The plot surrounding the Petraeus affair is thickening and is becoming ever more confusing. Former Gen. David Petraeus and his successor made a comedy of the military, when they helped a woman, who was deemed mentally unstable by a judge, in her bitter custody battle — less than two weeks after the US was dealing with one of the worst terrorist attacks against its embassy in Lybia. Head of the CIA, Petraeus, and Gen. John Allen, the top military commander in Afghanistan, each wrote supportive letters to a judge on behalf of Natalie Khawam. Who on earth is Khawam you may ask?Khawam and her twin sister, Jill Kelley, are the focal points of the bizarre scandal that forced the married Petraeus to resign last weekend and has the two decorated commanders looking like fools. Defense officials and people close to Petraeus say neither he nor Allen had a romantic relationship with Kelley, a 37-year-old wife and mother, who is described as a prominent presence in military circles in Tampa, whatever tat means. She may also have been seen as a rival by Petraeus’ biographer, Paula Broadwell, who sent supposedly sent Kelley a series of anonymous, harassing emails, which started an investigation that uncovered evidence of an affair between Petraeus and Broadwell. Really sounds like something from a Soap Opera…doesnt it?
Chinese cyber police placed stricter controls on information distribution, to protect the political congress from prying cyber eyes. Earlier this year Web police units kindly asked some companies in Beijing, which included joint ventures involving American corporations, to install hardware to monitor and record traffic of hundreds or thousands of computers, block selected Web sites, and connect with local police servers. Fines and suspended internet service for the companies, would be the punishment if they didn’t comply with these measures. But not to worry, apparently this is what happens every time there is a political congress in China, and we should be back to normal soon, to slightly less intrusive internet censorship.
Give it up for NOKIA everybody for their resilience and refusal to give up. In their latest attempt to find footing in the booming mobile market, the company is hoping spread its reach into competitors’ phones through mapping applications. In the coming weeks it would release a maps app called Here in Apple’s App Store. Well we certainly do want an alternative to what Apple has presented us with, so hopefully you don’t disappoint Nokia by giving us something that is neither Here not There.
The plot surrounding the Petraeus affair is thickening and is becoming ever more confusing. Former Gen. David Petraeus and his successor made a comedy of the military, when they helped a woman, who was deemed mentally unstable by a judge, in her bitter custody battle — less than two weeks after the US was dealing with one of the worst terrorist attacks against its embassy in Lybia. Head of the CIA, Petraeus, and Gen. John Allen, the top military commander in Afghanistan, each wrote supportive letters to a judge on behalf of Natalie Khawam. Who on earth is Khawam you may ask?Khawam and her twin sister, Jill Kelley, are the focal points of the bizarre scandal that forced the married Petraeus to resign last weekend and has the two decorated commanders looking like fools. Defense officials and people close to Petraeus say neither he nor Allen had a romantic relationship with Kelley, a 37-year-old wife and mother, who is described as a prominent presence in military circles in Tampa, whatever tat means. She may also have been seen as a rival by Petraeus’ biographer, Paula Broadwell, who sent supposedly sent Kelley a series of anonymous, harassing emails, which started an investigation that uncovered evidence of an affair between Petraeus and Broadwell. Really sounds like something from a Soap Opera…doesnt it?
Chinese cyber police placed stricter controls on information distribution, to protect the political congress from prying cyber eyes. Earlier this year Web police units kindly asked some companies in Beijing, which included joint ventures involving American corporations, to install hardware to monitor and record traffic of hundreds or thousands of computers, block selected Web sites, and connect with local police servers. Fines and suspended internet service for the companies, would be the punishment if they didn’t comply with these measures. But not to worry, apparently this is what happens every time there is a political congress in China, and we should be back to normal soon, to slightly less intrusive internet censorship.
Give it up for NOKIA everybody for their resilience and refusal to give up. In their latest attempt to find footing in the booming mobile market, the company is hoping spread its reach into competitors’ phones through mapping applications. In the coming weeks it would release a maps app called Here in Apple’s App Store. Well we certainly do want an alternative to what Apple has presented us with, so hopefully you don’t disappoint Nokia by giving us something that is neither Here not There.