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State media in Egypt reported Sunday that interim President Adly Mansour has transferred emergency powers to Prime Minister Hazem Al Beblawi, raising fears among many that a state of emergency could be near. From CNN: Egypt's interim president has allowed for the prime minister to assume presidential...
A New Zealand defense official denies its military spied on a journalist, after reports surfaced over the weekend that the military had collected phone metadata of a McClatchy freelance reporter over his coverage of the treatment of Afghan prisoners. From the Associated Press: New Zealand's acting defense...
(Kibbutz Ein Shemer, Israel, map location)[/caption]
Founded in 1927, Ein Shemer is a fairly typical Kibbutz, about 650 people, with a variety of agriculture (dairy, cotton, etc.) as well as factories. Facing pressures facing many Kibbutzim, Ein Shemer voted a couple of years ago to allow limited “inequality” of income (up to 2.5 times what the Kibbutz pays members) for those with outside jobs in order to retain and attract younger residents.
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(Kibbutz Ein Shemer residential courtyard)[/caption]
We then went on to climb towards the Golan, stoping at the Mount Barkan lookout point, near Mount Gilboa, which has a tremendous view of the Galilee region of northern Israel.
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(Mount Barkan Lookout Point, Israel, map location)[/caption]
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(Mount Barkan Lookout, Israel, view)[/caption]
Here's some lighter Sunday evening tech fare for LI readers, since social media is a topic we often cover in some form or another. Are you confused by social media? Do you find all the different apps and services out there overwhelming? Don't know what to...
Get ready for the oppo research wars. David Brock's American Bridge will be dispatching even more trackers to follow around Republicans all across the country. From Politico: Senior officials with American Bridge 21st Century – the group’s full, legal name – told POLITICO that the oppo-slinging outfit...
Before Anthony Weiner finally resigned in June 2011, he manufactured the story that he'd been hacked, and continued on with that charade for days. "This was a prank, and a silly one," he asserted. "I was hacked, it happens to people, you move on," he said, as...
President Obama denies College Republicans the same respect he gave the Muslim Brotherhood four years ago in Cairo....
In addition to the George Zimmerman trial, one case that Americans have been following closely is that of Cleveland's notorious sex deviant and kidnapper, Ariel Castro. To avoid the death penalty for his crimes, Castro just made a deal that includes life in prison...
After the latest reports of serial sexter Anthony Weiner's post-resignation online fling, his campaign manager has called it quits. From the NY Times: In a new sign of tumult within Anthony D. Weiner’s embattled political operation, his campaign manager has quit, leaving his already skeletal team without...
As an amateur historian, I often like watching old news and documentary clips; via LA Observed, I came across a fascinating one featuring another metropolitan area: The background: This public domain film narrated by then-mayor Jerome P. Cavanaugh was made in 1965 to promote Detroit. The city...
Look, I want to give Bill Cosby his props. He's been speaking up courageously for years on the problems within the black community, and he's gotten a lot of flak for it. It can't have been easy for him. Here are some excerpts from the address...
Note: Breitbart News notes in an interview with this activist that she was "an anti-Zimmerman demonstrator attempting to use sarcasm to prove her point," and not an infiltrator as reported on the source blog. Kristinn Taylor brought us this gem via Jim Hoft's Gateway Pundit blog...
(Tel Aviv beach in front of our hotel)[/caption]
In the evening I did my part to break the boycott of Aroma Café, of which we have written before. (Remember, Buycott Israeli companies to defeat BDS.)
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(Aroma Café, Tel Aviv Seaport)[/caption]
But the big news of the day was that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released an Open Letter (read the whole thing) to the Israeli public signaling his intention to seek Cabinet Approval on Sunday to release all Palestinian and Israeli Arab prisoners convicted of security offenses prior to the 1993 Oslo Accords, thereby complying with a promise John Kerry had made to Mahmoud Abbas as a precondition to peace negotiations.
Merritt Landry, a 33-year-old "white caucasian" shot the victim, a 14-year-old black boy, in the head. A single spent cartridge case was recovered at the scene, indicating that a semi-automatic weapon was used and suggesting that a single shot was fired. The hour of the...
Ilya Somin has an interesting article on 9-0 Supreme Court rulings: Those of us who follow Supreme Court decisions spend most of our time debating the contentious issues that divide justices 5-4 along predictable ideological lines. Often, that's where the loudest public debates are as well....
More violence has erupted in Egypt as thousands of protesters have taken to the streets in rival demonstrations for and against the continued detention of ousted Egyptian President Morsi. From CNN: Massive, rival rallies in and around Cairo ran into the wee hours of Saturday, with one...
