In case you haven't been following the news the last several months, that Total Information Awareness program was simply changed to a different name and different department and continues on.
I'm sure the same is true for the FBI's Carnivore program - they probably changed it to a different name and section or organization.
If you value your freedom and/or privacy, be sure to vote for Senator Tom Harkin's petition to censure Bush.
Unless, of course, you are looking forward to the publication of "Tales from the Bush Family Torture Chamber."
According to an article in April's issue of Atlantic Monthly by the author who is something of a public domain expert on NSA (Bamford), the NSA is monitoring and mining ALL telephone and Web traffic in the United States!!!
Bamford only got several points wrong in his last book on NSA, but I suspect that was because he was purposively fed the wrong data by his NSA sources.....
Better yet, support the censure of Bush that is now sitting in the Senate. Senator Harkin (D-Iowa) has set up a web site to sign a petition to get the ball rolling among all those head-in-the-dirt senators.....
AT&T is a company, it's not a government. They can do what they want with their customers data.
That is such a patently nonsensical remark - eavesdropping illegally on the client's telephone and Internet calls/messages is not customer data.
For an excellent (and really shocking) story on how NSA is able to spy on all Americans' calls and Web traffic, read the article in the April issue of Atlantic Monthly.
Speaking of running companies into the ground, the latest figures out on Microsft is that only 1% of their profit revenue comes from China, yet how many untold billions have they spent on the Chinese market????
I don't think it's that AG Elliott Spitzer wants to run NY as much as he is filling a tremendous void left by the absymal, nonperforming and nonfunctioning F.B.I., who appears to be involved with far too many of their very own inhouse scandals and problems.
The F.B.I. should really be doing everything the Mr. Spitzer is doing, but thank goodness at least he's doing it!!!!
You know, if this country had an F.B.I. director like Mr. Spitzer, as opposed to that useless shyster, Mueller, or better yet, a real attorney general at the federal level......
Gee...I guess that explains George W. Bush's success!!!!
Seriously, though, an excellent empirical study (it was either done by Jensen or Hernstein, I think Jensen, and first published in the early '70s of the last century (soooo 20th century), established that the greatest predictor of one's success is the family they are born into, that is, their parents.
Which would explain what's-his-face, the Bushevik in the White House.....
Interesting.....not superior reading comprehension...Hmmmmm!!!
Seriously, though, it's not narture vs. nurture - if one has been keeping up the past fifteen years - it's how one's genes interact with their environment, that environment lighting up certain genes, etc.
I'm starting to accept the posts I've seen on the Web lately as to Al-Qaida being a fiction of some government or group...any guesses????
Anybody ever see any conclusive evidence as to its existence???
Please, don't mention the attacks on 9/11 - after it has come to light that the FBI was actually tipped off 124 times - and chose to ignore those tipoffs - after it has come to light that they actually had the plans to the bombing of the WTC since they seized the boxes of documents pertaining to the murder of that Rabbi Kahane fellow in NYC a number of years ago (and not counting that the CIA was tipped off something like 42 times), can anyone seriously think they are that super-incompetent????
Remember, the Spanish government announced that they could find no connection between the bombers in Madrid and Al-Qaida, and the only connection which could be found was that one of the bombers involved in the London bombing which took place after the Madrid bombing was probably a CIA informant and had been picked up in Seattle, then moved to New York City - where he was supposed to have been prosecuted by the Justice Department - then he mysteriously shows up in the London bombing????
I think an even more important question might be: Does this wire people's brains in a more positive manner?
I mean, after all, popular American movies always have a sex scene of some kind almost immediately followed by violence and/or death of some sort! Now that's got to have a negative effect on youthful viewing.
One would think it much superior to simply view postive, pleasurable sex between people (or solo, if it's women - OK, I'm a heterosexual) than the constant sex-violence syndrome Americans are so besotted with.....
This should still be the case, but yes, corporate law is in grave need of an overhaul.
Once upon a time not too long ago, it was against the law in all the states of the union for corporations to either directly or indirectly contribute to politicians and political campaigns.
You're absolutely right! Just because they've privatized voting is no reason to suspect anything could be amiss. Especially because anyone who has ever taken college-level statistics knows there is only a one-in-a-million chance those exit polls throughout the USA in the 2004 presidential election could ALL be wrong!
Why....I have absolute faith in all corporations, especially Enron, Touche-Deloitte, First National of Boston, Bank of America, Stanley Tools, Boeing, the NSA Terrorist Surveillance Program, the FBI (and those two cretins at the FBI HQ, who that FBI agent, Harry Samit, contacted 70 times warning that jets might be used to crash into American skyscrapers)!
I mean, 3,000 dead....$1 trillion lost to the economy...what's it take to get fired at Feeb Central????
Even more to the point, there are still too many people out there who believe in this al-Qaida fiction/nonsense!!!
Didn't that group first appear in Batman comics around 1990? Just like that Avian Flu (which, BTW, What's-his-face Rumsfeld is supposed to have a multi-million dollar stake in the sole company manufacturing the supposed vaccine) which first appeared in Ian Fleming's (007) "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" (that's the book, dudes & dudettes) as one of SPECTRE's weapons.
