13-01-24 The dawn of the Medieval-Digital Era

It has been clear for some years now.  The unannounced regime change in the United States is driving the US and the world into a prolonged period of depressed economic activity and elevated levels of destruction.

Given the failure of all nations so far (Iceland excepted, Catalonia still undecided) to reign in the banksters, there is no end in sight for the affliction.

jz

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World unemployment figures set to rise in 2013, claims UN labour agency

A record 202 million people could be unemployed across the world in 2013, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said on Tuesday. Five years on from the onset of the financial crisis, unemployment is on the rise again as economies around the world lose jobs and the fragile recovery is threatened by "incoherent monetary policy" in the US and Europe, said the ILO.

13-01-23 Seeking German media coverage of Israeli-US abuse of German citizen in Jerusalem

         

         Breaking story: Request for protection by the German Ambassador to Israel of a human rights/computer science writer in Jerusalem

            

Dear Sir/Madam:

I write to inform you of the breaking story: Request for protection by the German Ambassador to Israel of a human rights/computer science writer in Jerusalem, in hope that you would find interest in covering the story.

This week and next, I plan on meeting consular staff in the Tel Aviv Embassy, relative to the matter outlined below.

Any further requests for information would be gladly answered, and I will also be available to meet reporters.

Truly,

Joseph Zernik, PhD

Human Rights Alert (NGO)

123456xyz@gmail.com

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Breaking story

Request for protection by the German Ambassador to Israel of a human rights/computer science writer in Jerusalem

Joseph Zernik, PhD, a German citizen in Jerusalem, Corpus Separatum by international law, is subjected to retaliation by the US and Israeli governments for filing Human Rights reports and for publishing in international scholarly computer science journals reports regarding lack of integrity in the computer systems of courts, prisons, banks in both Israel and the United States.  At present, his bank accounts in Jerusalem are frozen by the Israeli Bank HaPoalim on behalf of the US government through fabricated banking regulations (FATCA), a conduct that is patronized by the Israeli authorities. Concern is also raised regarding his personal safety, following inexplicable conduct of the US Consulate, Jerusalem, in his case, as well as conduct of the US government, pertaining to Julian Assange, Aaron Schwartz, and a German citizen, who was subjected to "special rendition" by the United States.  Writers, who are critical of the current US government, are considered prime candidates for enforcement of new US laws, which permit indefinite detentions with no prosecution and with no trial (NDAA).

A.    Professional Background

Over the past decade, Joseph Zernik, PhD, of Human Rights Alert (NGO), became an internationally recognized expert on large-scale fraud in the computer systems that run banking, courts, and prisons.

His papers on the subjects were subjected to anonymous peer-review in international scholarly conferences in Data Mining (2010, Czech Republic); 16th World Criminology Congress (2011, Japan); Data Analytics (Spain 2012), and Cyberlaws (France, 2013). [[i]] Millions read his reports in online archives, blogs, and various news sites. [[ii],[iii]]

Two of Dr Zernik's reports on these subjects were also incorporated by the United Nations into official Human Rights Council Reports:

1.     United States - the 2010 submission of Human Rights Alert to the Human Rights Council (HRC) of the United Nations was reviewed and incorporated in the official HRC Professional Staff Report with a note referring to "corruption of the courts and the legal profession and discrimination by law enforcement in California." [[iv]]

2.     State of Israel  - the 2013 submission of Human Rights Alert to the HRC, was incorporated into the HRC Staff Report with a note, referring to "the lack of integrity of the electronic record systems of the Supreme Court, District Courts and Detainees Courts in Israel." [[v]]

B.    Brief History of Retaliation

In parallel, retaliation against Dr Zernik has been increasing for some years:

1.     In December 2007, his home in Los Angeles, California, was taken with no due process of law. 

2.     In mid-April 2010, he was called for an "interview" by the United States courts "Threat Unit"/US Marshals. Later than month, his neighbors told him that armed agents appeared to apprehend him, and looked eager to shoot.  Dr Zernik immediately fled the United States.

3.     In 2009-10, Prior to his escape from the United States, 2009, Dr Zernik approached the German Consulate in Los Angeles. At that time he sought political asylum in Germany, alternatively, the option of going to Germany and filing the application for repatriation of German citizenship.  The answer was negative on both requests.

