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US sets up center for 'secret war' 06 Jan 2011 The US administration is ramping up a "secret war on terror groups" in hot spots around the globe by establishing a new military targeting center, officials say. According to incumbent and former US officials, the center, run by the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), keeps an eye on the growing use of special operation strikes against individuals. "The center is staffed with at least 100 counter terror experts fusing the military's special operations elite with analysts, intelligence and law enforcement officials from the FBI, Homeland Security and other agencies," the officials revealed to the Associated Press.

 

U.S. tells agencies: Watch 'insiders' to prevent new WikiLeaks --Memo also suggests agencies take new steps to identify any contacts between federal workers and members of the news media 05 Jan 2011 The Obama administration is telling federal agencies to take aggressive new steps to prevent more WikiLeaks embarrassments, including instituting "insider threat" programs to ferret out disgruntled employees who might be inclined to leak classified documents, NBC News has learned. As part of these programs, agency officials are being asked to figure out ways to "detect behavioral changes" among employees who might have access to classified documents. A highly detailed 11-page memo prepared by U.S. intelligence officials and distributed by Jacob J. Lew, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, suggests that agencies use psychiatrists and sociologists to measure the "relative happiness" of workers or their "despondence and grumpiness" as a way to assess their trustworthiness.

 

US urges action to prevent insider leaks 05 Jan 2011 The White House is telling US agencies to create "insider threat" programmes to ferret out disgruntled workers who may leak state secrets, reports say. The move follows the leaking of thousands of secret US cables to the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks. An 11-page memo by US intelligence officials detailing the advice has been published by US broadcaster NBC.

 

100,000 dead fish and 5,000 dead birds: Secret US government testing? --HAARP hell: HUNDREDS more birds fall from the sky in Kentucky and Louisiana and tens of THOUSANDS of dead fish wash ashore --500 carcasses collected after dying in Louisiana on Monday --As many as 5,000 birds dead in Arkansas on New Year's Eve --Up to 100,000 dead and dying drum fish washed up in Arkansas River --Tens of thousands of dead fish in Chesapeake Bay in Maryland 04 Jan 2011 The mystery over thousands of birds raining from the sky in America deepened today after hundreds more plunged to their deaths in different parts of the country. Scientists said that New Year's Eve fireworks might have been to blame for the 3,000 blackbirds that died in a small town in Arkansas. But they were forced to order more tests last night after 500 birds plummeted to the ground 360 miles away in Louisiana on Monday and dozens more died in Kentucky. And just a 100 miles away from the Arkansas mass bird kill, at least 83,000 dead and dying fish washed ashore - possibly as many as 100,000. The Internet has been abuzz with conspiracy theories about secret government testing and a looming Armageddon.

 

2 million fish reported dead in Chesapeake Bay 05 Jan 2011 State officials say they are investigating a "very large" fish kill in the Chesapeake Bay, but suspect cold temperatures [?!?] killed them, rather than any water-quality problems. An estimated 2 million fish have been reported dead from the Bay Bridge south to Tangier Sound, according to the Maryland Department of the Environment, which investigates fish kills. The dead fish are primarily adult spot, with some juvenile croakers.

 

Hundreds of birds dead in western Kentucky 05 Jan 2011 State wildlife officials say "several hundred" dead birds were found near the Murray State University campus last week. They say grackles, red wing blackbirds, robins and starlings were among the dead animals. New Year's Eve fireworks [LOL!] have been blamed for causing the deaths of thousands of blackbirds in central Arkansas last week.

 

Cameras plentiful where Del. Defense consultant's body dumped --Under George W. Bush, Wheeler helped develop Air Force program to combat cyber attacks on US weapons systems 05 Jan 2011 (Newark, DE) Whoever dumped the body of a prominent national defense consultant into a garbage bin in a bustling college town risked being detected, either by witnesses or surveillance cameras, with some of the containers in well-lit parking lots, near restaurants and stores. Police don't know which of the 10 bins collected on New Year's Eve in Newark contained the body of John P. Wheeler III, who was last seen alive the afternoon before some 15 miles away in downtown Wilmington. Where he might have been killed and what he was doing on the days leading up to his death also remain elusive, said Newark police spokesman Lt. Mark Farrall. "We still don't know the location of the crime scene," Farrall said Tuesday.

 

Body of Former Federal Official Found at Landfill 03 Jan 2011 (DE) A military expert who served three Republican presidents and helped get the Vietnam Veterans Memorial built as part of his dedication to those who fought in that war was found dead in a landfill, and authorities were trying to piece together when he was last seen alive. The body of John Wheeler III, 66, was uncovered Friday when a garbage truck emptied its contents at the Cherry Island landfill in Wilmington.

