Palestinian negotiator Erakat quits due to leaks

Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erakat tendered his resignation on Saturday amid deadlock in efforts to renew peace talks with Israel, a Palestinian official said.Erakat told AFP he was stepping down because of his responsibility for the disclosure of confidential documents on Al-Jazeera, shortly after his resignation was announced by senior PLO Yasser Abed Rabbo.
The chief negotiator said he was assuming "responsibility for the theft of documents from his office" that he said had been "deliberately" tampered with.
Last month, Erakat accused Al-Jazeera of taking part in a campaign to overthrow the Palestinian Authority (PA) after the Doha-based television began to release more than 1,600 confidential files known as "The Palestine Papers."
The documents, shared by Al-Jazeera and Britain's Guardian daily, expose concessions to Israel in 10 years of secret peace talks, embarrassing and angering the Palestinian leadership.
Erakat at the time accused Al-Jazeera of trying to discredit the peace process and provoke his people into "a revolution against their leaders in order to bring down the Palestinian political system."
He pointed to a possible US-Israeli effort to topple the PA because of its refusal to take part in US-brokered direct peace talks unless the Jewish state halts West Bank settlement construction.
The files allege that Palestinian negotiators offered unprecedented concessions during peace negotiations, including on the ultra-sensitive subjects of Jerusalem and refugees, with nothing in return from Israel.
They also show PA members closely cooperating with Israel in its fight against the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, Fatah's bitter rival which rules the Gaza Strip.
Hamas on Saturday welcomed Erakat's offer to resign.
The step "shows that the leaked documents were authentic," spokesman Fawzi Barhum told AFP, urging the Palestine Liberation Organisation to halt all negotiations with Israel.
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Activists Push for Heroin Help in UN Russia Visit

The London-based International Harm Reduction Association (IHRA) and 16 HIV rights groups are urging the UN's rights mission to lobby Russia to legalize methadone in order to fight HIV/AIDS and heroin addiction. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay is scheduled next week to meet Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, government officials and 60 rights campaigners during a five-day visit to Moscow.
Russia, home to 1 million HIV-positive people, has one of the fastest growing HIV/AIDS epidemics in the world, according to the World Health Organization. The epidemic is being fueled by as many as 3 million heroin addicts, many of whom use dirty needles, local health groups say. However, Russia refuses to support harm reduction programs such as needle exchanges, or to legalize methadone to treat heroin addicts, which WHO deems essential in fighting the epidemic.
According to Russia's Health Ministry, methadone's effectiveness is unproven. Russia's chief medical official, Gennady Onishchenko, has referred to it as "just another narcotic."
"This is a national health crisis and a human rights priority in Russia that must be raised at the highest levels," said Damon Barrett, an IHRA senior analyst. "The fact that the government's policy is so incomprehensible is what makes it so frustrating."
HIV-positive Russian activist Irina Teplinskaya will meet with Pillay during her visit, according to the Andrey Rylkov Foundation for which Teplinskaya volunteers. Injection drug users with HIV are less likely to receive antiretroviral therapy, she said. "Because there is no opioid substitution therapy in Russia, drug-dependent people are not able to receive treatment for HIV," said Teplinskaya, who is also a heroin user.
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History's first verdict on Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was rendered late Tuesday night, Feb. 1, when thousands of protesters forced the autocrat to vow not to run for office again. The president, they chanted, had to go. On Friday, Feb. 11, after some prevarication, Mubarak appeared to have finally taken the point.
From police brutality to persecution of minorities, from the arrests of journalists to the suppression of political dissent, Mubarak's Egypt has been a textbook police state. For 30 years, anger and frustration brewed among his subjects, bottled up and sealed with fear.
Over the past three decades, Mubarak did not personally torture alleged criminals or beat protesters in the street. But as Joe Stork, deputy director of Human Rights Watch's Middle East and North Africa division, told me from Cairo, Mubarak's repression was simply "delegated to the Ministry of Interior and various security services. At the end of the day, he's the final address for all this." As we bid farewell to a dictator, here's a look back at his ugly history of repression and cruelty...
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Mubarak's failed last stand

When the Egyptian revolution began on January 25, my worried mother sent me an email asking for background information.  One of her questions was whether or not the protests contained an "anti-foreigner" element that might endanger me. I confidently answered that the pro-democracy movement was all about changing the Egyptian government. The protesters might very well consider Mubarak to be an agent of the US - and might promote an independent political and economic trajectory that would not favour the free-market fundamentalism preached by the United States.
An independent Egyptian government responsive to the will of its people would certainly also reject Mubarak’s close cooperation with Israel to maintain the blockade of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, though I thought it unlikely that any Egyptian government would want to go to war with Israel. I do not think I was wrong. However, I totally failed to anticipate that the regime itself would play the foreigner card.
Starting particularly on February 2, the day the regime commenced its ultimately unsuccessful attempt to dislodge the pro-democracy movement with attacks by armed thugs, state media attempted to whip up a frenzy of anti-foreigner sentiment by claiming foreigners had organised and funded the protests against Mubarak. It must be emphasised as strongly as possible that the notion of foreigners provoking the revolution or underwriting it financially is utterly absurd.
The only foreign influence here is the inspiration of the Tunisian example. Egypt's revolution is as home grown as any revolution in the history of the world - let alone the history of Egypt. But propaganda is as propaganda does. For a while at least, the state media campaign seemed to have had some success. One night we overheard one of our friends having angry phone conversations about politics with a relative who was upset by reports of a Mossad agent trained by Hamas fomenting unrest in Egypt. This seemingly bizarre concatenation may actually have been an accurate interpretation of Omar Suleiman's speech from the night before...

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De La Soul's 20 Years High and Rising Tour @Jazz à la Villette, Paris 09 September 2009

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Target of FBI's Anonymous Probe Speaks Out

"I think the Feds need there to be a leader. How do you cut the head off a snake that doesn't have a head? They are looking for the fastest most efficient way to kill Anonymous. If they ever kill Anonymous, it won't be fast and it wont be efficient. They would have to oppress many, many civil rights to do so. As far as taking out those who are more active—I can tell you that we had a boy in the Netherlands who used to help a lot with Anonymous. He got caught. He was 16. Before he got caught, Anonymous had maybe 15 Dutch on the whole IRC. After he got caught a special channel had to be made just for all the Dutch people that were coming in."
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