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Rough edges??? man to me it seems blacks have more prejudice against whites than they do.
Also I have been to the south and seen the segregation, it is still there to some degree especially where hey live.
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(1) the jump from "I'm not a fan of US govt (TO) "but blacks are ... ??????Originally posted by Mos View Post
(2) I have lived with black people on a daily basis for prolonged periods in my 66 years. Some of my dearest friends are "black" people (LOL).
I have been across this country both east & west/noth & south. They got some pretty rough nieghborhoods throughout the country and plenty of docile ones too.
Your depiction of blacks in general is false and misleading. The majority are merely trying to scrape a life from an unfair world but are not mean spirited or quote; OBNOXIOUS ...riotous laughter = hahahaha hahahaha.
Get real ... In the ***** emmediate ***** past they "blacks" have been --- DENIED ---- education, respect, opportunity, decency, (and) you think they ain't gonna have some rough edges?????
As I could not go to the turc encampment and say the truth, so you couldn't go to a black community and say such utter nonsense.
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CIA documents raise questions about spy agency's domestic data collection
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For more than two years, Americans have been reeling from revelations about the National Security Agency's mass surveillance programs. Now, newly release documents have raised questions about whether even more of Americans' data could be in the CIA’s hands, too.
Over the past two months, the American Civil Liberties Union has published 68 documents related to the CIA’s activities under Executive Order 12333, which governs foreign intelligence collection. The documents are part of a long-running Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought by the ACLU and Yale Law School for information about government surveillance under EO 12333.
The widely discussed domestic surveillance programs – those permitted through the Patriot Act and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Amendments Act – both are operated under the supervision of Congress and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. EO 12333 is run purely under the auspices of the executive branch.
President Reagan issued the order in 1981 and subsequent presidents have amended it several times since. It came to widespread public attention when former State Department official John Napier Tye penned a Washington Post Op-Ed that accused the NSA of using a loophole in the order to scoop up millions of Americans’ data and search it without a warrant.
"Almost any American who uses the Internet has had their data swept up in this," Mr. Tye said in an interview, referring to foreign mass surveillance programs that the NSA operates under EO 12333.
The NSA uses authority granted to it under that order to collect millions of Americans’ wholly domestic communications overseas, Tye said.
While many of the NSA's mass surveillance programs are technically "foreign," those programs predictably ingest large amounts of US data. That’s easy in a world where an e-mail between Boston and Atlanta is likely stored at data centers in Europe and Asia by tech companies that span the globe. A provision in the executive order lets the NSA store and search that "incidentally collected" American data.
"They collect everything, they store it all in a database, they search it all, and only if they want to use something do they run it through the minimization procedures and the US person check," Tye said.
Under 12333, the CIA can also collect intelligence on people and organizations in the US as long as it is "incidentally acquired information." That has the ACLU and other privacy advocates worried.
"We know that EO 12333 is one of the NSA’s most important surveillance authorities, and that the agency relies on EO 12333 to conduct bulk surveillance abroad that sweeps up vast quantities of Americans’ communications," says Ashley Gorski, a fellow at the ACLU's National Security Project. "Although we don’t know the extent of the CIA's involvement in these dragnets, the CIA is no stranger to bulk collection."
Indeed, The Wall Street Journal reported in January 2014 that the CIA maintains a database of information on Americans’ international money transfers under Section 215 of the Patriot Act. Three months later, it also revealed that the CIA provided technical support for a US Marshals program that tracked suspects by mounting devices that simulate cellphone towers onto low-flying airplanes – scanning thousands of Americans’ cellphones in the process.
One document – a memorandum of understanding between the CIA and the FBI – contains a section regulating how the CIA can target US persons that is almost entirely redacted – as is a section detailing when and how the FBI can share information with the CIA and all of a one-page document titled "Collection Rules."
What isn’t redacted in the new documents show that EO 12333 bars the CIA from carrying out electronic surveillance within the US. However, the agency can ask the FBI or another intelligence agency to carry out electronic surveillance inside American borders on its behalf. It can also use a "monitoring device" inside the US "under circumstances in which a warrant would not be required for law enforcement purposes."
It’s unclear what a "monitoring device" is and how using it differs from "electronic surveillance" – the definition is redacted.
