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Zebra 3 Report by Joe Anybody
Monday, 24 October 2011
Sexual Abuse of US Refugee Detainees Pervasive
Mood:
 on fire
Now Playing: Sexual Abuse of US Refugee Detainees Pervasive - Article by Paul Canning
Topic: TORTURE
Sexual Abuse of US Refugee Detainees Pervasive The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has released government documents containing 185 allegations of sexual abuse against female immigration detainees in federal detention centers since 2007. Many of the women are refugees fleeing persecution including torture and rape. The Department of Justice (DOJ) explicitly excludes immigration detention facilities from coverage under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA). ACLU has provided detailed narratives by three women describing sexual assaults by guards whilst they were being transported in prison vans. Almost all US immigration detainees, including asylum seekers and refugees, are not detained in specialist facilities but in normal state prisons. The ACLU says the 185 assaults happened all around the country, with more allegations against facilities in Texas than in any other state, but they do not represent the full scope of the problem because sexual assault is “notoriously underreported.” Mark Whitburn, senior staff attorney for the ACLU of Texas, said in a statement: “Immigrants in detention are uniquely vulnerable to abuse – and those holding them in custody know it. Many do not speak English … and may not be aware of their rights, or they may be afraid to exercise them.” The ACLU has launched a class-action suit in Texas on behalf of three women who are seeking asylum in the US after fleeing sexual assault in their home countries. Lisa Graybill, legal director of the ACLU of Texas, said in a statement: “The fact that these women sought sanctuary in the United States – only to find abuse at the hands of officials they thought would protect them – is wholly inconsistent with America’s self-proclaimed reputation as a beacon of human rights.” The Texas suit names three officials from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a guard accused of assaulting the women and Corrections Corp. of America, the country’s largest private prisons contractor. Donald Dunn, the guard in Texas named in the lawsuit, has pleaded guilty in state court to three counts of official repression and two counts of unlawful restraint related to assaults against five women, according to the ACLU. Dunn also faces four federal counts of criminal violations of civil rights, the ACLU said. Related Stories: US Border Agents Have ‘Culture of Cruelty’ An Alternative to Alabama’s Direction on Immigration Jail is No Place for US Immigration Detainees Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/sexual-abuse-of-us-refugee-detainees-pervasive.html#ixzz1bpZ0Chea
Posted by Joe Anybody
at 12:01 AM PDT
Updated: Tuesday, 25 October 2011 2:20 PM PDT
Survival Podcasts - Information
Mood:
 energetic
Now Playing: Modern Financial Survival
Topic: Survivalist
Episode-770- Modern Financial Survival Yesterday I stated that we are about to in effect go into the middle of a financial war. I am not sure the analogy was fully understood it wasn’t so much about fighting the battle but more about the way that even if good is the end result how many can be harmed in the process. This resulted in a litany of people trying to nit pick about the justification for WWII, why the US prospered after the war, etc. Such people are literalists that don’t comprehend analogies and tell “ants are socialists”, when you tell them the ant and grasshopper story. Today I will revisit a few things people took exception to (very briefly) and will spend most of the show outlining my “modern financial survival guide” for the coming future. Join Me Today as We Discuss… - Is the Catholic Church calling for a “World Bank” and global tax or not
- What exactly do I mean by a financial war
- Why do I believe so emphatically that I am right about the coming collapse
- What I think you need to do to be financially prepared for the future
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- Get rid of debt (especially floating rate debt)
- Try to save at least 20% of your income (6 months security)
- Know your exit points for every investment
- If you are in stocks by only the best companies
- Do not hold any and I mean any long term bonds
- Keep an eye on TIPS Bond Yields
- Remember most “experts” on TV are actually idiots
- Develop your local community
- Don’t bet on any government money (specifically @ 100%)
- Consider land as the best investment (not houses)
- Increase your financial IQ daily – start with vocabulary
- Focus on gaining some % of self sufficiency with the 5 needs
- Try to be as “cash rich” as possible
- Don’t act in fear, think before you do anything
- Do not listen to conventional wisdom during unconventional times
- Remember the prepared can always profit and prosper
Posted by Joe Anybody
at 12:01 AM PDT
Wednesday, 5 October 2011
Occupy Portland - Confronts Corporate Greed - Oct 6 12 noon
Mood:
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Now Playing: OCCUPY PORTLAND - in -SOLIDARITY - with - OCCUPY WALL STREET
Topic: CORPORATE CRAP
Posted by Joe Anybody
at 8:25 AM PDT
Friday, 30 September 2011
OCCUPY PORTLAND LINKS - INFORMATION
Mood:
 celebratory
Now Playing: Occupy Portland Information Links
Topic: OCCUPY PORTLAND
PORTLAND OCCUPATION INFORMATION On Oct. 6th, 12:00 pm, thousands will gather at the Waterfront near SW Ankeny and Naito Parkway ( http://tinyurl.com/44rl474) to march to Pioneer Courthouse Square.
