PICTURE: MANCHESTER UNITED FANS CELEBRATING DURING TROPHY PARADE

Manchester is red.

IF U MISSED SIR ALEX FERGUSON SPEECH, GET IN TOUCH WITH THIS

"Thank you to all of you. You have been of utmost importance in my life. I have been very fortunate to manage some of the greatest players of the country at Manchester United. All the players here have won the championship in fantastic fashion"

"Well done to the players. My retirement does not mean the end. If you think about it, the last minute goals, the comebacks, even the defeats is a part of this great football club. An unbelievable experience."

"I'd also like to remind you when there were bad times here, the club, staff and players stood by me. Your job here is to stand by the new manager. Before I start bubbling, I want to congratulate Paul Scholes who retires today. He is one of the greatest players this club has ever had. I wish you a great retirement."

"Also wish Darren Fletcher a speedy recovery and comeback. I wish the players all the success in future. You know how good you are. Don't ever let yourselves down. The expectation will always be there. I want to say thank you from the Ferguson family. I love you, grandchildren!"

U will be highly missed

11 KENYAN LADIES AND ONE FOREIGNER WERE ARRESTED BY POLICE WHEN RECORDING PORNOGRAPH. THESE ARE ARE PHOTOS OF ONE AMONG 11 LADIES

Police in Mombasa have three days to wrap up their investigations into a matter in which eleven women and a foreigner are believed to have been found engaging in and recording pornographic acts. The eleven women and a foreigner identified as a Swedish national were arrested in Nyali in Mombasa and arraigned in court yesterday. It is alleged that they had engaged in pornographic acts that involved a dog, however this could not be verified in court. The apartment in which they were found is suspected to operate as a brothel. Police confiscated various items including cameras at the scene of the arrest. The Swedish national arrived in the country as a tourist days ago. The accused are scheduled to appear in court once again on Monday.
 
According to Kenyan source of information she is among of 11 girls arrested for engaging in and recording pornographic

TP MAZEMBE HAS BEEN DEFEATED BY ORLANDO PIRATES 3-1 AT ORLANDO STUDIUM

Monday, 22 April 2013 09:42

Dar es Salaam. Orlando Pirates defeated DR Congo giants TP Mazembe 3-1 in the first leg of their Caf Champions League tie on Saturday night at the Orlando Stadium. A largely second-string Pirates outfit took an early lead via a first-minute Onyekachi Okonkwo goal, but his strike was cancelled out by Paotu Kabangu in the 44th minute. This was after a cross by Tresor Mputu for Mbwana Samata who headed across goal for Kabangu to supply the easy finish. Samata,  the former Simba SC forward, had a decent game, providing several assists, only for his striking partners to fluff the opportunities. Pirates failed to finish a myriad opportunities during the match, but Collins Mbesuma was able to score in the 55th minute to regain the Buccaneers lead. In the final minutes of the game TP Mazembe goalkeeper Kidiaba brought down Mbesuma in the box, with a penalty the result. The Zambian international stepped up to net his second goal of the game and give his side a vital two goal lead in their Caf Champions League tie.  Played in cold conditions at the Orlando Stadium, Pirates made a perfect start to the tie with Onyekachi Okonkwo netting a sublime strike which curled into the top right corner of the net with merely one minute on the clock. Collins Mbesuma should have doubled the lead in the 10th minute when he surged forward free on goal, but his low shot was well-saved by Kidiaba. The DR Congo champions had to make an early substitution when Eric Nkulukuta’s injury saw him replaced by Herve Ndonga in the 28th minute. As the first half continued, TP Mazembe’s defence continued to look fragile under pressure as Pirates piled forward in numbers, seeking to build on their early lead. In the 35th minute Gcaba forced a brave block from Kidiaba who looked vulnerable under the high ball throughout proceedings.