4.     In April 2010, Dr Zernik fled to Jerusalem.  Immediately upon arrival in Israel he filed for German citizenship, which he was awarded in 2010.  In his final interview with the German Consul in Tel Aviv, Dr Zernik was asked why he sought the German citizenship (later than all his family).  Dr Zernik answered that he sought protection by the German government.

5.     In July 2012, Dr Zernik's Israeli Bank in Jerusalem (Bank HaPoalim) started threatening to freeze his bank accounts on behalf of the US government, if Dr Zernik did not sign "waiver of privacy" to the US government on all his banking in Israel.  Such conduct was purported as part of enforcement of a new US law, called FATCA.  However, the law was never promulgated yet (no regulations were issued) even in the United States, and surely it is of no in force in Israel, more so in Jerusalem, which by international law is Corpus Separatum.

6.     In August 2012, Dr Zernik attempted to file a complaint with Bank of Israel- Banking Regulation against the unlawful conduct of Bank HaPoalim against him.  To this date, Bank of Israel refuses to answer on the complaint.

7.     In October 2012, Dr Zernik attempted to file a petition with the Supreme Court of Israel, to compel Bank of Israel to perform its duties and review the complaint against Bank HaPoalim.  The office of the clerk of the Israeli Supreme Court refused to duly register the petition. [[vi]]

8.     On January 1, 2013, Dr Zernik's bank accounts were frozen by the Israeli Bank HaPoalim, with neither any written notice, nor any foundation in any law. [[vii]]

9.     On January 7 and January 14, 2013, Dr Zernik attempted to renounce his US citizenship, in effort to end the impasse with the Israeli Bank HaPoalim.  Dr Zernik was subjected to fraud in the US consulate in Jerusalem.  His US Passport was taken, but only false records of renunciation of US citizenship were provided. [[viii]]  Requests to correct the false records were not addressed.

Overall, the recent conduct of the Israeli and US authorities has no basis in any law, neither of the State of Israel, nor of the United States.  Opinion of a Washington, DC –based, US attorney, specializing in FATCA, is also available.  The attorney concludes that the case is of retaliation, unrelated to FATCA. [[ix]]

C.    Concerns of Abuse and Personal Security Threats

Dr Zernik's concern is that his treatment resembles that, which was applied to Julian Assange, Wikileaks' founder: in December 2010, the bank accounts of Wikileaks were frozen with no legal foundation; later, the US made it clear that it intended to capture Assange, or even kill him, with no basis in any law at all.  Eventually, Assange is today holed up in the London Embassy of Ecuador. [[x]]

The more recent tragic death of Aaron Schwartz, an internet pioneer, is also of great concern. [[xi]]

It should be emphasized that Dr Zernik's research and scholarly papers are not based on any leaked or secret documents, only on public records – court records from various courts in the United States and Israel.

Concern is also raised relative to the recent reports of harassment and retaliation against Human Rights activists in Jerusalem. [[xii]]

Furthermore, according to US law today, if Dr Zernik is captured by the United States, he may be subjected to "Special Rendition" - transport to one of any numerous "black hole" prisons, maintained by the US government  around the globe in collaboration with various other governments. A German citizen was previously reportedly subjected to such unlawful treatment by the US government.

Another concern pertains to the application of indefinite detention with no trial and no due process (under the new US law - NDAA).  Writers are considered at high risk in the enforcement of such laws, as documented in a recent court filing under Hedges, Ellsberg et al v Obama et al (1:12-cv-00331). [[xiii]]

D.    Request for Protection of a German Citizen in Jerusalem

Therefore, Dr Zernik intends to ask for protection by the German Ambassador to Israel of a German citizen in Jerusalem.

Assistance would be requested in protection of basic rights as to:

1.     Release of the German citizen's funds, frozen by the Israeli Bank HaPoalim in Jerusalem, purportedly on behalf of the US government, a conduct which is patronized by the Israeli authorities, under fabricated US law (FATCA).

2.     Advice regarding safety of travel to various destinations for scholarly conferences (e.g. while traveling under German flag), and protection against potential unlawful seizure by the US government and/or indefinite detention with neither prosecution nor trial under new US laws (NDAA).

