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Exxon Mobil's quarterly profit tops $10 billion on crude, fatter U.S. refining margins 27 Oct 2011 Exxon Mobil Corp. said Thursday its third-quarter profit rose 41% to $10.33 billion, or $2.13 a share, from $7.35 billion, or $1.44 a share, in the year-ago period, as the oil major benefitted from higher crude prices. Wall Street analysts expected Exxon to earn $2.12 a share, according to a survey by FactSet Research. Exxon bought back $5 billion in stock in the third quarter and plans to buy back another $5 billion in the fourth quarter. [General Strike: November 28, 2011! --The only thing we have left is our labor. This is what we must withhold. Posted by www.legitgov.org 26 Oct 2011 Extend your Thanksgiving weekend by refusing the austerity measures to be imposed on the vast majority by the corporate, military and financial oligarchy! General Strike, Monday, November 28, 2011!]

CIA to continue covert operations in Iraq 26 Oct 2011 As the US prepares to withdraw its forces from Iraq, the CIA is looking for ways to continue its secret so-called "counterterrorism" and intelligence programs inside the country. On October 21, President Barack Obama announced that all US forces would withdraw from Iraq by December 31 and "America's war in [on] Iraq will be over." US officials, however, have made it clear that the CIA plans to continue the programs, which have been run by the Joint Special Operations Command and other military organizations for years, in the country. These programs include different activities such as the deployment of remote sensors that scan the wireless spectrum of terrorist safe havens to stealth US-Iraqi counterterrorism commando teams [aka assassination squads].

Baghdad bomb blasts kill 18, injure 37 27 Oct 2011 At least 18 people have been killed and more than two dozen others wounded in twin bomb explosions in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. Two people were killed in a blast that occurred on Thursday evening shortly after 7 p.m. local time, when a bomb detonated near a music store in Baghdad's northeastern neighborhood of Ur, the Associated Press reported. The second bomb exploded a few minutes later, ripping through rescue workers and others who had gathered at the scene.

'US eyes intelligence base in Turkey' --Pentagon officials reportedly offered Turkey to buy or rent US-made Predator drones 27 Oct 2011 A high-ranking delegation from the US Defense Department has visited Ankara, urging Turkish officials to allow Washington to use the Incirlik Air Base in southern Turkey for intelligence purposes, Press TV reports. The US team headed by Alexander Vershbow, assistant US defense secretary for international security affairs, met with Turkish Foreign Ministry and military officials on Wednesday. During the meetings, the two sides discussed the United States' so-called war on terror as well as intelligence cooperation between Ankara and Washington.

US assassination drone kills 3 in Yemen 27 Oct 2011 Three people have been killed and six others have been injured in a US assassination drone attack in the southern Yemeni province of Abyan, a government official says. The Yemeni official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said on Thursday that the unauthorized aerial attack targeted the village of Shaqra in Abyan, AFP reported. Local residents have reported sounds of gunfire and explosions in nearby areas over the past few days.

Qatar admits it had boots on ground in Libya 26 Oct 2011 Qatar revealed for the first time Wednesday that hundreds of its soldiers had fought alongside Libyans in their battle to topple Moammar Gadhafi. "We were among them and the numbers of Qataris on ground were hundreds in every region," said Qatari chief of staff Maj. Gen. Hamad bin Ali al-Atiya. The announcement marks the first time that Qatar has acknowledged it had military boots on the ground in Libya. Previously the gas-rich country said it had only lent the support of its air force to NATO-led operations to protect civilians during the eight-month uprising coup.

Gaddafi family to file war crimes complaint 26 Oct 2011 Muammar Gaddafi's family plans to file a war crimes complaint against NATO with the International Criminal Court (ICC) for the alliance's alleged role in his death, the family's lawyer says. Gaddafi, 69, was captured and killed Thursday near the city of Sirte in circumstances that are still unclear, but it has been confirmed NATO aircraft fired on pro-Gaddafi vehicles driving in a convoy from the city. Marcel Ceccaldi, a French lawyer who represents Gaddafi's family, told AFP that a complaint would be filed with the Hague-based ICC because NATO's attack on the convoy led directly to his death. "The willful killing (of someone protected by the Geneva Convention) is defined as a war crime by Article 8 of the ICC's Rome Statute," he said.

Israeli settlers blast Palestinian home 27 Oct 2011 Israeli settlers have exploded a Palestinian home in the village of Beit Fureeq near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, Press TV reports.

Fukushima Plant May Have Emitted Double Radiation Than Estimated 27 Oct 2011 The wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan may have released more than twice the amount of radiation estimated by the government, a study by European and U.S.-based scientists said. Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima station, which was wrecked in the events on March 11, may have emitted 35,800 terabecquerels of radioactive cesium 137 at the height of the disaster, according to a study in the Atmospherics Chemistry and Physics journal. Japan's nuclear regulator in June said 15,000 terabecquerels of cesium 137 was discharged.

Radioactive Used Cars Being Sold in Japan --One car emitted more than 300 times the legal amount of radiation 26 Oct 2011 Cars that were contaminated by radiation during the March nuclear meltdown[s] in Japan are finding their way into the reeling nation's used car market. Vehicles from the area around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, were supposed to be destroyed. But unscrupulous dealers have registered them under new license plates and sold them, The Asahi Shimbun newspaper reported. Unable to export the cars, they're selling them in Japan.

U.S. to study cancer risks near nuclear sites 27 Oct 2011 As the nation explores US corpora-terrorists explore whether to invest more in nuclear energy, the National Academy of Sciences has begun a study of cancer risks faced by people living near nuclear facilities -- a study it admits is worrisome. The study, called for by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, is planned to update a [rigged] 1991 National Cancer Institute study that found no danger in living near nuclear plants. President Obama has [insanely] called for $36 billion in federal loan guarantees for nuclear power plant construction.

