ShareThisTalks Signal Possible US Return to Philippines 26 Jan 2012 The United States and the Philippines are discussing ways to re-establish a U.S. military presence in the Philippines, officials said. Such a step would be in line with the Obama regime's new policy pivot toward the Asia-Pacific region in face of China's growing military might, The Washington Post said Wednesday. The newspaper reported officials involved in preliminary negotiations said the two governments are favorably inclined toward such an arrangement -- which would come about two decades after the United States had to close its bases in the Philippines. [The Nosey Parker of the universe aka the US is trolling for more countries to annoy/invade/occupy. Hopefully, the resistance in the Philippines (and everyhere else) will become busy little bees!]
ShareThisBritish soldier shot dead by insurgents in Afghanistan 27 Jan 2012 Britain's military says a UK soldier has been shot dead by insurgents in southern Afghanistan. The Ministry of Defence says the soldier from 1st Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment was shot on Friday during a foot patrol in the Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand province.
ShareThisSubpoenas issued to financial firms in expanded probe 27 Jan 2012 The Justice Department issued civil subpoenas to 11 financial institutions as part of a new effort to investigate misconduct in the packaging and sale of home loans to investors, Attorney General Eric Holder said on Friday. Holder declined to provide specifics, including the names of the firms. The Obama administration has received heat from left-leaning activist groups that believe a separate effort to investigate misconduct in processing foreclosures and servicing home loans may not be rigorous enough to extract a meaningful settlement.
ShareThisFBI staged 'hit' in NC beheading plot 27 Jan 2012 An FBI agent testified Friday that investigators faked photographs to make it look like a witness in a North Carolina terror case had been murdered. The revelation came in a preliminary hearing in Wilmington for Shkumbin Sherifi - who is accused of plotting to murder witnesses who testified against his older brother Hysen Sherifi. Hysen Sherifi was sentenced to 45 years earlier this month in what prosecutors described as a conspiracy to attack the Marine base at Quantico, Va., and targets abroad.
ShareThisNavy sending commando 'mothership' to Middle East 27 Jan 2012 The Pentagon is rushing to send a large floating base for commando teams to the Middle East as tensions rise with Iran, 'al-Qaeda' in Yemen and Somali pirates, among other threats. In response to requests from U.S. Central Command, which oversees military operations in the Middle East, the Navy is converting an aging warship it had planned to decommission into a makeshift staging base for the commandos. Unofficially dubbed a "mothership," the floating base could accommodate smaller high-speed boats and helicopters commonly used by Navy SEALs, procurement documents show.
ShareThisU.S. falls to 47th in press freedom rankings after Occupy crackdown 26 Jan 2012 Sweeping protests around the world made it an extremely difficult year for the media, and tested journalists as never before, the annual report into press freedom reveals. The annual report by Reporters Without Borders has been released, showing the United States fell 27 points on the list due to the many arrests of journalists covering Occupy Wall Street protests. The slide in the United States places it just behind Comoros and Taiwan in a group with Argentina and Romania.
ShareThisAnonymous TKOs UFC's White --Anonymous logos appeared briefly on the UFC's website and traffic was redirected to a site associated with Anonymous. 27 Jan 2012 UFC president Dana White went toe-to-toe with the hacker collective Anonymous on Thursday night on Twitter and ended up on the receiving end of a brutal punch. White's personal information, including his Social Security number, cellphone number, address, geographical coordinates of his residence, net worth, was published online moments after his dust up with Anaonymous. The UFC's website was also hacked for the second time in a week.
ShareThisSecret Service probes image of bullet-ridden Obama on Facebook 27 Jan 2012 A post on the Facebook page of a veteran Peoria police sergeant depicting the photo of seven Centennial High School students in Peoria, four with guns and one holding up a T-shirt with a bullet-riddled image of President Barack Obama, was brought to the U.S. Secret Service's attention by a citizen and an "appropriate follow-up" is being conducted, a Washington D.C-based spokesman for the federal agency told The Republic Friday. Max Milien, spokesman for the Secret Service, described the Facebook post in the category of "unusual direction of interest," which would merit an agency follow-up.
