Wednesday, April 6, 2011

11-04-06 Media and Unions in the USA // Medios de comunicación y los sindicatos en los EE.UU. // 在美国媒体和工会



Local Media Covered Monday Union Rallies; National Media Not So Much





Union members and their progressive supporters staged rallies and events across the country on Monday to commemorate the 43rd anniversary of Martin Luther King's assassination in Memphis, where the civil rights leader was helping local union workers organize.  
Activists claimed to have hosted "more than 1,200 events -- teach-ins, vigils, faith services and town halls" Monday, but most national news media outlets ignored the story. 
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11-04-05 Gitmo ‘torture’ doc now in the hot seat // Psicólogo, quien dirigió la tortura en Guantánamo, a juicio // 心理学家，谁指示酷刑关押在关塔那摩的审判，



Gitmo ‘torture’ doc now in the hot seat

NEW YORK
ALISON BOWEN
Published: April 05, 2011 8:13 p.m.
Last modified: April 05, 2011 8:15 p.m.

The practices of a New York-licensed psychologist will be reviewed by a state Supreme Court judge today, after he was accused of creating U.S. interrogation techniques at Guantanamo Bay that some decry as torture.

This landmark hearing will be the first time a U.S. court will consider whether a psychologist’s involvement in alleged torture violates medical ethics or the Hippocratic oath: First, do no harm.

Dr. John Francis Leso was in charge of the “Behavioral Science Consultation Team” at Guantanamo Bay, according to the New York Civil Liberties Union. President Barack Obama famously promised to close Gitmo after it became synonymous with alleged torture of inmates, many of whom are suspected 9/11 terrorists.

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11-04-06 Lomas v Bank of America (KC059379): “Request[s] for Judicial Notice” - Fraud on the Court in foreclosure procedures // Fraude por parte de Bank of America en la Corte de Los Ángeles // 美国银行在洛杉矶法院欺诈

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Lomas v Bank of America (KC059379): "Request[s] for Judicial Notice" filed on behalf of Bank of America for the March 23, 2011 Demurrer on Complaint  - part of Fraud on the Court in foreclosure procedures. [5]
Various dubious records were filed by an unauthorized attorney as "Request[s] for Judicial Notice" as part of pretense Demurrer proceeding
In Lomas v Bank of America (KC059379) Plaintiff Susan Lomas tries to protect her rights through a Quiet Title action against alleged fraud by Bank of America and others in foreclosure procedures.

A pattern of false and deliberately misleading court records is found in the case, presided by California Judge PETER J MEEKA, Clerk of the Court JOHN A CLARKE: [i,ii,iii] 
  • Minutes were not certified by the Clerk of the Court;
  • Minutes were not noticed and served;
  • Minutes repeatedly included statements that proceedings were conducted "off of the record", and
  • Plaintiff continues to be denied access to the Register of Actions (California civil docket) in the case.
The case as a whole is opined as Fraud on the Court through collusion of California Judge PETER J MEEKA, Clerk of the Court JOHN A CLARKE, BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION, and Attorney MARK V ASDOURIAN.
Fraud in the courts across the United States in foreclosure procedures has been recorded in numerous reports: 
  • In January 2008 the collapse of Countrywide Financial Corporation (today a subsidiary of Bank of America Corporation) followed the publication of a report by the New York Times regarding the filing of "Recreated Letters" as evidence in the US Bankruptcy Court in Pennsylvania.
  • In March 2008 the Hon Jeff Bohm entered a Memorandum Opinion in the US Bankruptcy Court in Texas, referring to a year long study of the litigation practices of Countrywide in courts across the United States and documenting various litigation fraud methods employed by the bank and its attorneys, which were summarized as "disregard for the professional and ethical obligations of the legal profession and judicial system". (p8)

A. Attached:
#   Date    Record    Page #
1.February 11, 2011Request for Judicial Notice in Support of Bank of America's Demurrer - page 5
2.March 16, 2011Supplement Request for Judicial Notice in Support of Bank of America's Demurrer - page 49
The records are provided as received from Plaintiff Susan Lomas, on whom they were served.

