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
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
The Fall of FEMEN
To the old adage, bad publicity is the best publicity, it might be added - bad publicity from bare-breasted beauties is even better. So it goes with every personage and institution that has been the object of a FEMEN protest. Of late, however, with the release of the film, Ukraine is not a Brothel, FEMEN itself has become the subject of the sort of unmasking publicity that cannot be so good...
Independent: The man who made Femen - New film outs Victor Svyatski as the mastermind behind the protest group and its breast-baring stunts
IBTimes: Femen Founder is a Man - Who Calls Women 'Weak Bitches'
Guardian: If Femen was set up by a man, where does that leave its topless protests?
With the pathetic attempt to seize the narrative in "MODEL DON'T GO TO BROTHEL" that was only met with a punch in the nose...
Model 'punches' Femen protesters who storm catwalk during Paris fashion week
They are now a laughing stock.
Independent: The man who made Femen - New film outs Victor Svyatski as the mastermind behind the protest group and its breast-baring stunts
IBTimes: Femen Founder is a Man - Who Calls Women 'Weak Bitches'
Guardian: If Femen was set up by a man, where does that leave its topless protests?
With the pathetic attempt to seize the narrative in "MODEL DON'T GO TO BROTHEL" that was only met with a punch in the nose...
Model 'punches' Femen protesters who storm catwalk during Paris fashion week
They are now a laughing stock.
Monday, September 9, 2013
Headlines of note for September 2013
Doves take the British Parliament...
Daily Mail: The humbling of David Cameron: On a momentous night, Tory rebellion forces Prime Minister to rule out military strike against Syria... and plunges him into a deep political crisis
The House of Commons has not voted against the Government on an issue of war and peace since February 27, 1782, when politicians voted against further war with America...
There is a certain irony in this; just as in the American Revolution, the only substantial ally of the U.S. is France...
Libération: Obama et Hollande affichent leur entente au sujet de la Syrie
In an interview with Le Monde, Obama's mentor (during his mystery years at Columbia) Zbigniew Brzezinski repeats the vacuous argument that we must bomb Syria in order to preserve the reputation of the U.S. and the West at large on the world stage...
Syrie : "Il faut un certain degré de patience et une vision plus large"
That reputation however has already been soiled; the international goodwill following the election of Obama has long dried up, as it becomes increasingly clear to the world that Anglo-American imperial arrogance continues unswayed through neo-liberal stratagems (of which the neo-conservative Bush Doctrine was but an ideological tributary), and the only "change" has been in tactics (drones rather than "boots on the ground") and stylistics (Obama's metro-sexual "cool" vs. Bush's cowboy swagger). The NSA revelations courtesy of Edward Snowden have brought the distrust of not only the U.S. government but of its telecommunication industry to a head; and with this distrust a vacuum of moral authority has opened, with Vladimir Putin eager to seize the moment, convincingly enough to induce Matt Drudge to declare: Putin is the leader of the free world... - apparently inspired by these comments of Putin on the eve of the G-20 meetings...
RT: Putin to (Nobel Prize winner) Obama: 'Think about future Syria victims'
With the onslaught of recent scandals, moreover, the distrust is simmering domestically as well beyond the partisan divide. Brzezinski acknowledges in his Le Monde interview that the Obama administration is motivated in its push to war not merely by external concerns, but by internal factors...
Depuis le début de la crise, je ne soutiens pas la politique menée par les Etats-Unis. Mais étant donné les réalités de la situation, intérieure aussi bien que géopolitique, dans laquelle se trouvent les Etats-Unis, je n'ai pas d'autre choix que de soutenir la décision du président de procéder à une action limitée de représailles et d'obtenir le soutien du Congrès.
Since the beginning of the crisis, I did not support the policy of the United States. But given the realities of the situation, domestic as well as geopolitical, which find themselves in the United States, I have no choice but to support the president's decision to conduct a limited retaliatory action and obtain the support of Congress. [Google trans., with some rephrasing and our emphasis]
Thanks in large part to the British rejection, Obama's march to the brink has thus been halted - temporarily at least. Given those "interior" concerns, however, he has in turn taken the uncharacteristic measure of conforming to constitutional mandate, cognizant that he himself is at the brink of impeachment...
National Review: GOP Rep.: House Would Impeach Obama if We Brought It for Vote
The situation is fluid...
Monday, September 9th: at a press conference with British Foreign Secretary William Hague, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry - prompted by a question from CBS reporter Margaret Brennan - offers the hypothetical suggestion that Assad could give up his chemical weapons to avoid U.S. military action. What ensued from these "off the cuff" remarks was a tectonic re-alignment of the diplomatic stand-off between the U.S. and Syria backed by Russia...
Lobe Log: Kerry Gaffe on Syria Takes on Life of its Own
The "gaffe" came at a very opportune time however for the Obama administration, when it was effectively caught between a rock and a hard place in its push for bombing Syria - facing a likely no vote from Congress, the choice for the administration was either bomb without the consent of Congress and potentially face impeachment, or not bomb and accept humiliation. With a series of stories surfacing particularly on Russia's RT implicating the U.S. in fabricating evidence...
'CIA fabricated evidence to lure US into war with Syria'
Intl experts have strong proof images of chemical victims fabricated – Moscow
RT sources: Syrian rebels plan chem attack on Israel from Assad-controlled territories
International Business Times: Assad not Responsible for Ghouta Gas Attack, Says Freed Hostage Pierre Piccinin
Infowars: Rush Limbaugh Suspects Obama Conspired With Al-Qaeda to Frame Bashar al-Assad
It would appear then that Obama was offered a face-saving way out of potentially devastating revelations by Putin at the G-20 summit in St. Petersburg the previous week...
Al Monitor: Obama, Putin previously discussed plan to secure Syria chemical arms
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that he and President Obama had “indeed discussed” the idea during a meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in St. Petersburg, Russia last week.
He and Obama agreed “to instruct Secretary of State [John Kerry] and Foreign Minister [Sergey Lavrov] to get in touch” and “try to move this idea forward..."
Putin's trump card may have been incriminating intelligence, or simply "the debt bomb"...
Boiling Frogs Post: Did Putin Quietly Play the Debt Card Over Syria?
As a side note, that Kerry's reverie was prompted by a CBS reporter is perhaps no accident, given certain relationships that exist...
Fire Andrea Mitchell: Ben Rhodes — brother of CBS News president David Rhodes — instrumental in changing Benghazi talking points
Sept. 16: The UN report on the August 21 chemical attack in Ghouta is released, establishing that the weapons used were not substantially improvised, as was the case in previous attacks according to Russian claims...
McClatchy: Russia gave UN 100-page report in July blaming Syrian rebels for Aleppo sarin attack
The case for assigning blame in the Ghouta attack to the Syrian government has perhaps been more convincingly made by the Brown Moses blog (though it should be noted that for a time Brown Moses hosted a Free Syrian Army donation banner) than by the U.S. government...
Washington's Blog: Congress Members Who Have Seen Classified Evidence About Syria Say It Fails to Prove Anything
The assumption however is that only Assad would have such finished weapons in his stockpile, perhaps being of binary construction, as speculated by chemical weapons expert Dan Kaszeta... Unless, of course, they came from somewhere else... Libya? A flashback to this Wayne Madsen Report...
