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NSA shares raw intelligence including Americans’ data with Israel –Secret deal places no legal limits on use of data by Israelis –Only official US government communications protected –Agency insists it complies with rules governing privacy 11 Sep 2013 The National Security Agency routinely shares raw intelligence data with Israel without first sifting it to remove information about US citizens, a top-secret document provided to the Guardian by whistleblower Edward Snowden reveals. Details of the intelligence-sharing agreement are laid out in a memorandum of understanding between the NSA and its Israeli counterpart that shows the US government handed over intercepted communications likely to contain phone calls and emails of American citizens. The agreement places no legally binding limits on the use of the data by the Israelis. The disclosure that the NSA agreed to provide raw intelligence data to a foreign country contrasts with assurances from the Obama administration that there are rigorous safeguards to protect the privacy of US citizens caught in the dragnet.
Syrian rebel groups sought to buy materials for chemical weapons, prosecutors say 12 Sep 2013 A public prosecutor completed his indictment as part of the probe into the chemicals seized in the southern province of Hatay on Sept. 12, claiming that jihadist Syrian rebel groups were seeking to buy materials that could be used to produce highly toxic sarin gas. The indictment, which included transcripts of several phone conversations between the suspects involved, said that a 35-year-old Syrian citizen, identified as Hytham Qassap, established a connection with a network in Turkey in order to procure chemical materials for the al-Nusra Front and jihadist Ahrar al-Sham Brigades. The indictment rejected the legitimacy of the suspects’ claim that they were unaware the chemicals they tried to obtain could be used to produce sarin gas.
CIA begins delivering weapons to Syrian ‘rebels’ 11 Sep 2013 The CIA has begun delivering weapons to rebels in Syria, ending months of delay in lethal aid that had been promised by the Obama administration, according to U.S. officials and Syrian figures. The shipments began streaming into the country over the past two weeks, along with separate deliveries by the State Department of vehicles and other gear — a flow of material that marks a major escalation of the U.S. role in Syria’s civil war. The arms shipments, which are limited to light weapons and other munitions that can be tracked [Yeah, right!], began arriving in Syria at a moment of heightened tensions over threats by President Obama to order missile strikes to punish the regime of Bashar al-Assad for his alleged use of chemical weapons in a deadly attack near Damascus last month.
Syria crisis: US ‘to drop military threat’ 14 Sep 2013 The US will drop its insistence that a UN resolution on Syria must be backed by military force, officials say, after strong objections from Russia. US and Russian diplomats say the two sides are edging closer to a deal on Syria’s chemical arsenal, as talks in Geneva enter a third day. They are thrashing out the technical details of the disarmament process.
Russia sends missile cruiser to Mediterranean as Syria tension mounts –Country’s biggest naval deployment since USSR days sent to sea’s east as US also beefs up maritime presence in region 12 Sep 2013 Russia has dispatched a “carrier killer” missile cruiser and other ships to the eastern Mediterranean in its largest naval deployment since Soviet times. Both Russia and the US have been beefing up their naval presence in the Med over the past several weeks. The destroyer Smetlivy left a naval base in Sevastopol, Ukraine, on Tuesday on a mission to the Syrian coast, a military source told the state news agency Interfax on Thursday.
U.S. troops oppose strikes on Syria by 3-1 margin 11 Sep 2013 To the list of skeptics who question the need for air strikes against Syria, add an another unlikely group — many U.S. troops. “I haven’t heard one single person be supportive of it,” said an Army staff sergeant at Fort Hood who asked not to be identified by name. A Military Times survey of more than 750 active-duty troops this week found service members oppose military action in Syria by a margin of about three to one.
U.S. total of Syrian gas deaths could include bomb casualties – sources 12 Sep 2013 One of the most precise and dramatic details cited by the Obama administration as proof that Syrian forces used chemical weapons in an August 21 attack was the death toll, which an official U.S. government assessment put at 1,429 people, including 426 children. Some U.S. congressional sources are now casting doubt on those figures. Three congressional sources told Reuters that administration officials had indicated in private that some deaths might have been caused by the conventional bombing that followed the release of sarin gas in suburban Damascus neighborhoods.
UN team finds no proof on chemical weapons in Syria –UN team also charged that anti-government groups ‘committed war crimes,’ including murder, torture and hostage-taking’ 12 Sep 2013 United Nations investigators have listed a wide range of crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in Syria, but provided no conclusion on the issue of chemical weapons use. “On the evidence currently available, it was not possible to reach a finding about the chemical agents used, their delivery systems or the perpetrators,” the team probing human rights violations in Syria said in its latest report on Wednesday. It was clear however that “the majority of casualties result from unlawful attacks using conventional weapons,” the Commission of Inquiry on Syria said in a statement.
