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NSA Tries to Blame Privacy Advocates for Telephone Records Retention

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“USA Freedom requires the NSA to stop collecting our telephone records.  An open question when the law passed was what should happen to the mountain of records the NSA has already collected. Will the records be destroyed? Will the NSA keep them? Will it be able to keep using them?  Earlier this week, the NSA announced that it was going to move the stored records out of active use in November, with a three month period when its employees check them for ‘data integrity’ reasons. It noted, however, that it would not be destroying the records until resolution of the various court cases where the government is under a court order to preserve evidence.”

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/07/government-tries-blame-privacy-advocates-keeping-telephone-records

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General Rebellion and Media Choices

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“Retired generals frequently land jobs with Wall Street or defense contractors, through which they can convert their military knowledge into substantial income. At least one is going a different direction, though. Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn appears uninterested in a lucrative second career.   When August arrives, will Washington’s compliant media report that one of Obama’s own top generals says drones are a ‘failed strategy’? They will if they are interested in promoting a healthy public debate. In other words, don’t hold your breath. The corporate-owned TV networks and national newspapers know who keeps the dollars flowing. Rebel generals who don’t toe the party line are not on the list.”

http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/36429/General-Rebellion-and-Media-Choices/

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Retired General: Drones Create Terrorists; Iraq War Helped Create ISIS

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“Retired Army Gen. Mike Flynn, a top intelligence official in the post-9/11 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, says in a forthcoming interview on Al Jazeera English that the drone war is creating more terrorists than it is killing. He also asserts that the U.S. invasion of Iraq helped create the Islamic State and that U.S. soldiers involved in torturing detainees need to be held legally accountable for their actions. Prior to serving as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Flynn was director of Intelligence for the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.”

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/07/16/retired-general-drones-create-terrorists-kill-iraq-war-helped-create-isis/

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What U.S. citizens weren’t told about the atomic bombing of Japan

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“Newborn death rates skyrocketed in the nine months after the bombing: 43% of pregnancies in which the fetus was exposed within a quarter-mile of the hypocenter ended in spontaneous abortion, stillbirth or infant death. Young mothers giving birth in the ruins did not know it yet, but even those infants who survived would face severe physical and mental disabilities. For years, tens of thousands of hibakusha (‘atomic bomb-affected people’) suffered agonizing radiation-related illnesses. Many died. Meanwhile, Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s occupation press code censored Japanese news accounts, personal testimonies, photographs and scientific research on the survivors’ conditions.”

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0809-southard-atomic-bomb-survivors-20150806-story.html

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U.S. General Spits on Constitution

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“General Clark doesn’t otherwise fit in the right wing, law-and-order camp. He made a brief presidential bid in 2004 on the Democratic side and was very critical of the Bush administration’s anti-terror tactics and Middle East interventions. Yet now he wants to round up and imprison radical Muslims. This demonstrates that politicians across the spectrum threaten civil liberties. They differ only on the details. Second, he floated his argument on the supposedly ‘progressive’ MSNBC network. The interviewer didn’t question the idea, either. Truly professional journalists are usually quick to notice threats to freedom of speech – or at least in the past. Not this time.”

http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/36437/US-General-Spits-on-Constitution/

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Hackers Can Use Your Car to Kill You

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“The FBI denied investigating Hastings. Maybe the journalist who took down one top general and elevated another just happened to fall asleep at the wheel. We can’t know for sure what happened to Hastings. We do know for sure that it is now technically possible to take control of a vehicle and make it do undesirable things, like crash into palm trees at high speed. The hackers profiled in the Wired report are surely not the only ones with this ability. It’s no stretch to imagine that CIA and Pentagon experts have the same skill. Would they use it to silence a critic? Maybe they already did.”

http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/36441/Hackers-Can-Use-Your-Car-to-Kill-You/

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The Ex-Im Bank Is Dead (For Now)

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“After 81 years of funneling taxpayer dollars to favored companies, projects, and geopolitical outcomes under the guise of advancing some vague conception of the ‘U.S. economic interest,’ the Export-Import Bank of the United States will end its financing operations at midnight tonight. Proponents of the Bank have been regrouping and strategizing to move legislation to reauthorize the Bank at the soonest possible chance. In fact the White House is hosting a conference call for the purpose of advancing that outcome. The battle may be over but the war continues.”

http://fee.org/anythingpeaceful/detail/the-ex-im-bank-is-dead-but-watch-out-for-subsidy-zombie

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Wesley Clark Calls for Internment Camps for “Radicalized” Americans

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“Retired general and former Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark on Friday called for World War II-style internment camps to be revived for ‘disloyal Americans.’ In an interview with MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts in the wake of the mass shooting in Chatanooga, Tennessee, Clark said that during World War II, ‘if someone supported Nazi Germany at the expense of the United States, we didn’t say that was freedom of speech, we put him in a camp, they were prisoners of war.’ The comments were shockingly out of character for Clark, who after serving as supreme allied commander of NATO made a name for himself in progressive political circles.”

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/07/20/chattanooga-wesley-clark-calls-internment-camps-disloyal-americans/

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The Total Failure Of Gun Control Captured In One Photo

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“The bullets that shattered the glass in more than a dozen places around the gun-free zone sign did not heed its commands.  In addition to ignoring the sign designating the area as a gun-free zone, the terrorist shooter also appears to have illegally obtained his firearms. In other words, the gun control regime not only failed to prevent the terrorist from obtaining his firearms, it also failed to prevent him from possessing them in a gun-free zone. The gun ban did, however, dissuade law-abiding Marines from carrying firearms that they could’ve used to protect themselves.”

http://thefederalist.com/2015/07/17/the-total-failure-of-gun-control-captured-in-one-photo/

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Ron Paul: Greece Today, America Tomorrow?

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“While most commentators have focused on Greece’s welfare state, much of Greece’s deficit was caused by excessive military spending. Greece’s military budget remains among the largest in the European Union.  Despite all the handwringing over how the phony sequestration cuts have weakened America’s defenses, the United States military budget remains larger than the combined budgets of the world’s next 15 highest spending militaries. Little, if any, of the military budget is spent defending the American people from foreign threats. Instead, the American government wastes billions of dollars on an imperial foreign policy that makes Americans less safe.”

http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2015/july/12/greece-today-america-tomorrow/

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