December 10-11, 2012 -- From Libya with Love: Chemical weapons in Syria, in the hands of the rebels
The Obama administration has managed to accomplish something that is a self-fulfilling prophecy: "Al Qaeda" now possesses weapons of mass destruction (WMD). The WMDs are chemical weapons canisters obtained from well-guarded Libyan warehouses that were opened up to Salafist rebels, many affiliated with "Al Qaeda" cells, during the NATO-supported military attack on the government of Muammar Qaddafi.
The CIA's and Pentagon's propaganda machinery have covered up the presence of Libyan chemical weapons in Syria by claiming the government of Bashar al Assad has started mixing precursor chemicals in preparation for deploying nerve and mustard gas weapons on the battlefield against Syrian rebels...
Were they shipped from Benghazi? This fellow might know...
Washington Free Beacon: Congressman - CIA Employee Who Refused to Sign Non-Disclosure on Benghazi Suspended
In any case, the Syrian government got the precursors of the chemical weapons it does possess from Deutschland...
Spiegel: German Chemicals for Syria - Merkel Denies Military Use
Whatever its origin, that sarin was used in Ghouta is not in significant doubt; the question is why was it necessary to stage the atrocity exhibition...
Global Research: The Chemical Attacks in East Ghouta Used to Justify a Military Intervention in Syria
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Yet another case of the disappearing death-squad...
Liberal America: Possible Second And Third Gunman At Washington Navy Yard
The chief reports they are still searching for the, possible, 2 other shooters. These shooter are described as one white male 40-50 years of age, in a khaki military style uniform with some sort of beret. The second shooter is described as a black male also between the age of 40 and 50 years old, 5ft 10 inches tall, 180 pounds with gray sideburns, wearing a olive military style uniform.
While the patsy was chipped...
Activist Post: ‘My ELF Weapon’ - More Proof Navy Yard Shooter Targeted with Mind Control Weapons
And to insure a double-digit body-count...
BBC: Navy Yard - Swat team 'stood down' at mass shooting scene
The Hill: Radios failed during Navy Yard attack, emergency responders say
Then there is the VA's oops-we-did-it-again extermination program...
CBS: Veterans dying from overmedication
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Terror in Kenya...
Cryptome: Nairobi Mall Attack
Land Destroyer: Kenyan Bloodbath - Reaping the "Benefits" of US AFRICOM Collaboration
Aangirfan: MI6 INVOLVED IN MALL SHOOTING?
WND (Corsi): Egypt eyes Obama's brother for terror list
On that note, Al Shabaab is using Masonic Lodge names and numbers in Charlotte NC (home of the 2012 Democratic National Convention) as code for their target list...
Kenyan Daily Post: Codes used by AL SHABAAB to identify targets - All KENYANS need to READ THIS and BEWARE!
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The Guardian's Glenn Greenwald continues churning out the NSA stories...
Revealed: how US and UK spy agencies defeat internet privacy and security
NSA shares raw intelligence including Americans' data with Israel
UK detention of Reprieve activist consistent with NSA's view of drone opponents as 'threats' and 'adversaries'
As do others...
O Globo: Documentos da NSA apontam Dilma Rousseff como alvo de espionagem
NSA accused of spying on Brazilian oil company Petrobras
The Hindu: NSA planted bugs at Indian missions in D.C., U.N.
Spiegel: Belgacom Attack - Britain's GCHQ Hacked Belgian Telecoms Firm
NYTimes: N.S.A. Gathers Data on Social Connections of U.S. Citizens
Naval Research Laboratory (via Cryptome): User Authentication from Web Browsing Behavior
Toward the Attribution of Web Behavior
Washington Post: Obama administration had restrictions on NSA reversed in 2011
How Snowden did it...
Ars Technica: Sysadmin security fail - NSA finds Snowden hijacked officials’ logins
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After Wikileaks, after Snowden, and with Russia's assuming the lead on Syria...
NYTimes (V.V.Putin): A Plea for Caution From Russia
...the U.S. has lost its standing as the world's unilateral super-power, its claim to "American exceptionalism" and with it any pretense to moral authority... It's getting so bad, world leaders now turn their backs to the U.S...
VOANews: Brazil's Rousseff Calls off State Visit to US Over Spying
While scolding it at the UN...
UN: At UN debate, Brazilian President urges protection of Internet users
“Tampering in such a manner in the affairs of other countries is a breach of international law and an affront to the principles that must guide relations among them, especially among friendly nations,” she declared.
GlobalPost: Bolivian President Evo Morales accuses US of 'harboring terrorists'
Or hold it under suspicion...
Spiegel: NSA Affair - Germans Conduct Helicopter Flyover of US Consulate
Under orders from Germany's domestic intelligence agency, a federal police helicopter conducted a flyover of the US Consulate in Frankfurt, the government in Berlin has confirmed. Officials were apparently searching for surveillance equipment.
Over time, the U.S. will lose its lead in those areas where it remained an economic powerhouse; in telecommunications...
Bloomberg: NSA Spying Seen Risking Billions in U.S. Technology Sales
Economy Watch: Brazil, Argentina To Team Up Against US Cyber-Spying
In arms sales (Is the worry that U.S. contractors would install hack-able back-doors to weapons systems, such as was the case with encryption products?)...
AFP: US spying on Brazil halts talks on warplane purchase
With the almighty dollar: Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke had been hinting for months that the time was soon coming to wind down quantitative easing, when against all market expectations he balked - just as the expected war was nixed...
Goldbroker.com: Bernanke’s « Syrian Moment »
These two events are linked and should be understood as some attempts at imposing the US dollar as the world reserve currency and, thus, preserving this paper-money monetary system.
But the opposite is happening : the dollar is being rejected massively, there’s a loss of global confidence in the dollar, and the United States is more and more isolated...
Finally, with its bullying and duplicitous designs to impose GMO's on the world on behalf of U.S. biotech companies, in agriculture...
Blacklisted News: Total GMO Ban To Be Considered By Russia Within Weeks
Reuters: Washington state testing alfalfa for GMO contamination
Biotech alfalfa is approved for commercial production in the United States. But many foreign and domestic buyers require that supplies not be genetically modified, and the possible presence of GMO modified alfalfa in export supplies could result in lost sales for U.S. farmers.
Just this summer, Japan and South Korea temporarily stopped buying some U.S. wheat because an experimental biotech variety was found growing in a field of conventional wheat in Oregon...
These force-feeding efforts are undeterred however...
MintPress News: Trans Pacific Partnership Might Include International Ban On GMO Labeling
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Miscellania...
Commemorating another episode in history in which, like the diplomatic events of this month, the Russians saved the Americans from themselves...
Tarpley: American Banker Wharton Barker’s First-Person Account Confirms - Russian Tsar Alexander II Was Ready for War with Britain and France in 1862-1863 to Defend Lincoln and the Union – Americans “Will Understand”
In the not so distant future we will have cognition factories...
Science News: Tiny human almost-brains made in lab
Looks can be deceiving, but this looks not quite natural...
Seemorerocks: Rain in Colorado
Now we're really "out there"...
