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NSA Cheerleaders Discover Value of Privacy Only When Their Own Is Violated

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“The NSA under President Obama targeted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his top aides for surveillance. In the process, the agency ended up eavesdropping on ‘the contents of some of their private conversations with U.S. lawmakers and American-Jewish groups’ about how to sabotage the Iran Deal. All sorts of people who spent many years cheering for and defending the NSA and its programs of mass surveillance are suddenly indignant now that they know the eavesdropping included them and their American and Israeli friends rather than just ordinary people.”

https://theintercept.com/2015/12/30/spying-on-congress-and-israel-nsa-cheerleaders-discover-value-of-privacy-only-when-their-own-is-violated/

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Congress approves surveillance legislation tucked into budget package

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“Congress on Friday adopted a $1.15 trillion spending package that included a controversial cybersecurity measure that only passed because it was slipped into the US government’s budget legislation.  House Speaker Paul Ryan, a Republican of Wisconsin, inserted the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) into the bill. The CISA part of the spending package gives corporate America legal immunity when sharing consumers’ private data about hacks and digital breaches with the Department of Homeland Security. The DHS can then funnel that information to other agencies, including the NSA and FBI, which can use that information for surveillance purposes.”

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/12/congress-approves-surveillance-legislation-tucked-into-budget-package/

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Hillary Clinton: Stop helping terrorists, Silicon Valley – weaken encryption

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“Part of the problem, according to Clinton, is a tech sector that has become resistant to government efforts to pressure it into introducing backdoors into its products. Said Clinton: ‘So we need Silicon Valley not to view government as its adversary. We need to challenge our best minds in the private sector to work with our best minds in the public sector to develop solutions that will both keep us safe and protect our privacy. Now is the time to solve this problem, not after the next attack.’  Clinton’s thoughts were echoed in an editorial Friday by the Washington Post in which the paper also argued that tech companies needed to work with government to find solutions to encrypted communication.”

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/20/clinton_silicon_valley/

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Virginia Democrat mayor invokes WWII internment of Japanese Americans

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“A Virginia mayor ignited a backlash Wednesday after he cited America’s mass detention of Japanese Americans during World War II as support for his call to deny Syrian refugees the opportunity to resettle in the United States.  For many public officials across the nation, the mass detention of Japanese Americans during World War II has long been one of the most embarrassing moments in the nation’s history — a dark chapter that has been apologized for and legally repudiated, and which is now providing a mirror for some Asian American lawmakers to hold up to the present.”

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-nn-virginia-mayor-refugees-20151118-story.html

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‘There is no hiding place… our bombs will kill people’: Jeremy Corbyn

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“Jeremy Corbyn today warned Labour MPs there is ‘no hiding place’ if they ignore his pleas and back British airstrikes against ISIS in Syria.  The Labour leader warned pro-bombing MPs they will have to answer to party members if they ignore grassroots opposition to military action in tomorrow’s crunch vote and support action which will lead to civilian deaths.  In an attempt to apply more pressure Stop the War supporters will march on Labour’s headquarters in London tonight after gathering in Parliament Square. Mr Corbyn was humiliated by his own shadow cabinet yesterday, when frontbenchers lined up to insist they would vote in favour of bombing ISIS.”

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3340717/Cameron-cancels-PMQs-SEVEN-hours-debate-bombing-ISIS-Syria-airstrikes-launched-tomorrow-night.html

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Biggest corporate political interests spend billions, get trillions [2014]

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“After examining 14 million records, including data on campaign contributions, lobbying expenditures, federal budget allocations and spending, we found that, on average, for every dollar spent on influencing politics, the nation’s most politically active corporations received $760 from the government. The $4.4 trillion total represents two-thirds of the $6.5 trillion that individual taxpayers paid into the federal treasury.  Welcome to the world of ‘Fixed Fortunes,’ a seemingly closed universe where the most persistent and savvy political players not so mysteriously have the ability to attract federal dollars regardless of who is running Washington.”

https://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2014/11/17/fixed-fortunes-biggest-corporate-political-interests-spend-billions-get-trillions/

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Democrats Work To Block Regulations, After Flood Of Campaign Cash

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“The Obama administration’s efforts to rein in Wall Street face opposition from members of the president’s own party.  Since 2011, after Dodd-Frank became law, Democrats have raised over $330 million from the financial industry, and their party’s presumptive incoming Senate leader, New York’s Chuck Schumer, is considered a close ally of the financial sector.  As the year-end legislative wrangling intensifies, here are the other Democrats who have been Wall Street’s key allies in fighting the Obama administration. They have all raised big money from the financial industry.”

http://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/wall-street-democrats-work-block-new-regulations-after-flood-campaign-cash-2196874

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Majority Views NSA Phone Tracking as Acceptable Anti-terror Tactic [2013]

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“Currently 62% say it is more important for the federal government to investigate possible terrorist threats, even if that intrudes on personal privacy. Just 34% say it is more important for the government not to intrude on personal privacy, even if that limits its ability to investigate possible terrorist threats.  These opinions have changed little since an ABC News/Washington Post survey in January 2006. Currently, there are only modest partisan differences in these opinions: 69% of Democrats say it is more important for the government to investigate terrorist threats, even at the expense of personal privacy, as do 62% of Republicans and 59% of independents.”

http://www.people-press.org/2013/06/10/majority-views-nsa-phone-tracking-as-acceptable-anti-terror-tactic/

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ObamaTrade: Total Surrender to the NWO

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“It does not take 5,544 pages of legal verbage written by international lawyer-bureaucrats to obtain free trade. What it takes is for legislatures to reduce tariffs and import quotas. That is all it has ever taken: a willingness of politicians to stop passing laws that insulate inefficient domestic producers from foreign competitors who better satisfy the demand of residents of a nation. All it takes is for the government to stop hiring customs agents with badges and guns to tell citizens that they have to pay a discriminatory sales tax to buy something from across a national border.  ObamaTrade is the surrender of national sovereignty on a scale that is mind-boggling.”

http://www.garynorth.com/public/14466.cfm

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Former President Jimmy Carter Calls U.S. an Oligarchy

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“Almost 35 years later, Carter is now the longest surviving ex-president in U.S. history. That’s a long time to observe and reflect. He has little to lose by being honest, so his comments last week deserve some attention. Carter blasted both major parties and from state legislatures up to Congress. The U.S., he believes, is an oligarchy built on unlimited political bribery. Those are strong words. We see them on sites like The Daily Bell, but considerably less often from those inside the oligarchy.  We are approaching, and perhaps already are at, a point where oligarchy is seen as normal and natural. People don’t mind living under oligarchy as long as the ‘right’ people control it.”

http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/36455/Jimmy-Carter-Calls-US-an-Oligarchy/

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