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The Complete Interactive Guide To How The NSA Spies On Everything You Do
With all the hoopla about missing airplanes, renewed wars of the cold variety, and rigged markets, it is easy to forget that America is now officially a totalitarian state of the Orwellian kind, where the population has - involuntarily - ceded all of its privacy in exchange for... something. Because it certainly isn't security. So we are happy to provide a reminder of just this, especially since as BusinessWeek notes, it gets harder to keep track of all the bizarre ways the National Security Agency has cooked up to spy on people and governments. This may help.
Data in Motion
NSA’s spies divide targets into two broad categories: data in motion and data at rest. Information moving to and from mobile phones, computers, data centers, and satellites is often easier to grab, and the agency sucks up vast amounts worldwide. Yet common data such as e-mail is often protected with encryption once it leaves a device, making it harder—but not impossible—to crack.
Data at Rest
Retrieving information from hard drives, overseas data centers, or cell phones is more difficult, but it’s often more valuable because stored data is less likely to be encrypted, and spies can zero in on exactly what they want. NSA lawyers can compel U.S. companies to hand over some of it; agency hackers target the most coveted and fortified secrets inside computers of foreign governments.
Where the Data Goes
Much of the data the NSA compiles from all these efforts will be stored in its million-square-foot data center near Bluffdale, Utah. It can hold an estimated 12 exabytes of data. An exabyte is the equivalent of 1 billion gigabytes.
And some of the specific methods the NSA uses to spy on US citizens and the occasional offshore "terrorist":
- Call Recorder - The agency can intercept and store for up to a month 100 percent of a foreign country’s telephone calls, which can be sorted and played back.
- Clone Phones - Foreign targets’ cell phones can be surreptitiously swapped for an identical model with built-in listening and data collection devices.
- Fake Shops - Diplomats at the 2009 G-20 summit in London were tricked, with the NSA’s help, into using an Internet cafe that had been rigged to send data to British intelligence.
- Travel Trackers - The NSA has several ways to follow the movements of intelligence targets as they get off planes, drive across borders, or move around a city, including an implant that directs a cell phone SIM card to send geolocation data via text message.
- Special Delivery - Spies intercept computers that foreign targets buy online, fit them with devices that send data to the NSA, and box them back up for normal delivery.
- X-Ray Vision - Radar waves beamed into a room can detect what is being typed on a keyboard or displayed on a computer screen.
- Credit Cards - The agency tapped into the network of Visa and major banking systems to collect troves of transaction data.
- Satellites - The NSA infiltrated German satellite communications used in remote locations such as drilling platforms—and by the country’s diplomats.
- Gamer Spies - Agency employees join World of Warcraft and Second Life communities, hunting for criminal networks and recruiting informants. They’ve also infiltrated Microsoft’s Xbox Live network.
- Cell Towers - Base stations mimicking cell towers siphon location data from targets’ phones. Agents can also intercept mobile calls with a shoe-box-size receiver.
- Submarines - The agency can collect worldwide Internet traffic with a modified nuclear submarine that taps undersea fiber-optic cables—allowing spies to vacuum data from millions of users.
- Secret Selfies - Malware planted in an iPhone can secretly activate its camera and microphone, turning it into a listening device. Malware for Windows mobile phones enables complete remote control of the handset.
- Fake Rocks - Transmitters hidden inside rocks and other objects can receive information from NSA taps implanted in nearby computers even if they’re “air gapped” machines or networks that aren’t hooked up to the Internet—among the hardest of all digital targets.
The Stasi is spinning in its grave... with jealousy. The full interactive presentation can be found after the jump:
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just want to let everyone know that there is at least one safe place where no nsa recording is allowed
that's right
at the sex parties that the Red Cloak guy hosts at his mansion castle in NYC
you know
the dude who human-sacrifices the beauty queen hookers and swings his censer to backwards-chanting priest music
that place
no spying allowed
hugs,
"fidelio"
Can't we just call it the idiot guide.
Putting the NSA in "insane"!
They got caught doing this recently by some blogger, when AMAZON accidently showed the entire shipping route from Seattle to LA had an unexpected detour through Alxanderia, VA for some reason....
I don't care much anymore but about 20+ years ago living in Mexico for awhile I was teaching folks computers, and d
one of the kids said "Does the CIA really watch us", I was about to teach them how to use "TRACERT, so I said, ook, let me show you something.
We did a tracert on ALTAVISTA.COM(google.com) and it was direct, then I said, now let's PING the NSA.GOV and CIA.gov,
... ok, after that everything we did was routed
through fort-meade.
Funny that AMAZON would leave the full tracking, but let's be honest only a small minority of people ever look at the full detail of their TCPIP PORT 25 headers (SMTP), or the
their TRACERT while they're 'banking' ( watch by command line session / separate window ). But yes, you can
FULL TRACK your package using UPS tools and see the fine the detail.
There was something I used Altavista for back in the stone age; maybe their online translator? I didn't realize they were the progenitor of google.
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/science-1/can-the-internet-crash-.html
Stackers - thanks for mentioning that one - I missed it. Here's a link:
Tor Developer's Computer Gets Mysteriously Re-Routed To Virginia
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140124/10564825981/nsa-interception-...
so if they track everything all the time, then how come they can't tell us what happened to mh370 and why?
I'm still wondering about Building 7.
Kennedy's head was seen moving violently forward, to the right.
Credible evidence shows the deployment of mobile laboratories.
A sophisticated series of caves exists in Afghanistan.
Aspartame and Flouride are beneficial for mankind.
Radiation is actually good for you. It's like eating bananas.
MH370 fell in to a black hole/time warp (you silly human).
Vince Foster committed suicide.
