dowdellresearch/social media

Herman Cain the new Clarence Thomas

2011-11-03T01:52:00.001-04:00

OCCUPY but Police will EVICT: Police Coercive force

2011-10-30T08:41:00.000-04:00

Jacqui Credo Purpose Dowdell

The peaceful Occupy Movement in cities throughout the United States of America are being dismantled by police crews Spurred on by the Big Apple group, Occpy Wall Streets, occupiers who believe they are protected by their constitutional rights to peaceful assembly are finding themselves being booted from their makeshift camps. In some ...cases police in riot gear to encourage occupiers to quickly ex......it their squatter positions without injuries. In other cases, police used tear gas and rubber bullets and other tactics such as horses, motorbikes and others police gear causing injuries Force that has lead to the brain injury of Scott Olsen.

Olsen, a former Marine, two-time Iraq war veteran sustained a head injury during the police takeover of Occupy Oakland. Injury occurred after the police tear gassed the occupiers. Olsen is in fair condition who will need brain surgery. Oakland occupiers have now taken back their camp with approval from some city officieal. Police are not so sure this is a good arrangement with the occupiers, citing safety issues.

After the Olsen incident, police officials are concerned that if police help is needed within the camps, police will be entering hostile environments. With this announcement, those who do not peaceful restrain themselves in the presence of police should be be prepared for a more forceful reaction from police who enter their camps. Police did not minced word with the recent takeover of Occupy Denver after occupiers allegedly had a physical confrontation with police officers, "[t]wo of the protesters were held for felony charges after police said an officer was knocked off his motorcycle and other officers were kicked, as they moved into the park to tear down illegal tents." Occupiers are calling these folks provocators, troublemakers who have entered thier peaceful camps.

But in essence, these folks are part of the 99%. These provocatorsbelieve in the war mentality that is bred in American citizens, an eye for an eye. These folks believe when hit, return the favor. It will be up to the occupiers to teach these folks that violence is not a part of the movement and they will have to learn to take a blow by a police officer The very folks who they have been trained to believe are their protectors When in fact, the police are the only folks who are protected by law to get away with coercive force against a citizen. The police are preparing for the forceful protection of big banks from occupiers. On November 5, 2011, occupiers are requesting folks to make a run on these banks. They are asking folks to take their money out of these banks and transfer them to credit unions or piggy banks. Whatever, that spell trouble for the police who will be required to make sure that robberies do not occur in the banks during this time period. The provocators who believe in survival by any means possible, including work with OPM..other people money.

Libya Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is dead

2011-10-20T12:11:00.001-04:00

Victory is being celebrated in the streets of Libya. According to reports Muammar Gaddafi was killed in his hometown, Sirte and his
body rolled along the street. Gaddafi's death comes around eight months after the So-Called Arab Spring spread to Libya, inspiring protests That Evolved into a civil war. With the help of NATO airstrikes, the rebels ended the 69-year-old autocratic rulers reign King of Kings in Africa.

Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi immediately mourns the death of his dear
friend upon hearing that Gaddafi is dead. Berlusconi uttering was in Latin, "After
hearing about the shooting death of His former friend Muammar Gaddafi, Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi to Latin phrase used to say That everything is transitory. No surrse Berlusconi refused to battle against his friend. "Sic transit gloria mundi," or "I know the glory of this world passes away," said Berlusconi, Italian news reports adding That "the war is over."

Gaddafi was reportedly Killed after Being captured in Sirte, the hometown That Fell to His transitional government troops who Have Been Gaddafi's soldiers fighting for eight months.

Berlusconi formed a close relationship with HAD Gaddafi, even as a HIM Inviting guests to meetings of the G-8 industrialised nations in 2009 in Aquila, Italy.

Berlusconi was at pains to Participate in Military Strikes Against the Man Whose hand he kissed. During a visit to Arab League Summit in Libya 2010.
Described as a traitor Berlusconi Gaddafi after NATO started bombing Libyan targets in March

Occupied cities live feed (including Fort Wayne, Indiana)

2011-10-15T11:53:00.254-04:00

/waiting for live feed to wake up.

