Snowden: NSA Spies On Americans, Then Passes Around Their Nude Pictures and Videos

July 17, 2014 by element115
Made a startling claim that a culture exists within the NSA in which, during surveillance, nude photographs picked up of people in “sexually compromising” situations are routinely passed around.

...eavesdrop on American soldiers’ intimate conversations with their wives back home.

...collecting the CONTENT of all of our phone calls and emails.
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Israel starts Gaza ground offensive

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After days of waiting and deliberation, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Thursday night directed the IDF to send ground troops into Gaza.
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Plane 'Shot Down' over Ukraine: 295 Killed

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The Malaysia Airlines plane, which was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, was travelling at an altitude of 33,000 feet (10,000 metres) when contact was lost.
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Israeli Invasion of Gaza Is Likely, Official Says

July 16, 2014 by element115
...a senior Israeli military official said that his government was increasingly likely to order a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip.
But with the Palestinian death toll reaching 214 on Wednesday, Israel and the Gaza militants agreed to end the violence for five hours on Thursday, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
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Could a Brain Scan Protect U.S. Troops?

by element115
...developed by a former Army counterintelligence agent, is scanning the brains of Iraqi troops for signs of potential betrayal.
...a truth detection system called HandShake for soldiers to diagnose the trust-worthiness of people they may have to work with.
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NASA: Humans Will Prove ‘We Are Not Alone In The Universe’ Within 20 Years

July 15, 2014 by element115
Speaking at NASA’s Washington headquarters on Monday, the space agency outlined a plan to search for alien life using current telescope technology, and announced the launch of the Transiting Exoplanet Surveying Satellite in 2017. The NASA administrators and scientists estimate that humans will be able to locate alien life within the next 20 years.
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Germany's plan to take on NSA

by element115
Politicians in Germany have devised an ingenious solution to combat the threat of eavesdropping by American spies...with classical music and typewriters.
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A fresh set of documents leaked by Edward Snowden

by element115
Leaked documents reveal online manipulation of polls and debates, spreading messages, snooping on YouTube and track Facebook users.

A number of interesting tools and their short descriptions are below:

ASTRAL PROJECTION: Remote GSM secure covert Internet proxy using TOR hidden service
POISON ARROW: Safe malware download capability
AIRWOLF: YouTube profile, comment and video collection
BIRDSTRIKE: Twitter monitoring and profile collection
GLASSBACK: Technique of getting a target's IP address by pretending to be a spammer and ringing them. Target does not need to answer.
MINIATURE HERO: Active skype capability. Provision of realtime call records (SkypeOut and SkypetoSkype) and bidirectional instant messaging. Also contact lists.
PHOTON TORPEDO: A technique to actively grab the IP address of MSN messenger user
SPRING-BISHOP: Finding private photos of targets on Facebook
BOMB BAY: The capacity to increase website hits, rankings
BURLESQUE: The capacity to send spoofed SMS messages
GESTATOR: Amplification of a given message, normally video, on popular multimedia websites (YouTube)
SCRAPHEAP CHALLENGE: Perfect spoofing of emails from Blackberry targets
SUNBLOCK: Ability to deny functionality to send/receive email or view material online
SWAMP DONKEY: A tool that will silently locate all predefined types of file and encrypt them on a targets machine
UNDERPASS: Change outcome of online polls (previously known as NUBILO).
WARPATH: Mass delivery of SMS messages to support an Information Operations campaign.
HUSK: Secure one-on-one web based dead-drop messaging platform.

The list, dated from 2012, says that most of the tools are "fully operational, tested and reliable,”
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Scientists find 'conclusive' evidence common pesticides are killing bees

June 26, 2014 by element115
Scientists say they have conclusive evidence that two widely used pesticides are killing bees and other insects, and harming the environment.

