{"id":39309,"date":"2014-03-20T10:30:47","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T17:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=39309"},"modified":"2014-03-20T10:37:13","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T17:37:13","slug":"daily-news-flash-with-arun-gupta-on-tech-companies-and-the-nsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2014\/03\/20\/daily-news-flash-with-arun-gupta-on-tech-companies-and-the-nsa\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily News Flash with Arun Gupta on Tech Companies and the NSA, Central African Republic, and NY Inmate Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20140320Uprising\/2014_03_20_newsflash_gupta.mp3\">Listen to this segment with Arun Gupta <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20140320Uprising\/2014_03_20_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program with Host Sonali Kolhatkar<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/dailynewsflash.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Uprising\u2019s guest expert Arun Gupta, Independent Journalist and regular contributor to the Guardian, In These Times, The Progressive, and Truthout, and co-founder of the Occupied Wall Street Journal and the Indypendent, analyzes today\u2019s news headlines:<\/p>\n<p>American tech companies have known about government surveillance programs for years according to an NSA attorney. During a hearing yesterday, NSA General Counsel Rajesh De was asked if data is being gathered with the &#8220;full knowledge and assistance of any company from which information is obtained,&#8221; to which he replied, &#8220;yes.&#8221; The admission contradicts months of denials by companies like Facebook. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/mar\/19\/us-tech-giants-knew-nsa-data-collection-rajesh-de \">Click here<\/a> for a Guardian newspaper article about the story. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>And in news that only the foreign press seems to be reporting, UN Human Rights Chief Navi Pillay said at a press conference in the Central African Republic today that violence in that country &#8220;remains at a terrifying level.&#8221; Pillay just wrapped up a visit there and described violence so horrifying, particularly against children, that I cannot even relate it on the air. About 15,000 Muslims, who represent a persecuted minority, remain trapped in various areas. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbs.com.au\/news\/article\/2014\/03\/21\/cafrica-hatred-terrifying-level-un\">Click here<\/a> for an SBS article about the story. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>And finally, in another gruesome indicator of inhumane conditions in US prisons, a homeless veteran in New York named Jerome Murdough, died of overheating in his prison cell at Rikers Island. A prison official, speaking to the Associated Press anonymously said &#8220;he basically baked to death,&#8221; due to malfunctioning equipment which led to indoor temperatures of over 100 degrees. Murdough was arrested for trespassing after he slept on a stairwell at a public housing project. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/thegrio.com\/2014\/03\/19\/jerome-murdough-case-homeless-nyc-inmate-baked-to-death-in-cell\/#s:jerome-murdough\">Click here<\/a> for an article in The Grio. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uprising\u2019s guest expert Arun Gupta, Independent Journalist and regular contributor to the Guardian, In These Times, The Progressive, and Truthout, and co-founder of the Occupied Wall Street Journal and the Indypendent, analyzes today\u2019s news headlines: American tech companies have known about government surveillance programs for years according to an NSA attorney. During a hearing yesterday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-news-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39331,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39309\/revisions\/39331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}