Visit NeverGetBusted.com and learn how Barry stung the kops! [+ this:] Penn. activist facing 8 years in prison after videotaping officers outside courthouse.

China welcomes a nuclear fuel declaration Iran issued after talks with Brazil and Turkey, signaling that it may oppose a US-led drive to impose sanctions on Tehran. The presidents of Iran and Brazil and the Turkish prime minister issued a landmark nuclear declaration in the Iranian capital Tehran on Monday. Based on the statement, Iran is to ship around 1,200 kilograms of its low-grade uranium to Turkey for replacement with higher-enriched fuel required for producing radio medicine for cancer patients at the Tehran Research Reactor. AWIP: Iran, Brazil, Turkey sign nuclear declaration. PressTV: Iran awaits West's reply to declaration. AntiWar: White House Slams Iran Uranium Deal. VOA: Clinton: "Big Powers" Agree on Iran Sanctions Resolution.

This document is a classified (SECRET/NOFORN) 32 page U.S. counterintelligence investigation into WikiLeaks. ``The possibility that current employees or moles within DoD or elsewhere in the U.S. government are providing sensitive or classified information to WikiLeaks.org cannot be ruled out''. It concocts a plan to fatally marginalize the organization. Since WikiLeaks uses ``trust as a center of gravity by protecting the anonymity and identity of the insiders, leakers or whistleblowers'', the report recommends ``The identification, exposure, termination of employment, criminal prosecution, legal action against current or former insiders, leakers, or whistleblowers could potentially damage or destroy this center of gravity and deter others considering similar actions from using the WikiLeaks.org Web site''. [As two years have passed since the date of the report, with no WikiLeaks' source exposed, it appears that this plan was ineffective]. As an odd justification for the plan, the report claims that ``Several foreign countries including China, Israel, North Korea, Russia, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe have denounced or blocked access to the WikiLeaks.org website''. The report provides further justification by enumerating embarrassing stories broken by WikiLeaks---U.S. equipment expenditure in Iraq, probable U.S. violations of the Chemical Warfare Convention Treaty in Iraq, the battle over the Iraqi town of Fallujah and human rights violations at Guantanamo Bay. Wikileaks: U.S. Intelligence planned to destroy WikiLeaks, 18 Mar 2008 [.pdf].

Israeli Officials Warn Aid Ship Will Be Stopped. Naor Gilon, a high ranking member of Israel’s Foreign Ministry, today announced that he had met with the ambassadors from several European states to demand that they do something to prevent their citizens from sending private aid ships to the Gaza Strip. Gilon warned the ambassadors that Israel considered the aid “provocation” and that they would do whatever was necessary to stop the aid ships from reaching the strip.

At the ICCC4 conference yesterday, I had the pleasure of listening to Dr. Richard Lindzen give his keynote address at the luncheon. As always, he made some very salient points. Lindzen Heartland 2010 (PDF)

Yesterday a post appeared on this Blog dealing with Noam Chomsky being denied entry to Israel the West Bank (Ramallah). In the report, Chomsky is referred to as a ‘Left wing American Jewish Intellectual’. In his own words, he admits that his barred entrance has nothing to do with positions he might hold about Israel. Take notice that he does not mention the FACT that Israel is in violation of International Law by determining who can or cannot enter the Palestinian Territories. This also indicates that the Occupied West Bank is under siege, not only the Gaza Strip.

Left wingers do not oppose a boycott and divestment from Israel…. neither do they hold the views expressed by Chomsky in the following...Audio: Challenging Noam Chomsky’s opposition to boycotting Israel (Ali Abunimah & Jeff Blankfort)

Why does Noam Chomsky oppose boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel, and why does he think Palestinians should not talk about justice and redress for their ethnic cleansing from their homeland in 1948? Why does Chomsky dismiss any talk about the influence of the Israel lobby? His pathetic views on the Lobby can be seen in THIS video. Click here to download the download the Abunimah and Blankfort response. or listen to it at Ali Abunimah’s Blog. Israel could have welcomed Chomsky with open arms.

