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2010

January / Enero

Supreme Court rules USA should turn from a Democratic to a Fascist nation where corporations, no citizens, can run elections and make legislation!:


The part played by money in the democracy that is the United States threatened to expand dramatically yesterday, when the Supreme Court struck down 20-year-old campaign finance laws that greatly limited the volumes of cash corporate interests could throw at individual candidates.
Splitting down ideological lines, the court ruled by five votes to four for an end to the campaign limits that date back to 1990, dealing another political blow to the Democrats and President Barack Obama in a week that has already been less than kind to them.
The decision, handed down in a special session of the court, could have an impact on this year's mid-term elections as well as Mr Obama's hopes for re-election in 2012. Generally, corporations and corporate-backed interest groups have tended in the past to back Republican and conservative candidates. The United States Chamber of Commerce, which spent heavily on get-out-the-vote drives in favour of Republicans in 2008, has already vowed aggressively to spend money backing candidates in November this year who oppose Mr Obama on issues like climate change and healthcare reform.
The White House commented, "With its ruling today, the Supreme Court has given a green light to a new stampede of special interest money in our politics. It is a major victory for big oil, Wall Street banks, health insurance companies and the other powerful interests that marshal their power every day in Washington to drown out the voices of everyday Americans."
...more in The Independent - France 24 - Al Jazeera - El Mundo - El País - The Guardian - Democracy Now - The Telegraph - The Washington Post - Factual - MSNBC
and in the web SAVE DEMOCRACY

SOS Haiti Quake may have killed over 200,000 people. ‘You will not be forsaken,’ Obama says:
The death toll from Haiti's earthquake could be between 45,000 and 50,000, with a further three million people hurt or homeless, a senior Haitian Red Cross official said on Thursday. "No one knows with precision, no one can confirm a figure. Our organization thinks between 45,000 and 50,000 people have died. We also think there are 3 million people affected throughout the country, either injured or homeless," Victor Jackson, an assistant national coordinator with Haiti's Red Cross said. Haitians struggled frantically to save those injured in the earthquake as desperately needed aid from around the world began arriving. Planes carrying teams from China, France and Spain landed at Port-au-Prince's airport with searchers and tons of food, medicine and other supplies — with more promised from around the globe. It took six hours to unload a Chinese plane because the airport lacked the needed equipment — a hint of possible bottlenecks ahead as a global response brings a stream of relief flights to the airport, itself damaged by Tuesday's magnitude-7 earthquake. The influx of aid had yet to reach shellshocked Haitians who silently wandered the broken streets of Port-au-Prince, searching desperately for water, food and medical help. "Money is worth nothing right now, water is the currency," one foreign aid-worker told Reuters. ...more in MSNBC - France 24 - El Mundo - El País - The Guardian - Al Jazeera
HELP THE VICTIMS: Christian Aid - Oxfam - Red Cross - God's littlest Angels [Haiti] - Save the Children - Disaster Emergency Committee

Un año después de la masacre perpretada por Israel en Palestina ::
'A girl called Jewel': Just days into Israel's "war" on Gaza, in early January, the extended Al Samouni family, some 48 men, women and children, was attacked in the homes they occupied together in the south of Gaza - and almost all of them were killed. Thirteen-year-old Almaza - 'jewel' - is one of the very few who survived the attack in which 30 members of her family died, many before her own eyes. A Girl Called Jewel is Almaza's story, a heart-breaking eye-witness account of the war in Gaza. ...click on the screens to watch the documentary by Witness, Al Jazeera


Hora en Londres -


"El adversario estratégico es el fascismo …el fascismo en todos nosotros, en nuestras cabezas y en nuestro comportamiento de todos los días, el fascismo que nos conduce a amar el poder, a desear la cosa misma que nos domina y nos explota a nosotros."
Michel Foucault

"El capitalismo, todos sabemos, es la explotación del hombre por el hombre. ¿Y el socialismo? La inversa."
Jacques Lacan

