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Flashback U.S. Air Force pursuing antimatter weapons

Keay Davidson
San Francisco Chronicle
Mon, 04 Oct 2004 07:02 UTC
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Program was touted publicly, then came official gag order

The U.S. Air Force is quietly spending millions of dollars investigating ways to use a radical power source -- antimatter, the eerie "mirror" of ordinary matter -- in future weapons.

The most powerful potential energy source presently thought to be available to humanity, antimatter is a term normally heard in science-fiction films and TV shows, whose heroes fly "antimatter-powered spaceships" and do battle with "antimatter guns."

But antimatter itself isn't fiction; it actually exists and has been intensively studied by physicists since the 1930s. In a sense, matter and antimatter are the yin and yang of reality: Every type of subatomic particle has its antimatter counterpart. But when matter and antimatter collide, they annihilate each other in an immense burst of energy.
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Treasure Chest

Whistleblower ex-Google exec says he has 100,000 emails exposing company's UK tax avoidance scheme

Adam Sherwin
The Independent
Sun, 19 May 2013 00:00 UTC
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A former Google executive-turned-whistleblower says he has 100,000 emails that expose an "immoral" tax avoidance scheme used by his former employer, that has "cheated" British taxpayers out of hundreds of millions of pounds.

Barney Jones, who worked for Google from 2002 until 2006, said the company has "pulled the wool over the eyes of HMRC and the British population."

Jones claimed that Google operated an elaborate system which diverts British profits through Ireland to the Bermuda tax haven.

Last week Google was accused by MPs of "doing evil" by using "devious, calculated and unethical" tricks to minimise its liabilities.

It paid just £7.3million in corporation tax last year despite having a UK turnover of £3 billion.

Comment: This from a company whose motto is "Don't be evil"! It is obvious the psychopathic elites have very different definition of the term.
Taxes are for slaves: Google boss says "I'm very proud of our tax avoidance scheme - it's called capitalism"
Google tax dodge: Sheltered revenues in no-tax Bermuda soar to $10 billion

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War Whore

Who killed the Syrian peace talks?

Shamus Cooke
Information Clearing House
Fri, 14 Jun 2013 17:20 UTC
US-backed al-Qaeda militants in Syria
© Press TVUS-backed al-Qaeda militants in Syria
The long awaited Syrian peace talks - instigated by power brokers Russia and the United States - had already passed their initial due date, and are now officially stillborn.

The peace talks are dead because the U.S.-backed rebels are boycotting the negotiations, ruining any hope for peace, while threatening to turn an already-tragic disaster into a Yugoslavia-style catastrophe...or worse.

The U.S. backed rebels are not participating in the talks because they have nothing to gain from them, and everything to lose.

In war, the purpose of peace negotiations is to copy the situation on the battlefield and paste it to a treaty: the army winning the war enters negotiations from a dominant position, since its position is enforceable on the ground.

The U.S.-backed rebels would be entering peace talks broken and beaten, having been debilitated on the battlefield. The Syrian army has had a string of victories, pushing the rebels back to the border areas where they are protected by U.S. allies Turkey, Jordan, and northern Lebanon. Peace talks would merely expose this reality and end the war on terms dictated by the Syrian government.
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Chess

Surprise!: US to give military support to Syrian rebels as 'red line' crossed


RT
Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:45 UTC

After concluding that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons against the country's insurgency, thus crossing a 'red line,' the Obama administration has decided to start sending arms to anti-Assad rebels for the first time, officials say.


Comment: Yes, for the first time, of course we believe that. See: U.S. openly sending heavy weapons from Libya to Syrian terrorists


The Obama administration has assessed that chemical weapons, most likely the nerve gas sarin, were used in battle against the Syrian rebels, Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communications Ben Rhodes said in a statement.
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Bad Guys

Propaganda Alert!: 'Harmful for children': Turkish TV channels fined for live coverage of protests


RT
Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:15 UTC
Taksim Square
© Reuters / Osman OrsalMedia takes images of a protester holding a flag in front of a riot police vehicle during a protest at Taksim Square in Istanbul
Turkey's TV watchdog fined four TV channels over their live coverage of the Gezi Park protests in Istanbul, citing that the broadcasts were "harming the physical, moral and mental development of children and young people."

