Monthly Archives: July 2013

Dr. Joseph Bonneau Wins NSA Award, Calls For NSA To Be Abolished

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“Engineers and researchers like Bonneau have a unique and important role to play in fighting back against NSA oversteps. As Michael Hirsh noted in the Atlantic last month, tech companies have contributed enormously to wiring up Big Brother — companies like Palantir Technologies, Eagle Alliance (of Computer Sciences Corp. and Northrup Grumman) and Booz Allen Hamilton. The only way the government gets to spy on everyone is when people who are intelligent and innovative enough to build scalable surveillance technologies decide to help them.  Hopefully Bonneau’s example will inspire more cryptographers and security engineers to speak out.”

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/07/dr-joseph-bonneau-wins-nsa-award-criticizes-nsa-0

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Snowden’s father criticizes Congress, Obama over spy programs

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“Lonnie Snowden, in an interview with NBC’s ‘Today’ show, said lawmakers were ‘complicit or negligent’ in allowing the National Security Agency’s massive electronic surveillance program to continue. ‘I am extremely disappointed and angry,’ he said. ‘The American people – at this point, they don’t know the full truth, but the truth is coming.’ Lonnie Snowden told NBC he was confident in his son’s actions. ‘I believe that my son, when he takes his final breath whether it’s today or 100 years from now, he will be comfortable with what he did because he did what he knew was right.'”

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/26/us-usa-security-snowden-idUSBRE96P0RF20130726

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The Worldwide Evil Empire

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“Did you know that our taxes pay for an ‘Office of Global Strategies’ at the TSA? Victoria Reeder from that ‘office’ recently enjoyed a junket to the Bahamas at our expense. After Bahamian pols and bureaucrats kissed her butt a while, she and various other Amerikan bureaucrats connived with those tinhorns to ‘engage in co-operation activities in the area of civil aviation, establishing, among other things, screening standards, comparable to those implemented in airports in the USA, for both passengers and checked baggage departing Bahamian Pre-clearance airports bound for the United States.'”

http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/the-worldwide-evil-empire/

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R.I.P. Garry Davis (1921-2013)

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“The world has lost a true visionary. Davis renounced his US citizenship in 1948, proclaiming himself a citizen of the world. He went on to advocate for global, rather than national, governance, and founded organizations to that end. Since 1954, the World Passport that Davis devised and issued has facilitated crossings of some 180 national borders, and has has saved tens of thousands of lives. as bearers and their families used it to flee conflict zones and genocides. Garry’s legacy lives on, both in the ideals he articulated and in the lives and descendants of the people his ‘fake’ passports saved.”

http://www.nostate.com/4373/r-i-p-garry-davis-1921-2013/

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A Death Before Dying: Solitary Confinement on Death Row

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“We know that the death penalty system is broken. Racial bias, junk science, underfunded public defense, and other serious breakdowns in our legal system can mean that people – sometimes innocent people – will languish on death rows for years while pursuing appeals. Spending these years in extreme isolation can erode mental health to the point that some will ‘volunteer’ to die rather than continue to live under such conditions. Many prisoners die a slow and painful psychological death before the state ever executes them.”

http://www.aclu.org/deathrowsolitary

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Ex-President Jimmy Carter plans to visit North Korea to negotiate prisoner’s release

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“Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter is planning to visit North Korea soon to try to win the release of a U.S. citizen held for committing crimes against the reclusive state. Carter has made contact with the North to arrange for the visit, and he is likely to make the trip in a personal capacity to secure the release of Kenneth Bae, the U.S. citizen, a source in Washington was quoted as saying.  Carter has made trips to the North on diplomatic missions and in 2010 helped earn the release of another American, Aijalon Mahli Gomes, a Boston native who had been sentenced to eight years hard labor for illegally entering the country.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/29/ex-president-jimmy-carter-plans-to-visit-north-korea-report/

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New Zealand military told to soften manual that equates media with extremist groups

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“Opposition defence spokesman Phil Goff said it was ‘utterly wrong and intolerable’ for the military’s top brass to display such paranoia about journalists, showing they did not understand the media’s role in a democratic society. Goff said the situation raised further doubts about moves to expand the power of intelligence services so they can spy on New Zealanders, particularly after it was revealed that Internet mogul Kim Dotcom was illegally snooped upon before his arrest in January last year. The expanded powers, backed by Prime Minister John Key, are due to go to parliament this week and are expected to be passed by a narrow majority.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/29/new-zealand-military-told-to-soften-manual-that-equates-media-with-extremist-groups/

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Limbaugh and Hannity to be dropped by major radio network

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“The country’s second-biggest radio network is planning to dump conservative commentators Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh at the end of 2013 to offset a loss in revenues, Politico reported on Sunday. Think Progress reported that the duo has lost 240 advertisers between them since 2012, with Limbaugh in particular being targeted for a boycott over his derogatory remarks against womens’ rights activist Sandra Fluke. That same month, Limbaugh complained that Fox News was losing out on advertising money because ‘the media buyers at advertising agencies are young women, fresh out of college, liberal feminists who hate conservatism.'”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/29/limbaugh-and-hannity-to-be-dropped-by-major-radio-network-report/

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Oklahoma prosecutors return $21,227 more to Interstate 40 travelers

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“District Attorney Jason Hicks agreed Thursday to return the funds in the three cases, dropping efforts to have the money forfeited to law enforcement use. Hicks is under fire for hiring a private company, Desert Snow LLC, to assist in his drug interdiction effort.  After hiring the Guthrie company in January, his task force seized more than $1 million in the stops, mostly along a 21-mile stretch of I-40 in Caddo County. Hicks agreed to pay the company 25 percent of all forfeited proceeds from stops involving its trainers.  Hicks said he does not plan to return nearly $850,000 seized in one stop in May. No one was arrested in that stop.”

http://newsok.com/article/3866713

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More countries abolishing capital punishment, but some returning to it

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“Although 33 of the 40 countries that still have the death penalty are ruled by despots, some ‘liberal democracies’ returned to capital punishment in 2012, the report said. ‘While China seems to be progressively improving, some liberal democracies seem to be going the opposite way,’ said Sergio d’Elia, Hands off Cain secretary. In 2011, of the ‘liberal democracies’, just the United States and Taiwan carried out executions, while in 2012 Japan, Botswana and India began using capital punishment again after many years in which the practice was suspended. This year, Indonesia joined them, carrying out its first death penalty for five years.”

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/more-countries-abolishing-capital-punishment/story-fni0xs61-1226686656836

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