The Ambler

Tuesday, February 6, 2007

Read why human rights groups sound an alarm
Mood:

don't ask

A slap in the face of every Canadian
Globe and Mail, Canada - 4 Feb 2007
The catastrophe of native life in Canada is old news. Decades pass, reports are drafted, articles are published, and nothing happens. ...

(...or is that a slap in the face to every poster at the Black Flag Cafe including its ex-Canadian owner ROBERT YOUNG PELTON?)

I see beauty in the eyes of youth. IN the graceful lines of a young girls gentle face, I see promise and potential...I see the abandoned dreams of every person who has sought for a better vision for themselves for others and their country that which includes ALL of its inhabitants...and I see those abandoned dreams being re-visited...that innate precious potential ressurected before its too late...before in five, ten, twenty years all we see are the faint outlines of promises we made at night and had forgotten in the cruel light of day...and we wrestle with concepts and arguments of yesteryear..contemplating into wee hours and getting sleepy merely talking about what we could have done, what we should have done..and what we would have done if only this or only that had not supplanted our more most precious of wishes

the beauty I see reflects the truest of bountiful and limitless

joy that is ensconsed in the souls hearts and minds of its most original inhabitants, the people with the most clearest and most vivid and best sense of appreciation for land they have called home which we have not really yet sought to appreciate at the same level having been steered b our own preconceptions of beauty and richness

This is a wide rich land and its most accurate reflection is held within the gaze of the peoples who have returned its affection and love of the land with the upmost sincerity and depth since a time immemorial

This is how and why I have come to see such beauty held within the eyes of youth. I hope its our optimism and reverence for our own lost sense of innocence that is contained within generations we can either fail or champion...that emboldens us every day to make choices even in the smallest of ways that reflect this affinity and desire to share this blessing of earth and song that is composed in this land ..with results that improves our own image of ourselves..ones in which we make all children who live to inherit our efforts....never endingly proud of our efforts to right what was once wrong.

I see the reflection of the beauty of the land in the eyes of a beautiful native girl; a sharp adherence to the love of the land that has preceded her by generations. May this beauty grow every day and may we contribute it to its potential in every way every day, like Mother Nature has blessed this land and allowed her peoples to survive every day.....

Meet Lizabell. She is 15...

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Monday, February 5, 2007

Well I was feeling nrgetic...till my blog made me lazy
Mood:

energetic
Topic: News on News

IN the news today...Campaign Watch – February 2007

Campaign Watch – February 2007

a turf war between the Hells Angels and New York Police Department (NYPD) is set to escalate over the next two weeks as

Hells Angels to hit police with new legal claim after Manhattan HQ

as the infamous and now notorious motorcycle club denies any connection to a woman found beaten outside their club

Hells Angels say group being unfairly targeted after beaten woman ...

Meanwhile across town in the upscale Chelsea District, a celebrity actor

has been arrested for pushing another male four floors down an elevator shaft; killing him.

Former "Oz" Actor Charged In Homicide Case

Hot on the heels, the nightclub manager says: "Blame the Elevator"

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In international news

Ex-Child Soldier: Shooting People as Easy as Drinking Water

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Alas, the Japanese were not the first to use "comfort women" by any means

Germany faces up to shame of sex slavery in concentration camps

REF:

http://www.muse.uq.edu.au/cgi-bin/access.cgi?uri=/journals/journal_of_world_history/v010/10.1moon.html

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And since humans have basically been the same anatomically for about 100,000 years—so what is safe to say is that if we enjoy it now, then so did our cave-dwelling ... .ahh,-..how long shall we say this has been in the making...a-a-hh-,...nevermind

New Exhibition Pays Tribute to 100000 Years of Sex

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Same old, same old.

Posted by mach1231 at 9:55 PM PST

Updated: Monday, February 5, 2007 10:08 PM PST

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Saturday, February 3, 2007

Hot Steel
Mood:

accident prone
Now Playing: Why cant my mood be ?????
Topic: News on News

Dear Reader,

The most difficult thing thing for me to do right now , and perhaps the worst thing...would be for me to act under a pretense that all is oaky doaky and I am fine in every way shape and form.

