Wearing the YPG insignia on the frontlines of Syria US Special forces are exposed by new photos this week, Snowden’s got new leaks, Hillary takes a beating from the media, Trump backs out of debating Bernie & we check in with the new controversy around Gary Johnson.

Plus a packed Overtime & much more!

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• Four months after fundraiser, Trump says he gave $1 million to veterans group – The Washington Post
• See the Fox News Graphic Intro About the Trump Family With Eerie North Korea Undertones | Mediaite
• Sen Wyden Thinks CIA Officials Hated Spying On Senate | The Daily Caller
• Tesla Model S driver caught sleeping at the wheel while on Autopilot [Video] | Electrek
• Caught on camera: US Special Forces on ISIS frontline in Syria — RT America
• Islamic council proposes allowing men to ‘lightly beat’ their wives if they refuse sex | Daily Mail Online
• Putin says Romania, Poland may now be in Russia’s cross-hairs | Reuters
• Hillary Clinton Won’t Say How Much Goldman Sachs CEO Invested With Her Son-in-Law
• Did the Clinton Email Server Have an Internet-Based Printer? — Krebs on Security
• Clinton email headache is about to get worse | TheHill
• Autopsies reveal details of San Bernardino terror attack | Fox News
• At 96, Dr. Henry Heimlich Uses His Own Technique for First Time to Save Someone – NBC News
• US automakers recall 12 million more vehicles with Takata airbags
• Kim Jong Un’s aunt speaks out while living secret life in the US | Fox News
• An Entire West Virginia Town That Was Formerly a Spy Base Is for Sale | MONEY
• A Possible Cellphone Link to Cancer? A Rat Study Launches New Debate – NBC News
• Postpone or move Olympics, doctors urge – CNN.com
• That New Superbug Was Found in a UTI and That’s Key | WIRED
• Cameron Calls for Calm in Conservative Civil War Over Brexit – Bloomberg
• ‘Mind-blowing’ footage of mystery flying craft hovering near US military base in UFO hotspot – Mirror Online
• Feinstein-Burr’s bonkers backdoor crypto law is dead in the water • The Register
• NATO vs. Putin sabre-rattling raises Cold War concerns: Brian Stewart – World – CBC News
• US troops’ use of YPG insignia in Syria ‘unauthorised’ – AJE News
• Why U.S. Soldiers Wore a Kurdish Rebel Insignia – The Atlantic
• charlesortel.com/a-deep-dive-into-how-the-clinton-foundation-operates-illegally-and-in-haiti
• BREAKING: At Least 700 Causalities After Horrific Shipwreck In Mediterranean Sea
• A note to our readers about a reporter who breached our trust | Open door | Opinion | The Guardian
• Eric Holder, who really wanted to put Edward Snowden in jail, now says he performed a ‘public service’ | The Verge
• Clinton took $21M in corporate speaking fees in just 2 years – YouTube
• US commandos ordered to remove ‘inappropriate’ YPG patches
• First images emerge of U.S. Special Operations forces in the fight to retake Raqqa – The Washington Post
• Controversy as Photos Surface of U.S. Troops Wearing Kurdish Militia Symbol
• Secret Text in Senate Bill Would Give FBI Warrantless Access to Email Records
• Cutaneous leishmaniasis: Disfiguring tropical disease sweeps across Middle East | Middle East | News | The Independent
• Graphic Pics: Migrants Fleeing Islamic State Risk Bringing Deadly Flesh Eating Disease To Europe
• Vladimir Putin’s youth army: Russian strongman sets up Soviet-style pioneer scheme | Daily Mail Online
• Killing of gorilla to save boy at Ohio zoo sparks outrage
• White House on alert after ‘metal object’ hurled over fence
• The Clintons’ Haiti Screw-Up, As Told By Hillary’s Emails – POLITICO Magazine
• NYC: Protesters Target Bill Clinton over Conditions in Haiti 6 Years After Earthquake | Democracy Now!

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We discuss a few problems with the Oregon Militia standoff, the huge drop in oil prices, the rather boisterous moments of Obama’s final State of the Union & what was going on with those 10 military members held by Iran.

Plus the State Department goes to battle with the straw man in an Unfilter exclusive, we end on a high note & more!

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• Smith–Mundt Act
• Random Observations: Why NSA surveillance scares me
• US National Intelligence director’s personal email accounts hacked – reports — RT USA
• AP’s Matt Lee to State Dept: Is It Time To Recognize Things For What They Are And Not This “Fantasy”? | Video | RealClearPolitics
• Tumbling oil trades below $30 a barrel for first time in 12 years | Reuters
• 10 U.S. sailors in Iranian custody – CNNPolitics.com
• Iran Seizes U.S. Sailors Amid Claims of Spying – The New York Times
• State of the Union 2016: Full text – CNNPolitics.com
• GQ Magazine on Twitter: “Here’s Paul Ryan trying reeeeally hard not to laugh at one of Obama’s jokes https://t.co/gqekuYJ1BF”
• Former NSA Official Tells UK Politicians Mass Surveillance Risks Citizen Safety | Motherboard
• U.S. Media Condemns Iran’s “Aggression” in Intercepting U.S. Naval Ships — in Iranian Waters
• Oregon county judge say militia will pay fine for occupation – NY Daily News
• Whose land is it, anyway? Critics, supporters of armed Oregon occupiers agree protest must end — RT USA
• Al Jazeera America shutting down | POLITICO
• Ex-NSA chief Hayden: Encryption is good for America | BGR
• President Obama Puts Joe Biden in Charge of Curing Cancer | TIME
• Teen Who Hacked CIA Email Is Back to Prank US Spy Chief | Motherboard
• The new way police are surveilling you: Calculating your threat ‘score’ – The Washington Post
• T-Mobile Confirms It Slows Connections to Video Sites | WIRED
• Future Snowden hunt starts with audit of NSA spooks’ privileges • The Register

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High ranking members of the intelligence community have come forward and stated the Obama administration is manipulating ISIS intelligence reports and targets & the most likely reason is troubling.

