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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.

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  • Ben

    No Dark Matter, yet….http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2013/10/30/lux-first-results/

    “LEAD, S.D. – After its first run of more than three months, operating a mile underground in the Black Hills of South Dakota, a new experiment named LUX has proven itself the most sensitive dark matter detector in the world.

    “LUX is blazing the path to illuminate the nature of dark matter,” says Brown University physicist Rick Gaitskell, co-spokesperson for LUX with physicist Dan McKinsey of Yale University. LUX stands for Large Underground Xenon experiment”.

  • Guano

    Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson had six year affair.

    Another diversion/lie to make themselves appear human, when really they are Tory vampires.

  • Anon

    Herbie writes:

    “I think it’s fair to say that Chomsky, Corbett and Brand have their own ways of approaching the many challenges we face.”

    Yes, the first having an intellect and some vaguely sensible views, especially when it comes to 9/11 “truthers”, the second being a spotty conspiraloon, and the third being a, well, multi-millionaire ‘comedian’.

    Got any more revolutionaries, Herbie?

  • fred

    “If you don’t live in water-rich Scotland.”

    I’ll write to the local paper and suggest everyone gets heated swimming pools, dish washers and sprinkler systems like they have in America then we can have water shortages too.

    If that don’t work then a Coca Cola bottling plant is guaranteed to succeed. Did the trick in India.

  • Ben

    T Boone Pickens and the Bushies disdain gold….love buying water rights.

    http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022473474

    “In my 2008 article, I overlooked the astonishingly large land purchases (298,840 acres, to be exact) by the Bush family in 2005 and 2006. In 2006, while on a trip to Paraguay for the United Nation’s children’s group UNICEF, Jenna Bush (daughter of former President George W. Bush and granddaughter of former President George H.W. Bush) reportedly bought 98,840 acres of land in Chaco, Paraguay, near the Triple Frontier (Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay). This land is said to be near the 200,000 acres purchased by her grandfather, George H.W. Bush, in 2005.

    The lands purchased by the Bush family sit over not only South America’s largest aquifer — but the world’s as well — Acuifero Guaraní, which runs beneath Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. This aquifer is larger than Texas and California combined.

    Online political magazine Counterpunch quoted Argentinean pacifist Adolfo Perez Esquivel, the winner of 1981 Nobel Peace Prize, who “warned that the real war will be fought not for oil, but for water, and recalled that Acuifero Guaraní is one of the largest underground water reserves in South America….”

    According to Wikipedia, this aquifer covers 1,200,000 km², with a volume of about 40,000 km³, a thickness of between 50 m and 800 m and a maximum depth of about 1,800 m. It is estimated to contain about 37,000 km³ of water (arguably the largest single body of groundwater in the world, although the overall volume of the constituent parts of the Great Artesian Basin is much larger), with a total recharge rate of about 166 km³/year from precipitation. It is said that this vast underground reservoir could supply fresh drinking water to the world for 200 years. “

  • kedem forever

    Putin has defied the big satan by giving Snowden refuge (amongst other things like the Ghouta false flag massacre). But will Merkel and EU Co whose fibre optic connections have been spliced by NSA since 2002 say “Thank you” for shielding Snowden to bring this deceit to their attention. At the rate the big satan is going, another few years and Uncle Peeping Tom Obomber may have become the envy of all German water sports aficionados, being in a position to experience being pissed over from inside her bidet !!

  • Reluctant Observer

    “Anon” likes rapists, racists, and those that murder innocent men, women, and children.

    Anon’s good friend

    “Anon” hates all non-whites so much, that he thoroughly approves of what decent people would rightly call atrocities. The evidence is clear – he has not said a single word in condemnation. Indeed, he kept entirely silent about the whole sorry issue.

    What a hate-filled, racist apologist “Anon” is. Shame on him and all those that support him.

  • kedem forever

    @Ben – Thanks, fascinating, I thought Bush bought land there as Paraguay has no extradition treaty with the US. If only our resident trolls could come up with stuff like that, but habba did inform us once that Michael Winner is dead !! Nevermind, when the time comes, even if the Gharqad gives up on them, it will only be entirely their own fault. Check these strange explosions out, ISON and the whats underneath the Martian surface can wait !

  • Herbie

    Anon

    Chomsky is certainly a buster of conspiracy myths, but as I’ve explained earlier he does this by busting official conspiracy myths articulated in mainstream media by pointing to the official record which undermines them.

    Corbett has his own way of doing something similar, but rather than relying on the official record he seems much more reliant on whistleblowers bringing light to some of the darker practices.

    So, Chomsky focusses on official policy and shows that even official govt policy is very much at odds with the official stories that are told, whilst Corbett is more concerned to reveal the practices which undermine any official claim to bona fides more generally.

    Brand seems to me to be using his fame to raise awareness of the effects on ordinary people of the policies enacted by govts.

    These approaches are complementary.

    Anyway. What do you understand by the term “revolution”, Anon?

    Have you ever seen or heard of one?

  • Rehmat

    @Ben

    Al-Saud doesn’t mean “Ahle-Saud” in the Muslim world. Al-Saud means “Ahle-Yahud” in the Muslim world.

    Zionist justice minister Tzipi Livni has confirmed what many people have been suspecting for years. She says Riyadh and Tel Aviv are united in their stance against Iran. It is not just Iran that the two seem to be in agreement on, but also they are on the same side of the Syrian situation, supporting Salafist extremists. Watch video below.

    http://rehmat1.com/2013/10/30/israel-saudia-evil-alliance-against-iran/

  • doug scorgie

    Dreoilin
    30 Oct, 2013 – 9:52 am

    “What interests me is the arguments people put… Please address the argument, not the person.”

