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Kremlin turns back to typewriters to avoid leaks

A Russian state service in charge of safeguarding Kremlin communications is looking to purchase an array of old-fashioned typewriters to prevent leaks from computer hardware, sources said Thursday.

The throwback to the paper-strewn days of Soviet bureaucracy has reportedly been prompted by the publication of secret documents by anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks and the revelations leaked by former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden.

The Federal Guard Service, which is also in charge of protecting President Vladimir Putin, is looking to spend just over 486,000 rubles ($14,800) to buy a number of electric typewriters, according to the site of state procurement agency, zakupki.gov.ru.

"This purchase has been planned for more than a year now," a source at the service, known by its Russian acronym FSO, told AFP on Thursday.

The notice on the site was posted last week. A spokeswoman for the service declined comment.

Eye 2

The NSA whistleblower from EIGHT years ago: Interview with Russell Tice


Abby Martin talks to Russell Tice, former intelligence analyst and original NSA whistleblower, about how the recent NSA scandal is only scratches the surface of a massive surveillance apparatus, citing specific targets the he saw spying orders for including former senators Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama.


Source: RT

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US Special Forces terrorize Port Angeles, Washington in the dead of night, claims operation 'was just a drill'

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Port Angeles - Army special-operations helicopters on a training exercise buzzed the Port Angeles area late Thursday night in an episode that the mayor says "terrorized my city."

An Army official apologized Friday for the unannounced training mission.

Dozens of alarmed residents called police to ask what was going on and said the noise and lights panicked horses and other livestock.

"They terrorized my city," Port Angeles Mayor Cherie Kidd said Friday.

"No one had any warning about the helicopters, no one said anything afterwards, and today city officials had to spend hours just trying to find out what had happened - who had invaded Port Angeles."

She plans to meet Monday morning with Army Col. H. Charles "Chuck" Hodges Jr., garrison commander of Joint Base Fort Lewis-McChord near Tacoma, about 90 miles south of Port Angeles, where the special-operations helicopters are based.

Comment: This is reminiscent of the 'school mass shooting drill' in Oregon recently. SWAT teams just burst into a school unannounced, fired off multiple blank rounds, then castigated the school staff for their 'lack of preparedness'.

The people running the U.S. are some really sick puppies.

It's all part of conditioning the American people to accept the reality of terrorism created by their own government.


Eye 1

The truth about Iraq - Change the world - Recognise psychopathy


You may have noticed that you haven't seen this kind of footage on mainstream media reports. Yet, it presents the most likely truth about Iraq and why US soldiers were there and what they were really doing.

Light Sabers

South American states to recall ambassadors from Europe over Bolivian plane incident

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South American countries belonging to the Mercosur trade bloc have decided to withdraw their ambassadors for consultations from European countries involved in the grounding of the Bolivian president's plane.

"We've taken a number of actions in order to compel public explanations and apologies from the European nations that assaulted our brother Evo Morales," explained Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro, who revealed some of the agenda debated during the 45th summit of Mercosur countries in Uruguay's capital, Montevideo.

The decision to recall European ambassadors was taken by Maduro, Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez, Brazilian President Dilma Rouseff, and Uruguay's President, Jose Mujica, during the meeting.

Member states attending the summit expressed their grievances with "actions by the governments of France, Spain, Italy and Portugal" over the July 2 incident, when the aircraft carrying President Evo Morales back to Bolivia after attending an energy summit in Moscow was denied entry into the airspace of a number of EU member states.

Light Saber

Battle over seeds heats up in Argentina

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© BigstockCritics of GM crops are opposed to monoculture in Argentina.
The debate over the reform of Argentina's seed law has pitted transnational corporations that make transgenic seeds against social and rural organisations and academics opposed to the expansion of monoculture in defence of biodiversity and food security.

Over a year ago, the agriculture ministry said it would present a bill to overhaul a 1973 law on seeds that was modified several times to accommodate the expansion of monoculture and genetically modified seeds since the 1990s. GM soy is now Argentina's chief export.

But the ministry has not yet introduced a bill, although it has two drafts. Argentina's seeds association, which represents biotech companies, supports the ministry's efforts to draw up a new law.

However, the proposed reform has drawn criticism from those who see it as an attempt to restrict farmers from saving or selling their own seeds for further planting.

Stormtrooper

Yes, Monsanto actually did buy the Blackwater mercenary group!

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A report by Jeremy Scahill in The Nation revealed that the largest mercenary army in the world, Blackwater (later called Xe Services and more recently "Academi") clandestine intelligence services was sold to the multinational Monsanto. Blackwater was renamed in 2009 after becoming famous in the world with numerous reports of abuses in Iraq, including massacres of civilians. It remains the largest private contractor of the U.S. Department of State "security services," that practices state terrorism by giving the government the opportunity to deny it.