Not far from the truth, if all things are considered about what else is happening out there in the big world.

The last thing I want to let on about right now is how much I hate being banned from the Black Flag Cafe , or how much I miss hanging out there.

Nothing could be both further from the truth as well as the last concern I have on my mind.

Most people who have ever frequented the BFC at one point will tell you that it never stays the same, and never reverts back to what it once was. Be that as it may be, I dont see anyone posting photos about riots in Mexico at all.

So whether or not its just a dry spell over there, or if the convivial atmosphere is one where people just really really reallly enjoy talking politics and policies in between reading inane posts from drunkards,scabbards and radical racial demogogues

..I really couldn't care less. Now I know this blog entry reads like a page from a diary, and is not what a blog should read like.

But I suppose when stuff happens in life, I wish I had the quiet and gentle reserve like RYP does and also Kurt. I mean when I have bad background material happening in my life, stuff more suitable for a diary and not a blog, I should be glad I get to write about it and purge my feelings in a way.

Looking at the posters at the Black Flag Cafe, I no longer have to

self-recriminate for anything I might have said while there.

But right now, like tonight, I am suffering a set back, someone like posters Kurt and RYP of the BFC would probably laugh at its level of seriousness, and deservedly for me too and so at that.

But I have to laugh at them my self too when I look at their site ...it seems so crude that this is not just very poor art imitating a bad life and stumbling all over itself in the process.

Its worse than that. Its only the level of virtualness that makes it laughable...so I have to laugh when I think of the reasons they banned me when I look at what they are left to contend with.

Basically, for whom ever is interested..it means if you think I would

have hung around just for all that youre just kidding me...far more over than I ever EVER would have gone in kidding my own self on-line.

Let get back to riots in Mexico. Its like anything else, like when I look at the world around me, it may always be worse off somewhere else....and when I look at the Flag I can see it can hardly get any worse there....

but as in Mexico, so there it can be with the BFC. Theres enough hope in me to hold some out for them both equally.

Thanks for reading.

Yours truly,

Mach

Editor/contributor(lol)

PS Looked for the first time toay at my blog at a net cafe and see it LOOKS very very different on different browsers and settings. That said, I EDIT and create with MOzzila Firefox and now fatefully realize sometimes the layout as planned to appear with my brower, doesnt always faithfully convey exactly what I wish to say.

In a perfect virtual world, I guess that means things would be diff-e-rent.

Posted by mach1231 at 11:24 PM PST

Updated: Sunday, February 4, 2007 12:01 AM PST

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Thursday, February 1, 2007

Absolutely
Mood:

a-ok
Topic: Entertainment

IN a recent survey in which 8.5 million people have been reported to have participated, Beyonce was named the Top Fantasy Girlfriend
Included in the top ten was model

Alessandra Ambrosio

singer Shakira

TV host Maria Menounos

and actresses Angelina Jolie and Elisha Cuthbert. Other women who were voted into the top 10 included supermodel Adriana Lima and Jessica Biel.

What does one expect from ask men though?

But fantasy?! I'll say! Like 'get real' or what? Surely the voters might consider the maintenance level of ever having a real relationship with any one of these top notch pop glammarazzi go-getters.

I guess thats why in the poll it all boils down to fantasy.

Losing your self in fantasy doesn't make allowance for real world considerations ...but I know who I'd pick.

Single moms are real heroes in Jolie’s eyes!

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Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha hah ha. Yeah,...and

Brad!

Posted by mach1231 at 10:22 AM PST

Updated: Thursday, February 1, 2007 10:58 AM PST

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Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Mood:

hug me

I'm the kind of guy who gets Secretary Appreciation Week, Birthdays and Great Boss Week all mixed up!

