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Wikileaks Reveals Private CIA's Dirty Laundry (WIKILEAKS RELEASE: 5 Million Global Intel Emails)
Post Date: 2012-02-26 20:01:06 by Brian S
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LONDON—Today, Monday 27 February, WikiLeaks began publishing The Global Intelligence Files – more than five million emails from the Texas-headquartered "global intelligence" company Stratfor. The emails date from between July 2004 and late December 2011. They reveal the inner workings of a company that fronts as an intelligence publisher, but provides confidential intelligence services to large corporations, such as Bhopal’s Dow Chemical Co., Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and government agencies, including the US Department of Homeland Security, the US Marines and the US Defense Intelligence Agency. The emails show Stratfor’s web of informers, ...
I'm going for SpongeBob: toddler Noah squeezes inside vending machine
Post Date: 2012-02-26 17:31:26 by A K A Stone
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A TODDLER who refused to let anything stand between him and a new toy was trapped inside a vending machine for 10 minutes. Noah Jeffrey, 3, was so determined to grab himself a toy from the machine in a Zagame's restaurant that he climbed through the retrieval gate, up the chute and into the area loaded with plush toys. The Ballarat toddler narrowly avoided a rescue by the fire brigade, but according to his mum, Louise, he had a ball once he had crawled inside. "He's very adventurous and he thought it was funny," she said. Showing his generous streak, Noah was quick to share the bounty of his exploration and passed the machine's toys to a crowd of children ...
Scramble Is On To Find Deal For 16 Americans In Egypt
Post Date: 2012-02-26 12:59:38 by Brian S
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CAIRO — American diplomats scrambled on Saturday to work out a deal to resolve the criminal charges against 16 Americans here on the eve of their scheduled trial in a case that has threatened to upend the 30-year alliance with Egypt. As late as Saturday evening, United States officials said they still could not predict what would happen when the trial opens Sunday. American diplomats, Egyptian lawyers and others involved in the case said the efforts had foundered amid a breakdown in the lines of authority within the military-led transitional government in the final months before the generals have pledged to leave power. American officials say they have tried to find Egyptian ...
Seven U.S. Soldiers Wounded After Afghan NATO Base Attacked
Post Date: 2012-02-26 12:57:36 by Brian S
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(Reuters) - Seven U.S. military trainers were wounded on Sunday when a grenade was thrown at their base in northern Afghanistan, police said, as anti-Western fury deepened over the burning of the Koran at a NATO base. Despite an apology from U.S. President Barack Obama, riots raged across the country for a sixth day on Sunday against the desecration of the Muslim holy book at a NATO air base at Bagram. Some protesters hoisted the white Taliban flag. The Afghan Interior Ministry identified one of its employees as a suspect in the fatal shooting of two U.S. officers in its headquarters a day earlier, an attack that prompted NATO to recall its staff from ministries. One civilian was killed, ...
Mcgowanjm Wire 2012 [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2012-02-26 09:15:13 by A K A Stone
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Afghan Policeman Suspect In Killing Of U.S. Officers: Sources
Post Date: 2012-02-26 06:40:12 by Murron
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Afghan Policeman Suspect In Killing Of U.S. Officers: Sources (Reuters) - Afghan authorities said on Sunday they believe an Afghan police intelligence officer may have been involved in the shooting deaths of two U.S. officers inside the interior ministry a day earlier, prompting NATO to recall all its staff from ministries. Abdul Saboor, 25, is the main suspect in the killing, which took place at close range well inside the heavily fortified ministry in the centre of the capital, Kabul, senior security sources told Reuters on condition of anonymity. "Abdul Saboor is at large right now. He is the main suspect for us but we can not draw any conclusions over whether or not he is the ...
Gunman Kills 2 US Advisers In Afghan Ministry (over the burning of the Muslim holy book )
Post Date: 2012-02-25 17:09:01 by Murron
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Gunman Kills 2 US Advisers In Afghan Ministry (over the burning of the Muslim holy book) KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- A gunman killed two American military advisers inside a heavily guarded government building in the heart of Kabul Saturday as protests over the burning of the Muslim holy book at a U.S. base raged across the country for a fifth day. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was retaliation for the Quran burnings, and the NATO commander recalled all international military personnel working in Afghan ministries in the capital. The two advisers, including a lieutenant colonel and a major, were shot in the back of the head, according to Western officials, who ...