 

Pentagon in $9.1bn fraud case in Iraq 04 Jan 2011 Iraq's Supreme Audit Court says the US Ministry of Defense has failed to account for the USD 9.1 billion misspent discretionary funds during Iraq's occupation. The Pentagon received USD 9.1 billion back in 2004 from the US-led occupation authority funds set up to benefit Iraqi people with assets seized from the previous government of Saddam Hussein. According to Iraqi newspaper al-Bayanat al-Jadidah, this recent release follows the 2010 finding of USD 8.7 billion in Iraq funds not accounted for.

 

US forces 'interfere' in Afghan affairs 04 Jan 2011 Afghan President Hamid Karzai says the US-led foreign powers are interfering in his country's internal affairs and hinder the implementation of laws. He has called on both Afghans and foreign countries to respect Afghanistan's constitution. "I ask our foreign friends not to interfere in our internal affairs, not to interfere in our constitution,'' Karzai said at a short Tuesday ceremony commemorating the seventh's anniversary of the ratification of Afghan Constitution in downtown Kabul. "They must stop meddling in our implementation of the law in our country.''

 

US-led forces kill 2 Afghan villagers 05 Jan 2011 US-led foreign troops in Afghanistan have killed two Afghan villagers during an operation in the eastern Wardak province, witnesses say. Locals reported that the foreign troops killed two civilians in Adam Kheil village of the war-torn country on Wednesday. NATO says the two Afghan nationals were Taliban members.

 

3 US-led soldiers killed in Afghanistan 05 Jan 2011 Three US-led NATO troops have been killed in separate attacks in Afghanistan, raising the death toll for foreign soldiers to six only five days into 2011. Two soldiers were killed in a bomb explosion in the east and the third died in a similar attack in the south, AFP reported on Wednesday.

 

'US drones kill 938 Pakistanis in 2010' 04 Jan 2011 The US has stepped up its drone attacks in Pakistan's tribal areas bordering Afghanistan, a new report by a Pakistani Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) says. The Islamabad-based NGO, Conflict Monitoring Center, revealed the details of the deaths by US drone attacks in its annual report. In 2010, the CIA carried out an unprecedented 132 drone attacks in tribal areas, claiming the lives of 938 people, it said.

 

Bomb blast wounds 15 kids in Pakistan 04 Jan 2011 At least 15 children have been wounded when a remote-controlled bomb blast ripped through a school bus carrying 30 children in Pakistan's Balochistan province. The bus was taking the children of military personnel to a school in Turbat town on Tuesday. "The attack occurred Tuesday in Turbat, 435 miles (700 kilometers) from Quetta, the capital of Balochistan province," a district police chief Abdul Latif said.

 

Pakistan Was Deadliest for Reporters Last Year 05 Jan 2011 Of the 44 journalists who were killed worldwide while working in 2010, 8 died in Pakistan, making it for the first time the deadliest country for reporters, according to a study released Tuesday by the Committee to Protect Journalists. In 2009, four were killed covering events in Pakistan.

 

Israel deliberately choked Gaza's economy: WikiLeaks 05 Jan 2011 Israel deliberately maintained the economy of the Gaza strip "on the brink of collapse" without "pushing it over the edge," a leaked US diplomatic cable from 2008 showed Wednesday. According to a cable from the US embassy in Tel Aviv dated November 3, 2008 -- obtained by WikiLeaks and posted online by Norwegian daily Aftenposten -- Israeli officials told US diplomats of their intention to strangle the economy of Gaza.

 

Two Israeli airstrikes target Gaza 04 Jan 2011 Israeli warplanes have conducted airstrikes on two locations in the Gaza Strip, but there have been no immediate reports of deaths or injuries. The attacks targeted the city of Dair al-Balah in central Gaza and the city of Rafah in the south, a Press TV correspondent said late on Tuesday night, shortly after the airstrikes.

 

Cops can now search cell phones in California 05 Jan 2011 The California Supreme Court has ruled that police can search the cell phone of a person who's been arrested. Police will be entitled to gather evidence from phones which are still in the possession of a suspect without obtaining a warrant. The data, which will be able to be used as evidence, will allow police to search e-mails, documents and contacts on smart phones and tablet computers.

 

Calif. court OKs searches of cell phones without warrant 04 Jan 2011 The California Supreme Court allowed police Monday to search arrestees' cell phones without a warrant, saying defendants lose their privacy rights for any items they're carrying when taken into custody. Under U.S. Supreme Court precedents, "this loss of privacy allows police not only to seize anything of importance they find on the arrestee's body ... but also to open and examine what they find," the state court said in a 5-2 ruling.

