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POPSone nation under siege RFID's.......vaccines- b.s. wars- power run amok- domestic spying- spend a few minutes of your life to see what the giving up of rights for wanna be protection has brought us- it certainly isn't jobs- or the road to recovery- it is just more of the same - for the people in power and banksters-
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POPSWant to Sue the FBI for Spying on Your Mosque? Sorry, That's Secret. The FBI's involvement in the case—and the fact that it involves Americans—makes it stand out among the other state secrets cases, says Ameena Qazi, CAIR's deputy executive director. "We're surprised at the government's shocking move in invoking the state secrets doctrine in this case of all cases," Qazi says. Since this case "involves domestic intelligence-gathering on US soil against Americans," she explains, "it's an unprecedented move to our knowledge."
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POPSDomestic Spying, Mainstream Source - NSA, Internet Spying, AT&T A reporter once asked Ben Franklin in 1787 after the constitution was written, "What have you wrought?" Franklin responded, "We have given you a constitutional republic, if you can keep it." The NSA captures the same amount of data that is in the Library of Congress every 6 hours.Orwell saw it coming.Big brother the police state and the decline of liberty in the name of safety security we live in a surveillance society. Surveillance is the monitoring of the behavior, activities, or other changing information, usually of people and often in a surreptitious manner.Secret illegal loss of freedoms now include sneek and peek home invasions. Bush & Co. decided it was a good idea for every US phone call and e-mail to be recorded - and it was done.Obama flip flops along like the drovers dog~
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POPSSPOOKLE: Is Google Doing "Evil"? Contrary to their motto, "do no evil", many think Google is secretly selling out our privacy for profit--even for domestic spying purposes by the NSA. "Homeland Security" has benefited Google greatly. Did they act alone, or ignorantly , when picking and mapping Wifi networks for their 'Streetview' program both here in the U.S. and other countries--for which they were sued ? Was the information not valuable ($) to any potential, albeit secret clients? Most already know how much they track by your IP address on every search you do , too. This is valuable information to the NSA and other agencies.
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POPSGovernment Spying on Americans "The FBI is building a database with the names and certain personal information, such as employment history, of thousands of U.S. citizens and residents whom a local police officer or a fellow citizen believed to be acting suspiciously. That sounds too much like what goes on under totalitarian regimes, in which the government keeps tabs on the population, encouraging everyone to spy on everyone else and provide tips on suspicious activity. Of course, government officials say only real threats are the target of surveillance. But now we're told that home-grown "terrorism" is the new big danger. There is much reason for skepticism: The alleged plots exposed by the FBI seem to have been hatched by the FBI's own informants. If the FBI has to furnish a "suspect" with phony explosives before arresting him, what threat was really involved?
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POPSRegime Creating Vast Domestic Spy Network Ohh, goodness, the outcry we heard when the Bush Government intercepted phone calls sourced from known terrorist locations entering the US. God forbid actually using technology to save American lives. Much better to widen the scope to include every US citizen. Next will be the government's ability to create out of thin air crimes to prosecute perfectly law-abiding citizens. Far fetched? Before you answer that, what are the odds that the Assange rape allegations are legitimate?
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POPSGovernment creating vast domestic snooping machine Remember the howls of outrage from the liberals when Bush pushed through the Patriot Act, and accused him of "trampling on the Constitution"? What the Obama administration is doing is far worse. Where are the howls of outrage from the Left?? Where are the anti war protests? Why is not Cindy Whatshername camping on Honolulu during this 12th vacation this year of the zerobamas?
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POPSInside the Government's Facebook Spy Operation Also via EFF's Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, the civil liberties group obtained slides showing how the Department of Homeland Security operates its "Social Networking Monitoring Center," particularly during Barack Obama's 2009 inauguration. As the EFF notes, it's worrisome to see the government monitoring informational sites like NPR, BlackPlanet and DailyKos. On the bright side, at least government agents were able to provide some much needed traffic to ailing, also-ran social networks like Bebo and Friendster. And there's something undeniably comical about the image of besuited DHS agents trying to surf and, uh, analyze Facebook according to an officially sanctioned flowchart (also below).
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POPSMossad Tied to Spying on Tea Party, Environmental Groups Pennsylvania's governor apologized for this domestic spying by the State using an agency tied to Mossad (Israel's CIA), violating the constitutional rights of Americans under pretext of "Homeland Security". Some Americans are now in databases in Israel (along with all American's phone records). Another article on same subject here: Mossad in America . Just another reason to distrust the entire premise of the new Homeland Security apparatus which Americans are too much accepting of under the plea of "necessity".
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POPSA hidden world, growing beyond control * In Washington and the surrounding area, 33 building complexes for top-secret intelligence work are under construction or have been built since September 2001. Together they occupy the equivalent of almost three Pentagons or 22 U.S. Capitol buildings - about 17 million square feet of space. * Many security and intelligence agencies do the same work, creating redundancy and waste. For example, 51 federal organizations and military commands, operating in 15 U.S. cities, track the flow of money to and from terrorist networks. * Analysts who make sense of documents and conversations obtained by foreign and domestic spying share their judgment by publishing 50,000 intelligence reports each year - a volume so large that many are routinely ignored.
