Obama administration collecting phone records of millions daily...
Secret court order requires VERIZON to hand over ALL CALL DATA...
WH defends: Critical tool against 'terrorist threats'...
Specifically targeted Americans, not foreigners...
'Homeland Security': Laptops, phones can be searched based on hunches...
NSA SEES ALL: Phone Sex, Banks, Emails...
FBI WANTS BACK DOOR TO ALL SOFTWARE...
CIA: We'll Spy on You Through Your Dishwasher...
Secret court order requires VERIZON to hand over ALL CALL DATA...
WH defends: Critical tool against 'terrorist threats'...
Specifically targeted Americans, not foreigners...
'Homeland Security': Laptops, phones can be searched based on hunches...
NSA SEES ALL: Phone Sex, Banks, Emails...
FBI WANTS BACK DOOR TO ALL SOFTWARE...
CIA: We'll Spy on You Through Your Dishwasher...
Dems at work night and day removing our freedoms every second of every day, in secret, just as they do in every corner of every city in this entire country.
I used to put this little reminder up now and then, seems it is coming true
"If you look at a long term political strategy,
one that guarantees you will be the party in power for all time, one only needs
to follow the play book. 1. There's a depression 2. Give the voters money to
get thru it. 3. Take no real action to fix the problems that created the
depression. 4. Convince the majority of voters that they need government to
provide the solutions, from taxes, to end the depression. 5. Add voters to the
roles of the party that is providing the welfare to a point where the majority
of voters are on welfare. 6. Once voted in the majority the party is now in power
forever.
The Democratic Party playbook has just been shown to you, do you debate the realization that this is what is being done to us or do you refute that this is not happening?"
Look at the the headlines pasted above, read the data, do you deny that The Democratic Party is "Big Brother"?
Freedom is "free" not being spied on and controlled at every corner, want to smoke and die, do so.. want to eat yourself to death, do so... want to make lots of money and be a Republican, not so fast, the IRS is in the hands of control freaks, so is the White House.
Now our healthcare is in the hands of the IRS! Is this really what you wanted Max? Really?
It is time to stand up and be counted, counted as being "free" not "Democratic Party Free" but really free. Throw these liars out of our government, might I go to far to state that the actions of the IRS in stalling Tea Party tax status cost The Republicans the White House?
How much money was not raised as a result of zealots cheating for "The Playbook" above
Nice job Brandt. We proles are paying attention.
ReplyDelete1773-2009
William McBride, an economist with the business-backed Tax Foundation, said the IRS has been tasked with "a tremendous amount" and that the agency is in "uncharted territory," but he added that he doubts the IRS "will effectively control much of anything related to health care."
ReplyDeleteOther health policy specialists were even more blunt. "Not accurate," said Gail Wilensky, who headed Medicare and Medicaid under President George H.W. Bush and who is now a health policy consultant. It’s a "ludicrous statement," said Jonathan Oberlander, professor of social medicine and health policy and management at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Our ruling
Bachmann said the IRS is "going to be in charge of our health care." The IRS does play a number of key roles under the health care law, but it’s wrong to say it would "be in charge" of any American’s health care. The IRS won’t oversee interactions between doctors and patients, nor will it play any more of a role than confirming that exchange purchasers qualify for subsidies. Even within the government, HHS plays a much bigger role. We rate Bachmann’s claim False. Politifact.com
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DeleteLOL, that is sooo classic Brian.
DeleteRichard Nixon now looks like a saint compared to the Obama administration. When he said most transparent, he apparently meant most corrupt.
ReplyDeleteHate to tell you, but the NSA collection of phone calls began under Bush after 9/11.
ReplyDeleteNEW YORK (AP) — Former employees of the National Security Agency say the publishing of a court order asking Verizon to hand over all its phone calling records for a three-month period opens a new window on an operation that has been in place for years and involves all major U.S. phone companies.
"NSA has been doing all this stuff all along, and it's been all these companies, not just one" William Binney told news program Democracy Now on Thursday. "They're just continuing the collection of this data on all U.S. citizens."
