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Anonymous Strikes Again : Stratfor Confidential Emails Published

27 Monday Feb 2012

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Anonymous joined WikiLeaks to publish more than five million emails from the U.S.-based global security analysis company known as STRATFOR.

Some of the emails being published “may be forged or altered to include inaccuracies; some may be authentic,” the company said. Having had our property stolen, we will not be victimized twice by submitting to questioning about them”.

STRATFOR, previously known as Strategic Forecasting, Inc., is a global intelligence company founded in 1996 in Austin, Texas by George Friedman who is the founder, chief intelligence officer, and CEO of the company.

Since its inception in 1996, STRATFOR has published a daily intelligence briefing. Its rise to prominence occurred with the release of its Kosovo Crisis Center during the 1999 NATO airstrikes over Kosovo. Before the end of 1999, however, STRATFOR had introduced a subscription service through which it offered the majority of its analyses. At the time of the September 11, 2001 attacks, STRATFOR made its “breaking news” paragraphs, as well as some notable analyses predicting likely actions to be taken by al-Qaeda and the Bush administration, available freely to the public.

STRATFOR has some products available to the public including private briefings, corporate memberships, a publishing business that includes written and multimedia analysis and an iPhone application. STRATFOR has been cited by media such as CNN, Bloomberg, the Associated Press, Reuters, The New York Times and the BBC as an authority on strategic and tactical intelligence issues.Barron’s once referred to it as “The Shadow CIA”.

WikiLeaks did not say how it had acquired access to the vast haul of internal and external correspondence of the Austin, Texas based company and people linked to Anonymous took credit for the data theft. “Congrats on the amazing partnership between #Anonymous and #WikiLeaks to make all 5 million mails public,” AnonSec Tweeted. Hackers linked to the Anonymous hackers group said at the beginning of the year they had stolen the email correspondence of some 100 of the firm’s employees.

The emails, snatched by hackers, could unmask sensitive sources and throw light on the murky world of intelligence-gathering by the company which counts Fortune 500 companies among its subscribers.

Congrats!

Related article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/27/wikileaks-stratfor-emails-published_n_1303238.html?ref=world

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Une attaque de Boko Haram fait trois morts au Nigéria

27 Monday Feb 2012

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Abubakar Shekau, leader du Boko Haram : Un autre illuminé!

La secte islamiste radicale Boko Haram fait exploser une voiture piégée à l’extérieur d’une église dans une ville du centre du Nigeria [le principal temple de l’Église du Christ au Nigeria], alors que les fidèles prenaient part à une cérémonie matinale.

L’attaque fait suite à d’autres actes violents dont se réclame la secte contre des chrétiens dans le nord du pays, aggravant la méfiance entre les deux principaux courants religieux dans cette nation multiethnique de plus de 160 millions d’habitants.

Le président Goodluck Jonathan a condamné l’attaque par voie de communiqué. « Ceux qui tentent de nous diviser en employant la peur et la terreur échoueront. Ces attaques aveugles contre les chrétiens et les musulmans sont une menace envers tous les Nigérians amants de paix », a-t-il déclaré.

Ouf !

Article relié : http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/International/2012/02/27/003-nigeria-attaque-secte-islamiste-boko-haram.shtml

William Hague Warns Against Stiking Iran

27 Monday Feb 2012

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William Hague, UK Foreign Minister

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LONDON — An attack on Iran would carry huge costs. Striking Iran could lead to a dangerous nuclear standoff in the Middle East. Striking at Iran’s disputed nuclear program would have enormous downsides. Britain’s foreign minister warned.

While allowing Iran to proceed with its nuclear program unchecked would lead to a Cold War-style arms race in the Middle East, with neighboring countries rushing to match the Iranian arsenal, we are very clear to all concerned that we are not advocating military action, he said. We couldn’t assume that a strike would be over quickly. There would be large scale and long-lasting repercussions. And so, the most serious round of nuclear proliferation since nuclear weapons were invented would have begun with all the destabilizing effects in the Middle East. That would be a disaster for world affairs.

