ShareThis2 US-led soldiers killed in Afghan war 07 Feb 2011 A powerful roadside bomb explosion has killed two US-led foreign soldier and an Afghan interpreter in troubled southern Afghanistan. The attack took place on Monday at the customs office in Kandahar Province. Another foreign soldier was wounded in the attack. The Taliban have claimed responsibility for the bombing. A spokesman for the militants has claimed that 13 foreign troops died in the attack.
ShareThisFalse flag alert: FCC: Presidential emergency alerts to be tested --Presidential Alerts issued by the president or by FEMA; Imminent Threat Alerts to be included in text messages or via wireless alert 07 Feb 2011 The FCC is planning an upgrade to national Emergency Alert System (EAS) tests by including presidential announcements in the system. Lisa Fowlkes, deputy chief of the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau of the FCC, said that the FCC is also looking at how wireless broadband could also enhance the EAS. Fowlkes said the CMAS is slated to begin deployment in April 2012.
ShareThisEgyptians stage anti-US rallies 07 Feb 2011 Thousands of Egyptian protesters in central Cairo have directed their anger at the United States as they hold Washington responsible for Hosni Mubarak's grip on power. The Monday evening protests are the latest in a series of multi-million-strong demonstrations against the Egyptian president which have been taking place over the past two weeks, a Press TV correspondent reported. Many slogans in Cairo's Liberation Square are directed at the US, Israel and France.
ShareThisNewark, NJ, airport loses power for 90 minutes 07 Feb 2011 A 90-minute power outage at Newark Liberty International Airport messed with airlines' schedules Monday afternoon and also affected 20,000 customers in neighboring towns. Residual delays were expected as a result of the outage, said Ron Marsico, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates the airport. Flights were allowed to land during the outage, but security checkpoints had to close and the monorail that moves among all three terminals also had been affected, Marsico said.
ShareThisGOP Would Chop FDA, USDA Food Safety Budgets 07 Feb 2011 Key House Republicans released a proposal late last week to cut $58 billion from the federal budget for the second half of Fiscal Year 2011. Food safety programs at both the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Agriculture could face steep cuts. Under the plan, the committee that oversees both FDA and USDA budgets is asked to cut spending by 14 percent, compared with fiscal year 2010, which comes out to $3.2 billion. The proposal applies only to non-security discretionary spending--the Defense Department, Homeland Security, and Veterans Affairs are excluded. [Of course!]
ShareThisAnonymous hackers attack US security firm HBGary 07 Feb 2011 Online activist group Anonymous has targeted an American security firm that claimed to know the identities of its leaders. The secretive organisation is being investigated in several countries over strikes on Visa, PayPal and others. Over the weekend Aaron Barr, head of HBGary Federal, said he had discovered the names of its most senior figures. The group retaliated overnight by breaking into the company's website and hijacking his Twitter account. [Awesome!]
ShareThisWikiLeaks' Assange Faces Secret Swedish Rape Trial 07 Feb 2011 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange may be unfairly tried in secret in Sweden if extradited from Britain to face questioning over sexual-assault allegations, his lawyer told a U.K. judge. Assange’s right to "open justice" will be breached if he is subjected to a closed trial in Sweden -- typical for rape cases in the country -- his lawyer, Geoffrey Robertson, told a judge in London today. He said there had been a "media campaign" against Assange in Sweden.
ShareThisPakistanis angered by US efforts to have 'diplomat' released 07 Feb 2011 A protest rally has taken place in the Pakistan city of Lahore against US citizen [Blackwater mercenary] Raymond Davis. Hundreds of Pakistanis have held a demonstration against the man they believe was responsible for the deaths of Pakistanis in a shooting incident last month. Pakistani lawyers, rights groups and political activists rallied in front of the US consulate in Lahore.
