Good Evening children,A Blogger Keeps His Video and Lands in Jail
Today's lens starts here with a fellow blogger....here in
a sound bite from "all things considered" we enter the question of blogger
rights and how they relate to journalism. Here I think Mr. Wolf saw a chance to
get his name heard......I mean, after all, he did sell this same footage to
TV..........but just like the music industry the Net has leveled the playing
feild in the media as well........now we must argue the meaning of
journalism.
All Things Considered, August 6, 2006 · At a San Francisco protest last summer, a cop was injured and a police car caught fire. Federal prosecutors wanted to see the video of the melee made by Josh Wolf, a freelance journalist and blogger who sold some of his footage to local TV stations. Wolf refused, claiming his rights were protected as a journalist. Now he's in jail. Jeffrey Dvorkin, executive director of the Committee of Concerned Journalists and former ombudsman at NPR, shares his views on the case.
Today on my way home from work I got to listen to a feed from
the UN council meeting today.....it was very interesting to hear the ambassadors
from both Lebanon and Isreael speak and strangely they seemed to echo the same
sentiments as each other....and both seemed very sure of Iran's and Syria's
involvment in the conflict with the Isreaeli ambassador even going as far as
calling them "cowards who fight thier wars through proxy"........here is the CNN
article.
Arab League takes Lebanon concerns to U.N. council
UNITED NATIONS (CNN) -- An Arab League delegation was at the United Nations on Tuesday afternoon highlighting concerns about a draft resolution aimed at ending the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Meanwhile, Israeli helicopters fired five shells at an administration building in Lebanon's largest Palestinian refugee camp early Wednesday, according to a Fatah spokesman at the camp. At least one person was killed and six others injured at the Ain El-Helwe camp near Sidon, Sultan Abu Alaynen said.
Israel said it was targeting the home of a Hezbollah militant.
The camp houses about 50,000 registered refugees and probably at least that many who are unregistered.
Lebanon and its Arab League allies have been pressing the United Nations for an immediate Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon as part of a deal to end the nearly month-old war.
Such a withdrawal is not mentioned in a U.N. draft resolution by the United States and France, an omission that Lebanon's government and Arab League diplomats have called unacceptable. (Key points in the Arab League plan)
Israel has resisted calls for a withdrawal, saying it will only do so once Hezbollah is disarmed. (Watch an analyst describe why Hezbollah is ready for war -- 2:13)
After a summit of Arab League foreign ministers Monday in the Lebanese capital, the group said it was immediately sending a delegation to request changes in the draft.
Qatar, the only Arab member currently on the U.N. Security Council, said the draft is too vague and would create "a domestic problem" for Lebanon's government.
Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called a Lebanese plan to deploy 15,000 troops to the region "interesting." But he also said the Israeli Security Cabinet on Wednesday may consider expanding the offensive in southern Lebanon.
Lebanon's government late Monday approved the deployment of troops from its national army to southern Lebanon, where Hezbollah has held sway since Israeli troops withdrew in 2000. (Full story)
The move comes in support of a Lebanese proposal to have Israeli troops hand over their current positions in southern Lebanon to the U.N. observer mission, UNIFIL, as they withdraw.
UNIFIL then would hand over control to Lebanese forces within 72 hours and help them deploy, according to a draft of the Lebanese plan that CNN obtained. Hezbollah would withdraw to positions north of the Litani River, and Lebanese troops would ensure "total respect of the cessation of hostilities in the area," the draft says.
Yahya Mahmassani, the Arab League's representative at the United Nations, said that under the Lebanese plan, "Hezbollah will not go into that area [once] the Lebanese forces are there."