Andrew Breitbart died of natural causes.
SERIOUSLY...
Back in early 2008 (late March), my computer's home pages were reset to a waypoint just outside Alexandria, Virginia (Langley, to be precise). I discovered this because I had never set my MSN/YAHOO/ AOL pages to reflect a 'customized home page', and I just happened to hit a 'local' news feed, giving me the weather report. I lost the internet connection for a period of 36 hours, prior to this. After this incursion, my 'home pages' were reset to Renton, Washington, for about a week hence.
This was just after I presented evidence that the workaround of the FISA; in regards to interception of emails within the CONUS; was being done by bouncing all email transmissions over to Europe, and then back to the CONUS. i figured this one out by NOT 'updating' my clock settings (a 'critical' update from Microsoft for my particular machine). I began noticing that the timestamps of my sent emails reflected a timezone some 5 hours ahead of the local time where I reside... and pointed this out to several people... which allows the NSA to intercept EVERY email, 'legally'... because the transmissions either originated, or were sent, or went to, 'foreign' nations from the CONUS (thus fulfilling the original tenets of FISA v.1).
Well, I WAS highly involved in both 9/11 research, and the Ron Paul 2008 campaign at the time... and my first airline flight for 20 years, in late July 2008 (to attend the Ron Paul Liberty March) was met by 'extra screening' at my point of departure; even though I had booked a two-way flight, rented a hotel room, and a car, and paid by credit card... and I'm not an Arab...
THEY DO TRACK EVERYTHING, ALL THE TIME, AND THEY WON'T EVER TELL YOU THE TRUTH ABOUT MH370. EVER.
C'mon. Seriously?
Welcome to your nightmare. You THINK that it is 'normal'?
Well, if you did nothing wrong, there would be little to be afraid of.
Seriously, you don't think that some geek with headphones is listening to every little inanity you utter on the phone, or every stupid e-mail or blog post you publish - you and everyone else, all 12 exabytes worth?
The data collected is analysed in accordance with information parameters, and only if you use certain phases (such as "fuck NSA", "bomb", "kill", etc) does the analysis divert your words for further examination. Even then it is only secondary analysis, but your individual identifier (phone number, ISP) may be red-flagged for future intense scrutiny.
Oops...
Then some day they order you to kill the prime minister of malaysia or else they might happen to find kittypr0n on your pc.
"I feel like i'm taking crazy pills!!" - Mugatu
So........where's the Maylasian airplane???
Oops ... red-flagged iNSAne
I can see that sarcasm is totally, completely lost upon you. Both of you.
Nevermind, soldier on, compliant sheep.
Report to your nearest WalMart for further instructions...
Wow. I think I'm going to put off that colonoscopy. Who knows where the exam footage goes?
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"Duly noted, Comrade Rebel. Your position shall be recorded in your permanent record."
*scribbles in notebook*
Fine with me. My blood has been on these shores since the 17th century. I won't live in fear. If it gets to the point that they start worrying about me bitching on a blog, I'll be their huckleberry.
"Comrade Rebel exhibits symptoms of hostility, paranoia, and delusions of grandeur consistent with diagnosis of oppositional defiant disorder (ODD). Recommend collection of subject for purposes of reconditioning and/or recycling."
Comrade Rebel is getting his third degree(Masters) with a Doctorate to follow because Comrade Rebel knows that the pen is mightier than the sword and having an arsenal of education will be the best defense. I greened you as you bolster my resolve.
"Resistance is futile, Comrade Rebel. Please prepare for assimilation..."
I'm with you IR. Simon Black makes a damn convincing argument, but my family has been here for too many centuries to turn tail and run.
We are looking at land in CA, but it would take a lot for us to fully move out of the country. Liberty is hardwired into many American's being. I tthink we give too little credit to the resolve of most Americans. There are those in the DWTS moron collective, but I see a growing tide of folks becoming sick of the trajectory to fascism that we are on. The NSA is a direct result. Remember, most of the NSA are techno nerds that can tell you that I have an affinity for MILF porn in an office setting. Well fuck me. I'll just head for the hills! Can they plant malicious ware and incriminating, false files? Probably. Again, at that point they will be taking on the populace and the style of porn we watch will be irrelevant. When they go for the guns, that's my sign that we are about to ratchet up.
Thanks for playing along IR, you have a good sense of humor. The US is turning into a proving ground for bad sci-fi, I don't doubt that the NSA's Eye of Sauron is working on a bot to issue automated replies to any perceived dissent. I'm not important enough to be blackmailed by my porn habits, but a VPN is a cheap precaution against peeping-Tom geeks.
Unfortunately, I'm not as patriotic as you and have checked into moving abroad. Not possible right now due to family obligations, but still a dream. My main worry is that Americans will be seen as parasites by the time I'm able to get the fuck out of Dodge. Maybe we're there already.
It's pretty amazing how fast the surveillance state sprung up, almost impressive in a sick American can-do kind of way. The ability to monitor and persecute at will reads like J. Edgar Hoover's wet dream. The only thing he would have loved more is slipping into some lacy lingerie and a nice pair of fuck-me pumps.
+1 for the tombstone ref. Seems a drunk totalitarian state is lookin for a fight... Getting the crap KICKED out of them at home is just one step too far on the humiliation scale. Inept abroad, failure at home. And before anyone screams that they would kick our ass, a single casualty at home under the same circumstances as Ukraine.. well, the cards are no longer in the hands of the fedgov.
Like that matters. Natives have been here much much longer than your relatives, and they're not doing so well.
We have met the enemy and he is us.
Pretty much. Anyone who occasionally, or even accidentally listens to the news is aware of this. And yet nothing is done. We still elect the same spineless congressmen every two years who continue to do nothing about it. We get the government we deserve. And the American people have earned this.
