http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=Georgetown Mon, 20 May 2013 05:07:18 -0400 Liveleak http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/ll2/logo.gif http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=Georgetown Wed, 01 May 2013 01:34:35 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=fa1_1367385891 dcdirectactionnews Matthew Duran and Kteeo Olejnik are two of our &quot;silent heroes&quot; who endured months in jail and 60 days in solitary confinement for refusing to snitch to a grand jury investigating anarchists and Occupy activists in and around Seattle. On the 30th of April they spoke at Georgetown Law about what they endured to protect their community. Will Potter of &quot;Green is the New Red&quot; moderated the discussion and Jennifer Kaplan (Kteeo's attorney) was also present. Matt and Kteoo were sent to solitary as retaliation for their supporters protesting outside the jail, but this backfired: they became furious and wrote long statements to the judge vowing NEVER to give in and NEVER to snitch. These statements were sucessfully used in court to argue that their detention had become punitive rather than &quot;cooercive,&quot; this prohibiting any further confinement for &quot;civil contempt&quot; and bringing about their release. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=fa1_1367385891 dcdirectactionnews Grand Jury resistors speak at <span class="highlight">Georgetown</span> Law about refusing to snitch Grand Juries, grand jury resistance, stop snitching, Occupy Seattle, Mayday Wed, 01 May 2013 07:06:34 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=70a_1367405969 LostRothschild How about we leave it up to the individual to choose what they're comfortable defending their homes and lives with? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Speaking at an event at Georgetown University on Tuesday, former President Bill Clinton shared his views on guns in America, stating that if you live in a city and need protection for your home, there is by far no better weapon than a shotgun. "It's not even close," he said. Clinton noted that while an "assault weapons" ban was passed on his watch as president, he paid for it in the 1994 congressional elections. "The people who were against it said, 'I'm going to kill you. I wouldn't vote for you if you were the last candidate on earth,'" Clinton said. The former president then explained what he sees as the differences in viewpoints between big city and suburban residents. "If you live in a city and you think you need protection of your home, you're way better off with a shotgun than an assault weapon," he said. "Trust me. It's not even close." h t t p://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/04/30/bill-clinton-youre-way-better-off-with-a-shotgun-than-an-assault-weapon-trust-me/ http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=70a_1367405969 LostRothschild Bill Clinton: &quot;You're Way Better Off With a Shotgun Than an Assault Weapon...Trust Me&quot; 2, 2nd, second, amendment, gun, firearm, rights, constitution, tyranny, freedom Thu, 18 Apr 2013 20:28:49 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=81e_1366331073 Setright Anyone who has heard or seen Prince Saudi Al-Faysal recently can tell immediately that he has had a few too many. The scrawny, scraggly, muttering, stuttering, lisping, slobbering, wobbling scion of a tribe of flea-bitten desert bandits has now come out of the closet. On Tuesday, while having discussions at the White House, the prince who is known as "Foo-Foo" to his good friends and "Fo u-Fou" to his enemies, came out of the East Portico and delivered a torrent of incomprehensible drivel to an aghast audience of seasoned reporters, who, are known for their own "hard-drinking" ways. Saud Al-Faysal seen here trying to keep his eyes open during a press conference in Washington D.C. His American minder had to be around him 24 hours a day to keep him from falling off his chair or bed. He had to be helped at the toilet, too. During his remarks, listeners could make out sentences by listening very carefully. Sam Grayhoof, reporter for the Juneau Express and Mail, remarked: "He seemed depressed. He kept saying things like: `Assad must go', and `Assad won't go' and `Assad is a Persian cat', `Assad is a Russian weasel', and `Assad, Assad, Assad....'. It was really embarrassing." We asked Waldo "Fuzzy" Schweinsteiger of "Von Runstedt's Gasthaus" on 48th St. in Manhattan what he thought of the prince's appearance on Tuesday. "Well, it certainly is either 911, taxi cab or EMS. The guy was plastered! Definitely no more booze. 86 the guy!" Embarrassing? Saudi Arabia has been pelted with denunciations during the last 6 months after beheading two citizens for sorcery, dismissing a case of a father who raped his daughter and killed her, deporting Yemenis for no reason, allowing women to drive motor scooters but only in nunneries, deporting 3 men to the UAE because they were too handsome, and even more silliness unworthy of our humble blog. But, now this! Professor Iain Snortley of Georgetown's prestigious School of Protocol said the following: "Oh, this must come at the very worst time for the Arabians. Being pilloried by literally everyone is bad enough. But having a member of the royal family now exposed as a hypocritical lush, wino and professional goofball, is really too much to bear. I recommend the royal family retire with King Juan Carlos to some island off the coast of Tasmania." We asked Dr. Coward Muldoon of the George Washington University Hospital's Alcohol Control Centre what he saw in the prince's behavior. He answered: "Oh, he's very far gone. The stuttering, rolling of eyeballs, the foul odor of putrefacting bourbon. It's very typical of what we call 'Aboriginal Addictive Moronic