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Spying Update
Update 1: Prominent Liberals AND Conservatives Sue Over NSA Spying
Update 2: Spying Whistleblower’s Girlfriend Is Hot
Government Spying on Americans … and then Giving Info to Giant Corporations
You’ve heard that the government spies on all Americans.
But you might not know that the government shares some of that information with big corporations.
In addition, Reuters reported in 2011 that the NSA shares intelligence with Wall Street banks in the name of “battling hackers.”
The National Security Agency, a secretive arm of the U.S. military, has begun providing Wall Street banks with intelligence on foreign hackers, a sign of growing U.S. fears of financial sabotage.The assistance from the agency that conducts electronic spying overseas is part of an effort by American banks and other financial firms to get help from the U.S. military and private defense contractors to fend off cyber attacks, according to interviews with U.S. officials, security experts and defense industry executives.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has also warned banks of particular threats amid concerns that hackers could potentially exploit security vulnerabilities to wreak havoc across global markets and cause economic mayhem.
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NSA Director Keith Alexander, who runs the U.S. military’s cyber operations, told Reuters the agency is currently talking to financial firms about sharing electronic information on malicious software, possibly by expanding a pilot program through which it offers similar data to the defense industry.
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NSA, which has long been charged with protecting classified government networks from attack, is already working with Nasdaq to beef up its defenses after hackers infiltrated its computer systems last year and installed malicious software that allowed them to spy on the directors of publicly held companies.
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The NSA’s work with Wall Street marks a milestone in the agency’s efforts to make its cyber intelligence available more broadly to the private sector.
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Greater cooperation with industry became possible after a deal reached a year ago between the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security, allowing NSA to provide cyber expertise to other government agencies and certain private companies.
In March, PC Magazine noted:
“Right now, the ability to share real-time information is complicated and there are legal barriers. We have to overcome that,” Gen Keith B. Alexander, director of the National Security Agency and commander of U.S. Cyber Command, said during a Thursday appearance at Georgia Tech’s Cyber Security Symposium.
[Alexander has been pushing for the anti-privacy Internet bill known as "CISPA" to be passed.] “It allows the government to start working with industry and … discuss with each of these sector about the best approach,” he said.
CISPA would allow the NSA to more openly share data with corporations in the name of protecting against “cyber threats.” But that phrase is too squisy. As the Electronic Frontier Foundation notes:
A “cybersecurity purpose” only means that a company has to think that a user is trying to harm its network. What does that mean, exactly? The definition is broad and vague. The definition allows purposes such as guarding against “improper” information modification, ensuring “timely” access to information or “preserving authorized restrictions on access…protecting…proprietary information” (i.e. DRM).
Moreover, as the ACLU notes, “Fusion Centers” – a hybrid of military, intelligence agency, police and private corporations set up in centers throughout the country, and run by the Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security – allow big businesses like Boeing to get access to classified information which gives them an unfair advantage over smaller competitors:
Participation in fusion centers might give Boeing access to the trade secrets or security vulnerabilities of competing companies, or might give it an advantage in competing for government contracts. Expecting a Boeing analyst to distinguish between information that represents a security risk to Boeing and information that represents a business risk may be too much to ask.
A 2008 Department of Homeland Security Privacy Office review of fusion centers concluded that they presented risks to privacy because of ambiguous lines of authority, rules and oversight, the participation of the military and private sector, data mining, excessive secrecy, inaccurate or incomplete information and the dangers of mission creep.
The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations found in 2012 that fusion centers spy on citizens, produce ‘shoddy’ work unrelated to terrorism or real threats:
“The Subcommittee investigation found that DHS-assigned detailees to the fusion centers forwarded ‘intelligence’ of uneven quality – oftentimes shoddy, rarely timely, sometimes endangering citizens’ civil liberties and Privacy Act protections, occasionally taken from already-published public sources, and more often than not unrelated to terrorism.”
Under the FBI’s Infraguard program, businesses sometimes receive intel even before elected officials.
Law enforcement agencies spy on protesters and then share the info – at taxpayer expense – with the giant Wall Street banks
And a security expert says that all Occupy Wall Street protesters had their cellphone information logged by the government.
Alternet notes:
Ironically, records indicate that corporate entities engaged in such public-private intelligence sharing partnerships were often the very same corporate entities criticized, and protested against, by the Occupy Wall Street movement as having undue influence in the functions of public government.