LINKS:

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[i] 12-07-07 Biographical Sketch  Joseph Zernik, PhD
http://es.scribd.com/doc/46421113/

[ii] Selected online sites:

1) Twitter http://twitter.com/inproperinla

2) Scribd.com http://www.scribd.com/Human_Rights_Alert  Reads: 914,005; Followers: 1,587

3) Scribd.com http://www.scribd.com/SeyagLizhuyotHaadam  Reads: 61,621; Followers: 0

4) Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/x-38742-LA-Business-Headlines-Examiner

5) LiveLeak.com http://www.liveleak.com/c/HumanRightsAlert  Reads: 664,803+500,065;

6) Youtube http://www.youtube.com/user/now654321#p/u

7) Facebook http://www.facebook.com/joseph.zernik

8) Blog http://inproperinla.blogspot.com/  Reads: 93,429+39,574

9) OpEdNews.com www.opednews.com/author/author42343.html  http://www.opednews.com/author/author81971.html

[iii] 12-12-29 Human Rights Alert in the United States- most read on LiveLeak.com, Scrid.com in 2012

http://inproperinla.blogspot.co.il/2012/12/12-12-29-human-rights-alert-in-united.html

[2] 12-12-29 Human Rights Alert (NGO) in Israel - most read on LiveLeak.com, Scrid.com in 2012

http://inproperinla.blogspot.co.il/2012/12/12-12-29-human-rights-in-israel-most.html

[iv] 10-10-01 United Nations Human Rights Council Records for 2010 Review (UPR) of Human Rights in the United States, where Human Rights Alert (NGO) submission was incorporated with a note referring to "corruption of the courts and the legal profession and discrimination by law enforcement in California."
http://www.scribd.com/doc/38566837/

[v] 13-01-15 "Lack of integrity of the electronic record systems of the ... Courts in Israel," noted in the 2013 Human Rights Council Staff Report
http://he.scribd.com/doc/120461368/

[vi]  12-12-27 PRESS RELEASE  FATCA, Stanley Fischer, and "Chief Clerk" Sarah Lifschitz in the High Court of Justice of the State of Israel
http://www.scribd.com/doc/118152545/

[vii] 13-01-07 FACTA, Stanley Fischer, seizing "US Person's" accounts in Israel - story is gaining traction
http://inproperinla.blogspot.co.il/2013/01/13-01-07-facta-stanley-fischer-seizing.html

[viii] 13-01-17 PRESS RELEASE: Fraud in the US Consulate, Jerusalem, denying the right to renounce US citizenship
http://inproperinla.blogspot.co.il/2013/01/13-01-17-press-release-fraud-in-us.html

[ix] Washington DC attorney opinion:

Available upon request.

[x] Banks and WikiLeaks - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/26/opinion/26sun3.html?_r=0

[xi] Aaron Schwartz

[xii] Right-wing Israeli group admits using PIs to spy on leftist NGOs
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/right-wing-israeli-group-admits-using-pis-to-spy-on-leftist-ngos.premium-1.494734

[xiii] Ellsberg et al v Obama et al (1:12-cv-00331) in the US District Court, Southern District of New York
http://www.rcfp.org/sites/default/files/docs/20120913_105958_hedges.pdf

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13-01-23 Misc news of the abuse - NYPD

NC College Student Sues NYPD Over Empire State Building Shooting by Scotty Starnes

Why does it take trained police officers 16 shots to kill one person? Maybe NY liberals should request a ban on NYPD's gun clips instead of law-abiding citizens who have murder nobody. Maybe more range time as well since 10 people were shot.

From NYPost:

A North Carolina woman, who was injured during the wild police shoot-out with a gunman at the Empire State Building in August, is suing the city — charging  NYPD officers created a “dangerous and deadly confrontation,” resulting in nine wounded bystanders.

Chenin Duclos, 32, was crossing 34th Street and 5th Avenue around 9 am on Aug. 24 when cops chased shooter Jeffrey Johnson through the crowded streets, the complaint states.

The suit, filed today in Manhattan Supreme Court, names the city, police department and officers Craig Matthews and Robert Sinishtaj as allegedly responsible for failing to “exercise proper police tactics and procedures during the incident.”

