Intelligence, Secrecy & Power ISSN 1245-2122 N. 646, 17 November 2014 Contents only Every Month Next issue, 15 December 2014 Publishing since 1980 Editor Olivier Schmidt Email: intelligence-adi@wanadoo.fr Gmail+: intelligenceadi@gmail.com Blog: http://intelligenceadi.wordpress.com/ List: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/intelligence-secrecy-power-adi/ Postal: ADI, 16 rue des Ecoles, 75005 Paris, France Copyright ADI 2014, reproduction in any form forbidden without explicit authorization from the ADI. FRONT PAGE - IS LOSES GROUND, US POLICE IMPUNITY, HONG KONG PROTESTS, EBOLA SLOWING & US TORTURE POLICY Intelligence, Secrecy & Power, N. 646, 17 November 2014 WORLD MEDIA - FROM 11 OCTOBER 2014 TO 14 NOVEMBER 2014 REPORTS & SYNTHESIS The war against ISIS remains at the top of ISP topics and continues to go up in numbers of reports (now number one twice in a row and prevoiusly number two). Reports concerning US cops have gone up again in numbers to total articles and also for noteworthy articles (and again thecurrent issue's the hightest number at 9*), and was staid at number two topic in total numbers. The preceding issue's two new major topics were the continuing Hong Kong protests and the Ebola epidemic (in Africa, the US and Europe). The Hong Kong protests remain an important topics in Asia (which is remains in third place in this issue of ISP). As with the preceding issue, middle level simmering conflicts such as Israel/Palestine, Ukraine/Russia, Nigeria/Boko Haram and Pakistan/Afghanistan continue to simmer and don't seem to be changing relative position or number of noteworthy articles. However, Israel is clearly loosing the last of its remaining "sympathy capital" as the US gives its one of its first major rebukes and major European countries recognize the state of Palestine. This issue of "Intelligence, Secrecy & Power" (ISP), number 646, covers from 11 October 2014 to 14 November 2014 and includes 58 pages of data, in 642 entries or 32,115 words, and 57* noteworthy entries marked *. Our current ISP format provides information by topic and then by chronological listing of the media reports. In this issue, as with preceding issues, Israel/Palestine, but neither Syria nor Iraq, appears as a separate topic, independent of the general Middle East topic. In this issue Embola figures in the Global Topics or Tech entries and US torture police figures in the CIA entries. As such these different topics are not strictly comparable with the preceding issues of ISP where these topics may be separate or may not appear at all. The numbers for this issue's specific topics over the past month are: MIDDLE EAST (Mide, 102X, 2*, previously 86X) IS loses ground to Iraqis, Kurds & air strikes; US DOMESTIC SECURITY (FBI, 73X, 9*, previously 66X) Ferguson fall out, police impunity & brutality, Canada attacks; ASIA (Asia, 63X, 2*, 53X) Hong Kong protests, Obama visits Asia, Asian summit; ISRAEL/PALESTINE (Isr, 58X, 7*, 33X) Palestinian statehood, deadly Jerusalem clashes, more colonies; AFRICA (Afr, 43X, 3*, 26X) Boko Haram free reign, Tunisia votes, Compaore out; WESTERN EUROPE (West, 42X, 1*, 40X) Vote in Catalonia, Pope evolves, Britain doesn't; GLOBAL TOPICS (Tech, 41X, 1*, 38X) Ebola spreads but is slowing; US DOMESTIC POLITICS (Pol, 33X, 3* 32X) Voting & GOP wins Congress; EASTERN EUROPE (East, 31x, 3*, 30X) creaping Russian annexation, sanctions don't work; LATIN AMERICA (Amer, 24X, 1*, 11X) 43 missing Mexican students; PAKISTAN/AFGHANISTAN (Paf, 24X, 0*, 24X) continuing war and extremism; US NSA SCANDAL (Spy, 22X, 6*, 8X) bulk Internet surveillance, press on Snowden; US FOREIGN INTEL (CIA, 21X, 8*, 6X) CIA & US torture policy, some admitting, suggestion of changes; ECONOMICS (Eco, 19X, 1*, 8X) US inequality, child poverty in rich countries, GM deadly cars; ENVIRONMENT (Env, 17X, 1*, 21X) UN climate change report, several super storms; US EXTREMISM (Naz, 11X, 1*, 5X) Fear-mongering with Ebola, climate change, LGBT, etc.; US DEFENSE DEPT (DOD, 9X, 1*, 7X) Blackwater mercenaries guilty of murder. This issue's 57 significant entries are: US DOMESTIC SECURITY (FBI, 73X, 9*) Ferguson fall out, police impunity & brutality, Canada attacks FBI* 1012 Truthout/ Truthout Interviews Candice Bernd on Police Retaliation against "Cop Watch" Groups [why is watching on the job