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Somali American caught up in a shadowy Pentagon counterpropaganda campaign

"With the Iraq war over and U.S. combat operations scheduled to finish in Afghanistan by the end of next year, the Pentagon has begun shifting psy-ops missions to other parts of the world to influence popular opinion. In the past, psychological operations usually meant dropping leaflets or broadcasting propaganda on the battlefield. Today, the military is more focused on manipulating news and commentary on the Internet, especially social media, by posting material and images without necessarily claiming ownership. Much of the work is carried out by military information support teams that the Special Operations Command has deployed to 22 countries." Continue reading →

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World Service Authority Issues World Passport to Edward Snowden

"Edward Snowden is an alleged National Security Agency whistleblower who exposed the mass monitoring of U.S. citizens. Deprived of his United States Passport, he is currently immobilized in a Moscow Airport Transit Lounge with no ongoing ticket to any nation. This is a flagrant violation of Article 13 (2) of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which states the following: (Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.) The World Service Authority (WSA), a Washington D.C. corporation and executive branch of the World Government of World Citizens, has issued Mr. Snowden a World Passport so he can travel without limitation." Continue reading →

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Supreme Court asked to suspend NSA and FBI’s blanket collection of phone data

"The US supreme court will be asked to suspend the blanket collection of US telephone records by the FBI under an emergency petition due to be filed on Monday by civil rights campaigners at the Electronic Privacy Information Center (Epic). Previous attempts to appeal against the rulings of these courts have floundered due to a lack of public information about who might be caught up in the surveillance net, but the disclosure of specific orders by National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden has opened the door to a flurry of new challenges. It comes as a similar legal challenge was filed in Britain on Monday." Continue reading →

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Brazil confirms investigation into reports of NSA spying

"Brazil is to investigate reports of US electronic spying on its citizens, with President Dilma Rousseff saying that, if proven, such action would constitute a violation of sovereignty. Her comments came after the daily O Globo reported Sunday that the US National Security Agency spied on Brazilian residents and companies as well as people traveling in the country. The newspaper cited documents leaked by the fugitive former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. Rousseff confirmed that the National Telecommunications Agency and federal police have been ordered to probe the reports." Continue reading →

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Michel Chossudovsky: US controlling both sides of Egypt coup

"Press TV has conducted an interview with Michel Chossudovsky, Center for Research on Globalization from Montreal about the coup d'état by the Egyptian military that has deposed the elected Morsi government after large anti-government protests arose." Continue reading →

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White House dodges questions of Egyptian ‘coup’ as military aid continues

"The Obama administration attempted to sidestep questions over the legality of military aid to Egypt on Monday, claiming it was not in its 'best interests' to decide yet whether the armed overthrow of the country’s elected president amounted to a coup or not. US law prevents any administration providing support to the leaders of a military coup, but the White House announced it will not suspend foreign aid to Egypt for now, pending further review. 'We have had a long relationship with Egypt and the Egyptian people and it would not be wise to abruptly change our assistance programme,' said spokesman Jay Carney." Continue reading →

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Why Sir John Templeton renounced US citizenship – AKA why the US shot itself in the foot

"The media is prone to depict Templeton as a tax cheat. The reason? Had he been a U.S. citizen when he died, the U.S. government would have received approximately 100 million in estate taxes. I am not aware of Templeton ever publicly stating his reasons for renouncing U.S. citizenship. Nobody knows for sure. But, I suspect that the correlation between his renouncing U.S. citizenship in 1964 and the enactment of the CFC (Controlled Foreign Corporation and SubPart F) rules in 1962 did play a role. The 1962 changes in the Internal Revenue Code meant that Templeton may have been forced to choose between U.S. citizenship and his mutual fund business." Continue reading →

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WSJ Report: Larry Summers “Hellbent” on Becoming Fed Chairman

"Larry Summers, a former top economic adviser to President Obama, is speaking, writing, consulting, advising, teaching and still in frequent contact with the president, and some of his friends say he is more than a little interested in the Fed job, reports WSJ. But WSJ fails to point out that Summers may in reality not be that smart or caring. The Harvard endowment, when Summers was president of Harvard, lost substantial sums because of risky derivative positions that blew up on them. Iris Mack, then working for Harvard Management, which managed the endowment, warned Summers about the position in an email. He refused to lower the risk and Mack was fired." Continue reading →

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Is Actor Johnny Revilla Stateless?

"Actor Johnny Revilla, who starred in 'The Strangers', now sits as a representative of the Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) Family Club in the Philippine House of Representatives, after taking oath on the 26th of June, 2014, could face up to seven years of imprisonment if he is a U.S. citizen. Documentation obtained from the Philippine Bureau of Immigration shows that he travelled using an American passport from 2002 up to 2009. According to OFW Family Club Rep. Roy Seneres of OFW, the former Philippine Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates, Johnny cannot be a citizen of the Philippines if he is a citizen of America. Yet, such is not the case." Continue reading →

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Before Sir John Marks Templeton, there was Cleveland Ferguson

"A few years before Templeton made his famous move to the Bahamas, another American went and made a name for himself by discussing his desire to give up his citizenship and resettle on that famous island of warm breezes and low taxes. Meet Mr. Cleveland Ferguson, Bahamian immigrant and disabled Korean War veteran. If Mr. Ferguson had been able to afford his day in court, he might have won early recognition of the fact finally recognised by a court in 2010: that no formal declaration of war is necessary to allow renunciations under that provision (now renumbered to § 349(a)(6)), as long as there exist hostilities." Continue reading →

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