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Boston bombing suspect won't appear on Russian version of Rolling Stone magazine


RIA Novosti
Wed, 17 Jul 2013 13:33 UTC
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© Rolling Stone Facebook pageBoston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on the cover of the US edition of Rolling Stone magazine
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect, will not appear on the cover of the Russian version of Rolling Stone magazine, its editor-in-chief said Wednesday.

The magazine's US version used a photograph of Tsarnaev for the cover of its latest issue - followed inside by a lengthy story about the life of the 19-year-old, who has roots in Russia's Caucasus region - prompting a squall of angry comments from readers and bloggers.

The Russian cover will feature US actor Matt Damon instead, although a translated - and truncated - version of the Tsarnaev story will come out on August 1, editor-in-chief Alexander Kondukov said.

"The decision [not to run the story on the Russian cover] was purely a marketing move," Kondukov told RIA Novosti.

Comment: Read the following articles to learn more about what really happened in Boston:
'Why did FBI execute my boy?' Father of Boston Bombing patsy's friend displays grisly photos of son's corpse showing unarmed man was shot seven times
Boston, what if these brothers didn't do it?
Two FBI Agents involved in manhunt of Boston marathon bombing suspect 'fall' to their deaths from helicopter
Why there were no 'actors' at the Boston Marathon bombings
Ink Blot Tests and 'actors' at the Boston bombings

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Dollars

How to lose friends, citizens and influence: US taxes by citizenship instead of residency

Colleen Graffy
The Wall Street Journal
Wed, 17 Jul 2013 12:32 UTC
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The U.S. Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act seeks to co-opt foreign banks as long-arm enforcement agencies of the IRS.

Beware the sledgehammer used to crack the nut. In this case, the nut is the U.S. government's laudable goal of catching tax evaders. The sledgehammer is the overreaching effect of legislation that is alienating other countries and resulting in millions of U.S. citizens abroad being forced to either painfully reconsider their nationality, or face a lifetime of onerous bureaucracy, expense and privacy invasion.

The legislation is Fatca, the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act. To appreciate its breathtaking scope along with America's unique "citizen-based" tax practices, imagine this: You were born in California, moved to New York for education or work, fell in love, married and had children. Even though you have faithfully paid taxes in New York and haven't lived in California for 25 years, suppose California law required that you also file your taxes there because you were born there. Though you may never have held a bank account in California, you must report all of your financial holdings to the State of California. Are you a signatory on your spouse's account? Then you must declare his bank accounts too. Your children, now adults, have never been west of the Mississippi but they too must file their taxes in both California and New York and report any bank accounts they or their spouses may have because they are considered Californians by virtue of one parent's birthplace.

Extrapolate that example to the six million U.S. citizens living around the globe. Many, if not most, don't know about these requirements. Yet they face fines, penalties and interest for not complying - even if they owe no U.S. taxes, own no U.S. property, have no U.S. bank account and haven't lived there in years - if ever.
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What odd guest appears to have showed up at the White House's July 4th party for military families?

Erica Ritz
The Blaze
Wed, 10 Jul 2013 12:25 UTC
Was Abdul Rahman Ali Alharbi, the much-discussed Saudi national once identified as a "person of interest" in the Boston Marathon bombings, at the White House for a 4th of July celebration for military heros and their families?

Apparent pictures posted on the Internet and a Saudi news outlet say yes.

A Twitter feed appears to show photos of the young man posing before the edifice - decorated with red, white, and blue banners to celebrate the holiday - in addition to close-up photos of the first couple.

They come from the Twitter account of an individual claiming to be Alharbi's father, though that information has not been confirmed.

According to a professional translation of the account's information, however, the given name is "'Ali Al-Salimi Al-Harbi," and the description reads: "Father of Abd Al-Rahman who was injured in the Boston bombings."

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© Twitter/@aliessa1312Alharbi is seemingly on the far right.

Comment: The most likely explanation is that he and his family were invited because they are connected to wealthy Saudis, who are known to have long-standing and intimate relationships with Washington's elite.

Glenn Beck, like Michael Moore on the left with respect to 9/11, is barking up the wrong tree by implying a 'Mooslim' conspiracy behind the Boston false-flag attack.

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War Whore

War destroys wealth: the myth of WWII 'saving' the US economy


brasschecktv.com
Wed, 17 Jul 2013 12:24 UTC
It's time to drive a stake through the heart of this one

Historian Stephen Davies names three persistent myths about the Great Depression.

