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Date: Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 8:51 AM
Subject: [bangla-vision] Dozens from U.S. on list of targets as terrorists - W.House adviser 26 Jun 2010
To: lori@legitgov.org
Dozens from U.S. on list of targets as terrorists - W.House national security adviser 24 Jun 2010 Dozens of Americans have joined terrorist groups and are posing a threat to the United States and its interests abroad, the president's most senior adviser on counterterrorism and homeland security said Thursday. "There are, in my mind, dozens of U.S. persons who are in different parts of the world, and they are very concerning to us," said John O. Brennan, deputy White House national security adviser for homeland security and counterterrorism. In a wide-ranging interview with The Washington Times, Mr. Brennan said he would not talk about lists of targeted American terrorists. However, U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies have been tracking down U.S. nationals and U.S. passport holders who pose security threats, he said.
FBI/DHS Attempt to Seize Colorado Indymedia Server and Silence Our Users By Ringo 24 Jun 2010 On Jun 17, Colorado Indymedia was contacted by Special Agent Adam Kowalski of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)/Department of Homeland Security (DHS). As part of an "ongoing investigation" by Federal Protective Services, they attempted to seize the Colorado Indymedia server, believing that we kept logs (such as IP address access logs) that could identity users on our site... We told the FBI that "Colorado Indymedia does not retain this [identifying] information because we strongly believe in the First Amendment right to free, anonymous speech." [I'm glad Colo. Indymedia (essentially) told the DHS to go f*ck themselves. They spend so much time on the CLG site, they should pay a portion of our webhosting bill. --LRP]
Obama Internet 'kill switch' plan approved by US Senate committee --President could get power to turn off Internet 25 Jun 10 A US Senate committee has approved a wide-ranging cybersecurity bill that some critics have suggested would give the US president the authority to shut down parts of the Internet during a cyberattack [or during the next US false flag]. The committee unanimously approved an amended version of the legislation by voice vote Thursday, a committee spokeswoman said. The bill next moves to the Senate floor for a vote, which has not yet been scheduled.
Riot police turn back largest G20 protest yet 26 Jun 2010 Police temporarily shut the gates to the G20 security perimeter early Friday evening, as they attempted to head off the largest in a string of demonstrations to protest the international meeting. Anti-poverty demonstrators had attempted to march south towards the security zone where the G20 summit will take place. But they were turned back when police with shields blockaded University Avenue.
G20 demonstrations turn violent 26 Jun 2010 Demonstrations have turned violent at the G20 summit in Toronto, where world leaders are convening to discuss ways to end the global financial crisis. A number of demonstrators clashed with police while chanting 'resist, resist, raise up your fists.' At least eight protesters have been arrested on the streets of Toronto, and city residents have been advised not to venture into the downtown area. [Well, unless they want to join the protesters.]
Ontario premier refuses to discuss new police powers 26 Jun 2010 Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty refused to comment Saturday on a controversial amendment to the Public Works Protection Act, which gives police new powers to question and search people who get close to the G20 security perimeter. The new regulation temporarily alters the Act to designate the entire security perimeter surrounding the Metro Toronto Convention Centre as a "public works" site during the summit. Under the extension, police are allowed to ask anyone within five metres of the perimeter to identify him- or herself or be searched.
Dalton McGuinty, Bill Blair defend quiet boost in arrest powers --'Police state regulations' decried 26 Jun 2010 Premier Dalton McGuinty denies it was an abuse of power for his government to secretly approve sweeping new powers for police. "I just think it's in keeping with the values and standards of Ontarians," McGuinty told the Toronto Star on Friday amid a battery of complaints from opposition parties, city councillors, civil libertarians and regular Torontonians that the new rules were kept secret and, some say, may go too far. The rules allow police to arrest and potentially jail anyone refusing to produce identification or be searched within 5 metres of the G20 security zone.
