8 June 2013 — Information Clearing House
At Special UNSC Session
Israel Threatened to Attack Syrian Forces, UN Peacekeeping Chief Says
By Barak Ravid
Ladsous said that the Israel Defence Forces and Syrian military were on the verge of the most direct military clash between the neighboring countries on the Golan Heights front in the past 40 years.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35213.htm
How the US Congress Lost the Plot on Secrecy, Surveillance and Accountability
By Marcy Wheeler
Outraged by the government dragnet of our private data? Blame the politicians who gave the Obama administration a free pass.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35216.htm
Top NSA Whistleblower Spills the Beans on the Real Scope of the Spying Program
Must Read – By Washingtons Blog
In April 2012 Wired’s James Bamford – reported that two companies with extensive links to Israel’s intelligence service provided hardware and software the U.S. telecommunications network for the National Security Agency (NSA).
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35212.htm
What was the Israeli Involvement in Collecting U.S. Communications Intel for NSA?
By Haaretz, The Associated Press and Reuters
Were Israeli companies Verint and Narus the ones that collected information from the U.S. communications network for the National Security Agency?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35215.htm
Dead in the Water
How Israel committed the cold blooded murder of US sailors.
Video Documentary
June 8, 1967: USS Liberty attacked by Israel in international waters – Thirty-four American servicemen were killed in the two-hour assault by Israeli warplanes and torpedo boats.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5073.htm
There is a War on Ordinary People and Feminists are Needed at the Front
By John Pilger
There is indeed a crisis among men – actually ordinary men and women – and it is not their masculinity that is to blame, but the neutering of any credible resistance to a sociopathic system now given the Orwellian title of “austerity”.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35218.htm
Another Phony Jobs Report From A Government That Lies About Everything
By Paul Craig Roberts
The Amerika that exists today has more in common with Nazi Germany than with the America in which I grew up.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35214.htm
Banned TED Talk:Nick Hanauer “Rich People Don’t Create Jobs”
Video
Anyone who’s ever run a business knows that hiring more people is a capitalist’s course of last resort, something we do only when increasing customer demand requires it. In this sense, calling ourselves job creators isn’t just inaccurate, it’s disingenuous.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31848.htm
In Case You Missed It
Gil Scott-Heron ” Work For Peace “
Video
The Military and the Monetary.
Get together whenever they think its necessary,
they’ve turned our brothers and sisters into mercenaries,
they are turning parts of the planet, into a cemetery.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33379.htm
Power Served, Millions Betrayed
By Paul Street
Remember when Barack Obama threw his former black preacher Reverend Jeremiah Wright more completely under that bus in the spring of 2007? That was cold, but it’s nothing compared to the president’s current assault on millions of other American grandmothers.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35219.htm
The Grand Charade
By Philip A Farruggio
When will the working stiffs out there realize that it is all a charade? Anyone, no matter how noble a person, becomes corrupted once they align themselves with either of these two parties.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35220.htm
None But Ourselves Can Free Our Minds
Unprecedented Wealth – Debt Slavery – Mental Slavery – Conditioned Consciousness
By David DeGraw
After years of research and analysis, I’ve come to hard-fought, battle-tested conclusions. This will not be for the faint of heart. It will hit hard and we don’t have much time, so let’s get right down to it.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35217.htm
At least 18 people killed as hundreds flee deadly gunbattles in Somalia:
Gunmen from the Ras Kamboni armed group of Ahmed Madobe, recently self-appointed “president” of the southern Jubaland region, battled against forces loyal to Iftin Hassan Basto, another leader claiming to be president.
11 people killed in Libyan Benghazi:
At least 11 people were killed and 35 wounded in clashes on Saturday between protesters and a Libyan militia operating with Defence Ministry approval in the eastern city of Benghazi, a doctor in the city said.
Libya: Extremists Setting Up Shop in Libya:
al-Qaida-linked jihadists driven out of Mali by a French-led offensive earlier this year have set up at least three jihadist camps in southern Libya in recent months. As a consequence, the source said, Libya has now become the headquarters for al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb.
U.S. quietly allows military aid to Egypt despite rights concerns:
Secretary of State John Kerry quietly acted last month to give Egypt $1.3 billion in U.S. military aid, deciding that this was in the national interest despite Egypt’s failure to meet democracy standards.
Mali holds crisis talks with Tuareg rebels:
Malian authorities and armed ethnic Tuareg rebels began talks on Saturday aimed at resolving the conflict in the north to enable planned nationwide elections to go ahead next month.
UK Acknowledges Torturing Kenyans: Offers compensation:
Britain has agreed to compensate Kenyans tortured during the Mau Mau uprising against colonial rule in the 1950s, Foreign Secretary William Hague has said.
