"Drug and insurance companies will from later this year be able to buy information on patients -- including mental health conditions and diseases such as cancer, as well as smoking and drinking habits -- once a single English database of medical data has been created.
Not surprising at all, since corporations now take out insurance on their employees such that, should an employee die on the job, the company wins a huge insurance settlement.
This has become common practice and by getting the government to make all the medical records legally available to the corporations, they can better determine which employees are most likely to die on the job and thus can place their bets better.
Since the whole "Terrorist" thing is actually another false flag operation designed to allow a new Century of War for the War Industries benefit, with the US fed playing both sides in the fictional conflict, the agencies designated to secure the borders from the imaginary terrorist menace are merely there for PR purposes and are not at all concerned about real security.
They are however, deeply concerned about funneling as much money from the taxpayer's pocket as they can, because when you're really just a PR Operation, you have a lot of spare time on your hands and need a lot of cocaine and hookers to get through the day.
Methinks a necessary first step might be in admitting to one's self that the Federal Government of the USA no longer works for or gives a rat's ass for the safety or security of We The People. I'm not really sure what else they must do to prove this to the public, aside from running them over with tanks.
A second step might be in admitting that the Federal Government of the USA now works for Big Pharma, Big Entertainment, Big Energy, Big Business and that the only reason the Fed gives lip service to the general public is because these Big Concerns need the general public to remain docile consumers to maintain their continued prosperity.
The third step cannot even be comprehended until after the first two are fully understood.
Tell a lie often enough, eliminate contradiction, and it becomes the truth
Sadly, the fed knows that if they simply keep on calling Snowden a traitor and claiming that he has harmed agents in the field and damaged the Fed's ability to do legal and standard espionage abroad, the public will eventually buy the package whole-hog.
I mean, look how well they handled the 9/11 false flag operation after the fact.
Even the most astute Americans now parrot the official version of 9/11, as if it was proven fact, simply because the fed had all media outlets repeat it for years and silently killed off. or destroyed socially any who dissented openly.
They will never relent, never admit the truth, and will continue to scream Traitor, even after they fly a drone into Snowden's hotel room. They will continue to propagandize the situation until the US public has forgotten there was another explanation, just as they have forgotten the truths of 9/11.
The Fed know the process works and has the bottomless American Taxpayer's pocket to finance the process no matter how long it takes.
Is it possible for members of the general public to file their own phony DMCA notices against those companies on the growing list of DMCA abusers??
Apparently no real evidence is needed and it seems as though almost anyone can file one with utter impunity.
Perhaps a massive public phony DMCA take-down party by hundreds/thousands of citizens against the companies that have been abusing the system will wake up law enforcement.
After all, the law has done nothing to date about the huge misuse of the DMCA take-down notice system, even though the law actually states that criminal charges can be brought against those that misuse it.
When the federal government and its agencies stop working for the people who pay(*1) them, there is little recourse but for the public itself to take over those services, since there is no legal means of firing the errant government and its agencies and hiring new ones.
(*1) - pay them above the board - taxpayer citizens, rather than pay them under the table - corporations, organized crime.
Web Trolls, Shills and other forum stuffer types are best harmed by ostracism, and are best served by attention.
If you wish such critters to go away, the easiest method is to simply pretend they do not exist, because they literally thrive on attention.
This is the same for the raving lunatic and the paid shill.
If the paid shill cannot redirect the forum towards one of the listed safe topics, away from the controversy his employer wants ignored, then he soon loses his job.
It is sort of a "Don't Feed The Animals" policy.
The bonus is a forum with far fewer turds on the path. :)
"This is the man who has the IRS target conservative groups
Was there evidence Obama directed that, or knew about it?
==================================
1. using the information he has against Republicans. 2. has the IRS target conservative groups 3. trying to rig elections 4. investigates reporters 5. lies every time he speaks.
I see you only disagreed with point 2 above. Can we assume from your response that you agree that points 1,3,4 and 5 are true then??
