Evidently few commenters today know ANYTHING about the history of the CIA, NSA or DIA!
All of you first read the chapters on the Kennedy administration from Richard Parker's biography on John Kenneth Galbraith, next read Gerard Colby's Thy Will Be Done, next read Donald Gibson's Wealth, Power and the Crisis in Laissez Faire Capitalism.
Like everything else, they will simply offshore all those sysadmin jobs to India, China, Vietnam and Russia, of course, which is what they normally do, you douchetards!
Finally, a REAL scientific study (I recall the time some douchebagger at this site downgraded me 'cause I had the temerity to quesiton Corporate Pseudo-science --- ya know, that vaccines are only as reliable and efficacious as their manufacturing process.)
I'm not going to even bother to read this abstract as I've read far too many similar studies over the decades, always invalidated and retracted due to not sampling and delineating between coffee AND tobacco, plus other drugs and alcohol. There are simply too many positives associated with coffee as an antioxidant, stomach cancer inhibitor, etc.
"Agencies working to curb drug trafficking, cyberattacks, money laundering, counterfeiting and even copyright infringement complain that their attempts to exploit the security agency's vast resources have often been turned down because their own investigations are not considered a high enough priority..."
Excooooose meeeee, but is everyone freaking ignorant about the reason behind the recent firing of the acting head of the IRS?
About eight days or less, prior to his termination, the IRS announced, at their very web site, the largest tax investigation in history to be undertaken by them, in conjunction with the UK and Australia, into the skulduggery at those offshore tax havens (a k a Offshore Financial Centers)!
He wasn't fired for any bullcrap political "non-profits" targeting which they scammed from an old IG internal report from a year or so back!
"the professionals at the NSA"
Huh? You mean those two guys, Gen. Clapper and Gen. Alexander, who lied before congress?
Or do you mean the fellow who took his oath, both in the US Army and to his gov't, seriously?
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5324/9015134540_462a8637a0_b.jpg
....discussion, the debate should have been ended among sane and rational people long ago, with every job offshored, so goes a piece of the GDP, and that is not a debatable point. Step one in the jobs offshoring process is the importation of foreign visa scab workers, many of whom are returned to their country of origin to be the managers, project managers, etc., for those jobs then offshored there.
With the increasing offshoring of R&D (once the chief province of colleges and academia in general), and the importation of R&D people from offshore, the reasons are obvious to anyone with the minimum amount of neurons!
At the latest Bilderberg meeting, who were some of the attendees, and what was the connection to owning the Internet (Web), Aaron Swartz and WikiLeaks?
First, there was the primary person pushing for the extradition of WikiLeaks' Julian Assange, Carl Bildt of Sweden.
Next, we have Robert Kaplan of Stratfor, the private intel outfit which was hacked by Anonymous, providing some most interesting and incriminating data.
Of course, we also see Alex Karp, of Palantir, the bunch who were prostituting themselves and tripping over themselves to run a disinformation campaign for the banksters against WikiLeaks.
Most telling, though, was a Harvard attendee, Lawrence Lessig, the dood and attorney for Aaron Swartz, the guy who was supposed to be Aaron's friend and mentor, the guy who brought Aaron into his fold so he could "watch over him" (or how about observe, compromise and interdict Aaron), the guy who waiting until after Aaron had committed suicide before he was planning to tell him that the federal prosecutors had backed away from their original onerous agenda of legally making Aaron give up any online computing for the remainder of his natural life?
Looking at that latest list of Bilderbergers, it is certainly not surprising to read this about MIT and company!
Your comments are great, only lifelong activists and hacktivists such as myself and others, don't believe the system to be broken, but simply purposely perverted to serve the needs of the super-rich.
Glad to see the evolution of thought on this matter has become so postive and more and more are finally realizing that jobs offshoring, and importation of foreign visa scab workers, doesn't "create jobs" as M$ has so long claimed!
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we had habeas corpus
Well, in America we were supposed to have had habeas corpus up until the passage of the USA PATRIOT Act?
Among many of the simpleton comments here, your cogent, lucid and thoughtful comments rule supreme. Thanks for your time spent in commenting!
Especially not for a fellow named Miranda!
Evidently few commenters today know ANYTHING about the history of the CIA, NSA or DIA!
All of you first read the chapters on the Kennedy administration from Richard Parker's biography on John Kenneth Galbraith, next read Gerard Colby's Thy Will Be Done, next read Donald Gibson's Wealth, Power and the Crisis in Laissez Faire Capitalism.
Oh yeah, dood, you are sooooo right......! ! ! !
I mean, such people never do anything for profit or sheer meanness and to exercise their ultimate power!
So, how many hours of TV and movies do you watch daily?????
Know the history behind the CIA, NSA and DIA? It sure don't sound like it, sonny!