The newly released documents also suggest that the CIA might not be following its own internal guidelines for handling data on Americans. According to a 2002 report from the CIA Inspector General, agency components aren’t properly applying rules about the retention and dissemination of data about US persons "because of a general and widespread lack of understanding of the rules."
The CIA did not responded to questions concerning the documents it released to the ACLU.
"By direction of the president in Executive Order 12333 of 1981 and in accordance with procedures approved by the Attorney General, the CIA is restricted in the collection of intelligence information directed against US citizens," the agency says on its website. "Collection is allowed only for an authorized intelligence purpose; for example, if there is a reason to believe that an individual is involved in espionage or international terrorist activities."
The independent Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board is currently completing a report about CIA and NSA surveillance involving US persons under EO 12333. It plans to issue the report by the end of the year, according to a statement.
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Privacy campaigners and open source developers are up in arms over the secret installing of Google software which is capable of listening in on conversations held in front of a computer.
First spotted by open source developers, the Chromium browser – the open source basis for Google’s Chrome – began remotely installing audio-snooping code that was capable of listening to users.
It was designed to support Chrome’s new “OK, Google” hotword detection – which makes the computer respond when you talk to it – but was installed, and, some users have claimed, it is activated on computers without their permission.
“Without consent, Google’s code had downloaded a black box of code that – according to itself – had turned on the microphone and was actively listening to your room,” said Rick Falkvinge, the Pirate party founder, in a blog post. “Which means that your computer had been stealth configured to send what was being said in your room to somebody else, to a private company in another country, without your consent or knowledge, an audio transmission triggered by … an unknown and unverifiable set of conditions.”
Related: Google to exclude 'revenge porn' from internet searches
The feature is installed by default as part of Google’s Chrome browser. But open source advocates are up in arms about it also being installed with the open source variant Chromium, because the listening code is considered to be “black box”, not part of the open source audit process.
“We don’t know and can’t know what this black box does,” said Falkvinge.
Opt-in or opt-out
Google responded to complaints via its developer boards. It said: “While we do download the hotword module on startup, we do not activate it unless you opt in to hotwording.”
However, reports from developers indicate otherwise.
After having identified Chromium as the culprit, developer Ofer Zelig said in a blog post: “While I was working I thought ‘I’m noticing that an LED goes on and off, on the corner of my eyesight [webcam]’. And after a few times when it just seemed weird, I sat to watch for it and saw it happening. Every few seconds or so.”
Google also blamed the Linux distribution Debian for downloading the non-open source component with Chromium automatically, rather than Google Chrome.
“The key here is that Chromium is not a Google product. We do not directly distribute it, or make any guarantees with respect to compliance with various open source policies,” Google developer mgiuca said.
Falkvinge countered Google’s explanations saying: “The default install will still wiretap your room without your consent, unless you opt out, and more importantly, know that you need to opt out, which is nowhere a reasonable requirement.” He says a hardware switch to disable the microphone and camera built into most computers is needed.
Voice search functions have become an accepted feature of modern smartphones, but their movement into the home through the smart TV, and now browser, have caused concerns over the possibility of being listened to within the home.
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US to Cut Intelligence Cooperation With Germany If NSA Spy List Published
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Washington will consider decreasing cooperation between the US and
German intelligence services and transferring the assets of the US
National Security Agency (NSA) to neighboring Poland, if Germany makes
the list of the NSA surveillance targets in the country public, Bild
am Sonntag reported on Sunday.
BERLIN (Sputnik) ' In April, an espionage scandal erupted in Germany
when local media revealed that the intelligence agency BND had
provided technical assistance to the NSA in spying on targets inside
the country and throughout the European Union, including top political
figures and corporations.
Following the scandal, German Bundestag required the government to
reveal the list of spying targets so that the parliament's committee
could proceed with an inquiry. On Wednesday, the German government
proposed that only a special investigator would inspect the
controversial list and report to the parliament.
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German BND Reform Should Reduce Agency's Dependence on NSA ` Lawmaker
According to the newspaper, the United States strongly opposes even
partial disclosure of the targets, that were under surveillance of the
BND in cooperation with the NSA.
The disclosure, according to Washington, would breach the agreement on
cooperation between the security services, signed in 2002, and would
seriously damage relationship with Berlin, the newspaper said.
