Al Norman: Wal-Mart Shoppers Are Trained To Be “Savages”…At Wal-Mart, they know the price of everything, but the value of nothing. It was the manager at the Rapid City, Michigan Wal-Mart store who said what the company’s top brass in Bentonville could not say. “There’s nothing in my store that’s worth people’s safety [...]
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WASHINGTON — The White House computer system was penetrated numerous times by Chinese hackers, the Financial Times reported Friday.
The cyber attackers obtained e-mails between government officials and stole information before U.S. computer experts fixed the system, a senior U.S. official told the Financial Times.
U.S. government cyber intelligence experts suspect the attacks were sponsored by [...]
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Bolivian President Evo Morales has announced he is suspending “indefinitely” the operations of the US drug enforcement agency in his country.
Mr Morales accused the agency of having encouraged anti-government protests in Bolivia in September.
He did not say whether its staff would be asked to leave the country, as coca- growers have been pressing him to [...]
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h/t: sott.net
Martha Quillin and Samuel Spies
The Mercury News
Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:39 UTC
An American arrested in Pakistan while trying to travel illegally into a tribal area is a high school dropout from Raleigh who went to his father’s homeland to try to start a new life for himself, according to a friend of his family.
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Nick Juliano
Published: Thursday October 2, 2008
‘Ridiculous’ to think program doesn’t violate Posse Comitatus, ACLU lobbyist tells Raw
The Department of Homeland Security has been given the money it needs to begin turning international spy satellites within the country’s borders, despite lingering fears about the program’s lack of focus and the potential for it to infringe upon [...]
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Shut Your Mouth … or Else
Why are federal prosecutors threatening a government-secrets expert?
Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball
Newsweek Web Exclusive
Updated: 4:36 PM ET Sep 9, 2008
The Justice Department has threatened to file criminal charges against a former top National Archives official if he testifies as a defense witness in a high-profile national-security case.
J. William Leonard, who resigned last [...]
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According to reports in the newspaper De Telegraaf, the country’s intelligence service, the AIVD, has stopped an espionage operation aimed at infiltration and sabotage of the weapons industry in Iran.
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Published: Aug. 4, 2008 at 11:10 AM
TEL AVIV, Israel, Aug. 4 (UPI) — Jonathan Pollard sued Israel Monday, claiming the country didn’t help him or his family financially since he was jailed for spying nearly two dozen years ago.
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2 August 2008
Thanks to Robert Eringer. Wikipedia on “Robert Eringer” and “The Investigator:”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Eringer
The name of the Air Force colonel described below is invited; send to cryptome[at]earthlink.net.
Robert Eringer
Robert Eringer
August 2, 2008 12:00 AM
The Investigator
Few noticed that President George W. Bush quietly revamped the role of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board earlier this year. But nobody [...]
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By Bryan Gardiner
Artist Trevor Paglen’s time-exposure photographs show the streaks of light left by classified satellites.
Photo: Trevor Paglen
BERKELEY, California — For most people, photographing something that isn’t there might be tough. Not so for Trevor Paglen.
If you think things can’t get worse it’s probably only because you lack sufficient imagination
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