The federal government has been fighting hard for years hide details about its use of so-called stingray surveillance technology from the public.
The
surveillance devices simulate cell phone towers in order to trick
nearby mobile phones into connecting to them and revealing the phones’
locations.
Now newly released documents confirm long-held
suspicions that the controversial devices are also capable of recording
numbers for a mobile phone’s incoming and outgoing calls, as well as
intercepting the content of voice and text communications. The documents
also discuss the possibility of flashing a phone’s firmware “so that
you can intercept conversations using a suspect’s cell phone as a bug.”
The
information appears in a 2008 guideline prepared by the Justice
Department to advise law enforcement agents on when and how the
equipment can be legally used.
The
Department of Justice ironically acknowledges in the documents that the
use of the surveillance technology to locate cellular phones 'is an
issue of some controversy.'
The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California obtained the documents (.pdf) after a protracted legal battle
involving a two-year-old public records request. The documents include
not only policy guidelines, but also templates for submitting requests
to courts to obtain permission to use the technology.
Click to Open Overlay Gallery PlatonAs winter approaches in Moscow, Snowden may have new hope of a safe haven in a warmer expatriate climate: The European Union.
On
Thursday the EU parliament voted by a narrow margin of 285-281 to
protect Snowden from extradition if he were to reside in Europe, a step
toward allowing the NSA leaker to leave Moscow and safely live or travel
on the continent. The motion, according to a statement from the parliament,
will “drop any criminal charges against Edward Snowden, grant him
protection and consequently prevent extradition or rendition by third
parties, in recognition of his status as whistle-blower and
international human rights defender.”
Snowden himself reacted with excitement to the news, calling it “extraordinary” and a “game-changer” on his Twitter feed—a strong sign that he may take the EU up on its offer.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/30/2015 14:51 -0400
When the US media began airing helmet cam footage
of Delta Force executing a prison break at an ISIS compound last week
we suggested that Washington was making an effort to prepare the
American public for more boots on the ground in Iraq and the possibility
of ground troops in Syria.
The catalyst: Russia and Iran. Put
simply, the US has been embarrassed by Moscow and Tehran’s coordinated
effort to rout the Sunni extremists backed by Riyadh, Doha, and Ankara
operating in Iraq and Syria and now, as Baghdad and Kabul
threaten to turn to The Kremlin for help in the face of American
ineptitude, the Pentagon is desperate to show that the US can still be
effective at fighting terrorism.
So while John Kerry
wanders around (hopefully not on a bike) in Vienna in a futile effort to
get Saudi Arabia and Turkey to sit at the same table and talk
rationally with Russia and Iran, the US military is contemplating how to
insert itself into the battle without sparking a world war.
For its part, Baghdad has informed
the Western media that it neither wants nor needs US help fighting ISIS
(that’s what all the Iran-backed militias are for) and so instead, The White House may be on the verge of sending spec ops to Syria.
OBAMA ADMIN. MAY ANNOUNCE SPECIAL OPS FORCES IN SYRIA:CNBC/RTRS
The
United States will send 20 to 30 special operations forces to Syria to
serve as military advisers in the fight against Islamic State, a U.S.
official said.
The additional U.S. troops will operate in a limited "advise and assist" capacity, without changing President Barack Obama's overall mission to combat the militant group, a separate U.S. official said.
JUDGE
ANDREW NAPOLITANO: It's a tremendous amount of wiggle room for a couple
of reasons. As a practical matter, as your previous guest Aaron just
said, when you send missiles into a country, you need boots on the
ground to guide the missiles where they're going to land. So Secretary
Kerry may very well shrewdly have been mincing words. The government
considers military troops out of uniform, out of uniform, or CIA in
their nonuniform garb not to be 'boots on the ground.'
