Author Archives: RexLatchford
Headlines & Manning Announces Gender Change
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Headlines & Manning Announces Gender Change
Tyrone [Radio InfoWeb DJ] is on vacation, and the kids are back in school – those are the headlines, here now the news.
- Obama’s Plan Aims to Rate Colleges on Availability – Gov’t tightens its grip on higher education
- Court: NSA Violated Law in Collection of Thousands of U.S. Emails
- U.S. Gov’t making a plea deal with The People?
- The real news is that snooping is affecting the economy
- Pardon Rates Low – President Obama Seldom Uses His Pardon power
- Rialto CA – Poster City for Police Cams – Violence and Abuse Reduced
- Russia’s Plutocrats about to take control of Bank of Cyprus
- RT’s News Biased in Favor of Assad Regime in Syria
- France Urges Force in Syria over Chemical Warfare
- UPS Ends medical benefits for worker’s spouses – Obamacare means health insurance convergence
- Bradley Manning announces he is female, and wishes to be known as Chelsea Manning
Headlines – Endless Snowden
Marriage Abuse in Egypt – Neanderthals Raid Guardian Office
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Marriage Abuse in Egypt – Neanderthals Raid Guardian Office
Good Morning! The cattle prod is working well this morning. I’m alive and awake, thanks to our producer Mincka Bito. I’m Rex Latchford with another Day Page, the radio blurb-of-record since 2013!
Aljazeera America launches today – yet another source of unbiased news. Right. Well, compared to what we have anyway…
Headlines, Royal Dogs, Obama Dogs, Egyptian Marriage Abuse, NSA Stories… Greenwald’s partner hit, and Guardian offices in London are raided by Neanderthals from GCHQ.
Drones of All Stripes
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Drones of All Stripes
Rex Latchford takes a quick look at the day’s headlines, and then looks into the hobbyist aspect of drones. The privacy aspect of hobbyist and commercial drones is considered. Additionally, there is speculation on the future of drones, especially hobbyist drones, as they become more intelligent and self-directed.
Earth to NSA: Give It Up
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Earth to NSA: Give It Up
DayPage – weekend edition. I’m Rex Latchford on Radio InfoWeb.
It’s the weekend, and time for reflection on the week’s events. The NSA scandal initiated by Edward Snowden’s leaked documents has been going on for over a month now.
In some ways, Friday was yet another seismic event with the release of the NSA’s own documents in the Washington Post, showing that the NSA’s overreach and proneness to error is self-documented. Thousands of violations of it’s own rules, in many cases self-made, occur every day at the agency, by it’s own admission in the documents. The troubling aspect which isn’t clearly mentioned is: what they SAY about their own infractions is completely different. In other words, they are liars. And yet, the Obama administration still scrambles to defend the NSA with it’s bulk data collection programs and domestic spying.
And hey – how about them folks in other countries? You don’t think they want privacy too? Of course they do.
As inarguable as that would seem in the face of the release of the release of the NSA’s own documents — it seems to be arguable! And still, folks who are part of the Washington machine provide a knee-jerk defense of the NSA! Dianne Feinstein, prominent and chronic apologist for the NSA called the NSA’s documents “reports” as if they came from some fringe lunatic who was simply out-to-get the NSA and could hardly be believed. No, Dianne – sorry – these are NSA documents, not “wild reports”.
Last night, I watched a PBS interview in which the interviewee clearly had less grasp of the facts than the interviewer, who soldiered on. The interviewee went on to split hairs and equivocate on when domestic spying might be OK. Sorry. It isn’t. The question isn’t whether such folks, especially President Obama, are going to somehow forceably make us “more comfortable” with bulk domestic spying. The question is, how are we going to bring it to an end?
That, my friends, is a VERY big question.
Today’s Washington Post — the paper that revealed the NSA’s self-audit Friday — carried an interesting letter-to-the-editor entitled:
NSA: Follow International Law
Regarding the Aug. 16 front-page article “Audit: NSA repeatedly broke privacy rules”:
In defending its mistakes, the National Security Agency (NSA) said that the number is insignificant, but we don’t have a complete picture of how many mistakes were made as the audit only encompassed information from a limited number of agency offices. Additionally, the NSA said that the people who work at the agency are human and make mistakes.
