Political Notes & Commentaries #1 ~ KundaliniandCelltowers

Political Notes & Commentaries - 1

Miscellaneous commentaries on political subjects. Included are the handles posters use at the blogs I frequent. My handle is "HamFistedIdiot" at the site, ZeroHedge (*). For commentary that I've inserted at a later date, I post as "KCT."

Political Letters - July 21, 2014

2023.2.18. Still editing this post. I supported Trump in 2016 as a "Hail Mary" attempt at reversing course. I've voted for Constitution Party candidates, getting less than 1% of the votes, ever since. Electronic voting must be abolished. Hand counted paper ballots must be employed. Stop government funding of schools and media. ETC.

2014.7.18. How British Spies "Seed the Internet With False Info, Control YouTube Pageviews and Manipulate Online Polls" (*) Submitted by Mike Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog. (Source article: The Intercept [*].)

Thanks to Edward Snowden, we now have proof about an incredible set of tools used by the British equivalent of the NSA, known as the GCHQ, or Government Communications Headquarters. These tools will essentially confirm every single conspiracy theory you could have ever imagined when it comes to propaganda on the Internet. It allows British intelligence officers to: “manipulate the results of online polls, artificially inflate pageview counts on web sites, ‘amplify’ sanctioned messages on YouTube, and censor video content judged to be ‘extremist.’”

Being the creative folks that they are, GCHQ even came up with code words to describe each “product.” These include, UNDERPASS (for poll manipulation), SILVERLORD (for censorship), GESTATOR (for the manipulation of YouTube views), PREDATORS FACE (for DDOS attacks), the list goes on…

Glenn Greenwald writes at The Intercept that:

The secretive British spy agency GCHQ has developed covert tools to seed the internet with false information, including the ability to manipulate the results of online polls, artificially inflate pageview counts on web sites, “amplif[y]” sanctioned messages on YouTube, and censor video content judged to be “extremist.” The capabilities, detailed in documents provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, even include an old standby for pre-adolescent prank callers everywhere: A way to connect two unsuspecting phone users together in a call.

The tools were created by GCHQ’s Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group (JTRIG), and constitute some of the most startling methods of propaganda and internet deception contained within the Snowden archive. Previously disclosed documents have detailed JTRIG’s use of “fake victim blog posts,” “false flag operations,” “honey traps” and psychological manipulation to target online activists, monitor visitors to WikiLeaks, and spy on YouTube and Facebook users.

GCHQ refused to provide any comment on the record beyond its standard boilerplate, in which it claims that it acts “in accordance with a strict legal and policy framework” and is subject to “rigorous oversight.” But both claims are questionable.

Several GCHQ memos published last fall by The Guardian revealed that the agency was eager to keep its activities secret not to protect national security, but because “our main concern is that references to agency practices (ie, the scale of interception and deletion) could lead to damaging public debate which might lead to legal challenges against the current regime.”

This last line is of crucial importance. The entire point of spying has nothing to do with terrorism, but as many of us have suspected, it is all about protecting and maintaining the status quo.

Oh, and just in case these products aren’t enough fascism for you, no need to fret. We learn that:

And JTRIG urges its GCHQ colleagues to think big when it comes to internet deception: “Don’t treat this like a catalogue. If you don’t see it here, it doesn’t mean we can’t build it.”

So next time you question the number of views on a certain video, or your website experiences a DDOS attack, there may be a intel officer at the other end of the line with a giant sign saying “fuck you mate.”

Zero Hedge Comments

Circle of DNA: I don't know how The Guardian is managing publishing Snowden stuff and yet disallowing any comments that are counter to the Kiev/Washington propaganda drivel. The censorship is brutal and totally unreasonable.

HamFistedIdiot: It's called Controlled Opposition. Why don't Snowden or Assange have anything negative to say about Israel or 9/11? Duh, it all happened the way Cheney said it did (Snowden paraphrase). :(

Moccasin: The NSA/GOV play a game claiming a 'higher morality' by saying, "If you're not a terrorist, if you have nothing to hide, then you have nothing to worry about if we the NSA/GOV watch you." This is how abusers create Stockholm syndrome in their victims, telling them it's okay after they have been raped. The victim is usually forced to apologize to the abuser for being difficult and it won't hurt as much next time you're raped. It is called conditioning and most folks don't get it. The NSA is a classic criminal syndicate and we all are the victim, our privacy is raped with every keystroke. Clapper lies to Congress, the NSA continues with the approval of the stooges in Washington and then, when someone gets busted with some pitiful weed in the wrong state, they will spend years in jail. We do not have a justice system and the term / name "Justice Department" is Orwellian. We have a legal system where a criminal can be bought and sold. His or her freedom depends on money and social status, nothing else.

KCT Comments

I don't know what the spiritual takeaway is here. It doesn't help that people in leadership lie and create vast storms of disinformation, a false reality, if you will. Spiritual seekers benefit from an accurate and informed understanding of how the world operates on the material plane -- politically, economically, et cetera. Self realization provides heightened mental energy that seeks to connect the dots in one's life; i.e., to find answers to the problems of this world as you know them. If you have a false understanding of what issues need to be overcome, or what the essential facts are that require consideration, then this will distort the solutions that a higher power makes available through your limited person.

One example of how this distortion could take place would be a hyper-inflated viewcount (for example) of Miley Cyrus's fatuous music video, Wrecking Ball, which supposedly has 687,000,000 views, while an extraordinarily important video, 9/11: Explosive Evidence - Experts Speak Out AE911Truth.org (*), which debunks the reasons why several of the world's governments sent their nations to war, supposedly has only 478,000 views -- less than 1/100th the count -- though it has been up on YouTube for twice the time that Wrecking Ball has. If these numbers are true, and if YouTube is not actively directing people to Miley Cyrus rather than 9/11 Truth content, then it is clear what the public's priorities are.

The blogs I visit are full of mortified commentary regarding the willful delusions of the American public. Commenters believe that most Americans sense they've been told a lie, but they are unwilling to acknowledge it because that might mean they have to do something about it. In other words, when faced with a troubling truth, the vast majority of the public lacks moral courage. The YouTube numbers reinforce the perception that the USA is full of corrupt spiritual midgets. But what if the numbers were a lie? What if the numbers were the reverse due to a government agenda to demoralize the population? Then it would reveal that Americans are much more concerned than the corporate media lets on. And perhaps the subsequent boost to our self esteem and the conviction that we have a critical mass of informed citizens might lead to positive political change. This is a psychological operation whose goal is to thwart and redirect public opinion in order to support powerful, authoritarian, anti-democratic interests.

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Vault 7, An Essential Window Into The Fraud That Is The National Security State

Vault 7 (Wikipedia) (*)

Under the sections Umbrage and False Flag Theories, we find that the CIA, in the course of routine computer espionage and hacking, can leave the digital fingerprints of whichever nation state, corporation, or individual they choose, thereby laying blame for power grid disruption, loss of data, et cetera, on the target of their choice. "PC World commented that the practice of planting 'false flags' to deter attribution was not a new development in cyberattacks: Russian, North Korean and Israeli hacker groups are among those suspected of using false flags." We find also that files and downloads can be inserted onto a person's computer without his or her permission; emails, search and browser histories, as well as uploads and comments to social media can be falsified, and time stamps can be altered, all with ficticious attribution. These things and more can be caused by the intelligence agencies. It's a witch's brew of disinformation.

Robert Graham, CEO of Errata Security told The Intercept that the source code referenced in the UMBRAGE documents is "extremely public", and is likely used by a multitude of groups and state actors. Graham added: "What we can conclusively say from the evidence in the documents is that they're creating snippets of code for use in other projects and they're reusing methods in code that they find on the internet. ... Elsewhere they talk about obscuring attacks so you can't see where it's coming from, but there's no concrete plan to do a false flag operation. They're not trying to say 'We're going to make this look like Russia'."[80] False flag theories[edit] On the day the Vault 7 documents were first released, WikiLeaks described UMBRAGE as "a substantial library of attack techniques 'stolen' from malware produced in other states including the Russian Federation," and tweeted, "CIA steals other groups virus and malware facilitating false flag attacks."[81] A conspiracy theory soon emerged alleging that the CIA framed the Russian government for interfering in the 2016 U.S. elections. Conservative commentators such as Sean Hannity and Ann Coulter speculated about this possibility on Twitter, and Rush Limbaugh discussed it on his radio show.[82] Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov said that Vault 7 showed that "the CIA could get access to such 'fingerprints' and then use them."[81] Cybersecurity writers, such as Ben Buchanan and Kevin Poulsen, were skeptical of those theories.[15][83] Poulsen wrote, "The leaked catalog isn't organized by country of origin, and the specific malware used by the Russian DNC hackers is nowhere on the list."[15]

Three Central Intelligence Agency medallions/patches: Grim Reaper holding earth in its grip; Information Operations Center; Stealth, Knowledge, Innovation; We Shall Reap What You Sow (with Skull/Court Jester symbol); and Special Operations Group - Tertia Optio.

KCT Comment

The money printers --the Satanists -- want death. They want a great blood letting. They want innocence to be sacrificed. And what better way to achieve that than war? When I see the State Department and its mouthpieces in the corporate media hyperventilate about Russians "hacking" the 2016 election, or of being responsible for Ransomware attacks that disrupt the nation's oil supply, I know that they are lying, or that another agenda is being served.

Another Zero Hedge comment

theeseer

Here is the problem and it goes for all the members here. The NSA is right yup you heard me show me one time period in history where the choice of lesser evils was not the reality. The barbarians sacked Rome and got back their "freedom" and "privacy" so they could butcher their neighbors and live on dirt floors. The British created whatever legal system we have and gave us our language but were brutal slave masters in their colonies. Currently Putin has on the Russian ballot a move to rehabilitate Stalin a mass murderer and China is busy stealing every bit of online secrets from USA companies to steal what's left of our jobs having gobbled up Tibet and of course taken every freedom from its own people. So wise up and shut up. Be an adult and live in the real world. The USA is the best option for you to keep your stupid mouth flapping in the breeze. Snowden is a traitor and as they said in the old west "hang him that tree looks empty".

KCT Comments

This is my response to theseer. He says that the USA is better, in terms of freedoms, than any of the alternatives, so we should shut up in our criticism. He has a point. The USA might very well be better, in terms of guaranteeing civil liberties and economic opportunity, than many other countries. Maybe we should display a little more gratitude, despite our dissatisfaction. But I would argue that the liberties we take for granted did not appear out of thin air, but were wrested from powerful interests through massive social movements, political activism, and when necessary, violence. While theseer may be uncomfortable with USA citizens' many complaints about the status quo, he fails to realize that "freedom" is a constantly moving target. Humanity desires ever more "freedom" to satisfy the spiritual urge within us that gives rise to this need. Evolution moves in the direction of greater autonomy and freedom for the individual -- not increased profits and control to the central planners. The greed and corruption of a sociopathic minority will always seek to restrict our freedoms -- to herd us in directions that allow for greater centralized control and profiteering. If the bulk of the people do nothing in the face of their loss of freedoms, economically and politically, then those losses will accelerate. The elites won't be satisfied till all of us have a boot on our necks; and even then, the real sadists won't be satisfied. Ultimately, it is our death they seek. This is where we are now globally and domestically. The losses are accelerating because the elites (otherwise known as "Pond Scum") are seeking to squash humanity and bring in a new international order that dominates the nation states. The capacity to express dissent is being limited across the globe. If people don't speak up NOW, the situation will only worsen.

One more thing: theseer might be angered by the tone of the debate -- that the plebians, the little people, aren't expressing their thoughts and feelings in as grateful and prostrate a manner as possible. I couldn't disagree more. There is a Deep State that controls the official US government now. It gained strength after WWII and is responsible for the assassination of numerous visionary leaders in America, including Martin Luther King Jr., John F. Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy. This same clandestine machinery was responsible for 9/11, the Oklahoma City Bombing, and numerous other false flag attacks to instill fear in the public and to provide a rationale for a domestic police state and a build-out of war and empire abroad. We are well beyond the point of need for a revolution. The Deep State is not responsive to public opinion, and "elected" representatives are just disposable puppets that serve the pond scum's interests rather than the public. There is evidence that the computerized, paperless voting machines in use in the USA are corrupted, skewing voting results as needed by the secretive controllers. The question is, what is to be done in this situation? If violence is warranted, who does one lash out at? The politicians are just puppets and hold little real power. However, if 100 members of the House of Representatives were to stand up in unison and do the right thing, it would be hard for the Deep State actors to ignore that. If it's just a few, they can be "dealt with" individually. Catherine Fitts says that it's easier to remove funding for programs and agencies we no longer need than it is to address their shortcomings head-on. I'd like to see the purse strings cut on a great many Federal programs and agencies! Maybe we could reassign the employees of the surveillance state to more productive sectors of the economy. I listened to an interview recently on the Alex Jones Show with independent researcher Wayne Madsen. He suggested that the NSA facililty at Fort Meade, Maryland, which employs over 30,000 scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and system administrators, be converted to a technical college. Wouldn't that be a wonderful outcome to the loud citizen outcry!

2014.7.14. Original Intercept article, Hacking Online Polls and Other Ways British Spies Seek to Control the Internet By Glenn Greenwald (*)

Intercept Comments

enemyofthetreasonousthoughtpolicestate

Great piece. US, UK and Five Eyes hacking online polls and waging 24/7 information manipulation and warfare online -- to and include online false flag operations to discredit companies, individuals, or online activists -- to shape perceptions to create outcomes seen desirable by the US, UK and Five Eyes. That is a 24/7, 365 day a year “Ministry of Truth,” or global online thought police state, in other words.

Washingtonsblog did a fine follow-up on this story: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/07/spy-agencies-dirty-trick-powers-revealed-snowden.html.

Thanks to the Snowden cache, it is an established fact that the NSA sucks up just about everything outside the US and most things inside the US. When it can’t do it in the US, the Snowden documents have proved beyond any reasonable doubt, that it outsources to GCHQ and JTRIG.

The use of online false flags has already taken place namely, the 2011 Syrian government hack and Stratfor hack – both coordinated by the FBI / US government controlled hacker Sabu, Hector Monsegur, who was following the orders of his US government agency handlers.

The Syria hack was to gain public support for US and Western military intervention in Syria – on behalf of what has since been proven to be Al Qaida, the strongest and most numerous part of the anti-Assad resistance...

...Of those hacks, two massive – and publicity gathering – information dumps were sent to Wikileaks, namely the Syria files (http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/fbi-informant-sabu-organises-cyber-attacks-government-websites-iran-syria-brazil-1445885) and the Stratfor files (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/06/how-an-fbi-informant-orchestrated-lulzsec-s-hacking-spree.html; http://rt.com/usa/163940-fbi-hack-stratfor-brazil/; which were stored on an FBI server for three weeks before they were strategically released to Wikileaks).

This almost certainly meant – considering Sabu was an FBI handler of, as opposed to a simple mole inside of LulzSec and AntiSec – that Sabu and the two organizations he handled were sending corrupted files and or exploits to Wikileaks in their file-sharing.

As The Intercept reported, Wikileaks was and is under constant Five Eyes electronic surveillance (https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/02/18/snowden-docs-reveal-covert-surveillance-and-pressure-tactics-aimed-at-wikileaks-and-its-supporters/).

Considering Sabu was directing the online media campaign regarding the Syria files and Stratfor (which was almost certainly under FBI and various US and UK intelligence agency direction, in direct violation of the Smith Mundt Act, which restricted US government agencies engaging in domestic propaganda before its 2012 “reform”), himself posting, or ordering LulzSec and AntiSec members to post what the FBI and other US / UK intelligence agencies told him to (see slides 4 and 13 in the GCHQ slide show on online false flags: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/), to shape perceptions.

So it is almost certain that the LulzSec/AntiSec online media campaign before, during and after the hacks were also a FBI and US / UK agency agitprop campaign to drive visitors to Wikileaks for the Syria and Stratfor files – for monitoring purposes. Monitor Wikileaks, monitor how they went about getting ready, how they organized, how they analyzed, how they got financing, what they were looking for, what visitors were looking for, the most used key search words, etc.

The Stratfor online false flag and FBI, and other US / UK intelligence agency strategic information dump to Wikileaks had many other aspects other than bringing down Petreus – it entrapped ((http://www.darkreading.com/attacks-and-breaches/stratfor-hacker-fbi-entrapment-shaped-my-case/d/d-id/1111797; http://news.firedoglake.com/2014/06/05/new-evidence-shows-fbi-setup-jeremy-hammond-to-break-law/) the online activist Jeremy Hammond whose hacks under Sabu (read: FBI, see here: http://www.dailydot.com/politics/hammond-sabu-fbi-stratfor-hack/, here: http://www.activistpost.com/2012/03/anonymous-hackedwikileaks-released.html, here: http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/03/08/federal-bureau-of-facilitation-what-was-the-fbi-doing-with-stratfor-and-wikileaks/, and here: http://nigelparry.com/news/sacrificing-stratfor.shtml) were ordered by Sabu, meaning ordered by the US government agencies involved.

The hack, in addition to discrediting Petreus, and entrapping Hammond – whose FBI directed, monitored, and in the case of Stratfor, materially assisted hack made him the “most dangerous hacker in the world” in the first place – created a divide in Anonymous (http://readwrite.com/2011/12/26/malicious_hackers_play_robin_hood_anonymous_disavo), and it netted at least two UK anonymous members (http://news.sky.com/story/1457/lulzsecs-top-hacker-is-fbi-double-agent) – further supporting the role of UK intelligence agencies as well as multiple US intelligence agencies – and it provided the almost certain multiple US and UK intelligence agencies information from the 200 domains of interest to them hacked by LulzSec and AntiSec.

Finally, the hack also netted the satirical journalist and privacy advocate Barrett Brown for pasting a link that the FBI monitored and materially assisted (they provided the server that the emails sat on for nearly three weeks before they watched them get transferred to Wikileaks) hack made available, which it would not have been were it not for the FBI and likely multiple other US and UK intelligence agencies’ directed, monitored and materially assisted hack of Stratfor in the first place. Also the government charged him for thought crimes after making empty threats on youtube that no person on earth could take seriously, against the agents who threatened him and his mother on youtube (which led to his indefinite detention with no trial for over two years as well as a gag order).

The entire Stratfor hack is literally timelined and explained, play by play, in the Feb. 24, 2014 Intercept article (https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/).

The bigger the lie, or in terms of the Operation Mockingbird mainstream media (http://carlbernstein.com/magazine_cia_and_media.php) coverage, the Haversack Ruse (see slide 13 in the Feb. 24, 2014 Intercept article), the more likely people will believe it.

There is a reason why almost all of the evidence against Hammond and Brown was either redacted or entirely suppressed under the guise of “National Security” – it is self-incriminating evidence for the government, who initiated, coordinated and materially assisted a ten month false flag cyber hacking spree to discredit and destroy reputations (Petreus), to entrap unwanted activists (Hammond, Brown), to create disunity among a burgeoning online social movement (Anonymous) that questioned many paradigms, and of course to justify the further monitoring of Wikileaks (as well as the almost certain tainting of their servers and systems with the government-provided Syria and Stratfor files), all while using a third party they, the government, exercised complete control over and whose activities were monitored real-time by the government, for plausible deniability.

Government initiated, plotted and materially assisted online false flag operations and cyber crimes subsidized by your tax dollars, to silence dissidents, to discredit people, to change and create new perceptions, while justifying Orwellian monitoring and passing legislation to crack down on internet freedom.

Keeping you “safe” from the religious and computer “terrorists” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QynchCojTzM). The FBI Creates, Then "Foils" Terror Plots - False Flags Exposed By Judge Napolitano (mp4).

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AmericanGestapo14

I’m pretty damn sure Greenwald and Snowden aren’t working together with the NSA to shape the message. My father did the backgrounds on the people hired directly by the NSA, (not the contractors). He repeatedly and emphatically stated that their mission was foreign collection. He refused to believe any of these stories, until I handed him document after document after document, at which point he finally said “they’ve lost their minds, they’re completely out of control”.

spied_upon

The US spy agencies also can and do alter the call records on cell phones and/or your bill.

despairing

“…people who are innocent of any crime can be painted as the vilest of criminals based on evidence manufactured by their accusers.”

Agreed, but it doesn’t take a lick of sophistication to do this, although I agree there are now very sophisticated tools that can be used to do this.

One police officer can fabricate a report. One lowly federal clerk, one bureaucratic paperclip fanatic can fabricate a report, suspicion, accusation out of whim or spite for any reason. This is happening.

If it is someone the feds don’t like for any reason, or where there is no other barrier to it, political or otherwise, or where even the person is a victim of a violation by a federal employee and complained about it, that now parlays into a terror task force file. Perhaps this seems implausible, but beneath the radar, for those who are not headliners, state by state, Holder’s international/domestic, national security task forces are doing just that.

For every genuine threat there are probably hundreds, thousands, who are on the radar to be punished for things quite petty, whimsical and fabricated. It is the government’s latest billy club, and more powerful and systematic than ever.

I know for a fact this is going on. While we are occupied with the headliners, this is going on. I have seen this happening with my own eyes here where I live.

The state USAO offices have been hiring “intelligence specialists” and Holder recently announced he is pumping up resources for what he calls homegrown domestic terrorists. People get upset that animal rights activists and so on will come under their purview, but it is even worse than that. Anyone, any individual with the authority to suggest it can put someone under their radar. I have seen pretexts so thin it has been impossible to conclude anything other than that a file was punted over to intelligence soley to scare an innocent person who has done absolutely nothing wrong. Bugging or annoying the government for any reason is being criminalized. Crime victim they don’t want to deal with? Complaining about it ? Well, that could later become disgruntled, and disgruntled could later mean worse, and if worse then a security threat. This is happening, that is the thin logic, the pretexts, and the reasons, the real reasons, are as petty as just wanting to scare someone or get revenge against someone.

It is like a criminal lawyer I know once said when she happened to notice abuses going on using misdemeanor charges in a way that was having a huge negative systematic impact. Wow, she said, misdemeanors are where it is at – and explained how stereotypically, lawyers equate important with felony, etc., this simplistic hierarchy. When she discovered that because misdemeanors fly under the radar, some of the worst abuses and systematic ones involve minor charges, they realize the simplistic way they were weighing things.

Same with these new very powerful legal entities and structures emanating from this terror mongering. You won’t even hear about most of these instances.

There is so little oversight, so few legal resources available to fight it. I am seeing fabricated reports where absolute proof exists that they are fabricated, but the person is being punted over to the terror task force based on them. Those engaged in this know this. They don’t bother to fabricate in a way the evidence won’t disprove. They don’t even bother. It is wholesale what is going on. Flood gates to abuse are fully opened and those abuses are happening now -- not coming down the road but now.

enemyofthetreasonousthoughtpolicestate

Military folks are the least likely to support these programs. Most folks in intelligence the same.

The US has been post-Constitutional. People have jobs. Retirements to think about, families to feed. They go with the flow and take notes and talk about the insane criminality in loud bars with colleagues. The braver ones blow the whistle like Snowden, Binney, Raydack and others.

The state has been out of control post-9/11 after the nullification of the Constitution in the mis-named PATRIOT Act.

People serving are aware of this. They have families to feed and real life responsibilities.

It is up to the journalists, and the citizens that read their reports, to force change. The military and intelligence community folks can’t do it because they end up like Kiraikou -- because post-9/11, protecting the secrecy of illegal and treasonous activities supercedes the oath of defending and upholding the Constitution.

Time, however, is not on the Orwellian surveillance state’s, or its media and political defenders’ side. Thanks to folks like Snowden, Binney, and the reports that cover them.

KCT Comments

The above comment regarding the USA being "post-Constitutional" since the PATRIOT Act is not exactly true. Every law that is passed or action that is carried out by the Government that is in violation of the US Constitution is proof of our living in a post-Constitutional world. Many of these activities have been going on for decades. Some examples of un-Constitutional conduct include: the creation of the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank to issue and control US currency (cf. Federal Reserve - The Enemy of America; *) the illegal "Drug War" on harmless plants including marijuana that threaten pharmaceutical industry profits and make profitable for-profit prisons; clandestine military operations abroad in support of private corporate interests; mass wiretapping of US citizens; etc. President George W. Bush suspended the Constitution officially on September 14, 2001, in response to the 9/11 attacks. This put into place Continuity of Government (COG), which is basically a dictatorship of unelected bureaucrats. Such a state is supposed to be reviewed and reauthorised by Congress every six months, but some 15 years later has not once been reviewed, just extended each year by the executive branch. [See Peter Dale Scott's article, US Constitution May Be Suspended/ War, National Emergency and "Continuity of Government" (*)] Yes, the PATRIOT Act was treasonous, but the US Constitution has not been the law of the land for some time now.

I am not a policy wonk. My following of politics is something of a distraction, actually. What I have learned in my research is that there is a powerful, clandestine group that seeks world domination through the dumbing down, sickening, politcal control, financial impoverishment, and ultimately extermination of the vast majority of mankind. With the rise of technology and robots, the elites no longer see the need for the habitability of planet Earth and the bulk of life that dwells upon it.

The spiritual takeaway for me, as usual, is that the majority of information sources are compromised by the vast wealth serving the interests of a minute minority. Be very wary of who the media tell you to hate, love, believe, mistrust, etc. I apply a variety of litmus tests to tell truth-telling media from propaganda outlets. Presently, I look for media sources who are critical of: the safety of vaccines; the truth of the government's version of events surrounding 9/11 and the Oklahoma City Bombing; the right of Israel to be squatting on Palestinian land; the role of the private US Federal Reserve (and identical institutions in just about every country on the planet) issuing interest accruing debt as money (to the benefit of its undisclosed shareholders) instead of debt-free currency being issued by the US government; the safety of genetically modified foods and other organisms; and so forth. This test of mine eliminates about 98% of the media outlets in the country as trustworthy sources of information.

I would add that even if a media source is reliable in one area, it could be compromised in others. So you need a variety of infomational inputs, and you need to cross-check for veracity. By extension, if corrupt media sources are aligened against a common enemy, you should pay attention to who or what they are attacking, as that person or cause is likely someone or something you should support.

More Intercept Comments

Keln

To maintain their freedoms, it is the express duty of all citizens of a free nation to not trust its government. No matter how benevolent or good-intentioned it appears to be, a government is a base of power, and that attracts those who seek power like a flame does a moth. This makes government inherently and inevitably corruptable, and it is up to the people of a free society to keep it in check.

coram nobis

Oh, and this subhead under the Assange article, for our friends in Oz.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/16/journalists-face-jail-leaks-security-laws

"Australian journalists could face prosecution and jail for reporting Snowden-style revelations about certain spy operations, in an “outrageous” expansion of the government’s national security powers, leading criminal lawyers have warned. A bill presented to parliament on Wednesday by the attorney general, George Brandis, would expand the powers of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), including creation of a new offence punishable by five years in jail for “any person” who disclosed information relating to “special intelligence operations”...

Lyra1

Anyone who could read that article and not see that there is a coordinated five-eyes attempt to suppress information in the public realm to advance control of global humanity, is an idiot.

“The system used by GCHQ to monitor the WikiLeaks website – codenamed ANTICRISIS GIRL – is described in a classified PowerPoint presentation prepared by the British agency and distributed at the 2012 “SIGDEV Conference.” At the annual gathering, each member of the “Five Eyes” alliance – the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand – describes the prior year’s surveillance successes and challenges.”

See: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/02/18/snowden-docs-reveal-covert-surveillance-and-pressure-tactics-aimed-at-wikileaks-and-its-supporters/

anon

You know what? Julian Assange is one of the lucky ones. Julian Assange is known. People are aware of him. His narrative is out there. Do you, commenters, gg, the intercept, michael ratner, do you all f’ing know how god damned lucky he is? Please say yes. say it. say it. say it now.

Do you know how many of us have been smeared to f’ing death??? Do you have any idea what it is like to be invisible and unbelieved and dismissed? do you have any f’ing idea. F-u all, you can’t save this country because you can’t acknowledge this one simple GD fact about how IT works.

chronicle

Peter Van Buren is on the forefront of human rights cognizance and active spokesman for it…DAILY. You can find his insights here: http://www.wemeantwell.com/

vs. all the depraved employees of the Milpropaganda sycophants of the totalitarian wannabe ruling class who post here daily in droves and those who work for all the corrupt corporate fascist IC contractors who suck the blood of honest working Americans…to which… I have some advice for you scumbags. You just might want to get some perspective. To all those spineless little worms who park in every CIA/NSA/BoozAllen/Cherkoff Group/General Atomics/etc etc etc parking lot every day… do you really think you are immune to the 100 Heads Life and Casualty 4th Gen warfare paradigm shift that is happening in this country..let alone the planet? All I can tell you is you are a TOTAL idiot if you think your life can continue de jour.

Wulfsten

Truly chilling. I think the fact that they can “masquerade” Facebook posts on a national scale is terrifying, I think you should have emphasised that more, Glenn. Can anyone clarify what “masquerading” means in this context? By my reading, it either means they can “spoof” wall posts, or hide legitimately created ones. Probably both.

In any case, this does raise the genuine concern that many of Glenn’s persistent critics spouting NSA talking points on comment threads from Salon, through to the Guardian, and finally to the Intercept are actually just astroturfed NSA and GCHQ operatives. That would go some way towards explaining their tenacity.
Not to go down a rabbit hole of paranoia, but if it’s now clear that GCHQ considers spoofing and astroturfing capabilities important, fully developed, and “ready to fire” (what a wonderful turn of phrase), then it would be foolish to think that this website wouldn’t be one of their hottest targets for their efforts.

Of course, this is probably what they wanted anyway – to create a choking atmosphere of paranoia where no one trusts anyone. Well done.

AmericanGestapo14

Well I can show you intercepted cell phone messages…a text sent to myself that came back altered after I said via text that “these torturers would all go to jail”. The message came back “What’s so F*#cking special about you? Why should you have a good life?” I have it on film.

You want to know how to really upset these assholes. Show them pictures of Florence ADX Super Max Prison. Talk about life in prison, mention felonies, attempted murder, criminal conspiracy, terrorism…all of which they commit everyday. They know they are committing very serious crimes. You want to talk about psy ops warfare…ask these motherf8$ckers “if they look good in orange”?

They all know what they are doing and it is very illegal.

Calvin

So if this is what GCHQ has you can bet your US Dollar that the NSA has it too…so this raises serious questions about democracy because a founding principle is honest and open debate about what we should make legal…and if the Government is manipulating the debate then we no longer have a democracy…we have a Wizard of Oz government with the intelligence communities sitting behind the curtain playing Oz…this revelation throws into question everything that both the US and UK governments have done since 9/11 under the guise of the war on terror…how do we know what decisions/elections/political debates they influenced and to what degree did they influence them…???

KCT Comment

Calvin is absolutely correct. The Department of Defense spends tens of $billions annually on psychological warfare, and as of 2009 employed over 27,000 people for recruitment, advertising, and public relations. Shaping public opinion, both domestically and internationally, is now a strategic objective of our armed forces. I've read that the CIA has staff in all the US media outlets that screen, edit, and approve stories. In the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013, Congress reversed the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948 (*), that had previously banned the government's use of propaganda domestically. Now propaganda can be launched both externally and internally, whenever the government determines that lying is necessary to advance policy objectives. It was already the case that the US government could lie, legally, to people in other countries, if it served US interests to do so. Not that the US government has not lied domestically, but now it is not illegal to do so.

Additionally, regarding the trustworthiness of the corporate media, in 2005 Project Censored covered a legal ruling regarding a whistleblower lawsuit (*) against a Florida FOX News affiliate in its distorted coverage of the safety of bovine growth hormone (BGH). The judge ruled that FOX had no legal requirement to tell the truth, and hence the reporter had no right to whistleblower status:

>>FOX appealed the case, and on February 14, 2003 the Florida Second District Court of Appeals unanimously overturned the settlement awarded to Akre. The Court held that Akre’s threat to report the station’s actions to the FCC did not deserve protection under Florida’s whistle blower statute, because Florida’s whistle blower law states that an employer must violate an adopted “law, rule, or regulation.” In a stunningly narrow interpretation of FCC rules, the Florida Appeals court claimed that the FCC policy against falsification of the news does not rise to the level of a “law, rule, or regulation,” it was simply a “policy.” Therefore, it is up to the station whether or not it wants to report honestly.

During their appeal, FOX asserted that there are no written rules against distorting news in the media. They argued that, under the First Amendment, broadcasters have the right to lie or deliberately distort news reports on public airwaves. Fox attorneys did not dispute Akre’s claim that they pressured her to broadcast a false story, they simply maintained that it was their right to do so.<<

In sum, the "news" is not news. It's someone's or something's point of view. Assume there to be biases and agendas in everything you consume. The fiction of "authority" is promoted to control the sheep. In a video by David Seaman (December 2016), he states that many people prefer their news to be delivered by reporters with heavy makeup, wearing expensive suits and dresses, under harsh lighting, inside expensive studios. Don't be the fool who trusts only the wealthy to tell you what is true and what is false. The more money is behind a news operation, the more incentive there will be to compromise it.

2022.3.15. Crrow777Radio: 393.5 - Are You a Trustee? If so, that is Unfortunate (*) (mp3)

This is an episode dealing with some of the fruits and pitfalls of attacking the fraudulent legal system that treats living men and women as strawman entities devoid of our God-given divine spark. It starts at birth, and before that the moment of the creation of the zygote when, at this moment of conception, we came into being. Part of the fraud is taking away our umbilical cord and placenta at birth and using that theft to claim that we have lost our true identity and are no longer made in the image of God and are instead lost at sea, lost souls so to speak, corporate fictions that can then be used to collaterlize all the central bank issuances of debt. This identity fraud goes back to 1933, but it precedes that date as well. Our true birthdate is unknown, and there is spiritual and legal language to describe that, but it is the moment of conception and not when we exited the womb. There is a Social Security trust fund that can be accessed, and you can avoid many debt obligations through a variety of legal strategies employed by asserting your "sovereignty" in the correct manner. But there are risks in asserting your divinity and sovereignty that you must be made aware of. Here is my comment:

KCT: Crow, You made an offhand comment regarding the only way to avoid all this entrapment, per insiders who have contacted you, is to create a separate society. In a way that is what monastic groups have done, but they needed donations typically, or like some monks here in the states, sell fruit cake for fiat. Or maybe we would improve upon that and all for barter of precious metals and other things of real value? Members of an intentional community would still have many strings attached to the false system if they had employment there. Maybe people would tithe to the community so that at least some of the members would have close to zero need to interact with this dark system that we find ourselves in.

But then my question is, "Would any of us really have sovereignty?" I believe what we are discussing is degrees of sovereignty, and not absolutes. For example, here in Hawaii sometime back the Maui City Council passed an ordinance banning geoengineering in their skies. Of course, our cruel overlords paid it no heed and the spraying of fungi, nanoparticulate heavy metals and polymers continued. How sovereign are you if you don't even control the air you breath? Similarly, I am diagnosed as “electrically sensitive.” In a supposed parallel society my body mind would still be trespassed upon by a civilization that uses artificial EMF as a weapon and as a means of communication. Hmm.

My point is that it is next to impossible for us to withdraw and have it really work.

And then there are the Waco scenarios where a group or community could be viewed as a threat to the controllers and we could be incinerated under false pretenses. I think the only way out is to battle these folks on their ground and in ways that they understand. I don’t know how we liquidate all these secret societies and death cults, but I think that is the task at hand. Otherwise God may just have to wash this plane clean again, if that is something that happens on occasion.

Thank you for all that you do for the “truth community.” You and your team and guests have opened my eyes to many things I would not otherwise have been made aware of.

KCT, More: When I fantasize about how to right the many wrongs of this world, what often emerges as the best solution is a transcendental knowing that connects people. An extra-sensory perception that makes kidnapping, murder, theft, and so forth impossible to be done in secrecy. Along these lines also is an idea for a kind of transcendental videocam that could be placed anywhere in the world at any time, without the offending parties knowing. So whatever the bad actors are doing, wherever they are doing it, could be captured on film. Another layer of this revealing would be a collective ability to take over all video and data streams at will, inserting truthful messages about what is really happening in the world, bypassing or overwriting the propaganda. Lastly, someone like me would have access to a voice of God type of ability to insert commands or threats into the minds of the bad actors, letting them know that if this continues they will die. And of course, paired with this would be the ability to access their hearts and bring them to the edge of death, so that they know what is in store for them if they fail to comply. I know that this all seems like wishful thinking. But some of it may come true some day, if our psychic abilities are not destroyed by the stratospheric spraying and the genetic code disrupting injections.

continue 1/2017

chronicle
July 16 2014, 7:21 a.m.
Has the USG become a scumbag fascist regime in the name of “national security”?
http://www.diypoll.com/poll/30

chaletfor2 ↪ chronicle
July 16 2014, 7:25 a.m.
Uh huh!

chronicle ↪ chronicle
July 16 2014, 7:25 a.m.
Jim Garrison certainly thought so.. in 1967 no less.
quote”1967 interview of Jim Garrison, District Attorney of New Orleans, who tried to prosecute one of the conspirators in the coup d’etat of November 22, 1963:
PLAYBOY: Many of the professional critics of the Warren Commission appear to be prompted by political motives: Those on the left are anxious to prove Kennedy was murdered by a conspiracy within the establishment; and those on the right are eager to prove the assassination was an act of “the international Communist conspiracy.” Where would you place yourself on the political spectrum — right, left of center?
GARRISON: That’s a question I’ve asked myself frequently, especially since this investigation started and I found myself in an incongruous and disillusioning battle with agencies of my own Government. I can’t just sit down and add up my political beliefs like a mathematical sum, but I think, in balance, I’d turn up somewhere around the middle. Over the years, I guess I’ve developed a somewhat conservative attitude — in the traditional libertarian sense of conservatism, as opposed to the thumbscrew-and-rack conservatism of the paramilitary right — particularly in regard to the importance of the individual as opposed to the state and the individual’s own responsibilities to humanity. I don’t think I’ve ever tried to formulate this into a coherent political philosophy, but at the root of my concern is the conviction that a human being is not a digit; he’s not a digit in regard to the state and he’s not a digit in the sense that he can ignore his fellow men and his obligations to society. I was with the artillery supporting the division that took Dachau; I arrived there the day after it was taken, when bulldozers were making pyramids of human bodies outside the camp. What I saw there has haunted me ever since. Because the law is my profession, I’ve always wondered about the judges throughout Germany who sentenced men to jail for picking pockets at a time when their own government was jerking gold from the teeth of men murdered in gas chambers. I’m concerned about all of this because it isn’t a German phenomenon; it’s a human phenomenon. It can happen here, because there has been no change and there has been no progress and there has been no increase of understanding on the part of men for their fellow man. What worries me deeply, and I have seen it exemplified in this case, is that we in America are in great danger of slowly evolving into a proto-fascist state. It will be a different kind of fascist state from the one of the Germans evolved; theirs grew out of depression and promised bread and work, while ours, curiously enough, seems to be emerging from prosperity. But in the final analysis, it’s based on power and on the inability to put human goals and human conscience above the dictates of the state. Its origins can be traced in the tremendous war machine we’ve built since 1945, the “military-industrial complex” that Eisenhower vainly warned us about, which now dominates every aspect of our life. The power of the states and Congress has gradually been abandoned to the Executive Department, because of war conditions; and we’ve seen the creation of an arrogant, swollen bureaucratic complex totally unfettered by the checks and balances of the Constitution. In a very real and terrifying sense, our Government is the CIA and the Pentagon, with Congress reduced to a debating society. Of course, you can’t spot this trend to fascism by casually looking around. You can’t look for such familiar signs as the swastika, because they won’t be there. We won’t build Dachaus and Auschwitzes; the clever manipulation of the mass media is creating a concentration camp of the mind that promises to be far more effective in keeping the populace in line. We’re not going to wake up one morning and suddenly find ourselves in gray uniforms goose-stepping off to work. But this isn’t the test. The test is: What happens to the individual who dissents? In Nazi Germany, he was physically destroyed; here, the process is more subtle, but the end results can be the same. I’ve learned enough about the machinations of the CIA in the past year to know that this is no longer the dreamworld America I once believed in. The imperatives of the population explosion, which almost inevitably will lessen our belief in the sanctity of the individual human life, combined with the awesome power of the CIA and the defense establishment, seem destined to seal the fate of the America I knew as a child and bring us into a new Orwellian world where the citizen exists for the state and where raw power justifies any and every immoral act. I’ve always had a kind of knee-jerk trust in my Government’s basic integrity, whatever political blunders it may make. But I’ve come to realize that in Washington, deceiving and manipulating the public are viewed by some as the natural prerogatives of office. Huey Long once said, “Fascism will come to America in the name of anti-fascism.” I’m afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security.”unquote

IWPCHI

Great quote from Garrison; thanks! The entire interview is available here: http://www.maebrussell.com/Garrison/Garrison%20Playboy%20Intvw%201.html
The need to manipulate public opinion and even scientific inquiry is required by the numerically tiny capitalist classes of the world’s nations, whose decrepit economic system exploits every working woman and man on the planet. The capitalist class can not continue to rule the world for long as more and more people are able to research and discover the vast distortions in global wealth distribution that make billionaires out of a handful of people while starving hundreds of millions to death annually. “Transparency” is neither possible nor desirable in the eyes of this tiny class of filthy rich swine who currently control the world’s economic and political spheres. Only global workers socialist revolution can place the worlds masses in actual possession of the Internet and all the world’s resources so that information as well as all the necessities of life can be made available to all.
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Dakong
July 16 2014, 5:02 a.m.
If the GCHQ and NSA were capable of controlling the Internet then these stories wouldn’t be seeing the light of day at all. They would be snuffed out as soon as their authors hit “send” or “upload” on their computers. But they are coming to light, which is cause for hope.
What is necessary right now is to identify and target all those who work for the GCHQ and NSA. Make them objects of the same surveillance they subject us to. When they buy a dirty magazine at a 7/11, let the world know about it, their kids, their wives, their pastors. When they stalk that blond who lives down the street, let the world know about it. When they cheat on their taxes, expose it. Then, let odd things start to happen to them.
They need to realize that they have declared war on the freedom of everyone on Earth, and that those people have access to the same math, science, and technology that they do.

a nurse ↪ Ordinary Person
July 16 2014, 6:08 a.m.
The question: Why would I want to add a comment here?
Because of the following, which is happening to many good, law-abiding people. It will only get worse and if we don’t stop it now, who knows where it will all lead.
Mark wrote (15 Jul 2014 at 11:40 pm),
“…I have had nails in tires, sliced electrical lines, dents in my cars, several broken car windows, many items stolen, and much more.
This is no laughing manner. Please do not minimize it.
Innocents are being targeted by their own governments. How legitimate is a government that targets its own citizens?”