So I
would have asked Secretary Kerry, will the American military or will
American intelligence agents be on the ground, whether you consider them
boots or not? It's inconceivable that we can send the type of missiles
over there that the president and his Republican allies in Congress now
contemplate, Sen. McCain leading the charge, without some American human
beings, whether they're wearing boots or not, to be on the ground. So,
Secretary Kerry, in my view, was misleading the Congress.
Now
here's the Constitutional issue. The Constitution says only the Congress
can declare war but the president wages it. The president can't declare
war and Congress can't wage it. What does that mean? That means that
once the Congress gives authorization for the president to bring down
either the chemical weaponry of the Assad regime, or as Senator McCain
wants, the Assad regime itself, the Congress can't pull the president
back. The Congress can't tell the president how to wage war.
###
NAPOLITANO:
Our conversation now is largely hypothetical. No judge is going to say,
'oh, the president violated this resolution; I'm going to sign a piece
of paper enjoining the president.' No American judge will do that. But
the president, once unleashed by Congress will be free to put all the
boots on the ground he wants no matter what the resolution says. John
McCain knows that, John Kerry knows that, and the president knows. The
American people need to know it.
A little more than two years ago, President Obama promised to never put American boots on the ground in Syria.
I
will not put American boots on the ground in Syria. I will not pursue
an open-ended action like Iraq or Afghanistan. There would be no
American boots on the ground. Any action we take would be limited.
But on Friday, that's exactly what he did. Around 50 special forces commandos will be deployed in Syria.
That
mission is to build the capacity of local forces so they can be even
more effective than they've already been in taking the fight to ISIL on
the ground inside of Syria.
White House Press Secretary Josh
Earnest refused to acknowledge any broken promises Obama made two years
ago, claiming the "no boots on the ground" quote was out of context.
You've
read one quote from, that's, that to be fair is out of context. When
the president has talked about combat situations, the president has been
quite clear that he does not contemplate a large-scale, long-term
ground combat operation.
So does that mean the less than 50 commandos are not real "boots on the ground"?
That
element of our strategy - to build their capacity - has yielded
progress. So the president wants to intensify that assistance we're
providing and one way you can intensify that assistance is to pair them
up with experts - with some of the smartest, bravest, most effective
fighters in the United States military. And that's exactly what we're
doing.
In other words, American military forces are to wear
sneakers so the Obama administration can accurately claim no boots are
on the ground.
A
rift appears to be growing in Europe as NATO announced it was
considering putting more troops into the Baltic region to increase
pressure on Russia, while at the same time Federica Mogherini, the EU's
Foreign Affairs chief advocated rapprochement with Russia.
NATO
has been ramping up its operations in the Baltic States as well as in
Eastern Europe, since the Ukraine crisis began. Now it is being reported
that it is considering different ways of increasing its military
presence in Eastern Europe to put further pressure on Russia,
despite previous denials that it would do this.
Go Baltic Batallion! - Urban exercise in Trident Juncture #TJ15#NATO
"Claims that NATO is building bases around Russia are… groundless," NATO states on its website.
"Outside
the territory of NATO nations, NATO only maintains a significant
military presence in three places: Kosovo, Afghanistan, and at sea
off the Horn of Africa.
"With respect to the
permanent stationing of US and other Allied forces on the territory
of other Allies in Europe, NATO has full abided by the commitments made
in the NATO-Russia Founding Act. There has been no permanent stationing
of additional combat forces on the territory of other allies; and total
force levels have, in fact, been substantially reduced since the end
of the Cold War."
Bankers
who are found guilty of market rigging, fraud and irresponsible lending
should be imprisoned, a member of the Scottish Parliament has said.
Scottish
Government Cabinet Secretary Keith Brown said the UK should follow
Iceland’s example of jailing corrupt financiers, rather than merely
imposing fines, which is the current punishment for rogue bankers in
Britain.
Speaking to the BBC on Thursday, Brown praised the
actions of Iceland, which jailed its top banking chiefs for criminal
behavior.
Iceland, which suffered a deep recession after the 2008
crash, set up a prosecuting team to investigate 21 alleged reports of
illegal banking practice.
