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SchwartzReport: American Idiots in the (Slight) Majority on NSA Surveillance

07 Other Atrocities, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Military

schwartz reportThis is how far we have changed from the Founder's vision of the United States.

The Founders', as the Constitution and Bill of Rights make clear, made a big deal about privacy. “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
– Benjamin Franklin (on the title page of An Historical Review of the Constitution and Government of Pennsylvania – 1759)

How different that is from the Pew and The Washington Post survey which discovered: “A majority of Americans – 56% – say the National Security Agency’s (NSA) program tracking the telephone records of millions of Americans is an acceptable way for the government to investigate terrorism…”

Majority Views NSA Phone Tracking as Acceptable Anti-terror Tactic
Pew Research Center for People and the Press

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NIGHTWATCH: Pakistan to US/CIA – Stop the Drones or We Will + Drone Operator on Video – “I felt like a sociopath”

04 Inter-State Conflict, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Terrorism, Corruption, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude, IO Deeds of War
CIA Drones Have a 98% ERROR Rate
CIA Drones Have a 98% ERROR Rate

Pakistan: In response to two US drone attacks since taking his oath of office last week, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif issued an official statement after his first cabinet meeting. “The policy of protesting against drone strikes for public consumption, while working behind the scenes to make them happen, is not on.”

He told the cabinet that drone attacks were a violation of national sovereignty and the government “had chalked out a policy” to counter them. He said it was a matter of concern that after he took charge of the government' drone attacks were launched which was not acceptable in any way

Comment: Over the weekend, the new government summoned the US Ambassador to deliver an official protest. The statements at the cabinet meeting signify that the new government will go beyond issuing pro forma protests. Sharif has a policy in mind and changes are likely.

Sharif also ordered a 30% cut in the staff of the Prime Minister to set an example for the rest of the cabinet whom he ordered to cut 30% of non-developmental expenditures. He told the cabinet to set priorities consistent with his guidance and report back to him in two weeks on how to revive the economy. He also advised that those who fail will be replaced.

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Doug Rushkoff on CNN: Edward Snowden is a hero — uncovering the MACHINE

Corruption, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude, Law Enforcement, Military
Douglas Rushkoff
Douglas Rushkoff

Editor's note: Douglas Rushkoff writes a regular column for CNN.com. He is a media theorist and the author of the new book “Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now.”

(CNN) — When I was a kid, I remember a guy named Daniel Ellsberg leaking some classified documents to the New York Times about the Vietnam War called “the Pentagon Papers.”

When the whistle-blower finally stood trial for espionage, my parents weren't quite sure how to feel. But when Richard Nixon's crew was revealed to have been conducting illegal wiretaps in an effort to discredit the former intelligence contractor, well, they were outraged and decided Ellsberg was a hero. So did the judge and most of America.

I wonder whether Ed Snowden, the 29-year-old Booz Allen Hamilton employee behind last week's series of leaks about National Security Agency surveillance on the American public, will be rewarded with the same admiration. You'd think we would be even more outraged by what he uncovered than we were by the surveillance of Ellsberg. After all, it's not just one lone loose cannon being wiretapped here, it's all of us being monitored.

Douglas Rushkoff

Snowden has not uncovered a human conspiracy here but the workings of the machine itself. And it's a machine that really does require some human intervention.

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John Maguire: Eric Dollard and Tom Brown’s Classic Scalar Wave Video

05 Energy, Earth Intelligence
John Maguire
John Maguire

For those of you more interested in understanding the basics/dynamics of Scalar/Longitudinal-Waves, and their potential applications, see description/video below.

YouTube Abstract: Wireless Engineer Eric Dollard demonstrates the reality of longitudinal waves and their application to the natural transmision of electricity…The Longitudinal Magneto-Dielectric wave (L.M.D.) is shown to have a propagating velocity greater than the speed of light! The transverse electromagnetic wave, (in present use) is shown to be a retarded, unnatural form of energy transmission…A competent researcher can duplicate the experiments on this video from the information given…This is a rip from an old VHS someone posted on the web and is now posted in numerous places.

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Stephen E. Arnold: Russian Made Surveillance Invades the US

IO Impotency
Stephen E. Arnold
Stephen E. Arnold

Russian Made Surveillance Invades the US

Posted: 09 Jun 2013 02:11 PM PDT

Russia and the U.S. don’t often agree when it comes to politics and social issues but it seems that the two can agree on the need for top grade surveillance technology. According to the Wired article “5 Russian-Made Surveillance Technologies Used in the West” Russia’s surveillance technology is being used all over the world including the United States. The Russian voice recognition technology Speech Technology Center or STC goes by the name SpeechPro in the United States. STC also has facial recognition tools.

“In December 2012, STC announced it had gone to Ecuador and installed “the world’s first biometric identification platform, at a nation-wide level, that combines voice and face identification capabilities. The system allows authorities to accumulate a large image database of criminals and suspects. STC also claims it has invented algorithms that deliver reliable results even when facial characteristics have undergone physical changes, and the system’s voice and face modalities can be used together or separately — a voice sample or facial image alone is sufficient to make an identification.”

The Russian company MFI-Soft has developed information security and telecommunications solutions targeted towards law enforcement agencies as well as voice over internet protocol (VoIP) internet service providers. The company works under the name ALOE Systems and it is an interception technology that provides detection, monitoring, storage and analysis of information traveling over the internet. With the popularity of mobile phones, interception technology has become extremely important. Discovery Telecom Technologies (DTT) produces the AIBIS system or In-Between interception System and it works by disguising itself as a cell tower and intercepting nearby signals which allows the operator to listen and record calls. SMS message and mobile internet access can be monitored and the system can also jam cell phone signals to help locate potential targets. New York City is looking into the software developed by the Russian firm Dorga.TV which will give passengers the ability to track public transport online. They can estimate the quickest routes as well as see when a bus is due. Looks like Russia has the surveillance world captivated.

April Holmes, June 10, 2013

Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext

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Mini-Me: DHS Insider – It’s About to Get Ugly [Possible Neo-Con Coup Angle?]

Corruption, Government
Who? Mini-Me?
Who? Mini-Me?

Huh?

DHS insider: It’s about to get very ugly

Seriously dangerous times ahead. Deadly times. War, and censorship under the color of authority and under the pretext of of national security

Doug Hagmann

Canada Free Press, 10 June 2013

EXTRACT

“If anyone thinks that what’s going on right now with all of this surveillance of American citizens is to fight some sort of foreign enemy, they’re delusional. If people think that this ‘scandal’ can’t get any worse, it will, hour by hour, day by day. This has the ability to bring down our national leadership, the administration and other senior elected officials working in collusion with this administration, both Republican and Democrats. People within the NSA, the Department of Justice, and others, they know who they are, need to come forth with the documentation of ‘policy and practice’ in their possession, disclose what they know, fight what’s going on, and just do their job. I have never seen anything like this, ever. The present administration is going after leakers, media sources, anyone and everyone who is even suspected of ‘betrayal.’ That’s what they call it, ‘betrayal.’ Can you believe the size of their cahones? This administration considers anyone telling the truth about Benghazi, the IRS, hell, you name the issue, ‘betrayal,’” he said.

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