The Kimberley Process (KP) held a Plenary meeting in Swakopmund, Namibia last week, where it adopted a work plan for the Marange diamond mining fields in Zimbabwe, agreed to monitor “conflict diamonds” from the Côte d’Ivoire following UNSC Resolution 1893 (2009), and made decisions on the general enforcement mechanism of the KP rules. The Democratic Republic of Congo will be the 2011 Kimberely Process Chair.

The KP initiative began after 2000 discussions between interested governments, the diamond industry, and members of civil society of how to combat “conflict diamonds,” which have been used to finance wars in Africa’s diamond-rich countries. By 2002, the KP adopted the Kimberly Process Certification Scheme (KPCS), which requires participants to rigorously control diamond exports and imports and incorporate internal controls for the production and trade of diamonds. To ensure compliance, the KP requires statistical reporting on a regular basis in addition to other verification measures. With the Support of the United Nations and the European Community, the KP now has 49 Participants, with the members of the European Community counted together as a single member. The participants include all key centers for the production, polishing, and trade of diamonds.

The KP’s review of the Marange mining fields occurred as a result of recent reports suggesting non-compliance and human rights abuses. These reports followed the Zimbabwean government’s takeover of the fields during operation “Hakudzwoki” (no return) back in November of 2008. As a result, the KP adopted a double-track approach, using scientific measures to halt the flow of conflict diamonds from the area and sending a high-level KP envoy to the area. As part of the action plan adopted at the Swakopmund Plenary meeting, Zimbabwe agreed to bring mining into compliance with the KP so that the diamonds can be used for economic development rather than war.

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Two key judges in the Biker War Megatrial have been caught being involved in drug deals with the defendants, after 31 Hell's Angels were released and their local leader may only be serving 4 months in prison for murder and drug trafficking. The Hell's Angels are currently on trial for the murders of 150 people.

Article in link below.

Gang Tabs: A Request to Appeal the Release of 31 Hell's Angels Based on Judge Corruption

Google uses a complicated structure to send most of its overseas profits to tax havens, keeping its corporate rate at a super-low 2.4 percent

The heart of Google's (Nasdaq: GOOG - News) international operations is a silvery glass office building in central Dublin, a block from the city's Grand Canal. In 2009 the office, which houses roughly 2,000 Google employees, was credited with 88 percent of the search juggernaut's $12.5 billion in sales outside the U.S. Most of the profits, however, went to the tax haven of Bermuda.

To reduce its overseas tax bill, Google uses a complicated legal structure that has saved it $3.1 billion since 2007 and boosted last year's overall earnings by 26 percent. While many multinationals use similar structures, Google has managed to lower its overseas tax rate more than its peers in the technology sector. Its rate since 2007 has been 2.4 percent.

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AP - A reality televison producer arrived in Mexico escorted by nearly a dozen agents on Thursday after being extradited from the United States so he can face trial in his wife's killing.

Former "Survivor" producer Bruce Beresford-Redman landed at Cancun's airport and was whisked away in an SUV accompanied by three police vehicles. The noncommercial jet touched down on a separate runway where reporters didn't have access.
Minutes after landing, agents drove the producer to the state prosecutors' office, which is charging him in the death of his wife whose body was found in a sewer cistern at a s**** Cancun resort following an April 2010 family vacation.
Gaspar Armando Garcia Torres, attorney general for the state of Quintana Roo, said the suspect will be taken to a jail in the Caribbean resort. The producer could see a judge anytime within the next three days.

