Jail Polanski for his rape of an eight grader - He can write his next script from jail

FACTOID:  A MAN IN HIS FORTIES RAPES AN EIGHT GRADER – JAIL HIS ASS

WAKE UP AND SMELL THE ROSES HOLLYWOOD! MAKE POLANSKI SERVE HIS TIME AS A RAPIST AND SODOMIZER OF A 13 YEAR OLD – HE DESERVES IT!  The guy gave that girl booze and drugs to make her comply, think about it – would she have complied without all the chemicals? She asked him to stop, he kept right on.
What point is it to say his Mother died in Auswitz, or to bring up his murdered wife and child? Or even that the victim has forgiven him? Those sympathy points don’t cut it -LIKE THEY ARE SAYING, HAD IT BEEN A PRIEST, THE LIBERALS WOULD HAVE DEMANDED HIS HEAD, (OR BALLS) ON A PLATTER! (And I am liberal, just not crazy forgive everyone for a crime like rape of a minor liberal)
Let Polanski write his next script from a jail cell where he deserves to be!

Bharatbook.com: Infectious Diseases Drugs Markets

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), six infectious diseases—pneumonia, tuberculosis, diarrhoeal diseases, malaria, measles and HIV/AIDS—account for half of all premature deaths worldwide, killing mostly children and young adults. What’s more, threatening pandemics such as swine flu (H1N1 influenza A virus) are adding significant pressure to already strained healthcare budgets of governments around the world. (http://www.bharatbook.com/Market-Research-Reports/Infectious-Diseases-Drugs-Markets.html)

This report provides a detailed description of the current infectious diseases drugs market and highlights the existing and developing anti-infective agents used to ameloriate diseases’ afflications on humankind. Anti-infective agents include: anti-viral therapeutics, antibiotics, anti-fungal agents and prophylactic treatments such as vaccines. Particular attention is paid to the clinical market segment and the pharmaceutical/biotechnology companies involved in anti-infective agents, with specific emphasis on each company’s sales focus, product portfolio and R&D pipeline. To date, the most successful anti-infective agents target the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV, the virus that causes AIDS), the herpes virus (HSV-1 and HSV-2), bacterial infections and hepatitis C (HCV). A number of exciting novel anti-viral and antibiotic compounds are currently revolutionizing the infectious diseases drugs market, including Truvada and Valtrex, which are anti-HIV and anti-herpes therapies, respectively. Signicant resources are also being dedicated toward hepatitis A (HAV), hepatitis B (HBV) and Staph infections, including MRSA. What’s more, this study will examine the existing and developing anti-infective agents targeted at infectious diseases that continue to devastate developing countries, including: cholera, dengue fever, meningitis, rotavirus, typhoid, yellow fever and onchocerciasis (“river blindness”).

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Pot Dispensaries Sue L.A. Over Moratorium

Medical Marijuana Collectives’ Suit Comes As the City Struggles to Write a New Ordinance.

A newly formed association of Los Angeles medical marijuana collectives has challenged the city’s efforts to control dispensaries, claiming in a lawsuit that the 2-year-old moratorium is unconstitutionally vague and that the City Council violated state law when it extended the ban until mid-March.

The lawsuit, filed late Monday, is the first to take aim at the city’s attempts to halt the explosive growth in dispensaries.  It comes as the City Council’s Planning Committee continued Tuesday to struggle with a permanent ordinance to replace the moratorium.

Representatives from the city attorney’s office, the district attorney’s office and the Police Department reiterated to the committee their contention that over-the-counter sales of medical marijuana are illegal under state law.

Most of the hundreds of dispensaries in Los Angeles currently sell marijuana that way.

At the same time, Councilman Dennis Zine and other council members repeated their insistence that any ordinance that did not allow for marijuana sales would be unworkable, as did many medical marijuana advocates at the committee hearing.

The lawsuit, filed by the Los Angeles Collective Assn.  and the Green Oasis dispensary, charges that the moratorium is “unreasonable, discriminatory and overly broad.”

