Poll: Edward Snowden Has Become One of Most Admired Men in Germany
Sputnik International
03:40 04.02.2015 (updated 07:39 04.02.2015)
Edward Snowden is the fourth most admired man among Germans, according to a new YouGov poll. The NSA whistleblower, whose leaks exposed US spying on German officials – including Angela Merkel’s mobile phone, came in just ahead of racecar driver Michael Schumacher.
A mix of politicians, public intellectuals and movie stars top the annual YouGov polls of the world’s most admired people, which are compiled globally and also broken down by various countries.
Snowden, who came after former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, the Dalai Lama and theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, has received positive recognition in Germany for his revelations about NSA surveillance. He also placed sixth among Russians and eighth among Danes.
No Hasselhoff in Top 10? Flawed poll. MT @ggreenwald Edward Snowden is 4th most admired man in Germany according to a new YouGov poll.
— Dateline_DC (@Dateline_DC) February 3, 2015
Snowden was given the 2013 Whistleblower Award as well as the 2014 Fritz Bauer Prize, awarded by the German Humanist Union, a prominent civil rights organization. Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who worked with Snowden to publish much of his information, also received the Scholl Siblings Prize in 2014 for his book on the leaks. And both of them, along with filmmaker Laura Poitras, received the 2014 Carl von Ossietzky Medal from the International League for Human Rights.
Meet Darkleaks, a Bitcoin-Powered Black Market for Secrets
by Grace Caffyn (@GCaffyn)
Coindesk
Published on February 3, 2015 at 14:50 GMT
A new black market for secrets that rewards informants with bitcoin has been announced this week.
Darkleaks, masterminded by members of crypto-anarchist collective unSystem, will let users sell leaked data in an anonymous, trustless environment powered by bitcoin’s blockchain.
Amir Taaki, the project’s systems developer, told CoinDesk that platforms like this provide a financial incentive for insiders to reveal information in the public interest, thereby “devaluing business models based around proprietary secrecy”.
History of radical schemes
The unSystem team has divided opinion with radical projects like the anonymous Dark Wallet, due for release soon, and Dark Market, a P2P eBay-style platform designed to run outside government control.
Darkleaks, which Taaki said has been in development “on and off for many months”, builds on another proof-of-concept from his team, PayPub, revealed last May.
Unlike Silk Road’s moderated marketplace model, which has proved vulnerable to law enforcement, there are no third parties on Darkleaks who can weigh in on disagreements between sellers and buyers. In fact, buyers and sellers cannot communicate at all.
US a Rogue State with Concentration Camps: Venezuela responds to new Sanctions
nsnbc international
Feb 4, 2015
Christof Lehmann (nsnbc) : Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro responded to the U.S. administration’s announcement of new, additional sanctions against Venezuela, on Monday, denouncing the U.S. for hypocrisy with regard to human rights and a rogue State out of control that runs concentrations camps.
U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki announced that the United States had added additional sanctions against Venezuela over what was described as a “crackdown on peaceful protesters”. The latest round of sanctions expands the number of Venezuelan government officials which are barred from entering the U.S. Justifying the Obama administration’s decision, Psaki said:
“These restrictions will also affect the immediate family members of those individuals subject to visa restrictions for believed involvement in human rights abuses or acts of public corruption. … We will not publicly identify these individuals because of U.S. visa confidentiality laws, but we are sending a clear message that human rights abusers, those who profit from public corruption and their families are not welcome in the United States”.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, for his part, responded by denouncing the United States of hypocrisy, especially with regards to human rights.
Maduro described the documented U.S. human rights record which is comparable with that of a rogue State out of control, with concentration camps like Guantanamo, saying:
“They kill black youths in the streets with impunity, they persecute and have concentration camps for kids in Central America, they have abducted dozens of citizens of the world under no legal system, submitted them to torture and isolation. .. What human rights are they talking about?
The additional sanctions follow-up on sanctions the United States imposed on Venezuela following violent unrest in the country in 2014.
NYPD to Permanently Patrol Protests with Machine Guns
by Carey Wedler
Activist Post
Jan 30, 2015
NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton announced Thursday that 350 heavily armed NYPD officers, called the “Strategic Response Group,” will soon be patrolling protests and the city at large. He said the new strain of hyper-armed police will be
…equipped and trained in ways that our normal patrol officers are not. They’ll be equipped with all the extra heavy protective gear, with the long rifles and machine guns — unfortunately sometimes necessary in these instances.
Bratton announced their purpose is specifically
…designed for dealing with events like our recent protests, or incidents like Mumbai or what just happened in Paris.
Lumping protesters in with terrorists, he said the permanent force will deal with “disorder control and counterterrorism protection capabilities.” It will allegedly assist on crime scenes and help with “crowd control and other large-scale events.”
It is not unusual for authorities to ramp up “security” efforts following attacks (such as the ax attack against officers in October), but the idea of machine-gun clad officers is disturbing, especially considering past NYPD abuses of protesters and other residents.
The federal government, which has attempted to feign concern with police brutality, is partially funding the militarized venture. The Department of Homeland Security is supplying resources, as is the city of New York. The Pentagon has previously provided machine guns, ammunition, and other military gear to New York police and other local cops around the country.
MUST LISTEN — Madisonstar Moon Interviews Kandy Griffin about Morgellons
Kandy Griffin
May 15, 2013
Madisonstar Moon, A leading chemtrail activist interviews Kandy Griffin an Associate Researcher of Morgellons Research Group on Morgellons. Topic covered include chemtrails, global elite, hidden agenda, microchipping through nanotechnology, stealth delivery, symptoms of Morgellons and how to find treatment options for symptoms.
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[hat tip: Morgellons Research Group]
PODCAST — Red Ice Radio – Morris Herman – New World Order Goals
Red Ice Radio
Oct 29, 2014
Morris Herman is behind the Youtube channel 108morris108, which features independent thought and analysis of world events and trends, a little quirky and individualistic, yet it is clear that Morris’ channel reveals some experience in the professional news media. The channel first made an influence during the Libyan assault by NATO and often concentrates on Middle East affairs. Morris is a traveler and is also happy to engage in videos suggesting some of our news headlines are actually hoaxes or manufactured. We’ll begin discussing the Ebola scare. Is this virus man made or nature made? Morris talks about how this can lead to forced vaccines, quarantine and loss of civil rights. Then, we’ll discuss war from Slavs to the Middle East. What are the main New World Order goals? He’ll talk about how they ultimately seek to destroy all indigenous way of life and how they intend to do this. Later, he speaks about decentralization to solve problems and neotribalism vs. individualism.
http://www.youtube.com/user/108morris108
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