12-07-14 De Jerusalem a' Paris - Fete de la Bastille - Wassup, Jill?
By special request by our French friends, this video art classic is dedicated to Bastille Day in France!
Sunday, July 15, 2012
12-07-16 On the state of the government of the State of Israel... And the Spin...
On the state of the government of the State of Israel...Last week district court in Israel issued its verdicts (no juries here) on three corruption-related charges against former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
He was acquitted on two, convicted on one - "Breach of Loyalty" (similar to Honest Services Fraud in the United States). He is not likely to be sentenced to prison.
In the course of the prosecution it was established by the court that in Olmert's offices a Cash Enterprise was conducted, where influential figures delivered large sums of cash in envelopes, which were handled by Olmert's secretary and his personal counsel.
The secretary declined to take the stand, and is separately prosecuted. Key prosecution witness got confused and forgetful.
One thing is clear: Of the sums, which were determined to have been received by the Cash Enterprise, some $450,000 vanished into thin air.
Legal experts continue to debate the merits of the conviction/acquittals.
To this sometimes criminology expert, it sounds like a classic Italian Mafia trial, only this time it is Organized State Crime. And the Spin...
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07/11/2012 01:38
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He was acquitted on two, convicted on one - "Breach of Loyalty" (similar to Honest Services Fraud in the United States). He is not likely to be sentenced to prison.
In the course of the prosecution it was established by the court that in Olmert's offices a Cash Enterprise was conducted, where influential figures delivered large sums of cash in envelopes, which were handled by Olmert's secretary and his personal counsel.
The secretary declined to take the stand, and is separately prosecuted. Key prosecution witness got confused and forgetful.
One thing is clear: Of the sums, which were determined to have been received by the Cash Enterprise, some $450,000 vanished into thin air.
Legal experts continue to debate the merits of the conviction/acquittals.
To this sometimes criminology expert, it sounds like a classic Italian Mafia trial, only this time it is Organized State Crime. And the Spin...
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Olmert acquitted of central corruption charges
By YONAH JEREMY BOB07/11/2012 01:38
Former PM quotes Begin: There are judges in Jerusalem...
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The Most
Successful Terrorist Of The 20th Century
By Uri
Avnery
Shamir,
the dead honest fanatic, has many followers. Olmert, the living corrupt
pragmatist, has very few. Netanyahu, their current successor, has the vices of
both and the virtues of neither.
12-07-09 Algiers, Algeria
July 9, 2012 - Algiers, Algeria: Riot police use a water cannon during clashes with community police officers who were marching to demand more benefits from the...
12-07-16 On the state of the government of the State of Israel... And the Spin...
On the state of the government of the State of Israel...
Last week district court in Israel issued its verdicts (no juries here) on three corruption-related charges against former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
He was acquitted on two, convicted on one - "Breach of Loyalty" (similar to Honest Services Fraud in the United States). He is not likely to be sentenced to prison.
In the course of the prosecution it was established by the court that in Olmert's offices a Cash Enterprise was conducted, where influential figures delivered large sums of cash in envelopes, which were handled by Olmert's secretary and his personal counsel.
The secretary declined to take the stand, and is separately prosecuted. Key prosecution witness got confused and forgetful.
One thing is clear: Of the sums, which were determined to have been received by the Cash Enterprise, some $450,000 vanished into thin air.
Legal experts continue to debate the merits of the conviction/acquittals.
To this sometimes criminology expert, it sounds like a classic Italian Mafia trial, only this time it is Organized State Crime.
And the Spin...
___________
07/11/2012 01:38
Last week district court in Israel issued its verdicts (no juries here) on three corruption-related charges against former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
He was acquitted on two, convicted on one - "Breach of Loyalty" (similar to Honest Services Fraud in the United States). He is not likely to be sentenced to prison.
In the course of the prosecution it was established by the court that in Olmert's offices a Cash Enterprise was conducted, where influential figures delivered large sums of cash in envelopes, which were handled by Olmert's secretary and his personal counsel.
The secretary declined to take the stand, and is separately prosecuted. Key prosecution witness got confused and forgetful.
One thing is clear: Of the sums, which were determined to have been received by the Cash Enterprise, some $450,000 vanished into thin air.
Legal experts continue to debate the merits of the conviction/acquittals.
To this sometimes criminology expert, it sounds like a classic Italian Mafia trial, only this time it is Organized State Crime.
And the Spin...
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Olmert acquitted of central corruption charges
By YONAH JEREMY BOB07/11/2012 01:38
Former PM quotes Begin: There are judges in Jerusalem...
12-07-15 A social protest demonstrator set himself on fire in Tel Aviv
Israeli Man Sets Himself on Fire in Tel Aviv Protest
The 52-year-old left a letter at the scene that states, “The state of Israel stole from me and robbed me. It left me helpless.”
“Two Housing and Construction Ministry committees rejected me, even though I had a stroke.”
In the letter, he blames “the state of Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz, for the humiliation that the weakened citizens go through every day, taking from the poor and giving to the rich.
“I can’t afford medication or rent. I paid millions in tax, I served in the army and in the reserves until I was 46. I won’t be homeless and that is why I am protesting against all the wrongs the state imposes on people like me,” he wrote.
Thousands demonstrated in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa and several other Israeli cities today to mark the one-year anniversary of the social protests.
Ofer Barkan, an activist from Haifa, told Haaretz that the man was an activist in last year’s protests and he had threatened to set himself on fire several times.
“We met him last summer. He was a completely normative person who lived in Tel Aviv, but then his business went under,” Barkan said. “He became a cab driver and suffered a stroke which left him unemployed. He moved from Tel Aviv to Haifa because he could not afford life in the city.”
According to Haaretz, protesters will hold a rally for the man Sunday in Haifa.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
12-07-17 Meanwhile in Spain...
Read more about Spain's 'Indignados' who many acknowledge as the first Occupiers: http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2012/0516/Spain-s-Indignados-The-original-Occupy-reemerges-with-force
2-07-13 Demonstrations in Bahrain
(H) Smoke from tear gas grenades cover Bahraini youths standing at a makeshift barricade as they battle riot police during an anti-government protest in the village of Sitra, South Manama on July 13, 2012
— with Pramod Kumar Trivedi.
(H) Bahraini youths hold fire bombs as they sit under teared posters of ruler of Bahrain, Sheikh Hamad bin Issa al-Khalifa, during an anti-government protest in the village of Sitra, South Manama on July 13, 2012.
(H) Bahraini riot police officers walk past a graffiti on a wall reading "Down With Hamad" (in reference to Bahrain ruler Sheikh Hamad bin Issa al-Khalifa) during an anti-government protest in the Muslim Shiite village of Sitra, South Manama on July 13, 2012
12-07-17 Mexico demonstrations in the aftermath of election fraud
(H) The Mexican media has blacking out the protests against their new government, who have been accused of doing everything from buying votes to buying off the media.
If the corporate media won't spread this story, then let's spread the story. Share this all over your pages and your friend's pages and help support the democracy movement in Mexico...http://goo.gl/UNj4p
— with Odysseus Mjolnir Quintana.