work by cops off limits when all other jobbers are watched] FBI* 1014 Free Thought Project/ Whistleblower Cop - Fellow Officers Getting "Gang Tattoos" to Celebrate Their Shooting Victims FBI* 1015 Mother Jones/ Rate of Mass Shootings Has Tripled Since 2011, Harvard Research Shows [which means carrying guns and police are not protecting us] FBI* 1015 Think Progress/ Feminist Speaker Receives Death Threats, Police Say State Gun Laws Won’t Let Them Protect Her [which means freedom to carry concealed weapons comes before freedom of speech] FBI* 1015 Truthout/ From Chicago to Geneva, a Call for Police Accountability for Violence and Torture FBI* 1029 NYT/ Investigator in Secret Service Prostitution Scandal Resigns - The investigator who led a review into the Secret Service's 2012 prostitution scandal quit after he was implicated in his own prostitution episode FBI* 1102 WP/ Probe of FBI agent leads to release of convicted drug dealers from prison FBI* 1107 NYT/ Christopher Epps, Former Chief of Prisons in Mississippi, Is Arraigned [receiving money to fill the prisons] FBI* 1110 NYT/ Police Use Department Wish List When Deciding Which Assets to Seize [sounds a lot like corruption] US DOMESTIC POLITICS (Pol, 33X, 8*) Voting & GOP wins Congress Pol* 1012 NYT/ Transcripts Kept Secret for 60 Years Bolster Defense of Oppenheimer's Loyalty [thus showing that McCarthy and sidekicks were wrong and doing a major disservice to the US] Pol* 1019 NYT/ Obama Could Reaffirm a Bush-Era Reading of a Treaty on Torture [back to torture for anyone Washington doesn't like] Pol* 1021 Truthout/ How a US and International Atomic Energy Agency Deception Haunts the Nuclear Talks [with Iran], Gareth Porter Pol* 1027 The Nation/ This City Came up with a Simple Solution to Homelessness - Housing Pol* 1028 New Yorker/ Freedom Summer, 2015 [a catastrophe of disenfranchisement] Pol* 1102 Gua/ From Michael Brown to Assata Shakur, the racist state of America persists - Those who resist are treated like terrorists – as in Ferguson this year, and as I and other black activists were in the 60s and 70s, Angela Davis Pol* 1103 NYT/ A Flood of Late Spending on Midterm Elections, From Murky Sources Pol* 1114 NYT/ Obama Plan May Allow Millions of Immigrants to Stay and Work in US [it looks like Obama will take on the GOP all by himself now that the Democrats are out of the picture] US FOREIGN INTEL (CIA, 21X, 8*) CIA & US torture policy, some admitting, suggestion of changes CIA* 1015 NYT/ CIA Study - Arming Rebels Rarely Works [but it's what the CIA has been doing since its creation] CIA* 1018 The Intercept/ Blowing the Whistle on CIA Torture From Beyond the Grave CIA* 1020 Bureau of Investigative Journalism/ Only 4 Percent of Drone Victims in Pakistan Named as Al-Qaida Members CIA* 1020 NYT/ Obama Could Reaffirm a Bush-Era Reading of a Treaty on Torture CIA* 1027 NYT/ In Cold War, US Spy Agencies Used 1,000 Nazis - Law enforcement and intelligence leaders believed the ex-Nazis' intelligence value against the Russians outweighed what one official called "moral lapses" in their service to the Third Reich, according to newly disclosed records CIA* 1027 NYT/ Peace Prize Laureates Urge Disclosure on US Torture CIA* 1112 NYT/ US to Revise Bush Policy on Treatment of Prisoners [but does this mean the end of torture or not] CIA* 1112 Truthout/ UN Scrutinizes Obama Administration's Policies on Torture [torture would still be possible in CIA "black prisons" abroad] ISRAEL/PALESTINE (Isr, 58X, 7*) Palestinian statehood, deadly Jerusalem clashes, more colonies Isr* 1014 NYT/ A Symbolic Vote in Britain Recognizes a Palestinian State Isr* 1017 NYT/ In Exodus From Israel to Germany, a Young Nation's Fissures Show [the start of an exodus who don't think hard right Israeli politics will ever stop the violence] Isr* 1024 IPS/ History of Key Document in IAEA Probe Suggests Israeli Forgery, Gareth Porter [Mossad keeping busy against the declared enemy] Isr* 1025 James M. Dorsey/ Israel - Beitar Jerusalem fans [the far-right & the government "go off the deep end" together] Isr* 1028 NYT/ Netanyahu Expedites Plan for More Than 1,000 New Apartments in East Jerusalem Isr* 1030 NYT/ Israel Jabs Back after US Official Calls Netanyahu a Coward [the "international spoiled brat" is hasty with its last and only ally] Isr* 1108 JP/ Romney