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'Self-radicalized' nonsense: Two arrested in 'pressure cooker terror plot' on Canada Day

Matthew Coutts
Yahoo News - Daily Brew
Tue, 02 Jul 2013 00:00 UTC
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Three pressure cookers to be used as improvised explosive devices (IEDs)
The arrest of two people on Canada Day helped avoid a terrorist attack that would have seen the B.C. legislature targeted by an explosive device, RCMP said on Tuesday.

John Stewart Nuttall and Amanda Korody have been charged with the knowing facilitation of a terrorist act, possession of an explosive device and conspiring to commit an indictable offence in connection to an alleged attack planned on the provincial legislature.

The charges were part of a "national security investigation" dubbed Project Souvenir, launched in February based on information received from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.

Officials with the RCMP described the two suspects as "self-radicalized" terrorists who were willing and ready to cause mass causalities on the public.

Comment: Two Canadians inspired by al Qaeda ideology? Are they serious?

Pressure cooker bombs like those allegedly used at the Boston Bombings?

Timed to happen on the Canadians' equivalent to Patriots' Day?

Foiled thanks to an intel operation that had been monitoring the suspects for months?

If, like us, you're already smelling bullshit, that's because it is...

Strategy of Tension - Boston Marathon bombing

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Crickets from White House on Largest Protest in Human History

Bridget Johnson
PJ Tatler
Mon, 01 Jul 2013 06:44 UTC
Egyptian activists hold applications for
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The White House has had no comment since what's being called the largest protest in human history demanded the end of Mohamed Morsi's regime.

Estimates for the Sunday "Tamarod" protests across Egypt reach as high as 17 million. Sixteen were killed and 781 were injured, according to the country's health ministry, in clashes; the Muslim Brotherhood unleashed its armed squad of supporters into the opposition crowd to sexually assault people, multiple reports said.

Many protesters held signs decrying President Obama and U.S. Ambassador Anne Patterson as supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood government.

Protesters stormed the Muslim Brotherhood headquarters and set parts of it on fire. By this morning, four cabinet ministers are reported to have stepped down "in solidarity with the people's demand to overthrow the regime," according to the BBC.
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Why Obama is making an African power-play against China

Lucas Powers
CBC News
Tue, 02 Jul 2013 05:10 UTC
Three-country tour meant to entice African trading partners away from China

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U.S. President Barack Obama delivers remarks at a business leaders' forum in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on Monday.
When U.S. President Barack Obama wraps up an African tour today, it will mark the end of what some international development experts say is an attempt to counter China's growing influence throughout sub-Saharan Africa and assert American economic dominance on the continent.

China surpassed the U.S. in total trade in sub-Saharan Africa in 2009, but its increasingly strong economic ties took root in 2000, when then-Chinese president Hu Jintao hosted representatives from 44 African nations in Beijing to establish the Forum on China-Africa Co-operation.

That meeting "set a mandate for China to become Africa's largest trading partner," says Richard Poplak, a Johannesburg-based Canadian author and journalist writing a book about China's growing role in Africa.
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Then-Archbishop Timothy Dolan tried to protect money from claims, records show

Annysa Johnson
JSonline.com
Tue, 02 Jul 2013 07:54 UTC
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Archbishop Timothy Dolan, seen in this 2009 file photo, listens as the Apostolic letter is read by the Vatican's ambassador to the United States during his installation Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York.
Four years before the Archdiocese of Milwaukee filed for bankruptcy, then-Archbishop Timothy Dolan sought Vatican approval to move nearly $57 million in cemetery funds off the archdiocese's books and into a trust to help protect them "from any legal claim or liability," according to documents made public Monday.
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Here we go: Edward Snowden threatens new U.S. leaks, applies for Russian asylum

Andrew Osborn and Alexei Anishchuk
Reuters
Mon, 01 Jul 2013 17:37 UTC
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Former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden broke his silence on Monday for the first time since fleeing to Moscow to say he remains free to make new disclosures about U.S. spying activity.

In a letter to Ecuador seen by Reuters, Snowden said the United States was illegally persecuting him for revealing its electronic surveillance program, PRISM, but made it clear he did not intend to be muzzled.

"I remain free and able to publish information that serves the public interest," he said in an undated letter in Spanish sent to Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa.

"No matter how many more days my life contains, I remain dedicated to the fight for justice in this unequal world. If any of those days ahead realize a contribution to the common good, the world will have the principles of Ecuador to thank."
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Israeli who murdered his parents used tips he found online

Jeffrey Heller
Reuters
Mon, 01 Jul 2013 07:27 UTC
An Israeli who stabbed his mother and father to death was convicted of murder on Monday partly because he searched online for tips including "how to kill your parents and get away with it".

