Family of Oscar Grant Gives SoCal Press Confrence on BART Police Officer Murder Trial
Opening statements were held in a Los Angeles courtroom Thursday in the highly anticipated murder trial of former Bay Area Rapid Transit police Officer Johannes Mehserle, who fatally shot unarmed passenger Oscar Grant III in Oakland last year.
Several BART officers were responding to a fight on a train, and Mehserle’s defense attorney, Michael Rains, said the 28-year-old defendant was reaching for his Taser stun gun but grabbed his gun instead when he shot Grant, a 22-year-old Hayward resident, on New Year’s Day 2009.
Prosecutors said Mehserle intended to shoot Grant, and he used his gun because officers were losing control of the situation.
The following is a running log of courtroom activity from CBS 5 reporter Joe Vasquez, who was in court observing.
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Phelps Discusses U.S. Economy, G-20 Meetings: Video
June 28 (Bloomberg) — Edmund Phelps, a Nobel Prize-winning Columbia University professor, discusses the U.S. economy, last weekend’s meeting of the Group of 20 leaders and the European sovereign debt crisis.
Phelps speaks with Margaret Brennan on Bloomberg Television’s “InBusiness.” (This is an excerpt of the full interview. Source: Bloomberg)
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Jehovah’s Witnesses 2009 International Conventions News Report
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JW-MEDIA EXCLUSIVE REPORT: 2009 International Conventions
Jehovahs Witnesses from around the globe attended the 2009 Keep on the Watch! International Conventions held in 33 major cities in 16 different lands. Interviews with the delegates provide a compelling look at these gatherings and at the Witnesses themselves.
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Davos Annual Meeting 2010 – Rethinking Compensation Models
http://www.weforum.org 27.01.2010
A 2009 study revealed that 70% of the 200 largest companies (by market capitalization) in the S&P 500 Stock Index reported changes to their executive compensation programmes.
How should compensation systems be redesigned in the wake of the “Great Recession”?
Shumeet Banerji, Chief Executive Officer, Booz & Company, United Kingdom
Mark Mactas, President and Chief Operating Officer, Towers Watson, USA
Stephen G. Pagliuca, Managing Director, Bain Capital, USA
Peter A. Weinberg, Founding Partner, Perella Weinberg Partners, USA
Moderated by
Adi Ignatius, Editor-in-Chief, Harvard Business Review, USA
Duration : 1:18:43
Davos Annual Meeting 2010 – India’s Future Agenda
http://www.weforum.org 30.01.2010
The 2009 victory of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) was the first time since 1962 that an Indian prime minister was elected to a second five-year term.
How will this renewed political mandate reshape the country’s agenda in key areas of public finance, trade, investment, infrastructure and rural development?
Reuben Abraham, Executive Director, Centre for Emerging Markets Solutions, Indian School of Business, India; Young Global Leader
Montek S. Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, India
Hari S. Bhartia, Co-Chairman and Managing Director, Jubilant Organosys, India; Vice-President, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)
Shyam Saran, Special Envoy of the Prime Minister of India; Global Agenda Council on Climate Change
Anand Sharma, Minister of Commerce and Industry of India
N. K. Singh, Member of Parliament, India
Chaired by
John K. Defterios, Anchor, CNN Marketplace Middle East, CNN International, United Kingdom
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Eric Holder’s Press Confrence on Times Square Bomber Arrest
A Connecticut man of Pakistani descent has been taken into custody in connection with the Times Square car bomb case — at JFK Airport.
A US citizen, Faisal Shahzad, 30, was apprehended by Customs and Border Patrol agents at the Queens international airport at 11:45 p.m. at Terminal 4, while trying to board a plane to Dubai, presumably to escape the manhunt that has been on since Saturday night, law enforcement sources said.
United States Attorney General Eric Holder took the unusual step of holding a press conference at 1:30 a.m. Tuesday, saying that even though there has been an arrest, investigators from numerous federal and local law-enforcement agencies are still tracking down multiple leads.
“We continue to gather leads in this investigation and it is important that the American people remain vigilant,” said Holder.
This investigation is ongoing, it is multifaceted and it is aggresive,” he added. “We will not rest until we have bought everyone responsible to justice.”