Russia is caught supplying Assad with weapons, China is flexing its muscles & a lot more!

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• Ezgi Basaran, “Former CIA officer says US policies helped create IS.” Al-Monitor, 2 September 2014. https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/politics/2014/09/turkey-usa-iraq-syria-isis-fuller.html#.

• A 2008 US Army-commissioned RAND report outlines a ‘Divide and Rule’ strategy for US engagement in the region, noting that the strategy “focuses on exploiting fault lines between various SJ (Salafi-jihadi) groups to turn them against each other…” The report calls for the US to “capitalize on the Shia-Sunni conflict by taking the side of the conservative Sunni regimes… and working with them against all Shiite empowerment movements in the Muslim world” while as well maintaining “a strong strategic relationship with the Iraqi Shiite government.” The report confirms that the ‘Divide and Rule’ strategy was already being deployed in Iraq “to create divisions in the jihadist camp. Today in Iraq such a strategy is being used at the tactical level,” by forming “temporary alliances” with al-Qaeda affiliated “nationalist insurgent groups.” Although they have directly fought against the US for four years and “cooperated with al-Qaeda against US forces,” these groups are now being supported to exploit “the common threat that al-Qaeda now poses to both parties.” Christopher G. Pernin et al., “Unfolding the Future of the Long War.” RAND Corporation, 2008. https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monographs/2008/RAND_MG738.pdf; Nafeez Ahmed, “Pentagon report predicted West’s support for Islamist rebels would create ISIS.” Insurge Intelligence, 22 May 2015. https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/secret-pentagon-report-reveals-west-saw-isis-as-strategic-asset-b99ad7a29092; Early on during the invasion the US covertly supplied arms to al-Qaeda affiliated insurgents while propping up a Shia-dominated government. Pakistani defense sources confirmed to Asia Times that ‘former Ba’ath party’ loyalists were being supplied Pakistani-manufactured weapons by the US. These ‘former Ba’ath party’ loyalists were being recruited and trained by al-Qaeda in Iraq under the leadership of Abu Musab Zarqawi. The arms “could not be destined for the Iraqi security forces because US arms would be given to them”, a source told Asia Times’ Pakistan bureau chief Syed Saleem Shahzad, who was “known for his exposes of the Pakistani military” according to the New Yorker, and was murdered in 2011. Syed Saleem Shahzad, “US fights back against ‘rule by clerics.'” Asia Times, 15 February, 2005. https://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GB15Ak02.html; Nafeez Ahmed, “Caught red-handed.” The Raw Story, 23 September, 2005. https://rawstory.com/news/2005/CAUGHT_RED__0923.html; Nafeez Ahmed, “How the west created the Islamic State.” Insurge Intelligence, 11 September 2014. https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-west-created-the-islamic-state-dbfa6f83bc1f; According to a report for the US Joint Special Operations University (JSOU) and Strategic Studies Department titled “Dividing Our Enemies”, post-invasion Iraq strategy relied upon pursuing public legitimacy through social welfare programs while simultaneously delegitimizing local enemies by escalating intra-insurgent violence, even though this would harm civilians. The report notes that Iraq post-invasion was “an interesting case study of fanning discontent among enemies, leading to ‘red-against-red’ [enemy-against-enemy] firefights,” this strategy however “involves no effort to win over those caught in the crossfire of insurgent and counterinsurgent warfare, whether by bullet or broadcast. On the contrary, this underside of the counterinsurgency coin is calculated to exploit or create divisions among adversaries for the purpose of fomenting enemy-on-enemy deadly encounters.” The ‘enemies’ included jihadis, Ba’athists, as well as peaceful Sufis. “Evidence of factional fighting between the residents came to light with nightly gun battles not involving coalition forces. These firefights between insurgent factions represented the impact of U.S. psychological operations (PSYOP), which took advantage of and deepened the intra-insurgent forces. The PSYOP contingent cleverly crafted programs to exploit Zarqawi’s murderous activities and to broadcast them countrywide, thereby diminishing his folk-hero image among Iraqis. Although the jihadis and Baathists shared hostility to the U.S. military forces surrounding Fallujah, their mutual antipathy to each other presented an opportunity to turn them against each other.” Thomas H. Henriksen, “Dividing Our Enemies.” Joint Special Operations University (JSOU), November 2005. https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/report/2005/0511_jsou-report-05-5.pdf; Nafeez Ahmed, “How the west created the Islamic State.” Insurge Intelligence, 11 September 2014. https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-west-created-the-islamic-state-dbfa6f83bc1f; US employs the “Salvadorian Option” for Iraq utilizing Shi’ite paramilitaries to lethally quell Sunni uprisings. Michael Hirsh and John Barry, “The Salvador Option.” Newsweek, 9 January 2005. https://web.archive.org/web/20050110030928/https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6802629/site/newsweek/; Mona Mahmood et al., “Revealed: Pentagon’s link to Iraqi torture centres.” The Guardian, 6 March 2013. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/mar/06/pentagon-iraqi-torture-centres-link; Mona Mahmood, et al., “From El Salvador to Iraq: Washington’s man behind brutal police squads.” The Guardian, 6 March 2013. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/mar/06/el-salvador-iraq-police-squads-washington; According to the UK based monitoring group Action on Armed Violence (AOAV) Iraq topped the worlds ‘most dangerous’ places list in June of 2015. “Iraq tops ‘most dangerous’ place in world list.” RT, 22 June 2015. https://www.rt.com/uk/268810-top-ten-dangerous-countries/.