Secret of the Israel Lobby's Power? "Intimidation & Murder" Says Former US Senator
Post Date: 2012-02-25 16:23:38 by Brian S
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James Abourezk represented South Dakota in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1971 to 1973 and in the U.S. Senate from 1973 to 1979. He is the author of numerous articles and books, including Advise & Dissent: Memoirs of South Dakota and the U.S. Senate. CNI asked Senator Abourezk about his experiences with the Israel Lobby while he served in Congress. In his response he told of an Israeli plot against him that has received perplexingly little coverage in the U.S. press. Convicted letter-bomb murderer and hit man, Robert Manning - a rare extradition from IsraelBelow is his description of this and other incidents: "The FBI had uncovered a "plot" on my life. Not a ...
China Mocks International Conference To Aid Syrian Opposition
Post Date: 2012-02-25 13:40:53 by Brian S
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REPORTING FROM BEIJING -- The rift with China over Syria was thrown into sharp relief Saturday as Beijing mocked an international conference aimed at protecting the Syrian people against a brutal crackdown and accused the United States and Europe of "hiding a dagger behind a smile." "In other words, while they appear to be acting out of humanitarian concern, they are actually harboring hegemonistic ambitions," said the editorial carried by the official Xinhua news agency. The surprisingly harsh rhetoric dashed hopes that Beijing might be softening in its opposition to international action against the Syrian regime. China and Russia vetoed a U.N. Security Council ...
2 American Officers Killed In Afghan Interior Ministry, NATO Recalls All Staff Working At Ministries
Post Date: 2012-02-25 12:49:19 by Brian S
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(Reuters) - Two American officers were shot dead inside Afghanistan's interior ministry on Saturday while rage gripped the country for a fifth day over the burning of the Muslim holy book at a NATO base. NATO recalled all staff working at ministries in the Afghan capital Kabul following the attack, with its top commander in Afghanistan calling the killer a "coward". "For obvious force protection reasons, I have also taken immediate measures to recall all other ISAF personnel working in ministries in and around Kabul," said General John Allen, adding that the attacker's actions "will not go unanswered". The Taliban claimed responsibility for the ...
U.S. Agencies See No Move by Iran to Build a Bomb
Post Date: 2012-02-25 12:44:24 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON — Even as the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog said in a new report Friday that Iran had accelerated its uranium enrichment program, American intelligence analysts continue to believe that there is no hard evidence that Iran has decided to build a nuclear bomb. Recent assessments by American spy agencies are broadly consistent with a 2007 intelligence finding that concluded that Iran had abandoned its nuclear weapons program years earlier, according to current and former American officials. The officials said that assessment was largely reaffirmed in a 2010 National Intelligence Estimate, and that it remains the consensus view of America’s 16 intelligence ...
Forcing Defendant to Decrypt Hard Drive Is Unconstitutional, Appeals Court Rules
Post Date: 2012-02-24 18:39:17 by A K A Stone
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Forcing a criminal suspect to decrypt hard drives so their contents can be used by prosecutors is a breach of the Fifth Amendment right against compelled self-incrimination, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.
It was the nation’s first appellate court to issue such a finding. And the outcome comes a day after a different federal appeals court refused to entertain an appeal from another defendant ordered by a lower federal court to decrypt a hard drive by month’s end.
Thursday’s decision by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said that an encrypted hard drive is akin to a combination to a safe, and is off limits, because compelling the unlocking of either of them is the ...
Gunfire Erupts as Afghans Protest for Fourth Day Over U.S. Koran Burning
Post Date: 2012-02-24 11:12:00 by Brian S
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Street demonstrations continued in Afghanistan for a fourth day over the burning of the Koran, the Islamic scripture, at the country’s main U.S. air base. While gunfire erupted in some towns, officials confirmed no new deaths by early evening. At least 12 Afghans and soldiers of the U.S.-led coalition force have been killed in the protests. In the northern town of Pul-e-Khumri, Afghan police and Hungarian soldiers fired on a crowd of hundreds of men who besieged the local base of NATO’s International Security Assistance Force, or ISAF, said Ahmad Besharat, the provincial police chief. “There might have been casualties but we cannot yet confirm that because the protest is ...
