Global Threat of OUTLAW NATION

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. …” 

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

  

 

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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. 

Stop spying rally

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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