Global Surveillance Industry

Translation: Let's make Mubarak hear our voices. We all, one hand, requested one thing, leave leave leave ... Down Down Hosni Mubarak, Down Down Hosni Mubarak ... The people want to dismantle the regime .... He is to go, we are not going ... He is to go, we won't leave ... We all, one hand, ask one thing, leave leave.

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Egyptians rally for Mubarak to go now

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Hundreds of thousands of Egyptians marched peacefully in Cairo on Friday to demand an immediate end to President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule, but there was no word of his generals, or his U.S. allies, squeezing him out just yet.

"Leave! Leave! Leave!" they chanted after weekly Friday prayers in Cairo. A cleric praised the "revolution of the young" and declared: "We want the head of the regime removed."

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WikiLeaks Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize

February 2, 2011 by element115

A Norwegian lawmaker has nominated WikiLeaks for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, saying Wednesday that its disclosures of classified documents promote world peace by holding governments accountable for their actions.

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Passion gives way to bloodshed in Cairo

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The protests in Egypt have erupted into uncontrolled violence as pro and anti government demonstrators have been attacking each other in Cairo's Tahrir Square.

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Mubarak unleashes chaos

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...he had warned Egyptians was the only alternative to his autocratic regime. The regime's thugs ran riot in the center of Cairo, Alexandria and other cities Wednesday, attacking what had been peaceful anti-government encampments with stones, knives and Molotov cocktails.

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Who are the pro-Mubarak demonstrators?

by element115

The morning after Mubarak dramatically announced he would not run for re-election in September, his supporters waded into Tahrir Square by the thousands, and suddenly, serious, prolonged violence reigned in central Cairo.

There were immediate suspicions that the pro-Mubarak demonstrators were not simply average citizens standing up for the man who has led Egypt for three decades -- suspicions that proved at least partly founded.

As battles raged between the two sides, some pro-Mubarak protesters were captured by his opponents. Some were terrified to be caught and begged for their lives, screaming that the government had paid them to come out and protest.

Others turned out to be carrying what seemed to be police identification, though they were dressed in plain clothes.

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Here's How The US Told Hosni Mubarak He Was Done

February 1, 2011 by element115

Ambassador Wisner arrived in Cairo yesterday to begin the process of removing his old friend Hosni Mubarak from office.

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Huckabee: Palestinians Should Be Resettled In 'Muslim' Territory

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...likely Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee told a crowd of Jewish Israelis yesterday that he'd be just as mad as they are if anybody tried to kick him out of America the way Israelis are being asked to not build or live in disputed lands.

Palestinians who live in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, Huckabee said, should settle in "territory that [is] in the hands of Muslims, in the hands of Arabs," as determined by the "international community."

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U.N. says 147 killed in Tunisian uprising

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At least 147 people were killed and 510 wounded during the Tunisian uprising that unseated Zine al-Abdine Ben Ali last month, the head of a U.N. human rights team in Tunisia said on Tuesday.

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Mubarak’s new deputy linked to CIA rendition program

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The man named by President Hosni Mubarak as his first ever deputy, Egyptian spy chief Omar Suleiman, reportedly orchestrated the brutal interrogation of terror suspects abducted by the CIA in a secret program condemned by rights groups.

His role in the controversial "war on terror" illustrates the ties that bind the United States and the Egyptian regime, as an unprecedented wave of protests against Mubarak's rule presents Washington with a difficult dilemma.

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The Egyptian masses won't play ally to Israel

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As long as the masses in Egypt and in the entire Arab world continue seeing the images of tyranny and violence from the occupied territories, Israel will not be able to be accepted, even it is acceptable to a few regimes.

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Mubarak Wants to Stay until September

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President Hosni Mubarak will say in a speech that he will step down at the next election but would stay in office until then, Al Arabiya TV said on Tuesday.

The network, which did not name its source, said the president would make those comments in a speech later on Tuesday.

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#Egypt Blocked in China

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China has blocked searches for #Egypt on its State-approved, State-controlled version of Twitter.

Searches for #Egypt on Sina (with over 50 million users) returns the message, “According to relevant laws, regulations and policies, the search results are not shown.”

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Bolton: If Mubarak falls in Egypt, Israel should bomb Iran

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Former US Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton said the ouster of embattled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak would speed the timetable for an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities.

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Looters --> undercover Egyptian police

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Human Rights Watch confirmed several cases of undercover police loyal to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's regime committing acts of violence and looting in an attempt to stoke fear of instability as demonstrations grew stronger Tuesday against the autocratic leader.

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Crunch time coming for America in the Middle East?

by element115

Given that policy makers in Washington D.C. say they want to see democracy alive and well in the Arab world, why, really, are they so alarmed by what is happening?

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Mubarak’s Top Spy Rejected by Cairo Streets as Masses March

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Omar Suleiman, the military careerist singled out by President Hosni Mubarak to save his regime, lacks the support where he now needs it most: the streets of Cairo.

“The Egyptians don’t want Mubarak and they don’t want Suleiman,” said Chayma Hassabo, a researcher on Arab political movements at Cedej, a Cairo-based research center. “They want the whole system to change.”

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Jordanians rally against corruption and poverty

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Inspired by unrest in Tunisia and elsewhere in the region, about 200 Jordanians gathered outside the prime minister's office shouting "Our government is a bunch of thieves" and holding banners reading "No to poverty or hunger".

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King of Jordan fires Cabinet

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King Abdullah II of Jordan fired his Cabinet on Tuesday and ordered his new prime minister to pursue political reforms to "correct the mistakes of the past" following massive anti-government protests around the Arab world and smaller demonstrations at home.

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ElBaradei 'just another puppet' in Egypt?

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Egyptians fill Tahrir Square in massive rally

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Al-Jazeera TV estimated the crowd in the square at close to the 1 million organizers had called for.

Soldiers ringed the square but let protesters pass after checking them for IDs and weapons.

The demonstration was under tight army security, but both sides avoided confrontations. The army pledged not to use force against demonstrators as long as they are non-violent.

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Mubarak shuffles cabinet but protesters say "Go!"

January 31, 2011 by element115

The unprecedented unrest in the Arab world's most populous nation entered a seventh day, thousands of protesters poured into Cairo's Tahrir Square chanting "Get out ... We want you out" and singing Egypt's national anthem.

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Egyptian army backs protestors

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Overnight, the Egyptian army issued a statement vowing not to use force against the demonstrators and calling their protests legitimate.

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Egypt reaching 'tipping point'

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Calling for 1 million people to take to the streets.

Mubarak step aside and allow free elections.

"The democracy movement is gaining momentum..."

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Will Barack Obama trust 80 million Egyptians?

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Mubarak's days are numbered and the US is in a quandary: can it trust a new regime's foreign policy – the implications are huge for the West and Israel.

...problematic for President Obama, and the country the United States is sworn to protect, Israel. Khaled Awad, 38, an electrical engineer, was typical in his views. "Most people believe that as long as a country supports Israel that much, people cannot be happy with America," he said.

What would he do with Israel? "It cannot survive. Sure, I don't want to terminate the Jews, but this is not their country."

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Israel says extremists in Egypt threaten peace

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As world leaders call on beleaguered Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to negotiate with opposition groups and prepare the country for free and fair elections, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed fear...

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Egypt riots: US playing both sides?

