Mark Zuckerberg says immigration is a "Civil Right" - and cheap labor is good too!

Bullshit Alert

Another Billionaire for Poverty . . . Your Poverty.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said Sunday that U.S. immigration reform is “one of the biggest civil rights issues of our time.”

Shit.  Now illegal and legal immigration is a fucking "Civil Right".

The 29-year-old billionaire, who has recently taken a more active role in calling for immigration reform, made the comment on ABC’s “This Week.” And he was immediately challenged by the interviewer, who suggested many Americans would likely disagree that providing a path to citizenship for some of the 11 million people living in this country illegally is a civil rights issue.

“There are a lot of misconceptions about that,” Zuckerberg responded. “A lot of them came here because they just want to work. They want to help out their families and they want to contribute,” reports Fox News.

Zuckerberg recently founded the group FWD.us with other Silicon Valley leaders “to promote policies to keep the United States and its citizens competitive in a global economy,” according to its website.

FWD.us’ key points include securing borders, the path to citizenship and support for issuing more H-1B visas.

The group argues the change will “attract the world’s best and the brightest workers.”

However, skeptics argue that allowing U.S. employers to "temporarily" hire more educated foreign workers for skilled jobs or “specialty occupations” in such fields as technology and engineering allows companies like Facebook to hire lower-paid immigrants over college-educated Americans.

Americans Need Jobs
Billionaire assholes like Zuckerberg want to import and legalize countless millions of new workers from foreign nations to compete with Americans for a limited number of jobs and drive wages down. 
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Both political parties join with Zuckerberg in this madness.  The Democrats in order to recruit new poor voters and the GOP to serve their Masters in the business community looking for cheap labor.  Both parties could care less about the under and unemployed American citizen.

Real Unemployment is 23%
The seasonally-adjusted SGS Alternate Unemployment Rate (the blue line) reflects current unemployment reporting methodology adjusted for SGS-estimated long-term discouraged workers, who were defined out of official existence in 1994. That estimate is added to the BLS estimate of U-6 unemployment, which includes short-term discouraged workers.
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The U-3 unemployment rate is the monthly headline number. The U-6 unemployment rate is the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) broadest unemployment measure, including short-term discouraged and other marginally-attached workers as well as those forced to work part-time because they cannot find full-time employment.

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See more at Shadowstats.com

Muslims want websites critical of Islam censored

The Religion of Peace™ in Malaysia

Muslim Internet Censorship

Under Islam there is no freedom of religion, freedom 

of speech or freedom of thought.

The Federal Department of Islamic Development (Jakim) urged Putrajaya in its Friday sermon to consider internet censorship to stop attacks against Islam.

The sermon stated that given the challenges posed by anti-Islam groups through information technology, it was important that the Muslim community used whatever reasonable strategy available including social media to counter, answer and ward off the propaganda of the enemies of Islam.

“Muslims must be kept updated on current developments so that we get accurate information and not be influenced by enemy propaganda" reports the Malaysian Digest.

“You all can also use new media such as YouTube, Twitter and blogs as mediums to send out the right message and spread the teachings of Islam."

Muslims rally against Malaysian Christians

Malaysian Muslims destroy Buddhist Statue and Temple

“While Muslims are working at strengthening the economy and the Malay race, the enemies have not slackened for a minute to run their mission to destroy Islam by using whatever strategy possible, including cyber troopers,” said Jakim in the sermon.

The Islamic body said it was required of Muslims to identify the agenda designed to erode the sanctity of Islam and to also identify those who attempted to do so.

Jakim warned that the international line of thinking, such as liberalism and pluralism, seems to be spreading fast via the internet and influencing the younger generation.

“They are launching calculated attacks by spreading news which insults Islam through the use of symbols and in social media such as Facebook and Twitter.

"From our observations, many symbols and hundreds of websites on the internet are being used to confuse and weaken those of the Islamic faith."

 

Jakim also warned that the use of websites to weaken the faith of Muslims was the cunning strategy of the enemies of Islam that had succeeded in bringing down a few countries in the Middle East.

 

Last week, Islamic NGO Pertubuhan Martabat Jalinan Muhibbah Malaysia lodged a police report against a Facebook account owner for allegedly insulting Islam.

