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Twitter User Tricks Sony Into Posting ‘Secret’ PS3 Code
Post Date: 2011-02-10 00:23:48 by A K A Stone
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Sony is having a rough time trying to keep the PlayStation 3 secure, and the company seems intent on policing the entirety of the Internet to stop the spread of the tools and information needed to hack the device. This can be hard to do when your own faux spokesperson decides to retweet one of the offending series of letters and numbers in their entirety online. Twitter user @exiva, aka Travis La Marr, sent the code to “Kevin Butler,” Sony’s humorous take on a corporate spokesman. Whoever is running the Twitter account didn’t recognize the relevance of the numbers and simply retweeted them with a joke about Battleship. The results are brilliant. While we doubt Sony ...
Protesters in Egypt Regain Initiative as Workers Strike
Post Date: 2011-02-09 20:23:40 by Brian S
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CAIRO —Labor strikes and worker protests that flared across Egypt on Wednesday affected post offices, textile factories and even the government’s flagship newspaper, as protesters recaptured the initiative in their battle for the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak. At the newspaper, Al Ahram, freelance reporters demanding better wages and more independence from the government snarled one of the state’s most powerful propaganda tools and seemed to be forcing a change in its tone. On Wednesday, the front page, which had sought for days to downplay the protests, called recent attacks by pro-Mubarak protesters on Tahrir Square an “offense to the whole nation.” In ...
Iraqis Urged To Follow 'Egyptian, Tunisian Examples'
Post Date: 2011-02-09 17:11:01 by Brian S
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A previously unknown organization, The Revolution of Iraqi Rage, has called for mass protests inspired by recent events in Tunisia and Egypt. Thousands of appeals have been sent via the Internet, including to army and police officials, to gather on Tahrir Square in central Baghdad on February 25 to demand an end to poverty and the start of reforms. Protests took place in Iraq following the Egyptian and Tunisian unrest. Protesters demanded better living standards and an end to mass unemployment, as well as food, electricity and water shortages. "Eight years after the American troops overthrew the Saddam regime, the majority of Iraqis are still struggling to survive. We have more ...
Barbour To Israel: We're With You, And Glad You're With Us
Post Date: 2011-02-09 17:08:46 by Brian S
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At Herzliya Conference, possible US presidential candidate says Israel understands Iranian threat better than Washington. Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, eying a possible run for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, laid down a strong marker on Israeli-US ties Wednesday at the Herzliya Conference, saying to Israel, "Well done, thanks, we're with you, and we're glad you are with us.""Be assured that the overwhelming majority of American Christians are joined at the hip with American Jews in standing by Israel in this hour of turmoil, or any other time of crisis," Barbour said. "We believe in your nationhood, and we believe ...
Egypt's Army 'Involved In Detentions And Torture'
Post Date: 2011-02-09 17:04:30 by Brian S
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The Egyptian military has secretly detained hundreds and possibly thousands of suspected government opponents since mass protests against President Hosni Mubarak began, and at least some of these detainees have been tortured, according to testimony gathered by the Guardian. The military has claimed to be neutral, merely keeping anti-Mubarak protesters and loyalists apart. But human rights campaigners say this is clearly no longer the case, accusing the army of involvement in both disappearances and torture – abuses Egyptians have for years associated with the notorious state security intelligence (SSI) but not the army. The Guardian has spoken to detainees who say they have suffered ...
From Israel: Mississippi Gov. Barbour Says Iran Biggest Threat To Global Security
Post Date: 2011-02-09 13:39:31 by Brian S
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HERZLIYA, Israel - Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour says Iran is the world's top threat to peace and stability. Barbour, who is a potential 2012 presidential Republican candidate, says world leaders should be judged by their success in responding to Iran's nuclear program and what he says is its support for terrorism and destabilizing governments abroad. The popular governor received a warm ovation from a prestigious security conference Wednesday in Israel — where Iran and its nuclear program are a major concern. Barbour also congratulated Israel on its recent offshore gas discoveries. Barbour, whose own state is an energy producer, criticized an American moratorium on ...
