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Ukraine: Tymoshenko accused of murder link


Press TV
Sat, 26 Nov 2011 01:34 UTC
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Ukraine's former Prime Minister and leading opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko
The office of Ukraine's prosecutor general has announced there is "irrefutable evidence" that former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko was involved in the murder of a Ukrainian lawmaker in the 1990s.

"Money has been transferred to the killers' bank accounts from firms owned by [former Prime Minister Pavel] Lazarenko and Tymoshenko," Russian news agency Ria Novosti quoted first deputy Chairman of the Prosecutor General's office Renat Kuzmin as saying on Saturday.

The Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office previously said it was examining Tymoshenko's possible involvement in Yevgeny Shcherban's murder case.

Tymoshenko's spokeswoman Natalia Lysova has dismissed the accusations as "rubbish."

In November 1996, Shcherban, a member of Supreme Rada (Ukraine's Parliament) and chairman of the financial corporation Anton, was shot and killed along with his wife and an airport employee at the airport in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk.
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Nuke

UK extremely worried about stolen nukes

Peter Eyre
Press TV
Fri, 25 Nov 2011 07:26 UTC
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Did we the British public know that our current Prime Minister was instrumental in the loss of three illegal nuclear weapons?

Is the UK frantically trying to find out where they were sold on the "Black Market"?

We know something that you don't...... but can't talk about it Under the Nuclear Explosions Act otherwise we will all end up in goal for life.

Chris McGreal of the Guardian newspaper published an article 24th of May 2010 revealing how Israel offered to sell nukes to South Africa during the apartheid era. What he failed to reveal was that Israel struck up a deal with South Africa to move its technicians down to the high-security weapons research and development facilities at Pelindaba.

It was at this location that the Israeli technicians managed to covertly give themselves nuclear weapons but also under the table gave South Africa its own nuclear capability but guess what?.......the US and UK knew all about the programme but the UN did not!!!.......what was even more amazing was the fact that the UN sent a team to South Africa where they were convinced that South Africa had curtailed its nuclear weapons programme when in actual fact it had not!!

It is fairly obvious why Israel is totally consumed in trying to find these stolen weapon and needless to say the US and British Governments are equally as concerned and yet are not in a position to admit to their loss as in doing so would incriminate past and current very senior politicians including our current Prime Minister David Cameron.
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Bizarro Earth

Pakistan stops NATO supplies after raid kills "up to 25"


Reuters
Sat, 26 Nov 2011 02:35 UTC
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Pakistan says a Nato helicopter has flown over the border from Afghanistan and killed dozens of Pakistani troops at a checkpoint.
NATO helicopters attacked a military checkpoint in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, killing up to 25 troops and prompting Pakistan to shut the vital supply route for NATO troops fighting in Afghanistan, Pakistani officials said.

The attack comes as relations between the United States and Pakistan, its ally in the war on terror, are already badly strained following the killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden by U.S. special forces in a secret raid on the Pakistani garrison town of Abbottabad in May.

Pakistan called that raid a flagrant violation of its sovereignty.

A Pakistani military spokesman confirmed Saturday's pre-dawn cross-border attack in the tribal region of Mohmand and said casualties had been reported, but gave no details.

"NATO helicopters carried out an unprovoked and indiscriminate firing on a Pakistani check post in Mohmand agency, casualties have been reported and details are awaited," the spokesman told Reuters.
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Dollar

"Awful" Italy debt sale heightens euro zone stress

Valentina Za
Reuters
Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:51 UTC
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A union workers flag CGIL is seen in front of a bank during a protest downtown Milan, November 25, 2011.
Italy paid a record 6.5 percent to borrow money over six months on Friday and its longer-term funding costs soared far above levels seen as sustainable for public finances, raising the pressure on Rome's new emergency government.

The auction yield on the six-month paper almost doubled compared to a month earlier, capping a week in which a German bond auction came close to failing and the leaders of Germany, France and Italy failed to make progress on crisis resolution measures.