Timothy Whiting
July 15 2014, 3:50 p.m.
I have been a target of NSA, CIA, FBI and the U.K. (individuals following me around driving vehicles having British of Columbia license plates). My status as a quasi-pro civil rights attorney and having sued numerous law enforcement officials for violation of my freedom of speech rights led to me being labeled as a “targeted individual”. I have been subjected to electronic microwave torture because it seems that whenever I sit at my home office computer desk for some odd reason I suffer electrical bodily disturbances such as tingling sensations in my hands and legs, headaches, blurred vision, loud ringing in my left ear, and involuntary muscle twitching. I believe these government agents are interfering with my legal work and hope that the effects of the electronic microwaves or Direct Energy Weapons attacks give me cancer in order to permanently shut my mouth about government law enforcement corruption. I have filed to complaints with the FCC after measuring electromagnetic interference outside FCC wattage limits both incidents my body began to swell (like after a gym work out for 45 min.) felt as if i was being slowly cooked from inside out. BE CAREFUL!!! FISA orders based on fictitious Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) were used a pretext in labeling me and my family members as domestic terrorists then for secret assassination by way of direct energy weapons.

Jeff
July 15 2014, 12:19 p.m.
I read where a poster sees this as a problem of capitalism. What a joke. This is GOVERNMENT ABUSE as seen in Socialism and communism. Free markets have little need nor want for centralized government power.

Charlie
July 15 2014, 6:14 a.m.
If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear from the use of these techniques. I just need to think of the attempted bomb plots that have been foiled by MI5 thanks to the use of these tools, and am grateful that there is an organisation looking out for the whole of the UK and it’s people.

Kelley ↪ Charlie
July 15 2014, 10:01 a.m.
Good grief! (Face palm)

anon ↪ Charlie
July 15 2014, 10:25 a.m.
slave

Dude ↪ Charlie
July 15 2014, 11:08 a.m.
That’s called false causality. There is no evidence that it’s true, and much to the contrary. It’s the same as believing state efforts have prevented space alien attacks or wild bears in our bedrooms.
Nothing to hide? What is the definition of what must be kept hidden changes?

Wake up! ↪ Charlie
July 15 2014, 11:18 a.m.
U R sooo naive. For example on FB for every “friend” that you have the NSA can go 3 or 4 deep into their friends and if they want to the NSA can eventually link you to a terrorist whether you know that person or not.

Governmentisgood ↪ Charlie
July 15 2014, 11:46 a.m.
Charlie,
Kindly post your street address on this forum so that I may drop in on you and your family this evening between 8:00 PM and 2:00 AM to inspect your household thoroughly. Notes will be taken on the overall cleanliness of you and your wife’s underwear, amount of cash and other valuables present, presence or absence of sex toys, stool consistency rated from 1 (soft) to 10 (hard), body weight and fat %, percentage of sugary drinks and/or fatty snacks in your refrigerator/cupboard, total weight in grams of all wasted or discarded food in trash, alcoholic beverage audit, gun and ammo search and whatever else I think of between now and then… because I’m looking out for the whole of the UK and it’s people.

Lord Stinkfish ↪ Charlie
July 15 2014, 2:25 p.m.
The gov does not have the right to know your business without probable cause and writs from courts. Courts, that should demand and require a high standard of circumstantial evidence before allowing secret surveillance apparatus to be used.
The trespass and rape of individual sovereignty leads to tyrannical control and suffocation of public opinion and representation in gov lost forever.
Life, Liberty, and Happiness cannot exist without secure privacy; and agreed, transparent limitations on gov power, as gov lives as a pariah, supported by the labor of the common citizen. Not the other way around.

feline16 ↪ Lord Stinkfish
July 15 2014, 9:50 p.m.
What you said! Awesome :-)

enemyofthetreasonousthoughtpolicestate ↪ Charlie
July 19 2014, 3:36 a.m.
Just like in the US: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G21-ZScALiA; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpUkRchJxv0.
Saving us from their own plots that they initiated, plotted and provided money and materials for, after targeting, brainwashing, inducing, and leading on people with low education, and in some cases, mental disabilities.
Psychopathic criminal sociopaths. All to justify bloated budgets and keep pushing the perception of the “terror threat,” despite as many people being killed by bee stings than by terror (http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/04/statistics-you-are-not-going-to-be-killed-by-terrorists.html).

overthrow-r1b

Are we picking our presidents or is Britian? All the 5 eyes countries are British.

My American company would have benefited this country and the world a lot more than a British 5-eyes police state.

What was the purpose of the American War of Independence? Because we now have an entity controlling the top levels of our government that isn’t American anymor; it is serving the purpose specifically of the entireBbritish population only.

Since when does OUR government lie to our faces about every single thing they do behind our backs?

I don’t think Britian learned its lesson from the first American War of Independence. They’re making a mess over here and stealing all our rights and property.

Maybe they should know how it feels to have all their rights and property stolen for once.

NSB
Multiculture comes with a price tag, which is the increased need of surveillance. That, we just have to accept. There is no such thing as “we are the world”, people hate eachother and they always will. So if you want everyone to come stay in your country, you will have to accept surveillance,

coram nobis 18 Jul 2014 at 2:16 am
At Der Spiegel: “Hunting American Spooks: Germany Prepares Further Spying Clampdown”. Needless to say, they have had it.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/expulsion-of-cia-head-a-sign-of-tougher-german-response-to-spying-a-980912.html

Over to you, TI. Given the events of July 17, this is a good time for the US to make amends to the Germans, fast.

Tortmaster

With all the conspiracy theory and pre-conspiracy theory flippantly bandied about on this blog–the TMZ of massive secretive and illegal government combinations–I’m shocked that the sharpest of those theorists haven’t circled around and started to devour the most obvious one: Greenwald and Snowden have worked with the NSA to shape the message. This theory fits the facts better than all of the other conspiracy theories. Greenwald has had a year to sift through potentially millions of Top Secret files, and he had the services of a mole, who had worked for the CIA for years, who had worked for two NSA contractors, who was trained to be a “real spy” (and real spies know how to break in and steal things), who had Admin privileges on NSA computers and who had spent months stealing all of the classified material he could find, and yet those two have managed to provide proof of exactly zero tiny intentional violations of the Constitution by the Government.

I mean, if you believe that the United States is “worse than the Stasi,” a “Security State” or a “Big Brother” which sees and hears everything and violates the United States Constitution on a minute-by-minute basis, how else do you explain it?

If Greenwald were reporting on Greenwald, he would have implied a connection between Greenwald and the NSA by now. And, Greenwald would have chastised Greenwald for not dumping all of the documents on the public. Greenwald would have hinted that Greenwald was “gotten to” and was not being transparent. “What does the NSA have on Greenwald?,” is what Greenwald would be obliquely asking.

And the big “Fourth of July Fireworks” that Greenwald promised as a finale? What a perfect way to dramatize the fact that the NSA under President Obama was carefully balancing national security with privacy rights. Hell, Greenwald even used screengrabs to imply that the surveillance of those Muslim-Americans ended in “2008.” In the end, Greenwald and Snowden have proved two very important things: First, they have established beyond a reasonable doubt the profundity of having our effective whistleblowing scheme in place so that naive 29-year-olds, who are ignorant of the most important law (Smith v. Maryland) and fact (Congress knew all about the NSA programs and voted to re-authorize them multiple times) related to his supposed whistleblowing, have no reason to become information vigilantes and make grave policy decisions on behalf of the entire country.

Second, when nobody was supposed to be watching them, the Obama Administration’s intelligence community has been very protective of privacy rights. The Bush Administration, on the other hand, used warrantless wiretaps of Americans, had no court order for its telephone metadata collection program, and was much less effective in stopping terrorism, which just goes to show how important it is to have Democrats in federal offices.

(Of course, I don’t believe the conspiracy theory aspects above, as that would make me a conspiracy theorist like much of the commentariat on this blog. The evidence, however, does show that even with all of the advantages afforded to Greenwald and Snowden, they couldn’t prove one intentional constitutional violation, and that President Obama has been buzz-fucking-light years ahead of President Bush in protecting the privacy of American citizens.)

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Cat 18 Jul 2014 at 7:25 am
Damn, NSA trolls everywhere lol.

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Mister 19 Jul 2014 at 12:59 pm
Yep. Goose stepping back to the Swasi Headquarters right now as we speak no doubt. May even get a medal for service beyond the call of duty to the Nasty Spying Arse holes. But what a retarded statement to make suggesting that any of this mass surveillance nightmare has anything to do with “protecting the privacy of American citizens” Maybe he meant light years ahead in intruding into the privacy of American citizens.

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Benito Mussolini 18 Jul 2014 at 8:10 am
Of course, I don’t believe the conspiracy theory aspects above, as that would make me a conspiracy theorist
I am completely up front about the need to control people for their own good. Please don’t discredit us authoritarians by advancing conspiracy theories and then dishonestly trying to disassociate yourself from them. If you won’t even take ownership of your own conspiracy theories, why should anyone else take them seriously?

As for everything the US government does being legal, that is the minimum standard of competence for any government since you get to write the laws. I myself was never convicted of any crime. The US government has created large databases of the communications of American citizens collected ‘incidentally’, and then searches through them at will. They have declared this to be legal and not in violation of the Fourth Amendment and so of course it is. It would take a pretty stupid government to declare what they were doing to be illegal.

Likewise, it is amazing that many people don’t recognize that Smith v. Maryland which affirmed the legality of the collection of a single piece of metadata (a telephone number) against a single individual does not automatically imply the validity of collecting an infinite amount of metadata against an unlimited number of individuals. Some people try to invoke a concept of proportionality, but that is a vague and subjective criterion and the US government, as far as I know, has never acknowledged itself to be restrained by any such principle.

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AmericanGestapo14 18 Jul 2014 at 10:36 pm
I’m pretty damn sure Greenwald and Snowden aren’t working together with the NSA to shape the message. My father did the backgrounds on the the people hired directly by the NSA, (not the contractors). He repeatedly and emphatically stated that their mission was foreign collection. He refused to believe any of these stories, until I handed him document after document after document, at which point he finally said “they’ve lost their minds, they’re completely out of control”.

No one is saying that President Obama knew what NSA was doing. No one knows what he knew about “No Such Agency”. They have never been reviewed, audited or held accountable, since the day they were formed. How the hell would he know they have all these crazy programs aimed at American citizens. But you want to paint the the “leaker” and “the journalist” as moles and propagandists, for the most secretive agency in the history of the world.

I highly doubt President Obama would have personally allowed spying on Angela Merkel’s cell phone and Angry Birds (which his daughters probably play). Somebody would have to tell him wouldn’t they, unless during his busy day…he thought to ask very specific bizarre questions like “Are you tapping Angie’s cell, are you staging illegal psychological operations against Americans, are you profile children with Angry Birds, are your employees passing around nude female photos that just happened to be collected?”

The big question is…what is he going to do now? Now that we know, what do WE do?

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-Mona- 17 Jul 2014 at 5:36 pm
In assessing the current atrocities Israel is committing on the Gazans, one should keep in mind that Israel is the aggressor, and it is always Gaza that is acting in self-defense; even tho yesteryear’s suicide bombs are morally unacceptable, these were the tactics of an oppressed victim.

These are the terms Hams offered yesterday for a ceasefire:

First – Opening all the crossing with the Gaza Strip.
Second – Opening Rafah crossing, the link between Gaza and Egypt, on a permanent basis, 24 hours per day with international guarantees it will not be closed.
Third – A maritime corridor to Gaza.
Fourth – Allowing residents of the Gaza Strip to pray in the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.
Fifth – Israel will release the prisoners who were freed as part of the “Shalit” deal, and Israel will abide by the previous agreement reached by prisoners and the Israel Prison Service with Egyptian mediation in 2012.
Not only are these reasonable terms, they are what should have the status quo ante.

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W Smith 17 Jul 2014 at 2:22 pm
I for one welcome our snoopy overlords

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LdeM 17 Jul 2014 at 12:22 pm
The secret state (CIA, NSA, etc.,) operates in the interstices between sanity and insanity, profiting immensely from the essential cover sanity’s lacunae uniquely provide.

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larry 17 Jul 2014 at 1:22 pm
In other words they create their own reality. Reality as the rest of us know it
is for girly men as the neo-cons used to say.

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abbadabba 17 Jul 2014 at 10:01 am
That big hole in Russia? I have a friend who worked for the Energy Department, and he said we have one of those in Colorado spilling methane into the atmosphere faster than we can burn it. Oooops. I always wondered why I used to sneeze like a repeater going through Rifle. I wonder who blew that hole in Rifle? He never said, he just said it was a really big hole spilling methane uncontrollably for years. Yup.

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keller 17 Jul 2014 at 9:04 am
The UN is IN.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/16/edward-snowden-should-not-face-trial-un-human-rights-commissioner-navi-pillay

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feline16 17 Jul 2014 at 12:50 am
I don’t know whether to sickened, outraged, or what…

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/16/bagram-detainees-hunger-strikes-revealed

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feline16 17 Jul 2014 at 12:52 am
…related story: courageous nurse declines to take part in Guantanamo force-feedings:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/16/guantanamo-nurse-refuses-force-feed-prisoners

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Nate 16 Jul 2014 at 9:27 pm
NSA Surveillance: What the Government Can’t See
Sue Halpern

http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2014/jul/15/nsa-surveillance-what-government-cant-see/?insrc=hpss

Nice summary of the last couple weeks’ revelations.

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Kris 17 Jul 2014 at 12:08 pm
They can see everything except TOR browser users. VPN’s are no exceptions. Yes, Bit Torrent’s too. Who is really in control? Sure isn’t our elected ones.

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BlahBlahBlah 17 Jul 2014 at 2:48 pm
They can see anything and everything including TOR browser users.

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coram nobis 16 Jul 2014 at 7:17 pm
And, a sidebar. “NSA: Releasing Snowden Emails Would Violate His Privacy –
Surveillance agency says publishing more Snowden messages would be a ‘clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.’”– US News

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/07/14/nsa-releasing-edward-snowden-emails-would-violate-his-privacy

Jon Stewart, call your office.

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Jose 16 Jul 2014 at 8:42 pm
That means exactly one thing: Those emails don’t make the NSA look very good and/or they contradict some of the establishment narratives. Otherwise, they would’ve been published or leaked.

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Lyra1 16 Jul 2014 at 10:42 pm
@ Jose

Concur. But, I hope that Mr. Snowden has the evidence to counter the cover-up.

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Jose 17 Jul 2014 at 12:21 am
I think he should just say “I give consent, so there’s no privacy violation.” Of course, a different excuse will follow.

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Rolling with the times 17 Jul 2014 at 10:18 am
Great idea, hope he sees and responds to your comment!

coram nobis 16 Jul 2014 at 7:15 pm
FYI. Lawsuit filed in London WRT the Tempora program. Amnesty Int’l, ACLU among complainants. Hyperlinks.

http://rt.com/uk/172572-gchq-tribunal-civil-liberties/

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GuyMontag 16 Jul 2014 at 6:27 pm
Guys, guys, we are missing a major part of this article, some covert spy or highly advanced programming division in one of the biggest governments in the world (I couldn’t tell if the U.K or U.S developed these tools, but at least they both appear to employ these tools) decided to name their program after a race in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, using the term “Changeling.” Yes.

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spied_upon 16 Jul 2014 at 4:07 pm
Not mentioned here, in addition to the fact that (at least the US spy agencies) are able to alter documents while the target is working one them, US spy agencies delink published letters and articles they do not wish the public to access. A search of my real name will turn up no results of the six or so published letters that I assume got me on their target list. One of the editors who selected them for publication was transferred. I assume the Brits do the same.

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spied_upon 16 Jul 2014 at 4:17 pm
The US spy agencies also can and do alter the call records on cell phones and/or your bill.

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despairing 16 Jul 2014 at 4:47 pm
“…people who are innocent of any crime can be painted as the vilest of criminals based on evidence manufactured by their accusers.”

Agreed but It doesn’t take a lick of sophistication to do this, although I agree there are now very sophisticated tools that can be used to do this.

Perhaps this seems implausible, but beneath the radar, for those who are not headliners, state by state, Holder’s international/domestic, national security task forces are doing just that.

I know for a fact this is going on. While we are occupied with the headliners, this is going on. I have seen this happening with my own eyes here where I live.

The state USAO offices have been hiring “intelligence specialists” and Holder recently announced he is pumping up resources for what he calls homegrown domestic terrorists. People get upset thast animal rights activists and so on will come under their purview, but it is even worse than that. Anyone, any individual with the authority to suggest it can put someone under their radar. I have seen pretexts so thin it has been impossible to conclude anything other than that a file was punted over to intelligence soley to scare an innocent person who has done absolutely nothing wrong. Bugging or annoying the government for any reason is being criminalized. Crime victim they don’t want to deal with? Complaining about it ? Well, that could later become disgruntled, and disgruntled could later mean worse, and if worse then a security threat. this is happening, that is the thin logic, the pretexts,and the reasons, the real reasons, are as petty as just wanting to scare someone or get revenge against someone.

Same with these new very powerful legal entities and structures emanating from this terror mongering. You won’t even hear about most of these instances.

There is so little oversight, so few legal resources available to fight it, I am seeing fabricated reports where absolute proof exists that they are fabricated, but the person is being punted over to the terror task force based on them. Those engaged in this know this. They don’t bother to fabricate in a way the evidence won’t disprove. They don’t even bother. It is wholesale what is going on. Flood gates to abuse are fully fully opened and those abuses are happening now — not coming down the road but now.

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Stan 5f625c580be72249fbdf565d591e0050 17 Jul 2014 at 12:05 pm
Spot on.

And be warned: you can’t trust your relatives, especially if they have connections to the military.

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Keln 16 Jul 2014 at 3:52 pm
To maintain their freedoms, it is the express duty of all citizens of a free nation to not trust its government. No matter how benevolent or good-intentioned it appears to be, a government is a base of power, and that attracts those who seek power like a flame does a moth. This makes government inherently and inevitably corruptable, and it is up to the people of a free society to keep it in check.

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Lyra1 16 Jul 2014 at 2:30 pm
An interesting analysis of this article:

“The deceptions perpetrated by GCHQ and NSA are sophisticated enough that people who are innocent of any crime can be painted as the vilest of criminals based on evidence manufactured by their accusers.”

http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/europe/item/18708-british-surveillance-agents-create-false-internet-information

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Jon 16 Jul 2014 at 2:22 pm
Wow just wow, I am not surprised anymore though by the different tactics these spying agencies will use to do their bidding. Its just when I think about it, these two countries, they aren’t following the laws I have to follow. The very laws they created, they do not even abide by. Its ironic and the fact the GCHQ continues to issue their standard boilerplate response that they follow all policies and laws is a big slap in the face. I guess if you think about it at least the NSA spokeswoman will issue responses to these news publications. GCHQ has balls when they get caught in a lie and obviously are engaging in illegal surveillance practices and will turn around and hit the “we are following the law” button and send the statement out.

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coram nobis 16 Jul 2014 at 2:07 pm
Latest in the Julian Assange case.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/jul/16/julian-assange-long-legal-drama

… One year into his stay at the small diplomatic mission, Assange said: “We know there is an ongoing investigation in the US and we know I am a target of the federal grand jury. There is a 99.97% chance that I will be indicted. So if the Swedish government drops their request [to go to Sweden] tomorrow, I still cannot leave the embassy.”
The embassy has been ringed by police for 24 hours a day at a cost of more than £6m to the British taxpayer …
– story
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coram nobis 16 Jul 2014 at 2:09 pm
Oh, and this subhead under the Assange article, for our friends in Oz.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/16/journalists-face-jail-leaks-security-laws

Australian journalists could face prosecution and jail for reporting Snowden-style revelations about certain spy operations, in an “outrageous” expansion of the government’s national security powers, leading criminal lawyers have warned.
A bill presented to parliament on Wednesday by the attorney general, George Brandis, would expand the powers of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (Asio), including creation of a new offence punishable by five years in jail for “any person” who disclosed information relating to “special intelligence operations”. …
– lede
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Lyra1 16 Jul 2014 at 3:02 pm
Anyone who could read that article and not see that there is a coordinated five-eyes attempt to suppress information in the public realm to advance control of global humanity, is a idiot.

See: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/02/18/snowden-docs-reveal-covert-surveillance-and-pressure-tactics-aimed-at-wikileaks-and-its-supporters/

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Lyra1 16 Jul 2014 at 10:27 pm
RT article on the same subject: http://rt.com/news/173264-australia-asio-whistleblowing-jail/

Very disturbing.

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feline16 16 Jul 2014 at 11:23 pm
What in the World???

An some folks still can’t see freedoms are under attack all over the world? Wake up, people, please, WAKE UP!

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anon 16 Jul 2014 at 5:27 pm
You know what? Julian Assange is one of the lucky ones. Julian Assange is known. People are aware of him. His narrative is out there. Do you, commenters, gg, the intercept, michael ratner, do you all f’ing know how god damned lucky he is? Please say yes. say it. say it. say it now.

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anon 16 Jul 2014 at 5:29 pm
You know what? Julian Assange is one of the lucky ones. Julian Assange is known. People are aware of him. His narrative is out there. Do you, commenters, gg, the intercept, michael ratner, do you all f’ing know how god damned lucky he is? Please say yes. say it. say it. say it now.

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Mister 17 Jul 2014 at 3:00 am
IT is an outrage wasting 6 million pounds of tax payers money just to politically persecute an innocent man who has done nothing mire than to publicise information about the crimes and war crimes of Governments. Just how in the so called age of austerity can the Uk Govt. Justify this and the recent latest billion pounds being wasted on further spying and intelligence when the majority of people exist in dire poverty. I fail to see how cuts can continue ti be made within the community which savagely target the poorest and weakest, often the elderly or handicapped whwn they continue ti waste money like this. Cameron is Robin Hood in reverse as he robs the poor ri give money ti the rich in his pursuit of being a servant to the extrwme and oppressive US Government. THe Uk is bankrupt financially and morally, and the lunatics have taken over the asylum.

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Alex Cox 16 Jul 2014 at 1:33 pm
This is fascinating. Won’t you make the document available as a downloadable .pdf? It is less useful to have to view the document in your web site’s browser.

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IWPCHI 16 Jul 2014 at 1:09 pm
Great quote from Garrison; thanks! The entire interview is available here: http://www.maebrussell.com/Garrison/Garrison%20Playboy%20Intvw%201.html

The need to manipulate public opinion and even scientific inquiry is required by the numerically tiny capitalist classes of the world’s nations, whose decrepit economic system exploits every working woman and man on the planet. The capitalist class can not continue to rule the world for long as more and more people are able to research and discover the vast distortions in global wealth distribution that make billionaires out of a handful of people while starving hundreds of millions to death annually. “Transparency” is neither possible nor desirable in the eyes of this tiny class of filthy rich swine who currently control the world’s economic and political spheres. Only global workers socialist revolution can place the worlds masses in actual possession of the Internet and all the world’s resources so that information as well as all the necessities of life can be made available to all.
Workers of the World, Unite!
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NFJTAKFA 16 Jul 2014 at 12:56 pm
http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2014/07/16/u-s-spying-on-germany-breaking-the-rules-for-what/

Great questions from Peter Van Buren…

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chronicle 16 Jul 2014 at 7:01 pm
Peter Van Buren is on the forefront of human rights cognizance and active spokesman for it…DAILY. You can find his insights here….

http://www.wemeantwell.com/

vs.. all the depraved employees of the Milpropaganda sycophants of the totalitarian wannabe ruling class who post here daily in droves and those who work for all the corrupt corporate fascist IC contractors who suck the blood of honest working Americans…to which… I have some advice for you scumbags. You just might want to get some perspective. To all those spineless little worms who park in every CIA/NSA/BoozAllen/Cherkoff Group/General Atomics/etc etc etc parking lot every day… do you really think you are immune to the 100 Heads Life and Casualty 4th Gen warfare paradigm shift that is happening in this country..let alone the planet? All I can tell you is you are a TOTAL idiot if you think your life can continue de jour.

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chronicle 16 Jul 2014 at 8:36 pm
Meanwhile..Chris Floyd provides living proof why our preoccupation with the surveillance state is at best, an obfuscation of the atrocities going on in the name of those who are best served by the corporate oil driven CIA,NSA,DOJ,DHS,DEA,IRS, Congress, Potus, Scotus scum of Murka.

quote:”But beyond all the politics and petrodollars driving the madness of the latest assault lie the ordinary people whose bodies and lives are being ripped to shreds. As’ad AbuKhalil, the ‘Angry Arab,’ is, as usual, an important source for some hard fragments of reality amidst the toxic sludge of spin and propaganda. AbuKhalil points us to a number of stories on the human toll of the attacks. Such as this one:

Sahir Salman Abu Namous was just four years old, soon to turn five. … Sahir was killed on Friday afternoon when an Israeli warplane bombed his family home in the Tal al-Zaatar neighborhood in northern Gaza. “He was playing and smiling next to his mother when missile shrapnel divided his head,” Mahmoud writes. “His father took him to the hospital screaming ‘Wake up my son! I bought toys for you, please wake up!’”

…Sahir Salman Abu Namous was one of 21 children who had been killed in the onslaught by Friday.

A piece of shrapnel divided his head. “Wake up my son!” Wake up, indeed: the soul of the world is sleeping, and the murderous rampage goes on.”unquote

Only when the progeny of the ruling class of of the planet have their heads ripped by shrapnel, will they ever fear their time on this planet is in jeopardy.,. notwithstanding a hollow point round to their own heads.

Meanwhile…they live in a perpetual state of ruling class delusion….

http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/saudi-arabia-is-building-kingdom-tower-the-worlds-tallest-building/story-e6frfq80-1226894520478

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Lyra1 17 Jul 2014 at 1:15 am
The Gaza situation….it breaks my heart.
Just tonight: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/16/witness-gaza-shelling-first-hand-account

And….the USG sanctions this slaughter. There is no honor or decency – no respect for life – nothing more than a means to an end of all that resembles freedom. Meanwhile….the BIS controls BRICS to aid the collapse of the US Petro dollar and the International Banking Cartel wins….control of all humanity on a global scale. The “elite” .001% have engineered complete chaos and absolute madness on an international scale.

Meanwhile in the United States of America, citizens stay dutifully blind to the truth. Perhaps the brainwashing is so complete, or maybe day to day survival is just too tenuous, or perhaps severe poverty prohibits any type of information input….whatever the reason…..clear, legal, coordinated oppositional action by the citizens has little chance to surface given multiple attempts at suppression of information and legalized denial of rights.

The Patriot Act and NDAA legal playbook says “do it in secret” to combat “terror’, and the President can always issue edicts in the interest of national security. Nice kingdom guys!

This is nothing like the country of my birth. The Constitution stood for something….In fact, I took an oath several times, to protect my country from enemies foreign and domestic. Now…it appears that all three branches of the government have colluded to become a domestic enemy to the Republic of the United States of America. If the people can not grab the lifeline that the Amendments of the Constitution represent; the only hope for an individual is to hone their survival skills and face the eventual possibility of fighting to the death with honor intact.

Gotta go sometime…..

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doug wood 16 Jul 2014 at 12:50 pm
Snowden –

? ????? ?? ?? ????? ? Nate

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Lyra1 16 Jul 2014 at 2:05 pm
Yeah…I noticed that too with the same ?????????
Although….I agree with Snowden but unsure regarding the exact organizational affiliation of Nate.

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doug wood 16 Jul 2014 at 2:29 pm
The ? ???? ?? ????? ? was unprintable Russian characters acknowledging acronyms used by Nate indicating affiliation.

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Nate 16 Jul 2014 at 3:11 pm
LOL, this cracks me up. You’re so “in the bubble” as Bill Maher would put it, that somebody disagreeing with you must OBVIOUSLY be a paid NSA/GCHQ/IC agent sent here to mingle with he likes of you and critique TI articles including ones irrelevant to the NSA!? Also, I guess my past compliments are all part of the ruse as well?

Fine work detective.

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doug wood 16 Jul 2014 at 4:05 pm
OK, you are not a Russian spy. I don’t have a dog in this fight, not tribal, no ideology, not political… My point is suspected infiltrators, tapped phones, internet sabotage, and so on, should remain unexposed to be useful.

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Lyra1 16 Jul 2014 at 4:06 pm
@ Nate:

Don’t put words in my mouth asshole.
This is what I said: “I agree with Snowden but unsure regarding the exact organizational affiliation of Nate.”: and that is exactly what I meant.

For all I know, you could be employed by TI specifically to proffer opinions of dissent and puff up your own ego.

Speaking of “bubbles”, you are under no obligation “to mingle with he likes of you” (meaning who exactly?) as this would be below your lofty station in life. Nor am I under any obligation to engage in further discourse with you.

To make this perfectly clear: Stay away.

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Nate 16 Jul 2014 at 5:02 pm
For all I know, you could be employed by TI specifically to proffer opinions of dissent and puff up your own ego.
Lyra, that’s even more inane than your first response. Let’s imagine how this might work out:

Mr. Omidyar: Hi Nate, welcome to TI! Let’s go over your job description. Okay, we anticipate a homogenous crowd in this forum, so to prevent creating a “bubble” like Bill Maher would call it, you are going to masquerade as some average commenter and critique our stories and engage the most idiotic posters on TI!

Nate: Wow, won’t lie Mr. Omidyar, this is one of the stranger jobs I’ve had. Remind me, why do you want me to do this?

Mr. Omidyar: To “proffer opinions of dissent,” silly! And *winks several times* it may be a good means to puff up the ol’ ego. Naw mean!?

Nate: No I don’t but thanks for the pay check.

Mr. Omidyar: The only downside of this employment is that you will often be accused of being an NSA/GCHQ/Russian/Alien shill by people too daft to convey rational thought.

Nate: kind of like doug wood and Lyra1?

Mr. Omidyar and Nate *Both laughing*

Lyra1 16 Jul 2014 at 9:52 pm
Oh…stay away wasn’t adequate? Too difficult for your programmed brain to comprehend?

How about fuck-off?

Nate 17 Jul 2014 at 12:25 am
To make this perfectly clear: stay away.
Seriously, are you 10 years old?

wiltmellow 16 Jul 2014 at 4:31 pm
you must OBVIOUSLY be a paid NSA/GCHQ/IC agent sent here to mingle with he likes of you and critique TI articles including ones irrelevant to the NSA!?
The Monsters are Due on Maple Street.

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a nurse 16 Jul 2014 at 5:06 pm
Thanks for that, wiltmellow.

“The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices – to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill…and suspicion can destroy…and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own – for the children…and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is…that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.”
– Closing Narration of “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street”

Nic 16 Jul 2014 at 9:26 pm
Aw, I don’t think Nate is a troll. He is more an intriguing brand of realist that seems to have appeared in the zeitgeist recently. Usually with an empiricist or at least rationalist bent and a tendency to pooh-pooh subjectivity, which, pretty much 100% of the time, results in a terrible irony – they mistake their own subjective stance for objectivity, and make a habit of trying to ‘learn’ others on the virtues of objectivity by insisting that this standard is “It”. When it’s not.

I’m sorry, Nate, to scrutinize you like that in a comments section, the phenomenon just intrigues me. ‘You’ seem to be popping up all over the place lately. It’s as if there’s odd gap between head and heart in 2014, with both denying the other exist, to their detriment. On a more positive note, I think your stance is full of admirable intent and a decent start towards something, it just requires a good bit of tweaking.

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doug wood 16 Jul 2014 at 2:22 pm
On review it appears compromised data has caused paranoia within the NSA about abuse and infighting over oversight.

We never expose infiltrators. They can be a good source of inside information and conduits of outside disinformation.

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Lyra1 16 Jul 2014 at 4:25 pm
@ doug wood:

“We never expose infiltrators. They can be a good source of inside information and conduits of outside disinformation.”

OK….that is rather like playing the game.
My objective is more toward elevating the game board to a level where all of the players can see it.

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doug wood 16 Jul 2014 at 4:36 pm
A lofty goal!

We are engaged in other activities that will change the world in other ways. There will be no civil rights if there is no civilization.

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Wulfsten 16 Jul 2014 at 11:38 am
Truly chilling. I think the fact that they can “masquerade” Facebook posts on a national scale is terrifying, I think you should have emphasised that more, Glenn. Can anyone clarify what “masquerading” means in this context? By my reading, it either means they can “spoof” wall posts, or hide legitimately created ones. Probably both.

Not to go down a rabbit hole of paranoia, but if it’s now clear that GCHQ considers spoofing and astroturfing capabilities important, fully developed, and “ready to fire” (what a wonderful turn of phrase), then it would be foolish to think that this website wouldn’t be one of their hottest targets for their efforts.

Of course, this is probably what they wanted anyway – to create a choking atmosphere of paranoia where no one trusts anyone. Well done.

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Stan 5f625c580be72249fbdf565d591e0050 16 Jul 2014 at 1:06 pm
@ Wulfsten >> “Of course, this is probably what they wanted anyway – to create a choking atmosphere of paranoia where no one trusts anyone. Well done.”

This can cut both ways. First, it harms the targets, but later, it may damage the perps. If no one trusts the USG (who does?), and no one trusts American citizens (who does?), then some may finally decide it is time to trust the targets who have been describing this state of affairs for years.

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AmericanGestapo14 16 Jul 2014 at 8:58 pm
Well I can show you intercepted cell phone messages…a text sent to myself that came back altered after I said via text that “these torturers would all go to jail”. The message came back “What’s so F*#cking special about you? Why should you have a good life?” I have it on film.

They all know what they are doing and it is very illegal.

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Calvin 16 Jul 2014 at 10:31 am
So if this is what GCHQ has you can bet your US Dollar that the NSA has it too…so this raises serious questions about democracy because a founding principle is honest and open debate about what we should make legal…and if the Government is manipulating the debate then we no longer have a democracy…we have a Wizard of Oz government with the intelligence communities sitting behind the curtain playing Oz…this revelation throws into question everything that both the US and UK governments have done since 9/11 under the guise of the war on terror…how do we know what decisions/elections/political debates they influenced and to what degree did they influence them…???

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mika 16 Jul 2014 at 10:22 am
British watchdog Privacy International … if you check background of this organization, you will see, they are not independent from secret service. Their people are even from Covington & Burling.

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chronicle 16 Jul 2014 at 10:21 am
Has the USG become a scumbag fascist regime in the name of “national security”?

http://www.diypoll.com/poll/30

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chaletfor2 16 Jul 2014 at 10:25 am
Uh huh!

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chronicle 16 Jul 2014 at 10:25 am
Jim Garrison certainly thought so.. in 1967 no less.

quote”1967 interview of Jim Garrison, District Attorney of New Orleans, who tried to prosecute one of the conspirators in the coup d’etat of November 22, 1963:

PLAYBOY: Many of the professional critics of the Warren Commission appear to be prompted by political motives: Those on the left are anxious to prove Kennedy was murdered by a conspiracy within the establishment; and those on the right are eager to prove the assassination was an act of “the international Communist conspiracy.” Where would you place yourself on the political spectrum — right, left of center?

