Bill Would Demand Every Online Service to Be Capable of Wiretapping. Though the administration is also on the verge of getting broad powers to destroy the entire Internet on national security grounds, President Obama is also seeking Congressional approval for a bill that would grant him virtually limitless power to wiretap online communications as well. The bill would require every single online service with even a peripheral capability of allowing for communication to provide technology to allow the federal government to intercept messages and unscramble any encryption. The emphasis for many analysts is the impact of allowing the government broad wiretap powers over websites like Facebook, but the ability of sites to comply with the decryption requirement might be even more interesting than the former.

WSWS: Big Brother Obama: US to spy on Internet messaging: Regulations to target Skype, Facebook, Blackberry. The Obama White House is backing new regulations that would compel popular Internet messaging services like Facebook, Skype and Blackberry to open up their systems to FBI surveillance, the New York Times reported Monday, citing federal law enforcement and national security officials. The threat to democratic rights goes far beyond anything envisioned by the Bush administration. The goal is to make all forms of electronic communication that use the Internet subject to wiretapping and interception by federal police agencies. In the past few years there has been a large-scale shift from conventional telephone communication to Internet-based messaging, which is both cheaper and more secure.

Although no final decision has been made because of family considerations, ABC News has learned that White House officials are preparing for Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel to announce on Friday -- as Congress adjourns for recess -- that he is leaving his post to explore a run for mayor of Chicago. White House officials expect that President Obama will also name an interim chief of staff, perhaps senior adviser Pete Rouse, at the announcement. Sources close to Emanuel cautioned that he has yet to pull that last trigger on the decision. Emanuel's likely departure is not a surprise; his mayoral aspirations are well known.

Tapes obtained by CNN of interrogations of a group of U.S. servicemen charged with unprovoked killings of Afghan civilians describe gruesome scenes of cold-blooded murder. "So we met this guy by his compound, so Gibbs walked him out, set him in place, was like standing here," says Cpl. Jeremy Morlock, detailing how, on patrol earlier this year and under the command of his sergeant, Calvin R. Gibbs, he and others took an Afghan man from his home and killed him.

Pakistan reacted angrily today after Nato said US helicopters had crossed into its territory from Afghanistan to attack "militants", claiming to have killed more than 50 Taliban fighters. The admission that two incursions had taken place over the weekend by helicopters from the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (Isaf), and possibly a further cross-border raid today, came after recent reports of a covert CIA military force in Afghanistan that crosses into Pakistan to kill Taliban and "al-Qaida" fighters. Pakistan's foreign ministry condemned the incursions as a "clear violation and breach of the UN mandate under which Isaf operates", saying it had made a formal protest to Nato. "In the absence of immediate corrective measures, Pakistan will be constrained to consider response options," said Abdul Basit, the foreign ministry spokesman.

Jason Ditz: Pakistan Lodges Official Protest Over US Incursion: At Least 60 Said Killed in US Raid.
Jason Ditz: CIA Dramatically Escalating Drone Strikes Against Pakistan: At Least 20 Separate Attacks Launched in September.

The Israeli military’s murderous assault in December 2008-January 2009 on the Palestinian population of Gaza is the subject of a powerful documentary by Norwegian director Vibeke Løkkeberg. The searing footage of a bombardment that lasted 22 days shook audiences at the festival. It is not easy to watch. Why should it be? Løkkeberg and producer-husband Terje Kristiansen explained to us in a conversation that Tears of Gaza was assembled primarily out of frontline footage taken by numerous Palestinians.

AWIP: Tears Of Gaza (Gazas Tårer) - Trailer

Israeli warships have intercepted a Jewish aid boat bound for the blockaded Gaza Strip, forcefully diverting the aid vessel to the Israeli port of Ashdod. "Ten Israeli warships forced the boat to head for (the Israeli port) of Ashdod by force, but without raiding the ship," Amjad al-Shawa, a Gaza-based organizer told AFP. "They surrendered because they were surrounded. They had no choice," he further explained.