The Radio and Television Supreme Council fined private channels including Halk TV, Ulusal TV, Cem TV and EM TV.

Halk TV has gained local popularity because of their 24-hour live coverage of protests in Turkey, as most of the mainstream media have been slammed for their lack of reporting on the protests in the country.
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Blackbox

Best of the Web: My creeping concern that the NSA leaker is not who he purports to be...

Naomi Wolf
NaomiWolf.org
Fri, 14 Jun 2013 14:38 UTC
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I hate to do this but I feel obligated to share, as the story unfolds, my creeping concern that the NSA leaker is not who he purports to be, and that the motivations involved in the story may be more complex than they appear to be. This is in no way to detract from the great courage of Glenn Greenwald in reporting the story, and the gutsiness of the Guardian in showcasing this kind of reporting, which is a service to America that US media is not performing at all. It is just to raise some cautions as the story unfolds, and to raise some questions about how it is unfolding, based on my experience with high-level political messaging.

Some of Snowden's emphases seem to serve an intelligence/police state objective, rather than to challenge them.

a) He is super-organized, for a whistleblower, in terms of what candidates, the White House, the State Dept. et al call 'message discipline.' He insisted on publishing a power point in the newspapers that ran his initial revelations. I gather that he arranged for a talented filmmaker to shoot the Greenwald interview. These two steps - which are evidence of great media training, really 'PR 101' - are virtually never done (to my great distress) by other whistleblowers, or by progressive activists involved in breaking news, or by real courageous people who are under stress and getting the word out. They are always done, though, by high-level political surrogates.
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MIB

Uri Geller psychic spy? The spoon-bender's secret life as a Mossad and CIA agent revealed

Geoffrey Macnab
The Independent, UK
Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:35 UTC
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We may know him for spoon bending antics and for his lengthy friendship with pop star Michael Jackson but showbiz psychic Uri Geller has seemingly had a lengthy second career as a secret agent for Mossad and the CIA, albeit one that was more Austin Powers than James Bond.

Geller was at the Sheffield Doc Fest this week for the premiere of Vikram Jayanti's The Secret Life Of Uri Geller - Psychic Spy?, a new film that offers compelling evidence of his involvement in the shadowy world of espionage.

"Uri has a controversial reputation. A lot of people think he is a fraud, a lot of people think he is a trickster and makes things up but at the same time he has a huge following and a history of doing things that nobody can explain," Jayanti says of his Zelig-like subject.

Speaking to The Independent, Geller acknowledged alarm when he first saw Jayanti's documentary.

"I was worried and I am still concerned," Geller said of the way the documentary outs him as a spy. "I didn't realise that Vikram was going to do such a thorough job of tying all the loose ends...making that the little hints I dropped throughout my career were real."

When he signed up for the doc, the psychic didn't realise quite how diligently Jayanti would track down his old spy masters. Nonetheless, he is happy that the doc is showing "a serious side" to him. "Some countries think I am a freak, bizarre, an eccentric," he sighs.
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Chess

'America is the vigilante in cyberspace': Cyber war is U.S. 'red herring' to put pressure on China


RT
Sat, 08 Jun 2013 00:00 UTC
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© AFP Photo / Saul LoebUS President Barack Obama and Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping
The US-China cyber battle is just a distraction designed by the Obama Administration to pressure China at a time when the Washington is implementing its "Pivot to Asia" foreign policy initiative, geopolitical analyst William Engdahl told RT.

The California summit meeting between American President Barack Obama and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping comes as the world's two largest economies clash over a range of divisive issues - including accusations that China has launched a cyber war against the United States.

