Monday, October 14, 2013
Friday, April 26, 2013
Replace White Supremacy With Justice
@GwenJackson: The C.O.W.S. with Dr Frances Cress Welsing Part 2 http://t.co/WqG2a4x1AwReplace White Supremacy With Justice
Sunday, July 8, 2012
Sunday, May 27, 2012
US Army Memorial Day Message 2012
Heroes are ordinary people with hearts of steel. Their courage, determination, and will power make them rise as sentinels of peace and liberty. On this Memorial Day, we salute those brave-hearts who lay down their life defending the nation.
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Saturday, May 26, 2012
Friday, May 18, 2012
Did Edwardo Saverin Defriend the U.S. By Renouncing his U.S. Citizenship
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Friday May 18th I examined whether Facebook's Co-Founder Edwardo Saverin DeFriended the U.S. by renouncing his citizenship thus avoiding paying MILLIONS in Taxes!
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Friday May 18th I examined whether Facebook's Co-Founder Edwardo Saverin DeFriended the U.S. by renouncing his citizenship thus avoiding paying MILLIONS in Taxes!
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Monday, May 14, 2012
BREAKING NEWS: Top KONY Commander captured by Ugandan Army
The Ugandan army announced Sunday, May 13, the arrest of a deputy Joseph Kony , the leader of the Arm ed Lord's Resistance Army (LRA, Lord's Resistance Army ), wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes war.
According to the Popular Defence Forces of Uganda (UPDF), General Achellam Caesar was captured during an ambush Saturday on the banks of Mboun in Central African Republic . He was armed with an assault rifle AK-47 magazines and eight had in his possession. He was arrested with his wife, one daughter and one of his assistants.
According to Ugandan military sources, the Ugandan units waited in ambush for three weeks after having followed the track of his band of thirty fighters. Caesar Acellam was separated from his men, however, a few days ago, for reasons unknown at present. The Ugandan army is at the forefront of the regional force charged with the support of U.S. Special Forces to hunt down the LRA and Joseph Kony in particular. The army believes that his capture might encourage other militiamen to abandon the ranks of the LRA.
Acellam is the most senior LRA captured to date. This is number four, behind its three main leaders, Joseph Kony, Okot Odhiambo and Dominic Ongwen , all wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC). The arrest warrant of the ICC is also a fourth man, Vincent Otti , historically Commander and Vice President of the LRA, but everything leads us to believe that he died.
He has been transferred Sunday in the small town of Nzara Southern Sudan, bordering the Democratic Republic of Congo , the headquarters of the regional forces mandated by the African Union (AU) to hunt down the LRA. The man, tall, aged 49 and an old injury is limping , has to undergo medical checks.
Created in the late 1980s in northern Uganda, the LRA is known for its sinister child abduction, she transforms into soldiers or slaves, and his mutilation of civilians. Since being expelled from Uganda , it operates from other countries in the region - Central, South Sudan , Sudan and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Ugandan forces are allowed to intervene either in the DRC or the Sudan . Last month, a controversial video of the American NGO Invisible Children of Joseph Kony had thrown a spotlight on the LRA, making Internet sensation.
May 10, the ICC prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo , predicted that Kony would be "arrested or killed before the end of this year." The next day, the UN special representative for Africa, Central, Abu Musa, had revealed that the troops on the heels of Joseph Kony constrained him to move constantly. After having a thought in the Central time, Moussa said that the fugitive could now find in the Darfur region of western Sudan ravaged by civil war since 2003.
Joseph Kony, a former altar boy semi-illiterate, took in 1988 the head of the LRA, whose objective was to replace the government in Kampala by a regime based on the Ten Commandments of the Christian faith.
According to the Popular Defence Forces of Uganda (UPDF), General Achellam Caesar was captured during an ambush Saturday on the banks of Mboun in Central African Republic . He was armed with an assault rifle AK-47 magazines and eight had in his possession. He was arrested with his wife, one daughter and one of his assistants.
According to Ugandan military sources, the Ugandan units waited in ambush for three weeks after having followed the track of his band of thirty fighters. Caesar Acellam was separated from his men, however, a few days ago, for reasons unknown at present. The Ugandan army is at the forefront of the regional force charged with the support of U.S. Special Forces to hunt down the LRA and Joseph Kony in particular. The army believes that his capture might encourage other militiamen to abandon the ranks of the LRA.
Acellam is the most senior LRA captured to date. This is number four, behind its three main leaders, Joseph Kony, Okot Odhiambo and Dominic Ongwen , all wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC). The arrest warrant of the ICC is also a fourth man, Vincent Otti , historically Commander and Vice President of the LRA, but everything leads us to believe that he died.
He has been transferred Sunday in the small town of Nzara Southern Sudan, bordering the Democratic Republic of Congo , the headquarters of the regional forces mandated by the African Union (AU) to hunt down the LRA. The man, tall, aged 49 and an old injury is limping , has to undergo medical checks.
Created in the late 1980s in northern Uganda, the LRA is known for its sinister child abduction, she transforms into soldiers or slaves, and his mutilation of civilians. Since being expelled from Uganda , it operates from other countries in the region - Central, South Sudan , Sudan and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Ugandan forces are allowed to intervene either in the DRC or the Sudan . Last month, a controversial video of the American NGO Invisible Children of Joseph Kony had thrown a spotlight on the LRA, making Internet sensation.
May 10, the ICC prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo , predicted that Kony would be "arrested or killed before the end of this year." The next day, the UN special representative for Africa, Central, Abu Musa, had revealed that the troops on the heels of Joseph Kony constrained him to move constantly. After having a thought in the Central time, Moussa said that the fugitive could now find in the Darfur region of western Sudan ravaged by civil war since 2003.
Joseph Kony, a former altar boy semi-illiterate, took in 1988 the head of the LRA, whose objective was to replace the government in Kampala by a regime based on the Ten Commandments of the Christian faith.
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Can John Travolta Fight Off The Sexual Assault Allegations of Two Male Massage Therapists?
Can John Travolta successfully win a defamation lawsuit against two male massage therapists? What are your thoughts?
Here are the allegations most of which remain in dispute by Mr. Travolta.
While A Travolta rep has offered proof that the actor dined at the famous eatery and was presented with a check late in the evening. He paid a bill of $382.69 for the meal, as well as a $100 tip and thus could not have been present in California when the first alleged incident occurred, however Mr Okorie Okorocha, the lawyer representing both alleged victims - who are each seeking $2 million in damages - states that the receipt does not prove much. He said: 'The credit card receipt that Mr. Travolta says proves he was in New York City has a time stamp of 11:38p.m., our complaint clearly says the assault occurred in the morning of January 16.'This credit card receipt proves absolutely nothing, and it doesn't account for the day of January 16. My client was sexually assaulted at 10 a.m. Travolta could make it to New York on horseback in that time.'
The Pulp Fiction actor, who has described the sexual assault claims as 'baseless', was also photographed in New York on January 16th.
New York dining: A receipt from a meal the Pulp Fiction actor ate at Mr. Chow restaurant in New York on the same day has also emerged
New York dining: A receipt from a meal the Pulp Fiction actor ate at Mr. Chow restaurant in New York on the same day has also emerged
two photos show him first at 4:30p.m. and then again at 5:21p.m., at a fitting for his upcoming movie Killing Season.
Yesterday a second man filed a lawsuit claiming the actor tried to grab his penis during a massage session on January 28 in Atlanta, Georgia but John's attorney Marty Singer has denied both claims, and states he can prove not only that his client was in New York on January 16 but that he was there the day before as well.
Okorocha claims there are over 100 other men prepared to come forward with similar stories about the 'Hairspray' star.Whispers about John Travolta's sexuality have plagued his movie career almost from the outset.
Various camp roles in films -- most notably as a drag queen in the musical Hairspray -- have helped fuel rumours he is secretly gay.
But there have also been strongly denied accusations he has been living a double life strikingly at odds with his family man image.
They include rumours that his 1991 marriage to Kelly Preston was arranged by the shadowy cult-like religion of Scientology, of which he is a leading disciple.
Seven years later, the father-of-two Travolta was named as a homosexual in court papers by a former member of the Church. The case never got a hearing, however.
And in 2001, Travolta faced unsubstantiated claims that he had tried to pick up a business executive in a health club.
However, the rumour mill reached a crescendo in 2006, when the actor was seen apparently kissing a male friend as he prepared to board his own Boeing 707 jet in Canada.
Travolta has always maintained he is not worried by rumors surrounding his sexuality, insisting 'I don't think anyone can hurt me.'
Personally I'm praying that these allegations are false. Here's a link to how I'd like to remember John http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze0cEwsB27A&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Here are the allegations most of which remain in dispute by Mr. Travolta.
While A Travolta rep has offered proof that the actor dined at the famous eatery and was presented with a check late in the evening. He paid a bill of $382.69 for the meal, as well as a $100 tip and thus could not have been present in California when the first alleged incident occurred, however Mr Okorie Okorocha, the lawyer representing both alleged victims - who are each seeking $2 million in damages - states that the receipt does not prove much. He said: 'The credit card receipt that Mr. Travolta says proves he was in New York City has a time stamp of 11:38p.m., our complaint clearly says the assault occurred in the morning of January 16.'This credit card receipt proves absolutely nothing, and it doesn't account for the day of January 16. My client was sexually assaulted at 10 a.m. Travolta could make it to New York on horseback in that time.'
The Pulp Fiction actor, who has described the sexual assault claims as 'baseless', was also photographed in New York on January 16th.
New York dining: A receipt from a meal the Pulp Fiction actor ate at Mr. Chow restaurant in New York on the same day has also emerged
New York dining: A receipt from a meal the Pulp Fiction actor ate at Mr. Chow restaurant in New York on the same day has also emerged
two photos show him first at 4:30p.m. and then again at 5:21p.m., at a fitting for his upcoming movie Killing Season.
Yesterday a second man filed a lawsuit claiming the actor tried to grab his penis during a massage session on January 28 in Atlanta, Georgia but John's attorney Marty Singer has denied both claims, and states he can prove not only that his client was in New York on January 16 but that he was there the day before as well.
Okorocha claims there are over 100 other men prepared to come forward with similar stories about the 'Hairspray' star.Whispers about John Travolta's sexuality have plagued his movie career almost from the outset.
Various camp roles in films -- most notably as a drag queen in the musical Hairspray -- have helped fuel rumours he is secretly gay.
But there have also been strongly denied accusations he has been living a double life strikingly at odds with his family man image.
They include rumours that his 1991 marriage to Kelly Preston was arranged by the shadowy cult-like religion of Scientology, of which he is a leading disciple.
Seven years later, the father-of-two Travolta was named as a homosexual in court papers by a former member of the Church. The case never got a hearing, however.
And in 2001, Travolta faced unsubstantiated claims that he had tried to pick up a business executive in a health club.
However, the rumour mill reached a crescendo in 2006, when the actor was seen apparently kissing a male friend as he prepared to board his own Boeing 707 jet in Canada.
Travolta has always maintained he is not worried by rumors surrounding his sexuality, insisting 'I don't think anyone can hurt me.'
Personally I'm praying that these allegations are false. Here's a link to how I'd like to remember John http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze0cEwsB27A&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Saturday, April 7, 2012
Board recommends ouster of anti-Obama Marine
Board recommends ouster of anti-Obama Marine
It could take two to three weeks for a decision to be made on Sgt. Gary Stein's dismissal, a military official said.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Marine Sgt. Gary Stein posted anti-Obama comments on his Facebook page
A board recommends an "other than honorable" discharge
A separation authority will make the final decision
Stein said he was entitled to his opinions and alleged a PR campaign against him
(CNN) -- A Marine Corps board has recommended that a politically active Marine sergeant who questioned President Barack Obama's authority be dismissed from service with an "other than honorable" discharge.
Sgt. Gary Stein, 26, who posted anti-Obama comments on his Facebook page, stands accused of violating a catch-all military justice provision against conduct endangering "good order and discipline."
He is also accused of violating a Department of Defense policy limiting the political activities of service members. The case has raised First Amendment issues.
The recommendation for dismissal, made late Thursday after a 13-hour hearing, will now go to a separation authority headed by Brig. Gen. Daniel Yoo, commander of the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego, said Maj. Michael Armistead, the public affairs director for the installation.
It could take two to three weeks for the authority to hand down a decision, Armistead said.
If he leaves the Marines with an other than honorable discharge, Stein will be demoted a rank to lance corporal. One of Stein's lawyers, Capt. James Baehr, said Stein would also lose benefits and his uniform.
Anti-Obama Marine may be discharged Military freedom of speech Marine calls President Obama the 'enemy'
Baehr said his client was extremely disappointed.
"I don't think any law was violated by Gary Stein," he said.
"The reason we have this reticence in the military to get engaged in politics is that we were afraid a long time ago of military dictatorship," Baehr said. "We are so far from that in suggesting that on a private Facebook page, you can't say something about politics."
Stein came under scrutiny from Marine officials after saying he would not obey Obama's orders.
