BETWEEN THE FBI RAID ON TRUMP'S ATTORNEY AND FACEBOOK SELLING YOUR PERSONAL DATA, THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY IS FINISHED IN THE USA

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• The American public is so polarized that yesterday's irony was lost on them.  
• On April 10 Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified in Congress after it was revealed that tens of millions of subscribers had their personal information harvested and sold by Facebook, not only for targeted ads but for nefarious political ends. 
• Just hours earlier it was revealed that the FBI - at the instigation of Bob Mueller - had raided the office and home of the President of the United States' private lawyer. 
• The general public was directly victimized by Facebook, a deceitful social medium. 
• The US president and the office of the president itself were victimized by an outrageous act that is part of an ongoing campaign to topple him from office.  This campaign is headed by Democrats and Never-Trumpers, and abetted by Swamp Republicans. 
• Following is the opinion of one of the best lawyers in the country, Alan Dershowitz. 
• He says that with this FBI raid, the long-held right to confidentiality between lawyer and client has been irretrievably damaged.  Anyone could be next. 
• By the way, the FBI was not looking for signs or treason or major crimes against the nation.  They were looking for salacious information regarding Trump's extramarital affairs and his efforts to cover them up.  That's their official story, anyway.  Unofficially, they will be looking for ANYTHING whatsoever that can be used to throw Trump out of office.
• You can say that along with the loss of lawyer-client privilege, democracy itself and the right of citizens to elect the president of their choice have also suffered a blow.  It is the swamp and Deepstate using all kinds of dirty tricks that continue to be in charge.  Your vote is a mere symbolic gesture meaning nothing.  

VIDEO - SEAN HANNITY INTERVIEWS LAWYER ALAN DERSHOWITZ ON FBI RAID ON MICHAEL COHEN'S OFFICE

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPGROJIKLv4&spfreload=5

Why the FBI raid on Trump's lawyer hurts all of us

By Alan Dershowitz 

Alan M. Dershowitz is Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Emeritus, at Harvard Law School and author of, "Trumped Up! How Criminalization of Political Differences Endangers Democracy," which is now available. Twitter: @AlanDersh   Facebook: @AlanMDershowitz.

 

Many TV pundits are telling viewers not to worry about the government’s intrusion into possible lawyer-client privileged communications between President Trump and his lawyer, Michael Cohen.

 

The pundits say that since prosecutors won’t get to see or use any privileged material taken when FBI agents raided and searched Cohen’s law office, home and hotel room Monday the intrusion will not be a problem. This is because prosecutors and FBI agents create firewalls and taint teams to preclude privileged information from being used against the client in a criminal case.

 

But this analysis completely misses the point and ignores the distinction between the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution on the one hand, and the Fourth and Sixth Amendments on the other.

 

The Fifth Amendment is an exclusionary rule. By its terms, it prevents material obtained in violation of the privilege of self-incrimination from being used to incriminate a defendant – that is, to convict him or her of a crime.

 

But the Fourth and Sixth Amendments provide far broader protections: they prohibit government officials from in any way intruding on the privacy of lawyer-client confidential rights of citizens.

 

In other words, if the government improperly seizes private or privileged material, the violation has already occurred, even if the government never uses the material from the person from whom it was seized.

 

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ARTIST ARRESTED AND THREATENED WITH FIVE YEARS IN JAIL FOR ANTI TERROR POSTERS at USA university - WATCH VIDEO with author and artist Oleg Atbashian who was never arrested by the Soviets for his activism, only by US police

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• In today's United States you can't wear a Trump hat or express pro-Trump opinions in public without getting beaten up. 
• You can't have pro-life, anti-abortion information booths on campus, since they have been outright banned. 
• You can't speak out in favor of Israel in public without getting violently assaulted. 
• And you can't lecture or attend meetings favorable to Israel on campus without a horde of Muslims and friends invading the venue and threatening participants who must flee for safety. 
• That's how freedom of speech is dying in America, helped by authorities at all levels.
• Media everywhere, particularly social media, are censoring anything that offends liberals and Muslims.  All other targets are OK.  Twitter allows calls for Trump's assassination but bans criticism of Jihad.

