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on Monday February 17 2014, @02:17PM
from the If-you-can't-trust-spies,-who-can-you-trust? dept.
from the If-you-can't-trust-spies,-who-can-you-trust? dept.
Submitter ticho writes:
"The latest Snowden revelation suggests that Australia's spies are committing economic espionage on Americans, for the benefit of the American government.
The NSA's espionage partners in Australia offered the U.S. intelligence agency surveillance information on an American law firm that was representing the Indonesian government in a trade case against the U.S., according to leaked documents from Edward Snowden's stash.
Read more here."
[Ed. Note] This is another long-denied open secret now documented. One can only wonder what we gve Australia in return. Here is the NY Times article referenced in the above article.
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Monday February 17 2014, @08:09PM
So, all the 5 Eyes are using each other to do an end-run around the Constitution (and their analogues in the other Eyes) and national laws. For me, this reveals a much larger problem than simply tearing down Washington DC and starting over. Instead, we need a global solution, or at least, a transnational one. Now that we've all had a year to absorb what Snowden has revealed, it's time to begin taking drastic measures to put things aright.
First, in America, an Article 5 national convention called for by 2/3rd's of the state legislatures to cut DC out of the loop is a great start. DC, K Street, and Wall Street can have no part in the conversation. The Constitution 2.0 must permanently separate wealth from politics. Publicly funded elections, Non-partisan redistricting, revoking corporate personhood, and similar measures that have been talked about for decades must be realized. Personally, I would also like to see measures taken to keep sociopaths out of office, but I realize that's more difficult to accomplish than the aforementioned.
Washington DC delenda est.