Even If You're Disconnected from the Internet, You're Porn is Still Not Safe

Staff Writer, DL Mullan

News / Government

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Thought that headline might get your attention. The United States government has other ways to spy on you instead of breaking into encrypted routers and using Microsoft and other software updates to send them the information they need about your habits.

Okay, so the government already knows about your porn.

In the article, NSA able to target offline computers using radio-waves for surveillance, cyber-attacks, Russia Today details how the National Security Agency uses USB devices and other connections to spy on at least 100,000 computers worldwide. 

A 2008 map, revealed in the Snowden leaks, offers 20 programs to gain access to major fiber optic cables in the US and places like Hong Kong and the Middle East. The map indicates that the US has already conducted “more than 50,000 worldwide implants.” Though a more recent budget document said that by the end of 2013, the figure would be at around 85,000. A senior officials told The Times the figure was more like 100,000.

This unlimited power seems to be getting a little more than creepy, isn't it?

“What’s new here is the scale and the sophistication of the intelligence agency’s ability to get into computers and networks to which no one has ever had access before,” James Andrew Lewis, cyber security expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, told The Times. “Some of these capabilities have been around for a while, but the combination of learning how to penetrate systems to insert software and learning how to do that using radio frequencies has given the U.S. a window it’s never had before.”

Like maybe Chinese military secrets? No? Still think the NSA is after your porn? Think again.

How many breaches in security of top retailers have been happening over the last few years? Millions of people's personal information, banking account numbers, pin numbers, credit card numbers have been stolen during the height of the shopping seasons. All to make you afraid and that you need the government's help protecting you from the very people who are most likely causing the breaches.

The NSA is gathering massive information on everyone against their protected rights and privacy. You may wonder why the United States government would create such mayhem? Well, let's break it down.

The U.S. government launched a worm into Iranian computers at a nuclear facility a few years back. "Computer security experts who began studying the worm, which had been developed by the United States and Israel, gave it a name: Stuxnet." Then the very government who unleashed the computer virus could not control it and the U.S.-made Stuxnet became a real threat to water treatment and other government facilities here in America.  Smart bunch that is.

We can agree that the United States has the programming capability and technology to do damage across the globe with worms, break into encrypted routers, enter into computers via USB devices and radio waves. 

Congress has tried to pass laws like SOPA, CISPA for years now in order to gain complete and utter control of the internet. With TPP, the United States is trying ways to circumvent the public outrage associated with governmental controls on the free internet and free speech. 

What is the best way to convince Americans to allow the government to walk all over them and take their rights away? Create a horrible situation for the people to react to and demand resolution... of course, at the cost of a little more of their freedoms will the government fix what they broke.

Cyber attacks on retailers. Stealing the personal information of shoppers. The United States government has the means, motive, and opportunity to create events that will lead up to a huge breach and public outcry.

Problem, reaction, solution, the government's modus operandi for passing legislation against the American people. 

Oh and it's for the "common good." Really? For whom?

So if you really want to safeguard your porn, then you best be hiding it under your mattress because the United States government appears to be hell bent on filing your dirty little secrets away for a rainy day and if that doesn't work, well, then we'll have a fake cyber attack so you will hand over all of your last remaining rights and pride to the big hypocrites in Washington, D.C.

Source: Russia Today, CBS News, New York Times,

Mad Canadians Call for Intercontinental Action Against Corporate Trade Agreements

Staff Writer, DL Mullan

Trade Agreements / Treaties / Government

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We can tease and make fun of Canadian sensibilities and stereotypes all day long but the fact is residents of Canada are piping mad.

NAFTA, WTO, TPP, and now CETA... Who could blame them?

According to the Trade Justice Network, CETA is: 

The Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement is being negotiated as a “next-generation” free trade deal that goes beyond NAFTA and the WTO in shielding corporate activity from government controls. The draft agreement includes extensive chapters on services and investment, government procurement, intellectual property, and standards and regulations. It will also contain a controversial NAFTA-like investor-state dispute process that allows corporations from Europe to directly challenge and sometimes overturn Canadian laws that interfere with profits – even for public health or environmental reasons.

So on January 31, 2014, there is a call for an Intercontinental Day of Action! Here's how you can participate in your local area to bring awareness and help stop these horrible trade agreements and treaties from becoming laws in your country. 

No more NAFTA — 20 Years is Enough!
This is a call to action for communities throughout Mexico, Canada and the United States to join together on January 31, 2014, and say “ENOUGH!” to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the pending Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and other corporate “trade” deals. Solidarity actions elsewhere throughout the globe are also welcome.