I don't actually own a cell phone - for reasons I won't get into here - but, as everyone else I know does, I was wondering if anyone knows of, or has heard of an app that lets you turn on your phone's recording with a single button press and downloads the results to a safe location, say on a website somewhere, in real time, without actually displaying anything that would let someone else inspecting the phone know that the phone was recording or downloading?
Or perhaps a device that does the same thing....
Something needs to become available to the public to combat this blatant disregard for civil rights and law by what passes today for police officers, as it does not appear that its going to get any better any time soon, and in fact seems to be getting worse every day.
I'm actually thinking of something like a First Alert devise but specifically for recording false arrests and cell phone confiscations (or even muggings and robberies) that has an instant download aspect to prevent LEOs from erasing the evidence. It would be best if it looked perhaps like a heavy key-ring or wrist watch.
If nothing like this exists, it might be an interesting Crowd-sourced Project.
"What we need is for people to take their representatives in hand and make it clear that if they don't stop selling us out we'll vote for someone else in the next election. Then we need to actually follow that through. Some knocking on doors and advocating for third parties is involved in this; your vote, by itself, won't achieve much."
Actually, your vote won't mean a thing. That system was rigged a long time ago and is only maintained in order to present the public with a placebo that makes them think they are actually participating in government.
This is done so that We The People blame each other for electing the crooks in office, effectively turning our anger against ourselves and away from those running the dog and pony show.
Allowing citizens to effectively participate in politics would make the current brand of corporate-politics - proprietors of such things as the NSA Surveillance Programs and the Drone Assassinations - impossible, and as such is strictly forbidden.
Those who gather and count your vote are not under your control, and it is they who determine who actually gets elected according to their real employers wishes.
Your vote is little more than piss in the wind.
As long as you believe otherwise, you are in effect, doing the corporate PR work for the crooks.
Just in case nobody has ever actually noticed this, the word revolution actually explains all by itself exactly how silly revolutions are.
A revolution is where a point rotates 360 degrees and ends up right back where it started.
All revolution has ever done throughout history is replace one group of criminals with another because all revolutions use violence to achieve the goal of ending violence.
In simplest terms in such situations, the rebels must prove to be more violent than the regime they wish to remove from power in order to succeed. The result is simply replacing the current violent group of people at the top of the hierarchy with an even more violent group of people at the top of the hierarchy.
What is needed is not revolution, but evolution - the change from an obsolete form to a more advanced form.
The stoopid public cannot be allowed to hamstring the government because the government is the good guys and the public is simply too damn dense to know what is what.
You wouldn't happen to be working for Mister McCain would you??
Its always fascinating to watch criminals' reactions, once they realize that they're not immune to the actions of other criminals, even if they've made a deal and paid their "dues" in full.
Now that the congress-critters and most of the republican party have started to realize that all of their shady, under-the-table dirty dealings and clandestine porn-site visits may have been recorded for posterity by the fed, we should be hearing a lot more demands for ending the NSA Surveillance Program from people who we would normally expect to be 100% pro NSA. I can hardly wait till Feinstein realizes her phones are tapped too.
"So, would you call this the Senate Intelligence Oversight Committee Oversight Committee?"
Nope. I'd call it John McCain's Public Relations Trick.
Its exactly the kind of thing one should expect from someone like McCain. Like Obama, faking sincerity is his forte.
Its entire purpose is to regain the "confidence" of the public, by pretending to do what needs to be done, exactly as Obama has been doing with his TV appearances. This is precisely the kind of response you will always get from government when its caught with its hand in your pocket.
Its the public's confidence that government seeks to restore, for the very same reason that any con-man would.
And to answer the question in the top insightful post:
"This is a committee purposely crafted to not find anything wrong with the NSA. Does he really think we're that stupid?"
Yes, absolutely.
After all, they've been doing this sort of thing for decades and we are only now catching on, and only because someone named Snowden forced the facts down our throats.
I wonder what the chances are of the USTR pulling a fast one.
You know, craft a phony version with none of the bad parts for public display and then switch it for the real Legacy Industry version of the agreement at the last moment.
Considering how utterly crooked these people are, I think that will be the most likely road they'll take.
