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Russian Authorities Raid German Foundations and NGOs

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“Russia’s recent large-scale crackdown against organizations designated as ‘foreign agents’ has now been extended to German political foundations. Russian state prosecutors have launched investigations of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS), a political think tank aligned with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative Christian Democratic Union party, and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES), the think tank of the center-left Social Democratic Party, according to German daily Süddeutsche Zeitung.”

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/russian-authorities-raid-german-foundations-and-ngos-a-890969.html

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Ron Paul: Neo-Con War Addiction Threatens Our Future

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Ron Paul: Neo-Con War Addiction Threatens Our Future

“The neo-con ideology promotes endless war, but neo-cons fight their battles with the blood of others. From the comfortable, subsidized offices of magazines like the Weekly Standard, the neo-conservatives urge endless war – to be fought by the victims of the ‘poverty draft’ from states where there are few jobs. Ironically, these young people cannot find more productive work because the Federal Reserve’s endless money printing to keep the war machine turning has destroyed our economy. The six trillion dollars that will be spent on the Iraq war are merely pieces of printed paper that further erode the dollar’s purchasing power now and well into the future.”

http://libertycrier.com/politics/foreign-policy/ron-paul-texas-straight-talk-neo-con-war-addiction-threatens-our-future/

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Airport security set for boom despite budget cuts

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“The airport security sector is still expected to soar despite US budget cutbacks as air traffic grows and the threat of terrorism persists, analysts say.  Screening passengers and baggage as well as surveillance at airports is a business that has boomed as countries radically tightened security in the wake of the September 11 attacks.  In addition to new types of screening equipment, the drive to better target screening by use of information on travellers available to border control agencies will rely heavily on technology and data gathering.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/03/19/experts-airport-security-set-for-boom-despite-budget-cuts/

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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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Rodmania in North Korea

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“The evidence only goes to show that the U.S. government rarely looks at itself in the mirror when pillorying and pummeling foreign countries. The United States does not need to befriend Kim Jong Un and the North Koreans—Dennis Rodman can do that. What it needs to do is disengage from the South Korean peninsula and let the now rich South Korea defend itself. North Korea will be much less prone to threaten the U.S. if it is not defending South Korea.”

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=3573

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Imagining a Legal Basis for Obama’s Overseas Assassinations

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“Thanks to someone who has reservations about Obama’s murders and leaked it, we have a copy of a secret legal opinion that is supposed to lay out the conditions under which such presidentially-directed murders are legal. This heretofore secret document imagines a legal basis for Obama’s overseas assassinations. Imagine is not quite the right word. It fantasizes such a basis. It makes it up by stringing together words that are supposed to make a plausible case. On inspection, however, this case collapses. It is rather like setting a wall on what is supposed to be concrete, but actually is pudding.”

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/131870.html

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Federal Reserve confirms its computers were hacked

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“The Federal Reserve acknowledged Wednesday its computer systems were accessed by hackers but said the incident did not affect the central bank’s ‘critical operations.’  The acknowledgement came days after the hacker group known as Anonymous claimed it had posted personal information of some 4,000 bankers, purportedly obtained from the Fed.  The group argues it is taking actions responding to the suicide last month of Aaron Swartz, an Internet freedom advocate who was being prosecuted for illegally downloading millions of academic journal articles he had allegedly planned to distribute for free.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/02/06/federal-reserve-confirms-its-computers-were-hacked/

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Gun Makers Now Refusing To Sell Arms To Law Enforcement In New York & Other States

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“Since New York State enacted its restrictive new gun laws, many manufacturers have sent that state (and others) a message: If local governments are going to severely restrict the ability of citizens to own guns, then these companies will not be selling to law enforcement in those areas.  Among the gun manufacturers sending that message: Olympic Arms, Inc; La Rue Tactical; EFI, LLC – Extreme Firepower; York Arms; Templar Custom; Cheaper Than Dirt. In addition to these very public statements, gun-owner groups are asking members and fans to contact three other manufacturers with significant sales to law enforcement in New York.”

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/02/15/group-of-second-amendment-supporting-gun-makers-now-refusing-to-sell-arms-to-law-enforcement-in-new-york-and-other-gun-restricting-states/

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America’s Secret War in North Africa Behind Benghazi Attack

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“Behind closed doors, President Obama had given his counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, carte blanche to run operations in North Africa and the Middle East. In 2012, a secret war across North Africa was well underway.  With JSOC, Brennan waged his own unilateral operations in North Africa outside of the traditional command structure. The aftermath of one of these secret raids into Libya would have grave consequences for all of them. SOFREP believes the Benghazi attack on 9/11/12 was blowback from the late-summer JSOC operations that were threatening the Al Qaeda-aligned militant groups (including Ansar Al-Sharia) in Libya and North Africa.”

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2013/02/americas-secret-war-in-north-africa.html

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Pepe Escobar: War on terror forever

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“It’s now official – coming from the mouth of the lion, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey, and duly posted at the AFRICOM site, the Pentagon’s weaponized African branch.  Exit ‘historical’ al-Qaeda, holed up somewhere in the Waziristans, in the Pakistani tribal areas; enter al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). In Dempsey’s words, AQIM ‘is a threat not only to the country of Mali, but the region, and if… left unaddressed, could in fact become a global threat.’  With Mali now elevated to the status of a ‘threat’ to the whole  world, GWOT is proven to be really open-ended.”

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/OA23Dj06.html

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