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Locking Out the Voices of Dissent
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/locking_out_the_voices_of_dissent_20130714/
Posted on Jul 14, 2013
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The intelligence-industrial complex
15 July 2013
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The Quiet Gender Revolution
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_quiet_gender_revolution_20130714/
Posted on Jul 14, 2013
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California Prison Hunger Strike Raises Issue of Force-Feeding on U.S. Soil
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/california_hunger_strike_raises_issue_of_force-feeding_on_us_soil_2013071/
Posted on Jul 14, 2013
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NSA Protests Reach Doorstep of Pelosi's Wealthy Donors
Protests against NSA spying have reached all the way to the home of House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi's big campaign fundraiser.From left, Renay Davis...
Truthdigger of the Week: Shane Bauer
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/truthdigger_of_the_week_shane_bauer_20130713/
Posted on Jul 13, 2013
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Food Waste Offers Unforeseen Benefits
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/food_waste_offers_unforeseen_benefits_20130713/
Posted on Jul 13, 2013
By Paul...
ECHELON Today: The Evolution of an NSA Black Program
People are shocked by the scope of secret state spying on their private communications, especially in light of documentary evidence leaked to media outlets...
Obama Blocks Eric Snowden’s Asylum: Blocked at Moscow Airport
On July 12, Russia Today (RT) headlined “US ‘blocks my asylum:’ Snowden human rights activists to airport meeting,” saying:
Snowden remains stuck. He’s in limbo....
‘Aussie firm agrees to store phone calls’
Telstra stored data for potential surveillance by US intelligence. Australiaâ„¢s largest phone company, Telstra, has agreed to store huge volumes of internet data and...
Obama Blocks Snowden's Asylum
Obama Blocks Snowden's Asylum
by Stephen Lendman
On July 12, Russia Today (RT) headlined "US 'blocks my asylum:' Snowden human rights activists to airport meeting," saying:
Snowden...
LatAm countries censure US for spying
Bolivia's President Evo Morales, from left to right, Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez, Uruguay's President Jose Mujica, Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff and Venezuela's President Nicolas...
Party of No
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/party_of_no_20130712/
Posted on Jul 12, 2013
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How Cash Secretly Rules Surveillance Policy
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/how_cash_secretly_rules_surveillance_policy_20130712/
Posted on Jul 12, 2013
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Schools Drop Federal Lunch Menu: Costly, Students Still Hungry
Unfortunately for public school districts across the country, First Lady Michelle Obama’s preferred lunch plan has proven to be a costly fiasco.
The new menus...
Obama Conquers Internet Through Executive Orders
Presidential policies pave foundation for future federal takeover of the Internet.
Kit Daniels
Infowars.com
July 12, 2013
Obama’s policies will allow for a...
As Taxpayers Foot the Bill, Phone Companies Make Big Bucks Charging Uncle Sam to...
Phone companies don't do anything for...
Obama considers ending NSA surveillance programs, Democratic senator says
In the wake of NSA leaker Edward Snowden’s recent revelations, the Obama administration may be willing to backtrack on some of its more notorious...
Occupied Bodies
Since 1967 Israel has maintained an unofficial policy of detaining Palestinian and Arab war victims in mass graves and cemeteries. Today at last 348...
Corals Face Extinction By 2100
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/corals_face_extinction_by_2100_20130712/
Posted on Jul 12, 2013
By Tim...
Microsoft’s “Smart Cities” Ideal Template for Stasi Police State
Kurt NimmoInfowars.comJuly 12, 2013
Smart cities are designed by corporations like IMB and Cisco...
French Suit: NSA Spying a 'Foreign Attack' on Civil Liberties
As the NSA spying scandal ripples across the world, French human rights organizations announced Thursday they are taking legal action against US spying that...
The Government Is Spying On ALL Americans’ Digital and Old-Fashioned Communications
Washington’s Blog
July 12, 2013
Even now — after all of the revelations by Edward Snowden and other whistleblowers — spying apologists say...
Shocking Photos: Racist 1969 FBI Coloring Book For Kids Advocates Killing ‘Pig Cops’
Anthony Gucciardi
Infowars.com
July 12, 2013
Disturbing and highly racist photos from a 1969 coloring book distributed to kids via the FBI’s ‘COINTEL’ program...
Will Portugal Be Austerity’s Next “Catastrophic Success”
I’ve written a few times about how austerity has done a number on Portugal. It’sincreased inequality, shrunk the economy, increased the country’s death rate, driven unemployment to...
Pete Ashdown: Internet entrepreneur pushes for govt that stands for 'basic human rights'
As US broadband giants betray customer privacy in the name of profit, the owner of a Utah-based internet company has stood up for his...
‘Snowden yet to reply to Venezuela offer’
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Elias Jaua says US whistleblower Edward Snowden has yet to reply to the Latin American country's offer of asylum and there...
New App Allows Users to Tattle on Gun Owners
Site encourages users to report gun owners who hold anti-governmental political views
Adan SalazarInfowars.comJuly...
French Lawsuit: NSA Spying a ‘Foreign Attack’ that Leaves No One Safe
As the NSA spying scandal ripples across the world, French human rights organizations announced Thursday they are taking legal action against US spying that...
Revealed: Microsoft's Secret Collaboration With NSA
(Pichi Chuang/Reuters)The latest NSA documents revealed by the Guardian on Thursday show the scope and scale to which Microsoft and its well known affiliates...
In 'Chilling' Ruling, Chevron Granted Access to Activists' Private Internet Data
Following their guilty sentence for the dumping of 18.5bn gallons of toxic waste in the Ecuadorian Amazon, Chevron is amassing the personal information of...
Microsoft helped the NSA bypass encryption, new Snowden leak reveals
Microsoft worked hand-in-hand with the United States government in order to let federal investigators bypass encryption mechanisms meant to protect the privacy of millions...
Defiant Yahoo clashes with FISA court, demands government unseals secret records
A request made by Internet giant Yahoo to a secretive federal court could allow the Silicon Valley company to finally detail a past attempt...
Creating a Military-Industrial-Immigration Complex
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/creating_a_military-industrial-immigration_complex_20130711/
Posted on Jul 11, 2013
By Todd Miller,...
Admitting the Communist Desire
The following is excerpted from a dialogue that will appear in the July 2013 issue of Socialism and Democracy at www.sdonline.org.
Joseph G. Ramsey: How...
Climate Chaos ‘Needn’t Happen — IF…’
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/climate_chaos_neednt_happen_if_20130711/
Posted on Jul 11, 2013
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Why Women Have Big Breasts
July 10, 2013
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Venezuelans urged to boycott Facebook
Venezuela's prisons minister has called on Venezuelans to cancel their accounts on the social networking website Facebook in a move to refrain from being targeted by US spying.
Secret Intelligence Court a Precursor to Tyranny
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/secret_intelligence_court_a_precursor_to_tyranny_20130710/
Posted on Jul 10, 2013
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Raising the Stakes on Immigration
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/raising_the_stakes_on_immigration_20130710/
Posted on Jul 10, 2013
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Millions in US tax dollars go to Big Data for wiretap capabilities
The US government uses American tax dollars to pay major Internet companies and telecommunications giants like Verizon and AT&T for unprecedented access into millions...
This Year’s Best-Kept Secret: The Next Generation of Community Radio
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/this_years_best-kept_secret_the_next_generation_of_community_radio_20130710/
Posted on Jul 10, 2013
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Anger growing over US spying reports
Anger is mounting in Latin America over the US intelligence gathering disclosed by controversial American whistleblower, Edward Snowden.
Colombia, the closest US military ally in...
Egypt: Staging a “Democratic” Military Coup
During the 2011 Egyptian uprisings, the military was jeered for cracking down on protestors and for the infamous virginity tests they conducted on detained...
ALEC Agenda Tips the Scales of Justice to Help Corporations Win
At least 71 bills introduced in 2013 that make it harder for average Americans to access the civil justice system resemble "models" from the...
