Saturday, May 26, 2012

Brother of blind Chinese activist goes missing - lawyer

BEIJING | Sat May 26, 2012 9:10am BST

BEIJING (Reuters) - The brother of blind activist Chen Guangcheng has gone missing, a lawyer said on Saturday, days after he fled his village in northeastern China to seek help for his son who has been detained in a case that has become a rallying point among rights activists.

Chen Guangfu, the eldest brother of Chen Guangcheng, fled his home in Shandong province and arrived in Beijing on Wednesday to seek legal help for his son, Chen Kegui, who is being held on an attempted murder charge.

He appears to have become the latest target of the government's reprisals against Chen Guangcheng's family in the wake of the blind activist's escape from his village in late April after 19 months of detention at home.

Chen Guangcheng took refuge in the U.S. embassy, where he stayed for six days and sparked a diplomatic crisis between China and the United States. That crisis, which overshadowed a visit by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, was finally defused last Saturday when China allowed Chen to fly to the United States to study.

Chen Guangfu did not return to his hotel room in Beijing on Friday night, Shandong-based lawyer Liu Weiguo told Reuters.

Zhao Wei, a Shandong supporter of Chen Guangcheng's family, was the last person to have contact with Chen Guangfu before they parted ways on Friday afternoon, Liu said.

"As of now, there's still no news on Brother Guangfu," Liu said. "We're not optimistic. Guangcheng is also very worried. He's contacting friends to look (for him)."

The news of Chen Guangfu's disappearance comes three days after the 55-year-old farmer and odd job labourer recounted to Reuters details of his own torture and reprisals by authorities since his brother's escape.

Chen Guangfu said he was restricted from leaving his village and that police in Shandong warned him they would increase the sentence for his son, Chen Kegui, if he gave interviews.

His son, Chen Kegui, 32, was charged with "intentional homicide" for using knives to fend off local officials who burst into his home on April 27, the day after they discovered his blind uncle had escaped.

He could face the death penalty. His lawyers, denied access to him last week, said he did not kill anyone.

Michael Posner, U.S. assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labour, said on Thursday the United States was closely monitoring Chen's family in China.

Chen Guangcheng urged authorities in Beijing on Thursday to prosecute "lawless" officials who harassed and abused the self-taught lawyer, his family and supporters, saying such prosecutions could help China establish rule of law.

(Editing by Nick Macfie)

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Mississippi school district agrees to not handcuff students to objects

(Reuters) - The Jackson, Mississippi, school district has agreed to stop shackling students to fixed objects, after it was sued for handcuffing pupils to railings and poles at a school for troubled children, officials said on Friday.

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The Southern Poverty Law Center sued Jackson Public Schools in 2011 over its treatment of students at the district's Capital City Alternative School. Students at that campus have been suspended or expelled from other schools.

The center argued in its lawsuit that students at Capital City Alternative School were "handcuffed and shackled to poles" for non-criminal offenses such as violating dress code or talking back to a teacher.

U.S. District Judge Tom Lee approved a legal settlement on Friday.

Under the agreement, Jackson Public Schools will order its employees to end the practice of fixed restraints, which refers to securing a student to an immobile object with handcuffs or shackles, according to court papers.

The district will not use handcuffs on any student under 13, court papers said. In addition, handcuffs won't be used as punishment or for non-criminal conduct. The district also agreed to revise its restraint policy and document all cases in which handcuffs are used on students.

ONE STUDENT HANDCUFFED TO POLE FOR HOURS

In court papers filed last year, attorneys for the school district acknowledged that "employees passing by or through the ... area can hear children calling out and asking for the handcuffs to be loosened."

The lead plaintiff in the case was described in the suit as an unidentified eighth grade student with a history of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, asthma and seizures.

On one occasion, when he was handcuffed to a pole for hours, he was forced to call out to ask to be taken to the bathroom, the lawsuit said.

Jayne Sargent, interim superintendent of Jackson Public Schools, said in a statement that her district was "delighted" it could reach a settlement.

"The children certainly will benefit the most," said Sargent, who added that the incidents that led to the lawsuit occurred before she became interim superintendent.

Jody Owens of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Mississippi office said in a statement that the settlement is a victory for Jackson public school students.

"This handcuffing policy demonstrated a punitive school culture and a broken model of school discipline that focused on criminalizing students at the expense of educating them," Owens said.

The U.S. Department of Education warned in a report this month that restraining students can, in some cases, lead to their deaths, and that the use of restraints has not been shown to reduce students' bad behavior on campuses. The department says restraints should not be used unless a child endangers himself, herself or others.

Mississippi was listed in the report as one of several states without statutes or regulations addressing the topic of student restraints. Other states in that category included Indiana, Kansas, Alabama and Arizona.

(Additional reporting By Emily LeCoz in Tupelo, Mississippi; Editing by Stacey Joyce)

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Friday, May 25, 2012

FAA investigates jet door that fell on golf course

By Karen Yi, NBCMiami

The main cabin door of a jet detached and plummeted onto a golf course in Hallandale Beach Wednesday, officials said.


The door fell off shortly after the aircraft, carrying two pilots, took off, according to Kathleen Bergen, spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration.