GARRISON: That’s a question I’ve asked myself frequently, especially since this investigation started and I found myself in an incongruous and disillusioning battle with agencies of my own Government. I can’t just sit down and add up my political beliefs like a mathematical sum, but I think, in balance, I’d turn up somewhere around the middle. Over the years, I guess I’ve developed a somewhat conservative attitude — in the traditional libertarian sense of conservatism, as opposed to the thumbscrew-and-rack conservatism of the paramilitary right — particularly in regard to the importance of the individual as opposed to the state and the individual’s own responsibilities to humanity. I don’t think I’ve ever tried to formulate this into a coherent political philosophy, but at the root of my concern is the conviction that a human being is not a digit; he’s not a digit in regard to the state and he’s not a digit in the sense that he can ignore his fellow men and his obligations to society. I was with the artillery supporting the division that took Dachau; I arrived there the day after it was taken, when bulldozers were making pyramids of human bodies outside the camp. What I saw there has haunted me ever since. Because the law is my profession, I’ve always wondered about the judges throughout Germany who sentenced men to jail for picking pockets at a time when their own government was jerking gold from the teeth of men murdered in gas chambers. I’m concerned about all of this because it isn’t a German phenomenon; it’s a human phenomenon. It can happen here, because there has been no change and there has been no progress and there has been no increase of understanding on the part of men for their fellow man. What worries me deeply, and I have seen it exemplified in this case, is that we in America are in great danger of slowly evolving into a proto-fascist state. It will be a different kind of fascist state from the one of the Germans evolved; theirs grew out of depression and promised bread and work, while ours, curiously enough, seems to be emerging from prosperity. But in the final analysis, it’s based on power and on the inability to put human goals and human conscience above the dictates of the state. Its origins can be traced in the tremendous war machine we’ve built since 1945, the “military-industrial complex” that Eisenhower vainly warned us about, which now dominates every aspect of our life. The power of the states and Congress has gradually been abandoned to the Executive Department, because of war conditions; and we’ve seen the creation of an arrogant, swollen bureaucratic complex totally unfettered by the checks and balances of the Constitution. In a very real and terrifying sense, our Government is the CIA and the Pentagon, with Congress reduced to a debating society. Of course, you can’t spot this trend to fascism by casually looking around. You can’t look for such familiar signs as the swastika, because they won’t be there. We won’t build Dachaus and Auschwitzes; the clever manipulation of the mass media is creating a concentration camp of the mind that promises to be far more effective in keeping the populace in line. We’re not going to wake up one morning and suddenly find ourselves in gray uniforms goose-stepping off to work. But this isn’t the test. The test is: What happens to the individual who dissents? In Nazi Germany, he was physically destroyed; here, the process is more subtle, but the end results can be the same. I’ve learned enough about the machinations of the CIA in the past year to know that this is no longer the dreamworld America I once believed in. The imperatives of the population explosion, which almost inevitably will lessen our belief in the sanctity of the individual human life, combined with the awesome power of the CIA and the defense establishment, seem destined to seal the fate of the America I knew as a child and bring us into a new Orwellian world where the citizen exists for the state and where raw power justifies any and every immoral act. I’ve always had a kind of knee-jerk trust in my Government’s basic integrity, whatever political blunders it may make. But I’ve come to realize that in Washington, deceiving and manipulating the public are viewed by some as the natural prerogatives of office. Huey Long once said, “Fascism will come to America in the name of anti-fascism.” I’m afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security.”unquote

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NFJTAKFA 16 Jul 2014 at 10:55 am
So faved if I could…

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a nurse 16 Jul 2014 at 11:16 am
Ditto.

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Wiltmellow 16 Jul 2014 at 4:40 pm
Me too.

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Lyra1 16 Jul 2014 at 11:43 am
Exceptional post and excellent timing.

This shames those that labeled Jim Garrison as a “conspiracy theorist”, and those that fling that term out now to bolster the lies of media puppets for the USG, and their zionist masters – the Central Banking Cartel.

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Gator90 16 Jul 2014 at 12:47 pm
Bwah hah hah.

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seer 16 Jul 2014 at 1:54 pm
Agreed! Though, I think zionism is not an essential characteristic of the criminal banking cartel, it’s merely one that is coincidental to the current context. Power-lust is *the* driving motivation, and that’s a human characteristic regardless of ideology or any other of the emphasized and exploited differences between groups of humans. Power-lust, and the criminal acts it propels, has been with us since the beginning of human activity on earth.

To excerpt from Solzhenitsyn:
“… the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either — but right through every human heart…”

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Lyra1 16 Jul 2014 at 2:21 pm
@seer:

This article, posted today, addresses that nicely:

http://www.alt-market.com/articles/2231-the-reasons-we-fight-the-new-world-order

seer 16 Jul 2014 at 5:36 pm
@Lyra1
“This article, posted today, addresses that nicely”

It does raise that issue – thank you very much.

I think, though, the author misrepresents H.G. Wells a little. Yes, he was a member of the Fabian Society, but he left them early and refuted them strongly. Also, his book The New World Order was never intended as a blueprint for establishing a fascist global dictatorship, but rather to end nationalism and borders, to create a government along the lines of the government envisioned by our own Founders. His ideas have been seized upon by fascists, the powerful amoral hyper-wealthy elite, the ones he’d warned us about years before WWII. His warning was too soon forgotten in the free-for-all destruction of war, and profits-driven explosion of unbridled scientific and technological advances that followed the end of that war.

Einstein had warned us that conducting science without wisdom would create monsters. His warnings too have have had little if any perceivable effect.

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feline16 16 Jul 2014 at 10:47 pm
Wonderful post – great thoughts by Mr. Garrison. Especially:

“at the root of my concern is the conviction that a human being is not a digit; he’s not a digit in regard to the state and he’s not a digit in the sense that he can ignore his fellow men and his obligations to society.”

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smurfet 16 Jul 2014 at 10:25 am
yes

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abbadabba 16 Jul 2014 at 9:52 am
Ach du lieber! Germany’s sausages are swinging in the dock! See, I DO smell the news before it’s casing bursts. German sausages AND FCPA for lunch yesterday… Just try to keep your secrets from me, Germany. Who’s an AF braut?

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/15/german-sausage-cartel-caught-bangers-to-rights-wurst

I gotta say Jolie covering for Hague because he’s concerned about sexual violence ELSEWHERE, now THAT’S a role reversal!! I’d like some mustard on that. Gove can go roll in the hay.

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Muhib 16 Jul 2014 at 9:11 am
I keep clicking yes and nothing happens :(

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NFJTAKFA 16 Jul 2014 at 9:48 am
It’s been hacked, you actually ordered 43 sets of encyclopedias…

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Dakong 16 Jul 2014 at 8:02 am
If the GCHQ and NSA were capable of controlling the Internet then these stories wouldn’t be seeing the light of day at all. They would be snuffed out as soon as their authors hit “send” or “upload” on their computers. But they are coming to light, which is cause for hope.

What is necessary right now is to identify and target all those who work for the GCHQ and NSA. Make them objects of the same surveillance they subject us to. When they buy a dirty magazine at a 7/11, let the world know about it, their kids, their wives, their pastors. When they stalk that blond who lives down the street, let the world know about it. When they cheat on their taxes, expose it. Then, let odd things start to happen to them.

They need to realize that they have declared war on the freedom of everyone on Earth, and that those people have access to the same math, science, and technology that they do.

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none 16 Jul 2014 at 6:58 am
Learn and use GPG (PGP).

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Joe 16 Jul 2014 at 6:53 am
Revolution is coming

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Eddie 16 Jul 2014 at 6:11 am
I can’t exactly remember, but some years back in Switzerland (please don’t think they are the holy cow of democracy) there was an issue with ballot machines. But what I can remember is the lightning that struck me saying “something is wrong on the story and not all is said”. I then had the impression it was an issue of manipulating the outcome of the voting. The machines where removed and new one placed to the satisfaction of all. It was never know – of course – if the voting went smooth without any (online) tampering.
I recall a personal issue with my Twitter account (don’t judge me now without ever knowing my background and having walked in my shoes). I was stunned since 2008 that my Follower base is more or less the same since ever despite I have several new followers, sometimes 10 a month. I contacted Twitter and they confirmed nothing unusual. I leave the thinking and conclusions to each individual.
My take is this; the Federal Intelligence Service (FIS) of Switzerland is much more sophisticated and efficient than the NSA. Therefore I pretend that FIS owns the NSA (only a slight sarcasm in my words).
Just a hint about myself and what I am talking about you should read up at Wikipedia on: ‘secret files scandal’ and do your own researches on it.
BTW; the Stasi in the former DDR and the case of ‘secret files scandal’ is very much the same except with two differences (at that time) – [1] the DDR was a Communist country and Switzerland still claims to be the oldest Democracy and [2] the volume of monitored citizens – in the DDR over 70% and Switzerland 10%. But the process has being very similar.

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Ordinary Person 16 Jul 2014 at 3:53 am
Why would I want to add a comment here? This site will absolutely be monitored by GCHQ and other comments are possibly from government-paid propagandists?
Realise how fully freedom-of-speech has been compromised.

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NFJTAKFA 16 Jul 2014 at 8:32 am
“Realise how fully freedom-of-speech has been compromised.”

Obviously then, for some the point is telling pro-Big Brother cowards, “FUCK YOU!”, anyway.

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a nurse 16 Jul 2014 at 8:58 am
Because our collective future depends on good people speaking out and telling the truth.

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a nurse 16 Jul 2014 at 9:08 am
The question: Why would I want to add a comment here?

Because of the following, which is happening to many good, law-abiding people. It will only get worse and if we don’t stop it now, who knows where it will all lead.

Mark wrote (15 Jul 2014 at 11:40 pm),

“…I have had nails in tires, sliced electrical lines, dents in my cars, several broken car windows, many items stolen, and much more.

This is no laughing manner. Please do not minimize it.

Innocents are being targeted by their own governments. How legitimate is a government that targets its own citizens?”

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larry 16 Jul 2014 at 1:59 pm
I seriously doubt that it has gotten to that point yet. There is a lot of antisocial behavior out there that the government can’t be blamed for. Let’s be rational. The NSA isn’t going around putting nails in peoples’ tires. What we know for sure that they are doing is difficult enough to deal with.

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a nurse 16 Jul 2014 at 4:08 pm
I would suggest that you take a look at http://fightgangstalking.com. Given the resources that have been invested in this counterintelligence program, it’s quite clear that the NSA — the “Collect it All, Process it All, Exploit it All, Partner it All, Sniff it All and, ultimately, Know it All”- NSA — is well aware of it. (COINTELPRO is, in fact, alive and well — we’re just not sure what they’re calling it. I’ll bet the NSA could tell us.)

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Eddie 16 Jul 2014 at 12:56 am
I can’t exactly remember, but some years back in Switzerland (please don’t think they are the holy cow of democracy) there was an issue with ballot machines. But what I can remember is the lightning that struck me saying “something is wrong on the story and not all is said”. I then had the impression it was an issue of manipulating the outcome of the voting. The machines where removed sand new one placed to the satisfaction of all. It was never know – of course – if the voting went smooth without any (online) tampering.
I recall a personal issue with my Twitter account (don’t judge me know without ever knowing my background and having walked in my shoes). I was stunned since 2008 that Follower base is more or less the same since ever despite I have several new followers. Sometimes 10 a month. I contacted Twitter and they confirmed nothing unusual. I leave the thinking and conclusions to each individual.
Just a hint about myself you should read up at Wikipedia on: ‘secret files scandal’ and do your own researches on it.

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feline16 16 Jul 2014 at 12:27 am
Nate: (couldn’t reply directly to your post)

Here are some of my thoughts regarding your post:
“the argument of “just because it’s legal, doesn’t make it right” is an ambigous excuse.” I beg to differ. We’ve seen over history too many examples of unjust laws – you know for example that Jim Crow was once legal – but certainly not RIGHT. The techniques mentioned in these documents are beyond creepy.

You say that I’m “naïve and have no clue about “real threats.” Well, haven’t we learned one thing from the Snowden data – that it’s NOT all about counterterrorism? You say that there’s only “speculation” as to whether these techniques have been used. Whether or not there’s evidence to satisfy you, I think you’re a bit naïve to believe they WON’T be used. Or that your data or mine WON’T be read or accessed. I wouldn’t trust them. Especially now.

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snowden 16 Jul 2014 at 1:33 am
Hey Feline16, didn’t you know “Nate” is actually a GCHQ operative who is doing exactly what this article is detailing?

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feline16 16 Jul 2014 at 11:16 pm
Hi snowden -

Ya really think Nate is GCHQ – or- NSA? He certainly seems willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. And I think the notion of being willing to sacrifice so much privacy for “security” needs to be challenged at any rate.

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Tortmaster 16 Jul 2014 at 5:57 am
I’m not Nate, but your comment begs a response. I hope you realize that the “if” and the “who” that are missing from this story, and the “why” that was missing from the previous story about spying on Muslim-Americans are basically the whole ball of wax. If GCHQ is not doing any of this stuff, then the whole report is a waste of internet. If they are doing it, but only on extremists who incite violence or on hackers who steal credit cards and identities, without violating the privacy of their citizens, then these are pretty ingenious tools. As for the story about Muslim-Americans, the whole crux of that matter is why they were surveiled. Without that information, that story goes nowhere. Otherwise the story is: NEWSFLASH–Bigots in the Bush Administration!

Moreover, Greenwald has had a year to report and to sift through tens of thousands, perhaps even hundreds of thousands, of documents, and he’s had a mole who worked for the CIA for years, who worked for two NSA contractors, who also spent months stealing as many Top Secret documents as he could lay his hands on, who claims to have been trained as a “real spy” and to be able to do “real spy” things, and who had Admin privileges on NSA computers, yet there has been no proof of even one tiny intentional violation of the United States Constitution by the Government. This far in–more than a year now–don’t you want proof?

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Montecarlo 16 Jul 2014 at 7:06 am
I hope you realize that the “if” and the “who” that are missing from this story, and the “why” that was missing from the previous story about spying on Muslim-Americans are basically the whole ball of wax.
I hope you realize those questions could be answered anytime by the government itself. They prefer to operate in secret and keep their populations in ignorance. A people kept ignorance cannot provide the informed consent on which the legitimacy of government rests – so the government is ultimately undermining its own authority. While that may be viewed by many as a good thing, I will reserve judgment. But it is always interesting to watch others engaged in self-defeating behavior.

I certainly agree the articles published by The Intercept are only the beginning, not the end, of this story. The government may wish to withhold the ‘why’ of spying on Muslim civic leaders, but those persons now have standing to sue in court and the ‘why’ will eventually emerge. And yes, it is an extremely important question.

Likewise the publication of the existence of these hacking tools would in a functioning democracy (I don’t know about the UK), lead to questions from the opposition of why substantial resources are being deployed to create them if they are not being used. Even if the government refuses to justify their actions, a useful suspicion of online polls and the integrity of online information in general will grow. People will be more wary, and therefore more likely to spot instances of government manipulation of online information. So even in this case, the “if” and the “who” will eventually emerge and become a part of the story. It will take a good deal of further journalistic work to uncover all this information, and I hope the The Intercept will be up to the challenge.

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chaletfor2 16 Jul 2014 at 10:14 am
If you don’t like this kind of information, you should just say so. Incidentally, the Constitution has been violated. Proof is the 4th amendment; that’s why the government kept this info secret. You don’t have to have some one tell you they violated the big C, even if W said “it’s just a piece of paper”.

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avelna2001 16 Jul 2014 at 10:32 am
You’re pretty damned naive if you believe that these tools either aren’t being used or are only being used against the “bad guys”. The not-so-distant past ought to disabuse you of that notion, and, in any case, bureaucracies don’t spend billions on tools that will then just be left to rust in the toolbox. As far as the constitutionality of the various and sundry programs, it was determined by the FISA Court itself that some of them are unconstitutional.

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Tortmaster 16 Jul 2014 at 11:54 pm
The FISA court did no such thing. When the NSA turned itself in for making inadvertent errors, the court chastised them for it, but there was no finding of unconstitutionality. There was obviously no finding of an intentional violation of the Constitution. By the way, large computer programs are apparently notoriously “buggy.” Look at the ObamaCare exchanges, anything MicroSoft launches.

Again, and this is not a talking point; rather, this is reality: A year, perhaps as much as 1.7 million Top Secret files, a mole, trained as a spy, with Admin privileges on NSA computers equals proof of zero intentional constitutional violations.

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americanGestapo14 16 Jul 2014 at 9:25 pm
I remember that there was some relief that he was unable to access DOD computers. People in the know keep mentioning the “tip of the iceberg”. I am not of the mind that the entire government or all of law enforcement is corrupt, but there are clearly corrupt groups, who may or may not be state sanctioned. There’s a big iceberg, just because Snowden didn’t hand over the proof, doesn’t mean it’s not real. One possibility is that factions, have been utilizing defense appropriations (paid for by US citizens) for their own personal agendas. Another possibility, it’s upstream hacking by defense department for profit contractors ( or countries) with dual allegiances and personal agendas. The whole MIC establishment is such a Frankenstein creation, that almost anything is possible. That’s the problem, there’s congressional no oversight, no accountability to the public at all…we have a crumbling infrastructure, trains that don’t work, brides falling down…yet we have managed to place the entire world under surveillance. It’s insane. This is from the wealthiest country in the world, it’s the manifestations of the totalitarian dreams of a madman.

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ffeline16 16 Jul 2014 at 11:09 pm
Tortmaster -

I must first address your calling of these – intrusive violations of privacy as “pretty ingenious tools.” I find them to be despicable and against our Fourth and Frist Amendments if (and I would be pretty sure that they are) used against U.S. persona. The EU says they might be likely illegal (from the article above) in the EU. What those tools are is chilling. When I read their boast: “If you don’t see it here, it doesn’t mean we can’t build it.”; I become very concerned about what ever dirty (and that’s what they are) new tricks they may be up to.

If you are really uncertain about details, first read Montecarlo’s post. Then why not submit a FOIA. Good luck with that!

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larry 16 Jul 2014 at 12:25 am
Well there is some good news today. Hamas announced today that it is willing
to “consider” lifting the blockade of Israel
and allowing necessities like food and medicine in.

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keller 16 Jul 2014 at 5:10 am
Very good news, thank you.

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John Henry 15 Jul 2014 at 10:44 pm
What kind of moron would be swayed by online polls, and who gives a rip about who is taking the p on the internet? Don’t get it.

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Montecarlo 16 Jul 2014 at 7:48 am
You know how government agencies function – bureaucracy perpetuates itself even in the absence of any need for its services. Someone at GCHQ several years ago probably decided they needed to hire some hackers in order to combat hacking on the internet. Those hackers then proceeded to produce a suite of hacking tools, and as described in this article, are trying to market them to other government agencies.
Do they have any value? The only way to find out would be to privatize JTRIG and see if there is any demand for these products on the open market. I suspect a lot of them are overhyped and others are already generally available. But it would be interesting to put JTRIG up for auction and find out one way or the other. It could be that some Gulf Emirate would be willing to overpay for them, and the British taxpayer could at least partially recoup their investment.

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CraigSummers 15 Jul 2014 at 8:38 pm
Mr. Greenwald

To start with, “likely illegal” isn’t necessarily illegal – just a suggestion which you choose to publish. In addition, this clearly was not your best effort exposing a government spy agency. You have no reason to expose the UK government spy agency except they held your partner for nine (whole) hours – and they are an ally of the US (which makes a lot of sense from my point of view). You might as well be reporting on Russia, China, Vietnam or any number of other countries in the world with far less freedom than the UK. Maybe you are a UK citizen as well?

“……..Chris Huhne, a former cabinet minister and member of the national security council until 2012, insisted that ministers were in “utter ignorance” about even the largest GCHQ spying program, known as Tempora—not to mention “their extraordinary capability to hoover up and store personal emails, voice contact, social networking activity and even internet searches.”…..”

Chris Huhne really doesn’t have a lot of credibility. He writes a weekly column for the Guardian (presumably he is paid for his services) which really should have been disclosed since the Guardian had their Snowden “materials” destroyed by the government. In addition, Huhne resigned as a member of Parliament after he lied – “….perverting the course of justice over a 2003 speeding case. His then wife had said that she was in the car at the time and thus accepted the licence penalty points on his behalf. Chris Huhne denied the charge until the trial began on 4 February 2013, when he changed his plea to guilty, resigned as a member of parliament and left the Privy Council.[7][8][9...". He spent time in jail for lying - hardly a person you want to quote as a source – especially because he works for the Guardian. Indeed, why would he lie about a speeding ticket?

In addition, it's also clear that you also have a personal vendetta against the GCHQ after your partner, David Miranda, was detained at Heathrow airport for nine hours by security. At the time you stated,

"......But to start detaining the family members and loved ones of journalists is simply despotic...."

Of course this was a fabrication since Mr. Miranda - according to the Guardian - often worked with you on stories – and was paid by the Guardian on this particular trip. Indeed, he had just spent time at the residence of Poitras who is the partner of Greenwald on the NSA leaks. His computer was confiscated which contained 58,000 highly classified national security documents. A British High Court ruled the detention of Miranda and confiscation of his computer legal under British law (for reasons of national security).

"......But as the U.K. Parliament today debates a fast-tracked bill to provide the government with greater surveillance powers, one which Prime Minister David Cameron has justified as an “emergency” to “help keep us safe,”....."

Well timed release, Mr. Greenwald!

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spied_upon 15 Jul 2014 at 9:22 pm
US spy agencies using similar tactics to prevent any exposure of their other, more lethal crimes, this kind of exposure can not come soon enough. I stumbled into this. There is nothing these spy agencies hate as much as someone who wants justice. Bravo Snowden, Greenwald, Poitres, and all those who want an informed voting population, civil liberties, and an end to corruption. These spy agencies want to be dictators (behind the scenes- but dictators nevertheless).

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spied_upon 15 Jul 2014 at 9:37 pm
If these agencies are ever reigned in, it will be quite clear the purpose of these tactics is to cover up crimes by lawless “law enforcement.”

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-Mona- 15 Jul 2014 at 9:58 pm
Oh fer shur, Craig. Glenn Greenwald would NEVER have published the above story, but for the detention of David Miranda. Just cuz, yanno, GCHQ is the NSA’s first partner in crime, that’s no reason at all!

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CraigSummers 15 Jul 2014 at 10:16 pm
Hi Mona

Nice to see your return. Of course he would have published this story anyway. The UK is a part of the “five eyes” and a huge US ally (isn’t that reason enough?). None the less, I am certain that Greenwald is getting a particular pleasure out of releasing this information. The timing is exquisite and just by chance coincides with Don Cameron’s “emergency” bill.

Thanks.

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-Mona- 15 Jul 2014 at 11:49 pm
Of course he would have published this story anyway.
Yes, of course. So one might then wonder what all this was about:

You have no reason to expose the UK government spy agency except they held your partner for nine (whole) hours – and they are an ally of the US (which makes a lot of sense from my point of view)….it’s also clear that you also have a personal vendetta against the GCHQ after your partner, David Miranda, was detained at Heathrow airport for nine hours by security.
Bullshit just for it’s own sake, Craig?

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CraigSummers 16 Jul 2014 at 8:00 am
“…….Bullshit just for it’s own sake, Craig?……”

Greenwald did threaten the British government with further releases of British intelligence because of the detention. None the less, the mere fact that the British government works with the NSA (and is a US ally) is all the incentive Greenwald needs to publish these documents. He recently stated (at the Intercept):

“……..The US government supports Israel financially, diplomatically, militarily and politically. Therefore, to discuss Israel is to discuss US Government policy……”

Obviously, that applies to Britain (just to a lesser extent than Israel). By the way, its been awhile since the Intercept ran a story quoting from the book of Ali Abunimah. With things heating up in Palestine, the timing could be right.

Thanks Mona.

DocHollywood 17 Jul 2014 at 1:31 am
“Greenwald did threaten the British government with further releases of British intelligence because of the detention.” – CraigSummers
Of course you can’t quote the threat you claim he made, because…well, because why?

seer 16 Jul 2014 at 10:45 am
The timing is exquisite and just by chance coincides with Don Cameron’s “emergency” bill.
Precisely, Summers, that is the work of good journalist – to inform the people of their government’s wrongdoings. So, yes, it is not only a great time to publish this story, but also in keeping with GG’s primary function as a member of the Fourth Estate. Even you should be congratulating him for performing his duties in an exemplary manner.

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CraigSummers 16 Jul 2014 at 8:53 pm
Thanks Seer

That’s a good opinion (after I noticed it that is). However, I might hold off on the congratulations for awhile.

Jose 15 Jul 2014 at 11:56 pm
You have no reason to expose the UK government spy agency
You post complete nonsense from time to time, Craig. By your logic, Reuters doesn’t have a reason to expose the surveillance programs of the Chinese government (see Nate’s link below.)

Of course Glenn must have been furious when they detained his partner as he was carrying journalistic work product, but do you actually think Glenn would’ve ignored these programs otherwise? That’s preposterous.

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CraigSummers 16 Jul 2014 at 8:10 am
“……..but do you actually think Glenn would’ve ignored these programs otherwise? That’s preposterous……”

Don’t worry Jose. I am well aware of that. British intelligence works far too closely with the NSA – and is far too important of an ally of the US for Greenwald to ignore. Still, it’s interesting to watch this unfold. The Germans are also a US ally, but the (political) goal of those releases is to undermine US-German cooperation (and has absolutely nothing to do with civil liberties). Again, at least since WWII, the NSA has been spying on friends and foes alike. None of this is really new – except the methodology.

Thanks.

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avelna2001 16 Jul 2014 at 10:38 am
The Germans are also a US ally, but the (political) goal of those releases is to undermine US-German cooperation (and has absolutely nothing to do with civil liberties).
Only if you ignore civil liberties of the German populace. The Germans might beg to disagree with you.

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Jose 16 Jul 2014 at 11:03 am
Exactly. I guess in Craig’s mind, telling Germans about surveillance has nothing to do with civil liberties, because aliens are obviously of a different species.

CraigSummers 16 Jul 2014 at 1:02 pm
“………Only if you ignore civil liberties of the German populace. The Germans might beg to disagree with you…….I guess in Craig’s mind, telling Germans about surveillance has nothing to do with civil liberties, because aliens are obviously of a different species……”

As I recall, in the 1930s, the Germans thought they were of a different species. Regardless, the NSA surveillance exposed by the Snowden theft suggested that the program was a threat to the Fourth Amendment. That has nothing to do with anyone else, but Americans. The job of the NSA regardless of whether it’s preventing foreign and domestic hackers, identifying potential terrorists, or tracking the latest technological developments is to spy (illegally) on everyone else. Hopefully, they can do that efficiently, but I have my doubts that collecting so much information is worthwhile.

Germans should worry about the arrangements that the BND has made with other countries (like the NSA) to spy on their citizens. However, I don’t worry about Germans, Turks, Russians, Iranians and so on in that respect. Yes, they might disagree…….

Thanks.

Jose 16 Jul 2014 at 2:28 pm
Snowden has talked about the 4th amendment, but he has also referred to article 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and Nuremberg principles. In any case, it’s up to journalists to decide what information is newsworthy or in the public interest, and who “the public” are.

CraigSummers 16 Jul 2014 at 7:57 pm
Jose

“…….. In any case, it’s up to journalists to decide what information is newsworthy or in the public interest, and who “the public” are……”

I don’t agree to a large extent. Journalists have to weigh the importance of the information. Does the public interests outweigh the damage to national security? There is always damage by releasing information – no matter how much denial comes from the source of the leak or the journalists involved.

Thanks.

Jose 16 Jul 2014 at 8:48 pm
Journalists have to weigh the importance of the information
Isn’t that exactly what I said?

BTW Craig, Germans in the 1930s didn’t think they were of a different species. A lot of them simply thought they were “exceptional.” That type of thinking is dangerous, of course, but not uncommon, even to this day.

CraigSummers 16 Jul 2014 at 9:01 pm
Well not quite. The Germans thought they were superior racially. Of course, Joe Louis and Jesse Owens helped dispel that theory. Then the Russians made the eastern front hell on earth. “American Exceptionalism” isn’t racial superiority.

As far as weighing the importance of intelligence, it’s useful to consult the government first before releasing the information. So in my opinion, it’s not entirely up to the journalist.

SraigCummers 16 Jul 2014 at 12:00 am
Dear GCHQ,

Make your shills less obvious please, I could dig up more capable trolls on 4chan.

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CraigSummers 16 Jul 2014 at 9:49 am
“…….Make your shills less obvious please, I could dig up more capable trolls on 4chan……”

I’ll pass your advice along to Sir Iain Lobban (GCHQ), Andrew Parker of MI5 and Sir John Sawers of MI6 at dinner tonight.

Thanks.

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chaletfor2 16 Jul 2014 at 9:31 am
You don’t like this kind of info: Just say it.

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Janet Innes-Kirkwood 15 Jul 2014 at 8:10 pm
Okay we know they have a toolbox of things to annoy people and to mess with them and get them set up in stings or get them to shut up and whatever all these fine doughnut eaters do with the endless billions they have all acquired to set up this monkey house of control freaks. However once you show your hands people begin to notice and then they get together and figure out how to pull the clowns off their chrome plated star decks on board that fine earth sucking octopus. Oh then they whine and say how could you let out all our secrets???? I am sure there are all sorts of ethics questions and all the Five Eyes are supposed to be civilized countries that honor basic human rights including the right not being stalked and tormented….. Cluck, cluck, cluck…..

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Josiah Freedman 15 Jul 2014 at 7:39 pm
Why does this article point to joining two unknown callers as teenager prank etc. ? Has the writer done ANY research on spying etc by the FBI, CIA or Eschelon etc ? Connecting two (Perceived unknown callers to each other) callers, emailers, texters etc. etc. is EXTREMELY important AND an institutional tool by these spy agencies since practically the 1920′s. It stems back to medieval times having court appointed spies watching to see if two people who pretend NOT to know each other, actually do. It graduated to the 1970′s FBI investigations of Mafia and politcal campaigns to see if two people would: A. Know each other if they were spontaneously connected (As offered by AT&T working with agencies), B. Who would they contact after and C. Follow the targets actions afterwards. In todays world this is a HUGE tool to ascertain associations in A. Email relay B. Business forums C. Internet Social Sites D. Mailings and texting etc. They use this as a final sewing of the tapestry group. ” Hey why is Dave calling me at this number, he knows not to call me here yadda yadda yadda……….for what it is worth folks.

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chronicle 16 Jul 2014 at 9:12 am
quote”.for what it is worth folks”unquote

For what it’s worth, I’ve got a wooden nickle for ya.

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spied_upon 15 Jul 2014 at 6:54 pm
Not listed here is their probable ability to alter the target’s writing while the target is working on that document is open. Some American spy agencies do it, perhaps just to freak out their targets.

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Serio Vitium 15 Jul 2014 at 6:54 pm
So we’re all officially tools now. I for one welcome our new overlords and will help wait America’s Got Talent is on!

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Timothy Whiting 15 Jul 2014 at 6:50 pm
I have been a target of NSA, CIA, FBI and the U.K. (individuals following me around driving vehicles having British of Columbia license plates). My status as a quasi-pro civil rights attorney and having sued numerous law enforcement officials for violation of my freedom of speech rights led to me being labeled as a “targeted individual”. I have been subjected to electronic microwave torture because it seems that whenever I sit at my home office computer desk for some odd reason I suffer electrical bodily disturbances such as tingling sensations in my hands and legs, headaches, blurred vision, loud ringing in my left ear, and involuntary muscle twitching. I believe these government agents are interfering with my legal work and hope that the effects of the electronic microwaves or Direct Energy Weapons attacks give me cancer in order to permanently shut my mouth about government law enforcement corruption. I have filed to complaints with the FCC after measuring electromagnetic interference outside FCC wattage limits both incidents my body began to swell (like after a gym work out for 45 min.) felt as if i was being slowly cooked from inside out. BE CAREFUL!!! FISA orders based on fictitious Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) were used a pretext in labeling me and my family members as domestic terrorists then for secret assassination by way of direct energy weapons.

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Jim 15 Jul 2014 at 6:48 pm
So basically they emulate the tactics anonymous used.

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William Wallace 15 Jul 2014 at 6:39 pm
[Comment deleted by NSA]

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Common 'Tater 15 Jul 2014 at 6:00 pm
When are you going to publish the results of the online poll at the beginning of the article, and what measures have you taken to prevent the GCHQ from hacking it?

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gene 15 Jul 2014 at 5:50 pm
whatsoever is happening to freedom first- if the big 3 ignoramuses englund, isntreal and americle one fond forget this for gainsake what about face the rest of man

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Benjamin Golan 15 Jul 2014 at 5:43 pm
Just thinking that the Brits are involved in spying concerns me, since they have managed to do such a great job in their own country, who in God’s name can trust them?

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laskdjalskdj 15 Jul 2014 at 5:36 pm
Would it matter? people who visit the site can be monitored anyways, what more does a comment do that a pagehit doesn’t?

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IndyRadio 15 Jul 2014 at 5:30 pm
First, I apologize for not taking the time to consolidate my comments here, so like Detective Columbo, I still have “just one more thing”, or 2.

Hacking online polls is not a big deal. Even in small towns. i can cite one that was hacked repeatedly in a mayoral contest, Described in this article are malicious script kiddies – who are not even paid very well and turned loose with impunity to raise the cost of free speech by making it difficult for a small operator to run a website, especially if it is political.

We can only hope that the public will be roused to zero tolerance of this illegal conduct by out illegitimate government.

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Lyra1 15 Jul 2014 at 5:23 pm
Posted a link downstream regarding the Battle for Net Neutrality. Just in case anyone would like to comment, EFF, posted this comment today:

“So many net neutrality comments that FCC’s servers are crashing. New extended deadline is Friday: (link to FCC comment form) Jul 15 @ 11:43am”

Here is a link to make a very easy comment: https://dearfcc.org/

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Anisha 15 Jul 2014 at 8:06 pm
If Ann-Marie is right:

Corporate America: Throwing Good Money After Bad

http://deveer.org.uk/dvr/index.php?title=Corporate_America:_Throwing_Good_Money_After_Bad

Net Neutrality is pretty much a done deal. The froth and splutter in the MSM is merely pandering to the public as the corporates move in for the kill.

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Lyra1 15 Jul 2014 at 9:32 pm

Lyra1 15 Jul 2014 at 9:32 pm
@ Anisha

Your article, although optomistic, is dated 3 May 2014.

From the EFF today:

“TAKE ACTION: Congress is trying sneak through a dangerous amendment that will kill Net Neutrality. Call right now: https://DearFCC.org/call ”

Link is also at the top of page on the original post above.
Jul 15 @ 2:25pm”

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Chu Monte 15 Jul 2014 at 5:05 pm
Governments (and to some extent corporations) develop these types of invasive tools and practices not to have them sit on a shelf just gathering dust. They use them, and not always for the right reasons. They use them to get the upper hand, to bring into question the integrity of others who may or may not be legitimate threats to the safety and security of a nation, but for political and economic gain. This is reaiity 101, not hypothetical make believe all is peachy keen.

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larry 15 Jul 2014 at 4:56 pm
I wonder if people are afraid to comment here for fear of being monitored by the NSA. At the Guardian 1500 + comments per article was not uncommon.

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Matt Bracken 15 Jul 2014 at 5:12 pm
I’m sure that Obama’s NSA/DHS/FBI/IRS would NEVER stoop to such lows as described in this article. /sarc. Actually, this was probably all a gift from the NSA to their UK equivalents.

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Lyra1 15 Jul 2014 at 5:48 pm
@ larry:

People should be wary of the owning or using the following listed devices: Telephones (lined or cell), Cameras, Televisions, and Computers with or without any type of internet access. It is also advisable to avoid, microwave ovens, energy saving light bulbs, digital electric meters, automobiles with navigation devices, water, food, and possibly toilets.

It is my hope that you own a small piece of land, a tent or lean-to, firewood (preferably a tesla coil), candles, well-water, a vegetable patch, a pond stocked with fish, some blankets, a good hunting knife, and a personal protective device such as a semi-automatic weapon with lots of ammunition. Please watch out for overhead aerial activity such as drones and/or insects which can be genetically altered to function as spy-drones. None of this applies in the event of nuclear attack. In that case you would need a sizable underground shelter capable of sustaining life for….well, a long, long, time.

Comments? All things considered, making comments is the least of my concerns.

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seer 15 Jul 2014 at 7:16 pm
Don’t think The Guardian isn’t monitored, larry. It’s off limits to govt workers and those military persons fighting for our freedom™. You ought to know that, you penny-a-post information distortion hack.

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Top Commentor 15 Jul 2014 at 4:26 pm
This is actually good.

+4,042 -0 (4,042 votes)

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Wiltmellow 15 Jul 2014 at 4:25 pm
Gellman should ask an expert (Stasi officer Wolfgang Schmidt):

“It is the height of naivete to think that once collected this information won’t be used,” he said. “This is the nature of secret government organizations. The only way to protect the people’s privacy is not to allow the government to collect their information in the first place.”
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Eddie 16 Jul 2014 at 1:02 am
Fully agree

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jc 15 Jul 2014 at 4:11 pm
Kinda like making the kenyans poll numbers and approval numbers look like what they are not? F the GOVT

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ProjectheurekaLLC 15 Jul 2014 at 3:39 pm
// “Change outcome of online polls” (UNDERPASS)? Checked! See http://www.occupy-planet.com poll

// “Ability to spoof any email address and send email under that identity” (CHANGELING)”?
CHECKED! Cincinnati Bell claimed ( on audio files!) that the blocking of I.P-Address was due to us sending “spam”. What is no-where the case, nor is Bell willing to out of Court prove that claim.
This ability to impersonate and thus intentionally wrongfully implicate anyone IS among the most dangerous technologic ability the NSA/ GCHQ has posing a grave danger to anyone, even to world leaders btw! Particular IF a truly sinister and unchecked NSA/GCHQ crowd of brown-shirts combine the previous with //“For connecting two target phone together in a call” (IMPERIAL BARGE)”//

1. psychological manipulation to target online activists / Concurrent businesses?
Checked: Organized Astroturf’s and bot attacks, bullying, vilification with “don’t listen to him he is mentally ill”, needs his med”, direct online death threats like: “I’m gonna cut you son”, “you should be shot just like Obama lol”, and offline: hanging joke by a Cincinnati “cracker” on Street, wifi- hacking manipulator in front of the house ( leading to network interruptions and domain and revenue losses) and illegal externally brought heroin dealing activities at my door steps, which the Cincy Police is certainly ignoring even while presented concrete video surveillance evidences, ect., etc pp

2. Technologic Manipulations to target online activists / Concurrent businesses?
Checked: Evidences of intrusion into email accounts, business websites ( and inferring with development), into Paypal, Ebay, Whois/Nic.com accounts, into Skype conversations: “Active skype capability. Provision of real time call records (SkypeOut and SkypetoSkype) and bidirectional instant messaging. Also contact lists. (MINIATURE HERO)”,

U.S.’s ultra right-wingers on former Yahoo 360 as well as on Facebook were colluding to expose progressive Anti-war, Anti-Bush/Cheney progressives and environmentalists’s I.P-Adresses and photos on white supremacist websites, leading to massive disruption and hack attacks e.g:.
• “Targeted Denial Of Service against Web Servers” (PREDATORS FACE) and “Distributed denial of service using P2P. Built by ICTR, deployed by JTRIG” (ROLLING THUNDER)

Concrete technologic evidences of illegal hidden Facebook scripts, System Hardware-near internal back doors, deceptive screen projections, Internet traffic redirections, Facebook and other entries being hidden to others, Cincinnati Bell’s open legal answers in regards to their possible cooperations to illegal surveillance and evidences of attacks on our I.P.-Addresses,

// “Ability to artificially decrease traffic to a website” (GATEWAY) and “ability to deflate page views on websites” (SLIPSTREAM)”//?
Checked: Google declaring my small business to “Spam”, web-Sites were being reported to be Virus-infected, etc. ect. ect.

They Secret Service crowd of nowadays sure are through in their technologic mass deception and attempts of silencing critical voices and concurrence to advance some too big to fail Corporate as well as ideologic interests.

