Headlines of note for November 2013
Nov. 23: Breakthrough? A deal has been reached between the "P5+1" and Iran...
U.S. Department of State: First Step Understandings Regarding the Islamic Republic of Iran's Nuclear Program
In spite of earlier French obstructionism...
Farsnews: Zarif Blasts France for Preventing Iran-Powers Deal
With Israel and Saudi Arabia festering on the sidelines...
AP: Israel, Gulf in 'strange alliance' against Iran
Wall Street Journal: Prince Alwaleed bin Talal - An Ally Frets About American Retreat
"For the first time, Saudi Arabian interests and Israel are almost parallel," he says, his voice rising. "It's incredible."
And plotting sabotage together...?
PressTV: Prince Bandar attends anti-Iran meeting in Israel
Ynet: Report - Israel, Saudi Arabia cooperating on possible attack on Iran
Intelligence Online: Nuclear - Mujahedin tips off the West
Some nation-state psycho-analysis courtesy of...
Steve Pieczenik: Saudi Arabia & Israel - Imminent Military Strike!
Is this indicative of new "redirection" in U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East? It will do good to revisit this Seymour Hersh piece from 2007...
New Yorker: THE REDIRECTION
We must begrudgingly admit that Obama's second term in foreign affairs - with this agreement and with a peace process underway in Syria (even if his hand was forced by Putin) - is turning out much better in some areas than the first... (continuing drone assassinations and NSA-related embarrassments notwithstanding)
Domestically speaking, however, it is not so good: Obama now has a Gallup favorable rating at 39%, premised on this...
Powerline: LIES OF OBAMACARE, DOCUMENTED
He's chewing the carpet right about now (11/12/13)...
Mediaite: Bill Clinton Scolds Obama - 'The President Should Honor the Commitment' He Made
Beyond the usual government incompetence account of all this, there is an alternate scenario, entertained by some (including detractors on the right and advocates on the left), that Obamacare is a deliberate failure - a failure strategically timed in order to usher in a "single payer," i.e. fully socialized system. This is a conspiracy theory that might get some corroboration from a Project Veritas video (though not necessarily; America's growing underclass naturally develops cadres of experts at gaming the system)...
Ulsterman: Project Veritas Captures Institutionalized Obamacare Fraud
What we found is shocking: navigators, in positions of public trust, told our undercover journalists to lie and defraud the government. Over and over again.
(the Casablanca link is ours)
We can't vouch for the claim made here, which seems a bit overstated, but only offer it as a case in point...
Western Center for Journalism: Revealed - The Man Who Wrote Obamacare
More on Robert Creamer is found at Discover The Networks. It should be noted however that his wife, Rep. Jan Schakowsky has the dubious distinction of residing in the Sibel Edmonds State Secrets Privilege Gallery. She was at the time one of the question marks, but Edmonds later revealed...
Majorityrights: Turkish Gov’t Blackmails Bisexual Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky
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Awaiting "Extraordinary Journalism"...
Information Clearing House: The Extraordinary Pierre Omidyar
Snowden updates...
Wayne Madsen Report: British embassy has lead on location and apprehension of Snowden
WMR has learned through its Russian sources that Britain's spy-infested embassy in Moscow has taken the lead among the "FIVE EYES" signals intelligence allies to locate the whereabouts of National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden in Russia. In fact, the British government is more keen on capturing Snowden than is the U.S. or the other governments of the FIVE EYES partnership, which also includes Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
Britain's almost apoplectic reaction to Snowden's disclosures was recently on display when Britain's top three intelligence chiefs -- John Sawers of MI-6; Andrew Parker of MI-5; and Iain Lobben of the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), the British counterpart of NSA, accused Snowden and those who published his leaked documents of aiding Al Qaeda. Former British Defense Secretary Liam Fox went further, accusing those who publish the leaked NSA and GCHQ secrets, including The Guardian, of being terrorists.
Ever since he was granted temporary political asylum by Russia after being held in transit limbo at Moscow's Sheremetyevo International Airport after his flight from Hong Kong, Snowden's location in Russia has been a closely-guarded secret. Snowden is believed to have the protection of a combination of private security guards and agents of the Russian Federal Security Bureau (FSB).
Last month, Snowden met with four other American national whistleblowers -- Ray McGovern, formerly of the CIA; Colleen Rowley, formerly with the FBI; former NSA official Tom Drake, and former Justice Department prosecutor Jesselyn Radack -- met with Snowden at an undisclosed location in Moscow. The four Americans traveled to Moscow to present Snowden with the Sam Adams Award for Integrity and Intelligence.
After the receipt by Snowden of the award, British MI-6 case officers assigned to the British embassy in Moscow began using NSA and GCHQ "contact chaining" intelligence gathered from surveillance of Facebook and other social networking systems to0 identify Snowden's location. The contact chaining began with the Facebook, Twitter, as well as phone call metadata, information derived from the four American visitors to Moscow. In turn, their contacts in Moscow were identified, thus expanding the chain used to determine Snowden's location and daily schedule.....
