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Obama secretly signs the most aggressive cybersecurity directive ever

Six years after the White House first started running amok on the computer networks of its adversaries, US President Barack Obama has signed off on a top-secret order that finally offers blueprints for the Pentagon’s cyberwars.

Pres. Obama has autographed an executive order outlining protocol and procedures for the US military to take in the name of preventing cyberattacks from foreign countries, the Washington Post reports, once and for all providing [...]

Why The Best Spies in Mossad And The CIA Are Women

Maseena Ziegler
Forbes
September 30, 2012

 

[...] Last week, in a stunning departure from protocol, the chief of Mossad – Israel’s national intelligence agency – singled out his female field agents for praise. “Women have a distinct advantage in secret warfare because of their ability to multitask,” Tamir Pardo said to Israel’s Lady Globes. He also added that women are “better at playing a role” and superior to men when it comes to [...]

Putin today ratified a protocol necessary for #Russia to join WTO, may join as soon as next month, invited in Dec after 18 years of talks

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Alexis Tsipra’s hopes of meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and newly appointed French President Francois Hollande, have been shot down in flames

From Athens News:

Alexis Tsipra’s hopes of meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and newly appointed French President Francois Hollande, have been shot down in flames, after his requests were denied by both parties. “The Chancellor only meets with chiefs of state and government” was the short answer by a Merkel representative, while the French Presidency has said that protocol does not allow for meetings between the President and political party leaders.

REPORT: ‘Something big is about to happen’ with APPLE

An administrative assistant at a top U.S. brokerage firm that handles Intel and Apple’s ocean/air accounts has informed the iPhone 5 News Blog that “something big is about to happen.” The source provided me with the address and telephone number of where she works, and I was able to call and verify her employment at the brokerage firm.

“Recently my team and I have been getting A LOT of protocol from Apple lately, [...]

Unmarried mother-of-three set to become France’s new first lady delivers veiled attack on Carla Bruni as she pledges to remain in the shadows

Valerie Trierweiler suggests she will be a modest first lady but admits she claps Francois Hollande ’like a footballers’ wife’
Latest polls put Hollande ten points ahead of Nicolas Sarkozy
France’s most popular singer withdraws his support for current president

Valerie Trierweiler, 47, is the partner of Francois Hollande, the Socialist who is runaway favourite to replace Nicolas Sarkozy as President in less than two weeks’ time.

If Hollande does win – and the latest polls put him [...]

NEW VIDEO RELEASED FROM INSIDE DURING DC EARTHQUAKE

Video released Monday by the National Park Service show what it was like to experience an earthquake at the top of the Washington Monument.

Three security camera videos taken 500 feet up show how the quake caused panic among tourists and shook pieces of the monument down from the very top of the structure.

The 5.8-magnitude earthquake on Aug. 23 was centered 84 miles [...]

Hathaway – Gold Will Now See Massive Mainstream Fund Flows

kingworldnews.com

With gold and silver correcting, today King World News interviewed John Hathaway, the prolific manager of the Tocqueville Gold Fund.  When asked about the action in gold Hathaway responded, “To me it’s just standard operating procedure for how markets correct.  It got a little scary when gold touched $1,900 a couple of times because it was so stretched out and normal market protocol calls for some backing [...]