ALAN GRAYSON on The NSA and Prism Programs

Alan Mark Grayson is the United States Representative for Florida's 9th congressional district and a member of the Democratic Party. He previously served as Representative for Florida's 8th congressional district from 2009 to 2011.   
Grayson made it a priority to increase the amount of federal money returning to his district. He often said that people in his district had been "exporting taxes and importing debt." During his first year in office, the amount of federal grant dollars returning to the district nearly doubled with a 98% increase.Grayson established a grant notification system that notifies subscribers immediately when a federal grant opportunity in their areas of interest becomes available. He also hired a full-time grants coordinator who focused solely on helping people navigate the federal grants process.

Grayson supported the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and has been outspoken in favor of extending unemployment benefits for Americans who have lost their jobs. Grayson argues that the government has never cut off unemployment insurance when the unemployment rate was higher than eight percent. Grayson also voted for FDA Oversight of Tobacco Products, which gives the FDA power to regulate tobacco products.

Grayson has worked to combat federal waste, fraud, and abuse. In the September 6, 2009 edition of The New York Times, columnist Gretchen Morgenson thanked Grayson for uncovering the fact that, due to the federal bailout of mortgage finance giant Fannie Mae, taxpayer money had been funding the legal defense fees for former top executives at the institution. Grayson requested information about these legal costs after a June 2009 hearing of the House Financial Services Committee. Grayson's work uncovered that, between September 6, 2008 and July 21, 2009,taxpayers spent $6.3 million defending Fannie Mae executives Franklin Raines, J. Timothy Howard, and Leanne Spencer. Taxpayers paid an additional $16.8 million to cover legal expenses of workers at the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight, Fannie's former regulator.

In September 2009, Grayson used a parliamentary maneuver called an “extension of remarks” to provide crucial instruction on H.R. 3221, the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2009, a bill that, among other things, included a provision that prohibited funding for ACORN (the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now). Grayson's extension of remarks directed that the legislation defund any organization that cheats the federal government, not just ACORN. The defunding measure passed the House with a final vote of 253–171. Grayson also encouraged the public to report companies covered by the bill and set up a method to report offending companies via his Congressional website Wikipedia

BREAKING NEWS - NSA Whisleblower Snowden Seeks Asylum in Russia!

Fox news reports...http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/...
 Edward Snowden reportedly is seeking asylum in Russia, as the NSA leaker faces diminishing options for getting out of the Moscow airport where he is believed to be staying.
The Interfax news agency cited Kim Shevchenko, the duty officer at the Russian Foreign Ministry's consular office in Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, as saying that Snowden's representative, Sarah Harrison, handed over his request for political asylum on Sunday.
The confirmation, though, comes after Russia's President Vladimir Putin publicly issued a condition for any asylum request from Snowden -- he must stop leaking America's secrets.

Britain Plans to attack Syria ?

In this edition of the show: Roland Dumas says Britain had been planning a war against Syria some two years before to the unrest broke out in the Arab country; The similarities between Britain's Iraq invasion and planning to invade Syria.

Monarchy: As part of her 'Birthday Honours List,' the British Queen will recognize Professor David Newman of Ben-Gurion University for advocating academic partnership between countries and opposing the UK academic boycott of Israel!! A clear contradictory move against majority of British academics attitude.

Monarchy 2: While the British main stream media hype about queen's 60 coronation anniversary honours list has reached its peak a secret list of 300 top people who have snubbed the honours system by refusing knighthoods and other awards has been released.

George Bush Blasts Snowden, Defends NSA Programs He Put In Place: 'Civil Liberties Were Guaranteed'

July 1, 2013 - CNN's Robyn Curnow caught up with former President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush in Zambia for an interview that mostly centered on the work they are doing there at a clinic for cervical cancer. But the reporter "couldn't help" but ask Bush about his reaction to the NSA leaks from Edward Snowden. Her first question: "Do you think he's a traitor?"

Without directly labeling Snowden a "traitor," Bush answered, "I know he damaged the the country," adding "the Obama administration will deal with it." The former president also defended the NSA surveillance programs he put in place following the attacks of September 11th, 2001. "I put the program in place to protect the country and one of the certainties is civil liberties were guaranteed," Bush said.

Asked whether there is any "compromise" between security and privacy, Bush said, "I think there needs to be a balance, and I think as the president explained, there's a proper balance." Curnow noted Bush's reluctance to criticize President Obama, something that his former vice president has not shied away from. "It doesn't do any good" to critique Obama, Bush said. "It's a hard job. He's got plenty on his agenda. And it's difficult. And a former president doesn't need to make it harder."

Bush also said he "could care less" about polls showing more people have a favorable view of him since he left office, saying the "only time" he "really cared" about polls was on Election Day. "Ultimately history will judge the decisions that I made and I won't be around because it will take a while for the objective historians to show up. And so I'm pretty comfort with it. I did what I did. I know the spirit in which I did it."

The Mathematics Behind The Coming 2013 Total Global Economic Collapse Marc Faber, Steve Keen

The Economy isn't going to recover. The government knows this and is getting ready, but in ways that are very disturbing.The NDAA 2012 +Fema camps +post office 45 million rounds,homeland security 250 million rounds of ammo per year,=somethings coming,but what.jee wiz .maybey a nice big happy new and wonderful party like the third riech ,or the anti-Christ.Well I'm all a flutter with anticipation.The sad reality is most of us can do nothing about any of this.If the great statesman( born a slave) Fredrick Douglas was correct that "power yields to demand" then we the people had better start demanding explanations.