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Showing posts with label NSA Surveillance. Show all posts
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Wednesday, September 14, 2016

RSN: Edward Snowden Makes 'Moral' Case for Presidential Pardon




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FOCUS: Edward Snowden Makes 'Moral' Case for Presidential Pardon 
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Ewen MacAskill, Guardian UK 
MacAskill writes: "Edward Snowden has set out the case for Barack Obama granting him a pardon before the US president leaves office in January, arguing that the disclosure of the scale of surveillance by US and British intelligence agencies was not only morally right but had left citizens better off." 
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Wednesday, September 7, 2016

RSN: Nearly Half of All Refugees Are Children, Says UNICEF, Fox News' Presidential Debate Moderator Says He'll Let Candidates Lie




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Is Hillary Clinton More Liberal Than Barack Obama? Joseph Stiglitz Says Yes. 
Joseph Stiglitz. (photo: Virginia Mayo/AP) 
Isaac Chotiner, Slate 
Excerpt: "I think Hillary Clinton is much more concerned about more progressive taxes and dealing with tax avoidance of multinational corporations. I think she is very committed to that." 
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Inside Menwith Hill: The NSA's British Base at the Heart of US Targeted Killing 
Ryan Gallagher, The Intercept 
Gallagher writes: "Once known only by the code name Field Station 8613, the secret base - now called Menwith Hill Station - is located about nine miles west of the small town of Harrogate in North Yorkshire. Originally used to monitor Soviet communications through the Cold War, its focus has since dramatically shifted, and today it is a vital part of the NSA's sprawling global surveillance network." 
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Judge Halts Parts of Dakota Pipeline, but Not on Standing Rock 
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Excerpt: "A federal judge ruled Tuesday for construction to stop in some areas of the Dakota Access pipeline but denied the temporary restraining order the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe had requested."
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Fox News' Presidential Debate Moderator Says He'll Let Candidates Lie 
Judd Legum, ThinkProgress 
Legum writes: "A moderator who lets the candidates lie with impunity could be an advantage for Donald Trump, based on his Politifact scorecard." 
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The Sandy Hook Hoax 
Reeves Wiedeman, New York Magazine 
Wiedeman writes: "Lenny Pozner used to believe in conspiracy theories. Until his son's death became one." 
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Nearly Half of All Refugees Are Children, Says UNICEF 
Kate Hodal, Guardian UK 
Hodal writes: "A new report shows child refugee figures have jumped by 75% in five years to 8 million, and calls for urgent action to protect the 50 million child migrants worldwide." 
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Fate of World's Last 45 Red Wolves in the Wild in Hands of US Fish and Wildlife Service 
Dan Zukowski, EcoWatch 
Zukowski writes: "The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, which has been managing a recovery operation for the critically endangered red wolf, will decide the fate of the species this month. Just 45 animals remain in the wild in the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge in North Carolina." 
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Wednesday, May 4, 2016

RSN: WhatsApp, Used by 100 Million Brazilians, Was Shut Down Nationwide by a Single Judge




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FOCUS: Glenn Greenwald and Andrew Fishman | WhatsApp, Used by 100 Million Brazilians, Was Shut Down Nationwide by a Single Judge 
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Glenn Greenwald and Andrew Fishman, The Intercept 
Excerpt: "A Brazilian state judge ordered mobile phone operators to block nationwide the extremely popular WhatsApp chat service for 72 hours, a move that will have widespread international reverberations for the increasingly contentious debate over encryption and online privacy." 
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Tuesday, May 12, 2015

RSN: Nuclear Power Plant Leaks Transformer Fluid Into Hudson River After Fire, Not Outraged by NSA Surveillance? You Probably Just Don't Know How Bad It Is.




