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Israeli Occupation Forces attack West Bank journalists


Al Ray
Sun, 24 Nov 2013 13:28 UTC
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Israeli soldiers have attacked journalists of a Palestinian TV channel in the West Bank village of Billin, Press TV reports.

The soldiers fired tear gas and rubber bullets directly at the van of the Maan television network's crew.

Billin is a village near the city of Ramallah that has been encircled by illegal Israeli settlements.

Palestinian activist Osama Baker told Press TV on Saturday that Israeli forces continue to attack and target journalists in the West Bank.
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Bad Guys

Israeli occupation refuses to allow construction material into besieged Gaza Strip


Al Ray
Thu, 19 Dec 2013 13:30 UTC
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Ignoring a UN demand, Israel's occupation army minister Moshe Yaalon has refused to allow construction and other raw materials to enter the besieged Gaza Strip, Maariv reported on Wednesday. The newspaper said that Yaalon rejected the UN demand on the pretext that construction materials are being used to build tunnels to kill Israelis.

"Ban Ki-moon asked me and I told him that the side which uses cement to build tunnels in order to attack Israel and kill Israelis is not reliable," Yaalon said. "The Hamas government in Gaza is able to take a decision to plant strawberries instead of building rockets. When there is a humanitarian crisis in Gaza, people have to send their demands to Ismail Haniyeh."

Israeli occupation army has been imposing a sea and ground siege on the Gaza Strip since 2006. It banned imports and exports to and from the Gaza Strip until the beginning of 2009, when it went to an aggressive war against the people of Gaza, killing more than 1,400 Palestinians and wounding 5,000 others. International pressure led to Israel easing the siege slightly, but it only allowed construction materials for projects carried out by international organisations such as UNRWA. In 2012, Israel military attacked Gaza again and destroyed much of the infrastructure, including houses, mosques, clinics and schools.
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MIB

Black pot calls kettle black dept.:Israel condemns U.S. spying revelations


The Guardian
Sun, 22 Dec 2013 07:03 UTC
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© Ammar Awad/ReutersIsraeli protesters in Jerusalem hold posters of Jonathan Pollard, who was convicted for spying on the US in 1987.
Officials call on U.S. to stop spying on Israel amid renewed calls for release of Jonathan Pollard, jailed in 1980s for spying

Senior Israeli officials have called on the US to stop spying on Israel, after revelations that the National Security Agency had intercepted emails from the offices of the country's former leaders.

It is the first time Israeli officials have expressed anger since details of US spying on Israel began to trickle out in documents leaked by the former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. The scandal has spurred renewed calls for the release of Jonathan Pollard, a former US intelligence analyst who has been imprisoned in the US for nearly three decades for spying for Israel.

"This thing is not legitimate," the Israeli intelligence minister, Yuval Steinitz, told Israel Radio. He called for both countries to enter an agreement regarding espionage.

"It's quite embarrassing between countries who are allies," the tourism minister, Uzi Landau, said. "It's this moment more than any other moment that Jonathan Pollard [should] be released."


Comment: These comments from Israeli officials are totally ridiculous as Israel is the King of spys and are spying on ALL countries. In the US they have direct access to all the information from the various alphabet soup agencies due to their dual citizens who are strategically placed in the various US administrations and departments. And those who are not dual citizens have already sworn their allegiance to Israel before any other country. And this is the case not just in the US.


Comment: Pretty ironic and hypocritical, considering that Israel's history of spying on both 'strategic allies' as well as 'perceived enemies' is rather well-documented. Below, just a few of many reports to ponder:

Mossad Spies Imprisoned in New Zealand: Our Passports Valued For Use By Israeli Covert Killers
The History of Israeli Spying: The Mother of all Scandals
False Flag: Mossad agents impersonating CIA agents to harm US-Iranian relationships
Another Israeli False Flag?
Israel's Mossad 'working closely' with NSA over spying
PRISM for your Mind: NSA, WikiLeaks and Israel

CIA considers Israel one of its biggest spy threats, but the U.S. continues to fund their military adventures
Iran says CIA, Mossad spy ring detected
Israel confirms running spy networks in Lebanon
Iran 'indicts 15 spies for US and Israel'

Israel has promised not to spy on the U.S. Given the extensive and ongoing histories and practices of both the U.S. and Israeli governments, how much weight do such promises really hold?

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FBI agent left a secret interrogation manual at the Library of Congress

Nick Baumann
Mother Jones
Fri, 20 Dec 2013 03:00 UTC
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Security screw-ups are not very uncommon. But this is a first

In a lapse that national security experts call baffling, a high-ranking FBI agent filed a sensitive internal manual detailing the bureau's secret interrogation procedures with the Library of Congress, where anyone with a library card can read it.

For years, the American Civil Liberties Union fought a legal battle to force the FBI to release a range of documents concerning FBI guidelines, including this one, which covers the practices agents are supposed to employ when questioning suspects. Through all this, unbeknownst to the ACLU and the FBI, the manual sat in a government archive open to the public. When the FBI finally relented and provided the ACLU a version of the interrogation guidebook last year, it was heavily redacted; entire pages were blacked out. But the version available at the Library of Congress, which a Mother Jones reporter reviewed last week, contains no redactions.