In a January 26 post to the Armed Forces Tea Party Facebook page, Stein called Obama a liar. Two days later, he said the president is "the 'Domestic Enemy' our oath speaks about."
In a March 4 posting, he questioned Obama's birth certificate. Another discussion on the site in March said he would refuse to obey orders given by Obama. He later clarified to say he meant illegal orders, which he has explained as orders such as sending the military to Syria without congressional approval.
"The allegations drummed up against me are no more than an agenda by the Marine Corps to use me as an example," Stein said in a statement posted to his page.
"If I am guilty of anything it would be that I am American, a freedom loving Conservative, hell bent on defending the constitution and preserving Americas greatness."
He noted that the opinions he expressed were his own, saying, "I have never spoken on behalf of the Marine Corps or in uniform."
He told CNN the charges were a "PR thing."
"They have to make some sort of stand with this," he said.
On Friday, his Facebook page said: "Its going to be a tough day today. I know God has a plan and has paved the road ahead ... it's just not clear to me now."
CNN's Chelsea J. Carter and Barbara Starr contributed to this report.
It could take two to three weeks for a decision to be made on Sgt. Gary Stein's dismissal, a military official said.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Marine Sgt. Gary Stein posted anti-Obama comments on his Facebook page
A board recommends an "other than honorable" discharge
A separation authority will make the final decision
Stein said he was entitled to his opinions and alleged a PR campaign against him
(CNN) -- A Marine Corps board has recommended that a politically active Marine sergeant who questioned President Barack Obama's authority be dismissed from service with an "other than honorable" discharge.
Sgt. Gary Stein, 26, who posted anti-Obama comments on his Facebook page, stands accused of violating a catch-all military justice provision against conduct endangering "good order and discipline."
He is also accused of violating a Department of Defense policy limiting the political activities of service members. The case has raised First Amendment issues.
The recommendation for dismissal, made late Thursday after a 13-hour hearing, will now go to a separation authority headed by Brig. Gen. Daniel Yoo, commander of the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego, said Maj. Michael Armistead, the public affairs director for the installation.
It could take two to three weeks for the authority to hand down a decision, Armistead said.
If he leaves the Marines with an other than honorable discharge, Stein will be demoted a rank to lance corporal. One of Stein's lawyers, Capt. James Baehr, said Stein would also lose benefits and his uniform.
Anti-Obama Marine may be discharged Military freedom of speech Marine calls President Obama the 'enemy'
Baehr said his client was extremely disappointed.
"I don't think any law was violated by Gary Stein," he said.
"The reason we have this reticence in the military to get engaged in politics is that we were afraid a long time ago of military dictatorship," Baehr said. "We are so far from that in suggesting that on a private Facebook page, you can't say something about politics."
Stein came under scrutiny from Marine officials after saying he would not obey Obama's orders.
In a January 26 post to the Armed Forces Tea Party Facebook page, Stein called Obama a liar. Two days later, he said the president is "the 'Domestic Enemy' our oath speaks about."
In a March 4 posting, he questioned Obama's birth certificate. Another discussion on the site in March said he would refuse to obey orders given by Obama. He later clarified to say he meant illegal orders, which he has explained as orders such as sending the military to Syria without congressional approval.
"The allegations drummed up against me are no more than an agenda by the Marine Corps to use me as an example," Stein said in a statement posted to his page.
"If I am guilty of anything it would be that I am American, a freedom loving Conservative, hell bent on defending the constitution and preserving Americas greatness."
He noted that the opinions he expressed were his own, saying, "I have never spoken on behalf of the Marine Corps or in uniform."
He told CNN the charges were a "PR thing."
"They have to make some sort of stand with this," he said.
On Friday, his Facebook page said: "Its going to be a tough day today. I know God has a plan and has paved the road ahead ... it's just not clear to me now."
CNN's Chelsea J. Carter and Barbara Starr contributed to this report.
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Monday, March 26, 2012
Friday, March 23, 2012
Monday March 26th 2012 @12noon EST Join Directors from the National Institute of Military Justice to discuss Military Justice in light of the recent events in Afghanistan
NIMJ is holding a teleconference for media on Monday, March 26, 2012 at noon to discuss the military justice process and the recent shootings in Afghanistan.
Join Directors from the National Institute of Military Justice to discuss Military Justice in light of the recent events in Afghanistan.
Date: Monday March 26, 2012
Time: 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. EDT
Teleconference Dial-in Instructions:
Continental US Dial-in: 1.888.439.7610
International Dial-in: 719.955.2424
Meeting Passcode: 2024298081
Security Code: 1330
Email address to send Questions for the Panelists During the Conference Call: nimjemail@gmail.com
Featured Speakers:
Moderator, Prof. Elizabeth Hillman, University of California Hastings College of the Law and President, National Institute of Military Justice
Philip Cave, a NIMJ Director, retired Navy Judge Advocate, private practitioner with military law practice;
Michael Navarre, a NIMJ Director, former active duty Navy Judge Advocate, and currently Special Counsel at Steptoe & Johnson LLP (Washington D.C.);
Prof. Gary Solis, Georgetown Law School, a NIMJ Advisor; and retired Marine Corps Judge Advocate;
Prof. Stephen Salzburg, George Washington Law School, NIMJ General Counsel, expert on criminal law and procedure.
Join our panel for a discussion regarding the military justice procedures in the potential courts-martial of SSGT Robert Bales, and other current military cases of public interest.
For more information about the Teleconference, please e-mail nimjemail@gmail.com.
CLE/Events
Join Directors from the National Institute of Military Justice to discuss Military Justice in light of the recent events in Afghanistan.
Date: Monday March 26, 2012
Time: 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. EDT
Teleconference Dial-in Instructions:
Continental US Dial-in: 1.888.439.7610
International Dial-in: 719.955.2424
Meeting Passcode: 2024298081
Security Code: 1330
Email address to send Questions for the Panelists During the Conference Call: nimjemail@gmail.com
Featured Speakers:
Moderator, Prof. Elizabeth Hillman, University of California Hastings College of the Law and President, National Institute of Military Justice
Philip Cave, a NIMJ Director, retired Navy Judge Advocate, private practitioner with military law practice;
Michael Navarre, a NIMJ Director, former active duty Navy Judge Advocate, and currently Special Counsel at Steptoe & Johnson LLP (Washington D.C.);
Prof. Gary Solis, Georgetown Law School, a NIMJ Advisor; and retired Marine Corps Judge Advocate;
Prof. Stephen Salzburg, George Washington Law School, NIMJ General Counsel, expert on criminal law and procedure.
Join our panel for a discussion regarding the military justice procedures in the potential courts-martial of SSGT Robert Bales, and other current military cases of public interest.
For more information about the Teleconference, please e-mail nimjemail@gmail.com.
CLE/Events
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Technically SSG Robert Bales could be tried in an Afgan Court of Law for the Massacre
Although, the (Status of Forces Agreement) SOFA between the US and Afghanistan does not allow Afghan prosecution, that doesn’t mean the US could not release SSG Bales to the Afghans for trial.
I think the most relevant part reads as follows:
"An agreement exists regarding the status of military and civilian personnel of the U.S. Department of Defense present in Afghanistan in connection with cooperative efforts in response to terrorism, humanitarian and civic assistance, military training and exercises, and other activities. Such personnel are to be accorded “a status equivalent to that accorded to the administrative and technical staff” of the U.S. Embassy under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961. Accordingly, U.S. personnel are immune from criminal prosecution by Afghan authorities, and are immune from civil and administrative jurisdiction except with respect to acts performed outside the course of their duties. In the agreement, the Islamic Transitional Government of Afghanistan (ITGA) explicitly authorized the U.S.
government to exercise criminal jurisdiction over U.S. personnel, and the Government of Afghanistan is not permitted to surrender U.S. personnel to the custody of another State, international tribunal, or any other entity without consent of the U.S. government"
Although the agreement was signed by the ITGA, the subsequently elected Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan assumed responsibility for ITGA’s legal obligations and the agreement remains in force. The agreement does not appear to provide immunity for contract personnel.
It must be noted that the United States is always free to turn over servicemembers to a host nation regardless of the preference in a SOFA. And, potentially, keep the accused in US custody during the host nation trial–as the former US/IRAQ Sofa anticipated under certain circumstances. I think it is important to remember that the jurisdiction is the United States to claim, not a right we have as an individual deployed in a foreign land. I know it is U.S. policy to exercise jurisdiction over its own servicemembers. However, I can also see that depending on the political winds, in the case of a murder, rape, etc., I am sure that our higher political powers could decide those acts are being performed “outside the course of [a servicemember's] duties.” I believe that the biggest reason for it not to happen is the negative precedent it would set.
If there is any In Theater case that may end in a plea agreement this is the case. However, in as much as our Afghan partners may want to see a trial and swift execution, this may not be the case if the mental health issues play out in the direction they currently seem to be heading.
Gwendolyn Lindsay-Jackson,Esq.
www.TVLegalNews.com
I think the most relevant part reads as follows:
"An agreement exists regarding the status of military and civilian personnel of the U.S. Department of Defense present in Afghanistan in connection with cooperative efforts in response to terrorism, humanitarian and civic assistance, military training and exercises, and other activities. Such personnel are to be accorded “a status equivalent to that accorded to the administrative and technical staff” of the U.S. Embassy under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961. Accordingly, U.S. personnel are immune from criminal prosecution by Afghan authorities, and are immune from civil and administrative jurisdiction except with respect to acts performed outside the course of their duties. In the agreement, the Islamic Transitional Government of Afghanistan (ITGA) explicitly authorized the U.S.
government to exercise criminal jurisdiction over U.S. personnel, and the Government of Afghanistan is not permitted to surrender U.S. personnel to the custody of another State, international tribunal, or any other entity without consent of the U.S. government"
Although the agreement was signed by the ITGA, the subsequently elected Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan assumed responsibility for ITGA’s legal obligations and the agreement remains in force. The agreement does not appear to provide immunity for contract personnel.
It must be noted that the United States is always free to turn over servicemembers to a host nation regardless of the preference in a SOFA. And, potentially, keep the accused in US custody during the host nation trial–as the former US/IRAQ Sofa anticipated under certain circumstances. I think it is important to remember that the jurisdiction is the United States to claim, not a right we have as an individual deployed in a foreign land. I know it is U.S. policy to exercise jurisdiction over its own servicemembers. However, I can also see that depending on the political winds, in the case of a murder, rape, etc., I am sure that our higher political powers could decide those acts are being performed “outside the course of [a servicemember's] duties.” I believe that the biggest reason for it not to happen is the negative precedent it would set.
If there is any In Theater case that may end in a plea agreement this is the case. However, in as much as our Afghan partners may want to see a trial and swift execution, this may not be the case if the mental health issues play out in the direction they currently seem to be heading.
Gwendolyn Lindsay-Jackson,Esq.
www.TVLegalNews.com
Saturday, March 17, 2012
Friday, July 22, 2011
9/11 Responder Wants to Know if News Corp. Hacked Victims Phones
As a member of the National Guard, Gwendolyn Lindsay-Jackson responded to the attack on September, 11, 2001. As a lawyer, she brought legal services directly to those who were helping to clean up and rescue survivors after the disaster. "Maj. Jackson and fellow attorney Maj. Alexander Selkirk of New York staffed the temporary field headquarters for the Judge Advocate General's (JAG) Corps. section of the Headquarters Aviation Brigade, 42nd Infantry Division U.S. Army, a National Guard unit," wrote the Judiciary Times of her service.
With Lindsay-Jackson's personal connection to 9/11, she decided to start a petition here on change.org calling for a congressional investigation and for the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) to revoke the license of News Corp. if it continues to violate people's privacy. "The British government is investigating and now the Australians are also calling for an investigation of Murdoch's papers there. Americans also need to know whether our privacy was violated by Murdoch reporters searching for a good scoop to sell news," explains the petition.
If you, too, are disturbed by News Corp.'s abuses, you can help by signing Lindsay-Jackson's petition. News outlets can't simply disregard our privacy in the search for sensational stories. Tell Congress they must investigate News Corp. Tell the FCC they need to take away News Corp.'s license if they continue to break the law. We need to know if laws were broken. We need to know whose privacy was compromised. We need to stop those responsible. Sign the petition now.
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Saturday, March 5, 2011
Legal Basis for Prosecuting Gaddafi in the International Criminal Court. (Shocking Development Gaddafi African Mercinaries may receive Immunity from Prosecution)
Legal Basis for Prosecuting Gaddafi in the International Criminal Court. (Shocking Development Gaddafi African Mercinaries may receive Immunity from Prosecution)
I. WHY DID THE U.N. REFER LIBYA TO THE ICC?
Libya is not a signatory to the ICC and as such the court does not automatically have jurisdiction in Libya.
However, the ICC can investigate alleged crimes committed in Libya if Libyan authorities, possibly successors to Gaddafi's administration, accept the court's jurisdiction or if the U.N. Security Council asks the ICC prosecutor to take up the case.
