OF COURSE THEY DO! THEY BLAST ISRAELIS FOR WALKING, TALKING, AND EXSISTING THEY ARE FULL OF VIOLENT HATE!

Palestinians blast Israel for approving 3,000 new housing units in Jerusalem and West Bank

 

 

Palestinian leaders on Friday condemned Israel for its decision to approve the construction of 3,000 new housing units in Jerusalem and the West Bank. Israel’s decision was announced less than 24 hours after the UN voted in favor of granting the Palestinian Authority non-member observer state status.

 

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh said the decision was “a slap in the face of the world that voted in favor of a Palestinian state.”

 

“This action will leave Israel further isolated, after the entire world spoke out yesterday against the occupation,” said Rudeineh.

 

Senior Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat accused Israel of “defying the entire international community and insisting on destroying the two-state solution.”

 

Hanan Ashrawi, a member of the PLO Executive Committee, condemned the move, calling it an “Israeli act of aggression against the Palestinian state.”

 

A Jerusalem official said that in addition to the 3,000 units, Israel would also advance planning of additional housing units that have already been approved for construction in the area dividing Jerusalem from the settlement of Maaleh Adumim, the controversial strip of land known as E-1. The construction will create geographical continuity between the capital and its eastern suburb, a move that the US and European countries have warned against as construction there would cut off East Jerusalem from the West Bank.

 

“The continued building is in accordance with Israel’s strategic interests map,” said the official, adding that “Israel is considering additional measures.”

The White House said the new Israeli settlement expansion plan “is counterproductive, makes it harder to resume Israeli-Palestinian talks.”

 

State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland said the US position on settlement expansion is known and that it believes such actions will push peace further away. Nuland said the US would continue to try to bring the sides back to the negotiating table.

 

Ynet reported that the decision was approved by the inner security council of nine senior Cabinet members on Thursday, after the UN vote.

 

Israel had indicated it would take punitive measures against the Palestinian Authority if it decided to push ahead with its UN bid, and though it backtracked on its earlier threat to dismantle the Oslo Accords, it vowed that it would “respond accordingly.”

 

On Tuesday, an official had told The Times of Israel that Israel would quietly await Thursday’s vote before deciding on sanctions. If the vote went ahead, Israel would consider a series of punitive steps, such as seeking to call in Palestinian debts, he added by way of example.

 

Israeli leaders have repeatedly said that they would not allow a Palestinian state to be established without ensuring Israel’s security.

 

On Thursday, hours ahead of the vote, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said: “No matter how many hands are raised [at the UN], there is no power in the world that can disconnect the Jewish people from the land of Israel.”

 

Soon after Mahmoud Abbas had addressed the assembly, Netanyahu issued a statement saying that the world had just witnessed a “hate speech dripping with venom, rife with false propaganda against the IDF and the people of Israel. A person who wants peace doesn’t speak like that.”

 

Settlement building is one of the major sticking points to renewing Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, with Palestinians demanding all construction in the West Bank be frozen before they return to the negotiating table. Jerusalem has repeatedly called on the Palestinians to resume talks without preconditions. Maaleh Adumim, one of the largest of all the settlements, is considered part of a bloc of settlements that Israel would seek to retain in any permanent accord.

 

In Washington, a bipartisan group of senators warned the Palestinians they could lose US financial support of millions of dollars a year and risk the shutdown of their Washington office if they use their enhanced UN status against Israel.

 

Abbas has said he would only take Israel to the International Criminal Court if it acted with aggression.

 

Meretz chairwoman Zahava Gal-on was quick to criticize the new construction move. “Netanyahu responded to the UN vote, which placed Israel on the brink, with a decision to take an additional step and falter. The construction of housing units in the settlements, which is meant to punish the Palestinians, will only punish us. It is not sufficient for Netanyahu and [Foreign Minister Avigdor] Liberman to be ostracized by the world, they insist on being lepers.”

