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U.S. States make moves to put anti-drone laws in place

Dylan Stableford
Yahoo! News
Wed, 19 Feb 2014 10:46 UTC
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© AP/Eric GayA test drone with a wing span of almost 13 feet flies over a ranch near Sarita, Texas, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2014. A Texas A&M Corpus Christi research team is conducting tests to help determine how unmanned aircraft system can be integrated into existing airspace.
A pair of states passed bills this week restricting the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, better known as drones.

In Washington, the state House passed two bills on Monday limiting the purchase and use of drones for government surveillance, The Associated Press reports.

House Bill 2789 requires state agencies and municipal governments to obtain search warrants to use drones in specific situations, including "emergencies with an immediate danger of death or serious bodily injury; criminal emergencies with immediate danger of death or serious bodily injury with no time to get a warrant; for military training on a base; training and testing of devices if no personal information is collected; a governor-declared state of emergency; or for an operation such as environmental or wildlife monitoring."

Also, agencies using drones would have to prepare annual reports for the public describing how they were used.

The bill was approved in an 83-15 vote.

The other, House Bill 2178, would ban the "unauthorized use of drones, or other unmanned aircraft with sensing devices, above private property." It passed by a vote of 92-6.
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SOTT Focus: Behind the Headlines: 'Revolution' in Ukraine: A history of manufactured chaos

Sott Editors
Sott.net
Sun, 23 Feb 2014 19:00 UTC
Map of Ukraine
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This week we took a closer look at the unfolding chaos in Ukraine. Is it really 'chaos'? Or is their method behind the madness?

In the context of 100+ years of U.S. intervention abroad, the worsening situation in Ukraine is just another in a long line of manipulated and bloody conflicts the U.S. elite has brought about.

This time, however, the U.S. is facing a strong opponent in the form of a resurgent Russia. How will Putin respond to the unfolding mayhem on his doorstep? Will he play dirty like the Americans? Will he just try to keep it contained within Ukraine's borders?

Running Time: 02:10:00

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Adding insult to injury, George W. Bush sheds a (fake) tear over vets suffering from his wars: 'I'm in there with them'

David Edwards
The Raw Story
Sun, 23 Feb 2014 12:47 UTC
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Former President George W. Bush described himself as "emotional" recently when he talked about how he was trying to make a difference for the veterans who are trying to put their lives back together after serving in the wars waged by his administration.

At a Military Service Initiative Summit last week, the former president had explained that his institute was going to take steps to assist the veterans who were trying to transition into civilian life after coming home from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

In an interview that aired on Sunday, ABC's Martha Raddatz asked the former president if the new initiative helped him cope with the 6,800 service members killed, and 51,000 wounded.

"No question it helps," Bush stuttered. "I have a duty."

"I obviously get slightly emotional talking about our vets because I'm in there with them," he added with a single tear spilling down his right cheek.

"But my spirit is also uplifted when I visit with vets. As I say, there is no self-pity... They don't say, 'Woe is me.' They say, 'What can I do to continue to serve?'"

Watch the video below from ABC's This Week, broadcast Feb. 23, 2014.


Comment: Err... did you see any tears, sign of remorse or genuine emotion coming from Bush in the video above?

Neither did we. No wonder, since psychopaths are incapable of any of that. Instead, we did catch a couple of those smirks which are Dubya's trademark, which give an air of mockery to his latest charade and reveal how he really feels about the suffering he has caused.

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Twenty-five years after Soviet exit, Taliban says U.S. will meet same fate

Mirwais Harooni
Yahoo! News
Sat, 15 Feb 2014 15:59 UTC
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© Reuters/Ahmad NadeemA U.S. soldier stands at the site of a suicide attack on a NATO base in Zhari, west of Kandahar province, January 20, 2014.
The Taliban called on Afghans to expel the United States from Afghanistan on Saturday just as they said Afghan mujahideen fighters had done to Soviet forces 25 years ago to the day. Related Stories

In a statement issued on the 25th anniversary of the final Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, a national holiday for Afghans, the Taliban sought to connect the steady departure of U.S. and NATO troops ahead of a year-end deadline to the end of the decade-long Soviet occupation.