Posted by mach1231 at 2:34 PM PST

Updated: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 2:52 PM PST

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Sunday, January 28, 2007

Social & Domestic Issues

Aboriginal Sin: Guilty By Boomerang

by Jay D. Homnick
Posted Jan 26, 2007




Stamp

The old joke features a man who consults a lawyer about the possibility of suing someone over a business deal. He only wants to sue if the attorney believes they have a strong chance to win. He lays out the facts and, sure enough, the lawyer responds by saying it looks like an open-and-shut case in his favor. Yet the client looks crestfallen. “What’s wrong?” asked the esquire. “Didn’t I tell you the case was bullet-proof?” The man sighs in resignation: “Yes, but I just told you the other guy’s side.”

In school, we all learned the sad saga of Oscar Wilde. The great British wit, playwright and novelist took the Marquis of Queensberry (yes, the guy who wrote the boxing rules) to civil court for libel. The defendant was going around town tarring the plaintiff as a homosexual conducting a dalliance with the defendant’s son. Mr. Wilde, a married man, predicated his claim on the premise that Queensberry was promulgating a vicious untruth. To defend himself, the Marquis adduced incontrovertible proofs that Wilde was indeed his son’s lover.

Victorian England, like most governments before and after, preferred to honor the sodomy laws more in the breach than in the observance. They were hardly conducting roundups of discreet homosexuals, much less upper-class ones. But once the revelation had been so clearly effected in open court, they had little choice but to swear out a criminal warrant. Wilde jumped to initiate a suit which landed him in a jail jumpsuit. A quirky pathway in human nature, this: demanding redress for blows to an honorable reputation, despite its being knowingly false.

Two such stories are currently in the news, one concerning a very high government official, the other a widely respected cultural figure. Both dug needless, heedless ditches beneath their solid perches. One stands to lose his job and be jailed as a national disgrace, the second to lose money and prestige. Both played the Wilde card and fell from kings to jokers.

The first case is the President of Israel, Moshe Katsav. In July, just six months ago, he approached the Attorney General to complain that a former secretary was extorting him by threatening to claim sexual harassment. When Attorney General Mazuz interviewed the woman, she told him she had never intended to come forward on her own. She was content to lick her wounds in private and write it off as a learning experience. If they were going to put her on the spot, she was forced to tell the whole sordid tale.

There was more than just sexual harassment, using job pressures and power disparities to gain compliance. Actual rape had occurred when they were alone in the office after hours. She began producing all sorts of supporting evidence, audio and video and signed notes. Once her story leaked, other women who had worked in his office over the years came forward; a whole Packwood pack of babes out of the woods, you might say. Now Mazuz intends to issue an indictment for rape, an amazing charge to level at a sitting President. So far he has not resigned, but an impeachment committee has been formed in the Knesset. The likelihood is he will receive severe penalties, possibly even jail time.

Back here stateside, we have the pitiful story of comedy icon Jerry Seinfeld and his wife, the former Jessica Sklar, who withheld a one hundred thousand dollar real-estate commission from the broker who found them their multi-million dollar Manhattan apartment. The broker, Tamara Cohen, had indicated from the start she was an Orthodox Jew who did not work on the Jewish Sabbath, from sundown Friday until sundown Saturday. She had showed them several properties and they were satisfied with her work.

When she found the one they eventually took, it was near the end of the week. They decided Saturday would be convenient for them to see the place, so they went without her. Since she had not been present at the first viewing, they decided to cut her out of the deal. A judge this week just awarded her the commission she obviously deserved, leaving Jerry Seinfeld looking either spectacularly petty or desperately henpecked or both.

Don’t start a fight you can’t finish. Don’t brag too loudly about your spick-and-span closet if you know that skeletons are rattling around in there. The other guy’s pro bono lawyer might just wind up making your pro look like a bonehead.

[NOTE: Chapter One of my novel, "The Life and Times of Pfc. Ernest Taylor," has been entered into the First Chapters competition at http://www.gather.com. The winner will be determined by the ratings of readers and will receive a book contract. Please register, read and vote by rating it 1 to 10, with 10 being the highest. One person, one vote. Voting is open until Feb. 2 at 6 p.m. Eastern time.]