This resulted in the chiefs of Iceland’s three biggest banks – Glitnir, Kaupthing and Landsbanki – being convicted.
By Josh Jackman and Sandy Rashty, October 28, 2015
Sir Gerald Kaufman
Veteran
Labour MP Sir Gerald Kaufman has accused Israel of fabricating the
recent knife attacks in the country and claimed the Conservative Party
has been influenced by “Jewish money”.
Speaking at a Palestine
Return Centre event in Parliament on Tuesday, Sir Gerald said that the
British government had become more pro-Israel in recent years.
He
said: “It’s Jewish money, Jewish donations to the Conservative Party –
as in the general election in May – support from the Jewish Chronicle,
all of those things, bias the Conservatives.
“There is now a big
group of Conservative members of parliament who are pro-Israel whatever
government does and they are not interested in what Israel, in what the
Israeli government does.
“They’re not interested in the fact that
Palestinians are living a repressed life, and are liable to be shot at
any time. In the last few days alone the Israelis have murdered 52
Palestinians and nobody pays attention and this government doesn’t
care.”
Why
is John Kerry so eager to convene an emergency summit on Syria now when
the war has been dragging on for four and a half years?
Is he
worried that Russia’s air campaign is wiping out too many
US-backed jihadis and sabotaging Washington’s plan to topple Syrian
President Bashar al Assad?
You bet, he is. No one who’s been
following events in Syria for the last three weeks should have any doubt
about what’s really going on. Russia has been methodically wiping
out Washington’s mercenaries on the ground while recapturing large
swathes of land that had been lost to the terrorists. That, in
turn, has strengthened Assad’s position in Damascus and
left the administration’s policy in tatters. And that’s why Kerry wants
another meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov pronto even
though the two diplomats met less than a week ago. The Secretary of
State is hoping to cobble together some kind of makeshift deal that will
stop the killing and salvage what’s left of Uncle Sam’s threadbare
Syrian project.
On Tuesday, Reuters reported that Iran had
been invited to the confab which will be held in Vienna on
Thursday. The announcement is bound to be ferociously criticized on
Capital Hill, but it just shows to what extent Russia is currently
setting the agenda. It was Lavrov who insisted that Iran be invited, and
it was Kerry who reluctantly capitulated. Moscow is now in the drivers
seat.
And don’t be surprised if the summit produces some
pretty shocking results too, like a dramatic 180 on Washington’s “Assad
must go” demand. As Putin has pointed out many times before, Assad’s
not going anywhere. He’s going to be a part of Syria’s “transitional
governing body” when the Obama team finally agrees to the Geneva
Communique which is the political track that will eventually end the
fighting, restore security, and allow millions of refugees to return to
their homes.
The
U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry held a
biotechnology hearing for the first time in 10 years last week to
discuss the future of food technology as the industry responds to
increased demand, production challenges, and consumers’ calls for a safe
and transparent food supply. But the meeting came up short on
transparency and carried on more like a Monsanto share-holders meeting
than an unbiased inquiry into the pros and cons of biotechnology where
it concerns the food supply.
Senator after senator praised
biotechnology and genetically modified foods, claiming they had ‘come a
long way’ in ten years. Pamela Bailey, president and CEO of the Grocery
Manufacturers Association said:
“The
Senate Agriculture hearing reaffirmed the broad consensus among
scientists and regulators that GMOs are safe and highlighted the real
world negative impacts a patchwork of state labeling mandates will have
on farmers, businesses and consumers. Action by Congress is urgently
needed this year to pass a national, uniform labeling standard.”
The
senate hearing was scheduled shortly after the US House of
Representatives passed the “Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of
2015,” otherwise known as the DARK Act (Deny Americans the Right to Know) by a vote of 275-150.
In a huge legal win, a federal judge in San Francisco has issued a landmark ruling
that could serve to halt the DEA’s overly liberal interpretation of
laws that have allowed them power to conduct search and destroy missions
for medical marijuana.
