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Saturday, March 29, 2014

​Israel demands free entry of citizens into US, amid standoff over Palestinian settlements

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Friday, March 28, 2014

"Unemployed EU citizens can be expelled"

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Monday, March 24, 2014

The Duties of American Citizens is to Protect Their Freedom from the Government

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Thursday, March 20, 2014

The Honeymoon Is Over: Ukraine To Stun Citizens With 40% Gas Price Hike

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Wednesday, March 19, 2014

"Only Citizens And Not Illegals"


Here are the details on that voting rights decision that was just handed down by a federal judge in Kansas. Republican state officials are having a hard time containing their glee, but this quote from Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne stands out:


“I feel there’s been a media cover up of the extent to which voter fraud is a significant problem in Arizona,” he told TPM’s Eric Lach in an interview this afternoon. “[The ruling is] a significant victory for the people of Arizona over the Obama administration to assure that only citizens and not illegals vote in Arizona.”




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"Only Citizens And Not Illegals"

Sunday, February 23, 2014

Turkish Citizens Say No to Internet Censorship, Take the Streets in Protest


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People of Turkey taking the streets against new Internet Censorship law.  Protests against an increase in internet censorship in Turkey took to the streets again tonight in Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir.


This new Censorship Law will allow Turkey’s telecommunications authority to block websites and censor any internet content without a prior court decision.  


The legislation also would force Internet service providers to keep records on Web users’ activities for two years and make them available to authorities when requested, without notifying the users.


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Internet access in Turkey is already restricted and thousands of websites blocked. The independent press agency Bianet estimated that 110,000 websites were blocked in 2011 alone, while Google reported Turkish requests to remove content from the web rose nearly 1000% last year.


Proposed amendments to Law No. 5651 would provide for additional penalties on authors, content providers, and users of content it deems inappropriate with no effective means of redress. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been openly critical of the internet, calling Twitter a “scourge” and condemning social media as “the worst menace to society”. Both Twitter and Facebook were widely used by anti-government protesters to spread information during demonstrations last year.1947540_10151908306227691_1899046388_n18:55 


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18:58 Police charging at the protest on Isiktal St in Istanbul. 


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Internetime Dokunma Eylemi / Istanbul 22.02.2014
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Internetime Dokunma Eylemi / Istanbul 22.02.2014 © Kurtuluş Arı / Agence LeJournal


Internetime Dokunma Eylemi / Istanbul 22.02.2014
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Internetime Dokunma Eylemi / Istanbul 22.02.2014 © Kurtuluş Arı / Agence LeJournal


Internetime Dokunma Eylemi / Istanbul 22.02.2014
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Ankara   Thousands marched to Kızılay, protesting the new internet censorship bill recently approved by president Abdullah Gül.


Freedom of speech is already restricted in Turkey in many ways through bans, arrests of journalists and alleged pressure by politicians.  A report by a committee to protect journalists defines Turkey as the “world’s leading jailer of journalists” in 2013. In the same year, Turkey ranked 154 out of 179 countries in the Press Freedom Index by Reporters without Borders.


The levels of self censorship that will occur amongst everyday Turkish citizens and activists when the knowledge that they could be legally targeted for their online activity once the new measures are implemented are impossible to estimate. As well as what content will be banned or groups of people will become targets and possible face arrest for what they say and do on-line. One thing is clear to many, the passage of this new bill is not going to create a safer environment for the Gezi protesters.


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Turkish Citizens Say No to Internet Censorship, Take the Streets in Protest

Friday, February 21, 2014

DIA Whistleblower John Stroncheck Blacklisted After Disclosing SOCOM Illegal Spying on US Citizens

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Friday, January 31, 2014

Obama answers citizens" questions in Google "hangout road trip"

Obama answers citizens" questions in Google "hangout road trip"
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Sunday, January 19, 2014

Saudi says doubles number of citizens in private sector jobs

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RIYADH Sun Jan 19, 2014 2:13pm EST



RIYADH (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia has doubled the number of its citizens working for private companies in the 30 months since it introduced wide-ranging reforms to tackle long-term unemployment, Labour Minister Adel al-Fakeih said on Sunday.


Policy makers fear a failure to create a productive local workforce will leave the kingdom vulnerable to any future fall in oil revenue.


Despite the lack of any significant protests during the 2011 Arab uprisings, they were uncomfortably aware that unemployment contributed to unrest in neighbouring countries and worry about the long-term risk of political instability.


“At this point in time the employment in the private sector is about 1.5 million. This is 101 percent more than it was 30 months ago,” the minister said at a conference in Riyadh.


