Ray McGovern and the Sam Adams party have presented the Sam Adams award to Edward Snowden. I am delighted. This from Ray’s account of the event:
In brief remarks from his visitors, Snowden was reassured — first and foremost — that he need no longer be worried that nothing significant would happen as a result of his decision to risk his future by revealing documentary proof that the U.S. government was playing fast and loose with the Constitutional rights of Americans.
Even amid the government shutdown, Establishment Washington and the normally docile “mainstream media” have not been able to deflect attention from the intrusive eavesdropping that makes a mockery of the Fourth Amendment. Even Congress is showing signs of awaking from its torpor.
In the somnolent Senate, a few hardy souls have gone so far as to express displeasure at having been lied to by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and NSA Director Keith Alexander — Clapper having formally apologized for telling the Senate Intelligence Committee eavesdropping-related things that were, in his words, “clearly erroneous” and Alexander having told now-discredited whoppers about the effectiveness of NSA’s intrusive and unconstitutional methods in combating terrorism.
Coleen Rowley, the first winner of the Sam Adams Award (2002), cited some little-known history to remind Snowden that he is in good company as a whistleblower — and not only because of previous Sam Adams honorees. She noted that in 1773, Benjamin Franklin leaked confidential information by releasing letters written by then-Lt. Governor of Massachusetts Thomas Hutchinson to Thomas Whatley, an assistant to the British Prime Minister.
The letters suggested that it was impossible for the colonists to enjoy the same rights as subjects living in England and that “an abridgement of what are called English liberties” might be necessary. The content of the letters was so damaging to the British government that Benjamin Franklin was dismissed as colonial Postmaster General and had to endure an hour-long censure from British Solicitor General Alexander Wedderburn.
There has been a determined attempt by government to justify the need to intercept everybody’s communications, all the time. We have, yet again, had MI5 claim there are many thousand violent Islamic terrorists running around the UK, (yet somehow not managing to kill anybody). The cry of “paedophiles” is raised, as always. I can imagine them suggesting the entire population be shot dead, and justifying it as making sure they get the paedophiles. The tabloids would go with that.
There still had not been a single credible claim by the mainstream media that any named individual has died, despite that contingency being trotted out all the time as the reason Snowden and Manning should not have revealed state crimes and abuse of power. I am hopeful that, with the internet still largely free to the dissemination of information, out next massive whistleblower is only weeks away.
Fuckedup the jobless pislamist does make me laugh… surely a Ziofuckwitistani creation to discredit anti-ziofuckwits? Get down to the Feckless Wanker before last orders!
BeJesus, some chosen dumbass thinks GB could oust Miranda (who had the banger paid for at Cambridge) by threatening to out himself as a CIA recruit??!!!! No wonder the Hezbos whupped the ass of the IDF skinny ugly idiots under the delusion of being chosen.
Another CT nutter?
“War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.”
Major General Smedley Butler (July 30, 1881 – June 21, 1940) was a Major General in the U.S. Marine Corps, the highest rank authorized at that time, and at the time of his death the most decorated Marine in U.S. history.
Rather than wearing poppies, wouldn’t we honour the dead and injured destroyed better insisting that warmongers are always held to account? Yes Bliar, that means you!
We won’t forget.
@Anon – sorry remember the ALMIGHTY was SILENT, not just the Pope of Rome. It follows you may actually NOT be the chosen anymore, simple.
Here is a list why we will have a repeat.
King David
Lavon
Jack Rubenstein
1967 preemptive moshe
Buenos Aires
Palestinian children
911
Dubai
Iranian scientists
Ghouta intercepts
Ehud Brogs upcoming production !!?
Oops! Typo.
Should read….Rather than wearing poppies, wouldn’t we honour the dead and destroyed better by insisting that warmongers are always held to account?
Is “normal” you banging on about the Rothschilds, John?
It’s a good thing all those soldiers didn’t die, or lose essential body parts for nothing.
http://original.antiwar.com/updates/2013/10/27/iraq-88-killed-203-wounded-as-bombs-target-baghdad-and-mosul/
Well said re the poppies John and Mary.
I got into trouble once during a packed meeting once when I described it as propaganda…one chap was nearly as upset as anon is.
Mary
Well-spotted. No, the Anon without the shades was me trying to wind the one with shades up a bit. i thought that was obvious in the context, but obviously not obvious to Clinty-trigger Fedup Bull terrier extraordinaire.
I have the greatest respect for anyone who takes up the military profession. But the turning point in my mind for any soldier was the colonial war on Libya in which AlQaida were openly fighting on our side and openly abusing the population. They didn’t make allowances for those who worked with Gaddafi under force, but they gave themselves every excuse for collaborating with the colonialists.
