Ray’s team, debating pro, lost 149 to 150, but there was great fun to be had! Ray’s 10 minutes can be found at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w79XPIlwdvY
Ray’s team, debating pro, lost 149 to 150, but there was great fun to be had! Ray’s 10 minutes can be found at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w79XPIlwdvY
Before Ray debated at the Oxford Forum on Jan. 24, he was interviewed for the Programme for the Study of Freedom at St. Antony’s College, Oxford. Ray had time to tell some of his favorite media-related stories. (32 min.)
http://freespeechdebate.com/en/media/in-defence-of-whistleblowing/
MP Clare Daly: “Stop Pimping Ireland For a Pat on the Head.” During Leaders’ Questions in Parliament (6 min.)
(20 min.)
Ray includes inside stories about how the ethos at NSA (once governed by the “First Commandment” there: “Thou shalt not eavesdrop on Americans without a court warrant”) crumbled. All it took was a President who considered the Constitution just a “piece of paper;” dark-side Dick Cheney, and martinet generals thirsting for yet another star, a Congress that can see no evil but “the bad guys;” and Presto! – intrusive eavesdropping that would put the Gestapo and the East German Stasi to shame.
Our generals, part of the upper crust, know what’s best for us. They need to tell us the “least untruthful” lies, you see, because they have decided we can’t handle the truth. Ray draws parallels with Germany during the 1930s and ends quoting Dr. King: “There is such a thing as too late.”
And there is.
Trouble at High Tea Today in Northern Ireland
http://consortiumnews.com/2013/06/17/uk-grapples-with-spying-disclosure/
What’s Behind U.S. Announcement of More Weapons to ??? in Syria Ray interview on RT (3 minutes)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPUskijpzlU
http://consortiumnews.com/2013/06/13/secrecys-tangled-web-of-deceit/
From Sir Walter Scott (enhanced)
“Oh what a tangled web we weave When first we practice to deceive. But when we’ve practiced for a while, We markedly improve our style.”
6/13/13
Mike Walter hosts John Higginson, political editor at London’s “Metro Newspaper” from London and Ray (in studio in Washington) (9 min.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_Jwl5z1DsM&feature=c4-overview&list=UUlFMx7RWd1z0CgH9hTyfjjw
Those of us who, like Snowden, took a solemn oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic” will not let ourselves be intimidated, like the frightened, timid, obedient Germans of the 1930s and watch “turnkey tyranny” (Snowden’s warning) be introduced into the country we love and fought to defend. (3:40 min.)
http://www.presstv.ir/usdetail/308627.html