This kind of referral has happened once before, in March 2005, following the conflict in Sudan's western Darfur region. The court has since indicted Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for genocide and crimes against humanity in Darfur.
On Saturday, the Security Council did refer the events in Libya since February 15 to the ICC.
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II. Because Libya is not a Signatory to the Internatuonal Criminal Court There are only Three practical ways to assert Jurisdiction:
1. Gaddafi Voluntarily Accepts Jurisdiction: The other option lies in Tripoli itself. It is extremely unlikely that Gaddafi'would ever accept the jurisdiction of the ICC, but a new Libyan regime might. The ball remains in Libya’s court: Ocampo will have to wait and see whether a new Libyan leadership will invite him to investigate the current political violence.
2. New regime in Libya Accepts Jurisdiction
The ICC can only intervene if Libya refuses or is unable to carry out its own investigation into the crimes. Until such times, Mr Ocampo can only wait on the sidelines. If Gaddafi is toppled, a new regime may want to bring him to justice before a Libyan court. Ocampo will only be able to act if Libya’s new leaders are unwilling or unable to take such steps.
3. United Nations Security Council Instructs the International Criminal Court (ICC) to conduct an investigation
On Thursday March 3, 2010 the UN Security Counsel asserted jurisdiction over the Libyan affer by unanimously passed Resolution 1970 (2011), referring the 'situation' in Libya to the International Criminal Court (ICC)
The resolution was part of a robust set of Security Council measures directed at the Libyan regime, including a travel ban and asset freezes for Colonel Ghaddafi and his associates, and an arms embargo. It is the first concrete action by the Council in respect of the events that began earlier this month, as increasing reports of widespread attacks on civilians in Libya confirm the lengths to which Ghadafi will go to cling to power
Subject Matter Jurisdiction requirement of UN Resolution 1970 .
I. Crimes Against Humanity:
First, as far as the subject-matter jurisdiction is concerned the resolution’s preamble states that “the widespread and systematic attacks currently taking place in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya against the civilian population may amount to crimes against humanity”. However, the Security Council’s reference is by no means binding on the Court, and the Prosecutor will have to investigate, formulate and prove any charges relating to the ongoing violence. This includes the crucial element of the attacks’ widespread and systematic nature, the distinguishing feature of crimes against humanity.
2. Further, the referral is not limited to crimes against humanity and individuals could potentially be charged with other crimes under the Rome
Sttute such as war c rimes (and possible even genocide).
3. I In order for war crimes to be alleged however, the situation in Libya must amount to a non-international armed conflict; which the Rome
Statute defines as a situation of “protracted armed conflict between governmental authorities and organized armed groups or between
such groups”. According to the Rome Statute, this excludes “situations of internal disturbances and tensions, such as riots, isolated
and sporadic acts of violence or other acts of a similar nature”. Again, although Resolution 1970 suggests that the situation in Libya
does amount to an armed conflict when it urges the Libyan authorities to respect international humanitarian law (the law that relates to war
crimes), the Court will have to make its own determination in this regard.
II. Persons falling within the ICC's Juriction
Secondly, as far as the persons potentially falling with the Court’s jurisdiction, the resolution contains a controversial provision excluding “nationals, current or former officials or personnel” of states other than Libya from the Court’s jurisdiction in respect of “alleged acts or omissions arising out of or related to operations in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya established or authorized by the Council”.
Somed have reported that this controversial clause grands African mercenaries hired by the Gaddafi regime to kill Libyan protesters would be immunity from prosecution at the International Criminal Court, for war crimes due to a clause inserted in the UN resolution that was demanded by the United States. which stated that
that anyone from a non-ICC sigbatirt country( tunisia etc.) alleged to have committed crimes in Libya, these people would “be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction” of their own country" and " Such persons might only be prosecuted if their home states waive their jurisdiction. This provision, which would apply to any members of an international peacekeeping operation authorised by the Security Council, was included at the insistence of the United States, as a pre-condition to allowing the resolution to pass.
The move was seen as an attempt to prevent a precedent that could see Americans prosecuted by the ICC for alleged crimes in other conflicts. While the US was once among the signatories to the international criminal court, it must be duly notied that the US is not a signatory to the international criminal couort because George W. Bush withdrew from it in 2002 and declared that it did not have power over Washington.
III. Time
1. Thirdly, and less controversially, the referral is temporarily limited to events that have taken place since 15 February 2011. ( The Security Council did refer the events in Libya since February 15 to the ICC
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I. WHY DID THE U.N. REFER LIBYA TO THE ICC?
Libya is not a signatory to the ICC and as such the court does not automatically have jurisdiction in Libya.
However, the ICC can investigate alleged crimes committed in Libya if Libyan authorities, possibly successors to Gaddafi's administration, accept the court's jurisdiction or if the U.N. Security Council asks the ICC prosecutor to take up the case.
This kind of referral has happened once before, in March 2005, following the conflict in Sudan's western Darfur region. The court has since indicted Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for genocide and crimes against humanity in Darfur.
On Saturday, the Security Council did refer the events in Libya since February 15 to the ICC.
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II. Because Libya is not a Signatory to the Internatuonal Criminal Court There are only Three practical ways to assert Jurisdiction:
1. Gaddafi Voluntarily Accepts Jurisdiction: The other option lies in Tripoli itself. It is extremely unlikely that Gaddafi'would ever accept the jurisdiction of the ICC, but a new Libyan regime might. The ball remains in Libya’s court: Ocampo will have to wait and see whether a new Libyan leadership will invite him to investigate the current political violence.
2. New regime in Libya Accepts Jurisdiction
The ICC can only intervene if Libya refuses or is unable to carry out its own investigation into the crimes. Until such times, Mr Ocampo can only wait on the sidelines. If Gaddafi is toppled, a new regime may want to bring him to justice before a Libyan court. Ocampo will only be able to act if Libya’s new leaders are unwilling or unable to take such steps.
3. United Nations Security Council Instructs the International Criminal Court (ICC) to conduct an investigation
On Thursday March 3, 2010 the UN Security Counsel asserted jurisdiction over the Libyan affer by unanimously passed Resolution 1970 (2011), referring the 'situation' in Libya to the International Criminal Court (ICC)
The resolution was part of a robust set of Security Council measures directed at the Libyan regime, including a travel ban and asset freezes for Colonel Ghaddafi and his associates, and an arms embargo. It is the first concrete action by the Council in respect of the events that began earlier this month, as increasing reports of widespread attacks on civilians in Libya confirm the lengths to which Ghadafi will go to cling to power
Subject Matter Jurisdiction requirement of UN Resolution 1970 .
I. Crimes Against Humanity:
First, as far as the subject-matter jurisdiction is concerned the resolution’s preamble states that “the widespread and systematic attacks currently taking place in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya against the civilian population may amount to crimes against humanity”. However, the Security Council’s reference is by no means binding on the Court, and the Prosecutor will have to investigate, formulate and prove any charges relating to the ongoing violence. This includes the crucial element of the attacks’ widespread and systematic nature, the distinguishing feature of crimes against humanity.
2. Further, the referral is not limited to crimes against humanity and individuals could potentially be charged with other crimes under the Rome
Sttute such as war c rimes (and possible even genocide).
3. I In order for war crimes to be alleged however, the situation in Libya must amount to a non-international armed conflict; which the Rome
Statute defines as a situation of “protracted armed conflict between governmental authorities and organized armed groups or between
such groups”. According to the Rome Statute, this excludes “situations of internal disturbances and tensions, such as riots, isolated
and sporadic acts of violence or other acts of a similar nature”. Again, although Resolution 1970 suggests that the situation in Libya
does amount to an armed conflict when it urges the Libyan authorities to respect international humanitarian law (the law that relates to war
crimes), the Court will have to make its own determination in this regard.
II. Persons falling within the ICC's Juriction
Secondly, as far as the persons potentially falling with the Court’s jurisdiction, the resolution contains a controversial provision excluding “nationals, current or former officials or personnel” of states other than Libya from the Court’s jurisdiction in respect of “alleged acts or omissions arising out of or related to operations in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya established or authorized by the Council”.
Somed have reported that this controversial clause grands African mercenaries hired by the Gaddafi regime to kill Libyan protesters would be immunity from prosecution at the International Criminal Court, for war crimes due to a clause inserted in the UN resolution that was demanded by the United States. which stated that
that anyone from a non-ICC sigbatirt country( tunisia etc.) alleged to have committed crimes in Libya, these people would “be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction” of their own country" and " Such persons might only be prosecuted if their home states waive their jurisdiction. This provision, which would apply to any members of an international peacekeeping operation authorised by the Security Council, was included at the insistence of the United States, as a pre-condition to allowing the resolution to pass.
The move was seen as an attempt to prevent a precedent that could see Americans prosecuted by the ICC for alleged crimes in other conflicts. While the US was once among the signatories to the international criminal court, it must be duly notied that the US is not a signatory to the international criminal couort because George W. Bush withdrew from it in 2002 and declared that it did not have power over Washington.
III. Time
1. Thirdly, and less controversially, the referral is temporarily limited to events that have taken place since 15 February 2011. ( The Security Council did refer the events in Libya since February 15 to the ICC
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Friday, January 28, 2011
Take It On: What Constitutes Child Abuse?
Slapping your teenage child.
Or taking money from their paycheck to help pay bills, may rub some people the wrong way.
But according to the New Jersey Supreme Court it does not constitute child abuse.
A teenage girl was removed from her home after her grandfather reported her parents to authorities.
He said they were taking her earnings and slapping her around.
A division of youth and family services worker also found the home had no heat.
And authorized an immediate removal.
Psychologist Doctor Jeffrey Gardere says the court found the case fell short of abuse.
My9 News takes on this issue with Legal Analyst Gwendolyn Lindsay-Jackson, Esq.
Or taking money from their paycheck to help pay bills, may rub some people the wrong way.
But according to the New Jersey Supreme Court it does not constitute child abuse.
A teenage girl was removed from her home after her grandfather reported her parents to authorities.
He said they were taking her earnings and slapping her around.
A division of youth and family services worker also found the home had no heat.
And authorized an immediate removal.
Psychologist Doctor Jeffrey Gardere says the court found the case fell short of abuse.
My9 News takes on this issue with Legal Analyst Gwendolyn Lindsay-Jackson, Esq.
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Should Rahm Emanuel be disqualified from running for Mayor of Chicago?
Clearly Rahm Emanuel can not with a straight face, claim that he met the required one year active residency requirement prior to running for Mayor at the address of the private home recently used to validate Emanuel's residency requirement that he owns at Hermitage Ave is also the exact same address being used by Rahm Emanuel's current tenant Rob Halpin who is also running for Mayor.
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Friday, April 2, 2010
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Why Emotionally Disturbed Texas Suicide Pilot Was Angry About IRS TAX CODE 1706
Congressman Says Pilot Targeted Gov't
President Obama's budget proposal for the 2011 fiscal year, released on February 1, 2010, the Department of Labor may be one of the few employers to soon experience rapid growth and ulimately may be the misguided basis for the motivations of the Emotionally Disturbed Texas Suicide Pilot Joseph Stack's crash into the I...RS Builting in Austin Texas Today February 18, 2010. The President's proposal would add 100 new enforcement personnel and increase the agency's overall budget by $25 million. The increase is part of a larger plan for the Treasury and Labor Departments to join efforts in addressing the misclassification of workers as independent contractors – something the President views to be a cause of the $350 billion tax gap, which is the sum of noncompliance with tax law. He argues that cracking down on misclassifications over the next ten years will increase federal coffers by $7 billion over the same period.
The increased attention on independent contractor classifications is not entirely new, as numerous federal and state agencies Like the IRS Federal Agency that Mr. Stack railed aginst, had recently touted their intent to punish and curb employer abuse of the classification. According to some reports, the IRS has already added 200 new employment tax auditors and will conduct 6,000 audits focused on employment tax issues over the next three years. The audits were not to be limited to large companies. A number of states have commissioned studies on worker misclassification and enacted new legislation to narrow the definition of "independent contractors." Some have even criminalized misclassification. In August, the Government Accountability Office issued a voluminous report to Congress urging better cooperation and coordination among state and federal agencies in addressing employee misclassification.
To make matters worse, courts seem to be increasingly eager to scrutinize independent contractor classifications. For example, before joining the United States Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor joined a Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision that found a doctor to be potentially misclassified. The decision opened up the hospital to potential liability for sexual discrimination allegedly perpetrated against the doctor.
Rolling the Dice is Attractive, but Dangerous
While the increased attention on the issue is not new, a significant increase in federal funding will be, and companies were agressively and wisely reevaluating their use of the independent contractor classification now. Understandably, the temptation for employers to ignore the writing on the wall was great, as the classification provides a significant reprieve from increasingly burdensome federal and state regulations. For example, employers do not have to pay social security and Medicare taxes, pay into funds for workers' compensation and unemployment compensation, withhold income taxes, provide statutorily-required leave or pay minimum wage or overtime for independent contractors. Also, potential liability for personal injury and other claims is significantly decreased. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the primary law prohibiting discrimination in the workplace, does not apply to independent contractors. (Although some courts have found employers liable for harassment by independent contractors directed toward employees, independent contractors generally cannot sue for discrimination under Title VII.) And the list goes on and on. In all, employers probably save somewhere around 30 percent on worker costs when they use independent contractors rather than employees.
