Edward Snowden’s Christmas Message

December 26, 2013 by element115
Hi and Merry Christmas. I’m honored to have a chance to speak with you and your family this year. Recently we learned that our governments, working in concert, have created a system of worldwide system of mass surveillance watching everything we do. Great Britain’s George Orwell warned us of the danger of this kind of information.

The types of collection in the book -– microphones and video cameras, TVs that watch us –- are nothing compared to what we have available today. We have sensors in our pockets that track us everywhere we go. Think about what this means for the privacy of the average person.

A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all. They’ll never know what it means to have a private moment to themselves an unrecorded, unanalyzed thought. And that’s a problem because privacy matters; privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be.

The conversation occurring today will determine the amount of trust we can place both in the technology that surrounds us and the government that regulates it. Together we can find a better balance, end mass surveillance, and remind the government that if it really wants to know how we feel, asking is always cheaper than spying.

For everyone out there listening, thank you and Merry Christmas.
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Could humans live to 500 years old?

December 13, 2013 by element115
Scientists believe genetic tweaks could significantly extend our lifespan
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Former Israeli ambassador: Netanyahu is not welcome in South Africa

December 10, 2013 by element115
Both Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres did not travel to Johannesburg, each for their own reasons, leaving Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein and five Knesset members to represent Israel. Netanyahu said travel costs were too high, while Peres said he was suffering from the flu.
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Israel denounces Iran deal

November 24, 2013 by element115
Isolated and angry with its ally the United States, Israel has bitterly denounced a 'bad' nuclear deal between world powers and Tehran while repeating its threat of military action against Iran.
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‘We reject illegal killings’: Germany suspends drone purchase

November 16, 2013 by element115
Berlin has suspended the purchase of armed drones on the grounds that it “categorically rejects illegal killings.” This follows a report by Amnesty International that accused Merkel’s government of aiding the US with drone strikes in Pakistan.
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CIA monitors Americans' financial activities

by element115
Citing “officials familiar with the programs,” the Wall Street Journal reported that the CIA and FBI collect financial information when international transactions are filed through numerous money-transfer companies, including MoneyGram and Western Union.

As with the National Security Agency’s surveillance efforts, the CIA’s actions are authorized under the 2001 Patriot Act and overseen by the same Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that has sanctioned the collection of millions of Americans’ phone records and digital data.
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TPP: The Biggest Threat to the Internet You've Probably Never Heard Of

by element115
The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) is being negotiated in secret between more than 12 countries around the Pacific region. Find out why it poses a huge threat to your digital freedoms.
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US, Israel locked in info war over Iran

by element115
Senior Israeli officials are storming the Capital Hill to feed false information to American lawmakers in an effort to discredit the White House' nuclear proposal to Iran, a report says.
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US Army robots will outnumber human soldiers 10 to 1 by 2023

by element115
...they will also make war even more horrible by taking away the human life loss component. If we can send platoons made of robots to war, people will not fear death in wars. There will be no dead bodies getting home in flag-covered coffins. Like aerial drones, this will inevitably trivialize wars.
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Any nuclear-offer ignoring Iran rights will fail: Zarif

by element115
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says any nuclear proposal that ignores the rights of Iranian people has no chance of success.
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Sabotaging the US-Iran Peace Negotiations

November 2, 2013 by element115
To understand what is at stake in the current peace negotiations one must envision the consequences of failure: Under Israeli pressure, the US announced that its ‘military option’ could be activated – resulting in missile strikes and a bombing campaign against 76 million Iranians in order to destroy their government and economy. Teheran could retaliate against such aggression by targeting US military bases in the region and Gulf oil installations resulting in a global crisis. This is what Israel wants.
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Germany, France, and Spain Want To Meet With Snowden About NSA Spying On Governments

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Panetta: US may have to use military force against Iran

by element115
The former US defense secretary and CIA director made the remarks while addressing around 600 people at the Anti-Defamation League’s 100th annual meeting.
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Thousands march in Mozambique to demand peace, security

October 31, 2013 by element115
Tens of thousands of Mozambicans marched in the capital Maputo and two other cities on Thursday to protest against the threat of armed conflict in the country and a spate of kidnappings by criminal gangs.
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Israelis strike shipment of Russian missiles at Syrian port

by element115
The revelation came as the government of President Bashar Assad met a key deadline in an ambitious plan to eliminate Syria's entire chemical weapons stockpile by mid-2014 and avoid international military action.

The announcement by a global chemical weapons watchdog that the country has completed the destruction of equipment used to produce the deadly agents highlights Assad's willingness to co-operate, and puts more pressure on the divided and outgunned rebels to attend a planned peace conference.
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NSA secretly broke into Yahoo, Google data centre links around world

October 30, 2013 by element115
NSA sends millions of records every day from Yahoo and Google internal networks to data warehouses at the agency's Fort Meade, Md., headquarters. In the last 30 days, field collectors had processed and sent back more than 180 million new records — ranging from "metadata," which would indicate who sent or received emails and when, to content such as text, audio and video.
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How Coconut Oil May Rescue The Brain From Alzheimer's Disease

