Archive for July, 2011
Posted by seumasach on July 12, 2011
“However real-time pinging requires access to the phone network’s data stream, and is generally only used in terrorist cases or serious criminal investigations.”
The abduction and killing of Milly Dowler was a serious criminal investigation: her phone was still switched on after she disappeared and the NoW was hacking it to delete E-mails for reasons yet to be explained. Why wasn’t the police investigation, or , indeed, NoW, not pinging in order to locate the missing girl or her abductor or her mobile phone?
Guardian
12th July, 2011
Senior journalists at the News of the World paid police officers to find celebrities or other people they wanted to write about by tracking their mobile phone signal, it was reported on Tuesday.
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Posted by seumasach on July 12, 2011
Voice of America
12th July, 2011
The United States says it is prepared to support Russia’s mediation efforts in Libya, as France signals its frustration with the lack of progress in reaching a political solution to the crisis.
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Posted by seumasach on July 12, 2011
Pepe Escobar
Asia Times
13th July, 2011
Before the end of 2011, Pakistan will start working on its stretch of the IP (Iran-Pakistan) gas pipeline – according to Asim Hussain, Pakistan’s federal minister for petroleum and natural resources. The 1,092 kilometers of pipeline on the Iranian side are already in place.
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Posted by seumasach on July 12, 2011
Terroronthetube
9th July, 2011
Tony Farrell had been employed for twelve years as ‘Principle Intelligence Analyst’ for South Yorkshire Police, 13th largest of the 44 police forces in the UK. His job involved producing a yearly ‘Strategic Threat Assessment Matrix’ to determine how the police force had to prioritise its activities. Assessed ‘threats’ ranged from ASBOs (anti-social behaviour orders) to the terrorist threat allegedly presented by Islamic extremists. Having a statistics degree, it was his job to translate the different ‘strategic threats’ into a ‘matrix’ of relative numerical weighted probabilities
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Posted by seumasach on July 12, 2011
Yahoo
11th July, 2011
BEIJING (AP) — The United States is spending too much on its military in light of its recent economic troubles, China’s top general said Monday while playing down his country’s own military capabilities.
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Posted by seumasach on July 12, 2011
New Kerala
12th July, 2011
Paris, July 12 : Military action against embattled dictator Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is not working and Libyan tyrant must be welcomed to negotiations with pro-freedom rebels, France’s defense minister has said.
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Posted by seumasach on July 12, 2011
Le retrait italien et les déclarations du ministre français de la Défense ne sont pas surprenantes. Malgré sa puissance de feu sans équivalent dans l’Histoire, l’armada de l’OTAN a perdu cette guerre. Non pas bien sûr au plan militaire, mais parce qu’elle a oublié que « la guerre est la continuation de la politique par d’autres moyens » et qu’elle s’est trompée politiquement. Les hurlements de Washington, qui a réprimandé le ministre français et refuse de perdre la face, n’y changeront rien.
Thierry Meyssan
Voltairenet
11th July, 2011
111 jours après le début de l’intervention de la Coalition des volontaires en Libye, aucune solution militaire n’est en vue et les experts s’accordent tous à dire que le temps joue en faveur du gouvernement libyen, sauf coup de chance et assassinat de Mouammar el-Kadhafi.
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Posted by seumasach on July 12, 2011
Pravda
11th July, 2011
Pravda.Ru sources inside Libya have confirmed that the people of Tripoli are dancing in the streets in joy, celebrating a great victory, because NATO has ceased its bombing campaign. Sources in Libya state that negotiations are ongoing with France and meanwhile there has been a cessation of hostilities.
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Posted by seumasach on July 12, 2011
People’s Daily
12th July, 2011
French Defense Minister Gerard Longuet urged Libyan rebels to hold talks with pro-Gaddafi forces, citing the talks as an ultimate condition to end foreign military operations in the North African country, local media reported on Monday.
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Posted by seumasach on July 12, 2011
Franklin Lamb
Scoop
12th July, 2011
One of the jokes heard at this week’s massive pro-government Friday post prayer rally at Green Square (in most of the other Arab countries Fridays are days of rage against the government du jour but in Libya Friday prayers are followed by massive pro-Qadaffi rallies, attended two weeks ago by close to 65% of Tripoli’s population) is about how each morning Libya’s leader, following early morning Fajr prayers dons his formal uniform, complete with those huge epaulets, and salutes the small NATO flag he tapes to his bathroom mirror as he moves from place to place dodging NATO drones and assassins. “Our leader does this”, one young lady informed me first with a wide smile and then growing serious, “because the NATO bombing of Libyan civilians, which the US/NATO axis claims Qaddafi is doing, has caused his popularity to skyrocket among our proud and nationalist tribal people. I am one example of this. Yes, of course we can use some new blood and long overdue reform in our government. Which country cannot? But first we must defeat the NATO invaders and then we can sort out our problems among our tribes including the so-called “NATO Rebels.”
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Posted by seumasach on July 11, 2011
Legality remains of fundamental importance to the question of war. However, just as a nation’s legal system is inevitably distorted by an excessive concentration of wealth and power, international law is inevitably distorted by states of hegemonic or near-hegemonic power: by empire. As the post-1945 period, and particularly the post-1991 period, was characterised by the global power of the USA and NATO, the UN and international law has been perverted to serve their interests. The end of US hegemony which we are now seeing is an opportunity to refound the UN and international law in the context of a more, balance, multipolar, post-imperial world. Note that I use the word “multipolar” and not “multilateral”: “multilateral” has been coined to indicate an ideal whereby US inspired actions always have the cover of international support, of their minions who rally to them.
Chase Madar
Middle-East Online
10th July, 2011
It is too easily forgotten that warfare is not primarily a matter of law. Under international law, the UN Security Council blessed NATO’s Libya campaign without the necessary debates over its consequences, says Chase Madar.
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