The recent developments followed the 2013 revelations by former NSA
contractor Edward Snowden, who disclosed that the US intelligence
agency had been collecting data on European targets for years.
BND is believed to have spied on some 800,000 IP addresses, phone
numbers and email addresses at the request of the NSA.
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FBI Agent: The CIA Could Have Stopped 9/11
By Jeff Stein
June 20, 2015 "Information Clearing House
<http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/>" - "Newsweek
<http://www.newsweek.com/saudi-arabia-911-cia-344693>" - Updated : Mark
Rossini, a former FBI special agent at the center of an enduring mystery
<http://www.newsweek.com/2015/01/23/information-could-have-stopped-911-299148.html>
related
to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, says he is `appalled' by the
newly declassified statements by former CIA Director George Tenet defending
the spy agency's efforts to detect and stop the plot.
Rossini, who was assigned to the CIA's Counterterrorism Center (CTC) at the
time of the attacks, has long maintained
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that
the U.S. government has covered up secret relations between the spy agency
and Saudi individuals who may have abetted the plot. Fifteen of the 19
hijackers who flew commercial airliners into the World Trade Center towers,
the Pentagon, and a failed effort to crash into the U.S. Capitol, were
Saudis.
A heavily redacted 2005 CIA inspector general's report
<http://www.foia.cia.gov/sites/default/files/DOC_0006184107.pdf>, parts of
which had previously been released, was further declassified earlier this
month. It found that agency investigators "encountered no evidence" that
the government of Saudi Arabia "knowingly and willingly supported" Al-Qaeda
terrorists. It added that some CIA officers had `speculated' that
`dissident sympathizers within the government' may have supported Osama bin
Laden but that `the reporting was too sparse to determine with any
accuracy
such support.'
Over 30 pages relating to Saudi Arabia in the report were blacked out. The
Obama administration has also refused
<http://www.newsweek.com/saudi-arabia-911-george-w-bush-barack-obama-prince-bandar-bin-sultan-bob-297170>
to
declassify 28 pages dealing with Saudi connections to the hijackers in a
joint congressional probe of the attacks.
As has been previously reported
<http://www.newsweek.com/2015/01/23/information-could-have-stopped-911-299148.html>,
Rossini and another FBI agent assigned to the CTC, Doug Miller, learned in
January 2000 that one of the future hijackers, an Al-Qaeda operative by the
name of Khalid al-Mihdhar, had a multi-entry visa to enter the U.S. By
mid-summer of 2001, the CIA was repeatedly warning President George W. Bush
and other White House officials that an Al-Qaeda attack was imminent. But
when Miller and Rossini attempted to warn FBI headquarters that al-Mihdhar
could be loose in the U.S., a CIA supervisor ordered them to remain silent.
Rossini says he is `deeply concerned' by how the agency continues to
suppress information related to contacts between the CIA and Saudi Arabia,
particularly when the spy agency is declassifying other portions of
documents to show that it did everything possible to thwart the September
11, 2001 plot.
`There would have not been a 9/11 if Doug's CIR [Central Intelligence
Report] on al-Mihdhar was sent,' he told Newsweek in an email.
`Period.
End of story.
`The total lack of accountability, nor a desire to drill down on the truth
as to why Doug's memo was not sent,' he added, `is the reason why the 28
pages pertaining to the Saudis have been blocked' from release.
In 2005, Tenet, the CIA director at the time of the attacks, angrily
refuted the judgment of then-CIA Inspector General John Helgerson who said
Tenet did not do enough to stop the Al-Qaeda plot.
"Your report challenges my professionalism, diligence and skill in leading
the men and women of U.S. intelligence in countering terrorism," Tenet
wrote to Helgerson in another heavily redacted document released June 12.
"I did everything I could to inform, warn and motivate action to prevent
harm. Your report does not fairly or accurately portray my actions, or the
heroic work of the men and women of the Intelligence Community."
Rossini claims still-classified documents would `show a pattern of
financial assistance, and moreover, the CIA's role to try and recruit
al-Mihdhar.' He says he was `convinced' of that and that `there is no other
explanation" for the CIA refusing to release further information.
A former CIA field operative who worked at the CTC in 2001 told
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Newsweek earlier this year that Rossini's theory had merit. =80=9CI find that
kind of hard to believe, that [al-Mihdhar] would be a valid source,' says
the former operative, who spent 25 years handling spies in some of the
world's most dangerous places, including the Middle East. `But then again,
the folks that were making a lot of calls at the time there were junior
analysts, who had zero general experience and absolutely zero on-the-ground
operational experience or any kind of operational training.'
