The tepid mainstream “defenses” of Aaron Swartz

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“People who support the state’s existence, its right to legislate, and, indeed, its legislated imposition of a copyright scheme, cannot blame copyright itself for tragedies like the Swartz case. Or Richard O’Dwyer, the British student facing extradition for having the wrong links on his site. Or the  37-year-old man imprisoned for 15 years for piracy. Or the Six Year Federal Prison Sentence for Copyright Infringement. Or the Man sentenced to federal prison for uploading ‘Wolverine’ movie. Or the potentially millions of dollars of statutory copyright liability faced by Jammie Thomas for sharing 24 songs.  Or Kim dotcom’s arrest, in a raid by dozens of New Zealand police, orchestrated by the FBI. [..]”

http://c4sif.org/2013/01/the-tepid-mainstream-defenses-of-aaron-swartz/

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Winston Churchill’s shocking use of chemical weapons

“In the summer of 1919, Churchill planned and executed a sustained chemical attack on northern Russia.  The cabinet was hostile to the use of such weapons, much to Churchill’s irritation. He also wanted to use M Devices against the rebellious tribes of northern India. ‘I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes,’ he declared in one secret memorandum. He criticised his colleagues for their ‘squeamishness’, declaring that ‘the objections of the India Office to the use of gas against natives are unreasonable. Gas is a more merciful weapon than [the] high explosive shell, and compels an enemy to accept a decision with less loss of life than any other agency of war.'”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/01/winston-churchills-shocking-use-of-chemical-weapons/

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Blair likens Saddam to Hitler [2003]

“Comparing Saddam Hussein to Adolf Hitler, British Prime Minister Tony Blair says he would be pushing for Iraq’s disarmament irrespective of the position of America.‘  Many have accused Blair of behaving like U.S. President George W. Bush’s lapdog.  But Blair rejected suggestions that he had been dragged into confrontation with Iraq by Bush, insisting that he had raised concerns about Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction at his first meeting with the U.S. president, before the September 11 terror attacks.  Britain, Spain and the United States are co-sponsoring a new U.N. resolution that could trigger war against Iraq. France, Russia, China are pushing to give U.N. weapons inspections more time.”

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/03/01/sprj.irq.blair/

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Is the U.S. the World’s Moral Authority as Obama Thinks?

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“A U.S. bombing of Syria is an aggression because it cannot be justified by claiming defense or national interests. The U.S. cannot claim that it is acting for the world or the world’s good, surely not when it is being warned outright by other nations that the results may well be catastrophic. The U.S. cannot claim it is enforcing a treaty because Syria has not agreed to a chemical weapons treaty. Furthermore, the existing agreement among states did not include a provision that declares non-signers as outlaws and then authorizes the U.S. to be the policeman. The U.S. is acting unilaterally and outside the bounds of international law.”

http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/is-the-u-s-the-worlds-moral-authority-as-obama-thinks/

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Brzezinski: ‘Global Political Awakening’ Making Syrian War Difficult

“During a short interview with Germany’s DW News last Monday, former US National Security Adviser and Trilateral Commission co-founder Zbigniew Brzezinski commented on the growing inefficiency of war due to the increased political knowledge of the public.  Despite Brzezinski’s noted long-term relationship with Obama which included a top foreign policy adviser position, Brzezinski denied any specific knowledge of his plans regarding Syria, saying that if the administration has a strategy, it’s a ‘very well-kept secret.'”

http://www.storyleak.com/brzezinski-global-political-awakening-making-syrian-war-difficult/

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Bravo Britain

“BBC News fails to lead its Internet page with the magnificent news that Parliament, for once, has executed the will of the people, and that the UK will be staying out of Syria. Instead, the left-liberal interventionist at BBC News (people of Samantha Power’s ilk) have buried the item in an article about ‘I, Obama’ (America’s imperial president), and his administration’s various ahistoric, idiotic pronouncements. BBC News makes only veiled allusions to the ‘unexpected outcome in the parliament,’ to ‘British MPs [ruling] out London’s involvement in any US-led strikes against Syria,’ and to ‘British members of [parliament’s rejection] of the principle of military action against Damascus in a 285-272 vote.'”

http://barelyablog.com/bravo-britain/

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Australian spies participating in global deal to tap undersea cables

“The British Government Communications Headquarters is collecting all data transmitted to and from the UK and Northern Europe via the SEA-ME-WE-3 cable that runs from Japan, via Singapore, Djibouti, Suez and the Straits of Gibraltar to Northern Germany. Singaporean intelligence co-operates with Australia in accessing and sharing communications carried by the SEA-ME-WE-3 cable which lands at Tuas on the western side of Singapore Island. Access to this major international telecommunications channel via Singapore’s government-owned operator SingTel and the country’s Defence Ministry has been a key element in an expansion of Australian-Singaporean intelligence and defence ties.”

http://www.inverelltimes.com.au/story/1738542/australian-spies-in-global-deal-to-tap-undersea-cables/

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Glenn Greenwald’s Partner ‘Was Carrying A Stunning Amount Of Sensitive Documents’

“The Daily Telegraph’s David Barrett tweeted out some of the details from the statement made Friday by Oliver Robbins, deputy national security adviser for intelligence, before U.K. judges. ‘The material seized is highly likely to describe techniques which have been crucial in life-saving counter-terrorist operations, and other intelligence activities vital to U.K. national security,’ Robbins said. ‘The compromise of these methods would do serious damage to U.K. national security and ultimately risk lives.’ The government told The Guardian newspaper that it had ‘no confidence in their ability to keep the material safe.'”

http://www.businessinsider.com/david-miranda-glenn-greenwald-documents-national-security-2013-8

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Codename ‘Apalachee’: How America Spies on Europe and the UN

“The classified documents, which SPIEGEL has seen, demonstrate how systematically the Americans target other countries and institutions like the EU, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna and the UN. They show how the NSA infiltrated the Europeans’ internal computer network between New York and Washington, used US embassies abroad to intercept communications and eavesdropped on video conferences of UN diplomats. The surveillance is intensive and well-organized — and it has little or nothing to do with counter-terrorism. In an internal presentation, the NSA sums up its vision, which is both global and frighteningly ambitious: ‘information superiority’.”

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/secret-nsa-documents-show-how-the-us-spies-on-europe-and-the-un-a-918625.html

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Bernanke Has Injected Foreign Banks With Over $1 Trillion In Cash

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“This means that, as we expected several months ago, the only recipient of ongoing Fed money printing are not US banks, but foreign banks operating in the US. For those confused about the big picture, here is a chart showing the breakdown of cash held by big and small US banks as well as foreign banks, superimposed to total reserves created by the Fed since the start of the Great Financial Crisis. The correlation is 100%.  We are confident that we speak for all when we say: ‘Thank you Ben – insolvent foreign banks appreciate your ongoing QE2 and QEternity-funded generosity’.”

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-21/thanks-qe-bernanke-has-injected-foreign-banks-over-1-trillion-cash-first-time-ever

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