NASA: NASA Spacecraft Embarks on Historic Journey Into Interstellar Space
Doves take the British Parliament...
Daily Mail: The humbling of David Cameron: On a momentous night, Tory rebellion forces Prime Minister to rule out military strike against Syria... and plunges him into a deep political crisis
The House of Commons has not voted against the Government on an issue of war and peace since February 27, 1782, when politicians voted against further war with America...
There is a certain irony in this; just as in the American Revolution, the only substantial ally of the U.S. is France...
Libération: Obama et Hollande affichent leur entente au sujet de la Syrie
In an interview with Le Monde, Obama's mentor (during his mystery years at Columbia) Zbigniew Brzezinski repeats the vacuous argument that we must bomb Syria in order to preserve the reputation of the U.S. and the West at large on the world stage...
Syrie : "Il faut un certain degré de patience et une vision plus large"
That reputation however has already been soiled; the international goodwill following the election of Obama has long dried up, as it becomes increasingly clear to the world that Anglo-American imperial arrogance continues unswayed through neo-liberal stratagems (of which the neo-conservative Bush Doctrine was but an ideological tributary), and the only "change" has been in tactics (drones rather than "boots on the ground") and stylistics (Obama's metro-sexual "cool" vs. Bush's cowboy swagger). The NSA revelations courtesy of Edward Snowden have brought the distrust of not only the U.S. government but of its telecommunication industry to a head; and with this distrust a vacuum of moral authority has opened, with Vladimir Putin eager to seize the moment, convincingly enough to induce Matt Drudge to declare: Putin is the leader of the free world... - apparently inspired by these comments of Putin on the eve of the G-20 meetings...
RT: Putin to (Nobel Prize winner) Obama: 'Think about future Syria victims'
With the onslaught of recent scandals, moreover, the distrust is simmering domestically as well beyond the partisan divide. Brzezinski acknowledges in his Le Monde interview that the Obama administration is motivated in its push to war not merely by external concerns, but by internal factors...
Depuis le début de la crise, je ne soutiens pas la politique menée par les Etats-Unis. Mais étant donné les réalités de la situation, intérieure aussi bien que géopolitique, dans laquelle se trouvent les Etats-Unis, je n'ai pas d'autre choix que de soutenir la décision du président de procéder à une action limitée de représailles et d'obtenir le soutien du Congrès.
Since the beginning of the crisis, I did not support the policy of the United States. But given the realities of the situation, domestic as well as geopolitical, which find themselves in the United States, I have no choice but to support the president's decision to conduct a limited retaliatory action and obtain the support of Congress. [Google trans., with some rephrasing and our emphasis]
Thanks in large part to the British rejection, Obama's march to the brink has thus been halted - temporarily at least. Given those "interior" concerns, however, he has in turn taken the uncharacteristic measure of conforming to constitutional mandate, cognizant that he himself is at the brink of impeachment...
National Review: GOP Rep.: House Would Impeach Obama if We Brought It for Vote
The situation is fluid...
Monday, September 9th: at a press conference with British Foreign Secretary William Hague, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry - prompted by a question from CBS reporter Margaret Brennan - offers the hypothetical suggestion that Assad could give up his chemical weapons to avoid U.S. military action. What ensued from these "off the cuff" remarks was a tectonic re-alignment of the diplomatic stand-off between the U.S. and Syria backed by Russia...
Lobe Log: Kerry Gaffe on Syria Takes on Life of its Own
The "gaffe" came at a very opportune time however for the Obama administration, when it was effectively caught between a rock and a hard place in its push for bombing Syria - facing a likely no vote from Congress, the choice for the administration was either bomb without the consent of Congress and potentially face impeachment, or not bomb and accept humiliation. With a series of stories surfacing particularly on Russia's RT implicating the U.S. in fabricating evidence...
'CIA fabricated evidence to lure US into war with Syria'
Intl experts have strong proof images of chemical victims fabricated – Moscow
RT sources: Syrian rebels plan chem attack on Israel from Assad-controlled territories
International Business Times: Assad not Responsible for Ghouta Gas Attack, Says Freed Hostage Pierre Piccinin
Infowars: Rush Limbaugh Suspects Obama Conspired With Al-Qaeda to Frame Bashar al-Assad
It would appear then that Obama was offered a face-saving way out of potentially devastating revelations by Putin at the G-20 summit in St. Petersburg the previous week...
Al Monitor: Obama, Putin previously discussed plan to secure Syria chemical arms
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that he and President Obama had “indeed discussed” the idea during a meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in St. Petersburg, Russia last week.
He and Obama agreed “to instruct Secretary of State [John Kerry] and Foreign Minister [Sergey Lavrov] to get in touch” and “try to move this idea forward..."
Putin's trump card may have been incriminating intelligence, or simply "the debt bomb"...
Boiling Frogs Post: Did Putin Quietly Play the Debt Card Over Syria?
As a side note, that Kerry's reverie was prompted by a CBS reporter is perhaps no accident, given certain relationships that exist...
Fire Andrea Mitchell: Ben Rhodes — brother of CBS News president David Rhodes — instrumental in changing Benghazi talking points
Sept. 16: The UN report on the August 21 chemical attack in Ghouta is released, establishing that the weapons used were not substantially improvised, as was the case in previous attacks according to Russian claims...
McClatchy: Russia gave UN 100-page report in July blaming Syrian rebels for Aleppo sarin attack
The case for assigning blame in the Ghouta attack to the Syrian government has perhaps been more convincingly made by the Brown Moses blog (though it should be noted that for a time Brown Moses hosted a Free Syrian Army donation banner) than by the U.S. government...
Washington's Blog: Congress Members Who Have Seen Classified Evidence About Syria Say It Fails to Prove Anything
The assumption however is that only Assad would have such finished weapons in his stockpile, perhaps being of binary construction, as speculated by chemical weapons expert Dan Kaszeta... Unless, of course, they came from somewhere else... Libya? A flashback to this Wayne Madsen Report...
December 10-11, 2012 -- From Libya with Love: Chemical weapons in Syria, in the hands of the rebels
The Obama administration has managed to accomplish something that is a self-fulfilling prophecy: "Al Qaeda" now possesses weapons of mass destruction (WMD). The WMDs are chemical weapons canisters obtained from well-guarded Libyan warehouses that were opened up to Salafist rebels, many affiliated with "Al Qaeda" cells, during the NATO-supported military attack on the government of Muammar Qaddafi.
The CIA's and Pentagon's propaganda machinery have covered up the presence of Libyan chemical weapons in Syria by claiming the government of Bashar al Assad has started mixing precursor chemicals in preparation for deploying nerve and mustard gas weapons on the battlefield against Syrian rebels...
Were they shipped from Benghazi? This fellow might know...
Washington Free Beacon: Congressman - CIA Employee Who Refused to Sign Non-Disclosure on Benghazi Suspended
In any case, the Syrian government got the precursors of the chemical weapons it does possess from Deutschland...
Spiegel: German Chemicals for Syria - Merkel Denies Military Use
Whatever its origin, that sarin was used in Ghouta is not in significant doubt; the question is why was it necessary to stage the atrocity exhibition...
