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Zebra 3 Report by Joe Anybody
Wednesday, 8 October 2008
Video Camera + Bike left unchained + Bike thieves = TEST
Mood:
 not sure
Now Playing: How safe is your city? Put it to the bicycle test
Topic: ANYBODY * ANYDAY
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - How safe is your city? An Argentine publicist has developed a bicycle test to gauge crime in different neighborhoods. Using hidden cameras and cheap bicycles as bait, Mariano Pasik, 37, films how long it takes a thief to steal an unchained bike in different areas of Buenos Aires. His hypothesis is that the longer the bicycle is left the safer the area is. "It's not a statistic but in a way it shows that (in) the places where the bicycle gets robbed really quickly perhaps the quality of life is poorer," said Mariano Pasik, 37. Pasik speeds up the videos, sets them to music and puts them on a website (http://www.lapruebadelabicicleta.com/). He hopes other videographers will join his nonprofit "Bicycle Test" project and create a worldwide insecurity index. Z3 Readers you can read this complete full article here: http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE49792G20081008?feedType=nl&feedName=ustechnology&sp=true ps there were no women bike thiefs' in this test so far (?)
Posted by Joe Anybody
at 3:24 PM PDT
Updated: Wednesday, 8 October 2008 3:31 PM PDT
Tuesday, 7 October 2008
Voting on Ballot Measures in Oregon 2008
Mood:
 energetic
Now Playing: The important ballot measures to remember in Oregon 2008
Topic: CIVIL RIGHTS
Oregon
Vote NO on Measure 61 Measure 61 would greatly expand the number of criminal defendants subject to mandatory minimums, this time for non-violent property and drug crimes. Under this measure, a sentence would have to be served in its entirety, and there would be no eligibility for reduction at any time during the sentence (good time credit). ACLU opposes mandatory minimum prison sentences because they eliminate a judge’s ability to evaluate the facts of each case and consider the character and history of the defendant in determining the most appropriate sentence.
ACLU Opposes Measure 57, but…*
This measure requires judges to impose a minimum prison sentence, the length of which would depend only on the person’s criminal history. It would prohibit judges from ordering a lesser sentence which current law allows in exceptional situations based upon an individual’s particular circumstances. As a result, the new sentences are mandatory minimum sentences. They differ slightly from Oregon’s current mandatory minimum scheme in that Measure 57 would allow an inmate to receive credit for good behavior during incarceration. Measure 57 also would increase access to drug treatment programs for those who are incarcerated or on post-prison supervision or probation. It would provide local counties with additional funding for drug courts, intensive supervision and jail beds to use as sanctions for those who fail to comply with conditions imposed by their treatment programs. If Measure 57 receives more “yes” votes than Measure 61, it would supersede (and replace) Measure 61. (Likewise, if both measures receive a majority of votes cast, but this measure receives fewer “yes” votes than Measure 61, Measure 57 would not go into effect.) * While in an ideal world we would hope that voters would reject both Measures 61 and 57, we are also well aware of current political realities in Oregon. Deciding how to vote on Measure 57 will be one of the most difficult decisions civil libertarians will face this year. Recommendation: The ACLU of Oregon Opposes Ballot Measure 57, but we urge ACLU members and supporters to be aware of its link to Ballot Measure 61 and make up your own minds.
Vote NO on Measure 58
Measure 58 would impose arbitrary limits on english language Instruction in public schools. The measure also runs the risk of being in conflict with federal equal education opportunity requirements and jeopardizing federal funding. Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination based on “race, color or national origin.” This is part of an ongoing nationwide “English-only” effort. Measure 58 would eliminate local control by school boards, educators and families and replace it with a one-size-fits-all approach that would hurt students who are not able to become completely fluent in English within a relatively short period of time.
VOTE NO on Measure 64
Measure 64 would mandate that no “public resources” be used to collect or to help collect money used for “political purposes.” This would basically restrict political speech and association rights of public employees and non-profit organizations. The definition of “public resources” is very broad and would include the use of “public buildings.” Measure 64 would bar candidates and ballot measure-related events in those buildings while still allowing every other type of group to meet. That raises significant concerns under the Oregon and U.S. constitutions. In addition, Measure 64 would eliminate the ability of public employees to make decisions about their own payroll deductions including union dues and deductions made to non-profits who may speak out on ballot measures and legislative proposals.
Vote YES on Measure 56
Ballot Measure 56 would partially remove “double majority” requirement for property tax election. Currently, a property tax measure can be approved only if it has both a majority of “yes” votes and more than 50 percent of registered voters participate in the election (“double majority”). The ACLU of Oregon has always opposed the “double-majority” requirement because it runs counter to the principle of one-person/one-vote. Under the current requirement, a tax measure would fail even if it receives a large majority of “yes” votes if fewer than 50 percent of registered voters participate in the election. That means that the “votes” of people who refuse to vote would have greater weight than the votes of people who return their ballots. While Measure 56 would not repeal the “double-majority” requirement altogether, it is an improvement.
