Video:Bill Clinton full DNC Speech 2012

Hehee...American politics just cant stop getting interesting.check out Bill Clinton's full speech at the DNC2012

Angela Merkel, Hillary Clinton Most ‘Powerful’ Women – Forbes

GERMAN Chancellor Angela Merkel and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are the world’s most powerful women, according to Forbes magazine’s annual survey.

Following the two stateswomen in the 2012 rankings was Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff.The list covers women in fields as diverse as politics, business, media, entertainment and non-profits, their rankings determined by calculating wealth, media presence and overall impact.

The 100-strong list at www.forbes.com/power-women includes
25 CEOs overseeing $US984 billion ($938 billion) in revenues. The women come from a total of 28 countries, with an average age of 55. Sixteen women enter the list for the first time, including singer Jennifer Lopez, former US Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, Meg Whitman of HP and Marissa Mayer of Yahoo.

Lady Gaga, the pop singer, makes it to 14 and at 26 years old is the youngest. The oldest, Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, who is 86, ranks only at number 26.

Others in the top tier include US First Lady Michelle Obama at seven, and Indian President Sonia Gandhi at six. The first female executive editor of The New York Times, Jill Abramson, is at five, while influential philanthropist Melinda Gates is ranked fourth.

For Ms Merkel, the top spot comes for the second year in a row and reflects her role in trying to resolve the European Union’s financial crisis. She “is the ‘Iron Lady’ of the European Union and the lead player in the euro zone economic drama that continues to threaten global markets,” Forbes said.

Mrs Clinton, the magazine says, “has had a formidable past 12 months” and is set to resign at the end of they year.

Another major US political figure, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, makes nine on the list. She is also the first female head of that department.

“This year’s Power Women exert influence in very different ways, and to very different ends, and all with very different impacts on the global community,” said Moira Forbes, president of ForbesWoman.

“Whether leading multi-billion-dollar companies, governing countries, shaping the cultural fabric of our lives, or spearheading humanitarian initiatives, collectively these women are changing the planet in profoundly powerful and dynamic ways.”

Video: Clinton During Her Recent Visit to Nigeria: We Really Believe That The Future For Nigeria Is Limitless

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivers remarks on U.S. Support for Nigeria in Abuja, Nigeria on August 9, 2012

Video:HILLARY CLINTON FREAK DANCIN' in South Africa

Hillary Clinton don't see nuthin' wrong ... with a little bump 'n griiiiind ... 'cause the U.S. Secretary of State got downright FREAKY at a party in South Africa ... and it was all caught on tape.

Hillary was attending an event in Malawi, featuring a local band, when Hillary decided to bust out some of her moves on the dance floor ... and it's AWESOME!!

But it got WAYYY better ... when the lead singer decided to twerk all over Clinton's crotchal region.

It ain't the first time Hillary's let her hair down ... she let loose during an event in Colombia back in April ... and even pounded a beer.

Hillary Clinton To Visit Nigeria + Press Release

Washington, DC — US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on her trip to Nigeria should encourage President Goodluck Jonathan to address increasingly deadly violence in northern and central Nigeria, Human Rights Watch said in a letter to Clinton on August 7, 2012. Much of the violence has been initiated by the militant Islamist group Boko Haram.

Clinton, who is scheduled to meet with Jonathan in Abuja on August 9, should also raise security force abuses, corruption, and lack of accountability, Human Rights Watch said.full details inside

"Nigeria is facing a surge of violence and lawlessness that has blighted the lives of thousands of Nigerians," said Daniel Bekele, Africa director at Human Rights Watch. "Nigeria's leaders need to confront this violence, whether committed by Boko Haram or the country's security forces."

Attacks by Boko Haram have left more than 1,400 people dead in northern and central Nigeria since 2010. The armed group has targeted police and other government security agents, Christians and churches, and Muslims who are critical of the group or perceived as collaborating with the government, Human Rights Watch said.

Security agents have rounded up hundreds of people and routinely detained them incommunicado without charge or trial. Security forces have also been implicated in extrajudicial killings of Boko Haram suspects and other detention-related abuses. The group claims it is attacking the police in retaliation for security force abuses.

In Nigeria's volatile "middle-belt" region, particularly in Kaduna and Plateau states, inter-communal violence has resulted in the deaths of several thousand people - both Muslims and Christians - in the past four years. Mobs have hacked to death many of their victims based simply on their ethnic or religious identity, but rarely has anyone been prosecuted for these massacres.

Despite Nigeria's tremendous oil wealth, endemic government corruption and poor governance have robbed many Nigerians of their rights to health and education. These problems are most acute in the north - the country's poorest region - where widespread poverty and unemployment, sustained by corruption, and state-sponsored abuses have created an environment in which militant groups thrive.

Nigeria's main anti-corruption agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has since 2005 filed corruption charges against 35 nationally prominent political figures, including 20 former state governors. Although the commission has secured four convictions of high-level officials, they faced relatively little or no prison time. No senior political figure in Nigeria is currently serving prison time for corruption, Human Rights Watch said.

Human Rights Watch urged Clinton to call on the Nigerian authorities to:

Ensure that civilians at risk of further attacks in northern and central Nigeria are protected, and bring to justice without delay those responsible for the violence;
Rein in abusive police and soldiers, and investigate and prosecute without delay those implicated in human rights abuses;
End divisive state and local government policies that discriminate against "non-indigenes," people who cannot trace their ancestry to what are said to be the original inhabitants of an area;
Give a public account of the status and reasons for delays in the corruption cases against senior political figures; and
Improve the independence of the EFCC by passing legislation to provide greater security of tenure for the commission's chairperson.
"At their heart, impunity and corruption are human rights problems, and they need to be at the top of Nigeria's policy agenda," Bekele said. "Clinton should use her visit to help put them there."