Wednesday, December 10, 2014

2014-12-10 PALESTINE: Minister Ziad Abu-Ein died following confrontation with IDF (English, Hebrew, Arabic news release)

2014-12-10 PALESTINE: Minister Ziad Abu-Ein died following confrontation with IDF (English, Hebrew, Arabic news release)
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Palestinian sources claim he was affected by tear gas and was beaten with a gun butt. IDF claims he died of heart attack.
Mounting concerns of further escalation of the current riots in Palestine.
קב מותו של סגן השר לענייני גדר ההפרדה והאסירים....
yaelarava.com
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2014-12-10 US and torture - for-profit medieval love affair...

2014-12-10 US and torture - for-profit medieval love affair...
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I LOVE THE SOUND OF A "WELL-WORN" WATERBOARD
Gotta love the newspeak way US corporate media - played for suckers - is spinning it.
It's along the lines of "the CIA provided 'inaccurate' information to journalists in an effort to shape coverage of its detention and interrogation program."
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2014-12-10 US: Murderous police - a cardinal sign of a totalitarian regime!

2014-12-10 US: Murderous police - a cardinal sign of a totalitarian regime!
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[via Counter Current News]
Another Florida police officer has shot an unarmed African American. This time, the Florida officer shot and critically wounded a 28-year-old man early
countercurrentnews.com

2014-12-10 US: Robber Banksters Era

2014-12-10 US: Robber Banksters Era
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[via Occupy Wall St.]
‪#‎ThePirateBay‬ is down, meanwhile Wall Street looting continues.
Illustration by Victor Juhasz via Rolling Stone

2014-12-10 US: New Secretary of Defense

2014-12-10 US: New Secretary of Defense
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[via Coleen Rowley]
Here's a friend's comment: "New defense secretary....same as the old one.
Introducing Ashton Carter: Chicken hawk, weapons industry pimp, outright liar ("nuclear weapons don't actually cost that much"), crackpot realist, groupthink bureaucrat, avatar of the security state, all-too-real horseman of the apocalypse. A man genetically engineered to run the Pentagon."

2014-12-08 US: Back burner civil war...

2014-12-08 US: Back burner civil war...
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Last night in Berkeley.
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — A second night of protest against police killings in Missouri and New York turned violent again in Berkeley as some demonstrators threw rocks and bottles at officers, assaulted each other and shut down a freeway, police said.
Sunday's protest began peacefully on the University of California, Berkeley campus. But as protesters marched through downtown Berkeley toward the neighboring city of Oakland, the unrest resumed as someone smashed the window of a Radio Shack. When a protester tried to stop the growing vandalism, he was hit with a hammer, Officer Jennifer Coats said.
Some of the protesters made their way to a freeway in Oakland and blocked traffic. The California Highway Patrol said some tried to light a patrol vehicle on fire and threw rocks and bottles. Police also said explosives were thrown at officers, but there was no information immediately available on how potent they were. Highway patrol officers responded with tear gas.
http://youtu.be/m2L1zcRwPSg
Video by Emilie Raguso
youtube.com
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2014-12-08 US: Back-burner civil war...

2014-12-08 US: Back-burner civil war...
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From Chicago and Miami to Philadelphia and New York
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2014-12-08 US: Back-burner civil war...

2014-12-08 US: Back-burner civil war...
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Last night in California...
Protesters decrying the Eric Garner case flooded a highway in Oakland, California, late Sunday night and threw explosives at officers, authorities said.
cnn.com|By Joe Sutton and Holly Yan, CNN

2014-12-08 ISRAEL: Shin-Bet, IT systems, Electric Company, and the courts...

