Backup Communications System Was 'Miraculously' Switched on for 'Exercise Mode' and Ready for Use on 9/11

January 10, 2011 by element115

A special backup network that allows communications between government and military agencies to continue during emergencies was "miraculously" switched on the day before 9/11, and so was already operational when the terrorist attacks in New York and at the Pentagon took place. The Special Routing Arrangement Service (SRAS) was, for reasons unknown, turned on for "exercise mode" on September 10, 2001, and was therefore ready to be utilized the following day, when there was a national emergency like that for which it was intended.

The SRAS is the responsibility of a little-known government agency called the National Communications System (NCS), which works to keep critical telecommunications functioning during emergencies and played a crucial role in the government's response to the 9/11 attacks, helping to maintain and restore communications networks. Furthermore, the SRAS is related to "Continuity of Government"--a plan that was activated for the first time during the attacks.

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Body of Wife of Senior White House Official Found in Burning Car

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Now this gets interesting, because Rosa DeLauro owned the house in which Rahm Emanuel lived rent-free during House sessions for five years. Word from DC is that the place was wired for audio and video.

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Iran says it has arrested spy ring linked to Israel

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Iran has arrested a "network of spies" linked to Israel's Mossad intelligence service which it blames for the assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist in 2010, Iran's state television reported on Monday.

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Accused Tucson Shooter Jared Loughner Smirks in Court, Smiles for Mug Shot

by element115

Federal officials released Loughner's mug shot, showing him smiling into the camera.

If convicted of murdering either of the federal employees, Loughner could be sentenced to death or be given life in prison.

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Former Reagan, Bush official killed, police say

January 9, 2011 by element115

Body of John Wheeler was found as garbage truck emptied contents at landfill.

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Congresswoman shot in Arizona rampage that leaves 6 dead

January 8, 2011 by element115

Giffords was shot in the head by an assailant who opened fire with a handgun on a crowd gathered at a local Safeway supermarket for the lawmaker’s “Congress on Your Corner” town hall meeting.

Eighteen people were shot in the shooting spree, according to local law-enforcement officials.

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Federal Judge Killed in Arizona Congresswoman Shooting

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One of the victims in today's deadly shooting in Tucson, Ariz., was Judge John Roll, 63, who had served on the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona since 1991.

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Arizona Assassin Obsessed With Mind Control

by element115

Jared Loughner, the gunman who shot Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and numerous other victims including a Federal Judge and a nine-year-old girl during a political event in Tucson today, was a US military recruit who was obsessed with mind control.

Jared Lee Loughner's YouTube Videos

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Six Zionist Companies Own 96% of the World’s Media

by element115

“You know very well, and the stupid Americans know equally well, that we control their government, irrespective of who sits in the White House. You see, I know it and you know it that no American president can be in a position to challenge us even if we do the unthinkable. What can they (Americans) do to us? We control congress, we control the media, we control show biz, and we control everything in America. In America you can criticize God, but you can’t criticize Israel…” - Israeli spokeswoman, Tzipora Menache

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US Boat to Gaza

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THE APPLICATION PROCESS IS NOW OPEN FOR THOSE WHO WISH TO APPLY TO SAIL ON THE U.S. BOAT TO GAZA, THE AUDACITY OF HOPE.

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Obama signs bill, stops Gitmo closure

by element115

US President Barack Obama has signed a major defense bill effectively preventing the closure of the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

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Obama's US Assassination Program?

by element115

Chuck Norris --> Sound too conspiratorial to be true? Like the cover-up ops of spy novels? Well, it's reality. And it is possibly the most bizarre, inhumane and abusive way that the White House is expanding its power over the American people.

It's not an extremist belief or theory of the far right. It's a fact that has been confirmed by The New York Times, The Washington Post and MSNBC.

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Israelis kill 65-year old paralyzed Palestinian man

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Israeli Army servicemen shot at and killed a 65-year old paralyzed Palestinian man in Hebron, in the West Bank, earlier today, as they arrested the man’s neighbour who was released from a Palestinian prison yesterday.

The Israeli Army officers have so far refrained from offering any comment on the incident.

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Castro: Israel, US killed nuke scientists

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Former Cuban President Fidel Castro on Friday accused Israel, the United States and Britain for the “massacre” of Iranian scientists.

