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Jun 15
sgt_doom commented on The Saturday Morning News.
And furthermore, (continuing the thread of @5)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanvardi/…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/…
http://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanvardi/…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/…
Jun 15
sgt_doom commented on The Saturday Morning News.
To those who have an active sex life, or are congenitally ignorant, illiterate or aliterate, allow me to review the salient facts of the Snowden Saga:
First, several months back, in a roundabout manner, private data was passed on to the IRS regarding a number of offshore tax havens, also called offshore finance centers.
On May 9, the IRS announced on their web site the largest tax investigation in history to be undertaken to look into those offshore tax havens and US citizens who utilize them.
Several days later, the acting head of the IRS was fired! (One doesn't mess with the super-rich without negative outcomes.)
The highest probability is that this originated with Edward Snowden, or people affiliated with him.
Next, Snowden goes public with the leaking of NSA's domestic and foreign surveillance program called PRISM.
President Obama gives a speech, and over the next day or so another NSA program, Boundless Informant is leaked, giving the lie to Obama's speech and assurances!
Just the other day, Snowden gave an interview where he leaks the hack, or penetration, of a Chinese Exchange Point (EP), or Internet Exchange Point (IXP), which is the physical configuration of switches joining many geographic locations of the Internet (such as the IXP in Seattle, which joins the traffic from Alaska, Northwest Canada, the Pacific Northwest and central United States and southwestern US traffic.
This was a major hack, which could also have allowed further or future hacks to appear to have originated from that Chinese IXP!
I don't claim to have any inside knowledge of either Mr. Snowden, or his activities, past, present or future, but these are awesome leaks of the top level, regardless of what corrupt, moronic and dishonest congressional critters so claim in the USA.
(And we certainly know Gen. Clapper, the DNI with an established history of dishonesty, is not to be believed.)
Naomi Wolfe, who I do indeed have respect for, has questioned the veracity of Edward Snowden and his leaks, citing a monolithic manner in which whistleblowers are supposed behave --- this is a relatively nonsensical statement, as John Kiriakou (CIA whistleblower), Thomas Drake (NSA whistleblower), Cate Jenkins (EPA whistleblower), etc., etc., behaved in rather differing ways, not uniformly following the same, exact pattern.
Interesting links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pla…
http://newsroom.fb.com/News/636/Facebook…
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-15…
More...
The NSA/CIA/Edward Snowden Recap
To those who have an active sex life, or are congenitally ignorant, illiterate or aliterate, allow me to review the salient facts of the Snowden Saga:
First, several months back, in a roundabout manner, private data was passed on to the IRS regarding a number of offshore tax havens, also called offshore finance centers.
On May 9, the IRS announced on their web site the largest tax investigation in history to be undertaken to look into those offshore tax havens and US citizens who utilize them.
Several days later, the acting head of the IRS was fired! (One doesn't mess with the super-rich without negative outcomes.)
The highest probability is that this originated with Edward Snowden, or people affiliated with him.
Next, Snowden goes public with the leaking of NSA's domestic and foreign surveillance program called PRISM.
President Obama gives a speech, and over the next day or so another NSA program, Boundless Informant is leaked, giving the lie to Obama's speech and assurances!
Just the other day, Snowden gave an interview where he leaks the hack, or penetration, of a Chinese Exchange Point (EP), or Internet Exchange Point (IXP), which is the physical configuration of switches joining many geographic locations of the Internet (such as the IXP in Seattle, which joins the traffic from Alaska, Northwest Canada, the Pacific Northwest and central United States and southwestern US traffic.
This was a major hack, which could also have allowed further or future hacks to appear to have originated from that Chinese IXP!
I don't claim to have any inside knowledge of either Mr. Snowden, or his activities, past, present or future, but these are awesome leaks of the top level, regardless of what corrupt, moronic and dishonest congressional critters so claim in the USA.
(And we certainly know Gen. Clapper, the DNI with an established history of dishonesty, is not to be believed.)
Naomi Wolfe, who I do indeed have respect for, has questioned the veracity of Edward Snowden and his leaks, citing a monolithic manner in which whistleblowers are supposed behave --- this is a relatively nonsensical statement, as John Kiriakou (CIA whistleblower), Thomas Drake (NSA whistleblower), Cate Jenkins (EPA whistleblower), etc., etc., behaved in rather differing ways, not uniformly following the same, exact pattern.
Interesting links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pla…
http://newsroom.fb.com/News/636/Facebook…
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-15…
Jun 15
sgt_doom commented on President Obama's Pride Month Speech.