Psychosis'. He's just a wasted street Arab - a drunk! Not very long to live!" According to acquaintances of the prince, his favorite tipple is a Saudi Arabian bathtub gin called "Waddi' Ahlak" ( http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=81e_1366331073 Setright SAUDI ARABIA'S PRINCE FAISAL FIGHTING CHRONIC ALCOHOLISM AND WEIGHT LOSS; EMBATTLED SAUDI REGIME FIGHTING TO KEEP FACE WHILE ITS GOVERNMENT FLOATS IN World News, Middle East, Syria, Saudia Arabia Tue, 09 Apr 2013 23:55:39 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c70_1365565903 Setright The militant rebels operating in Syria posted a video online that showed a mysterious scene of a man looking as a "jihadist" Chinese. In the footage, the gunman fired three shots in the air before stating that he "read books of the Muslim Brothers after which he decided to go to Libya and Syria to topple Assad." 'Youssef' spoke Mandarin and the video subtitles recalled his Chinese name which helped determining his origin; he might be from the very conservative tribe of Hun He called on China to stop supporting Assad otherwise it will incur the wrath of Muslims. Al-Nusra Front terrorists said the video was" a message dedicated for one-billion people of China," the state which effectively rejected any military intervention in Syria and urged dialogue incessantly. In remarks he made in this regard, Bruce Hoffmain, a terrorism expert at the University of Georgetown, said he was surprised by a man of this tribe converting to Islam. The video ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmJGAg8pekQ ) hasn't been verified but it seems staging the landscapes of northern Syria. The Chinese was shown under Al-Qaeda banner. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c70_1365565903 Setright Al-Nusra Urges Chinese for Jihad against Assad, Threatens Beijing Syria, Chinese, Jihadi, Tue, 26 Mar 2013 14:10:19 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=abd_1364321317 grimghost This energized crowd was here to send the Obama administration a message for the beginning of his second term. Ibrahim Oweiss a former Georgetown University professor says enough is enough when it comes to US aid for Israel. The protest was organized by Jewish Voice for Peace, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, and Washington Interfaith Alliance for Middle East Peace. But other well-known groups such as Code Pink also attended. They gathered in Farragut Square to bring attention to the billions of dollars the US gives Israel and continuing reports of civil rights abuses against Palestinians and other minority ethnic groups. Conservative estimates from the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs put US' aid to Israel at 123 Billion dollars since the late 19-40s. But the report says it's difficult to determine the exact dollar amount because of indirect funding through various U.S. agencies. http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/01/20/284536/protesters-slam-us-govt-for-providing-support-to-israel/ http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=abd_1364321317 grimghost Protesters slam US support to Israel middle east,protest,israel,tax money,foreign aide, Sat, 23 Mar 2013 12:50:25 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=42e_1364056630 givemeadamnname Bruce Riedel, former CIA officer wrote a report about an "official british report" which pushed for war with Iran. Cenk Uygur breaks down just how ridiculous this report is and how similar this is to the lead up to the war with Iraq. Bruce Riedel, a Senior Fellow in foreign policy at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy of the Brookings Institution, a Right wing Zionist, Neo-Con front propagating lies and propaganda to get Americans to keep sending their sons and daughters off to fight 'Wars for Wall Street and Israel.' Reidel is a skillful liar, telling fibs about Pakistan to give OBOMBA and the Pentagon the decades long war the Neo-Cons and pro Israeli lobby loonies dream of. Riedel is currently a senior fellow in the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution, and a professor at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. He also serves as a senior adviser at Albright Stonebridge Group. All Right wing groups that are pushing for War in the middle east against Iran. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=42e_1364056630 givemeadamnname Neo-Cons preparing for WAR with Iran as they did with Iraq Israel, AIPAC,WAR, Thu, 21 Mar 2013 13:36:04 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=64d_1363887106 siyavosh2002 When the NAACP began challenging Jim Crow laws across the South, it knew that, in the battle for public opinion, the particular plaintiffs mattered as much as the facts of the case. The group meticulously selected the people who would elicit both sympathy and outrage, who were pristine in form and character. And they had to be ready to step forward at the exact moment when both public sentiment and the legal system might be swayed. That's how Oliver Brown, a hard-working welder and assistant pastor in Topeka, Kan. , became the lead plaintiff in the lawsuit that would obliterate the separate but equal doctrine. His daughter, whose third-grade innocence posed a searing rebuff to legal segregation, became its face. Nearly 60 years after that Supreme Court victory, which changed the nation, conservatives freely admit they have stolen that page from the NAACP's legal playbook as they attempt to roll back many of the civil rights group's landmark triumphs. In 23-year-old Abigail Noel Fisher they've put forward their version of the perfect plaintiff to challenge the use of race in college admissions decisions. Publicly, Fisher and her supporters, chief among them the conservative activist who conceived of the case, have