Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out, as the Hessians did in our Revolution, and as the boyish Prince Napoleon did in the Zulu war, and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel.Mark Twain
"Most of the time, if you treat people right, you don't have to be afraid of them." - Kathy Kelly, Other Lands Have Dreams: Letters From Pekin Prison
"Empire breeds terrorism." - Pat Buchanan
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Op-Ed Articles
Burqas and Empire, Again
By Zillah Eisenstein
The
lead up to the Afghan war in post-9/11 used the rhetoric of "women's
rights" to mobilise the American public. We were supposed to save their
women from the Taliban and their "backward ways".
Saudi Rulers Pour Money Into Arming Militants in Region
By Finian Cunningham
This is not the first time that the Saudi loose cannon has swung around on its Western patrons.
Choosing Martin Indyk to Lead the Israel Palestine Peace Talks is a Disaster
By Rachel Davidson
It demonstrates that the U.S. will continue its oxymoronic role as a biased mediator in the conflict.
The Real Reason for Obama's Terrorist Scaremongering: He's Losing The 'War on Terror'
By Chris Nineham
The
leaders of the War on Terror are capable of terrible deceptions, but
it is the savage opportunism of their policies that is most
frightening.
Obama's Press Conference: The Smiling Face of a Police State
By Barry Grey
At
Friday's press conference, President Barack Obama resorted to outright
lies in his defense of the massive and illegal surveillance programs.
This is What a Police State Looks Like
Video
"YOU Open The Door When We Come To YOUR F*cking House!"
TV: Your Mind. Controlled
By Melissa Melton
Are large segments of the American public literally walking around in a hypnotic trance?
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Bush- Blair Legacy Continues As -
Nearly 80 killed in Baghdad car bombs:
Shootings
and a bombing killed at least seven more people in Iraq on Sunday,
after a day of carnage as sectarian tensions rise across the country.
Suspected al-Qaeda gunmen kill 5 Yemeni soldiers:
The
official said the attackers surprised the soldiers at their post
guarding oil and gas projects in the Radhum area of Shabwa province.
The ambush follows a two-week-long spike in suspected U.S. drone
strikes targeting al-Qaeda. Yemeni officials say nine attacks have
killed 38 alleged militants.
Yemen officials: U.S. kills three "militants":
A senior
Defense Ministry official told CNN that 34 people have been killed in
12 drone strikes since July 28. The official said that nearly a dozen
of the killed over the past two weeks are believed to have been
innocent.
US embassies to reopen in Middle East and Africa after terror threat:
Yemen mission stays closed amid fear of al-Qaida attack but 18 other offices will open doors on Sunday
Hamas condemns killing of Palestinian:
Salah
el-Bardaweel, a senior Hamas leader told Xinhua that the killing of the
Palestinian young man "is a violation of the ceasefire agreement
reached in November with Israel."
Palestinians say new Israeli (illegal) settlement plans 'destroying talks':
Officials
slam decision to build 1,200 units over Green Line; Erekat: Israel
'determined to force us to leave negotiating table'
Settlements will continue to determine Israel's future: Op-Ed:
The
government will do anything it can to sabotage the talks with the
Palestinians. There is no other way to interpret the recent approval of
878 new housing units in secluded West Bank settlements.
Doublespeak:
Netanyahu tells U.S. mediator Palestinians inciting against Israel:
Israel
has complained to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry about statements
by the Palestinians which it said undermined nascent peace talks, an
Israeli official said on Saturday.
Iran to Sign New Nuclear Power Plant Deal with Russia - Minister:
Iran
intends to sign an agreement with Russia soon on the construction of a
new nuclear power plant in the Islamic Republic, Iran's semi-official
Mehr news agency reported on Sunday, citing Iranian Foreign Minister
Ali Akbar Salehi.
Egypt's army says helicopter strike kills 12 suspected militants in northern Sinai Peninsula:
The officials say three helicopters targeted militants in the desert town of Sheik Zuweyid late Saturday.
Israel downplays Sinai drone strike reports:
Israel's
defense minister said that his country won't let recent "rumors and
speculation" harm the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty, an apparent
attempt to downplay reports that an Israeli drone killed four militants
in a cross-border strike into Egypt. The late Saturday statement by
Moshe Yaalon did not explicitly deny that Israel carried out the Friday
attack.