 

Its chairman Abdul Rani Kulup Abdullah had said the report was lodged against the account owner, who used the name Adlin Abd Jalil, for displaying a picture of a grilled pig with the words "Allah" and "Muhammad", as well as the Jakim's halal logo on it on the posting.

 

In his police report, Abdul Rani urged the Home Ministry, Jakim and the Malaysian Communication and Multimedia Commission to look into the matter and take stern action against the account owner.

 

Religions in Malaysia
When Muslims become the majority you will not dare to think for yourself, Islam
will crush you and your family in the name of Allah.

Freedom of Speech - Not under Islam

Marco Rubio - "Edward Snowden is a traitor"

I am done with Marco Rubio

Just this week GOP Senator Marco Rubio told a gaggle of neocons at the American Enterprise Institute:

"We must distinguish these reasonable concerns from conspiracy theories sparked by Edward Snowden. This man is a traitor who has sought assistance and refuge from some of the world’s most notorious violators of liberty and human rights."

By Gary;

First it was illegal immigration.  Now it is Edward Snowden.  I am done with Marco Rubio and "Conservatives" like him.

Marco, just shut the fuck up and run for re-election in Florida.  Your days of running for President are over for me and most other lovers of the Constitution.

I have had it up to here with these damn Statist Republicans who worship the growth of an unconstitutional 1984 centralized Police State.

On this Blog I have published over 400 news stories on the Police State and 1984 (see story label column on the upper right of this Blog).  But bastards like Rubio call me a conspiracy nut for daring to tell the truth.  Well, fuck you Marco and you can shove this reply where the sun does not shine.

Both Democrats and Republicans have taken an oath to defend the Constitution, but neither party really gives a damn.

But it gets worse, both parties vote together as a block to fully fund the ever growing Big Brother domestic spy system.  They say, "Give us your Liberty and we will protect you."

Marco Rubio had his chance to shine, but he made a decision to cast his lot with Comrade Obama, Eric Holder and the corrupt bi-partisan Ruling Elite of Washington D.C. rather than with the People and Constitutional Liberty.

Marco, it was nice while it lasted.  Goodbye.


Unconstitutional Spying
Isn't it interesting how huge numbers of so-called "small government" Conservatives lock arm-in-arm with Comrade Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid to piss on the Bill of Rights on live TV and protect and fund the bi-partisan 1984 Surveillance Police State. 

Supreme Court refuses to review unconstitutional spying

The Buck Stops Somewhere Else

"Conservative" Supreme Court Justices run for the hills

rather than address unconstitutional 1984 spying.

Why Conservatism????  -  One has to ask why Conservatives exist. 

The "Conservative" Republican Chief Justice John Roberts rubber stamped Socialist-Fascist Obamacare.  And now the Conservative majority Supreme Court has refused to even review the unconstitutional wholesale spying on and recording of billions of American emails, text messages and phone calls.

The GOP says "vote for us so we can appoint Federal Judges."  OK.  Fair enough.  But then lovers of Liberty get screwed over on vital issues by GOP appointed judges.

The Supreme Court announced Monday morning that it would not be considering at this time a complaint filed months earlier that challenged the legality of the National Security Agency’s dragnet telephone surveillance program.


The high court issued a notice early Monday without comment acknowledging that it would not be weighing in on a matter.  The issue was introduced this past June by a privacy watchdog group after NSA leaker Edward Snowden revealed evidence showing that the United States intelligence agency was collecting metadata pertaining to the phone calls of millions of American customers of the telecommunications company Verizon on a regular basis reports RT News.

That disclosure — the first of many NSA documents leaked by Mr. Snowden — prompted the Washington, DC-based Electronic Privacy Information Center, or EPIC, to ask the Supreme Court to consider taking action that would end the collection of phone records on a major scale.

When EPIC filed their petition in June, they wrote, “We believe that the NSA’s collection of domestic communications contravenes the First and Fourth Amendments to the United States Constitution, and violates several federal privacy laws, including the Privacy Act of 1974 and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 as amended.”

“We ask the NSA to immediately suspend collection of solely domestic communications pending the competition of a public rulemaking as required by law. We intend to renew our request each week until we receive your response,” EPIC said.