ShareThisRegulators say flood barriers may not protect TVA's nuclear plants --Sand baskets considered 'temporary fix' 26 Jan 2012 Sand baskets that the Tennessee Valley Authority installed at dams to protect its nuclear plants from a worst-case flood could fail, according to a federal nuclear oversight group. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said the baskets are not capable of standing up to the impact of debris barreling down the Tennessee River in a massive flood. "There is potential for this debris to damage the baskets or push the individual baskets apart, causing a breach," an NRC letter dated Wednesday to TVA says. "There would be no time to repair the baskets because the flood would already be in progress." [Insert eye-roll *here.*]
ShareThisProsecutors Ordered to Identify NYC Terror Witness --Judge allows government to provide name under protective order barring defense from disclosing it to public 25 Jan 2012 A judge gave federal prosecutors until a week from Wednesday to give up the name of a witness they say was recruited for a chilling, al-Qaida[al-CIAduh]-sanctioned plot for suicide bombers to attack the New York City subways with explosives made from beauty supplies. Lawyers for alleged plotter Adis Madunjanin had demanded to know the identity of the man, referred to only as John Doe in court papers, before Madunjanin goes to trial later this year. District Judge Raymond Dearie said Madunjanin's lawyers had a right to know the name.
ShareThisEx-BP worker files whistleblower suit over cleanup 25 Jan 2012 A former BP employee has filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the company, claiming he was fired for airing concerns about the cleanup of Mississippi's shoreline after the Gulf oil spill. In a federal suit filed last Friday in New Orleans, August Walter claims one of his BP bosses manipulated data on shoreline cleanup and didn't give the Coast Guard "the true status" of what substances needed to be cleaned. Walter, a Covington, La., resident who helped develop BP's cleanup plans in Mississippi after the 2010 spill began, claims in the suit that he was fired last month in retaliation for complaining that BP wasn't following environmental regulations and was "picking and choosing what oil to pick up."
ShareThis'No radiation fears' in Fukushima for Louvre works --'Radiation levels inside the exhibition room averaged 0.05 microsieverts per hour.' 26 Jan 2012 A Fukushima museum official on Thursday played down concerns in France about the possible contamination of artworks soon to be loaned to the nuclear hit region by the Louvre. The Paris museum plans to send 24 pieces to Japan, including to Fukushima prefecture, home to the stricken nuclear plant, in a show of solidarity with the disaster-hit country. Museum officials are now removing a contaminated lawn as part of their efforts to reduce levels of radioactivity ahead of the exhibition, said Tetsuo Sakai, head of the Fukushima museum.
ShareThisLAPD and Special Forces Conduct Military Maneuvers In the Skies Above Downtown LA --The LAPD said the purpose of the training was in part to ensure the military's ability to operate in urban environments. 25 Jan 2012 The Los Angeles Police Department teamed with military special operation forces Wednesday evening to conduct multi-agency tactical exercises in the skies above downtown LA. Many questioned what was going on Wednesday night as a Black Hawk helicopter and four OH-6 choppers – or "Little Birds" – flew over the city, at one point hovering just above the US Bank building downtown and later flying low over the Staples Center as the Lakers played inside. [Bye-bye, Posse Comitatus!]
ShareThisCIA to pull officer from NYPD after internal probe 26 Jan 2012 A CIA operative's unusual [and illegal] assignment inside the New York Police Department is being cut short after an internal investigation that criticized how the agency established its unprecedented collaboration with city police, The Associated Press has learned. In its investigation, the CIA's inspector general faulted the agency for sending an officer to New York with little oversight after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and then leaving him there too long, according to officials who have read or been briefed on the inquiry. The inspector general opened its investigation after a series of AP articles that revealed how the NYPD, working in close collaboration with the CIA, set up spying operations that put Muslim communities under scrutiny.
ShareThisJingoistic sociopaths in bed with Ray Kelly and the NYPD: Anti-Islam documentary producer was arrested for impersonating Secret Service agent 26 Jan 2012 The producer of the controversial anti-Islam documentary featuring Ray Kelly and shown to NYPD recruits was once arrested for impersonating a federal officer, court records show. Erik Werth, a co-producer of "The Third Jihad: Radical Islam's Vision for America" -- which has Muslim groups calling for Kelly's resignation -- was nabbed in May 1995 after an incident at the Columbia, SC, airport. He claimed to be a Secret Service agent and threatened to have an airline employee arrested, prosecutors said. Kelly became embroiled in a scandal this week after it was revealed that "The Third Jihad" -- which features a narrator saying Muslims want to "infiltrate and dominate America" -- was shown to about 1,500 NYPD recruits. The flick was shown on a continuous loop during training, until an officer complained about it.
