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561  Other / Politics & Society / Economist Warns Civil Unrest Rising Everywhere on: June 29, 2014, 10:02:57 PM
"And It Won't End Pretty"
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The greatest problem we have is misinformation. People simply do not comprehend why and how the economic policies of the post-war era are imploding. This whole agenda of socialism has sold a Utopian idea that the State is there for the people yet it is run by lawyers following their own self-interest. The pensions created for those in government drive the cost of government up exponentially with time. The political forces blame the rich and this merely creates a class warfare with no resolution for the future. Even confiscating all the wealth of the so-called rich will not sustain the system. Consequently, we just have to crash and burn and start all over again.

The Guardian reported that some 50,000 people marched in London to protest against austerity. They cried: “Who is really responsible for the mess this country is in? Is it the Polish fruit pickers or the Nigerian nurses? Or is it the bankers who plunged it into economic disaster – or the tax avoiders? It is selective anger.”

The exploitation by the bankers has been really a disaster. They have been their own worst enemy and in the end, they have become the symbol that inspires class warfare if not revolution. They are not the representatives of those who produce jobs. They are merely those who wanted to trade with other people’s money for free. When they win, it is their’s, but any losses are passed to the taxpayers. Bankers should be bankers – not hedge fund managers who keep 100% of the profits using other people’s savings.
More...http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-06-28/martin-armstrong-warns-civil-unrest-rising-everywhere-wont-end-pretty
ZH is a great website to make as part of your daily diet. They specialize in exposing bankster related episodes that are driving the people of the world into a shallow grave so to speak.
562  Other / Politics & Society / North Korea Throws Another Temper Tantrum on: June 29, 2014, 03:26:28 AM
Kim farted, I mean, launched 2 projectiles into the sea off the Korean peninsula.
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(CNN) -- North Korea fired two projectiles Sunday that "appear to be short-range missiles" into the sea off the eastern coast of the Korean peninsula, a South Korean defense ministry official told CNN.
The launch took place shortly before 5 a.m. (4 p.m. ET Saturday), according to the official. The projectile's estimated range is 500 km (310 miles).
This is the second reported launch by North Korea in recent days.
On Thursday, U.S. and South Korean government officials reported North Korea had launched three projectiles from its southeastern coast.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/28/world/asia/north-korea-missile-launch/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
I wonder what he's crying over this time.
563  Other / Politics & Society / Obama seeks $500M to train, equip Syrian rebels on: June 28, 2014, 09:56:21 PM
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President Barack Obama, under pressure from some lawmakers for greater U.S. backing for Syria's opposition, asked Congress Thursday for $500 million to train and arm vetted members of the Syrian opposition Wink, as the United States considers options to stem an ongoing civil war that has also seeped into neighboring Iraq.


The military training program would deepen the Obama administration's involvement in the more than three-year conflict between rebels and forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. If approved by Congress, the program would supplement a covert train-and-assistance program run by U.S. intelligence agencies.


Obama has been under strong pressure from some lawmakers, such as Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona, to increase assistance to the rebels in Syria's conflict.
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/6/26/obama-seeks-500mtotrainequipsyriarebels.html
Deja Vu. Mental patient McCain is back at it again trying to arm and train the same types that are now causing all the shit in Iraq. That way, keep the terrorists in full gear and ammo to keep stirring up shit to make the case for the neocons wanting to go back into Iraq or where ever else in the future. And, it's all in plain sight. Angry

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The White House said the money would help defend the Syrian people, stabilize areas under opposition control, facilitate the provision of essential services, counter terrorist threats and promote conditions for a negotiated settlement.


"This funding request would build on the administration’s longstanding efforts to empower the moderate Syrian opposition, both civilian and armed, and will enable the Department of Defense to increase our support to vetted elements of the armed opposition," the White House said.


The Syria program is part of a broader $65.8 billion overseas operations request that the administration sent to Capitol Hill.
We send more money overseas than the total GDPs of multiple westernized countries. Glad to have Bitcoin in my life.
564  Other / Politics & Society / Iraqi Prison Guards Grenade Inmates Rather than Risk Release by ISIS on: June 28, 2014, 09:51:19 PM
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With the facility close to being overrun by ISIS fighters, the prison guards did the unthinkable.