Where Are the Voices of GOP Senators Who Still Care About Democratic Institutions?
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/where_are_the_voices_of_gop_senators_who_still_care_about_democratic_instit/
Posted on Jul 10, 2013
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Political Violence and Privilege
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/political_violence_and_privilege_20130710/
Posted on Jul 10, 2013
By Matthew Harwood,...
Political Violence and Privilege
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/political_violence_and_privilege_20130710/
Posted on Jul 10, 2013
By Matthew Harwood,...
Greenland Faces ‘Modest’ but Risky Melt
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/greenland_faces_modest_but_risky_melt_20130710/
Posted on Jul 10, 2013
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The NSA Has Inserted Its Code Into Android OS, Or Three Quarters Of All...
Zero HedgeJuly 10, 2013
Over a decade ago, it was discovered that the NSA embedded backdoor access into...
11 Shocking Things Snowden Has Taught Us (So Far)
July 9, 2013
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The ‘B’ Word: Republicans Fan the Flames of Ageism
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_b_word_republicans_fan_the_flames_of_ageism_20130709/
Posted on Jul 9, 2013
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New Study Shows 1/3 of Jobs Prone to Offshore Outsourcing
Bud MeyersThe Economic PopulistJuly 9, 2013
The change in the skill (educational) level of jobs being...
Muslim Brotherhood Calls for ‘Uprising’ as Plan for Elections Is Announced
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/muslim_brotherhood_calls_for_uprising_as_plan_for_elections_is_announced_20/
Posted on Jul 9, 2013
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"I Love Her But the Sex Has Died": The Brain Chemical That Can Kill...
July 9, 2013
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CO2 Storage ‘Needs Tailoring to Geology’
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/co2_storage_needs_tailoring_to_geology_20130709/
Posted on Jul 9, 2013
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Revealed: NSA Put Latin American Countries in Cyber-Spying Crosshairs
Hugo Chavez's Venezuela was among only one of the countries across Latin America in which the NSA deployed its vast internet and telephone surveillance...
The Fact that Mass Surveillance Doesn’t Keep Us Safe Goes Mainstream
Washington’s BlogJuly 9, 2013
The fact that mass spying on Americans isn’t necessary to keep us...
A Gift From the United States to Mideast Zealots
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/a_gift_from_the_united_states_to_mideast_zealots_20130709/
Posted on Jul 9, 2013
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NSA, European intelligence agencies work closely together
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Peter Schwarz
9 July 2013
The claim by European governments that they were unaware of the extensive wiretapping undertaken by the US intelligence agency NSA is...
Egypt’s Dark Future
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/_20130708/
Posted on Jul 8, 2013
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Venezuela receives Snowden’s asylum letter
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro says his government has received an asylum application from US surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden.
"We have received the asylum request letter,"...
The Snags, Snares and Snafus of Covering the US Military
<img src="http://www.truth-out.org/images/2013_June_Images/2013.7.8.TomDispatch.main.jpg" alt="(Image: Jared Rodriguez / t r u t h o u t; Adapted: Tech. Sgt. Molly Dzitko / U.S. Army, Master...
America’s Lowest Class
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/americas_lowest_class_20130708/
Posted on Jul 8, 2013
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Congressman: Obama ‘jamming’ amnesty on House
wnd.comJuly 8, 2013
Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, is warning that the House of Representatives should pass...
Islamists Attack School in Nigeria, Killing 42
Gunmen believed to be part of Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamic terrorist group attacked a government boarding school in northern Nigeria July 6, killing an...
US-EU Spy Scandal Challenges Transatlantic Trade Talks
Photo: Protest in Germany against PRISM. Banner: “Against state surveillance”.
Snowden’s revelations have put a deep freeze on US-EU relations. Diplomats in Europe are searching...
Surveillance Society: If You Drive, You Get Tracked
Wolf Richter
testosteronepit.com
July 8, 2013
We’ve been teased for weeks with tantalizing leaks about the NSA, its cohorts in corporate America, and their...
4 Shady Ways Police Bust People For Drugs
On Wednesday, the city of Berkeley filed a claim against the federal government’s move to file asset forfeiture against the landlord of Berkeley’s largest medical marijuana dispensary.
We Are All Aboard the Pequod
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/we_are_all_aboard_the_pequod_20130707/
Posted on Jul 7, 2013
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US spying on Brazilians alarms Brasilia
Brazil has expressed serious concerns over a report which says the United States has been spying on Brazilian companies and individuals for a decade....
I’ll not get fair trial in US: Snowden
US surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden has written in his asylum request letter to Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega that it is unlikely he will receive...
EPA’s Abandoned Fracking Study One Retreat of Many
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/epas_abandoned_fracking_study_one_retreat_of_many_20130707/
Posted on Jul 7, 2013
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Why Republicans Want to Tax Students and Not Polluters
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/why_republicans_want_to_tax_students_and_not_polluters_20130707/
Posted on Jul 7, 2013
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Tech Companies Hiding Depth of Cooperation with NSA Surveillance
The New American and others continue to comb through the leaked PowerPoint presentation explaining PRISM – the National Security Agency’s (NSA) program monitoring the Internet...
AT&T joins Verizon, Facebook in selling customer data
RT
July 7, 2013
AT&T has announced that it will begin selling customers’ smart phone data to the highest bidder, putting the telecommunications...
Pope Francis’ Saintly Politics
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/pope_francis_saintly_politics_20130707/
Posted on Jul 7, 2013
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Hey, Hollywood! Race Does Matter
When I learned that Disney was remaking the “The Lone Ranger,” I thought: Wow, Hollywood really has run out of ideas; they just keep making...
Another Problem with Mass Spying: Centralized Data Creates An Easy Mark for Hackers
Washington’s Blog
July 7, 2013
By Gathering Data On Americans In One Place, The Government Is Creating An Attractive Target For Hackers
As if...
Truthdiggers of the Week: NSA Protesters
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/truthdiggers_of_the_week_nsa_protesters_20130706/
Posted on Jul 6, 2013
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The Protest Movement in Egypt: “Dictators” do not Dictate, They Obey Orders
Egypt is currently at a dangerous crossroads which could evolve towards a civil war.
It is important to understand Washington’s role, which is carried...
Even More Reasons to Hate Obamacare
Tick, tick, tick. That’s the sound of the clock ticking down to when the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPAACA) – the monstrosity...
Confirmed: Spiders Are Even More Terrifying Than Previously Thought
Megan GarberThe AtlanticJuly 6, 2013
Spider webs are architectural marvels. Their silks are similar in tensile...
Remembering Why the Right Doesn’t Own the Stars and Stripes
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/remembering_why_the_right_doesnt_own_the_stars_and_stripes_20130705/
Posted on Jul 5, 2013
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We Can Handle the Truth
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/_20130705/
Posted on Jul 5, 2013
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'Nicaragua willing to shelter Snowden'
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega says his government would grant US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden political asylum "if circumstances permit" it.
"We are open, respectful of...
Dick and Trayvon … Connect the Dots
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/dick_and_trayvon_connect_the_dots_20130705/
Posted on Jul 5, 2013
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’1984 Not an Instruction Manual’
John Kellerlewrockwell.comJuly 5, 2013
It’s not clear where to begin with this story. Restore the Fourth...
’1984 Not an Instruction Manual’
John Kellerlewrockwell.comJuly 5, 2013
It’s not clear where to begin with this story. Restore the Fourth...
Think Your Money is Safe in an Insured Bank Account? Think Again
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/think_your_money_is_safe_in_an_insured_bank_account_think_again_20130705/
Posted on Jul 5, 2013
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Teenager Jailed for Facebook "Terrorist Threat" Is Now On Suicide Watch
July 5, 2013
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2°C Climate Target ‘Is Half What’s Needed’
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/2c_climate_target_is_half_whats_needed_20130705/
Posted on Jul 5, 2013
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Commercials to be Broadcast Directly Into Consumers’ Heads
“Suddenly a voice inside their head is talking to them”
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
July 5, 2013
A company in Germany has...
