The Guardian June 10 2013
Edward Snowden, the source behind the Guardian’s NSA files talks to Glenn Greenwald about his motives for the biggest intelligence leak in a generation.
Guardian
The Social Network Spy Software Created By War Criminals
A video obtained by the Guardian details “new” surveillance software that is capable of gathering vast amounts of personal information about people from websites like Facebook and Twitter.
Raytheon, the company behind the software, has confirmed that it had already shared the technology with the US government in 2010, effectively creating what has been dubbed as a “Google for spies”.
The Guardian also reports that Rapid Information Overlay Technology, or Riot, mines multiple online sources to build up detailed pictures of someones life, including their friends and the places they visit.
As you’d rightly expect, some concerns have been raised.
An attorney at the Electronic Privacy Information Centre, Ginger McCall said:
Social networking sites are often not transparent about what information is shared and how it is shared. Users may be posting information that they believe will be viewed only by their friends, but instead, it is being viewed by government officials or pulled in by data collection services like the Riot search.
Jared Adams, a spokesman for Raytheon’s, defended the technology:
Riot is a big data analytics system design we are working on with industry, national labs and commercial partners to help turn massive amounts of data into usable information to help meet our nation’s rapidly changing security needs.
Its innovative privacy features are the most robust that we’re aware of, enabling the sharing and analysis of data without personally identifiable information [such as social security numbers, bank or other financial account information] being disclosed.
Phew. So they won’t be able to get your financial information, just everything else you share online. What could possibly go wrong?
Raytheon and the US government are good pals, last weekthe Department of Defense announced that it had awarded the defense company a mysterious contract worth $116 million to provide engineering services for Patriot surface-to-air missile systems.
Now here’s what you won’t find reported in the mainstream media…
Raytheon, the world’s largest producer of guided missiles, is guilty of corporate crimes, as international law holds:
Individuals and corporations liable for supplying governments with weapons that are used to commit war crimes and crimes against humanity.
In 1999, the US Navy fired 220 Tomahawk missiles that deliberately targeted essential civilian services in Yugoslavia, making life unbearable for the Serbian people.
The missiles destroyed Belgrade’s electrical grid and major bridges across the Danube.
Article 54 of Protocol I of the 1977 Geneva Conventions defines the destruction of ‘objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population’ as a war crime.
As Raytheon supplied the missiles to the US government, they too are guilty of war crimes according to international law.
SF Source Activist Post February 11 2013
Restoration Of The Feminine Spirit
Stuart Wilde | January 14 2013
I don’t do many pedophilia stories, as it is very distressing and the practice of child abuse is at epidemic proportions. The Guardian newspaper in England said a few days ago, that pedophiles are misunderstood, and a committee of psychiatrists said pedophilia is a mental disorder and that it should not be criminalized….and the Pope said pedophilia is normal, which it may be in the Vatican, but not out here in the real world.
Pornography degrades people, it carries their souls to hell, as it evokes the “slaver’s” mentality. People come to seek ever more bizarre experiences to titillate themselves with. A university in Sweden wanted to study the comparison between men who watched porno’ and those that don’t, but they could not find any men that didn’t watch porno’ for their study, so they abandoned the project.
The abuse of women goes hand in hand with porno’, because decent women are degraded into sex slaves and prostitutes in the minds of men. The French just published a report saying that watching pornography amongst French women is up by 40%. So the degradation is not only the males.
Porno’ is hard and cold, as there is no love or tenderness in it, our societies have degraded into a living hell. A woman or a male that has sex for money is a prostitute, but if they appear in a porno’ film they are no longer prostitutes, now they are actors, stars even. There is a flip in the perception of it, now what they are doing is noble and glamorous. And if pedophilia is normal, and gay sex with a stranger in public toilets, is just the lads letting of steam, and sex for money in porno’ films is just actors performing, being glamorous, and if all the decent women are reduced in the minds of men to the role of sex slaves and whores, what is left? Nothing.
In the end, the dignity of the feminine spirit has to be restored, and the children have to be protected. Softness, respect and kindness has to win. But for that to happen all the porno’ kings and queens have to be dragged off to hell and the earth swept clean.
CNN Takes Money From Foreign Dictators To Run Flattering News Stories About Them
Govt Slaves | October 4 2012 | Natural News
Those of you who are regular readers of Natural News – and your numbers are many – may not always agree with points of view expressed here, but we believe you at least consider us a trustworthy news source, a point driven home by the tens of millions of page views we receive every month.
That said, how much trust would you place in us if, say, we were being paid to put out certain information or relate only a singular point of view? We’re guessing that number would be much, much smaller.
Yet that’s what one establishment media organization – CNN – appears to be doing, according to multiple sources who say the network has begun engaging in a practice of killing stories that portray governments and countries which have become the network’s sugar daddies in a bad light.
Silencing government response to the ‘Arab Spring’
In March 2011, you may recall, much of the Middle East began to erupt. This “Arab Spring,” as the general movement has been labeled, began as simple protests by seething opposition groups against long-time Arab dictators but soon exploded into full-fledged revolution and, in the case of Libya and Syria, civil war.
A New York Spider Gave Me an Insight Into US Private Healthcare
Laurie Penny (Guardian UK) | RS_News
December 6 2011
It started with a spider. Someone with a taste for narrative justice might call it retribution, but there’s really no moral correlation between the wisdom of absconding with a relative stranger after a party and waking up the next morning in Brooklyn with a rash of poisonous bites on your arm. When the angels of sexual continence want to punish you, they send crabs not spiders.
I assumed, at first, that the maddeningly itchy marks were the work of common-or-flophouse New York bedbugs, but 12 hours later, with my right arm swollen to the width and purplish colour of a prize turnip, my friend identified the hallmarks of the brown recluse spider, and uttered words I had hoped never to hear on this side of the Atlantic: “You should really get that checked out by a doctor.”
I first came to New York to write about the emerging social justice movements associated with Occupy Wall Street. Through my conversations with the protesters in Zucotti Park, I began to understand how profoundly the stranglehold of American private healthcare keeps ordinary people cowed and compliant in the land of the notionally free.
It’s not just the 59 million Americans living without health insurance and unable to access treatment for everyday maladies without crippling expense. It’s the millions more who dare not risk a dispute with their boss for fear of losing their medical cover, who expect to remortgage their homes in old age to meet the costs of failing health, or who live in fear of bankruptcy should they develop a chronic condition or have an accident.