05 25 12 Superpower Death Watch

[Jer]

05 25 12 Superpower Death Watch

WHAT THE SUPERPOWER'S
DECLARATION OF WORLD $LAVERY
MEANS


HP to cut 27,000 jobs to save up to $3.5B annually
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HP's largest payroll purge in its 73-year history.

Investors were pleased, although it wasn't clear whether their

glee

had more to do with the cost-cutting or the company's performance during its fiscal second quarter

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See: May 23, 7:33 PM EDT
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_EARNS_HEWLETT_PACKARD?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-05-23-19-33-47
AP rewrites the newsstory under the same URL but under the headline "HP's missteps culminate in loss of 27,000 jobs" dated May 24, 12:14 AM.


Italy's President warns of return of 1970s-style violence
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[Prez] Napolitano said Italy faced a deadly threat to its future.

The stark tone of Napolitano's comments underline the mounting alarm felt by political leaders at the turbulent social climate that has developed as the economic crisis has deepened over the past months.

-- IN MORTAL FEAR OF REVOLUTION --

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See: ROME | Wed May 23, 2012 11:50am EDT
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/23/us-italy-mafia-idUSBRE84M0ZP20120523


Amnesty International lambasts US [The Superpower] for human rights violations
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Amnesty International has lambasted the United States [The Superpower] for a number of human rights violations across the world.


In its 2012 annual report published on Wednesday, the rights group called US [Superpower] drone attacks in Yemen "extrajudicial executions," Amnesty International's website said.


Amnesty also censured US [Superpower] President Barack Obama's failure to shut down the Guantanamo Bay detention camp and criticized conditions in US [Superpower] prisons.


The report said that at the end of 2011, almost two years after Obama's deadline to close the detention center, "171 men were still held at the base, including four who had been convicted by military commission."


In addition, Amnesty criticized Washington [The Superpower] for its "use of lethal force" for the "unlawful" killing of Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan in May 2011.

"The US [Superpower] administration made clear that the operation had been conducted under

the USA's [The Superpower's] [false] theory of a global armed conflict between the USA and al-Qaeda

in which the USA [The Superpower] does not recognize the applicability of international human rights law. In the absence of further clarification from the US authorities, the killing of Osama Bin Laden would appear to have been unlawful," it said.


The rights group also condemned human rights violations committed under the administration of former US [Superpower] President George W. Bush, including CIA's "secret detention and rendition", which is a process of transferring "individuals from the custody of one state to another by means that bypass judicial and administrative due process", and condemned the impunity with which Bush-era officials operated.

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Thursday May 24
PressTV


Canadian police arrest 400 students over tuition fee protests
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The Canadian police in Quebec province have arrested hundreds of students who were protesting against government's new plan to raise university tuition fees.


Police officers in Montreal arrested some 400 protesters early Thursday after several thousands of demonstrators poured into the city's central square defying a new law aimed at ending three months of protests against proposed rise in tuition fees.


The demonstration was declared illegal after protesters refused to give police their route in advance, which is one of the provisions of new controversial protest law.


Under the Quebec's new law for any demonstration of 50 or more people, police should be informed eight hours in advance and told of the route of the demonstration.


There have been also mass arrests at student protests in Quebec City and city of Sherbrooke, with police detaining 40 protesters in Sherbrooke.


Protesters marched through the streets for more than three hours before riot police surrounded them, cutting off their exits and starting to make arrests.


On Monday, police clashed with protesters in Montreal and arrested some 300 people. The Montreal demonstration was the 30th since the student protests against tuition fee increases began more than three months ago.


Students in Canada's eastern province of Quebec have been holding almost daily protests over the past weeks in an attempt to add up pressure on the government to drop the plan to increase the tuition fees.

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Thursday May 24, 2012
PressTV


Fire on nuclear sub at Maine shipyard hurts 7
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the fire started in the four forward compartments, which include

living

and command and control spaces.

The USS Miami has a crew of 13 and 120 enlisted personnel.