The Cuban revolutionist claimed that the mercenaries who acted on behalf of these countries are also responsible for a series of other assassinations that are meant to thwart the development of an Iranian nuclear program.

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Israel Prepares Major Offensive against Gaza

by element115

Perhaps, worse in some respects than this Israeli war-mongering, is the stunning silence of the governments of the world, and of the United Nations.
This silence in the face of the accumulating evidence that Israel plans to launch Operation Cast Lead 2 is a devastating form of criminal complicity at the highest governmental levels, especially on the part of countries that have been closely aligned with Israel, and also exhibits the moral bankruptcy of the United Nations system.

We have witnessed the carnage of 'preemptive war' and 'preventive war' in Iraq, but we have yet to explore the moral and political imperatives of 'preemptive peace' and 'preventive peace.' How long must the peoples of the world wait?

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Confirmed: We’re Literally On the Brink of Catastrophic Collapse

by element115

Defaulting on or inflating away our debt are the only viable solutions. Both of these will lead to the same end - a complete and total collapse of the way of life Americans have become used to.

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Obama Eyeing Internet ID for Americans

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President Obama is planning to hand the U.S. Commerce Department authority over a forthcoming cybersecurity effort to create an Internet ID for Americans, a White House official said.
The Obama administration is currently drafting what it's calling the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace.

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U.S. Subpoenas Twitter Over WikiLeaks Supporters

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The United States Department of Justice has issued a subpoena for the Twitter account activity of several people linked to the WikiLeaks organization, including its founder, Julian Assange, according to the group and official documents.

In messages in its own Twitter feed, WikiLeaks confirmed the subpoena, and suggested that Google and Facebook might also have been issued with such legal demands.

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Bjork Launches Three-Day Eco Karaoke Marathon

January 7, 2011 by element115

Bjork is putting a creative spin on karaoke with the launch yesterday of a three-day signing marathon aimed at raising awareness of environmental issues.

Specifically, the 45-year-old singer/songwriter is trying to block a Canadian takeover of Iceland’s energy company HS Orka, insisting the country’s natural resources should remain under Icelandic control.

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Foreign interference continues to pose a threat to Canada's sovereignty

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"These clandestine efforts by foreign governments to influence our officials, policies and communities have the potential to undermine our ability to make independent decisions in Canada's national interests," CSIS director Richard Fadden wrote in a report to Public Safety Minister.

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Who was behind the blast in Alexandria?

by element115

In Egypt, too, Muslims and Christians are living in peace and harmony. Never, ever have the Christians in Egypt complained of any problems keeping them from carrying out their religious duties.

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Islamic group is CIA front

by element115

A memoir by a top former Turkish intelligence official claims that a worldwide moderate Islamic movement based in Pennsylvania has been providing cover for the CIA since the mid-1990s.

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Economic Consequences Of The “New World Order”

January 6, 2011 by element115

A common misconception among less aware segments of the American populace is that the phrase “New World Order” was concocted by attention seeking “conspiracy theorists” in dank basement apartments and sinister mountain shacks across the country.

The truth is that mumblings of a “New World Order” have been floating around various elitist circles for decades...

If we are to take anything from the recent Soros interview, it would be that the globalists are closing in on their target for the implementation of their new world order, or “new economic order”, or whatever interchangeable label they happen to be using at the moment.
But what does this mean for the rest of us?
When George Bush Sr., Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Henry Kissinger, Nicolas Sarkozy, Vladimir Putin, Gordon Brown, and so many others mention their desire for a “New World Order”, what exactly are they referring to?

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Aspartame exposed - GM Bacteria used to create deadly sweetener

by element115

The manufacturers of the most prevalent sweetener in the world have a secret, and it`s not a sweet one.

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US sets up center for 'secret war'

by element115

According to incumbent and former US officials, the center, run by the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), keeps an eye on the growing use of special operation strikes against individuals.

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ISRAELI RIGHT APPLAUDS ALL THAT IS WRONG

by element115

The Knesset has resolved to create a parliamentary committee of inquiry to look into the activities of left-wing groups “and their contribution to the delegitimization campaign against Israel.” Such a panel would make even Senator Joseph McCarthy blush.

The police, the legal system, the Knesset, the Shin Bet, and the IDF have joined forces with the propagandists of the right to act as prosecutors without a trial.

