Light will soon create matter: science

Pat Macpherson, Seth Auberon, Wisdom Quarterly; TheGuardian.com

NSA reform: lawmakers aim to bar U.S. spying agency from weakening encryption

 

Prism. Prism? Prism! Light refracts, just as all the colors of white light contain a rainbow array of information. The NSA wants it all, which means no privacy for anyone in the world. Science will be like that within a year, some scientists claim. Light will soon be converted into matter. Who will stop them? Moreover, who will stop or slow down the National "Security" Agency, the NSA, one U.S. branch of America's spying apparatus. Even if Oversight Committee Chair Feinstein keeps her love spat with the CIA going, nothing much is being done here. Other countries will have to stand up.

Matter will be created from light within a year, scientists claim

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Resisting Putin and other dictators (video)

CC Liu, Irma Quintero, Wisdom Quarterly; DemocracyNow.org; Letters & Politics (KPFA)

Listen to this dumb B ('olshevik). We don't render, naked girl; the CIA renders!

 

Don't render me, bro, don't render me, bro! (F)

It is a day full of breaking stories in Crimea (Ukraine or Russia). Pres. Vlad the Invader Putin is pleasing the crowds in the capital of the former-and-future empire. And does anyone remember Iran's gambit to take three American hostages (later to be used as part of a pretext to invade and occupy Tehran, an inevitability according to John Lear)?

The three were imprisoned and tortured (by extended solitary confinement as defined by the international community as literal "torture" despite the U.S. doing the same and worse to its prisoners on a regular basis) then sold back to the U.S. for a $1.5 million ransom.

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"CIA Spies and Tortured Lies"

Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan

This week’s public "spat" between CIA-loyalist and Spy Oversight Committee Chair Senator Dianne Feinstein (Democrat, California) and that agency (The Company, i.e., the CIA) might briefly upset the status quo. But they will soon make up. Sadly, it obscures a graver problem: the untold story of the United States’ secret policy of torture and "rendition" [White House code for “kidnapping” and sending captives to secret prisons and friendly states to do the dirty business outside of the purview of US oversight]. LISTEN

Snowden docs expose how the NSA "infects" millions of computers and impersonates Facebook server

They're trying to hack everyone on Facebook

(March 17, 2014) New disclosures from Edward Snowden show that the NSA is massively expanding its computer hacking worldwide. Software that automatically hacks into computers -- known as malware "implants" -- had previously been kept to just a few hundred targets. But the news website "The Intercept" (run by Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, and others) reports that the NSA is spreading...
 
READ:  A Sliver of Light (excerpt)

Today Democracy Now! speaks with Sarah Shourd, Shane Bauer, and Joshua Fattal about their new book, A Sliver of Light: Three Americans Imprisoned in Iran. Read an excerpt from Bauer about the day they were arrested on trumped of charges of trespassing into Iran and spying for the U.S.

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Senate hypocrisy: NSA-lover blasts CIA (video)

Wisdom Quarterly; Nermeen Shaikh, DemocracyNow.org, 3/12/14; Phillip Muldari (KPFA)

DARPA created Net for military, uses social media to spy. NSA helps steal our nude images.

 
The spat between the CIA and its congressional "overseers" (actually overlookers since they overlook so much misbehavior) has intensified after California Senator Dianne Feinstein took to the Senate floor to directly accuse the CIA of spying on her overisight committee.

Why was the CIA conducting homeland spying in violation of its charter? It was in an effort to undermine a probe of the CIA’s torture and rendition program by Chairperson Feinstein's Senate committee, the Senate Intelligence Committee.

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Its report has yet to be released but reportedly documents extensive illegal abuses and a cover-up by CIA officials. Feinstein says the CIA broke the law by secretly removing more than 900 documents from computers used by panel investigators. She also accuses the CIA of intimidation in its request of an FBI inquiry of the panel’s conduct. 

America tortures with CIA help and cover-ups

Current CIA Director John Brennan rejects Feinstein’s allegations. Meanwhile, former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden has weighed in by accusing Feinstein of hypocrisy for criticizing alleged CIA spying on U.S. senators but condoning government surveillance of ordinary private citizens. 

Julia Angwin

Democracy Now! hosted a roundtable discussion with three guests: former FBI Agent Mike German, former CIA Analyst Ray McGovern, and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Julia Angwin, author of the new book, Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance. More 

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Split up NSA and Cyber Command leadership?

Pat Macpherson, Pfc. Sandoval, Wisdom Quarterly; Ellen Nakashima (mainstream media propaganda coverage from the Washington Post, 11-29-13)

Rand Paul to be discredited for taking a stand

Key senior administration officials have advocated splitting the leadership of the nation’s largest spy agency from that of the military’s cyberwarfare command as a final White House decision nears, according to individuals briefed on the discussions. At a White House meeting of senior national security officials last week, Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. said he was in favor of ending the current policy of having one official in charge of both the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command, said the individuals, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Also, officials appear inclined to install a civilian as director of the NSA for the first time in the agency’s 61-year history. More 

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