The last Parl. Sec. for Stephen Harper is being charged with election fraud. The present one isn’t a bright bulb either. Harper govt's response to our new CBC story RT @sfharris Paul Calandra just refered to Glen Greenwald as "porn spy" in the House of Commons— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January
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The Cracked Crystal Ball II: Harper Now Has His Own Secret Police
A feature of totalitarian states around the world is a “secret” police force that is engaged in spying on a nation’s citizens and keeping them in line with implicit threats of “legal action”. Most notorious among these would be East Germany’s Stasi, but there are many examples. In Canada, it
Continue readingdrive-by planet: Snowden ARD interview (video – English version): U.S. officials ‘want to kill me’
In an interview with ARD, Germany’s national broadcaster, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden speaks of threats against his life that were reported on Buzzfeed. A Buzzfeed piece titled America’s spies want Edward Snowden dead cites a number of threats made by anonymous US officials. These include a rather macabre hit suggested
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Pardon?
I’d wondered why the USA wasn’t chasing after draft dodgers still. On this day in 1977, U.S. President Jimmy Carter granted an unconditional pardon to hundreds of thousands of men… fb.me/2Zrr46qpA— Christina Cherneskey (@ccherneskey) January 21, 2014 My respect for Carter went up when I learned this. Obama could redeem
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: PRISM: Telcos Violating Privacy
It apparently doesn’t matter if the Canadian spy agencies don’t spy on Canadians. To be clear though, the Ed Snowden leaks make it clear that they do spy on us. Canada’s intelligence agency deliberately kept the country’s Federal Court “in the dark” to bypass the law in order to outsource
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden’s “letter to the Brazilian people”
“At the NSA, I witnessed with growing alarm the surveillance of whole populations without any suspicion of wrongdoing, and it threatens to become the greatest human rights challenge of our time,” says whistleblower Edward Snowden in this “open letter to the Brazilian people”, published by the Folha de S Paulo
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Vindication for Snowden? Obama Panel Backs Major Curbs on NSA Surveillance, Phone Record Data Mining
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Hardly a day goes by without learning about further intrusions into the privacy of citizens in both the US and Canada. Edward Snowden’s handling of the damning intrusions and once unthinkable surveillance has increased public recognition and appreciation for his efforts shining a light on the unprecedented
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Obama’s NSA is the East German Stasi of our time
German leader flat out states that Obama’s government is little better than the East German Stasi. “In an angry exchange with Barack Obama, Angela Merkel has compared the snooping practices of the US with those of the Stasi, the ubiquitous and all-powerful secret police of the communist dictatorship in East
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Spysplaining
The CSEC commish, entrusted to the task of ensuring CSEC doesn’t break the law during its spying on, err, for this country, is not coming out smelling like a rose. It was a puppet head trifecta today – the new CSEC *watchdog* defending NSA puppet CSEC to the PMO puppet
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Why we should hope that Bitcoin doesn’t succeed
Most people who currently own bitcoin don’t own it to use it in the short term. The amount of uses for people to spend bitcoins is trivial in comparison to the main reason people buy bitcoins: to store them. Some people store them because they are doing short or medium
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Harper’s new $1.2B CSEC spy complex “a waste of money”: ShitHarperDid
This is what ShitHarperDid activists had to say Wednesday during a peaceful protest against Harper’s $1.2B CSEC complex in Ottawa: “I SPY A WASTE OF MONEY” The post Harper’s new $1.2B CSEC spy complex “a waste of money”: ShitHarperDid appeared first on The Canadian Progressive.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: #cdnpoli Spying On You
The G20 scandal just got broader. Besides Canadian police massively violating protester’s rights, the NSA appears to have been assisted by CSEC to illegally spy on Canadians in Ontario for the G20. Canada Defence Min declines to answer question from NDP about CBC report on NSA/G20 surveillance— Paul Vieira (@paulvieira)
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: He Called Himself a Journalist – UPDATED
The Independent got a black eye today from a former editor who shamelessly confessed to being an authoritarian. Blackhurst, in explaining why he would never have allowed his newspaper to publish any of the documents from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, actually wrote: If the security services insist something is contrary
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: PRISM: Top Secret BS
The latest leak from Snowden reveals the shocking aim of Canada’s signals intelligence. Now that the global ware on terrorism is apparently won, the prodigious number of analysts apparently are tasked with corporate espionage for the benefit of Enbridge. That’s a heck of a big, Made In Canada problem the
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Using Fear as a Tool to Manufacture Consent
One of the worst traits of modern governments is to fearmonger. Fear is a weapon one that is deployed against a victim. Governments that use fear do it to manipulate citizens, often to coerce them into consenting to the surrender of their rights and liberties. It is nothing
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Reflections on tumblr, facebook and social media
Going from specifics to depth and breadth, and from particularities to universals, here are some thoughts for your consideration, for anyone who may be interested. I’ve come to love the social networking / blogging community / window onto the web which is called tumblr. That being said, tumblr is largely
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Blacklocks reports (PDF) on the abuse of a corporate tax credit which served as an “open bar” allowing businesses to have the public fund their basic operations. And it’s surely worth noting that after that abuse was identified, the Cons’ reaction was
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Passwords Holding the Web Together
I noticed another person with a CIBC 2-factor authentication fob on their key chain last week. It displays a seemingly random number that actually only a special server knows, so if a password is stolen, so too must the fob containing the random number code that changes every minute. Without
Continue readingThings Are Good: A Protest Song About the NSA Reading Your Emails
The band YACHT has gone back to the glory days of Dylan and the like by writing a protest song. The song is about the NSA illegal spying the USA, which should bother pretty much anyone who cares about privacy. Until now, there was no good news to mention about
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: On Bad Days And Defiance
Yesterday was not a good day for me. First, I awoke to read about the government raid on the Guardian office resulting in the destruction of computers containing some of the material leaked by Edward Snowden on illegal state surveillance. Eerily reminiscent of the U.S. Department of Justice raid on
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