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Beyond Surveillance: Darpa Wants a Thinking Camera

by element115

Darpa announced yesterday that it’s moving forward in earnest with a program to endow cameras with “visual intelligence.” That’s the ability to process information from visual cues, contextualize its significance, and learn what other visual data is necessary to answer some pre-existing question. Visual-intelligence algorithms are already out there. They can read license plates in traffic or recognized faces (in limited, brighly-lit circumstances). But the programs are still relatively dumb; they simply help collate data that analysts have to go through. Darpa’s program, called Mind’s Eye, seeks to get humans out of the picture. If it works, it could change the world of surveillance overnight.

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'Dangerous' political websites blocked from viewing at Israel's airport

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Internet sites of political organizations, both left-wing and right-wing, have been barred from viewing at Ben-Gurion Airport, Haaretz has learned.

They are blocked by an information filtering company that classifies them as "dangerous."

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Israeli airstrikes hit Gaza twice overnight

by element115

According to the military, the sites targeted were a "Hamas terror activity center" in the central Gaza Strip and a smuggling tunnel in the south near Rafah.

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11 Reasons Why The Threat From Al-Qaeda is Not Real

by element115

Former CIA director William Colby famously said "The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media." Carl Bernstein revealed the relationship between the CIA and the media in his 1977 Rolling Stone article "The CIA and the Media.":

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Another Ice Age?

January 5, 2011 by element115

If you are really paying attention to what is happening all around us in the world you will see the shaping story and a tragedy of staggering proportions.
There is no doubt that the global climate is undergoing dramatic changes of ‘biblical’ proportion. And the evidence is mounting and human experience is shouting that it’s the cold that will bury us not the heat.

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Court OKs searches of cell phones without warrant

by element115

The California Supreme Court allowed police Monday to search arrestees' cell phones without a warrant, saying defendants lose their privacy rights for any items they're carrying when taken into custody.

Under U.S. Supreme Court precedents, "this loss of privacy allows police not only to seize anything of importance they find on the arrestee's body ... but also to open and examine what they find," the state court said in a 5-2 ruling.

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Mikhail Khodorkovsky: The latest victim of Vladimir Putin's vendetta politics

December 29, 2010 by element115

There was never going to be any other result. In modern-day Russia, challenging Putin is like standing in front of a tank. Either get out of the way or expect – sooner or later – to be flattened.

By refusing to back down, Khodorkovsky has become the latest in a long line of opponents to fall foul of Putin's vendetta politics. It is likely that he will not be the last.

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WikiLeaks cables: Bangladeshi 'death squad' trained by UK government

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The British government has been training a Bangladeshi paramilitary force condemned by human rights organisations as a "government death squad", leaked US embassy cables have revealed.

Members of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), which has been held responsible for hundreds of extra-judicial killings in recent years and is said to routinely use torture, have received British training in "investigative interviewing techniques" and "rules of engagement".

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Nicolas Sarkozy's internet police warn 100,000 illegal downloaders

by element115

Surveillance body dubbed Big Brother aims to stop France's huge culture of illegally accessing films and music online.

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UK: Police demand new powers to stop and search anyone, anytime

by element115

Police have asked the government for a new counter-terrorism power to stop and search people without having to suspect them of involvement in crime.

...the new law is needed to better protect the public against attempted terror attacks.

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US drone attacks are no laughing matter, Mr Obama

by element115

From the moment he stepped foot inside the White House, Obama set about expanding and escalating a covert CIA programme of "targeted killings" inside Pakistan, using Predator and Reaper drones armed with Hellfire missiles (who comes up with these names?) that had been started by the Bush administration in 2004.

...figures compiled by the Pakistani authorities suggest US strikes killed 701 people between January 2006 and April 2009, of which 14 were al-Qaida militants and 687 were civilians. That produces a hit rate of just 2% – or 50 civilians dead for every militant killed.

...the innocent victims of America's secret drone war have become "unpeople", in the words of the historian Mark Curtis – those whose lives are seen as expendable in the pursuit of the west's foreign policy goals. Killed via remote control, they remain unseen and unremembered.

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Haiti could devolve into civil war

by element115

The crisis gripping cholera-ridden Haiti in the wake of disputed elections and a debilitating earthquake could devolve into civil war, the nation's former interim leader said.

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Five arrested over Danish cartoon terror plot

by element115

The Danish intelligence agency PET said Wednesday it had arrested four men suspected of preparing a massacre at a newspaper which published caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed.

