Choose which T-shirt, of the Henrique-Navigator or Marco Polo?

Choose which T-shirt, of the Henrique-Navigator or Marco Polo? It’s not a cheep weekend that’s for sure. Good Lord that I have a brain enough to secure myself through blog from the Anglo-Saxon economical model. (Just see how the hackers targeted the Guardian job site) From the system (i.e. Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization) to me – almost no harm. If do not take into consideration the switched off or damaged somehow, I don’t know yet, the all my flat sockets… The first thought was how the impossible to speak about the Andrew without to getting the fly in my personal soup. To kill all sockets (not sockers) in my place, should I see this like an unexpected expense arrived from those (sic.) who should be sharing with me the burden? Because this is for me (not for you) the very unexpected and expensive expense! By and large, I would normally take the hit on this one, but Andrew, why should I? Look at my dreams. Dream was about one blonde (i.e. white man/brother), all caked, running away from the Argentine. Okay, from the camel or the surveyor, or IVA, for this matter. Prince, let’s fish this fly out and don’t sweat the small stuff today. The Corporation pay – in any way. Let’s say to “our” colleagues just this: ‘One bad apple can spoil the whole barrel, and we don’t need that one bad idea (if left unchecked) ruin a “healthy” team dynamics. This very unexpected and expensive expense should be re-reimbursed by the pirates like the ongoing… who walk a lot around us. With these, I never will be get a chance to think about my pension, or to pit my wits against an unfamiliar challenge and find out what I can if the chips ( see theirs and the ex-President of Portugal cement photo in this text, and the “Indicador dos doze” from Barroso and Solana) are down. Is obvious my need to escape the pressure, or the fancy, from hand of this pirates, titles such as of the “Eminencia Parda de Communidade Europeia”, or outright bullying Dukes who want intimidate me (see the almohads witch at the Indian Docks) than the photo from yesterday and the street full of arabs walking today theirs “new” dogs. Well, going along with this crowd (gado) if I know that the crowd (gado) going in the wrong direction – is the waste of “our” time.

Prince Andrew told to 'shut up' after defending bankers sky-high bonuses. He was also told he should "shut up'" after saying: "Bonuses, in the scheme of things, are minute. They are easy to target." Graham Smith of campaign group Republic said: "It's pretty crass for a multi-millionaire Prince to suggest that multimillionaire bonuses are trivial while most people are struggling to get through the recession. He should keep his mouth shut." Susie Squire, of the Tax Payers Alliance said: "Andrew shows himself to be out of touch with ordinary taxpayers who have bailed out banks with their hardearned cash. The Duke, 49, Britain's "special representative for trade and investment", has been labelled Airmiles Andy for his foreign trips in his Government role. Last year he was criticised for spending £140,000 of taxpayers' money on hotel bills, food and entertaining while globe-trotting across 23 countries.

Hackers target Guardian jobs site. Story from BBC NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/uk/8324630.stm. Published: 2009/10/25 11:08:44 GMT. Computer hackers have targeted the Guardian newspaper's jobs website in a "sophisticated and deliberate" move, the company has said. The breach put the personal details of some of the site's users at risk, and those who may have been affected have been identified and e-mailed. The Guardian said it had since been "assured" by the supplier that runs the site that the system was now secure. Officers from the Metropolitan Police's e-crime unit are investigating. The Guardian says its jobs site attracts more than two million unique users a month. The company e-mailed those affected, saying: "You have used the site to make one or more job applications and we believe your personal data, relating to those applications, may have been accessed." “ It's very disconcerting to think that some very important details with regards to my identity could be in the wrong hands ” Paul Rocks, Guardian jobs site user It said there was "no reason to believe" financial or banking data was compromised, but passed on police advice about taking precautions, such as contacting creditors and asking them to monitor users' accounts. Recipients of the e-mail were also given the details of several organisations offering advice and services on identity fraud. A Guardian technology director said: "Not all users are affected by any means." 'Utmost seriousness' But one user Paul Rocks said he was angry about what had happened. "It's very disconcerting to think that some very important details with regards to my identity could be in the wrong hands. These include my past employment details, date of birth and my current address. “I’m also annoyed that the responsibility for doing something about this seems to have been passed on to me." Mr Rocks, 40, who is a freelance journalist in London, said the details a hacker could have obtained would be enough for an identity thief to apply for a loan or credit card. He has contacted his bank, who told him they would pass on a note of the incident to a credit reference agency. The hack does not affect the separate US site, which is independent of the UK operation. A subsequent statement on the jobs website said: "We would like to assure you that we are absolutely committed to protecting the privacy of our users and we are treating this situation with the utmost seriousness."

