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June 5th marks the 1 year anniversary since the first trove of Snowden leaks was released.

June 5th marks the 1 year anniversary since the first trove of Snowden leaks was released.

And it also was the day when "the Kp" left Hawai'i to begin "The Turtle Island Journey" on the mainland. I arrived on Turtle Island on June 6, 2013. It is no coincidence that Snowden's major revelation came on the same date.

This and the next article just are to give some idea of what has been "apocalypsed" (unveiled) since that day. I feel that all of us who participated (in a physical, energetic, or other sense) in "The Journey" were also contributing to the transformation sparked by Ed Snowden's documents release.

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NSA blowback: Top 8 political scandals sparked by Snowden leaks

The Snowden revelations hit like a bomb, sending out shrapnel which risked severing US ties with friendly and not-so-friendly states alike. Here are the top eight bilateral debacles sparked by NSA spying, whose fallout could be felt for years to come.

http://coub.com/view/1xwjm [click the link to view a rather annoying sounding dial tone ad for RT's June 5 Snowden revelation coverage]

One is an economically prosperous island paradise which doesn't even have a military, the other a landlocked and war-torn nation racked by poverty and an extreme climate. So what could they have in common? Both countries have almost all of their domestic and international calls recorded and stored by the National Security Agency (NSA) for up to 30 days. Rumblings in the Bahamas have been muted. As for Afghanistan, the biggest political fallout comes from already NSA-weary Western allies, who are asking Washington why it needs to record the phone calls of law-abiding Afghans.

 

Reuters / Omar Sobhani

Reuters / Omar Sobhani

7. Here's to the Reset!

American spies operating out of the UK intercepted the top-secret communications of then-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev during the 2009 G20 summit in London. Barack Obama definitely came out of the situation looking as two-faced as Batman's Harvey Dent, as Medvedev's missives were seized just hours after his first meeting with the US president, where they struck a warm tone and promised a "fresh start" in US-Russia relations. The leaks came just before Obama met current President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of what just might be the last G8 summit in history. One only need to follow the arc of the last 12 months to realize that the US-Russia reset was not only on its last legs by that point, but a sarcophagus was being built around it.
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