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Kashmir’s Epic Floods: Anger Mounts As Hundreds Of Thousands Still Stranded
By Countercurrents

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc130914.htm

Authorities in Pakistan and India are struggling to cope with raging monsoon floods which have killed more than 460 people, displaced nearly a million people, and still threaten many more


Indian Army In Kashmir Floods: Demystifying The Truth
By Iqbal Sonaullah

http://www.countercurrents.org/sonaullah130914.htm

When people of Srinagar rejected any help from Indian army and stopped their choppers—a part of propagandist-rescue-operation—from landing, the rhetorical embellishment about Army’s role instantly perished. This is the truth about Kashmir: even in the state of absolute crisis India’s manipulating assistance is unwelcome


How The Monsoon Has Changed
By Sunita Narain

http://www.countercurrents.org/narain130914.htm

On the one hand, we are mismanaging our water resources, intensifying floods and droughts. On the other hand, climate change is beginning to make the country even more vulnerable, because of the increased frequency of extreme weather events


“ISIS –An American-CIA-Mossad-Saudi Intel Covert Operation”
By Feroze Mithiborwala

http://www.countercurrents.org/mithiborwala130914.htm

In terms of the rise of the ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq & Syria) the question that we must ask ourselves is that, is it possible for a terrorist organization to grow as powerful as on view, without the backing of certain nations & intelligence agencies? This is precisely what we will seek to achieve


Islamic State And The American Way Of War: The New Enemy Creation Process
By Steve Breyman

http://www.countercurrents.org/breyman130914.htm

Propagating an endless steam of new enemies transforms war into a permanent enterprise that generates trillions in debt, billions in profits, and millions of security clearances. New bureaucracies are built. Old ones are strengthened and expanded. Militarization transforms formerly civilian police forces and once quiet international borders


Say ‘No’ To War And Media Propaganda
By Mairead Maguire

http://www.countercurrents.org/maguire130914.htm

While the United States, United Kingdom and NATO are pushing for war with Russia, it behoves people and their governments around the world to take a clear stand for peace and against violence and war, no matter where it comes from.We are at a dangerous point in our history of the human family and it would be the greatest of tragedies for ourselves and our children if we simply allowed the war profiteers to take us into a third world war, resulting in the death of untold millions of people


Obama Iraq War And Obama Syrian War Will Both Involve US Alliance In 12 Types Of War Crimes
By Dr Gideon Polya

http://www.countercurrents.org/polya130914.htm

President Barack Obama has announced the Obama Iraq War, the Obama Syrian War and indeed an explicitly adumbrated Obama War on Indigenous Muslim rebels “wherever they are”. These Obama wars will involve commission of war crimes in 12 technical areas by US state terrorism and US Alliance state terrorism


Obama Takes Hypocrisy To New High Levels
By Alan Hart

http://www.countercurrents.org/hart130914.htm

So in my view THE question is this. Is there anything that could be done to change the dynamics of the conflict in and over Palestine that became Israel in order to improve the prospects for America taking the lead in calling Israel to account for its defiance of international law and crimes?


ISIS And Israel Allies Against A Palestinian State
By Jonathan Cook

http://www.countercurrents.org/cook130914A.htm

The recent New York Times advertisement and Netanyahu’s depiction of Hamas and ISIS, or Islamic State, as “branches of the same poisonous tree” is a travesty of the truth


Losing The Plot: Israel's Premier To Face New Gaza Reality
By Ramzy Baroud

http://www.countercurrents.org/baroud130914.htm

Netanyahu’s war-turned-genocide in Gaza has backfired badly - his strategy has helped resurrect Hamas, the very movement he tried desperately to crush


Let Us See Through Our Victims’ Eyes
By William A. Cook

http://www.countercurrents.org/cook130914.htm

By acting against the Constitution the President, in like manner, acts contrary to the will and the dictates of the people, and consequently must and should be brought to trial. Indeed, as Robertson points out “The charges against Milosevic at the Hague convey the same idea—the responsibility of the commander for all the natural and probable consequences of his command.” What alternative does the American citizen have then to take back their rights through the International Courts by bringing their own leaders before the law as Cooke did the King in 1649


