If you live in scenic Logan County West Virginia, you should know that your out-of-control police and judges are willing to arrest and prosecute 14-year-olds if they're wearing the wrong t-shirt. That's the lesson being learned by middle-schooler Jared Marcum, who was suspended, and subsequently arrested, after refusing to remove the NRA t-shirt he wore to class. Back in April, Jared was in line for lunch when a teacher spotted his shirt. It read "NRA - Protect Your Rights" and featured a drawing of a .308 caliber semi-automatic rifle. The outraged "educator" gave him three options. Since it's just a t-shirt, all three of Jared's choices were ridiculous: A: Turn the shirt inside out B: Change his clothes C: Go to the principal’s office where he'd be suspended. Mr. Marcum refused to remove the violent, deeply offensive, piece of cotton and that's when the cops were summoned. According to the student they were called solely “Because I would not take this shirt off. Because I believe that I should have a right to wear this.” According to Logan County court documents, when police arrived, Jared refused to be silent. His talking supposedly interfered with the officer's ability to do his very important t-shirt investigation, so the boy was arrested for "disturbing the education process" and obstruction.

Refreshing News: Police show up at a home to arrest an 11 year old. Mother asks to see the warrant. Police arrest mother and leave the 11 year old at home - Slaton police came to this woman's house, who wishes to remain anonymous, to arrest her son. But by asking one simple question, she found herself behind bars instead. "I told him, 'I will release my son to you upon viewing those orders.' Those were exactly my words," The complainant said. "He said, 'This is how you want to play?' He took two steps back, turned around to the officer and said, 'Take her.' They turned me around, handcuffed me, and took me in." The complainant said she was aware police would be coming to apprehend her 11-year-old son based on a criminal complaint, and that she just wanted to see the warrant. As it turns out, that warrant didn't exist. She spent the night in jail while her son was left at home.

National Security Agency discloses in secret Capitol Hill briefing that thousands of analysts can listen to domestic phone calls. That authorization appears to extend to e-mail and text messages too. - The National Security Agency has acknowledged in a new classified briefing that it does not need court authorization to listen to domestic phone calls, a participant said. Rep. Jerrold Nadler, a New York Democrat, disclosed on Thursday that during a secret briefing to members of Congress, he was told that the contents of a phone call could be accessed "simply based on an analyst deciding that." If the NSA wants "to listen to the phone," an analyst's decision is sufficient, without any other legal authorization required, Nadler said he learned. "I was rather startled," said Nadler, an attorney and congressman who serves on the House Judiciary committee. Not only does this disclosure shed more light on how the NSA's formidable eavesdropping apparatus works domestically, it also suggests the Justice Department has secretly interpreted federal surveillance law to permit thousands of low-ranking analysts to eavesdrop on phone calls.

Washington’s Blog: The Next NSA Spying Shoe to Drop: “Pre-Crime” Artificial Intelligence - We reported in 2008: A new article by investigative reporter Christopher Ketcham reveals, a governmental unit operating in secret and with no oversight whatsoever is gathering massive amounts of data on every American and running artificial intelligence software to predict each American’s behavior, including “what the target will do, where the target will go, who it will turn to for help”. The same governmental unit is responsible for suspending the Constitution and implementing martial law in the event that anything is deemed by the White House in its sole discretion to constitute a threat to the United States. (this is formally known as implementing “Continuity of Government” plans). [Background here.] As Ketcham’s article makes clear, these same folks and their predecessors have been been busy dreaming up plans to imprison countless “trouble-making” Americans without trial in case of any real or imagined emergency. What kind of Americans? Ketcham describes it this way: “Dissidents and activists of various stripes, political and tax protestors, lawyers and professors, publishers and journalists, gun owners, illegal aliens, foreign nationals, and a great many other harmless, average people.”

Thomas Gaist: New reports detail vast scale of NSA “mega data collection”
British Security Agency (GCHQ) Spying Documents Revealed [ -Not at all. This is just a "limited hangout."]