2014-12-08 ISRAEL: Shin-Bet, IT systems, Electric Company, and the courts...
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The unfolding story of Israel Electric Co (IEC) shows that defective, dangerous IT control systems were purchased from Siemens and implemented by IEC.
In court hearing today:
* IEC whistle-blower (IT system specialist) again claimed that part of the retaliation by IEC was communication of negative information on him to the Shin-Bet, which undermined his security clearance and employment possibilities.
* IEC claimed that it had failed to comply with disclosure of records, pertaining to the IT system, because of its "security sensitivity". The Judge asked IEC to produce Shin-Bet opinion regarding classification of the documents to support their claims.
It is obvious that the Shin-Bet is charged with the security of State IT systems in Israel, like the Secret Service in many other nations today.
The questions that need to be explained:
1) Where was the Shin-Bet in the purchase and implementation of the IEC IT systems?
2) Where was the Shin-Bet in the purchase and implementation of fraudulent IT systems in the Israeli courts over the past decade?
The plausible conclusion:
The Shin-Bet colludes with senior justice system figures in undermining the rule of law, and with senior IEC figures in undermining internal security in Israel...
2014-12-08 חברת חשמל, הוצאה לפועל, מערכות מידע, וכנופיית שב"כ-בג"ץ
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היום הייתי נוכח בדיון בבית הדין האזורי לעבודה - גנוסר נ חברת חשמל.
גנוסר, מומחה למערכות מידע, טוען שפוטר מעבודתו והוא קרבן להתנכלות מתמשכת של חברת החשמל, לאחר שחשף כשלים מסוכנים במערכות מידע המבקרות את רשת החשמל, שנקנו מחברת סימנס הגרמנית.
בתי המשפט בישראל ו/או באירופה פסקו שסימנס שילמה שוחד של כ- 20 מיליון דולר לבכירים בחברת החשמל בקשר לעסקאות בין סימנס לחברת החשמל, ושסימנס הייתה שותפה בקרטל בינלאומי בקשר לעסקאות אלה.
השופט בדימוס דן כהן הורשע בקבלת כ-4 מיליון דולר מסכום השוחד, אך סירב לשתף פעולה בחקירה לגבי זהותם של שאר מקבלי השוחד. החקירה נמרחת כבר שנים, ובכירים שקיבלו שוחד ממשיכים ככל הנראה לכהן בחברת החשמל...
ובינתיים, השופט דן כהן מרצה את מאסרו, אבל מקבל תנאים מועדפים בנידוג לתקנות שב"ס: שובץ לעבודה במתקן הביקורים, המאפשר לו מגע שוטף ובלתי מבוקר עם גורמים חיצוניים, שעל פי דיווח בלתי מאושר כוללים גם אנשי מערכת הצדק, שלא במסגרת תפקידם... ואולי גם שותפיו לפשע...
בדיון היום:
א. באי כוחו של התובע גנוסר טענו שוב, שחלק מן ההתנכלות של חברת החשמל לתובע כלל תקשורת של ח"ח עם השב"כ, שפגעה בסיווגו הבטחוני של התובע, ופגעה בכושר העסקתו ויכולתו להתפרנס בכבוד.
ב. באי כוח חברת החשמל טענו שלא קיימו את הוראת השופטת לגבי גילוי מסמכים בגלל סיכונים בטחוניים בגילוי מסמכים אלה. באי כוח גנוסר טענו שהמסמכים כבר התפרסמו בתקשורת, בין השאר ב"ערוץ 2". אולם השופטת אמרה שאם יש כאן סיכון בטחוני, לא תאשר את גילוי המסמכים, גם אם פורסמו בתקשורת, ולגבי המסמכים הנוגעים למערת המידע של ח"ח, באי כוח ח"ח צריכים להראות מה הסיווג על פי השב"כ...
בקיצור:
ברור שהשב"כ (הרשות הממלכתית לאבטחת מידע - רא"ם) אחראי על אבטחת מערכות המידע של המדינה.
אתר השב"כ אומר:
הרשות הממלכתית לאבטחת מידע מופקדת על הנחיה מקצועית של הגופים המונחים שבאחריותה בתחום אבטחת תשתיות מחשב חיוניות מפני איומי טרור וחבלה בתחום אבטחת מידע מסווג ומפני איומי ריגול וחשיפה.
http://www.shabak.gov.il/about/units/reem/pages/default.aspx
אולם השאלות שעולות מכך לגבי התנהלות השב"כ לעניין חברת החשמל הן:
א. איך נקנו והותקנו מערכות מידע בלתי תקינות ומסוכנות בחברת החשמל ללא פעולה של השב"כ בעניין?
ב. מדוע לא הופעל השב"כ לחקירת עניין, שיש לו השלכות מהותיות על הבטחון בישראל, לאחר שנחשפה השחיתות בחברת החשמל? ברור שאם השב"כ היה מופעל, החקירה בעניין הייתה מתקדמת בצורה מהירה, ולא נמרחת שנים...
והשאלות הנלוות הן:
א. איפה היה השב"כ בעשור האחרון, לגבי התקנת מערכות בלתי בטוחות והונאתיות, בניגוד לחוק ולתקנים (כפי שתעד מבקר המדינה בדו"ח 60ב', 2010) בבתי המשפט ובמשרד המשפטים?
ב. איפה היה השב"כ השנה, לגבי התקנת מערכת המידע "כלים שלובים" בהוצאה לפועל? הראיות מצביעות על כך שהמערכת בלתי בטוחה והונאתית, ושאינה תואמת את חוקי מדינת ישראל.
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2014-12-08 US: Back-burner civil war...

