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Netanyahu Slams Peace Now for Sabotaging Obama Meeting
Oct 2nd, 2014
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Netanyahu and Obama meet at the White House

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Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu expressed his anger at extreme leftist group Peace Now for what he said was an intentional attempt to sabotage his meeting Wednesday with US President Barack Obama.

The organization leaked to the press that a plan for construction in Jerusalem had been approved, just as he met Obama – and the US responded with a statement of denouncement.

"This is irresponsibility on the international level, for some element to publish a statutory plan in order to sabotage a very important meeting that dealt with the Iranian nuclear program, our basic security questions and Islamic State (ISIS),” Netanyahu told Channel 2's Amit Segal in an interview that will be aired after Yom Kippur.

Minister of Transportation Yisrael Katz also strongly condemned Peace Now for its attempt "to sabotage" the meeting between Netanyahu and Obama by engineering an outcry over the approval of 2,610 new building tenders in Jerusalem's Givat Hamatos neighborhood. 

"The building in Givat Hamatos will strengthen Jerusalem from the South and that is good," said Katz, and echoed claims by Jewish land rights NGO Regavim that the entire episode was fabricated for political purposes. 

"The final approval was already signed last week," he noted, "But Peace Now, a worthless organization, whose budget mostly comes from foreign sources, leaked the news the same day as the Prime Minister's meeting with the President of the United States, in order to poison the atmosphere."

Regavim, a watchdog group for Jewish national property rights, said Thursday that it was not clear why the US was criticizing Israel's construction of homes in Jerusalem. “The building plans for this project were approved in 2011, so it was well known that homes would be built in Givat Hamatos,” the group said.

“The reason the issue is coming up now is because the far-left Peace Now is desperate to harm Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on his trip to the US, to the extent that it is recycling old news.”

The United States responded to Peace Now's report by condemning Israel's plans. During their meeting Obama told Netanyahu that he is very "concerned" about the building."

After the meeting, White House spokesman Josh Earnest warned that the implementation of the construction plans would send a "very troubling message" to the world. 

"This development will only draw condemnation from the international community, [and] distance Israel from even its closest allies," Earnest said.

Netanyahu Hits Back At U.S. Criticism in Foreign Press
Oct 2nd, 2014
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Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has been on a whirlwind American tour, speaking before the UN General Assembly, meeting US President Barack Obama, and starting Wednesday night speaking to several international media networks. That point has raised eyebrows given the fact he hasn't given Israeli media an interview for many long years.

Two issues have caused ire in the White House since Netanyahu's arrival, namely Israel's announced construction plan for 2,610 homes in Jerusalem on Wednesday which the US harshly condemned, and dozens of Jewish families moving into eleven apartments in the Shiloach neighborhood (known as Silwan by local Arabs) in Jerusalem.

Speaking to Univision, Netanyahu explained the latter case saying "if you said to me that in some city in the United States or in Mexico, or anywhere else, Jews cannot buy apartments, there would be an uproar."

"You know, there's not only the freedom of property, but the right of every individual to live where they want, as long as they purchase the apartment legally and don't expropriate, don't take over, which isn't the case here," added Netanyahu. "So I just want to understand this policy. It flies in the face of American values, and it flies in the face of common sense."

Speaking to MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell on Wednesday night, Netanyahu added that the criticism on the construction plans was particularly off the mark given that a "substantial part were for Arabs." He also termed the criticism of the Shiloah purchase "baffling."

The defense of Jewish residency in Jerusalem and construction projects may seem ironic to some, given that Netanyahu has been revealed to be imposing a "covert" construction freeze on Jewish building in Judea, Samaria and eastern Jerusalem - despite the housing crisis gripping Israel.

On another issue, while Netanyahu reserved Israel's right to defend itself from a "bad" nuclear deal with Iran that would leave the Islamic regime with breakout capacity to build a nuclear bomb, he refused to elaborate his plans, saying "I'm the only Israeli who doesn't talk about military operations."