Former French Foreign Minister: The War against Syria was Planned Two years before “The Arab Spring”
France's Former Foreign Minister, Roland Dumas, has stated in a televised program on LCP that UK government officials had told him about preparations for war in Syria two years prior to the start of the 2011 protests and conflict. The reason given for this war is the Syrian government's anti-Israel stance that made Syria a target for Western-backed regime change.

Christof Lehmann: “Top British Officials Confessed to Syria War Plans Two Years before Arab Spring”

Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned Western states against providing weapons to foreign-backed militants who have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity, saying plans to give them arms contradict basic human values. Putin made the remarks during a news conference in London on Sunday after holding talks with British Prime Minister David Cameron on the Syrian crisis.

"It is barely worth it (supplying arms) to support people who not only kill their enemies but open up their bodies and eat their internal organs in front of the public and the cameras," Putin said. "Do you want to supply these people with arms? In that case this hardly has anything to do with the humanitarian values which have for centuries been preached in Europe," he added. "At least in Russia we cannot imagine this."

PressTV: Russia not to permit no-fly zone over Syria: Foreign Ministry
Russia Today: Putin warns Cameron against arming Syrian rebels as UK weighs options - Video
The Guardian: Putin backs Assad and berates west over proposal to arm "rebels"

Boris Johnson warns that arming the Syrian rebels would be disastrous, adding to tough warnings from Vladimir Putin, the Archbishop of York and an ex-Army leader. Arming the Syrian rebels would be disastrous because Britain would be "pressing weapons into the hands of maniacs", says Boris Johnson. The Mayor of London warns David Cameron that the UK must not use Syria as an "arena for muscle-flexing" and says that any weapons sent to the country's opposition could end up in the hands of al-Qaeda [CIA]. His comments come after several leading figures opposed any move by Mr Cameron to join President Barack Obama in providing greater assistance to the forces fighting Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian leader.

Stephen Lendman: Obama Ups the Stakes in Syria
Johannes Stern & Alex Lantier: US inflames sectarian tensions to escalate war in Syria
Thierry Meyssan: Sarin gas is as volatile as Washington’s promises
PressTV: US lawmakers urged President Barack Obama to impose Syria no-fly zone
The Examiner: Zbigniew Brzezinski: Obama Syria plan is 'chaos, baffling, a mess, tragedy'
CLG: U.S. 'backed plan to launch chemical weapon attack on Syria and blame it on Assad'
Daily Mail: UN: Syrian rebels carried out sarin gas attacks and blamed on Assad's troops [7 May 2013]

Turkish PM Insists Crushing Protests Is His 'Duty' - Four days after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan promised to end all of Turkey’s public protests in 24 hours, the site of the biggest crackdowns, Istanbul, has erupted into enormous street riots, with protests centered on Gezi Park and Taksim Square now felt in every corner of the nation’s largest city. Police remain in force at the Taksim Square area, firing off tear gas every once in awhile to replenish the clouds of it that are seemingly constantly looming in the area. Protesters who fled the site into a nearby hotel noted that the lobby of that too was filled with tear gas, sparking panic for those within. The big protest areas are simply “no-go” zones without gas masks at this point, and even then the police are attacking protesters seemingly out of lack of any better ideas.

Everyone who enters Istanbul’s Taksim Square, the heart of nearly 20-day-long protests against the government, will be considered a member or a supporter of a terrorist organization, Turkey’s European Union minister said in a televised interview late last night. - “From now on the state will unfortunately have to consider everyone who remains there a supporter or member of a terror organization,” he said. “Our prime minister has already assured [activists] about their aim with the protests. The protests from now on will play into the hands of some separatist organizations that want to break the peace and prioritize vandalism and terrorism.” High-ranking Turkish officials have been posting warnings on the issue and everyone should act in a "sensitive manner," he said.