Neighborhood Watch, With a Twist
I have this feeling. I have this feeling and thought that people are gathering at water coolers, in hallways near their cubicles, and on...
The Changing Video Business
The way Americans watch TV is fundamentally and irreversibly changing. This change in video viewing is having two significant consequences, one corporate, the other...
Hints That NSA Is Building Massive, Pervasive Surveillance Capability
From left: Gen. Keith Alexander, head of the National Security Agency; Rand Beers, acting deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security; Patrick Gallagher,...
Are We Really Free When Big Brother Is Systematically Turning America Into A Giant...
Every year on July 4th we celebrate our "independence", but is America really free? How could we possibly be free when "Big Brother" is...
The “Tonkin Gulf War Pretext Incidents”: When the US Wants to Start a War,...
As the Obama administration maneouvres to get traction for more overt and deadly military intervention in Syria, it may be time to reflect on...
Independence From Terror
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/independence_from_terror_20130704/
Posted on Jul 4, 2013
By Subhankar Banerjee, Climate...
Guide to Debating Your Crazy Right-wing Uncle at the July 4th Picnic
With the July 4 holiday upon us, you may find yourself gathering with family this long weekend. That might mean a barbecue and fireworks,...
A Warming Climate Will Alter the Soil That Feeds Us
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/a_warming_climate_will_alter_the_soil_that_feeds_us_20130704/
Posted on Jul 4, 2013
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Happy Insurrection Day!
William GriggPro LibertateJuly 4, 2013
The sobering truth is that, due to the cultivated...
Egyptian Military: a State Within a State
In ousting Egypt’s first freely elected president, Mohammed Morsi, the Egyptian military have certainly not acted to preserve democracy. They’ve never shown much interest...
Economic Espionage as an Instrument of “Financial Warfare”
Introduction
Folker Hellmeyer, chief analyst of the Landesbank of Bremen, has some essential questions and suggestions vis-Ã -vis the current NSA & Co. revelations. He says:...
Boys in Custody and the Women Who Abuse Them
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/boys_in_custody_and_the_women_who_abuse_them_20130704/
Posted on Jul 4, 2013
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Hints Surface That NSA Building Massive, Pervasive Surveillance Capability
Washington - Despite U.S. intelligence officials' repeated denials that the National Security Agency is collecting the content of domestic emails and phone calls, evidence...
Freedom and ‘Our Sacred Honor’
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/freedom_and_our_sacred_honor_20130703/
Posted on Jul 3, 2013
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This Independence Day, Thank a Protester
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/this_independence_day_thank_a_protester_20130703/
Posted on Jul 3, 2013
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More Storms, More Heat Says World Meteorological Association
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/more_storms_more_heat_says_world_meteorological_association_20130703/
Posted on Jul 3, 2013
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High-Level US Government Officials Have Warned for 40 Years that Mass Surveillance Would Lead...
Washington’s BlogJuly 3, 2013
Jimmy Carter’s National Security Adviser — a key American foreign policy architect (Zbigniew Brzezinski)...
Black Skin, White Justice
“A feeling of inferiority? No, a feeling of not existing. Sin is black as virtue is white. All those white men, fingering their guns,...
The Most Secretive Court in America May Also Be the Most Conservative
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_most_secretive_court_in_america_may_also_be_the_most_conservative_20130/
Posted on Jul 3, 2013
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The Snowden Controversy and Our Legacy of Choices
In one of the most innovative uses of the bizarre rules of international travel, whistle-blower Edward Snowden sits in an airport transit lounge outside...
Suicides and Homicides Linked
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/suicides_and_homicides_linked_20130702/
Posted on Jul 2, 2013
By Ralph Nader...
Happy Fourth of July Wherever You Come From
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/happy_fourth_of_july_wherever_you_come_from_20130702/
Posted on Jul 2, 2013
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Snowden Leaks Reveal American Trojan Horse in Europe
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/snowden_leaks_reveal_american_trojan_horse_in_europe_20130702/
Posted on Jul 2, 2013
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Hacker’s appeal may shape the future of the Internet
Attorneys for computer hacker Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer filed an appeal on Monday asking the United States District Court to overturn what they call “a...
The Republicans of the Supreme Court
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_republicans_of_the_supreme_court_20130702/
Posted on Jul 2, 2013
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‘NSA leaker deserves world’s protection’
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, on July 2, 2013.Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro says US surveillance whistleblower Edward...
Investigate Darrell Issa!
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/investigate_darrell_issa_20130702/
Posted on Jul 2, 2013
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Double Disasters Batter Pacific Islands
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/double_disasters_batter_pacific_islands_20130702/
Posted on Jul 2, 2013
By Paul...
Edward Snowden’s Long Flight
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/edward_snowdens_long_flight_20130702/
Posted on Jul 2, 2013
By Peter Van...
Why Have Student Loans At All? Let’s Get the Burdens of Debt off College...
Anyone with a heartbeat knows that Wall Street took down the economy, killed millions of jobs and hasn't had to pay a penny for the damage it caused.
America’s New Cold War: Why the Allies Side With Snowden
There is a depressing statistical comparison that should shame all of us who voted twice for Barack Obama’s ascent to the White House.
Getting Back to Netroots
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/getting_back_to_netroots_20130701/
Posted on Jul 1, 2013
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How Boehner Gets a Win-Win
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/how_boehner_gets_a_win-win_20130701/
Posted on Jul 1, 2013
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Terror group poses new threat to U.S.
E Michael MaloofWNDJuly 1, 2013
A Pakistani terrorist group involved in the notorious Mumbai, India, terrorist...
Globalization, Civil Rights and the Cyber-Surveillance State
Globalization has reached its apogee— spying on European friends as well as usual foreign suspects, and you.
Recent revelations about NSA’s worldwide practices are globalization’s...
How Egypt’s Michele Bachmann Became President and Plunged the Country into Chaos
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/how_egypts_michele_bachmann_became_president_and_plunged_the_country_into_c/
Posted on Jul 1, 2013
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Child’s Death in Drone Strike Tests Obama’s Transparency Pledge
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/childs_death_in_drone_strike_tests_obamas_transparency_pledge_20130701/
Posted on Jul 1, 2013
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New Documents Shed Light on NSA’s Dragnet Surveillance
With the Obama administration in full damage control mode over revelations of blanket surveillance of global electronic communications, new documents published by The...
‘NSA leaker requests asylum in Russia’
A Russian consular official says American whistle-blower Edward Snowden has applied for political asylum in the country.
Kim Shevchenko, the duty officer at the Russian...
'This Is the Second Revolution!' 'Leave, Morsi!'
A sea of protesters fills Tahrir Square on Sunday. (Photo: Reuters/Mohamed Abd El Ghany)Millions of Egyptians filled the streets of cities across the nation...
Biggest Demonstrations in Egyptian History: Millions Demand Morsi Step Down
By Juan Cole
This piece first appeared on Juan Cole’s website, Informed Comment.
The...
Corporations Replace BPA with More DNA-Damaging Bisphenols
Just when you thought it was safe to buy "BPA-free" products, manufacturers flood the marketplace with an alphabet soup of toxic bisphenols.
Consumer beware. New research...
Circumventing Invasive Internet Surveillance with “Carrier Pigeons”
Introduction
Recent disclosures have revealed the extreme level of surveillance of telephone and internet communications, as discussed separately with respect to the US National...
Teen Jailed As Terrorist Threat After Making Sarcastic Comments on Facebook
June 30, 2013
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Bowl Phone Sex
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/bowl_phone_sex_20130630/
Posted on Jun 30, 2013
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Judge Napolitano Smacks Down John Stossel
"Extremism
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The Original Conservative Reformer
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_original_conservative_reformer_20130630/
Posted on Jun 30, 2013
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'This Is the Second Revolution!' 'Leave, Morsi!'
