Tony Gosling tries to impart some knowledge during a typically mocking BBC interview on Bilderberg but at least they're covering it this year.
Thursday, June 6, 2013
They Can Hear You Now: Massive NSA Surveillance on Your Phone Records (with Marcy Wheeler)
Blogger Marcy Wheeler explained the meaning of the NSA's mass surveillance of Verizon phone customers, why the NSA's monitoring focuses on Americans, the problem with data mining in terrorism investigations, why it is alarmingly easy to become a terrorism suspect and why the programs secrecy is aimed at Americans asserting their civil liberties.
Judge Napolitano on The NSA Scandal : 'We're Not Letting This Go.'
Shep Smith And Judge Napolitano Rail Against NSA Abuse: 'We're Not Letting This Go.'
6/6/13 - Once again showing his civil libertarian side, Fox News anchor Shep Smith railed against the National Security Agency this afternoon with the help of noted libertarian colleague Judge Andrew Napolitano. Reacting to last evening's news that the NSA has secretly obtained the phone records of millions of Verizon customers, most of whom are not suspected of any crimes, and Sen. Harry Reid's (D-NV) assertion that congressmen have known about the snooping for seven years and is "routine," Smith and Napolitano tore into the "constitutionally impermissible" nature of the government's actions.
"This is a fishing expedition on the grandest scale we've ever seen in American history," Napolitano said. "They're looking for a select group of people and in order to find that select group of people the Constitution says to present some evidence against them to a judge and get a search warrant for their phones. Rather than doing that, they got a search warrant for 113 million phones."
"Who would trust them after this?" the judge continued, noting that the administration's defenders have claimed the NSA hasn't actually listened to anyone's calls. "The Constitution doesn't trust them."
Smith then played a clip from this morning of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) saying he is "glad" the NSA is snooping in order to protect Americans from terrorists threats, prompting the judge's response:
"The whole purpose of the Fourth Amendment is to prevent the government from doing this, to prevent it from interfering with the privacy rights of a lot of innocent people in order to find a few that may be planning something wrong. [...] Nobody wants the wrong thing to happen but the idea that we would sacrifice liberty in order to obtain safety is a canard. This is just a shortcut to make it easier for American spies to spy on Americans."
He concluded: "This is the most extraordinarily broad search warrant every issued in the history of the federal courts of the United States."
A clearly-incensed Shep Smith then spoke directly to camera: "Under this logic, the government can send to people to all of our homes, put them in a bed next to us, have them watch everything."
"The slippery slope is covered in green," the host concluded. "We're not letting this go. Not for a moment. We're not letting this go."
Bilderberg 2013 ~ UKIP & EU Parliament Member Gerard Batten Calls For Investigation
UKIP & EU Parliament Member Gerard Batten Calls For Investigation
Gerard Batten MEP, UKIP (London), Europe of Freedom and Democracy (EFD) group -
Good for Mr. Batten, but I doubt if we will learn more, even introducing a welcoming committee for the first time, Bilderberg is designed so THAT DO NOT KNOW WHAT IS DISCUSSED AND WE, THE PUBLIC IS PAYING FOR THIS GATHERING. It is about time that this very secretative organisation reveals their discussions, not necessarily in detail, but the headings say. But as Batten says, two politicians from diverse points of view have joined a group to promote Europe.
Gerard Batten MEP, UKIP (London), Europe of Freedom and Democracy (EFD) group -
Good for Mr. Batten, but I doubt if we will learn more, even introducing a welcoming committee for the first time, Bilderberg is designed so THAT DO NOT KNOW WHAT IS DISCUSSED AND WE, THE PUBLIC IS PAYING FOR THIS GATHERING. It is about time that this very secretative organisation reveals their discussions, not necessarily in detail, but the headings say. But as Batten says, two politicians from diverse points of view have joined a group to promote Europe.
Eurogeddon , European Economic Meltdown
Eurogeddon , European Economic Meltdown
The whole Europe is facing economic, financial, debt and currency crisis. These crisis are directly linked with failure of Capitalism and American Economic Crisis. Besides, failure of Capitalism and American Economic Crisis, there is also a number of reasons for European are facing economic, financial, debt and currency crisis. Efforts should be made to control this economic and other crisis to make Europe healthy and financially strong.
The whole Europe is facing economic, financial, debt and currency crisis. These crisis are directly linked with failure of Capitalism and American Economic Crisis. Besides, failure of Capitalism and American Economic Crisis, there is also a number of reasons for European are facing economic, financial, debt and currency crisis. Efforts should be made to control this economic and other crisis to make Europe healthy and financially strong.
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