Really? According to whom??
The majority of the people in this country have proven themselves willing to give up liberty in favor of safety. Although notable figures from Benjamin Franklin in the past to Ron Paul in the present(last night in Orlando, FL, good speech) have warned against this, most people are willing to tolerate this because it forms a false illusion of safety. Most Americans are willing to tolerate this because they are told, and they believe, that allowing this to happen is what prevents them from being killed in a terrorist attack, and they don't think about it after that. The vast majority of Americans, you and I, and a many others, notwithstanding, have given their implied permission for the govt to do this. So, while I speak out against this sort of thing to others every chance I get, and desire 'dangerous' freedom over the illusion of safety, the majority of Americans greet this type of news with apathy. Therefore, we the people, get the government we deserve.
so, Silence Implies Consent?
Silence is consent.
Sometimes silence is just silence.
And sometimes silence is golden. And gold is silence.
Miffed;-)
For sure. I am fond of tranquility.
I too wish for peace , for my family and my friends but the fight has already come to us all, we have just not been bloodied .....yet !
"Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing."
"There comes a time when silence is betrayal"
And yet we are here speaking our own truths in the eternal search for justice.
you just dont know the active fight that has gone on. I am amazed by the silence of all about one nsa tool that i consider the biggest.
Silence Is Violence (Aimee Allen).
Ron Paul Revolution [Wake Up!] (Aimee Allen).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3_hDAEHLyo
A super-elite are taking control.
My gold is silent. I was silent about gold. Dadgummit that silver tongued devil got me again.
Negative.
Silence is silence. Consent is consent.
Knowledge is knowledge, not power.
silence: consent
silencer: opposite :)
This dialogue about silence and consent is embarrassing. Attemps to be definitive, deep, and profound all fall flat.
I sent an email to my congressman, vigourously detailing my concern with these ursurpations. That approach doesn't seem to work in the current environment.
But what's the use when everybody knows this?
If you know you're spied on online, you can use it to check if you're spied on.
Online you just create a trail and on paper you create the non digital true organisation.
So in a way, the NSA starts to be it's own problem and bottleneck that makes sure they only get bad traces.
The NSA has to get money somehow so it creates all these boondoggle strategies and then sells them to retarded people in control of funds. Eventually like with the drones and other autamated weaponry it will lead to the death of those providing the funding.
They are sociopaths. That's what sociopaths do.
And talk about sociopaths. It took Feinstein over 4 years to relize the laws she was passing and funding she was providing was aimed at her.
These people are in a world of their own.
what I was actually meaning is that their technologie is actually made against those who don't have to fear the spying by are spied on anyway.
That's the weird stuff. It's actually targetted against nice john and jane doe.
My own approach is a bit more lowbrow. I take pictures of my testicles and email them to myself. I like to think that somewhere (probably Utah) there are pictures of my testicles taking up valuable drive space under 24 hour surveillance and armed guard.
Wonder what the legal status is when some bored 14-year-old hacks Utah and saves one of those pics?
...New MBA Degree course titled "WFE", available at all Ivy League Universities.
WFE..We F*ck Everyone
Wharton will offer a bankers suicide elective course for all graduating MBA's. Chapter 9. Nail guns and Vicodin release tension headaches. Pop quiz to follow
-AB > () < -Everything> -zy =everything. nuf said?
The ability to print an unlimited amount of fiat money is what enables this insanity. That ability is going to go away, and probably in the not-to-distant future. Take comfort in the fact that the Stasi also gained the capability to collect so much information, that they drowned in it.
"The ability to print an unlimited amount of fiat money is what enables this insanity."
Absolutely correct.
Plus it enabled the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, TBTFB's, the Federal Reserve to buy worthless and underwater mortgages, sovereign bonds, "rescued" insolvent domestic and foreign banks ...
In other words "fiat money" is the root cause of what ails the United States.
FREE FIAT is the root cause that the US police departments 100% USA wide have gone PALESTINIAN.
Too much money means the cops bought too many toys, and once a pig has a toy, he must put that toy to use.
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Live in a 3rd world country and life is good, live in the USA and pig's will ass fuck you and kill you.
The NSA could be even more diabolical and spin off PRISM as a subsidiary of Blackwater, who could then take it IPO.
A good old-fashioned doubledown doublefuck.
Wonder if "Mens Country" bath house was bugged...........
Maybe that is why so many people that went there died.
Alex Jones you are not a total fruit cake after all.
Gotta admit, AJ has been dead on right about a whole buncha shit.
(kind of an itodja so, as I'm a fan)
Alex Jones rocks. In fact, I've never seen AJ and Tyler together in the same room. Hmmm.
Jimmy Carter uses snail mail, totally confuses the youngsters at the NSA.
Every time he goes to the mailbox he has to dodge that man-eating bunny.
They spy on snail mail too. The Post Office photographs the front of every envelope and a time stamp. That is how they found the person that was mailing Anthrax.
yeah, yeah, yeah. There ain't enough super-computers in the world to filter all of that stuff down into something actionable.
It's not right, but they're drinking from a fire hose.
Interesting use of the word "actionable". yeah, yeah, yeah, I get it. lol.
Maybe you're right. However, that doesn't stop the NSA from spending many billions of your tax dollars trying to build systems that will pick out actionable items out of it.
"Yes we scan" should be taught in every university.
When an ex-president becomes a painter, when a banker becomes a serial scammer, why can't a spook become a proof reader, a photocopy addict and a peep hole expert.
We all have to think of a second line of work these days.
