Russia and World: августа 2012

пятница, 31 августа 2012 г.

No-fly zone over Syria 'not ruled out' by France, UK

Ron Paul supporters demand justice

Twitter: the terrorists' new favorite social network?

Are Islamic terrorists still relying on sleeper cells and encrypted correspondence to communicate calls for jihad among other violent extremists? Maybe, but they’re making a splash on Twitter, too.

“On Twitter, they get more reach to expand their propaganda,” London-based researcher Murad Batal al Shishani tells McClatchy this week. Shishani says that while the Internet has allowed terrorists an ever expanding way of communicating with like-minded individuals since the digital age reached its peak, extremists have recently taken an especially fond liking to Twitter, where sending out a short, 140-character message can mobilize masses internationally and at a moment’s notice.

In theory, at least.

Shishani says in his research that while Twitter is indeed thought to be an emerging mode of communication among Islamic extremists and foreign terrorist groups, the outlet is acting more like a recruiting tool or newswire than an actual conduit for calls to action.

“They’re focusing on current events – Syria, or supporting a revolution here or there – but they are not using it for operational activity or to communicate among themselves,” the researcher adds. Instead, he insists, a growing number of Internet-inclined terrorists are taking to Twitter so that they can aim for new recruits using one of the fastest growing modes of communication.

“They can reach the ‘swing people,’ and try to attract more sympathizers,” he explains.

In an article published by the New York Times late last year, reporter Jeffrey Gettleman drew attention to a trend of terrorists favoring Twitter as a way of communicating over the Web, claiming, “terrorism experts say that Twitter terrorism is part of an emerging trend.”

Twitter, wrote Gettleman, was usurping previously popular social networking sites among audiences of all sorts, and that was evident within al-Qaeda and other organizations as well. In that instance, though, Gettleman wrote that one particular microblog account — one tied to the press office of Somalia’s Harakat al-Shabab al-Mujahedeen — might be shut down by US authorities.

“American officials say they may have the legal authority to demand that Twitter close the Shabab’s account, @HSMPress, which had more than 4,600 followers as of Monday night,” they Times wrote last year. At the time, Trevor Timm of the Electronic Frontier Foundation mocked Congress’ likely call for a removal of the account in question, saying on his own Twitter account, “How fast does Joe Lieberman release a statement today saying we should censor the Net in the name of national security? I bet before noon.”

Now nearly a year since the @HSMPress account made headlines, McClathcy says that terrorist-tied Twitter accounts are indeed still in existence, but don’t seem to be doing anything that unexpected.

“On the feeds I read, they’re not tweeting anything outlandish,” the Center for Strategic Studies’ Will McCants tells McClatchy. “Maybe they blew up a tank or killed two dudes.”

Even after Congress allegedly considered shutting down the @HSMPress account, McCants says doing as much today would do little to garner America another victory in its war on terror. Given the ever growing number of accounts across the world, it might also be impossible.

“There’s not a lot to be gained from taking it down,” McCants says. “The fear is: ‘Oh my God, they’re on Twitter, how far could their propaganda reach?’ Once you calm down, you see that the only people who get excited about it are geeky intel analysts and fans they already have.”

четверг, 30 августа 2012 г.

American democracy

вторник, 28 августа 2012 г.

Rebels of Syria is killers

People, watch how in FB rebels of Syria call to kill this woman - journalist from Syria. They give all her address her phone numbers, name of her mom where she live and etc. Watch and horribly - you support criminals, monsters, terrorists. Then they will order and kill you and your children

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понедельник, 27 августа 2012 г.

Darayya Massacre

Every day a new massacre is committed against civilians in Syria because they refuse to 'revolt', plac

es and targets are carefully selected in order to ignite a civilian ethnic based war..

Turkey's Erdogan and his Muslim Brotherhood government have lots of crimes and innocent Syrian blood on their hands, now you know why they refused to apologize for the Armenian genocide?

воскресенье, 26 августа 2012 г.

'West wants Libyan oil, country set for ruin like Iraq and Afghanistan'

West’s hypocrisy over Pussy Riot is breathtaking

By Simon Jenkins

Anyone in England and Wales with a dog out of control can now be jailed for six months. If the dog causes injury, the maximum term is to be two years. I have no sympathy for such people. Keeping these beasts is weird, and those who do it probably need treatment. But the minister, Lord Taylor of Holbeach, complained in May that fewer than 20 people were in jail for dangerous dog offences. The sentencing council has duly told courts to raise the threshold to two years, “to send a message”.

The same sentiment a year ago motivated English magistrates to play to the gallery by jailing 1,292 people for stealing bottles of water or trainers or tweeting idiot messages during the dispersed rampage dubbed ‘urban riots’. Hysterical ministers raced home from holiday to tell judges to send messages. Judges duly ruined the lives of hundreds of young people, at great public expense and to no advantage to their victims. I have no sympathy for these people either, but again the politicised response to crime was disproportionate.