WMR is now reporting a man-in-the-middle attack on AOL account following publication of the above report.
Cryptome: 42 Years to Release Snowden Documents
Snowden looking for other venues to quicken that pace?
DW: Ströbele shares details of Snowden visit in Moscow
Serenading Deutschland...
Der Spiegel: Ein Manifest für die Wahrheit (A Manifesto for the Truth)
Notwithstanding a certain level of hypocrisy in Merkel's expression of outrage over US/UK surveillance...
Guardian: GCHQ and European spy agencies worked together on mass surveillance
Germany and Brazil are taking the initiative to tame the surveillance beasts, NSA and GCHQ...
RT: Germany, Brazil submit UN draft resolution to end mass surveillance
Another area in which it appears Germany will take the lead: taming the robber barons of finance...
Reuters: Merkel, SPD agree to renew German push for transaction tax
Well, Italy was there first, and where it counts...
ZeroHedge: First Ever High Frequency Trading Transaction Tax Introduced In Italy
There to snoop on all of that...
Schweiz am Sonntag: US-Geheimdienst - Abhöranlage in Zürich
Spiegel: Quantum Spying - GCHQ Used Fake LinkedIn Pages to Target Engineers
Huffimgton Post: Top-Secret Document Reveals NSA Spied On Porn Habits As Part Of Plan To Discredit 'Radicalizers'
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Libya descends into complete anarchy, as reported by some who helped create the mess...
Al Jazeera: Libya - on the brink of abyss
BBC: Libya army in Benghazi clashes with Ansar al-Sharia
Middle East Online: Libya jihadists to government - It’s either sharia or chaos!
Saudi Gazette: Libya PM warns foreign forces may act to halt chaos
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Shooter of the month: "CIA" written all over this one...
KTTV-LA: The Gunman: 23-year-old Suspect Paul Ciancia
Some initial reports indicated that a second suspect had been arrested, but Gannon said, "This was a lone shooter,'' and the gunman "was the only person that was armed in this incident.''
Did he say there was not a second suspect?
Infowars: TSA Shooting Narrative Disintegrates
Digital Journal: LAX Shooting - Police trained for 'exact scenario' 3 weeks ago
Dry ice dry runs..?
LATimes: Second suspect in LAX dry-ice bomb case pleads not guilty
The real target is not the TSA, however, but...
SPLC Hatewatch: Alleged LAX Shooter Referenced ‘Patriot’ Conspiracy Theories
... with Alex Jones referenced in ABC and CBS spots, we can see where this is going; to borrow Jones's own narrative: the national security apparatus, having been nurtured post-9/11 by the foreign threat of Islamic extremism, now is to focus domestically upon the patriot "extremist". To facilitate this refocus, we can expect more incidents framing the anti-government and anti-NWO protester as the violent extremist threat over which Americans must surrender more of their constitutional protections. The new threat will be caricatured as "bizarre" and "paranoid" largely from Alex Jones's own narrative, he being the most popular or notorious face of anti-government sentiment. We concur that there will be a continuing shift away from terrorism as perpetrated by Islamists, and more as perpetrated by the sovereign citizen, Christian patriot, constitutionalist and the like, but even implicative to the TEA Party, thus framed in order to the discrediting of independent media and political movements that are more and more successfully channeling the ubiquitous discontent with "the powers that be". As one of the Islamic extremist type - one who incidentally was recently assassinated by drone on the eve of peace talks - Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud recently said in a BBC interview...
These explosions in public places are certainly being carried out by secret agencies as part of a conspiracy to pollute the minds of the people about Taliban and to discourage them to co-operate with Taliban.
Another case in point, if not carried out by the "secret agencies" themselves, then fostered by them...
DailyMail: Was Kenya mall massacre 'mastermind' backed by CIA cash? Disturbing claims by 'double agent who worked with terror suspect for years'
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Police state news: what the new bogeymen can look forward to...
Institute on Medicine as a Profession: Medical, Military, and Ethics Experts Say Health Professionals Designed and Participated in Cruel, Inhumane, and Degrading Treatment and Torture of Detainees; Seek Policies To Assure Conformance With Ethical Principles
And what the American people generally have to look forward to...
Prison Planet: Police, Doctors Force Man To Undergo Humiliating Enemas, Anal Exams And X-rays
Storyleak: Documents Reveal Seattle’s Secretive DHS Funded “Mesh Network” Surveillance Grid
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And so it begins [soon]: extracting the spent fuel rods from their precarious perch atop reactor number 4 at Fukushima Daiichi...
TEPCO: Fuel Removal from Reactor 4 Spent Fuel Pool
Cross your fingers...
Fukushima Diary: Fuel removal of Reactor4 pool to start next week – No quake is allowed for 13 months
Trouble already...
