‘Anonymous’ crashes hundreds of Israeli websites over Gaza air assault
Online activist group Anonymous said on Saturday it had downed the websites of dozens of Israeli state agencies and a top bank in protest over the Jewish state’s deadly air assault on Gaza. The hackers said their operation “OpIsrael” had either damaged or completely erased the sites of more than 650 private and public institutions [...]
A blacklist of Ukrainian anti-Semites has been prepared and some names from it will soon be made public, says the freshly-elected president of the country’s United Jewish Community. “We achieved certain success in making the so-called blacklist of anti-Semites. I think soon we will allow ourselves to publish some names from it,” businessman Igor Kolomoysky [...]
How FBI Entrapment Is Inventing ‘Terrorists’ – and Letting Bad Guys Off the Hook
September 14, 2012 No Comment
This past October, at an Occupy encampment in Cleveland, Ohio, “suspicious males with walkie-talkies around their necks” and “scarves or towels around their heads” were heard grumbling at the protesters’ unwillingness to act violently. At meetings a few months later, one of them, a 26-year-old with a black Mohawk known as “Cyco,” explained to his [...]
Man Sentenced to 30 Days for Catching Rain Water on Own Property Enters Jail
August 10, 2012 No Comment
Gary Harrington, the Oregon man convicted of collecting rainwater and snow runoff on his rural property surrendered Wednesday morning to begin serving his 30-day, jail sentence in Medford, Ore. “I’m sacrificing my liberty so we can stand up as a country and stand for our liberty,” Harrington told a small crowd of people gathered outside [...]
An Oregon man is expected to spend a month in jail after being convicted on nine misdemeanor charges related to his illegal use of…water. Gary Harrington was sentenced after being found guilty of illegally collecting water on his own rural property. Harrington, of Eagle Point, Oregon, has been fighting for his right to do what [...]
PAUL BUCHHEIT FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The privatization of public goods and services turns basic human needs into products to buy and sell. That’s more than a joke, it’s an insult, it’s a perversion. It generally benefits only a privileged group of businesspeople and their companies while increasing inequality and undermining the common good. Various [...]
Two convicted felons, including a Manahawkin man, defrauded the public by falsely soliciting donations for surviving family members of Sept. 11 victims, according to a lawsuit filed by the state Attorney General’s Office. The two men were accused of driving around in a pickup truck painted with the names of first responders who perished in [...]
Collecting rainwater now illegal in many states as Big Government claims ownership over our water
July 27, 2012 1 Comment
(NaturalNews) Many of the freedoms we enjoy here in the U.S. are quickly eroding as the nation transforms from the land of the free into the land of the enslaved, but what I’m about to share with you takes the assault on our freedoms to a whole new level. You may not be aware of [...]
Earlier this week, a former governor of New Jersey went undercover to expose the struggle homeless people go through if they are mentally ill. Democratic state Sen. Richard Codey, who briefly took over as governor after Jim McGreevey (D) resigned in 2004, began calling homeless shelters last November only to find out that they were [...]
Thirty-one women’s rights demonstrators were arrested Saturday in a state Capitol protest that drew hundreds of people and a police response including officers in riot gear. The rally was the latest held in opposition to contentious General Assembly bills that have drawn attention far beyond the state, including a measure that would require women to [...]
An Islamist mistakenly arrested in Cairo on suspicion of being a senior Al-Qaeda figure has been freed, judicial sources and state media said on Thursday. Muhamed Makkawi, confused for the senior Qaeda militant known by the nomme de guerre of Seif al-Adel, was arrested at Cairo airport on Thursday, with state media and police announcing [...]
The National Union of Israeli Students (NUIS) has become a full-time partner in the Israeli government’s efforts to spread its propaganda online and on college campuses around the world. NUIS has launched a program to pay Israeli university students $2,000 to spread pro-Israel propaganda online for 5 hours per week from the “comfort of home.” [...]
As state governments wrestle with massive budget shortfalls, a Wall Street giant is offering a solution: cash in exchange for state property. Prisons, to be exact. Corrections Corporation of America, the nation’s largest operator of for-profit prisons, has sent letters recently to 48 states offering to buy up their prisons as a remedy for “challenging [...]
For almost 30 years — from 1983 to 2012 — the New York Police Department went about arresting people under laws that state and federal courts had long declared unconstitutional, cuffing and booking almost 22,000 people. In 2010, federal judge Shira A. Scheindlin finally held them in contempt of court.Yesterday, she signed an order approving [...]
As if anyone who’s been paying attention over the last few weeks is actually surprised, another caucus state is taken down by GOP officials, permanently altering the outcome of yet another election, rendering its results forever in question. This time, however, the people of Nevada are the immediate victims of mounting state GOP scandals, as [...]
