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Ex minister of education and science to be sentenced for driving drunk

Last week previous minister of Education and Science drove into a standing car in Riga while being 1,34 per milles drunk. Firstly he tried to lie saying that he drunk one beer during lunch, but later last week he confessed in television that he was drinking during dinner and did a ’’stupid thing’’ when decided to drive home and not to take a taxi.
Today the court will judge what kind of fine to apply to this case. Roberts Ķīlis, the ex minister, can be sentenced to 600-800 lats fine and five-ten days in prison for driving drunk.
Today we will see if Ķīlis is going to be in prison for few days of court will give him amnesty because of his health condition (Ķīlis previously had heart surgery).

#Roberts_Ķīlis #driving_drunk #fines

TVNET :: Viedokļi - Ķīlis atklāj, ko dzēris pirms avārijas
▻http://www.tvnet.lv/zinas/viedokli/475439-kilis_atklaj_ko_dzeris_pirms_avarijas

Draud arests

Rīt Rīgas Zemgales priekšpilsētas tiesa lems, kādu administratīvo sodu piemērot bijušajam ministram. Ķīlim par iespējamo pārkāpumu draud administratīvais arests no piecām līdz desmit diennaktīm, naudas sods no 600 līdz 800 latiem un transportlīdzekļu vadīšanas tiesību atņemšanu uz diviem gadiem. Notiesāšanas gadījumā sodu viņš varēs izciest jebkurā īslaicīgās aizturēšanas vietā. Pats Ķīlis par to, kurā vietā izciest sodu, nedomājot un esot gatavs pilnībā pieņemt tiesas lēmumu.

In 2011, Senator Ron #Wyden commented about domestic mass #surveillance: “When the American people find out how their government has secretly interpreted the Patriot Act, they will be stunned and they will be angry”.

Wyden now describes how the fallout from #Snowden's revelation is changing the attitude of the US Senate: ▻http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/07/two-years-later-senators-criticism-of-nsa-spying-sinks-in

“The intel community has not been willing to show how bulk phone record collection provides unique value, that they can’t obtain through emergency authorities and the court order process”.

“Political change doesn’t start in Washington and trickle down; it’s bottoms-up. [..] I never conceived of the day when people would come up to me at the barber shop and ask me about the #FISA court”.

Irony : Congress May Declare Today ’National Whistleblower Day’ As Court Announces Manning Verdict
▻http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130729/17283923996/irony-congress-may-declare-today-national-whistleblower-day-as-court-annou

In a few hours, the court hearing the #Bradley_Manning trial will be announcing the verdict. I’m sure we’ll have plenty of commentary on the eventual decision, but it’s worth noting this bit of ridiculousness. Senator Chuck Grassley is trying to get today declared National Whistleblower Day by Congress, in honor of the Constitutional Congress’ very first whitleblower protection law, enacted on July 30, 1778. As the article notes, Grassley has worked hard over the years to protect whistleblowers, but we recently wrote about his hypocrisy on the subject, passing a special law for a Swiss bank security guard who did more or less the same thing as Ed #Snowden, while bashing Snowden for not facing a trial in the US. Congress just really has a knack for doing the exact wrong thing, don’t they? If they want to actually support whistleblowers, they should support #whistleblowers, not name a pointless day after them on the very same day that a high profile whistleblower likely finds out that he’s going to spend much, if not all, of the rest of his life in jail.

encore une fois @kassem merci, j’avais pas vu : ▻http://seenthis.net/messages/161344 #tmi

Eighteenth Century Midwife Training Mannequin - Neatorama
▻http://www.neatorama.com/2013/07/12/Eighteenth-Century-Midwife-Training-Mannequin

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Angélique Marguerite Le Boursier du Coudray (1714-1794) was the midwife of the court of French King Louis XV. She was famous for her skills in that trade and highly sought after as a teacher. Madame du Coudray traveled all over France, training as many as 10,000 women to bring babies and mothers through the childbirth process safely. This was one of her training aids—a dummy that simulates childbirth.