• Craig Whitlock, “U.S. secretly backed Syrian opposition groups, cables released by WikiLeaks show.” Washington Post, 17 April 2011. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/us-secretly-backed-syrian-opposition-groups-cables-released-by-wikileaks-show/2011/04/14/AF1p9hwD_story.html; “US trains activists to evade security forces.” AFP, 8 April 2011. https://www.activistpost.com/2011/04/us-trains-activists-to-evade-security.html; Ron Nixon, “U.S. Groups Helped Nurture Arab Uprisings.” The New York Times, 14 April 2011. https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/15/world/15aid.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&emc=eta1.

• Greg Miller et al., “Secret CIA effort in Syria faces large funding cut.” Washington Post, 12 June 2015. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/lawmakers-move-to-curb-1-billion-cia-program-to-train-syrian-rebels/2015/06/12/b0f45a9e-1114-11e5-adec-e82f8395c032_story.html; David E. Sanger, “Rebel Arms Flow Is Said to Benefit Jihadists in Syria.” The New York Times, 14 October 2012. https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/15/world/middleeast/jihadists-receiving-most-arms-sent-to-syrian-rebels.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&.

• “They trained us to ambush regime or enemy vehicles and cut off the road. They also trained us on how to attack a vehicle, raid it, retrieve information or weapons and munitions, and how to finish off soldiers still alive after an ambush.” “Syria: Arming the Rebels.” Frontline, 27 May 2014. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/syria-arming-the-rebels/; The Conventions offer protections to wounded combatants, and prisoners of war must be humanely treated at all times. “Reference Guide to the Geneva Conventions.” Society of Professional Journalists. https://www.spj.org/gc-index.asp#woundedcombatants.

• Josh Rogin, “America’s Allies Are Funding ISIS.” The Daily Beast, 14 June 2014. https://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/14/america-s-allies-are-funding-isis.html; “Biden: Turks, Saudis, UAE funded and armed Al Nusra and Al Qaeda.” Mideast Shuffle, 4 October 2014. https://mideastshuffle.com/2014/10/04/biden-turks-saudis-uae-funded-and-armed-al-nusra-and-al-qaeda/; “General Dempsey acknowledges U.S. Arab allies funding ISIS.” C-SPAN, 20 September 2014. https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4509231/general-dempsey-acknowledges-us-arab-allies-funding-isis; All of this was coordinated out of US-led operation rooms in Turkey and Jordan, Eric Schmitt, “C.I.A. Said to Aid in Steering Arms to Syrian Opposition.” The New York Times, 21 June 2012. https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/21/world/middleeast/cia-said-to-aid-in-steering-arms-to-syrian-rebels.html?_r=0; Mark Hosenball, “Exclusive: Obama authorizes secret U.S. support for Syrian rebels.” Reuters, 1 August 2012. https://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/01/us-usa-syria-obama-order-idUSBRE8701OK20120801; Adam Entous, et al., “A Veteran Saudi Power Player Works To Build Support to Topple Assad.” The Wall Street Journal, 25 August 2013. https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323423804579024452583045962; FSA commander: “We are collaborating with the Islamic State and the Nusra Front”, Elise Knutsen, “Frustration drives Arsal’s FSA into ISIS ranks.” The Daily Star, September 8, 2014. https://cached.newslookup.com/cached.php?ref_id=394&siteid=2319&id=8144452&t=1410149280; US-backed SRF commander: “If the people who support us tell us to send weapons to another group, we send them. They [Jabhat al-Nusra] asked us a month ago to send weapons to Yabroud so we sent a lot of weapons there. When they asked us to do this, we do it.” Isabel Hunter, “‘I am not fighting against al-Qa’ida… it’s not our problem’, says West’s last hope in Syria.” The Independent, April 2nd, 2015. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/i-am-not-fighting-againstalqaida-itsnot-our-problem-says-wests-last-hope-in-syria-9233424.html; US-backed commander Okaidi: “My relationship with the brothers in ISIL is good… I communicate almost daily with brothers in ISIL… the relationship is good, even brotherly… They [al-Nusra] did not exhibit any abnormal behavior, which is different from that of the FSA.” Joshua Landis, “US Key Man in Syria Worked Closely with ISIL and Jabhat al-Nusra.” https://twitter.com/joshua_landis/status/504610185952784384; Then US Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford admits US-backed rebels collaborated with ISIS and al-Qaeda, Brad Hoff. Levant Report, May 25th, 2015. https://levantreport.com/tag/robert-ford/.

• Nafeez Ahmed, “Pentagon report predicted West’s support for Islamist rebels would create ISIS: Anti-ISIS coalition knowingly sponsored violent extremists to ‘isolate’ Assad, rollback ‘Shia expansion.'” Insurge Intelligence, 22 May 2015. https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/secret-pentagon-report-reveals-west-saw-isis-as-strategic-asset-b99ad7a29092; Nafeez Ahmed, “Ex-intel officials: Pentagon report proves US complicity in ISIS.” Insurge Intelligence, 2 June 2015. https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/ex-intel-officials-pentagon-report-proves-us-complicity-in-isis-fabef96e20da.

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How the media SHOULD have handled the reporter shooting story, a look at the latest accusations of Cyber attack, how the Iran deal is designed to pass, a follow up to the refugee situation in the EU, and an update on the 2016 run!

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• Appeals court deals blow to lawsuit over NSA’s bulk phone data collection – The Washington Post
• Private Prisons Threaten To Sue States Unless They Get More Inmates For Free Labor
• Black Lives Matter DC Distrupts DC Mayor Speech | Al Jazeera America
• The Impossible Truth About MH17 | New Eastern Outlook
• Father of Virginia reporter shot on air reaffirms push for gun control | US news | The Guardian
• Reports: U.S. drone kills Islamic State hacker
• XKeyscore: A Dubious Deal with the NSA | ZEIT ONLINE
• Undercover FBI agents spy on Burning Man festival to prevent ‘terrorism’ | Daily Mail Online
• Vice News Employees Charged With Terrorism In Turkey… Because They Used Encryption | Techdirt
• StingRay surveillance prompts Baltimore attorneys to review nearly 2,000 cases – Washington Times

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Like a magic pony with one more trick, Comcast announces it will magically turn on 2Gbps Internet Service to some areas that recently had Google Fiber installed. Does Comcast’s sudden ability to deliver this service perfectly demonstrate how real competition is all thats needed to save the net?

