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WikiLeaks
Click here for Wikileaks NewManning
Hearing
Moves Into 'Secret' Sessions
Investigators
claim that they found mentions of Julian Assange’s name of
Manning’s personal computer, as well as a mention to the
nation of Iceland, both of which seemed “out of place” and
they say proves that he was the source of the massive dump
of classified documents to WikiLeaks.
Wikileaks cable raises controversy among prominent
Egypt political The leaks have raised controversy and
ire in Egypt, especially among those figures whose names
were mentioned in the leaked cables, and highlighted by the
al-Wafd news website. The cables, signed by the former US
Ambassador to Cairo during ousted President Hosni Mubarak`s
era, Margaret Scobey, said that the figures attended
frequent meetings with the ambassador. The controversy was
increased after al-Wafd highlighted the cable in a report
referencing the America In Arabic news agency, which stated
the cable mentioned that the Embassy funded these activists.
Palm Beach Sugar Barons Accused in WikiLeaks
Cables Palm Beach sugar barons
Pepe and
Alfy Fanjul, who
lavish both the Republican and Democratic parties with
millions in contributions, were accused of trying
to sabotage U.S. foreign policy and corrupting foreign
politicians in diplomatic cables published by
WikiLeaks.
WikiLeaks Backers Lose Bid to Keep Twitter Data
From US
Tribunal recommends court martial for Bradley Manning A
U.S. military tribunal is recommending a court martial for
Army Private Bradley Manning for allegedly funneling
thousands of classified U.S. documents to WikiLeaks, the US
Army said Thursday.
Hackers intercept FBI, Scotland Yard call They trade
jokes, chuckle and talk shop about a hacker plot called
"Project Mayhem.
#Anonymous hack the #Greek Justice Ministry's website
"What is going on in your country is
unacceptable. You were chosen by your people to act on
behalf of them and express their wishes. But you have
derogatorily failed. You have killed the most sacred element
your country had, and that is democracy."
Group
Hacks, Defaces Boston Police Department Website...
Goes
After Marine In Iraq Case
Security Issues
FDA doctors, scientists claim illegal surveillance The
FDA secretly monitored the private emails of staff doctors
and scientists who alleged the agency was approving medical
devices that posed a danger to patients.
U.S. no-fly list more than doubles in a year A secret
U.S. government list of suspected terrorists has more than
doubled in the past year, according to government figures
provided to The Associate Press.
More US Soldiers Committed Suicide Than Died in Combat
0001.pdf
List of Websites the DHS Is Monitoring
Major Antivirus Company Admits To Hacker Breach
US to cut almost 100,000 troops The US will cut 100,000
troops from its armed forces, the Pentagon says, as it
unveils plans to save $487bn over the next decade.
US Military Manipulates the Social Media The US military
is developing software that will allow it to secretly
manipulate social media sites by using fake online personas
to influence internet conversations and spread pro-American
propaganda
Stratfor Hacked, 200GB Of Emails, Credit Cards Stolen,
Client List Released, Includes MF Global This Christmas
will not be a happy one for George Friedman (who
incidentally was the focus of John Mauldin's latest book
promotion email blast) and his Stratfor Global Intelligence
service, because as of a few hours ago, hacking collective
Anonymous disclosed that not only has it hacked the Stratfor
website (since confirmed by Friedman himself), but has also
obtained the full client list of over 4000 individuals and
corporations, including their credit cards (which supposedly
have been used to make $1 million in "donations",
CIA's IG finds no problem with NYPD partnership
The CIA says its inspector
general has found nothing wrong with the spy agency's
close partnership with the New York Police Department.
The inspector general concluded that no laws were broken
and there was no evidence the CIA was conducting
domestic spying.
Oil Spill
BP gets $250 million from Gulf of Mexico subcontractor
BP ordered to share spill damages BP must cover
some but not all of oil rig owner Transocean's
liabilities for the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of
Mexico, a US judge rules.
Whistleblower: BP Sought to Alter Cleanup Data
Environment
Like Fracking? You'll Love 'Super Fracking'
Northeast Ohio rocked by 11th earthquake linked to
Youngstown injection The quake was the 11th over
the last eight months in Mahoning County, all within two
miles of the injection wells, he said. Saturday’s quake
was the largest yet. There is “little doubt” that the
quake is linked to injection wells that the state and
the owner agreed on Friday to shut down, Hansen said.
How an Ex-Wall-Street Power Player Embraced the Occupy
Movement
Warren Langley ran the Pacific Exchange through 1999. On
Friday, he'll be marching on the banks.
