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IOF Attacks Kill 12 Palestinians, Wound 21

Israeli warplanes fired a missile at a house north of Gaza city wounding four people including a child.

(GAZA STRIP) - Israeli occupation forces (IOF) launched a series of air raids on the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours killing 12 Palestinians and wounding 21 others.

Israeli Soldiers Kill Three More Palestinians, Fire at Funeral

The raids on Saturday thus increased the number of those killed to 16 since Friday.

(GAZA Al Qassam website) - Israeli forces killed three more Palestinians in fresh raids on Gaza and Rafah on Saturday afternoon and fired at a funeral of a number of those killed in yesterday’s raids.

Israel Assassinates PRC Secretary General & Three Others

Zuhair Qaisi is the third PRC leader to be killed since its establishment 12 years ago.

(GAZA Al Qassam website) - Israeli occupation forces conducted an airstrike Friday in Gaza city, assassinating PRC secretary-general Zuhair Qaisi and Mahmoud Hanani, a Nablus native freed from Israeli custody four years earlier.

A third Palestinian sustained serious wounds in the strike, medics said.

Palestinian Government Holds Israel Fully Responsible in Friday Attacks

The criminal attacks and demanded the Arab foreign ministers to table the Israeli military escalation against Gaza on agenda of their meeting on today.

(GAZA Al Qassam website) - The Palestinian government in the besieged Gaza Strip held the Israeli occupation regime fully responsible for the consequences of its aerial attacks on the Strip which claimed the lives of 11 Palestinians on Friday.

Included among the dead, were secretary-general of the resistance committees Zuhair Al-Qaisi.

Worst Air Strikes in Gaza Since Operation Cast Lead

15 killed so far; Gaza siege enters 1733^rd day.

(FREIBURG, Germany) - The current bloody scene in Gaza from current Israel attacks begs the question, when does this stop?

When do we stand up against injustice, against double standards, against human rights violations, against war, against killing machines, against war criminals and killers disguised as "politicians", acting in "our names"?

Why Hate Gilad Atzmon?

His detractors say his writing invites it. But they're wrong. The proof is that the anti-Atzmon brigade has to resort to lies (or to be charitable, gratuitous distortions) to make him look bad.

(SUNDANCE, Wyoming) - Gilad Atzmon is one of the sweetest, funniest, most charming and likable people I've ever met.

He's also one of the world's best saxaphone players. Gilad's music is not only gorgeous, but uncommonly accessible for music in its class.

Attorney General Kamala D. Harris Announces Arrests of Three Attorneys in Sacramento-area Loan Modification Scam

The State Bar of California launched an investigation, which was turned over to the Attorney General's Mortgage Fraud Strike Force in summer 2011.

(SACRAMENTO) - Attorney General Kamala D. Harris today announced the arrests of the owners and managing attorney of a law firm that took thousands of dollars in up-front loan modification fees.

The problem is that the services that were never performed for homeowners, many of whom ended up losing their homes.

The Privacy Implications of Facial Recognition Technology

Unless facial recognition software is used with the permission or at least with the knowledge of the individual, then the use of such software raises privacy concerns.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - By using facial recognition software, a law enforcement agency can use its video surveillance system to pull an image of an individual, run that image through the database to find a match, and identify the person.

It can pick someone's face out of a crowd, extract the face from the rest of the scene and compare it to a database of stored images.

Does Rush Limbaugh Speak for the GOP?

Does Limbaugh speak for the GOP? Given the mild response from Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum to his remarks, you would think so.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - First, Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke was not allowed to testify at the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing on infringement of religious liberty and contraceptive mandates.

No other women testified at this hearing. After all, who cares what women think about contraception.

Marine Hangar Was `Witches Brew`

MCAS El Toro’s Hangar 296 was “ground zero” for TCE plume spreading miles into Orange County and the only building on the former base contaminated with radiation.

(IRVINE, CA) - Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) El Toro has been an EPA Superfund since 1990, primarily from the TCE plume from Hangars 296 and 297 spreading into the Orange County aquifer.

Both hangars were over 200,000 square feet in area, constructed in 1944, and used 55 gallons drums of trichloroethylene (TCE) to decrease aircraft for decades.