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Basic Espionage/Warfare for Intelligence Agents

29-12-2006 14:53 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

According to its own mouthpiece, ABC news, the Australian spy agency (ASIO) has embarked on a recruitment drive:

Thursday, December 28, 2006. 11:37am (AEDT)

“The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) is looking to recruit at least 170 people this financial year.

The number of ASIO officers from non-english speaking backgrounds has more than doubled since 2004, and the organisation is looking for people with diverse backgrounds to conduct counter-terrorism and counter-espionage work.

The intelligence organisation spent more than $2 million on recruitment advertising in 2005-6.

The Federal Attorney-General, Phillip Ruddock, says funding for ASIO has also increased considerably.

"I think we have now something of the order of 1,200 staff and that's double the number it had in 2000-2001 and we are continuing with a very active program that will expand the organisation in the near future to reach something in the order of 1,500-1,600 people," he said.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200612/s1818848.htm

A Good Story

29-12-2006 12:48 | Analysis | World

"From 200 years of American history, we have learned nothing is impossible." (Reagan) Occasionally this president replaced reality with his fictions. "The world changed every time a new technique of storytelling was invented." (Brian Ferren)

The Shortwave Report 12/29/06 ¡Listen Globally!

29-12-2006 01:07 | Analysis | World

A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, Russia, and Cuba.

Israel have the right to exist (by Latuff)

29-12-2006 00:16 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | World

Copyleft artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff, on behalf of the brave Palestinian people and their struggle against U.S. backed IsraHell's state terrorism.

Hundreds of migrants deported from Morocco

Hundreds of migrants were rounded up, put on buses and abandoned in the desert at the border with Algeria on 23rd / 24th December. Amogst them women and chilren. Some managed to reach the nearest town in Algeria, or to make their way back, but many are still missing and their fate is still unknown. International solidarity needed.
A protest in front of the Moroccan Embassy in Paris was organised today, Thursday 28th December at 6.00pm

22/12/06: Solidarity for Oaxaca, Mexico - London, UK

A London solidarity group projected a film show on the front of the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square and distributed information leaflets about the deteriorating situation in Oaxaca, Mexico.

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HD-DVD and Blu-ray copy protection beaten already

28-12-2006 16:15 | Free Spaces | Technology | World

It's starting to look like someone has cracked the system used to protect commercial movies distributed on the HD-DVD and Blu-ray Disc high-definition-disc formats!

A thread on the Doom9 forums details the astonishingly speedy development process of the beta version of the cracking tool for the AACS (Advanced Access Content System).

The thread even includes links that let you download the Java-based command-line tool for Windows in a miniscule (18KByte) Zip file.

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The UK Ambassador's agenda in Russia

28-12-2006 16:05 | Globalisation | Repression | World

Anthony Brenton, the British Ambassador in Moskow took a part in the extremist conference "The other Russia". During his speech he noted that "The civil forum "The other Russia" was promoting the development of democratic society in Russia", also he pleased the facists audience anouncing that the UK government was supporting them by giving 1 million pounds per year.

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Pakistan secretly holds hundreds in prisons

28-12-2006 14:37 | Anti-militarism | Repression | World

Police broke up a protest by dozens of relatives of missing people and detained some as they tried to march towards the military headquarters.

Rawalpindi, Pakistan - December 28, 2006

US backs Ethiopia’s invasion of Somalia

28-12-2006 11:22 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | World

The Bush administration is openly backing Ethiopia’s invasion of its neighbour Somalia.

Ethiopia is waging a proxy war on behalf of the United States. In the space of a week it has routed forces loyal to the United Islamic Courts and advanced to within 55 miles of the capital Mogadishu.

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BBC aiding & abetting anti-Muslim pogrom in the UK

28-12-2006 00:47 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | World

Set aside for a moment Sir Ian Blair and his daily race-hate lies paid for by London's longsuffering council tax payers. Every time they say 'suicide bomber' on the news my guts go over. Mostly because I know the newsreaders are just trotting out anonymous military sources, but we are SUPPOSED to feel sick. It's part of a psycological operation to get us to hate Muslims in which the highest level BBC editors and managers are complicit.