The international panel of 50 scientists working as the Task Force on Systemic Pesticides says use of the pesticides should be phased out.
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US' Supreme Court bans warrantless cell phone searches

June 25, 2014 by element115
The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that police cannot go snooping through people’s cell phones without a warrant, in a unanimous decision that amounts to a major statement in favor of privacy rights.
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Israel reins in West Bank military offensive amid fears it could backfire

June 24, 2014 by element115
Since the abduction of three Israeli teens, Israel has arrested about 350 Palestinians, conducted sweeps of 1,800 locales, and raided 64 Islamic charities with suspected links to Hamas. Concerns are growing about resulting Palestinian unrest.
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There are an estimated 30 million slaves in the world today

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...more than at any other time in history.
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Russian President Putin 'scraps Ukraine military move'

by element115
Vladimir Putin's move was aimed at "normalising the situation" in the conflict-torn eastern regions of Ukraine, his press-secretary said.
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US forces arrive in Baghdad to advise Iraqi troops

by element115
Nearly half the 300 special operations soldiers promised by US President Barack Obama are in Baghdad or on the front lines of the fight.

The rest are expected within days.

Also, US Secretary of State John Kerry called for regional unity to expel the Sunni Isis rebels who have taken large swathes of Iraq.
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Dick Cheney Predicts Another 9/11 In This Decade

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“I think there will be another attack and the next time I think it’s likely to be far deadlier than the last one. You can just imagine what would happen if somebody could smuggle a nuclear device, put it in a shipping container, and drive it down the beltway outside Washington D.C.”
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Glenn Greenwald: New NSA Leak From Snowden 'Very Imminent'

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..."one of the most important in the archive."
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Study: Diaspora Jews say occupation, Orthodoxy threaten Israel

May 21, 2014 by element115
For Israel to exist as a Jewish and democratic state, Diaspora Jews believe it must end the occupation, treat its Arab citizens more fairly and eliminate the Orthodox monopoly over religion.

These were the key findings of a document published Wednesday by the Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI), a Jerusalem-based think-tank, entitled “Jewish & Democratic: Perspectives from World Jewry.”
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Russia, China sign deal to bypass U.S. dollar

May 20, 2014 by element115
Russia and China took a small step toward undercutting the domination of the U.S. dollar as the international reserve currency on Tuesday when Russia’s second biggest financial institution, VTB, signed a deal with Bank of China to bypass the dollar and pay each other in domestic currencies.

The so-called Agreement on Cooperation — signed in the presence of Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is on a visit to Shanghai — could be followed by a long-awaited announcement this week of a massive natural gas deal 10 years in the making.
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Thailand's army declares martial law

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Thailand's powerful army chief intervened for the first time in the country's latest political crisis, declaring martial law and dispatching gun-mounted jeeps into the heart of the capital with a vow to resolve the deepening conflict as quickly as possible.
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Australian spies secretly monitor phone calls in the Philippines: Edward Snowden disclosure

by element115
A 2013 NSA document shows that comprehensive MYSTIC harvesting of telecommunications data in the Philippines is carried out by the Australian Signals Directorate, formerly known as the Defence Signals Directorate, which is a so-called "5-eyes" partner with its American counterpart.
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China Angry Over US Spy Charges 'Hypocrisy'

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China has accused the United States of "hypocrisy and double standards" after five of its military officials were accused of hacking into companies' computer systems.
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Drone strikes justified...says New Zealand Prime Minister

by element115
Drone strikes are justified - even if innocent civilians are mistakenly killed, Prime Minister John Key says.

Key confirmed yesterday that intelligence collected by the Government Communications Security Bureau might be passed to the controversial US programme.
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‘The silent epidemic’

by element115
Depression is the top cause of illness and disability among adolescents globally, the World Health Organisation (WHO) revealed last week.

