Ursula Nevin slept through riots in Manchester but was jailed after accepting a pair of shorts looted by a friend A mother of two who slept through the riots but was jailed for handling a stolen pair of shorts that had been looted by a friend has been freed from prison on appeal. It is thought to be the first successful appeal against a sentence in relation to the disorder in England. Ursula Nevin, 24 was jailed for five months by a district judge at Manchester magistrates court earlier this week. The severity of the sentence caused concern as she had not actually been involving in rioting or looting. She had admitted accepting a pair of shorts that had been looted from a city centre shop by a friend. Judge Andrew Gilbart QC said he was setting aside the prison sentence because Nevin had not actually taken part in the riots. He ruled that the original decision was “wrong in principle” and instead he ordered Nevin to perform 75 hours of unpaid work for the community. Nevin was in bed at the time of the widespread disorder in Manchester city centre where her lodger, Gemma Corbett, helped herself to clothing and footwear from the Vans store and then took them back to the house they shared in Stretford, Greater Manchester. Nevin cried in the dock last Friday as District Judge Khalid Qureshi told her she was supposed to be a role model to her two young sons and criticised her for not speaking up and ordering the stolen haul to be moved out of the house. Judge Gilbart said on Friday that he had indicated in previous sentencing remarks on looters that a distinction could be made for people receiving stolen goods who had not been physically present during the disorder throughout Manchester and Salford last Tuesday. “Ursula Nevin did not go into Manchester city centre,” he said. “We regard it as wrong in principle that she was subject to a custodial sentence. “She must pay some sentence because she knew where the goods had come from. “Seventy-five hours of unpaid work appears to be the appropriate figure bearing in mind the guilty plea.” Addressing Nevin, who had no previous convictions, he said: “You must have found yourself, in the circumstances of the last week, trapped in a circle of hell. “The way you never get into that situation again is to show the courage to say ‘no’. “I am sure the courts will not be troubled by you again. Leave now and look after your children.” The defendant cried as the sentence was reduced, as did family members in the public gallery, including her mother. UK riots Sentencing Crime UK criminal justice Helen Carter guardian.co.uk
Continue reading …Goldman Sachs VP Changes His Name, Goes To Work For Issa Protecting…Goldman Sachs!
August 19, 2011 No Comment
Is there no end to the perfidy of Wall Street and their enablers? Even for Darrell Issa, who’s been known to boost a car or two, this is truly outrageous : enlarge Peter Haller Simonyi. Has Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) turned the House Oversight Committee into a bank lobbying firm with the power to subpoena and pressure government regulators? ThinkProgress has found that a Goldman Sachs vice president changed his name, then later went to work for Issa to coordinate his effort to thwart regulations that affect Goldman Sachs’ bottom line. In July, Issa sent a letter to top government regulators demanding that they back off and provide more justification for new margin requirements for financial firms dealing in derivatives. A standard practice on Capitol Hill is to end a letter to a government agency with contact information for the congressional staffer responsible for working on the issue for the committee. In most cases, the contact staffer is the one who actually writes such letters. With this in mind, it is important to note that the Issa letter ended with contact information for Peter Haller, a staffer hired this year to work for Issa on the Oversight Committee.Issa’s demand to regulators is exactly what banks have been wishing for. Indeed, Goldman Sachs has spent millions this year trying to slow down the implementation of the new rules. In the letter, Issa explicitly mentions that the new derivative regulations might hurt brokers “such as Goldman Sachs .”Haller, as he is now known, went by the name Peter Simonyi until three years ago. Simonyi adopted his mother’s maiden name Haller in 2008 shortly after leaving Goldman Sachs as a vice president of the bank’s commodity compliance group. In a few short years, Haller went from being in charge of dealing with regulators for Goldman Sachs to working for Congress in a position where he made official demands from regulators overseeing his old firm. It’s not the first time Haller has worked the revolving door to help out Goldman Sachs. According to a report by the nonpartisan Project on Government Oversight, Haller — then known as Peter Simonyi — left the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in 2005 to work for Goldman Sachs, then quickly began lobbying his colleagues at the SEC on behalf of his new firm. At one point, Haller was requiring to issue a letter to the SEC stating that he did not violate ethics rules and the SEC agreed.