However, the consequences for companies and people like the Texas Suicide Pilot Mr. Joseph Stack, that are found guilty of misclassification are far from insignificant – they must generally pay the taxes and other payments originally avoided in addition to penalties. In 2000, a class action against Microsoft Corporation, filed on the heels of an IRS audit, cost the company almost $100 million to settle.
Reassessing Classifications is Challenging
Determining whether to use the independent contractor classification is notoriously difficult. Historically, the IRS used a 20 factor test. While the agency recently significantly simplified its analysis, the inquiry is still complex and fact-intensive. And incredibly, different agencies apply different tests. The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) considers seven factors:
(1) the nature and degree of the alleged employer's control in terms of how the work is performed;
(2) the worker's opportunity for profit or loss based on his or her managerial skills;
(3) the worker's investment in equipment or materials;
(4) the degree of independent business organization and operation;
(5) the degree of permanency and duration of the working relationship;
(6) the extent to which the service rendered is an integral part of the alleged employer's business; and
(7) the amount of initiative, judgment, or foresight in open-market competition with others required for the success of the worker.
If there is a guiding factor, a lynchpin uniting the various tests, it would certainly be the alleged employer's control over the work performed. The more control exercised by the alleged employer, the more likely an employment relationship exists.
Used correctly, independent contractor classifications would have the potential to save people like Mr. Stack a great deal of expense. However, the classification should not be taken lightly, especially given the likely increase in the DOL's enforcement efforts. Many people like Mr. Stack as opposed to becoming domestic terrorists, considered taking the opportunity to self-audit now, BEFORE the IRS, the DOL, or an employee forces the issue and hired competent experienced employment law and tax counsel to help ensure that the results of the audit will be considered privileged should a compensation practices be challenged. Mr. Stack took matters into his own hands AFTER the fact and this is unacceptable despicable and must not be mimicked.
President Obama's budget proposal for the 2011 fiscal year, released on February 1, 2010, the Department of Labor may be one of the few employers to soon experience rapid growth and ulimately may be the misguided basis for the motivations of the Emotionally Disturbed Texas Suicide Pilot Joseph Stack's crash into the I...RS Builting in Austin Texas Today February 18, 2010. The President's proposal would add 100 new enforcement personnel and increase the agency's overall budget by $25 million. The increase is part of a larger plan for the Treasury and Labor Departments to join efforts in addressing the misclassification of workers as independent contractors – something the President views to be a cause of the $350 billion tax gap, which is the sum of noncompliance with tax law. He argues that cracking down on misclassifications over the next ten years will increase federal coffers by $7 billion over the same period.
The increased attention on independent contractor classifications is not entirely new, as numerous federal and state agencies Like the IRS Federal Agency that Mr. Stack railed aginst, had recently touted their intent to punish and curb employer abuse of the classification. According to some reports, the IRS has already added 200 new employment tax auditors and will conduct 6,000 audits focused on employment tax issues over the next three years. The audits were not to be limited to large companies. A number of states have commissioned studies on worker misclassification and enacted new legislation to narrow the definition of "independent contractors." Some have even criminalized misclassification. In August, the Government Accountability Office issued a voluminous report to Congress urging better cooperation and coordination among state and federal agencies in addressing employee misclassification.
To make matters worse, courts seem to be increasingly eager to scrutinize independent contractor classifications. For example, before joining the United States Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor joined a Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision that found a doctor to be potentially misclassified. The decision opened up the hospital to potential liability for sexual discrimination allegedly perpetrated against the doctor.
Rolling the Dice is Attractive, but Dangerous
While the increased attention on the issue is not new, a significant increase in federal funding will be, and companies were agressively and wisely reevaluating their use of the independent contractor classification now. Understandably, the temptation for employers to ignore the writing on the wall was great, as the classification provides a significant reprieve from increasingly burdensome federal and state regulations. For example, employers do not have to pay social security and Medicare taxes, pay into funds for workers' compensation and unemployment compensation, withhold income taxes, provide statutorily-required leave or pay minimum wage or overtime for independent contractors. Also, potential liability for personal injury and other claims is significantly decreased. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the primary law prohibiting discrimination in the workplace, does not apply to independent contractors. (Although some courts have found employers liable for harassment by independent contractors directed toward employees, independent contractors generally cannot sue for discrimination under Title VII.) And the list goes on and on. In all, employers probably save somewhere around 30 percent on worker costs when they use independent contractors rather than employees.
However, the consequences for companies and people like the Texas Suicide Pilot Mr. Joseph Stack, that are found guilty of misclassification are far from insignificant – they must generally pay the taxes and other payments originally avoided in addition to penalties. In 2000, a class action against Microsoft Corporation, filed on the heels of an IRS audit, cost the company almost $100 million to settle.
Reassessing Classifications is Challenging
Determining whether to use the independent contractor classification is notoriously difficult. Historically, the IRS used a 20 factor test. While the agency recently significantly simplified its analysis, the inquiry is still complex and fact-intensive. And incredibly, different agencies apply different tests. The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) considers seven factors:
(1) the nature and degree of the alleged employer's control in terms of how the work is performed;
(2) the worker's opportunity for profit or loss based on his or her managerial skills;
(3) the worker's investment in equipment or materials;
(4) the degree of independent business organization and operation;
(5) the degree of permanency and duration of the working relationship;
(6) the extent to which the service rendered is an integral part of the alleged employer's business; and
(7) the amount of initiative, judgment, or foresight in open-market competition with others required for the success of the worker.
If there is a guiding factor, a lynchpin uniting the various tests, it would certainly be the alleged employer's control over the work performed. The more control exercised by the alleged employer, the more likely an employment relationship exists.
Used correctly, independent contractor classifications would have the potential to save people like Mr. Stack a great deal of expense. However, the classification should not be taken lightly, especially given the likely increase in the DOL's enforcement efforts. Many people like Mr. Stack as opposed to becoming domestic terrorists, considered taking the opportunity to self-audit now, BEFORE the IRS, the DOL, or an employee forces the issue and hired competent experienced employment law and tax counsel to help ensure that the results of the audit will be considered privileged should a compensation practices be challenged. Mr. Stack took matters into his own hands AFTER the fact and this is unacceptable despicable and must not be mimicked.
Sunday, February 14, 2010
We Are The World 25 Haiti
God enters human affairs and takes sides with the oppressed. Their suffering becomes his; their despair, divine despair" Cone, James H
Monday, February 1, 2010
Gwendolyn Lindsay Jackson on 9-11 Terror Trials moved out of NYC
Yesterday I spoke about why the 9-11 Mastermind Terror Trials Move out of NYC for security and monetary reasons underscores the problem with haveing this defendant tried in a civilian court. I told an audience in the middle east including Saudia Arabia, Iraq, Israel, and in North Africa and Europe that I felt that this particular defendant KFC should be tried by military commission
Sunday, January 31, 2010
James Murdoch Next Head of News Corporation.
Bin Talal, who owns a 7% stake in News Corp, described James as "Rupert Murdoch in the making", adding that he would back him to succeed his father, the chairman and chief executive of the company.
"If he [Rupert] doesn't appoint him, I'll be the first one to nominate him to be the successor of Mr Rupert Murdoch, God forbid if something happens to him," said bin Talal in an interview with Charlie Rose, the veteran presenter for US public service broadcaster PBS, on Wednesday.
"I have full confidence in him, full trust in him, and he's capable. He's really Rupert Murdoch in the making, and he's almost there now," he added.
Bin Talal's stake in News Corp is controlled by Kingdom Holdings, of which he is the chairman. He is not on News Corp's board of directors.
Rupert Murdoch, 78, has made no indication about when he expects to hand over the reins to the next generation of the Murdoch clan.
However, James, at 37 years the youngest of Murdoch's children by his second wife Anna, has been building his experience across News Corp's global operations and is now seen by many as a natural successor.
In late 2007 he was promoted from his role as chief executive of BSkyB to become chairman and chief executive of News Corp's Europe and Asia operations, overseeing businesses including the News International UK newspaper subsidiary and Sky Italia. James also replaced his father as non-executive chairman of BSkyB, in which News Corp is the largest shareholder.
Prior to becoming BSkyB chief executive in 2003, James was chief executive of Star TV, News Corp's Asian pay-TV business.
His brother, Lachlan, was viewed as a likely successor until he resigned as deputy chief operating officer of News Corp in 2005, to return to Australia to launch his own media investment business. Lachlan remains on the News Corp board.
James' other sibling, Elisabeth, has also opted to blaze her own trail outside of News Corp as the chairman and chief executive of Shine, one of the UK's biggest independent TV producer. Shine is the maker of shows such as MasterChef, Merlin and Ashes to Ashes.
Elisabeth is understood to have turned down an offer from her father to join the board early last year, around the time of the departure of News Corp's then president and chief operating officer Peter Chernin.
Earlier this month her husband, Matthew Freud, launched an attack on Roger Ailes, the powerful News Corporation executive who runs Fox News, saying that he was "ashamed and sickened" by the content of the channel and that he was "by no means alone within the family or the company" in holding such hostile views.
• To contact the MediaGuardian news desk email editor@mediaguardian.co.uk or phone 020 3353 3857. For all other inquiries please call the main Guardian switchboard on 020 3353 2000.
James Murdoch Next Head of News Corporation.
James Murdoch has been backed to succeed his father as head of News Corporation by Alwaleed bin Talal, the Saudi Arabian prince who is the largest shareholder in the media conglomerate outside the Murdoch clan.
Bin Talal, who owns a 7% stake in News Corp, described James as "Rupert Murdoch in the making", adding that he would back him to succeed his father, the chairman and chief executive of the company.
"If he [Rupert] doesn't appoint him, I'll be the first one to nominate him to be the successor of Mr Rupert Murdoch, God forbid if something happens to him," said bin Talal in an interview with Charlie Rose, the veteran presenter for US public service broadcaster PBS, on Wednesday.
"I have full confidence in him, full trust in him, and he's capable. He's really Rupert Murdoch in the making, and he's almost there now," he added.
Bin Talal's stake in News Corp is controlled by Kingdom Holdings, of which he is the chairman. He is not on News Corp's board of directors.
Rupert Murdoch, 78, has made no indication about when he expects to hand over the reins to the next generation of the Murdoch clan.
However, James, at 37 years the youngest of Murdoch's children by his second wife Anna, has been building his experience across News Corp's global operations and is now seen by many as a natural successor.
In late 2007 he was promoted from his role as chief executive of BSkyB to become chairman and chief executive of News Corp's Europe and Asia operations, overseeing businesses including the News International UK newspaper subsidiary and Sky Italia. James also replaced his father as non-executive chairman of BSkyB, in which News Corp is the largest shareholder.
Prior to becoming BSkyB chief executive in 2003, James was chief executive of Star TV, News Corp's Asian pay-TV business.
His brother, Lachlan, was viewed as a likely successor until he resigned as deputy chief operating officer of News Corp in 2005, to return to Australia to launch his own media investment business. Lachlan remains on the News Corp board.
James' other sibling, Elisabeth, has also opted to blaze her own trail outside of News Corp as the chairman and chief executive of Shine, one of the UK's biggest independent TV producer. Shine is the maker of shows such as MasterChef, Merlin and Ashes to Ashes.
Elisabeth is understood to have turned down an offer from her father to join the board early last year, around the time of the departure of News Corp's then president and chief operating officer Peter Chernin.
Earlier this month her husband, Matthew Freud, launched an attack on Roger Ailes, the powerful News Corporation executive who runs Fox News, saying that he was "ashamed and sickened" by the content of the channel and that he was "by no means alone within the family or the company" in holding such hostile views.
• To contact the MediaGuardian news desk email editor@mediaguardian.co.uk or phone 020 3353 3857. For all other inquiries please call the main Guardian switchboard on 020 3353 2000.
Bin Talal, who owns a 7% stake in News Corp, described James as "Rupert Murdoch in the making", adding that he would back him to succeed his father, the chairman and chief executive of the company.
"If he [Rupert] doesn't appoint him, I'll be the first one to nominate him to be the successor of Mr Rupert Murdoch, God forbid if something happens to him," said bin Talal in an interview with Charlie Rose, the veteran presenter for US public service broadcaster PBS, on Wednesday.
"I have full confidence in him, full trust in him, and he's capable. He's really Rupert Murdoch in the making, and he's almost there now," he added.
Bin Talal's stake in News Corp is controlled by Kingdom Holdings, of which he is the chairman. He is not on News Corp's board of directors.
Rupert Murdoch, 78, has made no indication about when he expects to hand over the reins to the next generation of the Murdoch clan.