And it said that globally, suicide is the third most common cause of death among adolescents, after traffic trauma and HIV-Aids.
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Video footage indicates killed Palestinian youths posed no threat

by element115
New video evidence showing the fatal shooting of two Palestinian teenagers last week strongly indicates that neither of the boys posed a threat to Israeli forces at the time they were targeted, supporting claims they were "unlawfully killed".
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WikiLeaks vows to reveal second country where NSA is recording all mobile phone calls

by element115
WikiLeaks has pledged to reveal the name of a second country that is having virtually all of its mobile phone calls recorded by the US National Security Agency, despite a warning that leaking the information could "lead to deaths".
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Plastic Timebomb

May 18, 2014 by element115
...microbead pollutants in cosmetics washed into the sea and ending up in the food chain.
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Pope to visit Palestinian refugee camp

by element115
Dheisheh refugee camp, Bethlehem — Set up in 1949 on land leased from Jordan, Dheisheh camp initially housed refugees who fled or were forced out of 45 villages around Jerusalem and the southern West Bank city of Hebron.

Today, it counts some 14,800 inhabitants, making it the fifth-largest of the 19 refugee camps in the West Bank and annexed east Jerusalem.

The late pope John Paul II also visited the camp on a tour of the Holy Land in 2000, calling for an urgent solution to the plight of the millions made homeless after the creation of the Jewish state in 1948.
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The rich get richer: Britain's wealthiest are now worth £519billion

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Britain's richest people have managed to DOUBLE their wealth in the last five years.
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Cisco CEO lashes out at NSA

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Cisco Systems Inc's chief executive officer has written a letter to U.S. President Barack Obama urging him to curtail government surveillance after evidence circulated showing the U.S. National Security Agency had intercepted Cisco equipment, a company spokesman said on Sunday.​
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Revelations on the Krasnoarmeysk killing

May 17, 2014 by element115
Members of the Ukrainian ultra-nationalist group Pravy Sektor took part in a commando-style raid against the Donbass referendum last Sunday, killing two unarmed civilians in the town of Krasnoarmeysk, an investigation by Paris Match has found.
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Canada Is Selling Arms to Everyone It Can

by element115
While Canada exports oil, maple syrup, and hockey players, it also deals a lot of arms. And Canadian military exports are growing: the latest available figures say sales jumped more than 50 percent from 2010 to 2011, with later years reportedly expected to spike.

Which is why it isn’t surprising the Harper government is endorsing CANSEC—Canada’s premier defense trade show—and officially encouraging all Canadian armed forces personnel to attend the event in Ottawa less than two weeks from now.
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São Paulo Streets Burn as Brazil’s Protesters Promise ‘Fighting’ Ahead of World Cup

by element115
With a scant 28 days left before the World Cup, the streets of Brazil have been filled with burning barricades, armored military vehicles, and thousands of indignant citizens demanding that their voices be heard.

In São Paulo, an estimated 1,200 protesters gathered Thursday evening on Paulista Avenue as part of the International Day of World Cup Resistance — a series of demonstrations coordinated across the country to express public discontent ahead of the mega athletic event.
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Africa leaders declare 'war' on Nigeria Boko Haram

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African leaders meeting in Paris have agreed to wage "war" on Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamic militants.

President Hollande of France, who hosted the summit, said regional powers had pledged to share intelligence and co-ordinate action against the group.
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President Rouhani Stresses Iranian Citizens' Right to Freely Access Internet

by element115
"We recognize the right of connection with the world wide web (internet) as a right of every citizen."
The Iranian President has on many occasions underscored the necessity for respecting the people's social rights.
In relevant remarks in April, he underlined that the Islamic Republic pays much respect to women's social rights and tries to provide the ground for their equal chance with men both for study and work.
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The biggest fast food strike in the history is happening around the world now

May 15, 2014 by element115
From New York City to Nigeria and New Zealand, fast food workers will strike and protest on Thursday to demand higher pay and better working conditions — in a global day of action with unprecedented reach for the industry.
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Young people 'feel they have nothing to live for'

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One in three (32%) had contemplated suicide, while one in four (24%) had self-harmed.
40% of jobless young people had faced symptoms of mental illness, including suicidal thoughts, feelings of self-loathing and panic attacks, as a direct result of unemployment.
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NATO commander says must consider permanent troops in Eastern Europe