IF THIS IS DEMOCRACY WE ARE PREACHING IT IS TOO MUCH,TANZANIAN MP MISCONDUCT GOES BEYOND POLITICAL DIVIDE

By Peter Nyanje
Political Editor

Hell no, I won’t go: Mbeya Urban MP Joseph Mbilinyi resists after Deputy Speaker Job Ndugai ordered him removed from debate chambers. He was subsequently barred from Bunge for five days. PHOTO | FILE

Dodoma. After three weeks of proceedings many Tanzanians are obviously fed up with the way the Budget meeting is being conducted.

Many observers see nothing worth to write home as far as debates in the august House are concerned.

Deputy Speaker Job Ndugai last week suspended six Members of Parliament on a Chama cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo (Chadema) ticket allegedly for undermining his authority.

These were Opposition Chief Whip Tundu Lissu (Singida East), Godbless Lema (Arusha Urban), Joseph Mbilinyi (Mbeya Urban), Rev Peter Msigwa (Iringa Urban), Highness Kiwia (Ilemela) and Ezekiah Wenje (Nyamagana).

Leader of Official Opposition in the House Freeman Mbowe attempted to inquiry nature of the penalty, but hit a hard wall, as Speaker Anne Makinda graced the punishment meted out to the ill-fated lawmakers.

The two conflicting have since been separately trading blame with the Speaker pointing an accusing finger at Chadema for turning the House into a political pulpit.

The MPs on the Chadema ticket have, in turn, been blaming the Speaker and her deputy for running Parliament in favour of the government and the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM).

The controversy does not end there, as the suspended MPs and their party have resolved to take the ‘case’ outside Parliament.

They are now zooming around constituencies ‘charging’ the Speaker and her deputy before wananchi, accusing them of turning Parliament into the government and CCM branch.

Mbowe, who doubles as Chadema national chairman and Hai MP, believes Ndugai erred in suspending his colleagues.

He told a public rally held here last Saturday that Speaker Makinda was unfair to Chadema in Parliament.

“Speaker Makinda has lied to the nation and the world,” he said, explaining that the penalty in question was not provided for in the regulations which Ndugai used for suspend his colleagues.

“As long as Speaker Makinda has decided to use her post to target our party, let her know that we will never retreat from fighting in and outside Parliament until Tanzanians are redeemed from this misery,” Mr Mbowe said.

And in an indication that the altercations between the two sides are not going to end soon, Chadema secretary-general Willibrod Slaa directed the so called ‘errant’ MPs to continue with what led to their suspension.

“I don’t feel sorry for them because they are our heroes,” Dr Slaa said, instructing them to use the suspension for scrutinising pending motions for them to strongly criticise them once they return in the House.

“Show those in the government that they are not critically thinking about quandaries facing Tanzanians,” he said during the rally.

The Chadema MPs’ suspension notwithstanding, last week saw lawmakers using an abusive language to the chagrin of majority of Tanzanians.

Speaker Makinda was not where to be seen in the House to walk her rhetoric that she would never hesitate to expel any MP caught using foul language in the debate chamber.

Observers could not believe their ears, asking themselves if the MPs had reached such a low state of mind.

They were eagerly waiting for the lawmakers to come up with proposals for spicing up the government’s financial plans for the next fiscal year only to witness incredible deeds from them.

Dirty politics might be depriving lawmakers of sanity, some think as they reflect on unconstructive political rivalry going on between MPs of the mainstream parties.

But whoever critically analyses the chaotic House proceedings and correlates them with events outside Parliament realises that the misconduct goes beyond the difference in political ideologies.

The august House being a replica of the society with full of misdemeanours also comprises wayward Members of Parliament.

We will be cheating ourselves to expectangels from a society with a disobedient culture.

Our skewed education system is partly to blame for mentoring members of the society who are never bothered with interests of their nation.

As long as errant members are scattered around all sections of the society, Bunge cannot be an exception.

  

AIR FORCE GENERAL: ACTIONS AIM TO DETER NORTH KOREA

 

JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii (AP) — The United States sent its most powerful airplanes to the Korean peninsula in recent weeks in part because it wants North Korea to know what the American military is capable of doing, the top U.S. Air Force commander in the Pacific said.