A spokeswoman for Swedish intelligence agency Saepo said a fifth man had been arrested in Sweden in connection with the same plot against the Copenhagen-based Jyllands-Posten daily.

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The naked truth about scanners

by element115

The solution for passengers? Get used to it.

Janet Napolitano, the secretary of homeland security, was interviewed Sunday by CNN’s Candy Crowley, and Napolitano said nothing was going to change “for the foreseeable future.”

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Britain forms plan for Gulf evacuation in event of war with Iran

by element115

The British armed forces are drawing up contingency plans to evacuate hundreds of thousands of British residents and tourists from Dubai and other Gulf cities in the event of war with Iran.

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The worsening journalistic disgrace at Wired

December 27, 2010 by element115

For more than six months, Wired's Senior Editor Kevin Poulsen has possessed -- but refuses to publish -- the key evidence in one of the year's most significant political stories: the arrest of U.S. Army PFC Bradley Manning for allegedly acting as WikiLeaks' source.

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WikiLeaks is not shielding Israel

by element115

Netanyahu's glee about non-publication of diplomatic cables on Tel Aviv is likely to be short-lived.

Assange disclosed that 3,700 documents relating to Israel, mostly emanating from the US Embassy in Tel Aviv, are due to be released over the next six months. He also said that many Israel-related documents already released were deliberately not published by the mainstream media.

Assange was also adamant that WikiLeaks has had no direct or indirect talks with the Israeli authorities and no deal has been done.

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Wikileaks: State Department Lied, Denying Dubai Asked for Assistance in Tracking Mossad Assassins

by element115

Wikileaks has just released a February 24, 2010 cable in which the embassy relays the specific credit card numbers used by 14 of the 27 known Mossad suspects to State with a request for assistance from authorities investigating the killing, and confirms that the UAE foreign minister made the exact same request directly to Secretary Clinton on February 23rd.

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Never Again, Gaza

by element115

They turned a blind eye when the Zionist entity besieged Gaza and turned it into the world’s biggest prison.
They closed their ears when one and a half million Palestinians were locked up in the concentration camp that Gaza has become.

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First ever encyclopedia documenting the Gaza war

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The reference book attempts to correct the past mistake of not recording Israel’s crimes. “The encyclopedia therefore protects history from being falsified, and provides a reliable reference with voice and picture.”

...the first ever electronic encyclopedia dubbed “the Gaza Holocaust”.

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AIPAC: ‘Thou shalt not recognize Palestine State’

by element115

Here is the latest case of the power of Israel Lobby (AIPAC). Last week the US lawmakers passed ‘unanimously’ Resolution 1765 – condemning unilateral measures to declare or recognize a Palestinian state.

According to former CIA counter-terrorism specialist and intelligence adviser, Philip Giraldi PhD, Resolution 1765 was drafted by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and sponsored by Congressman Howard Berman, currently Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. There were 53 co-sponsors.

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The Biggest Bank Robbery In The History Of The World

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The Wall Street Heist Of 2010

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The new Abu Ghraib

by element115

We, humans, should be sooooooo ashamed.
We need help.
We need help.

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Israeli foreign minister says peace is 'impossible'

by element115

"It's not only that it is impossible" to reach an overall agreement, said Avigdor Lieberman, "it is simply forbidden."

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The drums of war are heard again in Israel

by element115

...and they are sounded because once more Israel's invincibility in is question. Despite the triumphant rhetoric in the various media commemorative reports, two years after 'Cast Lead', the sense is that that campaign was as much of a failure as was the second Lebanon war of 2006. Unfortunately, leaders, generals and the public at large in the Jewish State know only one way of dealing with military debacles and fiascos. They can be redeemed only by another successful operation or war but one which has to be carried out with more force and be more ruthless than the previous one with the hope for better results in the next round.

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George Galloway takes on Canada's right wing governement

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Napolitano Announces Expansion of Gestapo Zones from Airports to Malls and Hotels

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“The United States is stepping up security at ‘soft targets’ like hotels and shopping malls, as well as trains and ports, as it counters the evolving Al-Qaeda threat, a top official said Sunday.”

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Cables Portray Expanded Reach of Drug Agency

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The Drug Enforcement Administration has been transformed into a global intelligence organization with a reach that extends far beyond narcotics, and an eavesdropping operation so expansive it has to fend off foreign politicians who want to use it against their political enemies, according to secret diplomatic cables.

