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Al Qaeda-in-Iraq blows up innocents for America in new wave of attacks


Irish Independent
Sat, 13 Jul 2013 02:54 UTC
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© Associated PressAl Qaida-linked fighters have been targeting Iraqi Shiites
A series of attacks in Iraq has left at least 24 Shiites and five policeman dead. The violence has been blamed on insurgents trying to enflame the country's renewed sectarian tensions.

In one of the attacks on Shiites, a suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden motorcycle into a funeral tent for a family in the town of in Muqdadiyah, about 90 kilometres (60 miles) north of Baghdad, officials said. The explosion killed 13 people and wounded 24.

In the northern town of Dujail, about 80 kms (50 miles) from Baghdad, a parked car bomb went off outside a Shiite mosque. As people gathered around the blast site, another bomb went off. The twin bombing killed at least 11 people and wounded 25, said the town mayor.

The two attacks raised the overall death toll on Thursday from a series of attacks, which included assaults on police stations in the cities of Ramadi and Fallujah west of Baghdad, to 40.

Sunni cleric Salah al-Nuaimi urged calm among Iraqis during a joint Sunni-Shiite Friday sermon in Baghdad aimed at easing sectarian tensions. "Enough is enough," al-Nuaimi told worshippers at a Baghdad mosque. "We all love Iraq, we are all Iraqis and we want to be united, we want to stop the bloodletting, develop and build Iraq.
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Bad Guys

Israel behind mystery attack on Syrian port - US sources


RT.com
Fri, 12 Jul 2013 22:47 UTC
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© AFP Photo/Jack GuezAn Israeli F-15 I fighter jet launches anti-missile flares.
US officials have revealed that explosions reported at a key Syrian port on July 5 were likely the result of an Israeli airstrike.

Three officials spoke to CNN on condition of anonymity, referring to the pre-dawn explosions in the city of Latakia as an Israeli operation which allegedly targeted Russian-made Yakhot anti-ship missiles.

The Yakhont is a cruise missile with a range of 300 kilometers, capable of delivering a warhead weighing in at 250 kilograms. Russia supplied Syria's armed forces with a Yakhont missile battery in 2011.

Shortly after the July 5 incident, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported that "huge explosions shook the area where a large Syrian army base and weapons depots are located."

According to reports by the SOHR published by Haaretz, fighter jets were seen in the skies around the city of Al-Haffah, which lies east of Latakia. Several troops were reported as having been killed or wounded in the ensuing explosions.

Syrian rebels said on Tuesday that "foreign forces" had destroyed advanced anti-ship missiles in Latakia, but only hinted that Israel had been behind the attack, Arutz Sheva reported.

Qassem Saadeddine, spokesman for the Free Syrian Army's Supreme Military Council, reported that the rebels' intelligence network had identified missiles being stored in the depots which were hit.
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Dollars

Missing Money


Masters in Accounting Degrees
Fri, 12 Jul 2013 14:30 UTC
Missing Money
Source: Missing Money
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Eye 1

NSA built back door in all Windows software by 1999


Washington Blog
Fri, 07 Jun 2013 14:11 UTC

Government Built Spy-Access Into Most Popular Consumer Program Before 9/11

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In researching the stunning pervasiveness of spying by the government (it's much more wide spread than you've heard even now), we ran across the fact that the FBI wants software programmers to install a backdoor in all software.

Digging a little further, we found a 1999 article by leading European computer publication Heise which noted that the NSA had already built a backdoor into all Windows software:
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Wall Street

Edward Snowden requests asylum in Russia...while continuing to leak 'top secret documents' to the Guardian

Miriam Elder
The Guardian
Fri, 12 Jul 2013 13:26 UTC
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© Tanya Lokshina/APEdward Snowden, centre, at a meeting with human rights activists at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport.
NSA whistleblower says he will stay in Russia until he can get safe passage to Latin America at meeting with activists

The US whistleblower Edward Snowden said he has renewed his request to seek political asylum in Russia on Friday, in a meeting with human rights activists at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport that marked his first appearance since he fled Hong Kong.

Snowden said he intended to stay in Russia until he could win safe passage to Latin America, according to Tanya Lokshina of Human Rights Watch, who was at the meeting.

In a statement to the meeting, released through Wikileaks, Snowden said he had no regrets over what he had done.

Snowden has been trapped in a Moscow airport since arriving from Hong Kong on 23 June. He has made nearly two dozen requests for political asylum, most of which have been refused.

Comment: So Snowden wants asylum from Russia... while going against Putin's terms and continuing to release top-secret documents?...

Stop the presses! More top secret documents (leaked by Snowden?) show that Microsoft and the NSA conspired against the masses!

Some more on this story from RT:



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Flashlight

Stop the presses! More top secret documents (leaked by Snowden?) show that Microsoft and the NSA conspired against the masses!

Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill, Laura Poitras, Spencer Ackerman & Dominic Rushe
The Guardian
Fri, 12 Jul 2013 13:31 UTC
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Microsoft has collaborated closely with US intelligence services to allow users' communications to be intercepted, including helping the National Security Agency to circumvent the company's own encryption, according to top-secret documents obtained by the Guardian.

