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Cyberattacks should hasten cyber legislation says Senator McCain

Sputnik
Fri, 05 Jun 2015 00:52 UTC

US Senator John McCain said that the increasing frequency of cyberattacks on the United States should prompt Congress to pass cybersecurity legislation without delay.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — The increasing frequency of cyberattacks on the United States should prompt Congress to pass cybersecurity legislation without delay, US Senator John McCain said in a statement on Friday.

"It is long past time for Congress to finally pass legislation that allows for the sharing of information on cyber threats," McCain said.

McCain's comment came in response to the latest cyberattack that breached the networks of the US Office of Personnel Management (OPM).

Comment: There's been no credible evidence released to suggest that China has had any involvement in the hacks, and would have nothing to gain from participation in them. However, considering the mounting tensions between the US and China over developments in the South China Sea and the Philippine President equating China's activities there to Hitler's annexing Czechoslovakia, one has to wonder if a Western intelligence agency didn't have a hand in it.

Alms for the poor military-industrial complex: US Air Force to reveal new bomber contract in early August

Sputnik
Fri, 05 Jun 2015 00:44 UTC

In its quest to realize the ever-elusive pipe dream of an affordable bomber, the US Air Force will soon award a contract for its new generation of long-range bombers. Will it come in under budget? Or balloon out of control like the B-2 and F-35?

When the Pentagon first proposed development of the B-2 stealth bomber, it estimated that the cost would be, roughly, $441 million per plane. That number was - be it through lack of foresight or malice - a fairly generous estimate. Within six years, that price skyrocketed to $2.2 billion per plane, not to mention the $135,000 it cost to pilot the B-2 per hour of flight.

For its next fleet of long-range bombers, the Pentagon is hoping to keep those costs down, and in August, it plans to announce whether defense contracting firms Northrop Grumman or Boeing Co-Lockheed Martin Corp will be awarded the contract.

To save money, the project is expected to rely on already existing technologies, cutting down on research costs. The Air Force is also looking to downsize the new plane, creating something roughly half the size of the B-2.

Whichever company wins could receive between $50 billion to $80 billion to build between 80 and 100 aircraft.

That equates to roughly $550 million per plane. But if past precedent is any indication, that price could climb.

Comment: Just to put these numbers into perspective, for the amount of money that is to be spent on these new bombers the US could end world hunger. For the amount already spent on the F-35 fighter jet the US could have eliminated both poverty in America as well as extreme global poverty.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

USA Freedom Act: Another nail in the coffin of civil liberties

Brandon Turbeville
Activist Post
Thu, 04 Jun 2015 00:41 UTC

With the passage of the USA FREEDOM Act, mainstream media outlets and even some "privacy advocates" are hailing the passage of the bill as a welcome step forward and a sign of defeat for the USA PATRIOT Act, the bill that was itself passed in the wake of the 9/11 attacks and widely representative of the United States' rapid descent into outright police state tyranny.

Unfortunately, however, the passage of the FREEDOM Act is no victory for freedom. In fact, is an insultingly sound nail in freedom's coffin.

The bill, which has been promoted and supported by many of the same members of Congress that supported the PATRIOT Act (notably, James Sensenbrenner) now comes on the heels of a 2nd US Circuit Court decision that bulk telecommunications data collection was not authorized by the PATRIOT Act, unconstitutional, and therefore an illegal act.

To be sure, the FREEDOM Act has been in the works for passage since 2013 when lawmakers began pushing it. At the time, the bill attempted to actually extend the PATRIOT Act provisions through the end of 2017 as well as maintain a number of violations of civil liberties and privacy concerns.

Comment: For more on the psychopathic elites' freedom to eradicate American's right to privacy see:

Canada (laughably) warns Russia it won't rejoin G7 with Putin in power

RT
Fri, 05 Jun 2015 18:11 UTC

Canadian PM Stephen Harper has pledged to "strongly oppose" Russia rejoining the Group of Seven nations as long as Vladimir Putin is president. The G7 suspended Moscow last year over the conflict in Ukraine, but hasn't ruled out allowing it back.

Comment: Seriously?? As if Canada's voice counts for anything. It has long been the 51st state.

"I don't think Russia under Vladimir Putin belongs in the G7. Period," Harper said in an exclusive interview with AP ahead of his trip to Ukraine and the G7 meeting in Bavaria this week. "Canada would very, very strongly oppose Putin ever sitting around that table again. It would require consensus to bring Russia back and that consensus will just not happen."

