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Snowden NSA revelations: Guantanamo, Bosnia, SIDtoday newsletters

RT
Mon, 16 May 2016 19:47 UTC

The NSA participated in Guantanamo Bay interrogations, while the US military took part in a rendition from Bosnia, newly released leaks by whistleblower Edward Snowden show. A decade's worth of NSA newsletters will be published over the coming months.

On Monday, The Intercept published the first three months' worth of SIDtoday, the NSA newsletter named after the Signals Intelligence Directorate (SID). The first release contains 166 documents from 2003, and will run until the publication of the most recent issues in its Snowden Archive, the trove of documents collected by the former NSA contractor, which are dated through 2012.

SIDtoday contained revelations that NSA worked alongside other government agencies on interrogating prisoners at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp in Cuba, including formulating the questions and interrogation strategies.

An October 2003 article advertised the opportunity to "get to GITMO for 90 days." It described the duties of the NSA liaison at Guantanamo as coordinating with the "[Department of Defense], CIA, and FBI interrogators on a daily basis in order to assess and exploit information sourced from detainees," as well as providing "sensitive NSA-collected technical data" to help the interrogation efforts.

During a week at the base, one NSA liaison reported in the newsletter, he would "pull together intelligence to support an upcoming interrogation, formulate questions and strategies for the interrogation, and observe or participate in the interrogation." The NSA declined to comment on that story, The Intercept noted.

Comment: Snowden revelations: Brrrrr! The cold that came in from the spy.

TSA flightmare: Travelers stranded, sleep on cots

Jamie Schram, Kevin Sheehan, Kate Sheehy
New York Post
Mon, 16 May 2016 07:14 UTC

The TSA's notorious checkpoint delays were so bad at Chicago's O'Hare airport over the weekend that an airline had to set up cots for its fliers. "We held 30 flights [on Sunday], and 450 passengers missed their flights because of TSA delays," American Airlines spokesman Ross Feinstein told The Post.

"This weekend was probably the worst since spring break,'' said the rep, whose airline was forced to put out about 100 cots for stranded customers. "Our concern is the summer, which is spring break every day from June till September.'' A federal source blamed the nightmare weekend on the Transportation Security Administration's long-standing issues of too little manpower combined with a seasonal surge in air traffic. "All major hubs are sitting ducks for outrageous lines at any given moment in time,'' the source warned.

Travelers were advised to arrive at least two hours early for domestic flights and three hours ahead for international take-offs — but fliers griped that even that wasn't enough for them to get through security in time. The lines were so long at one terminal that American Airlines workers had to remove some kiosks just to make room for the throngs.

"People were breathing heavy and freaking out,'' said Chicago resident Christina Jack, 54, who arrived from O'Hare into LaGuardia Airport in Queens on Monday. "There was a gentleman near me who started panicking and yelling, 'I'm going to miss my flight! I'm going to miss my flight!' They pulled him out and put him right up at the front of the short line. I was lucky, I missed the early-morning rush,'' she said, noting that it took her "just'' a little more than two hours to wade through security.

American and other airlines say they are hiring extra workers to do whatever they can to move things along themselves, such as using employees to run empty metal-detector bins back up to thefront of the line. The federal source said airports' wait time "depends on the changing demand of flights on any given day in these hubs. They include LaGuardia, JFK and Newark airports, which the TSA admitted last week all had increased wait times since last year. A total of around 4,000 American passengers have already missed their flights because of TSA delays since February, including 800 in the past week alone, the airline said.

Comment: US travelers take heed. We are dealing with the government here and you know how that goes: If it was bad it will get worse. Some of this is incompetence; the rest is a way to irk the public into wanting something to change...and that change will be dictated by the PTB for a specific purpose. Time will tell. We shall see.

Going back to the future: Venezuela, South America and the return of the oligarchs

John Wight
RT
Mon, 16 May 2016 14:55 UTC

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's declaration of a state of emergency in the country he has led since the death of Hugo Chavez in 2013 marks a seminal moment not only for Venezuela but the entire region. That the South American subcontinent is in the throes of an assault by conservative and reactionary political forces, after a period during which leftist ideas were predominant, is now beyond dispute.

The objective of this assault is to roll back the leftist current inspired by Hugo Chavez when he came to office in Venezuela in 1998. Of indigenous heritage himself, Chavez survived a coup attempt in 2002 that was supported by the US. His sudden death in March 2013 came after a two-year battle with cancer and ever since questions over whether the cancer that killed him was naturally occurring or was the result of poisoning haven't gone away.

