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U.S. Muslims plan White House march next September 11th to demand First Amendment rights and real 9/11 investigation

Dr. Kevin Barrett
PressTV
Thu, 31 Jan 2013 20:35 UTC
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Everyone knows that AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, is the most powerful lobby in Washington.

But starting next September 11th, a new group called AMPAC, the American Muslim Political Action Committee, will challenge AIPAC's stranglehold on American political life.

AMPAC will be forcefully announcing its presence with a "Million Muslim March" on the White House on September 11, 2013. The goal, announced at AMPAC's press conference in New York:

"We at AMPAC (American Muslim Political Action Committee) are planning a historic event for 9/11/13. One million Muslims will march to Washington D.C. and demand that our civil rights be protected by our government. We are demanding that laws be enacted protecting our First Amendment rights. We are asking President Obama to fulfill his promise from his first campaign for the Presidency of a transparent government. Lastly we are asking for the establishment of a real 9/11 Commission to reveal the truth to the American people."
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Surprise! 9/11 Widow seeking justice has case turned down by Supreme Court

Dr. Kevin Barrett
PressTV
Wed, 20 Feb 2013 04:37 UTC
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On Tuesday, February 19, 2013, the United States Supreme Court slammed its door in the face of the last 9/11 family member seeking justice through the American legal system.

Ellen Mariani, whose husband Neil was murdered on September 11, 2001, had turned down more than a million dollars in government hush money to pursue the real 9/11 criminals in federal court.

After eleven years, two separate lawsuits, and an unbelievable series of encounters with corrupt lawyers and Israeli-American judges, Ellen Mariani has finally heard from the United States Supreme Court. And the Supreme Court's message is loud and clear: There will be no truth, and no justice, concerning 9/11... at least not in the US court system.
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"100% certain": 9/11 author was killed in black ops hit, says Wayne Madsen

Kevin Barrett
Veteran's Today
Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:20 UTC
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Philip Marshall, Alex Marshall, and Macaila Marshall , RIP. We’ll do what we can to bust the scumbags who did this to you.
After a week-long on-site investigation, former National Security Agency officer Wayne Madsen is "100% certain" that 9/11 investigator and author Philip Marshall and his two children were killed in a black ops hit. Madsen's conclusion is that the cover story - an alleged murder-suicide - is transparently absurd.

Madsen stated his conclusions on yesterday's Kevin Barrett show. Among the evidence cited by Madsen:

*Neighbors' houses are "practically on top of" Marshall's house, so dozens of neighbors would have heard any gunshots that weren't muffled by a silencer...and Marshall's "patsy gun" did not have a silencer.

*The crime scene was illegally and surreptitiously cleaned up by professionals, including "a SUV, license undetermined, with an array of communication antennas bristling from the roof."

*Philip Marshall, who had expressed his fear of being harassed or silenced for his 9/11 revelations, never kept his doors open - but when the bodies were found, a side door Marshall never used was wide open.
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Bad Guys

'Building momentum for regime change': Rumsfeld's secret memos

Michael Isikoff
MSNBC
Sat, 16 Feb 2013 09:27 UTC
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File Photo: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld frowns before his appearance on the CBS talk show "Face the Nation" June 23, 2001 in Washington, D.C.
Declassified documents show that Bush administration officials wanted Saddam Hussein out of Iraq and were ready to start a war in order to achieve it.

Just hours after the 9/11 attacks, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld met in the Pentagon with Air Force General Richard Myers, then vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and other top aides. Notes taken by Rumsfeld aide Steve Cambone (and referred to pages 334 and 335 of the 9/11 Commission Report) show the secretary asked for the "best info fast..judge whether good enough [to] hit S.H. [Saddam Hussein] @ same time - not only UBL [Osama bin Laden]." Rumsfeld also tasked Jim Haynes, the Pentagon's top lawyer, "to talk w/ PW [Paul Wolfowitz] for additional support [for the] connection w/ UBL." Other comments from the notes: "Need to move swiftly...go massive - sweep it all up things related and not."

Although the defense secretary had yet to be presented with any evidence linking the Iraqi leader to the World Trade Tower attacks, he was already considering whether the terrorist acts could be used as to justify a war on Iraq.
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Warren Buffett's Heinz - insider trades claims: FBI investigates


Yahoo News / Sky News
Wed, 20 Feb 2013 08:32 UTC
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The FBI is examining possible insider trading in Heinz shares ahead of last week's $28bn (£18bn) takeover announcement. A spokeswoman confirmed the move, days after US regulators said they had identified suspicious trades from a Swiss account.

Kelly Langmesser said: "We're aware of the trading anomalies the day before the announcement ... and we're consulting with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to see if a crime was committed."

The SEC said last Friday it had identified highly suspicious trades in H.J Heinz before billionaire investor Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway and 3G Capital announced they were acquiring the baked bean and ketchup maker.

It also announced it had obtained an emergency order to freeze a Goldman Sachs bank account in Switzerland suspected of use in the trades.

Unknown traders earned $1.7m (£1.1m) in profits through "irregular and highly suspicious" trades and added that it believed the traders had knowledge of the takeover ahead of the announcement early last Thursday morning in New York, according to the SEC.
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Aaron Swartz files reveal how FBI tracked internet activist

Amanda Holpuch
Guardian, UK
Tue, 19 Feb 2013 00:00 UTC
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Aaron Swartz. The FBI also collected information from his Facebook and Linkedin profiles.
Firedoglake blogger Daniel Wright publishes once-classified FBI documents that show extent of agency's investigation into Swartz

A blogger has published once-classified FBI files that show how the agency tracked and collected information on internet activist Aaron Swartz.

Swartz, who killed himself in January aged 26, had previously requested his files and posted them on his blog, but some new documents and redactions are included in the files published by Firedoglake blogger Daniel Wright.