In essence, big banks and giant corporations are seen as being part of “critical infrastructure” and “key resources” … so the government protects them. That creates a dynamic where the government will do quite a bit to protect the big boys against any real or imagined threats … whether from activists or even smaller competitors. (Remember that the government has completely propped up the big banks, even though they went bankrupt due to stupid gambles.)
And given that some 70% of the national intelligence budget is spent on private sector contractors. that millions of private contractors have clearance to view information gathered by spy agencies – including kids like 29 year old spying whistleblower Edward Snowden, who explained that he had the power to spy on anyone in the country – and that information gained by the NSA by spying on Americans is being shared with agencies in other countries, at least some of the confidential information is undoubtedly leaking into private hands for profit, without the government’s knowledge or consent.
As the ACLU noted in 2004:
There is a long and unfortunate history of cooperation between government security agencies and powerful corporations to deprive individuals of their privacy and other civil liberties, and any program that institutionalizes close, secretive ties between such organizations raises serious questions about the scope of its activities, now and in the future.
Indeed, the government has been affirmatively helping the big banks, giant oil companies and other large corporations cover up fraud and to go after critics. For example, Business Week reported on May 23, 2006:
President George W. Bush has bestowed on his intelligence czar, John Negroponte, broad authority, in the name of national security, to excuse publicly traded companies from their usual accounting and securities-disclosure obligations.
Reuters noted in 2010:
U.S. securities regulators originally treated the New York Federal Reserve’s bid to keep secret many of the details of the American International Group bailout like a request to protect matters of national security, according to emails obtained by Reuters.
Wired reported the same year:
The DHS issued a directive to employees in July 2009 requiring a wide range of public records requests to pass through political appointees for vetting. These included any requests dealing with a “controversial or sensitive subject” or pertaining to meetings involving prominent business leaders and elected officials. Requests from lawmakers, journalists, and activist and watchdog groups were also placed under this scrutiny.
In an effort to protect Bank of America from the threatened Wikileaks expose of wrongdoing – the Department of Justice told Bank of America to a hire a specific hardball-playing law firm to assemble a team to take down WikiLeaks (and see this)
The government and big banks actually coordinated on the violent crackdown of the anti-big bank Occupy protest.
The government is also using anti-terrorism laws to keep people from learning what pollutants are in their own community, in order to protect the fracking, coal and other polluting industries. See this, this, this, this and this.
Investigating factory farming can get one labeled a terrorist.
Infringing the copyright of a big corporation may also get labeled as a terrorist … and a swat team may be deployed to your house. See this, this, this and this. As the executive director of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School notes:
This administration … publishes a newsletter about its efforts with language that compares copyright infringement to terrorism.
In short, the “national security” apparatus has been hijacked to serve the needs of big business
NSA Official: “The Government Is Not Trying To Protect [Secrets About NSA Surveillance] from the Terrorists. It’s Trying to Protect Knowledge of that Program from the Citizens of the United States”
The former head of the National Security Agency’s global digital data gathering program – William Binney – confirms what Glenn Greenwald and other civil libertarians say: the disclosure of widespread spying on Americans doesn’t help terrorists or otherwise hurt national security, but is simply an embarrassment to people in government who have been caught breaking the law:
The terrorists have already known that we’ve been doing this for years, so there’s no surprise there. They’re not going to change the way they operate just because it comes out in the U.S. press. I mean, the point is, they already knew it, and they were operating the way they would operate anyway. So, the point is that they’re—we’re not—the government here is not trying to protect it from the terrorists; it’s trying to protect it, that knowledge of that program, from the citizens of the United States.
Remember, Obama has prosecuted more whistleblowers than all other presidents combined … even though many of those whistleblowers have helped national security by revealing wrongdoing by our government.
Top Spying Experts Explain Why You Should Oppose Spying … Even Though You’ve Done Nothing Wrong
Surveillance Can be Used to Frame You If Someone In Government Happens to Take a Dislike to You … Last Chance to Stop “Turnkey Tyranny”
Top NSA whistleblower William Binney – the former head of the National Security Agency’s global digital data gathering program – has repeatedly explained that just because you “haven’t done anything wrong” doesn’t mean you can’t be severely harmed by spying:
The problem is, if they think they’re not doing anything that’s wrong, they don’t get to define that. The central government does.
