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anyway. snooping on fresh revelations shed light on the u.s. intelligence is. your private email online as well. still no decision from the e.u. shipments to syria. was not such a good idea as the conflict in the water. for the russian internet and new laws in place websites that copyrights to be blocked. we look at the. comparing it to similar regulations around the world.
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it's just after eleven am in a blue sky of moscow it's r t with me rory sushil let's get straight to your world headlines right now a search engine for all of your private information what an n.s.a. program called x. keyscore is now this is according to freshly published documents which were provided by edward snowden just before he arrived in the transit zone of a moscow airport detail was described as the widest reaching intelligence gathering system used in the world let's get an explanation now. remember when edward snowden said he could wiretap eighty one at any time be the president or a federal judge if he had their personal e-mail that he could see the content of everyone's communications without a warrant the n.s.a. came out and said snowden was lying nobody can do that without a warrant snowden's latest revelation shows yes they can and i say training
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materials that he had provided to the guardian show that the analysts use a program called x. keyscore to mine and norma's agency databases by filling in a simple onscreen form giving only a broad justification for the search no warrant needed just type in the e-mail address and click search same with your facebook it's another internet activity it can all be easily searched how convenient analysts can also search by name telephone number ip address keywords the language in which the united to be was conducted or the type of browser used the presentation claims the program covers nearly everything a typical user does on the internet including the content of emails websites visited and searches as well as their meditator x. keyscore boast global coverage it uses more than seven hundred servers and one hundred fifty sites around the world show me all the encrypted word documents from iran no problem or this part of the top secret training material shows that
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language is not a problem x. keyscore can do different languages obviously x. his core is not the only data mining program that the n.s.a. uses earlier we learned about the prism program which the agency uses to gain access to the private communications of users of nine popular internet services x. keyscore kind of like looks like their search engine it's their google of course as an ordinary non terrorist citizen you may be perfectly fine with the fact that some analysts say analyst may know more about you than your wife or your husband does but there are those who are genuinely concerned about the growing power of the n.s.a. . what if they don't want to certain person in office someone who would cut their funding or something this country has a history of wiretapping scandals after all president richard nixon resigned after a whistleblower whistleblower revealed that nixon's office had wiretapped his opposition what makes anyone think that or something like that can't happen today
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in washington and get it checked out and with mounting public skepticism about u.s. security methods the director of national intelligence as now declassified several top secret documents detailing that of data collection the discussion about surveillance tactics meanwhile taking center stage on capitol hill with lawmakers questioning the efficiency of such wide scale operations or more now from washington and our season as well. well the legs by edward snowden have led to a renewed national debate on government spying and privacy rights the revelations of the leaks prompted the senate judiciary committee to hold a hearing on five the foreign intelligence surveillance act that allows the government program to happen now f.b.i. and n.s.a. officials are in damage control mode eleven judges on the far as a court are far from a rubber stamp instead they review all of our pleadings thoroughly the questioners and they don't approve an order until they are satisfied that we have met all
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statutory and constitutional requirements in an effort to appear more transparent director of national security james clapper has just released some documents from two thousand and nine to two thousand and eleven that were previously classified but many civil rights and privacy advocates remain troubled by how broad the government surveillance program is and worry about the ability of the government to track innocent citizens at the senate hearing government officials discuss the possibility of changing the place of process to make it more transparent another sign that the leaks are making waves is happening over in las vegas at the annual def con hacker conference although it happened every year this year and i say security agency director keith alexander was the keynote speaker and we're hearing the participants of the event were to say the least not happy basically the general today admitted to doing everything they can possibly get a job was exceptional you citizens talking amongst you chose it which for the rest
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of it will it really makes no difference whatsoever proving that there is tension between the government and the computer hacking community but it's clear for the obama administration cybersecurity is now a priority and washington liz wall. under the trial of u.s. army whistleblower bradley manning it's now into its sentencing phase it could get one hundred thirty six years behind by. as for releasing the secret documents to wiki leaks now a former u.s. brigadier general was the first witness to testify he did say that manning's revelations about what the military did in iraq and afghanistan endangered troops but did admit that no deaths resulted from those leaks after a lengthy hearing manning was found guilty on twenty out of twenty two counts against him a large portion of them falling right under the espionage act but he was acquitted of the most serious charge that of aiding the enemy and one of the most shocking
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things manning disclosed was a video showing the murder of civilians by u.s. soldiers in iraq with the troops expressing no remorse about their actions and norman solomon is the founder and executive director of the institute for public accuracy he says while manning's releases did not result in the loss of any life at the same cannot be said about u.s. officials starting overseas war. when wiki leaks released a trobe intermission giving insights to what u.s. policy for instance has been over the years in iraq and afghanistan we had been share of the joint chiefs of staff mike mullen saying and i'm quoting here that wiki leaks had blood on their hands well it turns out that according to pentagon testimony on wednesday there is no blood even by their own account fishel account of testimony on the hands of wiki leaks or bradley manning when leaders go to war