Watch live video from leerlemoniii on www.justin.tv

Occupy NYC

Watch live streaming video from occupynyc at livestream.com

OccupyMN

Watch live streaming video from occupymn at livestream.com

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occupyaugustaga on livestream.com. Broadcast Live Free

United States

Alabana
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Occupy-Auburn/256257967748927

http://www.facebook.com/occupy.birmingham?ref=pb

Occupy Huntsville

Occupy Mobile

Occupy Tuscaloosa

Alaska

Occupy Alaska

Occupy Anchorage

Arizona

Occupy Arizona

Occupy Flagstaff

Occupy Phoenix

Occupy Prescott

Occupy Sedona

Occupy Tempe

Occupy Tucson

Occupy Yuma

Arkansas

Occupy Arkansas

Occupy Fayetteville

Occupy Little Rock

Occupy Little Rock

California

Occupy Arcata

Occupy Bakersfield

Occupy Berkeley

Occupy Central Valley

Occupy Chico

Occupy Coachella Valley

Occupy Costa Mesa

Occupy Davis

Occupy Eureka

Occupy Fresno

Occupy Humboldt (website)

Occupy Irvine

Occupy Lompoc

Occupy Long Beach

Occupy Los Angeles

Occupy Los Angeles website

Occupy Marin (San Rafael)

Occupy Mendicino

Occupy Merced

Occupy Modesto

Occupy Monterey

Occupy Napa

Occupy Oakland

Occupy Orange County

Occupy Redding

Occupy Riverside

Occupy Sacramento 1

Occupy Sacramento 2.

Occupy Sacraento website

Occupy Salinas

Occupy Santa Barbara

Occupy Santa Cruz

Occupy San Diego

Occupy San Francisco

Occupy San Jose

Occupy San Luis Obispo

Occupy Santa Rosa

Occupy Santa Rosa

Occupy Stockton

Occupy Temecula

Occupy Ukiah

Occupy Ukiah website

Occupy Venice

Occupy Venice website

Occupy Ventura

Occupy Victorville

Occupy Visalia

Occupy Yucca

Colorado

Occupy Alamosa

Occupy Aspen

Occupy Canon City

Occupy Boulder

Occupy Colorado Springs

Occupy Denver

Occupy Fort Collins

Occupy Grand Junction

Occupy Greeley
Occupy Greely website

Occupy Pueblo
Occupy Pueblo (website)

Connecticut

Occupy Connecticut

Occupy Hartford

Occupy Hartford

Occupy New Haven

Occupy New London

DC

Occupy DC

Occupy K Street

Delaware

Occupy Delmarva

Florida

Occupy Bradenton

Occupy Cocoa

Occupy Daytona Beach

Occupy Florida

Occupy Ft. Lauderdale

Occupy Fort Myers

Occupy Gainsville

Occupy Jacksonville

Occupy Lake Worth

Occupy Miami

Occupy Naples

Occupy Ocala

Occupy Orlando

Occupy Palm Beach

Occupy Pensacola
Occupy Pensacola website
Occupy Pensacola live stream

Occupy St. Augustine

Occupy St. Petersburg
Occupy Sarasota

Occupy South Florida

Occupy West Florida

Occupy Tampa

Occupy Tallahassee

Georgia

Occupy Athens

Occupy Atlanta

Occupy Augusta
Occupy Augusta website
Occupy Augusta Livestream

Occupy Columbus

Occupy Macon

Occupy North Georgia

Occupy Savannah

Occupy Valdosta

Hawaii

Occupy Hawaii

Occupy Hilo

Occupy Honolulu

Occupy Kona

Occupy Maui and website

Occupy Oahu

Occupy Waikiki

Idaho

Occupy Boise

Occupy Coeur d'Alene

Occupy Idaho Falls

Occupy Moscow

Occupy Pocatello

Occupy Salmon (website)

Occupy Sandpoint

Illinois

Occupy Carbondale

Occupy Champaign-Urbana and (website)

Occupy Chicago and website

Occupy Normal

Occupy Peoria (website)

Occupy Rockford and website

Occupy Springfield

Indiana

Occupy Bloomington

Occupy Columbus

Occupy Elkhart

Occupy Evansville

Occupy Fort Wayne

Occupy Fort Wayne website

Occupy Indianapolis

Occupy Kokomo

Occupy LaFayette

Occupy Portage

Occupy Smalltown Indiana

Occupy South Bend

Occupy Valparaiso

Iowa

Occupy Ames

Occupy Cedar Rapids

Occupy Cedar Valley

Occupy Des Moines

Occupy Dubuque

Occupy Iowa

Occupy Iowa City

Occupy Mason City

Occupy Quad Cities and website

Kansas

Occupy Lawrence

Occupy Manhattan

Occupy Topeka

Occupy Witchita

Occupy Witchita

Kentucky

Occupy Ashland

Occupy Berea

Occupy Bowling Green

Occupy Kentucky

Occupy Lexington

Occupy Louisville

Louisiana

Occupy Baton Rouge

Occupy Lake Charles

Occupy New Orleans

Occupy Shreveport

Maine

Occupy Augusta

Occupy Bangor

Occupy Maine

Occupy South Portland

Maryland

Occupy Baltimore

Occupy Hagerstown

Massachusetts

Occupy Amherst (website)