"Even if supported by a minority of one, truth is still the truth." ..."Truth stands, even if there be no public support."
Gandhi


NOTICIAS / NEWS

2009

December / December

Free citizens from all over the word outraged at China dictatorship´s sentence against brave Liu Xiaobo:

La UE y EE UU han criticado duramente la pena impuesta hoy al disidente chino Liu Xiaobo, condenado por un tribunal de Pekín a 11 años de cárcel por "incitar a la subversión del poder del Estado" por haber redactado la Carta 08, en la que pedía reformas políticas y aperturismo del régimen comunista. "El veredicto contra Liu suscita preocupación por lo que respecta a la libertad de expresión y al derecho a un juicio justo en China", afirma la declaración europea, emitida en nombre de los Veintisiete por la presidencia de turno sueca de la Unión, que expresa su "honda preocupación" por la condena. Más contundente se ha mostrado Washington, que a través de un portavoz del Departamento de Estado ha pedido "la liberación inmediata" del opositor Xiaobo. "Castigar a la gente por expresar pacíficamente sus puntos de vista políticos viola la Convención sobre Derechos Civiles y Políticos, que China ha firmado", ha subrayado el portavoz, que ha recordado que Liu ya lleva un año en prisión mientras se investigaba su caso. "Pedimos al Gobierno de China que le libere inmediatamente y que respete los derechos de todos los ciudadanos chinos a expresar pacíficamente sus opiniones políticas", ha concluido el portavoz del Departamento que dirige Hillary Clinton. ...más en The Guardian - BBC - The Washington Post - Al Jazeera - The Independent - The Telegraph - France 24 - Le Figaro - Le Monde - El País - El Mundo - El Confidencial - ABC - MSNBC

October

Obama acepts the Nobel Peace Prize as a "call to action" and remembers those who really deserve the award such as Aung San Suu Kyi:


See several reactions from around the world to an award given to what Obama will eventually achieve but has not as yet... Perfil - The Guardian - The Times - The Washington Post - Le Figaro - Le Monde - El País - El Mundo - The Irrawaddy - Mizzima - Democracy Now

September / Septiembre

Revealed: millions spent by lobby firms fighting Obama health reforms: Six lobbyists for every member of Congress as healthcare industry heaps cash on politicians to water down legislation. America's healthcare industry has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to block the introduction of public medical insurance and stall other reforms promised by Barack Obama. The campaign against the president has been waged in part through substantial donations to key politicians. Supporters of radical reform of healthcare say legislation emerging from the US Senate reflects the financial power of vested interests principally insurance companies, pharmaceutical firms and hospitals that have worked to stop far-reaching changes threatening their profits. The industry and interest groups have spent $380m (£238m) in recent months influencing healthcare legislation through lobbying, advertising and in direct political contributions to members of Congress. The largest contribution, totalling close to $1.5m, has gone to the chairman of the senate committee drafting the new law. A former member of Bill Clinton's cabinet says fears that the industry could throw its money behind the populist rightwing backlash against public insurance have scared the Obama White House into pulling back from the most significant reforms in return for healthcare companies not trying to scupper the entire legislation. Drug and insurance companies say they are merely seeking to educate politicians and the public. But with industry lobbyists swarming over Capitol Hill there are six registered healthcare lobbyists for every member of Congress a partner in the most powerful lobbying firm in Washington acknowledged that healthcare firms' money "has had a lot of influence" and that it is "morally suspect". Reform groups say vast spending, and the threat of a lot more being poured into advertisements against the administration, has helped drug companies ensure there will be no cap on the prices they charge for medicines one of the ways the White House had hoped to keep down surging healthcare costs. Insurance companies have done even better as the new legislation will prove a business bonanza. It is not only likely to kill off the threat of public health insurance, which threatened to siphon off customers by offering lower premiums and better coverage, but will force millions more people to take out private medical policies or face prosecution. "It's a total victory for the health insurance industry," said Dr Steffie Woolhander, a GP, professor of medicine at Harvard University and co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Programme (PNHP). "What the bill has done is use the coercive power of the state to force people to hand their money over to a private entity which is the private insurance industry. That is not what people were promised." ...more in The Guardian

