http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=Catalonia Wed, 22 May 2013 05:36:36 -0400 Liveleak http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/ll2/logo.gif http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=Catalonia Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:02:02 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b5e_1366315068 gemini Published: 18 Apr 2013 15:42 GMT+02:00 Updated: 18 Apr 2013 15:42 GMT+02:00 http://is.gd/aCJIZn Developers hoped the town of Sese~na, south of Madrid, would attract 40,000 inhabitants but after the credit crunch only 3,500 people moved in. There are nearly three and a half million empty homes in Spain, or 10.8 percent more than a decade ago. The total number of empty dwellings in Spain is 3.443.365, new figures from Spain's national statistics institute, the INE, show. Some 13.7 percent of the more than 25 million homes in Spain are empty, the figures reveal. The highest percentage of empty houses is in Andalusia - at 18.5 percent. Other regions with a high number of empty houses include Valencia (14.7 percent) and Catalonia, at 13 percent. Over one in five (21.4 percent) of these empty houses was built within the last ten years. The figures, which come from the INE's census of buildings in Spain, show that the total number of homes in Spain was 25,208,623 on November 1st 2011. Nearly 10 percent of those homes were built in the decade previously. Spain's population grew by 14.6 percent in the decade before 2011. In 2008, Spain's real estate bubble burst and the country entered a crisis which continues to this day. One of the most traumatic effects of this long economic recession has been the huge number of home evictions in Spain, with many people finding themselves unable to pay their mortgages. Figures from a national judiciary council show that Spain's courts have carried out some 252,826 expulsion orders since 2008, news agency AFP reported recently. Protests against these home evictions have culminated in so-called 'escrache' style demonstrations where the homes and offices of politicians are targeted directly. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b5e_1366315068 gemini Spain's empty home count hits new high empty houses Sun, 17 Mar 2013 13:58:50 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=976_1363542965 0wdj A Dutch Muslim politician has called for a ban on dogs in The Hague, the third-largest city in the Netherlands. Islamic legal tradition holds that dogs are "unclean" animals, and some say the call to ban them in Holland and elsewhere represents an attempted encroachment of Islamic Sharia law in Europe. This latest canine controversy -- which the Dutch public has greeted with a mix of amusement and outrage -- follows dozens of other Muslim-vs-dog-related incidents in Europe. Critics say it reflects the growing assertiveness of Muslims in Europe as they attempt to impose Islamic legal and religious norms on European society. The Dutch dustup erupted after Hasan K"uc"uk, a Turkish-Dutch representative on The Hague city council for the Islam Democrats, vehemently opposed a proposal by the Party for the Animals ( Partij voor de Dieren ) to make the city more dog friendly. According to a January 28 report in the Amsterdam-based newspaper De Telegraaf , K"uc"uk counter-argued that keeping dogs as pets is tantamount to animal abuse and he then called for the possession of dogs in The Hague to be criminalized. According to its website, the Islam Democrats party is "founded on the Islamic principles of justice, equality and solidarity. ID is a bottom-up response to the large gap between the Muslim and immigrant communities and local politics...ID focuses on the political awareness within the Muslim and immigrant communities. Awareness about the need to organize, but also the need for mutual support." Paul ter Linden, who represents the Dutch Freedom Party (PVV) on The Hague city council, responded to K"uc"uk by saying: "In this country pet ownership is legal. Whoever disagrees with this should move to another country." Dutch political commentators believe K"uc"uk's declarations are a provocation designed to stir up the Muslim population in The Hague. Muslims -- who now make up more than 12% of the city's population of 500,000 -- view dogs as ritually unclean animals and K"uc"uk's call for a ban on them is a sure vote-getter, they say. The incident in Holland follows dog-related controversies in other European countries. In Spain, two Islamic groups based in L'erida -- a city in the northeastern region of Catalonia where 29,000 Muslims now make up around 20% of the city's total population -- asked local officials to regulate the presence of dogs in public spaces so they do not "offend Muslims." Muslims demanded that dogs be banned from all forms of public transportation including all city buses as well as from all areas frequented by Muslim immigrants. Muslims said the presence of dogs in L'erida violates their religious freedom and their right to live according to Islamic principles. After the municipality refused to acquiesce to Muslim demands, the city experienced a wave of dog poisonings. More than a dozen dogs were poisoned in September 2011 (local media reports here , here , here , here and here ) in L'erida's working class neighborhoods of Cappont and La Bordeta, districts that are heavily populated by Muslim immigrants and where many dogs have been killed over the past several years. Local residents taking their dogs for walks say they have been harassed by Muslim immigrants who are opposed to seeing the animals in public. Muslims have also launched a number of anti-dog campaigns on Islamic websites and blogs based in Spain. In Britain, which has become "ground zero" for Europe's canine controversies, blind passengers are being ordered off buses or refused taxi rides because Muslim drivers or passengers object to their "unclean" guide dogs. In Reading , for example, one pensioner, a cancer sufferer, was repeatedly confronted by drivers and asked to get off the bus because of his guide dog. He also faced hostility at a hospital and in a supermarket over the animal. In Nottingham , a Muslim