THE GUARDIAN is having a Q&A with Edward Snowden today. Twitter is parsing it pathetically, hashtag #AskSnowden. Here is the transcript of the Guardian chat. About the calls that Snowden is a traitor, which also came for former Vice President Dick Cheney recently, the Guardian posted the follow, which I caught in a screen capture:
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Tech Giants Negotiate Snooping Transparency
IN A deal with “U.S. national security authorities,” tech giants Facebook and Microsoft have an agreement with the Obama administration that allows modest transparency. Google is still negotiating with the U.S. Government, with talks getting stuck on an agreement of “a combined figure for all requests.” It’s an ignominious development for the most powerful brands [...]
Jonathan Chait Stupidly Translates Trent Franks
WHY IN the world is Jonathan Chait providing cover for Rep. Trent Franks? Do we really need another man translating for a guy who turns a conversation about abortion into one about the incidences of rape causing pregnancy? Why is Jonathan Chait working so hard to make distinctions between Todd Akin and Trent Franks, as [...]
Schmoozer in Chief, the JFK Model
TAKING A page out of the JFK play book is never a bad idea, which is what President Obama did on Monday, surprising reporters with an appearance and an off-the-record chat. Media outlets reportedly were not told Obama would be in the schmooze session. Reporters who attended Monday’s session with the president were loathe to [...]
Putin Considering Asylum for Snowden
Russia has offered to consider an asylum request from the US whistleblower Edward Snowden, in the Kremlin’s latest move to woo critics of the west. [Guardian] ONE OF Russia’s politicians has openly declared Edward Snowden a “human rights activist.” The spokesperson for Vladimir Putin went further, even though there is no evidence that Snowden is [...]
Twitter Upgraded with @HillaryClinton
… hair icon, pantsuit aficionado, glass ceiling cracker, TBD… – @HillaryClinton HILLARY hits Twitter. To quote my friend Peter Daou, Looks like @HillaryClinton is picking up about 1000 followers per minute. Thanks for the inspiration @asmith83 & @sllambe – I’ll take it from here… #tweetsfromhillary — Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) June 10, 2013
Allying with Sen. Rand Paul to Take on Obama’s Snooping [Video]
“I’m going to challenge this at the Supreme Court.” – Senator Rand Paul NOTHING inspires libertarians to act out more than a federal government overstepping its authority, with Sen. Rand Paul making quite a statement on Fox News Sunday. I wrote the other day that President Obama’s invasive, extra-constitutional, anti civil liberties snooping was igniting [...]
Greenwald: NSA Mining Data from Google, Facebook, Apple…
Mr. Obama clearly had no intention of revealing this eavesdropping, just as he would not have acknowledged the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen, had it not been reported in the press. Even then, it took him more than a year and a half to acknowledge the killing, and he is still keeping secret [...]
#DisneySMMoms and Disneyland at $92/day
WHAT are #DisneySMMoms going to do about the elitism of expecting families to pay $92/day per ticket to enjoy Disneyland? The Disney Social Media Mom conference is trending on Twitter. What’s not trending is the price tag that excludes the working and middle class families from enjoying what is now an elite experience at Disneyland. [...]
A Brit’s View: An Affair Bigger Than Major/Currie, Let Twitter be the Judge
No, this isn’t another “cash for questions” victim, although there have been further implications on that front since last I wrote. This is instead the affair coming out of 10 Downing Street that is so big, so huge, that the Mail On Sunday can only print the story without naming names. Apparently it is bigger [...]
Update on Turkey from Occupy Gezi
**Updated** AN update from Animal New York: Sunday witnessed the broadest turnout yet, with tens of thousands of people streaming into Takism – and overflowing out into its arteries like Istiklal — and news of smaller protests in other provinces and indeed in other countries brought hope to the weathered protesters. While more-organized and established [...]
Classic David Plouffe Tweet on Darrel Issa
Strong words from Mr Grand Theft Auto and suspected arsonist/insurance swindler. And loose ethically today.thehill.com/video/house/30… — David Plouffe (@davidplouffe) June 2, 2013 IT ALL started when Rep. Darrel Issa called White House spokesperson Jay Carney a “paid liar” on CNN. David Plouffe fired back. “Their paid liar, their spokesperson, the picture behind, he’s still making [...]
Uproar Leads to El Salvador’s Beatriz Getting C-Section
A seriously ill Salvadoran woman whose struggle to get a medical abortion drew international attention received permission on Thursday to end the troubled pregnancy with a Caesarean section. El Salvador’s health minister on Thursday approved the C-section for the 22-year-old woman suffering from kidney failure and lupus, a day after the Supreme Court ruled that [...]
Facebook Responds After Hate Speech Campaign
THE ACTION from Facebook came as Women, Action & the Media (WAM) demanded the social media giant do something about the hate speech on their platform. Claiming over “60,000 tweets and 5000 emails,” the coalition allied “100 women’s movement and social justice organizations” to take on Facebook policy. Buzzfeed has a compilation of violent photos [...]
Yahoo Inc. Gobbles Tumblr
Yahoo Inc. has agreed to pay $1.1 billion for Tumblr, a six-year-old company with more than 100 million users but very little revenue, a deal that highlights the shifting balance of power in the technology business. Veterans like Yahoo have shown they have staying power—and they have cash to spend. But companies like Yahoo’s target, [...]
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