Occupy Berkshires

Occupy Boston

Occupy Northhampton

Occupy Springfield

Occupy Worcester

Michigan

Occupy Ann Arbor

Occupy Detroit

Occupy Flint (link to ongoing event)

Occupy Grand Rapids

Occupy Kalamazoo

Occupy Lansing

Occupy Michigan

Occupy Muskegon

Occupy Saginaw

Occupy Southeast Michigan

Occupy Traverse City

Occupy the UP

website (Marquette)

Minnesota

Occupy Duluth

Occupy Twin Ports

Occupy Minneapolis

Occupy Minnesota

Occupy Minnesota website (livestream)

Occupy Rochester

Mississippi

Occupy Biloxi

Occupy Jackson

Missouri

Occupy Columbia

Occupy Joplin and website

Occupy Kansas City

Occupy St. Louis, also website

Occupy Springfield

Montana

Occupy Billings

Occupy Butte

Occupy Helena

Occupy Kalispell

Occupy Missoula

Occupy Montana

Nebraska

Occupy Lincoln

Occupy Nebraska

Occupy Omaha

Nevada

Occupy Carson City

Occupy Las Vegas and website

Occupy Reno

Occupy Tahoe

New Hampshire

Occupy Manchester

Occupy New Hampshire

New Jersey

Occupy Kearney

Occupy Newton

Occupy New Jersey

Occupy Trenton

New Mexico

Occupy Albuquerque and Occupy Albuquerque

Occupy Carlsbad

Occupy Las Cruces

Occupy New Mexico

Occupy Roswell

Occupy Santa Fe

Occupy Taos

New York

Occupy Albany

Occupy Binghamton

Occupy Buffalo

Occupy Cortland

Occupy Glens Falls

Occupy Ithaca

Occupy Long Island

Occupy New Paltz

Occupy Otsego

Occupy Plattsburgh

Occupy Poughkeepsie

Occupy Rochester

Occupy Saratoga Springs

Occupy Saranac Lake

Occupy Syracuse

Occupy Wall Street, also New York City main website

Occupy Utica

North Carolina

Occupy Ashville

Occupy Boone

Occupy Chapel Hill

Occupy Charlotte, Occupy Charlotte and non Facebook

Occupy Durham

Occupy Fayetteville

Occupy Greensboro

Occupy Raleigh

Occupy Wilmington

Occupy Winston Salem

North Dakota

Occupy Fargo

Occupy North Dakota

Ohio

Occupy Akron

Occupy Athens

Occupy Cincinnati

Occupy Cleveland, Occupy Cleveland, and website website

Occupy Columbus

Occupy Dayton

Occupy Kent

Occupy Toledo

Occupy Youngstown
Oklahoma

Occupy Bartlesville

Occupy Norman

Occupy OKC and website

Occupy Stillwater

Occupy Tahlequah

Occupy Tulsa

Oregon

Occupy Ashland and Occupy Ashland

Occupy Astoria

Occupy Bend

Occupy Corvallis

Occupy Cottage Grove

Occupy Eugene

Occupy Portland, Occupy Portland and website

Occupy Port Orford: occupyportorford@gmail.com

Occupy Roseburg

Occupy Seaside Oregon

Occupy Salem and website

Pennsylvania

Occupy Allentown

Occupy Bethlehem / Leigh Valley

Occupy Erie and website

Occupy Harrisburg

Occupy Indiana County

Occupy Lancaster

Occupy Philadelphia and website

Occupy Pittsburgh

Occupy Scranton

Occupy State College

Occupy Stroudsburg

Occupy Williamsport

Occupy York

Puerto Rico

Occupy Puerto Rico

Rhode Island

Occupy Providence

South Carolina

Occupy Charleston

Occupy Columbia

Occupy Florence

Occupy Greenville

South Dakota

Occupy Rapid City

Occupy Sioux Falls

Occupy South Dakota

Tennessee

Occupy Chattanooga

Occupy Clarksville

Occupy Johnson City

Occupy Knoxville

Occupy Memphis and (website)