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Jeff 15 Jul 2014 at 3:19 pm
I read where a poster sees this as a problem of capitalism. What a joke. This is GOVERNMENT ABUSE as seen in Socialism and communism. Free markets have little need nor want for centralized government power.

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wiltmellow 15 Jul 2014 at 9:32 pm
Free markets have little need nor want for centralized government power.
Like shamans shaking rattles, you use words like “Government abuse”, “socialism”, “communism” or “free market” as if these empty labels mean something.

Let’s see what the vaunted “free market” has brought us just this century: Enron and the theft of billions; BP and the polluting of the Gulf of Mexico; Duke Energy and the poisoning of land and water in North Carolina, Lehman Brothers and the rest of Wall Street crooks collapsing the economy and throwing millions of Americans onto the streets; various coal mining disasters; GM going bankrupt, saved by taxpayer money, while producing death trap products; Citibank’s recent pay; various explosions and disasters across the country from cost cutting and negligence (West, Texas, Elk River, WVa mountain top removal) ; earthquakes and poisoned ground water from fracking … just off the top of my head.

I could go on but you get the point.

When “free market” is the question, government restraint is the answer.

When police state is the question, free market is the cause and public demand for responsible government is the answer.

But keep shaking your rattles. That’s what “free market” advertisers pay for — to undermine the single institution which properly managed might restrain the corporate pirates and outlaws who destroy the planet (and civil society) in pursuit of profit, privilege and power.

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Shadrack 15 Jul 2014 at 3:08 pm
If they have this kind of capability then how can we in the US or anywhere believe our elections aren’t anything but a complete and utter fraud?

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Slobberingfits 15 Jul 2014 at 2:50 pm
Seems harmless enough.A bunch of control freaks turning the sand box into a cat box.

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barncat 15 Jul 2014 at 2:36 pm
In a Q&A today, Barton Gellman said that “[China and Russia] do a great deal of surveillance, with an emphasis on controlling domestic dissent that is absent in the files about the NSA”. What is absent, the “controlling domestic dissent” or the “emphasis on controlling domestic dissent”? Slight difference.

He also said, “I am not saying that the government is abusing the power it has accrued. Sometimes the scandal is what’s legal, especially if lawmakers and citizens had no reasonable opportunity to learn what the executive branch believed it was authorized to do.”

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Nate 15 Jul 2014 at 3:04 pm
Comments like Bart’s are why he’s arguably the most respected voice on the matter. I have never heard him being accused as a wide-eyed idealist/advocate nor have I seen him characterized as an NSA shill. He is impressively dispassionate and just presents the information for us to decide. If you’ve seen him during an interview or debate (e.g. with Mike Hayden), he keeps a poker face the whole time.

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Wiltmellow 15 Jul 2014 at 4:10 pm
Why is it, even after the revelations of Cointelpro, of spying on journalists and civil rights activists, of being caught red handed spying on Americas antiwar prostesters, and then calling people like Greenwald, Snowden (but not Gellman that I know of) “traitors”, why is it anyone gives these thugs in the Military/Security Industrial Complex the benefit of the doubt??

It is amazing to me that anyone would claim US authorities don’t try to stifle dissent!

Read the column.

Does anyone seriously think that only Britain does this and the US — through MSIC agencies or through contractors) — refrains?

Anyone?

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Wiltmellow 15 Jul 2014 at 4:13 pm
Oh what wise and thoughtful men guide us!

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Jose 15 Jul 2014 at 5:04 pm
So does Bart Gellman have documents from China and Russia where they admit in writing that they carry out surveillance in order to control domestic dissent? My guess is he doesn’t, but is quick to arrive at certain judgments based on his personal biases and learned narratives.

You can’t judge governments by what they admit in writing, or by what they ostensibly stand for. You have to judge them based on their actions, programs, capabilities, influence, and so on.

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Nate 15 Jul 2014 at 5:58 pm
So does Bart Gellman have documents from China and Russia where they admit in writing that they carry out surveillance in order to control domestic dissent? My guess is he doesn’t, but is quick to arrive at certain judgments based on his personal biases and learned narratives.
You accuse Gellman of “personal biases and learned narratives”!? Seems a bit harsh. He is one of the few people not polluting the internet and airwaves with an obvious bias or advocacy. In fact, I challenge you to show evidence of his alleged bias. Furthermore, his reporting is not “learned narratives.” After all, his work is dictating the narrative.

As for your implication that there is a lack of evidence, I’d suggest searching around on China because this isn’t exactly breaking news. Example: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/21/us-china-internet-idUSBREA0K04T20140121

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Jose 15 Jul 2014 at 8:17 pm
That report illustrates my point. Does it show that China is using a surveillance program to crack down on dissent? No. The Chinese government claims otherwise. But you do assume they use it for that purpose, because it’s natural to think in those terms about a government. Yet, when we learn that the UK has a program to hack online polls, you give them the benefit of the doubt. (Maybe there are online polls that deserve to be hacked, is what I’m guessing you presume.) That’s the bias I’m talking about, which is self-evident enough that I don’t have to go around proving that every person possesses it. It’s there, even in organizations such as Human Rights Watch.

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mike 15 Jul 2014 at 2:34 pm
These people are friggen sick. Is it really even worth going online anymore? I can’t be the only one ready to bail. Soon as my phone contract is up I’m going old school to get away from the bastards.

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MIke 15 Jul 2014 at 2:32 pm
Just goes to show you how worthless online polls and a lot of online information truly is.

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dont 15 Jul 2014 at 2:31 pm
What are they thinking??? Do they seriously have nothing better to do with their time???? All this technology makes me wish it never existed in the first place… maybe one day that will change (hopefully)

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William W Haywood 15 Jul 2014 at 2:21 pm
I heard a term, ‘organized lying’ that in many ways sums up exactly what our present form of government, world wide, actually encompasses. Are our problems caused by a gross deformity in the intellects of a few very conservative whacko’s who are so afraid of existence that they have to bury everyone else in their grave also? I am afraid that this human problem of ours may be insurmountable while humanity is in its present configuration. We may have to destroy ourselves again to kill this horrible virus of the mind we call capitalism. It is our doom!

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TooEducatedtobeLiberal 15 Jul 2014 at 2:48 pm
What does capitalism have to do with government spying? Please, educate the rest of us.

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Jeff 15 Jul 2014 at 3:20 pm
This is GOVERNMENT, socialism, Collectivism, centralized control…NOT free market capitalism. You are, sadly, very confused about your isms….

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Honest John 15 Jul 2014 at 3:41 pm
William… You may be onto something big! I recall Lenin/Stalin/Marx/Mao took that ball and ran with it a few years ago. They really did ease slow down the ultimate disaster of “global warming” by eliminating some 30 million or so useless people. You are on to a really big idea!

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jon 15 Jul 2014 at 3:42 pm
Capitalism works OK, introduce GREED and no longer does one have Capitalism, but something else. Greed engenders Debt, Debt engenders Guilt, Guilt engenders Fear. Welcome to the New Age.

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George Bush 15 Jul 2014 at 4:39 pm
WTF?

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chronicle 16 Jul 2014 at 10:12 am
quote”WTF?”unquote

Says dubya while forgetting his foot in his mouth …

quote”I’ve abandoned free market principles to save the free market system.” –George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Dec. 16, 2008

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wvobiwan 15 Jul 2014 at 1:59 pm
Does anyone think that having the UN assume control of the Internet will make these despicable Big Brother tactics less pervasive? I’m sure the NSA has all these tools as well, and uses them to control, spy, and distribute Fedzilla opinions and propaganda.

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rick 15 Jul 2014 at 1:59 pm
If anyone thinks the US don’t have even more of these tools, they are delusional.

Secondly… Still think your vote matters? Are we to believe they have a hands off policy for electronic voting systems?

Arm yourselves, a final solution is still available.

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Skyway1234 15 Jul 2014 at 1:48 pm
You mean they hacked the polls like the Democratic Party hacked the 2012 presidential election to ensure a specific outcome? I’m SHOCKED!

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adrshepard 15 Jul 2014 at 1:44 pm
Ok, so the intelligence agencies have these tools. That is not surprising.

Where are the documents showing how these tools have been used? Have they been used at all? For what purpose?

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kittsm 15 Jul 2014 at 2:55 pm
You’re Joking, right? If you owned “the Goose that laid the Golden Egg” would you have it spayed/nuetered?

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Wyatt Larew 15 Jul 2014 at 1:43 pm
You still think that you vote? EVERY computer on EARTH has been compromised on purpose for the status quo to Record, Edit, or Delete whatever they want EXCEPT for VOTING MACHINES! lol No one has voted for anyone since the inception of computers in the voting system. Everything is fake its called brainwashing you have been brainwashed. There are only Rothschild Rulers and people for whom they choose to rule. This is the New World Order. We lost the republic in 1913. You are just now getting the information to figure it out. If everyone figures out the jig that they are nothing more than an actor in a play, that has been scripted for over a 100 years. They will revolt and kill the evil that plagues this nation. They are getting scared so they are in a death spiral to kill 99% of humanity so they themselves are not killed and the power that has been theirs for over a 1000 years is not lost. Either they die or we die, I hope humanity can have another great awakening and realize they are enabling their very own death by complying with the staus quo demands. Either rise up or watch humanity destroy itself so the directors are never held accountable. Humanity has a choice, be free of the chains of their slave masters or die.

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Dave in Sacramento 15 Jul 2014 at 1:43 pm
No surprises here. Has anybody ever bother to visit New York Times or Washington Post’s you cannot tell me comment’s on those sites isn’t heavily policed to remove and censor anything that doesn’t agree with the web administrator’s left-winged point of view: Gay Marriage; Legalization of Pot, whole-sale denigration of anything to do with Christianity; womens’ hallowed right to kill babies; etc. etc. …….
ad nauseum….

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Lyra1 15 Jul 2014 at 1:38 pm
And then there is this matter to consider:

https://www.battleforthenet.com/#home

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Rocky Mountains 15 Jul 2014 at 1:22 pm
Home of “1984″ finally coming to life to see how the “Ministry of Truth” is alive and being used against the citizens.

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Lyra1 15 Jul 2014 at 1:17 pm
Thanks TI and Mr. Greenwald for publishing this article now.

The lesson here for those that are interested and are not afraid to speak out, is to openly oppose the introduced “make mass surveillance perfectly legal” bills recently submitted in GB and the USA.

Two links are required for explanation…..one here:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/13/edward-snowden-condemns-britain-emergency-surveillance-bill-nsa

USA link to follow.

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Lyra1 15 Jul 2014 at 1:21 pm
CISA: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/06/zombie-bill-comes-back-look-senates-cybersecurity-information-sharing-act-2014

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IndyRadio 15 Jul 2014 at 2:10 pm
I appreciate the heads up, the EFF article is excellent. But what the US legislations does is legalize what I see on a daily basis. Countermeasures are already in place. I can give a list of companies that provide them if you are interested. I’ve already had Phish Labs contact one of the sites where I publish about documents from JP Morgan, and they also asked for “copies of all the hacking tools” on our site. My response was to send a similar request to their partner, Mike Rogers for copies of all the hacking tools on his site. I suppose those “tools” are actually somewhere in GB, it would be nice to have a live copy of that wiki so we can begin to fix the problem.

What we see in server logs every day is proof that corporations already act as if the worst possible version of this law has been enacted. We can not fail to respond.

David Roknich
INDYRADIO
https://indyradio.info

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Lyra1 15 Jul 2014 at 6:26 pm
@ IndyRadio:

The damn bill has already been approved by the Senate Intelligence Committee: http://rt.com/usa/171368-senate-committee-adopts-cybersecuirty-bill/

“What we see in server logs every day is proof that corporations already act as if the worst possible version of this law has been enacted.”

I have visited your site and bookmarked it and see that you have already posted a link to the EFF regarding net neutrality on 5 Jul 14. With regard to CISA, I would think that they would be interested to see your “list” of companies who are over-zealous in their communications countermeasures. You might want to do a “show” about this. Maybe an interview with a EFF representative……it can’t hurt. Just an idea.

Thank you for caring.

I also think that any shows that you do that pertain to

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Lyra1 15 Jul 2014 at 6:31 pm
Finish last line with: the progress of the CISA bill will help.

IndyRadio 16 Jul 2014 at 8:50 pm
Lyra1 – thanks for the encouragement, I will be using your suggestions. indyradio.info isn’t my only site, I’ve been busy elsewhere, and then, of course, the 8 streams of audio don’t happen by themselves. Hope you’ll use the contact form. – dave

IndyRadio 15 Jul 2014 at 1:09 pm
Let go of that archive. Full disclosure is the only way for us to fix the problems. “The document appears in a massive Wikipedia-style archive used by GCHQ to internally discuss its surveillance and online deception activities.” John Young will be glad to help find a place for it, and there are more of us willing to help. – https://indyradio.info

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william Donovan 15 Jul 2014 at 12:53 pm
That’s the main reason I Blog on sites like this everyday! Someone has to send a clear message that we’re
holding the people behind the power are accountable for the undermining our laws and our freedom and
the US Constitution. Help stop Intel- terror war waged against the innocents of civilian populations. Started by our own Governments development of it’s criminal organizations NSC, NSA, CIA, DEA, FBI and Congress under the facade of Justice. Accountability is pre amount to justice. All Senior staff of these organizations should be on trial for there lives this is a coup de tat. We have the power of the people and the US Constitution to back us up. They can only rule by consent of the people. Well this people does not consent WHY ARE YOU!

Rise up

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User 15 Jul 2014 at 12:53 pm
It’s easy to code for this, when you have a gun to the head of every corporation. They must think they’re realy smart to modify the bios, OS, client hardware, server hardware, etc. It’s not really a challenge when all 52 cards are flipped open, is it.

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Jim 15 Jul 2014 at 12:42 pm
We need the names of these individuals who are actually enabling this. They are the true criminals working under the guise of “for the good”. What a crock.

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Lyra1 15 Jul 2014 at 1:30 pm
Starts at the President, includes most of the Legislative Branch, and includes the SCOTUS.

Read this: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/06/zombie-bill-comes-back-look-senates-cybersecurity-information-sharing-act-2014

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Ethan Allen 16 Jul 2014 at 6:08 am
@Lyra1 – Thanks for the url (;-}) and for your commitment and determination.
“Work is love made visible.” KG
As Usual,
EA

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Wes 15 Jul 2014 at 12:29 pm
Angry pirate? lol

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Danny 16 Jul 2014 at 3:47 am
IRRATE-ADMIN
NAUGHTY-MINISTER
COUNTLESS-LAWSUIT

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Littie Elise Rau 15 Jul 2014 at 11:53 am
Could you please make a print icon so that we can print your articles? Just this basic tool would be really helpful to those of us who do not have cellphones, tech toys, use social media and just want to read your words in the privacy of our homes, on a sheet a paper and not on the computer. Thanks. Fan and Luddite.

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John Kelly 15 Jul 2014 at 12:43 pm
It is a simple matter to high-lite the text, copy it, then paste it into a text form such as a new email in your mail program, then click print from the file menu above. Need help with that?

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John Kelly 15 Jul 2014 at 12:44 pm
Or simply high-lite, then click print from the file menu of your browser.

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Person 15 Jul 2014 at 11:40 am
In the poll above, I would like to vote for “Yes” :)

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bahhummingbug 15 Jul 2014 at 11:50 am
In the poll above, I don’t see any other choice :)

*Top knot graphics … pick a card, any card.

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avelna2001 15 Jul 2014 at 11:35 am
A big F**k You to the NSA?
http://www.theverge.com/2014/7/14/5898323/artist-david-huerta-mails-the-nsa-an-encrypted-mixtape

An artist sent the NSA the world’s most secure mixtape
Artist and software engineer David Huerta hopes that the NSA will never be able to listen to his mixtape. After the agency’s surveillance programs and apparent attempts to weaken encryption came to light in 2013, he conceived of a musical homage to journalists Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald, who helped publish Edward Snowden’s documents. As he didn’t have a tape recorder, though, he decided to make a high-tech simulacrum by covering an Arduino electronics board with symbolically transparent acrylic. Storing the music on an encrypted SD card, he sent the device to the NSA’s headquarters in Fort Meade, MD. The password stayed with him.
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ganduk 15 Jul 2014 at 9:58 am
Just listen. If you do any criminal activity guys do not comunicate through phones or social media. Use old methods like meet up and talk where is no cameras phones or computers around and never ever take any device with you when you go to meet someone and talk about crime.why? Becouse devices can listen your voice they can make photos through your phone and ypu even wont know that until they arest you. And they can see where have you been even if you will take som card out off your phone. So please guys do not use phones for your own safety. When you come back home from serious conversation then you can use phone or computer be patient and you will be unstoppable. I understand that these days is uncomfortable to do crime without phone but think guys Becouse police will catch you if you will do any crime and use phone to comunicate. Without phone you much safer Becouse there will be no evidence about conversations no evidence where have you been walking so yeah phone is only to use it when you living normal life but when you involved in criminal activity never ever use any device to contact anyone. Got it? It is very serious. Avoid prison like you avoid death. And good luck guys.

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chronicle 15 Jul 2014 at 3:09 pm
Ummm, let me get this straight. You are advising people who do “criminal activity”? Like terrorists perhaps?

You do know this is asking for trouble don’t you?

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Robert 15 Jul 2014 at 3:20 pm
“You are advising people who do “criminal activity”? Like terrorists perhaps?”

Like everyone. There is no meaningful connection anymore between an acts legality and its morality. The state has made us all criminals.

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keller 15 Jul 2014 at 4:20 pm
“Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for ’tis better to be alone than in bad company.”

George Washington

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Bryan123 15 Jul 2014 at 9:34 am
So presumably all of Rebbekah Brooks’ deleted emails likely not perished after all?

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El McBee 15 Jul 2014 at 9:30 am
Please disregard the UK Ebay thing- I was mistaken. it was because there is a link to the UK Ebay in the article.

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Agi Tater 15 Jul 2014 at 9:28 am
Phrases like “strict legal and policy framework” and “rigorous oversight” were probably developed by the same brainiacs who thought up euphemistic shit like “enhanced interrogation techniques.” It’s very difficult to find any hope for much-needed government reforms when we have criminal sociopaths like Dick Cheney enjoying his million-dollar-view in Wyoming and Clapper not being prosecuted for perjury, while whistleblowers are methodically disempowered, silenced, and punished.

Once again, thank you Edward Snowden for your sacrifice.

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wvobiwan 15 Jul 2014 at 2:05 pm
I’m MUCH more concerned about our Liar in Chief, Obama. You know, the one who has already sicced the IRS, EPA, and DoJ on his enemies. Personally, I’d vote for Cheney for POTUS – he’s a great man, except to leftists.

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Agi Tater 15 Jul 2014 at 6:36 pm
I can’t argue facts with someone who won’t be informed by them. But for the record, both Cheney and Obama have lied as a matter of indisputable fact. If you think this is about party politics and right vs. left, you’re missing the big picture. Entirely.

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El McB 15 Jul 2014 at 9:27 am
Ok an odd thing that might be related, or maybe there is some kind of odd quirk going on here. I am trying to share this article and link via FB. Those of you familiar with posting on Fb know that when you insert a link, you get a little thumbnail preview of the article linked to, to the site. But when I tried linking to this story as well as a summary story about this on FB, the link only gives the the UK Ebay sight.

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keller 15 Jul 2014 at 9:20 am
Great article and great comments.

A fight is a fight is a fight is a fight is endless comments on the fight.

So let´s fight?

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Charlie 15 Jul 2014 at 9:14 am
If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear from the use of these techniques. I just need to think of the attempted bomb plots that have been foiled by MI5 thanks to the use of these tools, and am grateful that there is an organisation looking out for the whole of the UK and it’s people.

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Kelley 15 Jul 2014 at 1:01 pm
Good grief! (Face palm)

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anon 15 Jul 2014 at 1:25 pm
slave

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Dude 15 Jul 2014 at 2:08 pm
That’s called false causality. There is no evidence that it’s true, and much to the contrary. It’s the same as believing state efforts have prevented space alien attacks or wild bears in our bedrooms.

Nothing to hide? What is the definition of what must be kept hidden changes?

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Wake up! 15 Jul 2014 at 2:18 pm
U R sooo naive. For example on FB for every “friend” that you have the NSA can go 3 or 4 deep into their friends and if they want to the NSA can eventually link you to a terrorist whether you know that person or not.

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Governmentisgood 15 Jul 2014 at 2:46 pm
Charlie,

Kindly post your street address on this forum so that I may drop in on you and your family this evening between 8:00 PM and 2:00 AM to inspect your household thoroughly. Notes will be taken on the overall cleanliness of you and your wife’s underwear, amount of cash and other valuables present, presence or absence of sex toys, stool consistency rated from 1 (soft) to 10 (hard), body weight and fat %, percentage of sugary drinks and/or fatty snacks in your refrigerator/cupboard, total weight in grams of all wasted or discarded food in trash, alcoholic beverage audit, gun and ammo search and whatever else I think of between now and then… because I’m looking out for the whole of the UK and it’s people.

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Lord Stinkfish 15 Jul 2014 at 5:25 pm
The gov does not have the right to know your business without probable cause and writs from courts. Courts, that should demand and require a high standard of circumstantial evidence before allowing secret surveillance apparatus to be used.

The trespass and rape of individual sovereignty leads to tyrannical control and suffocation of public opinion and representation in gov lost forever.

Life, Liberty, and Happiness cannot exist without secure privacy; and agreed, transparent limitations on gov power, as gov lives as a pariah, supported by the labor of the common citizen. Not the other way around.

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feline16 16 Jul 2014 at 12:50 am
What you said! Awesome :-)

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Anon coward 15 Jul 2014 at 8:42 am
Search j edgar hoover

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George 15 Jul 2014 at 8:34 am
We are living in countries that monitor everything we do and the UK is and has been for sometime a Police State!

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Kevin Zeese 15 Jul 2014 at 8:33 am
The Internet is the battleground for information, free speech and telling the narrative of our times. In recent years advocates for social justice have used the Internet to impact the dialogue on issues like the wealth divide, war and to show there is a worldwide revolt against neo-liberal economics. The Internet has been used to organize and mobilize people in revolts throughout the United States and world (see http://www.PopularResistance.org to stay up to date on these activities). During occupy we saw infiltration by government agents and a common tactic was to get control over the social media of an occupy to spread misinformation and confusion. They know how important the Internet is to our work.

The current debate in the FCC over net neutrality, where corporations are pushing for a tiered Internet based on fees will create an Internet divided by wealth. This is another aspect of the effort to prevent the Internet from reaching its full potential as a democratized media space.

This article on manipulation of the Internet by spy agencies, and we should assume the NSA, CIA and corporate spies are doing the same in the US; along with the overall dragnet surveillance that Greenwald et al have previously reported are also efforts to turn the democratized Internet media on its head so it can serve the interests of the power structure.

This is the battleground for free speech in the 21st Century. Social change advocates need to be playing on it and need to be smart about how to make it a democratized media space for generations to come.

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chaletfor2 16 Jul 2014 at 10:23 am
Yes, Yes!

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kharma 15 Jul 2014 at 8:19 am
Great article, thanks. The link to the full document has been manipulated.

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Right-Wing Hippy 15 Jul 2014 at 8:01 am
99% sure that I had a run-in with BUMPERCAR while trying to watch a YouTube from George H Smith a while back. I commented on the video at the time since I suspected something like was happening; it was not a subtle experience, it jumped back-and-forth persistently in a way I have not seen before or since. I suspect this happened not so much due to the “terror” material I was viewing but the “terrorist” IE: me who was viewing it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH1m9AslfkU

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duncan lucas 15 Jul 2014 at 7:55 am
Many people have posted here and talked about NSA/GCHQ interference but have you actually attacked ?? I have 5 times the last time earlier today over the space of several years of posting on news websites I now post on a highly political and controversial website that has upset them which is attacked regularly. I have been completely taken off the internet and my PC program scrambled -blocked from the internet- the last main attack several days ago was the exe, program =start.exe which blocked my use pf my PC it took a while to counteract it but the worse thing was one of the companies that use -start.exe is my ISP so back door GCHQ/NSA. It is not a required Microsoft program and in your Windows C folder 70 % dangerous. I hope I am allowed to post this ?

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inthenews 15 Jul 2014 at 12:27 pm
Switch to Linux. Try it out by booting Linux from DVD or USB. It takes some getting use to for somebody that is primarily use to using Windows, but it isn’t harder than learning anything else. Rebuilding a Linux desktop is a snap once you get the hang of the process.

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Jay 15 Jul 2014 at 5:42 pm
Don’t think Linux is the answer either, just because it’s open source. Its kernel may have been compromised: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/31/linux_kernel_security_breach/

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Seriously 15 Jul 2014 at 7:46 am
@chronicle – here’s how you proceed, the remind them of the General Public License laws which prohibit this specific kind of behaviour exactly.

NSA (not secret anymore) agency activities at a minimum raise several systemic issues involving basic violations.

These include violations of the U.N. Charter; “unauthorised” and blatantly illegal invasions and/or intrusions into national space; World Trade Organisation (WTO) agreements, in particular the Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement and the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS); the International Telecommunication Union Treaty and Conventions; treaties and protocols of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO); the Universal Human Rights Declaration and conventions; and the Vienna diplomatic conventions and codes of behaviour among civilised nations.

Furthermore the General Public License stipulates, that you may not convey a covered work if you are a party to an arrangement with a third party that is in the business of distributing software, under which you make payment to the third party based on the extent of your activity of conveying the work, and under which the third party grants, to any of the parties who would receive the covered work from you, a discriminatory patent license.

Of course we the Public have been reassured that all actions undertaken by the Prime Minister and his Cabinet are Legal and proportionate.

Therefore I just wanted to ask, was it Legal and Proportionate for the Central Intelligence Agency in the United States to fund and train Syrian rebels with over have a million AK-47 Magazines.

Was it Legal and Proportionate to violate peoples privacy on a Global scale with his colleague, who appears to have taken a Sabbatical in the wake of the Daily Mirror hacking scandal. (Steve Hilton) Google employee, furthermore, if its under the GPL it should be therefore available to the Public at large not kept under wraps and used to attack them instead.

And was it Legal and Proportionate to then attempt to cover it all up?

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Dave Jackson 15 Jul 2014 at 7:16 am
Every one of us should send an email consisting of a page of random characters every day and keep them busy trying to decode it.

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Benito Mussolini 15 Jul 2014 at 7:00 am
The GCHQ has obviously put a lot of work into these systems. I hope their effort is rewarded and they experience much satisfaction from winning many on-line polls. Great Britain is no longer a military power, so it is nice to see they can relive their past glories skirmishing with their enemies on the internet. In fact, this may be a more humane alternative to war. It might even be possible to tweak the software so that everyone perceives themselves as the winner of the on-line polls – a war with no losers.

I now understand why the NSA and GCHQ have invested so much effort infiltrating on-line role playing games. It didn’t make sense that these games would be a hangout for terrorists – they are more concerned with causing havoc in the real world. No, these games represent the future of international competition and Great Britain, thanks to the intrepid GCHQ seems to have a leg up on the competition.

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chronicle 15 Jul 2014 at 9:28 am
quote”I now understand why the NSA and GCHQ have invested so much effort infiltrating on-line role playing games.”unquote

Says Milpropaganda specialist 47 @ Unit 6, while masquerading as a murderous Fascist from WW11 who, along with his wife, were hung and beaten to death by their fellow citizens..who cheered when finished. ..thank god.

http://www.storyleak.com/us-military-caught-social-media-running-mass-propaganda-accounts/

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Benito Mussolini 15 Jul 2014 at 10:22 am
For your information, propagandists are likely to adopt a more sympathetic persona. I really don’t care if people agree with me, and would actually advise them to disbelieve anything I say, unless it is true (h/t bahhummingbug).

If there were a GCHQ or NSA operative in the comment section, they would probably merely try and disrupt any conversations by using insults.

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Ronald Thomas West 15 Jul 2014 at 6:28 am
This is really nothing new or really unknown, except for the expanding scope and the fact of actually having documentation from the agencies (thank you Glenn, for this affirmation.) Meticulous research had demonstrated much of this already (but the intercept gets the facts greater exposure (thank you again Glenn.)

http://ronaldthomaswest.com/2014/04/18/military-sock-puppets-nsa-trolls-cia-shills/

The most interesting aspect (to myself at least) is the ulterior motive .. that is social engineering, a longtime aspect of intelligence agencies clandestine information operations. The question that needs really studied is, how it has come to point where a nations own populace is the target as opposed to a hostile nation’s populace. The short answer is (in my understanding), there are parallel structures these intelligence agencies answer to that fall outside of government oversight in any ‘traditional’ sense. These structures are perhaps best represented in a single name “Monsanto” (however this does not take away from a whole host of other monikers, e.g. Raytheon, Chevron, enter your candidate here … )

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Ronald Thomas West 15 Jul 2014 at 6:36 am
I should add here an example of CIA edits of Wikipedia:

http://ronaldthomaswest.com/2014/02/05/intelligence-agencies-wikipedia/

Wikipedia is great place to look up some things, like hydrophonics, perhaps, but certainly not where you’d wish to go for information on intelligence agency personalities ;)

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chronicle 15 Jul 2014 at 9:09 am
Holy shit. Thanks.

(inserts 30 round magazine into online .50 caliber.)

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Lyra1 15 Jul 2014 at 12:28 pm
Flip it to automatic chronicle. Let it rip.

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Lyra1 15 Jul 2014 at 12:23 pm
@ Ronald Thomas West

Excellent work and posts. People who frequent the TI comments section should read them.
I particularly like the Intelligence Agencies & Wikileaks piece….get down and dirty with full disclosure of names, places, dates, and times. Although, that is something of the norm for you.

I certainly appreciate your participation in this forum.

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Ronald Thomas West 15 Jul 2014 at 4:49 pm
Thank you Lyra1, the acknowledgement of the value of my work is much appreciated .. unlike at The Guardian where I am permanently banned ;)

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chronicle 15 Jul 2014 at 9:10 am
Holy shit. Thanks.

(inserts 30 round magazine into online .50 caliber.)

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ComSense 15 Jul 2014 at 4:19 am
”That’s like someone getting a warrant to search your home and, in the process, stealing some of your stuff, making a call from your phone pretending to be you, and delivering your naked photos to your neighbor’s house.”
In the context of an operation, such behavior would be alright against highly dangerous individuals. But the totalitarian approach worries me. They must stop screwing up technology in the first place just for the sake of more sabotage options!

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Cindy 15 Jul 2014 at 3:05 am
So ‘Great’ Britain is like the ‘United’ States, then. Misnamed, to say the least.

I remember watching Air Force One (Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman) when I was a kid, and when the president says to the villain “Have you no honor?” it made quite an impact on me. I was impressed that holding to honor could distinguish what is right, and this insight has helped me immeasurably in all areas of life.

Now we must say to the establishments of the UK and America, probably all the 5 eyes: “Have you no honor?” Their response, considering their actions, would be “We can’t afford it anymore.” This is no small thing, and in psychology it is usually an indication of sociopathic deterioration if expressed by an otherwise functioning adult.

If this attitude that “We don’t need honor because it is impractical” continues to persist – it is already promoted in contemporary Western culture to an alarming degree, and already makes Harrison Ford’s portrayal of a morally focused president an anachronism – the loss is profound, deeply troubling.

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Jgreen7801 15 Jul 2014 at 4:13 am
Amen! Amen! Amen! When a virtue becomes conditional it ceases to be.

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Franky goes to Hollywood 15 Jul 2014 at 6:02 am
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-28237111

Amazing what you can rush through parliament during the world cup…

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roulade 15 Jul 2014 at 2:34 am
GCHQ owes its existence to the supposed need to defend Britain from “bad” governments (such as the former Soviet Union) which employ these freedom-crushing tactics.

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You 15 Jul 2014 at 9:52 am
Make no mistake, the intelligence agencies are there to maintain the status quo, to control public opinion and social engineering of society to serve the interests of the elite. In short they are there to enslave us.

For anyone on the inside, this pre-Snowden interview with NSA whistle-blower Bill Binney is very enlightening in what lengths these crooks are willing to go to keep their power:
http://lucidtree.com/#/surveillance-teach-in/

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Adam 15 Jul 2014 at 2:31 am
Kind of off-topic, but not entirely unrelated.

This article has got me thinking about something that has been happening to me for the past month or so. I rarely use my phone, maybe once or twice a day. But when I make a call, as soon as I hang up I have an incoming call. It’s immediate. I’m pretty sure it’s a telemarketer; the prefix is usually the same but the last four digits are different (because I keep blocking the numbers as they come in). I never answer it. It’s just plain odd…someone, somewhere is tapping into my phone and knows when I’m using it.

Telemarketers have been using phony calls (I get these too), where you answer and there’s no one on the other end of the line. They usually hang up after a couple of rings if you don’t answer. The purpose of these phony calls is just to find out what time of day you are most likely to answer the phone. That information is then used by the real telemarketers, who will be sure to call you virtually every single day from there on.

But this is different. Somehow they know when I’m using the phone and when I’m finished. My phone rings before I can set it down. It doesn’t even have to be a phone call. Sometimes the call comes if I pick up my phone to check the web or Facebook. Any sort of activity on my part has at one time or another triggered a call (happens much more frequently after I make a phone call).

I doubt it’s the NSA on the other end of the line, but here I think is what might possibly be another aspect of the monster that they have created. The government’s partnership with the private sector to create back doors and other software features that can be manipulated has put not only the government in a position to abuse these new toys, but the private sector as well. They have as much business spying indiscriminately as the government does, which is to say, they have no business doing it at all.

I have no clue if it’s telemarketers, scammers, or whoever…I’m speculating here. It’s possible, I guess, that the timing of these calls are purely coincidental — possible, yes, but the odds have to be staggering.

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john Bertotto 15 Jul 2014 at 2:10 am
Spyes are obsolete , The satellite system is so powerful it can read your mind.You are then grouped by your thoughts.If they see a HOT SPOT then watch out.I hope we can live knowing that everything we think is recorded at the data storage areas. John Bertotto

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damaged goods 15 Jul 2014 at 1:46 am
Baltimore City Paper spoofs Baltimore PD’s fake twitter likes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POD28ozUTeg

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damaged goods 15 Jul 2014 at 1:28 am
The Steering Committee of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press drove off the edge of the earth. What an embarrassment.

This most ridiculous move. They are bananas.

Here is Mr. Rubin, a lawyer employed by Microsoft, thrilled to be on the committee. He should step down. Most of this steering committee needs to take a hike and we need to take it back.

“As the first non-working journalist to be elected to the Steering Committee, I want to emphasize that the Constitution requires … blah blah blah.

Key part is where he says he is the first non-journalist elected. There is a reason non-journalists do not sit on the steering committee. There is a reason corporate executives and others with clear conflicts do not — mustn’t — sit on the Steering Committee.

, – See more at: http://www.rcfp.org/microsofts-rubin-elected-reporters-committee-steering-committee#sthash.IQfRcCoR.dpuf

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damaged goods 15 Jul 2014 at 1:10 am
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, a lawyer who works for Microsoft has joined the Steering Committee of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. No one seems to mind.

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thfjlll 15 Jul 2014 at 1:04 am
And taxpayers have to pay for all this!

Taxation that could go to people in need of help, benefits, housing. etc instead!

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FluffytheObeseCat 15 Jul 2014 at 12:13 am
Why was SCREAMING EAGLE highlighted in bloody crimson?

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George 14 Jul 2014 at 10:47 pm
There have always been agents provocateur and there have always been disinformation campaigns, but these tools have the potential of taking the game to a whole new level. One only remember the effects of the study Facebook ran a couple of years ago: “Facebook reveals news feed experiment to control emotions” . Just think of how useful they would have been against popular uprisings like, say, OWS . . .Boy, I’ll bet the PsyOps guys are losing their cool thinking about all of the ways these tools can be used . . .

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AmericanGestapo14 14 Jul 2014 at 10:08 pm
If we could just be blunt…what is the endgame of all this surveillance, psyops and experimental weapons testing? Well climate change is coming and it can’t be stopped. Oil is a finite resource, that is used for everything from, fuel, to cosmetics, plastics…it’s in most domestic products. When it was first discovered, it was a miracle, but the jig is up! The work is divided between two groups, one which wants to use science and capital to address the challenges of the future and another group that believes resource wars, mass dislocation due to climate change and scarcity is the future. This group is trying to secure their safety in a very uncertain future. I suspect they would like the population to decrease to a sustainable 1 billion. Which begs the question, what happens to the rest of us? If you are one of the unlucky .01 percent test population, you already have a taste of what’s in store. Slow kill teams, cancer, depilating harassment…ultimately death for 6 billion people, so that the ultra wealthy and their minions may maintain their lifestyle.

There is another group, equally as wealthy, that is trying to leverage science, finance and medicine against the world’s future challenges, which they do not view as inevitable. Since no one can predict the future with absolute accuracy.

I have on thing to say to the people with wealth and power…Even if the worst is true, wouldn’t you prefer to try…when your immortal soul hangs in the balance. What difference does a year or two make, when you have done the right thing…for you, your children, your grandchildren and the future of humanity.

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NarwaldTraveller 14 Jul 2014 at 10:32 pm
Obviously, they’ve strayed from surveillance into propaganda. They are no longer defending against threats to the UK, more fighting political battles abroad.

I’M WAITING TILL THEY ADMIT TO INTERFERING IN UK ELECTIONS. Because UK has never elected an anti-surveillance PM, each candidate is demonized before they rise to power.

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Old Fella 15 Jul 2014 at 5:08 am
Why do Sheeple vote, what has ever changed B,liar, Cam,on, in, , like sheep to the slaughter, me what should I care, at 80 yrs old I,m out of here.

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the Marxist 15 Jul 2014 at 12:37 am
you view this as a battle between benevolent and malicious overlords. where are the people? only the people can solve this. stop believing in the concept of leaders. it’s the longest running propaganda campaign in human history. educate yourself, and help us smash the state

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chronicle 14 Jul 2014 at 10:03 pm
SheeeezusHfuckingchrist. Whine, moan, scream, bitch, ..when are you going to get a clue? The solution is so easy a cave man can do it. Read the 16th Amendment and decide whether or not it is the means to subjugate you or not. Then decide what you are willing to do about it. The INCOME TAX is the only way the can NSA exist. PERIOD.

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Nete Peedham 14 Jul 2014 at 11:58 pm
Right. And corporations would never act like this.

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the Marxist 15 Jul 2014 at 12:39 am
you’re right to question the state, but since get hung up on which way they authorize their power — we must simply take it for ourselves

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Jose 14 Jul 2014 at 9:38 pm
The last page of the document has some programs that are not in the article, which I think are quite interesting. These are software systems which are obviously intended for massive use:

* DEADPOOL: URL shortening service.
* HUSK: Secure one-to-one web based dead-drop messaging platform.
* LONGSHOT: File-upload and sharing website.

And so on.

How would they use these? Data collection and monitoring is one possible use. They could also infect user’s computers with malware.

