Monday, 7 October 2013

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Ex-NYPD cop questions sister’s killing by Capitol police

Posted: 06 Oct 2013 02:52 PM PDT

Police in Washington DC did not have to resort to shooting dead an unarmed woman, who lead officers on a short-lived car chase through the Capitol on Thursday, said the driver’s sister, former New York police sergeant Valarie Carey.
“My sister could have been any person traveling in our capital,” Valarie Carey told reporters outside her Brooklyn home on Saturday. “Deadly physical force was not the ultimate recourse and it didn’t have to be.”
Miriam Carey, a 34-year old dental hygienist from Connecticut, tried to drive her black Infiniti coupe through a barrier near the White House, hitting a Secret Service agent who attempted to wave her away. She then sped toward Capitol Hill, leading police on a high-speed pursuit that came to an end when her car got stuck on the median and police shot her.
A Capitol Police officer was also hurt when his car hit a barricade during the mile and a half mid-afternoon chase, which lasted just a few minutes.
Law enforcement sources said Carey did discharge a firearm and there was no indication that she was in possession of a weapon.
“I’m more than certain that there was no need for a gun to be used [by police] when there was no gunfire coming from the vehicle,” Valarie Carey said. “I don’t know how their protocols are in DC, but I do know how they are in New York City.”
Representatives from the Capitol Police and the District of Columbia’s Metropolitan Police Department could not be reached for comment early on Saturday.
Kerry, whose one-year-old daughter Erica was with her in the car during the chase on Thursday, had reportedly been hospitalized for postpartum depression months after giving birth.
At the news conference in Brooklyn, Carey’s other sister, Amy Carey-Jones, told reporters of her sister’s emotional struggles.
“I can tell you that she was a law-abiding citizen, carefree and loving. She had a baby and she did suffer from post-partum depression with psychosis,” Carey-Jones said, adding that her sister had received treatment, including medication and therapy.
The visibly shaken sisters held hands during the news conference. Earlier in the day they had traveled to the Capitol to identify their sister to authorities with the aid of photographs, Carey-Jones said.
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Greece, Israel to hold joint aeronautical exercises

Posted: 06 Oct 2013 01:40 PM PDT

Greek and Israeli Air Forces are set to stage joint aeronautical drills in the coming days, Greek Hellenic Air Force says.
According to a statement released earlier this week, the drills, part of a Greece-Israel Military Cooperation Program, will kick off on October 9 in Athens’ flight information region (FIR).
The statement said a group of F-15 and F-16 fighter jets will participate in the exercises along with navy forces.
On October 16, Greek combat aircraft and fuel supplier airplanes belonging to Israeli regime will also take part in the drills, which will happen in the region of the western Peloponnese, it said.
In March, Tel Aviv said the Israeli regime, the United States and Greece launched a joint two-week Mediterranean naval exercise called ‘Noble Dina.’
“Noble Dina, one of the navy’s scheduled annual exercises, is part of the security cooperation between the Israeli navy and foreign naval forces,” the Israeli military said in a statement.
The statement also said the naval exercise was “an opportunity for mutual learning and for strengthening of the cooperation with its [Israel’s] allies.”
The Israeli regime receives more than three billion dollars from the United States in direct foreign assistance every year. Tel Aviv also gets USD 70 million more in military aid for its missile systems.
Meanwhile, on October 3, the US Department of State said a prolonged government shutdown would hinder military aid to Israel, the largest recipient of US foreign military aid.
“The State Department’s ability to provide military assistance to Israel and other allies in the time frame that is expected and customary could be hindered, depending on the length of the shutdown,” State Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf told a news briefing.
The US government began a partial shutdown on October 1 after the Republican-led House of Representatives and the Democratic-led Senate did not agree on an emergency spending bill to fund the government.
The lawmakers remain at loggerheads over the budget, with Democrats refusing to give in to Republican demands for cuts in President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform — dubbed Obamacare.
The stalemate that has left more than 700,000 government workers furloughed, halted many government services and closed 400 national parks and monuments.
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Greek MP Christos Pappas detained with No Evidence