These fictions, just like WMDs in Iraq, are very convenient fictions for the Bushies to continue to steal from the US Treasury......
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I'm sure the same is true for the FBI's Carnivore program - they probably changed it to a different name and section or organization.
If you value your freedom and/or privacy, be sure to vote for Senator Tom Harkin's petition to censure Bush.
Unless, of course, you are looking forward to the publication of "Tales from the Bush Family Torture Chamber."
Bamford only got several points wrong in his last book on NSA, but I suspect that was because he was purposively fed the wrong data by his NSA sources.....
Better yet, support the censure of Bush that is now sitting in the Senate. Senator Harkin (D-Iowa) has set up a web site to sign a petition to get the ball rolling among all those head-in-the-dirt senators.....
That is such a patently nonsensical remark - eavesdropping illegally on the client's telephone and Internet calls/messages is not customer data.
For an excellent (and really shocking) story on how NSA is able to spy on all Americans' calls and Web traffic, read the article in the April issue of Atlantic Monthly.
Speaking of running companies into the ground, the latest figures out on Microsft is that only 1% of their profit revenue comes from China, yet how many untold billions have they spent on the Chinese market????
The F.B.I. should really be doing everything the Mr. Spitzer is doing, but thank goodness at least he's doing it!!!!
You know, if this country had an F.B.I. director like Mr. Spitzer, as opposed to that useless shyster, Mueller, or better yet, a real attorney general at the federal level......
Seriously, though, an excellent empirical study (it was either done by Jensen or Hernstein, I think Jensen, and first published in the early '70s of the last century (soooo 20th century), established that the greatest predictor of one's success is the family they are born into, that is, their parents.
Which would explain what's-his-face, the Bushevik in the White House.....
That's meant to be nature...forgive my low IQ....
Seriously, though, it's not narture vs. nurture - if one has been keeping up the past fifteen years - it's how one's genes interact with their environment, that environment lighting up certain genes, etc.
I'm starting to accept the posts I've seen on the Web lately as to Al-Qaida being a fiction of some government or group...any guesses????
Anybody ever see any conclusive evidence as to its existence???
Please, don't mention the attacks on 9/11 - after it has come to light that the FBI was actually tipped off 124 times - and chose to ignore those tipoffs - after it has come to light that they actually had the plans to the bombing of the WTC since they seized the boxes of documents pertaining to the murder of that Rabbi Kahane fellow in NYC a number of years ago (and not counting that the CIA was tipped off something like 42 times), can anyone seriously think they are that super-incompetent????
Remember, the Spanish government announced that they could find no connection between the bombers in Madrid and Al-Qaida, and the only connection which could be found was that one of the bombers involved in the London bombing which took place after the Madrid bombing was probably a CIA informant and had been picked up in Seattle, then moved to New York City - where he was supposed to have been prosecuted by the Justice Department - then he mysteriously shows up in the London bombing????
Clop-clop.....clop-clop.....clop-clop......bang..
Give up????
It's an Amish drive-by...
Of course they disagree with me, I would never turn in a Chinese journalist to the Department of Public Security.....
It is crack ho, not "crack-whore" - get with the program.....
Atually I think that a lot of the stuff attributed to Jesus really should be credited to his brother James....especially that walking on water thing.
I mean, after all, popular American movies always have a sex scene of some kind almost immediately followed by violence and/or death of some sort! Now that's got to have a negative effect on youthful viewing.
One would think it much superior to simply view postive, pleasurable sex between people (or solo, if it's women - OK, I'm a heterosexual) than the constant sex-violence syndrome Americans are so besotted with.....
They obviously need considerably more Internet access there....
You are a Corporate Fascist!!!
Once upon a time not too long ago, it was against the law in all the states of the union for corporations to either directly or indirectly contribute to politicians and political campaigns.
Now they own all the politicians.....
The next news flash will be that those UAVs are now networked with Diebold voting machines?????
George = 6 letters, Walker = 6 letters, Bush Jr = 6 letters
So I guess 666 doesn't mean anything??????
Why....I have absolute faith in all corporations, especially Enron, Touche-Deloitte, First National of Boston, Bank of America, Stanley Tools, Boeing, the NSA Terrorist Surveillance Program, the FBI (and those two cretins at the FBI HQ, who that FBI agent, Harry Samit, contacted 70 times warning that jets might be used to crash into American skyscrapers)!
I mean, 3,000 dead....$1 trillion lost to the economy...what's it take to get fired at Feeb Central????
It's actually part of the Terrorist Surveillance Program!
Gee, do you think long-term thinking makes sense.......
Didn't that group first appear in Batman comics around 1990? Just like that Avian Flu (which, BTW, What's-his-face Rumsfeld is supposed to have a multi-million dollar stake in the sole company manufacturing the supposed vaccine) which first appeared in Ian Fleming's (007) "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" (that's the book, dudes & dudettes) as one of SPECTRE's weapons.
These fictions, just like WMDs in Iraq, are very convenient fictions for the Bushies to continue to steal from the US Treasury......
Pleasure has always been the primary motivator of mankind. After all, you think those ancient dudes used fire just to cook and heat with????
That's how they did all those early tattoos.