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WendyMcElroy.Com
by Wendy McElroy

10/20/09

Those who believe Obama wants peace simply do not get it. Those who blame Bush — a man richly deserving hf..., IMO — are closing their eyes to the fact that Obama has merely continued Bush’s war-mongering rights-busting ways. The bottom line … it doesn’t matter whether Bush or Obama are in office; it doesn’t matter whether the President is Republican or Democrat. All governments act to maintain their own power and the greatest threat is always from their own dissenting citizenry. An extreme militarization of police departments has occurred over the past several years and it is criminally naive to believe that this extraordinary state power will not be turned against dissenters...

https://www.wendymcelroy.com/news.php?extend.2801

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bush+legacy
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bipartisan
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=militarization
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=dissenter
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Wendy+McElroy

rudkla - 21. Okt, 10:26

The Urgent Need to Demilitarize the National Security State

Melvin A. Goodman, Truthout: "The president has addressed the problem incrementally, reducing growth in spending in his first defense budget, establishing a timeline for withdrawal of American military forces in Iraq, returning to arms control negotiations with Russia and supporting international diplomacy in dealing with such problems as Iran's nuclear program."

https://www.truthout.org/1020095

https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=national+security
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=defense+budget
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+withdraw
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Melvin+A.+Goodman

rudkla - 21. Okt, 09:59

Boni an der Wall Street um 40 Prozent höher als letztes Jahr

Goldman Sachs zahlt Boni in fast der Höhe wie im Rekordjahr 2007.
https://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/146390

https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bonus
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Wall+Street
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rudkla - 21. Okt, 09:53

U.S. Spies Buy Stake in Firm That Monitors Blogs, Tweets

By Noah Shachtman

America's spy agencies want to read your blog posts, keep track of your Twitter updates - even check out your book reviews on Amazon. In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putting cash into Visible Technologies, a software firm that specializes in monitoring social media.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23768.htm

Judge rules FBI can continue to gag recipient of National Security Letter

Under the Patriot Act, the FBI can use such letters to demand personal records about customers from internet providers, financial institutions and credit card companies without a warrant, and then keep the companies from disclosing even that they'd received such a letter.

https://snipurl.com/sn0xx

US spies invest in internet monitoring technology

American spies are investing in technology designed to monitor websites including blogs, Twitter, YouTube and even reading habits on Amazon.

https://snipurl.com/sn0y9

From Information Clearing House

https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Patriot+Act+Provisions
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=spying
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=warrant
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Noah+Shachtman

rudkla - 21. Okt, 09:35