Ours is an outlaw nation that weakens countries, vital structures and valid traditions, the world's peoples including the USA
Excerpt, edited for TIN, ending comment by Carolyn Bennett
Today with Democracy Now's Amy Goodman, the author, journalist and activist Glenn Greenwald discusses content from his latest work concerning the United States (U.S. Government's) National 'Security' Agency's global, lawless reach.
INVASION,
OCCUPATION
“…You’re not just talking about one country; you’re talking about
hundreds of millions, probably billions of people around the world who use
these companies. …” NSA invaded major systems at home and
abroad, spying on Muslims in Muslim countries and Americans within the USA. ● “PRISM”
program uncovered showed “Facebook and Google and Yahoo and Skype and
Microsoft directly cooperating with the NSA in all sorts of extensive ways to
ensure easy NSA access to the communications that take place through those companies”
● “unlike the NSA story of 2005 that involved AT&T and Sprint and Verizon,
U.S. domestic telephone companies; these Internet companies are the primary
means by which the entire ‘First World’ communicates.” Moreover, in both the developed and developing world
… "hundreds of millions, probably billions of people around the world use these
companies. …”
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President of
the Federative
Republic of Brazil
H. E. Dilma Rousseff |
LIES, SECRECY, STEALING FOR COMMERCIAL GAIN
The U.S.
government, though it has vehemently denied engagement “in economic spying,” it
has done; and though the U.S. has “accused other countries, particularly the
China, of engaging in economic spying,” the U.S. does this. Numerous uncovered
documents show e.g., U.S. “TARGETING the largest Brazilian oil company,
Petrobras, that funds huge numbers of Brazilian social programs; ● U.S. SPYING on
economic conferences that take place in various regions throughout the world
that are designed to negotiate financial treaties; ● U.S. SPYING on the World
Bank and the IMF and the SWIFT banking system, …” ● spying obviously “for economic
gain.”
BREACH OF NATIONS’ SOVEREIGNTY
“Countries that are democratically
elected, for the most part; allies of the United States; buildings that are
supposed to be sacred.… ● Consulates, embassies in the United States that are a
crucial part of diplomacy, of the ability of nations to communicate with one
another and have diplomatic relations… [evidence] shows that for pretty much
every single one of these buildings NSA has invaded the communication systems
and is collecting the information that take place, even with some really
extreme tactics” such as “an air gap computer, a computer that is used that
never connects to the Internet [the only way to … ‘jump the air gap,’ to
actually invade those computers, is to physically go into the computer itself
and implant a surveillance device within it covertly.] … ● NSA is doing even this
kind of invasive, stealth surveillance on its allies in their own consulates
and embassies, even breaking into their offices and implanting surveillance
devices within the machine. ● These are the extreme lengths to which the National 'Security' Agency goes in spying that has always been deemed essentially illegitimate.”
Source: May 13, 2014,
Democracy Now Part 1 of a 2-part discussion with Glenn Greenwald, “‘Collect It
All’: Glenn Greenwald on NSA Bugging Tech Hardware, Economic Espionage &
Spying on UN,” http://www.democracynow.org/2014/5/13/collect_it_all_glenn_greenwald_on
f law is caprice or
expediency; if freedom is plutocrats’ (or anybody's) doing whatever the hell they
want to do; if law is whatever politicians and
or their allies say it is ─ then we have come to a place and state far worse
than the jungle, because in the jungle are boundaries, laws by which all
inhabitants are governed.
It is ludicrous to believe, “I’ve done nothing wrong
so I don’t care if they spy on me.” Such belief and oft-stated idiocy or learned
ignorance suggests a mindless “trust” in that which no longer is ─ if indeed it ever was ─
worthy of trust.
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| Stop spying rally |
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| Stop spying rally |
The fact of the matter is (a) they have (government has) no
business spying on you (or me, on anyone domestic or international) without due
cause under clearly established and impartial law; and (b) as surely as they (government and their “partners” and
or “clients”) can spy on information and use it as they see fit, they can also
plant information and alter information to say whatever they want it to say and, at any given time and circumstance, use it for whatever purposes they choose.
To rein in this outlaw nation, to end the lawlessness, law breakers must be stopped and they must be brought to stand publicly before the people’s bar of impartial justice.
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