Although the official employment rate is around 12 percent, economists estimate only 30-40 percent of working-age Saudis hold jobs or actively seek work.


Most Saudis in jobs are employed by the government, but it cannot support such a large wage bill in the long term, and the International Monetary Fund has warned that the private sector must meet future job demand.


Most private-sector jobs are held by the 10 million expatriates in the kingdom.


In 2011, after decades of ineffective localization policies, Riyadh imposed stricter penalties for failing to meet quotas for hiring Saudi citizens.


In 2012 it also introduced a levy of 2,400 riyals ($ 640) a year on every foreigner a company employed over the number of its Saudi workers.


Fakeih later told reporters that the increase of 750,000 jobs over the past 30 months only included those who had remained in the workforce, but that around 500,000 others had taken jobs and then left.


He added that since the reforms were introduced, the average starting salary for Saudis had risen and that graduates of technical training colleges now found a job on average five months after qualifying, as opposed to 13 months in 2011.


EXPATRIATE CRACKDOWN


Some companies, particularly in labour-intensive industries such as construction, have complained that the reforms have caused bottlenecks in important projects and cut profits by increasing the wage bill. Expatriates are typically paid less than Saudis.


Others have said they struggle to find qualified Saudis to replace expatriates despite high government spending on university scholarship programs and technical training colleges. They have also complained that employment rules make it too hard to fire Saudis.


Young Saudi job-seekers often say they are reluctant to look for work in private companies, because government agencies offer better pay, benefits and job security.


Last week Riyadh announced it was introducing unemployment insurance for Saudis who lost their jobs for “reasons beyond their control” and who had been in work for more than a year. The policy was designed to encourage more young Saudis to look for jobs in the private sector.


On Sunday Fakeih said the introduction of unemployment insurance was also designed to “make it easier” for the government to relax employment rules and give companies more flexibility to fire workers who did not perform well.


Fakeih also said a crackdown last year on foreigners breaking visa regulations by working for companies that did not sponsor their work permit was necessary to close loopholes that allowed employers to dodge hiring quotas.


Previous attempts to localize the Saudi labour market have foundered because companies could hire lower-cost foreigners who were registered to other sponsors.


But more than 1 million expatriates left the kingdom between March and November during an amnesty for foreign workers to leave without paying fines for visa violations or to switch their sponsorship to a new employer.


(Reporting By Angus McDowall; Additional reporting by Marwa Rashad; Editing by Andrew Heavens)






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Thursday, December 5, 2013

NSA considered ‘unilateral spying’ on Australia, Canada, NZ citizens


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The NSA was prepared to secretly collect data on citizens of Australia, Canada and New Zealand – without the knowledge or consent of their governments, and despite the ‘Five Eyes’ joint spying program with those countries, a Snowden leak reveals.


The draft directive, classified as “NF” for No Foreign, reveals how the US intelligence agency floated the possibility of “unilaterally” snooping on citizens of Australia, Canada and New Zealand, members of the so-called “Five Eyes” part of the UK-US partnership agreement on global snooping.


“Under certain circumstances, it may be advisable and allowable to target second-party persons and second-party communications systems unilaterally when it is in the best interests of the US and necessary for US national security,” says the 2005 directive, titled Collection, Processing and Dissemination of Allied Communications.


“Such targeting must be performed exclusively within the direction, procedures and decision processes outlined in this directive.”


The latest revelation comes as The Guardian publishes yet another document leaked to the British newspaper by NSA former contractor Edward Snowden.


The UK-US data-collecting alliance allowed the five members (Australia, Canada, the US, the UK and New Zealand – collectively referred to as “Five Eyes”) to share intelligence and carry out surveillance operations without worrying that member states were spying on each other.


However, it seems that some member states may have been more open to the possibility of sharing metadata on each other’s citizens than some countries in the alliance.


Guardian Australia on Monday revealed that the Defense Signals Directorate (DSD), which is now the Australian Signals Directorate, had offered to share citizens’ personal data in a 2009 meeting. This demonstrated different attitudes between the Five Eye partners when it came to protecting the privacy of citizens.


The Canadians, for example, demanded that any data that revealed private information about its citizens was first “minimized.”


However, despite the objections to any intrusions into the privacy of the citizens, the United States seemed initially intent on ignoring such requests.


The leaked draft directive goes on to state that the US could conduct the targeting without the knowledge of Australian, Canadian or New Zealand authorities, and even if their government officials had rejected a “collaboration proposal” for the operation.