Cairo cuts electricity to pro-Morsi gatherings;
Morsi's
supporters used generators to power loudspeakers and medical stations
at the sit-ins while vowing to carry on with their protests, Israel
Radio reported. The Muslim Brotherhood, which organized the protests,
threatened to occupy Tahrir Square if the electricity remained off.
Reports: Crackdown on Cairo protests imminent:
Reuters quotes sources as saying that police expected to start action against pro-Morsi supporters early on Monday.
US funded ouster of Egypt's democratic President Morsi:
Documents
obtained by the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley show
the US channelled funding through a State Department program to promote
democracy in the Middle East region.
Afghan attack kills three US soldiers:
A US
official said on Sunday that fighters in Paktia province killed the
soldiers from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force
(ISAF).
Michael Hayden, Former NSA Chief: After A Major Attack, U.S. Likely To Seize More Surveillance Powers:
Former
National Security Agency chief Gen. Michael Hayden hinted Sunday at how
the NSA's eavesdropping and data collection program is likely to
evolve over time.
The NSA is turning the internet into a total surveillance system:
The NSA
is searching the content of virtually every email that comes into or
goes out of the United States without a warrant. To accomplish this
astonishing invasion of Americans' privacy, the NSA reportedly is
making a copy of nearly every international email
Press Corps Fails To Ask Any NSA Questions At Obama's NSA Press Conference:
During
the hour-long press conference President Obama held specifically to
answer questions about the NSA, not a single journalist asked him
details about the NSA. As a result, we learned precisely zero
information from something slated to be critically informative.
Ex-MI6 officer joins Guantánamo inmate in hunger strike;
A former
MI6 officer will begin a week-long hunger strike on Monday in
solidarity with the Guantánamo Bay detention camp prisoner Shaker
Aamer, a move he says is prompted by shame over the behaviour of the
British intelligence service he once served.
After Guantánamo, Another Injustice:
Instead
of showing some guts and admitting they were wrong, the American
authorities will whisk him away, dump him on the streets of Algiers and
wash their hands.
California inmate in prison hunger strike:
Each
minute has been torturous': Hundreds of inmates across the state enter
second month of protest against 'inhumane' solitary confinement units
Californian hunger strikes inspired by IRA prison leader Bobby Sands:
Todd
Ashker was so inspired by Sands' 1981 hunger strike that it became the
springboard for the largest prison protest in California's history, a
hunger strike in protest over the indefinite solitary confinement of
thousands of inmates which today enters its 28th day.
IRS Needs AR-15's For "Standoff Capabilities"?:
Duncan
questioned why IRS agents needed to be trained with AR-15 military
rifles with 30 round magazines for "standoff capability" and why the
IRS couldn't use agencies like the U.S. Marshals to assist them when
needed.
UK wages fall among sharpest in EU:
Figures show real wage value has fallen 5.5% since 2010, more than in eurozone crisis countries such as Spain and Cyprus
Americans abroad rejecting US citizenship as tax hikes loom:
The
number of Americans who decided to renounce their citizenship in the
second quarter of 2013 increased sixfold the same period in 2012.
The
United States is the only country out of 34 in the Organization for
Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) that continues to tax
citizens regardless of where they live around the world.
Religious fundamentalism could soon be treated as mental illness:
Kathleen
Taylor, said that radicalizing ideologies may soon be viewed not as
being of personal choice or free will but as a category of mental
disorder. She said new developments in neuroscience could make it
possible to consider extremists as people with mental illness rather
than criminals.
Signs banning Muslims from parking lot causes outrage in US:
Signs
banning Muslims from using a shopping centre's parking lot mysteriously
appeared this week in a city of the southern US state of Texas,
generating massive outrage.
Warrantless Vaginal Searches Conducted By Texas Police:
A new set of videos show Texas state troopers probing women's vaginas and anal areas while searching for drugs.
Trooper Who Conducted Cavity Search Reinstated:
The Texas
Department of Public Safety reinstated a state trooper on Friday that
it fired for conducting a roadside cavity search during a traffic stop
for speeding.