Prophetically, Osama Bin Laden was a CIA asset and had nothing at all to do with 9/11, save becoming the patsy.
I am amazed at how effective the Fed's cover-up program has been at convincing the American Public that this false flag operation was carried out by a bunch of sheep herders from a cave in Afghanistan.
I really shouldn't be surprised though, since We the People have also fallen for every other false flag operation the Fed has managed since Pearl Harbor.
I suppose it is simply that this one I got to witness in the making.
It is saddening to note that it is now imperative for members of the American public to work at cross purposes with their own Federal government in order to protect the freedoms of those living in other countries and indeed their own freedom as well.
Discovering that the US Fed is by far the most dangerous "hacker" organization on earth, is only surpassed in shock value by the fact that the US fed is the most dangerous "terrorist" organization on earth.
While it is obvious that the actions of the corporate controlled Federal Government of the USA are not unanimously approved of by the American People, the results of these actions will stain the credibility of all Americans globally as long as the crimes of their government continue.
And what is probably worse in the long run, these actions will give other criminal governments the ability to become even more oppressive, aggressive and intrusive since the US has disqualified itself from holding any moral high ground.
It is in fact, highly unlikely that the US will ever again hold the moral high ground, and Americans in general will likely be held in contempt and distrusted for the actions of the government by the global public far into the future.
If any lesson is to be learned from this, it is simply that government must be 100% transparent to the public, or risk the near certainty of power abuse by its members.
Or perhaps the lesson here is that government itself is obsolete and needs to be replaced with something else which is actually of the people, by the people and for the people.
It is patently obvious that the Federal Government of the USA is none of the above.
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Gambling on death made easy.
Not surprising at all, since corporations now take out insurance on their employees such that, should an employee die on the job, the company wins a huge insurance settlement.
This has become common practice and by getting the government to make all the medical records legally available to the corporations, they can better determine which employees are most likely to die on the job and thus can place their bets better.
On the post: GAO Report Finds That CBP, ICE Have No Project Management Skills, Relying On 1980s Equipment To Guard Borders
Cocaine and Hookers are expensive!!!
They are however, deeply concerned about funneling as much money from the taxpayer's pocket as they can, because when you're really just a PR Operation, you have a lot of spare time on your hands and need a lot of cocaine and hookers to get through the day.
On the post: Fighting Back Against Mass Surveillance
3 step plan
A second step might be in admitting that the Federal Government of the USA now works for Big Pharma, Big Entertainment, Big Energy, Big Business and that the only reason the Fed gives lip service to the general public is because these Big Concerns need the general public to remain docile consumers to maintain their continued prosperity.
The third step cannot even be comprehended until after the first two are fully understood.
On the post: Claims About Snowden's 'Harms' Based On Two Assumptions Unlikely To Be True
Tell a lie often enough, eliminate contradiction, and it becomes the truth
I mean, look how well they handled the 9/11 false flag operation after the fact.
Even the most astute Americans now parrot the official version of 9/11, as if it was proven fact, simply because the fed had all media outlets repeat it for years and silently killed off. or destroyed socially any who dissented openly.
They will never relent, never admit the truth, and will continue to scream Traitor, even after they fly a drone into Snowden's hotel room. They will continue to propagandize the situation until the US public has forgotten there was another explanation, just as they have forgotten the truths of 9/11.
The Fed know the process works and has the bottomless American Taxpayer's pocket to finance the process no matter how long it takes.
On the post: What The DMCA System Is NOT For: Shutting Down Twitter Accounts You Don't Like And Sending Anonymous Tips
Public Action
Apparently no real evidence is needed and it seems as though almost anyone can file one with utter impunity.
Perhaps a massive public phony DMCA take-down party by hundreds/thousands of citizens against the companies that have been abusing the system will wake up law enforcement.
After all, the law has done nothing to date about the huge misuse of the DMCA take-down notice system, even though the law actually states that criminal charges can be brought against those that misuse it.
When the federal government and its agencies stop working for the people who pay(*1) them, there is little recourse but for the public itself to take over those services, since there is no legal means of firing the errant government and its agencies and hiring new ones.
