Thousands protest in Japan against new state secrets bill

“Thousands of people protested in Tokyo against a bill that would see whistleblowing civil servants jailed for up to 10 years. Activists claim the law would help the government to cover up scandals, and damage the country’s constitution and democracy.  About 10,000 people crowded shoulder-to-shoulder, holding banners that read: ‘Don’t take away our freedom.’ Currently, long prison terms only apply to those Japanese who leak classified data from the US military.  PM Shinzo Abe says that the new legislature is extremely important to secure cooperation with Japan’s major ally, the US, as well as other countries.  The data security bill resembles laws targeting whistleblowers in the US.”

http://rt.com/news/japan-secrets-bill-protests-133/

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Inside America’s Plan to Kill Online Privacy Rights Everywhere

“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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UN Drug Bureaucrats Fret About Uruguay’s Marijuana Legalization

“Uruguay is blowing off the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) as it prepares to become the first country to legalize marijuana commerce, and the INCB is ‘concerned.’ The South American nation failed to send a delegation to Vienna to listen to the INCB complain about its plans. The INCB is also ‘very concerned that the draft legislation currently being considered in Uruguay would, if adopted, legalize production, sale and consumption of cannabis for recreational purposes.’  Uruguay’s marijuana legalization bill, backed by President Jose Mujica, has already passed the lower house of parliament and is set for a vote soon in the upper house.”

http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2013/nov/19/un_drug_bureaucrats_fret_about_u

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The Border-Industrial Complex Goes Abroad

“It should never be claimed that this mania for what we insist on calling ‘security’ provides no security for anyone.  After all, it guarantees the safety of those officially guarding us.  They always know that some small set of maniacs or other will make sure the funding never stops, their jobs will remain secure, and the military-industrial-complex, homeland-security complex, and border-security complex will continue to thrive in a country that’s been looking a little on the peaked side of late.  In this context, TomDispatch regular Todd Miller, who covers our borderlands for this site, offers us the latest news about how to keep border security rolling in dough.”

http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175774/tomgram:_todd_miller,_the_border-industrial_complex_goes_abroad/

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Bigger than Libor? Forex probe hangs over banks

“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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Timing the Collapse: Ron Paul Says Watch the Petrodollar

“It was evident long before Nixon closed the gold window and ended the Bretton Woods system on August 15, 1971, that a paradigm shift in the global monetary system was inevitable.  Likewise today, a paradigm shift in the global monetary system also seems inevitable. By considering Ron Paul’s words, we will know when the dollar collapse is imminent. ‘We will know that day is approaching when oil-producing countries demand gold, or its equivalent, for their oil rather than dollars or euros.’ There is no question that you want to be internationalized before that day arrives, which seems to be getting closer and closer.”

https://www.internationalman.com/78-global-perspectives/1047-timing-the-collapse-ron-paul-says-watch-the-petrodollar

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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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The UK Recovery that Isn’t … the Market Recovery that Is

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“What central bankers do is print money – digitally these days – and then transfer those digits to financial firms. Now the money finds its way into the financial economy, including, most importantly, the bond and stock markets. Once the money has swelled the financial markets, the ‘real’ economy should benefit. And then once companies are feeling better about a ‘recovery’ they will finally start to hire. This convoluted chain of events is simply illogical. It would be much simpler just to GIVE people money if central bankers really wanted stimulate job growth and create prosperity. But that’s not what is happening because the object of central banking is to create money and maintain control of it.”

http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/34749/The-UK-Recovery-that-Isnt–the-Market-Recovery-that-Is/

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How The Hungarian Disease Is Spreading Across Central Europe

“The attitude of the European Commission (EC) and of the IMF is so far very surprising. It seems that the EC is applying double standards in direct interactions with the EU member states. On the one hand it has praised Latvia for raising the contributions to the funded pension pillar. On the other hand it is so far silent about the Polish government proposal to nationalize the private pension funds’ assets.  By its behavior of not raising red flags to the Polish government and stopping a second Hungary, the EC risks jeopardizing its role as a fiscal guardian.  There is a danger that this Orbanization of the pension system policies may spread all over Europe if not counteracted.”

http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2013/11/12/how-the-hungarian-disease-is-spreading-across-central-europe/

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US Pushes for Free Trade Pact with EU Despite NSA Scandal

“In the coming meetings this week in Brussels and in those scheduled in Washington in December, the technical and regulatory details should be settled, and sticking points such as how to handle genetically modified foods and standards for medication are to be worked out.  When it comes to the discussions over technical trade details, contentious political issues such as the NSA spying scandal will be left out, because the bureaucrats negotiating are not responsible for them. public approval for any such agreement has dropped since the NSA revelations were made.”

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/us-pushes-for-free-trade-pact-with-eu-despite-nsa-scandal-a-932913.html

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