Willy: Outstanding debts from FIFA: 'Bruxo de Rio de Moinhos' assassinado à pancada. por ROBERTO B. ,23 Outubro 2009. Um homem conhecido como o "bruxo de Rio de Moinhos" foi assassinado à pancada na madrugada de ontem. O crime, que envolveu também agressões ao irmão da vítima mortal, teve contornos de grande violência, o que deixou a população daquela freguesia de Penafiel em estado de choque. As autoridades seguem duas linhas de investigação: a de assalto e a de vingança por algum "serviço" antigo. Agostinho Mendes Moreira, 57 anos, era conhecido em toda a região do Vale do Sousa e Baixo Tâmega. Tratado por "Bruxo Agostinho Lourenço", vivia do que a terra dava, mas sobretudo dos "serviços" que prestava a quem lhe batesse à porta. "Todos os dias vinham cá pessoas. Vinham de todo o lado, até do estrangeiro. Maria Leonor.

Prince Albert's secrets under threat from rebel spy and off course the “put in”. October 25, 2009 A pay dispute could mean an extremely embarrasing court case for the "feckless" Prince of Monaco - complete with sex tape Matthew. Everyone wants to make friends with Albert, the prince of Monaco, the fairytale, Mediterranean mini-state whose balmy weather and strict banking secrecy have turned it into the playground of choice for tax exiles from all over the world. The question of whether they like him, or simply want something from him, has haunted the world’s most eligible bachelor ever since he was preparing to take the helm from his father, Prince Rainier, who died in 2005. Albert, the shy, bespectacled prince was about to become head of the Grimaldi clan. Sipping Martinis in a flat over looking the sea, he asked Robert Eringer, the American adviser he had hired three years earlier as his unofficial head of intelligence, to help him find out what people thought about him, no matter how painful. Eringer, a former undercover FBI operative, had been in the prince’s employment since 2002. Now Albert wanted to clean up Monaco and only an outsider could help, launching secret investigations of officials and foreign entrepreneurs suspected of money laundering and organised crime. Operation Hound Dog, as Eringer named it, had less lofty goals, originally intended to find out who in the prince’s picturesque pink palace was leaking news to the press about him and the other Grimaldis. Later, according to Eringer, Albert asked him “to extend this ruse to engage his many friends to find out what they would say about him behind his back”. Eringer hired an “operative” to pose as the author of an unauthorised biography of Albert, the only son of Grace Kelly, the American actress, to flush out the gossips. He even engineered a bona fide publishing contract for his mole. Today, though, it is Eringer who is dishing dirt on the prince after falling out with his former patron: he has taken Albert to court in California with a demand for €360,000 (£331,000) in wages and severance pay. In order to attract the prince’s attention, his lawsuit — a copy of which has been obtained by The Sunday Times — lays bare some of the dirtiest secrets of the palm-fringed principality on the Riviera. Eringer, a writer of spy fiction and a former journalist, has pay slips to show that he served as Albert’s tireless spymaster between 2002 and 2007. He investigated Russian mobsters and British property tycoons. He warned the prince about which “friends” and supplicants to avoid, including Mark Thatcher, the son of Margaret Thatcher, the British former prime minister. He even became embroiled in negotiations with a Californian teenager who was later recognised as Albert’s illegitimate daughter. Eringer paints an unflattering portrait of a feckless, indecisive prince who quickly tired of intelligence briefings in favour of go-karting and “gallivanting about”. Albert, says the lawsuit, had “convinced himself years ago that attending parties was ‘working’”. The playboy prince, on at least one occasion, asked the spymaster to “assist” a woman who had been the subject of his amorous attentions. As for Operation Hound Dog, it led to Paris, where an American entrepreneur friend of Albert was said to be boasting about a video he had taken of Albert at his 40th birthday party. Eringer said that it showed a woman performing a “sex act” on the prince. “This is what I have on your prince,” the American was in the habit of commenting to friends in Monaco as he showed them the film. The lawsuit is extremely embarrassing to a country which is trying to clean up its act in order to be removed from the famous “blacklist” of uncooperative tax havens issued by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. It cast a shadow over Albert’s efforts to promote his fight against climate change at a gathering of celebrities in Hollywood last week. Albert’s lawyers have responded in fury to what they regard as an attempt to extort money from the soft-spoken prince. Thierry Lacoste, Albert’s Paris-based lawyer, said that “the majority” of what was claimed in the lawsuit was “completely false”. Stanley Arkin, the prince’s New York attorney, described himself as one of several lawyers called to the defence of Monaco and its ruler. The prince, he said, “has told us that this is baloney ... the fact that he [Eringer] received money from [Albert] from time to time — so what?” He called Eringer “an unworthy human being” who was trying to “extort” money from Albert, 51, with a “made up” lawsuit. Atkin said, in praise of his client: “This is nothing but an attempt to drag down this