezbollah.
"This is the promised battle," the source told Reuters news agency.
Several members of the international community have been questioning Russia's intentions since Moscow launched its aeriel campaign in late September . Some Western officials have described the move as a ploy to bolster Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime.
Russia maintains, however, that they are only targeting areas held by "Islamic State" (IS).
The safety of air personnel has also become an issue with the US and Russia both flying combat missions over Syria.
The offensive on Friday followed a similar advance by Syrian and Russian forces on Thursday on rebel-held areas of the central province of Homs.
The Observatory reported on Friday that at least 60 people, including 30 women and children, had been killed during the strikes. Seventeen rebel fighters were also among the dead.
The Syrian conflict has displaced millions and left more than 250,000 people dead since it erupted in 2011, following a government crackdown on people protesting President Assad's regime.
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Assad: We're willing to work with any country to mop up IS
Newscast Media DAMASCUS—Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said that Damascus is "willing to cooperate with any country" —including the United States—that is willing to "fight terrorism."
In a lengthy interview with the U.S. foreign-policy magazine Foreign Affairs published online on January 26, Assad criticized the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State (IS) group for carrying out what he said were illegal strikes against militants on Syrian territory.
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designed to "freeze" the fighting in the northern city of Aleppo. The UN's special
envoy to Syria floated the proposal on a three-day visit to the warzone.
A statement from Bashar al-Assad's office on Monday said that the Syrian president
was willing to consider UN envoy Staffan de Mistura's suggestion of negotiating a
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Assad: Syria supports any international counterrorism effort
Newscast Media DAMASCUS—Syrian President Bashar Assad has asserted that Syria
supports any international counterterrorism effort, SANA reported. President Assad
met Faleh Fayyad, the Iraqi National Security Advisor and the envoy of Russian Prime
Minister Haider al-Abadi to tackle counterterrorism efforts.
Faleh briefed President Assad on the latest steps taken in this regard, as well as
discussing upcoming steps and possible measures to ensure the success of these
efforts and eliminate terrorists organizations in all their forms.
President Assad affirmed to Fayyad that Syria is proceeding resolutely in its war
against all forms of takfiri terrorism which it has been waging for years, asserting that
Syria supports any international counterterrorism effort.
The President stressed that the success of such efforts isn't just linked to military
action which is important, as it's also linked to states committing themselves to
relevant international resolutions and what they entail in terms of stopping all forms
of support for terrorist organizations.
The two sides affirmed the need to continue cooperation and coordination between
the two countries' leadership in combating terrorism, particularly since this
cooperation produced positive results for the people of Syria, Iraq, and the region.
Source: Islam Times
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US now accuses Russia of contributing to Syrian conflict
Newscast Media MOSCOW—The United States' top diplomat accused Russia on
Monday of hindering a peaceful solution to the conflict in Syria by supplying its
government with arms and aid.
"Russia needs to be a part of the solution and not be contributing so many more
weapons and so much more aid that they're in fact enabling [President Bashar] Assad
to double down, which is creating an enormous problem," US Secretary of State John
Kerry said at a news conference in Indonesia, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Russia has proven to be the Syrian government's main international ally since internal
conflict broke out there almost three years ago.
Moscow has used its veto right in the UN Security Council to block several resolutions
aimed at putting sanctions on Assad's government, which Western countries accuse
of using chemical weapons against Syrian civilians.
Russia maintains it is only supplying arms and military equipment to the war-torn
Middle Eastern country under contracts signed before the civil war erupted.
Kerry made the comments two days after international peace talks on Syria brokered
by Russia and the United States ended in Geneva without any agreements.
Russia had taken responsibility for bringing the Syrian government to the talks, while
the US, which supports the opposition, brought rebel representatives to the table.
Source: Ria Novosti
Categories: News Tags: Bashar Assad, John Kerry, syrian conflict
Bashar Assad: War in Syria will be over in the next six months
Newscast Media DAMASCUS—Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Friday said that his
army will succeed in ending the Syrian war within the next six months.