taxi driver refused to carry a blind man because he was accompanied by his guide dog. The taxi driver was later fined lb300 ($470). In Stafford , a Muslim taxi driver refused to carry an elderly blind couple from a grocery store because they were accompanied by their seeing-eye dog. In Tunbridge Wells, Kent , a blind man was turned away from an Indian restaurant because the owner said it was against his Muslim beliefs to allow dogs into his establishment. In London , a bus driver prevented a woman from boarding a bus with her dog because there was a Muslim lady on the bus who "might be upset by the dog." As the woman attempted to complain, the doors closed and the bus drove away. When a second bus arrived, she again tried to embark, but was stopped again, this time because the driver said he was Muslim. Also in Britain, police sniffer dogs trained to spot terrorists at train stations may no longer come into contact with Muslim passengers, following complaints that it was offensive to their religion. A report for the Transport Department advised that the animals should only touch passengers' luggage because it is considered "more acceptable." British Transport Police still use sniffer dogs -- which are trained to detect explosives -- with any passengers regardless of faith, but handlers are now more aware of "cultural sensitivities." Sniffer dogs used by police to search mosques and Muslim homes are now being fitted with leather bootees to cover their paws so that they do not cause offense. Critics say the complaints are just another example of Muslims trying to force their rules and morals on British society. Tory MP Philip Davies said: "As far as I am concerned, everyone should be treated equally in the face of the law and we cannot have people of different religious groups laying the law down. I hope the police will go about their business as they would do normally." Meanwhile, Muslim prisoners in Britain are being given fresh clothes and bedding after sniffer dogs search their cells. The inmates say their bedclothes and prison uniforms must be changed according to Islamic law if they have come anywhere near dog saliva. Government rules mean prison wardens must hand out replacement sets after random drug searches to avoid religious discrimination claims. The dogs have also been banned from touching copies of the Islamic holy book the Koran and other religious items. Prisoners are handed special bags to protect the articles. In Scotland , the Tayside Police Department apologized for featuring a German shepherd puppy as part of a campaign to publicize its new non-emergency telephone number. The postcards are potentially offensive to the city's 3,000-strong Muslim community. In Norway , Gry Berg, a blind woman, was denied entry into four taxis in the center of Oslo because she was accompanied by her guide dog. In France , Marie Lafor^et, one of the country's most well-known singers and actresses, appeared in a Paris courtroom in December to defend herself against charges that a job advertisement she placed discriminated against Muslims. The 72-year-old Lafor^et had placed an ad on an Internet website looking for someone to do some work on her terrace in 2009. She specified in the ad that "people with allergies or orthodox Muslims" should not apply "due to a small Chihuahua." Lafor^et claimed that she made the stipulation because she believed the Muslim faith saw dogs as unclean. The case was taken up by an anti-discrimination group called the Movement against Racism and for Friendship between Peoples (MRAP), which lodged a complaint against Lafor^et. Lafor^et's lawyer said his client "knew that the presence of a dog could conflict with the religious convictions of orthodox Muslims. It was a sign of respect." But Muslims rejected her defense. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=976_1363542965 0wdj Muslims Declare Jihad on Dogs in Europe muslims, dogs, europe, apocalypse, allah Thu, 07 Mar 2013 18:12:06 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=26d_1362697751 AngryAryan By George Friedman Founder and Chairman "The global financial crisis of 2008 has slowly yielded to a global unemployment crisis. This unemployment crisis will, fairly quickly, give way to a political crisis. The crisis involves all three of the major pillars of the global system -- Europe, China and the United States . The level of intensity differs, the political response differs and the relationship to the financial crisis differs. But there is a common element, which is that unemployment is increasingly replacing finance as the central problem of the financial system. Europe is the focal point of this crisis. Last week Italy held elections , and the party that won the most votes -- with about a quarter of the total -- was a brand-new group called the Five Star Movement that is led by a professional comedian. Two things are of interest about this movement. First, one of its central pillars is the call for defaulting on a part of Italy's debt as the lesser of evils. The second is that Italy, with 11.2 percent unemployment, is far from the worst case of unemployment in the European Union. Nevertheless, Italy is breeding radical parties deeply opposed to the austerity policies currently in place. The core debate in Europe has been how to solve the sovereign debt crisis and the resulting threat to Europe's banks. The issue was who would bear the burden of stabilizing the system. The argument that won the day, particularly among Europe's elites, was that what Europe needed was austerity, that government spending had to be dramatically restrained so that sovereign debt -- however restructured it might be -- would not default. One of the consequences of austerity is recession. The economies of many European countries, especially those in the eurozone, are now contracting, since austerity obviously means that less money will be available to purchase goods and services. If the primary goal is to stabilize the financial system, it makes sense. But whether financial stability can remain the primary goal depends on a consensus involving broad sectors of society. When unemployment emerges, that consensus shifts