However, James, at 37 years the youngest of Murdoch's children by his second wife Anna, has been building his experience across News Corp's global operations and is now seen by many as a natural successor.
In late 2007 he was promoted from his role as chief executive of BSkyB to become chairman and chief executive of News Corp's Europe and Asia operations, overseeing businesses including the News International UK newspaper subsidiary and Sky Italia. James also replaced his father as non-executive chairman of BSkyB, in which News Corp is the largest shareholder.
Prior to becoming BSkyB chief executive in 2003, James was chief executive of Star TV, News Corp's Asian pay-TV business.
His brother, Lachlan, was viewed as a likely successor until he resigned as deputy chief operating officer of News Corp in 2005, to return to Australia to launch his own media investment business. Lachlan remains on the News Corp board.
James' other sibling, Elisabeth, has also opted to blaze her own trail outside of News Corp as the chairman and chief executive of Shine, one of the UK's biggest independent TV producer. Shine is the maker of shows such as MasterChef, Merlin and Ashes to Ashes.
Elisabeth is understood to have turned down an offer from her father to join the board early last year, around the time of the departure of News Corp's then president and chief operating officer Peter Chernin.
Earlier this month her husband, Matthew Freud, launched an attack on Roger Ailes, the powerful News Corporation executive who runs Fox News, saying that he was "ashamed and sickened" by the content of the channel and that he was "by no means alone within the family or the company" in holding such hostile views.
• To contact the MediaGuardian news desk email editor@mediaguardian.co.uk or phone 020 3353 3857. For all other inquiries please call the main Guardian switchboard on 020 3353 2000.
Sunday, January 24, 2010
150 Bodies Recovered From Wells After Nigerian Massacre - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News - FOXNews.com
At least 150 bodies were recovered from wells following deadly Muslim-Christian clashes in central Nigeria, a village headman said Saturday, taking the unofficial death toll past 400.
"So far we have picked 150 bodies from the wells. But 60 more people are still missing," Umar Baza, head of Kuru Karama village near the city of Jos, told AFP by telephone.
"We took an inventory of the displaced people from this village, sheltering in three camps, and we realize that 60 people can still not be accounted for," he said. "We believe there are more bodies in the wells."
The unrest erupted on Sunday over plans to build a mosque in a mainly Christian district of the city, a hotbed of sectarian tensions for many years. Mobs set fire to buildings while many people were shot dead.
The Head of the Muslim volunteer team for the victims' burial, Mohammed Shittu, said further searches would be carried out on Saturday.
"Now we have 150 bodies in all, taken from the wells as from Thursday," he told AFP.
"From the account of survivors, some people fleeing attacks were ambushed and killed in the bush. That is why we are going there to search for more bodies."
Global rights watchdog Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Saturday urged Vice President Goodluck Jonathan to order "an immediate criminal investigation into credible reports of a massacre of at least 150 Muslim residents of a town in central Nigeria."
A Muslim official who visited Kuru Karama to arrange for the burial of bodies told HRW that 121 corpses had been recovered, including those of 22 young children.
Dozens of them were "stuffed down wells or in sewage pits," HRW said in a statement.
The state government has given no official death toll for the violence, which broke out in Jos, capital of Plateau State, and spread to nearby towns and villages
"So far we have picked 150 bodies from the wells. But 60 more people are still missing," Umar Baza, head of Kuru Karama village near the city of Jos, told AFP by telephone.
"We took an inventory of the displaced people from this village, sheltering in three camps, and we realize that 60 people can still not be accounted for," he said. "We believe there are more bodies in the wells."
The unrest erupted on Sunday over plans to build a mosque in a mainly Christian district of the city, a hotbed of sectarian tensions for many years. Mobs set fire to buildings while many people were shot dead.
The Head of the Muslim volunteer team for the victims' burial, Mohammed Shittu, said further searches would be carried out on Saturday.
"Now we have 150 bodies in all, taken from the wells as from Thursday," he told AFP.
"From the account of survivors, some people fleeing attacks were ambushed and killed in the bush. That is why we are going there to search for more bodies."
Global rights watchdog Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Saturday urged Vice President Goodluck Jonathan to order "an immediate criminal investigation into credible reports of a massacre of at least 150 Muslim residents of a town in central Nigeria."
A Muslim official who visited Kuru Karama to arrange for the burial of bodies told HRW that 121 corpses had been recovered, including those of 22 young children.
Dozens of them were "stuffed down wells or in sewage pits," HRW said in a statement.
The state government has given no official death toll for the violence, which broke out in Jos, capital of Plateau State, and spread to nearby towns and villages
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Al Youm Video Gwendolyn Lindsay-Jackson,Esq. talks to millions in Africa and Mid East on Al Quaeda Northwest Airline Terror Plot
Hello to my wonderful fans. I was at the Reuters Television Studio in Midtown Manhatten Today January 5th broadcasting on the Middle East Broadcast Network Live at 11 A.M. EST. Talked about the Reopening of the USA Embassy in Yemen and the foiled Christmas Day Terror Plot on Northwest Airlines. Look for me on Al Youm TV Show in North Africa, Israel, Middle East and Europe.
Friday, January 15, 2010
News Corp. Shaking Up TV Execs
News Corp. Shaking Up TV Execs: "News Corp. is considering a restructuring of its televisiondivision that is e..."
UNBELIEVABLY NASTY FEUD BETWEEN THE OWNERS OF FOX :RUPERT MURDOCH & SON IN LAW MATTHEW FREUD VS. ROGER AILES
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Rupert's son in law fired a rocket at Fox News boss Roger Ailes--the first salvo in an escalating war between Murdoch's heirs and the company brass for the future of one of media's hottest enterprises.
The long-simmering feud between Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch's adult children has finally erupted into full-scale war--a death struggle over the future of News Corporation, the financially beleaguered media and entertainment conglomerate that the 78-year-old Murdoch continues to control as chairman and chief executive Fox News chief Roger Ailes, who was profiled on the front page of the Sunday New York Times this past weekend, has spent much of the time since in the headlines — namely over the remark from Rupert Murdoch's son-in-law, Matthew Freud, that the Murdoch family is "ashamed and sickened" by him.
The Daily Beast's Lloyd Grove reported that Murdoch's wife, Wendi, encouraged Freud to make the comment and Murdoch biographer Michael Wolff used that quote as the basis for a prediction that Ailes — despite helming one of News Corp's most profitable divisions — would soon be on his way out.
But Ailes tells the Los Angeles Times that that couldn't be further from the truth, and disses Freud in the process.
Freud's comments "didn't make sense to me," Ailes told the LAT. ""I couldn't pick him out of a lineup ... most people who have a problem at least walk up to me and talk to me about it."
The LAT also reports that Ailes described stories that "I'm a dead man" as "manufactured."
Ailes added, "I'm obviously not going to be invited to [Freud's] house ... with him home anyway." He further said that Freud, who is married to Murdoch's daughter Elisabeth and is a descendant of Sigmund Freud, "needs to see a psychiatrist."
News Corp President and COO Chase Carey offered his support of Ailes to the LAT as well, saying, "News Corp. is 100% behind Roger Ailes" and adding, "we hope and expect he will continue to lead Fox News well into the future."
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Gwendolyn Lindsay Jackson, Esq. : On Al Youm speaks on the NASA Scientist Spy Case
I spoke about the fact that I believed the federal prosecutors in this case will most likely use this case as an opportunity attempt to find out what damage this man has done over the past twenty years. It appears he was quite willing to sell out Top Secrete Information that compromises USA satellite locations and defense systems, to an FBI agent he believed was an Israeli Intelligence officer for merely ten thousand dollars. His best defense will most likely be the ability to bargain with the prosecution team for a lighter sentence as opposed to the maximum of life in prison. His success will be based on the quality and scope of information he reveals. This clip was broadcast in Israel by Al Youm.
Posted by Al Youm Gwendolyn Lindsay Jackson/ Dallas terrorism case
My statement November 18, 2009. Personally as a fellow New Yorker I get horrible flashback reminders of 9-11 and I am not comfortable with seeing these guys in New York. I know that some NYC attornies indicated that there is no way the terrorists will be judged by a jury ... Read Moreof their peers, because we will not be putting islamic fundamentalist terrorists in the jury box. Also and no way they can receive a fair trial in the United States because Both Eric Holder and president Obama are openly making statements that the terrorists will be found guity, which means they are being deined a presumption of innocence. If they make these arguments in front of a liberal judge they are likely to succcessfuly get the venue changed to another country like Scotland, who could set these terrorists free. Some people think this is a risk we should not take which is why a military commission may be a more suitable venue.
Facebook Videos Posted by Al Youm December 2, 2009 on the White House Party Crashers
International Legal Analyst/Former Military New York Army national Guard Prosecutor and State of New Jersey Securites Fraud Regulatory Official (currently on leave) Gwendolyn Lindsay-Jackson, Esq. on Al Youm Television Program broadcast in the Middle East, North Africa And Europe. Gwendolyn discussed how the Salahi's entrance may have been a blessing because it exposed serious potential risks to the safety of the President of the United States, by having easy access without normal secret service scrutiny imposed. This breach was a serious risk to all party attendees which included high ranking USA government officials, members of congress and foreign heads of state. Gwendolyn suggested that the salahi's may face criminal tresspass charges unless they can prove that they were in fact invited or reasonably believed that they were indeed invited and cleared to attend the party . The White House Social Secretary Desiree Rogers should NOT be made the scapegoat for the breach, because the responsibiltiy for security rested SOLEY with secret service. What are your thoughts?
Roman Polansky Trial, Michael Jackson Death Investigation
Gwendolyn Lindsay-Jackson comments on the Roman Polansky Trial, Michael Jackson Death Investigation and Criminal Indictment, and The Extortion of John Travolta.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Gwendolyn Lindsay-Jackson,Esq. talks to millions in Africa and Mid East on Al Quaeda Northwest Airline Terror Plot Facebook V
I was at the Reuters Television Studio in Midtown Manhatten today January 5th broadcasting on the Middle East Broadcast Network Live at 11 A.M. EST. Talked about the Reopening of the USA Embassy in Yemen and the foiled Christmas Day Terror Plot on Northwest Airlines. Look for me on Al Youm TV Show in North Africa, Israel, Middle East and Europe
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
US Embassy In Yemen Reopens Tuesday January 5, 2009
Monday, January 4, 2010
Apparent contact between AbdulMutallab and radical cleric. Was the Nigerian Hypnotised or Threatened?
Something is very strange about this case. I wonder if AbduMutallab was a victim of Al Quaeda. Who blows up their genitals or uses a device to create heat on your genitals and fire until the bomb explodes?? Was this 23 year old suffering from a mind altering drug or Stockholm's syndrome like Patricia Hearst? He given enough explosives to simply ... See Moreblow a hole in the airplane which of course was not guaranteed to instantly kill him with no pain. This is unlike the way most Bombers attack, who are at the very least guaranteed instant death without the prospect of pain. Was this Nigeran Used as a pigeon? Was he a test case? What type of message is Al Quaeda sending about the value of Black Africans they recruit?
Behind the Terror/Redefining Terms in Psychological Warfare
Methods used by those shaping a terrorist network also involve psychological conditioning and indoctrination. Subjects are coaxed and/or drugged into a frame of mind conducive to violence, death and suicide. In addition, means of inciting and controlling masses by exploiting broad-based fears, hatreds and ambitions have been carefully honed by psychiatrists and their despots for more than a century—their efficacy a matter of record from Nazi-incited, anti-Jewish Germany in the 1930s to the anti-Islamic hysteria whipped up in the former Yugoslavia in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
The techniques often begin with a standard propaganda tool: the redefinition of terms.
While Islamic law is interpreted to forbid use of “all intoxicants,” they are found in al-Qaeda and other terrorist networks, and in the Taliban.
Al-Qaeda abuses “jihad,” Noor Delawary said, noting it has “a very, very specific meaning” that allows people to defend themselves when threatened—but never to terrorize.
Jihad derives from an Arabic term meaning “to strive,” and, in one major sense, it denotes an individual’s spiritual striving against sin. Its meaning for group defense, however, was redefined by Ayman al-Zawahiri to mean an all-out campaign of terror against “Jews and Crusaders,” with Crusaders so loosely identified as to include Americans and, based on ample evidence of wholesale slaughter, ethnic Afghans (primarily from Northern Afghanistan) who did not support al-Qaeda and the Taliban.
“Jihad” thereby cloaked planned genocide—even against fellow Muslims—in a term of righteousness. It paved the way for mass deaths, uncounted rapes and sweeping violations of human rights.
Delawary described the subsequent actions of al-Qaeda and their willing Taliban pawns against native Afghans—which included skinning helpless captives alive—condemning them as the work of “animals” and not Muslims faithful to the teachings of the Koran.
But in looking beyond the religious rhetoric, the agenda was patently political. The September 11 murder of thousands of Americans by al-Qaeda operatives emanated from a political/terrorist “jihad” opposing the United States’ support of Israel and continuing presence in the Middle East—much as the death by torture of an American official, Bill Buckley, was driven by the political agenda to force the United States and Israel to withdraw from Lebanon.
