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“ Israeli intelligence has given up to modern trends and introduced an online questionnaire for would-be spies. Unlike the businesslike CIA or MI5 web draft campaigns, Israelis are luring volunteers with mystery halo always shrouding Mossad’s activities.” “ Mossad has become one of the last intelligence agencies in the world that vouchsafed to recruiting volunteer spies online, facilitating the induction process for those who always wanted to be a secret agent, but considered it unattainable.” “ The agency’s online recruiting website, available in Arabic, English, French, Hebrew, Persian and Russian, looks like a creatively designed product, wrapping spy activities in bright and attractive packaging. The intelligence outlet calls on to potential candidates to 'create history,' make their life and 'join the invisible to make the impossible.'” “ The internet resource contains general information about Mossad, its history, directors and an ini

“ Η Mossad είναι μια από τις τελευταίες υπηρεσίες πληροφοριών στον κόσμο που κατέφυγαν στην στρατολόγηση μέσω διαδικτύου προκειμένου να διευκολύνουν όσους ήθελαν πάντα να γίνουν μυστικοί πράκτορες αλλά το θεωρούσαν αδύνατο.” “ Στο σχετικό site που έφτιαξε για αυτό το σκοπό η ισραηλινή υπηρεσία περιγράφονται με πολύ φανταχτερά χρώματα οι δραστηριότητες ενός κατάσκοπου στα αραβικά, στα αγγλικά, στα γαλλικά, στα εβραϊκά, στα περσικά και στα ρώσικα. Η Mossad καλεί τους υποψήφιους 'να γράψουν ιστορία', να φτιάξουν την ζωή τους και να 'ενταχθούν στο αόρατο για να κάνουν το αδύνατο'.” “ Στο site υπάρχει ένα ερωτηματολόγιο που πρέπει να συμπληρώσουν οι υποψήφιοι και το οποίο περιλαμβάνει ερωτήσεις για τα προσωπικά ενδιαφέροντα του καθενός αλλά και τα κίνητρά του. Εάν ο εθελοντής κληθεί σε συνέντευξη τότε θα πρέπει να συμπληρώσει άλλες τρεις φόρμες που αφορούν θέματα υγείας, προσωπικές πληροφορίες του ίδιου και προσωπικές πληροφορίες για τον σύντροφο ή

While Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, tried to appear placatory to the Western block, concerning Russia's moves to modernize nuclear and conventional arsenals, various signs show that both Western and Sino-Russian blocks entered a new frenzied arms race. “ Russia’s investment in its military is not a sign of a looming new arms race but rather a long-overdue modernization, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with RT and the VGTRK media corporation.” “ Lavrov was commenting on the US plan to overhaul its nuclear arsenals, which was announced by President Barack Obama this week.'The US nuclear arsenal is somewhat younger than ours, but perhaps it is also time for them to upgrade it. I just hope that the US will abide by the provisions of the New START treaty, which are legally binding,' Lavrov said. 'It is fine to upgrade your stockpile, replacing old weapons with new ones, but there are certain restrictions on how many we

“ Mario Draghi, the ECB President, continues to profess optimism that the Eurozone will recover in the 2nd half of this year. Hopefully, his native country is not the basis for this optimism.” “ Last year it stayed within its Maastricht deficit limit of 3% of GDP. Indeed, the government had a 2.2% primary surplus. And yet public debt rose, as a % of GDP, from 127% to 132.6%! Which means that Italy must keep borrowing (in net terms) even if it has the largest primary surplus in the Eurozone and manages to stay within the Maastricht deficit limits. In euro terms, it needs to pay annually 85 billion in interest (on a €2 trillion debt) of which it must borrow €50 billion.” “ From this perspective, the Renzi government, but also its neoliberal detractors, are in a bind. The only solution (i.e. in confronting Merkel) is outside their remit and imagination. Thus, they keep falling deeper and deeper into the vortex. Meanwhile, Germany’s polity shows no signs of eve

“ UNHCR's new 'Asylum Trends' report, which is based on data received from 44 governments in Europe, North America and parts of the Asia-Pacific, says 330,700 people asked for refugee status in these 44 countries between the start of January and the end of June. The figure marks a rise of 24 per cent from the same period a year earlier, and slightly higher than in the second half of last year (328,100 claims).” “ The report warned that, based on historical trends showing higher numbers of asylum-seekers in the second half of each year, 2014 could produce as many as 700,000 claims – which would make it the highest level in industrialized countries in 20 years and a level not seen since the 1990s conflict in former Yugoslavia. ” “ Of the net overall increase in new claims shown in the report, more than two thirds of these were in just six countries – Germany, the United States, France, Sweden, Turkey and Italy.” “ Overall, Syria was th