It also accuses the City Council of failing to follow required procedures when it extended the ban.  In addition, it claims that the council is precluded by state law from extending the moratorium beyond 24 months.

“They’re basically operating without an ordinance,” said Robert A.  Kahn, an attorney who is representing the association and Green Oasis.

Councilman Ed Reyes, who is overseeing the drafting of an ordinance, was not surprised by the lawsuit.  “It’s another sword hanging over our head,” he said.  “Now, we have to move as diligently as possible.”

But Reyes said an ordinance was still months away.

Jeri Burge with the city attorney’s office declined to discuss the lawsuit’s claims.  “We’re reviewing it,” she said.

At a hearing Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, Judge James C.  Chalfant declined to issue a temporary restraining order that would have barred the city from enforcing the moratorium.

Dan Lutz, a co-owner of Green Oasis and president of the collective association, said he was motivated to file the lawsuit after the City Council voted to shut down his dispensary, which he and a partner opened in May.

Lutz, like hundreds of other dispensary owners in Los Angeles, had filed a request with the City Council for an exemption from the moratorium to be allowed to operate, but opened without permission.

The council failed to act on these requests until June, an oversight that prevented city officials from taking legal steps to close the dispensaries.  The council has since denied every request that has come before it.

“We were being railroaded by kangaroo courts,” Lutz said.  “They were just denying them out of hand Obviously their intent was just to close everyone down.”

Spillover violence

With Foreign Secretary Patricia Espinosa trying to spin the appalling body count in the “War on Drugs [the United States and Canada insist can only be controlled over Mexican's dead bodies]” as evidence the “policy is working”.  Asked about that body count, Espinosa is quoted in her “exclusive interview” with the Associated Press as saying:

…  the “great, majority, immense majority” of victims are drug pushers or gangsters and foot soldiers linked to cartels.

“This is a very ugly statistic,” she said, “but a good percentage of those killed never have their bodies claimed, their families never go and get them … That is a very clear indicator that these people were involved in drug trafficking.”

I’m not sure I follow the logic of that. It may be a clear indicator that poor rural people don’t always read the crime pages of out of town newspapers, or gangsters need to call their mothers more often, or any number of things.  I just hope that a high body count isn’t going to be used as a measure of success for police actions (as it was — or is — in Colombia, leading to some … er… interesting ways to supplement income).  But, it is likely to go higher.

In Tijuana, Maggie Drake has been writing about the local police chief’s “shoot to kill” order… and the fortieth police shooting THIS YEAR in that municipio.  Tijuana is in the unhappy situation of sitting next to the user emporium (and gun supplier) of southern California, but the spillover in violence from the user community is coming from either further afield.

In Canada, increasing violence in their own drug trade is being blamed on Mexican “sucess”.  As a result of the military/police actions against the various gangster organizations that handle distribution, British Colombian cocaine dealers are feeling the pinch:

Supply lines were drying up, recalled B.C.-based RCMP Superintendent Pat Fogarty, because the cartels were too busy fighting the Mexican military.

It was translating into rip offs, or people who could not pay back what they owed — a dicey situation among gangsters that often results in bloodshed.

“This is where the tentacles of the disruption in Mexico bled over into Canada, in terms of violence,” said Supt. Fogarty, in charge of the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit in B.C. He has more than 20 years’ experience battling organized crime.

Police in British Columbia say the Lower Mainland has seen a spike in gang-related violence this year over last, and most of it is gun warfare.

If the violence was kept in British Colombia, it wouldn’t be a problem, but Canadian gangsters have been showing up here lately.  This week, two Canadians were killed in a shootout that had some Canadians more upset with the local paper publishing photos of the corpses than with the fact that two more of their guys are down here in the Puerto Vallarta morgue.  Hope their familes reclaim their bodies.

Douglas Coupland--Generation X (1991)

SOUNDTRACK: THE DEAD SCIENCE-Villainaire (2008).

This is probably the most fascinating album that Constellation has released recently.  I’d never heard of The Dead Science, but evidently they have a few disc out already.