Binney, who worked at the NSA for almost 40 years, left the agency after the attacks of 9/11 because he objected to the expansion of its surveillance of U.S. citizens.
British newspaper The Guardian late Wednesday released an order from the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, requesting Verizon to give the NSA the details on every phone call on its landline and wireless networks on a daily basis between April 25 and July 19.
Binney estimates that the NSA collects records on 3 billion calls per day.
"These are routine orders," said Thomas Drake, another NSA whistleblower. "What's new is we're seeing an actual order, and people are surprised by it."
"We've been saying this for years from the wilderness," Drake told Democracy Now. "But it's like, hey, everybody went to sleep while the government is collecting all these records."
Drake started working for the NSA in 2001 and blew the whistle on what he saw as a wasteful and invasive program at the agency. He was later prosecuted for keeping classified information. Most of the charges were dropped before trial, and he was sentenced to one year of probation and community service.
The NSA's original charter was to eavesdrop on communications between countries, not inside the U.S. That expansion of its mission appears to have happened after 9/11, but the agency has continuously denied that it spies on domestic communications.
In March, for instance, NSA spokeswoman Vanee Vines, emailed an Associated Press reporter about a story that described the NSA as a monitor of worldwide Internet data and phone calls.
"NSA collects, monitors, and analyzes a variety of FOREIGN signals and communications for indications of threats to the United States and for information of value to the U.S. government," she wrote. "FOREIGN is the operative word. NSA is not an indiscriminate vacuum, collecting anything and everything."
Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile USA, three of the largest phone companies, said they had no comment on the matter. A representative from Sprint did not respond to a message. Verizon's general counsel emailed employees Thursday saying that the company has an obligation to obey court orders, but did not confirm the existence of an order.
James Bamford, a journalist and author of several books on the NSA, said it's very surprising to see that the agency tracks domestic calls, including local calls. In 2006, USA Today reported that the NSA was secretly collecting a database of domestic call information. However, some phone companies denied any involvement in such a program.
Bamford's assumption was that the uproar over a separate, post-9/11 warrantless wiretapping program and the departure of the Bush administration meant that the NSA had been reined in.
"Here we are, under the Obama administration, doing it sort of like the Bush administration on steroids," he said in an interview with the Associated Press. "This order here is about as broad as it can possibly get, when it comes to focusing on personal communications. There's no warrant, there's no suspicion, there's no probable cause ... it sounds like something from East Germany."
Bamford believes the NSA collects the call records at a huge, newly built data center in Bluffdale, Utah.
Well, since you said what I said, at least regarding the post 9/11 freedom roll back, you must be a communist.
DeleteHate to bust your left/right bubble on this but Carnivore was and indiscriminate miner of data, held by the government be searched later.. that program was implemented during the Clinton administration... Earthlink initiated a case that went to the SCOUS when it refused in July 2000 to install government equipment on its premises.... They had been in this 'debate' with the government over this program for several months prior....
DeleteI'm going to treat this seriously Brandt, but first, pretend for a minute that I don't have this dreamy obsession with Obama and the Democrats that you profess that I do.
ReplyDeletePoint one of your strategy, create a depression. You and I clearly agree on the role of the Fed. In rapid succession, we created and popped and internet bubble and then a housing bubble. From China trade deals, to NAFTA to repeal of Glass/Steagall we have made rules and repealed rules that benefited a very select few. This is what happens when you create and pop bubbles.
Point 2, give voters money to get through it. Well, George Bush certainly ran on giving us money. Republicans also extended unemployment when they controlled both houses. Republicans made one promise after another that if we just kept lowering taxes and taking away regulation, this economy would throb. A lot of Obama's big ass stimulus bill went to covering tax cuts and helping out states with medical bills. Very little went to creating jobs.
Point 3, take no real action to fix the problem. To me, the problem is this, we have a shitload of money parked where it does no good. Capital gains taxes are 15 fucking percent. Well well below what wage earners have to pay. We have open doors with China who can dump anything they want here at will. Even Reagan was willing to protect Harley Davidson to save jobs here. What Republican is willing to do that today? Wages remain stagnant and benefits continue to shrink. I just don't understand how you can grow an economy when, as an owner of capital, you don't want money to circulate and grow. Workers who make less, spend less. There is plenty we could do, and perhaps Republicans will do it if they get back in power. History doesn't suggest that of course.
