Friday, August 03, 2007
"Assassination of Russia" False flag Govenment sponsored terrorism Russian style
Google Video
Friday Aug 3, 2007
Russian FSB are caught planting bombs in buildings to blame on the Chechens.
http://eng.terror99.ru/publications/056.htm
A French ... all » Documentary Alleges Kremlin Involvement in Russia's 1999 Apartment Bombings
BY YURI ZARAKHOVICH/MOSCOW
Friday, Apr. 19, 2002. Most Russians are unlikely to see The Attempt on Russia, a French documentary shot with the help of tycoon Boris Berezovsky, now self-exiled to London. The film alleges involvement of Russian secret services in the Moscow and the Volgodonsk apartment bombings in the fall of1999. The terrorist attacks claimed 247 lives and paved the way for a new Chechen war that helped install Vladimir Putin as Russian President. While denying the claim, the Kremlin made sure that Russian TV would not show the footage, screened by human rights groups to limited audiences.
Still, such allegations have been the talk of the country ever since the tragedy. This week, VTSIOM (the Public Opinion Studies Center) released its polls on public reaction to them. The results show that 38% of those polled firmly deny that Russian secret servihuch an involvement should not be ruled out; and 19% are undecided. The polls hardly bode well for Putin.
http://eng.terror99.ru/explosions/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Apartment_Bombings
Ron Paul Leads Republicans in Web Traffic by a Whopping 45%
Christopher Costigan
Gambling911.com
Friday Aug 3, 2007
If web traffic has any relevance in determining which candidate becomes the next US President, Ron Paul has just won....by a long shot.
A recent review by ClickZ.com has the Texas Republican representative with 45.38% of the overall market share, followed by Mitt Romney at a distant 13.93%. Ron Paul gained 6 percentage points over the previous week. Both Rudy Giuliani and John McCain lost around 4 percentage points.
Among the Democrats, Barack Obama continues to be a strong front runner, though he lost 6 percentage points following the CNN/YouTube Debate while Hillary Clinton at 24.14% gained nearly 5 percentage points.
Interestingly, Ron Paul has taken the lead from Obama among all web searches (Democrat and Republican) this week.
So who are the bottom feeders in both parties?
Bill Richardson and Chris Dodd barely have 2% of the overall market among Democrats while Tommy Thompson and Jim Gillmore lag far behind on the Republican side.
Web traffic also suggests that Mike Gravel was helped the most by the recent CNN/YouTube Debate. His web market share jumped from 1.50% to 8.15% following the debate.Congress ponders surveillance proposals
AP
Friday Aug 3, 2007
Congress struggled Thursday over giving the government more power to eavesdrop on suspected terrorists, bogged down by concerns about the man who would oversee the plan: Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
Democrats and Republicans alike said they wanted to update the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 before leaving Washington at week’s end for a monthlong break.
Gonzales “is clearly one of the concerns that has been expressed by the Democratic leaders,” House Republican leader John Boehner of Ohio told reporters.
“But at the end of the day, there has to be a way for our intelligence and counterintelligence agencies to collect data from known terrorists. And we shouldn’t let personalities get in the way of protecting the American people.”
Sen. Charles Schumer, a New York Democrat, said that lawmakers scoff when “they say Gonzales should do the reviews, because nobody believes he has any independence.”
The law generally requires court review of government surveillance of suspected terrorists in the United States.
It does not, however, specifically address the government’s ability to intercept messages thought to come from suspects who are overseas, opening what the White House considers a significant gap in protecting against attacks by foreigners who are making targets of the U.S.
Democrats, who control Congress, would allow the messages from foreign targets to be intercepted, but only after a review by the special FISA court to make sure that the surveillance does not focus on communications that might be sent to and from Americans.Pay as you drive 'threat to privacy'
David Millward and Brendan Carlin
London Telegraph
Friday Aug 3, 2007
Motorists may reject pay as you drive road pricing because of worries that it threatens their privacy, MPs warn in a report today.
Fears that the public will not accept the monitoring of their movements required to make road pricing work have been highlighted by the Commons transport select committee.
The Government has sought to reassure motorists that the introduction of road pricing - possibly with the aid of "spy in the sky satellites" - would not threaten or intrude upon motorists.
But the committee, previously a strong supporter of road pricing, claims that present laws are inadequate to guarantee that drivers' privacy would not be undermined.
"Road pricing schemes have to be put in place with the agreement of the public," said Gwyneth Dunwoody, the committee chairman.