The British-flagged aid vessel Irene was carrying seven Jewish activists from Israel, Britain, Germany and the United States, and two journalists, one of whom is an Israeli. Earlier, Yonatan Shapira, one of the Israeli activists on board, said the navy had contacted the boat and ordered the crew to change course. "They said we were approaching an area under naval blockade and told us to change course," Shapira told AFP by satellite telephone, saying the boat was about 20 miles from the Gaza coast. The Israeli forces also warned that the passengers and crew would be held "legally liable" if they insisted on heading to Gaza, especially those with Israeli nationality.

Summary: http://wideshut.co.uk - After just a small amount of research it is my belief that the much hyped Islam4UK group that proposed a march on Wootton Bassett, is actually a British Intelligence group hired by our corrupt government in order to cause further conflict between Muslims and Brits, to keep support for the wars high and to continue the trumped up threat of terrorism. Anjem Choudary is a unislamic fraud linked to Al-Mujaharoun, a group created by British Mi6 to fight the Serbians in the Kosovo war. Either it came back to bite us on the ass or he is still controlled by our own government! BNP and EDL supporters, and Islam4UK supporters are both dupes, being played like puppets by the new world order (global governance) agenda.

GISS US temperature data is based on the USHCN2 historical network, which adjusts recent thermometer readings upwards by a substantial amount before releasing the data to the public. The before/after blink comparator above shows that before adjustments, most of the US has seen cooling or neutral (blue) nighttime temperatures since 1895. (Some global warming eh?) But after adjustments, more than two thirds of the US shows warming (red) nighttime temperatures.

A number of Jewish settlers, working as security guards, opened fire on Saturday at night at a number of Palestinian homes in Al Sa’diyya neighborhood, in occupied East Jerusalem; no injuries were reported. A local woman was wounded in a separate attack. The Israeli police arrived at the scene and closed the neighborhood preventing the residents from leaving their homes.

Furthermore, clashes were reported after a group of Palestinian youths took off to the streets and burnt tires. The Israeli Police claimed that a Molotov cocktail was also hurled at a settlers’ home in East Jerusalem.

In related news, a 35-year-old Palestinian woman was wounded while standing on her balcony in Al Esawiyya town in East Jerusalem.

The woman was hit in the head by a rubber-coated bullet fired by the army; her condition was described as mild-to-moderate. She was moved to Hadassah Israeli hospital in the city. A Palestinian infant died on Friday after inhaling gas fired by the army in East Jerusalem. The 12-month-old infant was identified as Mohammad Abu Sneina.

IMEMC: Israeli airstrike kills three in central Gaza.
Ma'an: Israel soldiers injure and detain Hebron child.
My Palestine: No Justice for Jerusalem: Murdering Palestinian Jerusalemites in Cold Blood

Yesterday, the Viva Palestina 5 convoy arrived in Ancona to end the first leg of their land journey, and sail closer to the final destination. We all think the destination is Gaza, Palestine, but actually, it’s freedom for all of us. Nobody among us is really free if we allow the atrocities against the Palestinian people to continue, and breaking the siege, while not in our power, is just one of the most urgent things that needs to be done. Until that moment arrives, bringing aid to Gaza is a human duty. Those words are not in any way rhetorical. If Palestine is suffering such injustice in our day and age, we are all doomed. Yesterday, passing through our part of Italy was a convoy that will grow in size and strength, hopefully it will achieve its goal without a single hitch. If good intentions determined it, they would sail directly through and into Palestine. I’d like to share just a few of the many impressions I had as a witness to their passage.

The report of the fact-finding mission of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on the Israeli attack on the Gaza flotilla released last week shows conclusively, for the first time, that US citizen Furkan Dogan and five Turkish citizens were murdered execution-style by Israeli commandos. The report reveals that Dogan, the 19-year-old US citizen of Turkish descent, was filming with a small video camera on the top deck of the Mavi Marmara when he was shot twice in the head, once in the back and in the left leg and foot and that he was shot in the face at point blank range while lying on the ground. The report says Dogan had apparently been "lying on the deck in a conscious or semi-conscious, state for some time" before being shot in his face.

