Fujimori's Daughter tries to clear Father's Name

A day after a court imposed a 25-year sentence on former President Alberto Fujimori in death squad killings, his daughter predicted Wednesday that the ruling would backfire as she launched a "national crusade" to clear his name.

"I think this very harsh verdict will be a boomerang," said Rep. Keiko Fujimori, a presidential hopeful in 2001 elections. "If they thought they would defeat Fujimorism with this, they're all wrong."

Keiko also said there was no truth to rumors she is discussing a possible pardon with President Alan Garcia, who has been silent on the issue.

Tuesday's conviction and sentencing of her 70-year-old father for 1990s death squad killings and forced disappearances have thrust Keiko into the spotlight.

Immediately after the verdict, she called it "vengeful" and predicted public outrage would propel her to Peru's presidency. If elected, she has said, she would pardon her father.

Keiko, who became Peru's first lady at age 19 after her parents divorced, won the most votes of any candidate in 2006 congressional elections.

She told reporters Wednesday that she plans "a great crusade to clear the name of Alberto Fujimori."

"We want to go to the most remote villages, above all those that suffered the scourge of terrorism and let it be known how unjust this verdict is."

A three-judge Supreme Court panel found Alberto Fujimori guilty of 25 murders in two operations by a military hit squad it said was created to fight the terror of the Shining Path insurgency with state-organized terror. There was no question, the court found, that Fujimori authorized the hit squad's creation.

Keiko said she has collected the signatures of 700,000 people who back her father and has set a goal of obtaining 1 million.

The oldest of Fujimori's four children, she is among three front-runners in recent polls for president. Her popularity owes in part to her father's legacy as the man who rescued Peru from the brink of economic and political collapse after winning office in 1990 as a political unknown.

But many analysts say her appeal is limited.

Her Fuerza 2011 party has just 13 seats in the 120-member congress and Nelson Manrique, a Catholic University professor, believes she has been weakened by the strong judicial condemnation of her father.

"It's one thing to capitalize on the romantic image of the daughter defending a presumably innocent father, another defending a sentenced criminal," he said.

Experts in international human rights law say the verdict is precedent-setting and could have profound implications for other former or current heads of state who may have committed similar crimes.

It is the first in which a democratically elected former president has been tried in his home country for rights violations.

In addition to the death squad killings, Fujimori was convicted of two kidnappings.

One of the victims, investigative journalist Gustavo Gorriti, was abducted for a day in April 1992 for criticizing Fujimori's shuttering of the opposition-led Congress and courts.

He told The Associated Press that there was "a certain fallacy" to Keiko's "supposed great popularity," noting that two-thirds of Peruvians had deemed her father guilty in pre-verdict polls.

Keiko has no more than 24 percent support, he estimated, and her candidacy is "essentially single-issue: Fujimori's freedom."

Fujimori's 10-year presidency ended in disgrace in 2000 when videotapes showed his now-imprisoned intelligence chief, Vladimiro Montesinos, bribing lawmakers and businessmen.

Fujimori fled to Japan, then attempted a return five years later via Chile, believing he could make a political comeback. Instead, he was extradited.

Binghamton New York 13 Shot Dead in Immigration Center

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. – A gunman opened fire on a room where immigrants were taking a citizenship exam in downtown Binghamton on Friday, killing as many as 13 people before committing suicide, officials said.

Gov. David Paterson said at a news conference that 12 or 13 people had been killed. The suspected gunman carried identification with the name of 42-year-old Jiverly Voong of nearby Johnson City, N.Y., a law enforcement official said.

The suspect's body was found with a self-inflicted gunshot wound in an office of the American Civic Association building, said the official, who was not authorized to speak publicly and was talking on condition of anonymity.

The gunman barricaded the rear door of the building with his car before entering through the front door, firing his weapon, the official said.

Vice President Joe Biden, speaking at an event in New York, told the crowd that someone entered a room where an examination was being given from immigrants to become U.S. citizens, then shot and killed 12 or 13 people. -yahoo

Racism, hatred and senseless violence continues in Amerikkka. These so-called Immigrants in search of the Amerikkkan dream was cut short today by the hate of one man. Many of our people from the third world come here looking to get away from their corrupt gov'ts, to get away from poverty all in hopes of making it in the belly of the beast. They followed the rules of the land and were in route to becoming U.S Citizens, but the reality is violence follows us where ever we go. Lets take a moment to mourn those fallen soldiers, men, woman, fathers, and mothers gun down in search of a dream.