(*1) - pay them above the board - taxpayer citizens, rather than pay them under the table - corporations, organized crime.
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Don't feed the animals...
Web Trolls, Shills and other forum stuffer types are best harmed by ostracism, and are best served by attention.
If you wish such critters to go away, the easiest method is to simply pretend they do not exist, because they literally thrive on attention.
This is the same for the raving lunatic and the paid shill.
If the paid shill cannot redirect the forum towards one of the listed safe topics, away from the controversy his employer wants ignored, then he soon loses his job.
It is sort of a "Don't Feed The Animals" policy.
The bonus is a forum with far fewer turds on the path. :)
On the post: GCHQ Has Entire Program For 'Dirty Tricks' Including Honeypots, Using Journalists, Deleting Online Accounts
picky picky....
"This is the man who has the IRS target conservative groups
Was there evidence Obama directed that, or knew about it?
==================================
1. using the information he has against Republicans.
2. has the IRS target conservative groups
3. trying to rig elections
4. investigates reporters
5. lies every time he speaks.
I see you only disagreed with point 2 above.
Can we assume from your response that you agree that points 1,3,4 and 5 are true then??
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COPture, Police Policer, Rap-App, Bust Trust.....
Or perhaps a device that does the same thing....
Something needs to become available to the public to combat this blatant disregard for civil rights and law by what passes today for police officers, as it does not appear that its going to get any better any time soon, and in fact seems to be getting worse every day.
I'm actually thinking of something like a First Alert devise but specifically for recording false arrests and cell phone confiscations (or even muggings and robberies) that has an instant download aspect to prevent LEOs from erasing the evidence. It would be best if it looked perhaps like a heavy key-ring or wrist watch.
If nothing like this exists, it might be an interesting Crowd-sourced Project.
On the post: USTR Finally Realizing Its All Encompassing Secrecy May Be A Problem, Calls Frantic Meeting For All 'Cleared' Lobbyists
The Vote stops there...
"What we need is for people to take their representatives in hand and make it clear that if they don't stop selling us out we'll vote for someone else in the next election. Then we need to actually follow that through. Some knocking on doors and advocating for third parties is involved in this; your vote, by itself, won't achieve much."
Actually, your vote won't mean a thing. That system was rigged a long time ago and is only maintained in order to present the public with a placebo that makes them think they are actually participating in government.
This is done so that We The People blame each other for electing the crooks in office, effectively turning our anger against ourselves and away from those running the dog and pony show.
Allowing citizens to effectively participate in politics would make the current brand of corporate-politics - proprietors of such things as the NSA Surveillance Programs and the Drone Assassinations - impossible, and as such is strictly forbidden.
Those who gather and count your vote are not under your control, and it is they who determine who actually gets elected according to their real employers wishes.
Your vote is little more than piss in the wind.
As long as you believe otherwise, you are in effect, doing the corporate PR work for the crooks.
On the post: USTR Finally Realizing Its All Encompassing Secrecy May Be A Problem, Calls Frantic Meeting For All 'Cleared' Lobbyists
Re: Revolutions
A revolution is where a point rotates 360 degrees and ends up right back where it started.
All revolution has ever done throughout history is replace one group of criminals with another because all revolutions use violence to achieve the goal of ending violence.
In simplest terms in such situations, the rebels must prove to be more violent than the regime they wish to remove from power in order to succeed. The result is simply replacing the current violent group of people at the top of the hierarchy with an even more violent group of people at the top of the hierarchy.
What is needed is not revolution, but evolution - the change from an obsolete form to a more advanced form.
On the post: Congress Warns DOJ That If It Doesn't Support NSA Reform Plan, It Won't Renew Key Patriot Act Provision
Re:
Talking point 302b, if I'm not mistaken.
The stoopid public cannot be allowed to hamstring the government because the government is the good guys and the public is simply too damn dense to know what is what.
You wouldn't happen to be working for Mister McCain would you??
On the post: Congress Warns DOJ That If It Doesn't Support NSA Reform Plan, It Won't Renew Key Patriot Act Provision
Honor among thieves....