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US issues terrorist warning for citizens worldwide

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The State Department warned that militant groups could target areas where US citizens may gather in large numbers, such as sporting events, hotels, or places of worship.

Attacks could involve a variety of tactics "including suicide operations, assassinations, kidnappings, hijackings, and bombings," said the statement.

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'Mubarak may ask Israel for help'

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A Former CIA Analyst says it is very much possible that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will ask Israel to help him out of the mess he is in.

McGovern says Israel could help Mubarak with the newly appointed Vice President Omar Suleiman's takeover and "repress the protests in the country."

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US Won’t Support Mubarak’s Ouster

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Speaking today in a series of television interviews, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reiterated that the Obama Administration does not seek and would not support the ouster of Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak.

Rather, she insisted that the US wanted Mubarak to listen to those opposition figures who have “legitimate grievances” and move towards a “managed change” and an “orderly transition” toward a somewhat more democratic society.

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Egypt blunt reality without the spin

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Egyptians have reservations about ElBaradei

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Egyptians on the streets of Cairo said on Monday they had reservations about opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei, who has offered to act as transitional leader to prepare Egypt for democratic elections.

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Israel shocked by Obama's "betrayal" of Mubarak

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told ministers of the Jewish state to make no comment on the political cliffhanger in Cairo, to avoid inflaming an already explosive situation.

Political commentators expressed shock at how the United States as well as its major European allies appeared to be ready to dump a staunch strategic ally of three decades, simply to conform to the current ideology of political correctness..

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The Federal Reserve as an Instrument of War

January 30, 2011 by element115

While much has been written about how the Federal Reserve benefits certain private parties and how it generates money out of thin air, this paper delves deeper into the operation of the Federal Reserve as an instrument of war, and its historical role as a primary enabler of armed international conflict.

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Israeli Soldiers Told To 'Cleanse' Gaza

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Israeli embassy staff evacuate Egypt

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Helicopters evacuated the embassy staff to an Egyptian airbase on Friday, where they were flown back to Tel Aviv.

Reports also said the Israeli ambassador, himself, has fled Egypt after the discovery by Egyptian security of a Mossad spy network in the capital Cairo.

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US ammunition tells its own story in Egypt

by element115

US support, and US politicians putting Israel’s interests above those of their own country, that has allowed dictators such as Hosni Mubarak of Egypt to desecrate the Arab world with their existence for so long.

It has been lost on no one that the empty shell casings from live ammunition and gas cannisters, which litter Tahrir Square and other streets across Egypt, were provided by the United States of America.

But do not for one minute think the Egyptian people are stupid – sadly the US has once again completely misread and underestimated an entire population.

These demonstrations are as much a protest against US meddling in their affairs as they are against the Mubarak regime.

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Turks avenge deadly Israeli raid on the big screen

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You cannot kill a Turk with impunity -- this is the message to Israel from a Turkish movie that opened Friday, taking fictional revenge of a deadly Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound aid ship last year and threatening fresh political tensions.

"Valley of the Wolves: Palestine" -- to be shown in a dozen European countries and more than 20 others in the Middle East.

"Go and show the world what is really the state of Israel," says an Israeli officer named Moshe Ben-Eliezer -- an incarnation of evil -- as he orders the assault on the Mavi Marmara ferry in the film.

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Anger starting to focus on Israel, US

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Saturday’s optimism on the streets of Cairo for imminent political change gave way to anger on Sunday, as thousands of demonstrators became increasingly frustrated with the lack of response from major world leaders, especially the US.

During the main protest on Sunday in downtown Cairo, one man painted a 20- meter-long message in flowing Arabic cursive that echoed across the square: “Go Away, Mubarak, you are from the Americans, and you’re working for them!”

They blame Israel and the US for supporting a government because it is convenient for them, not because it is good for the Egyptian people.

“The USA does not support democracy; they’re supporting Israel, which is like their baby,” said Ahmed, a 26-year-old Cairo resident.
“But will Israel allow us to have a real president?"
"...the USA is supporting the system, not the people.”

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Obama will go down in history as the president who lost Egypt

by element115

The street revolts in Tunisia and Egypt show that the United States can do very little to save its friends from the wrath of their citizens.

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Rise People Rise - The Global Revolution is Upon Us!

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“…..once in a generation…we get a chance for freedom…this is our chance..”

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Al Jazeera Told to Shut Down in Egypt, Signal Cut

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Qatar-based satellite channel Al Jazeera was ordered by Egypt’s information ministry on Sunday to shut down its operations in the country, and later in the day its signal to some parts of the Middle East was cut.

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Are Tunisia and Egypt facing real unrest or a manufactured crisis?

by element115

To better understand the uprising in Tunisia and the crisis unfolding in Egypt, it is necessary to understand the historical context of the situation.

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19 private planes arrive in Dubai from Egypt

January 29, 2011 by element115

...even though traffic at airport had been halted.

They are reporting businessmen are using these private planes to flee the country.

Some confirmation:reports that (now) former NDP part thug & Gamal Mubarak confidant Ahmed Ezz has fled Egypt in a private jet.

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Obama instruction manual to Egypt on how to handle protesters

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Hundreds detained in Saudi Arabia over protests

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Saudi authorities detained hundreds of demonstrators on Friday in Jeddah who gathered to protest against poor infrastructure after deadly floods swept through Saudi Arabia's second biggest city, police and witnesses said.

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Prince warns S. Arabia of apocalypse

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Saudi Prince Turki bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud has warned the country's royal family to step down and flee before a military coup or a popular uprising overthrows the kingdom.

He warned that the Saudi royal family is no longer able to "impose" itself on people, arguing that deviations in carrying out the religious concepts that make up the basis of the Saudi government "have gotten out of our hands," so that the opposition views our acts as "interfering in people's private life and restricting their liberties."

"If we are wise, we must leave this country to its people, whose dislike for us is increasing," said Prince Turki, advising Saudi officials to escape with their families.

"Do not fool yourself by relying on the United States or Britain or Israel, because they will not survive the loss; the only door open is now the exit door of no return. Let us go before it closes."

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Jordan's opposition: Arabs will topple tyrants

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The leader of Jordan's powerful Muslim Brotherhood warned Saturday that unrest in Egypt will spread across the Mideast and Arabs will topple leaders allied with the United States.

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"We will not be silenced, whether you're a Christian or a Muslim, whether you're an atheist, you will demand your god damned rights, and we will have our rights, one way or the other! We will never be silenced!"

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ARE WE FINALLY SEEING THE SUN SET OVER THE AMERICAN EMPYRE

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Watching the ‘news’ on the Fox Network last night was like watching a skit on Comedy Central. It wasn’t about why events were taking place in Egypt, but the emphasis was on what it means to the price of oil (up $4.00 a barrel since the rioting broke out). Who controls those prices? It was about who was behind the ‘riots’. The report started out by saying that they were sparked by university students posting their feelings on FaceBook, calling it a ‘Web Inspired Revolution’ ….. but ending with the support of The Muslim Brotherhood, Al Quaida, Hamas and of course, the Iranian government. In other words, it’s the Boogey Man that is behind the ‘riots’. They obviously have nothing to do with the fact that the people of Egypt are sick and tired of living under a dictatorship.

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White House wobbles on Egyptian tightrope

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Washington needs a friendly regime in Cairo more than it needs a democratic government.