Though Italy managed to raise the full planned amount of 10 billion euros, weakening demand and the highest borrowing costs since it joined the euro frightened investors, pushing Italian stocks lower and bond yields to record highs on the secondary market.

Yields on two-year BTP bonds soared to more than 8 percent in response, a euro lifetime high, despite reported purchases by the European Central Bank.
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Wolf

Australia: Immunise or lose benefits, parents told


ABC
Fri, 25 Nov 2011 19:03 UTC
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Families who refuse vaccinations face losing up to $2,100 per child in benefits

Parents who do not have their children fully immunised will be stripped of family tax benefits under a scheme announced by the Federal Government.

The Government says 11 per cent of five-year-olds are not immunised and has announced a shake-up of the system which will take effect from July 1 next year.

Under the changes, families who refuse vaccinations face losing up to $2,100 per child in benefits.

Families will need to have their children fully immunised to receive the Family Tax Benefit (FTB) Part A end-of-year supplement.

A new immunisation check will be introduced for one-year-olds to supplement the existing immunisation checks at two and five years of age.
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Bad Guys

US: Senate To Vote On Legislation That Allows U.S. Military to Detain Americans Without Charge or Trial

Mac Slavo
SHTFplan.com
Fri, 25 Nov 2011 17:11 UTC
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FEMA detention facility.
Remember that debate between Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich, where Mr. Gingrich suggested we should expand and strengthen the Patriot Act in the name of protecting US citizens from terrorists? Mr. Gingrich indicated that there exists a line between criminal law and the war on terror, and that we need not worry the government will overstep its bounds.

While Americans enjoy the Thanksgiving weekend and join the annual running of the bulls celebration at malls and retail outlets, something sinister is taking place in Congress - and it should scare the hell out of you. If the President and Senate have their way, your front lawn will soon become a battlefield, and you'll be subjected to military, not criminal, law.
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Eye 1

Firms are sending out fake iTunes updates to install spyware on behalf of your government - and it's all completely legal!

Marcel Rosenbach
Der Spiegel
Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:32 UTC
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Homepage of the Cyberwarfare Europe conference where borgs gathered in September to discuss how better to drain the creative juices from humanity
A surveillance firm claims it can distribute its spyware via faked iTunes updates. Apple appears to have moved to eliminate the security gap, but the debate over trojans used by governments, both democratic and otherwise, continues to boil.

It was as if a far-flung secret society had gathered in Berlin at the end of September. Military officials and representatives of security authorities from around the world met in a luxury hotel to discuss threats in the digital world: cyber attacks, electronic espionage and online organized crime. But the most pressing issue on the agenda was technology that can be used to combat these perils.

The event was called "Cyberwarfare Europe," but many participants had traveled to the German capital from even further afield. The roster of participants in the event listed government employees and industry representatives from the United Arab Emirates, Malaysia and Indonesia. Each attendee had paid as much as €2,700 for the privilege of listening to lectures from IT experts and military officials -- including one given by a legal expert for current operations at the United States Cyber Command.
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Pirates

Surveillance Company Gamma International Says It Sent Fake iTunes, Flash Updates

Jennifer Valentino-DeVries
The Wall Street Journal
Fri, 25 Nov 2011 17:35 UTC
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Gamma International UK Ltd. touts its ability to send a "fake iTunes update" that can infect computers with surveillance software, according to one of the company's marketing videos.

The Wall Street Journal unveiled on Saturday the "Surveillance Catalog" - an online database containing highlights from surveillance industry marketing documents. The documents show dozens of companies making and selling everything from "massive intercept" gear that can gather all Internet communications in a country to "hacking" tools that allow governments to break into people's computers.

Gamma was one of three companies marketing their skill at the kind of techniques usually used in "black hat hacking," the type of intrusion used by criminals trying to steal people's financial details.

