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Palestinian jailed for 9 years for hacking Israeli drones & CCTV live feeds


RT
Fri, 03 Feb 2017 13:17 UTC
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© Gil Cohen Magen / ReutersA Heron TP, also known as the IAI Eitan, surveillance unmanned air vehicle
A Palestinian computer engineer has been sentenced to nine years in prison for hacking into Israeli drones for Islamic Jihad after pleading guilty to aiding the terror group to intercept military footage "from the skies of Gaza", the Justice Ministry said.

Majid Oweida, 23, who prior to his detention was responsible for recruiting contestants for the TV show Palestinians Got Talent, was handed a nine-year jail term after hacking into Israeli military drones on behalf of the Islamic Jihad political party.

The district court of Beersheba city passed the sentence on Thursday following a plea bargain earlier this week. The Justice Ministry said Oweida had pleaded guilty to "various offenses against state security including membership of, and activity in, a forbidden organization."

Prosecutors accused the IT specialist of developing software that the terrorist faction used for years to intercept video footage transmitted by Israeli military drones. Oweida joined Islamic Jihad in 2011 and first successfully hacked into the IDF drones as early as 2012.

The transcript from court Thursday's proceedings, according to The Times of Israel, said Oweida has admitted to developing a program that would "hack into and monitor broadcasts of pictures from the skies of Gaza" by Israeli military drones.

Following a couple of failed attempts, the hacker penetrated drone transmissions "in real time... and full HD quality." The intercepted broadcast, authorities said, revealed "intelligence information about terror operatives active in firing and storing rockets in Gaza."
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McCanns' fury at losing battle over 'false smears' of Portuguese detective who accused them of covering up Maddie's death

Tracey Kandohla & Gerard Couzens
Daily Mail
Thu, 02 Feb 2017 22:02 UTC
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© Tim Clarke'It's personal': A friend of Kate McCann said today told of the family's fury at losing their eight-year libel battle with Portuguese detective Goncalo Amaral, who accused the McCanns of covering up the death of missing daughter Madeleine.
The anguished parents of Madeleine McCann today told of their fury at failing to silence a Portuguese police chief from 'spouting false smears' over their daughter's disappearance.

Kate and Gerry McCann said their eight-year libel battle with detective Goncalo Amaral, who claims Maddie died and they covered it up, had become deeply personal - and was not about money.
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Crazy liberals 'fighting fascism' riot at UC Berkeley amid protest of Breitbart editor's speech


RT
Thu, 02 Feb 2017 02:57 UTC
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A protest turned violent at the University of California at Berkeley, resulting in the cancellation of a talk from editor of Breitbart News Milo Yiannopoulos.

Milo Yiannopoulos was expected speak against "sanctuary campuses," which promised to protect undocumented students in wake of President Donald Trump's tough stance on illegal immigration.

In response to the violence, UC Berkeley Police have warned students to "leave the area immediately," as they are bringing in "additional resources."

Hours after a lockdown was declared across campus by police, many orders of dispersal, including several five-minute warnings went largely ignored.

Comment: Also see: Milo talk spawns riot at UC Berkeley - Trump supporter beaten unconscious

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IRS Agent Jack Vitayanon arrested on charges of distributing crystal meth in Long Island and Arizona

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Thu, 02 Feb 2017 20:27 UTC
Jack Vitayanon, IRS
Jack Vitayanon was arrested Wednesday and charged with conspiring with others to distribute 500 grams of methamphetamine, according to the U.S. Justice Department
An attorney employed by the Internal Revenue Service, Jack Vitayanon, was arrested Wednesday and charged with conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.

Ironically enough, Vitayanon worked in the IRS's Office of Professional Responsibility for 5 years. His job consisted of investigating attorneys, certified public accountants ("CPAs"), Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") enrolled agents, and other tax professionals based on reports of suspected misconduct.

Apparently, Vitayanon felt that his position of authority allowed him to escape accountability. However, he was wrong.

The criminal complaint against Vitayanon was unsealed in federal court in New York charging him with conspiring with others to distribute at least 500 grams of meth. As detailed in the complaint, Vitayanon conspired with others in Arizona and on Long Island to distribute methamphetamine for several years and recently negotiated and consummated the sales of distribution quantities of methamphetamine to undercover HSI special agents on Long Island.

When a Fed-Ex package bound for Long Island was discovered by authorities to contain hundreds of grams of meth, the receiving party proceeded to roll over on everyone — including Vitayanon.
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Hollywood hysteria: Comedian Sarah Silverman calls for military coup

Ashley Collman
The Daily Mail
Thu, 02 Feb 2017 10:56 UTC
Sarah Silverman
Comedian Sarah Silverman appeared to call for a military coup in a tweet last night, as protests against far-right Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos turned violent.

'WAKE UP & JOIN THE RESISTANCE. ONCE THE MILITARY IS W US FASCISTS GET OVERTHROWN. MAD KING & HIS HANDLERS GO BYE BYE,' Silverman wrote.

Later she added: 'We're all gonna die sounds so dire but we are though (all gonna die).'

Trump supporters and conservatives were quick to tear Silverman's tweet to shreds, calling for her to be arrested for treason and even using anti-Semitic rhetoric against the Jewish stand-up comedian.

Comment: The 'left' really is showing its true colors. And what ugly colors they are. Military overthrow of a democratically elected leader? Who are the fascists again?

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Lethal radiation levels and hole in reactor discovered at damaged Fukushima reactor


RT
Thu, 02 Feb 2017 19:58 UTC
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© Yoshikazu Tsuno / Global Look Press
Record high radiation levels that's lethal even after brief exposure have been detected at a damaged reactor at the Fukushima power plant in Japan. Specialists also found a hole, likely caused by melted nuclear fuel.

