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GOOGLE PASSPORT

 

 

While millions of Americans fret over how it can be possible that their data and phone calls can be eavesdropped without a warrant by thousands of low level NSA analysts (some even without High School diplomas), the rest of the world can fret over who or what protects them from the prying eyes of the Netplex without the benefit of one of these.

Afterall, 99.99% of the world's internet traffic passes through the good old USA does it not?

And if Google and Facebook are selling your data to Coca Cola and JP Morgan, what makes anyone think they won't sell it to the snoops?

And what is this statutory carrier indemnification we keep hearing about?

And, BTW, how the fuck do they know who is "foreign" and who is not anywho?

Do you remember having to show your birth certificate, drivers license or passport when you opened your Google or Facebook account? 

Someone should ask the Vice Chairman of Booz Allen these questions since, evidently, he is the Former Director of the NSA.

 

To my Dad and all you fringe low brow Zero Hedge Dads...

 

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HAPPY FATHER'S DAY 2013

 

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Sun, 06/16/2013 - 12:13 | 3662702 Himins
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We are a text book Fascist State, while I don't propose communism, I truely believe all this communist talk is conjoured up to distract from the currant state of fascism that we call "democracy"

Sun, 06/16/2013 - 15:03 | 3663053 monad
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Words as weapons, sharper than knives

Makes you wonder, how the other half died.

INXS

Sun, 06/16/2013 - 14:47 | 3663008 monad
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Fascism = Socialism = Statism = Communism. The term ''Communism" was invented by the Rockefeller mafia to replace the Rothschild's term, "Bolshevism", because they knew they couldn't get western Europeans to fight against Bolsheviks. While credited to blovating academic semitic refugees, Bolshevism is actually an eastern european term for sneaking up on any person who has accumulated property, bashing them in the back of the head with a blunt object, then robbing them. It was considered an efficiency advance over stealing the property of the freshly dead, which is how the Rothschilds got their start. Apparently you didn't follow the link before parroting your State brainwash grammar nazi ad hominem defense mechanism, or you would know this, and why I chose that title. Left is Statism, Right is Liberty. The left jackboot in your face is socialism, the right jackboot is fascism, and Liberty is not part of this system. Licensing/taxation is an effect of authoritarian monopolistic mercantilism. We have an hierarchical caste system. This is about wealth and power over others. Wake Up.

Sun, 06/16/2013 - 15:11 | 3663064 williambanzai7
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Hmm, not a bad rant ;-)

Sun, 06/16/2013 - 22:50 | 3663892 monad
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This is some inspiring research: 2nd British Israelism #2 #1290

Many interesting things your revisionist marxist history teacher left out, to avoid the gulag and keep snout in trough.

Sun, 06/16/2013 - 11:51 | 3662642 Mi Naem
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Malfunctioning link gets a

404 (Page Not Found) Error
Sun, 06/16/2013 - 14:58 | 3663049 monad
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I got that too. np, mirrors. Here:

Communist Takeover of America @ yt

 

Sun, 06/16/2013 - 15:10 | 3663054 Zero Govt
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the Commies and socialists are but fronts (puppets) of the real parasite scum, bwankers and other leeches

Since Trotsky et al they were all bankrolled by bankers, Trotsky himself by New York bwankers like JP Morgan (see Trotsky's banker sponsored visit to New York) who then murdered 10 million Russian citizens

reason is simple: nobody pisses away more money faster than a loony leftie (President Obummanation, yet another empty hard left puppet idealist, is the new debt-spending world record holder) ....great for the debt biz parasites of banking  

Sun, 06/16/2013 - 12:02 | 3662666 news printer
Sun, 06/16/2013 - 10:52 | 3662517 Eally Ucked
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I wonder what Reggie will have to say about Google after all those allegation. 

Sun, 06/16/2013 - 13:44 | 3662892 williambanzai7
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Striclty speaking, a "real trader" should be indifferent to the moral dimension. This is the problem with the so called trader ethic.

That is not to say there are no traders who are persuaded by the moral dimension.  

Sun, 06/16/2013 - 14:29 | 3662978 MeelionDollerBogus
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certainly the stock price reflects no dire fear of things.

