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► TODAY in HISTORY
■ 12 June, 1942 : Anne Frank decided to use as a diary
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► NY TIMES 12 June 2013 : N.S.A. Disclosures Put Awkward Light on Previous Denials
► FOXNEWS 11 June 2013 : NSA whistleblower whereabouts reportedly unknown as authorities consider charges
► GUARDIAN 9 June 2013 : Technology giants struggle to maintain credibility over NSA Prism surveillance. Strongly-worded denials issued by Apple, Facebook and Google about their co-operation are followed by further revelations
► Whistleblowers. Published on Jun 9, 2013 by nextleftnotes
■ Part One: Jesselyn Radack. NEW YORK -- June 9, 2013. Attorney Jesselyn Radack was part of a Left Forum panel on whistleblowers. In this clip she discusses the treatment whistleblowers receive from the Government -- and her own experiences as an attorney who represented pariahs.
■ Part Two: Thomas Drake. NEW YORK -- June 9, 2013. Former NSA employee Thomas Drake spoke at the Left Forum on Sunday. In this clip Drake discusses his attempts to report "high crimes and misdemeanors" committed by intelligence agencies after 9/11 to the federal government. Drake also discusses how his life changed after he became the subject of an FBI investigation in retaliation for his whistleblowing activities.
■ Part Three: Kevin Gosztola. NEW YORK -- June 9, 2013. Firedoglake.com journalist Kevin Gosztola spoke at the Left Forum on Sunday, as part of a panel on the National Security State. In this clip Gosztola discusses the historical importance of the Bradley Manning case, the military's efforts to muzzle the press and the prosecution's notion that Manning lacked agency -- Gosztola disputes the Army's assertion that Manning acted as an "agent" of wikileaks, hence committed espionage.
■ Part Four: Discussion. NEW YORK -- June 9, 2013. NSA whistleblower Tom Drake, his attorney (Jesselyn Radak), journalist Keven Gosztola, and activist Debra Sweet lead a discussion about the "National Security State."
► NSA Whistleblower Exposes Obama's Dragnet. An ex-CIA employee working as a contractor at the U.S. National Security Agency said he leaked documents and details of a top secret U.S. surveillance program in order to protect the "basic liberties for people around the world." Holed up in a hotel room in Hong Kong, Edward Snowden, 29, said he had thought long and hard before publicizing details of an NSA program code-named PRISM, saying he had done so because he felt the United States was building an unaccountable and secret espionage machine that spied on every American. Edward Snowden, the Booz Allen Hamilton staffer with a top-secret security clearance who leaked details of NSA surveillance, is welcome to seek asylum in Iceland, according to lawmaker Birgitta Jónsdóttir and Smari McCarthy, executive director of the International Modern Media Institute, an organization dedicated to protecting whistleblowers. Published on Jun 10, 2013 by TheAlexJonesChannel
► How PRISM Easily Gives Your Private Data Over to Big Brother. "The National Security Agency has obtained direct access to the systems of Google, Facebook, Apple and other US internet giants, according to a top secret document obtained by the Guardian. The NSA access is part of a previously undisclosed program called Prism, which allows officials to collect material including search history, the content of emails, file transfers and live chats, the document says." We've been assured by the president that the NSA's PRISM program won't affect "ordinary" U.S. citizens, but what is the criteria for deciding who gets their data mined and monitored? Cenk Uygur, Ben Mankiewicz, and John Iadarola (Host, TYT University) discuss the egregious reach of the Obama administration's secret mass surveillance program. Published on Jun 7, 2013 by TheYoungTurks || ► NSA Surveillance - Does Obama Have ANY Credibility Left? "In his remarks today defending the NSA programs gathering telephone records and mining Internet companies, Obama sounded a familiar refrain, saying he welcomes the "debate" over the proper balance between civil liberties and national security." Obama gave a speech in defense of recently uncovered secret programs to wiretap and data-mine U.S. citizens almost indiscriminately, and Congress agrees. Do you believe his remarks that we NEED these programs? Would Obama agree with himself campaigning about his stance on civil rights? Cenk Uygur, Ben Mankiewicz, and John Iadarola discuss. Published on Jun 7, 2013 by TheYoungTurks
► Civil rights group challenges NSA phone surveillance program
► U.S. tech firms push for government transparency on security
► Government reviews security damage from NSA disclosures
► VIDEO : Ex-NSA official on Snowden and the U.S. spy leviathan
WASHINGTON - Thomas Drake, who was prosecuted for allegedly disclosing National Security Agency secrets years before Edward Snowden surfaced, says the U.S. government has an "industrial-scale" surveillance system that 'the Stasi in East Germany would have drooled over."
* Nearly half in U.S. say government spying OK within limits: poll
* Government reviews security damage from NSA disclosures
* Civil rights group challenges NSA phone surveillance program
* U.S. tech firms push for government transparency on security
* Shafer: Edward Snowden and the selective targeting of leaks
► Iran election offers choice, but little change
By Marcus George - DUBAI - Friday's presidential election in Iran is unlikely to bring significant change to the Islamic republic, whose supreme leader has ensured hardline candidates dominate the field. But the sole moderate could yet upset the race.