And here's something else the anti-constitutional expert said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pla…
Perhaps more important, but just as reliable?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pla…
Perhaps more important, but just as reliable?
Jun 14
sgt_doom commented on The Friday Morning News.
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/artic…
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-14…
http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/06/…
http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/06/…
The Elysium trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pla…
And Financial Intel:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blo…
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-14…
http://www.stanford.edu/~mckinnon/papers…
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The latest on global intel hegemony and yet another reason why Matt Damon and SF go together
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/artic…
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-14…
http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/06/…
http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/06/…
The Elysium trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pla…
And Financial Intel:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blo…
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-14…
http://www.stanford.edu/~mckinnon/papers…
Jun 14
sgt_doom commented on Let's Take a Trip to the Island of Misfit Movies.
The NSA, Gen. Clapper, and Gen. Alexander NEVER lie, and they are making a movie of Aquaman? ? ?
Yeah. . . . riiiiigggghhhtttt. . .
Yeah. . . . riiiiigggghhhtttt. . .
Jun 13
sgt_doom commented on The Thursday Morning News.
And to anyone who still hasn't gotten the memo:
FBI Director, Robert (Truesdale) Mueller III, originally appointed several days prior to the attacks on 9/11/01 by George W. Bush, was originally appointed as chief of the DOJ's criminal division by Bush's daddy, then President G.H.W. Bush, as the investigation of the BCCI got closer and closer to the White House.
Mueller is the grandnewphew of Richard Bissell, one of the three top CIA doods fired by President Kennedy before his assassination (the other two being Allen Dulles and Gen. Cabell).
Mueller's wife is the granddaughter of Gen. Cabell, one of the remaining two CIA doods, which makes her the grandniece of the mayor of Dallas on the day of JFK's murder, Mayor Earl Cabell, Gen. Cabell's brother!
When factoring in the history of the Truesdale family and Rockefeller, quite the pedigree!?!?!?!
Additional sources:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/inside-the-…
http://www.google.com/search?q=bank+of+c…
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FBI Director, Robert (Truesdale) Mueller III, originally appointed several days prior to the attacks on 9/11/01 by George W. Bush, was originally appointed as chief of the DOJ's criminal division by Bush's daddy, then President G.H.W. Bush, as the investigation of the BCCI got closer and closer to the White House.
Mueller is the grandnewphew of Richard Bissell, one of the three top CIA doods fired by President Kennedy before his assassination (the other two being Allen Dulles and Gen. Cabell).
Mueller's wife is the granddaughter of Gen. Cabell, one of the remaining two CIA doods, which makes her the grandniece of the mayor of Dallas on the day of JFK's murder, Mayor Earl Cabell, Gen. Cabell's brother!
When factoring in the history of the Truesdale family and Rockefeller, quite the pedigree!?!?!?!
Additional sources:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/inside-the-…
http://www.google.com/search?q=bank+of+c…
Jun 13
sgt_doom commented on The Thursday Morning News.
On the continuing fuehrer over the NSA/American intel spying:
Oh looky here, a poll which contradicts the oil companies poll (i.e., Pew Research Center) done by Gallup:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/163043/americ…
(Wonder if Gallup did a poll on the beliefs of the American news media, it would also contradict Pew Research Center's supposed poll claiming American news to be liberal-based?)
And some most cogent and salient articles on the NSA spying:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/06…
http://blogs.reuters.com/david-rohde/201…
http://money.msn.com/credit-rating/irs-t…
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-12…
And advice to Mr. Snowden from the "experts" :
http://www.andmagazine.com/content/phoen…
And fittingly, the lady President Obama has appointed as the number 2 at the CIA was named after a microbe (her father, Dr. Thomas Haines, a noted chemist, gave her the middle name, Danica, after the microbe, Ochromonas danica, which traditionally inhabits Danish bogs).
And just so you forget, there's always the weather (referred to as wx by the cognoscenti):
http://vimeo.com/67995158
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Oh looky here, a poll which contradicts the oil companies poll (i.e., Pew Research Center) done by Gallup:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/163043/americ…
(Wonder if Gallup did a poll on the beliefs of the American news media, it would also contradict Pew Research Center's supposed poll claiming American news to be liberal-based?)
And some most cogent and salient articles on the NSA spying:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/06…
http://blogs.reuters.com/david-rohde/201…
http://money.msn.com/credit-rating/irs-t…
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-12…
And advice to Mr. Snowden from the "experts" :
http://www.andmagazine.com/content/phoen…
And fittingly, the lady President Obama has appointed as the number 2 at the CIA was named after a microbe (her father, Dr. Thomas Haines, a noted chemist, gave her the middle name, Danica, after the microbe, Ochromonas danica, which traditionally inhabits Danish bogs).