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Iraqi prison guards carried out the slaughter before Iraqi forces withdrew.

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dozens of bloated, twisted bodies found in a ditch were believed to have been executed by Iraqi guards before they withdrew.

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one of the guards opened a cell and threw a grenade into it

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they opened fire with a machine gun

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bodies of men are piled on top of one another.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/27/world/meast/iraq-mass-executions/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
565  Other / Politics & Society / Germany sacks Verizon over NSA spying on: June 28, 2014, 05:14:09 PM
Short reporting clip from Russia Today on it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxy8UShBjKc
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Citing concerns over the NSA's wiretapping of Chancellor Angela Merkel and other top officials' phones, the German Interior Ministry announced Thursday that it will not renew its contract with Verizon to provide service for government ministries. As part of an effort to revamp its secure communications networks, the country will instead rely on Germany's own Deutsche Telekom. RT's Ameera David has more details on the announcement and its fallout.
Apparently, Merkel got herself a new 3400$ Blackberry w/ some special crypto chip in it so that all her communications are on lock down. I hope this is just a start in a world backlash against the NSA as well as continual and rising opposition to it from many her in America (notice I don't say the United States).
566  Other / Politics & Society / Mexican Military chopper opens fire on US Border Patrol Agents on: June 27, 2014, 11:18:37 PM
Front and center on the Drudge Report which is one of the top rated websites in the Western world.
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“The incident occurred after midnight and before 6 a.m. Helicopter flew into the U.S. and fired on two U.S. Border Patrol agents,” Del Cueto said in a statement to KVOA. “The incident occurred west of the San Miguel Gate on the Tohono O’odham Indian Nation. The agents were unharmed. The helicopter went back into Mexico. Mexico then contacted U.S. authorities and apologized for the incident.”

Del Cueto said four agents were in a marked patrol vehicle when they were shot at.

“They could say they didn’t fire at the agents intentionally. But for them to say that they were no shots fired within the United States, toward the United States Border Patrol, is a lie. They got in contact with our managers and apologized for the incident,” Del Cueto said.

Andy Adame, Border Patrol spokesperson, said that Mexican authorities fired two shots at the border agents.
“Two shots were fired from the helicopter but no injuries or damage to U.S. property were reported,”
More...http://lasvegas.cbslocal.com/2014/06/27/report-mexican-military-chopper-crosses-into-us-shoots-at-border-agents/
I feel bad for all of those that live along the border in TX and AZ that have to deal w/ the spill over and all the rampant funneling of illegals into the country. There's a whole other list of stories to corroborate this on Drudge.
567  Other / Politics & Society / Former NSA Chief Goon Alexander Peddling State Secrets to Banking Cartel on: June 26, 2014, 08:19:36 PM
Snarky Lawmaker Reminds Former NSA Chief That Selling State Secrets Is Illegal
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Cybersecurity firms and snake-oil salesmen promising protection from online threats are ubiquitous these days, and it’s hard to stand out in such a crowded field—unless you’re the former leader of the world’s best hacking outfit. In that case, the promises you sell carry more weight—and a higher price tag.


Which may well explain why Gen. Keith Alexander, the former head of the NSA and U.S. Cyber Command, has launched the consulting firm IronNet Cybersecurity. It also may explain why a congressman has reminded the former spy that selling top secret info is a crime.


To capitalize on his recent departure from military intelligence—Alexander resigned in March following months of revelations by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden—the general is offering his security expertise to the banking industry for the fire sale price of $600,000 per month after first asking for

$1 million.


There are threats everywhere, Alexander warns, and “It would be devastating if one of our major banks was hit, because they’re so interconnected.”


