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Obama "Fixes" The NSA: Full Transcript And Wordcloud
Earlier today Obama uttered 5,469 words to essentially say that Edward Snowden was right in blowing the whistle on the US totalitarian "Big Brother" superspy apparatus. Of course, that won't change the fact that Snowden is self-exiled Russia, and meanwhile in the US nothing will change except for the hiring of some intelligence czar, pretending to reform the NSA's activities while in reality just buying himself three years of breathing room, as all future complaints will be swept under the blanket rug of "we are busy fixing it." Anyway, for all those who don't wish to call their friendly, neighborhood NSA call center to access an instant replay of what Obama said, here is his full speech courtesy of the WaPo as well as the full wordcloud. Sadly, since the words "constitution" and "freedom" were only mentioned 4 and 2 times respectively, they did not make their way into the cloud of most frequently uttered words.
And the full transcript (pdf):
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Score! Direct Hit!
I laughed...
then I screamed...
then I cried.
Fascism. We are soaking in it: Top Candidate Recipient from Apple Computer, 2012, Barack Obama (D) $308,081
Corporate Power is Protected - The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation
often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a
mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.
Members of Congress that own Apple Inc shares: 38
God bless the Chinese that didn't buy iCrap because they don't want
to be spied on. I only wish Americans were as smart. Hit the fascists
in the pocketbook.
I don't think Americant's are unaware. I think they are just stupid enough to belive the bullshit that the NSA is 'your neighbor', 'your friend'.
I wish he would have taken questions. And it would have been great for someone to ask about Boston. They had warning, they are spying on people, yet they couldn't stop something. So whats the point.....oh, right.
He would have lied or denied anyway. The point is control.
Fuck this liar OBAMA - everything he says is a lie. I want to see the NSA budget right now - full transparency. Then cut it by 3/4.
"Two pedophiles were discovered today by county deputies after robbing a liquor store. Deputies found kiddie porn in their trunk. The two men, nsa agents, were released unharmed and allowed to keep the stolen money."
75%? Fuck that. Cut it 100%.
rondawg -- the problem is that the NSA and Obama would cheerfully agree to that proposition -- and present you with a completely transparent, completely redacted copy of their secret budget. "Cut all you want, suckers!"
That is so depressing...
That's a very telling thing about the Head Liar In Chief....he only takes questions when the crowd is hand-picked and questions are pre-approved. NEVER when he's forced into making a speech like he did today does he take questions....it's well-known how big a stuttering problem he has when he isn't able to read from the prompter. If he'd have been asked questions today, he'd probably still be stuttering and stammering through a BS answer.
American Youth, unite! Obama the Messiah brought Hope & Change, a robust job market, reigned in the deficits & debt, affordable, efficient & quality health care to all, ensured that fundamental Constitutional RIGHTS have been upheld (especially privacy & guarantee against unreasonable searches & seizures), quickly withdrew U.S. Troops from Afghanistan, closed Gitmo within one year as promised, and ensured the economy was operating in an efficient, fair manner, not based on CronyCapitalism, but meritorious markets.
Free at last!
Free at last!
Free at last!
"Free at last"
You talkin bout that healthcare right?
“The technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities" - Zbigniew Brzezinski He wrote this back in the early 70's.
Maybe, I think my brother is right about it. "No one gives a f*ck". I figure that is most likely the case and that eventually they will wish they had given a f*ck. Really I think he doesn't give a f*ck cuz he is lazy and believes it won't ever affect him in his life.
FUCK YOU OBAMA!
FUCK THE NSA!
FUCK DEMZ!
FUCK REPUBZ!
FUCK IRS!
FUCK FED!
looks like you took the wrong blue pill...
remember... those are 17$ a piece... better not let them go to waste...
Aren't they on the ACA formulary?
Glory halilula!!!!
Looks like somebody needs to STFU and eat their peas, lol.....
Where are the arrests? Bankers, NSA'ers or how about ANYONE?
Arrests? It's just the Fourth Amendment of the Bill of Rights, and bribery is no longer illegal in fascist America. It isn't like they are doing something really bad like selling raw milk.
"...the folks at NSA and other intelligence agencies are our neighbors and our friends."
-Barack Obama
"I approve of this message."
-Joseph Gobbels
"Get bent, both of you."