Daniel Maoz, 29, wanted money from his inheritance in order to pay heavy gambling debts, the Jerusalem District Court found. He was sentenced to life imprisonment for the 2011 murders.

The case presented an unusual challenge to the prosecution: DNA evidence linking Maoz to the killings was found at the murder scene, his parents' apartment, and he tried to explain that away by accusing his identical twin brother of the crime.
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Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and now Syria: Cheer-leading another blood bath in the name of peace

Felicity Arbuthnot
Global Research
Sun, 23 Jun 2013 11:53 UTC
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Lies, Perfidies and Tony Blair
"Any time bombs are used to target innocent civilians it is an act of terrorism." President Barack Obama, April 15th 2013.
Having learned nothing from the catastrophes of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, it seems President Obama, the equally clueless UK Prime Minister Cameron and his culturally challenged Foreign Secretary William Hague are cheer-leading another bloodbath in formerly peaceful, secular, outward looking Syria.

Having covertly provided arms and equipment to insurgents from numerous different countries for over two years, they have now moved to the overt stage, a move over which even arch hawks such as former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, and former Republican Senator Richard Luger, six term leader of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee urged caution.

Luger said such action would boost extremists, with Brzezinski dismissing Obama's talk of "red lines" as thoughtless and risking: "a large-scale disaster for the United States."
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No Entry

Restricted web access to The Guardian is Armywide, officials say

Philip Molnar
Monterey County Herald
Thu, 27 Jun 2013 09:52 UTC
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© Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images
The offices of The Guardian and The Observer in London.
Security concerns cited in blocking Guardian news

The Army admitted Thursday to not only restricting access to The Guardian news website at the Presidio of Monterey, as reported in Thursday's Herald, but Armywide.

Presidio employees said the site had been blocked since The Guardian broke stories on data collection by the National Security Agency.

Gordon Van Vleet, an Arizona-based spokesman for the Army Network Enterprise Technology Command, or NETCOM, said in an email the Army is filtering "some access to press coverage and online content about the NSA leaks."

He wrote it is routine for the Department of Defense to take preventative "network hygiene" measures to mitigate unauthorized disclosures of classified information.

"We make every effort to balance the need to preserve information access with operational security," he wrote, "however, there are strict policies and directives in place regarding protecting and handling classified information."

In a later phone call, Van Vleet said the filter of classified information on public websites was "Armywide" and did not originate at the Presidio.
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Released FBI documents reveal plans for snipers to assassinate Occupy Wall Street activists


PressTV
Sun, 23 Dec 2012 20:37 UTC
OWS activists
© Unknown
Jason Leopold, an investigative journalist for Truth-Out, has obtained FBI documents - through the Freedom of Information Act - relating to Occupy Wall Street. Most of the pages in the documents are redacted, and show concerns of cyber threats against the financial sector. However, there are questions of assassination plots against Occupy activists in Houston, Texas. Because the documents have redactions, it is not clear who or what group was planning the assassinations.

On page 61, the section reads: "An identified [redacted] of October planned to engage in sniper attacks against protesters in Houston, Texas, if deemed necessary. An identified [redacted] had received intelligence that indicated the protesters in New York and Seattle planned similar protests in Houston, Dallas, San Antonio and Austin, Texas. [Redacted] planned to gather intelligence against the leaders of the protest groups and obtain photographs, then formulate a plan to kill the leadership via suppressed sniper rifles."

The bottom of page 68 and the top of page 69 reads: "On October 13, 2011, writer sent via email an excerpt [redacted] regarding FBI Houston's [redacted] to all IA's, SSRA's and SSA [redacted]. This [redacted] identified the exploitation of the Occupy Movement by [redacted] interested in developing a long-term plan to kill local Occupy leaders via sniper fire." ragingchickenpress.org

Comment:

No doubt these plans will come to fruition one day soon...

They've already done it in Venezuela, Iran and Syria... not long now before the methods tried and tested abroad are applied on U.S. soil.

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Che Guevara

Largest demonstration in world history? 20 million people take to the streets in Egypt, give Muslim Brotherhood leader Morsi two days to step down... or face rebellion


Russia Today
Mon, 01 Jul 2013 04:32 UTC
Egypt's protest movement has given the president an ultimatum to step down by Tuesday or face a mass rebellion. Some 20 million outraged citizens have flooded cities across the nation in a show of frustration at Mohamed Morsi's failure to keep the promises he made when he came to power a year ago. At least 7 people have been killed and more than 600 injured during the rallies so far. RT's Bel Trew reports from Cairo.

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