ShareThisDPS building in Phoenix evacuated after bomb threat 06 Feb 2011 Arizona Department of Public safety officials evacuated their headquarters Sunday night after a bomb threat, authorities said. A Phoenix police spokesman, Sgt. Steve Martos, said an individual called 911 from a cellphone in the area of 21st Avenue and Thomas Road and referenced a "bomb" and a police "building."
ShareThis'US sends warships, troops to Egypt' 07 Feb 2011 The US is sending warships, including one with 800 troops, and other military assets to Egypt as the revolution in the North African country gains momentum. Officials in Washington have stated that the move is to be prepared in case of an evacuation of Americans from Egypt. The Pentagon has dismissed widespread assumptions that military intervention in Cairo is being contemplated, asserting that the objective of the deployment is mainly for the evacuation of US citizens in case the situation in Egypt further deteriorates.
ShareThisBush fears arrest, scraps Swiss visit --Court officials: Criminal complaints against Bush lodged in Geneva 07 Feb 2011 Former US President [sic] George W Bush has reportedly cancelled a visit to Switzerland amid concerns that he could be arrested for allegedly authorising the torture of prisoners. The former US president was due to make the keynote speech at Keren Hayesod's annual dinner in the city of Geneva on February 12. Human rights groups in the country have been calling for the Swiss government to arrest Bush over allegations he had ordered the torture of suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay.
ShareThisMission accomplished! Iraq poised to sign $12b gas deal with Shell 07 Feb 2011 Baghdad could sign a long-awaited US$12 billion (Dh44.07b) joint venture contract with Royal Dutch Shell this month to capture and market gas from Iraq's southern oilfields. The Anglo-Dutch company is awaiting approval to harvest about 700 million cubic feet a day of gas that is currently being burnt at the cluster of supergiant oilfields near Basra.
ShareThisHomeland Dept. to Super Bowl attendees: See Something Say Something 05 Feb 2011 Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano is asking Super Bowl fans in Dallas and around the country to assist in the effort to make Super Bowl Sunday safe. Secretary Napolitano launched the campaign called "If You See Something, Say Something" earlier this week when she personally inspected the security measures taken at Cowboys Stadium. The campaign is in partnership with the National Football League.
ShareThisOfficials: Super Bowl 'a desirable target' for terrorists --Assessment highlights several 'scenarios of concern'; George W. Bush will attend 04 Feb 2011 A team of U.S. counterterrorism and law enforcement officials recently prepared a nine-page "threat assessment" for Sunday's Super Bowl. Their conclusion: There are "no credible terrorist threats" to this year’s game. But its high profile "could make it a desirable target." And there remain several "scenarios of concern" due in part to al-Qaida's recent history of attacks on major overseas sporting events, to a copy of the assessment obtained by NBC News.
ShareThis35 zoo animals freeze to death in northern Mexico --Temperatures dropped to 9 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 13 Celsius) in area 05 Feb 2011 Thirty-five animals at a zoo in the northern Mexico state of Chihuahua have frozen to death during the region's coldest weather in six decades. Serengeti Zoo owner Alberto Hernandez says 14 parrots, 13 serpents, five iguanas, two crocodiles and a capuchin monkey died. He said Saturday that power failures cut off electrical heating at the zoo in the town of Aldama.
ShareThisObama Administration Distances Self From Own Envoy to Mubarak 05 Feb 2011 The Obama administration on Saturday distanced itself from comments about Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak made by a man the president had used as an envoy to Mubarak just days before. Saying he was speaking for himself, former U.S. Ambassador to Egypt Frank Wisner said at a security conference in Munich, Germany, that "President Mubarak remains utterly critical in the days ahead as we sort our way toward the future." Wisner said that Mubarak "must stay in office in order to steer those changes through. ...This is an ideal moment for him to show the way forward."
ShareThisUS Ambassador to Egypt: Mubarak needs to remain in power for 'transition' --Mubarak must stay during 'transition': US envoy 06 Feb 2011 Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak, an "old friend" of the United States, should stay in office during a democratic transition, US President Barack Obama’s special envoy Frank Wisner said on Saturday. "The president must stay in office in order to steer those changes through," Wisner, who met Mubarak this week, said, "President Mubarak’s continued leadership is critical".
