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Criminal Assault on the Planet! Monsanto's Agent Orange Being Used to Clear Amazon Forest

Stephen Messenger
Treehugger.com
Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:27 UTC

Agent Orange is one of the most devastating weapons of modern warfare, a chemical which killed or injured an estimated 400,000 people during the Vietnam War - and now it's being used against the Amazon rainforest. According to officials, ranchers in Brazil have begun spraying the highly toxic herbicide over patches of forest as a covert method to illegally clear foliage, more difficult to detect that chainsaws and tractors. In recent weeks, an aerial survey detected some 440 acres of rainforest that had been sprayed with the compound - poisoning thousands of trees and an untold number of animals, potentially for generations.

Officials from Brazil's environmental agency IBAMA were first tipped to the illegal clearing by satellite images of the forest in Amazonia; a helicopter flyover in the region later revealed thousands of trees left ash-colored and defoliated by toxic chemicals. IBAMA says that Agent Orange was likely dispersed by aircraft by a yet unidentified rancher to clear the land for pasture because it is more difficult to detect than traditional operations that require chainsaws and tractors.

9/11: as it happened on the ground

docbrosk
YouTube
Thu, 10 Mar 2011 16:09 UTC

A ten-minute collection of audio-video clips from the base of the WTC on 9/11 that will forever change the way you think of that event.

It features numerous reporters from different networks, many emergency services personnel, and many survivors describing repeatedly secondary explosions within the Twin Towers, suspicious devices, an exploding van parked inside one of the buildings, and similar occurrences -- all real time, as they happened on 9/11, and that somehow or other disappeared from the media record shortly afterward. Proof positive that the impacting planes alone did not bring down the Twin Towers.

The "War On Terror" Is A $6 Trillion Racket, With $1 Trillion In Interest Alone, Exceeding The Total Cost Of World War II

David DeGraw
AmpedStatus
Thu, 07 Jul 2011 10:30 UTC

When Obama launched his re-election propaganda campaign to trick the American public into thinking that he intends to end the Af-Pak War, he said that the "War on Terror" has cost $1 trillion over the past decade. While that is a staggering amount of money, he was being deceitful once again.

As you may have heard, a newly released study by the Eisenhower Research Project at Brown University revealed that the cost of the War on Terror is significantly greater than Obama has said. The little passing coverage the study received in the mainstream press cited $3.7 trillion as the total cost, which was the most conservative estimate. The moderate estimate, which the mainstream media ignored, was $4.4 trillion. In addition, interest payments on these costs will most likely exceed $1 trillion, which brings the total cost up to at least $5.4 trillion. The report also states that the following costs are not even included in this total:

"These totals do not inclue: Medicare costs for injured veterans after age 65; Expenses for veterans paid for by state and local government budgets; Promised $5.3 billion reconstruction aid for Afghanistan; Additional macroeconomic consequences of war spending including infrastructure and jobs."

David Callahan, reporting for The Policy Shop, summed up the report's cost estimates:

"... the total direct and indirect costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan may exceed $6 trillion.... That figure comes from combining congressional appropriations for the wars over the past decade ($1.3 trillion), additional spending by the Pentagon related to the wars ($326 - $652 billion), interest so far on Pentagon war appropriations, all of which was borrowed ($185 billion), immediate medical costs for veterans ($32 billion), war related foreign aid ($74 billion), homeland security spending ($401 billion), projected medical costs for veterans through 2051 ($589 - $934 billion), social costs to military families ($295 - $400 billion), projected Pentagon war spending and foreign aid as troops wind down in the two war zones ($453 billion); and interest payments on all this spending through 2020 ($1 trillion)."

China plans to sell 'combat, surveillance drones' to Pakistan, Middle East, Africa: Report

Daily India
Thu, 07 Jul 2011 00:00 UTC

With an accelerating drone industry, China is fast catching up to the United States and plans to sell combat and surveillance drones to Pakistan, the Middle East and Africa, according to a news report.

The large number of drones at recent exhibitions underlines not only China's determination to catch up in that sector by building equivalents to the leading US combat and surveillance models, the Predator and the Global Hawk, but also its desire to sell this technology abroad, The Washington Post reports.

According to the Aviation Industry Corp. of China, it has begun offering international customers a combat and surveillance drone comparable to the Predator called the Yilong, or "pterodactyl" in English.

Zhang Qiaoliang, a representative of the Chengdu Aircraft Design and Research Institute, which manufactures many of the most advanced military aircraft for the People's Liberation Army, said that the company anticipates sales in Pakistan, the Middle East and Africa.

