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\n to understand the fuss that Washington and its media whores are
\n making over Edward Snowden. We have known for a long time that the
\n National Security Agency (NSA) has been spying for years without
\n warrants on the communications of Americans and people throughout
\n the world. Photographs of the massive NSA building in Utah built
\n for the purpose of storing the intercepted communications of the
\n world have been published many times.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n to an ordinary person what Snowden has revealed that William Binney
\n and other whistleblowers have not already revealed. Perhaps the
\n difference is that Snowden has provided documents that prove it,
\n thereby negating Washington\u2019s ability to deny the facts with
\n its usual lies.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n reason for Washington\u2019s blather, it certainly is not doing
\n the US government any good. Far more interesting than Snowden\u2019s
\n revelations is the decision by governments of other countries to
\n protect a truth-teller from the Stasi in Washington.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n Snowden\u2019s whereabouts secret so that an amerikan black-op strike
\n or a drone could not be sent to murder him. Hong Kong told Washington
\n that its extradition papers for Snowden were not in order and permitted
\n Snowden to leave for Moscow.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n government did not interfere with Snowden\u2019s departure.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n government says it has no objection to Snowden having a connecting
\n flight in Moscow.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino responded to Washington\u2019s threats
\n with a statement that the Ecuadorian government puts human rights
\n above Washington\u2019s interests. Foreign Minister Patino said
\n that Snowden served humanity by revealing that the Washington Stasi
\n was violating the rights of \u201cevery citizen in the world.\u201d
\n Snowden merely betrayed \u201csome elites that are in power in a
\n certain country,\u201d whereas Washington betrayed the entire world.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n China, Russia, Ecuador, and Cuba refusing to obey the Stasi\u2019s
\n orders, Washington is flailing around making a total fool of itself
\n and its media prostitutes.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n State John Kerry has been issuing warnings hand over fist. He has
\n threatened Russia, China, Ecuador, and every country that aids and
\n abets Snowden\u2019s escape from the Washington Stasi. Those who
\n don\u2019t do Washington\u2019s bidding, Kerry declared, will suffer
\n adverse impacts on their relationship with the US.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n thing for Kerry to say. Here is a guy who once was for peace but
\n who has been turned by NSA spying on his personal affairs into an
\n asset for the NSA. Try to realize the extraordinary arrogance and
\n hubris in Kerry\u2019s threat that China, Russia, and other countries
\n will suffer bad relations with the US. Kerry is saying that amerika
\n doesn\u2019t have to care whether \u201cthe indispensable people\u201d
\n have bad relations with other countries, but those countries have
\n to be concerned if they have bad relations with the \u201cindispensable
\n country.\u201d What an arrogant posture for the US government to
\n present to the world.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n a US Secretary of State lost in delusion along with the rest of
\n Washington. A country that is bankrupt, a country that has allowed
\n its corporations to destroy its economy by moving the best jobs
\n offshore, a country whose future is in the hands of the printing
\n press, a country that after eleven years of combat has been unable
\n to defeat a few thousand lightly armed Taliban is now threatening
\n Russia and China. God save us from the utter fools who comprise
\n our government.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n enjoying Washington\u2019s humiliation at the hands of Hong Kong.
\n A mere city state gave Washington the bird. In its official statement,
\n Hong Kong shifted the focus from Snowden to his message and asked
\n the US government to explain its illegal hacking of Hong Kong\u2019s
\n information systems.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n state newspaper, The People\u2019s Daily, wrote: \u201cThe United
\n States has gone from a model of human rights to an eavesdropper
\n on personal privacy, the manipulator of the centralized power over
\n the international internet, and the mad invader of other countries\u2019
\n networks. . . The world will remember Edward Snowden. It was his
\n fearlessness that tore off Washington\u2019s sanctimonious mask.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n
\n Global Times, a subsidiary of The People\u2019s Daily, accused Washington
\n of attacking \u201ca young idealist who has exposed the sinister
\n scandals of the US government.\u201d Instead of apologizing \u201cWashington
\n is showing off its muscle by attempting to control the whole situation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n
\n official Xinhua news agency reported that Snowden\u2019s revelations
\n had placed \u201cWashington in a really awkward situation. They
\n demonstrate that the United States, which has long been trying to
\n play innocent as a victim of cyber attacks, has turned out to be
\n the biggest villain in our age.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n
\n Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov made it clear that Russia\u2019s
\n sympathy is with Snowden, not with the amerikan Stasi state. Human
\n rights ombudsman Vladimir Lukin said that it was unrealistic to
\n expect the Russian government to violate law to seize a transit
\n passenger who had not entered Russia and was not on Russian soil.
\n RT\u2019s Gayane Chichakyan reported that Washington is doing everything
\n it can to shift attention away from Snowden\u2019s revelations that
\n \u201cshow that the US has lied and has been doing the same as they
\n accuse China of doing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n
\n the traitor is Washington, not Snowden.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n squeals from the NSA director \u2013 \u201dEdward Snowden has caused
\n irreversible damage to US\u201d \u2013 are matched by the obliging
\n squeals from members of the House and Senate, themselves victims
\n of the NSA spying, as was the Director of the CIA who was forced
\n to resign because of a love affair. The NSA is in position to blackmail
\n everyone in the House and Senate, in the White House itself, in
\n all the corporations, the universities, the media, every organization
\n at home and abroad, who has anything to hide. You can tell who is
\n being blackmailed by the intensity of the squeals, such as those
\n of Dianne Feinstein (D, CA) and Mike Rogers (R, MI). With any luck,
\n a patriot will leak what the NSA has on Feinstein and Rogers, neither
\n of whom could possibly scrape any lower before the NSA.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n government in Washington that has everything to hide is now in NSA\u2019s
\n hands and will follow orders. The pretense that amerika is a democracy
\n responsible to the people has been exposed. The US is run by and
\n for the NSA. Congress and the White House are NSA puppets.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n quit calling the NSA the National Security Agency. Clearly, NSA
\n is a threat to the security of every person in the entire world.
