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By Human Rights Watch

These future weapons, sometimes called ''killer robots,'' would be able to choose and fire on targets without human intervention.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33083.htm



Homeland Security Wants to More Than Double Its Predator Drone Fleet Inside the US

Drones pose a multitude of privacy concerns to all Americans, as the Congressional Research Service detailed. The report explains drones can be equipped with, among other capabilities, facial recognition technology, fake cell phone towers to intercept phone calls, texts and GPS locations, and in a few years, will even be able to see through walls.

http://is.gd/PZUIY3


From Information Clearing House

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Rights Groups Call for Ban on Futuristic Killer Robots
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/11/19-5



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Naomi Klein

Bill Moyers, Moyers & Company: Market incentives can help protect the planet, but we still need a government that will say no to the fossil fuel lobby, says Klein.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/12841-journalist-naomi-klein-on-capitalism-and-climate-change



Stand Still for the Apocalypse

Chris Hedges, Truthdig: The continued failure to respond aggressively to climate change will mean that the planet will inevitably warm by at least 4 degrees Celsius (7.2 degrees Fahrenheit) by the end of the century, ushering in an apocalypse.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/12949-chris-hedges-stand-still-for-the-apocalypse

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Fight Against Climate Change Blocked by Luddites at Big Oil
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/21-7

Third Report Warns that Leaders' Lack of Action Is Locking In Worst Consequences of Climate Change
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/11/21-1

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Time is running out: the Doha climate talks must put an end to excuses

The evidence of climate change is clearer than ever. The poor countries have done everything asked of them. Now the rich nations must face their responsibilities.

http://is.gd/eUbreV



Enriching Big Oil and Coal

U.S. Energy Independence is a Sham

By Joshua Frank

Profiteers market their destructive endeavors to normal Americans as a means of energy independence and national security.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33434.htm


From Information Clearing House



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Cato Institute
by Julian Sanchez

11/15/12

Even if you don t use Google and aren t currently under suspicion, there s no guarantee that some of your communications aren t sitting in a database awaiting a curious agent s query. Under the 2008 amendments to the Federal Intelligence Security Act (FISA), the National Security Agency now has broad power to vacuum up international communications without the need for individual warrants, power that has predictably resulted in 'over-collection' of even domestic emails on a massive scale...

http://tinyurl.com/axnsvpo


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Senate Bill Rewrite Lets Feds Read Your E-mail Without Warrants

By Declan McCullagh

A Senate proposal touted as protecting Americans' e-mail privacy has been quietly rewritten, giving government agencies more surveillance power than they possess under current law.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33100.htm



Government would be allowed to read emails without needing a warrant

An attempt at overhauling online privacy laws has been re-written on Capitol Hill to comply with requests from law enforcement so that emails and other personal communications can be more easily obtained by the police, CNET reports.

https://rt.com/usa/news/privacy-emails-leahy-mccullagh-174/


From Information Clearing House

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Top 10 Most Dangerous U.S. Government Agencies
http://lewrockwell.com/spl5/most-dangerous-govt-agencies.html



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Peter Sleeth, ProPublica: Nine years after his son died, Jim Butler is still waiting for a report he may never get. The Army has lost or failed to keep that document and many other field records from Iraq and Afghanistan.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/12809-a-son-lost-in-iraq-but-where-is-the-casualty-report



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By Dennis Kucinich

President Obama maintains a list of alleged militants to be assassinated. Some are US citizens. None will get to plead his case.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33058.htm



Obama s cybersecurity directive could allow military deployment within the US

The White House is being asked by attorneys to explain a top-secret presidential policy directive signed last month that may allow for the domestic deployment of the US military for the sake of so-called cybersecurity.

http://is.gd/aPF5WY



George Bush Should Face Criminal Proceedings for Waterboarding

By Katherine Gallagher

How can the man responsible for ordering these heinous crimes, openly enter a country that has pledged to prosecute all torturers regardless of their position and not face legal action?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33059.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Torture Survivors Ask the UN: What's the Point of Having Laws Against Torture if They Don t Apply to the Powerful?