In possibly the first-ever federal
decision of its kind, U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer, slapped more
than the DEA’s wrists. His decision stated that the Rohrabacher-Farr
amendment clearly prevents the Justice Department from spending taxpayer
money to hunt and chase marijuana users in states that have established
medical marijuana programs.
The federal ruling comes
from a case involving the Marin Alliance for Medical Marijuana founder,
Lynette Shaw, who was forced to close down her medical marijuana
dispensary in 2011 after the Justice Department served her with a
federal injunction.
Eni's Damietta liquefied natural gas plant in Egypt.Credit Eni
The
Italian energy company Eni knew it was taking a big risk this summer
when it spent $60 million on an exploratory rig and began drilling more
than 100 miles off the coast of Egypt.
Eni’s gamble worked. The company, using drilling rights from the Egyptian government, found what it called a “supergiant” natural gas field. It may be the largest discovery yet in the Mediterranean and is one of the world’s biggest new gas finds in years.
Eni will need to drill more wells to prove its claim that the field, which it calls Zohr, holds up to 30 trillion cubic feet
of gas. That could be worth about $100 billion, even when taking into
account current low energy prices. But the promise of Zohr — the Arabic
word for noon — is already brightening the prospects of the Egyptian
economy, which has been benighted by an energy shortage and years of
political turmoil.
As
with so many things in the Middle East, however, the discovery of the
gas field has geopolitical repercussions. And it has thrust Eni’s chief
executive, Claudio Descalzi, into the role of shuttle diplomat.
In
this April 8, 2008, file photo, guided missile destroyer USS Lassen
arrives at the Shanghai International Passenger Quay in Shanghai, China,
for a scheduled port visit. Just two days after the USS Lassen sailed
past one of China's artificial islands in the South China Sea in a
challenge to Chinese sovereignty claims, Defense Ministry spokesman Col.
Yang Yujun said Thursday that China will take "all necessary" measures
in response to any future U.S. Navy incursions into what it considers
its territorial waters around the islands.
BEIJING (AP) — China's military will take "all necessary" measures in response to any future U.S. Navy incursions into what it considers its territorial waters around islands in the South China Sea, a Defense Ministry spokesman said Thursday.
The statement by Col. Yang Yujun
followed the sailing of a U.S. guided missile destroyer within the
12-nautical mile (22-kilometer) territorial limit of one of the islands
newly created by China in the strategically vital region. The U.S.
refuses to recognize the man-made islets as deserving of sovereign
territory status.
The Chinese side took no forceful action during
the USS Lassen's sail-by on Tuesday, but strenuously protested the
maneuver. China's reaction fits the pattern in similar such incidents in
recent years. Yang offered no details on how Beijing might respond
differently in the future.
"We would urge the U.S. not to continue
down the wrong path. But if the U.S. side does continue, we will take
all necessary measures according to the need," Yang said. China's
resolve to safeguard its national sovereignty and security interests is
"rock-solid," he added.
China claims virtually the entire South
China Sea and its islands, reefs and atolls as its sovereign territory,
an assertion challenged by five other regional governments.
........................Paul Ryan was sworn in as speaker of the House....................
Erin Kelly, USA TODAY 2:22 p.m. EDT October 29, 2015
Paul
Ryan was sworn in as the 54th speaker of the House. He remarked that,
to him, the House represents the best of America, but that it is broken
and needs fixing. USA TODAY
WASHINGTON
— Newly elected Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday it is time to fix a
"broken" House and begin solving the nation's problems instead of adding
to them.
"The American people make this country work, and the
House should work for them," Ryan said in a speech on the House floor
after his election. "What a relief it would be to the American people if
we finally got our act together. What a weight off their shoulders."
Ryan
was elected the 54th speaker of the House as his colleagues looked to
the Wisconsin Republican to help unite his fractious party and end the
constant crises that have come to dominate the chamber in recent years.
