I am surprised. I never thought he would make it out of Russia. But better to have him in Venezuela than in Russia, for security purposes, I suppose?

Will wait for more details.

I got no skin in this game. I can just imagine the blood boiling in the vitriolic Snowden obsessed.

doesn't seem that reliable to me, but could be wrong .

It's like the ONION, only misogynistic and not funny. Kinda like Hong Kong Ed and his admiration for Swiss prostitutes.

Thanks!

Pity. I was hoping he'd made it.

Ah well, the waiting game goes on.

Lindsay Mills’ new boyfriend Paul Horner told the BBC News earlier this month that Snowden couldn’t handle commitment. “He’s just using this whole whistleblower thing as an excuse. The truth is, Lindsay is a great girl and Snowden really blew it by leaving her,” Horner said. “But she’s with me now and I’ll make sure to take real good care of her. America is here for their women in need, especially when that woman was left by a traitor to this country.”

WTF

LOL

"...The only flight for Snowden to avoid U.S. extradition was to travel through Cuba. We would like to thank our friends in Cuba for making this journey possible and such a success.” Thomas continued, “Mr. Snowden is a hero and should be treated as one. We are pleased to provide this hero a home where he can live and be safe.”

Maduro announced his decision to allow asylum to Snowden during Venezuelan independence day celebrations. “As head of state, the government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela decided to offer humanitarian asylum to the young American Edward Snowden so that he can come and live here, away from the persecution of American imperialism.”

this is huge (if true)

You're doing a tremendous job of reporting accurate information to those of us seeking that amid the flood of BS and propaganda.

I was so excited and it looked so real. My bad

So it set off some red flags

Something tells me it's the same person.

Some jerk with @sheens_korner who's "Bangin 7 gram rocks and porn stars ftw!" and had a Charlie Sheen avatar. He's been tweeting that out for the last 12 hours. Repetitively too. https://twitter.com/sheens_korner Following 13 people and 35 followers. Jerk. It looks like he did one rock too many.

Reminds me of a night in Vegas a few years back...

It's a great way to market when you have little money in the budget for marketing.

I think Ed's really going to love it there.

Los Roques especially.

Hi Catherina!

My feeling, more and more, is that he has two viable options: Return to US for a "secret" trial or seek asylum in Russia. I think Russia wants him to stay very badly. He would be a PR goldmine for Putin. He would be a real-life hero to the Russians.

from excitement. what a jerk thing to do.

I hope he makes it to Venezuela or wherever he wants. I don't trust Putin. I appreciate what he did but I still don't trust him. And coming back to the US would be suicide. He's not safe anywhere on the planet

I hope he's at least getting plastic surgery.

Never!

But he is running out of options and, unless he wants to come back to the US for trial (probably secret), then he has no other option but to ask Russia for asylum. He will be treated like a hero over there, I am sure. I would be greatly surprised if he returned to the US.

His spokesperson stated today that they were very pleased with the Venezuela option and that it was the best possible choice.

Maybe he thinks it is in Russia's interest if he is not in Russia? In that case, he could arrange a flight to Havana for him and a connection from there to Caracas. Of course, by the time we hear about it, it will probably already be done. It will not be advertised ahead of time.

but possibly turn a blind eye if someone came to get him?

There's been a lot of speculation in the Spanish press about routes he could take. Someone researched also that for $200,000, a long-range private jet could be chartered. Just the two Snowden funds I know of had about $60,000 in donations last week so a private jet could be an option.

I agree that we wouldn't hear about it in advance. That would be suicidal.

...then he'll just disappear. That wouldn't surprise me. I wonder if he's already in the wind.

TYY

As a DUer of moderate history, I am thankful for this. Maybe we can begin to become friends and again fight for the common cause -- to elect Democrats to office.

Don't like the Democrats in office? Well, work to become a delegate and help change the party like the Christians did with the GOP, from the inside and from the bottom.

If you want a progressive, liberal Democratic Party, get liberals and progressives into those precinct positions. But, I warn you all. It took the Christians a couple of decades to do it all. But when they got it done, they had the whole cake, frosting and all.

The have many state legislatures, too. That's the next stage. If DU doesn't see the stark future, they aren't paying attention.

The sovereignty of South American nations are not recognized in extreme cases like this.

We shall divert all further aid to Pakistan instead.

I don't recall if the next one is Mon or Tues.

I hope they make productive use of their time and learn a thing or two if they are.

I did a little internet searching. There are no non-stop flights from Moscow to Venezuela. There are two airlines that fly non-stop Moscow to Havana. Aeroflot flies 5 flights per week...every day except wed and fri. Transaero flies on friday. Apparantly, those flights cross Baltic or Scandinavian countries friendly to the US, and likely won't authorize overflight with Snowden aboard. That makes me think Morales's flight may have been a trial run...the Russians deliberately leaking info Snowden was aboard, in order to test the waters.
It is possible to fly from Moscow to Havana (or Caracas) without overflight of any countries, but it is a much greater distance and would require a charter flight (big $, I assume). Range is within a large jet's capability though.

It might be possible to take an alternate route with stops...Russia to Iran, Iran to NW Africa (like Senegal?), and from there to Venezuela. Pretty risky though. Russia to Iran likely flies over Turkey, Iran to Nw Africa likely flies right through Med surrounded by NATO forces.

So it would seem Snowden's problem is with overflight. A charter flight eliminates that problem, but might be shot down with no other passengers aboard. Hmmm, will post if I find a solution.

Is this funny?

http://www.prlog.org/12157582-indian-woman-stoned-to-death-for-sending-husband-too-many-facebook-game-requests.html

Indian Woman Stoned To Death For Sending Husband Too Many Facebook Game Requests


Yeah...real hilarious, that.... not.

In case you're still unclear... http://www.prlog.org/12157111-facebook-whistleblower-says-fake-accounts-makeup-half-of-all-current-users.html

It's just a conversation about the fact that it is a hoax! No harm done. In fact, it's helpful.

You are certainly correct that the idiot who wrote this crap is disgusting. All the more reason to expose him by exchanging the facts about what he has written, as you just did.

I guess he thinks he's "the Onion," or something, but the content is worse than not funny--it's sexist, mysogynistic B.S.

Catherina did nothing wrong. She reported what appeared to be breaking news, unaware it was an intentional hoax by some douche-bag. As soon as it began to look like a hoax, Catherine edited her post to reflect that.

But I couldn't find another site verifying the info so I didn't post it.

What kind of a jerk makes up something like that anyway?

From all the news services I subscribe to. I can think of a few choice words much worse than jerk. But I'll be nice like you!

have announced that Snowden is taking the Venezuelan offer.

Sounds like they're kicking his ass out.