worked to make Fisher the symbol of racial victimization in modern America. As their narratives goes, she did everything right. She worked hard, received good grades, and rounded out her high school years with an array of extracurricular activities. But she was cheated, they say, her dream snatched away by a university that closed its doors to her because she had been born the wrong color: White. The daughter of suburban Sugar Land, Texas , played the cello. Since the second grade, she said, she dreamed of carrying on the family tradition by joining her sister and father among the ranks of University of Texas at Austin alumni. And the moment for her to lend her name to the lawsuit might never be riper: The Supreme Court has seated its most conservative bench since the 1930s . The Court is expected to issue a decision any week now in what is considered one of the most important civil rights cases in years. On a YouTube video posted by Edward Blum , a 1973 University of Texas graduate whose nonprofit organization is bankrolling the lawsuit, she is soft-spoken, her strawberry blond hair tucked behind one ear. Not even a swipe of lip gloss adorns her girlish face. "There were people in my class with lower grades who weren't in all the activities I was in, who were being accepted into UT, and the only other difference between us was the color of our skin," she says. "I was taught from the time I was a little girl that any kind of discrimination was wrong. And for an institution of higher learning to act this way makes no sense to me. What kind of example does it set for others?" It's a deeply emotional argument delivered by an earnest young woman, one that's been quoted over and over again. Except there's a problem. The claim that race cost Fisher her spot at the University of Texas isn't really true. In the hundreds of pages of legal filings, Fisher's lawyers spend almost no time arguing that Fisher would have gotten into the university but for her race. If you're confused, it is no doubt in part because of how Blum, Fisher and others have shaped the dialogue as the case worked its way to the country's top court. Journalists and bloggers have written dozens of articles on the case, including profiles of Fisher and Blum. News networks have aired panel after panel about the future of affirmative action. Yet for all the front-page attention, angry debate and exchanges before the justices, some of the more fundamental elements of the case have been little reported. Race probably had nothing to do with the University of Texas's decision to deny admission to Abigail Fisher. In 2008, the year Fisher sent in her application, competition to get into the crown jewel of the Texas university system was stiff. Students entering through the university's Top 10 program - a mechanism that granted automatic admission to any teen who graduated in the upper 10 percent of his or her high school class - claimed 92 percent of the in-state spots . Fisher said in news reports that she hoped for the day universities selected students "solely based on their merit and if they work hard for it." But Fisher failed to graduate in the top 10 percent of her class, meaning she had to compete for the limited number of spaces up for grabs. She and other applicants who did not make the cut were evaluated based on two scores . One allotted points for grades and test scores. The other, called a personal achievement index, awarded points for two required essays, leadership, activities, service and "special circumstances." Those included socioeconomic status of the student or the student's school, coming from a home with a single parent or one where English wasn't spoken. And race. Those two scores, combined, determine admission. Even among those students, Fisher did not particularly stand out. Court records show her grade point average (3.59) and SAT scores (1180 out of 1600) were good but not great for the highly selective flagship university . The school's rejection rate that year for the remaining 841 openings was higher than the turn-down rate for students trying to get into Harvard. As a result, university officials claim in court filings that even if Fisher received points for her race and every other personal achievement factor, the letter she received in the mail still would have said no. It's true that the university, for whatever reason, offered provisional admission to some students with lower test scores and grades than Fisher. Five of those students were black or Latino. Forty-two were white. Neither Fisher nor Blum mentioned those 42 applicants in interviews. Nor did they acknowledge the 168 black and Latino students with grades as good as or better than Fisher's who were also denied entry into the university that year. Also left unsaid is the fact that Fisher turned down a standard UT offer under which she could have gone to the university her sophomore year if she earned a 3.2 GPA at another Texas university school in her freshman year. In an interview last month, Blum agreed Fisher's credentials and circumstances make it difficult to argue - as he and his supporters have so ardently in public - that but for her race Fisher would have been a Longhorn. "There are some Anglo students who had lower grades than Abby who were admitted also," Blum told ProPublica. "Litigation like this is not a black and white paradigm." Blum started his one-man nonprofit, the Project on Fair Representation , in 2005. The organization is funded by deep-pocketed conservatives to, according to its website, influence "jurisprudence, public policy, and public attitudes regarding race and ethnicity" in voting, education, contracting and employment. To do so, Blum - who is not a lawyer - helps arrange pro bono representation to fight race-based policies that were meant to address inequalities. According