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Arrest Bush, says Amnesty International

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Former US President George W. Bush
Amnesty International has urged African nations to arrest former US President George W. Bush during his visit to the continent this month.

"International law requires that there be no safe haven for those responsible for torture; Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia must seize this opportunity to fulfill their obligations and end the impunity George W. Bush has so far enjoyed," senior legal advisor for Amnesty International, Matt Pollard said.

According to the international rights group, African nations have the obligation to bring Bush to justice for his role in war crimes, Reuters reported.

This is while Bush's stay in Africa is aimed at raising awareness of cervical and breast cancers, as well as HIV/AIDS.

Last month, the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal found Bush and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair guilty of committing crimes against humanity during the Iraq war.

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US: Mayor Bloomberg Says 'I Have My Own Army'

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In a speech at MIT last night to discuss the packed sweepstakes to build a tech campus in New York City, Mayor Bloomberg said he prefers City Hall to the White House. Almost immediately after Mayor Bloomberg dampened recent speculation he's eyeing a White House bid, he added fuel to the fire by explaining why a mayor would be the best person for the job.

Mayor Bloomberg's recent criticism of President Obama for allowing the debt reduction Supercommittee to fail led many political tea leaf watchers to believe he's eyeing a potential White House bid. To the dismay of those who hope he'll mount presidential campaign, Mayor Bloomberg began his speech last night by discussing why City Hall is just fine by him.

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It Must be Nice Being President... Obama to Jet off to Hawaii for a Seventeen Day Christmas Vacation

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© Boston Globe/Getty ImagesTaking it easy: President Obama, pictured playing golf, has announced he will take off more than two weeks to visit Hawaii with his wife and daughters
While most Americans are lucky to get a few weeks of holiday every year, it seems the country's leader gets a little more freedom in the matter.

President Barack Obama has announced his Christmas vacation to Hawaii - for a staggering 17-day trip.

Obama, who visited the island just two weeks ago for an economic summit, will head to Honolulu on Saturday December 17 until Monday January 2.

The president, who was raised in Hawaii until he was six, will be joined by his wife Michelle and their daughters, Malia, 13, and Sasha, 10.

The White House travel office announced the president has no public events scheduled for the trip.

The President's family covers the cost of a private beach front residence in Kailua, Oahu, for their vacation - a 'Winter White House' that costs up to $3,500 a day, or $75,000 a month.

But the local and federal taxpayers help pay the bill for travel and security.

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US: Justice Department Reveals Origins of False Gun Letter To Grassley

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© Mark Wilson/Getty ImagesEric Holder on the hot seat concerning Project Gunwalker during a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The Justice Department released documents today detailing how officials prepared a Feb. 4 letter to Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) that Attorney General Eric Holder has since admitted contained false information about Operation Fast and Furious, a botched gun operation under investigation by Congress.

The documents show that Dennis Burke, then a U.S. attorney who has since resigned, and William Hoover, then the deputy director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives who has since been reassigned, principally provided the false information to officials who drafted the letter. But the documents do not shed light on whether either knew the information was false at the time.

In the Feb. 4 letter, Assistant Attorney General Ronald Weich broadly denied that ATF officials had allowed assault weapons to "walk," which meant ending surveillance on weapons suspected to be en route to Mexican drug cartels, allowing the guns to escape into the wild. "ATF makes every effort to interdict weapons that have been purchased illegally and prevent their transportation to Mexico," Weich wrote.

Grassley's allegations about Fast and Furious, later revealed to be true, "are based on categorical falsehoods," Burke wrote in a Jan. 31 email. Faith Burton, a Justice Department official who drafted an early version of the letter, took notes based on a phone conversation with Hoover that read, "ATF doesn't let guns walk."

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US: Justice Withdraws Inaccurate 'Fast And Furious' Letter It Sent To Congress

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Under fire for losing track of weapons that turned up at crime scenes along the Southwest border, the Justice Department has taken the extraordinary step of formally withdrawing an inaccurate letter about the episode that it sent to Congress earlier this year.

Deputy Attorney General Jim Cole sent nearly 1,400 pages of emails and other documents to Capitol Hill late Friday afternoon that lay bare the raw and sometimes cringe-worthy process by which the letter was drafted. The materials contain clues into how misleading information about the botched gun trafficking operation made it into a Feb. 4, 2011 letter to Congress that department leaders have since acknowledged was false.

Misleading Congress can be a prosecutable offense if a person who makes the statements knows they are false. But Attorney General Eric Holder has told lawmakers that so far he has no evidence anyone intended to deceive them. The matter remains under investigation not only by Republicans in Congress but also the Justice Department's inspector general.

