Busted! U.S. trained Islamists who joined ISIS

August 9, 2014 by element115
Syrian rebels who would later join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIS, were trained in 2012 by U.S. instructors working at a secret base in Jordan, according to informed Jordanian officials.

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Want to boycott Israel? There’s an app for that

by element115
A new app called Buycott lets hundreds of thousands of users boycott products deemed to support Israel, something that is gaining popularity in light of the Jews-only state’s genocidal war on Gaza.
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Gaza: raw power and the murdering of justice

by element115
How refreshing it would be, for a change, to see a gun to Netanyahu’s head: end the blockade, quit Palestinian territory, respect the UN Charter, or face stiff sanctions.
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The Occupation is Forever

by element115
Israel’s ‘security concerns’ is code for Israel’s lebensraum, its idée fixe. Israel commands the cycle of repression and killing as integral to its ongoing land grab, which naturally invites resistance, which threatens Israel’s security, which results in more repression and killing and more land grabs.
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President Carter: Israel - Not Hamas - Is to Blame for War

August 5, 2014 by element115
Jimmy Carter spent a lot of effort brokering peace in the Middle East. Some of his efforts succeeded. Since retiring from the White House, he has worked to try to broker peace. So he knows something about the Israeli-Palestinian situation.
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Israeli killings’ images can’t be justified: Brian Eno

by element115
Dear All of You, I sense I’m breaking an unspoken rule with this letter, but I can’t keep quiet any more.

Today I saw a picture of a weeping Palestinian man holding a plastic carrier bag of meat. It was his son. He’d been shredded (the hospital’s word) by an Israeli missile attack – apparently using their fab new weapon, fléchette bombs. You probably know what those are – hundreds of small steel darts packed around explosive which tear the flesh off humans. The boy was Mohammed Khalaf Al Nawasra. He was four years old.

I suddenly found myself thinking that it could have been one of my kids in that bag, and that thought upset me more than anything has for a long time.

Then I read that the UN had said that Israel might be guilty of war crimes in Gaza, and they wanted to launch a commission into that. America won’t sign up to it.

What is going on in America?
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Humanitarian Crisis in Lugansk, E. Ukraine

by element115
The eastern Ukrainian city of Lugansk has declared a state of humanitarian catastrophe over a lack of medical supplies, electricity, lighting, mobile and internet communication. Some 250,000 civilians are unable to leave.
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NSA Docs Show 'Israeli Action in Gaza has US Fingerprints All Over It'

by element115
A new analysis of the intelligence and military relationship between the U.S. and Israeli governments — bolstered by new top secret NSA documents leaked by Edward Snowden — exposes the deep complicity of American foreign policy when it comes to enabling Israel's continued occupation of the Palestinian territories and its ongoing aggressive military assault on the Gaza Strip.

Israeli aggression would be impossible without the constant, lavish support and protection of the U.S. government, which is anything but a neutral, peace-brokering party in these attacks. And the relationship between the NSA and its partners on the one hand, and the Israeli spying agency on the other, is at the center of that enabling."
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Israeli operation kills more than 400 Gaza children

by element115
Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip has killed 408 children, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday.

The death toll exceeded that of the sad 2008-2009 Operation Cast Lead that killed 350 children.

According to UNICEF, over the last month the operation injured no less than 2,500 Palestinian children. A one-month infant is among the victims of the Israeli fire at the Gaza Strip, which is one of the world’s most densely populated areas. The conflict has already claimed lives of 1,800 Palestinians.
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Kyrie Eleison - Gaza 2014

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Nicaraguan President: Netanyahu Is ‘Possessed By The Devil’

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“Prime Minister Netanyahu appears to be possessed by the devil,” Oretga told Globovision. “He needs Pope Francis to exorcise it, to become appeased.”

Ortega also claimed that Israel was “committing genocide” in Gaza, and compared it “to the crimes of the Nazis.”

“Why doesn’t anyone condemn or sanction the state of Israel?” Ortega questioned to Globovision, adding that Netanyahu wants to “annihilate the Palestinian people.”
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New leaker disclosing US secrets, government concludes

by element115
Proof of the newest leak comes from national security documents that formed the basis of a news story published Tuesday by the Intercept, the news site launched by Glenn Greenwald, who also published Snowden's leaks.