That may be, but Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Florida) is suspicious that Alexander has anything useful to offer at that price—unless, that is, he’s peddling national security secrets.
In letters sent Wednesday (.pdf) to the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, the Consumer Bankers Association, the Financial Services Roundtable and the Clearing House—all of which Alexander reportedly has approached about his services—Grayson made it clear to Alexander and those who might retain him that selling classified information is illegal.


“I am writing with concerns about the potential disclosure of classified information by former National Security Agency Director Keith Alexander,” Grayson wrote. “Disclosing or misusing classified information for profit is, as Mr. Alexander well knows, a felony.


“I question how Mr. Alexander
can provide any of the services he is offering
unless he discloses or misuses classified information,



including extremely sensitive sources and methods,” Grayson continued. “Without the classified information he acquired in his former position, he literally would have nothing to offer to you.”



Grayson’s staff says the congressman has not yet received a response from Alexander or any of the organizations that received the letter.


“The Congressman is very interested in what they have to say,” said Matt Stoller, Grayson’s senior policy advisor, in an email to WIRED.
Alexander could not be reached for comment. Roll Eyes

http://www.wired.com/2014/06/keith-alexander-security-consultant/
568  Other / Politics & Society / US House Passes Amendment Ordering Actual Restraints on NSA Searches on: June 20, 2014, 06:56:39 PM
Special Thanks to Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), buddies w/ you know who...
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Tonight the House voted to approve an amendment to a defense appropriation bill shutting down the part of National Security Agency (NSA) "backdoor searches" that collects metadata on Americans without a warrant. The bill was sponsored by Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.). The Electronic Frontier Foundation explains:

Today, the US House of Representatives passed an amendment to the Defense Appropriations bill designed to cut funding for NSA backdoors. The amendment passed overwhelmingly with strong bipartisan support: 293 ayes, 123 nays, and 1 present.

Currently, the NSA collects emails, browsing and chat history under Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act, and searches this information without a warrant for the communications of Americans—a practice known as "backdoor searches." The amendment would block the NSA from using any of its funding from this Defense Appropriations Bill to conduct such warrantless searches. In addition, the amendment would prohibit the NSA from using its budget to mandate or request that private companies and organizations add backdoors to the encryption standards that are meant to keep you safe on the web.
more...http://reason.com/blog/2014/06/20/house-passes-amendment-ordering-actual-r
Remember the last time they voted on something like this the good guys came up ~8 votes short. Now, it's bulls on parade and on to the Senate where plenty of key individuals are up for reelection..  Perfect timing but keep on the lookout for a stripped down version coming from the Senate. But, this will allow Rand Paul to gain even more prominence FTW.
569  Other / Politics & Society / Lindsey Graham: The Next 9/11 Is Coming from Iraq & Syria, and it’s ‘Inevitable' on: June 15, 2014, 09:41:39 PM
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Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer Sunday morning that the developments in Iraq portended a new 9/11, a consequence he deemed “inevitable.”

“The decision to withdraw U.S. forces created a vacuum,” Graham said. “Syria is launching pad. …If the central government in Iraq collapses — and that’s the goal of ISIS — Iran will own southern part of Iraq, that’s where the Shiites live; they can operate ISIS from Baghdad to Kurdistan all the way in to Syria. They will eventually march on Jordan and Lebanon — our best ally in the region is the King of Jordan — and they will attack us from that part of Iraq and Syria. According to our own Director of National Intelligence, FBI Director, the next 9/11 is coming from here.”

“That a very serious statement,” Schieffer said.

“I think it’s inevitable,” Graham replied. “They plan to drive us out of the Mideast by attacked us here at home.”
video here...http://www.mediaite.com/tv/lindsey-graham-the-next-911-is-coming-from-iraq-and-syria-and-its-inevitable/
Mind you, this is coming from a top tier war hawk sonofabitch. The same guy that was all for arming the Syrians rebels to begin with... Oh look, that's who's attempting to run the show over in Iraq right now to which this dumbass is even commenting on to begin with.

the guy on the left
570  Other / Politics & Society / Bradley Manning Says US Public Lied to About Iraq War from the Start on: June 15, 2014, 06:21:10 PM
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New York (AFP) - The detained US soldier convicted of leaking a trove of secret documents to WikiLeaks made a rare foray into public life Saturday to warn Americans they were being lied to about Iraq once more.

