Get this: Apple has removed an application called “The Third Palestinian Intifada” for purchase for Mac, and iPhone users. Yuli-Yoel Edelstein, Israeli Minister for Public Affairs and Immigrant Absorption, mailed a letter to the Apple Corporation requesting the “immediate removal” of the application. On Tuesday, Mac officials had decided to keep the app running despite Israeli pressures to take it down. But it’s gone now.
Edelstein wrote that the app was “anti-Israel and anti-Zionist” and calls for an immediate Palestinian uprising against the state of Israel.
In May, United States attorney Larry Klayman sued Mark Zuckerburg, founder of Facebook, for over one billion dollars for not removing the Facebook group “The Third Palestinian Intifada” soon enough.Badlands...
Back in October the NRC warned operators at Nebraska’s Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant that it had inadequate flood plans in place, and that flooding could cause damage to the plant’s core. And for a while there mainstream media succeeded in keeping the wraps on the story. But for the past week or so there is no avoiding images of a nuclear power plant surrounded by the rising waters of the flooding Missouri River. Fort Calhoun is a mere 19 miles from Omaha.
Even as the water levels have risen all around the plant, its operators claim there’s no problem. “water levels at the Fort Calhoun Station rose 1,006 feet above sea level Monday,” and that the reactor “is protected against floods that reach 1,014 feet.”
Another nuclear power plant in Nebraska, the Cooper Nuclear Station, is also in a flood zone, and the rising waters are causing worries there, too.
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Mohammed - 'Christmas Tree Terrorist' - Mohamud's defense team has asked for the FBI surveillance records of their client as part of his due-process rights. It’s safe to assume that the Feds saw this one coming a mile away and have been busy doctoring the evidence since long before it even became evidence....Late yesterday the federal public defenders representing Mohamud argued in a brief that they need to see the classified surveillance material gathered by the FBI so they can decide whether the surveillance was legitimately obtained and properly used.
Mohamud's attorneys also said they want to see all records before Aug. 11, 2009, Mohamud's 18th birthday. Anything gathered while he was a minor “throws into question the government's reasonableness in their surveillance.” Ahhh, they do know how to turn a phrase…The filing also mentions that surveillance of Mohamud "led in part" to searches of him when an Oregon State University student told police Mohamud raped her after a 2009 Halloween party. Police investigated, but found nothing to corroborate her accusation and the charge was never pursued.
The government prosecutors say they've gone beyond what they're required to provide in a case involving national security, and have rejected the so-called open-file approach requested by the defense.- KBOO