Point 4 and 5, here, Republicans have done a masterful job of snowing the public. Their message essentially is, "Put us in complete power so we can destroy power. Once everything is privatized, you will all become millionairs." Point 6 naturally follows.
I get it Brandt, you are heavily invested in this Marxist thing. But that doesn't explain why everything went to shit so horribly in just 8 years. Six of those eight years, Republicans held the House, the Senate AND the WH. Granted, we were heading for trouble in 2000 as the stock bubble was popping, but Bush and company pulled a Reagan which is to say they pulled a Keynesian and spent their assess off to make things look better. Since Reagan, this has happened every time we have a Republican in office, with the exception of Bush Sr. who genuinely understood you need to pay your bills. I just don't get how anyone could look at deficits, debt, the stock market and the economy under Republicans and then turn around and shriek that Marxist Democrats are killing us.
As for the big brother shit, again Brandt, you are ridiculously obsessed with fantasy. Homeland Security. Who started that? Do you have any idea how much money has been spent on that? How much has been spent on increasing the ability of the government to spy? Obama continued a lot of bad Patriot act shit this year. And there wasn't a fucking peep from the right. 9/11 ushered in the biggest and most massive roll back of privacy we have seen, and it was done by Republicans in the name of keeping us safe. Maybe William can help us out with the quote from Franklin about trading liberty for security.
The IRS stalling blocked Republicans from winning the White House? Good God Man what are you talking about? I love this revisionist shit. Face it Brandt, the centrist voters thought the Tea Bags were whack jobs. I'm sorry that you are the guy with one eye in the land of the blind who must bear the pain of seeing the future where Marxists will destroy us. I'm no fan of the Democrats, but I have to admit, things seem to get a lot worse for the middle class in very quantifiable ways when Republicans are in charge.
and yet you are haotal to the average Joe living on a fixed income begging that they will be able to keep a larger percentage of their meager income ... I am talking about the members of the TEA Party. If you are not for the average working man then who are you for Max? You want government to TAKE the money from workers. That is the difference Max, you side with the government and others side with those who earn it. There is no such thing as Robin Hood......
Delete"I get it Brandt, you are heavily invested in this Marxist thing. But that doesn't explain why everything went to shit so horribly in just 8 years. "
DeleteI don't believe that at all Max. Our economic deterioration with respect to real wages and manufacturing has been in decline for decades. That decline has been exponential. We didn't notice the decline until Bush jr because that is when we lost all control of it. I contend, first of all, that the implementation of a central bank was the fuse and decoupling from gold was the dynamite.. Reagans 'vodoo economics' was just as viable of a stimulus plan as any BUT.... it wasn't temporary and is still going on today. Its effects along with almost all Americans now throwing their retirements at the stock market created good tax collection for Clinton and died in the 2000 bubble pop.... We have skewed our trade policy starting with Reagan and made it worse each and every year in an attempt to keep the party going... It isn't left or right.... it is an out of control federal government enabled by a grotesquely manipulative central bank system....
If there was hope, it MUST lie in the proles, because only there in those swarming disregarded masses, 85 per cent of the population of Oceania, could the force to destroy the Party ever be generated. The Party could not be overthrown from within. Its enemies, if it had any enemies, had no way of coming together or even of identifying one another. Even if the legendary Brotherhood existed, as just possibly it might, it was inconceivable that its members could ever assemble in larger numbers than twos and threes. Rebellion meant a look in the eyes, an inflexion of the voice, at the most, an occasional whispered word. But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength. would have no need to conspire. They needed only to rise up and shake themselves like a horse shaking off flies. If they chose they could blow the Party to pieces tomorrow morning. Surely sooner or later it must occur to them to do it? And yet ——!
ReplyDeleteThat's an excerpt. Notice how Orwell clearly defines how to beat the machine and yet in his heart knows it wont happen. The dude was a sociological genius. The proles are not interested in ending anything.