* Ahead of vote, 'kidnapped' Iran reformists imprisoned at home
► Austrians clean up Danube's shores after floods. Street workers cleaning the shores of the Danube river with high pressure water and staff cleaning flooded restaurants on the Danube river in Vienna on June 10, 2013. Flooding that has swept through central Europe for the past week is set to notch up costs running into billions of euros from spoilt crops, factories forced to stop production and damaged infrastructure or buildings.
► Russia gears up to pass 'gay propaganda' ban. Russian lawmakers prepared Tuesday to pass a harsh law introducing stiff fines and jail terms for people who promote homosexual "propaganda" to minors, a measure critics fear will be used to justify the repression of gays amid rising homophobia in the country.
► Paris art landmark hosts drive-in movie theater. Parisians can't normally drive straight into the beaux-arts landmark the Grand Palais, but for two weeks this month they can pretend it's a drive-in movie theater, taking in flicks from inside a car parked beneath the building's palatial dome . The "Cinema Paradiso" festival, an event sponsored by Fiat, will give spots to 1,000 moviegoers inside one of a handful of the Italian cars while watching classics like "Taxi Driver" and "Annie Hall".
► South Africans start to accept Mandela's mortality. Many South Africans are asking whether it's time to let him go, as a frail Nelson Mandela is admitted to hospital for the third time this year. || ► South Africans 'not prepared to let Mandela go'. South Africans in Pretoria admitted on Tuesday they 'weren't prepared to let go' former president Nelson Mandela, who is showing no sign of improvement as he battles a lung infection in a Pretoria clinic where he was admitted four days ago.
► Monster premiere for French animation festival. Disney-Pixar's 'Monsters University' is screened in a world premiere at the Annecy animated film festival.
► Obama: Path to Citizenship 'No Cakewalk'. President Obama says the path to citizenship under a proposed immigration reform bill is "no cakewalk". He says the Senate bill is not perfect and no one will get everything they want. (June 11)
► Government Considers Surveillance Leak Charges. The Obama Administration is deciding whether to charge Edward Snowden, the government contractor who claimed responsibility for leaking information about surveillance programs. (June 11)
► Zuma: Mandela 'Will Be With Us Soon'. Doctors are working to improve Nelson Mandela's health as he spent a fourth day in the hospital for a recurring lung infection, South Africa's president said Tuesday. (June 11)
► Contractors Under New Scrutiny After NSA Leak. When NSA leaker Edward Snowden revealed details of two National Security Agency surveillance programs, he spotlighted the risks of making so many employees of private contractors a key part of the U.S. intelligence apparatus. (June 11) || ► ACLU Sues Over NSA Phone Records Program. Two prominent civil rights groups have filed a lawsuit against the National Security Agency over its program that reportedly collects the telephone records of millions of American customers of Verizon. (June 11)
► Congress briefed on US surveillance programs
► Parents of Navy SEAL Killed in Afghan Crash File the First Suit on NSA Spying
► Pope confirms 'gay lobby' at work at Vatican
► Obama exhorts Congress to act on immigration
► FINANCE : How Family Pets Yield High ROI in Financial and Health Benefits
► SHINE : Couple Marries in IKEA Where They Met
► WEATHER : Clouds that look like UFOs
► Turkey protests: Clashes continue despite PM's warning
► Economic troubles loom over Iran presidential election
► More than 800 dogs and owners compete in a race in Chile
► FUTURE : The mind-bending mysteries of multiple universes
► CULTURE : In pictures: Art Basel 2013
► CAPITAL : Degrees matter when hunting for a job
► Rise of the idealistic nerd
► Tech firms eye security transparency
Google, Facebook and Microsoft ask the US government to allow them to disclose the security requests they receive for handing over user data.
* Europe alarmed by US surveillance
* Q&A : Prism and privacy
► Who, what, why: What can you learn from people's phone records?
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■ The story of surveillance on screen
■ Edward Snowden was NSA Prism leak source - Guardian
► How Geneva II could be worsening chances of Syria peace
► Putin on NSA leak: Government surveillance shouldn't break law
► 'If you're in NATO you can get away with murder'
► NSA to continue global surveillance program
► Germany most-spied-on EU country by US - leaked NSA report
► Assange to NSA whistleblower Snowden: 'We are winning, but I hope you have a plan'
► US cuts plans for Gitmo prosecutions
► VIDEOS
■ 'Snowden's actions boon to surveillance truthseekers'. Top US politicians are demanding whistleblower Edward Snowden be extradited to the US and prosecuted to the greatest extent of the law. That's after he disclosed details of an unprecendented US surveillance web. The 29-year-old former CIA contractor, until Monday, holed-up in a Hong Kong hotel - afraid to even leave his room for fear of retribution. RT's Marina Portnaya reports, that Washington's condemnation of Snowden is being tempered by public support for his actions. For more on this story we're joined live by John Levy who's the Internet Campaign Director at the Free Press activist group.