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Elizabeth Warren: "If the President Is so Confident" About TPP, "Declassify the Text"
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Greg Sargent, The Washington Post
Sargent writes: "The president said in his Nike speech that he's confident that when people read the agreement for themselves, that they'll see it's a great deal. But the president won't actually let people read the agreement for themselves. It's classified."
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James Bamford | Not Outraged by NSA Surveillance? You Probably Just Don't Know How Bad It Is.
James Bamford, Reuters
Bamford writes: "Last summer, after months of encrypted emails, I spent three days in Moscow hanging out with Edward Snowden for a Wired cover story."
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'Dead Man Walking' Nun Seeks Mercy in Boston
Scott Malone, Reuters
Malone writes: "Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told a Roman Catholic nun and prominent death-penalty opponent that 'no one deserves to suffer' as the victims of the deadly 2013 attacks had, she testified Monday as the defense rested its case to spare his life."
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Michelle Obama: I Was 'Knocked Back' by Race Perceptions
Damien Gayle, Guardian UK
Gayle writes: "US first lady speaks out on her experiences as an African American amid racial tensions between black communities and police."
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The Confused Person's Guide to Yemen
Karl Sharro, The Atlantic
Sharro writes: "It's simply a Saudi-Iranian-American-Yemeni-al-Qaeda civil/proxy war."
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Afghan Civil Rights Movement Gains Momentum
Mirqais Harooni and Jessica Donati, Reuters
Excerpt: "Powerful religious leaders in Afghanistan are growing uneasy about the challenge to their authority posed by rare civil rights protests in Kabul and widespread anger over the lynching of a young woman wrongly accused of burning a Koran."
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Nuclear Power Plant Leaks Transformer Fluid Into Hudson River After Fire
Al Jazeera America
Excerpt: "New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday that part of a nuclear power plant remains offline after a transformer fire that has created another problem: thousands of gallons of oil leaking into the Hudson River."
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Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Information Clearing House: Netanyahu: He Came, He Saw, He Conquered. The Power of Israel over the United States, US Preparing for Military Aggression on Venezuela, US Intel Vets Oppose Brennan's CIA Plan




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Splitting the Atlantic Alliance
NATO Lies and Provocations
By Mike Whitney
The Euro-leaders have been going along with the lies to keep the public in line. In other words, it's a healthy dose of perception management for the sheeple.
NATO General Breedlove says Russian Army Still in Ukraine Despite Ceasefire
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General Philip Breedlove declared that Russian President Vladimir Putin had once again "upped the ante" and said the situation in the Donbas was "getting worse everyday."
Russia's Remarkable Renaissance
By F. William Engdahl
It may be the factor that saves our world from a one world dictatorship of the bankers and their military.
Netanyahu: He Came, He Saw, He Conquered.
The Power of Israel over the United States
By Prof. James Petras
There is only one reason that Netanyahu is received as a Viceroy overseeing and dictating strategic policy to what clearly is a servile colonial legislature.
Does Iran Really Want a Bomb?
By Patrick J. Buchanan
While Iran and its allies are fighting al-Qaida and ISIS, Turkey and our Arab allies are malingerers at best and collaborators at worst.
US Preparing for Military Aggression on Venezuela
By Atilio Borón
History shows that when the U.S. denounces a country, it is often a pretext for intervention and regime change.
The Foundations of Our Extinction
By Butler Shaffer
If we are to end our intra-species combat with one another in time to avoid becoming the first known species to engineer its own extinction, we must identify the causes of our aggression.
Who Is Running The Global Show?
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Ellen Brown Interviews Paul Craig Roberts About The Greek, Russian, and US Situations: History Explained From Reagan To The Present.
The NSA Has Taken Over the Internet Backbone. We're Suing to Get it Back.
By Patrick C. Toomey
Every time you email someone overseas, the NSA copies and searches your message. It makes no difference if you or the person you're communicating with has done anything wrong.
Don't Trust Your Phone, Don't Trust Your Laptop
By John Naughton
Edward Snowden's astute revelations show that no electronic communications device - from hard disks to sim cards - is trustworthy.
US Intel Vets Oppose Brennan's CIA Plan
By Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity
Do we really believe that terrorists slip out of the womb screaming "I hate America"?
 
