Dictator to Seek Treatment in US Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh is heading to the United States for medical treatment after asking his people to forgive him for any "shortcomings" during his 33-year rule. A U.S. State Department release noted that Saleh's request to travel to the United States had been approved for the sole purpose of medical treatment, and that his stay will be for a limited time. The anti-Saleh protesters reject granting Saleh full immunity from prosecution. Yemen's parliament approved the immunity as part of a Gulf Cooperation Council-backed deal to encourage the president to leave office.
Meanwhile in the US the President Must Show Papers In a surprising ruling on Friday 1, 20, 2012, a Georgia state administrative judge declined to quash a subpoena directing president Barack Obama to attend a hearing Thursday at the Fulton County courthouse on a challenge to strike him from the Georgia ballot this fall on claims he is not a U.S. citizen. [...]
The challenge is made in Georgia, where Troy Davis was put to death in spite of too much doubt about his conviction, last year. It is seems like in Georgia doubt rules. |
posted Dec 16, 2011 8:12 PM by Anibal Show
A middle-aged woman in South Carolina has contracted the state’s first case of human rabies in more than 50 years, health officials said on Friday.
The woman lives in Sumter County, in the middle of the state, officials said.
The last cases of human rabies in South Carolina were in December 1959, when an elderly Florence County man was bitten by a dog, and in March 1958 when an elderly Clarendon County woman was bitten by a fox, reports Reuters.
ON THE OTHER HAND
Five Georgia men have challenged President Barack Obama’s inclusion on next year’s presidential ballot, with at least some citing an oft-discredited theory that Obama is not eligible for office because the Constitution says that a president must be a “natural born citizen.”
Georgia holds its primary next year on March 6. Obama's name will appear on the Democratic primary ballot, even though he has no challengers.
The challengers are being represented in their efforts by attorney Mark Hatfield, who is also a Republican state lawmaker from Waycross, according to the AJC. |
posted Dec 8, 2011 2:01 PM by Anibal Show
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On April 2011, neighbors from a Martinez subdivision said they're concerned about a nearby school's plan to put up stadium lighting.
Augusta Preparatory School joined by a number of Spring Lakes residents at a meeting.
They addressed the Columbia County commission to try to stop those stadium lights from being installed.
At the end no lights for the Augusta Prep stadium and rain brought more headaches to residents in Spring Lakes neighborhood.
A new storm water drain supposed to be completed before the winter rains started moving in.
The county fired the contractor because of the late work.
Taxpayers are asking if the failed construction company will reimburse the money to the county or if the construction company owners will join Hugo Diaz in jail.
Hugo Diaz never was indicted for leaving work incomplete, specially when taxpayers money is involved. Sheriff Whittle should: 1- Free Hugo Diaz so he can finish the storm water drainage project. 2- Put in jail the commissioners for toying with taxpayers money. 3- Go after the construction company owners for undermining contracts. 4- All of the above. Make your request directly to the Sheriff's Office. **** *** *** En abril del 2011 vecinos de Martinez estuvieron preocupados ante el plan de Augusta Prep en instalar luces en su estadio. Representantes del colegio privado y vecindarios de Spring Lakes se reunieron con las autoridades del condado de Columbia y en la oportunidad los vecinos plantearon que no se instalen las luces porque iban a ser muy potentes y quienes fueran al estadio podrían invadir la privacidad de los residentes.
Al final no hubo luces para el Augusta Prep pero ni que fuera la maldición de luciérnagas, Spring Lakes quedó inundado días atrás con las primeras lluvias invernales. Resulta que la constructora encargada de erigir un drenaje quedó corto de tiempo. Los comisionados del condado rescindieron el contrato con la firma y ahora están buscando volver con la contratista inicial y llegar a algún acuerdo para terminar el proyecto.
Los contribuyentes ahora se preguntan si la constructora devolverá el dinero de los impuestos utilizado para la obra de drenaje o si los dueños acompañarán en la cárcel a Hugo Diaz.