Assad: Israel should be first to disarm 13 Sep 2013 Syria President Bashar Assad says Israel should be the first to disarm from weapons of mass destructions, since it has nuclear, biological and chemical arms. He added on Thursday that that all countries in the Mideast should be held to international protocol in order to achieve stability in the region. Syria decided to cede control of its chemical weapons because of a Russian proposal and not the threat of US military intervention, Interfax news agency quoted President Bashar Assad as saying in an interview with Russia’s state-run Rossiya-24 channel. “Syria is placing its chemical weapons under international control because of Russia. The US threats did not influence the decision,” he said.
Israel not to ratify chemical arms treaty before Arab neighbors 12 Sep 2013 Israel will not ratify the Chemical Weapons Convention as long as its Arab neighbors hold chemical weapons, an Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman told Xinhua on Thursday. As Russia and the United States push forward a diplomatic move to disarm Syria of its chemical weapons, Israel is aware of the possibility that international organizations would turn a similar request to it, too. Israel has signed the Chemical Weapons Convention in 1993, but not ratified it. The Foreign Ministry says recently that Israel would not bring the treaty for a final vote in the Knesset, a necessary procedure for its ratification.
Egypt extends state of emergency by two months –Egyptian security forces have been cracking down on the Muslim Brotherhood, smashing its protests in Cairo, killing hundreds of members and jailing the movement’s top leaders. Sep 2013 Egypt extended a state of emergency by two months on Thursday because of the security situation, the presidency US-installed puppet dictatorship said in a statement. The most populous Arab state has been gripped by political turmoil since the army overthrew Islamist President Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood on July 3. A week ago the interior minister survived an assassination attempt in Cairo. The government originally announced a one-month state of emergency on August 14 and Thursday’s announcement extended the order, which covers the whole country, to mid November.
A Plea for Caution From Russia By Vladimir V. Putin 11 Sep 2013 Recent events surrounding Syria have prompted me to speak directly to the American people and their political leaders. It is important to do so at a time of insufficient communication between our societies… Under current international law, force is permitted only in self-defense or by the decision of the Security Council. Anything else is unacceptable under the United Nations Charter and would constitute an act of aggression. No one doubts that poison gas was used in Syria. But there is every reason to believe it was used not by the Syrian Army, but by opposition forces, to provoke intervention by their powerful foreign patrons, who would be siding with the fundamentalists. Reports that militants are preparing another attack — this time against Israel — cannot be ignored.
US backed ‘rebels:’ Cannibals, war criminals, murderers… and liars. Pro-Syrian opposition ‘analyst’ fired for lying about credentials 11 Sep 2013 A Washington scholar [sic] whose writings on Syria were touted by top U.S. officials in making the case for a military strike has been fired from the Institute for the Study of War for allegedly lying about her education credentials. The development comes after Elizabeth O’Bagy’s credibility and objectivity had come under scrutiny over her work with a Syrian opposition advocacy group. The institute, where she had worked as a senior analyst, on Wednesday posted a terse statement on its website claiming she also misled the organization about having a Ph.D.
U.S. consulate in Herat, Afghanistan, attacked; 3 reported dead 13 Sep 2013 A huge explosion rocked the area near the U.S. consulate in Afghanistan’s Herat province early Friday during a heavy gunfight between militants and security forces, officials said. The attack occurred just before 6 a.m. local time when attackers sped towards the front gate of the consulate, said Marie Harf, a deputy State Department spokeswoman. During the battle, a truck exploded, Harf said, causing major damage to the front gate of the consulate.
Huge car bomb explodes outside US consulate in western Afghanistan 12 Sep 2013 There has been a huge car bomb explosion outside the US consulate in Herat in western Afghanistan. Taliban insurgents say a suicide bomber detonated explosives, and other fighters tried to attack the complex. There are reports of ongoing fighting near the building.