and the focus shifts with it. When unemployment becomes intense, then the entire political system can shift. From my point of view, the Italian election was the first, but expected, tremor.Consider the geography of unemployment. Only four countries in Europe are at or below 6 percent unemployment: the geographically contiguous countries of Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. The immediate periphery has much higher unemployment; Denmark at 7.4 percent, the United Kingdom at 7.7 percent, France at 10.6 percent and Poland at 10.6 percent. In the far periphery, Italy is at 11.7 percent, Lithuania is at 13.3 percent, Ireland is at 14.7 percent, Portugal is at 17.6 percent, Spain is at 26.2 percent and Greece is at 27 percent. Germany, the world's fourth-largest economy, is at the center of gravity of Europe. Exports of goods and services are the equivalent of 51 percent of Germany's gross domestic product, and more than half of Germany's exports go to other European countries. Germany sees the European Union's free trade zone as essential for its survival. Without free access to these markets, its exports would contract dramatically and unemployment would soar. The euro is a tool that Germany, with its outsized influence, uses to manage its trade relations -- and this management puts other members of the eurozone at a disadvantage. Countries with relatively low wages ought to have a competitive advantage over German exports. However, many have negative balances of trade. Thus, when the financial crisis hit, their ability to manage was insufficient and led to sovereign debt crises, which in turn further undermined their position via austerity, especially as their membership in the eurozone doesn't allow them to apply their own monetary policies. This doesn't mean that they were not profligate in their social spending, but the underlying cause of their failure was much more complex. Ultimately it was rooted in the rare case of a free trade zone being built around a massive economy that depended on exports. (Germany is the third-largest exporter in the world, ranking after China and the United States.) The North American Free Trade Agreement is built around a net importer. Britain was a net importer from the Empire. German power unbalances the entire system. Comparing the unemployment rate of the German bloc with that of Southern Europe, it is difficult to imagine these countries are members of the same trade group . Even France, which has a relatively low unemployment rate, has a more complex story. Unemployment in France is concentrated in two major poles in the north and the south, with the southeast of France being the largest of them. Thus, if you look at the map, the southern tier of Europe has been hit extraordinarily hard with unemployment, and Eastern Europe not quite as badly, but Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and Luxembourg have been left relatively unscathed. How long this will last, given the recession in Germany, is another matter, but the contrast tells us a great deal about the emerging geopolitics of the region. Portugal, Spain and Greece are in a depression. Their unemployment rate is roughly that of the United States in the midst of the Great Depression. A rule I use is that for each person unemployed, three others are affected, whether spouses, children or whomever. That means that when you hit 25 percent unemployment virtually everyone is affected. At 11 percent unemployment about 44 percent are affected. It can be argued that the numbers are not quite as bad as they seem since people are working in the informal economy . That may be true, but in Greece, for example, pharmaceuticals are now in short supply since cash for importing goods has dried up. Spain's local governments are about to lay off more employees. These countries have reached a tipping point from which it is difficult to imagine recovering. In the rest of Europe's periphery, the unemployment crisis is intensifying. The precise numbers matter far less than the visible impact of societies that are tottering. The Political Consequences of High Unemployment It is important to understand the consequences of this kind of unemployment. There is the long-term unemployment of the underclass. This wave of unemployment has hit middle and upper-middle class workers. Consider an architect I know in Spain who lost his job. Married with children, he has been unemployed for so long that he has plunged into a totally different and unexpected lifestyle. Poverty is hard enough to manage, but when it is also linked to loss of status, the pain is compounded and a politically potent power arises. The idea that the Germany-mandated austerity regime will be able to survive politically is difficult to imagine. In Italy, with "only" 11.7 percent unemployment, the success of the Five Star Movement represents an inevitable response to the crisis. Until recently, default was the primary fear of Europeans, at least of the financial, political and journalistic elite. They have come a long way toward solving the banking problem . But they have done it by generating a massive social crisis. That social crisis generates a political backlash that will prevent the German strategy from being carried out. For Southern Europe, where the social crisis is settling in for the long term, as well as for Eastern Europe, it is not clear how paying off their debt benefits them. They may be frozen out of the capital markets, but the cost of remaining in it is shared so unequally that the political base in favor of austerity is dissolving. This is compounded by deepening hostility to Germany. Germany sees itself as virtuous for its frugality. Others see it as rapacious in its aggressive exporting, with the most important export now being unemployment. Which one is right is immaterial. The fact that we are seeing growing differentiation between the German bloc and the rest of Europe is one of the most significant developments since the crisis began. The growing tension between France and Germany is particularly important. Franco-German relations were not only one of the founding principles of the European Union but one of