ShareThisBird flu mutation studies dangerous 25 Jan 2012 A scientist researching a potentially highly lethal airborne version of the H5N1 bird flu virus said on Wednesday he must be allowed to pursue his studies if deadly pandemics are to be prevented. Despite declaring last week a 60-day moratorium on the studies to allay security fears, Yoshihiro Kawaoka argued in a commentary in the journal Nature it was urgent and vital that his work continue. Kawaoka, of Tokyo University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States, is a lead researcher on one of two recent studies showing how H5N1 can be transmitted through airborne droplets, and his work is at the centre of an international row over whether its findings should be censored. [See: Kobe University lab creates 'novel' H5N1 in 'secret' lab --Emails from Kobe virologist and H5N1-H1N1 virus creator, Teridah Ernala Ginting --Story in e-mails: Kobe University PhD student Teridah Ernala confesses to creating H1N1-H5N1 "novel" viruses; Yoshihiro Kawaoka's virus thief Akiko Makino lies to Indonesian authorities to avoid arrest for attempted smuggling of H5N1 out of Indonesia, gives authorities another university as research facility she works for By Robert S. Finnegan 05 Jan 2012 This young Indonesian "scientist" through the years of our contact revealed to me the inner-workings of her "secret" lab at Kobe University and a new BSL-4 in Tokyo that was working on H5N1 and H1N1 viruses, among others.]
ShareThisPrime Minsiter Julia Gillard escorted by riot police amid angry Australia day protests in Canberra [<g>] 26 Jan 2012 Police were forced to escort Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard from a restaurant near Parliament House in Canberra on Australia Day, when protesters surrounded the eatery. Supporters of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra picketed the Lobby restaurant over comments by the opposotion leader Tony Abbott who was dining with the Prime Minister at an Australia Day celebration. At least 50 police, including the riot squad, were called to the scene shortly after 2.30pm local time. The two leaders, protected security officers, escaped out a side door after about 20 minutes. Protesters chased their car down the road, banging on its roof and bonnet.
ShareThisMorgellons disease probably a delusion, feds say 26 Jan 2012 Morgellons disease - a creepy illness that leaves patients with painful lesions, gives them a feeling that bugs are crawling all over their body, and has them seeing colorful, threadlike fibers poking through their skin - isn't infectious and probably isn't caused by anything in the environment, according to the first government 'study' of the condition. Rather, [chemtrail-spawned] Morgellons is likely to be a mental illness and should probably be treated with the same drug and psychiatric care that works for people who suffer delusions, researchers with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday. [I've seen a lot of garbage spewed by the lying sacks of sh*t aka US government/Pentagon, but this one takes the cake. In fact, it takes the whole bakery. --LRP]
ShareThisJapan's stricken nuclear operator set for $13 bln bailout - sources --Tepco's share price soared on the bail-out news, jumping as much as 8 percent in heavy trade. 26 Jan 2012 Japan is set to launch a $13 billion bail-out of the owner of its stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant after the utility dropped resistance to a public fund injection, sources said on Thursday, as the country debates the future of nuclear power. The injection of 1 trillion yen ($12.8 billion) in public funds into Tokyo Electric Power Co would effectively nationalise the firm, supplier of power to almost 45 million people, in one of the world's biggest bailouts outside the banking sector. [Gee, looky here! The same corpora-terrorists who made a killing on the bank bailouts are poised to make a killing on killing us w. their radioactive nuclear power plants. Isn't *that* convenient!]
ShareThisPossible Tokyo Evacuation Was Kept Secret in Nuclear Crisis 26 Jan 2012 The Japanese government's worst-case scenario at the height of the nuclear crisis last year warned that tens of millions of people, including residents of Tokyo, might be forced to leave their homes, according to a report. Fearing widespread panic, officials kept the report secret. The emergence of the 15-page internal document might add to complaints that the government withheld too much information about the meltdown[s] at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, the world's worst nuclear accident since the Chernobyl disaster in 1986.
ShareThisGeithner says wouldn't serve in an Obama 2nd term 25 Jan 2012 Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Wednesday he would not expect to be asked to continue as Treasury chief if President Barack Obama wins re-election. "He's not going to ask me to stay on, I'm pretty confident," Geithner said during a Bloomberg television interview conducted in North Carolina, where Geithner toured an electronics manufacturing plant. Geithner said he was confident Obama would win a second term in the November election and said he would then "have the privilege of having another secretary of the Treasury." [Why wait? Let's get the privilege of 'having another secretary of the Treasury' *now.*]
ShareThisU.S. Forces Rescue Two Hostages From Somali Pirates --Nine Somali kidnappers killed in raid; Seals unhurt 26 Jan 2012 Around 2 a.m. Wednesday, elders in the Somali village of Galkayo said they began hearing an unusual sound: the whirl of helicopters. It was the beginning of a daring and risky mission by dozens of members of the Navy Seals to rescue two hostages - an American aid worker and her Danish colleague - held by Somali pirates since October. They dropped down in parachutes under a cloak of darkness 8,000 miles away just as President Obama was about to deliver his State of the Union address on Tuesday night. The commandos hiked two miles from where they landed, grabbed the hostages and flew them to safety.
