Mediators Instead of Police?

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Erle Frayne D. Argonza

 

Three (3) Filipinos were recently executed by the Chinese authorities for being caught transiting drugs for syndicate crime groups. Moralist quacks have celebrated them like heroes, which leaves me aghast over such hypocrisy, a quackery that suddenly rendered moot those legitimate questions regarding the inanities and evils of the drug trade.

 

Crime has been globalized, for how many decades we can only surmise. Gone were…

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Andrew Kolin's new book "State Power and Democracy: Before and During the Presidency of George W. Bush" actually begins with the war for independence and continues into the Obama years. A 231-page monotone recounting of endless facts, it doesn't pick up with Bush the Lesser until page 137. Kolin chronicles a gradual slide into an imperial presidency that really got going after World War II. Along the way he chronicles the damage done to the forces of resistance, making a compelling case that…

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As an International Police Officer for the United Nations Police Task Force in Bosnia and Kosovo, Bob Rail was responsible for designing curriculums and instructing elite police officers from 60 nations deployed in Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, Jordan, Asia, and Africa. He was also named as a physical confrontation advisor and resource training provider to select personnel of NATO and OSCE (Organization for Security & Co-Operation in Europe). Bob was also a resident instructor at the Specialized… Continue

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August 21-27th, 2010 post available here:
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Local people reported PNTL’s brutality to MPs Televizaun Timor-Leste March 2, 2010 language source: Tetun - Orlando Cardoso, a local member of the CPD-RDTL from Kasabauk village in Tilomar of Kovalima District

accused the PNTL of exercising excessive use of force against him.



Cardoso said that at 9 P.M of February 21, he was arrested and then taken…

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I am back home in the U-S-of-A! and now back to our regular Friday news...



Mediation Option in New Anti-Racism Code

The ICC has included a mediation process in its new anti-racism code to help cricketers settle such conflicts amicably between… Continue

It's Not Always Dispute Resolution Training

So, I was at an all day training the other day and got to put on my other-uniform-that-hopefully-I-will-never-ever-have-to-put-on-for-real.



The Following are the basics with the training:



* The outfit is incredibly uncomfortable



* It's definitely not one size fit all



* I sweat ALOT in it



* If the situation calls for the outfit to be… Continue

2009 ETLJ 2 Timor-Leste: the curious case of the fake policemen

Bu V. E. Wilson



13 February 2009In less than a week the Security Council in New York will be debating[2] the United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT) mandate which is due to expire on 26 February. Although everyday security in Timor is greatly improved since the unraveling of law, order and the security institutions in 2006, the Timorese police (PNTL)[3] are weak, unaccountable and factionalised and… Continue

Originally posted on 02.12.09 at Enjoy Mediation

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note: the 'fired during mediation' is the third story down



New Mediation Program In the Twin Cities

This article [here] talks about a new court of Appeals mediation program in the Twin Cities. Worth the fews minutes to read.



What I would like to point out is the issue of paid… Continue

Originally published 2.7.09 at Enjoy Mediation

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Police and City Mediation

Mediation With 32 Groups!

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UN Mediators Need to Be Reviewed... and… Continue

ETLJB 13 January 2009 SYDNEY - The government of East Timor has ridiculed a warning from opposition party Fretilin about the purchase of silencers for security forces weapons to be used when firing rubber bullets into riotous crowds. In a press release on 12 January, the Secretary of State for Security of Timor-Leste, Dr. Francisco Guterres explained, “In a public riot where the situation is out of control, it had been recommended that silencers be used when firing rubber bullets under extreme… Continue

Erle Frayne Argonza



Let me go back to the question of what lies ahead of us—when ‘late’ capitalism dies and yet capitalism will be extended. I am not discounting the possibility that capitalism’s life span will be extended, but this will no longer be ‘late’ capital, just to remind everyone.



You better fasten your seat belts, as the stormy days ahead will come for sure, and as this heraldry from me will sound as stormy already as those times ahead. Stormy heraldry, because… Continue

Erle Frayne Argonza



News came out recently about the suicide by a biodefense researcher who may have something to do with the anthrax scare weeks after the 9/11 event in the USA. I was in the USA at that time, and I witnessed the anxiety and trauma done by that sordid event.



My own theory then was that rouge forces within the USA were the ones behind the 9/11. The series of scare tactics and bombing hoax that followed could have been part of that overall agenda. The grand… Continue

Erle Frayne Argonza y Delago



Good morning!



It is a stormy morning actually as I write this piece, and it seems to coincide with stormy events in the European continent at the moment. The continental storm has got to do with the finalization of the Lisbon treaty that could have effected complete political integration of Europe.



What makes the treaty questionable, in the opinion of many in Europe and across the globe, is that it didn’t pass through the… Continue