B. General Notes on Records Filed as Part of "Request[s] for Judicial Notice"
  • The records were filed by the office of Attorney Mark V Asdourian. His declaration as Attorney of Record for the Defendant Bank of America in the case of Lomas v Bank of America (KC059379) is overdue.  Therefore his authority to file any record on behalf of Bank of America under this caption is questionable.  It is likely that he is appearing with no authority at all, as attorney, who is not Attorney of Record, with "no communications with client clause", as documented elsewhere. 
  • The records were filed as "Request[s] for Judicial Notice", which is an inappropriate use of Judicial Notice.  Judicial Notice is reserved for facts that are universally established, or "reasonably indisputable accuracy", not for filing disputable records as evidence.  Therefore, the filings as a whole are invalid and should never have been admitted.
  • There is no declaration as part of the filing by the filer  Attorney Jamie Ackerman - that would provide the foundation and authentication for the records, as admissible evidence.
  • Attorney Jamie Ackerman is not a Competent Fact Witness in this case, therefore, even had she filed a declaration, it should have been deemed inadmissible evidence, and the Demurrer as a whole an insufficient pleading.
  • There is no declaration as part of the filing by any officer of the Defendant Bank of America, which would have been a Competent Fact Witness in this case.
  • The records were not certified.
  • The records as a whole support the notion that Attorney Mark Asdourian and Attorney Jamie Ackerman were appearing with no authority at all.
  • Judge Meeka pretended to take judicial notice of another case - Heredia v Brentwood Real Estate Group (KC057540) in LA Superior Court - when in fact, no valid court record was provided from that case.
  • The fact that Judge Meeka accepted the records in the Request for Judicial Notice and took judicial notice of a case where no records were provided, support the notion that he was conducting a pretense litigation, as is the fact that the March 23, 2011 Minutes of the purported Demurrer proceeding were never certified by a Deputy Clerk of the Court and never noticed or served on Plaintiff Lomas.
LINKS:
[1] 11-04-06 Lomas v Bank of America (KC059379) "Request[s] for Judicial Notice"- Additional Evidence of Fraud on the Court in Foreclosure Procedure s
http://www.scribd.com/doc/52420585/
[2] 11-03-20 PRESS RELEASE Lomas v Bank of America (KC059379) Bank of America Continues Racketeering in the Los Angeles Superior Court
http://www.scribd.com/doc/51160102/
[3] 11-03-20 Lomas v Bank of America (KC059379) in the Superior Court of California County of Los Angeles online "Case Summary" and Minutes
http://www.scribd.com/doc/51157264/
[4] 11-04-05 Lomas v Bank of America (KC059379) in the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles - Fraud on the Court in a Quiet Title Action
http://www.scribd.com/doc/52336989/
[5] View the full record at:
11-04-06 Lomas v Bank of America (KC059379) "Request[s] for Judicial Notice"- Additional Evidence of Fraud on the Court in Foreclosure Procedure s
http://www.scribd.com/doc/52420585/
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Human Rights Alert (NGO)
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WHAT DID THE EXPERT SAY ABOUT THE CURRENT FINANCIAL CRISIS?
* "...a system in which only the little people have to obey the law, while the rich, and bankers especially, can cheat and defraud without consequences."
http://www.scribd.com/doc/50753639/
Prof Paul Krugman, MIT (2011)
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WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE JUSTICE SYSTEM IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY, CALIFORNIA?
* "...judges tried and sentenced a staggering number of people for crimes they did not commit."
Prof David Burcham, Dean, Loyola Law School, LA (2001)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/29043589/
* "This is conduct associated with the most repressive dictators and police states... and judges must share responsibility when innocent people are convicted."    
Prof Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean, Irvine Law School (2001)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/27433920/
* "Innocent people remain in prison"
* "...the LA Superior Court and the DA office, the two other parts of the justice system that the Blue Panel Report recommends must be investigated relative to the integrity of the system, have not produced any response that we know of..."
LAPD Blue Ribbon Review Panel Report (2006)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/24902306/
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WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE JUSTICE SYSTEM IN CALIFORNIA?
* "...corruption of the courts and the legal profession and discrimination by law enforcement in California."
United Nations Human Rights Council Staff Report (2010)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/38566837/
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WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE STATE COURTS IN THE UNITED STATES?
* "On July 26, 2010, Laurence Tribe, Senior Counsel for the United States Department of Justice, Access to Justice Initiative, delivered an important speech to the Conference of Chief Justices, challenging them to halt the disintegration of our state justice systems before they become indistinguishable from courts of third world nations."
Prof Laurence Tribe, Harvard Law School (2010), per National Defender Leadership Institute (2010)
http://www.nlada.net/library/article/national_dojspeechto%20chiefjustice07-26-2010_gideonalert
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WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES?
* "More than 100 law professors have signed on to a letter released today that proposes congressional hearings and legislation aimed at fashioning "mandatory and enforceable" ethics rules for Supreme Court justices for the first time. The effort, coordinated by the liberal Alliance for Justice, was triggered by "recent media reports," the letter said, apparently referring to stories of meetings and other potential conflicts of interest involving Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas among others."
More than 100 law professors, as reported by the Blog of the Legal Times (February 2011)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/49586436/
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WHAT DID CHIEF JUDGE OF THE US COURT OF APPEALS, 5TH CIRCUIT, SAY ABOUT THE US JUSTICE SYSTEM?
* "The American legal system has been corrupted almost beyond recognition..."
Chief Judge, US Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit, Edith Jones, speaking before the Federalist Society of Harvard Law School (February 2003)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/50137887/
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WHAT DID THE CHAIR OF THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE SAY ABOUT THE US JUSTICE SYSTEM?
* In a speech in Georgetown University, Senator Leahy, Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee called for a "Truth and Reconciliation Commission" on the US Department of Justice.
Transcript of Senator Leahy speech (2009)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/38472251/