Occupy Nashville and website

Occupy Tennessee

Texas

Occupy Amarillo

Occupy Austin and website

Occupy Brownsville

Occupy Corpus Christi

Occupy Dallas and website

Occupy Denton

Occupy El Paso

Occupy Fort Worth

Occupy Galveston

Occupy Houston and website

Occupy Lubbock

Occupy Marfa

Occupy McAllen

Occupy San Antonio

Occupy Texarkana

Utah

Occupy S L C

Occupy Salt Lake City

Occupy Salt Lake City website

Vermont

Occupy Vermont and website

Occupy Burlington

Occupy Montpelier

Occupy Rutland

Virginia

Occupy Blacksburg

Occupy Charlottesville

Occupy Harrisonburg

Occupy Norfolk

Occupy Richmond

Occupy Roanoke

Washington

Occupy Bainbridge Island

Occupy Bellingham

Occupy Bremerton

Occupy Colville

Occupy Ellensburg

Occupy Olympia

Occupy Port Angeles

Occupy Seattle and website

Occupy Spokane

Occupy Tacoma

Occupy Tri-Cities (Richland)

Occupy Vancouver

Occupy Wenatchee

Occupy Yakima and website

West Virginia

Occupy Charleston

Occupy Huntington

Occupy Morgantown

Occupy West Virginia

Wisconsin

Occupy Appleton

Occupy Green Bay

Occupy La Crosse

Occupy Madison

Occupy Milwaukee

Wyoming

Occupy Casper

Occupy Cheyenne

Occupy Jackson Hole

Canada

Occupy Canada

Alberta

Occupy Calgary

Occupy Edmonton

Occupy Lethbridge

British Columbia

Occupy Cranbrook

Occupy Kelowna

Occupy Nelson

Occupy Vancouver and website

Occupy Victoria

Manitoba

Occupy Winnipeg
New Brunswick

Occupy New Brunswick
Newfoundland

Occupy Nwfoundland
Nova Scotia

Occupy Halifax

Occupy Nova Scotia

Ontario

Occupy Kingston

Occupy Ottawa

Occupy Toronto
Prince Edward Island

Occupy Prince Edward Island
Quebec

Occupy Montreal

Occupy Quebec
Saskatchewan

Occupy Regina

Occupy Saskatoon

ITALY global OWS.

2011-10-15T11:26:00.000-04:00

ROME — Italian police are firing tear gas and water cannons at protesters after some smashed shop and bank windows, torched cars and hurled bottles.

TV footage showed police in riot gear charging the protesters and firing water cannons at them. A small group of violent protesters broke away from the main demonstration in the Italian capital, part of worldwide protests against corporate greed and austerity measures...

Occupiers create a protest song against home foreclsosure

2011-10-15T03:44:00.000-04:00

Occupy Wall Street Foreclosure Protest from Mr. Brownstoner on Vimeo.

In unison, they sang a gospel-style song:
Mrs. Auctioneer,
All the people here,
We are asking you to hold off the sales right now,
We are going to survive but we don’t know how

October 15: Occupy Wall Street Mass Protest

2011-10-14T21:52:00.002-04:00

On September 17, 2011 Zuccotti Park was taken over by those sick and tired of the greed of Wall Street. the number of occupiers have grown daily inspiring others to form their OWS protest in their cities to show solidarity to the NEW YORK group. October 15 is the scheduled world AMerican spring without violence.

But for who believes that the nonviolence movement had no violence, they need to review the civil rights movement tapes again. Or the early morning raid conducted by police in riot gear on protestors in Denver.

Fort Wayne, Indiana is planning a march, a march does not mean the same thing as occupy, which can not be organizhttp://occupyfortwayne.org/ed.

http://occupyfortwayne.org/
PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY: If you are arrested at an Occupy Event, call the National Lawyers Guild: New York City: (212) 679-6018 Los Angeles: (323) 696-2299 Washington, DC: (202) 957 2445 Chicago: (773) 309-1198 San Francisco: (415) 285-1011 New Orleans: (504) 875-0019 Baltimore: (410) 205-2850 Minnesota: (612) 656-9108 Michigan: (313) 963-0843 Portland: (503) 902-5340 Boston: (617) 227-7335 Pennsylvania & Delaware: (267) 702-4654 Idaho: (208) 991-4324 Be very sure to write the applicable phone number in PERMANENT marker somewhere concealed on your body, protected from the elements. Do NOT assume you will be able to retrieve the number from a phone or a notebook. It is very likely you will be stripped of all your belongings.

Working on uploading images on IPad 2

2011-10-14T10:02:00.001-04:00

Thomas, Mindy and Jefferson

-Posted using BlogPress from my iPad

Can u hear me now ?

