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Four more China activists on trial in gov"t crackdown

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January 28, 2014, 12:10 am TWN

BEIJING–Four members of a Chinese rights movement went on trial Monday, a day after its founder was jailed in what has been seen as an escalating government crackdown on activists.

The proceedings bring the total number of New Citizens Movement members tried on charges of disrupting public order to 10, seven of them since last Wednesday in Beijing.

At least 20 members of the group, which is estimated to involve a few hundred people, have been detained over the past year.

At Monday’s trials three of the activists, Ding Jiaxi, Li Wei, and Zhang Baocheng dismissed their lawyers, the attorneys told AFP, in a move previous activists have used to delay proceedings for 15 days.

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JGB largely steady, govt sells inflation-link bonds

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TOKYO Wed Jan 8, 2014 9:58pm EST

TOKYO Jan 9 (Reuters) – Japanese government bond prices were largely steady on Thursday, even though Tokyo’s stocks came under pressure, while the country was to sell its second inflation-linked bonds since 2008.

The 10-year yield edged up 0.5 basis point to 0.705 percent, while the 10-year JGB futures were largely unchanged at 143.72.

Tokyo’s Nikkei stock average dropped 1.3 percent in relatively active trade on Thursday morning after rising sharply on the previous day, as investors stayed risk averse before the release of U.S. nonfarm payroll data on Friday.

The finance ministry was to sell 300 billion yen of inflation-linked 10-year JGBs with a 0.1 percent coupon later in the day.

This marked the second such issue since 2008. In October, the government sold 300 billion yen of 10-year inflation-linked JGBs with strong demand.

Japan suspended issue of inflation-linked bonds in 2008, when the global financial crisis threw the country back into deflation and caused massive losses on inflation-linked JGBs.

“Valuations do not look particularly cheap and seasonality will work against the issue, but auction results should be solid given the external environment – yen depreciation and stronger-than-expected CPI inflation,” Barclays wrote in a note, referring to the latest offer.

The Bank of Japan aims to achieve a 2 percent inflation in two years, when it stunned the financial markets in April by promising to inject $ 1.4 trillion into the economy to spur growth.

BOJ board member Sayuri Shirai said it may be desirable to take more than two year to achieve the central bank’s inflation target if the burden on households and the corporate sector proves to be excessive, according to a speech released on Thursday.

The 30-year yield was down 0.5 basis point at 1.695 percent, while the 20-year yield was unchanged at 1.535 percent.

The short-dated five-year yield inched up 0.5 basis point to 0.220 percent.

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US Govt purchasing 14 Million Doses of Potassium Iodide

posted on Jan, 1 2014 @ 08:32 PM

Hopefully I got this in the correct forum, apologies to the mods if I didn’t.

HHS Orders 14 Million Doses of Potassium Iodide

So this article is discussing the recent solicitation by the US Gov’t for bids on the FBO website for 700,000 packages of 20 dose courses (14 million individual doses) of Potassium Iodide.

I am pretty unfamiliar with standard protocols for stock-on-hand regarding KI the gov’t keeps “just in case,” so this may not actually be anything too alarming. However the article discusses how the Japanese gov’t basically failed to admit anything was wrong with Fukushima until it was too late for many people to get to a safe distance. It then, basically, asks the question: ” would our government pull something shady like this too?”

Governments usually respond to disasters very similarly; first move is to avoid panic. The Japanese didn’t want to panic the world, or tarnish their honor and now, as a consequence of their reluctance, Japanese citizens and international aid personal find themselves in a horrible state of being. Panic is usually avoided by keeping their citizens as blind to the truth as possible, until confrontation with the truth becomes inevitable.
The crucial question at this juncture; “would our government be reluctant about warning us of potential disaster, in an attempt to avoid panic?”
14 Million doses of Potassium Iodide say that might just be the case.

Anyway, thought I’d try to get some ATS opinions on the subject. Should we be worried, or is this most likely standard operating procedure?

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Govt Lawyers: Americans Have No Right to Challenge Surveillance

Govt Lawyers: Americans Have No Right to Challenge Surveillance

Ordinary Americans Have No Say, Officials Insist

by Jason Ditz, November 22, 2013

Government lawyers are demanding that the US District Court immediately throw out an ACLU lawsuit against NSA surveillance, insisting that there is no avenue by which “ordinary Americans” could even theoretically challenge its legality.

The ACLU is arguing that the surveillance, involving collecting every phone record of every American, exceeds the authority the NSA has under either the Patriot Act or the Constitution.

The government is arguing that only phone companies could challenge the collection orders, however, and then only in super-secret FISA courts, which have already rubber-stamped the surveillance time and again.

The lawyers are also arguing that the judge himself isn’t qualified to hear questions of “national security” and that he should simply trust the administration’s officials to figure things out on their own, outside of courts.

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US consumer confidence plunges on gov"t shutdown

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans’ confidence in the economy fell this month to the lowest level since April, as many worried about the impact of a 16-day partial government shutdown. The decline could weigh on spending and economic growth.
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Gov’t “reopens” after Congress ends 16-day “shutdown”

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October 17, 2013

The government reopened its doors Thursday after a battle-weary Congress approved a bipartisan measure to end a 16-day partial shutdown and avert the possibility of an economy-jarring default on U.S. obligations.

Early Thursday, President Barack Obama signed the measure, which the House and Senate passed late Wednesday, ending a brawl with Republicans who tried to use the must-pass legislation to mount a last-ditch effort to derail the president’s landmark health care law and demand concessions on the budget.