ShareThisObama Orders Strategy for Protecting Nation's Supply Chain 25 Jan 2012 President Barack Obama is directing the Departments of State and Homeland Security to develop a plan to protect the $14.6 trillion U.S. economy from interruptions in the international supply chain. The White House released today a National Strategy for Global Supply Chain Security that gives officials from those departments six months to make recommendations on how to spot risks and make commercial infrastructure more resilient.
ShareThisMore CEOs rake in $50M and up 24 Jan 2012 2011 is shaping up as the year of the $50 million-plus CEO. Huge employment contracts, retention deals, stock-option gains, bonuses and golden parachutes are creating big windfalls for incoming executives, current CEOs and even those on their way out, according to a USA TODAY analysis of company filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The latest: Walt Disney's Robert Iger, whose 2011 compensation is valued at more than $52 million, according to a Monday filing. That includes $31.4 million in pay and perks and $21.4 million from stock options and vested shares.
ShareThisRomney paid around 14 per cent as income tax, less than others 24 Jan 2012 Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney, among the richest Americans with a fortune of about $250 million, paid a smaller proportion of his income in tax than most others, his returns show. The former Massachusetts governor paid a smaller proportion than other Americans because his income is from investments of his fortune, which attract a lower rate than earned income. Romney released tax returns showing that he and his wife Ann paid $3 million tax on an income of $21.7 million in 2010, a rate of 13.9 per cent. He expects to pay $3.2 million in taxes on his 2011 income, a rate of 15.4%.
ShareThis14 killed in series of blasts in Baghdad 24 Jan 2012 At least 14 people were killed and around 70 wounded Tuesday in the latest of a series of blasts that have rocked Shia districts of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. Eight died when a bomb blew up close to a group of labourers waiting for jobs in Sadr City. Minutes later, a blast about 3 km away killed another three. In another car bomb blast in Shula and Hurriya, three more people were killed.
ShareThisUS imposes sanctions on key Iranian bank 24 Jan 2012 In another punitive action against Iran, the US has imposed sanctions on Tehran's third-largest bank and an affiliate for allegedly helping the Islamic republic develop its [alleged] nuclear programme. As per the new sanctions, essentially meant to tighten financial screws on Iran, any foreign firm that deals with state-owned Bank Tejarat and its affiliate, Belarus-based Trade Capital Bank, won't be able to access the US financial system.
ShareThisUSociopaths are busy little bees! Three lawyers shot dead in Karachi 25 Jan 2012 Unidentified men in Pakistan's port city of Karachi killed three lawyers while seriously injuring another Wednesday. The incident occurred when four lawyers were travelling in a car near Karachi's Aram Bagh area. The fourth lawyer was in critical condition and undergoing surgery at the Civil Hospital, Geo News reported. Describing the act as a target killing, the police said the attackers were riding motorcycles and chased the lawyers from the city court.
ShareThisAnthrax scare stirs panic in Israeli missions --Several Israeli embassies, consulates in US, Europe receive suspicious envelopes marked 'Anthrax' 24 Jan 2012 Several Israeli embassies and consulates in the US and Europe simultaneously received white envelopes with the word "Anthrax" written on them, Ynet learned. The contents of the envelopes were later identified as a harmless powder, Yedioth Ahronoth reported. The Israeli Consulate in Boston was evacuated and closed for several hours subject to police orders after such an envelope was received. Among the missions that received the envelopes was the New York Consulate and embassies in The Hague and Brussels. The Foreign Ministry raised its alert level. It is estimated more envelopes will be received in the future.
ShareThisIsrael plans to launch cyber maneuver 25 Jan 2012 The Israeli government plans to launch its first cyber emergency drill to fortify its vital infrastructure systems against multisource cyber attacks, reports say. The maneuver, dubbed "Lights Out", is to start on Wednesday and will last several days, the reports added. The drill, orchestrated by National Cyber Command (NCC), aims "to test readiness and contingencies vis-à-vis a wide-spread, multisource cyber terror attack on Israel's vital infrastructure systems," according to Israeli website ynetnews.
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