The frame is part of a sequence from a sequence of frames taken from a GCHQ (not NSA) ‘presentation’ which starts at p 161 and ends at p 167. ‘Presentations’ do not, AFAICS, necessarily reflect or eventuate in policies. They may do, or they may just be speculative forays of the sort that military staff bureaucracies and staff colleges routinely produce to justify their existence. We probably have all remember the intentionally terrifying Ralph Peters articles in the Usaian military college journal ‘Parameters’. Fascinating though they may be (and they are often written to shock), such articles do not reflect or drive policy. They may, or may not, provide inspiration for those who do write policy. More often, they are exercises in narcissism, similar to the military thrillers written by much the same sort of people: Ralph Peters himself, for instance. So this may be analogous. A ‘presentation’ may be anything or nothing at all. There’s a degree of juvenility in many of these which suggests very junior officers at play. One would have to read Greenwald’s book before allocating any particular significance to this.

Posted by: Rowan Berkeley | May 13 2014 13:02 utc | 3

Ayn Rand would be so proud today. Her theories/rantings, on the moral justifications for greed, avarice and ego, have taken hold in much of the world today. Pity.

Posted by: ben | May 13 2014 13:45 utc | 5

Source (in Russian):
http://vz.ru/opinions/2014/5/13/686481.html

Posted by: Grim Deadman | May 13 2014 14:12 utc | 7

Based on all the public evidence, all the theories about Snowden = Russian spy / Snowden = CIA disinfo op / Omidyar = NSA files suppressor / etc. etc. are incorrect. Snowden has emerged as a moderate but passionate and sometimes eloquent civil libertarian. Greenwald is committed to his source. Omidyar is a liberal billionaire with all the attendant contradictions. The agglomeration of neolib Dem/NSA/Obama defenders, neocon national security state defenders and others who have devoted so much time to attacking Snowden have lost. In the end, the excessive anti-Snowden hype will blow back, in itself it’s helped to prolong the case and related substantive issues in the media.

Posted by: anonymous | May 13 2014 14:35 utc | 9

I can’t figure the Biden thing. If this isn’t a step too far I don’t know what will be. The Obamas setting up house in the Winter Palace?

Posted by: L Bean | May 13 2014 15:20 utc | 11

Yeah,Bidens son,profiting on Obombas assault on Ukrainian sovereignty and democracy.Surreal,and obviously the result of living in bubbles of poison ivy league arrogance
And look at the diversion of homosexual politics and promotion in our MSM lately.Michael Sam,Jason Collins,in sports,and even the European MSM join in with the Eurovision gentleperson.And you know who passed those allegedly anti gay{only pedophilia)laws last Year?Good ol’ Russia.God,the propaganda,and more divide and conquer from Americas bane,the ZioMSM.

Posted by: dahoit | May 13 2014 15:36 utc | 13

Is it kosher to use UN helicopters to evac wounded ‘Kiev junta’ soldiers ? (if indeed they are)
#Kramatorsk via @lifenews_ru #Kiev regime forces have used #UN helicopters to evacuate wounded soldiers #Ukraine Nice shot

Posted by: rouge | May 13 2014 15:48 utc | 15

Can such egoism of a “country” ever be justified? How?

But they will make many enemies.
Human is a social animal. In society, power does not come from within oneself, but from borrowing others’ power. Borrowing is based on trust and trust puts limits on the exercise of power.
Those who rely on one’s own power, and exercise that power without regard to others, are nothing more than a bandit. However strong they may be, they can be easily overpowered by the combined force of other weaker parties.
Since WW2, the US power has been built up by mutually beneficial alliance system. Of course, the US gets the lion’s share of the benefits. But there should be enough benefit to others. If the US want to transform the system into an obvious predatory system, others would leave the system.
To defeat the lion, gazelles and wildebeests do not have to fight the lion. If they can run and hide from the lion, the lion will starve to death.

Posted by: PuppetMaster | May 13 2014 16:23 utc | 17

interesting video – wrt empire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLG5Hx1eceY

Posted by: crone | May 13 2014 17:14 utc | 19

JSorrentine: fyi, bevin did not post the snowden posts you refer to . . .