A month before, a London court jailed a stoned Charlie Gilmour after he swung on a union flag from the Cenotaph memorial to Britain’s war dead and tossed a bin at a police car, thus causing widespread outrage in the offices of the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail. The judge sent him down for 18 months to send a message carefully designed to wreck his university career. Yet again we need have no sympathy for Gilmour. But there is no such thing as a rap over the knuckles in jail. Judges know that any term in prison is a sentence for life.

How can British politicians, whose statements clearly seek to influence pliable judges, criticise other sovereign states for doing likewise? Last week, the Foreign Office professed itself “deeply concerned” at the fate of Russia’s Pussy Riot three, jailed for two years for “hooliganism” in Moscow’s Christ the Saviour Cathedral. They had staged what, by all accounts, was an obscene publicity stunt, videoing an anti-Putin song defamatory of the Virgin Mary in front of pious worshippers.

Good for free speech, we might all say. That the act outraged public decency is an understatement. In a Levada poll of Russian public opinion, just 5 per cent thought the girls should go unpunished and 65 per cent wanted them in prison, 40 per cent with hard labour. Artists round the globe may plead free speech, but to treat the Pussy Riot gesture as a glorious stand for artistic liberty is like praising Johnny Rotten, who did similar things, as the Voltaire of our day. There can be disproportionate apologias as well as disproportionate sentences.

Artists can look after their own. For the British and US governments to get on high horses about Russian sentencing is hypocrisy. America and Britain damned the “disproportionate” Pussy Riot terms.

In America’s case this was from a nation that jails drug offenders for 20, 30 or 40 years, holds terrorism ‘suspects’ incommunicado indefinitely and imprisons for life even trivial ‘three strikes’ offenders.

Guantanamo Bay

Last week alone a US military court declared that reporting the Guantanamo Bay trial of Khalid Shaikh Mohammad would be censored. Any mention of his torture in prison was banned as “reasonably expected to damage national security”. This has no apparent connection to proportionate punishment or freedom of speech.

The British security establishment during the Tony Blair-Gordon Brown regime tried to censor history books for possible ‘terrorist’ incitement. It introduced control orders, restricted courts and long-period detention without trial. It made unlicensed demonstrating an offence and has since sought prosecution of Twitter and Facebook abuse.

British ministers and courts are craven to what passes for public opinion. The idea that, whenever a crime or antisocial action hits the headlines, “the courts must send a message” is politicised justice. At times, especially in tragic cases involving children, it gets near to a lynch mob. Again the only message sent is to the media. If Britain’s draconian sentencing were effective, British jails would not be bursting at the seams.

There is of course a difference between the liberties enjoyed in most western democracies and the cruder jurisprudence of modern Russia, China and much of the Muslim world. It would be silly to pretend otherwise. But the difference is not so great as to merit the barrage of megaphone comment from west to east.

Double standards

Pussy Riot may have attacked no one and ‘stick and stones break no bones’. But no society, certainly not Britain, legislates on the basis that ‘words can never hurt’. If a rock group invaded Westminster Abbey and gravely insulted a religious or ethnic minority before the high altar, we all know that ministers would howl for “exemplary punishment” and judges would oblige.

Commenting on the social mores of other countries may offer an offshore outlet for the righteous indignation of politicians and editorialists. It has no noticeable effect. Western comments on the treatment of women in Muslim states, dissidents in China or drug offenders in south-east Asia are dismissed as imperial interference. But then how would Britons feel if Moscow or Singapore or Tehran condemned the treatment of Cenotaph protestors?

British courts jail at the drop of a headline. One of the few cabinet ministers in recent years to show a sincere desire to relate punishment to crime and imprisonment to consequence is the justice secretary, Kenneth Clarke. He is now being bad-mouthed out of his job by Downing Street’s dark arts, frightened not of Clarke but of the rightwing press.

Clarke is, with Iain Duncan Smith, a rare minister intellectually engaged with his job and eager courageously to see it through. Why are the Lib Dems not defending him? For David Cameron to sack Clarke would indeed send a message. Of the worst sort.

— Guardian News & Media Ltd

Protesters rally during a demonstration in support of Russian punk band Pussy Riot, Friday, Aug. 17, 2012 in New York's Times Square.

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суббота, 25 августа 2012 г.

NATO Violates UN Resolution Weapons Embargo on Libya

Syrians Adoring Their Army

Syrian Rebels Execute 16 Prisoners in Douma

S-400 air-defence shields Russia from sky & space threats

пятница, 24 августа 2012 г.

Supermodern - new project of Russia (USSR 2.0)

среда, 22 августа 2012 г.

What are the US objectives in Afghanistan?

Anonymous releases how-to instructions on fooling facial recognition

понедельник, 20 августа 2012 г.

Slobadan Miloshevich birthday

Slobadan Miloshevich birthday (Aug 20, 1941). Bloodstain will be forever in the West imperialism. There is no forgiveness for the death of innocents and the opening of terror in the World.