An international all-star lineup of the White House’s most-loathed shared a stage in New Zealand’s largest city for a rally billed by the event’s host, Kim Dotcom, as the Moment of Truth.
Bathed in red and white lights and cheered on by a capacity audience of about 1,500 at the Auckland town hall, the internet entrepreneur turned political party founder sat alongside journalist Glenn Greenwald at a table emblazoned, in case there was any doubt, with the words the Moment of Truth.
On the big screen above, Greenwald’s source, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, was beamed in live from Moscow, while fellow fugitive Julian Assange peered from a screen beside him, also beamed in live from the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
All were given thundering ovations from a crowd who, five days away from New Zealand’s general election, were energised by articles published hours earlier by Greenwald and Snowden alleging mass surveillance in New Zealand and duplicity on the part of the prime minister, John Key.
Al Jazeera investigates the shocking truth behind a deadly Israeli attack on a US naval vessel.
In 1967, at the height of the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War, the Israeli Air Force launched an unprovoked attack on the USS Liberty, a US Navy spy ship that was monitoring the conflict from the safety of international waters in the Mediterranean.
Israeli jet fighters hit the vessel with rockets, cannon fire and napalm, before three Israeli torpedo boats moved in to launch a second more devastating attack. Though she did not sink, the Liberty was badly damaged. Thirty-four US servicemen and civilian analysts were killed, another 171 were wounded.
Later Israel apologised for what it claimed to be a tragic case of mistaken identity. It said that it had believed the ship to be hostile Egyptian naval vessel. US President Lyndon Johnson was privately furious but publicly the White House chose not to challenge the word of its closest Middle East ally and accepted that the attack had been a catastrophic accident.
However, as this exclusive Al Jazeera investigation reveals, fresh evidence throws new light on exactly what happened that fateful day – and the remarkable cover up that followed.
Three months after Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was violently brought down from the skies over Ukraine, there are still no definitive answers to what caused the tragedy. Civil conflict in the area prevented international experts from conducting a full and thorough investigation. The wreckage should have been collected and scrupulously re-assembled to identify all the damage, but this standard investigative procedure was never carried out. Until that’s done, evidence can only be gleaned from pictures of the debris, the flight recorders or black boxes and eye-witnesses’ testimonies. This may be enough to help build a picture of what really happened to the aircraft, whether a rocket fired from the ground or gunfire from a military jet.
Scientists allege deadly diseases such as Ebola and AIDS are bio weapons being tested on Africans. Other reports have linked the Ebola virus outbreak to an attempt to reduce Africa’s population. Liberia happens to be the continents’s fastest growing population.
American lаw рrоfеѕѕоr Francis A. Bоуlе, аnѕwеrѕ questions about Ebola and reveals that USA hаvе bееn uѕing Wеѕt Afriса as an offshore to сirсumvеnt thе Cоnvеntiоn оn Biological Wеароnѕ and dо biо-wаrfаrе work.
Arе wе bеing tоld thе truth аbоut Ebоlа? Thаt this big оutbrеаk began all оf a sudden? How dоеѕ it ѕрrеаd ѕо ԛuiсklу?
Thе whоlе outbreak thаt wе ѕее in thе west соаѕt оf Afriса, thiѕ iѕ Zаirе/Ebоlа. Thе most dangerous оf fivе ѕubtуреѕ оf Ebola. Zаirе/Ebоlа оriginаtеd 3500 km frоm thе wеѕt соаѕt оf Africa. Thеrе is аbѕоlutеlу no way thаt it could hаvе been trаnѕmittеd 3500 km. And if уоu rеаd thе rесеntlу рubliѕhеd Harvard ѕtudу on the DNA analysis оf thе west Africas’ Zаirе/Ebоlа thеrе iѕ no explanation аbоut hоw thе viruѕ moved there. And indeed, it’s bееn rероrtеd in thе NY Timеѕ that thе Zaire/Ebola wаѕ fоund thеrе in 1976, аnd then WHO оrdеrеd to bе ѕеt tо Porton Dоwn in Britаin, whiсh iѕ thе Britiѕh еԛuivаlеnt tо Fort Dеtriсk, where thеу mаnufасturе аll thе biоlоgiсаl wеароnѕ fоr Britаin. And thеn Britain ѕеnt it to thе US Cеntеr for Disease Cоntrоl. And wе knоw fоr a fасt that thе Center fоr Disease Control has been invоlvеd in biоlоgiсаl wаrfаrе wоrk. And then it арреаrѕ, аt least frоm whаtеvеr I’ve bееn able to рut together in a рubliс rесоrd, thаt thе CDC аnd ѕеvеrаl others US bio-warriors exported Zaire/Ebola tо wеѕt Afriса, to thеir labs thеrе, where they wеrе doing biо-wаrfаrе wоrk on it. Sо, I believe thiѕ is thе оriginѕ of thе Zаirе/Ebоlа раndеmiс we are seeing nоw in west Afriса.
Whу would thеу dо that?