Gilad Atzmon: Planet Chomsky vs. Dershowitz’s Orbit: On the face of it, Chomsky’s border incident shouldn’t take us by surprise. Israel is the Jewish state and as such it operates as a synagogue of great magnitude. The synagogue is an exclusive entity, it only allows in those who fit. The synagogue is neither democratic nor liberal, it is actually subject to tribal judgments that have very little to do with ethics or universalism. In the Jewish State, Prof Noam Chomsky is apparently a persona non grata, however, Alan Dershowitz, a shallow intellect is seemingly the hero of Tel Aviv University.

AWIP: Chomsky: "We were denied entry". Ynet News: Chomsky says Israel acting like 'totalitarian state'.

The U.S. Senate is moving forward with a 59-billion-dollar spending bill, of which 33.5 billion dollars would be allocated for the war in Afghanistan. However, some experts here in Washington are raising concerns that the war may be unwinnable and that the money being spent on military operations in Afghanistan could be better spent.

"We're making all of the same mistakes the Soviets made during their time in Afghanistan from 1979 to 1989, and they left in defeat having accomplished none of their purposes," Michael Intriligator, a senior fellow at the Milken Institute, said Monday at a half-day conference hosted by the New America Foundation and Economists for Peace and Security. "I think we're repeating that and it's a history we're condemned to repeat," he said.

Intriligator also argued that the real, long-term cost of the war in Afghanistan may completely overshadow the current spending bill.

A US military convoy was attacked today by a suicide car bomber in the rush hour traffic of the Afghan capital city of Kabul, killing six NATO troops, five of them US soldiers. The attack also killed 12 civilians and wounded 47 others. The attack is the deadliest on NATO troops so far in 2010 and the highest toll since October of last year, when Taliban attacked a pair of US military outposts in the since abandoned Nuristan Province.

Juan Cole: Kabul Blast Kills 19, Wounds 52; 5 US Troops Dead: The BBC is reporting that Afghan guerrillas deployed a suicide car bomb against a NATO military convoy in west Kabul near the parliament building Tuesday morning, killing at least 19 persons and wounding 52. Five US troops are said among the dead.

Four NATO soldiers died on Monday in Afghanistan in two separate roadside bomb attacks, the alliance said. Three soldiers were killed in western Afghanistan while another died in the southern part of the country. NATO did not reveal the nationalities of those killed but earlier the Italian foreign ministry in Rome confirmed the death of two Italian soldiers in Afghanistan. Italian soldiers are based in western Herat and Bagdhis provinces of the strife-torn country. More than 200 foreign soldiers have died this year in Afghanistan. PressTV: NATO convoy attacked in Kabul.

An estimated 5,000 “Red shirt” supporters of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) yesterday defied the latest government ultimatum to abandon their protest site in Bangkok by 3 p.m. or be removed by armed force. After the deadline passed, the thousands of troops and police surrounding the protesters’ barricades did not launch a direct assault. A nervous standoff continues this morning. Neither the pro- nor anti-Thaksin factions of the ruling elite represents the interests of the working class and rural poor. In power, Thaksin was just as autocratic as Abhisit in silencing critics, carrying out a ruthless “anti-drug” campaign that led to hundreds of extra-judicial police killings, and intensifying the war against Muslim separatists in the south of the country. The bitter brawling in the ruling class over the past four years has not been about defending democratic rights, but rather which faction controlled the levers of power and determined economic policy in its interests.

Cass Sunstein: "Sometimes people don't do what's best for our society."

Prison Planet: Obama Czar Wants Mandatory Government Propaganda On Political Websites: Disturbing audio has emerged of White House information czar Cass Sunstein, who in a previous white paper called for banning “conspiracy theories,” demanding that websites be mandated by law to link to opposing information or that pop ups containing government propaganda be forcibly included on political blogs.

In an audio excerpt of an interview which was posted on the Breitbart.tv website today, Sunstein discusses how conservative websites should provide links to liberal websites and vice versa or even how political blogs should be made to include pop ups that show “a quick argument for a competing view”.

Sunstein said that if this system couldn’t be implemented voluntarily, “Congress should hold hearings about mandates,” which would legally force people to dilute their own free speech.

