NSA in bed with most Western states as Brazil also complains about surveillance by U.S. spy agencies

Julio Severo’s thoughts: The US surveillance on other nations is immoral, but so do empires: they do whatever they do with whoever they want. Let me clarify that a nation that imposes the gay agenda on other nations falls under the category of empire, an evil empire. A 2011 WND report said about the Obama plan to have the US as a global LGBT sex cop. Two years ago, WND reported on DHS monitoring my blog. I am a Brazilian citizen. Why such surveillance on me? Are my pro-life and pro-family activities a threat to America? In Brazil, I am in the frontlines against gay tyranny.

I am not worried just about the US surveillance. I am worried also that the Brazilian socialist government will now use the US intrusions as a pretext to ask UN intrusions in the nations. So a US wicked act will lead to a Brazilian wicked act.

As a Christian, I am opposed to the wicked acts by the US and Brazil, especially their love for the gay agenda.

Read now the DailyMail report:

Snowden says NSA 'in bed' with most Western states as Brazil also complains about surveillance by U.S. spy agencies

By Reuters Reporter and Daily Mail Reporter

Fugitive whistleblower Edward Snowden says America’s National Security Agency is ‘in bed’ with Germany and other Western states, while Brazil is demanding an explanation from the U.S. over reports that its citizens have been under surveillance for at least a decade.

America's National Security Agency works closely with Germany and other Western states on a 'no questions asked'-basis, former NSA employee Snowden said in comments that undermine Chancellor Angela Merkel's indignant talk of ‘Cold War’ tactics.

‘They are in bed with the Germans, just like with most other Western states,’ German magazine Der Spiegel quotes him as saying in an interview published on Sunday that was carried out before he fled to Hong Kong in May and divulged details of extensive secret U.S. surveillance.

Outspoken 'hero': Fugitive whistleblower Edward Snowden says America's National Security Agency is 'in bed' with Germany and other Western states

‘Other agencies don't ask us where we got the information from and we don't ask them. That way they can protect their top politicians from the backlash in case it emerges how massively people's privacy is abused worldwide,’ he said.

Snowden’s comments about cooperation with governments overseas, which he said were led by the NSA's Foreign Affairs Directorate, appear to contradict the German government's show of surprise at the scale of the U.S. electronic snooping.

Germany has demanded explanations for Snowden's allegations of large-scale spying by the NSA, and by Britain via a programme codenamed 'Tempora', on their allies including Germany and other European Union states, as well as EU institutions and embassies.

Chancellor Angela Merkel pointed out during President Barack Obama's recent visit that Germany had avoided terrorist attacks thanks to information from allies.

But she says there must be limits to the intrusion on privacy and wants this discussed next week in parallel with the start of EU-U.S. free trade talks.

Close allies: U.S. President Barack Obama, left, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, toast during a dinner hosted by Merkel in honour of the Obamas at Schloss Charlottenburg in Berlin on June 19, 2013

Berlin has alluded repeatedly to ‘Cold War’ tactics - Merkel used the term again on Saturday at a political rally - and has said spying on friends is unacceptable. Her spokesman has said a transatlantic trade deal requires a level of ‘mutual trust.’

Brazil is getting ready to demand an explanation from the United States over report its citizens' electronic communications have been under watch by U.S. spy agencies for at least ten years, foreign minister Antonio Patriota said on Sunday.

Patriota's remarks were in response to a report in the Globo daily newspaper on Sunday saying that the U.S. National Security Agency has been monitoring the telephone and e-mail activity of Brazilian companies and individuals as part of U.S. espionage activities.

The report cited documents obtained from U.S. fugitive Edward Snowden, a former NSA intelligence contractor.

More accusations: Brazil's foreign minister Antonio Patriota, pictured, says the United States has been spying on Brazil's citizens' electronic communications for at least a decade

Patriota also said his government plans to propose changes to international communications rules administered by the Geneva-based International Telecommunications Union to improve communications secrecy, the statement said.

Brazil also plans to present proposals to the United Nations to protect the privacy of electronic communication.

‘The Brazilian government is gravely concerned by the news that electronic and telephone communications of Brazilian citizens are the objective of espionage efforts by U.S. intelligence agencies,’ a foreign ministry statement said.

The Globo report did not say how much traffic was monitored by NSA computers and intelligence officials. But the article pointed out that in the Americas, Brazil was second only to the United States in the number of transmissions intercepted.

Brazil was a priority nation for the NSA communications surveillance alongside China, Russia, Iran and Pakistan, Globo said.