Binney explains that the government is storing everything, and creating a searchable database … to be used whenever it wants, for any purpose it wants (even just going after someone it doesn’t like).
And he notes that the government will go after anyone who is on its enemies list:
If you ever get on their enemies list, like Petraeus did, then you can be drawn into that surveillance.
Binney recently held his thumb and forefinger close together, and said:
We are, like, that far from a turnkey totalitarian state
Similarly, in response to the question, “why should people care about surveillance?”, the whistleblower source of the Guardian’s disclosures on phone and Internet spying – Edward Snowden – said:
Because even if you’re not doing anything wrong you’re being watched and recorded. And the storage capability of these systems increases every year consistently by orders of magnitude … to where it’s getting to the point where you don’t have to have done anything wrong. You simply have to eventually fall under suspicion from somebody – even by a wrong call. And then they can use this system to go back in time and scrutinize every decision you’ve ever made, every friend you’ve ever discussed something with. And attack you on that basis to sort to derive suspicion from an innocent life and paint anyone in the context of a wrongdoer.
[If people don't oppose the surveillance state now] it will be turnkey tyranny.
In 1975, Senator Frank Church said about the NSA:
I know the capacity that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we must see to it that this agency and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision, so that we never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss from which there is no return.
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Boston Marathon Update 2:
"the exercise, labeled as “Operation Urban Shield,” was funded by a $200,000 Homeland Security grant. It was planned months before the Boston Marathon, and it was scheduled to ‘take place’ in official capacity this weekend.....
DHS = Same scenario, backpacks, same logo's, bombs in backpacks, same day, explosions, exercise,...... coincidence ?
It shut down the fucking city of BOSTON for days.
Maybe it's me, but this is Not news?
Check out 9/11....
There was an 'excercise' going on.
Check out 7/7 bombings in London...
Funnilly enough, there was an 'excercise' going on.
Boston.....
anyone else see a pattern here?
Boston Marathon Update:
The Department of Homeland Security has gone public with an admission that an exercise was planned months before the Boston Marathon bombings that involved backpacks being used to detonate explosives by rogue terrorists.
Sorry folks for being redundant, but to me this is a big, big, story, see my previous post, with link.
Nine Companies Tied to PRISM, Obama Will Be Smacked With Class-Action Lawsuit Wednesday AOL, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, PalTalk, Skype, Yahoo! and Youtube will be named in the suit, attorney sayshttp://www.usnews.com/news/newsgram/articles/2013/06/11/nine-companies-t...
I'm stealing this, but it was amusing.
So let me get this straight, so there is no confusion, the taxpayer paid to have a spying apparatus built to spy on the taxpayer, and now the taxpayer gets to pay to defend this apparatus, and when they lose, the taxpayer gets to pay out to the lawyers.
The government is just one layer of this shit, albeit a unique layer in the fact they seem to have acheived a monopoly on violence. Nacchio/Qwest was a warning, get with the program, or we will use this apparatus to destroy you one way or another. I have nothing to hide, so I'm going down rabbit hole.
You know it just dawned on me that I have been badmouthing the US government for not investing any stimulus money in any infrastructure.
It is obvious that they have built some honking large infrastructure right here!!!!
No deal yet
http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/1998/06/01/weekinbiz.html
just a little background. More to come.
Outstanding blog post, GW, but let us not fall for the reframing ruse, or limited hangout, please.
The Reuters story in 2011 about NSA sharing data with the banksters is simply a reframing of the truth: the Financial-Intelligence-Complex has existed since its inception from WWII, to gather financial intelligence for the banksters, or plutocracy, and for command and control purposes of the population --- this is nothing new!!!!
Furthermore, be advised that Reuters and Thomson were both in a bad way, and then a sudden infusion of funds allowed Thomson to buy Reuters and in turn purchase ClearForest software, the hot product in text analytics which was financed by the same group which financed Narus, and ClearForest can be found at the FBI, NSA, a number of top banksters, and was originally developed for the banksters Global Regulatory Information Database (GRID), owned by Regulatory Data Corp, which in turn is owned by Bain Capital, and is the banksters' main global database on EVERYONE! (Total Information Awareness, V. 2).
