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In reply to the discussion: Pierre Omidyar - Libertarian GG's Libertarian Billionaire Boss [View all]Whisp
(24,096 posts)24. No, the content is from Boiling Frogs. Here:
http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2013/12/11/bfp-breaking-news-omidyars-paypal-corporation-said-to-be-implicated-in-withheld-nsa-documents/
Is that Alex Jones/info wars there too? Of course, same info here at BFS as in the my other post if you want to look. But a bit juicier actually:
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Update 2: Glenn Greenwald Goes on Record: I Dont Doubt PayPal Cooperates with NSA!
Sibel Edmonds | December 13, 2013 5 Comments
On December 11, 2013, at 4:16 pm, after the publication of our report on NSA-PayPal partnership and long-going cooperation, Glenn Greenwald responded via twitter, and here is what he said-verbatim:
Mr. Greenwald has confirmed the main premise of our news report: PayPal is among corporations that have been providing NSA with our data. However, Mr. Greenwald denies that Edward Snowdens 50,000-page cache contains any evidence implicating his new boss corporation-PayPal. Yet, this same Mr. Greenwald refuses to publicize the documents and prove this claim. At the same time, this exact same Mr. Greenwald demands that we make public all our sources and all our communications with our sources.
Now I am asking Mr. Greenwald to prove his publicly-made claim: That he knows, without a doubt, with one hundred percent certainty, that his new billionaire owner and boss Omidyars PayPal Corporation is in fact one of the corporations that has been cooperating with the NSAs illegal surveillance.
For nearly a decade Glenn Greenwald had justifiably attacked all mainstream media outlets as Corporate Media. However, after he came in possession of the 50,000-page documents implicating the NSA, he entered into a business venture with a Major Corporate Mogul, the billionaire owner of PayPal & eBay Corporations, for $250 million, whom he will be reporting for and under. There exists no doubt that the billionaire Corporation-ist is at least as Corporate as the corporate mainstream media Greenwald spent ten years attacking.
Is that Alex Jones/info wars there too? Of course, same info here at BFS as in the my other post if you want to look. But a bit juicier actually:
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Update 2: Glenn Greenwald Goes on Record: I Dont Doubt PayPal Cooperates with NSA!
Sibel Edmonds | December 13, 2013 5 Comments
On December 11, 2013, at 4:16 pm, after the publication of our report on NSA-PayPal partnership and long-going cooperation, Glenn Greenwald responded via twitter, and here is what he said-verbatim:
I dont doubt PayPal cooperates with NSA that this is in the docs that weve been paid to withhold are total lies.
Lets remain completely verbatim and verified:
John Schoneboom @jrs7000
@ggreenwald Come on. Docs aside, you deny PayPal arrangement with NSA, or consider it irrelevant? Not accusing you, seeking clarification.
Glenn Greenwald ✔ @ggreenwald
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@jrs7000 I dont doubt Paypal cooperates with NSA that this is in the docs that weve been paid to withhold are total lies.
4:16 PM 11 Dec 2013
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John Schoneboom @jrs7000
@ggreenwald Come on. Docs aside, you deny PayPal arrangement with NSA, or consider it irrelevant? Not accusing you, seeking clarification.
Glenn Greenwald ✔ @ggreenwald
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@jrs7000 I dont doubt Paypal cooperates with NSA that this is in the docs that weve been paid to withhold are total lies.
4:16 PM 11 Dec 2013
17 RETWEETS 7 FAVORITES
Mr. Greenwald has confirmed the main premise of our news report: PayPal is among corporations that have been providing NSA with our data. However, Mr. Greenwald denies that Edward Snowdens 50,000-page cache contains any evidence implicating his new boss corporation-PayPal. Yet, this same Mr. Greenwald refuses to publicize the documents and prove this claim. At the same time, this exact same Mr. Greenwald demands that we make public all our sources and all our communications with our sources.
Now I am asking Mr. Greenwald to prove his publicly-made claim: That he knows, without a doubt, with one hundred percent certainty, that his new billionaire owner and boss Omidyars PayPal Corporation is in fact one of the corporations that has been cooperating with the NSAs illegal surveillance.
For nearly a decade Glenn Greenwald had justifiably attacked all mainstream media outlets as Corporate Media. However, after he came in possession of the 50,000-page documents implicating the NSA, he entered into a business venture with a Major Corporate Mogul, the billionaire owner of PayPal & eBay Corporations, for $250 million, whom he will be reporting for and under. There exists no doubt that the billionaire Corporation-ist is at least as Corporate as the corporate mainstream media Greenwald spent ten years attacking.
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Guy's not perfect, but he's one of the few billionaires interested in supporting democracy.
Octafish
Jun 2014
#3
eBay Shrugged: Pierre Omidyar believes there should be no philanthropy without profit
Whisp
Jun 2014
#4
Libertarians like Omidyar and Greenwald believe in completely unfettered free markets. nt
Cali_Democrat
Jun 2014
#23
Half of the article on DailyPaul that you linked to is from Infowars
muriel_volestrangler
Jun 2014
#20
You may think Stormfront and infowars are okay to link to here now, but I don't
muriel_volestrangler
Jun 2014
#43
GG and Co. give a shit about domestic spying. It's a ruse, it's bait for the gullible.
Whisp
Jun 2014
#29
No, I'm saying Omidyar and Co. are using people's fear for profit. Just like the NRA.
Whisp
Jun 2014
#32
I disagree wholeheartedly. I am seeing the same kinds of reactions from the groups.
Whisp
Jun 2014
#40
Ah. So all his experience in cyber security is null and void if he profits from it?
Cerridwen
Jun 2014
#44
Then the Vanity Fair article from 2004 will really make things tough for you.
Cerridwen
Jun 2014
#56
So if someone's boss isn't ideologically pure enough for anonymous internet dudes
riderinthestorm
Jun 2014
#34
There's a lot of distance between ideologically pure and filthy money grubbing ghoul. n/t
Whisp
Jun 2014
#38
Since when do "investors" in Kiva make anything from their "investments?"
Jackpine Radical
Jun 2014
#53