While the US favours Egyptian political reform in theory, in practice it props up an authoritarian system for pragmatic reasons of national self-interest. It behaved in much the same way towards Saddam Hussein's regime in the 1980s, when Iraq was at war with Iran. A similar tacit bargain governs relations with Saudi Arabia. That's why, for many Egyptians, the US is part of the problem.

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Without Egypt, Israel will be left with no friends in Mideast

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The fading power of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's government leaves Israel in a state of strategic distress. Without Mubarak, Israel is left with almost no friends in the Middle East.

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Thousands Protest Against Jordanian Govt

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The pro-democracy protests spreading across the Middle East have found some eager supporters in Jordan, where thousands took to the street of Amman to demand that Prime Minister Samir Rifal step down and that a new, elected government be allowed to take its place.

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Zionist Omar Soleiman sworn as Egypt's new vice prisedent

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Mubarak abused his people for the past 30 years by starving them and now he insults their intelligence by this appointment.:

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Inequality In America Is Worse Than In Egypt, Tunisia Or Yemen

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Egyptian, Tunisian and Yemeni protesters all say that inequality is one of the main reasons they're protesting.

However, the U.S. actually has much greater inequality than in any of those countries.

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Amnesty International: Israel's flotilla probe a 'whitewash'

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"Despite being nearly 300 pages long, the [Tirkel] report crucially fails to explain how the activists died and what conclusions the Commission reached regarding the IDF’s specific actions in each case," said a statement from AI.

"The Commission’s failure to account for the deaths reinforces the view that the Israeli authorities are unwilling or incapable of delivering accountability for abuses of international law committed by Israeli forces," the organization accused, saying the inadequate findings of the commission, "highlights the need for follow-up".

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Yemeni Protests Turn Violent

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At least nine protesters were set upon by police with batons when security forces blocked up to a hundred demonstrators as they attempted to march to the Egyptian Embassy here, in a show of solidarity with protesters in Egypt, according to eyewitnesses.

Witnesses also said prominent human-rights activist Abdul Hadi al-Azazi was arrested in the march on Saturday.

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"Day of Wrath" across Egypt as 62 killed

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AT least 62 people have been killed and more than 2,000 injured after a "Day of Wrath" across Egypt and further defiance on the streets of the capital today.

In shocking scenes, armoured troop-carriers sped into huge crowds in the capital Cairo - while officers unleashed teargas, rubber bullets and water cannon on the anti-government uprising yesterday.

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Hungary’s strongman spooks Europe

January 28, 2011 by element115

Viktor Orban had arrived.

a “new social contract, that of national consolidation” bringing a new future based on “work, home, family, health, and order.”

Across Europe, leaders have been reacting with alarm to a man who has used this huge surge of popularity to impose an assertive, intensely nationalistic style of politics.

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Egyptians defy curfew

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Egypt remained in chaos as tens of thousands of anti-government protesters defied a night curfew.
As night fell, emboldened protesters showed no signs of letting up. They continued to throw rocks and set fires, as they have since they began demonstrations on Tuesday.

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Egypt's security and armed forces: The deciding factor

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The fate of Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak, his entire state apparatus, and that of the popular uprising confronting them now depends largely on the actions of his army and security forces.

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Next Domino: Syria Shuts Down Internet Service

by element115

With Egypt pretty a done deal, many are wondering who is next. Al Arabiya provides the answer: Syria has just shut down its internet service.

...should this indeed be the case, and if Jordan promptly follows suit, Israel will be surrounded by revolutions.

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Revolution 2.0: the Social Media Uprising

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Social media is like a raging river, and governments can either move with it or be toppled by it.

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Israeli Minister: Mubarak regime will prevail in Egypt, despite protests

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Egyptian security apparatus will use required force to retain control, says a minister in the Netanyahu government who insists on maintaining anonymity.

Israel expects the Egyptian government to weather the protests roiling the country and to remain in power.

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New York Times: Democracy is Bad for US Foreign Policy

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Here’s New York Times reporter Mark Landler on Washington’s reaction to the popular uprising in Egypt against the anti-liberal democratic, human rights-abusing Hosni Mubarak, a “staunch ally.”

Washington is “proceeding gingerly, balancing the democratic aspirations of young Arabs with cold-eyed strategic and commercial interests.”

In other words, democracy and human rights are fine, but not when strategic and commercial interests are at stake.

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The Egyptian intifada and what it may mean for Israel/Palestine

by element115

The Mubarak dictatorship is a core pillar of the U.S./Israeli order in the Middle East, an order that completely ignores the wishes and aspirations of people on the ground. The U.S. and Israel are scared of the new order that is to come. Israel is worried about a reliable ally being toppled next door.

...what happens in Egypt will not stay in Egypt. It will have ripple effects across the Middle East.

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Middle East: the Undoing of America’s Mendacious Foreign Policy

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There may be plumes of acrid smoke rising from burning tires in cities across the Middle East, but there is the discernible whiff of something else – fear. And it is not so much fear among the tens of thousands of people who are taking to the streets facing down paramilitary police forces in Tunisia, Algeria, Jordan, Egypt and elsewhere to protest against their governments. It is rather more the fear among the rulers of these unwieldy regimes – a fear, or at least grave concern, that must also be seeping into the corridors of power in Washington and other Western capitals.

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Egypt Shows How Easily Internet Can Be Silenced

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"Virtually all of Egypt's Internet addresses are now unreachable, worldwide," Jim Cowie, chief technology officer of U.S.-based Internet monitoring firm Renesys wrote on the company blog.

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Live Stream from steets of Egypt

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Watch the Al Jazeera English broadcast here -->

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Mubarak's party HQ on fire, protesters storm foreign ministry

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Protesters on the streets of Cairo are trying to storm the Egyptian Foreign Ministry and the state TV building, the Associated Press reports. The headquarters of the President Hosni Mubarak's ruling National Democratic Party has been set afire.

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Yemeni protesters call for president to quit

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Thousands of Yemenis are demonstrating in the capital Sanaa calling for the president of the last three decades to leave office.

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Egypt Turns Off the Internet

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Egypt's decision to turn off the Internet last night, denying users access to Twitter, Facebook and text messaging, couldn't stop thousands of protesters from taking to the streets of Cairo Friday morning, with similar demonstrations in Suez, Alexandria and Al Arish in northern Sinai. Supporters of pro-democracy leader Mohammed ElBaradei, who called for the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak, flooded out of mosques after noon prayer. Police greeted them with tear gas and rubber bullets. According to the AP, who has raw footage of a man being shot, they used a water cannon on Nobel laureate ElBaradei and beat protesters who tried to shield him. Egyptian protesters have been particularly effective at utilizing social media to organize and mobilize—this past Tuesday's demonstration was largely arranged via Twitter. Egypt can turn off the Internet—but it can't stop satellite TV. Although news media efforts to report on events on the ground have been hampered by the communications clampdown, Al Jazeera has moved to fill the vacuum.

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Are We Witnessing the Start of a Global Revolution?

by element115

For the first time in human history almost all of humanity is politically activated, politically conscious and politically interactive... The resulting global political activism is generating a surge in the quest for personal dignity, cultural respect and economic opportunity in a world painfully scarred by memories of centuries-long alien colonial or imperial domination...

It seems as if the world is entering the beginnings of a new revolutionary era: the era of the ‘Global Political Awakening.’ While this ‘awakening’ is materializing in different regions, different nations and under different circumstances, it is being largely influenced by global conditions. The global domination by the major Western powers, principally the United States, over the past 65 years, and more broadly, centuries, is reaching a turning point. The people of the world are restless, resentful, and enraged. Change, it seems, is in the air.

