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🇨🇦Mr. & Mrs. Canada Goose with their 9 babies.
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The 7,500 sick and exhausted prisoners left behind in the camp after the Death March were liberated by Soviet soldiers on January 27, 1945. In the second half of 1944, before the Death March of 56,000 prisoners, because of the approach of the Soviet units the Germans began *destroying evidence* of their crimes. They burned FILES, LISTS of deported Jews and SHIPPED OUT items plundered from victims along with large quantities of building materials.
In the last week of the camp’s existence, they blew up the gas chambers and burned down storehouses full of property left behind by the victims of mass extermination.
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The First Work and personal analysis of a new series about Our World today.
In the United States presidential election of 1960 was the 44th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 1960.
The Republican Party nominated incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon, while the Democratic Party nominated John F. Kennedy, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts.
Hoover the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) did his best to keep the press supplied with anti-Kennedy stories… while Hoover was trying to sabotage Jack Kennedy’s campaign, he was quietly helping Richard Nixon.
Nowadays the concern with the control of information reaches dramatic measures in which all our emails, mobile phones, searches in the interrnet, Facebook comments or simple photographs are investigated without any control by governmental and federal agencies without anyone knowing.
Hilary Clinton's emails that escaped to this giant network spider served as an excuse for FBI to intervene in the US elections, greatly influencing the end result ... in fact, as John Edgar Hoover did a long time ago with Kennedy !
After all Edward Snowden was only the prophet of future events ... in the end, Democracy can really be in danger as well as our fundamental freedoms !
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Citizenfour (2014)
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From right to left of the photo :
- Former NSA analyst Edward Snowden. modified in this work with Sketch processing.
Edward Snowden-2.jpg - Screenshot of a film by Praxis Films in Wikipedia, Creative Commons 3.0
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- President Kennedy Pointing to a Reporter During a Press Conference, Feb 14, 1963 Photo. Transformed by sketch work for this composition.
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Silhouette and textures of my own.
Snowden Blues - Edward Snowden just published his book "Permanent Record", no. 1 on Amazon - so let me sing my Snowden Blues, just written...
I brought up a photo of Snowden on the computer monitor, and photographed it while intentionally moving the camera to the side during the exposure, and then I tone mapped the image. I think this portrait conveys something of the polarization of opinion about him revealing the highly classified domestic espionage operations being conducted by the NSA. Hero or traitor? Hero.
Skulpturen der Whistleblower Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning und ein leerer Platz für weitere Whistleblower. Berlin 2015.
Skulpuren von Davide Dormino.
Sculptures of the whistleblower Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning and a vacant chair for more whistleblowers. Berlin 2015.
Sculptures from Davide Dormino.
...de andar por casa.
Pero hay otra vigilancia, oscura y opaca, y todos estamos vigilados, y a todas horas.
Los últimos documentos filtrados al semanario alemán 'Der Spiegel' por el excolaborador del espionaje estadounidense Edward Snowden, revelan cómo EE. UU. ‘fisgoneó’ las comunicaciones europeas en Bruselas, Washington y ante la ONU.
Este escándalo ha desatado la ira de Europa.
No es la primera vez que algo así sale a la luz y la sensación que esto me produce es que nos acercamos, cada día un poco más, al mundo orwelliano. Ese 'Gran Hermano' que todo controla y todo sabe de nosotros.
A mí, particularmente, no debería preocuparme porque no escondo secretos de los que avergonzarme, pero esa percepción de estar vigilado cada vez mas cerca, me produce un malestar desasosegante.
¿Lograremos escapar de ese control?
Even if you're not doing anything wrong, you are being watched and recorded.
—Edward Snowden
Edward Snowden in Legos, Ai Weiwei, Alcatraz installation.
A protestor adorning the Guy Fawkes mask was seen in the rally to support Snowden in Central, Hong Kong today.
Originally from the movie V for Vendetta, the Guy Fawkes mask has become the international symbol for the online hacktivist group Anonymous, which might explain why they are often commonly called the “Anonymous mask”.
Although these masks are seen across the globe for different governmental protests relating to the global financial crisis such as the Occupy Movement, it is a rare sight in Hong Kong.
I had expected to see more of these today but this was the only man I saw among the hundreds who showed up today.
# References
1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes_mask
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_(group)
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The best time to photograph photographers is where there are rallies. I wonder if it may be too hot to keep a beard in Hong Kong. Good posture, nice shirt.