2014-12-08 US: Back-burner civil war...
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The hacktivist collective Anonymous has called for a nationwide ‘march of millions’ next Saturday to demand justice for Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and other African...
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Looking to be hosted by a Zurich squat January 12-15.


Looking to be hosted by a Zurich squat January 12-15. Coming from OccupyTLV... Can @EdSudden help? Joseph Zernik

2014-12-08 UK under the Greater Depression

2014-12-08 UK under the Greater Depression
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The senior bishop of the Anglican Church, Justin Welby, has called for a radical overhaul of the country’s welfare system, to ensure that the ‘hunger that stalks...
rt.com

2014-12-08 US and torture: A medieval love affair...

2014-12-08 US and torture: A medieval love affair...
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"in absentia"??? If I remember correctly, CIA was deep inside the computers of the Senate Intelligence Committee...
Anticipating a Tuesday release of a report from the Senate Intelligence Committee, Michael Hayden said it's is as if the agency "has been tried and convicted in absentia."
theatlantic.com|By Allen McDuffee

2014-12-08 Cold War 2.0: Escalating towards real war with Russia

2014-12-08 Cold War 2.0: Escalating towards real war with Russia
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John Pilger must-read: The world faces catastrophic - even nuclear - war as the media turns the truth upside down. READ MORE...
stopwar.org.uk|By Stop the War Coalition

2014-12-08 US: Murderous police - a cardinal sign of a totalitarian regime!

2014-12-08 US: Murderous police - a cardinal sign of a totalitarian regime!
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A grand just just announced on Friday that they will not indict a Maryland police officer who killed an unarmed man who had Down Syndrome. “They felt no further...
alternativemediasyndicate.com

ISRAEL: The occupation corrupts!


2014-12-08 PALESTINE: A license to kill - why was Yaser a-Tameizi shot to death?

2014-12-08 PALESTINE: A license to kill - why was Yaser a-Tameizi shot to death?
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[via Israeli news outlet Local Call and Tammar Hoffman]
A person was detained for not carrying an ID card. Several hours later, while handcuffed and detained in a military base, he was shot to death. The investigation records, report here for the first time, show contradictions in the testimony of the soldier, who shot the man. Other testimonies raise doubts regarding the soldier's version of events. The military officer, in charge of the investigation, concluded that there were errors and failures in the detention process. Yet, no one is held accountable. First report in a series. by John Brown.
אדם נעצר כי לא נשא תעודת זהות. כמה שעות אחר כך, בעודו כפות ועצור בבסיס צבאי, הוא נורה למוות. מסמכי החקירה, המתפרסמים כאן לראשונה, חושפים סתירות בעדותו של החייל היורה. עדויות אחרות מעוררות ספקות לגבי גרסתו. הסמח"ט מסיק כי היו כשלים ושגיאות במעצר. ועדיין, איש אינו עומד לדין. כתבה ראשונה בסדרה
אדם נעצר כי לא נשא תעודת זהות. כמה שעות אחר כך, בעודו כפות ועצור בבסיס...
mekomit.co.il

2014-12-08 PALESTINE: Palestinian sources report 19 detentions last night

2014-12-08 PALESTINE: Palestinian sources report 19 detentions last night
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An ongoing nightly detentions campaign in recent days. Detentions with no trials, at times for years, have become an inevitable part of the occupation.
(דיווח פלסטיני) ...
yaelarava.com

2014-12-08 ISRAEL: Oil spills covered up by military censorship...