The analysts had begun to take intelligence collection initiatives beyond
their skill level, usually by developing their own confidential `sources'
in Middle East spy services, says the former operative, who spoke on
condition of anonymity to freely discuss such a sensitive issue. So it is
entirely reasonable, the former operative says, that an intelligence
analyst at the CTC was trying to develop al-Mihdhar as a source through
Saudi contacts.
`I don't think they ever personally talked to anybody' in the field, the
former operative added. `They probably got a source through liaison. So
their source [on the hijackers] might have been someone in the Saudi
service who said they are talking to somebody, or someone in the Jordanian
service who said he was talking to someone. As far I was concerned, they
were a bunch of lying pieces of xxxx. So they could've done that.'
Rossini and his colleague, Miller, following the CTC's strict rules on
secrecy, kept silent for years about their thwarted effort to warn FBI
headquarters about al-Mihdhar, providing critics with ammunition to cast
doubt on their story. But in a Newsweek interview, a former FBI colleague
has now come forward publicly for the first time to buttress their version
of events.
James Bernazzani, who took charge of the FBI contingent at the CTC in
Langley, Virginia, soon after 9/11 attacks, recalled an encounter with
Rossini. `Mark walks into my office one day at Langley and says,
`Something's been really bothering me.' He tells me the whole story" about
how he and Miller had been prohibited from telling anyone about the likely
presence of at least one Al-Qaeda terrorist, al-Mihdhar, in the U.S. the
previous July, Bernazzani says.
`I said, Mark, if it ain't on paper, it never happened. He said,
`I got
it.' After a few minutes he came back and showed it to me.' Miller, as it
turned out, had made a copy of the warning cable he had prepared for FBI
headquarters.
`I looked at it and I said, `Holy friggin' xxxx,'' Bernazzani recalls. `I
said, `This would've stopped this thing.' I called up Assistant Director
Pat D'Amuro,' who was in charge of the FBI's investigation into the 9/11
attacks. `I said I needed to see him right away. He said, `This better be
worth it.' I assured him it was. I drove straight to FBI headquarters. It
took me only about 15 minutes to get there. I probably set some speed
records.'
Bernazzani, who retired in 2008 with a Presidential Award for Meritorious
Service
<https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/fbi-recognizes-presidential-rank-award-recipients>,
says D'Amuro `looks at it, he looks at me, and he says, `I'll take care of
it.''
Bernazzani returned to CIA headquarters. `I told Mark it was done,
it was
in the right hands,' Bernazzani says. Later, when congressional
investigators came looking for documents related to the 9/11 attacks, =80=9Cthe
FBI couldn't find it in their computers,' he says. `If they did, they
didn't tell me.'
D'Amuro, now managing director of 930 Capital Management in New York, did
not immediately respond to request for comment.
All these years later, `What Mark said is true,' Bernazzani says. `It did
happen' as Rossini told it.
As for why CIA analysts at the CTC ordered Rossini and Miller not to tell
the FBI about Al-Qaeda terrorists at large in the U.S., Bernazzani can only
theorize. "It was a classic example of analysts owning information,' he
says. `Operators share information. Some analysts tended to think of
information as none of your business.'
Rossini is more blunt. `They ran a clandestine op in the U.S., and
they
didn't want the bureau involved in it.'
Correction: An earlier version of this story mistakenly said FBI agents
Rossini and Miller learned about al-Mihdhar's multiple visas to America in
the summer of 2001. It was in January 2000 when they learned of his visas.
© 2015 Newsweek LLC
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Spain: Podemos party in the crosshairs of US intelligence agencies
By Nil Nikandrov
<http://www.strategic-culture.org/authors/nil-nikandrov.html>* | 20.06.2015 | 00:00
On the 7th floor of the US Embassy's enormous building in Madrid is the CIA
station. For more than half a century, active intelligence work has been
carried out from this site, but its objective is not only to gather secret
information on the domestic and foreign policies of Spain. A wide range of
delicate issues aimed at guaranteeing the US' strategic interests in the
country are looked at on a daily basis. Thus the station focuses on
preventive operations to `neutralise' organisations and politicians that
are potentially hostile to the US.