Either some people are too detached to care or some companies are so deeply in bed with Google's software and/or servers they CAN'T extricate without GIANT losses and "where to run" ? If everyone else is being monitored too there's nowhere to run therefore cost-saving is maximimized by doing nothing in reaction to this - except perhaps to encrypt data.

But for individuals many refuse to use encryption because it's "too hard" (I've battled since 1992 to encourage people to use encryption and they won't), or for companies they may do so (adds cost if they weren't planning on it), and is still no escape from government intrusion that is argued as "the law" (maybe it is, maybe it isn't). On top of that, CEO's (Qwest!) and other officers in companies can easily be threatened or given the prison-hammer (maybe guilty, maybe not) for not complying with a "request" (aka - an offer you can't refuse).

Sun, 06/16/2013 - 14:44 | 3663005 williambanzai7
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American people will continue to play American internet idol on Face Book etc. Although there seems to be a younger trend away from Face Book.

Europeans will get angry, but they seem incapable of coming up with a suitable home internet entertainment alternatives for their sheeple. The Chinese will remain stuck behind their firewall. But the amount of personal expression on the Chinese internet is increasing.

Those who value their privacy and security will migrate to secure communication and storage alternatives and the Christmas lights at the NSA will slowly black out. Then they will have to resort to old fashioned hacking instead of backbone sieving.

So in the end they have cut their digital nose to spite their spy face because this has been a real wake up call for many.

Sun, 06/16/2013 - 12:09 | 3662683 the grateful un...
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some have suggested Obama may have a Bulworth moment, but more likely Zuckerberg will have one. revealing all the restrictions and demands the NSA has put on his company would go a long ways for him, and his company, while Obama could be forthright, only to find he is replaced with some other liar. politics is really a dead end job, which is why he's there.

Sun, 06/16/2013 - 10:42 | 3662486 easterner
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thanks for the laugh. you are beyond amazing! that "yes we CAN" is full of shit, hahaha.

happy fathers day to everyone!

Sun, 06/16/2013 - 10:27 | 3662459 nmewn
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More unintended consequences from our "lawyerly law professor type" Commander in Chief...

"Two defendants in military sexual assault cases cannot be punitively discharged, if found guilty, because of “unlawful command influence” derived from comments made by President Barack Obama, a judge ruled in a Hawaii military court this week.

Navy Judge Cmdr. Marcus Fulton ruled during pretrial hearings in two sexual assault cases — U.S. vs. Johnson and U.S. vs. Fuentes — that comments made by Obama as commander in chief would unduly influence any potential sentencing, according to a court documents obtained by Stars and Stripes.

On Wednesday and Thursday, Fulton approved the pretrial defense motions, which used as evidence comments that Obama made about sexual assault at a May 7 news conference."

“The bottom line is: I have no tolerance for this,” Obama said, according to an NBC News story submitted as evidence by defense attorneys in the sexual assault cases.

‘I expect consequences,” Obama added. “So I don’t just want more speeches or awareness programs or training, but ultimately folks look the other way. If we find out somebody’s engaging in this, they’ve got to be held accountable — prosecuted, stripped of their positions, court martialed, fired, dishonorably discharged. Period.”

The judge’s pretrial ruling means that if either defendant is found guilty, whether by a jury or a military judge, they cannot receive a bad conduct discharge or a dishonorable discharge. Sailors found guilty under the Uniform Code of Military Justice’s Article 120, which covers several sexual crimes including assault and rape, generally receive punitive discharges."

http://www.stripes.com/judge-obama-sex-assault-comments-unlawful-command-influence-1.225974

The man (O'Barry) is like a deranged bull in a china shop. The judge correctly points out, what O'Barry was attempting (by ignorance or malice) is just like what the Soviets did in their judicial system.

Political considerations cannot be involved in the finding of guilt or innocence or sentencing.

Sun, 06/16/2013 - 10:57 | 3662524 New_Meat
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"... penetration, however slight, is sufficient to complete the crime."

Sun, 06/16/2013 - 10:31 | 3662469 williambanzai7
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Notice how the system bends over backwards to protect these types but railroads a guy like Beadley Manning?