Five months later, though, the Supreme Court said this week that it would not be hearing EPIC’s plea. A document began circulating early Monday in which the high court listed the petition filed by the privacy advocates as denied.

FBI: Cyber Attacks Justify Internet Kill Switch

“It is the height of naivete to think that once collected this information won’t be used.  This is the nature of secret government organizations. The only way to protect the people’s privacy is not to allow the government to collect their information in the first place.”

Even Schmidt

Former Commander, East German Stasi

Communist Secret Police

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"We Germans have had to experience the
abuse of state power with secret services
twice in our history."

President Joachim Gauck

Government computers hacked - I don't believe a word of it

A locked file cabinet - Computer theft of government secrets is now solved.

Bullshit Alert

The FBI claims hackers broke into government computers.
I say it is all Bullshit and Lies. It never happened.

According to a press release, the FBI says activist hackers linked to the collective known as Anonymous have secretly accessed U.S. government computers in multiple agencies and have stolen "sensitive information".  Whatever the Hell that means.

The FBI claims the breach affected the U.S. Army, Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services, and perhaps many more agencies reports Reuters News.

I will say it right here.  Right now.  The government is lying to us.

The government claims they were hacked, but there is no way for any outsider to prove the truth of that claim.  I suspect it is yet another phony statement to make Americans afraid enough to give away their rights to a Police State in return for "security".

I have only two real questions:

1. Why is this "sensitive information" connected to the Internet in the first place?
2. Who has been fired for connecting this "sensitive information" to the Internet for any pimple faced 16 years hacker on earth to look at?

But Big Brother will never answer either question because this event never happened.

Lies and Damn Lies
The government tells lies about terrorism threats so you will willingly give up
your Constitutional rights to a 1984 Big Brother Surveillance State.

Rubber Stamp Justice
Secret courts hearing secret "evidence" rubber stamping secret search warrants for the secret police to spy on every American. 

1984 Tracking Boxes in Seattle - Fully funded by the DHS

Big Brother tracking boxes in Seattle.

DHS Tracking Boxes in Seattle

• Fully funded by the Democrat Senate and the GOP House, the DHS is building a domestic 1984 Police Surveillance State network to spy on every American 24 hours a day without a search warrant. 
• Liberals pretend to be for the "little guy" while Conservatives pretend to be for "small government".  But both sides are frightened to death of a free American people.

(UPDATE  -  Following a privacy outcry concerning a wi-fi “mesh network” being installed, the Seattle Police Department announced last night that it is temporarily deactivating the network.)


Police State  -  The Seattle Police have installed a network of 160 wireless "white box" access points that are mounted on poles across the city.  Every time a cell phone or other device looks for a Wi-Fi signal the white box recognizes it and stores that data for future use.  The network can record the last 1,000 locations of a person using their cellphone’s MAC address.

The network was bought with a Department of Homeland Security grant for $2.6 million reports KIRO 7 TV News.

This is a system that could lead to the permanent tracking of an entire city’s population.



"They now own a piece of equipment that has tracking capabilities so we think that they should be going to City Council and presenting a protocol for the whole network that says they won't be using it for surveillance purposes," said Jamela Debelak of the American Civil Liberties Union.

"We believe that people should be free to move about without having the government track their movements unless there really is reason to believe they're engaged in some criminal activity," said Debelak. Seattle police could not explain why the network appears to be online.

A report by The Stranger, a weekly Seattle newspaper, exposes how the boxes, which are attached to utility poles and include vertical antennae, can track cellphones even if they are not connected to the system’s wi-fi network.

 

Aruba – the company that provided the boxes to the Seattle Police Department – brags in its technical literature about how the boxes can keep track of “rogue” or “unassociated” devices, in other words your cellphone even if you have refused to let the system access your device’s wi-fi component.

The user’s guide for one of Aruba’s recent software products states: “The wireless network has a wealth of information about unassociated and associated devices.” That software includes “a location engine that calculates associated and unassociated device location every 30 seconds by default… The last 1,000 historical locations are stored for each MAC address.”