 

Israel’s Labor Party responded with a milder rebuke. “There is no disputing Israel’s right to build in Jerusalem, but the timing of the move — so soon after the difficult decision passed in the UN yesterday, it would be preferable to lower the flames and try to engage in responsible dialogue,” a party statement read. “These types of announcements don’t move us forward and may end up harming Israel’s legitimate interest in Jerusalem and the settlement blocs.”

 

Danny Seidemann, a lawyer for Ir Amim, an Israeli group that supports coexistence in Jerusalem, said construction did not appear imminent and there was “quite a lot of drama” in the Israeli announcement.

 

“There an element of sticking it to the Palestinians,” he said, before adding that plans in E-1 were not only a blow to the Palestinians but to the Americans who oppose them too. “E-1 is the judgment day weapons.”

 

Yesh Din, an Israeli rights group, called the Israeli decision “collective punishment” and called on Israel to retract its move.

 

“Israel should have understood by now that such behavior … will no longer be tolerated by the international community,” said Yesh Din’s Executive Director Haim Erlich.

 

http://www.timesofisrael.com/in-response-to-un-vote-israel-to-approve-construction-of-3000-housing-units-in-jerusalem-and-west-bank/

International Criminal Court to consider implications of UN vote on Palestine

Prosecutors at The Hague previously rejected Palestinian request to investigate possible Israeli war crimes

 

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court say they will study what the Palestinian Authority’s upgraded status means for its relationship with the world’s first permanent war crimes tribunal.

 

In a one-paragraph reaction to the historic United Nations General Assembly vote, the court’s prosecution office said Friday it “will consider the legal implications of this resolution.”

 

In April, prosecutors rejected a Palestinian bid to get the Hague-based court to investigate possible war crimes during an Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip that began in December 2008.

 

The Palestinian Authority attempted to empower the court to investigate by unilaterally recognizing its jurisdiction, but prosecutors said only internationally recognized states could accept jurisdiction.

 

A statement in September by ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda suggested that the court may gain jurisdiction over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict automatically through the General Assembly’s recognition of Palestine as a nonmember observer state.

 

“What we have also done is to leave the door open, and to say that if Palestine is able to pass over that hurdle [of statehood] — of course, under the [UN] General Assembly — then we will revisit what the ICC can do,” Bensouda told a Council on Foreign Relations event in Washington.

 

She added that the ICC may be able to begin investigating Israel on the strength of the rejected 2009 PA request to join the Rome Statute that established the court.

 

“Palestine made a declaration under the [Rome] Statute acknowledging the jurisdiction of the court. As you know, this is one of the ways in which we can have jurisdiction to investigate and prosecute,” Bensouda said.

 

Israel is not a member of the 10-year-old court.

 

 

http://www.timesofisrael.com/international-criminal-court-to-consider-implications-of-un-vote-on-palestine/

 

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In response to UN vote, Israel to approve construction of 3,000 housing units in Jerusalem and West Bank!

Official says continued building is in accordance with Israel’s strategic interests map and warns of additional measures

 

 

Less than 24 hours after the UN voted in favor of granting the Palestinian Authority non-member observer state status, Israel announced that it was approving the construction of 3,000 new housing units in Jerusalem and the West Bank.

 

A Jerusalem official said that Israel would also advance planning of additional housing units that have already been approved for construction in the area dividing Jerusalem from the settlement of Maaleh Adumim, the controversial strip of land known as E1. The construction will create geographical continuity between the capital and its northern suburb, a move that the US and European countries have warned against.

 

“The continued building is in accordance with Israel’s strategic interests map,” said the official, adding that “Israel is considering additional measures.”

 

http://www.timesofisrael.com/in-response-to-un-vote-israel-to-approve-construction-of-3000-housing-units-in-jerusalem-and-west-bank/

GMO giants DuPont have contracted dozens of retired law enforcement officers to begin patrolling farms in the US next year to spot any potential intellectual property theft.

GMO giant hires retired cops to hunt down farmers!

 

 

GMO giants DuPont have contracted dozens of retired law enforcement officers to begin patrolling farms in the US next year to spot any potential intellectual property theft.

