The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
I got an email this morning from a reader who told me about a police break-in near her home which she witnessed that she described as “a dawn assault by Nazis.” One of the unintended consequences of the insane wars of Dick Cheney and the Neocons, is the dispersal of vast quantities of military supplies …
NSA violated privacy rules thousands of times, audit finds Transgressions ranged from serious legal violations to typos that led to unintended data collection, according to documents supplied to The Washington Post. The National Security Agency exceeded its legal authority and broke agency rules thousands of times since it was granted broader powers in 2008, according …
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The NSA is Commandeering the Internet It turns out that the NSA’s domestic and world-wide surveillance apparatus is even more extensive than we thought. Bluntly: The government has commandeered the Internet. Most of the largest Internet companies provide information to the NSA, betraying their users. Some, as we’ve learned, fight and lose. Others cooperate, either …
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Jennifer Hoelzer’s Insider’s View Of The Administration’s Response To NSA Surveillance Leaks from the and-also-the-favorites-of-the-week dept In a bit of fortuitous timing, this week we had asked former deputy chief of staff for Ron Wyden, Jennifer Hoelzer, to do our weekly “Techdirt Favorites of the Week” post, in which we have someone from the wider …
Oversight: Crowdsourcing the NSA’s surveillance programs Geek comedian Tom Scott imagines citizen volunteers accessing the real-time data store of spy agencies to help keep the country safe. Imagine that the NSA and the U.K.’s GCHQ opened their databases and tools to public volunteers to aid them in the search for terrorists. Tom Scott, who is …
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This is a truly Satanic combination. The Southweb article sums it up best: “While they may not be owned by the same individuals, one thing is clear: the relationship between these two companies is enough cause for alarm.” So Monsanto has not bought Blackwater, but is leveraging them against its opponents, and one can only imagine what …
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