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Palestinians ask UN to censure settlements

by element115

The move forms part of a broader diplomatic effort by a Palestinian leadership determined to exploit Israel’s growing political isolation and increase pressure on the Israeli government.

“As far as the settlements are concerned, we are going to go to the Security Council,” Saeb Erekat, the Palestinian chief negotiator, told journalists. He conceded that the US might use its veto to block the draft resolution but added: “We urge the Americans not to stand in our way.”

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Netanyahu: We will not apologize to Turkey over flotilla

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Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said that Israel will not apologize to Turkey for the raid on the Mavi Marmara, in an interview with Channel 10 to be aired on Monday.

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Embarrassed TSA goes after whistle-blowing pilot

by element115

The pilot, whose name has not been released, uploaded a series of clips taken at San Francisco International Airport. His intent was to expose the insane double standard of TSA's airport employee screening policies.

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December 24, 2010 by element115

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Daniel Domscheit-Berg Denies Rumor of Assange-Israeli Deals

December 23, 2010 by element115

"I have never spoken to anyone at syriatruth or that reporter that is making these claims, nor do I know anything about any deals JA has allegedly made with Israelis. "

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There Goes the Internet

by element115

...playground for the corporations, who will be allowed to do pretty much as they see fit.

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Journalists in Norway get the full cache of over 250,000 WikiLeaks files

by element115

A Norwegian newspaper, Aftenposten, now claims to have the full cache of over 250,000 State Department cables originally obtained by WikiLeaks.

"We have no comments on how we have gained access to the documents," Editorial Manager Ronny Ruud told The Cutline.

"Moreover, I emphasize that we have access to all documents without any clauses or bonds," Ruud said. "The documents will be continuously reviewed as the basis of articles by the same editorial criteria and ethical rules as the rest of the journalism in Aftenposten."

WikiLeaks, as of Wednesday morning, has published 1,862 out of its trove of 251,287 cables.

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WTF

by element115

US spy agency forms taskforce to assess fallout from 250,000 leaked US cables.

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DDoS Attacks Continue to Plague Human Rights Sites

December 22, 2010 by element115

"DDoS is an increasingly common Internet phenomenon capable of silencing Internet speech, usually for a brief interval but occasionally for longer," the report said. "Our report offers advice to independent media and human rights sites likely to be targeted by DDoS but comes to the uncomfortable conclusion that there is no easy solution to these attacks for many of these sites, particularly for attacks that exhaust network bandwidth."

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SKorea holds massive new drills after North attack

by element115

South Korea mobilized troops, tanks, helicopters and fighter jets for its largest-ever wintertime military drills Thursday, a show of force that comes a month after North Korea's deadly shelling of a front-line island.

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Monitoring America

December 21, 2010 by element115

The United States is assembling a vast domestic intelligence apparatus to collect information about Americans, using the FBI, local police, state homeland security offices and military criminal investigators.

The system, by far the largest and most technologically sophisticated in the nation's history, collects, stores and analyzes information about thousands of U.S. citizens and residents, many of whom have not been accused of any wrongdoing.

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Israeli War Crimes' signs to go on buses in Seattle

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N.Korea says war with South would go nuclear

December 18, 2010 by element115

North Korea warned that another war with South Korea would involve nuclear weapons, as diplomatic efforts continued Friday to ease high tensions over its atomic ambitions and deadly artillery attack.

The military also threatened to strike back if South Korea goes ahead with a planned live-fire drill on a border island, state media reported.

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Google Expands to a New Frontier: The Human Body

by element115

Google has just unveiled Body Browser, a detailed 3D model of the human body.

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UN mulls internet regulation options

by element115

...if that happens humans are screwed.
Absolutely.
Everything is under THEIR control...monetary system, law, politics, religion, education, family values, media, EVERYTHING.
...and now also INTERNET.
If we loose it we are done
Welcome to TechnoNazi world.

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EU in Flames of Uprising: Athens, Rome, London - Who's Next?

December 16, 2010 by element115

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U.S. Tries to Build Case for Conspiracy by WikiLeaks

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Federal prosecutors, seeking to build a case against the WikiLeaks leader Julian Assange for his role in a huge dissemination of classified government documents, are looking for evidence of any collusion in his early contacts with an Army intelligence analyst suspected of leaking the information.

