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California’s Record High Fuel Prices a Glimpse of Things to Come

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Western Propagandists Attempt to Trigger Catastrophic Turkish-Syrian War

Bloomberg, Guardian, Ynet, all air unconfirmed report on “agreement” for Turkish-Syrian “buffer zone.” Read More

Arson suspected in violent house fire

Police are treating a violent fire at a family home on the island of Orust in western Sweden as an act of arson.Swedish primary school torched by ‘vandals’ (25 Sep 12)
Murder suspicions after woman dies in house fire (31 Aug 12)
Two injured in suspected Malm arson attack (26 Jul 12)
New wave of arson attacks hits Ystad (24 Jul 12)

Six people were in the house when the fire broke out on Friday night, but at least three managed to get out, according to local police. The other three are feared dead.The house was completely destroyed in the fire. On Saturday morning, local police had still not managed to search the premises and they had not been able to get in touch with the people living in the house.Peter Adlersson, spokesperson for the police in the Vstra Gtaland County on the west coast of Sweden, said a number of people were taken in for questioning overnight.He added that those questioned included witnesses but said he could not confirm whether they also included residents in the burnt-down house.The scene of the suspected arson has been under police watch overnight and remained so on Saturday morning as the fire brigade continued its work to extinguish the fire and forensic investigators searched the scene fore clues.Orust local government councillor, Hans Pernervik, told the TT news agency that he arrived at the scene at 8pm on Friday night. He described the fire as “completely out of control” and said locals feel shaken by the event.”It was all burning like a torch. I didn’t know a house could burn like that,” another witness, a neighbour identified as Gran, told TT.On Saturday morning smoke was still billowing out of the remains of the house. Hans Blohm, deputy chief of rescue operations on Orust, said he expects the fire to be fully extinguished by late Saturday morning.According to the SOS Alarm centre an injured person who was outside the house when the fire broke out has been brought to a nearby hospital.Eight people are registered at the address, but according to the police, who have spoken to the house owner, five of them do not live there.TT/The Local/nrFollow The Local on Twitter Read More

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The Connection Between White House Cyber Attacks and Global Reserve Currency

According to an anonymous White House official that spoke to mainstream media, yet acknowledged that they were not authorized to speak about the subject, referred to an attempt to hack into the executive branch’s computer system through an unclassified network. Read More

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New Arab-Specific SARS Has Origins in Israeli Biological Weapons Labs in Tel Aviv

The World Health Organization (WHO) released an alert to doctors concerning a new SARS virus that appears to be race-specific – attacking individuals of Arab descent. Read More

New attack knocks out government sites

The websites of several Swedish government agencies were knocked offline at 2.30pm on Friday afternoon, the time at which hacktivist network Anonymous warned it would launch a cyber attack against Swedish state interests.Hacktivists threaten ‘biggest attack’ on Friday (4 Oct 12)
Swedish sites hit by new wave of cyber attacks (3 Oct 12)
Hackers’ new target: Sweden’s Riksbank (3 Oct 12)

Just before 2.30pm on Friday, websites for the Riksbank, the Swedish Institute, and security service Spo were all inaccessible.The website for the Riksdag was also inaccessible for a short time.Other sites hit in the apparent attack included that of the Svea Court of Appeal, as well as the police, and the Swedish courts.While some of the sites remained down for extended periods of time, others were slow to load or were intermittently offline.The website for the Prison and Probation Service (Kriminalvrden) was not fully functioning, but a spokesperson told The Local that the site was undergoing maintenance which began before the attack occurred. The outages coincide with the time mentioned in a video warning about cyber attacks to be launched against Sweden and which was issued earlier this week by someone claiming to speak for Anonymous.This Friday we will do the biggest thing we have ever done. We will not say what we will do yet, an artificial sounding voice proclaimed in the clip, which claims ties to Anonymous and was broadcast on YouTube.Per Grdehall, webmaster at for the Swedish Institute, confirmed that the organization’s website, www.sweden.se, had also been targeted in the attack.Yes, we have been down for almost two hours now, they started early with us at around 12.30pm. We expect its another DDOS attack, he told The Local.I guess its the Anonymous network again. Well most likely formally report this to the police next week.During a DDOS attack, a website is bombarded with communication requests so that the servers become overloaded and the site crashes, and late Wednesday night the Riksbank’s website was inaccessible.Details of the attack were being discussed freely on Facebook by people claiming to be a part of Anonymous.A total of 18 websites were listed as potential targets for the attack, which was scheduled to begin at 2.30pm local time and continue for much of the afternoon.A Facebook group featuring details of the attack has almost 2,000 members and encourages people to help in carrying out the cyber attack. Let’s start attack on Swedish Sites! the page reads, followed by a list of targets containing 18 official Swedish government agency websites, and a warning that the attack will begin at 2.30pm.The Facebook group, called #OpPRK #OpPirateBay, also features links to the two videos uploaded to YouTube by the Anonymous group.In the second video, posted online on Thursday, an Anonymous spokesperson in a mask speaks to the camera in an automated voice.In the next coming days, Anonymous will become even more active and launch major attacks on several vital portals that represent Swedish society, the voice reads.The video claims the attack will be the “biggest thing ever done” by Anonymous and closes with a warning that “the internet belongs to us”.According to the clips posted on YouTube earlier in the week, the attacks are meant to be a retaliation against Mondays raid by Swedish police on web hosts PRQ, previously hosting both The Pirate Bay and WikiLeaks. Police confiscated three servers in the raid, including those hosting filesharing site Tankafetest.seThe LocalFollow The Local on Twitter Read More

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Military Employed For Crowd Control At College Football Game This Saturday

In yet another example of the blurring of the lines between civilian police and US military forces, Columbia, South Carolina police “officials” have announced that US Military Police from Ft. Jackson will be on the streets alongside civilian law enforcement after the South Carolina-Georgia football game this Saturday night, October 6. Read More