Aftenposten: Germany, US plan secret spy project

Germany denies secret spy project with US
Germany's aerospace centre has denied it is working with the US on a $US270 million ($A266 million) high-tech secret spy program, insisting that its plans for a high-resolution optical satellite have purely scientific and security uses. US State Department cables obtained by Wikileaks and revealed by Norwegian daily Aftenposten say Germany joined a partnership with the US to create a satellite spying program that was presented as a commercial enterprise, but is actually run by the German intelli...

Aftenposten: Germany, US plan secret spy project
OSLO, Norway - Wikileaks documents published by Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten say that Germany and the U.S. are engaged in a $270 million satellite spying program that is causing friction in the European Union. Citing diplomatic cables sent from the U.S. Embassy in Berlin, the newspaper said Monday that the project was presented as a commercial enterprise but is actually run by the German intelligence service. Aftenposten cites cables revealing that the HiROS venture — a network of...

Aftenposten: Germany, US plan secret spy project
Source: WP Oslo, Norway -- Wikileaks documents published by Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten say that Germany and the U.S. are engaged in a $270 million satellite spying program that is causing friction in the European Union. Citing diplomatic cables sent from the U.S. Embassy in Berlin, the newspaper said Monday that the project was presented as a commercial enterprise but is actually run by the German intelligence service. Aftenposten cites cables revealing that the HiROS venture - a network ...

Germany denies US spy project
BERLIN: Germany's aerospace centre has denied it is working with the United States on a $US270 million high-tech secret spy program, insisting that its plans for a high-resolution optical satellite have purely scientific and security uses. US State Department cables obtained by Wikileaks and published by the Norwegian daily Aftenposten say Germany joined a partnership with the US to create a satellite spying program that was presented as a commercial enterprise but is actually run by the German ...

France top at stealing secrets
OSLO: France is the country that conducts the most industrial Espionage on other European countries, even ahead of China and Russia, leaked US diplomatic cables say. ''French Espionage is so widespread that the damages [it causes] the German Economy are larger as a whole than those caused by China or Russia,'' an undated note from the US Embassy in Berlin said, the Norwegian daily Aftenposten said yesterday. The newspaper said last month it had obtained all the 250,000 US diplomatic cables WikiL...

Leaked cable: U.S. urged to wage trade war
LONDON, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- The United States was urged to wage a Trade War against European Union nations, diplomatic cables released by the Web site Wikileaks indicate. In a leaked 2007 cable, the U.S. ambassador to France advised President George W. Bush to retaliate against the reluctance of EU nations to accept genetically modified crops, CBS reported Tuesday. The EU's stance threatened to cut off a key export market for American farmers. In a message to Bush, Ambassador Craig Stapleton suggest...

Germany-U.S. Secret Spy Project Denied
Berlin — Germany's aerospace center denied Monday that it is working with the U.S. on a $270 million high-tech secret spy program, insisting that its plans for a high-resolution optical satellite have purely scientific and security uses. U.S. State Department cables obtained by Wikileaks and revealed by Norwegian daily Aftenposten say Germany joined a partnership with the U.S. to create a satellite spying program that was presented as a commercial enterprise, but is actually run by the G...

US, Germany embark on secret spy satellite program, leaked cable reveals
Stumble This! Germany and the U.S. are planning a $270 million satellite spying program that is causing friction in the European Union, according to Wikileaks documents published by Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten on Monday. Citing diplomatic cables sent from the U.S. Embassy in Berlin, the newspaper said the project was presented as a commercial enterprise but is actually run by the German intelligence service and the German Aerospace Center, DLR. According to the cables sent in 2009 and last ...

Aftenposten: Israel gears up for Iran attack
OSLO, Norway - Wikileaks documents published in a Norwegian newspaper indicate that Israel would have 10-12 minutes' warning if Iran launched rockets against that country. Norwegian daily Aftenposten cites a cable describing a Nov. 15, 2009, meeting between an American congressional delegation and Israel's Military chief in which he reportedly said Israel was gearing up to defend itself against such attacks. The paper on Sunday cited Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi as telling the delegation that I...

Fishing sector 'faces challenges'
The Fishing Industry faces one of the most challenging years in its history, according to Scottish Fishermen's Federation chief Bertie Armstrong. He said a row with Iceland and the Faroes over mackerel catches remained to be resolved. The SFF will also push for changes to European rules on how fish stocks are managed. Mr Armstrong said many of the problems affecting the industry were "embedded" in regulations that govern it. The so-called "mackerel wars" over how much of...

You Heard It Here Second, But Before the Guardian or Times
Almost two weeks ago (Dec. 22), I griped about the US government hiring out its diplomatic staff in France to Monsanto. This revelation, or confirmation of obvious fact depending on how you look at it, came to us thanks to Wikileaks. The Establishment here in class-free America is rushing to cover up all the details revealed when the curtain was pulled back. I noticed at that time a complete lack of mention of this cable, pointed out by Mike Ludwig at Truthout, at the Times or the Post. Well, on...

Iran invites diplomats to view nuke plants
TEHRAN, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- Iran has invited a number of western Diplomats to visit the republic's nuclear facilities, Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said. Mehmanparast said International Atomic Energy Agency-accredited ambassadors in Vienna, including representatives from Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States as well as the European Union and non-aligned countries, have been invited, the state news agency IRNA said Tuesday. "The new move of inviting the ambass...

