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Former MI5 chief Jonathan Evans joins HSBC main board


The Telegraph
Fri, 31 May 2013 04:42 UTC
Sir Jonathan Evans, who stepped down as director-general of MI5 last month, has become latest heavyweight non-executive director at HSBC.
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© APSir Jonathan Evans is said to have taken the decision to abandon the project, which could have cost the taxpayer millions.
The 55-year-old, who joins in August, will be on the main board as well as a member of the new financial system vulnerabilities committee, set up identify areas where the bank may become exposed to financial crime or system abuse.

HSBC is acting to restore is reputation after being fined $1.9bn (£1.2bn) for exposing America's financial system to exploitation by drug cartels and terrorists due money laundering breaches. It is also facing investigations by regulators looking into alleged Libor rigging and accusation that it has helped customers avoid tax.

During his 33 years at M15 his focus was on international and domestic counter-terrorism, including cyber threats.

"His experience and expertise gained from a career at the highest level of public service combating threats to data security, critical infrastructure and from international terrorism and organised crime will be of considerable value to the Board as it addresses its governance of systemic threats," said Douglas Flint, the chairman of HSBC.

Comment: Note that all big banks employ former members of FBI, CIA and NSA. Seems to be like a kind of back base.

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NSA: Everyone's a terrorist - Brainwash update

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RT
Fri, 07 Jun 2013 00:27 UTC
Abby Martin breaks down the latest surveillance scandal by the National Security Agency, in which the servers of firms such as Google, Facebook, and Apple are subject constant government surveillance.
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Bad Guys

Monsanto: Contamination by all means necessary

Colin Todhunter
Truthout
Thu, 06 Jun 2013 21:59 UTC
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What happens when you allow commercial interests free rein over a nation state's food and agricultural policies? Consumers and farmers end up paying the price. Take the current predicament of wheat contamination in the US .

Genetically engineered (GE) wheat is not approved to be grown for commercial use in the US or anywhere else in the world. Yet the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has announced that unapproved GE wheat has been found growing in an Oregon wheat field (1). An Oregon farmer sprayed his wheat field, intending it to lay fallow for the next year. Despite multiple sprays of Monsanto's Round Up, the farmer found that the crops unexpectedly persisted, just as GE crops are engineered to do. This prompted him to send samples to a scientist at Oregon State University , who determined that the crops were infused with the RoundUp Ready gene. The USDA confirmed the results.
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World government is watching you: NSA telephone, Internet spying data shared with British Intelligence


RT News
Fri, 07 Jun 2013 17:10 UTC
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© Reuters / Ralph Orlowski
Data covertly collected by the US National Security Agency (NSA) from American telecom and Internet firms has been shared with its British counterpart, media reports revealed.

Britain's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) has been given information gathered in the US-run PRISM system, which grants the American spy agency a direct line to data stored on the servers of Google, Facebook, Apple, Yahoo and five other tech giants.

Documents obtained by the Guardian revealed that the GCHQ has had access to PRISM since at least June 2010, having generated 197 intelligence reports from it last year. Access to the information has allowed the British electronic eavesdropping and security agency to bypass the formal legal process required to obtain such information from a non-UK-based company.

Throughout PRISM's seven-year existence, operatives at the NSA and FBI have collected email, video and voice chat, videos, photos, voice-over-IP (Skype) chats, file transfers and social networking details, with the ostensible purpose of thwarting terror attacks.

Comment: We have finally reached that point in which Orwellian metaphors and predictions are no longer such. They are reality. This is it; the so-called New World Order and its surveillance apparatus are real, here and now.

This is the sort of activity proper of totalitarian regimes, such as Eastern Germany under Communism, where the Stazi would systematically open and read the letters of the population in fear that someone out there would be an 'enemy of the state'. That is what we have become on a global scale.

It should be a scandal, but people have been slowly conditioned to accept the unacceptable. So the large majority shrug their shoulders and look the other way.

