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Prof. David Nachmias of the Inter-Disciplinary Center in Herzliya said Netanyahu may be facing his toughest political challenge of his premiership.

"There are several problems, not only the housing crisis, but also the rising prices of commodities including food, gasoline and electricity," Nachmias said, "where the middle class is being hurt really badly. They are protesting."

He added that at the same time, people are also protesting against the concentration of wealth and finances in the hand of a relatively small number of people.

"It's a serious crisis, and given that Netanyahu and his governing coalition might indeed be in trouble," Nachmias said.

Nachmias argued that the current crisis is a much more complex problem for Netanyahu than the diplomatic pressure he faces regarding to the peace process with the Palestinians.

While it might have been possible for Netanyahu to tell the Americans that he is planning to do something but then do nothing and still get away with it, Nachmias said, but when it comes to domestic politics, that wouldn't be possible.

"With internal problems, if you don't deal with them, people see that, and they immediately don't accept it and react. That is what's happening now with the protests," Nachmias said.

Although the issue had been covered off-and-on over the years

Although the issue had been covered off-and-on over the years, almost exclusively by the Guardian, allegations of illegal behavior at the News of the World have received feverish attention since a July 4 report alleged that someone at the tabloid hacked the phone of 13-year-old murder victim Milly Dowler in 2002 while police were still searching for her.

The temperature cooled a bit on Thursday, with Parliament closed for the first day of its summer recess, but the investigation appeared to be intensifying.

London's Metropolitan Police said Wednesday it was assigning 15 more officers to help the 45 already involved in the investigation.

Since the latest phone hacking allegations emerged, London's police chief and the head of its antiterrorist operations have resigned. So have Rebekah Brooks, chief executive of News International, which runs Murdoch's British newspaper division, and Les Hinton, the publisher of the Wall Street Journal who formerly headed News International. Murdoch has shut down the 168-year-old News of the World, leaving 200 employees looking for work, and abandoned his bid to win control of lucrative British Sky Broadcasting.

Shutting News of the World apparently will also cost Murdoch's surviving British newspapers their exclusive access to British athletes ahead of the 2012 London Olympics.

Team 2012, an initiative supporting British Olympians, had signed up News International as its official partner to help raise funds for athletes. But without the News of the World, Team 2012 said News International can no longer meet its contractual obligations, and it is looking for new media partners.

Anonymous bid to destroy Norwegian killer Anders Behring Breivik's manifesto

Anonymous bid to destroy Norwegian killer Anders Behring Breivik's manifesto
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WHAT was supposed to be a mass-murderer's legacy is about to be obscured forever on the internet.
Shortly before his horrific attacks, Norwegian killer Anders Behring Breivik published a 1500-page manifesto on the web outlining his motives and beliefs.Wholesale Cheap Handbags
"I ask that you distribute this book to everyone you know," Breivik wrote in the introduction.
Now, a group of online activists are about to do just that — though perhaps not in the way the killer anticipated.
Anonymous has called on internet citizens to destroy Breivik's legacy by creating altered versions of the text which mock the author and promoting them as the real document.
Through an exercise titled "Operation UnManifest", the group hopes that, eventually, no one will be able to figure out which manifesto is the original.
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"Anders Behring Breivik wants to use the cruel action of killing over 90 young people to promote his 1516-page manifesto," says a message posted online.
"Anonymous suggests:
"1. Find the manifesto of Anders Behring Breivik: '2083 - A European Declaration of Independence'.
"2. Change it, add stupid stuff, remove parts, shop his picture, do what you like to.
"3. Republish it everywhere and up vote releases from other people, declare that the faked ones are original.
"4. Let Anders become a joke, such that nobody will take him serious anymore.
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"5. Spread this message around the internet and real life, translate it.
"6. Have a moment for the victims of his cruel attacks."
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The note ends: "We all are anonymous, We all are Legion, We all do not forgive murder, We all do not forget the victims."