CNBCvanishedarticleSpire.jpg (611×2880) Occupy Wall Street #ows - NYPD has stepped up its media training. Are we becoming a police state? Five things that have civil liberties advocates nervous. A Proposal for Freedoms in Cyberspace Meets Resistance. An Apology To Veterans and Seniors. I would like to take this opportunity to apologize to two groups of Americans: our military veterans, and all senior citizens who are members of the World War II era, also known as The Greatest Generation.
I want to apologize for myself and my generation not doing our part to be more like you. You sacrificed, took risks, did without, and delayed gratification of one sort or another for a cause greater than yourselves. My generation and the rest of the American population has been rather cowardly when it comes to defending our liberties. Not that we have not had plenty volunteer for military service, because we have.
Our cowardice has been in not standing up to our own government's weakness, deceit, and manipulation. Most recently, by my count, we have been "at war" for nearly a decade. What have we sacrificed to get the ugly job done, whatever the goal is? We are a rich nation of 300 million people, and we cannot win and end a war? U.N. Envoy: U.S. Isn't Protecting Occupy Protesters' Rights. WASHINGTON -- The United Nations envoy for freedom of expression is drafting an official communication to the U.S. government demanding to know why federal officials are not protecting the rights of Occupy demonstrators whose protests are being disbanded -- sometimes violently -- by local authorities.
Frank La Rue, who serves as the U.N. "special rapporteur" for the protection of free expression, told HuffPost in an interview that the crackdowns against Occupy protesters appear to be violating their human and constitutional rights. "I believe in city ordinances and I believe in maintaining urban order," he said Thursday. Occupational hazard: arrests as ‘Occupy Portland’ resume.
Warsaw protester launches drone to spy on police. By David EdwardsThursday, November 17, 2011 13:15 EDT During protests in Warsaw last weekend, one crafty activist deployed a flying drone to spy on riot police.
YouTube user latajacakamera — or “flying camera” in Polish — uploaded the amazing video that the drone effortlessly captured as it hovered over teargas-filled streets. In another video, the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) floats in front of a formation of police in riot gear as they rush towards demonstrators. None of them appear to notice. Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson confirmed that the flying machine was built by the Polish company Robokopter. Watch this video from latajacakamera, uploaded to YouTube Nov. 12, 2011. (H/T: Danger Room) Copyright 2011 The Raw Story <a style="color: #336699; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" href=" target="_blank" title="Main menu of all reuse options"><img height="25" width="27" border="0" align="bottom" alt="[Reuse options]" src=" here for reuse options!
David Edwards. The Resource : Part II. International Human Rights System, 11/11. Part II.
International Human Rights System. 11/11 10. Human Rights and Humanitarian Law 10.1 Persons with disabilities and armed conflicts The evolution of international law related to the protection of war victims and to the conduct of war has been strongly affected by the development of human rights protection after the Second World War. Today, the impact of armed conflicts on civilians is one of the major causes of disability. The United Nations Security Council, expressing its belief in the connection between holding individuals responsible for international crimes and future prevention, established the Ad hoc International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, as well as the permanent International Criminal Court. 10.2 Human Rights in Times of Emergency The enjoyment of some human rights may be restricted during times of war or public emergency.
Certain rights have been considered so important that they are non-derogable. 10.3 Civilians and Persons Hors de Combat. Declaration. German police battle with 1000s blocking nuke train. German police battled thousands of anti-nuclear protestors Sunday, many chained to railroad tracks, who have caused delays as they try to block a train carrying radioactive waste.
The convoy taking the German waste on a 1,200-kilometre (750-mile) journey from a reprocessing centre in northwestern France to a storage facility in northern Germany was stopped for 18 hours, including overnight, amid mass demonstrations. Thousands of activists swarmed the tracks along the route near the train's final destination in Dannenberg and boasted that the odyssey's duration had now topped the 92-hour record set during a shipment one year ago. Police said they detained about 1,300 people, including some who had chained themselves to the railway, requiring tricky and time-consuming operations to free them before the train could slowly rumble on. Some 150 people were injured in clashes, most of them demonstrators, according to security forces quoted by German news agency DPA.