The meeting follows reports of Chinese hackers resuming their attacks against targets in the US and the most recent the revelations that the American NSA's PRISM program allegedly spied on millions of emails.

RT: The US has been very active in the field of cyber espionage lately, so why get so touchy when somebody uses its own methods against it?

William Engdahl: The US is probably the number one cyber warfare force on the planet right now. China is probably playing a defensive game.

I think that's a red herring issue right now designed by Washington, by the Obama administration to put pressure on China at a time when the US is doing just that with the so-called Asia pivot. Which really is a China pivot that Obama announced in Australia back in 2011 to re-direct the American military force posture towards Japan with the missile defense which is [aimed] directly against China, towards the supporting of Japan in the Diaoyu Islands dispute which are in the South China sea, which is very critical for China's access to potentially vast mineral resources as well as its military sovereignty. So, I think this cyber-warfare is really a red herring in this whole dialogue.
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Eye 1

Russia dismisses U.S. claims of Syrian chemical weapons use

Miriam Elder, Richard Norton-Taylor
The Guardian
Fri, 14 Jun 2013 11:28 UTC
Moscow says evidence it has been shown 'does not look convincing', and cautions US against arming Syrian rebels
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© Butsenko Anton/CorbisVladimir Putin with his foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov.
Russia has dismissed US assertions that Bashar al-Assad has used chemical weapons against his own people, and said any US move to arm Syrian rebels would jeopardise efforts to convene a peace conference.

Responding to White House moves to broaden its military support for the forces lined up against Assad's regime, the Kremlin said it was not convinced by the pretext for doing so.

Yuri Ushakov, foreign policy adviser to Vladimir Putin, said US officials had briefed Russia on the allegations against Assad. "But I will say frankly that what was presented to us by the Americans does not look convincing," he said. "It would be hard even to call them facts."

The White House said late on Thursday that it would supply direct military aid to Syria's rebels after concluding that government forces had used chemical weapons, something Barack Obama has called a "red line".

David Cameron told the Guardian on Friday that Britain shared the Americans' "candid assessment".

In Damascus, Syrian officials denounced the US verdict as a "caravan of lies" and said Washington's decision to arm the rebels was a "flagrant double standard" in its dealings with terrorism.
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Eye 1

On PRISM, partisanship and propaganda

Glenn Greenwald
Guardian
Fri, 14 Jun 2013 11:05 UTC
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© Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty ImagesJames Clapper, on Saturday decried the release of the information and said media reports about it have been inaccurate
Addressing many of the issues arising from last week's NSA stories

I haven't been able to write this week here because I've been participating in the debate over the fallout from last week's NSA stories, and because we are very busy working on and writing the next series of stories that will begin appearing very shortly. I did, though, want to note a few points, and particularly highlight what Democratic Rep. Loretta Sanchez said after Congress on Wednesday was given a classified briefing by NSA officials on the agency's previously secret surveillance activities:
"What we learned in there is significantly more than what is out in the media today. . . . I can't speak to what we learned in there, and I don't know if there are other leaks, if there's more information somewhere, if somebody else is going to step up, but I will tell you that I believe it's the tip of the iceberg . . . . I think it's just broader than most people even realize, and I think that's, in one way, what astounded most of us, too."
The Congresswoman is absolutely right: what we have reported thus far is merely "the tip of the iceberg" of what the NSA is doing in spying on Americans and the world. She's also right that when it comes to NSA spying, "there is significantly more than what is out in the media today", and that's exactly what we're working to rectify.

But just consider what she's saying: as a member of Congress, she had no idea how invasive and vast the NSA's surveillance activities are. Sen. Jon Tester, who is a member of the Homeland Security Committee, said the same thing, telling MSNBC about the disclosures that "I don't see how that compromises the security of this country whatsoever" and adding: "quite frankly, it helps people like me become aware of a situation that I wasn't aware of before because I don't sit on that Intelligence Committee."
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