32 Years After The Sabra-Shatila Massacre: Tension Mounts In Lebanon’s Teeming Camps….
By Franklin Lamb

http://www.countercurrents.org/lamb130914.htm

They are beginning to arrive at Shatila Palestinian camp in Beirut this weekend. “They” being people of good will from around the world, many of whom annually visit Martyr’s Square in Shatila as well as some of Lebanon’s 11 other Palestinian Refugee Camps. It is the 32nd anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacre, and commemorative events are scheduled all next week


Warning To War Supporters
By David Swanson

http://www.countercurrents.org/swanson130914.htm

I know you mean well. I know you think you've found a bargain that nobody else noticed hidden in a back corner of the used car lot. Let me warn you: it's a clunker. Here, I'll list the defects. You can have your own mechanic check them out


Bangladesh On A Slippery Slope
By Fazal M. Kamal

http://www.countercurrents.org/kamal130914.htm

While the world is watching with intense trepidation developments in what are known as hotspots around the globe---i.e. Iraq, Syria, Ukraine, Palestine-Israel---a major catastrophic setting is being created in a country that, unfortunately, is more often in the news for all the wrong reasons. Especially after the non-election earlier this year the ruling party in Bangladesh has evidently embarked on an obviously well-thought-out project of enacting laws that will build a state structure which will gift the administration the full freedom to ensure that its decisions cannot be questioned on any ground, thereby assuring itself of comprehensive control over all the tentacles of the state


Scottish Independence Conference In london: When Getting Booed
By The Neo-Colonial Left Is Not A Bad Thing, But A Good Thing
By Sukant Chandan

http://www.countercurrents.org/chandan130914.htm

Neo-colonial contradictions amongst the Scottish Independence socialists, neo-colonial contradictions of the british and western white left


US - UK Genocide Against Iraq 1990-2012 Killed 3.3 Million ,
Including 750,000 Children Says Prof. Francis Boyle
By Sherwood Ross

http://www.countercurrents.org/ross130914.htm

Approximately 3.3 million Iraqis, including 750,000 children, were “exterminated” by economic sanctions and/or illegal wars conducted by the U.S. and Great Britain between 1990 and 2012, an eminent international legal authority says


Ecological Disaster At Polavaram
By Vidya Bhushan Rawat

http://www.countercurrents.org/rawat130914.htm

There are no clear estimates available at the moment but the number of people going to be drowned or displaced by dam under construction across the Godavari River would be nearly half a million if some activists are to be believed. The submergence area is not just in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana but also Odisha and Chhattishgarh but according to government’s own assessment it will be catastrophic


1120th Day Of Struggle Against Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant
By The Women of Idinthakarai

http://www.countercurrents.org/wi130914.htm

We invite you to visit us and be with us. We request you to share our dreams and fears. We still do not get adequate safe drinking water, we still do not have good transportation facilities, a suitable hospital or a good road- nothing has changed for us, except that fear has increased. If establishing fear and anxiety in the minds of common people like us is the talisman of development, then that alone has been achieved ever since KKNPP became “operational”


Hand over data for surveillance or face fine $250,000 a day: US threatened Yahoo
By Countercurrents.org

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc130914A.htm

Citing court documents news media including AFP, The Washington Post and BBC said in reports: US authorities threatened to fine Yahoo $250,000 a day if it failed to comply with a secret surveillance program requiring it to hand over user data in the name of national security


Knowing Is One Thing; Doing Is Another Matter...
By Chandi Sinnathurai

http://www.countercurrents.org/sinnathurai130914.htm

The world stood and watched simply mouthing platitudes. Even today, nothing is done to the Tamils – the plight of the poor has worsened in spite of the economic upturn in Sri Lanka

RSN: Soon, Europe Might Not Need Any New Power Plants, 8 Budget Cuts BofA's $12B Tax Dodge Could Restore

The U.S. should be leading the world in Alternative Energy Solutions....instead, the Regressive Party supported by DIRTY ENERGY, the Tea Party Funding Koch Brothers, ALEC et al....are preventing leadership....

The U.S. is one of the greatest contributors of Energy Consumption, Carbon Production, Global Warming.

Why are we sacrificing U.S. Leadership?

Charlie Baker opposed Cape Wind.....until he stuck his finger in the WIND....and saw which way the WIND of Public Opinion was blowing....

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The Massachusetts Primary is September 9th! Your choices matter for our future and that of your children.