to a Reuters profile , Blum has brought at least a dozen lawsuits against such programs and laws - including four that made it to the Supreme Court. He has two on the current docket, Fisher and the Shelby County, Ala., case challenging a key provision of the Voting Rights Act . In the Fisher case, while the young woman may have lent her name to the lawsuit, the case before the Court has very little to do with her. Her name appears just five times in the thousands of words that make up the body of the complaint. She has already gone on to graduate from Louisiana State University, her second choice, and is working in finance at a firm in Austin. Asked by a news reporter what harm she had suffered, she cited only her inability to tap into UT's alumni network and possibly missing out on a better first job. If she wins, Fisher seeks only the return of her application fee and housing deposit - a grand total of $100 in damages. So while the Fisher case has been billed as a referendum on affirmative action, its backers have significantly grander ambitions: They seek to make the case a referendum on the 14th Amendment itself . At issue is whether the Constitution's equal protection clause, drafted by Congress during Reconstruction to ensure the rights of black Americans, also prohibits the use of race to help them overcome the nation's legacy of racism. The Supreme Court has never ruled that the Constitution bars any and all laws and government programs that consider race. But Blum and his supporters, seeing an opening with the current Court, seek to overturn more than a century of precedent. The true crux of the suit is not Fisher's failed application, but that government officials violate the constitutional rights of white Americans when they consider race in a way that might help African-Americans and Latinos. "An argument can be made that it is simply impossible to tease out down to the last student who would have been admitted, and who would have not been admitted, had they been a different skin color," Blum said. "What we know is skin color is weighed and ethnicity is weighed by the University of Texas in their admissions process, and that alone is enough to strike down the plan." Blum and his supporters say the reasoning is simple. The Constitution is colorblind and the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment prohibits the government from treating people differently because of race. It's an argument first successfully championed by the NAACP and other civil rights groups, most notably in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case, in which the Supreme Court declared the notion of "separate but equal" to be a fallacy. "In its history, colorblindness has this progressive, anti-racist push behind it," said Ian Haney-L'opez , a constitutional scholar at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. But following the Brown decision, the very groups that had ardently - and violently - defended laws mandating separation by race used the notion of a colorblind Constitution to challenge court orders to integrate schools. "They began to say, yes, the Constitution is colorblind, and so the state cannot distinguish between races when it tried to remedy segregation," he said. As a result of Southern resistance, it would take six years after Brown before 6-year old Ruby Bridges , wearing crisp white socks and black-bowed shoes, became the first black student to attend a white elementary school in the South. The image of the diminutive brown-skinned girl who needed U.S. marshals to protect her from an angry white mob inspired Norman Rockwell to preserve the moment in a painting that now hangs in the White House occupied by the first black president. Initially, the Supreme Court unambiguously knocked those arguments down. In a 1971 ruling , it said that government could not mandate colorblindness when doing so would defeat the integration requirement of Brown v. Board of Education. A few years later, in a ruling on affirmative action , Justice Harry Blackmum wrote, "In order to get beyond racism, we must first take race into account. There is no other way." But as the Supreme Court's make-up has grown more conservative, it has taken up a steady stream of so-called reverse discrimination cases , in which white plaintiffs have argued that race-specific measures born of the civil rights movement discriminate against white Americans and violate the 14th Amendment. Supreme Court decisions have eroded programs and laws that use race to remedy inequalities, but not eliminated them altogether. And in a 2003 opinion written by centrist Sandra Day O'Connor, the justices narrowly upheld affirmative action in college admissions when it is the only means to ensure diversity. But the Court's make-up changed in what scholars consider a significant way when Samuel Alito, considered the third most conservative Supreme Court justice since 1937, replaced O'Connor in 2006. Since then, several justices have made their constitutional disdain for race-conscious programs known. In a controversial 2007 decision, Chief Justice John Roberts sent a clear message when he used the equal protection argument at play in Brown v. Board of Education to strike down voluntary desegregation plans in schools. Evoking a colorblind Constitution, Roberts said, "The way to stop discriminating on the basis of race, is to stop discriminating on the basis of race." And just last month during oral arguments over the constitutionality of a key aspect of the Voting Rights Act, Justice Antonin Scalia derisively called what's considered the most successful civil rights law in history a "racial entitlement." Public opinion on race has changed over time as well. In the 1950s, surveys show, most white Americans believed that black Americans faced substantial discrimination