After all those Congressmen are all into playing in the casino with our tax money.
http://s25.postimg.org/fdgomwr0v/Scan_This.jpg
dupe
Get rid of the esoteric mystery schools the secret societies and we will not have to worry anymore about the nsa.
Give the information to all we all need enlightenment on planet earth
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=knRJt65k2NY
Brought to you by a whistleblower at world bank
Stay with me safe and ignorant...........
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CTMTyDcm2A
One reason why I'm not as scared of the NSA as a lot of people: Everything in this country seems to be VERY poorly run these days. They're used to steam rolling over people who take out because they're scared. When somebody pushes back, they fold. Take that article talking about the DEA's Special Operations Division several months ago where the prosecutor had to drop a case because she found out that the SOD had gathered some of its information from NSA eaves dropping. If the defendant had taken a deal, that defendant would have been fucked. Had the defendant taken it to trial, the whole NSA spying thing would have come out in an open trial. Big, big fucking can of worms for the government. So, don't incriminate yourself by running your trap, don't consent to anything and don't take any deals. At least one briefing on how local LEOs can "reconstruct" the evidence was leaked, and it relied heavily on getting your consent to search, you running your trap, etc... If you stick to your rights, LEO stories will likely fall apart faster than the I-35 bridge.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
EVERYONE should watch this.
That's not the point, ..go watch the movie BRAZIL,
In that movie they get a guy name tuttle confused with buttle, and the wrong guy is killed by the CIA(MI6), .. and nobody cared, because once the CIA realized their mistake they made it appear that the wrong guy was the right guy.
So yes they're incompetent fuckheads, but that their very existance puts all good men in jeopardy.
When good men remaine silent, then EVIL always take over.
Witness the clever management of good-men on ZH, under Unicorn management, we're not even allowed to give our honest opionion on matters and must use code-words and /sarc, ... obtuse thought and speech is only allowed, direct speech would be considered BAD by the Unicorns.
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Yes, they're fuck tards, and yes they are all people couldn't exist in a world where other people didn't tell you when to shit, sleep, or fuck. But sadly they're armed to the teeth and looking for 24/7 for people to kill, so every day your life is tenous at best.
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The FBI is now forcing people on USA entry to have COLONOSCOPY's then forcing them to pay for the procedure (+$2k ) even though nothing is found, if you refuse to sign the bill, you go to jail. Most people just sign, ... fight the system and then when you arrive in jail, they still go up your asshole, but then its not done by real doctors.
NSA isn't the problem per-se, but they're the LIVE feed for the KILLERS, and the NSA tell's them to go out and KILL based on NSA intelligence, getting caught by the NSA GAYDAR is a random, but fatal event.
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If the FBI comes to visit you and should you not cooperate, they'll just shoot you dead, on the basis that they feared for their lives, and they will get away with it.
how local LEOs can "reconstruct" the evidence was leaked, and it relied heavily on getting your consent to search, you running your trap, etc... If you stick to your rights
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This is a big bullshit, you obviously have never been there, this is how it works,
COP - "I want to search your house"
YOU - "Do you have a warrant?"
COP - "Listen asshole, we can do this the easy way or the hard way, you make it hard for me, I'll make it very hard for you".
Been there, you have haven't, and believe me, they can make it very hard for you, and like you mentioned, once you make it hard for them, they will plant something, ..
If you know cop, then know that they are fucking LAZY, and if you make work for them, they will fuck you hard.
Welcome to the REAL world unicorn.
You talk like a young fella, I think 30 or 40 years will sharpen your wit and resolve.
Good luck!
I think it's great. No matter how mundane and ordinary my life may seem sometimes, I know that at least someone is interested in what I'm doing.
Nope, you have to be as interesting as I am to be monitored. It's the newest status symbol, not everyone gets the privilege of having their life stolen from them. You have to be sombody.
Everyone has a threat matrix score. It's like your credit score from the bankers, but from the spooks.
This monstrosity is spying on every human being on Earth, including the US Government, which the US people are funding through taxes.
Just who exactly controls this thing?
It's either running open loop...or via something else. Either way, it's looking more like Skynet.
May a Constitutional Convention ensue (and take the chance of what comes out of it) to shut it down.
The Financial Elite, read Bankers and big traders, in alliance with the intelligencie agencies and the US military are the troika that rules America, much like the Soviet Communist party and the KGB ruled the USSR. Most people do not know that in the USSR, the best and brightest went into KGB. The Communist Party was more subject to KGB than otherwise. The decision to fold the USSR and give up their empire without a shot being fired was an inhouse decision by the KGB leaders, as they were the only ones with the real information and numbers that showed them collapse was only months away. A surrender of epic scale, never repeated in history went off without a shot, only the KGB and other security organs of the USSR had power to end the communist rule and the empire. In America today, I suspect the intelligence agencies are reaching KGB levels of power inside Washington. Even the military must now be under their thumb and as for the fake political parties! Ha! Ha! They are a hoax to keep the sheep fighting with eachother. Obama/Bush, same clone in an empty suit. CIA/NSA/Military Intelligence can eat these guys for lunch. We mirror the old USSR more and more every day.
JB,
Did you change your avatar, or is there a glitch in the matrix?
HBS
No, I changed from Scarlett to the Prosecutor General of Crimea. That should really bump me to the head of the NSA hit list.
Like most jobs programs, its a gross waste of money.
"I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free".
I swear I heard that in an old country western song back when USA was going to war in Iraq. Sadly the words of Jack Nickolson in the old 60's movie "Easy Rider" laid it all out all those decades ago. The Fireside Sceen where Jack tells the others what freedom really means to the American people. "You get to tell'en 'em they ain't free they get real mad". Or something along those lines. It must be on youtube somewhere. Never in the course of American film has so much truth been told in a short few lines.