Soon, Europe Might Not Need Any New Power Plants
Jeff Spross, ThinkProgress
Spross writes: "Within a few decades, large-scale, centralized electricity generation from fossil fuels could be a thing of the past in Europe."
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Carl Gibson | 8 Budget Cuts BofA's $12B Tax Dodge Could Restore

Carl Gibson, Reader Supported News
Gibson writes: "The U.S. government patted itself on the back when Bank of America was ordered to pay a recent $17 billion 'historic' settlement. BofA knew the mortgages it packaged and sold to investors were bogus, and the bank agreed to pay the fine in exchange for not having its criminal executives locked up."
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US Launches Reconnaissance Flights Over Syria
Lolita C. Baldor and Julie Pace, Associated Press
Excerpt: "The U.S. has begun surveillance flights over Syria after President Barack Obama gave the OK, U.S. officials said, a move that could pave the way for airstrikes against Islamic State militant targets there."
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Ukraine Detains Russian Paratroopers
Shaun Walker, Guardian UK
Walker writes: "Sources in Moscow have admitted that men captured inside Ukraine are indeed serving Russian soldiers, but said they crossed the border by mistake."
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Michael Brown Remembered With Calls for Peace
Edward McAllister, Reuters
McAllister writes: "Family and supporters of Michael Brown celebrated the life of the black teenager slain by a white officer in Ferguson, Missouri, in a music-filled funeral service on Monday ringing with calls for peace and police reforms."
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Israel and Hamas Appear to Have Run Out of Ideas, but Not Bombs
William Booth and Ruth Eglash, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "After 49 days of war, the armies of Israel and Hamas appear to have run out of new ideas - but not bombs. They are now slugging it out in a lopsided war of attrition."
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Soon, Europe Might Not Need Any New Power Plants
Jeff Spross, ThinkProgress
Spross writes: "Within a few decades, large-scale, centralized electricity generation from fossil fuels could be a thing of the past in Europe."
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RSN: The Nightmare in Gaza

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FOCUS: Noam Chomsky | The Nightmare in Gaza

Noam Chomsky, AlterNet
Chomsky writes: "In January 2006, Palestinians committed a major crime: They voted the wrong way in a carefully monitored free election, handing control of Parliament to Hamas."
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Juan Cole | Gaza and Soweto

Juan Cole, Informed Comment
Cole writes: "Gaza is very much like a Bantustan of Israel, surrounded by it and kept weak and disrupted. But in this way the nearly 2 million Palestinians displaced there from their original homes in what is now southern Israel can be denied citizenship in Israel."
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CIA Admits to Spying on Senate Staffers
Spencer Ackerman, Guardian UK
Ackerman reports: "The director of the Central Intelligence Agency, John Brennan, issued an extraordinary apology to leaders of the US Senate intelligence committee on Thursday, conceding that the agency employees spied on committee staff."
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Dennis J. Kucinich | We Can Negotiate Peace in Gaza: Here's How
Dennis J. Kucinich, Reader Supported News
Kucinich writes: "As someone who through 16 years in the House served with most current members of Congress, I urge you to help end the grave humanitarian crisis of death and destruction."
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Netanyahu Wants Hamas to Stay
Eli Lake and Josh Rogin, The Daily Beast
Lake and Rogin write: "Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said his military will not stop until it dismantles a labyrinth of tunnels often burrowed under private homes and even beneath Gaza's mosques. But Netanyahu has not called for destroying the organization that built those tunnels."
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Ginsburg on Hobby Lobby: Male Justices Don't Get It
Katie Couric News Video
Excerpt: "Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg tells Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric that she believes the male Supreme Court justices who voted against her in the Hobby Lobby case have a 'blind spot' when it comes to women."
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Colorado's Now Averaging 2 Oil and Gas Spills Per Day
Lindsay Abrams, Salon
Abrams reports: "As oil and gas operations ramp up in Colorado, spills, too, are having their heyday. In the year 2014, according to a Denver Post analysis, they're occurring at a rate of two per day."
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Whole Foods Repackages for the Poor
Mark Guarino, Al Jazeera America
Guarino reports: "In the past three years, Whole Foods has opened stores in Boston's Jamaica Plain, Detroit's Midtown and New Orleans' Mid-City neighborhoods, repurposing its model of organic and locally sourced food for gentrifying areas with high crime, vacant storefronts and crumbling infrastructure."
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RSN: US spends more on nuclear weapons than on education, health, transportation, and disaster relief combined....

