Profile In Courage: CITIZENFOUR

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Citizenfour

Laura Poitras 2014 1:53:20

In January 2013, film-maker Laura Poitras received an encrypted e-mail from a stranger who called himself Citizen Four. In it, he offered her inside information about illegal wiretapping practices of the NSA and other intelligence agencies. Poitras had already been working for several years on a film about mass surveillance programs in the United States, and so in June 2013, she went to Hong Kong with her camera for the first meeting with the stranger, who identified himself as Edward Snowden. She was met there by investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald and The Guardian intelligence reporter Ewen MacAskill. Several other meetings followed. Citizenfour is based on the recordings from these meetings. What follows is the largest confirmations of mass surveillance using official documents themselves, the world has never seen…

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The Cost Of Acting On One's Beliefs: EDWARD SNOWDEN

There are two questions I have in mind on holding on to one's beliefs looking at both sides:

1. Would I alert my fellow human beings if I have information that a system is in place that may cause them great harm, knowing that with the revelation I would be exposed to great personal harm?

2. Would I do whatever is possible to prevent individuals from endangering a system that can bring great good to the larger community if my responsibility deals with national security?

Video one examines the issues with the makers of the film on Edward Snowden's reasons for telling all. It looks at the implications of exposing a system that invades a person's private space.




Video 2 shows the film examining the tremendous dangers and serious harm that accompany this act of exposure of Edward Snowden and those who believed in him.

National Security As The Reason To Collect Information On Every American Citizen

A One-world System. One Government. One Currency. One Justice. One Information Source. One Database. One Total Control System.

Eventually this may be a probability: A ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT.

Questions:

IS A SYSTEM AVAILABLE RIGHT NOW TO LOOK INTO THE PRIVATE INFOBANK OF EACH INDIVIDUAL IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA?

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE CHECKS-AND-BALANCE CLAUSE ON PRIVACY IS REMOVED ON GROUNDS OF NATIONAL SECURITY?

This video examines the debate arising from the case of EDWARD SNOWDEN leaking information to Wikileaks that the US government is collecting information on its citizens and those considered to be threat-causing to America.

Of interest to me is the direction that POWERFUL government is taking to control the fundamental rights of each individual in the name of national security.

A ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT may not lead to one big happy family of diverse individuals.

A ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT is concerned with efficiency, law and order, conformity and control. Individual happiness and personal rights are subject to the over-riding safeguarding of NATIONAL SECURITY.


Enjoy the debate on the necessity to collect information on every citizen to safeguard the security of the nation.

The Future Evolving Predictably

Imagine:

One World. One System. One Currency. One Government. One Religion. One Belief. One Head. One Law. One Court. One Armed Forces. One Police Force. One Education. One Law Enforcement Unit.

ONE BIG FAMILY. HAPPY. CONFORMING. ALL SAME. ALL COMFORTABLE.

Some questions regarding this BIG WORLD OF ONE:

Can the diverse mass of human beings in every nation on planet earth be organised into a one world system?

Can the plans to bring this about be seen playing out right now?

What are a few characteristics that one can see when the plans are being played out?

What will be the benefits for a one world system?

What will be the effects of a one world system on people who do not conform?

Watch and decide if this presentation is a ridiculous fantasy:

THE ONE WORLD SYSTEM IS BEING MADE

Can A Drought Be Engineered?

See the drought in California.

Then ask this question: CAN A DROUGHT BE ENGINEERED?

Here is the answer from an informed member of the American Community:

The Robot Salah

How far can you push dance?

Here is a spectacular answer.

Al Jaffee, As MAD As Can Be

I am a result of many influences.

My grandmother told stories of the THREE KINGDOMS of bad guys and heroes.

My schooling in St. Xavier's exposes me to bad guys and heroes.

My training in St. Joseph's Teachers' Training College gave me an inside look into the value systems of bad guys and heroes.

My stint in The Specialist Training Institute offered me ample opportunities to choose being a bad guy or a hero.

And now living in Malaysia, is heroes-bad guys galore: good is bad and bad is good!

It is interesting time when meanness, crassness and toughness wins.

The Shroud Of Turin is an impactful reminder to me to keep close to the fundamentals of decent human living.

The MAD artists keep inspiring me remember my own uniqueness and to work at developing it whatever the results.

Al Jaffee follows my MAD unique heroes.

His Fold-Ins are unique and ingenious.

His Snappy Answers To Stupid Questions, plus his inventions of strange contraptions are intellectually boggling.