ENENews: Multiple assemblies ‘deformed’ in Fukushima Unit 4 pool — One “bent at a 90-degree angle” — Tepco: Mistake occurred when handling the fuel… 25 years ago
It's a start...
Japan Times: First batch of fuel from Fukushima reactor 4 pool now in different storage site
The damage done...
Ecologist: Fukushima fallout damaged thyroid glands of California babies
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Other toxins - of a more ephemeral sort - stirring across the Pacific...
WikiLeaks: Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP)
Land Destroyer: Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) - Threat To National Sovereignty
Techdirt: Trade Agreements Are Designed To Give Companies Corporate Sovereignty
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Pedo bust - it turns out that Toronto, home of the crack-head mayor, is a major hub...
The Star: Child porn bust - The men who were charged
Aangirfan: POPULAR CHILD MODELS
Kosher pedos in a Brooklyn mikvah...
Vice: THE CHILD-RAPE ASSEMBLY LINE
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Google preppers...
C-NET: Is Google building a hulking floating data center in SF Bay?
Google patents: Water-based data center
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JFK assassination 50 years on - the investigations continue...
MadCow Morning News: Barry Seal, the Dallas get-away plane, and the JFK assassination
WhoWhatWhy: Bush And The JFK Hit, Part 10 - After Camelot
Johnson, Bush and Nixon kill John F. Kennedy.
Saturday, November 30, 2013
Thursday, November 14, 2013
Tzipi does porno for Zion
Israeli Justice Minister and negotiator Tzipi Livni, aka the "belle of the Knesset," has admitted to sleeping with Palastinian officials during negotiations, and that these encounters were caught on video, according to Al-Watan...
Google translation tidied: Livni - I had sex with Erekat and Abed Rabbo... And with cameras!
Livni said that the room in which exercised sex with Palestinian personalities, including Saeb Erekat and Yasser Abed Rabbo, were fitted with cameras that depict the practice, and the videos show Palestinian officials are without clothes and having sex with her, and Livni threatened a number of Arab personalities that the movies would be deployed on YouTube if they have not done what they were ordered to do.
A prominent Rabbi is reported to have said with Talmudic liberality that officials «have the right to sleep with strangers and have sex, provided that this serves Israel». Tzipi, who began her career with the Mossad, has been rumored in the past to have plied her charms in the Israeli national interest. She has thus led a life deprived of romantic relationships. She explained:
«that the romantic relationship requires honesty, truthfulness and sincerity between the couple, and I, of course, I could not build such a relationship with a »..« but a relationship short and transient that committed the parties by rules and regulations does not cause any harm or damage»
Alas, where's the romance for a government official, for whom the sex act itself is a regulated transaction!
More buzz on this story...
Saturday, November 2, 2013
Headlines of note for October 2013
Glenn Greenwald's Snowden series continues to trickle...
Guardian: NSA and GCHQ target Tor network that protects anonymity of web users
And then halts, for a new venture...
BuzzFeed: Glenn Greenwald Will Leave Guardian To Create New News Organization
Raising red flags...
Rancid Honeytrap: A Harbinger of Journalism Saved
Others are eking it out...
Spiegel: Fresh Leak on US Spying - NSA Accessed Mexican President's Email
Embassy Espionage: The NSA's Secret Spy Hub in Berlin
Monde: Comment la NSA espionne la France
El Mundo: La NSA espió 60 millones de llamadas en España en sólo un mes
Panorama.it: Papa Francesco intercettato - ecco come gli 007 spiano il Vaticano da anni
Washington Post: NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide, Snowden documents say
The Hill: NSA admits tracking locations of cellphones in the United States
The Local: Author and NSA critic denied entry into US
The fall-out...
DW: NSA affair could block EU-US free trade talks
Germany and Brazil want UN vote on NSA spying
Cryptome: Privacy and Cybersecurity Illusions Have to Go
Strategic Culture (Wayne Madsen): NSA’s Global Economic Intelligence Net
Madsen is the unsung hero among journalists covering the NSA. Unlike Glenn Greenwald and James Bamford, he won't be invited to comment on cable news or to produce PBS NOVA reports. Perhaps his "pithy comments" page might have something to do with this. The following story however goes into levels of detail and import that have yet to be found in the pages of the Guardian, Washington Post, N.Y.Times,Der Spiegel, etc., and is worth quoting at length...
Wayne Madsen Report: NSA has only itself to blame for leaks
At the outset of the English-speaking signals alliance after World War II, there were only five countries involved in carrying out signals intelligence operations: the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. This alliance was based on the UK-USA Agreement of 1946 that had its actual roots during World War II and the BRUSA (Britain-U.S.) agreement of 1943.
During the Cold War era, the four non-U.S. English-speaking SIGINT alliance countries, known as "Second Parties," as opposed to the U.S. (the First Party), managed to keep their operations largely secret. Soon, agreements to share signals intercepts with NSA, were concluded with "Third Parties." Third parties were non-English speaking countries that were allies of the United States. The sharing was largely one-way, with Third Parties providing more to NSA than what they received in return. NSA "product" was usually highly-sanitized analysis reports. Third Parties originally included countries like Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, and West Germany. Later, such countries as Japan, South Korea, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Spain, and Portugal joined the Third Party partners.