The article cites documents prepared by the National Counterterrorism Center dated August 2013, which is after Snowden left the United States to avoid criminal charges.
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Racists Are Rampaging Through Israel

August 4, 2014 by element115
One of the most striking aspects of this “phenomenon” is how young the people taking part appear to be. Those posting on social media, running amok in lynch mobs, and crashing leftist rallies with sticks, chains, and brass knuckles are, for the most part, young people—many in their mid-20s, some in their teens.

“When you translate it into English you realize how horrific it is, but in the Israeli context there's nothing shocking about it.”
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Enmity and Civilian Toll Rise in Ukraine While Attention Is Diverted

by element115
With international attention focused on the tragedy of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, the deaths of these three civilians — some of the roughly 800 who have been killed in the battle over eastern Ukraine — have gone virtually unnoticed by the outside world.

“Look, there’s your Poroshenko!” yelled Viktoria Y. Iotova, referring to Ukraine’s president, Petro O. Poroshenko, and pointing to 14 Lenin Street in Snizhne, where at least 11 civilians were killed.

“Who will answer for these human lives?” she added as she began to cry.
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62% of British public says Israel committing war crimes

by element115
...polls show sympathy for Palestinians
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Israel tapped John Kerry's phone when he was brokering peace talks

by element115
Several sources in the intelligence community confirm to 'Der Spiegel' that Israel listened to US Secretary of State's unencrypted calls.
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The Mainstream Media’s Blind Spot In Gaza

July 29, 2014 by element115
If someone’s corrupt government does something horrible, are all of its citizens, right down to the infants, to be held responsible? Votes seem to matter very little in the modern world. How would you feel if another country invaded and tried to kill you and everyone you know — all because of what your horrible government does?
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Watch: Israelis celebrate the slaughter of Palestinian children

by element115
It shows Israeli fascists demonstrating in Rabin Square, Tel Aviv, on 26 July, chanting “There’s no school tomorrow, there are no children left in Gaza! Oleh!”
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Gaza braces for new onslaught as Israel vows to expand war

by element115
Brushing aside calls from the United Nations and Washington for an immediate and unconditional humanitarian cease-fire, the Israeli government vowed late Monday to escalate and prolong the three-week-old slaughter in the Gaza Strip.

There is nowhere safe for people to go, with over 167,000 Gazans already having fled their homes to seek refuge in schools and facilities run by the main United Nations Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA, and with even these buildings coming under Israeli bombardment. Many tens of thousands more Gazans are believed to have moved in with relatives. With the territory blockaded by both Israel and Egypt, no one can escape.

The death toll in Gaza climbed toward 1,100 on Monday with at least 44 more people reported killed by Israeli bombs and shells. The worst single atrocity took place in the northern Gaza refugee camp of al-Shati, when Israeli shells tore into a playground where families had gone to celebrate the first day of the Eid al-Fitr Muslim holiday. At least 10 people were killed, eight of them children, and another 46 were wounded.
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Silicon Valley welcomes Obama

by element115
A play on the classic iPhone ads shows Obama, silhouetted, and labeled "iSnoop." And a mock invitation to "A Feast in Time of Plague"
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Israeli Official To Obama: ‘Leave Us Alone’

by element115
Israeli official wants President Barack Obama to stop meddling with the Jewish state during its conflict with Hamas in Gaza.
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Gaza: No innocent victims?

July 28, 2014 by element115
A destructive mindset among Israelis justifies violence against Palestinians.

This mindset has been reflected in the statements of Israeli parliamentarians, one of whom deemed the enemy to be "the Palestinian people". Ayelet Shaked, of the Jewish Home party, also posted to Facebook an article advocating killing the mothers of Palestinian "martyrs", and destroying their homes for having raised "little snakes" in them.

The deputy speaker of the Knesset and a member of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee, Moshe Feiglin, decried the "illogical pity" Israel has for its enemies and argued against warning Gazans of impending bombings, because they were supporters of Hamas.

This mindset is, perhaps, both a cause and an effect of the 47-year old occupation, the longest in modern history, and the ways in which it must be continually sustained: from human rights abuses to daily harassments and humiliations; from the seven-year economic blockade of 1.8 million people to the current deployment of a military superpower against the residential buildings, schools, hospitals, mosques and disabled centres of an impoverished, captive population, 43 percent of whom are under 16.
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On chutzpah and war

by element115
The mother of all chutzpahs came from the late Israeli premier Golda Meir about half a century ago: "We can forgive the Arabs for killing our sons , but we can never forgive them for forcing us to kill their children." The new version blames the Palestinians for civilian deaths in Gaza, and praises Israel for sparing lives, even after the Israel offensive kills over a thousand Palestinians.