Posted by: anonymous | May 13 2014 17:26 utc | 21

The ‘news’ of appointment of Biden’s son is not in any MSM media – or am I mistaken?

Posted by: crone | May 13 2014 18:00 utc | 23

crone @ 19: Thanks for the video. More truth.

Posted by: ben | May 13 2014 18:36 utc | 25

Egyptian expats will be allowed to cast their votes in France and Germany, after the army and General Sissi have removed the Islamists.
But Syrian expats won’t be allowed to vote in the 3rd June presidential election because France and Germany have declared it is a farce not to have let the Islamists take over power.
They don’t care about coherence anymore.

Posted by: Mina | May 13 2014 19:30 utc | 27

bevin #8
Thanks for putting in a few good words form Greenwald. The loony left attacks on him are tiresome. However, I have been hesitant to support him since it always has the potential to ignite a flame war. Glad to see b step in to moderate the reaction.

Posted by: ToivoS | May 13 2014 19:45 utc | 29

The NLR editorial on the Western response to Crimea’s reunification with Russia is not behind the paywall.

Few Western leaders failed to pronounce on the importance of sovereignty, territorial integrity and the rule of law as Russia moved to annex the Crimea on March 18th. Issues of sovereignty had to be addressed through constitutional means and international law, Obama told his nato allies in Brussels, so that big states could not simply bully the small. Cameron was adamant that countries could not flout international rules without incurring consequences, and vowed to stand up to aggression. Merkel deplored the fact that the principle of ‘might makes right’ was taking precedence over the strength of law. The G7 leaders recalled, in chorus, that international law prohibits the acquisition of another state’s territory through the use of force. When Schröder mused that, as Chancellor, he had joined the rest of NATO in bombing a sovereign country, Yugoslavia, without any UN Security Council backing, he was scolded—‘shameful’—by his successor; the European Parliament’s Greens tried to pass a resolution banning him from speaking on the matter.

Posted by: Demian | May 13 2014 20:28 utc | 31

for JSorrentine, in memoriam

Posted by: john | May 13 2014 20:56 utc | 33

Demian
This is the problem, when the left begins to sound like the extreme right warning for the evil muslims, something is wrong.

Posted by: Anonymous | May 13 2014 21:07 utc | 35

@Anonymous #35:
So you support cannibalistic Salafist terrorists, like Obama and the CIA do?
If it’s OK to condemn Uki neonazis, why is it not OK to condemn Salafist terrorists?
Killing hundreds of thousands of people and displacing millions more, as Salafists have in Syria, is not evil in your opinion?

Posted by: Demian | May 13 2014 21:27 utc | 37

Bizarre: Top U.N. Mediator in Syria Conflict Resigns Because Syria Will Hold Election
First the PTB are against autonomy referendums. Now they’re against presidential elections.

His resignation came amid rising frustration with President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, who ignored Mr. Brahimi’s proposed agenda for talks and then scheduled a presidential election that will probably install him for another seven-year term. Top United Nations officials had expressed dismay at the move, saying the election would probably sabotage any further diplomacy.

To use Justin Raimondo’s term, we really are living in a bizarro world. (Also, the election has been scheduled for years.)

Posted by: Demian | May 13 2014 22:22 utc | 39

Could an American ‘Pussy Riot’ perform a song called ‘Fuck Obama, the US and the EU’ in the lobby of JP Morgan Chase on Wall Street? The freedom of America is such that they couldn’t unload their amps out of the van. That is the freedom that is being sold to Ukraine and to the Western public. Fortunately, Donetsk and Luhansk aren’t buying.
The only people buying American Freedom are the same ones who are selling.

Posted by: anonymous | May 13 2014 22:45 utc | 41

Demian
This is whats wrong with the left, you dont know whats going on, past week sisi and israel made a big gas deal thats while yoi are here talking abpit evil muslims.