In the 10-year period, the NSA captured 2.3 billion phone calls and messages in the United States and then used computers to analyze them for signs of suspicious activity, the paper said.

In the United States, the NSA used legal but secret warrants to compel communications companies to turn over information about calls and emails for analysis.

Some access to Brazilian communications was obtained through American companies that were partners with Brazilian telecommunications companies, the paper reported, without identifying the companies.

Speaking out: Activists from the Internet Party of Ukraine perform during a rally supporting Snowden in front of U.S. embassy, in Kiev on June 27, 2013

The Globo article was written by Glenn Greenwald, Roberto Kaz and José Casado. Greenwald, an American who works for Britain's Guardian newspaper and lives in Rio de Janeiro, was the journalist who first revealed classified documents provided by Snowden, outlining the extent of U.S. communications monitoring activity at home and abroad.

After providing the information to Greenwald, Snowden fled the United States for Hong Kong and was most recently seen in the transit area of the Moscow airport.

Snowden's U.S. passport has been revoked. He has made asylum requests to several countries, including Ecuador, Venezuela and Bolivia. Three countries - Bolivia, Venezuela and Nicaragua - have offered to give Snowden asylum.

Germany’s domestic intelligence chief has said he knew nothing of such widespread surveillance by the NSA.

But German opposition parties - with an eye on September's federal election - insist that somebody in Merkel's office, where the German intelligence agencies are coordinated, must have known what was going on.

The government did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the Der Spiegel report, which follows a report last week in French daily Le Monde saying France also had an extensive surveillance programme.

Der Spiegel has reported that on an average day, the NSA monitored about 20 million German phone connections and 10 million internet data sets, rising to 60 million phone connections on busy days.

Protest: A member of German Piraten Partei holds the portraits of U.S. Army Private First Class Bradley Manning and Snowden during a protest in Berlin's Tiergarten district on June 19, 2013

Germans are particularly sensitive about eavesdropping because of the intrusive surveillance in the communist German Democratic Republic (GDR) and during the Nazi era.

Snowden, a U.S. citizen, fled in May a few weeks before the details he provided about the NSA were published and is believed to have been holed up in Moscow airport since June 23.

Bolivia offered asylum on Saturday to Snowden, joining leftist allies Venezuela and Nicaragua in defiance of Washington, which is demanding his arrest for divulging details of the secret U.S. spy programs.

Der Spiegel said the interview was conducted while Snowden was living in Hawaii, via encrypted emails with U.S. documentary maker Laura Poitras and hacker Jacob Appelbaum.

Snowden told them that America's closest allies sometimes went even further than the NSA in their zeal for gathering data.

NSA headquarters: An undated aerial handout photo shows the National Security Agency headquarters building in Fort Meade, Maryland

The Tempora programme of Britain's GCHQ eavesdropping agency is known in the intelligence world as a ‘full take.’

‘It sucks up all information, no matter where it comes from and which laws are broken,’ Snowden said. ‘If you send a data packet and goes through Britain, we'll get it. If you download anything, and the server is in Britain, we'll get it.’

If the NSA is ordered to target an individual, it virtually take over that person's data ‘so the target's computer no longer belongs to him, it more or less belongs to the U.S. government.’

Source: DailyMail, via Julio Severo in English.

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“1984” Live! US Surveillance Scandal Is The Biggest Story Of Your Lifetime

By Julio Severo

“The (National Security Agency) NSA surveillance scandal is the biggest story of your lifetime” – that was, according WND, Michael Savage’s message all this week, as details emerged about the US government spying on Americans and people around the world.

However, “They obviously weren’t spying on Muslims, or people known to have associated with terrorists,” Savage pointed out. Otherwise, the authorities would have prevented the Boston Marathon bombing.

The White House assures that its massive surveillance is to stop terrorists, and yet it won’t snoop in mosques, where the terrorists are.

The US government’s sweeping surveillance of most private communications excludes the jihad factories where homegrown terrorists are radicalized.

Since October 2011, mosques have been off-limits to FBI agents.

This is particularly disturbing in light of recent independent surveys of American mosques, which reveal some 80% of them preach violent jihad or distribute violent literature to worshippers.

So if the US massive surveillance is not aimed at Muslims, who were behind 11/9, what its aim? Throughout his administration, Obama has been charged of aiming at Christians and pro-lifers. More recently, the US Army and DHS labeled conservative Christians as “hate groups.”

This is not only an American problem. Two years ago, WND reported on DHS monitoring my blog. I am a Brazilian citizen. Why such surveillance on me? Are my pro-life and pro-family activities a threat to America?