All of the hacking companies say they sell their tools to law enforcement and governments to help them track down criminals. People in this new industry say their tools are necessary because terrorists and criminals are communicating online and hiding behind encryption and other techniques.

Comment: The only question the author should have been asked was: is it MORAL?

NO!

Mikko Hypponen: It's Not a Question of Privacy vs Security, It's a Question of freedom vs control

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Stormtrooper

British firm Gamma International offered spying software to Egyptian regime - documents

Karen McVeigh
The Guardian
Thu, 28 Apr 2011 16:07 UTC
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Gamma International's Finfisher program would have enabled government spies to monitor activists and censor websites

A British company offered to sell a program to the Egyptian security services that experts say could infect computers, hack into web-based email and communications tools such as Skype and even take control of other groups' systems remotely, according to documents seen by the Guardian.

Two Egyptian human rights activists found the documents amid hundreds of batons and torture equipment when they broke into the headquarters of the regime's State Security Investigations service (SSI) last month.

One of the papers, in English and headed Finfisher Proposal: Commercial Offer, contained an offer dated 29 June 2010 to provide "FinSpy" software, hardware, installation and training to the SSI for €287,000 (£255,000). The name on the invoice, dated Tuesday 29 June 2010, was Gamma International UK Limited.

Other documents, written in Arabic and marked "ultimately confidential", state that after being offered a "free trial version" of Gamma's Finfisher software to test its ability to hack into email accounts, the SSI concluded it was "a high-level security system" that could get into email accounts of Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo, as well as allowing "full control" of the computers of "targeted elements". It went on to describe the software's "success in breaking through personal accounts on Skype network, which is considered the most secure method of communication used by members of the elements of the harmful activity because it is encrypted".

Comment: Gamma International (uk) Ltd's address:

14 Basepoint Business &
Innovation Centre - Caxton Close
East Portway Ind. Est.
Andover
Hamsphire
SP10 3FG
United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0)1264 326 559
Fax: +44 (0)1264 326 562

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USA

US firm's teargas used against Tahrir Square protesters

Jack Shenker & Luke Harding
The Guardian
Thu, 24 Nov 2011 15:52 UTC
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A protester throws a teargas canister back at riot police during clashes near Tahrir Square on Monday. Obama the hypocrite tells other dictators to respect protestors while selling them the weapons they need to suppress them.
Egypt's military junta fired CS gas cartridges made by Combined Systems Inc of Pennsylvania, say demonstrators

The teargas used by interior ministry troops in Cairo's Tahrir Square is supplied by a US company. Demonstrators say cartridges retrieved from the scene are branded with the name and address of Combined Systems Inc (CSI).

The firm is located in Jamestown, Pennsylvania. It specialises in supplying what it calls "crowd control devices" to armies and "homeland security agencies" around the world. It also manufactures lethal military equipment.

Protesters say the CS gas seems more powerful than that used by Egyptian police during the country's last popular uprising in February. "It's stronger, it burns your face, it makes you feel like your whole body is seizing up," one witness said. He added: "It doesn't seem to be combated by Coke or vinegar."

Experts told the Guardian the gas was likely to be standard CS gas, but the effects could be exacerbated by physical exertion.

As well as the effects of the teargas, protesters have suffered grave injuries to their heads and faces from rubber bullets. There are also reports of live ammunition being used. Dozens of people have been taken to makeshift hospitals after inhaling the choking gas fired by the Central Security Forces.

Comment: Make no mistake, this 'teargas' does far more than make you 'teary' - it completely disables most people and often leads to permanent damage, sometimes even death. It is another weapon sold to fellow dictatorships in the elites' war against the people.

Here is the Combined Systems Inc website

Its address: 388 Kinsman Rd., Jamestown, PA 16134

Its phone numbers:

Tel: (724) 932-2177
Toll Free: (888) 989-7800
Fax: (724) 932-2166

And its CEO: Don Smith

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