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POPSGovernment Hype Against Skype and VoIP--"Security Threat" It's not just Russia that is opposed to private internet telephony applications. Buried deep in the article the real reason comes out: Delegates at the meeting also warned that it has been impossible for police to spy on VoIP conversations The NSA has admitted the same thing here --enough to tap the hacker market to find a "solution". (Offering big money to those who would help break our privacy, for their own gain). Too bad. It's not only cheap to place calls this way, but so far very private.
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POPSNixon's Enemies List The official purpose, as described by the White House Counsel’s Office, was to “screw” Nixon’s political enemies, by means of tax audits from the IRS, and by manipulating “grant availability, federal contracts, litigation, prosecution, etc.” Is this practice still exist in our society in one way or another? Somebody has a doubt?
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POPSIxquick vs. Google and Other Search Engines Privacy is becoming popularly demanded. Google presently partners with government agencies, like the CIA, NSA, and Homeland Security, for data-mining purposes and warrantless searches. This program does not.
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POPSObama Adopts Bush Policy on Domestic Spying This is a landmark moment. No 'change' here either. Was this not a major issue before, American freedoms and civil liberties from government instrusion? Will Democrats remain silent? Is a mere change of party--but not policy--enough?
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POPSChief of Homeland Cybersecurity Resigns, NSA a Rogue Power You cannot get a more credible report on the dangerous system of "Homeland Security" being set up, which is channeling everything through the rogue NSA, which essentially this chief says is becoming a Homeland Tyranny. Rod Beckstrom here is playing the part of a true Patriot: "Even from a security standpoint," Rod Beckstrom, the head of the Department of Homeland Security's National Cyber Security Center, told United Press International, "it is unwise to hand over the security of all government networks to a single organization." Since he resigned, that is probably the most mildly he ever stated it. Americans should take note and act. Homeland Security Act should be rescinded, which essentially consolidates everything into one rogue power, a Leviathan devouring our Bill of Rights.
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POPSWill Obama Support Inquiry into Unconstitutional Bush Policies? ...or not? The Bush Memos are creating pressure. Answer: No, he will find a way not to or a distraction to avoid it (like war). Obama is covering for Bush instead of "defending the Constitution of the United States", as he swore (as did the Usurper, Bush, too). These CFR members and elite cover for each other (its in their secret oaths), just like Pelosi (also CFR) said "impeachment is off the table" as soon as Democrats had a majority (power) in Congress and could. The only way Obama would "support" this important Constitutional investigation is if he established an "independent commission" much like the phony 911 Commission to cover it all up, or bury it in legal mumbo jumbo. Time to remove the partisan blindfolds. If Obama does not support this then he is obstructing justice and aiding and abetting Bush's abuse of Executive power, and would also therefore be just as untrustworthy.
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POPSObama Administration Shielding Bush Administration This is "aiding and abetting" and "obstruction of justice", and does not represent change even promised during the campaign. Mark it well. (Remember also that Obama changed his position and supported new domestic spying legislation). Those in the CFR and secret society elite brotherhoods shield each other from prosecution and are therefore "assessories" to each others' crimes against the Constitution, and their oaths of office. Obama is covering for Bush.
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POPSNSA Goes Completely Spooky--The Ultimate Spy Machine This is not science fiction. It is real and George Orwell's nightmare. And it is meant for you. "What are you doing, Dave?" (Computer Hal--2001, Space Odyssey) "The technology behaves like a robot, understanding and answering complex questions," said a former Aquaint researcher. "Think of 2001: A Space Odyssey and the most memorable character, HAL 9000, having a conversation with David. We are essentially building this system. We are building HAL." Consider the data-mining points in the clip, along with your SSN, REAL ID, credit reports used now for "ID verification", all of which taps your banking, tax, employment and all of your medical records, and you know that GOOGLE will certainly play a role (for profit) in this venture "capturing your interests and thoughts" as well for a total "sneak and peak" on the entire population.
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POPSFormer Spook: NSA Spied on Journalists, All Americans Vulnerable The mark of a paranoid government, and therefore a dangerous one. Was the Bush administration afraid of what journalists were going to report on? What other motive might there be? (See video at source). It is typical of tyrannical governments to spy on their own citizens and those who might have information the government wants kept secret. (Clinton did this too using FBI records, mostly on Congress). That Americans are called "free" by Bush and the government while this goes on is to lie to our collective faces. Protest should be made to Congressional representatives to uphold the Constitution and ban all domestic spying forever.
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POPSBush's Final Act, Legal Defense of Domestic Spying This shows what the Bush admin. is afraid of most, thereby demonstrating that the constitutionality of domestic, warrantless spying does not have firm legal support but was/is probably illegal (unless the 4th amendment has been stricken from the Bill of Rights). Americans, however, should have the same concern about Obama who shows no signs of "change" on domestic spying either: Eric Holder, the incoming U.S. attorney, said the Obama administration supported the spy legislation and would defend it Americans will have no freedom unless the Constitution and our rights are pressed against both the Executive and Congress.
