Thursday, July 4, 2013

Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Tuesday, July 2, 2013

NSA links

Rafael Correa not considering Snowden asylum: helping him was a ‘mistake’ Guardian

French parties join calls to give Snowden asylum The Hill
Snowden makes multiple asylum requests Financial Times
Snowden Sends a Communique from Moscow

Edward Snowden’s Moscow stopover became end of the line … for now Guardian
“The entire point of the Fourth Amendment was to ban this kind of general warrant” – Marcy Wheeler interviewed
‘Total Surveillance’ Officially Brushed Off In Germany
Statement from Edward Snowden in Moscow
Buzzfeed’s Snowden and Greenwald Smears Under Fire

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-07-01/edward-snowden-issues-statement-moscow-slams-obama

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-07-01/21-nations-edward-snowden-applying-asylum

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-07-02/snowden-withdraws-russia-asylum-request-nine-countries-deny-application

Monday, July 1, 2013

Vacation - places of interest

world trade site, NSA

http://www.citizen.org/trade/

PRISM : let’s have a look at the big picture Reflets (SW). Power corrupts. PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.

Growing Alarm: German Prosecutors To Review Allegations of US Spying Der Spiegel

New NSA leaks show how US is bugging its European allies Guardian

‘This Week’ Transcript: WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange ABC News

Edward Snowden and the American Condition Jacobin (SW)

Secret no-fly list blamed for American’s Bangkok nightmare LA Times

http://www.zerohedge.com/node/475870

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-30/how-nsa-collects-your-internet-data-four-charts

http://www.infowars.com/multiple-government-agencies-are-keeping-records-of-your-credit-card-transactions/

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-30/guest-post-america-government-terror-torture-and-tyranny

http://www.zerohedge.com/node/475897

Sunday, June 30, 2013

More NSA

New slides on NSA program released WaPo. “PRISM case notation format reflects the availability, confirmed by The Post’s reporting, of real-time surveillance as well as stored content.”
Speaking on NSA stories, Snowden and journalism Glenn Greenwald, Guardian.
NSA – Recording One Billion Phonecalls Per Day Moon of Alabama (partial transcript of Greenwald talk)
Attacks from America: NSA Spied on European Union Offices Der Spiegel
Ecuador in talks with Russia and US over CIA whistleblower Voice of Russia
OMIGOD James Clapper Has Our Gun Purchase Records emptywheel
Snowden fallout comes at bad time for private equity Reuters
Secret snooping keeps us vulnerable Interfluidity
I’ll Be Watching You: NSA Surveillance and the Male Gaze The New Inquiry

NSA links

Senators accuse US of using ‘secret law’ to collect data Guardian
NSA leaker’s father says son would return to face charges, US renews calls for his return Washington Post.
Ecuadorean Disarray Clouds Snowden Bid Wall Street Journal.
Diplomats from Several Countries Set Up Meeting to Discuss Snowden Case SoftPedia (1 SK). Another bad sign.
Trapped in Transit: Orwellian Moscow airport hotel Associated Press (Lambert)
Probe of Contractor Vetting Snowden Sees Falsified Data Bloomberg
“Intelligence,” Corporatism, and the Dance of Death Arthur Silber (1 SK)
Exposing the Dark Forces Behind the Snowden Smears Max Blumenthal, Alternet
The Government’s Mass Spying Is An Affront To Democratic Values. Let’s Also Not Pretend It’s An Effective And Efficient Way Of Keeping Us Safe George Washington.
The Wonderful American World of Informers and Agents Provocateurs NationofChange
License-Plate Readers Let Police Collect Millions of Records on Drivers Cryptogon
Some Thoughts On The Snowden Fallout Moon of Alabama (Chuck L)

Friday, June 28, 2013

NSA links

Restricted web access to The Guardian is Armywide, officials say Monterey Herald (1 SK)

Ecuador Scraps Trade Pact Over U.S. Threats in Snowden Case Bloomberg (martha r)

Hong Kong lawmakers blast US request for Snowden arrest as ‘sloppy’ South China Morning Post (martha r)

Who stays off the data radar? mathbabe.

Believe it or not, China likely allowed Snowden’s exit as a favor to the U.S. Washington Post

BREAKING: CIA Admits to SSCI Millions of Its Official Records Are Badly Inaccurate Marcy Wheeler

Web pioneer Berners-Lee accuses West of hypocrisy over internet spying and insists internet freedom must be safeguarded Daily Mail (May S)

Thursday, June 27, 2013

NSA links

Why do whistleblowers go to Ecuador? Guardian (Deontos)

Obama Administration Seeks to Ease Tensions Over Snowden Bloomberg. A de facto admission of weakness.

