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THE GUARDIAN--The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America's largest telecoms providers, under a top secret court order issued in April.

The order, a copy of which has been obtained by the Guardian, requires Verizon on an "ongoing, daily basis" to give the NSA information on all telephone calls in its systems, both within the US and between the US and other countries.

The document shows for the first time that under the Obama administration the communication records of millions of US citizens are being collected indiscriminately and in bulk – regardless of whether they are suspected of any wrongdoing.

 

“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking [2013].” --George Orwell, 1984

 

WB7

I rest my case...

 

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Thu, 06/06/2013 - 14:53 | 3630937 monad
Thu, 06/06/2013 - 14:11 | 3630749 cherry picker
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We know who the enemy is.

The true terrorists are in Washington DC.

Thu, 06/06/2013 - 13:52 | 3630658 WarPony
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Great Work WB7!

Thu, 06/06/2013 - 12:57 | 3630450 TrustWho
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Human nature does not change. Founding fathers understood, Orwell had great insight, and people today have no clue. We are getting our lesson to teach us for forgetting history and thinking men are more civilized today than they were in the 1700s.

Thu, 06/06/2013 - 19:20 | 3631699 Meme Iamfurst
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What?  like this is something new?  Americans have been abdicating their rights for 40 plus years.  And,suddenly they are going to wate up?  hahahahahaha

Thu, 06/06/2013 - 12:01 | 3630122 the grateful un...
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they're already following you, databots follow you to this site, and provide ads according to your demographics. the only thing preventing a full survelliance state is the fiscal committment, TSA agents who make a living wage. right now government is incompetent, (if 9/11 happened the way they said it did, after Al Qaida set a fire in the basement of WTC a few years before, and they didn't think it was a problem?) 9/11 has ruined this country, its economy, its constitution. you're not in a minority if you think a bit more intelligence would be worth it. the question is not putting enough intelligence where it belongs (too much surveillance on grandmothers in Iowa, and too many cross coverups (what was the CIA doing with the Boston bombers before all this happened?) and the left hand not knowing the right, no the real problem is the loyalty of our leaders.. is that loyalty with americans or with the global bankers?

Thu, 06/06/2013 - 11:30 | 3629960 Relentless
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The document shows for the first time that under the Obama administration the communication records of millions of US citizens are being collected indiscriminately and in bulk – regardless of whether they are suspected of any wrongdoing.

 

I'd make one minor change - they suspect everybody of wrongdoing

Thu, 06/06/2013 - 12:51 | 3630416 the grateful un...
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i don't think those non-profits who were singled out by the IRS think it was indiscriminate. (that was really old school, Nixonian if you will. the real money is in finding your campaign contributors and taking the rest off your list)

Thu, 06/06/2013 - 10:24 | 3629591 Dewey Cheatum Howe
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Off topic but interesting story in showing just how totaltarian all these socialist states are becoming this just in from the land down under.

http://reason.com/blog/2013/06/06/australia-attempts-targeted-internet-cen

Australia Attempts Targeted Internet Censorship, Blocks 250,000 Websites By Accident

The land downunder has long been a bit more censor-y than you'd expect from your average English-speaking democracy, especially when it comes to the nasty, nasty Internet. But just because government officials set out to keep the world safe from words and images they don't like doesn't mean they do it well. After concluding that it had the authority to impose Internet censorship on its own without any special legislative authorization, the Australian Securities & Investments Commission ordered ISPs to block Websites suspected of defrauding Australians. It ordered the ISPs to do so not by domain name, but by IP address, which blocks the whole server hosting a Website, as well as any other Websites also hosted.

From the Sydney Morning Herald:

Australia's corporate watchdog has admitted to inadvertently blocking access to about 250,000 innocuous websites in addition to the 1200 it had already accidentally censored.

ASIC made the concession in a statement at a senate estimates hearing on Tuesday night, after it caused controversy by interpreting a 15-year-old law in the Telecommunications Act as giving it the ability to block websites.

The largest number of sites censored when attempting to block one particular site ASIC believed was defrauding Australians was 250,000. Of these, ASIC said about 1000, or 0.4 per cent, were active sites. It said the 249,000 other sites hosted "no substantive content" or offered their domain name up for sale, rather than hosting a fully-fledged active site.