Nurse accused for killing and crippling her children convicted to life sentence

Today in Latvia the court announced it’s decision that woman who killed and crippled her children has convicted to life sentence.
Woman killed her children and was mechanically damaging her youngest daughter’s eyes when recently oculist noted that damage has done mechanically and police started investigating.
Woman’s attorney will appeal against the sentence.

Savu bērnu sakropļošanā un nonāvēšanā vainoto medmāsu soda ar mūža ieslodzījumu - DELFI
▻http://www.delfi.lv/news/national/criminal/savu-bernu-sakroplosana-un-nonavesana-vainoto-medmasu-soda-ar-muza-ieslodzijum

Savu bērnu sakropļošanā un nonāvēšanā apsūdzētajai medicīnas māsai Rīgas pilsētas Vidzemes priekšpilsētas tiesa ceturtdien, 11.jūlijā piesprieda prokurores prasīto mūža ieslodzījumu.
Prokurore Jekaterina Kušakova pēc sprieduma žurnālistiem atzina, ka ar tiesas lemto ir apmierināta. Tiesa piespriedusi tieši to, ko prokurore debatēs prasīja. Vienīgi tiesa ir nedaudz mainījusi kvalifikāciju, proti, no slepkavības pastiprinošos apstākļos mantkārības nolūkā mainot uz tīšu slepkavību. Kušakova teica, ka tā ir juridiska nianse un pēc iepazīšanās ar pilnu sprieduma tekstu viņa to izvērtēs.

#Latvia #nurse #life_sentence

Soldier’s Lawyers Rest Case With a Defense of WikiLeaks’ Journalistic Role - NYTimes.com
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/11/us/soldiers-lawyers-rest-case-with-a-defense-of-wikileaks-journalistic-role.ht

The defense in the court-martial of Pfc. Bradley Manning rested its case Wednesday with a Harvard law professor testifying that WikiLeaks performed a legitimate journalistic function when Private Manning gave it vast archives of secret government files.

The professor, Yochai Benkler, who wrote a widely cited academic article about WikiLeaks and the evolution of watchdog journalism in the Internet era, testified that at the time of Private Manning’s leaks the group had established itself as playing a reputable and valuable journalistic role by publishing documents about corporate misconduct and government corruption around the world.

On 25th July 2004, the secret #surveillance court allowed the #NSA to resume bulk collection under the court’s own authority: ▻http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/us-surveillance-architecture-includes-collection-of-revealing-internet-phone-metadata/2013/06/15/e9bf004a-d511-11e2-b05f-3ea3f0e7bb5a_print.html - Now why is the court’s opinion classified ? There isn’t even a single security benefit in hiding mass surveillance from the public - except shielding the government against the citizen’s legitimate anger. #democracy

Assange Statement on the First Day of Manning Trial
▻http://wikileaks.org/Assange-Statement-on-the-First-Day.html

The government has prepared for a good show. The trial is to proceed for twelve straight weeks: a fully choreographed extravaganza, with a 141-strong cast of prosecution witnesses. The defense was denied permission to call all but a handful of witnesses. Three weeks ago, in closed session, the court actually held a rehearsal. Even experts on military law have called this unprecedented.

Bradley Manning’s conviction is already written into the script. The commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces, Barack Obama, spoiled the plot for all of us when he pronounced Bradley Manning guilty two years ago. “He broke the law,” President Obama stated, when asked on camera at a fundraiser about his position on Mr. Manning. In a civilized society, such a prejudicial statement alone would have resulted in a mistrial.

To convict Bradley Manning, it will be necessary for the US government to conceal crucial parts of his trial. Key portions of the trial are to be conducted in secrecy: 24 prosecution witnesses will give secret testimony in closed session, permitting the judge to claim that secret evidence justifies her decision. But closed justice is no justice at all.

What cannot be shrouded in secrecy will be hidden through obfuscation. The remote situation of the courtroom, the arbitrary and discretionary restrictions on access for journalists, and the deliberate complexity and scale of the case are all designed to drive fact-hungry reporters into the arms of official military PR men, who mill around the Fort Meade press room like over-eager sales assistants. The management of Bradley Manning’s case will not stop at the limits of the courtroom. It has already been revealed that the Pentagon is closely monitoring press coverage and social media discussions on the case.

