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When a government spies on its citizens: lessons from Chile

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“What are the deep, long-term effects of clandestine surveillance on a country? The current debates in Congress regarding the renewal — or modification — of the Patriot Act offer an occasion to hold an open discussion that is long overdue.  My own experience may be relevant to that discussion.  It was on Sept. 12, 1973, the day after a military coup overthrew the democratically elected government of Chile, that I started to understand that language was also a victim when massive state spying permeates a hitherto free nation.”

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0531-dorfman-surveillance-censorship-20150531-story.html

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You’re a Criminal in a Mass Surveillance World – How to Not Get Caught

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“To apologists of mass surveillance, what did Anne Frank have to hide? I ask because the person credited with popularizing the nothing-to-hide argument is none other than Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda for the Third Reich.  Minister Goebbels would have wrung his hands with delight at having this depth of data on his regime’s citizens. But this data is absolutely trivial compared to what the U.S. government actually knows about you. Thanks to William Binney and Edward Snowden, we know that the U.S. regime has for many years been secretly constructing the means to monitor and record every aspect of our lives.”

https://bananas.liberty.me/youre-a-criminal-in-a-mass-surveillance-world-how-to-not-get-caught/

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NYPD’s Crackdown on “Manspreading”: Enforcing Courtesy At Gunpoint

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“The Police Reform Organizing Project (PROP) puts together a report called ‘How They Get You‘.  People (mostly young non-white men) are arrested and held for hours, or overnight, or for several days, for trivial charges.  PROP’s report, which you should read if you can bear it, records arrests of people for putting stickers on scaffolds, for dropping a dog’s leash long enough to scoop dog poop from the sidewalk, for standing in the hallways of buildings where they live, and for swerving a bike to avoid being hit by a car and landing on the sidewalk.  And to that proud list of protections, we can now add arrests made for ‘manspreading.'”

http://fee.org/anythingpeaceful/detail/arrested-for-criminal-manspreading-the-crackdown-on-rudeness

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Jacob Hornberger, Rand Paul: A Profile in Courage

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“The U.S. Freedom Act is the reform of the Patriot Act that Obama, Clapper, and other warfare statists wanted. But Rand Paul would have no part of it. Let the Patriot Act expire — without reform — was his position.  The Patriot Act and the U.S. Freedom Act are two of the most anti-American schemes in U.S. history. Both schemes would fit in perfectly in any totalitarian regime. Moreover, employing fearmongering is a time-honored strategy of totalitarian regimes to scare people into trading away their freedom for the pretense of security.  Fear has been the coin of the realm of the U.S. national-security state apparatus since the day it was grafted onto America’s governmental system after World War II.”

http://fff.org/2015/06/01/rand-paul-profile-courage/

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Does Jade Helm Violate Posse Comitatus?

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“What might the military mean by ‘realistic environment’ in the context of Jade Helm? In terms of culture and physical setting, only English-speaking America resembles English-speaking America. As a concerned resident of one of the affected small towns in Texas told a newspaper: ‘What place looks like this—except this?’ Put another way, if Special Ops were to prowl the coffee shops of North Korea, Ukraine, or Tehran questioning locals for information, they would be rounded up within an hour. So, as Jon Stewart might have asked if he had looked a little deeper into the Jade Helm scenario, whom is America fixing to invade? Canada?”

http://whowhatwhy.org/2015/06/01/does-jade-helm-violate-posse-comitatus/

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Lindsey Graham Vows: “I’m Gonna Call a Drone and We Will Kill You”

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“At the time, the administration criticized Rand Paul for engaging in ‘wild hypotheticals’ before agreeing that using a drone to kill an American this way would be beyond President Obama’s authority. Yet over the weekend, Sen. Lindsey Graham seemed to suggest that what Paul imagined as a dystopian nightmare could be a reality if the Republican from South Carolina were president. ‘If I’m president of the United States and you’re thinking about joining al-Qaeda or ISIL [Islamic State], I’m not gonna call a judge,’ Graham said. ‘I’m gonna call a drone and we will kill you.'”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/05/18/wonkbook-lindsey-grahams-comments-on-drones-were-very-blunt/

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Why you need offshore gold storage

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“If you choose to store your gold in a private vault facility, you add a layer of privacy to your assets. At least as I write this, precious metals held in non-bank facilities are not subject to government reporting in the United States.  There are gold storage facilities in more privacy-friendly countries from Switzerland and Austria to Singapore and Hong Kong. Austrians love for secrecy gave birth to one of the world’s only anonymous gold storage facilities, located in Vienna.  Asians love gold and the economic centers of the continent are making it easier to buy and store metals. I recently wrote about how to get secure offshore gold storage in two different Singapore vaults with ease.”

http://nomadcapitalist.com/2013/05/06/why-you-need-offshore-gold-storage/

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U.S. Military ‘Jade Helm’ Civilian Roundup Drill Footage

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“These are the U.S. Marines from 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division practicing ‘assault support tactics’ in Yuma Arizona as part of a 7 week exercise prior to the JADE HELM 15 EXERCISES.”

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US troops invade Syria, kill ISIS commander Abu Sayyaf

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“U.S. Special Operations forces carried out a major raid deep inside eastern Syria, killing a senior Islamic State leader who oversees illicit oil production and capturing his wife, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter said Saturday.  Carter said Abu Sayyaf, also known as Mohammed Shalabi, ‘was killed during the course of the operation when he engaged U.S. forces.’  He said none of the U.S. forces was killed or injured during the raid.  Abu Sayyaf was involved in the extremist group’s military operations and helped direct its illicit oil, gas and financial operations, Carter said in a statement.”

http://hotair.com/archives/2015/05/16/us-troops-kill-isis-commander-abu-sayyaf-inside-syria/

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Jacob Hornberger: Operation Jade Helm

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“The possibility that an Operation Jade Helm could have been held in the United States during most of the first century of America’s history was non-existent because our American ancestors never permitted a large permanent military establishment to be part of America’s governmental system. It was only after World War II that a vast permanent military establishment, along with the CIA and the NSA, became grafted onto our federal governmental structure, thereby effectively becoming the fourth branch of the federal government and the most powerful branch at that.  The adoption of the national-security establishment fundamentally altered the federal structure of the nation.”

http://fff.org/2015/05/08/operation-jade-helm/

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