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Testimony to European Parliament on Electronic Mass Surveillance [pdf]
- contingencies 13y agoThe continued selfless statements of Snowden stand in stark contrast to the blathering bureaucracy he addreses. Shame on Europe, Australia, the UK and the rest of the world for not standing up to the US. The sad truth he highlights in this address is that they're all in the game, none of them are willing to admit it's immoral, and none have the guts to offer asylum to law abiding journalists clearly under reactionary persecution by the US and five eyes intelligence communities. Little known facts: SWIFT was founded by a Belgian whose entire career had been spent in the US and whose previous role was head of international settlement for Visa, after sucking in 100s of banks from 10s of countries SWIFT's first 'international center of operations' was founded in Virginia (ie. next to the CIA), and the opening was officiated by the governor of Virginia, the European Union's own Data Protection Supervisor has confirmed that the US has taken all SWIFT traffic for all EU citizens since at least 2001 in response to FOIA @ http://www.asktheeu.org/en/request/information_on_financial_informa#comment-46 http://www.asktheeu.org/en/request/information_on_financial_...