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Now follows some plausible speculation:
Some Rogers trusted dudes at the NSA (or in the Navy cyber arm which Rogers earlier led) hack into the DNC, Podesta emails and the Clinton private email server. An easy job with the tools the NSA provides for its spies. Whoever hacked the emails then pushes what they got to Wikileaks (and DCleaks, another "leak" outlet). Wikileaks publishes what it gets because that is what it usually does. Assange also has various reasons to hate Clinton. She was always very hostile to Wikileaks. She allegedly even mused of killing Assange by a drone strike.
Rogers then accuses Russia of the breach even while the rest of the spying community finds no evidence for such a claim. That is natural to do for a military man who grew up during the cold war and may wish that war (and its budgets) back. It is also a red herring that will never be proven wrong or right unless the original culprit is somehow found.
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One of the main causes behind the crisis is climate change. Global warming threatens to melt the country's Andean glaciers in the coming years after already shrinking the ice caps by 30 to 50 percent since 1970s, according to researchers. According to the United Nations, Bolivia is one of the most vulnerable countries in the face of climate change.
The particularly strong El Niño climatic effect in the last season - which, together with raging climate change, has put 2017 on track to smash the record as the hottest year - has worsened the drought parching Bolivia.
Many have also raised questions about the role of Bolivia's mining and extractive sector in worsening the impacts of climate change. The country's second largest lake, Lake Poopo, dried up last year, and although researchers pointed to climate change as a key factor in the disaster, the local mining industry is also thought to have exacerbated the problem by leading to the build up of contaminated sediment deposits in the lake.
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When a reporter for the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command
interviewed Frank Zalla for the Command's news syndicate, the story was
held by a superior who demanded that Zappa - who had been rather hard on
the Army - answer one more question: just who does he think will defend
the country without the Army?
Zappa's reply: "From what? The biggest threat to America today is its own federal government . . . Will the Army protect anybody from the FBI? The IRS? The CIA? The Republican Party? The Democratic Party? . . . The biggest dangers we face today don't even need to sneak past our billion-dollar defense system . . . they issue the contracts for them."
The interview was not run.
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The Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war was designed to "avoid blame" and reduce the risk that individuals and the government could face legal proceedings, newly released documents reveal.
The papers show the thinking and advice at "the highest level of government" prior to Gordon Brown's announcement of an inquiry. They were disclosed under the Freedom of Information Act, after the Cabinet Office lost a two-year battle during which it stated that disclosure threatened to "undermine the inquiry". They confirm that many officials who took part in the events that the inquiry investigated, including former spy chief Sir John Scarlett, were involved in setting it up.
And they reveal that Sir (now Lord) Gus O'Donnell, cabinet secretary under Brown, went against Whitehall protocol when he appointed a civil servant with significant involvement in Iraq policy during the period covered by the inquiry to the key role of inquiry secretary.
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Writing in TIME Magazine the day after Trump's upsetting victory, transgender and digital rights activist Evan Greer observed that Obama has "a matter of weeks to do one thing that could help prevent the United States from veering into fascism: declassifying and dismantling as much of the federal government's unaccountable, secretive, mass surveillance state as he can -- before Trump is the one running it."
On November 10, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden tweeted: "The powers of one government are inherited by the next. Reforming them is now the greatest responsibility of this president, long overdue." Snowden continued: "To be clear, 'this president' means this president, right now. Not the next one. There is still time to act."
On November 12, insurgent publisher WikiLeaks tweeted a reminder to those in the US who "let Obama 'legalize'" assassinating anyone, spying on everyone, and prosecuting publishers and sources. "It's all Trump's in 69 days," they warned.
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