Psycho-Politics
Those experts controlling behavior usually seek to remain behind the scenes, but they are carefully trained, often by governments. Al-Abub, for example, learned his craft from KGB psychiatrists at Patrice Lumumba University (since renamed People’s Friendship University), a Moscow facility that allegedly taught others in such techniques under the communist regime.
Refugees driven from their homes by Taliban and Al Qaeda forces found temporary shelter in the Panjsher valley, northeast of Kabul. At the approximate time this photo was taken, the U.S. State Department estimated that 2.8 million people remained displaced outside Afghanistan, while up to 750,000 more were “internally displaced” inside the country.
The use of psychiatry and its manipulating treatments for political ends, often termed “psycho-politics,” is an important factor impelling terrorist agendas.
Sophisticated terrorist “training facilities” reportedly have existed in Iran, including camps dedicated to “how to brainwash, control and activate suicide terrorists while in the West.”24 One Iranian source told Freedom that these camps include drugs in their arsenal to alter and control behavior.
According to Yossef Bodansky, an installation that operated in the 1980s near Persepolis in Iran “was manned by expert trainers” from such non-Islamic countries as East Germany, Bulgaria, North Korea and Vietnam. Bodansky, former director of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, noted, “The East Germans and the Bulgarians were responsible for the development of bombs, explosive charges and diversified detonators, as well as for preparing the technicians who would assemble the bombs on-site.... The North Koreans and the Vietnamese turned their trainees ‘into death volunteers thanks to brainwashing.’”25
Such camps appear to be fertile ground for creating what Dr. Colin Ross calls “Manchurian Candidates,” using drugs, hypnosis and other coercive means. “Terrorist organizations and governments around the world are using these techniques, right up to the present,” he said.
“Shooting Anything that Moved”
Under the Taliban and al-Qaeda, cultural centers were looted and treasures sold or, as in the case of historical landmarks (above, top) or the world’s largest statue of Buddha (above, bottom), damaged or destroyed.
While the psychiatric weapons wielded by those dominating al-Qaeda, Hezbollah and other terrorist networks are only now coming to light, the ramifications of these dehumanizing and terror-inducing methods are obvious in their effects—including on the Afghan ethnic populations.
Enayat Delawary described to Freedom the genocidal tactics that al-Qaeda and the Taliban employed against native Afghans, including destruction of crops and food supplies, rounding up, jailing, torturing and killing men and boys, and gang-raping (and often murdering) women and girls.
Tens of thousands of Muslims from Northern Afghanistan were thus exterminated at the hands of al-Qaeda and the Taliban, according to Delawary. At the rate the slaughter proceeded, he said, all of the native peoples of Northern Afghanistan would have been wiped out within another year, if American and other forces had not intervened.
Such charges are mirrored in the U.S. State Department’s Afghanistan Country Reports on Human Rights Practices in recent years. The 1998 report, for example, released in early 1999, noted “large-scale massacres carried out by the Taliban” and stated that “Taliban forces committed a large number of political and other extrajudicial killings.”
At Mazar-i-Sharif, that report noted, “as many as 5,000 persons, mostly ethnic Hazara civilians, were massacred by the Taliban. ... Multiple witnesses reported a killing spree on the initial day of the Taliban’s invasion of Mazar-i-Sharif, with Taliban soldiers shooting anything that moved on the streets, including men, women, children and animals.”
The department’s 2000 report, released in February 2001, revealed continuing oppression: “The Taliban carried out summary justice in the areas they controlled, and reportedly were responsible for political and other extrajudicial killings, including targeted killings, summary executions, and deaths in custody. ... Violence against women remained a problem throughout the country. Women and girls were subjected to rape, kidnaping and forced marriage.”
In addition to describing widespread killings and terror under the Taliban regime, the 2000 document noted allegations of mass abductions and disappearances of ethnic Afghans, including girls and women, in Taliban-controlled areas. That report calculated that 2.8 million Afghans remained displaced outside the country as refugees, while up to 750,000 more remained “internally displaced” inside Afghanistan.
The latest annual report, released on March 4, 2002, catalogued “a greater number of abuses” in 2001: “The Taliban carried out summary justice in the areas that it controlled, and reportedly was responsible for political and other extrajudicial killings, including targeted killings, summary executions, and deaths in custody. ... The Taliban also indiscriminately bombarded civilian areas and harassed, detained and even killed members of relief organizations.” Torture, kidnaping, rape and other crimes continued.
Recent accounts from Afghanistan indicated that al-Qaeda and Taliban forces—contrary to their assertions that they protected females—had for years systematically rounded up the most attractive girls and women, abused them, forced many into short-lived “marriages,” and either abandoned them or sold them to bordellos or bondage in Pakistan. The State Department corroborated these accounts, noting that Taliban soldiers seized girls and women in 1999 and “reportedly trafficked [them] to Pakistan and to the Arab Gulf states,” and that other mass abductions took place between June and October 2000.
“He Has Caused a Catastrophe”
he scenario that emerges is one of individual masters of psycho-political terror, like Ayman al-Zawahiri and Ali Mohamed, providing bin Laden and other supporters of militant operations with their motivation and conditioning—helping to convert veterans of the war with the Soviet Union and new recruits into international terrorists and genocidal executioners.
In a book published in early 2002, attorney Montasser El-Zayat blames Ayman al-Zawahiri for events in Afghanistan and for placing Islamic groups elsewhere on the defensive: “[H]e has caused a catastrophe, the biggest catastrophe that befell the Islamic movement. He made us a chewable morsel of bread under America’s jaws....”26
And just as similar strategies of the past have failed, so goes that of the modern terror masters—at woeful cost to their followers and others.
The techniques often begin with a standard propaganda tool: the redefinition of terms.
While Islamic law is interpreted to forbid use of “all intoxicants,” they are found in al-Qaeda and other terrorist networks, and in the Taliban.
Al-Qaeda abuses “jihad,” Noor Delawary said, noting it has “a very, very specific meaning” that allows people to defend themselves when threatened—but never to terrorize.
Jihad derives from an Arabic term meaning “to strive,” and, in one major sense, it denotes an individual’s spiritual striving against sin. Its meaning for group defense, however, was redefined by Ayman al-Zawahiri to mean an all-out campaign of terror against “Jews and Crusaders,” with Crusaders so loosely identified as to include Americans and, based on ample evidence of wholesale slaughter, ethnic Afghans (primarily from Northern Afghanistan) who did not support al-Qaeda and the Taliban.
“Jihad” thereby cloaked planned genocide—even against fellow Muslims—in a term of righteousness. It paved the way for mass deaths, uncounted rapes and sweeping violations of human rights.
Delawary described the subsequent actions of al-Qaeda and their willing Taliban pawns against native Afghans—which included skinning helpless captives alive—condemning them as the work of “animals” and not Muslims faithful to the teachings of the Koran.
But in looking beyond the religious rhetoric, the agenda was patently political. The September 11 murder of thousands of Americans by al-Qaeda operatives emanated from a political/terrorist “jihad” opposing the United States’ support of Israel and continuing presence in the Middle East—much as the death by torture of an American official, Bill Buckley, was driven by the political agenda to force the United States and Israel to withdraw from Lebanon.
Psycho-Politics
Those experts controlling behavior usually seek to remain behind the scenes, but they are carefully trained, often by governments. Al-Abub, for example, learned his craft from KGB psychiatrists at Patrice Lumumba University (since renamed People’s Friendship University), a Moscow facility that allegedly taught others in such techniques under the communist regime.
Refugees driven from their homes by Taliban and Al Qaeda forces found temporary shelter in the Panjsher valley, northeast of Kabul. At the approximate time this photo was taken, the U.S. State Department estimated that 2.8 million people remained displaced outside Afghanistan, while up to 750,000 more were “internally displaced” inside the country.
The use of psychiatry and its manipulating treatments for political ends, often termed “psycho-politics,” is an important factor impelling terrorist agendas.
Sophisticated terrorist “training facilities” reportedly have existed in Iran, including camps dedicated to “how to brainwash, control and activate suicide terrorists while in the West.”24 One Iranian source told Freedom that these camps include drugs in their arsenal to alter and control behavior.
According to Yossef Bodansky, an installation that operated in the 1980s near Persepolis in Iran “was manned by expert trainers” from such non-Islamic countries as East Germany, Bulgaria, North Korea and Vietnam. Bodansky, former director of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, noted, “The East Germans and the Bulgarians were responsible for the development of bombs, explosive charges and diversified detonators, as well as for preparing the technicians who would assemble the bombs on-site.... The North Koreans and the Vietnamese turned their trainees ‘into death volunteers thanks to brainwashing.’”25
Such camps appear to be fertile ground for creating what Dr. Colin Ross calls “Manchurian Candidates,” using drugs, hypnosis and other coercive means. “Terrorist organizations and governments around the world are using these techniques, right up to the present,” he said.
“Shooting Anything that Moved”
Under the Taliban and al-Qaeda, cultural centers were looted and treasures sold or, as in the case of historical landmarks (above, top) or the world’s largest statue of Buddha (above, bottom), damaged or destroyed.
While the psychiatric weapons wielded by those dominating al-Qaeda, Hezbollah and other terrorist networks are only now coming to light, the ramifications of these dehumanizing and terror-inducing methods are obvious in their effects—including on the Afghan ethnic populations.
Enayat Delawary described to Freedom the genocidal tactics that al-Qaeda and the Taliban employed against native Afghans, including destruction of crops and food supplies, rounding up, jailing, torturing and killing men and boys, and gang-raping (and often murdering) women and girls.
Tens of thousands of Muslims from Northern Afghanistan were thus exterminated at the hands of al-Qaeda and the Taliban, according to Delawary. At the rate the slaughter proceeded, he said, all of the native peoples of Northern Afghanistan would have been wiped out within another year, if American and other forces had not intervened.
Such charges are mirrored in the U.S. State Department’s Afghanistan Country Reports on Human Rights Practices in recent years. The 1998 report, for example, released in early 1999, noted “large-scale massacres carried out by the Taliban” and stated that “Taliban forces committed a large number of political and other extrajudicial killings.”
At Mazar-i-Sharif, that report noted, “as many as 5,000 persons, mostly ethnic Hazara civilians, were massacred by the Taliban. ... Multiple witnesses reported a killing spree on the initial day of the Taliban’s invasion of Mazar-i-Sharif, with Taliban soldiers shooting anything that moved on the streets, including men, women, children and animals.”
The department’s 2000 report, released in February 2001, revealed continuing oppression: “The Taliban carried out summary justice in the areas they controlled, and reportedly were responsible for political and other extrajudicial killings, including targeted killings, summary executions, and deaths in custody. ... Violence against women remained a problem throughout the country. Women and girls were subjected to rape, kidnaping and forced marriage.”
In addition to describing widespread killings and terror under the Taliban regime, the 2000 document noted allegations of mass abductions and disappearances of ethnic Afghans, including girls and women, in Taliban-controlled areas. That report calculated that 2.8 million Afghans remained displaced outside the country as refugees, while up to 750,000 more remained “internally displaced” inside Afghanistan.
The latest annual report, released on March 4, 2002, catalogued “a greater number of abuses” in 2001: “The Taliban carried out summary justice in the areas that it controlled, and reportedly was responsible for political and other extrajudicial killings, including targeted killings, summary executions, and deaths in custody. ... The Taliban also indiscriminately bombarded civilian areas and harassed, detained and even killed members of relief organizations.” Torture, kidnaping, rape and other crimes continued.
Recent accounts from Afghanistan indicated that al-Qaeda and Taliban forces—contrary to their assertions that they protected females—had for years systematically rounded up the most attractive girls and women, abused them, forced many into short-lived “marriages,” and either abandoned them or sold them to bordellos or bondage in Pakistan. The State Department corroborated these accounts, noting that Taliban soldiers seized girls and women in 1999 and “reportedly trafficked [them] to Pakistan and to the Arab Gulf states,” and that other mass abductions took place between June and October 2000.
“He Has Caused a Catastrophe”
he scenario that emerges is one of individual masters of psycho-political terror, like Ayman al-Zawahiri and Ali Mohamed, providing bin Laden and other supporters of militant operations with their motivation and conditioning—helping to convert veterans of the war with the Soviet Union and new recruits into international terrorists and genocidal executioners.
In a book published in early 2002, attorney Montasser El-Zayat blames Ayman al-Zawahiri for events in Afghanistan and for placing Islamic groups elsewhere on the defensive: “[H]e has caused a catastrophe, the biggest catastrophe that befell the Islamic movement. He made us a chewable morsel of bread under America’s jaws....”26
And just as similar strategies of the past have failed, so goes that of the modern terror masters—at woeful cost to their followers and others.
Friday, January 1, 2010
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Breaking News Plane With Same Flight Number as Christmas Day Incident Lands at Detroit Airport, Requests Emergency Assistance
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Dec. 27: Police surround a plane at Detroit's Metro Airport after a Northwest Airlines pilot reported a disturbance on his flight before landing.
