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Der Spiegel has a new one out that seems like it must be based on Snowden docs, though I don’t think it says that.

Anyway, good stuff.

That’s the 30th Chaos Communications Congress.

Starts at 4:30

And that’s assuming Obama and the Democrats succeed in convincing the regime to “invite” the SOCOM to stay.

If they all pack up and go next year as promised, well:

“The report predicts that Afghanistan would likely descend into chaos quickly if Washington and Kabul don’t sign a security pact that would keep an international military contingent there beyond 2014 — a precondition for the delivery of billions of dollars in aid that the United States and its allies have pledged to spend in Afghanistan over the coming years.”

Whatever happened to “changing entire societies” by “clearing, holding and building” a “government in a box” and killing “amazing numbers” of people?

Don’t tell me it was all just a bunch of bullshit.

This morning on Antiwar Radio: Adam Morrow of InterPress Service reports from Cairo on the dictatorship’s crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood.

That’s 8:30-9:00 on 90.7 FM KPFK in L.A., KPFK.org.

Via LibertyCrier, American history being written:

“A new gun law coming in 2014 has gun owners stocking up on long guns before a new registry begins.

“Even though the law is at least temporarily boosting his bottom line, Just Guns owner John Deaser isn’t a fan. He says requiring people to register their rifles and shotguns is an unnecessary invasion of privacy.

“In the last week of 2013, he says sales of long guns are up 30 to 50 percent.

Michael Lofti of the Washington Times:

Governor Rick Snyder of Michigan signed Senate Bill No. 94 into law yesterday. The bill seeks to nullify section 1021 of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). “It is important to recall that indefinite detention first appeared in section 1021 of the 2012 NDAA, which provided warrant for indefinite detention of U.S. citizens,” said Snyder.

Michigan State Senator Rick Jones says that no American citizen should fear being thrown in jail or prison without charges.

“Historically Michigan first asserted Tenth Amendment rights in 1855 when we passed a law to block the fugitive slave act,” says Jones. “I thought of this great history when I drafted and pushed this bill to nullify section 1021 of the NDAA within the state of Michigan.”

Jones says that he was able to gather support from both sides of the political aisle for the bill.

Tenth Amendment Center’s Mike Maharrey said, “This is a great step forward in protecting the basic due process rights of people in Michigan and gives activists there something to build upon. Moving forward, I would love to see the Michigan legislature expand the policy in two ways.”

Read the rest here.

Here’s an interesting piece in the New York Review of Books about how ‘nevermind al Nusra, these ISIS guys are the real ball busters. And the Americans don’t know what to do.’

The people of Syria can thank George W. Bush and Barack Obama — as well as the Israelis and Saudis of course — for their misery. Without the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi would have just been the leader of crappy little Ansar al-Islam, terrorizing nothing and on the run. Instead an entire legion of Ayman al Zawahiri’s best troops grew up fighting that war and building the “Islamic State of Iraq” which Obama has done his best to use against Assad since 2011, in cooperation with the Saudis, Qataris and Turks — and all for the interests of Israel.

Even Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov is covering for the empire when he says that the U.S.ians are finally realizing they’ve been backing the terrorists in Syria: who the hell did they think they were backing, a bunch of fat-ass ex-pats who’ve spent the last 25 years living in Virginia on the CIA welfare roles?

Here’s Hillary warning that she was accidentally on purpose backing bin Ladenites back in the spring of 2012 (at 2:00):

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