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Internet surveillance? When Ansar al-Sharia claimed on Facebook it did Benghazi, administration blamed a YouTube video

Terence P. Jeffrey
cnsnews.com
Fri, 07 Jun 2013 10:09 UTC
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© AP Photo/Mohammad HannonThe burnt-out shell of a building at the State Department's mission in Benghazi after the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attack.
The National Security Agency may have been conducting massive surveillance of the Internet through its PRISM program, including surveillance of Facebook--as The Guardian and The Washington Post reported yesterday--but that did not prevent the administration from blaming the Benghazi terrorist attack, which a terrorist group was openly taking credit for on Facebook, on a spontaneous reaction to an anti-Muslim video posted on YouTube.

While the Benghazi attack was still unfolding on the evening of Sept. 11, 2012, Ansar al-Sharia, a Benghazi-based terrorist group with links to al Qaeda, made a posting on Facebook taking responsibility for the attack. Despite Ansar al-Sharia's Facebook posting, the administration publicly explained the attack as the outgrowth of a spontaneous demonstration against an anti-Muslim video posted on YouTube.

At about 3:42 p.m. Washington, D.C., time on Sept. 11, 2012, a group of terrorists swarmed through the front gate of the State Department's Special Mission Compound in Benghazi.
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Flashback Digital moles in White House? Terrorists had top-secret presidential codes


World New Daily
Sat, 08 Jun 2013 09:58 UTC
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"Air Force One is next," read the message received by the U.S. Secret Service at 9 a.m. Sept. 11, after two hijacked planes struck the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York.

Three minutes later, Secret Service agents grabbed Vice President Dick Cheney from his seat opposite a television set in the White House and hustled him down to the president's emergency operations center, a bunker built to withstand a nuclear blast.

The terrorists' message threatening Air Force One was transmitted in that day's top-secret White House code words. As the clock ticked away, the Secret Service reached a frightening conclusion: The terrorists had obtained the White House code and a whole set of top-secret signals.

This made it possible for a hostile force to pinpoint the exact position of Air Force One, its destination and its classified procedures. In fact, the hijackers were picking up and deciphering the presidential plane's incoming and outgoing transmissions.

Comment: Please note that DEBKAfile is a "Jerusalem-based, English- and Hebrew-language, Israeli, open-source, military intelligence website with commentary and analyses on terrorism, intelligence, security, and military and political affairs in the Middle East."

Maybe this explains why Bush went AWOL on 9/11? He wasn't expecting to be double-crossed by his partners-in-crime...

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U.S. intel chief blasts leaks on web, phone use tracking


CBS News
Fri, 07 Jun 2013 09:56 UTC
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National Security Agency
Moving to tamp down a public uproar spurred by the disclosure of two secret surveillance programs, the nation's top intelligence official is declassifying key details about one of the programs while insisting the efforts to collect Americans' phone records and the U.S. internet use of foreign nationals overseas were legal, limited in scope and necessary to detect terrorist threats.

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, in an unusual late-night statement Thursday, denounced the leaks of highly classified documents that revealed the programs and warned that America's security will suffer. He called the disclosure of a program that targets foreigners' Internet use "reprehensible," and said the leak of another program that lets the government collect Americans' phone records would change enemies' behavior and make it harder to understand their intentions.

"The unauthorized disclosure of a top secret U.S. court document threatens potentially long-lasting and irreversible harm to our ability to identify and respond to the many threats facing our nation," Clapper said of the phone-tracking program.

It was revealed late Wednesday that the National Security Agency has been collecting the phone records of hundreds of millions of U.S. phone customers. The leaked document first reported by the British newspaper the Guardian gave the NSA authority to collect from all of Verizon's land and mobile customers, but intelligence experts said the program swept up the records of other phone companies too. The possibility of a third secret program letting the NSA tap into credit card transaction records emerged late Thursday in a report in The Wall Street Journal. The White House did not immediately respond to an inquiry about that program.
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'Army of lobbyists' led by Monsanto helped neuter GMO labeling law in Connecticut

Connor Adams Sheets
International Business Times
Thu, 06 Jun 2013 09:40 UTC
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Connecticut became the first state in the nation to pass a GMO labeling law on Monday, but food advocates and those who are concerned about what they eat shouldn't bust out the (organic) bubbly just yet.