NSA believes they are super patriots, better than you and me. Trust me, I know these government types. They believe it is their duty to know your every thought, word and deed, because you can not be trusted to support the elites.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACUCVTH6f0g
You tell the Unicorns on ZH the truth and they get real mad also, ... where ever in the history of the world has 'truth' telling been safe?
Long ago George Seldez wrote about 'black sheep', in any herd of say Dog's, there will always be comformity, and the black sheep, or black dog in a pack of white dogs stand's out.
Nothing is safer than blando-pando mass conformity, and saying nothing, well except /sarc, that's ok, but always end it with /sarc.
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The NSA/CIA are all PRAETORIANS and they know it, and they know that you are just little people, aka SHIT.
I can remember back in my early training as a kid, the first thing the Colonel told us was that the USA was 3rd world country with NUKES, and to toss out every fucking thing we had ever been taught in 'school'. Just like guy in 'Apocalypse Now', once a man is high enough in the CIA ( phoenix project ) he knows the game, and know's that nothing is what it appears.
The simple truth is that most Americans think mostly about their SUV's, video games, TV shows, vacations, and houses.
Not about the loss of their liberty.
Watch out. I think the cat is bugged too.
Don't stare directly into the brown star or else you'll go blind.
Maybe the Cat is bugged. Especially if they have an implanted microchip.
Dear NSA, in order to serve my government as a properly thinking citizen should I would like to inform u that my neighbors
Grow weed
Operate a still
Don't pay their taxes
Build bombs
....But you knew that of course
/ sarc off
FUCK OFF NSA
NSA TRACKING SHIT - Missed the part that the NSA is now scanning RAW SEWAGE in the public sewage system, to identify ETHNIC diners, and specific DNA tracking.
Incredible INTEL can now be one on RAW sewage talking about find a needle in a haystack, this is like finding a turd in the ocean. But they're still doing it and working on it, because they have INFINITE FIAT at their disposal, like GOOGLE if you can think up any crazy idea, it will be funded.
Last month 'news' reported that NSA now collecting raw sewage for analysis.
Let the NSA spy on "kanamara matsuri". Today is the festival for 2014. There are some things in foreign cultures that I just don't fully understand. I am not saying it is good or bad because I will repect the culture and they may have a point about where the demon lived. I had never heard of this festival before today and chances are that many of you have not either. I have no idea where else to post this but since this is an NSA thread I figured this would be the best place.
Have some of this NSA.
http://www.boatingaccidentnews.com/culture-corner-with-manipuflation/
I rather enjoyed reading most of the comments on this article, and in my own way, I am responding below to some of them, particularly the ones that plaintively ask "WHY" Americans do not do something about this, or "WHEN" will they respond?
The best organized gangs of criminals have been able to take control of the government in ways which automatically got worse, faster, BUT WHICH AT NO POINT COULD BE STOPPED, since there were never any realistic ways to prevent those who were the best at being dishonest, and backing that up with violence, from taking control. It is an interesting question, if one is serious about it, to wonder how that could be transformed, that those who are the best at being evil ended up dominating civilization. Of course, theoretically, one can complain that the longer term consequences of a runaway triumph of organized crime controlling governments are going to be tragic, however, in practice there never was any point in that process where anybody else was actually able to stop that from happening.
LOL, the iNSAne development of psychotic national security being taken over as the cover for the best organized gang of criminals to control society, provides, from a sublime point of view, more macabre humour than can be fully comprehended. After facing the fact that our society appears already terminally sick and iNSAne, and too screwed up to do anything else but continue to get more screwed up, faster, until it rubber bands break, I will indulge in my own personal "oops" moment to wonder out loud which people working for the NSA are aware that the events on 9/11/2001 were an inside job, false flag attack, and therefore, the worst "terrorists" that the NSA are supposed to be protecting us from probably know that, since they must include some of their insiders.
Since the end of World War II, and the public demonstration that the previously kept secret Manhattan Project had successfully made atomic bombs, i.e., since about 1947, the concept of "national security" has become increasingly psychotic. I am not aware of any politically practical ways to prevent the runaway triumphs of the vicious spirals of crazy corruption of the government, enforcing runaway financial frauds, which feedback to enable those profiting the most from those frauds to be able to continue to dominate the funding of the political processes, so that there MUST NECESSARILY BE MORE INSANITY! Indeed, we have met the enemy, and he is us, and so, we have collectively become criminally iNSAne.
All of our weapons, and military powers, actually enforce the banksters frauds ... Ah, from the sublime point of view, for those whose macabre sense of humour has not already worn out from over-use, the astronomically magnified SIZE OF GLOBALIZED ELECTRONIC FRAUDS, BACKED BY ATOMIC BOMBS, never had any way to be prevented from developing. Awesome progress in science and technology was able to be employed so that the best organized gangs of criminals could constantly gain ever more control over civilization, despite the fact that they had no sane plan, other than that which arose from being able to continue to back up BIGGER LEGALIZED LIES, WITH MORE LEGALIZED VIOLENCE. ... At no point was there ever anybody else that could have prevented that from happening, and there still is nothing, since theoretically, that runaway iNSAnity would require enough of a level of enlightened humour, in enough people, to enable us to survive through the psychotic breakdown of increasingly psychotic "national security."
Our collective iNSAnities can be traced back to the continuing total failure of Neolithic Civilization's social pyramid systems, which were always based on backing up huge lies with lots of violence, coping with the problem of progress in science and technology creating weapons that were trillions of times more capable and powerful. Instead, the established systems more and more deeply entrenched themselves according to their social habits, that success in warfare was based on being the best at deceits, which backed up the financial system being based on frauds.
