Mini-Me: In Defense of NSA
Huh? Seriously, though, surreptitiously spying on what users do is actually the underpinning of the entire web advertising industry. — Anil Dash, via Twitter [Source]
Owl: Is US Military Waging Cyber-War for Monsanto Against GMO Activists? Or Are All “Activists” Now Considered “Terrorists?”
US Military’s Not So Secret War on anti-GMO Activists and Scientists Exposed? Or a Simple Misunderstanding? “A highly concerning new investigative report from the largest daily newspaper in Germany alleges that Monsanto, the US Military and the US government have colluded to track and disrupt both anti-GMO activists and independent scientists who study the adverse …
Berto Jongman: YouTube (11:49) NSA Whistleblower Russ Tice on Russia Today Detailng NSA Targeting Supreme Court, Flag Officers, Secretary of State Colin Powell, Many Members of Congress, Barack Obama BEFORE He Won Senate Election, Etc. — at Direction of Vice President Dick Cheney
Does the US Intelligence Community have NSA-sourced leverage that allows it to avoid — to refuse — being sequestered? Is there a shadow government? These are questions asked on this program. Is Dick Cheney still in charge? What’s different? “The Orwellian scale.” “Post office taking a photo of every envelope.”
Stephen E. Arnold: NSA Youth Outreach Program
NSA Youth Outreach In the swirl of information about the NSA, some interesting chunks of data get lost. I am not referencing the fascinating assertion that the NSA cannot search its own emails. (You can find the details of this possibly inaccurate but quite amusing story at http://goo.gl/2Lx0hs. Like Fish & Wildlife, the NSA has …
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Mini-Me: NSA-Google-MIT Can Now Plant False Memories
Huh? MIT scientists implant a false memory into a mouse’s brain Sometime soon, a lab mouse could wake up thinking he had snuggled up to a girl mouse the night before. But he hadn’t. The memory would be fake. Scientists have successfully implanted a false memory into a mouse’s brain — a seemingly far-fetched idea …
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David Swanson: Cost of Compensated Emancipation versus War Over Slavery
What Slavery Cost As I head off to a rally for Trayvon Martin, I notice a column by Bob Koehler in which he says the unpaid work of slaves in the United States is now estimated at $1.4 trillion. Oddly, that’s not terribly far from the $1.2 trillion or so, possibly more now, that …
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Eagle: NSA Reason for Existence — Is It To Snoop? Or Is It to Waste Tens of Billions of Dollars without Accountability?
NSA Snooping: The War on Terror Is America’s Mania A Commentary By Klaus Brinkbäumer The NSA spying scandal shows that America’s pursuit of terrorists has turned into a mania. Spying on citizens is as monstrous and unlawful as Guantanamo Bay and drone warfare. The German government’s response has been woefully weak. America is sick. September …
