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What exactly is the role of the AIPAC?
Is it merely a lobbying group, or is it an intelligence-gathering network? AIPAC/Israeli government has been caught spying on America, They have broken the most UN treaties.
What gives?
Will Israel get rid of its 150+ Nuclear missiles? (Illegal according to International law)
Will Israel ever give back land it illegally took from Palestinians? (without giving these people a place to live, basically throwing them to the wolves)
Will Israel ever let medical supplies go thru to to save the lives of many innocent Palestinian woman and children? (If that was done to Britain guess what would happen??)
Will Israel ever stop killing innocent people including reporters reporting on whats happening there?
Why does Israel get away with breaking international law, going as far as diminishing the population of the Palestinians by bocking food and much needed medical supplies. Sounds like (and I'm not saying it is) a genocide being carried out by the Israeli government. Remember, its not the people, it is the government committing these atrocious acts.
Israel needs to be accountable for the laws that have been broken, since other countries are always scrutinized, punished and worse for similar crimes.
Not just Israels security, but the worlds security depends on Israel coming clean and giving the Palestinian people a fair deal, a fair deal that will bring a more peaceful world. In my opinion, Israel is the reason for most of the bloodshed in todays world.
And one more thing...anti antisemitism is not the criticizing of the government or people, it is the hate and racism toward them. Therefore, it is not an acceptable argument with this writer since there is no hate nor racism inferred and I have many friends from many nations, including Israel and Palestine.
We just want peace.
Part 2 is on the linked site....plus more
What exactly is the role of the AIPAC?
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From ReadWriteWeb: Ethically challenged physics researcher Cesar Hidalgo used cell phone towers to track the locations of more than 100,000 people whenever they made or received phone calls and SMS over a six month time period. Hidalgo and fellow researchers used the installed tracking technology in the phones of another 206 unwitting people, checking in on where they were every two hours. The conclusion: most people don't go that far from home in their every day lives. Almost half of the people tracked generally stayed within the same six mile area. Shocking, isn't it? Now just imagine what they could find out if people were given implants unknowingly.From ReadWriteWeb: Ethically challenged physics researcher Cesar Hidalgo used cell... more
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President Bush and his top aides repeatedly exaggerated what they knew about the threat from Iraqi nuclear, biological and chemical weapons as the administration pressed its case for war against Iraq, the Senate intelligence committee said today in a long-awaited report.
They lied ... Bush lied. Not only that, they lied to the world. What are Americans going to do about it? Sit back and let it happen again? Let's hope Obama wins and brings the change he has been talking about. America needs a strong and honest leader to take the world in a better direction.President Bush and his top aides repeatedly exaggerated what they knew about the... more
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A study???
Researchers secretly tracked the locations of 100,000 people outside the United States through their cell phone use and concluded that most people rarely stray more than a few miles from home.
The first-of-its-kind study by Northeastern University raises privacy and ethical questions for its monitoring methods, which would be illegal in the United States.
I think its more of a "Practice" so the men in black get it down pat to indiscriminately spy on everyone. Darn, we lose more and more of our private lives every day.A study???
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Outrageous spying bill
"It’s okay to break the law if the President tells you it’s okay."
That’s the outrageous proposition at the heart of a new spying “compromise” that Republican Senator Christopher Bond is pushing on Capitol Hill.
His goal: to let off the hook telecommunications companies that willfully cooperated with illegal spying.
Senator Bond wants to bury lawsuits filed against telecom companies in a secret court. And, when they get there, he wants cases dismissed if the companies can show that the President gave them a note saying his request for customer information was legal.
He just might get away with it unless we can convince Congress to reject his proposal.
Tell your representative: Just because the president says it's legal doesn't make it so! Take action at:
https://secure.aclu.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&id=911&page=UserActionOutrageous spying bill
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An Iranian-born Israeli has been arrested and charged by the Israeli authorities with spying for Iran, police say.
The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, allegedly confessed to passing information to Iranian agents in Turkey while in Istanbul in 2006.