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WikiLeaks' Assange Freed on Bail in UK

by element115

...must wear an electronic monitoring tag, check in with police daily and stay at the home of former British army officer and WikiLeaks supporter, Vaughan Smith.

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Julian Assange remains in jail as Sweden appeals against bail decision

December 14, 2010 by element115

Sweden has decided to contest the granting of bail to Assange, who is being held pending an extradition hearing, on the grounds that no conditions imposed by a judge could guarantee that he would not flee, a legal source told the Guardian.

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The elephant next door

by element115

Canadians have a right to be nervous over security deal with U.S.

The prospect of Canada ceding sovereignty to the United States in a secretly negotiated border security arrangement has understandably raised the hackles of the opposition and the Council of Canadians.

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Who is Behind Wikileaks?

by element115

The leaks are heralded as an immeasurable victory against corporate media censorship.

But there is more than meets the eye.

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WHO IS BEHIND THE DEMONIZATION OF THE WEB?

by element115

The US State Department, along with regular Neoconservative mouthpieces like Ann Coulter, have joined in with a host of similar predictable reactionary voices, who are all together, advancing identical talking points about how dangerous Wikileaks(aka the free internet) is for America. The essence of this campaign which we will continue to see throughout the coming year can be summed up in this list of maxims:

1) The World Web Wide is putting National Security at risk
2) The Web is being used by terrorists to share intel and plan attacks
3) We must sacrifice our freedom of speech online in order to make us safer at home

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Spanish Researchers Want to Tag Human Embryos With Bar Codes

by element115

Researchers from the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona in Spain have just finished testing a method for imprinting microscopic bar codes on mouse embryos -- a procedure they plan to test soon on humans.

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GAZA: PEACE THROUGH STARVATION

by element115

The Israeli authorities have reduced the amounts of wheat allowed into the Gaza Strip. According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), lower quantities of wheat grain and animal feed have been allowed to enter Gaza during the past few months. Between January and May 2010 the 64,237 tons were allowed to enter Gaza through a special conveyer belt at Karni Crossing. Since June 2010, the Israeli authorities allowed only 48,609 tons into Gaza.

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Russian Armed Forces on High Alert Over North Korea

by element115

Russia announced Tuesday that its armed forces in the east are on high alert. This comes in light of what it calls an "inadequate situation" on the Korean peninsula as tensions have increased in recent weeks between the North and South.

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iPhone snitch network launched

by element115

A new iPhone App with the misleading name ‘PatriotApp’ attempts to draw on the power of the patriot movement, turning smartphone users into a gigantic snitch network.

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Assange Granted Bail

by element115

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been granted bail by a British court. The bail was set at $315,000 (200,000 British Pounds).

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The myth that we are guaranteed 'Freedom of Speech' in the U.S.

December 13, 2010 by element115

The law is overly broad, meaningless; it is clearly intended to silence the very opposition that the First Amendment was intended to protect; it places arbitrary limits on political speech based upon the prejudices of those in office. The government has proven that it is not concerned with the letter of the law, breaking the law overtly when it it to their advantage and prosecuting the laws if it is you that is accused!

The files leaked to Julian Assange will literally scream FIRE because there really is a fire; there really is a threat! To be silent is to be irresponsible! To do nothing is unconscionable!

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Assange issues plea from jail

by element115

THE founder of WikiLeaks has issued a plea from jail for his supporters to keep fighting, accusing Visa, Mastercard and Paypal of being instruments of US foreign policy.

“We now know that Visa, Mastercard and Paypal are instruments of US foreign policy. It’s not something we knew before.

“I am calling on the world to protect my work and my people from these illegal and immoral acts.”

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Openleaks

by element115

Former Wikileaks employee Daniel Domscheit-Berg launched Openleaks.org today.

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Netanyahu does not want to share Jerusalem

December 12, 2010 by element115

Israel's leader on Sunday dismissed a call from a key government partner to share the holy city of Jerusalem with the Palestinians.

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...this is about censorship and intimidation

December 11, 2010 by element115

There is a fundamental injustice here. There are calls for the punishment (execution even) of the man who has reported war crimes, but not for those that perpetrated or sanctioned them.

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WikiLeaks backlash

by element115

The first global cyber war has begun, claim hackers.

Across the world a battalion of hackers was being summoned.