Before the UN Netanyahu pressed his comparison of the Islamist terrorist organizations Hamas and Islamic State (ISIS) - a comparison Obama's administration saw fit to criticize.

Elaborating on his comments, Netanyahu told Univision "I didn't say that Hamas and ISIS are twins. I said that they're brothers. They're branches, as I said in the UN, of the same poisonous tree of militant Islam. They both share fanatic ideology of first getting these enclaves of militant Islam and then expanding them through terror ultimately to in their view, to dominate the world. Now, they also share the same fanatic methods."

Aside from discussing politics, Netanyahu has come in for criticism during his trip to the US after it was revealed he has been eating in several non-kosher restaurants during important meetings in his capacity as the leader of the Jewish state of Israel.

Los Angeles County to Collect More Personal Data
Oct 2nd, 2014
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Without notice to the public, Los Angeles County law enforcement officials are preparing to widen what personal information they collect from people they encounter in the field and in jail – by building a massive database of iris scans, fingerprints, mug shots, palm prints and, potentially, voice recordings.

The new database of personal information – dubbed a multimodal biometric identification system – would augment the county's existing database of fingerprint records and create the largest law enforcement repository outside of the FBI of so-called next-generation biometric identification, according to county sheriff's department documents.

On Sept. 15, the FBI announced that the Next Generation Identification System was fully operational. Now that the central infrastructure is in place, the next phase is for local jurisdictions across the country to update their own information-gathering systems to the FBI's standards.

When the system is up and running in L.A., any law enforcement official working in the county, including the Los Angeles Police Department, would collect biometric information on people who are booked into county jails or by using mobile devices in the field.

This would occur even when people are stopped for lesser offenses or pulled over for minor traffic violations, according to documents obtained by The Center for Investigative Reporting through a public records request.

Officials with the sheriff's department, which operates the countywide system, said the biometric information would be retained indefinitely – regardless of whether the person in question is convicted of the crime for which he or she was arrested.

The system is expected to be fully operational in two or three years, according to the sheriff's department.

All of this is happening without hearings or public input, yet technology companies already are bidding to build the system, interviews and documents show. Officials would not disclose the expected cost of the project or which companies are bidding but said it would be a multimillion-dollar undertaking.

The new system is being readied as the public has become increasingly concerned about privacy invasions by the government, corporations and Internet sources. Privacy advocates worry the public is losing any sense of control over the widespread collection of data on its purchases, travel habits, friendships, health, business transactions and personal communications.

At the same time, cities and counties across the country are facing renewed scrutiny for accepting the transfer of military technology from the Pentagon. Thenational biometric database is part of the transition of military-grade technologies and information-gathering strategies from the Pentagon to civilian law enforcement. During the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq over the past decade, the U.S. military collected and stored biometric information on millions of civilians and militants.

In 2008, President George W. Bush required the Defense, Homeland Security and Justice departments to establish common standards for collecting and sharing biometric information like iris scans and photos optimized for facial recognition. Law enforcement agencies have been testing mobile systems for documenting biometric information, including a facial recognition program uncovered in San Diego County last fall.

Authorities in California already collect DNA swabs from arrestees booked into county jails, a practice upheld last year by the U.S. Supreme Court and this year by a federal appeals court in California. Dozens of other states also collect DNA samples from arrestees.

Documents from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department show its database will house information on up to 15 million subjects, giving the department a major stake in the Next Generation Identificationprogram, a billion-dollar update to the FBI's national fingerprint database and the largest information technology project in the history of the U.S. Department of Justice.

For privacy advocates, the development of the Los Angeles biometric system without any public oversight or debate and an indefinite data retention policy are causes for concern.

Jeramie Scott, national security counsel for the Electronic Privacy Information Center, said it's critical for the public to be aware that this new technology is being rolled out, because the information held by law enforcement poses unique threats to privacy and anonymity.