A Texan tragedy: ample oil, no water:
Fracking boom sucks away precious water from beneath the ground, leaving cattle dead, farms bone-dry and people thirsty
Fox News found to be a major driving force behind global warming denial;
American consumers of conservative media like Fox News distrust climate scientists and don't believe the planet is warming
Unbelievable Ways Companies Are Trying to Keep You From Seeing Where Your Meat Comes From:
The
modern meat industry has some good reasons to fear the public finding
out that Old MacDonald's farm isn't so happy these days.
How drugs pumped into supermarket chickens pose a terrifying threat to our health:
Every
second of every day, somewhere in the world the same scene unfolds. A
batch of several hundred eggs, precisely arranged in uniform rows,
moves along a conveyor belt, coming to a halt beneath a machine linked
to a jumble of tubes.
Do Chicken Plant Chemicals Mask Salmonella?:
Remember
that proposed US Department of Agriculture plan to speed up kill lines
at factory-scale poultry slaughterhouses, and cut way back on the
number of USDA inspectors to oversee them?
Obamacare installs fines for charitable hospitals that treat uninsured people:
Charitable
hospitals that treat uninsured Americans will be subjected to new
levels of scrutiny of their nonprofit status and could face sizable new
fines under Obamacare.
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*** Security News ***
Android bug batters Bitcoin wallets
Old flaw, new problem
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/12/android_bug_batters_bitcoin_wallets/
NSA to world: we're only watching 1.6% of internet
Trust us: we're hardly paying attention to the stuff we do collect
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/12/nsa_says_it_only_watches_one_point_six_per_cent_of_the_internet/
Admins warned: Drill SSL knowledge into your Chrome users
Google research finds whopping SSL click-through rates
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/10/chrome_ssl_clickthrough_report/
Second LulzSec Sony website hacker starts a year in the cooler
And 21-year-old must do 1,000 hours unpaid work, cough up $600k to
media goliath... lulz?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/09/lulzsec_hacker_jailed/
NSA gets burned by a sysadmin, decides to burn 90% of its sysadmins
Need to end planet-wide-snooping leaks? That'll do the trick, thinks US
spymaster
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/09/snowden_nsa_to_sack_90_per_cent_sysadmins_keith_alexander/
Serious Farce Office: 32K secret BAE probe files spaffed to WRONG bod
Anti-fraud squad coughs to stunning evidence leak blunder
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/09/serious_fraud_office_makes_seriously_stupid_mistake/
Silent Circle shutters email service
Follows Lavabit in closing down service it can't guarantee to be secure
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/09/silent_circle_shutters_email_service/
Mozilla links Gmail with Persona for email-based single sign-on
Usernames and passwords not needed
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/09/persona_identity_bridge_for_gmail/
Snowden's secure email provider Lavabit shuts down under gag order
Won't be 'complicit in crimes against the American people'
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/08/lavabit_shuts_down/
Child abuse ransomware tweaked to tout bogus antivirus saviours
Crass, fiendish and no doubt a good money-spinner
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/08/ransomware_scareware_hybrid_scam/
HP plugs password-leaking printer flaw
Bad news: Most office bods won't patch it. Good news: Most office bods
won't find password
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/08/hp_plug_password_leaking_printer_vuln/
Blogs with 'weakest of the weak' passwords hijacked for bot army
Wordpress, Joomla, Datalife Engine - they're all under cyber-crims'
control
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/08/fort_disco_bruteforce_blog_attack/
So, you gonna foot this '$200bn' hacking bill, insurance giants asked
Cyber-cleanups of cyber-raids on Uncle Sam's cyber-assets cost
cyber-amounts of cash
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/08/obama_sets_out_plans_to_insure_firms_against_hack_attacks/
Chrome, Firefox blab your passwords in a just few clicks: Shrug, wary
or kill?
