Sometimes you just can’t believe it. These words don’t come from the rabble in the streets of Tel-Aviv or Jerusalem. They come straight from the mouths of Israel’s leaders in a Knesset committee meeting. Last month, the Israeli Knesset’s Internal Affairs Committee discussed the matter of the suspended Palestinian prisoner hunger strike, and whether there indeed […]
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All Palestinian prisoners need is dry bread, a glass of water– and a bullet to the head
Palestinian woman lost eye by Israeli bullet
Israeli occupation forces shot on Sunday night Palestinian woman in Jerusalem, causing her lose one eye, medical sources said. Eyewitnesses said that the Palestinian woman, identified as Fatima Obeid, 52, was standing in the balcony of her house when the Israeli occupation forces shot her. Mohamed abul-Hommos, member of the Follow-up Committee in Al-Isawiyeh Neighbourhood, […]
BDS and Normalization: A Palestinian perspective
This piece is written in response to queries sent by some activists about international gatherings and conferences that are being organized to address BDS-related issues without acknowledging the Palestinian leadership of the movement. When we, Palestinian Civil Society, issued our 2015 BDS call, we were counting on people of conscience, rather than governments and complicit […]
Teenager Gets Criminal Record For Cheating At Games
A teenager from Bedford, England has been handed a police caution and a criminal record after getting caught cheating at online games. The 17-year-old used hacking tools to slow fellow gamers’ internet connection speeds down while competing in games on the internet. The Daily Mail reports: He used an ‘IP Stresser’, which rapidly sends lots of […]
Income inequality widening as the wealthiest get richer at the expense of the poor
The wealth gap keeps growing as the world’s richest get richer at the expense of the poor, according to a new study released this week by an alliance of major organizations. The World Wealth Report from Oxfam, Greenpeace, and other groups found that while the total number of millionaires in the world jumped to […]
Advocate for ‘white British people’ bridles when Rula Jebreal mentions race
Two months back the author Rula Jebreal participated in a BBC debate in London over the use of military force to defeat ISIS, and one of her opponents that night, Douglas Murray, a British Islam-basher, has now accused her of fanaticism and racism. His article says: Murray then derided Jebreal for “her strident pose as […]
Israeli soldiers shot, wound Palestinian boy in the head
Days of Palestine, Jerusalem -Israeli occupation soldiers shot and wounded on Sunday 13-year-old Palestinian boy in East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Silwan. Medical sources said that the boy was shot in the back of his head with a steal-coated-with-rubber bullet and arrived in Hadassah Hospital in the morning. Eyewitnesses said that the boy was walking to […]
Operation Safe Driver Turns Buses Into Mobile Surveillance Units
Replace the Police with your own CELL!! Click banner to find out more! Have you ever wondered if the people in that bus are looking down into your car when your on that long road trip? Well, they are, and they might be cops. Three North Texas police departments are working together in a very […]
This Marine Stood Guard For 8 Hours, The Reason Why Will Leave You In Tears
A 12-year-old boy who was battling leukemia for most of his life died resulting from complications from the illness. But what a Marine Corps veteran did was incredible. The boy, Cody Green of Indiana, “always admired the strength and courage of the Marines,” according to news reports at the time. The U.S. Marine Corps […]
PARC drone has no limit on flight time, works via microfilament
How long can drones can stay in the air? The team behind the Persistent Aerial Reconnaissance and Communications (PARC) vehicle system at CyPhy Works have tried to make the word “persistent” reach new heights in aerial reconnaissance. The six-rotor PARC never needs to land. In addition to a camera system, PARC has additional payload capacity […]
Did Turks Vote to Become an Islamic State?
EDITOR’S CHOICE | 03.11.2015 | 11:54 Approximately 90% of Turks are Sunni, but Ataturk had established Turkey as entirely secular; so, this huge Sunni Turkish majority was politically neutered from 1922 until the conservative Sunni President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan became elected Prime Minister in 2003. It could happen only because Ataturk hadn’t really understood how to separate church […]
Talk Talk says cyberattack data theft not as bad as feared
Hackers stole account information of more than 360,000 of Citigroup Inc.’s U.S. credit card customers in a recent data breach, the bank said Wednesday, almost double the number initially thought. Source Article from http://phys.org/news/2015-10-cyberattack-theft-bad.html Views: 0