This Is Not About Edward Snowden Bloomberg

C.I.A. Report Finds Concerns With Ties to New York Police New York Times

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-27/nsa-collected-vast-amounts-americans-emails-under-obama-guardian-reveals

William Binney reveals the how the NSA is capturing and storing almost all domestic electronic communications using Narus devices at key locations on the backbone of the internet (Room 641A & AT&T Leaks). This whole metadata meme is a blatant lie!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
Russ Tice has revealed for the first time how the NSA targets and wiretaps US politicians, judges and ranking officers for blackmailing purposes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
Here is the mp3 if you want to skip yt:
http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/podpress...130617.mp3

man drop setup:
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/technology/news/snowden-hides-encrypted-nsa-...
P.S. The mp3 link is incorrect in my above post here is the correct link:
http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/podpress_trac/web/20927/0/BF.0112.Tice_2...

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

NSA, Taibbi, Rolling Stone, Rating agencies, Lindsey Graham, bloggers

Finally, Some Sanity in Congress About Castrating the NSA’s Total Surveillance Powers Alternet

Psych!

Australian spy bosses brief government on possible Asian fallout over Snowden: report Reuters (1 SK).

After Snowden leak, critics of U.S. savor chance to return rhetorical fire Washington Post

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/25/greenwald-snowden-s-files-are-out-there-if-anything-happens-to-him.html

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-last-mystery-of-the-financial-crisis-20130619

http://www.nationaljournal.com/tech/lindsey-graham-isn-t-sure-if-bloggers-deserve-first-amendment-protection-20130605

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-25/its-acts-journalism-matter-not-people-called-journalists

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/25/frank-church-liberal-icon

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/25/editorial-edward-snowden-history?CMP=twt_gu

http://www.zerohedge.com/node/475721

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2013/06/25/a-new-beginning-without-washingtons-sanctimonious-mask-paul-craig-roberts/

“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.”

― George Orwell

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

And more NSA

Snowden sought Booz Allen job to gather evidence on NSA surveillance South China Morning Post (furzy mouse)
Snowden a PR nightmare for the US Daily Kos (ohmyheck)
US Must Not Hunt Down Whistleblower Edward Snowden Amnesty International (1 SK)
‘Meet the Press’ Pundit With Financial Ties to NSA Misleadingly Slams Snowden Nation (Lambert)
David Gregory Dances To Power Ed Maloney
10 Questions for NBC Host Who Shamelessly Suggested Greenwald Be Arrested for NSA Leaks Salon
U.S. Said to Explore Possible China Role in Snowden Leaks Bloomberg. Does this look as desperate to you as it does to me? This story broke more than two weeks ago. I guarantee the NSA has been all over every communication Snowden made that they can lay their hands on prior to his departure from Hawaii. They would have been screaming from rooftops by now if they had any real evidence of ties to evil foreign powers (you’d at least hear security state mouthpieces like Feinstein making claims that they’d seen damning evidence). So it’s not hard to guess that anything they try to trot out will be innuendo or tarted up.
Edward Snowden ‘has not entered Russia’ – Lavrov BBC. US statements looking increasingly screechy. Guardian report suggests he indeed was not there (you gotta love the way the Guardian owns this story).
CIA rolls out ‘new and improved website’ Agence France-Presse
Perfecting The Surveillance Society – One Payment At A Time Testosterone Pit
How Barrett Brown shone light on the murky world of security contractors Guardian
Australian government shelves data retention plans CNET (Lambert)
Is Your Smart Meter Spying On You? George Washington

Monday, June 24, 2013

More NSA & Snowden

MI5 feared GCHQ went ‘too far’ over phone and internet monitoring Guardian
Glenn Greenwald Takes Apart David Gregory for Trying to Criminalize Journalism Crooks and Liars. You need to watch this. Dick Gregory is such a toad.
The NSA’s metastasised intelligence-industrial complex is ripe for abuse Valarie Plame Wilson and Joe Wilson, Guardian
HKSAR Government issues statement on Edward Snowden
China ‘made final call’ in Snowden’s Hong Kong flight, as US expresses disappointment South China Morning Post
Russia Says It Won’t Intervene on Snowden Wall Street Journal
Candidate Obama Debating President Obama On Civil Liberties vs. Government Surveillance techdirt (subgenius)
While I Was Sleeping Atrios
Edward Snowden heads for asylum: Does the US have any options? Christian Science Monitor
US & NSA Accused of Criminal Privacy Violations in Dozens of Nations – Snowden Blowback Daily Kos (ohmyheck). Pluto thinks the rest of the world is going to take control of the Internet backbone back (admittedly, that will take a while). We had said that was likely when this story broke.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-24/first-hong-kong-now-russia-refuses-intervene-snowden

