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It has been proven and is now being attacked by a Federal Judge that the spying on all Americans through a Data Collection Center is unconstitutional. This is a sensitive topic and as political posting, is relevant to Prepping.

The use of executive orders in a crisis, where disasters have  near equal priority with an attack on our country, can result in taking what food is stored and using it for the military and also distributing it to others, is serious in terms of what will happen in a Pandemic. The database of information could be used to identify those with food stores and target them.

The center is a reality and I have tried to post on this before. Of course the brouhaha since Edward Snowden defection to the Russians is the tip of the iceberg. Snowden is now prepared to help Brazil against the U.S. He  was probably one of the greatest whistle blowers in U.S. history and revealed an in depth look at the spying.

Some of the democratic press is in attack mode on the recent ruling and congress and is unlikely to pass a bill supporting a clear violation of the 4th amendment of the Constitution.  When every phone is monitored, every e-mail stored in a nation, that is highly dependent in multiple aspects of their daily lives, we have entered the realms of 1984.

In terms of posting private national security data, this is all over the net and news.  It is not a secret anymore.

http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/reawakening-liberty/2013/dec/17/mr-obama-tear-down-data-center/

TAMPA, December 17, 2013 – A federal judge’s ruling Monday confirmed what a majority of Americans already knew. The National Security Agency’s indiscriminate gathering of data on every phone call made in the United States is unconstitutional. Calling the government’s data gathering technology “almost Orwellian,” Judge Richard Leon said that James Madison would be “aghast” if he knew the government was encroaching upon liberty in such a way.

According to USA Today, he also pointed out another thing most Americans already knew. The program never has and likely never will prevent a terrorist attack.

“Given the limited record before me at this point in the litigation — most notably the utter lack of evidence that a terrorist attack has ever been prevented because searching the NSA database was faster than other investigative tactics — I have serious doubts about the efficacy of the metadata collection program as a means of conducting time-sensitive investigations in cases involving imminent threats of terrorism,” the judge said.

comment: What about the Al Queda (Toilet Bowl) that this incredible monitoring was justified?

http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/reawakening-liberty/2013/dec/11/washingtons-al-qaeda-doesnt-exist-and-never-did/

Washington’s Al Qaeda doesn’t exist and never did

TAMPA, December 11, 2013 — For twelve years, the Bush and Obama Administrations have promoted a narrative about the War on Terror. It has changed slightly in superficial ways, as when President Obama gave it a new name, but the crux of the narrative has not changed. The United States is fighting a war against a worldwide terrorist organization called al-Qaeda, formerly headed by über-terrorist Osama bin Laden.

Americans are led to believe that this organization has a single mission against the United States and is directed by a hierarchy of terrorist leaders, all reporting up to a senior command located somewhere in Afghanistan. Many of the lawmakers and cabinet personnel who promote this narrative likely believe it themselves, at least to some degree.

Washington sees al-Qaeda the way it sees itself, a centralized, top-down hierarchy with a chain of command reporting up from every corner of the earth. It makes for a good story, but it’s not even remotely true. Virtually every incident involving this fictional organization refutes the narrative.

Veteran reporter Eric Margolis never believed it. He’s been reporting on the true nature of the Islamic militant groups from the very beginning. He should know what he’s talking about. He was embedded in Afghanistan in the 1980’s when bin Laden and what is now al-Qaeda and the Taliban were U.S. allies, fighting the Soviet Union.

For what it’s worth, bin Laden and other Islamic militants apparently regarded Margolis’ reporting as accurate. He was named as one of a small group of reporters who “fairly and accurately reported on the region” in alleged al-Qaeda letters released last year.

Commenting on that release in “Osama’s Almost Letter to Me,” Margolis wrote, “Al-Qaida was not founded by Osama bin Laden, as many wrongly believe, but in the mid-1980’s in Peshawar, Pakistan, by a revolutionary scholar, Sheik Abdullah Azzam. I know this because I interviewed Azzam numerous times at al-Qaida HQ in Peshawar while covering the anti-Soviet jihad in Afghanistan. Azzam set up al-Qaida, which means ‘the base’ in Arabic, to help CIA and Saudi-financed Arab volunteers going to fight in Soviet-occupied Afghanistan. In those days, the west hailed them as ‘freedom fighters.’”

Conclusion: So, AFT readers and posters, reactions requested on the existence of a data center which there is  photo of published by the Washington Times. Has any government in history once it gets this amount of power ever given it up willingly? 

As to the "Toilet bowl", there is information here.

https://theupliftingcrane.wordpress.com/2010/01/14/al-qaedas-arabic-translation-is-toilet/

“The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al Qaida. And any informed intelligence officer knows this. But there is a propaganda campaign to make the public believe in the presence of an identified entity representing the ‘devil’ only in order to drive the TV watcher to accept a unified international leadership for a war against terrorism. The country behind this propaganda is the US.” ~ Former British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook
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http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/24/us/edward-snowden-interview/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/edward-snowden-after-months-of-nsa-revelations-says-his-missions-accomplished/2013/12/23/49fc36de-6c1c-11e3-a523-fe73f0ff6b8d_story.html?hpid=z1

http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2013/06/opinion/snowden-reax/index.html?iid=article_sidebar

comment: It would appear the tables are turning in regards to the disclosure of sensitive documents to the U.S. media by Edward Snowden.

President Obama, at his refuge in Hawaii, is currently drafting a plan to address the situation.