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May 24, 6:52 AM EDT
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SUBMARINE_FIRE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-05-24-06-52-10


[Putin's] Meeting with United Russia party leaders
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CHAIRMAN OF THE PRESIDENTIAL COUNCIL FOR CIVIL SOCIETY AND HUMAN RIGHTS MIKHAIL FEDOTOV: Mr President, it is indeed the case that the media asked me to comment, Interfax asked me to comment on the amended Administrative Offences Code passed in the first reading, and I said that I have some concerns about it.

Today, I read very attentively the State Duma's resolution on the adoption of this draft law in the first reading and realised that the Duma has decided to change it radically, and they have now done exactly what I was talking about.

The presidential instruction of May 7 asked the Government to draft proposals on improving the legislation on rallies and meetings and on

administrative liability

in order to bolster human rights and civil liberties.

In this respect it would be the proper thing to reinforce the laws on administrative liability, but at the same time, we need to improve the laws on meetings and demonstrations themselves and make their provisions more democratic.

If we want to channel street activism into discussion and dialogue, we first need to broaden the channel itself. I think it very important to balance tougher provisions on liability with more democratic provisions on rallies and meetings themselves, and then everything will be alright.

In this respect I was very pleased to see that the State Duma resolution states clearly that a special provision defining amendments to the law on rallies and meetings must be added to the draft law. I agreed today with Mr Pligin that we will work on the draft law together. It was the media that was busy shouting that Fedotov demands that President Putin veto it.

I explained to them, said to them, "Look, my friends, President Putin cannot veto a law that has not yet been passed by both houses of parliament. This is simply not possible." And so I think we need to keep working on the draft law and make it more democratic. If we do this, once both houses of parliament pass it we will all be able to say that we are perfectly happy with it. If this does not happen, then the Council will ask you to veto this law.

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CHAIRWOMAN OF IRKUTSK REGION LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY AND MEMBER OF UNITED RUSSIA'S IRKUTSK BRANCH POLITICAL COUNCIL PRESIDIUM LYUDMILA BERLINA: It is important that the draft law sets out strict rules, because, once they are settled, we will all have to obey them. This is part of the constitutional principle of protecting every individual's rights and freedoms.

At the same time, the draft law also proposes provisions regulating the actions of the officials examining requests to hold meetings, demonstrations and other mass public events. The current legislation does not contain provisions on this liability. The draft law contains provisions prohibiting officials from hindering or acting arbitrarily to regulate public initiatives. I think that we need to carry out an evaluation, carry out an expert evaluation. There can be no question of infringing on other people's rights. We must protect people's lives.

We have already seen from world experience that these kinds of mass public events can also give rise to threats.

-- IN MORTAL FEAR OF REVOLUTION --

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May 23, 2012, 16:15 Novo-Ogaryovo, Moscow Region
http://eng.news.kremlin.ru/news/3886


PNG's [Papua New Guinea's] top judge arrested in new political crisis
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Police in Papua New Guinea stormed the Supreme Court in the capital [Port Moresby] and arrested the nation's top judge on sedition charges on Thursday, in response to its [the court's] ruling that the prime minister held power illegally and should step down.

The dramatic development comes after months of political uncertainty in Papua New Guinea, a resource-rich and often volatile nation of around 6.5 million people where 85 percent live a subsistence life in tropical villages.

PNG has vast mineral resources but struggles to pass on the benefits to its people. U.S. [Superpower] oil giant ExxonMobil is developing a $15.7 billion liquefied natural gas plant in PNG, the country's biggest-ever resource project.

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A principal clause of The Superpower's Declaration of World $lavery:

HERE SHALL BE NO LAW EVER AGAIN, ANYWHERE !

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See: PORT MORESBY | Thu May 24, 2012 6:43am EDT
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/24/us-png-elections-idUSBRE84N0MT20120524

and

Papua New Guinea map:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Papua_New_Guinea_map.png


Polish parliament approves higher retirement age [67]
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Lawmakers also backed a revamp of the beneficial pension rules for uniformed services like police or the military

new joiners cannot retire before serving for at least 25 years - compared with 15 years' service currently - and not before turning 55 years of age.

