The close relationship between politics and economics is neither neutral
nor coincidental. Large governments evolve through history in order to
protect large accumulations of property and wealth. Michael Parenti American political scientist, historian and media critic.
Wiktionary's word of the day:
sheeple: People who unquestioningly accept as true whatever their political leaders say or who adopt popular opinion as their own without scrutiny.
.....those that prefer to swim in the shallow end of the gene pool.
S0
Additionally, some are, to say it politely, not being factually accurate in what they are telling the public. These inaccurate statements are either intentional lies meant to mislead the public or they are evidence that the people who are supposed to be in charge of oversight do not know what they are supposed to be overseeing. The most recent revelations from the Washington Post, by way of Edward Snowden, indicate the NSA breaks privacy rules or overstep its legal authority thousands of times each year. Whether people are lying or do not know what they are doing, either way, this is a significant crisis. Here are 13 examples.
1. The government seizes and searches all Internet and text communications which enter or leave the US.
On August 8, 2013, the New York Times reported that the NSA secretly collects virtually all international email and text communications which cross the US borders in or out. As the ACLU says, “the NSA thinks it’s okay to intercept and then read Americans’ emails, so long as it does so really quickly. But that is not how the Fourth Amendment works…the invasion of Americans’ privacy is real and immediate.”
2. The government created and maintains secret backdoor access into all databases in order to search for information on US citizens.
On August 9, 2013, the Guardian revealed yet another Edward Snowden leaked document which points out “the National Security Agency has a secret backdoor into its vast databases under a legal authority enabling it to search for US citizens’ email and phone calls without a warrant.” This is a new set of secrets about surveillance of people in the US. This new policy of 2011 allows searching by US person names and identifiers when the NSA is collecting data. The document declares that analysts should not implement these queries until an oversight process has been developed. No word on whether such a process was developed or not.
3. The government operates a vast database which allows it to sift through millions of records on the Internet to show nearly everything a person does.
Recent disclosures by Snowden and Glenn Greenwald of the Guardian demonstrate the NSA operates a massive surveillance program called XKeyscore. The surveillance program has since been confirmed by other CIA officials. It allows the government to enter a person’s name or other question into the program and sift through oceans of data to produce everything there is on the Internet by or about that person or other search term.
4. The government has a special court which meets in secret to authorize access for the FBI and other investigators to millions and millions of US phone, text, email and business records.
There is a special court of federal judges which meets in secret to authorize the government to gather and review millions and millions of phone and Internet records. This court, called the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA court), allows government lawyers to come before them in secret, with no representatives of the public or press or defense counsel allowed, to argue unopposed for more and more surveillance. This is the court which, in just one of its thousands of rulings, authorized the handing over of all call data created by Verizon within the US and between the US and abroad to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The public would never have known about the massive surveillance without the leaked documents from Snowden.....< read more>
(Credit: Reuters/Adrees Latif)
The FBI is declaring victory over Anonymous in a series of statements
claiming the hacker collective is no longer able to carry out large,
successful operations because most of its “largest players” have been
arrested or detained by US law enforcement authorities.
“The movement is still there, and they’re still yacking on Twitter and posting things, but you don’t hear about these guys coming forward with those large breaches,” Austin P. Berglas, assistant special agent in charge of the FBI’s cyber division, told the Huffington Post.
“It’s just not happening, and that’s because of the dismantlement of the largest players,” he added.
Berglas also claimed that recruiting LulzSec hacker Hector Monsegur, aka Sabu, as an FBI informant has bred fear and distrust within Anonymous, deterring hackers from continuing with their operations against targets like US law enforcement agencies.
But given some recent successes, Anons take issue with the FBI’s claims of “dismantlement.”
In spite of FBI arrests, large-scale Anonymous operations have been carried out as recently as July, when Anons made public information stolen from a server used by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Earlier this year, OpLastResort infiltrated servers used by the Federal Reserve, the Department of Justice and several other financial and law enforcement agencies.
