World-News

Major sectors of the US economy are reporting financial damage as the recent revelations shake consumer confidence and US trade partners distance themselves from companies that may have been compromised by the NSA or, worse, are secretly collaborating with the spy agency.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/how-nsa-mass-surveillance-hurting-us-economy



CNN whitewashes NSA Tracking EVERYONE s Cell Phone

Video report
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oABQsmRfUxY&feature=youtu.be



World s leading authors: state surveillance of personal data is theft

500 signatories include five Nobel prize winners, Writers demand 'digital bill of rights' to curb abuses.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/10/surveillance-theft-worlds-leading-authors



Intel Contractors Give Millions to Lawmakers Overseeing Government Surveillance

Analysis of campaign contributions from political action committees (PACs) and individuals from the top 20 intelligence services contractors working with the Department of Defense, ranked by total value of contracts received, to members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

http://maplight.org/content/73373



Federal Judge Says NSA Program Appears to Violate Constitution

By Pete Williams

A federal judge rules that the National Security Agency s program of gathering data on all telephone calls made in the US is unconstitutional.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37143.htm



Tech executives to Obama: NSA spying revelations are hurting business

Leaders of the nation's biggest technology firms warned President Obama during a lengthy meeting at the White House on Tuesday that National Security Agency spying programs are damaging their reputations and could harm the broader economy.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/2013/12/17/6569b226-6734-11e3-a0b9-249bbb34602c_story.html



The Sordid Roots of the National-Security State

By Jacob G. Hornberger

We have all been inculcated with the notion that the enormous military empire, CIA, and NSA are a necessary and permanent part of our lives.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37179.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Demand an End to Mass Surveillance: Support the People s Principles
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/11/27-5

World Fights Back Against the Biggest Brother in History
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/11/29-1

UN to Investigate 'Unqualified Secrecy' of US, UK Spy Agencies
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/02-5

Australian Spy Agency Goes 'Orwellian' with Nation's Privacy Laws
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/02-0

Nation s Libraries Warn of NSA s 'Ravenous Hunger' for Data
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/04-6

Docs Show NSA Infiltrates Digital Playlands
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/09-0

Amnesty International Brings Claim Against UK Over State Surveillance
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/12/09-1

Greenwald Reveals 'Crux' of NSA Spying: The 'Elimination of Individual Privacy Worldwide'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/18-2

The NSA Review Panel Didn t Answer the Real Question: Was Any of This Legal?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/19-10

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?1984? as Instruction Manual
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/12/peter-van-buren/1984-as-instruction-manual/

State Surveillance of Personal Data: What is the Society we Wish to Protect?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/12/no_author/our-masters-delusional-nightmare/

On Persuading the Faithful To Reject the National Security State
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/12/scott-lazarowitz/jfk-iran-israel/

Almost Orwellian?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/12/andrew-p-napolitano/almost-orwellian/

The NSA and CIA are Criminal Enterprises
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/01/no_author/forget-the-goodfellas/

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Obama s national security state

CounterPunch
by Norman Pollock

12/17/13

Welcome, then, to Fortress America, Obama s Kafkaesque Castle, in which the impenetrability of government is intimately associated with secretiveness...

http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/12/17/obamas-national-security-state/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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