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US Mining Data Directly From 9 Silicon Valley Companies
Rick Zeman writes "Hot on the heels of Verizon's massive data dump to NSA comes news of 'PRISM' where The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio, video, photographs, e-mails, documents and connection logs that enable analysts to track a person's movements and contacts over time. This program, established in 2007, includes major companies such as Apple, Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook...and more."
Counting the votes is meaningless. 'No' votes were symbolic since they knew the act would pass. Both parties are exactly equally to blame, because as a whole they both supported the Patriot Act, just as both Bush and Obama renewed it (and Obama made it permanent), just as both parties voted for the Iraq War Resolution, against the closure of Guantanamo, etc. etc. Democrats could have blocked any of those things if they wanted.
Negative moral value of force outweighs the positive value of good intentions.
Anyone who didn't see this coming 12 years ago had their head in the sand or hasn't read their history.
- anyone who didn't see this coming from the year 1911, when the government successfully destroyed private property rights of a large private economy of scale (Standard Oil), anyone who didn't see this coming since 1913, when gov't took the unauthorised power to print money (the Fed) and to steal private property 'Constitutionally' (income related taxes) and since 1917, when government authorised the Fed to monetise gov't debt and not set fake interest rates had their heads in the sand and has no clue about history.
Anyone who didn't see the coming economic collapse since 1971, when the gov't severed the last ties between money real and imaginary is completely oblivious of all history and has no capability of thinking logically.
You can't handle the truth.