Blog PostsFriends | BlogThe Guardian"Edward Snowden, NSA and GCHQ - Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger questioned - Truthloader"Streamed live on Dec 3, 2013 Guardian editor, Alan Rusbridger, is having to defend his newspaper's coverage of the Edward Snowden, NSA and GCHQ story in front of a committee of MPs. Snowden, a former Booz Allen Hamilton contractor, became a whistleblower on the extent to which intelligence agencies are able to spy on people around the world when he passed documents to Glenn Greenwald. Since then spy programmes like PRISM, TEMPORA and XKeyscore have been revealed in the Guardian and other publications. Subscribe to our channel: http://bit.ly/TRUsub Why you should subscribe to Truthloader: http://bit.ly/1aGJD0a More videos from Truthloader: Syria is starving: http://bit.ly/1bV4tdD What is Israel's Magic Wand?: http://bit.ly/1emh4a4 Where is the most polluted place on Earth?: http://bit.ly/1g21m4d Police officer brutally beaten up in New York: http://bit.ly/18tzhRO Occupy abolish $15m debt in the US: http://bit.ly/I4mYB1 Afghan army torture prisoner as US forces look on: http://bit.ly/HCBcJg Private prisons: How US corporations make money out of locking you up: http://bit.ly/HKLbNb Anonymous Million Mask London 2013: http://bit.ly/16DVDPh Is China taking over the world?: http://bit.ly/HwHcmv Saudi whips and beats victim for looking at his wife: http://bit.ly/1aLlSET The NSA has collected your address book: http://bit.ly/1cswbRD Abductions and executions: Counterterrorism under Obama: http://bit.ly/18G9zoK The war on drugs is a war on you (Part One): http://bit.ly/19pXcgC A race for what's left of the planet - The Arctic battleground: http://bit.ly/15hsbOy Check out our top 20 videos playlist: http://bit.ly/V55Vna Follow us on Facebook: facebook.com/truthloader Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/truthloader Join us on Google+: http://google.com/+truthloader Read our reddit: reddit.com/r/truthloader Truthloader is a channel dedicated to citizen journalism. We find the best examples of crowd-sourced video and independent content, then use our expertise to add context and analysis. We respond to the stories you're interested in, so if you've got a story you'd love us to get to the bottom of, tweet us, Facebook us, or respond to our videos with a comment - and perhaps check out our reddit. There may be something in this..#WednesdayWisdomStory of my life...#fml And That’s Probably Why I’m Single.... #storyofmylife #Fridayfeeling\LAHY-uh-nahyz\She brought me up to royalties, and people with stars and garters, and elderly ladies with gigantic tiaras and parrot noses. She spoke of me as her dearest friend. I had only met her once before, but she had took it into her head to lionize me.-- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891 Lionize comes from the noun senses of lion meaning "an object of interest or note" and "a person of great importance, influence, charm, etc., who is much admired as a celebrity." It entered English in the early 1800s. apparition A \ap-uh-RISH-uh n\Quotes He turned his eyes towards the entrance and beheld a strange and dreadful apparition, a monstrous and fearful shape standing silently by his side. -- , Plutarch, Parallel Lives, translated by Bernadotte Perrin, 1917Apparition ultimately derives from the Latin verb appārēre meaning "to appear," itself a derivative from the Latin via Old French. It entered English in the early 1500s. "Logophobia,"There is just one cure for logophobia, and that is self-scrutiny--to discover whether one's reaction to a given term when seen in a newspaper or heard from a platform is really justified by the true significance.-- , "Logophobia," The Nation, August 23, 1919 |