The basic human right to Health Care in the USA by President Barack Obama

August / Agosto

North Korea dictatorship frees 2 US journalists: Announcement of pardon comes after Bill Clinton meets with dictator Kim Jong Il. North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has pardoned two jailed American journalists and ordered their release following an unannounced meeting with former President Bill Clinton, the North's state media said Wednesday. Clinton, who arrived in North Korea Tuesday on an unannounced visit, met with the reclusive and ailing Kim for talks described by Pyongyang as "exhaustive." It was Kim's first meeting with a prominent Western figure since his reported stroke nearly a year ago. The release of Laura Ling and Euna Lee, who were arrested March 17 near the China-North Korea border, was a sign of North Korea's "humanitarian and peace-loving policy," the Korean Central News Agency reported.


...more information en Al Jazeera - MSNBC - El País - El Mundo - Le Figaro - France 24 - BBC - The Guardian - The Telegraph - The Washington Post - CNN - ABC News Australia

July / Julio

G8 urges release of Aung San Suu Kyi: The world’s major industrial countries, known as the G8, has called for the immediate release of Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi saying her continued detention would undermine the credibility of the junta’s proposed general elections in 2010. Members of the G8 - Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom, and United States – in a joint statement from its summit in Italy said they welcomed the UN Secretary General’s visit to Burma. But the group in a statement reiterated their “call on the Government of Myanmar [Burma] to release all political prisoners, including Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, whose continued detention would undermine the credibility of elections planned for 2010.” The statement said the group also shares the World Body Chief’s view that the Burmese Government has lost an important opportunity to respond to the concerns of the international community by refusing Ban Ki-moon a meeting with detained Burmese Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. The group urged that the Burmese junta implement a fully inclusive process of dialogue and national reconciliation, which will lead to transparent, fair and democratic multiparty elections in 2010. But the group pledged that they “remain prepared to respond positively to substantive political progress undertaken by Myanmar [Burma].” The G8 statement was immediately welcomed by a campaign group, the Burma Campaign UK, saying the statement has brought the issue of Burma’s political prisoners high up on the international agenda. “It is particularly good to have Russia saying these things, as they strongly defend the dictatorship. However, words must be turned into action. We’d like to see the G8 supporting a global arms embargo on Burma,” said Mark Farmaner, Director of Burma Campaign UK, in a statement on Friday. ..more in Mizzima

Sadness over the world as the trial of Aung San Suu Kyi resumes: Along the shores of artificial Inya Lake, the empty compound of Aung San Suu Kyi lies within plain sight as couples stroll the path. Her home also is a curious attraction to onlookers from a hotel a minute's walk away. But it is her absence from it that has been on people's minds lately in and around Rangoon—a hub of commerce and scholarship and the epicenter of anti-government sentiment—with the trial of the pro-democracy leader set to resume Friday. The failure of visiting UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to gain a meeting with the opposition leader last weekend or win her release seems to have only intensified widespread feelings of gloom and frustration, though only brief interviews were possible without raising suspicions in this police state. The trial of Suu Kyi, who turned 64 in the city's Insein Prison last month, had been postponed during the UN chief's visit. There had been some hope that intervention by the international community might have avoided the continuation of the Nobel Prize laureate's trial. She faces trumped-up charges that resulted from a bizarre incident involving an American who swam to her home across the artificial lake, a popular place for leisurely walks and sailing. "I will never see real democracy flourish in Myanmar [Burma]. Not in my lifetime. We live in a hopeless situation where even the UN secretary-general fails to nudge the stubborn regime," said U Hla Shwe, a 72-year old retired lawyer. ...more in The Irrawaddy - Mizzima - The Guardian - France 24 - Le Figaro