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Joe Biden says Egypt's Mubarak no dictator, he shouldn't step down...

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Vice President's comments are unlikely to be well-received by regime opponents, as they fit a narrative of steadfast US support for a government they want to bring down. About eight protesters and one policeman have died this week as Egypt has sought to bring down the heavy hand of the state against opponents. Since the US provides about $1.3 billion in military aid to Egypt a year, the repressive apparatus of the state is seen by many in Egypt as hand in glove with the US.

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Iranian Media Hail ‘Revolution’ in Egypt

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Media in the Arab world are generally reporting cautiously on the protests rocking Egypt following the shakeup in Tunisia, but those in Iran are giving the turmoil prominent, almost gleeful, coverage.

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British intelligence reported in February 2002...

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...a Mossad unit consisting of six Egyptian- and Yemeni-born Jews infiltrated "Al Qaeda" cells in Hamburg (the Atta-Mamoun Darkanzali cell), south Florida, and Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates in the months before 9/11. The Mossad not only infiltrated cells but began to run them and give them specific orders that would eventually culminate in their being on board four regularly-scheduled flights originating in Boston, Washington Dulles, and Newark, New Jersey on 9/11.

...details of the British intelligence report was suppressed by the government of then-Prime Minister Tony Blair.

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Egyptian protests intensify, as clashes spread across the Middle East

January 27, 2011 by element115

Security forces shot dead a Bedouin protester in Egypt's Sinai region on Thursday, bringing the death in the three days of protests to five. Police in Suez fired rubber bullets, water cannon and tear gas at hundreds of demonstrators calling for an end to the 30-year-old rule of Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president. Protesters chucked rocks and petrol bombs at police lines. In Ismailia, hundreds of protesters clashed with police, who dispersed the crowds with tear gas.

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First Tunisia, then Egypt, and now Yemen

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Yemen is now the latest Arab state to see mass protests in its cities’ streets. On Thursday, led by opposition groups, at least 10,000 people gathered in the streets of Sana, Yemen to protest the government.

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Google Censors BitTorrent, RapidShare, Others

by element115

It seems like the content industry has managed to score another hit in its 'fight' against piracy, and this time, it's a big fish. Announced a few weeks ago already, Google has started censoring its auto-complete and instant features for an arbitrary set of search terms - such as 'bittorrent', 'torrent', 'rapidshare', and any terms derived from those (e.g. 'ubuntu torrent' is censored as well).

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EnviroLeaks

January 26, 2011 by element115

Undermining just got easier…

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OpenLeaks goes public

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Our new initiative seeks to bring more whistleblowing platforms into existence than what we have today. It was created by enthusiasts from various countries and backgrounds, who believe in the power of transparency.

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DoD on Bradley Manning, Julian Assange and Wikileaks

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Q: Geoff, is it true that prosecutors have not been able to tie Private [Bradley] Manning to Julian Assange and essentially make a link between the two in the case?

MR. MORRELL: Well, what I would say on this is, as much as I'd like to weigh into this, this is, as you know, an ongoing criminal investigation. So it would be inappropriate for me to speak to any -- with any specificity to these issues.

But I would avail myself of this opportunity to admonish or warn you all to be extraordinarily careful about how you report on this story, because one thing I can -- I do feel comfortable in telling you is that this case is being taken extremely seriously by the investigators both here in the Defense Department and, of course, at the Department of Justice. They are hard at work at on building a case here.

So any pronouncements about a connection or lack of connection, those that have been found or are yet to be found, are just premature at this point. So I'd urge everybody to proceed with caution on this, and probably most stories, for that matter.

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Unmanned plane patrolling stretch of Canada-U.S. border

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The remote-controlled Predator B unmanned surveillance aircraft, which can fly for 20 hours up to 15,000 metres in the air.

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency announced this month that its Predators will be patrolling greater sections of the Canada-U.S. border - from Minnesota to Washington states - looking for drug smuggling andterrorist.

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Mutant mosquitoes

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Malaysia has released 6,000 genetically modified mosquitoes into a forest in the first experiment of its kind in Asia aimed at curbing dengue fever.

...the plan has sparked criticism by some Malaysian environmentalists, who fear it might have unforeseen consequences, such as the inadvertent creation of uncontrollable mutated mosquitoes.

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Witness Revelations: "Underwear Bomber" in court

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Respected lawyer and community leader, Kurt Haskell, has nothing to gain from pointing his finger at the federal government. He witnessed the underwear bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, being whisked past security and led onto NorthWest Airlines flight 253, by a well-dressed man with an American accent- all without the passenger's proper visa and passport documentation.

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Moscow Attack - Who done it?

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Putin said the preliminary information showed the Domodedovo blast was not linked to Russia's North Caucasus Republic of Chechnya.

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Palestinians Condemn Betrayal By Unelected Palestinian Leadership

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Long before these revelations, Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition, its members, supporters and people of conscience in the US and around the world were already deeply suspicious of the maneuvering against the Palestinian people that Saeb Erekat, Ahmad Qurei and others demonstrated during these secret negotiations over the past many years. The Palestine Papers released by Al-Jazeerah confirm our people’s worst fears. What the PA officials committed is a grave breach of duty and a betrayal of their own people.

The chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and sitting PA president Mr. Mahmoud Abbas, whose term has long expired, bears full responsibility. We demand his immediate resignation or removal from office. A self-appointed puppet leadership beholden only to its US and Israeli occupation masters cannot be allowed to stand. It does not represent the aspirations of the Palestinian people, the vast majority of whom are living in forced exile.

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Justice Department seeks to have all web surfing tracked

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"Data retention is fundamental to the department's work in investigating and prosecuting almost every type of crime," US deputy assistant attorney general Jason Weinstein told a congressional subcommittee on Tuesday.

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I Will Not Dignify This Witch Hunt

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We have done nothing wrong and risk being jailed because we have exercised our rights to free speech, to organize and hold our government accountable. It is a dark day for America when people face jail for exercising the rights that we hold so dear.

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Iran not working on bomb: Israel intelligence head

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Kochavi said it was unlikely that Iran, which currently enriches uranium to 20 percent, would start enriching it to the 90 percent level needed for a bomb, because it would be in open breach of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty exposing it to harsher sanctions or even a US or Israeli military strike.

He said Iran was reluctant to do this at a time when the country was going through a period of "instability" and "religious tension."

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Arab Rulers Fear Spread of Democracy Fever

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In the wake of Tunisia's mostly peaceful revolution, Arab leaders are worried that their young, frustrated populations might follow suit. While the West sits back and watches, regimes stress stability over genuine democracy and hope to calm simmering discontent with cash.

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Palestinians give Abbas hero's welcome after he denounces 'Palestine papers'

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"We will go to Jerusalem, a million martyrs strong," the crowd of over 3,000 chanted, in a rousing endorsement for Abbas using a famous slogan not heard since the days of his more charismatic predecessor, Yasser Arafat.

"The Palestinian principles ... have not and will not change and the first of them is that East Jerusalem is the capital of the state of Palestine," Abbas said to cheers from supporters from all over the occupied West Bank.

He said Al Jazeera had used "fake" documents in its bid to convict Abbas's Palestinian Authority of cowardice and duplicity in confidential talks with Israel over concessions it would make for a peace treaty and a Palestinian state.