Whу wоuld thеу dо that? As I ѕuggеѕtеd to trу to сirсumvеnt the Biоlоgiсаl Wеароnѕ Cоnvеntiоn tо whiсh thе US gоvеrnmеnt is a party. Sо, аlwауѕ biо-wаrriоrѕ dо uѕе оffеnѕivе аnd dеfеnѕivе biо-wаrfаrе wоrk, viоlаting thе Biоlоgiсаl Weapons Convention. So еffесtivеlу they trу tо оffѕhоrе it into wеѕt Africa where Libеriа is nоt a раrtу аnd Guinеа iѕ nоt a party. Siеrrа Lеоnе iѕ a раrtу. But in Sierra Lеоnе and Liberia thеrе wеrе diѕturbаnсеѕ whiсh kept thе world frоm rеаllу рауing attention оf whаt was going оn in thеѕе labs.
USA sent trоорѕ to «fight» Ebоlа. What dо you think аbоut that move?
The US military juѕt invaded Libеriа. Thеу ѕеnd in the 101ѕt Airborne Diviѕiоn tо Liberia. Thаt’ѕ аn elite diviѕiоn оf combat аnd thеу hаvе nо trаining tо рrоvidе mеdiсаl treatment tо аnуоnе. Thеу are there tо establish a militаrу bаѕе in Liberia. And the Britiѕh are dоing thе ѕаmе in Sierra Leone. Thе Frеnсh are аlrеаdу in Mаli аnd Sеnеgаl. So, thеу’rе not ѕеnding military реорlе thеrе to treat thеѕе реорlе. Nо, I’m ѕоrrу.
Wеrеn’t thеу аfrаid Ebоlа’ѕ going to go оut оf соntrоl even in thе USA or EU in a massive way?
It’ѕ аlrеаdу gоnе in the USA аnd the European Uniоn. So, thеrе it iѕ. Whiсh rаiѕеѕ thе question: Was thiѕ Zаirе/Ebоlа wеароnizеd аt any of thеѕе labs? I dоn’t have an аnѕwеr tо thаt ԛuеѕtiоn. I am trуing tо gеt аn аnѕwеr. And thеrеfоrе it iѕ muсh more dаngеrоuѕ thаn the WHO and thе CDC are tеlling еvеrуоnе. The WHO аnd the CDC аrе up tо thеir eyeballs in thiѕ. They knоw all аbоut whаt ‘ѕ gоing on. It was the WHO that оrdеrеd thе оriginаl Zаirе/Ebоlа in 1976 to be sent to Pоrtоn Down fоr biological warfare рurроѕеѕ. Sо thiѕ could be mоrе dаngеrоuѕ thаn thе WHO аnd the CDC аrе ѕауing.
A new prize-winning American documemtary film has been released which suggests that the snipers who killed 100 demonstrators on Kiev’s central square in January and February of this year may have been working for pro-western groups seeking to overthrow the then president, who was pro-Russian.
This is precisely the opposite of what the western media reported at the time.
Even though it sounds like old news, it is very interesting to have a look back at some of the events that caused the bloody civil war we are witnessing right now in Ukraine.
We all remember leaked conversation of Estonian Foreign Minister and his claims that snipers that killed protestors were most likely hired by Maidan protest leaders.
A few days ago, even Reuters, which usually has a strong anti-Russian bias when covering Russia, ran a special report in which they expose “serious flaws” in Maidan massacre probe.
At the time of the sniper killings, although no thorough investigation had been conducted, the blame was immediately placed on the officers who served under Yanukovich and Russia.
In the film, we hear opinions of several experts (professional snipers, FBI and a number of interesting people) about the scene of the crime and who, indeed, could have killed the so-called “Heavenly Hundred” mostly members of neo-Nazi militant groups.
The documentary doesn’t discuss who killed more than 50 policeman since that is already known -members of Ukrainian militant groups, many of them also killed during Maidan riots.
The documentary doesn’t take sides and we disagree with some of what it says, but still, it is a worthwhile 50 minutes if you’ve been getting your info about the massacre from the western mainstream media.
Glenn Greenwald was one of the first reporters to see — and write about — the Edward Snowden files, with their revelations about the United States’ extensive surveillance of private citizens. In this searing talk, Greenwald makes the case for why you need to care about privacy, even if you’re “not doing anything you need to hide.”
“When we’re in a state where we can be monitored, where we can be watched, our behavior changes dramatically. The range of behavioral options that we consider when we think we’re being watched severely reduce. When somebody knows that they might be watched, the behavior they engage in is vastly more conformist and compliant,” he said. “A society in which people can be monitored at all times is a society that breeds conformity, obedience and submission, which is why every tyrant, from the most overt to the most subtle craves that system.”
“We are no longer citizens, we no longer have leaders. We’re subjects, and we have rulers,” Snowden told The New Yorker magazine in a comprehensive hour-long interview.
The whistleblower believes one fallacy in how authorities view individual rights has to do with making the individual forsake those rights by default. Snowden’s point is that the moment you are compelled to reveal that you have nothing to hide is when the right to privacy stops being a right – because you are effectively waiving that right.
