Bill Cosby: We Should All Be More Like Muslims

BREITBART: Comedian Bill Cosby is no stranger to the culture wars.

The iconic stand-up and star of the beloved sitcom The Cosby Show routinely weighs in on cultural matters.

This past weekend, Cosby penned an op-ed for The New York Post in which he detailed some of the flaws in modern society. He also suggested we should take a page out of the Koran if we want to have healthier families, less crime and more productive people. » | Breitbart News | Monday, June 10, 2013

FBI Makes Changes to Not Offend Muslims

Read the short article here | CBNNews.com | Monday, June 10, 2013

Prism Exposed: Data Surveillance with Implications for the World

SPIEGEL ONLINE INTERNATIONAL: The American intelligence director and the White House have finally confirmed what insiders have long known: The Obama administration is spying on the entire world. Politicians in Germany are demanding answers.

South of Utah's Great Salt Lake, the National Security Agency (NSA), aUnited States foreign intelligence service, keeps watch over one of its most expensive secrets. Here, on 100,000 square meters (1,100,000 square feet) near the US military's Camp Williams, the NSA is constructing enormous buildings to house superfast computers. All together, the project will cost around $2 billion (€1.5 billion) and the computers will be capable of storing a gigantic volume of data, at least 5 billion gigabytes. The energy needed to power the cooling system for the servers alone will cost $40 million a year.

Former NSA employees Thomas Drake and Bill Binney told SPIEGEL in March that the facility would soon store personal data on people from all over the world and keep it for decades. This includes emails, Skype conversations, Google searches, YouTube videos, Facebook posts, bank transfers -- electronic data of every kind.

"They have everything about you in Utah," Drake says. "Who decides whether they look at that data? Who decides what they do with it?" Binney, a mathematician who was previously an influential analyst at the NSA, calculates that the servers are large enough to store the entirety of humanity's electronic communications for the next 100 years -- and that, of course, gives his former colleagues plenty of opportunity to read along and listen in.

James Clapper, the country's director of national intelligence, has confirmed the existence of a large-scale surveillance program. PresidentBarack Obama further explained that Congress authorized the program -- but that American citizens are exempt from it.

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'Total Surveillance of Germans is Inappropriate'

On Monday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel confirmed through a spokesman that she plans to discuss the NSA's controversial data surveillance program with President Obama during his visit to Berlin next week. A spokesperson for the German Justice Ministry also said that talks are currently underway with US authorities. The discussions will include implications to Germany and "possible impairment of the rights of German citizens."

German Consumer Protection Minister Ilse Aigner has called for "clear answers" from the companies implicated in the document, and the German Green Party has demanded that the government investigate the circumstances of Prism immediately.

"Total surveillance of all German citizens by the NSA is completely disproportionate," Volker Beck, secretary of the Green Party group in parliament, said on Monday. The party has proposed that the topic be discussed at next week's parliamentary session.

Mormon Roots, International Reach

The program's Utah compound is full of security fences, watchdogs and surveillance cameras, as well as biometric identification system equipment. Two informants say the location for the server facility was by no means an accident. Utah is home to the largest number of Mormons in the world. This highly patriotic religious community sends its young members around the world as missionaries -- and many are then recruited by the Utah Army National Guard, whose 300th Military Intelligence Brigade employs 1,600 linguists. The NSA has access to these linguists at all times, and one insider believes they are used in "analyzing international telecommunications."

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Read the whole article here » | Marcel Rosenbach, Holger Stark and Jonathan Stock | Translated from the German by Ella Ornstein | Monday, June 10, 2013

Edward Snowden: The Quiet Hawaii Life of the NSA Whistleblower
The government contractor who leaked details of top secret National Security Agency surveillance programs maintained an anonymous existence in a quiet suburb a few miles from Pearl Harbor.

Read the Telegraph article here | Nick Allen, Waipahu and Raf Sanchez in Ellicott City, Maryland | Monday, June 10, 2013

Female Teacher Beheaded and Three Others Tortured by Papua New Guinea Villagers Who Believed Them to Be Witches
MAIL ONLINE: Helen Rumbali was dragged from her home tortured and beheaded in public / Villagers said fire flies led them to her house - a sign she was a witch / They accused her of killing another villager - who died from sickness - with her sorcery / Experts say disparity in wealth and jealousy are main reasons for increases in such attacks

A teacher has been tortured and beheaded by her neighbours in a Papua New Guinea village because they say she was a witch responsible for the death of a sick villager.

