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China launching cyber attacks against Defense Dept | Campaign 2012 | Washington Examiner

May 18, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Article courtesy of The Washington Examiner.

The Chinese government is increasingly lauching cyber attacks against the United States Defense Department  (DOD) for intelligence purposes, according to a new government report on the Chinese military.

“I think we have concerns about a number of computer network operations and activities that appear to originate from China that affect DOD networks,” David Helvey, acting assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asia told reporters today.

“China’s persistent cyber intrusions indicates the likelihood that Beijing is using cyber network operations (CNOs) as a tool to collect strategic intelligence,” Defense Department added in its 2012 report to Congress on Military and Security Developments involving the People’s Republic of China.

Helvey chose not to specify, in the briefing, who was behind the attacks, but he said the United States is concerned about China’s cyber war investments.

“We note that China’s investing in not only capabilities to better defend their networks but also they’re looking at ways to use cyber for offensive operations,” he said. “There is the potential for these types of operations to be very disruptive, disruptive not only in a conflict, could be very disruptive to the United States, but other countries as well.”

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China pursuing steady military build-up: Pentagon – Yahoo News

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Excerpt: The report warned that “Chinese actors are the world’s most active and persistent perpetrators of economic espionage,” and predicted that those spying efforts would continue, posing “a growing and persistent threat to US economic security.”

China is exploiting Western commercial technology, carrying out aggressive cyber espionage and buying more anti-ship missiles as part of a steady build-up of military power, the Pentagon said Friday.

Beijing is working to take advantage of “mostly US” defense-related technologies in the private sector as part of a long-running effort to modernize the country’s armed forces and extend China’s reach in the Asia-Pacific region, the Pentagon wrote in a report to Congress.

“One of the PRC’s (People’s Republic of China) stated national security objectives is to leverage legally and illegally acquired dual-use and military-related technologies to its advantage,” it said.

And China, which has the world’s [continue reading in new window...]

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Thousands of protesters gather for pre-NATO rally in Chicago | ajc.com

May 18, 2012 By Leave a Comment

CHICAGO — Thousands of nurses and other protesters began gathering at a downtown Chicago plaza Friday to demand a “Robin Hood” tax on banks’ financial transactions, the largest protest yet ahead of a two-day NATO summit that is expected to draw even larger demonstrations.

National Nurses United officials expect about 2,000 nurses to attend Friday’s rally to call for the tax to offset cuts in social services, education and health care. They were joined by members of the Occupy movement, unions and veterans.

City officials say the event could draw more than 5,000 people because of a [continue reading in new window...]

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RealClearPolitics – Europe’s Fate, and Obama’s, May Ride on G8 – Real Clear Politics

May 18, 2012 By Leave a Comment

President Obama has a weekend challenge ahead of him: Can he persuade European leaders gathered in the Maryland woods outside Washington, D.C., to adopt the U.S. fiscal example of short-term bailouts, government stimulus and long-range plans for belt-tightening in order to promote growth and stave off a fiscal meltdown in the Eurozone?

Obama’s re-election chances, pinned to his promises of a rosier U.S. economy and more jobs here, could ride on what his peers in Europe decide to do.

U.S. economists have said continued writhing in Europe over a solution to the debt crisis, and even Greece’s withdrawal from the 17-country union, might not seriously impair the American economy. But a severe contraction in trade with [continue reading in new window...]

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Spy Drone Almost Causes Mid Air Collision With Jet Over Denver – Infowars.com

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A mystery object, thought to be a military or law enforcement drone, flying in controlled airspace over Denver almost caused a catastrophic mid air crash with a commercial jet Monday.

The pilot of the Cessna jet radioed air traffic controllers to warn them that “A remote controlled aircraft” had flown past his plane far too close for comfort.

“Something just went by the other way … About 20 to 30 seconds ago. It was like a large remote-controlled aircraft.” the pilot said in the transmission that was captured on the live air traffic audio website liveatc.net.

The craft was reported as being about

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Obama’s Kenyan Birth: How did the mainstream media miss this? – Telegraph

May 18, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Obama’s literary agent says he was ‘born in Kenya’.  How did the mainstream media miss this?