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I add the following issues raised by the court on charges of possession of my scale model usually tipped blade / 2 / two centimes, and the fact that the peak of the tree, in this case I auditioned in court on the designated date which was scheduled for 11.21.2011 and 11.22.2011 and ended by withdrawing accusations that I raised.
The same court refused to grant me the minutes and the court of last year 2010 for a similar case.
Police refused to return my passport, which is held in a court order.
When I went to the passport police, a policeman on duty told me that he would have to go back to their passport as a document from the court document, the court will give me, and because it is in their policy. For me roll my passport last year
I am looking for a lawyer, a senior expert on human rights, in connection with my case in London and the damage inflicted to me and lost my time and that I was in prison for / 4 / four months / 1 / one day I had many problems !!!
If someone wants to help me I promise that money will I, of which 70 percent will have a lawyer who will represent me in the European Court of Human Rights !
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I take full responsibilities for your inventory and wait for England, on what basis will I raise other charges, so that expose their country and that they reveal a small part of their policy.
Everything I say and write here will be used in court, of course if it comes to this and other allegations raised my
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I want to make a comment in regards to what happened to me and I wrote below, I write.
What I mean is that I do not like what happened to me. I was not that which had to be caught.
I understand splendid country which is acting so with foreigners arrived from elsewhere exactly I .
Sometimes I agree with them with this and their actions to those for which mentioned above.
I am not ready to act as against innocent as me, moreover, in such as me which are did not have past acts.
Court in London , says , person who brings blade is criminal, is a crime for an ordinary knife or' knife . - I do not think so ...
I am not ready to sue person thus still more by the person who has had no past acts , of nature murder or may have made experience .
I am on / 30 / thirty years now and so far I have no and at the very few offense and as I said already never and anywhere on any occasions I have not had problems with police officers or courts, although not pool me life .
I grew up in orphanages and I only own trainings and I have seen a straight path rather than crime.
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I add the following issues raised by the court on charges of possession of my scale model usually tipped blade / 2 / two centimes, and the fact that the peak of the tree, in this case I auditioned in court on the designated date which was scheduled for 21/11/2011 and 22/11/2011 and ended by withdrawing accusations that I raised
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The same court refused to grant me the minutes and the court of last year 2010 for a similar case.
My passport and my knife was returned to 12.07.2011, from police station, a court order that is;
Woolwich Crown Court .
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Court in London turns me and told me verbally that should I take on 21.11.2011 and to the latter institution in which I appeared was on 08/09/2011. Date to the end of which I quote for my appearance in court of course if no other date I will do as a residence in London / 7 / seven months and their wines will be deported by the institution for immigration, because I have not managed to get a job and because I've exceeded more than / 3 / three months wines of England.
England play with me now / 2 / two years. Even to deport me, I will not leave their country until they give me the court records of last year and this year as well as a document of this prison that I lick / 4 / four months, which most likely will again put me in prison.
What happens to me I think that is unfair and in violation of my human rights.



Britain imposed a safeguard clause for Bulgaria

I am writing this in relation to England, and how their legal system works.

I appeal to all people who are in the UK and those who are about to walk or think in England. This applies to Bulgaria and especially for tourists and of course for those who have decided to immigrate to England!
In England, people are bad, look to crush a stranger and kick it. They themselves are not fair and do not respect the law and violate human rights.
I never, anywhere on any occasion I had no problems and I have not tried.
On 04.06.2010 year I was in London, and was caught on 29/06/2010 are usually normal retainer pocket knife, and was introduced in jail and lawyers who were appointed by the court, which soon were instructed by the court, with the idea that he had to plead guilty and that if I pleaded guilty to go home as I fired and require independent lawyer. I said to the court by pleading that I was innocent.
Finally lounge four months in prison without being condemned without my document issued by the court and prison, which require!
I had many problems in prison and there had no rights. I was quartered in a cell with a large ex-offenders.
I want compensation for that was terrorizing / 4 / four months in jail and they gave me and then made another request to give me a job for me to eliminate the restriction on the labor market, which is at Bulgari, which I also refused.

How I got a knife, I explain.
While cutting his backpack, someone saw me and called the police shortly after, two policemen came to me and asked me for a knife - and I said, I have them and I explained that I did not know in England how things are and they arrested me and put me in prison, and before the police asked me to go back to Bulgaria!
In Prison Wandsworth prison where I was held for four months and one day - I require a document to a document manager refused!
For my documents I received from the prison and my luggage, I got it three weeks later, the date of my release!
Royal Court - London, refused to issue me a Protocol or any documents
This happened to me on 04.06.2010 and for a short stay during



Second case, which in 2011 was that there was a street patrol car by two police officers, and I saw them and went up a tree to pee and there they stop me, even if I did not think it would make my problem and they bicker about it I peed a little after, they decided to check my bag and found my scale model knife which does not always mean that there is a prison and court.

I went a little need of wood, because the area in which we are no toilet!
Poprintsip, I defer to target sites, but had no choice.
I can say also that I've seen all kinds of people to piss on high streets and buildings, not to mention, for those who party, which I have seen anywhere.