Oleg Atbashian, the mastermind behind The People’s Cube, was arrested last week for posting anti-jihad posters at George Washington University campus.

Police told us that the content of our posters was violent and disturbing to some students, especially the one with the Hamas terrorist standing in pools of blood over his dead victims. Such interpretation flipped our message on its head entirely, turning it from sympathy for the victims of violence into a threat of violence.

The magistrate set Oleg’s bail at $8,000 and he could face 5 years in jail for the anti-terror posters.

 

The former Soviet dissident and activist Oleg Atbashian was never arrested in the Soviet Union.  But it was in his new home in the Land of the Free, where he is deemed to deserve years of incarceration for his anti-jihad posters.

 

Selective enforcement is now the main tool of the modern tyrant. Laws are interpreted to prevent any kind of opposition to Marxist and Islamic domination of the culture and legal system.  Posters and other materials supporting far left wing causes and Islamic ones (that at times even promote genocide of Israelis, and Jews overall) can be found on campuses across North America.  Some universities even hold "Israeli Apartheid Week", something which, in Canada, would be a hate crime if it was targeted, for example, at Saudi Arabia. 

 

 Oleg Atbashian is a writer and graphic artist from the former USSR. Born and raised in Ukraine, he grew up believing in Communism and at one time worked as a propaganda artist, creating visual agitprop for the local Party committee in a Siberian town. He became disillusioned with the corruption and the hypocrisy of the socialist system and emigrated to the United States in 1994. His writings present a view of America and the world through the prism of his Soviet experience. He is the creator of ThePeoplesCube.com, which Rush Limbaugh described on his show as "a Stalinist version of The Onion." His essays and satires have been translated into many languages and his graphics reproduced in various publications around the world. (Amazon).               

 

FrontPage News reported:

It’s not a story out of the Soviet Union though Oleg Atbashian, an artist, activist and commentator, had gotten in trouble for defying the authorities there too. 

“Back in my Soviet dissident days, when I was collecting signatures in defense of Andrei Sakharov, I was screamed at, threatened, and lectured by the KGB and Communist functionaries. What I never imagined was that in the United States, the land of the free, I would not only be subjected to similar treatment, but go to jail,” Oleg writes.

But that’s exactly what happened to him. 

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BIG PHARMA IS TOP FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTOR TO CONGRESSMEN, who sign resolution for an end to vaccine exemptions - They say vaccines are "ESSENTIAL TO NATIONAL SECURITY" - Vaccine manufacturers themselves include official warnings about "life-threatening" and "disabling" side effects

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Key points: 

• Legislators want to eliminate exemptions for vaccines in the name of national security
• The same legislators are beneficiaries of considerable donations by pharmaceutical companies
• There is plenty of scientific evidence that vaccines can produce dangerous side effects
• The MMR vaccine manufactured by Merck, and given to babies and small children, officially discloses possible risks which include "life threatening" and "disabling diseases"
• Other vaccines also include a similar official list of dangerous and even lethal side effects
• Big Pharma generates $77.5 BILLION in revenue for every $1 Million they give to politicians

Lawmakers declare vaccines essential to national security after taking money from Big Pharma

By Ethan Huff, Natural News

 

Politicians from both sides of the aisle unequivocally throw their support behind the so-called "Vaccines Save Lives" agenda, which is right now pushing to eliminate vaccine exemptions and force everyone in America to get vaccinated.

 

According to The Hill, more than 90 members of Congress have signed onto the resolution which, while it isn't binding in any sort of legal sense, represents the first shot fired in a brewing war against medical freedom.

 

The top financial contributors to Congress during the 2013-2014 session, according to OpenSecrets.org, include Pfizer Inc., Amgen Inc., Merck & Co., Abbott Laboratories, AstraZeneca PLC, Eli Lilly & Co., Sanofi, AbbVie Pharmaceuticals, Johnson & Johnson, GlaxoSmithKline, United Therapeutics, Novartis AG, Genentech Inc., Novo Nordisk and Allergan Inc. -- these are all companies that produce drugs and vaccines.

