position:attorney

Moxie Marlinspike - We should all have something to hide
http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/we-should-all-have-something-to-hide

“Imagine if there were an alternate dystopian reality where law enforcement was 100% effective, such that any potential law offenders knew they would be immediately identified, apprehended, and jailed. [..] How could people have decided that marijuana should be legal, if nobody had ever used it? How could states decide that same sex marriage should be permitted, if nobody had ever seen or participated in a same sex relationship ?

We can only desire based on what we know. It is our present experience of what we are and are not able to do that largely determines our sense for what is possible. This is why same sex relationships, in violation of sodomy laws, were a necessary precondition for the legalization of same sex marriage. This is also why those maintaining positions of power will always encourage the freedom to talk about ideas, but never to act”

Mass Surveillance in America: A Timeline of Loosening Laws and Practices
http://projects.propublica.org/graphics/surveillance-timeline

1978 Surveillance court created
After a post-Watergate Senate investigation documented abuses of government surveillance, Congress passes the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, to regulate how the government can monitor suspected spies or terrorists in the U.S. The law establishes a secret court that issues warrants for electronic surveillance or physical searches of a “foreign power” or “agents of a foreign power” (broadly defined in the law). The government doesn’t have to demonstrate probable cause of a crime, just that the “purpose of the surveillance is to obtain foreign intelligence information.”

The court’s sessions and opinions are classified. The only information we have is a yearly report to the Senate documenting the number of “applications” made by the government. Since 1978, the court has approved thousands of applications – and rejected just 11.

Oct. 2001 Patriot Act passed
In the wake of 9/11, Congress passes the sweeping USA Patriot Act. One provision, section 215, allows the FBI to ask the FISA court to compel the sharing of books, business documents, tax records, library check-out lists – actually, “any tangible thing” – as part of a foreign intelligence or international terrorism investigation. The required material can include purely domestic records.

Oct. 2003 ‘Vacuum-cleaner surveillance’ of the Internet
AT&T technician Mark Klein discovers what he believes to be newly installed NSA data-mining equipment in a “secret room” at a company facility in San Francisco. Klein, who several years later goes public with his story to support a lawsuit against the company, believes the equipment enables “vacuum-cleaner surveillance of all the data crossing the Internet – whether that be peoples’ e-mail, web surfing or any other data.”

March 2004 Ashcroft hospital showdown
In what would become one of the most famous moments of the Bush Administration, presidential aides Andrew Card and Alberto Gonzales show up at the hospital bed of John Ashcroft. Their purpose? To convince the seriously ill attorney general to sign off on the extension of a secret domestic spying program. Ashcroft refuses, believing the warrantless program to be illegal.

The hospital showdown was first reported by the New York Times, but two years later Newsweek provided more detail, describing a program that sounds similar to the one the Guardian revealed this week. The NSA, Newsweek reported citing anonymous sources, collected without court approval vast quantities of phone and email metadata “with cooperation from some of the country’s largest telecommunications companies” from “tens of millions of average Americans.” The magazine says the program itself began in September 2001 and was shut down in March 2004 after the hospital incident. But Newsweek also raises the possibility that Bush may have found new justification to continue some of the activity.

Dec. 2005 Warrantless wiretapping revealed
The Times, over the objections of the Bush Administration, reveals that since 2002 the government “monitored the international telephone calls and international e-mail messages of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people inside the United States without warrants.” The program involves actually listening in on phone calls and reading emails without seeking permission from the FISA Court.

Jan. 2006 Bush defends wiretapping
President Bush defends what he calls the “terrorist surveillance program” in a speech in Kansas. He says the program only looks at calls in which one end of the communication is overseas.

March 2006 Patriot Act renewed
The Senate and House pass legislation to renew the USA Patriot Act with broad bipartisan support and President Bush signs it into law. It includes a few new protections for records required to be produced under the controversial section 215.

May 2006 Mass collection of call data revealed
USA Today reports that the NSA has been collecting data since 2001 on phone records of “tens of millions of Americans” through three major phone companies, Verizon, AT&T, and BellSouth (though the companies level of involvement is later disputed.) The data collected does not include content of calls but rather data like phone numbers for analyzing communication patterns.

As with the wiretapping program revealed by the Times, the NSA data collection occurs without warrants, according to USA Today. Unlike the wiretapping program, the NSA data collection was not limited to international communications.

2006 Court authorizes collection of call data
The mass data collection reported by the Guardian this week apparently was first authorized by the FISA court in 2006, though exactly when is not clear. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., chairwoman of the Senate intelligence committee, said Thursday, “As far as I know, this is the exact three-month renewal of what has been in place for the past seven years.” Similarly, the Washington Post quoted an anonymous “expert in this aspect of the law” who said the document published by the Guardian appears to be a “routine renewal” of an order first issued in 2006.

It’s not clear whether these orders represent court approval of the previously warrantless data collection that USA Today described.

Jan. 2007 Bush admin says surveillance now operating with court approval
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announces that the FISA court has allowed the government to target international communications that start or end in the U.S., as long as one person is “a member or agent of al Qaeda or an associated terrorist organization.” Gonzalez says the government is ending the “terrorist surveillance program,” and bringing such cases under FISA approval.

Aug. 2007 Congress expands surveillance powers
The FISA court reportedly changes its stance and puts more limits on the Bush administration’s surveillance (the details of the court’s move are still not known.) In response, Congress quickly passes, and President Bush signs, a stopgap law, the Protect America Act.

In many cases, the government can now get blanket surveillance warrants without naming specific individuals as targets. To do that, the government needs to show that they’re not intentionally targeting people in the U.S., even if domestic communications are swept up in the process.

Sept. 2007 Prism begins

The FBI and the NSA get access to user data from Microsoft under a top-secret program known as Prism, according to an NSA PowerPoint briefing published by the Washington Post and the Guardian this week. In subsequent years, the government reportedly gets data from eight other companies including Apple and Google. “The extent and nature of the data collected from each company varies,” according to the Guardian.

July 2008 Congress renews broader surveillance powers
Congress follows up the Protect America Act with another law, the FISA Amendments Act, extending the government’s expanded spying powers for another four years. The law now approaches the kind of warrantless wiretapping that occurred earlier in Bush administration. Senator Obama votes for the act.

The act also gives immunity to telecom companies for their participation in warrantless wiretapping.

April 2009 NSA ‘overcollects’
The New York Times reports that for several months, the NSA had gotten ahold of domestic communications it wasn’t supposed to. The Times says it was likely the result of “technical problems in the NSA’s ability” to distinguish between domestic and overseas communications. The Justice Department says the problems have been resolved.

Feb. 2010 Controversial Patriot Act provision extended
President Obama signs a temporary one-year extension of elements of the Patriot Act that were set to expire — including Section 215, which grants the government broad powers to seize records.

May 2011 Patriot Act renewed, again
The House and Senate pass legislation to extend the overall Patriot Act. President Obama, who is in Europe as the law is set to expire, directs the bill to be signed with an “autopen” machine in his stead. It’s the first time in history a U.S. president has done so.