He noted that “this would have been a deadly attack” and “the intent was to kill Americans.”
Officials said Shahzad will appear in Manhattan federal court later Tuesday at a currently undetermined time to be presented on formal charges.
Long Island Rep. Peter King later released a statement saying, Tonight’s arrest of Faisal Shahzad is a tremendous victory for the American people. I commend the NYPD and the FBI for their outstanding work. This is a vivid reminder of the deadly and continuing threat of Islamic terrorism to the United States and particularly to the people of New York.
Late Monday, New York police and FBI agents had narrowed their focus on Shahzad, who recently returned from a trip to Pakistan and three weeks ago bought the 1993 Nissan Pathfinder used in the failed car bomb on Saturday night.
Investigators say Shahzad’s name was on an email that was sent to the seller of the SUV last month after they connected on Craigslist, but officials cannot definitively say whether he used his own email or whether someone else sent it from his account.
And even if Shahzad, who has a residence in Shelton Connecticut, did use his own account, and is the person who bought the car, investigators don’t know whether he is also the man who drove it into Times Square Saturday night.
Nonetheless, he is the strongest lead yet.
The FBI has checked his records and found repeated contacts overseas, but they cannot say tonight whether those are innocent or somehow related to the bombing attempt.
Officials said Shahzad had recently traveled to Pakistan.
A senior official says there’s a growing feeling that the bombing may have some overseas connection, but they cannot be certain. And if there is, they don’t know whether it’s inspirational or operational. They doubt it’s directed by an established group overseas, because the nature of the bomb was so badly assembled.
As for the idea that more than one person was involved, officials say that’s just a theory. There’s no reason, they say, to believe so.
It was a Vehicle Identification Number in the car’s engine that led investigators to the former owner, who was the last person on record to be officially associated with the SUV.
This morning, police spoke to that seller of the Nissan Pathfinder, but Chief NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said that person is not a suspect. Police have not yet identified who the driver was and Browne said they are still looking for suspects.
The New York Post reported that the seller was a female 19-year-old Connecticut college student whose mom said she was nervous about “the guy coming after her.”
The car bomb was a rough concoction of ordinary items – fireworks, fuel and fertilizer – that authorities suspect was meant to cause maximum mayhem in the heart of Times Square.
In the end, the device fizzled and the city and its residents counted themselves lucky once again: lucky that a vendor saw smoke creeping out of the car parked in one of the busiest streets in America; lucky that authorities responded quickly; and lucky that the would-be terrorists were clumsy enough to assemble a bomb that wasn’t capable of exploding.
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Milad un Nabi Confernce Regent Plaza (Live Program on QTV)
Milad un Nabi Confernce Regent Plaza Karachi (Live Program on QTV) Dated: Feb. 28, 2009
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Davos Annual Meeting 2008 – Bill Gates
http://www.weforum.org/annualmeeting 24.01.2008
A New Approach to Capitalism in the 21st Century
William H. Gates III, Chairman, Microsoft Corporation, USA
Chaired by
Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum
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Davos Annual Meeting 2010 – Rebuilding Education for the 21st Century
http://www.weforum.org 30.01.2010
For children to reach their full potential, the gains in universal primary education need to be replicated at the next level; only 54% of children in developing countries attend secondary school.
How can education systems be rebuilt to deliver their full potential in the 21st century?
Queen Rania Al Abdullah, H.M. Queen Rania Al Abdullah of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan; Member of the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum; Global Agenda Council on Education Systems
Irina Bokova, Director-General, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Paris
John T. Chambers, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Cisco, USA
Trevor Manuel, Minister of the National Planning Commission (NPC) of South Africa
Harold McGraw III, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, The McGraw-Hill Companies, USA
Moderated by
Riz Khan, Anchor, Al Jazeera, USA
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Barney Frank Confronts Woman At Townhall Comparing Obama To Hitler
At a Barney Frank town hall meeting in Dartmouth, MA, a constituent asks, “Why are you supporting this Nazi policy?”
Frank responds: “On what planet do you spend most of your time?” He then calls her approach “vile, contemptible nonsense.” He closes by saying: “Trying to have a conversation with you would be like arguing with a dining room table.”
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