Sharia ‘law is reactionary and extremely discriminatory against women’
Post Date: 2012-02-24 08:17:28 by CZ82
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Sharia ‘law is reactionary and extremely discriminatory against women’ 15 February 2008 in Campaign, England, Faith, Legal Police, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Women's Group Diana Nammi The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, spoke to judges, lawyers and academics and journalists on “Civil and religious law in England, a religious perspective” on 7.2.08. In a Radio 4 interview previously that day he agreed that aspects of sharia law were ‘unavoidable’ in Britain. This acknowledgement was naturally warmly welcomed by the unrepresentative and reactionary Muslim Council of Britain. Ibrahim Mogra said “We’re looking at a very small ...
A Primer On Belgian Company(Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) Key To Iran Sanctions
Post Date: 2012-02-23 15:38:35 by Brian S
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(02-23) 12:22 PST NEW YORK, (AP) -- A little-known company based in Belgium that facilitates many of the world's financial transactions has become central to the West's plan to prevent Iran from selling oil and other goods to raise money to fund its nuclear ambitions. The company is called SWIFT, which stands for the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication. It is a secure private network used by nearly every bank around the world to send payment messages to each other that then lead to the transfer of money across international borders. The Obama administration wants Iran evicted from SWIFT, which said last week it would comply with European Union rules to cut ...
Toyota's FCV-R hydrogen concept car heads to Europe
Post Date: 2012-02-23 12:27:01 by jwpegler
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Toyota's hydrogen-powered concept car slated for production in 2015 will make its European debut in Geneva.
On the second stop of its world tour, the Toyota FCV-R fuel cell concept vehicle will make its European premiere at the Geneva auto show next month.
The hydrogen-powered concept debuted at the Tokyo Motor show late last year. Few details about the FCV-R were shared, but the compact car seats four and has a cruising range of about 434 miles on a full tank.
Toyota is currently holding field trials of the Highlander Fuel Cell Hydrogen Hybrid Vehicle (FCHV) in the U.S. Although it's not clear what will become of the hydrogen-powered SUV, the FCV-R concept is expected to enter ...
Paul Mason of BBC on How Austerity is Reducing Greece to Developing Country Status
Post Date: 2012-02-23 11:02:56 by lucysmom
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The BBC’s Paul Mason, fresh back from Greece, gives a report on Democracy Now of how living conditions have deteriorated as a result of the imposition of austerity measures. One of the stunners, mentioned in Atlantic Wire (hat tip Lambert), is that not only will some Greeks have to work without pay, some will have to pay for their jobs (yes, that is not a typo). The euphemism is a “negative salary.” Mason also discusses how this program is radicalizing the public. Communists, Trotskyists and other extreme-left groups are polling at 43%. That’s a strikingly high number. This plus the level of dissent on the street suggests Greece is on its way out of the eurozone. But ...
Russia Seeks ‘Foothold’ in Asian Wheat Market, Challenging U.S., Australia
Post Date: 2012-02-22 11:36:10 by Brian S
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Russia, set to be the third-largest wheat shipper, aims to secure a “foothold” among buyers in Asia, increasing competition for U.S. and Australian supplies. “One of the new and promising directions for Russian grain exports is the Asia-Pacific region,” Andrey Klepach, the deputy minister of economic development, said in a message to delegates at a conference in Singapore. The segment “is now rapidly evolving and Russia has all the chances to gain a foothold.” Futures dropped 20 percent in the past year as global crops and stockpiles headed for records and trade rose to the second- highest level in at least in five decades. The U.S., the biggest exporter, ...
Why the UK Is Ditching Socialized Medicine
Post Date: 2012-02-21 19:11:07 by We The People
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There is more than a little irony attached to the Obama administration's determination to pursue socialist, EU-style "solutions" to America's problems, even as the European Union is coming to grips with the bitter realities such socialism produces. And while Greece and its financial problems receive some media coverage in the United States, there is a much bigger story flying under the mainstream media radar: in Britain, Prime Minister David Cameron has introduced a bill seeking to partially privatize the National Health Service (NHS). Why? Because the British government is "hoping to avoid a Greek-style financial meltdown." The system's defenders are upset. ...
