NSA Surveillance Rarely Useful, Study ShowsA review of government claims by the New America Foundation has come to the conclusion that NSA chief Keith Alexander’s testimony as to the utility of NSA bulk surveillance was “overblown” and “misleading.”
The study showed that virtually all of the 225 terrorism investigations run by the US since 9/11 have centered on “traditional inve... (more)
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TSA Kids Video (Now With Truth)
On December 12, 2013 the TSA made a cartoon aimed at indoctrinating our kids into submission.
We thought it lacked some truth.
FLASHBACK: TSA Launches 'Fun' Website For Kids
Original… ... (more)
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Life in the Electronic Concentration CampWhat is most striking about the American police state is not the mega-corporations running amok in the halls of Congress, the militarized police crashing through doors and shooting unarmed citizens, or the invasive surveillance regime which has come to dominate every aspect of our lives. No, what has been most disconcerting about the emergence of the American police state is the extent to which the citizenry appears content to passively wait for someone else to solve our nation's many problems. ... (more)
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Liberals And Conservatives Switch Positions On NSA Surveillance Depending On If 'Their Guy' Is In PowerOrin Kerr has pointed out that people who self-identify themselves as "liberals" or "conservatives" seem to shift their opinion on NSA surveillance depending on whether or not it's "their guy" in the White House. That is, back when George W. Bush was President, "Democrats" disapproved of the NSA's surveillance activities, with only 27... (more)
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Mainstream Media's Vilification Of Edward Snowden And Glenn Greenwald
Excellent run down on the Snowden case and the media's attack on him and Greenwald from Al Jazeera.
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Greenwald to Bolling: Gov't Labels People Like Snowden 'Traitors,' History Calls Them 'Patriots'
Journalist Glenn Greenwald joined Eric Bolling on Hannity Friday night to talk about the continuing debate over the NSA and Edward Snowden, especially the question of whether Snowden is a patriot or a traitor. Bolling and Greenwald took note of how this debate does not fall neatly along political lines, and Greenwald said "the breakdown is do you have primary allegiance... (more)
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Glenn Greenwald Rips Wash. Post Reporter Ruth Marcus
Glenn Greenwald calls out Washington Post writer Ruth Marcus for being a hypocrite. It's an epic rebuking.
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Breaking the Code: NSA Working on Quantum Computer to Defeat EncryptionAccording to a story published today by the Washington Post, documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden reveal an effort by the NSA to build "a cryptologically useful quantum computer" capable of breaking any kind of encryption... (more)
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NBC's Chief Medical Editor Forced Her Kids to Sign Up for Obamacare as Their 'Patriotic Duty'
On Morning Joe Monday, NBC's chief medical editor Dr. Nancy Snyderman, after arguing that the "biggest fix" for the American healthcare system would be single-payer, proudly declared that she had forced her own kids to sign up for Obamacare as their "patriotic duty." (MSNBC 12.30.2013)
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Feds May Require Vehicle Location Tracking in New CarsIn a few weeks, federal officials may require new vehicles to have trackable GPS “safety” devices which could be hacked to cause automobile accidents and may even usher in mileage taxes.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is spending the next couple of weeks to mull over its decision to install vehicle-to-vehicle communications – known as V2V for short – into new vehicles which would allow them to “talk” to each other through GPS... (more)
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Washington Post Columnist Says 'Complainers' Will Be At Fault For Next Terrorist AttackWhen last we wrote about Washington Post columnist and knee-jerk defender of the surveillance state, Walter Pincus, he was writing bizarre, factually incorrect claims about Glenn Greenwald (claiming Greenwald was associated with Wikileaks when he was not). When this massive error (on which Pincus based his entire c... (more)
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iSpy? Apple Denies Assisting NSA with iPhone "Back Door"Apple, the company giant behind the iconic iPhone, declared on Monday that is has never assisted the NSA in its efforts to create "back doors" to its signature mobile phone or any of its other products.
The declaration by the computer giant comes in response to revelations made public by the German newspaper Der Spiegel in recent days, based on internal documents provided by Edward Snowden, which revealed secret units within the NSA that have created and reportedly installed sophi... (more)
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Glenn Greenwald: The NSA Can 'Literally Watch Every Keystroke You Make'
The German publication Der Spiegel has revealed new details about a secretive hacking unit inside the National Security Agency called the Office of Tailored Access Operations, or TAO. The unit was created in 1997 to hack into global communications traffic. Hackers inside the TAO have developed a way to break into computers running Micros... (more)
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It Was Never About The Money, Stupid: The Similarities Between Copyright Monopoly Madness & Boston Tea Taxes“You are just spoiled brats who don’t want to pay”, said the copyright industry as people shared culture and knowledge online. “You are just spoiled brats who don’t want to pay”, said the English after the Boston Tea Party. The underlying mechanisms are basically the same.
With every new breakthrough, old scarcities are turned into abundances, and new scarcities appear around the new abundances. When households were electrified, household food ... (more)
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NSA Intercepting Laptops Bought Online to Install Spy Malware This National Security Agency complex in San Antonio, Texas, located in a former Sony chip factory, is one of the central offices of the intelligence agency's Tailored Access Operations, the NSA's top operative unit. It's something like a squad of plumbers that can be called in when normal access to a target is blocked.
Germany's Der Spiegel is reporting Sunday that the US National Security Agency (NSA), working with the CIA and FBI, has been intercep... (more)
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