Amnesty International: Turkey: End the incommunicado detention of Istanbul protesters

The historic residence of Pakistan’s founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah in Pakistan’s South western Balochistan province was bombed and destroyed by militants on Saturday. Militants have bombed the historic residence of Pakistan’s founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah in restive Quetta city of Pakistan’s Southwestern Balochistan province, destroying it completely and killing a policeman deployed for security there. A police official, pleading anonymity said a group of four to five militants entered the 121-year-old historic building at Ziarat, about 120 kms from Quetta in the wee hours today. “The militants hurled rocket propelled grenade, destroying all the old memorials inside the residency”. He said memorial chairs, beds, and historic photographs of Pakistan’ founder were raised to rubble in the fire. “The wooden structure of the residence had been burnt completely. However, the exterior structure made of bricks was still intact,” he said. The official said militants also fired on the policemen deployed for safety of the building. A policeman was killed in the militant firing. [...] According to Pakistan newspaper, Express Tribune, outlawed militant outfit Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) has claimed the attack on the Jinnah residency in Ziarat.

Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah congratulated on Saturday Sheikh Hasan Rouhani for his election as nes President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Hezbollah Media Relations said. “This election revived the hopes of the dear people of Iran towards all their aspirations," Sayyed Nasrallah wrote, adding that the Arab, Muslim and oppressed peoples - that have always found the Islamic Republic their savior - see the president-elect as the focus of hopes.

Stephen Lendman: Hassan Rohani: Iran's President-Elect - It's official. Iran's Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar announced it. Rohani won 50.7% of 36.7 million votes cast. Six candidates competed. Principlist Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf finished second. He received one-third of Rohani's total. Rohani won decisively. He'll serve four years. He's limited to two terms. He's head of state. On October 24, 1979, Iranians adopted their Constitution. They did so democratically by national referendum. [...] Obama failed to congratulate Rohani. Doing so directly is called for.

■ The shocking minutes relating to President Putin’s meeting last month with US Secretary of State John Kerry reveal the Russian leaders “extreme outrage” over the Obama regimes continued protection of global seed and plant bio-genetic giants Syngenta and Monsanto in the face of a growing “bee apocalypse” that the Kremlin warns “will most certainly” lead to world war. ■ According to these minutes, released in the Kremlin today by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation (MNRE), Putin was so incensed over the Obama regimes refusal to discuss this grave matter that he refused for three hours to even meet with Kerry, who had traveled to Moscow on a scheduled diplomatic mission, but then relented so as to not cause an even greater rift between these two nations. ■ At the center of this dispute between Russia and the US, this MNRE report says, is the “undisputed evidence” that a class of neuro-active insecticides chemically related to nicotine, known as neonicotinoids, are destroying our planets bee population, and which if left unchecked could destroy our world’s ability to grow enough food to feed its population. ■ So grave has this situation become, the MNRE reports, the full European Commission (EC) this past week instituted a two-year precautionary ban (set to begin on 1 December 2013) on these “bee killing” pesticides following the lead of Switzerland, France, Italy, Russia, Slovenia and Ukraine, all of whom had previously banned these most dangerous of genetically altered organisms from being used on the continent.

Iceland's bid to join the EU is over, the country's foreign minister told the European Commission on Thursday (13 June). - "This is how democracy works," said Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson, on his first overseas trip, three weeks after being appointed to the recently elected Icelandic government. He pointed out that both parties in the new government had campaigned against EU accession. He commented that the main purpose of the trip had been "to tell the commission that the new government has made decision to put negotiations on hold. "We are part of Europe and want to strengthen our relationship in other ways," he added.

National Defense Authorization Act instructs U.S. to take 'all necessary steps' to help Israel defend its vital national interests, among them preventing a nuclear Iran. The U.S. House of Representatives passed a defense authorization bill that would make it U.S. policy to take "all necessary steps" to ensure Israel is able to "remove existential threats," among them nuclear facilities in Iran. "It is the policy of the United States to take all necessary steps to ensure that Israel possesses and maintains an independent capability to remove existential threats to its security and defend its vital national interests," said the amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act passed Friday.

JTA: House passes bill making it U.S. policy to help Israel ‘remove threats’