Major lifelong props to Mr. Snowden, a Real American Hero, who first passed on that tax have data --- in a roundabout manner --- to the IRS, thus initiating the largest tax investigation into the tax havens in history, announced on the IRS web site on May 9th, which led up to the firing of the acting IRS chief, Mr. Miller, a few days later.
Second, Mr. Snowden releases PRISM (and a bunch of other goodies) to the Guardian, which waits until President Obama's speech, so the can release Boundless Informant, thus proving Obama's speech to be pure fiction.
And it's only going to get better. . . .
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If you think that the NSA is the only one spying on you think again.
Hewlett Packard does it too. If you have one of HP's All In One Scanner/Ink Jet printer, you might be surprised to find out that HP has built in to their software the ability to scan everything you print.
Got a minute. Try this. Take a $20.00 bill and scan it, Then crop it to the exact size of a $20.00 bill. Then print it on the HP Ink Jet printer, being sure to specify the size to be 6.125 inches wide, and you might be surprised to find out that only about an inch of the image printed, and there is a web address printed on the page
http://www.rulesforuse.org
Hmmm, you might wonder how that got there. Seems that to thwart counterfeiting HP has been proactive in developing software to detect any attempt to print fake currency on one of their Ink Jet printers.
What's wrong with that you might ask. Well, think about it for a minute. The printer's internal software/firmware is scanning every print job and when it detects an image of a $20.00 bill it truncates the image, and puts up a polite and seemingly harmless message to familiarize yourself with what you should and shouldn't do when it comes to printing currency. You have to wonder what else the printer is detecting and what it the printer is doing with that information. ET calling home?
HP could at any time decide that whatever they deem inappropriate isn't going to be printed with their printers. A little bit scary when you think about it.
An executive order could go out to all of the printer manufacturers and in an instant, all printing could be censored in a heartbeat. Sound far fetched. Maybe.
Here's a discussion on the "feature"
https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/searching-currency-detection-s...
You might not be able to locate the string in the .DAT files as mentioned in some of the posts. I'm guessing that it is either compiled into a DLL or maybe even written directly into the firmware of the printer.
Now all we need is a whisle blower to come forward from Hewlett Packard and fill us all in on what will be known as PrinterGate.
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I'm pretty sure PrinterGate is reserved for the BernanQE himself.
So, we're suppose to believe that with the technology they have, that accidents like this happen. Are you buying it ???
The Department of Homeland Security has gone public with an admission that an exercise was planned months before the Boston Marathon bombings that involved backpacks being used to detonate explosives by rogue terrorists......goes on to say, get this.......
"...the exercise, labeled as “Operation Urban Shield,” was funded by a $200,000 Homeland Security grant. It was planned months before the Boston Marathon, and it was scheduled to ‘take place’ in official capacity this weekend, according to the sources. But the exercise admission lends further credence to the ignored eyewitness account of bomb sniffing dogs and bomb squads running a training exercise during the morning of the Boston Marathon. Was this training exercise part of Operation Urban Shield?
Interestingly, they specifically detailed that this terrorist group (that presumably is based off of ‘right wing extremists’ and the sovereign citizens movement) would carry a logo of a metal skull wearing an Uncle Sam hat. I’m not claiming there’s a relationship, but I find it funny that even their logo matched up with real events from the Boston Marathon bombings. It was in fact the apparent security at the event that was spotted wearing clothing adorning the image of skulls that turned out to be the logo for the Craft International private security firm.
http://intellihub.com/2013/06/11/dhs-admits-boston-training-drill-involv...
Same weekend? Same Logo, Same backpacks, same bombs, ???
Don't worry, it was all just a coincidence. What are the chances.
Much love to you, Customers Man! TY for that terrific link. Consider it shared far and wide.
song for ya: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOJjMXzsJrw
And don't forget, information is coming out that Chris Kyle was assassinated...NOT murdered like the official line that is out.
Wouldn’t it be something if it turned out that NSA intel is funneled to the banking cartel? No sooner does the question arise and George Washington appears…and, as usual, his delivery is root, branch, leaves and tree of America’s turn to tyranny.
Americans no longer can breathe free under a government co-opted by corrupt leaders who have sold the country right under the table to Wall Street corporations and the big banks.
This is more than a moral problem; this is treason.