    Dreoilin, the trolls on this blog do not engage in reasoned arguments.

    There are no genuine arguments from them to address.

    They are here to disrupt. They are easily recognised by their refusal to answer questions directly; insulting posters instead of putting forth their own views; attacking certain people whatever they say and rarely (if ever) give references or links to back up what they espouse.

    By all means engage with them if you want (I have in the past)but don’t expect a sensible response.

  • Daniel Rich

    FYI,

    Reluctant Observer = Resident Dissident = Reluctant Observer = Resident Dissident, etc.

  • Daniel Rich

    We could’ve had our 1st female and ‘black’ Pres [Cynthia McKinney] years, but hey, she got ‘railroaded’ into oblivion for being too ‘…

    Barfbag, please!

    Lee, could you help us out again?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BfNqhV5hg4

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmIRYvJQeHM

    http://www.counterpunch.org/2010/08/01/let-them-eat-cake/

    http://www.counterpunch.org/2010/08/17/honk-if-you-love-caviar/

    http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/10/30/the-hillary-threat/

  • Mary

    Israeli planes strike Syrian military base, U.S. official says

    By Barbara Starr, CNN Pentagon Correspondent

    October 31, 2013 — Updated 1850 GMT (0250 HKT)

    (CNN) — Israeli warplanes struck a military base near the Syrian city of Latakia on Thursday, an Obama administration official confirmed to CNN.

    An explosion at a missile storage site in the area was widely reported in the Israeli press, but an attack has not been confirmed by the Israeli government.

    The target, according to the Obama administration official, was missiles and related equipment the Israelis felt might be transferred to Hezbollah. The official declined to be identified because of the sensitive nature of the information.

    ~~~

    Ramzy Baroud wrote earlier on Israel’s plans for another war on Lebanon.

    Israel on the Lookout
    Lebanon Haunted by the Ghosts of Civil War

    October 30th, 2013
    http://dissidentvoice.org/2013/10/israel-on-the-lookout/

  • Ben

    It’s odd to me how, when so many have to be part of mass conspiracy, that isn’t some ‘leakage’, but even when there is, the Public just doesn’t give a shit, and that apathy is the escape hatch.
    Watched a documentary on a long forgotten event. TWA flight 800. Clearly, only useful idiots who are’chust following orders’ play a major role in the ‘op’ success. Interviews clearly show, and expert testimony shows this was not an ‘accident’. But one 800 investigator with NTSB simply stated the message from the top. ‘It was an accident, make it so’.

    The arrogance of nearly all involved including Congressional hearings, is astounding to see.

    When you have dozens of witnesses who saw the missile’s upward trajectories, ( Yes, THREE contrails, not just one) who consistently presented their observations, have such testimony ignored, you really have to wonder about the mendacity. They can hide in plain sight, and suffer NO consequences,

    http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/new-film-feeds-conspiracy-theories-crash-twa-flight-800-article-1.1376580

  • Ben

    880 kps, must be a misprint. 8.80 kps is like 9500 mph. Totally bolloxing this. Mach 4 is the radar footprint for the debris….whatever. The physical evidence and witness testimony seems to support the behavior of proximity fuse missiles, developed because maneuvering and countermeasures make a direct hit less likely.

  • Guano

    I like:
    Going out on Halloeen night strangling trolls when there is no mod. watching ..Haa haa haaaaaagh!

  • resident dissident

    Daniel Rich

    I am not Reluctant Observer – and I haven’t a clue as to what he is going on about.

  • Macky

    Res Des: “I am not Reluctant Observer – and I haven’t a clue as to what he is going on about”

    Yep, you would never have posted commonsense such as this;

    Reshttp://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2013/10/edward-snowden-gets-sam-adams-award/comment-page-12/#comment-435595

  • Mary

    We must honour and celebrate the brave humans amongst us – Snowden, Greenwald, Assange, Manning and Craig too.

    Here is Glenn Greenwald.

    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36693.htm
    Video 7 mins

    “Remember, Dick Cheney is a politician who engaged in some of the worst, most radical and criminal conduct in the last century in the United States and did it all in secret — from lying about the war in Iraq to torturing people, to putting people in cages with no lawyers, to eavesdropping on the American people without the warrants required by law,” he told CNN host Anderson Cooper. “So of course political people like Dick Cheney, people in political power always want to do what they do behind a wall of secrecy because that’s how they abuse power.”

    “And they always consider those who bring transparency to what they do to be evil, treasonous people,” he continued. “Edward Snowden is considered a hero to people around the world and the United States and received a whistle blowing award because he did what people have conscience do, which is tell that world about things that they should know.”

    “That the world’s most powerful people are trying to keep concealed,” Greenwald said. “It’s created a worldwide debate over internet freedom and the value of privacy and dangers of surveillance. It’s created movements for reform and all kinds of legislators around the world including in the United States and the world is much better off that the Dick Cheneys of the world aren’t able to abuse their power in secret.”

    “What we told the world what they didn’t know is this spying system is directed at innocent people, people that have nothing to do with terrorism,” Greenwald said.

  • resident dissident

    Calm down Macky or is it Mary – have you yet found a single post of mine to support your slur against me?

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