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France revealed to be spying on its citizens’ phone calls, email and social media

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“France’s external intelligence agency spies on the French public’s phone calls, emails and social media activity in France and abroad. It said the DGSE intercepted signals from computers and telephones in France, and between France and other countries, although not the content of phone calls, to create a map of ‘who is talking to whom’. It said the activity was illegal. ‘All of our communications are spied on,’ wrote Le Monde, which based its report on unnamed intelligence sources as well as remarks made publicly by intelligence officials. ‘Emails, text messages, telephone records, access to Facebook and Twitter are then stored for years,’ it said.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/04/france-revealed-to-be-spying-on-its-citizens-phone-calls-email-and-social-media/

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Bill Bonner: Special Independence Day Edition

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“Eventually history will tell the story of how Edward Snowden came out and revealed the extent to which the feds – under the guise of protecting us from terrorism – were laying the foundation for a police state. This was deeply disturbing to thoughtful people…if there were any…who feared the rise of an all-knowing, all-powerful Big Brother, from whom no secrets are kept, from whom no desires are hidden. And it was disturbing too to the Big Brothers themselves. They insisted on knowing everything about everybody else’s business. But they made it a crime to reveal what they were up to! In short, nobody likes a snitch…and a snoop especially dislikes a snitch.”

http://www.equitymaster.com/dailyreckoning/detail.asp?date=07/04/2013&story=5&title=Special-Independence-Day-Edition

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‘Top French politicians had Swiss accounts’

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“A former executive of a Geneva-based bank says he gave authorities in France a list of 15 former and current French cabinet ministers with secret Swiss bank accounts.  Pierre Condamin-Gerbier, formerly with Reyl & Company, said on Wednesday he had submitted the list of ‘big names’ to investigators.  Condamin-Gerbier was a witness before a French parliamentary commission investigating France’s former Budget Minister Jerome Cahuzac, who resigned in disgrace in March over an undeclared foreign bank account said to contain around €600,000.  Cahuzac is now facing charges of tax fraud.  He had earlier said the list contained a number of well-known names.”

http://www.thelocal.ch/20130703/top-french-politicians-had-swiss-accounts-ex-banker

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Glenn Greenwald: ‘Obama Admin Using Snowden as an Example in War on Whistleblowers’

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Glenn Greenwald: ‘Obama Admin Using Snowden as an Example in War on Whistleblowers’

“Glenn Greenwald, The Guardian newspaper columnist who first published Edward Snowden’s revelations about the NSA surveillance programs, joined Fox and Friends this morning and said that there are many more secrets still to come to light.  While he declined to specifically say what they were at this time, he did say, ‘There are vast programs of both domestic and international spying that the world will be shocked to learn about that the NSA has engaged in with no democratic accountability.'”

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U.S. Helping Iranians With Surveillance Circumvention Technologies

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“While Americans are making a big deal that the NSA is spying on everyone, Obama comes out and fervently defends the practice. NSA spying on you is the good kind.  The ‘bad’ surveillance happens over in Iran.  So what else for the U.S. government to do than supply Iranian citizens with surveillance circumvention technologies!  Bloomberg reports: ‘The U.S. State Department is helping develop a number of general-use surveillance circumvention technologies,’ Sascha Meinrath, founder of the Commotion Wireless Project, a non-profit group trying to build such devices, said in an email.’ The irony is so thick, you can barely see!”

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2013/06/us-helping-iranians-with-surveillance.html

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19-Year-Old Commits Suicide After Sheriff Posts Bullying Facebook Message

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“The Latah County Sheriff’s Office in Idaho had posted a photo of 19-year-old Pullman, Wash., resident Andrew Cain alongside a message saying, ‘We have decided that Andrew Cain is no longer the Wanted Person of the Week… he is the Wanted Person of the Month of June. Congratulations!.’  A few days later, Cain took his own life. Whitman County Coroner Pete Martin said that Cain had suffered from depression ‘and a number of problems.’ The Latah County Sheriff’s Office told HuffPost there were three warrants out for Cain: one for driving without privileges and one for possession of a controlled substance, while unable to say what the third warrant was for.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/26/andrew-cain-suicide_n_3503387.html

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Snowden Issues Statement Condemning Actions of Both Obama and Biden

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“For decades the United States of America have been one of the strongest defenders of the human right to seek asylum. Sadly, this right, laid out and voted for by the U.S. in Article 14 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, is now being rejected by the current government of my country. The Obama administration has now adopted the strategy of using citizenship as a weapon. Although I am convicted of nothing, it has unilaterally revoked my passport, leaving me a stateless person. Without any judicial order, the administration now seeks to stop me exercising a basic right. A right that belongs to everybody. The right to seek asylum.”

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2013/07/snowden-issues-statement-condemning.html

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Kerry downplays new reports of NSA spying on allies

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“Nearly all national governments, not just the United States, use ‘lots of activities’ to safeguard their interests and security, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Monday, responding for the first time to allegations that Washington spied on the European Union and other allies. The EU has strongly demanded that the United States explain a report in a German magazine that Washington is spying on the group, saying that, if true, the alleged surveillance was ‘shocking’.  The Guardian newspaper said that the United States had also targeted non-European allies including Japan, South Korea and India.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/01/kerry-downplays-new-reports-of-nsa-spying-on-allies/

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Australian government forces citizens to answer intimate questions about sex partners or face jail time

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“In an anti-democratic and coercive fashion, the Australian government forces citizens to answer intrusive, personally-disturbing questions or face harassment, fines, and  prosecution. The Australia Bureau of Statistic’s ‘Monthly Population Surveys’ have been used since 1960 in order to gather information about the country’s workforce. Recently, the questions have begun to perturb citizens. Many are refusing to answer such heinous questions, which include detailing people’s current and previous sexual relationships. One resident is speaking out about the forced sexual questions thrust upon him and the demand for information regarding his personal sex life.”

http://www.naturalnews.com/040991_Big_Government_Australia_intrusive_surveys.html

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U.S. government will finally retire most research chimpanzees but retain 50

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“The US government said Wednesday it will send most of its 360 research chimpanzees into retirement but will keep a small colony of about 50 for possible future studies on vaccines and behavior. The National Institutes of Health announced after more than two years of examination it was accepting most of the recommendations of independent experts to phase out the bulk of biomedical research using the primates.  One recommendation the NIH did not accept was that chimpanzees should be provided at least 1,000 square feet (93 square meters) per animal.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/26/u-s-government-will-retire-most-research-chimpanzees/

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