FORMER FRONTEX EMPLOYEE WHISTLEBLOWS VIA TWITTER TO EU COMMISSIONER CECILIA MALSTROM ON THE EU’S BORDER-CONTROL COORDINATION AGENCY’S MALADMINISTRATION

Posted on February 12, 2014 by ivanmconsiglio

Maltese national and retired armed forces Major Alexander Dalli, has Tweeted a message to EU Commissioner, Cecilia Malstrom, to draw attention to rampant maladministration inside the EU’s border-control coordination agency, FRONTEX.  Dalli served for two tours of duty as a Seconded National Expert (SNE) at the FRONTEX HQ in Warsaw, directly overseeing and responsible for a number of successful initiatives and projects, which targeted organised crime’s operations of illegal immigration on crucial EU border regions such as those of Greece.

updated new weblink below, superseding original reblogged post:

http://alexanderdalli.wordpress.com/2014/02/13/information-passed-to-cecilia-malmstrom/

Original blogpost below’s link is not anymore operational.

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Journalism Will Rise and Fall With Its Communities

Posted on February 11, 2014 by ivanmconsiglio

(via stearns.wordpress.com) Journalism Will Rise and Fall With Its Communities
Creating a sustainable future for journalism will demand an entirely new approach to building community around the news.

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Creating a sustainable future for journalism will demand an entirely new approach to building community around the news.

Two stories from the past week drive that point home.

First the Good News

Mathew Ingram at Gigaom has a great profile of the Dutch crowd-funded journalism site De Correspondent, which brings in almost $2 million a year in subscriptions. Drawing on a piece in Fast Company, Ingram highlights how De Correspondent builds community:

  • It considers reader comments as contributions and values them as part of an ongoing dialogue.
  • It holds editorial meetings in the community, reaching out to different demographics and stakeholders.
  • It encourages people to subscribe to individual authors, and creates opportunities for journalists and communities to debate and discuss the news, building personal relationships beyond the brand.

“One of the key principles behind De Correspondent,” Ingram writes, “is that the news outlet and its community of…

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A resignation that changed the course of history

Posted on February 11, 2014 by ivanmconsiglio

A day which I will never forget, whilst working in Rome: the world’s media descended on the Eternal City, just as the heavens opened with bucketful’s of water, as if a sign of discontent up there . . . Twas a hectic exciting week after that till Easter Sunday! And the rest is now history 🙂

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A year ago Benedict XVI stepped down from the Throne of Peter because of old age. His departure was like a shock that made Francis’ pontificate of change possible

The Vatican is no longer the same. Benedict XVI’s shock decision twelve months ago to step down and go back to being Joseph Ratzinger, changed the course of the Church’s history

It was 11 February 2013 and the Vatican was celebrating the anniversary of the Lateran Pacts. The Pope was holding a Consistory for the decrees of canonization of some saints and after announcing the date for the proclamations of sainthood, Benedict XVI began to read out something else in Latin from a sheet he was holding. He said he had something important to tell the Church: he was getting old (“ingravescente aetate”) and said he no longer had the strength to continue at the helm of Peter’s boat in an…

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Really Modern Law Enforcement‏

Posted on February 11, 2014 by ivanmconsiglio

Demands of Kidnapper & CHINESE Negotiators

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Some US citizens think it is funny how several of them want to emulate the Asians in things like bullet trains, planned cities, compulsory abortions, rigid population control, and eating habits (almost forgot Mooch!). Yet here’s something really worthwhile, and any nation’s leaders probably don’t like it.

Any which way, it’s a real feel-good story for all of us.

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A sniper can take a man’s head clean off his shoulders with a Barrett .50 cal, it gets everybody’s attention. The time it takes to do this can be up to 4 full seconds (if you’re a mile and a half away) but the training and equipment it takes to accomplish this feat is an entirely different story.

In this case, they probably spent $0.35 cents only! And then, . . .

· in the USA (for example), they would shut the street down for 48 hours…

· Take 12 hours to talk him out of it…

· Spend $5 million giving him a fair trial…

· And pay his food and lodging for life.

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FRONTEX’S OPERATIONS DIRECTOR LIKELY TO BECOME THE EU AGENCY’S NEXT DIRECTOR GENERAL

Posted on February 10, 2014 by ivanmconsiglio

FRONTEX'S OPERATIONS DIRECTOR LIKELY TO BECOME THE EU AGENCY'S NEXT DIRECTOR GENERAL

Reposted from http://alexanderdalli.wordpress.com/2014/02/07/klaus-roesler/
by alexanderdalli, posted on February 7, 2014

Maladministration in Frontex

The Operations Director of FRONTEX, German border policeman Klaus Rosler, is earmarked and set to become the EU border-control coordination agency’s next Director General. This despite his coming under the scrutiny and fire of the EU Ombudsman when it was established that there was maladministration on the part of Frontex arising from its failure to abide by fair procedure and the principles of good administration in relation to a Swedish complainant’s attempts to defend himself against allegations raised by Frontex.

