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Is David Petraeus Dirty? Ted Westhusing Said So, and Then He Shot HimselfBy Melina Hussein Ripcoco, Brilliant at Breakfast
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Zebra 3 Report by Joe Anybody
Wednesday, 9 April 2008
Why Did Ted Westhusing Shoot Himself?
Mood: ![]() Now Playing: Fuck The Iraq War - My Cousin Took His Life Over This Garbage Topic: WAR
Posted by Joe Anybody
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Updated: Wednesday, 9 April 2008 4:29 PM PDT
Monday, 7 April 2008
Tibet - Relay Torch - Bloody Hands - Human Rights Abuse China - Olympic Boycott protest
Mood: ![]() Now Playing: HUMAN RIGHTS - Shame on China - Boycott Olympia Torch & Games Topic: HUMANITY http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/07/france.olympicgames2008/printOlympic torchrelay cutshort amid Paris protestsLink to this video
This article was first published on guardian.co.uk on Monday April 07 2008. It was last updated at 17:24 on April 07 2008. The Olympic flame relay in Paris ended in farce today when police cut the event short after protests forced officials to repeatedly extinguish the torch. It was a second day of severe embarrassment for Beijing following similar skirmishes in London yesterday as activists demonstrated against China's recent violent crackdown in Tibet. The Paris stage of the relay ran into trouble immediately after leaving the Eiffel Tower at lunchtime, even though hundreds of riot police and security officials flanked the torch bearers. With only 200 metres of the planned 17-mile journey to the Charlety stadium on the edge of the city completed, the scale of the demonstrations meant officials had to extinguish the torch and seek shelter on board a bus. The torch was relit and handed back to the French athletes carrying it through the streets, but it soon had to be extinguished again. After this had happened for a fourth time, and with the procession hopelessly behind schedule, police decided not to go ahead with its second section. Instead, the torch was again loaded onto a bus and driven to the stadium, arriving at around 5.30pm local time (1630 BST). By the time the relay was abandoned, a planned ceremony to greet the torch outside the French capital's city hall had already been cancelled as members of the Green party hung a giant Tibetan flag from the building. Despite the huge security presence, at least two activists got within little more than an arm's length of the torch before being stopped. One protester threw water at it, but failed to extinguish the flame and was carried away. Police grappled many other demonstrators to the ground, using tear gas to disperse those blocking the relay's route. They said 28 people were arrested. While the turbulent scenes were a blow for the Beijing organisers, the Olympic flame remained alight at all times in an enclosed lantern used to preserve it on planes and overnight during the 85,000-mile journey from Olympia, in Greece, to China. Wang Hui, the media head for the Beijing Olympics organising committee, today condemned what she called a "few separatists" involved in the protests, insisting the relay would continue as planned. "The smooth progress of the torch relay cannot be stopped and will definitely be a big success," she added. The flame was more heavily guarded than it had been in London. It was barely visible inside a 200-metre cordon shielding it from protests as it left the Eiffel Tower, flanked by riot officers and other police on inline skates. Along the route, some cheered and waved Chinese flags but many others chanted pro-Tibet slogans. Around 500 protesters congregated at Trocadero Square, which faces the Eiffel Tower. One torch bearer, the double French judo gold medallist, David Douillet, told RTL radio he regretted the choice of China to host the games "because it isn't up to snuff on freedom of expression, on total liberty, and of course, on Olympic values". Demonstrations are also expected in San Francisco and New Delhi, India on the torch relay's 21-stop, six-continent tour before it arrives in mainland China on May 4. The flame's progress through London yesterday was slow, violent and occasionally farcical as protesters repeatedly attempted to disrupt the relay. China faced already a distinctly chilly official reception in France. Following reports at the weekend that the president, Nicolas Sarkozy, was still considering a boycott of the opening ceremony, Kouchner said "all options" remained open. China had hoped the flame relay – the longest in Olympic history - would mark the start of a triumphant coming-out party for the world's most populous nation, marking its emergence as a major economic and political world power. However, existing concerns over its human rights record were exacerbated following major anti-Beijing protests in Tibet, in which exiled Tibetan leaders claim up to 150 people were killed. ****** MORE NEWS UPDATED 4-7-08 3:30pm PST ****** ![]() Paris protests force cancellation of torch relay Security officials call off final section after huge pro-Tibet demonstrations 4-7-08 PARIS - Paris’ Olympic torch relay descended into chaos Monday 4/7/08, with protesters scaling the Eiffel Tower, grabbing for the flame and forcing security officials to repeatedly snuff out the torch and transport it by bus past demonstrators yelling “Free Tibet!” The relentless anti-Chinese demonstrations ignited across the capital with unexpected power and ingenuity, foiling 3,000 police officers deployed on motorcycles, in jogging gear and even inline skates. Chinese organizers finally gave up on the relay, canceling the last third of what China had hoped would be a joyous jog by torch-bearing VIPs past some of Paris’ most famous landmarks. Thousands of protesters slowed the relay to a stop-start crawl, with impassioned displays of anger over China’s human rights record, its grip on Tibet and support for Sudan despite years of bloodshed in Darfur. Five times, the Chinese officials in dark glasses and tracksuits who guard the torch extinguished it and retreated to the safety of a bus — the last time emerging only after the vehicle drove within 15 feet of the final stop, a track and field stadium. A torchbearer then ran the final steps inside. Outside, a few French activists supporting Tibet had a fist-fight with pro-Chinese demonstrators. The French activists spat on them and shouted, “Fascists!” In San Francisco, where the torch is due to arrive Wednesday, three protesters wearing harnesses and helmets climbed up the Golden Gate Bridge and tied the Tibetan flag and two banners to its cables. The banners read “One World One Dream. Free Tibet” and “Free Tibet.” The 17.4-mile route in Paris started at the Eiffel Tower, headed down the Champs-Elysées toward City Hall, then crossed the Seine before ending at the Charlety track and field stadium. Throughout the day, protesters booed trucks emblazoned with the names of Olympic corporate sponsors, chained themselves to railings and hurled water at the flame. Some unfurled banners depicting the Olympic rings as handcuffs from the Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame cathedral. Others waved signs reading “the flame of shame.” The Interior Ministry said police made 18 arrests. Officers sprayed tear gas to break up a sit-in by about 300 pro-Tibet demonstrators who blocked the route. Police tackled protesters who ran at the torch; at least two activists got within arm’s length before they were grabbed by police. Near the Louvre, police blocked a protester who approached the flame with a fire extinguisher. One detained demonstrator, handcuffed in a police bus, wrote “liber” on her right palm and “te” on the other — spelling the French word for “freedom” — and held them up to the window. With protesters slowing down the relay, a planned stop at Paris City Hall was canceled. Earlier, French officials hung a banner declaring support for human rights on the building’s facade. A spokesman for the French Olympic Committee, Denis Masseglia, estimated that a third of the 80 athletes and other VIPs who had been slated to carry the torch did not get to do so. On a bus carrying French athletes, one man in a track suit shed a tear as protesters pelted the vehicle with eggs, bottles and soda cans. The chaos started at the Eiffel Tower moments after the relay began. Green Party activist Sylvain Garel lunged for the first torchbearer, former hurdler Stephane Diagana, shouting “Freedom for the Chinese,” before security officials pulled him back. “It is inadmissible that the games are taking place in the world’s biggest prison,” Garel said later. Outside parliament, as the torch passed, 35 lawmakers protested, shouting “Freedom for Tibet.” “The flame shouldn’t have come to Paris,” said Carmen de Santiago, who had “free” painted on one cheek and “Tibet” on the other. Pro-Chinese activists carrying national flags held counter-demonstrations. “The Olympic Games are about sports. It’s not fair to turn them into politics,” said Gao Yi, a Chinese doctoral student in computer science. France’s former sports minister, Jean-Francois Lamour, stressed that though the torch was extinguished along the route, the Olympic flame itself still burned in a lantern where it is kept overnight and on airplane flights. A Chinese official said that flame was used to re-light the torch each time it was brought aboard the bus. Pro-Tibet advocate Christophe Cunniet said he and other activists were detained after they waved Tibetan flags, threw flyers and tried to block the route. Cunniet said police kicked him, cutting his forehead. “I’m still dazed,” he said. At least one athlete, former Olympic champion Marie-Jose Perec, was supportive of the demonstrators. “I think it is very, very good that people have mobilized like that,” she told French television. But other athletes and sports officials were bitterly dismayed. “A symbol like that, carried by young people who want to deliver a message of peace, should be allowed to pass,” said the head of the French Olympic Committee, Henri Serandour. “These games are a sounding board for all those who want to speak about China and Tibet. But at the same time, there are many wars on the planet that no one is talking about.”