It's the ultimate chutzpah when Israel government expresses empathy with the ill-fated civilian victims, as it gives the orders to the Israeli military to bomb entire Palestinian communities.
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How many Palestinians have been killed in Gaza?

by element115
The total population of the United States is 313.9 million people. Suppose some Martian power invaded the US and started bombing it coast to coast from land, sea, and air and killed precisely the same percentage of Americans, namely 0.055 percent. How many Americans would that be? It comes down to 172,852 people - men, women, children, and even entire families.
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Gaza war on Facebook

by element115
Several people have reportedly been fired after criticizing the Israeli Gaza offence on social networks.
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German experts point finger at Ukrainian air-force jets

by element115
Surface to air missile attack ruled out as calibre of cockpit bullet holes puts Ukraine pilots in the frame for MH17 murders.

This is what a German pilot-cum-air technology expert Peter Haisenko has just published on the subject of the MH17 disaster.
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Israel Is a Colonial Power that “Never Really Thought It Had Any Duty To Protect the People Under Its Rule”

by element115
Israel claims that its assault is an act of self-defence to put an end to the Hamas rocket attacks against its civilians. Hamas claims it is engaged in legitimate resistance to Israel’s military occupation. The chain of action and reaction is endless. But the underlying cause of the violence is Israeli colonialism.
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The Gaza Bombardment

July 27, 2014 by element115
What You're Not Being Told
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Video: An honest Israeli Jew tells the Real Truth about Israel

by element115
Miko Peled was born in Jersusalem into a famous and influential Israeli Zionist family. His father was a famous General in the Israeli Army, of which Miko also served his time.
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6 companies own 90% of media consumed by Americans

by element115
Fox and Time Warner may no longer publish old-media newspapers or magazines, but they certainly disseminate information and opinions that may be even more vital to the “welfare of the public” today than the newspapers of Justice Black’s era.
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Five Israeli Talking Points on Gaza — Debunked

by element115
Israel’s propaganda machine, however, insists that these Palestinians wanted to die (“culture of martyrdom”), staged their own death (“telegenically dead”) or were the tragic victims of Hamas’s use of civilian infrastructure for military purposes (“human shielding”). In all instances, the military power is blaming the victims for their own deaths, accusing them of devaluing life and attributing this disregard to cultural bankruptcy. In effect, Israel—along with uncritical mainstream media that unquestionably accept this discourse—dehumanizes Palestinians, deprives them even of their victimhood and legitimizes egregious human rights and legal violations.

This is not the first time. The gruesome images of decapitated children’s bodies and stolen innocence on Gaza’s shores are a dreadful repeat of Israel’s assault on Gaza in November 2012 and winter 2008–09. Not only are the military tactics the same but so too are the public relations efforts and the faulty legal arguments that underpin the attacks. Mainstream media news anchors are inexplicably accepting these arguments as fact.
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Thousands take to NY streets to protest Israeli offensive in Gaza

by element115
"We're trying to break the siege and end the killing in Palestine. We just want them to live like human beings."
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Thousands of Pro-Palestinians march in London

by element115
A police source estimated the crowds at 10,000, but an AFP photographer suggested the number could be far higher, forcing the closure of roads around Britain's parliament.
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Protesting Israel's Atrocities in Gaza --> Anti-Semitism.

by element115
Ynetnews, Jewish World: Online anti-Semitism runs rampant in France...
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Palestinians killed in West Bank Gaza solidarity march

July 26, 2014 by element115
At least two Palestinians have been killed and 200 wounded in the West Bank during protests against Israel's campaign in Gaza, officials say.
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Washington Is Escalating the Orchestrated Ukrainian “Crisis” to War

July 24, 2014 by element115
Paul Craig Roberts

Note that prior to any evidence of any Russian aggression, there are already 22 senators lined up in behalf of preventing further Russian aggression.

Accompanying this preparatory propaganda move to create a framework for war, hot or cold with Russia, NATO commander General Philip Breedlove announced his plan for a deployment of massive military means in Eastern Europe that would permit lightening responses against Russia in order to protect Europe from Russian aggression.