“When sharing the planned targeting information with a second party would be contrary to US interests, or when the second party declines a collaboration proposal, the proposed targeting must be presented to the signals intelligence director for approval with justification for the criticality of the proposed collection,” said the document, released by the Guardian.


The document does not reveal how the NSA would select Australian targets for unilateral surveillance, nor to what ends. However, the NSA’s surveillance procedures are extensive and open the door to the collection of internet, telephone and social media information.


Meanwhile, the draft directive appears to show that the original 1946 UK-US agreement, previously specified for “foreign intelligence” operations, has acquired new dimensions.


“The agreement has evolved to include a common understanding that both governments will not target each other’s citizens/persons. However, when it is in the best interest of each nation, each reserved the right to conduct unilateral Comint [communications intelligence] action against each other’s citizens/persons,” it states.


However, later changes to the document suggest that Australia, Canada and New Zealand should be prepared to cooperate with the US to target their citizens.


“There are circumstances when targeting of second party persons and communications systems, with the full knowledge and co-operation of one or more second parties, is allowed when it is in the best interests of both nations,” the document says. “This targeting will conform to guidelines set forth in this directive.”

The directive pointed to targets believed to be affiliated with “weapons proliferation, terrorism, drug trafficking or organized crime activities”.


Source: RT





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Monday, October 14, 2013

Will China Soon Own America and its Contents, its Citizens?



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NUSA DUA, BALI - OCTOBER 07: Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife, Peng Liyuan, arrive at the APEC CEO summit venue on October 7, 2013 in Nusa Dua, Indonesia. US President Barack Obama has not attended the annual gathering due to the US government shutdown, seen as potentially weakening the United States attempts to push for an ambitious 12 nation trade pact. (Photo by Putu Sayoga/Getty Images)

NUSA DUA, BALI – Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife, Peng Liyuan, arrive at the APEC CEO summit venue on October 7, 2013 in Nusa Dua, Indonesia. US President Barack Obama has not attended the annual gathering due to the US government shutdown, seen as potentially weakening the United States attempts to push for an ambitious 12 nation trade pact. (Photo by Putu Sayoga/Getty Images)



By Shepard Ambellas | October 14, 2013 | 1:08pm EST | Editorial

WASHINGTON (INTELLIHUB) — The debt ceiling has been raised 42 times in the last 23 years according to a recent report, signifying that the United States is in more of a financial bind then you might think. In fact, the once great nation is reaching the end of its life as tyrannical figureheads fight to blowout the few remaining morsels. Begging the question: will stakeholders come collect?


Hundreds of thousands of government workers currently remain furloughed under the recent government shutdown which started on Oct. 1, and some se no end in sight as both parties are seemingly battling it out on Capitol Hill. However, one thing is for sure; If indeed the debt ceiling is lifted, the steeper the graph gets, bringing us closer as a Nation to entering a full-on blowout likely resulting in a total economic collapse and the implementation of martial law on the streets of America.


The WashingtonPost.com reported, “Since 1980, the debt ceiling has been raised 42 times. It was raised 17 times under Ronald Reagan, four times under Bill Clinton and seven times under George W. Bush. Congress is currently in a contentious debate with the White House on whether to raise the ceiling again by mid-October, which would be the sixth increase under Barack Obama. Bars indicate the debt each month of the year.”[1] While it appears raising the debt ceiling is a normal trend on paper, the procedure is overstepping all boundaries of standard business law and makes no logical sense, thus exposing the anti-logical nature of the puppeteers who pull the strings.


Monday, news surfaced that the U.S. Department of Labor and Industries failed to release their recent job report as they remain closed due to the ” government shutdown”. Now, future economic reports are said to be at stake, including the monthly U.S. Treasury statement and Consumer Price Index Report causing major confusion amongst some and even raising suspicion that things are even worse than announced. 


Political rhetoric heated up Monday on a Fox News televised broadcast when Alan Colmes stated, “Almost every poll shows that Americans are blaming republicans for this”, keeping the left-right battle going for the onlookers. However, none of this is a game as tensions are even heating up over seas in the most populated country in the world.


China is not having it. William Wan wrote, “The political standoff in Washington has spawned frustration and growing worries in China, which remains the largest holder of U.S. government debt, as the clock ticks down to a possible U.S. debt default this week.


The crisis shows that China and the rest of the world should start to “de-Americanize,” according to a strongly worded commentary from Xinhua news agency, China’s leading government-controlled news outlet.



“The world is still crawling its way out of an economic disaster thanks to the voracious Wall Street elites,” the commentary said. “Such alarming days when the destinies of others are in the hands of an hypocritical nation have to be terminated.”