The suit describes the chaos that ensued after Johnson executed former coworker Steven Ercolino.

“Chenin Duclos was shot by a bullet fired from the gun of one of the individually named police officers while frantically running to get away from the bedlam and hysteria that was unfolding on the street around her,” the suit states. “The gunshot hit Ms. Duclos with such force that she was thrown to the ground. She remained in the crosswalk, shot, motionless, fearing for her life.”

The stray bullet, one of 16 shots fired before Johnson was fatally struck, “completely destroyed” the woman’s femur, the complaint explains. She was hospitalized and underwent physical therapy.

Duclos, of Chapel Hill, is working toward her Ph.D. in physical therapy at the University of North Carolina.

“Chenin was expected to graduate in August of 2014; however, due to the injuries suffered in the shooting, this date has been postponed,” a press release announcing the lawsuit stated.

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13-01-23 Israel - In the army there is no truth...

In the army there is no truth...

The report below came out in relationship to an ongoing scandal relative to spying by the former Chief of Staff on the Minister of Defence and others, in order to undermine their authority.

David Ben Gurion (the Israeli equivalent of George Washington) controlled the Israeli military during the war of independence, less than a decade prior to the notes below. Even during the war, Ben Gurion was an older man, from a different generation. By the time of the notes, below, his generation controlled the civilian government, while the IDF was controlled by Israeli-born younger generals.  Deception of the civilian government by the military developed in Israel a short time after independence, in a military, which is based on general draft.  

One can only speculate on the level of control exerted by civilian governments in nations which rely on mercenary armies. jz

 

Ben Gurion during the Declaration of Independence, and with the military during the War of Independence.
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Haaretz daily

From whence the defense stink comes

The culture of lying in the Israeli army was around in Ben-Gurion's time. The Harpaz affair proves it still exists.

By Yossi Sarid | Jan.18, 2013 | 2:14 AM

Yaakov Sharett this week reminded us of some things we had forgotten. Writing to Haaretz, he quoted directly from the documentation in the diary kept by his father Moshe Sharett, Israel’s second prime minister.

“Sharett: ‘In the army there is no truth.’’’

And David Ben-Gurion confirms: “That’s the worst of all.”

Neither Sharett nor Ben-Gurion managed to root out the culture of lying in the Israel Defense Forces. Or maybe they didn’t even dare try.

That culture makes a mockery of civilian military control, turning Israel into a formal paper democracy.

Not much has changed since that exchange. It's possible that relations between the military and the civilian leadership have become even more distorted.

The so-called Harpaz affair is yet another manifestation of the battle heritage between the civilian and the military echelons. Heads of the defense establishment, be they in uniform or plainclothes, have never dared walk around military headquarters without tall boots, as former Chief of Staff and current Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe Ya'alon once said, for fear of the snakes.

Another story, which was published this week in the daily Yedioth Aharonoth, was told to Yigal Sarna by Azriel Nevo, Menachem Begin’s military secretary. “When I identified the circles of fraudulence in the army and told him about them, Begin got angry at me. How dare I imagine that officers are lying to him?” Nevo said.
And Aryeh Naor, the government secretary, recalled a meeting between Begin and the American envoy Philip Habib.

“Habib reported that IDF troops had entered Ba’abda [in the Mount Lebanon District]. Begin asked to be connected to the defense minister. [Ariel] Sharon promised him there wasn’t a single soldier of ours there. Habib insisted and Begin asked his aides to get [Chief of Staff Rafael Eitan] on the line. He too promised that the IDF wasn’t in Ba’abda. Begin said Raful wouldn’t mislead him but Azriel made a few more phone calls and discovered that Habib was right.”

Begin was a man of integrity; Sharon and Raful were habitual liars. Instead of Begin preemptively dismissing them, they cast him into his dotage. “I can’t do this any more,” the prime minister said, and shut himself into his house.

One prime minister reaped a whirlwind that had been left behind by a previous head of state. David Ben-Gurion was “the first to identify” (as the current prime minister is fond of saying about himself) Lt. Col. Arik’s character: “If he [Ariel Sharon] were weaned of his fault of not telling the truth, he would be a sterling military leader,” he wrote in his diary. But Sharon went from strength to strength, because it's not just the thief who is taken down from the gallows, the liar, when he is needed, is too.