DuPont Co, the second-largest seed country in the world, is hoping to find farmers that have purchased contracts to use their genetically modified soybean seeds but have breached the terms of agreement by illegally using the product for repeat harvests. Should farmers replant GMO seeds licensed by DuPont, they could be sued for invalidating their contracts.

“Farmers are never going to get cheap access to these genetically engineered varieties,” Charles Benbrook, a research professor at Washington State University’s Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources, tells Bloomberg. “The biotech industry has trumped the legitimate economic interests of the farmer again by raising the ante on intellectual property.”

DuPont competitors Monsanto have been known to relentlessly sue small-time farmers who have been caught abusing their own patented GMO products, but the latest maneuver is being considered by some a form of intimidation. DuPont has cut a deal with Saskatchewan-based Agro Protection International, a company that contracts mostly retired police officers to patrol potential violations of IP law.

“Everyone always goes to the idea that we are trying to intimidate people and nothing could be further from the truth,” Agro President Dennis Birtles tells Bloomberg. “We are trying to create deterrence.”

According to that report, Agro already has around 45 employees patrolling farms in Canada, and a DuPont senior manager has confirmed to the media that around three dozen will start searching for IP violations in the United States starting next year.

Reached for comment by Bloomberg, Randy Schlatter from DuPont’s intellectual property program office said the contract with Agro will help their customers in the end, because honoring contracts will allow the GMO giants to continue to develop new products. Currently they have more than 225 soybean seed patents.

“Our challenge is to get customers to understand the fact that strong intellectual property protection is a benefit that ends up at the customer level,” Schlatter says. “If we can’t make a profit, we can’t invest and we can’t bring out new products.”

 

http://rt.com/usa/news/gmo-agro-dupont-intellectual-926/

US accelerates intervention in Syrian war!

 

 

The US government is contemplating significant intervention in the Syria conflict and has discussed employing Patriot Air and Missile Defense Systems in Turkey and directly providing arms to opposition fighters.

In an attempt to defeat Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, government officials told the New York Times that the US might bring its military resources to the region for either intimidation purposes or direct use in Syria.

NATO will likely decide next week whether or not to deploy surface-to-air Patriot missiles in Turkey, which would serve to protect the country from potential Syrian missiles that could contain chemical weapons, as well as intimidate Syrian Air Force pilots from bombing the northern Syria border towns.

The armed rebels currently control much of Northwest Syria along the border of Turkey, making the border a likely conflict zone should Syrian missiles be implemented.

Although State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said the Patriot missile system would not be used beyond the Turkish border, military sources told Israeli news service DEBKAthat all of northern Syria – including Aleppo and Homs – would become controlled by the Turkish-NATO team.

The US has so far hesitated to intervene on the ground in Syria, fearing the risks would be too great for their own soldiers and could worsen the conflict. But 18 months after the start of the civil war, intervention has increasingly entered the US radar.

“The administration has figured out that if they don’t start doing something, the war will be over and they won’t have any influence over the combat forces on the ground,” former Defense Intelligence Agency officer told the New York Times. “They may have some influence with various political groups and factions, but they won’t have influence with the fighters, and the fighters will control the territory.”

The US has so far provided nearly $200 million in humanitarian aid, but has not intervened militarily. But US officials believe the administration is now considering providing arms to the opposition groups. CIA officers located in Turkey have already determined which groups should receive such weapons, but have emphasized the difficulty of preventing them from falling into the wrong hands.

The Obama administration is also preparing to recognize Syria’s new opposition council as the official representation of Syria, likely during a Dec. 12 “Friends of Syria” conference in Morocco which Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will attend, the Associated Press reports. The recognition will likely spur further US involvement in the conflict – if not militarily, then it will at least draw more humanitarian aid. Britain, France and several Arab countries allied with the US have already recognized the council as Syria’s sole representative.

But while the idea of providing arms may be considered, many still believe it to be a bad idea.

“Arms are not a strategy; arms are a tactic,” US Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford said during a conference in Washington. “A military solution is not the best way for Syria. Efforts to win this by conquering one side or the other will simply prolong the violence and actually aggravate an already terrible humanitarian situation. Syria needs a political solution.”