the reasons the union exists. After the two world wars, it was understood that the peace of Europe depended on unity between France and Germany. The relationship is far from shattered, but it is strained. Germany wants to see the European Central Bank continue its policy of focusing on controlling inflation. This is in Germany's interest. France, with close to 11 percent unemployment, needs the European Central Bank to stimulate the European economy in order to reduce unemployment. This is not an arcane debate. It is a debate over who controls the European Central Bank , what the priorities of Europe are and, ultimately, how Europe can exist with such vast differences in unemployment. One answer may be that Germany's unemployment rate will surge. That might mitigate anti-German feeling, but it won't solve the problem. Unemployment at the levels many countries are reaching and appear to be remaining at undermines the political power of the governments to pursue policies needed to manage the financial system. The Five Star Movement's argument in favor of default is not coming from a marginal party. The elite may hold the movement in contempt, but it won 25 percent of the vote. And recall that the hero of the Europhiles, Mario Monti, barely won 10 percent of the vote just a year after Europe celebrated him. Fascism had its roots in Europe in massive economic failures in which the financial elites failed to recognize the political consequences of unemployment. They laughed at parties led by men who had been vagabonds selling post cards on the street and promising economic miracles if only those responsible for the misery of the country were purged. Men and women, plunged from the comfortable life of the petite bourgeoisie, did not laugh, but responded eagerly to that hope. The result was governments who enclosed their economies from the world and managed their performance through directive and manipulation. This is what happened after World War I. It did not happen after World War II because Europe was occupied. But when we look at the unemployment rates today, the differentials between regions, the fact that there is no promise of improvement and that the middle class is being hurled into the ranks of the dispossessed, we can see the patterns forming. History does not repeat itself so neatly. Fascism in the 1920s and 1930s sense is dead. But the emergence of new political parties speaking for the unemployed and the newly poor is something that is hard to imagine not occurring. Whether it is the Golden Dawn party in Greece or the Catalan independence movements , the growth of parties wanting to redefine the system that has tilted so far against the middle class is inevitable. Italy was simply, once again, the first to try it out. It is difficult to see not only how this is contained within countries, but also how another financial crisis can be avoided, since the political will to endure austerity is broken. It is even difficult to see how the free trade zone will survive in the face of the urgent German need to export as much as it can to sustain itself. The divergence between German interests and those of Southern and Eastern Europe has been profound and has increased the more it appeared that a compromise was possible to save the banks. That is because the compromise had the unintended consequence of triggering the very force that would undermine it: unemployment. It is difficult to imagine a common European policy at this point. There still is one, in a sense, but how a country with 5.2 percent unemployment creates a common economic policy with one that has 11 or 14 or 27 percent unemployment is hard to see. In addition, with unemployment comes lowered demand for goods and less appetite for German exports. How Germany deals with that is also a mystery. The crisis of unemployment is a political crisis, and that political crisis will undermine all of the institutions Europe has worked so hard to craft. For 17 years Europe thrived, but that was during one of the most prosperous times in history. It has now encountered one of the nightmares of all countries and an old and deep European nightmare: unemployment on a massive scale. The test of Europe is not sovereign debt. It is whether it can avoid old and bad habits rooted in unemployment." http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=26d_1362697751 AngryAryan Europe, Unemployment and Instability Middle East, Syria, America, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Recession, Depression, inflation, combat footage, liberty, war, tyranny, anarchy, geopolitics, strategy, international relations, foreign policy, military, economy, fiscal cliff, europe, EU, ECB, EMU, Sat, 03 Jan 2009 10:55:10 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=918_1230997862 hossam70 Abou Anwar Coffe house, Satar Aknaz, Catalonia, Romland, 1915. At inner mosque's gate. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=918_1230997862 hossam70 Abou Anwar Coffe house, Satar Aknaz, <span class="highlight">Catalonia</span>, Romland, 1915. Abou Anwar Coffe house, Satar Aknaz, Catalonia, Romland, 1915. Fri, 27 Jul 2012 06:21:36 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9e1_1343383981 kauan Some revealing articles about the spreading of Islam in Spain: http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/topics/21/spain Estupendas p'aginas web en Espa~nol / Related websites in spanish: http://www.alertadigital.com/ http://www.minutodigital.com/ "Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use." http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9e1_1343383981 kauan Islam In <span class="highlight">Catalonia</span>/Spain - El Isl'am en Catalu~na Spain Islam Muslims Moroccans Immigrants Catalonia Espa~na Catalu~na Isl'am Musulmanes Immigrantes Islamizaci'on CiU Josep Anglada PxC Jordi Pujol Jose Mar'ia Aznar PP PSOE Sun, 20 Nov 2011 07:11:08 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=858_1321789754 AEI Election ad prepared by small catalan anti-immigration party for Spain's local elections, held on 22 May 2011. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=858_1321789754 AEI Platform for <span class="highlight">Catalonia</span> funny election ad Spain, Catalonia, Burka, Ad, Elections, PxC, Open Borders, Girls Fri, 25 May 2007 04:30:44 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=458_1180081844 zuru Strange Criature http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=458_1180081844 zuru Possible fallen angel in <span class="highlight">Catalonia</span> (Spain) fallen, angel, catalonia, spain, strange, criature Tue, 25 Sep 2012 13:29:32 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=401_1348593753 AYOUB17 The Spanish Military Association (Asociaci'on de militares espa~noles-AME) has issued a warning today saying that all who promote "Spain's fracture," namely, those who promote the independence of Catalonia, could end up being court-martialed. AME made these threats while referring to the current president of Catalonia, Mr. Artur Mas, and all the members of his party. AME made sure to stress this last point, which seems like it is becoming a recurring theme in Spain's history, since it is well known that the genocidal, anti-democratic, and repressing actions by the Spanish governments have subjugated Catalonia for centuries. According to these retired army officers, all who are collaborating with, or have participated in this cause should be aware that they will have to answer to an accusation of high treason in front of a military court. These words take a whole new dimension when we consider that the last Catalan president before Franco's dictatorship, Llu'is Companys, was court-martialed, sentenced to death, and shot by the fascist Spanish army. He is the only democratically elected president to ever have been executed in Europe. Source : http://www.helpcatalonia.cat/2012/09/spanish-military-threaten-separatists.html?spref=tw http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=401_1348593753 AYOUB17 Spanish Military Threaten Separatists with Court-Martial spain, catalonia, military Tue, 25 Sep 2012 12:18:11 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f15_1348589662 HumanRightsAlert Meditations on nationhood in Barcelona. a. b. a. El Mundo daily: Artur Mas, the Catalan civilian leader, surrounded by leaders of the Spanish "Military Association", the power base of Franco's fascist regime, who staunchly and openly oppose the drive for Catalan independence, during the official mas for La Merce' last Sunday. b. The copy on the Spanish poster for Brad Pitt's Killing Them Softly, is "the US is not a nation, it's a business." Barcelona, September 26 - the peaceful dialogue on Catalonian independence continues: The headline of the conservative El Pais, paper edition, in Barcelona, like all local papers, is "Mas propone consultar al "pueblo de Catalu~na" la creaci'on de un Estado" - Mas proposes consulting the "People of Catalonia" on creation of a state. The local El Mundo edition carries a similar headline. In contrast, the headline of the Spanish online national edition of El Pais is, "La vicepresidenta, ante el desaf'io de Mas: 'La respuesta ser'a firme y serena' " - The Vice President, in opposition to Mas's challenge, 'The response is firm and serious' ". El Mundo, local paper edition, also carries on its front page a photo of Artur Mas, the civilian leader of Catalonia, and the leader of the Spanish Associacion de Militares in an unfriendly pose, seated side by side in the front row of the official central mass for La Merce last Sunday. The caption of the photo refers to Mas as the leader of the Catalan independence drive and the generals, as the leaders of the "Old Tradition." The local paper edition of the left-wing La Vanguardia carries a very large photo of the same occasion on its front page (not to be found in the online national edition). However, the photo provides a different perspective of the same scene in the official La Merce mass. Here, Artur Mas is seen seated surrounded by five representatives of the Associacion de Militares, almost under siege. The caption's headline is "Entre militares" - Among the military - and it explains that Artur Mas and the leadership of the Associacion de Militares were seated that way in accordance with protocol, and that the scene "invoked moments of the tyranny". In short - the Catalan People are peacefully but firmly asserting their nationhood, in the face of repeated threats of violent oppression by the Spanish fascist "Military Association", which still holds a formal, central place in the political structure of Spain. In the meanwhile in Brussels, the Catalan papers report that negotiations continue between the Spanish government and the bankers, regarding the bailout package, which Catalonia has already rejected. And in the neighboring Portugal, large demonstrations against "Austerity", imposed by the bankers, continue. For leisure, I was reading John le Carr'e ' s The Constant Gardner, which focuses on abuse of the People of Africa by multinational pharmaceutical corporations and the complicity of the British Foreign Office. In one scene, a finely bred, Eton/Oxford grad, junior Foreign Office consul is lecturing in Oxford on UK foreign policy vis a vis the Third World nations. During questions and answers at the end of the lecture, the focus is on the morality of such policies. Finally, the lecturer states that a government of a legitimate nation is characterized by establishing some basic guarantees to the People, among them, some minimal level of the rule of law, and also shows genuine concern for the peace and welfare of the People. If such characteristics are missing, he concludes, the People should be regarded as "Failed-Nation", or "Un-Nation". At the same time, he consents that today the Foreign Office makes no such distinction in dealing with various regimes. On the same subject, the streets of Barcelona are decorated now with posters of the recently released Spanish version of Brad Pitt's movie with the copy, " 'America, no es un pais, es un negocio', Jackie Cogan" - the US is not a nation, it is a business. For those, not given to high fullutent abstractions of nationhood, economics, and foreign policy, the question can be boiled down to this: Is there a moral distinction between a wealthy patron