“When you say, ‘I have nothing to hide,’ you’re saying, ‘I don’t care about this right.’ You’re saying, ‘I don’t have this right, because I’ve got to the point where I have to justify it.’ The way rights work is, the government has to justify its intrusion into your rights – you don’t have to justify why you need freedom of speech.”
In that situation, it becomes OK to live in a world where one is no longer interested in privacy as such – a world where Facebook, Google and Dropbox have become ubiquitous, and where there are virtually no safeguards against the wrongful use of the information one puts there.
In particular, Snowden advised web users to “get rid” of Dropbox. Such services only insist on encrypting user data during transfer and when being stored on the servers. Other services he recommends instead, such as SpiderOak, encrypt information while it’s on your computer as well.
“We’re talking about dropping programs that are hostile to privacy,” Snowden said.
The same goes for social networks such as Facebook and Google, too. Snowden says they are “dangerous” and proposes that people use other services that allow for encrypted messages to be sent, such as RedPhone or SilentCircle.
The argument that encryption harms security efforts to capture terrorists is flawed, even from a purely legalistic point of view, Snowden said, explaining that you can still retain encryption and have the relevant authorities requesting private information from phone carriers and internet providers on a need-to-know basis.
And the penchant for close, secretive cooperation with the government will only cost companies money and jobs, Snowden added, because no one would want to buy a phone made by a company that provides inherent backdoors for third parties to access your information.
I can share with you a most interesting interview of Dmitri Rogozin, Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, Head of the Military-Industrial Commission, Special Envoy of the President and one of the most interesting and influential representatives of the “Eurasian Sovereignists” and the man who, one day, could succeed Vladimir Putin. Rogozin is absolutely hated by the Atlantic Sovereignists and by the AngloZionist Empire.
This interview is important because it shows what Russia is really doing while keeping up the pretense of “partnership” with the AngloZionist Empire: preparing for war while hoping that it can be avoided. In this interview, Rogozin speaks to a domestic audience in one of the most popular shows on Russian TV. Thanks to the Saker Community you will now see the Russia which the MSM never shows you and the one which frightens the Empire so much.
Bolivian President Evo Morales harshly criticized US President Barack Obama in an interview with RT Spanish, calling him a war criminal who should be tried in international court. The outspoken critic of US policy did not mince words in the interview, lashing out at capitalism, the UN Security Council and America’s “imperialist” foreign policy.
O, Bomber! Obama Bombs 7th Country in 6 Years
U.S. President Barack Obama (Reuters / Adrees Latif)
American jets hit targets in Syria on Tuesday in the US-led fight against Islamic State. Although the US has not declared war since 1942, this is the seventh country that Barack Obama, the holder of the Nobel Peace Prize, has bombed in as many years.
Syria has become the latest country to have been openly targeted by the US, with Washington predictably not seeking the approval of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
When the Pentagon says that the conflict in Syria may take years to resolve, it is no joke – just take a look at the number of Washington’s “military engagements” during Obama’s administration.
Pirate Bay co-founders Fredrik Neij (L), Gottfrid Svartholm (C) and Peter Sunde leave the city court after the last day of argument’s in their copyright trial in Stockholm March 3, 2009. (Reuters/Bob Strong)
Despite years of persecution, the world’s most notorious pirated content exchange continues to flout copyright laws worldwide. The Pirate Bay team revealed how cloud technology made their service’s virtual servers truly invulnerable.
Two founders of The Pirate Bay (TPB) file exchange are in prison, but their creation continues to receive millions of unique visitors daily and remains among the 100 most popular websites worldwide.
Today The Pirate Bay has 21 “virtual machines” (VMs) scattered around the globe with cloud-hosting providers, and the new setup works just fine, reported TorrentFreak, having anonymously questioned the Pirate Bay team. The cloud technology made the site more portable, eliminated the need for any crucial pieces of hardware and therefore made the torrent harder to take down. Costs have decreased and better uptime is now guaranteed.
One of the secrets of the modern day TPB is that the commercial cloud providers hosting the torrent site have no idea that the PTB is among their clients. The load balancer VM that funnels all the traffic to other TPB virtual servers masks their activities, which means none of the IP-addresses of the cloud hosting providers are publicly linked to TPB. This makes the new TPB virtually ‘raid-proof’ and very hard for police to track it down. There are no more physical servers to be seized, too, as happened in 2006, when Swedish police raided TPB’s hosting company, seizing everything from servers to fax machines and blank CDs.
Two of TPB’s original founders, Gottfrid Svartholm and Peter Sunde, are currently serving terms in prison and TPB has posted a banner asking visitors to send their support to the site’s founders.
“Show your support by sending them some encouraging mail! Gottfrid is only allowed to receive letters, while Peter gladly receives books, letters and vegan candy.”
When Svartholm and Sunde are out of jail, they’ll find that the rules of the pirate game have changed – and most probably in their favor.
Against the Grain 