Posted: 06 Oct 2013 01:30 PM PDT

The organized conspiracy against the Golden Dawn carried on tonight with the grossly unjust detainment of their parliamentary spokesman and NY Division leader Christos Pappas.
This was done with absolutely no aggravating circumstances and without any suspicion of his involvement in any criminal case. Christos Pappas was labeled an “executive of a criminal organization.” He was given this characterization of deputy leader.
Reportedly he is to be transferred to Korydallos prison, which already holds the Secretary General of the Golden Dawn Nikolaos Michaloliakos and Mr Giannis Lagos.
Subjected to the “martial law of Samaras”, because they had the audacity to stand at the forefront of the struggle for a free homeland.
The morale remains soaring. He now realized that the Hellenic Golden Dawn is the embodiment of fear to of all those who have enslaved the country and try to destroy the future of the Greek people. Our political struggle continues.
A Message from our Comrade Christos Pappas: “Nationalists do not back down!”
The criminal prosecution of both myself and the other MPs, our comrades of the People’s Association Golden Dawn is a miserable, unprecedented and unique political persecution in our country and marks the beginning of a dangerous criminalization of public political life and discourse. The prosecution of ideas of the mind, leading to political life reminiscent of medieval times, aims for our political extermination.
Our political opponents and especially the pro-memorandum occupation government of Samara-Venizelos would also gladly proceed with our biological extermination. The Prime Minister himself, acting as a true politician told a major sunday newspaper: “They will melt.”
Furthermore, the prosecution was intended to act as a further means to intimidate Greek citizens and voters, in a clear demonstration of the “Shock and Awe.” doctrine. His dictatorships doctrine of corruption is shown by the last three years of misery in our country.
· Golden Dawn is a nuisance to the system of kleptocracy with it’s presence of a genuine popular and nationalist force in Greek political life and in the Greek Parliament.
· It perturbed the system of kleptocracy with more than 2000 targeted questions by our Members to the Government of the memorandum within the
Parliament.
· It perturbed the system of kleptocracy, with activism and the different political and social action of the Golden Dawn.
· It perterbed the system of kleptocracy, with the popular acceptance of our ideas and our program.
· It perturbed the system of kleptocracy, that the Peoples Nationalism of Golden Dawn managed to break the political trends, to then become politically dominant with huge popular support. This is dangerous to the dominant system. It is considered dangerous for it’s awakening the people to resist being in permanent repression.
· It perturbed the system of kleptocracy, that both inside and outside the parliament, we did not compromise and did not become identical to them. It bothered them the popular acceptance of our ideas and our program.It bothered them with the long term effects of our rising popularity.
· It perturbed the system of kleptocracy, the real prospect of a Golden Dawn mayor winning in the upcoming municipal elections. The certain election of our candidate Elias Kasidiaris.
· It perturbed the system of kleptocracy and international power centers, international moneylenders, known as ‘lobbyists’ and their puppets of the coalition, our steadfast faith in opposition to the dominant destructive spirit of a modern Orwellian scenario and enslavement of people and of activists in the History and Culture of our nation.
· They are annoyed by our firm belief in the pillars of national life such as loyalty to the fatherland, religion, and family.
As far as I am concerned these are ridiculously fantastic scripted charges. Our political persecutor and faithful servant of the loan sharks wants to break us down.
I have my honor, my faith and my idea. I will do my duty for our homeland, God and Society. Many, in addition to my comrades, who know me, know full well that I am not a criminal.
I want to make known the above, to the Greek people, who understand, see the truth and the political hypocrisy and the unjust persecution of us. Know that dozens of parliamentarians of all factions of the Greek Parliament have been associated with them (the loan sharks) in committees, meetings, etc. However I am sure they will not dare to confess this.
I am proud to serve the legal and illegally persecuted political party of People’s Nationalism. I am a proud Golden Dawner. I am proud that the General Secretary Nikos Michaloliakos, other than being the leader of the Golden Dawn is a friend and a brother. I will not change my ideas. Nor will I give up my honor. I will not submit to the loanshark bosses enslavement of my people.
Long live our Homeland! Hail the unenslaved Greek people! Long live the Golden Dawn!
Chris H. Pappas
Inside the Greek police detention facility
October 3rd, 2013
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Egypt clashes death toll climbs to 51