but that they themselves experienced little. Today, despite gaping disparities between black and white Americans in income, education, health care, homeownership, employment and college admissions, a majority of white Americans now believe they are just as likely, or more likely, to face discrimination as black Americans. Blum chose the University of Texas to mount what could be a decisive challenge to affirmative action in college admissions because it already had what was regarded as a "race-neutral" process - the Top 10 program. Since many Texas high schools remain segregated, taking the top 10 percent of students from black and Latino high schools ensured a substantial population of students of color at the UT. As a consequence, Blum believed he could challenge whether the additional use of race to fill out the entering class passed constitutional muster. To get standing in court, Blum needed a victim. That's when he started looking for a version of the Brown family, someone who could represent the arguable hurt caused when public officials used race. This approach, too, mirrors an NAACP tactic from half a century ago. Then, knowing the Supreme Court was unlikely to throw out segregation in one fell swoop, the civil rights group brought a narrower challenge to segregated school facilities first. One of those cases, ironically, targeted the same university as Blum - the University of Texas at Austin. The university, which had been closed to black students since its founding, denied the law school application of Herman Marion Sweatt because the state constitution required that black and white students attend separate schools. Because Texas had no black law school, the NAACP sued, arguing that the state violated the constitutional mandate to provide equal facilities for black and white students. The Supreme Court ruled that the hastily put together black law school created to avoid admitting Sweatt could not possibly be equal. It ordered Texas to admit Sweatt as its first black student in 1950. That suit launched the stone that would shatter separate but equal just four years later when the Court struck down segregation in schools in Brown. Blum and his supporters hope to use the Fisher case, and the 14th Amendment challenge to the Voting Rights Act that Blum is also behind, in the same way. According to Blum, the Constitution sees affirmative action policies - in college, in contracting, in employment - and Jim Crow laws as twin evils. "I don't see the distinction," he said. But several constitutional scholars interviewed for this piece dispute this notion. Neil Siegel of Duke University called this interpretation of the 14th Amendment "perverse." Georgetown law professor Girardeau A. Spann called it "discriminatory." While the 14th Amendment doesn't mention race, the drafters went on to pass race-specific legislation aimed at helping former slaves and other black Americans overcome more than a century of racial oppression. Erwin Chemerinsky, founding dean of the University of California , Irvine School of Law, said that the concept of colorblindness holds great rhetorical appeal but that "there is no basis for concluding that the 14th Amendment equal protection clause requires colorblindness." In drafting the 14th Amendment, he said, Congress recognized "an enormous difference between a white majority disadvantaging minorities and a white majority acting to remedy past discrimination." Conservatives challenging these types of programs purport to champion the legacy of the civil rights movement, Haney-Lopez said, but the historical roots of their efforts are much more cynical. "I think that is incredibly important that people realize that today's proponents of colorblindness pretend that they are the heirs to Thurgood Marshall and John Marshall Harlan," he said. "But that is a lie. They are the heirs of Southern resistance to integration. And the colorblindness arguments that they use come directly from the Southern efforts to defeat Brown v. Board of Education." Ilya Shapiro, a senior constitutional studies fellow at the Cato Institute, which filed an amicus brief supporting Fisher, thinks otherwise. "I am not going to speak to anyone else's motives. It is unfair to paint people with the Jim Crow brush because they have those kinds of arguments," he said. "I don't like people being judged based on the color of their skin." If a program "treats people different because one has a different skin color, I find that offensive and I think the Constitution does as well." But when asked why the drafters created programs targeted to black Americans if they did not intend the Constitution to allow the government to use race to help minority groups, Shapiro said, "It was a curious period." At the same time Congress drafted the equal protection clause, he said, it also "voted for segregated schools in the District of Columbia." That example is the very same one that segregationists Strom Thurmond and Richard Brevard Russell used when they drafted the 1956 Southern Manifesto urging officials to resist the Supreme Court's use of the equal protection clause to overturn school segregation. The impact of a ruling that bans all racial considerations by universities, employers and governments "could have devastating impact on the ability to overcome past equalities," Siegel said. Few experts think Blum and his supporters are apt to win that big a victory in the Fisher case. And so he will likely be on the hunt again for another case, and another perfect plaintiff. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=64d_1363887106 siyavosh2002 Race Didn't Cost Abigail Fisher Her Spot at the University of Texas Texas, University of Texas, UT, Supreme court, 14th Amendment, race Tue, 05 Mar 2013 18:19:06 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=523_1362524081 dakidd123 Several policemen were Sunday in hot water in connection with the brutal beating of several persons including a woman and her young child on a trail to the gold bearing area of Marudi, Southern Rupununi. At least two men and the woman and her child were taken to Aishalton Hospital for treatment, according to Vice President of the Amerindian Peoples Association (APA), Tony James. Telephone contact with that remote interior area is virtually impossible. Demerara Waves Online News (www.demwaves.com) was told that officials were meeting with residents at Aishalton to discuss the incident. Police Commissioner, Leroy Brummel said the Divisional Commander has been instructed to carry out a thorough probe. Policemen senior to those allegedly involved in the incident are conducting the investigation after which the policemen who were on the operation would be brought out to Georgetown and possibly placed on close arrest. "It doesn't look good. From what I am hearing, one of the child's feet might have been broken," Brummel told Demerara Waves Online News (www.demwaves.com). The video, which was apparently secretly recorded, can be seen here. The persons, who were engaged in the physical encounter with the police, were alllegedly blocking the trail to prevent Mines Officers from the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) and police from continuing "Operation El Dorado" to rid the area of illegal miners. The APA official explained that the area was previously assigned to Vanessa Mines and now Romanex for several decades but little or no work was being done and the concession was left virtually idle. Eventually, according to the former Toshao, coastlanders entered the area with excavators and other types of equipment to mine for the precious yellow metal. James said that from what he has observed the area is a free-for-all and there is no monitoring of people entering the Amerindian settlement. Well-placed sources said President Donald Ramotar's recent visit to the area where he promised to allocate a number of the illegal miners concessions might have exacerbated the situation. Though the sources were sympathetic with the level of brutality meted out to the the persons, the officials noted that the miners were engaged in widespread illegal activities by mining gold and smuggling it to neighbouring Brazil rather than selling it to the government and paying the required taxes. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=523_1362524081 dakidd123 Police Brutalize Indigenous Mother and Child in Guyana (Marudi Mountains) guyana, police, idle no more, indigenous, native americans, guyanese, brutality, marudi, marudi mountains, gold, mining, Tue, 05 Mar 2013 08:44:37 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=552_1362490871 HumanRightsAlert A petition was first falsely registered as an "appeal", even after protest. After the fact, the docket was altered and now it shows a "petition". On the one hand, the court took a responsive action. On the other hand, the case documents how the docket of the Supreme Court of the State of Israel can be altered after the fact, with no notice to the parties, and with no way for the public to discern that the docket was altered, when, by whom, and by what authority. Altered online records of the Supreme Court of the State of Israel in Zernik v Fischer (7650/12). A record, filed on November 5, 2012, was listed originally as "Appeal", a false registration that the Court refused to correct. Now it is listed as a "Petition". Stanley Fischer, Governor of Bank of Israel, showing off his newly acquired Israeli ID in 2005. Petition in the Israeli High Court of Justice alleged that Stanley Fischer exchanged his loyalty to the State of Israel and its laws with loyalty to another nation and its laws and/or loyalty to financial institutions and their interests. FATCA (Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act) is a US law, which fancies to subject any bank, worldwide, to the US government, force banks to report any financial transactions by any "US Person", and serve as the US government's tax collector under threat of serious sanctions. View as PDF: http://www.scribd.com/doc/128638635/ View on blog: http://inproperinla.blogspot.co.il/2013/03/13-03-04-press-release-fatca-stanley.html Jerusalem, March 4 - the petition Zernik v Fischer (7650/12) in the Supreme Court of the State of Israel sought to compel Governor of the Bank of Israel Stanley Fischer to establish banking regulation pursuant to the laws of the State of Israel. The case originated in the unconditional submission of Stanley Fischer to the US law FATCA, under which banks in Israel were permitted to fabricate and enforce restrictions on accounts of "US Persons", under the color of law. The petition claimed that Stanley Fischer exchanged his loyalty to the State of Israel and its law with loyalty to another nation and its law and/or loyalty to financial institutions and their interests. The Supreme Court initially refused to register the filing of petition in its case management system as such. Later, after protest, it was registered as "appeal filed". After the Chief Clerk of the Court refused to correct the false registration of process, Petitioner Zernik gave notice to the Chief Clerk that the Petitioner no longer deemed the Court file 7650/12, worthy of any further filing. Consequently the case was dismissed for lack of action. The false registration was altered after the fact, and now the system shows "petition filed". No notice was given to the parties of such change in registration of the case. Moreover, the system now does permit the public to discern that the docket was altered, when, by whom, and by what authority. The Human Rights Alert (NGO) submission to the Human Rights Council of the United Nations also