slams Obama for 'legitimizing' Khamenei with letter [Israel & JP just don't like Iran] US NSA SCANDAL (Spy, 22X, 6*) bulk Internet surveillance, press on Snowden Spy* 1011 Ars Technica/ Former NSA Director Had Thousands Personally Invested in Obscure Tech Firms - "No conflicts appear to exist" among Keith Alexander's investments, NSA said [where personal interests and the military-intelligence-industrial complex meets "national security"] Spy* 1012 Common Dreams/ Snowden Documentary Confirms Existence of New National Security Whistleblower Spy* 1017 NYT/ FBI Director Hints at Action as Cellphone Data Is Locked Spy* 1021 New Yorker/ How Edward Snowden Changed Journalism Spy* 1025 Truthout/ Forgotten [NSA & CIA] Coup - How the US and Britain Crushed Their "Ally" Australia's Government Spy* 1028 NYT/ Report Reveals Wider Tracking of Mail in US AFRICA (Afr, 43X, 3*) Boko Haram free reign, Tunisia votes, Compaore out, Afr* 1031 Houghton Star/ Boko Haram Crisis Continues in Nigeria [which looks seriously like a "failed state"] Afr* 1107 UN/ Nigerian civilian groups wage war on Boko Haram [because the army can't or won't do it] Afr* 1111 Bloomberg/ Nigeria Says US Not Giving Enough Support to Fight Rebels [thanks to government corruption, local militias are doing much better than the army and with much less equipment] EASTERN EUROPE (East, 31x, 3*) creaping Russian annexation, sanctions don't work East* 1012 NYT/ Aviation Giant [Antonov] Is Nearly Grounded in Ukraine [welcome to Western capitalism and lose your only major industry] East* 1012 WSJ/ Putin to Attend Brisbane G-20 Summit in November [official or national boycotts don't last long when big business is involved] East* 1114 NYT/ Russia to Curtail Nuclear Security Efforts with US [negative sanctions bring negative reactions] ENVIRONMENT (Env, 17X, 3*) UN climate change report, several super storms Env* 1014 NYT/ Pentagon Signals Security Risks of Climate Change [will climate deniers attack the Pentagon] Env* 1108 NYT/ USDA Approves Modified Potato. Next up - French Fry Fans Env* 1112 NYT/ US and China Reach Climate Deal After Months of Talks MIDDLE EAST (Mide, 102X, 2*) IS loses ground to Iraqis, Kurds & air strikes Mide* 1012 Renseignor-Kol Israel (1006)/ According to the US McClatchy news service, a French DGSE foreign intelligence officer has joined El Qaida in Syria [if true, this has very serious implications, and if it isn't true, it also has equally serious implications by implying that Israeli intelligence is now trying to pit Western intelligence services against each other] Mide* 1013 Tracterrorism.org/ TRAC Briefing - IS Manifesto Reveals 100-Year Plan for a World Caliphate, Veryan Khan ASIA (Asia, 63X, 2*) Hong Kong protests, Obama visits Asia, Asian summit Asia* 1022 NYT/ Thousands of protesters in Hong Kong watched a live broadcast of a debate between leaders of their movement and city officials - On TV, Hong Kong Openly Debates Democracy Asia* 1023 Reu/ Japan PM's new minister hit by scandal over racy bar bill [Abe's government scandals are starting to pile up] WESTERN EUROPE (West, 42X, 1*) Vote in Catalonia, Pope evolves, Britain doesn't West* 1106 BBC/ Police investigate [former Scottish PM] Alex Salmond bonfire effigy [another show of good English tolerance] GLOBAL TOPICS (Tech, 41X, 1*) Ebola spreads but is slowing Tech* 1011 NYT/ Officials Admit a 'Defeat' by Ebola in Sierra Leone LATIN AMERICA (Amer, 24X, 1*) 43 missing Mexican students Amer* 0122 Truthout/ The Latin American Disappeared and Repeating History in Mexico ECONOMICS (Eco, 19X, 1*) US inequality, child poverty in rich countries, GM deadly cars Eco* 1014 Buzz Flash/ International Small Farmer Movement Calls Free Trade a Threat to Food Security [and India too] US EXTREMISM (Naz, 11X, 1*) Fear-mongering with Ebola, climate change, LGBT, etc. Naz* 1107 Huff Post/ ALEC Corporate Board Chair Quits Over [Denial of] Climate Change, Renewables and Voting Rights US DEFENSE DEPT (DOD, 9X, 1*) Blackwater mercenaries guilty of murder DOD* 1015 Fox/ Pentagon withheld information about decades-old chemical weapons during Iraq War, report claims [because reporting them then would have shown that Cheney-Bush had no reason to invade Iraq] PAKISTAN/AFGHANISTAN (Paf, 24X, 0*) continuing war and extremism --------------------------------------------- <EOF>