Many military and former CIA officers work for Blackwater or related companies created to divert attention from their bad reputation and make more profit selling their nefarious services-ranging from information and intelligence to infiltration, political lobbying and paramilitary training - for other governments, banks and multinational corporations. According to Scahill, business with multinationals, like Monsanto, Chevron, and financial giants such as Barclays and Deutsche Bank, are channeled through two companies owned by Erik Prince, owner of Blackwater: Total Intelligence Solutions and Terrorism Research Center. These officers and directors share Blackwater.

Propaganda

New studies: 'Conspiracy theorists' sane; government dupes crazy, hostile

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Recent studies by psychologists and social scientists in the US and UK suggest that contrary to mainstream media stereotypes, those labeled "conspiracy theorists" appear to be saner than those who accept the official versions of contested events.

The most recent study was published on July 8th by psychologists Michael J. Wood and Karen M. Douglas of the University of Kent (UK). Entitled "What about Building 7? A social psychological study of online discussion of 9/11 conspiracy theories," the study compared "conspiracist" (pro-conspiracy theory) and "conventionalist" (anti-conspiracy) comments at news websites.

Eye 1

Who is the US arming in Syria? President Assad rubs his hands at news of rebel split

The President would be the FSA's best ally in war against Islamists, says Robert Fisk
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Syrian rebels gather outside a building which they blew up to target a regime sniper taking shelter inside but who managed to escape in the Salaheddine district of the northern city of Aleppo
Bashar is a happy man today. Long did America and the EU rub their hands with delight each time a minister or general left Assad to collaborate with the regime's enemies.

Every split within the Assad government was paraded as the "tipping point". And now, suddenly, what Assad's lads had been telling us for months - that it is their enemies who are divided - turns out to be true. The bodies of Kamal Hamami and his brother are the proof. The rebels are split. The Islamists and the Free Syrian Army are at war.

The Obamas and the Camerons are going to have to catch their breath. They, after all, want - or wanted - to send weapons to the FSA, the secular, "heroic" resistance fighting for "democracy" against the fascist regime of the dictator in Damascus. And our leaders can still make the argument that the FSA are the guys we should be arming, now that the al-Qa'ida outfits have started killing the FSA leadership. If the good guys in the FSA are now fighting the bad guys of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, we should help them.

But history suggests that the good guys might turn into the bad guys and that the bad guys might win. What if the Islamists wipe out the FSA? Then our weapons really will fall into the "wrong hands" rather faster than they would have done anyway - since guns are money in civil wars and al-Nusra and the rest have the cash to buy anything we give the FSA. Then there's the argument that does not occur to the Hagues and Kerrys of this world: that if the FSA really do want to polish off their former fundamentalist allies, then their obvious ally is the chap in the presidential palace in Damascus.

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Syrian civil war in disarray after Al Qaeda militants assassinate rebel leader, whose followers immediately vow revenge

Members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant killed Kamal Hamami of the FSA Supreme Military Council

Rebel commanders pledged to retaliate opening up the possibility of a conflict between Western-backed forces and Islamists

Rebel troops being supplied by tiny munitions shop that manufactures mortar shells by hand


The Free Syrian Army has vowed revenge after Al Qaeda linked militants assassinated a top rebel commander opening up the possibility of a conflict between Western-backed rebel forces and Islamists in Syria's civil war.
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Free Syrian Army fighters ready their weapons as they prepare themselves for an offensive in Deir al-Zor
The announcement is the latest sign of disarray in the armed opposition to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who has regained the upper hand more than two years into an insurgency that grew out of Arab Spring-inspired pro-democracy protests.

Members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, a hardline Islamist group, killed Kamal Hamami of the FSA Supreme Military Council on Thursday. Also known by his nom de guerre, Abu Bassir al-Ladkani, he is one of its top 30 figures.Rebel commanders pledged to retaliate.

It follows growing rivalries between the FSA and the Islamists, who have sometimes joined forces on the battlefield, and coincides with attempts by the Western and Arab-backed FSA to allay fears any U.S.-supplied arms might reach al Qaeda.

'We are going to wipe the floor with them. We will not let them get away with it because they want to target us,' a senior rebel commander said on condition of anonymity.

He said the al Qaeda-linked militants had warned FSA rebels that there was 'no place' for them where Hamami was killed in Latakia province, a northern rural region of Syria bordering Turkey where Islamist groups are powerful.

Other opposition sources said the killing followed a dispute between Hamami's forces and the Islamic State over control of a strategic checkpoint in Latakia and would lead to fighting.