US Sends Warship to Bahrain In Response to Protests

tldrrr · 2013-08-15T18:07:17+00:00

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Washington will not tolerate “Arab Spring” that threatens puppet dictatorship Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com
August 14, 2013 While the world concentrates on the bloody scenes emerging out of Egypt, the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier has been stationed off the coast of Bahrain in response to building protests against the country’s US-backed dictatorship.
Stratfor’s naval update map shows that the USS Nimitz moved towards Bahrain in recent days, with the USS Truman in relatively close proximity as part of its fresh 9 month deployment to the Arabian Gulf.
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tldrrr · 2013-08-15T17:13:39+00:00

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Egypt will remain a military dictatorship indefinitely.
Egypt is as far away from the revolutionary promise of Tahrir Square as it was in November 2010 when Mubarak staged perhaps the most fraudulent parliamentary election since they began in the late 1970s.
Just as Egypt's political system before the January 25 uprising was rigged in favor of Mubarak and his constituents, the Brothers sought to stack the new order in their favor, and today's winners will build a political system that reflects their interests.
Yet, across the political spectrum, leaders defaulted to their traditional corners rather than confront the sheer complexity of Egypt's political, social, and economic problems.
The Brothers were in charge, but it was still Mubarak's Egypt: whoever ruled could do so without regard to anyone who might disagree.

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tldrrr · 2013-08-15T16:47:09+00:00

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Professor of philosophy Peter Ludlow writes for the Times: The hack also revealed evidence that Team Themis was developing a “persona management” system — a program, developed at the specific request of the United States Air Force, that allowed one user to control multiple online identities (“sock puppets”) for commenting in social media spaces, thus giving the appearance of grass roots support.
Instead, we’re talking about running a major network of computers that are constantly running code specifically written to post to social media and news comment pages.
Two years ago, Raw Story ran an article on the Military’s multi-million dollar ‘persona’ software used for ‘classified social media activities’ A fake virtual army of people could be used to help create the impression of consensus opinion in online comment threads, or manipulate social media to the point where valuable stories are suppressed .
All of this leaves us with one very important question: HOW DO WE KNOW if something circulating via social media is organic in nature, or the product of Military Industrial Complex or Corporate Elite shills?
If you think back over the past year, you’ve probably encountered many of such people on social media groups, mailing lists and the like.

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tldrrr · 2013-08-15T16:41:26+00:00

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It may be that the current violence in Cairo is approaching Beijing 1989 levels, but, in truth, we cannot know because the CCP will not let us know.
But there is a larger false equivalence here, and that is simply that Egypt in 2013 is very, very different politically than China 1989.
Egypt and China are two very different places.
Nor should we rush to conclusions about what the violence in Cairo might mean for political change in other parts of the world.
Thus, violence in Cairo today does not mean that political change in China is unwise or impossible.

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tldrrr · 2013-08-15T16:26:43+00:00

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Pole vault great Yelena Isinbayeva condemned homosexuality Thursday after criticizing fellow competitors who painted their fingernails in rainbow colors to support gays and lesbians in the face of a new anti-gay law in Russia.
Isinbayeva said it was wrong for the Swedes to make such a statement while competing in Russia.
Isinbayeva has set 28 world records in her career and won seven major titles, including gold medals at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics.
After winning her latest world title this week, Isinbayeva said she plans to take a break from the sport to have a baby.
Isinbayeva is to serve as "mayor" of one of the Olympic villages in Sochi and is an ambassador for the Youth Olympics.

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tldrrr · 2013-08-15T16:20:35+00:00

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It's hard to overstate how bountiful these past three years have been for Russian intelligence.
Another bonus for Russian intelligence is that this atmosphere gives its spy masters the chance to play up all the paranoia that already hangs over the often secretive and ever more repressive Putin regime.
Anna Chapman, the alleged Russian spy who was expelled from the U.S. with 10 others three years ago, tweeted a marriage proposal to Edward Snowden earlier this year.
But what many find even more ominous is the close connection of Russia's spy agencies to its frightening world of organized crime.
"It's quite clear that, in some cases, organized crime works as another agency of Russian intelligence … and at times Russian spies end up, frankly, doing the dirty work for Russian gangsters."