Posted by: Anonymous | May 13 2014 23:30 utc | 43

In connection with @8
As many of you are probably aware, Sibel Edmonds wrote an article titled “Mr Snowden, It’s Time to Come Out and Take a Stand Publicly as to Your Intentions” in BFP (December 2013) in which she directed the following questions to Snowden.
“1. What was your foremost intention for making the decision to obtain thousands of documents that implicated the United States government?
2. What was your foremost intention for actually taking the action following your decision, and obtaining those documents?
3. At the time, when you were obtaining the documents, did you target particular categories of implicating documents, or did you just grab everything you could?
If you vetted the documents, or the specific categories of documents, beforehand, and then went about obtaining them, then why would you ask journalists to vet and make personal judgments on which ones to release or which ones to withhold permanently?
If you didn’t vet the documents prior to obtaining them, and if you asked particular journalists to vet them and decide what to release and what to withhold, did you make any demands to ensure that you were part of that vetting process and that they had to have your consent?
If you didn’t vet the documents prior to obtaining them, and if you asked particular journalists to vet them and decide what to release and what to withhold, did you also asked them to have meetings with U.S. and U.K. government agencies, and have those who were actually implicated in your documents call the shots on what to withhold and what to release?
4. Did you provide Glenn Greenwald with your explicit consent and authorization to make decisions on what to release and what to withhold? If so, was this in writing? If so, why and how did you make that decision?
For example: Mr. Greenwald entered in a contractual agreement with a mainstream corporate publisher to withhold certain documents only to include them exclusively in his coming book in return for millions of dollars. Did you sanction this decision? Do you find this action justified and reasonable?
5. Did you provide Mr. Greenwald with your explicit consent to strike a business venture with a corporation that is a known cooperative partner of the NSA in a $250 million deal? Did you authorize Mr. Greenwald to withhold 99% of the documents and transfer their ownership to the corporate news entity owned by PayPal’s Pierre Omidyar? If yes, when and how did you provide your consent and approval? What was your reasoning for sanctioning and or authorizing this transfer of document ownership, and to withhold the vast majority of these documents from the public and its right to know?
6. Do you believe it is reasonable, justified and acceptable that the person you gave the ownership of these documents to is commoditizing and profiting from these documents that are considered classified and stolen by the United States government, yet were considered by you as evidence to which the people have the right to know about?
If yes, then, do you believe that it is acceptable and correct for entities who obtain classified and incriminating government documents to market these documents as commodities, and offer them to the highest bidders, whether the bidder is the government, or a corporation, or a book publisher?
If your answer to above question (a) is yes, then, do you believe you are also entitled to benefit and profit from the sale and censorship of these documents?
7. Have you made any venture deals or entered into any contract with Mr. Greenwald where you will receive a cut from the millions of dollars that are being obtained by him in return for publication and withholding certain portions of the NSA documents?
If yes, when, where and how?
If yes, then, does your flexibility on the sale and commoditization of stolen and classified government documents also extend to foreign government entities?
8. This appears to be the first case labeled and categorized as a whistleblowing case where a leak is being commoditized at a value of hundreds of millions of dollars by corporations such as PayPal, Book publishers and Hollywood studios. Could you provide us with your general stand, principles and values with regard to leaking and disclosing for political and profit motives?”
I do not believe she received an answer to any of these questions.

Posted by: Phantastron | May 13 2014 23:43 utc | 45

I wonder if the Poodle Blair is getting a tad concerned… ICC Prosecutor to re-open initial examination of alleged British crimes in Iraq

Fatou Bensouda, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), on Tuesday said she decided to re-open the preliminary examination of allegations that British troops committed war crimes in Iraq from 2003 to 2008.
She told a press conference that her decision was based on “substantial information, much more than what we had in 2006.” The ICC has jurisdiction over crimes that are committed on the territory of a state party or by nationals of a state party to the ICC’s Rome Statute. The UK is a state party.
Iraq is a not a State Party, but the ICC has jurisdiction over alleged crimes committed on the Iraqi territory by nationals of States Parties, in this case Britain.
She explained that she cannot go after American forces who allegedly committed war crimes in Iraq during the same period, because the US is not party to the Rome Statute.
She stressed that preliminary examination is “not an investigation. It is rather a process whereby we check whether the crimes have been committed and who is responsible for those crimes, whether the national jurisdiction is doing anything to address those crimes, and whether it will be in the interest of justice to carry on with the preliminary examination.” There is no timeline, she indicated. “We continue to analyze the information and at some point we come to a decision whether to open an investigation or not. This is what we will do at this current stage.” She added that her office will not say whether it will go after the military or the politicians in the UK. “We will just be looking at the persons, whoever they are, who bear responsibility for those crimes if we are going to investigate.”