"Today America is facing the same fate as the former Soviets and trying to escape from our country," the Taliban said in a statement emailed to reporters by Qari Yousef Ahmadi, a spokesman for the group.

"The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan is calling on its people to deal with today's invaders the same they did with the yesterday's invaders," he said, using the name the Taliban government used during its repressive 1996-2001 rule.

In line with the so-called Geneva accords, a last convoy of Soviet soldiers crossed a bridge connecting northern Afghanistan with the then-Soviet Union on February 15, 1989.
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Freed Ukrainian ex-premier Yulia Tymoshenko says she plans runs for presidency


Voice of Russia
Sat, 22 Feb 2014 21:01 UTC
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Ukrainian ex-premier, Yulia Timoshenko, says she would run for the top office. Presidential elections in Ukraine are scheduled for May 25. Timoshenko, who has now been freed from jail, has left a Kharkov clinic and travelled to Kiev by special flight.

"Yulia Timoshenko has moved to Maidan (Independence Square)," said Arseny Yatsenyuk, leader of the Batkivshchnina faction. He had earlier announced that former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko was en route to Independence Square in Kiev, the focal point of pro-European demonstrations, after being released earlier on Saturday.

"Yulia is on her way to Maidan [Independence Square]," Yatsenyuk said after a telephone conversation with Tymoshenko in the presence of reporters.

One minute before, witnesses and Batkivshchyna confirmed that Tymoshenko had been discharged from the clinic in Kharkov where she had been receiving treatment since May 2012.

She left the hospital premises with a motorcade.

Comment:
Free-dumb and Democrazi: Ukraine MPs vote for release of ex-PM and gas billionaire Tymoshenko, along with a return to 2004 CIA-imposed constitution

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Best of the Web: Judges judging judges - Judgment at Nuremberg

Michael Asimow
usf.usfca.edu
Sat, 01 Aug 1998 07:46 UTC
Nuremberg trial
Dec. 10, 1945: Defendants and defense attorneys during the Nuremberg trials
Stanley Kramer's masterpiece Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) stands alone as the finest film about judges ever made. In the film, four Nazi judges are placed on trial at Nuremberg before a panel of three American judges. Three of the German judges are Nazi thugs but one of them, Ernst Janning (played by Burt Lancaster), was quite different. Janning had been a famous and aristocratic legal scholar, a drafter of the Weimar constitution, and a man who detested Hitler and the Nazis. Yet he remained on the bench under the Third Reich. All defendants are convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. The chief American judge, Dan Haywood (played memorably by Spencer Tracy), brushes aside the various excuses offered by defense counsel Rolfe (a role for which Maximilian Schell won an Oscar).

The Nuremberg war crime trials presented many thorny jurisprudential issues, such as the problem of ex post facto criminal law and the issue of how the court obtained jurisdiction over the defendants. In particular, what justification is there for an international (rather than a German) tribunal to try a case in which the offenses were committed by Germans against other Germans?

Comment: The above article was written in 1998. Just think of all the laws that were created and passed since then, especially after 911 in the U.S.A. (slowly but steadily spreading throughout the Western world and beyond) and how
court decisions aggressively broadened the coverage of the law, both in defining who was a [terrorist] and who was [one of "us"], and in describing the circumstances that would violate the law
We look back to the 1940s and we wonder in horror how the Nazis were able to create such a repressive, inhumane and utterly insane system and cause all the destruction and deaths that they did for so long! But someone looking from the future back to our world today, would wonder with the same exact horror, provided that s/he has any conscience.

Movie: Judgment at Nuremberg - Must See!

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Ukraine: The brown (shirt) revolution


Voice of Russia
Sat, 22 Feb 2014 07:40 UTC
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© "Golos Stolitsy" (Voice of capital/Kiev)
It is a fact that since 9-11-2001, the US Government has been in the business of destroying countries and using NATO as it principle instrument. That was stated more than a decade ago by then US Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz and later by General Wesley Clark. The Pentagon drew up a list of 7 states that were to be destroyed: Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Syria and they have systematically proceeded to destroy all of the Countries on the list. The strategy in Ukraine is the same, US/NATO/EU are promoting the destabilization and the breakup of Ukraine in order to achieve the NATO goal of moving into Ukrainian territory closer to Russia. Harvard Professor Francis Boyle, a US based Russian expert who was invited to the Soviet Union to lecture spoke on these issues and more in an interview with the Voice of Russia.