"Biometric data is something you cannot change if it is compromised," Scott said. "There are privacy and civil liberties implications that come from law enforcement having multiple ways to identify someone without their consent."

Scott, whose organization has sued the FBI to release information related to Next General Identification, added: "It becomes a one-sided debate when law enforcement alone is making that decision to use new technologies on the public."

Hamid Khan, an organizer with the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition who studies police surveillance, said the arrival of Next Generation Identification means Los Angeles is now a frontier in the battle for privacy.

"Now our whole bodies are up for grabs," Khan said.

The multimodal biometric system under development by the sheriff's department will collect four out of the five "inputs" used by the Next Generation Identification program – fingerprints, mug shots, iris scans and palm prints. Voice recordings are the fifth input.

The L.A. system is designed to transmit and receive data to and from the FBI and the California Department of Justice, which has its own biometric database.

Originally announced in 2008, Next Generation Identification is being rolled out across the country this year after pilot projects were carried out in Michigan, Maryland, Texas, Maine and New Mexico. About 17 million facial records already were integrated into Next Generation Identification as of January.

Earlier this year, residents and city officials in Compton were outraged that Los Angeles County sheriff's officials had experimented with a cutting-edge aerial surveillance tool known as wide-area surveillance without any prior public notice.

"A lot of people do have a problem with the eye in the sky, the Big Brother, so in order to mitigate any of those kinds of complaints, we basically kept it pretty hush-hush," sheriff's Sgt. Douglas Iketani told CIR earlier this year.

Sheriff's Lt. Joshua Thai, who is in charge of implementing the county's new biometric database, said the department currently is collecting only fingerprints and has used mobile devices since 2006 to check the fingerprints of people stopped on the street against the county's records.

Thai said biometric information would be collected from people only when they are arrested and booked, but the mobile devices would be used to verify individuals' identities in the field.

"It could be somebody gets pulled over for a traffic violation and he or she does not have a driver's license on him or her, and the officer is just trying to identify this person," he said.

Thai said the goal of the project is to help law enforcement officers better identify the people they contact and avoid wrongful arrests. "What we're hoping is that based on the mug shot is that that will compensate some of the biometrics to maybe better identify this person," Thai said.

The sheriff's department declined to release information on which companies were already bidding to install the new system.

According to federal guidelines for the storage of biometric data in Next Generation Identification, information on an individual with a criminal record will be kept until that person is 99 years old. Information on a person without a criminal record will be purged when he or she turns 75.

The FBI's guidelines for keeping biometric data on individuals, regardless of whether they have criminal records, "amounts to an indefinite retention period," said Peter Bibring, a senior staff attorney with the Southern California ACLU. If the Next Generation Identification database simply were an update to the FBI's existing fingerprint database, Bibring said the project wouldn't be problematic.

However, he said the biometric database "significantly expands the type of data law enforcement collects and creates a more invasive system" that may encourage police officers to make more stops in the field to gather photographs and biometric data for the new database.l

Experts say the collection and storage of biometric information creates challenges for the legal system and personal privacy – challenges that have not been adequately considered in the planning and implementation of Next Generation Identification.

Bibring said the new database, if paired with facial recognition-enabled surveillance cameras, could drastically increase law enforcement's ability to track a person's movements just as license-plate readers track vehicles.

"The federal government is creating an architecture that will make it easy to identify where people are and were," Bibring said. "It threatens people's anonymity and ability to move about without being monitored."

Scott, of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, said FBIdocuments obtained by the center make it clear thatuncertainty lingers about who has access to the biometric data that will be stored in the new federal database, and he has doubts regarding the security of such information.

Dozens of Southern California law enforcement agencies have been using mobile fingerprinting devices in the field for roughly a decade. Gang officers routinely submit fingerprints, mug shots and photographs of tattoos and unique scars of suspected gang members to the statewide CalGang database, which contains information on over 130,000 individuals statewide.