Russia's Medvedev Orders Additional Weapons Deployed To Islands Disputed With Japan
Post Date: 2011-02-09 13:35:05 by Brian S
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MOSCOW — Russia will send more weapons to its islands in north Pacific, President Dmitry Medvedev announced Wednesday — a mere two days after Japan again demanded that Russia return several islands it has held since the end of World War II. The disagreement over the southern Kuril islands, known in Japan as the Northern Territories, has long been a sticking point between the two countries. It also has kept them from signing a formal peace treaty ending their World War II hostilities. Medvedev told Cabinet ministers that Russia must strengthen its presence there and that the new weapons will protect the islands as an "inalienable part of Russia." Several hours later, ...
Strikes Erupt Around Egypt As Protesters Call For Expanded Demonstrations In Defiance Of VP
Post Date: 2011-02-09 13:12:36 by Brian S
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CAIRO (AP) - Thousands of state workers and impoverished Egyptians launched strikes and protests around the country on Thursday over their economic woes as anti-government activists sought to expand their campaign to oust President Hosni Mubarak despite warnings from the vice president that protests won't be tolerated much longer. Some 8,000 protesters, mainly farmers, set barricades of flaming palm trees in the southern province of Assiut, blocking the main highway and railway to Cairo to complain of bread shortages. They then drove off the governor by pelting his van with stones. Hundreds of slum dwellers in the Suez Canal city of Port Said set fire to part of the governor's ...
Top House Republican: Goal In Egypt Should Be To Stop Spread Of Radical Islam
Post Date: 2011-02-08 19:35:40 by Brian S
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A top House Republican said Tuesday the primary goal of U.S. policy in Egypt should be to "stop the spread of radical Islam," an objective that has been little mentioned by Obama administration officials in recent weeks. Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., also said at a news conference he hopes the street protests taking place in Cairo and elsewhere will lead to a democratic society that "stands for human rights, progress and equal opportunity." In his remarks, Cantor did not criticize President Barack Obama over his handling of the two-week crisis. GOP leaders have privately urged members of the rank and file not to second-guess Obama's approach to the crisis, ...
U.S. Demands Immediate End To Egypt's Emergency Law
Post Date: 2011-02-08 19:31:47 by Brian S
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(Reuters) - The United States on Tuesday set out four steps Cairo must take to end Egypt's crisis, telling its ally to stop harassing protesters and immediately repeal an emergency law allowing detention without charge. The Obama administration appears worried President Hosni Mubarak's government will not make meaningful changes in the largest Arab nation, a strategic U.S. partner due to its peace treaty with Israel and control of the Suez Canal. The steps, conveyed by Vice President Joe Biden to Egyptian Vice President Omar Suleiman, appeared to rebuff the former intelligence chief who is negotiating with opposition figures seeking Mubarak's immediate departure after 30 years ...
Prepare For All-Out War, Israel Told
Post Date: 2011-02-08 19:08:50 by Brian S
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Given recent changes in the Middle East, Israel must prepare for a battle in several theaters, outgoing IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi said Monday at the Herzliya Conference. "The connection between the different players requires us to contend with more than one theater," he said. The radical camp in the Middle East is gaining strength, Ashkenazi warned, adding that "the moderate camp among the traditional Arab leadership is weakening." He also made note of what he characterized as the "fascinating phenomenon" whereby power is shifting to the people of the region thanks to online social networks. The army chief said that in the wake of the growing ...
‘Anonymous’ Hacks Security Firm That Probed Its Membership
Post Date: 2011-02-08 19:07:37 by Brian S
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The online group of hacktivists known as "Anonymous" infiltrated the network and websites of an Internet security company after learning the company planned to sell information about the group to the FBI. The website of Washington DC-based HBGary Federal was hijacked Sunday along with the Twitter account of CEO Aaron Barr. The company's website was defaced with a message that read, "This domain seized by Anonymous under section #14 of the rules of the Internet." "Your recent claims of 'infiltrating' Anonymous amuse us, and so do your attempts at using Anonymous as a means to garner press attention for yourself," the messaged continued. ...
U.S. Slaps Down Suleiman, Call Comments "Unhelpful"
Post Date: 2011-02-08 15:09:10 by Brian S
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Egyptian Vice President Omar Suleiman has ticked off the Obama administration, but the White House is sticking to its position that he's in charge of the transition to a new government that it won't determine. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs made it clear at his daily briefing for reporters that the administration strongly disagrees with Suleiman's contention that Egypt isn't ready for democracy, calling them "particularly unhelpful comments." In the language of diplomacy, that's a major slam. In case anyone doubted what that meant, Gibbs declared: "I speak for the president of the United States." He went on to say, however, that ...
