tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33257622647596478682024-03-13T22:08:16.578-07:00Mayday 4 McKinnon Day May 3rd 2010Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06708473485442982631noreply@blogger.comBlogger7758125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3325762264759647868.post-79590853170380420782016-12-29T19:59:00.001-08:002016-12-29T19:59:49.106-08:00Shona Banda's ~ Live Free or Die 28 December at 12:23 · I have won my child in need of care case, fought divorce on my own, pro se, and officially have 50% custody. I'm still facing felony charges.<div class="tabs-outer" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;">
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<span style="font-size: medium;">I have won my child in need of care case, fought divorce on my own, pro se, and officially have 50% custody. I'm still facing felony charges.<br />A judge dismissed my lawsuit against the State...<br />I've been too ill to deal with it. I'm looking into my next steps, the State is claiming immunity...<br />I've been in fear for my life, threatened, they kidnapped my child, put my family's safety at risk... AND MORE! I'm not done, only fueled more by the extreme injustice. I'm just so grateful the tyranny has been so very blatant... the public is on its head over the dismissal.<br />I'm too sick to do this on my own, I have just been in survival mode for so long, literally, each day for months on end... survival. I'm healing from recent major surgery that the incision has just closed last week. I was emaciated when leaving the hospital and have been slowly gaining weight. My children have had to watch their mother almost die... again and come back from hell. The State has done more damage than I can put into words. My family deserves justice, the State has no right to claim immunity.<br />Currently seeking counsel for this matter.<br />I need help.<br /><a class="profileLink" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=36400348187" href="https://www.facebook.com/GlennBeck/" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Glenn Beck</a> and the <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=50714237985" href="https://www.facebook.com/RutherfordInstitute/" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">The Rutherford Institute</a> not sure if offer still stands, hoping that the new year brings support your way to help many in this injustice system. The amount of people who are in need have been numerous, because authority has overstepped it's bounds for all to see in many cases around this country.<br />Thank you for giving voice to those squelched by the system.</span></div>
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<div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;"><strong>The wife of a former monk and prominent leader of the 2007 Saffron Revolution was denied permission to visit her jailed husband yesterday.</strong></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;">Marie Siochana told<em> The Myanmar Times</em> that authorities barred her entry from the prison because she is a foreign citizen. Myanmar authorities said this is standard procedure until the backing of the relevant embassy is secured.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;">Her husband, U Gambira, was arrested at a hotel in Mandalay around midnight on January 19. He has been denied bail and is being held in Mandalay’s Oboe prison on immigration-related charges.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;">U Gambira, who is no longer a monk and resides in Thailand, entered Myanmar with Ms Siochana at the Thai border crossing of Mae Sai-Tachileik on January 16. Police allege that he did not enter the country legally, and have charged him under Section 13(a) of the colonial-era Burma Immigration (Emergency Provisions) Act of 1947.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;">International rights groups suspect the charge is a form of politically motivated harassment and called for the activist to be immediately and unconditionally released. UK-based rights group Amnesty International called the charges against U Gambira “contrived, arbitrary and politically motivated”. The group also took aim at the broader pattern of suppression of activists in Myanmar, which they say runs at odds with the country’s human rights commitments.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;">“The Myanmar authorities continue to arrest and imprison activists and human rights defenders on politically motivated charges, part of an ongoing clampdown on the rights to freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly which are enshrined in Articles 19 and 20 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,” read the Amnesty statement released on January 20.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;">The call for U Gambira’s release was echoed by the ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR), which said the arrest comes at a “pivotal time” and is “extremely concerning and risks sacrificing any potential positive legacy of the government of President Thein Sein”.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;">“This arrest seems to be on trumped-up charges and is most likely politically motivated. Gambira has sacrificed a great deal to support the rights of the Myanmar people to fight for democracy and should be treated accordingly – not hounded and thrown in jail,” said Son Chhay, a Cambodian member of parliament and vice chair of the APHR.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;">Son Chhay said that the arrest calls into question the sincerity of Myanmar’s reform efforts.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;">“The outgoing military-backed government is not sending the signal that it is ready to work with other stakeholders to see Myanmar grow into an open society that upholds international human rights norms, and this has concerning undertones for the tenure of the next government,” he said.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;">U Gambira’s arrest in Mandalay came just one day after a US State Department envoy called on President U Thein Sein to release all political prisoners. The senior-level representative urged the president to fulfill his 2013 pledge before he leaves office at the end of March as a sign of his commitment to the reform process.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;">U Gambira was previously jailed and sentenced to 68 years in prison relating to his role leading pro-democracy demonstrations in 2007. He was released in a presidential amnesty in January 2012 after serving four years and two months.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;">He suffers from major mental health issues, including extreme post-traumatic stress disorder stemming from his earlier imprisonment when he was tortured. He was also diagnosed as schizophrenic in late 2015. Ms Siochana said he is currently medicated and must follow a strict regimen of prescribed drugs. She sent medications to the jail, with instructions, but estimates less than one month’s supply is left.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;">A trauma specialist in Thailand who has treated U Gambira raised concerns over the possible trigger effects the reimprisonment will cause.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;">The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners told <em>The Myanmar Times</em>that while immigration-related charges haven’t been used much in recent years in political cases, there is some precedent for using them.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;">“The charge under the The Myanmar Immigration (Emergency Provisions) Act is not so commonly used for political reasons but has been used, particularly before 2011, when people would illegally cross the border to coordinate with CBOs and disseminate information to the outside world,” the Thailand-based group said.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;">The police report said that during interrogation U Gambira confessed to having made several unofficial border crossings since he left Myanmar to seek medical treatment in Thailand in November 2013. 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We need to send messages from all over the world to the dept’s I have listed in my letter below. This woman has done a courageous thing for us all. If you believe a new & better world is ours for the taking then please send emails. Much love Keri<br />
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Kiri Campbell – calling out for help please</h1>
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Last word out is that Kiri was arrested. We need to send messages from all over the world to the dept’s I have listed in my letter below. This woman has done a courageous thing for us all. If you believe a new & better world is ours for the taking then please send emails. Much love Keri<br /><a href="http://followingworldchange.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/kiri-campbell.png" style="-webkit-transition-delay: initial; -webkit-transition-duration: 0.18s; -webkit-transition-property: all; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease-out; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #bb2530; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Kiri-campbell" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3310" src="http://followingworldchange.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/kiri-campbell.png?w=461" style="-webkit-transition-delay: initial; -webkit-transition-duration: 0.18s; -webkit-transition-property: all; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease-out; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%; width: auto;" /></a><br />Please feel free to copy paste my letter to send to the dept’s listed here in New Zealand. We are a small country so we could get 3% to tip this over ……easy. Let’s go!<br />Keri<br />hawera.dc@justice.govt.nz</div>
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To Whom It May Concern,<br />I would like to voice my concern & extreme objection to the matter of Kiri Campbell & her treatment. Do not for one minute think this is a small matter as the eyes of the world are on you now. Too many of us are now aware of the reality of our situation here on Earth. If you are not yet awake to this then please inform yourself further by researching the following links & reading the information. We WILL NOT be moved, please join us in making a better world for us all.<br />Kind Regards<br />Keri Schwed<br />Below find the details of the foreclosure of your corporate justice system;</div>
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BANKS & “GOVERNMENTS” FORECLOSED WORLDWIDE</div>
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The One People’s Public Trust (OPPT) announced the foreclosure of the world’s banks and “governments” on December 25th 2012 stemming from prior investigation into massive fraud across the entire system: http://<a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/118067922/PARADIGM-DOCUMENT-FROM-THE-TREASURY-FINANCE-AG-" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-transition-delay: initial; -webkit-transition-duration: 0.18s; -webkit-transition-property: all; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease-out; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #bb2530; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.scribd.com/doc/118067922/PARADIGM-DOCUMENT-FROM-THE-TREASURY-FINANCE-AG-</a> INDUSTRIESTRASSE-21-CH-6055ALPNACH-DORF-SWITZERLAND.</div>
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What happened? The OPPT posed to the world’s Banks and Governments: 1. that they had by deceptive acts and practices been stealing from the people for hundreds of years, and; 2. nothing stood between the Creator and each of the Creator’s creations, and gave due opportunity to rebut both statements. They could not and did not. To understand this fully please read the Declaration of Facts at <a href="http://www.peoplestrust1776.org/" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-transition-delay: initial; -webkit-transition-duration: 0.18s; -webkit-transition-property: all; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease-out; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #bb2530; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.peoplestrust1776.org/</a>> UCC Filings > 2012 ptII > Declaration of Facts. Here are two excerpts:<br />Government Charters Cancelled: (Refer: DECLARATION OF FACTS: UCC Doc # 2012127914 Nov 28 2012) “…That any and all CHARTERS, inclusive of The United States Federal Government, UNITED STATES, “STATE of …”,</div>