Assad made the remarks addressing a delegation of representatives of various Arab countries
participating in the Arab Parties Conference in Damascus, according to Al-Alam's
Persian website.
During the meeting, Assad confirmed that the Syrian army will achieve decisiveness in
its military operations in the next six months. READ FULL ARTICLE>>
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Assad's military liberates Syria's Christian town of Maaloula
Newscast Media DAMASCUS—Jihadists who overran Syria's ancient town of Ma'loula as they disparaged Christians calling them "Crusaders" while forcing at least one to convert to Islam at gunpoint, have been forced to flee the city, after an extensive military campaign launched by Assad's military.
Many of Ma'loula people left after a first militant assault knocked out an army checkpoint at the entrance to the strategic town on September 4. Some went to a nearby village and others to Damascus, about 55 kilometers (34 miles) to the south. One of them, Marie, was still frightened as she spoke of that day.
"They arrived in our town at dawn… and shouted, 'We are from the Al-Nusra Front and have come to make lives miserable for the Crusaders,'" an Islamist term for Christians, Marie said in Damascus, where she and hundreds of others attended the burial Tuesday of three Christian fighters who belong to the public committees.
Ma'loula is one of the most renowned Christian towns in Syria, and many of its inhabitants speak Aramaic, the language of Jesus.
The Syrian army on Wednesday September 11, regained control over Ma'loula after five days of fierce clashes with the militants in the town.
After the military entered the town, the militants moved back to the northern part of Ma'loula before they completely withdrew to the neighboring towns.
The army, aided by the local fighters who belong to the public committees, started its campaign by ambushing a large number of al-Nusra Front militants who lost their supplies from al-Nabk and other towns in the vicinity.
The Syrian army also restored security and stability to the village of Maksar al-Hisan in Homs countryside, killing a large number of terrorists and destroying their weapons and tools, a military source told the Syrian news agency, SANA.
Source: Al Manar TV news
Categories: News Tags: al Nusra, Bashar Assad, Maaloula
Assad: US will pay the price if it attacks the Arab Republic of Syria
Newscast Media DAMASCUS—Syrian President Bashar al-Assad warned Washington on Monday to brace for retaliation if US forces attacked his country, as he categorically rejected accusing the army of using chemical weapons in Damascus.
"You're going to pay the price if you're not wise. There are going to be repercussions," President Assad told CBS television. "It's an area where everything is on the brink of explosion. You have to expect everything."
Assad also warned of the risks of possible chemical attacks by rebels or "terrorists" if there was outside intervention in Syria.
"You should expect everything. The government's not the only player in this region. You have different parties, different factions, different ideologies. You have everything in this decision now," President Assad said.
Assad denied the army carried out a deadly chemical weapons attack on August 21 on the outskirts of Damascus, as alleged by the United States and some of its allies.
"How can you talk about what happened if you don't have evidence?" he asked in the interview, in which he spoke English.
"We're not like the American administration, we're not like the social media administration or government. We're the government that deals with evidence."
Assad noted that the Syrian army had themselves in fact been attacked by rebels using chemical arms.
"But in the area where they say the government used chemical weapons, we only have video and we only have pictures and allegations. We're not there. Our forces, our police, our institutions don't think this," Assad said.
Asked whether the repercussions President Assad predicted could include the use of more chemical weapons, Assad replied: "That depends. If the rebels or the terrorists in this region or any other group have it, it could happen. I don't know. I'm not a fortune teller to tell you what's going to happen."
Source: Al Manar TV news
Categories: News Tags: Bashar Assad, syrian conflict
Syrian army regains control over Assad's home province Latakia
Newscast Media DAMASCUS—The Syrian army regained control over all the areas that
had been recently seized by the militant groups in Latakia countryside. In the
framework of pursuing the armed terrorist groups in Latakia countryside, units of the
armed forces completely controlled al-Nabi Ashi'a Mount and the adjacent areas, an
official source told SANA news agency on Monday.
"The army retook control of the Nabi Ashia mountain range and adjoining areas in the
north of Latakia province," the source said, of villages seized in early August by rebels
trying to topple Assad.