Plus TrueCrypt’s audit wraps up, Ford is chasing a dream & more!

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Comcast leapfrogs Google Fiber with new 2Gbps internet service | The Verge

One way to answer critics and competitors alike is to simply do better, and for once Comcast is doing exactly that. The US cable giant is today announcing a new 2Gbps broadband service, which it will start rolling out in Atlanta from next month. There’s no price yet, but Comcast says it will be symmetrical — meaning you’ll upload just as quickly as you can download — and it won’t be limited “just to certain neighborhoods.”

Ford Is Chasing Tesla And Uber Into The Future – BuzzFeed News

Ford CEO Mark Fields says the legacy car manufacturer is trying to think like a startup.

U.S. Smartphone Use in 2015 | Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project

10% of Americans own a smartphone but do not have broadband at home, and 15% own a smartphone but say that they have a limited number of options for going online other than their cell phone. Those with relatively low income and educational attainment levels, younger adults, and non-whites are especially likely to be “smartphone-dependent.”

A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering: Truecrypt report

The TL;DR is that based on this audit, Truecrypt appears to be a relatively well-designed piece of crypto software. The NCC audit found no evidence of deliberate backdoors, or any severe design flaws that will make the software insecure in most instances.

Microsoft will adopt open document standards following government battle | ITProPortal.com

Microsoft has confirmed it will start supporting the Open Documents Format (ODF) in the next update to Office 365, following a lengthy battle against the UK government.

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Yemen instability reveals limits of U.S. counterterrorism strategy & the warhawks are calling for boots on the ground. We report on the entire mess. Plus the conflict in Ukraine heats back up, with leaked videos reportedly showing American’s in the field.

Then the ISIS videos get debunked by a “Fox expert”, a new kind of High-Note & more!

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Experts say ISIS ransom clip faked as deadline for Japanese hostages passes | Fox News

The hostage video showing the hostages wearing orange jump suits and kneeling before a masked, black-clad jihadist may have been faked, experts said. New analysis of the video appears to reveal the message was shot indoors using a “green screen,” and a phony backdrop, according to Veryan Khan, editorial director for the Terrorism Research and Analysis Consortium. She told The Associated Press the light source on the men in the latest videos appears to be coming from two different directions — as opposed to one bright sun, and said if the video was made outdoors in natural light, the shadows behind them should be going in one direction. Instead, they converge.

“The hostages are visibly bothered by” the bright light, she said.

Meet Loretta Lynch

• Lynch vows to ‘expand and enhance’ DOJ’s cyber work | TheHill

Loretta Lynch__, President Obama’s nominee for attorney general, pledged on Wednesday to bolster the Justice Department’s cybersecurity work if she is confirmed by the Senate.

“All of us are struck by the prevalence of cyber issues in every type of case we prosecute now,” Lynch said during her confirmation hearing with the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Yemen Houthi Coup

• McCain, Feinstein Call for More US Presence in Yemen

“We have got to have boots on the ground. We have got to have training capability,” said McCain. “We need more boots on the ground. I know that’s a tough thing to say, and a tough thing for Americans to swallow, but it doesn’t mean the 82nd airborne.”

Feinstein said Obama is in a difficult position because “the American people don’t want another war.”

“Where McCain is right, is that we need some special operations in these countries, on the ground, more than just advisors,” she said.

• Yemen crisis disrupts U.S. counterterrorism operations, officials say – The Washington Post

The Obama administration has been forced to suspend certain counterterrorism operations with Yemen in the aftermath of the collapse of its government, according to U.S. officials, a move that eases pressure on al-Qaeda’s most dangerous franchise.

• Yemen instability reveals limits of U.S. counterterrorism strategy – CBS News

Yet the collapse of the Yemeni government Thursday has raised doubts about the efficacy of a “light footprint” counterterrorism strategy, in no small part because the power vacuum creates an opening for al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the Gulf-based Islamic militant group that has been behind plots in the U.S. and other Western nations.

• BBC News – Yemen profile – Timeline

January – The Houthis reject the draft of a new constitution proposed by the government. They seize state TV and clash with troops in the capital, in what the government called a coup attempt.

President Hadi and his government resign in protest at the takeover by Houthi rebels of the capital.

US “FIGHTING”TERROR GROUP WITH FICTIONAL LEADERS

In 2007, the New York Times revealed that long-vilified “Islamic State” leader Abdullah Rashid al-Baghdadi did not exist, and that the creation of this fictional character was a ruse to obfuscate the role of foreigners in the creation and perpetuation of “Al Qaeda in Iraq.”

Ukraine

After Brief Respite, Conflict In Ukraine Flares Back Up

The war in eastern Ukraine seems to have restarted. Russian-backed militias have launched an offensive on several fronts. NATO says that Russian troops are now openly taking part in the assault, providing heavy weapons and advanced technology to the militias. President Obama says the U.S. is considering all options short of military action, and the European Union has called a meeting of its foreign ministers. We’ve been speaking with NPR’s Corey Flintoff in Kyiv. I asked him about the situation on the ground in eastern Ukraine.

• MUST WATCH: This was the DAY before MAIDAN – ENG SUBS : unfilter

High Note:

• High note story: Cuban youth build secret computer network despite Wi-Fi ban

Submitted by lowfatty in the Unfilter subreddit

A small minority have covertly engineered a partial solution by pooling funds to create a private network of more than 9,000 computers with small, inexpensive but powerful hidden Wi-Fi antennas and Ethernet cables strung over streets and rooftops spanning the entire city. Disconnected from the real Internet, the network is limited, local and built with equipment commercially available around the world, with no help from any outside government, organizers say.