12 Iraqis killed, over 35 injured in blasts in Baghdad:
A booby-trapped car which was parking behind a health center in the 2nd Al-Ameen district has been detonated killing four civilians and inuring 18 others, including three women and two children, the source told KUNA. Another explosion took place shortly after that in southeast of Baghdad killing one Iraqi and wounding nine others, he added.
How Many Iraqis Killed in the Iraq War and occupation?:
The results from a new poll commissioned by the British media watchdog group MediaLens exposed a startling disconnect between the realities of the Iraq War and public perceptions of it: Namely, what the Iraqi death toll was.
U.S. responsible for
“1,455,590” Killed During Iraq War and Occupation:
The number is shocking and sobering. It is at least 10 times greater than most estimates cited in the US media, yet it is based on a scientific study of violent Iraqi deaths caused by the U.S.-led invasion of March 2003.
http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq
Car bomb kills 7 in Homs, Syria as gov’t forces keep pressing north:
A suicide bomber detonated his explosives-laden car Saturday in Syria’s central city of Homs, tearing through an area largely populated by the regime’s Alawite sect and killing seven people
Syrian army ‘captures’ final rebel stronghold near Qusair:
Eastern Bouweida village, which lies between Qusair and the restive city of Homs was captured by troops backed by militants from Lebanon’s Hezbollah
Red Cross evacuate wounded from Qusair to Lebanon:
About 12 vehicles of the International Committee of the Red Cross moved around 30 wounded people from Qusair on Saturday through the Syrian border town of Qara into the Bekaa town of Arsal, northeast Lebanon, security sources told The Daily Star.
Al-Jazeera and Co. Challenge Qusayr Victory:
For the past several weeks, Qusayr had been a top news item on the major channels, as networks hosted military experts to shed light on the battles between the Syrian regime and its opposition. Yet once images confirming an opposition defeat began to surface, the channels adopted a unilateral discourse of sectarian incitement.
Sleiman to UN Envoys: Lebanon Can No Longer Host Syria Refugees:
Lebanese President Michel Sleiman warned that Lebanon could no longer host Syrian refugees escaping violence in their homeland during a meeting with the ambassadors of the permanent members of the UN Security Council in Beirut on Friday.
Syrian “rebels” urge global military action:
Syria’s opposition leader has said he is unlikely to attend planned US and Russian-backed peace talks in Geneva as he urged the world to act over the conflict.
Foreign militant Islamists streaming into Syria:
Researchers who monitor the conflict said this week that they’ve detected the influx of foreigners in firsthand observations on the battlefield, spotting them in rebel videos posted on the Internet, observing a recent spike in reported deaths of foreign fighters and studying their postings on social media sites.
Fact or fiction?
1,000 US troops arrive in Jordan for deployment at Syria border:
The Israeli military intelligence website DEBKAfile has reported that 1,000 U.S troops from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Force arrived at the southern Jordanian port of Aqaba on Tuesday and made their way to the north of the country under heavy Jordanian military escort.
Pontius Pilate Washes Hands:
Envoy urges Saudi nationals to leave Lebanon:
Saudi nationals in Lebanon should go back to their country because they are in danger here, Saudi Arabia’s Ambassador to Lebanon Ali Awad Asiri said in remarks published Saturday.
Police use tear gas, water cannon on Ankara protesters:
Turkish police have attacked protesters who took to the streets in Ankara defying Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s call for an immediate end to protests.
Thousands join Turkey protests defying PM:
Thousands of angry Turks took to the streets on Saturday to join mass anti-government protests, defying Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s call to end the worst civil unrest of his decadelong rule.
Iran not UN nuclear watchdog’s only headache, report shows:
Iran is not the only country stalling inspectors’ requests for atomic-related information, anew IAEA report suggests.
US KILLS 9 people draws angry Pakistan protest:
The government of Pakistan has summoned an American envoy to lodge an official protest over the latest drone attacks that killed at least nine people in the country’s northwest region, officials said. About six missiles were fired at a compound suspected to belong to a Taliban commander in the Shawal area of North Waziristan
Three Americans killed after argument with Afghan soldier – officials:
The three Americans were shot dead by the man following an argument, the Paktika provincial governor’s spokesman Mukhlas Afghan said, adding that three other Americans had been wounded. The attacker was himself shot dead soon after opening fire, the spokesman said.
Anger at US drone war continues in Yemen:
Four drone strikes in total, a few minutes apart, violently tore Salem, Walid and the three visitors to shreds. Amidst the pandemonium, villagers cowering inside the mosque ran out for safety between strikes, believing they would die inside.
Ex-drone operator: ‘I lost that respect for life’: Video –
Former drone operator Brandon Bryant tells NBC’s Richard Engel that he felt like he became a ‘heartless’ ‘sociopath’ under the drone program.