A sea of protesters fills Tahrir Square on Sunday. (Photo: Reuters/Mohamed Abd El Ghany)Tens of thousands of Egyptians have filled the streets of cities...
Truthdigger of the Week: Texas Sen. Wendy Davis
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/truthdigger_of_the_week_texas_sen_wendy_davis_20130629/
Posted on Jun 30, 2013
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Debunking Myths: The Truth About Immigration Reform and the Economy (Video)
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/debunking_myths_the_truth_about_immigration_reform_and_the_economy_video_20/
Posted on Jun 30, 2013
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The Guardian Revealed A Major NSA ‘Scoop’ Then Deleted It From Their Website
The Guardian released another shocking NSA scoop on Saturday, revealing collusion and mass harvesting of personal communications among the United States and at least six European Union countries — only to delete it from their website hours after publication.
Newly released NSA slides explain mechanics of US surveillance
In the latest revelations of the NSA leaks scandal, new slides have emerged thoroughly explaining the targeting process of the US government top-secret...
New Study Links Wheat To Weight Gain and Diabetes
A new animal study published in the journal PLoS sheds light on a possible mechanism behind the weight- and diabetes-promoting properties of wheat observed...
Governments-Bank-Corporate sector fraudulently create deficits and then impose austerity measures
Governments fraudulently create deficits and then impose austerity measures This article will use Australia as an example but be assured the same story exists all over the world It may appear to be rather complex and more of a jig-saw puzzle to most but to those that understand the workings of the share market, financial, […]
What ‘GCHQ’ stands for in Britain?
Britainâ„¢s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) is a spy agency dedicated to intelligence and information gathering. It's the UK equivalent of the National Security Agency...
Foreign Boots on American Soil: Russia To Share Military “Security Experts” With United States...
Rumors have circulated for years about the possibility of foreign troops being deployed on U.S. soil in the event...
Insurers Given Severe Weather Warning
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/insurers_given_severe_weather_warning_20130629/
Posted on Jun 29, 2013
By Kieran...
The Expendables: How the Temps Who Power Corporate Giants Are Getting Crushed
Staffing Network in Hanover Park, Ill. (Photo: Chicago Workers Collaborative/flickr)It's 4:18 a.m. and the strip mall is deserted. But tucked in back, next to...
The Expendables: How the Temps Who Power Corporate Giants Are Getting Crushed
Staffing Network in Hanover Park, Ill. (Photo: Chicago Workers Collaborative/flickr)It's 4:18 a.m. and the strip mall is deserted. But tucked in back, next to...
The Expendables: How the Temps Who Power Corporate Giants Are Getting Crushed
Staffing Network in Hanover Park, Ill. (Photo: Chicago Workers Collaborative/flickr)It's 4:18 a.m. and the strip mall is deserted. But tucked in back, next to...
Atmospheric Geoengineering: Weather Manipulation, Contrails and Chemtrails
At an international symposium held in Ghent, Belgium May 28-30, 2010, scientists asserted that “manipulation of climate through modification of Cirrus clouds is neither...
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For many people, personal privacy vs widespread surveillance has been a major issue for decades. However, some thought mass spying on us has been happening but chose to downplay it. Others didn’t want to know and just didn’t care. Edward Snowden’s recent revelations indicate it is happening and that we should all care.
Former National Security Agency (NSA) worker turned whistleblower Edward Snowden has now turned his attention to the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), the British equivalent of the NSA. On Friday, Snowden released documents to The Guardian newspaper in the UK to back up his claims that GCHQ has secretly accessed fibre optic cables carrying huge amounts of internet and communications data. According to The Guardian, the agency is able to tap into, analyse and store data. Snowden told the newspaper that the NSA has a more prolific British ally in GCHQ. (GCHQ is one of three UKintelligence agencies, alongside MI5 and MI6.)
“It’s not just a US problem. The UK has a huge dog in this fight… They (GCHQ) are worse than the US.” Edward Snowden
Although it is physically impossible for the intelligence agencies to read everyone’s emails, for instance, GCHQ can apparently record phone calls, read email and Facebook postings and review website traffic if they so wish. It can also access entire web use histories on individuals. Although GCHQ can only store certain data for 30 days, the Guardian says the practice is subject to little scrutiny. GCHQ operation can tap cables that carry global communications with the potential to carry 600 million daily ‘telephone events’.
“If GCHQ have been intercepting huge numbers of innocent people's communications as part of a massive sweeping exercise, then I struggle to see how that squares with a process that requires a warrant for each individual intercept.” Nick Pickles, Big Brother Watch director, as reported in The Guardian, 22 June.
This massive interception effort operates under two programmes: Mastering the Internet and Global Telecoms Exploitation. GCHQ is tapping 200 internet links, each with a data rate of 10Gbps, and the agency has the technical capacity to concurrently analyze 46 of these 200 streams of data at a time.
The revelations come alongside reports of the NSA snooping on US and international citizens via the metadata held on them by telecommunication companies, and secret data-sharing agreements between the NSA and consumer-web giants, such as Facebook, Google, Apple and others under the PRISM scheme.
GCHQ is able to capitalize on the UK's position at the edge of Western Europe, by tapping into the vast quantity of data flowing through cables around the UK and abroad. Over 300 GCHQ and 250 NSA analysts sift through the data, which they use to identify communications relating to security, terror, organized crime, and economic well-being.
Britain and the US are the founding members of the Five-Eyes intelligence sharing agreement. The Five-Eyes are members of a special club of former British colonies that gather and intelligence with each other. Australia, Canadaand New Zealand are the three other members.
According to The Guardian, Britain's ability to tap these fibre-optic cables makes it the web eavesdropping powerhouse of the Five-Eyes, with the documents provided by Snowden saying that of the five, Britain has "the biggest Internet access."
The Guardian reports that British personnel on the team of 300 GCHQ and 250 NSA analysts sifting through the data have "a light oversight regime compared to the US"
The newspaper reports that 850,000 NSA and employees and private American contractors have been able to access to the information gathered by CGHQ. One of the documents quotes NSA boss Gen. Keith Alexander as urging British spies to collect everything they could.
"Why can't we collect at the signals, all the time? Sounds like a good summer homework project for Menwith," is written at the top of a slide shown by the Guardian that supposedly quotes Alexander during a 2008 visit to the UK. The slide is titled, "Collect-it-all."
Menwith refers to RAF Menwith Hill, a secret signals intelligence gathering facility in the Yorkshire countryside run by the US.
GCHQ operatives tapped the fibre-optic cables over the last five years at the point where the transatlantic cables reach British shores - these cables move Internet and telephone data from North America to Western Europe. All of this was done with agreements with the communications companies, described by the document as "intercept partners."
Last week, Deputy U.S. Attorney General Robert Cole defended bulk collection of cellphone data and other business records to US lawmakers:
"If you're looking for a needle in a haystack, you've got to get the haystack first," said Cole during a June 18 House intelligence committee hearing on the matter. "That's why we have the ability under the [FISA] court order, to acquire . . . all of that data, we don't get to use all of that data, necessarily." As reported by John Reed in Foreign Policy on 21 June.
Britain and the US are rapidly perfecting the system to allow them to capture and analyse a large quantity of international traffic consisting of emails, texts, phone calls, internet searches, chat, photographs, blogposts, videos and the many uses of Google.
Writing in The Guardian on Friday 21 June, Henry Porter states:
“Mastering the Internet treats the rights of billions of foreign web users, the possible menace to the privacy of British and American citizens and the duties of their legislators with equal contempt. After Iraq and the banking crash, the world may come to see MTI as further evidence of a heedless delinquency in two of the world's oldest democracies.”
