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Our killer president

Arthur Silber
Information Clearing House
Thu, 10 Jan 2013 08:25 UTC
The killer said:

"Ask Osama bin Laden and the 22 out of 30 top al-Qaeda leaders who've been taken off the field whether I engage in appeasement," the president fired back at an impromptu news conference at the White House.

"Or whoever's left out there," he added. "Ask them about that."


Watch the video. It's instructive, particularly Obama's expression when he adds, "Or whoever's left out there." He speaks of murder, yet the words are breezy and casual: this is a murderer so used to killing that he talks of his past and future victims interchangeably, and in terms of approximation. Just "whoever's left out there." He wants to be sure you know he'll order all of them killed in time. His face is expressionless, the eyes dead. This is a man without a soul in any healthy, positive sense. He murders -- and he's proud of it.

More than a million innocent Iraqis were murdered as the result of the United States' criminal war of aggression on that country. Obama has heralded America's "success" in Iraq as "an extraordinary achievement."
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Sheriff

Anger as Norway police drop Breivik response probe


Raw Story
Fri, 11 Jan 2013 08:14 UTC
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The family of a teenager killed by Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik reacted angrily Friday after a probe into police's slow response to the July 2011 twin attacks was dropped.

"Apparently, no one will ever learn from the grave mistakes that were made on July 22, not the police nor anyone else," lamented Alf Vederhus who lost his son Haavard in Breivik's mass shooting on the island of Utoeya.

The Norwegian police's internal affairs unit said in a statement Thursday that while there were serious shortcomings in the police's response, it had dropped its investigation into complaints filed by the families of two victims because there was no evidence police had broken the law.

"I think internal affairs looked too lightly on the mistakes that were made," Vederhus told the daily Dagsavisen.
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Cowboy Hat

UN calls for 'rapid deployment' of international troops in Mali


RT.com
Fri, 11 Jan 2013 07:50 UTC
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© AFP Photo / Serge DanielMalian troops patrol on a pick-up car
The UN Security Council has called for "rapid deployment" of international forces in Mali to combat Islamist militants in the north of the country. It comes as insurgents have seized the key city of Konna as they move south.

"This serious deterioration of the situation threatens even more the stability and integrity of Mali and constitutes a direct threat to international peace and security," Security Council President Masood Khan said in a statement following an emergency meeting on Thursday evening.

Given the latest developments in the West African country, the members of the UNSC "expressed their determination to pursue the full implementation" of its resolutions on Mali, in particular Resolution 2085, adopted in December, which authorizes the deployment of over 3,000 African-led international troops.
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Bomb

Pakistan bombings: Blasts in Quetta and Mingora kill more than 100

Abdul Sattar and Sebastian Abbot
Huffington Post
Thu, 10 Jan 2013 08:53 UTC
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© The Associated Press/Arshad ButtPakistani volunteers rush an injured victim from a bomb blast to a local hospital for treatment in Quetta, Pakistan, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013.
Quetta, Pakistan - A series of bombings killed 115 people across Pakistan on Thursday, including 81 who died in twin blasts on a bustling billiards hall in a Shiite area of the southwestern city of Quetta.

Pakistan's minority Shiite Muslims have increasingly been targeted by radical Sunnis who consider them heretics, and a militant Sunni group claimed responsibility for Thursday's deadliest attack - sending a suicide bomber into the packed pool hall and then detonating a car bomb five minutes later.

It was one of the deadliest days in recent years for a country that is no stranger to violence from radical Islamists, militant separatists and criminal gangs.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon strongly condemned Thursday's multiple attacks and the ongoing terrorist violence in Pakistan, saying "these heinous acts cannot be justified by any cause" and calling for the perpetrators to be brought to justice, U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky said.

Violence has been especially intense in southwest Baluchistan province, where Quetta is the capital and the country's largest concentration of Shiites live. Many are ethnic Hazara who migrated from neighboring Afghanistan.

The billiards hall targeted Thursday was located in an area dominated by the minority sect. In addition to the 81 dead, more than 120 people were wounded in the double bombing, said police officer Zubair Mehmood. The dead included police officers, journalists and rescue workers who responded to the initial explosion.

Comment: Whenever you read that "no group claimed responsibility" or "a previously unknown group claimed responsibility", note that this is the hallmark of state terrorist activities:

The British Empire - A Lesson In State Terrorism

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Brick Wall

Catholic bishops slam Israel's security barrier


Raw Story
Thu, 10 Jan 2013 18:24 UTC
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A delegation of Roman Catholic bishops from Europe and North America pledged on Thursday to press their governments to act against the "injustice" of Israel's West Bank separation barrier.

During a three-day trip ending on Thursday, the eight prelates visited Christian congregations in the Gaza Strip, Bethlehem, the West Bank town of Beit Jalla and Madaba and Zarqa, in neighbouring Jordan.

"In the Cremisan Valley we heard about legal struggles to protect local people's lands and religious institutions from the encroachment of the security barrier ('the wall')," they said in a joint statement at the end of the annual Holy Land Coordination visit.