And just so you forget, there's always the weather (referred to as wx by the cognoscenti):
http://vimeo.com/67995158
Jun 13
sgt_doom commented on Apple Did Not Make That.
To those not familiar with technology history in general, or the history of the Internet and Web in particular, it is important to understand the role financial/political revisionism has come to play.
Both the NASA Space Program (putting a human on the Moon) and the Internet came out of the progressive and far-thinking Kennedy Administration, which appointed J.C.R. Licklider to the Pentagon for this very purpose; Licklider knew the right people with the right ideas and directed the funding to them.
Many have heard and read, endless number of times, that Velcro originated from the NASA space program --- Velcro is just about the only thing which DID NOT come out of NASA research & developmentg --- it was invented in 1948 by the Swiss engineer, Georges Mestral.
It would take months to list all the resulting biomedical engineering, digital electronics, computer science, polymer chemistry and materials science, satellite technology and global communications tech, earth resources tech, etc., etc., etc., to originate from the space program.
The synergistic and symbiotic effects of the resulting tech from the NASA program, and the Internet development logically and predictably led the the creation and founding of the World Wide Web!
Today, we still see have incremental improvements deriving from that research and development.
Best to read Donald Gibson's wonderful (and admittedly dense short book) Battling Wall Street: the Kennedy presidency for a more informative view of the Kennedy administration.
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Both the NASA Space Program (putting a human on the Moon) and the Internet came out of the progressive and far-thinking Kennedy Administration, which appointed J.C.R. Licklider to the Pentagon for this very purpose; Licklider knew the right people with the right ideas and directed the funding to them.
Many have heard and read, endless number of times, that Velcro originated from the NASA space program --- Velcro is just about the only thing which DID NOT come out of NASA research & developmentg --- it was invented in 1948 by the Swiss engineer, Georges Mestral.
It would take months to list all the resulting biomedical engineering, digital electronics, computer science, polymer chemistry and materials science, satellite technology and global communications tech, earth resources tech, etc., etc., etc., to originate from the space program.
The synergistic and symbiotic effects of the resulting tech from the NASA program, and the Internet development logically and predictably led the the creation and founding of the World Wide Web!
Today, we still see have incremental improvements deriving from that research and development.
Best to read Donald Gibson's wonderful (and admittedly dense short book) Battling Wall Street: the Kennedy presidency for a more informative view of the Kennedy administration.
Jun 12
sgt_doom commented on For Once, I Agree with Mike Huckabee.
Before and at the beginning of World War I, the vice-chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank was Paul Warburg (he was offered the chairmanship, but felt too much publicity attached itself to that position) and was an economic adivsor to the US president.
His brother, Max Warburg, was the economic advisor to Kaiser Wilhelm and the head of the central bank of Germany.
Interesting how that always works out that way, huh?
History Lesson 102
Before and at the beginning of World War I, the vice-chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank was Paul Warburg (he was offered the chairmanship, but felt too much publicity attached itself to that position) and was an economic adivsor to the US president.
His brother, Max Warburg, was the economic advisor to Kaiser Wilhelm and the head of the central bank of Germany.
Interesting how that always works out that way, huh?
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@11, that was a double-box false document ploy. Had Dan Rather ever been a serious journalist, instead of a multi-million dollar per year teleprompter reader, he would have researched Geo. Weasel Bush's "military record" quite some time ago, before they had doctored everything!
He would have found that in 1968, Bush washed out of USAF enlisted basic training at the four-week point, then returned to Houston were his Daddy Bush pinned officer's bars on his weak shoulders!
There's no record of anyone attesting to have gone through either OTS (Officer Training School) nor flight school (and that's the most rigorous training of all) with Bushie!
Had Rather done his homework, or due diligence, as he should have when Bush first announced for governor of TX, he would never have fallen like he did!
And on the surveillance front, the DNI and NSA director both recently claimed, along with neocon congressional whorescum, that the NSA doesn't do domestic spying......
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-575894…
The National Security Agency has acknowledged in a new classified briefing that it does not need court authorization to listen to domestic phone calls.
Rep. Jerrold Nadler, a New York Democrat, disclosed this week that during a secret briefing to members of Congress, he was told that the contents of a phone call could be accessed “simply based on an analyst deciding that.”