Probably yes. A 2011 WND report said about the Obama plan to have the US as a global LGBT sex cop. In Brazil, I am in the frontlines against gay tyranny.

Thirty years ago, if someone had told me about a global surveillance program, I would have pointed Soviet Union as its source.

After my recent article was published on Free Republic about the NSA scandal, an American told me, “The US government has taken the road of anti-Christian, anti-freedom, pervert tyrants. I don’t know when it will be the end times, but I imagine the US creating an oppressive and hateful KGB ruled globe, would be a part of it.”

The leaks made by Edward Snowden reveal that there is a powerful American KGB watching you on Facebook, Skype, Google and other internet channels. There is no safe place. Big Brother is watching you.

Big Brother is, according to George Orwell’s “1984” novel, an omnipresent, totalitarian government keeping a watchful eye on its citizens.

In fact, sales of Orwell’s classic novel have rocketed in the wake of the scandal evolving around the National Security Agency surveillance programs. Last week, four editions of the book were in the top 40 of Amazon’s “Movers and Shakers” list. At one point one of the editions was up 10,000 percent.

Thanks to the massive, global US surveillance, “1984” is here, and what Edward Snowden has said about the U.S. government spying should send a chill up our spine. He said,

1 – “The majority of people in developed countries spend at least some time interacting with the Internet, and Governments are abusing that necessity in secret to extend their powers beyond what is necessary and appropriate.”

2 - “The government has granted itself power it is not entitled to.”

3 - “…I can’t in good conscience allow the US government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building.”

4 - “The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything.”

5 - “With this capability, the vast majority of human communications are automatically ingested without targeting. If I wanted to see your e-mails or your wife’s phone, all I have to do is use intercepts. I can get your e-mails, passwords, phone records, credit cards.”

6 - “Any analyst at any time can target anyone. I, sitting at my desk, certainly had the authorities to wiretap anyone, from you or your accountant, to a federal judge, to even the President…”

7 - “…they are intent on making every conversation and every form of behavior in the world known to them.”

8 - “Even if you’re not doing anything wrong, you're being watched and recorded. …it’s getting to the point where you don't have to have done anything wrong, you simply have to eventually fall under suspicion from somebody, even by a wrong call, and then they can use this system to go back in time and scrutinize every decision you've ever made, every friend you've ever discussed something with, and attack you on that basis, to sort of derive suspicion from an innocent life.”

9 - “Allowing the U.S. government to intimidate its people with threats of retaliation for revealing wrongdoing is contrary to the public interest.”

10 - “Everyone everywhere now understands how bad things have gotten — and they’re talking about it. They have the power to decide for themselves whether they are willing to sacrifice their privacy to the surveillance state.”

11 - “I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under.”

12 - “I don’t want to live in a world where there's no privacy, and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity.”

13 - “The great fear that I have regarding the outcome for America of these disclosures is that nothing will change. [People] won’t be willing to take the risks necessary to stand up and fight to change things... And in the months ahead, the years ahead, it’s only going to get worse. [The NSA will] say that… because of the crisis, the dangers that we face in the world, some new and unpredicted threat, we need more authority, we need more power, and there will be nothing the people can do at that point to oppose it. And it will be turnkey tyranny.”

Calling whistleblower Edward Snowden “a patriot, not a traitor,” Dr. Michael Savage declared that “the NSA scandal makes Watergate look like what it was: a green pea inside a tidal wave.”

Edward Snowden

What George Orwell “leaked” was, through his a novel, his perception about how a future government would watch people. Fiction has become reality. What Edward Snowden has leaked are facts about how the US government is already doing it.

Even though being a socialist, Orwell was not considered a “traitor” for revealing where socialism would take society. If his book, which is fiction, has been praised, much more deserving is Snowden’ act of revealing what is not fiction. It is “1984” live.

I agree with Joseph Farah, who said that Snowden should be granted immunity to speak everything he knows about how Big Brother is watching you.

With information from WND, Investors and The Economic Collapse.

Portuguese version of this article: “1984” ao vivo! Escândalo de monitoração dos EUA é a maior história da sua vida

Spanish version of this article: ¡“1984” en vivo! Escándalo de vigilancia en Estados Unidos es la más grande historia de su vida

French version of this article: «1984» en direct! Scandale du système de surveillance des États-Unis est la plus grande histoire de sa vie

Source: Julio Severo in English: www.lastdayswatchman.blogspot.com

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By far, the biggest scandal this week is the revelation by a former CIA analyst showing how the US intelligence has been monitoring in Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Skype and other internet channels extensively used by the world population.