Hugo Diaz fue apresado el 4 de noviembre bajo el cargo de "ayudar a personas indocumentadas" pero no por atrazado en su trabajo y menos con dinero de los contribuyentes. El comisario Whittle debería: 1- Liberar a Hugo Diaz para que termine el proyecto de drenaje. 2- Apresar a los comisionados por jugar con el dinero de los contribuyentes. 3- Detener a los dueños de la constructora por no terminar el proyecto a tiempo. 4- Todo lo apuntado en 1, 2 y 3. Los contribuyentes deben reclamar directamente a la oficina del Comisario. ON THE OTHER HAND, THE MAGNOLIA TRACE CONTROVERSY
Jennifer McCray, founder of the opposition group on Facebook: Say No to Magnolia Trace Housing Project gave a presentation that voiced many of the concerns of the residents who were opposing the development and their frustration over being left in the dark by their elected officials.
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posted Dec 5, 2011 2:07 PM by Anibal Show
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The body of 7-year-old Jorelys Rivera was found Monday afternoon in a metal trash bin, the GBI said. Jorelys, who had been missing since Friday, had been severely beaten and sexually assaulted, according to Vernon Keenan, director of the GBI.
Jorelys disappeared around 5 p.m. while she took a break from playing at the River Ridge complex on River Ridge Drive, police said.
She reportedly told other children she was going inside to get drinks, but never returned.
The girl’s mother was inside while the child played outside, but a teenager was supposed to have been watching Jorelys, Lt. Jeff Hall with the Canton police department said Monday.
Anyone with information on the case is urged to call 770-704-7074.
Víctima de la guerra de violencia y odio
El cuerpo de una niña de 7 años, Jorelys Rivera, se halló en un basurero en la tarde de hoy, según informó Georgia Bureou of Investigation.
Jorelys, quien desapareció el viernes, ha sido violentada físicamente y violada, conforme Vernon Keenan, director de GBI.
La niñita desapareció como a las 5 de la tarde cuando tomó un descanso de jugar con sus vecinos del River Ridge en River Ridge Drive.
Según datos policiales ella dijo que iba a retornar luego de tomar algo de beber, pero nunca volvió. Su madre estaba en su departamento mientras Jorelys estaba jugando y debía estar supervisada por una joven.
Testigos o personas que tengan alguna información sobre lo que haya acontecido con la menor pueden llamar al 770-704-7074.
CANTON, Ga. — A 20-year-old maintenance worker, Ryan McCabe Brunn, was arrested in the beating death of a 7-year-old north Georgia girl who was abducted and killed at an apartment complex and her body left in a trash bin, authorities said Wednesday 7.
El 7 de setiembre arrestan a Ryan McCabe Brunn, sospechoso del asesinato de Jorelys Rivera. Trabaja en el mantenimiento del complejo de apartamentos donde la niña vivía.
El entierro de la menor está previsto el fin de semana en Puerto Rico, de donde proviene la familia. La madre ha perdido la custodia de sus otros dos pequeños, de 1 y 4 años desde el viernes pasado, pero fueron recuperados recientemente.
Community Vigil Canton, Georgia. A Coalition of Concerned Citizens, including clergy and representatives of local human, civil, & immigrant rights groups, is calling for Cherokee County community members of all backgrounds, including and especially immigrants residing there, to participate in the community-wide Candle-Light Vigil Remembrance for Jorelys Rivera.
Rich Pellegrino, of the Cobb Immigrant Alliance and a member of this Coalition of Concerned Citizens , stated: "We were all horrified and moved by this sad and tragic event. During this difficult time for Jorelys' family and the community as a whole, we applaud the community members and groups that have organized vigils, supported the family, and assisted in law enforcement efforts, resulting in the arrest of a suspect in the murder. We also applaud the law enforcement agencies and personnel who have worked and continue to work tirelessly to solve this terrible crime. We are also aware that the immigrant community may be reluctant to come forward to participate in the healing of the community, so we are sending this invitation to join us in the healing process beginning with the community-wide Candlelight Vigil Remembrance for Joreyls on Friday night in Heritage Park."
Dr. Aquiles Martinez, of the Mi Familia Center in Canton, also a Coalition member, stated: "This a time for grieving together and showing solidarity. It is a time to encourage our community to come together to heal and prevent this from happening again, and we will seek to provide ongoing education to the community on how to safeguard and protect their children from predators now and in the future."