Global Research: The Chemical Attacks in East Ghouta Used to Justify a Military Intervention in Syria
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Yet another case of the disappearing death-squad...
Liberal America: Possible Second And Third Gunman At Washington Navy Yard
The chief reports they are still searching for the, possible, 2 other shooters. These shooter are described as one white male 40-50 years of age, in a khaki military style uniform with some sort of beret. The second shooter is described as a black male also between the age of 40 and 50 years old, 5ft 10 inches tall, 180 pounds with gray sideburns, wearing a olive military style uniform.
While the patsy was chipped...
Activist Post: ‘My ELF Weapon’ - More Proof Navy Yard Shooter Targeted with Mind Control Weapons
And to insure a double-digit body-count...
BBC: Navy Yard - Swat team 'stood down' at mass shooting scene
The Hill: Radios failed during Navy Yard attack, emergency responders say
Then there is the VA's oops-we-did-it-again extermination program...
CBS: Veterans dying from overmedication
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Terror in Kenya...
Cryptome: Nairobi Mall Attack
Land Destroyer: Kenyan Bloodbath - Reaping the "Benefits" of US AFRICOM Collaboration
Aangirfan: MI6 INVOLVED IN MALL SHOOTING?
WND (Corsi): Egypt eyes Obama's brother for terror list
On that note, Al Shabaab is using Masonic Lodge names and numbers in Charlotte NC (home of the 2012 Democratic National Convention) as code for their target list...
Kenyan Daily Post: Codes used by AL SHABAAB to identify targets - All KENYANS need to READ THIS and BEWARE!
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The Guardian's Glenn Greenwald continues churning out the NSA stories...
Revealed: how US and UK spy agencies defeat internet privacy and security
NSA shares raw intelligence including Americans' data with Israel
UK detention of Reprieve activist consistent with NSA's view of drone opponents as 'threats' and 'adversaries'
As do others...
O Globo: Documentos da NSA apontam Dilma Rousseff como alvo de espionagem
NSA accused of spying on Brazilian oil company Petrobras
The Hindu: NSA planted bugs at Indian missions in D.C., U.N.
Spiegel: Belgacom Attack - Britain's GCHQ Hacked Belgian Telecoms Firm
NYTimes: N.S.A. Gathers Data on Social Connections of U.S. Citizens
Naval Research Laboratory (via Cryptome): User Authentication from Web Browsing Behavior
Toward the Attribution of Web Behavior
Washington Post: Obama administration had restrictions on NSA reversed in 2011
How Snowden did it...
Ars Technica: Sysadmin security fail - NSA finds Snowden hijacked officials’ logins
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After Wikileaks, after Snowden, and with Russia's assuming the lead on Syria...
NYTimes (V.V.Putin): A Plea for Caution From Russia
...the U.S. has lost its standing as the world's unilateral super-power, its claim to "American exceptionalism" and with it any pretense to moral authority... It's getting so bad, world leaders now turn their backs to the U.S...
VOANews: Brazil's Rousseff Calls off State Visit to US Over Spying
While scolding it at the UN...
UN: At UN debate, Brazilian President urges protection of Internet users
“Tampering in such a manner in the affairs of other countries is a breach of international law and an affront to the principles that must guide relations among them, especially among friendly nations,” she declared.
GlobalPost: Bolivian President Evo Morales accuses US of 'harboring terrorists'
Or hold it under suspicion...
Spiegel: NSA Affair - Germans Conduct Helicopter Flyover of US Consulate
Under orders from Germany's domestic intelligence agency, a federal police helicopter conducted a flyover of the US Consulate in Frankfurt, the government in Berlin has confirmed. Officials were apparently searching for surveillance equipment.
Over time, the U.S. will lose its lead in those areas where it remained an economic powerhouse; in telecommunications...
Bloomberg: NSA Spying Seen Risking Billions in U.S. Technology Sales
Economy Watch: Brazil, Argentina To Team Up Against US Cyber-Spying
In arms sales (Is the worry that U.S. contractors would install hack-able back-doors to weapons systems, such as was the case with encryption products?)...
AFP: US spying on Brazil halts talks on warplane purchase
With the almighty dollar: Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke had been hinting for months that the time was soon coming to wind down quantitative easing, when against all market expectations he balked - just as the expected war was nixed...
Goldbroker.com: Bernanke’s « Syrian Moment »
These two events are linked and should be understood as some attempts at imposing the US dollar as the world reserve currency and, thus, preserving this paper-money monetary system.
But the opposite is happening : the dollar is being rejected massively, there’s a loss of global confidence in the dollar, and the United States is more and more isolated...
Finally, with its bullying and duplicitous designs to impose GMO's on the world on behalf of U.S. biotech companies, in agriculture...
Blacklisted News: Total GMO Ban To Be Considered By Russia Within Weeks
Reuters: Washington state testing alfalfa for GMO contamination
Biotech alfalfa is approved for commercial production in the United States. But many foreign and domestic buyers require that supplies not be genetically modified, and the possible presence of GMO modified alfalfa in export supplies could result in lost sales for U.S. farmers.
Just this summer, Japan and South Korea temporarily stopped buying some U.S. wheat because an experimental biotech variety was found growing in a field of conventional wheat in Oregon...
These force-feeding efforts are undeterred however...
MintPress News: Trans Pacific Partnership Might Include International Ban On GMO Labeling
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Miscellania...
Commemorating another episode in history in which, like the diplomatic events of this month, the Russians saved the Americans from themselves...
Tarpley: American Banker Wharton Barker’s First-Person Account Confirms - Russian Tsar Alexander II Was Ready for War with Britain and France in 1862-1863 to Defend Lincoln and the Union – Americans “Will Understand”
In the not so distant future we will have cognition factories...
Science News: Tiny human almost-brains made in lab
Looks can be deceiving, but this looks not quite natural...
Seemorerocks: Rain in Colorado
Now we're really "out there"...
NASA: NASA Spacecraft Embarks on Historic Journey Into Interstellar Space
Saturday, August 31, 2013
Headlines of note for August 2013...
Last month we noted Saudi Prince Bandar's frustrating visit to Paris in seeking support for the Syrian rebels. Now, in a sign of increasing desperation as the tide has turned in favor of Assad wrapping up the civil war perhaps before the year is out, Bandar has gone to the belly of the beast - Moscow - to make his pitch to Putin...
Al Monitor: Saudi Arabia Tries to Cut a Deal With Russia Regarding Syria
Followups...
Russian President, Saudi Spy Chief Discussed Syria, Egypt
Voltairenet: Saudi Arabia ready to negotiate
PressTV: ANOTHER "US' PROXY" PUSHING FOR WAR!
Telegraph: Saudis offer Russia secret oil deal if it drops Syria
It would appear then that Bandar was attempting to make an Al Yamamah type of deal with Putin, such as he had made with Thatcher in the 1980s - the specifics of the latter was a barter arrangement of oil for weapons, the primary beneficiary of which was BAE Systems. It is worth noting then that Richard Evans, the former CEO of BAE in the time frame of the planning of the 9/11 attacks (when at least two of the hijackers received funds from an Al Yamamah account held by Bandar), has been doing business in the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan...