hiring the services of a prostitute, and the same patron hiring the services of a pimp to violently coerce a woman into prostitution? The moral dilemma regarding pimped prostitution is equally applicable today to the United States, and the relationship between banks, government, and the People in view of the "Foreclosure Crisis", the "Bailouts", the unprecedented corruption of the state and US courts, the enormous Gulag that is in place, and the oppression of the People at large and truthers in particular through police, prosecutorial, and judicial misconduct. LINKS: Mas propone consultar al "pueblo de Catalu~na" la creaci'on de un Estado http://politica.elpais.com/politica/2012/09/24/actualidad/1348505305_585382.html La vicepresidenta, ante el desaf'io de Mas: "La respuesta ser'a firme y serena" http://politica.elpais.com/politica/2012/09/25/actualidad/1348560419_147632.html ____________ Joseph Zernik, PhD Human Rights Alert (NGO) The 2010 submission of Human Rights Alert to the Human Rights Council (HRC) of the United Nations for the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Human Rights in the United States was reviewed and incorporated in the official HRC Professional Staff Report with a note referring to "corruption of the courts and the legal profession and discrimination by law enforcement in California." The 2012 submission of Human Rights Alert to the HRC for the UPR of the State of Israel is titled "integrity, or lack thereof, of the electronic record systems of the courts of the State of Israel'. It is scheduled for review in January 2013. Human Rights Alert online: http://inproperinla.blogspot.com/ Flag Counter: 140 http://www.scribd.com/Human_Rights_Alert Total Reads: 933,129 Followers: 1,592 http://www.scribd.com/SeyagLizhuyotHaadam Total Reads: 45,147 http://twitter.com/inproperinla http://www.liveleak.com/user/jz12345 Total Item Views: 664,803+500065 http://www.examiner.com/x-38742-LA-Business-Headlines-Examiner http://www.facebook.com/joseph.zernik Facebook Friends: 3,511 ____________________________ Boycott the US presidential vote! It only legitimizes the illegitimate... 12-04-15 2012 Presidential election votes will be counted in Spain http://www.scribd.com/doc/89464081/ Occupy! 11-12-10 Where should Occupy go next? Civil Disobedience in the footsteps of Thoreau and Gandhi! http :// http://www.scribd.com/doc/75348301/ 12-06-08 Courts and Judges as racketeering enterprises under RICO (the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) - key element in the current financial crisis http://www.scribd.com/doc/96504009/ Secede! The US in its current form is simply unmanageable... 12-01-01 Secession - A Smart Business Move! http://www.scribd.com/doc/76877453/ Get Up, stand up, stand up for your rights! _____________________________ Take away justice , then, and what are governments but great bandit bands ? Saint Augustine, Civitas Dei ( City of God ,4.4) _____________________________ WHAT DID THE EXPERT SAY ABOUT THE CURRENT FINANCIAL CRISIS? * "I think it's difficult to find a fraud of this size on the U.S. court system in U.S. history," said Raymond Brescia, a visiting professor at Yale Law School who has written articles analyzing the role of courts in the financial crisis. "I can't think of one where you have literally tens of thousands of fraudulent documents filed in tens of thousands of cases." Reuters (Jan 22, 2012) http://www.scribd.com/doc/79572282/ * "Foreclosure fraud: The homeowner nightmares continue" CNN (April 7, 2011) * " About 3 million homes have been repossessed since the housing boom ended in 2006... That number could balloon to about 6 million by 2013" Bloomberg (January 2011) * "...a system in which only the little people have to obey the law, while the rich, and bankers especially, can cheat and defraud without consequences." Prof Paul Krugman, MIT (2011) http://www.scribd.com/doc/50753639/ _____________________________ WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE JUSTICE SYSTEM IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY, CALIFORNIA? * "...judges tried and sentenced a staggering number of people for crimes they did not commit." Prof David Burcham, Dean, Loyola Law School, LA (2001) http://www.scribd.com/doc/29043589/ * "This is conduct associated with the most repressive dictators and police states... and judges must share responsibility when innocent people are convicted." Prof Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean, Irvine Law School (2001) http://www.scribd.com/doc/27433920/ * "Innocent people remain in prison" * "...the LA Superior Court and the DA office, the two other parts of the justice system that the Blue Panel Report recommends must be investigated relative to the integrity of the system, have not produced any response that we know of..." LAPD Blue Ribbon Review Panel Report (2006) http://www.scribd.com/doc/24902306 / _____________________________ WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE JUSTICE SYSTEM IN CALIFORNIA? * "...corruption of the courts and the legal profession and discrimination by law enforcement in California." United Nations Human Rights Council Staff Report (2010) http://www.scribd.com/doc/38566837/ _____________________________ WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE STATE COURTS IN THE UNITED STATES? * "On July 26, 2010, Laurence Tribe, Senior Counsel for the United States Department of Justice, Access to Justice Initiative, delivered an important speech to the Conference of Chief Justices, challenging them to halt the disintegration of our state justice systems before they become indistinguishable from courts of third world nations." Prof Laurence Tribe, Harvard Law School (2010), per National Defender Leadership Institute (2010) http://www.nlada.net/library/article/national_dojspeechto%20chiefjustice07-26-2010_gideonalert _____________________________ WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE CONDITIONS IN THE PRISON IN MONROE COUNTY, TENESSEE? * "What goes on there is more like gulags of centuries ago." ACLU http://www.scribd.com/doc/72546279/ _____________________________ WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES? * "More