And Israel was needy. How would it have justified its action in the Palestinian town of Qibya, in which 70 men, women and children were killed when a select Sharon-type unit bombarded their homes? And Ben-Gurion declared in the Knesset that the massacre was not carried out by soldiers but rather by angry civilians from outlying locales. That was the state’s first official lie, in the wake of which a thousand lies have bloomed, all of them in self-defense.

In the fullness of time another prime minister served here, who koshered white lies “for the sake of the country.” His name was Yitzhak Shamir. And what would we have done if bereft of the aid of lies after the massacre at Kafr Qasem, or after the bus number 300 incident, which scattered by the roadside all the Shin Bet’s lies in court and the commissions of inquiry? Or during the course of the Lebanon War when the IDF pounced on it as though it had found a great treasure? Or during the second intifada when Chief of Staff Shaul Mofaz the Innocent thumbed his nose at the prime minister and the cabinet behind their backs as he waited for their fall and for the rise of Sharon, with whom it was easy to steal horses and pull wool over people’s eyes? And we haven’t even totted up the everyday lies on the heels of the occupation.

The cashiering of Erez Weiner is justified but there is no justification for the sense that there has been a purification. And our camp was purified – but when? For how long will the lie serve as a no-longer-very-secret weapon that is pulled out of the arsenal as we depict ourselves as victims in every act of injustice?

Wiener is a minnow and the stink doesn’t come from his head.

13-01-23 Who's in control in the US? FBI, DOJ!

As recently documented, FBI, DOJ, spy even on Obama's hand-picked CIA Director.  Hence, FBI, DOJ in collusion with the US courts are in control of the United States today. jz

Justice Department Refuses to Release GPS Tracking Memos by Scotty Starnes This can't be. The Obama administration proclaimed themselves to be the most open administration in history. From ACLU.org: Two key memos outlining the Justice Department’s views about when Americans can be surreptitiously tracked with GPS technology are being kept secret by the department despite a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the ACLU to force their release. The FBI’s general counselÂdiscussed the existence of the two memos publicly last year, yet the Justice Department is refusing to release them without huge redactions. (You can see the heavily censored versions sent to the ACLU here and here, and our original FOIA request here.) The Justice Department’s unfortunate decision leaves Americans with no clear understanding of when we will be subjected to tracking—possibly for months at a time—or whether the governernment will first get a warrant. This is yet another example of secret surveillance policies—like the Justice Department’s secret opinions about the Patriot Act’s Section 215—that simplly should not exist in a democratic society. Privacy law needs to keep up with technology, but how can that happen if the government won’t even tell us what its policies are? The power of law enforcement’s discretion The Supreme Court has weighed in on location tracking, but the government still has wide latitude to exploit new technologies and legal uncertainty. In February 2012, the Supreme Court issued a landmark decision in U.S. v. Jones, holding that the Fourth Amendment restricts the circumstances in which the government may attach a GPS device to a car and secretly track its movements. Although the Court’s decision in Jones makes clear that the government’s attachment and use of a GPS tracker on a car constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment, it does not say whether that search requires a warrant from a judge—a crucial protection because it forces aggents to justify their actions to a neutral outsider. Furthermore, the court’s opinion does not address other methods of location tracking, such as cell phone tracking, drones, or license plate readers. Continue reading>>>

13-01-23 Meanwhile in Austria, Egypt, Italy, Greece...

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   ca.400 in front of votivkirche in solidarity with imprisoned & hunger striking refugee activists in #vienna

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   Clashes erupt outside of Alexandria court ahead of protester killings trial | Egypt Independent

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   Protesters clashed with security forces near Alexandria Criminal Court Saturday, ahead of the court's consideration of cases related to protester killings during the 25 January revolution. Dozens of protesters threw stones at Central Security Forces around the court.

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   Cizre'de gençler 4 gündür Serhildan'da - 20.01.2013

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   Greece protests live from Syntagma Square

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   greecelive @ USTREAM: Greece Live From Syntagma Square. Breaking News

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   19/1/13 Demonstration against evictions in Rome, Italy.

   

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