Egypt Protests Draw Biggest Crowd Yet
Post Date: 2011-02-08 15:03:13 by Brian S
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CAIRO – Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators flooded Cairo's iconic Tahrir Square and towns across Egypt on Tuesday, in the biggest show of defiance to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak since the revolt began. In Cairo, the immense crowd hailed as a hero a charismatic cyberactivist and Google executive whose Facebook site helped kickstart the protest movement on January 25 and who has since been detained and held blindfolded for 12 days. AFP journalists overlooking the square confirmed it was the biggest gathering yet in a movement which began on January 25. Witnesses in Egypt's second city Alexandria said a march there also attracted record numbers. Many protesters carried ...
Dan Quayle Urged President Obama To Release Imprisoned Spy-For-Israel Jonathan Pollard
Post Date: 2011-02-08 14:53:41 by Brian S
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February 7, 2011 WASHINGTON (JTA) -- Dan Quayle urged President Obama to release imprisoned spy-for-Israel Jonathan Pollard. Quayle, who was U.S. vice president from 1989 to 1993, is the highest-ranking former official to call for the release of Pollard, the civilian U.S. Navy analyst who was sentenced to life in 1987. "I believe that a life sentence for the crime committed is very extreme," Quayle wrote in his Jan. 31 letter, which was made public Monday. "Though his crime was very serious, I hope you will once again look very carefully at this pending request." Quayle's letter also is significant because it adds to the growing list of former Republican ...
Iran Unveils New Satellites, Rockets, To Boost Scientific Might
Post Date: 2011-02-08 14:49:35 by Brian S
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By IBTimes Staff Reporter | February 8, 2011 6:29 AM EST Iran has unveiled domestically manufactured satellites and a satellite-carrier rocket and would launch several new locally built satellites within the next 13 months, the local satellite Press TV reported. Four national satellites, Fajr (Dawn), Rasad (Observation), Zafar (Victory) and Amirkabir I, and a satellite carrier Kavoshgar 4 (Explorer 4) were unveiled on Monday by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the report said. The first-stage and second-stage engines of the Safir-e-Fajr satellite carrier and a space recycling and environmental station were also unveiled during the ceremony. The new landmarks in the space ...
Obama's Fantasies, Egyptian Reality
Post Date: 2011-02-08 11:51:29 by Happy Quanzaa
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One can take heart from this week's Wikileaks revelations about how intensely Omar Suleiman, Egypt's new vice-president and former intelligence chief, dislikes both homegrown Egyptian and Iranian Islamists. Regarding the domestic Muslim Brotherhood, Suleiman in 2006 told FBI director Robert Mueller that they had spawned "11 different Islamist extremist organizations" and that "the principal danger…was [their] exploitation of religion to influence and mobilize the public." As for Iran, in 2007 and 2008 Suleiman called its regime "devils" and "a significant threat to Egypt" and said "Iran is supporting Jihad and spoiling peace, and ...
Little Evidence For Iraq WMDs Ahead Of 2003 War: U.S. Declassified Report
Post Date: 2011-02-08 11:44:32 by Brian S
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By Gerald Helguero | February 8, 2011 9:57 AM EST Six months ahead of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the United States had little hard evidence and relied heavily on analytic assumptions and judgment in assessing what it knew about Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs, according to declassified U.S. intellilgence report. The September 5, 2002 report from the Glen Shaffer, the Director of Intelligence - which was initially classified as "secret" - at the time showed the U.S. knew about Iraq's internal expertise in building nuclear weapons, biological weapons, chemical weapons and ballistic missiles. The letter, which was declassified on January 6, 2011, was available ...
Egypt VP Favored By Israel To Succeed Mubarak, WikiLeaks Cables Show
Post Date: 2011-02-08 11:41:26 by Brian S
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Israel has long seen Omar Suleiman, Egypt's recently appointed vice president, as the successor to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, US State Department cables released by secrets outlet WikiLeaks show. One document detailed Israel Defense Minister Ehud Barak's 2008 meeting with Suleiman, the then-Egyptian spy chief, as recalled by Israel's Arab Affairs Adviser David Hacham. "In terms of atmospherics, Hacham said the Israeli delegation was 'shocked' by Mubarak's aged appearance and slurred speech," the cable noted. "Hacham was full of praise for Soliman, however, and noted that a 'hot line' set up between the MOD [Ministry of Defense] and ...