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SeanB.Grenier 14 Jul 2014 at 9:30 pm
GG , you continue to amaze, just when you thought the NSA/GCHQ were bad now we find out they are worse. I love your quote “They include invasive methods for online surveillance, as well as some of the very techniques that the U.S. and U.K. have harshly prosecuted young online activists for employing.” Do not do what the NSA does, do what they say? lol. Their hypocritical actions and contempt for our constitutional rights as Americans are truly appalling. From everything we have learned the last year from Edward and the Intercept, is this – http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/09/airport-security-checks-electronic-devices-charged – another way for the GCHQ to illegally obtain peoples personal info from their phones and laptops to then give to the NSA? sure seems like it to me all under the guise of a constantly evolving threat from terrorism. Just as you all have proven time and time again this info from innocent people is useless. It sure did not stop the Boston Bombing and we could go on and on with countless other incidents. All Americans need to make sure when it is election time to vote for the candidates that actually care about our personal freedoms or this Government tyranny will never end.

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avelna2001 15 Jul 2014 at 10:41 am
All Americans need to make sure when it is election time to vote for the candidates that actually care about our personal freedoms or this Government tyranny will never end.
Easier said than done. We’re manipulated by the politicians at least as much as by the intelligence services.

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George 14 Jul 2014 at 9:23 pm
This gives the five eyes the opportunity to engage in PsyOps (against their own people) more subtly than ever. Remember the results of the experiment Facebook ran in 1012? http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/29/facebook-users-emotions-news-feeds – Great tool for dealing with “problems” like OWS . . .

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Elizabeth 14 Jul 2014 at 8:59 pm
As a blogger I became aware that this was going on. Sites that reported government-sanctioned storylines — or just avoided serious issues a la Mashable — were rewarded by Google. Sites that pretended to challenge government — but in fact had comment section enabling sock puppets — ala Gawker, also fared well. Longtime students of the web saw this with their own eyes.

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rollotomasi 14 Jul 2014 at 8:17 pm
I was wondering whether in the course of their investigations of the Snowden material, whether Glenn or the others have come across anything where the NSA ever said, “Whoa, this is too radical and extreme; we shouldn’t do this!” I don’t get any sense of discretion or moderation whatsoever. The only limiting factor seems to be the technology at their disposal, and right or wrong does not enter into the equation. This can only end badly without proper oversight and controls, and, to steal a well-known retired coach’s phrase, the only variable is time.

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Chris Knall 14 Jul 2014 at 9:08 pm
Have seen a number of these in use. For example, got autoresponders from politicians saying “Thank you for your email” when I had sent none. Also from a person on vacation at Macy’s. This was while I lived in NYC and was under intense COINTELPRO-type harassment over something witnessed many years before. US absolutely does this as well.

I also note that the Brits are in the middle of a rather large scandal. Quite the coincidence, allowing carte blanche for JTRIG when MPs are accused of torturing, raping children.

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-28295282

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Fred 14 Jul 2014 at 11:43 pm
Actually, it was probably the Brits doing it to you, as they often do the NSAs dirty work on US citizens.

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DPatton 14 Jul 2014 at 9:10 pm
If you’re looking for the correct word for this particular phenomenon, try “Sociopathic”.

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inthenews 14 Jul 2014 at 10:30 pm
Right on the money – they are SOCIOPATHS — EVIL SOCIOPATHS. I would like to see some explanation from our elected officials regarding what any of these activities have to do with “national security” or “terrorism.”

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FluffytheObeseCat 14 Jul 2014 at 11:51 pm
“The only limiting factor seems to be the technology at their disposal, and right or wrong does not enter into the equation.”

When funding for yet another contract is the driving imperative, you are unlikely to see any signs of “restraint” in the sales material. I would love to know what percentage of these slide decks were crafted in-house, as a opposed to by/for employees of the contract “security” companies that live off our federal tax dollars.

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jgreen7801 15 Jul 2014 at 4:23 am
It amazes me that right or wrong never even enters their thinking.

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FluffytheObeseCat 15 Jul 2014 at 12:00 am
IMPERIAL BARGE
SILVERLORD
ANGRY PIRATE
WARPARTH (Okay. This one is marginally clever)

Has anyone yet tried to do any linguistic analysis on these program names?

I’ve yet to see one named FARTINGPUPPY, FRAGILEMUFFIN or DAINTYDARLING. Does the intrusiveness or illegality of a program correlate with the machismo quotient of the title?

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ishmael 15 Jul 2014 at 7:58 am
the angry pirate is a “joke” about unpleasant sexual practices:
http://youtu.be/aG9tyCvh63w
Arson sam is a youtu.be parody of “fireman sam”. http://youtu.be/5xaDQPIuPec
given that both of these things are welsh, i suspect cymdeithas infiltration of gchq.

it’s a shame they took the taff wars stuff down.

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Pedinska 15 Jul 2014 at 9:51 am
WARPARTH (Okay. This one is marginally clever)

Agreed, which is why I decided it must be a spelling error. ;-}

Does the intrusiveness or illegality of a program correlate with the machismo quotient of the title?

So it would seem. I like your names better. I would like to add some of my own submissions for consideration:

FAINTINGFLOWER
POOTINGGENTLEMAN (since you’ve already absonded with ‘fart’)
PERFUMEDBOSOM
GARGANTUANGIRDLE

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coram nobis 15 Jul 2014 at 3:32 pm
You’d think a UK-based program (excuse me, “programme”) would use more British code names, and not stuff that sounds like it’s Fort Meade. British-flavoured tags might include things like:
DEAD PARROT
COCKROACH CLUSTER
SPRING SURPRISE
DIRTY VICAR
UPPERCLASS TWIT
SUMMARIZE PROUST
BETTY WINDSOR
HYACINTH BUCKET
CAPTAIN PEACOCK

Say, do I get an MBE out of this?

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-Mona- 15 Jul 2014 at 9:50 pm
BALDRIC THEWISE

the Marxist 15 Jul 2014 at 12:41 am
relying on the good nature of the spies isn’t reliable; assume they’ll stop at nothing.

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-Mona- 14 Jul 2014 at 8:13 pm
While we’re on the subject of manipulating political views online, boy howdy are the Israelis all over that one.

Israel student union sets up “war room” to sell Gaza massacre on Facebook

“Organized lying”

Last year a “covert” Israeli government initiative came to light which planned to pay students for spreading propaganda online.

“The whole point of such efforts is to look like they are unofficial, just every day people chatting online,” Israel expert Dena Shunra told The Electronic Intifada.

“But in fact, these are campaigns of organized lying, orchestrated with government-approved talking points and crowdsourced volunteers and stipend recipients,” Shunra added.

According to Ynet, “The war room was opened in the afternoon of the first day of Operation Protective Edge,” one week ago, by the [Israeli student union branch at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya ] student union, and currently has more than 400 volunteers active in it, all students at the institution.

Working in 30 languages, the students working this comment far target online forums including so called “anti-Israel” pages on Facebook and comments sections of online media.

Tomer Amsalem, a second-year year psychology student, acts as one of the war room’s graphic designers.

“In one of our graphics we show the treatment that members of [Hamas leader] Ismail Haniyeh’s and Abu Mazen’s [Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas] families received in Israel, to show we’re even humanitarian to the families of the Palestinian leaders,” he told Ynet.

“In another graphic we show the trauma of the children living around Gaza, which is expressed in drawings of Qassams [rockets]. Another example is a series of cities around the world, being attacked. For example, Berlin – we wrote in German ‘What would you do?’ with a background of Berlin being attacked,’” Amsalem added.

Amsalem is quoted as saying that he sees his work in the “war room” as a civilian equivalent to being called up for military reserves.

Rest here, with videos: http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/israel-student-union-sets-war-room-sell-gaza-massacre-facebook

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Lyra1 15 Jul 2014 at 12:57 pm
@ -Mona-:

Just wanted you to know that I read that article, and appreciate the fact that you are trying to increase awareness of Israeli psy-ops on the internet.

“war room” …..That is the preferred “room” for the zionist banking cartel.

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JZA1 14 Jul 2014 at 8:05 pm
Why haven’t I seen this yet from other news sources? People thought the Facebook newsfeed manipulation was creepy, wait till they get a load of this.

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tortoiseshell 14 Jul 2014 at 8:26 pm
It was on The Guardian hours ago, prominently crediting First Look Media.

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Jonathan 14 Jul 2014 at 8:27 pm
Now that the Internet has become an end-stage simulacrum, stage-managed by the aristocracy, it’s probably time to log off, leave the cell phones home and start talking to people in person, the good old fashioned way. There’s the sort of authentication no non-quantum crypto algorithm can match (but search your applicants carefully).

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art guerrilla 15 Jul 2014 at 11:55 am
flash drive samizdat, anyone ? ? ?

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Paul Fleischer 14 Jul 2014 at 7:49 pm
Creepy is right people. The internet really is a threat to individuals who currently hold influence and it shows more than ever.

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amanfromMars 15 Jul 2014 at 1:28 am
Creepy is right people. The internet really is a threat to individuals who currently hold influence and it shows more than ever. …. Paul Fleischer 14 Jul 2014 at 7:49 pm
Only in the hands, hearts and minds/command and control of those and/or that [for of course, are there loads of machines engaged in such an enterprise/operation/mission too] which know what they be doing with the internet and know what it can really do, virtually/remotely, Paul.

And whereas it is indeed a most threatening of incredibly destructive and catastrophically disruptive, invisible and intangible weapons systems, is it also an unbelievably creative facility for manufacturing and managing future novel content for product placement into the present and current theatres of media hosted reality to driver base human perception to accept a certain decidedly more intelligent design of future existence as the default for reality, even though it be a internetworking coproduction and directed virtual reality picture …….. with the bigger picture being that in IT Circles which server and foster such as can be imagined and realised and virtualised as Postmodern Round Table Knights with Damsels in Distress to Comfort and Savour with Favours, is IT AI and Greater IntelAIgent Games Play for …… well, the JTRIG informative would appear to identify them as prime natives/bonobos of SPICE ISLAND, with that old information board hosting [This page was last modified on 5 july 2012, at 13:05] inevitably to be significantly improved upon and developed ever further and deeper for lead in the field and Operating Systems with Quite Quietly Sublime and Stealthy and Surreal and Special Intelligence Services and Servers supplying Internetworking Source Provision of Future Content Unifying Knowledge.

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tortoiseshell 14 Jul 2014 at 7:46 pm
It’s good that GG has returned to the task of reporting on the Snowden files. He was too long away. I was beginning to lose hope.

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Nate 14 Jul 2014 at 7:43 pm
Any information on who these methods have been used against or the purported oversight procedures that are so questionable?

It is tiring to merely hear about capabilities and not know of any of the operational results. Abuse and lack of oversight is what will spur change.

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Jose 14 Jul 2014 at 8:21 pm
Don’t worry. I’m pretty sure they only hacked online polls that had it coming.

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Nate 15 Jul 2014 at 12:21 am
I’d rather not speculate. I’m moved by evidence.

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Nic 14 Jul 2014 at 10:43 pm
You know, I agree with you about the lack of context here. That said – abuse is what will spur change? Nate!! That is so wrong on so many levels. C’mon. You are never baby-proofing my house if I ever have kids (“We’ll just leave this bottle of Drano open. A lost esophagus or two will spur change.”) Evolution gifted us with frontal lobes for a reason.

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Nate 15 Jul 2014 at 12:24 am
Pretty dumb analogy Nic.

Those techniques used by GCHQ are just not that controversial without knowing anything about targets.

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feline16 15 Jul 2014 at 3:37 am
Nate-
Those techniques not that controversial – without knowing about targets? Not to me they’re not! When you read or take part in an internet poll, don’t you want it to reflect the data of actual, not faked, respondents? Do you want the gov’t pushing certain videos? Do you want them scooping up personal facebook photos? Remember, that even if YOU’RE not the target, YOUR data may be hovered up as well as The WaPo reported. What you seem to be saying is -these nefarious means are “justified” to target the “bad guys” (at least that’s how I seem to be reading it). Let’s be very clear; these latest reports make it obvious that if you use the internet, true data YOU may want to use to evaluate a webpage, poll, video, blog, etc. could very well be compromised. Even if you’re not a target, is that something you find desirable? I, for one, don’t!

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Nate 15 Jul 2014 at 12:13 pm
Those techniques not that controversial – without knowing about targets? Not to me they’re not!
Then I’d argue that you are not seeing (or simply don’t care) about the full picture and are naive to the threat. The target obviously matters. By not knowing the target or how these techniques are applied, people gravitate to applying it to their own daily activities. So now when I’m on ESPN filling out the poll about where LeBron should go, I wonder if the NSA is inflating numbers!!

No, without hearing or seeing some example of how these techniques are used, one cannot draw any type of credible conclusion. The burden of proof is on Snowden and Greenwald to show that GCHQ or the NSA is manipulating internet polls in defiance of free speech rules. After all, that is the implication from the reporting.

Do you want the gov’t pushing certain videos? Do you want them scooping up personal facebook photos?
Pushing certain videos such as what? There is a book out about the CIA’s push to send copies of Dr. Zhivago to Russia decades ago. Is the video equivalent of that to an adversary country not considered fair game? And there is a difference between scooping up and analyzing my Facebook photos versus a targets. I expect mine to not be viewed if sucked up “incidentally” and I am concerned about the NSA’s ability to differentiate based on the Washington Post article from last week.

Remember, that even if YOU’RE not the target, YOUR data may be hovered up as well as The WaPo reported.
Ugh, getting so tired of the verb “hoovered” :) Anyways, that is the nature of collection in a digitized world. The question isn’t whether incidental collection can be avoided but how to minimize and eliminate non-target data. I think the NSA needs serious reform in this area but deficiencies in this area doesn’t mean they shouldn’t do it at all. To draw such a conclusion is to not see any value in intelligence collection or not understand how it works.

What you seem to be saying is -these nefarious means are “justified” to target the “bad guys” (at least that’s how I seem to be reading it).
It’s not even close to that simple, and your use of “nefarious means” tells me that you are incapable of putting yourself in the government’s shoes with regard to dealing with real threats out there. My viewpoint is as follows: (1) intelligence collection as long as executed in accordance with the laws and the constitution, are fair game. The argument of “just because it’s legal, doesn’t make it right” is an ambigous excuse. (2) Measures must be in place to oversee these activities and protect our data. It is clear that the existing oversight needs serious improvement, especially from Congress who have been shown to be almost useless, and the FISA Court needs more independence from the NSA, among several other matters found by the President’s Review Panel and the PCLOB.

Let’s be very clear; these latest reports make it obvious that if you use the internet, true data YOU may want to use to evaluate a webpage, poll, video, blog, etc. could very well be compromised. Even if you’re not a target, is that something you find desirable? I, for one, don’t!
Actually no, it’s not clear at all because there is no EVIDENCE of their use, who was targeted, or the degree of the use. This specific report provided just enough information to create some pretty awesome speculation and whip up fear but it failed to show any operational results. That’s half the story and it’s missing!!

Comparing this story to the “NSA 5″ proves my point. The NSA 5 story was excellent because you saw the proof, you heard from these alleged “targets,” you heard perspective from both sides of the aisle, and although there are still unanswered questions, the NSA has the burden of proof on them. Why did these 5 individuals get surveilled. We should demand answers.

But this report on the other hand, the burden of proof is still on TI and they did not deliver.

Nate 15 Jul 2014 at 12:19 pm
Correction:

I said “the argument of “just because it’s legal, doesn’t make it right” is an ambigous excuse. ”

I meant that is an ambiguous excuse if stated broadly. In some cases, what may be legal may still be idiotic to do. For example, the monitoring of Merkel may not have violated any U.S. law but it struck me as foolish for the U.S. to do considering Germany is an ally.

Nic 15 Jul 2014 at 10:50 am
Nice topic change from guiding principle to particulars of a specific situation, Nate.

The quote I was referencing was the idea that change should be abuse driven. That is very much like saying safety standards should be tragedy driven. Or, you can look ahead at what kind of system you’re building and what problems and bugs you could encounter in various situations, how likely they are, etc.

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Nate 15 Jul 2014 at 11:50 am
And way to ignore important context in my original quote.

I said: “Abuse and LACK OF OVERSIGHT is what will spur change.”

The question that nobody asks around here is: If these methods are used against legitimate targets, are they acceptable? What are the oversight mechanisms to prevent abuse?

Without knowing any operational results related to the above article, who is to say. So to conclude that “change” is even necessary has not been proven. Hence my claim: If there is not abuse and there is not evidence of inadequate oversight, what is the problem that needs to be changed!? This article did not answer that. Your analogies are simply not good because you ignored the part where I mentioned “lack of oversight.” Utterly convenient! Safety standards are dependent on oversight to identify problems and ensure consistency with standards. As is protecting the kiddos from accessing the Drano considered parental oversight.

Nic 15 Jul 2014 at 1:50 pm
Nate: “And way to ignore important context in my original quote.

I said: “Abuse and LACK OF OVERSIGHT is what will spur change.”

Um… ok. I didn’t specify the open Drano involved an *unsupervised toddler. Are we good now?

You’re conflating two points here. 1) Is it a good idea to let abuse and suffering, vs preventative planning based on human intelligence, drive change in systems (which you stated above) 2) Is said abuse actually happening.

I actually agree with you that there is a lack of context here on point 2, so on that point, I just don’t know. On the point 1, no, I think that’s like releasing a computer program and saying “We’ll just see what bugs people report and maybe fix those if they’re really bad and annoy a lot of people, and hey, if it’s some obscure thing that isn’t likely to impact anyone for a few years, we’ll totally ignore it until it crashes an entire system and let that be our indication that we should change things.” Again, frontal lobes – why we look for design flaws in bridges, safety-proof homes, and on and on. Do we need change here? On that, I’m very open, again, the context isn’t clear to me. Should bad things happening be the catalyst for change? One likes to think there are better ways.

Nate 15 Jul 2014 at 2:57 pm
We’ll just see what bugs people report and maybe fix those if they’re really bad and annoy a lot of people, and hey, if it’s some obscure thing that isn’t likely to impact anyone for a few years, we’ll totally ignore it until it crashes an entire system and let that be our indication that we should change things.”
To some degree you have described how companies like McAfee and Symantec operate. They do not have enough resources to address everything. They probably have to assess risk, it’s the nature of the beast. But I did not intend to make some overarching argument that all change must be reactive. You seem to be trying to take my comment and mold it into a worldview that can be applied uniformly across any topic.

I was commenting with the knowledge that Glenn sees the whole system rotten to the core and expects change. Well, good luck spurring change if you cannot prove that abuse has occurred or that the controls above are deficient. Personally, I have a greater demand for evidence than what is contained in this single report. And maybe, down the road more information will reveal serious problems, but until that happens, I am not even convinced that change to these particular GCHQ tools is necessary. Granted, I am curious about how Internet poll manipulation is used. If GCHQ is going to Iranian or Syrian websites to undermine their poll results, I’d probably laugh at its shrewdness and be extremely skeptical of its efficacy, but it wouldn’t spur the outrage that I’m seeing around here. Of course, my example is just as made up as manipulating your favorite political website polls. Hence, my desire for actual operational data.

Again, frontal lobes – why we look for design flaws in bridges, safety-proof homes, and on and on. Do we need change here? On that, I’m very open, again, the context isn’t clear to me. Should bad things happening be the catalyst for change? One likes to think there are better ways.
This is a red herring/strawman. To take my comment and conclude that I don’t care about preventative measures across the gamut is absurd. Like most complex programs that carry risk, there must be preventative, detective and reactive controls.

However, I would add that the bitter truth is that often change is spurred by the bad outcomes. Take Social Security for example – it will continue, as an issue, to get punted down the road because it is politically explosive. It might just take people feeling the impact of its impending insolvency for action to occur.

Nic 15 Jul 2014 at 4:45 pm
“You seem to be trying to take my comment and mold it into a worldview that can be applied uniformly across any topic.”

Well, fair enough, I do assume that people don’t randomly assume different world views or standards for different issues – or, if they do, they don’t openly acknowledge this. But if you mean, “abuse should only be the catalyst for change – on *this topic”, well, I suppose I am flummoxed, and I am not sure what to invoke to tell you this seems like an odd way of organizing one’s standards. Although it does strike me as an odd way of organizing one’s standards.

I agree there is something to be said about finding out how much protection, exactly, is needed. Going back to the example of child-proofing a house – you could put locks on the paint doors, or you could wrap your child in bubble wrap and follow them around with a can of Lysol at all times. There is, of course, something to be known about what degree of safeguarding protects effectively from harm and what is just overkill and hurts more than it helps. The issue here is that assessing this without transparency (and I say that as someone who definitely believes in the need for some secrecy) and knowing what actual outcomes are is very difficult. But I don’t think this means we should say “Hey, so long as we don’t have examples of heinous abuse, we shouldn’t think about it” – that’s not how we’d evaluate any other system. I’ll even accept saying “In this case we can’t evaluate said systems that way, but this is a trade-off we’re willing to make for security and public safety” – but that’s subtly different (acknowledging it as a trade-off) than saying “we don’t know so it must be fine, then”. That doesn’t mean “We don’t know so it must *not be fine, either” – but it’s an acknowledgment that there is a system in place you’re willing to not evaluate / examine in the usual way, because this is considered a fair trade-off for the security it provides.

Nate 15 Jul 2014 at 6:42 pm
But if you mean, “abuse should only be the catalyst for change – on *this topic”
You ignored the part about oversight (Again!), so no – I don’t mean abuse is the only catalyst for change.

The issue here is that assessing this without transparency (and I say that as someone who definitely believes in the need for some secrecy) and knowing what actual outcomes are is very difficult.
We are in agreement here. The fact that the several lawsuits against the NSA metadata program would have been thrown out due to lack of standing had Snowden not leaked it, is a serious problem. It’s a perverse incentive to use and abuse secrecy. Also, overclassification, which is a problem across the entire USG is a joke which has a cascading effect on getting information via FOIA requests.

But I don’t think this means we should say “Hey, so long as we don’t have examples of heinous abuse, we shouldn’t think about it” – that’s not how we’d evaluate any other system.
Abuse or the potential for abuse is not the sole standard to judge a program but it is certainly a factor. Other factors from an NSA perspective include legality, cost, successes, impact on foreign relations, public perception, safeguarding of information, and monitoring and oversight.

Take the telephony metadata program. According to PCLOB, it has arguably violated statutes although not in a criminal manner. One federal judge called it “likely unconstitutional” and “Orwellian.” The President’s Review Group and PCLOB basically agreed that it has little value that isn’t already derived from other FBI tools such as National Security Letters. There have been some abuses such as the whole “LOVEINT” matter but that has been the exception and was identified by oversight matters. The FISC judges fumed that they were misled about parts of the program. And there is the risk of all our metadata, which is in government posession being abused. After you consider all these factors, it’s hard to justify both the government’s vast collection of all the metadata and even its very existence.

My opinion of this changed over time. The sequence was approximately this: (1) is this substantive data? No. (2) Does it make sense to me why they’d want this capability – yes, to track foreign based communications transiting the U.S. (3) to what extent can metadata be abused – potentially a lot, (3) is it legal or constitutional – TBD but Judge Leon’s opinion against it was very compelling and considered changes in technology since the precedential rulings, (4) is it operationally effective – hell no, the FBI uses this as a fallback option.

All these factors have led to my conclusion that the Phone Metadata program is a completely unnecessary overreach and should at the minimum be transferred to the telecoms and restructured, and at the most completely ended.

So when applied to this article, I circle the wagons by wanting to know operational results, if there has been abuse, and if the oversight is adequate.

I’ll even accept saying “In this case we can’t evaluate said systems that way, but this is a trade-off we’re willing to make for security and public safety” – but that’s subtly different (acknowledging it as a trade-off) than saying “we don’t know so it must be fine, then”. That doesn’t mean “We don’t know so it must *not be fine, either” – but it’s an acknowledgment that there is a system in place you’re willing to not evaluate / examine in the usual way, because this is considered a fair trade-off for the security it provides.
I think every system and program deserves scrutiny. That was the reason for expanding the authority of Inspector Generals and creating intelligence oversight committees. When Snowden was first really becoming disillusioned with the NSA, that conclusion was based in part on a review of the DOD Inspector General’s report on the Bush surveillance programs. The problem is that the NSA is so damn huge that I don’t think there are anywhere near enough oversight resources. And going back to transparency, all these audits and reports are marked Top Secret and hidden. Whereas many people around TI are “end NSA surveillance” blowhards, I’m more of a realist who thinks reform and accountability are key. That Clapper and Alexander weren’t fired months ago is beyond me…

Steeeve 14 Jul 2014 at 7:21 pm
Hang ‘em all. GCHQ is a blight.

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Dez 14 Jul 2014 at 6:43 pm
scary stuff indeed. These guys are out of control.

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Thomas Wiegand 14 Jul 2014 at 7:41 pm
We all Internetusers need to offer a small webserver, sharing all theese informations from our own also, so they have to shut down all the internet to prevent from true information.
We all users need to learn to “surf” safe, so everyone needs to have tails, and use it every day for some time, looking news, learning to use.
We all need to search daily for theese informations, and start thinking twice, mean searching the source and truth of an information, and share the paths to theese, here back to own servers, easy ones , just for html and text.
WE can break there power so easy, WE are the mankind – not the governments, not the secret services … !

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Vanilla Bean 14 Jul 2014 at 6:11 pm
I’ve found two ways Snowden can apply for asylum in another country from the safety of Russia.

If he’s sponsored by an Australian citizen:
http://www.immi.gov.au/Visas/Pages/202.aspx

If he’s sponsored by 5 Canadian citizens:
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/refugees/sponsor/groups.asp
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/refugees/outside/index.asp

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Jose 14 Jul 2014 at 7:35 pm
You’re joking, right? If he’s going for one of the 5 eyes, why not apply for asylum in the US while he’s at it?

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Vanilla Bean 17 Jul 2014 at 2:09 am
My unstated assumption is that there is enough rule of law left in these countries that they would not sink so low as violate the principle of non-refoulement by rendering someone who they had officially granted asylum.

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Vanilla Bean 17 Jul 2014 at 2:15 am
*grammar correction*

‘as violate’ = > ‘as to violate’

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inthenews 14 Jul 2014 at 10:35 pm
I don’t think Canada or Australia are safe places for Snowden to request asylum. In those countries he’ll be abducted by the bad guys (who think they are good guys – sociopaths are often delusional) before he even unpacks his suitcase. Russia is the safest place he can be until more countries in the west WAKE UP to the evil our security services are up to.

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Nete Peedham 15 Jul 2014 at 12:04 am
Neither Canada, with the ridiculous Abbot as PM, nor Canada, with a Quisling The Harper Government embarrassing the country. The Harper Government is wide open more loyal to the USA, Israel, Britain, and The Vatican than it is to their own country.

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John 14 Jul 2014 at 6:06 pm
We are being told the enemy is at the gates when in fact the enemy has living with us all the time. Time to wake up to the reality of the society we live in. Time to challenge all we thought to be true. If we are to change society we must change first.

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James 14 Jul 2014 at 5:56 pm
Thx again for your work GG….I will tell that once again – these leaks are more & more terrifying….I already knew what kind of country UK is when i spent few hours at one of London’s airports…It looked like warzone or zone somewhere in police state…not in normal country….
As always , in sad times I recommend to all of you one of the Simpsons episodes – this time it will be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Surveil_with_Love

cheers !

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Mister 14 Jul 2014 at 5:56 pm
We need Governments with much higher ethical standards, that do not exaggerate threats to benefit the elite financially. We need Governments that are far less corrupt, and Governments that can be trusted, currently our Governments are worse than mafia – they are the enemy of the people, We need a new World order, but it is not the same New World order that the elite want. We need a fairer, less corrupt and more honest new order with much higher standards of governance and accountability We need Governments that do not conduct dirty wars for profit, based on lies. We need a new system of true democracy and with more fearless news publications like The Intercept. We need more Edward Snowdens, Julian Assanges and more Bradley Mannings, and Glenn Greenwalds. and we need to all learn to speak up more. We need Governments that do not seek to punish those that expose the crimes of Governments.

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Jonathan 14 Jul 2014 at 8:39 pm
Corruption is the purpose and objective of representative government, no matter how many happy stories ooze from the Prussian ad-ucational system about the Founders that are easily contradicted by a look at academic history, a rather different beast from the bill of goods you learned in primary school.

Unless a supermajority of the electorate can instantly, summarily, with full force of law, with absolutely no concern for the supposed rights of the official, and with the very fact of the vote constituting the final supreme legal order have them arrested and held incommunicado until anyone cares enough otherwise, so-called representation is nothing more than tokenism.

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chronicle 14 Jul 2014 at 8:57 pm
ummm..did you just wake up from a coma from birth or what???…We need a government that..bla bla bla? JesusHchrist..what the fuck do you think human beings have been saying since the big bang??? fuck.. listen pal… look around you. Now what part of pick up a weapon and choose which side of the line in the sand you think is aligned with your prognosis of mankinds condition don’t you understand?

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Jack Lewis 14 Jul 2014 at 9:28 pm
Now that you got that out of your system, are you feeling better?

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chronicle 14 Jul 2014 at 10:07 pm
Now that you found out why your mother pinched your umbilical cord..are you feeling better?

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Myers 14 Jul 2014 at 5:44 pm
As with the panopticon effect, where prisoners never know if/ when they are being surveilled, we now turn the corner into a world in which the telescreen might be showing us something approximating ‘reality’, or might be a spooks plaything mashed up to monkey with our minds – how would we know? And our not knowing becomes the primary problem.
Options include resorting to some healthy common sense, some healthy paranoia, some recourse to solid state information. You could email a friend for confirmation … no, no, I see a problem there. Phone them on the IMPERIAL BADGER line and compare notes… no , oh fuck, what about pendulums and hazel sticks?
Oh I’ve got it, legislate, or something.
[this post was originally riveting and full of relevant forwarding links before the JTRIG crew got hold of it]

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clear321 14 Jul 2014 at 4:55 pm
The biggest fear of the GCHQ and NSA is:
“… damaging **public debate** which might lead to legal challenges against the current regime.”

I guess that explains why the UK Parliament wants to push through its new surveillance bill so swiftly and without any public debate…

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Anon 14 Jul 2014 at 5:31 pm
Nahhh it was probably just so that another billion pounds of tax payers money could be given to the major defence and intelligence contractor corporations of the elite. Money stolen from the poorest members of society through slashing vital services, and slashing social security in the name of austerity.Its a real moneyspinner – just ask Bush and Cheney . Just follow the money trail !

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/10965182/David-Cameron-pledges-1.1-billion-for-defence-to-fight-cyber-terrorists.html

Its about time the Intercept got its teeth into the trilateral commission and The Council On Foreign Relations too.

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AmericanGestapo14 14 Jul 2014 at 8:27 pm
Well now that you mention the Council on Foreign Relations…I’ll way in. Years ago, before I was a target I used to cater at the Council on Foreign Relations. They were running models on Global Financial Collapse in 1999, when other groups, small financial parties that I catered were predicting DOW 30,000. Most of the attendees at the events are spectators, not involved. David always made sure he sat next to the speaker or the most important person in the room. One event stands out vividly, I was not in the room…it was another waiter. Ehud Barak (defeating Benjamin Netenyahu) had just been elected and they were freaking out because “they” had no one inside. The waiter walker out of the room and told me what had transpired and was incredibly disturbed that the Council on Foreign Relations, run by David R. was interfering in the internal relations of a foreign country. And Ehud Barak is no liberal…but he is reasonable and not a warmonger. He lasted a few years.

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blueba 14 Jul 2014 at 4:55 pm
The powerful write the laws and even then they find the need to break them. The powerful of the gov or the oligarchy can and do break laws day in and day out and they do it with impunity. The entire legal system is corrupt to its core and must be abandoned. Just as the existing internet is damaged beyond repair.

Meanwhile, we – us – obey obey obey!

Revelation after revelation of the powerful oppressing us to the point of taking our privacy and personal thoughts from us and along with that goes our civil and human rights. They have taken them and no one (well ok, very few) seems to care. We either stop obeying or we surrender – it’s that simple.

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chronicle 14 Jul 2014 at 9:10 pm
quote”The entire legal system is corrupt to its core and must be abandoned.”unquote.
Abandoned???? Well Mr. Naive, just how do you propose “we” pull that off? Send a letter to the DOJ enmass? Or the prez? I can see it now.
Dear USG. We hereby abandon your system. Thanks.

fuk. Meanwhile, …the Dumbest Country On The Planet(DCOTPtm) continues to live in fear that if they do the ONE most powerful thing they could possibly do, the IRS SWAT will kick in their front door to either kill them or arrest them for income tax evasion. Now…are we clear? If not.. you haven’t lived long enough.

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cw radio 14 Jul 2014 at 4:53 pm
GCHQ’s Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group means they make up threats after smoking joints.
JTRIG is code for “Time to trigger another’ J’, Dude.” Silly monkeys!

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coram nobis 14 Jul 2014 at 4:28 pm
A follow-up to the NSA Five article. From today’s SF Chronicle, main editorial.

http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/editorials/article/U-S-spying-on-Muslim-Americans-a-cause-for-5618959.php

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liberalrob 14 Jul 2014 at 4:57 pm
A spreadsheet showing e-mail addresses tabbed for monitoring was released by Intercept, an online news operation with ties to Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor now living in Russia.
Gee, I wonder what having “ties” to Snowden means to imply? Usually when we talk about people having “ties” it’s in a negative context, like “ties to organized crime” or “ties to [terrorist group].”

I see the fnords…

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seer 14 Jul 2014 at 6:38 pm
It does end on a positive note, coram –
The response from Washington isn’t reassuring. In a statement, intelligence officials ducked any direct description of the cases and insisted no one’s constitutional rights were abused. But the reasons for tracking the five, the evidence gathered and the outcome remain unclear.
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On one level, the episode should remind Washington of the need to change the lopsided structure of the FISA process, where only government prosecutors make a case for surveillance before a judge in closed court. It may well be necessary to keep such proceedings private, but it’s a recipe designed to muzzle dissenting views and lead to abuses.
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This latest spying revelation demands explanation. The standards and justifications for tracking citizens must be clearer. Defense of basic rights shouldn’t be left up to security agencies.
- but of course, it’s likely little good will come of it.

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suave 14 Jul 2014 at 4:25 pm
re:

Tim 14 Jul 2014 at 12:52 pm

We need anarchy

‘Capt. Heru-ur, white courtesy phone. Capt. Clarence Heru-ur, white courtesy phone.. please’
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liberalrob 14 Jul 2014 at 4:57 pm
Oh, please god no.

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doug wood 14 Jul 2014 at 4:15 pm
All this great fishing gear and no fish. Must be boring for the Intelligence Production Team of 1200 users.

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Jeff 14 Jul 2014 at 3:55 pm
Glenn,Your buddy from Arkansas,lol Everyone knows these same programs are being used in the United states but do the papers leaked by Snowden show proof That the U.S, is using them also?

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Jose 14 Jul 2014 at 4:24 pm
I suspect the US government is more careful about putting stuff like this down on paper. Furthermore, the UK has laws that make publishing their secrets, whatever they are, illegal.

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Benito Mussolini 14 Jul 2014 at 3:50 pm
I have always been grateful for the British sense of fair play, since without this restraining force it is possible to imagine them behaving in a quite underhanded manner.

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chronicle 14 Jul 2014 at 9:15 pm
I’ve always been grateful your countryman finally figured out that you and your wife were chromosomally aberrant pond scum tyrants and decided it was worth it to risk their lives to hang you both upside down and beat you until you were dead.

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Benito Mussolini 15 Jul 2014 at 6:47 am
The moral of that story is – don’t lose a war. You will notice that the winners are never attacked by lynch mobs.

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Surrealisto 15 Jul 2014 at 10:05 am
No, the winners Are lynch mobs. Why, aren’t you glad Osama and Alwaki are dead?

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liberalrob 15 Jul 2014 at 1:30 pm
chronicle, it was funny the first few times. It’s not anymore. “Benito” is harmless; and if read properly, insightful.

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Zinc 14 Jul 2014 at 3:34 pm
This should explain the movement in the US to voting machines. How better to manipulate the public than to hack the vote? The Ministry of Truth is alive and well.

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JLocke 14 Jul 2014 at 3:46 pm
“This should explain the movement in the US to voting machines.”

Whether it is internet facing voting machines…remotely programmable (what could go wrong???)…

or voting on your ever so secure IPhone browser (no integrity problem there!!!!)

Voters around the world might be well advised to do a rethink before entrusting the vote to the internet,… where GCHQ, China’s secret service, NSA etc can compete to see who can electronically stuff the ballot box best.

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David Kim 14 Jul 2014 at 5:15 pm
This place is crawling with trolls Zinc/JLocke. Voting is what the internet is for practically. It’s harder to notice when something is missing, ie. missing votes, but once you find that out, it’s evidence that’s almost certainly right next to the trigger of a smoking gun. It’s often much harder to tell when there’s an abundance smoke/noise/decoy/misinformation false votes, but the electronic internet trail is probably the easiest trail to follow, as long as it is an open transparent way. Trolls love hiding in the shadows and shun the sun.

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doug wood 14 Jul 2014 at 3:16 pm
a newly released top-secret GCHQ document called “JTRIG Tools and Techniques”

When “newly” released, by whom?

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seer 14 Jul 2014 at 3:22 pm
Part of the Snowden files – https://firstlook.org/theintercept/document/2014/07/14/jtrig-tools-techniques/

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Glenn Greenwald 14 Jul 2014 at 3:25 pm
When “newly” released, by whom?
Newly released: today.

By: The Intercept.

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John Carpenter 14 Jul 2014 at 3:57 pm
Glenn, they say you’re too slow in releasing these.

I suspect it’s judicious, because the intake rate of the public is not unlimited. If you dump them all at once, the digestion would be less than optimal. Getting it out is less the issue than getting it IN (to the public consciousness).

I think you’re on track.

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Aggrieved 14 Jul 2014 at 5:19 pm
Yes, you are correct.

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John Carpenter 14 Jul 2014 at 3:59 pm
Glenn — they say you’re too slow in releasing these.

I think it’s rather judicious, because the intake rate of the public mind is not unlimited.

Getting it OUT is less important than getting it IN (to the public consciousness).

I think you’re on track.

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seer 14 Jul 2014 at 5:36 pm
PP, is that you?

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wiltmellow 14 Jul 2014 at 3:09 pm
Here is a catalog of maxims good for building bureau morale and fostering interagency teamwork.

Democracy is too important to be left to the people.

Government is too lucrative to be open to public scrutiny.

Integrity is for losers.

We know better than you.

If you don’t believe your government, you can count on FOX.

We’re the good guys.

Trust us like we trust you.

You vote; we count.

Are you sure you aren’t a terrorist?

If you must hide it from us, you must be doing something wrong.

You remain ignorant. We decide.

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feline16 15 Jul 2014 at 3:47 am
Brilliant! Thanks :-)

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africahastakenovereurope 14 Jul 2014 at 3:04 pm
crimincals all of them.

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martin creaney 14 Jul 2014 at 3:00 pm
This is all very interesting in light of the Scottish Independence referendum in September. Theres no way the UK Government wants a Yes vote and Scotland breaks free. Whats the betting that GCHC are hard at work ‘ assisting ‘ their shadowy Westminster masters to aid the No campaign ? I’m expecting some anti-Yes vote shocks to appear before September courtesy of UK spooks.

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Defunkt 14 Jul 2014 at 5:12 pm
If the Scottish people want independence then it’s on offer. This cannot be blamed for a failed “Yes” vote. Scots know full well what is going on and they have a vote to decide for themselves.