On Sunday state television reported that the army had reclaimed rebel-held villages in
the coastal province, hinterland of Assad's minority Alawite community.
A Syrian security force, however, told AFP the army still had to recapture the Salma
region, a strategic area along the border with Turkey that has been in rebel hands
since the end of last year.
Source: Al Manar
Categories: News Tags: Bashar Assad, Latakia province Syria
Assad "mops up" Qusayr and chases fleeing rebels into exile
Newscast Media DAMASCUS—The Syrian Army launched at dawn on Wednesday a successful operation in which it exerted absolute control over the city of al-Qusayr. As Syrian media confirmed that the Syrian Army was totally controlling the city, international news agencies reported that the Syrian opposition militants announced their withdrawal of al-Qusayr.
Al-Manar correspondent, Youssef Cheaitou, reported there was collapse within the ranks of the foreign-backed militants fighting the Syrian government. He said that the armed groups fled the city to the northern towns of Daba'a and Bowayda.
Later on, the correspondent reported that the Syria Army was launching combing operations in the northern neighborhoods of al-Qusayr. For its part, Reuters news agency said that Syrian opposition militants announced their withdrawal from the city, as Agence France Presse, (AFP) reported the same development.
"Syria's rebels conceded on Tuesday they had lost the battle for the strategic town of al-Qusayr," AFP said.
On the other hand, the London-based opposition observatory said that Hezbollah fighters were now controlling al-Qusayr.
The Syrian Arab Army has called upon its displaced residents to return to their safe homes within days. Syrian helicopters bombed the open area on the border between Lebanon and Syria near the eastern Lebanese town of Ersal, Lebanese security sources told Al-Manar TV.
The Syrian Arab Army warplanes targeted opposition gunmen who have fled from Syrian territories of al-Qusayr border city towards Lebanon, the sources said.
Source: Al-Manar TV News
Categories: News Tags: al-Qusayr, Bashar Assad, Hezbollah fighters
Israel warns that "surprise war" could take shape in Syria
Newscast Media TEL AVIV—Israeli air force chief warned that a "surprise war" would break out in Syria as tensions are escalating there, saying that the Israel should be prepared for painful and protracted war with Hezbollah and Iran.
"A surprise war could take shape today in many configurations," Maj. Gen. Amir Eshel said at a strategy conference in Herzliya, near Tel Aviv.
Eshel also said Israelis should brace for a protracted and painful conflict should their forces engage in combat with Hezbollah or Iran.
"If Syria collapses tomorrow, we will need to take action to prevent a strategic looting of advanced weaponry," he told the Fisher Institute for Air & Space Studies.
"We have to be ready for any scenario, at a few hours' notice," Eshel said.
He assumed fighting could escalate on to three fronts at once and require the Israeli air force to employ "the full spectrum of its might".
He noted that Russian S-300 air defense systems were "on their way" to Syria, though Israel asked Russia not to supply the advanced air defense system to Syria. Tel Aviv has been watching the current crisis taking place in Syria since March 2011.
It has already carried out three air strikes on Syria.
On May 5, Syria said the Israeli regime had carried out an airstrike targeting a research center in a suburb of Damascus, following heavy losses inflicted upon al-Qaeda-affiliated groups by the Syrian army. According to Syrian media reports, the strike hit the Jamraya Research Center. The Jamraya facility had been targeted in another Israeli airstrike in January.
The May 5 Israeli aggression was Tel Aviv's second strike on Syria in three days.
Source: Al Manar News
Categories: News Tags: Bashar Assad, Syria war
John Kerry admits Syria's Assad has made gains in the north
Newscast Media DAMASCUS—US Secretary of State John Kerry admitted on Wednesday the Syrian Army had achieved great gains in the northern border city of Qusayr, but said they were not permanent. Ahead of a meeting of the so-called 'Friends of Syria' group in Amman, Kerry called on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to make "a commitment to find peace in his country."
