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UK Hacking Scandal Spreads, 100-Plus New Claims


The Marietta Times
Tue, 24 Jul 2012 00:00 UTC
Rupert Murdoch
© PANews of the world, Rupert Murdoch leaving News International
London - British police are investigating new tabloids in the country's growing phone hacking scandal, including the Trinity Mirror PLC newspaper group as well as the U.K.'s Express Newspapers, a senior Scotland Yard official said Monday.

More than 100 new allegations of "data intrusion" also are being probed.

Deputy Assistant Commissioner Sue Akers' comments to a judge-led inquiry into media ethics indicated that the scandal, which erupted last year at Rupert Murdoch's News of the World and has involved hundreds of victims, could end up burning the now-defunct tabloid's U.K. competitors as well.

Akers gave as an example payments of tens of thousands of pounds (dollars) allegedly made to the same prison officer by all three newspaper groups.

"Our assessment is that there are reasonable grounds to suspect offenses have been committed and that the majority of these stories reveal very limited material of genuine public interest," Akers told Lord Justice Brian Leveson, who is leading a government inquiry into media misbehavior set up in the wake of the scandal.

Separately, prosecutors said they would announce Tuesday whether to levy criminal charges against an unspecified number of people caught up in the investigation.

So far more than 40 journalists and public officials have been arrested as part of the sprawling inquiry. Only a handful, including former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks, have been charged. Brooks has denied any wrongdoing
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Drone Strikes Kill 14 in North Waziristan


The News
Tue, 24 Jul 2012 00:00 UTC
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Miranshah: Fourteen people, some of them said to be suspected militants, were killed and a number of others injured in a US drone attack in Shawal Valley of the volatile North Waziristan tribal region on Monday night.

Official and tribal sources said drones fired eight missiles and pounded a house at Dre Nishtar village in mountainous Shawal Valley, about 90 kilometres southwest of Miranshah, the headquarters of North Waziristan Agency.

The death toll could rise as, according to sources, some of the injured were said to be in critical condition and medical facilities are not available in the remote forest-covered valley.

Tribal sources said the people had gathered for Iftar-dinner in the courtyard of the house when the drones attacked them. They said most of the victims died on the spot and their bodies were damaged beyond recognition.

Comment: For more information about the use of drones please read:
Celebrating our "Warrior President"
Obama's Death Panels: Jeremy Scahill at the Drone Summit
Spy in the Sky: Is It Only a Matter of Time Before Drone Technology is Used in Civil Society?
Police State: "Robots R'US": Military-Style Drones on 63 Military Bases In The USA

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Batman Massacre: TSA-Style Screenings Now at Movie Theaters?

Jim Kane
News gather.com
Sat, 21 Jul 2012 11:50 UTC
james holmes
© unknownJames Holmes
In the wake of a massacre at a Batman showing in Colorado, fears are arising that the government will use the shooting to implement TSA-inspired molestations at theaters. What is your opinion? Do you believe this is possible?

Since the Friday shooting at the Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, the Twitterverse was filled with postings from people worried about multiplex security patting down folks and searching their bags.

The National Association of Theatre Owners has already announced intentions to collaborate with police on new "security procedures," whatever that means.

You can expect the government to completely overreact to the massacre. Already, people are calling for stricter gun laws, and new screening measures are not far behind.

"I was seriously full on molested by TSA in London coming back from Italy & now we will probably start having it in movie theaters," tweeted a woman named Victoria Lewis.
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Philippine Leader Says He Won't Yield in Territorial Dispute with China, Will Bolster Military

Jim Gomez
Times Colonist
Mon, 23 Jul 2012 23:46 UTC
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© The Associated Press/Bullit MarquezProtesters burn an effigy depicting Philippine President Benigno Aquino III and Uncle Sam to coincide with the president's State of the Nation address Monday, July 23, 2012 at suburban Quezon city, northeast of Manila, Philippines. Aquino III is to deliver his third State of the Nation address Monday with thousands of protesters accusing him of not doing enough especially in alleviating poverty.
Manila, Philippines - President Benigno Aquino III said Monday that the Philippines won't back down in a South China Sea dispute with China and that his country's military will soon get dozens of new aircraft and ships for maritime defence.

Aquino announced in his annual state of the nation address that more than 40 military aircraft - including attack helicopters and two newly refurbished C-130 cargo planes - and other weapons would be delivered in the next two years to bolster Philippine military muscle amid renewed territorial tensions in the South China Sea.

A second former U.S. Coast Guard cutter is to arrive soon from the United States, following a refurbished cutter that was relaunched by the Philippine navy last year as its largest and most modern warship.

Washington has also provided $30 million to strengthen the Philippine military in addition to helping establish a national coast watch centre to help protect the country's 36,000-kilometre (22,370-mile) coastline, Aquino said.

But he stressed that the Philippines hopes to forge a peaceful solution that will be acceptable to China.
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Egypt Lifts Gaza Blockade to Allow Palestinians Free Entry


RT America
Mon, 23 Jul 2012 17:00 UTC
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© AFP Photo / Said KhatibPalestinian boys hold a poster of children reading "Rescue Gaza" as another flashes the victory sign near the southern Gaza Strip's Rafah border crossing with Egypt
With an Islamist president in power, Egypt has eased longtime visa restrictions on Palestinians traveling from Gaza, ending its longtime assistance in Israel's siege of the area.

­Cairo lifted visa requirements for Gazans under 40 traveling with a family to Egypt through the Rafah border crossing, Palestinian and Egyptian officials said Monday.