Posted: 06 Oct 2013 01:24 PM PDT

The death toll from clashes between supporters of Egypt’s ousted President Mohamed Morsi and police forces has risen to 51 as violence rages on in the North African country.
Supporters of Morsi, who was overthrown in a July military coup, tried to gather in iconic Liberation Square in the capital Cairo when police confronted them.
According to Ahmed al-Ansari, a top official of Egypt’s Health Ministry, at least 45 people died in Cairo and several others lost their lives south of the capital.
Nearly 270 people were also reported to be injured in clashes across Egypt.
Ansari added that “majority of the deaths were caused by bullets and birdshots.”
Police also fired shots and used teargas to disperse protesters in central Cairo.
A statement by the Egyptian Interior Ministry said police arrested 423 protesters in the capital.
Meanwhile, the Anti-Coup Alliance, which includes Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood, has called for more protests this week and urged students across universities and schools in Egypt to protest on Tuesday against what it called the “continuing massacres.”
“The alliance holds coup authorities and the military-appointed government fully responsible for all the blood of Egyptians being spilt right now, and for every Egyptian killed on this day,” the alliance said in a statement.
On Friday, thousands of Muslim Brotherhood activists and their supporters staged protests in Cairo after Friday prayers against a brutal crackdown by the military.
An Egyptian army vehicle fired live rounds at the protesters trying to enter Liberation Square. The riot police also fired volleys of teargas to push them back.
Four people were killed in the clashes in two neighborhoods of Cairo.
Egypt has been experiencing unrelenting violence since July 3, when the army ousted Morsi, suspended the constitution, and dissolved the parliament. It also appointed the head of the Supreme Constitutional Court, Adly Mahmoud Mansour, as the new interim president.
The government of Mansour has launched a bloody crackdown on Morsi supporters and arrested more than 2,000 Brotherhood members, including the party’s leader, Mohamed Badie, who was detained on August 20.
About 1,000 people were killed in a week of violence between Morsi supporters and security forces after police dispersed their protest camps in a deadly operation on August 14.
The massacre sparked international condemnation and prompted world bodies to call for an independent investigation into the violence.
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California governor signs law defying cooperation with NDAA indefinite detention

Posted: 06 Oct 2013 01:12 PM PDT

California Governor Jerry Brown has signed a law barring state cooperation with any attempt by the federal government to indefinitely detain people. The legislation targets the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
Brown signed into law AB351, which goes beyond any other state in rejecting federal indefinite detention power, according to the Tenth Amendment Center. The law reads, in part, “It is the policy of this state to refuse to provide material support for or to participate in any way with the implementation within this state of any federal law that purports to authorize indefinite detention of a person within California.”
The NDAA allows the US military to indefinitely detain anyone – sans charges or a trial – on the basis of “national security” concerns. The legislation has drawn a series of legal challenges and attempts in several states to limit its strength.
California’s new law not only targets the NDAA provisions, but also any future federal law that grants officials open-ended detention powers.
Though the NDAA has not been used to date, both administrations of Presidents Obama and George W. Bush have claimed power to detain indefinitely without charge “enemy combatants” caught in Iraq, Afghanistan, and around the world at Guantanamo Bay and other prisons.
In September, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges announced that he would be taking part in a federal lawsuit demanding the Supreme Court weigh in on the constitutionality of the NDAA provision allowing for indefinite detention.
That move was only the latest in a long legal saga following a legal victory with the appellate court of New York which last year declared Section 1021 of the NDAA unconstitutional. The Obama administration quickly appealed that ruling, and in July it was overturned.
Hedges, who says he has illegally been held by the US government numerous times during his career as a foreign correspondent, wrote that the appellate court overturned the initial victory against the NDAA because “with respect to citizens, lawful resident aliens, or individuals captured or arrested in the United States, Section 1021 simply says nothing at all.”
“The court, in essence, said that because it did not construe the law as applying to US citizens and lawful residents we could not bring the case to court,” Hedges wrote in his September op-ed.
Hedges pointed out that the Supreme Court may never hear the case, as it receives some 8,000 requests each year. Out of those, it only hears between 80 and 100.
California’s move against indefinite detention powers, however, marks a continuing trend among individual states.
Last year, Virginia signed a bill into law prohibiting state cooperation with federal government attempts at indefinite detention. The state of Alaska then passed a similar bill.
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US forces target Al-Shabaab leader in Somalia, seize Al-Qaeda leader in Libya

