'Extreme surveillance' becomes UK law with barely a whimper

November 19, 2016 by element115
A bill giving the UK intelligence agencies and police the most sweeping surveillance powers in the western world has passed into law with barely a whimper, meeting only token resistance over the past 12 months from inside parliament and barely any from outside.

US whistleblower Edward Snowden tweeted: “The UK has just legalised the most extreme surveillance in the history of western democracy. It goes further than many autocracies.”
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French PM: Europe at risk of collapse; France, Germany must lead

November 17, 2016 by element115
The European Union is in danger of breaking apart unless France and Germany, in particular, work harder to stimulate growth and employment and heed citizens' concerns, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said in the German capital on Thursday.
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Britain has passed the 'most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy'

by element115
The law will force internet providers to record every internet customer's top-level web history in real-time for up to a year, which can be accessed by numerous government departments; force companies to decrypt data on demand -- though the government has never been that clear on exactly how it forces foreign firms to do that that; and even disclose any new security features in products before they launch.
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DNA-editing breakthrough could fix 'broken genes' in the brain, delay ageing and cure incurable diseases

by element115
The Independent --> Scientists have discovered a new way to edit DNA that could fix “broken genes” in the brain, cure previously incurable diseases and potentially even extend the human lifespan.

The breakthrough – described as a “holy grail” of genetics – was used to partially restore the sight of rats blinded by a condition which also affects humans.

“We now have a technology that allows us to modify the DNA of non-dividing cells, to fix broken genes in the brain, heart and liver.

“It allows us for the first time to be able to dream of curing diseases that we couldn’t before.
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Professor Stephen Hawking says humans will be WIPED OUT in 1,000 years

November 16, 2016 by element115
The world's most influential scientist says humans must continue to go into space to find a new place to live or otherwise face mass extinction
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Russia withdraws signature from international criminal court statute

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Russia has said it is formally withdrawing its signature from the founding statute of the international criminal court, a day after the court published a report classifying the Russian annexation of Crimea as an occupation.

The Russian foreign ministry made the announcement on Wednesday on the orders of the president, Vladimir Putin, saying the tribunal had failed to live up to hopes of the international community and denouncing its work as “one-sided and inefficient”.
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Physicists just discovered a second state of liquid water

by element115
...physicists have demonstrated that somewhere between the temperatures of 40 and 60 degrees Celsius (104 and 140 degrees Fahrenheit), liquid water can 'switch' states, exhibiting a whole new set of properties depending on the state it flips to.
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British woman who says she was gang raped arrested on 'extra-marital sex' charges in Dubai as attackers go free

by element115
When she reported the rape at a police station, she was allegedly arrested for breaking Emirati laws against extra-marital sex, while her attackers have since flown home to the UK.

Radha Stirling, the founder and director of Detained in Dubai, said the case a “tremendously disturbing“ example of long-running abuses in the holiday resort.

"Police regularly fail to differentiate between consensual intercourse and violent rape,” she added. "Victims go to them expecting justice, and end up being prosecuted. They not only invalidate their victimisation, they actually punish them for it."
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Snowden: Stop Relying on Facebook for Your News

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“To have one company that has enough power to reshape the way we think, I don’t think I need to describe how dangerous that is,” he said.

...the former CIA employee turned whistleblower said the fact that fake news is available on Facebook isn’t so much of a problem, but the bigger issue is that Facebook is the only news source for many people.
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US transgender people rush to legally change gender in wake of Donald Trump's win

by element115
In a race against the clock, transgender people have been connecting on Twitter using the hashtag #TransLawHelp with lawyers offering to help them make the changes free of charge before Trump takes office on Jan 20, 2017.

Last week's victory for Trump has left many transgender advocates fearing a backlash against their community after the Republican candidate sent mixed messages on transgender rights during the campaign.

Trump's choice for vice-president, Mike Pence, has rankled many lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights activists who are wary of the current Indiana governor's years of opposition to gay rights.
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German far-Right extremists teaming up with gangs in America and Europe to plan attacks, intelligence chief warns 

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Mr Maassen's remarks came after the Verfassungsschutz's annual report revealed that cases of far-Right violent acts in Germany had increased by 42 per cent to 1,408 in 2015.