Heads up! 'Rogue websites' bill introduced in US House --Bill allegedly paves way for US law enforcement to unilaterally shut down websites, including foreign sites, without due process 26 Oct 2011 US lawmakers introduced a bill on Wednesday that would give US authorities more tools to crack down on websites accused of piracy of movies, television shows and music and the sale of counterfeit goods. The Stop Online Piracy Act has received bipartisan support in the House of Representatives and is the House version of a bill introduced in the Senate in May known as the Theft of Intellectual Property Act or Protect IP Act.

Jacob Appelbaum Detained At Keflavík Airport 27 Oct 2011 Grapevine has learned that Tor Project member and WikiLeaks representative Jacob Appelbaum has been detained at Keflavík International Airport. Sources close to Grapevine have confirmed that the US Department of Homeland Security put a Secondary Security Screening Selection (SSSS) tag on Appelbaum in 2010. He has been stopped, detained, and searched multiple times in his travels, and has had laptops and mobile phones seized and searched, including most recently in Seattle after returning from Iceland. [Update: MP for The Movement Birgitta Jónsdóttir has confirmed for Vísir that Jacob has since been released and is on his way to the US.]

Patriot Act Turns 10, With No Signs of Retirement 26 Oct 2011 The USA Patriot Act, the law granting the government vast surveillance powers that was adopted in the wake of September 11, turns a decade old Wednesday. But despite its namesake of "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism," the law seemingly is being invoked far more to target domestic crime than for fighting terrorism. The act, which has remained largely the same since President [sic] George W. Bush signed the legislation six weeks after 9/11, among other things gives the government powers to acquire phone, banking and other records via the power of a so-called "national security letter," which does not require a court warrant.

Georgia man convicted in plot to seize TN courthouse and force Obama out of office --Huff was a part of a Georgia militia and the 'birther' movement that disputes Obama's U.S. citizenship. 25 Oct 2011 A jury convicted a Georgia man Tuesday of a federal firearms charge in what authorities said was a plot to take over a Tennessee courthouse and force President Barack Obama out of office. Darren Wesley Huff, 41, was found guilty of carrying a firearm in interstate commerce with the intent to use it in a civil disorder... Huff was stopped by Tennessee officers in April 2010 and told them he was bringing guns into the state from Dallas, Ga., to support efforts to arrest Monroe County officials who refused to indict Obama.

Injured 'Occupy' Iraq vet protester upgraded to fair condition 27 Oct 2011 An Iraq war veteran injured in "Occupy Oakland" clashes Tuesday night has been upgraded overnight from critical to fair condition. Twenty-four year old Scott Olsen remains at Highland Hospital and his parents are about to arrive in the Bay Area to be with him. Olsen suffered a skull fracture.

Iraq vet in critical condition after Oakland protest 26 Oct 2011 Authorities have not released information on injuries from Tuesday's clash [between Occupy Oakland protesters and police]. However, officials at Highland Hospital in Oakland said today that one protester, 24-year-old Scott Olsen of Daly City, a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War, was in critical condition. The antiwar group said Olsen, a system administrator at a San Francisco software firm, suffered a skull fracture when he was hit by a "blunt object." Olsen joined the U.S. Marines in 2006, served two tours in Iraq, and was discharged in 2010, the group said.

Massey Energy Security Chief Guilty in Mine-Blast Case 27 Oct 2011 A Massey Energy Co. security chief was convicted Wednesday on both charges he was facing related to the investigation of the 2010 explosion in West Virginia that killed 29 miners, in the first criminal case to come from the disaster. Hughie Elbert Stover was found guilty by a jury in U.S. District Court in Beckley, W.Va., of obstructing a federal criminal investigation, and lying to federal investigators. Mr. Stover, who had been security chief of the Upper Big Branch mine since 1999, faces a maximum penalty of 25 years in prison but remains free pending a Feb. 29 sentencing.

Dems: Bush-era Loan Deserves Same Scrutiny as Solyndra 27 Oct 2011 Congressional Democrats have asked House investigators to expand their probe of the Obama Administration's ill-fated loan to Solyndra to cover another speculative federal lending effort -- this one approved under President [sic] Bush. In a letter to Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.), three senior Democrats called on investigators to broaden their probe to cover a $267 million Agriculture Department loan to a Colorado-based start-up that tried to extend broadband Internet service to rural and underserved areas. "There is also no good rationale for ignoring the $267 million loan to Open Range," said the letter, signed by Reps. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), Diana DeGette (D-Colo.), and Edward Markey (D-Mass.). "Your reaction to the Open Range bankruptcy could not be more different than your reaction to the Solyndra bankruptcy." [Oh, but it is. Bush got/gets a pass from hypocritical GOP sociopaths; Obusha does not.]

Democrats seek up to $3 trillion in budget savings, including significant cuts to Medicare 26 Oct 2011 DemocRATs are proposing $2.5 trillion to $3 trillion in measures to reduce the budget deficit, including revenue increases and significant cuts to Medicare, congressional aides told Reuters. The plan was unveiled on Tuesday at a closed-door meeting of a special 12-member congressional panel, the so-called "super committee" that is tasked with finding at least $1.2 trillion in deficit reduction over 10 years.

 

Top 1 Percent of Earners Doubled Share of Nation's Income, Study Finds 26 Oct 2011 The top 1 percent of earners more than doubled their share of the nation's income over the last three decades, the Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday, in a new report. In addition, the report said, government policy has become less redistributive since the late 1970s, doing less to reduce the concentration of income. "The equalizing effect of federal taxes was smaller" in 2007 than in 1979, as "the composition of federal revenues shifted away from progressive income taxes to less-progressive payroll taxes," the budget office said.

 

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