In this case, I was under warranty, they were seized my passport and I signed every day. The court is not an excuse that I knew I should not have to carry a pocket knife. Justified only if you work with them. I am justified because my job requires mock knife or knife - they are needed in the production of upholstered furniture. I wore them in public because I was on the street and I had no money for rent.
And to justify this man no justice for them.
I saw a very large butcher knife in a homeless Englishman-in this I mean that the police do not go hang, ie, not in jail or condemn it.
When I was arrested for a small knife in prison a prisoner told me that he saw a policeman found a knife in Anglichanin and nothing he did.
Their aim is to deport alien trapped by even the smallest and imprisoned him and force him to plead guilty, then he scored and deport him.
For knife court says it is a serious crime and prohibition. There is a ban on a knife, the words of the court, but I do not understand why they sold freely, and why is not declared as an official ban and where he wrote this question I!
-I think it is a serious offense when human rights are violated and those who violate them must be removed from their position!

I live in England, as angliyski language for me is very important because they teach myself only.
I am very disappointed in this country.
I am convinced that a screwdriver will make a man a criminal.
Most people carry pocket knives and I am convinced that many of them would get in trouble in this country.

From "Woolwich crown court" not my issue protocol for this case and my passport was returned and modeling knife, after seven months later

This happened to me on 24.05.2011 and for a short stay during


I already know that there is a ban on knives and knife in England!
So I want to make comments, the policy of England, and because I have suffered in this country.

I do not know if there is a knife law in England, but if there is one, I can say that in policy, with the aim to lose a lot of people, but most people are not aware of their rights, I did not know and Of course, they will be surprised who caught a knife, no matter how big they will be scored in prison.
I am the principle if such a law for the sword, be warned people in the world, because each knows the other in Europe, England, - what are the rules.

I have seen some wear pocket knife and I guess that many people carry pocket knives because they are needed in which I say that is normal, but those who, like me, you catch them, England would put them in prison and tortured them, hoping the person that is stuck in my prison to plead guilty, then deport, although he is a European citizen.

England says that crimes are with knives!
- I wonder how many crimes have become, as long as I was and still am in England this ugly, I have not seen or heard any crime with knives of any person. If someone commits it, nevertheless, who would it be? - Most likely from Arabic and gypsy type. How many crimes happened with knives and it is in normal, I wonder? - I can say that in life there are good and bad times. Yes, it is good to get these crimes with a knife, but I wonder why he had made man acts like a knife?

For this purpose, you have a way, and all the other crimes that are, to this end, the police monitor irregularities and related crimes with knives instead of England to justify with that. Police not doing his job, keeping abreast of such irregularities and makes references to people like me, in no time and it wakes me up and tells me where to sleep, instead of making the following types of problems.

I'd also like to add the following, which is as follows:

On one hand, I agree to have such a law on knives, but the other side did not agree and do not have to accept such a thing because many people will have their human rights violated. I disagree, because someone who performs such acts with knives judge in all of us, as I said, many people will be judged unfairly!

I do not think you can judge for people who carry a pocketknife, especially in individuals who had no previous offenses of general nature . I agree to judge for people who are caught with a knife or experience may have been a crime, of any nature !

That person is caught in a public place or has found a knife in the backpack or holding, any knife in a public place or any cadets, I would not say that it can accommodate and interpret the law for crimes!
I can say also to those who are criminals that they have rights, but for those who are trapped like me a knife is useless to speak.

If you already have such a law on knives, no problem, but to comply with the law and human rights, and to comply with rules / EC / EU.

I've had no problems anywhere, nor have I tried, and he's only thirty years.

England failed me usadi and act as I have a right to claim damages for which I had requested, but the party refuses to give me, I also wanted to give me a job for me to drop restrictions, limitations placed on the labor market , Bulgarians and Romanians.
- So, I made requests, but they refuse and do not give me that documents with records I can protect my rights in Strasbourg! Refuse, and because it's in their policy and to surprise people who do not know a knife in England, to warn the police, which is also in their policy.

Me, I could not condemn England, he could not do it because their system works more subtle way, sending me their lawyer, he instructed him with the idea of recognizing a person that is stuck me in jail and that if I pleaded guilty to go home - these are the words of the lawyer who sent me the court in 2010 and 2011, a pocket knife and modeling with peak two centimes !

I am convinced that this country works this way for years and was able to condemned many people, got them in prison and tortured them until plead guilty. - This is for those that do not have sufficient reason to sue. This country also continues to work and seek ways and occasions to kick foreigners.
England seek occasions to kick people like me who are on the street and watch them scored in jail and waiting to be found guilty, it is for those for whom there is no reason to sue!