 

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THE MOVEMENT FOR GOVERNMENT-ENFORCED VACCINATIONS UNITES RIGHT AND LEFT - An underlying hankering for tyranny in America? - Does the State own your body? - The DANGERS OF VACCINES

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Vaccinations, like any other invasive medical procedure,

should be a matter of personal choice.

Pro vax activists cite science, but they ignore the many solid scientific studies that contradict their claims

Rand Paul

The pro-vaccination wave is so strong that even a usually independent thinker such as Rand Paul - who questions vaccines safety - succumbed to it and had a photo of himself getting vaccinated!

Our bodies and minds are the ultimate barrier for the state's push for complete control of our lives.   They belong to us, not to the government.

The state, however, feels entitled to impose violations of our bodies, such as X-Ray machines at airports.  But to a certain extent most of us have the choice of using air travel or not. 

Not so with vaccines.  Not anymore.  Adults and children are being coerced to submit to vaccinations. 

Children are increasingly denied access to school unless they are vaccinated.  Home schooling is not an option for most parents, and it is heavily discouraged by the state.

Health workers are being forced to submit to vaccinations of questionable usefulness (such as the latest batch of flu vaccines), and that may entail potential danger to their health.

Science is demonstrating evidence of the risk of vaccines, while the media has a blackout on these studies:

*  Some children have a gene that makes them vulnerable to vaccine-related seizures.
Scientists in Denmark said they had found genetic clues to explain why a small number of children have febrile seizures—brief convulsions—after receiving the MMR vaccine.
http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2014/10/some-children-have-gene-that-makes-them.html  

*  Link between autism and vaccines made from cells of aborted babies.
A new study published in the Journal of Public Health and Epidemiology reveals a significant correlation between autism disorder (AD) and MMR, Varicella (chickenpox) and Hepatitis-A vaccines.
http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2014/09/study-links-autism-with-vaccines-made.html

*  Study reveals vaccines cause autism in baby monkeys

The research findings presented at the International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR) in London, England, have revealed that young macaque monkeys given the typical CDC-recommended vaccination schedule from the 1990s, and in appropriate doses for the monkeys’ sizes and ages, tended to develop autism symptoms.  Their unvaccinated counterparts, on the other hand, developed no such symptoms, which points to a strong connection between vaccines and autism spectrum disorders.

http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2014/05/study-reveals-vaccines-cause-autism-in.html

*  Highly toxic squalene MF59 adjuvant that caused Gulf War syndrome in military servicemen now being added to some civilian flu vaccines
http://www.naturalnews.com/042241_Gulf_War_syndrome_flu_vaccines_MF59.html

* Vaccines kill infants, children and adults.
Strong evidence links vaccines to sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). 
More than one hundred previously healthy young women have died as a result of the HPV vaccine. The flu vaccine has been documented as awarding the most money for serious health injuries, including death.
http://vactruth.com/2014/12/12/10-reasons-not-to-vaccinate/

Judge Andrew P. Napolitano wrote on Fox News:
 
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie unwittingly ignited a firestorm earlier this week when he responded to a reporter’s question in Great Britain about forced vaccinations of children in New Jersey by suggesting that the law in the U.S. needs to balance the rights of parents against the government’s duty to maintain standards of public health.

Before Christie could soften the tone of his use of the word "balance," Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul jumped into the fray to support the governor. In doing so, he made a stronger case for the rights of parents by advancing the view that all vaccines do not work for all children and the ultimate decision-maker should be parents and not bureaucrats or judges. He argued not for balance, but for bias -- in favor of parents.

Continue reading, including additional references on the correlation between vaccines and serious side effects, and links to websites dedicated to expose scientific facts against vaccinations.  Also what repeated unnecessary vaccines do to our pets.

THE SKUNK - THE FIRST RIOT CONTROL DRONE - It fires pepper spray, rubber bullets, and dye-balls (for now) at protesters

The Skunk is billed as the first riot-control drone: It fires pepper spray, rubber bullets and dye-balls at protesters; blinds them with strobes; and broadcasts audible warnings, all while keeping its all-seeing eye trained on the crowd and recording their actions.

