Well if you hate your country then try and fix it.
I love mine, and I hate some of the problems we got, but I'd never go anywhere else. If enemies try to attack us, then don't whine when we retaliate. And yes we've had a technical coup de tat during Roosevelt era, he ignored the standard 2 terms and stayed in 4 terms, 16 years instead of 8. It was after him that a new amendment was formed to force the 2 term limitation as before it was a honored tradition only stated verbally by George Washington, and kept until Roosevelt, then a law had to be made to stop it from happening again. Since he abused it.

become a hactivist, if you don't want to take up arms. learn sql injection, xss attacks, and use wikileaks to expose things and force changes. Or if the majority is fed up then the people have the right to coup de tat.

If you don't like how Americans on a whole do things, then in your router block the American CIDR. Go to Arin.net and you can easily firewall the entire country so you'll never see another Amercan based website again.

While I may dislike certain policies or even hate my president and disagree with occasional supreme court ruling. There's 3 things I'd have zero problems dying for. First I'd die for my son, I'd die to defend myself and my home, and I'd die for my country.
The American dream can never be destroyed, no matter how retarded and uneducated the 'political correct' mongs try, or any whining, or anything at all, will never change the American way of life.

I'll let a few founding fathers' quotes explain the ferocity of the "American way of life". I would never want to live anywhere else.

"I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery."
- Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison, January 30, 1787

“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759

"Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation on Earth."
- James Madison

"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom... go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels nor arms. May your chains set lightly upon you and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
- Samuel Adams; 1776


and in response to people like you who attack what we say/do/etc for not being "political correct" or whatever made up phobia they want to use this week.

"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
- Thomas Paine

SPIEGEL: It would surely have been a deterrence for other sources. But most of the journalists insist on being independent and objective. They also like to stress that they are not political activists.

Assange: All they show is that they are activists for the way things are.

Even after being locked in a hole for years, Julian is as sharp as ever. It's been almost 6 years since I met him at the 26C3... maybe he'll be out by the time 40C3 comes around.

Tuesday: head of counter-intelligence says there is no evidence for espionage by the NSA [in Germany].

Wednesday: WikiLeaks publishes lists of top German NSA targets and intercepts.

Thursday: I need to grab a replacement keyboard from my shelf, because the previous one is now, once again, covered in coffee from when I had a laughing fit.

Latest WikiLeaks release about TISA: https://wikileaks.org/tisa-financial/

What struck my eye was the list of partners on the left. It includes, amongst others, a public broadcaster from my country. So our government is moving mountains to keep all these trade agreements secret, yet a public broadcaster with a board of directors made up of mostly the very same politicians is working with WikiLeaks to expose it.

Wierd shit...

Alexa O'Brien & Sarah Harrison had the main stage today to discuss WikiLeaks/Snowden/NSA/Manning/journalism and I thought you might be interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgAdXibXgMk

A professional recording will be released later today, maybe tomorrow, but I'll probably have forgotten all about it by then.

Jake Applebaum and Jilian York were scheduled for a talk right after them, but I wasn't able to attend, so I can't say if it was as interesting as I hope it was. It'll be on YT by tomorrow...

Edit: proper video now available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DMlhh-U-cU

WL doubled down and leaked the Environment Chapter today.

My head's going to explode one of these days. It's just too damn much too read out there.

It's a hacking convention, basically. I've been attending since the 26C3, the very year that Assange and Domscheit-Berg introduced WikiLeaks 1.0.

Up until this year, very few people outside the community cared about the topics that were discussed. Snowden really lifted attendence and media attention to new heights, even though the public still doesn't care about some crucial topics such as the vulnerability of mobile networks or an entire host of topics about the pitiful state of affairs in Germany.

Speaking of, you're really missing out on the most entertaining events of the entire congress. They always provide a real time translation, but I'm not sure if any stream dumps include the additional audio track.

Just two examples:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XB71MzDrdE
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to48QrlodDI

The first talk details how Germany was the most densely monitored country in history, at least from '49 to '90. Every phone call logged, every piece of mail scanned by the US, the UK or France. This includes everything coming from or going to East Germany. Ironically, the most important station for the monitoring of intra-German mail now hosts Amazon's largest distribution center in Europe.

The second talk is quite simply the greatest review of 2013 from a nerd's perspective.

Edit: yikes, this was supposed to be much shorter.

Really? So you missed the whole collateral bullshit video where they tried to edit a video in an attempt to make it look like US helicopter fired on a group unarmed men that just happen to be also shadowing a US convoy?

So what part of "independently verified document" did you not understand?
I do not trust wikileaks. so going to their site means nothing.

So your one of the people that thinks government propaganda and biased reporting is ok as long as its against the US, Europe and NATO?
really, you don't see a problem with it? and then you bash on fauxnews in very next line. Thats one hell of blind spot you got.

When did Wikileaks lie? Must've missed that one. Want proof, well, that's easy. Just go and read those reports, they are all open now.

http://wikileaks.org/tpp/

RT is Russia Times, yes. They are still news and blatantly lying don't fit to even the worst reputable news sources (excluding Fox, which which actually does lie on day-to-day basis). Not reporting, coloring the truth, exaggerating or down-playing, those are the weapons news media uses.

In Europe, we heard about this deal months ago but since it's literally on the other side of the world, we don't care enough. And we can't really do anything about it.

Sorry, do to the fact wikileaks has already lied once and RT is government owned propaganda station trying to pass off as a news channel. I can not trust anything they report.
Does anyone have any independently verified documentation to back this up?

World leaders are cumulatively an agency for international corporations. NATFA, MAI, TPP, and every g8, g12, gWhatever summit are all secretive meetings with the same end result: to break down barriers to trade and facilitate greater corporate profit. These agreements give corporations the power to supersede local labour, environmental and trade laws and they have been layering one agreement atop another for years.

Thank you to Wikileaks for exposing what protesters on the ground have always known but weren't able to prove. Once thought of as lunatics, they are now the most sane among us. It's going to be a sad world if we don't stand up to corporate money in politics, although they'll be keeping us happy in the meantime with cheap goods and entertainment and status-quo, happy-happy news reporting from mainstream media.

Here are the TPP WikiLeaks documents http://wikileaks.org/tpp/
*promote

Wikileaks TPP agreement leaked. Thought you might be interested.
http://wikileaks.org/tpp/

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/nsa-spaehaffaere-videomaterial-vom-treffen-mit-edward-snowden-1.1809708

Videos taken at the meeting with Snowden.

Video #1, clockwise: John Goetz (Sueddeutsche), Sarah Harrison (WikiLeaks), Snowden, Christian Stroebele (MP, Green Party), Georg Mascolo (previously Editor-in-Chief of DER SPIEGEL)

Assange apparently read the script to this film and believes it to be a propaganda attack on Wikileaks.