This is not justice; never could this be justice. The verdict was ordained long ago. Its function is not to determine questions such as guilt or innocence, or truth or falsehood. It is a public relations exercise, designed to provide the government with an alibi for posterity. It is a show of wasteful vengeance; a theatrical warning to people of conscience.

Why the Sheikhs Will Fall - By Christopher M. Davidson
| Foreign Policy
▻http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/04/26/why_the_sheikhs_will_fall

On April 22, a Kuwaiti judge announced that opposition figure Musallam al-Barrak would be released on bail, prompting cheers from his supporters packing the court. Barrak’s refusal to hand himself over to the authorities last week to serve a five-year sentence for criticizing the emir symbolized the intensifying resistance to autocracy in the oil-rich state.

In the wake of Barrak’s sentencing, thousands of Kuwaitis took to the streets in solidarity, sporadic clashes broke out with security forces, and dozens of key activists recited his controversial speech. The stage now seems set for a long summer of confrontations between large sections of Kuwait’s emboldened citizenry and an entrenched, traditional monarchy that has abandoned its democratic pretensions and is pressing ahead with police state strategies.

The contrast between now and summer 2012, when the British edition of my book After the Sheikhs went to press, could not be starker. Back then, there was little, if any, mainstream discussion outside the Middle East itself of the prospect of serious political unrest in the Gulf monarchies. Academics and policy wonks, at least in the monarchies’ Western allies, had for the most part set these states apart as somehow exceptional and aloof from the Arab Spring movements sweeping the region.

Private Manning’s Confidant - Bill Keller - NYTimes.com
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/11/opinion/keller-private-mannings-confidant.html

But if Manning had been our direct source, the consequences might have been slightly mitigated. Although as a matter of law I believe #WikiLeaks and The New York Times are equally protected by the First Amendment, it’s possible the court’s judgment of the leaker might be colored by the fact that he delivered the goods to a group of former hackers with an outlaw sensibility and an antipathy toward American interests.

#presse #cablegate #défends_tes_sources_en_les_enfonçant

mais aussi :

The Impact of the #Bradley_Manning Case
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/14/opinion/the-impact-of-the-bradley-manning-case.html

If successful, the prosecution will establish a chilling precedent: national security leaks may subject the leakers to a capital prosecution or at least life imprisonment. Anyone who holds freedom of the press dear should shudder at the threat that the prosecution’s theory presents to journalists, their sources and the public that relies on them.

#peine_de_mort

Dysfonctionnement du marché du travail :

Oman’s Manpower Minister, Shaikh Abdullah Bin Nasir Al Bakri, has put the ball in the court of citizens to curb the practice of ‘ proxy trade ’ when he was grilled by the elected members of the 84-seat Majlis Asshura on Sunday.
A representative from Salalah charged that the Ministry of Manpower itself was the cause of proxy trade and the increased numbers of absconding expatriate workers. The minister, in his reply, categorically denied the accusations.
“Who is responsible for proxy trade? How many citizens get their trade licenses registered for selling it to expatriates along with an option of recruiting expatriate staff?” he asked the member

Gulfnews
▻http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/oman/citizens-responsible-for-proxy-trade-minister-says-1.1142346

Kuwait jails activist for five years over Twitter remarks
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/kuwait-jails-activist-five-years-over-twitter-remarks

Kuwait’s lower court on Sunday sentenced an opposition youth activist to five years in jail “with immediate effect” for insulting the emir on Twitter, a rights group said.

“The court passed the maximum jail term against Mohammad Eid al-Ajmi for insulting the emir on Twitter,” the director of the Kuwait Society for Human Rights, Mohammad al-Humaidi, told AFP.

The ruling is not final as it will be appealed, but Ajmi will begin serving the sentence immediately, Humaidi said.

Ajmi is the third opposition youth activist to be convicted for insulting the emir on Twitter. Last month the same court sentenced two tweeters to two years each in jail each on the same charge.

Gay marriage upheld by Spain’s top court
Spain’s highest court upheld the country’s marriage equality law, rejecting an appeal filed by the ruling People’s Party
06 November 2012 | By Dan Littauer
Spain’s high court upheld marriage equality and rejected an appeal against it by the ruling conservative party

The Spanish constitutional court upheld the country’s legality of same-sex marriage, rejecting an appeal by the ruling conservative government that marriage can defined only as a union between man and woman.

