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The part about the NSA entering your e-mail address or IP address into their data base to read everything, and know every one, and every place you've gone on the internet too, is quite interesting... Progress, isn't it? Scott *WE HAVE ACHIEVED MAXIMUM ZOMBIE STATE * ** *A Pentagon spokesman told /ProPublica/ <http://www.propublica.org/article/who-are-we-at-war-with-thats-classified> that revealing the names of who we are at war with, could cause "serious damage to national security." * *That's right, the American people are no longer allowed to know who they're at war with. It's classified. Shut up and pay your taxes, and be sure to vote for Democrats or Republicans. "We have always been at war with Eastasia," wrote Orwell. * ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *NOBODY IS WATCHING THE NSA * ** *Glenn Greenwald said yesterday, on /ABC News/, that the next blockbuster Snowden revelation will describe that government officials have been lying to us about the NSA being required to request search warrants <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/28/glenn-greenwald-nsa_n_3667083.html>. * *Greenwald describes how NSA goes around the law: "What these programs are, are very simple screens, like the ones that supermarket clerks or shipping and receiving clerks use, where all an analyst has to do is enter an email address or an IP address, and it does two things ... It searches that database and lets them listen to the calls or read the emails of everything that the NSA has stored, or look at the browsing histories or Google search terms that you've entered, and it also alerts them to any further activity that people connected to that email address or that IP address do in the future." * *Even some Senators, aware that it may hit the fan when the public find out more, are calling for reforms <http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2013/jul/28/wyden-fisa-court-anachronistic-senate> in how the FISA Court is appointed to oversee this, asking that consideration be made for the public interest. Imagine that, something akin to representative democracy.* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Democrats have always been able to sell out the American public more than Republicans, going back to Harry Truman's creation of the National Security State in the National Security Act of 1947, said by Gore Vidal to have replaced the old Constitution. By pretending to support the working class against the interests of those who fund their campaigns, transnational investors and transnational corporations, they have been able to fool many. ** **Ronald Reagan wanted to enact the "free trade" ****(NAFTA and GATT) ****legislation passed by Bill Clinton and a majority Democrat House and Senate, but he couldn't get enough Congressional support. Reagan also wanted to deregulate the media and banking, but couldn't get the support, so it was Clinton who also accomplished those, concentrating our media even further on behalf of information control and allowing the economy to go into free fall in crashing from resulting bankster scams. ** **When, at the end of the last Bush regime, the phony wars, torture and other human rights abuses hit rock bottom in public popularity, Barack Obama was brought in to expand the corporate conflicts, almost immediately adding 30,000 troops in Afghanistan and pushing Iraq to forget about the troop withdrawal in 2011 promised by Bush (Iraq's government refused, so Obama withdrew the troops, kicking and screaming all the way). Obama expanded covert wars in Pakistan, Yemen, Libya, Syria and elsewhere, while declaring war on whistleblowers to make secret government even more secret. ** **But the sine qua non of selling out the American people, the destruction of Social Security and Medicare, cannot be accomplished by Republicans-- the public are on to them. President Obama is working on it, under the radar --Jack Balkwill** *White House Continues Playing "Let's Make a Deal" with the GOP on Social Security & Medicare Benefit Cuts <http://www.ncpssm.org/EntitledtoKnow/entryid/2015/White-House-Continues-Playing-Let-s-Make-a-Deal-with-the-GOP-on-Social-Security-Medicare-Benefit-Cuts#.UfVUSerD_Mr> * *BY THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE TO PRESERVE SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE* *Just two months ago, the Obama White House vowed <http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/budget/298821-top-white-house-officials-says-obama-wont-negotiate-on-debt-limit> it wouldn't be sucked into debt ceiling negotiations with Republicans again. "Thank goodness" we all said, since that debacle ultimately led us to the ongoing budget mess and sequester <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/14/imf-sequester_n_3442817.html> which continues to hurt American families <http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/religion/news/2013/05/29/64519/sequestration-hurts-all-of-us-not-just-our-most-vulnerable/> nationwide.* **/"Gene Sperling, director of the National Economic Council, told reporters that the president "simply is not going to negotiate on the debt limit." - The Hill/** *Hmmm....Guess what? The White House has been meeting behind closed doors with Republicans ever since then doing exactly that...negotiating with Republicans about which middle-class benefits will be cut in order to head off another GOP led hostage taking over the debt ceiling. Clearly, past is prologue.