France, which withdrew from NATO's military structure in 1967 and which carried out intelligence operations against the United States, was kept distant from the NSA partnership. However, France gradually became a Third Party, especially after French President Nicolas Sarkozy returned France to NATO's military fold in 2009.
Israel, which was considered a hostile intelligence nation by U.S. counterintelligence agencies until the Obama administration, was never even considered for Third Party status by NSA. The premeditated Israeli attack on the NSA intelligence collection ship, USS Liberty in 1967, Mossad's penetration of NSA operations via a spy ring at RCA Corporation in 1995-6, and the damage down by Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, discovered in 1995, ensured that Israel would never have official access to NSA's intelligence. NSA carefully covered its intercept operations mounted against Israel by having NSA Hebrew linguists described as being proficient in "Special Arabic."
Keeping Israel removed from NSA operations all changed under the Obama administration when a Memorandum of Understanding was drafted between NSA and the Israel SIGINT National Unit (also known as Unit 8200 or Yehida Shmoneh-Matayim) to share highly-classified SIGINT data. France's relationship with NSA graduated from Third Party to a category that can be described as Third Party plus. NSA SIGINT and Communications Intelligence or COMINT material was marked with the special caveat REL TO USA, FRA if it was authorized to be released to France. Likewise, Israel appeared to have received a Third Party plus status since NSA material authorized for release to Israel received a handling category of REL to USA, ISR.
While NSA's control over its "FIVE EYES" English speaking partners was relatively without major incident, aside from a spat with New Zealand in the 1980s over its policy of refusing to allow U.S. nuclear-powered warships into its waters, the same was not the case with Israel and France.
The TOP SECRET//COMINT//REL to USA, ISR (but not releasable tol FIVE EYES) MOU with ISNU not only permitted NSA SIGINT, including raw intercept traffic, to be shared with Israel but also stipulated that SIGINT collected by the FIVE EYES alliance could also be shared with the Israelis. However, the other four members of FIVE EYES were not included in the releasing authority granted by the NSA-ISNU memorandum. ISNU was merely "requested" in the MOU to protect the SIGINT handling laws and regulations of the FIVE EYES countries. [Excerpt of the MOU below].
The nature of ISNU's special relationship with NSA was highlighted by the description of the duties of SUSLAIS (Senior U.S. Liaison Adviser Israel) in the MOU. The SUSLAIS, similar to the SUSLO (Senior U.S. Liaison Officer), officially attached to the U.S. embassy in London but assigned to work closely with the UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) in Cheltenham, England, was to handle any discovery by the Israelis of raw data on U.S. persons foud in raw intercept traffic provided to ISNU. The MOU does not make it clear what kind of access, if any, the SUSLAIS has to ISNU facilities located at Camp Moshe Dayan at Glilot Junction, north of Tel Aviv and near Herzliya.
ISNU was also charged with requesting permission from NSA, presumably through the SUSLAIS, before releasing NSA SIGINT data to any other party, which would include the Mossad, Shin Bet, or other Israeli government agencies. The MOU also refers to a special NSA-ISNU shared communications network codenamed CHIPPEWA.
Israel had been caught over the past decade trafficking in stolen or forged passports from Australia, Britain, New Zealand, and Canada. However, the NSA and the Obama administration concluded that Israel could be trusted with highly-classified SIGINT and COMINT from the intelligence agencies of countries subjected to Israeli intelligence operations.
It was not long before Israel began taking advantage of its new relationship with NSA and its Second and Third Party partners. In April 2013, the French discovered that "cyber-attacks" were taking place against the French Presidential communications network.The French Directorate for External Security (DGSE) requested and received a meeting with senio0r NSA officials at NSA Headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland. The meeting, held on April 12, 2013, was attended by Bernard Barbier, the Technical Director of DGSE, and Patrick Pailloux, the Director of the National Information Systems Security (ANSSI) unit of France. The information on the attack is contained in an overall TOP SECRET//SI//NOFORN, meaning No Foreign Nationals memo issued by NSA for the visit. DGSE and ANSSI first informed NSA director Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander about the cyber-attacks in January 2013 during a visit by Alexander to Paris. Alexander was prepared to send two NSA Threat Operations Center analysts to France to investigate. DGSE and ANSSI told Alexander about the cyber-attacks without going through the SUSLAF (Senior U.S. Liaison Activity France) or NSA's FAD (Foreign Affairs Directorate). Rather than receiving NSA analysts in France, DGSE and ANSSI opted, instead, to visit Fort Meade.
The NSA memo on the French visit only authorized for release to France (REL TO FRA) information on the visit of the two French officials to NSA. The unclassified reason for the visit was "Computer Network Defense."