ShareThisAfghan hired guns bill tops $41M --Warlord paid $2.5M since 2008 to guard base: documents 06 Feb 2011 Canada spent more than $41 million on hired guns in Afghanistan over four years, much of it going to security companies slammed by the U.S. Senate for having warlords on the payroll. The Defence and Foreign Affairs departments have employed 11 security contractors in Kabul and Kandahar since 2006, but have kept quiet about the details.
ShareThisBush Son Had Dinner Plans With Hinckley Brother Before Shooting --Scott Hinckley, brother of John W. Hinckley Jr., who allegedly shot Reagan, was to have dined tonight in Denver at the home of Neil Bush, one of the vice president's sons. (The Associated Press) 31 Mar 1981 The family of the man charged with trying to assassinate President Reagan is acquainted with the family of Vice President George Bush and had made large contributions to his political campaign, the Houston Post reported today. The newspaper said in a copyright story, Scott Hinckley, brother of John W. Hinckley Jr., who allegedly shot Reagan, was to have dined tonight in Denver at the home of Neil Bush, one of the vice president's sons. The newspaper said it was unable to reach Scott Hinckley, vice president of his father's Denver-based firm, Vanderbilt Energy Corp., for comment. Neil Bush lives in Denver, where he works for Standard Oil Co. of Indiana. In 1978, Neil served as campaign manager for his brother, George W. Bush, the vice president's oldest son, who made an unsuccessful bid for Congress.
ShareThisSick of the triple-cable-network, wall-to-wall coverage of the 'Centennial Celebration' of senile sociopath Ronald Reagan? Here is an overview of this over-rated dirt-bag's war on the poor and his crimes against humanity. --LRP
The massive (but under-reported) Reagan Administration corruption By Ray Dubuque 2008 Ronald Reagan's Criminal Administration: "By the end of his term, 138 Reagan administration officials had been convicted, had been indicted, or had been the subject of official investigations for official misconduct and/or criminal violations. In terms of number of officials involved, the record of his administration was the worst ever." ('Sleep-Walking Through History: America in the Reagan Years,' by Haynes Johnson, 1991. [Well, George W. Bush hadn't been installed in the 2000 coup, when Johnson penned his comments.] ...Despite their many public lies about the matter, it was eventually proven that the Sales of weapons to Iran, followed by illegal financial support of the Central American Contras were carried out with the knowledge of, among others, President Ronald Reagan, Vice President George Bush [See: Bush Son Had Dinner Plans With Hinckley Brother Before Shooting], Secretary of State George P. Shultz, Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger, Director of Central Intelligence William J. Casey, and national security advisers Robert C. McFarlane and John M. Poindexter... Large volumes of highly relevant, contemporaneously created documents were systematically and willfully withheld from investigators by several Reagan Administration officials in an attempt to cover up the administration's extensive corruption.
ShareThisTwo U.S. citizens deny spy charges in Iranian court --Tehran prosecutor says they were U.S. spies --Defendant Shourd, back in U.S., is no-show in court 06 Feb 2011 Two U.S. citizens held in Iran for the last 18 months on suspicion of espionage pleaded not guilty in court on Sunday on the first day of their closed-door trial, state television reported. Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal were arrested on July 31, 2009 near Iran's border with Iraq, along with a third American, Sarah Shourd, who was released on $500,000 bail in September and returned home.
ShareThisMubarak paid thugs to buy support 06 Feb 2011 Reports have suggested that the Hosni Mubarak regime's operatives paid thousands of Egyptian pounds to thugs to buy their loyalty and have them attack protesters. A video posted on Press TV's UReport section, shows one Egyptian recounting how the interior ministry paid thousands of Egyptian pounds to several prisoners and thugs in return for their pledge of allegiance. Several citizens from Cairo and other major cities have contacted regional media outlets to tell their personal stories.