Scared of the FBI? Anonymous took to Twitter to mock the claim.
“Has anyone seen my leg? I’m in pieces over here!” tweeted one Anonymous-affiliated account. “SHOUTOUTZ TO ALL TEH DISMANTLEZ CREWZ OUT THERE IN SCARED OF TEH FBI LAND LOLOLOLOL,” tweeted @OpLastResort, an account managed by Anons closely associated with the collective’s most recent hacks.
The @OpLastResort account then dumped a large amount of information stolen from what appear to be servers used by the FBI’s Regional Forensics Computer Laboratory (RFCL). A large amount of the information appears to have been scrubbed from computer files as early as January of this year. Such data can only be obtained with direct access to servers.
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Re-post from 2007........
Last month the Israelis and the Palestinians renewed their hostilities. A war that has been going on for centuries. We are only getting reports from the Israeli side. Everybody here is so sympathetic toward their cause. The Israelis have a policy: kill one of us and we kill 10 or 20 of you. It is a shame that Lebanon and Syria is rubble again. And it is outrageous that Israel would build walls around Palestinian west bank settlements. Since that is exactly what all of Europe did to Jews for a thousand years, called them ghettos. I believe the Jews have a right to exist; but so do their neighbors. It is not about faith it is about human beings being humane. Mankind has learned nothing from history. So the wars continue.
Now here is some jokes from the other side of the wall:
An Israeli recently arrives at London's Heathrow airport. As he fills out a form, the customs officer asks him: "Occupation?"
The Israeli promptly replies: "No, just visiting!"
.........
Three Hezbollah fighters run out of Beirut's southern suburbs after Israeli raids, flashing the victory sign. Actually, no. They were really pointing out that there were only two buildings left standing.
..............
Why are coquettish elderly Lebanese and Afgan women very happy about the war? Because it took them back 30 years.
................
Why will Hassan Nasrallah, the Hezbollah chief, win the Nobel Prize for education? Because he is the only man who sent one million people to school in just two days.
..........
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was sitting in his office wondering how to invade Lebanon when his telephone rang. Beirut's most famous imaginary character announces to him in a heavily accented voice: "This is Abul Abed and I am calling to tell you that we are officially declaring war on you."
"How big is your army?" replies Olmert. "Right now," said Abul Abed, "there is myself, my cousin Mustafa, my next-door neighbor Abu Khaled, and the whole team from the teahouse. That makes eight!"
Olmert paused. "I must tell you Abul Abed, that I have 1 million men in my army waiting to move on my command."
Abul Abed paused, then said: Mr. Olmert, the war is still on! We have managed to acquire some infantry equipment!"
"And what equipment would that be Abul Abed?", Olmert asked.
"Well sir, we have two Mercedes 180s, and a truck."
"I must tell you Abul Abed that I have 10,000 bombers and 20,000 fighter planes. My military complex is surrounded by laser-guided, surface-to-air missile sites. And since we last spoke, I've increased my army to 2 million!"
"Mr. Olmert, we have to call off this war," said Abul Abed.
"I'm sorry to hear that," said Olmert. "Why the sudden change of heart?"
"Well," said Abul Abed, "we've come to realize that there is no way we can feed 2 million prisoners!"
...................
Early one day, a man rushes desperately to the dentist. "Please take out my bridge, or the Israelis will bomb it!"
.....................
After Saudi Arabia decided to donate half a billion dollars to rebuild Lebanon, Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, ordered the capture of six Israeli soldiers at the border.
The Palestinians only want a place to call home like us Americans and our friends(that spy on us) from Israel....kosmicdebris
"The dollar votes more times than the man."
One does not have to be a Marxist to know there is something very wrong in this society...When change threatens to rule, then the rules are changed..Michael Parenti
Wiktionary's word of the day:
sheeple: People who unquestioningly accept as true whatever their political leaders say or who adopt popular opinion as their own without scrutiny.