-Ranger_Will
And from Google, not quite as stingy as Apple but they've been in the NSA from the beginning
Congress members owning stock
•Barletta, Lou (R-PA)
•Black, Diane (R-TN)
•Camp, Dave (R-MI)
•Carper, Tom (D-DE)
•Collins, Susan M (R-ME)
•Frelinghuysen, Rodney (R-NJ)
•Hagan, Kay R (D-NC)
•Heitkamp, Heidi (D-ND)
•Hoeven, John (R-ND)
•Inhofe, James M (R-OK)
•Isakson, Johnny (R-GA)
•Joyce, David P (R-OH)
•Kelly, Mike (R-PA)
•Kennedy, Joe III (D-MA)
•King, Angus (I-ME)
•Lowenthal, Alan (D-CA)
•Marchant, Kenny (R-TX)
•McCaul, Michael (R-TX)
•Radel, Trey (R-FL)
•Renacci, Jim (R-OH)
•Rogers, Hal (R-KY)
•Ryan, Paul (R-WI)
•Schneider, Brad (D-IL)
•Schrader, Kurt (D-OR)
•Smith, Lamar (R-TX)
•Whitehouse, Sheldon (D-RI)
Why do you call plutocrats fascists? Don't you know that in Fascism politics rules and in Plutocracies the money masters?
You didn't fix that!
so from now on NSA will continue to do what they've been doing except we'll all pretend they are not.
EXACTLY. Anybody who thinks they're going to stop collect data is an idiot. And how pray tell are we going to actually KNOW WTF is happening? Trust Obama? ummm OK.
It's only bad when our enemies do it.
"We pretend to have our privacy, and they pretend not to spy on us."
"Intelligence" over "Privacy" - all you need to know. I got the message!
He punted the problem to Holder.
God are we fucked.
"A New Jersey family was sodomized and then eaten by their neighbor last week.
"The neighbor, an nsa operative, was not jailed. Police said they do not expect any arrests."
Funny, I ran my own tag cloud software against his "speech" and it only spit out a huge one word result: "LIES"
Must be a glitch or something?!
Uh, Oh! The Nuremberg Principles.
Principle IIPrinciple II states, "The fact that internal law does not impose a penalty for an act which constitutes a crime under international law does not relieve the person who committed the act from responsibility under international law."
If Obama did not say "folks" during this speech, he did write it or understand it.
When you hear "folks" he is actually speaking words that he thinks he believes.
In the abscence of " folks" he is just reading something from TOTUS- Teleprompter of The United States.
It sounded by two of his remarks (one about "someone" being "surprised") were directly aimed at Germany.
I thought the same. But could also be France.
But this doesn't matter.
This matters:
"Third, the legal safeguards that restrict surveillance against U.S. persons without a warrant do not apply to foreign persons overseas. "
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"Meanwhile, a number of countries, including some who have loudly criticized the NSA,
privately acknowledge that America has special responsibilities as the world’s only superpowe r, that our intelligence capabilities are critical to meeting these responsibilities and that they themselves have relied on the information we obtained to protect their own people." ***So USrael spies on everyone and then shares this information with it's alliies. And the alliies say to their citizens: We did not spy on you. We got this information from USrael and we cannot forbid them to spy. The only problem left is by spying on US-citizens. But for what are friends good for? If the NSA finds something, it let's one of the friends pick it up, the friend is very surprised about the info and iforms USrael of what it has found. And no one is spying on it's own citizens...
Diabolical.
half of America flipped channels after "intelligence"....
The other half wondered why no one was dancing.
love the wordclouds.
nice to see liberties made it,
a little bit smaller than threats
Someone needs to fucking shoop a pic of Mr Rogers singing "Won't you be my neighbor" with a shirt that sez NSA over the pocket.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuBcDB4_e3Q
He should have walked up to the mic and said: "I quit!"
I don't find the work "Constitution".....but that document never stopped Obama anyway...
Alright. Finally. THE FIX IS IN!!!!
I feel so much better now.
I feel better now that it's Obama spying on us because he'll do it to protect us where Bush spying on us was just bad.
Obama: “Those of us who hold office in America have a responsibility to our Constitution.”
Rather should be: "Tyrants like us who rule in America enjoy raping your constitution." There fixed it.
Where is the word "Responsibility"? Oops--doesn't apply here???
Other words missing "Constitution" "4th Amendment" "Rights"
I'm sure Snowden has a few more turds in the microwave. This economic backlash is just getting started.
Fuck you Barry - no one believes your endless bullshit.
So Barry, did another 10M people sign up for Barry-care? See what I mean fuckhead???
Barry, you're a fucking pawn.
Why is that word cloud shaped like an egg plant?
Dass wayciss!!!
LIAR LIAR LIAR!
Great, a bunch of do-nothing wonks. I feel better already.
I don't know how anybody could believe for a second that they're really going to stop the mass surveillance. At best, this is throwing us a bone while they keep their more intrusive programs going.