March 2012 Senators warn cryptically of overreach
In a letter to the attorney general, Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Mark Udall, D-Colo., write, “We believe most Americans would be stunned to learn the details” of how the government has interpreted Section 215 of the Patriot Act. Because the program is classified, the senators offer no further details.

July 2012 Court finds unconstitutional surveillance
According to a declassified statement by Wyden, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court held on at least one occasion that information collection carried out by the government was unconstitutional. But the details of that episode, including when it happened, have never been revealed.

Dec. 2012 Broad powers again extended
Congress extends the FISA Amendments Act another five years, and Obama signs it into law. Sens. Wyden and Jeff Merkley, both Oregon Democrats, offer amendments requiring more disclosure about the law’s impact. The proposals fail.

April 2013 Verizon order issued
As the Guardian revealed this week, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Judge Roger Vinson issues a secret court order directing Verizon Business Network Services to turn over “metadata” — including the time, duration and location of phone calls, though not what was said on the calls — to the NSA for all calls over the next three months. Verizon is ordered to deliver the records “on an ongoing daily basis.” The Wall Street Journal reports this week that AT&T and Sprint have similar arrangements.

The Verizon order cites Section 215 of the Patriot Act, which allows the FBI to request a court order that requires a business to turn over “any tangible things (including books, records, papers, documents, and other items)” relevant to an international spying or terrorism investigation. In 2012, the government asked for 212 such orders, and the court approved them all.

June 2013 Congress and White House respond
Following the publication of the Guardian’s story about the Verizon order, Sens. Feinstein and Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., the chair and vice of the Senate intelligence committee, hold a news conference to dismiss criticism of the order. “This is nothing particularly new,” Chambliss says. “This has been going on for seven years under the auspices of the FISA authority, and every member of the United States Senate has been advised of this.”

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper acknowledges the collection of phone metadata but says the information acquired is “subject to strict restrictions on handling” and that “only a very small fraction of the records are ever reviewed.” Clapper alsoissues a statement saying that the collection under the Prism program was justified under the FISA Amendments of 2008, and that it is not “intentionally targeting” any American or person in the U.S.

Statements from the tech companies reportedly taking part in the Prism program variously disavow knowledge of the program and merely state in broad terms they

US government invokes special privilege to stop scrutiny of data mining | World news | guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/07/us-government-special-privilege-scrutiny-data

In comments on Friday about the surveillance controversy, Obama insisted that the secret programmes were subjected “not only to congressional oversight but judicial oversight”. He said federal judges were “looking over our shoulders”.

But civil liberties lawyers say that the use of the privilege to shut down legal challenges was making a mockery of such “judicial oversight”. Though classified information was shown to judges in camera, the citing of the precedent in the name of national security cowed judges into submission.

“The administration is saying that even if they are violating the constitution or committing a federal crime no court can stop them because it would compromise national security. That’s a very dangerous argument,” said Ilann Maazel, a lawyer with the New York-based Emery Celli firm who acts as lead counsel in the Shubert case.

“This has been legally frustrating and personally upsetting,” Maazel added. “We have asked the government time after time what is the limit to the state secrets privilege, whether there’s anything the government can’t do and keep it secret, and every time the answer is: no.”

Israel’s AG: Absentee properties in East Jerusalem can be confiscated - National Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/israel-s-ag-absentee-properties-in-east-jerusalem-can-be-confiscated.premiu

A law allowing Israel to confiscate “absentee” properties may continue to be applied to Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem, Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein said in a legal opinion.

Weinstein’s opinion goes against the decisions of his predecessors, including Meir Shamgar, who said as far back as 1968 that the Absentee Property Law should not be applied in Jerusalem, and Menachem Mazuz, who served as attorney general immediately before Weinstein.

According to the law, which was passed in 1950, any person living in an enemy state or outside Israel is considered an absentee, and his property goes to the Custodian of Absentee Property, today a body within the Justice Ministry.After the 1967 Six-Day War, residents of the occupied territories who held property in Jerusalem found they had been deemed absentees without ever leaving their homes.

The decision over the application of the law in East Jerusalem has significant implications for Jewish settlement in the city’s predominantly Palestinian neighborhoods. Over the years, the Absentee Property Law has become a tool for right-wing groups seeking to increase the Jewish presence inEast Jerusalem. These groups ask the custodian to expropriate houses whose residents are in the West Bank and then rent the premises from the custodian, usually for a nominal fee.

The Iyad family from the Palestinian town of Abu Dis, for example, owned the Cliff Hotel, which is 200 meters from their home. Because the Jerusalem municipal boundary runs between their home and the hotel, the custodian in 2003 declared them absentees and transferred the hotel to the state’s ownership. The hotel now stands deserted.

In another example, a family, represented in Monday’s hearing by attorney Sami Arshid, lives in an older part of the Beit Hanina neighborhood, located in the West Bank, but owns property in a newer part of the neighborhood, only a few hundred meters away, within Jerusalem’s boundaries. The family’s Jerusalem home was taken by the state.

Although in 1968, Shamgar, then the attorney general and later a Supreme Court justice, ordered that the law not be applied to East Jerusalem, with the establishment of the Likud government in 1977, the law came back into force. The pendulum swung back again in 1992, under then-Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, but in 1997, restrictions on the law’s application were once again loosened, and in 2004, under then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, the cabinet decided, against the position advocated by the Justice Ministry, to restore all the custodian’s powers with regard to property in  Jerusalem.

In 2005, Mazuz wrote a sharply worded letter as attorney general ordering that the law not be applied in Jerusalem.  "The application of the powers of the Custodian of Absentee Property to properties in East Jerusalem raises many serious legal difficulties regarding the application of the law and the reasonableness of its decision, and … the obligations of the State of Israel toward the traditional principles of international law," he said.  

In 2006, then-District Court Judge Boaz Okun also ordered the law not be applied in Jerusalem, but at the end of that year, the state appealed Okun’s rulingto the Supreme Court.

Two weeks ago, an expanded bench of Supreme Court justices held a hearing regarding an appeal of four cases in which East Jerusalem properties belonging to residents of the Palestinian territories were confiscated based on the Absentee Property Law. During the hearing, the justices ordered Weinstein to appear before them in person to explain his position. On Tuesday, the state prosecutor informed the court that the attorney general had approved the application of the law in Jerusalem.

“[Guidance} was sought from the attorney general on the topic, and it was decided that the indeed the legal status was that the properties located in East Jerusalem, with their owners residents of the Judea and Samaria region, were absentee properties,” the state prosecutor said. “This the language of the law and the ruling of the High Court of Justice show.”   

Nevertheless, the attorney general said the four cases that reached the Supreme Court should be referred to a special committee that operates based on the Absentee Property Law to examine the possibility of releasing the properties from the hands of the custodian and returning them to their original owners. The Palestinian plaintiffs objected to this solution, because it would entail legal recognition of the confiscation of their properties and require the filing of special requests to have them released.

The state prosecutor announced the entire issue will be brought to the attention of the political echelon. The next Supreme Court hearing is scheduled for this September, when Weinstein will be expected to appear.