Spain is quite rightly considered to be one of the EU's weakest links. A
series of corruption scandals has undermined the credibility of Mariano
Rajoy's government (Sp. Presidente del Gobierno Mariano Rajoy). The
antipopular austerity policy has sharply aggravated the situation in the
country: there has been a rise in unemployment, especially among young
people, the salaries of public sector workers have been cut, social
expenditure has been reduced, and education and healthcare has
deteriorated. Many people unable to pay their rent and utility bills have
been thrown out onto the street. Television reports on forced evictions
have had a far greater impact on the mood of the Spanish electorate than
any opposition propaganda: the crisis is not sparing anyone, we could find
ourselves in their place tomorrow, and the country needs a new leader and a
new domestic and foreign policy.
Surveillance of young, radical left-wing politicians in Spain began long
before the groups and organisations they led were consolidated into the
Podemos party (in English, Podemos translates as `We can'). Every stage of
the process was monitored via agents, electronic surveillance and social
networking sites. Operations files were replenished with information on
university lecturers and students, political and social activists, members
of the creative intelligentsia, and sympathetic journalists. Every step
taken by the project's key players - Pablo Iglesias, Juan Carlos Monedero
and Ă=8Dńigo Errejón - was documented.
Contact between these young `protesters' and members of populist regimes in
Latin America - Venezuelans, Ecuadorians, Nicaraguans and Bolivians - has
caused, and is still causing, American and Spanish security agencies a
great deal of anxiety, while trips by the `protesters' to Brazil, Argentina
and Cuba have caused just as much alarm. Juan Monedero, who was an adviser
to President Hugo Chávez on financial and economic issues between 2005 and
2010 and provided expert assistance to the Ministry of Planning and the
Miranda International Centre on staff training, has aroused particular
suspicion. Monedero also advised the governments of Venezuela, Bolivia,
Ecuador and Nicaragua on establishing non-cash settlements in regional
trade.
The Podemos party's entry onto the Spanish political scene (in February
2014) was accompanied by the intelligence agencies stepping up their covert
activities to expose `possible' compromising information on Podemos
activists and the party's leader, Pablo Iglesias. It is no secret to the
`subjects' of the surveillance that they are being vigilantly monitored by
the CIA and the US National Security Agency (NSA). It stands to reason that
the National Intelligence Centre (CNI) of Spain, whose senior officials
regard the activities of Podemos in a negative light, is not staying on the
sidelines. The reason is clear: the seemingly stable two-party system is
becoming a thing of the past and the emergence of a new political force has
become problematic.
General elections are to take place in Spain at the end of 2015 and,
according to the predictions of political analysts, they are going to
change the balance of political forces in the country considerably. It is
becoming increasingly obvious that the centre-right People's Party
(Partido
Popular - PP) and the centre-left Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)
will lose their dominant positions. The popularity of the Podemos party was
confirmed at the local elections on 24 May 2015. Suffice it to say that
Manuela Carmena, a protest movement activist, is now in charge of Madrid's
city hall, which has traditionally been ruled by PP protégés, and Ada
Colau, an advocate of real, rather than cosmetic, reforms in the country,
is now the mayor of Barcelona. Hundreds of new mayors are promising to make
the fight against economic inequality, social justice, and the involvement
of the people in the running of the country their priority.
Pablo Iglesias attended the inauguration ceremony for the new mayor of
Madrid and called for his fellow countrymen and Podemos supporters not to
rest on their laurels, but to continue fighting for change and defeat
Mariano Rajoy's People's Party in the general elections.
Podemos' success was overshadowed by the resignation of Juan Monedero. In
January 2015, the Complutense University of Madrid and the Finance
Ministry, as if on command, began looking into the legality of substantial
sums of money received by the politician from the governments of ALBA
countries (the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America, (Sp.
Alianza Bolivariana para los Pueblos de Nuestra América), is a socialist
alliance of Latin American and Carribbean states). At the same time, an
article appeared in the Conservative newspaper El Pais accusing Monedero of
`falsifying' most of his academic employment history. There is no doubt
that this compromising information would not have emerged without the
involvement of US intelligence agencies. I need only mention that the
newspaper Diario Las Americas (published in Miami), which is used by the
CIA to disseminate so-called `active measures', published an interview with
Spain's former prime minister, José Aznar. He accused Podemos
of being
financed by Venezuela: `Podemos is a political movement that fully
advocates totalitarian models and populist ideas'. Naturally, the party
filed a lawsuit for libel and slander.