Hundreds are online at any moment pretending to be orcs or U.S. soldiers in multiplayer online games such as “World of Warcraft” or “Call of Duty.” They trade jokes and photos in chat rooms and organize real-world events like house parties or trips to the beach.

“We really need Internet because there’s so much information online, but at least this satisfies you a little bit because you feel like, `I’m connected with a bunch of people, talking to them, sharing files,” said Rafael Antonio Broche Moreno, a 22-year-old electrical engineer who helped build the network known as SNet, short for streetnet.

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A week after the attacks in Paris we look at the connections to terrorists in Yemen, the different groups trying to claim credit & how this tragic event is greatly benefiting politicians pushing for more surveillance.

Plus Wall Street throws big money at Cannabis startups & a look at Colorado one year after recreational legalization.

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• France deploys 10,000 troops in wake of Charlie Hebdo attack

• More Surveillance Won’t Protect Free Speech | Electronic Frontier Foundation

• Ohio Man Charged With Plotting to Attack U.S. Capitol – NBC News.com

An Ohio man who allegedly wanted to set up an ISIS cell in the U.S. was arrested Wednesday and accused of planning to attack the U.S. Capitol. But U.S. officials told NBC News the man was dealing with a government informer working undercover the entire time and was never in a position to carry out his plan.

Christopher Lee Cornell, 20, of Green Township, near Cincinnati, was arrested after he bought two M-15 semi-automatic rifles and about 600 rounds of ammunition as the undercover operative watched, according to an FBI affidavit.

Officials said Cornell never bought any components for pipe bombs. “There was never a danger to the public,” an official told NBC News.

A preliminary hearing was scheduled for Jan. 22 in U.S. District Court in Cincinnati on charges of the attempted killing of a U.S. government officer and possession of a firearm in furtherance of an attempted crime of violence.

High Note

• Wall Street and Weed: $2 billion company betting big on marijuana

Geoff Lewis’s firm, Founders Fund, a $2 billion company, made its name investing early in new companies like Facebook, Spotify and SpaceX. But now it’s betting on pot.

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We cover the facts and events around the downed MH17 flight as we now know them. Then we’ll dig into some of the credible and troubling indications and motivations possibly behind the tragedy.

Plus the secret government rule book for deciding who goes on the terrorist list, and why Washington is bringing in the Feds to crack down on the new “Cannabis meth”.

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The Slow Death of Privacy

Blacklisted: The Secret Government Rulebook For Labeling You a TerroristThe Intercept

The Obama administration has quietly approved a substantial expansion of the terrorist watchlist system, authorizing a secret process that requires neither “concrete facts” nor “irrefutable evidence” to designate an American or foreigner as a terrorist, according to a key government document obtained by The Intercept.

“Instead of a watchlist limited to actual, known terrorists, the government has built a vast system based on the unproven and flawed premise that it can predict if a person will commit a terrorist act in the future,” says Hina Shamsi, the head of the ACLU’s National Security Project. “On that dangerous theory, the government is secretly blacklisting people as suspected terrorists and giving them the impossible task of proving themselves innocent of a threat they haven’t carried out.” Shamsi, who reviewed the document, added, “These criteria should never have been kept secret.”

— MH17 The Crash —

MH17 disaster: few hard facts so far

As mourning continues for the 298 people killed in the Malaysia Airlines crash in Ukraine, few hard facts about the disaster’s causes are available. DW reviews the past week’s mix of sketchy details and speculation.

Recently published photographs show a piece of fuselage from the Malaysia Airlines plane peppered with “a fairly dense but also widespread shrapnel pattern” typical for a blast from an SA-11 surface-to-air missile, said defense analyst Justin Bronk, a military science analyst at the Royal United Services Institute in London.
“The shrapnel damage on the airframe parts that’s been seen so far is consistent with what you would expect to see from an SA-11 warhead exploding in close proximity,” Bronk told AFP. “But to get a conclusive answer, you would have to take the aircraft away and completely reconstruct it as best as you could.”

The boxes – which are actually orange – were handed over by the OVV to the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) in Farnborough, UK, for examination. **On Wednesday, AAIB experts downloaded “valid data” from the first black box, the cockpit voice recorder, which is expected to give them hours of the pilots’ conversations. **Investigators have now started examining the second black box, the flight data recorder.

Satellites Track Malaysian Airlines MH17 Crash Site from Space (Images)

The images show a charred wheat field close to the village of Grabovo where the bulk of the plane went down. But the wreckage of the crash, which killed all 298 people on board, was strewn across about 13 square miles (33 square kilometers) of farmland. The Earth-observing satellites could not capture the images until Sunday (July 20) since smoke from the wreckage and cloud cover initially blocked the view.

The bird’s-eye view of the site was imaged by DigitalGlobe, a company based in Colorado that programmed three of its five satellites to track the area after reports of the plane crash came flooding in. [See the top images from the DigitalGlobe contest in 2013]

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What you need to know about the surface-to-air missile system known as the
SA-11 or Buk, which is believed to have shot down the MH17 flight.

• “We know that very shortly (after the crash), separatists were bragging in the social media about having shot down a transport plane”| PolitiFact

The Internet Archives website shows that a post appeared on Strelkov’s social media profile bragging about shooting down a transport plane close to the MH 17 crash site. In a subsequent post, Strelkov said the information passed along came not from him directly, but from militia members on the scene. He said the information was unofficial and incorrect.

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• South Stream

Route

South Stream’s offshore section with the total length of 930 kilometers will run under the Black Sea through the exclusive economic zones of Russia, Bulgaria and Turkey. The maximum depth will be more than two kilometers and the design capacity will amount to 63 billion cubic meters.

The onshore section will cross Bulgaria, Serbia, Hungary and Slovenia. The gas pipeline will end at the Tarvisio gas metering station in Italy. Gas branches from the main pipeline route will be built to Croatia and to Republika Srpska (the state formation within Bosnia and Herzegovina).

