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Bank Advisor: ‘Should Your Bank Do Business With Bitcoin?’

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“One New York virtual currency exchange, Bitfloor, closed its doors in April after Capital One Financial Corp. closed its account. PNC closed the accounts of FastCash4Bitcoins in the spring, preventing them from receiving wire transfers. In August, Commonwealth Bank, one of the largest Australian Banks, closed the accounts of CoinJar. In the growing Bitcoin economy, the banking relationship is a key factor in survival, growth and success. Not all Bitcoin companies are the same, and there’s no reason a compliant Bitcoin company shouldn’t be able to get banking services. Here are factors to consider if a Bitcoin company seeks a relationship with your bank.”

http://www.bankdirector.com/index.php/board-issues/strategy/should-your-bank-do-business-with-bitcoin/

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Bradley Manning: The Mighty Fist!

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“We stand in solidarity with PFC Manning and the peace his actions stand for. The state has grown far too large. The centralized, federated nation-state is a great agent of repression. Its power lies in the hands of state servants who wish to extinguish what tiny flames of liberty are left among us. But for many, this sentence has inspired a howl so large that these flames may rage into a roaring fire.  If such an injustice can come down on Manning then it can come down on any of us who wish to challenge the immoral actions of the state. May the mighty fist of solidarity vanquish this state!”

http://c4ss.org/content/20526

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The State, Not Manning, is the Criminal

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“Manning is being punished for exposing government crimes, most famously U.S. troops shooting innocent civilians, including two Reuters journalists, in the Collateral Murder video. Manning’s disclosures also shed light on what McClatchy Newspapers called ‘evidence that U.S. troops executed at least 10 Iraqi civilians, including a woman in her 70s and a 5-month-old infant, then called in an airstrike to destroy the evidence.’ The outrage caused by exposure of this brutal war crime helped end the U.S. occupation of Iraq. The perpetrators should have been held accountable. They were not. Instead, the state engaged in a series of crimes against Private Manning.”

http://c4ss.org/content/20534

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What Was Bradley Manning’s Sin?

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“What was Bradley Manning’s sin that warrants a sentence of 35 years? It was a sin manufactured by the State against the State’s version of righteousness. A righteous person, according to the State, is a State co-conspirator who is required to keep silent when observing crimes of the State. There is a conspiracy of silence and secrecy, like the Mafia’s omerta. Manning joined the conspiracy and then broke the rule of silence. He failed to place his conscience on hold or abeyance while serving the State. Now he must pay for his ‘sin’, the State claims. What sin? There is no real sin here on his part, and no real crime. There is only a power play.”

http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/what-was-bradley-mannings-sin/

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CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou: Punishment Not Limited to Prison Sentence

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“Kiriakou describes how his wife received a ‘sharply-worded letter’ from the insurance company, USAA – the United States Assurance Association, which had been providing his family auto and homeowners insurance since 1993. USAA notified his family that they do not ‘insure felons’ and were canceling their insurance immediately.  Kiriakou notes that both Cardinal Bank and United Bank have refused to allow his ‘John Kiriakou Legal Defense Trust’ to ‘open an account.’ A vice president at United Bank apparently told him, ‘We simply don’t want to do business with you.'”

http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2013/08/07/imprisoned-cia-whistleblower-john-kiriakou-totality-of-punishment-is-not-limited-to-a-prison-sentence/

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California hunger strike: judge approves force-feeding of prisoners

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“Jail officials in California have been given permission to force-feed hunger strikers who are entering their seventh week of a statewide protest against prison conditions. The order strikes out directives recently signed by some prisoners that they be allowed to die.
US District Court Judge Thelton E Henderson ruled that California prison doctors may force-feed selected inmates who are near death, even if they had previously signed orders asking not to be resuscitated.  About 136 California inmates are taking part in a hunger strike that began on 8 July demanding an end to a policy of housing inmates believed to be associated with gangs in near-isolation for years.”

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/20/california-hunger-strike-force-feeding

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U.S. court grants Nigerian asylum-seeker the right to testify about his own torture

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“The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decided today that a Nigerian man, Olakunle Oshodi, will be allowed to testify fully at his deportation hearing about the torture he suffered as a political dissident at the hands of Nigerian officials before he fled his homeland.  The lower courts and dissenting judges refused to hear what happened the first time an unsympathetic immigration judge deported him, back in 1978.  Oshodi returned to the United States in 1981, eventually married a citizen and had a child. Despite that, he faced deportation years later and then applied for political asylum.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/27/u-s-court-grants-nigerian-asylum-seeker-the-right-to-testify-about-his-own-torture-in-immigration-court/

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U.S. seeks to speed up hearings for five 9/11 suspects

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“Self-declared 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed appeared in the military court at the US prison in Cuba with his four co-defendants.  All face the death penalty if convicted of plotting the 2001 attacks on New York and Washington, which left nearly 3,000 people dead. Preliminary hearings in the case began in May 2012.  The five defendants were held incommunicado in secret CIA prisons from 2002 to 2006, before they were transferred to Guantanamo.  The detainees’ treatment has come under close scrutiny. Mohammed is known to have been subjected to 183 sessions of waterboarding, the technique of simulated drowning which has been decried as torture by rights groups.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/19/u-s-seeks-to-speed-up-hearings-for-five-alleged-911-suspects/

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Gitmo defendant’s lawyers: CIA gave ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ makers more info than us

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“The CIA cooperated with the makers of the Hollywood movie about the hunt for Osama bin Laden, and has acknowledged one character was ‘modeled after’ Connell’s client, Ammar al Baluchi, an alleged al Qaeda money mover also known as Ali Abdul Aziz Ali. He is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s nephew.  The movie showed interrogators stringing up the Ammar character with a rope, forcing him to wear a dog collar, waterboarding him and stuffing him into a coffin-like box. The CIA has not acknowledged using those techniques on Baluchi but has admitted using them on other prisoners.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/18/prosecutors-push-for-fast-trial-for-khalid-sheikh-muhammad-lawyers-say-cia-gave-zero-dark-thirty-makers-more-info-than-defense-got/

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Human rights court blocks extradition of U.K.-based terror suspect to U.S.

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“Extraditing a UK-based terror suspect to an American ‘supermax’ high security prison would constitute ‘inhuman or degrading treatment’, the European court of human rights (ECHR) has ruled.  The Strasbourg court barred the removal of Haroon Aswat, whose nationality is unknown, from Broadmoor psychiatric hospital to the US on account of his severe mental illness.  Aswat, who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, has been indicted in the US as a co-conspirator in a plan to establish a jihad training camp in Oregon.  He was arrested in 2005 in Britain following a request from US authorities for extradition. His lawyers have resisted his removal since then in a series of appeals.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/16/human-rights-court-blocks-extradition-of-u-k-based-terror-suspect-to-u-s/

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