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Inclusive of any and all abbreviations, idem sonans, or other legal, financial or managerial forms, any and all international equivalents, inclusive of any and all OFFICES, inclusive of any and all OFFICERS, PUBLIC SERVANTS, EXECUTIVE ORDERS, TREATIES, CONSTITUTIONS, MEMBERSHIP, ACTS, and any and all other contracts and agreements made thereunder and thereby, are now, void, worthless, or otherwise cancelled, unrebutted; …”</div>
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Bank Charters Cancelled: (Refer: TRUE BILL: WA DC UCC Doc# 2012114776 Oct 24 2012) “Declared and ordered irrevocably cancelled; any and all charters for Bank of International Settlements (BIS) members thereto and thereof including all beneficiaries, including all certain states of body owning, operating, aiding and abetting private money systems, issuing, collection, legal enforcement systems, operating SLAVERY SYSTEMS …commandeering lawful value by unlawful representation…”</div>
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Orders to Cease and Desist: Attention is drawn to DECLARATION AND ORDER: UCC Doc # 2012096074, Sept. 09 2012, duly reconfirmed and ratified by COMMERCIAL BILL UCC Doc. No. 2012114586 and TRUE BILL UCC Doc. No.2012 114776 which states:</div>
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Volunteers within the military … “to arrest and take into custody any and all certain states of body, their agents, officers, and other actors, regardless of domicil by choice, owning, operating, aiding and abetting private money systems, issuing, collection, legal enforcement systems, operating SLAVERY SYSTEMS against the several states citizens, …”, and “Repossess all private money systems, tracking, transferring, issuing, collection, legal enforcement systems operating SLAVERY SYSTEMS…” “…all beings of the creator shall forthwith assist all Public Servants identified herein, to implement, protect, preserve and complete this ORDER by all means of the creator and created as stated herein, by, with, and under your full personal liability…” Search document numbers listed at the Washington DC UCC Registry: <a href="https://gov.propertyinfo.com/DC-Washington/" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-transition-delay: initial; -webkit-transition-duration: 0.18s; -webkit-transition-property: all; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease-out; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #bb2530; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://gov.propertyinfo.com/DC-Washington/</a></div>
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What does this mean to you? Are you paying a “debt” to a foreclosed entity..? e.g. mortgage, credit card, car loan?<br />OPPT has foreclosed on hierarchy. No one stands between you and your creator… not even “Government”.<br />Because a CEASE AND DESIST order exists, you are free to offer terms and conditions to individuals acting on behalf of a foreclosed Bank or “Government”, by issuing a Courtesy Notice.</div>
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What does this mean to Banks & “Governments”? All beings now act in the capacity of individual entities without a corporate safety net and with full personal liability for each and EVERY ACTION THEY TAKE under common law, protected and preserved by public policy UCC 1-103, and Universal law, the governing law laid out in the OPPT UCC filings. (Refer: WA DC UCC Ref Doc # 2012113593)</div>
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Should any individual pursue any actions on behalf of a foreclosed Bank or “Government”, causing another individual any damage as herein described, they in their individual and unlimited capacity are absolutely liable. Such actions may result in the receipt of a Courtesy Notice.</div>
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Courtesy Notice The Courtesy Notice contains the information of this flyer and offers terms and conditions for future dealings.</div>
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Whereas Banks and “Governments” have been foreclosed worldwide… Acts, Statutes, Codes, Courts, Executive Orders etc were thereby foreclosed, thus without a lawfully binding contract – individual to individual, no instrument exists to compel performance.</div>
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The Courtesy Notice offers new terms to any individual of a foreclosed entity for their acceptance and the method of acceptance is clearly defined.</div>
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Individuals are now downloading and sending Courtesy Notices worldwide; 64,000 were downloaded in the first two days following release in early Feb 2013. See <a href="http://www.oppt-in.com/" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-transition-delay: initial; -webkit-transition-duration: 0.18s; -webkit-transition-property: all; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease-out; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #bb2530; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.oppt-in.com</a><br />What is the UCC – Where and to whom does it apply? The Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) is the ‘bible’ of commerce and used world wide, but sometimes in disguise. UCC is not taught in law schools; it is used in high level banking and government corporations.</div>
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Accordingly most lawyers, attorneys and magistrates know nothing about UCC and will argue it has no application. 1. Executive Order 13037 dated 04 Mar 1997 defined humans as capital. See: http:// americankabuki.blogspot.com.au/2013/03/us-citizens-defined-as-property-of.html 2. UCC Doc # 0000000181425776 filed 12 Aug 2011 evidences sale of US citizens in transaction between The Federal Reserve System and The United States Department of the Treasury 1789 for $14.3 trillion. (Linked above) 3. UCC Doc #2001059388 evidences the template the Federal Reserve Bank of New York uses to secure the collateral in major banks around the world… including chattel paper, goods and the unborn young of animals. See<a href="http://www.mediafire.com/view/?3yh79cjnzcwzu0s" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-transition-delay: initial; -webkit-transition-duration: 0.18s; -webkit-transition-property: all; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease-out; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #bb2530; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.mediafire.com/view/?3yh79cjnzcwzu0s</a></div>
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Those who would regard the UCC as irrelevant outside the US are thereby claiming former funding arrangements with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York null and void.</div>
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Due Diligence Given the usage of UCC filings in the upper levels of “government” and banks worldwide, due diligence is a necessity.</div>
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If there is a dispute, error, or falsity make AND deliver a duly verified sworn DECLARATION OF REBUTTAL to the duly verified, sworn and REGISTERED OPPT DECLARATION OF FACTS, point by point, with specificity and particularity, with full responsibility and liability, under the penalty of perjury under any law you identify, that the forgoing is true and accurate, signed by your wet-ink signature.</div>
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To date, no such rebuttal has been registered.<br />Further Research Radio shows:</div>
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All People Declared Free of Debt (Refer Notice of Declaration of Absolute Truth UCC# 2013032035) The final filing of the OPPT occurred on March 18, 2013. This document terminated all remaining man-made entities and returned all people of this planet to absolute freedom. In this document the creator is referred to as “absolute essence” and all creations people are referred to as “absolute essence embodied”.</div>
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Article VI states…”I duly verify, with full responsibility and liability, by DECLARATION OF ORDER, that eternal essence IS made transparent and known by the DO’ing of any and all embodiment of eternal essence in eternal essence’s universe, IS free and free of debt, unrebutted.”</div>
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This means THERE IS NO DEBT.</div>
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You have no debt… No one has debt… it is done.</div>
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APOSTOLIC LETTER<br />ISSUED MOTU PROPRIO</div>
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OF THE SUPREME PONTIFF<br />FRANCIS</div>
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ON THE JURISDICTION OF JUDICIAL AUTHORITIES OF VATICAN CITY STATE<br />IN CRIMINAL MATTERS</div>
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In our times, the common good is increasingly threatened by transnational organized crime, the improper use of the markets and of the economy, as well as by terrorism.</div>
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It is therefore necessary for the international community to adopt adequate legal instruments to prevent and counter criminal activities, by promoting international judicial cooperation on criminal matters.</div>
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In ratifying numerous international conventions in these areas, and acting also on behalf of Vatican City State, the Holy See has constantly maintained that such agreements are effective means to prevent criminal activities that threaten human dignity, the common good and peace.</div>
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With a view to renewing the Apostolic See’s commitment to cooperate to these ends, by means of this Apostolic Letter issued Motu Proprio, I establish that:</div>
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1. The competent Judicial Authorities of Vatican City State shall also exercise penal jurisdiction over:</div>
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a) crimes committed against the security, the fundamental interests or the patrimony of the Holy See;</div>
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b) crimes referred to:</div>
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– in Vatican City State Law No. VIII, of 11 July 2013, containing Supplementary Norms on Criminal Law Matters;</div>
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– in Vatican City State Law No. IX, of 11 July 2013, containing Amendments to the Criminal Code and the Criminal Procedure Code;</div>
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when such crimes are committed by the persons referred to in paragraph 3 below, in the exercise of their functions;</div>
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c) any other crime whose prosecution is required by an international agreement ratified by the Holy See, if the perpetrator is physically present in the territory of Vatican City State and has not been extradited.</div>
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2. The crimes referred to in paragraph 1 are to be judged pursuant to the criminal law in force in Vatican City State at the time of their commission, without prejudice to the general principles of the legal system on the temporal application of criminal laws.</div>
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3. For the purposes of Vatican criminal law, the following persons are deemed “public officials”:</div>
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a) members, officials and personnel of the various organs of the Roman Curia and of the Institutions connected to it.</div>
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b) papal legates and diplomatic personnel of the Holy See.</div>
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c) those persons who serve as representatives, managers or directors, as well as persons who even de facto manage or exercise control over the entities directly dependent on the Holy See and listed in the registry of canonical juridical persons kept by the Governorate of Vatican City State;</div>
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d) any other person holding an administrative or judicial mandate in the Holy See, permanent or temporary, paid or unpaid, irrespective of that person’s seniority.</div>
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4. The jurisdiction referred to in paragraph 1 comprises also the administrative liability of juridical persons arising from crimes, as regulated by Vatican City State laws.</div>
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5. When the same matters are prosecuted in other States, the provisions in force in Vatican City State on concurrent jurisdiction shall apply.</div>
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6. The content of article 23 of Law No. CXIX of 21 November 1987, which approves the Judicial Order of Vatican City State remains in force.</div>
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This I decide and establish, anything to the contrary notwithstanding.</div>