The NSA organization charged with conducting cyber-attacks, Tailored Access Operations or TAO denied that the operations against the French Presidential network was their work. TAO, which includes personnel with the joint NSA-CIA Special Collection Service (SCS), inquired among "First Parties," that is the CIA, and "Second Parties," the UK's GCHQ and the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC) whether they were responsible for hacking the French network as they "were the most likely suspects," but they denied any involvement. The memo then states something vitally critical" "TAO did not ask either the Mossad or ISNU whether they were involved as France is not an approved target for joint discussion." In other words, NSA's compartmented security controls did not permit Israel to know anything about any NSA, GCHQ, or CSEC cyber-espionage against France. However, it is clear that NSA officials believed that Israel might have been the culprit behind the attacks on the French presidential network...
For another interpretation of the Snowden affair...
Rense (Yoichi Shimatsu): Saving Agent Snowden From His Handlers Greenwald and Omidyar
In a nutshell the Snowden case was used by the British military intelligence in partnership with a CIA faction opposed to the heavy-handed Pentagon-NSA eavesdropping programs that threaten to knock over sensitive operations, for instance, joint operations with Qatar and Saudi intelligence to direct Al Qaeda units in Libya, Syria and Afghanistan. Since assassination targets could include American, British and other allied European officers who know too much, the Agency prefers to operate without its communications with field agents and MK-ULTRA types being monitored by lads like Snowden or any of the many generals who have a grudge against the CIA...
A case in point?...
Telegraph: Iranian cyber warfare commander shot dead in suspected assassination
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In our September headlines summary, we had noted an intriguing comment made by Zbigniew Brzezinski, in his Le Monde interview, on the situation internal to the United States being a factor in his reluctant support for the Obama administration's plan (with the condition of congressional approval) for punitive military action against the Assad regime in Syria. With Russia's diplomatic intervention to prevent war, however, and with it the prevention of the diversion away from those internal concerns to which Brzezinski alluded, these domestic factors now have come to the fore, forcing the U.S. government to face the music, as it were, an existential crisis of the United States itself, in its capacity to honor its ever burgeoning debt.
The Week: US debt default - is world facing 'economic Armageddon'?
Signs of the times in D.C...
Cryptogon: U.S. Capitol Shooting
N.Y. Daily News: Man sets himself on fire at National Mall, one witness says his accomplice filmed the entire ordeal
Todd Zwillich: House Stenographer Rant During Govt Shutdown Vote
D-Day re-enactments outside the White House...
PrisonPlanet: Riot Police Use Force Against Elderly Vets Outside White House
CrimeFileNews: Why The DC Cops Stood Down During The Face Off With Our Veterans
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More accusations against Prince Bandar in Ghouta chemical attack...
Voice of Russia: Saudi black op team responsible for Damascus chemical attack – Russian diplomatic source
Bandar already making good on his threat to Putin to remove his "protection" in the Caucasus...
Al Jazeera: Female suicide bomber blamed for Russia blast
Next to take it out on the U.S...?
Silvia Cattori: Saudi-US Row - Prince Bandar bin ‘Sulking’ Tries Old Bribe and Threat Trick Again
Civil wars continue and spread throughout the Middle East and North Africa...
Al-Alam: Syria terrorists shell Kafteen village, massacre 30 civilians
Voice of America: Syria Spillover Violence in Lebanon Raises Alarms
All Africa: Sudan's Turabi Warns of Civil War and Calls On Bashir to Step Down
Reuters: Militants shoot down military helicopter in northern Iraq-police
Brought down by a shoulder-fired missile perhaps? Where might they have obtained that?
NYTimes: Algeria - Troops Find Large Cache of Weapons Near Libyan Border
Prompted by the deaths of several hundreds of African migrants in the Mediterranean - migrants who if not for the NATO action of 2011 would have found gainful employment in Qadaffi's Libya...
Le Monde: Face à "l'afflux" de migrants, le sénateur UMP Philippe Marini "regrette le régime Kadhafi en Libye"
sic: the tweet states "...regrette la disparition du regime Kadhafi en Libye" - Marini regrets the demise of the Qadaffi regime in Libya; but it was his UMP cohort Sarkozy who led the charge in toppling Qadaffi.
RT: Gunmen attack Russian embassy in Libya's Tripoli
Telegraph: Libyan PM Ali Zeidan 'arrested' at gunpoint and released
Boots on the ground...
Guardian: US special forces raids target Islamist militants in Libya and Somalia
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WWIII triggers at large...?
PrisonPlanet: Top Nuke Commanders Terminated Following Missing Nuclear Warheads Report
Other firings, following the Camp Bastion debacle of Sept. last year...
Washington Post: Two Marine generals fired for security lapses in Afghanistan
It is the first time since the Vietnam War that a general, let alone two, has been sacked for negligence after a successful enemy attack. But the assault also was unprecedented...