In the same context, Kerry threatened if President Assad was unwilling to negotiate on peace terms, U.S. and other countries would discuss increasing support to Syrian opposition, without elaborating what kind of support they would offer.
US Congress committee voted on Wednesday on a bill to arm Syrian Islamists in their fight against the Arab country.
Speaking at a press conference with his Jordanian counterpart, Nasser Judeh, Kerry said a US-Russian proposed conference in Geneva seeks "to end the bloodshed what has cost tens of thousands of lives."
"We are committed to try to work this evening to find the unity in specific approaches, to find the unity to implement Geneva 1…that will allow the people of Syria to choose the future of Syria," he said.
That was a reference to an international conference last June in which several steps were laid down for ending the war, which were never implemented. The foreign ministers of Britain, Egypt, France, Germany, Italy, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and the United States are attending the Amman gathering.
The meeting seeks to discuss US-Russian proposal to hold a peace conference dubbed "Geneva 2″ to bring together the opposition and representatives of the Syrian government.
Categories: News Tags: Bashar Assad, John Kerry
3500 militant rebels offering to surrender to Syria's Assad
Newscast Media DAMASCUS—Al Manar is reporting that behind the scenes 3500 fighters from the Takfiri groups and Syrian opposition militants who are under siege in Qusayr area—Homs sent many urgent messages and envoys to propose their surrender to the Syrian official authorities.
The report also says US officials working on the Syrian crisis line, proposed to their Russian counterparts that they would accept if Moscow nominates a name of its choice to replace Bashar Assad in the Syrian Presidency. The Russians refused categorically and insisted that they have only one name; Bashar Assad.
What triggered the offer to surrender is attributed to the heavy defeats they (the rebels) received in many Syrian areas, causing the opposition groups to become more flexible in their conditions to negotiate with the Syrian government. According to Lebanese sources handling the mediation efforts, the opposition has dropped the condition that Syrian President leaves office to start negotiations.
The Syrian opposition forces are are confronted with three major problems after the recent defeats on the battlefield: the first one has to do with the severe demoralization of the fighters, the second, is the severe siege against them by the government forces, and the third is their inability to attract more fighters or to rally support.
Source: Al Manar TV news
Categories: News Tags: Bashar Assad
Moscow says it will not Libyan scenario happen in Syria
Newscast Media MOSCOW—Russia will not allow a repetition of the Libyan scenario in Syria, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Sunday.
"We'll not allow the Libyan experience to be reproduced in Syria. Unfortunately our Western partners have departed from the Geneva accords and are seeking the departure of [Syrian President] Bashar al-Assad," Lavrov said, adding Russia was not clinging to any individual leaders in Syria.
Russia and China vetoed a Western-backed UN resolution on Syria on July 19 over fears that it would lead to foreign military intervention in the Middle East country. The resolution was tied to Chapter 7 of the UN Charter, which would have provided for the use of force to put an end to the rapidly escalating conflict. Russia says it has no special interest in seeing Assad remain in power, but that the "Syrian people" should decide his fate.
A number of Western countries have been trying to persuade Moscow to support a resolution effectively authorizing a military operation, but Russia has repeatedly insisted that the Western drive for a stronger crackdown on Syria is preparation for a "Libyan scenario."
In Libya, rebels ousted and killed long-standing dictator Muammar Gaddafi in October 2011 after a months-long military standoff in which they received assistance from NATO forces. Russia did not use its veto power in the UN Security Council to block the intervention in Libya that was started under the pretext of protecting civilians there. Lavrov also said Russia was not holding any talks on the fate of embattled Assad.
Meanwhile, Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said the Syrian leadership had assured Russia there was no danger of the spread of chemical weapons in the Middle East country.
"The Syrian government is assuring us that it will not allow their spread [chemical weapons]. We hope that this will be so," Patrushev said.
He was echoed by Lavrov, who said Russia is more concerned that the chemical weapons could fall into hands of Assad's opponents, whose ranks allegedly include al-Qaida affiliates.