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US army and CIA may be guilty of war crimes in Afghanistan, says ICC

November 15, 2016 by element115
US armed forces and the CIA may have committed war crimes by torturing detainees in Afghanistan, the international criminal court’s chief prosecutor has said in a report, raising the possibility that American citizens could be indicted even though Washington has not joined the global court.
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Trump in the White House: An Interview With Noam Chomsky

November 14, 2016 by element115
"On November 8, the most powerful country in world history, which will set its stamp on what comes next, had an election. The outcome placed total control of the government—executive, Congress, the Supreme Court—in the hands of the Republican Party, which has become the most dangerous organization in world history.

The Party is dedicated to racing as rapidly as possible to destruction of organized human life. There is no historical precedent for such a stand.

Is this an exaggeration? Consider what we have just been witnessing."
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It’s Worse Than You Think

by element115
by Chris Hedges: Widespread social unrest will ignite when Donald Trump’s base realizes it has been betrayed. I do not know when this will happen. But that it will happen is certain. Investments in the stocks of the war industry, internal security and the prison-industrial complex have skyrocketed since Trump won the presidency. There is a lot of money to be made from a militarized police state.

Our capitalist democracy ceased to function more than two decades ago. We underwent a corporate coup carried out by the Democratic and Republican parties. There are no institutions left that can authentically be called democratic. Trump and Hillary Clinton in a functioning democracy would have never been presidential nominees. The long and ruthless corporate assault on the working class, the legal system, electoral politics, the mass media, social services, the ecosystem, education and civil liberties in the name of neoliberalism has disemboweled the country. It has left the nation a decayed wreck. We celebrate ignorance. We have replaced political discourse, news, culture and intellectual inquiry with celebrity worship and spectacle.
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China's President Calls Trump, Tells Him "Cooperation Is The Only Choice"

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"During the call, the leaders established a clear sense of mutual respect for one another, and President-elect Trump stated that he believes the two leaders will have one of the strongest relationships for both countries moving forward," a statement from Trump's presidential transition office said. The two agreed to maintain close communications and meet soon.
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Putin & Trump discuss Syria and US-Russia relations in phone call

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In their telephone conversation, the two leaders agreed that they share a common view on “uniting efforts in the fight with the common enemy number one – international terrorism and extremism,” the Kremlin said in a statement published on its website late Monday. The Kremlin added that Putin and Trump also discussed ways to settle the Syria crisis.
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Report: Two-thirds of the world's internet users live under government censorship

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Web freedom declined across the globe for the sixth consecutive year, according to a new report.

The findings are based on an analysis of web freedom in 65 countries, covering 88 percent of the world's online population.
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Renegade states plan to pull off their own Brexit and ditch the US for Canada

by element115
Momentum is building for a proposal which would see California, Oregon, Nevada and Washington state ditch a USA run by Donald Trump.

Those that propose the historic shift claim it is the perfect solution, as it allows Republicans to do their thing under Trump while those who object to him can pledge allegiance to Canada instead.

Canada’s prime minister Justin Trudeau has already promised to take in Syrian refugees, legalise marijuana and tackle climate change – pretty different to Donald Trump’s take on things.
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First at-home brain implant lets “locked in” woman talk, venture outdoors

by element115
A paralysed woman, who is "almost completely locked in," has become the first person to use a fully implanted brain-computer interface at home in day-to-day life without constant doctor supervision.
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Yes, Trump will have broad power to crack down on immigration

by element115
Presidents have the power to bar access to the U.S. to specific immigrants or entire classes of immigrants. That power is laid out in the Immigration and Nationality Act, which allows a president to block would-be immigrants if they are deemed "detrimental to the interests of the United States."

...so far, it looks like he will be able to follow through on many of his pledges — with or without help from Congress.
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As New Zealand earthquake struck, mysterious green and blue flashes appeared

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Incredible footage filmed during the New Zealand earthquake shows the night sky lighting up with bright colours.

Quick-thinking New Zealanders managed to film the scene in Wellington while the powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck near Christchurch.