documents that Ms Sarah Lifschitz, who has been occupying the office of Chief Clerk of the Supreme Court, holds no lawful appointment record as Chief Clerk. The Human Rights Alert (NGO) submission, pertaining to the State of Israel, was incorporated into the Human Rights Council UPR Professional Staff Report (2013) with a note referring to: "lack of integrity in the electronic records of the Supreme Court, the district courts and the detainees courts in Israel". The Human Rights Alert (NGO) submission, pertaining to the United States was incorporated into the Human Rights Council UPR Professional Staff Report (2010) with a note referring to: "corruption of the courts and the legal profession and discrimination by law enforcement in California." Joseph Zernik, PhD, of Human Rights Alert (NGO) also published and presented in various international scholarly conferences evidence of the tight link between corruption of the courts, failing banking regulation, and the financial crisis. Combined, conduct of Stanley Fischer, Bank of Israel, and the Supreme Court must raise concern regarding integrity of Israeli banking regulation, moreover, regarding integrity and stability of the Israeli financial system in general. Links: 12-11-08 Zernik v Fischer (7650/12) in the High Court of Justice of the State of Israel - petition to compel the Governor of the Bank of Israel to perform his duties - online public access system records http://es.scribd.com/doc/112547822/ 13-03-04 Zernik v Fischer (7650/12) in the Supreme Court of the State of Israel- altered online records, downloaded on March 4, 2013 http://www.scribd.com/doc/128628823/ 12-09-04 J. Zernik, "Design and Operation of the Electronic Record Systems of the US Courts are Linked to Failing Banking Regulation", Data Analytics 1:83-93 (2012) http://www.scribd.com/doc/104880125/ http://thinkmind.org/index.php?view=article&amp;articleid=data_analytics_2012_3_50_60059 12-05-10 Human Right Alert's Appendix I to Submission; 2013 UPR of the State of Israel: Integrity, or lack thereof, in the electronic record systems in the courts of the State of Israel http://www.scribd.com/doc/108663259/ https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B8Aa2xQGbmk5cjNxd2szX05oMkU 10-10-01 United Nations Human Rights Council Records for 2010 Review (UPR) of Human Rights in the United States, where Human Rights Alert (NGO) submission was incorporated with a note referring to "corruption of the courts and the legal profession and discrimination by law enforcement in California." http://www.scribd.com/doc/38566837/ http://www.scribd.com/doc/108663259/ http://www.scribd.com/doc/118152545/ _____________ Joseph Zernik, PhD &lt; josephzernik@humanrightsalertngo.org&gt; Sent from "1984", Iceland-based Internet Service Provider _____________ Human Rights Alert (NGO) * United States - the 2010 submission of Human Rights Alert to the Human Rights Council (HRC) of the United Nations 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." 10-10-01 United Nations Human Rights Council Records for 2010 Review (UPR) of Human Rights in the United States, where Human Rights Alert (NGO) submission was incorporated with a note referring to "corruption of the courts and the legal profession and discrimination by law enforcement in California." http://www.scribd.com/doc/38566837/ * State of Israel - the 2012 submission of Human Rights Alert to the HRC, titled, "Integrity, or lack thereof, of the electronic record systems of the courts of the State of Israel', is scheduled for review in January 2013. 12-06-04 Human Right Alert's Submission; 2013 UPR of the State of Israel: Integrity, or lack thereof, of the electronic record systems of the courts of the State of Israel http://www.scribd.com/doc/92826212/ 12-05-10 Appendix I to Human Right Alert's Submission; 15th UPR - State of Israel: Integrity, or lack thereof, of the electronic record systems of the courts of the State of Israe http://www.scribd.com/doc/108663259/ 12-07-18 Human Right Alert's Appendix II to Submission; 2013 UPR of the State of Israel: Integrity, or lack thereof, in the electronic record systems in the courts of the State of Israel - Additional Responses by National Authorities/Experts, Re: ComSign, LTD - sole certifier and hacker of the digital signatures of the State of Israel http://www.scribd.com/doc/108662869/ _____ Human Rights Alert online: http://inproperinla.blogspot.com/ Flag Counter: 145 http://www.scribd.com/Human_Rights_Alert Total Reads: 1,007,042 Followers: 1,640 http://www.scribd.com/SeyagLizhuyotHaadam Total Reads: 45,147 http://twitter.com/inproperinla http://www.liveleak.com/user/jz12345 Total Item Views: 664,803+ 500,065 http://www.examiner.com/x-38742-LA-Business-Headlines-Examiner http://www.facebook.com/joseph.zernik Facebook Friends: 5,000 http://www.opednews.com/author/author81971.html http://www.opednews.com/author/author42343.html ____________________________ 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=552_1362490871 HumanRightsAlert 13-03-04 Press Release: FATCA, Stanley Fischer, and altered records of the Supreme Court of the State of Israel FATCA, Stanley Fischer, Bank of Israel, Supreme Court Thu, 28 Feb 2013 21:13:35 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9cb_1362103497 mutterfudder I really don't care. I just wanted to be first breaking the news. February 28, 2013 - For weeks, Chavez has not been heard from, following a series of cancer treatments in Cuba. Earlier reports from Havana said he was fighting a respiratory infection that had developed after his fourth cancer surgery.Chavez' respiratory problem - referred to officially as "respiratory deficiency" - reportedly was due to a severe lung infection. Chavez' respiratory problem - referred to officially as "respiratory deficiency" - reportedly was due to a severe