Posted by Joe Anybody
at 5:16 PM PDT
Sunday, 25 September 2011
Wednesday, 14 September 2011
Passport ...Visa and some history
Mood:
 amorous
Now Playing: Show me your papaers - ID and the tracking of people and movement
Topic: POLITICS
 Passport and Visa Wendy McElroy http://oathkeepers.org/oath/2011/09/09/wendy-mcelroy-passport-to-the-total-state/ Mises Daily: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 by Wendy McElroy “Your papers!” In old movies, the demand is barked at trembling travelers by a Nazi with a guttural accent. If the demand is made in the opening scene, then the audience knows immediately that they watching a totalitarian state in which travelers are in danger. “Your papers!” now rings out at every American airport and border crossing. The accent is different but travelers need to recognize with equal immediacy that a totalitarian state is playing out in front of their eyes, and they must be careful. A passport is where the security theater begins. Indeed, without a passport those who wish to fly or cross a border are not “allowed” to be scanned, searched, interrogated, or undergo a plethora of other indignities imposed by uniformed thugs. The hoops through which passport carriers jump are all prelude to “permitting” them to exercise a right belonging to every freeborn person: the right to travel. America and the world were not always this way. It is important to remember that there once was a world in which people traveled freely across borders without paperwork to visit families, pursue education, conduct business, and mingle. Freedom worked once. It enriched the world economically, culturally, and psychologically. War Converts Convenience into Blatant Abuse The modern “passport” is commonly defined as, “an official document issued by a government, certifying the holder’s identity and citizenship and entitling them to travel under its protection to and from foreign countries.” But are passport privileges to be conferred or denied by government, or are they mere conveniences that cannot be properly required for people to exercise the natural right to freedom of movement? Do they protect peaceful travelers or merely facilitate the state’s grip on the flow of people and property? The foregoing descriptions of passports have all been true at some point in history. Travel papers date back to antiquity and were generally intended to protect the bearer as he passed through foreign territory. The King James Bible (Nehemiah 2:7) states, I said unto the king, If it please the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the river, that they may convey me over till I come into Judah. In some areas, the issuance of letters also served as social control. According to Wikipedia, “In the medieval Islamic Caliphate, a form of passport was used in the form of a bara’a, a receipt for taxes paid”. Those in arrears could not travel even within the Caliphate. READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE: http://oathkeepers.org/oath/2011/09/09/wendy-mcelroy-passport-to-the-total-state/
Posted by Joe Anybody
at 7:40 AM PDT
Tuesday, 6 September 2011
Many 911 pictures
Mood:
 crushed out
Now Playing: 911 pictures "Here is New York"
Topic: 911 TRUTH
911 pictures There are many pictures here on this site Just use the drop down box to access the file(s) http://hereisnewyork.org/gallery/ Many of these pictures I have never seen before: ~joe
Posted by Joe Anybody
at 8:36 AM PDT
Filming the Police - August 2011 topic in the AP press
Mood:
 lyrical
Now Playing: can we film the cops - I know we can - what are others saying
Topic: POLICE
The Original Link Is Here: Police vs. cameras: Why would they object? Published: Wednesday, August 03, 2011, 4:45 AM  By Syndicated columns The Oregonian By Leonard Pitts Jr. This all started with Rodney King. More to the point, it started with a plumber named George Holliday. Had he not been video recording from his balcony, that night in 1991 might have been business as usual for Los Angeles police who struck King, a harmless drunk, 50 times with their batons, breaking his leg, his cheekbone and his skull. Had Holliday not captured video proof to the contrary, they might have gotten away with some lame excuse: Oops, he slipped on the stairs. But thanks to Holliday's camera, we all knew better. Twenty years later, cameras have become ubiquitous. They have captured entertainer meltdowns, crashes, tasings, deaths and a seemingly endless carnival of police misbehavior: questionable beatings, controversial shootings