On 08/03/2013 11:25 AM, emptybill wrote: > Snowden Warns Americans To Fear The Military-Intelligence Complex > > by Chriss W. Street > <http://www.breitbart.com/Columnists/Chriss-W-Street> 1 Aug 2013 > > Unburdened by the Constitutional requirement to obtain a search warrant, > those nice people at the National Security Agency (NSA) have teamed with > Apple, Google and Microsoft to take time out of their busy day to > capture all your party pictures from college, intimate letters with your > lover and financial activities of your business in order to build a > "permanent file" for leverage against you at a later date. > > These are just the latest depressing revelations about the rise of the > military-industrial complex from whistleblower/traitor Edward Snowden as > he accepted political asylum in Russia today. > > Snowden's latest bombshell, via Glenn Greenwald at the UK Guardian > <http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/31/nsa-top-secret-program-onl\ > ine-data> , is the outing of the NSA's XKeyscore software that is > vacuuming up "nearly everything a typical user does on the internet." > The top secret program allows civilian contractors in the U.S. to troll > vast databases containing emails, online chats and the browsing > histories of millions of individuals around the world. > > The NSA boasts in training materials that XKeyscore is its > "widest-reaching" system for developing intelligence from the Internet. > > Snowden was already the "most wanted person on earth", but with his > newly-awarded legal status in Russia he cannot be legally handed over or > kidnapped by the CIA. Snowden remains a very "marked man," and seems to > need to stay in the public eye to avoid accidentally being assassinated > in some lonely hideout. Consequently,he will likely continue to talk to > the international press and appears to have more information for future > release. > > Snowden's latest revelations will also add fuel to the intense political > revulsion to Obama's 18-to-29-year-old voting bloc that was the key to > miraculous reelection in the face of the worst economic performance > since President Herbert Hoover. This group has already dropped support > for Obama by a stunning 17% over the last seven weeks as Snowden > informed them that when they look at their cell phone, Big Brother is > looking at them. > > The timing of the Snowden release came the morning after senior > intelligence officials testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee on > Wednesday and released formally classified documents in response to > earlier Snowden interviews by the Guardian. The testimony essentially > admitted that the FISA Surveillance Court that supposedly assures > Constitutional Fourth Amendment prohibition against unreasonable > searches and seizures without "probable cause" does not apply to cell > phones, computers and all online activity. > > The Obama administration, Intelligence Committee members and the NSA > yesterday continued to vehemently deny Snowden's most controversial > statement that: "I, sitting at my desk could wiretap anyone, from you or > your accountant, to a federal judge or even the president, if I had a > personal email." But Snowden's disclosures this morning seem to prove he > and thousands of other NSA contractors could wiretap any American. > > But the training materials for XKeyscore detail how analysts can use it > to mine enormous agency databases by filling in a short "on-screen form > giving only a broad justification for the search", without obtaining a > warrant from a judge. XKeyscore then provides the technological > capability that once the NSA has the "metadata" of email or IP address > to perform Digital Network Intelligence (DNI) covering all forms of > electronic communications. Given that Apple, Google, Microsoft and > others have already admitted to providing the NSA with email and IP > addresses, that explains how XKeyscore was able to collected and store > at least 41 billion total records in a 30 day period during last year. > > The NSA states: "These types of programs allow us to collect the > information that enables us to perform our missions successfully--to > defend the nation and to protect US and allied troops abroad." Some of > that may be true, but the Boston Bombing happened despite direct Russian > intelligence agency warnings about the militant activities of > Chechen-born Tamerlan Tsarnaev. > > Daniel Guerin warned in his 1936 book Fascism and Big Business to be > vigilant against "an informal and changing coalition of groups with > vested psychological, moral, and material interests in the continuous > development and maintenance of high levels of weaponry, in preservation > of colonial markets and in military-strategic conceptions of internal > affairs." President Eisenhower updated that message with a similar > warning to fear the rise of the "military-industrial complex." > Edward Snowden has updated the message that Americans must fear the rise > of the "military-intelligence complex." > >
They want us all to be like chickens in a coop. We have crazy people in charge of our corporate paid for government dependent on Americans being apathetic. And maybe they are planning a fireworks show for Barack's birthday tomorrow. Maybe trying out their new EMF weapon on Syria?
