Tuesday 2 July 2013

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Snowden Revelations Strike Fear Into Putin

Posted: 01 Jul 2013 09:19 AM PDT

During the past two months I’ve watched in absolute awe and amazement the events which have seen a 30-year-old American high-school dropout consciously declare a personal war against the entire United States Federal Government that to this very day continues to shock the entire world, and so much so that even Russian President Putin is now in fear of what this man may reveal next.
This most unlikely of hero’s is named Edward Snowden, whose skills and computer expertise allowed his rise through the both the US Central Intelligence and National Security Agencies to his final job at the American mega-intelligence defense firm of Booz Allen, a position he acknowledged he took in order to gain access to Americas most closely guarded secrets.
As to why this seemingly normal man would deliberately place himself in open conflict with the most dreaded and feared nation on earth was explained this past weekend by the intrepid and fearless London Guardian Newspaper reporter Glen Greenwald, who explained [see video HERE] that Snowden’s motives were simple…He no longer wanted to live in the world being created by the United States that believed in its rights to destroy forever and completely the privacy and freedoms of all humanity.
By declaring his war against the United States Government, Snowden, also, freely acknowledges his life, for all intents and purposes, is over, and even though he knows his final fate may very well be spent in a dark prison hole never to again see the light of day, at best, or at worst be killed for actions, he declared it was his duty as a citizen of the United States to defend his nations Constitution against those who are destroying it, no matter how powerful his enemies would be, or what personal cost to him it would cost.

Now contrary to what you may think, Snowden’s life is not only in danger because of the secrets he is revealing, but rather the fear he has instilled in Americas power-elite that such a lowly person of courage has risen against them. And as history has long proven, revolutions always start with one ordinary person’s act of courage, which becomes contagious, then infectious, and finally explodes to overturn all that previously existed.
One such person was named Tarek al-Tayeb Mohamed Bouazizi, a 27-year-old Tunisian man who on 17 December 2010 set himself on fire in protest to the humiliation he suffered by hands of his nations elite class. The fire stared by Bouazizi continues to burn to this very day, called the Arab Spring, and has brought down, so far, at least 5 governments, and, as many fear, could likely be the final spark needed to set off World War III.
Snowden’s actions, likewise, are threatening to ignite an already smoldering American public who just this week are faced with the astounding paradox of a 40-year-old California man named Jeff Olson who faces 13 years in jail for scribbling anti-bank messages on sidewalks in chalk (and the US Judge has ordered that he can’t use his First Amendment Rights as a defense), while at the exact same time former Goldman Sachs banker and Governor of New Jersey, and staunch Obama regime backer Jon Corzine has learned he will not face prosecution for stealing over $1 billion of his customers money.
After all, asserts the Obama regimes Attorney General Eric Holder, whereas ordinary US citizens, like Olsen, are faced with the harshest of punishments for even the smallest sign of disobedience to the state, elites like Corzine are simply “too big to prosecute or jail.”
Now into this volatile mix comes Snowden, whose revelations have shown the truth of what we have been telling all who cared to listen for over a decade…Your government is watching you every day in every way for the sole purpose of criminalizing your very existence, and should you even dare to show any type of courage against them you’ll be destroyed.
At the very top of this page, in fact, are two top-secret documents released by Snowden showing the truth that not only is everything you do is being captured and stored by the US government, but that the very top-brand Internet companies (Microsoft, Facebook, Google, etc.) are helping them do it!
And not just to everything you do on the Internet either is no longer private, but a new document released by Snowden now reveals that the NSA is capturing over 1 billion cell phone calls a day so they can store them and listen to them too.
But the worst of what Snowden has yet to reveal is what has caused former US President George W. Bush to rush to Tanzania to meet with Obama and for Putin to say today that Snowden may stay in Russia, if he wants to, but only if he stops activities aimed against the United States. “There is one condition if he wants to remain here: he must stop his work aimed at damaging our American partners. As odd as it may sound from me,” Putin told a media conference in Moscow.