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I establish that this Apostolic Letter issued Motu Proprio will be promulgated by its publication in L’Osservatore Romano, entering into force on 1 September 2013.</div>
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Given in Rome, at the Apostolic Palace, on 11 July 2013, the first of my Pontificate.</div>
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The use of language independent Meaning Based Computing technology from HP Autonomy.com with other industry standard, best quality, technology from companies such as Nuance, Voxeo, IBM, etc., coupled with voice biometrics, voice stress analysis and personal profiling to accurately understand an individual’s (or group’s) problems, needs, wants and desires and then help them find answers, directions, connections, etc., in order to achieve the results needed for that individual’s (or group’s) benefit.<br />
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I have wanted an open line to a ‘thing’ that listens with all the power at its command.<br />
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A something that helps when I am stuck for a word<br />
Something that remembers what I am supposed to be doing next<br />
Something that knows which one of my medications is bad for me<br />
Something that remembers everything I loved so once in a while it can remind me (-:<br />
Something that knows my beliefs enough to join me in with every fight for what I truly believe and keeps my voice there until the fight is won<br />
Something there and ready as I sit here now – so, if I decide to talk out loud to myself, or the room… or to ‘this thing’ I know I will be talking to something that understands what I am saying, clarifies points if needs be, puts me through to someone who knows what I’m asking and who doesn’t mind answering or whatever my head lets out and seeks answers for.<br />
Something that can show me a lot about myself and society through the use of the best of the best analytics and medical technology available now<br />
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<li><i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Participation in society can be measured in terms of social relationships, membership of </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">organisations, trust in other people, ownership of possessions and purchase of services. All are </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">lower among people with low incomes.</span></i></li>
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<li><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• However, while participation generally drops as income declines, participation stops falling among </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the 30 per cent or so of people with the lowest incomes creating a participation ‘floor’; among this </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">group, those with higher incomes do not have measurably increased living standards, greater social </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">participation or higher levels of trust.</span></b></li>
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<li><i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• The 30 per cent of people with the lowest incomes are also forced to choose between the basic </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">necessities of modern life; they must decide which needs to neglect.</span></i></li>
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<li><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• For people affected by the floor, additional income may well be spent on upgrading the quality of </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">necessary goods and services rather than adding to them.</span></b></li>
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<li><i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Averages mask important variation. The participation floor for benefit recipients is lower than for </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">other groups on the same income.</span></i></li>
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<li><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Most minority ethnic groups experience greater material deprivation than the white majority but </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">social participation is, on average, higher.</span></b></li>
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<li><i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Low income parents frequently spend more time than affluent ones assisting children with their </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">school work because they have fallen behind their classmates.</span></i></li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3325762264759647868.post-50108113159530291392013-05-02T16:25:00.001-07:002013-05-02T16:25:55.895-07:00Untitled<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://getfile8.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/projectbrainsaver/jrdEAJkrhjtnBAqkdzeAJrAqGhdqnjsJqqeDDvcogyxlcxEzyFCxDAEzcxCv/media_httpwwwfclcaorg_svtIG.jpg.scaled1000.jpg"><img alt="Media_httpwwwfclcaorg_svtig" height="138" src="http://getfile8.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/projectbrainsaver/jrdEAJkrhjtnBAqkdzeAJrAqGhdqnjsJqqeDDvcogyxlcxEzyFCxDAEzcxCv/media_httpwwwfclcaorg_svtIG.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.capwiz.com/fclca/issues/alert/?alertid=62637836#.UYL11VvT6ks.posterous">capwiz.com</a></div> <p></p></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06708473485442982631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3325762264759647868.post-69479782552093770802013-05-01T01:13:00.001-07:002013-05-01T01:13:05.582-07:00Pirates take a chunk of Iceland<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote><div> <p> <span>REYKJAVIK, Iceland -- </span> Iceland, a nation of seafarers, has been stormed by pirates.</p><p>They won't be forming the government, but online freedom advocates the Pirate Party were still big winners in the country's election.</p><p>The party, just a few months old, took 5.1 percent of the vote in Saturday's poll, gaining three of the 63 seats in Iceland's parliament, the Althingi. </p> <p> It is the biggest electoral trophy yet for a movement founded seven years ago in Sweden by a group of rebellious file-sharing geeks and hackers who scoffed at copyright laws.</p><p>Now, its Icelandic leader says, the party is "the political arm of the information revolution," dedicated to freedom of expression and political transparency, online and off.</p><p>Birgitta Jonsdottir, the most senior of Iceland's three victorious Pirate lawmakers, argues that political and legal structures around the world have not kept pace with the technological change that has transformed the way we live. She compares it to new software that can't run on an old computer.</p><p>"We feel that most people, not only in Iceland but all over the world, feel that the institutions that are set up no longer function for us," she said.</p><p>"We need to create a new mainframe, a new hardware for this stuff."</p><p>The Pirate Party was founded in Sweden in 2006, its name a taunt to the anti-piracy activities of copyright-holders, its logo a buccaneering black flag.</p><p>It has spread to countries including the United States, but has had its greatest electoral success in northern Europe.</p><p>Sweden has elected two Pirate members to the European Parliament, and last year a Pirate candidate was elected to the Czech Republic's upper house, the Senate. There are several dozen Pirate deputies at state level in Germany, and the party could gain national seats there in September's election.</p><p>The Icelandic party was founded late last year, but the volcanic North Atlantic nation - population 320,000 - has a long history as a bastion of technological and political experimentation. Physically isolated near the Arctic Circle, it is one of the world's most wired countries and has been a hub for the online secret-spilling group WikiLeaks. Jonsdottir has worked with WikiLeaks in the past.</p><p>In 2011 the country announced it would crowd-source a new constitution, allowing Icelanders through Facebook and other online platforms to submit ideas directly to, and debate with, an elected committee set up to draft the new document.</p><p>For some Icelanders, the Pirates made an appealing party of protest. Five years after its debt-swollen banks collapsed during the global credit crisis, the country still faces high inflation, capital controls and a deflated currency, while many Icelanders are still struggling to pay off mortgage debts made bigger by the crisis.</p><p>The main contenders in Saturday's election were the center-right parties that led Iceland into the crash and the left-wing coalition that has been implementing painful austerity measures ever since.</p><p>"The Pirates have a cool factor," said travel agent Hilmar Einarsson. "They are not typical politicians, but represent ordinary Icelanders. We want our country back, and they understand that more than any other party here in Iceland."</p><p>Others found the party's success mystifying.</p><p>"It was primarily a shock because their extreme view is considered by most (as) only appealing to punks still stuck in the '80s," said entertainment consultant Daddi Gudbergsson. </p> </div></blockquote><div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/04/30/3372421_pirate-party-has-electoral-breakthrough.html#storylink=addthis">miamiherald.com</a></div> <p></p></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06708473485442982631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3325762264759647868.post-57362064771577489742013-04-30T23:41:00.001-07:002013-04-30T23:41:44.980-07:00Welcome Page | DIRHA<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote class="posterous_long_quote">Welcome to the DIRHA EU project! The DIRHA project addresses the development of voice-enabled automated home environments based on distant-speech interaction in different languages. A distributed microphone network is installed in the rooms of a house in order to monitor selectively acoustic and speech activities observable inside any space, and to eventually run a spoken dialogue session with a given user in order to implement a service or to have access to appliances and other devices. The multi-microphone front-end is based on the use of arrays consisting of analog microphones or Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) digital microphones. The targeted system analyses the given multi-space acoustic scene in a coherent way, by processing in a parallelized fashion simultaneous activities which occur in different rooms, and in case by supporting at the same time the interaction with users who may speak in different areas of the house. These very challenging objectives require advances in different scientific and technical fields. In fact, based on the given network of microphone arrays, multi-microphone front-end processing includes, among the others, tasks as speaker localizati</blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://dirha.fbk.eu/">dirha.fbk.eu</a></div> <p></p></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06708473485442982631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3325762264759647868.post-79962439375058062322013-04-30T21:25:00.001-07:002013-04-30T21:25:04.225-07:00John Pilger on Margaret Thatcher – “he reminds us there has been a coup in Britain” by The Stringer April 28th, 2013 <div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote><div> <p></p> <p></p> <p><span style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal;">John Pilger is one of the world’s most prominent journalists, an author, a filmmaker with a litany of documentaries and someone whose fortitude has made a difference to the public record and the public interest.</span></p> <p><span style="color: #222222;">“It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and myths that surround it,” said John Pilger.</span></p> <p><span style="color: #222222;">In 1979, John Pilger, filmmaker David Munro and photographer Eric Piper entered Cambodia in the wake of the push of the Pol Pot regime out of the capital and into the western border jungles. They brought out a number of world exclusives. The first exclusive took up most of the UK’s Daily Mirror, which sold out. Pilger, Munro and Piper produced an ITV documentary, Year Zero: the Silent Death of Cambodia, which took the genocide in Cambodia to the living rooms of Britain, then Western Europe and then the rest of the world. </span></p> <p><span style="color: #222222;">The witness of the suffering of the Cambodian (Khmer) people led many within the British public to donate some $45 million. This was unsolicited - Year Zero: the Silent Death of Cambodia had touched the hearts and souls and the consciousness of the people. </span></p> <p><span style="color: #222222;">These financial donations funded the first substantial relief to Cambodia, including life saving antibiotics such as penicillin. </span></p> <p><span style="color: #222222;">Pilger and Munro would make a further four films about Cambodia. During the filming of Cambodia Year One the Khmer Rouge had put John Pilger on a ‘death list.’