After a huge hullabaloo in the media, the issue of `subversive funding from
Hugo Chávez' was explained satisfactorily and El Paisissued an apology, but
Monedero still felt it necessary to leave Podemos. The upcoming election
campaign promises to be tense, and his previous association with Latin
American populists and adherence to Marxist ideology will certainly be used
by his political opponents.
It is important to note that Podemos has recently been avoiding provocative
political language. Now, its moderate-centre electoral programme is geared
towards the wider electorate. There is no mention of plans to abolish the
Spanish monarchy, to grant the regions the right to secede from Spain, to
nationalise key industries and banks, and to seize without compensation
surplus accommodation from its owners and give it to the homeless. Pablo
Iglesias himself is declaring his allegiance to social democratic ideals
and the Swedish model of socialism. He has even talked about the history of
the party's name, Podemos. Apparently, it does not come from Marx or Lenin,
but from Barack Obama, who led his fight for the presidency in 2008 under
the slogan `Yes, we can!'
Distrust of Podemos in the higher echelons of the US is only getting
stronger, however. That the party intends to use the experience of
Venezuelan populists to conquer hegemony in the country is constantly being
emphasised in the information coming from the intelligence agencies. For
now, however, Podemos' minimum goal is to win in the elections. Only then,
apparently, will Pablo Iglesias and his team take steps to seize the real
powers. Such `focus' by the Americans on interpreting Iglesias' plans is
intended to justify the magnitude of the complex intelligence measures
against the Podemos party. One needs only compare the list of US Embassy
personnel in Madrid over the last five years with the current one
(published by the Spanish Foreign Affairs Ministry) to see that the size of
the CIA station operating under the roof of the political department has
more than tripled.
The question of whether the US intelligence agencies in Spain have
sufficient potential to `adjust' the results of the forthcoming elections
still remains open. During the last election campaign in Mexico, the
moderate populist López Obrador had a distinct advantage. Washington's
candidate, however, was Peńa Nieto, and with the help of questionable
manipulations behind the scenes of the electoral process, he became the
next president of Mexico.
During closed parliamentary hearings, the head of the National Intelligence
Centre (CNI) of Spain, Félix Sanz Roldán, said he `felt uneasy' about the
operations of US intelligence agencies in the country, especially the US
National Security Agency (NSA). `They are guided by their own laws», said
Roldan. He also referred to the covert activities of secret service agents
in Spain from `allied countries'. Nine such agents have been expelled from
Spain in recent years. Roldan did not specify which countries exactly, but
judging from publications and independent sources, he was referring to the
US and Israel. The number of `illegals' like these in Spain is measured in
three figures.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs invited US Ambassador James Costos, and
later the charge d'affaires Luis Moreno, to get an explanation regarding
the NSA's illegal `wiretaps' and its monitoring of
information exchanged
over the internet, including social networking sites. The Spanish
authorities' timid attempts to at least normalise the behaviour of
US
intelligence agencies in their country are proving fruitless.
One gets the impression that in some cases, Rajoy's government is not
dealing with the activities of foreign intelligence services against
Spanish citizens in the country as categorically as CNI head Roldan tried
to prove in parliament. Observers are not ruling out the possibility that
the Podemos leader's involvement in the presidential elections will be
sabotaged with the help of a large-scale act of provocation by US
intelligence agencies.
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Have you been following the news lately? What would you say if Turkey started lecturing on how evil genocide is? You would probably say wow what a hypocrite..Well the news is full of hypocrisy. We have one of the most corrupt organizations going after a much lesser corrupt organization. I am referring to the FBI going after FIFA. The USA is indicting FIFA members for doing the exact same things that all of its politicians do daily. Sure you will get people like Hastert and Menendez who get indicted but they are not being punished for being corrupt. If corruption was the real reason for their indictments the pretty much all of the house, senate, president, judges would be indicted also. Those who do get convicted are being punished for not staying in line, stepping on bigger feet,... People are very much out of touch with reality and that is just the way fascist states like it.Leave a comment:
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