Berto Jongman: 60 Terrorist Plots Lessons Learned?
09 TerrorismBerto Jongman: NSA’s War on Encryption
07 Other Atrocities, 10 Transnational Crime, Corruption, Government, Hacking, Idiocy, Ineptitude, IO Impotency, Law Enforcement, Military
New revelations about National Security Agency abuses, which now include everything from industrial espionage to reports that the agency can access most data on our smartphones, seem to put everything we know about how business is done on the Internet in danger.
Complete story below the line.
Penguin: NSA = Zionists Ubber Alles
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• 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
• Read the NSA and Israel's ‘memorandum of understanding'
Complete story (Glenn Greenwald, The Guardian) below the line.
4th Media Et Al: Syria Round-Up 6.0 — Saudi Arabia as Primary Source of Rebel Chemical Weapons…
03 Environmental Degradation, 04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Proliferation, 08 Wild Cards
Eagle: Financial Terrorism Legalized by White House
07 Other Atrocities, 09 Terrorism, 10 Transnational Crime, Commerce, Corruption, Government
SchwartzReport: Can You Spell STUPID?
Civil Society, Commerce, IdiocyThis is today's Theocratic Rightist story; it is so bizarre that The Daily Show would find it too far out. A little background before you read this piece: Alex Jones has two million daily listeners, and over 300 million people have visited his YouTube channel. His program is ranked as one of the top 100 radio shows in the U.S..
When people like Alex Jones have this kind of influence one can see how the Dark Ages were created as the Roman Empire fell.
I think it is worth noting that the average IQ in the U.S. is 98, and that 15 per cent of the population is 85 or less — 71-84 is considered “Borderline Intellectual Functioning”; 70 is considered “Retarded.” It may be that the world is just too complex for many millions of citizens, and that is why hucksters like Jones, Beck, and Limbaugh hold such sway. An absolute answer, however buffoonish, is at least simple to understand.
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Alex Jones: Syria Diplomacy a Plot to Extinguish Humans so Obama and Elitists Can be Cyborgs
DAVID EDWARDS – The Raw Story
NIGHTWATCH: Russia-US-Syria – Link to Putin’s NYT Op-Ed
06 Russia, 08 Wild CardsRussia-US: President Putin's opinion piece which was printed by the New York Times is well-written, well-reasoned and insufferable. After their invasion of Georgia in 2008 and operations in Chechnya, the Russians have no standing to lecture anyone about international law and the use of force.
However, Putin helped reset the discussion about the 21 August attack. He admitted that “poison gas” was used without specifying the agent. He wrote that there is reason to believe that the rebels executed the attack to provoke western intervention. He also said that the report of a rebel chemical attack against Israel cannot be ignored.
In attempting to manipulate the US leadership, he spotlighted the unsettling prospect that the Syrian opposition groups are doing the same. The other side of the story that the Russians credit more than US is that the Syrian opposition groups are not gallant freedom fighters in any civilized sense.
Russia-US-Syria: For the record. Russian news agencies quoted a Russian source as saying: “We handed over to the Americans a plan to place chemical weapons in Syria under international control. We expect to discuss it in Geneva.”
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry and their delegations are scheduled to meet in Geneva on 12 September to discuss the proposal.
Comment: The Russians evidently do have a plan. Meanwhile, the UN Secretary General said the UN report of findings on the 21 August attack would be available next Monday, the 16th.
If the Syrian government judged it needed chemical weapons to defeat the opposition groups, it would seem unwise to agree to place them under international control pending destruction. Asad's advisors apparently judge they can win without these weapons provided the US does not intervene. Hmm…
