I am in Berlin for the annual Sam Adams Award – this time to William Binney, formerly Technical Director of the NSA. There will be an address by Edward Snowden (and a short contribution from me). It really is a tremendous event, with some very senior former intelligence professionals making revelations about the extent to which the security state is out of control, a tool of immoral governments dominated by corporate interests.
The event is at the Berlin-Moscow Venue, 52 Unter Den Linden, and starts at 7pm (6pm UK time). It will be livestreamed on the Sam Adams website.
7:00-7:05 Wilkommen by Joerg Dreger, Managing Partner, Dreger Group
7:05-7:12 Ray McGovern, veteran CIA senior intelligence officer (27 years) and presidential briefer; SAA cofounder and Master of Ceremonies: Moment of Silence for Ambassador Robert White; acknowledgement of David MacMichael, retired Senior Estimates Officer in National Intelligence Council; Overview of history/purpose of Sam Adams Award
7:12-7:15 Annie Machon, former M15 intelligence officer (speech + introduction of Katharine and Craig)
7:15-7:20 Katharine Gun*, former GCHQ intelligence officer
7:20-7:25 Craig Murray*, former British ambassador to Uzbekistan
7:25-7:28 Coleen Rowley*, former FBI Special Agent and Minneapolis Chief Division Counsel (brief remarks +introduction of Todd P., Jesselyn & Tom)
7:28-7:33 Jesselyn Radack*, former ethics adviser, US Department of Justice and National Security; Human Rights Adviser, Government Accountability Project (GAP)
7:33-7:37 Todd Pierce, Major, US Army Judge Advocate (ret.); Guantanamo Military Commissions Defense Counsel
7:37-7:45 Thomas Drake*, former senior intelligence service executive, National Security Agency (NSA) – (speech + introduction of Ed Snowden)
7:45-8:00 Edward Snowden* (by video link), former NSA contractor; former CIA systems administrator
8:00-8:05 Ray McGovern segue to SAA Award Announcement; Reading of SAAII citation by Annie M. & Elizabeth M.(English and German versions, respectively); conferral by Thomas Drake of Sam Adams Integrity in Intelligence Corner-Brightener Candlestick to William Binney, former National Security Agency (NSA) Technical Director, World Geopolitical and Military Analysis, NSA, and co-founder, Signals Intelligence Automation Research Center
8:05-8:20 Acceptance speech by William Binney, former Technical Director, World Geopolitical and Military Analysis, NSA, and co-founder, Signals Intelligence Automation Research Center; Q & A
8:20-8:25 Wrap-up by Ray McGovern
8:25-8:30 Closing remarks by Joerg Dreger
8:30-9:00 Reception
*denotes former Sam Adams Award recipient
Having them is pretty much the end of democracy. It is totalitarian government, full stop.
“The UK intelligence agency GCHQ has repeatedly warned it fears a “demanding public debate” on the scale of it’s activities because it could lead to legal challenges against it’s mass surveillance programs. Classified internal documents reveal”
The Guardian.
Well done fuckers, your doing a better job than any “terrorist”.
Thanks, Craigmurray.uk, org,
I never suspected that the post was lost on your side. It happemed on this side, and I suspect NSA.
When I was writing my auricle on the Suzanne Jovin murder, my text disappeared three times, apparently hoping that I would just give up, and I had to go to Apple to retrieve my last draft, and it took an expert about 15 nineties to find it.
If anyone wants to see the finished product, look for it on the flyingcuttlefush blog where many of my articles appear.
Row about what makes Annie Macgon so suspicious is that she cherry picks MI5 and MI6 alleged mishaps in a most confusing way.
In talking about Security Service mishaps, she speaks about how colleague code named William Perkins apparently aka Jonathan ;’Bob’ Evans, its further Director, tried to deal with IRA problem, though she never even mentioned the biggest failure on her watch, the downing of that Chinook helicopter at the Mull of Kintyre with all those British counter terrorist aboard.
Looks clearly like sabotage to me, only this tome it was by their hard-nosed colleagues who wanted to disarm the IRA in the peace proceess.
The in dealing with MI6, she wanted to show that it was clearly doing its job against a most hated Muslim,. her and Shayler’s candidate for the Lockerbie disaster.
