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30 years ago this sort of thing would have caused riots in the streets.
Today the only way anyone will take to the streets is for a new Iphone. The sad truth is that 99% of the population is just to pathetically stupid to care. |
@rochard -- you will never convince me that the FISA court was following the intent of the FISA law when it gave blanket warrants allowing the surveillance of US Citizens domestically. |
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while it is actually - easier..and easy way of life...to some point :) |
It is lawful in this country (like most) to do all types of surveillance on foreign soil. The State Department has (or should have) some control to limit the excesses of the NSA, CIA or Military Intelligence surveillance of those we consider friends and allies -- most European countries governments fit that category. |
http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...-leaders-calls
Now it's up to 35 countries that were are spying on their leaders |
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? or does this not count because they're 'entitled'? |
messing with Angela Merkel is never a good idea...
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In other words, nothing has really changed. Local PD has a crime, files a warrant, and gets information. Quote:
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Nothing dirty about that, been doing that for the past fifty years or so. Quote:
These are both laws, and so far no one has provided proof of any wrong doing. Quote:
And ten other judges seem to disagree with you. To date, Snowden has yet to provide proof that the US intelligence agencies have broken any laws at all. |
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his docs show that the UN building was wiretapped which alone already is in fact breaking international laws |
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Also two things to remember are that spy agencies largely identify more with other spy agencies and not the temporary elected representatives. If you've known Bob from the NSA for 30 years you're going to be more partial to him that the idiot politician who just got elected that is against your own personal political ideology. Also more importantly, like the military the spy agencies function largely as a lubricant to the country's corporate interests even if that is ultimately a second order purpose. It's a function not only of carving out a larger tax base by winning more contracts but also ensuring a country's infrastructure is more efficient for a better industrial base. Money is almost as important as military secrets. Look at what the soviets tried to steal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_pipeline_sabotage Also in the 80's the US sold us purposely crippled hornets that had bad radar so we spied on them and hacked them to get them working properly. I guarantee you Germany is spying the shit out of the US. |
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what cracks me up in this thread is intelligent people who think the issue is that people are naive if they think this sort of thing doesn't happen, rather than the real issue being that it happens, regardless if 1, some, many, or all are doing it.
I never thought I'd use the term brainwashed by governments on a board like gfy, but holy fuck, it's jaw-dropping to see. Goes hand in hand (and this really isn't any kind of dig at those who are patriotic - it's a dig at those who make sure you think you need to be, overly so) with the way most americans are brought up regarding patriotism - from how many outside the US observe it, anyway. This mantra that you need to 'serve' your country no matter what, even if that service is believing the bullshit it feeds you so it can do what it needs to: stay in power another term. Here's what anyone 'owes' their country: fuck all. Especially not some roll over and tickle my tummy blind loyalty no matter what. |
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International law? Really? That's the entire point of the CIA - to break the laws of other countries. All of them do it. Here's what Snowden told us: According to the documents, the NSA runs a bugging program in more than 80 embassies and consulates worldwide called 'Special Collection Service'. 'The surveillance is intensive and well organized and has little or nothing to do with warding off terrorists,' wrote Der Spiegel. Fucking wonderful. Twenty years of work, billions of dollars, down the tube because of Snowden. |
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Your second article: https://www.aclu.org/national-securi...-call-tracking Is about a lawsuit questioning the law, not saying anyone violated it. The ACLU has filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the National Security Agency?s mass collection of Americans? phone records. The complaint argues that the dragnet, justified by the Patriot Act?s Section 215, violates the right of privacy protected by the Fourth Amendment as well as the First Amendment rights of free speech and association. So you are just wasting my time posting up links about lawsuits not about someone breaking the law, but instead trying to define what the law is. Frankly, I honestly don't give a shit. I signed up for a UPS account today and had to cough up my name and address. Son of a bitch, they asked me an odd group of questions like "which street did you not live on" and it lists five streets, four of which I did in fact live on. Your data, your information.... Is already out there. Companies of years and years of data on you before you turn 18. |
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American Gladiator is on. |
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can we keep this kind of boring political discussions off gfy? go to some specialized board (bored)
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I wuz here............ again ........ just keepin an I on you guys :pimp
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It was late for me when posting and I guess I let my frustration at seeing how pretty much every argument/discussion pans out, out. Carry on everyone :thumbsup |
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My comment about UPS is... While everyone is concerned about big brother, no one cares what anyone else is doing. UPS - a company I rarely use - has been tracking me for the past twenty years and and can tell me what streets I lived on fifteen years ago. That's fucking scary. Eventually, the US Government / law enforcement will never need to get a warrant. They will just buy the information legally from some business. |
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One rule for USA, another rule for everyone else Gotta respect it :pimp No such thing is right and wrong, just winners and losers |
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i think the truth of the matter is 99% of all populations want to be happy and not have to worry about bullshit like wiretapping a foreign dignitary. |
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http://www.atheistexile.com/wp-conte...trixChoice.jpg |
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smart people are not any better, happier, successful, etc. many are less so, because they feel the need to run around and be smart all the time. that's a lot of work chasing down internet factoids . i have a similar diatribe on multi-tasking, it's way over-rated and over-emphasised. and few people succeed at it. |
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I had been at both events and unfortunately the old hippie revolutionaire mentality has never left me. So because of this I was very much sadden when I visited the Occupy mouvement in NY when the idiots had a moment of silence for the human garbage called Steve Jobs. I am sure that even Abby Hoffman's ghost called it quits at that moment. Any respect or hope I had for this generation left me that day. As I am certain that it did for the most die hard drugged hippies still hanging around from the sixties. I know I am what is called jaded but from what I am seeing the majority of people today are weak and illiterate self-absorbed morons that paradoxically believe themselves to be super intelligent and super great. |
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cause you see something, make an assumption and conclusion based on what you see in more than three different locations and then consider your assumption fact. enjoy your retirement we won't. |
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Interesting article :)
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who loves ya baby
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there is a good chance our generatino is looking at a 80-100 retirement. http://www.generationme.org/genmetitle.jpg http://ed_wp-content_v2.s3.amazonaws...00-600x400.jpg http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...8dOexAG4OScFDw three 'separate' sources, making it a 'common idea'. however :) you really wanna split hairs on who is more self involved, lets talk about the generation who is leaving 948 billion dollar deficit |
This whole thing is a big can of worms.
Here is another link for you ... |
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But none of that takes away from the facts that today's youth are beyond the stupidity of the "me" generation's Disco Duck mentality or that the Occupy mouvement was nothing more than a pathetic joke. |
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You can watch it here, interesting show Also explains how Quantum cryptology works at minute 32.17 |
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They'll always spy on German leaders. In their eyes, history jusitifies it, and heaven forbid any European should stand in the way of their quest for world domination.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...rael-documents Meanwhile, they're trying to push through for increased surveillance of European citizens, or at least the next phase of it. http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/for...-of-intolerant Big G, and big F, are fully complicit in this, let's not kid ourselves. They seek to control the web because it's currently the one aspect of media where they can't control the message. |
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