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Robert Parry | Blaming Russia as 'Flat Fact'

Robert Parry, Consortium News
Parry writes: "As nuclear-armed America hurtles into a completely avoidable crash with nuclear-armed Russia over Ukraine, you can now see the dangers of 'information warfare' when facts give way to propaganda and the press fails to act as an impartial arbiter."
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Sister Megan Rice | Open Letter From the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center
Sister Megan Rice, Reader Supported News
Rice writes: "Our 'crime' was to draw attention to the criminality of the 70-year-old nuclear industry itself and to the unconscionable fact that the United States spends more on nuclear weapons than on education, health, transportation, and disaster relief combined."
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Hamas Rejects Palestinian Call for Cease-Fire in Gaza
Josh Levs, Ashley Fantz, Jethro Mullen and Karl Penhaul, CNN
Excerpt: "Regarding the possibility of a cease-fire, a spokesman for the Israeli Prime Minister said Tuesday that the 'ball is in Hamas' court.'"
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Detroit's Water Department Now Back in the Hands of the People
Corey Williams, Associated Press
Williams writes: "State-appointed emergency manager Kevyn Orr issued an order Tuesday that gives Mayor Mike Duggan control over Detroit's water department. The move comes as the bankrupt city's massive water system was widely criticized for shutting off service to thousands of customers who were 60 days or more behind on their bills."
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Report: Delay Climate Change Action 10 Years, Costs Skyrocket by 40 Percent
Maya Rhodan, TIME
Rhodan writes: "A new report estimates the cost of mitigating the effects of climate change could rise by as much as 40% if action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is delayed 10 years - immediately outweighing any potential savings of a delay."
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Hospital Quarantined as Ebola Spreads to Nigeria's Largest City
Dan Kedmey, TIME
Kedmey writes: "Nigeria has evacuated and quarantined a hospital in the city of Lagos after a patient died from Ebola, the first reported case to reach one of Africa's most densely-populated countries."
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New NYPD Chokehold Incident Reignites Fears
Tina Moore, New York Daily News
Moore writes: "Police are investigating whether a cop put a seven-months-pregnant woman in a chokehold while busting her for illegal grilling in Brooklyn - an incident caught on film."
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RSN: How British Spies Seek to Control the Internet, The GOP Self-Destruction Is Complete: Millennials Officially Hate Conservatives

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Glenn Greenwald | How British Spies Seek to Control the Internet

Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept
Greenwald writes: "The secretive British spy agency GCHQ has developed covert tools to seed the internet with false information, including the ability to manipulate the results of online polls, artificially inflate pageview counts on web sites, 'amplif[y]' sanctioned messages on YouTube, and censor video content judged to be 'extremist.'"
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Israel Accepts Egypt's Cease-Fire Plan, but Hamas Vows to Keep Fighting
Stephanie Burnett, TIME
Burnett writes: "Despite previously acknowledging some 'diplomatic movement,' Hamas rejected Egypt's cease-fire plan for the latest Israeli-Palestinian conflict on Tuesday - just moments after Israel accepted the proposal."
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The GOP Self-Destruction Is Complete: Millennials Officially Hate Conservatives
Ana Marie Cox, Guardian UK
Cox writes: "Conservatives are stuck in a perpetual outrage loop. The reappearance of Todd Akin, the horror-movie villain immortality of Sarah Palin, the unseemly celebration of the Hobby Lobby decision - these all speak to a chorus of 'la-la-la-can't-hear-you' loud enough to drown out the voice of an entire generation."
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US Approves Limited Flights for F-35 Fighters
Andrea Shalal, Reuters
Shalal writes: "The F-35, the world's most expensive weapons project with a price tag of about $400 billion, has been grounded since the massive failure of the Pratt & Whitney (UTX.N) engine on a U.S. Air Force F-35 plane at a Florida air base on June 23."
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Is Pope Francis Going to Let Priests Get Married?
Jack Jenkins, ThinkProgress
Jenkins writes: "Pope Francis hinted this past weekend that he is working on a solution to priestly celibacy, a move that could signal a possible shift in opinions - if not religious law - around the Catholic church's practice of barring clergy from marrying."
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Storage of Radioactive Spent Fuel Rods Still Haunts Nuclear Industry
Paul Brown, Climate News Network
Brown writes: "Long-term employment is hard to find these days, but one career that can be guaranteed to last a lifetime is dealing with nuclear waste. The problem and how to solve it is becoming critical."
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RSN: Why We Need a Carbon Tax, Ted Cruz Launches Senate Fight to Auction Off America's Public Lands