2011-10-14T00:06:00.000-04:00

The global disruption of blackberry users has the smartphone company searching for an answer to customers questions throughout the world. The fact that users have not been able to get on the Internet and chech their email is a huge FAIL for the RIM company.

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blackberry down Internationally:Europe, Africa and UAE.

2011-10-10T11:19:00.001-04:00

Ben Flanagan

Oct 10, 2011
BlackBerry users in the UAE were unable to send messages for a time today after a collapse in service across the Middle East, Europe and Africa caused by "network issues".

Millions of users worldwide were hit by the disruption to smartphone services, which include mobile internet and the popular BlackBerry Messenger (BBM).

BlackBerry told The National that services had been disrupted in several countries.

"We've had some network issues that we're trying to resolve," said Patrick Spence, the managing director for global sales and regional marketing at Research in Motion, which makes the phones.

"That was just today, in the last few hours," he added, saying that the issue was caused by unspecified technical problems.

Users in the UAE reported problems with the BBM service via Twitter.

"I can't survive without BBM," one Abu Dhabi resident wrote on the social networking site.

Birmingham Alabama 1961-Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth Gone Home

2011-10-07T22:43:00.010-04:00

I wrote this in 2008 on 11/ 11/08 after Theodore Gaffney shared his story about a picture (the black and white photos )of the Freedom Riders and Rev Fred Shuttlesworth and how Shuttlesworth saved their lives. Shuttlesworth died October 5, 2011.

It was a different world for Theodore Gaffney also known as SirGaffney back in 1961. Gaffney reflects back on a time when African-American males were beat down for just integrating a bus as the nation prepares to witness the first African-American to become President of the United States.

Gaffney has a special picture that captured the mood of 1961. The picture was taken in 1961 but did not surface until February 26, 2006 in a newspaper article entitled Unseen but not Forgotten. Several of the folks were named by the article but Gaffney was misidentified and two listed as unknown.

Gaffney wearing an Obama skullcap talks about how he called the newspaper to correct the name. The picture shows Gaffney as a young man and others around a Greyhound Bus in discussion on how to get out of Birmingham Alabama. Forty-Seven years ago Gaffney was working as a photographer along with reporter Newson following freedom fighters. Freedom fighters,

Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, the outspoken pastor of Birmingham's Bethel Baptist Church and the leader of the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights, to give him the exact arrival times of the two "Freedom Buses," the normally unflappable minister offered an alarming picture of what the Freedom Riders could expect once they reached Birmingham. The city was alive with rumors that a white mob planned to greet the Riders at the downtown bus stations.

Gaffney was hoping for James Farmer to be in Birmingham on that day. But according to Gaffney, Farmer's father became sick. Farmer had to fly to his father's bedside. Gaffney wanted to see Farmer response to the terrorist Bull Connor.

Instead Gaffney and the reporter found themselves without a bus ride out of Alabama when the Greyhound driver declared, you may be freedom fighters but he was not and he was not driving the Greyhound bus. Gaffney pointing at at the photo of Rev. Fred Shuttleworth stated, that it would be Shuttlesworth and his church that would come to their aid and get him and Newson to the airport.

Women struggle for justice in developing nations

2011-10-07T11:08:00.001-04:00

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2011 is to be divided in three equal parts between:
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia
Leymah Gbowee and
Tawakkul Karman, Yemen

for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work.

Tony Harris anchor for Al Jazeera

2011-10-07T10:29:00.001-04:00

Excuse me..but that looks like Tony Harris on Aljazeera ! HARRIS, IT SEEMS HAS BEEN GONE FROM CNN SINCE DECEMBER 2010! Almost a whole year..guess I.ve not been watching alot of US of A news here in Italy. I was quite impressed,Tony packed his bags and headed not to California but to Doha Qatar..oil..oil

Steve Jobs..Cancer takes down Apple Giant

2011-10-07T01:43:00.003-04:00

Diagnosed with rare form of pancreatic cancer in 2003, Jobs died yesterday at age 56.

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Many folks throughout the world are mourning the death of Steve Jobs. Jobs, a baby boomer co-founded Apple,Inc and changed the way the world communicated. Jobs was stricken with pancreatic cancer and perhaps that is why folks all over world have laid flowers and other tokens of sympathy at Apple stores around the world.

Not only did he give us the face of great technology but the face of dignity when battling a disease that robs one of life.

“Technology alone is not enough,” said Mr Jobs at the end of his speech introducing the iPad 2, in March 2011. “It’s technology married with liberal arts, married with humanities, that yields the results that make our hearts sing.”