I thought he sounded like a dick (sorry for being redundant) when he made a point of saying that he wouldn't apologize "just because technology is better than other countries" in reference to spying on allies. It came out sounding like hubris (</redundant>).
Did I say he sounded like a dick already?
Obama quote from his speech: "the folks at NSA and other intelligence agencies are our neighbors and our friends."
All that I have to say is that so were Gestapo agents to their victims.
"My guillotine speaks volumes to my 'neighbors and friends'."
"All that I have to say is that so were Gestapo agents to their victims."
Well said drives home the point nicely
Good stuff thanks.
One note, I personally use labels for clarity, but it's all "collectivism" to me--"We're going to take all that is yours, money, wealth, product, liberty, kids, life, etc. and do with it what we will and you're going to love it or we'll shoot you."
The criminal empire known as the US gov piss people off around the world to point where they fly airliners into the WTC, and the solution is to take our rights away. Thanks USSA!
Fixing the NSA, Fixing Obummercare, Fixing Education, Fixing Banks, Fixing LIBOR, Fixing precious metals, Fixing the makets, Fixing the economy, Fixing the Opium Trade, Fixing Justice for "Just Us", Fixing Congressional Pork, Fixing Trade through the TPP, etc...
One might conclude that the "Fix is in".
Wait; the NSA is going to stop spying? In May they said they weren't.
I'm so confused.
The more we lose our liberties, the bigger the flags get.
This is the standard Mao speech, with large patriotic flags behind you, saying the exact words that you do not mean; a speech that is not you; a speech that it is not your policies.
In fact, your policies are the exact opposite.
As Mao addressed his citizens - exclaiming that he would take care of them - he was having them shot, he was imprisoning them; he was taking away their livelihoods. As he said we are providing for you, he was stealing from them.
This is the standard dictator speech of a dictatorial totalitarian government. And their dictators have used it for centuries.
When you lie to Americans every day, as Obama does and has done, you begin to lose more and more of the low-information Americans. Even the headline readers are getting the picture. At this point in the Obama Administration, for Obama to invoke Paul Revere is to create the opposite impression from what he desires. The people realize he is hiding something; he is hiding the people who control him.
This is the man who said that the siphoning of all this mass American data should not be held by the government. But he hasn’t decided by whom.
The man, besides being a liar and a puppet, is a joke. He is a cruel joke.
The only thing that would work would be to de-fund.
Fuck that lying bastard!
Thankfully for us, that is for the Wookie & Reggie to suffer with!
But FOAD works! ;)
Wow... this was more vacuous than his campaign speaches. He proposed a comittee to propose changes and now he will ask Holder and Congress to review the proposals of the proposed comitteee, while doing absolutely nothing, nothing himself over the agency over which he is in charge. This is the same guy who threatened to rule by executive fiat the other day? The same guy who used the presidency to take executive control of healthcare? Here is your translation of this speach
I am scared shitless of this agency and intend to stay as far away from all of this as I possibly can. Therefore, if there is to be any change in our spying, congress and Eric Holder will have to implement it.
This man is a spineless coward, nothing more and nothing less.
You do understand that he caaaan't do anything. You don't think he wrote that little speech do you?
Obama - Turning him off is such a pleasure!
I listened to ths speech and re-read it twice, and I think what he said is that the federal spy agencies are forming a partnership with private corporations to gather, store, and determine how the data will be used.
With all the references to the office of the attorney general etc, it sounds like the feds will serve as the legal "hit men" to cover the asses of the private corporate use of the data. So all your data will be fully and legally mined by the feds in collusion with the telcos and isps, then farmed out and processed through corporate intelligencia and modelling and they will do with it whatever they damn well want to to digitally "control" policy and publicly lobbied law making around these macro data sets.
Todays speech is simply an announcement of this new power centralization between the executive branch and private interests. What he was saying to congress is, don't worry, I've got your back, your campaign financers will keep bribbing you to make laws that serve their interests. Barry just outsourced the data to private banking interests through executive fiat and the speech had very little to do with John Q Public other than to let him know that he is owned.
He also tipped his hat to international interests (who may now access the data if they are a business), mentioned the consitution, and MLK, and pointed out that our nation was founded by spies just like you and me who were yearning for freedom.
I am glad that somebody is paying attention.
So, will I need to keep paying Mozy to back up my data and pay my taxes to fund the NSA to back up my data?
I have noticed in recent years the creeping marriage between corporations and government. It probably has always been there but now it seems to be flaunted rather than hidden. This is terribly frightening to me because such a link with be the death knell of the citizenry. I want to run but there is no where to go. I feel like a lunatic when I discuss this with others who look at me as a schizophrenic waving my hands shrieking the end is near. Truly the future seems dim to me.