wonderful young man.” Eringer, 55, was not amused at what he called “slander”. He said that he had written several times demanding payment before launching his lawsuit. He never had any reply. “I look forward to testifying about the veracity of each element of my complaint under oath in a court,” he said from his home in Santa Barbara, California. “And I look forward to Prince Albert doing the same, under pain of perjury.” Albert, he claims, agreed in 2002 to pay him £220,000 a year to set up an unofficial intelligence service to fight corruption and investigate those suspected of money laundering and fronts for organised crime. With its casino culture, gleaming yachts and luxury real estate, the tiny territory wedged between France and Italy has for long been a magnet for money of dubious origins; “a sunny place”, in the words of Somerset Maugham, the writer, “for shady people”. When Rainier fell ill towards the end of his reign, things began to deteriorate, according to a palace official quoted in the Eringer lawsuit. Rainier’s fairytale romance with Kelly, whom he married in 1956, had brought a touch of glamour to Monaco that helped to turn the tiny state into a key offshore financial centre. The idyll faded slightly after Kelly’s death in a car crash in 1982. As Rainier lay dying in 2005, Monaco was in trouble. Rainier, said Claude Palmero, an accountant at the palace, “wasn’t even a shadow of himself during the last two to three years. He wasn’t there. He could not even discuss his own personal affairs. He signed whatever was put before his eyes”. Those around Rainier, who was famed for his collection of vintage cars, “were exploiting his weakness, his ill health, his mental incapacity and running rampant with awards and Monegasque passports and job appointments and future job promises in Prince Rainier’s name”, according to Eringer. Albert, who is described as being closer to his American mother than to an authoritarian father who insisted on speaking French, decided the time had come to stop the rot. After Rainier was buried next to Kelly in Monte Carlo’s cathedral and Albert had been sworn in, he held a reception at the palace to proclaim the new gospel. It was enough to make his subjects choke on their canapés. “Money and virtue must be combined,” he said. To help him go after the “bad guys”, as Eringer puts it, the spymaster set up meetings with the heads of America’s FBI and CIA, as well as briefings on organised crime from British intelligence. He claims to have notched up successes. Operation Scribe resulted in glowing press coverage of the prince’s crackdown on corruption: “Monaco steers clear of once-shifty image,” was how USA Today reported the transition. Operation Spook, meanwhile, was used to scare away dodgy businessmen with tip-offs that they were under investigation. Eringer also claims that he had thwarted efforts by Russian intelligence to penetrate Albert’s “social orbit” and helped to expose a retired American air force colonel suspected of involvement in Russian money laundering through a Monaco firm. He claims that he managed to stop a corrupt Russian from becoming an investor in Monaco’s much beloved football team and advised the prince to keep away from a French businessman friend of Jacques Chirac, the former French president, who Albert claimed had produced “great ideas for Monaco”. The businessman had allegedly played a role in the Iraq oil-for-food scandal under Saddam Hussein. One of Eringer’s constant concerns was the penetration of Monaco by freemasons. According to the lawsuit, he briefed Albert “on the three masonic lodges in France and their overlap with organised crime, including links to Monaco”. He advised the prince “to curtail freemason influence in Monaco and to follow Britain’s example of compelling those in civic jobs to declare freemason affiliation for the purpose of transparency and to quash any attempt by freemasons to establish a lodge in Monaco”. He also investigated “the connection between Italian organised crime groups and Monaco”, pinpointing which banks in Monaco were used by mobsters for laundering money. It was Eringer who tipped off the prince about efforts by Mark Thatcher to gain residency in 2005, resulting in his rejection as “undesirable”. Albert was apparently pleased with Eringer’s industry. He authorised him to set up a headquarters known as “M-base” in an apartment block overlooking the sea. Eringer regularly briefed Albert there during the cocktail hour. Eringer had a “Monaco intelligence service” identity card, signed by the prince, that urged authorities to give him their full co-operation. Albert gave him a photograph of himself on which he scrawled “Best wishes and long life to M-base”. Eringer says that his running costs for some missions were supplemented with funds from the CIA, which he accepted after consulting the prince. Albert’s only comment was: “Make sure the French don’t find out.” The CIA apparently found it a fruitful co-operation, delighted, no doubt, to have gained such a toe-hold in France’s “back yard”. “As a result of Eringer’s efforts,” says his complaint, “[former] CIA director Porter Goss pledged to protect HSH [His Serene Highness] and Monaco, which became accepted as doctrine within the CIA, along with [giving Monaco] high-priority status”. Other targets of Eringer’s intelligence-gathering were a colourful cast of characters that could have come straight from the pages of any spy novel. One of the Russians he investigated was suspected of