In order to feed the required amount of gas into the South Stream gas pipeline, Russia’s gas transmission system will be expanded by means of constructing the additional 2,506.2 kilometers of linepipe and 10 compressor stations with the total capacity of 1,516 MW. This project has been named Southern Corridor and will be implemented in two phases before 2018.

Russia sues EU over its ‘Third Energy Package’

Russia has sued the EU to the World Trade Organization (WTO) over the EU’s so-called “Third Energy Package”, a source said to RIA Novosti. The Third Energy Package stipulates that pipe lines on the territory of the EU can’t belong to that companies that extract the natural gas. These companies should either sell their shares in the EU or pass the management of the pipe lines to independent companies.

The Netherlands was a mailbox paradise for Russia

The Netherlands is a true paradise for mailboxes Russia at the Amsterdam Zuidas are many Russian billions parked. Not only for tax reasons, but also the legal climate in the Netherlands protects – often obscure – Russian companies against the wrath of Putin.

It is perhaps not obvious, but the Netherlands is the second largest investor in Russia. Netherlands in 2012 accounted for over 12 percent of all investments and 15.9 percent of all investments from Russia. Only the smaller Cyprus scored higher. In third place graced the smaller British Virgin Islands.

Lukoil, the second largest Russian company, for example, has been sitting 59 subsidiaries in the Netherlands. A Dutch holding company owns all of its European operations. End of 2013 the company had 15.9 billion in assets.

Sanctions Victim Novatek, Russia’s second largest gas producer, has 800 million euros in a Dutch company called Arctic Russia BV sit. And that’s not all.

Perhaps the most notable name on the U.S. sanctions list was Genaddy Timchenko, founder of one of the world’s largest commodity traders Gunvor.

Since 2010 the company has, in contradiction with the law, all financial statements filed no more. In that year, the company had $ 59 billion in revenues and paraded there are 7 billion of assets on its balance sheet.
In short, Russia, the Netherlands is a true paradise mailboxes.

Pushing Ukraine to the Brink » CounterPunch

BY MIKE WHITNEY on July 9th 2014

In Ukraine, the US is using a divide and conquer strategy to pit the EU against trading partner Moscow. The State Department and CIA helped to topple Ukraine’s elected President Viktor Yanukovych and install a US stooge in Kiev who was ordered to cut off the flow of Russian gas to the EU and lure Putin into a protracted guerilla war in Ukraine. The bigwigs in Washington figured that, with some provocation, Putin would react the same way he did when Georgia invaded South Ossetia in 2006. But, so far, Putin has resisted the temptation.

But here’s the odd part: Washington doesn’t have a back-up plan. It’s obvious by the way Poroshenko keeps doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result. That demonstrates that there’s no Plan B. Either Poroshenko lures Putin across the border and into the conflict, or the neocon plan falls apart, which it will if they can’t demonize Putin as a “dangerous aggressor” who can’t be trusted as a business partner.

So all Putin has to do is sit-tight and he wins, mainly because the EU needs Moscow’s gas. If energy supplies are terminated or drastically reduced, prices will rise, the EU will slide back into recession, and Washington will take the blame. So Washington has a very small window to draw Putin into the fray, which is why we should expect another false flag incident on a much larger scale than the fire in Odessa. Washington is going to have to do something really big and make it look like it was Moscow’s doing. Otherwise, their pivot plan is going to hit a brick wall.**

“Ukraine’s Parliament adopted .. a bill under which up to 49% of the country’s gas pipeline network could be sold to foreign investors. This could pave the way for US or EU companies, which have eyed Ukrainian gas transportation system over the last months.

US corporations will be able to buy up nearly half of a pipeline that moves 60 percent of the gas that flows from Russia to Europe. That’s what you call a tollbooth, my friend; and US companies will be in just the right spot to gouge Moscow for every drop of natural gas that transits those pipelines. And gouge they will too, you can bet on it.

This also explains why the Obama crowd is trying to torpedo Russia’s other big pipeline project called Southstream. Southstream is a good deal for Europe and Russia. On the one hand, it would greatly enhance the EU’s energy security, and on the other, it will provide needed revenues for Russia so they can continue to modernize, upgrade their dilapidated infrastructure, and improve standards of living. But “the proposed pipeline (which) would snake about 2,400 kilometers, or roughly 1,500 miles, from southern Russia via the Black Sea to Bulgaria, Serbia, Hungary and ultimately Austria. (and) could handle about 60 billion cubic meters of natural gas a year, enough to allow Russian exports to Europe to largely bypass Ukraine” (New York Times) The proposed pipeline further undermines Washington’s pivot strategy, so Obama, the State Department and powerful US senators (Ron Johnson, John McCain, and Chris Murphy) are doing everything in their power to torpedo the project.

“What gives Vladimir Putin his power and control is his oil and gas reserves and West and Eastern Europe’s dependence on them,” Senator Johnson said in an interview. “We need to break up his stranglehold on energy supplies. We need to bust up that monopoly.” (New York Times)

• Russia only provides 30 percent of the gas the EU uses every year.

[The US] believe that if they sabotage South stream and nail down 49 percent ownership of Ukraine’s pipeline infrastructure, then the vast majority of Russian gas will have to flow through Ukrainian pipelines. They think that this will give them greater control over Moscow.

Europe and Russia are a perfect fit. Europe needs gas to heat its homes and run its machinery. Russia has gas to sell and needs the money to strengthen its economy. It’s a win-win situation. What Europe and Russia don’t need is the United States. In fact, the US is the problem.

• ​Waging war against Russia, one pipeline at a time

As many commentators have noted, Russia provides upwards of one
third of Europe’s gas imports, with 60-80 percent of that supply
traveling through pipelines on the territory of Ukraine.

Ukrainian Su-25 fighter detected in close approach to MH17 before crash

The Russian military detected a Ukrainian SU-25 fighter jet gaining height towards the MH17 Boeing on the day of the catastrophe.