[The writer goes on to say…] That’s not good enough. That is why the NSA surveillance practice should be compliant with international legal standards that protect people from unlawful surveillance. Compliance would involve setting up a system to ensure that mistakes are identified and corrected before someone’s rights have been violated.
Widney Brown, New York
The writer is senior director of international law at Amnesty International.
So yes, this is a very big thing indeed. Not only do we need to bring domestic spying and bulk-data collection to an end, we need to bring it to an end outside our borders as well. The same applies to the Snooping and Spying agencies of other countries. Human rights – the rights of people, not any particular government, need to be respected. The human race has come far enough — now — that we no longer need rule by fear and intimidation. At last, we can have the human rights that Martin Luther King dreamed of. Not only for one minority — but for all the people of planet Earth.
That’s DayPage for this weekend edition. Find all the DayPages at DayPage dot net. A production of Radio InfoWeb.
NSA: Oops! We Misstated Again.
http://daypage.net/ar/DayPage~2013-08-16~NSA-_Oops_We_Misstated_Again.mp3
The following rush transcript probably contains errors and/or omissions…NSA: Oops! We Misstated Again.
Well, here we are with another DayPage, I’m Rex Latchford. If you go to DayPage.net and scroll down to June 10th, you’ll find me declaring that the Snowden story “will have legs”. Take a few minutes and give it a listen – although it’s 20 minutes long, it has lots of audio clips. I also talk about how creepy it is that the Snowden story about NSA spying finally came out – with information some of us had known for 10 years. Whatever it took, the story is out and it has legs! Fer sher…
And so we come to Today’s Washington Post. Apparently Snowden gave info to the Post as well as The Guardian, which broke the story, and other publications. {Rex goes on to read the article “into the record”]
See: Washington Post Story: NSA broke privacy rules thousands of times per year, audit finds
Note: Daypage is typically recorded before 8am New York Time, shortly before the live broadcast of Democracy Now! On that program (Audio airs at 2pm weekdays on Radio InfoWeb) there was additional coverage of the issues surrounding the Washington Post’s (above) new revelations today.
See: Democracy Now! Report: NSA Frequently Breaks Privacy Rules
See: Democracy Now! Report: Snowden Began Downloading Files in 2012 While Working at Dell
Hugh Laurie Sings the Blues
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The following rush transcript probably contains errors and/or omissions…Hugh Laurie Sings the Blues
Actually, there is no transcript for today’s DayPage, which was delivered unscripted and unrehearsed. A transcription may be provided later if resources allow.
Hugh Laurie is saddened by the loss of his character Dr. Gregory House. But all good things must come to an end, and while apparently still grieving, actor Laurie has apparently moved on to his next thing, singing the blues. If he can play the blues as well as he played the piano occasionally in House, it could be worth a listen!
Beauty Queen Cyber Nightmare – Cops and Boobs
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The following rush transcript probably contains errors and/or omissions…Beauty Queen Cyber Nightmare – Cops and Boobs
Actually, there is no transcript for today’s DayPage, which was delivered unscripted and unrehearsed. Rex has a sore throat, but soldiers on, taking a brief tour of today’s papers and tabloids. A transcription may be provided later if resources allow.
Obama Doesn’t Get It – Holder to Announce Reduced Drug Sentences
The following rush transcript probably contains errors and/or omissions…
Obama Doesn’t Get It – Holder to Announce Reduced Drug Sentences
Actually, there is no transcript for today’s DayPage, which was delivered unscripted and unrehearsed. A transcription may be provided later if resources allow.
To hear more on the NSA subject take the following link to Amy Goodman’s coverage on Democracy Now! The President’s intransigence is in evidence, and, sadly so is his prevarication on this subject. Obama Doesn’t Get It.
Obama Outlines Reforms for NSA Spying; Guardian Reveals Loophole for Warrantless Searches