Police removed an airline passenger Sunday following a disruption on the same Detroit-bound flight that was subject to a failed bomb attack on Christmas Day.
An FBI spokeswoman in Detroit said Sunday's incident turned out to be nothing serious.
"Today (Sunday) at Detroit Metro Airport, the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) responded to a report from an incoming flight from Amsterdam where a passenger spent a lengthy time in the restroom. This raised concerns so an alert was raised. JTTF investigated and the investigation shows that this was a non-serious incident and all is clear at this point," the FBI spokeswoman told Fox News.
A law enforcement official said the man removed from a Sunday flight to Detroit posed no security risk to the plane.
The official says the passenger was taken into custody after becoming verbally disruptive on landing. Subsequent interviews by investigators determined he was a businessman who became ill during the flight.
A source confirmed this report to Fox News, saying the passenger was indeed sick and that the incident appears to be "a non-event at this point."Authorities did not find any sign of explosives.
A federal law enforcement official said the man, who was from Nigeria, was interviewed by authorities and the aircraft was swept. But the official said the incident was all an incredible coincidence.
A federal law enforcement official told Fox News that it "looks like a non-serious incident at this point. Early indications are that this person is not a threat."
Several police vehicles and a police command unit had surrounded a Northwest Airlines plane at Detroit's Metro Airport Sunday after the pilot on the flight requested emergency help. The passenger reportedly became verbally disruptive and barricaded himself in the bathroom for an hour.
Two sources tell Fox News that the suspect boarded a plan in Lagos, Nigeria, with no baggage, and said the FBI has already sent an e-mail alert to other federal agencies notifying them of the incident.
A source told Fox News that the man taken into custody at the Detroit airport was a Nigerian national in his 30s. Federal officials know who the suspect is, but won't provide any more details.
Detroit's Metro Airport spokesman John Wintner said there was a report of suspicious activity on the Delta/Northwest Airlines Flight 253 from Amsterdam Sunday. That is the same flight that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a 23-year-old Nigerian man, was suspected of attempting to blow up over Detroit on Christmas Day.
White House spokesman Bill Burton said President Obama was notified of the disturbance Sunday as federal officials began reviewing airline security measures.
"The President was notified shortly after 9:00 a.m. Hawaiian time of the incident regarding an unruly passenger on the flight arriving in Detroit by NSS chief of staff Denis McDonough," Burton said.
"The President stressed the importance of maintaining heightened security measures for all air travel and gave instructions to set up another secure teleconference briefing as soon as possible."
All 257 passengers and 12 crew were deplaned safely, said Delta spokeswoman Susan Elliott. The flight landed in Detroit at 12:34 p.m. Sunday.
The plane was moved to a remote location at the airport so authorities can conduct additional screening, Reuters reported
Tiger Woods Wife coud receive 300 million in if she tries her Divorce case in California vs Florida
According to Us magazine, Elin Nordegren signed a prenuptial agreement at the time of her marriage to Woods worth a reported $300 million, topping the previous record for celebrity divorces held by Michael Jordan’s wife, Juanita, who received approximately $150 million.
In addition to the settlement, Us reports that the couple –married since 2004 -- own a $2.6 million home in Florida, a 155-foot $22 million yacht and a $39 million mansion on Jupiter Island.
Woods, who Forbes magazine said has made $1 billion since 2006, has some of the biggest sponsorship and endorsement deals in professional sports. Nike alone pays Woods more than $30 million annually, and other companies like Gatorade and Gillette have pledged to support him and his family during this time.
But the Chicago Sun Times says Nordegren will not have access to any significant portion of Woods’ fortune until their marriage reaches the 10-year mark. After that, she would be entitled to collect $20 million, the Sun-Times said.
California vs. Florida
As of Friday, neither Elin nor Tiger Woods had filed for divorce in Orange County, where both were registered to vote in 2008 and where they share ownership of a 6,800-square-foot home in Isleworth worth $2.4 million, according to local court and property records.
It was not clear, however, where their divorce paperwork might pop up. Although they live in Isleworth and Tiger, through a trust, owns a second home there, Tiger bought an exclusive Jupiter Island compound in Martin County. It was valued at $38 million when it was purchased in 2006, records show.
Tiger is from California. Elin is from Sweden but became a U.S. citizen when she married Woods.
Elin most likely would fare better with a California divorce than a Florida one, attorneys say.
California is a "community property" state, meaning all income produced during a marriage must be split 50-50, Stanford University family-law professor Richard Banks told the Los Angeles Times.
Under Florida law, "you have to divide the assets equitably, but that doesn't necessarily mean equally," he said. "In fact, the greater the pot of money, the less likely a court is to split it evenly."
In Florida, the spouse who earned the family's income "generally gets to keep it," although the other spouse's lifestyle during the marriage comes into play, Banks said.
Efforts to reach Woods' agent, Mark Steinberg, were unsuccessful Friday.
A wreck and a crash
Divorce became a topic for Woods after a recent whirlwind of events. A national tabloid broke a story that the golfer had had an extramarital affair with a New York club hostess.
Then at 2:35 a.m. Nov. 27, Woods drove a Cadillac Escalade into a hedgerow, over a fire hydrant and into his neighbor's tree in Isleworth.
Two rear windows were smashed out, police said, and Woods was in and out of consciousness before he was taken to a hospital in Ocoee to be treated for facial cuts. He was bleeding in his mouth, according to a police report.
Woods has been tied to at least ten other women and has apologized for his "transgressions" via a statement.
“I have let my family down and I regret those transgressions with all of my heart," Woods said. "I have not been true to my values and the behavior my family deserves. I am not without faults and I am far short of perfect. I am dealing with my behavior and personal failings.”
Woods and Nordegren, a former swimsuit model, met during the British Open in 2001. At the time, Nordegren was a nanny for Swedish golfer Jesper Parnevik. The couple began dating and married in October of 2004 on a golf course in Barbados.
Within hours of the accident, the gossip world was abuzz with rumors that Nordegren and Woods had been arguing for hours before he crashed his SUV into a fire hydrant and a tree. Later, reports claimed that Nordegren had used golf clubs to attack her husband, rather than in an attempt to help him out of his vehicle. Woods has vehemently denied those claims.
POP TARTS: Sponsors will support Woods, but keep him on short leash.
Parnevik, the man who introduced the couple, has since come out saying he owes Nordegren an apology.
“We probably thought he was a better guy than he is,” he told the Golf Channel, referring to his wife and himself. “"I would probably need to apologize to [Elin] and hope she uses a driver next time instead of a 3-iron … It’s a private thing of course, but when you are the guy he is — the world’s best athlete — you should think more before you do stuff ... and maybe not ’just do it,’ like Nike says."
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Dead from eating bad oysters?: No, it turns out, very much alive, and now a Florida couple may have to give back 2 million
Rajmatee Kapadia of Florida argued in court for more than a year with a Sioux Falls insurance company that her husband, Vij Misir, really had died after eating bad oysters during a family vacation in Malaysia in 2003.
Eventually, Kapadia settled the case for $2 million, backed up by official documents from Malaysia, as well as her claims she had seen him cremated and spread his ashes.
But some still weren't buying the story.
"The truth is, I never believed he was dead," said Jay Blumenkopf, the lawyer who represented Sioux Falls-based Midland National Life in the lawsuit. "Sometimes you settle cases for business reasons, but I never believed he was dead."
That's the reason he wasn't surprised when FBI agents called him last December and told him Misir had walked into the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, and asked to renew his passport.
Today, Misir, 45, sits in the Minnehaha County Jail after FBI agents found and arrested him in Guam in November, and both he and his wife face federal charges in the faked death.
Richard Ivers, the Coral Springs, Fla., lawyer who represented Kapadia, said he hadn't spoken with her since the settlement and was surprised to hear that his former client and the husband he thought was dead had been indicted for fraud.
"I don't know anything to say about that," Ivers said. "I'm sort of taken aback. It's gonna take me a little while to digest.
"She claimed that he ate some bad oysters and died in a taxi," he said.
Kapadia, who lives with the couple's children in League City, Texas, sued Midland National Life and West Coast Life Insurance of San Francisco in 2004 after their investigators questioned the claim that her husband had died in Malaysia during the vacation in October 2003.
Misir had taken out two separate $2 million life insurance policies from Midland and another $3 million from West Coast Life between July 2001 and August 2002, according to court documents. The policies listed Kapadia as the sole beneficiary.
A death certificate was issued for Misir in 2005 when Blumenkopf and lawyers for West Coast Life settled Kapadia's claim.
The companies chose to settle because Kapadia had a strong case, Blumenkopf said. She had a death certificate and police reports from Malaysia in addition to her cremation claims.
The family decided to cremate him immediately because of their religious beliefs, she said during the 2004 investigation.
"... my father-in-law did the service for my husband because he's a Hindu priest," Kapadia said.
She also told investigators that a friend of her husband's took her family out on a river in Thailand to scatter her husband's ashes.
Now Misir and Kapadia, 39, each face up to 20 years in prison on charges of conspiracy to commit mail fraud in U.S. District Court in Sioux Falls.
Misir pleaded not guilty in Sioux Falls on Dec. 3 and is being held without bond. Kapadia pleaded not guilty Nov. 23 and was released after posting $10,000 of a $2 million bond on the condition she relinquish her U.S. passport and show up for all her court dates.
Midland will file a civil lawsuit to get its portion of the $2 million settlement back within the next 30 days, Blumenkopf said.
Reach Reporter John Hult at 331-2301
Eventually, Kapadia settled the case for $2 million, backed up by official documents from Malaysia, as well as her claims she had seen him cremated and spread his ashes.
But some still weren't buying the story.
"The truth is, I never believed he was dead," said Jay Blumenkopf, the lawyer who represented Sioux Falls-based Midland National Life in the lawsuit. "Sometimes you settle cases for business reasons, but I never believed he was dead."
That's the reason he wasn't surprised when FBI agents called him last December and told him Misir had walked into the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, and asked to renew his passport.
Today, Misir, 45, sits in the Minnehaha County Jail after FBI agents found and arrested him in Guam in November, and both he and his wife face federal charges in the faked death.
Richard Ivers, the Coral Springs, Fla., lawyer who represented Kapadia, said he hadn't spoken with her since the settlement and was surprised to hear that his former client and the husband he thought was dead had been indicted for fraud.
"I don't know anything to say about that," Ivers said. "I'm sort of taken aback. It's gonna take me a little while to digest.
"She claimed that he ate some bad oysters and died in a taxi," he said.
Kapadia, who lives with the couple's children in League City, Texas, sued Midland National Life and West Coast Life Insurance of San Francisco in 2004 after their investigators questioned the claim that her husband had died in Malaysia during the vacation in October 2003.
Misir had taken out two separate $2 million life insurance policies from Midland and another $3 million from West Coast Life between July 2001 and August 2002, according to court documents. The policies listed Kapadia as the sole beneficiary.
A death certificate was issued for Misir in 2005 when Blumenkopf and lawyers for West Coast Life settled Kapadia's claim.
The companies chose to settle because Kapadia had a strong case, Blumenkopf said. She had a death certificate and police reports from Malaysia in addition to her cremation claims.
The family decided to cremate him immediately because of their religious beliefs, she said during the 2004 investigation.
"... my father-in-law did the service for my husband because he's a Hindu priest," Kapadia said.
She also told investigators that a friend of her husband's took her family out on a river in Thailand to scatter her husband's ashes.
Now Misir and Kapadia, 39, each face up to 20 years in prison on charges of conspiracy to commit mail fraud in U.S. District Court in Sioux Falls.
Misir pleaded not guilty in Sioux Falls on Dec. 3 and is being held without bond. Kapadia pleaded not guilty Nov. 23 and was released after posting $10,000 of a $2 million bond on the condition she relinquish her U.S. passport and show up for all her court dates.
Midland will file a civil lawsuit to get its portion of the $2 million settlement back within the next 30 days, Blumenkopf said.
Reach Reporter John Hult at 331-2301
Legal Advice Don't Invite Holiday Stress Into Your Home It Creates a Blue Print For Divorce
Don't Invite Holiday Stress Into Your HomeIt Creates a Blue Print For Divorce
Toned-down expectations may lead to more joy, less anxiety, experts say. High anxiety and horriffic memories during holiudays create permanent impressions that may lead to Divorce.
Between hurrying to score the last parking spot at the mall and preparing your home for out-of-town guests, the holiday season can be mentally exhausting.
For women especially, emotions tend to run high as they put pressure on themselves to create picture-perfect gatherings, while holding down jobs and taking care of children. Legal Analyst Warn that, Failing to achieve these expectations, lead to hysteria, stress, family animosity and ultimately create a blueprint for divorce.
"During the holidays, our lives become even more stressful as we try to juggle our usual responsibilities with extra holiday preparation and complicated family dynamics," Dr. Eric Marcus, a psychiatrist at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center, said in a news release from the hospital.