Police given greater arrest powers near G20 security zone --Province quietly passed regulation that gives police the right to search and arrest anyone who refuses to self-identify near zone 25 Jun 2010 The government of Ontario quietly designated the entire G20 security zone as a "public work" nearly a month ago under a little-used act that vastly expands police arrest powers. The move means anyone entering, or even approaching, a designated area can be searched without a warrant. All the streets inside the security fence in Toronto, where the summit is being hosted, have been temporarily designated under the Public Works Protection Act.
Police can use sound cannons, but with limits: judge --Court rules officers can use devices' voice function during G20 but not ear-piercing alert 25 Jun 2010 Toronto Police can use sound cannons during the G20 summit with restrictions, a judge ruled Friday. The decision by Ontario Superior Court Justice David Brown means officers can use the voice function of Long-Range Acoustical Devices, but not the ear-piercing alert function. Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair said police will abide by the ruling.
Man with astonishing array of weapons including crossbow and chainsaw is arrested near G20 summit in Toronto 25 Jun 2010 This is the chilling array of weapons that were found in a car just a block from where David Cameron is meeting with world leaders including Barack Obama at tomorrow's G20 summit in Toronto. The car was loaded down with dangerous tools ranging from a chainsaw, crossbow, baseball bat, petrol containers, a sledgehammer and a hatchet. Its owner, a 53-year-old man, was arrested last night. Police said he had 'no reasonable explanation for the weapons that we observed were in physical plain view'.
Parents of NJ man accused of trying to join terrorists argue he was steered by FBI 25 Jun 2010 The parents of a New Jersey man accused of trying to join a terrorist group say they believe the FBI fueled the behavior that led to his arrest. Mahmood and Nadia Alessa told The Record newspaper their 20-year-old son, Mohamed, had been monitored by the FBI since age 16 and was encouraged by an undercover agent to act like a terrorist.
To Solve Cyber Crimes, DARPA Wants a "Cyber Genome Program" By Clay Dillow 26 Jun 2010 ...[T]here are the buckets of data that intelligence agencies pull from captured laptops and hard drives in terror sweeps; we have the files, but it can be difficult to figure out who's aiding America's enemies or what they are up to. Enter DARPA's Cyber Genome Program, aimed at creating a paternity test for digital artifacts... Of course, there's the dark side to all this. If this kind of digital "genome" is developed, it means the government can trace any document you create straight back to your PC – and you.
Mission accomplished! Iraq seeking investors for 4 new oil refineries 26 Jun 2010 Iraq is seeking investors to help build four oil refineries at an estimated cost of $23 billion that would more than double the country's current refining capacity, the country's top oil official said Saturday. Iraq's oil minister said partners who will build and run the refineries will have 5 percent discount for buying crude -- a recent concession to attract investors. The projects will also be exempt from state taxes and the government will not interfere in pricing the oil products once the plants are operational, Hussain al-Shahristani told a gathering of local and international oil executives in Baghdad on Saturday.
Iraq's Ancient Ruins Face New Looting 26 Jun 2010 The looting of Iraq's ancient ruins is thriving again. This time it is not a result of the "stuff happens" chaos that followed the American invasion in 2003, but rather the bureaucratic indifference of Iraq's newly sovereign government US-installed oil puppets. Thousands of archaeological sites -- containing some of the oldest treasures of civilization -- have been left unprotected, allowing what officials of Iraq's antiquities board say is a resumption of brazenly illegal excavations, especially here in southern Iraq.
Corporaterrorist trolls ensure endless bl*wjobs for Blackwater in *five-year* illegal occupation of Afghanistan to seize country's minerals, control opium and gas pipelines: G8 sketch a five-year exit strategy on Afghanistan 26 Jun 2010 The G8 leaders [sociopaths] said it was important to accelerate efforts to make sure the Afghanistan's own security forces can "assume increasing responsibility within five years." The joint G8 statement said that a conference in Kabul in July would be an important setting for assessing progress in implementing commitments made in January to train more than 100,000 additional security forces by the end of next year.
