Rickard Falkvinge: Mass Surveillance Fallout — Europe Investigating NSA

Privacy:  This week, the European Parliament voted to immediately suspend the sharing of European financial tracking data with the United States in a 280-254 decision, as well as calling for criminal investigations of the NSA. This follows in the footsteps of mass surveillance revelations that the NSA has illegally hacked into the SWIFT financial data. …

SchwartzReport: NSA Has Not Foiled a SINGLE Terrorist Plot + NSA Meta-RECAP

Here is what I believe is a correct assessment concerning the creation of the national security state in which we live today. Absurd amounts of money have been spent, and civil liberties abridged to an unprecedented degree, on the basis of a threat consisting of little gangs. It is transparently disproportionate, there has to be …

Lee Camp: How Monsanto Manipulates Our Government

Ep 9 of MOC Show featuring Abby Martin! – How Monsanto Manipulates Our Government – My New Video http://youtu.be/kM80bqm7gqM  Go here to turn the video into an MP3: http://us.onlinevideoconverter.com/ Keep fighting, Lee

Chuck Spinney: $2 Billion NSA Spy Center is Going Up in Flames Kafka Meets Keystone Cops in Utah

Brianna Ehley The Fiscal Times, October 8, 2013 The National Security Agency’s $2 billion mega spy center is going up in flames. Technical glitches have sparked fiery explosions within the NSA’s newest and largest data storage facility in Utah, destroying hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of equipment, and delaying the facility’s opening by one …

SchwartzReport: Is Justice Scalia Insane? Or Merely Possessed by the Devil?

When I read this interview I was stunned. I have never thought much of Scalia. Like Clarence Thomas I have always thought of him as first and foremost an ideologue, and as with Thomas there are also growing ethical issues involving him. But I really had no idea how very inappropriate it is for this …