Thousands march in Mozambique to demand peace, security

October 31, 2013 by element115
Tens of thousands of Mozambicans marched in the capital Maputo and two other cities on Thursday to protest against the threat of armed conflict in the country and a spate of kidnappings by criminal gangs.
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Israelis strike shipment of Russian missiles at Syrian port

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The revelation came as the government of President Bashar Assad met a key deadline in an ambitious plan to eliminate Syria's entire chemical weapons stockpile by mid-2014 and avoid international military action.

The announcement by a global chemical weapons watchdog that the country has completed the destruction of equipment used to produce the deadly agents highlights Assad's willingness to co-operate, and puts more pressure on the divided and outgunned rebels to attend a planned peace conference.
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NSA secretly broke into Yahoo, Google data centre links around world

October 30, 2013 by element115
NSA sends millions of records every day from Yahoo and Google internal networks to data warehouses at the agency's Fort Meade, Md., headquarters. In the last 30 days, field collectors had processed and sent back more than 180 million new records — ranging from "metadata," which would indicate who sent or received emails and when, to content such as text, audio and video.
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How Coconut Oil May Rescue The Brain From Alzheimer's Disease

October 29, 2013 by element115
The researchers sought to test the hypothesis that coconut oil is beneficial for neurodegenerative conditions using a cell model. Live rat neurons were exposed to various combinations of Aβ peptide and coconut oil, with the result that Aβ peptide reduced survival of neurons and coconut protected against this Aβ-induced reduction in survival time. The researchers noted that coconut treated Aβ cultured neurons appeared "healthier," and that coconut oil "rescued" Aβ-treated neurons from mitochondrial damage caused by their toxicity. The researchers observed coconut oil preventing Aβ-induced changes in mitochondrial size and circularity. These findings have great significance, as mitochondria function is often compromised in the brains of Alzheimer's disease patients.
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“Secrets R US”: America’s Spying Apparatus

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How Our Corporate Overlords, Politicians and Media Establishment Warp Reality and Undermine Democracy.
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Bill to Curb NSA Spying Introduced Today

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Public revelations about classified government surveillance programs have brought renewed attention to the powerful authorities contained in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), and in particular the implications for the privacy rights of law-abiding Americans.
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Iran pledges ‘new approaches’ with UN nuke agency

October 28, 2013 by element115
Araghchi did not give details about Iran’s position, but in remarks to reporters loaded with optimism, he spoke of a “very useful and constructive meeting” with Amano, and said he was “very hopeful” that the talks on the proposed probe will break “with a good result.”
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Now it’s Spain’s turn to be outraged at U.S. spying allegations

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News that the NSA monitored some 60 million phone calls in Spain – in just one month – came on the heels of similar revelations of NSA espionage targeted at putative U.S. allies France and Germany.
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NSA spied on Merkel since 2002, German report says

October 27, 2013 by element115
Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich was quoted Sunday as telling newspaper Bild am Sonntag he wants "complete information on all accusations" and that "if the Americans intercepted cellphones in Germany, they broke German law on German soil." He added wiretapping is a crime and "those responsible must be held accountable."
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Israel issues warning on report on Iran bomb

October 26, 2013 by element115
"We have made it crystal clear – in all possible forums, that Israel will not stand by and watch Iran develop weaponry that will put us, the entire Middle East and eventually the world, under an Iranian umbrella of terror," Danny Danon, Israel's deputy defense minister told USA TODAY.
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Merkel, EU leaders denounce alleged US spying on allies

October 24, 2013 by element115
The latest revelations that the U.S. National Security Agency swept up more than 70 million phone records in France and may have tapped Merkel's own mobile phone brought denunciations from the German and French governments.
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NationsTurn to U.N. to Restrain American Spies

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Brazil and Germany today joined forces to press for the adoption of a U.N. General Resolution that promotes the right of privacy on the internet, marking the first major international effort to restrain the National Security Agency's intrusions into the online communications of foreigners, according to diplomatic sources familiar with the push.
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Snowden: NSA keeps record of every telephone call in the United States

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"Today, no telephone in America makes a call without leaving a record with the NSA. Today, no Internet transaction enters or leaves America without passing through the NSA's hands," Snowden said in a statement Thursday.
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Report: NSA Spied on 124 Billion Phone Calls in One Month

October 23, 2013 by element115
Documents revealing details about the NSA’s Boundless Informant program show that information regarding billions of phone calls and computer communications was collected by the agency from across the world.
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U.S. drone strikes may amount to war crimes, report finds

October 22, 2013 by element115
Amnesty International said the cases it investigated may even amount to war crimes and it's calling for investigations into the attacks, along with Human Rights Watch.

Human Rights Watch issued a 97-page report Tuesday that examines six incidents, most using armed drones, from 2009 to 2013. At least 57 civilians died because of the strikes, which killed 82 people.
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Arafat poisoned to death: Lancet medical journal

October 13, 2013 by element115
According to British journal the Lancet, Arafat was poisoned with the radioactive element polonium 210.
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ROGER WATERS SETS THE RECORD STRAIGHT: ISRAEL IS AN APARTHEID STATE, “CLEAR AND SIMPLE”!

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Waters shows he has a sophisticated understanding of the realities facing Palestinians, when responding to Hadar’s challenge over the use of the term “apartheid.” As the transcript of Waters’ response states:

But the fact is that there are different rules of law for Arabs and Jews. Completely different. In the occupied territories, Jews are governed under a civil law and have completely different rules in terms of their movement and so on and so forth … and the occupied people, the Palestinians and the Arabs, are under martial law. And it’s a completely different set of laws. They also have completely different sets of documents.

It’s just like the old pass laws in South Africa. It is apartheid. Clear and simple. If you go and look at the definition of what the crime of apartheid is, then it describes perfectly what’s going on in the West Bank. And not quite so perfectly, but also, Gaza, which is under siege, it’s completely surrounded. They have no freedom. When one race or ethnic group subjugates another race or ethnic group, to its power and control, that is the crime of apartheid.

Waters does not limit his criticism to the West Bank and Gaza Strip, noting that “It’s also going on in Israel itself. There are different laws depending on if you’re Jewish or if you’re Arab.”
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Egypt frees two Canadians

October 6, 2013 by element115
Egypt's military-backed authorities have released two Canadians held without charge for seven weeks, the Canadian government says.
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Killjoy was here: Netanyahu at the UN

October 5, 2013 by element115
Uri Avnery examines the pathetic figure of Israel’s prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, a bore standing before an almost empty hall at the General Assembly, using false analogies and making empty threats.
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