It is worse in Syria. Now it is obvious that it has always been like this. Muslims commit atrocities on other Muslims to get the self-righteous west to bring in the diplomacy and pull the country back together again with the dictator gone. But now the west is saying they’re not going to fall for this game. Kill on and live in the mess you have created until the Muslim populations detest everything about Islam.
The west rewards those who make the Muslims tired of Islam with power. Like Mursi. There was a stupid plan if ever there was one. Ordinary Muslims chucked him out again.
No details as yet…http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/blast-heard-us-embassy-yemeni-capital-20707628
I meant to say about Ann Jones’ book (the review of which I posted earlier) that it appears to say nothing about the scars in the minds of the relatives in Iraq whose loved ones have been blown sky high. The fact that there were no bombs and that there was no significant Shia/Sunni divide before the ‘coalition’ descended, might have deepened those scars.
If these stories and films* about injured soldiers stopped the leaders in their tracks I might take part with them a little. But wounded soldiers are honoured as heroes, indeed lionised.
I think though that the penny might have dropped in a majority now.
*Tonight on Film on Four – Waltz with Bashir – the heart of this powerful documentary concerns a very real war crime: the massacre of Palestinians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps by Christian militia gunmen. Instead of excusing the Israeli Army’s role in the atrocity, Folman offers a harrowing portrait of a generation of young soldiers forever scarred by the horrors of war.”
So much for Folman whoever he is. I am not bothered about members of the IDF ‘forever scarred by the horrors of war’.
The War Prayer
Typical self-indulgence of the ziofuckwits, never mind the families and the children left behind, never mind the three day long non stop slaughter of everyone of the captive inhabitants of the camps, who had nowhere to run to, and were corralled and pushed back and sent to their certain death, knowingly and callously. But the poor little murdering ziofuckwits who did all the killing and the shooting, maiming, dismembering, and slaughtering the “subhuman scum”. Why o why these “subhuman scum” did not just hang themselves and spare the poor armed to the fucking teeth ziofuckwits the inconvenience of shooting them dead?
Anon @ 20h17
“Fuckedup the jobless pislamist does make me laugh… surely a Ziofuckwitistani creation to discredit anti-ziofuckwits? Get down to the Feckless Wanker before last orders!”
Befalls upon me to choose the one-lner of the day again.
Pisserby by day, Fuckedup by night….what a way to live! But, special prize awaits for the best detective (lot of that going on around here) to explain this split- [should i say spilt-(?)] personality.
PS Another one from Fuckedup “This anon has its head so far up and too deep up the arse of the propagandists to notice that soldiers are doing job…”
Effedup often drops his ‘the”, ‘their’ and so on as in the latter part of Flaming June’s post on Stormfront. Could he be the imposter who was fronting Mary? I wonder. After all ‘it’ is the only one here who also consistently, unabashedly, posts in a dual name.
Ode to Lou Reed and Nico!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EtWbb00lJU
And more real music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgdZFnZ6M0k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_z_UEuEMAo
I had a quick look at one of the threads suggested and I would certainly agree that in the case of the last one there was a much better debate than there is here and on pretty much the same ground as at present. I would also add that there only appeared to be one person arguing the case against the prevailing theme (i.e Stephen) and that he pretty much took Mary and the others to the cleaners. Perhaps Mary and John Goss should ask why people like that stopped to comment. He was also absolutely right about why remembrance is so important in this day and age.
http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2011/11/the-day-democracy-died-in-europe/
High Quality:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5P8fn3rmY8&list=AL94UKMTqg-9DkjdvkMkN9-AlvlUU0GRtt
Yes, that is Rod Stewart on vocals…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf_rlqmW9m4
Anon: “Yes that’s right, Macky, just a job”
Yes, ever since conscription ended, it’s just another career option; almost every time soldiers are interviewed in Afghanistan, or during the bloodbath in Iraq, they often refer to “getting the job done”; For some it really is a dream job, as they get paid to indulge in doing what they enjoy something that Anon would also love to do;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ox7dEq7vI4Y&list=FLXt3Jtv6OH0Z5WtTTOMIqhg&index=94
Yes, Anon would probably the sicko providing the commentary, literally masturbating to little kids having the shit beaten-out of them by grown thugs in uniform.
Res Des: “I’ll save my scorn for you rather than Jack Straw”
Of course you would, as you do recall those lovely Islamophobic comments by Straw, which are right up your street as it this disgusting racist one by Anon;
“Just be careful of people wearing poppies in the next few days.