When reporters Matt Fikse-Verkerk and Brendan Kiley asked the Seattle Police Department and the Department of Homeland Security to explain what the boxes were for, the DHS refused to comment and Seattle Police detective Monty Moss would only state that the department “is not comfortable answering policy questions when we do not yet have a policy.”

See more at Constitution campaign.org  and  Infowars News.

Wal-Mart working with DHS to

Spy on Shoppers "1984" Style



Police install a Big Brother tracking box in Seattle.
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Big Brother is Watching You
Our bi-partisan Big Brother is fully and eagerly funded by the Democrat Senate and the GOP House.  Welcome to the future.  See some of our recent articles:
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DHS to scan every face at local hockey game
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Government Satellites to Control Your Car's Speed
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DHS installs spy scanners at shopping malls
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Big Brother is Tracking All Cars - The Bill of Rights is Abolished

AT&T is on the CIA payroll

Business + Government = Big Brother

Government gets around the Bill of Rights by having so-called "private" companies spy on their customers for them.

The C.I.A. is paying AT&T more than $10 million a year to assist with overseas counterterrorism investigations by exploiting the company’s vast database of phone records, which includes Americans’ international calls, according to government officials.

The cooperation is conducted under a voluntary contract, not under subpoenas or court orders compelling the company to participate, according to the officials. The C.I.A. supplies phone numbers of overseas terrorism suspects, and AT&T searches its database and provides records of calls that may help identify foreign associates, the officials said.

The company has a huge archive of data on phone calls, both foreign and domestic, that were handled by its network equipment, not just those of its own customers reports the New York Times.
      

 

The program adds a new dimension to the debate over government spying and the privacy of communications records, which has been focused on National Security Agency programs in recent months.

 

The disclosure sheds further light on the ties between intelligence officials and communications service providers. And it shows how agencies beyond the N.S.A. use metadata — logs of the date, duration and phone numbers involved in a call, but not the content — to analyze links between people through programs regulated by an inconsistent patchwork of legal standards, procedures and oversight.

 

Because the C.I.A. is prohibited from spying on the domestic activities of Americans, the agency imposes privacy safeguards on the program, said the officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity because it is classified.

Most of the call logs provided by AT&T involve foreign-to-foreign calls, but when the company produces records of international calls with one end in the United States, it does not disclose the identity of the Americans and “masks” several digits of their phone numbers, the officials said.
      

Still, the agency can refer such masked numbers to the F.B.I., which can issue an administrative subpoena requiring AT&T to provide the uncensored data. The bureau handles any domestic investigation, but sometimes shares with the C.I.A. the information about the American participant in those calls, the officials said.

      

Dean Boyd, a spokesman for the C.I.A., declined to confirm the program.

 

October was a good month for The Federalist

Obamacare has been good for Blogging

By Gary;

Comrade Obama and his merry band of Marxist thugs have been a curse on the United States but a boon to us Bloggers. 

Everyday there is some brand new Leninist horror being foisted on the American people . . . sometimes there are so many news stories in one day that no one but Drudge can begin to give them the coverage they need.

But one wonders in the dead of night if there is anyone left out there who cares.  Is the Republic dead?  Is all we are seeing is the twitching of a still warm corpse?

In any case, October was a good month for THE FEDERALIST with an upward surge to 47,798 page views.  Plus we are closing in on the magic one million page view mark.

Bit by bit this Blog has grown.  We started in May, 2011 with a "massive" 834 page views for the month.  (Frankly, I was shocked that it was even that high.)  But the growth in viewership was rapid from the start reaching 5,532 the next month in June and shot up to 11,823 for the month of October.
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Monthly readership has kept growing and growing peaking at 71,021 for the election month of November, 2012.
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All of us Bloggers dream late at night about being Matt Drudge. Deep down we know that will never happen. But it has been gratifying that readers keep coming back.
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Still, Bloggers must be doing something right. Governments all over the world are scared shitless that we even exist. Scared to the point that Bloggers are arrested and their sites blocked.
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In my own way I try to share stories with you from a Constitutional Federalist point of view that is often ignored by the Elite Media.  A point of view that has nearly vanished in a modern Socialistic Big Brother world.
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So here we are over 2,219 posted news stories later.  Thank you all for coming by this Blog.  Keep the flame of Liberty burning.  See you down the Internet road.