than 100 law professors have signed on to a letter released today that proposes congressional hearings and legislation aimed at fashioning "mandatory and enforceable" ethics rules for Supreme Court justices for the first time. The effort, coordinated by the liberal Alliance for Justice, was triggered by "recent media reports," the letter said, apparently referring to stories of meetings and other potential conflicts of interest involving Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas among others." More than 100 law professors, as reported by the Blog of the Legal Times (February 2011) http://www.scribd.com/doc/49586436/ _____________________________ WHAT DID CHIEF JUDGE OF THE US COURT OF APPEALS, 5TH CIRCUIT, SAY ABOUT THE US JUSTICE SYSTEM? * "The American legal system has been corrupted almost beyond recognition..." Chief Judge, US Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit, Edith Jones, speaking before the Federalist Society of Harvard Law School (February 2003) http://www.scribd.com/doc/50137887/ _____________________________ WHAT DID THE CHAIR OF THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE SAY ABOUT THE US JUSTICE SYSTEM? * In a speech in Georgetown University, Senator Leahy, Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee called for a "Truth and Reconciliation Commission" on the US Department of Justice. Transcript of Senator Leahy speech (2009) http://www.scribd.com/doc/38472251/ ____________________________ http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f15_1348589662 HumanRightsAlert Nation, Failed-Nation, Un-Nation, Business, or Pimped Prostitution... Catalonia, Independence, Banking, Nationhood, United States Thu, 20 Sep 2012 11:12:25 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1dc_1348153665 HumanRightsAlert The latest: King Juan Carlos issued a statement, this is not the time to go hunting for chimeras, and US Ambassador to Spain Alan Solomont expressed his admiration for the peaceful manner in which Spain and Catalonia are conducting the dialogue on secession. Perhaps the only way out of the abyss that the United States fell into is a peaceful move for secession, e.g. by the States of Washington, Montana, Idaho and Oregon, or the States of Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. Barcelona, September 20 - the latest in the ongoing drive for Catalonian independence were statements by King Juan Carlos of Spain and US Ambassador Alan Solomont over the past couple of days. The King issued a statement that this was not the time to go hunting for Chimeras. Chimeras here may mean "red herring"; alternatively, they may refer to various interim arrangements, proposed by Catalonia on the way to independence. Regardless, there is no doubt that the statement was given and taken as condescending. Moreover, the issue of timing is of the essence. Catalonia should strive to gain its independence before Spain capitulates to international banking interests. There is no doubt that the King, who was central to the re-establishment of Civil Society in post-Franco Spain, is not going to be fondly remembered for this most recent statement. In the meanwhile, US Ambassador to Spain Alan Solomont expressed his admiration for the peaceful manner in which Spain and Catalonia conduct their dialogue on Catalonian independence. Solomont's feelings are understandable. In Spain (re: Catalonia), in the United Kingdom (re: Scotland), and in Canada (re: Quebec) discussions of secession are peaceful and legitimate. In contrast, in the United States it was established (in violation of its own constitution) that any attempt to secede is a declaration of war. In fact, initiating dialogue on session of certain states may be the only peaceful way out of the current constitutional crisis in the United States and for re-asserting the sovereignty of the People. The most likely candidates for secession are northwestern states, Washington, Montana, Oregon, Idaho, or northeastern states, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine. For any such drive to be taken seriously, the seceding states should have land access to a friendly, civilized, developed nation (e.g. Canada), and also access to the ocean, in case foreign powers would opt to support the drive (e.g. Russia, China). ________________ Joseph Zernik, PhD Human Rights Alert (NGO) LINKS: Spain's King strikes back against Catalonia's call for independence http://www.eitb.com/en/news/politics/detail/955321/spain-king-catalonia--spains-king-catalonias-call/ ____________________________ Boycott the US presidential vote! It only legitimizes the illegitimate... 12-04-15 2012 Presidential election votes will be counted in Spain http://www.scribd.com/doc/89464081/ Occupy! 11-12-10 Where should Occupy go next? Civil Disobedience in the footsteps of Thoreau and Gandhi! http :// http://www.scribd.com/doc/75348301/ 12-06-08 Courts and Judges as racketeering enterprises under RICO (the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) - key element in the current financial crisis http://www.scribd.com/doc/96504009/ Secede! The US in its current form is simply unmanageable... 12-01-01 Secession - A Smart Business Move! http://www.scribd.com/doc/76877453/ Get Up, stand up, stand up for your rights! _______ Human Rights Alert (NGO) The 2010 submission of Human Rights Alert to the Human Rights Council (HRC) of the United Nations was reviewed by the HRC professional staff and incorporated in the official HRC Professional Staff Report with a note referring to "corruption of the courts and the legal profession and discrimination by law enforcement in California." Human Rights Alert online: http://inproperinla.blogspot.com/ Flag Counter: 140 http://www.scribd.com/Human_Rights_Alert Total Reads: 933,129 Followers: 1,592 http://www.scribd.com/SeyagLizhuyotHaadam Total Reads: 45,147 http://twitter.com/inproperinla http://www.liveleak.com/user/jz12345 Total Item Views: 664,803+499,404 http://www.examiner.com/x-38742-LA-Business-Headlines-Examiner http://www.facebook.com/joseph.zernik Facebook Friends: 2,211 _____________________________ Take away justice , then, and what are governments but