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-24/snowden-not-aeroflot-flight-cuba

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/24/edward-snowden-booked-on-plane-from-moscow-to-havana-live-coverage

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-23/u-s-surveillance-is-not-aimed-at-terrorists.html

Saturday, June 22, 2013

NSA links

In Depth Review: New NSA Documents Expose How Americans Can Be Spied on Without A Warrant EFF (Lambert)
GCHQ taps fibre-optic cables for secret access to world’s communications Guardian. The NSA does legal arbitrage.
Mysterious privacy board touted by Obama has deep government ties Guardian. Shorter: the NSA investigation will be led by part of the problem.
U.S. charges Snowden with espionage Washington Post
NSA Whistleblowers For Dummies, Part One and Part Two, Mark Ames, NSFW

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130620/18182823551/obama-administration-has-declared-war-leakers-claims-any-leak-is-aiding-enemy.shtml

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-21/us-asks-hong-kong-detain-snowden-charges-spying

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-22/meet-man-charge-americas-secret-cyber-army-which-bonesaw-makes-mockery-prism

Friday, June 21, 2013

More NSA, Greenwald, Booz Hamilton

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/20/fisa-court-nsa-without-warrant

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-06-20/booz-allen-the-worlds-most-profitable-spy-organization#r=read

Detroit - proposal to creditors

http://download.gannett.edgesuite.net/detnews/2013/pdf/061413creditors.pdf

http://www.fedupusa.org/2013/06/an-open-letter-to-the-city-of-detroit-about-those-pensions/

Thursday, June 20, 2013

NSA links

How Edward Snowden could sidestep extradition USA Today
Snowden versus the dragons Reuters
The Terror Con Indeed papicek Firedoglake
Fisa court oversight: a look inside a secret and empty process Glenn Greenwald. Neglected to include this yesterday

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/06/jon-hilsenrath-to-rick-santelli/

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-19/guest-post-who-are-real-traitors

