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Organized criminals are being blamed for stealing European Union pollution permits and sparking a police hunt across the continent, battering confidence in an 80 billion-euro ($110 billion) market.
Thieves who steal CO2 permits try to sell them in the market before owners realize they are missing, according to Czech trader Nikos Tornikidis. The criminals may have exploited “negligent” security standards in some EU nations that participate in the world’s largest system for trading rights to discharge greenhouse gases, Jos Delbeke, director general for climate at the European Commission, said in an interview.
“Sophisticated” computer attacks this month may be linked to last year’s outbreaks of “carousel fraud” and “phishing attacks,” the director of Europol said. Barclays Plc stopped buying futures from some clients, and a traders association said the market may become “untenable.” The EU regulator suspended registries on Jan. 19 in 30 countries that track carbon permits, triggering a 12-day halt in spot trading.
Are you about to leave high school, college, or enter university? In this first chapter of her highly educational book, Hadley Gustin writes about her experiences. more...
Republicans are willing to walk the US to the brink of insolvency because they are operating by a playbook written and perfected by radical free market fundamentalists over the past 30 years who've been able to exploit or create economic crisis across the globe -- from Latin America to Africa and from South East Asia to Russia -- in order to strip these nations of their wealth and enrich a small claque of oligarchs and their empty promises of prosperity and democratic reforms.
The Long Hand of Jewish Finance: Soros behind
WikiLeaks funding, as well as Egyptian turmoil. Check Assange`s current wave of frantic Tweets encouraging Egypt uprising. Coups are now made via `popular uprisings` but the masses are never organised to take power themselves. They si
www.commondreams.orgThe political context of the current Egyptian uprising is clear: The United States has steadfastly supported dictator Hosni Mubarak, whose rule has been marked by sham elections and the jailing and torture of dissidents, propping up his regime since 1981 with some $60 billion in aid, most of it
Alarms have been raised by those observing the popular uprising in Egypt that, while it is not itself a Muslim fundamentalist movement, the Muslim fundamentalists could take it over as it unfolds. The best-positioned group to do so is the Muslim Brotherhood. Some are even conflating the peaceful Brotherhood with radical groups such as al-Qaeda. I showed in my recent book, Engaging the Muslim World, that the Muslim Brotherhood has since the 1970s opposed the radical movements. In any case, the analogy many of these alarmists are making, explicitly or implicitly, is to Iran in 1978-79, which saw similar scenes of massive crowds in the street, demanding the departure of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, their king.
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All of which makes the quip about the Muslim Brotherhood being MI-6 more fun. )
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THE HUFFINGTON POST – The open Internet's role in popular uprising is now undisputed. Look no further than Egypt, where the Mubarak regime today reportedly shut down Internet and cell phone communications -- a troubling predictor of the fierce crackdown that has followed.
What's even more troubling is news that one American company is aiding Egypt's
harsh response through sales of technology that makes this repression possible.
The power of open networks is clear. The Internet's favorite offspring -- Twitter, Facebook and YouTube -- are now heralded on CNN, BBC and Fox News as flag-bearers for a new era of citizen journalism and activism. (More and more these same news organizations have abandoned their own, more traditional means of newsgathering to troll social media for breaking information.)
But the open Internet's power cuts both ways: The tools that connect, organize and empower protesters can also be used to hunt them down.
Telecom Egypt, the nation's dominant phone and Internet service provider, is a state-run enterprise, which made it easy on Friday morning for authorities to pull the plug and plunge much of the nation into digital darkness.
Moreover, Egypt also has the ability to spy on Internet and cell phone users, by opening their communication packets and reading their contents. Iran used similar methods during the 2009 unrest to track, imprison and in some cases, "
disappear" truckloads of cyber-dissidents.
The companies that profit from sales of this technology need to be held to a higher standard. One in particular is an American firm,
Narus of Sunnyvale, Calif., which has sold Telecom Egypt "real-time traffic intelligence" equipment.
Narus, now owned by Boeing, was founded in 1997 by
Israeli security experts to
create and sell mass surveillance systems for governments and large corporate clients.
J.P. Morgan stood "at the very center" of Bernard Madoff's fraud, according to a lawsuit unsealed Thursday that reveals for the first time how bank employees' concerns allegedly went unheeded.
Egypt's government sought to address grievances by its opponents after bloody clashes in Cairo, but continued to resist demands that Mubarak step down immediately. In an ABC News interview, Mubarak said he can't leave now or the country will sink deeper into chaos.
www.youtube.comNative American Elder speaks of the coming period of transformation that the Earth now faces. The Maya, Hopi, Inca have spoken of the great changes that await humanity as the end of an era approaches surrounding the year 2012. Earth cannot sustain our contemporary culture which has been divorced fr
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