Prior to Chavez's death, President Manuel Zelaya of Honduras was ousted by the Honduran military and sent into exile in 2009. In 2012, Paraguayan President, Fernando Lugo, was forced out of office when the country's senate initiated impeachment proceedings. Ecuadorean President, Rafael Correa, has already survived one coup attempt by his country's military in 2010 and the situation within Ecuador remains tense. Meanwhile, since Chavez's death, Argentina's former president, Cristina Kirchner, has been indicted by the country's federal court on a charge of defrauding the state during her time in office. Finally, and most recently, Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff has been suspended from office pending a trial on the charge of manipulating the budget - proceedings which Rousseff and her supporters have labeled a coup.

Comment: The pattern, uninterrupted, reveals the intent.

What each of the aforementioned leaders have in common is that they supported Hugo Chavez's vision of a continent free of US political and economic domination, and had and have sought to redistribute wealth and resources to the poor, especially the subcontinent's indigenous peoples who for generations have been marginalized, left to wallow in poverty and regarded as second, even third class citizens.

Comment: The US wants to be "the last bastion standing" and, to do so, covertly orchestrates chaos by any means and any cost to achieve this result - be it human rights violations, political coup, fomenting corruption, financial manipulation or human sacrifice. Every country it wants to turn has a unique and exploitable set of factors, a 'leverage signature,' to ensure its bondage. The idea, that Venezuela is a threat to the national security and foreign policy of the US, is at minimum a gross distortion and at most a poke in the eye. The US as a threat to Venezuela is, at minimum, assuredly true.

China to provide Venezuela with financial 'oxygen' during US-inspired crisis

Channel News Asia
Tue, 17 May 2016 13:07 UTC

China's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday it had reached consensus with Venezuela on strengthening financial cooperation, after Venezuela said its main financier would improve the conditions of an oil-for-loans deal.

Ministry spokesman Hong Lei made the comment at a regular press briefing.

Venezuelan Economy Vice-President Miguel Perez told Reuters on Monday that all conditions, including loan timeframes, investment amounts and non-financial aspects, had been improved, giving the OPEC member's crisis-hit economy "oxygen" ahead of heavy debt payments.

Comment: This is good news, but it will take more than this to stop Venezuela's heavy bleeding. The US' hybrid warfare against the BRICS is hitting fast and furious - check out:

Brazil, Venezuela, South Africa threatened by CIA soft coups

National Guardsman interview: 'Venezuela is on the brink of social collapse'

Lust for power: Erdogan to strip Turkish MP's of their legal immunity

Constanze Letsch
The Guardian
Tue, 17 May 2016 12:44 UTC

A push by the Turkish government to strip parliamentarians of their immunity is a clear attempt by the president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, to target opposition MPs and risks inflaming tensions in an already highly polarised country, the co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic party (HDP) has said.

Turkey's parliament will begin to debate the contentious draft law - which was proposed by Erdoğan's ruling Justice and Development party (AKP) - on Tuesday, with a final vote expected on Friday.

"The [proposed bill] will have a very negative impact on Turkey, and it is very clear that the attempt to strip MPs of immunity targets us," Selahattin Demirtaş, the HDP co-chair, told the Guardian in an interview, warning that there was "a serious risk" of violence increasing in the country as a result.

"Democratic political channels in Turkey are already in great difficulty, and if the bill passes, many people will feel that these channels have been shut completely. The belief in democracy and politics of peace will drop to zero."

Comment: Further reading: Israel is the organ harvesting and human trafficking global ringleader, with complicit help from US and Turkey

Continuing terrorist carnage: At least 44 killed, 90 injured by 2 bombs in Baghdad

RT
Tue, 17 May 2016 12:42 UTC

© Wissm al-Okili / Reuters
People gather at the site of a suicide bomb attack in a marketplace in Baghdad's al-Shaab district, Iraqi May 17, 2016.

At least 44 people have been killed in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, after two bombs were set off, according to police and medical sources as cited by Reuters. It is believed over 90 people have been injured following the blasts.

The two blasts struck different areas. The most deadly explosion hit a district in the north of Baghdad, which killed 38 and injured at least 70 people.

A spokesman for the Baghdad Operations Command spoke on state television saying the attacker in the Al-Shaab district in the north of the Baghdad had detonated a suicide vest in coordination with a bomb which had been planted.

Meanwhile, a car bomb in the southern neighborhood of Al-Rasheed left six people dead, while another 21 received injuries.

Comment: Brought to you by the American way of bringing peace and democracy.

Al-Nusra bases near Aleppo take heavy fire from Russian airstrikes

ABNA
Tue, 17 May 2016 12:18 UTC

The Russian Air Force carried out a significant number of airstrikes in the southern countryside of Aleppo on Monday, targeting Jabhat Al-Nusra's (Syrian Al-Qaeda group) primary hideouts inside the villages of Khan Touman, Tal Al-'Eiss, Al-Zorba, and Saraqib (northeast Idlib).

According to a source at the Hama Military Airport, the Russian Air Force conducted over 25 airstrikes in southern Aleppo on Monday, killing a large number of extremist rebels in the process.

