"Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show it can bear discussion and publicity."

"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be,  secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them."   - Patrick Henry, American colonial revolutionary

 "Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue." - Jeremy Bentham, 1768

"Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show it can bear discussion and publicity." - Lord Acton

"I believe that a guarantee of public access to government  information is indispensable in the long run for any democratic society.... if officials make public only what they want citizens to know, then publicity becomes a sham and accountability meaningless."  - Sissela Bok, Swedish philosopher, 1982

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“Here we are again.” REDD discussions in Bonn, June 2013

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 10:24 PM PDT

Safeguards. Reference levels. Non-carbon benefits. Drivers of deforestation and degradation. Non-market-based approaches. Measuring, reporting and verifying. Results-based finance. Adequate and predictable support. Institutional arrangements. Yes, it’s the REDD negotiations at the UNFCCC. Again. Between 3-13 June 2013, UN climate change negotiators are meeting in Bonn, Germany. Philippines negotiator Tony La Viña comments on Facebook, below [...]




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Hard News  

   

35 militants, 1 soldier killed in Pakistan clashes:  Thirty-five militants and a soldier have died in fighting in the restive Khyber tribal region of northwest Pakistan during an operation to flush out rebels, the military said today. 

http://is.gd/w8Zlzj

Three Pakistan soldiers killed in attacks:  Three soldiers were killed and four wounded in bomb attacks on military convoys in a restive Pakistani tribal region while two policemen were gunned down in the largest city Karachi on Sunday, officials said. 

http://is.gd/hQm2pZ

US agency collected second-highest amount of digital data from Pakistan:  According to a snapshot of the data for March 2013, the NSA gathered 13.5 billion intelligence reports from Pakistan during the 30-day period. The largest amount of data was collected from Iran, at 14 billion reports. Jordan came third with 12.7 billion, Egypt fourth with 7.6 billion and India fifth with 6.3 billion. 

http://is.gd/Z2bT1W

27 Taliban killed, 25 arrested in military operations in Afghanistan:  Afghan police and NATO-led coalition forces killed 27 Taliban militants and detained 27 others throughout Afghanistan, officials said Sunday. 

http://is.gd/hsn25Z

US-led air raids kill 2 children in northeast Afghanistan:  Local security officials say the airstrikes happened at 9 AM local time in two villages in Badakhshan Province. Sources say several civilians, including women and children were also injured in the attacks. 

http://is.gd/1euVsZ

Iraq : At least 40 people killed in day of Iraq attacks:

Two car bombs and a suicide attack at a market in the predominantly Shia town of Judaida al-Shat in Diyala province left at least 13 dead and 50 injured. Car bombs targeting checkpoints later killed at least 24 people in the mainly Sunni city of Mosul.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22838865

31 people killed In Libya :  At least 31 people were killed in hours of clashes between protesters and a militia in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Saturday, a doctor said on Sunday. Fighting broke out on Saturday when protesters, some armed, massed outside the headquarters of the Libya Shield brigade to demand the disbanding of the militias. 

http://is.gd/Yp8qcn

Libya jihadists, rogue militias, hold Libya to ransom:  The weekend killing of 31 protesters in Benghazi by one of Libya's rogue militias emphasizes how the out-of-control armed groups terrorizing the country are keeping it in turmoil and blocking restoration of its all-important energy industry. 

http://is.gd/v9kVoM

Fatal Benghazi clashes between protesters and militia - video:
Protesters want militias to leave their camps and claim they have been abusing citizens and following their own agendas 

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Libya army chief of staff 'resigns' after deadly clashes:  Libyan army chief of staff Youssef al-Mangoush has reportedly resigned after 30 people died in clashes between protesters and a militia in Benghazi. 

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Clashes at Egypt-Libya border:  Four Egyptian citizens and four policemen were wounded after clashing with Libyan border guards in the city of Salloum Sunday night, reported state-owned news agency 

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Iraq: Baghdad suicide car bomb kills six:  A suicide car bomb targeting a Baghdad police station killed six people on Sunday, the latest in a string of bombings and attacks that have revived fears of all-out sectarian war in Iraq. 

http://is.gd/MPpU3S

Syria rebels fire on Iraq border posts, one killed:  Syrian rebels on Sunday opened fire on two Iraqi border posts along the southern edge of the two countries' frontier, killing one guard and wounding two others, officials said. 