The angry mob brandishing guns, machetes and axes surrounded her house and pulled Helen Rumbali, her sister and two nieces away. They then burnt down the house.

They say a swarm of fire flies led them from the deceased person's grave to her house - sure evidence they say that she was a sorcerer and was practicing black magic.

Helen's older sister and younger nieces were slashed with knives, then released after negotiations with police. But the mob went on to torture the former teacher, in her 40s, and then publicly cut off her head.

The sickening and heinous act is one of many horrific similar stories coming out from the island, often considered a paradise in the Pacific. » | Helen Collis | Monday, June 10, 2013

Inside Story Americas: 'Big Brother' Obama?
We ask under what authority the US monitors the world's phone calls and internet usage.

Privacy vs Security: 'Obama Already Made Choice for Us'
President Obama has stepped in to defend a massive secret surveillance program after revelations America's been spying on its own people on a vast scale. Obama said people had to be aware there's a trade of between security and privacy. The project - called PRISM - run by the NSA tracked virtually every aspect of people's online life. The revelations sparked outrage abroad as Britain's GCHQ also implicated in the project. Loz Kaye, leader of the UK Pirate Party, thinks that the security web is ineffective due to its sheer scale.

Unmasked: Former IT Worker at CIA behind Biggest-ever NSA Leak
The source of the bombshell leaks that revealed the massive scale of US surveillance has unmasked himself. 29-year-old former CIA technical assistant Edward Snowden disclosed the documents that proved Washington was secretly collecting phone records and spying on the internet activity of millions of people.

'British Dream Tends to Be Multi-culti Society without US Segregation'
RT speaks to David Goodhart, director of the Cross party think tank about one of the leading issues of the upcoming British elections - immigration.

Intelligence Report: Number of Islamists in Germany Grows
SPIEGEL ONLINE INTERNATIONAL: In its annual report on extremist activity in Germany, the country's domestic intelligence agency has identified a surge in support for Islamists and growth in the number of influential neo-Nazi music groups.

During the past year, Islamist organizations experienced a surge in support in Germany according to an annual report from the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution obtained by SPIEGEL in advance of its planned public release on Tuesday.

The report states that the number of members and supporters of groups like Milli Görüs, the largest Islamist organization in the country, or Hezbollah in Germany rose from 38,080 in 2011 to 42,550 last year.

The largest growth was seen among members and supporters of Salafists, which increased from 3,800 to 4,500, the government agency stated. Last year, German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich of the conservative Christian Social Union moved to ban three Salafist groups. » | dsl/SPIEGEL | Monday, June 10, 2013

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Resisting by Raising a Glass

THE NEW YORK TIMES: ISPARTA, Turkey — After retaking Taksim Square in Istanbul after hours of ugly street battles with police officers firing tear gas this month, many of the haggard protesters cracked bottles of Efes beer and raised them in a mock toast to their prime minister, who had recently pushed through a law to curb drinking.

And even in Isparta, a religiously conservative region that is a wellspring of support for Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a small group of residents, drinks in hand, gathered outside the office of the local governor who is an ally of the embattled prime minister and chanted, “Cheers, Tayyip!”

Drinking is far from the only issue held up in the intense antigovernment protests that have convulsed Turkey for more than a week. But it has become closely intertwined with the broader complaints of demonstrators fighting what they see as the rising authoritarianism of the Turkish government.

It also cuts to the heart of Turkish identity, as both sides have cast it as a clash of Islamic and secular values. While protesters have held up new limits on drinking as an affront to the secular values of modern Turkey, Mr. Erdogan has said that “religion demands” curbs on drinking. He has gone so far as to implicitly refer to Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of Turkey and a notoriously heavy drinker, as a “drunkard,” and in one of a series of speeches he delivered Sunday to cheering supporters, accused protesters of taking beer into mosques. » | Tim Arango | Sunday, June 09, 2013

Dutch Politician Geert Wilders: ‘What We Need Today Is Zionism for the Nations of Europe’
JNS.ORG: LOS ANGELES—Europeans “need to follow the example of the Jewish people and re-establish their nation-state” to counter the growing Islamization of their countries, Dutch politician Geert Wilders said Sunday in Los Angeles.