The legacy that he left behind will produce others great creators. India released a cheap prototype tablet for educating millions of folks. It is a possibility that one will produce a cure for cancer from the minds of many.

The government of India has unveiled a prototype of a touchscreen, tablet computer which it
expects to sell for $35 initially. As more companies migrate server applications and data storage to the cloud, a simple, Web-enabled platform such as this will replace the bloated desktop and laptop hardware architectures in use today.

Gerald Foday and Dr. Conrad Murray

2011-10-05T21:30:00.002-04:00

Gerald Foday, Executive Director of the Fort Wayne Metropolitan Human Relations Commission was allegedly terminated, some say because of sexual harassment charges. If this is true, it does not bode well for the agency. This is the third executive director of the agency accused of sexual harassment. It would appear that the hiring process should be a panel rather than left to the executive director.

Speaking of sexual harassment, Michael Jackson's Dr. Conrad Murray was a busy doctor when it comes to your ladies. Sade Anding, Nicole Alvarez, Michelle Bella and Bridgette Morgan were four of Dr. Murray fan club..money.

Gun Walking? Come on Field Negro..no wonder we have killing fields

2011-10-04T01:32:00.002-04:00

When agents "let guns walk," they stop surveillance and allow criminals to transfer weapons to others. In this case, that meant allowing the guns to cross the border into Mexico. It is a highly controversial practice agents typically are taught not to do.

3rd Arab Blogger Conference

2011-10-03T22:17:00.000-04:00

Issues of privacy and security are problems with technology.

Crash course of Mobile (SS7) privacy and security

View more presentations from Arturo Filastò

International justice: Amanda Knox goes free after four years.

2011-10-03T20:17:00.000-04:00

Amanda Knox has won her freedom. Amanda Knox, an American student studying aboard was charged with murder of her roommate,Meredith Kercher, a Briton another student studying aboard. Knox and two other individuals (one being her Italian boyfriend)were found guilty of the horrible crime. Knox and her boyfriend convictions were overturned by an Italian appeal court after four years. However, Rudy Guede remains in prison.

It's complicated-Libya and Italy

2011-08-26T00:35:00.005-04:00

It should not come as too big of a surprise that Silvio Berlusconi has extended his hand in partnership to the new rebel leaders in Libya The Libyan National Transitional Council has overthrown his former friend and protectr Colonel Moammar Gadhafi.

Billion of dollars will be released to various organization to rebuild the country. What is surprising is that there was only $505 million in frozen assets belonging to Libyans. Here is a country that annually has billions of dollars in trade with Libya. So is this money a token gesture by Gadhafi friend to encourage the rebels to maintain the Libya-Italy business ties? Libya having over $160 billions in frozen assets this does not include the $50 billion readily available to the rebels. The United States has over $30 billion of frozen assets belonging to the wealthy Libyans.

Berlusconi is the Milanese law graduate, born in 1936, earned his first wages as a crooner on ocean liners and is now prime minister and foreign minister, owner of three national private TV channels and of the biggest advertising, insurance, publishing and film production and distribution companies to be watched during this rebuilding f Libya. His brother owns a major daily newspaper. His wife owns another. He is president of one of the biggest soccer teams in Europe, but the wealth is not fairly distributed about the Italian people who will not be pleased with Italy being overran by Libya ousting of Libyans to Italy

But parts of Africa remain loyal to Italy former friend. These African countries are refusing to unfreeze Libya assets to give to the rebels. So who is Berlonsconi supporting, Africa or the other countries? My bet it will be all countries but Africa to continue Italy policy of containment to prevent Italy from becoming black.

CNN’s Special Coverage of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Monument Dedication

2011-08-24T23:31:00.000-04:00

CNN’s chief political correspondent and anchor Candy Crowley, anchor T.J. Holmes and anchor and special correspondent Soledad O’Brien will anchor live coverage of the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial dedication in Washington, D.C., on Sunday, August 28th. Also reporting from the memorial will be D.C.-based correspondent Athena Jones.

Beginning at 6a.m. (ET), Holmes will anchor CNN Newsroom from Washington, D.C. From 9a.m. to 1p.m. (ET), Crowley anchors a special edition of State of the Union. CNN’s coverage of the dedication ceremony will begin at 11 a.m. (ET).

