I totally disagree with Amy Goodman on some subjects, but she covers some issues very well, and so far Ed Snowden is one of them. These are their most popular reports, currently.
And I haven’t seen this report yet from this morning, but it’s probably also right on:
Alex speaks with Critical Infrastructure Consultant James Knox about the NSA and
how far they will go to spy on you. http://www.nationaljournal.com/tech/h…
“The scientist doesn’t spray him with the hose because he doesn’t have to. Because the other five monkeys pull him down.”
“Spiritual grounding is a very important component of it, because when you learn that you don’t live for this life — you live for the next life — it takes the fear away instantly. It takes that fear away, and there’s nothing that can stop you.”
• Why did Justice Roberts change his vote on ObamaCare? Blackmail via NSA?
– Joe Joseph
Transcribed by Jeff Fenske
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIkgE2i3xSk]Insider Speaks Out On NSA Spying
Isn’t it interesting that we are witnessing the second coming of the Spanish Inquisition, only this time instead of a religious persecuting power, it’s a secular one (the US Govt). This is why it’s so important to be a student of history. http://unboundradio.com/category/free… http://www.thefreedomlink.net
“The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything. If I wanted to see your emails or your wife’s phone, all I have to do is use intercepts. I can get your emails, passwords, phone records, credit cards.”
7:11 “Even if you’re not doing anything wrong, you’re being watched and recorded. The storage capability of these systems increases every year, consistently, by orders of magnitude, to where it’s getting to the point where you don’t have to have done anything wrong, you simply have to eventually fall under suspicion from somebody, even by a wrong call, and then they can use this system to go back in time and scrutinize every decision you’ve ever made, every friend you’ve ever discussed something with, and attack you on that basis, to sort of derive suspicion from an innocent life and paint anyone in the context of a wrongdoer.
10:46 The great fear that I have regarding the outcome for America of these disclosures is that nothing will change. People will see in the media all of these disclosures, they’ll know the lengths that government is going to to grant themselves powers, unilaterally, to create greater control over American society and global society. But they won’t be willing to take the risks necessary to stand up and fight to change things, to force their representatives to actually take a stand in their interests. And in the months ahead, the years ahead, it’s only going to get worse. Until eventually there will be a time where policies will change because the only thing that restricts the activities of the surveillance state are policy. They’ll say that… because of the crisis, the dangers that we face in the world, some new and unpredicted threat, we need more authority, we need more power, and there will be nothing the people can do at that point to oppose it. And it will be turnkey tyranny.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yB3n9fu-rM]NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden: ‘I don’t want to live in a society that does these sort of things’
After 9/11, they took one of the programs I had done, or the back-end part of it, and started to use it to spy on everybody in this country. So that was a program they created called “Stellar Wind.” – William Binney, 32-years-NSA Whistle-blower
The 8-minute video, adapted from an ongoing project by Poitras that is to be released in 2013, has footage of the construction of the NSA’s $2 billion data storage facility in Bluffdale, Utah, which Binney says “has the capacity to store 100 years worth of the world’s electronic communications.”
[Narrator] Following 9/11, the National Security Agency began a top-secret surveillance program to spy on U.S. citizens without warrants. Code-named Stellar Wind, or “The Program” to insiders, the full scope of the surveillance has not been made public. …
Binney worked at the NSA for 32 years. He is regarded as one of the best mathematicians and code breakers in the NSA’s history.
[William Binney, NSA Whistle-blower] After 9/11, they took one of the programs I had done, or the back-end part of it, and started to use it to spy on everybody in this country. So that was a program they created called “Stellar Wind.” …
Here’s the real grand design. Every domain, think of a domain as an activity, a specific type of activity: phone calls; or banking is another domain. So, if you think of graphing each domain, and then each graph, then turning it into a third dimension, the trick now is to map through all the domains in that third dimension, pulling together all the attributes that any individual has in every domain. So that now I can pull your entire life together from all those domains and map it out, and show your entire life over time. …
The purpose is to be able to monitor what people are doing. You build social networks for everybody. That then turns into the graph, and then you index all that data to that graph, which means you can pull out a community. That gives you the outline of the life of everybody in the community, and if you carry it over time from 2001 up, you have that ten years worth of their life that you could lay it out in a timeline that involves anybody in the country. Even Senators, and House of Representatives, all of them. The dangers here are that we fall into something like a totalitarian state like East Germany.
The filmmaker Laura Poitras profiles William Binney, a 32-year veteran of the National Security Agency who helped design a top-secret program he says is broadly collecting Americans’ personal data.
NSA Whistle-Blower Tells All – Op-Docs: The Program
