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Inside America’s Plan to Kill Online Privacy Rights Everywhere

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“The United States and its key intelligence allies are quietly working behind the scenes to kneecap a mounting movement in the United Nations to promote a universal human right to online privacy, according to diplomatic sources and an internal American government document obtained by The Cable.  The diplomatic battle is playing out in an obscure U.N. General Assembly committee that is considering a proposal by Brazil and Germany to place constraints on unchecked internet surveillance by the National Security Agency and other foreign intelligence services. American representatives have made it clear that they won’t tolerate such checks on their global surveillance network.”

http://cryptome.org/2013/11/us-kill-privacy.htm

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Bigger than Libor? Forex probe hangs over banks

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“A global investigation into the setting of the London interbank lending rate, and related global benchmarks, has so far yielded about $3.6 billion in fines. Penalties for some of the biggest players are still to come. Traders have also faced criminal charges.  As the extent of damage caused by Libor-rigging is revealed, lawyers say the probe into fixing currency rates could unfold in a similar way, and rival its impact.  London is the center of the loosely regulated foreign exchange market, the biggest in the world’s financial system with average daily turnover of $5.3 trillion. Proven abuse in this market would have a significant ripple effect, exposing offending firms to a host of legal action.”

http://money.cnn.com/2013/11/20/investing/forex-probe-lawyers/index.html

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The Fundamental Characteristic that Recommends Janet Yellen

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“We expect an ever more emphatic stream of double-talk and market manipulations as the final acts of this tragedy play out. First, a Wall Street Party and then … the ruinous aftermath. And throughout this scenario, the constant, delusional drip of increasingly unmoored statements about the Fed’s competence and the government’s efficiency generally. Somehow the eventual unwinding of these trillions shall be blamed on the private markets and as everything crashes down, those at the top will suggest a new and even more globalized system using the strategies that have created such domestic havoc.”

http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/34763/The-Fundamental-Characteristic-that-Recommends-Janet-Yellen/

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Sobriety Checkpoints Paved Path to NSA Email Spying

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“Sobriety checkpoints and mandatory drug testing of student athletes and railroad workers are among the legal precedents justifying the U.S. government’s now-defunct and court-approved secret email metadata dragnet surveillance program, according to documents the authorities released late Monday.  The thousands of pages of records the President Barack Obama administration unveiled include the nation’s first opinion from a secret tribunal authorizing the government to obtain data from the ‘to,’ ‘from,’ ‘cc,’ and ‘bcc’ fields of all emails ‘to thwart terrorist attacks.'”

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/11/nsa-web-metadata/

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EU Seizes on Snowden Revelations to Justify a Deeper Union

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“The idea of Eurocrats posing as defenders of European democracy is ironic. A torrent of legislation spills from Brussels every year. And Brussels’s imperial yearnings are well known by now and include a standing army, a flag, an anthem, civil and military police and, of course, an internal spying mechanism that will do to Europeans what Eurocrats indignantly reject from the US. The EU is every bit as determined to build a Surveillance State like the US’s and, in fact, they are surely partners in such a venture. The indignation that European leaders now evince is for show only. The reality is an elite that has the same goals and intends to use the same methods and violations of privacy to get there.”

http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/34762/EU-Seizes-on-Snowden-Revelations-to-Justify-a-Deeper-Union/

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Meet The ‘Assassination Market’ Creator Who’s Crowdfunding Murder

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“According to Assassination Market’s rules, if someone on its hit list is killed–and yes, Sanjuro hopes that many targets will be–any hitman who can prove he or she was responsible receives the collected funds.  For now, the site’s rewards are small but not insignificant. In the four months that Assassination Market has been online, six targets have been submitted by users, and bounties have been collected ranging from ten bitcoins for the murder of NSA director Keith Alexander and 40 bitcoins for the assassination of President Barack Obama to 124.14 bitcoins–the largest current bounty on the site–targeting Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve.”

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/11/18/meet-the-assassination-market-creator-whos-crowdfunding-murder-with-bitcoins/

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Venezuelan President Maduro ‘to expand price controls’

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“Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro says he plans to extend price controls to all consumer goods, if he is given powers to govern by decree.  In a televised address, Mr Maduro said that he wanted to set legal limits on businesses’ profit margins.  His announcement followed the seizure on Saturday of shops accused of selling electronic goods at inflated prices.  The National Assembly is expected to vote this week on his request to govern temporarily by decree.  The president demanded there be ‘zero tolerance with speculators’ in his speech broadcast on Sunday. ‘This is beyond usury, this is theft,’ he added.”

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-24897407

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Maduro’s ‘occupy retail’ cry comes as Christmas gift

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“Christmas seemed to have come early in Venezuela as snaking lines of sleep-deprived people formed outside fancy stores and soldiers stood on guard after President Nicolas Maduro ordered the army to ‘occupy’ a chain of electronics stores that was ‘hoarding goods with the objective of hobbling the country’s economy’.  In a nationwide crackdown, which started on Friday night, top managers of the Daka chain were arrested and its stores forced to sell products at much cheaper prices. ‘We’re doing this for the good of the nation’, said Mr. Maduro in a televised speech, accusing the country’s elite of waging an economic ‘war’ against Venezuela with the help of Washington.”

http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-international/maduros-occupy-retail-cry-comes-as-christmas-gift/article5337063.ece

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Foreign Governments and Congress Have Scrapped the 10th Amendment

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“We live in a nation that is run by federal bureaucrats. There is almost nothing we can do to stop them from interfering in our lives. The United States Supreme Court is hearing a case in which, if upheld by the Court, the Congress of the United States will be authorized to pass legislation that is inconsistent with the United States Constitution, as long as the legislation is an extension of the treaty power.  If the court upholds the case, Congress will be able to override limitations of the federal government that have been imposed by the 10th amendment. This is a 10th amendment case. Wikipedia describes it. The case is almost beyond belief. It has to do with a burned thumb. The case is Bond v. U.S..”

http://www.garynorth.com/public/11775.cfm

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BlackBerry gives Indian government ability to intercept messages

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“After years of wrangling, BlackBerry (formerly known as RIM) has finally agreed to give the Indian government the ability to intercept data sent over BlackBerry devices.  According to leaked Indian government documents seen by the Times of India, ‘the lawful intereception system for BlackBerry Services is ready for use’.  Once implemented, the system will allow the Indian government to track emails and email attachments in real time; to see when BBM messages have been delivered and read; and to intercept web browsing data, according to the report.”

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-07/11/blackberry-india

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