"No one in the world can make us give up on a centimeter of our land, the issue of the refugees or the issue of Jerusalem," Abbas told the people. Their rally was "the most important response to what Al Jazeera alleged," the president said.

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US Republican lawmakers taking aim at UN

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"U.S. policy on the United Nations should be based on three fundamental questions: Are we advancing American interests? Are we upholding American values? Are we being responsible stewards of American taxpayer dollars?" she said in a statement that was read at the briefing, which she could not attend. "Unfortunately, right now, the answer to all three questions is `No.'"

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GOP pushing for ISPs to record user data

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The House Republicans' first major technology initiative is about to be unveiled: a push to force Internet companies to keep track of what their users are doing.

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MI6 offered to detain Hamas figures

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The Palestine Papers reveal that the British government played a significant role in equipping and funding the Palestinian security forces, several of which have been linked to torture and other abuses.

More unbelievably, the UK’s MI-6 intelligence service proposed detaining members of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, an extraordinary –and illegal – scheme in which the European Union would have paid for their detention.

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The al-Madhoun assassination

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The Palestinian Authority (PA) has shown operational willingness to co-operate with Israel to kill its own people, The Palestine Papers indicate.

Among the documents are notes, handwfritten in Arabic, revealing an exchange in 2005 between the PA and Israel on a plan to kill a Palestinian fighter named Hassan al-Madhoun, who lived in the Gaza strip.

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Three dead in Egypt protests

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Two civilians and a police officer have died after a wave of unusually large anti-government demonstrations swept across Egypt, calling for the ouster of longtime president Hosni Mubarak.

In central Cairo, crowds numbering in the thousands protested and clashed with police throughout the day. Shortly after midnight on Wednesday morning, security forces violently dispersed those who remained in Tahrir Square, the heart of the city, Al Jazeera's Adam Makary reported.

Security officers fired tear gas, water cannons and rubber bullets to drive the protesters from the square, where they had chosen to remain throughout the night in protest. An Al Jazeera cameraman was shot with rubber bullets several times, including once in the face, Makary said.

Telephone communication with people in central Cairo was nearly impossible, but Makary reported that the crowds, which had been peaceful, had been forced to escape the police, who fired dozens of tear gas canisters.

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U.N. Chief Urged to Fire Official for Promoting 9/11 Conspiracy Theory

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U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon was urged today to fire an official of the world body who endorsed the conspiracy theory that the 9/11 terrorist attacks were orchestrated by the U.S. government and not Al Qaeda terrorists.

"We urge you to strongly condemn Mr. Falk’s offensive remarks—and, given that he has done this numerous times before—to immediately remove him from his post."

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US defends Israeli flotilla attack

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The US has described an Israeli probe into a raid on the Gaza-bound Freedom Flotilla aid convoy that killed nine Turkish activists as a "credible and impartial" effort.

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US threat to Palestinians: change leadership and we cut funds

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The Obama administration has privately made clear that it will not allow any change of Palestinian leadership in the West Bank, the leaked papers reveal, let alone any repetition of the Hamas election victory that briefly gave the Islamists control of the Palestinian Authority five years ago.

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US fury over UN expert's 9/11 'cover-up' claims

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The United States on Tuesday demanded the sacking of a UN human rights expert for "noxious" comments claiming there had been a US cover-up over the September 11 attacks.

Falk wrote in his personal blog on January 11 that there are "awkward gaps and contradictions in the official explanations" given for the attacks when hijacked jets crashed into the World Trade Center towers in New York and the Pentagon in Washington.

He said there was "an apparent cover-up" by the US government over its knowledge of the attacks masterminded by Osama bin Laden.

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Google Comes Under Fire for 'Secret' Relationship with NSA

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The group asked Issa to investigate contracts at several U.S. agencies for Google technology and services, the "secretive" relationship between Google and the U.S. National Security Agency, and the company's use of a U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration airfield in California.

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Wall Street Partying in Davos as Bankers Overcome Crisis Angst

January 25, 2011 by element115

As Wall Street chief executive officers flock to the World Economic Forum, they’ll be breathing a sigh of relief along with the Swiss mountain air: There are no panels on compensation or redesigning financial regulation.

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Just Another Dirty Joke

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A man walks into a bar with some friends. He sits down at a stool, orders a drink, and then notices something unusual in the corner—the crumpled figure of a human being chained to a table, apparently starving or injured. The man gets a bowl of pretzels and a glass of water and goes over to the figure with a couple of his friends, hoping to offer some help.

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Ireland upgrades status of Palestinian mission to embassy

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Palestinian delegation in Ireland will be upgraded to an official embassy, following France and Spain; U.K., Sweden, Belgium, Finland, Germany and Denmark expected to follow.

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State of Our Species

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The state of our union, friends, is that it is a blink of the eye away from not existing.

There is no union anymore, just a patchwork of interests that overlap in places. We are reaching the point at which there is little to no trust among citizens, at which we are so very close to devolving into dog-eat-dog chaos. Everything is money money money, all the time, with no sign of slowing down, and we are all victims of it.

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CHART SHOCK - The Real National Debt Is $202 Trillion

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...a fiscal gap of $202 trillion, which is more than 15 times the official debt.

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Israelis target Macy Gray with racist diatribes AFTER she agrees to play Tel Aviv

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Under normal circumstances, Gray’s roundhouse attack on some supporters of BDS and her subsequent pledge to perform in Tel Aviv should have pleased nationalistic Israelis. However, her initial criticism of Israel’s occupation has invited a firestorm of racist, sexist and generally hateful diatribes from Israelis. Indeed, many Israelis are more furious with Gray for performing inside their country than for refusing to come.

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The Palestine Papers: Israel’s peacemakers unmasked

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For more than a decade, since the collapse of the Camp David talks in 2000, the mantra of Israeli politics has been the same: “There is no Palestinian partner for peace.”

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Egypt's protests appear unprecedented

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...tens of thousands took to the streets of Cairo.

"They're demanding their rights, and end to unemployment, poverty and torture."

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Energized by Tunisia, Egypt protesters surge onto streets in 'Day of Wrath'

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Democracy protesters in Egypt took to the streets in Cairo and at least six other cities, calling for the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak.

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Gamal Mubarak reportedly flees Egypt

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The son of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Gamal Mubarak, has reportedly fled Egypt for the UK with his family. Unconfirmed reports out of Cairo say the younger Mubarak boarded a private jet bound for London with his family and nearly one hundred pieces of luggage. His departure, if confirmed, comes after a day of unprecedented mass protests in the streets of Cairo and other cities throughout Egypt. Over 30,000 people gathered in Cairo’s Tahrir Square to protest the Mubarak regime, which has run the country for 30 years under a state of emergency and with little tolerance for dissent.

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ZEITGEIST: MOVING FORWARD 2011

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This is the Official Online (Youtube) Release of "Zeitgeist: Moving Forward"

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Renewed Push to Give Obama an Internet "Kill Switch"

January 24, 2011 by element115

A controversial bill handing President Obama power over privately owned computer systems during a "national cyberemergency," and prohibiting any review by the court system, will return this year.

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Moscow airport blast kills 35

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A suicide bomber walked into the international arrivals area at Moscow's Domodedovo airport Monday afternoon and set off an explosion that killed at least 35 people, including two British travellers.