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POPS Blogging The Inaugur-A-Palooza NEW YORK — President-elect Barack Obama decided not to sign corporate sponsors to help pay the projected $40 million cost of the official events around the Jan. 20 swearing in. So many marketers are working other avenues to get their brands before the millions of people who will attend the festivities or watch on TV. Among them are such well-known names as Pepsi, Ikea, T.G.I. Friday’s and Dunkin’ Donuts. From the airwaves to the streets of Washington, D.C., big-name marketers are trying to find ways to ride Inauguration Day enthusiasm. Which raises the question of when “He’s The Real Thing” is going to morph into ”Plop, plop, fizz, fizz.” MSNBC and other news outlets are looking to capitalize on the heightened interest in the inauguration of Barack Obama, as watch parties are being planned in cities across the nation.
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POPSWarning: U.S. Government Becoming Martial, Unconstitutional So warns this life-long republican and military son. Nor is the election of Obama a settling of that matter he says. "Our Constitution is at risk". : While serving the State Department in several senior capacities over the past four years, I witnessed firsthand the quiet, de facto military takeover of much of the U.S. government. What a testimony from the inside, from a person of credibility! For those who doubt or downplay this talk, here is a witness that has taken the public stand. The Constitution is virtually overthrown, and the Courts are the last bastion and remnant of resistance (against domestic spying, PATRIOT ACT, REAL ID, posse comitatus violations, etc), before the people must resist collectively and personally themselves. If the courts are lost then true patriots will become outlaws and fugitives from Injustice of a Rogue Government
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POPSThomas Tamm - Leaker and Criminal When the Obama Justice Department gets operational, the new Attorney General will decide whether to continue investigating Tamm. That decision presumably will be made with guidance from the White House and President Obama. Obama was a vocal opponent of the terrorist surveillance program, although he ultimately voted for Congress' authorization of a very similar program in the midst of the presidential campaign, angering many on the left. Obama will have to decide whether he wants to uphold federal law and protect sensitive information by vigorously pursuing people like Mr. Tamm who violate the public trust.
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POPSBush Spy Revelations Anticipated When Obama Is Sworn In
One encouraging sign for civil liberties groups is that John Podesta, president of the Center for American Progress, is a key figure in Obama's transition team, which will staff and set priorities for the new administration. The center was a tough and influential critic of the Bush administration's warrantless spying. Among the unanswered questions: * Were there quid pro quo promises made to the phone companies and internet carriers who cooperated with the secret spying? For example, were co-conspirators promised lucrative government contracts? * Did the program appropriate the CALEA wiretapping infrastructure? Under CALEA, Congress forced telecoms to build surveillance capabilities into the phone and internet network, but promised it would only be used with court orders. * What did the first version of the surveillance program sweep into its net? In March 2004, a squadron of top officials at the Justice Department, including then-Attorney
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POPSObama's New World Order; "Change" is Required Listen carefully to the words of Obama's symbolic Berlin speech. We know the "war on terrorism" will continue from his debates with McCain, his view of Israel is similar, that the Surveillance State in America will continue to expand (his FISA domestic spying expansion vote), that he will NOT repeal the PATRIOT ACT, Homeland Security, REAL ID, or other anti-constitutional Executive Orders or legislation passed by the Bush-neocon administration. He will make use of the same apparatus for the same "global transformation". "Common security" (for their order ) is still being pled in his speech based upon 9/11. The "new world order" agenda of Social Change (under plea of "common humanity", despite any other distinctions) will be dictated and you will be required to adopt it, like it or not. Listen again. The burdens of global citizenship.....Americans and Europeans will be required to do more; partnership and cooperation is not a choice".
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POPSConflict Over Spying Led White House to Brink Cont.... Joel Brenner and Vito Potenza, the two men wilting under Addington's wrath, had driven 26 miles from Fort Meade, the NSA's eavesdropping headquarters in Maryland. They were conducting a review of their agency's two-year-old special surveillance operation. They already knew the really secret stuff : The NSA and other services had been unleashed to turn their machinery inward, collecting signals intelligence inside the United States. What the two men didn't know was why the Bush administration believed the program was legal.
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POPSJohn McCain Comedy Club One commenters response: "Your snarky sarcasm proves that McCain's ads are definitely arousing fear in those who do not wish McCain to win." We are in fear of a McBush win because America's downward spiral of world opinion towards us, our economy, or ethical and moral values, our morale as a nation under siege by neocon intelligence gathering goons at the NSA and Homeland security needs to stop and McBush has vowed to continue Bush's attack on all of us through his shredding of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
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