May 6, 2014 by element115
NATO will have to consider permanently stationing troops in parts of Eastern Europe as a result of the increased tension between Russia and Ukraine, the alliance's top military commander said on Tuesday.
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IMF Plan to Loot Ukraine Revealed

by element115
Criminals operate with the same modus operandi making it relatively easy to notice the pattern of destruction the western axis will inevitably unleash as it seeks to implement its version of the new world order. The austerity introduced into EU nations like Greece will now be the norm for Ukraine.
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Is US/NATO Applying the “Syria Model” in Ukraine?

by element115
The Neo-Nazi mobs had been trained and indoctrinated. Western special forces and mercenaries on contract to NATO and the Pentagon were involved in the training of the Right Sector paramilitary. In turn, the National Guard civilian militia created in mid-March is financed by Washington.

The Right Sector Brown shirts had received prior paramilitary training in Poland in September 2013 ahead of the EuroMaidan riots.
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Will Detroit be the first major Chinese city in the U.S.?

by element115
Is Detroit destined to become a Chinese city? Chinese homebuyers and Chinese businesses are starting to flood into the Motor City, and the governor of Michigan is greatly encouraging this. In fact, he has formally asked the Obama administration for 50,000 special federal immigration visas to encourage even more immigration from China and elsewhere. So will Detroit be the first major city in the United States to be dominated by China? It could happen. Once upon a time, Detroit was the greatest manufacturing city in the history of the world and it had the highest per capita income in the entire country. But now it is a rotting, decaying, bankrupt hellhole that is in desperate need of a savior, and Michigan Governor Rick Snyder appears to be fully convinced that China can be that savior.
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Odessa: This Time, the Fascists Will be Wearing Uniforms

by element115
Today, Reuters featured a very important item, under-reported in world media, that demonstrates the clear and irrefutable links between the Kiev regime and organized Fascist violence in the Ukraine.
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The Odessa Massacre: How the Corporate Media Whitewashes Ukraine

by element115
Odessa is the scene of yet another horrific war crime carried out by fascists against innocent civilians. The fire and massacre at the Trade Unions building which killed dozens of anti-fascist activists and employees in the building, will serve as a painful testimony to the ongoing struggle against the junta in Kiev and its neo-Nazi paramilitary foot soldiers. This obvious war crime, along with a number of others committed by the Right Sector and other ultra-nationalist (read fascist) militias, should undoubtedly be the issue making headlines around the world.
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US/NATO War Crimes in Ukraine

May 4, 2014 by element115
Today Barack Obama said: “We support the operation of the Ukrainian government …”

US/NATO fascists are bringing new “EURO” values to Ukraine … today in Odessa, tomorrow, your city. The west pretends that hardly anything worth noting happened and the US-funded Kiev junta and its media say that they “smoked them out well,” referring to the 38 antifascists burned alive in a building set on fire by the Ukrainian fascists today.
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Odessa Massacre Pushes Ukraine to the Edge

by element115
Western headlines have attempted to spin into ambiguity the death of over 30 anti-fascist Ukrainian protesters cornered and burned to death in the Trade Unions House in the southern port city of Odessa. The arson was carried out by Neo-Nazi mobs loyal to the unelected regime now occupying Kiev.
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Panicking US government targets alternative media

by element115
For at least the past 50 years, the American people have been fed a steady diet of lies.

Coups, false flags, political assassinations, mind control, government corruption, Orwellian surveillance, psychopaths in power, banksters dictatorship, military-industrial complex dominance and the rise of the New World Order – all of these realities have been carefully hidden from the American people and the other citizens of the West.
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New Study: FDA-Approved Levels of Aspartame Distort Brain Function, Kill Brain Cells

by element115
Now yet another new study, this one published in the journal Redox Biology, has concluded what lots of other research over the past decades has repeatedly shown — aspartame, the popular sweetener in over 6,000 grocery store items, including everything from soup mixes to carbonated beverages to chewing gum — can essentially program your brain cells to kill themselves.
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British Spy Chiefs Secretly Begged to Play in NSA's Data Pools