Eight of the court’s eleven judges voted today (6 October) to dismiss an appeal filed by the conservative ruling Popular Party submitted shortly after Spain became the world’s third country to approve gay marriage.

The law, introduced by the former government of Socialist prime minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero in 2005, was challenged in court by the conservative People’s Party (PP).

The law also permits adoption and was guarantees same-sex couples equal marriage rights to heterosexual couples.
Spain’s minister of justice Alberto Ruiz-Gallardon said the government would respect the decision and would not further challenge it.

Reacting to the news,Jesus Generelo, general secretary of the National LGBT Federation (FELGTB) told Reuters:
‘We’re very, very pleased and particularly that the decision was 8-3 and not a close 6-5.

‘I think it is clear that gay marriage is now a part of our society’.

Over 22,000 same-sex marriages have taken place in Spain since the law was introduced.

Conservative and Catholic groups criticised the court ruling. The Family Forum, which organised protests against same-sex marriage, demanded the government repeal the law.

In a statement it said: ‘If the PP hides behind this sentence to now accept the Zapatero law, it will be reneging on the public commitments it made in 2004 and 2005 and failing to defend the ideas of its core supporters in a politically cowardly way’.

Other conservative groups made similar criticism, Hazteoir.org, stated: ‘Making marriage the same as other types of union is a direct attack on the Spanish family.

‘This equal status, as well as the promotion of divorce, will cause damage to society in the short-term.’

Poll shows that an overwhelming majority of Spain’s population support marriage equality.

Israeli activists detained on the “Estelle” released - Gush Shalom - Israeli Peace Bloc
►http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/press_releases/1350930274?ver=Mon%2C+22+Oct+2012+20%3A24%3A35++0530

Elik Elhanan: excessive force was used against us, without any reason
Electric shocks by taser out of vengeful hatred
A Greek MP was beaten by Shabak Security Service interrogators

“I am now on my way home, but I keep thinking of my shipmates, my fellow activists from abroad who are still imprisoned under harsh conditions and undergo interrogation by the Shabak Security Service, among them Parliament Members from several countries,” said Elik Elhanan, one of the Israeli activists who had sailed aboard the Gaza-bound Swedish ship “Estelle”. Today, the court ordered his release and that of two other detained Israelis, Yonatan Shapira and Reut Mor. "At first they tried to charge us with all kinds of very serious felonies, such as ’aiding the enemy’. The court rejected this out of hand. Today they tried a article on the law books called “Attempted infiltration into a part of the Land of Israel which is not part of the State of Israel” (sic). But the court threw out this charge, too". The detained activists were represented by Attorney Gaby Lasky and her team, who have considerable experience with Human Rights cases.

The released detainees were cheerfully greeted by peace activists who arrived at the courtroom, among them Elik Elhanan’s parents - Rami Elhanan and Nurit Peled-Elhanan, who is the daughter of the late Major General Matti Peled. Smadar Elhanan, Elik’s sister, was killed in a suicide bombing at the center of Jerusalem – a harsh experience which made surviving family members all the more determined to strive for peace between Israel and the Palestinians, so as to prevent further casualties on either side.(...)

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When they came aboard and we blocked their way, the soldiers knew exactly who I was. They shouted in Hebrew: ’Elhanan, you will pay for your Leftism!’ and used the taser to give me electric shocks. Even after they completed their takeover of the boat, they continued to use the taser and administer more shocks. But if they think they could deter me and those who sailed with me, they are mistaken. The siege of Gaza is an ongoing crime and it must be ended. We will continue the struggle".

STL Registry: Nashabe Poses “Threat” to Tribunal►http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/stl-registry-nashabe-poses-%E2%80%9Cthreat%E2%80%9D-tribunal

The appointment of Omar Nashabe, Director of Al-Akhbar’s research unit, to the defense office of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon has led to a crisis between the office and the court Registry. A security assessment by the STL found Nashabe “to be a ‘high’ threat to the Tribunal,” while head of the defense office François Roux defended his recruitment.

