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Feds Float Trial Balloon; ‘Consider’ Targeting American In Drone Strike

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“An American citizen who is a member of al-Qaida is actively planning attacks against Americans overseas, U.S. officials say, and the Obama administration is wrestling with whether to kill him with a drone strike and how to do so legally under its new stricter targeting policy issued last year.  The CIA drones watching him cannot strike because he’s a U.S. citizen and the Justice Department must build a case against him, a task it hasn’t completed.  Four U.S. officials said the American suspected terrorist is in a country that refuses U.S. military action on its soil and that has proved unable to go after him.”

http://www.businessinsider.com/report-the-us-is-considering-targeting-another-american-in-a-drone-strike-2014-2

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EU neighbours regret Swiss vote for immigration quotas

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“The vote invalidates the Swiss-EU agreement on freedom of movement.  German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said the vote would cause ‘a host of difficulties for Switzerland’.  France’s Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said ‘it will hurt Switzerland to be inward-looking’.  In a statement, the European Commission said the Swiss vote ‘goes against the principle of free movement of persons between the EU and Switzerland.  The EU will examine the implications of this initiative on EU-Swiss relations as a whole.’  Mr Fabius told French radio it was bad news ‘both for Europe and the Swiss’. Europe ‘was going to review its relations’ with Switzerland, he added.”

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26116648

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Currency Market Unsettled by Trader Exits on Lawsky Probe

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“The foreign-exchange trading business was in upheaval across Wall Street as senior executives resigned and others were fired amid an expanding probe of possible currency manipulation.  Benjamin Lawsky, superintendent of New York’s Department of Financial Services, asked more than a dozen firms including Deutsche Bank AG (DB),Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) and Citigroup Inc. (C) for documents on their currency-trading practices. Deutsche Bank, the top foreign-exchange trader, fired four dealers after an internal probe, people with knowledge of the move said. Goldman Sachs lost two partners while Citigroup said its foreign-exchange chief will leave in March.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-05/currency-market-unsettled-by-trader-exits-as-lawsky-opens-probe.html

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Terror Defendant Challenges Evidence Gathered by NSA Spying

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“A U.S. terrorism defendant who was formally notified that he was spied on by the NSA filed a challenge to the constitutionality of the surveillance today, in a case likely to be litigated all the way to the Supreme Court.  Jamshid Muhtorov, a native of Uzbekistan who immigrated to Colorado, is one of only two criminal defendants the government has conceded was charged on the basis of evidence scooped up by the NSA’s surveillance programs. The Supreme Court last year rejected a suit challenging the law because the civil rights groups and others who brought the case could not prove their communications were intercepted, and hence didn’t have ‘standing’ to sue.”

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2014/01/electronic-surveillance-challenge/

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Having Crushed Their Own Currency, the Swiss Consider China’s

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“We are supposed to forget that the Swiss had one of the great currencies in the world. Instead, we can see from this article that the Swiss seek the validation of the Chinese renminbi. Once, the Swiss franc was linked to gold but the Swiss destroyed that link a decade ago. Then the Swiss placed a ceiling on the franc to ensure that it wouldn’t go much past the failing euro. And now the Swiss want to become a renminbi hub. ‘The prestige and profits of becoming RMB conduits …’ Once upon a time there was prestige and profit in trading the Swiss franc. The Swiss had a reputation for probity and privacy. But the US attack has cracked open Swiss privacy and devastated private banking.”

http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/34929/Having-Crushed-Their-Own-Currency-the-Swiss-Consider-Chinas/

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In U.S., 65% Dissatisfied With How Gov’t System Works

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“Sixty-five percent of Americans are dissatisfied with the nation’s system of government and how well it works, the highest percentage in Gallup’s trend since 2001. Dissatisfaction is up five points since last year, and has edged above the previous high from 2012 (64%).  These findings are from Gallup’s annual Mood of the Nation poll, conducted Jan. 5-8, 2014. The trend line on this measure shows remarkable change over time, rising from fewer than one in four Americans expressing dissatisfaction in 2002, after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, to the current situation in which almost two-thirds are dissatisfied.”

http://www.gallup.com/poll/166985/dissatisfied-gov-system-works.aspx

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Greenwald: Obama’s NSA ‘reforms’ are little more than a PR attempt

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“The crux of this tactic is that US political leaders pretend to validate and even channel public anger by acknowledging that there are ‘serious questions that have been raised’. They vow changes to fix the system and ensure these problems never happen again. And they then set out, with their actions, to do exactly the opposite: to make the system prettier and more politically palatable with empty, cosmetic ‘reforms’ so as to placate public anger while leaving the system fundamentally unchanged, even more immune than before to serious challenge.  This scam has been so frequently used that it is now easily recognizable.”

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/17/obama-nsa-reforms-bulk-surveillance-remains

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This is what armed revolution looks like

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“It’s almost exactly like that scene from V for Vendetta.  You know– the part in the end where swarms of people go up against the police with their sticks and Guy Fawkes masks…  That’s what’s happening in Ukraine right now. And with reason.  After weeks of student protests over the government’s failure to sign a European integration and association treaty, the police violently cracked down on protestors, and politicians passed a series of new laws in the middle of the night.”

http://www.sovereignman.com/trends/this-is-what-armed-revolution-looks-like-13403/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGaR7-9yq_c

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Kiev Riots at Fever Pitch: The Fiery Scene in 30 Photos

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“Riots in Kiev, Ukraine, hit an all-time high this week after the nation’s parliament passed laws to crack down on mass demonstrations. Opposition leaders called the move ‘a constitutional coup d’état.’  Protesters swarmed police, throwing stones and Molotov cocktails. In return, police fired rubber bullets and flash grenades. At time of writing, the violence hadn’t died down. Here are images from the thick of it.”

http://mashable.com/2014/01/21/kiev-ukraine-protest-photos/

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Review Of Terrorism Cases Finds NSA Spying Helped Very Little

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“Surveillance programs run by the National Security Agency helped very little when it came to cases brought against individuals the United States says were linked to al-Qaida. That’s according to a review of 225 cases by the New America Foundation.  The study was trying to answer a simple question: Do government programs that scoop up massive amounts of Americans’ data stop terrorists as the U.S. government says they do. A review of court records and news coverage about these cases found that ‘traditional investigative methods initiated the majority of terrorism cases’ and government claims on the usefulness of the programs were ‘overblown.'”

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/01/13/262098004/review-of-terrorism-cases-finds-nsa-spying-helped-very-little

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