So was Benghazi. The Wa-Po article however neglects to mention one crucial detail, which demonstrates to whom U.S. military forces are subject...
Inquisitr: U.S. Marine Generals Fired Over Taliban Attack On Prince Harry
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Perilous Fukushima Daiichi beset by the elements...
ENENews: Footage shows minute-long quake shaking Fukushima nuclear plant... Fukushima Official: “It was fairly big, and rattled quite a bit”
Fukushima Diary: Fukushima plant area had collapse and subsidence due to the last Typhoon / No press release
Expect even less press releases in the future...
RT: Fuk-‘hush’-ima - Japan’s new state secrets law gags whistleblowers, raises press freedom fears
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Miscellania...
Political Vel Craft: Hungary Kills The Rothschild Banks - Ordered To Vacate Country
Voltairenet: Torture is still in practiced in Guantanamo
BoilingFrogsPost: U.S. Government: Documents Pertaining to Awlaki Being an Asset on “An Agency” Payroll Are All Classified
Infowars: FBI Boston Bombing Coverup Accelerates
Steve Pieczenik: Ambassador Samantha Power - The “Hellish Power” Who Bombs her Way Out of Genocide!
Farm Wars: Intestinal Disease, Immune Disease and GMOs
GMOs and Neurological Disease: ADHD, Autism, Alzheimer’s, Schizophrenia, Bipolar
Glenn Greenwald's Snowden series continues to trickle...
Guardian: NSA and GCHQ target Tor network that protects anonymity of web users
And then halts, for a new venture...
BuzzFeed: Glenn Greenwald Will Leave Guardian To Create New News Organization
Raising red flags...
Rancid Honeytrap: A Harbinger of Journalism Saved
Others are eking it out...
Spiegel: Fresh Leak on US Spying - NSA Accessed Mexican President's Email
Embassy Espionage: The NSA's Secret Spy Hub in Berlin
Monde: Comment la NSA espionne la France
El Mundo: La NSA espió 60 millones de llamadas en España en sólo un mes
Panorama.it: Papa Francesco intercettato - ecco come gli 007 spiano il Vaticano da anni
Washington Post: NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide, Snowden documents say
The Hill: NSA admits tracking locations of cellphones in the United States
The Local: Author and NSA critic denied entry into US
The fall-out...
DW: NSA affair could block EU-US free trade talks
Germany and Brazil want UN vote on NSA spying
Cryptome: Privacy and Cybersecurity Illusions Have to Go
Strategic Culture (Wayne Madsen): NSA’s Global Economic Intelligence Net
Madsen is the unsung hero among journalists covering the NSA. Unlike Glenn Greenwald and James Bamford, he won't be invited to comment on cable news or to produce PBS NOVA reports. Perhaps his "pithy comments" page might have something to do with this. The following story however goes into levels of detail and import that have yet to be found in the pages of the Guardian, Washington Post, N.Y.Times,Der Spiegel, etc., and is worth quoting at length...
Wayne Madsen Report: NSA has only itself to blame for leaks
At the outset of the English-speaking signals alliance after World War II, there were only five countries involved in carrying out signals intelligence operations: the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. This alliance was based on the UK-USA Agreement of 1946 that had its actual roots during World War II and the BRUSA (Britain-U.S.) agreement of 1943.
During the Cold War era, the four non-U.S. English-speaking SIGINT alliance countries, known as "Second Parties," as opposed to the U.S. (the First Party), managed to keep their operations largely secret. Soon, agreements to share signals intercepts with NSA, were concluded with "Third Parties." Third parties were non-English speaking countries that were allies of the United States. The sharing was largely one-way, with Third Parties providing more to NSA than what they received in return. NSA "product" was usually highly-sanitized analysis reports. Third Parties originally included countries like Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, and West Germany. Later, such countries as Japan, South Korea, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Spain, and Portugal joined the Third Party partners.
France, which withdrew from NATO's military structure in 1967 and which carried out intelligence operations against the United States, was kept distant from the NSA partnership. However, France gradually became a Third Party, especially after French President Nicolas Sarkozy returned France to NATO's military fold in 2009.
Israel, which was considered a hostile intelligence nation by U.S. counterintelligence agencies until the Obama administration, was never even considered for Third Party status by NSA. The premeditated Israeli attack on the NSA intelligence collection ship, USS Liberty in 1967, Mossad's penetration of NSA operations via a spy ring at RCA Corporation in 1995-6, and the damage down by Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, discovered in 1995, ensured that Israel would never have official access to NSA's intelligence. NSA carefully covered its intercept operations mounted against Israel by having NSA Hebrew linguists described as being proficient in "Special Arabic."