Chelsea Manning is serving a 35-year prison sentence on espionage charges and other offenses for passing along 700,000 secret documents, including diplomatic cables and military intelligence files, to anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks in the largest-scale leak in US history.

"I understand that my actions violated the law. However, the concerns that motivated me have not been resolved," the soldier formerly known as Bradley Manning wrote in a New York Times editorial.

"As Iraq erupts in civil war and America again contemplates intervention, that unfinished business should give new urgency to the question of how the United States military controlled the media coverage of its long involvement there and in Afghanistan."

President Barack Obama said this week he was "looking at all the options" to halt the offensive that has brought militants within 50 miles (80 kilometers) of Baghdad's city limits, but ruled out any return of US combat troops.

Obama has been under mounting fire from Republican critics over the swift collapse of Iraq's security forces, which Washington spent billions of dollars training and equipping before pulling out its own troops in 2011.

While the US military was upbeat in its public outlook on the 2010 Iraqi parliamentary elections, suggesting it had helped bring stability and democracy to the country, "those of us stationed there were acutely aware of a more complicated reality," Manning wrote.

"Military and diplomatic reports coming across my desk detailed a brutal crackdown against political dissidents by the Iraqi Ministry of Interior and federal police, on behalf of Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki. Detainees were often tortured, or even killed."

Manning, a former US Army intelligence analyst, said he was "shocked by our military's complicity in the corruption of that election. Yet these deeply troubling details flew under the American media's radar."

Criticizing the military's practice of embedding journalists, Manning charged that "the current limits on press freedom and excessive government secrecy make it impossible for Americans to grasp fully what is happening in the wars we finance."

Manning is serving out the prison sentence at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas and had requested a name change after court-martial proceedings revealed the soldier's emotional turmoil over sexual identity.

A US Army general denied clemency to Manning in April, upholding the 35-year sentence.
h/t https://news.yahoo.com/manning-says-us-public-lied-iraq-start-030349079.html
And so many Americans don't understand how censored the US press really is. I'm referring to the corporate press of course. I work at a hospital and I encounter upwards of a 100 different people every day and it really stands out how in the dark most of these drones really are.
571  Economy / Service Discussion / Coinbase Now Allows Merchants to Offer 25% Discounts on Bitcoin Purchases on: June 14, 2014, 11:25:26 PM
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Coinbase is now offering its merchant partners a way to incentive bitcoin payments with a new feature that will allow businesses to extend discounts of up to 25% to consumers.


The California-based company framed the move as one that will provide merchants with a dynamic way to incentivize their customers to shift away from traditional payment methods.


As the costs of a credit or debit card transactions fall largely on the merchant – who may find themselves charging more to make up for these expenditures – a discounting feature can make it more enticing for customers to spend bitcoin.


Coinbase said in a statement:
“[Transaction] expenses are passed on to consumers in the form of higher prices for goods and services. Bitcoin significantly reduces transaction fees and costs associated with fraud and chargebacks. And now, merchants can share these savings with consumers by enabling instant discounts on orders paid in bitcoin.”
How it works

Setting the discount is designed to be relatively simple for merchants.
Merchants who use Coinbase can opt to apply an automatic discount to purchases by making the change in their Merchant Settings menu.
See the details @ http://www.coindesk.com/coinbase-merchants-offer-25-discounts-bitcoin-purchases/
This is very important in getting the average person to see the benefits of using BTC to buy things. Good shit, Coinbase!
572  Other / Politics & Society / GOP House Majority Leader Eric Cantor Goes Down Hard Tonight!! on: June 11, 2014, 02:31:41 AM
Remember my thread that no one cared about relating to the District Convention that Cantor tried to steer away from the grassroots? Well, he got punked out tonight by an Economics professor Dave Brat in the 7th Congressional District of Virginia's Primary. This is Front and Center on The Drudge Report right now and is seen as putting the nail in the coffin on amnesty for illegal immigrants but the real story is how anti-NSA Brat is which is groovy for our types. He's pretty libertarian-ish on most things and will be a great ally in the House along side the Amash's and Massie's. BTW, Drudge is The Go-To site for all things politics and news in the US.

