Jon Rappoport: Obama: one if by land, two if by sea, three if by metadata

Corruption, Government
Jon Rappoport
Jon Rappoport

Obama: one if by land, two if by sea, three if by metadata

In his Friday speech, Obama ignored the essence of the FISA Court, the secret body that’s rubber-stamped warrants to do surveillance for the past 35 years.

Most of these requests for warrants come from NSA and the FBI, and only government attorneys may appear before the Court, none of whose decisions are made public. Therefore, the Court is a de facto piece of the Executive Branch, and as such its existence violates the separation of powers principle of the Constitution.

One of Snowden’s documents revealed that FISA had approved a blanket warrant requiring Verizon to make available, to NSA, records of all daily phone calls in its system.

No, President Obama said nothing about this. Instead, he led off his speech on the NSA and national security with these words:

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Betty Boop: Tomgram on Nick Turse, Secret Wars, & Black Ops Blowback — US Government Learning Impaired & Morally Challenged

04 Inter-State Conflict, 07 Other Atrocities, 10 Transnational Crime, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude, Peace Intelligence

betty boop hotTomgram: Nick Turse, Secret Wars and Black Ops Blowback

Nick Turse is the author of Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam, just now out in paperback.

Tom: These days, when I check out the latest news on Washington’s global war-making, I regularly find at least one story that fits a new category in my mind that I call: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

 

EXTRACTS:

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Robin Good: Feedshare RMS/OPML Tool

IO Tools
Robin Good
Robin Good

Feedshare is a free web service which allows you to publish and share publicly any RSS feed or OPML file (a collection of RSS feeds) for everyone to check and subscribe to.

You can also discover, search and explore other interesting RSS feeds by keyword, author or tags or by the most popular ones: http://www.feedshare.net/popular/

Free to use.

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Search it

Added to Content Discovery Tools directory here

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Stephen E. Arnold: Visual Mining Tool Redesign

IO Sense-Making, IO Tools
Stephen E. Arnold
Stephen E. Arnold

Visual Mining Redesign

 

We are familiar with Visual Mining and its range of dashboard and data visualization software. Currently, Visual Mining has been working on products that help users better understand and analyze actionable business data. Its enterprise software line NetCharts is compatible across all platforms, including mobile and tablets. The company recently released their Winter 2013 Chartline Newsletter.

 

Along with the usual end of the year greetings and gratitudes, the first note of business in the newsletter addresses is the Web site’s redesign.

 

Among the new features are:

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SchwartzReport: NSA as Foundation for Police State with Comment on “Parallel Construction”

05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 11 Society, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Director of National Intelligence et al (IC), Government, Law Enforcement, Military
Stephan A. Schwartz
Stephan A. Schwartz

Here are the views of a former high ranking NSA official. They remind me of Richard Clarke.

Just because authority at this point only intrudes to a small degree does not mean it cannot go much further. The information will be there to work with. And there are thousands of laws.

I am always concerned I may seem alarmist about a trend but, really I'm just reporting the data, the emerging information. President Obama's comment today that this network of agencies is made up of our neighbors is patently disingenuous.

Click through to see the actual powerpoint slides that document this piece.

Former Top NSA Official: ‘We Are Now In A Police State”
WashingtonBlog

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Beatrice Giblin: The Conflicts in the World – A Geopolitical Approach

Cultural Intelligence, Peace Intelligence
Beatrice Giblin
Beatrice Giblin

Béatrice Giblin is a geographer and Professor of Geopolitics. She is teaching at Paris 8 University (former experimental center of Vincennes). Professor Giblin is the founder of the French Institute of Geopolitics (2002) that she headed for ten years. Moreover, she is Head of the geographical and geopolitical magazine Hérodote, founded by Yves Lacoste whom she succeeded in 2006. Professor Giblin was the first to talk about internal geopolitics in 1984 in an article dealing with power rivalries in the coalfield located in the Nord – Pas-de-Calais, the North region of France. Incidentally, the topic of her thesis was to analyze this region as a political territory, which was a a first in the French regional studies.

The Conflicts in the World – A Geopolitical Approach

Editor – Leonhardt

Exploring Geopolitics, 17 January 2014

This interview is about the French book “Les conflits dans le monde: Approche géopolitique” that was edited by Professor Giblin.

The “My New Book” Blog seeks to provide a multidisciplinary angle on the countries and the world we live in. The interviews address the book’s key themes, questions and findings. Moreover, the book is put in perspective by linking it to the author’s background and existing literature. Overall, the underlying question is: why should we consider reading this new book?
Below each interview, you find a form that enables you to ask the author more questions, or share your views on the topics that the book covers.

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Berto Jongman: Bits, Bytes, & Stuff 1.3

Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Peace Intelligence
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

AL QAEDA: Al Qaeda behind 95% of world's suicide bombings

Phi Beta Iota: This is highly debatable, especially when you separate the Taliban and other legitimate indigenous insurgents from Al Qaeda, something the US Government was incapable of doing until a year ago.

ANALYSIS: The Rise and Fall of the Failed-State Paradigm (Foreign Affairs)

ATROCITY: Afghanistan the Narco State — Paid for and Made by the USA

ATROCITY: CIA's Mind Control Experiments, Declassified Documents

ATROCITY: CIA Drone Program from CIA to Pentagon?

CYBER: Cyber Command's Exploding Budget – An Atrocity All By Itself

CYBER: Cryptocurrency Being Targeted By Malware

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