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11-04-06 Welcome Taiwan // Bienvenido Taiwan // 欢迎台湾

Last New Visitor

Taiwan
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11-04-05 Foreclosure Fraud in the Courts // Ejecución de una hipoteca de fraude en las Cortes // 在法院法拍屋诈骗

Comment:
60 Minutes glossed over the fact that none of it could have taken place absent "corruption of the courts and the legal profession".



Mortgage mess: Who really owns your mortgage?

Scott Pelley explains a bizarre aftershock of the U.S. financial collapse: An epidemic of forged and missing mortgage documents


What happens when a bank tries to foreclose on a home and can't come up with the paperwork that proves they now own it? It gets complicated to say the least, as Scott Pelley reports in our lead story. "60 Minutes" finds that tens of thousands of pieces of paperwork were forged in an effort to re-create lost documents and now, at least 30,000 people are suing banks to stay in their homes. It's a financial mess that threatens to prevent the rebound in real estate, all caused by banks in such a hurry to buy and sell mortgages during the bubble that they skipped the required paperwork. Watch a preview.
Then, Lesley Stahl tells the uplifting story of gospel music enthusiast Vy Higginsen and her "Gospel for Teens" choir as she teaches them to learn to sing this original American art form. In this unforgettable two-part feature, "60 Minutes" cameras follow the year-long process from auditions and practice to performance, capturing along the way the emotional bond the teens make with the music and Higginsen. Watch a preview.
Those stories on Sunday's "60 Minutes," April 3 at 7 p.m. ET/PT.
Also this Sunday on 60minutesovertime.com, do you know who really owns your mortgage?
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11-04-05 Bradley Manning // Bradley Manning // 布拉德利曼宁



UK to press US over treatment of WikiLeaks suspect

DAVID STRINGER, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: April 05, 2011 9:00 a.m.
Last modified: April 05, 2011 9:02 a.m.

LONDON - British diplomats will press the United States anew over concerns about the military's treatment of a U.S. Army private suspected of supplying thousands of sensitive files to WikiLeaks.

The Foreign Office said Tuesday it first contacted the U.S. last month about the conditions under which 23-year-old Bradley Manning was being held at a Marine Corps brig in Quantico, Virginia, but officials would make a new approach after Manning's plight was discussed by British lawmakers.

Manning is being held in military detention in solitary confinement for all but an hour every day, and is stripped naked each night and given a suicide-proof smock to wear to bed. His lawyer has complained that Manning's treatment is degrading and punitive, a charge the U.S. military has denied.

"All people who are detained in custody deserve to be treated in detention according to the highest international standards, and we certainly expect nothing else, nothing less, from the United States," British Foreign Office minister Henry Bellingham told lawmakers.

"(Those conditions serve) no purpose other than to humiliate and degrade Bradley Manning. I regard it as cruel and unnecessary," opposition Labour Party legislator Ann Clwyd said in a House of Commons debate late Monday.

Last month, the chief State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley quit after he described the treatment of Manning as "ridiculous" and "stupid."

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