 

The octocopter is a product of the South African company Desert Wolf. Armed with four paintball guns and ammunition hoppers, it can fire a variety of ammunition to subdue or disperse unruly crowds, or simply mark certain people in the group.

 

The Skunk is designed to control crowds without endangering the lives of security staff.

 

Bright strobe lights, on-board speakers and “blinding lasers,” the company boasts, enable operators to communicate with and warn the crowd.  But if they don’t respond, look out. 

HOW TO PROTECT YOUR POWERED-OFF iPHONE FROM NSA SPYING

photo Josh Valcarcel - Wired

Just because you turned off your phone doesn’t mean the NSA isn’t using it to spy on you.

 

Edward Snowden’s latest revelation about the NSA’s snooping inspired an extra dose of shock and disbelief when he said the agency’s hackers can use a mobile phone as a bug even after it’s been turned off.

The whistleblower made that eye-opening claim when Brian Williams of NBC Nightly News, holding his iPhone aloft during last Wednesday’s interview, asked, “What can the NSA do with this device if they want to get into my life? Can anyone turn it on remotely if it’s off? Can they turn on apps?

 

“They can absolutely turn them on with the power turned off to the device,” Snowden replied.

Snowden didn’t offer any details on this seemingly magical feat. But a group of particularly cunning iPhone hackers say it’s possible. They also say you can totally and completely turn off your iPhone so no one—not even the NSA—can use it to spy on you.

Read more, watch video and learn how to protect your phone from the NSA  -  http://www.wired.com/2014/06/nsa-bug-iphone/

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SWAT TEAM THROWS GRENADE INTO TODDLER'S CRIB - BABY BURNED AND IN A COMA - The swat team were looking for drugs - Not clear if they found them

Bou before attack - Daily Mail

SWAT team throws a stun grenade into a toddler's CRIB during drugs raid leaving him in a coma with severe burns

Wisconsin mother Alecia Phonesavanh and her 19-month-old son, Bou, were visiting her sister-in-law in Atlanta, Georgia

They were all asleep when police raided the home early Wednesday

Phonesavanh said officers threw a grenade, which landed in her baby's crib and exploded in his face

The child was seriously injured and was rushed to Grady Memorial Hospital's burn unit where doctors placed him in a medically induced coma

Most photographs of the baby's burns are too graphic to show

Police said a multijurisdictional drug unit issued a warrant and organized the SWAT operation

It's not clear if any drugs were found in the home during the raid

 Read more and see photos of baby in a coma
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2643344/Horror-SWAT-team-throw-stun-grenade-toddlers-CRIB-drugs-raid-leaving-coma-severe-burns.html

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DON'T GIVE AWAY THE INTERNET

Commentary by 

Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.

 

This blog does not necessarily endorse outside comments.

 

Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. formerly acted as an Assistant Secretary of Defense under President Reagan. He is President of the Center for Security Policy (www.SecureFreedom.org), a columnist for Breitbart News Network and host of the nationally syndicated program, Secure Freedom Radio. 

 

It is a safe bet ICANN will fall under the effective, if not de jure, control of the United Nation’s International Telecommunication Union (ITU). Should that happen, neither the security, stability, nor resiliency of the Internet’s Domain Name System can be assured.

Indeed, this sort of arrangement has long been demanded by such enemies of freedom and free expression as the governments of Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran; multi-national groups like the Organization of Islamic Cooperation; and the UN bureaucracy.

US GOVERNMENT GIVES UP REMAINING CONTROL OVER THE INTERNET - WHAT NOW? WHO HAS THE MORAL CREDIBILITY TO DEFINE INTERNET FREEDOM?

THE TOUGH QUESTION NEVER ASKED - AND NEVER ANSWERED:

 

What country in the world has more moral credibility than the USA?  

 

Just look at what the United Nations has become:  a club for bloody despots and countries guilty of genocide dictating 'morality' to us.

