An Afghan civilian seeks legal redress against America's 'kill list', and other top breaking news...

by Naomi Wolf

8-10-2012 12:00am

An Afghan civilian goes to court to take on the US's 'kill list'...

Greg Teetsell sends in a very alarming development -- those drones that have such powerful lobbies in US Congress are not just coming to skies near you, ready to be equipped for surveillance or worse, as we reported here -- they are to be integrated with l;aw enforcement! For  local police network that has seen no harm in using violence against peaceful protesters in city after city, this is a most unAmerican development -- if they don't like them in Pakistan why should we think we will like them here? One could point out that these are not yet weaponized but if law enforcement is using them, weaponization is easy and easily justified (or 'justified").... "Integration of civilian police agency drone use is a "done deal'

Michael Van Dijk replied to Greg Manahn's great summary of the Rossport, Ireland protest: "Well done Ireland - what are Capetonians doing about Shell fracking the Karoo?" Then he added this link about homegrown protest against Shell's plan to frack.

Historic Day: Obama Lawyers Say They Can Promise No Us Citizens Haven't Already Been Detained Under NDAA....

Erica Payne, President of the Agenda Project writes: "Gov. Mitt Romney is asking Americans to select him to lead them. He is asking Americans to make him the most powerful person in the country – perhaps in the world. They deserve to know anything about him about him they want to know. Romney Girl -- a character in a new video that we created -- uses an unserious tone to ask some very serious questions:

• 1) Why do you have a Swiss bank account?
• 2) Do you think the President of the United States needs a Swiss bank account?
• 3) Why do you think a President needs a Swiss bank account?
• 4) If you don't think a president needs a Swiss bank account why do you have one?
• 5) What would you do if you learned the President Obama had a Swiss bank account?
• 6) What do you think Fox News would do if it learned that President Obama had a Swiss bank account?
• 7) Did you take advantage of the IRS Amnesty program in 2009 that allowed U.S. citizens who had been hiding money overseas to bring it back without criminal charges? Is that why you refuse to disclose your 2009 returns? Did you convert the 'management fees' of your investment vehicles – of which you were frequently the only general partner – to 'carried interest' in order to pay a lower tax rate?
• 8) Experts have valued your IRA at $101 million. How did your IRA grow so big given that the annual contribution limit is only $30,000? Did your IRA grow to $101 million dollars because you deposited stock into the account instead of cash? If so, at what price did you value the stock? Was it significantly lower than the stock was worth? Did you know misstating the value of assets deposited into a SEP IRA is illegal?
• 9) Do you think it is appropriate that income from investments are taxed at half the rate of income from actually working?
• 10) Do you dye your hair?"

My disclosure: my significant other helped with work on this piece:

http://romneygirl.org

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