and unprovoked violence by those we hire to protect and to serve. Perhaps not surprisingly, many police now identify cameras as the enemy. Last week, news photographer Phil Datz was arrested on Long Island for videotaping a police action on a public street. In June, a man named Narces Benoit said Miami Beach Police pulled him from his car by his hair, handcuffed him and stomped his cellphone (which police deny) after he used it to record video of a fatal police shooting. In May, a woman named Emily Good was arrested for recording a traffic stop from her own front yard in Rochester, N.Y. In March, a Las Vegas man was beaten and arrested for videotaping police from his own driveway. In March of last year, a motorcyclist was arrested for recording his own traffic stop on a Maryland highway. According to a 2010 report on the technology blog Gizmodo, at least three states have made it illegal to record an on-duty officer. Other states use existing wiretapping laws to support their arrests, a novel and selective interpretation of those statutes. What makes it novel is that such laws are typically invoked when telephone conversations are recorded; they require that both parties are aware of, and approve, the recording. What makes it selective is that one never hears of people being roughed up and arrested for recording videos that flatter the police. The only thing more outrageous than the behavior is the excuses used to justify it. One of the cops in Rochester claimed, obviously for the benefit of the camera, that he did not feel "safe" with Emily Good recording him. Miami Beach Police claimed they confiscated videos only to safeguard the evidence. Oh, please. That stench you smell is the reek of official hypocrisy. Because the same police who so violently and vividly resist being recorded in the performance of their duties have no compunction about using the same technology against you and me, from the speed camera that catches you when you go flying through the school zone to the new gizmo that reads your license plate and checks for warrants. If it is OK for police to use cameras to catch us in our misdeeds, why is it not OK for us to use cameras to catch police in theirs? There is something chilling and totalitarian about this insistence that cops have the right to do as they wish without what amounts to public oversight. What is it they fear? After all, the officer who is being videotaped can protect himself by doing one simple thing: His job.
Leonard Pitts writes for The Miami Herald. Comments are posted on the original post website:
Posted by Joe Anybody
at 6:00 AM PDT
Updated: Tuesday, 6 September 2011 7:53 AM PDT
Thursday, 18 August 2011
How much did it cost for all the police lawsuits in Portland Oregon
Mood:
 incredulous
Now Playing: Police Mistakes in Portland Total $6,867,525.32
Topic: POLICE
Top 25 Settlements: Portland Police Incidents settled 1993-2011 totalling rougly $6.9 million***
Note: Some amounts are settlements, other are jury awards or judgmentsName Amount Date settled Incident date Brief notes - Family of James Chasse, Jr.* $1,600,000.00 7/28/10 9/17/06 Use of force (leading to death)
- Protestors August 2002&May 2003 $845,000.00 12/1/04 8/22/02 Use of force (pepper spray)
- Family of Damon Lowery $600,000.00 6/25/05 12/5/99 Use of force (leading to death)
- Family of Raymond Gwerder $500,000.00 11/14/07 11/4/05 Shooting (died)
- Barbara& Ted Vickers, Estate of Dickie Dow $380,000.00 3/27/02 10/19/98 Wrongful death/Dickie Dow
- Family of James Jahar Perez* $350,359.00 9/3/08 3/28/04 Shooting (died)
- Daniel Thomas** $311,000.00 3/14/08&9/28/04 7/11/03 Use of force
- Bruce Browne $200,895.00 4/1/03 7/11/01 Shooting (lived)
- Family of Dennis Young* $200,000.00 10/8/08 1/4/06 Shooting (died)
- Maria-Janeth Rodriguez-Sanchez $177,161.41 12/2/05&8/3/05 4/8/03 Use of force
- Harold Hammick, Ri'Chard Booth & Alex Clay* $175,000.00 (jury) 9/23/09 3/17/07 Mistreatment (pointing guns and more)
- Family of Peter Gilbaugh* $150,000.00 10/1/02 12/31/98 Shooting (died)
- Barbara Weich $150,000.00 1/2/08 5/29/05 Use of force (broken arm)
- Eunice Crowder $145,000.00 4/23/04 6/9/03 Use of force (including Taser)
- Chaz Miller $133,926.06 6/21/06 4/21/03 Use of Force/wrong person arrested
- Gerald Gratton $118,000.00 4/4/94 7/19/93 Shooting (lived)
- Two women victims of Ofcr John Wood* $105,000.00 2/25/09 7/21/06 Use of force (broken arm)
- Ivory Spann $100,056.79 4/7/97 6/6/93 Force/Baton hits
- Family of Duane Anthony Shaw $100,000.00 10/25/95 9/14/93 Shooting (died)