Tensions over Iran’s nuclear program are running high. Israel, the U.S., Britain and others suspect that the Islamic Republic is using the program as cover for the manufacture of atomic weapons and observers fear that a pre-emptive strike may be in the works.

Related article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/18/william-hague-iran-strike_n_1286322.html

Toward Global Unity?

26 Sunday Feb 2012

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Imagine Global Unity!

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For untold ages humankind has dreamed and foretold of its eventual unification in a state of global unity. From Albert Eisenstein to Aristotle the greatest intellectuals among us of realized the need for this alternative to mankind’s present anarchic nation-state relations. Why must this remain a theory?

Today, it is only common sense for everyone, for every nation, for all the people on earth to call for a global recognition of their rights and freedoms, and their stringent enforcement. The need for a global governance system has never been greater, nor the means to accomplish it easier. A global generation exists more familiar culturally and socially to one another across nations than to previous generations. Global youth unemployment and worldwide economic stagnation and environmental degradation have already forced upon this generation the need to work together intimately, globally, consistently or face a decline into extinction. If humanity cannot unite, then it is not fit to survive, but many know it is fit, it is ready: the 21st century will be defined by the rise of supra-nationalism.

While each country is now dealing with civil and economic crisis that have trickled down in the form of austerity measures by all governments, world citizens are fighting within the ideological boundaries of national sovereignty. There have been millenniums of talks on this issue: the time has come for action, for change, for the realization and creation of a Universal Global Planetary Party by practical day-to-day action.

From all these conflicts and revolutions that we see now around the world, a Global Social Universal Planetary Federation of people and nations, that is neutral non-partisan, shall rise to advocate and create these institutions in a grassroots and truly global manner.

The fourth kingdom

26 Sunday Feb 2012

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Peace and Security / Paix et Sécurité

The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces. And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings. And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.

– Daniel 7:23-25

Syrie/ sommet de Tunis: les décisions ?

26 Sunday Feb 2012

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Moncef Marzouki se demande que soit accordée "l'immunité judiciaire" au président syrien Bachar al-Assad et sa famille.

Beaucoup d’idées et très peu de concret : tel est le bilan de cette conférence internationale sur la Syrie, organisée à Tunis et réunissant des représentants de l’opposition syrienne et plus de soixante pays.

Un « engagement » à prendre des mesures pour appliquer et renforcer les sanctions sur le régime ; un « appel » à l’arrêt des violences afin de permettre l’accès de l’aide humanitaire ; la « reconnaissance » du Conseil national syrien comme « un » représentant légitime des Syriens et l’encourage à former un groupe “représentatif” et incluant toutes les sensibilités.

Le président tunisien Moncef Marzouki ainsi que le ministre qatari des Affaires étrangères Cheikh Hamad Bin Jassim al-Thani ont appelé de leurs vœux la création d’une force arabe. Le groupe de 60 pays demande par ailleurs au gouvernement syrien de “permettre l’accès libre et sans entraves des agences humanitaires”.

Si je comprends bien, femmes et enfants vont continuer à être assassinés et qui plus est : Le trou du cul de président tunisien Moncef Marzouki se demande que soit accordée “l’immunité judiciaire” au président syrien Bachar al-Assad et sa famille.

Paix et sécurité mon cul !

Hillary Clinton over Obama any given day and times!

26 Sunday Feb 2012

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TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has blasted Russia and China as “despicable” for opposing U.N. action aimed at stopping the bloodshed in Syria. In his most forceful words to date on the Syrian crisis, President Barack Obama said Friday the U.S. and its allies would use “every tool available” to end the bloodshed by the government of President Bashar Assad.

While the Tunisia conference offered nothing other than the threat of increasing isolation and sanctions to compel compliance from Assad, Clinton went on to predict a military coup inside Syria of the kind that ended the old regimes in Egypt and Tunisia. “We saw this happen in other settings last year, I think it is going to happen in Syria,” she told reporters at the end of the meeting. “We also know from many sources that there are people around Assad who are beginning to hedge their bets — they didn’t sign up to slaughter people.”

