Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Tuesday Sept 10

My comments on Obama's speech here
CORRECTIONS on US Sanctions on Syria since 2011 here here here


great Manning article here

Washington Post article with Michael Dolan tweets on Russian plan for Syrian chemical weapons here

Israel's chemical weapons stockpile here

On CNN Gingrich states ""america tired after 10 yrs iraq and afghanistan"" hmm, he was FOR iraq!!! here
""In an America tired by 12 years of continuous warfare (the longest in our history),"" here 

US history and hypocrisy on Syria
**2007 US refuses to attend cluster bomb conference here
**no new sanctions on syria since civil war here and here CORRECTIONS ON US SANCTIONS 1 2 3
**UN security council---Russia and China block on Syria, USA blocks on Israel here
**US coups around the world here dictators as allies here
**US weapons of mass destruction here
**US looks other way on chem weapon usage here
**10 Chemical Weapons Attacks Washington Doesn't Want You to Talk About here
**Human Rights Watch on Incendiary Bombs and a ban on using them here


Veteran's benefits backlog---WE CAN FIX THIS!!!!! here

NYC Mayoral Primary---Bill de Blasio narrowly beats 40%, no runoff election needed here

Glenn Greenwald to testify at Brazil spy probe here

9/11 is 40 years Chile Coup (led by US CIA) 
Chile opposition leader Bachelet calls for Pinochet probe here

Democracy Now! on Chilean Coup 40 years here


September 11, 1965 (age 48 ) Bashar al-Assad's BIRTHDAY

Colorado ousts 2 Democratic senators over gun control laws here

Kenya election violence trial begins in Hague here
Mr Ruto and President Uhuru Kenyatta are accused of orchestrating violence after elections in 2007, and are being tried separately at The Hague.

Kenya votes to withdraw from ICC as trial of Ruto and Kenyatta begins here 
Kenya's parliament has voted to back a call for the government to pull out of the International Criminal Court, where the country's president and his deputy are facing trial for crimes against humanity.

NSA abused power, FISA court threatened to stop phone collection authorization here 

In January 2009, the court ruled that the alert-list procedure was "directly contrary to the sworn attestations of several executive branch officials."

The documents were declassified by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence after a long fight with the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union, that filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit two years ago.

The lawsuit gained steam after former NSA contractor Edward Snowden leaked thousands of documents about the agency's practices.....

In another lawsuit, the government last month released another ruling by the same 11-member court that found some of the NSA's email collection practices were unconstitutional because they scooped up tens of thousands of emails between Americans.

Two Democratic senators who have long hinted about undisclosed surveillance problems, Ron Wyden for Oregon and Mark Udall for Colorado, said in a joint statement: "When the executive branch acknowledged last month that ‘rules, regulations and court-imposed standards' intended to protect Americans' privacy had been violated thousands of times each year, we said that this confirmation was ‘the tip of a larger iceberg.'

ACLU NSA FOIA lawsuit here
ACLU border laptop searches here
""4,957 passengers had their electronic devices searched between October 1, 2012 and August 31, 2013, and an additional 4,898 individuals were subject to electronic device searches the previous year.""

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