Porter talks about the lack of meaningful oversight in both countries, the use of commercial companies in the surveillance process and the wholesale disregard for the fundamentals of both countries’ democratic principles. Shami Chakrabarti, director of civil rights organisation Liberty, says that GCHQ are exploiting the fact that the internet is so international in nature and that what's holding them back from going further is technological capability, certainly not ethics (1).
Why it matters, really matters
For too long, the majority in Britain has been led to believe that governments in major western liberal democracies operate with benign intentions, that the government acts on our behalf and in our interests and that only those with something to hide have anything to fear. The belief is forwarded that the loss of liberty and intrusions into our personal privacy are small prices to pay for ensuring our safety in a barbaric world that wants to attack and inflict terror on us.
It’s all part of the dominant narrative. It’s all part of a dominant narrative that seeks to mislead and to mask the real essence of power and the true nature of intent behind notions of patriotism, nationalism, bowing down to the flag, militarism and that ‘we’, ‘the nation’ are in united in cause and belief.
What Snowden’s revelations illustrate is the unaccountable face of power. And this should concern us because it’s not the greater good of humankind, queen, flag or country that this power serves. It ultimately serves capital and the extremely wealthy, whose interests are diametrically opposed to those of ordinary people across the world (2).
Look no further to see who funds the major political parties or individual politicians to do their bidding. Look no further than the backgrounds of many of these politicians. But, most important, look no further to see who owns the major corporations and banks and who sits on the bodies that hammer out major policies (3)(4)(5). It is the powerful foundations and think tanks headed or funded by private corporations that drive US and British policies, whether at home or abroad, and that includes the Project for a New American Century (6) and the resultant ongoing war of terror waged on countries across the world.
Western liberal democracy has been quite successful in making many at home blind to the chains that bind and which make them immune to the falsehoods that underpin the system. However, with the economic meltdown, ‘austerity’, increasing public awareness of corporate crimes, disillusionment with mainstream politics and the ramping up of wars, paranoia and the stripping away of civil liberties, social control is no longer able to operate on the relatively benign level that it once did. The collapse of the economic system and its propping up has laid bare just who that system is set up to benefit. State violence and mass surveillance is now part of the changing agenda of liberal democracy that is no longer able to hide behind the pretence of being liberal or democratic. The mask has slipped and we are right to be concerned.
“The world has evidence of the totally monitored future that GCHQ and NSA plan for us and that political establishments turn a blind eye to…. fear still trumps everything. On Tuesday, the head of NSA, General Keith B Alexander, and the director of the FBI, Robert Mueller, insisted that many terror plots had been stopped by surveillance. In Britain, the foreign secretary, William Hague… was joined by three former home secretaries, Jack Straw, Lord (John) Reid and Alan Johnson, to reassure us that mass surveillance was indeed necessary to make interdictions and… that further powers were needed… The point about these latest revelations is that they show there are more than adequate powers for interception on both sides of the Atlantic and that the terror agenda and, to a lesser degree, the fear of paedophilia, may well have been used to elaborate a huge system of espionage and domestic surveillance.” – Henry Porter, The Guardian 21 June.
Notes
Sources for this article
The Guardian 21 and 22 June
Foreign Policy: http://killerapps.
The Register: http://www.theregister.co.uk/
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The Dark Side of Ray Kurzweil’s Transhumanist Utopia
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EPIC RANT: “They Take a Press Release from the Federal Reserve and They Think...
If there’s one thing that individual investors can take away from Ben Bernanke’s latest Fed update, it’s that all confidence in the financial and...
Do You Have ANY IDEA How Widespread the Spying Really Is?
Washington’s Blog
June 20, 2013
Preface: Americans now know that the government is spying. But they still have no idea how many of...
Mark of the beast? Motorola pushes human tattoo to replace digital ‘smartphone’ passwords
Ethan A. HuffNatural NewsJune 20, 2013
Desperate to make a comeback in the mobile phone market,...
We’ll be uploading our entire MINDS to computers by 2045
Our bodies will be replaced by machines within 90 years, Google expert claims
VICTORIA WOOLLASTONUK Daily...
Quelle Surprise! Haiti on the Mend
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Posted on Jun 19, 2013
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How American University Got Involved in Israel’s Public Interest
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Posted on Jun 19, 2013
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Dead Man Walking, 20 Years On
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Posted on Jun 19, 2013
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Immigration: Time to Choose Sides
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Posted on Jun 19, 2013
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EPIC RANT: “They Take a Press Release from the Federal Reserve and They Think...
If there’s one thing that individual investors can take away from Ben Bernanke’s latest Fed update, it’s that all confidence in the financial and...
And the 'World Food Prize' goes to? 3 GMO Scientists
This year's World Food Prize was handed to leading GMO scientists, including a developer at biotech giant Monsanto. (Photo: Creative Commons/blondcupie) The move...
'Brazil, Wake Up!': Protesters Face Down Troops Outside of Stadium
Tens of thousands of protesters are facing off with an 'elite force' of troops Wednesday outside of a stadium in Forteleza, Brazil where a...
'Brazil, Wake Up!': Protesters Face Down Troops Outside of Stadium
Tens of thousands of protesters are facing off with an 'elite force' of troops Wednesday outside of a stadium in Forteleza, Brazil where a...
Guantanamo Prisoner’s Case Demonstrates Unfairness of Military Commissions
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Posted on Jun 19, 2013
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Russian Cyberspace Head Calls For Internet Kill Switch
Advocates world wide web regulation by UN-style global body
Paul Joseph WatsonInfowars.comJune 19, 2013
The head of...
The Terror Con, Booz Allen Hamilton and the NSA
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For defense contractors, the government officials who write them mega checks, and the hawks in the media who cheer them on, the name...
Despite What the President Said, There’s Nothing “Transparent” About a Secret Court Issuing Secret...
The FISA court, by its nature, is the opposite of transparent. In fact, it’s hard to imagine how the FISA court could be more secretive.
New Matt Damon Movie Reveals Mankind’s Transhumanist Destiny
Elysium: The super elite centralizes technological progress to achieve utopia
Paul Joseph WatsonInfowars.comJune 19, 2013
Elysium, a...
Bye-bye 5th Amendment! Supreme Court Decides: Anything You Don’t Say Can and Will Be...
Everyone knows that when building a police state, it’s vital to strike a few Constitutional rights off the books. Now, we can add the...
Building Your SHTF Combat Overwatch Rifle
After several years in the Liberty Movement working with various survivalists, you begin to realize that there are as many viewpoints and opinions on...
Real Life Spy Drama On U.S. Bound Plane: “I’m Dead Already, They’re Gonna Kill...
According to witnesses, passenger Daniel M. Perry relayed to other passengers aboard the plane that he was a government worker, a claim that was later confirmed by sources.
Watch Your Cash: New BAIL-IN Rules Will Force “Failed Bank Losses on Investors”
When the Cypriot government forced account holders to cover bank losses earlier this year most of the world assumed...
14-Year-Old Faces Year In Jail Over Pro-Gun T-Shirt
14-year-old Jared Marcum faces a year in jail after he was arrested by police in Logan County, West Virginia...
They Know: Billionaires Are Quietly And Rapidly Dumping Millions of Shares of Stock
After the massive crash that rocked global markets in 2008, as Congress, central bankers and major financial institutions met in secret to mitigate the...
Detroit Goes Under: “There Is No Way Out But Collapse”
Though most Americans go through their day thinking everything is now returning to normal, the fact of the matter...
Learn A Post-Collapse Trade Before It’s Too Late
There comes a point in the analysis of any problem when its escalation turns so blatantly obvious that the disaster is self-explanatory. The economic...
Gold Buying Panic In China: 10,000 People Wait In Line For Their Chance to...
One day in the near future Americans will finally realize that their money is being devalued at a rapid pace. For the time being...
Look What This ‘Conspiracy Theorist’ Had To Say Back in 1984: “A Disgusting Procedure...