 

Yes, the United States government is guilty of many sins and abuses.

 

But considering the power it has wielded in the world, it still is the best of the bunch.

 

U.S. to relinquish remaining control over the Internet

 

By Craig Timberg, Washington Post  - Published: March 14

 

U.S. officials announced plans Friday to relinquish federal government control over the administration of the Internet, a move that pleased international critics but alarmed some business leaders and others who rely on the smooth functioning of the Web.

 

Pressure to let go of the final vestiges of U.S. authority over the system of Web addresses and domain names that organize the Internet has been building for more than a decade and was supercharged by the backlash last year to revelations about National Security Agency surveillance.

 

The change would end the long-running contract between the Commerce Department and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a California-based nonprofit group. That contract is set to expire next year but could be extended if the transition plan is not complete.

HOW THE ELDERLY ARE LOCKED UP AGAINST THEIR WILL IN THE UK

Prisoners of care homes: Devastating report reveals tens of thousands of elderly and vulnerable people locked up against their will.

 

Many are dumped in homes as money-saving measure or for convenience

Care homes are often cheaper than caring for the elderly in their own home

Judge: 'People are being deprived of liberty without protection of the law'

ANIMAL ABUSE - IDAHO STATE HOUSE PASSES GAG BILL FOR INCARCERATION OF THOSE WHO FILM ANIMAL ABUSE IN FARM INDUSTRY

 

BOISE, Idaho — A bill to jail people who secretly film animal abuse at Idaho's agricultural facilities is headed to Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter's desk.

 

What foes of the measure dub the "ag gag bill" passed the House 56-14 Wednesday afternoon with a near party-line split. The Senate backed it 23-10 earlier this month.

 

If Otter signs the bill into law, anyone who films or records on an agricultural operation without permission will face up to a year in jail. That's double the maximum penalty for animal cruelty under Idaho law.

2013 - OUR YEAR OF APATHY AND COWARDICE - WHILE THE FUKUSHIMA ECOCIDE GOES ON

Commentary by Tracy W.

We are often reminded of crucial moments of history when events cascade apparently with a force of their own - while people look on as deer in the headlights.  Historians review those events later on and can pinpoint the missed opportunities when even a small nudge would have changed the course of events.  But people waited for others to take the initiative, and finally hoped or prayed for the best outcome. 

2013, as 2012 and even 2011 will be remembered as years of shameful failure to act in face of a momentous event:  the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

WE ARE ALL RESPONSIBLE

Originally blamed on an earthquake and tsunami, those immediately responsible for the nuclear catastrophe - Tepco and the Japanese government -  have avoided responsibility.  But there are other layers that extend from that center of responsibility.  There is the nuclear industry, the scientific establishment, the media, environmental organizations and independent activists, other governments, nuclear watchdogs, and us, the public.  We are all responsible for the way the Fukushima disaster has escalated due to mismanagement at the top.

To this day they are playing down the situation.  No, they say, it's not as bad as it sounds.  The moment they acknowledge the truth, they would have to do something about it.  And it would cost money.  It's better for all involved, it seems, to let events unfold until the moment when they can claim it's too late to do anything about it.

IT'S HAPPENED BEFORE

This reminds us of the Second World War.  The Nazis and their allies were perpetrating all kinds of atrocities.  They started small, with harassment, incarceration, confiscation of personal property.  The West dismissed all that as rumors - or aberrations, at worst.

The Nazis moved on to rounding up entire communities and exterminating them.  That too was played down by the western media.  They West had its excuses.  Governments - including the United States and British governments - kept silent and did nothing.  Their motives were vile. 

 (If they helped Jews survive, they would have had to take them in, give them a home (Gasp!) maybe even in Britain and the United States.  Or in Palestine, which they wanted very much to gift to the Arabs.

When the whole conflagration was over, they - governments, the media and the public - claimed they never knew the extent of the genocide.  Millions of people died because good people refused to act when it was still time to prevent it.

THE NUCLEAR INDUSTRY.