Posted: 05 Oct 2013 02:10 PM PDT

US forces carried out two major operations in Africa on Saturday, targeting an al-Shabaab leader in Somalia in connection with the recent Nairobi mall siege and nabbing an Al-Qaeda leader in Libya wanted for the 1998 bombings of US embassies.
A US Navy SEAL team approached a seaside house in the Somali town of Baraawe before sunrise in hopes of targeting an Al-Qaeda linked suspect. The operation, however, did not get its target, one former US military official told AP.
A US official told Reuters that the raid targeted a Kenyan of Somali origin known by the name of Ikrima, who was reportedly a foreign fighter commander for al-Shabaab in Somalia.
The raid was reportedly in response to the recent deadly attack on a Nairobi shopping mall, which killed more than 60 people. Al-Shabaab – a Somalia-based cell of the Al-Qaeda terror network – has claimed responsibility for the siege.
“The Baraawe raid was planned a week and a half ago,” the American security official stated. “It was prompted by the Westgate attack,” the official added, referring to the Nairobi mall siege.
The Pentagon earlier confirmed the operation, but provided no further details. “I can confirm that yesterday, October 4, US military personnel were involved in a counter terrorism operation against a known Al-Shabaab terrorist,” Pentagon Press Secretary George Little said. “We are not prepared to provide additional detail at this time.”
US officials did not name the target and stated that none of the US personnel were wounded or killed, adding that the US forces withdrew after wounding Al-Shabaab members in order to avoid civilian casualties.
The Saturday firefight lasted over an hour and helicopters were called in for support, according to witnesses. The Somali raid was carried out by members of SEAL Team Six, the same elite unit that killed Al-Qaeda head Osama bin Laden in Pakistan in 2011, a senior US military official said on condition of anonymity.
Local residents described the fighting which began around 3am local time (12:00am GMT). “We were awoken by heavy gunfire last night, we thought an Al-Shabaab base at the beach was captured,” mother of four Sumira Nur from Barawe told Reuters on Saturday. “We also heard sounds of shells, but we do not know where they landed.”
The Somali government was warned ahead of time about the attack, a senior Somali official confirmed. Somali Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon on Sunday said his country is working with world and regional powers in the battle against Al-Shabaab.
“We have collaboration with the world and with neighboring countries in the battle against Al-Shabaab,” Shirdon told reporters when asked if his government was aware of the raid on the Somali port.
A spokesman from Al-Shabaab said that one of the group’s fighters had been killed, but that the group had won back the assault. US officials first reported that the leader of the group had been seized, but later retracted the statement.
A Somali official said the target of the Baraawe raid was a Chechen commander who was wounded during the operation, Reuters reported. Local police say seven people were killed. Al-Shabaab said on Sunday, however, that no “senior official” was in the Barawe house at the time of the US Special Forces Operation, Reuters reports.
“The US claim that a senior Al-Shabaab official was in the house is false. No senior official was in the house,” Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, Al-Shabaab’s military operation spokesman, told the agency.
“Normal fighters lived in the house and they bravely counter-attacked and chased the attackers. The apostate Somali government is nothing in Somalia, no one asked them for permission to carry out the attack.”

