Monthly Archives: June 2013

Right-wing bloggers denied entry to UK for rally with anti-Muslim group

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“Two prominent US bloggers who were due to speak at a far-right rally in Woolwich on Saturday have been banned from entering the UK, the Home Office has said. Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer, who set up Stop Islamization of America, and run the website Jihad Watch, have been forbidden from entering the country on the grounds their presence would ‘not be conducive to the public good’.  Matthew Collins, from anti-extremism group Hope Not Hate, which campaigned for Geller and Spencer’s exclusion, said the organisation was ‘absolutely delighted’ by the decision.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/26/right-wing-bloggers-denied-entry-to-uk-for-rally-with-anti-muslim-group/

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Here Come The “National Service” Peddlers

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“WaPo’s Michael Gerson feels a little edgy about Americans ‘criticizing the National Security Agency as though it were enforcing the Alien and Sedition Acts.’ You see, the serfs are not supposed to question, let alone have a problem with, having their every move monitored and watched by the State.  So Gerson, looking for a panacea to this individualistic disease, suggests that ‘National service can heal a divided nation.’  Adding to Gerson’s plea, there’s also HuffPo who says ‘That a year of full-time national service should become a civic rite of passage for all young Americans.’  One must ask: Are the government schools not enough anymore?”

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2013/06/here-come-national-service-peddlers.html

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Steve Wozniak: Snowden ‘Is a Hero Because This Came From His Heart’

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“Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is more than a little distressed that the technology he helped develop nearly four decades ago is being used on a massive scale to invade people’s privacy. ‘I think he’s a hero,’ said the 62-year-old Wozniak, who co-founded Apple Computer with Steve Jobs and invented the Apple I and Apple II personal computers that launched a technological revolution. ‘He’s a hero to my beliefs about how the Constitution should work. I don’t think the NSA has done one thing valuable for us, in this whole ‘Prism’ regard, that couldn’t have been done by following the Constitution and doing it the old way.'”

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/26/steve-wozniak-snowden-is-a-hero-because-this-came-from-his-heart.html

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In WikiLeaks Probe, Feds Used a Secret Search Warrant to Get Volunteer’s Gmail

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“The Justice Department used a secret search warrant to obtain the entire contents of a Gmail account used by a former WikiLeaks volunteer in Iceland, according to court records released to the volunteer this week.  The warrant ordered Google to turn over ‘the contents of all e-mails associated with the account, including stored or preserved copies of e-mails sent to and from the account, draft e-mails, deleted e-mails […] the source and destination addresses associated with each e-mail, the date and time at which each e-mail was sent, and the size and length of each e-mail.’ The warrant also ordered Google not to disclose the search to anyone.”

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/06/wikileaks-gmail/

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WikiLeaks Volunteer Was a Paid Informant for the FBI

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“In 2011, a cherubic 18-year-old Icelandic man named Sigurdur ‘Siggi’ Thordarson walked through the stately doors of the U.S. embassy in Reykjavík, his jacket pocket concealing his calling card: a crumpled photocopy of an Australian passport, a man with a unruly shock of platinum blonde hair and the name Julian Paul Assange.  Thordarson was long time volunteer for WikiLeaks with direct access to Assange and a key position as an organizer in the group. Thordarson served two masters, working for the secret-spilling website and simultaneously spilling its secrets to the U.S. government in exchange, he says, for a total of about $5,000.”

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/06/wikileaks-mole/all/

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California man could face a decade in jail for chalking ‘no thanks big banks’

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“A California man’s protest against banking excess could put him in jail for more than a decade, while apparently landing him in the middle of the ongoing feud between the mayor of San Diego and the city attorney. KFMB-TV reported on Tuesday that Jeff Olson has been charged with 13 counts of vandalism by City Attorney Jan Goldsmith for writing statements including ‘No thanks big banks’ and ‘Shame on Bank of America’ on the sidewalk outside a Bank of America location between February and August 2012. If convicted, Olson could spend up to 13 years in jail and be forced to pay the bank $13,000 in restitution.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/26/california-man-could-face-a-decade-in-jail-for-chalking-no-thanks-big-banks/

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Obama promises he won’t ‘scramble jets’ to get Snowden

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“US President Barack Obama said Thursday he would not ‘scramble jets’ to intercept any flights carrying fugitive leaker Edward Snowden and scoffed at spending political capital to win him back from Russia.  His comments came as Snowden remained in Russia, where he fled from Hong Kong, stuck in the transit zone of a Moscow airport, apparently unable to travel on to possible asylum in Ecuador after Washington cancelled his passport.  Obama, who has been embarrassed by the refusal of first China and then Russia to expel Snowden, insisted the real damage to the United States lay not in international humiliation, but in the exposure of key spying programs.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/27/obama-promises-he-wont-scramble-jets-to-get-snowden/

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Glenn Greenwald: The personal side of taking on the NSA

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“So that’s the big discovery: a corporate interest in adult videos (something the LLC shared with almost every hotel chain), fabricated emails, and some back taxes and other debt. I’m 46 years old and, like most people, have lived a complicated and varied adult life. I didn’t manage my life from the age of 18 onward with the intention of being a Family Values US senator. If journalists really believe that, in response to the reporting I’m doing, these distractions about my past and personal life are a productive way to spend their time, then so be it. None of that will detain me even for an instant in continuing to report on what the NSA is doing in the dark.”

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/26/nsa-revelations-response-to-smears

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Man Indicted In Scheme To Blackmail Romney Over Tax Returns

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“The court document says that Brown never compromised the accounting firm’s computer systems, ‘and falsely stated that he had stolen tax documents for Willard M. Romney and Ann D. Romney for tax years prior to 2010.’  Brown then ‘demanded US$1 million converted to ‘Bitcoin’ and instructed that this sum be deposited in a Bitcoin account for which he provide the account number,’ according to the document, to prevent the release of the documents.  The letters were printed not on Brown’s computer but on a friend’s, according to the indictment, as Brown had emailed the person to ask to use their printer, using the excuse that his own printer was out of ink.”

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/06/26/195995672/man-indicted-in-scheme-to-blackmail-romney-over-tax-returns

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U.S. boss held captive by angry Chinese employees, released

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“Chinese factory workers on Thursday released their U.S. boss, held captive for a week, after a compensation dispute was resolved. Chip Starnes, president of Specialty Medical Supplies, in the Beijing suburb of Huairou, was allowed to leave the factory and was resting in a hotel, the company official said. The workers had demanded severance packages identical to those offered to 30 employees who were recently laid off, even though the firm planned no further layoffs.  The workers’ demands followed rumors that the entire plant was being closed after the company’s plastic injection molding division began a move to India to lower production costs.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/27/u-s-boss-held-captive-by-angry-chinese-employees-released/

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