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by ferdo 13y ago
> advocating for a permanent policy change is the better solution. Policy changes come about because of technical reality. Better technology is always superior to government policy. By all means, pursue both the technical and political
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by ferdo 13y ago
"Instrumentalities like the national banks or the federal reserve banks, in which there are private interests, are not departments of the government. They are private corporations in which the government has an interest." Justice
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by ferdo 13y ago
I think the issue goes deeper. Not enough people are willing to look at the root of the problem: the monopoly on the issuing of currency and credit in the US that is held by private interests. When private interests control the volume of cu
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That's classified, citizen: http://www.propublica.org/article/who-are-we-at-war-with-tha...
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by ferdo 13y ago
Is anyone else struck by the irony of Raytheon's PR for these things? "The aerostats, each nearly as long as a football field, carry powerful radars that can look deep into enemy territory." http://www.raytheon.com
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Anyway The Wind Blows https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmHuy307JZg
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"But certainly any threats, no matter how minor, need to be eliminated.” -Barnaby Jack
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Silkwood
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The article is 404?
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by ferdo 13y ago
Sorry for the 19th century text wall, but this is so pertinent that it hurts. "Next in importance to personal freedom is immunity from suspicions, and jealous observation. Men may be without restraints upon their liberty: they may pass
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by ferdo 13y ago
> The United States, for all it's faults, is not a totalitarian state. The US has the highest prison population per capita on the planet. It is most assuredly well on the road to totalitarianism.
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by ferdo 13y ago
> Insiders (like Snowden and Manning, ironically) are one of the biggest threats. They're a threat to those who like running a Surveillance State, not to the average citizen.
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Oakland surveillance center progresses amid debate on privacy, data collection(cironline.org)
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by ferdo 13y ago
Then I don't understand your ambivalence.
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Apply the concept of "unquestioning acceptance of stories that reaffirm beliefs" to those people that rationalize receiving a salary from some aspect of the Surveillance State.
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> militantly anti-government perspectives on NSA surveillance This points to a flaw in the logic of governance that results in accumulated errors when it's used as a precept. The NSA is the interloper in American society and a latec
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> I'm ambivalent about NSA's need to request potentially large amounts of data from Google about broadly targeted foreign intelligence targets. Not to be unkind, but I'm honestly repulsed by your ambivalence. Ambivalence i
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Next up, they'll go after anything with 'book' in the name.
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The source is immaterial, as is your opinion of the presentation. The substance is correct: a man paid cash and the police searched his house.
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by ferdo 13y ago
"When in doubt, lie." -Motto of every bureaucrat in history.
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History is relevant. Always.
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> If Iran and the US had swapped places there would have been far more death and destruction across the world...religious supremacy. That's a supposition for which you have no support. The fact is that non-religious States have murd
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> Iran is the primary sponsor of Hezbollah The US's history of death squads in Central America is no different. I see no moral difference between the Iranian government and the US government. Government, no matter whose government,
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by ferdo 13y ago
How many countries has Iran invaded in the past 20 years? How many civilian dead in foreign countries can be laid at the feet of the Iranian military? Please recall that the US backed Saddam against Iran once upon a time.
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> My government has not once engaged in violence to me or my family. What happens if you don't pay taxes? The government will get violent.
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Let's not forget that other governments have helped to turn Somalia into what it is today.
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That's not quite accurate. “These documents show that the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security are treating protests against the corporate and banking structure of America as potential criminal and terrorist activity. These doc
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"Endless money forms the sinews of war." -Cicero
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> The permanent defense establishment is not the result of the Federal Reserve, it's the result of technology. The permanent defense establishment is the result of Money, as is technology. The control of the issuing of currency and
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I'd posit that the only reason for the existence of agencies such as the NSA is exactly what Eisenhower warned us about on his way out the door (sorry for textwall but its all relevant to my point): "...Until the latest of our wor

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