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Romania's Spy Agency Monitors Gold Mine Protests

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ABC News - 9/30/13, Alison Mutler/AP

People shout slogans on a rainy evening during a protest against plans to open Europe's biggest open-cast gold mine in Romania, in Bucharest on September 29. Bogdan Cristel / Reuters

 

Romania's domestic spy agency has been monitoring a planned Canadian gold mine for years, its chief acknowledged Monday, saying that some demonstrations against the project had been manipulated by people he called "eco-anarchists."

On Sunday, however, President Traian Basescu said the protests opposing the mine were genuine while rallies in support of the mine in Transylvania were "fabricated."

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Thousands Hold Anti-Government Demonstration In Haiti

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PressTV.ir - 10/01/13, MN/HSN

 

People help a street vendor who took refuge inside a restaurant to escape tear gas being fired by police breaking up a protest in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, September 30, 2013.

People help a street vendor who took refuge inside a restaurant to escape tear gas being fired by police breaking up a protest in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, September 30, 2013.
 
Thousands of people have held a demonstration in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince to protest against President Michel Martelly’s government.

The demonstrators marched through the capital’s shanties on Monday. They called for Martelly to resign because of corruption allegations.

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French regulators are about to sanction Google over privacy breach

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PressTV.ir - 9/28/13, GHK/AB/MHB

 

File photo shows the company logo at Google headquarters in California

File photo shows the company logo at Google headquarters in California
 
France’s data-protection watchdog has decided to fine Google up to 300,000 euros (USD 402,180) over its failure to observe data privacy rules.
 
The controversial issues remain to be what American multinational corporation does with the users’ personal information and how long it keeps the data.
 

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Pakistani PM wants 'new beginning' with India

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PressTV - 9/28/13

 

Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif addresses the 68th United Nations General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York on September 27, 2013.

Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif addresses the 68th United Nations General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York on September 27, 2013.
 
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif says he is eagerly waiting to meet his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh to "make a new beginning" in the relationship between Islamabad and New Delhi.
 
Over the past two decades, the conflict in Kashmir has left over 47,000 people dead by the official count, although other sources say the death toll could be as high as 100,000.

 

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US, Iran Officials Make Diplomatic History

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Al Monitor - 9/26/13, Barbara Slavin

 

US Secretary of State John Kerry (L) and Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (R) are seated during a meeting of the foreign ministers representing the P5+1, at UN Headquarters in New York, Sept. 26, 2013 (photo by REUTERS/Brendan McDermid)

 

NEW YORK — The United States and Iran made diplomatic history Thursday as Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif talked for a half hour on the sidelines of a multilateral meeting on Iran’s nuclear program. 

Feinstein Says The Press Needs To Stop Calling Patriot Act Surveillance Program A 'Surveillance Program'

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Redefining English: Senator Feinstein Says The Press Needs To Stop Calling Patriot Act Surveillance Program A 'Surveillance Program'

TechDirt - 9/26/13, Mike Masnick

 

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In an open Senate Intelligence Committee hearing today, in which Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, NSA boss Keith Alexander and Deputy Attorney General James Cole all got to talk up how important spying on everyone is, there was an incredible moment in which Intelligence Committee boss Senator Dianne Feinstein scolded not these bosses of the surveillance program, but the press for calling it a surveillance program.

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Peer-to-Peer Economy Thrives as Activists Vacate the System

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Activist Post - 9/27/13, Eric Blair

 

The Occupy Movement recently celebrated its second anniversary with very little fanfare leaving many to wonder where all the activists went. It seems they, and many anti-establishment activists, are vacating the system rather than occupying it.

Progressives may call it the "sharing economy" while Libertarians may refer to it as Agorism -  a "society in which all relations between people are voluntary exchanges by means of counter-economics, thus engaging in a manner with aspects of peaceful revolution."

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Greenwald, Scahill vow to unmask NSA’s ‘US assassination program’

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RT.com - 9/29/13

 

US journalists Jeremy Scahill (L) and Glenn Greenwald. (Reuters / Pilar Olivares)

US journalists Jeremy Scahill (L) and Glenn Greenwald. (Reuters / Pilar Olivares)

American investigative journalists Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald say they have teamed up to prepare a report on the National Security Agency's role in what one of them described as the "US assassination program."

“The connections between war and surveillance are clear. I don't want to give too much away but Glenn and I are working on a project right now that has at its center how the National Security Agency plays a significant, central role in the US assassination program,” Scahill said in Rio de Janeiro, as cited by Associated Press.  

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Sen. Feinstein unveils her own bill to reform the NSA’s spying practices

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The Washington Post - Brian Fung, 9/26/13

 

U.S. Senate (Select) Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)(L) speaks with Director of National Intelligence James Clapper (2nd L), National Security Agency Director General Keith Alexander and Deputy Attorney General James Cole (R) before they testify at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act legislation on Capitol Hill in Washington, September 26, 2013. REUTERS/Jason Reed (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS)

U.S. Senate (Select) Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) speaks with Director of National Intelligence James Clapper (2nd L), National Security Agency Director General Keith Alexander and Deputy Attorney General James Cole (R) before they testify at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act legislation on Capitol Hill in Washington, Sept. 26, 2013. (REUTERS/Jason Reed)

The movement to change the rules governing the National Security Agency's surveillance activity is picking up steam.

ATT, Verizon, Sprint Are Paid Cash By NSA For Your Private Communications

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Forbes - 9/23/13, Robert Lenzner

 

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The National Security Agency pays AT&T, Verizon and Sprint several hundred million dollars a year for access to 81% of all international phone calls into the US, according to a leaked inspector general’s report, which has been reported by the Washington Post, AP, and the New York Review of Books.

In fact., this secret report says that “NSA maintains relationships with over 100 U.S. companies, underscoring that the U/S. has the “home-field advantage as the primary hub for worldwide communications,”  the New York Review of Books reported in its August 15 issue. These secret cooperative agreements reveal that NSA   pays surveillance fees  to  telcos and phone companies were first made public by Edward Snowden, the former NSA administrator, now  resident in Russia.

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