“The congressmen are behaving irresponsibly not only for other countries but also for its own creditors,” said Mei Xinyu at the Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation, which has ties to China’s Ministry of Commerce. “They are gambling the U.S. future on their political struggle interests.”[2]


Major stakeholders of U.S. debt are not liking what is going on in Washington. And if the whole bottom falls out, some speculate that the Chinese will come and take what’s owed to them, as our social security numbers have already been leveraged to them as a way of default payment, i.e. the Chinese might own us soon.


The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has also issued a recent warning along with Germany.



Sources:


[1] Which presidents raised the debt ceiling – WashingtonPost.com


[2] U.S. debt crisis spurs Chinese calls for ‘de-Americanized’ world - WashingtonPost.com


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Tuesday, October 8, 2013

"Gestapo" tactics meet senior citizens at Yellowstone


NEWBURYPORT — Pat Vaillancourt went on a trip last week that was intended to showcase some of America’s greatest treasures.


Instead, the Salisbury resident said she and others on her tour bus witnessed an ugly spectacle that made her embarrassed, angry and heartbroken for her country.


Vaillancourt was one of thousands of people who found themselves in a national park as the federal government shutdown went into effect on Oct. 1. For many hours her tour group, which included senior citizen visitors from Japan, Australia, Canada and the United States, were locked in a Yellowstone National Park hotel under armed guard.


The tourists were treated harshly by armed park employees, she said, so much so that some of the foreign tourists with limited English skills thought they were under arrest.


When finally allowed to leave, the bus was not allowed to halt at all along the 2.5-hour trip out of the park, not even to stop at private bathrooms that were open along the route.


“We’ve become a country of fear, guns and control,” said Vaillancourt, who grew up in Lawrence. “It was like they brought out the armed forces. Nobody was saying, ‘we’re sorry,’ it was all like — ” as she clenched her fist and banged it against her forearm.


Vaillancourt took part in a nine-day tour of western parks and sites along with about four dozen senior citizen tourists. One of the highlights of the tour was to be Yellowstone, where they arrived just as the shutdown went into effect.


Rangers systematically sent visitors out of the park, though some groups that had hotel reservations — such as Vaillancourt’s — were allowed to stay for two days. Those two days started out on a sour note, she said.


The bus stopped along a road when a large herd of bison passed nearby, and seniors filed out to take photos. Almost immediately, an armed ranger came by and ordered them to get back in, saying they couldn’t “recreate.” The tour guide, who had paid a $ 300 fee the day before to bring the group into the park, argued that the seniors weren’t “recreating,” just taking photos.


“She responded and said, ‘Sir, you are recreating,’ and her tone became very aggressive,” Vaillancourt said.


The seniors quickly filed back onboard and the bus went to the Old Faithful Inn, the park’s premier lodge located adjacent to the park’s most famous site, Old Faithful geyser. That was as close as they could get to the famous site — barricades were erected around Old Faithful, and the seniors were locked inside the hotel, where armed rangers stayed at the door.


“They looked like Hulk Hogans, armed. They told us you can’t go outside,” she said. “Some of the Asians who were on the tour said, ‘Oh my God, are we under arrest?’ They felt like they were criminals.”


By Oct. 3 the park, which sees an average of 4,500 visitors a day, was nearly empty. The remaining hotel visitors were required to leave.


As the bus made its 2.5-hour journey out of Yellowstone, the tour guide made arrangements to stop at a full-service bathroom at an in-park dude ranch he had done business with in the past. Though the bus had its own small bathroom, Vaillancourt said seniors were looking for a more comfortable place to stop. But no stop was made — Vaillancourt said the dude ranch had been warned that its license to operate would be revoked if it allowed the bus to stop. So the bus continued on to Livingston, Mont., a gateway city to the park.


The bus trip made headlines in Livingston, where the local newspaper Livingston Enterprise interviewed the tour guide, Gordon Hodgson, who accused the park service of “Gestapo tactics.”


“The national parks belong to the people,” he told the Enterprise. “This isn’t right.”


Calls to Yellowstone’s communications office were not returned, as most of the personnel have been furloughed.


Many of the foreign visitors were shocked and dismayed by what had happened and how they were treated, Vaillancourt said.


“A lot of people who were foreign said they wouldn’t come back (to America),” she said.


The National Parks’ aggressive actions have spawned significant criticism in western states. Governors in park-rich states such as Arizona have been thwarted in their efforts to fund partial reopenings of parks. The Washington Times quoted an unnamed Park Service official who said park law enforcement personnel were instructed to “make life as difficult for people as we can. It’s disgusting.”