Zachary Bell said he filmed a video at ‘the peak of the shaking’, noting that ‘the sky began to light up with colours’ over the sea.
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Who is Stephen Bannon? How he fits in Trump’s unusual inner circle, and why he worries so many

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President-elect Donald Trump’s West Wing team is beginning to take shape, and it includes an unusually prominent role for the conservative media mogul whose site – known for white-supremacist, misogynist rhetoric – helped bring the Republicans to power.

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Privacy experts fear Donald Trump running global surveillance network

November 12, 2016 by element115
Concerns raised that current US and UK surveillance system is ‘ripe for further abuse under an autocratic, power-obsessed president’

Privacy and human rights campaigners in the US and UK say a Trump presidency will tip the balance between surveillance and privacy decisively towards the former. The UK surveillance agency GCHQ is so tied up with America’s NSA, often doing work on its behalf, it could find itself facing a series of ethical dilemmas.

On the campaign trail, Trump made an ambiguous remark about wishing he had access to surveillance powers.

“I wish I had that power,” he said while talking about the hack of Democratic National Committee emails. “Man, that would be power.”
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At Least 500,000 Protest In South Korea Demanding Resignation Of Their President

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The crowd of at least 500,000 people, according to Reuters, held candles and signs reading "Resign," sang pop songs and patriotic numbers, and marched together toward the Blue House, the presidential home and office complex.

"It's an explosion of their feelings," demonstrator Jinwon Kim says of the crowds. "People are very angry."
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Swedish Nazi group hails Trump in largest demo yet

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Sweden’s neo-Nazi Nordic Resistance Movement mounted the biggest march in its history on Saturday, with its leadership saying the election of Donald Trump in the US marked the start of a world revolution.
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Peru to plant 2 million hectares of trees to restore Amazon forest

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President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski said gaps need to be bridged across the country, and announced Peru will plant 2 million hectares of trees to restore Amazon forest.
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Donald Trump May Select an Architect of Bush’s Torture Program to Run CIA

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Rodriguez, the former director of the National Clandestine Service, helped developed the CIA black sites, secret prisons operated in foreign countries where interrogators used a range of torture tactics, including the use of “waterboarding,” the simulated drowning technique once used by the Khmer Rouge and Nazi agents to glean information from detainees.

At least 136 individuals were detained and tortured by the CIA. Interrogation tactics also included forced nudity, sleep deprivation while being vertically shackled, and confinement in a small box.

Rodriguez is unapologetic about his role in the program, telling 60 Minutes that “we did the right thing for the right reason,” even if it meant “going to the border of legality.”
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‘Trump’s election heralds coming of Messiah’ says Israeli Minister of the Interior

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Shas chairman and Interior Minister Arye Deri said Thursday that Donald Trump’s election could herald the coming of the Messiah due to the blow he expects the next president will strike against the “non-Orthodox Jewish hold on the US government.”

“There is no doubt that one can give thanks to God that all those who have damned the [Jewish] covenant and would wipe out Judaism, thinking they could take control over the Land of Israel here and lead reforms in order to cause destruction received their blow,” Deri said.
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Jihadists bombarded Aleppo neighborhood with chemical weapons

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"Rapid sample analysis shows that the toxic substances in the militants’ artillery ammunition were chlorine and white phosphorus," an expert from the Russian center of radiological, chemical, and biological defense said.

These substances are banned by the Chemical Weapons Convention on January 13, 1993. The Russian center has set up a mobile laboratory in Aleppo but the sample analysis will be taken to the scientific laboratory of the military radiological, chemical, and biological defense center in Moscow that is accredited by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.
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The Foul Stench of Fascism in the US  

by element115
As of this election, even straight, white Americans will be pushed to the margins. We have not only emboldened a white racist backlash against black and brown people, we have emboldened a backlash against anyone who is not white in the right way.

This is what we have become. This is what decades of Democratic complacency and Republican racism have led to. This is what decades of liberals' silent acceptance of racism and misogyny have led to.

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Thousands gather in U.S. cities for 4th day of anti-Trump protests

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Demonstrators were gathering again Saturday in cities across the United States to protest against president-elect Donald Trump, who they say will threaten their civil and human rights.