Our collective iNSAnities are the expression of our almost total failure to cope with discovering relatively more truths through the scientific methods, thereby enabling advancing technology, most of which was being channeled through psychotic concept of "national security," which enabled governments to become by far the biggest and worst terrorist organizations, which simultaneously became too completely crazy to comprehend how crazy they had become, since the current iNSANities include that 9/11/2001 was an inside job, false flag attack, because the greatest threat to such a psychotic kind of "national security" has become itself!
Militarism is the ideology of the murder system, whose basic goals were to be able to kill somebody else, before they could kill you, in which context attempting to become the best at backing up deceits with destruction were the historical paths to successful survival. Our current iNSAnities are due to our inability, so far, to go through any kind of sufficient paradigm shifts in our politics to be able to cope with the successful paradigm shifts in basic sciences, which then enabled our technologies to become trillions of times more powerful and capable. The Grand Canyon Paradoxes that we are looking out across are that our murder systems operate through the maximum possible deceits, as spectacularly symbolized by the fact that the events on 9/11/2001 were an inside job, false flag attack, while our financial system operates through the maximum possible frauds, as symbolized by the public "money" supply being made out of nothing as debts by private banks.
The iNSAnity we are faced with is that technologies which are trillions of times more capable and powerful are being applied to become better at being dishonest, and back that up with violence, while those actually doing that have quite literally become too psychotic to cope with their own reality anymore. That there must necessarily be some death controls, backing up some debt controls, is clear, and it is equally clear that our combined money/murder systems are actually being operated through the maximum possible deceits and frauds about themselves, to the degree that they are utterly unable to face the real facts about themselves, which is why they are in a state of psychotic breakdown.
Our collective iNSAnity is lost within its own Bizarro Mirror World Fun House, Folks. The original paradox of successful warfare being based upon backing up deceits with destruction has been magnified trillions of times by advancing science and technology, to produce the kind of iNSAnities around us today, which tend to be opposed by various kinds of other controlled iNSAnities! Hence, we are operating through a civilization whose combined money/murder systems have become based upon the maximum possible frauds and deceits, which problem is deeply entangled with the iNSAnities that the opposition to that tends to promote the impossible ideals, that there ought not be any murder systems, to back up the money systems, which always then causes the opposite to happen in the real world, so that we are thereby driven another time around and around the faster and bigger spinning spirals of our collective iNSAnities.
There could not be any better money system unless there was some better murder system to back that up. However, the currently established and entrenched systems were the historical product of them being the best at dissembling, and denying not only what they really did, but also why they really did that. Of course, inside of that runaway collective iNSAnity, there operates controlled opposition groups, which do not propose how to provide better death controls, to back up better debt controls, but rather tend to propose that there ought not be any such controls, which impossible ideals continue backfiring badly in the real world.
As far as I can see, at the present time, there is no way to prevent the established systems from continuing to drive themselves through their own mad self-destruction. The Grand Canyon Paradoxes between advancing science and technology serving deceits and frauds, continue to automatically get worse, faster. Theoretically, we "should" go through some profound intellectual scientific revolutions, which would apply to politics, and especially to militarism, because the same old-fashioned militarism pumped up with weapons of mass destruction, and mass surveillance, is not able to sustain its iNSAnities indefinitely, without driving itself through series of psychotic breakdowns, into mad self-destruction.
Whether the human experiment can survive science remains to be seen, since right now that science is mainly employed by social institutions which have become seriously psychotic, and therefore, manifesting runaway iNSAnities, where the agencies that are supposed to promote "national security" have become, by far, the greatest real threats to "national security." It remains to be seen whether or not civilization can cope with becoming more scientific about itself, sufficient for it to be able to survive. Clearly, from a more objective and scientific point of view, governments are the biggest forms of organized crime, which are controlled by the best organized gangs of criminals, because that was the way that things must have been, as proven by the historical facts regarding what has actually happened.
There are no genuine solutions to social problems which are scientifically possible which were not based upon that kind of scientific insight into how society did and must operate. Our collective iNSanities are manifestations of the degree to which we have, so far, utterly failed to cope with the development of weapons of mass destruction, and mass surveillance, because we are too psychotically out of touch with our own realities to be able to admit the facts about the combined money/murder systems, which we presently operate through the maximum possible frauds and deceits about themselves. Hence, we are witnessing the NSA saying that it is supposed to be protecting the constitutional rule of law, while it more and more blatantly ignores that constitutional rule of law.
That manifest iNSAnity is growing because our society collectively is incapable of facing the facts about itself, since it actually operates its combined money/murder systems through the maximum possible frauds, and deceits, while those who pretend to oppose that never provide any better forms of organized crime, which is the only scientifically possible form of better government, but rather, tend to only propose the same old-fashioned false fundamental dichotomies, and their related impossible ideals, which can never work in the real world, but must necessarily always cause the opposite to happen in the real world, because, human realities can not exist without some murder systems, as the most extreme manifestations of our real problems, while the history of the most successful of those existing systems was based on being the best at lying about them, which included that their controlled opposition equally, if not more so, also lied about them.
It remains to be seen whether or not the human experiment of building brains that can adequately model their world, including having a model of themselves within their model of the world, can cope with working through the Grand Canyon Paradoxes in the established money/murder systems, where progress in science enables technologies to become trillions of times more powerful and capable, which then get employed to advance the already socially established systems of deceits and frauds ... Oh, well, from a sublime point of view, one yet may entertain some macabre sense of humour, that perceives some of the degrees to which our collective iNSAnities are plunging on, through apparently infinite tunnels of deceits and frauds ...
The logical outcome of INFINITE FREE FIAT is MURDER-INC.
