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Australian government building new center for 'data deluge' snooping

Philip Dorling
The Age
Thu, 13 Jun 2013 17:23 UTC
Australian data centre
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Security centre: The rapidly expanding volume of Australian data and intelligence has required construction of a high-security communications and data centre at HMAS Harman.
Facility hints at Australia's involvement in data collection.

The Australian government has been building a state-of-the art, secret data storage facility just outside Canberra to enable intelligence agencies to deal with a ''data deluge'' siphoned from the internet and global telecommunications networks.

The high-security facility nearing completion at the HMAS Harman communications base will support the operations of Australia's signals intelligence agency, the top-secret Defence Signals Directorate.

Privately labelled by one Defence official as ''the new black vault'', the data centre is one of the few visible manifestations of Australia's deep involvement in mass surveillance and intelligence collection operations such as the US National Security Agency's PRISM program revealed last week by US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden.
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War Whore

United States of Israel: U.S. House passes NDAA amendment bill to ensure Israel can 'remove existential threats'


Haaretz
Sat, 15 Jun 2013 17:05 UTC
House of Representatives
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National Defense Authorization Act instructs U.S. to take 'all necessary steps' to help Israel defend its vital national interests, among them preventing a nuclear Iran.

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a defense authorization bill that would make it U.S. policy to take "all necessary steps" to ensure Israel is able to "remove existential threats," among them nuclear facilities in Iran.

"It is the policy of the United States to take all necessary steps to ensure that Israel possesses and maintains an independent capability to remove existential threats to its security and defend its vital national interests," said the amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act passed Friday.
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Bad Guys

UK planned war on Syria before unrest began: French ex-foreign minister Roland Dumas


Press TV
Sun, 16 Jun 2013 16:37 UTC
Roland Dumas
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Former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas
A former French foreign minister says Britain had been planning a war against Syria some two years before to the unrest broke out in the Arab country.

The statement by Roland Dumas came during a recent interview with French Parliamentary TV network, LCP.
"I'm going to tell you something. I was in England two years before the violence in Syria on other business. I met with top British officials, who confessed to me that they were preparing something in Syria," said Dumas.

He continued by saying, "This was in Britain not in America. Britain was organizing an invasion of rebels into Syria. They even asked me, although I was no longer minister for foreign affairs, if I would like to participate."
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Chess

Putin warns British Prime Minister David Cameron against arming Syrian rebels as UK weighs options


RT
Sun, 16 Jun 2013 16:13 UTC
Putin Cameron
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"I think you will not deny that one does not really need to support the people who not only kill their enemies, but open up their bodies, eat their intestines, in front of the public and cameras. Is it them who you want to supply with weapons?" – Putin
Russia and UK still have very different approaches to the Syrian crisis, British PM Cameron said after meeting Putin adding that the decision to arm rebels is yet to be made. Russia's President warned against such a move citing rebels' atrocities.

"The blood is on the hands of both parties" of the conflict, not only Bashar Assad's government but also the rebels, Russia's President Vladimir Putin stressed at the press conference at 10 Downing Street.

"I think you will not deny that one does not really need to support the people who not only kill their enemies, but open up their bodies, eat their intestines, in front of the public and cameras," Putin said referring to a video footage on the Internet of a rebel fighter eating the heart of a government soldier. Later however it was concluded the fighter was holding a lung.

"Is it them who you want to supply with weapons?" he said adding that it does not correspond with international humanitarian norms.
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Scholars, authors wary of government review of Canadian history


CBC News
Sun, 16 Jun 2013 09:39 UTC
Conservative government's latest foray into the history books has raised questions among historians
Harper, the new historian
© Ryan Remiorz/The Canadian Press
Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government has spent $28 million commemorating the War of 1812, and the House of Commons Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage has started a "thorough and comprehensive review of significant aspects of Canadian history."
Canadian history has a reputation for being dull, but our nation's past is arousing passions in Ottawa of late.

The federal government has spent $28 million commemorating the bicentennial of the War of 1812, a program that some critics say was an extravagant exercise in drumming up patriotism.

The Conservative government's latest foray into the history books has also divided opinion. Last month, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage started a "thorough and comprehensive review of significant aspects of Canadian history."
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Vader

One World Police State: EU-US merger comes closer through G8 meeting in Ireland

Benjamin Fox
EU Oberver
Sat, 15 Jun 2013 05:40 UTC
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Talks on a landmark US-EU trade deal have been given the green light after EU trade ministers agreed on the bloc's negotiating mandate on Friday night (14 June).