Why do Conservatives support the Police State?

Charles Krauthammer - "Edward Snowden is a traitor."

Many people who claim to be small government 

"Conservatives" close ranks to vigorously defend the

unconstitutional 1984 Surveillance State. 

Two times this last week I got so so God Damned pissed that I turned Fox News off.  The first time was when Charles Krauthhammer called Edward Snowden a traitor.  The second time was when several so-called "Conservatives" on The Five parroted the same line.

That is one reason I call myself a Constitutional Federalist and not a Conservative.

On one hand, Conservatives claim they are "outraged" by the Big Government loving Comrade Obama.  Then on the other hand, a majority of Conservatives and Liberals work hand-in-hand to grow and fund the Police State.  The Constitution has no meaning to them at all. 

Now we have Edward Snowden saying that calls for more oversight of government intelligence agencies showed he was justified.

In "A Manifesto for the Truth" published in German news magazine Der Spiegel on Sunday, Snowden said current debates about mass surveillance in many countries showed his revelations were helping to bring about change.

"Instead of causing damage, the usefulness of the new public knowledge for society is now clear because reforms to politics, supervision and laws are being suggested," the 30-year-old ex-CIA employee and NSA contractor wrote reports Reuters News.

 "Citizens have to fight against the suppression of information about affairs of essential importance for the public. Those who speak the truth are not committing a crime," said Snowden.

"We have a moral duty to ensure that our laws and values limit surveillance programs and protect human rights," he wrote.  

Snowden is in Russia, where he has been given asylum for at least a year.

In an open letter to Germany last week, Snowden said he was counting on international support to stop Washington's 'persecution' of him.

His revelations about the reach and methods of the NSA, including the monitoring of vast volumes of Internet traffic and phone records, have angered U.S. allies from Germany to Brazil.

Admirers have called Snowden a human rights champion. Others say he is a traitor for stealing information from the NSA after vowing to respect its secrecy policies and then fleeing first to Hong Kong and then to Russia with classified U.S. data.

In the manifesto published on Sunday, Snowden said mass surveillance was a global problem that needed global solutions and added that secret services' "criminal surveillance programs" jeopardized individual privacy, freedom of opinion and open societies.

The existence of spying technology should not determine politics, he said: "We have a moral duty to ensure that our laws and values limit surveillance programs and protect human rights".

A Sad Day for Democracy.
It fell to an authoritarian Russia to grant political asylum to whistleblower Edward Snowden (above document).  While Snowden hides from his own government, the Western nations build massive Big Brother systems to spy on hundreds of millions of their own citizens 24 hours a day. 
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If you dare to tell the truth you become an Enemy of the State.  



The Delaware Regiment at the Battle of Long Island
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Do "Conservatives" know our history?
Before the Declaration of Independence, George Washington commanded his 10,000 men to aim their guns and fire at the soldiers of the legal government of America.  Washington, Adams and Hamilton understood that just because a corrupt government passes a law that does not make it right.
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But today we see so-called a majority of "small government" Conservatives joining with most Liberals to ignore the Bill of Rights in order to grow, protect and fund a centralized Police State.
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(Battle of Long Island)    

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1984 is Here.
"Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire." 
  - - - Robert A. Heinlein
 

See some our recent articles on the growing and unconstitutional 1984 Police State.
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THE FEDERALIST - "Senate Backs More and Expanded Big Brother Spying."

THE FEDERALIST - "Does Google work for the NSA?"
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THE FEDERALIST - "Obama is ‘Mining’ Your Behavior on Social Media."

THE FEDERALIST - "CIA Software Company Collects Obamacare Data."

THE FEDERALIST - "Electronically Tracking America's Breast Implants - Big Brother is in Your Bra."

THE FEDERALIST - "A Twitter-Fed alliance to spy on "depressed" people."