International Olympic Committee spokeswoman Giselle Davies agreed. “We respect that right for people to demonstrate peacefully, but equally there is a right for the torch to pass peacefully and the runners to enjoy taking part in the relay,” she said. Police had hoped to prevent the chaos that marred the relay in London a day earlier. There, police had repeatedly scuffled with activists and 37 people were arrested. Beijing organizers criticized the London protests as a “disgusting” form of sabotage by Tibetan separatists. “The act of defiance from this small group of people is not popular,” said Sun Weide, a spokesman for the Beijing Olympic organizing committee. “It will definitely be criticized by people who love peace and adore the Olympic spirit. Their attempt is doomed to failure.” French President Nicolas Sarkozy has left open the possibility of boycotting the Olympic opening ceremony depending on how the situation evolves in Tibet. Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said Monday that was still the case. Activists have been protesting along the torch route since the flame embarked on its 85,000-mile journey from Ancient Olympia in Greece to the Aug. 8-24 Beijing Olympics. The round-the-world trip is the longest in Olympic history, and is meant to highlight China’s rising economic and political power. Activists have seized on it as a platform for their causes. The relay also is expected to face demonstrations in New Delhi and possibly elsewhere on its 21-stop, six-continent tour before arriving in mainland China May 4. http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/23978408/ Solidarity For Tibet
Posted by Joe Anybody
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Updated: Monday, 7 April 2008 3:43 PM PDT
Saturday, 5 April 2008
3 videos on 911 Truth - Richard Gage architect structure expert lecture
Mood: ![]() Now Playing: Over 3 hours filmed in Portland, of good information on how the Trade Towers really fell on Sept 11 01 Topic: 911 TRUTH Richard Gage spoke in Portland at the venue 'Barbaties Pan' on the subject of 911 Truth on 3-9-08 This event was even longer than the three hours that I recorded Richard provides a Q-n-A after the presentation (in part 3) and every single questing was addressed. The point I remember so vividly is (*in my words) how Mr Gage pointed out the hypothesis for planes causing the collapse do not make "factual" sense and so if the fact cant support "the claim" the person that is investigating should use another hypothesis and see if the fact will support that view or that hypothesis. For when one starts to critically consider "all the facts" and consider all the hypothesis to come to their best conclusion it will then be based on a variety of considerations not just "one viewpoint" <that cant even be factually backed up> you will have an investigation that is conducted throughly, honestly, based on facts, and has covered "all" the possible angles. The 911 commission did not even consider looking for explosions/bombs as a reason why the 3 buildings fell. There is a website for Mr Gage it is the same as what I used for the titles in these three films ------------- Google Videos <55-min each> Three Part Documentary (1) http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7150127769734809381 (2) http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-716237618164647933 (3) http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5359836692921829670 ------------ The homepage link below is my Joe Anybody's 911 Truth Page with lots of links and information I have compiled.
