Headlines of note for January 2012...

Against the Internet-stifling SOPA/PIPA legislation, the people win a battle. Or as Glenn Greenwald puts it in...

Salon: Two lessons from the Megaupload seizure

Congratulations, citizens, on your cute little “democracy” victory in denying us the power to shut down websites without a trial: we’re now going to shut down one of your most popular websites without a trial.

It only goes to show that in the pantomimed republic, Congressional action is simply an afterthought. With NDAA 2012 it gave its nod to the indefinite detention of U.S. citizens, a policy that had been practiced in the Bush years, and which Obama has already escalated to a new level with the due-process-free assassination of Anwar Awlaki. And with SOPA/PIPA, had they passed, these would only have acknowledged what Obama had already signed in ACTA...

Infowars: Obama Signs Global Internet Treaty Worse Than SOPA

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Assorted dramas on the high seas...

Milcom Monitoring Post: Russian Naval Task Force On The Move in the Med

BBC: US ships 'in second rescue of Iranians in Gulf'

While we certainly prefer 'good deeds' special ops to war, we can't help but wonder whether the whole thing was staged - from hijacking to rescue. Remember this story?...

WxxxNews: English Pirates by Somali Proxy?

As for the captured RQ-170 Sentinel drone that Obama wants back, Iran is at least showing some appreciation...

RT: Iran to return US secret drone... as a toy

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Obama's "mission accomplished"...

Telegraph: Militia chaos in Bani Walid raises danger of civil war in post-Gaddafi Libya

aangirfan: US TROOPS TAKE OVER PARTS OF LIBYA - REPORTS

Syria is in many respects a replay of the destabilization of Lybia. For instance, we find once again the same Arab League member - Qatar - seeking to advance the narrative of a dictator brutally suppressing peaceful protestors, whether or not it is true...

Voltairenet: Presidency of Arab League seeks to bury own experts’ report

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emeequis: El Cartel de la DEA (The DEA's Cartel)

The sworn declaration of undercover agents reveals how they used Mexican soil to:

-Traffic cocaine to America and Europe

-Transport millions of dollars in bulk

-Launder money through banks in the EU, China and Hong Kong

Now for a good laugh, read the whitewashed version of the story, in which our hapless DEA heroes plead: 'we only did it to get the bad guys' - a likely story, to be found where else?...

NYTimes: U.S. Agents Aided Mexican Drug Trafficker to Infiltrate His Criminal Ring

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As the Occupy movement mostly hibernates back East over the winter months, things are heating up on the West Coast...

LATimes: Occupy Oakland arrests reach 400; City Hall vandalized

The Occupy action was publicized by the group as a planned takeover of a vacant building that would be "repurposed" as a "social center, convergence center and headquarters of the Occupy Oakland movement." In an open letter to Quan on Wednesday, the group warned that if police attempted to thwart the takeover, "indefinite occupation" of Oakland's airport, port and City Hall could follow...

And in L.A., a dress rehearsal for civil war...

CBSLA: LAPD And Special Forces Conduct Military Maneuvers In The Skies Above Downtown LA

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The latest on FEMEN...

Pravda: Vicious Ukrainian feminists work against USA's enemies

A scandal is brewing between Ukraine and Belarus caused by the campaign of the notorious Ukrainian women's movement FEMEN in front of the KGB building...

The scandalous campaign in front of the KGB in Minsk took place on December 19, the anniversary of the presidential election won by Alexander Lukashenko. Activists of FEMEN (three Ukrainian women and their friend from Australia) protested against the detention of political prisoners in Belarusian jails. The naked women were detained, and for some time there was no information about their fate.

It soon became clear that the Australian was sent to Lithuania. The Ukrainians were thrown in a forest in the Gomel region. The movement's leader Anna Gutsol said that they were beaten, their hair was cut with a knife and they were threatened to be set on fire, and their documents were seized. Somehow they made it to the neighboring village. Finally, the Ukrainian diplomat came to pick them up and took them in Kiev in his car. Chairman of the KGB of Belarus Vadim Zaitsev described the situation with FEMEN as a provocation...

