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Feinstein Says The Press Needs To Stop Calling Patriot Act Surveillance Program A 'Surveillance Program'

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Redefining English: Senator Feinstein Says The Press Needs To Stop Calling Patriot Act Surveillance Program A 'Surveillance Program'

TechDirt - 9/26/13, Mike Masnick

 

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In an open Senate Intelligence Committee hearing today, in which Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, NSA boss Keith Alexander and Deputy Attorney General James Cole all got to talk up how important spying on everyone is, there was an incredible moment in which Intelligence Committee boss Senator Dianne Feinstein scolded not these bosses of the surveillance program, but the press for calling it a surveillance program.

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Peer-to-Peer Economy Thrives as Activists Vacate the System

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Activist Post - 9/27/13, Eric Blair

 

The Occupy Movement recently celebrated its second anniversary with very little fanfare leaving many to wonder where all the activists went. It seems they, and many anti-establishment activists, are vacating the system rather than occupying it.

Progressives may call it the "sharing economy" while Libertarians may refer to it as Agorism -  a "society in which all relations between people are voluntary exchanges by means of counter-economics, thus engaging in a manner with aspects of peaceful revolution."

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Greenwald, Scahill vow to unmask NSA’s ‘US assassination program’

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RT.com - 9/29/13

 

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US journalists Jeremy Scahill (L) and Glenn Greenwald. (Reuters / Pilar Olivares)

American investigative journalists Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald say they have teamed up to prepare a report on the National Security Agency's role in what one of them described as the "US assassination program."

“The connections between war and surveillance are clear. I don't want to give too much away but Glenn and I are working on a project right now that has at its center how the National Security Agency plays a significant, central role in the US assassination program,” Scahill said in Rio de Janeiro, as cited by Associated Press.  

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Sen. Feinstein unveils her own bill to reform the NSA’s spying practices

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The Washington Post - Brian Fung, 9/26/13

 

U.S. Senate (Select) Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)(L) speaks with Director of National Intelligence James Clapper (2nd L), National Security Agency Director General Keith Alexander and Deputy Attorney General James Cole (R) before they testify at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act legislation on Capitol Hill in Washington, September 26, 2013. REUTERS/Jason Reed (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS)

U.S. Senate (Select) Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) speaks with Director of National Intelligence James Clapper (2nd L), National Security Agency Director General Keith Alexander and Deputy Attorney General James Cole (R) before they testify at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act legislation on Capitol Hill in Washington, Sept. 26, 2013. (REUTERS/Jason Reed)

The movement to change the rules governing the National Security Agency's surveillance activity is picking up steam.

ATT, Verizon, Sprint Are Paid Cash By NSA For Your Private Communications

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Forbes - 9/23/13, Robert Lenzner

 

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The National Security Agency pays AT&T, Verizon and Sprint several hundred million dollars a year for access to 81% of all international phone calls into the US, according to a leaked inspector general’s report, which has been reported by the Washington Post, AP, and the New York Review of Books.

In fact., this secret report says that “NSA maintains relationships with over 100 U.S. companies, underscoring that the U/S. has the “home-field advantage as the primary hub for worldwide communications,”  the New York Review of Books reported in its August 15 issue. These secret cooperative agreements reveal that NSA   pays surveillance fees  to  telcos and phone companies were first made public by Edward Snowden, the former NSA administrator, now  resident in Russia.

Survey examines if belief in God affects belief in extraterrestrials (Video)

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Source: OpenMinds.tv - Alejandro Rojas, 9/26/13

 

 

A new survey shows that atheists and agnostics are 76% more likely than Christians to believe in the existence of extraterrestrial life. Overall 37% of those surveyed were willing to say they believed in the existence of extraterrestrial life, only 21% said they did not believe. However, most people (42%) were reticent to commit either way saying the just aren’t sure.

The survey was conducted by Survata, a market research company. The results were shared on a blog posting on the Survata website, and it points out that throughout history scientific discovery has often been at odds with religious doctrine.

Asking What Kissinger Thinks–but Not What He Did

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Global Research - Peter Hart, 9/24/13

 

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Kissinger’s record haunts him; every so often there are reports about how it interrupts his international travel plans, like in 2001 when a French magistrate sent Kissinger a summons at a Paris hotel, inquiring about Kissinger’s role in the notorious Operation Condor programs of the 1970s. Kissinger promptly left town–and did a series of high-profile media interviews, none of which mentioned the French attempt to question him about human rights abuses (Extra!, 8/01).

The big lie of genetics exposed: human DNA incapable of storing complete blueprint of the human form

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Natural News - 9/28/13, Mike Adams

 

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(NaturalNews) The curse of being a critical thinker is that you can't turn it off, I've discovered. So you become a critical thinker about everything you've been told or taught, and as it turns out, most of what we've all been taught about genetics is a lie.

But don't take my word for it. Join me as we take an honest, critical look at genetics using the same kind of skepticism scientists demand we invoke when looking at medicinal herbs or acupuncture.

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