World-News

Gareth Porter, Inter Press Service: "US intelligence has concluded that the document published recently by the Times of London, which purportedly describes an Iranian plan to do experiments on what the newspaper described as a 'neutron initiator' for an atomic weapon, is a fabrication, according to a former Central Intelligence Agency official."

http://www.truthout.org/topstories/122809vh4



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Central+Intelligence+Agency
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gareth+Porter

RESEARCH.EU: "Doit-on avoir peur du portable?" (avec video HD)"
... Par ailleurs, une bonne part des organisations qui militent pour l'imposition de standards d'usage plus stricts du portable estiment que la définition «d'utilisateur régulier» - considéré dans l'étude Interphone comme une personne ayant employé un téléphone portable au moins une fois par semaine pendant une durée minimum de six mois - est beaucoup trop large, ce qui aurait pour effet de biaiser les résultats."

http://www.next-up.org/parlement_europeen.php#1

Spiegel Online

Abfangen, entschlüsseln, abhören: Sicherheitsforscher wollen auf dem Berliner Chaos Communication Congress die Verschlüsselung des Mobilfunk-Standards GSM ...

http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzpolitik/0,1518,669368,00.html

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Sicherheitsproblem: GSM-Verschlüsselung geknackt

teltarif.de

Diese Botschaft lesen Mobilfunk-Anbieter sicherlich nicht gerne. Wie der Onlinedienst heise.de meldet, haben Sicherheitsexperten auf dem 26. ...

http://www.teltarif.de/gsm-verschluesselung-geknackt-hacker/news/37006.html

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Handygespräche nicht mehr sicher

ORF.at

Der Chaos Computer Club (CCC) hat die Mobilfunkindustrie aufgefordert, ihren technischen Standard für die Verschlüsselung von Handygesprächen auszutauschen. ...

http://futurezone.orf.at/stories/1635397/

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Mobilfunk knacken kinderleicht

Neuß-Grevenbroicher Zeitung

Im Gegensatz zu früher ist der Code der Mobilfunkindustrie nämlich nun mit Amateurmitteln zu knacken, was keinen erheblichen finanziellen oder technischen ...

http://www.ngz-online.de/digitale/handy/Mobilfunk-knacken-kinderleicht_aid_801128.html

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Computer-Experten warnen: Handygespräche abhörbar

Information Week

Hamburg (dpa) - Der Hamburger Chaos Computer Club (CCC) hat die Mobilfunk-Industrie aufgefordert, ihren technischen Standard für die Verschlüsselung von ...

http://www2.informationweek.de/wirtschaftsnews/artikel/11647/
http://www2.informationweek.de/wirtschaftsnews/artikel/11650/

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Chaos Computer Club: Gespräche über das Mobiltelefon nicht mehr sicher

ExtremNews

Pläne dazu liegen seit Jahren in den Schubladen der Mobilfunkanbieter. "Da der Leidensdruck offensichtlich noch nicht groß genug war, sahen sich die ...

http://www.extremnews.com/nachrichten/computer/f06812cec28bcbd

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Handycode gehackt – CCC demonstriert Sicherheitslücke: Mobilfunk-Gespräche im ...

Bild.de

Die Sicherheitsforscher haben auf der CCC-Tagung eine Anleitung zum Knacken des gängigen Mobilfunk-Verschlüsselungsalgorithmus A5/1 veröffentlicht. ...

http://www.bild.de/BILD/digital/handy-und-telefon/2009/12/30/handycode-gehackt-sicherheitsluecke/gsm-netz-mobilfunk-abhoerbar-ccc.html

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Datenschutz: Computerexperten bemängeln Abhörschutz für Handys

ZEIT ONLINE

Der Chaos Computer Club hält die weltweiten Verschlüsselungsstandards der Mobilfunk-Industrie für nicht ausreichend. Leicht könne jeder Laie Handygespräche ...

http://www.zeit.de/digital/datenschutz/2009-12/handy-datenschutz-verschluesselung

FreedomWorks
by Matthew Clemente

12/28/09

In 2008 and 2009, the Bush White House, the Obama White House and the Federal Reserve doled out over $2 trillion in taxpayer money in an effort to save failed businesses and to stimulate the economy. In 2010 — the Wall Street Journal predicts — the public will begin to understand how dramatically such efforts have changed the US economy. ‘Only as the recession recedes will it become fully evident how permanently the state’s role has expanded and whether, as a consequence, a new, hybrid strain of American capitalism is emerging.’ This ‘hybrid strain’ of capitalism is nothing more than the overreaching hand of government intruding into the private sector...

http://tinyurl.com/yktyqtx



Hope is not change

In These Times
by David Sirota

12/28/09

When you look honestly at what’s going on in our government right now, it’s not clear that ‘change’ was anything more than a cynical campaign slogan on a colorful t-shirt. People are right to be angry. While we have certainly seen some encouraging progressive policy successes, the average person is nonetheless looking at an economy with a real unemployment rate of 17 percent — the highest since the Great Depression. And if they hear news of politicians at all, they either see them taking 15 different positions on the most simple issues, or raising boatloads of cash from the same corporate fat cats who got the country into this mess. We must realize that politics is serious, and at this time it behooves us to change our attitude and adjust our perspective...