This country will be able to order a lot of people, but like me, very rare!

At least it works so that England be honest - those like me who failed to condemn and justify them as innocent, to pay compensations, not only scoring in prison and to introduce stricter rules!

I'm on this principle, if someone wants to help others, at least not his way.

England, it is to be accepted into the European Union?- Most likely, the money of Europe!

Who knows how, mass deportations has made this country from EU countries - Bulgaria and Romania, which places the greatest restrictions on the labor market?
Failure to follow the law and human rights by persons exercising administrative and criminal legal actions are of the greatest crimes, and from there come all the problems with that crime and other problems associated with the crisis. For those who violate them should take their license always be injected in prison for a long time and be fined salt.

Of those who violate human rights, the person is a criminal because he or whoever it was, was disbarred.

This country discriminates against citizens depriving them of liberty and rights !

UK fails to comply with the laws of human rights!
While I was in England, and make something happen with me, be sure to blame this country. I say this because I want to protect myself and I described before and now England, which violates my rights and everything I write here is true!

If this country solve my problem and be fair, I'll admit England, in what little I suspect.
I think the country as a terrorist number / one / one of Europe!

England participated in the attacks and puts innocent people and torturing them, while the person is guilty, hoping that is my face stuck to plead guilty, for which there is no good reason to sue.

I am very disappointed in this country and hate.

If someone attacks them, be sure that it is not in vain!

For this purpose, I think, to ensure that this country and the judicial systems of England, who judge unjustly, and a violation of human rights and the rules of the European Union!

Again remind administrators and implore you not to delete information that is important to the people in the world. I take full Responsibility for inventory and England will wait on what basis will you raise other charges for having embarrassed their country, and that a small portion of their policy!

Everything you say and write here will be used in court, of course, if it comes to that.

If they decide on to judge me because I set their country, it would be unfair, but will risk simply have no choice.

It's true!

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That was me in London, Pavel Petkov from Bulgaria.

Last December i received an email from the CEO of Christianvibes that my email address was one of the lucky winners. He ask me to get a picture ID and to fill out the form provided and emailed it to the emailed address provided. He showed me the check and said that it was being sent to christian vibes in Ecuador to his disbursement officer to sent to me. She ask me to choose from the list of courier services, & I chose FedEx, she told me that my check would be arriving in 4 days time - in which nothing came when i get back 2 her, she told me that the Ecuadorian authority wants me to pay tax and insurance to insure the package which I paid, it then leaves Ecuador an reach Panama and then Panama wants bill of lading and sight which I paid, however the check date has expired and it had to be return back 2 Ecuador, which I had to pay to update the check, and then I was told that there is issue with the Ecuadorian authority and they are in court over this issue and then she told me that they have come to an agreement that the check will be wired transfer instead, and that I have to pay to convert the check and christianvibes will pay for the wire transfer, which I paid and it would only take 4 working days, before the 4th day I was informed that account number I had sent was not an int'l account and it would cause $100 for the bank tax to change it, which I again paid and this time when i was waiting for the money to reach into my account she informed me that the bank has charge me overseas charges of $300 which i again paid and another email she said that I had to pay for late fee which i finally paid and then she told me that it would only take 24hrs for the money to show up into my account. When it didn't I email her and she told me that the bank told her that the transaction did not go through it had bounced back into their system after 10hrs and that the bank wants me to open an int'l account with them Banco Pi*****ha so that I can get access to my account from any country in the world.

My question is what can I do to recover my money from christianvibes.com and how do I bring a law suit on them?

Turkish Parliament enacyed a new law that facilitates buying houses or property in Turkey for foreigners.

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The link below is an editorial from one of my favorite news media, Philippine Daily Inquirer. The impeachment trail is on-going and is hotly debated. I would appreciate your comments:

Corona’s ‘moro-moro’ at the Senate

Respectfully -- Jake
Retired Master Chief USN, Filipino-American

Attorney General Eric Holder defended the Obama administration's use of lethal force on suspected terrorists in a speech this afternoon in Chicago. Holder spent a good portion of it explaining the administration's legal rationale for targeting a U.S. citizen abroad, as it did in the operation that killed the New Mexico-born Anwar al-Awlaki, an alleged al-Qaeda operative in Yemen.

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The lawyerly stampede to South Korea kicks into high gear this week, as U.S. law firms looking to set up shop in the land of kimchee submit their applications to the Korean Ministry of Justice.