Posted by Joe Anybody
at 4:16 PM PDT
How the election could impact telecom and the FCC
Mood:
 special
Now Playing: Presidents and telephone deregulation "to be or not to be"
Topic: TECHNOLOGY
Hello Z3 Readers, The following article is located here: http://telephonyonline.com/independent/news/telecom-policy-changes-1007/index.html This is the first few paragraph regarding the FCC and The Telcom Industry with the aspect that a new president will be at the helm and what the outlook is shaping to be(come) ORLANDO -- Whether the next president is John McCain or Barack Obama, the telecom industry can expect some policy changes, according to Washington insiders speaking at the Comptel fall trade show and convention here this week. But the extent of that change appears uncertain, with some experts predicting minor impact and others expecting bigger shifts. Larry Irving, co-chair of the Internet Innovation Alliance, was heavily involved in the last major telecom reform effort as assistant secretary of commerce and head of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration under Bill Clinton. Given all that will challenge the next administration, Irving believes extensive change in telecom regulation is unlikely, regardless of who wins the election. “With two wars, the economic meltdown, healthcare issues and other problems, telecom won’t come to the fore,” Irving said as part of a panel on the impact of the election. Under Obama, to whom Irving is an adviser, the focus will be on encouraging competition to bring choices and reasonable prices to consumers and on promoting new technologies and innovations that solve old problems such as access to the last mile for competitors. (more)
Posted by Joe Anybody
at 1:33 PM PDT
Saturday, 4 October 2008
Housing is a Human Right
Mood:
 loud
Now Playing: INDY MEDIA ARTICLE by Theresa Mitchel
Topic: HUMANITY
Housing is a Human RightSince the Senate and House Demopublicans saw fit to rob 5% of the GDP for the rich, and would not hear the insistent pleas for a moratorium on foreclosures, We The People must enforce a moratorium on evictions. A cessation of evictions will not only aid working families, but will stop the hemorrhage of property values, as people stay in housing rather than leave it to decay. This popular action was necessary in the first Great Depression, and it returns now, with the international precedent of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1948. Here are some of the relevant sections (esp. sec. 25, emphasis mine):
Article 23.
(1) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
(2) Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.
(3) Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.
(4) Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.
Article 24.
Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.
Article 25.
(1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, HOUSING and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
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Note that economic rights are even more important in a multi-trillion-dollar economy. http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2008/10/380335.shtml |
Posted by Joe Anybody
at 2:34 PM PDT
Updated: Saturday, 4 October 2008 2:40 PM PDT
Disruptive Technologies
Mood:
 bright
Now Playing: biogerontechnology information
Topic: TECHNOLOGY
Well hello my fellow readers, Here is a paragraph from this link HERE It's about living longer and from what the writer calls: "Disruptive Technologies" In ‘U.S. sees six disruptive technologies by 2025,’ Computerworld reports that the National Intelligence Council (NIC) is preparing a report about disruptive technologies expected to have a major impact on the world. The NIC defines as disruptive ‘a technology with the potential to cause a noticeable — even if temporary — degradation or enhancement in one of the elements of US national power (geopolitical, military, economic, or social cohesion).’ According to a preliminary version of this report, the list of these disruptive technologies should include biogerontechnology, energy storage materials, biofuels and bio-based chemicals or service robotics. But read more for more details about biogerontechnology… Z3 Readers you can read the full article at this link here: http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=1035
Posted by Joe Anybody
at 2:19 PM PDT
Friday, 3 October 2008
China using surveillance on Skype software users
Mood:
not sure
Now Playing: China spys big time on text messaging and Skype Phone users
Topic: CIVIL RIGHTS
Surveillance of Skype messages found in China Published: October 2, 2008 SanFranscio: A group of Canadian human-rights activists and computer security researchers has discovered a huge surveillance system in China that monitors and archives certain Internet text conversations that include politically charged words. The system tracks text messages sent by customers of Tom-Skype, a joint venture between a Chinese wireless operator and eBay, the Web auctioneer that owns Skype, an online phone and text messaging service. The discovery draws more attention to the Chinese government's Internet monitoring and filtering efforts, which created controversy this summer during the Beijing Olympics. Researchers in China have estimated that 30,000 or more "Internet police" monitor online traffic, Web sites and blogs for political and other offending content in what is called the Golden Shield Project or the Great Firewall of China. The activists, who are based at Citizen Lab, a research group that focuses on politics and the Internet at the University of Toronto, discovered the surveillance operation last month. They said a cluster of eight message-logging computers in China contained more than a million censored messages. They examined the text messages and reconstructed a list of restricted words. Read This Full Article HERE http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/02/technology/02skype.php