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Bernie Sanders | Why We Need a Carbon Tax

Sen. Bernie Sanders, Reader Supported News
Sanders writes: "The scientific community is clear: Global warming is real and it is caused by human activity."
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Obama to Israel, Hamas: Cool It Down
Mark Felsenthal, Reuters
Felsenthal reports: "President Barack Obama expressed concern to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday about the risk of an escalation of hostilities in the region and said the United States was ready to help bring them to an end, the White House."
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NSA Chief Knew of Snowden File Destruction by Guardian in UK
James Ball, Guardian UK
Ball writes: "General Keith Alexander, the then director of the NSA, was briefed that the Guardian was prepared to make a largely symbolic act of destroying documents from Edward Snowden last July."
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Judge Rules Florida Congressional Map Unconstitutional
Sean Sullivan, The Washington Post
Sullivan reports: "A judge struck down Florida's congressional map Thursday, ruling the Republican-drawn lines violate an amendment to the state constitution designed to curb gerrymandering."
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The CIA in Germany: A Secret History
Matthew Aid, The Daily Beast
Aid writes: "You do not have to look very hard to find in the historical record information revealing that the CIA has been spying inside Germany for more than sixty years."
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Ted Cruz Launches Senate Fight to Auction Off America's Public Lands
Claire Moser, ThinkProgress
Moser reports: "After a busy few months trying to impeach Attorney General Eric Holder, increase carbon pollution, and wipe out limits on campaign contributions, Tea Party favorite Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is now working to sell off America's national forests, parks, and other public lands."
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CLG: NZ Govt opens Maui's dolphin area for oil drilling, Ben & Jerry's Renames Iconic Flavor to Support Vermont's GMO Labeling Food Fight Fund, et al

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Previous edition: Obama tells Congress U.S. deploying up to 275 troops to Iraq (Google subscribers: Google Filter Instructions for CLG Newsletter.)

Obama to Congress: I don't need new permission on Iraq 18 Jun 2014 I'll let you know what's going on, but I don't need new congressional authority to act, President Barack Obama told congressional leaders Wednesday about his upcoming decision on possible military intervention in Iraq. While the White House statement emphasized Obama would continue to consult with Congress, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said the President "basically just briefed us on the situation in Iraq and indicated he didn't feel he had any need for authority from us for the steps that he might take." House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California agreed with McConnell's assessment, adding she believed congressional authorization for military force in Iraq back in 2001 and 2003 still applied.

ISIS militants 'with US passports' --'The seeds of 9/11s are being planted all over Iraq and Syria' 16 Jun 2014 There is something particularly concerning about the "masked, sociopathic murderers" who fight for the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), writes former state department official Andrew G Doran for the National Review. Some of them, he says, are Western citizens who have travelled to Syria to fight President Bashar Assad's government - and have passports or other immigration paperwork that would allow them to return to their home countries whenever they want. In fact, he says, citing the Daily Beast, perhaps a dozen are already in the US.

Cameron says Isis planning attacks in UK 18 Jun 2014 David Cameron tells MPs it is wrong to think that violence in Iraq is "nothing to do with us" because Islamist militants are "planning to attack us here at home in the United Kingdom". Referring to a series of attacks by the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (Isis), the prime minister said the group hoped to establish "some sort of extreme Islamist regime in the middle of Iraq", which would affect Britain.

Social media mass surveillance is permitted by law, says top UK official 17 Jun 2014 The true extent of the government's interception of Google, Fb and Twitter - including private messages between British citizens - has been officially confirmed for the first time. The government's most senior security official, Charles Farr, detailed how searches on Google, Fb, Twitter and YouTube, as well as emails to or from non-British citizens abroad, can be monitored by the security services because they are deemed to be "external communications". It is the first time that the government has admitted that UK citizens, talking via supposedly private channels in social media such as Twitter direct messages, are deemed by the British government to be legitimate legal targets that do not require a warrant before intercepting.

