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2013/06/082013/06/08

Eagle: Matt Taibbi on Bradley Manning Trial — Should Be About War Crimes By Others, Not Whistle-Blowing By One

Corruption, Government, Idiocy, Military

300 Million Talons... — 300 Million Talons…

As Bradley Manning Trial Begins, Press Predictably Misses the Point

Rolling Stone: June 6, 2013

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You get the press and the rest of America following that bouncing ball, and the game's over. Almost no matter what the outcome of the trial is, if you can convince the American people that this case is about mental state of a single troubled kid from Crescent, Oklahoma, then the propaganda war has been won already.

Because in reality, this case does not have anything to do with who Bradley Manning is, or even, really, what his motives were. This case is entirely about the “classified” materials Manning had access to, and whether or not they contained widespread evidence of war crimes.

This whole thing, this trial, it all comes down to one simple equation. If you can be punished for making public a crime, then the government doing the punishing is itself criminal.

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2013/06/082013/06/08

DefDog: Intelligence Smoke, the Real Fires are in DoD — and the Coming Crash

Corruption, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude, IO Deeds of War, IO Impotency

Useful distraction from the real fires in DoD.

Obama defends secret NSA surveillance programs – as it happened

Spy chief strongly defends surveillance, calls it legal

Timeline of revelations about US domestic spying

Top-secret Prism program claims direct access to servers of firms including Google, Apple and Facebook

US intelligence boss calls for criminal investigation over surveillance program leaks

White House Says Congress Was Briefed 13 Times on Surveillance Programs

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2013/06/082013/06/08

Josh Kilbourn: US Households on Foodstamps Hit 22 Million

Corruption, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude

Recovery? No. Continued looting by the 1%? Yes.

American Households On Foodstamps Climb To New Record

Yesterday, briefly, we were confused by the eruption in the stock market following a not too bad sub-200K nonfarm payrolls number. Because we know that in the New Normal bad is always good, no matter what the well-coifed TV pundit du jour tells you. Then we remembered that yesterday is when the USDA releases its monthly Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program data, i.e. Americans on Foodstamps.

It was here that the ramp was perfectly explained, because while the bad (for stocks of course) data was that individual foodstamps recipients rose by 170K in March – if just a whisker below all time highs – it was the number of American households on foodstamps, which rose to a new all time high of 23,116,441 (each collecting an average of $274.30 per month) that perfectly explained the Dow Jones' 200 point surge higher: the transfer of wealth from the poor and middle-classes to the 1% continues without a hiccup.

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2013/06/082013/06/08

4th Media: Google Moto X Phone a Total Sensor Spy

Advanced Cyber/IO, Commerce, Corruption

Google’s New “Moto X” Superphone Will SPY on YOU 24/7, and YOU Will LIKE IT

By Christopher Mims

Quartz, 30 May 2013

Dennis Woodside, CEO of Motorola, Google’s wholly owned phone-making subsidiary, walked onto a stage yesterday with the company’s rumored new superphone, and while he refused to take it out of his pocket, he confirmed that it’s real and that it’s launching in October of this year.

He also dropped a number of technical details about the phone, known as the Moto X, which indicate that, essentially, it’s the world’s most sophisticated cluster of sensors you can wear on your person, and it’s going to know every single thing you do, whether it’s driving, sleeping or taking a walk around the block.

Google is betting that you will love your pocket Stasi so much you’ll never want to be without it—and Google is right.

The Moto X phone will be the world’s most perfect spy

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2013/06/082013/06/08

Rickard Falkvinge: NSA as Poster Child for Government & Corporate Corruption, Collusion, & Treason

03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 10 Security, 11 Society, Civil Society, Corruption, Director of National Intelligence et al (IC), Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude, IO Deeds of War, IO Impotency, Law Enforcement, Military

Told You So: If You Have Been Using A Centralized Comms Service, You Were Wiretapped

Privacy: This night, news broke that the USA’s security agencies have been wiretapping essentially every major centralized social service for private data. Photos, video conferences, text chats, and voice calls – everything. We have been saying this for years and been declared tinfoil hat and conspiracy nuts; it’s good to finally see the documents in black on white.

This night, European time, the news broke that the USA’s National Security Agency (NSA) has had direct access to pretty much every social network for the past several years, dating back to 2007, under a program named PRISM. Under the program, a number of social services voluntarily feed people’s private data to the NSA. In short, if you have been using/uploading

e-mail
video or voice chat
videos
photos
stored data
VoIP calls
file transfers
video conferencing
(and more)

…from any of…

Microsoft (incl. Hotmail et al), since Sep 11, 2007
Google, since Jan 14, 2009
Yahoo, since Mar 12, 2008
Facebook, since June 3, 2009
PalTalk, since Dec 7, 2009
YouTube, since Sep 24, 2010
Skype, since Feb 6, 2011
AOL, since Mar 31, 2011
Apple, since Oct 2012

…then you have been wiretapped, and still are.

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2013/06/072013/06/07

Eagle: Pentagon destroys replica of underground nuclear facility — Israel assured budget cuts will not stop attack on Iran

04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Iran, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Proliferation, Corruption, DoD, Government, Idiocy, IO Deeds of War, Military, Officers Call

US experiment: Pentagon destroys replica of underground nuclear facility

Pentagon uses advanced bunker buster bombs to destroy replica of underground facility as part of experiment whose results were relayed to friendly nations

The Pentagon has recently completed a series of field exercises on US soil as part of which a replica of an underground nuclear facility was destroyed, Yedioth Ahronoth reported Friday. The tests were declared a resounding success having exceeded all expectations.

The results of the experiment were relayed to friendly nations with the aim of reassuring them as to the US's ability to destroy Iranian nuclear facilities in a single strike. It was also meant to convey that the US is serious in its intentions to attack Iran should circumstances allow it.

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2013/06/072013/06/07

Mini-Me: Obama Goes to Cyber-War, Not Realizing The Depth and Breadth of the Lies He Hears and Reads — Professional Interrogation of General Alexander and Others Recommended

04 Inter-State Conflict, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Proliferation, Corruption, Idiocy, Ineptitude, IO Deeds of War, IO Impotency, Military

Huh?

White House: Obama adjusting use of cyber offense in response to threats

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Gen. Keith Alexander, the top officer at U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency, testified March 12 before the Senate Armed Services Committee that the potential for an attack against the nation’s electric grid and other essential systems is real and that the federal government needed to take more aggressive steps.

At the time, Alexander said 13 cyber teams were being formed to guard the nation against destructive attacks in cyberspace, stressing that their role would be offensive. He also said the teams would work outside the United States, but he did not say where.

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