</span></p> <p><span style="color: #222222;">John Pilger himself described the British reaction to Year Zero: the Silent Death of Cambodia (New Statesman, September 11, 2006):</span></p> <p><span style="color: #222222;">“Year Zero not only revealed the horror of the Pol Pot years, it showed how Richard Nixon’s and Henry Kissinger’s secret bombing of that country had provided a critical catalyst for the rise of the Khmer Rouge. It also exposed how the West, led by the United States and Britain, was imposing an embargo, like a medieval siege, on the most stricken country on earth. This was a reaction to the fact that Cambodia’s liberator was Vietnam – a country that had come from the side of the Cold War and that had recently defeated the US. Cambodia’s suffering was a wilful revenge. Britain and the US even backed Pol Pot’s demand that his man continue to occupy Cambodia’s seat at the UN, while Margaret Thatcher stopped children’s milk going to the survivors of his nightmare regime. Little of this was reported. Had Year Zero simply described the monster that Pol Pot was, it would have been quickly forgotten. By reporting the collusion of ‘our’ governments, it told a wider truth about how the world was run… Within two days of Year Zero going to air, 40 sacks of post arrived at ATV… in Birmingham – 26,000 first-class letters in the first post alone. The station quickly amassed one million (British) pounds, almost all of it in small amounts. ‘This is for Cambodia,’ wrote a Bristol bus driver, enclosing his week’s wage. Entire pensions were sent, along with entire savings. Petitions arrived at Downing Street, one after the other, for weeks MPs received hundreds of thousands of letters, demanding that British policy change (which did, eventually). And none of it was asked for… I learned that a documentary could reclaim shared historical and political memories, and present their hidden truths. The reward then was a compassionate and informed public, and it still is.”</span></p> <div style=""><a href="http://thestringer.com.au/files/2013/04/Margaret-Thatcher__2530139b.jpg"><img src="http://thestringer.com.au/files/2013/04/Margaret-Thatcher__2530139b-300x187.jpg" height="187" alt="Margaret Thatcher - Photo, telegraph.co.uk" width="300" /></a><p><a href="http://thestringer.com.au/files/2013/04/Margaret-Thatcher__2530139b.jpg"></a></p><p>Margaret Thatcher – Photo, telegraph.co.uk</p></div> <p><span style="color: #222222;"> By <strong>John Pilger</strong> - In the wake of Thatcher’s departure, I remember her victims. Patrick Warby’s daughter, Marie, was one of them. Marie, aged five, suffered from a bowel deformity and needed a special diet. Without it, the pain was excruciating. Her father was a Durham miner and had used all his savings. It was winter 1985, the Great Strike was almost a year old and the family was destitute. Although her eligibility was not disputed, Marie was denied help by the Department of Social Security. Later, I obtained records of the case that showed Marie had been turned down because her father was “affected by a Trade dispute”. </span></p> <p><span style="background: white;">The corruption and inhumanity under Thatcher knew no borders. When she came to power in 1979, Thatcher demanded a total ban on exports of milk to Vietnam. The American invasion had left a third of Vietnamese children malnourished. I witnessed many distressing sights, including infants going blind from a lack of vitamins. “I cannot tolerate this,” said an anguished doctor in a Saigon paediatric hospital, as we looked at a dying boy. Oxfam and Save the Children had made clear to the British government the gravity of the emergency. An embargo led by the US had forced up the local price of a kilo of milk up to ten times that of a kilo of meat. Many children could have been restored with milk. Thatcher’s ban held. </span></p> <p><span style="color: #222222;"> <span style="background: white;">In neighbouring Cambodia, Thatcher left a trail of blood, secretly. In 1980, she demanded that the defunct Pol Pot regime – the killers of 1.7 million people – retain its “right” to represent their victims at the UN. Her policy was vengeance on Cambodia’s liberator, Vietnam. The British representative was instructed to vote with Pol Pot at the World Health Organisation, thereby preventing it from providing help to where it was needed more than anywhere on earth. </span></span></p> <p><span style="background: white;">To conceal this outrage, the US, Britain and China, Pol Pot’s main backer, invented a “resistance coalition” dominated by Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge forces and supplied by the CIA at bases along the Thai border. There was a hitch. In the wake of the Irangate arms-for-hostages debacle, the US Congress had banned clandestine foreign adventures. “In one of those deals the two of them liked to make,” a senior Whitehall official told the Sunday Telegraph, “President Reagan put it to Thatcher that the SAS should take over the Cambodia show. She readily agreed.” </span></p> <p><span style="background: white;">In 1983, Thatcher sent the SAS to train the “coalition” in its own distinctive brand of terrorism. Seven-man SAS teams arrived from Hong Kong, and British soldiers set about training “resistance fighters” in laying minefields in a country devastated by genocide and the world’s highest rate of death and injury as a result of landmines. </span></p> <p><span style="background: white;">I reported this at the time, and more than 16,000 people wrote to Thatcher in protest. “I confirm,” she replied to opposition leader Neil Kinnock, “that there is no British government involvement of any kind in training, equipping or co-operating with the Khmer Rouge or those allied to them.” The lie was breathtaking. In 1991, the government of John Major admitted to parliament that the SAS had indeed trained the “coalition”. “We liked the British,” a Khmer Rouge fighter later told me. “They were very good at teaching us to set booby traps. Unsuspecting people, like children in paddy fields, were the main victims.”</span></p> <p><span style="background: white;">When the journalists and producers of ITV’s landmark documentary, Death on the Rock, exposed how the SAS had run Thatcher’s other death squads in Ireland and Gibraltar, they were hounded by Rupert Murdoch’s “journalists”, then cowering behind the razor wire at Wapping. Although exonerated, Thames TV lost its ITV franchise.</span></p> <p><span style="background: white;">In 1982, the Argentine cruiser, General Belgrano, was steaming outside the Falklands exclusion zone. The ship offered no threat, yet Thatcher gave orders for it to be sunk. Her victims were 323 sailors, including conscripted teenagers. The crime had a certain logic. Among Thatcher’s closest allies were mass murderers – Pinochet in Chile, Suharto in Indonesia, responsible for “many more than one million deaths” (Amnesty International). Although the British state had long armed the world’s leading tyrannies, it was Thatcher who brought a crusading zeal to the deals, talking up the finer points of fighter aircraft engines, hard-bargaining with bribe-demanding Saudi princes. I filmed her at an arms fair, stroking a gleaming missile. “I’ll have one of those!” she said.</span></p> <p><span style="background: white;">In his arms-to-Iraq enquiry, Lord Richard Scott heard evidence that an entire tier of the Thatcher government, from senior civil servants to ministers, had lied and broken the law in selling weapons to Saddam Hussein. These were her “boys”. Thumb through old copies of the Baghdad Observer, and there are pictures of her boys, mostly cabinet ministers, on the front page sitting with Saddam on his famous white couch. There is Douglas Hurd and there is a grinning David Mellor, also of the Foreign Office, around the time his host was ordering the gassing of 5,000 Kurds. Following this atrocity, the Thatcher government doubled trade credits to Saddam.</span></p> <p><span style="background: white;">Perhaps it is too easy to dance on her grave. Her funeral was a propaganda stunt, fit for a dictator: an absurd show of militarism, as if a coup had taken place. And it has. “Her real triumph”, said another of her boys, Geoffrey Howe, a Thatcher minister, “was to have transformed not just one party but two, so that when Labour did eventually return, the great bulk of Thatcherism was accepted as irreversible.” </span></p> <p><span style="background: white;">In 1997, Thatcher was the first former prime minister to visit Tony Blair after he entered Downing Street. There is a photo of them, joined in rictus: the budding war criminal with his mentor. When Ed Milliband, in his unctuous “tribute”, caricatured Thatcher as a “brave” feminist hero whose achievements he personally “honoured”, you knew the old killer had not died at all.</span></p> <p><em><span style="padding: 0cm; background: white;">An edited version of this article originally appeared in the New Statesman</span></em></p> </div></blockquote><div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://thestringer.com.au/john-pilger-on-margaret-thatcher-he-reminds-us-there-has-been-a-coup-in-britain/#.UYCYx3mdexx.posterous">thestringer.com.au</a></div> <p></p></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06708473485442982631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3325762264759647868.post-84579715971523600442013-04-30T21:18:00.001-07:002013-04-30T21:18:46.832-07:00India’s population is now 1.21 billion New Delhi, Apr 30: 1-May-2013 / 01:38 AM<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote><div> <h3>India’s population is now 1.21 billion</h3> <p>New Delhi, Apr 30: India’s total population stands at 1.21 billion, which is 17.7 per cent more than the last decade, and growth of females was higher than that of males.</p> <p>According to the final census released by Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde today, India’s total population as on March 1, 2011 is 1,210,726,932 or 1.21 billion — an increase of 181.96 million persons in absolute number of population during 2001-11.</p> <p>There was an increase of 90.97 million males and increase of 90.99 million females.</p> <p>The growth rate of females was 18.3 per cent which is higher than males — 17.1 per cent.</p> <p>India’s population grew by 17.7 per cent during 2001-11, against 21.5 per cent in the previous decade. Among the major states, highest decadal growth in population has been recorded in Bihar (25.4 per cent) while 14 states and Union Territories have recorded population growth above 20 per cent.</p> <p>Altogether, 833.5 million persons live in rural areas as per Census 2011, which was more than two-third of the total population, while 377.1 million persons live in urban areas.</p> <p>1-May-2013 / 01:38 AM / Agencies / 0 Comments</p> </div></blockquote><div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.thesangaiexpress.com/tseitm-25866-india-s-population-is-now-1-21-billion#.UYCXcc3_62k.posterous">thesangaiexpress.com</a></div> <p></p></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06708473485442982631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3325762264759647868.post-19738486371857993382013-04-30T20:58:00.001-07:002013-04-30T20:58:57.231-07:002 months time set for biometrics enrolment Source: The Sangai Express<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote><div> <p><span>2 months time set for biometrics enrolment</span><br /> Source: <span>The Sangai Express</span></p> <p align="justify"><span>Imphal, April 30 2013:</span> A high level official meeting presided by Chief Minister O Ibobi today decided to complete the work of biometrics enrolment within two months which would be taken up under the National Population Register.</p><p>The meeting was convened following strong instructions from the Centre regarding the biometrics enrolment programme.</p><p>The meeting was attended by Deputy Chief Minister, Ministers, Chief Secretary, Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Census Director, Deputy Commissioners and officials of MANITRON and In-Media, an agency.</p><p>Speaking to media persons after the meeting, Government spokesman M Okendro stated that the meeting decided to complete the biometrics enrolment work by June 30 .</p><p>To ensure that biometrics enrolment work is completed within the said deadline, Ministers, MLAs and public representatives would cooperate fully with the officials concerned.</p><p>After collecting biometrics data such as iris image, fingerprints and photographs, each and every citizen would be given an unique identification (Aadhar) number.