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What keeps the Red Hot Chili Peppers from retiring to the beach to sit and eat burritos? Rob Fitzpatrick asks the LA rock aristocrats how they keep things chaotic after all this time Half of the Red Hot Chili Peppers are sitting opposite me on a pair of sumptuously plump sofas in a corner suite at the top of a beachfront hotel in Santa Monica, California. Outside the window to my left is the Pacific, while outside the one to my right are the fleshpots and fairgrounds of Venice Beach. It’s 2pm and the sun thumps down in thick, exhausting waves. Even the guy lying flat on his back by the pool, the one with his legs artfully spread so his inner thighs don’t miss out, yanks his towel up in submission and retreats to the tented shade by the bar. On the beach, huge bulldozers roll back and forth endlessly shifting sand, their reverse gear beeps punctuating our every sentence. Bass player Michael “Flea” Balzary – incredibly, this advert for perpetual adolescence is now 48 – is explaining something about how his love of surfing informs his love of songwriting, and I’m trying to keep up, but his outfit and demeanour aren’t helping me concentrate.
Continue reading …It’s Just a Good Thing I Can’t Pack a Gun on the Senate Floor, Says Sen. Coburn – Then Attacks Medicare: UPDATED
August 18, 2011 No CommentAfter his role in the John Ensign scandal I’m not sure why he’s still in Congress, but yesterday he turned into an AM hate talk radio host and attacked Congress, Obama and Medicare: Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) ripped his colleagues during a tour of northeast Oklahoma, calling them “career elitists,” “cowards” and said, “It’s just a good thing I can’t pack a gun on the Senate floor.” Coburn’s gun-on-the-floor comment comes less than a month after Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) made a triumphant return to the Capitol and the House floor following her shooting in the head in January outside a Tucson supermarket. OK, threatening to shoot members of Congress is never a good thing. Maybe there should be a bill that forbids this kind of thing being said in DC. You know, if Louie Gohmert’s crazy bill which wanted to arm these Congressman was passed maybe they could have had an old fashioned shoot out — OK Corral style right in the Capitol. But he was on a roll that Rush Limbaugh would have been proud of. Next up, he made up the claim that health care for seniors was better before Medicare ever came along. He said the nation’s health care system was better before Medicare existed, even as he noted that some people received poor care at the time and doctors often accepted baked goods or chickens in partial payment. “You can’t tell me the system is better now than it was before Medicare,” he said. He said the nation’s health care system was better before Medicare existed, even as he noted that some people received poor care at the time and doctors often accepted baked goods or chickens in partial payment. “You can’t tell me the system is better now than it was before Medicare,” he said. My doctor has been telling me that he’ll trade kittens and frogs for service. Why stop now, he was rocking: Without specifying what he meant, Coburn said President Barack Obama has an “intent is to create dependency because it worked so well for him.” The World’s caption below a photo of Coburn reads the understated: “Disagrees with Obama’s politics.” “As an African-American male,” Coburn said, Obama received “tremendous advantage from a lot of these programs.” The programs were not identified in the World report There is no evidence as far as I can tell that Obama was an affirmative action recipient , but it’s the good and decent racist thing to say and it falls in line as just your basic conservative spin about the program, but he does equate getting Medicare as being a crack addict I think. UPDATE: David from Video Cafe catches a response from Coburn on local radio: “It’s just a good thing I can’t pack a gun on the Senate floor,” he said, according to The Tulsa World . Coburn’s remarks came less than a month after Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), who had suffered a gunshot wound to the head in January, briefly returned to Congress. Conservative radio host Pat Campbell gave Coburn a chance to defend his remarks Thursday. “You think that’s going to come back to haunt you?” Campbell asked. “Oh, I don’t know,” Coburn said. “I don’t care. The problems are so big. What I was trying to do was be funny. They know that.”
