ShareThisIran says Israeli spy network dismantled, terrorists arrested 11 Jan 2011 Iran said Monday it has dismantled an Israeli spying network and arrested a group of its terrorist-spies who were linked to the assassination of its nuclear scientist. According to an announcement by Iran's Intelligence Ministry, the Iranian security forces arrested the elements of the terror attack on Iran's nuclear scientist, Dr. Massoud Ali-Mohammadi, and annihilated the "spying and terrorist network of the Zionist regime" of Israel linked to the assassination, Iranian state IRINN TV reported.
ShareThisJudge: Tom DeLay to serve 3 years in prison --Judge remanded DeLay into custody and set $10,000 bond pending appeal 10 Jan 2011 Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R) will serve three years in prison on his November conviction on money laundering and conspiracy charges, a Texas judge ruled Monday. Judge Pat Priest sentenced DeLay to three years on the conspiracy charge and five years on the money-laundering charge. But the judge will allow DeLay to serve 10 years probation with community service on the laundering charge in lieu of the prison sentence, and the two sentences will be served concurrently.
ShareThisBP shuts Alaska pipeline after leak 10 Jan 2011 BP shares slid nearly 2.5% this morning after closure of a major Alaskan pipeline that carries around 12% of America's oil output. The Trans-Alaska pipeline system, which transports oil from the Prudhoe Bay field, was closed on Saturday following the discovery of a leak. The incident is expected to drive up oil prices, and could mean motorists face even higher costs at the pumps. Prudhoe Bay is America's largest oil reserve. BP is the largest shareholder in the company which runs the Trans-Alaska pipeline, called Alyeska Pipeline Service.
ShareThisMurdered ex-Pentagon official, John Wheeler, 'confused' on video before death: cops --The state medical examiner says Wheeler was murdered. Police won't say how. 05 Jan 2011 The probe into how a former Pentagon official ended up in a Delaware landfill took a strange, sad turn Wednesday when video surfaced of him stumbling around in a daze days before he died. Dressed in a dark suit with no tie or overcoat, carrying his left shoe in his right hand, John Wheeler looked lost and confused as he wandered in a Wilmington parking garage on Dec. 29. Police said they have other surveillance video showing him inside a historic Wilmington building that houses the headquarters of chemical giant DuPont on the evening of Dec. 30, hours before he was found dead.
ShareThisU.S. Twitter Subpoena on WikiLeaks Is 'Harassment,' Lawyer Says 10 Jan 2011 U.S. prosecutors’ demand that the microblogging service Twitter Inc. hand over data about users with ties to WikiLeaks amounts to harassment, said a lawyer for Julian Assange, the website’s founder. The Justice Department subpoena, approved last month in federal court and later unsealed, also violates the U.S. Constitution’s Fourth Amendment, which prohibits unreasonable government searches, Assange’s lawyer Mark Stephens said today in a telephone interview in London.
ShareThisPalestinian building knocked down by Israeli bulldozers 10 Jan 2011 Israeli bulldozers have destroyed part of a building in occupied East Jerusalem to erect new homes for Jewish settlers. The Shepherd's Hotel complex was knocked down on the weekend, despite objections from the Palestinian Authority and the United States. The Palestinian president's office said the demolition had ended the possibility of peace talks resuming.
ShareThisEx-Congressional aide found dead in burning car near W.H. official's home 10 Jan 2011 A veteran Congressional aide who worked most recently as a lobbyist [Progress Energy Inc.] and was married to White House legislative affairs senior official was found dead in her car Monday behind the couple’s Capitol Hill home following a low-speed car crash and subsequent fire. Ashley Turton, whose husband, Dan, is the White House’s deputy director of legislative affairs for the U.S. House, died in the early-morning incident in the garage behind 800 A Street, NE, friends, her employer and Congressional leadership aides said. City fire and police units responded to the vicinity of the home at about 5 A.M. Monday, according to fire department spokesman Pete Piringer.
ShareThis5 civilians killed in Afghanistan clashes 09 Jan 2011 Fresh clashes between US-led foreign forces and Taliban militants have left at least five civilians, including a child, dead in southern Afghanistan. Three other civilians were also injured during the incident that took place in Helmand's Nad Ali district on Saturday.
ShareThis3 Afghan policemen killed in car bomb 10 Jan 2011 At least three Afghan border police guards have been killed in a car bombing in the Spin Boldak district of troubled Kandahar province in southern Afghanistan near the border with Pakistan. The Monday attack is the second assault in four days against border police in the area, a Press TV correspondent reported.
ShareThisJared Lee Loughner note reveals aim to assassinate Gabrielle Giffords --Investigators are examining whether far-right organisations played a role in Tucson shooting that killed six people 10 Jan 2011 A note written by Jared Lee Loughner ahead of his shooting rampage in Tucson appears to show that he made careful preparations to assassinate Gabrielle Giffords, the congresswoman gravely wounded in the attack that also killed six other people. The existence of the note is revealed in court papers filed after Loughner was charged on Sunday with murder and attempted assassination. The FBI document says that Loughner wrote on an envelope the words "I planned ahead", "My assassination" and "Giffords"... The FBI director, Robert Mueller, who travelled to Tucson to take charge of the investigation, said that one focus of the inquiry is whether far-right organisations and websites played a role.