Back in 1984, well before most Americans had ever heard of mobile phones or used a computer, the Federal government was hard at work...
Club Of Rome Founder Proposed “Global Matrix” Of Manufactured Consent
Jurriaan MaessenInfowars.comJune 19, 2013
Environmental think tank aspired to global matrix of manufactured consent
Recently unearthed documents from...
Yahoo gave 13,000 user data to US
Major US internet corporation Yahoo has announced that American law enforcement agencies had made between 12,000 and 13,000 demands for user data over past...
Greenland’s Great Melt Is Pinned On Climate Change
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Posted on Jun 19, 2013
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The U.S. Military and the Unraveling of Africa
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Posted on Jun 19, 2013
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Defend whistleblower Edward Snowden!
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Obama, Cheney and Snowden’s revelations
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Bye-bye 5th Amendment! Supreme Court Decides: Anything You Don’t Say Can and Will Be...
Everyone knows that when building a police state, it’s vital to strike a few Constitutional rights off the books. Now, we can add the...
Building Your SHTF Combat Overwatch Rifle
After several years in the Liberty Movement working with various survivalists, you begin to realize that there are as many viewpoints and opinions on...
When the Government Asks, Tech Companies Usually Turn Over User Information
Just how often do technology companies...
Bank of America Lied to Homeowners and Rewarded Foreclosures, Ex-Employees Say
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Posted on Jun 18, 2013
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Real Life Spy Drama On U.S. Bound Plane: “I’m Dead Already, They’re Gonna Kill...
(Passenger Daniel Perry is escorted off of a United Flight originating in Hong Kong.Is he a national intelligence asset?)
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The Making of a Global Security State
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_making_of_a_global_security_state_20130618/
Posted on Jun 18, 2013
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The Terror Diaspora: The U.S. Military and Obama’s Scramble for Africa
The Gulf of Guinea. He said it without a hint of irony or embarrassment. This was one of U.S. Africa Command’s big success stories....
Climate Change Puts Lake Life at Risk
By Tim Radford, Climate News Network Lakes are warming on both sides of the Atlantic—and this is bad news both for water quality...
Obama’s Humanitarianism as Window-Dressing for the US “Deep State” Agenda: The Case of...
This essay examines the connections between the foreign intervention crisis in Syria, the vast NSA surveillance program that has recently been exposed, and the...
21 Facts About NSA Snooping That Every American Should Know
There seems to be a lot of confusion about what the NSA is actually doing. Are they reading our emails? Are they listening to our telephone calls?
Snow job: If government spying on all Americans is such a good thing, then...
Mike AdamsNatural NewsJune 18, 2013
In the run up to the 2012 election, why didn’t Obama...
The Terror Con
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Posted on Jun 18, 2013
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This Will Not End Well
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Posted on Jun 17, 2013
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Watch Your Cash: New BAIL-IN Rules Will Force “Failed Bank Losses on Investors”
When the Cypriot government forced account holders to cover bank losses earlier this year most of the world assumed...
World Socialist Web Site launches daily audio podcast
18 June 2013
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14-Year-Old Faces Year In Jail Over Pro-Gun T-Shirt
Paul Joseph Watson
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They Know: Billionaires Are Quietly And Rapidly Dumping Millions of Shares of Stock
After the massive crash that rocked global markets in 2008, as Congress, central bankers and major financial institutions met in secret to mitigate the...
Happening Now: Live Q&A With NSA Leaker, Edward Snowden
The NSA leaker, Edward Snowden, pictured in a Hong Kong hotel. (Photo: The Guardian)At 11 AM EST today, The Guardian hosted a live question...
State photo-ID databases become troves for police
Craig Timberg & Ellen Nakashima
Washington Post
June 17, 2013
The faces of more than 120 million people are in searchable photo databases that...
Keiser: The Collapse of the Current Bankster Regime is Upon Us
Max KeiserInfowars.comJune 17, 2013
We’re in a post-capitalist, post-socialism world. I have just come back from...
Snowden: Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped
Doug Stanglin
USA Today
June 17, 2013
NSA leaker Edward Snowden, answering questions in a live blog on his revelations about the top-secret agency,...
Washington’s Battle Over Syrian Foreign Policy: Will Hawks Or Doves Prevail?
Like Putin’s policy in Russia, Obama’s Syrian policy is being tugged strenuously in Washington, both by hawks and by doves. On June 13, Obama...
Russian Tycoon Predicts Immortality Within 25 Years
Human minds to be transferred into computers by 2035
Paul Joseph WatsonInfowars.comJune 17, 2013
Police States, Theirs and Ours
Anyone who’s shocked by NSA contractor Edward Snowden’s revelations that the US state is spying on its citizens shouldn’t be. Liberal democracies have routinely...
Apple received 5,000 data requests from US govt in 6 months
Apple received thousands of requests from US authorities for user info, but was unaware of Washington’s PRISM program, the company said. It joins internet...
The Next NSA Spying Shoe to Drop: “Pre-Crime” Artificial Intelligence
Washington’s BlogJune 17, 2013
NSA spying whistleblower Edward Snowden’s statements have been verified. Reporter Glenn Greenwald has...
Rotting, Decaying And Bankrupt — If You Want To See The Future Of America...
Eventually the money runs out. Much of America was shocked when the city of Detroit defaulted on a$39.7 million debt payment and announced that it was suspending payments on $2.5 billion of unsecured debt, but those who visitmy site on a regular basis were probably not too surprised.
If We Can’t Stop Corporations from Hiding in Cayman Islands to Avoid Taxes, We...
With leaders from eight of the world’s wealthiest countries discussing economic policies that will affect citizens worldwide, the G8, always a symbol of undemocratic governance, is particularly contradictory this year.
Chris Hedges Will Be Back
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Great Gatsby Economics
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Posted on Jun 16, 2013
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Protest and Resistance against America’s Police State: What’s Your Breaking Point to Take Action?
When Edward Snowden reached his breaking point, the world saw the truth about the vast extent of spying by the NSA on Americans and...
The Next NSA Spying Shoe to Drop: “Pre-Crime” Artificial Intelligence
NSA Building Big Brother “Pre-Crime” Artificial Intelligence Program
NSA spying whistleblower Edward Snowden’s statements have been verified. Reporter Glenn Greenwald has promised numerous additional disclosures...
Detroit Goes Under: “There Is No Way Out But Collapse”
Though most Americans go through their day thinking everything is now returning to normal, the fact of the matter...
Walmart Accepted Clothing from Banned Bangladesh Factories
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Posted on Jun 16, 2013
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Truthdigger of the Week: Daniel Ellsberg
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Posted on Jun 15, 2013
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The Two Centers of Unaccountable Power in America, and Their Consequences
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Posted on Jun 16, 2013
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Police State Canada: Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC) Runs Massive Domestic Spying Program
On the basis of secret government directives, Canada’s national security apparatus is conducting mass surveillance of Canadians parallel to, if not directly patterned after,...
The Government’s Spying Is Not As Bad As The Whistleblower Said … It’s WORSE
Whistleblower Claims Validated … and Then Some
The government is attacking whistleblower Edward Snowden by claiming that he was lying about the scope of the...
UK, Overseas Territories sign tax deal
British Prime Minister has signed a deal with British Overseas Territories, widely seen as international tax havens, to take a series of actions to...
Facebook Gives Gov't Access to Nearly 20,000 User Accounts
Have you updated your Facebook account lately? If so, the government may know all about it.
According to a statement posted on the company’s website...
Deleted Daily Mail Online Article: “US Backed Plan for Chemical Weapon Attack in Syria...
In January 29, 2013, Britain’s most popular Daily Newspaper, in its online version Dailymail.co.uk published an article titled:
A few days later they pulled the...
Facebook Gives Gov't Access to Nearly 20,000 User Accounts
Have you updated your Facebook account lately? If so, the government may know all about it.
