Rec it, Bookmark it, Download It. Make it Go Viral! The NSA scandal in 5 minutes

[Catherina]

Published on Jun 15, 2013

Rap News 19. It started off as a slow news day, and a routine update on the state of the Free World Order with NSA Director General Baxter. But then the news broke of startling revelations from the fearless paladin of adversarial journalism, guardian of civil liberties, journalist Glen Greenwald, concerning a shadowy spying program called PRISM. Who is behind these revelations, and how should we view them? How will the Authorities, and the Corporations implicated, respond? Join Robert Foster for a whirlwind summary of the events in this ongoing saga...

- Written & created by Giordano Nanni & Hugo Farrant in a suburban backyard home-studio in Melbourne, Australia - on Wurundjeri Land.



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** IMPORTANT LINKS:
- For outstanding journalism follow Glen Greenwald on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ggreenwald and via the Guardian: (copy and paste) www. guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/series/glen­n-greenwald-security-liberty
Also check out Edward Snowden's original video (by awesome film maker Laura Poitras): youtube /watch?v=5yB3n9fu-rM.
Here are the articles containing Snowden's leaked documents: www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech­-giants-nsa-data
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/08/nsa-bou­ndless-informant-global-datamining
And for those who weren't around in 1992: Informer, by Snow: youtube /watch?v=NtILxBszyf8

**CREDITS:


- Beat: 'The Product' - by Jake One:youtube /watch?v=6-DueMTmW5w
- Reworking of Snow 'Informer' by Able8 -- an awesome beatmaker http://www.soundcloud.com/able8 -- who graciously agreed to debase his usual style for us in this episode.
- Snow(den) 'Whistleblower' vocals by Ming Lang. (All other vox by Hugo)
- Mark Zuckerberg performed by Louis Gundermann.
- Video and music editing by Giordano
- Images/artwork and website design by our Photoshop ninja Zoe Tame: ‪http://www.visualtonic.com.au
- Greenwald special effects by our Rap News fx-wizard, Jonas Schweizer.
- Props to Zoë Umlaut for creating Greenwald's shield of rights and pen-sword, and to Gilles Gundermann for the armour.
- Captions: Merci to Koolfy from ‪http://nurpa.be for creating the sync'd English captions for all our episodes, including this one.


- Thanks to Lucy for shoot assistance!


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[dkf]

1. Love it!!!

[think4yourself]

2. Thanks!

Brilliant as always.

[think]

3. That was fantastic..../nt

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

4. Brilliant. K&R

[reusrename]

5. Brilliant!

Bravo!

[rhett o rick]

6. k&r thanks for posting.

[Judi Lynn]

7. Outstanding. Thanks. n/t

[gvstn]

8. LOL

Reporter in response to collateral damage of drone attacks: "Egregious!"
General: "You're goddam right we agree its just!"

[Luminous Animal]

9. So Great! Tweeted it to Greenwald.

[WillyT]

10. K & R !!!

[bbgrunt]

11. the rasta snowden rap was awesome. k and r

[reformist2]

12. OMG - I love the Snow/Informer parody! LOL

(For you oldbies, this was a huge #1 hit in 1993.)

[Catherina]

15. Great vid! I never knew any of this until last night

when the video only had 210 views lol but I was hooked and watched a few

So far, this is my favorite because both candidates were so militarized in the last debate. It annoyed me immensely and I know it annoyed a lot of people here, Will Pitt wrote something very good about it that I want to find again. I thought this video was well done and I hope we can find a way to make future debates revolve around our interests, the people's interests, and not the 1%'s

[Catherina]

13. I loved the whole thing but that, and the Zuckerberg/Facebook part were my favs

I don't know which one I like best lol.

[dkf]

14. My fave too.