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G20 Protests

Protesters stormed a London office of the Royal Bank of Scotland as thousands of people descended on the City ahead of the G20 summit of world leaders.

Demonstrators launched missiles and forced their way into the bank after clashes with police in the capital. A branch of HSBC also had windows broken.

Twenty-two people were arrested and some police and protesters injured.

Climate change activists have pitched tents in the street, while anti-war campaigners are holding a rally.

The protests came as US President Barack Obama spoke of the "sense of urgency" needed to confront the financial crisis after he met Prime Minister Gordon Brown at Downing Street.

World leaders are holding a series of bilateral talks on Wednesday to thrash out finance reform plans, with Mr Brown claiming that a global deal is just "hours away".

The police estimated there were about 5,000 people taking part in demonstrations, and officers cordoned off a number of streets.

G20 PROTESTS: KEY FLASHPOINTS Protests by mix of groups focused on major banks in Threadneedle Street Riot police clashed with some protesters and at least 20 arrests were made Climate change protesters set up camp outside European Climate Exchange Protests are expected to target conference at ExCel centre on 2 April

Officers later used "containment" then "controlled dispersal" and made temporary toilets and water available to protesters, police said.

At about 1800 BST, a small group of protesters faced a line of riot police in Threadneedle Street, near the Bank of England and the branch of RBS attacked earlier.

The BBC's Rob Broomby said demonstrators were "angry, but getting weary - they've been held in just a few narrow streets for a number of hours now".

A few protesters threw plastic bottles, banners and toilet rolls at police, amid chants of "Let us out, let us out."

Protesters had smashed RBS windows with missiles, including coins and computer keyboards, and entered the building. The branch had been closed already as a precautionary measure.

Mounted police and riot officers used shields to push demonstrators back and officers said they entered the RBS building just after 1400 BST "in support of building security".

Riot officers

Two people were arrested for aggravated burglary at the RBS, police say.

RBS has been in the spotlight after the £703,000 pension arrangement of former chief executive, Sir Fred Goodwin, sparked public anger.

By late afternoon, the BBC's Dominic Hurst said a branch of HSBC had also been attacked and had windows broken.

Police say CCTV footage and other video evidence will be reviewed to try to identify those involved in crimes.

Earlier, officers were pelted with empty beer cans, fruit and flour outside the Bank of England as the crowd of demonstrators had attempted to reach a peaceful climate change protest in nearby Bishopsgate.

Police said officers suffered only minor injuries during the protests, although one was admitted to hospital. Scotland Yard also said its response had been "proportionate".

Some of the protesters had been "provocative" and "determined to cause violence", claimed Met Commander Simon O'Brien.

Seven demonstrators were taken to hospital for treatment for injuries.

Hundreds of Climate Camp demonstrators - behind direct action protests at Heathrow Airport and power stations in North Yorkshire and Kent - pitched tents in protest against carbon markets.

The BBC's Mark Georgiou said there was an "almost Glastonbury atmosphere" at the demonstration outside the European Climate Exchange, which featured "music and meditation".

But from about 1630 BST "a different sort of demonstrator has started to arrive - clad in black, masked and aggressive", he said.

Several hundred anti-war demonstrators have also marched to a rally in Trafalgar Square from the US Embassy in central London.

The BBC's Dominic Casciani said it had been "completely different" to the protests in the City, and demonstrators were in peaceful mood.

Crowds also gathered outside Buckingham Palace for the arrival of US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle, who began a visit with the Queen shortly after 1700 BST.

The day began with protest groups under the G20 Meltdown banner marching to the Bank of England in the City urging those who had lost their homes, jobs, savings or pensions to join them in following four "horsemen of the apocalypse" to "lay siege" to financial institutions.

'Greed'

Many City workers have dressed in casual clothes after banks and other institutions were warned they may be targeted.

Protester Daniel Blinkhorn, from Brighton, was among those marching from London Bridge station to the Bank. He said the G20 lead

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ers had a "real opportunity to green the global economy".

Housing association worker Tony Streeter told the BBC: "I'm here because I think people are angry about what's going on in the world there's too much greed."

Scotland Yard said there had been 22 arrests related to the protests on Wednesday, following four arrests on Tuesday.

The four people detained on Tuesday were charged after officers were alerted to a group trying to break into a building in the Holborn area of central London, police said.