The February 2011 letter said that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives makes "every effort" to interdict weapons that have been purchased illegally before they cross into Mexico. It added that the allegation that the ATF had "sanctioned or otherwise knowingly allowed the sale of assault weapons" to suspicious people was false.

Mr. Potato

US: Herman Cain Drops Out of Presidential Race

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© The Associated Press/David TulisHerman Cain
Plagued by allegations of sexual harassment and marriage infidelity, businessman Herman Cain announced Saturday that he is officially suspending his campaign for president of the United States.

"As of today, with a lot of prayer and soul searching, I am suspending my presidential campaign," Cain said at what was supposed to be new campaign headquarters in his hometown of Atlanta. "I am disappointed that it came to this point that we had to make this decision."

But he added, "Before you get discouraged, today I want to describe Plan B. . . . I am not going away. I will continue to be a voice for the people." With that, he unveiled the headquarters of his new website, TheCainSolutions.com.

Standing with his wife Gloria by his side, Cain vowed that he would make an endorsement before the primaries were over and said that he "will not be silenced."

Cain, one of the first Republican candidates to launch his campaign for the White House last spring, spent most of his run as an obscure, low-polling candidate that was a hit at tea party rallies. But as the Republican field took shape, and it became clear that high-profile party hopefuls like Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie would not enter the race, Republicans seemed willing to give any of the candidates a fair shake.

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UK: 'Can You Crack It?' Spies Wanted

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© ABC News'Can You Crack It?' Spies Wanted
'Can You Crack It?' website, set up by British GCHQ intelligence agency.

They're looking for a few good spies. GCHQ, the intelligence service of the government of the United Kingdom, is looking for some web-savvy cyber-sleuths-to-be, and apparently decided a post on Craigslist wouldn't quite do it.

So it put up a website with the enigmatic title " Can you crack it?" and spread the word on Facebook, Twitter and other social media. The site has a matrix of letters of letters and numbers on the homepage - surely something is hidden in them - and a place at the bottom inviting you to "Enter Keyword."

If you crack the code, please let us know - though you may not get the chance. If you enter the right keyword, you'll get past the homepage and possibly into the intriguing world of intelligence-gathering.

Attention

Why A False Flag Nuke Is Inevitable

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Face it. In order for the PTBs to sufficiently take out mighty Iran, a vastly powerful nation, it will have to be with nukes. Iran has tremendous capabilities not only militarily, but is protected by natural, mountainous fortresses, and is strategically placed between two vulnerable US battlefields, and sufficiently close to Israel and even Europe to do some serious damage if and when attacked.

So if you're the aggressor, what would be your major concern about your target?

Retaliation.

And knowing the West is clearly itching to take out Iran, and knowing they have these capabilities and that your first strike needs to be incredibly devastating, what would justify such an action in the world's mind?

You got it. A supposed preemptive nuclear strike from Iran. Your archetypal false flag set up.

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Europe: Merkel and Sarkozy meet in Paris for summit on fiscal union

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© Fabrizio Bensch/REUTERSFrench President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy, the German chancellor and French president, will meet in Paris on Monday to thrash out a deal on fiscal union that they hope will bring long-term stability to the currency zone. The blueprint will be presented to other European leaders at a Brussels summit at the end of the week.

Financial markets are also expecting an interest rate cut from the European Central Bank [ECB] on Thursday to give floundering euro economies a much-needed shot in the arm.

After months of deepening gloom that saw the eurozone lurch closer to recession and potential disintegration, a hint of optimism is in the air. There is a feeling in European capitals that moves to transform the currency union into a fiscal union, with greater centralised control over the tax-and-spend policies of the 17 member countries, could be the beginning of a solution for the debt crisis and calm the markets.

Merkel spelled out her proposals for fiscal union in a speech to the German parliament last week, and ECB president Mario Draghi has talked of the need for a "fiscal compact".

Bad Guys

The Failure to Investigate 9/11 Has Bankrupted America

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Preface: This post does not discuss whether or not 9/11 was a "false flag" operation or an "inside job". Anything other than a discussion of the negligence of the Bush administration is unnecessary for the purposes of this essay, and is thus beyond the scope of this post.

In case you didn't get the memo, we are currently in a depression. And see this

And given that American citizens can be indefinitely detained or assassinated at the whim of the president, it is pretty clear that we now live in a police state.

This post will demonstrate - without getting into discussions of an "inside job" one way or the other - that the failure to hold a real 9/11 investigation is a core cause of our loss of our prosperity and freedom.