ShareThisStop and search powers to return --Police powers to stop and search people at random are likely to be revived under new counter-terrorism legislation. 10 Jan 2011 (UK) The controversial measures under section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 have not resulted in any prosecutions but have led to complaints from people across all sections of society who have been stopped in order to balance statistics. The Government, which suspended use of section 44 in July, is likely to limit use of the powers to shorter time periods and geographical areas.
ShareThisDocument points to assassination plan - U.S. court filing 09 Jan 2011 U.S. investigators said on Sunday they had found a document in the residence of the man charged with trying to kill Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords that discussed assassination plans. An envelope in a safe in the residence of Jared Loughner contained handwriting stating "I planned ahead" and "My assassination" and the name "Giffords" along with what appears to be Loughner's signature, according to charges filed in U.S. court in Phoenix.
ShareThisDem planning bill that would outlaw threatening lawmakers 09 Jan 2011 Rep. Robert Brady (D-Pa.) reportedly plans to introduce legislation that would make it a federal crime to use language or symbols that could be perceived as threatening or inciting violence against a federal official or member of Congress. Brady told CNN that he wants federal lawmakers and officials to have the same protections against threat currently provided to the president. His call comes one day after Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) was shot, along with 19 other people, at a public event in Tucson.
ShareThisArizona authorities clear second man of involvement in Tucson shooting 09 Jan 2011 Arizona authorities say a second man has been cleared of any involvement in an attempted assassination of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson. Pima County Sheriff's Deputy Jason Ogan said Sunday that the man was a cab driver who drove the gunman to the grocery store outside of which the shooting occurred. Ogan says the man went into the store because the gunman apparently hadn't paid his fare.
ShareThisShooting suspect charged with assassination attempt 09 Jan 2011 The United States on Sunday charged Jared Lee Loughner, the man suspected of killing six people and wounding a U.S. congresswoman in Arizona, with five criminal counts including attempted assassination. The charges were filed in U.S. federal court in Phoenix.
ShareThisJared Loughner Radically Changed Before Alleged Shooting, Friend Says --Longtime Friend of Suspected Gunman: 'He Was a Good Person... I Don't Know What the Hell Happened to Him' 09 Jan 2011 A longtime friend of Jared Lee Loughner, the suspect in custody following the murder of six people in an apparent assassination attempt on Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, said there was a mysterious, significant change in him a year before the shooting. "He was a good person that just somehow changed so much," former classmate and friend Tong Shan told ABC News in an exclusive interview. "I don't know what the hell happened to him."
ShareThisU.S. wounded rate in Afghanistan soars 08 Jan 2011 The number of U.S. troops wounded in battle in Afghanistan in 2010 more than doubled from the previous year, The New York Times reported Saturday. The newspaper cited reports it obtained from the Pentagon that showed almost 5,500 soldiers were injured in 2010 in the NATO intervention to 'oust' Taliban and al-Qaida insurgents from Afghanistan. In 2009, 2,415 U.S. soldiers were wounded in action, the report said.
ShareThisSuspicious Object Near White House Deemed Harmless 09 Jan 2011 Authorities in Washington say a suspicious object found in a park near the White House turned out to be harmless. U.S. Park Police Sgt. David Schlosser says he did not have a description of the object or why it was deemed suspicious. But he says the object has been determined not to pose a threat. The object was found about midday Sunday in Lafayette Park near the White House.
ShareThisRep. Giffords Still in Critical Condition Following Shooting --Number of Those Shot in Assassination Attempt on Rep. Giffords Rises to 20. 09 Jan 2011 Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is responding to simple commands but is still in critical condition after suffering a gunshot wound to the head yesterday, according to her doctors... Fourteen other people were wounded and six killed during the assassination attempt on Giffords at a political event outside a Tucson grocery store Saturday morning.
ShareThisPatriot Act, a Nazi law: Ex-CIA official 09 Jan 2011 The United States Patriot Act is similar to the legislations carried out by the Nazi Germany in the World War II era, a former CIA officer says. "The Patriot Act was similar to legislation carried out by the Nazis because essentially it was using terrorism in both cases as an excuse to strip civil liberties that were enjoyed in both countries; in the United States and Germany," Phillip Giraldi said in an interview with Press TV.
ShareThisObama picks Wall Street insider as White House chief of staff By Jerry White 08 Jan 2011 President Obama’s choice of William Daley for the post of White House chief of staff is a clear signal to corporate America that his administration will dedicate the next two years to accommodating the wishes of big business for reduced regulations and taxes for corporations and austerity measures for the working class... On Friday, the day after he announced his appointment of Daley, Obama tapped Gene Sperling--another figure with close ties to Wall Street--to head the White House’s National Economic Council. Obama has gone to great lengths to demonstrate his obeisance to corporate America, holding a closed door meeting with 20 top executives last month, where he told them, "I want to dispel any notion that we want to inhibit your success... We want to be boosters because when you do well, America does well." Next month he plans to meet with the US Chamber of Commerce, which publicly denounced Obama for his financial regulatory proposals and funded Republican candidates in the November midterm election.