Why Do the Police Have Tanks? The Strange and Dangerous Militarization of the US Police Force

Rania Khalek
Alternet
Tue, 05 Jul 2011 21:50 UTC

The federal government has supplied local police departments with military uniforms, weaponry, vehicles, and training.

Just after midnight on May 16, 2010, a SWAT team threw a flash-bang grenade through the window of a 25-year-old man while his 7-year-old daughter slept on the couch as her grandmother watched television. The grenade landed so close to the child that it burned her blanket. The SWAT team leader then burst into the house and fired a single shot which struck the child in the throat, killing her. The police were there to apprehend a man suspected of murdering a teenage boy days earlier. The man they were after lived in the unit above the girl's family.

The shooting death of Aiyana Mo'Nay Stanley-Jones sounds like it happened in a war zone. But the tragic SWAT team raid took place in Detroit.

'A-Team' Turns in LulzSec Members; Hackers' Identities Revealed

IB Times Staff Reporter
IBTIMES
Wed, 06 Jul 2011 03:31 UTC

The dark and intriguing world of hacking just got murkier, as a group of hackers called the "A-Team" revealed the details of the famed LulzSec hackers in an apparent spite attack.

Hackers do shop fellow hackers to llaw enforcement, one reason why the world of hacking is particularly dangerous. However, in the latest instance, data regarding an entire team of hackers that had the world terrified for several weeks has supposedly been revealed.

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney hit with data breach

Shaun Nichols
V3
Thu, 07 Jul 2011 03:28 UTC

Financial services firm Morgan Stanley Smith Barney has become the latest firm to suffer a breach of its customer data archives.

According to documents posted by financial news service Credit.com, the company has notified its customers that a pair of CDs containing the names, addresses, social security numbers and account numbers for users had gone missing.

Anonymous suspects arrested in Italian police raids

thenextweb
Thu, 07 Jul 2011 03:23 UTC

Italian police are the latest to make arrests in connection to hacking collective Anonymous, according to reports from the country today.

32 dawn raids were carried out, including one across the border in the Swiss region of Ticino. Following the raids, three people including one minor were arrested.

Cisco drives epic Chinese surveillance network, says report

Rik Myslewski
The Register
Tue, 05 Jul 2011 03:01 UTC

Half million Big Brother cams

Cisco and other western companies are reportedly working with the Chinese government to install a network of one half-million surveillance cameras in the rapidly growing commercial and industrial metropolis, Chongqing.

Citing people familiar with the deal, The Wall Street Journal reports (subscription required) that Cisco will supply the networking equipment the massive surveillance system.

The government of Chongqing - a city on the Yangtze river of between 12 and 32 million souls, depending on how you extend the metropolitain outline - declined the WSJ's request for comment. So did the country's Ministry of Public Security and State Council Information Office.

Microsoft publishes Wi-Fi data collection code

Gavin Clarke
The Register
Tue, 05 Jul 2011 02:50 UTC

'Look at us! We're not Google!'

Microsoft has published code for the software that its roving vehicles use to collect wireless network information. The move is an apparent attempt to make Microsoft look good next to Google.

On Tuesday, the software giant proudly told the world that it had published some of the code used by the Microsoft vehicles that drive around slurping data on Wi-Fi access points and cell-tower locations. This data fuels the location-based services included with Windows Phones and other Microsoft products.

In the past, Google used its fleet of Street View vehicles to collect similar data. But at one point, Google admitted that it had been collecting not only network identifier but Wi-Fi payload data as well, and it no longer collect any Wi-Fi data.

Has anyone seen any videos, cctv or anything on this incident. I have not.

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Puppet Masters

Criminal Assault on the Planet! Monsanto's Agent Orange Being Used to Clear Amazon Forest

9/11: as it happened on the ground

The "War On Terror" Is A $6 Trillion Racket, With $1 Trillion In Interest Alone, Exceeding The Total Cost Of World War II

China plans to sell 'combat, surveillance drones' to Pakistan, Middle East, Africa: Report

Why Do the Police Have Tanks? The Strange and Dangerous Militarization of the US Police Force

'A-Team' Turns in LulzSec Members; Hackers' Identities Revealed

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney hit with data breach

Anonymous suspects arrested in Italian police raids

Cisco drives epic Chinese surveillance network, says report

Microsoft publishes Wi-Fi data collection code

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