Source: Ria Novosti
Categories: News Tags: Bashar Assad, Dmitry Medivedev, Sergei Lavrov, Vladmire Putin
Assad: Erdogan thinks he's Caliph, sultan of the Ottoman
Newscast Media DAMASCUS—In an exclusive interview with Russia Today, Syria's President Bashar Assad talks about who the enemy is and what his plans for Syria and the Syrian people are. Below are some excerpts of the interview:
'My enemy is terrorism and instability in Syria'
RT: There are many people who were convinced a year ago that you would not make it this far. Here again you are sitting in a newly renovated presidential palace and recording this interview. Who exactly is your enemy at this point?
BA: My enemy is terrorism and instability in Syria. This is our enemy in Syria. It is not about the people, it is not about persons. The whole issue is not about me staying or leaving. It is about the country being safe or not. So, this is the enemy we have been fighting as Syria.
RT: I have been here for the last two days and I had the chance to talk to a couple of people in Damascus. Some of them say that whether you stay or go at this point does not really matter anymore. What do you say about this?
BA: I think for the president to stay or leave is a popular issue. It is related to the
opinion of some people and the only way can be done through the ballot boxes. So, it is not about what we hear. It is about what we can get through that box and that box will tell any president to stay or leave very simply.
Categories: News Tags: Bashar Assad, Erdogan Turkey, Ottoman Empire, war in Syria
UN: Syrian rebels commit war crimes with public executions
Newscast Media DAMASCUS—The United Nations said that a video showing militants executing Syrian soldiers was evidence of war crimes. "It is very likely that this was a war crime, another one," Rupert Colville, spokesman for UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay, told reporters in Geneva.
He was reacting to a video posted on YouTube of showing insurgents beating around 10 soldiers before lining them up on the ground and executing them with automatic rifles.
According to Al Manar TV news, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Thursday that rebels had killed 28 soldiers during attacks on three army checkpoints.
Colville said he and his colleagues had only just seen the video and that it was difficult to verify who was involved. However, he stressed, the perpetrators should be under no illusion they could get away with their crimes.
"Accountability will follow," he said. "The video could well be used as evidence in legal proceedings. We call on all parties to the conflict in Syria to respect international law," he added.
These are the same western-supported rebels that are referred to as Friends of Syria. Before the Syrian conflict, these atrocities were a rarity. Syria was a tourist attraction due to its biblical and historical sites. Yet the West continues to encourage and support these rebels in their quest to overthrow Bashar Assad.
What satisfaction can anyone derive from this? Each and every slain soldier above is someone's son, someone's brother, someone's father or someone's husband.
These are nothing but human sacrifices, and the blood that is being spilled is crying out to the Most High God, who sets rulers up and brings them down.
Categories: News Tags: Bashar Assad, friends of syria, syria al-qaeda, syrian rebels, war crimes
Pt.3 Ambassador Christopher Stevens –dead men tell no tales
Newscast Media WASHINGTON, D.C—The Iran-Contra scandal that happened under Ronald Reagan facilitated the illegal sale of weapons to Iran covertly. It became one of the biggest political scandals since the inception of the nation, after the operation turned into an arms-for-hostages exchange undertaking.
Weapons abandoned by Gaddafi were under surveillance in Libya at all times, since the US knew they could fall in the hands of the bad guys if left unmonitored. The CIA had an operation there because it was reported that former Navy SEAL Tyrone Woods was at the CIA annex about an hour away from where Chris Stevens came under attack.
A few months before the attack, the Free Syrian Army (FSA) had requested more weapons because it had come under heavy fire in Aleppo and was forced to retreat. France, that had previously supported rebels under Sarkozy, reversed itself and refused to send any more weapons to the Syrian rebels.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told France's Europe-1 radio, "Rebel backers Qatar, Saudi Arabia and others are sending arms to the rebels . We Europeans decided on an arms embargo. We are not going to contradict our own positions."
"America and Europe just talk, talk, talk, but no one helps," said Abu Mohammad, an FSA commander in Aleppo who supplies his men with the homemade grenades. "There have been promises from other countries to provide us with arms, but no one has helped us," reported the Christian Science Monitor.