The nuclear industry has enjoyed a smooth ride all these years, helped, curiously, by the environmentalists. The environmentalists have used and nurtured the threat of Global Warming, and have often portrayed nuclear reactors as a desirable alternative to the Big Bad Fossil Fuels.

There has been barely any questioning of the nuclear industry, in spite of several close calls where a major disaster was barely averted in the United States.  Furthermore, there are official scientific records that attest to the dangerous and unpredictable nature of this industry.  The very simple fact that there is no effective way to dispose of nuclear waste should give anybody with two brain cells to rub together, pause to reflect.

The Hanford nuclear waste facility in Washington state is leaking all over the place, with radioactive waste very close to (or already in) the Columbia river.  The condition of radioactive waste tanks is so precarious that scientists fear that they could explode, contaminating a large area of the American and Canadian west.

AND NOW FUKUSHIMA.

There was a time at the start of this disaster when the most logical move would have been for the international community to organize and gather the most knowledgeable scientists and technicians to brainstorm and come up with possible solutions to mitigate the damage.  Nothing was done.  And nothing is being done, three years after the fact.

Scientists have remained mostly silent.  The few who feel obligated to pay lip service to this tragedy, do it with measured words, lest they'll be shunned by their colleagues for being "alarmists".  Being shunned by the scientific establishment means putting their jobs, grants and reputations at risk.  Their moral duty to inform governments and the public is shunted aside.

The media, with their compromised loyalties, are also playing along with governments in keeping a lid on the most disturbing information.  Only in the past year or so they have published a few reports here and there, to assuage their conscience.

2014 will go on, and Fukushima will continue to worsen.  But not until the figures for the human and animal casualties are put together, will we know how we slept while this ecocide was going on.

How will we answer to future generations? 

How will we answer our conscience?

FUKUSHIMA AND NUCLEAR INFO

• Nucnews - Nuclear news headlines
• Fukuleaks - Simply Info

More on Fukushima on this blog -
http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/search/label/Fukushima
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INSIDE THE NSA 'TAO' HACKING UNIT

 

DER SPIEGEL Special Report on the NSA Office of Tailored Access Operations, or TAO

 

The NSA's TAO hacking unit is considered to be the intelligence agency's top secret weapon. It maintains its own covert network, infiltrates computers around the world and even intercepts shipping deliveries to plant back doors in electronics ordered by those it is targeting.

 

TAO is the NSA's top operative unit -- something like a squad of plumbers that can be called in when normal access to a target is blocked.

 

According to internal NSA documents viewed by SPIEGEL, these on-call digital plumbers are involved in many sensitive operations conducted by American intelligence agencies. TAO's area of operations ranges from counterterrorism to cyber attacks to traditional espionage. The documents reveal just how diversified the tools at TAO's disposal have become -- and also how it exploits the technical weaknesses of the IT industry, from Microsoft to Cisco and Huawei, to carry out its discreet and efficient attacks.

 

 TAO specialists have directly accessed the protected networks of democratically elected leaders of countries. They infiltrated networks of European telecommunications companies and gained access to and read mails sent over Blackberry's BES email servers, which until then were believed to be securely encrypted. Achieving this last goal required a "sustained TAO operation," one document states.

 

It is from hacker circles that the NSA recruits new hires for its Tailored Access Operations unit. In recent years, NSA Director Keith Alexander has made several appearances at major hacker conferences in the United States. Sometimes, Alexander wears his military uniform, but at others, he even dons jeans and a t-shirt in his effort to court trust and a new generation of employees.

 

There are now TAO units in Wahiawa, Hawaii; Fort Gordon, Georgia; at the NSA's outpost at Buckley Air Force Base, near Denver, Colorado; at its headquarters in Fort Meade; and, of course, in San Antonio.

 

One trail also leads to Germany. According to a document dating from 2010 that lists the "Lead TAO Liaisons" domestically and abroad as well as names, email addresses and the number for their "Secure Phone," a liaison office is located near Frankfurt -- the European Security Operations Center (ESOC) at the so-called "Dagger Complex" at a US military compound in the Griesheim suburb of Darmstadt.

