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Documents: Sweden Wiretapping Russia’s International Traffic For The NSA

Privacy: Earlier documents put in context with recent revelations show that Sweden has been systematically wiretapping Russia on behalf of the United States. This is clear after putting a number of previous questionable agreements and developments in context today. The question that remains is what Sweden gets in return.

Sweden and Israeli Agent of Influence Sign Surveillance Agreement — Sweden and Israeli in US Cover Sign Agreement

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Putting it all together, Sweden is wiretapping Russia for the NSA, and has been doing so since the FRA law took effect in Sweden. The FRA agency is continuously wiretapping Russia based on the agreement signed in April, 2007, and sharing the data with the NSA.

In this context, it is no coincidence that Sweden and the UK, as the only two European countries, recently chose to block EU investigations into U.S. wiretapping of European officials and industries.

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2013/07/072013/07/07

Berto Jongman: Did Israel Bypass Russians with Submarine Missile Attack on Syria Last Night?

04 Inter-State Conflict, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards

Did an Israeli Dolphin submarine just bypass the Russian S-300 batteries in Syria ?

Editor’s Note…

Semi-official reports in the recent 36 hours describe a mysterious blast in a Syrian arms depot in the city of Latakia ,located well within the Allawite enclave in North Western Syria. FSA sources claimed responsibility for the blast, but western observes cast doubts on these claims due to the geographical and tactical constraints. According to some estimations the blasts were caused by missiles arriving from the western direction, that is from the Mediterranean sea. This would suggest that if the Israelis are behind this event, they may have used an undetectable maritime platform, like the Dolphin class submarine, to bypass the recently deployed S-300 air defense systems, operated in Syria by Russian teams. Sea skimming cruise missiles are hard to detect, likewise submarine-borne naval commandos conducting nocturnal raids on enemy ports. If so, this would indicate a decision to refrain from risking a confrontation with the Russian military which would surely break out in case of a direct attack on the S-300 batteries. There is no ‘smoking gun’ to support this version yet,but the refusal of Israeli official to comment on this event may suggest a repetition of the standard mode of operation used during the IAF bombing raids on Hezbollah targets and biochemical facilities in Damascus in the recent year: maintaining two-fold plausible deniability which enables both governments (of Israel and Syria) to limit armed clashes to the clandestine level in order to avoid the unpredictable results of a full scale war .

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2013/07/072013/07/07

Berto Jongman: US Jumps Off the Cliff: False Lessons from Foreign Wars Now Applied Against US Public — the Public is the Obstacle, the Enemy, and the Target

07 Other Atrocities, Corruption, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude, Law Enforcement, Military

Domestic lessons learned from foreign wars

A new book reveals that intelligence tactics devised for use abroad are employed against America's own citizens

Henry Porter

The Observer, Saturday 6 July 2013

Out of the blue, and right from the heart of the American military establishment – the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterrey, California, no less – comes a coup of analysis that has a really important message for the British and American public. It is that the counterinsurgency wars of the past decade have not only been a bloody failure, but that the tactics, methods and hardware of these wars have inevitably ended up being used against the public at home. Think of mass surveillance, of drones, secret courts, the militarisation of the police, detention without trial.

Hannah Arendt identified “the boomerang effect of imperialism on the homeland” in The Origins of Totalitarianism, but the academic Douglas Porch has used the history of Britain, France and America to demonstrate that all the rhetoric about bringing, respectively, Britishness, liberté and freedom and democracy to the “little brown people who have no lights” is so much nonsense and that these brutal adventures almost never work and degrade the democracies that spawned them in the first place.

We always vaguely knew that there must be link between what our forces were doing abroad and what was going on at home – did we not? But what Porch does so crisply in Counterinsurgency: Exposing the Myths of the New Way of War is to underwrite Arendt's insight with scholarship that goes back two-and-a-half centuries, taking in numerous forgotten conflicts. For example, he shows how intelligence techniques, devised by the US army in the Philippines war, were used on US unions and even suspected “reds” in Hollywood.