Miffed;-)
"the creeping marriage between corporations and government."
It's called Fascism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Fascism
I wouldn't worry too much about that marriage in the long term. With the end of cheap oil, it will buckle under its own weight. It's the aftermath that concerns me.
Speaking of cheap energy, that NSA data center in Utah is supposed to consume 65MW and 1.7 million gallons of water per day. Now that is excessive. Fortunately for us, the contractor that did the electrical screwed up and it cannot come online just yet, as shit keeps on burning out. It's yet another government boondoggle.
My husband explained to me long ago this would happen due to the fact there were so many subcontractors on this project it would be impossible to engineer properly. A system of this size is only effectively implemented when one company designs it from the start taking in to consideration the cooling problem issues inherent in large systems. As usual, the government fucks it up and dumps billions of cash into a rat hole.
Miffed;-)
Good point Miffed. Back in the good old days, DuPont designed their plants top to bottom. All the process equipment was designed in house and all proprietary equipment was fabricated at places like Wilmington Shops. We had our own Construction Division as part of the the Engineering Department*. Every plant I went to worldwide was overbuilt and overdesigned. Things like electrical power centers blowing up was unheard of and unthinkable.
* DuPont was organized by departments which were made up of functional divisions like R&D, design, etc.
"The business of the United States is business" C.C.
of course, USAInc. won't be the only customer.
Minority Report, here we come, full blaze ahead.
Take a look at my posts on the columns on Zerohedge before the speech, that is exactly what I said the speech would contain (I have no internal source of information, it was only a guess on my part). Now you will hear the name USIS start floating from the DoJ and Congress. Mark my words, they are going to outsource the holding of the data to a "private investigative firm" so that all investigations will be done by "private investigators" thereby thwarting any constitutional protections or state laws (such as the one proceeding through the Washington State legislature right now), at the request of the NSA. I sure hope that I am not giving them any ideas, but I am quite certain that they had thought of this prior to my posting it.
Sign of the times.
I saw this, this morning on U.S. 101 in northern California: large poster photographs of President Obama. And cars stopping at a booth near a sign.
The sign, in very large letters, read: PULL OVER IMPEACH OBAMA.
"Two men were questioned by police today after citizens reported the men were selling heroin to elementary school kids. They also had numerous stolen credit cards. The men were found to be nsa agents and were released to return to their business."
What's even better is you can take out 'NSA' and replace it with 'FBI', 'ATF', 'DEA' or whatever, and it still comes out the same, and is the absolute truth.
If this word cloud was accurate, my entire screen would be filled with a big "UHHHH"
Hit the fascists
in the pocketbook.
Then in the face.
The motherfucking NSA and all their spying on us didn't stop one "terrrorist" attack, and the only "plots" the F BEE EYE ever stopped is the ones they financed.
The government is the problem, not the solution.
Done and Done.
Thanks everybody.
Yall are going to have to stop paying your taxes.
The ONLY way to make this constitutional raping worse is to put the warrantless megadata into the hands of private corporations.
How would you like to have everything you've ever done sold by private concerns to the highest bidder?
Impeach.
Does anyone else here scream and curse at their TV when this douchebag starts spewing?
Tell me I'm not alone.
Has he always had dead eyes, or is it just getting worse? Hopey's wedding party massacre rate is up to like one a week now, how long can Americans keep predtending they are not living in sicko-bizarro world?
oh yeah...he sure showed them! The man-child Marxist in Chief really has the NSA shakin' in their goose-stepping jack boots!!! lol
So, when do we all want to meet up with our pitch forks? FYI- I can't do Tuesdays - American Idol is on.
Like frogs in a kettle we are making the transition from Huxley's vision to Orwell's. So fucking surreal.
After the NFL championship games but before the Super Bowl.
monkeyfucker.
Assholio!
I couldn't help but note that this speech had absolutely zero substance...
outside of the unmistakable announcement of still further consolidation of power by the white house and the administration, that is.
anybody else pick up on that?
or am I just too jaded and paranoid for polite society?
Networks are working on the story for the sheep tonight, I'm guessing " "President Obama promising sweeping and punitive changes for The NSA during a prompt and very confrontational speech and lauded the efforts of attorney general Eric Holder to gain the release of Edward Snowden being held in a Russian Gulag saying "we want Edward Snowden back in his county so we can debrief him"
All words. Barry should sign an agreement that what he said will be carried out and failing to satisfy written conditions would result in 20 years prison + charges for treason and lies. Talking is cheap and I couldn't force mouse do shit with yelling at it. :P Same for words from Barry. What a pathetic pawn.
LIES!!!!!