</p><p>This Aadhar number would be made a compulsory requirement while opening accounts in banks or post offices.</p><p>The same number would be put into use while selecting beneficiaries of schemes sponsored by the Centre or State Government, Okendro stated.</p><p>After collecting all the data by June 30, the data compilation portion would be completed by July 31.From August 1, only those who have been allotted Aadhar numbers would be made eligible for such schemes like MGNREGS, IAY, old age pension etc.</p><p>In-Media would do the biometrics enrolment work in Ukhrul, Bishnupur, Senpati and Thoubal while MANITRON would be assigned to Imphal West, Imphal East, Chandel, Tamenglong and Churachandpur.</p><p>Okendro appealed to all the people to come out and participate in the biometrics enrolment work in accordance to the schedule which would be worked out by Deputy Commissioners.</p><p>To a query, the Minister claimed that biometrics data collection has been completed up to 35 per cent so far.</p><p>He also admitted that the project is going slow in Ukhrul and Senapati.</p><p><br /> </p><p> </p><div>* This news is as published by respected news daily at Imphal, whose name is duly marked as 'Source'. 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The total size of the files, measured in gigabytes, is more than 160 times larger than the leak of U.S. State Department documents by Wikileaks in 2010.</p> <p>To analyze the documents, ICIJ collaborated with reporters from <em>The Guardian</em> and the BBC in the U.K., <em>Le Monde</em> in France, <em>Süddeutsche Zeitung</em> and <em>Norddeutscher Rundfunk</em> in Germany, The <em>Washington Post</em>, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and 31 other media partners around the world.</p> <p>Eighty-six journalists from 46 countries used high-tech data crunching and shoe-leather reporting to sift through emails, account ledgers and other files covering nearly 30 years.</p> <p>“I’ve never seen anything like this. This secret world has finally been revealed,” said <a href="http://arthurcockfield.com/">Arthur Cockfield</a>, a law professor and tax expert at Queen’s University in Canada, who reviewed some of the documents during an interview with the CBC. He said the documents remind him of the scene in the movie classic <em>The Wizard of Oz</em> in which “they pull back the curtain and you see the wizard operating this secret machine.”</p> <h4>Mobsters and Oligarchs</h4> <p>The vast flow of offshore money — legal and illegal, personal and corporate — can roil economies and pit nations against each other. Europe’s continuing financial crisis has been fueled by a Greek fiscal disaster exacerbated by offshore tax cheating and by a banking meltdown in the tiny tax haven of Cyprus, where local banks’ assets have been inflated by waves of cash from Russia.</p> <p>Anti-corruption campaigners argue that offshore secrecy undermines law and order and forces average citizens to pay higher taxes to make up for revenues that vanish offshore. Studies have estimated that cross-border flows of global proceeds of financial crimes total between $1 trillion and $1.6 trillion a year.</p> <p>ICIJ’s 15-month investigation found that, alongside perfectly legal transactions, the secrecy and lax oversight offered by the offshore world allows fraud, tax dodging and political corruption to thrive.</p> <p><strong>Offshore patrons identified in the documents include</strong>:</p> <ul> <li>Individuals and companies linked to Russia’s Magnitsky Affair, a tax fraud scandal that has strained U.S.-Russia relations and led to a ban on Americans adopting Russian orphans.<br /> </li> <li>A Venezuelan deal maker accused of using offshore entities to bankroll a U.S.-based Ponzi scheme and funneling millions of dollars in bribes to a Venezuelan government official.<br /> </li> <li>A corporate mogul who won billions of dollars in contracts amid Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s massive construction boom even as he served as a director of secrecy-shrouded offshore companies owned by the president’s daughters.<br /> </li> <li>Indonesian billionaires with ties to the late dictator Suharto, who enriched a circle of elites during his decades in power.</li> </ul> <p>The documents also provide possible new clues to crimes and money trails that have gone cold.</p> <p>After learning ICIJ had identified the eldest daughter of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, Maria Imelda Marcos Manotoc, as a <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/661045-faacfed68917a92675e78b09d99ac9b1-400619-trp-report">beneficiary</a> of a British Virgin Islands (BVI) trust, Philippine officials said they were eager to find out whether any assets in the trust are part of the estimated $5 billion her father amassed through corruption.</p> <p>Manotoc, a provincial governor in the Philippines, declined to answer a series of questions about the trust.</p> <h4>Politically connected wealth</h4> <p><img title="Maria Imelda Marcos Manotoc" src="http://www.icij.org/sites/icij/files/projects/191imeemarcos.jpg" height="219" alt="Imee Marcos" style="float: right; margin: 10px;" width="191" /></p> <p>The files obtained by ICIJ shine a light on the day-to-day tactics that offshore services firms and their clients use to keep offshore companies, trusts and their owners under cover.</p> <p>Tony Merchant, one of Canada’s top class-action lawyers, took extra steps to maintain the privacy of a <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/661029-8fb14288cf132318771a2d3ef888c843-merchant-2000">Cook Islands trust</a> that he’d stocked with more than $1 million in 1998, the documents show.</p> <p><span>In a filing to Canadian tax authorities, Merchant checked “no” when asked if he had foreign assets of more than $100,000 in 1999, court records show.</span></p> <p><span>Between 2002 and 2009, he often paid his fees to maintain the trust by sending </span>thousands of dollars in cash and traveler’s checks stuffed into envelopes rather than using easier-to-trace bank checks or wire transfers, according to documents from the offshore services firm that oversaw the trust for him.</p> <p>One <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/661040-a36b832a7b9ae0309e611c2e84331184-merchant-note">file note</a> warned the firm’s staffers that Merchant would “have a st[r]oke” if they tried to communicate with him by fax.</p> <p><img title="Tony Merchant." src="http://www.icij.org/sites/icij/files/projects/191anthony-merchant-qc.jpg" height="246" alt="Tony Merchant." style="float: right; margin: 10px;" width="191" /></p> <p>It is unclear whether his wife, Pana Merchant, a Canadian senator, declared her personal interest in the trust on annual financial disclosure forms. </p> <p>Under legislative rules, she had to disclose every year to the Senate’s ethics commissioner that she was a beneficiary of the trust, but the information was confidential.</p> <p>The Merchants declined requests for comment.</p> <p>Other high profile names identified in the offshore data include the wife of Russia’s deputy prime minister, Igor Shuvalov, and two top executives with Gazprom, the Russian government-owned corporate behemoth that is the world’s largest extractor of natural gas.</p> <p>Shuvalov’s wife and the Gazprom officials had stakes in BVI companies, documents show. All three declined comment.</p> <p>In a neighboring land, the deputy speaker of Mongolia’s Parliament said he was considering resigning from office after ICIJ questioned him about records showing he has an offshore company and a secret Swiss bank account.</p> <p>“I shouldn’t have opened that account,” Bayartsogt Sangajav, who has also served as his country’s finance minister, said. “I probably should consider resigning from my position.”</p> <p>Bayartsogt said his Swiss account at one point contained more than $1 million, but most of the money belonged to what he described as “business friends” he had joined in investing in international stocks.</p> <p>He acknowledged that he hasn’t officially declared his BVI company or the Swiss account in Mongolia, but he said he didn’t avoid taxes because the investments didn’t produce income. </p> <p>“I should have included the company in my declarations,” he said.</p> <h4>Wealthy Clients</h4> <p>The documents also show how the mega-rich use complex offshore structures to own mansions, art and other assets, gaining tax advantages and anonymity not available to average people.</p> <p><img title="Baroness Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza." src="http://www.icij.org/sites/icij/files/projects/baronesscarmenthyssenbornemisza.jpg" height="226" alt="Baroness Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza." style="float: right; margin: 10px;" width="191" /></p> <p>Spanish names include a baroness and famed art patron, Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza, who is identified in the documents using a <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/661037-4682e8eaca42b6a67099614ec4e5898d-71902-nautilus">company</a> in the Cook Islands to buy artwork through auction houses such as Sotheby’s and Christie’s, including Van Gogh’s <em>Water Mill at Gennep</em>.</p> <p>Her attorney acknowledged that she gains tax benefits by holding ownership of her art offshore, but stressed that she uses tax havens primarily because they give her “maximum flexibility” when she moves art from country to country.</p> <p>Among nearly 4,000 American names is Denise Rich, a Grammy-nominated songwriter whose ex-husband was at the center of an <a href="http://fl1.findlaw.com/news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/clinton/pardonrpt/ch1031302hcgrcprdrpt.pdf">American pardon scandal</a> that erupted as President Bill Clinton left office.</p> <p>A Congressional investigation found that Rich, who raised millions of dollars for Democratic politicians, played a key role in the campaign that persuaded Clinton to pardon her ex-spouse, Marc Rich, an oil trader who had been wanted in the U.S. on tax evasion and racketeering charges.</p> <p><img title="Denise Rich." src="http://www.icij.org/sites/icij/files/projects/denise-rich.jpg" height="256" alt="Denise Rich." style="float: right; margin: 10px;" width="191" /></p> <p>Records obtained by ICIJ show she had <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/661038-40212bd9e3711b72f81da6f5f157262b-dry-trust-06-04">$144 million</a> in April 2006 in a trust in the Cook Islands, a chain of coral atolls and volcanic outcroppings nearly 7,000 miles from her home at the time in Manhattan.</p> <p>The trust’s holdings included a yacht called the <em>Lady Joy</em>, where Rich often entertained celebrities and raised money for charity.</p> <p>Rich, who gave up her U.S. citizenship in 2011 and now maintains citizenship in Austria, did not reply to questions about her offshore trust.</p> <p>Another prominent American in the files who gave up his citizenship is a member of the Mellon dynasty, which started landmark companies such as Gulf Oil and Mellon Bank. James R. Mellon – an author of books about Abraham Lincoln and his family’s founding patriarch, Thomas Mellon – used four companies in the BVI and Lichtenstein <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/661035-113e895be2a453fbab96105663a788c3-20020730-1-impt">to trade securities</a> and transfer tens of millions of dollars among <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/661034-88f6f74aab154b35cefe49942ce3163f-20060531ubs">offshore bank accounts</a> he controlled.</p> <p>Like many offshore players, Mellon appears to have taken steps to distance himself from his offshore interests, the documents show. He often used third parties’ names as directors and shareholders of his companies rather than his own, a legal tool that owners of offshore entities often use to preserve anonymity.</p> <p><img title="James R. Mellon." src="http://www.icij.org/sites/icij/files/projects/191jamesrmellon_0.jpg" height="212" alt="James R. Mellon." style="float: right; margin: 10px;" width="191" /></p> <p>Reached in Italy where lives part of the year, Mellon told ICIJ that, in fact, he used to own “a whole bunch” of offshore companies but has disposed of all of them. He said he set up the firms for “tax advantage” and liability reasons, as advised by his lawyer. “But I have never broken the tax law.”</p> <p>Of the use of nominees, Mellon said that “that’s the way these firms are set up,” and added that it’s useful for people like him who travel a lot to have somebody else in charge of his businesses. “I just heard of a presidential candidate who had a lot of money in the Cayman Islands,” Mellon, now a British national, said, alluding to former U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney.</p> <p>“Not everyone who owns offshores is a crook.”