"We were officially informed by the Egyptian side of a decision to allow any Palestinian under the age of 40 to travel through Rafah with his family without a visa, starting today," said Maher Abu Sabha, director of borders within Gaza's Hamas-run government.mary
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'Downing Street Memo' Redux: Is the Intelligence Fix on Iran Already Underway?

Ray McGovern and Annie Machon
Information Clearing House
Mon, 23 Jul 2012 17:20 UTC
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Recent remarks by Sir John Sawers, who heads Britain's MI6 (the Secret Intelligence Service that is Britain's CIA counterpart), leave us wondering if Sawers is preparing to "fix" intelligence on Iran, as his immediate predecessor, Sir John Scarlett, did on Iraq.

Scarlett's pre-Iraq war role in creating "dodgy dossiers" hyping the threat of non-existent "weapons of mass destruction" is relatively well known. On July 4, the red warning light for politicization was again flashing brightly in London, as Sawers told British senior civil servants that Iran is "two years away" from becoming a "nuclear weapons state." How did Sawers come up with "two years?"
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Busting the Obama GITMO myth: Ten years caged without trial and still counting

Glenn Greenwald
Salon
Mon, 23 Jul 2012 16:47 UTC
Ramzi Binalshibh
© AP/Janet HamlinAccused Sept. 11 co-conspirator Ramzi Binalshibh is shown while attending his military hearing at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba.
New vindictive restrictions on detainees highlights the falsity of Obama defenders regarding closing the camp.

Most of the 168 detainees at Guantanamo have been imprisoned by the U.S. Government for close to a decade without charges and with no end in sight to their captivity. Some now die at Guantanamo, thousands of miles away from their homes and families, without ever having had the chance to contest accusations of guilt. During the Bush years, the plight of these detainees was a major source of political controversy, but under Obama, it is now almost entirely forgotten. On those rare occasions when it is raised, Obama defenders invoke a blatant myth to shield the President from blame: he wanted and tried so very hard to end all of this, but Congress would not let him. Especially now that we're in an Election Year, and in light of very recent developments, it's long overdue to document clearly how misleading that excuse is.
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Wave of attacks kills more than 100 across Iraq


NBC News
Mon, 23 Jul 2012 02:30 UTC

A wave of bombings and an attack on an Iraqi military base killed more than 100 people on Monday. The death toll made it the bloodiest day of the year in the country, The Associated Press reported.

In addition to those killed, at least 268 other people were wounded by bombings and shootings in Shiite areas of Baghdad, the town of Taji to the north, the northern cities of Kirkuk and Mosul and many other places, hospital and police sources told Reuters.

The bloodshed, which coincided with an intensifying of the conflict in neighboring Syria, pointed up the deficiencies of the Iraqi security forces, which failed to prevent insurgents from striking in multiple locations across the country.

No group has claimed responsibility for the wave of assaults but a senior Iraqi security official blamed the local wing of al-Qaida, made up of Sunni Muslim militants bitterly hostile to the Shiite-led government, which is friendly with Iran.

Comment: Out from the closet comes the convenient evil of the decade, Al-Qaida. With no reference to false flags, an anonymous preacher of fear mongering and a man who sounds British; "With all these bloody bombs.." named Ahmed Salim.

The following shed a bit of light on how all of these things come into play: False Flag Operations: Declassified Military Documents Show How US Government Planned Terrorist Attacks Against its Own Citizens
The Real Reasons Nation States Institute "False-Flag" Attacks and the Context of Principles by which they Occur
False Flag: Mossad Posed as CIA Agents to Recruit Anti-Iran Jihadists

In this video at around 25 seconds we have Ted Kennedy who says, "There's no question now looking at the 9-11 commision that the association with Al-Qaida and 9-11 was completely fabricated."


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Propaganda Alert! Iran shows off its long-range missile capabilities


Press TV
Mon, 23 Jul 2012 10:58 UTC
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A long-range Shahab-1 (also called the Meteor-1, funnily enough) ballistic missile is launched during the 'Great Prophet 7' missile drill in central Iran, on July 3, 2012.
A senior Iranian lawmaker says the Islamic Republic's mastery of the technology for the production of long-range missiles has helped elevate its capabilities' global standing.

"The building of long-range missiles by relying on Iranian scientific and technological prowess has promoted the capabilities of our country in the world," Hossein Naqavi-Hosseini, spokesman for the Majlis (parliament) National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, said Sunday.

Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi appeared before the Majlis committee on Sunday to deliver a report on the country's latest developments and accomplishments in the defense sector.

Comment: Reading Celestial Intentions Through the Wrong End of the Telescope: Missiles, UFOs and the Cold War

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Mind-controlled? Colorado shooting suspect appears in court


KSN.com
Mon, 23 Jul 2012 10:51 UTC
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© NBC News The Colorado movie theater shooting suspect made his first court appearance in court with reddish orange hair. James Holmes was wide-eyed and unshaven as he sat emotionless in the courtroom.
The Colorado movie theater shooting suspect is making his first court appearance with reddish orange hair.

James Holmes was wide-eyed and unshaven as he sat staring down.

He appeared Monday after being accused of the shooting rampage at a Colorado movie theater that killed 12 people and injured 58 others.

Authorities say the 24-year-old former graduate student is refusing to cooperate and it could take months to learn what prompted the horrific attack on moviegoers at a midnight screening of the latest Batman film.

Investigators say they found a Batman mask inside Holmes' booby-trapped apartment after the attack.

Holmes has been held in solitary confinement since Friday. Prosecutors say they may consider the death penalty but will make that decision after consulting with victim's families.

Comment: FBI and DHS Warned in May of Terrorists Planning to Attack Movie Theaters

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