Sun, 06/16/2013 - 11:29 | 3662599 monad
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If we didn't occasionally punish the innocent, what would they have to fear?
Lavrentiy Beria NKVD, hero of CFR tools

Sun, 06/16/2013 - 10:30 | 3662458 Zer0head
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just a wild guess but i suspect the majority of Americans either are indifferent and oblivious to privacy issues or support .gov's watching over them

 

and Herr Schmidt has been cheerleading this for some time with his end of anonymity articles etc

http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/google_as_big_brother_schmidt_wsj.php

 

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so we take great joy in providing this view of the GoogleLord's summer residence in  Nantucket at forty-five Cliff Road, sadly  he has carefully erased the dump from the prying eyes of Google Streetview

 but for posterity the image of his summer castle has been captured here

http://i.imgur.com/CNxPooH.jpg

 

(note the sick irony in the form of die Schafe grazing on his front lawn)

Sun, 06/16/2013 - 11:24 | 3662589 the grateful un...
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privacy is a luxury for the rich and celebrities (who make their career being in the public eye) it would be interesting to know how closely the government watches these tech designers, because they could overthrow the government in a second if they so desired, (diebold is just a childrens toy after all) if someone(s) at Google wanted to hack the DOD computer whats to stop them? makes we wonder how much security clearance is required, and how much the companies agree to being policed, and how careful they have to be about who they hire and what their employees are doing. one suspects that the NSA is probably deeply embedded in these guys, and if not will be soon. for most americans the question will be, is government by google better or worse than government by obama. suppose all political candidate went through google, and instead of voting users click like or not like? final word, are guys like Zuckerberg that bad, (guys with no agenda to make the world over in their own image, Bush the antichrist manifesting the Iraq war to atone for the sins of his father, or Obama reliving the civil rights movement every day of his life - the last two are real pains in the ass, i think you agree - what about these tech nerds, most of them are like blank slates ?)

we probably won't  have much choice, other than click like or not like, but sometimes life hands you an out, when the thing you've got just isn't working.

Sun, 06/16/2013 - 10:04 | 3662432 stant
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martin armstrong latest says theres a mass exodus from us servers to those in switzerland. and i would assume a lot of co have hand written memos on what should or not be sent on the net etc

Sun, 06/16/2013 - 11:29 | 3662598 machineh
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Switzerland ... whose gov't is ratting out US depositors to the IRS as we speak.

Brilliant. Maybe they should try HK instead.

Sun, 06/16/2013 - 06:44 | 3662253 williambanzai7
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THE YES WE CAN

Sun, 06/16/2013 - 12:00 | 3662661 the grateful un...
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 you should put Mandella on that cot...

Sun, 06/16/2013 - 14:09 | 3662936 Jumbotron
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You would not have had a Mandella if you didn't have non-idigenous shitty white people doing shitty things to the population.  Not saying at all I approve of his Marxist ideology.  But if you make conditions favorable for that shit to grow above and beyond the normal....you have no one to blame but yourself.

Karma's a bitch.....if you believe in Karma and such.

Sun, 06/16/2013 - 14:23 | 3662967 the grateful un...
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obama would have put mandella on that cot

Sun, 06/16/2013 - 14:41 | 3663006 Jumbotron
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If Mandella was a strict Constitutionalist.  Otherwise they would be sharing that cot in a love embrace.

Sun, 06/16/2013 - 11:27 | 3662594 machineh
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Are those Zyklon-B nozzles on the left wall?

This is what Snowden's cell will look like, if Obugger has his way.

Sun, 06/16/2013 - 12:37 | 3662750 williambanzai7
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This is supposedly an actual Stasi cell.

Sun, 06/16/2013 - 14:55 | 3663002 news printer
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@williambanzai7

Former prison of the Ministry of State Security East Germany
From 1951-1989 the prison was used to hold and interrogate political prisoners.
Since 1994 it is a memorial site and open to the public.
Former inmates show visitors around and report about their time as inmates.

Berlin, Hohenschönhausen, Germany

http://www.reimar-ott.de/Hohenschoenhausen.htm

Sun, 06/16/2013 - 15:09 | 3663060 williambanzai7
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Complete with Hobe-y Poster and Yes we Can 

Sun, 06/16/2013 - 13:37 | 3662875 Boxed Merlot
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Air conditioning, ambient lighting and a curve on the cot.  It's the little things that count. 