In propaganda move:
McCain and Feinstein pledge to close Guantánamo but sidestep hunger strike:
As of Saturday, 104 of the 166 people still being held at the centre were refusing food. Of those 41 were being force-fed, with four in hospital.
UK Spying On Own Citizens Using US Spy Program:
The UK’s electronic eavesdropping and security agency, GCHQ, has been secretly gathering intelligence from the world’s biggest internet companies through a covertly run operation set up by America’s top spy agency, documents obtained by the Guardian reveal.
NSA Surveillance Revelations: Osama Bin Laden Would Love This: Op-Ed:
The US has shown itself so paranoid in the face of possible ‘al-Qaida-linked terror’ that it has played right into jihadist hands
Paper: UK government getting US spy agency’s data:
The Guardian said it had seen documents showing how the British signals intelligence agency GCHQ has had access to America’s “PRISM” electronic eavesdropping system since at least June 2010, adding that the data had generated nearly 200 intelligence reports over the past year.
U.S. Collects Vast Data Trove:
The National Security Agency’s monitoring of Americans includes customer records from the three major phone networks as well as emails and Web searches, and the agency also has cataloged credit-card transactions, said people familiar with the agency’s activities.
Facebook and Google insist they did not know of Prism surveillance program:
America’s tech giants continued to deny any knowledge of a giant government surveillance programme called Prism, even as president Barack Obama confirmed the scheme’s existence Friday.
Denials in surveillance program require decoding:
It’s all part of a linguistic tango that’s often performed when the cover is blown on a top-secret operation, Tien says. – “A company could say “‘We’ve never heard of the PRISM program.’ Well, maybe the government didn’t call it that. Or the company could say “‘We don’t allow backdoor access!’ Well, maybe they allow front door access.”
The PRISM spin war has begun:
Google may be engaging in a far more subtle public relations strategy than outright denial.
How the NSA and FBI Lie With Numbers:
The court that’s supposed to be protecting Americans from abusive domestic surveillance is not only failing in that duty, it’s also lazy.
Watch Top U.S. Intelligence Officials Repeatedly Deny NSA Spying On Americans Over The Last Year (Videos) –
To paraphrase Joseph Heller: Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t surveilling you.
Lest we forget
Exclusive: Inside Account of U.S. Eavesdropping on Americans:
Despite pledges by President George W. Bush and American intelligence officials to the contrary, hundreds of US citizens overseas have been eavesdropped on as they called friends and family back home, according to two former military intercept operators who worked at the giant National Security Agency (NSA)
Assange on PRISM: US justice system in ‘calamitous’ collapse:
“The US administration has the phone records of everyone in the United States and is receiving them daily from carriers to the National Security Agency under secret agreements. That’s what’s come out,” he said.
Anonymous Just Leaked a Trove of NSA Documents:
Anonymous has leaked a treasure trove of NSA documents, including seriously important stuff like the US Department of Defense’s ‘Strategic Vision’ for controlling the internet.
Obama orders US to draw up overseas target list for cyber-attacks:
Obama’s move to establish a potentially aggressive cyber warfare doctrine will heighten fears over the increasing militarization of the internet.
Obama’s cyber target list – full document text:
Eighteen-page presidential memo reveals how Barack Obama has ordered intelligence officials to draw up a list of potential overseas targets for US cyber attacks.
Texas actress charged in Obama ricin threat:
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) says a Texas woman has admitted to sending ricin-tainted letters to President Barack Obama and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, but only after trying to blame it on her husband.
Nicaragua gives Chinese firm contract to build alternative to Panama Canal:
Project will reinforce China’s growing influence on global trade and weaken US dominance over a key shipping route
David Cameron to attend Bilderberg group meeting:
Downing Street defends visit to secretive group, where prime minister will not be accompanied by civil servants
Neoliberalism has spawned a financial elite who hold governments to ransom: Op-Ed:
The crash was a write-off, not a repair job. The response should be a wholesale reevaluation of the way in which wealth is created and distributed around the globe
Bulk of U.S. Payroll Gain in Jobs Paying Less-Than-Average Wages:
Jobs paying below-average wages accounted for more than half of last month’s U.S. payroll increase, a dynamic that may restrain consumer spending and the economic recovery.
High prices are driving more motorists to rent tires:
Chains such as Rent-a-Wheel and Rimco are seeing business boom. Many consumers pay double or triple the cost of buying and face aggressive repossession policies
Cost Of War
Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered In US War And Occupation Of Iraq “1,455,590“
Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’s War On Iraq: 4,883
Number Of International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 3,333
Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
Total Cost of Wars Since 2001
$1,446,101,753,721
The New Dark Age 
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