Then she west out of her way to give al-Liby an alibi for everything that happened afterwards by claiming falsely for the censors that he was not TUNWORTH – what she showed was not true by so identifying him as so on p. 383 of the Index.
And can you believe these people advocating this? Total bloody traitors.
What happened to “NORTH KOREA! NORTH KOREA!” ?
I said once (during the ritualistic 5 minute hate north korea) on the Guardian that maybe there are actually things we could learn from that society, I meant perhaps the propensity for nice bicycles etc.
Funny how eveyone goes on about NK in the UK, because we are heading right down that puppy.
The state has contracted out the job of trying to take the last of my possessions because I did not fill out a form to say I don’t owe any tax.
People say light a fucking candle, who imo have no clue about life for ordinary people being under the fucking boot, all your fucking life.
I don’t accept this govenment, I can’t.
Node @ 12.09
I often wonder the same. Habbabkuk and Res Dis remind me of someone who dines in the same restaurant every night even though he hates the food. When you ask why he says he’s trying to improve the cooking.
After considering it I have come to the conclusion that, paradoxically, they both come for the company.
Suq Temp. Good observation and as close to the truth as we will get. Its all about the Zionists and thier positions within the global power structure. They control the narrative, and are calling all the shots!
They both offer a great opportunity. Ignore them and hopefully they will stick around babbling whatever nonsense to nobody. Enough bad grammar has been spilled on their account.
Disamingly(if that’s the right word)frank job ad.
I particularly like ‘target or game shooting’. Perhaps you can stuff a pie with little brown people. Yum!
Vronsky
25 Jan, 2015 – 3:10 pm
That’s effectively forced subscription because you can’t “limit your job opportunists” in our system.
Forced slavery or a life on the streets.
I’m getting pretty sick of being treated worse than animanls are.
Node
“Resident Dissident : Despite the misinformation put out by the resident turds . . . .
Why do you post here? I’m glad you do, but I’m curious as to how you would justify it. You give every appearance of despising the majority of posters here, so presumably you’re not concerned for our moral, spiritual or educational welfare, yet you spend your precious time trying to convince us of the ‘official position’ on topics. Personally, I learn a lot from this site, but I doubt you would admit to that, so just why do you bless us with your presence?”
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What fucking business is that of yours, Node?
Do we ask you why you and the other turdlets post on here – at considerably greater length than RD, me, Kempe or any of the other free spirits?
“3 years in a penal colony for blogging critical of the regime – I wonder if Sergei Reznik was up for an award at the Sam Adams awards?
http://www.osce.org/fom/135776”
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Nice one, Resident Dissident!
You realise of course that the Turdlets will duck behind the parapet a
KomeAloneara
“I’m getting pretty sick of being treated worse than animanls are.”
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Stop whining, you middle-aged toper.
Your series of posts indicate two many pre-lunch cocktails and two many glasses of red during lunch.
Kiss and makeup, burying the hatchet or wiping the slate clean is a construct of diplomacy that succeeds with honesty bereft of ulterior motive.
When the same hatchet is being ground as is the case in the deal between Mr. Obama and President Raúl Castro of Cuba that will also restore full diplomatic relations between the countries for the first time in more than half a century, heed my warning.
This Obama corrupt administration wants HUMINT and the National Clandestine Service (NCS) will be dispatched to Cuba to now Russia and Cuba have signed a preliminary deal to reopen the Soviet Union’s largest foreign intelligence base at Lourdes. (as I reported here recently).
Mr Timothy Cole knows full well that Britain’s MI6 are already in Mirama. The question thus remains: will an attempt to poison Raul be considered in a plot that mirrors the attempt on his brother?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/27/AR2007062700190.html
KingOfWelshNoir 25 Jan, 2015 – 2:46 pm : I often wonder the same. [. . .] Res Dis remind[s] me of someone who dines in the same restaurant every night even though he hates the food. When you ask why he says he’s trying to improve the cooking.
Almost. He also hates the cooks, so why exert so much effort trying to improve them?
@Node @Mary – Thanks for Mariupol links, have posted on twitter.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/top-tory-leon-brittan-photographed-5037869
Leon Brittan was photographed entering an underage sex den during a police investigation, it has been claimed.
The Tory Lord, who died on Wednesday, is said to have been snapped by officers on a 1986 surveillance operation focusing on rent boy orgies run in North London buildings.