The experience brought up many feelings in Vaillancourt. What struck her most was a widely circulated story about a group of World War II veterans who were on a trip to Washington, D.C., to see the World War II memorial when the shutdown began. The memorial was barricaded and guards were posted, but the vets pushed their way in.


That reminded her of her father, a World War II veteran who spent three years in a Japanese prisoner of war camp.


“My father took a lot of crap from the Japanese,” she recalled, her eyes welling with tears. “Every day they made him bow to the Japanese flag. But he stood up to them.


“He always said to stand up for what you believe in, and don’t let them push you around,” she said, adding she was sad to see “fear, guns and control” turned on citizens in her own country.




WHAT REALLY HAPPENED



"Gestapo" tactics meet senior citizens at Yellowstone

Feds Treated Senior Citizens Like Terrorists During National Park Shutdown


“Gestapo tactics” used to place tourists under armed guard


Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
October 8, 2013


Feds used “gestapo tactics” to treat senior citizens like terrorists during the shutdown of Yellowstone National park, placing them under armed guard in a locked hotel as panicked tourists thought they had been arrested, vowing never to return to America.


Image: National Park Service.



Pat Vaillancourt was part of a tour group of senior citizen visitors from Japan, Australia, Canada and the United States who were in Yellowstone national park when the government shutdown was announced last week.


When the party briefly exited their tour bus to take photos of a herd of bison, they were aggressively ordered by armed National Park Service rangers to get back in the vehicle on the grounds that they were involved in “recreation,” and that this wasn’t permitted during the shutdown.


The group had booked to stay in a hotel within the park, which soon turned into a prison as the visitors were told to remain in the building until their stay expired, despite the fact that the tour guide had already paid the $ 300 fee to enter the park.


“We’ve become a country of fear, guns and control,” Vaillancourt told the Eagle-Tribune, adding “They looked like Hulk Hogans, armed. They told us you can’t go outside.”


The tourists were placed under armed guard and locked inside the hotel as NPS rangers stood outside the doors.


Asian tourists visiting from more authoritarian countries thought they had been placed under arrest.


“Some of the Asians who were on the tour said, ‘Oh my God, are we under arrest?’ They felt like they were criminals,” said Vaillancourt.


When the tour bus was leaving the park, it was also prevented from stopping at a full service rest room on the way out, which had been threatened with having its license revoked if it allowed the bus to stop there.


Vaillancourt said her father, who had spent 3 years in a Japanese prisoner of war camp, “always said to stand up for what you believe in, and don’t let them push you around,” but that she was now embarrassed, angry and heartbroken for her country as a result of her experience.


Tour guide Gordon Hodgson accused the park service of using “gestapo tactics” to intimidate the seniors.


“The national parks belong to the people,” he told the Livingston Enterprise. “This isn’t right.”


Hodgson added that the foreign tourists vowed never to return to America after the treatment they received.


The incident is yet another example of how the federal government is exploiting the government shut down to punish American citizens as part of a political ploy to make them blame Republicans for the situation.


Last week, an unnamed park services official told the Washington Times that they had been ordered to, “make life as difficult for people as we can. It’s disgusting.”


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Monday, September 9, 2013

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Black Citizens Group Files ‘Articles of Impeachment’ Against Obama


Calls for removal of President over NSA spying, prosecution of whistleblowers, Benghazi cover-up


Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
August 14, 2013


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A conservative black citizens group has filed lengthy and detailed articles of impeachment against Barack Obama, calling for the President to be removed from office over NSA spying, prosecution of whistleblowers, wiretapping of journalists, the torture program as well as the Benghazi cover-up.


Despite the fact that the Florida-based National Black Republican Association (NBRA) associates itself with the GOP, a number of the articles of impeachment refer to activities undertaken by the Obama administration that have been supported by establishment Republicans, such as mass NSA surveillance, the illegal torture program and the treatment of whistleblowers like Edward Snowden.


This non-partisan broadside against Obama makes the articles of impeachment less easy to dismiss as merely a Republican group with an axe to grind.


Citing the Declaration of Independence and the need “to free ourselves and our fellow citizens from governmental tyranny,” the articles note that Obama “has intimidated whistleblowers and brought twice as many prosecutions against whistleblowers as all prior presidents combined, also pointing out that, “while refusing to prosecute anyone for actual torture, (Obama) prosecuted former Central Intelligence Agency employee John Kiriakou for disclosing the torture program.”