AG: State fails to handle construction violations in settlements - Israel News, Ynetnews
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4382804,00.html

Yehuda Weinstein urges defense minister to ensure criminal enforcement of planning and construction violations in West Bank, which he says go largely unpunished

Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein sent a letter to Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon on Tuesday accusing the defense establishment of dragging its feet in relation to regulation over illegal construction in West Bank settlements, Yedioth Ahronoth reported.

“There is hardly any criminal enforcement of planning and construction violations in Judea and Samaria, this largely due to the lack of an investigative body charged with handling the issue,” Weinstein wrote.

He is demanding that Ya’alon ensure criminal enforcement of planning and construction violations in the West Bank without delay.

In his letter, Weinstein noted that last year the State had testified in the High Court of Justice that defense forces are working on reinforcing its inspection unit in the Civil Administration.

#colonies-Cisjordanie

Supreme Court orders Israel’s AG to explain law allowing confiscation of Palestinian land in Jerusalem - National Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/supreme-court-orders-israel-s-ag-to-explain-law-allowing-confiscation-of-pa

The Supreme Court on Monday discussed a controversial law that allows the state to confiscate “absentee” property in Israel, a ruling which critics say allows the state to appropriate land and buildings belonging to Palestinian residents of Jerusalem who were unlucky enough to live on the wrong side of the municipal boundaries following the Six-Day War.

At least two attorneys general and a district court judge have over the years come out against the law. The hearing on Monday came after the state appealed to the Supreme Court to vacate a district court’s ruling that the law not be applied in Jerusalem.

In an unusual step, an expanded bench of seven justices headed by Supreme Court President Asher Grunis asked Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein to appear personally to explain the state’s position.

Attorney Avigdor Feldman said during the hearing that according to the letter of the law, even an Israeli settler who lives in the West Bank and has property in Israel is considered an absentee and so has to worry about the state confiscating his property.

The purpose of the Absentee Property Law, passed in 1950, was to take possession of property in Israel that belonged to Palestinian refugees. According to the law, any person present in an enemy country or outside Israel is considered an absentee, and his property goes to the Custodian of Absentee Property, today a body within the Justice Ministry.

After the Six-Day War, residents of the occupied territories who held property in Jerusalem found they had been deemed absentees without ever leaving their homes. The Iyad family from Abu Dis, for example, owned the Cliff Hotel, which is 200 meters from their home. Because the municipal boundary runs between their home and the hotel, the custodian in 2003 declared them absentees and transferred the hotel to the state’s ownership. The hotel now stands deserted.

In another example, a family, represented in Monday’s hearing by attorney Sami Arshid, lives in an older part of the Beit Hanina neighborhood, located in the West Bank, but owns property in a newer part of the neighborhood, only a few hundred meters away, within Jerusalem’s boundaries. The family’s Jerusalem home was taken by the state.

Over the years, the Absentee Property Law has become a tool for right-wing groups seeking to increase the Jewish presence in East Jerusalem. These groups ask the custodian to expropriate houses whose residents are in the West Bank and then rent the premises from the custodian, usually for a nominal fee. That is how many of the Jewish settlements in Palestinian neighborhoods in Jerusalem came into being.

Many judicial officials view the application of this law in Jerusalem as morally and legally problematic, because unlike Palestinians who fled the country during war to countries at war with Israel, the Palestinian property owners in these and many other cases are under Israeli military rule in the West Bank and sometimes live only a few meters from the home that has been taken from them.

Although in 1968, then-Attorney General Meir Shamgar ordered that the law not be applied to East Jerusalem, with the establishment of the Likud government in 1977, the law came back into force. The pendulum swung back again in 1992, under then-Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, but in 1997, restrictions on the law’s application were once again loosened, and in 2004, under then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, the cabinet decided, against the advice of the attorney general, to restore all the custodian’s powers with regard to property in  Jerusalem.

In 2005, then-Attorney General Menahem Mazuz ordered that the law not be applied due to “its many legal difficulties” involving “the obligations of the State of Israel to international judicial rules and customs.”

In 2006, then-District Court Judge Boaz Okun also ordered the law not be applied in Jerusalem, but at the end of that year, the state appealed Okun’s ruling. Among the state’s claims was that the Palestinian Authority is a foreign political entity and therefore residents of the territories are absentees.

At Monday’s hearing, the justices suggested to representatives of the Palestinian families whose property had been taken that they apply to the custodian’s committee to have the expropriations reversed. The representatives refused, saying that doing so would recognize the legality of the custodian’s actions.

The justices are to make a ruling at a later date.

#confiscation-de-terres #Jerusalem #Loi-Propriété-absents #

Shotgun executive taken into custody at Colo. gun show on cabbie terror tip - National gun rights | Examiner.com
http://www.examiner.com/article/shotgun-executive-taken-into-custody-at-colo-gun-show-on-cabbie-terror-tip

Shotgun executive taken into custody at Colo. gun show on cabbie terror tip

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_PRESSURE_COOKER_AIRPORT_ARREST?SITE=AP

Un saoudien...arrêté à Detroit pour avoir transporté une cocotte-minute dans sa valise...et l’article de conclure

Howarth (son avocat) added that Al Khawahir told him that it’s common for Saudis to travel with pressure cookers.

“They don’t want to use somebody else’s utensils,” he said.

Fair enough. Excès de zèle pas très perspicace.

Valuable as Art, but Priceless as a Tool to Launder Money
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/13/arts/design/art-proves-attractive-refuge-for-money-launderers.html

It is hard to imagine a business more custom-made for money laundering, with million-dollar sales conducted in secrecy and with virtually no oversight. What this means in practical terms is that “you can have a transaction where the seller is listed as ‘private collection’ and the buyer is listed as ‘private collection,’ ” said Sharon Cohen Levin, chief of the asset forfeiture unit of the United States attorney’s office in Manhattan. “In any other business, no one would be able to get away with this.”

#blanchiment #fraude #marché_de_l_art

Assata Shakur in Her Own Words: Rare Recording of Activist Named to FBI Most Wanted Terrorists List

The FBI has added the former Black Panther Assata Shakur to its Most Wanted Terrorists list 40 years after the killing for which she was convicted. Born Joanne Chesimard, Shakur was found guilty of shooting dead a New Jersey state trooper during a gunfight in 1973.

http://www.democracynow.org/2013/5/3/assata_shakur_in_her_own_words

http://www.assatashakur.org

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/05/03/tupac-assata-shakur-fbi-most-wanted-terrorist-list-_n_3206206.html
The step-aunt and godmother of rapper Tupac Shakur has become the first woman to be added to the FBI Most Wanted Terrorist List.

#cointel_pro #usa #fbi

Noam Chomsky: Obama’s Attack on Civil Liberties Has Gone Way Beyond Imagination | Alternet
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/noam-chomsky-obamas-attack-civil-liberties-has-gone-way-beyond-imagination

It’s interesting to see the way in which due process is being reinterpreted by Obama’s Justice Department in regards to the drone killings. Attorney General Eric Holder was asked why the administration was killing people without due process. Well, there was due process, he said, because they discuss it within the executive branch. King John in the 13th century would have loved that.

In two years, we’re going to get to the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta, and it’ll be a funeral.

