Cole writes: "Binney says that social networks analysis is being carried out on all Americans."
Surveillance cameras are only one part of the growing collection of surveillance technology being implemented in the US. (photo: Kodda/Shutterstock.com)
NSA Whistleblower: All Americans Under Constant Surveillance
03 December 12
ational Security Agency whistle-blower William Binney explains how the NSA puts all the electronic communications of all Americans under constant surveillance and then stores zetabytes of data permanently.
Binney says that social networks analysis is being carried out on all Americans, and that if for any reason the clique in charge of the government decides to target an individual, they can go back and analyze the electronic records on him or her for damning information.
Presumably, this is what the Bush White House asked the intelligence community to do to yours truly. (See James Risen's article here).
Binney refered to Boeing's NARUS traffic analyzer, which we know the telcoms allowed the Bush administration to run on all our communications.
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Is William Binney NOT warning everyone writing controversial comments on RSN that their words are de facto applications for the writer's inclusion on the FBI's "target list"?
When's the last time you checked to see if your name is on Homeland Security's the "no fly" list?
This is the point, isn't it?
Unfortunately, no, but it is wrong on a level that is beyond belief, beyond the rights of the citizens of the US.
The government has created a culture of fear, and continues to do so under the illusion of freedom.
It is unacceptable in our democracy. Bravo, Mr Binney! Bravo!
N.
Since when has this system been a 'real' democracy anyway???
We, ARE the problem, and why we go along with the insane nonsense perpetuated by psychopathic "leaders" and corporate interests is beyond me.
We are the power to change the world, and leave something worth living on behind, for future life.
What ARE we choosing? Love, or drive on buy into oblivion?
We shall see, eh?
But the rural areas are prey to gangs of identity theft, meth labs, etc.; the local police are not qualified to deal with that; their riot gear is a joke. As it is, even though there is mega-surveillan ce, the book "Worm: the First Digital World War" proves that there is too little understanding of real computer threats to America, and too few trying to protect the internet and all of our identities from those threats. It's like "Bananas:" everybody has to wear their underwear on the outside, but meanwhile the entire country is stolen away.
"Digital watchdog the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) published several thousand pages of new drone license records on Wednesday confirming innumerable theorists' fears: that drones "regularly fly" in "national airspace all around the country."
The records, which were obtained by way of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), come from state and local law enforcement agencies, universities and—for the first time—three branches of the U.S. military: the Air Force, Marine Corps, and DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), the group writes on their Deeplinks blog." https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/12/05-9
Benjamin Franklin
Fine. I have a cyberstalker who has threatened my life, published my personal information online, made harassing phone calls to my home (AND put a video of himself doing so on YouTube), and created phony accounts in my name on various web forms, which he uses to post semi-coherent hateful blather in the hope of convincing someone that it is me speaking.
He also routinely posts videos of himself using drugs on YouTube.
Now....where is all the "security" apparatus to attend to people like this? I know my situation is hardly unique. Is it possible that some of the "security" people might be put to work doing something constructive?
You must make complaints to as many channels as you can. Local police complaint for the personal threats. FTC for identity theft (of any kind) and attach police complaint number; the police have to take your complaint: if they won't, you must go up channels to county and state offices. Since YouTube is across state lines, send copy to F.B.I.; if you send the complaint, they have to pursue it for you. Sure it will take time, that's bureaucracy. While I agree that the government is wrong to militarize local police, at least you can make them work for you. If one dept. has some vendetta against you, there is nothing like sending another dept. of the gov't on them; eventually they have to quit it. Did I mention sending copies of your complaints to your political representatives ?
with Bush-Cheney Iraq - Patriot Act - and the Bush immunity to the telecom industry for spying on all of us.
but
Obama and Democrats haven't done one dime in restoring our civil rights.
Is the USA the "Great Hypocrite" - preaching free speech, civil rights and in reality - working very hard to crush all those rights.
Having retired to WV (because it's THAT cheap...) it's heartening that someone sees what has happened here.
I have to wonder how many accusing Obama of a "War on Coal" realize that the extraction industries (now Fracking too) have not only left the town infrastructures and natural environment devastated, but thanks to massive amounts of abandoned carcinogenic byproducts and mountaintop removal, the WV child cancer rate is now #1 in the country. The effects of fracking on the land, the infrastructures , and the water table; promise to be even worse.
We have a "Supreme" court of nine people who make decisions affecting the lives of all Americans, yet never voted in by the people whom they legislate- employed for life. We vote in the president who appoints the court but the process isn't his alone; ultimately, politicians w/the biggest influence (money) get their way. A government for the People, by the People, would've fired Justice Scalia many infractions ago.
