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UK: Home Secretary abandons compulsory ID cards
British nationals will not be forced to carry identity cards after Alan Johnson, the Home Secretary, scrapped plans to make the controversial £4.9 billion scheme compulsory.
In a significant climb down, Mr Johnson yesterday announced that the cards would only be issued to Britons on a voluntary basis.
The move raises the prospect of the scheme being [...]
Key leaders of Honduras military coup trained in U.S.
Leftist President Manuel Zelaya was kidnapped and transported to Costa Rica on Sunday morning after a growing controversy over a vote concerning term limits. Over the last week, Zelaya clashed with and eventually dismissed General Romeo Vasquez — who is now reportedly in charge of the armed forces that abducted the Honduran president.
According to the [...]
Obama says coup in Honduras is illegal
Headline according to Drudge is: “OBAMA LASHES OUT AT HONDURAS; SIDES WITH CHAVEZ, CASTRO.” The question is, will Obama still side with Venezuela and Equador when it comes to threatening military action in Honduras?
U.S. President Barack Obama said on Monday the coup that ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was illegal and would set a "terrible [...]
Read More >>A year ago today…
…President George W. Bush signed legislation to pay for the war operations in Iraq and Afghanistan for the rest of his presidency and beyond, hailing the $162 billion plan as a rare product of bipartisan cooperation.
Also, the United States announced that it was charging Saudi Arabian Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri with “organizing and directing” the [...]
Historic moment in Iraq marked with street festival
So we went there looking for WMD’s. Really? Well what about this little tidbit? Confidential memo reveals US plan to provoke an invasion of Iraq
“The memo, written on 31 January 2003, almost two months before the invasion and seen by the Observer, confirms that as the two men became increasingly aware UN inspectors would [...]
US Special Forces briefing to Congressman Miller exposes involvement in 19 Latin American countries during 2009 including Honduras
This confidential US Special Forces (7th, US Southern Command), briefing dated 17 May 2009 was created for Florida Congressman Miller. Although unclassified, it specifies a For Official Use Only (FOUO) distribution restriction.
On page 7 of the document, it is proudly proclaimed that the 7h Special Forces Group has conducted missions in every Latin American [...]
Russian troops mass in war games near Georgia
Russia on Monday started its biggest military exercises in the Caucasus since its war with neighbouring Georgia last year, mobilising thousands of troops in a clear warning to its foes.
Georgia swiftly condemned as "dangerous" the week-long exercises, which are taking place just north of where Russia and Georgia fought over the pro-Moscow breakaway Georgian region [...]
Hugo Chavez threatens military action in Honduras
Chavez said Honduran soldiers took away the Cuban ambassador and left the Venezuelan ambassador on the side of a road after beating him during the army’s coup against his leftist ally, Manuel Zelaya, the Honduran President.
The Honduran army ousted Zelaya and exiled him in Central America’s first military coup since the Cold War, after he [...]
Confidential memo reveals US plan to provoke an invasion of Iraq
A confidential record of a meeting between President Bush and Tony Blair before the invasion of Iraq, outlining their intention to go to war without a second United Nations resolution, will be an explosive issue for the official inquiry into the UK’s role in toppling Saddam Hussein.
The memo, written on 31 January 2003, almost two [...]
U.S. Air Force Test Fires Missile From California Base
The Air Force successfully launched an unarmed Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missile Monday from the California coast to an area in the Pacific Ocean some 4,200 miles away.
The ICBM was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base near Santa Barbara at 3:01 a.m. and carried three unarmed re-entry vehicles to their targets near the Kwajalein Atoll [...]
Iran frees five from UK embassy
Five out of nine local staff from the UK embassy detained in Tehran have been released, Iranian officials say.
Iran’s media earlier said local employees at the UK mission were held over their role in protests against June’s disputed presidential election.
UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband has dismissed the allegations as baseless.
Separately, Iran’s top legislative [...]
