Photos: Police in riot gear clear peaceful Occupy Denver

Update: Click link for Denver Post photos, including protester sitting on street blocking dump truck: http://photos.denverpost.com/mediacenter/2011/10/photos-occupy-showdown-in-denver/#8

Denver police in front of dump truck being loaded with kitchen where
homeless were fed. Screen capture Censored News.

Police tear down Occupy Denver kitchen/screen capture



Denver Post live cam, screen capture, 11:45 pm
Screen capture by Censored News

Colorado State Police evict Occupy Denver
Watch Denver Post live cam overhead:
http://photos.denverpost.com/mediacenter/2011/10/live-camera-view-of-the-occupy-denver-protesters/
Denver Channel 9 is live now:
http://www.9news.com/video/9newsonline.aspx

Colorado State Police and Denver police arrest, or detain, 24 people by 8 am on Friday, while tearing down kitchen and camps. Police cleared Occupy Denver. Protesters will meet again at 3 pm on Civic Center side.

Occupy Wall Street New York, watch on livestream:
http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution

Romanticizing the Border Patrol: Why Big Media Flops

Border Patrol Calexico, Calif.
Indymedia

Romanticizing the Border Patrol: Why Big Media Flops

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/

The big media CNN, New York Times and the others, fail at covering the US/Mexico border because they have no reporters who live here, and have lived here year after year.
The reporters fly in for a few days, let everyone know what an honor it is to be interviewed by them, and after folding up their makeup trays, they fly away.

They do spot interviews on a subject, romanticize the Border Patrol arresting some of the most desperate people on earth, or make racist Maricopa Co. Sheriff Joe Arpaio into a folk hero, rather than urging his prosecution.

Reporters arrive with a preconceived idea of the truth, based on the spin.

There are also television series romanticizing the Border Patrol, cheerleading for more oppression, more seizures of border land by the US government and more dollars to militarize the borderlands.

The truth is Border Patrol agents routinely beat and assault people of color on the border. Border Patrol agents are repeatedly convicted of smuggling drugs. Border Patrol agents are repeatedly convicted of corruption, of spying for drug cartels or providing maps or other sensitive data to drug runners.

Big news doesn't want you to see the real story, because it is too difficult for them to obtain. It would mean big news would have to have real reporters here, doing real news.

How much space has big news given to the women reporters being murdered in Mexico? When a US reporter is decapitated, it is a major global news story.

How much news coverage was given to Maria Elizabeth Macias, the editor of Primera Hora newspaper, found decapitated in September near the Texas border?
The inequality of this news reporting reveals one clear fact: The racism of the US news media toward the people of Mexico and people of color.
How much news coverage is being given today for the conviction of a Border Patrol agent busted on duty with a load of drugs near Yuma, Arizona?
Don't let them get away with it.

Canada military intelligence unit spies on native groups

Military intelligence unit spies on native groups

The memos devote a lot of space to future protests and lobbying on Parliament Hill by native groups, including the activities of the Assembly of First Nations, the Algonquin Anishinabeg Nation Tribal Council and Red Power United.

steven chase

OTTAWA— Globe and Mail Update

The Canadian military is keeping a watch on aboriginal groups through an intelligence unit that is meant to protect the Forces and the Department of National Defence from espionage, terrorists and saboteurs. The Canadian Forces’ National Counter-Intelligence Unit assembled at least eight reports on the activities of native organizations between January, 2010, and July, 2011, according to records released under access to information law.

Read article:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/military-intelligence-unit-spies-on-native-groups/article2199496/

Amnesty International urges Canada to arrest Bush for torture

Amnesty International urges Canada to arrest George Bush for torture when Bush in October, 2011
By Amnesty International
Censored News

http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com

Overview
http://www.amnesty.ca/media2010.php?DocID=1006
Amnesty International today urged Canadian authorities to arrest and either prosecute or extradite former US President George W. Bush for his role in torture, ahead of his expected visit to Canada on 20 October. Canada is required by its international obligations to arrest and prosecute former President Bush given his responsibility for crimes under international law including torture. Amnesty International submitted a memorandum to the Canadian authorities on 21 September 2011 outlining the case for his legal responsibility. The violations took place during the CIA's secret detention program between 2002 and 2009 – and include torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading-treatment and enforced disappearances. While President, George W. Bush authorized the use of a number of “enhanced interrogation techniques” against detainees held in the secret CIA program.
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Amnesty International today urged Canadian authorities to arrest and either prosecute or extradite former US President George W. Bush for his role in torture, ahead of his expected visit to Canada on 20 October.

“Canada is required by its international obligations to arrest and prosecute former President Bush given his responsibility for crimes under international law including torture,” said Susan Lee, Americas Director at Amnesty International.

“As the US authorities have, so far, failed to bring former President Bush to justice, the international community must step in. A failure by Canada to take action during his visit would violate the UN Convention against Torture and demonstrate contempt for fundamental human rights.”

Amnesty International submitted a memorandum to the Canadian authorities on 21 September 2011 that makes a substantial case for the former president’s legal responsibility for a series of human rights violations.

The violations took place during the CIA's secret detention program between 2002 and 2009 – and include torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading-treatment and enforced disappearances.

While President, George W. Bush authorized the use of a number of “enhanced interrogation techniques” against detainees held in the secret CIA program.

The former President later specifically admitted to authorizing the “waterboarding” of several individuals whose subjection to this torture technique has been confirmed.

Detainees were subjected to waterboarding and a range of other “enhanced interrogation techniques” – including being forced to stay for hours in painful positions and sleep deprivation – during the CIA’s secret detention program, set up under then-President Bush’s authorization.

The CIA Inspector General found that Zayn al Abidin Muhammed Husayn (known as Abu Zubaydah) and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed were subjected, between them, to at least 266 applications of waterboarding while in detention between 2002 and 2003.

Amnesty International’s submission also highlights further evidence of torture and other crimes under international law committed against detainees held under US military custody in Guantanamo, Afghanistan and Iraq.

“This is a crucial moment for Canada to demonstrate it is prepared to live up to its commitments and obligations with respect to human rights,” said Susan Lee. “Canada has been a leader in efforts to strengthen the international justice system and must now demonstrate that when it comes to accountability for human rights violations, no one and no country is above international law.”