\n Let\u2019s call the NSA what it really is \u2013 the National Stasi
\n Agency, the largest collection of Gestapo in human history. You
\n can take for granted that every media whore, every government prostitute,
\n every ignorant flag-waver who declares Snowden to be a traitor is
\n either brainwashed or blackmailed. They are the protectors of NSA
\n tyranny. They are our enemies.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n been growing increasingly sick of Washington for a long time. The
\n bullying, the constant stream of lies, the gratuitous wars and destruction
\n have destroyed the image hyped by Washington of the US as a \u201clight
\n unto the world.\u201d The world sees the US as a plague upon the
\n world.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n revelations, Germany\u2019s most important magazine, Der Spiegal,
\n had the headline: \u201cObama\u2019s Soft Totalitarianism: Europe
\n Must Protect Itself From America.\u201d The first sentence of the
\n article asks: \u201cIs Barack Obama a friend? Revelations about
\n his government\u2019s vast spying program call that into doubt.
\n The European Union must protect the Continent from America\u2019s
\n reach for omnipotence.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n
\n continues: \u201cWe are being watched. All the time and everywhere.
\n And it is the Americans who are doing the watching. On Tuesday,
\n the head of the largest and most all-encompassing surveillance system
\n ever invented is coming for a visit. If Barack Obama is our friend
\n then we really don\u2019t need to be terribly worried about our
\n enemies.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n
\n doubt that German Interior Minister Hans Peter Friedrich has lost
\n his secrets to NSA spies. Friedrich rushed to NSA\u2019s defense,
\n declaring: \u201dthat\u2019s not how you treat friends.\u201d As
\n Der Spiegal made clear, the minister was not referring \u201cto
\n the fact that our trans-Atlantic friends were spying on us. Rather,
\n he meant the criticism of that spying. Friedrich\u2019s reaction
\n is only paradoxical on the surface and can be explained by looking
\n at geopolitical realities. The US is, for the time being, the only
\n global power \u2013 and as such it is the only truly sovereign state
\n in existence. All others are dependent \u2013 either as enemies or
\n allies. And because most prefer to be allies, politicians \u2013 Germany\u2019s
\n included \u2013 prefer to grin and bear it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n
\n that the most important publication in Germany has acknowledged
\n that the German government is Washington\u2019s puppet state.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n says: \u201cGerman citizens should be able to expect that their
\n government will protect them from spying by foreign governments.
\n But the German interior minister says instead: \u2018We are grateful
\n for the excellent cooperation with US secret services.\u2019 Friedrich
\n didn\u2019t even try to cover up his own incompetence on the surveillance
\n issue. \u2018Everything we know about it, we have learned from the
\n media,\u2019 he said. The head of the country\u2019s domestic intelligence
\n agency, Hans-Georg Maassen, was not any more enlightened. \u2018I
\n didn\u2019t know anything about it,\u2019 he said. And Justice Minister
\n Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger was also apparently in the dark.
\n \u2018These reports are extremely unsettling,\u2019 she said. With
\n all due respect: These are the people who are supposed to be protecting
\n our rights? If it wasn\u2019t so frightening, it would be absurd.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n
\n amerikans who say, \u201cI\u2019m not doing anything wrong, I don\u2019t
\n care if they spy,\u201d Der Spiegal writes that a \u201cmonitored
\n human being is not a free one.\u201d<\/i> We have reached the point
\n where we \u201cfree americans\u201d have to learn from our German
\n puppets that we are not free.<\/span><\/p>\n
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\n day Germany is a new country, flushed of its past by war and defeat.
\n Russia is also a new country that has emerged from the ashes of
\n an unrealistic ideology. Hope always resides with those countries
\n that have most experienced evil in government. If Germany were to
\n throw off its amerikan overlord and depart NATO, amerikan power
\n in Europe would collapse. If Germany and Russia were to unite in
\n defense of truth and human rights, Europe and the world would have
\n a new beginning.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n is desperately needed. Chris Floyd explains precisely what is going
\n on, which is something you will never hear from the presstitutes.
\n Read
\n it while you still can.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
\n be hope if Americans could throw off their brainwashing, follow
\n the lead of Debra Sweet and others<\/a>, and stand up for Edward
\n Snowden and against the Stasi State.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n 26, 2013<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n
\n Craig Roberts, <\/span>a
\n former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury and former associate
\n editor of the Wall Street Journal, has been reporting shocking cases
\n of prosecutorial abuse for two decades. A new edition of his book,
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\n Tyranny of Good Intentions<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span>,
\n co-authored with Lawrence Stratton, a documented account of how
\n americans lost the protection of law, has been released by Random
\n House. Visit his website<\/a>.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n
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