Abu Anas el-Liby

US forces capture Al-Qaeda leader in Libya
US forces also captured suspected senior Al-Qaeda leader Abu Anas el-Liby – wanted for his alleged role in the 1998 US Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania – in the Libyan capital of Tripoli on Saturday, putting to rest a 15-year manhunt.
El-Liby was put on the US government’s most wanted list in 2000 after a New York court indicted him for his role in planning the embassy attacks. A $5 million reward was set by the FBI for information leading to his capture.
He was apprehended alive in a joint operation by the US military, the CIA, and the FBI, and is currently in American custody, The New York Times quoted an official as saying.
Senior officials in Libya’s transitional government were reportedly unaware of the planned operation. However, a US official claimed that the Libyan government was also involved in it.
On Sunday, the Libyan government said it wanted the US government to explain why it was not informed of the raid on the suspected al-Qaeda chief in Tripoli in advance.
Tripoli referred to the capture of el-Liby as a “kidnapping of a Libyan citizen,” Al Arabiya reports.
The US Department of Defense issued a statement saying the suspected Al-Qaeda leader was “lawfully detained under the law of war.”
‘You can run but you can’t hide’
US Secretary of State John Kerry said Sunday that the US military raids were done with the intention of showing militants in North Africa that they would not escape justice.
“We hope that this makes clear that the United States of America will never stop in the effort to hold those accountable who conduct acts of terror,” Kerry said. “Members of al-Qaeda and other terrorist organizations literally can run but they can’t hide,” Kerry, who is in Bali for an economic summit, said.
He added the United States would “continue to try to bring people to justice in an appropriate way with hopes that ultimately these kinds of activities against everybody in the world will stop.”
Kerry, who delivered his comments at an event at a port for Balinese tuna fishermen, was the highest level US official to comment on the raids.
On Sunday, US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel also praised US raids, saying they indicate that the US will “spare no effort to hold terrorists accountable.”
“I want to commend all of the service members who were involved in the planning and execution of these two operations, which demonstrate the unparalleled precision, global reach, and capabilities of the United States military,” Hagel said in a statement.
Four attackers identified in Westgate mall siege
Also on Saturday, Kenya’s military spokesman named four attackers involved in the four-day siege at Westgate Mall in the capital of Nairobi, which left more than 60 people dead in September.
The attackers are Abu Baara al-Sudani, Omar Nabhan, Khattab al-Kene and Umayr, confirmed Major Emmanuel Chirchir. Al-Kene and Umayr are members of al-Hijra – a Kenyan extremist group affiliated with Al-Shabaab – the former head of the UN Monitoring Group on Somalia, Matt Bryden, told AP via email. He added that Nabhan may be a relative of an infamous Al-Qaeda operative, Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, who was killed in a US military strike in 2009.
It was also revealed that a Sudanese man trained by Al-Qaeda was among the leaders of the mall siege, Kenya’s government said.
Over 200 civilians were freed after the four-day bloody hostage crisis in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi.
Masked assailants armed with AK-47s and grenades launched their attack on the Westgate mall on September 21, reportedly targeting non-Muslims.
Аmong the victims of the attack were citizens from the US, Britain, France, Canada, Australia, China, South Korea, India, South Africa, the Netherlands, and Ghana. Five Americans were wounded.
The attack was claimed by Somalia’s militant Al-Shabaab group, which has links to Al-Qaeda. It said the hostage siege was a response to Kenyan military operations in Somalia. The group had previously threatened to strike the mall – a popular destination for the city’s expatriate community.
The FBI is currently investigating whether any of the attackers were US citizens, after media reports alleged that some of the names of the gunmen tweeted by Al-Shabaab during the siege appeared to match up with the Twitter handles of Somalian immigrants living in the US.
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Thousands of communists stage anti-austerity demo in Greek capital

Posted: 05 Oct 2013 02:03 PM PDT

Members of a Greek trade union demonstrate in Athens on February 20, 2013.

Thousands of communist-backed labor union activists and their supporters have staged an anti-austerity demonstration in the Greek capital Athens.
The protesters took to the streets in central Athens on Saturday and called on the government to stop the new round of cuts and measures that will slash pensions, salaries and introduce new taxes, The Associated Press reported.
Dimitris Koutsoumbas, the general secretary of the Communist Party of Greece, said workers had to unite in order to avoid the austerity measures.
“The only hope and prospect is to swiftly regroup the workers’ movement and organize the people’s struggle,” he stated.
“In doing so we can promote the people’s alliance among workers, the self-employed, farmers, the young and women against monopolies and capitalism and ensure the new barbaric measures can be avoided, and that the unpopular laws can be cancelled,” Koutsoumbas added.
Greece has been at the epicenter of the eurozone debt crisis and is experiencing its fifth year of recession, while harsh austerity measures have left about half a million people without jobs.
The country is under pressure from the International Monetary Fund, European Central Bank, and European Commission, known as the troika, to suspend workers or reduce their salaries.
Under pressure from the troika of international lenders, Athens has implemented tax and salary reforms that are blamed for the country’s deep recession.
One in every four Greek workers is currently unemployed, banks are in a shaky position, and pensions and salaries have been slashed by about 40 percent.
Greek youths have also been badly affected, and more than half of them are unemployed.
The long-drawn-out eurozone debt crisis, which began in Greece in late 2009 and reached Italy, Spain, and France in 2011, is viewed as a threat not only to Europe but also to many of the world’s other developed economies.
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Pentagon Warns To Expect “Radical” Change In US Government Soon

