Right-wingers were seething on Friday afternoon after initial reports about Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's recent flurry of secret messages from Israel to Syria, signaling Olmert's willingness to give up the Golan Heights in return for a peace agreement.
Effi Eitam (NU-NRP) said: "The Olmert government that failed in Lebanon, is behaving as failed regimes have acted throughout history, and in an attempt to hide his responsibility for the failure he is embarking on a dangerous political adventure." Israel urged to woo Syria away from Iran
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Eitam's party colleague MK Zevulun Orlev said that Olmert was "ready to sell the Golan for his chair," adding that in his opinion, Olmert was attempting to save his skin by means of a declaration of his willingness to cede the Golan.
Likud faction chairman Gideon Sa'ar called on Israel Beiteinu and Shas to withdraw for the coalition.
"The prime minister has no legitimacy to withdraw for the Golan," Sa'ar went on to say, adding that Olmert's continued leadership endangered Israel's security, Israel Radio reported.
According to the report in Yediot, quoting officials close to Olmert, the prime minister sent messages with German and ...   more »

Yoav Kapshuk
Some 15,000 people arrived at Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square on Friday to participate in the annual gay pride parade.
During the extravagant procession, which headed west toward the boardwalk at Gordon Beach, participants were handing out condom-shaped flowers to onlookers. Some marchers were wearing nothing but briefs. 
“I am wearing a girdle, and I haven’t been able to breathe for an hour and I’m almost suffocating,” said one participant who came all the way from Paris to show off his flamboyant Marie Antoinette costume.  
Several dozen right-wing activists, including Baruch Marzel, greeted the marchers at Rabin Square with chants of “anti-Semites” and “you are bringing disaster upon us” and called for the parade’s cancellation.  About 500 police officers and volunteers were positioned along the parade’s route to keep order.   
On Wednesday the Knesset approved in a first reading two bills aimed at preventing the gay pride parade from taking place in Jerusalem, or in any other place in the country.  
The bills were submitted by MK Eliahu Gabbay (National Union-National Religious Party) and Shas MKs.  
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DEBKAfile’s intelligence and Middle East sources take a look at the actions behind the words issuing from Damascus officials affirming Syria’s willingness to go into peace talks with Israel.
During most of last week, two high-ranking Iranian delegations spent time in Damascus. One was composed of generals who held talks with Syrian leaders on coordinated preparations for a Middle East war in the coming months.
At the Iranian end, a similar high-ranking Syrian military delegation called in at Iranian army and Revolutionary Guards headquarters to tighten operational coordination between them at the command level, as well as inspecting the Iranian arsenal. The Syrian general staff will draw up a list of items it is short of for a possible military confrontation with Israel this summer.
Our sources report that last week, Tehran sent Moscow a check for $327 m to pay for assorted missiles consigned to Damascus. A further $438 m has been pledged by the end of June for more hardware to Syria.
Iranian foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki’s three days of talks in Damascus at the end of May further consolidated the strategic partnership between the two governments under the mutual defense pact they signed a year ago.
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In a bunker beneath the bustling streets of central London, guards monitor a grid of closed-circuit television.
The centre, at a secret location, is run by a private company in association with the police and local council.
Polls show broad public acceptance, even if the cameras more often capture a couple in loving embrace than a terrorist about to wreak havoc.
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Police say the average Briton is on as many as 300 cameras every day, usually unaware
Britain has more than 4 million closed-circuit security cameras, more than any other Western democracy.
Police say the average Briton is on as many as 300 cameras every day, usually unaware.
The density of surveillance is significantly higher than in any other Western democracy, says Jen Corlew, spokeswoman for Liberty, a London-based human rights group.
Britain has more than 4 million closed-circuit security cameras
"We are sleepwalking towards a Big Brother society, not in one fell swoop but by stages," warns The Spectator, a conservative magazine.
"There is no boot stamping on a face: just an ever more insistent foot in the door."
But the vast majority of 4,000 people surveyed in 2005 said they believed that tapping phones, ...   more »

WASHINGTON, June 1 (UPI) -- New Hampshire and Oklahoma have joined Montana and Washington in rejecting the U.S. government's 2005 Real ID Act.
The states passed statutes refusing to submit to the program, meaning driver's licenses issued by those states will eventually be disallowed as official identification to board airplanes and enter federal buildings, Stateline.org reported Friday.
Meanwhile, the Idaho Legislature refused to allocate any money to pay for the act and the Georgia Legislature gave Gov. Sonny Perdue the authority to ignore the act. Perdue's spokesman, Bert Brantley, said the governor is hoping the federal government will make the expensive program more affordable for states.
Opponents of the $14 billion program have criticized its high costs for states and expressed fears the new security system for compliant driver's licenses would amount to an invasion of privacy for the holders.
"It's more and more clear that the Real ID system won't work to secure the country," said Jim Harper of the Libertarian Cato Institute. He predicted more states will join those rejecting the act.
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Now, get ready for this mom and dad. Make sure you prepare Jane and Jimmy with mace and a sawed off shotgun when they leave for summer camp.
Several months ago, I received an email from retired Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, U.S. Army, one of the nation's leading law enforcement trainers.
Lt. Col. Grossman stumbled on a massive cache of children and "teens" enslaved by the business of prostitution we now dub Internet pornography. He then started looking for the government justice agency that would clean out the vipers nests and help these youngsters.
"The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children line doesn't seem to be set up for anything but reporting a single URL," he said. "The matter is a little more complex than that."
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He discovered that one site links to another (feeder) site and another to another until finally staring up at you, here in the USA, are thousands of very young brutally violated girls – modern sexual slavery.
I checked out Grossman's "first-level feeders" several times and landed at an "incest" site.
The pimping incest site, however, also advertised a list of bona fide "teenage camps."
How could that be? The incest ...   more »

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China exports lead poisoning
From eye shadow to glazed pottery, products pose danger to U.S. kids
Chinese eye shadow has been found to be tainted with both lead and microbiological contamination
WASHINGTON – In the wake of scandals involving tainted food and toothpaste from China comes word of a new concern from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission as well as the Food and Drug Administration – toys, makeup, glazed pottery and other products that contain significant amounts of lead.
While lead poisoning among children was once mainly caused by old paint, U.S. manufacturers long ago banned the ingredient. Today, a new rash of high lead levels in the bloodstreams of American kids is being caused by foreign products – mainly from China.
So serious is the resurgence of lead poisoning among U.S. children that the Iowa Department of Public Health is working on writing a new law to require mandatory testing of those entering school for the first time.
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Lead poisoning, once a concern mainly in dilapidated urban areas, can cause ...   more »