If your household resembles the idealized 1950s' television-version of a family, all of the craziness will culminate in your clan gathered at the hearth, merrily singing Christmas carols. If your family is closer to normal, some tension and conflict will arise during all that family togetherness.
To minimize stress, Dr. Margaret Altemus, a psychiatrist and director of the Payne Whitney Women's Program at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, suggests making some time for yourself during the holidays.
Being alone, even for a half hour or so, can help you feel calmer. If your in-laws have parked themselves on your sofa and show no signs of leaving until after New Year's, go out by yourself. Take a walk or get some exercise. Physical activity helps alleviate stress and the sunlight can help lift your mood, Altemus said.
Time for yourself may also mean taking time to be with your friends, who may not push those buttons in the same way your relatives can.
The holidays can also be difficult on those who feel isolated. If you are feeling alone, seek out the support of your community, religious or social services. Getting involved with volunteering can help you feel needed and connected.
When it comes to preparing for the holidays, lower your expectations and remember you will not be able to do all you'd like to do if you had unlimited time, energy and perhaps a household staff. Forget about trying to make handmade gifts for the neighbors, sewing a holiday pageant costume for your child, sending out your greeting cards and learning how to cook a crown roast all in the same week.
Prioritize what is most important for you and your loved ones. Talk with your family about what they value in the celebrations. You may find that your expectations are higher than everyone else's.
For many families, money is tighter than it was in previous years. When buying gifts, don't blow your budget then spend the next several months worried about paying your credit card bill and regretting the purchases.
If you are starting to feel stressed, ask for help. If it's too much to host the gathering this year, ask someone else to take a turn -- they may welcome the chance. If you run out of time to bake, buy dessert or ask guests to bring it.
And take some time to reflect on what the holiday means to you, the psychiatrists suggest. That may mean reminiscing about happy times with loved ones, focusing on religious observances or thinking about your best moments and accomplishments of the past year.
Friday, December 25, 2009
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A very Gotti Christmas: Former Gambino crime family boss invites members of hung jury for dinner
Recently acquitted John A. (Junior) Gotti, home for his first Christmas since 2007, plans a holiday feast with his family - and any jurors interested in breaking bread with the ex-Gambino boss.
"I'm cooking dinner here," Gotti, 45, said Thursday as he pulled into the driveway of his Oyster Bay, L.I., estate.
The 12 jurors from his latest mistrial were all invited for a Christmas meal with Gotti, wife Kim and their six kids at the family's $1.7 million mansion.
"My door's open if they want to come," said Gotti, who remains free on $2 million bail. "But we don't even know who they are. It was an anonymous jury."
Gotti said he was spending Christmas Eve with his sisters - Angel and former reality show star Victoria.
A Manhattan federal jury deadlocked on racketeering and murder charges against Gotti, freeing the second-generation gangster for the holidays.
Gotti assumed control of the Gambino crime family after his late father, John Sr., was jailed for life on a 1992 conviction. The elder Gotti died behind bars a decade later.
Junior was locked up from August 2008, when a new indictment was returned, until the jury's Dec. 1 verdict. He climbed into a white BMW for the triumphant ride home after posting bail.
The panel deliberated for 11 contentious days before finally throwing in the towel after Gotti spent the Thanksgiving weekend in federal lockup.
Afterward, they denounced the government's mob turncoat witnesses as liars and declared the feds should stop their legal pursuit of the Teflon Son.
Gotti, who had faced life in prison if convicted, hailed the jury as "the most courageous people I've met in my life" after the trial ended.
It was the fourth mistrial in five years for Gotti, who insisted at every racketeering trial that he quit the Gambino family a decade ago.
The U.S. attorney has yet to announce a decision on retrying Gotti for a staggering fifth time, although sources told the Daily News another trial was unlikely.
lmcshane@nydailynews.com
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2009/12/25/2009-12-25_an_invite_jury_cant_refuse_christmas_with_the_gottis_on_menu.html#ixzz0aja9QVMS
Superswindler Bernie Madoff was beaten down by old age, not hurt in a cell-block beatdown, prison officials said Thursday.
The feds categorically denied North Carolina TV reports that the convicted 71-year-old Ponzi crook was hurt in a jailhouse fight Friday.
U.S. Bureau of Prisons spokeswoman Traci Billingsley said Madoff was transferred to a prison medical facility last week after suffering from hypertension and dizziness.
ABC11 Eyewitness News in Raleigh had reported that Madoff suffered facial fractures, broken ribs and a collapsed lung in a prisoner-on-prisoner attack .
The report said the con man was rushed to Duke University Hospital in Durham.
Madoff's lawyer Ira Lee Sorkin insisted there was no truth to the report.
"The Bureau of Prisons said that report was not accurate," Sorkin said. "Indeed, Mr. Madoff was treated for dizzy spells and high blood pressure. That's all I'm going to say."
A spokeswoman at Duke also said no one by the name of Bernard Madoff has been treated at the university hospital in the past week.
Madoff is doing time at the Federal Correctional Complex in Butner, N.C., where his fellow inmates include mob boss Carmine Persico and Omar Abdel-Rahman, the so-called Blind Sheik who masterminded the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
Sorkin said Madoff is expected to be returned to the medium-security prison once he is better.
The disgraced financier was sentenced in June to 150 years in prison for defrauding investors of $65 billion - the largest swindle in U.S. history.
The long-running scheme unraveled during the economic downturn when his clients tried to withdraw money Madoff could not produce.
Since pleading guilty to the scam, federal authorities have been trying to recoup some of the lost fortunes of the victims by auctioning off Madoff's property.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2009/12/24/2009-12-24_bernie_madoff_had_dizziness_high_blood_pressure.html#ixzz0ajYxnoQw
What Happens To Your Email and Social Networking Accounts When You Die?
What Happens To Your Email and Social Networking Accounts When You Die?
Have you ever wondered what happens to your email accounts and social networking accounts such as Facebook and MySpace when you die? Who gets access to your accounts, can people get even get access to your account and your stored personal information?
Almost every website will have a different policy for dead account holders, so I will discuss what popular websites such as Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo email accounts, MySpace and Facebook social networking websites do in the event of a death of one of their users.
Gmail
If you have a Gmail account and you pass away, your next of kin will be allowed to access your emails. The account will stay open forever, but as the next of kin, you are able to request it to be deleted. To get access to the email account, you will need to supply the following information by fax or mail to Google to be granted account access of the deceased user account.
Your full name (next of kin), your contact information and a verifiable email address
The Gmail email address of the deceased person
An email containing the full headers of an email message that the deceased person has emailed you with the entire contents of the email
Proof of death
Documentation to prove that you are the lawfully allowed to access their email (if the deceased is over 18). If deceased person is under 18 of age, you must provide a birth certificate
After you’ve compiled the information, Google will verify it and grant you access to the user account.
More information about accessing a deceased person’s mail can be found in Google’s Support Page.
So if you have private information that you don’t want people to look at when you are dead, don’t use Gmail (use Yahoo instead).
u are trying to access a deceased person’s email account, you may first want to try to reset the user’s password.
Hotmail
If Hotmail accounts are left inactive for a period of time, the email account along with all the information will be eventually deleted (within the year) and therefore, you will not be able to access it. If you die, your next of kin will be granted access to your account provided they supply supporting documents such as a death certificate (similar to what Google needs). Hotmail will not reset the password for the deceased person, but you have to fax or mail information to gain access to the account such as:
Your email address
Your shipping address (as they send you a package in the mail
Documents to state your are the benefactor or you have power of attorney
Your photocopied driver’s license
A photocopy of the death certificate
Information about the account holder such as first and last name, date of birth, city, state, zip, approximate date of the account creation and the approximate date of last sign in.
If you require more information, you can get it at Windows Live Help.
Yahoo
Yahoo has a much stricter policy over who can get access to your account. And that is no one. If you want to ensure no one has access to your emails when you die, you would want to choose Yahoo. Yahoo will not grant permission to anyone to access a deceased user’s account. The only permission Yahoo grants is for the account to be deleted. Therefore, Yahoo does not allow anyone to access your emails. The only way someone can do this is if they reset your account password.
Facebook
Facebook will not grant anyone access to a deceased user account, but if the user of the account is deceased, their page will be turned into a memorial page once reqested. By filling out the form to turn an deceased users page into a memorial page, Facebook will remove sensitive information on the account like status updates and will only allow current friends to access the page. Family members will then be allowed to customise the page of the deceased user.
MySpace
MySpace deceased user policy is a bit vague, but they state that if you are the next of kin, they will not grant you access to edit, or delete any of the content or settings on the account yourself, but you can request it to be removed if you deem appropriate. You can simply email accountcare@support.myspace.com and attach appropriate documentation such as a death certificate. However, if you have access to their email account, MySpace recommends that you reset the user password.
If you die, your accounts will most likely stay active unless the site automatically deletes the account due to inactivity, or your family has requested the account to be closed. Most sites allow access to your personal data by your next of kin, but to gain this right, they will need to mail proof to the website. Even though you may have died, if you use one password for all these sites, your family members might be able to use that password, or even guess your secret question. But then again, when you die, would you even care what people find in your email inbox or social networking sites?
If you are trying to access a deceased person’s email, try resetting their email, look to see if they have stored the password in a file, or see if they have written it down on paper.
Have you ever gone through something like this? What did you do to secure the deceased user account? Your experience could help easy the transition for others. Share them in the comments
Have you ever wondered what happens to your email accounts and social networking accounts such as Facebook and MySpace when you die? Who gets access to your accounts, can people get even get access to your account and your stored personal information?
Almost every website will have a different policy for dead account holders, so I will discuss what popular websites such as Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo email accounts, MySpace and Facebook social networking websites do in the event of a death of one of their users.
Gmail
If you have a Gmail account and you pass away, your next of kin will be allowed to access your emails. The account will stay open forever, but as the next of kin, you are able to request it to be deleted. To get access to the email account, you will need to supply the following information by fax or mail to Google to be granted account access of the deceased user account.
Your full name (next of kin), your contact information and a verifiable email address
The Gmail email address of the deceased person
An email containing the full headers of an email message that the deceased person has emailed you with the entire contents of the email
Proof of death
Documentation to prove that you are the lawfully allowed to access their email (if the deceased is over 18). If deceased person is under 18 of age, you must provide a birth certificate
After you’ve compiled the information, Google will verify it and grant you access to the user account.
More information about accessing a deceased person’s mail can be found in Google’s Support Page.
So if you have private information that you don’t want people to look at when you are dead, don’t use Gmail (use Yahoo instead).
u are trying to access a deceased person’s email account, you may first want to try to reset the user’s password.
Hotmail
If Hotmail accounts are left inactive for a period of time, the email account along with all the information will be eventually deleted (within the year) and therefore, you will not be able to access it. If you die, your next of kin will be granted access to your account provided they supply supporting documents such as a death certificate (similar to what Google needs). Hotmail will not reset the password for the deceased person, but you have to fax or mail information to gain access to the account such as:
Your email address
Your shipping address (as they send you a package in the mail
Documents to state your are the benefactor or you have power of attorney
Your photocopied driver’s license
A photocopy of the death certificate
Information about the account holder such as first and last name, date of birth, city, state, zip, approximate date of the account creation and the approximate date of last sign in.
If you require more information, you can get it at Windows Live Help.
Yahoo
Yahoo has a much stricter policy over who can get access to your account. And that is no one. If you want to ensure no one has access to your emails when you die, you would want to choose Yahoo. Yahoo will not grant permission to anyone to access a deceased user’s account. The only permission Yahoo grants is for the account to be deleted. Therefore, Yahoo does not allow anyone to access your emails. The only way someone can do this is if they reset your account password.
Facebook will not grant anyone access to a deceased user account, but if the user of the account is deceased, their page will be turned into a memorial page once reqested. By filling out the form to turn an deceased users page into a memorial page, Facebook will remove sensitive information on the account like status updates and will only allow current friends to access the page. Family members will then be allowed to customise the page of the deceased user.
MySpace
MySpace deceased user policy is a bit vague, but they state that if you are the next of kin, they will not grant you access to edit, or delete any of the content or settings on the account yourself, but you can request it to be removed if you deem appropriate. You can simply email accountcare@support.myspace.com and attach appropriate documentation such as a death certificate. However, if you have access to their email account, MySpace recommends that you reset the user password.
If you die, your accounts will most likely stay active unless the site automatically deletes the account due to inactivity, or your family has requested the account to be closed. Most sites allow access to your personal data by your next of kin, but to gain this right, they will need to mail proof to the website. Even though you may have died, if you use one password for all these sites, your family members might be able to use that password, or even guess your secret question. But then again, when you die, would you even care what people find in your email inbox or social networking sites?
If you are trying to access a deceased person’s email, try resetting their email, look to see if they have stored the password in a file, or see if they have written it down on paper.
Have you ever gone through something like this? What did you do to secure the deceased user account? Your experience could help easy the transition for others. Share them in the comments
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