Top military officials have continued to rely on a secret network of private spies who have produced hundreds of reports from deep inside Afghanistan and Pakistan, according to American officials and businessmen, despite concerns among some in the military about the legality of the operation. Earlier this year, government officials admitted that the military had sent a group of former Central Intelligence Agency officers and retired Special Operations troops into the region to collect information — some of which was used to track and kill people suspected of being militants. Many portrayed it as a rogue operation that had been hastily shut down once an investigation began. Channel4: Nato turns to militias in Afghanistan battle.

Researchers say that the oil spill resulting from the April 20 explosion of the BP Deepwater Horizon drill rig, which killed 11 workers, has very likely been picked up by a powerful Gulf current known as the “loop current,” which moves from the area south of the Mississippi Delta to the southern tip of Florida. There it feeds into the Gulf Stream, moving up the eastern seaboard and crossing the Atlantic Ocean to northern Europe. Natural News: Massive underwater oil cloud may destroy life in Gulf of Mexico.

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60 Minutes: Despite damaged blowout preventer, BP cut corners immediately before explosion

The method employed by the British Petroleum (BP) to stem the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, only captures one-fifth of the oil gushing out from its damaged well. Earlier on Monday, BP officials announced that they have put a mile-long suctioning tube into the leaking well to gather the spewing oil. BP's Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles, however, said that the technique is capable of soaking up only 1,000 barrels per day out of about 5,000 barrels that well spews daily, CNN reported. The company official, however, described the process as a "success." Digital Journal: BP's criminal history of creating Environmental crises. LAT: Senators call for criminal, civil charges against BP.

Tehran has agreed to a draft proposal whereby Iran will ship its domestic low-enriched uranium to Turkey in exchange for 20 percent enriched uranium in return. After several hours of intense negotiations on Monday, the trilateral meeting between Iran, Brazil and Turkey ends with Tehran agreeing to send some 1,200 kilograms of its 3.5 percent enriched uranium over to Turkey in exchange for a total of 120 kilogram of 20 percent enriched uranium, Press TV reported. Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki read the ten-point detailed declaration on the nuclear swap deal at a press conference held in the Iranian capital Tehran. AWIP: Turkey, Brazil seal deal on Iran nuclear fuel swap.

Noam Chomsky, a renowned Jewish-American scholar and political activist, has been barred from entering Israel the West Bank (Ramallah) to deliver a speech at Bir Zeit University in the West Bank. He spoke to Al Jazeera about his hours-long wait at the Israeli border, and the explanation he was given for being denied entry. Salon/Joe Conason: Blind faith: American Jews and Israel's far right. South Lebanon: “Israel” calls for expelling anyone marking Nakba from occupied Palestinian lands.

Ynet News: Fearing the other: Decision to keep Prof. Chomsky out another threat to Israel’s freedom: The decision to expel Professor Noam Chomsky from the West Bank border crossing in order to prevent him from delivering a lecture at Birzeit University is a foolish act in a frequent series of recent follies. Put together, they may mark the end of Israel as a law-abiding and freedom-loving state, or at least place a large question mark over this notion. The decision to ban Chomsky is first and foremost blatantly illegal, as it blatantly contradicts the Supreme Court’s most important verdict in the Kol Ha’am case, where it ruled that restraining the freedom of speech is legal only in respect to statements that may create clear and immediate danger to public safety.

The U.S. Supreme Court: the federal government can keep some sex offenders behind bars indefinitely after they have served their sentences if those inmates may prove "sexually dangerous" in the future. How is this constitutional?

Inmate #84888-054. Ex Police Commissioner, Dept. of Homeland Security Appointee, Bernie Kerik Heads To Prison For 4 Year Term. Judge Sentences Him To Extra Year For Using 9-11 For Personal Gain.

Communities across America have been asking whether leading Republicans would choose racism or reform in the debate over Arizona's new racial profiling immigration law. This weekend, we got the answer when Sarah Palin endorsed the Arizona law, a placebo solution focused on racialized police targeting. They're choosing racism. Palin also took the odd step of making it personal; she told her supporters to personally email me. Many took the opportunity to send me racist and hateful messages. Though I'm an American citizen, several said they wanted me to leave "their" country. The tone reminded me of Sen. John McCain's recent advertisement where he's praised by a white sheriff's deputy as "one of us." The message of the advertisement and Sarah Palin's supporters is clear: America belongs to white people and us colored folks ought to just get out.