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By Lidia Kelly and Alessandra Prentice
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Former intelligence agency contractor Edward Snowden asked to meet human rights groups at a Moscow airport on Friday to discuss what he called threatening and illegal behavior by the United States to prevent him gaining asylum.
Human rights activists and lawyers arrived at the airport for what would be the first meeting of its kind since Snowden flew to Moscow from Hong Kong on June 23. He has been stranded in the transit area of Sheremetyevo airport ever since, unable to take up asylum offers from third countries.
Snowden, 30, has not been seen in public since his arrival, but Russian officials say he is still in the airport's transit zone. President Vladimir Putin has shown impatience with the extended stay, but Snowden has no clear route to a safe haven.
Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua have offered Snowden asylum, but he has not revealed his plans. Washington, which seeks to arrest Snowden on charges of espionage in divulging details of secret U.S. surveillance programs, has revoked Snowden's passport and pressed nations not to take him in or help him travel.
"In recent weeks we have witnessed an unlawful campaign by officials in the U.S. Government to deny my right to seek and enjoy this asylum under Article 14 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights," the emailed letter said.
"The scale of threatening behavior is without precedent," read the letter, a copy of which was posted on Facebook by Tanya Lokshina, deputy director of the Moscow office of New York-based Human Rights Watch.
Airport officials invitees had been told to gather at the Soviet-built Terminal F building and would then be taken to a meeting closed to reporters.
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch confirmed they had received the invitation, sent on Thursday afternoon.
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Some invitees speculated that Snowden, who revealed details of secret U.S. surveillance programs after working as a contractor at a U.S. National Security Agency facility in Hawaii, might ask for asylum in Russia.
Putin may have reveled in the discomfort of Russia's former Cold War foe but he has kept Snowden at arms length. He says Snowden, not having passed through customs and passport control, has not formally entered Russian territory and should choose a final destination and travel as soon as possible.
The Kremlin said Snowden withdrew a request for asylum in Russia earlier this month after Putin said Russia would not take him in unless he stopped activities aimed at "harming our American partners".
Russia may want him out before it hosts finance ministers from the G20, which includes the United States, next week.
Putin's spokesman said on Friday that Snowden had not asked to meet anyone from the presidential administration and that Putin was not involved in deciding Snowden's fate.
"We don't know anything. It's not an issue that's on the president's agenda," said Dmitry Peskov.
Snowden's options for getting to Latin America or anywhere else are limited.
There are no direct commercial flights from Moscow to Venezuela, Nicaragua or Bolivia, and any flight over the United States, or those of an ally, could be fraught with risk.
Bolivian President Evo Morales's official jet had to land in Austria after departing from Moscow, amid suspicions that Snowden was on board, triggering accusations that Washington had asked European countries to bar the flight from their airspace.
"Never before in history have states conspired to force to the ground a sovereign President's plane to effect a search for a political refugee," the invitation to the meeting with Snowden said.
"This dangerous escalation represents a threat not just to the dignity of Latin America or my own personal security, but to the basic right shared by every living person to live free from persecution."
(Additional reporting by Maria Tsvetkova; Writing by Thomas Grove; Editing by Douglas Busvine and Steve Gutterman, Ralph Boulton)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/fugitive-snowden-meet-human-rights-groups-official-070112908.html
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SOFTWARE HOUSE Microsoft has responded to reports about PRISM surveillance, and tried to distance itself from suggestions that it is an open book to intelligence agencies.
The firm has released a statement following a report in the Guardian newspaper that accused it of handing over "blanket access" to its customers' data.
The Guardian report said that Microsoft threw open its doors to the US intelligence services, and it claimed that files provided by Edward Snowden have shown the extent of access Microsoft gave to the US National Security Agency (NSA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
The Guardian story accused Microsoft of giving the NSA blanket access to Outlook.com and Hotmail as well as Skydrive and Skype.
Material that the NSA extracted across these properties is "routinely shared" with the FBI and the CIA, according to the newspaper.
Microsoft is not the only company accused of collusion with US intelligence agencies, but it has been portrayed as being rather zealous in its involvement.
The Guardian reported that Microsoft boasted about its data delivery capabilities in Skype, and its tripled PRISM data collection operations.
Microsoft disputed this, claiming that it is a principled company and takes its customers' privacy seriously.