Posted by Joe Anybody
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Friday, 4 April 2008
Joe Anybody - "Little Brother Watching Big Brother"
Mood: ![]() Now Playing: Police Accountability - Joe Anybody gets Interviewed by The Independent Press Topic: MEDIA The Mercury Newspaper Apr 3 – Apr 9, 2008 issue ![]()
Big Brother's
Little Brother
Cop Cites Videographer forRecording Investigation
A FREELANCE videographer plans to challenge the Portland Police Bureau in court after a cop confiscated his camera and cited him, in apparent retaliation for videotaping the cop as he searched a suspect in the street. Mike Tabor, 47, has been videotaping police activities for the last two years with his Sony Handycam, as a citizen journalist working under the name "Joe Anybody." He posts footage of their activities (especially at demonstrations) on his website, Joe-Anybody.com. Tabor started videotaping Officer Dane Reister last Tuesday, March 25, at SW 10th and Main, after he saw Reister hurrying to catch up with two men in the street, one of whom was Hispanic, the other white. "I just thought it was weird because I wasn't sure why he was stopping the men," says Tabor. "So I decided to start filming." Officer Reister and his partner, Officer Nick Ragona, searched both men and found nothing on them, so they let them go. Early in the encounter, as seen on Tabor's tape, Reister told Ragona, "We're being filmed," and Ragona responded, "I see that." Following the encounter, Reister approached Tabor and asked him his name, and whether he had been recording audio. "I'm recording video and audio, yes," Tabor responds on the tape. "Give me the camera," Reister says on the tape. He then wrote Tabor a property receipt for it. "I told Ragona I was shocked they would take a camera from a journalist," says Tabor. "I told him I thought this was serious, and asked who I should talk to." Ragona told Tabor to follow them to Central Precinct on SW 2nd, where after 20 minutes, Reister emerged from the back room with his camera and a citation under ORS.165.540, for "obtaining contents of communication (unlawful)." "He told me the men were drug dealers," says Tabor, adding that he told the officer he was concerned about drug dealers too. "I asked him how I could have filmed the encounter where he would have been comfortable, and he told me I'd been standing too close and made him uncomfortable." Attorney Benjamin Haile responds to the cop's logic: "The reasonable thing to do if someone is standing too close is to ask them to move back," says Haile, who has decided to defend Tabor against the citation, and if necessary, pursue the matter through federal court on constitutional grounds. "It is not appropriate, without warning, to single out the videographer from other observers and take his camera and give him a ticket." Haile says it's very important that people have the right to monitor the police and that video is a powerful tool with which to do that. He thinks the law is either being misapplied or it's unconstitutional, according to the First Amendment right to free press and freedom of expression, and also, Article 1, Section 8 of the Oregon Bill of Rights. Haile thinks there is a strong chance a judge will agree, and dismiss the case. "If a person observes the police doing something they want to tell other people about and they're prohibited from making video, then their ability to credibly communicate what they saw is stolen from them," he says. "It is very literally stolen from them when the police seize their camera." Reister declined comment in person, but Central Precinct Commander Mike Reese returned the Mercury's call. "It was an unusual situation: an officer dealing with a person he knew was a drug dealer from previous experience, believing they were engaged in a deal," says Reese, referring to the suspect Reister was searching. "These are dangerous situations for us, and unpredictable. "To have someone stand behind the officer while he is involved in a narcotics investigation is a problem," Reese continues. "I think he took an action based on the law, and the constitutionality of these things is for the courts to decide." Tabor says he will continue to videotape officers in the course of their duty. "A lot of people say, you're just asking for trouble," he says. "But I'm just concerned about peace and justice, being a good journalist, and about police accountability. That's all."