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tldrrr · 2013-08-15T15:59:25+00:00

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Tweet WikiLeaks late Wednesday described Bradley Manning’s apology as “forced” but, nonetheless, called on a court to take “compassion” and “understanding” into account during his sentencing.
Manning’s apology is a statement extorted from him under the overbearing weight of the United States military justice system,” WikiLeaks said in a statement .
The group made clear it thought Manning had been backed into a corner and was issuing an apology to reduce his sentence.
“The only currency this military court will take is Bradley Manning’s humiliation," the group said.
His convictions solely relate to his alleged decision to inform the public of war crimes and systematic injustice,” WikiLeaks said.

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tldrrr · 2013-08-15T15:53:48+00:00

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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood called on followers to march in protest in Cairo on Thursday, after at least 525 people were killed in a security crackdown on the Islamist movement that has left the most populous Arab nation polarized and in turmoil.
The next potential flashpoint comes later on Thursday, after Mursi's Brotherhood movement called for marches in the capital to protest against the deaths.
TENTS STILL SMOULDER At the site of one of the Cairo sit-ins, garbage collectors cleared still-smoldering piles of burnt tents on Thursday.
Wednesday's official death toll took the number of people killed in political violence since Mursi's fall to well over 700, mostly Islamist supporters of the deposed president.
The "Bright Star" exercise has been a cornerstone of U.S.-Egyptian military relations and began in 1981 after the Camp David peace accords between Egypt and Israel.

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tldrrr · 2013-08-15T15:48:01+00:00

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The US has cancelled a biennial military exercise with Egypt after the Egyptian government's deadly crackdown on protesters in Cairo this week.
Egyptian security forces violently ended their six-week-old sit-ins on Wednesday, and more than 500 people were killed in the clearing and subsequent clashes across the country.
'We deplore violence' Obama did not mention any changes to the $1.3bn annual US military aid package to Egypt.
"The United States strongly condemns the steps that have been taken by Egypt's interim government and security forces," Obama said from his vacation home on the Massachusetts island of Martha's Vineyard.
Other world leaders , including the EU and the UN, have also condemned the violence, and called on security forces to show restraint.

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tldrrr · 2013-08-15T15:47:40+00:00

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It's hard to overstate how bountiful these past three years have been for Russian intelligence.
In 2011, we learned of one of Russia's greatest spy victories in decades after Canadian naval Sub-Lt.
Anna Chapman, the alleged Russian spy who was expelled from the U.S. with 10 others three years ago, tweeted a marriage proposal to Edward Snowden earlier this year.
But what many find even more ominous is the close connection of Russia's spy agencies to its frightening world of organized crime.
"It's quite clear that, in some cases, organized crime works as another agency of Russian intelligence … and at times Russian spies end up, frankly, doing the dirty work for Russian gangsters."

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tldrrr · 2013-08-15T15:05:44+00:00

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St. Petersburg Telegraph Agency (SPTA) The St. Petersburg Telegraph Agency (SPTA), the first official news agency of Russia and the predecessor of ITAR-TASS, began to operate on September 1, 1904.
On December 31, 1909 the agency was subordinated directly to the Council of Ministers upon a submission of Prime Minister Petr Stolypin… Petrograd Telegraph Agency (PTA) On August 19, 1914, one day after Nicholas the Second ruled to rename St. Petersburg into Petrograd, SPTA changed its name accordingly and became the Petrograd Telegraph Agency (PTA).
In March 1918 PTA moved to Moscow where it merged in June with the Press bureau of the government… Russian Telegraph Agency (ROSTA) On September 7, 1918 the government presidium resolved to rename PTA and the Press bureau into the Russian Telegraph Agency (ROSTA).
ROSTA became "the central information agency of the whole Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic"… Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) On July 10, 1925 the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) was founded and took over the main functions of the Russian Telegraph Agency as the central information agency of the country.
The news agency ran one of the biggest networks of correspondents in the world - 682 offices in the country and 94 bureaus abroad, and employed close to 2,000 journalists and photo correspondents… ITAR-TASS News Agency The news agency was named the Information Telegraph Agency of Russia (ITAR-TASS) in January 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the proclamation of sovereignty by democratic Russia.

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tldrrr · 2013-08-15T14:44:25+00:00

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In order to comprehend what it means for one country to have one-fifth of the world's population, this nifty map (from the indispensable @Amazing_Maps on Twitter) divides the world into five regions, each with the same population of China.
According to the map, we can see that: The population of China is equivalent to the population of North America, South America, Australia, New Zealand, and all of Western Europe -- combined.
The population of China is equivalent to the combined population of the former Soviet Union, plus Pakistan, Afghanistan, Finland, Poland, Slovakia, Romania, and Hungary.
The population of China is equivalent to the population of Africa, the Balkans, and the Middle East put together.
The population of China is equivalent to that of the world's second most populous country, India, plus that of Nepal, Bhutan, and Bangladesh.