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Qaeda chief annuls Syrian-Iraqi jihad merger:
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Syrian forces ready new offensive after Qusayr victory:
Syrian forces buoyed by a key victory against rebels were preparing Sunday to launch an offensive aimed at expelling rebels from Aleppo in northern Syria, a security source said. 

http://is.gd/VHXWC0

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http://is.gd/PLxG5e

Robert Fisk: The Lebanese army fears rise of the Sunni Muslim Salafists: Op-Ed:  As Shia Hezbollah fighters rush to Assad's aid, Lebanon is fighting a desperate battle to stop the menacing advance of Sunni rebels in the opposite direction. 

http://is.gd/z4jMeY

Syrian Opposition to Sit Out Any Talks Unless Arms Are Sent, General Says:  The Syrian opposition will not attend the proposed Geneva conference on the crisis in Syria unless rebel fighters receive new supplies of arms and ammunition, the top rebel military commander said Friday. 

http://is.gd/pqF0yb

Hezbollah applies new training practices in Syria:  The fighting in Qusair provides potential insights into how Hezbollah could plan to exploit its relatively new urban warfare skills in a future confrontation with Israel. 

http://is.gd/GdWskn

Netanyahu alludes to military action on Syria "border" - :  Speaking before the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Netanyahu said that he had spoken with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the weekend on Syria, "where the situation is becoming daily more complex" for Israel given the potential for spillover on the Golan Heights. 

http://is.gd/3tFGTi

Israel official: No Palestinian state in '67 lines:  Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon said Israel would not let such a state be established within the regional boundaries that existed prior to the 1967 Mideast war. 

http://is.gd/VZ356j

Deadly clash outside Iran embassy in Beirut:
One killed after two groups clash in southern part of Lebanese capital over Iran and Hezbollah's role in war in Syria. 

http://is.gd/YbRbuH

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http://is.gd/9lB9m8

Tens of thousands on streets, Turkish PM Erdogan defiant:
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan rallied his supporters in a string of defiant speeches on Sunday as tens of thousands of anti-government demonstrators massed in Istanbul's central Taksim Square. 

http://is.gd/inZJqE

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http://is.gd/kiUv1i

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http://is.gd/ksdae1

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http://is.gd/5QsTgb

Alleged US security officials said NSA leaker, journalist should be 'disappeared' - report:  A US editor has alleged he overheard security officials saying that the NSA leaker and the Guardian columnist who broke his story should be "disappeared." 

http://is.gd/72KpQy

US spy agency seeks criminal probe into leaks:  A US intelligence agency has requested a criminal probe into the leak of highly classified information about secret surveillance programs run by the National Security Agency, a spokesman for the intelligence chief's office said. 

http://is.gd/q0VAh7

US surveillance has 'expanded' under Obama, says Bush's NSA director:  The former director of the US National Security Agency has indicated that surveillance programs have "expanded" under Barack Obama's time in office and said the spy agency has more powers now than when he was in command. 

http://is.gd/kBlRYL

Graphic: How NSA collects, analyzes phone records:  Keeping top-secret tabs on your phone calls: The U.S. government is secretly collecting and analyzing the phone records of millions of Americans. 

http://is.gd/GBbdgP

Boundless Informant: the NSA's secret tool to track global surveillance data:
The National Security Agency has developed a powerful tool for recording and analysing where its intelligence comes from, raising questions about its repeated assurances to Congress that it cannot keep track of all the surveillance it performs on American communications. 

http://is.gd/c44kwf

Eric Holder Refuses To Answer When Asked If Obama Admin Is Spying On Congress :
Video - 

http://is.gd/PrSgyl

10 Things Americans Underestimate About Our Massive Surveillance State:  The latest revelations are just the tip of the iceberg. 

http://is.gd/xXDga0

Judge Napolitano On NSA Spying: Video -  Most Extraordinarily Broad Search Warrant Ever Issued In US History  

http://is.gd/DLO6PX

Rand Paul Tells Fox Viewers To Join Lawsuit Against NSA:  'I'm Going To Challenge This At The Supreme Court': "If we get ten million Americans saying we don't want our phone records looked at, then maybe someone will wake up and something will change in Washington." 

http://is.gd/kmawlp

Surprise, Surprise! All Occupiers Phones Were Logged:
In light of news that everyday the entire of telecom giant Verizon's call system records are handed over to the NSA, news that attendees of Occupy Wall Street protest attendees' cell phones were logged should hardly come as a shock 

http://is.gd/SNoXKo

Police State USA: NSA Building $860 Million Data Center in Maryland:  The NSA is already building a massive data center in Utah, investing up to $1.5 billion in a project that will feature up to 1 million square feet of facilities. 

http://is.gd/EfwUNs

U.K. says eavesdropping is legal, defends U.S. spy links:  Foreign Secretary William Hague said the two countries did share intelligence but that GCHQ's work was governed by a very strong legal framework. "The idea that in GCHQ people are sitting around working out how to circumvent a UK law with another agency in another country is fanciful," Hague told BBC. "It is nonsense". 

http://is.gd/nrWIBJ

Web inventor Berners-Lee warns forces are 'trying to take control':  Companies and governments "trying to take control of the internet" are undermining the founding principles of the web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee has warned. 

http://is.gd/OdaoQh

UK: Homelessness rises again:  Over the last two years there has been a 23 per cent rise in statutory homelessness acceptances while over the last three years there has been a 34 per cent rise. 

http://is.gd/UeaglP

US: Real Unemployment Rate: 11.3%:  There are job numbers, and then there are job numbers which make sense in the context of a US population that keeps rising. 

http://is.gd/iDYDat

Union workers in California stage rally against low wages:  The protesting workers said corporations are trying to destroy the middle class by cutting benefits and lowering wages. Activists say there is a situation of extreme inequality and worsening living conditions for a great number of people living in the city.  