Google mistook MJ searches for net attack
Web giant Google has admitted it thought the sudden spike in searches for Michael Jackson on Thursday was a massive, coordinated internet attack, leading it to post an error page on Google News.
In a blog posting, the firm’s director of product management, RJ Pittman, explained that search volume began to increase around 2pm PDT on [...]
India Undertakes Ambitious ID Card Plan
One of India’s most successful technology entrepreneurs was tapped by the government on Thursday to lead an ambitious project to give every citizen an identification card within three years.
The entrepreneur, Nandan M. Nilekani, a founder and former chief executive of Infosys Technologies, will leave his post as a co-chairman of the board to take on [...]
Read More >>Spies In the Classroom: The Government Is Running a Secretive Intelligence Recruitment Program in Schools
As the continuities and disjunctures between the Bush and Obama administrations come into focus it becomes increasingly clear that while Obama’s domestic agenda has some identifiable breaks with Bush’s, at its core, the new administration remains committed to staying the course of American militarization. Now we have an articulate, nuanced president who supports elements of [...]
Read More >>Honduran President Zelaya Is Arrested by Troops
Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was seized by soldiers and flown to Costa Rica after he tried unsuccessfully to fire the head of the central American nation’s armed forces.
“The only reason that I wasn’t assassinated was that the soldiers are from the people,” Zelaya said in comments on regional broadcaster Telesur from San Jose, the [...]
Britain blasts arrest of embassy staffers in Iran
The arrest of local staff members at the British Embassy in Iran is "harassment and intimidation of a kind which is quite unacceptable," British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said Sunday.
"About nine" staffers have been affected, he said, adding that some had already been released.
"We have protested in strong terms directly to the Iranian authorities about [...]
Homeland Security, Pentagon Clash on Military’s Role at Mexico Border
A proposal to send National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to counter drug trafficking has triggered a bureaucratic standoff between the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security over the military’s role in domestic affairs, according to officials in both departments.
The debate has engaged a pair of powerful personalities, Homeland Security Secretary Janet [...]
Thought Crime Bills Threaten Talk Radio
HR 1966 has cleared the House and now faces the Senate as S.909, the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act (officially, the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act). The bill is expected to sail through the Senate as it did in the House. It will provide federal assistance to the states, local jurisdictions, and [...]
Read More >>Taliban defectors: US, Israel funding militants
Two militants’ leaders who defected from notorious Taliban chief in Pakistan have revealed that their comrade was pursuing a US-Israeli agenda across the country.
A prominent militant leader, Turkistan Bittani, who broke away from Baitullah Mehsud, called him "an American agent".
Mehsud, a warlord in his late 30s, has claimed responsibility for dozens of devastating [...]
Metro Crash Investigation Turns Up Electronic Control ‘Anomalies’
Federal investigators said yesterday that they found "anomalies" in a key component of the electronic control system along the Metro track north of Fort Totten, suggesting that computers might have sent one Red Line train crashing into another.
A senior Metro official knowledgeable about train operations said an internal report confirmed that the computer system [...]
UK: Super-secret IT project is underway
According to a Freedom of Information (FoI) response, the government is working on an IT project that is so secretive that its name cannot be given.
Following FoI requests from Computer Weekly for the Gateway reviews of major IT projects to be published, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has ruled that 23 Gateway Reviews on [...]
Stars and Stripes accuses U.S. military of censorship in Iraq
Be that as it may, the embedding of media with military units is a form of PsyOps, or Mind War, as Michael A. Aquino phrased it. As a side note, it seems as though Aquino’s Wikipedia entry has been deleted…hmmm.
"From PsyOps to Mind War, the Success of Victory"
“While in the 1980s I had no reason [...]
U.S. to send ambassador to Syria after 4 years
President Barack Obama has decided to return a U.S. ambassador to Syria after a four-year hiatus as talks between the two nations intensify, U.S. media reported on Tuesday.
The State Department informed Syria’s ambassador to Washington, Imad Mustafa, of Obama’s intention on Tuesday night, a senior administration official told the Washington Post.