According to Harper, who faces re-election in October, Moscow is hard to get on with.

Comment: Because the autocrat-wannabe/US poodle Harper doesn't recognize a leader putting his own country's good first?

"Russia is more often than not trying deliberately to be a strategic rival, to deliberately counter the good things we're trying to achieve in the world than for no other reason than to just counter them," Harper said, adding that the "mindset of the guy we are dealing with is that the Cold War has never ended and, 'I've got to fight to change the ending somehow.'"

Comment: What "good things" has the G7 done for the world lately?

"I don't think there is any way under this leader Russia will ever change," Harper said.

Last year's summer summit of the world's leading industrialized nations was the first in 17 years without Russia. It was due to have taken place in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi. The meeting was called off after Crimea reunited with Russia following a referendum - a move deemed by leading Western nations as an "illegal annexation" of territory.

Comment: SOTT Exclusive: G7 games politicians play

Pentagon chief to meet with US top brass, diplomats to hone Russia tactics

RT
Fri, 05 Jun 2015 19:13 UTC

The US defense secretary says relations with Russia have taken a "sad turn" and he will meet with US military leaders and diplomats in Europe to assess NATO's tactics toward Moscow. It comes two days before Obama will discuss Russian sanctions at the G7.

"We have something that has taken a sad turn recently, which is Russia," US Defense Secretary Ashley Carter told troops at the US Africa Command in Stuttgart, Germany.

Comment: Russia is in the target sights from US/NATO as it has always been. Russia has apparently learned from its past and making adjustments to compensate for the West's aggressive posture. Russia isn't playing by the West's rules therefore must be eliminated.

South Front Crisis News 5 June 2015: Leaked emails show Kiev knowingly violated Minsk 2.0 (with U.S. knowledge and approval)

South Front
Fri, 05 Jun 2015 17:39 UTC

Dozens of people have been killed and dozens more injured after two separate bomb explosions ripped through the violence-plagued northeastern part of Nigeria, as the West African nation is battling the militancy waged by Islamic State West Africa Province, former Boko Haram, terrorists. Eight soldiers lost their lives when an assailant detonated his explosives-laden car as government forces were checking it near the gates of the Brigadier Maimalari Barracks in the city of Maiduguri on Thursday evening. Hours later, a second bomb went off close to the main market in the city of Yola, which is the capital city of Adamawa State. Reports said at least 25 people were killed and many more injured in the blast.

Comment: A tragic day in Donbass's history:

China's new "Silk Road" to extend to South America

Ariel Noyola Rodríguez
Global Research
Wed, 03 Jun 2015 15:35 UTC

As the United States insists on articulating regional integral schemes oriented towards restraining its rise as world power (Transpacific Partnership, Pacific Alliance, etc.), China relies on the construction of economic corridors in land and maritime fields in diverse regions.

On a first stage, the Chinese government established the strengthening of economic and political links with the rest of the Asian Pacific as a priority. Although now, the links of the "Silk Road" are intended to be expanded to South America.

An enormous 5300 km rail structure will be constructed between Brazil and Peru, it will be built throughout the Amazonia and the Andes Mountains with the objective of connecting the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean. The continental railway will cost between 10 and 30 billion US dollars and if there aren't any casualties it will be inaugurated by 2020.

Is not the first time that China shows interest in projects about railway structures in Latin America. The Tinaco-Anaco railway was built in Venezuela by China Railway Engineering Corporation with a 7.5 million US dollars investment. In mid-2014, the China South Railway won the tender for modernizing railway infrastructure of the Belgrano Cargas in Argentina.

However, in the majority of countries of this region land transport predominates due to the strong promotion of the American and European automobile industries since mid-50s. In Brazil, railways only represent the forth part of transport system's total capacity. In this proportion near 35% was built more than half century ago.

SOTT Exclusive: G7 games politicians play

William Barbe
Sott.net
Fri, 05 Jun 2015 14:24 UTC

The upcoming G7 summit in Germany is revealing some of the games politicians are playing.

Last year Russia was excluded from the G7 summit for the first time in 17 years. It was to be held in Sochi but was canceled following the Crimea referendum to join Russia. The Western nations deemed it as an "illegal annexation" of territory.