Intelligence Online: Dick Evans, the Kazakhstan connections of an arms industry high-flier
What the Brits must be salivating over...
Tengri News: Oil reserves at new Kazakhstan's field estimated at 880 million barrels
Subsequent to the meeting in Russia, Bandar met with Sawers of MI6...
FARS News Agency: Saudi Prince Bandar Meets MI6 Chief on Syria
Asked by Sawers if Riyadh is concerned over the backfiring of the extremist groups who have been armed and sent to Syria, Prince Bandar said all his country's efforts are aimed at "providing security for us and our allies and I assure (you) that I have the power to harness these reinforced streams, given my over 30-year-long experience in controlling and directing these Jihadi groups”.
On that note, it is worth quoting Bandar's veiled threat to Putin from the above cited Al Monitor article...
"I can give you a guarantee to protect the Winter Olympics in the city of Sochi on the Black Sea next year. The Chechen groups that threaten the security of the games are controlled by us, and they will not move in the Syrian territory’s direction without coordinating with us. These groups do not scare us. We use them in the face of the Syrian regime but they will have no role or influence in Syria’s political future.”
Flashback: Bandar had made a similar threat to Tony Blair when the Serious Fraud Office was investigating Al Yamamah...
Guardian: BAE - secret papers reveal threats from Saudi prince
Bandar brigades in action...
Wayne Madsen Report: Lebanon's angst as war against Syria looms
WMR's sources in Lebanon report that three deadly car bombings, one on August 15 in a Hezbollah-controlled area south of Beirut and two outside two Sunni mosques in Tripoli on August 23 during Friday prayers were intended to import into fragile Lebanon the Sunni-Shi'a/Alawite/Christian violence that is currently raging in neighboring Syria.
Our Lebanese sources claim the three bombings were the handiwork of Prince Bandar Bin Sultan al-Saud, the chief of Saudi intelligence, who engineered the trio of bombings that killed over 60 Sunni and Shi'a Lebanese in south Beirut and Tripoli to outside forces that sought to sow division among Lebanon's religious factions...
Stop NATO: Russia - Syrian Rebels Massacre 450 Kurdish Civilians, Mainly Women And Children
Not to mention the Negroponte/John S. Ford brigades...
Global Research: The Pentagon’s “Salvador Option” - The Deployment of Death Squads in Iraq and Syria
They appear to be going for broke to get the next war going...
New American: Reports - U.S.-led Rebels Sent into Syria Before Chemical Attack
Antiwar: Transparent Hoax Could Lead to War
Boiling Frogs Post: Satellite Imagery Proves Syrian Chemical Weapons Attack Staged by Rebels
WND: Evidence - Syria gas attack work of U.S. allies
And more specifically the evidence is pointing to who else? Bandar...
Mint Press News: Syrians In Ghouta Claim Saudi-Supplied Rebels Behind Chemical Attack
But that evidence won't stop them from pushing the envelop towards WWIII...
Asia Times (Pepe Escobar): Obama set for holy Tomahawk war
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The following would be old news to us regarding a previous supply line to the Syrian rebels, but that it is finally being "scooped" up by the likes of CNN is perhaps indicative that recent events (targeting of journalists) have startled the mainstream news into actually practicing journalism, albeit in baby steps...
Exclusive: Dozens of CIA operatives on the ground during Benghazi attack
Speculation on Capitol Hill has included the possibility the U.S. agencies operating in Benghazi were secretly helping to move surface-to-air missiles out of Libya, through Turkey, and into the hands of Syrian rebels.
It is clear that two U.S. agencies were operating in Benghazi, one was the State Department, and the other was the CIA.
The State Department told CNN in an e-mail that it was only helping the new Libyan government destroy weapons deemed "damaged, aged or too unsafe retain," and that it was not involved in any transfer of weapons to other countries.
But the State Department also clearly told CNN, they "can't speak for any other agencies."
The CIA would not comment on whether it was involved in the transfer of any weapons.
Meanwhile, a MANPADS free-for-all was underway...
MailOnline: 400 US surface-to-air missiles were 'STOLEN' from Libya during the Benghazi attack, claims whistleblower
Continuing turmoil in Libya...
Viva Libya!: LIBYA - WAVE OF POLITICAL ASSASSINATIONS
Egypt in turmoil...
DailyMail: Islamist mob parades nuns in Cairo as prisoners of war after six hours looting church school and replacing cross with banner resembling Al Qaeda flag
IBT: Protesters Ransack Ancient Treasures in Egypt's Malawi Museum
PBS News Hour: Egyptian Ambassador - Objective of Crackdown 'Wasn't to Use Massive Force'
Something the Ambassador diplomatically left out...
Walid Shoebat: Egyptian Official ties Obama’s Brother to Brotherhood
Tahani Al-Jebali stated she would like…
“…to inform the American people that their president’s brother Obama is one of the architects of the major investments of the international organization of the Muslim Brotherhood.”
She added…
“We will carry out the law and the Americans will not stop us. We need to open the files and begin court sessions. The Obama administration cannot stop us; they know that they supported terrorism. We will open the files so these nations are exposed, to show how they collaborated with them [the terrorists]. It is for this reason why the American administration fights us.”
If the American system has proven incapable of bringing this war criminal and terrorist supporter in the White House to justice, perhaps the Egyptian system will?
Among his war crimes...
Bureau of Investigative Journalism: Bureau investigation finds fresh evidence of CIA drone strikes on rescuers
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Under pressure from the Feds presumably to open Edward Snowden's email account, the encrypted email service Lavabit shuts down...
My Fellow Users,
I have been forced to make a difficult decision: to become complicit in crimes against the American people or walk away from nearly ten years of hard work by shutting down Lavabit. After significant soul searching, I have decided to suspend operations. I wish that I could legally share with you the events that led to my decision. I cannot. I feel you deserve to know what’s going on--the first amendment is supposed to guarantee me the freedom to speak out in situations like this. Unfortunately, Congress has passed laws that say otherwise. As things currently stand, I cannot share my experiences over the last six weeks, even though I have twice made the appropriate requests.
What’s going to happen now? We’ve already started preparing the paperwork needed to continue to fight for the Constitution in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. A favorable decision would allow me resurrect Lavabit as an American company.
This experience has taught me one very important lesson: without congressional action or a strong judicial precedent, I would _strongly_ recommend against anyone trusting their private data to a company with physical ties to the United States.
Sincerely,
Ladar Levison
Owner and Operator, Lavabit LLC
And for that...
Liberty Crier: Feds Threaten To Arrest Lavabit Founder For Shutting Down His Service
...as NSA revelations continue...
Guardian: XKeyscore - NSA tool collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'
Washington Post: U.S. spy network’s successes, failures and objectives detailed in ‘black budget’ summary
Der Spiegel: Mass Data - Transfers from Germany Aid US Surveillance
Codename 'Apalachee': How America Spies on Europe and the UN
Cryptome: PROTON, CLEARWATER and LEXIS-NEXIS
Ben Swann: NSA USING COPYRIGHT CLAIMS TO CRUSH FREE SPEECH?
Russel Tice had already said this in previous interviews - Boiling Frogs Post, for instance, though he was barred from doing so on MSNBC - but what is notable here is the venue, about as "mainstream" as it gets...
