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Afghan President Karzai finally catching up: suspects US role in attacks


Press TV
Tue, 28 Jan 2014 06:47 UTC
Kabul bomb attack
A Lebanese restaurant in Kabul’s central district of Wazir Akbar Khan was the target of a bomb attack on January 17, 2014.
Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai suspects that Washington has been undermining the government in Kabul through conducting 'insurgent-style' attacks, a report says.

The Washington Post quoted a senior Afghan presidential palace official as saying that President Karzai has provided a list of several attacks, in which he says Washington may have been involved, including the recent bloody assault on a Lebanese restaurant in Kabul, where over 20 people, including 13 foreigners, were killed.

Comment: Washington is creating the instability in the country so that they can keep their troops there and continue to harvest the opium and Afghanistan's natural resources:

Opium and the CIA: Can the U.S. triumph in the drug-addicted Afghanistan War?

War On Drugs Is A Hoax - US military Admits to Guarding, Assisting Lucrative Opium Trade in Afghanistan

"The war is worth waging": Afghanistan's vast reserves of minerals and natural gas

Afghan President: U.S. maintaining death squads and torture militias in Afghanistan

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Fear mongering: Japan tells world to stand up to China or face consequences


Yahoo! News
Wed, 22 Jan 2014 13:29 UTC
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© AFP/Eric PiermontJapanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivers his special address at the opening session of the World Economic Forum in Davos on January 22, 2014.
Japan on Wednesday told the world it must stand up to an increasingly assertive China or risk a regional conflict with catastrophic economic consequences.

In a landmark speech to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe issued what amounted to an appeal for international support in a potentially explosive dispute with its superpower neighbour over islands in the East China Sea.

"We must restrain military expansion in Asia ... which otherwise could go unchecked," Abe told the annual meeting of global business and political leaders, which Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is due to attend on Friday.

"If peace and stability were shaken in Asia, the knock-on effect for the entire world would be enormous," Abe added.

"The dividend of growth in Asia must not be wasted on military expansion."

Although Abe did not explicitly mention China, his speech had been flagged up in advance by Japanese officials as an alarm call to an influential audience over what Tokyo sees as bullying by Beijing.

The dispute over the uninhabited but potentially mineral-rich islands is being played out against a backdrop of Japanese fears that China is seeking to exert control over lifeline shipping lanes around its vast coastline and that the United States' commitment to guarantee Japan's security is waning.

Comment: Japan's main trading partner and the principle destination for its exports is China and Japan seems driven to overpower them - fueled by the U.S.?
"Military power grows from economic power and so the U.S. needs the aid of a powerful regional economic power in its drive against China. That is the role of Japan..."
U.S. goading Japan into confrontation with China - Will Japan take the bait?

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Edward Snowden full interview with German ARD TV


Youtube
Mon, 27 Jan 2014 05:07 UTC
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© Reuters / Tobias Schwarz
The full interview was aired on German ARD TV on Sunday night, January 26. It was recorded "in strict secrecy in an unspecified location in Russia", where Snowden is currently hiding and seeking asylum protection.

In the interview Snowden speaks among others about how he feels he's done the right thing revealing NSA's illegal surveillance activities around the world, how the US engages in economic spying, and the threats against his life that he continues to receive.
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Everybody must get stoned: Now New Hampshire State House passes first recreational marijuana bill

Patrick McGoldrick
The New Hampshire
Tue, 28 Jan 2014 04:44 UTC
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Following the national tide of public opinion favoring the legalization of marijuana, the Democrat-controlled New Hampshire house passed a bill - HB 492-FN-LOCAL - on Jan. 16 that would legalize marijuana for recreational use.

In passing the bill, the New Hampshire House made history by becoming the first legislative body to pass a bill that would legalize recreational marijuana.

There are currently only two states in the Union - Colorado and Washington - where recreational marijuana is legal, and both states' laws were passed through public referendum, as opposed to legislative action.

The bill aims to construct laws regarding marijuana consumption, possession, and distribution similar to the state's established alcohol laws, effectively treating marijuana as a controlled substance. The current draft of the bill breaks down its intentions into three laws: first, the bill states that only persons 21 and older have the legal right to the new law - persons under 21 are prohibited from engaging with marijuana; second, persons with the intention to wholesale, retail, cultivate or test marijuana must obtain proper licensing; third, that a tax on the sale of marijuana be levied at both wholesale, manufacturing and retail levels.

As Colorado and Washington garner more national attention - serving as a litmus test for future nationwide legalization - the local media spotlight will be on the New Hampshire Ways and Means Committee. The committee is scheduled to meet this Thursday to revise the Bill before it is sent back to the House, where it is likely to pass again, according to Laura McCrystal of the Concord Monitor. McCrystal is basing this prediction on sources in the Merrimack County.
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State execution: man shot in the back of the head by FBI during 8-hour interrogation

O.D.
Police State USA
Fri, 24 Jan 2014 02:29 UTC
Abdulbaki Todashev
© AP / Alexander ZemlianichenkoAbdulbaki Todashev says his son, Ibragim Todashev, was “executed” by the FBI. He holds up photos of his son’s bullet-riddled body during a press conference.
An unarmed man was shot to death in his own apartment by the FBI after a grueling 8-hour interrogation. The man was Ibragim Todashev, a Chechen immigrant being investigated because he was an acquaintance of one of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing. He was ultimately shot 6 times in the chest and once in the back of the head, which his father describes as an "execution" performed to "silence" his son. Months later, the Feds still have not offered any cogent explanations of the the incident or why their agents altered their story multiple times.
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U.S. resumes aid to militants in Syria


PressTV
Tue, 28 Jan 2014 02:00 UTC
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As negotiations between Syrian officials and the country's foreign-backed opposition hit a deadlock over the issue of transfer of power, the United States has resumed deliveries of aid to the opposition.