■ Assange on NSA leak: Snowden will be prosecuted for years (EXCLUSIVE). The ex-CIA man who blew the lid off America's vast NSA public surveillance net - is promising more explosive revelations. Edward Snowden's supporters are mobilizing too - with tens of thousands signing a petition to pardon the whistleblower. With us now, a man who knows what it's like to blow the whistle in a big way, and incur the wrath of Washington - Julian Assange. He joins talks to RT via broadband from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London.
■ Putin on NSA leak: Govt surveillance shouldn't break law (EXCLUSIVE). "If surveillance is in the framework of the law, then it's ok. If not it is unacceptable. You can't just listen to the phone call in Russia; you need a special order from court," Putin said answering the question of RT's Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan. Commenting on Obama's statement that "You can't have 100 per cent security and 100 per cent privacy," Putin disagreed, saying it is possible if done within the law. 
Do you know that one speech can sound like a melodious song? It's very fitting to be heard by your ears, my ears. When the letters turned into musical tones is what I read from what was said by this Mr. Handsome from Russia.
But I fear this whistleblower case will damage the bargaining power and credibility of the U.S. in pressuring China in terms of Internet security systems.
When I expressed my concern at my fiance, he said "I do not think so, hon. Snowden moved to Hong Kong, China region which has its own right to autonomy and freedom of speech. Although Hong Kong has an extradition treaty with the U.S., but the document has several exceptions, including for political crimes. But all the negotiations on the possibility of extradition would involve Beijing, which does not seem likely to take risks that can jeopardize the relationship with Washington, ... just because Snowden case? Moreover, he does not provide information which is considered important for China. Both parties will probably obscure the issue on the pretext they do not want to waste the effort that has been built in their summit last weekend."
Maybe he's right. Well, if he is in a neutral position then I feel stable, although on other occasions I would ask him -- for example after we make love or in a state of satiety -- some sensitive questions, "Dahling, Are you secretly conducting surveillance against me ? Are you also monitoring me secretly, hm? Well, for example about ... mmm,.. wow, you know what it is, wow! Ehhehehhe ...wow! aww auuw!"
Well, you may laugh at me, but a key issue I'm highlighting is, although you had impregnated me it does not mean you may peek when I am in the shower. I'm shy, get it?
Well, hopefully China is not getting fed up with the U.S., because the U.S. has previously accused Beijing is doing surveillance program to it. Although they seem to also seek a personal relationship, but Snowden presence in Hong Kong has dragged China into what will become a domestic issue for the U.S..
► Listening Post - Feature - Pixelating the reality? The late American writer Susan Sontag said that to photograph is to frame - and to frame is to exclude. She was saying that, as a medium, photography is, and has always been, subjective. However in the digital era there is a new and growing subjectivity in photojournalism, one that you have most likely seen but not necessarily noticed.It is called post-processing. It is when photographers digitally enhance their work to make it more captivating to the eye. The practise has raised some ethical questions within the industry and underscoring the debate is the winner of the 2013 World Press Photo award.
► The Stream - Slum tourism. On The Stream: Looking at the poverty tourism industry and whether it's a form of educational exploration or exploitation.
► Google: We're No NSA Stooge and We'll Prove It if the Feds Let Us
► Google discloses how it transmits data to NSA, other U.S. agencies
► Senators introduce bill requiring greater disclosure of NSA programs
► Official: Santa Monica College gunman had bomb materials in 2006
By Martha Groves and Matt Stevens - In 2006, police searched the home of the gunman who killed five in Santa Monica last week. A school board official says the police found materials that could be used to make a pipe bomb.
* Gov. Brown writes letter to Santa Monica College
► COLUMN ONE : Autistic author sees the disorder's positive side
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A boy jumps into a step well built inside the shrine of Sufi Saint Nizamuddin Auliya on a hot day in New Delhi on June 11, 2013. (REUTERS/Anindito Mukherjee)
People visit the Luminarium, an inflatable sculpture of British artist Alan Parkinson, before its opening on the ground of the United Nations European headquarters in Geneva on June 10, 2013. (REUTERS/Denis Balibouse)
Lightning strikes near a high rise building under construction in the Indonesian capital city of Jakarta on June 9, 2013 during heavy monsoon rains. Indonesia is regularly affected by deadly floods and landslides, and heavy rains caused flooding in the capital in January that left 32 people dead and at its peak forced nearly 46,000 to flee their homes. AFP PHOTO / ROMEO GACAD
Sweden's Princess Madeleine kisses U.S.-British banker Christopher O'Neill outside the royal church after their wedding ceremony in the royal castle in Stockholm on June 8, 2013. (REUTERS/Bjorn Larsson Rosvall/Scanpix)
Interior Ministry officers and a security guard chase an activist from the women's rights group FEMEN, as she stages a demonstration outside the Russian embassy in response to Russian President Vladimir Putin's announcement of his separation from his wife Lyudmila, in Kiev on June 7, 2013. The woman intended to portray Olympic rhythmic gymnast Alina Kabayeva, referring to speculations that Putin could date the former sportswoman, according to FEMEN's press release. The words on the woman's back read, "Push Russia forward!" (REUTERS/Gleb Garanich)
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