The main thing one notices about this disc is the lead singer.  His voice is fascinating: a sort of slow, whispered falsetto laced with an incredible vibrato.  It almost sounds like he’s struggling to sing (although clearly he isn’t).  So take this delicate voice and put it over a series of songs (each one very different) that feature rapid time changes, punk breaks, mellow guitars and/or a harp.

The music is definitely strange and yet I found it very engaging.  I also thought that I wasn’t really absorbing the music since it was so esoteric, and yet after listening to it again today I realized I knew when all the breaks and interesting bits were coming up.  The disc definitely needs repeated listens to get what’s going on, but it is a fascinating collection.

[READ: September 23, 2009] Generation X

As with many books with multiple covers, I never seem to be able to find a picture of my cover online (my copy is a nuclear green, which I’m sure I spent a few minutes selecting back then).  I bought this book in November 1992 (I know this because that was back when I wrote the date I bought a book on the inside cover of the book). I know that I loved the book when it came out because it made me an instant fan of Douglas Coupland (I bought Shampoo Planet just one month later).

And Gen X is a generation-defining book. The margins of the book are filled with cartoons and slogans and definitions of Gen-X speak.  Now, I’m not sure if anyone ever used these definitions or if Coupland made them up.  I certainly never heard anyone say them.  Nevertheless, real or not, they work well as a frame of reference for the way (some) 20somethings in the 90s thought about culture and their place in it.

And so, by proclamation, this book speaks to every slacker and is ever so grunge and slacker and ironic and slacker and…well, no.

I’m actually surprised that I enjoyed this story as much as I did back then, because I’m not sure how it spoke to my 23-year-old self.  And from a vantage point of 17 years later, I’m surprised at how earnest and honest the book turns out to be.

The basic story is that Andy, Claire and Dag are platonic friends who live in neighboring bungalows in Palm Springs, Ca.  They are all from somewhere else: Andy is from Oregon, and he was the first to move to the desert to get away from his corporate life.  Claire is part of a wealthy, multi-siblinged family who were vacationing in Palm Springs.  After talking with Andy, who was bartending at their resort, she convinced herself to drop out and move next to Andy (as friends only).  It turns out that Andy is sort of the landlord of the bungalows where they live so he was able to score her one next door. And then there’s Dag.  Dag is an expat from Ontario who also tried to escape his existence.  He’s a minor vandal (vandalizing cars with obnoxious bumper stickers mostly) and is charming and rakish and is just the kind of person who really fills out a story like this.

And so these three twentysomethings live in this land of old people: a washed out desert with very little to show for itself.  They live something of an ironic existence in that they each set up their bungalows in a certain way, with a taste for kitsch and camp.  And they have slumming jobs which give them more time to do what  they love to do best: hang out and tell stories.

It’s this storytelling which gets to the heart of the book.  For even though these are stories, and some of them are made up, the stories they tell each other are their attempts to find truth, earnestness, honesty.  No one is allowed to criticize the story while it’s in progress.  They just listen, respectfully, to each others’ ideas.

And maybe that’s why this story appealed to me so much.

Because the rest was quite alien to me.  Andy & Claire need to be away from their large families.  Dag is something of a ne’er do well.  As individuals, I couldn’t relate to them, and yet as people in search for meaning, I found them quite compelling.

There’s a nice contrast with Andy’s younger brother, who epitomizes a sort of Gen Y ethic: he always looks good, he’s more interested in material objects, he’s vibrant, and he always moves in a pack of friends.  He rarely reveals his innermost thoughts, and when he does it comes as a shock to Andy.  In some ways he’s an easy straw man against the “virtues” of Andy; but really he’s more of a foil as Andy’s brother (again, not a spokesperson for a generation).

And thus, not much happens in the book.  (It’s quite short too, a very fast read).  The main action happens at the holidays: Andy goes home for Christmas, Claire chases a man to New York and Dag stays at the bungalows.

Then before Claire returns, one of Dag’s acts of vandalism offers tension and some major black comedy.