ASIC asked internet service providers (ISPs) to block sites it believed were defrauding Australians by IP address (such as 203.56.34.11) instead of domain name (such as sitedefraudingaustralians.com). This meant thousands of other sites were blocked in the process, as many sites are often hosted on one shared IP address.

ASIC told senate estimates in its opening statement that it was now examining how it could ensure only a site's specific domain name was blocked and ways it could alert the public to a site being blocked via a pop up page. It was also examining ways such a page could indicate why access was blocked and to whom queries could be made to dispute a block.

A right of appeal? And less indiscriminate censorship? So strict.

Apparently, ASIC's use of an obscure provision of the law to authorize itself to block websites came to light "last month after the webmasters of the Melbourne Free University site couldn't figure out why it was no longer accessible. After making a number of inquiries to their ISP, the webmasters were told that the Australian government had blocked access to the site. The ISP wouldn't provide any more detail." Other federal agencies have reportedly been doing the same thing though details, as you might expect, are hard to come by.

 

Accident my ass just another example of anus probing to see how deep they can penetrate it before being noticed.

Thu, 06/06/2013 - 09:59 | 3629487 dontgoforit
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They're probably looking at all the ZH'ers, too.  But I don't care.  Free country & all that.  I do believe their paranoia is beginning to make Nixon look pretty clean.  Single-use drones with a single-use hollow point.  That's all I'm saying.  They could take us all out - and by all - I mean 85% or so of the entire world with just a click and a bang.  And no fallout.

Thu, 06/06/2013 - 09:57 | 3629480 metastar
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Banzai, Your posting is epic.

Thu, 06/06/2013 - 09:40 | 3629401 InconvenientCou...
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They collected the from-to and call duration information from Verizon. Not the actual calls. That's the good news.

The bad news is that the NSA has been collecting every phone call, email and text both domestically and overseas for a while now. The call data simply helps them save computing time and increases accuracy of profiling.

I have no doubt all telecom corps and major search engines and social medial provide helpful data to the government in this way.

Technically they aren't reading everything, unless someone starts profiling and your name bubbles up. Then they will.

Thu, 06/06/2013 - 11:34 | 3629985 LostAtSea
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So you believe only what the media is telling you? They probably are listening to the voice/data as well, but that would be "classified" and you'd never know it.

If they are going this far, why stop without actual call data?

Thu, 06/06/2013 - 09:32 | 3629379 azzhatter
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Mass civil disobedience can conquer but we don't have the mass part. Most americans will fully give up freedoms. They sign up for Facebook, join every fucking club offered and put their private information out for everyone to see. Then they say they have no privacy. Fucking people in this country are getting what they asked for

Thu, 06/06/2013 - 09:26 | 3629352 RaceToTheBottom
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Now you got me thinking does this site track who clicks up or down arrows?

Thu, 06/06/2013 - 12:45 | 3630384 the grateful un...
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and if you're a troll an orange jumpsuit and a trip to one of the endless detention centers throughout the US which you aren't even aware of..

Thu, 06/06/2013 - 11:04 | 3629818 williambanzai7
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Only if you wear a turban when you golf.

Thu, 06/06/2013 - 13:27 | 3630571 denverdolomte
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Helps me not turn my head when I swing.

Thu, 06/06/2013 - 10:04 | 3629515 Citxmech
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Everything you do on a public didgital network is tracked.  The good thing is that there's too much information to do anything with (schooling defense) unless you make an effort to make a real nuisance of yourself.  

Thu, 06/06/2013 - 09:15 | 3629316 TuesdayBen
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Pay cash for a trac phone at Walmart. Pay only cash to buy more airtime. Voice only, no data.

I love the way my Gubmint works for me.

Gubmint Akbar!

Thu, 06/06/2013 - 09:28 | 3629359 CH1
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Gubbermint Akbar!

Thu, 06/06/2013 - 09:08 | 3629306 RaceToTheBottom
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Whew, I use AT&T

Thu, 06/06/2013 - 09:30 | 3629371 CH1
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Whew, I use AT&T

Yah, AT&T: http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/04/70619

But, you knew that, didn't you?

Thu, 06/06/2013 - 09:06 | 3629293 Mi Naem
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The only thing that surprises me about this is that it came to light. 

It will surprise me even more if enough people care about it to push for a difference. 

Thu, 06/06/2013 - 11:07 | 3629834 williambanzai7
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Maybe they released this to create a distraction from what comes next... 