Jason Ryan, one of the organizers of the Vigil, stated: "We are going to make this happen; this community will join together for this angel and her family. There will also be kiosks to educate the community and provide information on keeping our children safe. I thank all of you for your support.
Keep tuned in to https://www.facebook.com/events/146347572134229/ for more information.
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posted Dec 2, 2011 10:16 PM by Anibal Show
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WHO IS THE TERRORIST, CONGRESS?
The American soil is declared a battlefield and allows the President and all future Chief Executives to order the military to arrest and detain American citizens, innocent or not, without charge or trial.
In other words, if the President signs S 1687 NDAA, Occupy Wall Street protesters or any American could end up arrested and indefinitely locked up by the military without the guaranteed right to due process or a speedy trial.
President Obama presents himself as a Constitutional law professor.
Update: 12-14-11: White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said in a statement that changes lawmakers made to the legislation to accommodate White House concerns were sufficient to avoid a veto. The statement was issued just before the House was expected to vote on the conferenced House-Senate version of the National Defense Authorization Act.
Gobierno al borde de locura
<^> El territorio americano ha sido declarado como campo de batalla por la cámara de Representantes y el Senado con la aprobación de la ley S 1687, NDAA, sigla en inglés.
La ley sancionada por ambas cámaras autoriza al Presidente a ordenar a los militares el arresto de cualquier ciudadano americano, sospechoso o no, sin cargo ni juicio. En otras palabras, si el Presidente promulga la ley los manifestantes del Occupy Wall Street o cualquier persona podrían ser detenidos indefinidamente por los militares sin la garantía constitucional a un proceso judicial diligente ni rápido.
El 14 de diciembre del 2011 el secretario de Prensa de la Casa Blanca, Jay Carney, anunció que el presidente Obama no vetará la ley que salga de ambas cámaras.
YES WE CAN! BE DETAINED FOREVER
De acuerdo a lo expresado en el video la administración del presidente Barack Obama pidió explícitamente que se mantuviera la Sección 1031 de la ley NDAA, por la que cualquier ciudadano americano sería detenido por los militares sin motivo alguno y por tiempo indeterminado en prisiones militares y bajo tribunal militar.
Menos mal el Presidente Obama dice ser profesor de Derecho Constitucional
3-16-11: The three provisions allow for the use of roving wiretaps; national security letters (which let the government access business records, for example) and the "lone wolf" provision which allows the government to monitor suspected targets even if they are not affiliated with any recognized terrorist group. The US Congress moved quickly to approve the bill to extend the Patriot Act, as the provisions must be approved by February 28th. The bill allows for the provisions extension through May 2011.
05/27/11: Minutes before a midnight deadline, President Barack Obama signed into law a four-year extension of post-Sept. 11 powers to search records and conduct roving wiretaps in pursuit of terrorists."It's an important tool for us to continue dealing with an ongoing terrorist threat," Obama said Friday after a meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy. With Obama in France, the White House said the president used an autopen machine that holds a pen and signs his actual signature. It is only used with proper authorization of the president. The roving wiretaps and access to business records are small parts of the USA Patriot Act enacted after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. But unlike most of the act, which is permanent law, those provisions must be renewed periodically because of concerns that they could be used to violate privacy rights. The same applies to the "lone wolf" provision, which was part of a 2004 intelligence law. In the rush to meet the terrorist threat in 2001 Congress enacted a Patriot Act that tramples on individual liberties. Some liberal Democrats and civil liberties groups have long contended the law gives the government authority to spy on innocent citizens. REPEAL THE PATRIOT ACT CAMPAIGN
Originally created 07/04/2003--- On the eve of Independence Day, more than 50 people gathered at the main library on Greene Street to celebrate their freedom of speech. The group gathered in a 100-city national protest of the Patriot Act, which was passed Oct. 26, 2001, and designed to curtail the efforts of terrorists at home and abroad.
Those gathered Thursday want the act repealed. "Both nationally and locally, petitions have been circulated which reflect a nonpartisan, nonsectarian desire for the reversal of this repressive legislation," said Denice Traina, the organizer of the event. "Events like these are very patriotic because the freedoms that every American holds true are evident in public meetings."