News Hour: NSA Collects 'Word for Word' Every Domestic Communication, Says Former Analyst
The legal acrobatics by which they do it...
EFF: What It Means to Be An NSA "Target" - New Information Shows Why We Need Immediate FISA Amendments Act Reform
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Gestapo USA...
Reuters: U.S. directs agents to cover up program used to investigate Americans
NYTimes: T.S.A. Expands Duties Beyond Airport Security
Stratrisks: Homeland Security Taps Generals to Run Domestic Drone Program - The Rise of Predators at Home
Infowars: Insider Blows the Whistle On DHS Takeover Plan
It is time to frog-march this woman into the Capitol jail...
AllGov: Sen. Feinstein Says only Salaried Journalists should be Protected by Shield Law
Wondering who this might have been..?
Daily Mail: Someone within the US Senate edited Edward Snowden's Wikipedia page to change his description from 'dissident' to 'traitor'
You've found the traitor Diane - every morning when you cake on the make-up you're looking at it.
As the war against journalists (and loved ones) rolls on, no rights for Miranda...
Guardian: Reaction to the detention of David Miranda at Heathrow airport – as it happened
This wasn't the only incident to reveal a close collusion between NSA and Britain's GCHQ...
Wayne Madsen Report: UK "D-Notice" resulted in web attack on WMR editor
British intelligence sources have informed WMR that a British Defense Ministry "D-Notice" issued on June 7 to British media organizations, including The Guardian and The Observer, both owned by the same company, served as a pretext to conduct the smear attack on WMR's editor on both sides of the Atlantic. A Confidential D-Notice was issued to the media organizations as a "DA-Notice 03," which was issued pursuant to media reports on "ciphers and secure communications" operations of the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), Britain's National Security Agency partner. The DA-3 Notice was authorized by Foreign Secretary William Hague, who has responsibility for GCHQ and Britain's MI-6 foreign intelligence service.
D-Notices are merely advisory in nature but most media operations that receive them understand that they could be charged with violating the Official Secrets Act if choose to totally ignore such advisories.
When The Observer published on June 30 a front-page story quoting this editor on European nations' Third Party agreements to provide the NSA with intercepted data, the word went out from the very highest echelons of the David Cameron Tory-Liberal Democrat government to "attack the messenger." "You've been set up," was the comment to this editor from one MI-6 source...
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Investigations into the death of Michael Hastings continue...
WhoWhatWhy: Connections Between Michael Hastings, Edward Snowden And Barrett Brown—The War With The Security State
Look for Hastings's posthumous expose on John Brennan in the next issue of Rolling Stone...
San Diego 6: CIA DIRECTOR BRENNAN CONFIRMED AS REPORTER MICHAEL HASTINGS NEXT TARGET
Of note, this hacked Stratfor email from September 2010, courtesy of Wikileaks...
Brennan is behind the witch hunts of investigative journalists learning
information from inside the beltway sources.
Note -- There is specific tasker from the WH to go after anyone printing
materials negative to the Obama agenda (oh my.) Even the FBI is
shocked. The Wonder Boys must be in meltdown mode...
Was Aaron Swartz a subject of these "witch hunts" as well?...
Wired: First 100 Pages of Aaron Swartz’s Secret Service File Released
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Tepco continues to poison the planet...
ENENews: Gov’t: Radioactive iodine detected in 6 seaweed samples by South Korea — Concerns over Fukushima contamination after Tepco admits plant is leaking into ocean
Japan Today: Gov't says Fukushima plant leaking 300 tons of toxic water into sea daily
ENENews: Anonymous Official - Tank at Fukushima may have leaked tons of highly radioactive liquid every day for a month… “We didn’t detect it for as long as 30 days” — Spokesman: Leakage is continuing… Other tanks may be affected
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Miscellania...
Vice (Greg Palast): THE CONFIDENTIAL MEMO AT THE HEART OF THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS
As relates to matters discussed in President Weatherman, part I...
FOXNews: Gov't Knows Best? White House creates 'nudge squad' to shape behavior
Away with your nellie nudges Obama - you might command more respect if you talked like this...
Africa Review: Go hang, Mugabe tells rivals
Add to the list of all time greatest tin-pot dictator quotes...
Organic Systems: A long-term toxicology study on pigs fed a combined genetically modified (GM) soy and
GM maize diet
Get ready...
NASA: The Sun's Magnetic Field is about to Flip
Pedos in high places...
Donde Vamos?: About the satanic and pedophile practices of the English royal family
Last month we noted Saudi Prince Bandar's frustrating visit to Paris in seeking support for the Syrian rebels. Now, in a sign of increasing desperation as the tide has turned in favor of Assad wrapping up the civil war perhaps before the year is out, Bandar has gone to the belly of the beast - Moscow - to make his pitch to Putin...
Al Monitor: Saudi Arabia Tries to Cut a Deal With Russia Regarding Syria
Followups...
Russian President, Saudi Spy Chief Discussed Syria, Egypt
Voltairenet: Saudi Arabia ready to negotiate
PressTV: ANOTHER "US' PROXY" PUSHING FOR WAR!
Telegraph: Saudis offer Russia secret oil deal if it drops Syria
It would appear then that Bandar was attempting to make an Al Yamamah type of deal with Putin, such as he had made with Thatcher in the 1980s - the specifics of the latter was a barter arrangement of oil for weapons, the primary beneficiary of which was BAE Systems. It is worth noting then that Richard Evans, the former CEO of BAE in the time frame of the planning of the 9/11 attacks (when at least two of the hijackers received funds from an Al Yamamah account held by Bandar), has been doing business in the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan...
Intelligence Online: Dick Evans, the Kazakhstan connections of an arms industry high-flier
What the Brits must be salivating over...
Tengri News: Oil reserves at new Kazakhstan's field estimated at 880 million barrels
Subsequent to the meeting in Russia, Bandar met with Sawers of MI6...
FARS News Agency: Saudi Prince Bandar Meets MI6 Chief on Syria
Asked by Sawers if Riyadh is concerned over the backfiring of the extremist groups who have been armed and sent to Syria, Prince Bandar said all his country's efforts are aimed at "providing security for us and our allies and I assure (you) that I have the power to harness these reinforced streams, given my over 30-year-long experience in controlling and directing these Jihadi groups”.
On that note, it is worth quoting Bandar's veiled threat to Putin from the above cited Al Monitor article...
"I can give you a guarantee to protect the Winter Olympics in the city of Sochi on the Black Sea next year. The Chechen groups that threaten the security of the games are controlled by us, and they will not move in the Syrian territory’s direction without coordinating with us. These groups do not scare us. We use them in the face of the Syrian regime but they will have no role or influence in Syria’s political future.”
Flashback: Bandar had made a similar threat to Tony Blair when the Serious Fraud Office was investigating Al Yamamah...
Guardian: BAE - secret papers reveal threats from Saudi prince
Bandar brigades in action...
Wayne Madsen Report: Lebanon's angst as war against Syria looms
WMR's sources in Lebanon report that three deadly car bombings, one on August 15 in a Hezbollah-controlled area south of Beirut and two outside two Sunni mosques in Tripoli on August 23 during Friday prayers were intended to import into fragile Lebanon the Sunni-Shi'a/Alawite/Christian violence that is currently raging in neighboring Syria.