I have a problem w/this whole, arrogant sense of entitlement too many Americans have that we're the "greatest" country on earth. We have a better quality of life than any 3rd world country & as a capitalist society, have great ability to take advantage of opportunities. We have fabulous schools & institutions which attract people from all over the world to attend, but once certified, are only afforded to those w/the money to pay for it. And don't get me started on healthcare! I'm not talking about nose jobs & liposuction, I'm talking basic healthcare for all citizens so they don't lose a house if they lose a kidney. Dr. Emergency Room's tax-funded practice shouldn't be the family doctor.
What America has is toys: shiny objects of distraction that when in the hands of citizens, takes their attention off the fact that we're merely pawns in this game of democracy. You wanna "Twitter" or play on "facebook," you find how free it really isn't; one always pays to keep up with the Jones's.
The F.B.I. speaker states who now is considered a 'terrorist' and treated accordingly (i.e. civil rights, peace, justice activists, environmental activists, etc. etc. etc.). This totally broken, fascist government of ours now does whatever it desires, all in order to enslave us all as the 1%ers rake in constantly increasing $$$$$ and power over all.
1%ers Beware. Implosion and/or revolution is a comin', and, tragic to say, it ain't gonna be pretty. But the Occupy Wall Streeters are correct:
GLOBAL REVOLUTION IS THE SOLUTION!
Barbara K:I don't think total surveillance has much if anything to do with security. I think it's about total control of society. To what end, I have no idea, but all of my guesses scare me senseless. I fear we're in the midst of a Stalinesque take over of this once free and prosperous land.
I have no idea how to protect my constitutional rights when my oppressors operate outside the law and in deep shadow.
Our only slim hope as I see it is to support the Electronic Frontier Foundation's (EFF) efforts to bring this to the Supreme Court and hope the justices follow the Constitution and stop this most egregious assault on the American people.
Perhaps since CIA Director Petraeus and General Allen were the most recent high profile victims of this illegal surveillance, the attention may bring an overpowering outcry from the citizenry that the government is forced to dismantle the system and destroy the captured data.
So you hold that there is such a thing as "Good" and "Bad" Police States?
History and I disagree with that, especially if their development is tolerated early on by such naivete or laziness.
Then you would be wrong.
I prefer neither.
But there is no question which it is that we face.
Mussolini -its inventor- defined it very clearly as the collusion of government and industry (business) power.
Where government helps industry IN ANY WAY you have textbook Fascism.
Capitalism however, is a step WORSE.
It's the means for Fascism to take hold.
Immense fortunes buy governments, which is why we formed DEMOCRATIC government to constrain them and their abusive power whose ONLY goal is to impoverish all individuals.
It ALL comes from someone else.
Well, if capitalism is worse you can choose to go to Communist China or North Korea since the USSR fortunately no longer exists. I feel confident the Red Commrades are waiting to welcome you with open arms.
yet.
Incidentally, are you the same courageous airline pilot who saved lives by doing what you had to do by emergency landing your aircraft in the Hudson River. If you are, I salute you. If you are not, good post anyway.
"James McCullough from the mysterious “Council” gives a special assignment to CIA agent Aaron Delgado to attack the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and pin the blame on Muslim Terrorists. Delgado and fellow agents, Phillip Singer and Chase Jordan, work with a group of unsuspecting engineers to develop unmanned jets that will hit their assigned targets.
The Army and the FBI begin to uncover the plot, forcing Delgado to intervene. The CIA agents also have to deal with an increasingly suspicious George Poole, the lead engineer working on the drones, who becomes skeptical on how the remote controlled planes will be used. A battle between good and evil ensues as the plot to attack America becomes a hard-hitting reality." http://vimeo.com/34150493#
When children see some horrible stuff
on a screen they cover their eyes with
their hands.
It is too awful to see, and when they don´t see, it doesn´t exist.
The same attitude that the politicians have with climate change.
You can have Colorado wildfires and
Hurricane Sandy and a few weeks later
the politicians are covering their eyes
again.
A global threat has to be treated on a global level, so it is not enough that we
on the personal level separate our trash
in glass, paper and plastic.
What is the point of having no mortgage,
a job, human rights and healthcare,
if there is no planet.
This is a commentary that is so obvious
that it is nearly embarassing to write.
And this, the most important of all issues for human survival is being
neglected untill it will be too late,
with or without covering the eyes.
Only if EVERYONE appears to be "a problem," will NO ONE be considered so.
The only way to combat being made not to feel safe is to make your enemy-or your would-be oppressor- feel even less so.
Me like America...