There we have it again: Russian Aggression. Repeat it enough and it becomes real.
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Hiding War Crimes Behind a Question

by element115
Doesn’t Israel have a right to defend itself? Though it is hard for a question to be wrong, this is a dead wrong question even though it is the heart and soul of Israel’s defense of its attack on little Gaza.
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Russia Releases Satellite Photos Of Kiev Occupiers Deploying BUK-M1 Missiles In Eastern Ukraine

July 22, 2014 by element115
Russia wants to know why Kiev moved its BUK missiles systems the day of the MH17 crash.
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New Whistleblower: NSA Can Collect Your Emails

by element115
Executive order allows 'massive, widespread constitutional violations,' warns ex-State Department official.
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What are You Trying to Hide, Mr Obama?

by element115
Western leaders and their media would have us believe that Russian-backed terrorists and bandits not only shot down a civilian airliner killing all 298 on board – but that they have added to their depravity by defiling the dead, kicking around body parts and robbing corpses.
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FAA bans U.S. airlines from flying to or from Tel Aviv

by element115
The Federal Aviation Administration on Tuesday afternoon ordered U.S. carriers to stop flying to or from Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv, prohibiting them from traveling through Israel’s largest airport after a rocket landed nearby.

Airlines were banned from flying to Tel Aviv for a 24-hour period beginning on Tuesday at 12:15 p.m. The FAA said it will issue additional guidance by the end of that period.
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Is the U.S. Withholding Evidence that Ukrainian Troops Shot Down MH17? What Did US Spy Satellites See in Ukraine?

by element115
The U.S. media’s Ukraine bias has been obvious, siding with the Kiev regime and bashing ethnic Russian rebels and Russia’s President Putin. But now – with the scramble to blame Putin for the Malaysia Airlines shoot-down – the shoddy journalism has grown truly dangerous.

The dog-not-barking question on the catastrophe over Ukraine is: what did the U.S. surveillance satellite imagery show?

So why hasn’t this question of U.S. spy-in-the-sky photos – and what they reveal – been pressed by the major U.S. news media?
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Heartrending Gaza: Reporter breaks into tears live on air (VIDEO)

by element115
A reporter for Al Jazeera news channel broke into tears halfway through a television broadcast while relaying the horrific scenes and destruction he witnessed following over two weeks of Israeli shelling in Gaza.
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Russia challenges accusations that pro-Russian rebels shot down airliner

by element115
...and asked the United States to produce satellite images to support its assertions.

In an echo of the U.S. State Department's use of lists to debunk what it calls "misinformation" in the Ukraine crisis, Russia issued its own list on Monday of 10 leading questions it wanted Kiev to answer about the downed passenger jet.
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Government agents 'directly involved' in most high-profile US terror plots

July 21, 2014 by element115
The lengthy report, released on Monday by Human Rights Watch, raises questions about the US criminal justice system's ability to respect civil rights and due process in post-9/11 terrorism cases. It portrays a system that features not just the sting operations but secret evidence, anonymous juries, extensive pretrial detentions and convictions significantly removed from actual plots.

"In some cases the FBI may have created terrorists out of law-abiding individuals by suggesting the idea of taking terrorist action or encouraging the target to act," the report alleges.
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Rivers of Blood!

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The Madness of Israel
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'Why did Ukraine SU-25 fly same path as MH17, simultaneously at same altitude?

by element115
The Russian military detected a Ukrainian SU-25 fighter jet gaining height towards the MH17 Boeing on the day of the catastrophe. Kiev must explain why the military jet was tracking the passenger airplane, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
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Malaysian Flight Shot Down Over Ukraine. Kiev Gov't Implicated

July 17, 2014 by element115
Alexander Boroday, Chairman of the Council of Ministers in the Republic of Donetsk stated that “Self-defense forces have no air-defense which could target transport aircraft at that height."
There has been no indication that separatists have seized this type of sophisticated military weaponry or that Russian has provided it to them.
However,
...Ukraine’s armed forces actually moved the BUK anti-aircraft missile delivery system battalion to the area around the city of Donetsk on Wednesday.
...another battalion of the BUK missile launching system is being moved to the area of Kharkov, a city in East Ukraine but northwest of Donetsk.
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Snowden: NSA Spies On Americans, Then Passes Around Their Nude Pictures and Videos

by element115
Made a startling claim that a culture exists within the NSA in which, during surveillance, nude photographs picked up of people in “sexually compromising” situations are routinely passed around.

...eavesdrop on American soldiers’ intimate conversations with their wives back home.