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Several hundred people have staged a protest march in Hong Kong in support of US-whistleblower Edward Snowden. Demonstrators marched from Chater Garden to the US Consulate in Central. Protesters accused the US government of infringing people's rights and privacy. They said Mr Snowden should be protected. The former CIA-employee, has said he'll stay in Hong Kong to fight any attempt to extradite him to the United States. The Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong has urged the US government to clarify whether it has hacked into the computers of any individuals, corporations or institutions in Hong Kong.
Islamic State using leaked Snowden info to evade U.S. intelligence
Bottom line: Islamic State killers are harder to find because they know how to avoid detection.
Whether Edward Snowden is a “hero” is up for debate, but what the NSA PRISM whistleblower did achieve is providing evidence which many have suspected—that the US government is mining valuable data on the Internet.
Big data analysis is nothing new—companies who provide free internet services have been doing this for years. Why did you think that Twitter has no advertising but manage to get so much venture capital investments? It is because it is very easy to decipher trending opinions on the web.
Google’s company tagline has always been “Don’t be evil”—mostly because the same technology that can be used for good can be used for evil. Mint.com uses big data to track consumer spending and financial status. Biomedical researchers can use big data to track virus outbreaks. United State government certainly can use big data to track anti-terrorism activities — but the real question is if they would not mine the data for other purposes also.
The other claims which Snowden made and enraged many Hong Kong citizens are evidence which points to US Government’s active hacking of local universities and businesses. Hacking for personal gain is definitely criminal. When the US pointed at China for cyber attacks, they have utilised the media on the side to paint an ugly picture of China, but pointing fingers first simply shows hypocrisy on the country’s own politics. And this fact provided ample ammunition for political activists world wide.
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Edward Snowdens asylum in Russia was just granted for another three years.
www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2014-08/russland-erteilt-snow...
www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/nsa-whistleblower-snowden-dar...
www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/07/edward-snowden-perm...
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und unser großartiger SPD-Justizminister schwafelt:
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Metadata is not an secret code. It is a history of what you are doing on networks. Edward Joseph Snowden, aka Edward Snowden, is a security contractor who leaked information about surveillance programs operated by the United States and British intelligence agencies.
The source image for this illustration of Edward Snowden is a Creative Commons license photo by Laura Poitras from Wikimedia.
Washington DC, Saturday October 26, 2013. On a beautiful fall day social justice activists from a bewildering array of often antagonistic groups unite in front of Union Station and march to the reflecting pool near the US Capitol for an afternoon rally. The primary focus was the nearly unbridled and unlawful US government spying worldwide by the NSA and other agencies exposed by whistle blower Edward Snowden.
Activists in New York's Union Square braved pouring rain and wind to demonstrate their support for Edward Snowden, who is reportedly the source for explosive revelations that the National Security Agency (NSA) routinely monitors virtually all personal electronic communications in the United States. The Obama administration is expected to seek criminal charges against Snowden but the issue has the potential to turn into a major crisis for the scandal-plagued White House.
Several hundred people have staged a protest march in Hong Kong in support of US-whistleblower Edward Snowden. Demonstrators marched from Chater Garden to the US Consulate in Central. Protesters accused the US government of infringing people's rights and privacy. They said Mr Snowden should be protected. The former CIA-employee, has said he'll stay in Hong Kong to fight any attempt to extradite him to the United States. The Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong has urged the US government to clarify whether it has hacked into the computers of any individuals, corporations or institutions in Hong Kong.
The National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, was just renewed.
The scope of the American police state & the criminality which gave it birth is only dimly grasped by most citizens. Moreover the political players, all of them claiming along with the nation's mainstream news organizations that national security concerns justify every sort of loss of privacy & liberty - including one's life - are parties to the ongoing crime, in which the Constitution was among the first things members of congress silently allowed Bush & Obama to begin & continue shredding.
Pulitzer prize winner Chris Hedges, sometime university professor, sometime uncommonly courageous war correspondent for The New York Times, author of 10 books, Senior Fellow at The Nation Institute, 2002 recipient of the Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism, described what is happening in his Dec. 23, 2012 essay published by Truthdig.Com, titled The Final Battle. Here is its concluding paragraph:
"The corporate state knows that the steady deterioration of the economy and the increasingly savage effects of climate change will create widespread social instability. It knows that rage will mount as the elites squander diminishing resources while the poor, as well as the working and middle classes, are driven into destitution. It wants to have the legal measures to keep us cowed, afraid and under control. It does not, I suspect, trust the police to maintain order. And this is why, contravening two centuries of domestic law, it has seized for itself the authority to place the military on city streets and citizens in military detention centers, where they cannot find redress in the courts. The shredding of our liberties is being done in the name of national security and the fight against terrorism. But the NDAA is not about protecting us. It is about protecting the state from us. That is why no one in the executive or legislative branch is going to restore our rights. The new version of the NDAA, like the old ones, provides our masters with the legal shackles to make our resistance impossible. And that is their intention."