When the three friends reconvene, they have set a plan in motion that will change all of their lives (and hopefully let them do something that they actually enjoy).

That ending seems superficial, and yet the whole point is that for a generation raised on irony, with no time for saccharine displays, it’s important that your job is something you enjoy.  It seems weird in retrospect that this is the first “generation” to have thought that.  I mean certainly the hippies had a similar idea, but the Gen X idea here is a backlash to what the hippies morphed into.

That this book supposedly speaks for a generation is absurd.  And when you take the weight of that off of the book, it holds up as a story of three friends searching for meaning in a world that has overwhelmed them.

Seventeen years later, it feels like maybe we all keep pace with the world a little better, and these characters would seem rather eccentric to us for their dropping-out attitudes (not that they didn’t seem eccentric then).  Nevertheless, the book was almost touching in its earnestness.  Perhaps we have become more irony-drenched since 1991.

Albanischer Mafia Drogen Aussenminister Lulzim Basha, wurde nun Innenminister

Lebensmaluf des Mafia Clans Lulzim Basha: Abstammung aus dem Mafia Basha Clan aus dem Mittel Kosovo und sein Betrugs Handwerk, lernte er bei den Georg Soros Ganoven Gruppen, dem Weltmarkt Führer für Geldwäsche, Drogen, Destabilisierung von Staaten um dann billig bei den Privatisierungen zu verdienen.

Lulzim Basha mit den EU Kriegs- und Geldwäsche Strategen Javier Solana, der besten Verbindungen zu jedem Balkan Mafia Clan hat und über eigene Schwarze Kassen mit 600 Millionen € verfügt. Da kann man leicht mal einen Krieg im Balkan finanzieren, den das Kick-Back im Drogen Geschäft ist gewaltig.

Viele Jahre Erfahrung wie man hohe Millionen Summen beiseite räumt mit Fälschungen und Manipulationen mit Kosovo Verbrecher Clans, als Mitglied der UNMIK Verwaltung im Kosovo.

Als Transport Minister wurde die Erfahrung umgehend in die üblichen Korruptions Kanäle im Bauwesen umgemünzt um Profite zu machen. Anklage und Gerichtsverfahren durch die General Staatsanwaltschaft von Albanien Ina Rama. Der damalige Vize Transport Minister Herr Jata und Stellvertreter von Lulzim Basha, sitzt schon 2 Jahre im Gefängnis. Die weiteren damaligen Direktoren wie auch der Juristische Direktor, welcher Verträge ausarbeitete in der Bechtel-Enke-Strauss Sache, sitzt eben und die Gerichts Verfahren laufen gerade.

Als Aussenminister Sprachrohr der Kosovo Mafia und mehrere Verhaftungen der Drogen Diplomaten im Ausland, welche trotz Immunität durch Zufall erwischt wurden.

Sein Schwager Erion Isufi, war direkt Manager beim dem Balkan Gangster Damir Fazllic, der schon als Serbischer Geheimdienst Chef in Bosnien direkt tätig war für Karadic und jede grosse Bestechungs Nummer auch in anderen Balkan Ländern organisierte.

Und wurde Lulzim Basha sogar Innenminister! US Mafiöse Kreise aus den Georg Soros Drogen und Betrugs Zirkeln, wie der US-Albanischen Handelskammer in Tirana sind die Drahtzieher dieser kriminellen Zirkeln genauso wie der AAEF.

Albanischer Diplomat wegen Heroinschmuggel verhaftet

Der Albanische Diplomat Agim Haxhiu in der Türkei hatte neben seiner diplomatischen Tätigkeit einen lukrativen Nebenjob: Er beschäftigte sich mit Heroinschmuggel. Jetzt wurde er mit 65 Kilogramm Heroin erwischtund verhaftet. Hauptberuflich war er eigentlich der zweite Sekretär der makedonisch-albanischen Botschaft.