2014-12-08 ISRAEL: Oil spills covered up by military censorship...
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The current oil spill led to interesting disclosures:
* Previous oil spills were covered up by military censorship...
* The corporation which operates the pipeline is covered by immunity, whether or not it performs in compliance with laws and operation contracts...
Cute!

Millions of litres of crude oil have gushed out of a pipeline to flood 200 acres of a desert nature reserve in southern Israel. More than 80 people have been taken to hospital after inhaling oil fumes.
dailymail.co.uk

2014-12-08 Bibi's pets clash - Attorney General and State Ombudsman argue who is more non-performing, covering up state corruption...

2014-12-08 Bibi's pets clash - Attorney General and State Ombudsman argue who is more non-performing, covering up state corruption...
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[via Israel Hayom - Sheldon Adelson's propaganda organ for Bibi]
Wide-spread corruption of the justice system, from the Supreme Court through the Attorney General to the State Ombudsman is key part of government corruption in Israel today.
— with José Emerenciano.

2014-12-08 Squatting in Zurich and beyond...

2014-12-08 Squatting in Zurich and beyond...
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[via Squat.net]
2013- riots in Zurich in relationship to the eviction of Binz squat.
http://en.squat.net/…/heavy-riots-rocked-zurich-switzerlan…/
Last night, as 2.500 – 4.000 people took the streets for a “Reclaim the Streets” parade in solidarity with the...
en.squat.net

2014-12-08 Squatting in Zurich and beyond...

2014-12-08 Squatting in Zurich and beyond...
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2014-12-08 סקווטים בציריך וברחבי אירופה - תנועה בגדילה...
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ידיעה מ-2010 - קהילת אמנים בציריך פלשה למלון יוקרה נטוש, ומתכוונת להקים שם סקווט. האתר מתייחס לאמנים בזלזול כ"גיקס"... כנראה לא קשוחים מספיק...
http://pieceoplastic.com/…/geeky-artists-squatters-in-zuric…
artists and squatters in zurich have moved into the defunct and abandoned luxury hotel atlantis in zurich, switzerland, with the intention to create an "artist-hotel" for 150 artists to live and cr...
pieceoplastic.com

2014-12-08 Squatting in Zurich and beyond...

2014-12-08 Squatting in Zurich and beyond...
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[via Occupy.com]
In Zurich, and Across Europe, Squatter Communities Are Strengthening
- See more at: http://www.occupy.com/…/zurich-and-across-europe-squatter-c…
Last weekend, 4,000 supporters of Binz, Zurich’s longest-established squat, were met with tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannons when a party turned into a...
occupy.com

2014-12-08 Squatting in Zurich and more...

2014-12-08 Squatting in Zurich and more...
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Since I have to go from OccupyTLV to Zurich in January to lecture in an informatics (computer science in the US) conference (on large-scale fraud in IT systems of the US federal courts), I decided to check the available accommodations...
http://www.vice.com/read/shows-over-were-out
On Friday morning, Zurich authorities entered the Binz, Switzerland's most infamous squat, with the intention of ending its seven-year run. However, when they turned...
vice.com

2014-2-08 FERGUSON: Solidarity protests in Tokyo, Melbourne...

2014-2-08 FERGUSON: Solidarity protests in Tokyo, Melbourne...
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Demonstrators protesting the grand jury decisions in the cases of Michael Brown and Eric Garner took to the streets, from Miami to Melbourne.
newsweek.com|By Paula Mejia

2014-12-09 GREECE: Demonstrations on December 6

2014-12-09 GREECE: Demonstrations on December 6
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Greek protesters and Athens police battle it out as a demonstration marking the anniversary of a police shooting turns to clashes. Rough Cut (no reporter nar...
youtube.com

2014-12-07 Cold War 2.0: would Germany be dragged along for a US agression against Russia?