#foutage_de_gueule

35 arguments contre les #GoogleGlass
http://www.edrants.com/thirty-five-arguments-against-google-glass

I put forth the modest proposition that Google Glass, conjured and constructed and conceived only in terms of “cool” and propped up by ostensible “journalists” who have never thought to question Mr. Brin’s brilliant PR, could pose more problems to our world than any digital invention we have seen in some time. Contrary to Mr. Brin’s suggestions, his device will not “free” us. It will quite possibly destroy several vital qualities of life we now take for granted, preying upon kind and decent and hardworking people who are still playing pickup from an economic blitzkrieg in which they had no power, little hope, and no control. One would think that a man born in Moscow under Brezhnev would grasp the cruel irony of being directly responsible for an entirely new set of encroachments upon freedom and human possibility. On the other hand, great hills of money often move mountains in other ranges.

Israel tourists face email inspections
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/24/israel-tourists-email-inspections

Israel’s internal security agency has been authorised to demand “suspicious” foreign travellers open their personal email accounts for inspection on entry to the country.

Shin Bet officials have been given approval for such action in what they deem to be exceptional cases by Israel’s attorney-general, Yehuda Weinstein, despite a petition to overrule the measure by a leading civil rights group.

“The threat of using foreign citizens for terrorist purposes is a growing trend,” said Nadim Avod, a lawyer in the attorney-general’s office. “Searching an email account is to be carried out in exceptional cases only after suspicious or pertinent information has been identified.”

Shin Bet can continue to access tourists’ emails upon arrival at Ben-Gurion, AG says - Diplomacy & Defense - Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/shin-bet-can-continue-to-access-tourists-emails-upon-arrival-at-ben-gurion-

Responding to petition filed by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein chooses not to interfere with security procedure, stating it’s ’performed only in exceptional instances, after other relevant incriminating indications are found.’

Patent Madness
►http://copyrightmadness.tumblr.com/post/47942224995/copyright-madness-du-7-au-13-avril-une-semaine-de

YES WE SCAN ! Les trolls des #brevets, ça ose tout, c’est même à ça qu’on les reconnaît. Celui-ci s’est mis en tête qu’il possédait un brevet valide sur les #scanners et il occupe ses journées à harceler de petites entreprises pour exiger qu’elles payent des licences à 1000 dollars par employés ! L’article dresse le portrait de ce #Patent_Troll comme il en existe beaucoup aux #Etats-Unis. Le pire, c’est que le type reste droit dans ses bottes et ne voit même pas où est le mal...
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/04/meet-the-nice-guy-lawyers-who-want-1000-per-worker-for-using-scanners

Dites donc, à la rédac du @diplo, z’êtes z’en règle ? ->[]

#copyright_madness

Qu’y a-t-il de bon sur YouTube ce soir ? — Pegleg
http://pegleg.it

Pegleg crowd-sources full-length movies from #YouTube

(bon, j’ai #free, donc c’est mort pour moi… mais tu vois l’idée)

#piratage #hadopi

et pendant que #youtube diffuse tout ça :

#BitTorrent Site isoHunt Demands Jury Trial | Wired
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/04/isohunt-demands-trial

The appeals court had ruled that isoHunt, and Fung’s related sites, TorrenTBox and Podtropolis, unlawfully pointed the way to free movies, music, videogames and software that were copyrighted and not authorized for Fung to help distribute. The court said Fung had so-called “red-flag” knowledge of the infringement, and didn’t take enough steps to rectify it.

Rothken demanded a trial, saying Fung’s activities are no different than Google, for example, which also hosts links to infringing material.

This is how corporate ‘democracy’ works — War in Context
http://warincontext.org/2013/03/28/this-is-how-corporate-democracy-works

And perhaps when Breuer’s former boss Attorney General Eric Holder steps down, he too will return to his former employer, Covington, and there, along with servicing the interests of Wall Street, they can assist the law firm’s other famous clients like Xe Services (Blackwater), Phillip Morris, and Halliburton.

If you’re not familiar with Breuer, watch The Untouchables to learn about his role in letting Wall Street off the hook following the 2008 financial crisis:

#corruption_légale #porte_tournante #porte_tambour

En Californie, 3 observateurs indépendants (et critiques : watchdogs ) virés d’une conférence sur le risque sismique organisée sous l’égide de l’Autorité de régulation du nucléaire.

Watchdog experts evicted from post-Fukushima conferences | Enformable
http://enformable.com/2013/03/watchdog-experts-evicted-from-post-fukushima-conferences

This week Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility attorney John Geesman, seismologist consultant Dr. Douglas Hamilton, and outreach coordinator David Weisman traveled to a three day workshop in Oakland, which was a part of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission mandated post-Fukushima workshop.  All three members of the watchdog organization were evicted from the building prior to a presentation by GeoPentech, Southern California Edison’s seismic research contractor. Monitors from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission were present at the conference, but did not intervene to prevent the eviction of the watchdog experts.

Ils venaient entendre le résultat de l’évaluation du risque sismique sous la centrale nucléaire de Diablo Canyon, située à proximité de deux failles : Hosgri et Shoreline. Apparemment, la longueur de cette dernière aurait été réévaluée à la hausse ainsi donc que la puissance d’un éventuel séisme.

Ils étaient présents lors des deux réunions précédentes (nov. 2011 et nov. 2012) où l’information avait été débattue. Ils l’avaient diffusée. Et ils attendaient la réponse officielle à cette conférence.

Le site est super photogénique…
(Mike Baird http://www.flickr.com/people/72825507@N00 , from Morro Bay, USA)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Point_Buchon_trail%2C_Diablo_Canyon_Nuclear_Power_Plant_in_background.jpg/800px-Point_Buchon_trail%2C_Diablo_Canyon_Nuclear_Power_Plant_in_background.jpg

Vu d’avion http://fredvasenius.com/adventures/navion_01-31-10.html
http://fredvasenius.com/adventures/navion_01-31-10/diablo_canyon_nuclear.jpg

HEAR EXPLOSIVE AUDIO: Bill Lockyer, Thomas Girardi and Walter Lack Secretly Own Indian Gaming Outfits in California - Clients of Howard Dickstein

BELOW MODIFIED VERSION OF COMMUNICATION FROM YR TO THIRD PARTY. AUDIO MODIFIED TO PROTECT IDENTITY OF SOURCE

AUDIO @:

http://lesliebrodie.blog.co.uk/2013/03/19/explosive-audio-bill-lockyer-thomas-girardi-and-walter-lack-sec

PART I:

1. ETHICS COMPLAINT / IN RE GIRARDI — In 2010, the United States Federal Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit issued its final ruling in the disciplinary matter of In Re Girardi by imposing close to $500,000 in sanctions on Walter Lack of Engstrom Lispcomb & Lack and Thomas Girardi of Girardi & Keese stemming from an attempt to defraud the court and cause injury to Dole Food Company in the underlying litigation. You may have heard of Walter Lack and Thomas Girardi as they are the lawyers who were featured in the movie “Erin Brokovich” involving utility company PG&E.