Two severe Amazon droughts in five years alarms scientists
Post Date: 2011-02-08 10:50:59 by go65
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New research shows that the 2010 Amazon drought may have been even more devastating to the region’s rainforests than the unusual 2005 drought, which was previously billed as a one-in-100 year event. Analyses of rainfall across 5.3 million square kilometres of Amazonia during the 2010 dry season, published in Science, shows that the drought was more widespread and severe than in 2005. The UK-Brazilian team also calculate that the carbon impact of the 2010 drought may eventually exceed the 5 billion tonnes of CO2 released following the 2005 event, as severe droughts kill rainforest trees. For context, the United States emitted 5.4 billion tonnes of CO2 from fossil fuel use in 2009. ...
Report: Obama Spiriting Mubarak to Cozy German Exile
Post Date: 2011-02-08 10:34:43 by Happy Quanzaa
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U.S. officials have hatched a secret plan to end the deadlock between Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and opponents of his regime, according to various media and intelligence sources. The scheme being discussed would have Mubarak leave Egypt for specialized treatment at a German health clinic near Baden-Baden. His stay would be extended through the September elections, providing a face-saving way to end the impasse and Mubarak’s 30-year reign. “The United States government's scenario for an end to the political chaos in Egypt appears to be this: President Hosni Mubarak travels to Germany for a ‘prolonged health check’ that would offer the 82-year-old a dignified ...
‘Metrosexuals’ on the rise in Pakistan
Post Date: 2011-02-08 09:16:59 by Happy Quanzaa
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Pakistani beautician apply facial beauty treatments on male customers at a beauty salon in Karachi on January22, 2011. - Photo by AFP LAHORE: In Pakistan, as militant wage war on anything smacking of Western culture, “metrosexual” man is quietly on the rise. Confounding expectations in a country where most street scenes are filled with men wearing the traditional shalwar kameez, a simple cotton tunic, male grooming salons are springing up in the main cities. Despite Pakistan’s dire economy and widespread poverty, rich urbanites have more disposable cash than ever and are now spending it on their image, says Hassan Kilde Bajwa, of Synergy advertising agency. Bajwa says the ...
Hussein Obama cut Bush's funding for Egyptian democracy & human-rights groups
Post Date: 2011-02-08 08:50:06 by Happy Quanzaa
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WASHINGTON -- Before anti-government protests swept across Egypt, the Obama administration cut funding for democracy and human-rights groups there, potentially burning bridges with leaders who could be called upon to help form a new government in Cairo, Mideast experts said. "It left a bad taste in the democracy and human-rights community in Egypt. They really felt like Obama came to power and immediately he sought to engage the Egyptian regime," said Jennifer Windsor, a dean at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. "The Egyptian groups were just stunned," she continued, adding that robust support of democracy movements had been one of the "bright ...
Concerns Grow Over Egypt's WMD Research
Post Date: 2011-02-07 18:11:24 by Brian S
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With Egypt in revolt and the country’s future uncertain, concern is growing over whether a new government in the Arab world’s most militarily and industrially advanced country could accelerate an arms race in one of the world’s most volatile regions. At the heart of the concern is intelligence indicating that Egypt has quietly carried out research and development on weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear, chemical, biological and missile technology. The research and development has continued virtually without pause over the past three decades, according to interviews with U.S. officials and a review of intelligence and other government documents by NBC News. ...
Mrs. Clinton welcomes islamo-terror organization Islamic Brotherhood
Post Date: 2011-02-07 16:09:00 by Happy Quanzaa
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Clinton cautiously welcomes Brotherhood talks US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton cautiously welcomed Sunday the Muslim Brotherhood's involvement in political dialogue in Egypt, saying Washington would "wait and see" how talks develop. "Today we learned the Muslim Brotherhood decided to participate, which suggests they at least are now involved in the dialogue that we have encouraged," Clinton told National Public Radio (NPR) from Germany. "We're going to wait and see how this develops, but we've been very clear about what we expect." Vice President Omar Suleiman met on Sunday with opposition groups including the Muslim Brotherhood, a ...
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