2014-12-07 Cold War 2.0: would Germany be dragged along for a US agression against Russia?
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[via Anonymous Berlin] Bing translation.
70 years after the end of the second world war, German soldiers might be again involved in the near future in a war of aggression. After resolution has just the Congress [1] number 758, passed, it should be clear that United States and NATO are not concerned with securing any allies or borders in Eastern Europe. On the contrary, the military-industrial complex here takes the first attempt to subjugate Russia to pull themselves to the rich resources of the country under the gunpoint. The intended "spearhead" of NATO in the East, which will consist of 4,000 German Bundeswehr soldiers, in a completely different light appears from this point of view. Another manufactured incident such as the downing of flight MH17, may be enough, and German soldiers would have to pull for American interests in a war against Russia.
by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
70 Jahre nach Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs, könnten deutsche Soldaten in absehbarer Zeit wieder in einen Angriffskrieg verwickelt sein. Nachdem Resolution[1] Num...
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2014-12-07 JERUSALEM

2014-12-07 JERUSALEM
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Israeli authorities have deported three Palestinians from their homes in Jerusalem for a period of five months. This is yet another step in Israel's ethnic cleansing of Jerusalem.
alternativenews.org|By <​a href="/english/index.php/component/authorlist/author/3:aic" title="View all articles from Altern...

2014-12-07 Privacy through encryption by Google, Apple? The depth of this betrayal is hard to overstate...

2014-12-07 Privacy through encryption by Google, Apple? The depth of this betrayal is hard to overstate...
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Forgetting the Lesson of Cypherpunk History: Cryptography Is Underhanded
By Bill Blunden, Truthout | Op-Ed
There's a general theme that recurs as the Snowden affair unfolds. Specifically, several high profile figures have openly extolled the virtues of commercial technology as a means of remediation, with the basic narrative that companies like Google and App...
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To acquire market share, high-tech companies know they don't necessarily have to offer genuine security - just an impression of it.
truth-out.org|By Bill Blunden

2014-12-06 US: Occupy Wall St. - ‪#‎ShutItDown‬

2014-12-06 US: Occupy Wall St. - ‪#‎ShutItDown‬
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2014-12-06 US: Murderous police - cardinal sign of a totalitarian regime! [VIDEOS]

2014-12-06 US: Murderous police - cardinal sign of a totalitarian regime! [VIDEOS]
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LAPD shot in the head, killed a man on Hollywood x Highland
https://www.facebook.com/internationalriot/posts/810913145631710?ref=notif&notif_t=notify_me
Los Angeles, CA-- Not even 24 hours after solidarity die-in's for Eric Garner wrapped up on the corner of Hollywood and Highland, the Los Angeles Police Department...
thefreethoughtproject.com

2014-12-06 US: ‪#‎ShutItDown‬ NYC

2014-12-06 US: ‪#‎ShutItDown‬ NYC
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Friday night.
Protesters speaking out and demonstrating against police brutality in the deaths of Eric Garner and victims across the nation, staged a "die in" Friday
countercurrentnews.com

2014-12-06 GREECE: NOW! Violent clashes with police

2014-12-06 GREECE: NOW! Violent clashes with police
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NOW! ‪#‎Patra‬ ‪#‎Greece‬ - Clashes between people and police during the demonstration in memory of ‪#‎AGrigoropoulos‬.

2014-12-06 Western Media Turn Blind Eye to Shameful Vote at UN on Nazism by US, Canada

2014-12-06 Western Media Turn Blind Eye to Shameful Vote at UN on Nazism by US, Canada
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Canada, the United States and Ukraine voted against a resolution at the United Nations on Nov. 21 committing the member countries of the world body to combat racism and xenophobia in all its forms.
The resolution pertains to the US support of neo-Nazi group in Ukraine under the Kiev government... and EU nations abstained...
http://www.truth-out.org/…/27808-western-media-turn-blind-e…
The US, Canada and Ukraine voted against a UN resolution committing to combatting racism.
truth-out.org|By Roger Annis

2014-12-06 GREECE: Athens on fire, police shot 15 yo to death...

2014-12-06 GREECE: Athens on fire, police shot 15 yo to death...
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