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Inside America’s Plan to Kill Online Privacy Rights Everywhere

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“The United States and its key intelligence allies are quietly working behind the scenes to kneecap a mounting movement in the United Nations to promote a universal human right to online privacy, according to diplomatic sources and an internal American government document obtained by The Cable.  The diplomatic battle is playing out in an obscure U.N. General Assembly committee that is considering a proposal by Brazil and Germany to place constraints on unchecked internet surveillance by the National Security Agency and other foreign intelligence services. American representatives have made it clear that they won’t tolerate such checks on their global surveillance network.”

http://cryptome.org/2013/11/us-kill-privacy.htm

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Open the Window and Let Out Tedious Tapering

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“The exercise of power is often a ludicrously simple thing. And Federal Reserve deliberations often partake of such simplicity.  The tapering debate is yet one more example. It is symptomatic of a dialectic that everyone can understand and participate in. We are meant to examine two choices, and two choices only: Either the Fed tightens or it doesn’t. Either of these choices acknowledges the primacy of the Fed and its central importance. The Fed is NOT intrinsically important. Absent the force of the state, there is no way that a tiny group of mis-educated people would be able to gather in a well-appointed room to fix the value and volume of money for hundreds of millions.”

http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/34767/Open-the-Window-and-Let-Out-Tedious-Tapering/

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NSA Fallout: Berlin Moves to Increase Mobile Phone Security

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“Although other departments have been slower to respond, the Economics Ministry has already taken the step. Two months ago, the office, headed by outgoing Economics Minister Philipp Rösler of the business-friendly Free Democratic Party (FDP), began using 15 of the new BlackBerry Z10 smart phones for test purposes. The phones have been modified so that they house two strictly separated units. One can be used for private communication and the other encrypts both voice calls and emails. Ministry officials have since decided to purchase 110 of the devices. BSI is also working to authorize a special tablet computer that makes it possible to encrypt both emails and Internet surfing.”

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-government-moves-to-beef-up-mobile-phone-security-a-932922.html

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Greek Dilemma: A Product of the Dialectic

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“Greek protesters rally against IMF and EU inspection. Anti-austerity demonstrators jeer, heckle and throw coins at auditors from bailout troika amid fears of more public sector cuts … Only hours before, the Greek prime minister, Antonis Samaras, had resolutely declared that Greece was not at war with the international bodies keeping the debt-stricken country afloat. But in scenes not witnessed since the beginning of Greece’s economic crisis, auditors from the European Union and International Monetary Fund came face-to-face with the full force of anti-austerity anger as protesters in Athens jeered, heckled and stopped them from leaving the finance ministry.”

http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/34726/The-Greek-Dilemma-Is-the-Product-of-the-Dialectic/

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Dulles ‘brothers grim’ left legacy of mischief

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“It was the 1950s and the world was at peace, or so we thought. But not John Foster and Allen, the Dulles brothers who are the only sibling team to have ever jointly managed America’s overt and covert foreign policy agenda.  In the name of American exceptionalism, they opened secret jails (as the CIA did after 9/11), they recruited underground armies (now we call them contractors), and carried out or sponsored killings and bombings around the world (did someone say ‘drone?’).  Intriguingly, they came to their roles with a ready-made list of enemies. As former attorneys, they first set about settling grudges with governments that had dissed their powerful corporate friends.”

http://www.watoday.com.au/comment/brothers-grim-left-legacy-of-mischief-20131019-2vtcf.html

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Senate Committee Votes in Favor of NSA Phone-Records Snooping

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“A key Senate committee approved today a measure that would give congressional blessing to the NSA’s bulk collection of domestic telephone metadata, and bolster the legal underpinnings of the controversial snooping program.  ‘The NSA call-records program is legal and subject to extensive congressional and judicial oversight, and I believe it contributes to our national security,’ Feinstein said in a statement, after the committee approved the measure in private.  Among other things, the package specifically adds bulk phone-metadata collection to the business records provision of the Patriot Act.”

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/10/phone-snooping-approved/

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U.S. Admits For First Time It Used NSA Surveillance in Criminal Case

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“For the first time, the U.S. government notified a terror suspect that one of the National Security Agency’s far-reaching surveillance programs was used to build a criminal case against him, setting the stage for a constitutional challenge.  The notification was filed to the lawyer of Jamshid Muhtorov, who is charged in Colorado with providing material support to a designated terrorist organization, specifically the Islamic Jihad Union. Authorities say he sought to travel to Syria to join a group of fighters there.  There have been many previous challenges to the NSA’s programs, but so far none have been able to overcome the legal issue of standing.”

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304069604579158331267987204

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The Overview Effect

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“‘Overview’ is a short film that explores this phenomenon through interviews with five astronauts who have experienced the Overview Effect. The film also features insights from commentators and thinkers on the wider implications and importance of this understanding for society, and our relationship to the environment.”

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Salon: One World After All

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“An article in Salon is entitled ‘Elites’ strange plot to take over the world.’  It is basically an admission of the entire globalist enterprise over the past half-century or so. It clearly admits what we all know – that top Western elites have been in an open conspiracy to merge the world, at least the Western world, under one legislative, economic and military regime. What makes the article important? Well … start with its writer, Matt Stoller, who ‘has a background in financial journalism and was a fellow at the [technocratic/socialist] Roosevelt Institute and an editor of the financial site Naked Capitalism.'”

http://www.thedailybell.com/editorials/34697/Anthony-Wile-Salon-One-World-After-All/

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“Affordable Housing” Rules Result in Opposite

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“Garvey’s World Homes was eventually driven out of the countries in which it operated by rising anti-Americanism, and the realization by politicians that their purposes would be better served if they were seen as the source of housing for the poor—not some greedy apitalist developer.  Similarly, politicians promoting ‘affordable housing’ mandates today disregard the actual record of such legislation and tout themselves as saviors for housing shortages increasingly of their own creation.  The simplest way to improve access to affordable housing is to let builders add to the supply of housing, regardless of the price they hope to charge.”

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=4768

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