August 1, 2013 Hour 1

In [DEAD] Main Show, Membership, The Young Turks Hour 1 - On Demand by Elderrune17 Comments

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Ed Snowden granted one year asylum in Russia.  Jeffrey Toobin on CNN with Glenn Greenwald and James Risen from NY Times. Obama meeting with representatives who are angry that they didn’t know about the NSA activities.  Now the NSA is providing more information.  Snowden is a whistleblower.  General Alexander said that the programs stopped dozens or over 50 terrorist events, but the deputy NSA director said at most one.   Xkeyscore Internet spying program.  Bradley Manning.  No evidence that his revelations caused harm.  We live in a police state. Authorities show up at home of people searching for backpacks and pressure cooker bombs.  US drone double tap programs. Cenk hosting.

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  2. I don’t think people realize how radical Congress is. I’m not just talking about the Tea Party. The Dems are radical also because they are Neoliberals. Neoliberalism is radical. Obama is a radical. Not just because he is a Neoliberal but because he is attacking our American way of life by pretending that due process doesn’t equal judicial process or by prosecuting whistleblowers, or attacking journalism. He personally called the Yemen president to lock up a Yemeni journalist bc he was reporting on the drone strikes. That is definitely unAmerican, and I think it’s radical bc he wants to quiet any kind of dissent.

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  7. I hope Cenk one day calls out those drone operators and their superiors for what they are: murderers. The term “war criminal” seems to have its impact diluted in the last years, with all the American ones getting away scott free.

  8. So why is this not posted in the archive area? Please tell me there is no manual labor needed to create those links. I would expect when a show is ready to be posted someone goes to an admin webpage, fills out a form, and all relevant areas of the website get updated automatically. If that isn’t how you guys post videos then you paid WAAAAAY to much money for some sorta shitty interface (on your end). We’re talking a couple hours work at most to code decent tools for you guys on the back end.

  9. If I tell you, that the US Government is commiting global political suicide. Will that make me to a traitor or whistleblower as well? Or is it to obvious? ;)

  10. One other point Greenwald could’ve made; Snowden wasn’t going TO Russia, he was going THROUGH Russia. Until the US trapped him there. Also, I’ve read that he was considering going to Iceland or Ecuador, but it was Wikileaks who guided him to Hong Kong for some reason.

  11. Has anyone considered that the recent string of celebrities getting their email accounts hacked or politicians having compromising photos released could actually be the NSA analysts abusing their power and then the government swooping in to bust them while making sure they don’t reveal? I’m just saying, if it is really that easy to get into the content of someone’s email wouldn’t you think people would be poking around in those accounts, and if they found something it would only take one person to leak it public. Seems plausible to me.

    1. I can’t remember if TYT covered it but Shia LaBeouf said an agent showed him a phone call (of LaBouf’s) that he’d tapped, and said he could access anyone’s phone calls and emails etc… So you could be right; it makes a lot of sense. The temptation would be overwhelming! (imagining it now)

  13. Something TYT missed: The Yemeni reporter Abdulelah Shaye, who was kept imprisoned after a phone call with Pres. Obama, has been released from prison, something the Obama administration said it was “deeply concerned” with. Shaye reported that the US was responsible for the bombing of a Yemeni village, killing dozens of civilians.

    Another thing I found interesting: Cenk has sometimes theorized that Anwar Alwaki may have been a government asset, and they had to kill him rather than capture him to prevent him from speaking about his past relationship with the government. Jeremy Schahill’s book “Dirty Wars” seems to heavily suggest that Cenk was correct in his guess. According to the book, Alwaki was routinely harassed by police, attempting to recruit him. Upon returning to New York for the final time, he was released from custody at an airport, despite having an arrest warrant that had not yet expired. Alwaki then went to the home of another Muslim leader that the police were investigating, and even though they had never met before, Alwaki asked him for help recruiting terrorists. (He was thrown out of the house.) Alwaki’s driver to the meeting was another known government asset.

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