</p> <h4>Offshore growth</h4> <p>The anonymity of the offshore world makes it difficult to track the flow of money. A <a href="http://www.taxjustice.net/cms/upload/pdf/Price_of_Offshore_Revisited_120722.pdf">study</a> by James S. Henry, former chief economist at McKinsey & Company, estimates that wealthy individuals have $21 trillion to $32 trillion in private financial wealth tucked away in offshore havens — roughly equivalent to the size of the U.S. and Japanese economies combined.</p> <p>Even as the world economy has stumbled, the offshore world has continued to grow, said Henry, who is a board member of the <a href="http://www.taxjustice.net/cms/front_content.php?idcatart=103&lang=1">Tax Justice Network</a>, an international research and advocacy group that is critical of offshore havens. His research shows, for example, that assets managed by the world’s 50 largest “private banks” — which often use offshore havens to serve their “high net worth” customers — grew from $5.4 trillion in 2005 to more than $12 trillion in 2010.</p> <p>Henry and other critics argue that offshore secrecy has a corrosive effect on governments and legal systems, allowing crooked officials to loot national treasuries and providing cover to human smugglers, mobsters, animal poachers and other exploiters.</p> <p>Offshore’s defenders counter that most offshore patrons are engaged in legitimate transactions. Offshore centers, they say, allow companies and individuals to diversify their investments, forge commercial alliances across national borders and do business in entrepreneur-friendly zones that eschew the heavy rules and red tape of the onshore world.</p> <p>“Everything is much more geared toward business,” David Marchant, publisher of <em><a href="http://www.offshorealert.com/about.aspx">OffshoreAlert</a></em>, an online news journal, said. “If you’re dishonest you can take advantage of that in a bad way. But if you’re honest you can take advantage of that in a good way.”</p> <p>Much of ICIJ’s reporting focused on the work of two offshore firms, Singapore-based Portcullis TrustNet and BVI-based Commonwealth Trust Limited (CTL), which have helped tens of thousands of people set up offshore companies and trusts and hard-to-trace bank accounts.</p> <p>Regulators in the BVI found that CTL repeatedly violated the islands’ anti-money-laundering laws between 2003 and 2008 by failing to verify and record its clients’ identities and backgrounds. “This particular firm had systemic money laundering issues within their organization,” an official with the BVI’s Financial Services Commission said last year.</p> <p>The documents show, for example, that CTL set up 31 companies in 2006 and 2007 for an individual later identified in U.K. court claims as a front man for Mukhtar Ablyazov, a Kazakh banking tycoon who has been accused of stealing $5 billion from one of the former Russian republic’s largest banks. Ablyazov denies wrongdoing.</p> <p>Thomas Ward, a Canadian who co-founded CTL in 1994 and continues to work as a consultant to the firm, said CTL’s client-vetting procedures have been consistent with industry standards in the BVI, but that no amount of screening can ensure that firms such as CTL won’t be “duped by dishonest clients” or sign on “someone who appears, to all historical examination, to be honest” but “later turns to something dishonest.”</p> <p>“It is wrong, though perhaps convenient, to demonize CTL as by far the major problem area,” Ward said in a written response to questions. “Rather I believe that CTL’s problems were, by and large, directly proportional to its market share.”</p> <p>ICIJ’s review of TrustNet documents identified 30 American clients accused in lawsuits or criminal cases of fraud, money laundering or other serious financial misconduct. They include ex-Wall Street titans Paul Bilzerian, a corporate raider who was convicted of tax fraud and securities violations in 1989, and Raj Rajaratnam, a billionaire hedge fund manager who was sent to prison in 2011 in one of the biggest insider trading scandals in U.S. history.</p> <p>TrustNet declined to answer a series of questions for this article.</p> <p></p> <h4>Blacklisted</h4> <p>The records obtained by ICIJ expose how offshore operatives help their customers weave elaborate financial structures that span countries, continents and hemispheres.</p> <p>A Thai government official with links to an infamous African dictator used Singapore-based TrustNet to set up a secret company for herself in the BVI, the records show.</p> <p><span><img title="Nalinee Taveesin." src="http://www.icij.org/sites/icij/files/projects/191nalinee-taveesin.jpg" height="203" alt="Nalinee Taveesin." style="float: right; margin: 10px;" width="191" />The Thai official, Nalinee “Joy” Taveesin, is currently Thailand’s international trade representative. She served as a cabinet minister for Prime Minister </span>Yingluck Shinawatra <span>before stepping down last year.</span></p> <p><span>Taveesin acquired her BVI company in August 2008. That was seven months after she’d been appointed an advisor to Thailand’s commerce minister — and three months before </span>the U.S. Department of Treasury blacklisted her as a “crony” of Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe.</p> <p>The Treasury Department froze her U.S. assets, <a href="http://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Pages/hp1295.aspx">accusing her</a> of “secretly supporting the kleptocratic practices of one of Africa’s most corrupt regimes” through gem trafficking and other deals made on behalf of Mugabe’s wife, Grace, and other powerful Zimbabweans.</p> <p>Taveesin has said her relationship with the Mugabes is “strictly social” and that the U.S. blacklisting is a case of guilt by association. Through her secretary, Taveesin flatly denied that she owns the BVI company. ICIJ verified her ownership using <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/661032-21f9b7ae2ae97c16872d69f70049f350-312980-hall">TrustNet records</a> that listed her and her brother as shareholders of the company and included the main address in Bangkok for her onshore business ventures.</p> <p>Records obtained by ICIJ also reveal a secret company belonging to Muller Conrad “Billy” Rautenbach, a Zimbabwean businessman who was blacklisted by the U.S. for his ties to the Mugabe regime at the same time as Taveesin. The Treasury Department said Rautenbach has helped organize huge mining projects in Zimbabwe that “benefit a small number of corrupt senior officials.”</p> <p>When CTL set Rautenbach up with a <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/661044-d73d205de9d2e0bbb76a99076470ddef-artemis-group2">BVI company</a> in 2006 he was a fugitive, fleeing fraud allegations in South Africa. The charges lodged personally against him were dismissed, but a South African company he controlled pleaded guilty to criminal charges and paid a fine of roughly $4 million.</p> <p>Rautenbach denies U.S. authorities’ allegations, contending that they made “significant factual and legal errors” in their blacklisting decision, his attorney, Ian Small Smith, said. Smith said Rautenbach’s BVI company was set up as “special purpose vehicle for investment in Moscow” and that it complied with all disclosure regulations. The company is no longer active.</p> <h4>‘One Stop Shop’</h4> <p><img title="Thousands of offshore entities are headquartered on this building's third floor, which houses TrustNet's Cook Islands office. Photo: Alex Shprintsen" src="http://www.icij.org/sites/icij/files/projects/500trustnetbuilding.jpg" height="318" alt="TrustNet " style="margin: 10px;" width="500" /></p> <p>Offshore’s customers are served by a well-paid industry of middlemen, accountants, lawyers and banks that provide cover, set up financial structures and shuffle assets on their clients’ behalf.</p> <p>Documents obtained by ICIJ show how two top Swiss banks, UBS and Clariden, worked with TrustNet to provide their customers with secrecy-shielded companies in the BVI and other offshore centers.</p> <p>Clariden, owned by Credit Suisse, sought such high levels of confidentiality for some clients, the records show, that a TrustNet official<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/625137-e90a51d973c5ddbefec22b1423decd21-20070108-0413"> described</a> the bank’s request as “the Holy Grail” of offshore entities — a company so anonymous that police and regulators would be “met with a blank wall” if they tried to discover the owners’ identities.</p> <p>Clariden declined to answer questions about its relationship with TrustNet.</p> <p>“Because of Swiss banking secrecy laws, we are not allowed to provide any information about existing or supposed accountholders,” the bank said. “As a general rule, Credit Suisse and its related companies respect all the laws and regulations in the countries in which they are involved.”</p> <p>A spokesperson for UBS said the bank applies “the highest international standards” to fight money laundering, and that TrustNet “<span>is one of over 800 service providers globally which UBS clients choose to work with to provide for their wealth and succession planning needs. These service providers are also used by clients of other banks.</span>”<span> </span></p> <p>TrustNet describes itself as a “<a href="http://www.portcullis-trustnet.com/en/home/">one-stop shop</a>” — its staff includes lawyers, accountants and other experts who can shape secrecy packages to fit the needs and net worths of its clients. These packages can be simple and cheap, such as a company chartered in the BVI. Or they can be sophisticated structures that weave together multiple layers of trusts, companies, foundations, insurance products and so-called “nominee” directors and shareholders.</p> <p>When they create companies for their clients, offshore services firms often appoint faux directors and shareholders — proxies who serve as stand-ins when the real owners of companies <a href="http://www.gao.gov/assets/250/249637.html">don’t want their identities known</a>. Thanks to the proliferation of proxy directors and shareholders, investigators tracking money laundering and other crimes often hit dead ends when they try to uncover who is really behind offshore companies.</p> <p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/datablog/2012/nov/26/offshore-secrets-companies-sham-directors">An analysis</a> by ICIJ, the BBC and <em>The Guardian</em> identified a cluster of 28 “sham directors” who served as the on-paper representatives of more than 21,000 companies between them, with individual directors representing as many 4,000 companies each.</p> <p>Among the front men identified in the documents obtained by ICIJ is a U.K.-based operative who served as a director for a BVI company, <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/661026-2ab131288069f0613c220c5050e2a361-tamalaris">Tamalaris Consolidated Limited</a>, which the European Union has labeled as a front company for the<a href="http://www.nti.org/country-profiles/iran/nuclear/"> Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Line</a>. The E.U., the U.N. and the U.S. have accused IRISL of aiding Iran’s <a href="http://www.skuld.com/upload/INSIGHT/Sanctions/Iran/UK_fin_sanc_iran_reg1245_0212111.pdf">nuclear-development program</a>.</p> <p><a href="http://www.icij.org/offshore/tax-havens-101-high-cost-offshore"><img title="" src="http://www.icij.org/sites/icij/files/projects/630-play-button-tax-havens-101.jpg" height="277" alt="" width="500" /></a></p><p></p> <h4>‘Zone of Impunity’</h4> <p>I<span>nternational groups have been working for decades to limit tax cheating and corruption in the offshore world. </span></p> <p><span>In the 1990s, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development began pushing offshore centers to reduce secrecy and get tougher on money laundering, but the effort ebbed in the 2000s</span>. Another push against tax havens began when U.S. authorities took on UBS, forcing the Swiss bank to pay $780 million in 2009 to settle allegations that it had helped Americans dodge taxes. U.S. and German authorities have pressured banks and governments to share information about offshore clients and accounts and UK Prime Minister David Cameron has vowed to use his leadership of the G8, a forum of the world’s richest nations, to help crack down on tax evasion and money laundering.</p> <p>Promises like those have been met with skepticism, given the role played by key G8 members — the U.S., the U.K. and Russia — as sources and destinations of dirty money. Despite the new efforts, offshore remains a “zone of impunity” for anyone determined to commit financial crimes, said Jack Blum, a former U.S. Senate investigator who is now a <span>lawyer specializing in money laundering and tax fraud cases.</span></p> <p>“Periodically, the stench gets so bad somebody has to get out there and clap the lid on the garbage can and sit on it for a while,” Blum said. “There’s been some progress, but there’s a bloody long way to go.”