The U.S.-South Korea free trade agreement reached last year allows U.S. firms to open offices to advise clients on U.S and international law, as well as on international arbitration. See our past coverage here.

The agreement takes effect March 15. March 6 is the first day U.S. firms can apply to practice there, according to firms readying their paperwork.

The latest to join the party: Ropes & Gray, which shared with Law Blog its heretofore unannounced plans to open a Seoul office. The idea is to service existing Korean clients such as LG, Samsung, Hyundai Motors, Daewoo and Hanjin.

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Torture victims faced skepticism at the Supreme Court Tuesday, where justices questioned whether foreign organizations, including the oil giant Royal Dutch Shell PLC and the Palestinian Authority, could be sued for violating international law under U.S. statutes dating to the 18th century.

The Alien Tort Statute, adopted by the First Congress in 1789, permits foreigners to sue in federal court for violations of treaties or the “law of nations,” which today is understood to prohibit torture, genocide and crimes against humanity. More than two centuries later, President George H.W. Bush signed the Torture Victim Protection Act, authorizing U.S. citizens and aliens alike to sue perpetrators of torture and “extrajudicial killing” overseas.

While individuals have been sued under both statutes, their language is at best ambiguous when it comes to organizations, and no U.S. or international-law precedents point to a definitive answer. That left some of the sharpest legal minds—including two Stanford law professors arguing opposite sides of the question—to wrestle with such elementary questions as the definition of the word “individual.”

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AP - A Nicaraguan national has been extradited to the U.S. to face charges of drug trafficking and attempting to provide support to a Colombian paramilitary group.

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Reuters - The trial of dozens of democracy activists including 16 Americans began on Sunday in a politically charged case which is threatening ties between Cairo and Washington and $1.3 billion in annual U.S. military aid.

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AP - The Spanish king's son-in-law was jeered by hundreds of protesters as he arrived at a court Saturday to answer questions about suspected fraudulent deals.

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Reuters - A Saudi student accused of plotting to build and detonate bombs against targets including the Dallas home of former President George W. Bush was declared competent to stand trial on Tuesday by a federal judge.

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Supreme Court justices seemed pretty sure Tuesday that they knew how to interpret the meaning of the word “interpreter,” signaling they are likely to rule in favor of a former Japanese baseball player in a case involving translation costs.

Kouichi Taniguchi, a Japanese citizen, brought the suit in 2008 after falling through a deck at a hotel in Saipan, a U.S. territory. When he lost, the hotel tried to make him pay the $5,257.20 cost of translating written documents such as medical records, even though U.S. law says only that the winner in such cases can recoup costs of “interpreters” and “interpretation services.”

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Reuters - Some decidedly unprincely behavior at a New York City nightclub over the weekend landed a fist in the face of Prince of Monaco Pierre Casiraghi and sent a local man to court on assault charges, an attorney said on Monday.

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AP - On the surface, Edward Maher and his wife appeared to enjoy a comfortable middle-class life. They had homes in quiet neighborhoods, drove late-model cars and took occasional weekend trips. They raised two sons.

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Washington – The UN’s top human rights official declared Monday in New York that international inaction on the intensifying crisis in Syria likely is enabling the regime to commit crimes against humanity.

But in Washington, senior officials of the United States and Turkey, two countries that have called publicly for President Bashar al-Assad to cede power, seemed incapable of making any progress toward developing a plan of action, humanitarian or otherwise.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton hosted Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, who also met with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and White House national security adviser Thomas Donilon.

Reuters - Libya urged Niger on Saturday to extradite Muammar Gaddafi's son Saadi, saying his call for Libyans to prepare for a "coming uprising" threatened bilateral ties.

Niger responded that it could not hand over Saadi, who fled south to the West African state in September as Libyan forces gain the upper hand over his father's forces, because he would face execution in Libya.
But officials in Libya and Niger told Reuters that the Niger authorities had placed tighter restrictions on Saadi's movements and agreed that the Libyan foreign minister, Ashour Bin Hayal, would meet his Niger counterpart to discuss the issue.
In a telephone call to Al Arabiya television late on Friday, Saadi said that he was in regular contact with people in Libya who were unhappy with the authorities put in place after the ousting and killing of his father.
"The council demands that the Niger government extradite Saadi and those who are with him to the Libyan authorities as soon as possible to maintain the relationship with the Libyan people," National Transitional Council spokesman Mohammed al-Harizy said, reading out a statement to reporters.

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