The court ruled that Walter Lack (who stipulated to Special Prosecutor Rory Little that his prolonged acts of misconduct were intentional) and Thomas Girardi intentionally and recklessly resorted to the use of known falsehoods for years. The Ninth Circuit ordered Girardi and Lack to report their misconduct to the State Bar of California.

The State Bar of California disqualified itself from handling the matter since Howard Miller (of Girardi & Keese) served at that time as its president, and had also made the decision to hire then-chief prosecutor, James Towery.

Mr. Towery, in turn, appointed Jerome Falk of Howard Rice (now Arnold & Porter) as outside “special prosecutor” to determine whether or not to bring charges against Girardi and Lack. (Mr. Falk is a colleague of Douglas Winthrop, and both represented PG&E in its massive bankruptcy proceedings.)

Mr. Falk, in turn, exercised prosecutorial discretion and concluded that he did not believe Lack acted intentionally and that no charges will be brought against the two attorneys.

Within days of Mr. Falk’s decision, I filed an ethics complaint with the State Bar of California against Jerome Falk, James Towery, Howard Miller, and Douglas Winthrop (managing partner of Howard Rice and then-elected president of the Foundation), alleging that it was improper for Mr. Towery to appoint Mr. Falk given the close personal relationship between Howard Miller and Douglas Winthrop. Specifically, Howard Miller — in his capacity as president of the State Bar — had appointed Douglas Winthrop as president of the California Bar Foundation, a foundation maintained and controlled by the State Bar. (Much later I also discovered that Jerome Falk is actually the personal attorney of Thomas Girardi, and that Howard Rice and Jerome Falk represented Walter Lack, Thomas Girardi, Engstrom Lispcomb & Lack, and Girardi & Keese in approximately 2007, and for a period of 2 years, in a malpractice action.)

2. FOGEL V. FARMERS — In the matter of In Re Girardi, Mr. Girardi and his law firm were represented by the firm of Skadden Arps. In reviewing the file of In Re Girardi, I discovered that, beginning in 2003, Girardi & Keese and Engstrom Lispcomb & Lack were prosecuting a class action case against Farmers Insurance Company, which was represented by Skadden Arps. This was a nationwide class action with estimated damages of close to $15 billion that had originally been filed by Texas Governor Rick Perry.

I thereafter informed the Los Angeles County Superior Court (Judge William Highberger) of this information, and filed a State Bar ethics complaint against attorneys Thomas Girardi of Girardi & Keese and Thomas Nolan and Raoul Kennedy of Skadden Arps because neither the class of plaintiffs (consisting of 14 million Americans), nor the courts (the Ninth Circuit in the matter of In Re Girardi and the Los Angeles County Superior Court in the matter of Fogel vs. Farmers) had been informed of the concurrent representation by which Skadden Arps represented Girardi & Keese (in the Ninth Circuit matter), while at the same time defending Farmers.

Shortly after I filed this ethics complaint, Skadden Arps and Dewey Lebeuf (representing Farmers’ parent company, Zurich Financial) moved ex parte (which was unopposed) to amend the settlement agreement in the Fogel matter and the notice to the class of 14 million Americans throughout the country to include a proviso by which members of the class would be prohibited from suing anyone due to the concurrent representation described above. Nevertheless, the State Bar of California decided not to take any action on this ethics complaint.

3. CaliforniaALL — When researching the relationship of Girardi & Keese and Howard Rice and the appointment of Douglas Winthrop as president of the California Bar Foundation by Howard Miller of Girardi & Keese, I reviewed the California Bar Foundation’s annual reports to familiarize myself with the names of the Foundation’s board of directors. I stumbled upon the fact that the Foundation ended 2008 close to $500,000 in the negative. Specifically, the Foundation reported to the IRS that REVENUE LESS EXPENSES in 2007 equaled plus +$373.842.00. However, in 2008, the Foundation reported to the IRS that REVENUE LESS EXPENSES equaled minus -$537,712.

I discovered that the money had been transferred to a newly-created Section 501(c)(3) non-profit entity (headed by Ruthe Catolico Ashley — a friend of Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakayue) known as CaliforniaALL, which obtained hundreds of thousands of dollars from utility companies PG&E, SCE, AT&T, and Verizon. In turn, CaliforniaALL funneled a large portion of the money to the UCI Foundation, where a friend and former partner of Mark Robinson (of the Judicial Council), State Bar of California Executive Director Joe Dunn, served as trustee in 2008-9 to launch a new entity known as Saturday Law Academy.

Various factors and evidence caused me to suspect that a significant portion of the funds transferred from the California Bar Foundation ended up financing a newly-created online publication which Joe Dunn had launched with the help of Thomas Girardi and James Brosnahan of Morrison & Foerster; this online publication is known as “Voice of OC.”

Those factors include, but are not limited to, the fact that some individuals and entities involved in the creation of CaliforniaALL and the subsequent transfer of $780,000 from the Cal Bar Foundation to CaliforniaALL were also involved in assisting Joe Dunn with the creation of “Voice of OC” to wit – Morrison & Foerster’s Susan Mac Cormac as legal counsel for CaliforniaALL; Girardi & Keese’s Howard Miller in his capacity as BOD member of Cal Bar Foundation; and BOG members who voted to endorse CaliforniaALL and consider it to have been a partner of the State Bar of California. Also relevant was that Morrison & Foerster’s James Brosnahan and Girardi & Keese’s Thomas Girardi also assisted Joe Dunn in establishing Voice of OC, the fact that Saturday Law Academy was established many years earlier, and the fact that Ruthe Ashley exited CaliforniaALL in the same month and year Joe Dunn established Voice of OC (September 2009).

Based on my concerns, I requested that Voice of OC provide me with copies of its IRS 990 forms. Voice of OC did not comply with applicable IRS regulations in that it failed to reply to my request for copies of its 990 forms submitted to the IRS, whereupon I filed a complaint against Voice of OC and Joe Dunn with the IRS.

Later, after thorough research, I discovered that events surrounding CaliforniaALL, OBAMA FOR AMERICA, and those responsible for the financing of OBAMA FOR AMERICA are highly related, to wit, Ambassador Jeffrey Bleich, Ron Olson, Brad Phillips (of Munger Tolles & Olson) Ambassador John Roos and Mark Parnes (of Wilson Sonsini) James Brosnahan, DOJ’s Tony West, Chris Young, Annette Carnegie (of Morrison & Foerster) Steven Churchwell (of DLA Piper in Sacramento — where CaliforniaALL resided free of charge) Kamala Harris, as well as Freada Kapor - a California Democratic Party operative who served as a director of CaliforniaALL, and that The Kapor Center generally used to fund-raise on behalf of the many foundations located there, were additionally used to contact potential voters and encourage them to vote for then candidate Barack Obama. Her husband, Mitchell Kapor, was part of a tech team working for the campaigns of Barack Obama and Kamala Harris of CaliforniaALL.