lung infection. Chavez was first diagnosed with cancer in June 2011. Castro sent an open letter to Venezuelan Vice President Nicolas Maduro that was published in the Cuban Communist Party's Central Committee newspaper, Granma, reminiscing about when he first met Chavez in 1994.The key words in the 350-word article were Castro's observation that "however painful (Chavez's) absence, all of you will be capable of continuing his work." Chavez may have died two weeks ago, when further public information about him stopped, according to Venezuelan opposition and intelligence sources. However, the sources concede they have no confirmation. Chavez, who had won re-election, was due to be sworn in for another presidential term in mid-January. His absence created a mini-constitutional crisis Opposition leaders have argued that since Chavez wasn't sworn in for his new term, the Venezuelan Supreme Court should determine who is president. The Spanish daily ABC had cited unnamed sources who say Chavez had been put into an induced coma and placed on life support.Dr.Michael Pishvaian of the Georgetown University's Lombardi Cancer Center in Washington, D.C., said respiratory infections could require antibiotics and supplemental oxygen. "It could be a very ominous sign," Pishvaian said, indicating that Chavez may have been on life support. Other sources indicate that once put on life support following the type of cancer surgery Chavez had, along with respiratory complications, the chance of survival is slim. Recent comments by members of Chavez's family said he was stable, although Maduro insisted the Venezuelan president had "enormous strength." However, a doctor who is in contact with Chavez's medical team said several weeks ago the Venezuelan president wasn't responding to antibiotics, had a constant fever and hadn't eaten solid food for weeks. The doctor, Jose Rafael Marquina of Florida, said Chavez then was on life support and that the medical team was "only prolonging unnecessary suffering." Marquina is an opponent of Chavez. Chavez hasn't been seen in public since his last surgery in Havana Dec. 11. Until now, the government has been silent on the latest rumors of Chavez's death, even though he had designated Maduro to succeed him. Cuban officials also may be withholding information because of concern they would lose the significant influence they've acquired in Venezuela through Castro's close relationship with Chavez. Since there is no record that Chavez was sworn in for his new presidential term, the Venezuelan constitution requires the government to call for new elections. Opposition leaders are demanding that the government provide more information about the condition of Chavez and want new elections. U.S. officials say they are watching developments closely but would have no comment on reports the 58-year-old Venezuelan president had died. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9cb_1362103497 mutterfudder Is Chavez is dead? Hugo Chavez Sun, 04 Nov 2012 17:41:57 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=85e_1352068281 dcdirectactionnews On the 3ed of November, animal rights activsts returned to Georgetown to protest at the new location of Intermix, a swanky boutique notorious for selling fur garments and other dead animal products. Within minutes police outnumbered the small group of protesters, and at one point acted like they were going to tackle someone for using a bullhorn. The cops backed down in the end, but that first cop appeared on the scene all puffed up with himself and blustering. Meanwhile the wealthy passers-by in Georgetown had mixed reactions. Many supported the protest and accepted fliers, but a few hostile onlookere shouted back at protesters, sometimes from as far away as the opposite side of M street. Meanwhile, the store, which looked closed, was verified to be open by the presence of a couple people moving around inside. The cops claimed they were afraid to go out the door while protesters were present and had thus complained about being trapped in the store. Rather funny that a seller of fur would call the cops to complain about being trapped, when you think about where fur comes from! http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=85e_1352068281 dcdirectactionnews Fur protest erupts in <span class="highlight">Georgetown</span> Animal Rights, fur, Intermix, Georgetown Fri, 02 Nov 2012 02:23:15 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=70d_1351836960 dcdirectactionnews After protesters finished the Halloween sweep of residential protests on Halloween in DC ( http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=408_1351809861) , they attempted to withdraw through the heart of Georgetown, only to run into police pens used to keep the partygoers from taking over the streets they way they used to in the old days. Cops read out the first of three warnings required for a mass arrest at 10:41 PM. This could have caused hundreds, even thousands of ordinary Halloween partygoers who were not part of the protest and did not know police procedeure to panic. That could have caused a deadly stampede like incidents in concerts or arenas where something went wrong. This time everyone was lucky. Either the partiers did not hear the warning or did not take the cops seriously, and no stampede ensued,the protesters themselves were able to walk away. Had things gone bad, the DC Police could have had blood on their hands. Not by brutality, just by stupidity. A dense crowd of civilians is NOT the place for police to engage protesters! http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=70d_1351836960 dcdirectactionnews DC Police risk stampede with threat to protesters embedded in <span class="highlight">Georgetown</span> Halloween crowd Halloweem, Halloween 2012, Georgetown, MPD, police, DC Police