The "non-lethal" aid comes more than a month after al-Qaeda-linked insurgents seized warehouses and prompted a sudden cutoff of Western supplies to other militant groups which are publically backed by Western countries.

US officials said Monday that "the communications equipment and other items are being funneled for now only to non-armed opposition groups," according to The Associated Press.
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Schindler's List producer states: "I never feared my government until now"

Michael Krieger
Liberty Blitzkrieg
Mon, 27 Jan 2014 21:47 UTC
Schindler’s List
© Universal Pictures
Earlier today, I wrote an article about the arrest of BitInstant CEO Charlie Shrem on charges of money laundering, and how it demonstrated that the rule of law is completely dead in America. All we have now is selective enforcement of the law, a situation in which a handful of oligarchs can steal with impunity, but politically unpopular or troublesome folks are pursued with tyrannical vigor.

However, Charlie's case is not the only recent example of selective enforcement. Dinesh D'Souza is yet another. Despite what you may think of Mr. D'Souza (I watched his film and personally found it to be a very weak and superficial criticism of Obama), he is clearly being targeted in a political vendetta.

This is obvious in the sense that banker thieves never, ever face prosecution for far greater crimes. Our descent further and further into Banana Republic status is accelerating.
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Court doc shows FBI can access all messages sent over 'anonymous' email service


RT
Mon, 27 Jan 2014 21:03 UTC
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© tormail.orgThis picture shows a computer screen displaying the home page of tormail.org

The United States government seized the contents of every message stored on the servers of a supposedly secure email provider, new documents reveal, and is using that information in other criminal cases.

Kevin Poulsen, a former hacker-turned-tech reporter, wrote for Wired.com on Monday that the US Federal Bureau of Investigation cloned the data being held by a service called Tormail as the result of a separate probe started last year.

The FBI made waves throughout the internet security community back in August when it was discovered that US prosecutors asked police in Ireland to arrest Eric Eoin Marques, a 28-year-old man who administered a hosting provider that offered customers web space on the so-called dark web - a section of the internet that is only accessible through the Tor anonymizer browser and contains an unknown number of hidden portals, including many with content that's illegal under US law.

When Marques was arrested last year, US authorities gained control of his company, Freedom Hosting, and the data belonging to customers who had created websites on the dark web. One of those clients was Tormail, a hidden service that boasted of allowing "anyone to send and receive email anonymously" and claimed to never "co-operate with anyone attempting to identify or censor" its users. Only now, though, has it been revealed that the FBI cloned the entirety of that company's info after shutting down its service provider, Freedom Hosting, and customers who relied on it for web space.
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Ukraine police forced to abandon Kiev conference centre to opposition as Western-funded riots spread across the country

Enjoli Liston
The Independent
Sun, 26 Jan 2014 00:00 UTC
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© Getty ImagesAnti-government protesters carry the body of Mikhail Zhiznevsky, 25, a protester killed during clashes with police on Wednesday
Ukraine's two-month old anti-government protests have spread further across the country despite offers of concessions from President Viktor Yanukovych.

Thousands of demonstrators attempted to take over the regional government office in Dnipropetrovsk on Sunday, a major industrial hub in eastern Ukraine home to more than one million people and birthplace of opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko.

Thousands more tried to seize the local government headquarters in the south-eastern city of Zaporizhia, local media reported. Further protests took place in Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernivtsi, Lutsk and Sumy over the weekend, raising fears that the previously peaceful movement is morphing into a national uprising.

In Kiev on Sunday, hundreds of protesters chanted "heroes don't die" as the coffin of one demonstrator shot dead in clashes with police was paraded through the city centre.

The opposition cancelled a mass rally to hold a memorial for 25 year-old Mikhail Zhiznevsky - one of at least three people to have died when protests in the capital turned violent last week.
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Florida congressman Trey Radel resigns after pleading guilty to cocaine possession

Sean Sullivan
The Washington Post
Mon, 27 Jan 2014 10:20 UTC
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Embattled Rep. Trey Radel (R-Fla.) resigned from Congress Monday, months after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor drug charge.

A first-term congressman, Radel was arrested for cocaine possession in the fall . After reaching a plea agreement, he underwent substance abuse rehabilitation treatment and returned to Congress earlier this month. Despite calls from state party leaders for him to step down, Radel had said he was committed to returning to work.

But on Monday, he swiftly changed course and said he would step down later in the day. In a letter to House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), Radel said his personal struggles impeded his ability to serve in Congress. He said last year that struggles with alcoholism led him to make an "extremely irresponsible choice" involving cocaine.
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