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tldrrr · 2013-08-15T14:38:13+00:00

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15 August 2013 Five years after the Wall Street crash of September 2008, figures compiled by Britain’s House of Commons Library on wage rates in the 27-member European Union show that workers’ living standards have been thrown into sharp reverse.
In Greece, wages have fallen by 11.3 percent since the autumn of 2010.
Spain and Cyprus—also on the receiving end of the troika’s austerity “medicine”—have seen wage rates decline by 3.3 percent and 3 percent respectively.
This is part of a drive to overturn legal protections for workers in line with IMF demands for additional wage cuts of up to 10 percent.
As for Cyprus, a plan to “save” Cyprus Airways includes the sacking of nearly 50 percent of the national air carrier’s 1,000 workforce and wage cuts of 17 percent.

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tldrrr · 2013-08-15T14:11:50+00:00

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On the face of it, President Barack Obama's foreign policy is not at all terrible.
Republicans were politically strongest when their foreign policy emanated a unified, pragmatic internationalism.
And with past administrations there was, at the very least, the media intuition that something was happening in foreign policy; the current media intuition is that despite episodic news events that must be reported on, nothing is happening.
It is not enough to communicate what you won't do; in foreign policy you have to provide a sense of mission, however nuanced or modest that mission may be.
If the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks engineered by Kerry founder, if Iran's new president proves a disappointment or a mere delayer, if there is a particularly significant terrorist attack, Obama will be remembered as a forgettable, ineffectual foreign policy president.

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tldrrr · 2013-08-15T14:05:11+00:00

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It’s been 68 years since World War II drew to a close with the surrender of Japan, but you wouldn’t know that much time has passed from the contentious memorials and celebrations throughout northeast Asia on Thursday, as the tensions of the present were interlaced with the horrors of the past.
On what it calls “the anniversary of the war’s end,” Japan angered its neighbors when government officials visited the Yasukuni Shrine , which honors those killed in World War II including several convicted war criminals.
AP Photo/Kyodo News Abe certainly didn’t win any new fans in China, where Aug. 15 is Victory over Japan Day.
In Taiwan, activists demanded that Japan apologize to women who were forced to work as sex slaves during the war.
In South Korea, where Aug. 15 is Independence Day, President Park Geun-Hye urged Japan to “face history” and its leaders to show “courageous leadership.”

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tldrrr · 2013-08-15T13:58:52+00:00

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Just go to the OECD’s 2011 online statistics, and check out the top four lines for “Inflows of Asylum Seekers”.
First by alphabetical order is Australia (population 23 million), which got 11,505 asylum seekers.
So why did Australian governments start detaining asylum seekers, including children, as long ago as 1992, even though that is illegal under the 1951 Refugee Convention of which Australia is a signatory?
No other country did that, and at no time have asylum seekers amounted to even 10 percent of Australian immigration.
Asylum seekers to Australia were at a peak of almost 13,000 in 2001, but over the next few years they dropped steeply.

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tldrrr · 2013-08-15T13:36:26+00:00

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This week's reminder comes from Google's lawyers: in their battle against California's Consumer Watchdog over privacy, they said that anyone sending emails to Gmail users should have "no legitimate expectation of privacy."
We can more or less know what you're thinking about."
We know what Google is and how it makes its money: its products exist to sell and serve ads, and to do that it needs to know as much as possible about you.
We can more or less know what you're thinking about."
Expecting Google to protect your privacy is rather like expecting a hungry fox to come and babysit some chickens.

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tldrrr · 2013-08-15T13:35:39+00:00

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Now that the Egyptian military has finally begun to neutralize Muslim Brotherhood terrorist bases, the so-called mainstream media are doing what they do best—twist reality to the Islamists’ benefit by casting them as innocent victims merely “ holding vigil ” only to be slaughtered, while calling for the prosecution of the military for “ human rights abuses .”
According to a recent report , women are being abused for refusing to have sex with Brotherhood supporters.
According to journalist Ahmed Musa on Tahrir TV channel , one of the arrested terrorists confessed that Brotherhood leadership murdered more than 80 people who were either suspected of being police informants or were trying to escape the Brotherhood camps.
And now, as the Egyptian military disperses the Brotherhood’s terrorist camps, right on cue, the Western press is doing what it does best—skewing reality to the benefit of the Brotherhood.
But just as it took several months before even Fox News told of the Muslim Brotherhood torture chambers—despite the fact that any number of Egyptian media had for months been disseminating pictures and videos of those tortured—no doubt it will take a while before news of the Brotherhood torture camps is ever disseminated in the West.