“A Ukraine Air Force military jet was detected gaining
height, it’s distance from the Malaysian Boeing was 3 to
5km,” said the head of the Main Operations Directorate of
the HQ of Russia’s military forces, Lieutenant-General Andrey
Kartopolov speaking at a media conference in Moscow on Monday.

“[We] would like to get an explanation as to why the military
jet was flying along a civil aviation corridor at almost the same
time and at the same level as a passenger plane,” he stated.

Ukraine fighter jet flew close to Malaysian plane before crash, says Russian Defense Ministry #MH17 pic.twitter.com/g7ktU7ZGJ3

— Paul Gypteau (@paulgypteau) July 21, 2014

2 Ukrainian fighters seen following Malaysian jet minutes before crash

According to the Spanish air traffic controller, two Ukrainian fighters had been seen near the Malaysian jet three minutes before it disappeared from radars.

This information is confirmed by eyewitnesses in the Donetsk region who saw Ukrainian warplanes near the passenger jet. They say they heard sounds of powerful blasts and saw a Ukraine warplane shortly before the crash.

Air Traffic Control: Radar interference by NATO maneuvers – SPIEGEL ONLINE

Twice disappeared in June several machines from the radar of air traffic control in Germany and neighboring countries. Now came out: Military maneuvers of NATO were apparently the cause.

So far puzzled experts about the quite dangerous disruption in air traffic control. So lost ground controllers of air traffic on 5 June from 13.55 bis 16 clock five on 10 June from 13.22 bis 14.40 clock, the so-called secondary signal from a total of 54 transport planes in southern Germany.

The air traffic controllers on the ground immediately hit the alarm about the disorder. Immediately the number of aircraft, As a security, the density of air traffic, so in the airspace, reduced to prevent possible collisions. Due to the security measure created with the airlines delays of around 40 hours.

‘Every single day we’re lying’: Russia Today reporter resigns over coverage of Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash

Sara Firth, who has worked for the state-backed TV network since 2009, said station management suggested Ukraine was at fault for the deadly Thursday crash. ‘I didn’t want to watch a story like that, where people have lost loved ones and we’re handling it like that,’ she said

EU discuss punishing Putin following MH17 crash

The EU’s foreign ministers have met to discuss new sanctions on Russia following the destruction of the MH17 passenger plane. Only the Netherlands – of all nations – has been delaying proceedings.

Air India flight was 90 seconds away when missile struck Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17

An Air India Dreamliner flight going from Delhi to Birmingham was in fact less than 25km away from the Malaysian aircraft, a distance covered by a Dreamliner or Boeing 777 in about 90 seconds, when the latter was hit. Because of this closeness, the Dnipropetrovsk (local Ukrainian) air traffic controller asked the AI pilots to try and establish contact with pilots of the Malaysian aircraft who had stopped responding to its calls.

Minutes before the crash caused by a missile strike, the AI pilots had also heard the controller give the Malaysian aircraft MH17 what is called “a direct routing”. This permits an aircraft to fly straight, instead of tracking the regular route which is generally a zig-zag track that goes from one ground-based navigation aid or way point to another. “Direct routing saves fuel and time and is preferred by pilots. In this case, it proved fatal,” said an airline source.

“The AI Dreamliner was less than 25km away from the Malaysian aircraft when the latter was hit by a missile. When the pilots learnt the cause of the crash later, they were stunned. It’s like the person standing next to you has been hit by a sniper bullet,” said the source.

Soon after the tragedy, the media picked up data from flightradar24, a live flight tracker website which showed the AI aircraft in the vicinity. But the next day, on Friday, the civil aviation ministry issued a statement that “there was no Air India flight near the ill-fated Malaysian plane at the time of the incident”.

Brics countries create $100bn bank to ease western grip on global finances | Global development | theguardian.com

Brics leaders, from left: Russia’s president Vladimir Putin, India’s prime minister Narendra Modi, Brazil’s president Dilma Rousseff, Chinese president Xi Jinping and South Africa’s president Jacob Zuma. Photograph: Mikhail Klimentyev / Ria Novosti / Kremlin Pool/EPA

The Brics group comprises Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The bank, aimed at funding infrastructure projects in developing nations, will be based in Shanghai, and India will preside over its operations for the first five years, followed by Brazil and then Russia

The bank will begin with a subscribed capital of $50bn divided equally between its five founders, with an initial total of $10bn in cash put in over seven years and $40bn in guarantees. It is scheduled to start lending in 2016 and be open to membership by other countries, but the capital share of the Brics cannot drop below 55%.

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Federal charges filed in hash oil apartment explosion on Kirkland, Kenmore boundary – Kirkland Reporter

A Kirkland man is among seven people charged in connection with explosions tied to the practice of extracting has oil from marijuana.

Kirkland resident Robby Wayne Meiser, 46, is charged with the Jan. 1 explosion and fire at the Inglenook Apartments on the Kirkland and Kenmore boundary.

“Manufacturing hash oil is illegal and poses a significant risk to families, neighbors and the general public,” U.S. Attorney Jenny A. Durkan said. “An explosion and fire caused by hash oil production at a Bellevue apartment complex caused significant injuries to people trying to escape the flames. We will not stand by and allow this dangerous conduct to endanger the public.”

• Blasts blamed on hash oil lead to federal charges | Latest News | The Seattle Times

According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, endangering human life while manufacturing controlled substances is punishable by up to 10 years in prison; maintaining drug-involved premises can bring up to 20 years; and manufacturing hash oil can result in up to five years.

• Hash oil explosions lead to seven arrests | KING5.com Seattle
• Federal prosecutors charge two in hash oil explosion at Puyallup house | Crime | The News Tribune

Dog nearly dies after eating apple marijuana pipe

Misty is a 6-month old lab whose favorite treat just so happens to be a bite of apple here and there. So it was no surprise to see her grab a free one sitting along the beach at the Edmonds dog park.