Posted: 05 Oct 2013 07:48 AM PDT

A highly troubling “urgent bulletin” issued earlier today by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) states that it has received information from the Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) warning to expect a “radical change” in the government of the United States, possibly within the next fortnight, based on information they have received from “highly placed” sources within the Pentagon.
According to this MoFA bulletin, GRU intelligence assests were notified by their Pentagon counterparts this past week that President Barack Obama is preparing to invoke the powers given to him under 50 USC Chapter 13 to hold that various American States are now in a “state of insurrection” thus allowing him to invoke the National Emergencies Actunder 50 USC § 1621 and invoke the highly controversial “continuity of government” plan for the United States allowing him, in essence, to rule with supreme powers.
Specifically, this bulletin says, Obama will invoke 50 USC § 212 that states: “ the President shall have declared by proclamation that the laws of the United States are opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings”
The specific laws being opposed by these “combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings,” that Obama will outline in his reasoning’s for declaring a state of emergency, this bulletin continues, are the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), otherwise known as Obamacare.
The NDAA is opposed by many US States, this bulletin says, with California joining Alaska and Virginia this past week in passing a law making it illegal to be enforced in their territory, and with many other States, also, preparing to do the same.
The specific portions of the NDAA law being opposed by these US States allows for the indefinite detention without charges or trial of all American citizens and allows for their assassination should Obama order it.
The PPACA (Obamacare) law is, likewise, opposed by over half of the US States and has led to an American “shutdown” this past week that has closed 15% of their government, but hasleft fully 85% of it still open.
To the specific “combinations too powerful” Obama will cite in his declaration of National Emergency as being needed to be defeated by extraordinary measures, the MoFA says, is a faction of the US House of Representatives popularly known as the Republican Tea Party whom the President and his allies have likened to “hostage takers” and “political terrorists.”
Obama’s greatest fear, and reason(s) for declaring a National State of Emergency, this bulletin continues, was outlined yesterday by his US Treasury Department who released a report yesterday warning of potentially “catastrophic” damage should Congress fail to raise the debt ceiling and prevent the government from defaulting on its debt.
As the current US government shutdown crisis and debt ceiling fight have now merged, the MoFA warns in this bulletin, Obama further warned yesterday that an impasse on the debt ceiling beyond 17 October, when the US government will be essentially out of cash to pay its bills, could start a downward economic plunge worse than the recession of five years ago – with credit markets seizing up, the dollar’s value plummeting and US interest rates soaring and even coming close to the brink of such an unprecedented default that could roil both domestic and foreign financial markets.
Preparing to oppose Obama, should he, in fact, declare a National State of Emergency, the GRU grimly warns, is the US military who themselves are preparing to invoke 50 USC § 842which allows them to protect America from “The Communist Party of the United States, or any successors of such party regardless of the assumed name, whose object or purpose is to overthrow the Government of the United States, or the government of any State, Territory, District, or possession thereof…”
Not known to many Americans is that the Progressive movement Obama belongs to, and whose media acolyte “presstitutes” swept into office, have long been associated with the Communist Party.
And, as the World Net Daily News Service reported this past August, John C. Drew, Ph.D., the award-winning political scientist, met Obama in 1980 and wrote in 2011: “[Obama] believed that the economic stresses of the Carter years meant revolution was still imminent. The election of Reagan was simply a minor set-back in terms of the coming revolution. … Obama was blindly sticking to the simple Marxist theory … ‘there’s going to be a revolution.’ Obama said, ‘we need to be organized and grow the movement.’ In Obama’s view, our role must be to educate others so that we might usher in more quickly this inevitable revolution.”
With Obama’s “revolution” now at hand, the GRU warns in this bulletin, it is critical to note that that United States, unlike other nations, have all of their elected officials and military personal swear allegiance to the US Constitution, and not to their government or its leaders.
The most recent example of this conflict between Obama and the US military, the GRU further states, was in Egypt when the Obama regime supported Muslim Brotherhood was overthrown by the Pentagon backed Egyptian military, and who, like the United States, makes its political and military leaders swear allegiance to their constitution, not to any of its leaders.
As many in America now know that these present times are not the normal activities of a government seeking peace and prosperity, and as dozens of undisclosed Obama Presidential directives that define US national security policy and task government agencies are still unknown either to the public or, as a rule, to the US Congress, this bulletin warns in its summation that with each passing day American can be more likened to a communist dictatorship than a functioning democracy.
So bad, in fact, has the United States become that one of its legendary reporters, Pulitzer Prize winner Seymour Hersh wrote this past week that the Obama administration lies systematically yet none of the leviathans of American media, the TV networks or big print titles, challenge him.
Even worse, and in a further Sovietization of American Life by the Obama regime, the US this past week refused to grant entry visas to internationally renowned authors Ilija Trojanov and Ernst Titovets who were invited to speak at conferences, and which Justin Raimondo of the highly respected Antiwar.com blog calls “part of a disturbing pattern of repression that all points to one ineluctable conclusion: the United States is the Soviet Union of the new millennium – an ideological state with global ambitions that holds itself up as the epitome of “freedom” and yet is the single most powerful enemy of liberty worldwide.”
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Kerry: Prolonged political crisis to weaken US

