From: CLG News <clgnews@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 11:30 AM
Subject: [bangla-vision] Last U.S. Troops Leave Iraq, Ending Bloodiest U.S. War Since Vietnam 18 Dec 2011
To: lori@legitgov.org
18 Dec 2011 --Early edition
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House cybersecurity bill would establish federal overseer 16 Dec 2011 Members of the House Homeland Security Committee introduced a cybersecurity bill on Thursday that would establish a quasi-governmental entity to oversee information-sharing with the private sector. [Oh. I thought the hypocritical sociopaths aka GOP detested 'czars?' I guess if it's *their* czars, they're not!] Like the other [fascist] cybersecurity bills offered by the House GOP, the Promoting and Enhancing Cybersecurity and Information Sharing Effectiveness (PrECISE Act)encourages private firms to share information on cyber threats. By authorizing DHS to oversee civilian cybersecurity, the legislation aligns with proposals from both the Senate and the White House, but it is unclear how much authority DHS would have to enforce its security standards.
Military given go-ahead to detain US terrorist suspects without trial 14 Dec 2011 Barack Obama has abandoned a commitment to veto a new security law that allows the military to indefinitely detain without trial American terrorism suspects arrested on US soil who could then be shipped to Guantánamo Bay. Human rights groups accused the president of deserting his principles and disregarding the long-established principle that the military is not used in domestic policing. The law, contained in the defence authorisation bill that funds the US military, effectively extends the battlefield in the "war on terror" to the US and applies the established principle that combatants in any war are subject to military detention.
Iran Arrests Another CIA Spy 17 Dec 2011 The Iranian Intelligence Ministry announced on Saturday that it has arrested an agent of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Iran immediately after he started his spying activities inside the country. The Ministry's public relations office said in a statement that the US administration had designed a very complicated and massive plot to pave the way for infiltrating the intelligence apparatus of the Islamic Republic; in the same line, the CIA tasked one of its intelligence analysts with putting this complicated intelligence-operational plan into action.
'Iran Army hacked US drone's system' 17 Dec 2011 Commenting on Iran's recent downing of an aggressive US drone, a former CIA agent says the Iranian Army's experts managed to hack the aircraft's cyber system and then brought it down. The downing of the drone by Iran was another defeat for the United States in the area of espionage, Robert Baer, a former US Central Intelligence Agency officer, who used to operate in the Middle East, was cited by French-language Swiss newspaper 20 Minutes, IRNA reported on Saturday. On December 4, the Iranian military's electronic warfare unit announced that Iran had downed with minimal damage the US RQ-170 Sentinel stealth reconnaissance aircraft, while it was in violation of the Iranian airspace.
'Iran downing drone, body blow to US' 16 Dec 2011 The downing of a stealth US spy drone by Iran's Army has resoundingly dented the American intelligence machine, besides humiliating the US officials pursuing anti-Iran plans, a political expert tells Press TV. "If truth be told, the downing of the spy drone has surely delivered a heavy blow to the intelligence apparatus of the CIA and rustled many feathers in Washington," Ismail Salami, an Iranian author and Middle East expert, wrote in an opinion piece published on Press TV on Thursday. The Iranian "electronic ambush" ensnared the aircraft -- while it was in violation of Iran's airspace -- "to the humiliation of US officials," he pointed out.
Ron Paul: Strike against Iran would risk a repeat of 'useless' Iraq war 15 Dec 2011 Libertarian-minded Ron Paul separated himself from the pack of Republican candidates at tonight's debate by urging restraint in response to a possible Iranian nuclear threat, saying the U.S. can ill afford a repeat of its war in on Iraq. Paul said there was "no U.N. evidence" that Iran is developing a nuclear weapons program, calling claims to the contrary "war propaganda." "To me the greatest danger is that we will have a president that will overreact, and we will soon bomb Iran," he said. "We ought to really sit back and think, not jump the gun and believe that we are going to be attacked. That's how we got into that useless war in Iraq and lost so much." [Exactly.]
Second Iraqi province seeks autonomy from Baghdad 13 Dec 2011 A split provincial council in Diyala has signed a request for the province to be granted regional status, a first step in seeking greater autonomy from the Baghdad government, council members said Tuesday. The move comes two months after the provincial council in Salahuddin, former leader Saddam Hussein's home province, declared semiautonomous status. Sixteen of 29 Diyala provincial council members signed the request - all members of the Kurdish and opposition Iraqiya blocs, which are suspicious of Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki's Shiite Muslim-dominated government.
US-led soldier killed in Afghanistan 15 Dec 2011 A militant attack in southern Afghanistan has killed a soldier with the US-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), the military alliance says. In a statement released on Thursday, the ISAF said that the soldier was killed in a militant attack in the war-ravaged country on Wednesday, but gave no details about the nationality of the soldier, Xinhua reported.
Russian spacecraft filled with toxic fuel and radioactive material set to crash-land on Earth 16 Dec 2011 A Russian spacecraft with toxic fuel and radioactive material on board is set to crash-land on Earth. Russian space agency Roscosmos said that between 20 and 30 fragments of the probe with a total weight of up to 200 kilos (440lbs) will survive the fiery plunge and shower the Earth's surface. Phobos-Ground weighs 14.6 tons, which includes 12 tons of highly toxic fuel. Experts had warned that if the fuel has frozen, some could survive entry into Earth and pose a serious threat if it falls over populated areas.
Hong Kong school closed in bird flu scare 16 Dec 2011 A Hong Kong school was closed on Friday after a dead bird found in the southern Chinese city was tested positive for the deadly H5 strain of the bird flu virus, health officials said. The closure came after the school clerk, a 48-year-old woman, picked up a sick black-headed gull at the school on Tuesday, which died the next day and was tested positive for the H5 strain, a health department spokesman told AFP.
Senate OKs deal to extend payroll tax cuts for 2 months; demands quick decision on Keystone oil pipeline 17 Dec 2011 Capping a rare day of congressional bipartisanship DemocRATic/Obusha surrender, Senate leaders agreed on a deal Friday night to extend Social Security payroll tax cuts and jobless benefits for two months. The agreement, which was hailed by the White House, also forces President Obama to decide within 60 days whether to greenlight a Republican-backed [catastrophic] plan for an oil pipeline stretching from Canada to the U.S. Gulf Coast. The deal was reached hours after the White House publicly pulled back on a threat to veto any bill that lumped together the payroll tax cut extension with a Republican demand for a quick decision on whether to build the 1,700-mile Keystone XL pipeline.
50 arrested in Occupy Wall Street demonstration 17 Dec 2011 New York police arrested 50 protesters Saturday on what organizers from Occupy Wall Street were dubbing a day to "re-occupy," coinciding with the movement's three-month anniversary. Those arrested were charged with trespassing after they attempted to scale a fence belonging to a church in lower Manhattan, NYPD Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne said. Browne added that the arrests "may have stymied plans to cut through the fence on multiple sides." [*May have?*]
IMF chief warns over 1930s-style threats 15 Dec 2011 The managing director of the International Monetary Fund has warned that the global economy faces the prospect of "economic retraction, rising protectionism, isolation and... what happened in the 30s [Depression]", as European tensions again flared over suggestions in Paris that the UK's credit rating should be downgraded before France's. "There is no economy in the world, whether low-income countries, emerging markets, middle-income countries or super-advanced economies that will be immune to the crisis that we see not only unfolding but escalating," Christine Lagarde said in a speech at the US state department in Washington.
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