Keeping Israel removed from NSA operations all changed under the Obama administration when a Memorandum of Understanding was drafted between NSA and the Israel SIGINT National Unit (also known as Unit 8200 or Yehida Shmoneh-Matayim) to share highly-classified SIGINT data. France's relationship with NSA graduated from Third Party to a category that can be described as Third Party plus. NSA SIGINT and Communications Intelligence or COMINT material was marked with the special caveat REL TO USA, FRA if it was authorized to be released to France. Likewise, Israel appeared to have received a Third Party plus status since NSA material authorized for release to Israel received a handling category of REL to USA, ISR.
While NSA's control over its "FIVE EYES" English speaking partners was relatively without major incident, aside from a spat with New Zealand in the 1980s over its policy of refusing to allow U.S. nuclear-powered warships into its waters, the same was not the case with Israel and France.
The TOP SECRET//COMINT//REL to USA, ISR (but not releasable tol FIVE EYES) MOU with ISNU not only permitted NSA SIGINT, including raw intercept traffic, to be shared with Israel but also stipulated that SIGINT collected by the FIVE EYES alliance could also be shared with the Israelis. However, the other four members of FIVE EYES were not included in the releasing authority granted by the NSA-ISNU memorandum. ISNU was merely "requested" in the MOU to protect the SIGINT handling laws and regulations of the FIVE EYES countries. [Excerpt of the MOU below].
The nature of ISNU's special relationship with NSA was highlighted by the description of the duties of SUSLAIS (Senior U.S. Liaison Adviser Israel) in the MOU. The SUSLAIS, similar to the SUSLO (Senior U.S. Liaison Officer), officially attached to the U.S. embassy in London but assigned to work closely with the UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) in Cheltenham, England, was to handle any discovery by the Israelis of raw data on U.S. persons foud in raw intercept traffic provided to ISNU. The MOU does not make it clear what kind of access, if any, the SUSLAIS has to ISNU facilities located at Camp Moshe Dayan at Glilot Junction, north of Tel Aviv and near Herzliya.
ISNU was also charged with requesting permission from NSA, presumably through the SUSLAIS, before releasing NSA SIGINT data to any other party, which would include the Mossad, Shin Bet, or other Israeli government agencies. The MOU also refers to a special NSA-ISNU shared communications network codenamed CHIPPEWA.
Israel had been caught over the past decade trafficking in stolen or forged passports from Australia, Britain, New Zealand, and Canada. However, the NSA and the Obama administration concluded that Israel could be trusted with highly-classified SIGINT and COMINT from the intelligence agencies of countries subjected to Israeli intelligence operations.
It was not long before Israel began taking advantage of its new relationship with NSA and its Second and Third Party partners. In April 2013, the French discovered that "cyber-attacks" were taking place against the French Presidential communications network.The French Directorate for External Security (DGSE) requested and received a meeting with senio0r NSA officials at NSA Headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland. The meeting, held on April 12, 2013, was attended by Bernard Barbier, the Technical Director of DGSE, and Patrick Pailloux, the Director of the National Information Systems Security (ANSSI) unit of France. The information on the attack is contained in an overall TOP SECRET//SI//NOFORN, meaning No Foreign Nationals memo issued by NSA for the visit. DGSE and ANSSI first informed NSA director Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander about the cyber-attacks in January 2013 during a visit by Alexander to Paris. Alexander was prepared to send two NSA Threat Operations Center analysts to France to investigate. DGSE and ANSSI told Alexander about the cyber-attacks without going through the SUSLAF (Senior U.S. Liaison Activity France) or NSA's FAD (Foreign Affairs Directorate). Rather than receiving NSA analysts in France, DGSE and ANSSI opted, instead, to visit Fort Meade.
The NSA memo on the French visit only authorized for release to France (REL TO FRA) information on the visit of the two French officials to NSA. The unclassified reason for the visit was "Computer Network Defense."
The NSA organization charged with conducting cyber-attacks, Tailored Access Operations or TAO denied that the operations against the French Presidential network was their work. TAO, which includes personnel with the joint NSA-CIA Special Collection Service (SCS), inquired among "First Parties," that is the CIA, and "Second Parties," the UK's GCHQ and the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC) whether they were responsible for hacking the French network as they "were the most likely suspects," but they denied any involvement. The memo then states something vitally critical" "TAO did not ask either the Mossad or ISNU whether they were involved as France is not an approved target for joint discussion." In other words, NSA's compartmented security controls did not permit Israel to know anything about any NSA, GCHQ, or CSEC cyber-espionage against France. However, it is clear that NSA officials believed that Israel might have been the culprit behind the attacks on the French presidential network...
For another interpretation of the Snowden affair...
Rense (Yoichi Shimatsu): Saving Agent Snowden From His Handlers Greenwald and Omidyar
In a nutshell the Snowden case was used by the British military intelligence in partnership with a CIA faction opposed to the heavy-handed Pentagon-NSA eavesdropping programs that threaten to knock over sensitive operations, for instance, joint operations with Qatar and Saudi intelligence to direct Al Qaeda units in Libya, Syria and Afghanistan. Since assassination targets could include American, British and other allied European officers who know too much, the Agency prefers to operate without its communications with field agents and MK-ULTRA types being monitored by lads like Snowden or any of the many generals who have a grudge against the CIA...