 

US, Germany developing secret spy satellites: cables 03 Jan 2011 Germany and the United States are jointly developing secret spy satellites under the guise of a commercial programme despite opposition from France, leaked US diplomatic cables showed Monday. The project, named HiROS, envisions the construction of an undetermined number of high-resolution observation satellites capable of spotting any object on the planet down to a size of just 50 centimetres (about 1.5 feet), according to classified cables from US embassy in Berlin leaked to WikiLeaks and obtained by Norwegian daily Aftenposten.

 

FBI Steps Up WikiLeaks-Linked Probe With Texas, Germany Raids 04 Jan 2011 The U.S. is stepping up a search for participants in WikiLeaks-related cyber attacks on PayPal Inc. and other payment processors, raiding a Dallas company last month and coordinating a seizure of evidence with police in Germany, according to a request for a federal search warrant. A Federal Bureau of Investigation raid of the Dallas computer server company Tailor Made Servers, which a person familiar with the case said occurred on Dec. 16, could provide investigators with information about the creators of chat rooms used by a group of WikiLeaks supporters that calls itself Anonymous.

 

Radioactive Leak at O'Hare Is False Alarm 05 Jan 2011 A reported hazardous materials situation Wednesday morning at a building at O'Hare International Airport turned out to be a false alarm. Crews were called to 10000 W. O'Hare -- the formal street address for the airport -- about 7 a.m., Fire Media Affairs spokesman Rich Rosado said. A container at that location was originally reported to be leaking something "radioactive," fire officials said.

 

$643 million in unrecovered FEMA funds 04 Jan 2011 A government audit says FEMA has not tried to recoup roughly $643 million in improper payments made to hurricane victims. A report issued by the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general's office says the improper payments were made to about 160,000 applicants, and have gone uncollected since June 2007.

 

Robert Gibbs Leaving Job as White House Press Secretary 05 Jan 2011 Robert Gibbs is leaving his job as White House Press Secretary. At his daily briefing Wednesday afternoon, Gibbs said serving as press secretary over the past two years has been the "opportunity of a lifetime, one that I will be forever thankful and grateful for." [Gibbs served his GOP overlords/corpora-terrorists well, working with Obusha to ensure that actual Democratic proposals were defeated, such as the public option.]

 

Republican John Boehner replaces Nancy Pelosi as House Speaker --US Congress shifts to the right as Republicans assume control of the House after slashing Democratic majority in Senate 05 Jan 2011 The Republican John Boehner was elected the new Speaker of the House today, marking a shift to the right in Washington as he replaced the first woman in the post, the Democrat Nancy Pelosi. The meeting of the 112th Congress, with the Republicans in control of the House and having slashed the Democratic majority in the Senate, is a long way from the heady days of 2007 when Pelosi was elected Speaker and the Democrats held both the House and the Senate.

 

New House oversight chairman asks businesses to name onerous government regulations 04 Jan 2011 Rep. Darrell Issa, the Vista Republican who will head the House's top investigative committee, is following through on his pledge to be more friendly to business, asking companies to tell him which government regulations to target with his new powers. Issa, the incoming chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform committee, recently sent letters to more than 150 businesses, trade associations and think tanks asking for their help in "identifying existing and proposed regulations that have negatively impacted job growth," according to a copy of one of the letters released Tuesday by his office. He asked for responses by Jan. 10. [So Darrell IssaNutjob wants to hand even *more* power to his (and Obusha's) corpora-terrorist overlords?]

 

Mega barf alert AND gag me with a chainsaw: President Michele Bachmann? --Sources: Tea Party Favorite Is Mulling a Presidential Bid in 2012 05 Jan 2011 Forget the fervent chatter speculating that Tea Party favorite Rep. Michele Bachmann is considering launching a campaign to challenge Sen. Amy Klobuchar for the Minnesota U.S. Senate seat in the next national election cycle. Think bigger. A source close to the three-term congresswoman said Bachmann will travel to Iowa this month for multiple meetings to seek advice from political forces there and party elders close to the caucus process before coming to a final decision regarding a potential presidential run.

 

'Obamacare serves insurance firms' 06 Jan 2011 Former Alaska senator Mike Gravel has accused US President Barack Obama of serving America's giant insurance companies by passing his controversial healthcare law in 2010. Gravel, who was a Democratic presidential candidate in the 2008 elections, says the US healthcare reform law, dubbed by some as the Obamacare, is not beneficial to the American people. "...When the Democrats passed the healthcare legislation, it was to enrich the insurance companies and so they are the one that benefited from them," Gravel told Press TV's US Desk on phone.