The stupid secretary of the UN, Ban Ki-moon, under fire for praising Burma dictatorship: The UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, faced a barrage of criticism tonight for apparently praising the Burmese junta without winning any concessions over human rights or a move towards democracy. Ban was under pressure to produce concrete results from his two-day mission to Burma, which was criticised as providing an endorsement to the Burmese leadership just as it is staging a trial of the opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. The high-stakes visit to Burma comes at a critical time for Ban, whose low-key approach to his job has been criticised as ineffectual. He came under further fire on arrival in Naypyidaw, the regime's headquarters, when he told the head of the junta, General Than Shwe: "I appreciate your commitment to moving your country forward." "That is absolute nonsense," said Brad Adams, a Burma specialist at Human Rights Watch. "It's just what we implored him not to say, to make these diplomatic gaffes. Than Shwe has steadily moved his country backwards." British officials were also furious at the remarks. They had urged Ban not to visit Burma, and risk handing the junta a propaganda prize with his visit, without first ensuring he would gain concessions in the form of the release of political prisoners and steps towards genuine democracy. "Only agreement to release all political prisoners [and] start a genuine dialogue with the opposition and ethnic groups will give any credibility to the elections in 2010," Gordon Brown said in an article in the US online magazine The Huffington Post. According to No 10, Brown calls Ban at least twice a week to discuss Burma. ... more in The Guardian

UN Secretary visits Burma to urge dictatorship to free elected president Aung San Suu Kyi: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon assured reporters on Tuesday during a Tokyo stopover on his way to Burma that he will urge the Burmese military junta to release all political prisoners, including Aung San Suu Kyi, when he visits the country this week. Speaking after talks with Japanese Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone, he said he was aware of concerns about his July 3-4 visit coinciding with the trial of Suu Kyi, the main opposition leader, who has been under house arrest for a total of more than 13 years. The UN Information Center in Rangoon said on Wednesday that it could not provide any details about Ban Ki-moon’s Burma schedule. Suu Kyi, 64, is on trial in Rangoon on a charge of breaking the terms of her house arrest. “It may be the case that the trial may happen during my visit in [Burma]. I am very much conscious of that. At the same time, to find the most appropriate timing has been a challenge for me, too,” Ban told reporters. "I try to use this visit as an opportunity to raise in the strongest possible terms and convey the concerns of the international community of the United Nations to the highest authorities of the [Burmese] government," he added. “We have received no notification yet from the Burmese authorities regarding a meeting with Ban Ki-moon.” said Ohn Kyaing, a member of Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD), told The Irrawaddy on Wednesday. Ban said he would press the Burmese government to carry out a range of political reforms. "I consider that three of the most important issues for [Burma] cannot be left unaddressed at this juncture," Ban told reporters. “The first [is the] release of all political prisoners, including Daw Aung San Suu Kyi." “This is the commitment and concerns and aspiration of the international community. I am going to convey this strongly to Snr-Gen Than Shwe and other leaders,” he said. ...more in The Irrawaddy - Mizzima - Democratic Voice of Burma - The Guardian - BBC - The Independent - The Telegraph - France 24 - The Times - CNN - Le Figaro - Le Monde - Al Jazeera


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¿Por qué Habeas Corpus?

El rey Juan I de Inglaterra firma la Carta Magna, el año 1215, donde se consagra las libertades y derechos de la persona humana.

