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Thousands gather in Washington for anti-NSA 'Stop Watching Us' rally

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The Guardian - 10/26/13, Jim Newell

Demonstrators hold placards supporting Edward Snowden

Demonstrators hold placards supporting Edward Snowden. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images

 

Thousands gathered by the Capitol reflection pool in Washington on Saturday to march, chant, and listen to speakers and performers as part of Stop Watching Us, a gathering to protest "mass surveillance" under NSA programs first disclosed by the whistleblower Edward Snowden.

Elizabeth Warren to Wall Street Regulators: Put Big Bank CEOs in Jail

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Mother Jones - 10/23/13, Erika Eichelberger

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This past weekend, the Department of Justice slapped a record fine on JPMorgan Chase for packaging and selling the mortgage-backed financial products that helped cause the financial meltdown. But Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) wants the administration to know that fines are not enough. On Wednesday, she called on Wall Street regulators to hold all those responsible for the 2008 crisis accountable.

NSA chief: Journalists must be stopped

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Press TV - 10/25/13, HJ/HJ

NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander

NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander
 
Gen. Keith Alexander, the head of the embattled National Security Agency, is calling on governments to stop journalists from public disclosure of his agency’s secret documents.

"I think it’s wrong that that newspaper reporters have all these documents, the 50,000-whatever they have and are selling them and giving them out as if these-you know it just doesn’t make sense," Alexander said in an interview with the Defense Department's "Armed With Science" blog.

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The elites’ guide to ‘rogue states’

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RT - 10/25/13, Adrian Salbuchi 

A protester burns a U.S. flag during a demonstration over the capture of senior al Qaeda figure Abu Anas al-Liby by U.S. authorities, in Benghazi October 11, 2013. (Reuters/Esam Omran Al-Fetori)

A protester burns a U.S. flag during a demonstration over the capture of senior al Qaeda figure Abu Anas al-Liby by U.S. authorities, in Benghazi October 11, 2013. (Reuters/Esam Omran Al-Fetori)

 

Iraq is clearly the most famous rogue state, if we are to believe the two Bushes, especially the junior George, who rammed into that country in 2003, all but destroying it, maiming its people and proud 3,000-year-old heritage.  All based on an outright lie: the infamous ‘weapons of mass destruction’ they were accused of hiding, but that were never found.

All because Bush, Blair and their allies got it all “wrong” about Saddam’s WMD’s:  “We never found ‘em,” said George W., who then went on to joke about the whole affair during a White House dinner in March 2004.

Leaked memos reveal GCHQ efforts to keep mass surveillance secret

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The Guardian - 10/25/13, James Ball

 

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GCHQ fears a legal challenge under the Human Rights Act if evidence of its surveillance methods becomes admissable in court. Photograph: Barry Batchelor/PA
 

The UK intelligence agency GCHQ has repeatedly warned it fears a "damaging public debate" on the scale of its activities because it could lead to legal challenges against its mass-surveillance programmes, classified internal documents reveal.

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