Until now, much of this duplicity has been hidden because America’s past prosperity has covered her economic decline, and because the media, instead of acting as a watchdog to inform the people, has served instead as guard dog to shield government corruption from public view. And, now, after Snowden’s revelations, so-called intel experts are out saying the NSA program was known around Washington for some time. Ha! So much for “all the news that fit to print.”
But as George’s article reveals, national security priorities meld into information made available mainly to the insiders who have personal need for it - to destroy a competitor, to throw an election, rape the resources of a foreign country, and/or to use NSA data to harvest the labor of taxpayers and exploit every aspect of their lives. The data, of course, only is selectively available to the special interests with the greatest power. This lasts but a short time, however, until a dictator takes over and has the current gang of pirates shot.
As for those saying that Edward Snowden’s expose of this American spy network is treason, they really are saying they would rather Snowden had not revealed the extent to which America has become a surveillance state in order that she can continue her slouch toward world tyranny.
But it isn’t working; the politicians defending NSA as Big Brother are appearing as tyrants to the majority of Americans. And change is in the air.
Fortunately, Snowden’s revelations are a strike at the center of the core of the tyranny – the Federal Reserve System; that’s the real implication in George’s story. You can tie most successful giant corporate operations to the Fed because the Fed supports you if they simply let you operate. IOW, you don’t have as your major clients The Department of Homeland Security and the World Bank as does Carlyle Group, the private-equity firm run by David Rubenstein, without the blessing of the Fed.
America is in this fix because of the people who have accepted it; who relish the life of a prisoner. Those people don’t count. Those people didn’t make this country and those people won’t be the ones to take her back for Edward Snowden.
People used to laugh about fron-running the Fed.
Can't be done. The Fed wouldn't leak.
yes, fascism is alive and well in Amerika, beyond even what Hitler could've ever imagined or dreamed of.
“Right now, the ability to hang traitors like Gen. Alexander is complicated and there are legal barriers. We have to overcome that,”
Prominent Liberals AND Conservatives Sue Over NSA Spying
Spying Whistleblower’s Girlfried Is Hot
Damn it....her website is 'temporarily unavailable"
Given the number of people trying to visit the site, given the publicity, it's effectively a DDoS.
I hope she has a SAFE place to stay.
He's a brave self-sacrificing little trooper too ... lol
He's giving up some nice squeeze ...
. . . and everything else too, by the looks of it.
I don't know about that B-man. He stayed true to himself. He kept his self-respect. That's freedom.
All these miserable 'mericans with their physco-sommatic back-aches ought to consider taking the cure.
Young, bright decent looking guy with a 6 figure salary and some spy mystique: no suprise.
As always GW...thank you
Financial sabotage?! What the Hell was the sub-prime mortgage disaster?! That was obviously self-inflicted. The perps walked away whole, and the American people got to pay for it with the inflation that Helicopter Ben dropped on the Too Big To Fail banks.
Let those fractionalized SOB's fail.
Fail??
Fill them full of holes.
Hey man, just remember, the Government works for YOU.
ha.
They represent YOU.
Therefore, keep voting.
Really.
Hahahahahahahaha
I gave up on voting in a country that's far less fucked-up than USSA. Why? Same reason I don't read MSM newspapers anymore, I don't want to reward failure.
I can hardly believe anyone still votes in USSA, or that anyone still thinks a political party is ever going to fix what they have deliberately broken.
IRS-gate should be evidence enough that they're going to make sure it's never fixed, and that anyone who wants to, is financially, legally and socially destroyed, long before they can. That's what the NSA is for.
Cunts.
Everybody is a triple agent unless I say otherwise...
And I'm not too sure about me either.
The only fuckers creating "economic mayhem" are the Feral Reserve, every stinkin' central bank inthe world, IMF, Wall St. and any and all CORPORATE FUCKS!!! JUMP, FUCKERS, JUMP!!!!
It's worse, a lot worse if the following is true and the dots connect. Remember, their Totalitarian Authoritarian System is based on Criminal Fraud.
Constitution ended in 1861 according to Senate Report 93-549 (93rd Congress, 1st Session, 1973):
When the Southern states walked out of Congress on March 27, 1861, the quorum to conduct business under the Constitution was lost. The only votes that Congress could lawfully take, under Parliamentary Law, were those to set the time to reconvene, take a vote to get a quorum, and vote to adjourn and set a date, time, and place to reconvene at a later time, but instead, Congress abandoned the House and Senate without setting a date to reconvene. Under the parliamentary law of Congress, when this happened, Congress became sine die (pronounced see-na dee-a; literally “without day”) and thus when Congress adjourned sine die, it ceased to exist as a lawful deliberative body, and the only lawful, constitutional power that could declare war was no longer lawful, or in session.