The articles slam Obama for his administration’s role in failing to secure the US consulate in Benghazi and then subsequently launching a cover-up to hide the true nature of the incident, including subjecting CIA agents to regular polygraph tests to ensure they don’t leak information about an arms smuggling operation based near the consulate that saw weapons smuggled to Al-Qaeda militants in Syria.


The articles also mention the Department of Justice’s role in wiretapping over a hundred Associated Press journalists as well as Fox News reporter James Rosen.


Article 6 lambastes Obama for having authorized and permitted, “(1) the National Security Agency to conduct or continue electronic surveillance of over 300 million average Americans; (2) given access to National Security Agency surveillance data to other intelligence units within the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Secret Service, the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security in violation of the law; and (3) conducted the surveillance of average Americans unconstrained by Congress, the United Supreme Court or the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court which has, to this date, functioned as a rubber stamp, having approved every request made of it in 2012 and rejecting only two of the 8,591 requests submitted between 2008 and 2012.”


Other articles focus on the IRS’ harassment of Tea Party groups as well as the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives trafficking guns to Mexican drug dealers under Operation Fast and Furious.


Some of the articles of impeachment listed also echo those first launched by Infowars in January.


The NBRA has done an exemplary job in compiling such a well written and detailed list. Hopefully this will serve to help a lot of black people and other Obama loyalists wake up to the fact that despite his promises of “hope” and “change,” Obama has fronted one of the most unconstitutional administrations in US history.


Read the full text of the articles of impeachment below.


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We, black American citizens, in order to free ourselves and our fellow citizens from governmental tyranny, do herewith submit these Articles of Impeachment to Congress for the removal of President Barack H. Obama, aka, Barry Soetoro, from office for his attack on liberty and commission of egregious acts of despotism that constitute high crimes and misdemeanors.


On July 4, 1776, the founders of our nation declared their independence from governmental tyranny and reaffirmed their faith in independence with the ratification of the Bill of Rights in 1791. Asserting their right to break free from the tyranny of a nation that denied them the civil liberties that are our birthright, the founders declared:


“When a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.” – Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776.


THE IMPEACHMENT POWER


Article II, Section IV of the United States Constitution provides: “The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”


THE ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT


In his conduct of the office of President of the United States, Barack H. Obama, aka Barry Soetoro, personally and through his subordinates and agents, in violation or disregard of the constitutional rights of citizens and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, has prevented, obstructed, and impeded the administration of justice, in that:


ARTICLE 1


He has covered up, delayed, impeded and obstructed the investigation of the Benghazi Battle.


Specific conduct includes: (1) failing to adequately secure the US Consulate and the CIA annex in Benghazi; (2) failing to send a response team to rescue embattled US citizens in Benghazi; (3) lying to the American people about why the US Consulate and the CIA annex were attacked in Benghazi; and (3) hiding from the media and congressional investigators the Central Intelligence Agency personnel and other wounded US citizens who were on the ground in Benghazi by scattering them throughout the United States, forcing them to adopt new identities and subjecting them to monthly polygraph tests.


Benghazi Battle elements that are under investigation:


On September 11, 2012, the anniversary of the September 11, 2001, the US Consulate and the CIA annex in Benghazi, Libya was targeted in a premeditated, preplanned attack launched without warning by Islamist militants.


Footage of the attack broadcast in real time showed armed men attacking the consulate with rocket-propelled grenades, hand grenades, assault rifles, 14.5 mm anti-aircraft machine guns, truck mounted artillery, diesel canisters, and mortars. It was not an act of savage mob violence, nor a spontaneous protest in response to an anti-Islamic video on YouTube.


In that attack, four American citizens were killed: US Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens; Information Officer Sean Smith; and two embassy security personnel, Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods, both former Navy SEALs. Ambassador Stevens is the first U.S. ambassador killed in an attack since Adolph Dubs was killed in 1979.


ARTICLE 2


He has disclosed secret grand jury material by exposing the existence of a sealed indictment of one of the Benghazi attackers in violation of Rule 6(e) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure that clearly states: “… no person may disclose the indictment’s existence except as necessary to issue or execute a warrant or summons.’’


ARTICLE 3


He has authorized and permitted the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, a division of the Justice Department, to conduct Operation Fast and Furious, wherein guns were sold to Mexican drug trafficking organizations that were used to kill innocent Mexican civilians and two rifles sold to a smuggler in January 2010 ended up at the scene of the murder of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry in December 2010.


ARTICLE 4


He has authorized and permitted confidential income tax returns information from the Internal Revenue Service to be provided to unauthorized individuals, organizations and agencies.