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Britain’s electronic surveillance agency, Government Communications Headquarters, has long presented its collaboration with the National Security Agency’s massive electronic spying efforts as proportionate, carefully monitored, and well within the bounds of privacy laws. But according to a top-secret document in the archive of material provided to The Intercept by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, GCHQ secretly coveted the NSA’s vast troves of private communications and sought “unsupervised access” to its data as recently as last year – essentially begging to feast at the NSA’s table while insisting that it only nibbles on the occasional crumb.
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Ukraine, “Colored Revolutions”, Swastikas and the Threat of World War III

May 3, 2014 by element115
On the thirteenth anniversary of the illegal invasion of Iraq and the total destruction of it’s “sovereignty and territorial integrity”, by America and Britain, Prime Minister David Cameron has scuttled off to Brussels for a meeting of European Union Ministers to agree on a “robust response” to Russia – which has fired not a shot, invaded no one and threatened nothing except to respond that if sanctions were imposed on Russia they might consider a trading response. Fair enough, surely?

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Snowden decries constant surveillance of entire populations, in new video

May 2, 2014 by element115
Entire populations, rather than just individuals, now live under constant surveillance, Edward Snowden, the former U.S. intelligence contractor who has been leaking surveillance secrets for the past year, says in a new video.
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Snowden and Poitras Awarded for 'Truth-Telling'

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Pair receives Ridenhour Prize for actions that 'sparked a critical and transformative debate about mass surveillance'
"We have selected Edward Snowden and Laura Poitras for their work in exposing the NSA's llegal and unconstitutional bulk collection of the ommunications of millions of people living in the United States," the award committee explained in a statement.
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Ukrainian Crisis Was Always About Containing Russia

May 1, 2014 by element115
To careful and honest observers of the events unfolding in Ukraine, it was clear from the beginning that the US and EU through NATO were creating unrest in an attempt to foster regime change in Kiev.
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IMF Demands Ukraine Risk World War 3 for bailout package

by element115
The IMF has told Kiev that if it doesn’t defend eastern areas of Ukraine against pro-Russian forces, or in other words risk going to war with Russia and starting World War 3, that a planned $17 billion dollar bailout package will have to be “redesigned”.

IMF head Christine Lagarde said that the global body would “check regularly” to see if Ukraine was keeping up with its commitments on which the loan deal is dependent. One of those commitments includes a vow to use military forces to repel Russian influence in the east of the country.
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Anti-Russian Media Wars

March 21, 2014 by element115
Welcome to Cold War 2.0. The first one never ended. Since Soviet Russia’s 1991 dissolution, Western policy remained hard-wired in place.
Putin defends Russian sovereignty. He opposes US imperial lawlessness. Washington considers him public enemy number one. At stake is world peace.
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U.S. and U.K. Marked ‘Enemies of the Internet’

March 18, 2014 by element115
The mass surveillance conducted by U.S. and U.K. spy agencies was unpopular enough to land the two leading democratic governments on the same “enemies of the Internet” list as Russia and China compiled by press freedom advocacy group, Reporters Without Borders.

The eight-year-old annual index on Internet freedom ranks the nations of the world according to free speech, free press and open access to the Web.
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NSA recorded "every single" call in one country

by element115
The National Security Agency has built a surveillance system capable of recording “100 percent” of a foreign country’s telephone calls, according to people with direct knowledge of the effort and documents supplied by former contractor Edward Snowden.