The Government's strategy to run pilot studies within urban centres, rather than on dual carriageways and motorways, has also come under attack from the MPs. "A range of town and city centre pricing schemes will not tell us a great deal about the impact of road pricing on inter-urban routes and major trunk roads," the committee warns.
Mrs Dunwoody also highlighted the dangers of motorists becoming confused if they were confronted with a patchwork of road pricing systems scattered across the country.
According to the committee, local authorities used as guinea pigs in the road pricing trials could be left facing huge debts, lasting up to 30 years. In the case of Greater Manchester, the one area which has confirmed that it is ready to run a trial, the bill would be £3 billion.
The Government has also come under attack over its decision to remove the legal requirement on local authorities to consult before introducing trials. The committee recommend that these proposals should be ditched and the requirement to consult the local population should remain.
The Department for Transport insisted that it would take action to guarantee motorists' privacy and added that it would not support any road pricing scheme that had "unacceptable social impacts."
The Liberal Democrats, while insisting that they backed the principle of road pricing, have admitted that the technology to make it work is still some way in the future.
Susan Kramer, the party's transport spokesman, has instead called for Britain to follow the example of Germany and press ahead with a lorry road charging scheme - an idea ditched by the Government - using the money raised to pay for public transport improvements.Expert Suspiciously Reverses Stance On Doctored Al-Qaeda Tapes
| Expert Suspiciously Reverses Stance On Doctored Al-Qaeda Tapes Who are you gonna believe? Spook infested Pentagon propaganda arm IntelCenter or your lying eyes? |
| Paul Joseph Watson | |
After unwittingly exposing the fact that IntelCenter, a private intelligence group made up of Pentagon affiliated ex-spooks, was doctoring and releasing so-called Al-Qaeda propaganda tapes, computer expert Neal Krawetz has now suspiciously reversed his position, despite the fact that he appeared on camera and re-affirmed his research when directly asked.
As we reported yesterday, Krawetz's most telling discovery came in the form of a detail contained in a 2006 Ayman al-Zawahiri tape. From his analysis he concluded that the As-Sahab logo (the alleged media arm of Al-Qaeda) and the IntelCenter logo (a U.S. based private intelligence organization that "monitors terrorist activity") were both added to the video at the same time.
This clearly indicates IntelCenter itself is directly creating or at least doctoring the Al-Qaeda tapes before their release. After all, why would Al-Qaeda terrorists be interested in branding their videos with the logo of a U.S. based organization that is run by individuals with close ties to the military-industrial complex?In an update to the original Wired News article on the subject, Krawetz recanted his research that the two logos had been added at the same time after Ben Venzke of IntelCenter denied that his organization added the As-Sahab logo.
"I was finally able to reach Neal Krawetz at the BlackHat conference to respond to the questions about the IntelCenter and As-Sahab logos (Krawetz doesn't have a cell phone on him so finding him at the conference took a while). He now says that the error levels on the IntelCenter and As-Sahab logos are different and that the IntelCenter logo was added after the As-Sahab logo. However, in a taped interview I conducted with him after his presentation, he said the logos were the same error levels and that this indicated they were added at the same time. Additionally, after I'd written the first blog entry about his presentation, I asked him to read it to make sure everything was correct. He did so while sitting next to me and said it was all correct. He apologizes now for the error and the confusion it caused," writes Wired blogger Kim Zetter.
The skepticism of the writer in response to Krawetz's reversal, when Krawetz himself had affirmed the findings of his research on two previous occasions and presented them to a live conference audience, is clearly evident.
It seems entirely possible that, having unwittingly exposed the fact that IntelCenter itself is doctoring and directly releasing the Al-Qaeda propaganda videos, Krawetz fears for his livelihood and has reversed his position to avoid potential consequences.
The military-industrial complex, to which IntelCenter is basically married, do not play games and one can imagine the kind of paranoia that is generated when you cross them, therefore we do not blame Krawetz for his back-peddling. However, all our previous experience suggests that it's much safer to be out in the light and rather than hide from his findings, Krawetz should blow this whole can of worms wide open.
IntelCenter's denial of of this whole episode should be taken with a pinch of salt, for it was Ben Venzke's company that knowingly re-released 6 years old footage of Bin Laden that many quarters of the media treated as new. IntelCenter itself had released the same footage in October 2003 and it still appears dated as such on their own website. Their credibility has already been shot to pieces.
IntelCenter: Al-Qaeda's most accommodating propaganda outlet.
They were also behind the so-called "laughing hijackers" tape, which was passed off as originating from Al-Qaeda's media arm, but was later exposed as being secret surveillance footage filmed by U.S. intelligence in 2000.
