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Politics / Re: North Korea Excutes Kim Jong's Uncle.. by Enigmaticicon(m): 11:50am On Dec 13, 2013 |
It also claimed he pursued a "decadent capitalist lifestyle" – squandering at least €4.6m in 2009 alone, including in a foreign casino – and deliberately hampered construction projects in Pyongyang. He sold off natural resources "at random" and committed treachery by selling off land at the Rason special economic zone for five decades, it added, apparently in reference to a deal with Russia. "They are using this opportunity to scapegoat Uncle Jang by relegating responsibility for all policy failures," said Leonid Petrov of the Australian National University. Other offences cited include halfhearted applause as Kim rose to power and Jang's "reckless" instruction to security forces to erect a granite block with Kim's signature in a shaded corner rather than in front of their headquarters. Brian Myers, an expert on ideology at Dongseo University in Busan, noted that the denigration of Jang held potential perils for the leadership. It raised questions about his ability to cause so much damage for so long and sat uneasily with North Korea's use of collective punishment. "This is a member of the clan in a culture where the regime tends to punish entire families for crimes committed by one of them. So it seems odd to be so explicit about [his] crimes," Myers said. KCNA said Jang had long held a "dirty political ambition" but dared not act while Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il were alive. |
Politics / North Korea Excutes Kim Jong's Uncle.. by Enigmaticicon(m): 11:40am On Dec 13, 2013 |
North Korea has executed Kim Jong- un's uncle as a "traitor for all ages" who confessed to planning a coup, state media has announced. Jang Song-thaek, previously one of the country's most powerful men, was accused of everything from plotting to overthrow the state to instigating disastrous currency reforms and dishing out pornography in the report from official news agency KCNA. It denounced him as "worse than a dog" and "despicable human scum". KCNA said a special military tribunal had found him guilty of treason and the Rodong Sinmun newspaper carried a photograph of him handcuffed and held by uniformed guards in the courtroom. North Korea announced earlier this week that Jang, thought to be in his late 60s, had been stripped of all posts and expelled from the Workers' party for offences including factionalism, corruption and dissolute behaviour. But many had thought his marriage to the youthful leader's aunt – the sister of late leader Kim Jong-il – was likely to save his life. In Pyongyang, people crowded around subway station billboards displaying the morning paper and news of the execution, Associated Press reported. Others sat quietly and listened as a radio broadcast broadcast into the subway listed Jang's crimes. The lengthy, bombastic and at times downright bizarre report from KCNA quoted an alleged admission by Jang that he sought to destabilise the country, triggering discontent among the military and others. He planned to become premier if North Korea approached collapse and use illicitly acquired wealth to ensure that "the people and service personnel will shout 'hurrah' for me" and his coup would succeed smoothly". |
Politics / Re: National Assembly to close down as FG intends to renovate its House.. by Enigmaticicon(m): 9:34pm On Dec 12, 2013 |
MANGAM: Do we need this at this time?Seriouly i don't understand our governmment.. |
Celebrities / Re: 10 African Millionaires Under 40 Years by Enigmaticicon(m): 2:03pm On Dec 12, 2013 |
MIKE MACHARIA, 38, KENYA Michael King’Ori Macharia is the Group CEO of Seven Seas Technologies (SST), one of East Africa’s leading technology solutions companies. As a qualified chartered accountant, Mike founded SST in Kenya in 1999 at the age of 25, having risen to the post of sales manager after three years working at a then-leading IT firm, Comtech Systems. From a team of just five at its inception in 1999, the SST Group currently has more than 100 permanent employees in East, West and Southern Africa, as well as Portugal, and generates annual revenues of around $50 million. |
Celebrities / Re: 10 African Millionaires Under 40 Years by Enigmaticicon(m): 1:56pm On Dec 12, 2013 |
ABASIAMA IDARESIT, 34, NIGERIA Abasiama Idaresit is a firm believer in the possibilities of the internet for Africa. He is the founder and CEO of Wild Fusion, a Nigeria-based digital marketing agency with a presence in Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya. It has a clientele of blue-chip companies including Pepsi, Unilever, Diamond Bank and Vodafone. Upon completion of his Information Systems and Management course at the London School of Economics in 2008, Idaresit returned to Nigeria to start Wild Fusion. This was before the rise of Twitter, when internet advertising was still a very unpopular idea in the country. After eight months with little to no revenue generated, Idaresit’s $250-money-back trial service increased a reluctant client’s earnings by 100 percent in three months. So stunning was the result that Google adopted it as an internet marketing case study. The company became Google Adwords’ first local certified partner and was named Nigeria’s best digital agency in 2011. In 2012, having received no external funding, it recorded an annual turnover of $6 million. Idaresit, who has been featured on CNN among other media outlets, says he has always loved the internet and wants to see it change Africa. |