In last 2 weeks, 98 dolphins beach themselves on Cape
Cod; 77 die
Police/Prison
Brutal Crimes Grip an Indian Reservation A two-year
federal crime-fighting initiative at the Wind River
Indian Reservation, where the crime rate is five to
seven times the national average, has had little effec
Oakland Police Fire Tear Gas, Arrest Nearly 400
Protesters In Turbulent Day That
break-in culminated a day of clashes between protesters
and police. Interim Police Chief Howard Jordan said
nearly 400 people were arrested on charges ranging from
failure to disperse and vandalism. At least three
officers and one protester were injured.
Occupy protest seizes UC Davis building, blocks bank
CIA collaboration with New York Police Department was
never legally approved
Cop filmed beating senior suffering from dementia
Megaupload shutdown sparks new fears about Web content
sharing FBI’s action raises a bevy of questions
about who oversees copyright on the Web and how far the
government can go.
CIA To Pull Officer From NYPD After Internal Probe
Brutal police raid brings Occupy Albany to an end
Man Dressed In Santa Suit Shoots 6 Relatives And
Himself, Police Say
9 shot at Tenn. nightclub Christmas party
Police arrest 4 protesters, clear Occupy camp in
Bellingham, W
Four Firebombs Target Muslims in Queens
Video released Monday shows a person throwing a
Molotov cocktail toward a residence in New York City
that also serves as a Hindu temple in one of three such
attacks reported by police in the city. The other two
targets on Sunday night were an Islamic center and a
bodega, all of them in the Queens borough of the city,
authorities said Monday.
4
charged after 2 U.S. flags burned at Occupy Charlotte
site
Feds to probe why Ted Stevens witness Bill Allen wasn't
tried in teen sex case The Justice Department has
agreed to investigate whether there was misconduct
involved in federal prosecutors’ decision to stonewall
the teen sex crime case against disgraced former Veco
Corp. chairman Bill Allen. The Justice Department’s
Office of Professional Responsibility wrote Alaska Sen.
Lisa Murkowski telling her it will launch a “preliminary
inquiry into the misconduct allegations you have
raised.” Murkowski, who released a copy of the letter on
Friday, wrote the Office of Professional Responsibility
and the Justice Department’s inspector general in
November asking for the investigation.
NYPD Admits Using Anti-Muslim Film for Training
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Iran Sentences American To Death For Spying A former
U.S. Marine interpreter arrested while on a trip to visit
his Iranian grandmothers has been sentenced to death as a
CIA spy, state radio reported Monday, in a case likely to
become a new flashpoint in the escalating tensions between
Tehran's defiance over its nuclear program and Washington's
efforts to impose more crippling sanctions.
American Rights At Work Releases Holiday Gift Guide Labor
organization American Rights at Work released its
holiday gift buying guide this week, spotlighting gifts
and holiday supplies from union companies who manufacture
products made in America. A printable version of the guide
can be found
online.
Church Bans Gay Clergy Leaders From Speaking At Holiday
Services
Cancer charity halts grants to Planned Parenthood
Greed
Jeb Bush Lobbied On Behalf Of Infamous Medicare Swindler,
Says Former HHS Secretary
Einhorn fined for insider dealing Hedge fund manager who
rose to prominence in credit crunch penalised for 'market
abuse' relating to pub group shares
Bank Of America’s Offer To Homeowners: We’ll Modify Loans If
You’ll Erase All The Mean Things Said About Us On Twitter
Media
Verizon’s Cable Spectrum Mashup: Evil Genius?
A pessimistic view is that the deals could lead to
consumers’ getting stuck five or 10 years out with slower
broadband than the rest of the world and no competitive
impetus to move the U.S. forward. On the wireless side, the
purchases of spectrum potentially eliminate the threat or
the existence of a new player that could lower prices and
keep Verizon and AT&T “honest.” That’s why Congress, the
FCC, and perhaps the Justice Dept. should ask a lot of
questions about these deals and the attendant marketing
agreements between the cable companies and Verizon.
Five More Arrested in News Corp Phone Hacking Scandal
CNN Under Fire After Uncut Version Of Ron Paul Interview
Surfaces
After OWS, U.S. Drops in Press Freedom RankingsThe U.S.
tumbled 27 places in the latest edition of the annual Press
Freedom Index, thanks in large part to the rough treatment
of journalists covering the Occupy Wall Street protests that
took place around the country this past year.
Right-wing media critic: Obama is like ‘a skinny, ghetto
crackhead’
Fox News Gives Free Airtime For Employee Karl Rove’s
Partisan Attack Ads One of Rove’s most powerful
employers, Fox News, rewarded their employee’s partisan
attack group with a lot of free airtime. The ad was featured
on Fox’s Sean Hannity show, on Fox’s “The Five,” and during
Fox’s daytime hours. On Hannity, Crossroad’s communications
director Jonathan Collegio was invited to talk about the ad.
Rove himself appeared as a guest on another show to tout his
own ad.