Wright was given 21 of 23 declassified documents, thanks to a rule that declassifies FBI files on the deceased. Wright said that he was told the other two pages of documents were not provided because of freedom of information subsections concerning privacy, "sources and methods," and that can "put someone's life in danger."

The FBI's files concern Swartz's involvement in accessing the Public Access to Court Electronic Records (Pacer) documents. In pursuit of their investigation, the FBI had collected his personal information and was surveilling an Illinois address where he had his IP address registered.

Aaron H. Swartz FBI File by Daniel Wright

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Pope immunity: Vatican will protect Benedict from sexual abuse prosecution

Philip Pullella and Robin Pomeroy
Huffington Post
Sun, 17 Feb 2013 09:10 UTC
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Pope Benedict XVI holds a palm as he arrives to lead the Palm Sunday mass at the Vatican April 17, 2011.
Pope Benedict's decision to live in the Vatican after he resigns will provide him with security and privacy. It will also offer legal protection from any attempt to prosecute him in connection with sexual abuse cases around the world, Church sources and legal experts say.

"His continued presence in the Vatican is necessary, otherwise he might be defenseless. He wouldn't have his immunity, his prerogatives, his security, if he is anywhere else," said one Vatican official, speaking on condition of anonymity.

"It is absolutely necessary" that he stays in the Vatican, said the source, adding that Benedict should have a "dignified existence" in his remaining years.

Vatican sources said officials had three main considerations in deciding that Benedict should live in a convent in the Vatican after he resigns on February 28.

Vatican police, who already know the pope and his habits, will be able to guarantee his privacy and security and not have to entrust it to a foreign police force, which would be necessary if he moved to another country.

"I see a big problem if he would go anywhere else. I'm thinking in terms of his personal security, his safety. We don't have a secret service that can devote huge resources (like they do) to ex-presidents," the official said.

Another consideration was that if the pope did move permanently to another country, living in seclusion in a monastery in his native Germany, for example, the location might become a place of pilgrimage.
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'Land Grabbing': Foreign investors buy up third world farmland


Der Spiegel
Tue, 19 Feb 2013 21:51 UTC
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A tea farm in Uganda.
A number of developing nations have sold or leased much of their farmland to foreign investors. The list is led by Liberia, whose arable land is 100 percent under foreign ownership.

The process is known as "land grabbing," and it is affecting countries in Africa, South America, Asia and Eastern Europe. Around half of the farmland of the Philippines is owned by foreign investors. In Ukraine, American companies have secured over one-third of the country's farmland.
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Privatization of water in Europe controversial

Günther Birkenstock
DW
Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:11 UTC
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German local authorities and citizen initiatives are protesting against an EU directive that would lead to the privatization of public water supply systems. It could lead to forced privatization, critics fear.

Competition is good for business, the argument goes. More competition leads to lower prices and often to better products, according to the European Commission, which is pushing its plans to regulate water supplies in Germany.

If the commission gets what it wants, private companies will be able to get concessions to operate public water systems.

So far, Germany's water supply has fallen under the responsibility of local authorities. Most town and city councils manage water supply systems, maintaining water pipes, ensuring that there are enough pipes for every home to be hooked to the water supply system and managing the quality of tap water.

Sometimes councils grant concessions to private companies. But only in rare cases, is the operation of the water supply sectors entirely in private hands.
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Supreme Court to hear Monsanto seed patent case today


Food Safety News
Tue, 19 Feb 2013 13:27 UTC
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Today, the Supreme Court will hear a patent case that's been billed as the one to determine who owns the rights to seeds in the ground: the farmer who planted them on his land, or the company that invested resources in designing and selling them.

Bowman v. Monsanto centers on the conflict between 75-year-old Vernon Hugh Bowman, a corn, wheat and soybean farmer from Indiana, and agribusiness giant the Monsanto Company. Monsanto has a patent on its Roundup Ready soybean seeds, designed to be resistant to the company's weedkiller, Roundup.

Farmers who purchase Monsanto's seeds must sign an agreement that they will only harvest the resulting crop and not use any of its seeds for replanting. The company has invested heavily in designing its seeds, and planting second-generation Monsanto seeds undermines the company's business.

Comment: Monsanto is an excellent example of a psychopathic corporation that is now a "friend of the court" and is receiving support from the US government!

Not surprising really. Read the following articles to learn more about how biotechnology corporations, like Monsanto, are patenting life and controlling the future of food:

Monsanto sued small famers to protect seed patents, report says

People Power: Percy Schmeiser v.s. Monsanto
A Canadian Farmer tells the story of how a corporation by the name of Monsanto tried to take his farm, his land and his life away.

How he Fought Back and Won!!

This is not only a take over of Canadian farms but a problem that is happening all around the world and Monsanto is bent on controlling the seeds of plants that produce food for the world. Their believe is that "he who controls the seed, controls the world" and their goal is world domination to control the food greed and power.

Among the changes in agriculture in Canada and the United States and who owns life forms on the planet is at question. Here a large corporation called Monsanto claims they are God and own the seed to grow foods.

The presumption is that any genetically modified seed belongs to them by the form of a patent. But they intentionally spread the seeds to infect organic farms and then take the farmer to court basically to bankrupt them and put them out of business.
Great Seed Robbery
Vandana Shiva: Corporate monopoly of seeds must end
Seeds Of Life: Hybrids and the Emergence of Seed Monopolies
As Claire Hope Cummings writes in her book, Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds, whoever controls the supply of seed, controls the world's food supply. Should such concentrated power be allowed to reside within the private realm, or is food so fundamental a right, only governments representing the public interest be allowed to retain ultimate jurisdiction over such a resource?


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