Sounds like a good scenario for a roughie porno remake of Come and See.

Necro Golden Showers Not OK

Thus spake the Qadaffi snuff cheerleader...


Telegraph: Hillary Clinton says marine urination video 'inconsistent with American values'


"It is absolutely inconsistent with American values, with the standards of behavior that we expect from our military personnel and that you know the vast, vast majority of our military personnel, particularly our marines, hold themselves to," she said.

"a creature of their own"

As the 2012 election nears, the Birther forces prepare for battle!

WND: Eligibility Appeal Seeks Level Playing Field

11Alive: Atlanta court hearing set on President Obama's disputed citizenship

Birther Report: Write-in Presidential Candidate Files Writ of Quo Warranto to Oust Obama And/Or Prevent Obama From Accessing 2012 Ballot

What happens when another country's child grows up to be Commander in Chief? As Alexander Hamilton expresses it, a foreign power may gain "an improper ascendant in our councils. How could they better gratify this, than by raising a creature of their own to the chief magistracy of the Union?” (The Federalist Papers, LXVIII.)

So, for instance, the creature of their own fights the other country's war...

PressTV: US terror drone, Kenya strike Somalia

Thus, demonstrating the cogent rational for the constitutional requirement that POTUS be a "natural born citizen": born under U.S. jurisdiction to parents, both of whom are American citizens. Of course, it's not too much of a worry that Obama could become a pawn to Kenyan interests; but, as we argued in Compromised by Birth, the record of his foreign citizenship, and moreover of his dubious identity, could be exploited by any ulterior interest, be it foreign (i.e. British or Israeli) or domestic (i.e. military-industrial complex or financial oligarchy) to steer his policy making against the interests of the vast majority of Americans. He must have known that his presidency, and the legacy by which he will be remembered, could never be his own - if he ever wished to be highly regarded by his fellow Americans and their posterity. Yet he went ahead and snatched the hollow prize. How could he? We cannot begin to attempt to answer this, but will leave it to the psychological profilers at...


LaRouchePAC: Is Barack Obama an American?


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On the other hand, it could be that he is a natural born citizen if he is in fact the bastard son of a yet to be identified U.S. citizen. There is a case to be made that Barack H. Obama Sr. is not the natural father of the boy that grew up to be Barack H. Obama Jr., with a smorgasborg of theories as to who his real father is, from Frank Marshal Davis to Paul Robeson to Malcolm X. Of course, if one of the above were his father, we'd wager that each would be ashamed to call him son today, for reasons we have been documenting for some time.



We have already dealt with the alleged Frank Marshal Davis paternity in our Sex Rebel: Black review. As for a Paul Robeson or Malcolm X paternity, we doubt it; but for the sake of entertaining these hypotheses...


Lame Cherry: The Missing Link


Terrible Truth: “Obama History” Mystery Buffs: Sniff Here

Soldier Goat Poke Still Banned in UCMJ

While it is quite bad enough that the one thousand year old Magna Carta precedent of habeus corpus has been effectively repealed with the National Defense Authorization Act, now signed by Viceroy Obama...

Infowars: Obama’s Signing Statement on NDAA: I have the power to detain Americans…

Another item in the bill, though of lesser fundamental importance, has been stirring much hysteria on the Internet and on talk radio: the repeal of the ban against bestiality in article 125 of the Universal Code of Military Justice (UCMJ)...

U.S. Judicial Corruption: National Defense Authorization Act will allow US Army personnel to legally engage in both sodomy and bestiality. PETA cries remain unheard.

But it appears that the rumours are false. Though the repeal of the ban against sodomy and bestiality was included in an earlier version (pg. 169) of the bill, that section has been removed from the final version...

A Soldier's Perspective: BESTIALITY AND SODOMY REPEAL STRIPPED FROM NDAA