The essence of this case:

http://www.ombudsman.europa.eu/cases/decision.faces/en/52615/html.bookmark

The substance of the complaint was that Frontex’s Rosler, in his capacity as Director of Operations, had falsely accused the complainant (a career Swedish interpreter of Lebanese descent) of having committed irregularities during his deployment; that Frontex never investigated the accusations and never gave him the opportunity to defend himself and to clear his name. Added to all this, following these unsubstantiated accusations, Frontex dismissed the Swedish complainant without giving a proper reason. It did so in spite of having committed itself to using the complainant’s services for 259 days during the year 2012 and in breach of the NoU signed with Sweden as a EU Member State, on 13 December 2011.

The Ombudsman closes it with the following critical remarks:

”There was maladministration on the part of Frontex arising from its failure to abide by fair procedure and the principles of good administration in relation to the complainant’s attempts to defend himself against allegations raised by Frontex.”

Many observers ask if he could he become the next Frontex Executive Director with this clearly proven track record of maladministartion? A Youtube video in German was removed barely a day after this blogsite’s reposting of the original blog news, highlighting this case. Was this video his campaign movie? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8jvwuu_4Cg

Reposted from http://alexanderdalli.wordpress.com/2014/02/07/klaus-roesler/
by alexanderdalli, posted on February 7, 2014

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MY FACEBOOK, LOOKING BACK

Posted on February 5, 2014 by ivanmconsiglio

Here’s my Facebook film. Find yours at https://facebook.com/lookback/ #FacebookIs10

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Facebook: dead or alive? – Telegraph

Posted on January 25, 2014 by ivanmconsiglio

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Facebook: dead or alive?

Princeton predicts that Facebook is in precipitous decline. It isn’t, discovers Sophie Curtis

Princeton University researchers based their prediction on the number of times Facebook is typed into Google as a search term. They discovered that Facebook searches peaked in December 2012 and have now begun to tail off, corroborating reports that the social network started losing some of its younger user base in 2013.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/10595884/Facebook-dead-or-alive.html

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JOURNALISTS SHOULD BE ALLOWED THE FREEDOM TO DO THEIR JOBS

Posted on January 22, 2014 by ivanmconsiglio

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PRESS STATEMENT BY Institute of Maltese Journalists (IĠM)

JOURNALISTS SHOULD BE ALLOWED
THE FREEDOM TO DO THEIR JOBS

Journalists, photographers and camerapersons should be allowed the freedom to do their jobs, especially when this is in a public place, they are not breaking any regulations and when the subject is of news value, which they feel is of national interest.

The Head of News of Media.Link Communications asked for the protection of the Institute of Maltese Journalists (IĠM) as Media.Link Communications were following a story that was published in another newspaper.

Last week the IĠM felt it had to defend the right to the confidentiality of the source of journalists after the police said it was going to request the Court to order the Editor of MaltaToday to reveal the source of information that he had received in connection with the fuel procurement scandal.
Every medium can chose what is of news value and the IĠM appeals for this harassment of journalists should not be repeated.

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. . . WELCOME . . . MERHBA . . . BIENVENUE . . . BENVENUTI . . . مرحبا بكم

Posted on January 20, 2014 by ivanmconsiglio

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Confidentiality of the source of journalistic information should not be tampered with

Posted on January 17, 2014 by ivanmconsiglio

The Institute of Maltese Journalists (IĠM) regrets to note the declaration made in Court by a Police officer, who stated that the Police intended to institute proceedings in Court to request the Editor of MaltaToday to reveal the source of information in a story published last year, which led to investigations into the oil purchasing scandal.

The IĠM maintains that the confidentiality of the source is a right acquired by Maltese journalists on the Institute’s initiative many years ago and this is an important principle that guarantees freedom of the press.

The Institute has full faith that the Maltese Courts, before which the writ will be filed, will support the right to confidentiality, as guaranteed in the country’s laws.

As a matter of background, this is what the Press Act has to say on the Confidentiality of the Source:

46. No court shall require any person mentioned in article 23 to disclose, nor shall such person be guilty of contempt of court forrefusing to disclose, the source of information contained in a newspaper or broadcast for which he is responsible unless it is established to the satisfaction of the court that such disclosure is necessary in the interests of national security, territorial integrity or public safety, or for the prevention of disorder or crime or for the protection of the interests of justice:

Provided that the court shall not order such disclosure unless it is also satisfied that in the particular circumstances of the case the need for investigation by the court outweighs the need of the media to protect its sources, due regard being taken of the importance of the role of the media in a democratic society:

Provided further that nothing in this article shall be interpreted as exempting any person mentioned in article 23 from proving the truth of any facts attributed by him in terms of article 12.

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