The agreement, which was reached after more than 12 hours of talks in Luxembourg, paves the way for EU leaders and US President Barack Obama to officially launch the talks at next week's G8 summit in Northern Ireland.

As expected, the main stumbling block was the French government's insistence that it would veto agreement unless its subsidised film and television sector was excluded from the scope of the mandate. However, under a carefully phrased compromise, the cultural sector has been excluded from the initial mandate when EU officials open negotiations with their US counterparts, but could be put back in as talks progress.

Although paragraph 21 of the mandate makes clear that the audiovisual sector will not be in the mandate, a new paragraph has been included stating that the commission "may make recommendations to the council on possible additional negotiating directives on any issue, with the same procedures for adoption, including voting rules, as for this mandate."

Comment: Breathtaking, isn't it, how the psychopaths in the power think they can just fly this one under the radar without anyone noticing? "Nothing to see here folks, we're just meeting to publicly rubber-stamp our pre-arranged backroom deals to forge the US and EU into one state"...

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Stormtrooper

One World: Northern Ireland all set for G8 police state


Press TV
Fri, 14 Jun 2013 05:26 UTC
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British police are preparing one of their most unprecedented security operations, involving water cannons and summary hearings, for next week's G8 summit in Northern Ireland.

Police Service of Northern Ireland district commander Chief Superintendent Pauline Shields said more than 8,000 officers are being dispatched to Northern Ireland to help local police in the security operations.

The arrangements include a daunting four-mile security fence around the Lough Erne Golf Resort that will host the summit on Monday and Tuesday next week, while another barbed wire barrier is being set up outside the area.

The police have also deployed several mobile water cannons to frighten off potential protesters with a seven-mile area of the Lough Erne lake itself being closed down and patrolled by police boats.

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Eye 1

Pakistan: Gunmen storm hospital after Quetta bus bombing which killed 14 female students

Andrew Buncombe
The Independent, UK
Sat, 15 Jun 2013 05:15 UTC
Another four injured in second blast at hospital where victims were being treated
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At least 22 people have been killed, 14 of them female university students, and many others injured after a bomb was set off near a bus in the Pakistani city of Quetta.

A second device was then detonated at the hospital where friends and relatives had gone to visit the injured and gunmen stormed the building.

On Saturday evening, Pakistani police forced their way into the hospital that had been taken over by the gunmen, freeing 35 hostages and ending the five-hour standoff.

Reports said the initial blast happened in the car-park of the Sardar Badur Khan Women's University just as students were heading home after lessons. The injured were taken to the Bolan Medical Hospital where local officials and police were among the visitors. At least three people were hurt in the second blast.

Quetta has been by repeatedly rocked by violence, some of it relating to a separatist insurgency, but much of it has been carried out by Taliban fighters or other militants. Often the focus of the attacks have been members of the Hazara Shia community; some Shia students were reportedly among those targeted on Saturday.
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Eye 1

How schools use fear to brainwash students to trust the system: A parent's story

Melissa Melton
Activist Post
Sat, 15 Jun 2013 20:19 UTC
Recently my child experienced firsthand the kind of victim disarmament indoctrination America's public school system is teaching our children.


The school went on lockdown mode without even bothering to inform me, her parent, and while it turned out to be nothing at all, the impression left on my child that day will not soon be forgotten.

In 2005, a federal court upheld that our nation's public schools trump parent rights:
Parents and politicians alike were shocked when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled on Nov. 2 that parents' fundamental right to control the upbringing of their children "does not extend beyond the threshold of the school door," and that a public school has the right to provide its students with "whatever information it wishes to provide, sexual or otherwise.
The court went on to clarify:
Parents have no due process or privacy right to override the determinations of public schools as to the information to which their children will be exposed.
What this decision essentially says is that, as a parent, your rights to control what your children are being taught end at the school door.

Comment: For a more in depth look on the dumb-ing down of the American Education
system and the fear used to brainwash students to trust 'the system' above and beyond parents and family read the following work of John Taylor Gatto: An Underground History of American Education
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Stormtrooper

Tear gas, water cannon in Gezi Park and Taksim Square after Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan's ultimatum


RT
Sat, 15 Jun 2013 15:47 UTC
The police have fired water cannon and tear gas to drive away protesters from both Istanbul's Taksim Square and Gezi Park, hours after Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan demanded the square to be "evacuated." Protesters claim multiple injuries.


Several people have been taken away in ambulances after being loaded onto stretchers, RT's Irina Galushko reports from Istanbul.

The police are now tearing down the tents in Gezi Park camp, she added.

Scores of riot police have sealed off Taksim Square and stormed the adjoining park, pressing the protesters out of the area.
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