A case in point?...
Telegraph: Iranian cyber warfare commander shot dead in suspected assassination
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In our September headlines summary, we had noted an intriguing comment made by Zbigniew Brzezinski, in his Le Monde interview, on the situation internal to the United States being a factor in his reluctant support for the Obama administration's plan (with the condition of congressional approval) for punitive military action against the Assad regime in Syria. With Russia's diplomatic intervention to prevent war, however, and with it the prevention of the diversion away from those internal concerns to which Brzezinski alluded, these domestic factors now have come to the fore, forcing the U.S. government to face the music, as it were, an existential crisis of the United States itself, in its capacity to honor its ever burgeoning debt.
The Week: US debt default - is world facing 'economic Armageddon'?
Signs of the times in D.C...
Cryptogon: U.S. Capitol Shooting
N.Y. Daily News: Man sets himself on fire at National Mall, one witness says his accomplice filmed the entire ordeal
Todd Zwillich: House Stenographer Rant During Govt Shutdown Vote
D-Day re-enactments outside the White House...
PrisonPlanet: Riot Police Use Force Against Elderly Vets Outside White House
CrimeFileNews: Why The DC Cops Stood Down During The Face Off With Our Veterans
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More accusations against Prince Bandar in Ghouta chemical attack...
Voice of Russia: Saudi black op team responsible for Damascus chemical attack – Russian diplomatic source
Bandar already making good on his threat to Putin to remove his "protection" in the Caucasus...
Al Jazeera: Female suicide bomber blamed for Russia blast
Next to take it out on the U.S...?
Silvia Cattori: Saudi-US Row - Prince Bandar bin ‘Sulking’ Tries Old Bribe and Threat Trick Again
Civil wars continue and spread throughout the Middle East and North Africa...
Al-Alam: Syria terrorists shell Kafteen village, massacre 30 civilians
Voice of America: Syria Spillover Violence in Lebanon Raises Alarms
All Africa: Sudan's Turabi Warns of Civil War and Calls On Bashir to Step Down
Reuters: Militants shoot down military helicopter in northern Iraq-police
Brought down by a shoulder-fired missile perhaps? Where might they have obtained that?
NYTimes: Algeria - Troops Find Large Cache of Weapons Near Libyan Border
Prompted by the deaths of several hundreds of African migrants in the Mediterranean - migrants who if not for the NATO action of 2011 would have found gainful employment in Qadaffi's Libya...
Le Monde: Face à "l'afflux" de migrants, le sénateur UMP Philippe Marini "regrette le régime Kadhafi en Libye"
sic: the tweet states "...regrette la disparition du regime Kadhafi en Libye" - Marini regrets the demise of the Qadaffi regime in Libya; but it was his UMP cohort Sarkozy who led the charge in toppling Qadaffi.
RT: Gunmen attack Russian embassy in Libya's Tripoli
Telegraph: Libyan PM Ali Zeidan 'arrested' at gunpoint and released
Boots on the ground...
Guardian: US special forces raids target Islamist militants in Libya and Somalia
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WWIII triggers at large...?
PrisonPlanet: Top Nuke Commanders Terminated Following Missing Nuclear Warheads Report
Other firings, following the Camp Bastion debacle of Sept. last year...
Washington Post: Two Marine generals fired for security lapses in Afghanistan
It is the first time since the Vietnam War that a general, let alone two, has been sacked for negligence after a successful enemy attack. But the assault also was unprecedented...
So was Benghazi. The Wa-Po article however neglects to mention one crucial detail, which demonstrates to whom U.S. military forces are subject...
Inquisitr: U.S. Marine Generals Fired Over Taliban Attack On Prince Harry
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Perilous Fukushima Daiichi beset by the elements...
ENENews: Footage shows minute-long quake shaking Fukushima nuclear plant... Fukushima Official: “It was fairly big, and rattled quite a bit”
Fukushima Diary: Fukushima plant area had collapse and subsidence due to the last Typhoon / No press release
Expect even less press releases in the future...
RT: Fuk-‘hush’-ima - Japan’s new state secrets law gags whistleblowers, raises press freedom fears
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Miscellania...
Political Vel Craft: Hungary Kills The Rothschild Banks - Ordered To Vacate Country
Voltairenet: Torture is still in practiced in Guantanamo
BoilingFrogsPost: U.S. Government: Documents Pertaining to Awlaki Being an Asset on “An Agency” Payroll Are All Classified
Infowars: FBI Boston Bombing Coverup Accelerates
Steve Pieczenik: Ambassador Samantha Power - The “Hellish Power” Who Bombs her Way Out of Genocide!
Farm Wars: Intestinal Disease, Immune Disease and GMOs
GMOs and Neurological Disease: ADHD, Autism, Alzheimer’s, Schizophrenia, Bipolar
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