"We have clear principles which guide the response across our entire company to government demands for customer information for both law enforcement and national security issues," it said.
"First, we take our commitments to our customers and to compliance with applicable law very seriously, so we provide customer data only in response to legal processes. Second, our compliance team examines all demands very closely, and we reject them if we believe they aren't valid. Third, we only ever comply with orders about specific accounts or identifiers, and we would not respond to the kind of blanket orders discussed in the press over the past few weeks, as the volumes documented in our most recent disclosure clearly illustrate."
In case we hadn't worked it out, Microsoft said that it definitely does not give any government direct access to its users' activities, explaining, "To be clear, Microsoft does not provide any government with blanket or direct access to SkyDrive, Outlook.com, Skype or any Microsoft product."
However, it added that there are times when product changes and legal obligations collide, adding that it will serve information based on law enforcement requests.
"Finally when we upgrade or update products legal obligations may in some circumstances require that we maintain the ability to provide information in response to a law enforcement or national security request," it added
"There are aspects of this debate that we wish we were able to discuss more freely. That's why we've argued for additional transparency that would help everyone understand and debate these important issues." ?
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by Stephen Lendman, SJLendman.Blogspot.com:
Headlines cheered America?s June report. Bloomberg said ?US Employers Added More Workers in June Than Forecast.?
?Employment roared ahead in June.? America?s ?economy is poised for faster growth as it shakes off the impact of tax increases and budget cuts.?
The Wall Street Journal headlined ?Job Gains Show Staying Power,? saying:
June showed ?solid promise.? Doing so suggests ?the economy might be strong enough to grow with less help from the Federal Reserve.? More on that below.
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Source: http://sgtreport.com/2013/07/jobs-report-shows-america-in-decline/
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June 30, 2013 ? An international team of astronomers may have found a new way to map quasars, the energetic and luminous central regions often found in distant galaxies. Team leader Prof. Andy Lawrence of the University of Edinburgh presents the new results on Monday 1 July at the RAS National Astronomy Meeting in St Andrews, Scotland.
If a star passes too close to a giant black hole found in the centre of a galaxy, it will be shredded by the strong gravitational field. This produces a flare-up in the brightness of an otherwise normal looking galaxy that then fades over a few months. In a large scale survey using the PanSTARRS telescope on Hawaii, Prof. Lawrence and his team studied millions of galaxies to search for this rare effect. They did find flare-ups but with very different behaviour to the 'star shredding' predictions.
Instead of seeing a fade over months, the objects they found look like 'normal' quasars, regions in the centre of galaxies where material is swirling around a giant black hole in a disk. But the quasars in the survey were not seen a decade ago, so must now be at least ten times brighter than before. Monitoring with the Liverpool Telescope on La Palma showed that they are also changing slowly, fading over a timescale of years rather than months.
The biggest surprise however was that the quasars seemed to be at the wrong distance. Measuring the characteristic shift in lines found in the spectrum of the quasars allows astronomers to measure the speed at which they are moving away from Earth. Knowing the way in which the universe is expanding enables scientists to deduce the distance to each object.
In the new survey, the quasars are typically around 10 billion light years away, whereas the galaxies that host them seem on average to be about 3 billion light years distant. The distances are rough estimates, so it could be that the estimated galaxy distances are completely wrong and that they are actually much further away. The black holes in their centres have then have flared up very dramatically, explaining why they seem so bright. But past studies of thousands of well-known quasars have never shown events on this scale.
If however the estimated galaxy distances are right, then Prof. Lawrence and his team believe they are looking at a distant quasar through a foreground galaxy. Normally this has little effect on the light of the quasar, but if a single star in the foreground galaxy passes exactly in front of the quasar, it can produce a gravitational focusing of the light which makes the background quasar seem temporarily much brighter.
This "microlensing" phenomenon is well known inside our own Galaxy, producing a brightening when one star passes in front of another. (It is for example also now being used to detect exoplanets). Microlensing may also be the cause of low-level "flickering" seen in some quasars. But this is the first time it has been suggested to cause such giant brightening events.
Prof. Lawrence sees real potential in this newly-discovered effect. "This could give us a way to map out the internal structure of quasars in a way that is otherwise impossible, because quasars are so small. As the star moves across the face of the distant quasar, it is like scanning a magnifying glass across it, revealing details that would otherwise simply be impossible to detect."
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