CNN will broadcast Freedom’s Foot Soldiers: A Conversation with T.J. Holmes Saturday, August 27 at 7:30 p.m. (ET). Holmes exclusively interviews Dr. King’s friends together in the basement of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta to reflect on the life of Dr. King and the Civil Rights Movement then and now. In the very revealing, sometimes emotional interview with Juanita Abernathy, Xernona Clayton, Rev. Jesse Jackson, U.S. Representative John Lewis (D-GA), Rev. Joseph Lowery and former U.N. Ambassador Dr. Andrew Young, these “living legends” spoke of Dr. King’s desire to quit the movement and concentrate on writing and preaching, and the message the monument sends.

On Sunday, August 28 at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. (ET), CNN will air the documentary MLK: Words That Changed A Nation, reported by O’Brien. For this documentary, O’Brien interviewed Dr. King’s closest confidants, including Dr. Young, Rep. Lewis, and activist Dorothy Cotton, for their behind-the-scenes insights into many of the historic events of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. They discuss the arrest of Rosa Parks, Dr. King’s win of the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize and Dr. King’s time in a Birmingham jail for his participation in a nonviolent protest for civil rights. MLK: Words That Changed A Nation includes an examination of Dr. King’s private library of papers, letters, and speeches that reveal his personal philosophy and theology, as well as his doubts and fears – as he and those around him created a peaceful revolution that forever changed America.

Leading up to this historic memorial dedication, CNN will broadcast coverage through the day, entitled Building the Dream beginning Thursday, August 25, with interviews from the witnesses of the assassination of Dr. King; a conversation with the survivors of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing (an attack that killed four girls in Birmingham, Alabama); a sneak peek of the collection being compiled for The National Museum of African American History and Culture; a look at the women behind the Civil Rights Movement; and the personal side of Dr. King from the eyes of his driver and personal assistant Tom Houck.

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Will Qaddafi flee to his best friend in Italy?

2011-08-21T20:48:00.011-04:00

The Libya rebels, the Transitional National Council, have made their way to Col. Muammar Qaddafi’s Tripoli. Qaddafi is still on the run. But what does this mean for Italy that their good friend is on the run. Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and it's foreign minister Franco Frattini were reluctant to denounce Qaddafi behaviors, in killing his people, because of their business interest in Libya.

In addition, a treaty between Libya and Italy to prevent fleeing Libyan from entering Italy could be in jeopardy. It was a deal spun as reparation of billions of dollars to Libya but was more a deal to prevent Italy from becoming black by turning fleeing Libyans back to Libya.

Italy has served as a refuge for the former number two man of Qaddafi.

The former number two of the Libyan regime Abdessalem Jallud, escaped Friday from Tripoli, is currently in Italy. He said the defense minister, Ignazio La Russa told reporters. "What I can confirm is that actually the number two of Gaddafi's regime is in Italy," said La Russa told reporters in Catania. Former number two in the Libyan regime, fell out of favor in the mid nineties, Jallud joined the opposition two days ago after managing to escape from the Libyan capital.

Arrived with his family in Tunisia, was broken yesterday morning to Italy, as announced by Tunisian officials. In an interview broadcast today by the Arab satellite TV al-Jazeera, has called on the tribes of Jallud Colonel Muammar Gaddafi to "ignore this tyrant." The former right arm of the Libyan leader also called on the people of Tripoli to join the opposition. The issuer did not provide any indication of where he was Jallud. (with source AFP)

So will Italy hear their good friend Qaddafi banging on their door but refuse to answer?

Booming sounds in the early morning

2011-08-15T05:01:00.002-04:00

BOOM!!!

It's loud.

Another BOOM, loud enough to semi awake me from my deep sleep in which I had incorporated the continuing booms into my sleep. The NATO forces are conduring airstrikes over Libya, but I'm not in LIbya. I am in Belpasso, Italy.
I get up from my bed and open the windows to see that the booms are right across the road from where I am sleeping. Why the Italians do this, I am not sure, but I am told they do this to celebrate holidays and weddings.

There must be Italian holidays every month and sometimes every week. I am frequently awaken from my sleep with these loud explosions unlike the fireworks, that I love and enjoy, the boom boom not good.

This is theory. The booms are so loud, that I believe they reach the heaven. And since the summer has so little rain that the Italians farmers are pledging for some. A little different from the Indian's rain dance but for the same purpose.

As I close the windows to block out the early morning sun and the noise, I lool up and noticed in the sky quite a few grey clouds.\

Maybe rain.

Indiana Tech Law School could mean financial ruins

2011-08-14T12:26:00.008-04:00

Karen Francisco, of the Journal-Gazette, charges Elie Mystal, a blogger, for Above the Law, of histronic (not one of my favorite words) based on Mystal's railings against Indiana Institute of Technology starting a law school, which could potentially saddle students with high debt and or possible suicide.