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there is a lot of blood on the hands of those leaders we need whistleblowers who speak out with truth for human rights. and of those sentencing procedures are expected to last until the end of the month and if you're looking for more details on how the witness testimonies are unfolding we've got all of it and more on the web site right now of course he took. the meantime here on the program today is the day after which. e.u. leaders pledged to themselves to take a decision on arming the syrian rebels and this unofficial deadline was set back in may when the e.u. ministers led by britain and france agreed to end. however since then they seem to have had a bit of a change of heart regarding weapons supplies to the syrian opposition and this over concerns of extremism there are also fears of a potential terror a backflow with more foreigners now fighting in syria with many coming from e u states now
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a french official says this flow is unprecedented during the nine years of the afghan conflict only fifty she had just went into the country is counted however in syria in just one year alone more than one hundred left france to fight against president assad now experts say most of the westerners are self radicalized enjoying the terrorist ranks of al qaeda and the al nusra front the total number of europeans fighting in syria estimated now up to six hundred that number could be much higher and france's interior minister recently called the threat quote a ticking time bomb artists are sillier now reports on why the e.u. could be wary of arming the rebels. while the u.k. on the syrian rebels or not that's a question that's been answered in a number of different ways it's a plant that began to mostly in varying degrees the right but ultimately always sending signals of support for the opposition it will be no political progress it lets the opposition is able to withstand the onslaught and put pressure on assad
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says he is there is no military victory so we will also increase our efforts to support and to shape the moderate opposition. to a man. arms embargo wolf it was served. we must ensure that these arms go to the syrian national coalition into no one else to one half years on syria continues to pay the delicate complex picture a battleground constantly shifting as it is with western leaders rhetoric in american twelve hour meeting in may e.u. leaders agreed to disagree on syria but the u.k. and france successfully getting their way even though they were at odds with the twenty five other member states the european union has agreed to bring to an end the arms embargo only syrian opposition this is the outcome of the united kingdom it wanted rhetoric in the millicent of the meet up to the libyan intervention also led by the same players it's remarkable there you go they could simply try and
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override the experience of libya because as a recent report said the. supermarket for the entirety of the of the middle east and if they were to go into syria that would be true to the power of attorney on august first e.u. countries can reassess their positions on syria and those who wish to arm the rebels may do so but as that day drew closer hesitation grew louder with david cameron acknowledging that there are quote unquote a lot of bad guys amongst the rebels and recent reports from syria show all kind of affiliated groups wanting to establish an islamic caliphate and dissolution rebels and defecting back to the government side before the the war in afghanistan and before the attack on iraq there was no al qaida in iraq there was no al qaida in yemen there was no al-qaeda in somalia there was no al qaida in syria but there is now an idea that's not lost on the british prime minister there's too much
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extremism about some of the rebels but frankly we do need to do more to help promote those parts of the opposition that want a free purpose to democratic syria and so we're not being the rebels this are cilia r t london. and jonathan steele a guardian columnist and international affairs author he believes the decision not to arm the syrian rebels is ultimately rooted in the conflict in libya i don't think the british government will arm the rebels at all because they're just suffered a major political defeat in the british parliament they feel that they were cheated over libya they feel that britain went in on a military intervention with france against libya against colonel gaddafi without coming to parliament and they feel that it's not worked out very well in libya and they don't want the government to try and get this sort of decision through through without coming to parliament so at the moment the western allies of the syrian
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opposition look fairly reluctant to arm them and my colleague kevin owen though he had a bit of a discussion with. that's the free syrian army spokesman who said that despite calls for more weapons opposition fighters don't really know how the arms will end up falling into the hands of extremists and ultimately don't really know how to stop that from happening. so you want more arms them from the west but what would you say to the extremely worried politicians in both europe and the us that have raised concerns of extremist elements within the opposition could get hold of those sophisticated western arms what guarantee can you give them that that won't happen . we're talking about extremists or terrorists that entered syria they didn't parachuted in they crossed borders and we must find out how more than a thousand taliban fighters entered the country and how it kind of members escaped from iraqi prisons and syria so there's international will to get all the islamists and terrorist elements into syria to change their military and political equation
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of the country downplayed the syrian revolution we asked the foreign fighters al qaeda and the al nasra front to leave syria we won't allow any extremists or terrorists to dictate their agenda on the future of the country are you certain that the f.s.a. really can control the extremist elements fighting alongside your movement. we need help and that we need help to get rid of the syrian regime and extremist elements who are against terrorism and massacres we don't want to kill people supporting the government because this syrians we want all extremists to get away from syria and posthaste and syria there's no place for islamists in the country. meanwhile damascus has agreed to allow the u.n. to investigate three sites in syria where chemical weapons have allegedly been used one of them is outside aleppo where more than twenty people were killed in march in attacks involving these said agents of the u.k. and france presented reports with detailed evidence of the weapons were deployed on
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several occasions at the u.s. also claim its own intelligence agencies believe the syrian government used chemicals against the opposition there russia said it had ample evidence it was the rebels who utilize the chemicals including that of sarin gas but the u.n. investigation will be aimed at a stop listing whether the weapons were deployed in the country though not which. has been responsible for they. and i many more stories ahead for you here including the greek bailout. hole in the pockets of europeans we gauge the mood of. chip into the greek rescue package. facing another big. story and the rest of your headlines in just a. wealthy british.