...collecting the CONTENT of all of our phone calls and emails.
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Israel starts Gaza ground offensive

by element115
After days of waiting and deliberation, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Thursday night directed the IDF to send ground troops into Gaza.
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Plane 'Shot Down' over Ukraine: 295 Killed

by element115
The Malaysia Airlines plane, which was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, was travelling at an altitude of 33,000 feet (10,000 metres) when contact was lost.
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Israeli Invasion of Gaza Is Likely, Official Says

July 16, 2014 by element115
...a senior Israeli military official said that his government was increasingly likely to order a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip.
But with the Palestinian death toll reaching 214 on Wednesday, Israel and the Gaza militants agreed to end the violence for five hours on Thursday, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
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Could a Brain Scan Protect U.S. Troops?

by element115
...developed by a former Army counterintelligence agent, is scanning the brains of Iraqi troops for signs of potential betrayal.
...a truth detection system called HandShake for soldiers to diagnose the trust-worthiness of people they may have to work with.
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NASA: Humans Will Prove ‘We Are Not Alone In The Universe’ Within 20 Years

July 15, 2014 by element115
Speaking at NASA’s Washington headquarters on Monday, the space agency outlined a plan to search for alien life using current telescope technology, and announced the launch of the Transiting Exoplanet Surveying Satellite in 2017. The NASA administrators and scientists estimate that humans will be able to locate alien life within the next 20 years.
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Germany's plan to take on NSA

by element115
Politicians in Germany have devised an ingenious solution to combat the threat of eavesdropping by American spies...with classical music and typewriters.
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A fresh set of documents leaked by Edward Snowden

by element115
Leaked documents reveal online manipulation of polls and debates, spreading messages, snooping on YouTube and track Facebook users.

A number of interesting tools and their short descriptions are below:

ASTRAL PROJECTION: Remote GSM secure covert Internet proxy using TOR hidden service
POISON ARROW: Safe malware download capability
AIRWOLF: YouTube profile, comment and video collection
BIRDSTRIKE: Twitter monitoring and profile collection
GLASSBACK: Technique of getting a target's IP address by pretending to be a spammer and ringing them. Target does not need to answer.
MINIATURE HERO: Active skype capability. Provision of realtime call records (SkypeOut and SkypetoSkype) and bidirectional instant messaging. Also contact lists.
PHOTON TORPEDO: A technique to actively grab the IP address of MSN messenger user
SPRING-BISHOP: Finding private photos of targets on Facebook
BOMB BAY: The capacity to increase website hits, rankings
BURLESQUE: The capacity to send spoofed SMS messages
GESTATOR: Amplification of a given message, normally video, on popular multimedia websites (YouTube)
SCRAPHEAP CHALLENGE: Perfect spoofing of emails from Blackberry targets
SUNBLOCK: Ability to deny functionality to send/receive email or view material online
SWAMP DONKEY: A tool that will silently locate all predefined types of file and encrypt them on a targets machine
UNDERPASS: Change outcome of online polls (previously known as NUBILO).
WARPATH: Mass delivery of SMS messages to support an Information Operations campaign.
HUSK: Secure one-on-one web based dead-drop messaging platform.

The list, dated from 2012, says that most of the tools are "fully operational, tested and reliable,”
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Scientists find 'conclusive' evidence common pesticides are killing bees

June 26, 2014 by element115
Scientists say they have conclusive evidence that two widely used pesticides are killing bees and other insects, and harming the environment.

The international panel of 50 scientists working as the Task Force on Systemic Pesticides says use of the pesticides should be phased out.
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US' Supreme Court bans warrantless cell phone searches

June 25, 2014 by element115
The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that police cannot go snooping through people’s cell phones without a warrant, in a unanimous decision that amounts to a major statement in favor of privacy rights.
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Israel reins in West Bank military offensive amid fears it could backfire

June 24, 2014 by element115
Since the abduction of three Israeli teens, Israel has arrested about 350 Palestinians, conducted sweeps of 1,800 locales, and raided 64 Islamic charities with suspected links to Hamas. Concerns are growing about resulting Palestinian unrest.
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There are an estimated 30 million slaves in the world today

by element115
...more than at any other time in history.
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Russian President Putin 'scraps Ukraine military move'

by element115
Vladimir Putin's move was aimed at "normalising the situation" in the conflict-torn eastern regions of Ukraine, his press-secretary said.
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US forces arrive in Baghdad to advise Iraqi troops

by element115
Nearly half the 300 special operations soldiers promised by US President Barack Obama are in Baghdad or on the front lines of the fight.

The rest are expected within days.