Drug War
Do Harsh Pot
Laws Create
a Dangerous
Drinking
Culture? 5
Reasons to
Get Stoned
Instead of
Drunk
Former State
Lawmaker
Charged In
Massive Drug
Ring Bust
Cocaine
seizure at
UN head
office
New
A bag
containing
16kg
(35.5lb) of
cocaine was
seized last
week at the
United
Nations
headquarters
in New York,
say police.
U.S.
Secretly
Helped Drug
Traffickers
Smuggle
Millions In
Cash
American
drug
enforcement
agents
posing as
money
launderers
secretly
helped a
powerful
Mexican drug
trafficker
and his
principal
Colombian
cocaine
supplier
move
millions in
drug
proceeds
around the
world, as
part of an
effort to
infiltrate
and
dismantle
the criminal
organizations
wreaking
havoc south
of the
border,
according to
newly
obtained
Mexican
government
documents.
U.S.
Secretly
Helped Drug
Traffickers
Smuggle
Millions In
Cash
Drugs cause
90% of fatal
poisonings
Ninety
percent of
poisoning
deaths in
the United
States are
due to
drugs, the
federal
government
reported
Tuesday.
Drug
poisoning
deaths now
outnumber
traffic
deaths as
the leading
cause of
injury death
in the
country.
Selling the
Drug War for
$3 Billion?
How the
Pentagon
Will
Privatize an
International
War on Drugs
Ron Paul
Right On
Drug War's
Origins
Before the
20th Century
there was
none of that
and it was
the medical
profession
as well as
many other
trade groups
that
agitated for
the laws.
And you know
there’s a
pretty good
case made
that this
same concept
was built in
with racism
as well. We
do know that
opium was
used by the
Chinese and
the Chinese
were not
welcomed in
this
country,”
Paul said.
“We do know
that the
blacks at
times use
heroin,
opium and
the laws
have been
used against
them. There
have been
times that
it has been
recognized
that the
Latin
Americans
use
marijuana
and the laws
have been
written
against
them. But lo
and behold
the drug
that
inebriates
most of the
members of
Congress has
not been
touched
because
they're up
there
drinking
alcohol.”
(In the same
speech, Paul
delves into
drug
trafficking
and the CIA,
which I’ll
cover in a
follow-up
article.)
Education
Failure Rate
of Schools
Overstated,
Study Says
Opting Out
of Sex Ed …
and Algebra
In New
Hampshire,
students can
avoid
lessons a
parent
dislikes.
Room for
Debate asks
if it
benefits
students, or
society.
Virginia
Opts To Keep
Shorter
School Year
So Kids Have
More Time To
Ride Roller
Coasters
Yesterday,
the Virginia
Senate
Education
and Health
Committee
put the
interests
of the
tourism
industry
ahead of the
needs of
students by
voting
to kill
three bills
that would
allow school
boards to
set their
own
calendar.
The bills
would have
overturned
the so
called Kings
Dominion
Law, named
for
the
amusement
park in
Doswell,
Virginia.
The law
currently
prohibits
schools from
starting
before Labor
Day, in an
effort to
boost late
season
tourism
revenue:
Charter
Schools Shut
Down For
Poor
Academic
Performance
Civil Rights
AT&T, Sprint
Say
Customers
Agreed
To Creepy
Tracking
Software
Feds:
Sheriff Joe
often
targets
Latinos
Sheriff Joe
Arpaio of
Arizona has
long engaged
in the
“unconstitutional
policing” of
Latino
communities,
the
Department
of Justice
alleged
Thursday.
U.S. asks
journals to
censor
reports
about how to
make a
deadlier
‘bird flu’
The request
is a first
for a
federal
panel set up
after the
anthrax
attacks in
2001.
Courts
U.S.
Justice
Department
indicts
Swiss
bank
Wegelin
The
United
States
indicted
Wegelin,
the
oldest
Swiss
private
bank, on
charges
that it
enabled
wealthy
Americans
to evade
taxes on
at least
$1.2
billion
hidden
in
offshore
bank
accounts,
the U.S.
Justice
Department
said on
Thursday.
Convicted
for words,
not deeds
Verdict on
Massachusetts
Muslim marks
further
erosion of
fundamental
U.S. rights
Justices Say
GPS Tracker
Violated
Privacy
Rights
The Supreme
Court
unanimously
ruled that
putting a
tracking
device on a
suspect’s
car violated
his rights,
although
they
differed on
why
U.S. appeals
ruling
against
dolphin-safe
tuna labels
The United
States on
Friday
appealed a
World Trade
Organization
decision
that accuses
Washington
of imposing
overly
stringent
rules on
dolphin-safe
tuna from
Mexico.
Ex-CIA Agent
Charged With
Leaking
Classified
Information
To
Journalists
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