According to a statement posted on the company’s website...
The Obama Regime: What the NSA Revelations Tell Us about America’s Police State
Ongoing revelations by The Guardian and The Washington Post of massive, illegal secret state surveillance of the American people along with advanced plans for...
Turkish Doctors Threatened for Aiding Protesters
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Posted on Jun 15, 2013
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Microsoft Waits to Fix Your Software Bugs So the NSA Can Use Them First
Rebecca Greenfield
The Atlantic Wire
June 15, 2013
In a move as fiendishly clever as it is galling, Microsoft tells the U.S. government...
Attorney General Holder: "No Intention to Spy" on Congress
Attorney General Eric Holder (shown) offered to answer in closed session when asked in a Senate hearing if the executive branch had been monitoring...
DARPA Develops Tiny Helpers To Spot Bioterror Attacks
Elena MalykhinaInformation WeekJune 15, 2013
The government might soon have at its disposal highly sensitive gas...
DARPA Develops Tiny Helpers To Spot Bioterror Attacks
Elena MalykhinaInformation WeekJune 15, 2013
The government might soon have at its disposal highly sensitive gas...
Recovered Nazi diary gives rare view into Third Reich
CNNJune 15, 2013
It was a mystery for nearly 70 years: What happened to Nazi Party...
Facebook and Microsoft get government OK to make broader surveillance revelations post-Edward Snowden leaks
NY Daily NewsJune 15, 2013
Facebook and Microsoft Corp. representatives said that after negotiations with national...
Thousands Of Companies Have Been Handing Over Your Personal Data To The NSA
Michael SnyderEconomic CollapseJune 15, 2013
It isn’t just Internet and phone companies that are giving your...
Climate Change Puts Even “Safe” Species at Risk
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Posted on Jun 14, 2013
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‘Facebook got 10k US data requests’
File photo shows the splash page for the social networking website Facebook. The social networking website Facebook says it received between 9,000 and...
On Civil Liberties, Comparing Obama With Bush Is Easy–and Mostly Wrong
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Posted on Jun 14, 2013
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Learn A Post-Collapse Trade Before It’s Too Late
There comes a point in the analysis of any problem when its escalation turns so blatantly obvious that the disaster is self-explanatory. The economic...
IMF Wades Into Fed Exit Debate, Urges No Change Through 2013
Ian Talley Wall Street JournalJune 14, 2013
The International Monetary Fund lowered its 2014 growth outlook...
Gold Buying Panic In China: 10,000 People Wait In Line For Their Chance to...
One day in the near future Americans will finally realize that their money is being devalued at a rapid...
Unprecedented Coalition Pushes Back on Government’s Domestic Spying
The national security establishment’s latest domestic spying scandal has galvanized a lightning-fast response where nearly 100 civil liberties-minded advocacy groups and technology companies are...
ADL Spies: The Strange History of the Anti-Defamation League
“he Anti-Defamation League for many years has maintained a very important, confidential investigative coverage of Arab activities and propaganda….Our information, in addition to being...
The National Security Agency: A Global Superpower
Recent revelations that the U.S. National Security Agency is conducting massive meta-data vacuuming of the phone calls and Internet transactions of tens of millions...
Elizabeth Warren’s QE for Students: Populist Demagoguery or Economic Breakthrough?
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/elizabeth_warrens_qe_for_students_20130614/
Posted on Jun 14, 2013
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Elizabeth Warren’s QE for Students
On July 1, interest rates will double for millions of students — from 3.4% to 6.8% — unless Congress acts; and the legislative fixes...
The NSA Apologists
When you cut through the fog, the NSA controversy is about whether we should trust people with institutional power. Edward Snowden’s courageous exposure of...
The NSA Apologists
When you cut through the fog, the NSA controversy is about whether we should trust people with institutional power. Edward Snowden’s courageous exposure of...
U.S. Agencies Said to Swap Data With Thousands of Firms
Michael RileyBloombergJune 14, 2013
Thousands of technology, finance and manufacturing companies are working closely with U.S....
Attorney General Holder: "No Intention to Spy" on Congress
Attorney General Eric Holder (shown) offered to answer in closed session when asked in a Senate hearing if the executive branch had been monitoring...
Attorney General Holder: "No Intention to Spy" on Congress
Attorney General Eric Holder (shown) offered to answer in closed session when asked in a Senate hearing if the executive branch had been monitoring...
Made In Post-Chinaâ„¢
The scene was a 2011 dinner held at the home of venture capitalist John Doerr in Woodside, California, a short drive south of San...
Gangsta Government
“I’ll let you have the $10,000 for three points. That’s only because I know you.”
I’m listening to Tony yak, my Shylock. Yak, yak has...
The Human Equivalent of the $640 Toilet Seat
Neoliberal economics has been an ideological mantra of Republicans and Democrats alike since President Jimmy Carter began the wave of privatization and deregulation that...
Rich Chinese Export Pollution to Poorer Regions
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/rich_chinese_export_pollution_to_poorer_regions_20130614/
Posted on Jun 14, 2013
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Permanent Washington’s Backlash to Edward Snowden
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/permanent_washingtons_backlash_to_edward_snowden_20130613/
Posted on Jun 13, 2013
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Look What This ‘Conspiracy Theorist’ Had To Say Back in 1984…
Back in 1984, well before most Americans had ever heard of mobile phones or used a computer, the Federal...
On DNA, Scalia was right
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Posted on Jun 13, 2013
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FBI chief defends US espionage program
The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has defended the US government's espionage program.
At a House Judiciary Committee on Thursday, Robert Mueller...
France launches probe into ‘vulnerable’ nuclear base after media disclosure
The French government ordered an inquiry into a nuclear submarine base off the coast of Brittany after the claims in the local paper that...
NSA’s Digital Dragnet on Americans. Government is Trading Your Info with Mega Corps
Just like the Bradley Manning document dump was old news to anyone who bothered to follow the news closely since 2003, the latest Ed...
As We Predicted: A Globalist Totalitarian Pig Calls For the ARREST of JOURNALIST Glenn...
SHTFplan Editor’s Note: Nevermind that operatives within the U.S. government, authorized at the highest level, have been snooping on...
NSA leaks hint Microsoft may have lied about Skype security
Microsoft may have misled millions of Skype users around the world by making claims last year that have since been contradicted by intelligence leaked...
Obama: Sweat the Small Stuff for Big Justice
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/obama_sweat_the_small_stuff_for_big_justice_20130613/
Posted on Jun 13, 2013
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The Turkish Spring: Lawyers Rounded Up
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_turkish_spring_lawyers_rounded_up_20130613/
Posted on Jun 13, 2013
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An Education Declaration to Rebuild America
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/an_education_declaration_to_rebuild_america_20130613/
Posted on Jun 13, 2013
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An Education Declaration to Rebuild America
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/an_education_declaration_to_rebuild_america_20130613/
Posted on Jun 13, 2013
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The Far North of Experience
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Posted on Jun 13, 2013
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Once in a Century Floods Due Every 10 Years
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Spies Without Borders: Using Domestic Networks to Spy on the World
Much of the U.S. media coverage of last week’s NSA revelations has concentrated on its impact on the constitutional rights of U.S.-based Internet users....
Spies Without Borders: Using Domestic Networks to Spy on the World
Much of the U.S. media coverage of last week’s NSA revelations has concentrated on its impact on the constitutional rights of U.S.-based Internet users....
New Polls: Americans Decry NSA Spying, View Snowden as a Patriot
Just as in the Pew poll, more Democrats than Republicans (49% to 32%) are likely to approve NSA snooping, underscoring once again how leftists abandon their concern for privacy and civil liberties when a Democrat is in the White House.