The White House directed all agencies to reopen promptly and in an orderly fashion. Furloughed federal employees across the country are expected to return to work Thursday.

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Lavabit owner eyes legal precedent to rid cloud-data companies of govt surveillance

Published time: August 22, 2013 05:20

Letter posted by Lavabit LLC owner Ladar Levison.(Reuters / Lavabit.com)

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The owner of the now-shuttered encrypted email service used by Edward Snowden told RT that he will continue to defend online security free of government surveillance, hopefully with success in courts or a possible move of his company overseas.

The owner of the now-shuttered encrypted email service used by Edward Snowden told RT he will continue to defend online security to ensure freedom from government surveillance, hopefully with success in courts or a possible move of his company overseas. 

Ladar Levison abruptly shut down his company, Lavabit LLC, on August 8 to avoid being forced to hand over customers’ personal information and communications. 

“I’m going to keep standing on my soapbox and shouting as loudly as I can for as long as people will listen. My biggest fear when I shut down the service was that nobody would notice, nobody would care and my biggest hope was that when I shut down the service it would lead to some positive change. I’m going to continue fighting for a strong precedent via the court system and I’m going to continue to lobby Congress for change in the laws,” he said.

Levison was issued a secret federal court order that he is legally barred from detailing, though experts believe the order to be a sealed subpoena or national security letter which demands he cooperate with an investigation related to Snowden.

Levison told RT he fears a bleak future for secure-data services like Lavabit should US government surveillance and strong-arming of American companies continue.

“It’s become clear to me over last couple of months that all of the major providers here in the US have provided our government with real-time access to private information of their user,” he said. “They don’t really have a choice about it and they don’t really have the ability to tell anybody about it. Fact is, if you trust your data to a company , even if they haven’t already been approached and been required to provide access, the simple fact is they could be in the future, unless that judicial precedent is set or Congress takes action.”

Levison said he hopes his case can help set such a legal precedent. In the meantime, he is entertaining the possibility of moving his service overseas, though he is not yet confident such an arrangement could achieve security for his customers free of US spying.

“As an American, if I were to continue running the service even if it was physically based in another country, I could still be required to compromise the security of that system and I could literally be put in a position where I’m forced to choose between breaking the laws of the country in which the service is hosted or breaking the laws of the United States,” he said.

Levison said last week he believes he could face criminal charges for refusing to comply with the secret order.

He said he thinks the American public has a right to know what the government’s doing and how it’s collecting information on its own citizens.

“If I had continued to operate, I felt like it would have put me in an ethically-compromising position,” he said about his service, which he believed would no longer have been a secure, private method of communication for Americans had he continued.

Levison said he doesn’t oppose keeping an investigation secret, but he does object to the covert methods the government uses to conduct surveillance. Therefore, he felt he had no choice but to protect his customers even though the previous month, following the revelations that spawned from Snowden’s leaks about National Security Agency spying programs to The Guardian and Washington Post reporters, was Lavabit’s best in its 10-year history.

“When you say no to the government, they have the ability to take everything,” he said of defying the government by continuing Lavabit and not complying with the order. “They have the ability to take your business, take your money and take your freedom. And there really isn’t all that much you can do about it. I was looking at the very real possibility of an impossible debt and possibly being put in jail and still not being able to tell people why I was even in jail.”

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Turkish gov"t open to referendum to end protests

A masked protester is backdropped by a Turkish flag near a barricade on the edge of Gezi Park, in Istanbul, Turkey, Wednesday, June 12, 2013. Riot police fired tear gas, water cannon and rubber bullets in day-long clashes that lasted into the early hours Wednesday, battling protesters who have been occupying Istanbul’s central Taksim Square and its adjacent Gezi Park in the country’s most severe anti-government protests in decades.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

A masked protester is backdropped by a Turkish flag near a barricade on the edge of Gezi Park, in Istanbul, Turkey, Wednesday, June 12, 2013. Riot police fired tear gas, water cannon and rubber bullets in day-long clashes that lasted into the early hours Wednesday, battling protesters who have been occupying Istanbul’s central Taksim Square and its adjacent Gezi Park in the country’s most severe anti-government protests in decades.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

A man runs carrying fire extinguishers past a burning van during clashes at the Taksim Square in Istanbul Tuesday, June 11, 2013. Hundreds of police in riot gear forced through barricades in the square early Tuesday, pushing many of the protesters who had occupied the square for more than a week into a nearby park. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Police guard the monument of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of the modern Turkey, at the Taksim Square in Istanbul, Turkey, early Wednesday, June 12, 2013. Riot police fired tear gas, water cannon and rubber bullets in day-long clashes that lasted into the early hours Wednesday, battling protesters who have been occupying the square and its adjacent Gezi Park in the country’s most severe anti-government protests in decades. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

A protester records a video with his cellphone in front of a burning barricade during clashes in Taksim square in Istanbul, Tuesday, June 11, 2013. Hundreds of riot police overran improvised barricades at Istanbul’s Taksim Square on Tuesday, firing tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannons in running battles with protesters who have been occupying the area for more than a week. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis)

Ambulances stand by to evacuate injured protesters after riot police flooded the Gazi Park with tear gas during clashes at the Taksim Square in Istanbul Tuesday, June 11, 2013. Hundreds of police in riot gear forced through barricades in the square early Tuesday, pushing many of the protesters who had occupied the square for more than a week into a nearby park. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

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