Yes, tell me more about the WMDs and the 4,000 killed and 40,000 wounded for the job of finding imaginary WMDs. Those in power have only the interest of the people as a reason to exist.
I'm not goin' to change my life, manner of living, views, conduct or dissemination thereof, or anything else for the wee eyes on the corners.
If they've nothing better to do with their time and huge military/survei llance budget I can't help them -whoever "They" are.
I'm reminded of the scene in the early James Bond movie "From Russia With Love" when two KGB agents are filming Bond (Sean Connery) and his set-up bird from behind a mirror mounted above their hotel bed in Istanbul, whilst Kerim Bey, his MI5 Turkish ally, is eyeballing the KGB meeting room from a periscope in the city sewer below the Russian Embassy.
Spy vs. Spy anybody? The English have been at it for years now?
Silly, childish shit we humans get up to in our one-upmanship in the name o' "National Security", a.k.a., power-brokering for the Corporate or Totalitarian state.
Have a good wank, o' watchers in your towers, but cool it or yer'll go blind!
"Ah, fill the cup: -what boots it to repeat
How time is slipping underneath our Feet:
Unborn To-morrow and dead Yesterday,
Why fret about them if Today be sweet?"
-A wise Persian.
The problem wih a police state is, disagreeing is all it takes to be considered dangerous.
If you're not familiar with Pastor Niemoller's poem, you should be.
It begins (and you can google it by this phrase,) "First they came for..."
When the tool you're holding is a hammer everything looks like a nail.
That's because we understood the underlying truths of capitalism: that it is infinite greed elevated to maximum virtue, and that its denial of economic democracy is the denial of every other form of democracy.
Marx recognized 164 years ago that capitalism is tyranny. Though the term "fascist" did not then exist, he saw its emergence with startling clarity, reasoning that capitalism could sustain itself only by seizing, merging with and eventually becoming the state: precisely what has happened to the United States at every level of government.
Thus capitalist governance has always aspired toward absolute power and unlimited profit for the Ruling Class, total subjugation for everyone else. Thus too the emergence of the modern surveillance state: not merely to control the Working Class, but to grant the Ruling Class the merciless omnipotence it requires to survive the truly unspeakable horrors of the now-unavoidable apocalypse.
How? By the enslavement and/or extermination of everyone else.
The surveillance files? They're merely to determine who gets murdered first -- perhaps to become the nutritional equivalent of Soylent Green.
And what he proposed to replace it with was a workers paradise with its Gulag death camps and 100 million victims according to "The Black Book of Communism" by Stephane Courtois et al.
Please don't tell me if it wasn't for Uncle Joe who perverted Marx's perfect society everything would have turned out wonderfully.
Those are not the only choices.
To suggest it, argues FOR Marx, not against him.
The bottom line is his system was a disaster for 100 Million victims whether you admit it or not.
We had one - her name was Jill Stein.
People believed the antiquated bovine excrement that held you should vote for whom THEY wanted you to, 'to defeat their opponent' - as if there were only one.
Now they can claim "America REJECTED" the list of issues at jillstein.org/i ssues - even when polls show 71% of America agree with those issue positions. Add that 40% of eligible voters DIDN'T VOTE - enough to have easily elected a third party candidate.
We'll have what we do now, and worse, until we realize it takes about HALF your total waking time,every day, to pay attention to what your government is doing - or you get........ this.
You're not free until you realize it.
And ALWAYS against fascist Coal/Gas/Oil corporatists like the execrable Manchin and governor Tomblin.
Those who do not like me already know who I am.
The government already knows; those of other political parties. People at church (the one I walked out on this year) already know.
So, I would like my friends at RSN to know.
I am Elizabeth Dowling. I live in Akron Ohio.
I won't repeat this again and again, because there are still some trolls that I don't particularly like to deal with, but that's what my spam box is for. Please don't try to sell me stuff; I don't buy it. Otherwise, here I am. I am American, and proud of my liberty, and willing to stand up for who I am.
Observe the "US-style Arbeit Macht Frei" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbeit_macht_frei:)
"While there’s an argument for each of those perspectives, one thing is certain: Because the U.S. leads the world in the number of people living behind bars, and because businesses already realize that plentiful, dirt-cheap prison labor could be a panacea, prison labor is not only going to continue, but as more inmates are “harvested,” as more of them are trained in diverse industries, it’s likely to expand exponentially. [...]
The day could come where America’s burgeoning prison population is responsible for a significant amount of the country’s manual labor. Of course, the irony in that is overwhelming. The thought that those “call centers” in India were once considered a major threat to our economy seems almost quaint by comparison."
http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/12/05/the-new-business-modelsteal-a-coat-go-to-jail-make-a-coat-in-prison/
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