Posted by: CTuttle | May 14 2014 1:15 utc | 47

The unfortunate truth of the human condition is that many of us, not just the Russians, find that the only way we can express our true thoughts is along with a sling of expletives. However, there is a unconscious pattern to this: alas, we must admit the repellent Sigmund Freud (another self-destroyer) to our councils. We are marginalising ourselves, my dear Sorrentine, out of a certain unconscious cowardice. You know and I know that Bevin & Toivos are totally sold-out, lying, low-level operatives from the stinking, prostitute, paid & cosseted pseudo-Left (excuse my language, chers collègues, or don’t if you prefer); but something in us, my dear Sorrentine, recoils at the thought of further dust and dirt from their pronouncements entering our clear and well-oiled wheels, so we sabotage ourselves, to provide the so-called referee (bernhard, pursuing bog knows what private agenda of his own, just like the clearly agent Saker does) with the rule-dominated means to exclude us.

Posted by: Rowan Berkeley | May 14 2014 1:43 utc | 49

That’s good, somebody, but for those who do not wish to labour through Freud’s collected works (a pleasure I have promised myself for the near future), let me provide a convenient synopsis of Freud’s final view. I shall not employ direct quotations, which would be time-consuming and unnecessary. The hypothesis of the death instinct emerges naturally from our consideration of the pleasure principle, which looks so innocent upon first glance. What does the pleasure principle seek? It seeks the release of tension accumulated by previous frustrations of its pleasure-seeking activity. All pleasure is merely the removal of previous pain. There is no pleasure in a positive sense. The best net outcome is zero. To die is to be freed from all further pain, and not even the most successful worldly hedonist ever achieves more than that. Let us not be misled by the momentary jouissance of the organism: the male in the dreamed-of blissful orgasm with the ideal female partner, and the female in the dreamed-of birth of the ideal children. These ‘pleasures’ are merely the ruse of brute nature. In reality, they entail further lifetimes of the same misery with the same optimal goals, namely the momentary removal of pain and the illusion of an idyllic goal attained for one brief moment. As if that gave it all ‘meaning’, but it does not.
Therefore, we are forced back to classical Stoicism, unless of course we posit some realm of post mortem survival for the human spirit, which we are at liberty to do. We shall have to reckon with the fact that all the ‘religions’ (with the possible exception of the very earliest Buddhism, and a few subsequent revivals of the spirit of the earliest Buddhism such as the Zen of the Japanese Rinzai school), are essentially falsifications in the service of worldly power. It would be extremely hard to develop any doctrine of post mortem survival that was not just an expression of expedient fantasy. If it were possible, it might provide some benchmark whereby to establish the possibility of a higher form of pleasure, not contingent upon the body and hence not a mere cancellation of previous pain. But history provides no substantial support for such a hypothesis. And most significantly, the Marxists follow a crude, combative, nineteenth-century materialist dogmatism, which excludes it at the outset. We may learn from the Chinese Communist assault on Tibet, how very hard it is for Marxists to overcome their own spiritual limitations. These limitations are evidently innate and inescapable, or nearly so. We have little reason for optimism in this regard. OK?