Posted by Joe Anybody
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Updated: Friday, 4 April 2008 11:30 AM PDT
Thursday, 27 March 2008
Police Try To Shut Down Portland Videotogopher
Mood: ![]() Now Playing: Joe Anybody - films the cops and get ticket - who is the criminal here Topic: MEDIA
Posted by Joe Anybody
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Updated: Saturday, 29 March 2008 5:54 PM PDT
Wednesday, 26 March 2008
Cops take camera from Joe Anybody & issue Citation
Mood: ![]() Now Playing: Joe Anybody and the 1st Amendment Topic: MEDIA
The Following post was by me on Portland Indy Media There are comments on this Indy Media post which you can read here ___________________________________________________ This is all good information
I am in contact with a lawyer who is very interested I captured it all on film... from them stopping the citizens to walking up to me and taking my camera (which I got back by going down to the station)(they met me in the lobby & gave it back ... with the citation) When I was filming one of the two (police suspects/citizens) who I was filming immediately said loudly 2 time "Look office your are being filmed" thus one could assume the police knew I was filming secretly I was in plain view this happened around 10th and Jefferson about 7pm I will be pleading not guilty and will be looking into the other aspects this issue raises with my Lawyers It seems the cop I filmed was involved in previous "video tape" which shows him shoot rubber bullets at protesters in 02 He may "have it out" for journalist who are filming? I think there is a law that excludes parades and protests in that one is not required to "announce your recording audio" ...(so I was informed over the phone by a lawyer) But this wasn't a protest..... so its different in that respect The fact that all parties were aware I was filming and it is on film that "they knew" may give me some room ... I was 10 yards at first..... then moved back to 25 -30 yards I was never told to move back away or turn it off When the cops talk together you cant hear what they say I will be posting the video here ...and was advised by my attorney that it was OK to post it I will be hoping for some community support I feel the seriousness of this .... but I have not done anything wrong I work for Peace and Justice I am not looking for trouble ...but am being assertive and making the choice to be brave enough to step forward I feel confident that my motives for Independent Journalism, civil rights, solidarity, and government accountability will be honored and respected. I want honest police, honest journalism, and an open government that respects civil rights and human rights My court day is 4/22 Video coming soon
Posted by Joe Anybody
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Updated: Wednesday, 26 March 2008 5:42 PM PDT
Tuesday, 25 March 2008
Greg Palast has a short article for you Z3 Report Readers
Mood: ![]() Now Playing: God Damn America Topic: FAILURE by the GOVERNMENT [Sunday, March 23, 2008, Forest City, PA ] This is reprinted from an email I recieved from greg palast GOD DAMN AMERICA – ESPECIALLY PENNSYLVANIA
Posted by Joe Anybody
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Updated: Wednesday, 26 March 2008 4:31 PM PDT
NADER tells Democrates "Your time has passed"
Mood: ![]() Now Playing: Ralph Nader for President "TROOPS HOME NOW" Topic: POLITICS
What do - Code Pink Move On The Nation The Progressive In These Times And the liberal intelligentsia have in common? They all see clearly that the Democrats will not get us out of Iraq. They all see clearly that the Democrats will not crack down on corporate crime. They all see clearly that the Democrats will not support a single payer national health insurance system. They all see clearly that the Democrats will not cut the bloated, wasteful military budget. And yet, they refuse to stand up to the Democrats and say - out! Get out! Get out now! We are going to start new. You are a corrupt party. And your time has passed. Time to build something new. Instead, the liberal intelligentsia continues to hope. Against hope. That Clinton. Or Obama. Will stand up to the military corporations and their bloated, wasteful military budget. Even though they know deep down that they will not. Even in the face of 4,000 Americans dead. And more than a million Iraqis dead. And tens of thousands wounded. They refuse to abandon hope in a corrupt party. The Democratic Party is gone. And the liberal intelligentsia is gone. Yet, as we have seen over the past two months. Tens of millions of Americans are ready for change. To move past the two parties. Toward something new. And that is what Nader/Gonzalez is about. Step by step, we are getting on ballots all across the country. In New Mexico, our volunteers are well on their way to getting Nader/Gonzalez on the ballot.
Posted by Joe Anybody
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Friday, 21 March 2008
Fuck The Corporate Media _ Student Walkout Protest Interview
Mood: ![]() Now Playing: Joe Anybody tells Corporate camera news-crew "This war is your fault" Topic: PROTEST!