Me thinks you should crack open a book, instead of wasting all that precious time on Tom Clancy bilge and flotsam!
"Security apparatus" has never been what they are about, douchetard!
Correct --- the reporter on that beat, for The Guardian, announced he would continue reporting......from an undisclosed location in New York!
Like everything else, they will simply offshore all those sysadmin jobs to India, China, Vietnam and Russia, of course, which is what they normally do, you douchetards!
Finally, a REAL scientific study (I recall the time some douchebagger at this site downgraded me 'cause I had the temerity to quesiton Corporate Pseudo-science --- ya know, that vaccines are only as reliable and efficacious as their manufacturing process.)
Is "Trust me, I'm an expert!" as reputable as "Trust me, I'm a banker!" ? ? ?
Or chronic worry about finding the required money for the next pot of coffee?
I'm not going to even bother to read this abstract as I've read far too many similar studies over the decades, always invalidated and retracted due to not sampling and delineating between coffee AND tobacco, plus other drugs and alcohol. There are simply too many positives associated with coffee as an antioxidant, stomach cancer inhibitor, etc.
Exactly, scorp1us, exactly, thus making a lie of this bullcrap post, unfortunately! This is simply more political theater of the absurd.
"Agencies working to curb drug trafficking, cyberattacks, money laundering, counterfeiting and even copyright infringement complain that their attempts to exploit the security agency's vast resources have often been turned down because their own investigations are not considered a high enough priority..."
Excooooose meeeee, but is everyone freaking ignorant about the reason behind the recent firing of the acting head of the IRS?
About eight days or less, prior to his termination, the IRS announced, at their very web site, the largest tax investigation in history to be undertaken by them, in conjunction with the UK and Australia, into the skulduggery at those offshore tax havens (a k a Offshore Financial Centers)!
He wasn't fired for any bullcrap political "non-profits" targeting which they scammed from an old IG internal report from a year or so back!
"the professionals at the NSA" Huh? You mean those two guys, Gen. Clapper and Gen. Alexander, who lied before congress? Or do you mean the fellow who took his oath, both in the US Army and to his gov't, seriously? http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5324/9015134540_462a8637a0_b.jpg
.... the local American scene:
http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2013/07/30/stop-and-frisk-for-local-environmentalists
Stupendous comments, Good Citizen nimbius, and a more local posting,
http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2013/07/30/stop-and-frisk-for-local-environmentalists
...I doubt many feel the same way about AG Holder!
Ditto! Ya know, anyone even bothering to still argue "the difference" point has to be totally effing insane!
Does anyone know who owns Verizon?
Does anyone know who owns AT&T?
Does anyone know if the same entity owns Verizon and AT&T?
....discussion, the debate should have been ended among sane and rational people long ago, with every job offshored, so goes a piece of the GDP, and that is not a debatable point. Step one in the jobs offshoring process is the importation of foreign visa scab workers, many of whom are returned to their country of origin to be the managers, project managers, etc., for those jobs then offshored there.
With the increasing offshoring of R&D (once the chief province of colleges and academia in general), and the importation of R&D people from offshore, the reasons are obvious to anyone with the minimum amount of neurons!
At the latest Bilderberg meeting, who were some of the attendees, and what was the connection to owning the Internet (Web), Aaron Swartz and WikiLeaks?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-03/full-list-2013s-bilderberg-attendees
First, there was the primary person pushing for the extradition of WikiLeaks' Julian Assange, Carl Bildt of Sweden.
Next, we have Robert Kaplan of Stratfor, the private intel outfit which was hacked by Anonymous, providing some most interesting and incriminating data.
Of course, we also see Alex Karp, of Palantir, the bunch who were prostituting themselves and tripping over themselves to run a disinformation campaign for the banksters against WikiLeaks.
Most telling, though, was a Harvard attendee, Lawrence Lessig, the dood and attorney for Aaron Swartz, the guy who was supposed to be Aaron's friend and mentor, the guy who brought Aaron into his fold so he could "watch over him" (or how about observe, compromise and interdict Aaron), the guy who waiting until after Aaron had committed suicide before he was planning to tell him that the federal prosecutors had backed away from their original onerous agenda of legally making Aaron give up any online computing for the remainder of his natural life?
Looking at that latest list of Bilderbergers, it is certainly not surprising to read this about MIT and company!
Your comments are great, only lifelong activists and hacktivists such as myself and others, don't believe the system to be broken, but simply purposely perverted to serve the needs of the super-rich.
....it's worse than it has been portrayed:
http://www.privacysos.org/node/1122
Glad to see the evolution of thought on this matter has become so postive and more and more are finally realizing that jobs offshoring, and importation of foreign visa scab workers, doesn't "create jobs" as M$ has so long claimed!
Or just a shortage of companies even willing to hire Americans ! ! !