By returning a senior U.S. [...]
9/11 FEMA videographer at Ground Zero goes public
Fascinating. Read the entire interview at:: voltairenet.org
As official videographer for the U.S. government, Kurt Sonnenfeld was detailed to Ground Zero on September 11, 2001, where he spent one month filming 29 tapes: "What I saw at certain moments and in certain places … is very disturbing!" He never handed them over to the authorities and [...]
Pentagon approves creation of cyber command
The Pentagon will create a Cyber Command to oversee the U.S. military’s efforts to protect its computer networks and operate in cyberspace, under an order signed by Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Tuesday.
The new headquarters, likely to be based at Fort Meade, Maryland, outside Washington, D.C., will be responsible for defending U.S. military systems [...]
FTC plans to monitor blogs for claims, payments
Savvy consumers often go online for independent consumer reviews of products and services, scouring through comments from everyday Joes and Janes to help them find a gem or shun a lemon.
What some fail to realize, though, is that such reviews can be tainted: Many bloggers have accepted perks such as free laptops, trips to Europe, [...]
Kingsnorth video shows surveillance protesters bundled to ground by police
Two female protesters who challenged police officers for not displaying their badge numbers were bundled to the ground, arrested and held in prison for four days, according to an official complaint lodged today.
The incident was caught on camera, and footage shows officers standing on the women’s feet and applying pressure to their necks immediately after [...]
West ’seeks Iran disintegration’
Speaking at a news conference on Monday, foreign ministry spokesman Hassan Qashqavi accused Western governments of explicitly backing violent protests aimed at undermining the stability of Iran’s Islamic Republic.
"Spreading anarchy and vandalism by Western powers and also Western media… these are not at all accepted," he said.
He said the West was acting in [...]
Read More >>Leading Russian survives assassination attempt
The president of the troubled Russian republic of Ingushetia was wounded in an assassination attempt Monday when a blast hit his convoy.
Yunus-Bek Yevkurov suffered a severe brain concussion, fractured ribs and a ruptured liver, his spokesman said.
The president underwent surgery and his life was not in danger, spokesman Kaloi Akhigov said.
Yevkurov’s motorcade was headed to [...]
Al Qaeda says would use Pakistani nuclear weapons
If it were in a position to do so, Al Qaeda would use Pakistan’s nuclear weapons in its fight against the United States, a top leader of the group said in remarks aired Sunday.
Pakistan has been battling al Qaeda’s Taliban allies in the Swat Valley since April after their thrust into a district 100 km [...]
On Terrorist Watch List, but Allowed to Buy Guns?
Source/Full Story: NYTimes.com
People on the government’s terrorist watch list tried to buy guns nearly 1,000 times in the last five years, and federal authorities cleared the purchases 9 times out of 10 because they had no legal way to stop them, according to a new government report.
In one case, a person on the [...]
Read More >>Kissinger threatens regime change in Iran if coup fails
Henry Kissinger Talking about " Regime Chang In IRAN " 20.June.2009
Source/Full Story: YouTube
Read More >>U.N. to investigate Bhutto’s assassination
An independent commission will start investigating the 2007 assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in July, the United Nations has announced.
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in December 2007 at a campaign rally.
Bhutto, 54, was heading the opposition to then-President Pervez Musharraf when she was killed at a December campaign rally [...]
China tells Google to end foreign site access
Beijing has ordered Google to stop users of its Chinese-language service accessing overseas websites in the biggest blow to the world’s leading search engine in China since it started operating there four years ago.
In a move that could disrupt Google’s growth in China, which now has more internet users than the US, the Chinese government [...]
MI5 Operations Center North street address
Grab it at the Source: MI5 Operations Center North street address, 18 Jun 2009 – Wikileaks
This document has evidence that the new secret MI5 "North" operations centre is located at Park 66, Pilsworth Road, Bury, Lancashire.
The document includes a press article from thel ondon Times, reporting the existence, but not location, of an MI5 [...]