THE FEDERALIST - "China hires two million Internet "monitors"

THE FEDERALIST - "Religious Persecution at Lackland Air Force Base - The Thought Police are Here"

THE FEDERALIST - "The NSA hacks circle the wagons to defend unconstitutional spying"

THE FEDERALIST - "DHS to scan every face at local hockey game"

THE FEDERALIST - "Obama to scan 42 Billion credit card transactions"

THE FEDERALIST - "Government Satellites to Control Your Car's Speed"

THE FEDERALIST - "DEA has been spying on your phones since 1987"

THE FEDERALIST - "Governments spy on 38,000 Facebook users"

THE FEDERALIST - "New Zealand Conservatives ram 1984 bill through"

THE FEDERALIST - "DHS installs spy scanners at shopping malls"

THE FEDERALIST - "Trash cans gather your Smartphone info"

THE FEDERALIST - "Big Brother shuts down encrypted Internet service"

THE FEDERALIST - "Secret Service to spy on Facebook, Twitter"

THE FEDERALIST - "The FBI listens to you through your computer"

“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks
were striking thirteen.”
― George Orwell, 1984    

British - Reporter is a "terrorist" for telling the truth

The growing British 1984 Surveillance Police State.

"They are absolutely and explicitly equating terrorism with journalism."

Glenn Greenwald

Journalist

The Growing Police State  -  The British government and MI5 are working as the hired thugs of Comrade Obama in a joint direct attack on freedom of the press. 

Journalists are now being threatened with the crimes of terrorism and espionage if they dare try and stand up to their Masters in Big Brother Government and report the truth.

British authorities claimed the domestic partner of reporter Glenn Greenwald was involved in "terrorism" when he tried to carry documents from former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden through a London airport in August, according to police and intelligence documents.

Greenwald's partner, David Miranda, was detained and questioned for nine hours by British authorities at Heathrow on August 18, when he landed there from Berlin to change planes for a flight to Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.

After his release and return to Rio, Miranda filed a legal action against the British government, seeking the return of materials seized from him by British authorities and a judicial review of the legality of his detention reports Reuters News.

Glenn Greenwald (R) and David Miranda
Governments around the world are frightened of their own people.  The British, acting
as agents for Comrade Obama, are directly attacking the freedom of the press as the media tries
to tell the people the truth about the 1984 Surveillance State. 

At a London court hearing this week for Miranda's lawsuit, a document called a "Ports Circulation Sheet" was read into the record. It was prepared by Scotland Yard - in consultation with the MI5 counterintelligence agency - and circulated to British border posts before Miranda's arrival. The precise date of the document is unclear.

"Intelligence indicates that Miranda is likely to be involved in espionage activity which has the potential to act against the interests of UK national security," according to the document.

"We assess that Miranda is knowingly carrying material the release of which would endanger people's lives," the document continued. "Additionally the disclosure, or threat of disclosure, is designed to influence a government and is made for the purpose of promoting a political or ideological cause. This therefore falls within the definition of terrorism..."

Miranda was not charged with any offense, although British authorities said in August they had opened a criminal investigation after initially examining materials they seized from him. They did not spell out the probe's objectives.

British authorities have said in court that items seized from Miranda included electronic media containing 58,000 documents from the U.S. National Security Agency and its British counterpart, Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ).

Greenwald, who previously worked for Britain's Guardian newspaper, has acknowledged that Miranda was carrying material supplied by Snowden when he was detained.

In an email to Reuters, Greenwald condemned the British government for labeling his partner's actions "terrorism."

"For all the lecturing it doles out to the world about press freedoms, the UK offers virtually none...They are absolutely and explicitly equating terrorism with journalism," he said.

Senate Backs More and Expanded Big Brother Spying

A Giant Fuck You to America

Gun-Grabber Dianne Feinstein's Committee Passes
Bill 11 to 4 That Expands NSA Powers

Both the GOP and Democrats lock arms to fuck the 4th Amendment.

Just days after pretending outrage over reports of widespread surveillance of foreign leaders by the National Security Agency, gun grabber Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) pushed through the Senate Intelligence Committee on an 11-4 vote a bill that enshrines the bulk collection of Americans' phone call records into law, and expands the agency's authority to track foreign nationals who enter the United States.

Sponsored by Leftist chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, the bill lets the NSA continue to collect phone metadata of millions of Americans for renewable 90-day periods, and allows the government to retain it. Some legislators have alternatively proposed letting phone companies hold the metadata. It passed the committee by an 11-4 vote Thursday afternoon, paving the way for a full Senate vote.

