Sunday, July 13, 2014

2014-07-12 ISRAEL: Joint Jewish Arab demonstration in Haifa against the ongoing violence

===2014-07-12 ISRAEL: Joint Jewish Arab demonstration in Haifa against the ongoing violence===
"Both in Gaza and Sderot little girls want to live!"
המון מפגינים, יהודים וערבים, יהודיות וערביות, ביחד עכשיו במרכז הכרמל בחיפה: בעזה ושדרות ילדות רוצות לחיות! — with Laila Abu Aqel and 2 others.
Photo: ‎המון מפגינים, יהודים וערבים, יהודיות וערביות, ביחד עכשיו במרכז הכרמל בחיפה: בעזה ושדרות ילדות רוצות לחיות!‎

2014-07-12 ISRAEL: Hundreds demonstrated in Tel Aviv against the massacre in Gaza

===2014-07-12 ISRAEL: Hundreds demonstrated in Tel Aviv against the massacre in Gaza===
Police failed to protect the demontrators against right wing thugs.
Particularly negligent was commanding officer Barak Hasan, who explained permitting the the thugs into the demonstration: "They also have Freedom of Speech"... LIkewise, the routine police photographers were videotaping the lawful demonstrators non-stop, but ignored the violence by right wing thugs right next to them. In cases, where police caught violent right wing thugs, they let them go as well...
Photo: ===2014-07-12 ISRAEL: Hundreds demonstrated in Tel Aviv against the massacre in Gaza===
Police failed to protect the demontrators against right wing thugs.  
Particularly negligent was commanding officer Barak Hasan, who explained permitting the the thugs into the demonstration: "They also have Freedom of Speech"...  LIkewise, the routine police photographers were videotaping the lawful demonstrators non-stop, but ignored the violence by right wing thugs right next to them.  In cases, where police caught violent right wing thugs, they let them go as well...

2014-07-12 US: 10 Supreme Court Rulings That Turned Corporations Into People

===2014-07-12 US: 10 Supreme Court Rulings That Turned Corporations Into People===
Last week's decision is the latest in a 200-year-long line of rulings giving businesses the same rights as humans.
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I recall reading a while ago that already Justice Brandeis, noted that corporations were the primary beneficiary from the 14th amendment, not humans in Supreme Court rulings by his time... I guess that was the outcome of the Civil War... Slavery was never abolished, but corporations became persons...
One should also note that County of Santa Clara v. Southern Pacific Railroad (1886), at the height of the Robber Baron Era and court corruption, is a notorious example of a simulated decision record of the Supreme Cour (hand written, not digital as they are today).
And finally, one should note that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg referred to it in her Hobby Lobby dissent as "the notion of corporate personhood". Apparently, she too sees it as a fraud on the court, going on for over a century...
jz
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http://www.alternet.org/10-supreme-court-rulings-turned-corporations-people?akid=12012.1117888.VLHk-7&rd=1&src=newsletter1010949&t=9