Posted: 05 Oct 2013 07:40 AM PDT

US Secretary of State John Kerry has warned that a prolonged political crisis in Washington would weaken the country at a global level as a political stalemate in the US has forced the federal government shutdown to stretch into its fifth day.
“If it were prolonged, or repeated, people would begin to question the willingness of the United States to stay the course and its ability to,” Kerry told reporters at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum in Bali, Indonesia, on Saturday.
Kerry is heading the US delegation at the meeting as President Barack Obama had to cancel his trip to Asia and miss two summits including the Apec summit due to “difficulty in moving forward with foreign travel in the face of a shutdown.”
On October 1, large functions of the US government shut down as congressional Republicans and Democrats refused to agree on a temporary spending bill that would keep the government funded.
Five days into the shutdown, it seems that Congress is not able to resolve the impasse which has led to the closure of large swathes of government offices and forced hundreds of thousands of federal workers to leave their work.
During a speech on Thursday, Obama blamed congressional Republicans for the government shutdown and urged Congress to “pass a budget that funds our government with no partisan strings attached.”
US lawmakers also face a mid-October deadline for increasing the federal government’s ability to borrow more money. According to Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, the nation’s current debt ceiling of $16.7 trillion will be reached by October 17.
However, republicans are demanding the defunding or delaying of Obama’s signature Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, in return for increasing the federal government’s debt limit.
The US Treasury has warned of catastrophic effects if the political stalemate over raising the government’s debt limit forces a US default on its obligations.
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One more Fukushima cooling tank pollutes Pacific

Posted: 05 Oct 2013 07:34 AM PDT

Another cooling tank has sprung a leak at Japan’s troubled Fukushima nuclear power plant. As in previous instances, the highly radioactive water is thought to be seeping directly into the Pacific Ocean. This is the second such incident in two months.
Although the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) has promised more accountability following a series of blunders in recent months, it has become clear to Japan’s government that the plant operator simply cannot deal with the problem on its own, forcing them to step in last month and start contributing funds.
The newest leak amounts to about 430 liters of radioactive water spilling in a period of 12 hours. That water contained 200,000 becquerels per liter of Strontium 90 and other harmful beta-emitting isotopes. That is tens of thousands of times more than the legal 30-becquerel limit.
While the plant operator has been pumping hundreds of tons of water a day over the damaged reactors to cool them in the aftermath of the 2011 meltdowns, it also relied on makeshift water tanks above ground to store excessive radioactive water.
But they have been leaking on and off, which led to senior government spokesman Yoshiide Suga to tell reporters on Thursday that TEPCO’s efforts at stemming the flow of contaminated water were insufficient. He added, however, that he believes the situation to be under control.
Recently it was calculated that the cleanup efforts would batter the economy and required government funding, as well as at least four decades, to implement.
It took the electrical power company until July to admit that water had been leaking into the Pacific, which led to an international outcry in addition to a national security threat warning on the part of the United States. Previously, TEPCO had repeatedly denied that this was a problem.
The incident took place because a worker misjudged the tank’s water capacity, resulting in the tank tilting to one side, as the ground underneath it is uneven, TEPCO spokesman Masayuki Ono told Reuters.
But in that worker’s defense, the company is already being forced to fill the cooling tanks to the top, as there is simply no capacity to accommodate all that water, which Ono says is probably headed down a trench into the Pacific about 300 meters from the affected tank.
Add to this the problem of accumulating rainwater which also becomes charged by the nuclear particles.
Although initially water contamination in the surrounding area was a major scare prompting security alerts as far as the United States, it has now been determined that the radiation is not an immediate environmental threat, as the ocean dilutes the radiation, officials have said.
However, heightened levels of radiation have been detected around multiple cooling tanks, which points to inherent flaws in their construction and forecasts increasing complications to be faced not only during cleanup, but simply to keep the problem of radioactivity at bay.
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