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MSNBC mocks Sarah Palin's Senate hint: 'Trick would be if someone asked her where the Middle East was'

Madeleine Morgenstern
The Blaze
Wed, 10 Jul 2013 12:18 UTC
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MSNBC's "Morning Joe" panel derided Sarah Palin's hinting at a potential U.S. Senate run, including wondering what would happen "if someone asked her where the Middle East was."

Former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele and Nicolle Wallace, a senior adviser to John McCain's 2008 campaign who afterward notoriously criticized Palin as unsuited for the vice presidency, said Wednesday that if Palin were to run any statement she made would dominate the news cycle.

"If Sarah Palin injects her voice into a national conversation in any form, it's obviously going to bleed across the spectrum," Steele said. "That piece of it is largely irrelevant, because the press will make her relevant to any conversation the minute she says something."
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Grab it while it lasts! Vatican offers 'time off purgatory' to followers of Pope Francis tweets

Tom Kington
The Guardian
Tue, 16 Jul 2013 11:16 UTC
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© Franco Origlia/Getty ImagesSummer Offer: follow Pope on tweet and reduce your purgatory time!
Papal court handling pardons for sins says contrite Catholics may win 'indulgences' by following World Youth Day on Twitter

In its latest attempt to keep up with the times the Vatican has married one of its oldest traditions to the world of social media by offering "indulgences" to followers of Pope Francis' tweets.

The church's granted indulgences reduce the time Catholics believe they will have to spend in purgatory after they have confessed and been absolved of their sins.

The remissions got a bad name in the Middle Ages because unscrupulous churchmen sold them for large sums of money. But now indulgences are being applied to the 21st century.

But a senior Vatican official warned web-surfing Catholics that indulgences still required a dose of old-fashioned faith, and that paradise was not just a few mouse clicks away.

Comment: The Catholic church business must not be doing very well these days if they have to make such desperate offers to attract more people under their control.

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Network

"Stuxnet" and "Flame": With new malware virus, Israel fans a virtual flame against Iran

Pierre Klochendler
Global Research
Fri, 28 Jun 2013 10:38 UTC
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The IPS article below originally posted by Global Research on May 31, 2012 sheds light on what is now "official" following the alleged leak of classified information about a covert cyberattack on Iran's nuclear facilities.
Retired Marine Gen. James "Hoss" Cartwright has been told he is a target of the probe, NBC News and The Washington Post reported Thursday. A "target" is someone a prosecutor or grand jury has substantial evidence linking to a crime and who is likely to be charged.

The Justice Department referred questions to the U.S. attorney's office in Baltimore, where a spokeswoman, Marcia Murphy, declined to comment.
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Top Secret

Corralling the herd: Border Patrol set to weaponize drones

Noel Brinkerhoff
AllGov.com
Wed, 17 Jul 2013 10:33 UTC
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When Customs and Border Protection (CPB) first got its drones, the rationale for the acquisition was that the unmanned aircraft would help improve monitoring and surveillance along the U.S.-Mexico border.

But now, CPB may be thinking about arming its Predator drones with "non-lethal weapons."

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) obtained a report produced by CPB in 2010 that shows the agency has considered equipping its Predators with "non-lethal weapons designed to immobilize" targets of interest. Given the date of the report, it is possible that the weaponization has already taken place.
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NSA circulated soldiers' sex talk with wives for kicks


Resisting the New World Order
Sun, 07 Jul 2013 10:29 UTC
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Not Human: 'Do I regret doing it? Hell no!' Psychopathic Marine who urinated on Taliban dead says he'd do it again

Kristina Wong
The Washington Times
Tue, 16 Jul 2013 00:00 UTC
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© The Associated PressThis image made on Jan. 12, 2012, from an undated video posted on the Internet by a YouTube user self-identified as "semperfiLoneVoice" shows men in U.S. Marine combat gear standing in a semicircle over three bodies. U.S. Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta branded as "utterly despicable" the video purporting to show four U.S. Marines urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters.
A Marine who was fined and demoted for urinating on Taliban corpses in Afghanistan in 2011 says he would do it again.

"I regret maybe any repercussions it might have had on the Marines. But do I regret doing it? Hell no," Sgt. Joseph Chamblin told WSOC-TV in Charlotte, N.C., adding that he would do it again.

The infamous incident was videotaped and uploaded to YouTube last year, becoming international news and raising fears of retaliation by Afghan troops against their coalition trainers.

"These were the same guys that were killing our family, killing our brothers," said Sgt. Chamblin, who was on a mission to stop Taliban insurgents from making roadside bombs.

One of his sniper team members, Sgt. Mark Bradley, was killed by a buried bomb days before the incident.

"We're human," he said. "Who wouldn't if you lost your brother or mother? Wouldn't you want revenge?"
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