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David Laska is the Communications Director of the New York Republican State Committee. Fast talking NY style tends to over shadow Hartmann here. Not surprised that he writes articles for Fox News.
They will take credit score rating for allowing the dealings to be set up, and whenever something goes wrong, they'll use it to attack Obama, and the government
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I agree with leighmf. A very good question. Yet I'll go one more. Why the charade? It has already been announced years ago that through the Patriot Act all of our communications have been compromised. Some companies were forced to write into their firmware of their devices the ability to send duplicates of every message sent directly to Government agencies. That's much worse than telephone records. What is so different about this move on Verizon? What's so new about this whole story? You mean they have a database of all of our email and text messages but have no clue as to who sent or received them? Who are they trying to fool? Is it indicative of a very serious threat, the government extending its already unconstitutional breach of privacy, or is it just a huge smoke screen for more serious egregious news they hope we don't notice? With the level of secrecy and deceit in Washington, and in the Corporatocracy it could be any or all of the above.
I smell Monsanto! Something stinks! Let's see, how many stories lately have involved Patsy-like innocent victims picked on by the Government for nonsensical, trumped-up reasons? I can think of three, Verizon, Apple, and the IRS.
Oh! Oh! Oh! Look at what they can do!! Read the Patriot Act my friends. They can do much worse than that. How about Indefinite Detention, suspension of habeas corpus, extraordinary rendition, torture, and drone strikes? Those crimes make this look like parking in a handicapped space. This story simply plays into the minds of those who suffer from true cognitive dissonance. Only the blissfully ignorant would be shocked. This is more like infotainment than the news.
Let me add one last little tidbit. Despite all the bells and whistles this "National Security Agency," likes to blow around, don't forget the memo that sat on President Bush's desk in ample time prior to 911. A memo that could have prevented the tragic terrorists attack that enabled all this illegal destruction of the Constitution. A memo with intelligence that was obtained legally and Constitutionally. A memo that was ignored by a Presidential Administration that was as culpable as the terrorists themselves. "Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice..."
Holder is a PUNK !!!!
this is kend. Mrs kend and yes she is by far the better half Promised she would get her own handle.
Thom,
You told everybody to vote for Obama instead of voting for a third party candidate. Now you must suffer with the rest of us with Obama's failed Bush policies.
Ain't that the truth!!!
Is this Kend or Kend's better half???
You, HISTORY WRITTER, cannot stop this alone, nor can I...This is most certainly a "We the People" thing...A union of shared desire for Independence and Freedom, through Boycotts, Sabotage, Checks and Balances... A Revolution!!!
Now more than ever, in this Corporate world of Profit over People by any means necessary, such measures of non violent resistance matters. We MUST affect them where it counts...Their BIG fat pockets!
However, American's biggest challenge is a severe lack of education, and I don't just mean Reading, Writing, and Arithmatic...No, I'm talking about Crittical Thinking, Humanities, Social Studies, Unbias lessons in American and World History, and hands on experience.
Unfortunatly the information age belies itself! Here we are living in a time were communication and information is attainable in seconds but instead of using it in a humane and productive fashion we squander our time with nonsense, sound bites, and half truths. We wait for the so called "experts" to tell us how to think and feel, and if we dare question authority or refuse to particapate, then we are cast as the "problem", when in reality it is corporate greed, commercialism, materialism, that has reduced the American Dream to a dung heep at least a mile high, seperated us from our roots and dumbed us down. All so a few can make $$$$$$$$$$$$$$!
i would be surprised if they could get any information with all the calls Verison drops.
Scary though.
I am appalled at all this spying via cell phones, secret drone attacks, suspension of writ of habeas corpus, the assassination of American citizens without due process of law, AND the cavalier way Obama shrugs this off as "we need it to root out espionage." Even in WWII our govt was not this banal. Attorney General Eric Holder should have been fired after his first year in office....he's absolutely worthless. Where's a Robert Kennedy? Obama may be setting us up to lose the 2016 election. He campaigns for jobs but not once did he voice support for the postal workers. Yeah, let 120,000 postal workers lose their jobs....where's Obama's head? He can't push his senators to repeal the postal act that created this postal mess? And now we have the very secretive Pacific-Asia Trade Act that's going to sink this nation even further??
LEIGHMF...Why not Verizon???Its huge and clearly a supporter of the Military Industrial Complex.
TxPEON...What does it have to do with Republicans???
The dismantleing of the U.S. Constitution has been going on for decades; Obama, W. Bush, Clinton, H. Bush, Regan, Nixion...Each one of them approved of "security" measures that are arbitrarey in that they go against our U.S. Constitution.
I think it is more accurate to say; "It's amazing that the majority of Americans continue to hit the feeder bar and cast their vote in a two party Corporate run Government that has time and again proven to be corrupt and selfserving to a wealthy few", OR, "Americans are nothing more than a bunch of morons and bafoons that keep buying into the Corporate agenda"!!!