They might be loaded with acid to give you scabby rag-heads a taste of your own…”
You cannot bring yourself to condemn this filthy overt racism, but fly off the handle with your hysterical anti-semitism smears if anybody mentions the word “Jews”.
feelin gritty….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqI2YStPK3E
The villageCtechniCanonC could not hold any longer and had to come back and spam the board with its torrents of diarrhoea, with the unoriginal, and bereft of a modicum of intelligence tirades published as its brain farts;
Then the fucking schizoid nodding troll (or is that harrumphing concurring troll?) seeing as no one has given it the slightest bit of attention, comes back villageCtechinCanonC talking to itself;
However to wipe the total shit it has splattered all around the place, then posts a couple of links about a fucking singer, and it is complemented with the resident rodent lecturing us all on fucking importance of remembrance, although the same wanker would be calling everyone antisemi… If anyone dared to remember the British paratroopers’ dead corpses whom were killed by the ziofuckwits, and later their corpses booby trapped and left hanging from the trees to rot under the baking sun in Orange Grove.
Needless to point out that anyone familiar with the pattern of these worthless waste of resources ziofuckwits, would have anticipated these attacks comin after the grand dame of these trolls ie dreo left in protest.
Although curiously in the minds of these deranged zioufckwits, I am jobless and am working at the same time, a Muslim and sitting in the pub binge drinking. As well as their indignation about getting drunk, do these ziofuckwits think in UK we are tea total? Why the stigma attacked to drinking?
Trap some poor chump in his miserable lumpenprole life until he can talk himself into thinking he’s rough and tough enough to get his face blasted into a revolting monster shape, but his girlfriend panics and can’t stand to look at him and dumps him and he stumbles around bumping into things for a while and then eats a gun, so some weepy kinish buys the poor dead fuck a poppy and we’re all square.
Fuck your phony remembrance.
Beck-Ola in entirety.
(I think I knew the girl from Mill Valley)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR1oY8AL-hY
“Fuck your phony remembrance.”
If they were going to honor the fallen, the least the troops could have the decency to just fade away like an old soldier.
We thank them for their service with a ribbon and a medal….
“OOORAHHHH !!!”
“do these ziofuckwits think in UK we are tea total? ”
‘Tea-total’!!! LOL Almost as funny as “carry flavour” — which of the uneducated should we reward?!
Dirty wars documentary finally available to/rent
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2532528/
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Also got this one cued:
The act of killing
A documentary that challenges former Indonesian death squad leaders to reenact their real-life mass-killings in whichever cinematic genres they wish, including classic Hollywood crime scenarios and lavish musical numbers.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2375605/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Really? Ban Kai Moon and associates can’t plan a trip to the crapper.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=un-asteroid-defense-plan
“When a meteor exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia in February, the world’s space agencies found out along with the rest of us, on Twitter and YouTube. That, says former astronaut Ed Lu, is unacceptable—and the United Nations agrees. Last week the General Assembly approved a set of measures that Lu and other astronauts have recommended to protect the planet from the dangers of rogue asteroids.”
New from Global research yesterday –
Dear Toronto Chief of Police William Blair and Attorney General John Gerretsen;
Re: Duty to arrest Richard Cheney as a person suspected on reasonable grounds of authorizing, counseling, aiding, abetting and failing to prevent torture.
Richard Cheney, former Vice President of the United States of America is scheduled to speak in Toronto Ontario on 31 October 2013 at the Toronto Global Forum, hosted by the International Economic Forum of the Americas at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
Once Richard (Dick) Cheney enters Canada:
• All of the torture alleged against and admitted by Dick Cheney, is deemed to have taken place in Canada, pursuant to (s. 7(3.7) of the Criminal Code of Canada (CC);
The Crimes against Humanity and War Crimes Section has received and is reviewing a request from Lawyers against the War to ensure that Dick Cheney, if he enters Canada, is prosecuted for torture……
We remind you that neither Dick Cheney’s status as former vice president of the United States nor his status as a guest of the Toronto Global Forum or the International Economic Forum of the Americas constitutes a defense to torture or confers on him any temporary immunity from Canadian law……
http://www.globalresearch.ca/lawyers-advise-toronto-police-chief-to-arrest-dick-cheney-as-a-person-suspected-of-authorizing-and-abetting-torture/5355957
Will the October 31 talk go ahead… You Betcha.. Love to be wrong on that though
Mike and Nevermind
Thanks for the Links to ancient civilizations, much to pour over there, Cheers
Hope the writing is going well Ingo, and hope you haven’t left the Blog for good, best wishes.
Alcanon
Thanks for the Genesis in rome video, Wow what a crowd in that vid… must be 100k plus there, i’m sure they were in talks with Gabriel to take part in that tour, Cheers again AA.