B-2 stealth bombers, F-22 stealth fighters and B-52 bombers have recently all flown to South Korea for exercises or short deployments in what amounted to a dramatic display of U.S. air power. The stealth planes are capable of sneaking past radar undetected. B-2 and B-52 bombers are capable of delivering nuclear weapons.

Two U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor stealth jet fighters fly near Andersen Air Force Base

"Every morning that a potential adversary gets up and goes, 'You know what, I'm not going to mess with America today' — that's a good morning," Gen. Herbert Carlisle said Tuesday in an interview at his headquarters in Hawaii. "We need all those mornings to keep coming."

The U.S. is hoping a missile defense system it's sending to Guam, a U.S. territory and strategically important military outpost 1,500 miles south of Tokyo, will have the same deterrent effect, he said.

If "they know we got something that can knock down their missiles — it may stop them from shooting them," Carlisle said.

The U.S. has also explained it's reassuring its allies by showing it's prepared to defend them.

The missile defense system — called Terminal High Altitude Area Defense — is designed to intercept missiles during their final stage of flight. It joins other technology the military has to intercept missiles during their initial and midflight phases.

Carlisle said the U.S. also is considering sending high-altitude surveillance planes from Guam to Japan during the tropical island's summer storm season. Often, typhoons and thunderstorms around Guam ground the Global Hawk drones from April through November. The planes would be less likely to face weather problems if they were flying out of a place like Misawa Air Base in northern Japan, Carlisle said.

The U.S. uses the drones to monitor North Korea and could do so from Japan as well, Carlisle said.

"They could do all the missions that they do now if they were flying out of Japanese bases," he said.

Tokyo is also considering buying some of the drones for its own use, Carlisle said.

"We're still working it with the Japanese government. I don't know whether we'll do it this year or not. It does cost money to do that, again that's another factor. We're still examining it and looking at how to make it happen. When we do it is another question," he said.

Cost is an issue as the Air Force copes with automatic federal budget cuts imposed when Congress failed to reach a deal to avert them.

The Pacific is least affected among other parts of the Air Force because of the Obama administration's emphasis on Asia and the Pacific and because of current tensions on the Korean peninsula. Even so, an F-16 squadron in Alaska — 18th Aggressor Squadron at Eielson Air Force Base— is being grounded along with others elsewhere in the country.

Carlisle said the Air Force's core activities — maintenance and operations — are disproportionately affected because the military lacks the flexibility to cut other spending.

Congress didn't allow the branch, for example, to cancel acquisitions programs even when they're behind schedule or not meeting requirements, he said. It also can't cut airmen salaries or health care coverage.

On top of this, the Air Force is implementing a year's worth of budget cuts in six months. That's because the services were told Congress would come to an agreement to avoid the budget cuts and so the Air Force didn't plan for them when the current fiscal year started in October.

"It's our ability to do the mission when we're asked to do it. It's flying hours, it's training, it's fixing airplanes, it's buying parts for airplanes. All of those things were cut 40 percent for the rest of the year," Carlisle said.

GET TO KNOW AS TO HOW PENTAGON LOOKS TO CUT 40,000 TO 50,000 CIVILIANS OVER FIVE YEARS

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Reuters/REUTERS - U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel (L) listens as Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff General Martin Dempsey (R) speaks during a briefing on the Defense Department's FY2014 budget at the Pentagon in Washington April 10, 2013. The Pentagon unveiled a $526.6 billion budget on Wednesday that calls for base closures, program cancellations and smaller pay increases, but which is still $52 billion higher than spending caps set by law, putting the department on a path toward another year of financial uncertainty. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS MILITARY)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon is looking to reduce the size of its nearly 800,000 civilian workforce by 40,000 to 50,000 employees over the next five years, mainly through attrition as it closes bases and consolidates healthcare facilities, the department's comptroller said on Wednesday.

"I would hope that given the time to prepare, we could do this through attrition, but we aren't far enough along to really know for sure as to how we do it," said Undersecretary of Defense Robert Hale, the Pentagon's comptroller.

Hale said the employee reductions were tied to Pentagon plans to close excess bases and consolidate healthcare facilities, which were proposed on Wednesday and would have to be accepted by Congress before going into effect.