Our Lebanese sources claim the three bombings were the handiwork of Prince Bandar Bin Sultan al-Saud, the chief of Saudi intelligence, who engineered the trio of bombings that killed over 60 Sunni and Shi'a Lebanese in south Beirut and Tripoli to outside forces that sought to sow division among Lebanon's religious factions...
Stop NATO: Russia - Syrian Rebels Massacre 450 Kurdish Civilians, Mainly Women And Children
Not to mention the Negroponte/John S. Ford brigades...
Global Research: The Pentagon’s “Salvador Option” - The Deployment of Death Squads in Iraq and Syria
They appear to be going for broke to get the next war going...
New American: Reports - U.S.-led Rebels Sent into Syria Before Chemical Attack
Antiwar: Transparent Hoax Could Lead to War
Boiling Frogs Post: Satellite Imagery Proves Syrian Chemical Weapons Attack Staged by Rebels
WND: Evidence - Syria gas attack work of U.S. allies
And more specifically the evidence is pointing to who else? Bandar...
Mint Press News: Syrians In Ghouta Claim Saudi-Supplied Rebels Behind Chemical Attack
But that evidence won't stop them from pushing the envelop towards WWIII...
Asia Times (Pepe Escobar): Obama set for holy Tomahawk war
+
The following would be old news to us regarding a previous supply line to the Syrian rebels, but that it is finally being "scooped" up by the likes of CNN is perhaps indicative that recent events (targeting of journalists) have startled the mainstream news into actually practicing journalism, albeit in baby steps...
Exclusive: Dozens of CIA operatives on the ground during Benghazi attack
Speculation on Capitol Hill has included the possibility the U.S. agencies operating in Benghazi were secretly helping to move surface-to-air missiles out of Libya, through Turkey, and into the hands of Syrian rebels.
It is clear that two U.S. agencies were operating in Benghazi, one was the State Department, and the other was the CIA.
The State Department told CNN in an e-mail that it was only helping the new Libyan government destroy weapons deemed "damaged, aged or too unsafe retain," and that it was not involved in any transfer of weapons to other countries.
But the State Department also clearly told CNN, they "can't speak for any other agencies."
The CIA would not comment on whether it was involved in the transfer of any weapons.
Meanwhile, a MANPADS free-for-all was underway...
MailOnline: 400 US surface-to-air missiles were 'STOLEN' from Libya during the Benghazi attack, claims whistleblower
Continuing turmoil in Libya...
Viva Libya!: LIBYA - WAVE OF POLITICAL ASSASSINATIONS
Egypt in turmoil...
DailyMail: Islamist mob parades nuns in Cairo as prisoners of war after six hours looting church school and replacing cross with banner resembling Al Qaeda flag
IBT: Protesters Ransack Ancient Treasures in Egypt's Malawi Museum
PBS News Hour: Egyptian Ambassador - Objective of Crackdown 'Wasn't to Use Massive Force'
Something the Ambassador diplomatically left out...
Walid Shoebat: Egyptian Official ties Obama’s Brother to Brotherhood
Tahani Al-Jebali stated she would like…
“…to inform the American people that their president’s brother Obama is one of the architects of the major investments of the international organization of the Muslim Brotherhood.”
She added…
“We will carry out the law and the Americans will not stop us. We need to open the files and begin court sessions. The Obama administration cannot stop us; they know that they supported terrorism. We will open the files so these nations are exposed, to show how they collaborated with them [the terrorists]. It is for this reason why the American administration fights us.”
If the American system has proven incapable of bringing this war criminal and terrorist supporter in the White House to justice, perhaps the Egyptian system will?
Among his war crimes...
Bureau of Investigative Journalism: Bureau investigation finds fresh evidence of CIA drone strikes on rescuers
+
Under pressure from the Feds presumably to open Edward Snowden's email account, the encrypted email service Lavabit shuts down...
My Fellow Users,
I have been forced to make a difficult decision: to become complicit in crimes against the American people or walk away from nearly ten years of hard work by shutting down Lavabit. After significant soul searching, I have decided to suspend operations. I wish that I could legally share with you the events that led to my decision. I cannot. I feel you deserve to know what’s going on--the first amendment is supposed to guarantee me the freedom to speak out in situations like this. Unfortunately, Congress has passed laws that say otherwise. As things currently stand, I cannot share my experiences over the last six weeks, even though I have twice made the appropriate requests.
What’s going to happen now? We’ve already started preparing the paperwork needed to continue to fight for the Constitution in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. A favorable decision would allow me resurrect Lavabit as an American company.
This experience has taught me one very important lesson: without congressional action or a strong judicial precedent, I would _strongly_ recommend against anyone trusting their private data to a company with physical ties to the United States.
Sincerely,
Ladar Levison
Owner and Operator, Lavabit LLC
And for that...
Liberty Crier: Feds Threaten To Arrest Lavabit Founder For Shutting Down His Service
...as NSA revelations continue...
Guardian: XKeyscore - NSA tool collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'
Washington Post: U.S. spy network’s successes, failures and objectives detailed in ‘black budget’ summary
Der Spiegel: Mass Data - Transfers from Germany Aid US Surveillance
Codename 'Apalachee': How America Spies on Europe and the UN
Cryptome: PROTON, CLEARWATER and LEXIS-NEXIS
Ben Swann: NSA USING COPYRIGHT CLAIMS TO CRUSH FREE SPEECH?
Russel Tice had already said this in previous interviews - Boiling Frogs Post, for instance, though he was barred from doing so on MSNBC - but what is notable here is the venue, about as "mainstream" as it gets...
News Hour: NSA Collects 'Word for Word' Every Domestic Communication, Says Former Analyst
The legal acrobatics by which they do it...
EFF: What It Means to Be An NSA "Target" - New Information Shows Why We Need Immediate FISA Amendments Act Reform
+
Gestapo USA...
Reuters: U.S. directs agents to cover up program used to investigate Americans
NYTimes: T.S.A. Expands Duties Beyond Airport Security
Stratrisks: Homeland Security Taps Generals to Run Domestic Drone Program - The Rise of Predators at Home
Infowars: Insider Blows the Whistle On DHS Takeover Plan
It is time to frog-march this woman into the Capitol jail...
AllGov: Sen. Feinstein Says only Salaried Journalists should be Protected by Shield Law
Wondering who this might have been..?
Daily Mail: Someone within the US Senate edited Edward Snowden's Wikipedia page to change his description from 'dissident' to 'traitor'
You've found the traitor Diane - every morning when you cake on the make-up you're looking at it.
As the war against journalists (and loved ones) rolls on, no rights for Miranda...
Guardian: Reaction to the detention of David Miranda at Heathrow airport – as it happened
This wasn't the only incident to reveal a close collusion between NSA and Britain's GCHQ...