You have stated many times, TRIFFEN does it better IMHO by simply pointing out that its a DILEMMA, that Reserve-Currency doesn't make a country strong, it makes itself PARANOID.
The need to spy and dogs and people in wheel-chairs is a PARANOID effect. Too much FREE FIAT, makes any TOY possible, fear of failure of such a system, vests everyone's interest in "CONTINUITY of FREE FIAT"
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I would not call this system INSANE, as its very sane, and of course the logical outcome of FIAT by MILITARY FORCE.
Triffen Dillema makes clear a reserve currency must ..
1.) export its jobs, thus the citizens become the enemy
2.) war the world, to force them to only trade in FIAT, thus the world-citizens hate the reserve nation, which makes that nation spy on the world as well,
3.) That a reserve nation must MURDER its own malcontents, and competition in world currency theater.
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The NSA is just a MINOR COG in the machine, they don't do black-op or wet-op, their only job is SIGINT. If you don't want to be in their GAYDAR then don't create signals, ... e..g. don't use electronic devices. ( Shit outside, don't shit or piss in public sewage system, showering too creates DNA like hair in the system )
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The beauty of the US-MIL and INFINITE-FIAT is that all want the MILLION DOLLAR PENSION ( annuity value of FED PENSION is +5 MILLION USD ), and thus everyone and anyone that jeopardizes the end of the FIAT is the enemy, this is why TEA PARTY had to be destroyed. (IRS)
Nothing insane here RM, .... This is a well designed machine, and if they get IMF-SDR going, where every country on EARTH gets infinite FIAT, then we all be RICH.
Albeit PRISONERS, or DEAD, but we'll be rich :)
They are the Great Thunder-Lizards, and I a mere rodent.
See you on the other side.
james.connolly, I have read several of your insightful replies above, and tended to agree with them. I also agreed with your reply to my comment, on the level that it was made. However, the main reason why I believe that the established systems are iNSAnities are that not only do they drive runaway irreconcilable social polarization, they also drive even worse destruction of the natural world. The social polarization in the social pyramid systems based on the application of the methods of organized crime could be resolved by continuing to be violent enough to mass murder sufficient numbers of people to be able to keep the top of the pyramid able to benefit from their robberies. However, the destruction of the natural world is way bigger, and has tended to now go beyond human control.
Successfully operating through the methods of organized crime requires being able to maintain attitudes of evil deliberate ignorance towards the longer term consequences of what one is doing. As long as one stays within the relatively short-term consequences, then clearly, those who operate the established systems of enforced frauds are able to rob other people, and command the use of natural resources. As you pointed out, james.connolly, not only are the police and armed forces relatively well-paid while they are working, but they are also promises very nice pensions after they retire.
However, the debt slavery systems that they helped to make and maintain do drive themselves towards generating numbers which become debt iNSAnities. Now, as you wrote, james.connolly, it is quite possible to imagine that system attempting to overcome its runaway and apparently irreconcilable social polarization problems through more genocidal wars, along with imposing democidal martial law. While that may spin out of control, it is nevertheless plausible. However, what can spin out of control far worse is the destruction of the natural world, and the consumption of natural capital in ways which were financed by fiat money that results in environmental iNSAnities.
I agree that "the logical outcome of INFINITE FREE FIAT is MURDER-INC." However, the bigger picture that I looking at is that beyond the human world is the natural world, which is also being murdered! Within the human world, of some human beings killing other human beings presents a relative sane system, which operates organized lies, in order to achieve social robberies, which are beneficial in the short-term for those who were the best at doing that. However, privatized making "money" out of nothing as debts is a fraud which, despite being able to be enforced within the human world, simultaneously enables and perpetuates attitudes of evil deliberate ignorance to the consequences that that system has upon the natural world as a whole. The successful fraudulence of INFINITE FREE FIAT DOES DRIVE MURDER-INC!
Within the human world, it continues to be possible to engage in some people murdering other people successfully, in order to maintain the social polarizations enabling the social robberies. However, all of the social institutions that assist with having made and maintained that social pyramid system of lies, backed by violence, such as the NSA, also then operate within the bigger context of evil deliberate ignorance towards their longer term effects upon the natural world as a whole, as endless fiat money finances strip-mining the planet, and turning natural resources into garbage and pollution as fast as possible. Therefore, the NSA serves the overall collective human iNSAnities, whereby the successful application of the methods of organized crime control governments, and therefore, control the human population to engage in exponentially increasing activities which amount to collective criminal iNSAnities.
However, tragically, I currently believe that pointing that out will not make any practical difference, since the ESTABLISHED INFINITE FREE FIAT DRIVES MURDER-INC, NOT MERELY THROUGH TO GENOCIDES AND DEMOCIDES, BUT ALSO THROUGH TOWARDS ALMOST OMNICIDAL DESTRUCTION OF THE NATURAL WORLD.
When NSA serves the iNSAnities of the social pyramid systems mass surveillance controls, it is serving attitudes of evil deliberate ignorance not only towards other human beings, which may well be possible to sustain, but also operating through attitudes of evil deliberate ignorance towards the bigger picture of the natural world that human beings live within, in ways which are not sustainable. That is primarily why I think that the established social systems are NOT SANE.
Well, you didn't write that post in five minutes RM and it is a great post. I know how that goes when you are in the mood to write. I was an English major for 2.5 years before I went back to science in my college days. We are not the only ones who do this around here. Just to throw out an idea and maybe it is not good idea but what if we all wrote a book together with an introduction by the original Tyler? We each get one chapter to make our statements. No one has ever done anything like that before that I know of.
Maybe it is a terrible idea. I am not sure. It sounds good but may not be practical.