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/5318/hope_is_not_change


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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The Cash Committee: How Wall Street Wins On The Hill
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/12/29-8



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=what+change
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AntiWar.Com
by Kelley B. Vlahos

12/29/09

It’s been a long while since anyone has even debated whether ‘victory’ was applicable to the U.S.-led invasion and subsequent seven-year occupation of Iraq. But 2009 was the year that the war’s sad fate in the history books was assured, no doubt leaving hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women to feel as though their sacrifice, and that of their comrades, has been largely unfulfilled by anything remotely resembling ‘one of the great achievements of mankind.’ No, in addition to what the Washington Post called ‘one of the most unpopular wars in American history,’ Iraq was all but officially declared a ‘non-victory’ in the waning days of 2008 by none other than Gen. David Petraeus, now head of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), who could hardly be accused of bias against the American cause in Iraq and the Long War...

http://tinyurl.com/yzlhmut


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Petraeus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=CENTCOM
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kelley+B.+Vlahos

ABC News

12/28/09

Afghanistan’s neighbors are helping destabilize the country as ‘time is running out’ on the U.S. effort here, according to a senior intelligence official with the international military force in Kabul. The official accused Iran and Pakistan of maintaining links with the Afghan Taliban and singled out Pakistan for providing ‘insufficient pressure’ on Afghan insurgent leaders who enjoy safe havens inside Pakistan — despite U.S. pressure to expel or fight them...

http://tinyurl.com/yzr2koe


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pakistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Taliban

http://preventdisease.com/news/09/111509_RFID_chip_documents_plans_for_US_exposed.shtml


Informant: Dorothee Krien



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=RFID
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=VeriChip
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=surveill

Stephen Rohde, LA Daily Journal: "'If you had told me ten years ago that our government would be deliberately holding people in captivity on a naval base outside the US mainland so that we could do whatever we wanted to them without the intervention of US courts, I would have told you that you had been watching too many miniseries on TV.' These outraged words from Julia Tarver Mason, a partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York City, are typical of the over 100 personal narratives written by lawyers, translators and others who have represented and assisted the detainees at the US prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, which have been collected in the new book 'THE GUANTANAMO LAWYERS: Inside a Prison Outside the Law.'"

http://www.truthout.org/topstories/122709vh1



Hoping for a New Ethic in 2010

Jim Hightower, Truthout: "This special season got me to thinking about America's spirit of giving, and I don't mean this overdone business of Christmas gifts. I mean our true spirit of giving - giving of ourselves. Yes, we are a country of rugged individualists, yet there's also a deep, community-minded streak in each of us."

http://www.truthout.org/topstories/122709vh3

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Court: Government can do whatever it wants, we have no right to know

CBS News

12/31/09

A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that law professors and attorneys who represent Guantanamo Bay detainees cannot force the government to reveal whether an anti-terrorism program eavesdropped on their conversations. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling supported the findings of a lower court judge in Manhattan who also rejected the attempt to uncloak the warrantless electronic surveillance system’s targets. The National Security Agency and the Department of Justice had refused to comply with a 2006 Freedom of Information Act request by the lawsuit’s plaintiffs...

http://tinyurl.com/yh63hn7


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=DoJ
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=National+Security+Agency
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=warrantless
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=surveillance
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Stephen+Rohde
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jim+Hightower

http://groups.google.com/group/omeganews/t/cc719f068f99ce74?hl=de



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=swine+flu
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=H1N1
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=vaccin

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2167/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=1966



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=sea+turtle

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/12/28-6

Christmas Presents for Bankers
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/12/28-8

Bankers Take the Stand, But Who Will Stand Up to Them?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/01/13-7

Moral Bankruptcy: Why Are We Letting Wall Street Off So Easy?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/01/13-5

Who Will Pay for Health Care?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/01/13-2

Public Citizen: While Officials Examine Causes of Financial Crisis, Bank Chiefs Still Engaging in Reckless Practices
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/01/13-8

Institute for Policy Studies: In Wake of Latest Banker Bonus Outrage, Nation Needs an Immediate Federal Policy About-Face, Says IPS
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/01/13-2

Stop the Abuse: It's Time to Break Up With Your Big Bank
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/01/14-8

Homeowners Say Banks Not Following Rules for Loan Modifications
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/01/15-1

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Lining Up for the Wall Street Gravy Train

By Mike Whitney

The banks are not only taking depositors money and using it in high-risk derivatives transactions and currency "carry trades", they're also propping up the long daisy-chain of insolvent creditors whose default could domino Lehman-like through the entire financial system. Funny how the media skips little tidbits like this when they give their rosy evening roundup.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24295.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=financial+crisis
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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/12/28-4



Civilians again killed in NATO airstrike in Afghanistan

At least eight villagers were killed and two injured in an airstrike by NATO forces in Helmand province in Afghanistan, local officials reported Thursday. On the weekend, 10 civilians including eight children were killed in NATO military action in the eastern province of Kunar.

http://tinyurl.com/ylsong9



UN slams US over killing of Afghan civilians

The victims, including eight school children, were dragged out of their homes in the Kunar province and shot to death.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=115090&sectionid=351020403



Kabul demands foreign 'killers' handed over

The Afghan government demanded Thursday to take into its custody foreigners wanted over the alleged killing of 10 civilians, sharply escalating a war of words with its powerful Western military backers.

http://tinyurl.com/yfwuran


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=civilian+deaths

http://www.lewrockwell.com/longcore/longcore17.1.html

Secession and the 2nd Amendment
http://www.lewrockwell.com/longcore/longcore16.1.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=secession
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=/longcore

http://www.lewrockwell.com/ostrowski/ostrowski95.1.html



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/anderson/anderson274.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/anderson

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