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‘Unsafe’: Snowden’s advisor from WikiLeaks fears returning to UK
The statement published by WikiLeaks on Wednesday explains how Sarah Harrison helped Snowden successfully get Russian temporary asylum, which he received on August 1, despite “substantial pressure from the United States.” Continue reading
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The Security State: Our business doesn’t depend on collecting personal data says Apple
Apple’s transparency report on governmental data requests assures the company mostly helps investigating criminal offences, such as thefts of Apple products. The company complains of a ‘gag order’ banning disclosure of number and core of such requests. Continue reading
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Police State UK: The NSA spy scandal and the attack on press freedom By Chris Marsden
Recently released police documents on the August 18 arrest and questioning at London’s Heathrow airport of David Miranda, the domestic partner of journalist Glenn Greenwald, are a serious warning on the advanced stage of the decay of democracy in Britain and internationally. Continue reading
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Legal Expert: “Under [the Government’s] Definition, The Pentagon Papers Could Be Treated As The Same Act As The 9-11 Bombings”
As we’ve documented ad nauseum, the American and British governments are treating whistleblowers and reporters as terrorists. Continue reading
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PRISM is driving the uptake of privacy services, but there’s no simple solution to beating the NSA By Nick Pearson
While Edward Snowden’s PRISM revelations failed to spark much widespread outrage among the general public, an apparent spike in the uptake of Virtual Private Networks suggests the online privacy market could be entering a golden period. But when commerce is driven by fear there is plenty of opportunity for exploitation and many privacy-concerned citizens may… Continue reading
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Police State UK: British response to surveillance leaks ‘eroding’ freedom – human rights groups
Seventy human rights organizations from 40 different countries came together to write the letter to Cameron, stating their concern with the British reaction to revelations of mass surveillance – including increased pressure on media outlets reporting on the leaks and the closure of public interest debates dealing with the subject. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 4 November 2013 (19/13): Metropolitan police detained David Miranda for promoting ‘political’ causes
4 November 2013 — Statewatch e-mail: office@statewatch.org Continue reading
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Global Research Week in Review 30 October – 3 November 2013: Voodoo Economics and Friends of Imperialism
3 November 2013 — Global Research US Attacks Germany’s Economic Policies. Washington Views with Growing Alarm the Emergence of Germany as the Economic Powerhouse of Europe, Andre Damon, November 03, 2013 Continue reading
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Police State UK: Britain’s GCHQ shepherding mass surveillance operations throughout Europe
British intelligence agency GCHQ has helped counterpart entities in France, Germany, Spain, and Sweden develop methods of mass surveillance of internet and phone traffic in the last five years, a new report reveals. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 28 October 2013 (18/13): full background coverage on EU-UK-USA Data Surveillance
28 October 2013 — Statewatch News Online, 28 October 2013 (18/13) Home page: http://www.statewatch.org/ e-mail: office@statewatch.org Continue reading
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Global Research Week in Review 27 October 2013: Fukushima Fraud and the Monopolization of the Biosphere
27 October 2013 — Global Research The Real Reason U.S. Targets Whistleblowers, Washington’s Blog, October 27, 2013 Continue reading
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Police State UK: ‘Press handling with talking heads’: Snowden files reveal enormous GCHQ efforts to escape legal challenge
The UK’s spy agency GCHQ was doing whatever it could to avoid igniting a “damaging public debate” and a subsequent possibility of a legal threat over its surveillance practices and cooperation with telecoms, new Snowden papers reveal. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 24 October 2013: NSA Monitored Calls of 35 World Leaders After US Official Handed Over Contacts
24 October 2013 — Information Clearing House Marines ‘Murdered Man Live on Camera’: By Kim Sengupta Court martial sees graphic footage of ‘execution’ of injured Taliban fighter. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36640.htm Continue reading
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Media Lens: Journalist Or Activist? Smearing Glenn Greenwald By David Edwards
Modern thought control is dependent on subliminal communication. Messages influencing key perceptions are delivered unseen, unnoticed, with minimal public awareness of what is happening or why. Continue reading
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Police State UK: The witch-hunt of Britain’s Guardian newspaper By Julie Hyland
Raids on newspaper offices, the forced destruction of computer drives and threats to arrest journalists are actions more commonly associated with military dictatorships. But this is exactly what has been meted out against the Guardian, with threats of worse to come. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 21 October 2013: Chris Hedges: Are We Living in a Police State?
21 October 2013 — Information Clearing House Engineering Consent For More Wars U.S. Military Investing Heavily in Africa By Shashank Bengali The Pentagon has begun a burst of spending in Africa, investing in air facilities, flight services, telecommunications and electrical upgrades as the U.S. military deepens its footprint in a region with a rising threat of “Islamist Continue reading
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Police State UK: Guardian faces parliamentary investigation over Snowden revelations By Chris Marsden
Britain’s Guardian newspaper is facing an investigation by at least one parliamentary committee, in line with demands made by Prime Minister David Cameron, concerning the exposures of Edward Snowden, the whistleblower from America’s National Security Agency (NSA). Continue reading
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How to Protect Ourselves on Social Networks and from Data Collection Systems of Governments and Corporations
orporations are taking advantage of these times by changing their privacy policies so that they can track us, use us, and sell us whatever their algorithms decide that we need or want based on data they have acquired about our movements, contacts, desires, fantasies, or kinks. Governments on the other hand are using our data… Continue reading
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