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enlarge Credit: The Tweeters It’s not just a tweet – it’s a re-tweet of the Heritage Foundation that showed up on the Speaker of the House’s feed. Yes, the Heritage Foundation – you know the people who scored the first Bush Tax Cut and reported they would : 1) Effectively pay off the federal debt; 2) Reduce the federal surplus by $1.4 trillion; 3) Substantially increase family income; 4) Save the entire Social Security surplus; 5) Increase personal savings; 6) Create more job opportunities. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. And wrong. Nice credible people to associate with, Boehner. Even better people to have your aide parrot on Twitter. I’ve yet to see 140-characters sum up a person better than this tweet. Amazing. And of all the CEOs in the world who could be kvetching about the Affordable Care Act – they quote one from a fast food chain?! “I’m very concerned that in the coming years we’ll be unable to create as many jobs as we would like due to the increased expenses necessitated by laws such as the PPACA [Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act],” Andy Puzder testified . Oh no! Fewer burger flipping jobs?! In America? Right. Let us not forget that when we’re talking about minimum wage jobs – we’re talking about jobs you can’t live on so you’re forced to rely on food stamps and Medicaid to survive. When we talk about minimum wage jobs – we’re talking about government subsidized workers . Andy Puzder CEO of Carls Jr. is a McJobs creator. Hey Boehner – where are all those taxpayer-funded McJobs?
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Click here to view this media Real estate mogul Donald Trump said Monday that he would be willing to pay a higher tax rate but most oil companies would not because they are not patriotic. “Warren Buffet made another splash with his op-ed in The New York Times , saying it’s just not right that he, a billionaire, pays 17 percent in taxes when his secretary and receptionist pay more,” ABC’s George Stephanopoulos told Trump. “Isn’t he right about that?” “There’s many different views on that,” Trump replied. “And I can also tell you that a lot of people will go elsewhere to do business if you start taxing them.” “But 17 percent isn’t much for a billionaire,” Stephanopolous noted. “But you’re going to have a mass exodus of business out of this country when you start taxing too high,” Trump explained. “But if you go back to certain companies, Exxon Mobil, the oil companies, for us to be subsidizing oil companies is absolutely insane.” “Well it sounds like this is where you part company with the tea party and many in the House. You would be willing to close those loopholes on the oil company as part of a deficit [reduction plan],” the ABC host remarked. “Oh, absolutely. I think the oil companies — and I’m a big tea party fan, and the tea party loves me and I get great polls in the tea party… I think when explained to the tea party, I can’t imagine anybody’s going to stick up for Exxon Mobil or some of these big oil companies that are making a fortune and paying relatively little in tax. And I think we should be taxing,” Trump answered. “As part of a deficit reduction package, would you be willing the pay, assume for a second you pay Warren Buffet’s rate, 17 percent. Would you be willing to pay 25 percent instead of 17 percent?” Stephanopolous pressed. “See, I would be willing to, George, but a lot of people wouldn’t be,” Trump admitted. “A lot of people would leave the country. I’m talking about big people, job-producing people. Would I be willing? Yeah, I’d be willing. I’d put country first… A lot of people will say, ‘No thank you, I’m going to Switzerland. I’m going to Germany. I’m going to here, I’m going to there.’” “It’s very unpatriotic. They’re not patriotic. In many cases, they’re not patriotic. They’re business machines.”
Continue reading …CNN's Jessica Yellin used a recent CNN poll Tuesday to give credence to the White House spin that President Obama is the victim of a bad economy he inherited from Bush. What Yellin failed to report was another CNN poll showing that Americans almost two-to-one disapprove of Obama's handling of the economy. Yellin, on Tuesday's The Situation Room, touted a July 25 CNN poll showing that 57 percent of Americans believe Bush and the Republicans are more to blame than Obama and the Democrats for the current economic troubles. She added that the Obama White House could credibly use that poll result to deflect blame toward President Bush for the poor economy. [Video below the break.] “So it's actually connecting with the American public to say that, you know, when the President says that he is ultimately responsible for fixing it, but he didn't cause the problem – it's a message that seems to be working for him,” Yellin said of Obama. “And so they're continuing to try to use it to dig him out of some of his low favorable ratings when it comes to the economy right now,” Yellin said of the White House. She did acknowledge that the President has low economic approval ratings, but did not mention the specific poll finding. An August 8 CNN poll reports that 64 percent of Americans disapprove of President Obama's handling of the economy. Also, Yellin pulled from only a half sample in her reporting. The July 25 