US drone kills two in NW Pakistan 26 Jun 2010 A US drone attack has killed two militants and injured two others in Pakistan's northwest tribal belt, on the border with Afghanistan, security officials say. The drone reportedly targeted on Saturday a house near Miranshah, the main town in the North Waziristan tribal region. "It was a US drone strike. The drone fired one missile on a house and the house was completely destroyed," an intelligence official in Miranshah told AFP.
In Pakistan, serial blasts rock Lahore 26 Jun 2010 A series of consecutive bomb explosions have rocked the politically important Pakistani city of Lahore amid rising militancy in the country. According to police, the bombs went off near a business district in Lahore on Saturday. The blasts, which took place in crowded areas, were described as low intensity.
Blackwater is a busy little bee! Police find 11 beheaded bodies in Afghan south 25 Jun 2010 The bodies of 11 men, their heads cut off and placed next to them, have been found in a violent southern province of Afghanistan, a senior police official said on Friday. A police patrol discovered the bodies on Thursday in the Khas Uruzgan district of Uruzgan province, north of the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar, said police official Mohammad Gulab Wardak.
NATO says three foreign soldiers killed in Afghanistan 26 Jun 2010 Three foreign soldiers were killed in Taliban-style bomb attacks in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, NATO said. The deaths push the number of foreign troops killed so far this month to 87, by far the deadliest monthly toll since the war began in late 2001. NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) did not give the nationalities of the dead, following its usual policy.
Bomb blast kills US-led soldier 26 Jun 2010 A bomb attack has killed a US-led soldier in southern Afghanistan, pushing the toll among foreign troops so far this month to 85. June was the deadliest month for the US-led forces in Afghanistan since the war began in 2001 in the country. The soldier died following an improvised explosive device (IED) attack in the south, an ISAF statement said.
In Afghanistan, 3 more US-led troops die 25 Jun 2010 Three more US-led soldiers have been killed in separate incidents in Afghanistan as the death toll for foreign forces in the volatile country continue to set new records. The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said one of the soldiers was killed in a militant attack in eastern Afghanistan on Friday. Another died in an explosion in the south of the country on Thursday.
'Obama fired McChrystal to rid 2012 rival' 25 Jun 2010 Rush transcript of Press TV's interview with former US Senator and presidential candidate Mike Gravel on the controversy surrounding the commander of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanly McChrystal. Press TV: How damaging has this whole episode been for the US-led mission in Afghanistan? Gravel: I do not think [it has been] damaging at all. You have to keep in mind that the strategy for Afghanistan was developed by General [David] Petraeus, who was the commander of McChrystal. Now, McChrystal was merely the thug, I use the word 'thug' advisably because the reputation with McChrystal is of course the secret special ops, which were a lot of assassination teams. So, McChrystal was merely the henchman that was bringing about the strategy. But, there is an unusual benefit that occurs politically that I don't think is appreciated by anybody on the scene. That is that Petraeus was looked upon as a possible presidential candidate on the Republican side, opposing [US President Barack] Obama when he runs for re-election. Now, Petraeus was distanced from Afghanistan, and so, very cleverly, President Obama has demoted Petraeus and put him in charge of Afghanistan. So, if a failure takes place as I presume it will by 2012, the failure will be owned as much by Petraeus negating his ability to be a viable presidential candidate and will benefit Obama.
Report: Israel seizes oxygen machines donated to PA 26 Jun 2010 Israel confiscated seven oxygen machines en route to hospitals in the West Bank and Gaza based on the claim that there was a chance the generators attached to the machines would not be used for medical purposes [?!?], Palestinian news agency Ma'an reported Saturday. According to Ma'an, the Ramallah-based health ministry said that the generators, which were donated to the Palestinian Authority by a Norwegian development agency, were seized by Israeli officials despite the fact that only one machine was bound for Gaza.