- Johnny Senteno $96,975.23 12/30/94 8/21/93 Use of force/Arm broken by projectile
- Janice M Aichele (deceased) $90,000.00 11/7/96 10/6/94 Off-duty shooting (murder/suicide)
- Heather Bissell $88,385.83 9/23/05&8/17/05 4/30/03 Use of force/arrest
- Dalebert V Acelar and 3 others $87,000.00 6/16/99 10/17/97 Unlawful search/detention
- Shei'Meka Newmann* $82,000.00 4/14/11 (jury) 2/13/09 Use of force, false arrest, malicious prosecution
- Hung Mingh Tran* $81,766.00 1/30/11 11/24/07 Use of force (Taser)
Total $6,867,525.32 Sources: Portland Office of Risk Management, Portland Office of Management and Finance, Portland City Auditor's Office and various news agencies This chart should be published regularly by the City to let people know what police misconduct is costing the people of Portland. Sure, they can argue that in cases that were settled out of court they never admitted wrongdoing, but if they felt they had a sure chance to win, they'd defend their officers. The $6.8 million total for just these 25 cases does not include another $2.7 million paid out to over 200 other people from 1993-2011. With an average of at least $500,000 per year, the City could be paying for several civilian investigators to staff an independent police review board. Perhaps with ongoing external monitoring, the frequency of such cases would decline. As many cases after 2007 have not gone through the courts yet, we can compare the average annual totals for incidents between 1993 and 2001 ($382,000) and from 2002-June 2011 ($636,000)***** and see that the advent or Portland's "Independent" Police Review Division in 2002 has done little to slow the lawsuits or the misconduct that generates them, and in fact it may be that more people are turning to the courts rather than using the civilian complaint system (see PPR #44, May 2008). --16 of the top 25 are incidents that occurred since 2002, when the IPR began operating; 8 of the top 25 are payments made since January 2008. --Some of the amounts shown include the City's legal expenses, making them appear higher than the settlements alone. But since this expense comes back to you, the taxpayer, we feel all expenses should be included when known. For example, Heather Bissell's case settled for $50,000 but the figure above includes $38,000+ in city expenses.
Notes:
*-new info or new settlement/judgment since April, 2008
**-Daniel Thomas' case ended with a judgment in March, 2008 of $100,000, but the city closed out his original claim with $91,746.53 in city legal expenses. The total reported payout including attorney's fees was $311,000 (Oregonian, 12/10/09)
***The total of the top 25 up to 2005 was $3.6 million; in April 2008 it was $4.5 million
****Ladd was beaten by off-duty officers, but on-duty cops acted to cover up the beating
We use the term "settlement" loosely to cover settlements, judgments, and other payouts by the city to cover the costs of police misconduct.
*****Portland Copwatch has incomplete data for 2008-2011 but hopes to update this information soon.
Posted by Joe Anybody
at 8:46 PM PDT
Wednesday, 3 August 2011
VETERANS FOR PEACE NATIONIAL CONVENTION
Mood:
 chatty
Now Playing: Thurs - Fri - Sat - Sun - Come One Come All
Topic: WAR
PORTLAND OREGON VETERANS FOR PEACE NATIONIAL CONVENTION ALL MY VIDEOS ARE BEING POSTED ON INDYMEDIA FROM THIS EVENT http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2011/08/409645.shtml Veterans For Peace annual convention - 2011 - at Portland State Univ, Portland, OR. Opening Reception tonight, 5 pm - 7 pm (Wednesday, Aug 3) at Poolside, University Place Hotel, 310 SW Lincoln St. Opening Plenary Thursday, 10:30 am -12:30 pm, Lincoln Hall Auditorium, 1620 SW Park Ave betw Market & Mill & hear radical prof Robt Jensen, "Notes on revolution, revelation and redemption." Come one, Come all. Help support VFP http://www.vfpnationalconvention.org/ ============================================ JOE ANYBODY VETERAN RELATED VIDEO ARCHIVE
============================================== http://www.joe-anybody.com/id123.html Veterans For Peace ======================================= http://www.joe-anybody.com/id117.html IVAW Seattle ======================================= http://www.joe-anybody.com/id122.html IVAW Portland ======================================= http://www.joe-anybody.com/id79.html War resisting page ========================================
Posted by Joe Anybody
at 2:42 PM PDT
Updated: Thursday, 18 August 2011 8:48 PM PDT
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