Wednesday, October 28, 2015

2015-10-28 CATALAN independence push moves forward..

2015-10-28 CATALAN independence push moves forward..
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Spanish, new EU crisis looming...
Catalan pro-independence parties have submitted a resolution to the regional parliament proposing that Catalonia splits from Spain. Spanish Prime Minister…
rt.com

2015-10-28: US: Government massive spying on the people is getting a stamp of approval... disregard of the constitution...

2015-10-28: US: Government massive spying on the people is getting a stamp of approval... disregard of the constitution...
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The Senate on Tuesday passed CISA, a controversial bill encouraging companies to share private user data with the government that is worrying to civil liberties…
rt.com

2015-10-28 Cold War 2.0 - the propaganda wars...

2015-10-28 Cold War 2.0 - the propaganda wars...
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Russia: US ground ops in Syria illegal...
US: (via HRW) Russian bombing (but not US bombing) In Syria illegal...
In the meanwhile Syria has turned into an international bombing range... Estimates of civilian casualties exceed 100,000...
The consequences of potential US ground operations in Syria would be unpredictable, the head of Russia’s parliamentary committee on foreign affairs told…
rt.com

2015-10-28 Google, Facebook, etc... arms of the US spying apparatus

2015-10-28 Google, Facebook, etc... arms of the US spying apparatus
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Data protection authorities in Germany have announced that they will review the legality of internet giants’ data transfers from the EU to the US, after the European…
rt.com

2015-10-28 Approached by a journalist writing for UK Guardian regarding corruption of the US judiciary...

2015-10-28 Approached by a journalist writing for UK Guardian regarding corruption of the US judiciary...
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A journalist, writing for the UK Guardian on US judicial corruption has recently approached me for records and information regarding judicial corruption in the US. In parallel, I received a request from former US prosecutor Richard Fine, who was held for 18 months in solitary confinement, after he exposed and rebuked the taking of bribes by ALL Los Angeles County judges (~600 of them), to cooperate with the same journalist.
A bit surprising, since it has been 5 years since I escaped from the US. I guess my archives and information are still relevant.
Also noteworthy is the fact that a series on US judicial corruption is published by the UK Guardian, and not by US media...
Below: First piece in the series.
Divorced Long Island mother Margaret Besen tells her five-year struggle to get justice, just one story in the hundreds of judicial transgressions revealed in a…
theguardian.com

2015-10-28 ISRAEL: 20th anniversary of PM Rabin's assassination...

2015-10-28 ISRAEL: 20th anniversary of PM Rabin's assassination...
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Pics: Assassinated PM Rabin, Current PM Netanyahu in a 1994 demonstration against Rabin with a noose and a coffin.
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* Carmiel mayor said in the official local ceremony: Those behind the assassination rule us now.
* The Rabin family asked PM Netanyahu, who is largely seen as a key figure behind the incitement for the assassination, not to conduct a memorial in the PM's office, and he obliged.
* President Rivlin stated he wouldn't pardon the assassin. In response, he received an avalanche of threats, including one from the assassin's brother.
* Principle of an orthodox school (the assassin was an orthodox-national political background) decided to hold discussion of domestic violence instead of the standard educational program marking the anniversary.
* IDF cadet was demoted for justifying the assassination.
* Over the past year, the senior Israel Police commander, Ephraim Bracha, who was in charge of the assassination investigation committed suicide after numerous press reports of his corruption.
* Former Tel-Aviv District Attorney, who was in charge of the assassination investigation on behalf of the Attorney General is on trial for corruption.
* Poll shows that majority of the orthodox-national public doesn't believe that he assassin killed PM Rabin (the most common open question pertains to collusion of the Shin-Bet in the assassination).
* Previous polls showed that large part of the adult population does not trust the official assassination investigation results.