At present men in Poland can retire at 65 years, women at 60.

-- TAKE YOUR SOLIDARITY AND SHOVE IT ! --

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WARSAW | Thu May 24, 2012 4:01am EDT
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/24/us-poland-pensions-idUSBRE84N0F220120524


Insight: Iran's "Great Game" in Afghanistan
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When the [fake] Soviet Union withdrew from Afghanistan in 1989 following a decade-long occupation and the pro-Moscow government in Kabul collapsed, Afghanistan's neighbors moved in to arm and fund proxies to gain regional influence as the country plunged into civil war.

Although [puppet] Kabul's ties with Tehran [Islamic Republic of Iran] have seen sporadic improvement

after the 2001 ouster [by The Superpower] of the Taliban [the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan], which had emerged triumphant after the civil war,

the relationship is combustible.

As the United States [The Superpower] prepares for its own dispirited withdrawal from Afghanistan [= defeat by the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan], it is worried about Iran gaining a strategic advantage in Afghanistan, after seeing Tehran win influence in Iraq following the 2003 U.S. [Superpower] invasion.

More than half of the 171 TV, satellite channels and radio stations licensed to broadcast in Iraq today are funded by Iran, with others backed by the United States and Arabic Gulf countries

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See: KABUL | Thu May 24, 2012 8:45am EDT
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/24/us-afghanistan-iran-media-idUSBRE84N0CB20120524


Anti-African street violence surges in Israel
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Fleeing poverty, fighting and authoritarian rule, some 60,000 Africans have crossed illegally into Israel through the relatively porous desert border with Egypt in recent years.

That has jarred the Jewish state, with its already ethnically fraught citizen population of 7.8 million.

[ Ethnically fraught? S-E-G-R-E-G-A-T-E-D ]

Oscar Olivier, a Congolese migrant, said on Army Radio that he has been in Israel for 18 years seeking refugee status and that the public mood reminded him of the assassination in 1995 of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin by an ultranationalist Jew.

"I feel like we're facing a former alcoholic who has started drinking again," he said in fluent Hebrew. "The question is not if they will kill an African because he is black, but when."

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JERUSALEM | Thu May 24, 2012 3:45am EDT
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/24/us-israel-migrants-idUSBRE84N0DW20120524


5 killed, 8 hurt in Mujahideen attack on invaders convoy, 9 vehicles destroyed
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There are reports from Ghazni province that Mujahideen of the Islamic Emirate [of Afghanistan] early Thursday morning confronted the militarily-secured supply convoys of the invaders in the city of Ghazni, the capital of the province of the same name

in which [confrontation] as many as 9 vehicle[s] including 5 supply trucks and four vehicles of the security guards were destroyed,

...[and] more than five security guards were killed and 8 others wounded amid "Operation Al-Farooq."

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See: GHAZNI Thursday, 24 May 2012 11:33
http://shahamat-english.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=18318:5-killed-8-hurt-in-mujahideen-attack-on-invaders-convoy-9-vehicles-destroyed&catid=1:news&Itemid=2




Jer


America died

AUGUST 6, 1945

while giving birth to

THE SUPERPOWER

which immediately began writing --in blood-- its

DECLARATION OF WORLD $LAVERY


[ HP to cut 27,000 jobs to save up to $3.5B annually - Italy's President warns of return of 1970s-style violence - Amnesty International lambasts US [The Superpower] for human rights violations - Canadian police arrest 400 students over tuition fee protests - Fire on nuclear sub at Maine shipyard hurts 7 - [Putin's] Meeting with United Russia party leaders - PNG's [Papua New Guinea's] top judge arrested in new political crisis - Polish parliament approves higher retirement age [67] - Insight: Iran's "Great Game" in Afghanistan - Anti-African street violence surges in Israel - 5 killed, 8 hurt in Mujahideen attack on invaders convoy, 9 vehicles destroyed ]



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