Rallies were scheduled throughout the day in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, where organizers said they hoped to continue the momentum after several nights of demonstrations triggered by the real-estate mogul's surprise win in Tuesday's presidential election.
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Texas Community Goes Underground For Doomsday Prep

by element115
Some upper-income Texans are headed down below, not Australia, but below the surface.
“People are getting fearful of this world — there’s ISIS, there are things like Zika virus to race relation and the police brutality they see on TV — people are nervous. People want a place they can have safety for themselves and for the future of their families,” Whitt added.
“We’ve evolved it into long-term sustainability instead of a survival community,” Trident Lakes CEO Jim O’Connor told the Houston Chronicle, adding that the 400 planned condos will house about 1,600 people. “The concept is to build a community that will last two centuries or longer. That means we’re looking at designs that include earth structures that won’t be exposed to the elements.”

Residents will first be able to move-in possibly as soon as 2018
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Massive cyberattack hit five top Russian banks

November 11, 2016 by element115
A massive cyberattack has hit at least five of Russia's largest banks, Moscow-based internet security giant Kaspersky said Thursday.

These attacks saw as many as 660,000 requests being sent per second using a network of more than 24,000 hijacked devices located in 30 countries. More than half the devices were in the United States, India, Taiwan and Israel, Kaspersky said.

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Julian Assange talks to John Pilger (FULL INTERVIEW)

November 10, 2016 by element115


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FBI will not change decision regarding Hillary Clinton's emails

November 6, 2016 by element115
Hillary OFF the hook as FBI Director James Comey reveals the department will NOT change its July decision after further email investigation.
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CSIS broke law by keeping sensitive metadata, Federal Court rules

by element115
A Federal Court judge says Canada's spy agency illegally kept potentially revealing electronic data about people over a 10-year period.
At a press conference in Ottawa Thursday afternoon, CSIS Director Michel Coulombe said the agency accepted the court's decision and has "taken immediate actions to respond."
Coulombe said CSIS has halted all access to, and analysis of, the data in order to assess the "operational" impact of the ruling and to determine the way forward.
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Julian Assange Has Confirmed That The U.S. Government Is Lying To The American People About Russia

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WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange has unequivocally stated in a must-watch interview with award-winning Australian journalist John Pilger that the Russian government is not the source of the leaked emails that have been rocking America’s election cycle this year. This directly contradicts statements made by both the executive branch of the U.S. government and by Democratic leading lady Hillary Clinton.

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Julian Assange: Isis and Clinton Foundation are both funded by Saudi Arabia and Qatar

November 5, 2016 by element115
Wealthy officials from Qatar and Saudi Arabia who donated money to Hillary Clinton’s charitable foundation also provided financial support to Isis, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has claimed.

In an extended interview at the Ecuadorian embassy in London with documentary maker John Pilger for RT, Mr Assange said the same Saudi and Qatari officials could be seen to be supporting both the Clinton Foundation – founded by Mrs Clinton’s husband Bill – and funding the activities of Isis.

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Did a DAPL Security Worker Wielding an AR-15 Rifle Try to Infiltrate Native Water Protectors?

November 1, 2016 by element115
Video: On Friday, Amnesty International dispatched human rights observers
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Emails show how America is run

October 31, 2016 by element115
...in truth their significance goes far beyond mere scandal: they are a window into the soul of the Democratic party and into the dreams and thoughts of the class to whom the party answers.

...the WikiLeaks releases furnish us with an opportunity to observe the upper reaches of the American status hierarchy in all its righteousness and majesty.


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French surveillance law is unconstitutional after all, highest court says

October 25, 2016 by element115
Giving government spies unfettered access to everyone's wireless communications is not such a good idea after all.
...as the lack of oversight is likely to result in a disproportionate invasion of privacy, the council ruled Friday.
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ISIS executes 284 people including children in Mosul

October 23, 2016 by element115
Al Sumaria News stated, “The victims were killed by firing squad at the School of Agriculture which has a campus located to the north of Mosul. The victims were brought to the execution site in three consecutive batches,” adding that, “After the execution the bodies were transferred by bulldozers to mass graves at the same area.”
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Saudi Arabia ‘deliberately targeting impoverished Yemen’s farms and agricultural industry’

by element115
Increasing evidence suggests Kingdom is not merely bombing civilians in neighbouring country, but systematically targeting infrastructure survivors will need to avoid starvation when the war is over.

