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Is everyone OK with the content of what was leaked? If so, I wasn't aware of that.WC, how is it obvious? Because the government said so?
yawn, WC ALWAYS sides any organization, establishment over any individual.WC, how is it obvious? Because the government said so?
Is everyone OK with the content of what was leaked? If so, I wasn't aware of that.WC, how is it obvious? Because the government said so?
Who's everyone? Are you saying that if the government doesn't approve of the leaked information, then the leaker should be punished? I think that would severely limit info leaked. :p
WC, when do you think it's appropriate for someone to leak information?
Iceland lawmakers discuss citizenship for Snowden
http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/07/...tizenship.html
Unlike USA, Icdeland screwed its bankers for screwing Iceland. The ideal country to stick it to USA by protecting Snowden.
Iceland would be ideal. But it seems it's getting little support from Icelandic parties other than the Pirate Party
another news you won't hear in your mainstream media:
Internation Human Rights agency urges governments to accept Snowden's request for asylum. The aggressivenes of USA's persecution of snowden and threats to nations is violation of Human Rights. they also mention USA has harbored CHinese dissidents and "traitors" in the past.
Obama, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
US Ambassador to Austria Reportedly Responsible for False Claim Snowden Was on Bolivian Leader’s Plane -->
The Austrian daily newspaper, Die Presse, has reported that the United States ambassador to Austria was responsible for making false claims that National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden was on board Bolivian President Evo Morales’ plane.
In a story published on July 3, the newspaper reported shortly after Morales’ plane landed the “Vienna foreign department received a phone call.” The caller was the US ambassador to Austria, William Eacho.
According to Die Presse, Eacho “claimed with great certainty that Edward Snowden was onboard.” He also made reference to a “diplomatic note requesting Snowden’s extradition.”
President Barack Obama nominated Eacho to be ambassador in June 2009. Prior to that, he had not served in any diplomatic position. He had a background in real estate investment as CEO of Carlton Capital Group, LLC, and food service distribution as Vice President of Alliant Foodservice Inc. He was one of Obama’s biggest campaign fundraisers. His contribution to Obama’s election was rewarded with an ambassadorship. -- more -->
Obama
Counterpunch: The Snowden Affair and the Destruction of Effective Democracy in Europe -->>
The Servility of the Satellites
…this disrespect for the law is linked to a more basic ins utional change: the destruction of effective democracy at the national level. This has been done by the power of money in the United States, where candidates are comparable to race horses owned by billionaires. In Europe, it has been done by the European Union, whose bureaucracy has gradually taken over the critical economic functions of independent states, leaving national governments to concoct huge controversies around private matters, such as marriage, while public policy is dictated from the EU Commission in Brussels.
But behind that Commission, and behind the US electoral game, lies the identical anonymous power that dictates its desires to this trans-Atlantic en y: financial capital.
This power is scheduled to be formally extended in the near future by the establishment of a free trade zone between the European Union and the United States. This development is the culmination of the so-called “European construction” that over several decades has transferred powers of sovereign European states to the EU, which in turn will transfer its power to trans-Atlantic ins utions, all under the decisive control of “the Markets” – euphemism for financial capital.
The explanation for this surrender lies in the ideology that has dominated Europe, and France perhaps most of all, for the past half century. A particular interpretation of the history of the mid-twentieth century has undermined confidence in popular sovereignty, (wrongly) accused of leading to “totalitarianism”. This ideology has prepared elites to abdicate in favor of technical ins utions and “markets” that seem innocent of all political sins. The power of financial capital and its US champion is less the cause than the result of this political abdication.
Only this can explain the extraordinary rush of European governments to obey the slightest whim of the American master, on the eve of the negotiations for a trans-Atlantic free trade zone which European leaders will portray to their populations as compensation for the ongoing destruction of the European social welfare model. Principles, diplomatic decency, Edward Snowden, must all be sacrificed to this desperate last attempt to put Europe out of reach of the influence of its people.
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