Israeli casualties in the conflict stand at 98 dead, including 35 civilians, and more than 700 wounded, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
Lebanese security forces say that 781 people have died, most of them civilians, and nearly 3,000 have been wounded...........(full article)
Comparing the numbers here like this is a
little disconcerting, I was impressed with the speeches made and the fact that
all the parties who spoke mentioned the children who have been killed and
wounded............but this still leaves me questioning our support of Isreael
in this conflict.........this is not the first time beruit has been leveled by
Isreael..........once again I feel the creepings of religion guiding national
policy..........and the fact that the most dead are arabs makes for american
complacancy on this issue........we must not forget that the arab people are
....well....people. just like you and me..........it was said today there at the
UN....(I heard it myself)......that children are not born as sheites or militant
Isrealis.......they are children.......it is the world that is given to them
that forges thier stances........it is they we must change the world
for......because if we don't teach them hate they will not hate........I was
thinking to myself.......that if it was here.....and it was me.....and a bomb
leveled my home and my family was killed.......I would pull myself from the dust
with the thought to anihilate whoever it was who sent that bomb.....and I don't
think I could overcome the feeling..........lets just say for hypothetical
reasons that it was the dutch....lol....every time I would see a dutch person I
would want to kill them.....no matter who they were......or if it was they who
sent the bomb personally or not...............in searching these thoughts I
think I can gain some insight into the continued hatred.......and why it will
not stop........and it really is true......that violence only begets
violence.........so somewhere the chain of violence has to be broken.....some one must break it.
we must stop digging children from the rubble of man's hatred. There is no religious justification worth the prechious lives lost to aggression. And we must be on guard as Americans to not fall into the trap of fear and hate.........we must not take sides.......and we must not discriminate........but our fear is real.....and viseral.........and we never know from which direction the next tragady will come.......that is the definition of terrorism......and we too are among it's victims...........ten years ago the story below would not have troubled anyone...........now.........Egyptian students disappear in U.S.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Immigration agents and the FBI are looking for 11 Egyptian students who entered the United States on valid student visas, then failed to show up at a university in Montana, authorities said.
The FBI on Saturday issued a nationwide alert to law enforcement agencies. Included were the students' names, ages, passport numbers and photographs.
"At the present time there are no known associations to any terrorist groups. Approach with caution," the lookout bulletin states. (Watch Homeland Security work on the mystery -- 2:22)
FBI and immigration officials confirmed there's no evidence pointing to criminal activity or a terrorist threat. However, The Associated Press quoted a law enforcement official as saying that the students could be sent home when found because they violated the terms of their visas.
They were part of an all-male group of 17 students that landed July 29 at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport. Six of them arrived later at Montana State University as part of an exchange program; the other 11 did not, prompting school officials to contact the government.
A source with knowledge of the investigation said the men, who range in age from 17 to 22, may be staying in New York, visiting relatives and trying to find jobs.
"We have run their names through the wringer," one Department of Homeland Security official said.
U.S. authorities are working with foreign intelligence agencies to make sure there is nothing suspicious in the students' backgrounds, federal sources said. Those sources added that 20 students applied for student visas to go to Montana State, but three of the applicants were denied.
"We do want to talk to them. But at this point there's no reason to believe they pose any criminal or terrorist threat," said Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Julie Myers, who heads Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The students were identified as:
• El Sayed Ahmed Elsayed Ibrahim, 20
• Eslam Ibrahim Mohamed El Dessouki, 21
• Alaa Abd El Fattah Ali El Bahnasawi, 20
• Mohamed Ragab Mohamed Abd Alla, 22
• Ahmed Refaat Saad El Moghazi El Laket, 19
• Ahmed Mohamed Mohamed Abou El Ela, 21
• Mohamed Ibrahim Elsayed El Moghazy, 20
• Ebrahim Mabrouk Moustafa Abdou, 22
• Moustafa Wagdy Moustafa El Gafary, 18
• Mohamed Saleh Ahmed Maray, 20
• Mohamed Ibrahim Fouaad El Shenawy, 17
now we fear like the rest of the world fears........because hatred may have brought them to our shores..........we shall see in time..........the chances are that even if it didn't........someday they will come again...........and once again there will be someone pulling themselves from the dust with hatred for arabs.......and murder on the mind. I don't want these people to hate me........and my children........but as an american I am already villified.........I am already a monster in a land I have never seen. 
Because of events I can't control. 
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