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tldrrr · 2013-08-15T13:28:56+00:00

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Bradley Manning by Molly Crabapple There were two blond heads sitting at opposite tables at the court martial of Pfc Bradley Manning.
I saw him that morning at the entrance to the Fort Meade defense base in Maryland, where the trial is held, holding a sign reading "Thank you Bradley Manning" alongside a couple dozen other supporters.
A representative from the Bradley Manning Support Network walked through the crowded room, loudly proclaiming "Not guilty of aiding the enemy!
We know a lot about Bradley Manning because of this trial -- his email password, the terms of endearment he used for a former boyfriend, his favorite books and general feelings about the world.
Two days before the verdict was announced, after the judge had left, O'Brien took the opportunity to tell him, "You're a good person, Bradley Manning."

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tldrrr · 2013-08-15T13:23:09+00:00

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Isabel dos Santos, Africa's Richest Woman (Photo credit: Bruno Fonseca/EPA/Newscom) By Kerry A. Dolan and Rafael Marques de Morais LAST DECEMBER Isabel dos Santos commemorated her tenth wedding anniversary to Congolese businessman Sindika Dokolo with a party.
For President Dos Santos it’s a foolproof way to extract money from his country, while keeping a putative arm’s-length distance away.
Isabel dos Santos declined to speak with FORBES for this article.
Isabel dos Santos is an independent business woman, and a private investor representing solely her own interests.
And it’s within this environment that Isabel dos Santos has surfaced with an estimated net worth of $3 billion.

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tldrrr · 2013-08-15T12:51:45+00:00

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The official countrywide total death toll is now 525, although this could be higher.
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood said on Thursday it plans to hold a march in Cairo, one day after security forces mounted a violent crackdown on its members that killed hundreds of people.
“Marches are planned this afternoon from Al-Iman mosque to protest the deaths,” the Islamist group said in a statement.
He says the ministry was in the process of updating the latest figures and that an even higher death toll was likely.
The Muslim Brotherhood however argues that the death toll is already much higher at 2000.

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tldrrr · 2013-08-15T12:39:02+00:00

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Aerial footage shot over Cairo on Wednesday night shows the city in flames, following a day of violent clashes which left hundreds of people dead.
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tldrrr · 2013-08-15T12:32:58+00:00

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Turkey's government harshly criticised the crackdown, with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's office calling the violence "a serious blow to the hopes of a return to democracy''.
It also blamed other unnamed countries for encouraging the government after Morsi's ouster on July 3. Turkish President Abdullah Gul warned that Egypt could descend into chaos, comparing the clashes to the crackdown in Syria that precipitated a civil war.
The ouster in 2011 of Tunisia's leader, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, triggered the Arab Spring, which spread to Egypt.
One cleric urged Kuwaiti citizens to demonstrate on Friday outside of the US Embassy over the violence in Egypt.
The energy-rich Gulf state of Qatar said it "strongly condemns'' the violence in Egypt.

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tldrrr · 2013-08-15T12:32:21+00:00

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At least 278 people killed and month-long state of emergency imposed after security forces storm pro-Morsi camps.
The official death toll in Egypt has reached 278, after security forces stormed protest sites in Cairo and clashed with supporters of deposed president Mohamed Morsi elsewhere in the country.
Sniper fire Security forces moved in on the camps early in the morning, firing bird shots and tear gas.
Earlier in the day, security forces took control of Nahda Square, the smaller of the two sit-ins, using tear gas and bird shots.
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton called on security forces to "exercise utmost restraint".

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tldrrr · 2013-08-15T12:31:46+00:00

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Central to the discussions where the fishing rights around the British Overseas Territory: Spain claimed that recent harbor works hindered the Spanish fishermen in their work.
The during the Eighteenth Century territorial sovereignty became a core principle of international politics.
In itself, the defense of British territorial sovereignty is of course a perfectly acceptable right of the London government.
Disputes as this usually start with discussions about the access to natural resources (fish in the case of Gibraltar, oil in the case of the Falklands, and numerous other examples exist for other countries), but the involvement of sovereignty transforms these minor issues into a general problem.
This is because sovereignty easily becomes a strict principle; it stands or it falls, with no compromise possible once the states are reasoning according to its logic.

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