The US government has not made any official announcements that it was considering providing weapons, but the Congressional officials and diplomats told the Times that a decision would likely be made after Obama selects his new national security team.

http://rt.com/usa/news/us-intervention-syria-arms-925/



Wait ....Privacy???? A warrant before stealing our records without our permission???When Pharoh Obama finds out your gonna get in trouble!

Privacy up for vote: Senate considers new electronic communication law

 

The US Capitol is seen in this December 18, 2011 file photo in Washington, DC.(AFP Photo / Karen Bleier)

Members of the US Senate are expected to vote this week on a bill that would finally require law enforcement to obtain a warrant before accessing personal emails and other digital messages stored on the cloud.

The antiquated Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 set the standard for how emails and other online correspondence is accessed by the police, but little revisions have been made in the nearly 30 years since it was first approved. During that time, technology has far outpaced the rate in which Congress works, and that is perhaps most evident in this example with the ECPA: since 1986, any emails stored on the cloud with service providers such as Google or Yahoo can be accessed without a warrant after just 180 days.

 

As it stands now, law enforcement officers only need to get a search warrant from a judge if an email is saved by a third-party on the digital cloud behind six months’ time. After 180 days, however, an easy to obtain court order is all that is necessary to rifle through someone’s inbox, and that’s something that requires much less convincing on the part of prosecutors.

 

“Email saved in web-based email systems like Yahoo for longer than six months can be accessed with an administrative subpoena, which provides less protection than a warrant,” Grover Norquist and Laura Murphy explain in an op-ed published this week in The Hill. “Similarly, no matter what privacy setting you use, sensitive and personal information — photos, private journals, Facebook pages, corporate data, draft reports — shared with third parties like Google and Facebook can be accessible by police without a judge’s approval. All the government has to do is swear it’s ‘relevant’ to an investigation.”

 

Indeed, only a warrant which requires proof of probable cause applies to emails younger than six months. Thursday morning, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved an amendment to a section of the ECPA that, if approved, will change all of that.

 

Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) was successful in advancing before the committee an amendment to the ECPA he sponsored that eliminates the so-called ‘180 day rule,’ making legitimate search warrants the standard for law enforcement in instances where they wish to dig through personal communications in building a case.

 

Section 203 of Sen. Leahy’s bill is written so that, if approved in Congress, “amends ECPA so that the disclosure of the content of email and other electronic communications by an electronic communication or remote computing service provider to the Government is subject to one clear legal standard --a search warrant issued based on a showing of probable cause.”

 

“The provision eliminates the confusing and outdated ‘180-day’ rule that calls for different legal standards for the Government to obtain email content, depending upon the email’s age,” the proposal reads. Additionally, Sen. Leahy has included wording in the provision that would make it mandatory for the government to inform a user with details about a search warrant served on their data within three days.

 

When US Magistrate Judge Stephen Smith examined the history behind the ECPA court orders earlier this year, he came to a shocking discovery: the number of emails and other inbox data obtained by the police under the ECPA is not only incredible, but most people who have been surveilled under it are completely unaware. In his report, "Gagged, Sealed and Delivered," Judge Smith found that it's "reasonable to infer that far more law-abiding citizens than criminals have been tracked" under a certain subsection of ECPA.

 

Speaking to RT at the time, Kade Crockford of the American Civil Liberties Union said, “What the judge magistrate’s report shows is that the rules that ECPA put in place over 25 years ago are willfully inadequate, primarily because they don’t allow even Congress, let alone the general public, to know how many of these orders are being issued.”

 

According to Judge Smith, as many as 30,000 easy-to-obtain court orders have been submitted annually to comb through email accounts, but those gag-and-seal protections keep prosecutors from having to reveal their findings to the very people they’re spying on. When the Senate hears Mr. Leahy’s amendment, an approval on the floor could pave the way to adding a strict search warrant requirement and finally add a bit of transparency to how the courts collect data.

 

 

http://rt.com/usa/news/senate-law-warrant-ecpa-910/