The Yemen war uniquely combines tragedy, hypocrisy and farce. First come the casualties: around 10,000, almost 4,000 of them civilians. Then come those anonymous British and American advisers who seem quite content to go on “helping” the Saudi onslaughts on funerals, markets and other obviously (to the Brits, I suppose) military targets.
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WikiLeaks Director Found Dead

by element115
WikiLeaks director and founder of the Centre for Investigative Journalism, Gavin MacFadyen has died at age 76.
The cause of death is yet unknown.
MacFadyen was a pioneering investigative journalist and filmmaker. In 2003, founded the Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ), an organization that helped break several major stories and has trained a number of prominent journalists.
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The US told Ecuador to kick Wikileaks off the internet

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The US government quietly urged Ecuador to cut off internet access for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, according to intelligence officials who spoke with NBC News.

"It was a bit of an eviction notice," one senior intelligence official said.
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Is Washington “False Flagging” The New Axis of Evil, Into Nuclear War?  

October 22, 2016 by element115
False flagging has hundreds of years of history; successful history that is. Otherwise the method of lying and bullying people into false believes would not have survived the times.

The penultimate goal is total militarization of the western world, to prevent and suppress protests and revolts if and when the population eventually wakes up to the flagrant lies that it has been force-fed by the presstitute media for years on end.

And that in itself is a crucial step towards the ultimate goal of Full Spectrum Dominance of the world, or world hegemony, by a small corporate and financial elite.
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This Election Circus Is A Disservice To The People

October 21, 2016 by element115
Personally they are both east coast elite and don't give a fu***** sh** what real people care about.
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Clinton Emails Reveal Direct US Sabotage Of Venezuela 

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While Hillary Clinton publicly welcomed improved relations with Venezuela as secretary of state, she privately ridiculed the country and continued to support destabilization efforts, revealed her emails leaked by WikiLeaks.
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 The Aleppo/Mosul Riddle     

by element115
The hegemonic narrative about the ongoing Battle of (East) Aleppo is that an “axis of evil” (as coined by Hillary Clinton) of Russia, Iran and “the Syrian regime” is relentlessly bombing innocent civilians and “moderate rebels” while causing a horrendous humanitarian crisis.

In fact, the absolute majority of these several thousand-strong “moderate rebels” is in fact incorporated and/or affiliated with Jabhat Fatah al-Sham (Conquest of Syria Front), which happens to be none other than Jabhat al-Nusra, a.k.a. al-Qaeda in Syria, alongside a smatter of other jihadi groups such as Ahrar al-Sham (Al-Nusra’s goals – and who supports them – are fully documented here).
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Scientists Accidentally Discover Efficient Process to Turn CO2 Into Ethanol

October 18, 2016 by element115
Scientists at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee have discovered a chemical reaction to turn CO2 into ethanol, potentially creating a new technology to help avert climate change. Their findings were published in the journal ChemistrySelect.

The process is cheap, efficient, and scalable, meaning it could soon be used to remove large amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere.
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The battle for Mosul is being streamed live on Facebook

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Since being launched this summer, Facebook Live has been used to put up a variety of popular video offerings, such as tutorials on makeup and food. There have even been interviews with rock-music legends.

But the live streaming of war — with viewers able to watch video feeds of the so-called Battle for Mosul as it got under way — seemed like a new direction for the social-media platform.
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Military leader of pro-Russian rebels assassinated

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"Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko is violating the ceasefire and has declared war on us," said Aleksandr Zakharchenko, who is the prime minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic.

The Beta agency is quoting an AFP report this Monday that said the site of Pavlov's killing was "ringed by military trucks, a light armored vehicle and about 50 armed men" last night.