The Southern states, by virtue of their secession from the Union, also ceased to exist sine die, and some state legislatures in the Northern bloc also adjourned sine die, and thus, all the states which were parties to creating the Constitution ceased to exist. President Lincoln executed the first executive order written by any President on April 15, 1861, Executive Order 1, and the nation has been ruled by the President under executive order ever since. When Congress eventually did reconvene, it was reconvened under the military authority of the Commander-in-Chief and not by Rules of Order for Parliamentary bodies or by Constitutional Law; placing the American people under martial rule ever since that national emergency declared by President Lincoln. The Constitution for the United States of America temporarily ceased to be the law of the land, and the President, Congress, and the Courts unlawfully presumed that they were free to remake the nation in their own image, whereas, lawfully, no constitutional provisions were in place which afforded power to any of the actions which were taken which presumed to place the nation under the new form of control.
President Lincoln knew that he had no authority to issue any executive order, and thus he commissioned General Orders No. 100 (April 24, 1863) as a special field code to govern his actions under martial law and which justified the seizure of power, which extended the laws of the District of Columbia, and which fictionally implemented the provisions of Article I, Section 8, Clauses 17-18 of the Constitution beyond the boundaries of Washington, D.C. and into the several states. General Orders No. 100, also called the Lieber Instructions and the Lieber Code, extended The Laws of War and International Law onto American soil, and the United States government became the presumed conqueror of the people and the land.
Martial rule was kept secret and has never ended, the nation has been ruled under Military Law by the Commander of Chief of that military; the President, under his assumed executive powers and according to his executive orders. Constitutional law under the original Constitution is enforced only as a matter of keeping the public peace under the provisions of General Orders No. 100 under martial rule. Under Martial Law, title is a mere fiction, since all property belongs to the military except for that property which the Commander-in-Chief may, in his benevolence, exempt from taxation and seizure and upon which he allows the enemy to reside.
President Lincoln was assassinated before he could complete plans for reestablishing constitutional government in the Southern States and end the martial rule by executive order, and the 14th Article in Amendment to the Constitution created a new citizenship status for the new expanded jurisdiction. New laws for the District of Columbia were established and passed by Congress in 1871, supplanting those established Feb. 27, 1801 and May 3, 1802. The District of Columbia was re-incorporated in 1872, and all states in the Union were reformed as Franchisees of the Federal Corporation so that a new Union of the United States could be created. The key to when the states became Federal Franchisees is related to the date when such states enacted the Field Code in law. The Field Code was a codification of the common law that was adopted first by New York and then by California in 1872, and shortly afterwards the Lieber Code was used to bring the United States into the 1874 Brussels Conference and into the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907.
In 1917, the Trading with the Enemy Act (Public Law 65-91, 65th Congress, Session I, Chapters 105, 106, October 6, 1917) was passed and which defined, regulated and punished trading with enemies, who were then required by that act to be licensed by the government to do business. The National Banking System Act (Public Law 73-1, 73rd Congress, Session I, Chapter 1, March 9, 1933), Executive Proclamation 2038 (March 6, 1933), Executive Proclamation 2039 (March 9, 1933), and Executive Orders 6073, 6102, 6111 and 6260 prove that in 1933, the United States Government formed under the executive privilege of the original martial rule went bankrupt, and a new state of national emergency was declared under which United States citizens were named as the enemy to the government and the banking system as per the provisions of the Trading with the Enemy Act. The legal system provided for in the Constitution was formally changed in 1938 through the Supreme Court decision in the case of Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins, 304 US 64, 82 L.Ed. 1188.
On April 25, 1938, the Supreme Court overturned the standing precedents of the prior 150 years concerning “COMMON LAW” in the federal government.
THERE IS NO FEDERAL COMMON LAW, AND CONGRESS HAS NO POWER TO DECLARE SUBSTANTIVE RULES OF COMMON LAW applicable IN A STATE, WHETHER they be LOCAL or GENERAL in their nature, be they COMMERCIAL LAW or a part of LAW OF TORTS.” (See: ERIE RAILROAD CO. vs. THOMPKINS, 304 U.S. 64, 82 L. Ed. 1188)
General Orders No. 100
SECTION IXArt. 148.