The national biometric database also has come under fire from privacy advocates and civil libertarians because it is being implemented without a thorough study of its impact on privacy – whichis required by federal law.

"They need to do this before any pilot programs, of which they've done two for facial recognition and iris recognition," Scott said. "They're not meeting their legal obligations, which is now being followed up by state and local authorities."

Khan, of the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, said such sensitive information in the hands of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department raises further questions about oversight and information security.

"When we look at the multiple contractors and subcontractors and who will have access to this information," he said, "the whole issue of identity theft comes to mind."

Let the Headlines Speak
Oct 2nd, 2014
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4.5 earthquake felt in Pisco
According to Andina news agency, when the earthquake arrived, just in time for dinner, “the majority of the population left their homes and took to the streets,” frightened that the temblor was going to develop into something more powerful.  

Why Are Islamists Obsessed with Jews on the Temple Mount?
Why are Muslims obsessed with Jews visiting the Temple Mount in Jerusalem? "Those who visit the sacred site do so with expert rabbinical guidance, after taking all the necessary halachic steps and precautions to safeguard sanctity. The visitors goal is simply to have a spiritual experience, to be seen there by God, and to pray.  

Cameron vows to scrap Human Rights Act, civil liberties groups outraged
Speaking on the final day of the Conservative Party’s four-day conference, Cameron pledged to do away with the Act and replace it with a British “bill of rights.” However, the prime minister did not explicitly confirm that a future Conservative government would withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights – a move that would have far-reaching repercussions for Britain’s relationship with Europe.  

US tanks arrive in Baltics, Poland requests greater US military presence
Polish Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz says she wants a greater military presence in Poland in light of events in Ukraine. The comment came as the US announced it is deploying 700 soldiers and 20 ‘Ironhorse’ tanks across the three Baltic States and Poland.  

Rabbi Says Disturbing Incident on Holy Day Left Synagogue’s Holocaust Survivors ‘Fearful’ With Emotions That ‘Haven’t Come Out for Years’
Kushner said he watched the faces of those Holocaust survivors as “davening went on throughout (Thursday) and the crowd in the shul grew” and saw they “were very, very visibly moved in a very emotional and a very fearful way,” he told the Jewish Exponent, adding that was “worse than the physical damage.”  

Islamic State committing 'staggering' crimes in Iraq: U.N. report
Islamic State insurgents in Iraq have carried out mass executions, abducted women and girls as sex slaves, and used child soldiers in what may amount to systematic war crimes that demand prosecution, the United Nations said on Thursday.  

Guangdong dengue outbreak rages on with nearly 13,500 cases
The number of dengue fever cases in Guangdong has increased to 13,449 as of Sept. 30, a figure 19.38 times higher than the same period last year. Even one of the province's vice governors has contracted the virus, reports our Chinese-language sister paper Want Daily.  

Global stocks succumb to growth fears; ECB trillion euro question awaits
World stocks and oil were knocked hard on Thursday after global manufacturing data and an Ebola health scare in the United States spooked markets, sending investors scurrying to the safety of U.S. bonds, the yen and gold.  

In meeting with Netanyahu, Obama calls to change Israeli-Palestinian ‘status quo’
Obama said new efforts were needed to tackle the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “We have to find ways to change the status quo so that both Israeli citizens are safe in their own homes, and schoolchildren in their schools … but also that we don’t have the tragedy of Palestinian children being killed as well,”  

Palestinians draft UN resolution calling for Israel to withdraw from West Bank, East Jerusalem
The Palestinians have drafted a United Nations resolution calling on Israel to withdraw from the West Bank and East Jerusalem by November 2016 as part of a new push for independence and full U.N. recognition.  

Now a patient in Hawaii is in isolation with suspected Ebola... but has not yet been tested for the virus and doctors refuse to reveal if they travele
A patient in Honolulu, Hawaii, has been placed in isolation with suspected Ebola, The Department of Health confirmed on Wednesday. Even though the disease is a possibility, the patient has not yet been specifically tested for it, but is displaying some symptoms. The Hawaii Nurses Association said the person is being treated at The Queen’s Medical Center.  