The files provided by Edward Snowden illustrate the scale of co-operation between Silicon Valley and the intelligence agencies over the last three years. They also shed new light on the workings of the top-secret Prism program, which was disclosed by the Guardian and the Washington Post last month.

The documents show that:
  • Microsoft helped the NSA to circumvent its encryption to address concerns that the agency would be unable to intercept web chats on the new Outlook.com portal;
  • The agency already had pre-encryption stage access to email on Outlook.com, including Hotmail;
  • The company worked with the FBI this year to allow the NSA easier access via Prism to its cloud storage service SkyDrive, which now has more than 250 million users worldwide;
  • Microsoft also worked with the FBI's Data Intercept Unit to "understand" potential issues with a feature in Outlook.com that allows users to create email aliases;
  • In July last year, nine months after Microsoft bought Skype, the NSA boasted that a new capability had tripled the amount of Skype video calls being collected through Prism;
  • Material collected through Prism is routinely shared with the FBI and CIA, with one NSA document describing the program as a "team sport".

Comment: "Top-secret documents"; what a quaint term!

Who exactly is supposed to be leaking these "top-secret documents" to the Guardian? Snowden has been living in Moscow airport for the past 19 days!

We're to believe that he can send them from there to Greenwald and Poitras with zero intervention from the NSA or anyone else??

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Stock Down

Irish MP Clare Daly: Why are the Irish people being punished for the bankers' greed?


Sott.net
Fri, 12 Jul 2013 13:10 UTC
Clare Daly asks Irish Finance Minister Joan Burton what action the government proposes to take in regard to the Anglo-Irish Bank bailout, especially in light of the recent release of the 'Anglo Tapes'.

The Irish Independent newspaper, which leaked these recorded phone conversations between Anglo-Irish bankers at the outset of the financial crisis in Ireland in 2008, sat on these tapes for some time (how long is unknown, but you can see in the first minute of this video that they're pretty defensive about it), and the Irish government has asked them to curtail the release of further recordings because of its "concern about the potential consequences of the emergence of certain other information into the public domain."

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Pirates

Best of the Web: Former Anglo Irish Bank CEO David Drumm in 'Anglo Tapes': We'll tell the Central Bank that if they don't give us billions now, the economy will collapse

Paul Williams
Irish Independent
Sat, 29 Jun 2013 12:46 UTC
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Psychopathic bankster David Drumm, believed to be hiding out in the U.S., laughs as he does his part to turn a booming economy into a broke nation.
Tapes of David Drumm, just days before he lost his job as Anglo Irish Bank CEO, reveal the frenetic atmosphere in the bank.

For the first time, Anglo's own executives speak about how the Brian Cowen-led government ignored the advice of international bankers Merrill Lynch to shut down Anglo, in recordings exclusively revealed today in the Irish Independent.

The bankers even tell how their own institution is described as a "basket case" by the firm, which were the government's external advisers.

"They're knifing us," Drumm tells colleague John Bowe, before telling him how he had prepared a plan to burn bondholders.

Mr Drumm reveals a conversation he's apparently had with former Fine Gael leader and ex-finance minister Alan Dukes - the government-appointed member of the board of the bank, where the former politician allegedly reported that the Government had decided to keep the bank going. Mr Dukes was appointed as public-interest director at Anglo days beforehand.

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Handcuffs

Best of the Web: Caught On Tape: Irish bankers laugh about never repaying bailout


Real News
Fri, 12 Jul 2013 12:23 UTC
Bill Black is interviewed by Real News on the 'Anglo Tapes', which reveal how Anglo Irish Bank executives laughed as they manipulated the Irish Government into a 16 billion dollar bailout in 2008 that they knew neither the government nor the people would ever be able to repay...


Comment: Leaked recordings of Anglo-Irish phone conversation during outbreak of 2008 financial crisis: Banksters joked about defrauding the Irish people

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Handcuffs

Best of the Web: Leaked recordings of Anglo-Irish phone conversation during outbreak of 2008 financial crisis: Banksters joked about defrauding the Irish people

Julia La Roche
Business Insider
Fri, 28 Jun 2013 10:37 UTC
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Once again, we have more embarrassing conversations between bankers...

The Irish Independent, a Dublin-based newspaper, has uncovered tapes of an internal phone conversation from September 2008 between two executives at Anglo Irish Bank during its bailout deal and they sound pretty scandalous. The Irish Independent points out that the recordings show they misled the Central Bank.

The executives from the recording have been identified as John Bowe (head of the bank's capital markets) and Peter Fitzgerald (director of retail banking).

However, Bowe "categorically denied" that he misled the Central Bank and Fitzgerald, who wasn't involved in discussions with regulators, said he was unaware of any intention to mislead, the report said.

Either way, the newly revealed recordings are still embarrassing.

Comment: Note that the Irish Independent is no angel in this: part and parcel of the Irish political establishment, this mainstream media outlet sat on the tapes for the longest time...

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