Now that the congress-critters and most of the republican party have started to realize that all of their shady, under-the-table dirty dealings and clandestine porn-site visits may have been recorded for posterity by the fed, we should be hearing a lot more demands for ending the NSA Surveillance Program from people who we would normally expect to be 100% pro NSA. I can hardly wait till Feinstein realizes her phones are tapped too.
This should be interesting.
On the post: John McCain Proposes A New Senate Committee To Do What The Intelligence Committee Is Supposed To Do
McCain Burger and Fries
Nope. I'd call it John McCain's Public Relations Trick.
Its exactly the kind of thing one should expect from someone like McCain. Like Obama, faking sincerity is his forte.
Its entire purpose is to regain the "confidence" of the public, by pretending to do what needs to be done, exactly as Obama has been doing with his TV appearances. This is precisely the kind of response you will always get from government when its caught with its hand in your pocket.
Its the public's confidence that government seeks to restore, for the very same reason that any con-man would.
And to answer the question in the top insightful post:
"This is a committee purposely crafted to not find anything wrong with the NSA. Does he really think we're that stupid?"
Yes, absolutely.
After all, they've been doing this sort of thing for decades and we are only now catching on, and only because someone named Snowden forced the facts down our throats.
Read up on Hoover.
How can they NOT think we're that stupid?
On the post: USTR Finally Realizing Its All Encompassing Secrecy May Be A Problem, Calls Frantic Meeting For All 'Cleared' Lobbyists
The Old Switcheroo...
You know, craft a phony version with none of the bad parts for public display and then switch it for the real Legacy Industry version of the agreement at the last moment.
Considering how utterly crooked these people are, I think that will be the most likely road they'll take.
On the post: Surprise: Republican Party Says NSA Surveillance Programs Are Unconstitutional And Must End
Re: Of course it's unconstitutional
But they are doing something about it!!
They have their PR specialist, Barrack Obama appearing on TV regularly to try and convince everyone its no big deal and he's handling it.
They have created a second set of laws to insure that if caught, they can claim its all legal.
They have their own hand-picked Over-sight committee to rubber stamp all their operations and give them a veneer of proper over-sight.
And most importantly, they're attacking secretly anyone who might threaten their continuing operations.
How can you possibly say they're doing nothing about it??
On the post: Almost Everything About The Bulk Collection Of Phone Data Is Illegal
Re: biggest terrorist threat to the USA
I am amazed at how effective the Fed's cover-up program has been at convincing the American Public that this false flag operation was carried out by a bunch of sheep herders from a cave in Afghanistan.
I really shouldn't be surprised though, since We the People have also fallen for every other false flag operation the Fed has managed since Pearl Harbor.
I suppose it is simply that this one I got to witness in the making.
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Re:
On the post: Victims Of GCHQ's Denial Of Service Attacks Start Asking Who Are The Real Criminals?
Re: TANGO DOWN.
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USMOB
On the post: Here's Why The EU Is Crazy Not To Insist On Full Transparency During TAFTA/TTIP
Hackers and Terrorists
Discovering that the US Fed is by far the most dangerous "hacker" organization on earth, is only surpassed in shock value by the fact that the US fed is the most dangerous "terrorist" organization on earth.
While it is obvious that the actions of the corporate controlled Federal Government of the USA are not unanimously approved of by the American People, the results of these actions will stain the credibility of all Americans globally as long as the crimes of their government continue.
And what is probably worse in the long run, these actions will give other criminal governments the ability to become even more oppressive, aggressive and intrusive since the US has disqualified itself from holding any moral high ground.
It is in fact, highly unlikely that the US will ever again hold the moral high ground, and Americans in general will likely be held in contempt and distrusted for the actions of the government by the global public far into the future.
If any lesson is to be learned from this, it is simply that government must be 100% transparent to the public, or risk the near certainty of power abuse by its members.
Or perhaps the lesson here is that government itself is obsolete and needs to be replaced with something else which is actually of the people, by the people and for the people.
It is patently obvious that the Federal Government of the USA is none of the above.
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