Katherine Gallagher, Center for Constitutional Rights: Four survivors of torture are asking the UN to enforce its own convention, nothing more and nothing less.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/12811-torture-survivors-ask-the-un-whats-the-point-of-having-laws-against-torture-if-they-dont-apply-to-the-powerful?

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After killing 2500 people, Obama admits he needs to be 'reined in'
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/11293/

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Are US troops targeting journalists?

CounterPunch
by David Lindorff

11/26/12

One thing is clear: it is dangerous in the extreme to be a journalist covering America s wars, at least beginning with Vietnam.Why this might be the case is hard to say, but it seems that an antipathy towards journalists within the military may have something to do with it...

http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/11/26/are-us-troops-targeting-journalists/



Torture Boycott

Liberty For All
by Brian Wright

11/29/12

Nothing has changed under Obama, he refuses to investigate or prosecute war crimes/torture, as he continues to commit the same offenses-adding to them 'humanitarian bombing' of Libya and meddling support of Egyptian tyrants and threatening World War III vs. Iran ... so far. Floyd writes in Lawless Roads: The ever-expanding torture matrix that we are now a society of Torture as Official Policy. Why?

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=8406


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/11/16-7

Austerity Is Crushing, Not Saving, Europe
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/11/16-1

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Living Up to ''The New Deal'': Half the Nation Is Still Waiting

Susan F. Feiner, On the Issues Magazine: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt realized that the nation's future well-being would be undermined if some fraction of our people, whether it be one-third or one-fifth or one-tenth, is ill-fed, ill-clothed, ill-housed and insecure.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/12800-living-up-to-the-new-deal-half-the-nation-is-still-waiting

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Did FDR Provoke Pearl Harbor?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/12/patrick-j-buchanan/did-fdr-provoke-pearl-harbor/

The Establishment Cover-Up Continues
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/12/gary-north/pearl-harbor-historiography-a-lesson-in-academic-housecleaning/



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By Thierry Meyssan

By definition the ''American dream'' really is just a ''dream'', an illusion. Those who believe it to be a model to follow had better wake up.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33050.htm

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'Dark Money' Forum Examines SuperPAC Dominance in Campaign
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/11/16-3



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Bob Fitrakis, The Free Press: The questions surrounding Election Day in Ohio and Karl Rove s meltdown on Fox TV election night are causing a buzz in the election integrity movement. We do know the circumstances were eerily similar to election-tampering techniques discovered after the 2004 election.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/12787-why-rove-failed-to-deliver-ohio-on-election-day-what-happened-in-ohio-this-time-around



The GOP s Listening Problem

Eugene Robinson, Washington Post Writers Group: I know it?s early, but I have a sinking feeling the Republican Party is taking all the wrong lessons from last week?s election. Short-term, that?s a boon for Democrats. Long-term, it?s a problem for the country.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/12783-the-gops-listening-problem



Karl Rove s Group Promised the IRS It Would Spend ''Limited'' Money on Elections

Kim Barker, ProPublica: Crossroads GPS could ultimately be forced to reveal the identities of its donors.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/13400-karl-roves-dark-money-group-promised-irs-it-would-spend-limited-money-on-elections

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Compare the 1912 Elections with the 2012 Elections

By Ralph Nader

Let s face it, our country is in crisis and wallowing in disgust, discouragement and despair won t turn it around.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33492.htm



Karl Rove Heckled Throughout Speech In Massachusetts, Called Murderer, Terrorist

Video

Rove had barely begun speaking before people began standing up and shouting Rove down with accusations that his guidance of former President George W. Bush on the Iraq War had led to countless American and Iraqi casualties.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34662.htm



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William K. Black, New Economic Perspectives: Third Way is not a ''liberal think tank'' with ''a centrist approach.'' In the organization, lobbyists for and from Wall Street are leading the effort to enrich Wall Street by privatizing Social Security.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/12778-wall-street-uses-the-third-way-to-lead-its-assault-on-social-security

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The Great Social Security Robbery

By James Petras

In every sense this is ''the mother of all class struggles''. The outcome will determine whether the capitalist class will continue to rob social security and its working class contributors.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33316.htm



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