ARTICLE 5


He has caused investigations and audits to be initiated or conducted by the Internal Revenue Service in a discriminatory manner, including harassment and intimidation of conservative, evangelical and Tea Party groups applying for non-profit status between 2010 and 2012.


Elements of this illegal conduct include the facts that: (1) the head of the Internal Revenue Service tax-exempt organization division, Lois Lerner, admitted during a telephonic press event that illegal targeting occurred, then invoked her Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer questions before Congress about the targeting out of fear of self-incrimination; (2) two other career Internal Revenue Service employees stated that they acted at the behest of superiors in Washington — Carter Hull, a retired Internal Revenue Service Attorney and Elizabeth Hofacre, an employee of the Cincinnati IRS office which oversaw tax-exempt applications; and (3) Carter Hull stated that he was directed to forward the targeted applications to, among others, one of only two political appointees in the Internal Revenue Service Chief Counsel William Wilkins.


ARTICLE 6


He has (1) authorized and permitted the National Security Agency to conduct or continue electronic surveillance of over 300 million average Americans; (2) given access to National Security Agency surveillance data to other intelligence units within the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Secret Service, the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security in violation of the law; and (3) conducted the surveillance of average Americans unconstrained by Congress, the United Supreme Court or the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court which has, to this date, functioned as a rubber stamp, having approved every request made of it in 2012 and rejecting only two of the 8,591 requests submitted between 2008 and 2012.


ARTICLE 7


He has authorized and permitted the Department of Justice to wiretap and secretly obtain two months of telephone and e-mail records of Fox News Reporter James Rosen and over one hundred Associated Press journalists.


ARTICLE 8


He has thwarted Congress by (1) failing to enforce all or parts of laws duly enacted by Congress, including the Defense of Marriage Act, the No Child Left Behind Act, and the Affordable Care Act; and (2) after Congress refused to pass his Dream Act, unilaterally issuing an executive order directing immigration officers to no longer deport an entire class of illegal immigrants who came here as children, regardless of individual circumstances, and to give them work-authorization permits.


ARTICLE 9


He has violated the Constitution when, on January 4, 2012, (1) he bypassed the U. S. Senate to appoint three members of the National Labor Relations Board, actions that were ruled unconstitutional by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit which affirmed previous decisions by the Court of Appeal for the D.C. Circuit and the Third Circuit; and (2) he bypassed the U. S. Senate to appoint Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.


ARTICLE 10


He has intimidated whistleblowers and brought twice as many prosecutions against whistleblowers as all prior presidents combined. Egregiously, while refusing to prosecute anyone for actual torture, he prosecuted former Central Intelligence Agency employee John Kiriakou for disclosing the torture program.


Wherefore Barack H. Obama, aka Barry Soetoro, by such conduct, warrants impeachment and trial, and removal from office.


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Tuesday, August 6, 2013

State Dept. urges US citizens to leave Yemen







A Yemeni soldier stops a car at a checkpoint in a street leading to the U.S. embassy in Sanaa, Yemen, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2013. Security forces close access roads, put up extra blast walls and beef up patrols near some of the 21 U.S. diplomatic missions in the Muslim world that Washington ordered closed for the weekend over a “significant threat” of an al-Qaida attack. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)





A Yemeni soldier stops a car at a checkpoint in a street leading to the U.S. embassy in Sanaa, Yemen, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2013. Security forces close access roads, put up extra blast walls and beef up patrols near some of the 21 U.S. diplomatic missions in the Muslim world that Washington ordered closed for the weekend over a “significant threat” of an al-Qaida attack. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)





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WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department on Tuesday ordered non-essential personnel at the U.S. Embassy in Yemen to leave the country following the threat by al-Qaida that has triggered temporary shutdowns of 19 American diplomatic posts across the Middle East and Africa.


The department said in a travel warning that it had ordered the evacuation of non-emergency U.S. government personnel from Yemen “due to the continued potential for terrorist attacks” and said U.S. citizens in Yemen should leave immediately because of an “extremely high” security threat level.


“As staff levels at the Embassy are restricted, our ability to assist U.S. citizens in an emergency and provide routine consular services remains limited and may be further constrained by the fluid security situation,” the travel warning said. The U.S. Embassy is located in Sanaa, the capital of Yemen.


A U.S. intelligence official and a Mideast diplomat told The Associated Press that the current shutdown of embassies in the Middle East and Africa was instigated by an intercepted secret message between al-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahri and Nasser al-Wahishi, the leader of the Yemen-based al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, about plans for a major terror attack. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.


