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Judge Napolitano: A Conspiracy So Vast

Andrew P. Napolitano
LewRockwell.com
Fri, 13 Dec 2013 20:59 UTC
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Readers of this page are well aware of the revelations during the past six months of spying by the National Security Agency (NSA). Edward Snowden, a former employee of an NSA vendor, risked his life and liberty to inform us of a governmental conspiracy to violate our right to privacy, a right guaranteed by the Fourth Amendment.

The conspiracy he revealed is vast. It involves former President George W. Bush, President Obama and their aides, a dozen or so members of Congress, federal judges, executives and technicians at American computer ISPs and telecoms, and the thousands of NSA employees and vendors who have manipulated their fellow conspirators. The conspirators all agreed that it would be a crime for any of them to reveal the conspiracy. Snowden violated that agreement in order to uphold his higher oath to defend the Constitution.

The object of the conspiracy is to emasculate all Americans and many foreigners of their right to privacy in order to predict our behavior and make it easier to find among us those who are planning harm.

A conspiracy is an agreement among two or more persons to commit a crime. The crimes consist of capturing the emails, texts and phone calls of every American, tracing the movements of millions of Americans and foreigners via the GPS system in their cellphones, and seizing the bank records and utility bills of most Americans in direct contravention of the Constitution, and pretending to do so lawfully.The pretense is that somehow Congress lessened the standard for spying that is set forth in the Constitution. It is, of course, inconceivable that Congress can change the Constitution (only the states can), but the conspirators would have us believe that it has done so.
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North Korea executes leader's uncle as a traitor

Eric Talmadge and Foster Klug
The Sacramento Bee
Fri, 13 Dec 2013 20:13 UTC
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Gen Jang was removed from a party meeting by soldiers
North Korea said Friday that it executed Kim Jong Un's uncle as a traitor for trying to seize supreme power, a stunning end for the leader's former mentor, long considered the country's No. 2.

In a sharp reversal of the popular image of Jang Song Thaek as a kindly uncle guiding young leader Kim Jong Un as he consolidated power, the North's official Korean Central News Agency indicated that Jang instead saw the death of Kim's father, Kim Jong Il, in December 2011 as an opportunity to challenge his nephew and win power.

Just days ago, North Korea accused Jang of corruption, womanizing, gambling and taking drugs, and said he'd been "eliminated" from all his posts. But Friday's allegations, which couldn't be independently confirmed, were linked to a claim that he tried "to overthrow the state by all sorts of intrigues and despicable methods with a wild ambition to grab the supreme power of our party and state."

Pyongyang's statement called him a "traitor to the nation for all ages," "worse than a dog" and "despicable human scum" - rhetoric often reserved in state propaganda for South Korean leaders.

In the North Korean capital, dozens of people crowded around billboards displaying the morning paper. The execution was the top story, which said Jang's actions had created an explosion of outrage in the nation.
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Issa to Sebelius on Healthcare.gov probe: Failing to turn over info is criminal obstruction of justice

Katie Pavlich
Town Hall
Thu, 12 Dec 2013 00:00 UTC
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Darrell Issa
In a letter sent late Wednesday, Chairman of the House Oversight Committee Darrell Issa reminded Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius that obstructing a congressional investigation is a crime.

Issa's Committee has been looking into the details of how Obamacare was implemented, along with the major problems with Healthcare.gov and has requested a number of documents from HHS, none of which he's received. The documents requested pertain to companies hired by HHS to build and operate Healthcare.gov.

"The Department [HHS] subsequently instructed those companies not to comply with the Committee's request. The Department's hostility toward questions from Congress and the media about the implementation of Obamcare is well known. The Department's most recent effort to stonewall, however, has morphed from mere obstinacy into criminal obstruction of a congressional investigation," Issa wrote.
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Obama's Afghanistan experts jaw-droppingly ignorant on U.S. death toll, war costs during hearing

Rowan Scarborough
The Washington Times
Thu, 12 Dec 2013 00:00 UTC
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An Army carry team, carries the transfer case containing the remains of Army Sgt. 1st Class Ricardo D. Young of Rosston, Ark., arriving at Dover Air Force Base, Del. on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2013. The Department of Defense said Young was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.
President Obama's brain trust on Afghanistan does not know much the U.S. spends on the war each year or the American cost in lost lives on the battlefield.

