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Moscow conducts large-scale nuclear attack drill

Bill Gertz
FreeBeacon
Wed, 30 Oct 2013 17:12 UTC
SS18 Rocket
© Associated PressRussian SS-18 rocket.
Russian strategic forces carried out a large-scale surprise military drill on Wednesday, launching four nuclear missiles that were closely monitored by U.S. intelligence agencies, U.S. officials said.

The drill began around 9:00 am ET and included the test launch of two land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and two submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs).

The test firings were unusual because of the number of missiles fired at one time, said officials who discussed some details of the drill on condition of anonymity.

State Department spokeswoman Alexandra F. Bell confirmed the tests and said the long-range missile firings were "conducted consistent with the requirements of the New START Treaty."

At the Pentagon, spokeswoman Cynthia O. Smith said: "With regard to Russia's recent testing of its strategic forces missiles, the United States received the proper notifications prior to the launches."

Other officials said the tests were notified in advance to the U.S. government as required by a 1988 U.S.-Soviet agreement requiring advance notification of ICBM and SLBM launches. The agreement requires notifying the Nuclear Risk Reduction Center, run by the Pentagon, of the impending launches within four days of their launch.
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Network

NSA 'hacked Google and Yahoo's data centre links', Snowden documents say

Barton Gellman , Ashkan Soltani
The Independent
Wed, 30 Oct 2013 10:17 UTC
Documents reveal vast scale of security agency's ability to get around strict legal procedures

google data center
© APA Google data center in Hamina, Finland
The US National Security Agency (NSA), in collaboration with the UK government's listening station GCHQ, has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centres around the world, according to interviews with knowledgeable officials and documents obtained from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

By tapping those links, the agency can collect at will from among hundreds of millions of user accounts. The NSA does not keep everything it collects, but it keeps a lot.

According to a top-secret document dated 9 January 2013, NSA's acquisitions directorate sends millions of records every day from Yahoo and Google internal networks to data warehouses at the agency's Fort Meade headquarters. In the preceding 30 days, the report said, field collectors had processed and sent back 181,280,466 new records, ranging from "metadata", which indicates who sent or received emails and when, to content such as text, audio and video.

Comment: Anyone still surprised that this is happening? No? Perhaps that is the idea: to push us to a point in which the Big Brother Society is normalized and internalized.

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MIB

Fresh report into 2003 EU spy scandal points to Israeli secret services

Andrew Rettman
EUobserver.com
Fri, 11 Oct 2013 14:45 UTC
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© consilium.europa.auThe Council at work: the Justus Lipsius building is the venue for the EU's most sensitive internal debates, on, among other topics, foreign policy
Brussels - Belgium's Standing Intelligence Agencies Review Committee has in a fresh report out on Tuesday (11 January) revealed details of a 2003 EU bugging scandal and named Israeli secret services as a potential culprit.

The report, completed in late 2010, is available on the committee's website in Flemish and French. Committee member Peter de Smet on Tuesday told EUobserver the report says that two people suspected of planting listening devices in the EU member states' headquarters, the Justus Lipsius building, when it was constructed back in the mid-1990s had been trained by the Israeli telecommunications company Comverse, which has known links to the Mossad, the Israeli spy agency.

The report does not name any country other than Israel as the potential guilty party in its findings.

"There is no hard evidence [that the Mossad carried out the operation]," Mr De Smet explained. "But it was really state-of-the-art listening equipment that was placed back in 1993 or 1994 and there were not many countries that had the means at this time. It could be Israel, it could be Russia, it could be England or it could be the US - there you have really the four countries possible, but it will never blow up who did these things. It will remain a game inside the intelligence services."
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Wolf

Bill O'Reilly pretends to hassle Dick Cheney over the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, 'What did we get out of it?'

Brent McCluskey
Before It's News
Tue, 29 Oct 2013 10:06 UTC
Bill O'Reilly
© Guns.comO’Reilly wanted to know if the trillions of dollars in debts and tens of thousands of American lives lost was really worth the cost.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney sat down with Bill O'Reilly to discuss whether the trillions of dollars of debt and tens of thousands of causalities amongst the Iraq and Afghanistan wars were really worth the cost.

In the completely amiable segment, the two men faced off. Cheney insisted the Bush administration had a clear and precise plan for their successors, but that the Obama administration just wasn't adhering to them, Mediate reported.

It seemed the point O'Reilly was truly concerned about though was whether the extreme cost, both of life and monetarily, of the two wars could really justify the end result, if that could even be quantified.

Comment: Don't know whether it's worth it, Dick? If you were equipped with a conscience like a normal human being there wouldn't be a single doubt in your mind. Too bad for the rest of the world that you don't.

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Eye 1

Press TV: Ken O'Keefe debates Lee Kaplan about Syria

Ken O'Keefe
Youtube
Thu, 24 Oct 2013 22:12 UTC
Lee Kaplan provides a classic example of the propagandists methods, divert, make personal attacks, revert to tired historical myths like America liberated Europe in World War II so as to imply the massive crimes during WWII and since do not matter. I hope to be in a debate with Lee many more times as he provides one gift after another in terms of providing material that exposes the shallow, baseless foundation of lies that our global system of tyranny is built upon. Enjoy these dinosaurs while they are still around because their days of utility in a world waking up are clearly numbered.
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Bad Guys

Best of the Web: As Europe erupts over U.S. spying, NSA chief says government must stop media

Glenn Greenwald
The Guardian
Fri, 25 Oct 2013 20:22 UTC
NSA Director General Keith Alexander
© Evan Vucci/APNSA Director General Keith Alexander, earlier this month.
With General Alexander calling for NSA reporting to be halted, US and UK credibility as guardians of press freedom is crushed

The most under-discussed aspect of the NSA story has long been its international scope. That all changed this week as both Germany and France exploded with anger over new revelations about pervasive NSA surveillance on their population and democratically elected leaders.