Recently, the Russian Air Force has intensified their air raids in the southern Aleppo countryside in order to combat the large presence of extremist rebels occupying the abandoned villages on the Idlib-Aleppo border.

Comment: Further reading: US wants Al-Nusra Front protected because it is key element in plot to oust Assad

Donetsk situation report: Kiev deploys base for Islamic terrorists as situation deterioriates

DNI News
Tue, 17 May 2016 12:27 UTC

The situation in the Donetsk People's Republic continues to aggravate.

Over the past day the Ukrainian military shelled the territory of the Republic three hundred forty times. The enemy launched a hundred sixty-six 82mm and 120mm mortar shells. In addition, the enemy used an anti-tank cannon "Rapira" three times, a tank one time, as well as grenade launchers of different types and small arms.

The Ukrainian military opened fire at the following localities: Zaytsevo, Alexandrovka,Yasinovataya, Dokuchaevsk, Spartak, Krutaya Balka, Staromikhaylovka, Mineralnoye,Sakhanka, Octyabr, Nikolaevka, Novaya Maryevka, the Petrovsky district and the area of the airport of Donetsk city. We would like to note that last night, during two hours, the enemy launched sixty-four mortar shells from their positions in the area ofKrasnogorovka and Avdeevka to the localities in the north-west of Donetsk.

The bombardments on the southern borders of the DPR were carried out by mercenaries from Arab countries.

The criminal orders to shell the DPR territory were given by the brigade commanders Shaptala, Sokolov and Delyatitsky.

Comment: The US' coup in Ukraine continues to bear rotten fruits for the Empire of Chaos. And, while their lackeys in Kiev pursue their ethnic cleansing campaign, those under the sway of the US Empire continue to live in a make-believe world:

When strangers are coming,
They come to your house,
They kill you all
and say,
We're not guilty
not guilty.

Where is your mind?
Humanity cries.
You think you are gods.
But everyone dies.
Don't swallow my soul.
Our souls

~ 1944, the 'winning' entry in Eurovision 2016, by 'Ukrainian' singer Jamala
No, the above lyrics do not refer to US-supported Kiev forces waging war on southeast Ukrainians; they are meant to refer to Russian forces 'invading' Ukraine in 1944 and in 2014. In what can only be described as a blatant propaganda blitz against Russia, this year's Eurovision winner - in defiance of an anticipated Russian victory - was the Ukrainian entry. 'Eurovision' was aired to Americans for the first time this year. Just in time, then, for them to receive precisely the impression of Europe that Washington wants them to receive: that it is pro-US and anti-Russian.

Western war on Russia: European Broadcasting Union rigs 'Eurovision 2016' to prevent Russian favorite from winning

Facebook reactions: Belgian police warn citizens not to react to posts on social media

Andrew Griffin
The Independent
Fri, 13 May 2016 09:32 UTC

Your mood is being monitored

Belgian police have warned citizens not to use Facebook's new Reactions, to protect their privacy.

In February, the site launched six new ways of reacting to a post, alongside the Like button. They were intended partly as a way of answering calls for a "Dislike" button - allowing people to share their feelings about posts without appearing to endorse what had been said.

But the Belgian police now says that the site is using them as a way of collecting information about people and deciding how best to advertise to them. As such, it has warned people that they should avoid using the buttons if they want to preserve their privacy.

Comment: There are constant privacy concerns with Facebook:

Turkish MP tweets desire to shoot down Russian jet after basketball defeat

Sputnik
Mon, 16 May 2016 07:16 UTC

Following the win of Russia's basketball team CSKA over Fenerbahce, a Turkish team, in a May 15 Euroleague title game, Turkish politician Samil Tayyar tweeted that he feels like downing another Russian jet.

CSKA Moscow beat Fenerbahce 101-96 in overtime on Sunday, winning its seventh crown in the biggest game in European basketball. Enraged by the outcome of this friendly competition, Samil Tayyar, a member of Turkey's parliament, proposed a military response.

"I want to shoot down one more Russian jet!" the politician wrote.

Comment: This is the type of psychopathic attitude we've come to expect from a Turkish politician.

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Puppet Masters

Snowden NSA revelations: Guantanamo, Bosnia, SIDtoday newsletters

TSA flightmare: Travelers stranded, sleep on cots

Going back to the future: Venezuela, South America and the return of the oligarchs

China to provide Venezuela with financial 'oxygen' during US-inspired crisis

Lust for power: Erdogan to strip Turkish MP's of their legal immunity

Continuing terrorist carnage: At least 44 killed, 90 injured by 2 bombs in Baghdad

Al-Nusra bases near Aleppo take heavy fire from Russian airstrikes

Donetsk situation report: Kiev deploys base for Islamic terrorists as situation deterioriates

Facebook reactions: Belgian police warn citizens not to react to posts on social media

Turkish MP tweets desire to shoot down Russian jet after basketball defeat

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