A federal judge ordered the Boston Police Department and the Suffolk County District Attorney to notify their officers and prosecutors that people have the right to secretly record police, as long as the police are on-duty and in public.
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EU Gives Pre-Fab School Rooms to Palestinian Children, Israel Steals and Sells Them
A decision by Israeli authorities to auction off prefabricated classrooms that were confiscated from a Palestinian village last year is causing controversy among local and international leaders.
A report from the Guardian last Friday said that the Israeli Defense Ministry was planning on holding an auction this coming week to sell the two prefab classrooms, citing an advertisement for the “seized property” in the Israeli Maariv newspaper.
The classrooms, along with two tents and three metal sheds, were confiscated by Israeli forces last October from the rural Palestinian village of Ibziq, in the northern occupied West Bank.
The classrooms had been donated to the community by the European Union, which has donated hundreds of similar structures to primarily Bedouin communities across the occupied territories.
They were confiscated under the pretext that they were built “illegally” in Israeli-controlled Area C of the West Bank, where Palestinian are required to obtain Israeli construction permits in order to build anything — a nearly impossible task.
Update: EU Rewards Israel for Selling Classrooms Donated to Palestinians
USA Kills Afghan Man’s Wife, 7 Sons, Daughters, 4 Nieces, Nephews
Investigative Study: Cops Are Criminals; Racist, Lawless, Murderous Criminals
And they like to brag about it on Facebook all damn day long too.
Swedish Court Rules Not to Extradite Assange for Rape Probe
AP:
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should not be extradited to Sweden for a revived rape investigation, but should still be questioned in the case while he is imprisoned in Britain, a Swedish court ruled Monday.
The ruling by the Uppsala District Court doesn’t mean the preliminary investigation must be abandoned, only that Assange doesn’t face extradition to Sweden any time soon.
Eva-Marie Persson, Sweden’s deputy director of public prosecutions, said she has not decided whether to appeal.
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Pompeo, Trump Throw Jared Peace Plan Under the Bus
Pompeo trashed it in a maybe-secretly recorded meeting with a Jewish group.
Trump then also cast doubt.
This goes with what Phil Weiss said the other day. It’s dead, not because it was horrible, but because of Netanyahu’s failure to form a government, which means it can’t be debuted before Israel can hold new elections in September, but then after that will be the U.S. campaign season so they can’t do it then either.
The whole point was just a PR stunt anyway. It was another Camp David II: give the Palestinians an offer they cannot possibly accept and then pretend they’re the unreasonable ones when they don’t.
As Pompeo admitted:
“I get why people think this is going to be a deal that only the Israelis could love. I understand the perception of that.”
18 ways Julian Assange changed the world (by Lee Camp)
Comedian Lee Camp reminds us that for all the evil Wikileaks exposed the only one in jail is the person that exposed it – Julian Assange.
Nearly every government on our third rock from the sun despises the man for bringing transparency to the process of ruling the unwashed masses.
Year Zero: Policing the World to Safety
- In Episode 44 Tommy addresses a common position in modern America. Should Team America police the world? And if they do what is the result?
“I believe in police the world… i do.” ~ Dana Perino
For decades the US has adhered to this policy of policing the world. In doing so they have convinced their citizens that they reign with benevolent authority over other sovereign nations, and that the sins of these nations are greater than the casualties that will occur due to intervention.
10 of the 15 most dangerous countries in the world have fallen victim to the policy of American benevolence. More chilling still is that every nation listed in the top 7 have undoubtedly been directly related to the policies of policing the world since 9/11/2001.
I’m not suggesting that Syria, Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia, South Sudan, Iraq, and Yemen are peaceful utopian tourist destinations if not for the US. I am simply pointing out that organizing coups, bombing nations, inflicting crippling blockades, and destabilizing regions do not ever make a nation safer. In fact, as the military has grown – perpetually intervening in other countries – life in America has also become less safe, climbing to the 43rd most dangerous nation in the world.
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