13-11-04 ISRAEL: Senior law professors are asked to affect lawful appointment of Chief Clerk for the Supreme Court .// פרופסורים בכירים למשפטים התבקשו להפעיל השפעתם למינוי כדין של מזכיר ראשי לבית המשפט העליו

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Chief Clerk" Sarah Lifschitz, who falsely appeared in that title for over 10 years, resigned as of October 31, 2013.  Today's letter to the law professors voiced the concern that the Bar's failure to take action in this matter, which is central to integrity of the justice system, should lead to the opinion of "corruption of the legal profession in Israel" under reasonable international review standards. 

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Renowned Israeli law professors, Daniel Friedman, Mota Kremnitzer, Menahem Mautner, Barak Medina, Amnon Rubinstein, Yedidyah Stern

Occupy Tel-Aviv, November 4 - Joseph Zernik, PhD, of Human Rights Alert (NGO) forwarded a request to renowned Israeli law professors, Daniel Friedman, Mota Kremnitzer, Menahem Mautner, Barak Medina, Amnon Rubinstein, Yedidyah Stern to exert their good faculties in affecting action by the Israel Bar Association in order to ensure lawful appointment of a Chief Clerk for the Supreme Court of the State of Israel.

"Chief Clerk" Sarah Lifschitz, who falsely appeared under that title for over 10 years, resigned as of October 31, 2013.  During the period that she falsely occupied the office, corresponding to the tenure of Presiding Justices Aharon Barak, Dorit Beinisch, and Asher Grunis, the electronic records of the Israeli Supreme Court have been corrupted in an unprecedented manner. 

As of today, regardless of efforts to establish the nature of present occupation of the office of Chief Clerk of the Supreme Court, the facts remain ambiguous.

Request, which was filed yesterday with the Israel Bar Association, asked for action by the Bar to ensure lawful appointment of a Chief Clerk for the highest court of the land.  

Today's letter to the law professors voiced the concern that Bar's failure to take action in this matter, which is central to integrity of the justice system, should lead to the opinion of "corruption of the legal profession in Israel" under reasonable international review standards. 

The letter also noted instances in recent years, in which the Bar or its representatives took positions in effort to stem corruption of the courts, e.g. the Judges Vardah AlSheikh and Hila Cohen affairs.
The news of the resignation of "Chief Clerk" Sarah Lifschitz to the best of knowledge has not been reported by Israeli media yet.  There is no doubt that resignation of the secretary of cabinet, or the secretary of Knesset would have immediately reported.  Moreover, the resignation of "Chief Clerk" Sarah Lifschitz comes after the filing of two criminal complaints, alleging fraud in the unlawful occupation of office and fraud in certification of Supreme Court records.

LINKS:

[1] 13-10-31 ISRAEL: Congratulations! "Chief Clerk" of the Supreme Court resigned! // מזל טוב! התפטרה "מזכירה ראשית" של בית המשפט העליון שרה ליפשיץ!

http://www.scribd.com/doc/180906755/

[2] 13-11-03 Request for the Israel Bar Association to take action to ensure lawful appointment of Chief Clerk in the Supreme Court of the State of Israel  // בקשה הוגשה ללשכת עורכי הדין לפעולה להבטחת מינוי כדין של מזכיר ראשי בבית המפשפט העליון

http://www.scribd.com/doc/181132755/

[3] 13-11-04 ISRAEL: Senior law professors are asked to affect lawful appointment of Chief Clerk for the Supreme Court 

http://www.scribd.com/doc/181355654/
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Joseph Zernik, PhD
Occupy Tel Aviv
Human Rights Alert (NGO)
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* The Human Rights Alert (NGO) submission to the Human Rights Council of the United Nations was incorporated into the 2010 Periodic Review Report regarding Human Rights in the United States, with the note: "corruption of the courts and the legal profession and discrimination by law enforcement in California".
* The Human Rights Alert (NGO) submission to the Human Rights Council of the United Nations was incorporated into the 2013 Periodic Review Report regarding Human Rights in Israel, with the note: "lack of integrity of the electronic records of the Supreme Court, the district courts and the detainees courts in Israel."

===13-11-04 פרופסורים בכירים למשפטים התבקשו להפעיל השפעתם למינוי כדין של מזכיר ראשי לבית המשפט העליון===

המכתב הופנה לפרופסורים מנחם מאוטנר, ברק מדינה, דניאל פרידמן, מוטה קרמניצר, אמנון רובינשיין, וידידיה שטרן. "מזכירה ראשית" שרה ליפשיץ, שהחתזתה ל"מזכירה ראשית" במשך יותר מ-10 שנים, פרשה ב-31 לאוקטובר, 2013. המכתב לפרופסורים מעלה חשש שאי פעולה מצד לשכת עורכי הדין למינוי מזכיר ראשי כחוק, ייחשב תחת ביקורת וקני מידה בינלאומיים ל"שחיתות מקצוע עריכת הדין בישראל".