Posted by: Rowan Berkeley | May 14 2014 2:49 utc | 51

It certainly isn’t shorter.
🙂

Posted by: Rowan Berkeley | May 14 2014 3:02 utc | 53

That’s why I said Greenwald would make an absolutely ideal Usian President. And he himself predicts that someone like him would be the next logical President after Hillary (whom he hates with a fervour which is hilarious in itself):

Hillary is banal, corrupted, drained of vibrancy and passion. I mean, she’s been around forever, the Clinton circle. She’s a fucking hawk and like a neocon practically. She’s surrounded by all these sleazy money types who are just corrupting everything everywhere, but she’s going to be the first female president, and women in Usaia are going to be completely invested in her candidacy. Opposition to her is going to be depicted as misogynistic, like opposition to Obama has been depicted as racist. It’s going to be this completely symbolic messaging that’s going to overshadow the fact that she’ll do nothing but continue everything in pursuit of her own power. They’ll probably have a gay person after Hillary, who’s just going to do the same thing. I hope this happens so badly, because I think it’ll be so instructive in that regard, it’ll prove the point. Usaians love to mock the idea of monarchy, and yet we have our own de facto monarchy. I think what these leaks did is they demonstrated that there really is this government. There just is the kind of permanent government that doesn’t get affected by election choices, and that isn’t in any way accountable to any sort of democratic transparency, and just creates its own world off on its own.

Posted by: Rowan Berkeley | May 14 2014 3:19 utc | 55

@54 – the link went back because of my blockquote tag, but here it is: http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2005/11/reality-of-latin-american-reaction-to.html
The point is that Greenwald made this statement at the absolute height of the left resurgence in Latin America that was lifting millions and millions out of poverty, yet he turns facts and history on its head completely – all to score a cheap point for George W. Bush?
This is extremely worrying. And I don’t care if it was nine years ago. Couple it with his more recent statements, and his decision to work with Omidyar and you have, to me, a whole lot of danger signs.
What can we really hope for? What material is making its way out and what not? Why the refusal to put all the documents out (which they are not bevin, an important point I don’t mean to press as b made it already)? Why the hours and hours of uber-defensive back and forth in the comments section of The Intercept instead of just clearing up the damn questions.

Posted by: guest77 | May 14 2014 3:20 utc | 57

@guest77 #54:
I believe few on the Left believe that Greenwald is a saint. He was for the invasion of Afghanistan, after all, and I’ve seen him described as a libertarian, although I have not looked into that.
Can’t we just keep this simple, and while also acknowledging that Snowden is not a saint either (he too appears to be a libertarian), recognize that he has had a real, positive impact, in my own view primarily by driving a further wedge between Germany and the Empire? And if Snowden chose to make his revelations through Greenwald, let us respect that.
People can make very significant, positive contributions against the Empire without being ideologically pure from a Leftist perspective. I take Antiwar.com more seriously than I do Counterpunch now. I just stop reading Justin Raimondo when he goes off on one of his economic libertarian digressions.

Posted by: Demian | May 14 2014 3:26 utc | 59

Could have been JSore that made the “reasonable leakers” point in fact.

Posted by: guest77 | May 14 2014 3:34 utc | 61

isn’t there a blog where the best commentators reside after apotheosis by b.?
Pragma, now JSor…
it took decades me to overcome my prejudice against Jung and his apparent mysticism; as Gilad says he is actually much more interesting, but Freud had better marketing.
in real world terms Jung’s work, I believe, has done more good, practically and theoretically–Myers-Briggs is one example

Posted by: Cu Chulainn | May 14 2014 3:48 utc | 63

Thank-you Rowan for the compliment: You know and I know that Bevin & Toivos are totally sold-out, lying, low-level operatives from the stinking, prostitute, paid & cosseted pseudo-Left (excuse my language, chers collègues That is from you.
Sometimes Rowan has sensible analyses and that is why I do not automatically avoid him. Then he goes on these Jewish cabal/Zionist theories that completely defy any common sense. Not to mention his belief that the world trade centers were not taken down by the airplanes that crashed into them (minor correction, it was not the crashes that brought them down but the subsequent fires).
In any case there still remains a real left in the western world (as powerless as we are) and it does not include you, Rowan.

Posted by: ToivoS | May 14 2014 3:54 utc | 65

@Rowan Berkeley #66:
The “real left” can still observe and analyze. And analysis leads to the conclusion that the US Empire and the global program of imposing unbridled capitalism on everyone are pretty much the same thing. And what is the main force contesting the Empire’s hegemony today? Russia.
Yet many on the Left are in denial that Russia is now playing that role, because Russia has rejected socialism (although it has rejected neoliberalism as well, after Yeltsin), and because the Russian government is using a kind of cultural conservatism to restore a non-Soviet Russian identity.