Title
DC ROCKED: Cantor Loses Primary
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_VIRGINIA_PRIMARY_CANTOR?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-06-10-20-05-45
The numbers were 55-45% towards Brat and I can't tell you folks how epic of an upset this is. I'm walking on sunshine up in here.
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- In an upset for the ages, Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia, the second-most powerful man in the House, was dethroned Tuesday by a little-known, tea party-backed Republican primary challenger who rolled to victory on a wave of public anger over calls for looser immigration laws.

""This is a miracle from God that just happened," exulted David Brat, a political science professor as his victory became clear in the congressional district around Richmond.

Speaking to downcast supporters, Cantor conceded, "Obviously we came up short."

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Brat teaches at Randolph-Macon College, a small liberal arts school north of Richmond. He raised just over $200,000 for his campaign, while Cantor spent more than $1 million in April and May alone to try to beat back his challenge.

Washington-based groups also spent heavily in the race. The American Chemistry Council, whose members include many blue chip companies, spent more than $300,000 on TV ads promoting Cantor in the group's only independent expenditure so far this election year. Political arms of the American College of Radiology, the National Rifle Association and the National Association of Realtors also spent money on ads to promote Cantor.
To hell w/ the NRA that phony hunting and pro-police state fraud of a 2nd Amendment outfit. GOA or NAGR are the best groups, I'm a member of both.
573  Other / Politics & Society / Iraq's second largest city, Mosul, captured by Islamic State of Iraq and Syria on: June 10, 2014, 06:31:38 PM
Insurgents seize Iraqi city of Mosul as troops flee
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All key facilities are now controlled by the insurgents, including the airport and the prisons, said Nujaifi, who is from Mosul.

The capture of the airport, which had served as a major hub for the U.S. military, could not be independently confirmed, but Nujaifi said it had been seized and that all of the aircraft there also were captured.

Maliki is urging the United States to deliver more advanced weaponry, but ISIS fighters have already been seen riding round in U.S.-supplied Humvees in other areas they control, and much of the weaponry captured in this latest battle is likely to be American, Lister said.

The speed with which one of Iraq’s biggest cities has fallen under militant control is striking and suggests the U.S.-trained Iraqi security forces are even more vulnerable than had previously been thought.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/insurgents-seize-iraqi-city-of-mosul-as-troops-flee/2014/06/10/21061e87-8fcd-4ed3-bc94-0e309af0a674_story.html
Let's face it, it's not like this US trained Iraqi Security force would want to die for some false state of alleged democracy setup by some illegal war for the last decade. Geez, did these middle east wars get rid of the terrorists or summon up that much more of them? Way to go, Dubya!
574  Other / Politics & Society / Feminists Freak Out Over Suggestion Women Learn Self Defense to Avoid Rape on: June 10, 2014, 06:10:11 PM
Feminists Freak Out Over Miss Nevada Suggestion Women Learn Self Defense to Avoid Rape

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'We shouldn't teach women self-defense so they can avoid being raped, rather we should only teach men it is bad to rape.'

That's the logic coming from leftist feminists in response to Miss Nevada Nia Sanchez, now Miss USA, suggesting last night that women should learn self-defense in order to prevent or avoid being sexually assaulted. Sanchez is a fourth degree black belt in taekwondo.

First, Miss Nevada's suggestion during Miss USA last night and after she won the title:
Cont...http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2014/06/09/feminists-freak-out-over-miss-nevada-suggestion-women-learn-self-defense-n1849213
This was all over national radio yesterday and the lefties were made a mockery of. They're for empowering women in every category over men except self defense. Undecided It's episodes like this where the left just totally loses any sort of credibility w/ the average American. Sounds crazy.
575  Other / Politics & Society / Rand Paul plans heavy summer travel, foreign-policy speech on: June 08, 2014, 12:34:11 AM
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By MIKE ALLEN | 6/7/14 1:57 PM EDT

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is helping open a “GOP engagement office” on Saturday in an African-American area of Louisville, part of a frenetic summer schedule aimed at reaching beyond the party’s traditional base, with explicit appeals to minorities and young people.