I personally find it funny queer that the "land of the free and home of the brave" has so quickly amounted to nothing...Nothing but a bunch of clueless bratts that love love love to post intimate details of their meaningless lives on social networks, watch hours of mindless television, and intelectualize on silly pointless blogs!
Cheers!!!
Section 215 of the Patriot Act: Allowing help from bin Laden on 9/11 gave former President Cheney the justification for this legislation.....as well as the endless war for profit. Cheney and bin Laden both won while most of the rest of us have paid dearly with the resulting economic depression. They've used the out of control war spending to justify austerity, nullify the social contract, and thus make we the people surrender our freedoms.
Cheney: "The Patriot Act is a good law that has done nothing to diminish our liberty. It has helped us defend our liberty."
Something strange
is happening perhaps penetrating a new political line up. This automatic collection of telephone numbers from point to point illustrates the impressive technology trying to connect Americans to social needs of safety, freedom, and liberty. Secrecy just might be the closet case of the government.
However a gapping barrier exists in the need and the definition according to the Constitution. The Constitution was created without knowledge of modern technology in the electromagnetic spectrum. Good reason to shout out scandal, when in fact America should be questioning this new political tool, and how to use it. Through the calculus of derivatives very powerful information can be derived from those data bases. Moreover, this could be something that could frighten the hell out guilty treasonous political people within our government. Yikes they figured us out type of stuff.
However, this being a quasi-cooperative war in modern profiteering, that just combining corruption with the military industrial complex is the core product of the Congressional Presidential actions that are taken this day that do not correspond to a real definition of war or how it is accomplished by the terms in the Constitution. Here the guidelines of the constitution are breached obviously according to the expression mission accomplished according to rule of the Constitution. The results so far considered an unpredictable phenomenon in a failed war rather than an accomplishment.
Consider War Powers Act, Patriot Act, or just plain Congressional appropriations for that huge amount of ammunition needed for target practice. A very difficult judgment to make whereas all parties involved are wrong if we consider the American government is doing something where there are no Constitutional guidelines. The Republicans see this opportunity to kick the “Scandal Can” down the street at every turn. Wasting time, delaying time, running out the clock, to make sure all assets are liquid, of course to get the pay off.
Mainstream media is making what many call commercial culture money out of this new technology. A very, very taxable way out the deficit.
The guy who drafted the law said it was ment for and used by Bush for calls going off shore! So your friend Barry and Erric expanded the scope. Your guy is the Fascsit!
Why Verizon?
It appears not to be a republican vs. Democratic issue. It is an issue that can be attributed to the corporations (those "persons") who own the government, no matter who is in power. THEY are in power. How do I stop this?
This is the 1st time in my voting life I have thought, I'll be really glad when this president's term is up, and really hoping the progressives and Democrats can make some in-roads in the 2014 election, hopefully take the house. It would be in the best interest of all if we had a big grass-roots movement going now to "kick the bums out" and move this country to a better place.
Yes the Corporate fascist who set up the Patriot Act, are now condemning it as an intrusion?
Amazing anyone continues to Vote for any Republican nowadays.
Fascism continues to grow...in America!?!
To day Avaaz has launched a new petition. Level the playing field for Solar Power in New Zealand. The Government is saying how important it is on one hand and on the other are making legislation that will STOP THE SOLAR INDUSTRY IN ITS TRACKS http://nz.mg5.mail.yahoo.com/neo/launch?.rand=8885r9d4d2nvi#mail Great profits and preventing us helping our selves.
Look at this Thom, the Petro Chem Industry blatantly controlling the New Zealand Government! More than 20% reduction in sunlight is hurting this industry world wide as well.
Code BLUE on November 4, 2014, across the board.
Holder is a PUNK !!!!
The right wing clearly, publicly stated that their top priority was to make this a "failed presidency" by obstructing everything President Obama tries to do -- and doing so purely for the sake of obstructing. They defiantly stated that this (essentially, throwing a royal hissy fit) took priority over the best interests of the country.
Hi N Z Sarah-- I've seen some video on the weather modification over New Zealand -- aerosol experiments.
I think there are great profits being made in manipulating the weather. The extraordinary floods in the USA plains states bankrupted many and WHO came in to buy them out for pennies on the dollar? Probably the Banksters who have refused to use bail-out money to make loans to Americans at o percent interest rates! And has some of that bail-out money been invested in the weather modification? If our Congress is in on the scam -- making profits on insider trading information which they can commit without legal repercussions -- how can we expect these legislators to conduct real investigations into any corruption of this kind. If the technocrats have this scam going, how will we ever get to the bottom of the actual causes of the global warming issue?