.....those that prefer to swim in the shallow end of the gene pool.
S0
August 15, 2013
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“We believe most Americans would be stunned to learn the details of how these secret court opinions have interpreted…the Patriot Act. As we see it, there is now a significant gap between what most Americans think the law allows and what the government secretly claims the law allows. This is a problem, because it is impossible to have an informed public debate about what the law should say when the public doesn’t know what its government thinks the law says.” —U.S. senators Ron Wyden and Mark UdallThe President, the Head of the National Security Agency, the Department of Justice, the House and Senate Intelligence Committees, and the Judiciary, are intentionally keeping massive amounts of information about surveillance of US and other people secret from voters.
Additionally, some are, to say it politely, not being factually accurate in what they are telling the public. These inaccurate statements are either intentional lies meant to mislead the public or they are evidence that the people who are supposed to be in charge of oversight do not know what they are supposed to be overseeing. The most recent revelations from the Washington Post, by way of Edward Snowden, indicate the NSA breaks privacy rules or overstep its legal authority thousands of times each year. Whether people are lying or do not know what they are doing, either way, this is a significant crisis. Here are 13 examples.
On August 8, 2013, the New York Times reported that the NSA secretly collects virtually all international email and text communications which cross the US borders in or out. As the ACLU says, “the NSA thinks it’s okay to intercept and then read Americans’ emails, so long as it does so really quickly. But that is not how the Fourth Amendment works…the invasion of Americans’ privacy is real and immediate.”
2. The government created and maintains secret backdoor access into all databases in order to search for information on US citizens.
On August 9, 2013, the Guardian revealed yet another Edward Snowden leaked document which points out “the National Security Agency has a secret backdoor into its vast databases under a legal authority enabling it to search for US citizens’ email and phone calls without a warrant.” This is a new set of secrets about surveillance of people in the US. This new policy of 2011 allows searching by US person names and identifiers when the NSA is collecting data. The document declares that analysts should not implement these queries until an oversight process has been developed. No word on whether such a process was developed or not.
3. The government operates a vast database which allows it to sift through millions of records on the Internet to show nearly everything a person does.
Recent disclosures by Snowden and Glenn Greenwald of the Guardian demonstrate the NSA operates a massive surveillance program called XKeyscore. The surveillance program has since been confirmed by other CIA officials. It allows the government to enter a person’s name or other question into the program and sift through oceans of data to produce everything there is on the Internet by or about that person or other search term.
4. The government has a special court which meets in secret to authorize access for the FBI and other investigators to millions and millions of US phone, text, email and business records.
There is a special court of federal judges which meets in secret to authorize the government to gather and review millions and millions of phone and Internet records. This court, called the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA court), allows government lawyers to come before them in secret, with no representatives of the public or press or defense counsel allowed, to argue unopposed for more and more surveillance. This is the court which, in just one of its thousands of rulings, authorized the handing over of all call data created by Verizon within the US and between the US and abroad to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The public would never have known about the massive surveillance without the leaked documents from Snowden.....< read more>
(Credit: Reuters/Adrees Latif)
This article originally appeared on GlobalPost.
The FBI is declaring victory over Anonymous in a series of statements
claiming the hacker collective is no longer able to carry out large,
successful operations because most of its “largest players” have been
arrested or detained by US law enforcement authorities.“The movement is still there, and they’re still yacking on Twitter and posting things, but you don’t hear about these guys coming forward with those large breaches,” Austin P. Berglas, assistant special agent in charge of the FBI’s cyber division, told the Huffington Post.
“It’s just not happening, and that’s because of the dismantlement of the largest players,” he added.
Berglas also claimed that recruiting LulzSec hacker Hector Monsegur, aka Sabu, as an FBI informant has bred fear and distrust within Anonymous, deterring hackers from continuing with their operations against targets like US law enforcement agencies.