As was true for Brazil previously, reports about surveillance aimed at leaders are receiving most of the media attention, but what really originally drove the story there were revelations that the NSA is bulk-spying on millions and millions of innocent citizens in all of those nations. The favorite cry of US government apologists - - everyone spies! - falls impotent in the face of this sort of ubiquitous, suspicionless spying that is the sole province of the US and its four English-speaking surveillance allies (the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand).
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Vader

Confirmed: EU leaders are faking surprise at NSA spying - they are all in collusion with U.S.

Paul Hamilos
The Guardian
Wed, 30 Oct 2013 07:40 UTC
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The Spanish govt yesterday made a big show of summoning its US ambassador... turns out they were actively cooperating with the NSA all along
Spain colluded in NSA spying on its citizens, Spanish newspaper reports

El Mundo says it has obtained document detailing collaboration between US intelligence agency and foreign countries

The widespread surveillance of Spanish citizens by the US National Security Agency, which caused outrage when it was reported this week, was the product of a collaboration with Spain's intelligence services, according to one Spanish newspaper.

In the latest revelations to emerge from the documents leaked by the US whistleblower Edward Snowden, Spanish agents not only knew about the work of the NSA but also facilitated it, El Mundo reports.

An NSA document entitled "Sharing computer network operations cryptologic information with foreign partners" reportedly shows how the US relies on the collaboration of many countries to give it access to intelligence information, including electronic metadata.

The US classifies co-operation with various countries on four different levels. In the first group are allies: the UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand. The second group, of which Spain is a member, includes 19 countries, all of them European apart from Japan and South Korea.
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Nuke

Help wanted in Fukushima: Low pay, high risks and gangsters (=pathological deviants)

Antoni Slodkowski and Mari Saito
Reuters Canada
Fri, 25 Oct 2013 04:29 UTC
fukushima clean up worker
© ReutersFukushima clean up worker
Tetsuya Hayashi went to Fukushima to take a job at ground zero of the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. He lasted less than two weeks.

Hayashi, 41, says he was recruited for a job monitoring the radiation exposure of workers leaving the plant in the summer of 2012. Instead, when he turned up for work, he was handed off through a web of contractors and assigned, to his surprise, to one of Fukushima's hottest radiation zones.

He was told he would have to wear an oxygen tank and a double-layer protective suit. Even then, his handlers told him, the radiation would be so high it could burn through his annual exposure limit in just under an hour.

"I felt cheated and entrapped," Hayashi said. "I had not agreed to any of this."

When Hayashi took his grievances to a firm on the next rung up the ladder of Fukushima contractors, he says he was fired. He filed a complaint but has not received any response from labor regulators for more than a year. All the eight companies involved, including embattled plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co, declined to comment or could not be reached for comment on his case.
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Dollar Gold

UK central banker gets ready to blow up the world


The Daily Bell
Tue, 29 Oct 2013 00:35 UTC
Central banks need to 'keep up' with markets says Mark Carney ... The Bank of England, Mark Carney said on Thursday night, is open for business. The governor's message to the City was clear. The days when the Old Lady preached the perils of "moral hazard" without due regard to financial pressures are well and truly over. - Financial Times
Mark Carney
© Wikimedia Commons

This article is truly scary. Like a bullet across the bow, or the crack of a whip, it announces with certainty that the world's top bankers intend to blanket the world with faux currency.

They don't give a hoot. They're out to give us the business and bust the bank. When it's done, there'll be nothing left but a smoking ruin. Reading between the lines, that's what this article says.

Are we exaggerating? Let's see.

Carney was said by his central banking peers to be the "best" central banker of his generation and his recent choice to head the Bank of England was therefore preordained. In fact, we figured that was a bit like being the "best" used car salesman.

But we were wrong. It's worse, much worse. What this article in the Financial Times tells us is that Carney was brought in not just to glad-hand the media and put a sympathetic face on this bloody and miserable facility, but his real brief is to use its powers to the utmost.

He's even talking about printing money for banks in currencies other than sterling!
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Bad Guys

Mainstream economics is in denial: the world has changed

Aditya Chakrabortty
Guardian
Mon, 28 Oct 2013 19:21 UTC
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© AlamyKarl Marx: time he went back on the syllabus?
Despite the crash, the high priests of economics refuse to look at the big picture - and continue to prop up world elites

Rebellions aren't meant to kick off in lecture theatres - but I saw one last Thursday night. It was small and well-read and it minded its Ps & Qs, and I think I shall remember it for some time.

We'd gathered at Downing College, Cambridge, to discuss the economic crisis, although the quotidian misery of that topic seemed a world away from the honeyed quads and endowment plush of this place.

Equally incongruous were the speakers. The Cambridge economist Victoria Bateman looked as if saturated fat wouldn't melt in her mouth, yet demolished her colleagues. They'd been stupidly cocky before the crash - remember the 2003 boast from Nobel prizewinner Robert Lucas that the "central problem of depression-prevention has been solved"? - and had learned no lessons since. Yet they remained the seers of choice for prime ministers and presidents. She ended: "If you want to hang anyone for the crisis, hang me - and my fellow economists."

What followed was angry agreement. On the night before the latest growth figures, no one in this 100-strong hall used the word "recovery" unless it was to be sarcastic. Instead, audience members - middle-aged, smartly dressed and doubtless sizably mortgaged - took it in turn to attack bankers, politicians and, yes, economists. They'd created the mess everyone else was paying for, yet they'd suffered no retribution.
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