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I must add that in my opinion anyone who thinks anything said by Hedges or Greenwald is too shrill is helping my nation & the world (in which America is now relentlessly a corrupting influence & the deadliest force) in the hastening practice of Hell.
GOP and Feinstein join to fulfill Obama's demand for renewed warrantless eavesdropping
The California Democrat's disgusting rhetoric recalls the worst of Dick Cheney while advancing Obama's agenda .... Democratic Senate Intelligence Committee chair Dianne Feinstein joined with GOP Senator Saxby Chambliss to extend Obama's warrantless eavesdropping powers.
By Glenn Greenwald, Constitutional Lawyer, writing for The Guardian, UK
28 December 2012
EXCERPTS:
1) ... many people identify mid-2008 as the time they realized what type of politician Barack Obama actually is. Six months before, when seeking the Democratic nomination, then-Sen. Obama unambiguously vowed that he would filibuster "any bill" that retroactively immunized the telecom industry for having participated in the illegal Bush NSA warrantless eavesdropping program.
But in July 2008, once he had secured the nomination, a bill came before the Senate that did exactly that - the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 - and Obama not only failed to filibuster as promised, but far worse, he voted against the filibuster brought by other Senators, and then voted in favor of enacting the bill itself .... Jointly written by Dick Cheney and then-Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Jay Rockefeller, it also legalized vast new, sweeping and almost certainly unconstitutional forms of warrantless government eavesdropping .... the warrantless eavesdropping "scandal" that led to a Pulitzer Prize for the New York Times reporters who revealed it ended not with investigations or prosecutions for those who illegally spied on Americans, but with the Congressional GOP joining with key Democrats (including Obama) to legalize most of what Bush and Cheney had done .... the Obama White House opposed all [modest modifying] amendments, demanding a "clean" renewal of the law without any oversight or transparency reforms.
2) ... Obama successfully relied on Senate Republicans (the ones his supporters depict as the Root of All Evil) along with a dozen of the most militaristic Democrats to ensure that he can continue to eavesdrop on Americans without any warrants, transparency or real oversight. That's the standard coalition that has spent the last four years extending Bush/Cheney theories, eroding core liberties and entrenching endless militarism: Obama + the GOP caucus + Feinstein-type Democrats. As Michelle Richardson, the ACLU's legislative counsel, put it to the Huffington Post: "I bet [Bush] is laughing his ass off."
3) .... Feinstein stood up on the Senate floor and began by heaping praise on her GOP comrade, Sen. Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, for leading his caucus to join her in renewing the FISA act without any reforms. She then unleashed a vile attack on her Democratic colleagues - Wyden, Merkley, and Udall, along with Paul - in which she repeatedly accused them of trying to make the nation vulnerable to a Terrorist attack.
Feinstein insisted that one could support their amendments only if "you believe that no one is going to attack us". She warned that their amendments would cause "another 9/11". She rambled about Najibullah Zazi and his attempt to detonate a bomb on the New York City subway: as though a warrant requirement, let alone disclosure requirements for the eavesdropping program, would have prevented his detection. Having learned so well from Rudy Giuliani (and Harry Reid), she basically just screamed "Terrorist!" and "9/11" over and over until her time ran out, and then proudly sat down as though she had mounted rational arguments against the transparency and oversight amendments advocated by Wyden, Merkley, Udall and Paul.
Even more notably, Feinstein repeatedly argued that requiring even basic disclosure about the eavesdropping program - such as telling Americans how many of them are targeted by it - would, as she put it, "destroy the program". But if "the program" is being conducted properly and lawfully, why would that kind of transparency kill the program? As the ACLU's Richardson noted: "That Sen. Feinstein says public oversight will lead to the end of the program says a lot about the info that's being hidden."
Please continue to the full text of this very well written, highly informed & impassioned plea for ridding ourselves of these 'leaders' & restoring human rights slowly acquired down the ages at a cost of property, lives & sorrows so kingsized that my bones shudder without option for relief while trying to imagine it:
➽ www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/28/fisa-feinste...
Thank you.