question about who was to blame for the economic troubles had two versions with two half samples. The other version showed more Americans by a slight margin blaming the Democrats for the economy. A transcript of the segment, which aired on August 17 at 6:39 p.m. EDT, is as follows: WOLF BLITZER: David, the President is in a tough spot, I should say. It sounds like he admits he is responsible, but doesn't want to take – doesn't want to receive the blame for the slow recovery. What's your take? DAVID GERGEN, CNN senior political analyst: Well he's been very, very deft, I would have to say. And sort of whenever these kind of subjects come up, he does – sure shoves the blame in a different direction. And he said basically that we had a lot of headwinds that came out of Japan and so forth. But he also made it clear he thought that the Republicans — and again to go back to Jessica's point – he sort of camouflages it sometimes. He talks about Congress, but you know what he is really saying is the Republicans have caused this downgrade. So, he – you know, a lot of people find that disingenuous, that it is not really a serious conversation, but look, it is what got us – he's come a long way on those kind of arguments in the past. So, I guess the White House feels they're going to keep pushing it. BLITZER: You know Jessica, we also heard the President say he has got a new jobs proposal he's going to release in September. You know, he wouldn't tell me what's in it. And I asked him, you heard me ask him what's taking so long. We have had a jobs crisis in the United States for two-and-a-half-plus years. Longer than that, I should say. But what are we hearing about this new proposal? Do we have any idea where it's going to take the U.S.? JESSICA YELLIN, CNN chief White House correspondent: Well, they're working on it. There are a lot of potential elements of it that could involve different kinds of payroll tax credit possibilities, and different kind of policies that have been floating out there for a while, Wolf. But what we know he'll do is put out a jobs, like a big jobs package that has a lot of these different policies together, into one comprehensive plan that he;ll release after Labor Day vacation. He will also, in addition that, put out a proposal what he believes and
Continue reading …enlarge As the New York Times reported Sunday, within the Obama White House a fierce debate is raging about what to do next about jobs and the economy . But on the same day Americans learned advisers David Plouffe and Bill Daley are pushing President Obama to put forward only proposals which can pass Congress as part of his continuing quixotic quest for the political center , the Times’ Sheryl Gay Stolberg became the latest to document that it no longer exists . Which is one more reason why President Obama not only must aggressively promote the job creation programs America are so desperate for. He should take a page from the GOP playbook while doing so. After all, the same Republicans who claimed the economy was the party’s ” number one priority ” immediately pushed draconian anti-abortion restrictions, a stillborn repeal of the health care reform law and a disastrous balanced budget amendment they knew would never become law . It’s time for Barack Obama to start making Republicans offers they can’t refuse. And if they do, they’ll be on record for having said no to the economic recovery measures the American people so badly need. 1. The States’ Rights Act. Republicans claim to love states’ rights. Among them should be the right to get help from Washington to limit the cataclysmic budget shortfalls and layoffs now gripping cash-strapped state and local governments. The States’ Rights Act would do just that. After all, state and local governments which shed almost 500,000 jobs since 2009 lost 39,000 more in June and are forecast to hemorrhage 110,000 more in the third quarter . With tax revenues only now beginning to approach pre-recession levels and federal stimulus funding evaporating, 42 states face budget shortfalls totaling $175 billion over the next two and a half years . They have been, and continue to be, the anti-stimulus . So here is a proposal to rescue the states and protect the fragile American economy, all with only a small impact on the federal government’s long-term debt. Establish a $200 billion, two-year federal fund providing loans to those states desiring them to prevent further layoffs and to help pay for the rising, recession-induced costs of Medicaid, unemployment and other essential services. These no-or-low interest loans could be paid back over 10 years. During the debate over the stimulus program in early 2009, Senate Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell proposed: “If the money were lent rather than just granted, states would, I think, spend it wisely and the states that didn’t need it at all wouldn’t take any.” Now would be a good time to take him up on his offer. 