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market. find out what's really happening to the global economy with. headlines kaiser reports. and realized.
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thanks for joining us here. in about ten minutes. starting today russian websites with content that infringes copyrights could be shut down a new anti piracy law has put an end to years of uncontrolled piracy however critics claim it's opening the doors to the issue of censorship. now looks at the new regulations comparing them to those used by other governments around the world despite that statistic some clarity in russia has improved over the last decade dropping from ninety three percent in two thousand and one to a little more than sixty percent last year it is still a huge problem and it is rated among the top five countries in the world in terms of piracy let me demonstrate what you can do on the russian web for instance you
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want to watch a freshly released movie but you don't want to pay for it then you go to one of the famous social network websites and russia find the movie you want which is always a loaded by the users. and. there you have it credit to the owners of an administration of the website they're trying to fight this problem they're blocking the users uploading the illegal content but with fifty million users and even more than that registered for this website alone it is an uphill task something the new legislation is about to mend from now on if any website is having illegal content on it then it will be reported to a special governing body a watchdog body called who will then tell the website owner to remove this content within seventy two hours if the person refuses to do that then his web site will be shut down will be suspended until the trial in court it will be then decided whether the person is innocent whether his conduct is legal and he may relaunch the site or the site will be shut down for good now this law even before it became
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a reality even before it passed the russian parliament caused the fury online and even some minor street protests with people believing that this will lead to censorship on the web this will lead to blocking of websites only on suspicion of having illegal content so some people believe that this new law will significantly suppress freedoms online and lead to online prosecution which is not quite the case if you read into this law but now let's compare how other countries worldwide are fighting the very same problem with piracy in two thousand and nine france passed the so-called law which stipulates that anyone violating campaign distribution rules is given two warnings on e-mails before the internet service provider is forced to cut off the use the internet access if the corporate persists he risks a fine of up to three hundred thousand euros or prison time of up to three years the most liberal anti-piracy lloyd is believed to be in the netherlands and
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websites are technically outlawed but still downloading counted for noncommercial use is not illegal uploading it means breaking the law and possible prosecution japan adopted its anti-piracy law last year and it was immediately branded as draconian quite understandably some may say because. violating it would lend you a fine of one million yen that's roughly ten thousand dollars and a two year prison term often violated punished with both it's worth mentioning that none of the above mentioned countries have registered an increase in purchases of legal content since adopting these laws how the new legislation works in russia which stands in between not only geographically but in terms of the law strictness but has a far more serious piracy issue will become clear very soon i mean all over dot com right now four million bucks for the u.s. student receives after the police forgot about him in a jail cell for five days without food or water. also we've got all the latest on the back grain uprising where yet another top activist has been arrested all just
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a click away right now this hour at r.t. dot com. right now seeing. first rate. and i think that your. orders. a busy world update in a few moments here on r.t. for now though just days after paying yet another bailout loan to greece the international lenders have found out that athens is going to need billions more the i.m.f. says the debt ridden greek economy is facing an additional financial shortfall of nearly eleven billion euros and that's just over the next two years and that's really bad news for german taxpayers who was part of the euro zone strongest member
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bear a large burden of the greek rescue and this report now he wants he's peter all of. germany's politicians are being accused of keeping the country's taxpayers in the dark when it comes to just how much they going to be asked to fork out to try and get greece back on its feet financially the international monetary fund has highlighted it almost eleven billion euro black hole in the plan to try and get greece greece's economy working it also highlighted the need for the writing off of many loans that are being given to the mediterranean country now all of this comes against the backdrop of the german finance minister being in athens talks there in amongst there will be giving a one hundred million euro gift to the greece the greek people this is a one hundred million euro piece that supposed to help the development of. small businesses in the country and not near the news that they are well almost eleven