However, as “odd” as Putin’s statement may be to others, for those of us who have seen what Snowden has to tell there are no words to describe the terror his revelations have the potential to unleash upon the entire world.
The truth about the events of 11 September 2001 and who was behind it? Snowden’s got it. The truth about the many assassinations of prominent researchers and scientists investigating viruses? Snowden’s got it. The truth about what are called chemtrials? Snowden’s got it. The truth about crop circles and the “power” behind their making? Snowden’s got it.
And, perhaps, the most important: The truth behind the 9 December 2009 Norway Spiral and how that event ties in with the Norwegians now buying Bibles in record numbers and the information released by the Sorcha Faal in her seminal 2010 book titled “Battle Begins For Throne of This World: The Return of the Einherjar Warriors”.
Now as you can fully understand, while at the same time the information we have we want you to know too, when even Putin is frightened enough to say Snowden must stop his work to stop damaging “our American partners,” our fears are not only justifiable, but sanely prudent.
But, were going to do it anyway…but to do so we need your help, and NOW!
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In knowing what we’re doing, however, the attacks against us, especially our infrastructure, have already begun, and to continue we need to be a lot stronger than we are now. Unfortunately though, as we are reader supported that means we need you to help us.
So, and simply, help us help you so that this most critical of information can get out into the world. And believe me when I say….there isn’t a lot of time left!
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Italy unemployment rate hits new record high in May

Posted: 01 Jul 2013 05:43 AM PDT

Italy’s unemployment rate has risen to a new record high in May as the country is struggling with a recession-hit economy following implementation of tough austerity cuts.
The Rome-based national statistics office, Istat, said on Monday that the jobless rate rose to 12.2 percent in May from 12 percent in April, the highest since the institute started collecting data on Italy in 1977.
The eurozone’s third-largest economy dropped 27,000 jobs in May alone, with the unemployment rate remaining above 10 percent for 16 months.
This is while, the unemployment rate for people under the age of 25 reached 41.9 percent in the first quarter of this year, also reaching the highest level since 1977.
Tough austerity measures, spending cuts, and pension changes introduced by Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti’s government have stirred serious concerns among many people already grappling with the country’s ailing economy.
Italians have been staging protests against high unemployment, economic adversity and hardship over a series of government-imposed austerity packages in the recent past.
Italy started to experience recession after its economy contracted by 0.2 percent in the third quarter of 2011 and by 0.7 percent in the year’s fourth quarter.
The worsening debt crisis has forced the EU governments to adopt harsh austerity measures and tough economic reforms, which have triggered incidents of social unrest and massive protests in many European countries.
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Russian Forces to Provide “Security” At US Events

Posted: 01 Jul 2013 05:33 AM PDT

As part of a deal signed last week in Washington DC between the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry and FEMA, Russian officials will provide “security at mass events” in the United States, a scenario that won’t sit well with Americans wary of foreign assets operating on US soil.
According to a press release by the Ministry of the Russian Federation for Civil Defense and Emergencies, US and Russian officials met on June 25 at the 17th Joint U.S.-Russia Cooperation Committee on Emergency Situations.
In addition to agreeing with FEMA to “exchange experts during joint rescue operations in major disasters,” the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry will also be providing “security at mass events” in the United States.
This suggests that events designated as “National Special Security Events” by the Department of Homeland Security, which include the Super Bowl, international summits such as the G8 and presidential inaugurations, will now rely partly on Russian authorities to provide security.
The meeting last week also agreed on the conclusion that US and Russian emergency authorities will increase their co-operation, “in order to respond efficiently to all kinds of disasters.”
The use of foreign troops or other officials in a law enforcement capacity providing “security” inside the United States is illegal under Posse Comitatus. Capt. William Geddes of the U.S. Army Reserve acknowledged last year that it is against federal law to use US troops to conduct police patrols, despite the fact that such occurrences are becoming increasingly common. The use of foreign troops is an even more clear cut violation of Posse Comitatus.
Last year we reported on how Russian troops were invited to the US as part of a Fort Carson, Colorado drill focused around anti-terror training. Aside from learning how to target terrorists in America, the Russian soldiers were also out in the local community attending a baseball game in Colorado Springs.
As Mac Slavo writes, “Rumors have circulated for years about the possibility of foreign troops being deployed on U.S. soil in the event of a widespread declaration of a national emergency. For quite some time there have been anecdotal reports to support the claim that the U.N., Russia and other nations would be used in a policing capacity should some critical event befall our nation.”
“The fear should such a scenario take place has been that these soldiers would act under the banner of their own flags, ignoring the fundamental protections afforded to our citizens, leaving Americans under the jurisdiction of people who don’t speak our language or respect our fundamental rights to self defense, to be secure in our homes, and to be presumed innocent in the eyes of the law.”
Concerns about foreign troops being used on US soil have lingered ever since the release of State Department Publication 7277, which is a blueprint for the harmonization of US and Russian forces under a framework of United Nations-led global government.
Back in 2008 it was also reported that US and Canadian authorities had signed an agreement that would pave the way to using each other’s militaries on both sides of the border “during an emergency”.
Alex Jones has documented foreign troops being trained on U.S. soil to deal with “insurgents” since the late 1990′s as part of “urban warfare drills”.
Back in July 2010, our reporters covered the Operation Vigilant Guard exercises in Chicago which involved Polish troops training alongside U.S. National Guard troops in drills focused around raiding terrorists and drug dealers.
According to SFC Mark Ballard of the Illinois National Guard, the Polish forces were “integrating into some of the civil military units that are participating in this exercise” as part of Illinois’ partnership with the Republic of Poland, a relationship based around “integrative training” and blending military and civilian forces in the event of a national emergency, as well as making this process of integration with foreign troops more “visible”.
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Germany to charge UK, US over spying