“It’s quite distressing to see two permanent members of the Security Council using their veto while people are being murdered — women, children, brave young men — houses are being destroyed,” she said. “It is just despicable and I ask whose side are they on? They are clearly not on the side of the Syrian people.”

Syrians desperate for help

24 Friday Feb 2012

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As the death toll grows in Syria, so do the desperate pleas for help.

The United States, the European Union, the Arab League and Turkey are all enforcing sanctions against Bashar Al-Assad’s Syrian regime, but the violence has only worsened in recent weeks and there is hesitancy for the U.N. Security Council and the Nations to intervene militarily.

We don’t know the opposition well enough; Al-Assad still has strong support in his country; Geography is an issue; Sanctions could still work; Last week China and Russia veto: So many excuses for the Nations not to intervene. Meantime, people, innocent people are dying.

The key question now is, how long do we wait?

Today, the death toll is approaching 8,000, with 60,000 detained and 20,000 missing. With people dying every day, when do we say enough is enough?

Personally, I don’t give a shit about political and religious leaders dying; I don’t give a shit about soldiers dying while shooting civilians, innocent women and children. I only hope that in Syria, like for in any other countries in the world, economic difficulties will soon turn more and more of “We, the People”, against all the pseudo democratic, capitalist communist, socialist and religious dictatorships of this world.

Once the middle class fully joins the ongoing worldwide uprisings, all the Bashar Al-Assads of this world are goners.

Related article: Why the world isn’t intervening in Syria http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/23/world/syria-intervention/index.html?hpt=wo_c1

Hang the Bastard

24 Friday Feb 2012

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While nations want tsunami wave of pressure on Bashar Al-Assad, I want him dead, hanging by his balls.

Tunis, Tunisia — World powers are convening in Tunisia, mapping out a plan for a political solution in Syria and a “tsunami wave” of pressure that would peel away internal support for the embattled regime.

The Friends of Syria group which includes the United States, Arab nations, Turkey is working on a plan to deliver immediate humanitarian aid to the Syrian opposition. The United Nations has stockpiled of aid such as food and medicine in Syria’s neighboring states that can be deliver immediately.

Thousands have died in Syria since Mid-March of 2011, when Bashar Al-Assad’s Alawite-minority led government launched a crackdown against a predominantly Sunni anti-government protest movement that quickly devolved into an opposition movement with a rebel army and armed militias. More than 9,000 people have been killed since the uprising began in mid-March.

Neither Russia nor China is participating in the Tunisia meeting.

Related article: http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/24/world/meast/syria-unrest/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

Cyber attacks: the weaponry of the future

23 Thursday Feb 2012

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Ralph Langner, the researcher who identified that Stuxnet infected PLCs, first speculated publicly in September 2010 that the malware was of Israeli origin, and that it targeted Iranian nuclear facilities. However Langner, more recently, stated that, while the Mossad is involved, the leading force behind Stuxnet is not Israel but the one and only cyber superpower, the United States of America.

Cyber attacks are now targeting high-value infrastructures not only in Iran but all over the world. According to Langner, this trend won’t fade or go away and most major installations and critical infrastructure in the world are not really prepared for this. So when they will be attacked, it will probably take a year until they notice what is going on, which is exactly what we have seen in the case of Stuxnet. According to Langner, we presently don’t have Intrusion Detection System tools and technology that could prevent it. From a technology point of view, you certainly can design a product that would be capable of doing this. But so far, we haven’t seen it.

If most nations and institutions are so unprepared, how come don’t we see more of these intrusive cyber attacks? The answer is quite simple: So far, we haven’t seen any really solid contingency plans for cyber attacks but this is coming sooner than you think. People are fed up with what is going on around the world and there are more and more well educated and knowledgeable people out there and this might get very nasty faster than you think groups like Anonymous could decide [and I hope they will,] to target all major institutions and bring down any superpower on its knees.

Science and knowledge are no longer the appanage of the rich and powerful.