British Spy Agencies Assert Power to Intercept Web Traffic 17 Jun 2014 In a broad legal rationale for collecting information from Internet use by its citizens, the British government has asserted the right to intercept communications that go through services like Fb, Google and Twitter that are based in the United States or other foreign nations, even if they are between people in Britain. The British position is described in a report released Tuesday by Privacy International and other advocacy groups. The report, confirming a summary seen Monday by The New York Times, says the findings are based on a government document that the groups obtained through a lawsuit. The government document, released with the report, says contact between people in Britain through social networks based elsewhere, or use of search engines located outside Britain, constitutes "external communication," and as such, is subject to interception, even when no wrongdoing is suspected.

UN: 356 killed, including 257 civilians, in E. Ukraine military campaign 18 Jun 2014 At least 356 people, including 257 civilians, have died since the beginning of the "anti-terrorist" operation in Ukraine's eastern regions of Lugansk and Donetsk, according to UN calculations. There were 14 children among the dead. The results prepared by the UN special commission in Ukraine have been presented by Gianni Magazzeni, head of European Department of the Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights.

2 Russian journalists killed in Ukraine military shelling 18 Jun 2014 Kiev's army shelling near Lugansk, eastern Ukraine, took the lives of two Russian journalists - Igor Kornelyuk and Anton Voloshin, who were filming refugees leaving the scene when a shell hit amidst their small group. The two journalists working for Rossiya TV died from their wounds, with reporter Igor Kornelyuk passing away on the operating table. Later in the day, the death of Anton Voloshin, a sound engineer, was also confirmed by the channel.

Psaki defends Ukraine FM over 'Putin f**ker' remark, confuses Iraq and Iran 16 Jun 2014 Long-suffering State Dept. spokesperson Jen Psaki endured another torrid press briefing as she was forced to defend some distinctly unsavory remarks by Ukrainian politicians and struggled with the differences between Iraq and Iran, as well as oil and gas. [LOL!] As usual, AP's Matt Lee served as Psaki's chief tormentor, bringing up last week's protests outside the Russian embassy in Kiev, in which Ukraine's acting Foreign Minister Andrey Deshchitsa addressed the anti-Russian mob by telling them that "Putin is a f**ker."

$40-billion missile defense system proves unreliable --The system's performance has gotten worse, not better, since testing began in 1999. --Lawmakers have protected flawed missile defense system's funding and want to spend billions more to expand it. 15 Jun 2014 The Ground-based Midcourse Defense system, or GMD, was supposed to protect Americans against a chilling new threat from "rogue states..." But a decade after it was declared operational, and after 40 billion in spending, the missile shield cannot be relied on, even in carefully scripted tests that are much less challenging than an actual attack would be, a Los Angeles Times investigation has found. The Missile Defense Agency has conducted 16 tests of the system's ability to intercept a mock enemy warhead. It has failed in eight of them, government records show.

Air Force prepares to dismantle HAARP ahead of summer shutdown 14 May 2014 The U.S. Air Force gave official notice to Congress Wednesday that it intends to dismantle the 300 million High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program in Gakona this summer. The shutdown of HAARP...will start after a final research experiment takes place in mid-June, the Air Force said in a letter to Congress Tuesday. Responding to questions from Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R) during a Senate hearing Wednesday, David Walker, deputy assistant secretary of the Air Force for science, technology and engineering, said this is "not an area that we have any need for in the future" and it would not be a good use of Air Force research funds to keep HAARP going. "We're moving on to other ways of managing the ionosphere, which the HAARP was really designed to do," he said. "To inject energy into the ionosphere to be able to actually control it. But that work has been completed." Comments of that sort have given rise to endless conspiracy theories, portraying HAARP as a superweapon capable of mind control or weather control, with enough juice to trigger hurricanes, tornadoes and earthquakes. [It is.]

'We'll turn membership of Hamas into a ticket to Hell': Palestinians' homes trashed as Israeli troops make 40 new arrests in hunt for three 'kidnapped' Jewish teenagers --Hamas denies accusations that it is behind the kidnapping of three youths 17 Jun 2014 Palestinians were today picking up the pieces of their trashed homes after Israeli troops swept through the West Bank in the hunt for three missing Jewish teenagers. Soldiers charged into homes in cities and refugee camps across the eastern Palestinian territory, turning over furniture and taking away 41 suspected Hamas members. To the east, in Gaza, homes and workplaces were shattered by a fourth straight night of Israeli air force bombardment after militants fired rockets into Israeli territory.

