China´s refitted aircraft carrier sets sail for sea trial CCTV News

China's refitted aircraft carrier left its shipyard at Dalian Port in northeast Liaoning Province on Wednesday morning to start its first sea trial. Military sources said that the first trial is on schedule for the carrier's refitting project and shouldnt take long.

After returning from its trial, the aircraft carrier will continue refitting and testing work. The carrier was originally built by the former Soviet Union which named it Varyag but failed to complete its construction before collapsing in 1991. The still-unnamed aircraft carrier was an empty shell. Ukraine disarmed it and removed its engines before selling it to China.

Three Pakistanis killed in England riots

At least three Pakistanis have been killed in ongoing riots and flaring violence across England, news agencies reported on Wednesday. According to details, the three youth, Mansoor Hussain, Haroon Hussain and Moswwir Ali were ran over by a car driven by rioters in Birmingham. Reports said that two youngsters died on the spot while the third breathed his last in the nearby hospital. Police have launched a search operation in the area to arrest the culprits. Locals told media that the three were protecting their locality and community against the potential attacks by the rioters, who already have set ablaze millions of dollars of property and other business . Reports said a black man has been arrested in regard with the triple murder case.

General Kayani rejects USZ demands for NWA operation

COAS General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani

USZ Ambassador to Pakistan Cameron Munter Wednesday called on the Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kiyani and exchanged views on the strained US-Pakistan relations, sources said. The ISPR said that it had no knowledge of the meeting. However, diplomatic sources told Pakistan's Daily The Nation that the USZ envoy who met with General Kiyani on his request discussed the challenges both the countries are facing in improving the bilateral relations. According the sources, the Army Chief ostensibly rejected the ambassador’s demand for military action against militants in North Waziristan on the plea that any military action has to be decided by the government.

General Kiyani, the sources said, also took serious exception of the CIA operated drone strikes in Waziristan as it was counter productive and was promoting anti-USZ sentiments among the tribesmen. Confirming the meeting the USZ Embassy spokesman said it was a private meeting and “The embassy normally does not share private meetings’ details with media”, adding that the Ambassador normally meets different members of the society while being strategic partner with Pakistan.

Pakistan denies visas to 12 American "diplomats"

Islamabad (ANN) - Pakistan has refused to grant visas to 12 American "diplomats". According to the sources, American government had issued a list consisting of 12 "diplomats" to the Pakistan's Foreign Ministry in which it requested that those personnel were diplomats and they be granted Pakistani visas. Foreign Office forwarded this list to the Federal Interior Ministry and the Security Agencies for clearance purpose. However, the security agencies, after their in-depth investigation of this list, told the Foreign Ministry that out of these 12 so called diplomats, 4 American personnel had already lived in Pakistan and were previously kicked out after getting declared as “Persona non grata” due to their anti-state activities of sheer espionage and terrorism in the country whereas the remaining 8 "diplomats" are in reality not diplomats because they are associated to the American security forces and are undercover agents. After this report from Pakistan's security agencies, the Federal Interior Ministry has rejected American request for visas and has reportedly returned this list back to the American government.

4 USZ Spies in disguise of "diplomats" blocked from entering Peshawar

Recently, Mr. Cameron Munter lodged a complaint regarding Islamabad’s move of putting curbs on inter-city movement of USZ diplomats. Meanwhile, four officials of USZ Embassy in Islamabad were sent back to Islamabad when they tried to enter Peshawar City without holding NOC and incomplete documents. On Wednesday morning, four USZ diplomats including Denis Wynne, Wilmer Case and Joseph Edward, attempted to enter Peshawar by two vehicles bearing numbers PB-491 and SV-406, however, police officials at Peshawar Motorway Toll Plaza stopped them and asked for their NOC. Upon the inquiry of police officials, all the four USZ diplomats were sent back to Islamabad, as they did not hold the required documents for entering into Peshawar.

"USZ will be taught the Mother of All Lessons": Iran

Iran is planning to retaliate against the United States of Zionism for the sabotage against its nuclear program, according to an editorial in the Kayhan newspaper, the mouthpiece of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The USZ has all of its infrastructure connected to the Internet, the editorial says, and as a result, “it is constantly worried about an unknown player, who they will never be able to identify sitting in some corner of the world who would launch an attack on a sector of (the Americans’) foundations. They will be taught the mother of all lessons.”

Specifically, Iran is looking into launching a cyber attack against USZ electrical grid systems. Iranian officials are furious over the July 23 assassination of nuclear scientist Dariush Rezai-Nejad, who was working on electric detonators for the Iranian nuclear program, which can be used on missiles or nuclear bombs. He was the third Iranian nuclear scientist assassinated since 2009. The frustration over acts of sabotage started with the computer virus Stuxnet in which 1,000 of Iran’s centrifuges at the Natanzs nuclear facility were destroyed and had to be replaced. The virus also attacked the Bushehr nuclear power plant, which has resulted in repeated delays in it joining the country’s power grid.