 
 
 

Monday, January 26, 2015

RSN: Boehner's Treason?, 'I'm a Senior al Qaeda Official, Ask Me Anything', How Stable Is Saudi Arabia?




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William Boardman | Boehner's Treason?
US Speaker of the House John Boehner listens as US President Barack Obama delivers the State of the Union address. (photo: Mandel Ngan/Bloomberg)
William Boardman, Reader Supported News
Boardman writes: "Lacking any lawful authority to conduct foreign policy, Congressman John Boehner has invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak to Congress in direct opposition to the American president."
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Japanese PM Stands Firm on Foreign Policy After ISIS Hostage Murder
Julian Borger, Guardian UK
Borger writes: "Japan's prime minister, Shinzo Abe, has vowed his country will continue to play an active and constructive role abroad, undeterred by the execution of a Japanese security contractor by Islamic State extremists."
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Jeremy Scahill | 'I'm a Senior al Qaeda Official, Ask Me Anything'
Jeremy Scahill, The Intercept
Scahill writes: "Two months before the massacre at the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris, social media operatives working with AQAP hosted their own version of a Reddit-style AMA (Ask Me Anything) on Twitter."
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Juan Cole | How Stable Is Saudi Arabia?
Juan Cole, Informed Comment
Cole writes: "The typical Saudi way of dealing with such threats is to throw money at them, which is why it is significant that petroleum prices have hit five-year lows this month. When the Arab youth revolutions began in 2011, the Saudi Arabian regime reacted quickly to ensure that they did not spread to the kingdom."
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Who Can Control NSA Surveillance?
Mattathias Schwartz, The New Yorker
Schwartz writes: "President Obama spent only a few moments of his State of the Union this week talking about the National Security Agency and civil liberties. A year before, he'd promised to 'end' Section 215, the N.S.A.'s most controversial surveillance program, 'as it currently exists.'"
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Obama to Propose Protecting US Arctic Wildlife Refuge From Drilling
Julia Edwards, Reuters
Edwards writes: "U.S. President Barack Obama will propose expanding the protected area of Alaska's Arctic refuge by 12.28 million acres (4.97 million hectares), including the state's Coastal Plain where oil and gas are drilled, the Interior Department said on Sunday."
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Brazil's Worst Drought in History Prompts Protests and Blackouts
Jonathan Watts, Guardian UK
Watts writes: "The taps have run dry and the lights have gone out across swathes of Brazil this week as the worst drought in history spreads from São Paulo to Rio de Janeiro and beyond."
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Wednesday, November 5, 2014

DemocracyNOW! : A Big Win for Climate Change Denial: Republicans to Target EPA Regulations After Taking Senate, Sen. Bernie Sanders: The United States is on the Verge of Becoming an Oligarchy





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We get reaction to the Republicans' big midterm victory from Sen. Bernie Sanders, Independent of Vermont. "What frightens me is what Citizens United has done to the politics of this country and ... Read More →
Republicans have emerged from Tuesday's midterm elections with control of Congress for the first time in eight years by winning key Senate seats and strengthening their majority in the ... Read More →
With their newfound control of both houses of Congress, the Republican agenda includes a rollback of environmental regulations, including President Obama's new rules limiting ... Read More →
President Obama is facing a similar predicament as Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush—the last three presidents to serve two terms. They all governed for the final two ... Read More →
In Vermont, incumbent Democratic Gov. Peter Shumlin has nearly been unseated in a shocking upset. In a process unique to Vermont, projections now show the governor's race will be ... Read More →
The Republican gains in a majority of the midterms' tightly contested Senate races included Colorado, where Cory Gardner ousted Sen. Mark Udall, a leading Senate voice on the ... Read More →