STL: Defense Lawyer Searches for his Defendants
►http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/stl-defense-lawyer-searches-his-defendants

Roux wants us to believe that the United Nations General Secretary (UNSG) picked the judges for the tribunal without political pressure. In reality, STL judges were nominated by their respective countries.

He believes it to be a coincidence that the majority of those controlling the court’s proceedings come from six countries that consider Hezbollah to be a terrorist organisation.

The president of STL is from New Zealand. Its current and former prosecutors are from Canada. The head of the investigation division at the prosecutor’s office is British, while his predecessor was Australian. The registrar is Dutch, who follows a US citizen and a British citizen before that.

The headquarters of STL is in the only European country which classifies Hezbollah as a terrorist organization.

#TSL

ThinkProgress
►http://thinkprogress.org

Conservative ‘Kingmaker’ Compares Marriage Equality To Slavery

By Ian Millhiser posted from ThinkProgress Justice on Oct 4, 2012 at 10:08 am

Anti-Gay Activist Bob Vander Plaats

Anti-gay activist Bob Vander Plaats, who was labeled the Iowa GOP’s “kingmaker” after Republican presidential candidates lined up to pay homage to him, was the architect of the successful effort to oust three Iowa Supreme Court justices, and he’s now spearheading a new effort to remove a fourth justice. All four of the justices Vander Plaats opposes joined the state supreme court’s unanimous opinion recognizing that the Iowa Constitution does not permit marriage discrimination against gay couples.

At a rally last month, Vander Plaats explained why he is so offended by the targeted justices’ application of the state constitution. And then he compared marriage equality to slavery:

We must get back to the constitution. . . . It is the court that should be independent — free of politics — to uphold the constitution, not to trample on the constitution, not to insert politics in the constitution, and not to run the leftist agenda through the court system. That’s not their role.

The Iowa State Bar Association, they’ll tell you — they’ll say “Bob, this is only one opinion. It’s only one opinion. You can’t be that upset at a court because of one opinion.” One opinion: Dred Scott — blacks are property. One opinion: Roe v. Wade — we’ve killed sixty million babies off a court’s opinion. One opinion, the Varnum opinion and you are now seeing same-sex marriage infiltrate this state. One opinion, where a court legislates from the bench, when a court executes from the bench, when a court tries to amend the constitution from the bench, and when a court tries to do that, it is our responsibility as the people — the final arbitrators — to kick them off the bench.

Watch it:

Vander Plaats’ attempt to compare extending the blessings of liberty to all couples with a decision which claimed black people are “beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race either in social or political relations, and so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect” is obviously the most glaring part of his speech. But he should not be let off the hook for claiming that eliminating marriage equality in Iowa would remove politics from the state judiciary or “uphold the constitution.” In reality, the polar opposite is true.

The Iowa Constitution speaks with far more expansive language and with far greater clarity than the United States Constitution on the subject of equality. It provides that “[a]ll laws of a general nature shall have a uniform operation; the general assembly shall not grant to any citizen or class of citizens, privileges or immunities, which, upon the same terms shall not equally belong to all citizens.” Marriage discrimination grants marriage rights to straight citizens which do not equally belong to gay citizens. It is not at all surprising that the Iowa justices unanimously reached the decision they did in Varnum — the Iowa Constitution is unambiguous that marriage discrimination is not allowed.

So when Vander Plaats tries to take revenge against these justices by tossing them out of office, he is the one who injecting politics into the constitution and he is the one who is trying to run his agenda through the court system. Vander Plaats’ campaign is nothing less than an effort to make judges too scared to follow the law when the law conflicts with conservative views.

Plurality | Korben
►http://korben.info/plurality-film.html
Un #court-métrage très élaboré.
#Plurality #SF

Music Labels Won’t Share Pirate Bay Loot With Artists | TorrentFreak
►http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-loot-with-artists-120728

damages to the entertainment industries, including €550,000 to several major music labels. The court awarded the damages to compensate artists and rightsholders for their losses. However, it now turns out that artists won’t see a penny of the money, as the labels have allocated it to IFPI to fund new anti-piracy campaigns.

#piratage #hadopi #pirate_bay