{"id":16,"date":"2013-07-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/colinburnett\/?p=16"},"modified":"2026-07-31T20:08:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T20:08:50","slug":"edward-snowden-seeks-asylum-in-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/colinburnett\/edward-snowden-seeks-asylum-in-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Edward Snowden seeks asylum in Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Edward Snowden applies for asylum in Russia<\/h2>\n<p>Some of my friends have been \u2018all up in my face\u2019 saying that I should watch the news more etc\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>So, I was kind of cruising around the web yesterday and I stumbled over the whole <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>\u2018Edward Snowden applies for Asylum in Russia\u2019<\/strong><\/span> deal.<\/p>\n<p>I was like yeh ok I\u2019ll check this guy out whatever, <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">I\u2019m sick of reading about \u2018bad stuff\u2019 in the mainstream media.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I\u2019m glad I checked it out. How interesting!!<\/p>\n<p>This video explains more about him\u2026.<\/p>\n<h2>Edward Snowden seeks asylum in Russia<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So what is the deal with Snowden???<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Is he a really good guy or was he wrong in doing what he did??<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s look at some facts\u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He made the public aware of things that they didn\u2019t know about.<\/li>\n<li>He has worked his whole life in jobs trying to protect the US government and against the \u2018war on terror\u2019 from being in Iraq to security jobs.<\/li>\n<li>There is a law to prevent the Government from invading our privacy (conversations etc)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">So where to now?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We now have to decide if we want such an invasive government or not?<\/p>\n<p>I personally, don\u2019t like the sound of it but will have to find out more about exactly what these guys are doing with our information.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Do you feel more like just a pawn in the big game now?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I also found this video interesting from Vladimir Putin himself\u2026<\/p>\n<h2>Edward Snowden Seeks Asylum in Russia<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>I definitely am interested as to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">what will happen with Snowden over in Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It really is amazing times with guys like Edward Snowden and Julian Assange releasing such secretive information.<\/p>\n<p>Coming from Australia, I have a keen interest in Julian Assange ( He was born in my home town\u2026claim to fame <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.empowernetwork.com\/colinburnett\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_smile.gif\" alt=\":)\" class=\"wp-smiley\"\/>  )<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">In my opinion, they are both freedom fighters.<\/span><\/strong> Here at Empower network we are freedom fighters as well. Our whole goal is to make money to buy freedom.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what you need in the societies we live in. Money itself is just this weird plastic paper\u2026well Australian money is. A lot of other currencies have pure paper notes.<\/p>\n<p>So I am proud of Snowden and Assange. While <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Edward Snowden seeks Asylum in Russia<\/span>, I wish the guy luck. I mean he sure needs it fighting against a whole country.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s join up and fight the forces of evil together. (What I\u2019m saying is let\u2019s just build something for ourselves and not have to work for someone else for the rest of our lives\u2026.) Sound good??<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll leave you with a video of Julian Assange\u2026.<\/p>\n<h2>Julian Assange advises Edward Snowden on seeking asylum<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>Thanks guys, hear you next time<\/p>\n<p>Colin<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The Aussie on the road\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edward Snowden applies for asylum in Russia Some of my friends have been \u2018all up in my face\u2019 saying that I should watch the news more etc\u2026. So, I was kind of cruising around the web yesterday and I stumbled over the whole \u2018Edward Snowden applies for Asylum in Russia\u2019 deal. I was like yeh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1405,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-empower-network"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/colinburnett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/colinburnett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/colinburnett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/colinburnett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1405"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/colinburnett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/colinburnett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/colinburnett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/colinburnett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/colinburnett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/colinburnett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}