And on the front page of my Globe.
Related:
"Of interest and probably connected, since all the plots of these world shakers interconnect, is the continually increasing profile of Fast Eddie Snowden.
Now... of course, I can not know definitively that Snowden is a tool
but what I do know is that Israel did 9/11 and I know that Israel has
done all kinds of abominable things and who would know more about that
than Snowden's former employers? We are led to believe that Snowden had
access to all kinds of top secret things and ONE WOULD THINK he would
know who did 9/11. ONE WOULD THINK that would be one of the things
anyone would want to know who had access to direct links... yet... yet?
We hear not a word about this and strangely... we hear not a word from
those other celebrated whistleblowers. We hear pretty much nothing about
Israel from any of them. Why is that? What does it suggest that this
does not happen, that mention is not made? Certainly it is puzzling....
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That came from the front page of my blog, and it is a really great point.
Did you see how Snowden got there?
"Submarine hunt sends Cold War chill" by Karl Ritter | Associated Press October 21, 2014
STOCKHOLM — Sweden’s biggest submarine hunt since the dying days of the Soviet Union has put countries around the Baltic Sea on edge.
Red October?
In a scene reminiscent of the Cold War, Swedish naval ships, helicopters, and ground troops combed the Stockholm archipelago for a fourth day Monday for signs of a foreign submarine or smaller underwater craft that officials suspect entered Swedish waters illegally.
I already saw this movie.
While Sweden hasn’t linked any country to the suspected intrusion — and Moscow suggested it was a Dutch sub — the incident sent a chill through the Baltic Sea region, where Russian forces have been accused of a series of border violations on land, sea, and air in recent months.
‘‘Closely following events in the Swedish territorial waters, may become a game changer of the security in the whole Baltic Sea region,’’ Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics of Latvia wrote on Twitter.
The lie to advance more NATO involvement?
Swedish military officials say there have been three sightings of the elusive craft since Friday, just 25 miles west of Stockholm amid the myriad islands and skerries that stretch from the capital into the Baltic Sea.
On Sunday they released a photograph taken at a distance of what they said could be the mystery vessel — a dark speck surrounded by foaming water.
That's it?
HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!
That could be anything! That could be a complete fake or even a UFO!
Speculating on whether the suspected watercraft was linked to a mother ship, Swedish media zeroed in on an oil tanker owned by Russian company Novoship, which had been circling near Swedish waters.
In a statement Monday, Novoship president Yuri Tsvetkov said he was flattered by the attention but said the ship was charted for transporting oil from Russia to the United States and was drifting on standby awaiting loading orders.
What the hell is the U.S. doing getting oil from Russia?
Also see: Off the Canadian Coast
The coverage on that story froze as soon as ISIS hit Ottawa.
The events have sparked alarm across the Baltic Sea in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
Turns out it was a false flag if not outright hoax, so relax.
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Same as this guy:
"Edward Snowden interviewed at Harvard by Lawrence Lessig" by Dennis Keohane | Globe Staff October 21, 2014
Edward Snowden, the American intelligence contractor and NSA whistle-blower, said in a satellite interview at Harvard Law School on Monday that the Boston Marathon bombings can serve as an example of how potential dangers can be missed even by a system of massive surveillance.
Pffffft!
“The reality is that we knew who these guys were and who they were associating with,” Snowden said during an interview via Google Hangout with Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig inside the law school’s Ames Courtroom. “But we didn’t follow up or watch these guys.”
Who we?
Snowden, who has been called a traitor by a number of senior government officials, leaked secret NSA documents in 2013 about the agency’s global surveillance program to journalists from The Guardian and the Washington Post. He is now in Russia evading charges of theft of government property and of violating the Espionage Act.
The discussion, titled “Institutional corruption and the NSA,” covered politics and policy, privacy, and the public’s right to knowledge deemed secret by government agencies.
Snowden started by saying that there are many “difficult questions that don’t really have proper answers” but that he would do his best to give clarity to the major issues revolving around his decision to become a government whistle-blower.
“I’ve been struck by the number of people who have no clear sense of who you are,” Lessig said, “and what your values are as you came to work for the NSA, and the work you did by exposing the NSA.”
Snowden said he comes from a government family, who believed that “fundamentally the government had noble aims and that it did good things.’’
“But what I was not aware of and have grown aware of, while the people in government largely are there for the right reasons, there is a culture that pervades the upper levels, the senior levels that has become less accountable to the public they serve,” Snowden said.
While disagreeing, with all do respect, about AmeriKan government, tell us something we do not already know.
This realization, Snowden said, led him to uncover that a massive amount of surveillance was being done on Americans, surveillance that he said should have never happened.
Still happening! Nothing has changed!!
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He added that there were no reasons for much of the surveillance to exist and that very few people, including members of Congress and many of his co-workers, knew about the program.
Snowden said he believed whistle-blowers are people who are standing up for something, in this case democratic right of free speech and privacy. But he emphasized that they should not dictate how the information is dispersed to the public.
“It comes down to not dictating outcomes,” he said, “but allowing the public a chance to participate in democratic processes.”
One point Snowden emphasized was that he believed the United States has changed from focusing on the traditional way it did surveillance to mass surveillance but that it hasn’t made the process any more effective. He argued that, in fact, spying is less successful.
“This is the real challenge between what happened before and what’s happening now in surveillance,” Snowden said. “It’s not necessary to collect information on everyone, and it’s never been necessary.”
He said the approach of massive surveillance, of listening to phone networks and hacking into websites, is actually making the United States more vulnerable to attacks.
Say again. Who are the hackers?
“Once you make a backdoor into something,” Snowden said, “you can’t control who walks in through it.”
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Just another propaganda hack.