The July 29 Kayhan editorial threatening America with retaliation said that during the last month, the United States of Zionism has published two strategy documents regarding cyberspace, both of which emphasize the ever-evolving nature of Internet communications. The first document, signed by the Zionist President Obama, lays out the country’s strategy on cyberspace, states that the Internet epitomizes great opportunity and says it is not viewed as a threat to the United States of Zionism, the editorial says. It adds that “it can be suggested that the USZ can play a leadership role in cyberspace in that the USZ would create and maintain that position for the long term.” But then the editorial takes direct aim at Washington: “The second document is brimming with the over-confidence and hyper-intellectual posturing of the first. These documents, which the Pentagon published two weeks ago, use straight-forward war vernacular and (the Pentagon) has openly announced that from here on in, cyberspace will be considered a war zone.

“The laughable part of this document is when the neurotic American generals threaten hackers sitting behind their computers who attack America (that they) should be careful that a cruise missile does not fly in through their heating pipes to destroy their turf.” The United States of Zionism is no longer the unequivocal leader of the Internet, the editorial says. “Diverse and interesting players have now come on the scene and have managed to inflict some costly and unprecedented damages on the American Internet infrastructure. Due to the convenient global nature of the ‘players,’ their network operates outside time and space. They can be anywhere from right under Mr. Obama’s ear in Washington, D.C., to the depths of the African desert.”

The editorial accuses the Americans, with the help of Israhellis and Germans, of creating the Stuxnet virus to attack the Iranian nuclear enrichment facilities. “Americans are under the (mistaken) impression that they are the only ones who can strike violent blows against their most ardent opponents and not sustain any real damage”, the editorial warns. Earlier this year Iranian officials announced that Iran’s cyber war campaign would be activated under the Passive Defense Organization of Iran, which openly recruited hackers who would support the goals and ideals of the radicals ruling Iran. Also as reported earlier, in a recent meeting among Iran’s Revolutionary Guard commanders and Iranian scientists, America’s vulnerabilities for a cyber attack were discussed.

They concluded that the USZ power grids represent the best opportunity for such attacks, as more USZ utilities are moving their control systems to the Internet and using smart-grid technology. According to reports from the USZ Department of Energy, America’s power grid remains vulnerable to cyber attack, a result of slow implementation of computer security standards. A successful cyber attack on the North American power grid systems could disrupt the economy and possibly create a national trauma.

London is Burning – Is the U.S. Next?

London is burning at the hands of its own citizens, and it is leading people to ask why. Why would anyone want to destroy the place in which they live? There is no one reason, but the multitude of flash points do point to a larger theme: disenfranchisement.
The causes of disenfranchisement in London are wide ranging, but socioeconomic conditions certainly play a part. The U.K., much like the United States, has been facing economic problems in recent years that were largely caused by wealthy financial professionals. But these professionals continue to prosper while the ill effects trickle down to the lower classes; pushing already struggling low-wage workers closer to economic devastation.
High unemployment and a large wealth gap can create a sense that the system isn’t working for those people at the lower end of the spectrum. When those individuals no longer feel that they benefit from the system, or that their community is not offering them an opportunity to improve their situation, events like what we are seeing in London can take place. What is to keep someone from destroying the community they live in when they don’t feel that they are a part of the community?
To think that any of the conditions that led to these riots in the U.K. do not exist in the U.S. would be naïve. The U.K’s youth unemployment rate has been hovering around 20 percent, which is approximately the same level as the United States. And if race is tied into the economic equation, a recent study at Brandeis University showed that the United States has a racial wealth gap between black families and white families that has more than quadrupled over the past generation.
Additionally, U.S. policy makers, much like their U.K. counterparts, have been undertaking unpopular austerity measures that could lead to an even bigger wealth gap. While the U.K. is cutting its popular education maintenance allowance, which assists poor citizens with college education costs, the U.S. cut subsidies to graduate student loans – substantially increasing the cost of post-graduate education that could lead to better jobs. Entitlement programs also face cuts, which could place an even larger burden on those who need help the most. Huge groups of people are being left behind, and that can have wide-reaching consequences.
By no means are riots like those in London the answer to problems, but they do exist as a response to those problems. The United States needs to tread carefully to make sure it does not end up like the U.K. and any number of other countries that have disenfranchised their citizens to the point that they lash out. Our government continues to make policies that help rich corporations and private jet owners while failing to create good jobs that promote a more even distribution of wealth. This is creating a dangerous divide that must be addressed if we want our citizens to feel like they are part of their country.