Sunday, June 30

How PRISM interfaces with internet providers: Like pus from a lanced boil the revelations keep oozing out. Uck.

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The Washington Post released the data earlier today.  Here's the link to the report , and here are a few paragraphs from the the Guardia...

Glenn Greenwald previews next Snowden bombshell and skewers mainstream news media

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Wow. Hard words from Glenn Greenwald about "establishment journalism." As to Ed Snowden's next revelation -- From The Slates...

Welcome to Shutter Island or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Cyberwar

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Dr. Strangelove to Russian Ambassador de Sadesky: "Of course the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost if you keep it a secret. Why...

Snowden reveals NSA spied on E.U. officials. Here's how Germany's SPIEGEL headlined the report:

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 "Attacks from America: NSA spied on European Union Offices" Yes; technically, the alleged NSA actions were an "attack...
Wednesday, June 26

Breaking News: SECTION 13 HAS BEEN REPEALED

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Much needed good news for freedom of speech advocates the world over!   From Marc Lemire's post about the historic vote in Canada this a...

Creeping Toward Turnkey Tyranny

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The Creepy-state is not there to protect you or give you a higher standard of living or ensure justice or democracy, but to maintain a hie...
Tuesday, June 25

Make that 28

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On June 11 Infowars posted 27 Edward Snowden Quotes About U.S. Government Spying That Should Send A Chill Up Your Spine (H/T Gates of Vienn...

This seems like a good time to mention Steve Diamond's latest book

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I haven't read the book yet but I do know that Steve is very knowledgeable about what happened in Nicaragua.  It's time more America...
Monday, June 24

Obama's Insider Threat program: Are you having a bad hair day? I might have to report you as a potential traitor to the United States.

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Now just see: This is the problem with accusing your political opponents of being Nazis, which we do here in the USA at the drop of a hat. N...

Out with Obama's China Pivot; in with the Snowden Pivot

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Since the Afghan War and Arab Spring ended at the bottom of Washington's crisis list and the Pentagon nixed an air war against Assad it...
Sunday, June 23

Edward Snowden is America's real Goodwill Ambassador

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In his ode to a louse that had settled on a church lady's bonnet the Scottish poet Robert Burns observed, "O wad some Power the gi...

LAST WEEK: U.S. bullies Hong Kong to quickly extradite Ed Snowden. TODAY: Hong Kong paper publishes details from Snowden about NSA spying on millions of Chinese text messages, and Hong Kong authorities allow Snowden to leave for undisclosed destination via Moscow

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On June 22 at 6:00 EDT, the Washington Post reported that the Obama had been "publicly pressuring" -- bullying, in other words --...
Friday, June 21

Criminal charges filed against Edward Snowden

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The Washington Post broke the story at 6:04 PM ET: U.S. charges Edward Snowden with espionage in leaks about NSA surveillance programs F...
Thursday, June 20

Classifed documents reveal "top secret rules that allow NSA to use US data without a warrant." New Guardian report.

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The documents blow assurances from Obama, NSA, FBI to Congress and American public out of the water.  Also from the Guardian report , filed ...

Ed Snowden is a transgender CIA operative from outer space: America's Tin Foil Hat Tribe gets to the bottom of the NSA Affair

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Alex Seitz-Wald has collected the wilder conspiracy theories about Edward Snowden; the result is his laugh out loud funny Here Come the Edwa...
Wednesday, June 19

Other NSA whistleblowers back Snowden's allegations

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Thanks to all concerned at USA Today for bringing in this important project.  Here's the text version from the June 16 roundtable discu...

Petition to pardon Edward Snowden

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Sticks in my craw to have to ask for a pardon for him, and given the accusations of treason against him by powerful members of Congress I ve...

It’s now criminal in the United States to expose the crimes of the state (Updated)

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UPDATE: More on NSA Affair from Counterpunch: T he Last Check on Abuses of Power : The National Security State and the Whistleblower;...

"New Coronavirus 'Eerily' Like SARS"

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New Coronavirus 'Eerily' Like SARS By Michael Smith, North American Correspondent, MedPage Today Reviewed by  Robert Jas...
Monday, June 17

Obama and Sensenbrenner : two very different views of U.S. domestic spying program

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Quotes below are from Congressman (R-WI) Jim Sensenbrenner's June 9 op-ed for The Guardian titled, This Abuse of the Patriot Act Must En...