Ebola outbreak: 'Five infected every hour' in Sierra Leone
A leading charity has warned that a rate of five new Ebola cases an hour in Sierra Leone means healthcare demands are far outstripping supply. It is the world's worst outbreak of the virus, killing 3,338 people so far. There have been 7,178 confirmed cases, with Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea suffering the most. Ebola is spreading across Sierra Leone at a "terrifying rate", with the number of new cases being recorded doubling every few weeks.  

Paralysis cases in Alberta under investigation for Enterovirus D68 link
Provincial health officials in B.C. are trying to determine if a man and boy with the illness developed paralysis-like symptoms because of the infections. Doctors are watching the two cases but say it's too soon to say if the virus is the cause.  

Obama Bans Flights to Israel, But Not Flights From Ebola Affected Countries
At least this administration is consistent. It will let every one and every thing, including pestilence, cross our border. I bet, if we are patient, the administration will even place Ebola with a nice family somewhere in Middle America and given it government benefits.  

USGS Reports 3.6 Magnitude Earthquake Near Medford
MEDFORD, Oklahoma - The United States Geological Survey reported an earthquake near Medford, Wednesday afternoon. A 3.6 magnitude earthquake was reported at 1:18 p.m., 14 miles west, southwest of Medford and 26 miles north, northwest of Enid. The depth was over three miles.  

Officials: Second person being monitored for Ebola
Health officials are closely monitoring a possible second Ebola patient who had close contact with the first person to be diagnosed in the U.S., the director of Dallas County's health department said Wednesday. All who have been in close contact with the man officially diagnosed are being monitored as a precaution...  

Islamic State: Turkey MPs to vote on Iraq/Syria deployment
The Turkish parliament is to vote on a motion to allow its military to enter Iraq and Syria and foreign troops to use its territory for the operation. Turkey had been unwilling to fight Islamic State (IS) militants because they were holding 46 Turkish hostages but they were released last month. Parliament is expected to back the motion.  

Ukraine rebels renew push to take Donetsk airport
Rebel forces in eastern Ukraine are conducting an offensive to capture the government-held airport in Donetsk, officials say. Pro-Russian rebels have tried several times in recent weeks to take the airport, which lies to the north-west of the city. The insurgents continued an offensive - begun on Wednesday - on "a broad front", the Ukrainian military says.  

Somalia battles al-Shabab for Galgala mountains
Troops in northern Somalia have battled al-Shabab Islamist militants for the Galgala mountains, with both sides claiming to have won. The fighters have been holding the northern mountains for several years. An al-Shabab spokesman told the BBC that after a heavy battle they still controlled the territory in Puntland.  

France 'rejects austerity' in controversial budget
France has put itself on a collision course with its EU partners after rejecting calls for it to adopt further austerity measures to bring its budget deficit in line with EU rules. ...President Francois Hollande's government said that “no further effort will be demanded of the French, because the government — while taking the fiscal responsibility needed to put the country on the right track — rejects austerity.”  

Gas war escalates as Russia halves Slovakia supplies
Russia has cut gas deliveries to Slovakia by half in a bad sign for EU efforts to broker a deal on Ukraine. Prime minister Robert Fico told press...that the drop came without any warning. He said his national distributor...can still "fulfill its commitments" on “reverse flow” to Ukraine and supply customers in Slovakia and the Czech Republic by buying extra volumes on the spot market.  

Turkey pushes for more than 'dropping tons of bombs' on IS
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan pressed the West on Wednesday to find a long-term solution to the crises in Syria and Iraq, saying dropping "tons of bombs" on Islamic State militants would only provide temporary respite.  