This embarrassing lack of basic knowledge from State Department and Pentagon experts on Afghanistan at a House hearing Wednesday prompted even a Democrat to say he was stunned.
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Parents stunned that union is seeking a $10K severance for teacher who molested their son

Victor Skinner
Education Action Group
Wed, 11 Dec 2013 00:00 UTC
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Convicted pedophile Neal Erickson
West Branch, Mich. - The Michigan Education Association is going to arbitration to try to force the West Branch-Rose City school district to pay a former teacher who was convicted of molesting a student a $10,000 severance buyout.

The father of the victim is outraged, calling the union's efforts on behalf of the sex criminal "ludicrous" and saying any school money due to the teacher should go to his son, who is "out there trying to make it in this world all messed up."

Neal Erickson, a former math teacher at Rose City Middle School, was convicted this summer of raping a young student over three years, from 2006 to 2009, and sentenced to 15-30 years in prison.

The case sparked community outrage when several of the district's teachers wrote letters of support for Erickson, pleading for a lenient sentence. A school board member, Mike Eagan, also drew the public's ire when he sat with the Erickson family at the pedophile's sentencing.
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Sarko to Return?

Rory Mulholland
The Telegraph
Thu, 12 Dec 2013 15:36 UTC
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Nicolas Sarkozy drops strongest hint yet he will make a presidential comeback in 2017, as new opinion poll shows him almost twice as popular as Francois Hollande

Nicolas Sarkozy has given his strongest indication so far that he plans to return to politics and battle Francois Hollande for the French presidency in 2017.

"The question is not to know if I want or don't want to return. I cannot not return. I don't have a choice. It's destiny. Destiny," he has told friends and political allies, according to Thursday's edition of Le Point weekly magazine.
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Mr. Potato

Berlusconi says arresting him would incite revolution in Italy


Reuters
Thu, 12 Dec 2013 15:21 UTC
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Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi reacts as he attends a rally to launch the "Forza Silvio" (Go Silvio) club in downtown Rome December 8, 2013
Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, who lost parliamentary immunity when he was expelled from the Senate last month, said on Thursday revolution would break out if he were arrested and thrown in prison.

The 77-year-old media magnate was stripped of his Senate seat after he was convicted of tax fraud and sentenced to four years in jail. This was commuted to a year, likely to be spent performing community service.

But without parliamentary protection, he is now more vulnerable in other criminal cases where he is accused of offences including political bribery. He is also appealing against a conviction for abuse of office and paying for sex with a minor.

Comment: The hubris of some people has no limits!

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Brick Wall

Speaking in foreign tongues? Russian lawmakers say 'nyet'


Reuters
Thu, 12 Dec 2013 15:15 UTC
Vladimir Zhirinovsky
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Leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) Vladimir Zhirinovsky speaks to media after voting at a polling station in Moscow, March 4, 2012
Speak Russian or be silent.

Nationalist lawmakers want to ban foreign languages at the workplace - a rule that would leave some foreigners speechless, from menial laborers from former Soviet states to Western business executives in suits and ties.

Two deputies from flamboyant ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky's party introduced a bill on Thursday that would bar Russians and foreigners from speaking foreign languages on the job during working hours, state-run RIA news agency reported.
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Eye 1

Snowden fuels fear of 'Big Brother U.S.A.'

Mathieu Rabechault
Agence France-Presse
Thu, 12 Dec 2013 15:05 UTC
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The reputation of the National Security Agency has taken quite a hit this year, what with fresh revelations from Edward Snowden hitting the press every week or two. The agency clearly needs some help on the public relations front
An avalanche of intelligence leaks from former CIA contractor Edward Snowden sent shockwaves around the world in 2013, lifting the lid on a vast global spying network and raising fears of a surveillance state.

As the year drew to a close, the 30-year-old Snowden remains exiled in Russia, his final port of call following a worldwide game of cat-and-mouse that appeared to come straight from the pages of a spy novel.

A traitor to some, a heroic whistleblower to others: Snowden's disclosures have shed light on intelligence-gathering methods which shocked many through their sheer scale.
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Sherlock

Top official in Obama birth mystery lone fatality in plane crash

Bob Unruh
WND.com/KITV
Thu, 12 Dec 2013 14:00 UTC

A key Hawaii official in the dispute over Barack Obama's birth certificate - who lifted state restrictions to allow the White House to present the document to the public - has died in a plane crash.

Loretta Fuddy, the state health department director, was the only fatality among nine people aboard a Cessna Grand Caravan that went down at about 3:15 p.m. on Wednesday while heading to Honolulu.
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