Reverend Jesse Jackson is saying that Michael Jackson does not feel offended in relations to his appellant but does feel bad for those who were disloyal towards him and appeared as witnesses against him. Jackson says Michael considers that he will be set free if the jury follows orders relating to sensible doubts.
The pop star “declares his innocent in the most private session” says Rev.Jackson who has been speaking with the singer during the hearings in court
Jackson says the pop star feels that people he trusted, people he employed, and people he thought he was being kind to, have been disloyal towards him.
The Reverend says the defendant, on the other hand is not upset at his complainant but “speaks of the injustice of the sheriff”. The Pop singer feels that the law has had a ten year obsession with him.
Saddam Hussein will stand trial for more likely 12 of about 500 charges that could be laid. The 12 cover a broad range from gassing thousands of Kurds in 1988 to executing rival political and religious leaders since the mid 1970’s. Iraqi officials want the case to concentrate on 14 thoroughly documented cases for which authorities believe they can get convictions.
The conviction and sentencing of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russia’s wealthiest oligarch, for embezzlement and tax evasion has some foreign companies cancelling plans to invest in Russian and those already established there have started withdrawing their capital to the tune of $8 billion last year.
Its clear that President Putin has put economics before politics and is willing to see out the international medias outcry of Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s Kangaroo court.Oil is too much of a hard currency earner , especially in these recent years for a President with a proven nationalistic philosophy to allow it to be in the hands of Russian businessmen , particularly those who have supported opposition to Mr.Putin.
Some analysts argue that Putin acted against Mr.Khodorkovsky because of his active support to opposition of President Putin, or because he wore a turtle neck jumper (and not the regulation tie and collar) to a meeting with the President and his advisors but its more probable that Mr.Khodorkovsky knew that he and his company Yukon were a target for the Russian Governmnet from the outset and in fact garnered his support for the opposition because of this fact.
Anyway, the economic benefits outweigh Russia political costs and so expect liitle encouragement for Big Businesses in the short term but Russia will likely initiate reform again when economic prosperity in the country has stabilised. Related Articles: theIndependent
The adult internet industry in the United States is up in arms about the new 2257 compliance regulations about to come into force on June 24th.
The act requires the obligation of adult entertainment promoters who produce, or publish any book, film or videotape containing visual depictions of sexually explicit acts to “create and maintain individually identifiable records pertaining to every performer portrayed in such a visual depiction.”
They are required to record the performer’s name and date of birth, and every name ever used by the performer including their “maiden name, alias, nickname, stage, or professional name.”The trouble with this they say is that it impinges on the performers right to privacy and makes their names publicly available and mandatory to anyone using the material.Many adult promoters are either closing down or changing the way they operate by restricting access to the sexually explicit material to protect performers names from becoming available to the public.
When The Dept. of justice was asked if the primary producers could just provide the names and not the addresses of the performers to their distributors, the Dept declined.It sems rather curious that the Department declined on the grounds that the “..plan would be overly burdensome on primary producers and add an unnecessary layer of complexity to the record-keeping process.”Roger Kelty who runs the ethnic site blackglamors.com seems to think that they are trying to embarrass the girls involved out of working at all.
“Now, when we produce content, we are required to obtain 3 forms of ID from our performers and have them sign affidavits that the address they give is their current address.This worries the girls and rightly so as we are required to pass this information to to our distributors and plainly puts the girls privacy ans safety at risk.” I don’t like the idea that I may part in a girl getting hurt.” Kelty said.
With some producers no longer distributing explicit content but instead only providing non nude erotica and making the expllicit sexual content available on subscription,it could be that the regulation will actually make them more money as the scarcity of free explicit adult material on the internet will make the surfers more liable to pull out their credit card and join to see hardcore sex videos.
Peter Dolby of titsandcocks.com thinks “It could actually solve a problem we have all been screaming about for ages, that there is too much free explicit porn out there. Dont get me wrong I’m not in favor of the 2257 compliance regulation one bit but this actually might make people more money.”
By Fridah Emelee.
There have been claims from the White House saying that the cases of American forces in Guantanamo Bay mistreating of the Koran were minor incidents and few in number.
It is said by a spokespersons that the U.S. military stick on to the highest values when it comes to respecting and being protective over religious freedom, and to follow religious beliefs.
Has the Koran been abused and violated? The U.S. Government has been looking into claims of mishandling of the Koran, together with the charge by at least one prisoner that a U.S. recruit threw the holy book in a toilet. As of last week, the investigation, directed by Brigadier General Jay W. Hood, he had discovered five examples of which a guard or interrogator had abused the Koran – although Hood would not explain precisely how all had happen, but one before January 2003, when the exact rules of the Koran were recognized. Up till now Hoods squad found no reliable confirmation that a Koran was ever thrown in a toilet. Out of the five incidents three of the incidents were probably on purpose and the other two were accidental, it has been confirmed by Hood late last week. Hood also added that he and his squad had reinterviewed a prisoner who had earlier told the FBI agents that he had witnessed the Koran being thrown in the toilet, but now has deprived of personally of any Koran dishonor. The military has confirmed that no Koran has been disrespected or has ever been thrown in a toilet.
Guantanamo services which is supervised by the US Southern Command, has been said in detail on Friday that on one particular occasion prisoners Koran’s have been kicked, stepped on, and drenched with water. Reports have been said that on one occasion a prison guard somehow accidentally peed into a prison cell which hit the prisoner and his Koran. This is so incredulous that it seems to smack of a cover up. The prison guard was reportedly then removed from his post to another post after he had given the prisoner new set of clothing and a new Koran.
It has been said that these incidents happened between early 2003 to mid – 2003, excluding the urine incident. The assessments have also revealed other complaints on incidents made by prisoners about the mistreatment of their Koran, there were minor incidents but could not be verified.