In late summer or early fall, Paul plans a major foreign policy address that will give him a prime chance to close a gap with establishment Republicans that has been perhaps the biggest hurdle to acceptance of Paul by party elites.

The itinerary will bolster the widespread view among Republican leaders that Paul is doing the most visible spadework of the party’s potential presidential candidates. As a sign of his advanced planning, the senator told AP that he would consider running for reelection and president at the same time, and that a Kentucky ballot law against dual candidacies would not be an obstacle.

Paul, who has traveled to 30 states in the past 12 months (including three trips to the early-presidential-voting South Carolina), showed his flair for unlikely venues by drawing a standing ovation in Berkeley in March.

“I think there are a lot of issues,” Paul told POLITICO in an interview, “from economic development to schools, to criminal justice, that there’s a message that a lot of us are talking about that, if people can embrace it with an open mind, will really, frankly, say, ‘What have the Democrats done for me lately?’”

Next weekend, Paul will be one of several 2016 hopefuls who will address a summit organized by Mitt Romney in Park City, Utah. At the end of July, the senator will speak to the annual Urban League National Conference in Cincinnati. From Aug. 16 to 21, he’ll do pro bono eye surgeries in Guatemala.

More...http://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/rand-paul-summer-travel-foreign-policy-speech-107558.html
This Bull on Parade gets around and there's no one doing what he's doing in terms of trying to rebrand the GOP into a national winning party again. Can't wait to max out to his Presidential run like I did for his old man. Cool Keep your powder dry and growing, yall.
576  Other / Politics & Society / US Government Defies Court Order & Destroys Evidence of NSA Spying on: June 06, 2014, 11:45:42 PM
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San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) asked a judge today to schedule an emergency hearing, after learning that the government is apparently still destroying evidence of NSA spying despite a temporary restraining order (TRO) issued by the court in March. In an order issued in response this afternoon, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey S. White instructed the government not to destroy any more materials and file a brief responding to EFF's allegations by 12 p.m PT on Friday.

"In communications with the government this week, EFF was surprised to learn that the government has been continuing to destroy evidence relating to the mass interception of Internet communications it is conducting under section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act even though the court explicitly ordered it to stop in March," said EFF Legal Director Cindy Cohn. "Specifically, the government is destroying content gathered through tapping into the fiberoptic cables of AT&T."

She added: "Once again, the government has apparently secretly and unilaterally reinterpreted its obligations about the evidence preservation orders, and has determined that it need not comply. Today marks a year to the day that Edward Snowden leaked documents confirming the NSA's massive spying, yet the government is still engaging in outlandish claims and gamesmanship – even destroying evidence – to block an adversarial court ruling on whether its mass spying is legal or constitutional."

EFF filed its Jewel v. NSA lawsuit in 2008. In recent weeks, declarations from the government in the Jewel case made it clear that the government has destroyed five years of the content it collected between 2007 and 2012, three years worth of the telephone records it seized between 2006 and 2009, and seven years of the Internet records it seized between 2004 and 2011, when it claims to have ended the Internet records seizures. In an emergency hearing last March over that evidence destruction, Judge White issued the current TRO, ordering the government to stop any further destruction of records or content until the matter could be sorted out.

