This morning's key headlines from
GenerationalDynamics.com:
- Thousands of Egyptians protest the 'Brotherhood Constitution'
- Israel approves 3,000 new settlement homes on the West Bank
- Bankster types take over the computer malware detection industry
Thousands of Egyptians protest the 'Brotherhood Constitution'
Thousands of Egyptians streamed into Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, on
Friday to protest actions by the government of president Mohamed
Morsi. For several days, there have been protests over Morsi's
constitution decree, ten days ago, giving himself dictatorial powers.
But now there's a second reason: Egypt's Constituent Assembly,
consisting mostly of members of the Muslim Brotherhood, of which Morsi
himself is a former leader, has rushed a draft of the new Egyptian
constitution to completion. The new draft constitution, called by
protesters the "Brotherhood Constitution," follows Islamic Sharia law
and contains some clauses restricting freedom of speech. Morsi claims
that once the new constitution is approved by a national referendum in
the next couple of weeks, he'll rescind his decree giving himself
dictatorial powers. LA Times and Al-Jazeera
Israel approves 3,000 new settlement homes on the West Bank
The Palestinian Authority is describing as a "slap in the face of the
world" a decision by Israel to approve the constitution of 3,000 new
homes in Jewish settlements in the West Bank. The announcement comes
a day after the United Nations General Assembly overwhelming voted in
favor of a resolution, strongly opposed by Israel and the United
States, to recognize the state of Palestine as a non-member observer
state. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was extremely
critical of Israel's decision, but also said that he will not file
complaints accusing Israel of war crimes and crimes against humanity
in the International Criminal Court (ICC). "We now have the right to
appeal the ICC, but we are not going to do it now and will not do it
except in the case of Israeli aggression," he said. Jerusalem Post and AP
Bankster types take over the computer malware detection industry
When your home computer or your corporate network gets hacked, and
someone steals your bank account information, it's often because of a
"zero day bug," meaning an exposure that's been in the Windows
software or other software for years. There are research groups that
attempt to find and identify these bugs. They then notify Microsoft
or other software vendor, and the software vendor issues a patch for
the software that fixes the exposure. Or at least that's the way it
used to work. Now these research groups are keeping the information
private, and then selling it to corporate spies, foreign governments,
or criminal enterprises. Companies like Vupen or NSS Labs, who are in
this business, may be small fry compared to the banksters who caused
the financial crisis by knowingly creating and selling trillions of
dollars in synthetic subprime mortgage backed securities, but they're
in the same category. Dark Reading
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