The legislation known as the Patriot Act came shortly after Sept. 11, 2001, as an attempt to limit terrorists living or working in America. Certain aspects of the Patriot Act include allowing federal agents to search an individual's library records; providing authority for wire taps, broad surveillance tactics and voice mail confiscation; and providing authority for stringent penalties for terrorists. "The act was a hasty decision made after a horrible occurrence," Ms. Traina said. "We are all here to show that we will not stand for a loss of civil liberties."
The Patriot Act protest drew a cultural melting pot of individuals to the second floor meeting room of the library. Blacks, whites, Muslims and even a man from Paraguay attended the event. Anibal Ibarra, an American resident of 10 years, said he knows about the loss of freedoms from growing up in Paraguay. "I grew up in an oppressive, military regime," he said, adding that only a person who hasn't had freedom for a time can truly understand the loss.
Some used the forum to attack the Bush administration, with one person comparing President Bush to Adolf Hitler and the Patriot Act to the Japanese internment policies of World War II.
Terence Dicks, a member of the Georgia Rural and Urban Summit, said, "If nothing else, this gives us a chance to hold meetings to talk about things going on in the community. We are America and getting together to talk about things puts us in the right direction."
By Jonathan Heeter
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posted Dec 1, 2011 8:00 PM by Anibal Show
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This summer, Georgia passed HB 87 a copy of Arizona's racial profiling law that's created a climate of intolerance for immigrants in the state.
Current immigration laws are creating a foster care crisis. For the Mendez family, that crisis has become a reality.
Ovidio and Domitina Mendez have had their parental rights terminated by a Georgia Judge and many believe its because the couple only speaks Spanish.
As Ovidio and Domitina Mendez drove back from their children's medical appointment, they noticed police cars parked outside their house.
As soon as they got out of their car, they were told through a Spanish interpreter that the Georgia Department of Family and Children Services was there to take their four children.
DFCS workers had visited the Mendez family two weeks earlier in July 2008 to investigate how the Guatemala natives and their U.S.-born children, who have severe disabilities, were living.
As the number of U.S. immigrant detentions and deportations increases, researchers expect the number of children in foster care will rise, as well. A recent study by the Applied Research Center revealed that at least 5,100 children are languishing in America’s foster care system because their immigrant parents were detained or deported. But the report also found that even when undocumented parents are not detained or deported, they face bias in the child welfare system as a result of cultural and language discrimination.
For instance, at the June hearing that terminated the Mendez’s parental rights, they were peppered with seemingly irrelevant questions about their English-speaking ability and immigration status. “Describe for the court why even three years after [the children went into the state’s custody] you cannot speak English without an interpreter,” asked Bruce Kling, special assistant attorney general for Whitfield County Department of Family and Children’s Service.
The state also argued that the Mendezes’ should not regain custody because, as undocumented immigrants, they could not attain driver’s licenses and therefore couldn’t transport their children. ARC found that many county child welfare departments give this justification for why undocumented parents can’t be trusted as caregivers.
The suggestion that undocumented immigrants are unfit parents (usually for reasons related to their poverty) is often used to separate them from their children. But children then remain in foster care because of the barriers that undocumented mothers and fathers face in trying to regain custody. Parents’ undocumented status also works against them by preventing them from accessing state services that would enable them to better provide for their children.
Many ask: How increasing foster care subsidy by taxpayers will help to cut deficits in the budget? Makes no fiscally responsible sense.
On the other hand: Lawmakers and citizens react to the death of Texas high schooler, Joaquin Luna, who committed suicide last weekend, distraught over his illegal immigrant status that prevented him from attending college.
Rep. Ruben Hinojosa, D-Rio Grande Valley, gave a floor speech advocating Congress to pass the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM Act). |
posted Dec 1, 2011 3:39 PM by Anibal Show
YOU CAN EVICT THE OCCUPIERS BUT YOU CANNOT EVICT THE OCCUPATION
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posted Nov 29, 2011 7:00 PM by Anibal Show
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Welcome to 2012
Street cameras, store cameras, cell phone cameras, computer cameras and satellite cameras are just not enough, apparently.
Around the clock, the eye in the sky will be looking at YOU.
Spy planes will soon be flying over California on police surveillance missions, spying on citizens, tracking all movement and videotaping all activities.