When the corp tv walked up to me today at the KId walkout march...I was standing on a corner where the cops just got done grabbing a kid for some minor reason. With my goggles on and and face covered (due to being maced yesterday) with a camera they thought they had a story of "He you look like you know what going on here" OH i told them in a rambling non stop way what I thought was going on not sure if my camera was on ..I still havent seen all my videos yet But I blamed them (Corporate Media) for this war and mess we are in now ..told them they have been sitting on their asses for 5 years i said they fucked this up by not reporting the real news I yelled at them for ..."me having to buy a camera and do their fucking job" I angerly loudly said "You fuckers I have over 200 videos on the INTERNET and you never show up and report the truth in any of them...I need to do what your not doing ............... shit I dont know what came over me ...i let em have my 2 cents worth ...... Doubt that will make the news (Ch 2) I looked up and the horse cops were all staring at me as I walked away .... The two news people stood there staring at me dumbfounded! FUCK THE CORPORATE MEDIA..... they come out for some sugar cube reporting / spin Fuck them ...thats how come we are in this mess in the first place Thank God For Portland Indy Media and "other independent news sources" ********************** AND WAIT TILL YOU SEE MY 2 HOUR VIDEO OF 1 to 2 THOUSAND KIDS MARCHING FOR PEACE SEE THE COPS GET MEAN WITH JAY WALKERS ...SEE THE KIDS ROCK THE FUCIN HOUSE THIS IS WHAT I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR !!! There line went for blocks and blocks THESE KIDS ALL WERE PEACEFUL AND MADE JOE ANYBODY "SUPER PROUD" I WAS ECSTATIC TO SEE THIS ..... IT WAS *GREAT* (CEPT THE COPS BEING MEAN) YOU WONT FRICKING BELIEVE THESE KIDS ...300 hundred "MY ass!!" .....THE LINE OF KIDS WENT FROM BURNSIDE TO TO MAIN STREET DAMN CORPORATE MEDIA !!! ******************** Here is the First Video Link And more video coming real soon
Posted by Joe Anybody
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Updated: Friday, 21 March 2008 5:42 AM PDT
Tuesday, 18 March 2008
Semantic Web - A new way of surfing the Internet?
Mood: ![]() Now Playing: Organizing the Internet. - By using "Twine" ? Topic: MEDIA Hung Up On the Semantic (Web)Permanent linkThe jumbled mess that is the internet has a certain charm. Masses of confusing information and useless web pages sit neatly along side important sites, with Google standing as one of the only ways to tell them apart. Google is still the top dog in organizing the web, but the internet has evolved since the company began 12 years ago (that’s about 90 in web years). In fact, Tim Berners-Lee, who’s credited with inventing the World Wide Web, told the Times Online that he believes Google will be “superseded” by the Semantic Web. Instead of simply focusing on web pages, the Semantic Web would, in theory, organize all kinds of information from bank statements to maps to photos to medical research studies. In a video for Technology Review, Berners-Lee talks about how Semantic Web technology could help doctors compare different kinds of medical data, combining the information with nutrition data or seemingly unrelated data like air travel patterns, illuminating trends and information that could literally save lives. For now, much of the promise of the Semantic Web has yet to be realized, but companies are busy preparing to take advantage of the new technology. The latest incarnation is a website called Twine, created by Radar Networks, currently in private beta testing. CNet News reports that the company has raised $18 million in two stages to implement the technology. Right now, Twine looks a lot like Facebook, MySpace, or other social networking sites. Users create a profile, upload a picture, and connect with other users on the site. The company hopes that users will soon begin dumping massive amounts of emails, research data, and other work-related information into the site, so that people will begin to make sense of the information in new ways. The difference between Twine and MySpace, Facebook, or other social networking sites is that “a social network that is about who you know, Twine is more about what you know,” Radar Networks founder Nova Spivack told CNet News. If the Semantic Web works as well as Spivack and Berners-Lee hope it will, people will soon start to know a lot more. Image by Noah Sussman, licensed under Creative Commons. Just for fun, here’s a very cool video about organizing the web:
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