 

Don't miss page three of this report:

 

At the same time, it is in no way true to say that the NSA has its sights set exclusively on select individuals. Of even greater interest are entire networks and network providers, such as the fiber optic cables that direct a large share of global Internet traffic along the world's ocean floors.

 

Sometimes it appears that the world's most modern spies are just as reliant on conventional methods of reconnaissance as their predecessors.

 

Take, for example, when they intercept shipping deliveries. If a target person, agency or company orders a new computer or related accessories, for example, TAO can divert the shipping delivery to its own secret workshops.

 

The NSA calls this method interdiction. At these so-called "load stations," agents carefully open the package in order to load malware onto the electronics, or even install hardware components that can provide backdoor access for the intelligence agencies. All subsequent steps can then be conducted from the comfort of a remote computer.

 

These minor disruptions in the parcel shipping business rank among the "most productive operations" conducted by the NSA hackers, one top secret document relates in enthusiastic terms. This method, the presentation continues, allows TAO to obtain access to networks "around the world."

Read more about the above and about the methods employed to infiltrate German Chancellor Angela Merkel's computers here - http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/nsa-secret-toolbox-ant-unit-offers-spy-gadgets-for-every-need-a-941006.html

More on the NSA spying:

NSA paid computer security firm to weaken encryption
http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2013/12/nsa-paid-computer-security-firm-to.html

How the NSA infects computers with malicious software
http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2013/11/how-nsa-infects-computers-with.html

The NSA scandal - Connecting the Dots - The powers of General Alexander
http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2013/06/technology-news-nsa-scandal-connecting.html

How intelligence companies pay Congressmen overseeing surveillance
http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2013/12/intelligence-companies-money-flows-to.html

Satire - How the NSA intercepted children's letters to Santa Claus
http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2013/12/satire-how-nsa-intercepted-childrens.html

Satire - Video - You better watch out, you better not Skype
http://rt.com/usa/aclu-nsa-santa-claus-328/

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This blog's archive on SURVEILLANCE by government and private companies
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EINSTEIN DENOUNCED FOOLISH FAITH IN AUTHORITY - NO MATTER WHAT IDEOLOGY OR BELIEF IT REPRESENTS

By Washington Blog


Albert Einstein said:

A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of the truth.

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Indeed, scientists have shown that people will go to absurd lengths - and engage in mental gymnastics – in order to cling to their belief in what those in authority have said.

Part of the reason so many are so vulnerable to naive belief in authority is that we evolved in small tribes … and we assume that the super-elites are just like us.

In reality, there are millions of psychopaths in the world … and they are largely running D.C. and on Wall Street.

These people have no hesitation in lying to promote their goals.
The Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs told Morley Safer of 60 Minutes and CBS News:

Look, if you think any American official is going to tell you the truth, then you’re stupid. Did you hear that? — stupid.

And studies show that the super-rich lie, cheat and steal more than the rest of us.

Who’s to Blame … Big Government or Big Business?

 

Conservatives tend to believe that the captains of industry are virtuous and that the government can’t be trusted.

Liberals tend to believe that government servants are virtuous and that corporations can’t be trusted.

But the truth is that psychopaths are psychopaths … whether they’re in the private sector or government.

And there is no such thing as representative government or free market capitalism anymore. Big corporate money has coopted the government; and ill-guided politicians have destroyed the free market.

Corrupt government agencies and officials and corrupt corporations and executives have become intertwined in a malignant, symbiotic relationship.

And they’re trying to grab more and more power and wealth every day.

Big Business Has Turned Into a Criminal Syndicate

 

Big banks and giant oil companies have more or less become criminal enterprises.
And conservatives are not amused.

Government Has Gone Rogue

 

If the government were accountable, then government corruption, deceit and wrongdoing would be held to a modest level.

But the government is not accountable.

When bad government policy leads to bad results, the government manipulates the data … instead of changing policy.

Government pumps out massive amounts of propaganda through the mainstream and “gatekeeper” alternative media, movies, video games, and other venues.

The government has launched a war on journalism, and censors and manipulates social media. And see this.