Posted by Joe Anybody
at 4:08 PM PDT
Thursday, 2 October 2008
700 billion.... hell how about 2.5 trillion that is missing from the Pentagon
Mood:
 celebratory
Now Playing: Fraud - Theft - Coverup - Spin - Lies - Corruption = USA GREED
Topic: CONSPIRACY
Hello my friendly Z3 Report Readers The Sky is Falling
http://www.dailyreckoning.com/ ...Quote below is from the: "The Daily Reckoning" website (link above)
(quote) Paris, France
Thursday, October 2, 2008below this email)
(( “According to Bloomberg : ‘Senators attached a provision repealing a 39-cent excise tax on wooden arrows designed for children to an historic $700 billion bank rescue that is likely to pass tonight. The provision, originally proposed by Oregon senators Ron Wyden and Gordon Smith, will save manufacturers such as Rose City Archery in Myrtle Point, Oregon, about $200,000 a year.’ )) (end quote)
Oh hey Z3 Readers, … I was reminded by an email from a friend, about how no one is talking about the 3 trillion dollars that went missing from the Pentagon a few years ago (ha ha)
How do you spell “dumb American” …oh wait what is that saying used once in a while ….The average American is a (you spell it) “G R A P E”
The Department of Defense, already infamous for spending $640 for a toilet seat, once again finds itself under intense scrutiny, only this time because it couldn't account for more than a trillion dollars in financial transactions, not to mention dozens of tanks, missiles and planes. LINK IS HERE: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/05/18/MN251738.DTL
So back to the 700 billion (forget the trillion for a minute ) (ha)
“A stack of 1,ooo dollar bills …..piled 63 miles high would equal one billion dollars
You would need to make 700 piles of 1,ooo dollar bills ….63 miles high to reach that amount !!!
Airplanes fly seven miles high (compared to 63 miles high)
LINK HERE: http://www.cjob.com/blogs/ExcuseMe/blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10008510
Oh ya the missing trillion from the Pentagon budget is more like 2.5 trillion
It makes the 700 billion look like spare change
Read more “facts on the missing 2.5 trillion” LINK HERE: http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a091001defensebudget
A good forum on this topic is right here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=125x92233#92274
I say loudly & proudly:
Impeach Bush & Cheney
Vote Nader/Gonzales in 2008
Joe Anybody
Oh before I forget here is the YouTube video where Cynthia McKinney is jamming Rummy on a few topics ..this is priceless
McKinney takes on Donald Rumsfeld text from video is here: http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/030105_mckinney_question.shtml The video is here: ***************
Posted by Joe Anybody
at 7:10 PM PDT
Updated: Friday, 3 October 2008 4:33 PM PDT
Lawmaker Revives Former KKK Leader's Sterilization Proposal
Mood:
 don't ask
Now Playing: KKK idea is suggested by Rep John LaBruzo (New Orleans)
Topic: CIVIL RIGHTS
NEW ORLEANS -- A suburban New Orleans legislator has proposed revisiting an idea from former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke: paying poor women to undergo sterilization as a way to shrink welfare rolls and government costs. Rep. John LaBruzzo's suggestion prompted outrage Wednesday from several of his fellow lawmakers and advocacy groups. The Louisiana chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union called the idea mean-spirited and said it would discriminate against black Louisianians. LaBruzzo, R-Metairie, said the idea would involve the state giving $1,000 to women who rely on government support like welfare and food stamps if they agree to have their fallopian tubes tied. He said it was too early to say whether he would introduce such a bill during the 2009 legislative session, but he said he was researching it. Full Article that I read on Sept 18 2008 is located here: http://www.katc.com/Global/story.asp?S=9069201
Posted by Joe Anybody
at 11:20 AM PDT
Updated: Thursday, 2 October 2008 4:43 PM PDT
Friday, 26 September 2008
Clifton - Arrested - Assaulted - Tasered - re Arrested - Mockery of Justice -
Mood:
loud
Now Playing: Tazered Victim and his treatment by the Portland legal system
Topic: CIVIL RIGHTS
author: Joe Anybody (me)
e-mail: iam@joe-anybody.com
Z3 Readers this was posted on Portland Indy Media website by me,
The link is here:
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2008/09/380056.shtml 
A man who was assaulted on Belmont street as he was getting on a bus to go to work back in June 08
He calls for the police and waits ....only to get tasered and arrested.
Months latter while looking for his police report at the Central Precinct .... he is arrested again. Is this justice or a Mockery of Justice?
