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Internet Blackout Arrives For Thousands as FBI shuts down Internet users infected by US counter-cyberintelligence operation

Thomas Hendrick
7News The Denver Channel
Mon, 09 Jul 2012 12:43 UTC
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Who needs a 'conspiracy theory' when the government is run by psychopaths?
Users Whose Computers Infected With DNSChanger Won't Be Able To Access Web

Having trouble getting online? Some may find their smartphones working overtime because the family computer couldn't seem to connect to the Internet Monday morning. You may be one of thousands across the United States who waited too long or simply didn't believe the warnings, and your Internet may have shut down just after midnight because of malware that took over computers around the world more than a year ago.

At 12:01 a.m. EDT, the FBI turned off the Internet servers that were functioning as a temporary safety net to keep infected computers online for the past eight months. The court order the agency had gotten to keep the servers running expired, and it was not renewed. Now, if your computer is infected, your only hope is your Internet service provider's help desk.

Comment: Just a 'conspiracy theory'?

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US intelligence agencies using Microsoft to disseminate lethal computer virus

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US intelligence agencies using Microsoft to disseminate lethal computer virus

Stewart Mitchell
PC Pro
Fri, 15 Jun 2012 13:02 UTC
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Yes, and the cyber threats come from the Pentagon, the CIA and the NSA
US government officials could be working under cover at Microsoft to help the country's cyber-espionage programme, according to one leading security expert.

The warning comes in the wake of the Flame virus that targeted key computers in the Middle East, and in part used confidential Microsoft certificates in order to access machines.

According to Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at security firm F-Secure, the claim is a logical conclusion to a series of recent discoveries and disclosures linking the US government to 2010's Stuxnet attack on Iran and ties between Stuxnet and the recent Flame attack.

"The announcement that links Flame to Stuxnet and the conclusive proof that Stuxnet was a US tool means that Flame is also linked to the US government," Hypponen said.

Comment: This is what US Counter-cyberintelligence was set up to do. Like 'international terrorists' are blamed for terrorism by the very same agencies that created, trained, directed and funded said 'terrorists', 'international hackers' are really the same intelligence agencies doing the same thing in the cyber-domain.

Cyberwar: US and Israel Created Stuxnet, Lost Control of It

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Bad Guys

U.S. helicopter pilot sings 'Bye, bye Miss American Pie' as he Blows Afghan Civilians to pieces

Daniel Bates
Daily Mail, UK
Thu, 05 Jul 2012 08:37 UTC
It is the horrific moment an Afghan man is blown apart by a US missile. But in a moment of twisted inspiration an American helicopter pilot decided to give it a impromptu soundtrack - by singing 'Bye, bye Miss American pie.'

He belted out the most famous line of the Don McLean classic at the moment of impact when a fireball consumed at least one man.

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Explosion: The missile hit was recorded on camera, along with the pilot's cheerful rendition of American Pie'.
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Targets: The two white subjects in the middle of the road are the Afghan killed by the attack helicopter. The video's poster claims they were farmers, but there is nothing to substantiate this.
The video on LiveLeak.com appears to be from an on-board camera of a pilot from the 101st Airborne Division in an AH64 Apache helicopter. According to the caption the victims were 'innocent farms planting poppy seeds in the middle of the road,' although that has not been verified.

The weapon used on them was supposedly a one kilogram Hellfire missile. The caption reads: 'At the 01:39 mark you can hear the pilot singing 'Bye Bye Ms. American Pie' right before impact then BOOM....the rest is history.' Another pilot can also be heard saying, 'Nice' moments after the impact.

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Follow-up shots: The pilot uses his helicopter's machine gun to try to kill two people who walked into the road to investigate the explosion, but the bullets miss.

Comment: What else can be expected from the US military when the pathological ruling elite condones rendition, torture, political assassination and detention of anyone who is opposed to the US version of "democracy".

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Athens plans huge wave of privatisations

Ben Chacko
Morning Star
Mon, 09 Jul 2012 08:32 UTC
Greece's ruling coalition unveiled an "everything must go" sale of the country's assets over the weekend as Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras gushed that privatisation was his "top priority.

"The privatisation programme aims at attracting important international capital," Mr Stournaras told MPs on Saturday, sketching a vista of foreign corporations rushing in to snap up Greece's infrastructure and services.

The initial wave of the project would include 28 major privatisations, including state natural gas, water and betting companies, a number of key airports including that of Athens, the state railways and various marinas and other properties.

Some services would be taken over entirely by the private sector, he said, while in others the state would rent back the infrastructure from the buyers.

Mr Stournaras added that this was just the beginning, with a second bout of sell-offs, including that of the Public Power Corporation, planned for a later date.

In a second address today ahead of a confidence vote in the government he insisted that any deviation from the demands of the "troika" - the EU, European Central Bank and the IMF - would risk the country losing the next tranche of "aid" (loans) from the trio.