I invite you to visit the below link for more details:

http://la.indymedia.org/news/2012/09/255420.php

4. UC DAVIS QUADRAPLEGIC LAW STUDENT SARA GRANDA / JUDGE MORRISON ENGALND /RACHEL GRUNBERG / LARRY YEE — Also in connection with CaliforniaALL, I advanced a judicial misconduct complaint against Judge Morrison England since State Bar of California Executive Director Judy Johnson, Judge England, his wife (Torie Flournoy-England), and State Bar of California employee Patricia Lee were all members of CaliforniaALL’s board of directors and/or advisory council. The basis for that complaint was these individuals’ failure to inform plaintiff Sara Granda — who had filed an action in federal court naming the State Bar of California as a sole defendant that was heard by Judge Morrison England — of these facts.

Specifically, without informing plaintiff Granda of his relationship with Judy Johnson (the State Bar’s Executive Director) vis-a-vis CaliforniaALL and either obtaining a waiver from this plaintiff or independently recusing himself, Judge England summarily dismissed Ms. Granda’s complaint against the California State Bar. Fortunately for Ms. Granda, several days later then-Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger championed her cause and pressured the California Bar to accommodate her needs.

I invite you to visit the below link to CaliforniaALL’s own publication which shows the relationship I described.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/48722718/9-CaliforniaALL-Newsletter-announcing-change-of-address-and-DLA-Piper-Pro-Bo

http://www.scribd.com/doc/100876445/CalALL-Mar2009Newsletter

In connection with the failure to disclose the relationship to plaintiff Sarah Granda, I also filed an ethics complaint with the State Bar of California against its own employees/attorneys which represented the State Bar in the litigation — Rachel Grunberg, Mark Torres Gil, and Larry Yee.

5. JUSTICE MING CHIN / DEPARTURE FROM CAUSE — While researching CaliforniaALL, I stumbled upon a separate non-profit entity in Southern California which was also absorbing money from utility companies known as CAUSE.

Since Justice Ming Chin was part of the entity’s board/council, I filed a complaint with the Office of Judicial Performance, and very shortly thereafter I was informed by CAUSE’s legal counsel that Justice Chin quit the entity.

6. JEANNINE ENGLISH / HOWARD DICKSTEIN — Upon further familiarizing myself with the members of the State Bar Board of Governors, I also filed a complaint with the Board of Governors against Public Member Jeannine English — the wife of Howard Dickstein, an Indian gambling attorney. Weeks later, US Senator John McCain (Arizona) filed a complaint against Howard Dickstein for various acts of misconduct and asked that he be investigated.

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6/12/2011

Dear President Hebert, Senator Dunn, Members of the Board of Governors, and to whom it may concern:

While examining circumstances concerning the California Consumer Protection Foundation (“CCPF”), which was secretly controlled by State Bar Executive Director Emeritus Judy Johnson (and which will be the subject of an upcoming request for investigation), I fortuitously stumbled upon troubling facts and events relating to Board of Governors (“BOG”) member Jeannine English.

As such, and despite its anticipated futility, this correspondence is intended to advise the BOG of these events and officially request an investigation into irregularities, conflicts of interest, self-dealing, breach of fiduciary duties, and lack of disclosures by BOG member Jeannine English. Those irregularities relate to circumstances surrounding the following:

1. Keker & Van Nest’s representation of Jeannine English’s spouse, Mr. Howard Dickstein, in an action for, among others, fraud, advanced by the Rumsey Tribe and related lack of disclosure on the part of Ms. English and Jon Streeter concerning the existence of a past business relationship.

2. Misconduct by Howard Dickstein against the tribes, and related involvement by Jeannine English, who was also concurrently representing the tribe in her role as “Lobbyist.” Subsequently, when the tribe advanced a suit against Dickstein claiming he had taken advantage of them by defrauding the tribe of millions of dollars over more than a decade, Dickstein referred to the suit as a “pack of lies,” whereupon Keker & Van Nest was summoned to defend the action.

3. An unusually large cy pres award of $900,000 to the AARP in a class action suit in which Girardi & Keese (specifically, Thomas Girardi and Graham Lippsmith) represented the plaintiff. Jeannine English has strong ties to the AARP and, in fact serves as the president of its California branch.

4. Lack of disclosures on the part of Girardi & Keese’s Howard Miller and Jeannine English of the existence of the transaction. Aggravating the lack of disclosures are circumstances surrounding misconduct by Girardi & Keese and Howard Miller in the Dole Litigation, the subsequent handing of the matter by the State Bar which assigned the matter to the firm of State Bar of California Foundation president Doug Winthrop, my own involvement, and the involvement Alec Chang.

THE RUMSEY MATTER

The Rumsey Band of Wintun Indians (“Rumsey”) consists of 40 adult members who reside in Brooks, California, which is situated in Capay Valley — 50 miles northwest of Sacramento and 90 miles northeast of the Bay Area. From a fledgling bingo business to what is now a thriving establishment known as “Cache Creek Casino,” attorney Howard Dickstein, a pioneer in tribal gambling law and the spouse of Jeannine English, helped dig the tribe out of poverty.

In and about 2007, and in addition to the services offered by Mr. Dickstein, Ms. Jeannine English and her company — Jeannine English & Associates — were also conducting business with Rumsey, by which lobbying and consulting services were purveyed by Ms. English.

Toward the end of 2007, Rumsey — represented by Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal and Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy — filed a suit in Yolo County Superior Court against Howard Dickstein and Jane Zerbi of Dickstein & Zerbi and Arlen Opper, a financial consultant, accusing them of unjustly enriching themselves with tribal money by defrauding the tribe of millions of dollars over more than a decade.

In statements to the media, Howard Dickstein referred to the allegations in the suit as a “pack of lies,” while disparaging his client. Dickstein also stated that he plans to fight the suit and “fight hard.” Appearing on behalf of defendant Dickstein was Elliot Peters of Keker & Van Nest.

The undersigned submits that because of the attorney-client relationship between Rumsey and Dickstein, it was questionable for Ms. English to enter into a business relationship with Rumsey and reckless for Jon Streeter and Jeannine English to conceal the past relationship from the public. If in fact a disclosure was made by any of them in a conspicuous place available for public viewing, please forward it to the undersigned in order for this portion of the complaint to be withdrawn.

These events lead one to wonder whether, hypothetically speaking, in the upcoming election for State Bar president Jeannine English would vote for Jon Streeter and not Michael Tenanbaum or Linda Davis as consideration for the representation Keker & Van Nest provided to her spouse. At least in part, it also explains to the undersigned the zeal and desire of Ms. English to be a member of the BOG. Clearly it was not to protect and serve the public; rather, it was to protect the interests of her husband (and, by extension, herself) who was accused of defrauding the Rumsey tribe of millions of dollars. In addition, it leads one to question whether the State Bar of California was not as vigorous as it should have been in protecting Rumsey from Dickstein.

THE AARP MATTER

In addition to serving on the State Bar’s BOG, Jeannine English also serves as the President of the AARP’s California branch, and is also involved with the AARP on a national level. Assuming no shenanigans, financial improprieties, or self-dealing with the AARP (which by the way, also operates a for-profit insurance brokerage), Ms. English deserves great credit for her outstanding contribution to the community. However, due to the overall set of circumstances surrounding English as described above, and as it is obvious that she serves on the BOG to serve the interests of her husband (and, by extension, herself), the undersigned is far from impressed.