Wayne Madsen Report: UK "D-Notice" resulted in web attack on WMR editor
British intelligence sources have informed WMR that a British Defense Ministry "D-Notice" issued on June 7 to British media organizations, including The Guardian and The Observer, both owned by the same company, served as a pretext to conduct the smear attack on WMR's editor on both sides of the Atlantic. A Confidential D-Notice was issued to the media organizations as a "DA-Notice 03," which was issued pursuant to media reports on "ciphers and secure communications" operations of the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), Britain's National Security Agency partner. The DA-3 Notice was authorized by Foreign Secretary William Hague, who has responsibility for GCHQ and Britain's MI-6 foreign intelligence service.
D-Notices are merely advisory in nature but most media operations that receive them understand that they could be charged with violating the Official Secrets Act if choose to totally ignore such advisories.
When The Observer published on June 30 a front-page story quoting this editor on European nations' Third Party agreements to provide the NSA with intercepted data, the word went out from the very highest echelons of the David Cameron Tory-Liberal Democrat government to "attack the messenger." "You've been set up," was the comment to this editor from one MI-6 source...
+
Investigations into the death of Michael Hastings continue...
WhoWhatWhy: Connections Between Michael Hastings, Edward Snowden And Barrett Brown—The War With The Security State
Look for Hastings's posthumous expose on John Brennan in the next issue of Rolling Stone...
San Diego 6: CIA DIRECTOR BRENNAN CONFIRMED AS REPORTER MICHAEL HASTINGS NEXT TARGET
Of note, this hacked Stratfor email from September 2010, courtesy of Wikileaks...
Brennan is behind the witch hunts of investigative journalists learning
information from inside the beltway sources.
Note -- There is specific tasker from the WH to go after anyone printing
materials negative to the Obama agenda (oh my.) Even the FBI is
shocked. The Wonder Boys must be in meltdown mode...
Was Aaron Swartz a subject of these "witch hunts" as well?...
Wired: First 100 Pages of Aaron Swartz’s Secret Service File Released
+
Tepco continues to poison the planet...
ENENews: Gov’t: Radioactive iodine detected in 6 seaweed samples by South Korea — Concerns over Fukushima contamination after Tepco admits plant is leaking into ocean
Japan Today: Gov't says Fukushima plant leaking 300 tons of toxic water into sea daily
ENENews: Anonymous Official - Tank at Fukushima may have leaked tons of highly radioactive liquid every day for a month… “We didn’t detect it for as long as 30 days” — Spokesman: Leakage is continuing… Other tanks may be affected
+
Miscellania...
Vice (Greg Palast): THE CONFIDENTIAL MEMO AT THE HEART OF THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS
As relates to matters discussed in President Weatherman, part I...
FOXNews: Gov't Knows Best? White House creates 'nudge squad' to shape behavior
Away with your nellie nudges Obama - you might command more respect if you talked like this...
Africa Review: Go hang, Mugabe tells rivals
Add to the list of all time greatest tin-pot dictator quotes...
“Those who were hurt by defeat can go hang if they so wish... Even if they die, dogs will not eat their flesh!”
Perhaps the same should be said of GMO consumers...
GM maize diet
Get ready...
NASA: The Sun's Magnetic Field is about to Flip
Pedos in high places...
Donde Vamos?: About the satanic and pedophile practices of the English royal family
Thursday, August 1, 2013
Headlines of note for July 2013
As the domestic U.S. press obsessed over the George Zimmerman trial (covered by us as exemplary of a much bigger story: President Weatherman II), Anthony Wiener's again errant wiener, and the new runt of the House of Saxe-Coburg Gotha (future George VII? -unless Charles III suffers the fate of the first Charles that preceded him and the people of Albion have the good sense to make it permanent this time!), something that went virtually unreported strikes us as a watershed. Former president Jimmy Carter declares the republic dead, in German...
Der Spiegel: NSA-Affäre - Ex-Präsident Carter verdammt US-Schnüffelei
"Amerika hat derzeit keine funktionierende Demokratie" : America has at this time no functioning democracy.
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Royals abdicating like little beelzebubs...
Independent: ‘I am old and sick’ - Belgian King Albert II to abdicate in favour of son Prince Philippe
Reuters: Qatar's emir hands power to son in unusual Gulf abdication
Elizabeth II next..?
The Hallett Report: The Abdication of ‘Queen’ Elizabeth II
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Egypt in a pharonic shuffle...
Xinhua: Egypt's ousted president facing espionage, jailbreak charges
New English Review: Is Egyptian Gen. Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi the “new Nasser”?
This should give pause...
Cumberlink: Egypt's army chief studied at War College in Carlisle
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A tale of two fugitives... For one Edward Snowden, wanted in the US, a head of state is barred passage through the airspace of vassal nations at the whiff of a rumor that he was harboring the fugitive...
Reuters: Morales back in Bolivia after plane drama over Snowden
For another, wanted in Italy, one Robert Seldon Lady is quietly ushered back to the U.S. upon arrest in Panama, INTERPOL extradition warrants notwithstanding...
IntelNews: Panama arrests ex-CIA chief of station wanted by INTERPOL
AP: Panama sent ex-CIA officer to US, not Italy
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Having hacked a U.S. drone...
Cryptome: Iran Report on Downed Sentinel Drone RQ-170
Hongpong: Mysterious Parastoo apparent Iranian hacker group claims UAV flight inside USA; Redhack Turkish hackers on the Move, accused "cyber terrorist organization"
...brings us to question the cause of these incidents...
Star-FL: Unmanned drone crashes in Gulf
WJHG: US 98 at Tyndall Blocked Due to Drone Crash
...or a case of vigilante rebellion? -Where elsewhere, others are pursuing a legal route...
XRepublic.tv: Colorado town considers licensing bounty hunters to shoot down drones
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We predicted this...
Maghreb Confidential: Libya soon a failed state?
Not to mention Iraq...
Antiwar: Conflicting Reports on Baghdad Jailbreaks; 105 Killed in Multiple Attacks
Still working on Syria...
Shabab Libya: Comrades in Arms: How Libya sends weapons to Syria’s rebels
But are cooler heads prevailing, finally...?
The head of Saudi intelligence failed to get a firm guarantee on arming Syria’s rebels from either the French president or his European counterparts.
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Obama's war against whistle-blowers and journalism continues...
DC Clothesline: Who Broke Into The Law Offices That Represent State Department Whistleblower Aurelia Fedenisn?
Secrecy News: Appeals Court Rejects Reporter’s Privilege in Leak Case
Corbett Report: Crashes of Convenience - Michael Hastings
RT: Hacker dies days before he was to reveal how to remotely kill pacemaker patients
Fears of revelation of kiddie porn network with Nicholas Negroponte at the center of it? In a rare move by a non-governmental institution, MIT blocks FOIA request...
Wired: MIT Moves to Intervene in Release of Aaron Swartz’s Secret Service File
Able Danger: Public Announcement for Activists Being Framed With Child Porn - Protect Yourself - Verify All Emails - Secure Your Laptop Computers
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Miscellania...
NYTimes: Modest Debut of Atlas May Foreshadow Age of ‘Robo Sapiens’
ActivistPost: US Military, Monsanto Targeting GMO Activists and Independent Scientists, New Investigation Alleges
RealNewsNetwork: Wikileaks Cables Reveal State Dept. Promoting GMOs Abroad
But it isn't working...
DW: Monsanto to drop all requests for new GM crops in EU
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