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Anisha 14 Jul 2014 at 11:40 pm
While the Scots may know what is going on, it does not necessarily mean that their democratic will can not be subverted by whatever means are at the disposal of the UK’s security services …

This IS happening, take a look here:

http://deveer.org.uk/dvr/index.php?title=MI5_Subversion_of_State_Power_in_Scotland

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Jeshua 14 Jul 2014 at 2:58 pm
Dave Krueger a hug, I welcome your good humor, your sarcasm fine

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Ibrahim 14 Jul 2014 at 2:44 pm
So, what exactly is new? Is n’t brainwashing using falsified information a very very ancient trick? Are we just surprised now that it is being done using computers and the internet? Dah………

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-Mona- 14 Jul 2014 at 3:27 pm
So true. Nothing new about fact that Western spy agencies are using tools to send email from “you” containing, say, links to child pornography sites. Why, the ancients did that too, amirite?

pffft

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abbadabba 14 Jul 2014 at 3:55 pm
Mona, you’ve lost so much text, I fear these frackers have wefted your warp. You don’t have to live like a refugee on crumbs of rhetorical bread, girl, unless you enjoy being skinny as a post.

Yeah, I still resent our treatment. I don’t care who was at fault. That was some crappy laundry service. I was locked in their shute for three months! Of course I shat all over the linens.

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seer 14 Jul 2014 at 3:43 pm
What’s new is the ability of the powerful to manipulate and control entire populations, by virtue of the internet and your computer, the electronic extension of yourself in this age.

In the past, there was privacy at least on the most personal level, privacy that enables freedom to think. Now there is very little of that. And (manipulated) majority opinion pushes public policy to an extent never before quite so completely. Minority views are drowned in such vast seas of controlled opinion.

You should care about that if you are an authentic human.

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coram nobis 14 Jul 2014 at 4:56 pm
And it’s getting pervasive.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-07-03/hospitals-are-mining-patients-credit-card-data-to-predict-who-will-get-sick

Nanny Security Agency, courtesy of private enterprise.

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liberalrob 14 Jul 2014 at 5:17 pm
As long as it’s not used for marketing purposes or to deny health care benefits (two mighty big caveats!), I don’t have much of a problem with that particular intrusion. Go ahead and tell me I’m buying too much soda pop, or eating too much McDonald’s, and give me some alternatives. But it should be opt-in, all the way (and none of that “by using this credit card you agree” baloney).

It’s going to be a huge adjustment, getting used to the Brave New World. I don’t think we can avoid Big Data; it’s out there, it exists, and someone’s going to use it. If it’s to our benefit then fine. It’s all the ways it can be used against us that we have to watch out for.

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TallyHoGazehound 14 Jul 2014 at 6:03 pm
I don’t think you’re thinking this through. If it’s to our benefit then fine. The one thing we’ve seen over, and over, and over again is our benefit is a priority way behind those who stand to make a profit off it. I can easily imagine your medical bill charges, or your pool’s insurance premium, being tied to the data-markers revealed by your pool’s credit card purchases. You might be living the “clean life,” but don’t assume your pool-mates are.

Did you read that article?

“It is one thing to have a number I can call if I have a problem or question; it is another thing to get unsolicited phone calls. I don’t like that,” says Jorjanne Murry, an accountant in Charlotte who has Type 1 diabetes and says she usually ignores calls from her health insurer trying to discuss her daily habits. “I think it is intrusive.”
Yeah; I’d find it intrusive, too. Real intrusive.

Kitt 14 Jul 2014 at 7:34 pm
Yeah; I’d find it intrusive, too. Real intrusive.–TallyHoGazehound
Heck, I get irritated with the you-tube “recommended” list, which they base, supposedly, on the videos that I’ve viewed. The idea of someone calling me to advise me about my corn chips preference, based on whatever “concerns” they might have for my health, would not sit well with me at all.

seer 14 Jul 2014 at 7:41 pm
@liberalrob
I don’t have much of a problem with that particular intrusion
It’s going to be used to police the poor, an underclass equivalent to a slave class. Data concerning their consumption habits will very likely used by the IRS to determine their premiums for healthcare under the ACA, and what portion of those premiums are to be subsidized. If it can be shown the poor are not responsibly protecting their (future) health, they may be declined coverage for those conditions their habits presage. And because they are poor, those who do pay taxes and/or full premiums will, sadly and in the main, support such authoritarian punishment.

Any intrusion is a violation of privacy. Making exceptions is the way the intruder got his foot in the door to begin with.

Pedinska 15 Jul 2014 at 9:59 am
The moral of that story is to purchase using cash as much as possible.

Let these assholes guess by hovering over their smudged crystal balls.

liberalrob 15 Jul 2014 at 1:23 pm
I can easily imagine your medical bill charges, or your pool’s insurance premium, being tied to the data-markers revealed by your pool’s credit card purchases.
That’s why I said “As long as it’s not used for marketing purposes or to deny health care benefits.” I too can easily imagine those things.

Did you read that article?
Yes, I did.

The idea of someone calling me to advise me about my corn chips preference, based on whatever “concerns” they might have for my health, would not sit well with me at all.
Even if it was your family doctor? I’m not saying it’s OK for Tostitos to call you up. This specific case is your personal physician and/or hospital, contacting you as part of their interest in your health (and on an opt-in basis, as my condition).

yak 14 Jul 2014 at 2:34 pm
In case y’all overlooked the document, the programs in the article appear to be the tip of the iceberg and the good folks at GCHQ have a virtual think tank going on of ways to exploit the internet to manipulate, influence and control people’s thoughts and behaviors.

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/document/2014/07/14/jtrig-tools-techniques/

I think this is actually more insidious than some of the surveillance programs because it is solely about manipulation and control in the guise and changing people’s mindsets. It is truly an effort to weaponize the internet. A tool for the free exchange of ideas was too tempting not to be used as weapon. The NSA may have a few more restrictions on what tools are used and how but don’t think for a second that they (or any government intelligence agency) wouldn’t use any of these tools if given access to the “toolbox”.

Great timing for the article. Everyone with a vote in the British Parliament will want to read about what they are giving the GCHQ carte blanche to do, right? Yeah, I doubt most would be interested as well…

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seer 14 Jul 2014 at 3:46 pm
yak, on page two of that document these two entries are marked ‘Operational’.

Astral Projection – Remote GSM secure covert internet proxy using TOR hidden services.

Twilight Arrow – Remote GSM secure covert internet proxy using VPN services.

This means they are now and have been using their capacity to break into TOR and VPN connections, is that so? Doesn’t this also mean that open source fixes can be quickly and easily violated?

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Diane 14 Jul 2014 at 2:31 pm
Terrifying

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seer 14 Jul 2014 at 2:16 pm
Situation Normal All Fucked Up. The Powers have been working on this a long time, arguably since the beginning of the last century. Former CIA Director, William Casey said in 1981, “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”

Katherine Graham in a 1988 speech to CIA recruits said, “We live in a dirty and dangerous world. There are some things the general public does not need to know, and shouldn’t. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows.”

That last phrase is true enough – the press should decide. So GG, thank you for deciding what is fit to print and please don’t ever stop bringing to the public what they are not supposed to know!

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shenebraskan 14 Jul 2014 at 2:08 pm
Anyone besides me wondering how Great Britain remains part of the EU? They kept their currency, are part of the “5 Eyes,” and are apparently rushing through legislation to thwart the EU Court ruling. Why do the rest of them, especially Germany, allow it?

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Defunkt 14 Jul 2014 at 5:16 pm
Because they are desperate for the UK to remain part of the EU.

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JLocke 14 Jul 2014 at 1:58 pm
bloopie2 – “In a novel I once read, someone “planted” kiddie porn on an adversary’s computer, then notified the FBI. So you’re saying that is possible?”

Snowden’s docs, say it is possible. if they have hacked administrator access, if they have collected passwords to a target’s computer, they can alter the info, delete add etc, as well as…peruse.

It erodes trust in the information.

Imagine if it was found that police, government agents could secretly break into physical spaces,… homes, …not only examine the contents but also remove things, deposit things….without notifying the public. What would be the consequences? How is the same thing being done in the cyber realm any less destructive?

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liberalrob 14 Jul 2014 at 4:47 pm
Imagine if it was found that police, government agents could secretly break into physical spaces,… homes, …not only examine the contents but also remove things, deposit things….without notifying the public.
Indeed…thus it would be pretty important that that capability not be found, wouldn’t it?

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coram nobis 14 Jul 2014 at 1:58 pm
Title of the article may be a slight misnomer. GCHQ’s little toolbox (see document) seems designed more for wrecking, not control.

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NFJTAKFA 14 Jul 2014 at 2:50 pm
Ahhh, its that nuanced definition of “fixing things…”

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JPal 14 Jul 2014 at 1:57 pm
With news like this, this certainly also would make mockery of a legal system. Just imagine “planted” and misconstrued evidence that was never real to begin with. NO WONDER Snowden did what he did. This is certainly worth informing the public of. It was bad enough to spy on attorney/client priviledge communications, intercept messages, race to impersonate websites and hack encryptions to banking, but this is another whole ballpark. One that would turn lies into truth to satisfy whatever craving of deceit they want to try and do. People talked about Snowden and tried to make him out to be some traitor. The nerve of them!

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abbadabba 14 Jul 2014 at 1:40 pm
Wasn’t it rather toxic of them to use “rolling thunder” while they also burned that band name during same operation in Vietnam? PU, GCHQ, that joke has already been exploited. How old are you? DC5, does that mean anything to you but aircraft?

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avelna2001 14 Jul 2014 at 1:37 pm
All done in the name of safety and security, but for whom is the question. Protection from terrorists, but who do these government officials consider terrorists? Thee and me, of course.

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JLocke 14 Jul 2014 at 1:30 pm
….and also yes I’m glad this story points out the obvious, that the ability to access computers around the world, collect the data…also means that the GCHQ can ALTER the info. this might be obvious to computer geeks, but I’m not sure if it has filtered out to the public that “they” can not only read your stuff, but they can also plant stuff…be it embarassing… or incriminating.

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bloopie2 14 Jul 2014 at 1:34 pm
In a novel I once read, someone “planted” kiddie porn on an adversary’s computer, then notified the FBI. So you’re saying that is possible?

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liberalrob 14 Jul 2014 at 4:38 pm
Sure, why not? If they’re able to access your computer via vulnerabilities and backdoors, they can do anything to it. That’s why you shouldn’t allow remote access at all. But I wonder if it’s a useless effort. Either you let them in to surveill you or they deem you a “person of interest” because obviously you have something to hide; look at how assiduously you’re protecting yourself!

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RickrInSF 14 Jul 2014 at 1:27 pm
I wonder how many online polls the Koch brothers are manipulating, it would explain a lot.

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JLocke 14 Jul 2014 at 1:25 pm
bloopie2 – “Seems that the law may be intended to “legalize” what they have already been doing illegally. ”

Yes, in the same way Sen Obama voted to “legalize the warrantless wiretapping Bush was caught doing in the US.

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Concerned 14 Jul 2014 at 1:18 pm
With the ability to connect 2 random phone calls to one another. Wouldn’t that raise questions about the legality of NSA spying on Americans ? I mean if you need a legal excuse in the US just have the UK connect your targets phone to a known terrorist or target and WHAMO they get sucked in as a legit target and no need to even get a FISA rubber stamp. How did you get these NSA ? oh he placed a phone call to someone we were already watching. How convenient.

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Shevek Anarres 14 Jul 2014 at 1:16 pm
“The page indicates that it was last modified in July 2012, and had been accessed almost 20,000 times.”

But are those numbers real — or SLIPSTREAMed? : )

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Dave Krueger 14 Jul 2014 at 1:15 pm
Fortunately, the highly ethical GCHQ would never use dirty tricks to influence parliamentary voting on the pending intelligence legislation.

Yeah, I’m kidding.

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Sean Quitzau 14 Jul 2014 at 1:12 pm
Glenn – To what extent do you think these covert operations on the part of the world’s most powerful national security agencies (namely those of the US and UK) are coordinated? And if they do appear to be coordinated, are they committed to the same policy objective. Not to sound overly conspiratorial, but it seems logical that the world’s most powerful national security agencies would want to coordinate to achieve mutual policy objectives. This is a scary thought..

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TallyHoGazehound 14 Jul 2014 at 1:11 pm
How utterly “awesome.” I imagine GCHQ as a club-med destination for every nearly sociopathic, adolescent minded, hacker in the world. Determined to out-Anonymous Anonymous they’ve built themselves an imperial crib that ought to make any serious hacker drool. Imagine having the whole of the internet to play with without fear of prosecution. It’s a dream world. A fantasy come true! And, you get paid to do it!

No barriers. No fear. No accountability. No recriminations. Sky’s the limit. Go for broke playing in the craziest gear you can imagine.

Un-fucking-real.

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Ravana 14 Jul 2014 at 1:23 pm
I imagine the recruitment pitch actually sounded a lot like that.

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FunknJunk 14 Jul 2014 at 2:01 pm
Yup, much like the awesome sauce of the destruction of a counter-culture icon by co-opting his brand – a la Bob Dylan’s Super Bowl commercial for Chrysler – the hacking subculture has been decimated by these NSA flacks. Probably by having semi-hot 20-year old internet porn stars yell at them that their penises are pathetic, and give them masturbation instructions. Myeah, that fantasy of the brave, noble hacker genius taking on the powers that be can be led out to pasture now. I wonder if Stephen Colbert can do another dinner keynote where he can take on that sorry state ….

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coram nobis 14 Jul 2014 at 1:53 pm
The metaphor I had in mind, reading the JTRIG document, was more of a demolition derby. It appears to be a toolbox of espionage and sabotage tools. Nothing like wrecking your own infrastructure, is there? Especially when business starts deciding that the Web is no longer a safe place to do sales and handle intellectual properties?

It’s also like Elizabeth I and her privateers, but with one crucial difference: she didn’t have Drake and Morgan raiding England’s own ships.
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And if it be urged that whoever is armed will act in the same way, whether mercenary or not, I reply that when arms have to be resorted to, either by a prince or a republic, then the prince ought to go in person and perform the duty of captain; the republic has to send its citizens, and when one is sent who does not turn out satisfactorily, it ought to recall him, and when one is worthy, to hold him by the laws so that he does not leave the command. And experience has shown princes and republics, single-handed, making the greatest progress, and mercenaries doing nothing except damage; and it is more difficult to bring a republic, armed with its own arms, under the sway of one of its citizens than it is to bring one armed with foreign arms. Rome and Sparta stood for many ages armed and free. The Switzers are completely armed and quite free.
– Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
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liberalrob 14 Jul 2014 at 4:26 pm
It appears to be a toolbox of espionage and sabotage tools. Nothing like wrecking your own infrastructure, is there?
I’m sure they’re quite confident of their ability to control and direct the monster they have created. Mad scientists always are.

the prince ought to go in person and perform the duty of captain
That’s apparently asking too much of today’s would-be princes.

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bloopie2 14 Jul 2014 at 1:08 pm
Seems that the pending UK legislation may be intended to “legalize” what they have already been doing illegally. Too bad there is no UK “Constitution” to override such. At least in the US we have a shot at it.

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Dave Krueger 14 Jul 2014 at 1:07 pm
In the absence of any consequences, the concept of legality is essentially meaningless.

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Ty P 14 Jul 2014 at 1:06 pm
I don’t know how they can sleep.

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Jonathan 14 Jul 2014 at 8:24 pm
“I don’t know how they can sleep”

Anglo supremacy, as usual. It’s for your own good, they say before, during and after the rape, and the endorphin rush afterward must mean it’s true.

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sysprog 14 Jul 2014 at 1:06 pm
Those “tool” names (BADGER, IMPERIAL BARGE, etc.) . . .

. . . they’re from a Monty Python skit – - the Ministry of Silly Names.

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bahhummingbug 14 Jul 2014 at 1:41 pm
Imo, in fairness to Monty Python, Glenn should have acknowledged that in the article.

*pick a card, any card

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coram nobis 14 Jul 2014 at 4:27 pm
No, I think it’s more in the nature of the Hungarian phrase book sketch. You know, like operation Hovercraft Eels.

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Nic 14 Jul 2014 at 1:05 pm
Oh geez, I can barely read this stuff because I get too creeped out. Granted, it’s GCHQ and I live in the US, but still. There’s an expectation that good governments should protect people from creepers, not *be creepers. Sending people fake emails from ‘your’ address and finding private pictures on Facebook is beyond the pale – that’s the kind of thing you worry about a stalker ex doing, not the people who are supposed to be upholding national standards.

I’m still not 100% clear on criteria used to target people for these programs but it sounds as if it extends far beyond “extremist making a bomb in a cave somewhere”. I acknowledge some need for secrecy but when you are targeting people in potentially life-destroying ways I think the public has the right to extremely clear criteria regarding who is targeted, under what circumstances, and what controls are in place to prevent abuse.

The propaganda stuff is just silly – I mean why, really? Fussing with online polls – why risk getting found out when legal forms of PR would do far more anyways? Wait – they decide every outcome on “Hot or Not”, don’t they?! It all makes sense now…

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JL 14 Jul 2014 at 1:15 pm
“Granted, it’s GCHQ and I live in the US, but still.”

I assure you that the US spy agencies have these same tools. In fact, a good number of college-aged hackers have these same tools. If a computer researcher showed these tools off at DEFCON, a lot of people would yawn.

Poll manipulation, for example, something that our two political parties likely participate in. Perhaps they don’t have an automated tool, but I can’t imagine why they wouldn’t.

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Nete Peedham 14 Jul 2014 at 1:27 pm
AND in the US, corporations have thousands of these weasels doing their dirty work…and corporations run the US government.

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Nic 14 Jul 2014 at 3:18 pm
Well, tools are one thing. What percentage of the US population has access to firearms, or at least knives? The tools of harm are there, and yet the vast, vast majority of people manage to make it through the day without abusing them. People who are authorized use them in a sanctioned way to prevent more harm with said tools than they cause (i.e., law enforcement using guns to stop a criminal) – I’m sure there’s a long, long debate about the ins and outs of that, just saying that it tends to be the norm that we have genies out of the bottle all over the place and yet manage that as a society somehow.

So it’s not necessarily the tools, it’s what you do with them (hmm, I’m sure there’s a dirty joke in there somewhere) – a college kid who goes into the Facebook account of a girl he likes and looks at her spring break pictures? Maybe he needs a better role model regarding how to treat women, but if that’s the extent of it, I hardly consider that kid a cyber terrorist or something. A government employee of some sort conducting a legitimate investigation? I don’t have a problem with that. So what exactly is being done with the tools and why is a big part of the equation – my worry here is that 1) We don’t know a lot about the process 2) The bits and pieces we *are hearing are troubling – again, who are these strategies levied against, and why? To me, they sound punitive in nature – I thought intelligence agencies were concerned with investigating crimes and reporting their findings to the appropriate people – it seems as if now there’s a weird blur there, and crime and punishment are both taking place behind the scenes. That’s like someone getting a warrant to search your home and, in the process, stealing some of your stuff, making a call from your phone pretending to be you, and delivering your naked photos to your neighbor’s house. Possibly that’s overstating it because again, it’s not clear to me if the above programs were ever used, if so, how, and against whom, but the general description is still troubling.

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Grumbleina 14 Jul 2014 at 1:20 pm
Well said!! Thank you!! I think we are dealing with psychologically unwell people, that’s the bottom line here. People who want to control others and view themselves as better and smarter than the rest of us…. Sounds simplistic, but in the end, people are running this show and it’s their choices and behavior we are all being impacted with.

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chronicle 14 Jul 2014 at 9:57 pm
quote “I think we are dealing with psychologically unwell people,”unquote

Hahahahaha. Says one after taking the red pill.

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Grumbleina 14 Jul 2014 at 10:53 pm
You’re one of the people I’m talking about.

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Jose 14 Jul 2014 at 1:23 pm
And what’s the GCHQ’s definition of “extremist”? We know that they’ve targeted visitors to the Wikileaks website, and anyone who hangs out with Anonymous, so that gives you an idea.

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Ravana 14 Jul 2014 at 1:25 pm
Not to mention anybody who even reads about TOR or security minded articles on sites like Boing Boing.

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seer 14 Jul 2014 at 1:31 pm
Extremist? Anyone who tells the truth.

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a nurse 14 Jul 2014 at 2:00 pm
If you want to know what’s going on right under your nose, make a visit to http://fightgangstalking.com. It’s a Cointelpro-style program that’s thriving in the US. (The UK has its version, too, as I understand it.)

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Jim 14 Jul 2014 at 4:02 pm
Though I don’t think everything on that page is correct… It sadly is describing a real life “disruption” operation. Still it is pointless to try to spread accurate information about this phenomenon. Search for it you will find the kind of disinformation talked about in this article. You will see people claiming satellites are torturing them etc. These agencies do a good job at making sure that people that have not experienced will conclude those complaining of it are crazy. The real gist of the program:you are put under surveillance… They find out embarrassing details on your life… Then recruit your real life friends to harass you with said information. This harassment has the effect of disrupting those that are considered dangerous. And if you complain of it you are “paranoid” or have “schizophrenia”. But like I said this is kept pretty secret there is no real use trying to spread info about it. Without documents you have no chance.

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a nurse 14 Jul 2014 at 4:35 pm
“Still it is pointless. … There is no real use trying to spread info about it. Without documents you have no chance.” -Jim

Not only is this program “disrupting” lives — it’s killing people — and, as such, anyone who participates in it is complicit in torture and murder. Silence is also complicity. The truth will out, eventually.

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AnonOrwellFan 14 Jul 2014 at 5:00 pm
Like a lot of other people, I am eager to see the discussion of modern Cointelpro operations in the U.S. (organized stalking) move from the comments section of The Intercept – and the Guardian, etc. – to the news reports. It is a massive scandal and an open secret within the law enforcement and intelligence industry in America.

I agree with Jim’s characterization of the disinformation campaign about the whole practice, and I agree that the “Fight Gang Stalking” site offers the most well-sourced explanation of the whole business.

Jim 14 Jul 2014 at 5:40 pm
Actually I do not think that site is very accurate at all. There is no real stalking… It simply appears that way to a target. Their friends are given lines they are then supposed to repeat to the target. The friends are not “in on it” they are repeating lines which have no significance to them. It is not too complicated. They just want to pull your attention away from activism and get you to pay attention to their show. It is simple disruption.

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AnonOrwellFan 14 Jul 2014 at 6:26 pm
What is going on is FAR more serious than you have been led to believe. Cointelpro operations did not become less sophisticated after J. Edgar Hoover; they became much more sophisticated – just as all surveillance and counterintelligence activities have.

There has never been an Edward Snowden-type whistle-blower in the FBI or the LEIU. The only time we got a real glimpse of how they operate was in 1971 when activists dropped a bunch of stolen secret documents into the lap of the press. What was exposed was a list of serious crimes that included overt stalking and black bag jobs for psyops purposes. In the case of actress Jean Seberg for example (whose slander by the FBI made the front page of the LA Times), it drove her to suicide.

Your portrayal of what is going on as being a few comments made here and there to the target does not even begin to capture the scope and seriousness of the abuses.

Jim 14 Jul 2014 at 7:31 pm
I don’t mean to trivialize anything… Especially not the psychological damage / trauma they are able to inflict on SOME targets. However I am a target and have been for 5 years and for about 2 months they were able to really affect me/make me look crazy. I was lucky enough to realize early that their main goal is to cause self-inflicted damage. When you realize that and when you realize there is no real slander going on, the whole thing becomes just a running prank that doesn’t seem to end. They obviously designed this program with the idea that it might be discovered and so made sure they would cause the targets to discredit themselves as opposed to them doing it themselves.

The real damage is caused by a targets own imagination!

AnonOrwellFan 15 Jul 2014 at 6:38 pm
I personally know several people who have been targeted by “surveillance role player” contractors (retired U.S. military counterintelligence agents) and Law Enforcement Intelligence Units (LEIUs) in the modern American version of Cointelpro. None of them share Jim’s unique and bizarre notion that “gang stalking” is just a minor annoyance that can be ignored.

It is a vicious (although cowardly) and illegal set of tactics that are very real and not a bit fictional or imaginary. It includes tactics such as slander, black bag operations, vandalism, hacking, noise harassment to cause sleep deprivation (a form of torture that is very effective at breaking anyone – regardless of his or her attitude), etc. – in short, all the stuff that the FBI got caught red-handed doing in the J. Edgar Hoover era.

If you study the U.S. Senate’s Church Committee reports thoroughly you will not find any claims that the FBI’s crimes could have simply been ignored by the people they targeted.

Mark 15 Jul 2014 at 11:40 pm
Jim- you are simply wrong. As a matter of fact, it sounds like disinformation. I have had nails in tires, sliced electrical lines, dents in my cars, several broken car windows, many items stolen, and much more.

This is no laughing manner. Please do not minimize it.

Innocents are being targeted by their own governments. How legitimate is a government that targets its own citizens?

Stan 5f625c580be72249fbdf565d591e0050 16 Jul 2014 at 11:02 am
@Jim, only way non-targets can possibly make a judgement on the site’s accuracy is if one is a Stasi perp, engaged in stalking, disruption, & murder… and organized lying: “There is no real stalking…”

AmericanGestapo14 14 Jul 2014 at 8:44 pm
I am absolutely convinced that “gang stalking” is a made up term, just like “enhanced interrogation”. They’re not stalking you…they’re f*#cking killing you, after they have discredited you “you’re crazy” etc.. Then they start with the surveillance and weapons testing. Last week, I filmed one of these A-holes as I left my house at night for a walk…his arm was hanging out the window, driving a black Mercedes, but I didn’t get camera out in time, so I had nothing, but a black car half way down another street. This guy turns around, follows me down another street, stops me and asks me why I took his picture…I told him I had had problems with stalking. He tells me he is calling the police. I told him “go right ahead, then they have your number”. He makes the call, has a conversation with the police about this girl who took his picture. Now I have his picture and license plate. I walk over to the precinct and describe the incident and ask if I’m allowed to take pictures on public property. They told me “nobody called us”. I said this guy had a conversation with the police. The police officer checked in back, the officer confirmed…nobody called. So I said “he pretended to call the police” and they shook their heads and said “have a nice night”. Keep this in mind…

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chronicle 14 Jul 2014 at 9:50 pm
note to self.. file this under..

Things NOT to do when the car is a black Mercedes.

Jim 15 Jul 2014 at 4:25 am
I’m talking of simple harassment/disruption. Using sort of childish methods to get on a person’s nerves. That’s all.

a nurse 15 Jul 2014 at 10:06 am
Jim @ 15 Jul 2014 at 4:25 am: “I’m talking of simple harassment/disruption. Using sort of childish methods to get on a person’s nerves. That’s all.”

Jim, In the context of “gang stalking” (slang) / Cointelpro-stalking (accurate term), your use of the terms “simple harassment” and “simple disruption” is interesting, though troublesome. While, when viewed in isolation, some of the tactics that are being employed might arguably be described as “simple” or “childish”, they are anything but “simple”, when viewed in their totality and greater context. When one is able to see the whole picture, the process/program would best be described as one of psychological torture, and I can assure you that there is nothing even remotely benign or “simple” about it.

Jim 15 Jul 2014 at 1:40 pm
I am an actual ‘victim’ of this program. Like I said it has the ability to cause much damage to a target; or rather, cause a target to cause damage to himself. During the period of time when you believe in the show they are putting on for you, it is scary and disorienting. However once you realize the name of the game, it becomes kind of like a joke or a prank.

There is no stalking done by groups of people. There is one or a couple people somewhere (a fusion center? i don’t know) that will turn your cellphone into a roving bug and will monitor all your actions online. They will try to create the impression that all the people around you are watching you… all your friends and coworkers. But in reality these people are just repeating lines that they (purposely) can’t understand the meaning of. They do not want to become an enemy of the FBI themselves, so they comply – with key instructions that they can not reveal the true source of the comments. I’d call it harassment by proxy – gang stalking as a term is itself disinformation.

When you realize it is a show and that nobody around you knows what they are saying, you gain the ability to have fun with them and make them think the reason behind the comments is basically anything you want. It becomes a game and nothing more. Then you just wait… and wait… and wait… and I’m still waiting. Someday it will end. I might be a special case – as I never took any positions against the USG nor against any official narratives. And as a matter of fact I tried (poorly) to defend USG policies when I thought nobody was looking. It’s just that what I said was to the wrong person online – someone in a middle eastern country.

a nurse 15 Jul 2014 at 2:26 pm
Jim,

A colleague of mine says that, given the opportunity, a person will often give himself away, and that may be the case here. Having reviewed your comments, the terms “minimization” and “victim-blaming” come to mind. (A quick and basic review of “minimization” (“minimisation (psychology”)) is available on Wikipedia. While not a reference that I’d typically recommend, you may find it helpful — it provides a good overview, as well as some additional resources. Others may find it to be useful, as well. I will leave it to you (and other readers) to draw any appropriate and relevant inferences.)

As to some of your remarks, let me say this:

As noted in my last comment, there is nothing benign about this form of COINTELPRO, which involves prolonged stalking and psychological torture. It’s certainly not a “joke”, “prank”, or “game.” Neither is it the fault of the victim, just as it is not about “simple disruption”, or a little “slander” but, rather, a complex program that is designed to destroy a person’s life. In keeping with this goal, it’s ruining the lives of some very good people, as was the case with the original COINTELPRO.

Let’s put the blame squarely where it belongs; those to blame are the perpetrators of these crimes. And I’m sure that it’s beginning to get a little hot in the kitchen for some of these folks, as details of the government’s pervasive surveillance activities continue to be revealed. (As you’ve correctly noted, Jim, the disinformation surrounding this topic has been very effective. That, too, would appear to be changing.)

a nurse 15 Jul 2014 at 2:30 pm
Jim,
A colleague of mine says that, given the opportunity, a person will often give himself away, and that may be the case here. Having reviewed your comments, the terms “minimization” and “victim-blaming” come to mind. (A quick and basic review of “minimization” (“minimisation (psychology”)) is available on Wikipedia. While not a reference that I’d typically recommend, you may find it helpful, as it provides a good overview, as well as some additional resources. Others may find it to be useful, as well. I will leave it to you (and other readers) to draw any appropriate and relevant inferences.)

Regarding some of your remarks, let me say this:

As noted in my last comment, there is nothing benign about this form of COINTELPRO, which involves prolonged stalking and psychological torture. It’s certainly not a “joke”, “prank”, or “game.” Neither is it the fault of the victim, just as it is not about “simple disruption” or a little “slander” but, rather, a complex program that is designed to destroy a person’s life. In keeping with this goal, it’s ruining the lives of some very good people, as was the case with the original COINTELPRO.

a nurse 15 Jul 2014 at 2:35 pm
My apologies for the duplicate postings. There appears to be a lag, at times.

Jim 15 Jul 2014 at 3:27 pm
I enjoy going back and forth with you.

I’m not trying to blame the victims as much as they are innocent people that never committed a crime. They exercised their first amendment rights in such a way that the government (illegally) determined to be dangerous.

There is nothing good about this program and for a couple months I suffered from it immensely-so I don’t mean to minimize the potential damage it can cause.

It can be a very traumatic experience-however in my case at least I find it difficult to see how it damaged me. Once you are able to see through the facade however, it is possible to realize the truth. If you ignore it and don’t react to it, it becomes powerless over you. It is highly psychological-but when you realize that it is someone’s job to fabricate criticisms of you which not even they necessarily believe, at that point you are over it and have broken their spell. I am fortunate that I never complained about the harassment to anyone but my wife – so I never discredited myself in public. I’d imagine that many if not most targets are not lucky enough to be able to break the spell. For those people I feel really bad. In my case I do feel like it has made me stronger-and I consider myself fortunate that I was able to get through this relatively unscathed. Once a target comes to the conclusions that I have, they begin to recover. Once they realize the people in their lives have NOT turned against them-they will feel better.

I’ve not talked to others about it so I can only speak to my case. One thing I do believe is that for other targets, reading about how bad,sinister,and evil this program is will only make them feel worse. I do understand others probably view this much differently than myself.

Jim 15 Jul 2014 at 3:48 pm
I can certainly understand the potential this has to ruin lives. I really do not mean to trivialize it. I can understand how it can push people into social isolation. I can understand how it can cause people to flip their lid and lose their job or their reputation. I was lucky enough to catch on early enough and thus limit the damage. Also I am not very outspoken, so perhaps my personality type helped me through this as well.

The key thing is that most people likely do not understand the basic mechanics behind the program. If you do not see through it, the program will definitely take you down over time. I just think I must’ve gotten lucky. There is a youtube video called the gangstalking program explained – about 41 minutes long -i honestly believe that to be recorded by the authorities themselves… and while it contains some deceptions in it as well, I see it as something that is meant to legitimately help targets out.

a nurse 15 Jul 2014 at 8:19 pm
Jim,

I would refer you to the comments by “AnonOrwellFan.”

At 6:38 pm today (15 Jul 2014), AnonOrwellFan wrote:

“I personally know several people who have been targeted by “surveillance role player” contractors (retired U.S. military counterintelligence agents) and Law Enforcement Intelligence Units (LEIUs) in the modern American version of Cointelpro. None of them share Jim’s unique and bizarre notion that “gang stalking” is just a minor annoyance that can be ignored.

“It is a vicious (although cowardly) and illegal set of tactics that are very real and not a bit fictional or imaginary. It includes tactics such as slander, black bag operations, vandalism, hacking, noise harassment to cause sleep deprivation (a form of torture that is very effective at breaking anyone – regardless of his or her attitude), etc. – in short, all the stuff that the FBI got caught red-handed doing in the J. Edgar Hoover era.

“If you study the U.S. Senate’s Church Committee reports thoroughly you will not find any claims that the FBI’s crimes could have simply been ignored by the people they targeted.”

Other “tactics” include, but are not limited to theft, interference with employment, and conspicuous surveillance.

Jim 15 Jul 2014 at 8:54 pm
This is what targets report happens. This is what targets believe is happening. They are things targets have seen with their own eyes. Things that any logical person would conclude are happening if they were in the situation.

It is all a carefully crafted illusion. These things are not happening. The methods of deception are very sophisticated. Those that are complaining of these things are not crazy and are reporting what they see. But they have been deceived.

Honest to god, once you’ve cracked the code and know the truth, the entire illusion falls apart. You will see it is an assault of words and language and nothing more.

I think of it like the movie “the matrix” – where agents can infiltrate the body of anyone around you. They will alter your environment. But once you’ve gone through the training and understand the rules of the system you can start to bend their “hyper reality” back in your direction. Eventually you can take their attacks with ease.

These people certainly have the ability to ruin lives directly but if they follow the rules they cannot do so.

I know I am 100% right in what I say.

AnonOrwellFan 15 Jul 2014 at 9:13 pm
Jim is doing something which – in the technical parlance of counterintelligence agents – is called “lying.”

Anyone reading this thread who has even a slight interest in the subject of modern U.S. domestic Cointelpro activities, should visit “Fight Gang Stalking” and browse the archive of aggregated published news reports about the ongoing intense psyops against protesters, dissidents, and whistle-blowers by the FBI and Law Enforcement Intelligence Units, and “surveillance role players” (intelligence-security contractors).

There is a lot of creepy but interesting material there which “Jim” would prefer not to discuss – such as the pending federal lawsuit by Jeffrey Kantor against several U.S. intelligence agencies for “gang stalking.”

Jim 15 Jul 2014 at 10:12 pm
I am right. I know what is happening- however if for your purposes this kind of talk is necessary to maintain the integrity of the program, I understand and will back off. Enjoyed sparring XD

Stan 5f625c580be72249fbdf565d591e0050 16 Jul 2014 at 11:15 am
@Jim 15 Jul 2014 at 1:40 pm: “I never took any positions against the USG nor against any official narratives. And as a matter of fact I tried (poorly) to defend USG policies when I thought nobody was looking.”

There it is: that’s why you were treated with kid gloves, and you really do not know what you are talking about.

Stan 5f625c580be72249fbdf565d591e0050 16 Jul 2014 at 12:14 pm
@Jim 15 Jul 2014 at 4:25 am “I’m talking of simple harassment/disruption. Using sort of childish methods to get on a person’s nerves. That’s all.”

You are lying. Attempted murder and denial of medical treatment is not simple harassment/disruption. Nor is denying someone a driver’s license simply because they are married to a target. Also, death threats are acts of terrorism. These are serious crimes.

To the stalked and interested observers: so glad to see the topic discussed! True, targets don’t have the documents, and may never have them, but the more discussion about this the better, for all kinds of reasons. One possible effect is to gradually shift the widely held perception that self-proclaimed targets are ‘crazy’, to a perception which better matches up against reality: America’s state is a vicious Stasi regime and American citizens cannot be trusted. (Duh.) It has to get worse before it gets better. Make it worse for the US consumer; he is not going to help you, he is going to help the Stasi, as Jim is doing here in the comments section.

If you can financially afford it, confront the Stasi’s fanboys & girls, especially friends or siblings who are just making it worse. What sort of family member or friend would condone the Stasi’s attacks on you, or worse, help them? Ditch ‘em. It works. No protest march, petition, or political statement has a greater impact on an enemy who was assured of his/her own impunity. The Stasi wants compliant consent from the population. Shred it. Shred your family if necessary; you don’t need a Stasi mommy and daddy. The Stasi and their little helpers are enemies — as they have so obnoxiously declared themselves to be (as is disinfo agent Jim). Be civil, loyal, and respectful to allies, if you could be so fortunate to find such a thing among such untrustworthy people; ditch and disrespect enemies. Stop feigning civility towards them; they want to kill your integrity, and failing that, they will try to kill you.

anonymous 14 Jul 2014 at 2:01 pm
If you want to know what’s going on right under your nose, pay a visit to fightgangstalking dot com. It’s a Cointelpro-style program that’s thriving in the US. (The UK has its version, too, as I understand it.)

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chronicle 14 Jul 2014 at 9:54 pm
quote”There’s an expectation that good governments should protect people from creepers, not *be creepers.”

note..file this under…
Things you believed as a child when adults lectured you before Pledging Allegiance to the Flag.

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bloopie2 14 Jul 2014 at 1:04 pm
Good response to the announcement of the pending UK legislation. Seems that the law may be intended to “legalize” what they have already been doing illegally. One step forward …

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chronicle 14 Jul 2014 at 9:46 pm
quote”Seems that the law may be intended to “legalize” what they have already been doing illegally.”unqoute

Shades of every legal imperialism since the big bang, notwithstanding Henry the Eighth

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Tim 14 Jul 2014 at 12:52 pm
We need anarchy

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liberalrob 14 Jul 2014 at 4:28 pm
No we don’t.

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Bill 14 Jul 2014 at 5:31 pm
We’ll need to know what both of you mean by anarchy to determine which one of you is correct.

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liberalrob 14 Jul 2014 at 6:02 pm
My default is the classical definition, i.e. absence of government structures.

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Slobberingfits 15 Jul 2014 at 2:57 pm
Anarchy doesn’t last, it is a vacuum quickly replaced by whoever is the most violent

Jim 14 Jul 2014 at 8:41 pm
Actually we need a return to the rule of law. Anarchy would quickly fail-and when it does there will be a despot waiting to take advantage of the situation. Calling for anarchy is indirectly asking for despotism.