Celebrities / Re: 10 African Millionaires Under 40 Years by Enigmaticicon(m): 1:33pm On Dec 12, 2013 |
SIM SHAGAYA, 38, NIGERIA From computer programming at the tender young age of 10 to leading Google Africa, over the years Sim Shagaya has established three multi-million-dollar Nigerian digital companies: eMotion, Nigeria’s first digital ad company which he now chairs; dealdey.com, the country’s largest deal site; and Konga.com, Nigeria’s second-largest ecommerce player and which has received over $15 million in funding from investors including Naspers and Kinnivik. While 10 percent of Konga’s shares are distributed among employees, Shagaya controls a majority stake of at least 51 percent. Prior to his successful string of entrepreneurial strides, Shagaya spent two years as the personal executive to the current chairman of Etisalat Nigeria, Hakeem Bello- Osagie. Shagaya plans to spend 20 years of his life revamping local retail and building a sustainable retail network in Nigeria, just as Jeff Bezos did with Amazon. |
Celebrities / Re: 10 African Millionaires Under 40 Years by Enigmaticicon(m): 1:29pm On Dec 12, 2013 |
ROLAND AGAMBIRI, 39, GHANA A visionary and inspiring youth advocate, Roland Agambiri is the group chairman of AGAMS GROUP and the founder and CEO of the much-celebrated electronics manufacturer, rlg Communications. His ascent is a study in determination. After earning a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Agambiri established Roagam Links Ghana in March 2001 as a mobile phone repair outlet. It later became rlg, the pioneer indigenous computer and mobile phone plant and technology institute in Ghana and the West African sub-region. Agambiri has since expanded the company’s presence to China, Gambia and Nigeria – where it established a $20-million assembly plant – and Dubai, the location of its new global headquarters. The Ghana Investment Promotion Centre’s Ghana Club 100 previously christened rlg as the Fastest Growing Company in Ghana, the Leader in Ghana’s ICT Sector and the Best Entrant to the Club 100. |
Celebrities / Re: 10 African Millionaires Under 40 Years by Enigmaticicon(m): 1:25pm On Dec 12, 2013 |
VINNY LINGHAM, 34, SOUTH AFRICA Lingham, one of South Africa’s leading tech exports, is an internet entrepreneur and serial founder, with several companies under his belt. In 2003, he founded incuBeta – a global online marketing investment holding company – and Click2Customers – a successful search engine marketing company with offices in Cape Town, Los Angeles and London. Presently, Click2Customers generates an annual revenue of about $100 million. Lingham, who now lives in San Francisco, competes on the global scene and has, over the years, built quite an empire, with multi-million dollar companies including Lingham Capital, Yola Inc (formerly Synthasite), Gyft and more. Linghman sits on the boards of ChessCube, SkyRove, and Personera and previously served on marketing advisory boards for internet giant, Yahoo, and Nasdaq-listed, ValueClick. |
Celebrities / Re: 10 African Millionaires Under 40 Years by Enigmaticicon(m): 1:23pm On Dec 12, 2013 |
ASHISH THAKKAR, 31, UGANDA Ashish Thakkar is a co-founder and CEO of the Mara Group. The Group, with interests in real estate, manufacturing, technology, renewable energy and financial services, has over 7,000 employees across 19 countries and an annual turnover in excess of $100 million. Entrepreneurship for him, like his billionaire mentor and friend Richard Branson, started at an early age. Thakkar was just 15 years old when he set up his first business: importing and selling computer hardware and software in Uganda. Thakkar says the loss of his parents’ wealth in the 1993 Rwandan genocide spurred him to start a business. Over the years, his personal worth has climbed over $290 million. |
Celebrities / Re: 10 African Millionaires Under 40 Years by Enigmaticicon(m): 1:22pm On Dec 12, 2013 |
MARK SHUTTLEWORTH, 39, SOUTH AFRICA Mark Shuttleworth, South Africa’s tech wunderkind, is the founder of Canonical Ltd, the developer of Ubuntu, the world’s largest, free, open-source operating system with over 20 million users. Shuttleworth shot to fame in 1999 when Thawte, an internet security company he founded four years earlier, at the age of 22, was acquired by VeriSign for $575 million. Shuttleworth used funds from the buyout of his first company to start a Cape Town-based emerging markets investment fund, HBD Capital (now Knife Capital). The fund eventually sold several companies for nine-digit sums, including Fundamo, which Visa paid $110 million for in 2011. He also founded an eponymous foundation that financially supports innovative social entrepreneurs, and was South Africa’s first man to shuttle to space. |