Pavlov was killed by a bomb placed in the elevator of a building.
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Ecuador cut off Julian Assange's internet

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WikiLeaks on Monday morning tweeted that Assange’s internet connection had been “intentionally severed by a state party.”

“We can confirm Ecuador cut off Assange's internet access Saturday, 5pm GMT, shortly after publication of Clinton's Goldman Sachs speechs [sic],” the account tweeted Monday afternoon.
The embassy declined to comment on Monday.
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UK admits it spied illegally for 17 years, is sorry, won't stop

October 17, 2016 by element115
After more than a year of legal struggle, the UK’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal has issued a landmark ruling on the country's secret bulk collection program. That program, first revealed by Edward Snowden, allowed the country's surveillance agency, the GCHQ, to tap internet cables and build a detailed database of the country's communications with little to no legal oversight.

As a result, nothing has to change, and it’s unlikely that anyone involved in the program will face repercussions of any kind.


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Obama Tells CIA To Prepare For Cyber War With Russia

October 16, 2016 by element115
In what is looking more and more like a season finale of the HBO series "House of Cards" with each passing day, the Obama administration is now literally threatening a cyber war with Russia over allegations it was behind the hacking of Clinton's emails. According to an exclusive NBC report, the Obama administration "is contemplating an unprecedented cyber covert action" (though it's unclear how exactly it's covert if Biden is announcing it to the world via an interview with Chuck Todd) against Russia, in "retaliation for alleged" interference in the American presidential election, and has asked the CIA to draft plans for a "wide-ranging "clandestine" cyber operation designed to harass and "embarrass" the Kremlin leadership."
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Vladimir Putin : “Publish A World Map And Mark All The U.S. Military Bases On It

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Vladimir Putin pulls no punches in an interview with Corriere della Sera.

This is the full transcript of Corriere della Sera’s interview with Vladimir Putin
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Russia, China to mull joint response to US missile shield

October 14, 2016 by element115
Amid escalating U.S.-Russia tensions, the Russian military said it will cooperate with China on efforts to fend off a threat posed by the U.S. missile defense program.
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Wikileaks Releases Another 1,100 Emails From John Podesta

October 11, 2016 by element115
Moments ago, Wikileaks just released its third data dump from the hacked email account of Hillary Clinton's Campaign Chair, John Podesta, which is becoming a true headache for Hillary Clinton and her supporter base.

There are as many as 1,190 new emails in the latest release, adding to the more than 4,000 emails from Podesta already released by the whistleblowing website, and bringing the total to 5,336. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has claimed he is sitting on as much as 50,000 messages.

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Hillary In Email: Saudi Arabia And Qatar Are Funding ISIS

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Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton sent an email to her campaign chairman John Podesta in 2014, who was then-counselor to President Barack Obama, that said Saudi Arabia and Qatar are both giving financial and logistical support to the Islamic State and other extremist Sunni groups, according to a recent Wikileaks release.

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Russia: U.S. controlling an "international terrorist alliance"

September 29, 2016 by element115
“We can’t assess those statements as anything else but a call, a directive for action,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a briefing.

Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said Kirby’s statement amounted to “the most frank confession by the U.S. side so far that the whole ‘opposition’ ostensibly fighting a ‘civil war’ in Syria is a U.S.-controlled international terrorist alliance.”

“What makes Kirby’s statement particularly shocking is that the scale of direct U.S. influence on terrorists’ activity is global and reaches as far as Russia,” he said.
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This photo from Charlotte tells you all you need to know about policing in America

September 25, 2016 by element115
A line of police officers stand in the dark on a Charlotte, North Carolina, highway. They look like an occupying force with their helmets and face shields and various weaponry strapped all over their armored clothing. A large bus illuminates them with its headlights. The front of the bus declares in bright lights: “NOT IN SERVICE”.
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The Ukrainian attack on Russia's embassy is an attack on democracy

September 18, 2016 by element115
Last night, the Russian Embassy in Kiev was attacked by home-made missiles, fireworks and other flaming projectiles.