“My friends, what we need today is Zionism for the nations of Europe,” Wilders, founder and leader of the Party for Freedom in the Netherlands, said at the “Europe’s Last Stand?” conference, organized by the American Freedom Alliance.

Wilders described that Europe’s inner cities “have come to resemble Northern Africa and the Middle East” because they are ruled by Islamic Sharia law, noting that Islamic areas border the European Union headquarters in Brussels and that “largely Islamic suburbs” surround Paris.

“Europe is in a terrible state,” Wilders said. “Bit by bit, European countries are losing their national sovereignty.” » | JNS.org | Monday, June 10, 2013

Edward Snowden: Saving Us from the United Stasi of America
THE GUARDIAN: Snowden's whistleblowing gives us a chance to roll back what is tantamount to an 'executive coup' against the US constitution

In my estimation, there has not been in American history a more important leak than Edward Snowden's release of NSA material – and that includes the Pentagon Papers, for which I was responsible 40 years ago. Snowden's whistleblowing gives us the possibility to roll back what has amounted to an "executive coup" against the US constitution.

Since 9/11, there has been, at first secretly but increasingly openly, a revocation of the bill of rights for which this country fought 200 years ago. In particular, the fourth and fifth amendments of the constitution, which safeguard citizens from unwarranted intrusion by the government into their private lives, have been virtually suspended.

The government claims it has a court warrant under Fisa – but that warrant is from a secret court, shielded from effective oversight, and with the broadest possible interpretation. This makes mockery of the rule of law, let alone of the bill of rights. As Russell Tice, a former National Security Agency analyst, put it: "It is a kangaroo court with a rubber stamp."

For the president then to say that there is judicial oversight is a nonsense – as is the oversight function of the intelligence committees in Congress. The fact that their leaders were briefed on this and went along with it, without question, only shows how broken the system of accountability is in this country. As the founder James Madison wrote:

"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."

» | Daniel Ellsberg | Monday, June 10, 2013

Edward Snowden: More Conscientious Objector Than Common Thief
THE GUARDIAN: US members of Congress ought to be seeking the earliest opportunity to learn what this brave whistleblower is saying

Edward Snowden is a very modern spy – neither gun-blazingly dashing nor cat-strokingly sinister. He is young, tech-savvy, quietly articulate and intensely interested in human rights. His work did not involve high-speed car chases or elaborate gadgets – just a desk and a computer. Using these simple tools he could spy on anyone, anywhere.

There are many people like him, and they are, on his account, potentially frightening figures. "We hack everyone everywhere," he told the Guardian's Glenn Greenwald in the foreign hotel where he has taken refuge. "I had the authorities to wiretap anyone – you, a federal judge, to even the president if I had a personal email." He describes a "horrifying" infrastructure where he and other analysts could intercept the vast majority of human communications around the world. » | Editorial | Monday, June 10, 2013

Surveillance d'Internet : un ancien employé de la CIA à l'origine des fuites

LE MONDE: Un employé de 29 ans d'un sous-traitant américain de la défense est la source qui a révélé au Guardian des informations confidentielles sur les programmes de surveillance des communications menés par les Etats-Unis, a annoncé le quotidien britannique dimanche 9 juin.

"Je n'ai aucune intention de me cacher parce que je sais que je n'ai rien fait de mal", a déclaré Edward Snowden dans un entretien publié sur le site internet du journal. Le Guardian explique que c'est Edward Snowden lui-même qui a demandé de révéler son identité. Le Washington Post a confirmé que l'ancien employé de la CIA, informaticien aujourd'hui exilé à Hong Kong, était également sa source.