China will use gold and gold pricing to force global currency reset
On Sept. 30, statistician and economist Dr. Jim Willie was a guest on the Caravan to Midnight radio show to talk about current financial, economic, and geo-political events. During his three hour interview, Dr. Willie stated that one of the purposes behind China's creation of the new Shanghai gold exchange is to eventually take over global price controls for the monetary metal away from the Comex, and then force a global currency reset by raising the price of gold to its true or actual value.  

Arkansas shooting range declares itself a ‘Muslim Free Zone’
The proprietor of an Arkansas shooting range announced on social media Sunday that she is banning Muslims from her establishment out of fear for the safety of her patrons.  

Bachmann: Obama could be laying the groundwork for a WWIII
Republican congresswoman slams president's 'Kabuki theatre' strategy to fight ISIS. (Video)  

Concerned, US Airlines Contact Government About Ebola
U.S. airlines and their trade group Airlines for America are in close contact with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on actions the U.S. government is taking to address Ebola health concerns, according to a spokesperson for JetBlue.  

Labor Secretary: Obama Wants Amnesty Because He Believes America is Part of Global Universe
Oct 2nd, 2014
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Wednesday at his speech to members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Labor Secretary, Thomas Perez said President Barack Obama will fulfill his promise to use an executive order to grant amnesty for up to 6 million illegal immigrants already living in the United States because he "has someone who has lived overseas, he understands that we are a global universe here in the United States and everywhere."

Perez said, "When you look at the president on immigration, his commitment to this issue dates way back to his time in Illinois state government. Way, way back, because he has understood, and as someone who has lived overseas, he understands that we are a global universe here in the United States and everywhere. And he understands that we are a nation of immigrants, and we are a nation of laws, and we can be both. I have seen those values in action."

Fatah Terrorists in Shootouts in and Around Jerusalem
Oct 2nd, 2014
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Fatah's Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades

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In parallel to the so-called "silent intifada" of rock and firebomb terror plaguing Jerusalem, incidents of gunfire in Judea and Samaria have been sharply increasing in recent months, following Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction's declared "return to terror."

That announcement, which was made by Fatah's "military wing," the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, has led not only to an outpouring of attacks on Jews but also apparently to shootings between rival members of Fatah.

Fatah activists were ambushed this Wednesday in a hail of gunfire in the Arab town of Beit Duqqu, located in Samaria just to the northwest of Jerusalem.

The Fatah members who were fired on had taken part in a meeting to discuss disagreements in the organization regarding priorities for "action" in the Jerusalem area.

One of them told the Palestinian Arab Safa news agency that additional gunfire targeted their car as it passed adjacent to the Arab town of Al Jib, also located to the northwest of Jerusalem, and that residents told them another shooting ambush was waiting for them in the village of Beit Nabala.

In a separate incident a week ago, Fatah members were similarly shot at in the northern Jerusalem neighborhood of Shuafat.

Aside from showing the lawlessness of PA-managed areas, the incidents bear stark witness to the prevalence of illegal weapons among Fatah terrorists in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem.

Another example of the prevalence of arms was seen recently in the Kafr Aqab neighborhood of northern Jerusalem, where Fatah terrorists were filmed firing automatic weapons in the air, ostensibly as a warning to drug dealers and "collaborators" with Israel.

Hamas has also been getting in on the action; another video last month shows terrorists with Hamas headbands shooting at an IDF Border Patrol post with modified sub-machine guns in Jerusalem's Shuafat neighborhood.

The ongoing violence against Jews in Jerusalem has also included countless rock, firebomb and firework attacks, including a recent assault on a infant day care center in Ma'ale Hazeitim on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem this week.

The breakdown of law comes after Jibril Rajoub, senior PA and Fatah leader and confidante of Abbas, on PA TV said his organization had made a "political decision" not to stop anyone from "slaughtering" Jews in eastern Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria.

Shockingly, Israeli police have been revealed to be hushing up Arab terror in Jerusalem, as Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat urges the media to stay quiet on the topic in order to avoid potential harm to local tourism.