Monitoring NSA in de VS en erbuiten, deel 6

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Op maandag 19 augustus 2013 19:19 schreef Pietverdriet het volgende:
In Nederland werden journalisten afgeluisterd door de inlichtingdiensten. Het werd nauwelijks een schandaal

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Op maandag 19 augustus 2013 19:22 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:

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Die 2 telegraaf journalisten die werden vastgezet om hun bronnen vrij te geven werd wel een schandaal.

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Op maandag 19 augustus 2013 19:23 schreef Pietverdriet het volgende:

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Alleen in de telegraaf

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Op maandag 19 augustus 2013 19:06 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:

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Op maandag 19 augustus 2013 19:28 schreef Disorder het volgende:

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Het 'vrije' westen, dames en heren.

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Anonymous Hacks UK Government Site in Response to Detention of David Miranda

United Kingdom authorities have detained David Miranda, Glenn Greenwald's partner. Greenwald is the journalist responsible for publishing the information obtained by Edward Snowden from the NSA. Anonymous hackers have responded to the incident by hacking a UK government website.

The fact that UK authorities have detained Miranda has been heavily criticized – including by Amnesty International – despite the fact that he was released after nine hours of questioning.

For their part, the hacktivists have defaced the official website of the Mole Valley District Council (molevalley.gov.uk), which they've used to publish a statement.

“We expect there to be many pointed questions asked in the coming days, both domestically and internationally as to how and why an already ridiculously broad and draconian act of law was ripped of its last remaining shred of legitimacy in what cannot be described as anything other than an act of pure spite and intimidation, an act intended to exert a chilling effect on a stream of high-quality journalistic reporting whose historic importance cannot possibly be overstated,” the hackers said.

The statement is accompanied by a table comprised of the personal details of US government employees. The table includes information on their children, parents, spouses and friends.

The hacktivists say that if Miranda can be detained under terrorism legislation just because he’s related to Greenwald, based on the same theory, other possible terrorists might be related to people working in the US government and military.

“We encourage anyone who is interested in preventing terror attacks to fully investigate these spouses and siblings and mothers and fathers and son and daughters, before they too are embroidered in terrible terror plots of the most heinous variety,” Anonymous members said.

Finally, they conclude their statement with a threat. The hackers say they’re preparing something that’s “befitting the gravity of the crimes.”

“Oh, and before we go, we should probably mention that we have been very, very angry over the last few months -- and very, very busy. The only reason you have not heard from us before now is that we have been waiting and watching as the leaks come out and the spooks trip up over own lies and distortions,” the hacktivists noted.

At the time of writing, the Mole Valley Council website still hosts Anonymous’ statement.

Bron: news.softpedia.com

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Glenn Greenwald 'Not Worried At All' About Britain Getting Info From His Partner's Seized Electronics

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Andrew Sullivan took this lesson from the detention:
"So any journalist passing through London’s Heathrow has now been warned: do not take any documents with you. Britain is now a police state when it comes to journalists, just like Russia is."

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TIME Magazine Reporter Michael Grunwald Calls For Murder Of Julian Assange | FDL News Desk

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AssangeC twitterde op zondag 18-08-2013 om 03:12:45 @MikeGrunwald I am informed you tweeted to the world, that you cant wait to defend the extra judicial murder of my son Julian #Assange. reageer retweet

Michael Grunwald, TIME magazine’s “senior national security correspondent,” decided to advocate for Julian Assange’s violent murder (in an embassy no less) on twitter saying:

I can’t wait to write a defense of the drone strike that takes out Julian Assange.

A petition has already been created asking TIME to remove Grunwald from national security reporting as clearly he is biased if not unhinged. You can not advocate murdering someone and cover them objectively or really any issue surrounding the individual. And given that Wikileaks is connected to Snowden and the larger issue of government secrecy and civilian privacy in the 21st century - it is unlikely Grunwald can really function in that field. He is going to run into the issue again and again and it seems that transparency advocates give him bloodlust.

However, there may be a larger point here. The attempt by the corporate/mainstream media to defend the Obama Administration’s police state isn’t working. A recent poll showed that 70% of Dems and 77% of Republicans say NSA surveillance intrudes on privacy rights. Establishment media and politicians are losing the argument. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say they can no longer effectively propagandize the public.

This loss of power by two different factions within the American kleptocratic elite must be causing immense insecurity and anxiety. They feel the intense desire to reassert dominance over the means of communication in hopes of regaining control of the public’s imagination. Part of this manifests itself in renewed attempts to control the internet, which the corporate media by and large supports. Another aspect is the State Terrorism against supposed threats through the use of drones to kill American citizens. To people like Michael Grunwald – who admits to not believing in the Constitution – Julian Assange is a threat and worthy of death. Assange threatens the 1% and in Grunwald’s world that is the ultimate crime.

