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A man holds up his phone during a rally in support of data privacy outside the Apple store Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016, in San Francisco. Protesters assembled in more than 30 cities to lash out at the FBI for obtaining a court order that requires Apple to make it easier to unlock an encrypted iPhone used by a gunman in December's mass murders in California. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Leaked Encryption Draft Bill ‘Ignores Economic, Security, And Technical Reality’

Archives for أبريل 2016

New LA Law: Homeless People Can Only Own A Trashcan’s Worth Of Belongings

These misguided approaches to homelessness have only served to increase the amount of homeless people in the city and make their quality of life that much worse.

True Activist
بواسطة True Activist
In this Monday, March 7, 2016, photograph, Salvatore Garofalo sits in a lawn chair in a makeshift homeless camp across from the Denver Rescue Mission in downtown Denver. City officials are planning to evict people on Tuesday from the homeless camps that have popped up around homeless shelters and in public places around the Mile High City. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

As though homeless people don’t already own so few possessions, the city of Los Angeles just passed a law saying that the amount of things a homeless person can own must fit inside of a trashcan. They even have size dimensions for the trashcan, noting that the items must fit in a 60-gallon trashcan and the lid must close over it. The new law

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Israeli Diamond Tycoons Listed In Leaked Panama Papers

Diamond and mining magnate Dan Gertler is mentioned more than 200 times in the leaked documents of Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, a leader in establishing shell companies that often serve to conceal the ownership of assets.

haaretz
بواسطة haaretz

The Israeli billionaire Dan Gertler, who made his fortune in diamonds and mining, is mentioned more than 200 times in the Panama Papers. Gertler is among some 600 Israeli companies and 850 Israeli shareholders listed in the leaked documents of Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, a leader in establishing shell companies that often serve to

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62 Percent Of Americans Think We Send Too Much Foreign Aid To Israel

Since 1948 – and even more so after the collapse of the Soviet Union – annual US aid packages to Israel have largely been driven by the lobbying efforts of Israel affinity organizations in the United States rather than strategic or national defense calculations

Grant F. Smith | AntiWar
بواسطة Grant F. Smith | AntiWar
Hillary Clinton at the 2016 American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Policy Conference, Monday, March 21, 2016. (AP/Andrew Harnik)

A majority Americans say U.S. foreign aid to Israel is excessive – either “much too much” (32.5 percent) or “too much’ (29.4 percent). The single-question March 10, 2016 opinion survey, fielded throughGoogle Consumer Surveys, reveals only slight changes since it was first asked on September 27, 2014. (For details on sample size, bias and other

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Poll: Americans Overwhelmingly View Trump Negatively

More than 60 percent of all registered voters and 31 percent of Republicans said they definitely would not vote for Trump in the general election.

Associated Press
بواسطة Associated Press
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign stop before next months earliest in the nation presidential primary, Monday, Jan. 11, 2016, in Windham,NH (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

WASHINGTON  — For Americans of nearly every race, gender, political persuasion and location, disdain for Donald Trump runs deep, saddling the Republican front-runner with unprecedented unpopularity as he tries to overcome recent campaign setbacks. Seven in 10 people, including close to half of Republican voters, have an unfavorable view of

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American Muslims File Lawsuit Against FBI Over Terrorist Watchlist

Thousands upon thousands of Muslims across the country… have been wrongfully smeared and designated as known or suspected terrorists, without any type of due process.

Sputnik News
بواسطة Sputnik News
Yonas Fikre

An unprecedented lawsuit has been filed by a group of American Muslims in Michigan, challenging the so-called FBI terrorist watchlist. Lena Masri, attorney with the Council on American–Islamic Relations, joins Brian Becker on Radio Sputnik’s Loud & Clear to illuminate some of the challenges to US citizens who adhere to the Muslim faith. The

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Border Patrol Thieves? US Border Agents Stealing From Refugees

Rights groups found evidence of U.S. Border Patrol agents stealing personal items from undocumented Mexican immigrants before deporting them.

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A family unit and unaccompanied minors encountered by Border Patrol Agents and Texas Game Wardens, wait as paper work is filled out. Wednesday, April 8, 2015.

U.S. border patrol agents have been stripping Mexican immigrants of their possessions, including large amounts of cash and their personal identification and other legal papers, before deporting them back to Mexico, according to complaints filed Wednesday by various rights groups. The American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico and a coalition

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