"There can be no dispute that the government was aware of the broad scope of this TRO, and in his order this afternoon, Judge White confirmed that it reached materials gathered under Section 702," Cohn said. "We're asking Judge White to enforce the order and impose on the government whatever further measures are necessary to ensure that no further destruction of evidence occurs. It will be very interesting to see what the government says in its defense in its briefing tomorrow."
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/court-again-orders-government-not-destroy-evidence-nsa-spying-case
Much thanks to Snowden and the Ace Journalist Glenn Greenwald for these revelations. Of course, this shows that courts take the back bench to the spying chiefs.
577  Other / Politics & Society / Gun homicides down dramatically, Americans unaware on: June 06, 2014, 06:43:27 PM
http://www.kltv.com/story/25635541/gun-homicides-down-dramatically-americans-unaware
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TYLER, TX (KLTV) -

It seems there is something in the news every day about gun violence. The recent mass shooting in Isla Vista, California, a movie theater riddled with bullets in Colorado, children and teachers gunned down at school in Connecticut, and the list goes on. While you may be seeing more and more shooting, the fact is, overall gun homicide rates have dropped dramatically over the past two decades, according to a recent study.

More than half of Americans believe gun violence has increased over the past two decades, but what you’re watching on the news, may be skewing your view.

That recent study said compared to 1993, the peak of US gun homicide, the rate was 49 percent lower in 2010, even though the population had grown. In other words, fewer people are dying by guns.

Assaults, robberies, and sex crimes also went down by 75 percent in 2011. Perhaps images from shooting crime scenes seem all too familiar, but perhaps the attention to gun violence in recent months has caused more Americans to be unaware that gun crimes are actually markedly lower than they were two decades ago.

There have been about two mass shootings per month in the US over the past five years, according to another report. A mass shooting is constituted as four deaths or more, but this study said each year less than one percent of gun homicides are from mass shootings. Between 1983 and 2012 there were 547 deaths from mass shootings. These shootings are highly publicized and the public is paying close attention.

“I don’t normally just read on it all the time, but when there’s a mass shooting or something like that and it’s big on the news, yes I do read about it and I take part in online debates and stuff,” Anna Katrina Pecson, a Tyler resident, said.

No story received more public attention from mid-March to early April 2013 than the debate over gun control. Though, seeing is believing, numbers don’t lie.

The study also noted more than half of gun-related deaths are suicides. Researchers aren’t sure why gun violence has gone down so drastically, but the study did note that the decline has slowed over the past decade compared to the rapid reduction in the 90’s.
Tell the MSM and the progressives to put that in their pipe and smoke it.
 
The actual study is at http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/files/2013/05/firearms_final_05-2013.pdf

578  Other / Politics & Society / Lavabit's Dark Mail to be released soon! on: June 06, 2014, 06:36:13 PM
Dark Mail has been shipped to development partners and should be available to all in about 60 days.
Short video press release @ https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ladar/lavabits-dark-mail-initiative/posts/867729
I'm pretty excited about this whole Reset the Net deal.
579  Other / Politics & Society / New Hampshire Passes Bill Outlawing NSA Data Collection on: June 05, 2014, 11:33:38 PM
Waiting of Governor's signature but just goes to show how liberty minded the NH state legislature is, partly because of the Free State Project.

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Today, the New Hampshire House and Senate gave final approval to a bill that bans government officials from obtaining “information contained in a portable electronic device” without a warrant “signed by a judge and based on probable cause.” It now goes to the Governor Maggie Hassan’s desk for a signature.

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The bill sets up a direct legal conflict with federal surveillance programs as well. It reads, in part:

“Government entity” means a federal, state, county, or local government agency, including but not limited to a law enforcement agency or any other investigative entity, agency, department, division, bureau, board, or commission, or an individual acting or purporting to act for, or on behalf of, a federal, state, county, or local government agency. “Government entity” shall not apply to a federal government agency to the extent that federal statute preempts state statute.
Full story @ http://benswann.com/breaking-new-hampshire-passes-bill-outlawing-nsa-data-collection-awaits-governors-signature/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=nl
Follow Ben on Twitter https://twitter.com/BenSwann_
580  Economy / Service Discussion / Crypto Cards on: June 03, 2014, 03:01:06 AM
I've been hearing advertisements on Free Talk Live for these things http://cryptocards.co/ and I was wondering if any of yall had heard about, seen them or used them. Apparently, they're the cold storage for the technically challenged. They look pretty interesting and I wanted to get some choir practice going about them. Any pros want to chime in?
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