Charges were pressed behind closed doors and no other details were given.
Last year, Israel's Shin Bet security agency said it had foiled an Iranian plot to recruit Israelis as spies.
Earlier this year, an Israeli army psychiatrist, David Shamir, received a five-year prison sentence for attempting to make contact with foreign powers including Iran, with a view to selling them classified defence information.An Iranian-born Israeli has been arrested and charged by the Israeli authorities with... more
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A new system that monitors your Internet activity in detail, and is possibly illegal under UK data protection laws, could be in widespread use within months. In fact it is already being used by three of the biggest Internet Service Providers in the UK.
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By Blank DeCoverly
BLF Minister of Propaganda
The Billboard Liberation Front [has] a major new advertising improvement campaign executed on behalf of clients AT&T and the National Security Agency. Focusing on billboards in the San Francisco area, this improvement action is designed to promote and celebrate the innovative collaboration of these two global communications giants.
“This campaign is an extraordinary rendition of a public-private partnership,” observed BLF spokesperson Blank DeCoverly. “These two titans of telecom have a long and intimate relationship, dating back to the age of the telegraph. In these dark days of Terrorism, that should be a comfort to every law-abiding citizen with nothing to hide.”
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Full story at link.By Blank DeCoverly
BLF Minister of Propaganda
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Agency Violated Charter for 25 Years,
Wiretapped Journalists and Dissidents
Update - Full Report Now Available and Full Text Searchable
CIA Announces Declassification of 1970s "Skeletons" File,
Archive Posts Justice Department Summary from 1975,
With White House Memcons on Damage Control
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You guys gotta check these declassified documents out. Domestic surveillance of Anti War protesters is nothing new. They have been working in this manner since Nixon. We have all been living in a bubble or a lie if we think that the government knows much more than their letting on to about domestic surveillance.Agency Violated Charter for 25 Years,
Wiretapped Journalists and Dissidents
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Researchers have developed ways to connect tiny electrodes to the neural system of insects.
This allows for control of flight and even can take input from the eyes!!!
Combining Insects and robots may make more effective systems, but are there any ethical concerns here? And where do we draw the line? If the technology exists to take over the control of higher forms of mammal or marine life, what then? Or is this already happenning? And who decides?Researchers have developed ways to connect tiny electrodes to the neural system of... more
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What's scary, funny and boring at the same time? It could be a bad horror movie. Or it could be the fine print on your Internet service provider's contract.
Those documents you agree to — usually without reading — ostensibly allow your ISP to watch how you use the Internet, read your e-mail or keep you from visiting sites it deems inappropriate. Some reserve the right to block traffic and, for any reason, cut off a service that many users now find essential.
The Associated Press reviewed the "Acceptable Use Policies" and "Terms of Service" of the nation's 10 largest ISPs — in all, 117 pages of contracts that leave few rights for subscribers.
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Gordon Brown has demanded the scrapping of longstanding plans for a clampdown on newspapers that illegally buy personal data, such as health, bank and telephone records, the Guardian reports.
There has been a campaign by leading newspapers, including representatives of the Daily Mail, News International and the Telegraph, to lobby the prime minister about the bill and critics say that Brown has bowed to this pressure.
This kind of press behaviour has already been illegal for 15 years, but because the current penalties are only fines, the law has been widely flouted.
Last year a News of the World reporter was jailed under existing laws for hacking into royal telephone messages in pursuit of gossip.
A spokesman for the Daily Mail said "If the legislation were to proceed, Britain would be virtually the only civilised country in the world where journalists and editors could be jailed for doing their job. These views have made known to the prime minister and the minister of justice by senior industry figures."
There have been reports of rows in Whitehall over the threatened U-turn. One senior Whitehall source said last night: "These media barons - just how much power do they have?"
The government's sudden retreat also drew criticism last night from the information commissioner, Richard Thomas, who said it was vital to stand firm against "powerful last-ditch efforts" by the media to derail new laws.