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Fractional reserve banking, conjuring what they claim is 'money,' but that which is really debt (since there is nothing of inherent value backing it), from thin air, leveraging it up by many multitudes, getting a nation to endorse it as monopolistic fiat (and enforce the monopolistic recognition of it as such), is the problem.
If 95% of loans go bad (or more), the fractional reserve bankers lose nothing. They created this fiat money from nothing and received the protection of the nation in distributing fiat monopoly currency. Not only do they lose nothing, they actually gain any real assets that were pledged as collateral to securitize most of the loans that went 'bad' - Harvest.
Repeat this process of Harvest by first inflating the money supply, getting people deeply indebted (many of whom weren't indebted before), and soon enough, with enough cycles of harvest, what belonged to many will be concentrated in the hands of a few, all via the sham that is fractional reserve banking.
It's the biggest scam in the history of mankind.
Once a person grasps this basic concept, they'll understand why events have taken place as they have (Bretton Woods*; Plaza Accord; Federal Reserve Act of 1913; closing of the gold standard in 1971*, etc.), and they'll finally grasp how a select few have rigged the game to be able to harvest assets continually, and concentrate wealth and power, by doing nothing other than maintaining Deep Capture of a nation's legislative and judiciary branches (and executive, in the case of the U.S.) of government.
_{*On August 15, 1971, the United States unilaterally
terminated convertibility of the dollar to gold. As a result, "[t]he
Bretton Woods system officially ended and the dollar became fully fiat
currency, backed by nothing but the promise of the federal
government." This action, referred to as the Nixon shock, created the
situation in which the United States dollar became the sole backing of
currencies and a reserve currency for the member states. At the same
time, many fixed currencies also became free floating.}
If you could print a currency at no cost, that had no instrinsic value, and get the legal system to recognize it as the only legally permissibly 'tender' to satisfy all debt, public and private, would you print as much as you could, loan it out to as many entities and people as you could, and sit back, not caring whether 90% or 9% of the loans were repaid, since it cost you nothing to produce the loan, meaning that you can only gain assets (securitized) and indebt institutions (create indebted parties that you can then garnish), and literally lose not one atom of anything of inherent value?
Further, if you had access to an entity that could do the above, and you could borrow that currency at absurdly low interest rates, and moreover, you had an express or at least implicit taxpayer guarantee against losses (too big to fail), would you also not do exactly the same?
If you're the former entity, you literally can lose nothing, no matter how reckless your actions or lending standards.
If you're the latter party, your risk of loss is inconsequential, since you're backed by the taxpayers (involuntarily), and even if you weren't, if you're a very large entity able to tap absurdly low interest loans from the former, unless you are galactically idiotic on a level that equals Lehman or beyond (where derivatives did them in, along with a non-bailout), you'd be hard pressed to lose money if even - completely hypothetical and arbitrary % - 20% of the cheap interest money you borrowed and then re-loaned out wasn't paid back to you.
If you're the former, you have not only no risk, but you can't possibly lose anything, since your investment is nothing.
If you're the latter, your risk is incredibly small.
This is why our economy, under fractional reserve banking practices, using currency created from thin air, tied to absolutely nothing of inherent value, and bestowed monopoly status as legal tender, is a factual, literal Ponzi Scheme.
This is why we had to close the gold standard, lest we couldn't show "growth" (even though it was merely nominal, credit/debt based transactions) in our official GDP going forward.
You don't even have to tie the fiat to gold in order to force the economy to produce honest numbers and detect the real level of economic growth or contraction: tie the currency to anything that has inherent value, and that can be stored, and that isn't infinite in quantity.
The mind bender part for the newly initiated (as I was at one time) to the Matrix is that there's no real 'debt' from the perspective of the fractional reserve central bank; it's hard for those steeped in conventional economics to rip out the notion from their brain that the fractional reserve central bank can't lose anything (they didn't lend anything of value or that cost them anything - they have ZERO skin in the game), and that their favored entities that are TBTF have only slightly less risk (because they will always be able to socialize their losses via taxpayer bailouts in the wake of busts, while they retain their ill-gotten gains during the booms), and that what most refer to as debt in this system is only a liability for the debtor. If the debtor doesn't repay what was they borrowed (a monopoly currency that cost the lender nothing to produce), they can lose their farm, construction equipment, home, machinery, infrastructure, vehicle, etc. that was used to securitize or collateralize the loan, or even if the loan was unsecuritized, they can at least see their revenue or wages garnished, be sent into involuntary bankruptcy (where their general pool of assets will be seized upon by creditors, including lenders), and squeezed in other ways.
The only way to avoid this is to not play the game. During crack up booms, you miss out on fiat-based gains, if you don't play the game, and the incentive for playing that game is that if your timing is correct, you can get rid of all debt and convert the excess fiat gains into hard assets having inherent value or other things of inherent value, before the fractional reserve alchemists induce another inflationary-deflationary (or vice-versa) harvest.
If one were fortuitous enough to play the game, and have the skill and/or luck to convert fiat gains into real wealth before the boom turns to bust, they'd probably be idiotic to repledge their real wealth assets as collateral for loans ever again (I say probably, because there are exceptions to every general rule, but these people would have to be extremely smart, competent and or connected to the alchemists in such a way that they'd be assured a bailout in the event of another bust whereby their real assets are pledged as collateral for fiat loans).
The Harvest is the end game for the fractional reserve bankers and their minions. As just one example of the rape that is harvest, even generations of families that were land rich (let's say a family that has owned two square miles of prime farmland yielding high value crops for three generations, carrying no debt) can find that an economic downturn suddenly forces them to take the step of obtaining a loan, pledging their farm and equipment as collateral, in the belief that the loan will allow them to survive the downturn and become more profitable at some future point - they're now 'harvestable.'
By pledging real assets to secure a loan of fiat money (conjured from thin air at no cost), one is playing right into the hands of The Money Masters.

The Secret of Oz - Winner, Best Documentary of 2010

Money As Debt-Full Length Documentary

The Money Masters - Full Version

Money, Banking and the Federal Reserve

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Counter-Intelligence: I - The Company

http://vimeo.com/65148608#t=3741

Counter-Intelligence: I - The Company

NSA links, Stockman part II

NSA director describes surveillance as ‘limited, focused’ in House hearing Guardian
No, NSA Spying Did NOT Prevent a Terror Attack on Wall Street George Washington
Edward Snowden: ‘Being Called a Traitor by Dick Cheney Is the Highest Honor You Can Give an American’ FP Passport
Section 215 Dragnet: Again with the Passive Voice Oversight Marcy Wheeler
Partisans are only Concerned about Government Surveillance When the Other Side is in Charge Jon Walker, Firedoglake (Carol B). In case you needed proof of your suspicion…

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-18/david-stockmans-non-recovery-part-2-crash-breadwinners-and-born-again-jobs-scam

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