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Friday, July 6, 2012

Wikileaks publishes more than two million emails Syrian government

Wikileaks Thursday began publishing more than two million emails internal government of Syria from 2006 to 2012, according to its founder Julian Assange highlight the repressive regime in power in Damascus but also their opponents. "WikiLeaks began to publish the files of Syria, more than two million emails from Syrian political figures, ministries and associated companies dating from August 2006 to March 2012," said a spokeswoman for WikiLeaks, Sarah Harrison, in a morning press conference in London. The spokeswoman declined to comment on the overall content of the messages, which broadcasts again with a group of newspapers from different countries, and suggested that because of the breadth of the files - "more than eight times the famous Cablegate" - an examination of all could take some time. But the founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, was more explicit in a statement sent from the Embassy of Ecuador, where more than refugee two weeks waiting for a response from the government of Quito on his asylum application. "The material is embarrassing for Syria but also embarrassing for external opponents of Syria," said the Australian of 41 years. "It helps us not just criticize one group or another, but to understand their interests, actions and thoughts. Only through an understanding of this conflict we can think of solving it, "he said. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is facing from March 2011 to a popular revolt bloody repression which caused 500 deaths and 16 000, according to the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights, an NGO based in London. The two million 484 thousand 899 emails, written in several languages, including Arabic and Russian, "shed light about the inner workings of the Syrian government and the economy, but also reveal how the West and Western companies say one thing and do another, "said Wikileaks in a text published on the Internet. One of the first revelations affects Italian industrial group sector Finmeccanica's defense, which the specialized Web continued to assist the Syrian regime with its ultra-sophisticated communications system even after the onset of repression. The information was released Thursday by the Italian weekly L'Espresso in an article entitled "Finmeccanica helped the dictator. " The contract of sale of the telecommunications system Selex TETRA Elsag, a subsidiary of Finmeccanica group controlled by the Italian state, is dated 2008 but continued to send engineers Selex and assisting the Damascus regime until a recent period, say L 'Espresso and electronic journal in Spanish Público.es, two of the media associated with this leak WikiLeaks. page created by Assange became known internationally with the release of hundreds of thousands of secret U.S. documents on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which followed 250 000 confidential cables of American diplomacy. The so-called "Cablegate", released with the help of several world-class media, angered Washington. Since then, Julian Assange, threatened with extradition to Sweden on suspicion of four alleged sexual assaults, is declared a victim of political persecution and fears being extradited to the U.S., where he said he could be accused of espionage and sentenced to death. That is the argument that claimed when on June 19 sought political asylum in the Embassy of Ecuador, Quito's government is "seriously considering" making a decision "based", said on Wednesday told reporters in Quito Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño ..

The Germans 'love' Merkel

At the highest level in three years launched the popularity of the German Chancellor, according to a poll published today, which confirms the high support of the German public in the policy pursued by Merkel to address the debt crisis in the eurozone. According to the poll by Infratest-ARD, conducted after the EU summit last week, 66% of Germans are happy with the policy pursued by the German Chancellor, increased by eight percentage points compared with the previous month and the highest percentage of re-election in 2009. The closest rival is Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the leader of the Social Democrats (SPD), with 61% popularity rate comparable to that received by the Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble. In 58% of Germans believe that Merkel's stance on the crisis in the eurozone is correct and decisive, though 85% of respondents expect that the crisis will worsen. More than two thirds of respondents were in favor of a referendum before Germany agreed to hand over more powers to European institutions. Moreover in the current poll, the party of Merkel, the Christian Democrats (CDU), remains the most popular in Germany with 35% versus 30% for the SPD. Nevertheless, the allies of the SPD, the Greens, are stable at 14%, while the Free Democrats (FDP), Merkel's allies have fallen slightly below 4% - to enter the federal parliament, must accumulate at least 5% of the votes.

Afghanistan: entry of NATO trucks in Pakistan seven months blocked


Of supply trucks from NATO came Thursday in Afghanistan from Pakistan for the first time after seven months of deadlock caused by a diplomatic crisis between Washington and Islamabad, officials said Pakistani border. Washington and Islamabad had sealed an agreement Tuesday allowing the resumption of transit through Pakistan and convoys of troops from the NATO force in Afghanistan (ISAF), interrupted just after a bombing that killed 24 Isaf soldiers Pakistan on the Afghan border last November. This blunder was even more tense relations between Washington and Islamabad already undermined by the secret U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden in May 2011 in northern Pakistan, in addition to regular U.S. accusations of collusion between Islamabad and Islamist networks, including the Afghan Taliban rebels. The resumption of supplies to ISAF through Pakistan reflects this view of a warming between the two countries. Three truckloads of mineral water for the troops to ISAF were allowed to enter Afghanistan from the border post of Chaman (southwestern Pakistan), told AFP an official of Pakistan Customs on-site, Abdul Imran Razaq. "All three trucks were parked for seven months in the local customs of Chaman. We checked their documents and have allowed to cross the border after receiving a letter from the tax authorities (FBR) attesting to the resumption of traffic refueling of NATO, "he said. An official at the FBR, Hukam Dad Malik, confirmed that three trucks were allowed to cross the border, and two of them had already done. The vast majority of thousands of trucks refueling the ISAF, which belong to private companies under contract with the Pakistani forces, were stored for seven months in Karachi, Pakistan's economic capital. It was in this port in the south that arrive by boat the majority of goods and fuel supplies in the ISAF, especially in containers then trucked to Afghanistan. These convoys were often attacked in the past by criminal groups or Afghan or Pakistani Taliban insurgents, who denounce the Western presence in Afghanistan. Pakistani officials said Thursday they would take them several days before organizing the safety of these trucks in the country. A coalition of Pakistani religious parties and conservatives denounced Wednesday the resumption of such traffic by threatening to block it if the government did not come back on its decision to reauthorize and calling his supporters to demonstrate in this direction in the coming days. The US-Pakistani agreement reached this week provides for the release of a U.S. aid of $ 1.1 billion for the Pakistan army that Washington had frozen last year. His conclusion, after months of fruitless negotiations, is a relief for the United States and its NATO allies, who plan to withdraw all combat troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2014, the repatriation of equipment via Pakistan being by far the most economical.