ShareThisEgypt denies vice president targeted in shooting 06 Feb 2011 Egypt's government is denying that the newly named vice president was targeted in an assassination attempt. A government statement says a stray bullet from an exchange of fire between "criminal elements" struck the lead car in Vice President [CIA torture point-man] Omar Suleiman's motorcade as it moved through an area of disturbances on Jan. 28. The statement said Saturday that the vice president was not injured. It said there was no evidence he was intentionally targeted and referred to the shooting as a random incident.
ShareThisWikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in British court to fight extradition 06 Feb 2011 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange appears in a British court on Monday to fight his extradition to Sweden, with leaked details shedding new light on the rape and molestation accusations he faces. The two-day hearing at a high security London court will examine a Swedish arrest warrant for the 39-year-old Australian, who won worldwide notoriety for his website's release of thousands of secret US diplomatic cables. The judge is expected to defer his decision in the case at Belmarsh Magistrates' Court in south London.
ShareThisUnsubs sticking together: Cheney calls Mubarak a good friend, U.S. ally 06 Feb 2011 Former Vice President [sic] Dick Cheney said Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is a good friend and U.S. ally, but declined to predict whether the embattled leader would heed protesters' calls to step down. Cheney made the comments Saturday night at a ceremony honoring former President [senile sociopath] Ronald Reagan in Santa Barbara, California. Protesters have pledged to stay on the streets of Egyptian cities until Hosni Mubarak relinquishes power.
ShareThisMubarak's wealth could reach 70bn 06 Feb 2011 Embattled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak could have amassed huge sums of money as much as 70 billion dollars during the decades that he has been a top official. According to analyses by Middle East experts, Mubarak has taken much of the gains overseas and deposited much of his wealth in secret bank accounts in British and Swiss banks, The Guardian reported on Friday. Observers say the Mubaraks have also invested in real estate in London, New York, Los Angeles and along expensive tracts of the Red Sea coast. [People should start seizing these properties.]
ShareThisUS-led forces kill 4 Afghan civilians 06 Feb 2011 US-led forces have killed four civilians, including a woman, in northern Afghanistan when they bombed their house in the war-ravaged country, a top government official says. According to the source, the US-led NATO forces carried out the attacks against the Afghan civilians in Badghis province on Saturday, leaving the civilians dead, a Press TV correspondent reported.
ShareThisBusiness executives killed in Iraq plane crash 05 Feb 2011 The chief executive of private equity group MerchantBridge and two JPMorgan executives were among seven people killed when a small plane crashed in northern Iraq, officials said on Saturday. The plane went down shortly after takeoff on Friday from an airport at Sulaimaniya in Iraq's semi-autonomous northern Kurdish region... JPMorgan executive Murad Megalli "had been with J.P. Morgan for more than a decade and successfully led our businesses in Turkey, Central Asia and the Middle East, North Africa (MENA) region," JPMorgan Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon and two other executives said in an email to employees.
ShareThisBush visit to Switzerland cancelled over security fears 06 Feb 2011 A visit to Switzerland by the former US president [sic] George W Bush planned for this week has been cancelled due to security concerns after left-wing groups called for mass protests and rights activists proposed legal action against him for allegedly ordering the torture of terrorism suspects. Mr Bush's spokesman, David Sherzer, said the former president was informed by the United Israel Appeal that his speech on Saturday in Geneva had been called off.
ShareThisWikiLeaks's alleged source Bradley Manning held in 'punitive' conditions --Bradley Manning's lawyer has lodged a complaint that depicts his treatment as abuse and demands that his status is downgraded 05 Feb 2011 Bradley Manning, the US soldier suspected of being behind the largest leak of state secrets in history, has entered his ninth month in military detention and continues to be held in maximum security conditions that critics claim are in violation of his human rights... Manning also remains on what is known as "prevention of injury" or POI watch which means guards check him every five minutes and wake him at night if he is not fully visible.
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