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Ridiculous! UK: A hands-free green man...so devout Jews can cross the road without breaking a religious law

Martin Delgado
The Daily Mail
Sat, 01 Oct 2011 05:27 UTC
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© AlamyBritain is to get its first 'hands-free' pedestrian crossing so that devout Jews do not have to break a religious law
Britain is to get its first 'hands-free' pedestrian crossing - so that devout Jews do not have to break a religious law that prohibits them from using electricity or operating machinery on the Sabbath.

The crossing is near a busy synagogue, and pressing a button to operate it is considered a breach of the strict rules that apply to Orthodox Jews.

Traffic will be held every 90 seconds from Friday evening until nightfall on Saturday, covering the Jewish Sabbath period.

The crossing will be situated on one of London's busiest roads - the North Circular at the Henlys Corner junction. But planners insist it will not cause traffic chaos.

The system will come into operation in December when the junction fully reopens after a massive ten-month upgrade costing £8 million.

The decision to include automatic crossings was taken after leaders at Finchley United Synagogue explained their predicament to staff at Transport for London, which is responsible for maintaining main roads in the capital. TfL says the 'hands-free' green man has not added to the cost of improvements.

Comment: Is this an example of the British government kowtowing to and wasting £millions of taxpayers money on absurd Jewish rituals? Or is that just our opinion?

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Big Agri-Business and Big Pharma - The Truth Behind France's Cult-Hunting Policies Exposed


The SOTT Report
Sun, 02 Oct 2011 02:56 UTC
Jean-Pierre Joseph is a lawyer in Grenoble, France. He has defended many groups and individuals in France who have run afoul of France's draconian 'cult-police'. Here he talks to the Centre d'Information et de Conseil des Nouvelles Spiritualités (CICNS) and explains the background to France's cult laws and the way in which state 'anti-cult' organisations regularly infringe civil rights, clearly to the advantage of Big Pharma, Agri-business (like Monsanto), and to the detriment of all French peoples. MIVILUDES is little more than the reincarnation of the Inquisition which persecuted and destroyed the Cathars and, in the process, the entire society of Southern France.

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Google unfurls Dead Sea Scrolls

Anna Leach
The Register
Mon, 26 Sep 2011 01:50 UTC
Ancient rantings scanned to 1,200MP

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As if there weren't enough strange rantings on the internet already, Google has just uploaded five of the Dead Sea Scrolls in super high resolution.

Of course, the Dead Sea Scrolls are strange rantings that - unlike your average YouTube contribution - are of great historic and religious significance. The scrolls were written 2,400 years ago by a desert-dwelling Jewish tribe, and recount important passages from the Old Testament as well other passages that aren't included in the Bible. Over 850 of them were discovered in 11 caves along the West Bank and are the oldest known surviving copies of Biblical and extra-biblical documents.

The five scrolls that will be uploaded by Google are: The Book of Isaiah, the War Scroll, the Temple Scroll, the Commentary on Habbukuk Scroll and the Community Rule Scroll.
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Linux Guru Hans Reiser Demands New Murder Trial

David Kravets
Wired
Thu, 29 Sep 2011 01:54 UTC
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© WiredDefense attorney William DuBois, left, and defendant Hans Reiser in court in 2007.
Linux programmer Hans Reiser, who in 2008 was found guilty of murdering his estranged wife in Oakland, California, is going to federal court to demand a new trial, claiming his attorney forced him to take the stand against his will.

The murder case, in which Reiser ultimately received a 15-to-life sentence, began with no body, no crime scene, no reliable eyewitness and virtually no physical evidence. It ended with Reiser convicted of killing Nina, his 31-year-old wife, after he took the stand and proceeded to slowly hang himself over the course of 11 days of testimony.

