Tag: cia
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iran starts a reactor, while israel has ‘hundreds of nuclear bombs’
israel says iranian reactor use ‘totally unacceptable’ from ap: Trucks rumbled into Iran’s first reactor Saturday to begin loading tons of uranium fuel in a long-delayed startup touted by officials as both a symbol of the country’s peaceful intentions to produce nuclear energy as well as a triumph over Western pressure to rein in its…
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8/19 newspurge: take on the world
biowars/envirohealth: US survey shows those keenest to be green are most ignorant* gates foundation buys shares in goldman sachs & monsanto* ft detrick to open drug & vaccine testing facility* fda approves 5-day-after birth control pill* fluoride mouthrinse program to re-start in schools this year* nearly 1m children in US potentially misdiagnosed with adhd* sen…
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geopolitiks/warwhores: powderkegs looking for sparks
drills, bolton, harvard – putting pieces together from of goats & men: We mentioned in the blog earlier how John Bolton thinks an Iran attack must proceed within days if it is to occur at all. Terror drills and military exercises have begun in Korea. Harvard has divested itself from Israeli investments which one could…
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obama defends right to build ground zero mosque
from bbc: US President Barack Obama has staunchly defended controversial plans to build a mosque near Ground Zero in New York. Opponents have protested against the construction of an Islamic cultural centre and mosque several hundred feet away from the site of the Twin Towers. Mr Obama acknowledged “sensitivities” surround the 9/11 site, but said…
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police state updates: threats & intercepts
video: dhs warns dc metro about threat (or: dhs threatens dc metro about warnings)* texas guard, czech army trains for disaster in ‘operation lonestar’* US-russian hijacking drill ends* 60k babies of noncitizens get US birthright* 49%: repeal birthright citizenship* gates foundation gave millions to la raza* coast guard copter intercepts unauthorized plane in dc* cia…
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Tax-Funded Pentagon Software Ends Up Owned By Corporations
The Department of Defense spends tens of billions of dollars annually creating software that is rarely reused & difficult to adapt to new threats. Instead, much of this software is allowed to become the property of defense companies, resulting in DoD repeatedly funding the same solutions or, worse, repaying to use previously created software.
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CIA, Google Invest In ‘Recorded Future’ of Web Monitoring
The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time – and says it uses that information to predict the future.
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‘largest intel leak in history’: wikileaks drops ‘afghan war diaries’
from ap: Some 90,000 leaked U.S. military records posted online Sunday amount to a blow-by-blow account of six years of the Afghanistan war, including unreported incidents of Afghan civilian killings as well as covert operations against Taliban figures. The online whistle-blower WikiLeaks posted the documents on its website Sunday. The New York Times, London’s Guardian…
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Missing Iranian Nuclear Scientist Turns Up At Pak Embassy In US
An Iranian nuclear scientist who was missing for over a year amid claims that he had been abducted by the CIA surfaced today at the Pakistani embassy in Washington, apparently asking to be returned home.
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5/27 newspurge: wake up the nation
9/11 updates: former cia officials admit to faking bin laden video* top construction firm: wtc destroyed by controlled demolition* gop: US can’t afford to fund health ‘entitlement program’ for 9/11 rescue workers* study finds more male babies miscarried in 9/11 aftermath* drugwar: plummeting marijuana prices create a panic in california* 100s of ‘pot plants’ seized…
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“How Do I Delete My Facebook Account?” Query Grows In Popularity
Facebook doesn’t make it easy to delete your account, but a growing number of people appear to be turning to Google to find out how to do just that. Google Suggest, the drop-down box that offers suggested search query completions based on absolute and recent upticks of popularity, now guesses that if you start typing…
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Police State Updates: Crisis, Martial Law & Black Market Operations
Fmr Air Force intel specialist claimed to have bomb & fake passport aboard trans-Atlantic flight // Ex-CIA official facing sex charge, Andrew Warren, arrested in Virginia // FBI & EPA hold mock terrorism drill ‘Liberty Rad-Ex’ in Ridley, PA at Boeing plant // Pentagon to comply with only part of Ft. Hood probe // The…
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CIA Head Panetta Says ‘Cyber Attack Could Be Next Pearl Harbor’
Central Intelligence Agency director Leon Panetta told 300 Sacramento Metro Chamber Cap-to-Cap delegates that the next “Pearl Harbor” is likely to be an attack on the United States’ power, financial, military and other Internet systems.
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Ira Einhorn, Earth Day Co-Creator, Was Well-Connected ‘Unicorn Killer’
Today is Earth Day, a holiday created to honor the planet and to raise the consciousness of man’s effect on the environment. Philadelphia has a very strong tie to this day. One of its native sons, Ira Einhorn, was a co-founder of the environmentalist jubilee. But Mr. Einhorn has another line on his resume. In…
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Defcon 4/22: Takedowns, Lockups & Predictive Analytics
Google exposes government takedown requests* Google: US demanded user info 3,500 times in 6 months* Google hackers stole source code of global password system* Second banker accused of stealing high-frequency trading code* McAfee antivirus program locks up pc’s worldwide* Crime prediction software is here & it’s a very bad idea* Precrime in Florida: IBM’s predictive…