2. The Ronald Reagan Debt Reduction Silver Anniversary Act. Economic recovery programs cost money. To offset their long-term budgetary impact, Democrats and Republicans alike can turn to Ronald Reagan for guidance . Ronald Reagan tripled the national debt, but his draining of the Treasury could have been much worse. Recognizing the devastating impact of his massive 1981 supply-side tax cuts, Reagan subsequently raised taxes seven of his eight years in office, 11 times in all. The most remembered came in 1986, with the passage of a major tax overhaul which eliminated scores of loopholes for individual and business alike. To honor the 25th anniversary of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 , President Obama should propose and Congress should pass the Ronald Reagan Debt Reduction Silver Anniversary Act. By wiping out a wide range loopholes and subsidies, resetting the estate tax to 45 percent while returning the top income and capital gains tax to their 2000 levels starting in 2013, this tribute to the Gipper could erase at least $1 trillion of debt over the following decade. 3. The Ayn Rand Payroll Tax Holiday Act. As part of last year’s $800 billion package extending the Bush tax cuts for two more years, Congress passed a one-year, two percent cut in the payroll taxes paid by virtually every working American. But that incentive set to expire at the end of December, one which could save a family earning $50,000 around $1,000. So President Obama should act to right away to continue for two more years. But that payroll tax holiday costs the Treasury $120 billion a year. To make sure the next generation of Medicare and Social Security recipients can count on the same kinds of benefits that Ayn Rand did and Paul Ryan does, President Obama and Republican leaders should raise the income cap on payroll taxes from $106,800 to $250,000 a year. That’s a small price to pay for Going Galt . 4. The John McCain Home Loan Responsibility Act. With banks set to foreclose on as many as 900,000 homes this year, the moribund U.S. housing market remains a major drag on the economic recovery. Last week, John McCain offered the rough outlines of a solution: “The reality is that the housing market is what triggered this crisis, and it’s going to be the housing market that recovers. And that means to me, go out and buy up people’s mortgages as we did during the Great Depression, and give them a mortgage that they can afford the payments to make, and then we will begin to come out of this problem.” That’s a far cry from March 2008 , when presidential candidate John McCain fretted about moral hazard and declared, “I have always been committed to the principle that it is not the duty of government to bail out and reward those who act irresponsibly, whether they are big banks or small borrowers.” Pilot programs to keep Americans in their homes by getting banks to accept mortgage “cram downs” could be scaled up with, say, a $25 billion federal fund. Given his own experience, tea party freshman Rep. Tom Graves (R-GA) should be a solid supporter. After all, he just claimed that his own bank should have known he couldn’t pay back a $2.2 million loan. 5. The Dwight Eisenhower and Ted Stevens Memorial Infrastructure Fund. If ever there was a time for a massive public works program, this is it. With unemployment stuck at 9 percent and an estimated $3 trillion backlog in projects to repair America’s bridges, highways, transit systems, water systems and sewerage treatment plants, President Obama and Congress should embark on a five year, $250 billion infrastructure overhaul. These investments in an Infrastructure Bank and Surface Transportation Upgrades would not only be a fitting tribute to President Eisenhower’s innovative interstate highway system. The late Alaska Senator Ted Stevens may have been wrong about the Internet, but tunnels, water pipes and sewer systems are a “series of tubes.” (This piece also appears at Perrspectives .)
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Amnesty urges nation to honour human right treaties it has signed as it prepares to try two men for same-sex sexual acts Two men are due to stand trial in Cameroon on charges of homosexuality, prompting criticism from human rights campaigners of the country’s discriminatory laws. Amnesty International demanded the immediate release of the pair, a 19-year-old known only as Jonas and a 20-year-old known as Francky, who were arrested last month in a car outside a nightclub in the capital, Yaounde. They were charged under section 347a of the Cameroonian penal code, which criminalises same-sex sexual acts, and are being held at Yaounde’s Kondengui central prison. If convicted, they face up to five years behind bars. Homophobia is widespread in Cameroon, with gay men frequently subjected to legal prosecution. In March this year, Jean-Claude Roger Mbede was jailed for three years for homosexuality after apparently falling victim to entrapment by the security forces . Amnesty reiterated its call for a change in the law. Erwin van der Borght, its Africa programme director, said: “Given the high level of officially sanctioned homophobia in Cameroon, those arrested under this law are at risk of attack or other forms of ill-treatment, by fellow prisoners or by prison authorities, because of their alleged sexual orientation. “Cameroon should repeal this draconian law. By arresting people purely because of their alleged sexual orientation, the Cameroonian government is flagrantly violating international human rights treaties which it has signed or ratified.” Amnesty reported that Mbede was serving his sentence at Kondengui central prison, known for its overcrowding, poor sanitation and inadequate food