Iran invites Russia, China to atom sites but not U.S.
Jay Deshmukh, Agence France-Presse · Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011 Tehran — Iran said Tuesday it will open its atomic sites to some world powers, in a rare move swiftly dismissed as “antics’ by the United States, which along with Britain, France and Germany, is not invited. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said in Tehran that invitations to visit Iran’s nuclear sites in Natanz and Arak have been sent to ambassadors of some of the nations represented in t...

Crisis In Euroland
The euro, that artificial Funny Money used by 331 million Europeans in17 nations -- the 17th, Estonia, joined the euro just this week -- was conceived in sin and born in Corruption. The New Year brings the prospect that the sins of the European Union's Founding Fathers will be visited on its hapless citizens in the form of financial turmoil and fiscal pain. The original sins at the euro's conception included stealth, lies, and hypocrisy. That at least was consistent with the creation of "Europe"...

Report: Israel Planning for Large Scale War
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Four in ten French and Germans see Muslims in their country as a threat
61 percent of French and 67 percent of Germans see Muslims as refusing to integrate. 18 percent of those in France and 15 percent in Germany blamed the Muslims' lack of integration on "Racism and lack of openness by certain French and German people." But even though that is only a minority of respondents, that is the interpretation that the Mainstream Media will retail: that these results demonstrate a wave of "Islamophobia" that has nothing to do with the threats, arrogance, and supremacism o...

Aftenposten: Germany, US plan secret spy project
WikiLeaks documents published by Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten say that Germany and the U.S. are engaged in a $270 million satellite spying program that is causing friction in the European Union. Citing diplomatic cables sent from the U.S. Embassy in Berlin, the newspaper said Monday that the project was presented as a commercial enterprise but is actually run by the German intelligence service. Aftenposten cites cables revealing that the HiROS venture — a network of highly precise satel...

Israel preparing for large scale war: cable
Stumble This! Oslo — Israel's army chief told a US Congress delegation in late 2009 he was preparing for a large war in the Middle East, probably against Hamas or Hezbollah, leaked US diplomatic cables showed on Sunday. "I am preparing the Israeli army for a large scale war, since it is easier to scale down to a smaller operation than to do the opposite," Lieutenant General Gabi Ashkenazi was quoted as saying in a cable from the US Embassy in Tel Aviv. The document, dated November 15, 200...

Infidel Bloggers Alliance
Newsmax : Israel Preparing for 'Large-scale War' — Cable Sunday, 02 Jan 2011 Israel's army chief told a U.S. Congress delegation in late 2009 he was preparing for a large war in the Middle East, probably against Hamas or Hezbollah, leaked U.S. diplomatic cables showed on Sunday. "I am preparing the Israeli army for a large scale war, since it is easier to scale down to a smaller operation than to do the opposite," Lieutenant General Gabi Ashkenazi was quoted as saying in a cable from the U.S...

Norway issues avalanche warnings
OSLO, Norway, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- Norway has issued avalanche warnings for large areas of the country, but the country's Geotechnical Institute says the situation is expected to improve soon. In Sunnmore county, two villages have been isolated by avalanches, and in the tourist tourist town of Geiranger people have had to use a ferry to travel to and from the village, the Norway Post reported Monday. Authorities concerned about possible avalanches have closed two schools in the northern county of Tro...

US and Germany in joint spy satellite project: cable
Stumble This! Oslo (AFP) - The United States and Germany are jointly developing secret spy satellites under the guise of a commercial programme despite opposition from France, leaked US diplomatic cables showed Monday. The project, named HiROS, envisions the construction of an undetermined number of high-resolution observation satellites capable of spotting any object on the planet down to a size of just 50 centimetres (about 1.5 feet), according to classified cables from US Embassy in Be...

LEAK: US, Germany in joint spy satellite project...
The United States and Germany are jointly developing secret spy satellites under the guise of a commercial programme despite opposition from France, leaked US diplomatic cables showed Monday. The project, named HiROS, envisions the construction of an undetermined number of high-resolution observation satellites capable of spotting any object on the planet down to a size of just 50 centimetres (about 1.5 feet), according to classified cables from US Embassy in Berlin leaked to Wikileaks and obta...

Australia mulled whaling deal with Japan: paper+
SYDNEY, Jan. 4 (AP) - (Kyodo)—Australia was until as late as February last year considering a Compromise deal with Japan to accept continued Whaling even though it subsequently moved to take Tokyo to court over its annual hunt, the Sydney Morning Herald reported Tuesday. The paper quoted U.S. diplomatic cables obtained by the whistle-blower website Wikileaks as saying that under the compromise, Japan would kill 5,000 fewer whales over 10 years. In May last year, Australia initiated legal ...

Greece to build wall on Turkish border
Young immigrants at a detention centre in Filakio on the Greek-Turkish border. Photo: AP Brussels: Greece has announced plans to build a wall along its 206-kilometre land border with Turkey to keep out Illegal Immigrants. Christos Papoutsis, a Greek Interior Minister, insisted the wall was necessary after Brussels intervened last year to prevent an Immigration crisis by sending an elite taskforce of border guards to protect the frontier between Greece and Turkey, the European Union's most insecu...

Iran invites world powers to visit nuclear sites
Iran said on Tuesday it has invited ambassadors of some of the six world powers and European Union nations to visit its nuclear facilities ahead of talks in Istanbul over its atomic programme. "The representatives of some European Union countries, NAM (Non-Aligned Movement), and some representatives of the five-plus-one (six world powers) have been invited to visit our nuclear sites," Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told reporters. He did not specify whether arch-foe the United S...