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billion euro short of what's going to be needed for fiscal renewal well that's not going to come is great news to the greek people or to the german people who are going to of course be voting in a general election in september they're going to be told that most of the attacks is it going to be going to the neighbors in the south. is almost assured that she will get the money that it's required however the german people that will be giving it that money best pleased about having to do it i think america will still manage to convince people without any proper explanation they would just trust her i don't think that's a good thing because we forget about one of the paramount principle soft democracy people controlling the budget but unfortunately i think this will happen i'm sick and tired of this you know my money the taxes are paid to go to greece those guys the retired fortune off to pay for it i'm absolutely tired of it it shouldn't
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happen this report from the i.m.f. also. to show that some of the more positive signs regarding greece that we've seen in recent times like the leveling off of unemployment figures is really telling the whole story that there's still an awful lot of work that needs to be done before greece can officially say that it's on the comeback trail when it comes to its finances. and as the choking economies around the world are struggling to get back on track the lesson to be learned is to get rid of the big banks who are looting the world's financial system and naturally that's for max keiser and stacy a quick peek now of the full cost report coming your way in less than ten minutes. talking about parasites tapeworms they burrow into the system and in the case of jamie dimon or lloyd blankfein or warren buffett they lead vital nutrients and they kill the host some parasites are viral in the gut as part of the ecosystem of one's
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intestines when these parasites grow to these enormous sizes whether it's a six inch long tapeworm in your brain that has to be pulled out through your nose as i believe the doctors in china did or they went in there with a surgical equipment or a sixty foot long anaconda tapeworm like jamie diamond whose largest up to strange thing of america's financial system leeching out the vital nutrients or in this case. leaving the economy in places like detroit to die. or before we get to the cars report let's jump into the artsy world update will start with a libyan court that is now sentenced to death the iraqi minister for our committee but he was found guilty of inciting violence kidnapping and murder during the two thousand and eleven uprising he was caught while gathering supporters in the town of sirte to fight against the insurgency just days ago another regime official was also sentenced to death while khadafi son saif al islam is due in court this month
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. and egypt where backers of the ousted egyptian president mohamed morsi say they now expect a massacre after to find the government's ban on the cairo sit ins police have been ordered to put an end to the protests with the military back to authorities calling them a threat to national security of the country remains on the brink of chaos with clashes over the weekend leaving seventy dead. and two zimbabwe where the vote counting is underway after the presidential and parliamentary polls yesterday the results should say your fate of eighty nine year old president robert mugabe after three decades in power was declared he will step down if he's not reelected however though. western observers were entirely barred from any of the polling stations. and to government protesters captured a city council building in rio de janeiro last night they were rapidly dislodged though by police with stun guns and tear gas with clashes then breaking out all
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across the streets in the protests started back in june over a bus fare hike but rapidly snowballed into nationwide anger over government corruption. or let's get into as promised a time to upset the banks it comes at max keiser targeting the tapeworms of the global economy life from moscow it's on. remember we talked about clothing for regular folks like you and me that can make you invisible to drones well freedom fashions as i like to call them are continuing to expand although the fact that our drones infrared eyes are very scary the more common street cameras are way more likely to want to average day violate your
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privacy and thus they invented the justice cap this hat blocks your face with the lights from face recognition software all the camera will see is an anonymous glowing ghost i personally haven't tested this thing out nor have i seen it with my own eyes and wearing three aaa batteries on your head at all times does seem like a bit of a bother but hey if you really want to be left alone and you're willing to throw down a few dollars this looks like a pretty good fashion statement to me the sad thing is that this sort of invention shouldn't need to exist people should have to live with the constant fear of unlawful consent less observation but sadly they do so inventors keep the freedom fashions coming but that's just my opinion. well. technology innovation all the developments around russia we go to the future covered.
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welcome to the kaiser report i'm max kaiser. and. just sipping some kool-aid it's a technique called method reporting i'm trying to get into the minds of those in today's headlines you say nine out of ten called members prefer to drink kool-aid before partaking in a mass suicide or wanted tempting to assassinate a public figure you don't hear much these days about cult leaders and their crazy followers but we've got some in our headlines stacey herbert tell us more yes max they used to make the news more often but i think now it's just part of the fabric of our society that we're all called men.

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