Further codifying current practice, the bill allows analysts to search through the data when if they suspect there is a “reasonable articulable suspicion” that a suspect is associated with international terrorism reports the Huffington Post.

The bill is a direct challenge to one introduced Tuesday by senator Patrick Leahy that would end domestic phone-records collection. It was also opposed by leading intelligence committee member Mark Udall, who said it did not go far enough says the Guardian.

"The NSA's invasive surveillance of Americans' private information does not respect our constitutional values and needs fundamental reform, not incidental changes. Unfortunately, the bill passed by the Senate intelligence committee does not go far enough to address the NSA's overreaching domestic surveillance programs," Udall said.

Udall is a co-sponsor of a bill introduced earlier this week by Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-Wisc.) and Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) that would end the NSA's bulk collection of phone call records. The passage of Feinstein's bill sets up a confrontation with Leahy's Judiciary Committee over what version of NSA reform Congress will produce.

Another Democratic member of the committee, Ron Wyden, said the bill maintains "business as usual" and "remains far from anything that could be considered meaningful reform".

"The Feinstein bill is terrible and would make things worse. I think the Leahy-Sensenbrenner bill begins to address some of the problems" with the NSA, said Jennifer Granick, director of civil liberties at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society.

Feinstein defended the NSA bulk collection program.

“Nothing was your own except the few cubic 
 centimetres inside your skull. ”
― George Orwell, 1984

1984
Fully Financed by a Democrat Senate
and a Republican House.

Does Google work for the NSA?

NSA broke into Yahoo and Google data centers

• Is the NSA that damn good to break through the security systems of the Internet giants or do Google and Yahoo just look the other way when it is the government doing the snooping? 
• The NSA has reportedly struck deals with technology companies to install hidden access points in their equipment that can be used for surveillance.

The latest Edward Snowden documents claim the NSA has worked with its British counterpart, GCHQ to collect entire data flows across fiber-optic cables in a project codenamed MUSCULAR, said the Washington Post.  It reported:

According to a top secret accounting dated Jan. 9, 2013, NSA’s acquisitions directorate sends millions of records every day from Yahoo and Google internal networks to data warehouses at the agency’s Fort Meade headquarters. In the preceding 30 days, the report said, field collectors had processed and sent back 181,280,466 new records — ranging from “metadata,” which would indicate who sent or received e-mails and when, to content such as text, audio and video.

General Keith Alexander, director of the NSA, said on Wednesday in an interview on Bloomberg Television that that the agency is “not authorized to go into a U.S. company’s servers and take data,” reports the Wall Street Journal.

The Washington Post reported that the agency "has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world."

According to documents provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, the agency is intercepting emails, documents, and other electronic communications as they move between the companies' privately controlled facilities and the public Internet, giving the NSA access to data in nearly real-time.

"The most enduring setback on national security from all of this could well be the impact on U.S. companies," observed a former U.S. official intimately involved with intelligence matters.

"We've created a Huawei problem for these companies," this official said, referring to the Chinese telecommunications firm that many U.S. lawmakers and intelligence officials believe is a proxy spy for the Chinese government.

The NSA has reportedly struck deals with technology companies to install hidden access points in their equipment that can be used for surveillance.  And the agency is believed to be the biggest purchaser of so-called "zero day" vulnerabilities, which are flaws in a piece of hardware or software discovered by a hacker but never revealed publicly.


See more at The Washington Post and at The Cable Foreign Policy.com

Asshole Alert
“You can’t have your privacy violated if you don’t KNOW your privacy is violated”
Congressman Mike Rogers
GOP Chairman of House Intelligence Committee
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Big Brother loving "Conservative" Republican Mike Rogers of Michigan has a lifetime American Conservative Union rating of 89.5%.  That again brings up the question of what exactly is a conservative?  Does Rogers understand that a Bill of Rights even exists?  Does he even care?  Just because you favor "security" does not mean you believe in Constitutional freedom.  Historically thugs from Caesar to Napoleon to Mao have also favored "security".
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See Mike Rogers at hearings.
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