Radiation levels of up to 530 Sieverts per hour were detected inside an inactive Reactor 2 at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex damaged during the 2011 earthquake and tsunami catastrophe, Japanese media reported on Thursday citing the plant operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO).

A dose of about 8 Sieverts is considered incurable and fatal.

A hole of no less than one square meter in size has also been discovered beneath the reactor's pressure vessel, TEPCO said. According to researchers, the apparent opening in the metal grating of one of three reactors that had melted down in 2011, is believed to be have been caused by melted nuclear fuel that fell through the vessel.

Comment: Also read: Fukushima breakthrough? The operator at Japan's TEPCO finds possible nuclear fuel debris

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Milo talk spawns riot at UC Berkeley - Trump supporter beaten unconscious

Jocelyne Zablit
AFP / Yahoo News
Thu, 02 Feb 2017 19:32 UTC
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President Donald Trump threatened Thursday to withdraw federal funds from UC Berkeley after violent campus protests forced the cancellation of a speech by Milo Yiannopoulos, a firebrand editor of right-wing news site Breitbart.

The disturbances were a fiery reminder of the university's history as a cradle of the 1960s anti-war movement -- and a sign of the sharp tensions pitting America's mostly left-wing student body against a far-right minority.


Comment: How far they've fallen! Where were they when Obama was fighting wars on seven countries?


Hundreds of students and other protesters chanting "shut him down" smashed windows at the University of California campus, set wooden pallets ablaze and threw fireworks and rocks as police in full riot gear responded with tear gas.

The university was placed on lockdown as the sold-out appearance by Yiannopoulos, a conservative provocateur and self-proclaimed internet troll who styles himself on Facebook as "Dangerous Faggot," was canceled Wednesday evening.

"If U.C. Berkeley does not allow free speech and practices violence on innocent people with a different point of view - NO FEDERAL FUNDS?" Trump wrote on Twitter Thursday.

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Eyes Wide Shut in LA: Inside the "exclusive" hedonistic sex parties of the rich and debauched

Heather Hauswirth
New York Post
Wed, 01 Feb 2017 18:46 UTC
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At a swanky party in a Beverly Hills, Calif., mansion last Saturday, I spot Bill Maher in a sea of beautiful young women and make my approach.

"Are you a Leo?" I ask the host of HBO's "Real Time," while eyeing a lion pendant around his neck.

"No, they make me wear this stupid thing because I'm a member," he replies, stroking the back of his date, a pretty younger woman in a short black leather dress.

Around us, a mostly female crowd of models, young professionals, actresses and assistants strut about in couture lingerie, much to the delight of older male guests in tuxedos. One 20-something blonde crawls on the carpeted floor wearing red lace and a face mask with a leather pig snout and ears. Other pretty young things wear metallic pasties and black badges that read "Eat me" or "Touch me" on their décolletage, while holding silver platters of bite-size brownies and parfaits. A man who calls himself the "Bunnyman" and wears a black leather mask and rabbit ears demonstrates various Japanese bondage techniques on an aroused woman sitting upright in a plush, gold-painted chair.

Comment: Speaking of swamps...

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Survey: Hungarian opinions rank the world's top three political leaders


Daily News Hungary
Wed, 01 Feb 2017 00:00 UTC
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© Voz de América
The majority of Hungarians support Hungary building balanced and mutually beneficial relations with Russia, a survey released by the Századvég Foundation on Wednesday shows.

A total of 75 percent favoured pragmatic relations with Russia as opposed to only five percent saying that "Hungary should not even talk to Russian President Vladimir Putin at all," the survey revealed. Eighteen percent of respondents supported building friendly relations with Russia.

The survey also gauged Hungarians' opinion about the world's top three political leaders, namely Russian President Vladimir Putin, newly inaugurated US President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Most popular among them was Putin, favoured by 35 percent of respondents, compared with 44 percent rejecting him.

Trump came in second, with 27 percent seeing him in a positive light and 38 percent viewing him unfavourably. Fully 34 percent of respondents were unable to give an opinion.

Least popular was Merkel, with only 26 percent viewing her favourably. The phone survey was carried out on Jan. 21-28 with a sample of 1,000 people.
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Inmates at a Delaware max-security prison are taking the guards hostage - UPDATE


RT
Wed, 01 Feb 2017 20:59 UTC
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All Delaware prisons have been placed on lockdown after reports of an emergency situation at the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center in Smyrna. The state Department of Corrections said the incident involves inmates taking guards hostage.

Rep. William Carson, a member of the Delaware House Corrections Committee, said he had been told it was an "apparent hostage situation."

"The inmates have taken over a building," he told the Delaware News Journal.

Department of Corrections spokeswoman Jayme Gravell told the News Journal that state police and DOC response teams were called in to deal with the hostage situation.

Comment: A male corrections officer died and his female colleague was injured in a daylong standoff at a maximum security prison in Delaware. In phone calls to the media inmates said they rebelled because of President Donald Trump and "everything he did."
No official demands were communicated to the police, but the inmates placed two phone calls to the Wilmington News Journal. In the second call, they brought up President Donald Trump and "all the things that he's doing now."

"We're trying to explain the reasons is for doing what we're doing. Donald Trump. Everything that he did. All the things that he's doing now. We know that the institution is going to change for the worse," the inmates relayed to the Delaware News Journal on Wednesday evening, through a woman whose son was being held hostage.

They also demanded "education first and foremost," more rehabilitation programs, and "money to be allocated so we can know exactly what is going on in the prison, the budget."

The hashtag #VaughnRebellion began trending on Twitter.



On Thursday morning, the authorities stormed the building, freeing the hostages and reestablishing control. One of the hostages, a male corrections officer, was found dead. A female guard was hospitalized.


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