Jindal vetoes bill to open oil spill records 25 Jun 2010 Gov. Bobby Jindal [R-Dirtbag] rejected a bill Friday that would have required him to make public and to preserve all his office's documents involving the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. "This governor has opposed transparency for the three years he's been in office, so that's not a surprise. What is sad about all this is it's just another black eye on Louisiana internationally now," said Sen. Robert Adley, R-Benton. Adley slipped the language requiring the governor's oil spill records to be open for public viewing and preserved for at least 10 years into a measure by Rep. Gary Smith, D-Norco. Smith accepted the addition to his bill, and both the House and Senate voted overwhelmingly for passage of the public records requirement.
Hurricane season triggers planning to evacuate oil spill site 27 Jun 2010 Meteorologists say Tropical Storm Alex, which is brewing in the western Caribbean, is not on pace to hit the oil well, but it has prompted the team overseeing the spill site to heighten emergency planning. If a storm with gale-force winds comes within five days of reaching the gushing oil well, crews would begin packing up to return to shore, said Coast Guard Adm. [BP troll] Thad W. Allen, who is overseeing the crisis for the government. A full evacuation could stop containment activities for two weeks.
Gale force winds could leave Gulf oil gushing for 2 weeks 25 Jun 2010 Gale force winds days away from the Gulf of Mexico spill site could force at-sea workers to abandon their oil-collection efforts for two weeks, the head of the national response effort said Friday. That timetable would conservatively unleash another half-million barrels of oil back in the sea -- twice the Exxon Valdez spill. Using upper-end federal estimates of the leak, 840,000 barrels would gush out. That's 35 million gallons.
Gulf oil disaster: Pensacola Beach By the St. Petersburg Times staff 24 Jun 2010 The tide came in Tuesday night, under a moon almost full, and when the sun came up and the water retreated there it was: a broken band of oil about 5 feet wide and 8 miles long. It looked like tobacco spit and smelled foreign, and it pooled in yesterday's footprints as far as you could see. State officials called it the worst show of crude on shore from the gusher 120 miles away. (22 Photos)
Burned Alive - Help Stop BP from Torching Endangered Sea Turtles (Center for Biological Diversity) 25 Jun 2010 Endangered sea turtles are being burned alive as part of BP's careless oil spill cleanup efforts. This is unacceptable. These rare, important turtles are becoming trapped in the oily surface of the Gulf and then torched by cleanup crews in "controlled burns" of corralled oil -- any wildlife caught inside the corral are literally burned alive. Take action below right now and send this to your friends. Tell BP to stop torching endangered sea turtles.
Dick Cheney Hospitalized in Washington 25 Jun 2010 Former Vice President [sic] Dick Cheney was admitted to the hospital Friday after experiencing discomfort. Cheney, 69, was not feeling well on Friday and went to see his doctors at George Washington University. On their advice, he was admitted to the hospital for further testing. Cheney was expected to remain at George Washington University Hospital over the weekend, said spokesman Peter Long.
Bank stocks soar on financial regulation agreement 25 Jun 2010 Bank stocks shot higher Friday after an agreement on a financial regulation bill reassured investors that new rules won't devastate financial companies' profits. Banks outdistanced the rest of the market after congressional negotiators agreed on a bill that increases the regulation of financial companies, but that doesn't include some of the harshest provisions that the government originally proposed.
Banks 'Dodged a Bullet' as Congress Dilutes Rules 25 Jun 2010 Legislation to overhaul financial regulation will help curb risk-taking and boost capital buffers. What it won't do is fundamentally reshape Wall Street's biggest banks or prevent another crisis, analysts said. A deal reached by members of a House and Senate conference early this morning diluted provisions from the tougher Senate bill, limiting rather than prohibiting the ability of federally insured banks to trade derivatives and invest in hedge funds or private equity funds.
Mega barf alert! Genetically Altered Salmon Get Closer to the Table 26 Jun 2010 The Food and Drug Administration is seriously considering whether to approve the first genetically engineered animal that people would [wisely refuse to] eat — salmon that can grow at twice the normal rate. Some consumer and environmental groups are likely to raise objections to approval. Even within the F.D.A., there has been a debate about whether the salmon should be labeled as genetically engineered -- genetically engineered crops are not labeled.
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