October 29, 2013 by element115
The researchers sought to test the hypothesis that coconut oil is beneficial for neurodegenerative conditions using a cell model. Live rat neurons were exposed to various combinations of Aβ peptide and coconut oil, with the result that Aβ peptide reduced survival of neurons and coconut protected against this Aβ-induced reduction in survival time. The researchers noted that coconut treated Aβ cultured neurons appeared "healthier," and that coconut oil "rescued" Aβ-treated neurons from mitochondrial damage caused by their toxicity. The researchers observed coconut oil preventing Aβ-induced changes in mitochondrial size and circularity. These findings have great significance, as mitochondria function is often compromised in the brains of Alzheimer's disease patients.
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“Secrets R US”: America’s Spying Apparatus

by element115
How Our Corporate Overlords, Politicians and Media Establishment Warp Reality and Undermine Democracy.
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Bill to Curb NSA Spying Introduced Today

by element115
Public revelations about classified government surveillance programs have brought renewed attention to the powerful authorities contained in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), and in particular the implications for the privacy rights of law-abiding Americans.
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Iran pledges ‘new approaches’ with UN nuke agency

October 28, 2013 by element115
Araghchi did not give details about Iran’s position, but in remarks to reporters loaded with optimism, he spoke of a “very useful and constructive meeting” with Amano, and said he was “very hopeful” that the talks on the proposed probe will break “with a good result.”
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Now it’s Spain’s turn to be outraged at U.S. spying allegations

by element115
News that the NSA monitored some 60 million phone calls in Spain – in just one month – came on the heels of similar revelations of NSA espionage targeted at putative U.S. allies France and Germany.
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NSA spied on Merkel since 2002, German report says

October 27, 2013 by element115
Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich was quoted Sunday as telling newspaper Bild am Sonntag he wants "complete information on all accusations" and that "if the Americans intercepted cellphones in Germany, they broke German law on German soil." He added wiretapping is a crime and "those responsible must be held accountable."
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Israel issues warning on report on Iran bomb

October 26, 2013 by element115
"We have made it crystal clear – in all possible forums, that Israel will not stand by and watch Iran develop weaponry that will put us, the entire Middle East and eventually the world, under an Iranian umbrella of terror," Danny Danon, Israel's deputy defense minister told USA TODAY.
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Merkel, EU leaders denounce alleged US spying on allies

October 24, 2013 by element115
The latest revelations that the U.S. National Security Agency swept up more than 70 million phone records in France and may have tapped Merkel's own mobile phone brought denunciations from the German and French governments.
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NationsTurn to U.N. to Restrain American Spies

by element115
Brazil and Germany today joined forces to press for the adoption of a U.N. General Resolution that promotes the right of privacy on the internet, marking the first major international effort to restrain the National Security Agency's intrusions into the online communications of foreigners, according to diplomatic sources familiar with the push.
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Snowden: NSA keeps record of every telephone call in the United States

by element115
"Today, no telephone in America makes a call without leaving a record with the NSA. Today, no Internet transaction enters or leaves America without passing through the NSA's hands," Snowden said in a statement Thursday.
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Report: NSA Spied on 124 Billion Phone Calls in One Month

October 23, 2013 by element115
Documents revealing details about the NSA’s Boundless Informant program show that information regarding billions of phone calls and computer communications was collected by the agency from across the world.
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U.S. drone strikes may amount to war crimes, report finds

October 22, 2013 by element115
Amnesty International said the cases it investigated may even amount to war crimes and it's calling for investigations into the attacks, along with Human Rights Watch.

Human Rights Watch issued a 97-page report Tuesday that examines six incidents, most using armed drones, from 2009 to 2013. At least 57 civilians died because of the strikes, which killed 82 people.
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Arafat poisoned to death: Lancet medical journal

October 13, 2013 by element115
According to British journal the Lancet, Arafat was poisoned with the radioactive element polonium 210.
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ROGER WATERS SETS THE RECORD STRAIGHT: ISRAEL IS AN APARTHEID STATE, “CLEAR AND SIMPLE”!

by element115
Waters shows he has a sophisticated understanding of the realities facing Palestinians, when responding to Hadar’s challenge over the use of the term “apartheid.” As the transcript of Waters’ response states:

But the fact is that there are different rules of law for Arabs and Jews. Completely different. In the occupied territories, Jews are governed under a civil law and have completely different rules in terms of their movement and so on and so forth … and the occupied people, the Palestinians and the Arabs, are under martial law. And it’s a completely different set of laws. They also have completely different sets of documents.

It’s just like the old pass laws in South Africa. It is apartheid. Clear and simple. If you go and look at the definition of what the crime of apartheid is, then it describes perfectly what’s going on in the West Bank. And not quite so perfectly, but also, Gaza, which is under siege, it’s completely surrounded. They have no freedom. When one race or ethnic group subjugates another race or ethnic group, to its power and control, that is the crime of apartheid.

Waters does not limit his criticism to the West Bank and Gaza Strip, noting that “It’s also going on in Israel itself. There are different laws depending on if you’re Jewish or if you’re Arab.”
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Egypt frees two Canadians

October 6, 2013 by element115
Egypt's military-backed authorities have released two Canadians held without charge for seven weeks, the Canadian government says.
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Killjoy was here: Netanyahu at the UN

October 5, 2013 by element115
Uri Avnery examines the pathetic figure of Israel’s prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, a bore standing before an almost empty hall at the General Assembly, using false analogies and making empty threats.
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Reporters to reveal ‘US assassination program’

September 29, 2013 by element115
Two American journalists are working together to expose the role of the US National Security Agency in what they described as a “US assassination program.”

Contributor to The Nation magazine Jeremy Scahill and Rio-based journalist Glenn Greenwald are working on the project.
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N.S.A. Gathers Data on Social Connections of U.S. Citizens

September 28, 2013 by element115
The spy agency began allowing the analysis of phone call and e-mail logs in November 2010
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Seymour Hersh on Obama, NSA and the 'pathetic' American media

by element115
...the death of Osama bin Laden...."Nothing's been done about that story, it's one big lie, not one word of it is true," he says of the dramatic US Navy Seals raid in 2011.
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