He
received 236 of the 432 votes cast. Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi,
D-Calif., received 184. Rep. Daniel Webster, R-Fla., got 9 votes. A
handful of other people got a total of three votes.
Rescue
workers carry the body of a Muslim pilgrim after a stampede at Mina,
outside the holy Muslim city of Mecca, in this September 24, 2015 file
photo.
Reuters/Stringer/Files
The
deadly crush that occurred at the haj near Mecca last month killed at
least 2,070 people, nearly triple the number accounted for in a death
toll maintained by Saudi authorities, a Reuters tally indicated on
Thursday.
Saudi Arabia has come under heavy criticism for its
handling of the disaster. Safety during the pilgrimage is a politically
sensitive issue for the kingdom's ruling Al Saud dynasty, which presents
itself as the guardian of Islam and custodian of its holiest sites in
Mecca and Medina.
The figure, based on information provided by the
state and religious authorities and local media reports in the home
countries of the victims, would make it the worst such catastrophe to
befall the annual pilgrimage since 1,400 people were crushed to death in
a tunnel in 1990.
Saudi officials have stood by their official
counts of 769 dead and 934 injured, which have not been updated since
two days after the crush. The healthy ministry has said any
discrepancies in death tolls may stem from countries counting pilgrims
who had died of natural causes.
It
was a bruising day for Europe's energy sector Thursday, with the full
extent of the pain caused by low oil prices being laid bare in a series
of earnings reports.
Anglo–Dutch multinational Royal Dutch Shell (RDSA-GB)
reported a loss of $6.1 billion, compared with a gain of $5.3 billion
for the same quarter a year ago, a decrease of 70 percent. This included
a large $8.2 billion write-off due to a downward revision of its oil
and gas price outlook and also a decision to halt projects in Alaska and
Canada.
Oswald Clint, senior analyst at Bernstein, called
these impairments a "necessary evil" which would allow a "new" Shell to
emerge that could focus on natural gas and deep water drilling. James
Sparrow, a credit specialist at BNP Paribas. called it a "kitchen
sinking" exercise ahead of its merger with BG Group (@BGLFDC16J-GB).
The news didn't stop there. French major Total (FP-FR)
reported a 23 percent drop in third-quarter adjusted net income from
the same quarter last year, although CEO Patrick Pouyanne spoke of
"resilience" in the face of falling oil prices. Analysts were pleased
with the results, too. Sparrow, called the numbers "encouraging" while
Oswald noted that it had benefited from not having made any big
investments into the U.S. shale sector.
While cases of malnutrition doubled in the four years to 2014, there
has been a rise in diseases that were rife in the Victorian era such as
scurvy, scarlet fever, cholera and whooping cough Corbis
Cases
of malnutrition and other “Victorian” diseases are soaring in England,
in what campaigners said was a result of cuts to social services and
rising food poverty.
NHS statistics show that 7,366 people were
admitted to hospital with a primary or secondary diagnosis of
malnutrition between August 2014 and July this year, compared with 4,883
cases in the same period from 2010 to 2011 – a rise of more than 50 per
cent in just four years.
Cases of other diseases rife in the
Victorian era including scurvy, scarlet fever, cholera and whooping
cough have also increased since 2010, although cases of TB, measles,
typhoid and rickets have fallen.
Chris Mould, chairman of the
Trussell Trust, which runs a nationwide network of foodbanks, said they
saw “tens of thousands of people who have been going hungry, missing
meals and cutting back on the quality of the food they buy”.
The shocking impact of recession and austerity on England’s poorest
people has come to light again in figures showing the number of
malnutrition cases treated at NHS hospitals has nearly doubled since the
economic downturn Rex
The
shocking impact of recession and austerity on England’s poorest people
has come to light again in figures showing the number of malnutrition
cases treated at NHS hospitals has nearly doubled since the economic
downturn.