* *Here's what the National Journal <http://www.nationaljournal.com/congress/republicans-white-house-in-talks-toward-big-fiscal-deal-20130717> reports:* **/"At least a dozen Republican senators are regularly meeting with President Obama's top aides in an attempt to plot a way forward on the looming fiscal challenges facing leaders this fall, senators involved in the meetings tell //National Journal//./** **/The meetings, which began after Obama hosted GOP senators for dinner earlier this year, are the first sign that Democrats and Republicans are in talks to strike a deal that would reduce the deficit and reform entitlements and taxes./** **/Republicans plan to use the debate over raising the debt limit to force Democrats to cut spending---a negotiation Obama has said he won't engage in. But these meetings demonstrate that the president is in fact engaging Republicans in a broader discussion about debt and spending./** **/An administration official said White House aides have made clear to Republicans that the president's offer from December---including $600 billion in new tax revenue for $400 billion in Medicare and other health care cuts---still stands./** **/Republicans are open to $600 billion in revenue, Burr said, but want to see it come from a mix of entitlement and tax reform. And the GOP opposes Obama's $400 billion in Medicare cuts, arguing they want more structural reforms."/** *Just in case you've forgotten, those "structural reforms" actually end traditional Medicare and put seniors at the mercy of private insurance companies, dramatically increasing their health care costs and limiting their choice of doctors. What Republicans want is passage of the Ryan/GOP budget <http://www.ncpssm.org/PublicPolicy/Medicare/Documents/ArticleID/1034/Ending-Traditional-Medicare-Would-Hurt-People-55-and-Older>, which is nothing more than "CouponCare" which gives seniors a coupon to go buy their health coverage from private insurance companies. The American people don't support "CouponCare" yet the Republicans in the House have introduced this plan three times <http://www.ncpssm.org/EntitledtoKnow/entryid/1983/GOP-Budget-Plan-Released-Today-Seniors-Say-Three-Strikes-You-re-OUT> and clearly hope President Obama will give them what the Senate will not. * *And then there's President Obama's plan for Social Security and Medicare, which isn't to be applauded either. He proposes cutting Social Security benefits <http://www.ncpssm.org/EntitledtoKnow/entryid/1989/White-House-Budget-Seniors-Retired-Veterans-and-the-Disabled-Will-Pay-Down-Our-Nation-s-Debt#.Uef_tG3s6So> for current and future retirees, veterans and the disabled plus raising taxes on the middle class through the Chained CPI <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-richtman/mr-president-please-defin_b_2923423.html>. * **/"Cutting benefits by adopting the chained CPI would cut the COLA <http://thetruthnow.org/Portals/1/pdf/changing-formula.pdf>by 3% for workers retired for ten years and 6% for workers retired for twenty years. This cut targets both current and future retirees. Three years after enactment, this translates to a benefit cut of $130 per year in Social Security benefits for a typical 65 year-old. The cumulative cut <http://strengthensocialsecurity.org/sites/default/files/The_Infeasibility_of_Protecting_Vulnerable_Populations_from_the_Chained_CPI.pdf> for that individual would be $4,631 or more than three months of benefits by age 75. While supporters claim the chained CPI is more accurate; you have to ask yourself, if this chained CPI really is more accurate, then why the need to offer an incremental benefit "bump" to some beneficiaries? The answer is simple. The chained CPI does not accurately measure these groups' expenses; in fact, it makes most of the same errors as the current formula and adds a few. Adoption of this new formula <http://www.ncpssm.org/EntitledtoKnow/entryid/1960/Seniors-Can-do-the-Math-Chained-CPI-Social-SecurityBenefit-Cuts#.UUdPPFdQCJo> is really about cutting benefits and raising taxes on average Americans to reduce the deficit." Max Richtman, NCPSSM President/CEO <http://www.ncpssm.org/PressRoom/NewsReleases/Release/ArticleID/1176/House-Republicans-Propose-Benefit-Cuts-for-Seniors-Veterans-and-the-Disabled>/** *In a letter <http://www.ncpssm.org/PublicPolicy/LettersTestimony/Documents/ArticleID/1118/Letter-to-President-on-Chained-CPI> to the White House Max also told the President:* **/"The 'chained CPI' is not a 'technical tweak,' and no amount of rationalization can make it so. In reality, the chained CPI is a benefit cut for the oldest and most vulnerable Americans who would be least able to afford it. To offer to trade it away outside the context of a comprehensive Social Security solvency proposal ignores the fact that Social Security does not even belong in this debate because it does not contribute to the deficit. Cutting Social Security benefits to reduce the deficit is unacceptable to the vast majority of Americans across all ages and political affiliation."/** *On Medicare, President Obama also supports even further means-testing <http://www.ncpssm.org/PublicPolicy/Medicare/Documents/ArticleID/212/Medicare-and-Means-Testing> which will ultimately hit middle-class families, not just "wealthy seniors."* **/"Proposals to expand Medicare means testing include increasing income-related premiums under Medicare Parts B and D until 25 percent of beneficiaries are subject to higher premiums. A study from the Kaiser Family Foundation found that this would affect individuals with incomes equivalent to $47,000 for an individual and $94,000 for a couple if fully implemented in 2014 -- meaning it would reach many middle-income Americans."/** *So, everything old is new again. President Obama is negotiating with the GOP all over again and middle-class benefit cuts are the only thing we know for sure is on the table. You have to wonder, where are Congressional Democrats?!* LINK <http://www.ncpssm.org/EntitledtoKnow/entryid/2015/White-House-Continues-Playing-Let-s-Make-a-Deal-with-the-GOP-on-Social-Security-Medicare-Benefit-Cuts#.UfVUSerD_Mr> ** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *If you wish to be removed from this list, please let us know* ** *To join the Liberty Underground news service go here: http://luvnews.info/Join.htm* ** *You may also join our talk group athttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/libertyundergroundtalk/ <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/libertyundergroundtalk/>if you would like to participate * **or join our Facebook group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/461619557192964/ * email: [email protected]* ** *Tell your friends about /LUV News/ because some people just don't get it* [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! 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