Whatever you think of Breitbart.com’s punishing vetting process, it has exposed just how little work the mainstream media did in investigating candidate Obama back in 2008. Not all of Team Breitbart’s revelations have been election-deciders, but they have often been stuff that a simple Google would have uncovered. If they revealed tomorrow that he’d had his own cross-dressing-themed sitcom on primetime TV in the 1980s, I wouldn’t be surprised.

The latest find is a fascinating inversion of the birther conspiracy. Breitbart.com has discovered that in 1991 Barack Obama’s literary agent (who also represented New Kids on the Block) published a booklet that included a biography of the future President. The audience was “business colleagues” in the publishing industry and it was designed to promote Obama’s anticipated first book (later abandoned) called Journeys in Black and White. Here’s how it describes the author’s origins.

Barack Obama, the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review, was born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia [continue reading in new window...]

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Obama’s Lit Agency Used ‘Born in Kenya’ Bio Until 2007 – Breitbart.com

May 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Article was authored by Ben Shaprio and appeared on Breitbart. com.   Article is courtesy of Breitbart.com

According to archive.org, a website that caches websites on a regular basis, the Dystel.com website – the official website for Dystel & Goderich, Obama’s literary agents – was using the Barack Obama “born in Kenya” language until April 2007, just two months after then-Senator Obama declared his campaign for the presidency.

Archive.org shows that the Dystel website used the following biography for Obama as of April 3, 2007:

BARACK OBAMA is the junior Democratic senator from Illinois and was the dynamic keynote speaker at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. He was also the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. He was born in Kenya to an American anthropologist and a Kenyan finance minister and was raised in Indonesia, Hawaii, and Chicago. His first book, DREAMS FROM MY FATHER: A STORY OF RACE AND INHERITANCE, has been a long time New York Times bestseller.

Obama launched his presidential campaign in February 2007.

By April 21, 2007, the Obama bio had been changed to state that Obama was born in Hawaii:

BARACK OBAMA is the junior Democratic senator from Illinois and was the dynamic keynote speaker at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. He was also the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. He was born in Hawaii to an American anthropologist and a Kenyan finance minister and was raised in Indonesia, Hawaii, and Chicago. His first book, DREAMS FROM MY FATHER: A STORY OF RACE AND INHERITANCE, has been a long time New York Times bestseller.

Obama had already been a national figure for three years, since the Democratic National Convention in 2004, by the time the biography was changed; he had been a sitting Senator for over two years.

 

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Carl Levin Wants to Preserve Indefinite Detention of US Citizens As an Option | Mother Jones

May 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Sen. Carl Levin, (D-Mich.)

Reps. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) and Justin Amash’s (R-Mich.) attempt to prevent suspected terrorists captured on US soil from being shunted into indefinite military detention is running into opposition from Senate hawks, including Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.):

“They don’t have to exercise it, but I’m not so sure that they want the authority removed to arrest or to capture, because we’re talking about war here — somebody who’s declared war against the United States, just because we capture them on U.S. soil,” Levin said.

“We can hold them on U.S. soil, but I don’t think we want to eliminate the authority of the Executive Branch to hold someone who’s declared war on the United States as an enemy combatant,” he said.

Left unexplained is why mandatory military detention is [continue reading in new window...]

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American Decline a Mirage in a World That’s Rising – Bloomberg

May 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Ezra Klein

This article was authored by Ezra Klein and appears on Bloomberg.com.  Article courtesy of Bloomberg.com

“Anyone who tells you that America is in decline or that our influence has waned,” said PresidentBarack Obama in his 2012 State of the Union address, “doesn’t know what they’re talking about.”

It was a “rah-rah America!” applause line for a president who needed to get the assembled Republicans out of their seats a few times over the course of the evening. But the line works literally, too. Whenever someone tells me that the U.S. is in decline, I don’t have any idea what they’re talking about. And neither, I tend to think, do they.

The claim is maddeningly vague. What does it mean for the U.S. to be in decline? Are we talking about our geopolitical influence relative to other world powers? Our standard of living relative to other nations? Our current standard of living compared with some assumption about its appropriate rate of improvement?

Let’s flip the question: What does it mean for the U.S. to be on the rise? If it’s growing at a perfectly respectable 3.5 percent a year while China is growing at 8.5 percent a year, enabling China’s economy to surpass the U.S. in a decade or so, does that mean the U.S. is in decline? [Read more...]

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