Benghazi suspect Ahmed Abu Khattala may be brought to U.S. on Navy ship --The administration has said only that he will appear before the U.S. District Court in Washington "in the coming days." 18 Jun 2014 Captured Libyan terrorism suspect Ahmed Abu Khattala may be brought to the United States aboard the Navy ship where he is being held, U.S. officials said, a prospect that would probably extend the amount of time he can be interrogated by the FBI without being brought before a court. Although the federal court where he is to be tried has not yet spoken on the issue, it could object to the relatively slow mode of transport, officials said. Abu Khattala is aboard the amphibious transport ship USS New York in the Mediterranean Sea.

Benghazi Consulate Attack Suspect Captured in Libya, U.S. Official Says 17 Jun 2014 American special forces seized the suspected mastermind of the deadly Benghazi consulate attack in a weekend raid in Libya, a U.S. administration official said Tuesday. Ahmed Abu Khattala has been wanted in the assault that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans since shortly after the Sept. 11, 2012, attack. His capture marks the first apprehension of one of the alleged perpetrators in the attack.

MH370: searchers not looking in the best place, satellite experts say --Scientists from British company Inmarsat tell BBC that Australian vessel was distracted by bogus signals 16 Jun 2014 The search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is yet to target the most likely crash site, having been distracted by what is now believed to have been a bogus signal, satellite experts have claimed. Scientists from Inmarsat, the British company that has been helping the search effort, told the BBC's Horizon programme there was a "hotspot" in the southern Indian Ocean in which it most likely came down. [Try Diego Garcia.]

Fukushima operator struggles to build ice wall to contain radioactive water --Tepco says it is behind schedule with scheme because temperature of pipes sunk into ground is not low enough 17 Jun 2014 The operator of Japan's battered Fukushima nuclear power plant has said it is having trouble with the early stages of an ice wall being built under broken reactors to 'contain' radioactive water. Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) has begun digging the trenches for a huge network of pipes under the plant through which it intends to pass refrigerant. This will freeze the soil and form a physical barrier that is intended to prevent clean groundwater flowing down mountainsides from mixing with contaminated radioactive water underneath the leaking reactors.

FDA OKs US cell-based flu vaccine facility as govt prepares for pandemic --The facility had already received a separate 'pandemic ready' certification. 16 Jun 2014 The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first US facility that can make cell-culture influenza vaccines, a Novartis plant in Holly Springs, N.C., that has been part of federal government efforts to prepare for a their pandemic and to sidestep some limits of egg-based flu vaccine technology. Novartis said in a press release today that the approval clears the way for commercial production to begin at the site and for Flucelvax, its seasonal flu vaccine, to be made in the United States for the first time. The vaccine, approved in November 2012, was the first cell-based flu vaccine to receive FDA clearance. Flucelvax, an inactivated trivalent vaccine approved for use in adults, contains flu viruses grown in mammalian cell cultures. [Now that hundreds of millions of dollars have been invested on these deadly vaccines, do you actually think the(ir) pandemic isn't far behind?]

NZ Govt opens Maui's dolphin area for oil drilling 17 Jun 2014 The Government has opened up more than 3000 square kilometres of a marine mammal sanctuary for oil and gas drilling, home to the critically endangered Maui's dolphin. It comes less than a week after the International Whaling Commission urged our Government to do more to save the species. The Maui's dolphin is the world's rarest. It is estimated there are only 55 left.

Ben & Jerry's Renames Iconic Flavor to Support Vermont's GMO Labeling Food Fight Fund 16 Jun 2014 It's food fight time. In response to the lawsuit filed against Vermont's first in the nation GMO labeling law, Ben & Jerry's unveiled Food Fight Fudge Brownie, an honorary renaming of one of its most iconic flavors, Chocolate Fudge Brownie, to support Vermont's legal defense. Vermont's Governor Peter Shumlin, business leaders, members of the Vermont Right to Know Coalition, and passers by watched as the company's co-founder Jerry Greenfield unveiled a giant pint of the new flavor, Food Fight Fudge Brownie.

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