S. Korea Ignores Threat from Pyongyang to Retaliate for Artillery Drill
Post Date: 2012-02-20 12:43:45 by Brian S
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South Korea went ahead with an artillery drill Monday near a disputed maritime border despite an unusually explicit threat by North Korea to retaliate by shelling inhabited islands in the Yellow Sea. Officials in Seoul say the morning exercise was routine and included the firing of self-propelled howitzers and mortars. Attack helicopters also joined the exercise on the western frontier islands.A spokesman for South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff says no shots were fired towards the Northern Limit Line, which is the disputed maritime border. Pyongyang Warns SeoulNorth Korea, the previous day, warned inhabitants of the five islands to evacuate to avoid its possible retaliatory shelling.And ...
Pakistanis Shout ‘Death To America’ In Islamabad
Post Date: 2012-02-20 12:08:16 by Brian S
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Several thousand Pakistanis poured onto the streets of Islamabad Monday, chanting “death to America” and demanding holy war at a rally whipped up by right-wing, religious and banned organisations. It was the latest show of support for Defence of Pakistan, a coalition of around 40 parties chaired by a cleric dubbed the father of the Taliban that include organisations blacklisted at home and abroad as terror groups. “Today, we have gathered here to raise a voice of protest against US intervention in Pakistan,” chairman Maulana Sami ul-Haq, who runs an extremist madrassa that educated several Taliban leaders, told AFP. Also present was member Hamid Gul, who headed ...
Icelandic Anger Brings Debt Forgiveness
Post Date: 2012-02-20 10:51:21 by lucysmom
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Icelanders who pelted parliament with rocks in 2009 demanding their leaders and bankers answer for the country’s economic and financial collapse are reaping the benefits of their anger. Since the end of 2008, the island’s banks have forgiven loans equivalent to 13 percent of gross domestic product, easing the debt burdens of more than a quarter of the population, according to a report published this month by the Icelandic Financial Services Association. “You could safely say that Iceland holds the world record in household debt relief,” said Lars Christensen, chief emerging markets economist at Danske Bank A/S in Copenhagen. “Iceland followed the textbook example ...
Enemies, A Hate Story
Post Date: 2012-02-19 17:28:57 by Brian S
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The all-clear was sounded as soon as the news came that the school bus was Palestinian. Only the most perceptive viewers of Thursday's accident - in which nine children and one adult were killed when their bus collided with a truck north of Jerusalem - could make the distinction. But something in the manner of the coverage intimated at it immediately. Then the reports and images started flowing in. The coverage was workmanlike overall, if faceless and depersonalized. It is not difficult to imagine how such a horrific accident would have been treated had the children been Jewish: with a lot more blood and tears. There is no disputing that, as the Talmud says, "Every person is ...
GREEK D-DAY: SLOG US SOURCE CONFIRMS WALL ST PLANS AS SECRET BERLIN TIMETABLE EMERGES [3/23/12]
Post Date: 2012-02-19 16:52:38 by Capitalist Eric
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GREEK D-DAY: SLOG US SOURCE CONFIRMS WALL ST PLANS AS SECRET BERLIN TIMETABLE EMERGES Wall St – Schauble – Draghi – Monti connection alleged London Daily Telegraph piece cited as ‘on the money’ Draghi bond-swap seen as ‘ECB protection’ Further doubts about Merkel public position on default Just before midnight GMT Saturday, within hours of Bruno Waterfield’s piece about German finance ministry Greek default preparations appearing at the London Daily Telegraph site, The Slog received confirmation from a New York based banking source that – whatever German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s public stance may be – plans have been firmed ...
Turkey Will Not Allow NATO To Share Intelligence With Israel
Post Date: 2012-02-19 14:08:27 by Brian S
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Turkey will never allow any third country, particularly Israel, to use intelligence obtained by a NATO radar system, its foreign minister said on Friday. "We will never allow any third country to use any NATO facility. Our position will be even more clear if it is particularly Israel," Davutoglu told a joint news conference with visiting NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen in Ankara. His remarks came after some media outlets reported that the United States and Israel have carried out a joint missile test by using intelligence gathered by a NATO radar system based in eastern Turkey. Last year Ankara decided to host in a military facility base near Malatya in the southeast an early ...
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