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POPSTimes Square Bomber Found Using NSA Cell Phone Database Created Under Bush Administration The NSA program, once you strip away all the over-heated political rhetoric, was really nothing other than a database of “on the envelope” information about cell phone use in America. It was never about listening in to calls, but rather about who called who at what time and for how long. Developing that database allows our law enforcement and security forces to take information obtained during arrests, plug them into the database and quickly determine everyone who that person communicated with. In this instance, it allowed us to arrest the primary suspect in what could have been an awful, bloody attack before he was able to flea the country. Times Square Bomber's Cell Phone http://bit.ly/dB0K9J http://sayanythingblog.com
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POPSThe criminal NSA eavesdropping program That means that all 3 federal judges to consider the question have concluded that Bush's NSA program violated the criminal law (FISA). That law provides that anyone who violates it has committed a felony and shall be subject to 5 years in prison and a $10,000 fine for each offense. The law really does say that. Just click on that link and you'll see. It's been obvious for more than four years that Bush, Cheney, NSA Director (and former CIA Director) Michael Hayden and many other Bush officials broke the law -- committed felonies -- in spying on Americans without warrants. Yet another federal judge has now found their conduct illegal. If we were a country that actually lived under The Rule of Law, this would be a huge story, one that would produce the same consequences for the lawbreakers as a bank robbery, embezzlement or major drug dealing. But since we're not such a country, it isn't and it doesn't.
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POPSFederal Judge Rules Bush Program Illegally Wiretapped Americans "The ruling ends the case, but without the fireworks everyone expected," George Washington University law professor Orin Kerr said. "It ended with a whimper." The plaintiffs were seeking $1 million each, plus attorney fees in the case. Walker ordered more legal arguments before deciding on possible damages. The ruling came after U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said the lawsuit threatened to expose ongoing intelligence work and must be thrown out. In making the argument, the Obama administration agreed with the Bush administration's position on the case but insisted it came to the decision differently. Holder's effort to stop the lawsuit marked the first time the administration has tried to invoke the state secrets privilege. Under the strategy, the government can have a lawsuit dismissed if hearing the case would jeopardize national security.
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POPSThe horrible prospect of Supreme Court Justice Cass Sunstein In 2002, at the height of controversy over Bush's creation of military commissions without Congressional approval, Sunstein stepped forward to insist that " nder existing law, President George W. Bush has the legal authority to use military commissions" and that "President Bush's choice stands on firm legal ground."
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POPS'Let me know if there is anything new'... How easy common phrase can become proverb. Bravo, Mr. President! Nobody has the right to do whatever they want, lest humiliate and massacre other nations. And even for our money. Do we need listen them? I mean spying... Paranoia is harmless thing... Unless it become violent...
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POPSSpy agencies foil Obama plan for transparency
But now Obama finds himself in the awkward position of extending the secrecy, despite his repeated pledges of greater transparency, because his administration has been unable to prod spy agencies into conformance. Some of the agencies have thrown up roadblocks to disclosure, engaged in turf battles over how documents should be evaluated, and have reviewed only a fraction of the material to determine whether releasing them would jeopardize national security. In the face of these complications, the White House has given the agencies a commitment that they will get an extension beyond Dec. 31 of an undetermined length - possibly years, said the administration officials, who spoke on the condition they not be identified discussing internal deliberations. It will be the third such extension: Clinton granted one in 2000 and Bush granted one in 2003. The documents, dating from World War II to the early 1980s, cover the gamut of foreign relations, intelligence activities, and military..
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POPSThe LID of SECRECY The documents in question – all more than 25 years old – were scheduled to be declassified on Dec. 31 under an order originally signed by President Bill Clinton and amended by President George W. Bush. But now Obama finds himself in the awkward position of extending the secrecy, despite his repeated pledges of greater transparency, because his administration has been unable to prod spy agencies into conformance.
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POPSGovernment Hype Against Skype and VoIP--"Security Threat" It's not just Russia that is opposed to private internet telephony applications. Buried deep in the article the real reason comes out: Delegates at the meeting also warned that it has been impossible for police to spy on VoIP conversations The NSA has admitted the same thing here --enough to tap the hacker market to find a "solution". (Offering big money to those who would help break our privacy, for their own gain). Too bad. It's not only cheap to place calls this way, but so far very private.
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POPSNixon's Enemies List The official purpose, as described by the White House Counsel’s Office, was to “screw” Nixon’s political enemies, by means of tax audits from the IRS, and by manipulating “grant availability, federal contracts, litigation, prosecution, etc.” Is this practice still exist in our society in one way or another? Somebody has a doubt?
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POPSIxquick vs. Google and Other Search Engines Privacy is becoming popularly demanded. Google presently partners with government agencies, like the CIA, NSA, and Homeland Security, for data-mining purposes and warrantless searches. This program does not.
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