December 2011
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Wikileaks Newslinks 19 December 2011
19 December 2011 — williambowles.info Investigator links soldier to documents in WikiLeaks case Los Angeles Times ASSOCIATED PRESS — A computer-crimes investigator testified Sunday he found more than 10000 diplomatic cables and other sensitive information on the work computer of the Army private charged with spilling a mountain of secrets to WikiLeaks. … http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-bradley-manning-20111219,0,3065373.story Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 19 December 2011
19 December 2011 — williambowles.info Cables on Bradley Manning’s computer ‘exactly matched’ WikiLeaks documents The Guardian A forensic investigator who examined Bradley Manning’s army computers following his arrest discovered thousands of US embassy cables and Guantánamo detainee reports that matched exactly the documents published by WikiLeaks, the soldier’s pretrial … http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/19/cables-bradley-manning-computer-wikileaks?newsfeed=true Continue reading
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Stop NATO News: December 19, 2011
19 December 2011 — Stop NATO Black Sea: New Flash Point For U.S./NATO Versus Russia Conflicts Romania: U.S. Marines Plan Six-Month Mission In Eastern Europe Romania: Pentagon Military Outpost On The Black Sea Romania Again Offers Troops For Global NATO, EU Missions U.S. Senate Bill Adds Arms For Georgia Afghan Provincial Council Closes To Protest Continue reading
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Syria Newslinks 18-19 December 2011
19 December 2011 — williambowles.info 19 December 2011 Syria official in Cairo expected to sign Arab deal The Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Syria’s deputy foreign minister has arrived in Cairo and is expected to sign an agreement allowing Arab observers into the country. The Arab League has given Syria until Wednesday to sign the Continue reading
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Video: One rule for Syria – but a different one for Egypt — RT
The violence in Egypt continues, with at least 10 people killed and hundreds more injured in the last three days. However, unlike in Syria there is no talk of sanctions against the Egyptian military. Continue reading
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British Media Propaganda Aims at Triggering NATO Military Intervention against Syria By Tony Cartalucci
With the UN’s recent “human rights” report falling flat, for lack of evidence and being compiled by Karen Koning AbuZayd, a director of the US Washington-based corporate think-tank, Middle East Policy Council, that includes Exxon men, CIA agents, US military and government representatives, and even the president of the US-Qatar Business Council, the corporate-media has… Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 18 December 2011
18 December 2011 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks investigators ‘feared Bradley Manning had links to foreign agents’ The Guardian At a preliminary hearing in the case of Private Bradley Manning – the soldier suspected of being a WikiLeaks source – an army computer crimes specialist spoke of his initial concerns of involvement by an overseas agency, noting Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 18 December 2011
18 December 2011 — williambowles.info Bradley Manning hearing: court told of Iraq unit’s intelligence security chaos The Guardian A shocking lack of basic discipline and intelligence security at the unit in which Bradley Manning worked before his arrest for allegedly transferring the largest trove of state secrets in American history to WikiLeaks has been revealed Continue reading
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New Riot Police Shields Will Suffocate Protestors With Acoustic Waves
Raytheon has a patent pending now for a new police shield that produces a low-frequency sound which resonates with the respiratory tract, making it hard to breathe. According to the patent, the intensity could be increased from causing discomfort to the point where targets become ‘temporarily incapacitated’. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 17 December 2011: The Jews Go To War (With Themselves)
17 December 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Settlement Guard Mildly Injured In Stabbing Attack IMEMC – Israeli sources reported Saturday that a settlement guard, working at the Ma’aleh Adumim settlement, east of occupied East Jerusalem, suffered mild injuries after being stabbed. … Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 17 December 2011: How Maliki and Iran Outsmarted the U.S.
17 December 2011 — Information Clearing House Obama’s “Mission Accomplished” Troops and Prisons Move, Wars and Torture Never Ends By Ted Rall War is an addiction. If we wanted to, we could quit any time. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30023.htm Continue reading
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Stop NATO News: December 18, 2011
18 December 2011 — Stop NATO U.S.-NATO Missiles In Europe: Potential Threat To World Peace NATO System: U.S. Could Target Russia With THAAD Interceptor Missiles Raytheon Awarded $685.7 Million: New Interceptors For Taiwan New Defense Authorization Act Approves Arms For Georgia Post-Libya Wars: NATO/EUCOM Commander Inspects Warplane Crews In Germany Three Mistakes Will Defeat U.S. Continue reading
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Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie – 'Hothouse'
Charlie Parker, alto sax; Dizzy Gillespie, trumpet; Dick Hyman, piano; Sandy Block, bass; Charles Smith, drums. Continue reading
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Stop NATO News: December 17, 2011
17 December 2011 — Stop NATO Pentagon Commends Turkey For NATO Radar Site Turkey: U.S. NATO Ally On Missiles, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Kurds Pentagon Appoints Turkey To Police Iraq, Confront Iran Turkey’s Top Military Council Prepares For War Iraq: Fallujah Celebrates U.S. Troop Exit, Honors The Slain U.S. Rallies NATO Support For Georgia’s Accession Georgia Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 17 December 2011
17 December 2011 — williambowles.info Suspected WikiLeaks source appears in court Reuters He is suspected of being the source of documents that eventually were released on the Internet by WikiLeaks — data dumps that Washington said jeopardized national security. Manning was quiet as he sat in the courtroom at Fort Meade, Maryland, … http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/17/us-usa-defense-manning-idUSTRE7BF0D720111217 Continue reading
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Euro Crisis: Britain’s Financial Arsonist Returns to the Scene of the Crime By Finian Cunningham
The spectacle of bankrupt David Cameron swaggering over to Europe to ask equally bankrupt European governments for more deregulatory concessions for the City of London is about as stupefying as an arsonist returning to the scene of the crime – and asking for more gasoline. Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 17 December 2011
17 December 2011 — williambowles.info Bradley Manning hearing: defence lawyer turns fire on military accusers The Guardian Eighteen months after his arrest in Iraq for allegedly orchestrating the largest leak of state secrets in American history, Bradley Manning has faced his military accusers for the first time, immediately turning the guns against them. … http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/16/bradley-manning-hearing-defence-lawyer?newsfeed=true Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 16 December 2011: Soldiers: “West Bank Problem Is Jews, Not Palestinians”
16 December 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Palestinian Killed By Army Fire In Central Gaza IMEMC – Israeli soldiers shot and killed, on Saturday at dawn, a Palestinian man in Al Boreij Refugee camp, in central Gaza, medical sources reported. … Continue reading
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Media Lens: ‘A Death Sentence For Africa’
The UN climate summit in Durban, South Africa, ended with one of those marathon all-night cliffhanger negotiations that the media love so much. The outcome was a commitment to talk about a legally-binding deal to cut carbon emissions – by both developed and developing countries – that would be agreed by 2015 and come into… Continue reading