YES! He said there has to be a balance of privacy & security.
7%
NO! It wasn’t enough and he didn’t address data collection.
93%
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Thom's Blog Is On the Move
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Hello All
Thom's blog in this space and moving to a new home.
Please follow us across to hartmannreport.com - this will be the only place going forward to read Thom's blog posts and articles.
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From Screwed:
"Hartmann speaks with the straight talking clarity and brilliance of a modern day Tom Paine as he exposes the intentional and systematic destruction of America’s middle class by an alliance of political con artists and outlines a program to restore it. This is Hartmann at his best. Essential reading for those interested in restoring the institution that made America the envy of the world."
From The Thom Hartmann Reader:
"Right through the worst of the Bush years and into the present, Thom Hartmann has been one of the very few voices constantly willing to tell the truth. Rank him up there with Jon Stewart, Bill Moyers, and Paul Krugman for having the sheer persistent courage of his convictions."
From Cracking the Code:
"Thom Hartmann ought to be bronzed. His new book sets off from the same high plane as the last and offers explicit tools and how-to advice that will allow you to see, hear, and feel propaganda when it's directed at you and use the same techniques to refute it. His book would make a deaf-mute a better communicator. I want him on my reading table every day, and if you try one of his books, so will you."
I caught a part of the speech, but it was like listening to most politicans. They can talk a lot and say nothing of consequence. It is too little and when he stated something about transparency it fell on deaf ears with me. We wouldn't know anything were it not for Snowden. I supported him financially and voted for him twice, but feel let down by the lack of prosecutions on Wall Street, the NSA and especially the TPP. It just about cancels out any good he's done, which would all be for naught anyway if TPP is allowed to go through.
Obama has been a disappointment in his second term. As for this NSA business, no way will he permit leniency for Snowden mainly because Snowden embarrassed him not only nationally but internationally as well. Obama has proved to be more of a war president than GWB before him. Case in point was Obama's attitude toward Syria. Had the public not vociferously objected we would probably now be in a shooting war in Syria and who knows with who else. And this drone business! It makes me embarrassed to say I'm an American.