The US government charged Edward Snowden with theft of government property and espionage on Friday. Snowden hasn’t to our knowledge committed treason in any ordinary sense of the term. He hasn’t handed over government secrets to a foreign government. His leaks are being considered a form of domestic spying. He is the 7th leaker to […]
Snowden was Right, they’re Reading your Mail: How British Intelligence and the NSA are Tag-Teaming US
When President Barack Obama said ‘no one is listening to your phone calls,’ he was either misinformed or was being disingenuous. The British are at least gathering up the voice signals of your phone calls, and sharing 200 million of them a day with the US National Security Agency via a joint database. According to […]
Jon Stewart with Bassem Youssef in Cairo: “If your regime can’t handle a joke, you don’t have a regime.”
Almost all of the segment is in English except the first half-minute. Jon Stewart makes an appearance in Cairo on Bassem Youssef’s comedy show. He is introduced as a prominent spy, and comes in and says ‘thank you,’ ‘enough’ (the the applause) and ‘I am a simple man.’ This is the show:
Climbing the Burj Khalifa in Dubai – World’s Tallest Building (Video)
Joe McNally videos the climbers climbing the Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building:
India-Pakistan Daily Border-Closing Ceremony, courtesy the Ministry of Silly Walks
Sanjeev Bhaskar and the Ministry of Silly Walks bring you the daily India-Pakistan border closing ceremony: Here is the video:
Egypt’s Morsi Provokes Anger, Astonishment with appointment of Governor from former Terrorist Group
As Egyptians demonstrated against him again on Friday, in preparation for big rallies on June 30, President Muhammad Morsi has shot himself in the foot with a series of ill advised appointments of provincial governors. Morsi continues to demonstrate that he is politically tone deaf and that his decision-making takes place in a small circle […]
Asia will Drown, Africa will Starve in 30 years: World Bank Report on Global Warming
The World Bank report, “Turn Down the Heat,” (available in pdf form here warns of severe climate effects even if we manage to limit global warming to 2 degrees C., and a much worse fate if we go to 4 degrees C. The world is now putting 35 billion metric tons of C02 into the […]
Stephen Colbert’s Touching Farewell to his Mother
As a one-time guest of the Colbert Report, let me express my condolences to Stephen Colbert on his mother’s death. Here is his poignant eulogy:
Why the 9/11 Argument for NSA Spying Fails: They Tracked, Lost their Suspect (Elliott)
Justin Elliott writes at ProPublica In defending the NSA’s sweeping collection of Americans’ phone call records, Obama administration officials have repeatedly pointed out how it could have helped thwart the 9/11 attacks: If only the surveillance program been in place before Sept. 11, 2001, U.S. authorities would have been able to identify one of the […]
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