supplies. He is said to be in poor physical and mental health and to have been denied medical treatment. He told visitors he had been sleeping on the ground since his imprisonment in March. He is appealing against his conviction and sentence. Amnesty said it considered Mbede to be a prisoner of conscience, imprisoned solely because of his real or perceived sexual orientation. It has called on the authorities to ensure he is not subjected to any form of ill-treatment, harassment or violence. Section 347a was drawn up nearly 40 years ago but its enforcement has been variable over time. “Detentions under the law appeared to have dropped in recent years following a peak of arrests in 2005-6,” van der Borght said. “But over the past few months, such arrests appear to be on the rise again. We urge the Cameroonian authorities to rethink this discriminatory legislation and comply with their obligations under international human rights law.” A joint report last year by four human rights organisations said homosexuals in Cameroon face arbitrary detention, scant regard for due process of law and sentencing without evidence. The report documented abuses in detention, both prior to trial and in prison, including beatings, torture and verbal abuse. Cameroon Gay rights Africa David Smith guardian.co.uk
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Anti-corruption campaigner refuses to leave prison despite release warrant Indian officials are locked in negotiations with the country’s best-known anti-corruption campaigner as the government of Manmohan Singh frantically tries to roll back a growing wave of popular anger over his arrest. Protests in support of Anna Hazare, the 74-year-old activist whose detention on Tuesday sparked the crisis, have showed no signs of dying down and tens of thousands are continuing to demonstrate across India. Despite a hastily arranged release warrant, Hazare is refusing to leave the high-security Tihar prison in Delhi until the government allows him to mount a public hunger strike. The crisis is one of the most serious to strike the beleaguered coalition government so far. Singh attempted to take the initiative in a speech to parliament on Wednesday, explaining that the government was not against the anti-corruption campaigner’s motivations and objected only to his methods and immediate goals . “I acknowledge that Anna Hazare may be inspired by high ideals,” Singh said, over shouts and catcalls from the opposition. “However, the path that he has chosen to impose a draft of the bill on parliament is totally misconceived.” Government officials accuse Hazare of being anti-democratic and trying to “blackmail” elected representatives. Hazare is refusing to leave jail, where he has started a hunger strike, unless the government allows his protest against corruption to go ahead as originally intended. Thousands of supporters gathered outside the jail on Tuesday, some spending the night outside. Prashant Bhushan, a lawyer and key aide of Hazare, said the campaigner would “come out of Tihar jail only if the government agrees to his demands and releases him unconditionally”. The arrests of Hazare and more than a thousand followers, which the government says were necessary on public order grounds, has sparked deep indignation across India and allowed a weak and fragmented opposition to score points against the ruling Congress party. “It is a wake-up call for all of us unless we put our house in order. The people of this country are becoming restless,” said Arun Jaitley, a senior leader of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party. Hazare, a controversial figure whom opponents accuse of having links to Hindu nationalist fringe groups, has successfully invoked the memory of Mahatma Gandhi to mobilise vast reservoirs of anger within Indian society at endemic corruption, poor services and patchy governance. The administration has been weakened by a series of corruption scandals involving party officials, appointees or allies. Hazare, who is demanding tougher laws against graft, insists that before he leaves jail he wants the right to return to the city park where he had planned to fast publicly. Officials said they were hopeful of reaching a compromise by Wednesday night. Whatever the outcome, the episode will reinforce the impression among people from right and left that the elderly Singh is out of touch and that his government is too clumsy to govern Asia’s third-largest economy effectively. “Corrupt, repressive and stupid,” was the verdict of the leftwing Hindu newspaper. “Anna has the government fumbling,” ran a headline in the Mail Today, which follows a centre-right editorial line. Though some of the protests across India have been organised by political opponents of the Congress party, most seem to be independent. Calls have been made for civil servants to take leave and rickshaw drivers to strike. Hazare has carefully built his image, stressing links to Gandhi at every opportunity. In a pre-recorded video, released after his arrest, he called for a “second freedom struggle” against corruption. Gandhi led the first against British imperial rulers. Shops selling the type of hat linked to Gandhi and habitually worn by Hazare have sold out. Anna Hazare India Jason Burke guardian.co.uk
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