ככל הנראה, פרישתה של שרה ליפטיץ לא דווחה עד היום בתקשורת הישראלית.  אין ספק שהתפטרות מזכיר הממשלה או מזכיר הכנסת היו מדווחות מיד.  יתרה מכך, התפטרותה של "מזכירה ראשית" שרה ליפשיץ הגיעה לאחר ששתי תלונות פליליות הוגשו נגדה - על החתזות והונאה באישור החלטות בית המשפט העליון.
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דר' יוסף צרניק
מאהל המחאה החברתית, ת"א
סייג לזכויות האדם (NGO)
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* דוח סייג לזכויות האדם נכלל בדוח התקופתי של האו"ם לגבי זכויות האדם בישראל (2013), עם ההערה: "חוסר יושרה בכתבים האלקטרוניים של בית המשפט העליון, בתי המשפט המחוזיים, ובתי הדין למוחזקי משמורת בישראל".
* דוח סייג לזכויות האדם נכלל בדוח התקופתי של האו"ם לגבי זכויות האדם בארה"ב (2010), עם ההערה: "שחיתות בתי המשפט ומקצוע עריכת הדין בקליפורניה".

13-11-03 SNOWDEN: "Manifesto of Truth", 2013 - likely to become one of the defining document of our decade

Likely to become one of the defining documents of our decade., together with the "Occupymarines Press Release" from the NatGat in Philly (2012). The same ideas were expressed in Mannings pre-judgment pleading, but Snowden made it into a succinct official Manifesto.
Other documents that I have considered at that level:

LINKS:

[1] John Winthrop's City upon a Hill, 1630

https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/winthrop.htm

[2] Students for Democratic Society Port Huron Statement,1962

http://www.lsa.umich.edu/phs/resources/porthuronstatementfulltext

[3]OccupyMARINES Press Release, 2012 

http://www.scribd.com/doc/99848186/

 jz

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"Citizens have to fight against the suppression of information about affairs of essential importance for the public,” Snowden said in his five-paragraph manifesto. Hence, “those who speak the truth are not committing a crime." “Manifesto for the Truth” (2013)

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Edward Snowden says calls for reforms prove his leaks are justified

http://rt.com/news/snowden-manifesto-leaks-justified-162/

Published time: November 03, 2013 14:40
Edited time: November 04, 2013 04:43

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Demonstrators hold placards supporting former US intelligence analyst Edward Snowden during a protest against government surveillance on October 26, 2013 in Washington, DC. (AFP Photo / Mandel Ngan)

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Debates about mass surveillance and calls for “reforms to politics, supervision and laws” mean leaks about US secret service were justified, a former NSA contractor, Edward Snowden wrote in his “Manifesto for the Truth”.

In his opinion piece, published in German Der Spiegel news magazine on Sunday, Snowden writes that his revelations have in fact been useful and society will benefit from it.   

"Instead of causing damage, the usefulness of the new public knowledge for society is now clear because reforms to politics, supervision and laws are being suggested," the ex-CIA employee and NSA contractor wrote, as cited by Reuters. 

Spying as a global problem requires global solutions, he said, stressing that "criminal surveillance programs" by secret services threaten open societies, individual privacy and freedom of opinion.

"Citizens have to fight against the suppression of information about affairs of essential importance for the public,” Snowden said in his five-paragraph manifesto. Hence, “those who speak the truth are not committing a crime." 

Even with the existence of mass surveillance, spying should not define politics, Snowden said.

"We have a moral duty to ensure that our laws and values limit surveillance programs and protect human rights," he wrote. 

The type of persecution campaigns that governments started after being exposed, and threats of prosecution against journalists, who blew the whistle, were “a mistake” and did not “serve the public interest,” Snowden concluded. 

But “at that time the public was not in a position to judge the usefulness of these revelations. People trusted that their governments would make the right decisions," he said.

In June Edward Snowden disclosed secret US surveillance programs and fled to Hong Kong and then to Russia. In early August, Snowden was granted temporary asylum, which can be extended annually.

He told The Guardian newspaper that he was “really disillusioned” about how the US government functions and what impact it has in the world.

Snowden’s revelations of the US allegedly scanning emails and tapping the phones of world leaders' phones, provoked scandals between the US and a number of countries in Europe, Latin America and Asia.  

Snowden allegedly even said he is ready to testify over Washington's probable wiretapping of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s phone.

EU heads of states say their relations with the US have been undermined by reports of NSA spying on European leaders and ordinary citizens.

On November 2, Germany and Brazil submitted a new draft resolution to the UN General Assembly which calls for an end to excessive electronic surveillance, data collection, and other snooping techniques.