Posted by: Demian | May 14 2014 4:43 utc | 67

Hehe, the Ukraine and Israel have a lot of common after all:

Ehud Olmert, 68, will go down in the history books as the first former prime minister of the Israeli regime ever to have been sent to jail on corruption charges.
The charges, which have resulted in a six-year prison sentence, surfaced some six years ago, cutting short his political career and impacting peace negotiations with the Palestinians.
The son of Jewish immigrants from Russia and the Ukraine

As people will recall, the former Ukrainian president Yulia Tymoshenko was doing time for corruption charges until the Kyiv putschists sprung her.

Posted by: Demian | May 14 2014 4:56 utc | 69

In one of John Stockwell’s (ex-CIA) recorded talks in the 80’s, he talked about a meeting of the bigwigs on the Angola CIA operation he was overseeing. He talked about how Kissinger went into a pout because the Sec. of Def. had occupied “Kissinger’s chair” and refused to give it up. Stockwell explained the meetings had no designated seating arrangements, Kissinger just decided a certain chair was his. The SOD had arrived earlier and had already set up his presentation at the chair Kissinger wanted before Kissinger arrived. Kissinger demanded the chair, the SOD explained he was already set up, told Kissinger to just take another chair. Kissinger then took another chair, faced it away from everybody at the meeting and refused to take part in the meeting. Just sat their and pouted like a schoolboy. I’m not sure what the name of the talk is, but it is probably one of those by Stockwell at the Third World Traveler site (an excellent archive site).
Excessive ego, stubborn single mindedness, pathological greed, total lack of compassion and remorse and an adolescent view of the world is what makes up “leaders” in hierarchical societies.

Posted by: scalawag | May 14 2014 5:55 utc | 71

#69
Demian that is interesting. I have been aware of the many millions of “Russians” that live in Israel actually came from what today we call Ukraine and Moldova. I know from my own family that many thought they came from Russia and some others identified with Poland. After looking at modern maps they all seem to have come from Ukraine or Moldova. Really can’t blame them for that, their first language was Yiddish after all. They had no identification those native nationalisms.

Posted by: ToivoS | May 14 2014 6:36 utc | 73

Posted by: ToivoS | May 14, 2014 2:40:28 AM | 74
“It is hard to understand that there has been no mention about the ambush near Kramatorsk today that resulted in the deaths of 8 Ukrainian soldiers and the destruction of two APCs. That strikes me as a major escalation”
Gloating is what you people do.

Posted by: scalawag | May 14 2014 7:17 utc | 75

Posted by: scalawag | May 14, 2014 3:17:38 AM | 75
No one really seems to want to make a big thing about it …

Andrii Deshchytsia ‏@ADeshchytsia 15h
#Russia-backed terrorists attacked #Ukraine military with grenade launchers today near #Kramatorsk, killing 6, wounding 8. Mourning again…

Are you sure you know what they were doing in Kramatorsk and who they were?
Merkel came out with an opaque statement of “nobody should sit at the reconciliation round table talks using violence” which could be interpreted as meaning “separatists” but could also be used against “Kyiv”.
As is, the “Kyiv government” is faced with the fact that no one seems to acknowledge “their legitimate right to ensure order” any more.

Posted by: somebody | May 14 2014 7:34 utc | 77

Posted by: scalawag | May 14, 2014 3:17:38 AM | 75
Gloating is what you people do.
Gloating?? WTF are you trying to say?

Posted by: ToivoS | May 14 2014 8:22 utc | 79

Latvia would rather be peed on by NATO than join russia! http://rt.com/news/158804-latvia-nato-occupiers-mayor/

Posted by: brian | May 14 2014 9:29 utc | 81

Posted by: Rowan Berkeley | May 14, 2014 12:53:26 AM | 68
oh really? id say russia and any other capitalist country are very different..the difference is they dont have a Putin

Posted by: brian | May 14 2014 10:06 utc | 83

harry, whatever do you mean, she was “involved”?

