http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SORM : Snowden's next target.
What is there to blow whistle about? Everybody knows about it.
Snowden asylum still under review, stays in airport for now
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#152Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can't agree more (Russian here). In Russia it's all about putting up a show of anti-americanism, because that's what the voters like (the one thing that brings back memories of relative security of late Soviet days). Think Osama bin Laden granting asylum to Snowden in some remote Taliban camp.
Think Osama bin Laden granting asylum to Snowden in some remote Taliban camp. Strange, I am Russian and have been living in Russia for 5 years now (and before that for 20 years in the UK and Holland). And I cannot agree with your Taliban analogy even remotely. Actually, life in Russia today in some ways feels more free than in Europe. For example you don't need to be politically correct (self-censoring) when expressi…
I'm sure Russia is a fine place if you're not a journalist, particularly invested in the democratic process, gay or in any other LGBTQ group. Why, it's all worth it for smoking in pubs!
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#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
My guess is Putin requested this to placate the US rather than out of concern. Yesterday the US and Russia both announced they'd be arming opposing sides in Syria, so placating the US might not be as big a priority now. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-russia-simultaneously-annou...
Oh goddammit! I thought we were over Russia and the US doing that cold war bullshit. Seriously, if you're going to fight a war fight an economic war, much less destructive to other people than the little proxy wars the big boys seems to love so much.
Economic wars can be just as destructive in an insidious way...
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#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can't agree more (Russian here). In Russia it's all about putting up a show of anti-americanism, because that's what the voters like (the one thing that brings back memories of relative security of late Soviet days). Think Osama bin Laden granting asylum to Snowden in some remote Taliban camp.
Think Osama bin Laden granting asylum to Snowden in some remote Taliban camp. Strange, I am Russian and have been living in Russia for 5 years now (and before that for 20 years in the UK and Holland). And I cannot agree with your Taliban analogy even remotely. Actually, life in Russia today in some ways feels more free than in Europe. For example you don't need to be politically correct (self-censoring) when expressi…
> For example you don't need to be politically correct (self-censoring) when expressing your private or political views.
Right.
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#155Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Putin is a man of his word :-)
Any reasons to believe otherwise? The only thing I hold against him is his failure, as promised, to hang Georgian president by his balls. Eating necktie is a weak substitute.
He's well known to fake publicity stunts, such as:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2045848/Vladimir-Put...
Remember, he comes from the KGB, eventually rising to be the FSB director (the KGB successor).
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#156I feel like the title of this is a lie as the article states something different. I hate being lied to and manipulated.
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#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
Would it stretch your moral intellect too far to identify a key distinction there? Namely, intent matters: The U.S., as far as anyone has demonstrated, does not set out to kill journalists because what they write is inconvenient.
The United States government traffics drugs such as heroin [1], has started wars under false pretenses to profit multi-national corporations [2] [3], backs death squads in Indonesia [4], tried to convince Martin Luther King Jr. to commit suicide [5], has conducted covert operations to dismantle and replace government structures across the world [6], has conducted experiments involving drugs like LSD on unwilling part…
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#158The Tom Hanks movie "The Terminal" seems rather relevant here.
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#159It seems he accepted Putin's terms to not release anymore information. I wonder if that means no more information coming out, period, or that since most/all of the information is now with third parties that it's their responsibility. I doubt Putin likes being disrespected with loopholes and technicalities, but I more-so doubt that Snowden would halt the revelations altogether for the sake of his own safety. I suspect…
I think that Putin simply cares about appearing cooperative with his American "friends", so as to avoid any repercussions. Also there is definitely some play on words here, since we know that Snowden cannot have any control about the information he has already given to various individuals. So yes, he probably won't release any more info personally .
Also, when Putin says "don't release" he is NOT saying "don't give to me"....
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#160Earlier quoted context omitted.
Granting asylum to Snowden will just influence relations between US and Russia,and is not done to be coherent with previous standings of the country on the topic of human rights,almost always different. We have to be careful not to associate concepts like "freedom of speech" and "example of democracy" with countries like Russia, given the actual situation the people there live under I am not sure we can say Russia ho…
Exactly, imagine how the situation would've played out if Snowden were gay (or a woman).
I don't think anything would be different if he was a woman.