While Russia was distracted into believing that the US wanted a reset US foreign policy was being planned and dictated by rabid Russia haters like Zbignew Brzezinski and Richard Pipes. Brzezinski wants to breakup Russia into approximately 68 parts and has placed his protégés in key US foreign policy posts. According to Mr. Boyle Brezezinski has staffed the Obama administration with his acolytes and protégées, including the US Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul, a specialist in color revolutions. At the end of the day the US plan is to see the breakup of the Russian Federation, that is the goal.
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Venezuelan government sends Army to combat "grave" opposition - suspects that "paramilitaries and criminal gangs" are involved

Ewan Robertson
venezuelanalysis.com
Sat, 22 Feb 2014 07:30 UTC
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© Jack JohnstonStreet barricades have reduced traffic and impeded rubbish collection in San Cristobal. After this photo was taken last week, the situation reportedly worsened.
The Venezuelan government is to send two army battalions to Táchira state, which borders Colombia, to combat a "grave" case of opposition-promoted disorder in the area.

According to press reports and an eyewitness testimony provided to Venezuelanalysis.com, the capital city of Táchira state, San Cristóbal, has been almost brought to a standstill in recent days by street barricades set up by hard-line opposition activists.

According to such reports, in recent days almost no transport has been able to circulate, while the great majority of shops and businesses have been closed. Authorities warn that the street blockades are impeding the delivery of food and gasoline, and claim that transport workers have been threatened.

The government also suspects that "paramilitaries and criminal gangs" are involved in the actions, with the complicity of the local opposition mayor, Daniel Ceballos.
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U.S. is helping to destroy Fallujah again

Mike Phipps
Justice For Iraq
Tue, 28 Jan 2014 07:22 UTC
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The Iraqi Government's accusation of an external Al-Qaeda takeover was made to justify a ferocious siege and bombardment of the Fallujah and Ramadi.

Conflict and carnage on a scale unseen since the height of the Occupation nearly a decade ago have broken out in Iraq's Anbar Province. Over 140,000 people have been made homeless since fighting started at the end of last year. According to the UN, 65,000 people fled the fighting in the towns of Fallujah and Ramadi in one week alone.

Some commentators see the violence as a spillover from the Syrian conflict. Others analyse it in terms of Sunni tribesmen in dispute. When Iraq's corrupt government earned a rebuke from the usually inert UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, who called on Nuri al-Maliki to address the root causes of the conflict, the Iraqi prime minister retorted, "We do not hold dialogue with al-Qaeda."

The pernicious narrative, peddled by the Iraqi Government and picked up in the mainstream media, that Al-Qaeda had taken over Fallujah, was a long way from the truth. But it helped to secure an immediate delivery of arms to the Iraqi regime from its US puppeteers to help quell the protests in Anbar.
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Venezuela: It's the opposition that's anti-democratic

Jerome Roos
Venezuelanalysis.com
Sat, 22 Feb 2014 06:44 UTC
Venezuela protests
© Carlos Garcia Rawlins/ReutersSupporters of Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro take part in demonstrations carrying signs saying ‘Revolution is Peace,’ as thousands took part in competing rallies in the deeply divided country on Saturday.
I've been away for the past week so I wasn't able to write anything on the unfolding turmoil in Venezuela, but I've been following the situation closely and in recent days have grown increasingly frustrated with (a) the total lack of balanced reporting on Venezuela in the international media, including left-liberal publications like The Guardian; (b) the seeming ease with which comrades on the libertarian left ignore the events in Venezuela as if it were somehow "irrelevant" to our cause, simply because we're not supposed to have any close ideological affinity with chavismo; and (c) the ill-informed basis on which many activists and even several major movement pages have taken the side of the protesters against the government, unquestioningly sharing the propaganda of the right-wing opposition and echoing dangerously superficial and wrongheaded interpretations about the protests. I intend to write more on this later, but here are some initial reflections:

Comment: Just watch the documentary The Revolution will not be Televised, under point 7 above, for it contains all you need to know about what is going on in Venezuela today!

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