Shock in Japan, "human error" behind Fukushima disaster


The Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster in and 'be attributed to human error prevention and not only was the tragic consequence of the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on 11 March 2011. This was established by a parliamentary inquiry and on what 'is considered the most' serious accident in the history of nuclear power for civilian purposes after Chernobyl. "It 's clear that this accident' was caused by man. Governments, the authorities 'control and TEPCO have lacked a sense of responsibility' to prevent 'and what' success and therefore in" protecting the lives of people and society ', "it said in the conclusions of the investigation. Subject to the parliamentary committee on March 11, "the Fukushima nuclear power plant was vulnerable conditions that did not guarantee to respond to the earthquake and tsunami.  Although a number of opportunity 'to take measures, the authorities' regulatory and TEPCO have deliberately postponed the decision, did not take action to protect. "  What happened "could not 'be called a natural disaster," said the report drawn up after six months of investigation entrusted to a committee of independent experts set up by Parliament Japanese, who interviewed 1,167 in some way related to the facts, including the then Prime Minister Naoto Kan. The Public Authority Control and Tepco, the companies 'ownership of the plant, "from 2006 were aware of the risk of a complete blackout Kukushima in case of tsunami and the possibility' of damage to the reactors," experts say. The TEPCO "has not taken the necessary steps before the Authority on 11 March and" let go ", says the Commission, accusing the company 'to" do their own interests without regard to public safety. "The Tepco also "quickly ruled out" the possibility 'that an earthquake damaged the reactors. experts, among whom was the Nobel prize for chemistry in 2002, Koichi Tanaka, also referred to problems of organization and training within the TEPCO, workers forced to "work the dark, lit only by lanterns", "distrust of the government against the TEPCO" and "slow response", while recognizing factors that have prevented the consequences were more 'serious, including rapidity' of firms subcontractors who cleaned out the debris in reactors 2 and 3. But, once took place on total black out, it was "impossible to change the course of events," says the report. The Commission has called for government intervention to manage the crisis "slow "and unclear communications to the authorities 'local, which has led to" confusion "on the orders evacuation of 80 thousand people. also blamed the" lack of information on controlling the levels of radioactivity'. There are residents who evacuated "still fighting" against the effects of the incident: contamination, separation from families, lack of means of livelihood. " In this scenario, the government 'and not' fully committed 'to protect public health. The Commission calls for "radical reforms of the nuclear agency, the law on nuclear energy."  The circulation of the report comes at a time when Japan has put into operation the goal 'of its nuclear reactors. The last two have been reactivated in the central Oi (west) and just today, and 'was reconnected to the turbine of one of the two to resume production of electricity.' More 'half' of the Japanese and 'pronounced against the reopening of nuclear power plants.

Porn actor Luka Rocco Magnotta: Found the remains of victims of the killer-cannibal Canadian


On the right, Jun Lin, killed and dismembered by Luka Rocco Magnotta, left
Canadian police said that the human remains found in the park Angrignon belong to Jun Lin, killed and dismembered by former gay porn actor Luka Rocco Magnotta. Currently, the killer is in Canada and has been charged with manslaughter
On June 5, 2012 was captured on killer-cannibal, former gay porn actor, Luka Rocco Magnotta, but only today found the remains of the victim. The Canadian media report that the local scientific has found the identity of human remains Agrignon found Sunday in the park in Montreal: Jun Lin are brutally killed by Luka Rocco Magnotta . The murderess, even if women wore a wig to avoid recognition, it was reported and then stopped at a cafe in Berlin . Magnotta after escaping fromCanada had taken refuge first in France, where, however, the man who hosted him, having recognized, had warned the police that had been put on his trail. Finally, in Germany , where his flight came to an end.

THE CRIME - Magnotta killed and dismembered her boyfriend 33 year old college student, Jun Lin , in the apartment where they lived together in Montreal , then sending mail to the victim's arms and legs to the headquarters of two political parties and two schools. The hitman after filming the entire crime put it online on the website www.liveleak.com. Currently the video has been removed. It would seem that the ex-porn actor was already under investigation from 11 February 2012 for having tortured and killed several animals.

HUMAN REMAINS - In addition to the video and the remains sent by mail, however, the police had not yet been able to find the rest of the body. The torso of Lin was recently found in the waste container of the apartment building where the killer and the victim lived. Today, science has confirmed that human remains , including a head, found in the park Angrignon are of Jun Lin. At present, the murderess is in Canada where, having been tried and convicted of manslaughter, is serving his sentence.