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Mark Madoff found hanged

by element115

...held senior position at his father's company, Madoff Investment Securities, until the firm's collapse at the end of 2008 when Madoff confessed to them that for decades much of the business had been run as a pyramid scheme.

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Explosions in central Stockholm kill 1, injure 2

by element115

Ten minutes before the blasts, Swedish news agency TT received an email saying “the time has come to take action.”

According to the news agency, the email referred to Sweden’s silence surrounding artist Lars Vilk’s drawing of Muhammad as a dog and its soldiers in Afghanistan.

“Now your children, daughters and sisters shall die like our brothers and sisters and children are dying,” the news agency quoted the email as saying.

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WikiLeaks Insiders to Start Rival 'Openleaks' Site

December 10, 2010 by element115

The new site is dubbed Openleaks, and will debut on Dec. 13

...those who resigned from WikiLeaks complained of Assange’s management style, and his use of the organization to explain his legal troubles. Still, one of the Openleaks’ organizers told the paper the new site will support WikiLeaks’ mission to provide information to the masses.

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Winter of Discontent

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Assange accuser flees to Middle East, may not be cooperating with police

by element115

One of the two Swedish women who have filed sex complaints against the founder of WikiLeaks has reportedly left Sweden and may no longer be cooperating with the criminal investigation.

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Julian Assange's lawyers warn of imminent US charges

by element115

Legal team for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says Washington plans to invoke Espionage Act to indict their client.

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Thesis on Jewish 'privilege' rebuked, sparking row

December 9, 2010 by element115

Jenny Peto's 100-page thesis argues that today's Jews of European descent "enjoy white privilege" and maintain a victim identity by participating in "hegemonic" Holocaust remembrance programs such as the March of the Living, during which young Jewish people visit Poland and Israel. The University of Toronto accepted the defended thesis and awarded a master's degree to the 29-year-old, who is an activist associated with the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid group. She's also Jewish and a descendant of Holocaust survivors.

The thesis, entitled The Victimhood of the Powerful: White Jews, Zionism and the Racism of Hegemonic Holocaust Education, describes Israel as an apartheid state.

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Berkeley may pass resolution honoring Army private who gave classified docs to Wikileaks

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The Berkeley City Council will consider a resolution that would declare the Army private suspected of leaking classified information to WikiLeaks a hero and call for his release.

The council plans a vote Tuesday on the resolution in support of Pfc. Bradley Manning, who is being held in a military brig in Virginia. A city commission already has approved it.

Bob Meola, who authored the resolution, tells the San Francisco Chronicle that Manning is a patriot who deserves a medal.

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Julian Assange should be awarded Nobel peace prize, suggests Russia

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Wikileaks Mirroring Tools

December 8, 2010 by element115

...script collection with the sole purpose of keeping
Wikileaks around for as long as possible.

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Sorkin brands Sarah Palin TV show 'a snuff film'

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"I don't watch snuff films and you make them. You weren't killing that animal for food or shelter or even fashion, you were killing it for fun. You enjoy killing animals," he added.

"And you didn't just do it for fun and you didn't just do it for money. That was the first moose [sic] ever murdered for political gain. You knew there'd be a protest from Peta and you knew that would be an opportunity to hate on some people, you witless bully. What a uniter you'd be – bringing the right together with the far right."

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Assange's 'poison pill' file impossible to stop

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The Poison Pill. The Doomsday Files. Or simply, The Insurance.

"Julian is saying, 'I've calibrated this so that no matter how many ways you try, you're never going to be able to deactivate it,'" Nigam said. "He's sending a call to action to hackers to try it. To the government, he's also saying, 'Try me.'"

Assange and the anonymous, globally scattered WikiLeaks staff have warned since July's release of Afghanistan War documents that they are not to be messed with.:

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Hackers Rise for WikiLeaks

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Web disruptions for --> MasterCard Inc., Visa Inc., and the Swedish prosecutor's office.

eBay Inc.'s PayPal

Swiss bank PostFinance

The Swedish Prosecution Service

The website for Claes Borgstrom, the lawyer representing the two women making the accusations.

While it isn't clear exactly who is behind the attacks, some security specialists say they are being organized by a group of online activists calling themselves "Anonymous" as part of the so-called "Operation Payback" effort.

"People are finding out they don't need to stand in a picket line anymore. They are using technology to fight back."

Bruce Schneier, a cyber-security expert --> "It's kids playing politics, no threat whatsoever."

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