Posted by: Rowan Berkeley | May 14 2014 11:11 utc | 85

boindub #86
How?

Posted by: Nora | May 14 2014 11:38 utc | 87

besides zen, an authentic non-religious spirituality can be found here
http://www.dhamma.org/
and here
http://www.guillaumeerard.com/aikido/interviews/interview-with-christian-tissier-shihan-7th-dan-aikikai
capital is really the materialization of ego; this is inescapably obvious in its current manifestation as the society of the spectacle
http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/society.htm

Posted by: Cu Chulainn | May 14 2014 12:36 utc | 89

Using energy as a tool to advance geopolitical interests around the world? But that’s almost word for word what Arsenyuk is accusing Putin of doing!

Posted by: Rowan Berkeley | May 14 2014 13:04 utc | 91

PaulaSlier_RT ‏@PaulaSlier_RT 2h
#Kiev will host #OSCE talks aimed at defusing the violence in the country. #Donetsk & #Lugansk regions representatives were not invited.

Posted by: brian | May 14 2014 13:49 utc | 93

No, I haven’t been banned as of yet. I heeded b’s call to take a break. In that time, I decided that it was probably best for me to deal with the terrible insecurities that I have as a human being – gotta love the psychoanalysis here, no really does Psych 101 still count towards graduation? – so I decided to read the following – recently published in GG’s book – immortal words of my beloved hero Edward Snowden:

“I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions, and that the return of this information to the public marks my end. I will be satisfied if the federation of secret law, unequal pardon, and irresistible executive powers that rule the world that I love are revealed for even an instant. If you seek to help, join the open source community and fight to keep the spirit of the press alive and the internet free. I have been to the darkest corners of government, and what they fear is light.
Edward Joseph Snowden, SSN: *****
CIA Alias “***** ”
Agency Identification Number: *****
Former Senior Advisor | United States National Security Agency, under corporate cover
Former Field Officer | United States Central Intelligence Agency, under diplomatic cover
Former Lecturer | United States Defense Intelligence Agency, under corporate cover”

Calmed, I said to myself:
If there is a man who dost speaketh such honeyed phrases of liberty let his freedom-song resound to the furthest aerie reaches of evil’s haunts, nay, let his patriot-paean to everlasting valor and eterne bravery croon across centuries touching the velvet ear of babes unborn who gaze into the ebon darkness of their inception and plaintively wonder, will another hero rise? will one take this tiny hand atremble and guide me through the lapping fires of captivity, into the womb of righteousness to be suckled on the teats of purity and grace?
Feeling more myself I then wondered:
Why come this is the first time I remember reading about Snowden working for the DIA and why come his cv seems a little bit more “grandiose” now that GG’s book is being published?
Anyways, there are many things to continue to bring up about this entire Snowden psyop such as 1) their incessant need to protect war criminal CIA agents even thought they’ve been to the “dark corners of US intel ” (kneeslap) 2) their utilization of war criminal propaganda outfits from the beginning such as the WaPo and the Guardian 3) their insistence that making friends with billionaires that fund fascist coups is AOK 4) that delaying the release of secrets that supposedly are SUPER important is ok if it means making a quick buck or padding one’s celebrity status and 5) that none of the psyop actors even address how these “revelations” lead to questions such as 1) don’t these revelations have a chilling effect on the utilization of electronic communication among organizers/activists and 2) if the NSA is so omnipotent right now – chuckle – shouldn’t you Snowden/GG et al be telling activists and organizers to get OFFLINE and OFF their devices until the US Congress/POTUS – hold your laughter – rein in said intelligence agencies?
Anyways, gotta run and take my tranqs.

Posted by: JSorrentine | May 14 2014 14:18 utc | 95

Snowden is too young (29 years 11 months), and too stupid, to have been all those things. He’s just throwing dust in your eyes.

Posted by: Rowan Berkeley | May 14 2014 16:01 utc | 97

Categorical imperative for anti-fascists
posted by Borotba Odessa witness . . .

Posted by: anonymous | May 14 2014 16:06 utc | 99