The attack on Russia's embassy in Kiev and the official Ukrainian obstruction of Russian attempts to organise voting in the Duma elections by Russian citizens at the Russian embassy are not minor harassment. They are gross violations of international law and interference in the democratic right of Russian citizens to participate in the elections in their country.
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“We are reaching a really terrifying conclusion for the whole world: That the White House is defending Islamic State. Now there can be no doubts about that.” – Russian Foreign Ministry

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US-led coalition jets have bombed Syrian government forces’ positions near the eastern city of Deir ez-Zor, killing 62 troops and “paving the way” for Islamic State militants, the Syrian Army General Command told the state television.

According to Syria’s official SANA news agency, the bombing took place on al-Tharda Mountain in the region of Deir ez-Zor and caused casualties and destruction on the ground.

Sixty-two Syrian soldiers were killed and over 100 injured in the airstrike by the US-led coalition, Russia’s Defense Ministry spokesman, Major-General Igor Konashenkov, said, citing information received from the Syrian General Command.
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Merkel demands that Poroshenko make "a decisive step" and implement Minsk Agreement

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel, in a telephone conversation with President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, called upon him to make a decisive step in the implementation of the Minsk agreements, to resolve the situation in Ukraine.
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The return of Turkey′s ′dirty war′ against the Kurds

September 17, 2016 by element115
The mystery of Kurdish politician Hursit Kulter has renewed concern that the Turkish state is forcibly disappearing people with impunity. His case highlights an all-out assault on the Kurdish movement.
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TTIP protesters take to streets across Germany

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Demonstrators took to the streets across Germany on Saturday to protest against the controversial new transatlantic trade agreement that would create the world’s biggest free market of 850 million consumers.

A recent survey in Germany found that about 28% of respondents doubted free trade would really bring benefits. Fifty-two percent thought it would lead to weaker standards and lower quality products.

Peter Gauweiler, who left Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union and resigned as an MP in protest against her handling of the eurozone crisis, has called TTIP and Ceta “a danger for democracy”. Writing in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, he denounced the proposed special court as a “form of secular sharia of capitalist managers”.

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Saudi 'royal allegedly involved in terrorism', claims Guantanamo prisoner

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An accused al-Qaeda bomb-maker who went to college in Arizona has claimed to military officials at the US base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, that he believed an unnamed member of the Saudi royal family was part of an effort to recruit him for violent extremist acts before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, according to a newly released transcript.
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Julian Assange Offers to Surrender to U.S. if Chelsea Manning Is Released

September 16, 2016 by element115
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the target of one of the largest national security investigations in U.S. history, agreed on Thursday to hand himself over to authorities. There’s only one catch.

In exchange for his surrender, Assange is asking President Barack Obama to grant clemency to Chelsea Manning, a former U.S. Army private convicted in 2013 of leaking sensitive government files to WikiLeaks. Under the U.S. Constitution, Obama has the authority to pardon or commute the sentences of prisoners convicted of federal crimes.
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Egyptian state media claims Isis is 'made up' and 9/11 was carried out by West to justify war on terror

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A columnist for a state-run newspaper in Egypt has suggested the US invented Isis and set up the 9/11 attacks to justify its military interventions in the Middle East.

“Is it possible to believe the official version, from the US government, of the events of 11 September 2001?” wrote journalist Noha Al-Sharnoubi in Al-Ahram, a major national Egyptian newspaper owned by the government.

Ms Al-Sharnoubi said the World Trade Centre and Pentagon attacks could have been premeditated to "justify the war on terror” in her column, published on 23 August.
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One in three Saudi air raids on Yemen hit civilian sites, data shows

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The findings, revealed by the Guardian on Friday, contrast with claims by the Saudi government, backed by its US and British allies, that Riyadh is seeking to minimise civilian casualties.

The survey, conducted by the Yemen Data Project, a group of academics, human rights organisers and activists, will add to mounting pressure in the UK and the US on the Saudi-led coalition, which is facing accusations of breaching international humanitarian law.
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In leaked emails, Colin Powell says Israel has 200 nukes

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While discussing Iran nuclear deal, former secretary of state apparently reveals extent of Jewish state’s alleged atomic arsenal
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China warns Taiwan not to allow visit by Dalai Lama

September 14, 2016 by element115
Beijing on Wednesday warned Taipei not to allow exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama to visit, after a high-profile Taiwanese legislator invited him to the island, a trip that would worsen already poor cross-strait ties.

