I tweeted this yesterday, but in case you missed it… Because I’m not taking a random guy’s word at face value, I’m clearly an apologist for the surveillance state. The...
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The Vagueness and Obfuscation of Edward Snowden
For someone who’s making hugely monumental claims that are supposed to shatter the NSA into a thousand pieces, he’s incredibly short on details and evidence. Kevin Drum on his remarks...
Crazy Quote of the Morning
“Watch a sonogram of a 15-week baby, and they have movements that are purposeful… They stroke their face. If they’re a male baby, they may have their hand between their legs. If...
Greenwald Conducts Online Chat with Snowden, Inflicting More Damage to Their Cause
In case you missed it, here’s my Tuesday column which I posted way early (yesterday afternoon, in fact). It seems that every time Edward Snowden emerges from hiding and communicates something...
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Buzz Burbank News & Comment 6/17/13
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Quote of the Day
“Just shut up. Now. Every time you say stuff like this, you make it easier to marginalize you as a messenger, and you cost yourself allies in the general cause for which you have risked so much...
CNET Reporter Posts Wildly Inaccurate Yet Totally Viral ‘Bombshell’ About NSA Eavesdropping
[Not sure why this didn't post earlier. I blame the NSA.] My Monday column and the link-bait model of digital journalism: The last ten days or so of NSA coverage represents a dark chapter in the...
And It Just Keeps Happening…
Another baby with a gun. A 4-year-old boy is being treated at a hospital for non-life threatening injuries after being shot by a 5-year-old boy on Friday in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. According...
Shocker! The U.K. and U.S. Spy on Other Leaders
Snowden strikes again: American spies based in the UK intercepted the top-secret communications of the then Russian president, Dmitry Medvedev, during his visit to Britain for the G20 summit in...
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Metallica – “Hero of the Day” Live Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading →...
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Queens of the Stone Age – “I Appear Missing” (Live On Letterman) (via LGF) Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue...
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Naomi Wolf: The First Snowden Truther
Snowden was an inside job. The author of End of America has apparently lost whatever was left of her shpadoinkle and written a lengthy screed with bulletpoints about how Snowden might’ve been...
Now Greenwald Denies ‘Direct Access’ Reporting
So Greenwald wrote a thing yesterday in which denied ever claiming that the NSA had “direct access” to servers belonging to the tech giants. He wrote, instead, that he was merely...
I Have Direct Access to the Wall Street Journal’s Server And…
…discovered that the NSA was collecting phone and email information, even from innocent American citizens. Bombshell! In 2009. Oh, and the Obama Justice Department discovered the problem and...
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MST3K Saturday – “Eegah!” Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue...
Buzz Burbank News & Comment 6/14/13
Here’s Buzz Burbank with the news: For more Buzz, make sure to bookmark BuzzBurbank.com. Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue...
The Liberal Case for Surveillance
Bill Scher from LiberalOasis writing for The Week: There is, in fact, a strong liberal case to make for America’s current use of surveillance to combat terrorism. Liberals are not libertarians...
Weird Things About Snowden’s Story
Pete Weber at The Week has very serious questions about Snowden’s story. Here are the toplines with full writeups for each here. 1. Snowden overstated his salary… by a lot 2. He...