Specifically, within the past few years, a plan has been devised by which a cy pres amount of $900,000 will be funneled to the AARP from a class action in which the law offices of Girardi & Keese serves as counsel. (Attridge v. Visa Case No. CGC-04-436920)

While the sums will not go directly to Ms. English, they will indirectly benefit her vis-a-vis the associated prestige resulting from successful fund raising efforts. The lack of disclosure regarding the proposed cy pres is alarming, especially considering events relating to the State Bar’s handling of attorney misconduct in the Dole matter, my ethics complaint and request for an inquiry of 5 months ago as to James Towery, Jerome Falk, Douglas Winthrop, and Howard Miller as well as the overall circumstances surrounding the State Bar/BOG disinclination to deal with the matter. To date, only myself and, later, David Cameron Carr (a former State Bar prosecutor) have spoken about this grave injustice. Of those who had a moral, legal, and ethical obligation to disclose conflicts, and to otherwise speak, now you know why at least one more such person — namely, Jeannine English — has failed to do so.

Thank you for time.

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7. On June 17, 2011, shortly after I filed the complaint against Jeannine English, a special meeting of the Board of Governors of the State Bar of California took place to introduce amendments to proposed legislation. The proposed amendments , among others, called for a change to the conflict of interest policies. Specifically, public members should not be permitted to serve if they are involved in the legal profession or are the spouses of lawyers.

8. After I asked the BOG to investigate Ms. English, a confidential source from Southern California informed me that Howard Dickstein and Thomas Girardi are business partners. Out of an abundance of caution, this information was forwarded on June 22, 2011 by me to the Deputy Executive Director of the State Bar of California, Robert Hawley, as follows:

Mr. Hawley:

This is to inform the State Bar about information I recently received
concerning Jeannine English, Howard Dickstein, and Thomas Girardi.

Based on what was communicated to me, Howard Dickstein and Thomas
Girardi are involved in some sort of a joint venture; or otherwise are
business partners in areas relating to Indian gambling.

Please note that I do not personally vouch for the credibility of the
source nor the accuracy of the information.

However, based on the totality of the circumstances, it is a lead
worth following.

Thanks

Egypt vigilantes hang 2 thieves in public

Ce n’est donc pas un fake...

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/journalists-accuse-egypts-brotherhood-assault

The lynchings came a week after the attorney general’s office encouraged civilians to arrest lawbreakers and hand them over to police.

It was one of the most extreme cases of vigilantism in two years of sharp deterioration in security following Egypt’s 2011 uprising. The worsening security coupled with a police strike prompted the attorney general’s call for citizen arrests last week.

The scene was emblematic of the chaos that is sweeping the country, mired in protests over a range of social, economic and political problems and with security breaking down to frightening proportions.

#Egypt #violence #lynching

Partner of deceased Internet activist Aaron Swartz denounces US attorney general - World Socialist Web Site

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/03/15/swar-m15.html

Partner of deceased Internet activist Aaron Swartz denounces US attorney general

By Kevin Reed
15 March 2013

Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman, the partner of deceased Internet activist Aaron Swartz, issued a statement on March 10 denouncing the Senate testimony of US Attorney General Eric Holder regarding the Justice Department’s prosecution of Swartz. She also accused the US attorney’s office in Massachusetts of multiple acts of prosecutorial misconduct in its handling of the case.

#internet #hacktivisme #Aaron-Swartz

William Hauck (of California State University Board of Trustees / Goddard Claussen / Golden Pacific Bank / California Forward / Blue Shield of California Foundation ) Asked to Disclose Reason / Motive California State University Board of Trustees Spent Tax-Payers Money to File an Amicus Brief in Matter of BERKELEY HILLSIDE PRESERVATION v. CITY OF BERKELEY Involving Personal Residence of Freada Klein Kapor of CaliforniaALL Financial Scheme / The Kapor Center

See story @:

http://lesliebrodie.wordpress.com/tag/william-hauck-aka-bill-hauck-of-california-state-university-

California Supreme Court Docket for BERKELEY HILLSIDE PRESERVATION v. CITY OF BERKELEY [ TLR Note: 1. real parties are Mitchell Kapor and Freada Klein Kapor ( of CaliforniaALL financial scheme / The Kapor Center ) seek to build 10,000 square-foot house, adjacent 10 parking spots for fundraising volunteers , certified “Green” in Berkeley, CA — objecting neighbors commenced action 2- YR Asks – Why / What interests THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA – THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY – CALIFORNIA SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATIONS’S EDUCATION LEGAL ALLIANCE have in filing Amicus Briefs ?

Parties and Attorneys
BERKELEY HILLSIDE PRESERVATION v. CITY OF BERKELEY (LOGAN)
Case Number S201116

Party Attorney
Berkeley Hillside Preservation : Plaintiff and Appellant

Susan Brandt-Hawley
Brandt-Hawley Law Group
P.O. Box 1659
Glen Ellen, CA

Fadley, Susan Nunes : Plaintiff and Appellant

Susan Brandt-Hawley
Brandt-Hawley Law Group
P.O. Box 1659
Glen Ellen, CA

City of Berkeley : Defendant and Respondent

Laura Nicole McKinney
Office of the City Attorney
2180 Milvia Street, Fourth Floor
Berkeley, CA

City Council of the City of Berkeley : Defendant and Respondent

Laura Nicole McKinney
Office of the City Attorney
2180 Milvia Street, Fourth Floor
Berkeley, CA

Logan, Donn : Real Party in Interest and Respondent

Amrit Satish Kulkarni
Meyers, Nave, Riback, Silver & Wilson
555 12th Street, Suite 1500
Oakland, CA

Julia Lynch Bond
Meyers Nave Riback Silver & Wilson
555 12th Street, Suite 1500
Oakland, CA

Kapor, Mitchell D. : Real Party in Interest and Respondent

Amrit Satish Kulkarni
Meyers Nave Riback Silver & Wilson
555 12th Street, Suite 1500
Oakland, CA

Julia Lynch Bond
Meyers Nave Riback Silver & Wilson
555 12th Street, Suite 1500
Oakland, CA

Kapor-Klein, Freada : Defendant and Respondent

Amrit Satish Kulkarni
Meyers Nave Riback Silver & Wilson
555 Twelfth Street, Suite 1500
Oakland, CA

Julia Lynch Bond
Meyers Nave Riback Silver & Wilson
555 12th Street, Suite 1500
Oakland, CA

Laguna Beach Architectural Guild : Pub/Depublication Requestor

Sherman L. Stacey
Gaines & Stacey LLP
1111 Bayside Drive, Suite 280
Corona Del Mar, CA

California Building Industry Association : Pub/Depublication Requestor

Andrew B. Sabey
Cox Castle & Nicholson LLP
555 California Street, 10th Floor
San Francisco, CA

California League of Cities : Pub/Depublication Requestor

Melanie Sengupta
Holland & Knight
50 California Street, Suite 2800
San Francisco, CA

California State Association of Counties : Pub/Depublication Requestor

Melanie Sengupta
Holland & Knight
50 California Street, Suite 2800
San Francisco, CA