Beijing regards the 80-year-old monk as a separatist.
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US agrees to give Israel $38bn in military aid

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The deal, which represents the largest military assistance pledge the US has made to any country.
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Someone is sending Putin a message

September 9, 2016 by element115
...the deadly accident that reportedly killed Vladimir Putin’s “favorite” chauffeur during a horrible crash in Moscow.
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Obama Offered Saudis Over $115 Billion in Arms Deals

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The new report from the Center for International Policy is revealing that over the course of his term in office, President Obama has offered Saudi Arabia over $115 billion in arms and other military equipment in 42 separate deals, by far the most of any US administration.
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Israel's biggest threat is potential civil war, not Iran - ex Mossad chief

September 7, 2016 by element115
The most pressing threat to Israel is not Iran, but rather the increased polarization within Israeli society, former Mossad chief Tamir Pardo said in his first public appearance since leaving office in June.

“Internal division,” Pardo said, “can lead us to civil war – we are already on a path toward that. If a society crosses a certain line in its division and hatred, it is a real possibility to see a phenomenon like a civil war.”

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Putin is ‘DELIBERATELY destabilising’ the world: US defence chief issues Russia warning

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America’s defence chief warned in a highly-charged assessment of the Kremlin that Russia had clear ambitions to erode international order.
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The 'impossible' EM Drive is about to be tested in space

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An actual EM Drive is about to be launched into space for the first time, so scientists can finally figure out - once and for all - if it really is possible for a rocket engine to generate thrust without any kind of exhaust or propellant.

The EM Drive - short for electromagnetic propulsion drive - purportedly works like this.
It uses electromagnetic waves as 'fuel', creating thrust by bouncing microwave photons back and forth inside a cone-shaped closed metal cavity. This causes the 'pointy end' of the EM Drive to accelerate in the opposite direction that the drive is going.
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New Snowden leaks reveal mystery behind NSA's UK base

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Newly leaked documents show that a US spying agency has used a British military base to carry out “capture-kill operations” across the Middle East.
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Is the US done with Poroshenko?

August 24, 2016 by element115
Oleg Tsarev has revealed the secrets behind some major Ukrainian political events, having given his insights as to who was behind the murder of Nemtsov and Sheremet, as well as the firing of Zurabov.

"Poroshenko is now concentrated all power in his own hands and actually has placed himself in opposition to everyone. He removed Yatsenyuk, and also removed almost all of the American stooges. Really Poroshenko today only has the support of the head of the SBU, Basil Hrycak, and they have known each other for about 20 years and support each other."

"About 100 thousand people have been killed during the conflict in Ukraine" - Oleg Tsarev
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'Declassified UK files reveal Israel sold arms to Argentina during Falklands War'

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The British Foreign Office has recently declassified documents that allegedly prove that Israel sold weapons to Argentina during the 1982 Falklands War between the Latin American nation and the UK.

The newly-released files that list evidence cited by British diplomats also reportedly note that Israel provided military equipment, including bomber jets, to Argentina's junta prior to the war and continued with the exports for years thereafter.
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Margaret Thatcher’s role in securing controversial £42bn arms deal with Saudi Arabia revealed

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The previously secret files show how officials helped then Prime Minister Mrs Thatcher carefully negotiate the notorious Al-Yamamah deal which saw Britain sell fighter jets to Saudi Arabia.

The documents detail a meeting and private lunch between Mrs Thatcher and King Fahd, soon after which the £42bn contract was clinched...
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U.S. Calls on Americans to Leave Gaza ‘As Soon As Possible’

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The United States on Tuesday called on Americans in the Gaza Strip to leave the coastal enclave “as soon as possible.”

Palestinian militants and the Israeli military have not engaged in a conflict since the seven-week war that began in July 2014 and left more than 2,200 Palestinians and 70 Israelis dead but flare-ups have been intermittent, particularly on the border between the two territories.

The U.S. State Department said that Americans in Gaza should enter into Israeli or Egyptian territory when they could due to the security threat to its citizens.
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