ShareThisProtesters march for Wikileaks founder Assange 09 Jan 2011 (CA) Around 50 protesters raised signs and marched in support of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and whistleblower Pfc. Bradley Manning at Saturday at the Town Clock on Pacific Avenue. Hoping to publicize their disdain for the prosecution of the two men responsible for the disclosure of U.S. classified information, protest organizer Steven Argue of Santa Cruz and the Coalition to Free Julian Assange and Bradley Manning, distributed 3,000 fliers and gathered for the second time in two weeks.
ShareThisUS demands Twitter release Assange details --Court in Virginia secretely subpoenas information relating to accounts of four WikiLeaks associates 09 Jan 2011 Staff at the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks were last night preparing a legal challenge after discovering that US officials had issued a subpoena on their Twitter account to demand private messages, billing addresses and other details. The group suspects that other social networking sites and email providers will also have been asked to reveal their private conversations. The site's founder, Julian Assange, was one of four people associated with the group to have a subpoena on their account.
ShareThisIceland summons US envoy over demand for MP's Twitter details --Reykjavik calls for explanation of Justice Department's move to access account of politician caught up in WikiLeaks inquiry 09 Jan 2011 The American ambassador to Iceland has been summoned to explain why US officials are trying to access the Twitter account of an Icelandic MP and former WikiLeaks collaborator. Birgitta Jónsdóttir, an MP for the Movement in Iceland, revealed last week that the US justice department had asked Twitter to hand over her information. The US authorities are trying to build a criminal case against the website after its huge leaks of classified US information. "[It is] very serious that a foreign state, the United States, demands such personal information of an Icelandic person, an elected official," the interior minister, Ogmundur Jonasson, told Icelandic broadcaster RUV. [The US is, in fact, an alien state, and should return to the planet from whence it came in order to save this one.]
ShareThisU.S. subpoenas Twitter for Wikileaks info --Justice Dept. wants info dating back to Nov. 1, 2009 08 Jan 2011 The U.S. Department of Justice served Twitter with a subpoena seeking information about the accounts of the Wikileaks organization, its founder Julian Assange and other members and supporters, according to Twitter posts from people involved and documents published by Salon.com. The DOJ sent Twitter the subpoena on Dec. 14, but it remained sealed until Jan. 5 when a judge granted Twitter's request that it be allowed to notify the users whose records had been requested.
ShareThisAnti-US protests held in Afghanistan 09 Jan 2011 Amid rising anti-US sentiments in war-battered Afghanistan, hundreds of angry protesters have rallied against US-led military operations in the country. The protesters said foreign forces have arrested a religious scholar and three of his family members in an overnight raid in Konduz province. They threatened to keep protesting until the scholar is freed. Konduz officials have confirmed the arrest, saying however that it was not coordinated with Afghan security forces.
ShareThisAfghan war kills another US-led soldier 09 Jan 2011 A roadside bomb has claimed the life of another US-led soldier in southern Afghanistan bringing the number of foreign soldiers killed in the war-ravaged country to 11 so far this year. NATO said in a statement that the service member died on Sunday.
ShareThisSuspect in federal custody after Tucson shooting 09 Jan 2011 A gunman who intended to assassinate a U.S. representative when he opened fire outside an Arizona supermarket Saturday has been placed in federal custody, authorities said... Two people tackled the suspected shooter, stopping a spray of bullets from what federal and state law enforcement sources described as a 9mm Glock outfitted with a 30-round magazine. The suspect [Jared Lee Loughner], who was being held by local authorities, was later taken into custody by the FBI, said Deputy Jason Ogan, Pima County Sheriff's Department spokesman.
ShareThisArizona shooting witness: There was 'no route to escape' --'He was ready for war. He was not playing around.' 09 Jan 2011 Dr. Steven Rayle told CNN he was about 10 feet away from [Gabrielle] Giffords when the gunman shot the congresswoman. "He continued to fire, sort of rapidly, really at point-blank range. And the way things were set up, people really had no route to escape. They were sort of hemmed in by the architecture and the things around there," he said... "He was not sort of going around and picking out people and firing at them... He was just firing his gun indiscriminately," he said. The 22-year-old suspect, who law enforcement sources identified as Jared Lee Loughner, was trying to reload when he was tackled to the ground, another witness said.
ShareThisAlaska pipeline shut down after leak discovered 09 Jan 2011 The Trans Alaska Pipeline shut down on Saturday after a leak was discovered at the intake pump station at Prudhoe Bay, constricting supply in one of the United States' key oil arteries. Alyeska Pipeline Service Co., the operator of the 800-mile (1,280 kilometre) line which runs from the Prudhoe Bay oilfield to the tanker port of Valdez, said the leak was discovered Saturday morning.
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Arming the Left: Is the time now? By Charles Southwell 21 Oct 2003 As long as we pose no REAL threat to the powers-that-be, to what is shaping up into [is] a dictatorship, we will continue to be ignored. Right now, we are ignored because we present no organized power to fight this onslaught of anti-democratic, totalitarian government that we are up against...
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