Sony announced on May 12, that its PlayStation blog was hacked. On top of that, their new security system is actually blocking users from the United States.
Sony apologizes for inconveniencing their customers, but they admit that everytime they planned to restart their online services they discover another hack job.
Despite demands by the people of Egypt to be allowed to protest the Israeli occupation of Palestine, the Egyptian Army is blocking access to the Sinai Peninsula, in order to keep Egyptians from reaching the Israeli border at Gaza.
Some Egyptian politicians have stated that the Egyptian blockade against Gaza is being done to support Israel and the United States, and have asked for its end. But the fact that the Egyptian Army is stopping people from protesting the blockade, and Israel, is proof the so called “new” Egyptian government is still being controlled by the U.S. and Israel.
At the beginning of 2011 a lawsuit was filed against Jimmy Carter, by Israelis upset by the facts in his book “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid”. They wanted $5 million in damages.
They claimed that Carter’s facts were false, but, according to some reports, as of May 5 they have dropped their claims. I wounder if they realized Carter’s book is factual regarding Israel’s brutality towards Palestinians?
A murder/suicide in Ammon, Idaho, made news in Iran.
Iranian news outlet, Press TV, aired the story of the murder of two women, two children, and the suicide of the man who shot them. The man is from Iowa, and tried to set the house on fire before shooting himself.
Iranian media picked up the story after the British news outlet, Reuters, ran the story.
New York Times reporting that former Blackwater founder, Erik Prince, has set up a mercenary force in U.A.E. The force is mainly made up of Colombians, but includes South Africans, Germans, British and U.S. citizens.
United States officials say if the mercenary group does not have U.S. approval then the U.S. citizens involved could face criminal charges.
Reports say United Arab Emirates is using the mercenary force to build up its own military, in preparation for possible war with Iran.
Jordanians are trying to get to the Israeli border, to protest the catastrophe of the loss of Palestinian land to Israelis.
Reports say that Jordanian government forces are turning the buses back from the border.
International Monetary Fund boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn, was arrested just after he boarded an Air France flight at John F. Kennedy airport. He’s accused of assaulting a hotel maid.
Is it coincidence that Kahn was going to run against French President Sarkozy in next year’s French elections? Sarkozy is the puppet of the Untied States, the Bush Jr administration helped him become President of France.
These charges also sound very similar to the charges brought against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
Protesters in Cairo were attacked in a drive by shooting. A car drove into the protesters, the occupants shooting into the crowd. Reports say two people were wounded. Crowds grabbed one of the shooters, who has ID cards for former president Mubarak’s political party. This suggests that the new government might be just a new face on an old system.
On the Sinai Peninsula the tomb of a prominent sheik was bombed. No other information available.
In another protest by Christians, demonstrating at a state run TV station in Cairo, they were attacked by a crowd of people who threw rocks and fire bombs. Vehicles were pulled into the middle of the street and set on fire. The military had to be called in. No other info available.
May 14, Saudi forces continued their take over of Bahrain by sending tanks to take the island city of Sitra.
For the past couple of weeks, Bahraini forces, backed up by Saudi troops have been flattening Shia Mosques. The majority of the people of Bahrain are Shia Muslim. The royal family is not.
Since February the people have been truly peacefully protesting their government. Saudi forces invaded Bahrain in March, to help the non-Shia royal family put down the peaceful protesters.
Protesters say that since it is obvious the West isn’t going to help them, they are forced to start taking military action against the Saudis and the royal family.
In a live report on Iranian TV, a reporter said that Egyptians who where planning on demonstrating on the Israeli border are being prevented by the Egyptian Army.
Egyptians say they chartered dozens of buses to take them to the border along Gaza. However, those bus companies say they have been ordered by the Egyptian Army not to do so.
In the past week many Egyptians made statements about protesting Israel on May 15. They even asked for the Egyptian Army to support them in their demonstrations. Reports that the new Egyptian government is trying to block such anti-Israel demonstrations shows that new government is not in line with the Egyptian people. Egyptians say they will find other ways to get to the Israeli border.