The Canadair CL60 jet departed from Opa Locka Airport shortly before 4 p.m. and was headed toward Pompano Beach, Bergen said.

The plane was diverted to Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport where it landed safely, authorities confirmed.

Bergen said no one was injured and that the FAA was still investigating the cause of the incident.

The name of the golf course was not immediately known.

This story originally appeared on NBCMiami.

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You?ll find thousands of opinions floating about as to why we?re within the economic mess that we?re in. As life gives an un-usual twist, it can be human nature for the majority to analyze and search for the trigger of events. Even a slowdown in targeted traffic on the Interstate causes a backup for miles and I?ll just bet that every person is thinking ?accident?. That takes place to be the nature of the beast.

Now, let?s appear in the economic mess we?re in. I could write volumes on whose fault it can be. Certain, the poor ?un-educated? homeowner need to not have bought a residence that he couldn?t afford. But, perhaps, just possibly the greed of the realtor, the mortgage broker, the lender and lastly the game of chess on Wall St are all a component of the puzzle.

The media is focusing on locating the thieves on Wall St and bringing them to justice. But, the maze of fraud is woven so deep into the mesh that it may not be politically right to prosecute. But, we the public are nonetheless paying the bill. As, an example. When the government got the approval from both parties to supply extra funding inside the billions to bail out AIG, does anybody actually fully grasp exactly where the dollars went to and exactly where it came from.

The dollars came from you the American folks. It went into the checking account of AIG for the sole purpose of paying the investors (certificate holders) of the challenge loans the full quantity of the loan to ensure that the investor by no means lost a dime. In other words, we the individuals in no way got any benefit for giving AIG those billions of dollars. It was a game to create all politicians appear superior under the auspices that, unless we bailed out AIG the monetary globe would go upside down. The truth of the matter was, if we failed to present AIG the dollars, the investors would wind up with defaulted loans and their only indicates of recovering could be to foreclose, sell the home and adjust their losses.

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the flow of dollars and how the mortgage loans had been securitized didn?t function that way. Do you bear in mind any person attempting to get a loan modification getting told that they should be a minimum of 3 months late on their payments ahead of the bank could do anything. That was ?crap?. The reason that they had been told that was mainly because when the loan is (90) days delinquent, it triggers an automatic credit default swap in which the insurer pays the FULL Quantity of the loan to the investor that bought investment certificates within the trust. How ironic, that banks would not modify loans until the insurance kicked in. Now, here could be the quite juicy component. The insurer put up the cash for un-secured debt instruments. If, this may be the case, exactly where did the mortgage as well as the note get separated to ensure that the note was now un-secured.

Okay, let?s appear in the typical foreclosure. Tom and Judy are foreclosed on by somebody claiming to own the note and mortgage. It?s now coming out that lots of these pretender lenders bought a machine that recreates a signature in wet blue ink. The machine is named ?Automated Signature Technologies ? 2006? and is in use by several banks.

From the closing table, all the way into the Trust supplying the funds from the investors, all parties had been paid a brokers fee. In most situations it was termed a SRP or service release premium. It typically amounted to two ?%. Most folks within the mortgage and genuine estate enterprise confused this using the YSP or yield spread premium. Now, once you recognize this that all parties to the event had been paid as brokers, then the only party using a claim of ownership or interest inside the debt was the investor. So, how can anybody claim that they own the note and mortgage? Impossible. But, as, I explained above the insurer supplied funds inside the event of a default on an UN-SECURED instrument. How can this occur and what does this do to the chain of title. I?ve tried to un-ravel this mystery and there?s a lot far more to the puzzle.

Among the factors that?s happening in our courts is that the investors are suing all parties except the homeowner simply because they had been induced to invest millions into fraudulent mortgages. Yes, indeed, the lenders coerced the credit rating agencies to rate difficulty debt instruments into powerful bond ratings. This gave the investors the green light to go ahead and acquire these certificates. As the mess began to unravel, the lenders then blamed the credit rating agencies, for example Regular and Poors & Moodys for the dilemma.

Now whenever you come back to today?s globe. We see the homeowner getting foreclosed on by a person that doesn?t own the note and retaining a foreclosure mill law firm that we already know what happened. Let?s talk about the David Stern, Florida Default Law Group the Marshall Watson Group and numerous others that are getting investigated by the Florida Atty Generals office. Add this all up as well as the fire gets hotter and hotter. The only winners in this scenario are the attorneys. A new cash flow source has emerged. The unfortunate component is that you?ll find not enough attorneys to realize the complexity of this puzzle and most tragic will be the fact that the homeowner doesn?t have the resources to retain competent counsel.

Hence, we have the majority of foreclosure ruled on exactly where the bank does not own the note along with the homeowner is not represented. Is this unjust enrichment? Yes it?s. What will be the answer? I believe that filing a quiet title action due to the fact fraud is involved along with the consumers title was bi-furcated in the closing table, his title was clouded when the mortgage was closed. Presently, Florida Statues require a (5) year period ahead of a quiet title action can be filed. BUT, there?s growing evidence and thought that the present Statute does not apply when fraud is involved.

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