http://is.gd/pmBJ8o


G8 update........do not be distracted by the pseudo-news and mass media's info-tainment that have us masses focusing on distraction...VIA pressitutes that have a different agenda than us commons and plebs..........fuck the for profit NEWS..........kos


La Via Campesina

G8 needs reminding the market doesn't know best when it comes to hunger

Partnerships with food giants such as Monsanto and Unilever will not eradicate hunger – and they might well make it worse

inS

• Nick Dearden The Guardian, Sunday 9 June 2013 14.30 EDT

Children demonstrate during a global day of action in New Delhi, India, on the eve of the G8 hunger summit in London on 8 June 2013. Photograph: Altaf Qadri/AP

David Cameron's attempt to detoxify the Conservative party has rested on a set of policies that include supporting gay marriage, encouraging women into public office and increasing international aid.
In many ways the last of these has been most successful – and the government has drawn few attacks from the opposition for its development policy, as it has increased the aid budget even while making harsh cuts elsewhere.
This week Cameron attempts to gild his image on the global stage when he chairs the G8 summit. He has long waited for his "Blair moment", at which some of the razzmatazz of the last British G8 – in 2005 at Gleneagles – is recreated, if somewhat toned down to suit a time of austerity.
A centrepiece of Cameron's G8 was the "hunger summit", at the weekend, at which politicians from around the world came to plan the "eradication of hunger". Nobody can deny the ambition of that goal. But that does not mean we should applaud any policies that claim to be able to reach it.
The policies that the hunger summit endorsed will not eradicate hunger – and they might well make it worse. They are based on the same principle that guides all of the government's development thinking – namely the idea that "the market knows best". That's why African farmers' movements rejected a major component of the hunger summit – the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition. This alliance was launched at the last G8 and promises to increase investment in agriculture through "partnerships" with food giants such as Monsanto, Syngenta, Cargill and Unilever.
On Saturday, as the New Alliance added three African countries to the current six, anti-poverty groups including Jubilee Debt Campaign, Friends of the Earth and War on Want, demanded that the British government withhold the £395m of aid that it has pledged. Africa's farmers labelled it a "new wave of colonialism" because countries taking part in new alliance pilots are told, for instance, to make it easier for foreign corporations to buy up agricultural land and end trade protection.
This route to eradicating global hunger was tried and failed many times in the heyday of the British empire. It cost millions of lives on the Indian subcontinent in the 19th and 20th centuries, as support and protection for ordinary farmers was ended and food distribution was dictated by the market. Food was exported and stockpiled to attain higher prices, even while local populations starved to death.
Hunger is no more a result of food shortage today than it was then. The "market knows best" policies have not delivered food to the hungry. Real solutions are out there. A UN process (through the committee on world food security) is working to develop a set of principles to challenge the control of food systems. Massive grassroots networks, such as La Via Campesina, are working for "food sovereignty": the right to have not just access to food, but control of the food system. It calls for land redistribution, a focus on domestic production, collective and organic farming and public support for farmers.
The concentration of power in the hands of corporations, especially financial business, is at the core of global injustices such as the deprivation of food. Yet across the board, the British government sees these behemoths as the solution to injustice.
Large numbers of the British public have marched and campaigned for a fairer distribution of power and wealth in the world. It is an insult if the very tools that they have defended – such as the development department and its budget – are used in a way that makes the world less fair.
G8 summits have traditionally seen campaigners get on the streets to question who holds the reins of global power. Why is it that eight countries have such a say over the lives of 7 billion people? Rather than giving Cameron a "golden moment", we must use the G8 to reclaim the development agenda as a broad-based call for social justice.

btw....

"We, his majesty's most loyal subjects, [...] find that the present unhappy situation of our affairs is occasioned by a ruinous system of colony administration, adopted by the British ministry about the year 1763, evidently calculated for enslaving these colonies, and, with them, the British Empire. In prosecution of which system, various acts of parliament have been passed, for raising a revenue in America, for depriving the American subjects, in many instances, of the constitutional trial by jury, exposing their lives to danger, by directing a new and illegal trial beyond the seas, for crimes alleged to have been committed in America: And in prosecution of the same system, several late, cruel, and oppressive acts have been passed, respecting the town of Boston and the Massachusetts-Bay, and also an act for extending the province of Quebec, so as to border on the western frontiers of these colonies, establishing an arbitrary government therein, and discouraging the settlement of British subjects in that wide extended country; thus, by the influence of civil principles and ancient prejudices, to dispose the inhabitants to act with hostility against the free Protestant colonies, whenever a wicked ministry shall chuse so to direct them."

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Hey, Is Obama the real lair?     Sure seems that way.....say anything to get elected, then fuck the working class...We are on to you.

“Before [the President] enter on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath or Affirmation:--"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

The Constitution of the United States

Article II, Section I

National Archives and Records Administration 

“Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State. And the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof.”

The Constitution of the United States

Article IV, Section I

National Archives and Records Administration

September 17, 1787

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