Detectives were watching premises where the boys picked up at King’s Cross were dropped off to be repeatedly raped, say friends of an officer involved.
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The den of iniquity aka Westminster, is crawling with twisted perverts.
Re, Leon Brittan.
David Cameron appointed him, as a trade advisor around 2010, you can’t honestly tell me, MI5/6 didn’t inform the PM that Brittan’s past could harm his government.
Unless of course Cameron knew all along.
As I said the den of iniquity aka Westminster is rotting, to the core, and then some.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/554004/Queen-HOMELESS-Green-Party-council-house
The plans to oust the monarchy and claim back her £429 million estate was one of a number of proposals the Greens would try to pass if they got into power, its leader Natalie Bennett has said.
Prince William and Kate could also be out on their ear, as the party would also plan to tighten inheritance tax rules to prevent living parents passing on wealth to their children.
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Well said the Greens, old droopy chops HRH, and her sponging begging poncing parasitic family, who’ve had more state hand out than anyone else, deserve the worst council houses going.
Like a tick, on a cows arse they’ve sucked this country dry for centuries.
http://falastinews.com/2015/01/20/video-drone-footage-shows-israeli-truck-attacks-palestinians-cars-funeral-procession/
Two Palestinian young men were killed and scores of citizens suffered injuries when the Israeli police forces violently attacked a funeral procession in al-Rahat town, north of the Negev region.
The funeral procession was for 21-year-old Sami Jaar, who was shot dead a few days ago by the Israeli police in the same town.
Eyewitnesses said that Sami al-Zayadena and Anwar al-Afawi died after inhaling tear gas that was intensively used by the Israeli police forces during their attack on the funeral.
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Attacking a funeral, the murdering monsters, have no limits to their depravity.
http://www.therealistreport.com/2015/01/jews-move-to-criminalize-anti-semitism.html
Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, issued the following statement:
This U.N. special session on anti-Semitism was long overdue. In many respects, it is sad that it took the loss of Jewish lives and ongoing daily threats to Jews to bring about this meeting. Yet, it is entirely appropriate that the international body, founded in the shadow of the Holocaust, has recognized the urgency of this issue.
Our recent polling shows that more than a quarter of the world’s adult population is infected with anti-Semitism, so it is significant and telling that the U.N., which represents all countries, has finally turned a specific focus on anti-Semitism and recognized, in the words of Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, that ‘The fight against anti-Semitism is inseparable from our wider quest for peaceful coexistence and human rights for all.
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“our wider quest for peaceful coexistence and human rights for all.”
Liar.
Peacewisher
“In a democracy, the watchers should be answerable to the people. Anything else starts the slippery slope to totalitarian government.”
Not forgetting that you wanted Katie Hopkins arrested for offending some Scots. Imagine what government could get away with and the consequences to free speech were it to legislate against everything considered a crime by permanently offended people such as yourself.
“Syriza supporters gathered at their campaign kiosk in central Athens are celebrating after exit polls show a big win for the opposition party.”
(exit polls)
http://en.enikos.gr/ekloges-2015/22959,Syriza_supporters_jubilant_in_central_At.html
Let the 1% shake.
Update: Exit Polls Give Syriza Stunning Lead in Greek Election
Opposition leader and head of radical leftist Syriza party Alexis Tsipras raises his fist as he leaves a polling station where he voted in Athens January 25, 2015.
25 January 2015
The result of the election is being closely watched, as it could signal an end to years of austerity.
As voting comes to a close in Greece, exit polls suggest a comfortable victory for radical left coalition party Syriza.
The first set of exit polls released Sunday afternoon give Syriza 35.5-39.5%, meaning it would win 146-158 seats. The next largest party would be New Democracy on 23-27%, with 65-75 seats.
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http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Update-Exit-Polls-Give-Stunning-Syriza-Lead-in-Greek-Election-20150125-0001.html
“Your series of posts indicate two many pre-lunch cocktails and two many glasses of red during lunch.”
Just shown what a fuck up at guessing you are.
shows*
Questions answered by Tariq Ali
The Implications of SYRIZA and the Greek Elections
Greece’s Fight Against European Austerity
by TARIQ ALI
Tariq Ali was interviewed by Kostas Vlahopoulos and Thomas Giourgas for http://www.nostimonimar.gr.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/01/23/greeces-fight-against-european-austerity/