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The Oregon lady has accused the recording industry's campaign of threatening and intimidating innocent people, and of racketeering and fraud. The new lawsuit charges the industry representatives (RIAA) and the company it hired, MediaSentry, of spying 'by unlicensed, unregistered and uncertified private investigators' who 'have illegally entered the hard drives of tens of thousands of private American citizens' in violation of laws 'in virtually every state in the country'.
The complainant is Tanya Andersen, a 41-year-old disabled single mother. Lory Lybeck, her attorney said the lawsuit will also force the industry to reveal how extensive its spying has become.The Oregon lady has accused the recording industry's campaign of threatening and... more
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New email from DFA: Dear Angelina,
What is wrong with our Senate leadership?
Three times now, DFA members like you and me have made phone calls demanding Senators stand up to the Bush administration and pass a FISA bill without granting immunity to telecommunication companies who spied on innocent Americans.
Each time, Washington insiders predicted that we would fail to stop it. And because of you, each time the insiders were wrong.
But President Bush is determined to get telecom immunity passed before he leaves office because he knows the lawsuits against AT&T and Verizon are America's last chance to hold the Bush administration accountable for spying on you. He's even promised to veto any FISA reform bill that doesn't let his cronies off the hook.
How many Americans will die in Iraq while the Senate spends another worthless day fighting over a flawed bill that only the President and his friends want passed? How many children will continue to go without health insurance because the Senate is too busy helping AT&T instead of fighting to expand S-CHIP or provide health care for all?
Why is a "get out of jail free" card for Verizon more important than stopping global warming?
It's time to take FISA reform off the table until America elects a new President next November. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid could end this once and for all -- today.
Call Senator Reid right now and demand: No new FISA reforms while President Bush is still in office.
Democratic Majority Leader
Senator Harry Reid
(202) 224-3542
Suggested Script:
"Take telecom immunity off the table. Pull the FISA reform bill and extend current law until President Bush leaves office. The U.S. Senate has more important work to get done than figure out how to let AT&T get away with spying on Americans."
Please report your call here:
www.DemocracyforAmerica.com/reportfisacalls
Wait! Don't stop there. Contact your senators too! They need to know where you stand. Senator Reid is more likely to stand strong if your senator stands with him. Please call your senators now:
Senator Barbara Boxer
(202) 224-3553
Senator Dianne Feinstein
(202) 224-3841
Don't forget to report how your calls went here:
www.DemocracyforAmerica.com/reportfisacalls
Washington insiders say we can't stop this bill. Maybe they are right, but we've heard it before. Let's see what they are saying after you and I and our progressive community make thousands of calls today.
We will stand up to President Bush today. Together, we'll demand the Senate follows our lead.
Thank you for everything you do,
-Charles
Charles Chamberlain
Political Director
New email from DFA: Dear Angelina,
What is wrong with our Senate leadership?... more
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The Protect America Act could be a massive win for terrorists or foreign security services by providing one target to subvert with a huge payoff, say security researchers:
By diverting the flow of so much domestic data into a few massive pools, the administration may have built 'for its opponents something that would be too expensive for them to build for themselves', say the authors: 'a system that lets them see the US's intelligence interests...[and] that might be turned' to exploit conversations and information useful for plotting an attack on the United States.
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Here's an interesting Op Ed from the NY Times today written by Thomas H. Kean and Lee H. Hamilton who served as chairman and vice chairman, respectively, of the 9/11 commission. It's about how the newspaper asked the CIA numerous times for information after the law was put into effect to release all information about these serious attacks on America.
Don't get me wrong, I love my country as I love my wife. But the lies and deceitfulness incorporated into many facets of our Government needs to be stopped dead in its tracks.
Lies from the city, county, state governments to lies on Capital Hill. Lies that put people in prisons, Lies that keep people in prisons, Lies that keep people below poverty level, lies, lies and lies. Lies about our Social Security system AND Numbers. The old SS Cards had a disclaimer on the bottom that said: The SS# Will never be used for Identification purposes.