Filmed surveillance by spy planes overhead has never been forced on American citizens --- until now. California is, once again, first in the nation.
The city of Lancaster, California will be the first city in America to use U.S. Army, NASA and CIA technology to spy on citizens.
Lancaster, located in northern Los Angeles County, is the largest and most populated city in the entire California desert and is situated next to Edwards Air Force Base.
On The Other Hand: R.I.P. INTERNET?
The Stop Online Piracy Act "is a bill that would eviscerate the predictable legal environment created by the DMCA [Digital Millennium Copyright Act], subjecting online innovators to a new era of uncertainty and risk," said David Sohn, senior policy counsel at the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) in Washington, D.C., in a statement. "It would force pervasive scrutiny and surveillance of Internet users' online activities. It would chill the growth of social media and conscript every online platform into a new role as content police. And it would lay the groundwork for an increasingly balkanized Internet, directly undercutting U.S. foreign policy advocacy in support of a single, global, open network."
The names of the "Stop Online Piracy Act (H.R. 3261) and "PROTECT IP Act" (S. 968) make it clear what they're meant to do: protect the intellectual property of content creators against online piracy. What they would do, if enacted and signed into law, is more contentious. SOPA is "really a Trojan horse that might be better named the Social Media Surveillance Act," said Leslie Harris, CEO of CDT, in a press conference. "Expect it to have a devastating effect on social media content and expression." |
posted Nov 28, 2011 7:17 PM by Anibal Show
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A United States District Court judge in Manhattan has thrown a wrench into the way the Security and Exchange Commission has been enforcing its fraud cases. Judge Jed S. Rakoff threw out a $285 million settlement deal between the S.E.C. and Citigroup in which the bank would not admit nor deny wrongdoing in a mortgage derivatives deal. Rakoff said he would not OK the settlement because he did not know the facts of the case and it was "neither fair, nor reasonable, nor adequate, nor in the public interest" for him to do so. "The deal would have imposed penalties on Citigroup (C) even as it allowed the company to deny allegations that it misled investors on a complex mortgage investment. The SEC accused the bank of betting against the investment in 2007 and making $160 million, while investors lost millions."
Then this:
"The Fed didn't tell anyone which banks were in trouble so deep they required a combined $1.2 trillion on Dec. 5, 2008, their single neediest day. Bankers didn't mention that they took tens of billions of dollars in emergency loans at the same time they were assuring investors their firms were healthy. And no one calculated until now that banks reaped an estimated $13 billion of income by taking advantage of the Fed's below-market rates, Bloomberg Markets magazine reports in its January issue. "Saved by the bailout, bankers lobbied against government regulations, a job made easier by the Fed, which never disclosed the details of the rescue to lawmakers even as Congress doled out more money and debated new rules aimed at preventing the next collapse. "A fresh narrative of the financial crisis of 2007 to 2009 emerges from 29,000 pages of Fed documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act and central bank records of more than 21,000 transactions. While Fed officials say that almost all of the loans were repaid and there have been no losses, details suggest taxpayers paid a price beyond dollars as the secret funding helped preserve a broken status quo and enabled the biggest banks to grow even bigger." |
posted Nov 25, 2011 4:53 PM by Anibal Show
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Dr. Wonchat Subhachaturas, President of the WMA, wrote:
“Regrettably, cases of coerced sterilization continue to be reported in countries across the globe. Persons are being forcibly sterilized, either without knowing the procedure has been performed or without being given the opportunity to consent…This is a misuse of medical expertise, a breach of medical ethics and a clear violation of human rights. We call on all physicians and health workers to urge their governments to prohibit this unacceptable practice.”
This is the single more effective way to combat abortion, poverty, crime, shortage of food and water supply and being pro life. I guess. And the US went to Iraq searching for a Weapon of Mass Destruction. Really? On the other hand: Mars Rover Curiosity will launch from earth in late 2011. By August 2012, it’s expected to land on Mars. Then, it’s expected to conduct a 2-year study of the red planet.
Besides searching for water, Curiosity will search for other evidence of life, study the current and past Martian environment (especially for suitability to life), and gather general information for an eventual astronaut visit to Mars by as early as the 2030s. |
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