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• Eighth Person Pleads Guilty to Illegally Accessing Confidential Passport Files

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 155
  An eighth individual has pleaded guilty to illegally accessing numerous confidential passport application files. Susan Holloman, 58, of Washington, pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Alan Kay in the District of Columbia to a one-count criminal information charging her with unauthorized computer access. ...
  2 days ago

• Don’t Tell Me – Another "Idle Curiosity" Case

  
  Diplopundit — Authority: 507
  Image by aranarth via FlickrYesterday, DOJ announced yet another guilty plea on the passport snooping case. This is the 8th person to plead guilty to illegally accessing passport files. How many more are coming down this way? An eighth individual pleaded guilty today to illegally accessing numerous ...
  2 days ago

• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
  5 days ago

• Peru eliminates need for consular stamp on foreign public documents

  
  Peruvian Times — Authority: 126
  Peru’s Congress voted on Thursday to abolish the need for legalization of foreign public documents by Peruvian consulates. The bill ratifies The Hague Convention on this issue,... [For the complete story, enter PeruvianTimes.com]
  6 days ago

• Nigeria Records First Case of H1N1 Flu

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 155
  Nigeria has recorded its first case of the A H1N1 Influenza otherwise called swine flu, the Ministry of Health confirmed on Thursday in Abuja. The Special Assistant to the Health minister, Niyi Ojuolape, issued a statement which linked the case to a nine-year old American girl in Lagos. The statement said the girl ...
  1 week ago

• Insider Quote: Sometimes there are obstacles

  
  Diplopundit — Authority: 507
  Image by rosemaniov via Flickr“Weeks ago at the hospital I started to cry while my FSN and I waited for the Embassy driver to fix a flat tire. "She is going to die here because I cant do my job." What I secretly longed for her to say was that Im good at what Im doing, that this was a situation of the womans own ...
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• Best Consular Blog. Dead, So Very Dead.

  
  Diplopundit — Authority: 507
  Image by Colin Purrington via FlickrAnd don’t you dare write another one! Madam le Consul went missing from the blogosphere 30 days ago today. If you go missing for more than 48 hours in real life, the chances of finding you drop precipitously. The chances of recovery in virtual disappearances, um don’t ...
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• Poor leadership linked to soldier’s death

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  Deficiencies in training, leadership and deployment readiness may have contributed to the death of Lieutenant Michael Fussell in Afghanistan last year, a Defence inquiry has found. The Major in charge of the operation in which Lieutenant Fussell died on November 27 has now been stood down from his command. ...
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• ICJ: Honduras Institutes Proceedings Against Brazil

  
  International Law Reporter — Authority: 143
  Yesterday, Honduras instituted proceedings against Brazil at the International Court of Justice. The application (not yet available online) states that "dispute between the Republic of Honduras and the Federative Republic of Brazil relates to legal questions concerning diplomatic relations and associated with the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Shocked - Shocked To Find Corruption At A Mexican Consulate!

  
  brianlee — Authority: 433
  A very interesting post from Allan Wall of http://www.vdare.com/ about what is happening at the Mexican consulate in Dallas. Remember, this is the city with the non-English speaking motorist here. Memo From Middle America (Formerly Known As Memo From Mexico), By Allan Wall Shocked - Shocked To Find ...
  2 weeks ago

• US Embassy Islamabad Suspends Consular Services

  
  Diplopundit — Authority: 507
  Image by Omer Wazir via FlickrRoutine consular services will be temporarily suspended from Monday, October 26 through Friday, October 30. Its latest warden message says that the Embassy will continue to provide emergency services to Americans requiring such assistance. Americans interested in routine services ...
  2 weeks ago

• Idle Curiosity, Once More – Bow!

  
  Diplopundit — Authority: 507
  Image by quinn.anya via FlickrSixth Guilty Plea in Illegal Access of US Passport Files Last Friday DOJ said that a former State Department employee was sentenced to 12 months of probation for illegally accessing more than 75 confidential passport application files, Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Harbour Bridge picnic may become annual

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  This mornings massive breakfast picnic which closed the Sydney Harbour Bridge could become an annual event. Sydneys first Breakfast on the Bridge, held as part of a city-wide food festival, has been hailed a success, with about 6,000 picnic goers in attendance. The eight lanes of bitumen were given a temporary ...
  2 weeks ago

• 6,000 eat brekkie on Harbour Bridge

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  Six thousand people have found the best picnic spot in Sydney this morning - sitting down to breakfast on the Harbour Bridge. The citys first Breakfast on the Bridge, held as part of a Sydney-wide food festival, was hailed a success. Picnickers say the event was well organised and there have been very few ...
  2 weeks ago

• Honduran Consulate Forced to Abandon Post

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 162
  “Two people showed up saying they are responsible for making the consular changes demanded by Mrs. Patricia Rhodes, that of Marta Zuniga and Fernando Espinosa,” said David Hernandez, minister counselor of the consulate of Honduras in Washington. “They came in and locksmiths changed the locks without saying why.” ...
  2 weeks ago

• Australia faces famine, expert warns

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  A food production expert says Australia may face a massive famine if governments fail to address an impending global food shortage. A conference of food productivity experts in Sydney this week heard the greatest threat to the world is not climate change, but food production on land and in the water. Science ...
  2 weeks ago

• Swindler Madoff king of ‘wild sex and drug parties’

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  Convicted Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff presided over an office fuelled by sex and drugs, with wild late night parties that included topless entertainers, a lawsuit said. His "affinity for escorts, masseuses, and attractive female employees was well known in the office culture," said the suit which was filed in ...
  3 weeks ago

• Sailor remembered for ‘living twice as hard’

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  Sailing veteran Andrew Short is being remembered as a brave adventurer, a keen businessman and a devoted father at his funeral in Sydney. More than 2,500 people have gathered at the service at St Marys Cathedral to farewell the 48-year-old sailing veteran who was killed when his yacht ran aground during a night race ...
  3 weeks ago

• Brimble jury split on Wilhelm verdict

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  The jury in the Sydney trial of a man accused of killing cruise ship passenger Dianne Brimble has reached a verdict on one of two charges. Mark Wilhelm, 37, was charged with manslaughter and supplying a prohibited drug after Ms Brimbles body was found in his cabin on board the Pacific Sky cruise ship in September ...
  3 weeks ago

• Pakistan army advances on Taliban

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  The Pakistani military has suffered its first casualties in the opening exchanges of a major offensive launched against Taliban militants in their stronghold of South Waziristan. Four soldiers were killed and a dozen wounded as about 30,000 troops supported by tanks, artillery , fighter jets and helicopter gunships ...
  3 weeks ago

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