Primary and secondary diagnoses of malnutrition – caused
by lack of food or very poor diet – rose from 3,161 in 2008/09 to 5,499
last year, according to figures released by the health minister Norman
Lamb.
While the data does not include information on the
circumstances of each diagnosis, the rise coincides with a dramatic
increase in the cost of living, and a spike in demand for charity food
hand-outs.
The figures, broken down by region, reveal the heaviest
burden of hunger is being felt in rural areas. Hospitals in Somerset
saw the most cases, with 215 diagnoses, followed by Cornwall and Scilly
Isles.
More
than 250,000 Syrians have lost their lives in four-and-a-half years of
armed conflict, which began with anti-government protests before
escalating into a full-scale civil war. More than 11 million others have
been forced from their homes as forces loyal to President Bashar
al-Assad and those opposed to his rule battle each other - as well as
jihadist militants from Islamic State. This is the story of the civil war so far, in eight short chapters.BBC
Following
the comical demise of the latest “train and equip” program, the US is
out of options for supporting the opposition in Syria and so Washington
decided to go back to Old Faithful: the Kurds.
But that presents a problem.
The
US is now flying sorties from Incirlik and Turkish autocrat President
Recep Tayyip Erdogan hates the Kurds and has gone out of his way to make
it clear that Ankara doesn’t distinguish between the PKK and the YPG.
For the uninitiated, here’s the problem broken down in bullet points:
The US is flying from a Turkish airbase
Access
to that airbase came with NATO’s tacit approval of Erdogan’s move to
crack down on the Kurdish PKK operating in Turkey (that crackdown is
designed to bolster support for the government ahead of elections next
month)
Both the US and Turkey designate PKK as a “terrorist” group
BUT
while Ankara equates the PKK with the Kurdish rebels battling ISIS in
Syria, Washington actually supports those same rebels, setting up a
conflict of interest
Now clearly, this is beyond absurd.
That is, Turkey only got NATOs support for the politically motivated
crackdown on the PKK because Ankara agreed to bundle said crackdown with
a military campaign against ISIS. But the Syrian Kurds are the most
effective ground force of them all when it comes to combating Islamic
State. Because those Syrian Kurds are aligned with the PKK, Turkey is
effectively trying to say its army is fighting ISIS, the PKK, and YPG
all at once even as both the PKK and the YPG are also fighting ISIS.
ISIS rooted in Arab Spring, gained momentum due to double standards - Russian Security Service head
Islamic
State evolved from the Arab Spring and gained momentum due to the
duplicity of certain world powers, the head of Russia’s Federal Security
Service (FSB) has told a meeting of top security heads of ex-Soviet
states (CIS) in Moscow on Wednesday.
There are world powers that are using Islamic State (IS, former ISIL/ISIS) as a kind of “terror battering ram”
to ensure their interests in Asia and Africa, said FSB director
Aleksandr Bortnikov. In pursuing their goals with IS, these countries
have put the world on the verge of a global religious and civilizational
crisis, he added.
The outcome of this global conflict could be disastrous, Bortnikov stressed
Russia's
security agency chief also said that with parts of the Taliban movement
in Afghanistan joining Islamic State, there is an imminent threat of
the terrorists invading Central Asia.
Ben
Fields, the Richland County sheriff’s senior deputy who was caught on
video during the incident at Spring Valley High School, joined the
sheriff's department in 2004 and became a school resource officer in
2008, assigned to two schools in Richland School District Two.
A
year prior, Carlos and Tashiana Martin had filed a suit against Fields,
another deputy and the county’s sheriff over an October 2005 incident.
According to the suit,
Carlos Martin claimed Fields questioned him in an apartment parking lot
as to whether he was the “cause of excessive noise complained of by a
resident” in Martin’s neighborhood in Columbia, South Carolina. Martin
said he was not, as he had been driving home from work. In their
interaction, Martin referred to Fields as “dude,” agitating the officer,
the lawsuit states.
Sir Gerald Kaufman
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