N. Korea may be restarting plutonium reactor – Report –Satellite image shows steam coming from plant shut down in 2007 11 Sep 2013 North Korea may be restarting a nuclear reactor that could produce weapons-grade plutonium, U.S. researchers reported Wednesday. An Aug. 31 commercial satellite photo shows what appears to be steam coming from a building at the Yongbyon complex, the U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies said in a report shared with the Associated Press. [Here we go again. When the US and Israel shut *their* nuclear reactors, North Korea can then be asked to shutter theirs. Until then, I don't want to hear one word about it from the hypocritical sociopaths running the US government and/or the corpora-terrorists who own the lamestream media. --LRP]
‘Scumbag’ Petraeus heckled by New York students after teaching college seminar 12 Sep 2013 It could be a long semester for David Petraeus. The retired four-star general and former CIA director — whose career ended in scandal last year — was heckled by roughly a dozen protesters following his first lecture at the City University of New York’s Macaulay Honors College on Monday, according to a 90-second video posted online Wednesday that has been viewed more than 100,000 times. Petraeus, was also blasted as a “scumbag” and a “war criminal” by the angry group. The heckling became so intense at one point that Petraeus walked into the street and dodged oncoming traffic — including a city bus — as his critics closely followed. Several in the crowd promised to harass Petraeus after “every class” at the public university, while another demanded that he “leave.” “He’s a war criminal, there’s a war criminal right here,” another protester said. “He deserves to be tried.”
U.S. oil group says FBI warns fuel storage operators to be on alert 13 Sep 2013 U.S. officials have warned energy companies to be on the alert for “potential terrorist activities” at fuel storage plants but there were no immediate threats, an oil industry group told members on Friday. The Petroleum Marketers Association of America told members the Federal Bureau of Investigation “is concerned about terrorists attempting to purchase or steal fuel from a bulk plant to use in a weapon of mass destruction.” The PMAA said it sent members a message on Friday after the FBI handed out the warning at an energy conference last week ahead of the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington.
Man gets 3 years for hacking police websites 12 Sep 2013 A 22-year-old Ohio man linked to the hacker collective Anonymous was sentenced Thursday to three years in federal prison for breaking into police-agency websites across the country. Court records say John Anthony Borell III used Twitter to advertise his exploits to other members of the group. He was arrested after taking down police-agency websites in Utah, California, New York and Missouri in January and February of 2012.
Feds Stalked Airline Passenger Lists to Catch Manning’s Friend, Documents Show 10 Sep 2013 Federal agents entered the name of a friend of Chelsea Manning into a government watchlist database and waited months for him to leave the country for vacation just so they could nab him when he returned to seize his digital devices, according to documents released this week in a lawsuit. Even though authorities had already questioned David Maurice House after the arrest of former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning (formerly Bradley Manning) in May 2010, House was placed on the watchlist so that authorities could seize his digital media when he returned to the country, under a law that allows warrantless border searches. The documents indicate House was wanted for questioning in relation to the leak of classified material, even though he had already been questioned. Border agents were ordered to conduct a full secondary screening of him and his bags and to “secure digital media” and “ID all companions” with him.
Tritium levels reach new high at Fukushima nuclear plant 12 Sep 2013 The operator of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant said on Friday it found elevated readings of tritium in groundwater near tanks that are holding hundreds of metric tons of contaminated radioactive water at the site. Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) said tritium levels in water taken from a well close to a number of storage tanks holding irradiated water rose to 97,000 becquerels per liter on Wednesday from 64,000 becquerels/liter measured at the same location a day earlier. Tepco said last month that 300 metric tons of highly radioactive water leaked from one of the hastily built steel tanks at the plant.
Steam seen at Fukushima reactors: TEPCO 13 Sep 2013 Vapour has begun rising again from a reactor at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, more than two-and-a-half years after its core melted down, the site’s Japanese operator said Friday. Tokyo Electric Power said it believed the steam was coming from a puddle sitting atop the reactor, but has not been able to clarify why vapour started appearing occasionally from July this year. The steam appeared as TEPCO found more evidence that radioactive waste water at the plant was contaminating groundwater that is on its way to the sea.
Friends of Boston Marathon bombing suspect plead not guilty to hindering investigation 14 Sep 2013 Three friends of Boston Marathon bombing suspect [patsy] Dzhokhar Tsarnaev have pleaded not guilty to hindering the investigation into the deadly attack. Authorities allege that the friends went to Tsarnaev’s dorm room at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth three days after the bombings, soon after the FBI posted photographs of the two bombing suspects, Tsarnaev and his older brother. The friends are accused in an indictment of removing several items from the room, including Tsarnaev’s laptop computer and a backpack containing fireworks.