Address Unknown -

Address Unknown. 1997-USA-Detective Film/Teen Movie. PLOT DESCRIPTION. When Brian finds a decade-old letter marked with a rare postage stamp, he is inspired ...
movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=162547

Posted by mach1231 at 5:43 PM PST

Updated: Sunday, January 28, 2007 6:03 PM PST

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A WRAITH
Mood:

quizzical

Article 5 of the OECD Anti-bribery Convention requires that the investigation and prosecution of foreign bribery “shall not be influenced by considerations of national economic interest” or “the potential effect upon relations with another State.”

The Guardian paper in London is reporting on a $12 million BAE bribery scandal brewing in Tanzania. According to the article, Robin Cook the former foreign secretary under Blair, has written his memoirs in which he notes that "I came to learn that the chairman of BAE appeared to have the key to the garden door to No 10. Certainly I never knew No 10 to come up with any decision that would be incommoding to BAE." In the United States, despite a law criminalizing foreign bribery, the case load at the Justice Department’s Fraud Section is overwhelming. The bare bones staff there can barely keep up. And while no instance of a corporation slamming shut a prosecutor’s case the way BAE apparently has in the UK has surfaced in the United States, federal prosecutors here rarely bring criminal prosecutions against major American corporations. Clearly the corporations have us where they want us. You or I commit a crime – we are off to the slammer. They commit a crime, they call the head guy and the investigation is shut down. Res ipsa loquitur. - - Scary stuff isn't it? http://www.jacno.com

BAE faces action on anti-arms group's papers

By Michael Peel,Legal Correspondent

Published: January 26 2007 02:00 | Last updated: January 26 2007 02:00

BAE Systems, the weapons maker, faces a court challenge from anti-arms trade campaigners who want to know how private documents belonging to them ended up in the company's hands.

The Campaign Against Arms Trade wants to force BAE to reveal the source of the documents, which relate to a legal challenge the campaigners are mounting to the Serious Fraud Office's decision to end an investigation into alleged bribery by the company in Saudi Arabia.

The row over the documents, which BAE representatives returned voluntarily, is the latest twist in the controversy over the scrapping of the SFO investigation last month amid public lobbying by the company and Saudi anger.

The Campaign Against Arms Trade said it had successfully persuaded a judge to allow a High Court hearing next week over whether BAE should reveal how the "confidential and legally privileged material" arrived in the company's possession.

BAE declined to disclose what the documents were, or how it obtained them.

It said it would make no further comment ahead of the hearing, other than that no wrongdoing appeared to be alleged by the campaigners.

"CAAT has made an application simply to obtain certain information which they believe BAE may have," the company said. "This type of application is commonly used to obtain evidence from parties against whom no wrongdoing is alleged."

This is not the first time controversy has surrounded the relationship between the Campaign Against Arms Trade and BAE. In 2003, newspaper reports claimed the campaign's offices had been spied on and confidential information passed on to the company by third parties.

BAE declined to comment yesterday on those allegations, although it was quoted at the time as saying it would never encourage anyone to do anything illegal.

The campaign said it planned to go ahead with its court challenge to the scrapping of the Saudi investigation, although this would be put on hold until after the hearing over the documents.

The challenge, brought jointly with Corner House Research, an anti-corruption group, is likely to argue that the Serious Fraud Office's action breached an international anti-bribery convention to which Britain is a signatory.

The campaign and Corner House said a letter defending the decision sent to them late last week by the government's solicitors had not persuaded them the decision was lawful.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development convention forbids countries to take into account commercial considerations or relations with other states when deciding whether to investigate or prosecute bribery.

Last week, the OECD's 36-nation anti-bribery group said it had "serous concerns" Britain might have breached the convention.

The investigation was examining whether BAE had paid bribes to Saudi officials while winning tens of billions of pounds worth of work since the 1980s.

BAE has denied any wrongdoing.

Posted by mach1231 at 4:22 PM PST

Updated: Sunday, January 28, 2007 4:28 PM PST

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Entrapment in the news
Mood:

caffeinated
Topic: News on News

Democracy Now Police Entrapment in Terror Case? NYC Subway Bomb Plotter Says He ...
Democracy Now, NY - 10 Jan 2007
On Monday, 24 year-old Pakistani immigrant Shahawar Matin Siraj was sentenced to 30 years in prison for plotting to bomb the Herald Square subway station in ...

