Monthly Archives: March 2013

Russia warns UK against arming Syrian rebels

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“The UK and Russia remain at odds over the supply of arms to Syria‘s opposition, with Moscow suggesting that any move by the British government to give the rebels military equipment would breach international law.  The foreign secretary, William Hague, last week announced that Britain was stepping up its support for Syria’s opposition National Coalition and would be providing non-lethal equipment to rebel fighters. The government is inching towards arming the rebels, with David Cameron indicating on Wednesday that the UK might be prepared to bypass an EU arms embargo as events on the ground unfold.”

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/mar/13/russia-warns-uk-syrian-rebels

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‘Where is the evidence my son was a terrorist?’

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“The parents of a British-born man killed by a US drone strike after being stripped of his UK citizenship have spoken out for the first time – to say they will never forgive the British Government for his death.  Mohamed Sakr was born and brought up in London before he was targeted and killed in February 2012 in Somalia.  Now his Egyptian-born parents Gamal and Eman Sakr, who have lived in Britain for 35 years, have accused ministers of betraying this country’s democratic values.  The couple said they believe their son was left vulnerable to the attack after the Government stripped him of his British citizenship months before he was killed.”

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/where-is-the-evidence-my-son-was-a-terrorist-8537013.html

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CIA may target Syrian extremists with drones: LA Times

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“The US Central Intelligence Agency is collecting information on Islamic radicals in Syria for possible lethal drone strikes against them at a later stage. CIA’s Counterterrorism Center, which runs drone programs targeting militants in Pakistan and Yemen, had recently shifted several targeting officers to improve intelligence gathering on militants in Syria.  The agency is working closely with Saudi, Jordanian and other regional spy services active in Syria.  The State Department believes that one of the strongest Syrian opposition militias, Al Nusra Front, is a terrorist organization that is indistinguishable from the group Al-Qaeda in Iraq.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/03/16/cia-may-target-syrian-extremists-with-drones-la-times/

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Obama couldn’t eat at Hill meeting without food ‘taster’

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“Following President Obama’s lunch meeting with Senate Republicans on Capitol Hill, Maine Republican Senator Susan Collins described the food served and said the president was not able to eat since his ‘taster’ was not present.  ‘He looked longingly at it,’ Collins continued. ‘He honestly did look longingly at it, but apparently he has to have essentially a taster, and I pointed out to him that we were all tasters for him, that if the food had been poisoned all of us would have keeled over so, but he did look longingly at it and he remarked that we have far better food than the Democrats do, and I said that was because I was hosting.'”

http://dailycaller.com/2013/03/14/obama-couldnt-eat-at-hill-meeting-without-taster-audio/

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Bush-era state secrecy expert: Presidents abuse power like in Kafka or Orwell novels

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“William Leonard, who was entrusted with ensuring proper treatment of state secrets by government agencies in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, said that over the past decade both the Obama and the previous Bush administrations had manipulated their classification authority to create new executive powers without congressional oversight or judicial review.  Leonard, the former head of the Information Security Oversight Office from 2002 to 2007, said that what was at stake was ‘the abuse of the very form of government we are operating under, as unilateral executive powers go unchallenged.'”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/03/15/bush-era-state-secrecy-expert-presidents-abuse-power-like-in-kafka-or-orwell-novels/

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Drones killing innocent Pakistanis, U.N. official says

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“The study concludes that the strikes have killed far more people than the United States has acknowledged, and traumatized many more innocent people.  That trauma is destroying a way of life, Emmerson said. ‘The Pashtun tribes of the … area have suffered enormously under the drone campaign.’  And tribal law prescribes revenge for the killing of a tribe member, which serves to radicalize more young men against the United States, he said.  Pakistan considers the strikes counterproductive, illegal and a violation of its sovereignty.”

http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/15/world/asia/u-n-drone-objections/index.html

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Veteran Faces Jail Time For Using Marijuana As Treatment For PTSD

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“Former U.S. Navy Corpsman Jeremy Usher came home in 2003 from Iraq and Afghanistan to sleepless nights and panic attacks, with vivid flashbacks of combat, horrifying nightmares, anxiety and depression, all amid memory loss and a severe stutter.  He’s doing well in counseling and school, he says, but he faces jail time for using marijuana medicinally while on probation to manage his PTSD and traumatic brain injury.  Jeremy finds himself in legal limbo. Medicinal marijuana is the one treatment that’s helped him with his PTSD, but he violates his probation when he uses it, which puts him at risk of going back to jail.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/03/greeley-vet-faces-jail-ti_n_2798385.html

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The Case Against Government Bans on Feeding the Homeless

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“Cities like New York City, Philadelphia, and Houston have banned residents from sharing food with the homeless and less fortunate. In Chicago, for example, at least one politician, Ald. James Cappleman, recently tried to banish a Salvation Army food truck from feeding the homeless in his neighborhood.  I called such laws ‘unconstitutional, discriminatory, and wrongheaded’ in a column I wrote over the summer. They remain so.  But since I wrote that widely read column in June, I’ve noticed a welcome pattern emerging. These unjust laws are under attack.”

http://reason.com/archives/2013/03/09/bans-on-feeding-homeless-facing-backlash/print

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Police Cited Homeless Veteran For Dumpster Diving In Search For Food

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“They’ve traveled many different roads with all of them leading to the same destination – a place called homelessness. James Kelly, 44, is no exception.  ‘James Kelly is a nine-year veteran of the Navy, who has fallen on hard times,’ said Randall Kallinen, a civil rights attorney.  Those hard times recently got even harder, when Kelly was issued a citation as he foraged for food in a trash bin on Bagby Street.  ‘The mayor is shutting down feeding the homeless,’ said Deborah Girton, who is also homeless.  Critics point to a city ordinance passed last summer that places restrictions on good Samaritans and how many people they can feed.”

http://libertycrier.com/local-news/texas/police-cited-homeless-veteran-for-dumpster-diving-in-search-for-food/

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Federal Judge Finds National Security Letters Unconstitutional, Bans Them

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“Ultra-secret national security letters that come with a gag order on the recipient are an unconstitutional impingement on free speech, a federal judge in California ruled in a decision released Friday.  U.S. District Judge Susan Illston ordered the government to stop issuing so-called NSLs across the board, in a stunning defeat for the Obama administration’s surveillance practices. She also ordered the government to cease enforcing the gag provision in any other cases. However, she stayed her order for 90 days to give the government a chance to appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.”

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/03/nsl-found-unconstitutional/

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