The massive NSA is spying on all of us – including government officials, reporters, and everyone else – as a way to crush dissent.

And people who criticize government policy or government officials may literally be labeled terrorists.

No wonder the American public has lost faith in the 2 party system. And see this.

People of faith shouldn’t be fooled into blindly deferring to government authority.

Source - http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/12/einstein-foolish-faith-authority-worst-enemy-truth.html

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SATIRE - HOW THE NSA INTERCEPTED CHILDREN'S LETTERS TO SANTA CLAUS

 

SATIRE - By G-Had

 

FORT MEADE, MD – The National Security Agency routinely intercepts children’s letters to Santa, internal agency documents have revealed.

 

The documents describe an operation known as MILK COOKIES, based out of Fort Meade and run in conjunction with the U.S. Postal Service. COOKIES is the interception of the letters while MILK feeds them through a complex series of algorithms to spot any hidden messages.

 

Agency director Gen. Keith Alexander had previously testified to Congress in 2011 that the NSA would occasionally collect letters addressed to Santa, but insisted that it was totally accidental and that no one was actually reading or storing them.

 

The NSA is prohibited from directly monitoring American citizens under both Executive Order 12333 and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. However, because the letters are addressed to the North Pole, which falls outside of U.S. territory, they are considered potential foreign intelligence signals which the NSA is authorized to intercept.

 

Speaking on condition of anonymity, a former senior administration official defended the program: ”We’re only looking for any unusual presents, like children who ask Santa for pressure cookers, large amounts of ammonium nitrate fertilizer, hyzadrine rocket fuel, things like that. I mean a six-year old with a hammer is bad enough; just try to imagine that same six-year old with a truck bomb.”

 

The leaked reports show that the NSA also routinely hacked Santa’s Naughty and Nice List for any information on world leaders, and at one point tried to smuggle surveillance devices disguised as lumps of coal into Santa’s sack. They also reveal the existence of a massive NSA data storage center at the North Pole, known as ELFCHELON, which dwarfs even the planned one at Utah, and is capable of storing letters dating back to 1952.

 

The documents were part of the massive data haul taken by fugitive whistleblower and Playgirl centerfold Edward Snowden, whom the former official referred to as “a very naughty boy.”

U.S. intelligence has closely monitored the Letters to Santa program ever since the U.S. Post Office first created it in 1912. Initially, children’s letters were reviewed by both Army and Navy Intelligence under the aegis of Project SHAMROCK until that program’s termination in 1975.

 

Four years later the NSA began MILK COOKIES in response to the Secret Santa program, which the agency initially thought was a Soviet operation after a flier for the program mistakenly replaced the picture of Santa with Karl Marx.

 

Following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the NSA began an almost-relentless campaign to insert itself both legally and covertly into the Christmas spirit.

 

First the NSA managed to get language inserted into the PATRIOT Act which required Santa to file a flight plan with NORAD and submit to random TSA inspections at select chimneys. Then came the 2002 judgment in United States v. Kringle, when the NSA and the Justice Department ordered him to deliver multiple GPS devices to the location of Usama bin Laden and other high-ranking Al Qaeda leaders.

 

When Santa refused and was put on a no-fly list he briefly had to outsource all his American operations to Canada, which handles diplomatic issues for the North Pole.

 

In response to the scandal, the task force appointed by President Obama to review NSA activity has issued a further critique of the agency. Calling Santa a “close and traditional U.S. ally,” panel member Richard Clarke urged tough new restrictions on NSA collection against holiday figures.

 

He added, “We’re not in any way recommending the disarming of the intelligence community. The NSA can still spy on the Easter Bunny.”

 

Top NSA officials were skeptical. “What else would you expect from someone who asked Santa for a Barbie doll when he was nine?” Gen. Alexander was overheard remarking.

 

Some privacy advocate groups believe that the panel’s recommendations don’t go far enough. They are telling parents not to let their children use the U.S. Post Office to contact Santa this year, and risk having their children’s information indefinitely stored for whatever the government wants to use it for. 

Source - http://www.duffelblog.com/2013/12/nsa-letters-to-santa/

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