As we saw in Pt.2 there were fighters identified as Libyans in Syria, and Chris Stevens was the bridge between the US and the opposition. The FSA's requests for weapons were finally responded to and there is indication that arrangements were being made to ship the weapons to Syria via Turkey. Intending to funnel weapons only to what the US perceived as the "good guys" namely the Free Syrian Army, word must have inadvertently reached the "bad guys" namely al-Qaeda, that they had been left out of the party. Al-Qaeda did not take this too kindly. They had spilled their blood for the sake of the West, and were willing to risk their lives in Syria, and wondered, "Is this how the West pays us back, by snubbing us?"
Benghazi would be the place they got revenge. We know this because the attack had been pre-planned months ahead of time. On September 11, witnesses saw about 150 bearded armed men setting up roadblocks, and sealing off street leading to the US Consulate in Benghazi. Interestingly enough, no US embassy in Benghazi is listed on the list of US embassies, because there is only one US embassy in Libya, and it is in Tripoli. Nevertheless, the trucks of the gunmen bore the logo of Ansar al-Shariah, a powerful local group of Islamist militants, according to the Miami Herald.
The only logical reason al-Qaeda would get involved in such an operation points to taking Chris Stevens hostage, and then making a deal similar to the Iran-Contra deal, by swapping Chris Stevens in exchange for a portion of the weapons that was supposed to be delivered to FSA. According to FOX News, CIA chain of command told the CIA operators twice to "stand down" rather than help the ambassador's team when shots were heard at approximately 9:40 p.m. in Benghazi on Sept. 11. There were also two drones with live video feeds of the attacks.
U.S. officials argue that there was a period of several hours when the fighting stopped before the mortars were fired at the annex, leading officials to believe the attack was over. Bingo! The only reason there was a period of several hours when fighting stopped, also points to a negotiation taking place, between the gunmen who were holding Stevens hostage and those who had access to the intel being fed to them by the military surveillance drones.
For McCain to mention there was a cover-up, is as a result of putting two and two together based on what happened in the Iran-Contra deal, and most recently the Fast and Furious scandal when the government sold weapons to Mexican drug lords covertly. It would therefore make sense to a military man like McCain to suspect the same was happening in the Stevens case, which would be an enormous scandal that not even the media could protect Obama from.
It was reported that at around 4am, the compound's building in which Stevens had taken refuge, was hit by mortar fire which killed agents Doherty and Woods. Stevens was not seen by the security team again until his body was delivered to the airport. Officials said, and they still do know how he reached the Libyan hospital where attempts were made to revive him. He obviously did not grow wings, so we can deduce that it was al-Qaeda that dropped his body off at the hospital after a possible failure to secure a weapons deal from the cache that was en route to Syria.
Finally, to conclude this three-part series, we have to place the weapons in Syria. The Russians knew all along that weapons were headed to Syria to be used against Assad. In order to protect their interests in Syria, the Russians have been providing weapons to the Syrian government. Ruslan Pukhov, the Russian defense analyst and director of the Moscow-based Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies, said, "Russia doesn't see any problems selling weapons to Syria if the CIA and French and British secret services are shipping military hardware via Turkey to the rebels, including the Islamists," in this video interview with the BBC.
Arab news network Al Arabia reported early in August that surface-to-air missiles, particularly MANPADs,(man-portable air-defense systems), had been supplied to the rebels to help oust Assad.
The New York Times also reported that weapons, including automatic rifles, rocket-propelled grenades, ammunition and some anti-tank weapons, were being funneled mostly across the Turkish border by way of a shadowy network of intermediaries including Syria's Muslim Brotherhood.
Further evidence reveals that there was squabbling between al-Qaeda and FSA in regard to who got what weapons. FOX News has evidence that a Libyan-flagged vessel reportedly carrying weapons named Al Entisar, which means "The Victory," was received in the Turkish port of Iskenderun — 35 miles from the Syrian border — on Sept. 6, just five days before Ambassador Chris Stevens, information management officer Sean Smith and former Navy Seals Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty were killed during an extended assault by more than 100 Islamist militants.