The blast ripped through a loosely guarded area of the terminal at 4:32 p.m. local time, covering it with thick smoke and shrapnel. More than 180 people were injured.

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Suicide bomber kills 35 at Russia's biggest airport

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The prosecutor's office said the bomb had been classified as a terrorist attack -- the largest since twin suicide bombings on the Moscow metro rocked the Russian heartland in March.

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The Perfect Genetic Storm

January 23, 2011 by element115

Synthetic DNA and the Gulf Blue Plague

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Doctors Alarmed by Military’s Use of Mind Drugs on Troops

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Medical professionals have expressed serious concerns about the U.S. military’s dispensing of antipsychotic drugs to combat soldiers and other personnel.

Jackson believes psychotropic drugs are “destroying the force.” She is especially concerned about the anticonvulsive drug Depakote, which military doctors prescribe for mood control. Depakote can cause “cognitive toxicity,” impaired ability to think and make decisions.

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Fingerprints Go the Distance

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Over the years, fingerprinting has evolved from an inky mess to pressing fingers on sensor screens to even a few touch-free systems that work at a short distance. Now a company has developed a prototype of a device that can scan fingerprints from up to two meters away, an approach that could prove especially useful at security checkpoints.

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Mind Control with Lasers

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The system can make the worm paralyzed, lay eggs, back up, speed up or sense touch in different areas of its body, all by directing laser light into specific neurons.

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10,000 Cattle Dead In Vietnam: Part Of Mass Die-Off

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In the latest of a string of mass animal deaths, 10,000 cows and buffalo have died in Vietnam.

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How DARPA Plans to Catch the Next Arizona Shooter...Before He Strikes

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The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) has in a mind a program that would suss out criminals before they do the deed. A few months ago, DARPA announced its interest in what it's calling "Anomaly Detection at Multiple Scales," or ADAMS, for short.

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Is It Strange That FEMA Wants to Buy 140 Million Packaged Meals with a Shelf Life Only 36 Months

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London's Foreign Office might as well relocate to Tel Aviv

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“The friendship… will deepen, because the ties between this party and Israel are unbreakable. And in me, you have a Prime Minister whose belief in Israel is indestructible.”

What a ridiculous commitment for a British prime minister to make to a lawless, racist state that respects nobody’s human rights, continually defies international law and shoots children for amusement.

His eagerness to sabotage the Geneva Convention’s principle of Universal Jurisdiction so that suspected Israeli war criminals can walk the streets of London without fear of arrest, reflects his party’s eagerness to appease the whining of the psychopaths.

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Twitter and Facebook don't connect people

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...they isolate them from reality, say a rising number of academics.

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Domestic use of aerial drones by law enforcement likely to prompt privacy debate

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The drone technology that has revolutionized warfare in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan is entering the national airspace.

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Chinese Pianist Plays Anti-American Propaganda Tune at White House

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At the White House State dinner on Jan. 19, about six minutes into his set, Lang Lang began tapping out a famous anti-American propaganda melody.

...the song has been a leading piece of anti-American propaganda by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for decades. CCP propaganda has always referred to the Korean War as the “movement to resist America and help [North] Korea.” The message of the propaganda is that the United States is an enemy—in fighting in the Korean War the United States’ real goal was said to be to invade and conquer China. The victory at Triangle Hill was promoted as a victory over imperialists.

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WikiLeaks: 1 percent of diplomatic docs published

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Here's a look at what the consequences of the cables' release has been so far, and what the future could hold for WikiLeaks.

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Two decades of secret Israeli-Palestinian accords leaked to media worldwide

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Al-Jazeera TV begins leaking 1,600 secret documents: PA agreed to concede almost all of East Jerusalem to Israel, accept Israeli demand to recognize Israel as a Jewish state.

Palestinian negotiators secretly agreed to concede almost all of East Jerusalem to Israel, Al-Jazeera TV reported Sunday, as part of a series of 1,600 secret documents regarding Israeli-Palestinian negotiations efforts over the last several years that are due to be released.

The documents reveal confidential concessions offered by Palestinian negotiators, including on the issue of the right of return of Palestinian refugees, as well as serious territorial concessions.

Al-Jazeera TV reports that the Palestinian Authority offered in June 15 of 2008 that Israel annex all settlements in Jerusalem except Har Homa, the first time in history the Palestinians made such a proposal, one that they refused to in Camp David.

Saeb Erekat, the chief Palestinian negotiator, also proposed in an October 2009 meeting that Jerusalem's Old City be divided, giving Israel the control over the Jewish Quarter and part of the Armenian Quarter.

Further details reveal a Palestinian agreement to the return of solely 10,000 Palestinian refugees into Israel, and that Erekat agreed to the Israeli demand of recognizing Israel as a Jewish state.

The documents detail the last two decades' negotiations on Israel-Palestinian peace efforts, which were classified as highly secret.

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Secret papers reveal slow death of Middle East peace process

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A cache of thousands of pages of confidential Palestinian records covering more than a decade of negotiations with Israel and the US has been obtained by al-Jazeera TV and shared exclusively with the Guardian. The papers provide an extraordinary and vivid insight into the disintegration of the 20-year peace process, which is now regarded as all but dead.

...some reactions to the leak -->

Shows how supine the PA is and proves that Edward Said was right - by signing the Oslo Accords, the PLO forfeited any claim to be a genuine national liberation movement and was satisfied at being a security subcontractor to the Israelis.

And people wonder why Palestinians saw Hamas as a more attractive leadership than Fateh, without evening having to take religion into account!

Thanks to the Guardian and all those involved in releasing these vital documents. What more vivid exposure of what a 'moderate Palestinian leadership' or 'partner for peace' really is, nothing more than a leadership bending over backwards to meet Israel demands.

The sick joke is that Israel isn't content to have a Palestinian leadership legitimise her apartheid regime and great land robbery, it wants more.

Surely this leak benefits Israel:
-exposing Palestinian negotiating positions
-spreading further disunity amongst palestinians

How tragic. This will surely turn ordinary Palestinians and their Arab neighbours away from any any moderate leadership in future, and I doubt even the fiercest Western pressure will persuade Israel to recognise Hamas as a legitimate political body, leaving only yet more violence as the way ahead.

Why do western governments still support Israel, I wonder?

Appeasement of Israel is getting nowhere. Major and meaningful sanctions need to be put in place against this monstrosity and fast.
Israel's contempt for both her Palestinian neighbours and for international law is repugnant in the extreme and makes hypocrites of her western allies.

Perfidious Albion! - A friend of Israel ? -A nickname for Great Britain that is well deserved.

...when are people going to wake up to the fact that none of this stuff is even supposed to be resolved? The turmoil is being sustained to keep populations oppressed.

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Ireland’s Greens quit government

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Ireland’s junior coalition party withdrew from Prime Minister Brian Cowen’s government on Sunday, signalling the end of a crisis-riddled administration and hastening an election due on March 11.

The Green Party’s move highlighted continuing political uncertainty over efforts to cope with financial crisis rooted in a collapse in the property market and a malaise of the banking system.

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Tunisian protesters camp outside PM's office

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Hundreds of Tunisians defied a night-time curfew and camped out in front of Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi's office Sunday in a bid to force the government to resign following president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's ouster.

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Iran blames West, U.S. for failure of Istanbul talks

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An influential Iranian lawmaker said Sunday that western countries, in particular the U.S., were responsible for the failure of the Istanbul talks, the semi- official ISNA news agency reported.