But given some recent successes, Anons take issue with the FBI’s claims of “dismantlement.”
In spite of FBI arrests, large-scale Anonymous operations have been carried out as recently as July, when Anons made public information stolen from a server used by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Earlier this year, OpLastResort infiltrated servers used by the Federal Reserve, the Department of Justice and several other financial and law enforcement agencies.
Scared of the FBI? Anonymous took to Twitter to mock the claim.
“Has anyone seen my leg? I’m in pieces over here!” tweeted one Anonymous-affiliated account. “SHOUTOUTZ TO ALL TEH DISMANTLEZ CREWZ OUT THERE IN SCARED OF TEH FBI LAND LOLOLOLOL,” tweeted @OpLastResort, an account managed by Anons closely associated with the collective’s most recent hacks.
The @OpLastResort account then dumped a large amount of information stolen from what appear to be servers used by the FBI’s Regional Forensics Computer Laboratory (RFCL). A large amount of the information appears to have been scrubbed from computer files as early as January of this year. Such data can only be obtained with direct access to servers.
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Re-post from 2007........
Last month the Israelis and the Palestinians renewed their hostilities. A war that has been going on for centuries. We are only getting reports from the Israeli side. Everybody here is so sympathetic toward their cause. The Israelis have a policy: kill one of us and we kill 10 or 20 of you. It is a shame that Lebanon and Syria is rubble again. And it is outrageous that Israel would build walls around Palestinian west bank settlements. Since that is exactly what all of Europe did to Jews for a thousand years, called them ghettos. I believe the Jews have a right to exist; but so do their neighbors. It is not about faith it is about human beings being humane. Mankind has learned nothing from history. So the wars continue.
Now here is some jokes from the other side of the wall:
An Israeli recently arrives at London's Heathrow airport. As he fills out a form, the customs officer asks him: "Occupation?"
The Israeli promptly replies: "No, just visiting!"
.........
Three Hezbollah fighters run out of Beirut's southern suburbs after Israeli raids, flashing the victory sign. Actually, no. They were really pointing out that there were only two buildings left standing.
..............
Why are coquettish elderly Lebanese and Afgan women very happy about the war? Because it took them back 30 years.
................
Why will Hassan Nasrallah, the Hezbollah chief, win the Nobel Prize for education? Because he is the only man who sent one million people to school in just two days.
..........
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was sitting in his office wondering how to invade Lebanon when his telephone rang. Beirut's most famous imaginary character announces to him in a heavily accented voice: "This is Abul Abed and I am calling to tell you that we are officially declaring war on you."
"How big is your army?" replies Olmert. "Right now," said Abul Abed, "there is myself, my cousin Mustafa, my next-door neighbor Abu Khaled, and the whole team from the teahouse. That makes eight!"
Olmert paused. "I must tell you Abul Abed, that I have 1 million men in my army waiting to move on my command."
Abul Abed paused, then said: Mr. Olmert, the war is still on! We have managed to acquire some infantry equipment!"
"And what equipment would that be Abul Abed?", Olmert asked.
"Well sir, we have two Mercedes 180s, and a truck."
"I must tell you Abul Abed that I have 10,000 bombers and 20,000 fighter planes. My military complex is surrounded by laser-guided, surface-to-air missile sites. And since we last spoke, I've increased my army to 2 million!"
"Mr. Olmert, we have to call off this war," said Abul Abed.
"I'm sorry to hear that," said Olmert. "Why the sudden change of heart?"
"Well," said Abul Abed, "we've come to realize that there is no way we can feed 2 million prisoners!"
...................
Early one day, a man rushes desperately to the dentist. "Please take out my bridge, or the Israelis will bomb it!"
.....................
After Saudi Arabia decided to donate half a billion dollars to rebuild Lebanon, Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, ordered the capture of six Israeli soldiers at the border.
The Palestinians only want a place to call home like us Americans and our friends(that spy on us) from Israel....kosmicdebris
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