AWIP: US emboldens Israel to kill Americans.
NECDP: The Heroes of the Mavi Marmara: a Turning Point for International Solidarity
Justin Raimondo: This Says It All: Israelis kill American – Joe Biden says: "What's the big deal?"
David Lindorff: US Media Hide Evidence: Did Israeli Troops Execute or Murder the Mavi Marmara Victims?

Si pensabas que la leyenda del caballo Whisperer fue impresionante, aquí está un cuento de animales con más mordida. "Pocho es mi mejor amigo. Esta es una rutina muy peligrosa, pero tenemos una buena relación. Él me mira a los ojos y no me ataque. "Es demasiado peligroso para cualquier otra persona a entrar en el agua. Es sólo nosotros dos". Chito hecho amistad con el cocodrilo después de encontrarlo con una herida de bala en las orillas de la América Central del Estado Parismina río hace 20 años. Le habían disparado en el ojo izquierdo por un ganadero y estaba a punto de morir. Sin embargo, Chito alistó la ayuda de varios amigos para cargar la enorme reptil en su barco. Él dice: "Cuando me encontré en el río Pocho estaba muriendo, así que lo puso en mi casa. "Estaba muy flaco, con un peso de sólo alrededor de 150 libras. Le di pollo y el pescado y la medicina durante seis meses para ayudarle a recuperarse. "Me quedé del lado de Pocho mientras estaba enfermo, durmiendo junto a él en la noche. Sólo quería que él se siente que alguien lo amaba, que no todos los seres humanos son malos. "Esto significa mucho sacrificio. Tenía que estar allí todos los días. Me encantan todos los animales - especialmente los que han sufrido." Tomó años antes de Chito consideró que Pocho había servidumbre con él lo suficiente como para acercarse a los animales.

"It is too dangerous for anyone else to come in the water. It is only ever the two of us." Chito made friends with the croc after finding him with a gunshot wound on the banks of the Central American state's Parismina river 20 years ago. He had been shot in the left eye by a cattle farmer and was close to death. But Chito enlisted the help of several pals to load the massive reptile into his boat. He says: "When I found Pocho in the river he was dying, so I brought him into my house. I stayed by Pocho's side while he was ill, sleeping next to him at night. I just wanted him to feel that somebody loved him, that not all humans are bad. "It meant a lot of sacrifice. I had to be there every day. I love all animals - especially ones that have suffered." It took years before Chito felt that Pocho had bonded with him enough to get closer to the animal.

Crocodile Man
Chito and Pocho Costa Rica
The story of Chito and Pocho (Pictorial)
Chito and his best mate (Video + Photos + Story in English)

According to documents obtained by The Independent under the Freedom of Information Act, the aide complained that the heating costs had doubled to £1 m a year and that the government grant to maintain the Queens palaces was inadequate. The requests for replacement of four combined heat and power units at Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle had been turned down along with an email sent to the Palace, Department for Culture, Media and Sport explaining that the handouts were to assist low income families. The email also expressed concern that if the Queen was handed money from the poverty fund, it would lead to probable adverse press coverage.

A spokesman for Republic, a campaign group calling for the end of the monarchy, said that “it was the most crass thing he had ever heard. The antipoverty grant is meant for the needy people and the idea that the Palace can take money from the poor to bankroll the rich is disgusting.” A spokesperson for Buckingham Palace declined to comment on the application which had been refused.

Les Visible: The Queen and Sexy Sady need some Heat

A senior Israeli commander has threatened that the military would not hesitate to use any of its means of engagement in the next war against the Gaza Strip.

"We have less performance constraints there than in other areas, and we will not hesitate to use the many tools in our possession," the commander of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Gaza Division, Brigadier General Eyal Eisenberg, said about possible Israeli offensives on the coastal sliver. The next war would be a "more painful, complex, and powerful round," he was quoted as saying by Israeli website Ynetnews on Friday.

Eisenberg was among the top military brass to command the Operation Cast Lead, the codename for Israeli army's onslaught on Gaza at the turn of 2009. According to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), the Israeli act of aggression killed more than 1,400 Palestinians, including 313 children and 116 women.