The Islamic Republic entered the talks with clear offers and transparent, logical and practical stance, but the West unfortunately failed to seize the opportunity, Kazem Jalali was quoted as saying.

Istanbul talks seemed to bring fruitful results, but some western countries and in particular the U.S. officials chose to make troubles in Istanbul talks as they used to do in the past, said Jalali according to the report.

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Gaza flotilla report proves Israel is a law-abiding country, Barak says

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An Israeli report concerning the country's blockade of the Gaza Strip and a May 2010 raid on a Gaza-bound ship proves Israel is a law-abiding nation, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Sunday.

Balad MK Hanin Zuabi, who took part in the flotilla, says report completely ignored the killing of 9 Turkish activists.
"The commission based its 'findings' on the testimony of the diplomatic and military officials who made the decision to attack and kill," the Israeli Arab MK wrote.

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Turkey: Israel's Gaza flotilla probe has no value or credibility

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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan rejected Sunday the findings of an Israeli panel of inquiry into an Israel Defense Forces raid on a Gaza-bound ship last May, dismissing the Israeli conclusions that the IDF soldiers acted in self-defense when they killed nine Turkish citizens on board the ship.

Erdogan told reporters in Ankara on Sunday that the Israeli report had "no value or credibility." The Turkish Foreign Ministry also issued a statement in response to the Israeli inquiry and said it was "appalled and dismayed" at the findings, which cleared Israel of wrongdoing in the raid on the Turkish ship.

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Tony Blair's promise to George Bush: count on us on Iraq war

January 21, 2011 by element115

Tony Blair today admitted to brushing aside warnings that invading Iraq would be unlawful and made clear his overriding priority, even at the expense of opposition and secrecy at home, was to maintain a close relationship with the US president.

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Gaza flotilla investigation 'to absolve Israeli troops of blame

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The Israeli probe into the naval raid on ships bringing aid to Gaza is expected to absolve the troops of blame and clear them of war crimes, according to reports.

SHAME !!!!!!!!!!!

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Coporate Media FAILS to Report Facts Of Giffords Shooting, FBI HAS Security Tapes

January 20, 2011 by element115

How did the FBI confiscate video footage from fleeing citizens? Why hasn’t the public been show the footage to ascertain what actually transpired?

Unfortunately, most people choose to accept the official line, mostly due to the fact that American citizens are conditioned to believe the government or be considered possible terrorists.

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America must brace itself for turbulence

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The bottom line is that there may well be US public debt tremors this year, both during federal debate over raising the debt ceiling and with at least a limited number of crises in local and city governments. The bigger problem, though, lies beyond 2011, as the unsustainability of the federal government’s fiscal trajectory becomes increasingly clear.

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Path Is Sought for States to Escape Debt Burdens

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Policy makers are working behind the scenes to come up with a way to let states declare bankruptcy and get out from under crushing debts, including the pensions they have promised to retired public workers.

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As Iran talks begin, Israel urges forceful action

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On the eve of the renewal of talks in Istanbul on Friday between Iran and six world powers, government officials in Jerusalem --> “What the international community needs to do now is take advantage of the time and act forcefully.”

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For the Arab world, the revolution will be televised, on Al Jazeera

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The Qatar-based television network, as it does with the Iraq war and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, is airing visceral, round-the-clock coverage in a region of authoritarian states that rarely allow government-controlled media to show scenes of unrest. Al Jazeera is a messenger, pricking the status quo, enraging kings and presidents.

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Russian WikiLeaks comes under attack over photos allegedly showing Putin’s ‘palace’

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A Russian-language version of WikiLeaks came under cyber attack and was inaccessible to Russian visitors Wednesday after the site published leaked photographs allegedly depicting Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's lavish, sprawling estate.

--> Pictures on RuLeaks

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WikiLeaks Cable: US Sought Data on Israelis, Palestinians

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The cable sought a complete overview on the Israeli government’s communications system, including their encrypted communications. It also sought to collect financial and biometric data on Palestinian leaders.

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WikiLeaks: US advised to sabotage Iran nuclear sites by German thinktank

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The United States was advised to adopt a policy of "covert sabotage" of Iran's clandestine nuclear facilities, including computer hacking and "unexplained explosions", by an influential German thinktank, a leaked US embassy cable reveals.

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Mohamed ElBaradei warns of 'Tunisia-style explosion' in Egypt

January 19, 2011 by element115

The Egyptian dissident Mohamed ElBaradei has warned of a "Tunisia-style explosion" in his country as self-immolation protests proliferated and anti-government activists announced plans for a nationwide "day of anger" next week.

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Oops, I think that letter was supposed to be burned

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An interesting letter has been unearthed. It reveals that the Vatican was officially instructing its clergy to hide pedophilia cases from civil authorities.

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CRTC proposes easing ban on broadcasting false or misleading news

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The Canadian Radio-Television Telecommunications Commission proposes easing ban on broadcasting false or misleading news.

Current regulations contain a blanket prohibition on broadcasting “any false or misleading news.”

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Israel can't stop Palestinian independence

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...the world is gradually becoming accustomed to the idea that Palestine will join the family of nations this summer.:

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China's too big to be bullied by the US

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In Tuesday's summit with Hu Jintao, Obama must recognise new realities – however unpalatable.

..."the most important top-level US-China encounter since Deng Xiaoping's historic trip more than 30 years ago".
As some in China and the US see it, the choice boils down to one of future war or peace.

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Are We Safer?

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Are You Kidding?

The post-9/11 Terrorism-Industrial Complex :

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PROJECT CENSORED

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Top 25 Of 2011

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Pressure on Blair over secret Iraq letters

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David Cameron yesterday called on the public to pressurise Tony Blair into disclosing his secret letters to George Bush from 2002 promising to go to war in Iraq.

Pressure for publication grew yesterday when evidence emerged showing Mr Blair’s then private secretary, Matthew Rycroft, prepared two differing accounts of conversations between Mr Blair and Mr Bush to conceal contents of the letters from Whitehall officials.

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Key evidence in Afghanistan war crimes case remains secret

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...documents and images are under wraps as legal proceedings unfold for the soldiers in the 5th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division. Five of the men are accused of murdering three civilians last year, crimes that drew international headlines about an Army “kill team” slaughtering Afghans for fun.

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Confirmed: Stuxnet Was False Flag Launched by Israel and U.S.

January 18, 2011 by element115

On Saturday, the Gray Lady of establishment propaganda, the New York Times, passively admitted that the Stuxnet virus responsible for crippling Iran’s nuclear energy program was engineered by Israeli and U.S. intelligence.

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With Stuxnet, Did The U.S. And Israel Create a New Cyberwar Era?

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Remember the years-long controversy about whether the U.S. or the Israel would bomb Iran’s nuclear program? It appears they just did — virtually. And if they did, they also may have expanded our sense of how nations wage war in cyberspace.

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Israel concerned Russia will recognize Palestinian state

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Israeli officials fear that Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will announce on Tuesday during a visit to Jericho that Russia recognizes a Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders.

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Russia's Medvedev backs independent Palestine

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"Russia's position remains unchanged. Russia made its choice a long time ago ... we supported and will support the inalienable right of the Palestinian people to an independent state with its capital in East Jerusalem," Medvedev said.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev endorsed a Palestinian state on Tuesday, saying Moscow had recognized independence in 1988 and was not changing the position

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas thanked Russia for being "one of the first states in the world to recognize the state of Palestine in 1988."