22 Nauseating Quotes From Hypocritical Establishment Politicians About The NSA Spying Scandal
Establishment politicians from both major political parties are rushing to defend the NSA and condemn whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Euthanasia for children nears approval by Belgian Parliament
Doctors to mass-euthanize children and Alzheimer’s patients
Mike AdamsNatural NewsJune 13, 2013
A proposed law on the...
‘US might assassinate NSA leak source’
A former US lawmaker has expressed concerns that the Obama administration might resort to assassinating NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden with a cruise or a...
The NSA and the Infrastructure of the Surveillance State
<!]>It has long been known that cyberspace is one of the main battlegrounds in the 21st century. However, last week’s shocking revelations about the...
Must See Commentary: “I Don’t Know What We’re Going To Wake Up To Tomorrow…”
With seemingly endless scandals rocking the country, economic malaise spreading across the world, and super powers positioning their military...
A New Balance Toward Liberty
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/a_new_balance_toward_liberty_20130612/
Posted on Jun 12, 2013
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Europeans ‘shocked and angry’ by ‘unaccountable’ American surveillance
The recent NSA leaks have awakened many Europeans to the “disturbing” privacy violations regularly committed by the US that their own governments facilitated and...
This Is What Crisis Feels Like: A Personal Story: “It All Changed. Literally Within...
Originally published by Simon Black at Sovereign Man.
If you’re one of the 1,000+ subscribers who has take the trip down to Chile, you might...
Terror Bytes: Edward Snowden and the Architecture of Oppression
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/_20130612/
Posted on Jun 12, 2013
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Recovery: Record 23 Million American Households Receive Food Stamps
(Pictured: Depression era food line)
Just when you thought America was coming out of recession…
The number of American households on...
European Governments in Crisis over US Spying Revelations
The latest revelations regarding the extent of US surveillance of world communications traffic has led to a chorus of protest and expressions of unease...
Good, Bad, Crazy or Sane, We Need Whistle-Blowers
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/good_bad_crazy_or_sane_we_need_whistle-blowers_20130612/
Posted on Jun 12, 2013
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The NSA and the Infrastructure of the Surveillance State
It has long been known that cyberspace is one of the main battlegrounds in the 21st century. However, last week’s shocking revelations about the...
Bradley Manning Court Martial Underway: Military Trial Threatens Basic American Freedom
The Bradley Manning court martial that began June 3 looks like another defining moment for America — another indication of whether we are becoming...
ACLU Suit Challenges NSA Surveillance; Sen. Paul Plans Class Action Suit
On a “daily, ongoing basis,” the National Security Agency unconstitutionally collects the phone log data of millions of Americans. Additionally, through an operation known...
Russia may deem civil servants’ use of Gmail, Facebook ‘high treason’
rt.com
June 12, 2013
After the latest NSA surveillance revelations a Russian MP has suggested to the government to immediately limit civil...
Former CIA Employee Snowden, Blows Whistle on NSA’s Dragnet Surveillance
Just as Bradley Manning’s court-martial was getting underway, another brave whistleblower dropped a bombshell into the media: The Obama administration is collecting data on...
ADL Spies
“he Anti-Defamation League for many years has maintained a very important, confidential investigative coverage of Arab activities and propaganda….Our information, in addition to being...
Don’t Worry About Surveillance: In Britain, Everything’s Okay!
Global Research and Countercurrents 12/6/2013 and The 4th Media 21/6/2013
In the name of ‘humanitarian intervention’, a ‘war on terror’, fighting for ‘democratic freedoms’ or whatever the script happens to be this week, British Foreign Secretary William Hague can be relied on to sell US-British militarism to a public fed up with constant wars and (increasingly less) ignorant of their underlying reasons (1).
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During the Libyan conflict, 200 prominent African figures accused western nations of “subverting international law” in Libya University of Johannesburg
Rather than being held to account for the death and destruction in Libya, Hague has carried on where he left off with strong rhetoric directed towards Iran and a call for sanctions (4) and a concerted commitment to topple the Syrian government by force (5) (6) (7). For public consumption, this is all spuriously carried out under the banner of humanitarianism or in the name of global security.
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It all begs the question, how much trust can we place in someone like Hague, especially when they try to reassure the British public that British intelligence services do not illegally snoop on the British population?
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Hague has told the British parliament that British spies have not used US Britain
Hague has stated: "It has been suggested that GCHQ uses our partnership with the United States UK United Kingdom
Every time GCHQ wants to intercept an individual's communications, Hague asserts that the agency must seek a warrant signed by him, the interior minister or another secretary of state. He asserts that every decision is based on extensive legal and policy advice and warrants are legally required to be necessary, proportionate and carefully targeted.
Every time GCHQ wants to intercept an individual's communications, Hague asserts that the agency must seek a warrant signed by him, the interior minister or another secretary of state. He asserts that every decision is based on extensive legal and policy advice and warrants are legally required to be necessary, proportionate and carefully targeted.
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The 1994 Intelligence Services Act gives senior ministers the power to "disapply" UK UK Britain
In the US, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) gives US intelligence agencies wide-ranging powers to conduct surveillance of data that is held by or passes through the US: it provides for the gathering of information that may not only protect the US against hostile acts but which "is necessary to … the conduct of the foreign affairs of the United States.”
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In a more general sense, the underlying message being put forward by officialdom is that ‘no one has anything to fear as long as you are not terrorists or some other threat to national interest.’ In an age of perceived terror threats and subsequent clampdowns on civil liberties as a result of the illegal wars and covert and overt interventions abroad that politicians like Hague attempt to justify on fallacious grounds, just who does that rule out? The ‘terror threat’ and vague notions of the ‘national interest’ are highly convenient reasons for including anyone or everyone in the surveillance net.
What about Muslims, dissidents, civil-liberties types, ‘trouble-makers’, environmental campaigners, 'occupy' individuals, ‘lefties’, trade unionists, human rights activists or particular writers, bloggers and journalists? Surveillance and the infiltration of groups deemed ‘subversive’ (but working well within the law and an integral part of plural democracy) have been carried out by the intelligence services for many decades (9). In pointing out some of these types of activities, Annie Machon in The Guardian notes that real democracies don’t infiltrate legitimate protest groups. But, as she notes, in Britain
A key element here is that of trust. Do we trust what politicians like Hague say or do? Do we trust our governments? Should we trust Google, Facebook and any other company that stores our personal details (11)?
NSA whitleblower Edward Snowden apparently thinks we should not. He wanted to expose the “omniscient state powers kept in check by nothing more than policy documents.” Dennis Mitchell, a senior GCHQ officer, who retired in 1984 in protest at the Thatcher government's ban on trade unions there, referred to "actions which I believe would be considered unacceptable by the general public were it aware of them". He described GCHQ as a powerful, unaccountable arm of government. According to him, the only real watchdog at that time was the workforce, not the law.
Perhaps Snowden or Mitchell might agree to some extent with Michael Foucault’s premise that society now resembles a bright modern prison. Foucault warned that the bright visibility is a trap (12). Increasing visibility (on Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc) leads to power being located on an individualised level throughout a person's entire life. Foucault suggested that a ‘carceral continuum’ runs through modern society, from the maximum security prison, through secure accommodation, probation, social workers, police and teachers, to our everyday working and domestic lives. In this digital age, now more than ever before.
“Under the guise of fighting the so-called ‘war on terror’, combating weapons proliferation and gathering economic intelligence, institutions such as GCHQ and the NSA are, in reality, operating a highly intrusive Big Brother Police State Surveillance Empire that is being used to specifically monitor the activities of genuine political opposition and dissent, as well as undermine the privacy, freedom and constitutional civil liberties of targeted peoples and nations throughout the world… Identification technologies such as video surveillance, biometrics and national ID cards will undoubtedly find their way into the sprawling informational GCHQ/NSA vortex, eventually rendering all personal, communal, commercial, economic, and political control to the State - a system of absolute tyranny that can only be labeled as ‘global slavery’.” Steve Jones (13).
Notes
10) http://www.guardian.co.uk/
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