California Infill Builders Association : Pub/Depublication Requestor
Meea Kang, President
2012 “K” Street
Sacramento, CA 95811

Bay Area Council : Pub/Depublication Requestor
Matt Regan, Vice President
201 California Street, Suite 1450
San Francisco, CA 94111

Save Our Carmel River : Amicus curiae

Michael W. Stamp
Attorney at Law
479 Pacific Street, Suite 1
Monterey, CA

Molly E Erickson
Law Offices of Michael W Stamp
479 Pacific Street, Suite 1
Monterey, CA

The Open Monterey Project : Amicus curiae

Michael W. Stamp
Attorney at Law
479 Pacific Street, Suite 1
Monterey, CA

Molly E Erickson
Law Offices of Michael W. Stamp
479 Pacific Street, Suite 1
Monterey, CA

Bernardi, Patricia : Other

Michael W. Stamp
Attorney at Law
479 Pacific Street, Suite 1
Monterey, CA

Coastal Defender : Other

Beverly Suzanne GrossmanPalmer
Strumwasser & Woocher LLP
10940 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 2000
Los Angeles, CA

Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association : Amicus curiae

Leila H. Moncharsh
Veneruso & Moncharsh
5707 Redwood Road, Suite #10
Oakland, CA

Attorney General Kamala D. Harris : Amicus curiae

Catherine Mitchell Wieman
Office of the Attorney General
300 South Spring Street, Suite 1702
Los Angeles, CA

The Building Industry Association of the Bay Area : Amicus curiae

Stephen L. Kostka
Perkins Coie, LLP
4 Embarcadero Center, Suite 2400
San Francisco, CA

Planning and Conservation League : Amicus curiae

Jan Chatten-Brown
Chatten-Brown & Carstens LLP
2200 Pacific Coast Highway, Suite 318
Hermosa Beach, CA

Endangered Habitat League : Amicus curiae

Jan Chatten-Brown
Chatten-Brown & Carstens LLP
2200 Pacific Coast Highway, Suite 318
Hermosa Beach, CA

California Preservation Foundation : Amicus curiae

Jan Chatten-Brown
Chatten-Brown & Carstens LLP
2200 Pacific Coast Highway, Suite 318
Hermosa Beach, CA

Save Our Heritage Organization : Amicus curiae

Jan Chatten-Brown
Chatten-Brown & Carstens LLP
2200 Pacific Coast Highway, Suite 318
Hermosa Beach, CA

The California Building Industry Association : Amicus curiae

Michael Zischke
Cox, Castle & Nicholson, LLP
555 California Street, 10th Floor
San Francisco, CA

Andrew B. Sabey
Cox Castle & Nicholson LLP
555 California Street, 10th Floor
San Francisco, CA

California Business Properties Association : Amicus curiae

Michael Zischke
Cox, Castle & Nicholson, LLP
555 California Street, 10th Floor
San Francisco, CA

Andrew B. Sabey
Cox Castle & Nicholson LLP
555 California Street, 10th Floor
San Francisco, CA

Building Industry Legal Defense Foundation : Amicus curiae

Michael Zischke
Cox, Castle & Nicholson, LLP
555 California Street, 10th Floor
San Francisco, CA

Andrew B. Sabey
Cox Castle & Nicholson LLP
555 California Street, 10th Floor
San Francisco, CA

Pacific Legal Foundation : Amicus curiae

Malcolm Reed Hopper
Pacific Legal Foundation
930 G Street
Sacramento, CA

California School Boards Associations’s Education Legal Alliance : Amicus curiae

Harold M. Freiman
Lozano Smith
2001 North Main Street, Suite 650
Walnut Creek, CA

Kelly Marie Rem
Lozano Smith
2001 North Main Street, Suite 650
Walnut Creek, CA

The Regents of the University of California : Amicus curiae

Charles Furlonge Robinson
University of California/Office of General Counsel
1111 Franklin Street, 8th Floor
Oakland, CA

Kelly L. Drumm
Office of the General Counsel
1111 Franklin Street, 8th Floor
Oakland, CA

The Board of Trustees of the California State University : Amicus curiae

Andrea Marie Gunn
Office of General Counsel
401 Golden Shore, 4th Floor
Long Beach, CA

Christine Helwick
Office of the General Counsel
401 Golden Shore, 4th Floor
Long Beach, CA

League of California Cities : Amicus curiae

Amanda Jean Monchamp
Holland & Knight LLP
50 California Street, 28th Floor
San Francisco, CA

Melanie Sengupta
Holland & Knight
50 California Street, 28th Floor
San Francisco, CA

California State Association of Counties : Amicus curiae

Amanda Jean Monchamp
Holland & Knight LLP
50 California Street, 28th Floor
San Francisco, CA

Melanie Sengupta
Holland & Knight
50 California Street, Suite 2800
San Francisco, CA

Center for Biological Diversity : Amicus curiae

Michael Ward Graf
Law Offices of Michael W. Graf
227 Behrens Street
El Cerrito, CA

High Sierra Rural Alliance : Amicus curiae

Michael Ward Graf
Law Offices of Michael W. Graf
227 Behrens Street
El Cerrito, CA

Association of California Water Agencies : Amicus curiae

Christian Lucier Marsh
Downey Brand LLP
333 Bush Street, Suite 1400
San Francisco, CA

Andrea Pelton Clark
Downey Brand LLP
333 Bush Street, Suite 1400
San Francisco, CA

Graham Cole St. Michel
Downey Brand LLP
333 Bush Street, Suite 1400
San Francisco, CA

Over 100 Guantánamo Prisoners on Hunger Strike, Citing Threat of Return to “Darkest Days Under Bush” | #DemocracyNow!
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/3/13/over_100_guantanamo_prisoners_on_hunger

More than 100 detainees held in the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay are reportedly entering their fifth week of a hunger strike sparked by deteriorating conditions. News of the hunger strike first emerged last week, but it appears the action involves far more prisoners than previously thought. In a letter to his attorney, one detainee wrote: “We are in danger. One of the soldiers fired on one of the brothers a month ago. Before that, they send the emergency forces with M-16 weapons into one of the brothers’ cell blocks. ... Now they want to return us to the darkest days under [George W.] Bush. They said this to us. Please do something.” We’re joined by Pardiss Kebriaei, senior staff attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights and counsel for one of the hunger strikers. [includes rush transcript]

Google admits its VP8/WebM codec infringes MPEG H.264 patents
http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/03/07/google-admits-its-vp8webm-codec-infringes-mpeg-h264-patents

Almost three years after Google released its WebM video encoding technology as a “free” and open alternative to the existing H.264 backed by Apple and others, it has admitted its position was wrong and that it would pay to license the patents WebM infringes.

#brevets #video #google #apple mhhhhhh

In China, public anger over secrecy on environment | Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/10/us-china-parliament-pollution-idUSBRE92900R20130310

When China’s environment ministry told attorney Dong Zhengwei he couldn’t have access to two-year old data about soil pollution because it was a “state secret”, it added to mounting public outrage over the worsening environment.