Posted: 01 Jul 2013 05:02 AM PDT

German Chancellor Angela Merkel (R) attends a meeting with UK Prime Minister David Cameron

Germany Federal Prosecutor’s Office says it is preparing to bring charges against US and British intelligence agencies over large-scale spying operations on EU offices, a new report says.
The British daily The Independent reported on Sunday that Germany’s Office of the Federal Prosecutor is preparing charges following “fresh allegations that the [US and UK secret] services spied far more extensively than thought on German phone and internet traffic.”
On Monday, Germany announced that it was summoning the US ambassador over the breach in trust.
If the allegations are true, the massive surveillance program would demonstrate “unacceptable Cold War style behavior toward Berlin,” said German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
In another development, the German news weekly Der Spiegel accused the US National Security Agency (NSA) of bugging EU offices in Washington, New York and Brussels.
The magazine said US spy agencies monitor about half a billion telephone calls, emails and mobile phone text messages in Germany every month, making it the most targeted state in the European Union.
Canada, Australia, Britain and New Zealand were not included in NSA surveillance operations but Germany was open for “spy attacks,” Der Spiegel added.
Reports last week revealed that the British spy agencies along with the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) had tapped German phone and internet traffic, sharing its data with the NSA.
Meanwhile, French President Francois Hollande said on Monday that his country will no longer negotiate with the United States in any area without guarantees that spying has ended.
“There can be no negotiations or transactions in all areas until we have obtained these guarantees, for France but also for all of the European Union, for all partners of the United States,” Hollande noted.
The accusations against US and UK intelligence services came after secret US documents were released by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
The American whistleblower has assured that the information he obtained about US surveillance programs will continue to be published.
In the beginning of June, Snowden leaked documents that revealed the NSA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have been secretly gathering information of American citizens and other people all around the world.
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Putin: Snowden can stay in Russia if he stops damaging USA

Posted: 01 Jul 2013 04:31 AM PDT

President Vladimir Putin says NSA leaker Edward Snowden may stay in Russia, if he wants to, but only if he stops activities aimed against the United States.
“There is one condition if he wants to remain here: he must stop his work aimed at damaging our American partners. As odd as it may sound from me,” Putin told a media conference in Moscow.
In Putin’s opinion, Snowden considers himself “a fighter for human rights” and it seems unlikely that he is going to stop leaking American secret data.
However, Russia is not going to extradite Snowden, the president underlined.
“Russia has never extradited anyone and is not going to do so. Same as no one has ever been extradited to Russia,” Putin stated.
“At best,” he noted, Russia exchanged its foreign intelligence employees detained abroad for “those who were detained, arrested and sentenced by a court in the Russian Federation.”
Snowden “is not a Russian agent”, the president said, repeating that Russian intelligence services were not working with the fugitive American.
He said Snowden should choose his final destination and go there. Putin added that he has no idea when that is going to happen.
“If I knew, I would tell you now,” he told the media conference after the Forum of Gas Exporting Countries.
Putin and his US counterpart Barrack Obama instructed their nations’ security services – Russia’s FSB and America’s FBI respectively – to resolve the situation around the Snowden case, Nikolay Patrushev, the secretary of the Russian Security Council said earlier on Monday.
The former CIA employee Snowden, who is behind the biggest leak in the NSA, has been stuck in the transit zone of Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport for over a week now, after he arrived in the Russian capital from Hong Kong.
The US annulled the whistleblower’s American passport and he presently has no other documents with which he can travel.
Putin suspects US spied on Russian embassies
Putin does not rule out that the US was bugging Russian diplomatic missions. The President was commenting on a scandal stirred up by new documents leaked by Snowden which revealed that the US was spying on dozens of foreign missions and embassies abroad.
“It’s none of our business that allies are eavesdropping on each other. Let them do what they want,” Putin stated.
He observed that there was nothing in the leaked data on attempts to bug official Russian representations.
“I don’t rule out that it’s possible,” Putin noted.
The US special services work on a global scale, but they also have “some kind of departmental interests.”
“Let our colleagues [special services] decide which of them is right and which is wrong and what should be done to stop it,” Putin concluded.
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