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This video from the USA says about itself:

Inside the “Electronic Omnivore”: NSA Spying on U.N., Climate Summit, Text Messaging Worldwide 1/2

4 Nov 2013

As Edward Snowden seeks clemency from the United States, the New York Times has revealed new details about how the National Security Agency is spying on targets ranging from the United Nations to foreign governments to global text messages. We are joined by New York Times reporter Scott Shane, who reports that the NSA has “as an electronic omnivore of staggering capabilities, eavesdropping and hacking its way around the world to strip governments and other targets of their secrets, all the while enforcing the utmost secrecy about its own operations.”

Here is Part 2 of that interview.

The NSA surveillance operations are seamlessly connected to US preparations for cyber-war and military conflict against China: here.

The issue of the basic democratic right to asylum plays an entirely subordinate role in the debate in Germany on the plight of Edward Snowden: here.

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