Thu, 06/06/2013 - 08:49 | 3629257 Hannibal
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We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was “legal” and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was "illegal."
–Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from Birmingham Jail," Why We Can’t Wait, 1963

Thu, 06/06/2013 - 09:36 | 3629386 CH1
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Amen to Dr. King.

Thu, 06/06/2013 - 08:37 | 3629237 sbenard
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You didn't hear? Last night, while you were asleep, they changed the name of the country from the United States of America, to the POLICE States of Amerika! Welcome, comrades!

Thu, 06/06/2013 - 10:04 | 3629517 Jumbotron
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"You didn't hear? Last night, while you were asleep, they changed the name of the country from the United States of America, to the POLICE States of Amerika! Welcome, comrades!"

For those who missed it.....or were too young...here is the first of 13 parts of "Amerika" from 1987.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU49MR19CcA

Here's the Wiki article on the mini-series.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerika_%28TV_miniseries%29

And for you Rammstein fans......"Amerika"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NteVmdoo1yI

Thu, 06/06/2013 - 12:37 | 3630332 FreedomCostsaBu...
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Rammstein !! Many uber +s

Thu, 06/06/2013 - 08:37 | 3629235 toadold
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So much fun, they are trying like heck to militarize law enforcement and they are putting lawyers in charge of military actions. Results, war abroad and in country. 

Meanwhile gun and ammo manufacturers can't keep up with the demand despite the enormous numbers of firearms and ammunition already sold.  A police department couldn't get delivery of training ammo so they asked for a donation of 1,000 rounds to tide them over.  The locals gave them 1500 rounds. The other thing is the number of instructional firearm courses and who is going. The hottest thing is "tactical" firearm training for pistol, rifle, and shot gun usually conducted by ex-military guys.  

I seem to be hearing a faint whine and occasional twang,like the cables that support everything are on the edge of snapping.

Thu, 06/06/2013 - 09:19 | 3629326 TuesdayBen
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+1 for that last sentence

Thu, 06/06/2013 - 08:27 | 3629210 JOYFUL
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Events are now proceeding at a pace that outstrips the capacity to stay ahead of them... \ and eliminates the luxury of conducting the historical reprise which I had wished to pursue.

If reports are true: that the 24th Marine Expeditionary Force has proceeded from it's offloading point in Jordan directly towards the Syrian border... under air cover of the F-16s of the sionist entity...

we will not be waiting long to see the response of the axis of evil to the joint Hezbollah-Syrian Army triumph in Qusayr, over the mercenary AlCIAda lackeys who have now lost the ability to insert themselves from Lebanon thru that critical border point. And as elements of the Turkish military have insisted that their border also be closed to the phony jihadist forces, it's a do or die situation developing for the Puppet-in-Chief in DC... send in your military to take down Assad... or we pull the plug on you... a la Erdogan\Mubarak\etc etc...

only four days to go till the June 10th anniversary of .... you know what...and the talmudists love their numerlogical anniversaries!

this is your last best chance to say no to the imposition of yet another false flag conflagration which will mean the blood sacrifice of millions of innocents.

Take to the streets now in massive and unified protest against foreign adventurism... or watch the blood and economic power of Merika be drained in another pointless phony war!
Thu, 06/06/2013 - 12:27 | 3630265 Che Guevara is Dead
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Yes the Jews. Always the Jews. My god what an incredibly powerful people. 15 million control 6 billion, a ratio of 1 Jew for 400 goyim. They are so good that they control the CIA run Jihadists fighting the Iranian Jihadists Hezbollah to preserve the Jew-funded al-Assad.

Go Jews!

 

Thu, 06/06/2013 - 11:38 | 3629942 BraveSirRobin
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Cookoo is for Cookoo nuts

Thu, 06/06/2013 - 11:54 | 3630088 JOYFUL
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Thank you for comin outta the closet... unlike the other 'anonymous' downtickers to a request to avoid a phony war and attendant blood shed for no gain...

now... we can ask you directly BraveSirRobin...

to articulate your interest in seeing the world plunged into a war from which now one[cept tel aviv and the rest of the moneychanger network] profits a'tall!

please proceed to enlighten us... Animal Cracker!

Thu, 06/06/2013 - 08:05 | 3629154 q99x2
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Globalists beware. Everyone on the Fuckin planet hates you.

Thu, 06/06/2013 - 07:38 | 3629123 Downtoolong
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"THE GUARDIAN--The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America's largest telecoms providers, under a top secret court order issued in April.

