by: Edward Snowden One week ago I left Hong Kong after it became clear that my freedom and safety were under threat for revealing the truth. My continued liberty has been owed to the efforts of friends new and old, family, and others who I have never met and probably never
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drive-by planet: NSA leaks: abuse of power: John Pilger on the rise of a new fascism
Ed Snowden’s leaks that reveal the NSA’s borderless metadata trawling and massive invasion of Americans’ privacy is further evidence that something is rotten in the heart of empire. Equally disturbing is the shrug and compliance of the Fourth Estate. No matter how far their idol Obama strays from the principles
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Edward Snowden Flees Hong Kong for Russia
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden- Hero or Traitor? Here is an update from Democracy NowU.S. Files Espionage Charges The exact whereabouts of National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden are unknown after he reportedly left Hong Kong and landed in Moscow on Sunday. His flight came just days after the United States
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Mandela and Snowden Two Heroes In A Dark World
Nelson Mandela For decades after the intrusive CIA fingered Nelson Mandela, the terrorist was imprisoned in South Africa. In spite of his incarceration he never gave up hope. Mandela gained international recognition and upon his eventual release led the South Africans to democracy as their president. Now in his final
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Aided by WikiLeaks, NSA whistleblower Snowden leaves Hong Kong, heads for asylum
By: Obert Madondo Twitter: @Obiemad With WikiLeaks’ aid, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden left Hong Kong over the weekend and landed in Moscow en route to asylum in a third country. His departure came after Hong Kong authorities rejected U.S. government demands for his extradition. Snowden, a former National Security Agency contractor wanted by the
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: If Woodward And Bernstein Were Dead
…. I’m sure there would be reports of seismic activity in the vicinity of their graves over this question asked of Glenn Greenwald by Meet the Press host David Gregory about the propriety of his bringing Edward Snowden’s story to the world: Recommend this Post
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Being Insulted By Cheney Is An Honour
It bothers me that American media doesn’t preface interviews with Dick Cheney by pointing out he’s evaded charges for war crimes (re: Iraq War). It does please me that Snowden has had a chance to respond to Cheney’s hypocritical rebuke of Snowden’s epic NSA PRISM leak. Snowden responds 2 Cheney
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: PRISM: Tap It
Some really excellent criticism of wide swaths of the MSM, from… Gawker??? Let’s be honest: Edward Snowden (pictured), the man who made a calculated decision to risk everything he has in order to reveal the NSA’s secret spying program, did something heroic. You don’t have to believe Edward Snowden himself
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: PRISM: Greenwald on CNBC
Strong congressional oversight means asking direct questions & getting straight answers. 1.usa.gov/1a0EIY3— Ron Wyden (@RonWyden) June 11, 2013 Encrypt your shit: Spooky reading after #Snowden: Julian #Assange's call to take up arms against the surveillance state | Cypherpunks cryptome.org/2012/12/assang…— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) June 11, 2013 The world is not sliding, but
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Holding CSEC to account isn’t enough to protect our rights
Open Media, with support from Leadnow, has begun a campaign to demand answers from the Harper government about exactly what kind of information our national signals intelligence agency is gathering about us. While it’s certainly worth trying to get answers to Open Media’s questions, let’s not lull ourselves into thinking
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Journalist Glenn Greenwald interviews NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden [VIDEO]
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden: ‘” don’t want to live in a society that does these sort of things” Video available on YouTube We recommend: The NSA Black Hole: 5 Basic Things We Still Don’t Know About the Agency’s Snooping #freebrad: Tweeting Bradley Manning Trial Before US Military Court CIA whistleblower
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: The NSA Black Hole: 5 Basic Things We Still Don’t Know About the Agency’s Snooping
National Security Agency (NSA) headquarters at Fort Meade, Maryland. By: Justin Elliott and Theodoric Meyer | ProPublica Last week saw revelations that the FBI and the National Security Agency have been collecting Americans’ phone records en masse and that the agencies have access to data from nine tech companies. But secrecy around the programs has meant even
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: PRISM: NSA Watching the Innocent
Technology and civil liberty experts knew PRISM was a very real possibility. I knew, and wrote about it last August. The National Security Agency (NSA) (star bad guy org. in the Will Smith movie Enemy of the State) has been collecting domestic Americans’ phone and Internet records since at least
Continue readingdrive-by planet: Snowden leaks: NSA whistleblower William Binney warns of ‘totalitarian state’
Following news of leaks by NSA whistleblower Ed Snowden, Obama was asked by a reporter about massive NSA surveillance that involves not just phone tracking, but all types of online user communications. In the course of his defense of this unparalleled invasion of privacy, Obama dropped the “Big Brother” term
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: WikiLeaks: Snowden to Greenwald to Guardian
The Verizon phone taps, to Yahoo, Google, Skype, and more all owned by the US Government. These were things suspected by many (thanks to WikiLeaks), and now confirmed by the intentional whistle-blowing leak from the NSA. The man who told on his criminally misbehaving government? A 29 year old who
Continue reading350 or bust: Whistleblower Snowden: NSA Surveillance Will Lead To “Turnkey Tyranny”
This incredibly brave young man’s story needs to be shared far and wide. 29 year old Edward Snowden, through The Guardian newspaper, went public as the NSA whistleblower yesterday. His revelations last week that the US National Security Agency’s Prism program has direct access to the systems of Google, Facebook,
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Another Portrait In Integrity
While Edward Snoden will undoubtedly be portrayed in the days and weeks to come as a traitor to his country, his courageous revelation of the domestic spying that the NSA is engaged in earns my admiration. Not only has he demonstrated his personal courage and convictions by his willingness to
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Jeremy Hammond: Aaron Swartz & the Criminalization of Digital Dissent
It is not the “crimes” Aaron (Swartz) may have committed that made him a target of federal prosecution, but his ideas – elaborated in his “Guerrilla Open Access Manifesto” – that the government has found so dangerous. By Jeremy Hammond – #18729-424 | Metropolitan Correctional Center, Feb. 20, 2013: The tragic
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: The New Blackberry 10 – Time to ditch Apple and Google both
The Blackberry 10 has just been unveiled, and the question returns: Blackberry, iPhone or Google-based Android smart phone? Here are some thoughts, techno-weenie talk aside. We’re talking pure functionality and ethics here, not who has the best gizmo-gadgetry whiz-bang for the buck. Google is a partner in evil, willingly collaborating
Continue readingDrive-by Planet: Utah Data Center: ‘a massive eavesdropping complex’
Wired Magazine has an article about a new NSA spy center being constructed in Utah. It has the user friendly name Utah Data Center. Wired: A project of immense secrecy, it is the final piece in a complex puzzle assembled over the past decade. Its purpose: to intercept, decipher, analyze,
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