At upwards of $4,000 dollars a year in intelligence packages that are sold on their website, IntelCenter has a lucrative financial motive to keep the supply of Al-Qaeda tapes rolling.
As William M. Arkin of the Washington Post wrote in his article Counter-Terrorism Profiteers, With Your Money, IntelCenter has turned Al-Qaeda into a business and business is good.
Allied to the political motive of the Bush administration, and the fact that so-called Al-Qaeda tapes are routinely released at the most expedient times to benefit the U.S. government, the mutually beneficent relationship between the two when added to the evidence that the tapes have been doctored leads to an obvious conclusion.
Only the most naive observer could now deny that Al-Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden tapes are not being used as a means of disseminating crude propaganda and fearmongering - and not exclusively by the "terrorists," but by IntelCenter and the Bush administration itself.News Corp., Dow Jones monitor linked
News Corp., Dow Jones monitor linked
News Corp. supported charity run by editorial independence panelist
Reuters
Updated: 6:59 p.m. ET Aug 2, 2007
BOSTON/NEW YORK - Dow Jones & Co. Inc. said on Thursday it did not know that one of the people named to protect its editorial independence after it becomes part of News Corp. runs a foundation that received $2.5 million in funding from Rupert Murdoch’s global media conglomerate.
News Corp. selected Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Nicholas Negroponte to be part of the five-member special committee that will oversee the editorial independence of Dow Jones’s news operations. The move was part of its $5.6 billion deal to buy the publisher of the Wall Street Journal.
When asked if the donation compromised Negroponte as an independent member of a group designed to safeguard Dow Jones’ editorial integrity, a spokeswoman for Dow Jones said it had confidence in him.
“We are confident of the capability of the individuals to make independent decisions,” said Dow Jones spokeswoman Linda Dunbar, adding that the company had not been aware of the donation.
In an interview with Reuters conducted by e-mail in May, Negroponte described Murdoch as a personal friend and a key backer of the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) foundation that makes inexpensive laptop computers for poor children.
News Corp. is one of 11 parties, including Google Inc. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc, that each committed to donate $2.5 million to the organization, Negroponte said.
Objectivity questioned
News Corp.’s donation now raises issues over Negroponte’s objectivity, a journalism expert said.
“If in fact Nicholas’ foundation is receiving money from News Corp., that creates the perception and, quite possibly, the reality of a conflict,” said Louis Ureneck, chairman of the journalism department at Boston University.
“Is a person truly independent if a decision he makes puts at risk a significant grant to his foundation? It strikes me that there is a conflict,” Ureneck added.
It was not immediately clear if members of Dow Jones’ controlling Bancroft family, who negotiated and agreed upon the structure of the independent board, were aware of the payment.
A Bancroft family representative was not immediately reachable. Some members of the family had opposed the deal out of fear that Murdoch would interfere with Dow Jones’s news operations to further his business interests.
To be sure, another member of the independent committee, Thomas Bray, has ties to Dow Jones. Bray, the former Detroit News editorial page editor, has written for Dow Jones’s OpinionJournal.com. The Wall Street Journal reported that he will serve as chairman of the committee.
Asked if News Corp. saw any conflicts of interest in Negroponte’s appointment, the company said no and defended his integrity.
News Corp. defends choice
“Nicholas Negroponte enjoys tremendous support and respect across the media industry, and both Dow Jones and News Corp. are proud to have him as an independent member of the special committee,” a News Corp. spokesman said.
He added: “OLPC is a well-respected charity with very broad corporate support. We would hope more corporations would get involved to bring affordable laptops to every child in the world.”
Negroponte declined comment on Thursday, saying he had been asked to refer all media inquiries to News Corp.
Dow Jones agreed on Wednesday to be sold to News Corp. for $5.6 billion including debt.
During the interview in May, Negroponte said he had known Murdoch since 1986 and worked with him on various projects since then.
“More recently I have come to know (his wife) Wendi and consider Rupert to be one of OLPC’s chief strategists,” Negroponte said. “I ask his advice all the time. He asks mine on matters related to computers and communications. I would like to think I have been an influence on his distinctly digital life these days.”
In September 2006, Murdoch entertained the foundation’s board of directors at a New York restaurant and the group held its board meeting at News Corp. headquarters the next day.
Last month Negroponte’s foundation disclosed that News Corp.’s MySpace social networking Web site is developing an Internet community for the poor children who receive the group’s laptop computers.
News Corp. Executive Vice President Jeremy Philips, who oversees Internet investments for the company, holds a seat on the OLPC board.
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