Es ist bereits das zweite Mal, dass albanische Diplomaten in Drogenschmuggel “verwickelt” sind, denn erst voriges Jahr wurde in Italien ein Angestellter der albanischen Botschaft mit einem Kilo Kockain erwischt.

Das albanische Außenministerium teilte mit, dass Haxiu entlassen wurde, weil er seit Montag sich nicht auf seinem (hauptberuflichen) Arbeitsplatz gemeldet hatte. Seine diplomatische Immunität wurde aufgehoben, so dass jetzt gemäß den   türkischen und internationalen Gesetzen gegen ihn ermittelt wird.

Index.hu

Siehe auch Wikio (aus Balkanblog)

Albanischer Diplomat Agim Haxhiu in Instanbul verhaftet wegen Drogen Handel Diesmal hat man Agim Haxhiu Sekretär an der Albanischen Botschaft in Mazedonien tägig, in der Türkei verhaftet mit 65 Kilo Heroin.  Nur in Deutschland haben bekanntlich die Drogen Diplomaten freie Fahrt, weil es zum Geschäft des Auswärtigen Amtes gehört, das man Drogen Clans fördert und deren Kontakte ausbaut.

Albanian’s Diplomatic drug system? Diplomatic drug?

15/05/2009

In Deutsch-German

Bloggers are enraged over the latest scandal tainting Albania’s diplomatic corps.

By Balkanblogs for Southeast European Times — 15/05/09

Police say Haxhiu used a diplomatic car to travel from Macedonia into Turkey carrying 65kg of heroin. [Getty Images]

A senior diplomat from the Albanian Embassy in Skopje was arrested recently by Turkish police on drug-trafficking charges. Agim Haxhiu*, second secretary at the embassy, allegedly used a diplomatic car to travel from Macedonia through Bulgaria and into Turkey, carrying 65kg of heroin.

Albania’s foreign ministry has dismissed Haxhiu from his diplomatic post, citing “unjustified abandonment of duties”.

It is not the first time Albanian diplomacy has become entangled in a drug-trafficking case. Not long ago, Italian police arrested a driver from the country’s embassy in Rome on the same charges. Albanian bloggers are furious.

“It is shameful but not a surprise,” writes Ola at Shekulli Online. “It can’t be any different, seeing as the whole diplomatic corps was destroyed and rebuilt on a ‘client’ basis.”

Xhiri agrees, adding that arresting a single diplomat is no big deal. “What about the others who have not been caught??? They are every day in front of you, pompous and conceited …These are the so-called ‘Bosses’ whom many regard with envy.”

Albo at Forumi Shqipitar wants sterner measures. “It’s not enough to fire the diplomat. He should be extradited in Tirana and face a public trial to be an example for all the others,” he writes.

“I think the foreign ministry should reflect immediately and check the diplomatic staff in the embassies,” Urim Beshello suggests.

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Eri, meanwhile, thinks responsibility goes all the way to the top. “How can the foreign minister not be ashamed and resign? Albania has lost all its credibility in the world,” he contends.

But Edi doesn’t think so. “Minister [Lulzim] Basha has no reason to resign,” he argues. “First of all, he is not responsible for monitoring the job of the diplomats directly; rather, it is a special department in the ministry. Secondly, don’t forget that the minister is new and these diplomats were appointed before him.”

Guri i Kuq supports the government. “Where is the personal guilt of Prime Minister Sali Berisha, who with our votes became prime minister in charge of all these officials who were not recruited in the last four years?” he asks.

Finally, Bubi Kacurel appeals to the foreign ministry. “It is no shame to declare you have made a mistake in the selection of your personnel,” he writes. “The shame is when you are trying to deceive us by telling us you fired him before he did his trafficking job.”

This content was commissioned for SETimes.com

Mistakes

nothing you can do or say
is gunna change
that I feel this way.
one mistake can mean everything,
even little cuts
tend to sting.
My stomach churns
full of pain, and sad
while my heart yearns
for a little bit of what I had.
I know it seems so small,
but what i feel is real
and i hate to wish
that my heart wasnt yours to steal.