Canada's Stephen Harper came out shouting that Russia will not be a part of the upcoming G7 meeting in Germany as long as Putin is the leader of Russia:

From RT:

Canadian PM Stephen Harper has pledged to "strongly oppose" Russia rejoining the Group of Seven nations as long as Vladimir Putin is president. The G7 suspended Moscow last year over the conflict in Ukraine, but hasn't ruled out allowing it back.

"I don't think Russia under Vladimir Putin belongs in the G7. Period," Harper said in an exclusive interview with AP ahead of his trip to Ukraine and the G7 meeting in Bavaria this week. "Canada would very, very strongly oppose Putin ever sitting around that table again. It would require consensus to bring Russia back and that consensus will just not happen."

According to Harper, who faces re-election in October, Moscow is hard to get on with.

"Russia is more often than not trying deliberately to be a strategic rival, to deliberately counter the good things we're trying to achieve in the world than for no other reason than to just counter them," Harper said, adding that the "mindset of the guy we are dealing with is that the Cold War has never ended and, 'I've got to fight to change the ending somehow.'"

"I don't think there is any way under this leader Russia will ever change," Harper said.

Corrupt to the core: The lasting legacy of Ukraine's oligarchy

Serhiy Leshchenko
Euromaidan Press
Fri, 05 Jun 2015 14:42 UTC

One year after Viktor Yanukovych was ousted, his methods remain firmly entrenched in the reality of Ukrainian life. Despite the country's Revolution of Dignity and continued Russian aggression against Ukraine, local oligarchs have become even more powerful and influential, and pose a significant threat to Ukraine's European development. Oligarchs control the state apparatus, mass media, and whole sectors of industry. Therefore, they can simply put the brakes on reform as soon as their financial interests are threatened.

Comment: 'Revolution of Dignity' sure is a nice way to sum up a Western-financed, neo-Nazi takeover:

Alexander: [...] For the majority of Ukrainians, this 'maidan' was some kind of circus or a freak show. The people were coming to Kiev in droves only to take a look at it. There were many visitors from other cities. However, when the protests turned violent, all the sensible people fled and only the paid activists remained.

Maidan 1 yr later: Berkut interview reveals paid rioters, foreign support

Under the previous government, the oligarchs were strictly subordinated. Yanukovych was the "super oligarch", the main beneficiary of the regime. Below him came the traditional oligarchs, who had to share their profits with Yanukovych. Rinat Akhmetov, for instance, was granted control of metallurgy and energy, Igor Kolomoisky had the oil industry, and Dmitry Firtash and Sergei Levochkin controlled the gas, chemical, and titanium sectors.

Comment: Also see: The reality of Kiev's repression of anti-fascism in Ukraine

ISIS beheads Libyan soldier in front of children for 'educational purposes'

RT
Fri, 05 Jun 2015 15:31 UTC

Masked militants from the Islamic State group have beheaded a soldier in front of a group of children, aged six to eight years old, outside a mosque in Libya for "educational purposes." The jihadists have released photographs of the execution.

The incident reportedly took place in the eastern Libyan city of Derna, seized by ISIS last October.

The man beheaded in Ras Hillal has been identified as Abdulnabi al-Shargawi, from Beida, who worked for the post office but had volunteered for the Libyan National Army, the Libya Herald reported.

The man, who was wearing an orange jumpsuit, was dragged into a public square and executed in front of a group of children for "educational purposes."

Comment: The Islamic State is no friend of humanity. They are the antithesis of human morals. How can people wish to join up with these murderers?

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Puppet Masters

Cyberattacks should hasten cyber legislation says Senator McCain

Alms for the poor military-industrial complex: US Air Force to reveal new bomber contract in early August

USA Freedom Act: Another nail in the coffin of civil liberties

Canada (laughably) warns Russia it won't rejoin G7 with Putin in power

Pentagon chief to meet with US top brass, diplomats to hone Russia tactics

South Front Crisis News 5 June 2015: Leaked emails show Kiev knowingly violated Minsk 2.0 (with U.S. knowledge and approval)

China's new "Silk Road" to extend to South America

SOTT Exclusive: G7 games politicians play

Corrupt to the core: The lasting legacy of Ukraine's oligarchy

ISIS beheads Libyan soldier in front of children for 'educational purposes'

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