A senior manager for the program compares it to a time machine — one that can replay the voices from any call without requiring that a person be identified in advance for surveillance.
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Yatsenyuk Comes to Washington

March 11, 2014 by element115
Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland calls him Yats. He’s coming to Washington.
He’ll arrive on Wednesday. He’ll meet his new boss. He’ll do so at the White House. He’ll get marching orders. He’ll learn more about Obama’s plans for Ukraine. More on his visit below.
He’s Ukraine’s illegitimate prime minister. He serves its xenophobic, ultranationalist, neo-Nazi, hate-mongering, anti-Semitic, coup d’etat regime. A rogue’s gallery of societal misfits runs it.
He’s a natural. He’s super-rich. He’s a former central banker/economy/foreign minister and parliament (Verkhovna Rada) speaker.
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Snowden: NSA ‘Setting Fire To The Internet,’ Violated Constitution ‘On A Massive Scale’

March 10, 2014 by element115
National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden spoke at this year’s South By Southwest Interactive Festival.
Snowden participated remotely as he remains in Moscow where he’s living in temporary asylum, reportedly making use of seven proxy servers in order to avoid being located.
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America’s “Unlimited Imperialism”, Now Ukraine

March 9, 2014 by element115
It is the Unlimited Imperialists along the lines of Alexander, Rome, Napoleon and Hitler who are now in charge of conducting American foreign policy.
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Ukraine was coup d'état by the CIA

by element115
What has occurred in Ukraine was not a popular revolution, it was a carefully orchestrated coup d’état. The "demonstrators" with the metal barricades, bullet proof vest, army helmets, weapons, shield and masks were very well organized and trained. The whole affair was orchestrated by the West in an attempt to bring Ukraine into NATO and split Russia.
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I Don't Now What's Going On In Ukraine, But I Do Know One Thing: We Should STAY OUT OF IT

March 1, 2014 by element115
Most American mainstream media say that the Ukrainian people rose up against a decadent dictator to chart their own destiny.

On the other hand, some knowledgeable commentators say that the Ukrainian protests were really a violent coup initiated by the U.S., and carried out by Neo-Nazi factions within Ukraine.

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Glenn Greenwald's new website launches with fresh NSA revelations

February 10, 2014 by element115
The site, called the Intercept is part of a suite of planned sites to be published by First Look media, founded by eBay chairman Pierre Omidyar. Its editors are Greenwald and fellow journalists Laura Poitras and Jeremy Scahill.

The Intercept will focus on reporting based on documents released by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, the site’s editors said in an introductory statement. “Our focus in this very initial stage will be overwhelmingly on the NSA story,” the statement said.

...The new website reported Monday that the National Security Agency has used cell phone geolocation to help pinpoint targets for US drone strikes overseas, and published previously unseen photographs of major US intelligence facilities.
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US plan for ‘regime change’ in Ukraine revealed

by element115
Washington can’t hide its dark side. It’s too ugly to conceal. Its been exposed numerous times. Here we go again. Assistant Secretary of State for European and European Affairs Victoria Nuland was caught red-handed.
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I'm so maaaaaaaaad!

January 21, 2014 by element115
Did you know that the 85 richest people in the world have about as much wealth as the poorest 50% of the entire global population does? In other words, 85 extremely wealthy individuals have about as much wealth as the poorest 3,500,000,000 do. This shocking statistic comes from a new report on global poverty by Oxfam. And actually Oxfam’s report probably significantly underestimates the true scope of the problem, because Oxfam relies on publicly reported numbers. At the very top of the food chain, the global elite are masters at hiding their wealth. In fact, as I have written about previously, the global elite have approximately 32 trillion dollars (that we know about) stashed in offshore banks around the world. That would be about enough to pay off the entire U.S. national debt and buy every good and service produced in the United States for an entire year. These elitists live on an entirely different planet than the rest of us do. In fact, according to Oxfam, the richest one percent of the global population has 65 timesmore wealth than the bottom half of the global population combined.
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N.S.A. Devises Radio Pathway Into Computers

January 14, 2014 by element115
The technology, which the agency has used since at least 2008, relies on a covert channel of radio waves that can be transmitted from tiny circuit boards and USB cards inserted surreptitiously into the computers. In some cases, they are sent to a briefcase-size relay station that intelligence agencies can set up miles away from the target.
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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

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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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Global Surveillance Industry

December 1, 2011 by element115
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