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NOVANEWS  Privacy Protection and the Secret State's Surveillance Powers By Tom Burghardt Global Research Antifascist Calling... Call it another virtual "defense" of privacy rights by U.S. lawmakers.  In the week of April 11, senators John Kerry (D-MA) and John McCain (R-AZ) introduced legislation in the U.S. Senate, the "Commercial Privacy Bill of Rights Act of 2011," they claimed would "establish a framework to protect the personal information of all Americans." During a D.C. press conference, McCain told reporters that the proposed law would protect a "fundamental right of American citizens, that is the right to privacy." While Kerry and McCain correctly state that "The ease of gathering and compiling pe...

NOVANEWS Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem Chair of West Midland PSC "In a report released on Monday, the World Bank says that there should be far more focus on building stable government, and on justice and police, than on health and education."   Aid spending should target conflict, World Bank urges By David LoynBBC international development correspondent Poverty rates are 20% higher in countries hit by violence, so aid should target violence, the Bank says The World Bank is recommending a major difference in the way aid is spent. A quarter of the world's population live in states affected by conflict. In a report released on Monday, the World Bank says that there should be far more focus on building stable government, and on justice and police, than on health and educat...

NOVANEWS modernityblog Tags: antisemitism, Arrested, Barbra Streisand effect, Censorship, Diplomatic Papers,Frontlibe Club, Internet Censorship, Julian Assange, No video, Paranoia, Secrecy, Wikileaks, YouTube | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/p4XPG-36F   It is very hard in the Internet age to keep a secret, as Wikileaks have shown. Someone will normally release a document or better still an incriminating video, and then the whole world knows. YouTube is replete with every form of embarrassing video clip known to humanity, and then some. However, if you were to look for a video clip of Julian Assange's latest outing at the Kensington Town Hall, you won't find anything, yet. Not only that, but if you weren't part of the Metropolitan Elites, a N...

NOVANEWS     By Kourosh Ziabari   Those who regularly follow the developments of Iran might have come across to the website of “United Against Nuclear Iran”, a “non-partisan, non-profit advocacy organization” that seeks to “prevent Iran from fulfilling its ambition to become a regional super-power possessing nuclear weapons” UANI has compiled an elaborate list of the foreign companies and firms which do business with Iran and calls on its readers and visitors to send condemnatory letters and complaints to these companies so as to persuade them to withdraw their capitals and resources from Iran and stop doing business with a country which the United States and its European allies consider to be an emerging nuclear threat in the Middle East. Interestingly, UANI has listed ...

NOVANEWS "Among the witnesses whose scheduled testimony has raised objections is Nonie Darwish, an Egyptian-born American who is president of a group called Former Muslims United. Mr. Ball said Ms. Darwish would testify about Shariah law and “being taught to hate Israelis and Americans” in Islamic schools she attended in Egypt."  In a way, you must celebrate that your enemies are dumb and that they rely on dumb "expert witnesses" from the former ranks of the natives to ascertain their case. I mean, for Zionists to rely on Akhbar Ahmad shows you how desperate they must be: they can't find one smart person to peddle their cause for them so they rely on the bunch that you read about.  Don't you like her account how she learned to hate Israelis at Islamic schools?  Let me tell you about...

NOVANEWS crescentandcross Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has warned against efforts by the US and its Western allies to create an Iranian-Arabian conflict and to wage Shia-Sunni war in an attempt to save a collapsing Israel. Addressing people in the western Iranian city of Kermanshah on Thursday, President Ahmadinejad said that US claims about “the establishment of two governments” in Palestine aim to save Israel and inflict damage on the “resistance front.” “They say one Zionist government and one Palestinian government and this slogan is aimed at saving the defeated Zionist government,” IRNA quoted the Iranian president as saying. The Iranian chief executive noted that such “very complicated” plots intend t...

NOVANEWS     ACCUSED OF UNDERMINING WORLD FREEDOM NOT ISOLATED, SILENCED! “locking up Bradley Manning is like giving out speeding tickets at the Daytona 500.” By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Am I the only one that notices that nothing about Bradley Manning adds up?  What has he done?  Did he supply the inane and useless “after action reports” being peddled as “intelligence” by Wikileaks?  This is stuff he had access to, chickenfeed, rumors and “junk,” no more.  He has served his time,give him a discharge and let him go. As for anything else, embassy cables?  My friends at the Pentagon who have security clearances that Manning could never dream of say they have never seen an embassy cable in their lives. “You want that stuff, you have to run over to State.  Hillary wi...

NOVANEWS فضائح «ويكيليكس» اللــبنانيّة: حزب الله ووليد جنبلاط   وليد جنبلاط (أرشيف ــ هيثم الموسوي) في كتابة التاريخ اللبناني، ستحظى وثائق «ويكيليكس» الأخيرة بحيّز كبير. هذه بحق، أكبر فضيحة في التاريخ اللبناني المعاصر: هي أكبر بكثير من فضيحة «عفاف» أو فضيحة «التعمير» أو فضيحة «الكابل البحري» أو «الكروتال». هي أكبر حتى من فضيحة العمل لمصلحة دولة العدوّ من جانب حزب الكتائب اللبنانيّة وتفرّعاته القوّاتيّة قبل اندلاع الحرب الأهليّة، لأنّ الفضيحة الأخيرة تورّط طبقة سياسيّة بحالها، ومن خلال ممثّلي طوائف متنوّعين ومتنوّعات. الفضيحة الأخيرة هي عظة عن استسهال العمل لمصلحة إسرائيل من جانب فريق سياسي لبناني عريض، بحاله. ما قبل «ويكيليكس» لا يجوز أن يكون مثل ما بعده أسعد أبو خليل يمكن الاستهلال بالتعبير عن الامتعاض الشديد، لا بل القرف، لأنّ فضائح نشر وثائق «ويكيليكس» عن حرب تمّوز، مرّت ...

NOVANEWS   I hate to say I told you so, but…   Foreword by Kevin Barrett / truthjihad   Back in February, I wrote an op-ed entitled “Wisconsin Governor admits to plotting false-flag terror; media averts eyes.” By normally-accepted standards of quality — freshness, communicative effectiveness, importance of content, ability to grab the reader’s attention, and so on — it was at least as good as anything published on any editorial page in Wisconsin this year. Yet (surprise, surprise) no local print outlet would publish it. In my February op-ed, I explained that: “False-flag terror is the oldest and arguably most powerful trick in the book of governments. By stirring up trouble and spreading fear, rulers trick the people into begging them – the rulers – for security at any pri...

NOVANEWS   Julian Assange has admitted that he is afraid of “a combined Zionist American attack” if he chooses to publish information harmful to the State of Israel “We preferred not to publish anything about Israel in the first week of the “Wikileaks” publications because this would have caused considerable problems – stated Julian Assange, the owner of the popular leaks website, in an interview with the French newspaper “AgoraVox” which is published in the area of the City of Strasburg. In an interview that took place several weeks ago but whose contents were only published yesterday (Wednesday) he refers relatively extensively to the Israeli subject. “We put out files from other countries at the beginning”, said Assange, “at the time we did not have in our possession many files...