Police Entrapment in Terror Case?
Melbourne Indymedia, Australia - 10 Jan 2007
Matin put on an entrapment defense, and it was a legitimate entrapment defense. It was unfortunately rejected by the jury, and that has a lot to do with the ...

Uzbekistan: Release Human Rights Defender
Human Rights Watch (press release) - 26 Jan 2007
“Niazova is the victim of political persecution and apparently of entrapment,” said Cartner. “There is no reason whatsoever why she should be in custody. ...

How you spell ENTRAPMENT? Don't be confused now. This is not a contest.

Consumer Affairs Home Decorators Collection Recalls Storage Trunks
Consumer Affairs - 25 Jan 2007
Home Decorators Collection is recalling about 500 leather suitcase trunks because of an entrapment and suffocation hazard. ...

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Columbia Pictures has given the 'unofficial site for film composer Christopher Young' permission to host five tracks from the upcoming Ghost Rider

Listen to the Ghost Rider Soundtrack!
CanMag, CA - 24 Jan 2007
For those of you who do not know Christopher Young, the composer's music has been heard in films such as Rounders, Entrapment, The Gift, Swordfish, Shade /..

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I heard about some authorities in Texas who had banged down the door of an Assistant DA accusing him of such net crimes as below. He killed him self first. Clickable story link below.

Murphy, Texas

In November 2006, Perverted Justice announced that another To Catch a Predator sting had been conducted with law enforcement in Murphy, Texas. Twenty-one men arrived at the filming location over four days, with law enforcement investigating additional suspects. Most notably, these additional suspects, who conducted chats but did not arrive at the undercover house, included Rockwall County assistant district attorney Louis W. Conradt Jr., who shot and killed himself on 5 November 2006 at his home when police attempted to serve him with a search warrant.^[6] The investigation is scheduled to air immediately after the Long Beach episodes, on 13 February 2007 and 20 February 2007 .

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http://www.businessportal24.com/en/What_Entrapment_98745.html

Posted by mach1231 at 3:10 PM PST

Updated: Sunday, January 28, 2007 4:34 PM PST

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Names changed to protect the innocent.
Mood:

blue

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ITs for the Net Detective in all of us
Mood:

irritated

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DUKE LACROSSE CASE

Duke case lawyer: Try to imagine the pain

Defender for 1 of the accused players talks about impact on family

GARY L. WRIGHT

gwright@charlotteobserver.com

Charlotte lawyer Jim Cooney is handling the highest-profile case of his career: defending one of three Duke lacrosse players charged with sexually assaulting an exotic dancer a team party last March. The three men -- David Evans, Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann -- are white. The woman is black.

Cooney, for the first time since being hired to defend Seligmann, talked in depth about case that fueled racial tensions in Durham, led to the suspension of Duke's lacrosse program and left Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong facing ethics charges.

Q. How have these three men been affected by the publicity and the allegations?

The best way to answer this question is to ask everyone who may be reading this to imagine how they would feel if their picture -- or a picture of their sons or daughters -- appeared on the cover of Newsweek accused of a crime as heinous and vile as rape. Then I would ask everyone to consider that if the district attorney had succeeded in convicting these young men of all of the crimes with which they had been charged, none of these young men would have been released from prison until they were well into their 50s. They literally would have never seen their parents alive again outside a prison visiting room. It does not take much imagination to understand the daily pain that these young men and their families go through each day these cases are permitted to continue.

Q. Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong has been accused of withholding evidence favorable to the defendants. The DA eventually dropped the rape charges after the victim changed her story. He now faces ethics charges levied by the N.C. State Bar. What is happening in this case? I think my answer to this question is better left until the resolution of these cases. Moreover, Mr. Nifong is now the subject of ethics charges by the State Bar, and I think it is important to accord him something that was not given to these young men -- due process and a fair trial.

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/16564477.htm

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