Lessig on the DoJ's vindictive prosecution of Aaron Swartz - Boing Boing

Lessig on the DoJ's vindictive prosecution of Aaron Swartz - Boing Boing: "Aaron had literally done nothing in his life “to make money.” He was fortunate Reddit turned out as it did, but from his work building the RSS standard, to his work architecting Creative Commons, to his work liberating public records, to his work building a free public library, to his work supporting Change Congress/FixCongressFirst/"

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Power outages? Flooded highways? Who cares! Israelis love a rainy dayIsrael News - Haaretz Israeli News source.

Power outages? Flooded highways? Who cares! Israelis love a rainy dayIsrael News - Haaretz Israeli News source.: "Look how the Sea of Galilee is now full of water! Look how the waterfalls are now spilling so beautifully! Isn’t it wonderful? And if there’s snow - forget about it - the country loses it completely. There’s happiness when Mt. Hermon in the Golan Heights turns white, but on the rare occasions when there’s even a chance that snow might hit the hilltops in the center of the country like Jerusalem, it’s literally a national holiday"

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This Ongoing War: A Blog

This Ongoing War: A Blog: "The chronology below is a continuation of the reports we have published in recent months based on information received via the Tayar Security Report, with some editing and annotating by us. Yehudit Tayar produces her invaluable bulletins on the basis of first-responder, police and army reports.

Friday November 30, 2012"

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Did Adelson engineer Obama-Netanyahu crisis? - Globes

Did Adelson engineer Obama-Netanyahu crisis? - Globes: "Let us get back to Romney. A remark or hint by Netanyahu that Obama is bad for Israel is worth something to Romney… maybe the presidency. Repeated hints that Obama will do nothing about Iran, or that "Hillary Clinton is expediting the centrifuges" - their value to Romney in gold cannot be estimated. A serious crisis with the Americans and confrontations with their officials sends a message: Obama is bad - and not just for the Jews. For humanity. For the universe. He is a dangerous man. He is firing up the centrifuges. He is bringing closer a nuclear Holocaust on Israel, and maybe on America, too.
The conclusion: Vote for Romney, just like Adelson wants.
Questions: Does "Adelson Today" want Netanyahu to help Adelson with Romney, and what will happen if Netanyahu should he want to refuse? Can he permit himself to refuse?"

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The following is the opinion of the author of this blog:

Obama has probably done more for the Republican party than any single democrat in office until this day. It is painfully obvious that Obama cannot be trusted with the largest global issue today, the true threat of a nuclear Iran. A nuclear capable Iran is a danger to the entire planet. Any individual who does not see this, either has their eyes closed, or is some sort of religious fanatic who's sympathies lie with the militant Jihadists.

Aharon Moshe Sanders- September 19, 2012 3:05pm

BBC News - Q&A: Iran nuclear issue

BBC News - Q&A: Iran nuclear issue: "The Iranian nation is wise. It won't build two atomic bombs while you have 20,000 warheads."

Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who is reported to have issued a fatwa some time ago against nuclear weapons, has said: "We fundamentally reject nuclear weapons."

How soon could Iran make a nuclear bomb?

This would depend on Iran taking the decision to make a nuclear device and Iran says it will not do so. But experts believe that technically it could produce enough highly enriched uranium for a bomb within a few months"

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Editors Note:

"Digging Their Own Grave"

The silence is killing Pollard | Tzvi Fishman | Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel

The silence is killing Pollard | Tzvi Fishman | Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel: "American Jews keep silent regarding Jonathan Pollard, praying that the Americans won’t notice them and remember that they don’t belong in America at all.

They keep quiet, even though a true Jewish hero may be dying, terrified that if they raise their voices too loudly, the Americans may remember that the Jews of the United States are really once-upon-a-time Israelis who were expelled from their own Jewish land long ago.

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The silence is killing Pollard | Tzvi Fishman | Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel

The silence is killing Pollard | Tzvi Fishman | Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel: "has served nearly 30 years of a life sentence (a sentence unheard of for handing over secrets to an ally); even if he never received an honest trial; even if his health is in grave danger; even if the government of Israel has requested his pardon — none of this matters to American Jews. Why?

Because American Jews are terrified of seeming to be un-American.

They are terrified of making waves, lest they appear “too Jewish,” and thus make the real Americans take notice of them and remember that Jews are not real Americans at all, but rather strangers with America passports."

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