US pastor arrested before he could burn 2,998 Korans on anniversary of 9/11 attacks 12 Sep 2013 US law enforcement officers have arrested a Florida pastor on his way to a park to set fire to nearly 3,000 Korans in protest over the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Sheriff’s deputies arrested Pastor Terry Jones, 61, and his associate pastor, Marvin Sapp Jr, 34, on felony charges as he drove a pickup truck towing a large barbecue-style grill filled with Koran soaked in kerosene. He had said he was heading to a nearby park to burn 2,998 Korans – one for every victim of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
An Interesting Day: President [sic] Bush’s Movements and Actions on 9/11 –After Andrew Card told George W. Bush about the second plane and quickly left, the classroom was silent for about 30 seconds or so. [Tampa Tribune, 9/1/02] The children were about to take turns reading from a story called The Pet Goat. [AFP, 9/7/02] Bush picked up the book and began to read with the children. [Tampa Tribune, 9/1/02] In unison, the children read out loud, “The–Pet–Goat. A–girl–got–a–pet–goat. But–the–goat–did–some– things–that–made–the–girl’ s–dad–mad.” Bush mostly listened, but occasionally asked the children a few questions to encourage them. [Washington Times, 10/7/02] At one point he said, “Really good readers, whew!…These must be sixth-graders!” [Time, 9/12/01]
9/11 – The Secret War! –A book made available by the Teach Peace Foundation claims to be the first to accurately explain who is responsible for the 9/11 terrorism. This book is available on Amazon.com and reveals how the New World Order orchestrated and executed 9/11 to advance their plans for world government. In addition to this book, another book is available by the same author, David Dionisi, explaining why 9/11 was a religious ritual for the cartel that seeks to rule the world. More information about both books and extensive free 9/11 resources are provided at Teach Peace.
The Koch brothers’ secret bank 11 Sep 2013 An Arlington, Va.-based conservative group, whose existence until now was unknown to almost everyone in politics, raised and spent *250 million in 2012 to shape political and policy debate [and steal elections] nationwide. The group, Freedom Partners, and its president, Marc Short, serve as an outlet for the ideas and funds of the mysterious Koch brothers, cutting checks as large as *63 million to groups promoting conservative causes, according to an IRS document to be filed shortly. The group has about 200 donors, each paying at least *100,000 in annual dues. It raised *256 million in the year after its creation in November 2011, the document shows. And it made grants of *236 million — meaning a totally unknown group was the largest sugar daddy for conservative groups in the last election.
Damage from mountaintop removal mining ‘staggering’ compared to energy benefits – study 11 Sep 2013 A new study released today presents the first real effort to compare the environmental damage from mountaintop removal mining to the energy benefits from the coal that’s produced… Here’s the abstract of the study, which appears online today in the peer-reviewed journal, PLOS ONE.
National Guard evacuating Colorado towns hit hard by flood 13 Sep 2013 Widespread flooding that’s already killed three Coloradans forced fresh evacuations of thousands of residents Friday, as additional rainfall threatened already swollen rivers and creeks along a 150-mile stretch of the state’s Front Range. About 15 miles north of Boulder, the Colorado National Guard began evacuating up to 2,500 residents of Lyons — isolated, without power and running water because of flooded roads Thursday — at daybreak, according to the Boulder County sheriff’s office. In South Boulder County, 500 residents in Eldorado Springs were also under evacuation orders.
Colorado flooding: Thousands await help; town of Lyons evacuated 13 Sep 2013 As record-breaking rainfall continued to pound parts of Colorado, officials stepped up evacuations for thousands living in areas endangered by flash flooding as emergency workers moved to aid residents trapped in isolated towns by raging waters. The National Guard on Friday moved to evacuate people the entire town of Lyons, one of several cut off and without electrical power since flash floods ripped through the state Wednesday night. As much as 9 inches of rain fell within hours in parts of the state, flooding streams, causing mudslides and spilling over earthen dams.
Colorado Deluge ‘Could be Classified as 1,000-Year Event’ 12 Sep 2013 The Satellite Blog of the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies has just posted some dramatic remote sensing imagery of the continuing deluge here in Colorado. And in the explanation of what’s been happening, the author of the post, Scott Lindstrom, concluded that the extraordinary amount of rainfall we’ve experienced here in the Boulder area “could be classified as a 1,000-year event.” Make no mistake about it: The rainfall has simply been astonishing — upwards of 12 inches in less than 24 hours in some locations near Boulder.
Save Sea Turtles from Deadly Guatemala Shrimp Trawls 11 Sep 2013 This summer, we experienced the worst sea turtle stranding in the history of Guatemala. Eighty five turtles were found dead on Pacific beaches in the southeast of the country when shrimp trawling boats were fishing nearby. We, the undersigned, request the permanent cancellation of operating licenses for shrimp trawling boats in Guatemala to protect endangered sea turtles and support the sustainability of marine fisheries on which marginalizes coastal communities depend.
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