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chronicle 14 Jul 2014 at 9:31 pm
quote”Actually we need a return to the rule of law.” unquote

Return. right. Please enlighten us old wise one on exactly how “we” should proceed? Considering the USG is now the preeminent legal imperialism of the entire planet with nuclear powers that no other sovereign on the face of this planet can force them to do ANYTHING?

I submit..unless you are willing to either pick up weapon to show us how, you are ..

1. An idiot of biblical proportions
2. A naive taxpayer who hasn’t got a clue
3. A johnny come lately to the world of DUH!
4. or someone who hasn’t lived long enough to understand the implications of Senator Churche’s meaning of the abyss.

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Jim 15 Jul 2014 at 4:16 am
Yes. We cease being in a state of war. If you think that’s impossible then fine. Even permanent war is preferable to your precious little anarchy. There is no use arguing with an idiot like yourself that would secretly rather destroy the USG and watch other countries carve up North America. You must be naive to think that every other country in the world wouldn’t have so-called imperialist impulses if the opportunity presented itself. Russia does. Europe does. China does in Africa. Japan has. The ottomans did. ISIS will. But in your dream anarchist paradise you’d rather see the US as an oppressed country rather than a united one.

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Gravity 16 Jul 2014 at 1:08 pm
Bufferting Melons, Baboons Orafice, Bangers & Mash and not forgetting my personal favorite.. Dribbling Politician! – Still didnt see any of the Smurfs or Sqweeky Dolphins, so I assume this is only the tip of the ice-burg. So reasuring to see they themselves remove internet explorer, something the rest of us find almost impossible without yards of text! Gee, thanks Microsoft! And I wouldnt be surprised if half the tools listed are just stolen Open Source projects that have been renamed. For example DIALd is on Freenode!

2014.7.29. "Shocked" White House Slams "Fabrication" After Israel TV Leaks Damning Transcript Of Obama-Netanyahu Phone Call (pdf)

ZeroHedge Comments

HamFistedIdiot

Tired of these culture wars. What about Christianity's inquisition, witch burnings, conquest of native peoples, etc? Who will throw the first stone? It's the fucking ZIONISTS who founded Hamas in the 70s; it's the ZIONISTS who funded the mujahadin and started Al Qaeda back in the early 80s; it's the ZIONISTS who fund and provide weapons and cover to ISIS; it's the ZIONISTS who are behind the fractional reserve fiat currency system that is sucking the planet dry. It's the supposed CHRISTIANS who are behind GMO, tainted vaccines, aerosol geoengineering with nano aluminum, and water fluoridation using an industrial waste fluoride source. Shit, the Nazis were fucking Christians. Circumcision of boys is a barbaric Christian tradition. Should I be happy about my mutilated penis, the product of enlightened "Christian" religious values?

The bottom line is, Western interests are funding the worst and most extreme religious groups on the planet in order to destablize everything. Moderate governments that try to do the right thing (and not be complete Western corporate pawns) are overthrown. So you get this backwater shit rising up all over the planet because the Satanic death cult ZIONISTS want it that way. I can quote shit from the Bible that is just as dark and twisted as anything the Quran serves up, if you need reminders of the skeletons in the Pope's closet.

HamFistedIdiot

Go ahead and be cute if that suits you. I've seen videos from the 1960s of women in Afghanistan with long hair, no burkhas, holding jobs, etc. What happened? Western imperialism happened. We found a weakness in Islam and exploited it to our short term benefit. The Zionists want Islam to destroy Israel. That's part of what is required to bring about the Death Cult's NWO. We're all being played. Go ahead and hate Islam if you want to. Good luck with eradicating 1.5 billion of them. Where's your venom for the Chinese? Mao killed 80 million of his own, much worse than any Islamic whacko ever did. What about all the footbinding in China, every bit as barbarous as clitarectomy, in my opinion? But it's Islam's overlooking Jesus, isn't that your real issue? Another war over whose God somebody worships? Fuck off, I won't support your holy war against Islam. I want minimal government, minimal taxation, secure borders, clean air and water, and yes, I want the Church to stay away from my dick. :)

Islam doesn't allow usurers that engage in fractional reserve lending. But picture 1.5 billion Muslims setting up something like the Rothschild's Bank of England, taking their trillions of fiat $ to support radical Christians in the US. You'd have multi-billion dollar endowments for the God Hates Fags brigade, or folks who bomb abortion clinics, etc etc. What I mean is, if the "enemy" supported the wrong groups in the US, giving them unlimited funding, we could look a lot more barbaric than we do.

HamFistedIdiot

Israel's is the most militarized economy in the world. They do a lot of dirty work and weapons "research" for the West. Some new munitions are being used in this ground offensive, the HD footage of which will help with sales at weapons trade shows. You have to have current experimental data to prove the weapons are worth the sticker price. The Palestinians are just doing their part to help out.

2014.7.29. "US Will Feel Tangible Losses," Russia Prepares To Unleash Retaliatory Trade Wars (pdf)

HamFistedIdiot

There is a whole eschatology for these secret society elites. They worship Lucifer/Baal. They are Zionists. Most of the financial and political elites are Zionists. They want to see the fulfillment of all the end times/apocalyptic prophecies foretold in the Bible. The Zionists only wanted to create Israel in order to have it, at some later date, destroyed. It's all part of the horrific blood sacrifice the Zionists believe is required to give birth to the new world order. The New World Order requires that a new Jerusalme and a new temple be built upon the ashes of the old.** If nuclear war brings about the required desolation, then it will be welcome. The Zionists don't give a fuck about the longterm security of Israeli. The global animosity and international condemnation of Israel serves the Zionists well. It's building toward something that they see as beneficial for bringing about the global unification and control they seek. These elites are also narcissistic psychopaths and would be happy to drive the species off the cliff as long as they have their hands on the wheel. And these freaks think a poisoned planet is fine because they will merge with machines and live off world, or underground, but not necessarily in the space we currently inhabit.

**The "Freedom" Tower in NYC, built over an earlier NWO blood sacrifice, is just a foreshadowing.

2014.8.3. US Foreign Policy In One Cartoon (pdf)

U.S. foreign policy has destroyed Iraq, Syria, and Libya. Israel is no innocent bystander here. Secretary of State John Kerry says to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, "I'm from the U.S. government and I'm here to help."

smacker

Sorry Ghordius, I cannot agree with a lot of that.

What you are really saying is that a group of people can claim a nation simply by moving on to someoene else's land (after committing much terrorism) and declaring "This is the State of Israel given to us by God. We are the chosen ones".

That is essentially the law of the jungle (or desert in this case!) but is what happened in Palestine 1948 and elsewhere in the world at different times. That doesn't make it right.

The people who made up the Zionist movement (and to this day cause much of the trouble involving jews) were/are overwhelmingly Ashkenazi jews who never originated from Palestine at all. So their claim on Palestine was, and remains, illegitimate by most measures. It also makes their mention in this debate totally relevant. And let us not forget that Israel has well documented plans to expand and absorb the West Bank and Gaza into a Greater Israel. The theft of other peoples' land apparently hasn't ended.

That many Israeli residents were born in Israel is neither here nor there. It's simply an added complication of their own making (or their parents).

piratepiet

I may or may not agree with what you wrote.

What is your solution to this mess ?

smacker

Unless you agree with my view, it is most unlikely that you would agree with the solution(s) because it's based upon accepting that a great wrong was committed 66 years ago thru lies and political expediency. Therefore the solution is about righting that wrong.

piratepiet

You seem to be an idealist smacker, not a pragmatist.

"Unless you agree with my view, it is most unlikely that you would agree with the solution(s),..."

Funny thing is that is what both the Israeli and Palistinian side are claiming and they are getting nowhere.

I note you have not really come up with a concrete proposal, just given a hint.

How about a one-state solution with equal rights for both Jews and Palestinians ? That new country needs a new name. Any ideas ?

HamFistedIdiot

"Israeli Jews and the one-state solution" - Ali Abunimah The Electronic Intifada 10 November 2009

"Anyone who rejects the two-state solution, won’t bring a one-state solution. They will instead bring one war, not one state. A bloody war with no end". ~Israeli President Shimon Peres, 7 November 2009.

One of the most commonly voiced objections to a one-state solution for Palestine/Israel stems from the accurate observation that the vast majority of Israeli Jews reject it, and fear being “swamped” by a Palestinian majority. Across the political spectrum, Israeli Jews insist on maintaining a separate Jewish-majority state.

But with the total collapse of the Obama Administration’s peace efforts, and relentless Israeli colonization of the occupied West Bank, the reality is dawning rapidly that the two-state solution is no more than a slogan that has no chance of being implemented or altering the reality of a de facto binational state in Palestine/Israel.... continued

smacker

Striving for an ideal is good, but I moderate it by compromise wherever possible.

And I note you still have not said whether you agree or not. Duh!

"Funny thing is that is what both the Israeli and Palistinian side are claiming and they are getting nowhere."

Frankly, I do not believe that Israel has much say in any solution. That must be worked out and imposed by "others". One way or the other it will mean the closing down of Israel as a State and its occupants offered to remain as guests in Palestine or offered a life elsewhere. For those who think that is harsh, they must remember that Israelis are illegitimate squatters on someone else's land.

The one-nation solution will never work as another commenter has explained. Same problems with two-state, Israel is continuing to steal Palestinian land.

HamFistedIdiot

Then what will be done with the Jews that are there in Israel? They've got the nukes and the $billions in "aid" from the US. Is dislodging them do-able? I just don't see it as being feasible or part of "what is possible," even if there is some truth to what you say. A one state solution is more realizable, imo. I'll go back into this thread and look for the post you cite as evidence that the one state solution won't work.

smacker

One assumes that if TPTB decided to close down Israel then the aid would stop immediately. If Israel didn't agree to comply with a global mandate it would need to be sanctioned. Since it doesn't have too many friends around the world that would be effective. At the same time, the Israelis must be offered a way out, perhaps to another piece of land given to them to create their own country or a life in other countries.

I admit the nukes are a problem but would Israel blow up the whole M/E? If so, then it reinforces that it is a terrorist state.

HamFistedIdiot

Before I became radicalized I used to listen to the good Jew-9/11 truth denier Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! She had some scholar types on the show that said only a single state solution would work. That is, make Gaza/Palestine a part of Israel, and make the Palestinians Israeli citizens. Also, ceding Jerusalem to the UN or some other international group to manage such an important site, was recommended. Having an inherently racist theocracy born of ethnically cleansed Palestinians will be a lightning rod for discontent in Middle East for a long long time. It's been 10 years since I listened to these discourses, but everything I've learned since then tells me that this will be the only way to neutralize the tension in the region.

I've argued elsewhere here that the Rothschilds/Zionists were instrumental in turning Jews away from England, the US and elsewhere during WWII, using the crisis to pave the way for the creation of Israel. I'll dredge up the documents, but my understanding is that the Zionists at the highest level are knowingly part of a Secret Society / Order of Death that need the animosity that a false Israel creates. The current iteration is NOT a fulfillment of Jewish expectations, but rather a bastardization of it. The Death Set needs enormous blood sacrifice and the destruction of the very nation they created in order to rebuild the temple and bring in what they think will be the real deal under an openly NWO fascist international banker cabal, hopefully with the 500 million world population that some of their structures (like the Georgia Guidestones) aspire to.

piratepiet

Your tactic is appears to be : First defending a one-state solution, then sprouting some nonsense in order to undermine the very idea you ( falsely, it seems ) say to support. Depressing, my friend.

HamFistedIdiot

Awakening to the magnitude of the lie does involve some depression, I am sorry to say. The Rothschilds/Zionists never intended the state of Israel to work. It is meant to galvanize anger as a prelude to a darker level of the plan. The one state solution would mitigate much of the anger -- not all of it, of course, but enough to possibly forestall nuclear war/broad destruction in the area. That is why the elite Zionists do not want a single state solution. And that is why it must be pursued. Salaam + Shalom.

2014.8.4. Bombing Gaza? There's An "Utterly Shameful" App For That (pdf)

Google customers have reacted with outrage, according to The Guardian, following the release of an Android game that invites players to mimic the Israeli army 'dropping bombs' on Gaza.

As The Guardian reports,

Bomb Gaza, which is designed for Android phones and tablets, has been downloaded up to 1,000 times since its release on 29 July 2014, according to app store data. Its stated aim is to “drop bombs and avoid killing civilians”.

Seemingly designed to offend, the game reflects the real-life conflict in Gaza in which at least 1,800 Palestinians have been killed. Many comments on the game’s review section express outrage that the game is being given a platform by Google, though some also defended Israeli positions.

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Bomb Gaza is not the only title on the Android store which references the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine. There is also a game named Gaza Assault: Code Red (with a five star rating) and Iron Dome, based on Israel’s controversial US funded missile defence system.

One individual proclaimed:

Utterly shameful. Real people, many of them children, are dying in Gaza. Many of those who haven’t been killed face life with debilitating injuries, bereavement and without homes. Their suffering is as real as yours or mine, and to make light of it like this speaks of your essential failure as a human. Shame on the creators of this game, and those who ‘play’ it. – George Coote

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r00t61

Remember the game "Nukem" from the film RoboCop (the original from 1987, not the horrid remake from earlier this year)?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZAGZvwHLz8

"Get them before they get you!"

"Another quality home game from Butler Brothers."

AlaricBalth

An image that appears to show a group of Israelis on a hilltop cheering and applauding as they watch the deadly aerial bombardment of Gaza has caused international outrage after it was shared by thousands...

It said that people were seen taking popcorn up onto the hill with their chairs, and that they sat cheerfully smoking hookahs.

zerozulu

History for 400.

Killing innocent men, women and children surrounded by the barbwire or walls?

what is Hitlerism.

Herd Redirection Committee

There is a "Samson Option" app. Basically you play a gangster, going around the world threatening world leaders with destruction, if they step out of line, or don't pay up.

Then, if they threaten to fight back, you have the "Samson Option" of exploding nuclear weapons located (that is, planted before hand, as what good is an empty threat) in major foreign cities around the world.

If you can't be the winner, better for the world to burn.

RadioactiveRant

65k Brits want all trade with Israel stopped, another 8k want Daniel Taub (Ambasador to the UK) expelled.

More would sign but EastEnders is on...

logicalman

I look around and find I'm ashamed to be part of the human race.

ZerOhead

Give them time...

Civilization (and extreme violence) has been around for 10,000 years... Nuclear weapons on the other hand only 70.

logicalman

That's likely why there's very little time left.

Humans still have the mentality of warring tribes, but weapons capable of destroying cities.

When the weapons were spears & arrows, destruction of the planet wasn't very likely.

Herd Redirection Committee

Familial -> Tribal -> Municipal -> National -> Universal

Family, Tribe, City, Nation, Universe.

Even today in Nigeria, tribal politics reign supreme. A couple hundred years ago, before the unifications of Italy and Germany, most Europeans associated with THEIR CITY more than their nation. Napoleon was one of the first to harness Nationalism.

I accept all non-sociopaths as members of the Universal human race.

ZerOhead

Keep going...

Ever see soccer fans from opposing teams go apeshit on each other?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHOao4cJvA0

Humans are emotional not logical animals.

Whoever learns best how to manipulate human emotions always wins. anyway with this Gaza shitstorm going down I can smell another blockbuster Hollywood Holocaust movie coming to a theatre near you.

tony wilson

israhell testing testing laser shield

from rafael advanced defense systems.

it so cool it melts babies satans gonna love these new kosher toys.

Update: Israel Used Directed Energy Weapons To Kill Gaza Civilians

Aussiekiwi

Whens the game coming out Tony?

tony wilson

soon enough moses i am a little busy as your mom is still working my large cock she just loves playing with that foreskin dirty kabbilistic whore

Taint Boil

Look ass stain – guess how many people have been killed by Hamas “rockets” in the past ten years. Answer 28, yep read that again only 28 In. Ten. Years.

Children killed by US drones – 170+

Children Killed by israel in the past couple of months – 200+

Children killed in the Iraq war – 39% of the casualties

On and on and on...

NOT civilians or militants – CHILDREN

Man how I could use a nice piece of hickory to pummel their faces into the ground – me? I swerve around a worm on the sidewalk when I ride my bike because I don’t want to hurt another creature on Earth but I would not flinch for a second on what I said above.

loregnum

Is there an app called "Gas the Jews"...I'm guessing not as if there was Google wouldn't allow it in their app store for more than 10 seconds yet this seems to be A-Ok for them, at least until the media backlash is enough for them to pull it.

The shit people come up with and do. Pathetic species.

luckystars

I would buy it.

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Mon, 08/04/2014 - 14:04 | 5044755The Phallic Crusader
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I prefer more realistic, fact-based games.

HamFistedIdiot

The app is probably an OP, part of the Southern Poverty Law Center's or the CIA's psychological operations, with funding via some shell entity. The tell is that it hasn't been immediately pulled.

tony wilson

listen you yidish hole in sheet fuckin cock.

more injuries and deaths happen around the world from fireworks than have been injured or killed by the hamas rockets.

you yids are calling this a war it is not it is a holocaust.

nobody is fighting back and i have seen zero investigation or proofs that any rockets have been fired into israel

moses the use of depleted uranium and tactical nukes in gaza is a war crime.

2014.8.7. How Russian Activists Wish Obama Happy Birthday (pdf) YouTube

The night of 4 August, using laser lights Moscow students projected onto the United States Embassy building the face of Barack Obama. Obama wore a dunce cap and had an unpeeled banana go in and out of his mouth, with the caption, "HappyBirthday Obama."

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Much more good natured and witty than Newsweak's visual characterization of Putin as a man who dreams only of nuclear holocaust. I wish someone stateside had the balls to project this on the Whitehouse.

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Saw that on Drudge earlier this afternoon. MAN, I HOPE THAT MARXIST, TREASONOUS, SOCIOPATH, DRUG ADDICT, AMERICA'S FIRST GAY PRESIDENT, SCUMBAG IN CHIEF, SAW THAT SHIT!!!!!

haha...hey, hold on...who's knocking at my door this late at nig.....errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

FUCK YOU, NSA-CIA!!! Bitchez ;-)

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THAT. IS. GREAT.

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It is. Takes Graffiti to a whole new level. Forget the subject of the comment, for a second.

What if a WB7 or Banksy could have their stuff gorilla projected like this?

with better than Tron (original version) graphics?!??!

I love it! Great Subversive potential here.

As long as no pilots get blinded..

logicalman

Here's an exmple of projecting images - US Embassy - Berlin.

Anti-NSA messages projected on US embassy in Berlin (YouTube)

NSA Stasi Headquarters Fort Meade, Maryland aerial photograph

United Stasi Of America - Laser Projection On US Embassy in Berlin, Germany

NSA In Da House Laser Projection On US Embassy in Berlin, Germany - with President Barack Obama looking like a thug/rapper.

HamFistedIdiot

Awesome. We need lots more of that. Positive anti-(corrupt) authority attention. It reminds me of a documentary I saw for the first time a couple of days ago, Man On Wire (pdf), about a French wire walker who walked between the WTC towers back in 1974. It was an extraordinary tale of daring, competence, fearlessness, and the creation of a positive sensational spectacle. I thought glumly about the comparison between Philippe Petit's brilliance using the twin towers in NYC to advance human freedom and aspiration (he didn't get permission, he just sneaked in and did it with great zest and style) and the cocksucking Zionists who saw the towers as instruments of death and global control. When was the last time anyone in Washington inspired someone? A ZH poster earlier today spoke about the startling difference between the statesmanship of the Russian leaders, and compared that to the grunts and snarls coming out of McCain, Clinton, and the rest of these adolescent, blackmailed demons. The USA is suffering for lack of imagination, moral courage, and intellectual honesty.

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Hey HamFist, I would do it except I don't know how to do that kind of stuff. I don't know about the testicular fortitude portion of your challenge however I'm at the point in my life where I no longer give a shit.

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Fri, 08/08/2014 - 00:41 | 5063343HamFistedIdiot
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25or6to4 - We all fight back the best way we know how. I like the Oscar Wilde approach to death, making liberal use of one's wit to the very end. Or maybe like John Galt helping his torturers repair the electrocution device they were savaging him with. But outside a book, sociopaths likely should be met with death or at least a real threat of death. Theatrics and demonstrations, or the cries of a billion innocent children, just feed the Elites' desire for more control and punishment.

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Pic is out of date, Barry can take 3 bananas now

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Thu, 08/07/2014 - 21:39 | 5062627Slave
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and a watermelon.

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Shouldn't the banana go in his ass?

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Shouldn't the banana go in his ass?
But it was just there.

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Perhaps the banana represents the type of republic he presides over?

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It's nice to see someone make fun out of Barry. You'll never see SNL or the MSM make fun of the guy.

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Thu, 08/07/2014 - 21:41 | 5062631Meatballs
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Sometimes a banana is just a banana.

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I have to admit thjat was classic. I also wouldn't be surprised if more Americans are laughing with the Russians than rallying around the President.

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activists created using lasers on the U.S. Embassy in Moscow
Wake up people, there are no activists in Russia. Such "behavioural abnormality" would not be allowed anywhere else and would be punished by at least 15 days in jail for huliganism or if "HIMSELF" or his friends like Medvedev are pictured they would be looking for 3 years+.

Keep cheering for Putin, keep cheering... If there are any Americans still present on this side cheering for Putin, I would recommend - move to Russia and taste the medicine you are cheering for. Wonder if you can survive there for 3+ months.

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I think protesters in Washington DC shining lights on an embassy would stand a fair chance of getting shot or beaten up by the DC Law Enforcement creeps -- remember "Public Safety", "terrorists are everywhere" and all of the paranoia that goes along with it. No cheering for Putin, but get real.

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Fri, 08/08/2014 - 00:10 | 5063373HamFistedIdiot
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All I want is a balance of power. Giving the world to the Washington neocons and their Zionist banker masters is not a wise idea. I wouldn't want to move to China either, but that doesn't mean by default that the Zionists should dominate China. Plus, there is the moral issue here of the US puppet state of Kiev being responsible for downing the jetliner, and using this staged provocation to justify more military spending and resources expropriating. Oh yes, and immaturely getting back at Putin for exposing the US State Department for yet again being liars last year with respect to Syria and the last atrocity Washington (and the Saudis) committed and tried to lay the blame on their opponent (and claim another Russia/energy nexus).

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Fri, 08/08/2014 - 00:03 | 5063399Grouchy-Bear
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In October of 2014, I will have lived in Russia 8 years. I am an American and I do not see what you people (The go to Russia and suffer people!) always say is so terrible about Russia and I laugh when I see comments like this...

Russia is a wonderful country, much freer than the one I left...

2014.8.8. German Handelsblatt Releases Stunning Anti-West Op-Ed, Asks If "West Rabble-Rousers Are On The Payroll Of The KGB" (pdf)

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Just say it like it is, the United States is controlled by the tribe. This means never ending wars, debt, and totalitarian government. Good for them if they reject the bull shit we live with every day. Fuck the tribe.

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Finally, a sane voice amongst the Neocon/fascist clamor. Imagine, diplomacy versus threats, intimidation, violence and then failure. There is hope yet for humanity, but not from the USSA. I look forward to the day when the USSA empire enters the history books, tossed on the scrap heap of history. The biggest winners will be Americans, who will finally be freed of the Neocon diseased violence meme, free to pursue individual paths of excellence, instead of herded into new 21st horrors.

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Big money (German) is getting restless. Remember who is talking here... "Gabor Steingart, the chief editor of Handelsblatt, Germany's leading economic newspaper"

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“Big German Money” understands they’ll be in a world of hurt:

Here's from March, 2014:

Siemens chief says supports ties with Russian companies ~ Reuters

During a trip to Moscow, in which he met Putin at his residence on Wednesday, Siemens CEO Joe Kaeser said his firm wanted to honor long-standing business contracts and did not pay too much attention to "short-term turbulences" in its business planning.

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"Just say it like it is, the United States is controlled by the tribe" You are implying the Oligarchs are Jewish, but ther're not. They're more fond of Lucifer actually. You wouldn't want to blame the wrong people right?

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Maybe he implied a Tribe of Zionists?

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Fri, 08/08/2014 - 15:43 | 5067045InTheLandOfTheBlind
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Political ideologies do not equate to tribes.

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Ah there I get it. That is a terrible use of the language. A much more applicable and accurate phrase might be Gang of Criminals. Tribe means blood relations. There is no way all the people behind this are related - Pols (Obama), Bankers, MIC, petty tyrant beaurocrats... There is a long list of people in on it.

Would people start using Gang of Criminals instead. It will be factual and much less hateful, thereby not crazy paranoid Nazi sounding.

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Sat, 08/09/2014 - 09:56 | 5069524conscious being
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How about the antiSemetism term? Is that a terrible, Orwellian NewSpeak use of language? I mean the Semetics are the people getting slaughtered and maimed in Gaza. Who are the 'anti's?

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The highest level Zionists are members of a Secret Society, the Death Set, and while they may pay homage to their respective religions (Christian or Jewish) they are more indebted to their true God Lucifer/Baal. All this drive toward centralized control (EU, NAFTA, WTO, NATO) is fueled by their soulless greed.

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Enough with your decisive bullshit. Believe it or not there are plenty of Jews who are pissed off at Obama and that want to End the Fed. Go fuck yourself.

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Fri, 08/08/2014 - 19:36 | 5068110WhackoWarner
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Most people do understand that Jewish does not EQUAL Zionist. Not like I say potatoe and you say POTato.

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See my post above. Zionist is not a good word for it. Tribe is bad too. One means there is a blood relationship and the other a sort of nationalism, as in for the good of 'the people and the nation'. The people making all of these bad things happen are not related, hence no tribe. Many of them do not care what happens to their people or their nation, hence no zionism. This diverse subset of people really don't share anything in common beyond being criminals of the first order. They are a Gang of Criminals. I use criminals because they don't just lie, cheat, steal, murder. No, they do them all and even worse, they get others to do these things willfully or not, aware or ignorantly. They are manipulators without conscience.

What's worse is there isn't just one gang. There appear to be several. If all the Muslims were on the same team they wouldn't be killing each other. Same for white people going to the verge of WWIII. Latin America is just a cesspool with little tyrants here, there, everywhere. Examples are limitless. Within the just the US you have many factions; the MIC, bankers, unions, team red, team blue, and so on. They are like the olympic rings with different spheres that overlap here and there. Sometimes the overlap looks like cooperation like the Patriot Act and how that gives them more power over us or it looks like conflict like when one party tries to put the other on trial.

I'm not sure that accepting reality and trying to reconcile with them all is going to work for us.

Wow that took a turn.

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Sorry Replacement, Zionism is the enemy. At its most basic, Zionism is a racist, apparthied ideology.

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The people and banskters behind all this shit in Europe and the middle east have been making money off of wars with Chiristians killing Christians, Muslism and Christians killing each other and all variations. They profit from chaos and killing someone else's children.

They control the media and until they are brought to heel then nothing will change.

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Not only profit, Divide and Conquer.

In other words, Divide and RULE. You got to keep people divided. And divided in as many ways as possible, to provide as little potential for UNITY as possible.

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Over the past half-century of playing World Police and Corporate Enforcer, the United States has squandered all the credibility and moral standing it once enjoyed. We are witnessing the rest of the world turning away from a dying superpower.

The backlash has been building for decades now. If the last century was the American Century, this one will be the Anti-American Century.

Mike Adams, Who Is He Working For? (pdf)

truthurts: The Hollywood producer, Nathan Folks, claims that he was poisoned after exposing the Boston Bombing hoax. He stated that Adams was poisoned too, for writing a Boston Bombing hoax article, right after the event. Adams pulled the article, claiming that he was only going to focus on foods, and not political events, from then on. I found that Adams changed dramatically after his “sickness”. He claimed it was from the food he was eating, of all things. Believe what you want, but I think he made a deal wiht the devil after they poisoned him.

KCT Comment 2015.2.14. I tried to comment on the above article and it was deleted. I asked an intelligent friend of mine the following:

I've been following Dane Wigington of GeoEngineeringWatch.org, who tends to do a good job covering the issue of the high altitude aerosol spraying programs, aka "chemtrails." For example his team led a pamphletting action at a recent Alzheimer's Association fundraiser in Northern California after the association officially de-listed aluminum exposure as a factor they are concerned about. (Dane offered $500 to pay for a booth and was denied, and was threatened with arrest while handing flyers out.) It appears that more recently Dane spends much of the time decrying "global warming" and our collective doom that will assuredly result. There is a lot of censorship at his blog, with my posts deleted 2 out of 3 times. For example last weekend this was deleted:

All I know is that I want the spraying to stop. Raining down nanoparticle heavy metals upon us is insane, global warming or not. I am suspect of any climate numbers put out by the establishment. To push through this agenda at the UN level a lot of these temperature numbers were falsified. Wasn’t that what "Climate Gate" was about when the emails were leaked? Or Gore’s faked hockey stick graph that suppressed the medieval warming period? In my opinion the sun is driving most of this."

Can you please weigh in on this? IS the planet warming? IS it due to manmade CO2? Who's numbers can we trust when so much of the fear of global warming is being used to support greater centralization of control, e.g., a planet wide carbon tax program that the elites will benefit so much from?

Here is an excellent book review on the subject of Global Warming by Catherine Austin Fitts:

Book Review: This Does Not Change Everything

October 21, 2014 at 2:10 pm

By Catherine Austin Fitts

To say that Naomi Klein’s new book "This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. Climate Change" is disappointing is an understatement.

Klein’s best seller "Shock Doctrine" was a tour de force. For several years after its publication, it was a pleasure to see Naomi Klein fearlessly debating Alan Greenspan and putting him neatly in his place.

I am still waiting for the book on climate change that deals with reality, makes sense of the issues and frames the uncertainty for busy people with little or no scientific background.

For such a book to do so it would need to:

Provide an overview of climate trends based on hard statistics from redundant sources;
Explain trends in geophysical dynamics such as the deterioration in the magnetic fields:
Provide an overview of space weather and explain trends related to current climate behavior;
Address the relationship between the global spraying program that has been ongoing since the mid-1990’s and what has been happening with our climate – HAARP too;
Address serious allegations regarding weather manipulation and weather warfare and how they relate to symptoms attributed to climate change;
Address the impact on the ionosphere and atmosphere of nuclear testing and nuclear accidents;
Frame the scientific debate between those who believe that climate trends are a function of man made behavior, including fossil fuel use, or trends related to space weather and geophysical conditions;
Stop confusing the current central banking warfare model with capitalism and markets. There is a difference between organized crime and managed/manipulated economics and market economics. A coherent picture of the real economics we are dealing’ with is important to understand, as markets are potentially a very important part of real solutions; and
Understand the relationship between fossil fuels and the current dollar reserve currency status. As Chris Powell once said, “fiat currency has done far more environmental damage, then all the mining companies have ever dreamt of doing.” This discussion would include an understanding of Jim Norman’s “Oil Card” and the national security management of global oil prices as an essential component of our current system.

In addition it would have to address the two most important issues to consider when addressing our climate and environmental issues.

First, we need to question why and how we have come to be dependent on fossil fuels which are managed on a centralized basis. Currently, 87% of our global energy use is provided by fossil fuels. Why? Numerous inventors from Tesla onwards have put forward inventions that would allow us to shift away from fossil fuels. We have a clear history of suppression of a robust selection of breakthrough energy technology. This history needs to be reviewed and addressed, as does the relative efficiencies of renewable energy alternatives available for a new robust energy model.

Second, we need to define the real problem. If climate change is happening and if it is a result of the use of fossil fuel, then it is not a primary problem. Rather it is a symptom of a problem, the real problem being our governance system.

We have a governance system that has systematically engaged in – at a minimum – significant and unnecessary environmental stress and – at a maximum- is ensuring that life on earth is unsuitable for most of the population.

So our real problem is not climate change, it is our governance system. Klein never addresses who and what constitutes our governance system. I presume it is because she, like the rest of us, does not know.

Why are we living on a planet where we are not allowed to understand who runs things and by what process? Why is resource allocation on Planet Earth a complete mystery?

Consequently, if we don’t know who is governing the key policy decisions on Planet Earth, it is fair to say that we do not have access to their intelligence and perspective on risk management of population and geophysical health.

How do you build alignment with people when you do not know who they are and you do not know what they are afraid of and what their goals are? No wonder life these days feels like playing bumper cars in the dark.

What we do know is that our leadership has been pouring infrastructure investment into underground facilities, the head of NASA is insisting we expand our space investment so that we not bet the ranch on one planet while governments appear to be using digital technology to implement police states. WHY? What is everyone so afraid of and why can we not talk about it?

Let me tell you what the most dangerous policy action in the world is. It is to decide that a phenomenon such as climate change is our #1 problem, that we need urgent action on it before understanding who is going to control the policy discussion and implement the solutions. Build a consensus that man made climate change is our #1 problem, and I assure you that our mystery governance system will use it to achieve a global taxation system and more centralized control.

Bottom line – Klein’s new book is a 466 page material omission. It is a breathless journey through many of the things that are wrong on Planet Earth. It wraps up those wrongs and enjoys a wild leap into explaining everything under one enveloping rubric of climate change on the assumption that we all know that climate change is real and a result of man made factors. Finally, it draws on numerous heartstrings to ensure these folks are good, these other folks are bad, and that action is urgent. There is no more time to ascertain the facts.

Within Klein’s meanderings, there are some good nuggets:

She tears apart cap and trade and various other schemes that simply put money and power in the wrong hands. Bravo!;
She illuminates numerous stories that out more than a few dirty players. Bravo!;
She does a good job of defining the issues of extractive economics vs. regenerative economics. Actually, I wish she had written the book about regenerative economics as that is where we all need to go – no matter what the truth is about climate change. Clearly the call for new economic and investment models that align living and financial wealth on Planet Earth is urgent;
She underscores the need for decentralized, grassroots action and points to numerous inspiring examples, including the efforts in Germany to take action locally on decentralized renewable energy solutions;
She underscores the importance of decentralizing energy production and with it decentralizing economic and political power;
She describes the power of shifting our investments behind decentralized solutions; and
She describes the importance of not giving up hope and the power of continuing to take action.
So, there is lots of good stuff – enough to remind us why we are all Klein fans. However, the good stuff is wrapped in an emotional enchilada that fails to address reality, let alone provide us with a framework to deal with the issues before us.

Naomi Klein has tried to define “problem-solution” within the official reality. It is fine to do so at cocktail parties. However, doing so in the world of serious policy debates simply creates a weapon that our secretive governance system - whoever they are - can use to institute – yet again – more central control.

That secretive central control is the problem – not climate change. Bring transparency to our governance system and watch breakthrough solutions start to emerge on hundreds of important issues – climate change among them.

2016.8.4. Dear Millennials, We Found The Best Housing Markets For You! But, There's A Catch...There Are No Jobs

Chris Dakota

As much as I don't like some millenials you must understand they got screwed because the country is now an oligarchy looted by a small group of demonic vampires.

They don't have anything but doom to look forward to.

They should all vote Trump, vote for jobs not race, gender or political correctness that masks the economic failure of the working and middle class. A vote for Trump is a vote against globalism that made .00001% mega rich and the rest poor.

Vote Nationalism.

KCT Comment

Yes. Divide and conquer. Distract and conquer. Give people something to be upset about, but not about issues that matter to the .01%. Direct their anger toward things that serve to consolidate power for the .01%.

I am absolutely flabbergasted by how easily friends and family are controlled by the corporate-fascist-state-run "enemy media." If CNN and NPR say that Issue #1 is to be apoplectic about, while equally important Issue #2 is to be ignored, their many viewers and listeners do so without hesitation, despite glaring illogic and hypocrisy. What it amounts to is a cowardly submission to authoritarianism and propaganda.

The Establishment is nearly united in its hatred of presidential candidate Donald Trump. For that reason alone he deserves serious consideration. And when you look at his rejection of sovereignty-destroying international trade agreements (supported by both the Democratic and Libertarian presidential candidates); his rejection of unfettered and unvetted immmigration from civil-freedoms-hating Wahabbist Muslim strongholds (that the Democrats support); and his rejection of corporate contributions to his campaign (that the Democrats vacuum up without concern); you just have to conclude that this guy deserves a chance to alter the course of this globalist juggernaut that the entire planet appears to be hitched to.

2016.9.24. Caught On Tape: Did The US Target Syrian Aid Convoy With Hellfire Missile?

Lost in translation Sep 24, 2016 1:06 AM
Were the people at Markale in 1995 killed by their own army? Why, yes they were.

And who benefited? The Serbs falsely accused of the attack? No, they lost bigtime as a result.

The globalist side profited immensely from the death and carnage, and has ever since.

It's part and parcel of American foreign policy today: kill your own people and allies, blame the other guy. Then bomb him and take his assets.

It's the American Way.

Over 2 Million Hillary Supporters Sign Petition To Overturn Election Results (2016.11.11.)

During the third presidential debate back on October 19, then GOP candidate Donald Trump refused to say that he would honor the results of the Nov. 8 election if he were to be unsuccessful in gaining 270 electoral votes. “I will look at it at the time…. I’ll keep you in suspense,” Trump told moderator Chris Wallace. His rival at the time, Hillary Clinton, called the now president-elect’s response “horrifying,” and accused Trump of “talking down our democracy.”

Clinton would run as long as she could with accusing Trump of undermining the democratic process by refusing to accept the election results, making it a solid part of her attack platform from the third debate forward. During rallies, her supporters would boo Trump whenever Clinton mentioned the fact he refused to say he’d accept the results.

Well, now it turns out that Clinton’s supporters are the ones who are refusing to accept the election results as they were announced in the early morning of Nov. 9.

A Change.org petition started by a man in North Carolina to persuade the Electoral College to elect Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump has 2,170,188 signatures since its creation on Wednesday night.

The petition is asking the electorates to vote for Hillary because she won the popular vote and claims that Trump is unfit to serve as POTUS.

Text of the petition with 3 million signers as of 11/13/2016:

On December 19, the Electors of the Electoral College will cast their ballots. If they all vote the way their states voted, Donald Trump will win. However, they can vote for Hillary Clinton if they choose. Even in states where that is not allowed, their vote would still be counted, they would simply pay a small fine — which we can be sure Clinton supporters will be glad to pay!

We are calling on the Electors to ignore their states’ votes and cast their ballots for Secretary Clinton. Why?

Mr. Trump is unfit to serve. His scapegoating of so many Americans, and his impulsivity, bullying, lying, admitted history of sexual assault, and utter lack of experience make him a danger to the Republic.

Secretary Clinton WON THE POPULAR VOTE and should be President.

Hillary won the popular vote. The only reason Trump “won” is because of the Electoral College.

But the Electoral College can actually give the White House to either candidate. So why not use this most undemocratic of our institutions to ensure a democratic result?

SHE WON THE POPULAR VOTE.

There is no reason Trump should be President.

“It’s the ‘People’s Will’”

No. She won the popular vote.

“Our system of government under our Constitution says he wins”

No. Our Constitution says the Electors choose.

“Too many states prohibit ‘Faithless Electors’”

24 states bind electors. If electors vote against their party, they usually pay a fine. And people get mad. But they can vote however they want and there is no legal means to stop them in most states.

PLEASE SIGN AND SHARE!