great bandit bands ? Saint Augustine, Civitas Dei (City of God ,4.4) _____________________________ WHAT DID THE EXPERT SAY ABOUT THE CURRENT FINANCIAL CRISIS? * "I think it's difficult to find a fraud of this size on the U.S. court system in U.S. history," said Raymond Brescia, a visiting professor at Yale Law School who has written articles analyzing the role of courts in the financial crisis. "I can't think of one where you have literally tens of thousands of fraudulent documents filed in tens of thousands of cases." Reuters (Jan 22, 2012) http://www.scribd.com/doc/79572282/ * Foreclosure fraud: The homeowner nightmares continue CNN (April 7, 2011) * About 3 million homes have been repossessed since the housing boom ended in 2006... That number could balloon to about 6 million by 2013 Bloomberg (January 2011) * "...a system in which only the little people have to obey the law, while the rich, and bankers especially, can cheat and defraud without consequences." http://www.scribd.com/doc/50753639/ Prof Paul Krugman, MIT (2011) _____________________________ WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE JUSTICE SYSTEM IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY, CALIFORNIA? * "...judges tried and sentenced a staggering number of people for crimes they did not commit." Prof David Burcham, Dean, Loyola Law School, LA (2001) http://www.scribd.com/doc/29043589/ * "This is conduct associated with the most repressive dictators and police states... and judges must share responsibility when innocent people are convicted." Prof Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean, Irvine Law School (2001) http://www.scribd.com/doc/27433920/ * "Innocent people remain in prison" * "...the LA Superior Court and the DA office, the two other parts of the justice system that the Blue Panel Report recommends must be investigated relative to the integrity of the system, have not produced any response that we know of..." LAPD Blue Ribbon Review Panel Report (2006) http://www.scribd.com/doc/24902306 / _____________________________ WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE JUSTICE SYSTEM IN CALIFORNIA? * "...corruption of the courts and the legal profession and discrimination by law enforcement in California ." United Nations Human Rights Council Staff Report (2010) http://www.scribd.com/doc/38566837/ _____________________________ WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE STATE COURTS IN THE UNITED STATES? * "On July 26, 2010, Laurence Tribe, Senior Counsel for the United States Department of Justice, Access to Justice Initiative, delivered an important speech to the Conference of Chief Justices, challenging them to halt the disintegration of our state justice systems before they become indistinguishable from courts of third world nations." Prof Laurence Tribe, Harvard Law School (2010), per National Defender Leadership Institute (2010) http://www.nlada.net/library/article/national_dojspeechto%20chiefjustice07-26-2010_gideonalert _____________________________ WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE CONDITIONS IN THE PRISON IN MONROE COUNTY, TENESSEE? * "What goes on there is more like gulags of centuries ago." ACLU http://www.scribd.com/doc/72546279/ _____________________________ WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES? * "More than 100 law professors have signed on to a letter released today that proposes congressional hearings and legislation aimed at fashioning "mandatory and enforceable" ethics rules for Supreme Court justices for the first time. The effort, coordinated by the liberal Alliance for Justice, was triggered by "recent media reports," the letter said, apparently referring to stories of meetings and other potential conflicts of interest involving Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas among others." More than 100 law professors, as reported by the Blog of the Legal Times (February 2011) http://www.scribd.com/doc/49586436/ _____________________________ WHAT DID CHIEF JUDGE OF THE US COURT OF APPEALS, 5TH CIRCUIT, SAY ABOUT THE US JUSTICE SYSTEM? * "The American legal system has been corrupted almost beyond recognition..." Chief Judge, US Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit, Edith Jones, speaking before the Federalist Society of Harvard Law School (February 2003) http://www.scribd.com/doc/50137887/ _____________________________ WHAT DID THE CHAIR OF THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE SAY ABOUT THE US JUSTICE SYSTEM? * In a speech in Georgetown University, Senator Leahy, Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee called for a "Truth and Reconciliation Commission" on the US Department of Justice. Transcript of Senator Leahy speech (2009) http://www.scribd.com/doc/38472251/ ____________________________ http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1dc_1348153665 HumanRightsAlert Dispatch de Barcelona: Secession - Spain and the United States secession, Catalonia, Spain, United States, Montana, Oregon, Idaho, Washington, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine Sun, 01 May 2011 03:34:26 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=cbc_1304234898 evildweeb Very cool vid utilizing RC and cam Proximity in Spain Flying low in the mountains and flatlands of Catalonia. Equipment info: http://www.team-blacksheep.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsP6NhXLAGQ by nastycop420 on Apr 29, 2011 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=cbc_1304234898 evildweeb Proximity in Spain catalonia, spain, radio, control, controlled, camera, low, flight, path Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:41:09 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1c9_1268854630 Frigfugginfarka No sound on the vid. =============== Spanish police have released pictures of the raid in which in Catalonia three people were arrested, accused of kidnapping the English child in Pakistan. The three were in possession of the ransom money http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1c9_1268854630 Frigfugginfarka Kidnappers arrested in Spain Kidnappers arrested, Spain, Catalonia, English child, Ransom money