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NSA chief: Journalists must be stopped

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Press TV - 10/25/13, HJ/HJ

NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander

NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander
 
Gen. Keith Alexander, the head of the embattled National Security Agency, is calling on governments to stop journalists from public disclosure of his agency’s secret documents.

"I think it’s wrong that that newspaper reporters have all these documents, the 50,000-whatever they have and are selling them and giving them out as if these-you know it just doesn’t make sense," Alexander said in an interview with the Defense Department's "Armed With Science" blog.

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The elites’ guide to ‘rogue states’

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RT - 10/25/13, Adrian Salbuchi 

A protester burns a U.S. flag during a demonstration over the capture of senior al Qaeda figure Abu Anas al-Liby by U.S. authorities, in Benghazi October 11, 2013. (Reuters/Esam Omran Al-Fetori)

A protester burns a U.S. flag during a demonstration over the capture of senior al Qaeda figure Abu Anas al-Liby by U.S. authorities, in Benghazi October 11, 2013. (Reuters/Esam Omran Al-Fetori)

 

Iraq is clearly the most famous rogue state, if we are to believe the two Bushes, especially the junior George, who rammed into that country in 2003, all but destroying it, maiming its people and proud 3,000-year-old heritage.  All based on an outright lie: the infamous ‘weapons of mass destruction’ they were accused of hiding, but that were never found.

All because Bush, Blair and their allies got it all “wrong” about Saddam’s WMD’s:  “We never found ‘em,” said George W., who then went on to joke about the whole affair during a White House dinner in March 2004.

Leaked memos reveal GCHQ efforts to keep mass surveillance secret

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The Guardian - 10/25/13, James Ball

 

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GCHQ fears a legal challenge under the Human Rights Act if evidence of its surveillance methods becomes admissable in court. Photograph: Barry Batchelor/PA
 

The UK intelligence agency GCHQ has repeatedly warned it fears a "damaging public debate" on the scale of its activities because it could lead to legal challenges against its mass-surveillance programmes, classified internal documents reveal.

Thousands stage anti-regime protest in Bahrain

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Press TV - 10/26/13, NT/MAM/MHB

 

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Thousands of people have staged a demonstration near the Bahraini capital Manama, calling for political reforms in the Persian Gulf kingdom.

Since mid-February 2011, thousands of pro-democracy protesters have held numerous demonstrations in the streets of Bahrain, calling for the Al Khalifa royal family to relinquish power.

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‘Occupation’ of lecture hall at Sofia University to continue indefinitely

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The Sofia Globe - 10/25/13, By Sofia Globe Staff

 

Support for the student protest also came during the daily protest march outside the Sofia University main building. Photo: @PStantchev/twitter.com

Support for the student protest also came during the daily protest march outside the Sofia University main building. Photo: @PStantchev/twitter.com

 

Students at the St Kliment Ohridski University in Sofia, who “occupied” the university’s largest lecture hall on October 23, said on October 25 that they would extend their protest indefinitely.

 

Poster outside hall 272 reading "I am not another brick in the rectorate". Photo via noresharski.com

Primark, Loblaw call on competitors to step up for Bangladesh garment workers

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Rana Plaza compensation would cost retailers little

CBC News - 10/25/13

Bangladesh Protest

Bangladeshi garment workers shout slogans during a protest in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sept. 13. Hundreds of protesters participated in the demonstration demanding a minimum monthly salary of 8000 takas (C$109) and compensation for the victims and injured of the Rana Plaza building collapse. (A.M. Ahad/Associated Press)

 

A challenge has been made to garment retailers to compensate the workers of Bangladesh's former Rana Plaza who made their clothes.

Bangladesh garment workers staged widespread protests in September, demanding an increase in the minimum wage from $40 per month — one of the planet’s lowest — to $109. The protests forced at least 400 garment factories to close temporarily, according to the International Labor Rights Forum.

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