Assassination
The law of war does not allow proclaiming either an individual belonging to the hostile army, or a citizen, or a subject of the hostile government, an outlaw, who may be slain without trial by any captor, any more than the modern law of peace allows such intentional outlawry; on the contrary, it abhors such outrage. The sternest retaliation should follow the murder committed in consequence of such proclamation, made by whatever authority. Civilized nations look with horror upon offers of rewards for the assassination of enemies as relapses into barbarism.
Don't drone me, Bro.
So the orriginal constitution does not apply to a president from Kenya?
Or any other President for that matter, since 1861. This is The American People's get out of Jail, Bondage and Enslavement card.
You see, it's all a hoax based on Criminal Fraud, Deception and Lies. And, all of the Criminals in Con gress, The Criminal Executive, Criminal DOJ, MIC, DOD, CIA, FBI and The District of Criminals etc... etc... know it! They are all Criminals complicent in the Criminal Fraud.
surely governments work together with big business in all countries? DO you think gazprom is independent of russia or eni independent of italy? I dont think the world is utopia u make it out to be.
With the world economy the way it is the only way to make money is working for the government. The government wasting huge amounts of money for very little gain is possibly the reason the economy is doing so badly to begin with.
There does seem to be a loop there.
The loop should be in a rope (or a few hundred)
surely governments work together with big business in all countries? DO you think gazprom is independent of russia or eni independent of italy? I dont think the world is utopia u make it out to be.
That's lovely. America is not Russia. We espouse free-markets. Government/Corporate collusion is Fascism.
these article just "feed the paranoid beast" nothing more. the question should be "who doesn't spy and how?" actually since basically "that's the whole game since the 1980's." i can only of two folks who can't stand this stuff "institutionally" namely Bankers and Exchanges. Hmmmm. "yeah, they probably aren't big fans of people breaking into those proprietary networks and stealing all the data" as part of their "data liberation movement" bullshit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_wants_to_be_free I imagine there are some people at the Pentagon who wouldn't be big fans of this either...but you know how that goes. Probably a few girls as well. Anywho the idea that the NSA...which was never authorized by Congress to exist in the first place...is tapping into telephone networks "with impunity" is rather striking. I believe Verizon runs the proprietary network of Wall Street itself...is this part of the "download"? i know if i had a trading strategy i wished to effect ("Magnetar" comes to mind) i would like to know...you know..."before i hit the send button." On the other hand the PURPOSE of said "information intervention" might need to made clear as well. if the goal is just to monitor that is one thing...but obviously if the Government itself is involved in anyway in executing trades...well, i would think Wall Street might want to have something to say about that. I look forward "with bated breath" to hear this discussion on...is it ANY media outlet specializing in business and financial news?
With Obama prosecuting more whistleblowers than all other presidents combined, this suggests to me that he has some major Communist-like activities he is trying to hide. I have no doubt he is or will be targeting individuals for elimination; permanently. This bum seems to be able to do anything he wants. This is the mark of a true dictator.
Man, I can't believe it, this story is dead in the water, it ain't going nowhere, Obama passes midnight under 17 plan b bill, Boehner calling Snowden a traitor, all the MSM saying it's not bad to spy, it's good. They're going to pass amnesty bill. Not even drudge pushing too much...this is fucked.
See you on the other side...
*Knock**Knock**Knock*
Gotta go
EDIT: By the way, now there are all these 'bomb threats' being reported, and ohh, a hillary clinton story about bad stuff going on under her stewardship in State. "Hey, look at the chipmunk!'
why do you hate government-paid pedophiles? have you no TOLERANCE?
Its sort of like the left right acceptance of pedophiles, if a pedophile is a catholic, bad. if a pedophile is a govt employee, good. You just have to acquaint yourself with the rules..well, I guess I have to.
An individual's perception of "I have done nothing wrong" is irrelevant to the Central Powers, their perception of your actions/thoughts may very well have put you on "a list of potential trouble makers." When the SHTF anyone "flagged or listed" will be picked up first.
People who say 'if you have nothing to hide ...' have to explain the IRS TP harrassment.
I know, I know, the government is here to help.