Israel Had Hidden Behind Laws To Discriminate Against Arab Residential Construction

It seems that Israel’s court had ignored the fact that the Israel Government moved the residents from one area to the village of Umm al-Hiran 60 years ago. 

During the 1948 Nakba, Israel moved several removed Arabians from plotted land into the village of al-Hiran. For 60 years, the residents lived and thrived in the small village.

The Israel Supreme Court had faced legal battles against the initiatives of Israel because of its demolition of Arab. The activities had clearly brought serious shortage in housing for the Arab world.

According to Haaretz, the Israel court had ignored other legal principles that contributed to the situation.

Currently, Arab List Knesset members wish to use a team of experts to provide a solution to the Arab community housing shortage. They wish to freeze the Umm al-Hiran demolition order before they could uncover a solution to the problem.

However, Attorney General Yehuddah Weinstein insisted on the enforcement using the rule of law. An unfair decision according to Haaretz. 

They pointed out that the rule of law for Israelis are satisfactory, but the procedures to do so make it impossible to build a home on Israeli soil.

NGOs Challenge Mass Surveillance In European Court Builds Pressure Against GCHQ

As James Bond-spying cases continue in the United Kingdom, it’s no surprise that a group of leading human rights NGOs would pressure the GCHQ to finally admit to its wrongdoings and accept reforms.

Privacy International, Bytes for All, Amnesty International, Liberyt and other civil liberties groups have filed a case against the UK GCHQ to overturn a ruling by Britain’s surveillance court the IPT or Investigatory Powers Tribunal.

The IPT found that GCHQ’s Tempora program, which functions to monitor web traffic in Britain using fibre optic cables is entirely lawful. IPT also found that British and American intelligence sharing service Prism is also legal.

NGOs appealed the IPTs ruling to the European Court, which states that the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA) complies with the duty of the UK Government to protect its citizens human rights.

The European Court of Human Rights will consider RIPA’s violation of Article 14 of the Convention, which bans illegal discrimination.

The GCHQ said in response to the appeal:

"We completely reject the assertions made in the press release from Amnesty International and others, which do not reflect the judgments of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal. The IPT was clear in its December judgment that the legal regime is lawful, and that GCHQ does not seek to carry out mass surveillance. The government will be vigorously defending this case at the European Court of Human Rights,"

GCHQ Cleared of Wrongdoing As Spying is Legal But Outdated

The Intelligence and Security Committee of the United Kingdom reports that UK intelligence-gathering agencies have not broken any UK constitution and laws. However, the report suggested the legal framework of digital surveillance in the United Kingdom is outdated, complicated and lacks transparency.

The ISC began its investigation after United States ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden revealed the extent of US and UK online surveillance. The ISC reports said their findings were “reassuring” but they find the legislation lacks the powers to handle digital surveillance, which includes the regulation of the GCHQ bulk interception of information.

In the year 2000, the UK issued 2,795 warrants to intercept communication data, which means the information collected would be opened and read. By 2014, the numbers of authorisations have already reached a million for police and law enforcement agencies.

ISC reports that several intelligence staff had been dismissed for inappropriately accessing data, misusing access to GCHQ’s systems. Meanwhile, the ISC also reports some staff was only dismissed.

Online surveillance have become a big issue due to Edward Snowden’s revelation of spying activities in the western world. Germany, France and other US allies have questioned the legal framework of the US intelligence gathering processes, which had also affected their relationships and alliance in 2013.

UK Warning To Austria Regarding Nuclear Reaction Lawsuit Reaches New Levels

The controversial Hinkley Point B nuclear power station and Hinkley Point C construction site in Somerset has become a big issue between the United Kingdom and Austria. UK Ministers have warned the Austrian government that they will not think twice to use retaliatory measures should Austria challenge an EU State Aid decision that approved subsidies for new nuclear reactors at Hinkley Point in Somerset

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The Austrian Embassy in London to Vienna’s diplomatic cable saw UK Foreign Office’s Europe Director Vijay Rangarajan convey a message that the UK will use every opportunity to sue or damage Austria in areas with strong internal political effects.

The message conveyed the following

A complaint to the European Court about Austrian electricity labeling rules.

Pressure for Austria to contribute more to EU effort to share funds where nuclear power is not considered a “sustainable energy source”.

Investigate whether Austira’s suit violated the Euratom Treaty.

According to the diplomatic cable, escalation cannot be excluded after the complaint was submitted.

Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann seeks to talk with British Prime Minister David Cameron at an EU summit in Brussels on Thursday after Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond called Austria’s Foreign Secretary Sebastian Kurz to protest Austria’s planned court action.

“The chancellor has made clear that Austria will not act under pressure, and will of course make use of all legal means at her disposal,” a spokesman for chancellor Faymann told the Guardian. “Issuing threats is a kind of behaviour we don’t want to see among partners in the EU.”

Hannity And Farage Agree About Sharia Law In the United Kingdom

According to UKIP leader Nigel Farage, the UK has become a ghetto for the kingdom of Sharia Law. Appearing in an interview with host Sean Hannity, he said that “Multiculturalism is in fact to blame for the tragic events last week in France.”

Farage had told Hannity that the UK’s moral cowardice had them turn a blind eye to the growth of Muslim-driven “ghettos.”

The Ukip leader also said that the UK courts had failed to prosecute people in Britain for female genital mutilation and it had allowed women from the UK to participate in polygamous marriages.

"Wherever you look you see this blind eye being turned and you see the growth of ghettos, where the police and all the normal agents of the law have withdrawn and that is where Sharia Law has come in," he said. 

"Do you know, it got so bad that our last Archbishop of Canterbury, the leader of our church, actually, actually said we should accept Sharia law."

In the interview, he also raised issues regarding the child abuse scandals in Rochdale and Rotherham.

"In parts of Northern England, we’ve seen the sexual grooming scandal of underage girls, committed by Muslim men in the majority.

"And for all of these things we’ve seen the law not being applied equally, we’ve seen the police forces not actually doing their job, because we’ve suffered from moral cowardice."

"We have through mass immigration and not checking the details of those people coming in... we have allowed big ghettos to develop and when it comes to confronting big issues, we run a mile. 

"That's why we're in the mess we're in. We've been led very badly."

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GCHQ Weighs In On Tackling “Dark Net” Child Abuse Images

Intelligence experts and organised crime specialists will join forces to scrub away child abuse images spreading on the “dark net”.

According to British Prime Minister David Cameron, a joint GCHQ and National Crime Agency unit will hunt online paedophiles with the same effort they use to track down potential national terrorists.

He said online child exploitation existed on an “almost industrial scale” worldwide.

A new law which would stop adults from sending children “sexual” messages was also unveiled during his talk at a London summit. 

The term “dark net” refers to the hidden parts of the internet that could only be accessed with special software. The GCHQ-NCA joint operations are capable of analysing huge volumes of images.

Cameron said that "The dark net is the next side of the problem, where paedophiles and perverts are sharing images, not using the normal parts of the internet that we all use.

"What we are doing there is setting GCHQ, our world class intelligence agency, together with the National Crime Agency and we are going to go after these people with every bit of effort that we go after terrorists and other international criminals."

"One gang in the Philippines was arranging the sexual abuse of children, filming it and then live streaming it to paying customers across the world," he said. 

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