The order, a copy of which has been obtained by the Guardian, requires Verizon on an "ongoing, daily basis" to give the NSA information on all telephone calls in its systems, both within the US and between the US and other countries.

The document shows for the first time that under the Obama administration the communication records of millions of US citizens are being collected indiscriminately and in bulk – regardless of whether they are suspected of any wrongdoing.

“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking [2013].” --George Orwell, 1984

WB7

I rest my case."

 We have received your post and properly flagged and cross referenced it in our system.

Thank you.

NSA Drone, Region 7, Sector 5, Ward B.

Thu, 06/06/2013 - 08:47 | 3629249 medium giraffe
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From the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:

 

 

Article 4.

  • No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.

Article 7.

  • All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.

Article 8.

  • Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law.

Article 12.

  • No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.

Article 14.

  • (1) Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.
  • (2) This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.

Article 17.

  • (1) Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.
  • (2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.

Article 19.

  • Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

Article 21.

  • (1) Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives.
  • (2) Everyone has the right of equal access to public service in his country.
  • (3) The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures.

Article 30.

  • Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.

International Society for Human Rigths (ISHR)
International Secretariat
Borsigallee 9, 60388 Frankfurt am Main
Germany
Tel: ++49-(0)69-420 108-0,
Fax: ++49-(0)69-420 108-33,
eMail: info@ishr.org
Web
: www.ishr.org

Thu, 06/06/2013 - 10:29 | 3629611 Bohm Squad
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Your info is a bit dated...nowadays, those are privileges, not rights.

Thu, 06/06/2013 - 07:15 | 3629085 earnulf
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Our right to freedom rests in no small part on the understanding that we must be responsible for our own actions.   By creating "no contest" pleas, we have in fact, given up responsiblity for our own actions.    Since Justice is a matter of punishment for actions taken, no contest allows a person to avoid the personal responsibility for their actions in favor of an accumulation of evidence which may or may not be accurate.

The average human will commit 1-3 infractions of the social and legal codes each day, knowingly or unknowingly.   Therefore it's just a matter of time until these infractions rise to the level of action, however the daily occurance shows a "tendency" towards "illegal" activity depending on the metrics applied and the threshold of evidence.

That speed limit on your way to work is a limit.    Exceeding it by even 1 mph is still exceeding and thus, breaking the law.     All shit accumulates over time.

Thu, 06/06/2013 - 06:58 | 3629067 crzyhun
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“It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.” GO 1984

Thu, 06/06/2013 - 06:21 | 3629026 egoist
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Thu, 06/06/2013 - 07:26 | 3629108 Peter Pan
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+ 100

LOL

They may even reduce us to whispering or sign language or perhaps we will need neither because hunger and fear can be communicated telepathically.

 

Thu, 06/06/2013 - 05:18 | 3628962 SAT 800
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Everything is illegal unless specifically permitted; and ignorance of the law is no excuse.

Thu, 06/06/2013 - 07:30 | 3629113 Peter Pan
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Up until now, people were allowed to do what they liked subject to limitations.

Very soon things will change and instead people will be given a limited number of options as to what they might do and how they might do it and the rest will be prohibited. Just wait and see what they will impose on all of us in terms of where and how much we can invest etc etc etc.

Thu, 06/06/2013 - 04:58 | 3628951 williambanzai7
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I THINK I WANT TO VOMIT

Thu, 06/06/2013 - 10:08 | 3629528 dontgoforit
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The anti-Christ is amongst us. Doesn't look like we thought he would, does he?

Thu, 06/06/2013 - 09:17 | 3629323 news printer
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When violent clashes broke out between protesters and police in Istanbul last week, national TV channels ran with other stories.

Broadcasts included a cooking show, a full-length documentary on Adolf Hitler and, on CNNTurk, a nature show about penguins.

http://www.rferl.org/content/turkey-protests-penguins-symbol/25008120.html

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-06-05/penguins-not-protests-on-tur...

http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/files/penguins-cnn-turkey-650x396.jpg

CNN Turkey PM on protests

http://youtu.be/CdjboEK_dx0

 

PS.: No more penguins

Thu, 06/06/2013 - 09:48 | 3629427 Dewey Cheatum Howe
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Just like they did here with the Occupy Wall Street protests and the current Occupy ones going on now that no one in the media is reporting.

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