“I look over and she’s got an apple in her mouth and she’s happily chewing away on it,” said Misty’s owner, Chaya Anderson.

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Washington stumbles into another manufactured crisis, and regardless of what happens, we’ll tell you why the big fight is coming at the end of March.

Aggressive and successful tactics from the UK to strip away civil rights are being spearheaded in the US by some prominent officials, and a little help from FOX News. We’ll break down what those of us on both sides of the pond need to know.

The Senate approves Chuck Hagel for Defense secretary after a historic seven week process, we’ll reflect on that process and the immediate work ahead for Hagel.

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Henry Jackson Society releases report on Al-Qaeda Terrorism in the US

The report, entitled Al-Qaeda in the United States: A Complete Analysis of Terrorism Offenses is a 700-page publication by Henry Jackson Society Research Fellow Robin Simcox, featuring a foreword by General Hayden. The report provides a full analysis of all those convicted of al-Qaeda and al-Qaeda-inspired terrorism in U.S. courts (federal and military) or who committed suicide attacks on U.S. soil between 1997 and 2011.

Similar reports from the Henry Jackson Society focused on the U.K. have been used by the British government in formulating national counterterrorism and counter-radicalization strategy.

• Henry Jackson Society releases report today on Al-Qaeda

• Al-Qaeda in the United States – A Complete Analysis of Terrorism Offenses : Henry Jackson Society

3 Year Case Against Ex-Blackwater Officials Ends

The federal government\’s three-year prosecution of five former officials of [Blackwater Worldwide][0] virtually collapsed on Thursday after charges against three of the officials were dismissed and the other two agreed to plead guilty to reduced misdemeanor charges with no jail time.

Judge Louise W. Flanagan of Federal District Court in North Carolina dismissed all charges against two of the officials, Andrew Howell,Blackwater’s former general counsel, and Ana Bundy, a former vice president; prosecutors agreed to drop charges against a third, Ronald Slezak, a former weapons manager. The two other officials, Gary Jackson, a former president of Blackwater, and William Matthews, a former executive vice president, agreed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge related to records keeping. They will each receive three years of probation and four months of home confinement, and pay fines of $5,000.

• Case Ends Against Five Ex-Blackwater Officials – NYTimes.com

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Iran Says Nuclear Talks Resume After 8 Months

As the talks ended Wednesday in the Kazakh city of Almaty, Iran\’s top negotiator Saeed Jalili described the latest proposal by the six powers as \”positive,\” saying it is \”more realistic\” than previous ones. He did not say how Iran will respond to the offer by the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China.

• Iran Says Nuclear Talks \’Positive\’

• World powers offer Iran sanctions relief ahead of nuclear talks

• \’Obama to tell Netanyahu US gearing up for Iran strike\’

P5+1 Talks

The P5+1 is a group of countries which in 2006 joined the diplomatic efforts with Iran in regard to its nuclear program. The term refers to the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany, namely China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. P5+1 is sometimes referred to as the E3+3 by European countries.

Hagel Takes Helm at Pentagon

The Senate confirmed Chuck Hagel as President Barack Obama\’s new secretary of defense on Tuesday, after an unusually acrimonious confirmation fight that threatened to complicate his work as civilian leader at the Pentagon.

• Senate approves Hagel as new secretary of defense

• Senate approves Hagel for Defense secretary after historic nomination fight | Fox News

Over-hyped Sequester

It turns out the dollars-and-cents impact this year is not nearly what officials have been claiming. While officials typically say the cuts this year add up to $85 billion, the Congressional Budget Office estimates actual spending will only fall by $44 billion this year.

The $85 billion figure refers to \”budget authority\” — or what the government can allocate this year, but actually spend over several years. So the cuts this year are roughly half what officials have been claiming; further, the brunt of the impact is not expected to be felt for another month, or more.

• Economic Armageddon? Impact of sequester may be over-hyped | Fox News

• The Sequester: Cuts And Consequences

• Immigrants Released Ahead of Automatic Budget Cuts

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Drone lobbyist makes shocking comment about \’indiscriminate killing\’ policy

Last Thursday during a Washington State House Committee hearing over new drone legislation, shocking comments were made from a drone lobbyist in attendance.

• Drone lobbyist makes shocking comment about \’indiscriminate killing\’ policy

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Is Prison Labor a modern day for-profit type of slavery? Or is it responsible economics responding to market pressure to keep prices low, and to make those goods at home?

Plus new details on the number of Drone bases operational on US soil, an update on the situation in Spain, and the details of a leaked trade agreement from the Obama administration that gives multinational corporations the ability to bypass a country\’s laws.

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• Spain’s Premier Steps Up, With Caveats for Europe

• It sounds like he wants the bailout money without the stigma “Mr. Rajoy said that Bernard_Sandersthe rescue agreement should not be seen as the kind of bailout that Europe pushed on Greece, Ireland and Portugal, but as a line of credit that ‘isn’t that easy to obtain.’”

• Obama Trade Document Leaked, Revealing New Corporate Powers And Broken Campaign Promises

• 64 Drone Bases Located On American Soil – Slashdot

• FBI halted one child porn inquiry because Tor got in the way However, Tor did not get in the way when the FBI took down the Silk Road last year when it was being used to sell illegal drugs.

ACT TWO: Prison Labor

• Working in the US for .23 cents/hour
• Ken Clarke to double number of prisoners working full time
• Idaho Prison Labor to Pick Potatoes
• Defense Contractors Using Prison Labor to Build High-Tech Weapons Systems
• BP Used Prison Labor for Gulf Oil Spill Cleanup

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• Senator Bernard Sanders is an Independent not a demicrate or at lest that was it says here: https://www.sanders.senate.gov/
• How they know Radioactive Bluefin Tuna Found Off California Coast came from Fukushima
• David thinks we need to get philosophical

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