Celebrities / 10 African Millionaires Under 40 Years by Enigmaticicon(m): 1:20pm On Dec 12, 2013 |
VENTURES AFRICA – Africa has a new class of millionaires. Many are not members of dynasties and few are into the traditional generators of African wealth – resource mining and exploration or brokering of lucrative government contracts. They have grabbed new tools and made new friends. With technology in one hand and foreign investment in the other, these millennials are building business that will diversify Africa’s economic landscape. They also aren’t doing too badly for themselves. Here are 10 “new millionaires” under 40 whose ideas are both transforming the continent and making them fabulously wealthy. |
Celebrities / Re: The 10 Biggest Unclad Celebrity Scandals Of 2013! by Enigmaticicon(m): 12:54pm On Dec 12, 2013 |
Go to: http://www.yourtango.com/2013201004/celebrity-sex-nip-slips-nude-celebrities-pics-2013 to view nudes.. Can you tell me your views of the music industry presently? |
Celebrities / Re: The 10 Biggest Unclad Celebrity Scandals Of 2013! by Enigmaticicon(m): 12:43pm On Dec 12, 2013 |
9. LADY GAGA If you wanted to see Lady Gaga naked, Marina Abramovic helped that happen. Gaga starred in a bizarre clip for "The Abramovic Method," which apparently involves standing in fields nude, sitting on rocks nude and screaming a lot. But guys, it's like, totally art, you guys. You just don't get it. 10. SETH ROGEN Seth Rogen and James Franco lampooned Kanye Westand Kim Kardashian's now-infamous "Bound 2" video ... and somehow lookedlessridiculous than Kimye did. But, guys, where the hell are your helmets? |
Celebrities / Re: The 10 Biggest Unclad Celebrity Scandals Of 2013! by Enigmaticicon(m): 12:24pm On Dec 12, 2013 |
7. RIHANNA Rihanna got kicked out of Abu Dhabi for being too sexy. She responded by posting this selfie in which everything -- even her face -- is naked. Can we all just bask for a moment in how unfair life is? The girl is stunning. But this is pretty much just Tuesday for Rih, who loves showing off what she's got. 8. SHIRI APPLEBY Shiri Appleby showed the full monty, so why didn't her sexy selfie get the Miley treatment from the press? Perhaps because that's what it was going for: The shot, which showseverything, came out suspiciously close to when Appleby was topless onGirls... and no one was buying it as an accident. |
Celebrities / Re: The 10 Biggest Unclad Celebrity Scandals Of 2013! by Enigmaticicon(m): 12:21pm On Dec 12, 2013 |
4. ROSIE HUNTINGTON WHITELEY Fellow model and actress Rosie Huntington-Whiteley suffered a nip slip at the 2013 British FashionAwards. Perhaps an award should be given to double-stick tape next time? 5. NICKI MINAJ Nicki Minaj has had so many nip slipsthat she almost always opts for pasties nowadays -- but who needs pasties when you've got palms? (And believe it or not, this is one of the more covered up shots on her Instagram!) 6. JOSH HUTCHERSON After some alleged nudes of Josh Hutcherson came out in late July, we got tongue-tied. But the pics never really, er, caught fire -- because, well, look at his jaw. The shots were PhotoShopped to death and dismissed as fake pretty quickly. |
Celebrities / Re: The 10 Biggest Unclad Celebrity Scandals Of 2013! by Enigmaticicon(m): 12:15pm On Dec 12, 2013 |
2. DEMI LOVATO The bizarre image you see here is the tamest in a series of leaked photos supposedly of Cyrus' pal,X Factorjudge and fellow Disney alum Demi Lovato. While the authenticity of the shots has been questioned, many point out that the presence of her tattoos--as well as of Wilmer Valderrama--speak to their legitimacy. Lovato never commented, though, and the story faded into relative obscurity as soon as Cyrus started up her thirsty "urban" antics again. 3. CHRISSY TEIGEN What do you get a swimsuit model for her birthday? If you're John Legend, you get Chrissy Teigen a tweet featuring her nipple. Were all the florists closed? |
Celebrities / The 10 Biggest Unclad Celebrity Scandals Of 2013! by Enigmaticicon(m): 11:54am On Dec 12, 2013 |
Which celebs got naked and caused a stir in 2013? So many people got naked so often in 2013 that it was a little tough to narrow down all the salacious nude photos and videos that hit the Web. But fear not: We're here to help. From Miley Cyrusto Lady Gaga and beyond, check out the biggest celebrity sexscandal stories of the year! 1. MILEY CYRUS Miley Cyrus showed a lot(!) of skin in 2013, particularly at the VMAs when she attempted to twerk on Robin Thicke and some innocent teddy bears. But it's her naked bod in her "Wrecking Ball" video that broke YouTube records. Was it the spit string? The tears? The likelihood of a rash? The Terry Richardson creep factor? Maybe a little of all of those. Which is sad, because the song itself shows off her pipes! |
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