In a rambling, 117-page handwritten civil rights lawsuit penned from Mule Creek State Prison, Reiser - legendary in Silicon Valley as the creator of the ReiserFS file system - attacked his lawyer, the credibility of witnesses and even the trial judge. In seeking unspecified financial damages that "are large compared to the troubled state budget," Reiser said he could not get a fair trial because the "hive mind" of the state's judicial system suffers from a collective mental illness.
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US: Hackers joining Wall Street protests

Wilson Dizard
NY Post
Sun, 02 Oct 2011 01:57 UTC
Amid the real world protests swarming around Wall Street, the Department of Homeland Security has warned financial companies to be vigilant against a looming cyber- security threat from Anonymous, a headless horde of activist hackers.

Wanted for shutting down Web sites as high-profile as that of the CIA, a recently released DHS bulletin said the group "will continue to exploit vulnerable publicly available Web servers, computer networks and other digital information mediums for the foreseeable future."

While the DHS warning doesn't mention Wall Street protests in particular, it did say that "publicized events" like Occupy Wall Street may motivate the group.
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Iran warns US and UK cyber attacks will result in retaliation


V3
Mon, 03 Oct 2011 02:00 UTC
Iran has been flexing its muscles on the world stage again, warning the US and its allies that any cyber attack against the country will result in retaliation from Tehran.

Muslim news organisation the Ahlul Bayt News Agency reported Brigadier General Ali Shadmani, head of the Operations Department of the Iranian Armed Forces, as saying that any cyber attack on Iran would be "risky" and met with swift reprisals.

Shadmani is reported as saying that Western allies have been trying to destabilise Iran for decades, backing "anti-revolutionary terrorist organisations" such as MKO.
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US:Anonymous leaks personal details of alleged Wall Street pepper spray cop


V3
Mon, 26 Sep 2011 02:03 UTC
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Online hacktivist collective Anonymous has posted the personal details of a New York Police Department inspector caught on camera apparently pepper spraying female protestors at an anti-establishment march in Wall Street at the weekend.

The footage, which has been widely circulated, depicted a white shirted police officer who casually walked up to a group of protestors, many of whom were women and penned in behind orange netting, and sprayed them in the face before walking away.
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Anonymous hacktivists turn rapper on YouTube, iTunes

John Leyden
The Register
Thu, 29 Sep 2011 02:14 UTC
Hip hop flop still beats hack wack cack


Hacktivist groups TeaMp0isoN and Anonymous have teamed up with an independent artist to release a rap song which they hope will storm the music charts.

Proceeds from the ‪#OpCensorThis‬ digital activism project, a collaboration between TeaMp0isoN and ‪Lyricist Jinn - ‬will go to the East Africa Crisis Appeal. A slick professionally produced video was released to accompany the tune, which enjoyed a delayed release via iTunes and YouTube on Wednesday.
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US: Diebold e-voting hack allows remote tampering

Dan Goodin
The Register
Wed, 28 Sep 2011 02:21 UTC
$11 microprocessor-in-middle attack is 'significant'

Computer scientists have demonstrated a hack that uses off-the-shelf hardware to tamper with electronic voting machines that millions of Americans will use to cast ballots in the 2012 presidential elections.

The attack on the Diebold AccuVote TS electronic voting machine, which is now marketed by Election Systems & Software, relies on a small circuit board that an attacker inserts between the components connecting the touch screen of the device to its microprocessor. The $10.50 card then controls the information flowing into the machine's internal processor, allowing attackers to change votes with almost no visible sign of what's taking place.

In a video demonstration, researchers from the Vulnerability Assessment Team at the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois showed how the card could be used to briefly kill the power to the voting machine's touch screen to temporarily black out what's displayed so voters can't see their choices being modified. Using optional hardware costing about $15, they showed how attackers can remotely tamper with machines from distances as far away as half a mile.
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US: Domestic Spying Across the Country

Lance Page
Truthout
Sun, 02 Oct 2011 22:26 UTC
Ten Years Later: Surveillance in the "Homeland" is a collaborative project with Truthout and ACLU Massachusetts.

"In addition to massive surveillance, assassinations and dirty tricks "by any means necessary" included the creation of National Security Agency (NSA) "watch lists" of Americans ranging "from members of radical political groups, to celebrities, to ordinary citizens involved in protests against their government," with names submitted by the FBI, Secret Service, military, CIA, and Defense Intelligence Agency.
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