Vote now: Browsers reveal logins on idle PCs, but is it a code flaw or
a brain bug?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/08/browser_password_poll/
Infosec analysts back away from 'Feds attacked Tor' theory
Those IP addresses we said belong to the NSA? We were probably wrong
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/08/infosec_analysts_back_away_feds_attacked_tor_theory/
Malicious snoopware targeting India found at tiny Midwest ISP
'Official' decoys hide potential espionage campaign
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/07/india_cyberespionage/
Suspected brains behind bank-account-draining Gozi extradited to US
Latvian gov votes to ship alleged Trojan co-conspirator to New York
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/07/gozi_trojan_suspect_extradition/
Hacktivists torch C4's Jon Snow's web diary, reveal 'nuke strike' on
Syria
Breaking news, literally
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/07/c4_hacktivist_defacement/
Twitter hardens two-factor authentication with app-based secure logins
SMS, phone number no longer needed
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/07/twitter_hardens_two_factor_authentication/
Stop! Yammer time: Microsoft blats biz babble account hijacking bug
You can't touch this other users' logins, Miss Hacker
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/06/yammer_authentication_flaw/
Horrific moment curvy mum-of-none Mail Online spills everyone's data
'Once you go cyber, they got you by the short n curlies' - DM
commentard
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/06/daily_mail_data_breach/
Hey, you know Android apps can 'access ALL' of your Google account?
One-click login hands over keys to Gmail, Google Drive et al, says
researcher
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/06/android_oneclick_authentication_open_to_hacking/
Windows Phones BLAB passwords to hackers, thanks to weak crypto
Rogue Wi-Fi hotspots can hoover up and CRACK encrypted login info
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/06/microsoft_win_phone_wifi_vuln/
Did a bunch of bankers fax a stranger's sensitive privates to YOU?
Bank fined £75K for 3-year fail.. and, er, you've got a FAX MACHINE?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/06/bank_of_scotland_fax_blunder_fine/
REVEALED: Cyberthug tool that BREAKS HSBC's anti-Trojan tech
Browser lockdown method also used by PayPal
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/06/trusteer_pushes_updates_after_cybercrook_brew_up_browser_lockdown_exploit/
Tor fingers Firefox flaw for FAIL but FBI's also in the frame
Malware means 'attacker now has a list of vulnerable Tor users'
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/06/tor_fingers_firefox_for_fail/
They don't recognise us as HUMAN: Disability groups want CAPTCHAs
killed
Oz advocay group floats non-W3C-approved alternative
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/05/disability_groups_want_captchas_rendered_extinct/
Posh potty owners flushed by dodgy Bluetooth password
Power behind the throne
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/05/posh_potty_owners_left_flushed_by_poor_bluetooth_password/
Child porn hidden in legit hacked websites: 100s redirected to sick
images
So warns the Internet Watch Foundation
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/05/iwf_business_sites_hacked_to_host_images/
Bad timing: New HTML5 trickery lets hackers silently spy on browsers
Sub-millisecond precision in your rendering engine. What could possibly
go wrong?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/05/html5_timing_attacks/
Earn £8,000 a MONTH with bogus apps from Russian malware factories
DIY SMS-scam kits anyone can use - even your grandparents!
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/05/mobile_malware_lookout/
Lumpy milk and exploding yoghurt? Your fridge could be riddled with
MALWARE
Security bod predicts future where virus writers steal your lunch
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/05/food_gone_rotten_perhaps_your_fridge_has_got_a_virus/
Old flaw, new problem
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Google research finds whopping SSL click-through rates
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MAVEN orbiter / silently sails sentiment / 'round the Red Planet
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Perseid meteors in high-def sky-streak, unless cloud blocks 'em out
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Arduino-powered satellites arrive at International Space Station on Saturday
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| A guard walks past prisoner cells at a Connecticut Supermax facility in 2001. |
Big Frankie, Little Frankie and Al, three black men who spent a lot of time in prison and have put their lives back together in the face of joblessness, crushing poverty and the violence of city streets, abruptly stopped appearing at the prison support group I help run at the Second Presbyterian Church in Elizabeth, N.J. This happens in poor neighborhoods. You see people. You make plans to see them again. And then without explanation they vanish. They get arrested for something, often trivial, after the police randomly stop them, run a check and find they owe fines, missed a court date or a meeting with a probation officer, owe child support, violated probation or have a couple of ounces of pot. The big mechanical jaw of the legal system gulps them down. And since they are poor and cannot afford bail they stay locked up. And that appears to be what happened to Big Frankie, Little Frankie and Al. <read more>
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