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Teenager killed as Israeli tanks enter Gaza

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Israeli tanks on Tuesday entered the Gaza Strip, sparking fighting that killed a 17-year-old Palestinian and injured three others.

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Bankruptcy of U.S. is ‘Mathematical Certainty

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John Allison, who for two decades served as chairman and CEO of BB&T, the nation's 10th largest bank, told CNSNews.com it is a “mathematical certainty” that the United States government will go bankrupt unless it dramatically changes its fiscal direction.

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Barak and Netanyahu United in Desire to Attack Iran

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The fall of Labor unites Barak and Netanyahu in the only way they ever could be, their mutual desire to start a major war with Iran.

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End of Euro? ... Ireland Prints Own Notes

by element115

...learnt last night that the Central Bank of Ireland is financing €51bn of an emergency loan programme by printing its own money.

Europe is at "a historic turning point."

The bell tolls. Ireland's "emergency" printing of euros is perhaps the first strike; we shall see if Europe listens.

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Top Secret America: Expensive, Chaotic and Dangerous

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Last July the Washington Post published a three-part story on "the huge security buildup in the United States after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks." This week, the Post published "Monitoring America," the fourth installment of its "Top Secret America" series, describing security efforts at the local level.

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Indignez-vous! (Cry Out!), Hessel's Bestseller

January 17, 2011 by element115

The latest call to (non-violent) arms has turned a 93-year-old war hero into a publishing phenomenon.

...to recapture the wartime spirit of resistance to the Nazis by rejecting the "insolent, selfish" power of money and markets and by defending the social "values of modern democracy".

-----> English Translation

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Ex-banker says he's giving Wikileaks files on rich

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A former Swiss banker on Monday supplied documents to WikiLeaks that he alleges detail attempts by wealthy business leaders and lawmakers to evade tax payments.

Rudolf Elmer, an ex-employee of Swiss-based Bank Julius Baer, said there were 2,000 account holders named in the documents.

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There Are No Words To Describe The Following

January 14, 2011 by element115

Extremely important clip. Please share it anywhere and everywhere across the net. Our only hope to stop the heist will come from greater awareness.

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McCarthy Comes to the Knesset

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It seems inevitable that after 44 years in which one nation occupies another and deprives it of basic human and civil rights, the occupying society would also come to be affected by the occupation. Indeed, increasingly the tools of occupation — the restrictions of personal and political freedoms — are no longer confined to the territories. These methods are now being extended beyond the Green Line, which divides sovereign Israel from the occupied West Bank, and are tainting Israeli democracy. The rise of Avigdor Lieberman — whose Yisrael Beiteinu party sponsored the push for the investigative panel — and the presence in the Knesset of unabashed racists like Michael Ben-Ari, a Kahanist who represents the National Union party, is testament to how the ongoing occupation is penetrating Israeli society.

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Congress quietly prepares to renew Patriot Act

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Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) has introduced a little-noticed bill that intends to once again renew controversial provisions of the Bush administration's USA Patriot Act that are due to expire this year.

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25 Hard Questions That You Will Not See Asked On CNN, MSNBC Or Fox News

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There is a reason why so many millions of people are turning to the alternative media for their news today. The truth is that there are a whole lot of important things that the mainstream media will simply not talk about.

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America's "War on Drugs": CIA- Recruited Mercenaries and Drug-Traffickers

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When Nixon first declared war on drugs in 1971, there were fewer than 500,000 hard-core addicts in the nation, most of whom were addicted to heroin. Three decades later, despite the expenditure of $1 trillion in tax dollars, the number of hard-core addicts is shortly expected to exceed five million.

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JP Morgan bankers get $10bn pay and bonus pot

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...the payments were "a slap in the face to ordinary people".

"While bankers wallow in cash, the general public are suffering unemployment and cuts to public services."

Overall, the company made net earnings of $4.8bn for the final three months of last year, up 47%. For 2010 as a whole JP Morgan posted a net income of $17.4bn on revenues of $104.8bn, close to 50% higher than a year ago.

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Norway says it will be first EU nation to recognise Palestine

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"I have already informed the Palestinian officials that Norway will a leading country in recognising the Palestinian state once the new state's institutions and infrastructure are created and set up as per the programmes announced by the Palestinian Authority," the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Norway said.

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One Year After Haiti Earthquake, Corporations Profit While People Suffer

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One year after an earthquake devastated Haiti, much of the promised relief and reconstruction aid has not reached those most in need. In fact, the nation's tragedy has served as an opportunity to further enrich corporate interests.

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Emergency rule imposed in Tunisia

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The Tunisian president has imposed a state of emergency and fired the country's government amid violent clashes between protesters and security forces, state media has reported.

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Brazil disaster leaves 400 dead

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Brazil grappled yesterday with its worst natural disaster in more than four decades, as nearly 400 people died when torrents of mud and water swept down crowded hillsides near Rio de Janeiro, washing away scores of homes.

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Silvio Berlusconi investigated in teenage prostitution case

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Silvio Berlusconi has been formally placed under investigation on suspicion of paying for sex with a 17-year old girl, according to a statement issued today by prosecutors in Milan.

He was further accused of abusing his position as Italy's prime minister by bringing pressure to bear on the police to cover up his alleged relationship with the girl, who was working as a prostitute. The two alleged offences carry sentences totalling 15 years in jail.

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Freedom in decline worldwide

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In "Freedom in the World 2011" the Washington-based Freedom House said it had documented the longest continuous period of decline since it began compiling the annual index nearly 40 years ago.

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Russia nears arms pact approval, warns on pullout

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Russia's parliament moved closer to approving a landmark arms reduction treaty with Washington Friday by amending domestic legislation to stress that Moscow could withdraw from the pact if it felt threatened by the West.

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iPhone brainwave detector arrives

January 13, 2011 by element115

...allows users to control on-screen objects with their minds as well as train their brains to control attention spans and relaxation levels.

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The Use of Lethal Gas in occupied Palestine

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A new year begins and the terror of the Zionist entity continues. With the first day of 2011, Jawaher Abu Rahmah, 36 years old, died in hospital after being asphyxiated by the poisonous tear gas fired by Israeli occupation soldiers at Palestinians, Israelis and Internationals who were protesting the Israeli wall and the theft of Palestinian land in Bil’in the day before.

The Zionist entity has a long history of using unknown and illegal weapons against the Palestinians, including the use of lethal and unknown chemicals and poisonous gases. Read on -->

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Israeli Army Chief Resisted DM’s Calls to Attack Iran

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Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, who portrays himself to the international community as the lone moderate in Israel’s far-right coalition government, drew up plans to launch an unprovoked attack on Iran last year, according to media reports.

His effort to do so ultimately failed, but only when Israeli Army Chief General Gabi Ashkenazi stepped in and warned that starting a major war with Iran would “bring disaster.”

It was Ashkenazi’s opposition to starting the war, according to the report, that led to his repalcement by Gen. Yoav Galant.

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IN ISRAEL THEY SHACKLE (PALESTINIAN) CHILDREN

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Perhaps the most shocking of all things in Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians is the way that children are treated. It is unimaginable that an Jewish Israeli child would be brought to court in shackles or even be placed in a court of law.

Beatings and abuse of children by the Israeli military is common and judges, such as the one below, don’t even blink an eye. Thus is legal racism established.

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