Some of the most free people alive have spent time and are spending time in thought prevention places like this and worse.

 

But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns of praise to God, and the prisoners were listening to them ... Acts 16:25 NASB
Sun, 06/16/2013 - 10:37 | 3662481 Dewey Cheatum Howe
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Nice subtle touch signing it in morse code. It is the little details in relation to the bigger picture like that that seperate the men from the boys in any field not just art.

Sun, 06/16/2013 - 10:54 | 3662519 New_Meat
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bastards will never figure that out! ;-)

Sun, 06/16/2013 - 06:35 | 3662245 Bearwagon
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Great as always - but shouldn't it read "E Pluribus Fool 'em" on that passport?  ;-)

Sun, 06/16/2013 - 06:44 | 3662252 williambanzai7
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You're right. I'll fix it when I get home.

Sun, 06/16/2013 - 11:13 | 3662564 ALANBEEKMAN
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Another great work of art Bill.

I'm not quite sure, is Obummer got on a pair of Googles Glasses?

Happy Father's Day!

Sun, 06/16/2013 - 13:16 | 3662833 williambanzai7
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Tnx and Happy FD to you as well!

Sun, 06/16/2013 - 02:33 | 3662130 williambanzai7
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FALSE HOPE

Sun, 06/16/2013 - 13:15 | 3662831 resurger
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+1000000

Sun, 06/16/2013 - 11:32 | 3662581 machineh
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Effing brilliant ... autographed in Morse code to boot.

Cut a pie-slice sector from the inverted Obama doughnut, and it turns into a Pac Man parody, gobbling our privacy.

One is tempted to add a nose ring as well.

Keep subverting this sinister imposter.

Sun, 06/16/2013 - 12:33 | 3662744 williambanzai7
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Morse code is like riding a bike, once you learn it you never forget.

Sun, 06/16/2013 - 02:48 | 3662030 williambanzai7
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Following yesterdays zazzle snafu of the Stasi NSA shirt, I am pleased to report that this version is now in the shop:

STASI USSA (v3)

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Frankly, I like the way this one looks better. It is built off the original Stasi artwork.

Zazzle Link:  http://www.zazzle.com/stasi_ussa_t_shirt-235160075081774629

 

I would also like to report on the results of my research on the intellectual property right issue.

There is a provision in the copyright law which specifically says that US government work is not copyrightable.

This, however, is a trade mark issue.

The US government claims all its agency logos are trademarks.

However, similar to copyright, there is a doctrine of "trademark fair use" which theoretically should protect a logo parody, as long as it does not create confusion or damage the use by the trademark owner. And as is the case with copyright fair use, it is a hornets nest of litigation. So it is no small wonder that zazzle won't go near a potential controversy.

And I frankly still think it is a First Amendment issue when a government agency is the target of the parody.

Sun, 06/16/2013 - 12:11 | 3662694 the grateful un...
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you mean they're selling our information?

Sun, 06/16/2013 - 11:18 | 3662577 machineh
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Before communism totally crushed creativity, some killer graphic artists such as El Lissitzky still flourished.

But by the time of the misbegotten DDR, conformism had nearly destroyed the arts. And it showed in East Germany's incoherent, cartoonish Stasi logo.

Your reimagined parody is far easier on the eyes, not least because of the well-chosen palette of military-drab colors.

Subverting and discrediting the trademarks and currencies of our oppressors probably is the most vital contribution of Visual Combat.

Carry on, my man. Hit 'em where it hurts.

Sun, 06/16/2013 - 12:31 | 3662741 williambanzai7
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You clearly understand why I like this one.

Sun, 06/16/2013 - 10:49 | 3662511 New_Meat
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"...it does not create confusion or damage the use by the trademark owner."

We are certain that there is no confusion.  "damage" on the other hand...

- Ned

Sun, 06/16/2013 - 00:22 | 3662020 williambanzai7
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MAVPA 2013

Mavpa, the friend of a fringe ZH lowbrow I know, is a Ukrainian dog...

Sun, 06/16/2013 - 14:11 | 3662940 Bunga Bunga
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Where can I create an account for this "NSA" button? Oh, I see, it already exists.

Do NOT follow this link or you will be banned from the site!