</p> <p></p> </div></blockquote><div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.icij.org/offshore/secret-files-expose-offshores-global-impact">icij.org</a></div> <p></p></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06708473485442982631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3325762264759647868.post-32260323415544308952013-04-26T23:46:00.001-07:002013-04-26T23:46:45.858-07:00Untitled<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote><div> <p></p> <p></p> <p>Dumbartung Aboriginal Corporation is leading the way in trying to have something done at long last about reducing the high rates of Aboriginal youth suicide. Governments have effectively neglected the crisis while the youth suicide rates climb. Dumbartung will convene a Suicide Crisis Summit on May 21.</p> <div style=""><a href="http://thestringer.com.au/files/2013/04/189800734_640.jpg"><img src="http://thestringer.com.au/files/2013/04/189800734_640-300x163.jpg" height="163" alt="Robert Eggington" width="300" /></a><p><a href="http://thestringer.com.au/files/2013/04/189800734_640.jpg"></a></p><p>Robert Eggington</p></div> <p>Robert and Selina Eggington are the directors of the Dumbartung Aboriginal Corporation which maintains a huge presence at the Clontarf Aboriginal College site in Manning, Perth – which only last week was put into total Aboriginal ownership by the Christian Brothers.</p> <p>The Aboriginal youth suicide rates in the Kimberley are among not only the nation’s worst but among the world’s worst rates. Aboriginal youth suicide is an endemic tragedy throughout Western Australia and includes the Goldfields, the Western Desert, the Pilbara, the South West, the Great Southern and Perth. The stressors and underwriters of youth suicide – the high levels of unemployment, lack of substantive education opportunities, chronic and abject poverty – are pernicious throughout Aboriginal communities and especially in the remote.</p> <p>Mr Eggington said Aboriginal communities grieve in an ongoing manner for the loss of their youth. “We hear of a death almost fortnightly,” said Mr Eggington.</p> <p>Mr Eggington referred to the suicide of a child as young as 12 years of age.</p> <p>In Mowanjum, which is near Derby, there was the death of a 12 year old girl. This tragedy was only the other day.”</p> <p>It was only a few years ago that Mowanjum and Balgo recorded a spate of youth suicides.</p> <p>The Coronial Inquiry which would follow, with State Coroner Alastair Hope presiding, would hear that the suicide average in these towns was nearly 100 times the State average. The Coroner slammed the Government for a lack of pre-intervention and intervention services and programs.</p> <p>Mr Eggington spoke of a 15 year old girl who took her life only weeks ago in Perth, and of young men taking their lives as too common an occurrence for Aboriginal families throughout Perth and the South West of the State.</p> <p>Mr and Mrs Eggington coordinate Aboriginal loss and grief programs and they have assisted hundreds of families. They too have lost a son, their boy Bob, only three years ago when he took his life.</p> <p>Dumbartung runs many programs and services however also includes a “mourning room” to assist those grieving, and to let them know they are not alone and that no-one has been forgotten – well at least not forgotten by Dumbartung.</p> <p>The Suicide Crisis Summit will be only three hours long and hopefully a start to something positive. Dumbartung has invited everyone – State and Federal Governments, WA Police, leading lights from the criminal justice system, Aboriginal luminaries and others to discuss the ways forward and the strategies needed to reduce suicide. They will also discuss how best to secure and expend funding for suicide prevention.</p> <p>“If suicide prevention programs are working why then are statistics getting worse for our people? Why is the death rate of our people through suicide remaining at the highest in the world?” said Mr Eggington.</p> <p>Last week, Premier Colin Barnett admitted that alleged billions of dollars spent on Aboriginal services and communities were not reaching the people. He has now moved to create an Aboriginal Affairs Cabinet subcommittee in an attempt to have more oversight and feedback and to do more directly for Aboriginal peoples.</p> <p>“State Government expenditure on services for Aboriginal people was about $2.3 billion in 2010-11, or approximately $30,000 per person,” the Premier told Parliament on April 17.</p> <p>The Premier needs to be careful when breaking down monies to a per person basis because this is not how funding works. He should have subtracted Government bureaucratic costs and contractors’ payments. Acquittal is a major issue that has been failed by design principles – acquittal as an end result should be effectively guaranteed from the outset.</p> <p>“Despite this reform and investment, outcomes for Aboriginal West Australians are unacceptable,” said Premier Barnett.</p> <p>But they have been accepted for far too long and if little is done about the homelessness, poverty and suicides then indeed it must be deemed as the Government accepting the state of affairs. The State Government has failed many times over on a $12 million Broome Hostel promise and instead homelessness is rife throughout the town.</p> <p>“Mortality rates are two and half times higher and suicide rates three times higher (than non-Aboriginal peoples),” he said.</p> <p>But he did not mention the Kimberley suicide rates.</p> <p>Mental Health Minister Helen Morton and Aboriginal Affairs Minister Peter Collier will send representatives to the Suicide Crisis Summit.</p> <p>Hopefully everyone invited, or their representatives, shall attend the Dumbartung Suicide Crisis Summit.</p> <p>State Government and Federal Governments have let down Aboriginal communities nationwide on youth suicide. Last year, South Australia’s Tauto Sansbury started a campaign for a 24 hour Aboriginal crisis centre in Adelaide to help reduce the high rate of youth suicides. In the first 13 days of January he attended eight funerals – youth suicides. The Government promised to work towards funding a crisis centre. <span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">This has not happened. Both Labor and the Coalition in South Australia are not prepared to find the funds for a crisis centre for Aboriginal youth, and therefore no such 24 hour crisis centre exists in Adelaide but the suicides continue.<br /> </span></p> <p>Read more:</p> <p></p> <p></p> <p align="center" style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Quality of life for Australians 2<sup>nd</sup> only to Norway, but for Aboriginal peoples 122<sup>nd</sup></span></b></span></p> <p align="center" style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">16<sup>th</sup> March 2013, by Gerry Georgatos</span></span></p> <p align="center" style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><a href="http://thestringer.com.au/quality-of-life-for-australians-2nd-only-to-norway-but-for-aboriginal-peoples-122nd/"><span style="color: blue;">http://thestringer.com.au/quality-of-life-for-australians-2nd-only-to-norway-but-for-aboriginal-peoples-122nd/</span></a></span></span></p> <p align="center" style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Australia’s Aboriginal children – The world’s highest suicide rate</span></b></span></p> <p align="center" style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">27<sup>th</sup> February 2013, by Gerry Georgatos</span></span></p> <p align="center" style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><a href="http://thestringer.com.au/australias-aboriginal-children-the-worlds-highest-suicide-rate/#.UWwFgspzKgs"><span style="color: blue;">http://thestringer.com.au/australias-aboriginal-children-the-worlds-highest-suicide-rate/#.UWwFgspzKgs</span></a></span></p> </div></blockquote><div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://thestringer.com.au/dumbartung-convenes-suicide-crisis-summit/#.UXt0SGq0rrK.posterous">thestringer.com.au</a></div> <p></p></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06708473485442982631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3325762264759647868.post-69449089219352903402013-04-23T20:57:00.001-07:002013-04-23T20:57:23.148-07:00Untitled<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <object height="400" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="500"><param name="movie" value="book.swf" /> <param name="quality" value="high" /> <param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" /> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /> --> <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="400" width="500"><param name="quality" value="high" /> <param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" /> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /> <param name="wmode" value="transparent" /> --> <p>Either scripts and active content are not permitted to run or Adobe Flash Player version 9.0.0 or greater is not installed.</p> <a href="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer">Get Adobe Flash Player</a> --></object> </object><div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.biometricsistanbul.com/flipbook_eng/biyometrikonferansi.html">biometricsistanbul.com</a></div> <p></p></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06708473485442982631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3325762264759647868.post-57035422411106255812013-04-12T12:32:00.001-07:002013-04-12T12:32:32.543-07:00Should the BBC play 'Ding dong the witch is gone' on the official chart show?<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://getfile3.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/projectbrainsaver/fuzgqbIDancGcBjGDIrIDexbfblvphsFDilcoetcHvgcizhkChnCsnomoqgp/media_httpwwwradiotim_xJhAj.jpg.scaled1000.jpg"><img alt="Media_httpwwwradiotim_xjhaj" height="302" src="http://getfile2.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/projectbrainsaver/fuzgqbIDancGcBjGDIrIDexbfblvphsFDilcoetcHvgcizhkChnCsnomoqgp/media_httpwwwradiotim_xJhAj.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-04-11/should-radio-1-play-ding-dong-the-witch-is-dead-on-the-official-chart-show#.UWhg99Vy-Go.posterous">radiotimes.com</a></div> <p></p></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06708473485442982631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3325762264759647868.post-72457822655647580902013-04-12T07:02:00.001-07:002013-04-12T07:02:02.430-07:00Doubts raised over cause of refugee camp fire | Bangkok Post: news<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote class="posterous_long_quote">Questions raised over cause of refugee camp blaze According to official sources, the fire at Mae Surin was an accident. But several eyewitnesses and a senior police officer who headed the initial probe remain unconvinced Published: 7 Apr 2013 at 00.00Newspaper section: Spectrum Two weeks after 38 people were killed in a fire at the Mae Surin camp in Mae Hong Son province, the circumstances that led to the fatal blaze remain unclear. SUSPICIOUS SMOKE: The police officer in charge of the initial investigation said he was puzzled by the black smoke created by the blaze. House fires usually produce white smoke, he said. In the aftermath of the tragedy, which has been described as the worst to hit a border refugee camp in more than 25 years, the military has maintained a tight lid on the scene. As well as the fatalities, more than 2,300 Karen and Karenni refugees were left homeless, 100 people were injured and 400 dwellings were destroyed. While there has yet to be an official declaration of the cause of the fire, media reports have pointed to three possible explanations: a cooking accident, a forest fire and arson. Spectrum visited the camp last week to get eyewitness accounts o</blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/investigation/344317/doubts-raised-over-cause-of-refugee-camp-fire">bangkokpost.com</a></div> <p></p></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06708473485442982631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3325762264759647868.post-51316984418874328062013-04-11T05:20:00.001-07:002013-04-11T05:20:04.154-07:00Demand an end to brutal ‘sorcery’ killings in Papua New Guinea - Amnesty International Australia<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote class="posterous_long_quote">Demand an end to brutal ‘sorcery’ killings in Papua New Guinea Crisis, Individuals at Risk, Petition Last week Helen Rumbali, a women's rights advocate and former school teacher, was beheaded in front of her community in Papua New Guinea after three days of unspeakable torture. Police stood by and watched, reporting that they were unable to intervene to stop the angry mob. Why was she murdered? Helen was accused of 'sorcery', and brutal attacks like this one are not uncommon. The law and police inaction effectively condone such violence. The "Sorcery Act" in PNG law offers a reduced sentence if a perpetrator of violent crime uses allegations of 'sorcery' as an excuse -- even for murder. Right now another woman and her two daughters have been captured at Lopele, Bana District Southern Bougainville. She has been accused of sorcery. We are extremely concerned for the safety of these three women. Demand Papua New Guinean authorities act urgently to stop 'sorcery' killings Demand the Bougainville Police Command need to use all available resources to save this woman's life; and also that PNG authorities bring the perpetrators of these crimes to justice and fast-track the reform of</blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.amnesty.org.au/action/action/31512/?utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=wallpost&utm_campaign=IAR&utm_content=">amnesty.org.au</a></div> <p></p></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06708473485442982631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3325762264759647868.post-38039413690568482892013-04-08T08:31:00.001-07:002013-04-08T08:31:54.076-07:00Icelandic Lawmaker Birgitta Jonsdottir on Challenging Gov’t Secrecy From Twitter to Bradley Manning<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote><div> <div> <div> <div title="Story: Donate">DONATE →</div> <div>This is viewer supported news</div> </div> <div> <span> <span> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2013/4/8/icelandic_lawmaker_birgitta_jonsdottir_on_challenging#">Printer-friendly</a> </span> </span> </div> <div><p>Icelandic Parliamentarian Birgitta Jonsdottir played a critical role in Wikileaks’ release of the “Collateral Murder” video, which showed a U.S. military helicopter in July 2007 as it killed 12 people and wounded two children in Iraq. Jonsdottir joins us on her first trip to the United States since a secret grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, began its investigation of WikiLeaks and Julian Assange. She also discusses her role at the center of another closely watched legal case — challenging of the government’s effort to obtain her Twitter records without a warrant, and why she has come to the United States to champion the cases of military whistleblower Bradley Manning and the accused hacker Jeremy Hammond. [Transcript to come. 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Percival Zhang, an associate professor of <a href="http://www.bse.vt.edu">biological systems engineering</a> in the <a href="http://www.cals.vt.edu">College of Agriculture and Life Sciences</a> and the <a href="http://www.eng.vt.edu">College of Engineering</a>. “Hydrogen is one of the most important biofuels of the future.”</p><p>Zhang and his team have succeeded in using xylose, the most abundant simple plant sugar, to produce a large quantity of hydrogen that previously was attainable only in theory. Zhang’s method can be performed using any source of biomass.</p><p>The discovery is a featured editor’s choice in an online version of the chemistry journal <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.201300766/abstract" target="_blank">Angewandte Chemie, International Edition</a>.</p><p>This new environmentally friendly method of producing hydrogen utilizes renewable natural resources, releases almost no greenhouse gasses, and does not require costly or heavy metals. Previous methods to produce hydrogen are expensive and create greenhouse gases.</p><p>The U.S. Department of Energy says that hydrogen fuel has the potential to dramatically reduce reliance on fossil fuels and automobile manufacturers are aggressively trying to develop vehicles that run on hydrogen fuel cells. Unlike gas-powered engines that spew out pollutants, the only byproduct of hydrogen fuel is water. Zhang’s discovery opens the door to an inexpensive, renewable source of hydrogen.</p><p>Jonathan R. Mielenz, group leader of the bioscience and technology biosciences division at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, who is familiar with Zhang’s work but not affiliated with this project, said this discovery has the potential to have a major impact on alternative energy production.</p><p>“The key to this exciting development is that Zhang is using the second most prevalent sugar in plants to produce this hydrogen,” he said. “This amounts to a significant additional benefit to hydrogen production and it reduces the overall cost of producing hydrogen from biomass.”</p><p>Mielenz said Zhang’s process could find its way to the marketplace as quickly as three years if the technology is available. Zhang said when it does become commercially available, it has the possibility of making an enormous impact.</p><p>“The potential for profit and environmental benefits are why so many automobile, oil, and energy companies are working on hydrogen fuel cell vehicles as the transportation of the future,” Zhang said. “Many people believe we will enter the hydrogen economy soon, with a market capacity of at least $1 trillion in the United States alone.”</p><p>Obstacles to commercial production of hydrogen gas from biomass previously included the high cost of the processes used and the relatively low quantity of the end product.</p><p>But Zhang says he thinks he has found the answers to those problems.</p><p>For seven years, Zhang’s team has been focused on finding non-traditional ways to produce high-yield hydrogen at low cost, specifically researching enzyme combinations, discovering novel enzymes, and engineering enzymes with desirable properties.</p><p>The team liberates the high-purity hydrogen under mild reaction conditions at 122 degrees and normal atmospheric pressure. The biocatalysts used to release the hydrogen are a group of enzymes artificially isolated from different microorganisms that thrive at extreme temperatures, some of which could grow at around the boiling point of water.</p><p>The researchers chose to use xylose, which comprises as much as 30 percent of plant cell walls. Despite its abundance, the use of xylose for releasing hydrogen has been limited. The natural or engineered microorganisms that most scientists use in their experiments cannot produce hydrogen in high yield because these microorganisms grow and reproduce instead of splitting water molecules to yield pure hydrogen.</p><p>To liberate the hydrogen, Virginia Tech scientists separated a number of enzymes from their native microorganisms to create a customized enzyme cocktail that does not occur in nature. The enzymes, when combined with xylose and a polyphosphate, liberate the unprecedentedly high volume of hydrogen from xylose, resulting in the production of about three times as much hydrogen as other hydrogen-producing microorganisms.</p><p>The energy stored in xylose splits water molecules, yielding high-purity hydrogen that can be directly utilized by proton-exchange membrane fuel cells. Even more appealing, this reaction occurs at low temperatures, generating hydrogen energy that is greater than the chemical energy stored in xylose and the polyphosphate. This results in an energy efficiency of more than 100 percent — a net energy gain. That means that low-temperature waste heat can be used to produce high-quality chemical energy hydrogen for the first time. Other processes that convert sugar into biofuels such as ethanol and butanol always have energy efficiencies of less than 100 percent, resulting in an energy penalty.</p><p>In his previous research, Zhang used enzymes to produce hydrogen from starch, but the reaction required a food source that made the process too costly for mass production.</p><p>The commercial market for hydrogen gas is now around $100 billion for hydrogen produced from natural gas, which is expensive to manufacture and generates a large amount of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. Industry most often uses hydrogen to manufacture ammonia for fertilizers and to refine petrochemicals, but an inexpensive, plentiful green hydrogen source can rapidly change that market.</p><p>“It really doesn’t make sense to use non-renewable natural resources to produce hydrogen,” Zhang said. “We think this discovery is a game-changer in the world of alternative energy.”</p><p>Support for the current research comes from the Department of Biological Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech. Additional resources were contributed by the Shell GameChanger Program, the Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life Sciences’ Biodesign and Bioprocessing Research Center, and the U.S. Department of Energy BioEnergy Science Center, along with the Division of Chemical Sciences, Geosciences and Biosciences, Office of Basic Energy Sciences of the Department of Energy. The lead author of the article, Julia S. Martin Del Campo, who works in Zhang’s lab, received her Ph.D. grant from the Mexican Council of Science and Technology.</p><div> <p>Nationally ranked among the top research institutions of its kind, Virginia Tech’s <a href="http://www.cals.vt.edu/" shape="rect">College of Agriculture and Life Sciences</a> focuses on the science and business of living systems through learning, discovery, and engagement. The college’s comprehensive curriculum gives more than 3,100 students in a dozen academic departments a balanced education that ranges from food and fiber production to economics to human health. Students learn from the world’s leading agricultural scientists, who bring the latest science and technology into the classroom.</p></div> </div></blockquote><div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2013/04/040413-cals-hydrogen.html#.UV_87ngk8F8.posterous">vtnews.vt.edu</a></div> <p></p></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06708473485442982631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3325762264759647868.post-62425676955568993942013-04-05T20:00:00.001-07:002013-04-05T20:00:22.090-07:00WikiLeaks - BEAT THE BLOCKADE April 5th<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote><div> <p><img title="Beat The Blockade - Donate $5 on April 5" src="https://beattheblockade.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/btb-april2013.png" alt="Beat The Blockade - Donate $5 on April 5" width="500" /></p> <p>On April 5, ‘Beat the Blockade’ by donating $5 to WikiLeaks</p> <p>We launched the ‘Beat the Blockade’ campaign site one year ago, starting with a day of action on April 5, 2012 to protest the extrajudicial financial blockade of WikiLeaks and raise vital funds for their work to continue.</p> <p>While Julian Assange fights legal battles under the serious threat of extradition to the United States to face secretly drawn up espionage charges, WikiLeaks continues to analyse and publish information that reveals truths about the world, its power relationships and injustices, most recently the Stratfor release, the ‘Global Intelligence Files’. And yet they struggle to operate under an extended ban processing on payments to them by US based corporate giants Visa, MasterCard, Western Union, PayPal and Bank of America.</p> <p>We have since promoted the <a href="https://www.cdbaby.com/cd/wikileaksbeattheblockade2">Beat the Blockade CD</a>, run a <a href="https://beattheblockade.org/btb">Christmas Gift Ideas</a> campaign over the holiday season and promoted the new WikiLeaks payment methods as they became available.</p> <p>In August of last year the WikiLeaks website was subjected to a week long DDoS attack, and the Beat the Blockade website was able to provide WikiLeaks supporters with direct access to donation methods despite the wikileaks.org website being down. WikiLeaks <a href="https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/234529483267387392">tweeted</a> ”Despite the contiued 10Gb+ DDoS attack on WikiLeaks you can still donate via our Beat the Blockade campaign site <a href="http://beattheblockade.org/">http://beattheblockade.org/</a> “</p> <p>By logging on to beattheblockade.org on April 5 and donating at least $5 by one of the easy payment methods, people around the world can send a message to the companies engaged in the blockade – and the governments that regulate them – that censorship of a free press publisher and denying consumers their rights will not be tolerated.</p> <p>Since 7th December 2010 an arbitrary and unlawful financial blockade has been imposed by Bank of America, VISA, MasterCard, PayPal and Western Union on WikiLeaks. The attack has destroyed 95% of Wikileaks’ revenue. The blockade came into force within ten days of the launch of Cablegate as part of a concerted US-based, political attack on a free press publishing organisation that has breached no law in any country, and that won the 2011 Australian Walkley Award for outstanding contribution to journalism.</p> <p>This April 5, together we will Beat the Blockade by each donating $5 to WikiLeaks.</p> <p></p> <div><b>Share</b><br /> <a></a><a></a><a></a><a></a><a></a><a></a> </div> <p><br /> </p> </div></blockquote><div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="https://beattheblockade.org/">beattheblockade.org</a></div> <p></p></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06708473485442982631noreply@blogger.com