several murders in his homeland. Eringer also delved into the activities of members of some of Monaco’s most prominent families. He was particularly proud to have drawn agencies from other European mini-states into a “micro Europe” intelligence union. He claims he would regularly meet the spymasters of Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Andorra, San Marino and Malta for weekends of wine tasting when they would share information about money laundering and organised crime. They would also share jokes. Italian intelligence officials told him, according to the lawsuit, that “they were taking bets not on whether Eringer would make it through the year, but on who would eliminate him: Italian organised crime, Russian organised crime, the freemasons, the Monegasque establishment or the French”. Eringer was dismayed when Albert appointed to a top government post an official who, according to Eringer’s reports, had accepted a £2.7m bribe from a Lebanese entrepreneur, falsely claiming that it was for the prince. The Lebanese businessman was heard boasting: “I’ve got Albert by the balls.” Another official was put in charge of a government department despite his alleged involvement in the theft of a £1m painting by Miro, the Spanish artist, that had been donated to the Monaco Red Cross. According to Eringer, another local figure had been “involved in shredding evidence about the money left in Monaco by 200 Jews deported from Monaco to concentration camps in 1944”. Just as distressing for Eringer was Albert’s dismissal of Jean-Luc Allavena, the prince’s chief of staff. “HSH finally had the balls to fire someone,” Eringer wrote in his journal. “The bad news: he fired the wrong person ... Allavena was the backbone of Albert’s reign, honest and incorruptible, slogging away from 7am to midnight most weekdays while HSH was off gallivanting.” Eringer said that he was “mortified” when, despite all his warnings to Albert about freemasons, the prince, a former member of Monaco’s Olympic bobsleigh team, informed him that “a former bobsledding [colleague] wanted to create a freemason lodge in Monaco and that he was inclined to let him go ahead”. Albert, who had begun dating Charlene Wittstock, 31, a South African Olympic swimmer, seemed to lose his interest in the briefings at M-base. “HSH did not appear at a meeting ... to brief him on a very shady character who had arrived in Monaco to deal in conflict diamonds and laundered money,” says Eringer in one part of his lawsuit. “Instead he went go-karting.” By the summer of 2007, Albert had reduced Eringer’s salary to £144,000 and told him to focus exclusively on “maintaining and working the liaison relationships” with foreign intelligence services instead of investigating money laundering suspects. However, when Eringer sent an invoice for payment for the first quarter of 2008 he got no reply from the palace. Subsequent letters and telephone messages to Albert from Eringer went unanswered, he claims. Eringer decided to cease his activities. “Everything I did was in the service of the prince,” he writes in the suit claiming breach of contract. “I regret nothing. I acted professionally at all times ... we were too damned honest and efficient for our own good.” Threat to expose ‘deadbeat dad’ Prince Albert’s decision to recognise a Californian teenager as his daughter in 2006 followed thinly veiled threats from her agent to shame him as a “deadbeat dad” on US television. Gavin de Becker, an American who advises celebrities, wrote a 14-page letter to Monaco’s ruler to warn him that Jazmin, then 13, might write a book that could be publicised on the Oprah Winfrey show. He described the popular chat show host as a friend. “We’re not talking about accepting $400,000 from the National Enquirer, or taking any other smutty avenues that hurt everyone and benefit nobody,” de Becker wrote in the letter, a copy of which has been seen by The Sunday Times. “A much different path is being explored,” he added, “the path of doing a book, for example, bringing financial value in the form of a publisher’s advance that’s about the same as your proposed agreement.” Albert had already recognised Alexandre Coste, a boy he had with a Togolese air hostess, as his illegitimate son. He had offered a lump sum payment but was reluctant to meet Jazmin, when she arrived in Monaco with Tamara, her mother, in 2005, according to court documents. Albert eventually recognised his daughter, a granddaughter of Grace Kelly, the actress, under the name of Jazmin Grace Grimaldi. De Becker insisted that he had not represented her for money.

Football Team 'Los Maniceros' Feared Killed – Colombian Arjun Miglani, Goal.com. Report. Tragedy appears to have struck a local Colombian team...Oct 25, 2009 9:23:47 AM. Colombian football has suffered another tragedy, with a local football team feared to have been killed. According to BBC News, ten bodies, believed to be members of the 'Los Maniceros' team, were found in Tachira, Venezuela with multiple gunshot wounds. They were known as the 'Peanut men', because they sold nuts across the border. The senior most official of Tachira state, Leomagno Flores, is laying the blame on the ELN, a left-wing Colombian guerilla group. They are still investigating whether the bodies belong to the football team, but local media sources claim that this has been confirmed by the one survivor. No motive for the attacks has been released, but there is suggestion that it is to do with enforced recruitment to the army.