January 2014 marks the twenty-year anniversary of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), a pact that has had devastating consequences for working families, small farmers, indigenous peoples, small business and the environment in all three countries and beyond. The pending Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has been described as “NAFTA on Steroids.” Four years into the TPP negotiations, this new corporate power grab threatens to:

• Destroy livelihoods and accelerate the global race to the bottom in wages and working conditions
• Further commodify agriculture, trample food sovereignty, hurt small farmers and contribute to forced migration
• Enable new corporate attacks on democratically-enacted environmental and consumer protections
• Undermine global economic stability by prohibiting effective regulation of financial markets
• Reduce access to life-saving generic medications, increase the costs of prescriptions, and restrict freedom on the Internet

The harm that NAFTA has already cost our communities, and the new threats that the TPP poses, must be both acknowledged and resisted. We also need to spread the word that since NAFTA, when people have come together across issue areas and across geographic borders, we have defeated similar corporate power grabs like the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI), the Millennial Round of the World Trade Organization, and the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). We will do so again with the TPP.

We are calling on you to attend, and ideally help organize, a demonstration against NAFTA and the TPP in your community. An international march is already planned for Mexico City, and people are already beginning to organize actions in other cities.

Get involved now and save humanity from more globalist catastrophes.

Source: Trade Justice Network

The Economics of a Real Life Monopoly Game

Staff Writer, DL Mullan

Economics / Government

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Well the bets are in: it looks like another down turn for the economy after the first of the year according to a Reuters article: 

"There may come a point where the financial markets say none of their debt is credible anymore and they can't finance themselves," Eugene F. Fama, one of the three Americans who won this year's Nobel prize, told Reuters in the snow-covered Swedish capital, where he will receive his prize on Tuesday. "If there is another recession, it is going to be worldwide."

Let me get this straight. The unbacked, fiat currencies the world uses at the behest of global banking syndicates to inflate money, cause devaluation, and create mountains of debt is not credible and unable to finance the world?

Get that Peace Prize out of your ear, a third grader could have told us that. It's called: Monopoly. It's a board game with fake money to pay for cars, land, buildings, and sometimes to get you out of jail. Sound familiar?

It's exactly what has been happening in the world for decades. Some group of disturbed individuals has decided that globalism is the way to go for economics, law, and education. In the 1980's as China was in a recession and Japan was in a deep depression for over a decade, the US seemed impervious to their economic decline.

Thanks to treasonous "Trade Agreements" and "Treaties," the US has seen it's economic powerhouse dissolve into the Wall Street Gambling Casino, To Big To Fail Bank Drug Laundering Establishments, and the Military-Industrial Complex No Bid Contract Schemes.
 

Report: $8.5 trillion unaccounted for by Pentagon; $5.8 billion of supplies lost... and Special Report: The Pentagon's doctored ledgers conceal epic waste from Reuters.
 

In the article, Money Laundering and The Drug Trade: The Role of the Banks. We discover that "HSBC, Western Union, Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase&Co, Citigroup, Wachovia amongst many others have allegedly failed to comply with American anti-money laundering (AML) laws."
  

Viewpoint: How Wall Street Rigs the Game by Time Business and Money stated that:

Also consider where the gambling takes place. In a real casino, it is on a casino floor with cameras all over the place. Even if you don’t like Las Vegas gambling, it is regulated. On Wall Street, by contrast, the gambling can be moved to a darkened room where nothing is recorded, observed or tracked. With opaque unregulated derivatives, there are no cameras. In this smoke-filled room, there is maximum temptation to try to exploit unsophisticated investors and conflicts of interest. And this temptation and lack of transparency are what led to the global financial crisis in 2008.

(Tell the Truth: you thought I was making the news up, didn't you? Sorry, just the facts.)

So the whole wide world with no economic boundaries to stop devastating collapse of monetary systems and nations is unsustainable? Yep, just like sustainability itself. The globe is a giant game of Monopoly to a few elites. With Geitner and other oligarchic cronies pushing other countries to deregulate their banking and housing laws prior to the 2008 collapse, the game was set.

However, unlike the elites, many people could not hedge their bets. People lost their homes, their possessions, and their livelihoods. Everything.

What's worse is that this economic globalist catastrophe was done on purpose. Someone needs to go to jail. Let's rephrase that: Lots of people need to go to jail.

In Monopoly like in this current fascist reality, these criminals keep producing the "Get out of Jail Free" card.

The cure for continued economic duplicity and terrorism: no more adhering to "Trade Agreements" or "Treaties" that do not hold protectionist clauses for America, her workers, or her economic stability. No more gambling of people's money through Wall Street. No more laundering drug money via banks. No more money goes to the Pentagon until someone learns to add and subtract.

It is a very rudimentary formula. Any economist would understand it, even one who has won the Noble Peace Prize. Well so did our President and he kills women and children near daily in other countries via drones. Therefore, little hope can be bestowed on anyone to mitigate the coming economic depression of 2014.

Instead of implementing real solutions, we will praise our American economists for their shiny new toys. Meanwhile back in the states, Americans will have their pensions looted and their homes foreclosed on. It's just another day in AmeriKa.

Don't you wish we could go back to a time before the egomaniacs hell bent on global domination gained control of our nation?


Sources... all of the above.