 

Scalia: Constitution Doesn't Protect Women or Gays from Discrimination 04 Jan 2011 Neither women nor gays are promised protection against discrimination under the Constitution, Supreme Court [in]Justice Antonin Scalia said in an interview with the publication California Lawyer. Scalia's remarks has spurred criticism from liberals and from some law scholars, though he has expressed this point of view before.

 

WikiLeaks: US targets EU over GM crops --US embassy cable recommends drawing up list of countries for 'retaliation' over opposition to genetic modification 03 Jan 2011 The US embassy in Paris advised Washington to start a military-style trade war against any European Union country which opposed genetically modified (GM) crops, newly released WikiLeaks cables show. In response to moves by France to ban a Monsanto GM corn variety in late 2007, the ambassador, Craig Stapleton, a friend and business partner of former US president [sic] George Bush, asked Washington to penalise the EU and particularly countries which did not support the use of GM crops.

 

Bees in freefall as study shows sharp US decline 03 Jan 2011 The abundance of four common species of bumblebees in the US has dropped by 96% in just the past few decades, according to the most comprehensive national census of the insects. Scientists said the alarming decline could have devastating implications for the pollination of both wild and farmed plants...  The insects, along with other crucial pollinators such as moths and hoverflies, have been in serious decline around the world since the last few decades of the 20th century.

 

Son of Omaha Police Detective Kills Assistant Principal, Self --Robert Butler Jr. Also Wounds Principal in School Shooting Rampage 05 Jan 2011 A high school student who was the son of a police detective shot two school officials at Millard South High School in Omaha today and then shot himself, police said. The shooter was identified as Robert Butler Jr., son of Omaha Police Det. Robert Butler. He was a senior at the school.

 

Prisoners report beatings in retaliation for December protests 05 Jan 2011 Inmate advocates and relatives said guards at one state institution have retaliated with violence against prisoners who staged a protest and refused to report to work details last month. Marie Williams, whose son is at Smith State Prison in Tattnall County, said another inmate called her on her son's behalf over the weekend to report what had happened. "They said they [officers] were hitting inmates with hammers," Williams told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Tuesday. "They [guards] said an inmate was trying to escape."

Komen creeps make a *killing* on cancer: Susan G. Komen Foundation Elbows Out Charities Over Use of the Word 'Cure' 07 Dec 2010 In addition to raising millions of dollars a year for 'breast cancer research,' fundraising giant Susan G. Komen for the Cure has a lesser-known mission that eats up donor funds: patrolling the waters for other charities and events around the country that use any variation of "for the cure" in their names. So far, Komen has identified and filed legal trademark oppositions against more than a hundred of these Mom and Pop charities, including Kites for a Cure, Par for The Cure, Surfing for a Cure and Cupcakes for a Cure--and many of the organizations are too small and underfunded to hold their ground.

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Previous lead stories: 'US to stay in Afghanistan forever' 02 Jan 2011 A senior Republican senator has suggested that the US should devise a plan to permanently keep American troops in war-ravaged Afghanistan. Lindsey Graham, the [deranged] Republican senator from South Carolina, told NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday that Republicans would push for indefinite US stay in Afghanistan in the years ahead. "We have had air bases all over the world and a couple of air bases in Afghanistan would allow the Afghan security forces an edge against the Taliban in perpetuity. It would be a signal to Pakistan that the Taliban are never going to come back. In Afghanistan they could change their behavior."

 

2010 Iraq death toll tops 2009: government 01 Jan 2011 The total number of Iraqi civilians and security force personnel killed in violence in 2010 was higher than the previous year, according to official statistics released on Saturday. According to an AFP tally based on figures from the three ministries released over the course of 2010, a total of 3,605 Iraqi civilians, police and army personnel were killed last year -- 124 more than the 3,481 who were killed in 2009.

 

Govt accused of blocking investigations of UK involvement in torture and rendition --MPs refused the facts on UK's part in rendition cases 02 Jan 2011 The Government is accused of blocking investigations into allegations of UK involvement in torture and rendition, contrary to its proclaimed wish to get to the bottom of the charges. In July, the coalition announced a judge-led inquiry on torture and rendition, the moving of prisoners from one country to another for interrogation. In practice, however, the coalition has refused to release information regarding the UK's complicity in torture and rendition flights to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Extraordinary Rendition, even though it relates to decisions made under Labour.

 

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