Quoting The Times of London, Syria News Agency verified that over 400 tons of cargo included "SAM-7 surface-to-air anti-craft missiles and rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs)." Abu Mohammad, who told The Times that he "helped to move the shipment from warehouses to the border" said "this is the largest single delivery of assistance" the gunmen have so far received.
We have determined why Stevens was sent to Libya, and have been able to place both the Libyan rebels and the cache of weapons in Syria. John McCain's theory is the only legitimate one of all four, since there has been silence in this administration as to what really happened and why it happened.
Tying all the loose ends together, it is safe to say, based on the available evidence, Chris Stevens was an unintended victim of extortion who was taken hostage by the very people he helped overthrow Gaddafi. The deal went wrong after the militant al-Qaeda could not reach a consensus with the person in charge of the negotiations. The cover-up benefits the parties who gave the order to stand down, since they do not have to take responsibility or stand trial for the lives that were lost.
Should Romney win the election, he will have access to all the intel, and in 2016 if Hillary Clinton attempts to re-run for the presidency, this currently-sealed information could be used as a trump card by the GOP, to "swift boat" her.
Pt.1 Was Chris Stevens linked to a Benghazi Fast and Furious?
Categories: News Tags: Al-Qaeda, Bashar Assad, benghazi attacks, friends of syria, the taliban
Assad: Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey fueling crisis in Syria
Newscast Media, DAMASCUS—President Basahar al-Assad slammed Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey for supporting armed groups fighting in Syria, as he insisted that these militants would not win the battle.
"They suddenly saw money in their hands after a long period of poverty and think they can buy history and play a regional role," Assad told Al-Ahram al-Arabi, which put excerpts from the interview on its website on Thursday.
"The widespread idea that Saudi Arabia, Syria and Egypt are the cornerstone of stability in the region is false. It has always been, and will remain, Syria, Iraq and Egypt," said President Assad.
He said that before the conflict, Riyadh served only as a "mediator with the West that does not appreciate the axis of resistance against Zionism advocated by Syria."
The Syrian leader said Qatar "uses the power of money and revolves in the orbit of the West by providing weapons and money to terrorists to repeat the scenario of Libya."
"The Qataris were the quickest to fuel the violence," he said.
President Assad also criticized Turkey, saying it was unconcerned "about the interests of its people, focusing solely on its ambitions that include 'the new Ottoman empire'," he said.
He reiterated that "armed men were using terrorism against the Syrian state," but they "have no support among the people. Ultimately they will not emerge victorious."
"It will take time" for regime forces to win, he said, adding that the "door to dialogue is open — only talks with the opposition will solve the crisis."
Source: Al Manar news
Categories: News Tags: Aleppo battle, Aleppo news, Bashar Assad, Syria news, syrian crisis
Syria's Bashar al-Assad make first public appearance after ambush
Newscast Media DAMASCUS, Syria—After a deadly attack by rebels on top Syrian officials, there was much speculation about the whereabouts of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad. Several rumors suggested that Assad might have left the capital, but the president disproved those rumors by appearing on TV with newly-named Defense Minister Gen. Fahd Jassem al-Freij.
One of the victims killed in the blast was the president's brother-in-law. The location of the killings took place in one of the most tightly secured neighborhoods in the city. The National Security headquarters is located in Rawda, in the upscale Abu Rumaneh neighborhood. It lies in a square that contains the Turkish, US, Iraqi, and several EU embassies.
President Assad with his newly-named Defense Minister Gen. Fahd Jassem al-Freij
According to Al-Akbar, the ambush which targeted the commanders of the security unit was claimed by the Free Syrian Army (FSA). But there were several accounts. One spoke about a suicide bomber inside the building. Another said an explosive device had been installed inside the meeting room. Others claimed a number of FSA brigades penetrated the security structure and planted an explosive device in the meeting room.
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In response to a congressional request, GAO reviewed 13 States' implementation of the maternal and child health services block grant which was created by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981.
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