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?...
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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.
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