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Thursday, February 21, 2013
'NOT OUR BOSS': Texas Bill Seeks to Block Fed Gun Law Enforcement
AUSTIN, Texas ? ?Under a measure advancing in the Texas Capitol, local police officers could be convicted of a crime for enforcing any new federal gun control laws.
Rep. Steve Toth, a newly elected Republican from the Woodlands, said his proposal would prevent officers from carrying out any future federal orders to confiscate assault rifles and ammunition magazines.
"There's a federal law, there's a 30-round magazine right in front of you - what do I do?" Toth said in an interview. The measure known as the Firearm Protection Act "answers that question in spades," he said. It moved Tuesday to the House Committee on Federalism.
President Barack Obama has proposed federal laws banning such weapons, but no such laws currently exist.
Toth's proposal would create a Class A misdemeanor for police officers enforcing any new federal gun regulations. It also would establish cause for the state attorney general to sue anyone who seeks to enforce new federal gun regulations. It is one of several states-rights measures being offered by conservative state lawmakers nationwide in response to federal gun control proposals.
Courts have long upheld the federal government's right to enact new laws, which generally supersede state law. Asked how legal precedent for the supremacy of federal law would affect enforcement of his bill, Toth said he expects a legal challenge.
"It may end up in the Supreme Court," he said.
Several recently elected lawmakers gathered at a news conference Tuesday with Toth and Richard Mack, a former Arizona sheriff who successfully contested implementation of certain provisions of the Brady gun laws in the 1990s.
"The federal government is not our boss," Mack said. "If there's any place that that's applicable and true, it's the state of Texas."
Referring to Greg Abbott, the attorney general who helped draft the bill, Mack added: "And we've got a great attorney."
Rep. Jodie Laubenberg, R-Collin County and the most senior lawmaker who stood in support of the proposal, said it could become law "if it's not demagogued as an anti-Obama bill."
"This new group of freshman coming in, they're pretty bold," said Laubenberg, who is in her sixth term. "Pretty dynamic. Not just going to sit and let things happen."
Abbott's office confirmed its role in crafting the legislation but distanced itself from the criminal penalties it contains.
"The attorney general does not support a law that would provide any criminal penalties for police officers," said Daniel Hodge, Abbott's top assistant.
Source: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/02/21/texas-lawmakers-seek-to-block-federal-gun-control/
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Mexico disappearances constitute 'crisis,' report says
MEXICO CITY (AP) ? Human Rights Watch called Mexico's anti-drug offensive "disastrous" in a report Wednesday that cites 249 cases of disappearances that the group says mostly show evidence of having been carried out by the military or law enforcement.
The report says the "enforced disappearances" follow a pattern in which security forces detain people without warrants at checkpoints, at homes or work places, or in public. When victims' families ask about their relatives, security forces deny the detentions or instruct them to look for their loved ones at police stations or army bases.
Human Rights Watch criticizes former President Felipe Calderon, saying he ignored the problem that it calls "the most severe crisis of enforced disappearances in Latin America in decades."
An email asking for comment and sent to Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, where Calderon is a fellow, was not answered Wednesday.
The report says President Enrique Pena Nieto, who succeeded Calderon on Dec. 1, should act urgently "in cases where people have been taken against their will and their fate is still unknown."
Mexico's Interior Department, which oversees domestic security, declined to make an immediate comment about the report.
A civic organization released a database late last year that it said contained official information on more than 20,000 people who had gone missing in Mexico over the previous six years ? the term of Calderon, who stepped up the government's campaign against drug cartels.
In posting the datebase on its website, Propuesta Civica, or Civic Proposal, said the information was collected by the federal Attorney General's Office during Calderon's administration.
Lia Limon, deputy secretary for human rights at the Interior Department, told reporters that the government plans to unveil a database containing more than 27,000 records of missing people that were gathered by the federal Attorney General's Office. She said she had not seen it and did not have details of specific cases.
The missing in Propuesta Civica's database include police officers, bricklayers, housewives, lawyers, students, businessmen and more than 1,200 children under age 11. They are listed one by one with such details as name, age, gender and the date and place where the person disappeared.
Among the examples cited by Human Rights Watch is evidence suggesting that marines detained about 20 people in three northern border states in June and July of 2011. Though it denied abducting the victims, Mexico's navy later acknowledged it had contact with some before they disappeared.
In one such case, Jose Fortino Martinez Martinez was sleeping with his wife and four children at their home in the northern border town of Nuevo Laredo when he was woken by the sound of his door being knocked down. That night in June 2011, eight masked men burst into his bedroom carrying automatic rifles and bulletproof vests with "Marina," Navy in Spanish, written on them.
Martinez, 33, was taken away by those men, according to the several of his neighbors who testified at the time. Although naval officials denied arresting him, they said weeks later that they would investigate if marines were involved.
So far, nothing is known of Martinez's whereabouts.
The report also says security personnel sometimes work with criminals, detaining victims and handing them over to gangs. The report cites incidents in which investigators used information collected in a case to pose as kidnappers and demand ransom payments from the victims' families.
Authorities frequently fail to take even the most basic investigative steps, such as tracing victims' cellphone or bank records, and often rely on investigations carried out by the victims' relatives, the report says.
Human Rights Watch recommends that the Mexican government take concrete steps to change security procedures, including issuing new rules requiring that detainees be taken immediately to prosecutors' offices and not be held at military bases or police stations.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/report-mexico-disappearances-constitute-crisis-204500664.html
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Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Russia opposes new North Korea economic sanctions: diplomat
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Moscow opposes new economic sanctions on North Korea but would be ready to back measures to limit nuclear proliferation, a Russian official said on Tuesday.