Snowden travaillait depuis quatre ans pour l'Agence de sécurité nationale (NSA) – dont il a révélé des documents confidentiels – en tant qu'employé de divers sous-traitants, dont Dell ou Booz Allen Hamilton, son dernier employeur. "Mon unique objectif est d'informer les gens de ce qui est fait en leur nom et de ce qui est fait contre eux", assure-t-il au Guardian. Il y a trois semaines, il a donc quitté sa compagne alors qu'il menait une vie très confortable à Hawaï pour se rendre à Hong Kong avant la révélation de ses fuites. "Je suis prêt à sacrifier tout cela parce que je ne peux, en mon âme et conscience, laisser le gouvernement américain détruire la vie privée, la liberté d'Internet et les libertés essentielles pour les gens tout autour du monde avec ce système énorme de surveillance qu'il est en train de bâtir sécrètement", explique-t-il. » | Le Monde.fr avec AFP | dimanche 09 juin 2013

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THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: NSA surveillance: American authorities launch investigation into Edward Snowden's leak of project: American officials have launched an investigation into how a government contractor authored the leak of a vast covert surveillance project. » | Harriet Alexander | Monday, June 10, 2013

THE GUARDIAN: Edward Snowden, NSA whistleblower: 'I do not expect to see home again': Source for the Guardian's NSA files on why he carried out the biggest intelligence leak in a generation – and what comes next » | Ewen MacAskill | Sunday, June 09, 2013

Turquie : concerts, meetings et manifestations réinvestissent la place Taksim d'Istanbul

LE MONDE: Des milliers de manifestants ont repris possession, dimanche 9 juin, de la place Taksim d'Istanbul pour assister à un concert et à une réunion politique, au dixième jour de la mobilisation contre le premier ministre, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Sur une tribune dressée dans la matinée au milieu de la place, les harangues dénonçant la politique du gouvernement et les brutalités policières se succèdent, entrecoupées de morceaux de musique et immanquablement ponctuées de "Tayyip, démission !" ou "Gouvernement, démission !", scandés par la foule. » | Le Monde.fr avec AFP | dimanche 09 juin 2013

Police Patrol Islamic Sites 'At Risk' After Fires
BBC: There will be 24-hour police patrols at certain Islamic sites in London after two suspicious fires, The Metropolitan Police Commissioner has said.

Fires were started at a community centre in Muswell Hill on Wednesday, and a Chislehurst school on Saturday.

An increased police presence has now been put in place around potentially "vulnerable" locations, said Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe.

He called on Londoners not to be divided by the death of Lee Rigby. » | Sunday, June 09, 2013

Andrew Neil Calls Alex Jones an Idiot in Sunday Politics Clash
THE GUARDIAN: US shock jock lambasted by BBC TV presenter after interrupting fellow guest to warn viewers over 'Bilderberg Group puppeteers'


The BBC's Sunday Politics show is generally a rather sedate affair, heavy on serious interviews and light on controversy. But viewers were treated to a highly charged confrontation between host Andrew Neil and US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, which saw the latter labelled the worst person to be interviewed on the show and an idiot. » | Alexandra Topping | Sunday, June 09, 2013

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Dismisses Turkey Protesters as Vandals

THE GUARDIAN: Turkish prime minister challenges anti-government protesters to beat his party at the ballot box as demonstrations enter 10th day

Turkey's prime minister has climbed on top of a bus to give a fiery speech to thousands of his supporters, challenging increasingly angry anti-government protesters to beat his party at the ballot box after they flooded the streets for a 10th day of demonstrations. On Sunday Recep Tayyip Erdoğan visited two cities where unrest has occurred and again condemned his detractors as a handful of looters and vandals.

In the southern city of Adana, where pro- and anti-government protesters clashed on Saturday night, Erdoğan greeted supporters before lashing out at his opponents in the polarised country.

"We won't do what a handful of looters have done. They burn and destroy …They destroy the shops of civilians. They destroy the cars of civilians," Erdoğan told supporters who had greeted him at the local airport. "They are low enough to insult the prime minister of this country."

He urged his supporters to avoid violence and predicted that his Islamic-rooted party would defeat his opponents during local elections in March. "I want you to give them the first lesson through democratic means in the ballot box," he said. Read on and comment » | Associated Press in Ankara | Sunday, June 09, 2013

Les salafistes en Belgique
Des belges converti au salafisme en Belgique, ca donne quoi ? Ceux ci prône la charia et le salafisme avec des idées du moyen age à Bruxelles. Partout ou il passe, lui et les autres belge apporte la mauvaise parole partout. ¶ C'est belge salafiste sont prêts à tout pour vous sauver des flammes de l'enfer. Car le démon est à tous les coins de rue : déguisé en Saint Nicolas, réincarné en pédé ou en putain. Une seule solution : instaurer la charia, la loi d'Allah. Mais faudra convaincre les autres musulmans et ça, ce n'est pas gagné !