The Dangerous Double Standard

27-12-2006 22:08 | Anti-militarism | World

In the early nineties, people hoped for the irrevocable ending of fear and the great peace dividend.. Inequality, poverty and humiliation are causes of terror. The governing fight only the symptoms. The causes of terror are a theme for them.

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FOR THE LOVE OF BRAD (In 2 Parts) Videos and One Poem

27-12-2006 20:44 | Oaxaca Uprising | Indymedia | Repression | World

2 Videos and One Poem By Brad's friend and colleague.

http://blip.tv/users/view/Warcry%20Cinema

Note From Ottawa

27-12-2006 18:25 | Indymedia | World

Some new Editorial Guidelines from across the pond that contributors should read.

CIA with Ethiopia vs Somalia: another U.S. proxy war

27-12-2006 13:25 | Globalisation | Repression | Social Struggles | World

US: "The press must not be allowed to make this about Ethiopia, or Ethiopia violating the territorial integrity of Somalia,” The same violations as the US junta is guilty of in neighboring Sudan which still refuses an invasion by twenty-two-thousand (22.000) US troops, so called "peace keepers"

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Climate Change: Rising Seas creates 70,000 Climate Refugees

27-12-2006 12:12 | Climate Chaos | World

Rising seas attributed to human induced global warming have submerged Lohachara island, once the home to 10,000 people. Unhinhabited Suparibhanga has also vanished, while the inhabited island of Ghoramara has lost two thirds of its area to the rising seas in the Bay of Bengal.

Hang Him, hang Him Quick!

27-12-2006 02:15 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Culture | World

The puppet judiciary of occupied Iraq today announced that Saddam Hussein would be hanged within 30 days. Saddam is presently being tried for the mass murder of Kurdish villagers but the judiciary insisted that he MUST be executed regardless of any other proceedings. This decision is a ‘just in time’ corporate-style decision – just in time for what the uninformed reader would ask? Just in time to save America from incrimination for supplying the chemical weapons and expertise required to kill the innocent Kurdish villagers – that is the REAL NEWS of the day!

'Can you spot the villain in the veil?' asks Daily Star

26-12-2006 20:56 | Anti-racism | Repression | World

"Can you go one better than Britain's security staff and spot the villain in the veil?" the Daily Star asks its readers.

Washington's Game in Turkmenistan

26-12-2006 12:45 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | World

"Naturally, Niyazov was on the same "target list" as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hugo Chavez and Saddam Hussein, the other foreign leaders whose only real crime is that they control vital supplies of dwindling resources. This puts them at odds with the American oil giants whose plans to expand their corporate empire throughout Central Asia and the Middle East is now a matter of the public record."

Gates visited Baghdad to quell US soldiers mutiny in Anbar

26-12-2006 09:12 | Anti-militarism | Repression | World

Iraqi military sources told the newspaper that the reason that the American Secretary of Defense Robert Gates visited Baghdad urgently after two days he received his new post as a Defense Minister; is to extinguish a military mutiny carried out by American VI battalion based in Anbar, after refusing to obey orders and prefer not to leave their base in Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province.

World Newswire Archive

Basic Espionage/Warfare for Intelligence Agents

A Good Story

The Shortwave Report 12/29/06 ¡Listen Globally!

Israel have the right to exist (by Latuff)

Hundreds of migrants deported from Morocco

22/12/06: Solidarity for Oaxaca, Mexico - London, UK

HD-DVD and Blu-ray copy protection beaten already

The UK Ambassador's agenda in Russia

Pakistan secretly holds hundreds in prisons

US backs Ethiopia’s invasion of Somalia

BBC aiding & abetting anti-Muslim pogrom in the UK

The Dangerous Double Standard

FOR THE LOVE OF BRAD (In 2 Parts) Videos and One Poem

Note From Ottawa

CIA with Ethiopia vs Somalia: another U.S. proxy war

Climate Change: Rising Seas creates 70,000 Climate Refugees

Hang Him, hang Him Quick!

'Can you spot the villain in the veil?' asks Daily Star

Washington's Game in Turkmenistan

Gates visited Baghdad to quell US soldiers mutiny in Anbar

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