Desde entonces el Habeas Corpus, instituído en el reino de Inglaterra hace ya 800 años, es la piedra fundamental de la arquitectura jurídica para garantizar la libertad y derechos de la persona humana frente a los abusos de poder en cualquier estado del planeta Tierra.
El pueblo inglés se ha caracterizado siempre por ser el menos propicio para soportar tiranías, y por llevar a sus instituciones desde todos los momentos de su vida, principios que garantizaron las libertades de sus ciudadanos. Fue el primero que despertó contra el absolutismo monárquico, con actos de completa y noble rebelión y contra la disgregación social que trajo el feudalismo; su nobleza no fue como la de otros reinos, que se complacía (a la par que oprimía al débil) en dejarse convertir en un esclavo del Rey. Este pueblo, educado por Alfredo el Grande, después de haber expulsado en el año 871 a los dinamarqueses que habían invadido y dominado la Isla, pone un valladar a la opresión, y así en el año 1100 vemos arrancar a Enrique I, la famosa Carta de Libertades, cuerpo jurídico imperfecto, pero de gran valor en la historia del derecho constitucional británico. Era la reacción producida por el despotismo absoluto del reinado anterior de su hermano, Enrique Guillermo II, y desde ese momento, ya iniciada la corriente de la libertad, se suceden una serie de cartas, obtenidas con luchas unas, por persuasión otras, y así en el año de 1136, Esteban, Rey de Inglaterra, otorga su Carta sobre las Libertades del Reino y de la Iglesia, siguiéndole la promulgada por su hijo Enrique II Plantagenet el día de su coronación. Luego vino la primera Carta Magna, origen de las libertades inglesas, que refunde y amplia los principios ya obtenidos. En 1215 la Carta Magna estableció limitaciones al poder real y consagró el principio de la libertad individual. Era evidente la necesidad de garantizar la vigencia real de este derecho por medios rápidos, prácticos y eficientes. En esta carta se disponía que ningún hombre libre podría ser detenido, preso, ni desposeído de lo que legalmente se halle en su poder, ni tampoco privado de sus libertades, sin previa ley que lo justifique: Nadie puede ser castigado de ninguna manera sino por sentencia legalmente pronunciada contra él, por sus iguales o pares, según la ley del país. A nadie debe rehusar el Rey pronta justicia, la que no podrá ser vendida a persona alguna.
La consagración y el reconocimiento constitucionales del conjunto de derechos y libertades propios del ser humano, resultarían insuficientes si no existieran instrumentos adecuados para una rápida y eficaz tutela que permita el control, unificación y sanción de sus violaciones, sin los cuales serían superficiales los esfuerzos encaminados a lograr un clima de respeto y seguridad de estos derechos humanos. El Constitucionalismo Moderno se ha caracterizado por tener un objetivo fundamental: el reconocimiento y la protección de la vida y la libertad de los ciudadanos. Las constituciones que son verdaderamente tales, se caracterizan por establecer un sistema jurídico y político que garantiza la libertad de los ciudadanos, y esto supone, por consiguiente, algo más que una mera racionalización de los centros de poder. Siguiendo esta línea, las constituciones han configurado un ordenamiento cuya pretensión máxima es la garantía de la libertad de los ciudadanos, y ello, hasta el punto que la libertad queda instituida, por obra de la propia Constitución, como un valor superior del ordenamiento jurídico. De ahí que los textos constitucionales y sus leyes complementarias, deben regular con meticulosidad los derechos fundamentales, articulando técnicas jurídicas que posibiliten la eficaz salvaguarda de dichos derechos, tanto frente a los particulares, como frente a los poderes públicos. Una técnica fundamental de protección de los derechos del hombre, específicamente del derecho a la libertad personal, es la institución del Habeas Corpus. Se trata de un instituto que cuenta con una antiquísima tradición y se ha evidenciado como un sistema particularmente idóneo para resguardar la libertad personal frente a la eventual arbitrariedad del los agentes del orden público.
En septiembre de 2006 se crea esta web en honor y defensa del Habeas Corpus como principio irrenunciable de la libertad y dignidad de ser humano, porque en esa fecha el presidente Bush Jr de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica ha obtenido del Congreso la derogación de este derecho fundamental de la ciudadanía, otorgándose como presidente poderes despóticos para secuestrar y torturar seres humanos, reducidos a la arbitraria etiqueta xenófoba de "enemigo combatiente", en cualquier parte del planeta que es casa común de la especie humana. Esa abolición de un derecho humano básico es un retroceso de 800 años que retrotrae América y el mundo al obscurantismo del feudalismo miedeval. El Congreso de EEUU ha infligido así una herida mortal a la Democracia traicionando sus mejores tradiciones y a su más grande poeta: Walt Whitman.

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