Obviously, Grunwald, for all his skill set on national security, is now proving himself to be just another “dry dip stick” in our national media infrastructure.

To wit, I grew up in a “poor” family, served in our military, and spent a considerable amount of my life in the Latin America Region, and thusly, became quickly acquainted with “national security, foreign policy, as well as economics and finance. Hell, I was even offered on two differing occasions, a professorship at distinguished universities, and to which I refused. Being considered a “spy” in several instances, does not make for a longlasting career.

Therefore, when I think of our nation’s “unmet needs” relative to either domestic policy or foreign policy, invariably, none of our decision-makers notify the general public on just encompasses these “unmet needs” relative to the decision-making, other than spending taxpayer dollars. And with this in mind, aside from the assorted propaganda efforts by the Obama administration and the “opposition” readily found in Congress, no mention is made of foreign decision-makers that have inserted themselves into our foreign policy efforts, writ large.

Take, for example, the drone strikes that are ongoing in Yemen. For all this “dirty work” or “heavy lifting” and depending on one’s political affinities, it is obvious that Saudi Arabia has an “unmet need” that the USA is willing to address in the guise of “dirty work” since Al Quaeda is in Yemen, and which is bedeviling the Royal Family in Saudi Arabia.

And needless to say, but I will, Michael Grunwald has no inkling that America is ‘getting its chain’ pulled by the Royal Family, and ultimately, the oil and gas industry ‘needs’ the continuing access to the marketplace for the sale of its black gold, albeit, the role of the Middleman located here in the U.S..

Now, I will step down from my “soap box.”

Jaango

And remember Assange’s big crime was embarrassing the Bullshit Artists. Thou shalt not embarrass your overlord or their minions.
Humanity is in a transition and while much suffering seems to be due us in the near term I am hopeful (and their are signs which should be interpreted as hopeful) that the “new” enlightenment will rid our public offices of these mentally ill people who have no capacity for empathy and should clearly be prohibited from representing a constituency of humans whatever the Government system.

Jaango & BSbafflesbrains = kudos!!!

Let’s see … If this had been tweeted by a member of Occupy,
and the subject of the fantasy was a government official instead of Assange,
how long would it be before an FBI SWAT team was knocking down their door?

Yet another example of liberal media bias.

Color me unsurprised. Geez. “senior national security correspondent” from lapdog poodle Time corporate-fascist propoganda sheet. No kidding.

I am hearing more citizens talk about the “propoganda media.”

It’s really almost “good” when some jerkwad spews forth seriously disgusting crap like this. It reveals the PTB for who they are, and serves to remind the 99% that We, The People, are, after all, 99%.

Shameful and should be fired….Is this kind of advocacy not illegal?

A petition has already been created asking TIME to remove Grunwald from national security reporting as clearly he is biased if not unhinged

A better response: remove TIME from you subscription list. Grunwald is just the tip of TIME’s iceberg.

Exactly. Withholding dollars is the only action you can take that will get noticed by the Corporatocracy.

It is a Tweeter War! Embedded government shill Grunwald, and TIME magazine versus Julian Assange. This cannot end well. Grunwald makes the next move, calling his critics “anti-semitic”. Yes, that always is successful to play the anti-semitic card.

Michael Grunwald ✔ @MikeGrunwald

It was a dumb tweet. I’m sorry. I deserve the backlash. (Maybe not the anti-Semitic stuff but otherwise I asked for it.)
7:36 PM – 17 Aug 2013

And stay on that Soap Box Jaango!

dumb is tweetese for reprehensible, contemptible despicable I guess.

Grunwald’s tweet sounds like something you’d expect from a terrorist didn’t it?

A related comment … If I had ever read Orwell’s “1984″ it would have been 40 years ago. However, I just downloaded and listened to Blackstone Audio’s recording of “1984″ from overdrive.com through my local library’s site and highly recommend it if you haven’t read the book in a while.

Time has been in the red for years. The only place you see it is in the Dentist’s office, about 2 months out of date. Can anyone imagine paying for a copy of Time magazine?

Dumb to admit that’s what he thinks but in no way a misrepresentation of his views.

Does anyone still subscribe to Time? I stopped about 10 years ago.

If I was the Man of the Year I still wouldn’t buy a copy.

God, how I love the smell of angry tweets so early in the morning. Yes, Grunwald was dumb, for admitting that his threatening tweet might be interpreted as a threatening tweet. So he deleted the tweet. And the internet forgot that tweet. Ha ha just kidding.

Michael Grunwald ✔ @MikeGrunwald

Fair point. I’ll delete. @rober1236Jua my main problem with this is it gives Assange supporters a nice safe persecution complex to hide in
6:54 PM – 17 Aug 2013

I almost bought a copy. Black cover with honey bee in center. May be a good article – who knows? But I thought (before I read this) Do I really want to spend $4.95 on Time magazine?

There’s plenty of stuff about bees on internet – and that is the point, no?

