Yahoo! has disclosed the number of government requests for data it has received over the past 18 months, becoming the latest tech company to do so after the fallout from the NSA spying scandal.

In a statement co-signed by CEO Marissa Mayer and Yahoo! general counsel Ron Bell, the company said that Yahoo! received 12,000 to 13,000 requests from FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) and U.S.

Washington’s decision to arm Syria’s Sunni Muslim rebels has plunged America into the great Sunni-Shia conflict of the Islamic Middle East, entering a struggle that now dwarfs the Arab revolutions which overthrew dictatorships across the region.

For the first time, all of America’s ‘friends’ in the region are Sunni Muslims and all of its enemies are Shiites. Breaking all President Barack Obama’s rules of disengagement, the US is now fully engaged on the side of armed groups which include the most extreme Sunni Islamist movements in the Middle East.

 The Turkish Health Ministry issued a threat to take medical licenses to practice away from doctors who have been providing treatment to the protesters in Istanbul. They are also demanding the names of all medical volunteers including Emergency Medicine Technicians. This threat constitutes a violation of the human right of the protesters to receive treatment and the principle of medical neutrality.

In an interview with the French TV station LCP, former French minister for Foreign Affairs Roland Dumas said:

‘’ I’m going to tell you something. I was in England two years before the violence in Syria on other business. I met with top British officials, who confessed to me that they were preparing something in Syria.

This was in Britain not in America.

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I see idiots.

I see race-denying idiots.

I see them everywhere.

I see them on the Egyptology Forum, in particular, linking to one of my posts, The Major and Minor Races of Mankind.

That post is a massive work undergoing continuous revision that is based largely on Cavalli-Sforza's groundbreaking work in genetics. It divides humanity into 3 macro races, 8 major races and 90 minor races.

U.S. imperialist militarism on the continent seeks to maintain dominance over growing efforts aimed at genuine independence

By Abayomi Azikiwe
Libya 360°

There has been a considerable amount of discussion and debate over the growing economic and political relations between the People’s Republic of China and the African Union member-states. China is reported now to be the largest trading partner with the 54 independent states on the continent.