Though the mere fact that the Connecticut General Assembly passed a GMO labeling bill is a step in the right direction, the full story is a disturbing reminder of how powerful the biotech lobby really is.

Food advocates have long called on the federal government and state legislatures to enact laws to require food products that contain genetically engineered ingredients to be labeled as such. And for some time this year it appeared as though Connecticut was on track to do just that, as many lawmakers had publicly endorsed a strongly worded GMO labeling bill.
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Stunning decline of Barack Obama: Why the Obama presidency is in meltdown

Nile Gardiner
The Telegraph
Thu, 06 Jun 2013 00:00 UTC
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Obama's second term is shaping up to be a disaster

The last few weeks have been among the worst of Barack Obama's time in office, recalling earlier periods of turmoil for the president in 2010 and 2011, when his ratings also plummeted. In 2013, the situation is significantly worse for the White House, with the Obama administration engulfed in a series of major scandals (IRS persecution of conservative groups, the Benghazi debacle, and the Justice Department seizure of journalists' phone records) that are not only eroding trust in government but also in the office of the president itself. This is undoubtedly a period of steep decline for the Obama presidency, whose imperial-style big government approach is being increasingly questioned not only by American voters, but also by formerly subservient sections of the liberal-dominated mainstream media. In contrast to his first term, Barack Obama is finding himself less and less shielded by the press, and far more vulnerable to public criticism.

With good reason, Americans don't feel optimistic about their country's future with President Obama at the helm. According to the RealClear Politics polling average, less than one in three Americans believe the United States is heading in the right direction. A new Economist/YouGov poll has the president's job approval rating at just 46 percent, with 49 percent of Americans disapproving. Strikingly, 35 percent of Americans "strongly disapprove" of the president's job performance, 15 points higher than the number who "strongly approve." A mere 31 percent of Americans surveyed by YouGov believe the United States is "generally headed in the right direction."
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Hypocrisy of U.S. outside agitators

Patrick J. Buchanan
CNSnews.com
Fri, 07 Jun 2013 05:09 UTC
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© ReutersJudges and their supporters protest outside the Supreme Court against a new bill under discussion at the Shura council in Cairo on Monday. An Egyptian court on Tuesday convicted 43 non-profit workers on charges of fomenting unrest.

A Cairo court has convicted 43 men and women of using foreign funds to foment unrest inside Egypt in connection with the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak.

Sixteen of those convicted were Americans. All but one, Robert Becker of the National Democratic Institute, had already departed. Becker fled this week rather than serve two years in an Egyptian prison.

And U.S. interventionists are in an uproar.

"Appalling and offensive," said Sen. Pat Leahy of the verdicts.

"The 2011 revolution was supposed to end the repressive climate under Mubarak," said The Wall Street Journal of our ally of 30 years whom Hillary Clinton called a family friend.

This "crackdown," decries The Washington Post, was defended with "cheap nationalism and conspiracy theories." As for Egypt's proposed new law for regulating foreign-funded groups promoting democracy, it is "based on ... repressive and xenophobic logic."

Yet the questions raised by both the Cairo and Moscow crackdowns on U.S.-funded "democracy" groups cannot be so airily dismissed.

For these countries have more than a small point.

While U.S.-funded democracy promotion is portrayed as benign, the National Endowment for Democracy, the International Republican Institute, DNI and Freedom House have been linked to revolutions that brought down regimes in Serbia, Ukraine, Georgia, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, and nearly succeeded in Belarus.

People who pride themselves on bringing about revolutions should not whine when targeted regimes treat them like troublemakers.
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