And he added that privatisation was only part of the package - it would also be essential to boost Greek "competitiveness," presumably by cutting wages even further.
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US set to deploy drones for home use


RT
Mon, 09 Jul 2012 08:12 UTC
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The US Army has completed a two-week demonstration of a new ground-based sensor system for its drones. It now hopes to get the drones certified for domestic flights, but critics are concerned that their use could breach privacy rights.

The demonstrations took place at the Dugway Proving Ground in Utah, and involved testing the Ground Based Sense and Avoid (GBSAA) system for the MQ-1C Gray Eagle Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). The drone has been on duty in Afghanistan, but the Army now hopes to deploy it at home.

The Pentagon hopes to send the Gray Eagles to five bases throughout the country: Fort Hood (TX), Fort Riley (KS), Fort Stewart (GA), Fort Campbell (KY) and Fort Bragg (NC). However, it first needs to get the drones certified with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

In February, Congress tasked the FAA with coming up with a plan to integrate rules for drones into domestic aircraft regulations. Under the FAA Modernization and Reform Act, the aviation authority was to produce rules for the certification of the first UAVs to be used by law enforcement and emergency response agencies in May. Licenses for these drones are to be issued in August.

While UAVs are actively deployed by the US military for operations in hot spots like Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen, it appears that the government and private companies are now eying their potential uses in the civilian sector.
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Bad Guys

X-ray vans to hit the streets of America?


RT
Mon, 09 Jul 2012 08:08 UTC
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Bad Guys

Israeli Spies are Active in Iran, and They are the Assassins


Sacramento Bee
Mon, 09 Jul 2012 07:56 UTC
Israel's secret wars
Israel's foreign intelligence agency, the Mossad, sends operatives into and out of Iran on a regular basis; and the mysterious men on motorcycles who have assassinated at least four Iranian nuclear scientists are Israelis.

Those are among the revelations in a new book about Israeli espionage, Spies Against Armageddon: Inside Israel's Secret Wars by Dan Raviv and Yossi Melman (Levant Books: published July 9; paperback $16.99, ebook $8.99).

Raviv and Melman's previous book about Israel's intelligence community, Every Spy a Prince, was a national (New York Times) best seller for fourteen weeks in 1990. They have more details on their blog, IsraelSpy.com.
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Footprints

U.S court orders Iran to pay $813 million for 1983 Beirut bombing


Raw Story
Fri, 06 Jul 2012 07:47 UTC
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Marine barracks bombing in Beirut.
Washington - A US federal judge has ordered Iran to pay more than $813 million in damages and interest to the families of 241 US soldiers killed in the 1983 bombing of a Marine barracks in Lebanon.

"After this opinion, this court will have issued over $8.8 billion in judgments against Iran as a result of the 1983 Beirut bombing," Judge Royce Lamberth wrote in a ruling this week, a copy of which was seen Friday by AFP.

"Iran is racking up quite a bill from its sponsorship of terrorism," the Washington judge added, noting that "a number of other Beirut bombing cases remain pending, and their completion will surely increase this amount."

On October 23, 1983, 241 American soldiers, including 220 Marines, were killed in Beirut when a truck packed with explosives rammed through barricades and detonated in front of the US barracks near Beirut's international airport.

The attack was one of the deadliest ever against Americans. The same day, in a coordinated attack, 58 French paratroopers were killed by a truck bomb at the French barracks in Beirut.

The twin bombings have been blamed on Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah, which is backed by Iran.
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Iran plans to sell oil via private group, evade ban


Reuters
Mon, 09 Jul 2012 07:44 UTC
(Reuters) - Iran has reached agreements with European refiners to sell some of its oil through a private consortium, an official said on Saturday, a move designed to circumvent sanctions intended to put pressure on Tehran to halt its disputed nuclear program.

The head of the oil products exporters' union said the agreement between the exporters' union, Iran's central bank, and the oil ministry would get round a European Union ban on shipping insurance for tankers carrying Iranian oil, though he gave few details and did not name the refiners involved.

The EU put into effect a ban on the importation, purchase, or shipping of Iranian oil on July 1, and the Islamic Republic will see its oil exports fall by more than 50 percent this month from last year's regular levels, costing it billions of dollars a month in revenue.

"There have been discussions with European refiners, and a final agreement has even been reached," said Hassan Khosrojerdi, the exporters' union head, according to Iran's Mehr News Agency.

"In accordance with the agreement, it is planned that 20 percent of Iran's oil exports will go through this private consortium."
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Chess

Russian official urges Moscow to deliver S-300 air defense missiles to Iran


Trend
Mon, 09 Jul 2012 07:37 UTC
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Chairman of the Russian Defense Ministry's Public Council Igor Korotchenko has called on Moscow to fulfill its contractual obligations to Tehran and deliver S-300 air defense missiles to Iran, MNA reported.
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