The U.S. has pummeled terrorist leaders in Yemen with targeted drone strikes. On Tuesday, Yemeni security officials said a suspected U.S. drone killed four alleged al-Qaida members in a volatile eastern province of the country. The drone fired a missile at a car carrying the four men, setting it on fire and killing all of them, the officials said.


The Yemeni officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they are not allowed to talk to the media, said they believe one of the dead is Saleh Jouti, a senior al-Qaida member. It’s the fourth drone attack in the past week to hit a car believed to be carrying al-Qaida members.


The State Department on Sunday closed a total of 19 diplomatic posts until next Saturday. They include posts in Bangladesh and across North Africa and the Middle East as well as East Africa, including Madagascar, Burundi, Rwanda and Mauritius.


Jen Psaki, spokeswoman for the State Department, said in a separate statement issued early Tuesday that the department issued the order for Yemen because of concern about a “threat stream indicating the potential for terrorist attacks against U.S. persons or facilities overseas, especially emanating from the Arabian Peninsula.”


The statement said U.S. citizens who choose to stay in Yemen despite the travel warning should limit nonessential travel within the country and make their own contingency emergency plans. “From time to time, the Embassy may temporarily close or suspend public services for security reasons,” Psaki said. “Emergency assistance to U.S. citizens during non-business hours (or when public access is restricted) is available through embassy duty personnel.”


Britain’s Foreign Office also announced that it had evacuated all staff from its embassy in Yemen due to security concerns. The office said the British embassy staff were “temporarily withdrawn to the U.K.” on Tuesday, but declined further comment. Previously, the U.K. had said the embassy would be closed until the end of the Muslim festival of Eid later this week.


AQAP, gathered in small cells scattered across Yemen’s vast under-governed regions, has proven to be a tenacious enemy.


Officials say al-Zawahri, who took over for Osama bin Laden and works from Pakistan, has reached out to the Yemeni branch, cementing their ties and further signaling the AQAP is once again looking to target U.S. and Western interests after a sustained period of more local and regional focus.


For puzzled Americans who’ve been told that al-Qaida is on the decline, the latest warnings raise questions about how successful America’s war on terror has been and whether the terror group has been able to reorganize and reconstitute itself since bin Laden’s death in May 2011.


And, although U.S. officials agreed a year ago to restart military aid to Yemen, it’s unclear how much of the new aircraft and weapons have arrived. After aid to Yemen was frozen for some time, the U.S. military is once again on the ground there training Yemeni special operations forces and has delivered more than a dozen helicopters to the Yemeni military and provided training for them, U.S. defense officials said.


But other weapons and equipment are still in the pipeline, according to a Mideast official.


The latest terror alert was triggered in part when the secret message between al-Zawahri and al-Wahishi was intercepted several weeks ago.


There long has been movement of fighters between Pakistan and Yemen, and discussions between the two groups, but the latest communication triggered worries and prompted the U.S. to take steps to boost security. The embassy closures came one day after a meeting between President Barack Obama and Yemeni President Abdo Rabu Mansour Hadi.


AQAP has been widely considered al-Qaida’s most dangerous affiliate for several years. Even though the group lost Anwar al-Awlaki — one of its key inspirational leaders — to a U.S. drone strike in 2011, al-Wahishi and the group’s master bomb maker, Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri, remain on the loose and determined to target the U.S. and other Western interests.


The group is linked to the botched Christmas Day 2009 bombing of an airliner bound for Detroit and explosives-laden parcels intercepted aboard cargo flights a year later — both incidents involving al-Asiri’s expertise.


In recent years, however, AQAP has been focused more on making gains at home, taking advantage of an unstable government and overstretched military that was forced to concentrate on protecting the political center in Sanaa. As a result, said a senior defense official, AQAP was able to expand its foothold in the south, capture more weapons and gain control of additional territory.


Obama and others have consistently alluded to the weakening of core al-Qaida in Pakistan — particularly since a Navy SEAL team killed bin Laden in Pakistan two years ago. Obama frequently touts bin Laden’s death in his speeches, and has declared that the terror group was “on the path to defeat.”


But while core al-Qaida may be on the ropes, officials have warned repeatedly that its offshoots in places like Yemen and Africa, as well as homegrown believers in the U.S., have grown increasingly dangerous and more difficult to track.


On Monday, officials declined to be more specific about the latest threat.


“What we know is the threat emanates from, and may be focused on, occurring in the Arabian Peninsula,” White House spokesman Jay Carney said. “It could potentially be beyond that, or elsewhere.”


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Associated Press writers Lara Jakes, Kimberly Dozier, Robert Burns and Julie Pace in Washington and Ahmed Al-Haj in Sanaa, Yemen, contributed to this report.


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