Thanks, Manipuflation, but I think your good idea is not practical, because generally I believe that there are NO good ideas which are practical, given the ways that the established systems operate, as lies, backed by violence, which therefore do not care about more truth, but only care about being able to continue to back up their frauds with more force.
I write as a tool to help me think. I like to try to understand things, for their own sake. Of course, I would also like it IF that understanding provided something useful. However, the more I have learned about politics, the worse it always got, since the people who already have been able to make "money" out of nothing as debts for so long are so far ahead in being able to dominate the social and political institutions that writing a book about that is practically pointless.
When it comes to being "practical," I am NOT. In my view, there are no grounds to have any reasonable hope for the future, therefore, I cling to an irrational hope in some series of political miracles, but I do not actually believe that those will happen. As far as I can tell, the way that the NSA operates IS an iNSAnity, which is automatically going to get worse, faster, since it fits into the overall system that james.connolly described above as being INFINITE FREE FIAT DRIVING MURDER-INC! Inside that REAL context, I see no practical point in writing yet another book about it, other than as a self-indulgent attempt to assist those few who are trying to better understand what is actually happening.
Soon they will completely destroy everything including themselves.
WTF !!
X-Ray Vision - Radar waves beamed into a room can detect what is being typed on a keyboard or displayed on a computer screen.
Looks up from pc screen towards window..gives a sheepish grin..Then quickly closes the 16 pages of porn open in browser.
Maybe that is why the SEC isn't doing their job. The NSA has too much on them.
It recently came out thanks to information leaked by Edward Snowden that the "black budget" last year was a massive 52 billion dollars. This is the money used in "secret" spy operations, and it is enough to send shivers down the back of those that have read about the totalitarian society of Oceania described in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. In Orwell's novel, all citizens of Oceania are monitored by cameras and are fed fabricated news stories by the government. More on this subject in the article below.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2013/09/are-we-creating-orwellian-society...
Voyeurism is no longer a felony.
German newspapers are always a very good guide what lies in the future. Not that these paper are independent. In the opposite these papers are direct outlets of the mighty wurlitzer, spreading the propaganda of ..... ( and this is were I'm stranded). Of whom ?
Today one can read, that Snwoden is going to be invited to testify in Germany about the NSA acticities in Germany. Yesterday I was able to read, that the CIA is a ruthless torture organization operating black prisons in Lithuania, Romania, Poland etc. In the TV channels the same, as usual everywhere the same stuff.
Im confused. CIA and NSA on one side and the f"ree German newspapers" on the other side do follow different masters. This was never the case before, and it normally should not be the case. Nothing changed in the German media market. Its all still very solid under control since generations by US/UK front media moguls fed by AFP, AP, Reuters etc. souces.
What is going on here ? It indicates to me, that there is an internal fight in the US going on. My feeling is, that it is between the Obama government and the Israel lobby. Simply for the reason, that Obama is the commander in chief of the armed forces, which include also the CIA and the NSA. While the "free press" is not directly linked to the armed forces. The "free press and free media" is privately owned. In the past both arms of the "news services" pulled at the same rope. But now it looks, that this is not anymore the case.
Not that I find the NSA activities good but what makes me wonder why out of a sudden the "free press" is firing against their former buddies.
There's always a John Gotti or two in the wings in any organization.
Let me have men about me that are fat,
Sleek-headed men and such as sleep a-nights.
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look,
He thinks too much; such men are dangerous.
I got an e-mail that I thought was funny. It said we should all contunually e-mail each other a copy of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. At least then the NSA and the Government would read it.
And/or send a bunch of poihibqu39741^&*(PHBDEBHGSAX*IGhdcbacgo7huihP9FYEDCBASYGCWE66UGIHUUYE98yhdjcsvgs that makes no sense back and forth, encrypted, back and forth. That ought to waste some of their time.
The NSA spying news is partially ment to force you into self regulation. Making people afraid to speak or express their views.
I also think that it is very dangerous for them to have so much information on everyone. They can destroy almost anyone.
You have to wonder who has been threatened with the informaton they have. Many questioned why Supreme Court Justice Roberts went along with Obama Care. We all know about how Petraeous was brought down by his affair. Plus, they have been spying on the Congress and the Senate. Including Senator Feinstein who was outraged on the news the NSA had spied on her. So with the information they gather they can use that information to manipulate very powerfull people to do what ever they want. That is dangerous. As there are no more checks and balances in the system. Just Tyranical Rule.
Now we know 'some' of the ways that the NSA is hoovering up enormous amounts of data. But remember they are but one(1) organization of many who are spying on us, and at the national/international level. You've also got state and local gov'ts spying on us as well. Plus ad in all the foundations, organizations, and private companies. I now look at every communications company as a spying org; AT&T, Comcast, Sprint, Cisco, etc. Don't forget every electronic transaction is logged as well by Visa/MC and your bank. I'm sure if we found out every unique entity that was spying on us we would be flabbergasted at the sheer scale of it.
At this point the better question to be asked is 'how' is this data being used?? The NSA knows more about you than your best friend and probably your spouse. It would be VERY easy to use this data to manipulate someone. I would be suspicious of all coincidental meetings with 'strangers'.
Brave New World indeed.
Hey, I'm in Europe anyway. So before I go on: Fuck the NSA. Fuck them hard.
I don't care or are afraid of the NSA or CIA. Let me summarize, they are working for the country that lost big time in Iraq and Afghanistan - millions of rounds, trillions of Dollars to kill a few guys in Sandals, goat herders. Not even talking about Somalia and other complete fuck ups. Let them come. Guerrilla warfare is a bitch. With all that information they can do jack shit, are being outmaneuvered by Putin and stupdi phone calls from Nuland end up on the Internet.
Go back to sleep.