Also, US Secretary of State John Kerry called for regional unity to expel the Sunni Isis rebels who have taken large swathes of Iraq.
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Dick Cheney Predicts Another 9/11 In This Decade

by element115
“I think there will be another attack and the next time I think it’s likely to be far deadlier than the last one. You can just imagine what would happen if somebody could smuggle a nuclear device, put it in a shipping container, and drive it down the beltway outside Washington D.C.”
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Glenn Greenwald: New NSA Leak From Snowden 'Very Imminent'

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..."one of the most important in the archive."
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Study: Diaspora Jews say occupation, Orthodoxy threaten Israel

May 21, 2014 by element115
For Israel to exist as a Jewish and democratic state, Diaspora Jews believe it must end the occupation, treat its Arab citizens more fairly and eliminate the Orthodox monopoly over religion.

These were the key findings of a document published Wednesday by the Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI), a Jerusalem-based think-tank, entitled “Jewish & Democratic: Perspectives from World Jewry.”
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Russia, China sign deal to bypass U.S. dollar

May 20, 2014 by element115
Russia and China took a small step toward undercutting the domination of the U.S. dollar as the international reserve currency on Tuesday when Russia’s second biggest financial institution, VTB, signed a deal with Bank of China to bypass the dollar and pay each other in domestic currencies.

The so-called Agreement on Cooperation — signed in the presence of Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is on a visit to Shanghai — could be followed by a long-awaited announcement this week of a massive natural gas deal 10 years in the making.
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Thailand's army declares martial law

by element115
Thailand's powerful army chief intervened for the first time in the country's latest political crisis, declaring martial law and dispatching gun-mounted jeeps into the heart of the capital with a vow to resolve the deepening conflict as quickly as possible.
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Australian spies secretly monitor phone calls in the Philippines: Edward Snowden disclosure

by element115
A 2013 NSA document shows that comprehensive MYSTIC harvesting of telecommunications data in the Philippines is carried out by the Australian Signals Directorate, formerly known as the Defence Signals Directorate, which is a so-called "5-eyes" partner with its American counterpart.
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China Angry Over US Spy Charges 'Hypocrisy'

by element115
China has accused the United States of "hypocrisy and double standards" after five of its military officials were accused of hacking into companies' computer systems.
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Drone strikes justified...says New Zealand Prime Minister

by element115
Drone strikes are justified - even if innocent civilians are mistakenly killed, Prime Minister John Key says.

Key confirmed yesterday that intelligence collected by the Government Communications Security Bureau might be passed to the controversial US programme.
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‘The silent epidemic’

by element115
Depression is the top cause of illness and disability among adolescents globally, the World Health Organisation (WHO) revealed last week.

And it said that globally, suicide is the third most common cause of death among adolescents, after traffic trauma and HIV-Aids.
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Video footage indicates killed Palestinian youths posed no threat

by element115
New video evidence showing the fatal shooting of two Palestinian teenagers last week strongly indicates that neither of the boys posed a threat to Israeli forces at the time they were targeted, supporting claims they were "unlawfully killed".
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WikiLeaks vows to reveal second country where NSA is recording all mobile phone calls

by element115
WikiLeaks has pledged to reveal the name of a second country that is having virtually all of its mobile phone calls recorded by the US National Security Agency, despite a warning that leaking the information could "lead to deaths".
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Plastic Timebomb

May 18, 2014 by element115
...microbead pollutants in cosmetics washed into the sea and ending up in the food chain.
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Pope to visit Palestinian refugee camp

by element115
Dheisheh refugee camp, Bethlehem — Set up in 1949 on land leased from Jordan, Dheisheh camp initially housed refugees who fled or were forced out of 45 villages around Jerusalem and the southern West Bank city of Hebron.

Today, it counts some 14,800 inhabitants, making it the fifth-largest of the 19 refugee camps in the West Bank and annexed east Jerusalem.

The late pope John Paul II also visited the camp on a tour of the Holy Land in 2000, calling for an urgent solution to the plight of the millions made homeless after the creation of the Jewish state in 1948.
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The rich get richer: Britain's wealthiest are now worth £519billion

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Britain's richest people have managed to DOUBLE their wealth in the last five years.
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Cisco CEO lashes out at NSA

by element115
Cisco Systems Inc's chief executive officer has written a letter to U.S. President Barack Obama urging him to curtail government surveillance after evidence circulated showing the U.S. National Security Agency had intercepted Cisco equipment, a company spokesman said on Sunday.​
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Revelations on the Krasnoarmeysk killing

May 17, 2014 by element115
Members of the Ukrainian ultra-nationalist group Pravy Sektor took part in a commando-style raid against the Donbass referendum last Sunday, killing two unarmed civilians in the town of Krasnoarmeysk, an investigation by Paris Match has found.
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Canada Is Selling Arms to Everyone It Can

by element115
While Canada exports oil, maple syrup, and hockey players, it also deals a lot of arms. And Canadian military exports are growing: the latest available figures say sales jumped more than 50 percent from 2010 to 2011, with later years reportedly expected to spike.