On Wednesday, police questioned demonstrators travelling in an armoured vehicle dressed in helmets and overalls.

Police say 11 people have been arrested on suspicion of possessing police uniforms and for road traffic offences.

Six police forces are part of the £7.5m G20 security plan, led by London's Met.

Dawg Fight

The rage that is bottled up inside must be channeled.

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The Plan To Exterminate Black & Brown

This is a 6 part series of videos by Dr. Ray Hagins.
Dr. Ray gives a speech regarding the plan the government has for the extermination of the Black race. Take a moment to watch this and post your opinion.

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Dead Palestinian Babies and Bombed Mosques - IDF Fashion 2009

The office at the Adiv fabric-printing shop in south Tel Aviv handles a constant stream of customers, many of them soldiers in uniform, who come to order custom clothing featuring their unit's insignia, usually accompanied by a slogan and drawing of their choosing. Elsewhere on the premises, the sketches are turned into plates used for imprinting the ordered items, mainly T-shirts and baseball caps, but also hoodies, fleece jackets and pants. A young Arab man from Jaffa supervises the workers who imprint the words and pictures, and afterward hands over the finished product.

Dead babies, mothers weeping on their children's graves, a gun aimed at a child and bombed-out mosques - these are a few examples of the images Israel Defense Forces soldiers design these days to print on shirts they order to mark the end of training, or of field duty. The slogans accompanying the drawings are not exactly anemic either: A T-shirt for infantry snipers bears the inscription "Better use Durex," next to a picture of a dead Palestinian baby, with his weeping mother and a teddy bear beside him. A sharpshooter's T-shirt from the Givati Brigade's Shaked battalion shows a pregnant Palestinian woman with a bull's-eye superimposed on her belly, with the slogan, in English, "1 shot, 2 kills." A "graduation" shirt for those who have completed another snipers course depicts a Palestinian baby, who grows into a combative boy and then an armed adult, with the inscription, "No matter how it begins, we'll put an end to it."

There are also plenty of shirts with blatant sexual messages. For example, the Lavi battalion produced a shirt featuring a drawing of a soldier next to a young woman with bruises, and the slogan, "Bet you got raped!" A few of the images underscore actions whose existence the army officially denies - such as "confirming the kill" (shooting a bullet into an enemy victim's head from close range, to ensure he is dead), or harming religious sites, or female or child non-combatants.
In many cases, the content is submitted for approval to one of the unit's commanders. The latter, however, do not always have control over what gets printed, because the artwork is a private initiative of soldiers that they never hear about. Drawings or slogans previously banned in certain units have been approved for distribution elsewhere. For example, shirts declaring, "We won't chill 'til we confirm the kill" were banned in the past (the IDF claims that the practice doesn't exist), yet the Haruv battalion printed some last year.

The slogan "Let every Arab mother know that her son's fate is in my hands!" had previously been banned for use on another infantry unit's shirt. A Givati soldier said this week, however, that at the end of last year, his platoon printed up dozens of shirts, fleece jackets and pants bearing this slogan.

"It has a drawing depicting a soldier as the Angel of Death, next to a gun and an Arab town," he explains. "The text was very powerful. The funniest part was that when our soldier came to get the shirts, the man who printed them was an Arab, and the soldier felt so bad that he told the girl at the counter to bring them to him."


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Beware of the power of visual art and words.
Ignorance is not a excuse.
Not knowing can kill you if you allow it.
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Protest Outside NY Immigration Office to Stop Deportations of 30,000 Haitians

Haitian organizations held a demonstration outside the offices of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in New York. They are calling on the Obama administration to immediately grant Temporary Protected Status to the 30,000 undocumented Haitians in the United States who are currently threatened with deportation back to Haiti.

Earlier this year, the Bush administration refused to grant Haitians the status, which allows them to live and work legally in the country. The request was made to delay the deportations until Haiti recovers from a string of deadly summer storms.

Meanwhile, in Haiti, A UN Security Council delegation recently praised the party of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide for fighting to overturn the disqualification of its Senate candidates. The Haitian government had barred members of the Lavalas Party from running in next month’s Senate elections for largely technical reasons.

The ruling came days before the fifth anniversary of the US-backed coup that led to Aristide’s ouster. Several thousand Haitians staged a protest to mark the day and to call for the return of Aristide to Haiti without conditions. Aristide has been living in exile in South Africa since 2004.



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