Now we are merely a number with our government. Furthermore, the SS system is unfortunately broken. Another major lie is that SS helps people after retirement or if they are disabled. Some, but not all that deserve it.
Lies.
This CIA bit really brings out the problem the people of our country need to address when the votes start. We need to lobby for laws making lies by our government officials a major felony without any pardoning (look at the Valery Plame case, what a crock that turned out to be with 'Scooter' getting pardoned!) We need to clean up the governments act and hold people responsible for their lies. On every level of government. Lies from a prosecuting attorney to get someone convicted? Give that attorney the max the law provides for the crime he was prosecuting. A rule/law like this for every level in government would almost stop the lies. Lets call it the SLAM law: Stop Lies in America More
Read the article and comment back on how we can clean our government up. It's all summed up in the last paragraph there.....
"What we do know is that government officials decided not to inform a lawfully constituted body, created by Congress and the president, to investigate one the greatest tragedies to confront this country. We call that obstruction."
I call it a terrible and destructive evil that is tearing our Government apart.
Here's an interesting Op Ed from the NY Times today written by Thomas H. Kean and... more
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I've just noticed this handy little feature. If you ever want to sell yourself to the devil and don't know where to find your most personal data, just head over to Google.com/history where you'll find everything precious to you stored neatly and efficiently.
Google know every single search query you've ever pumped into their magical little box, and the information they have is identifiable to you personally. I for example have been "on record" since January 2006 when I signed away my life for a gmail account. During that time Google have learned more about me than I have.
They know when I surf the most, what time of day is peak surfing time, what day of the week is peak surf time, they know what my favorite sites are, they know what my favorite search queries are, they know it all! More over its even posted on a nice neat little graph, including "Top Sites" "Top Clicks" and "Top Queries".
http://www.google.com/history/trends
I have to admit that upon my discovery of this "feature" I immediately felt a little naked, as if I'd just been mugged in the street for the clothes I stand up in and even my soul (in a digital .xls format).
Anyone else a little concerned by this?I've just noticed this handy little feature. If you ever want to sell yourself to... more
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I swear to you there are times I read articles and I literally get so incensed I cannot find my breath. This is one of those times. We can no longer say 1984 is coming... it is already here on our doorstep, literally. For the life of me I cannot understand how these people are getting away with what they are doing to kill our Democracy. To me, Homeland Security (and the word "Homeland" used in this context is a word that makes me uncomfortable because it is too synonymous with another era in time not too long ago) is nothing more than Bush's SS. And you know, I might be open to some surveillance within the law, but they have NO RIGHT coming into my home and spying on Americans! Boeing and companies like them are raking in the profits at the expense of our freedoms. And again, where is the mainstream media? Telling us who won "Dancing With The Stars."///// From the link:////by Tim Shorrock , Special to CorpWatch /////November 27th, 2007/////
Cartoon by Khalil Bendib/////A new intelligence institution to be inaugurated soon by the Bush administration will allow government spying agencies to conduct broad surveillance and reconnaissance inside the United States for the first time. Under a proposal being reviewed by Congress, a National Applications Office (NAO) will be established to coordinate how the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and domestic law enforcement and rescue agencies use imagery and communications intelligence picked up by U.S. spy satellites. If the plan goes forward, the NAO will create the legal mechanism for an unprecedented degree of domestic intelligence gathering that would make the U.S. one of the world's most closely monitored nations. Until now, domestic use of electronic intelligence from spy satellites was limited to scientific agencies with no responsibility for national security or law enforcement./////The intelligence-sharing system to be managed by the NAO will rely heavily on private contractors including Boeing, BAE Systems, L-3 Communications and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). These companies already provide technology and personnel to U.S. agencies involved in foreign intelligence, and the NAO greatly expands their markets. Indeed, at an intelligence conference in San Antonio, Texas, last month, the titans of the industry were actively lobbying intelligence officials to buy products specifically designed for domestic surveillance.////end of excerpt.
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It is interesting to see that as technology advances our privacy rights as citizens diminish. It is interesting to see that as technology advances our privacy rights as citizens... more
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