Pyongyang was widely condemned last week after its third nuclear test since 2006, defying United Nations resolutions and putting the country closer to a workable long-range nuclear missile.
"Any additional measures of pressure on North Korea should be aimed exclusively at the sphere of non-proliferation of nuclear arms and rocket launches," Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov told a news conference.
"We are against measures that would affect normal trade and economic relations with North Korea. We understand our Chinese colleagues have similar views."
Moscow, a veto-wielding permanent member of the U.N. Security Council, has urged North Korea to abandon its nuclear arms programme and return to talks with world powers on disarmament.
(Reporting By Gabriela Baczynska, Writing by Thomas Grove, Editing by Timothy Heritage)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/russia-opposes-north-korea-economic-sanctions-diplomat-124605450.html
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Seagate Small Business Storage ? Business As Usual ? The Digital ...
- Ideal for Small/Home offices, Remote/Mobile offices or small-to-medium type businesses
- Small Business Storage provides centralized backup, data protection and remote access
- Capacity size ranging from 2TB to 16TB.
While these features are similar to what we offer in our Wireless Plus and Seagate Central devices, obviously the use cases and needs are going to be vastly different. ?As I sat in product development meetings prior to the launch of this system, I often thought about the type of person who?d benefit from using the Small Business Storage. (You know, aside from the obvious small business owners.)
Because my social circles are so varied, I know a lot of people in the creative professional space who I think would benefit from such a device.
Photographers or video editors would benefit from such a device primarily for the capacity offered. 16TB will hold a lot of photos and videos and anyone who?s done this type of work knows how large the raw files can become.
Then there are musicians. Imagine a world where you work in a corporate 9-5 role by day, but by night you don your hip hop crime fighter tee and produce music and videos. Having a Small Business Storage device in your studio allows you to backup all your tracks and even play them remotely when you?re having that ?I?m abut to be discovered? moment.? And if you have accompanying videos, then it?s like having your own YouTube channel in your back pocket. (Though I guess you could just access YouTube, but at least this way you?d be ad free.)
So whether you?re a consultant, a retailer, an Internet mogul, an artist, a musician, a or even a budding web celebrity, the Small Business Storage will keep things business usual.
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Japan Box Office Report & Trailer Park ? February 16th/17th
(02) 'Ted' / (01) 'A Good Day to Die Hard' / (03) 'Nou Otoko'
The highest grossing film of the weekend was the American action film ?A Good Day to Die Hard? which opened on Thursday, February 14th.
?Ted? and ?Nou Otoko? were pushed down to second and third place, respectively. ?Strawberry Night? dropped out of the top 3, while ?Les Miserables? still keeps on hanging onto fifth place.
Other new films in the top 10 include the American action-thriller ?Zero Dark Thirty? in sixth and the Korean historical drama ?Masquerade? rounding out the top 10.
Don?t forget to check out the trailers of all the new Japanese movies below the box office chart!
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Japan Box Office Chart ? February 16th/17th
(Note: The ranking is not based on the revenue, but the number of sold tickets!)
Short Facts:
- ?A Good Day to Die Hard? opened with 318,154 viewers (643 screens) and a revenue of 402,436,350 Yen (4,339,068 USD)
- ?A Good Day to Die Hard? cumulative results (4 days) ? viewers: 495,770 / revenue: 609,911,550 Yen (6,576,066 USD)
- ?Ted? weekend results ? viewers: 143,327 / revenue: 208,922,700 Yen (2,252,604 USD)
- ?Ted? cumulative results ? viewers: 2,106,866 / revenue: 2,894,860,300 Yen (31,212,383 USD)
- ?Nou Otoko? cumulative results ? viewers: 458,190 / revenue: 591,979,000 Yen (6,382,717 USD)
- ?Strawberry Night? cumulative results ? viewers: 1,366,464 / revenue: 1,688,829,000 Yen (18,208,954 USD)
- ?Zero Dark Thirty? opened with 60,657 viewers (164 screens) and a revenue of 76,409,500 Yen (823,847 USD)
- ?Tokyo Kazoku? cumulative results ? viewers: 1,369,921 / revenue: 1,443,132,600 Yen (15,559,855 USD)
- ?Masquerade? opened with 41,290 viewers (91 screens) and a revenue of 49,109,300 Yen (529,496 USD)
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Trailers of all Japanese movies that opened this weekend:
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Ku no Kyokai
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Genre: Suspense, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Director: Horie Kei
Cast:
Kawakita Mayuko
Inoue Masahiro
Kuramoto Tengai
Kudo Ayano
Makita Tetsuya
Ito Kazue
and more?
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Chichi wo Tori ni
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Genre: Youth, Human Drama
Director: Nakano Ryouta
Cast:
Yanagi Erisa
Natsubara Nanoka
Watanabe Makiko
Takito Kenichi
Nikaido Satoshi
Kobayashi Kaito
and more?
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SADO TEMPEST
SADO ?????
Genre: Human Drama, Fantasy
Director: John Williams
Cast:
Henmi Yasunori (Jitterbug)
Watanabe Takashi (Jitterbug)
Izumi Akihiro (Jitterbug)
Usami Tetsuo (Jitterbug)
Eguchi Noriko
Tanaka Yoji
and more?
Source: http://www.tokyohive.com/2013/02/japan-box-office-report-trailer-park-%E2%80%93-february-16th17th/
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