Edward Snowden

The man responsible for the most serious denunciations is Edward Snowden, who leaked the data on the US government espionage on the citizens around world. It was the biggest leak in the US history.

If Snowden had revealed his secrets directly to the public, they would have seen him as crazy or an adherent of conspiracy theories. A paranoid thinking today there is some kind of government imagined by George Orwell in his work “1984.”

Nevertheless, everything that he leaked not was published, because the newspapers that he sought were “careful” to filter and limit the denunciations, in order not to draw the US government’s wrath.

The excuse for the aggressive surveillance by the US is the war against terror, which should limit itself to the ideology responsible for the 9/11 attack. This attack was motivated exclusively by the Islamic ideology.

But instead of focusing on that ideology, the US government has bowed down before Muslims. It seems to be, since 9/11, obsessed by the Islamic promotion around the world. The terrorist attack 12 years ago was the best thing that has already happened to Islam, which is now spreading as a wildfire.

The war against terror, which should focus on Islamists, has become a terror war for the non-Islamic world.

I understand the reasons for the US government to turn away from the necessary focus. Saudi Arabia, Turkey and other Islamic nations are the origin of significant investments in the western countries, especially America.

While the populations of those countries live mostly in poverty, their leaders accumulate money in western banks, especially in American banks. They are also great shareholders in great American and European companies.

Therefore, Americans and Europeans are always in a hurry to support the fights of their Islamic investors. If Saudi Arabia and Turkey oppose Syria, America will accompany their investors’ desires, although this means for America direct support for al-Qaida and the systematic slaughter of Syrian Christians.

America cannot turn against their investors. The money of the oppressors is more important than the blood of the oppressed ones

Most of the terrorists who attacked America on 9/11 were Muslims from Saudi Arabia and, according to information that I received from my friend Don Hank, they had received visas for America through a CIA agent.

CIA, which has been monitoring the whole world, grants visas to terrorists, and does the rest of the world have to pay for its “negligence?”

It is a fact that the current US administration is engaged, since its beginning, in the espionage of pro-life and conservative groups. I have myself been under such surveillance, in a case that became headline on WND, in this link: http://www.wnd.com/2011/07/327769/

Everything that I do is to fight the gay and abortion agenda. And I carry out my ministry in a time when the top US foreign policy priority is to promote the gay, abortion and Islamic agenda.

What would the US government be willing to do on behalf of such politics? I don’t know. But the fact is that when you are using the services of Facebook, Google, Apple and Microsoft, you are not alone. It is now proven that the US intelligence is watching you and recording your stances on abortion, homosexuality and possibly even if you oppose the Islamic ideology.

Could these intrusive records be used against Christians opposed to the world government? God knows.

The tragedy is that people like me and you can be monitored by the US government, but Islamists not. Small wonder: the current White House occupier has a totally Islamic name: Barack Hussein Obama.

True to his ideology, Obama chose a Muslim as a CIA director.

The nation founded by persecuted Christians today serves the biggest persecutors of Christians. Islamists believe that, with Obama in the White House, their prayers were heard.

I believe that our prayers are also being heard. Since the Old Testament times, the people of God pray according God’s will. And the Bible makes clear that it is the will of God to frustrate the plans of the nations: “The LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; He makes the plans of the peoples of no effect.” (Psalms 33:10 NKJV)

Is it a coincidence that plans of CIA and other US agencies of espionage against innocent citizens around the world are being exposed and frustrated? It is an answer to many prayers. Let us pray for Edward Snowden, for him to have an encounter with Christ.

Let us also pray for God to rise up similar men in Brazil, able to expose for the public the most sinister plans of the Brazilian government.

There is Somebody bigger, above America, watching and monitoring. Somebody that one day will make them give an account for their exemption for the Islamic ideology, and their active intrusive roles in the lives and activities of conservative Christians. Somebody that will make them give an account because instead of using their power to protect the weak and oppressed, they chose to side with their wicked investors, who oppress innocent Christian populations.

There is a minority, a remnant who truly follows Christ, in the US who laments over the wicked direction that their nation has chosen to follow. It is because of these supplications directed to the Almighty God that we see the most secret and impious plans of the most powerful nation in the world being repeatedly frustrated.

We need to join our prayers to the supplications of the American remnant, because the homosexualist, abortion and Islamic politics of the US government are speeding up the establishment of the Antichrist’s world government and putting innocent citizens around the world under the spying eyes of that government.

Portuguese version of this article: Cuidado: Você está sendo monitorado pela nação mais poderosa do mundo!

Source: Julio Severo in English: www.lastdayswatchman.blogspot.com

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