Mockery Of Justice - Stop Violence Now
Follow up two video set for man that was tasered by the police when he was the victim of an assault. After being tasered, arrested and then appearing in court for the charges, Clifton found out the case was not being pursued at the time.
This was first reported here on Indy Media in June 2008 found at this link:
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2008/06/376979.shtml
For the next four months he repeatedly was going to the police station to get his police report
He was never provided a copy of any report, always denied, and continuously told it was not available nor could it be located, week after week this was how he was acknowledged.
Four months latter which was just recently, when Clifton was back down at the Central Prescient here in Portland, looking for his copy of the police report ... .he was told to go to the main lobby desk. Upon checking in he was then ""ARRESTED" for a warrant stemming from the tasering incident.
Obviously the charges were reinstated and he was taken into custody for a second time.
Don't ask how to explain this.
For it makes no sense.
Its not about Justice, it's a mockery of justice.
I re-interviewed Clifton on 9.25.08 two block from where he was tasered, months ago.
In the follow up 2 part video clip Clifton explains what he has been going through.
He now has a trial date on 10.10.08 at the city courthouse.
The fact he was a crime victim and then later tackled and tasered by the police, is not what the trial is about.
Listen to the update and see how ass backwards Justice is being served here in Portland Oregon
((1)) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbhaR5EmDRA
((2)) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KmXeD6DjlY
Previously recorded video 4 part set - filmed at the time of the tasering in June 08
tape <1> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cDRlvOCq5M
tape <2> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyGQ9Cqaf8o
tape <3> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sH2Ee_hZxGc
tape <4> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnBMPk-VAws
Points to consider: >> Clifton was assaulted by two drunk men on a city street while boarding Trimet bus 15
>> A window was broken while the men attacked and fought with Clifton
>> Clifton called the police and waited there on the corner for them to show up
>> Clifton hit his hand on a nearby building, being stressed out and mad, he didn't realize it but his hand hit a mirror/window and it broke as he waited for the police
>> In spite of the broken mirror/window Clifton still waited for the police >> When the police arrived they didn't ask him anything, nor get his statement
>> When the police arrived they took him "down to the ground and then tasered him"
>> Clifton never resisted nor threatened the police. He didn't even have a chance to speak
>> Clifton was thus assaulted by the police, tasered and arrested, and taken to jail
>> Clifton lost his job that night and had to walk home from downtown the next morning
>> The two men who jumped him have never been found nor their crime investigated
>> Charges were not being pressed when Clifton went to court, the DA had "no charges"
>> He spent four months trying to get a copy of his police report, and it was never obtained
>> Recently when at the police station looking for his arrest information, he was arrested a second time, without warning and lacking any respect
>> Clifton was never notified of any change in his prosecution charges
>> Clifton was never asked to report in to the courts or the police, nor informed of the new charges
>> Clifton was finally given a lawyer and will speak with him/her with only 3 days before his trial comes up
>> Clifton is a quit, soft spoken, and has a very "un aggressive" demeanor.
>> Clifton is innocent and is being charged with a misdemeanor crimes
>> Clifton was an assault victim, harmed by two drunks, as well as the Portland police
>> Justice is not being served. This is a mockery and is shamefully disrespectful
My homepage:
http://www.joe-anybody.com
Posted by Joe Anybody
at 5:19 PM PDT
Updated: Friday, 26 September 2008 5:34 PM PDT
Tuesday, 23 September 2008
Cops, Laws and Videotape
Mood:
energetic
Now Playing: JOE ANYBODY - POLICE - CAMERAS & CIVIL RIGHTS
Topic: CIVIL RIGHTS
Cops, Laws and Videotapehttp://action.publicbroadcasting.net/opb/posts/list/1608609.page [Posted by Catalina Vazquez on September 19, 2008](24MB MP3)Seventeen years ago, a video of the arrest of a Los Angeles resident named Rodney King raised questions about recording police officers. Many of these legal and ethical questions still resonate in Oregon and elsewhere today. A Portlander who recently had his camera confiscated and received a citation for taping cops in action, intends to sue the Portland Police. The Oregon law used by officers to confiscate observers’ equipment is somewhat ambiguous. It’s unclear how the law applies differently to video than it does to audio recordings.For now, police observers continue to use video as a tool, and police officers continue to decide how to address the practice one case at a time. The city of Beaverton, for example, just decided not to pursue charges against a man who was arrested for recording another arrest.What are the benefits and drawbacks of recording audio and video of police officers? Have you ever observed an arrest or other police action? What did you see? If you’ve ever been stopped or arrested by police, how did you feel about being observed by your fellow citizens?GUESTS:COMMENTS ARE POSTED ON THE OPB WEBSITE
Posted by Joe Anybody
at 11:30 AM PDT
Updated: Tuesday, 23 September 2008 11:33 AM PDT
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