Which is why it isn’t surprising the Harper government is endorsing CANSEC—Canada’s premier defense trade show—and officially encouraging all Canadian armed forces personnel to attend the event in Ottawa less than two weeks from now.
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São Paulo Streets Burn as Brazil’s Protesters Promise ‘Fighting’ Ahead of World Cup

by element115
With a scant 28 days left before the World Cup, the streets of Brazil have been filled with burning barricades, armored military vehicles, and thousands of indignant citizens demanding that their voices be heard.

In São Paulo, an estimated 1,200 protesters gathered Thursday evening on Paulista Avenue as part of the International Day of World Cup Resistance — a series of demonstrations coordinated across the country to express public discontent ahead of the mega athletic event.
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Africa leaders declare 'war' on Nigeria Boko Haram

by element115
African leaders meeting in Paris have agreed to wage "war" on Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamic militants.

President Hollande of France, who hosted the summit, said regional powers had pledged to share intelligence and co-ordinate action against the group.
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President Rouhani Stresses Iranian Citizens' Right to Freely Access Internet

by element115
"We recognize the right of connection with the world wide web (internet) as a right of every citizen."
The Iranian President has on many occasions underscored the necessity for respecting the people's social rights.
In relevant remarks in April, he underlined that the Islamic Republic pays much respect to women's social rights and tries to provide the ground for their equal chance with men both for study and work.
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The biggest fast food strike in the history is happening around the world now

May 15, 2014 by element115
From New York City to Nigeria and New Zealand, fast food workers will strike and protest on Thursday to demand higher pay and better working conditions — in a global day of action with unprecedented reach for the industry.
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Young people 'feel they have nothing to live for'

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One in three (32%) had contemplated suicide, while one in four (24%) had self-harmed.
40% of jobless young people had faced symptoms of mental illness, including suicidal thoughts, feelings of self-loathing and panic attacks, as a direct result of unemployment.
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NATO commander says must consider permanent troops in Eastern Europe

May 6, 2014 by element115
NATO will have to consider permanently stationing troops in parts of Eastern Europe as a result of the increased tension between Russia and Ukraine, the alliance's top military commander said on Tuesday.
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IMF Plan to Loot Ukraine Revealed

by element115
Criminals operate with the same modus operandi making it relatively easy to notice the pattern of destruction the western axis will inevitably unleash as it seeks to implement its version of the new world order. The austerity introduced into EU nations like Greece will now be the norm for Ukraine.
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Is US/NATO Applying the “Syria Model” in Ukraine?

by element115
The Neo-Nazi mobs had been trained and indoctrinated. Western special forces and mercenaries on contract to NATO and the Pentagon were involved in the training of the Right Sector paramilitary. In turn, the National Guard civilian militia created in mid-March is financed by Washington.

The Right Sector Brown shirts had received prior paramilitary training in Poland in September 2013 ahead of the EuroMaidan riots.
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Will Detroit be the first major Chinese city in the U.S.?

by element115
Is Detroit destined to become a Chinese city? Chinese homebuyers and Chinese businesses are starting to flood into the Motor City, and the governor of Michigan is greatly encouraging this. In fact, he has formally asked the Obama administration for 50,000 special federal immigration visas to encourage even more immigration from China and elsewhere. So will Detroit be the first major city in the United States to be dominated by China? It could happen. Once upon a time, Detroit was the greatest manufacturing city in the history of the world and it had the highest per capita income in the entire country. But now it is a rotting, decaying, bankrupt hellhole that is in desperate need of a savior, and Michigan Governor Rick Snyder appears to be fully convinced that China can be that savior.
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Odessa: This Time, the Fascists Will be Wearing Uniforms

by element115
Today, Reuters featured a very important item, under-reported in world media, that demonstrates the clear and irrefutable links between the Kiev regime and organized Fascist violence in the Ukraine.
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The Odessa Massacre: How the Corporate Media Whitewashes Ukraine

by element115
Odessa is the scene of yet another horrific war crime carried out by fascists against innocent civilians. The fire and massacre at the Trade Unions building which killed dozens of anti-fascist activists and employees in the building, will serve as a painful testimony to the ongoing struggle against the junta in Kiev and its neo-Nazi paramilitary foot soldiers. This obvious war crime, along with a number of others committed by the Right Sector and other ultra-nationalist (read fascist) militias, should undoubtedly be the issue making headlines around the world.
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US/NATO War Crimes in Ukraine