"Does somebody have to die? Does somebody have to commit suicide? Does somebody have to leave a suicide note that reads, 'I just couldn't go on paying off the debts I incurred from going to this law school?' " Mystal wrote in May. "You're not supposed to lead prospective students to financial ruin just because they're stupid enough to follow you."

Mystal went overboard by calling potential professional students stupid,in catching Francisco irk. Professional students are smart enough to take on the gigantic amount of debt,from attending low tier law school which could possible be enough to drive such a student to commit suicide when coupled with the prospect of a slim to none chance of finding gainful employment at the end of the three years thinks Francisco.

If not real live suicide, perhaps economic suicide could be the future for such students. Indiana Law Blog, has an article, written by David Segal of the New York Times called,Is Law School a Losing Game? The article starts off with, "[i]f there is ever a class in how to remain calm while trapped beneath $250,000 in loans, Michael Wallerstein ought to teach it."

"Mr. Wallerstein, who can’t afford to pay down interest and thus watches the outstanding loan balance grow, is in roughly the same financial hell as people who bought more home than they could afford during the real estate boom. But creditors can’t foreclose on him because he didn’t spend the money on a house.

He spent it on a law degree. And from every angle, this now looks like a catastrophic investment."

Financial ruins can be the outcome from the dire and bleak job prospects of some law school graduates according to the New York Times article.

Mystal is just pointing off the fact that such law school are joining the Brown Mackies in reaching for student funding. [Side note here and low income African-Americans students, which was not mentioned by either Francisco or Mystal.) And he is outraged that regulations are not in place to protect students from this potential expensive scam!!!

Where law schools fall on this spectrum is both historically and institutionally contingent, which is to say that the extent to which law schools are scam-like varies a lot by time and place. Law schools are scam-like precisely to the extent that they represent to potential students that they provide things which in the end they fail to provide. Historically, law schools have promised three things in return for a student's tuition: professional training, intellectual edification, and a reasonable return on investment, in the form of an enhancement of earning power that justified the direct costs and opportunity costs of spending three years in this form of post-graduate education.

How much student aid is available for those potential law students for the $28,000 tuition? According to a the 2009 United State Government Accounting Office report:
• To be eligible to participate in federal student aid programs, a
postsecondary school must be accredited by an agency recognized
by the Department of Education.
• The ABA’s Council of the Section of Legal Education and
Admissions to the Bar is recognized for accrediting law schools.
• Some law schools that are not accredited by the ABA have obtained accreditation from other agencies that are recognized
by the Department of Education.
• Graduate and professional students at these schools may be
eligible to borrow up to $20,500 per year in federal Stafford loans, as well as additional Graduate/Professional PLUS loans, italics added.

It does not matter the educational level of a student when the outcome is the same, overwhelming debt.

Third Tier Reality
All Education Matters
Subprime JD
Sh*t Law Jobs
Esquire Painting
The Jobless Juris Doctor (No to Law School)
Temporary Attorney: The Sweatshop Edition
Esq. Never
Restoring Dignity to the Law
Tales of a 4th Tier Nothing
Rose Colored Glasses

London Mark Duggan

2011-08-10T21:28:00.005-04:00

Mark Duggan was shot dead by London Police. Now, his death has lead to peaceful protest to all out rioting in the street. Why Duggan was shot by police is an unknown. What is known, after Duggan death, that rioting and looting by young peoples has destroyed countless buildings in cities throughout London.

British Prime Minister David Cameron recalled Parliament from its summer recess Tuesday to deal with the crisis touched off by three days of rioting in London.

The fact that the rioting has gone on for three days has some speculating, it is not a race riot but an insurrection. The difference being that the youth are fed up with the dismal economic situations in their community.

Darcus Howe is quoted by BBC media,

“I don’t call it rioting—I call it an insurrection of the masses of the people. It is happening in Syria, it is happening in Clapham, it’s happening in Liverpool, it’s happening in Port-au-Spain, Trinidad, and that is the nature of the historical moment.”

Could we have another revolt in Europe but this time against the ruling class of the British and not muslim nations?

Jennifer Hudson slimmed down to size 0

2011-08-09T11:42:00.002-04:00

Jennifer Hudson, 29, has dropped to a size 0. Yep reports are swirling about the weigh loss by Jennifer while being the Weight Watchers spokeperson. Hudson was spotted shopping by Joy Behar, who caught the number 0 and wanted to know what's does a person feeling being a size ZERO.

We just want to know if our girl is alright