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2013/07/06

SchwartzReport: Time to Boycott American Express and Impeach Half the Supreme Court — 16 States Seeking to Overturn CITIZENS UNITED; Meanwhile, Congress Breaks Its Record For Doing Nothing

07 Other Atrocities, Cultural Intelligence

Little by little the Non-geographical corporate states, through the corruption of the Congress and the Supreme Court, are seeing that laws are passed, and court interpretations given that immunize them from any legal action by citizens. Here is the latest example — that you didn't hear about on the evening news, or read in your local paper.

Evening News Ignores Supreme Court Decision That Protects Corporate Immunity
SERGIO MUNOZ – Media Matters

Here is another Oregon story, and some good news about overturning Citizens United. It gives me some hope this may actually happen.

Movement Strengthens: Oregon Becomes the 16th State to Call for an Amendment to Overturn Citizens United
Buzz Flash

We send our representatives and senators to act on behalf of the best interests of the people they represent. They don't do that, as any SR reader knows. The level of corruption would embarrass a banana republic. But what is not generally known is how little they actually do accomplish. If there is a more feckless legislative body in the world I can't think of it. Big fancy historic buildings, lots ! of perks, excellent pay, lots of media. Virtually no substance.

Congress Is on Pace to Do Less Than Record-Breaking Low
MEGAN O’NEIL – Bloomberg

2013/07/062013/07/06

SchwartzReport: Only 47% of US Adults Have Full-Time Job — CAN YOU HEAR US NOW? Robert Steele Comments + REVOLUTION USA RECAP

03 Economy, 06 Family, 07 Health, 07 Other Atrocities, 10 Transnational Crime, 11 Society, Corruption, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude

Here is some good news and some bad news. More jobs were created, but they are generally low level jobs, and 53 per cent of adult Americans still don't have jobs. We cannot have a prosperous democracy when over half the adults don't have secure full-time employment.

Only 47% of Adults Have Full-Time Job
MIKE FLYNN – Breitbart

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Of the 144 million Americans employed last month, only 116 million were working full-time. Friday's report showed that 58.7% of the civilian adult population of 245 million was working last month. Only 47% of Americans, however, had a full-time job.

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2013/07/052013/07/05

Rickard Falkvinge: NSA is Stasi Scaled Global + Naked NSA RECAP

07 Other Atrocities, Corruption, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude, Military

Stasi vs. The NSA Back To Back: Who’s Worse – A Visual Guide

Privacy: If you were to compare the evil, reprehensible Stasi to the NSA side by side in a visual comparison, who’s the worse surveillance hawk? The people over at OpenDataCity have put together a nice visual guide with astonishing results. We tend to think of Stasi-scale surveillance as the epitome of evil surveillance, and have completely lost track of what today’s governments are doing to their people.

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2013/07/04

4th Media: Has the USA Foresaken the Rule of Law?

07 Other Atrocities, 09 Terrorism, Civil Society, Corruption, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude, Law Enforcement

The Breakdown of The Rule of Law: America’s Descent Into Authoritarianism

From early in one’s life, an American is taught the law and American institutions of justice are great equalizers within our society, ensuring that everyone is treated the same, no matter one’s class, race, or ethnicity. Yet, what has been happening quite recently, especially within the past decade or so, is that we have been seeing an increasing breakdown in the rule of law and the use of the justice system to enforce injustices.

President Obama rode in on a high horse in the 2008 presidential elections, specifically on his slogan of hope and change. He rightly criticized the Bush administration on a number of issues, from the economy to the wars abroad, as well as the use of drones.[1]

Yet, Obama subsequently went and not only increased the use of drones, but used them to kill Anwar Al-Awlaki, a member of Al Qaeda who was still legally an American citizen at the time of his death.[2]

However, the story gets even more shocking as not only does such as act create a legal precedent where the President can kill any US citizen that he deems a terrorist[3], but the Obama administration’s attorney general argued that such assassinations of American citizens on US soil “would be legal and justified in an extraordinary circumstance.’”[4]

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