May 4, 2014 by element115
Today Barack Obama said: “We support the operation of the Ukrainian government …”

US/NATO fascists are bringing new “EURO” values to Ukraine … today in Odessa, tomorrow, your city. The west pretends that hardly anything worth noting happened and the US-funded Kiev junta and its media say that they “smoked them out well,” referring to the 38 antifascists burned alive in a building set on fire by the Ukrainian fascists today.
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Odessa Massacre Pushes Ukraine to the Edge

by element115
Western headlines have attempted to spin into ambiguity the death of over 30 anti-fascist Ukrainian protesters cornered and burned to death in the Trade Unions House in the southern port city of Odessa. The arson was carried out by Neo-Nazi mobs loyal to the unelected regime now occupying Kiev.
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Panicking US government targets alternative media

by element115
For at least the past 50 years, the American people have been fed a steady diet of lies.

Coups, false flags, political assassinations, mind control, government corruption, Orwellian surveillance, psychopaths in power, banksters dictatorship, military-industrial complex dominance and the rise of the New World Order – all of these realities have been carefully hidden from the American people and the other citizens of the West.
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New Study: FDA-Approved Levels of Aspartame Distort Brain Function, Kill Brain Cells

by element115
Now yet another new study, this one published in the journal Redox Biology, has concluded what lots of other research over the past decades has repeatedly shown — aspartame, the popular sweetener in over 6,000 grocery store items, including everything from soup mixes to carbonated beverages to chewing gum — can essentially program your brain cells to kill themselves.
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British Spy Chiefs Secretly Begged to Play in NSA's Data Pools

by element115
Britain’s electronic surveillance agency, Government Communications Headquarters, has long presented its collaboration with the National Security Agency’s massive electronic spying efforts as proportionate, carefully monitored, and well within the bounds of privacy laws. But according to a top-secret document in the archive of material provided to The Intercept by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, GCHQ secretly coveted the NSA’s vast troves of private communications and sought “unsupervised access” to its data as recently as last year – essentially begging to feast at the NSA’s table while insisting that it only nibbles on the occasional crumb.
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Ukraine, “Colored Revolutions”, Swastikas and the Threat of World War III

May 3, 2014 by element115
On the thirteenth anniversary of the illegal invasion of Iraq and the total destruction of it’s “sovereignty and territorial integrity”, by America and Britain, Prime Minister David Cameron has scuttled off to Brussels for a meeting of European Union Ministers to agree on a “robust response” to Russia – which has fired not a shot, invaded no one and threatened nothing except to respond that if sanctions were imposed on Russia they might consider a trading response. Fair enough, surely?

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Snowden decries constant surveillance of entire populations, in new video

May 2, 2014 by element115
Entire populations, rather than just individuals, now live under constant surveillance, Edward Snowden, the former U.S. intelligence contractor who has been leaking surveillance secrets for the past year, says in a new video.
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Snowden and Poitras Awarded for 'Truth-Telling'

by element115
Pair receives Ridenhour Prize for actions that 'sparked a critical and transformative debate about mass surveillance'
"We have selected Edward Snowden and Laura Poitras for their work in exposing the NSA's llegal and unconstitutional bulk collection of the ommunications of millions of people living in the United States," the award committee explained in a statement.
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Ukrainian Crisis Was Always About Containing Russia

May 1, 2014 by element115
To careful and honest observers of the events unfolding in Ukraine, it was clear from the beginning that the US and EU through NATO were creating unrest in an attempt to foster regime change in Kiev.
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IMF Demands Ukraine Risk World War 3 for bailout package

by element115
The IMF has told Kiev that if it doesn’t defend eastern areas of Ukraine against pro-Russian forces, or in other words risk going to war with Russia and starting World War 3, that a planned $17 billion dollar bailout package will have to be “redesigned”.

IMF head Christine Lagarde said that the global body would “check regularly” to see if Ukraine was keeping up with its commitments on which the loan deal is dependent. One of those commitments includes a vow to use military forces to repel Russian influence in the east of the country.
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