Anti-Trump Protesters in Berkeley Chant 'Not My President' (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYZ_m4e9rHE)

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Got The Wrong No

Ask your candidate this:

Hillary, Are you proud of inciting violence at Trump rallies? Are you proud of selling out the country to foreign interests? Are you proud of your criminal negligence with national security secrets, are you proud of deleting 33,000 emails after they were subpoenaed, are you proud of slandering a man with false accusations, are you proud of your rapist husband, are you proud of stealing from the Haitian people when they needed help the most, are you proud of killing 40,000 people in Libya and 4 in Benghazi, are you proud that you lied to the American people and Congress, are you proud that you are involved in sex trafficking, are you proud that you, your husband and your team are pedophiles, are you proud that you worship Demons, are you proud that you stole the primaries from Bernie, then lost the election because of you arrogance and corruption?

We Americans are proud, we showed you the door to your own personal Hell. Trump has already made America Greater by defeating you.

MEFOBILLS

Hillary, Are you proud?

Hillary and Soros are not through. They are starting their purple revolution now. Expect more disruption.

http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2016/11/11/clintons-and-soros-launch-america-purple-revolution.html

Below excerpt from link above. The war is starting.

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Defeated Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton is not about to «go quietly into that good night». On the morning after her surprising and unanticipated defeat at the hands of Republican Party upstart Donald Trump, Mrs. Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, entered the ball room of the art-deco New Yorker hotel in midtown Manhattan and were both adorned in purple attire. The press immediately noticed the color and asked what it represented. Clinton spokespeople claimed it was to represent the coming together of Democratic «Blue America» and Republican «Red America» into a united purple blend. This statement was a complete ruse as is known by citizens of countries targeted in the past by the vile political operations of international hedge fund tycoon George Soros.

The Clintons, who both have received millions of dollars in campaign contributions and Clinton Foundation donations from Soros, were, in fact, helping to launch Soros’s «Purple Revolution» in America. The Purple Revolution will resist all efforts by the Trump administration to push back against the globalist policies of the Clintons and soon-to-be ex-President Barack Obama. The Purple Revolution will also seek to make the Trump administration a short one through Soros-style street protests and political disruption.

kralizec

You have to pull your head out of your ass and leave the Democrat-Media Complex's Geobbels Division to learn that the so-called Trump rape allegation is completely fabricated.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3914012/Troubled-woman-history-drug-use-claimed-assaulted-Donald-Trump-Jeffrey-Epstein-sex-party-age-13-FABRICATED-story.html

If you want to talk about unfabricated rape allegations we can talk Bill Clinton. Try harder next time. ;)

funthea

According to Demicrate double speak, any time you try to illegitimize a newly elected president, or in anyway disagree with that president, or try in impair the process, YOU ARE A RACIST. So all these whiney liberals need to go cleanse their vile hearts of all their hatred and bigotry, and embrace their new leader.

847328_3527

Jobs, make American streets safe again, arrest wall street fraudsters and Clinton Krime Family, extreme vetting of incoming tearrists, cut taxes on th emiddle class Americans who are the backbone of this country, replace Obamacare .....

Yes, I almost forgot, hang Soros for sedition, treason, instigating riots, inciting mayhem, etc.

Bush Baby

Soros and his foundations are a bigger threat to the USA than ISIS.

They need to be put on the Terrorist list, NOW.

X_in_Sweden
"Hillary "won" the popular vote through sheer fraud and an army of Trumpttorneys can prove it." .....

You're god'damn fuckin' right about that TeamDepends .

Statistical Analysis + Actually "On-Site" pre-8th November alt-polls show an overwhelming majority of would NOT vote for the rodent.

Permutations, Orders of Differentiation, sociological + demographics...etc....etc, show the POTUS-elect Trump won by a landslide.

Conservatively speaking, D Trump must have gotten a minimum of....minimum, 59% of the Popular Vote.

So.

D Trump > 59%

H Rodent C. < 40%

I'd appreciate feedback, from, math-nuts like me.

ps, as for the snowflakes, I suggest some napalm. fuck'em.

Got The Wrong No
Beware of new blood on this site. The Libs know they lost the election because of the alternative media. I have noticed an influx of Trojan Horses on the sites I frequent. They are all trying to make you cast doubt on choosing Trump.

I believe the riots will increase and there is a possibility of the assassination of Trump. If that happened, it could be the spark that triggers anarchy and the reason to institute Marshal Law. The Oligarchs will not go peacefully.

Oldwood
The only doubt to be cast on Trump will be if he capitulates to the left in some confused notion of healing. When dealing with a cancer you don't seek peaceful coexistence, you fucking cut it out!

Croesus
These SJW assholes need to be beaten within an inch of their lives.

Keyser Mustafa Kemal

The point is they think the US is a Democracy, which it is not... It's a Republic...

nmewn
What is truly deplorable (lol) is that these special snowflakes think .25% moar people voting for a provably corrupt candidate (the resignation of Debbie Wassername-Schultz, the Clinton Foundation & Haitians, elites, oligarchs & .gov press actively campaigning for Clinton, Robert Creamer & Scott Foval paying off the mentally ill homeless to INCITE RIOTS etc, ad nauseum)...

...means anything besides what it really is.

That is, that they are perfectly fine and think it proper for one sheep & two wolves to decide what to have for dinner.

Democracy! ;-)

FireBrander

Don't Forget:

30,000+ DEAD in Libya

470,000+ DEAD in Syria

and ALL of that blood is on Hillary and Obama's hands...Trump "Grabbed Some pussy" and all hell broke loose...imagine if Trump KILLED HALF A MILLION PEOPLE and EVICTED MILLIONS MORE FROM THEIR HOMES all in the name of ENRICHING HIS FRIENDS!

nmewn
lol...correct.

Today's lesson in civics class was brought to us today by...the Electoral College...created by "a bunch of old dead white guys" as the only counter balance to one or two heavilly populated states raining tyranny down on the other 48 states and their populations.

Sigh...well, I guess civics classes is an elective these days that these special snowflakes choose to ignore...at their own peril ;-)

TeamDepends
Clinton "won" the popular vote through sheer fraud, with dead people, illegals, and people who never existed voting for her twice.

shovelhead
Yup.

A friend's stepfather went from the Pentagon Procurement Office right into a VP slot at a top 10 contractor.

In his cups, he would expound at length at how the money flowed from the contractors to the uniforms Cayman accounts. He'd complain that he never took a dime, while everyone around him was getting rich and now he was watching contracts going to inferior producers of Sat Comms because his division didn't pay for play.

Being young and naive, I asked why he didn't finger these guys who were taking bribes.

"Son, I served my country with distiction even when I personally disagreed with the decisions made. You offer an opinion only when asked and all the decisions are made upstairs. The short answer is that I could make a phone call today but by the end of the week I would be in a box and the game would go on. Picture a fly trying to stop a steam-roller. That is the kind of money that is involved here. The best that I can do is to keep my people clean."

My recall may not be word perfect but I never forgot that chat.

nfield_Fly
Killing Soros is not the way.

Putting Soros and all his terrorist/violence financing activities under IRS audit is the way.

Stress this fuck Soros out - make sure he dies poor.

HamFistedIdiot

With Soros riots and neocon globalists like Harry Reid making statements that Trump is a "sexual predator", Trump may not be allowed to lead the country. All the media (NPR, CNN etc.) have not been chastened. They are spinning and attacking more vigorously than ever. A conciliatory tone may not work for Trump. It may be civil war that we're heading for; OR, it might be that Trump needs to get more truthy. Going truthy means there will be attempts on his life. But that may be the only way to regain control of the narrative and wake this country the fuck up. By truthy I mean: expose more about the establishment covering up 9/11 (cf. Fabled Enemies, Terrorstorm, Elephant In The Room, Zero: An Investigation Into 9/11, and other documentaries); Obama's real roots (CIA parents, son of Marxist, communist intentions, not eligible for president, cf. Dreams of My Real Father); sit down and talk to the American people about some of these elitist/ Council on Foreign Relations/ Rand Corporation white papers that want Americans dumb, medicated, poor, and powerless; the evidence regarding GMO and vaccines (how the regulatory process is rigged); heavy metal statospheric aerosol geoengineering; ETC ETC. This is tough and it will put him in the cross hairs for sure. But there might be no other way. The media weren't 1/10th as hard on either George W Bush or Barack Obama. But that's because not since Reagan have we had a nationalist, but Reagan got coopted. Seeing who Trump puts in leadership positions will tell us a lot. Can former NYC mayor Giuliani, who has deep insider knowledge of 9/11, be a force of truth? I think Trump can empower some people to rehabilitate themselves and find their moral backbone. But I am no koolaid drinker. I will measure Trump's success by the fruits of his actions. The globalist establishment is going scorched earth on him, trying to put Trump on the defense in every way. He may have to find a novel strategy employing more truth than we've ever seen to turn the tide. But we saw what happened to JFK just a month after his speech on the "repugnance of secret societies and secret oaths" destroying the fabric of our great republic.

Trump's geographic landslide.

Stan522 Nov 11, 2016 8:28 AM
Democrat Party, here is your lesson here.....

Next time you have a populist candidate like Bernie, you don't rig the system to assure you annointed one will win no matter what.

Clearly, this was a change year for both party's.... and you dem's chose not to change.

Plus, if you think Trump is a really, really bad candidate and now president elect, how does that make YOUR choice look, as she lost to him....?

InTheLandOfTheBlind ElOsoBlanco Nov 11, 2016 10:59 AM
Bernie had nothing stolen from him. Please stop this bull shit. Bernie was leveraged from the fucking get go. His supporters were the ones that were stolen from. The thieves were hrc, dnc, and bernie sanders. I constantly fault ron paul for lacking the fight but paul was not the traitor bernie is.

Amun Nov 11, 2016 8:31 AM
Start with overturning DNC fraudulent decision to dump Sanders

"Trump voters were scandalized by Hillary’s lies and corruption. Many of them would have voted for Bernie Sanders if they had the choice. That choice was taken away from them by Democratic Party manipulators who were sold on their own advertising campaign to elect “the first woman President.” A brand new product on the Presidential election market! Be the first to vote for a woman President! New, improved!

Bernie’s success already showed that millions of people didn’t want that woman. But the Democratic Party manipulators and their oligarch sponsors went right ahead with their plans to force Hillary Clinton on an unwilling nation. They brought this defeat on themselves."

http://www.globalresearch.ca/hillary-versus-donald-ding-dong-the-witch-is-dead-victory-for-the-wizard-of-oz/5556034?print=1

NMA Nov 11, 2016 8:33 AM
Funny - never saw a petition to overturn the results of the rigged election that got her voted the candidate over bernie......

Bopper09 Nov 11, 2016 8:44 AM
Let's start a petition to recount all of the dead people that voted democrat. And see who 'won' the popular vote. And how many people tried vote Trump at the machines that did not change from Clinton and did not notice? Or the amount of 'ballot filling' that went in un-noticed?

Face it, 20-30 thousand people at Trump's rally's. 200-300 at best for clinton, when she did rarely show up. From what I've read thousands of Trump signs were around for every few clinton signs. She's a criminal wanted for treason, and numerous other crimes.

Leave if you don't like it. Nobody is stopping you.

Mike Masr Nov 11, 2016 8:49 AM
Your crooked candidate lost. Get over it. Don't try to tell me a fucking community organizer and one term senator had more experience and more credentials than a man who built a successful business empire. This is sour grapes and 100% useless. Go off and cry in some safe room with the rest of your crybaby pals and just get it out of your systems!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v-LQgRj81A

vegas Nov 11, 2016 8:51 AM
If this wasn't so pathetic it would be hilarious; here's an idea crybaby Snowflakes. Create a special ribbon to wear and then go find your safe space, break into groups to help identify the pain, and then have your Marxist professor tell you how special you are. Does this help? And by the way, how come you nitwits didn't do this for Bernie when Cankles "stole" the nomination? Hmmmmm? Fucking idiots top to bottom.HalEPeno Nov 11, 2016 8:54 AM
The MSM, the "progressive" zombies, the oligarchy is going to beat this popular vote canard to death. The fact is, if we had a national voter ID requirement in place, and a paper ballot system and early voting were eliminated, if US elections were fraud free, Trump might very well have won the popular vote.

Look at what is going on? No counter protests. We won and we get back to living our lives. If they had won there would have been peaceful protests that would have been counter protested by these same thugs for the same reasons. To silence oppositon. To cow us and intimidate us.

They are destroying private property and assaulting law abiding citizens. Shoot their f..ing asses.

Cankles is quoting scripture this morning. I have one for her. My favorite:

"The righteous will wash their feet in the blood of the wicked..."

yogibear Nov 11, 2016 8:55 AM
Funded by George Soros and his oligarchs.

Money goes to organizations like La Raza that destroy any US sovereignty that's still existing.

Hopefully the 5 star movement in Italy gains traction as well as others to oust people like Merkel.

There needs to be a world-wide movement to get of the globalist that are currently entrenched.

RabbitOne Nov 11, 2016 9:04 AM
Peoples will? At 71 years old I can still remember when we were all Americans and not factions trying to dominate each other. What this election shows me is a significant number of people like myself still know what it is to be an American. How much longer that will last remains to be seen.

She didn’t win any popular vote - they allowed 6 to 8 million illegal aliens to vote! Where in the hell in our constitution does it say some official in California, Florida, Colorado or Georgia get to decide who is a citizen and vote!!

The electors won’t dare switch. I didn’t pay my dues in ‘nam to let some punks take over my country. I never forgot how CQB works and that event might ‘...flip my switch...” if it happened.

If anyone thinks this is over they have air between their ears. History says this will always end bad at some later date. But for now I will savor my victory ...

sudzee Nov 11, 2016 9:04 AM
Voters are mostly ferderal workers who are looking at a Trump Cull of tens of thousands of previously connected worthless overpaid parasites sucking the life out of taxpayers. Drain the Swamp from the top all the way down the ladder. Housing in DC is going to crater and lawyers begging for nickles on the streets.

aardvarkk nevertheless Nov 11, 2016 9:39 AM
At the time the electoral college was created, there were a LOT of reasons why it was a brilliant idea. Some of those reasons still apply...the most important being, do we REALLY all want to live in a country where all the rules are determined entirely by NYC, Chicago and LA? Think hard about that.

VanWinkle Nov 11, 2016 9:33 AM
This is a pathetic commentary on our society. You had your opportunity to vote. Your candidate lost. Spend a day or two and be upset. But, grow up. Get your head back in the game. Go home and take care of your families. Do your jobs. Choose to be a productive and functioning member of society, not a malcontent.

The democrats have nobody to blame except themselves. This is not a white-lash. This was not the result of a lack to support female president. The result of the election is because the democrats nominated the most dislikable, dishonest, and corrupt candidate available. One million less black voters showed up to the polls than four years ago.

Blame yourselves for not participating in the process. Blame your own hubris. Wake up from your media-created alternate reality and delusion and realize that:

You do not know what's best for me and my family;
The media does not know what's best for me and my family;
The government does not know what is best for me and my family;
Dishonesty and corrpution is intolerabe.
Most importantly, stop whining like a 4 year old child every time you don't get your way. This is not psychologically well for you, your families, or society.

Riquin Nov 11, 2016 9:36 AM

What we are experiencing now in our country with riots all over followed by chaos and destruction is the same thing that the Clintons, Obamas, Buches, etc. have done to the Middle East. They went to all those countries in the Middle East and told the population we do not like your president or king and if you do not obey and do what we are telling you to do will destroy your country. Look at the pictures of those cities; they were so beautiful, how they have destroyed them. They are going to do the same to our cities destruction is what they know to do.

The sooner we realize that we are not fighting political ideologies but that we are fighting evil, pure evil, we may develop a strategy to fight the evil one. We are going to need the help of all religions since evil is trying to destroy all religions.

angry_dad Rebel yell Nov 11, 2016 9:51 AM
The people have spoken!!!

NO MORE BUSH's or CLINTONS in the white house,,, ever!

Out of over 300 million people, how come only these 2 families feel entitled to own this spot?

angry_dad Nov 11, 2016 9:49 AM
Did TRUMP rig the primaries, use overseas money to fund a crooked election, play a joo card against bernie, misdirect funds from a foundation, lie to the FBI, hide the sex crimes of his spouse, or act carelessly about national security issues like CROOKED CLINTON?

The dems and libs got what they deserved when they selected the most corrupt candidate in the history of the usa as their nominee.

realWhiteNight123129 Nov 11, 2016 9:56 AM
Fuck the libero-fascist...

Where were they when it was said that Hillary wanted to drone assange?

Where were they when Obama was droning kids?

Where were they when Hillary decided to bomb Lybia and support jihadis in Syria?

Where were they when it was revealed that she took money from the same hands who give to ISIS?

Trump go ahead and trumple them into sausage meat.

Team_Huli Nov 11, 2016 9:59 AM
Education is not taking place today... it's that simple. These protesters are young adults that have never experienced any election other than the brainwasher O-hole. They are used to receiving trophies for being last.

Trump is now in charge, and their crying isn't going to change that. Common Core must end!!

Kimberly-Clark should be a great investment with all the tissue sales...

Newspeaktogo Nov 11, 2016 10:03 AM
What bullshit. As for the riots, they are paid for by the DNC and George Soros and mean nothing. An attempt to scare people into believing that they have some kind of power over us. Let's have them come out to places outside of the big cities and see how how scary it really is. Useful idiots, the lot of them.

847328_3527 Nov 11, 2016 10:31 AM
NPR is in a panic frenzy this morning bashing The Trumpster from every angle they can manufacture since their propaganda payments from Soros depend on it. They refuse to accept the American Mandate to Drain the DC Swamp.

Their trembling at the fact that Americans voted anti-Obama people in both houses and most governorships as well as the presidency.

Strong message that Americans see Obama and Hillary as Total Failures.

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angry_dad 847328_3527 Nov 11, 2016 10:38 AM
I will never donate another penny to NPR or PBS!

For months prior to the election, the harpies who broadcast on these networks would include in every newshour, "well, clinton is ahead by 10, 15 ,20 points, the election is already over"

These reporters would expand upon every phony charge and smear the DNC brought agains TRUMP and ignored the endless campaign, financial frauds, lies, and sex crimes done by the clintons.

The clintons and PBS hoped that a lie told frequently would become the truth

WRONG!

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Kirk2NCC1701 Kirk2NCC1701 Nov 11, 2016 10:50 AM
Update from Portland, OR...

The peaceful protests in "Keep Portland Weird" have turned violent this morning, when "anarchists" joined, and they started smashing windows in downtown businesses.

Gotta love those 'Progressives', who hate Hate, Bullying and Violence. Do they really fail to see the irony and hypocrisy of their actions?

Instead of "Because Bush" we can now safely (?) say "Because Obama".

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skunzie Kirk2NCC1701 Nov 11, 2016 11:12 AM
When and if those riots happen and do get violent, Trump will need to send in the National Guard with live ammo and orders to "shoot to kill."

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Mroex Kirk2NCC1701 Nov 11, 2016 11:14 AM
In several othe comments I made, I said that Trump has to declare Soros a terrorist on day one, have him get a Polonium Tea, Trump has to get out ahead of this, take some council from Putin and quickly but quitely exterminate Soros and his cheif minions

johnwburns Nov 11, 2016 10:51 AM
They keep jerking off her 200k edge in the popular vote when it came from her 2.5 mil bulge in CA, mostly likely from illegals, H1Bs, visa hoppers, flipped out gays, and the general uber-prog ankle deep gene pool.

Notice that its not generally blacks rioting, although some ghetto rats are using the opportunity to go feral on white folks (not racist). The nastier black elements may be more aware of what pushing it too far might bring down. It won't be a twitter war.

bh2 Nov 11, 2016 11:03 AM

"If they all vote the way their states voted, Donald Trump will win."

That is precisely untrue, of course, as the election returns plainly demonstrate.

Each state legislature makes its own rules to determine how state electors will be awarded based on the majority vote of its citizens. The federal government has no say in how electors will be chosen and different states have different rules for that purpose as they see fit.

The collective national vote is therefore irrelevant.

Electors in the various states would be amused to hear the bleating of ignorant children who are the painfully obvious products of an utterly failed public education system.

El Vaquero Nov 11, 2016 11:02 AM
Bloody fucking hell. It's like these fuckers want a hardcore right wing backlash. They think that Trump is hardcore right wing? Nope. Not even close. A lot of people voted for him because of their hate and vitriol. Keep it up, and they're going to push people even further.

Dr_Snooz Nov 11, 2016 11:14 AM
Just don't forget that it's Trump's supporters who are ignorant, uneducated, stupid, intolerant, violent and whatever other pejoratives I might have forgotten. When you see the same stuff coming from Hillary supporters, you have to call it loving and liberal.

Robert Trip Nov 11, 2016 11:16 AM
I put up with someone I wasn't particularly enamored with for the past 8 years.

I could barely stand the sight of him let alone listen to him.

Now it's the Democrats turn

Man up you metro-sexual sissy-men and you overly sensitive thin-skinned demanding females.

Enjoy.

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TerraHertz Robert Trip Nov 11, 2016 12:27 PM
EXACTLY.

Obama makes me want to vomit. Lying piece of fake shit with a shady fake past, and a tranny 'wife'. Worse even than Bush, and would have been ten times the disaster if there was a Dick Cheney pulling his strings, instead of ordinary criminals and fools.

Sole achievments: re-killing a guy in 2011 who had been dead since 2002, photoshop skilz, and building a cardboard mock-up 'health insurance' system.

gregga777 Nov 11, 2016 11:21 AM
These parasites are being sent through college and university with Federal tax dollars that will never be repaid. That alone is sufficient justification for withdrawal of ALL Federal funding for colleges and universities.

Lost in translation nevertheless Nov 11, 2016 12:13 PM
Like I told the Mrs., "if Latinos were intellectually and creatively capable of founding the United States of America, they would have founded the United States of America. But they aren't, and they didn't."

Without Affirmative Action, EOP, and assorted other, anti-white admissions criteria, the lion's share of these students would never have made it to any California state university, to begin with. It is something that I regularly see, everyday.

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GeezerGeek Lost in translation Nov 11, 2016 12:35 PM
I have often wondered if the Latino preference for dictators/oligarchs arises from their religion. Catholicism is a very top-down institution, as are dictatorships. In contrast, the USA was founded by Protestants, who (apart from the Anglicans) had a very localized church hierarchy that was reflected in the structure of the USA. I never bothered looking for corroboration, but most of the Latinos I knew at work preferred the dictatorial/oligarchical form of government, even after running away from it (particularly those who fled Chavez.) Only the Cubans I knew - including those who came of age under Batista - seemed to prefer decentralized government.

Lost in translation Nov 11, 2016 12:05 PM
More and more, this election can be seen as a contest for control of this country between those who produce and who save on the one hand, and those who believe they're ENTITLED to the fruits of another man's labor, and endorse the violent force of State to hand it to them, on the other.

While the former group is content to live and let live, wishing only to be left alone in peace, the latter group is NOT. It is this aspect that makes the latter faction extremely dangerous, particularly because their minds are unsound and cannot be made healthy. Their moral compass is warped and their values, distorted. Extreme emotions - not rational thought - rule their behavior and dictate their actions. It is clinically impossible to reason with them and, going forward, will prove hazardous to attempt to do so.

Knowing these things, and understanding the demonic entities that fuel and sustain them, I fear we are headed toward a Ukraine/Maidan-style political explosion, and a Ukrainian-style civil war. For certain, there is no peaceably coexisting with these sorts of emotionally unhealthy and violently irrational human beings.

They are a threat.

marcusfenix Nov 11, 2016 12:08 PM
many of us on ZH have been documenting for years now the fall of America into a banana republic. until now the thought of electors voting for a candidate who did not win their state was laughable.

but not anymore because that is what happens in banana republics, voting is an illusion and the will of the people exists only as something to be broken by their criminal elite overlords. I said this on election night just because we voted against the establishment and we won does not mean the establishment will simply vanish quietly in their defeat.

no, in many aspects they will be more dangerous now then had hitlery won. desperate to hold on to power and outraged that program is being disrupted, titling the elector vote to bring things back into alignment will be very, very appealing to them. the PTB's also still wield tremendous power, influence and wealth so making that happen, getting a few of these electors to change votes, especially in closely contested states is absolutely within their grasp no doubt about it.

in THIS America, at THIS time, it could actually happen.

in fact it would not surprise me if this petition is really the trail balloon, the beta to see not only what kind of popular support such a move might receive but also to measure what kind of blowback they can expect. I would say that sadly events since election night serve only to encourage exactly this sort of plan.

even sadder still is the SWJ, special snowflake, BLM types are lost to us. Bezmenov laid it all out in his four stages of ideological subversion and that is exactly what has happened to these young people. they no longer can see reason, logic and common sense, they can no longer see beyond there own twisted, hedonistic, socially engineered world view. now I'm not saying this is the old soviet guard rising from the grave for revenge, but instead that the PTB's simply ran with and completed what the soviets started back in the 60's.

and they did there work well, I just hope that if the worst happens we remember these our still our people.

because that's what this crowd doesn't yet realize, that they are being used, that to the powerful influences and people they are nothing more then cannon fodder. there is no place for SWJ,SS or BLM types in the future envisioned by fascist, NWO elite, there is only them and the serfs. in fact the SWJ's and their ilk will be the first to be lined up and shot, even before the rest of us.

so is this why hitlery and obama suddenly turned from doom and gloom to smiles and words of cooperation?

do they already know it will not get that far?

in these the Orwellian states of America anything is possible.

Silverhog Nov 11, 2016 12:19 PM
We had Obozo telling illegals to go out and vote, no repercussions. So whats the popular vote worth, nothing.

g'kar Nov 11, 2016 12:32 PM
What do you expect when they stopped teaching the Constitution in colleges and high schools

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crazybob369 g'kar Nov 11, 2016 12:50 PM
I agree. If Trump is serious about improving education, he should mandate that the Constitution be taught from an early age (K-12).

hooligan2009 Nov 11, 2016 12:34 PM
haha..brillian false flag by Trump to say he "would see" if he would accept the results.

clinton was hoisted by her own "that's disgusting not to accept electoral college outcomes"

libtards have been pwned.

trump won by figuring our where to allocate scarce resources, and won .his campain manager is not only a honey, she is fucking smart!

interesting stat, the majority of WHITE women voted FOR TRUMP.

tells you something hey? about hysteria and bigger picture.

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Sub MOA hooligan2009 Nov 11, 2016 12:40 PM
the house nigger on CNN said it was a "whitelash" OH NO THE HORROR

zeroboris Nov 11, 2016 12:40 PM
A Change.org petition started by a man in North Carolina to persuade the Electoral College to elect Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump has 2,170,188 signatures since its creation on Wednesday night.
How many people are behind the signatures? How many of them are US citizens? It seems the site has only simple email registration. It offers me to sign the petition even though I'm from Russia, and the site knows it showing me its interface in the Russian language.

Riquin Nov 11, 2016 12:43 PM

To start, we need to accept the reality that we made a big mistake trusting the Middle East war to the Obamas, Buches and Clintons, that now we are experiencing what the Middle East is suffering in our own country. So I think we need to call a TRUMP meeting with Russia and China to have a truce ASAP to avoid any more killing and destruction in the Middle East. TRUMP needs to call all the religions of the word to start preaching peace.

Obama still have control of he RED BUTTON that can destroy the whole world in a WW3 and need a faster transition to have Trump and democracy in full command.

Dave5150 Nov 11, 2016 12:45 PM
There's a reason for the Electoral College, snowflakes. It's to protect the country from stupid fucking morons like yourselves from making elections into popularity contests. Go look at the election results, preferably on a county-based map, and you'll see exactly why "a bunch of dead dudes in ancient history" were smarter in 1776 than all of you put together are now.

CheapBastard Nov 11, 2016 12:47 PM
I guess a legal, legitimately held election "triggered' some folks. Democracy in action is so "microaggressive." They need to crawl back to their 'safe spaces' on campus where Mommy and Daddy support them and the professors brainwash them and listen to their fav propaganda station npr to misinform them.

chindit13 Nov 11, 2016 1:01 PM
I heard a comment about Snowflake Generation:

"In 1944, 18-years olds stormed the beaches of Normandy facing near-certain death; today 18-years olds need a safe space because words hurt them."

J J Pettigrew Nov 11, 2016 1:21 PM
Are Chris Matthews and Rachael and all the others who flipped over Trump's

rejection of a possible fraudulent election outraged???

Hypocrisy is the touchstone of the Progressive Left.

Berspankme Nov 11, 2016 1:22 PM
Where were all the protesters when barry and hilary were startings wars in libya and syria?

Diogenese the Cynic Nov 11, 2016 1:24 PM
The reports of Hillary Clinton crying uncontrollably, if true, only establishes the bi-polarity of her sociopathic personality. Additionally, Hillary has been pointing fingers at who is to blame without looking in the mirror and recognizing that her own arrogance and criminality were the real blame even though a large number of people still voted for her despite her obvious flaws and untrustworthness. Perhaps they identified with her? And her entire campaign demonstrated the contemtable level the Democratic Party has declined to with the aid of a compliant media that pitched a sexist theme from the get go starting with Megyn Kelly and the very first question posed to Trump. It was going to be more divisive than anything ever seen since it attempted to pit one gender against another as a dominant theme.

America dodged a real bullet this election and it is time for the politicians in Washington DC to wise up or be ousted and hopefully by independents not aligned with either major party. Washington DC is filled with right wings and left wings and no brain in the middle so it just flies in a circle.

blindfaith quax Nov 11, 2016 3:02 PM
American Pledge of Allegiance Meaning of Words

"I pledge..." Meaning: A binding commitment and a guarantee, to promise solemnly and formally. Example: The word 'pledge' is used in the Declaration of Independence "We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor." "...allegiance" Meaning: Allegiance is an obligation to a ruling power promising commitment, dedication and loyalty "...to the flag..." Meaning: The flag indicates nationality and is a symbol, inspiration and emblem of the country requiring respect at all times "...of the United States of America" Meaning: The USA flag represents the 50 States and all their inhabitants. The stripes represent the 13 original colonies and reflects the history of the America. The US flag serves to remind those that take the oath that it refers to America rather than the the country of their birth. "...and to the Republic" Meaning: A form of government without a monarch. The head of state in a republic is the President. A nation in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them. "...for which it stands..." Meaning: This refers to the flag as a symbol of the country, its values, principles and aspirations "...one Nation..." Meaning: Reflects the motto of the United States of America meaning "Out of many, one" "...under God..." Meaning: The belief in a supreme being "...indivisible..." Meaning: Incapable of being divided, separated, or broken "...with liberty and justice..." Meaning: These words express the ideals of the Declaration of Independence, of freedom and of justice. It reflects the history of the country and the patriots who fought in the American War of Independence (1775–1783) "...for all." Meaning: For every person regardless of race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, disability, marital status or age
Now what part don't you understand? You are defending people who dare to burn my COUNTRY"S FLAG because they and you are not skipping happy boys and girls? Please go to your 'safe place' and let the grownups take care of our country.

dchang0 Nov 11, 2016 4:02 PM
This is rich.

So the same party that fights against Voter ID because it will disenfranchise (Democrat) voters wants to disenfranchise over 60 MILLION Trump voters by rigging/hacking the electoral college for a Hillary win.

We know FOR SURE now that the fight against Voter ID was never about ensuring everyone gets to vote--it was always about securing single-party rule for the Democrats.

Faeriedust Nov 11, 2016 10:35 PM
People loudly protesting that Clinton won the "popular" vote need to take a hard look at the electoral map. What they won, was the Left Coast, Chicagoland and the Northeast -- a dozen wealthy, overprivileged States which have dominated our economy since they invaded the Confederacy to make themselves the unquestioned rulers of the nation. But our Constitution was DESIGNED to balance the MONEY power of these densely-populated commercial states against the resources implicit in the less-populated rural states which control FOOD and ENERGY.

Take a look at the map and think like a military strategist. You have three widely-separated population concentrations, not one of which can feed itself and which can only trade by passing through the thinly-populated zones we call the Red States, where 90% of the nation's food is grown and all of the domestically-produced energy is drilled and mined and all of the metals and minerals precious and otherwise are mined. The Red States are short on mindless cannon-fodder and high-level research specialists, but in addition to all of the supplies, they hold the majority of the ordinary skilled noncoms, engineers, and field-grade officers. They have internal lines of communication; they control the Mississippi and the Gulf of Mexico, and they have exterior borders allowing land transport and trade to the entirety of South America and most of Canada. Their communities also have much less social stratification than the Blue Cities, which TALK a lot about income inequality, but tend to consist of the Rich and The Servant Class. The Blue States try to buy off their impoverished masses with handouts and freebies because they have no way to provide them with genuine work, business opportunities, and upward mobility.

Now looking at this militarily, who would win the next Civil War? Who would face internal revolt at the least stress on the system? I rest my case. The election was fully legitimate, based on a balance of power carefully designed by the Founders. Numbers alone is not all that needs to be counted.

ukipboy Nov 13, 2016 2:54 AM
I first read about this lunatic petition to have the electoral college vote for Hillary when I saw it on Facebook. A particularly deluded liberal friend posted it on her wall on Facebook and invited her friends to sign. The thing is she lives in Cardiff, Wales. So her "vote" is invalid as is the whole petition. Somebody should do what we did in the UK after the Brexit vote. A petition was started to have the vote rerun. Brexit supporters started to log in and registered thousands of invalid votes. One guy allegedly went to the bathroom and left his computer sending in hundreds of fake votes. The upshot was that the petition collapsed because nobody could verify the thousands of false names. The same treatment should be given to this Hillary petition.

One thing is quite clear. The United States of America is a federal republic. That means that to be elected as president, you need to win a majority of the fifty states and the District of Columbia. The USA is not a single electoral district, nor are the fifty states just federal zones of occupation. That is despite the best efforts of Obozo to abolish the states and make the USA into a unitary Democrat empire. My friend Seth who hails from the great state of Louisiana said "Let them come to take our guns. We fought them once before when they had a strong leader and a military power. Now we are the ones with a strong purpose and the guns to back it up". Somehow I do not think that those "bitter" white people (who Obozo said are clinging to their guns) are going to give up their states rights any time soon.

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The USA is a constitutional republic, and as such, national elections are not guided 100% by popular vote. This allows more weight to be granted to states with smaller populations to have more control over their destinies, and not be compelled to bend for states like California and New York with their mega-cities and communist bent. There is tremendous voter and election fraud in the US, and it is my hope that the Trump administration looks into the many ways in which it manifests, whether via paperless voting systems that should be outlawed or the sysematic registration of the dead, the institutionalized, and illegal aliens. The Change.org petition's principal argument is that Hillary Clinton won the popular vote. There have been a number of past presidents who didn't win the majority vote, but were elected due to the rules of the Electoral College that, again, give greater weight to the input of smaller states. It's a small, but important safeguard against mob rule. I've read of reports that some states that were called for Clinton, and some millions of votes, actually were for Trump. The purpose of this lie is to diminish Trump's mandate to institute necessary reforms on our government and its deformation in the face of globalist, neoconservative forces. I would like to see, very much, the Trump administration initiate a thorough review of the voting process in the US to ensure that every vote is counted as it was intended by the citizen who cast it, as well as make recommendations so as to safeguard the integrity of the entire process. Over the years the ascendent political parties have engaged in undemocratic vote rigging. I would like to see this end.

Also, I wholehearted support an investigation into the funding sources to these anti-democratic "spontaneous" violent uprisings. If certain organizations are behind them, these organizations should be sued, and their tax-exempt status should be revoked, at the very least. I concur with posters regarding the hypocrisy regarding the feigned outrage when these same protestors did nothing when Bernie Sander's candidacy in the democratic primaries was stolen from him via illegal actions of the Clinton campaign and their media conspirators. Sanders likely would have beaten Trump. Also

WTF HAPPENED TO THE LEFT? Former anti-war, pro free speech activists remain silent during Obama presidency (*) by Anthony Freda, Infowars, July 22, 2016

Missing: Anti-War Democrat. Last Seen 2007. Apathy: The Breakfast of Cultural Suicide. Dehumanized, Alienated, Politically Correct! War Is Peace.

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Remember when the left protested against the wars and rallied to protect free-speech and preserve our civil liberties? WTF happened?

The passion that once fueled a fight against unjust wars in which millions perish needlessly has been redirected into the apparently more important crusades for gender-neutral bathrooms or a war on the evils of manspreading.

The party that ostensibly took an anti-war, anti-corporate cronyism and anti-authoritarianism stance has nominated a warmonger who is owned by the criminals on Wall St. and foreign dictators.

They picked the most corrupt female politician in U.S. history to represent their party. Congratulations!?

Ask the few consistently anti-war and pro-liberty Democrats and they will tell you, it sure is lonely being an anti-war activist in the age of Obama and Hillary.

If a Republican president were killing civilians all over the world, executing American citizens without due process and even bombing hospitals, there would be large scale anti-war protests as there were prior to the election of Obama.

Democrats would certainly protest the war crimes that define current U.S. foreign policy if a Bush or Trump were the perp.

Will the anemic peace movement be resurrected if a Republican is elected and he continues on the current course, or will Democrats make excuses for mass murder, chaos and failure as they do for their own candidates?

Where are the protests from the left against the many crimes of Obama and Hillary?

Why don’t they care that Obama committed a war crime by bombing a hospital in Kunduz?

Why don’t they care that Obama executed a 16 year old American citizen without the benefit of due process?

Why do they give Obama and Hillary a pass on their murderous and disastrous war in Libya?

Why don’t they care that while Obama obsesses on controlling civilian gun sales, he is the largest international weapons dealer of any administration, Republican or Democrat, for the last 70 years?

Why don’t they care that Obama has undermined the role of the press and waged a war on whistleblowers?

So long as people choose party loyalty over moral conviction, establishment politicians will attempt to hijack the peace movement and use it solely as a tool for tribal division.

If we do not transcend the divide and conquer paradigm, the peace and liberty movements will never claim their true historic destiny to inspire the global awakening of conscience required to move humanity out of this dark age in which barbarism masquerades as humanitarianism.

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gustave courbet • 2 months ago
The left, like the right in America, has undergone a process of Balkanization. While there are still many people within the leftist milieu that decry the rampant militarism, persecution of whistle-blowers, and failure to prosecute Wall St. crimes, much of the left has been led into a political cul-de-sac by the Democratic party and it's friends in media.

On the right, the Tea Party was quickly astroturfed and subverted by the likes of the Koch brothers, and many well-meaning libertarians and disenchanted Republicans have been hoodwinked into supporting the mendacious plutocratic anti-Constitutionalist Donald Trump.

Divide and conquer works, even on ant-war leftists and libertarians alike.

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Anthony Freda is correct. For the past 8 years, during the Obama administration, the peace and justice wing of the Democratic party has been silent. Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize and went on to wage war against 7 countries. Barack Obama and his Secretary of State Hillary Clinton oversaw the re-branding of the Islamic terrorist group, Al-Qaeda, to ISIS, as this Western-funded terror group went on to ravage Libya, Syria, Iraq, Egypt, and others. Millions of Middle Easterners are homeless now. The human costs are untold.

War is nothing new. But our consciences have been made dull by propaganda and political correctness. I am particularly concerned with "political correctness," a phrase that means is that every issue must first be viewed through an unlimited number of lenses pertaining to, but certainly not limited to: race, sexual orientation, gender, religion, culture, intelligence, physical characteristics, et cetera. People didn't complain about Obama because he is Black, and because he had a nice smile and read well from a teleprompter.