Yeah, that’s it, I ALWAYS cheer for tweeted death threats and defend them to the death UNLESS the tweeter is Jewish.

Agreed!

Considering Assange is holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy, there’s no way those of us in Latin America can interpret this other than a call for using death squads (ok, robo-death squads) against a Latin American nation. You’d think, given the stink over trying to access Bolivian President Morales’ plane that YOU. DO. NOT. JOKE. ABOUT. THESE. THINGS.

For those keeping score at home, my original comment was snark.

I went back and read Grunwald’s piece on “balancing” liberty and security in Time. The quality of his reasoning would be embarrassingly low at a corner bar after the third round of beers.

Calling for the assassination of anyone should be a firing offense at any respectable news organization.

BUT TERRORISTS AND THE CHILDREN!!!

He works for TIME.

You’d think they would at least take away his afternoon Starbucks break.

Hilarious that this hack tweeted about others persecution complex, then hid behind his religion as if he was being persecuted.

Fascism must be called out everywhere it raises its head.

Bron: news.firedoglake.com

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Op maandag 19 augustus 2013 19:45 schreef Nemephis het volgende:

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Dat 'vrij' brokkelt meer en meer af.

En vreemd genoeg lijkt het maar een paar mensen wat te kunnen schelen.

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Op maandag 19 augustus 2013 22:32 schreef Disorder het volgende:

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Dat komt omdat het niet op RTL4/NOS te zien is, lijkt me. Het gros zal hier nooit van horen.

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Op maandag 19 augustus 2013 22:47 schreef Nemephis het volgende:

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Ja, in discussies op de FP is dat wel te zien: Het merendeel gelooft alleen wat de MSM (god wat klinkt dat aluminiumhoedjesachtig) bericht. Een klein beetje achtergronden zoeken op internet en je hebt veel meer info. Maar als je daarover iets zegt op de FP ben je meteen Niburu-gekkie wat in niet-bestaande complotten gelooft...

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Op maandag 19 augustus 2013 22:32 schreef Disorder het volgende:

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Dat komt omdat het niet op RTL4/NOS te zien is, lijkt me. Het gros zal hier nooit van horen.

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De Britse politie ziet geen kwaad in het urenlang vasthouden van de partner van de journalist die onthullingen deed over Amerikaanse en Britse geheime diensten. Dat blijkt uit een reactie van Scotland Yard op het incident.

Volgens de politie was het aanwenden van terrorismewetgeving om de 28-jarige David Miranda tegen te houden en te ondervragen 'juridisch en procedureel' in de haak. De politie heeft niet bekendgemaakt op welke gronden Miranda precies is vastgehouden.

Miranda werd zondag 9 uur vastgehouden en ondervraagd op de Londense luchthaven Heathrow. De Braziliaan is de partner van journalist Glenn Greenwald van The Guardian. Hij deed onthullingen over de werkwijze van de Amerikaanse inlichtingendienst NSA en de Britse inlichtingendienst GCHQ op basis van documenten van de Amerikaanse klokkenluider Edward Snowden.

Miranda zelf heeft Groot-Brittannië beschuldigd van een 'totaal misbruik van macht'. Volgens de Braziliaan dreigden zijn ondervragers dat hij in de gevangenis zou belanden als hij niet zou meewerken. Ze zouden hem hebben gedwongen wachtwoorden van zijn telefoon en computer te geven. De politie nam onder meer zijn computer en een harde schijf in beslag.

'Het was vermoeiend en frustrerend, maar ik wist dat ik niets verkeerd deed', aldus Miranda. De Braziliaan was onderweg van Berlijn naar Rio de Janeiro. Naar eigen zeggen had Miranda 'materialen' bij zich van de Amerikaanse filmmaakster Laura Poitras die voor zijn partner Greenwald waren bestemd. Poitras werkt ook aan verhalen over de NSA-affaire.

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Op dinsdag 20 augustus 2013 09:29 schreef Pietverdriet het volgende:
Het lijkt gvd wel of we onder een totalitair regiem komen

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Op dinsdag 20 augustus 2013 10:39 schreef robin007bond het volgende:

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Minilove.

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Op dinsdag 20 augustus 2013 11:48 schreef Pietverdriet het volgende:
En de Inlichtingdiensten hebben gewonnen van the Guardian
Guardian vernietigt harde schijven op last Britse overheid
http://www.theguardian.co(...)le7-danger-reporters

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Op dinsdag 20 augustus 2013 09:29 schreef Pietverdriet het volgende:
Het lijkt gvd wel of we onder een totalitair regiem komen

Chris Hedges challenges NDAA in court

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Op dinsdag 20 augustus 2013 11:48 schreef Pietverdriet het volgende:
En de Inlichtingdiensten hebben gewonnen van the Guardian
Guardian vernietigt harde schijven op last Britse overheid
http://www.theguardian.co(...)le7-danger-reporters