In the valley, near Bethlehem, the barrier threatens to separate Palestinian communities from one another and from the land they till.
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Radar

Syrian rebels seize parts of strategic air base

Zeina Karam
Yahoo News
Thu, 10 Jan 2013 17:43 UTC
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© AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP videoIn this image taken from video obtained from the Shaam News Network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, smoke rises due to heavy shelling in Taftanaz, Idlib province, northern Syria, on Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013.
Hundreds of Islamic militants fighting to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad seized parts of a strategic northwestern air base Thursday after weeks of battling government troops for control of the sprawling facility.

At stake is the biggest field for helicopters used to bomb rebel-held areas in the north and deliver supplies for regime forces.

Opposition fighters and activists said rebels broke into Taftanaz air base in the northern Idlib province Wednesday night and by Thursday had seized control of more than half of it. Intense battles were still raging, and one activist said rebels had suffered losses.

On Thursday evening, an activist near Taftanaz said the government bombed the air base from warplanes in a desperate attempt to push back rebels who seized several helicopters. The account from the activist, who requested anonymity out of fear of reprisals, could not immediately be confirmed.

An amateur video posted by activists online showed smoke rising from behind helicopters parked at the Taftanaz tarmac, and a narrator said it was the result of an airstrike. The video appeared consistent with Associated Press reporting.
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Gold Coins

Is gold and silver registration coming to Illinois?

Mike
LibertyBlitzkrieg
Thu, 10 Jan 2013 16:11 UTC
Gold and Silver Bullion
© goldbulliononlinepurchase
So let me get this straight. First they want gun registration and now precious metal registration? I'm sure the government would only use such information in our best interests, because as we all know: Your Government Loves You. Sounds reasonable, after all, only "terrorists" buy guns and gold anyway.

Meet the "Precious Metal Purchasing Act" or SB3341, brought to you by the lovely folks at the Illinois 97th General Assembly:

Synopsis As Introduced

Creates the Precious Metal Purchasing Act. Provides that a person who is in the business of purchasing precious metal shall obtain a proof of ownership, create a record of the sale, and verify the identity of the seller. Provides that a person who is in the business of purchasing precious metal shall not pay for the precious metal in cash and shall record the method of payment. Requires the purchaser to keep a record of the sale for one year or, if the purchase amount is over $500, for 5 years.

Read more on the bill here.

In Liberty,
Mike
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Syringe

Supreme Court seems unlikely to let police order blood tests for drunk-driving suspects

Robert Barnes
Washington Post
Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:44 UTC
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed unlikely to allow police to routinely force suspected drunk drivers to give a blood sample without the officers at least trying to obtain a warrant from a judge.

Justices across the ideological spectrum seemed to recoil during oral arguments from what Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. described as the "pretty scary image of somebody restrained, and, you know, a representative of the state approaching them with a needle."

There seemed to be little, if any, support for the proposition that the usual constitutional protections that require a warrant for searches do not apply in drunk-driving arrests. Missouri, backed by the Obama administration, argued that a suspect's dissipating blood-alcohol content meant that, in effect, evidence was being lost and thus drawing blood should not require consent or a judge's order.

That argument drew fire almost immediately.
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USA

Drones are fool's gold: They prolong wars we can't win

Simon Jenkins
Guardian
Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:37 UTC
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© Photograph: S.S MIRZA/AFP/Getty ImagesA demonstration in Pakistan last week against drone attacks. 'Three-quarters of Pakistanis are now declared enemies of the US
New appointments in the White House hail an era of hands-free warfare. Yet these weapons induce not defeat, but retaliation.

The greatest threat to world peace is not from nuclear weapons and their possible proliferation. It is from drones and their certain proliferation. Nuclear bombs are useless weapons, playthings for the powerful or those aspiring to power. Drones are now sweeping the global arms market. There are some 10,000 said to be in service, of which a thousand are armed and mostly American. Some reports say they have killed more non-combatant civilians than died in 9/11.

I have not read one independent study of the current drone wars in Afghanistan, Pakistan and the horn of Africa that suggests these weapons serve any strategic purpose. Their "success" is expressed solely in body count, the number of so-called "al-Qaida-linked commanders" killed. If body count were victory, the Germans would have won Stalingrad and the Americans Vietnam.

Neither the legality nor the ethics of drone attacks bear examination. Last year's exhaustive report by lawyers from Stanford and New York universities concluded that they were in many cases illegal, killed civilians, and were militarily counter-productive. Among the deaths were an estimated 176 children. Such slaughter would have an infantry unit court-martialled. Air forces enjoy such prestige that civilian deaths are excused as a price worth paying for not jeopardising pilots' lives.
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Pistol

Blowback from the Alex Jones outburst


The Truth Seeker
Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:43 UTC
morgan jones
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The authorities have long used supposed anti-authoritarian activists to further their agenda and Alex Jones recent rant on CNN is the latest example.

As even the target of his rant, Piers Morgan says, Alex Jones outburst "was the best advertisement for gun control you could have wished for".

Indeed.

Piers Morgan went on to say that Jones's "vitriol, hatred, and zealotry is really quite scary" and that was precisely the intention. For Jones's bluster was nothing more than a calculated attempt to demonise opponents of gun control through association and scaremongering.

Thereby helping to smooth the passage for stricter gun legislation, which is exactly what the authorities want.
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