The 70-plus-page manual ended up in the Library of Congress, thanks to its author, an FBI official who made an unexplainable mistake. This FBI supervisory special agent, who once worked as a unit chief in the FBI's counterterrorism division, registered a copyright for the manual in 2010 and deposited a copy with the U.S. Copyright Office, where members of the public can inspect it upon request. What's particularly strange about this episode is that government documents cannot be copyrighted.
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Eye 1

Report: One in four 'activists' could be corporate spies


Youtube
Wed, 18 Dec 2013 00:00 UTC
Abby Martin features an exclusive interview with Nafeez Ahmed, investigative journalist for the Guardian about a stunning new report from the Center for Corporate Policy, that says 1 out of every 4 activist may be a corporate spy. They go on to discuss the corporate industry's role in subverting democracy and contributing to climate change.

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Eye 1

Propaganda trance: 2014 NDAA approved while media 'ducks out'

Susanne Posel
Susanne Posel Daily Headline News
Sat, 21 Dec 2013 12:27 UTC
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As if history were repeating itself, the approval of the 2014 Fiscal National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) on Capitol Hill was over-shadowed by a trivial controversy that was hyped by media.

Two years ago, President Obama signed the first NDAA during New Year's Eve after publically protesting the legislation and threatening to veto.

Just this week, while the public has been distracted with drama and sensational news headlines, the lawmakers presented Obama with the current approved version of police state legislation that hand over $607 billion to the Pentagon, $527 to build bases across the globe and $80 billion to finance global military operations.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said the 2014 NDAA "is legislation that ... puts muscle behind America's most important strategic objectives around the globe."

Senator Jay Rockefeller ensured that attached as a rider to the 2014 NDAA, proposal S 1353, there would be CISPA-like measures to maintain cybersecurity efforts with the backing and support of the federal government.

Rockefeller said his bill "creates an environment that will cultivate the public-private partnerships essential to strengthening our nation's cybersecurity. I've always thought this was a great way to emphasize the critical need for a public-private approach when it comes to solving our most pressing cybersecurity issues."
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Control Panel

North Korea threatens to 'strike South Korea mercilessly'

K. J. Kwon
CNN
Fri, 20 Dec 2013 23:51 UTC

North Korea sent a fax to South Korea on Thursday, threatening to "strike mercilessly without notice" after protests against the secretive regime this week in Seoul.

The message warned that North Korea would strike if "the provocation against our highest dignity is to be repeated in the downtown of Seoul."

Earlier this week, on the second anniversary of the death of former North Korean leader, Kim Jong Il, conservative protesters rallied in Seoul, burning effigies of the country's leaders as well as its flag. Such protests are common during North Korean festivals and anniversaries.

The South Korea's Ministry of National Defense said it sent a response.
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War Whore

Flashback Saakashvilli admits Georgia started war

Sheilanagig
Less is more
Sun, 30 Nov 2008 06:40 UTC
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For the first time ever, Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili has admitted that his country started the military conflict in South Ossetia in August. But the Georgian leader is adamant the action was justified. He was testifying before a parliamentary commission investigating the five-day war.

According to Saakashvili, the attack on the South Ossetian capital, which involved night shelling of residential areas with multiple rocket launcher systems, was aimed at protecting Georgian citizens. He said it was a response to Russia's "intervention" in the region.

"We did start military action to take control of Tskhinvali and other unruly areas. But we took this difficult decision to fend off our territory from intervention and save the people who were dying. It was inevitable," Saakavili said.

The Georgian President claims Russia moved tanks into South Ossetian territory before Georgia launched its attack.

He said: "The issue is not about why Georgia started military action - we admit we started it. The issue is about whether there was another chance when our citizens were being killed? We tried to prevent the intervention and fought on our own territory."

Comment: Interestingly the plans for a war had been several years in the planning, despite Saakashvili denying it. A blog posted dated Oct. 19, 2006 states that precisely such a war is in the planning. The following was posted by a user called Lolly:
"Moreover it's well-known that according to secret Saakashvili's order all Georgian businessmen in Russia have been forced to send substuncial part of their income to homeland for military operation against Abkhazia and South Ossetia preparing."


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Bad Guys

Flashback The departure of Georgia's Saakashvili

Stephen Lendman
Steve Lendman Blog
Sat, 02 Nov 2013 06:22 UTC
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Wall Street Journal editors call him "Georgia's Washington." Turning truth on its head is official editorial policy. More on how they reinvented a first class thug below.
On October 27, Georgians elected Giorgi Margvelashvili president. He won decisively. He'll replace Mikheil Saakashvili.
He'll have less power. Constitutional amendments shifted it more to the prime minister and parliament.

Sunday's vote marked the end of an era. It didn't come a moment too soon. Georgians deplored Saakashvili's ruthlessness. Despotism defined his rule.
He backed David Bakradze. He finished second with less than 22% of the vote. Former parliament speaker Nino Burdzhanadze got slightly over 10%. Margvelashvili got over 62%.

In a televised speech, Saakashvili called his election a "serious deviation" from how he governed. Ordinary Georgians surely hope so.
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Eye 1

Video: Why MP George Galloway is Killing Tony Blair


youtube.com
Sun, 22 Dec 2013 06:23 UTC

Abby Martin speaks with British Parliamentarian George Galloway, discussing his upcoming film 'The Killing of Tony Blair', and his brand new show on RT, 'Sputnik: Orbiting the world with George Galloway.'

Source: RT
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