The intelligence agencies were warned by a private citizen who was online with one of the terrorists in the week before  the attack. The report was ignored and no action was taken to investigate the information which could have saved many lives and stopped the attack.

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The invasion of privacy and violation of the 4th amendment of the Constitution was restated by a Federal judge and it remains to be seen if the surveillance of every phone call and email in the U.S. will be addressed. 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/judge-nsas-collecting-of-phone-records-is-likely-unconstitutional/2013/12/16/6e098eda-6688-11e3-a0b9-249bbb34602c_story.html

The civil action which was ruled on :

http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/world/federal-judge-rules-nsa-program-is-likely-unconstitutional/668/



If the policy continues, it will include more intensive surveillance of veterans who are one of the key targets as individuals marked as potential terrorists. Veterans continue to take a hit by new legislation to reduce pensions and draconian cuts.

Many  of the main media sites include not only a single news report, but areas covering news about Edward Snowden today on Christmas Eve.  One wonders why, the day before Christmas in the U.S.?

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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jan/9/obama-expected-to-curb-nsa-access-to-phone-records/

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is expected to rein in spying on foreign leaders and is considering restricting National Security Agency access to Americans’ phone records, according to people familiar with a White House review of the government’s surveillance programs.

Obama could unveil his highly anticipated decisions as early as next week. On Thursday, the president is expected to discuss his review with congressional lawmakers, while his top lawyer plans to meet with privacy groups. Representatives from tech companies are meeting with White House staff on Friday.

The White House says Obama is still collecting information before making final decisions.

Among the changes Obama is expected to announce is more oversight of the National Intelligence Priorities Framework, a classified document that ranks U.S. intelligence-gathering priorities and is used to make decisions on scrutiny of foreign leaders. A presidential review board has recommended increasing the number of policy officials who help establish those priorities, and that could result in limits on surveillance of allies.

Documents released by former National Security Agency systems analyst Edward Snowden revealed that the U.S. was monitoring the communications of several friendly foreign leaders, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The revelations outraged Merkel as well as other leaders, and U.S. officials say the disclosures have damaged Obama’s relations around the world.


comment: the basic issue of the violation of the American constitution by illegal search and seizure in harvesting data from all emails and phone calls of U.S. citizens has not been forgotten by the American people.  In a nation where discoveries are eventually forgotten by the majority of the people and polls, this one will not be.

Winning back the trust of the American people and businesses whose computers and networks were infiltrated and monitored will be a challenge.  The trade off as to the effectiveness of a program versus the monitoring of individuals is still in the headlines and will be for some time to come.


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Do not hold your breath. Despite blistering headlines and proof that not only American citizens but their allies are under the cyber microscope 24/7, it is business as usual in the top spy centers, some who have offered inside tours boasting of increased tech capabilities to ward off the ominous tsunami of terrorist attacks on the internet - the classic being a hit of 110,000,000 accounts hit at Target, a chain supermarket and goods store.

No, we will see a Kabuki dance

http://wonkwire.rollcall.com/2014/01/14/obamas-nsa-reforms-piece-kabuki-theater/


January 14, 2014

James Oliphant is not optimistic that President Obama’s plan to reform the National Security Agency will “reshape the nation’s counterterrorism strategy.”

Oliphant contends that Obama is reluctant to make fundamental changes and the president’s speech regarding proposed changes “is going to be a piece of kabuki theater:”

“The president is going to have to look like he’s taking meaningful action to curb the NSA’s reach when he really isn’t. To that end, Obama is expected to tweak the bulk data program rather than overhaul it or, as civil libertarians demand, junk it outright.”

“Any reforms Obama ultimately embraces likely will come from the report released last month by a hand-picked review panel, a group that national security expert Jonathan Turley dismisses as ‘intelligence hawks and Obama loyalists.’”

comment: So tales of deep soul searching in Hawaii during the holiday golfing and vacation during heavy hits to the economy and moderate foreign crisis around the globe, have not created any real plan to change much of anything.  Perhaps there will be a speed up of people checking out in airports but it will come at a heavy dollar price.

So, nothing has been dismantled, no personnel fired, or funds cut to the massive system which certainly could either have learned or also have gotten data from the massive Target store collection of how much personal data on how many Americans? What a treasure trove of private information.

The compiling of a massive database stored in zettabytes

Much has been written about just how much data that facility might hold, with estimates ranging from “yottabytes” (in Wired) to “5 zettabytes” (on NPR),

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/07/24/blueprints-of-nsa-data-center-in-utah-suggest-its-storage-capacity-is-less-impressive-than-thought/

We live under a microscope which is self imposed by our dependency on a network that is highly vulnerable to a massive shutdown and attack in the foreseeable future. The classic comeback is if you have nothing to hide, why worry who knows what about you?  It is only the loss of privacy and a violation of the U.S. Constitution. In school systems where children are totally devoid of knowledge of this document and many cannot even read it because it is in English, it seems to be less and less relevant - to some.

It has not always been this way or will it continue forever. That is the hope for the future.  Privacy, freedom, and the right of free speech which is being lost. 

Conclusion: No doubt surfers to this site will provide a very useful set of footprints to the posting of what appears to be very sensitive information.

Good luck guys. Happy hunting.



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Check this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?QGxNyaXFJsA&feature=player_embedded
The video tells about the Argus camera on UAVs (Predator & Global Hawk).  Argus is a 1.8 billion pixel camera system that  has 6 inch resolution (I heard it's better) from 17.5K feet while looking at an area of 15 square miles.  The camera is really 368 cameras that form a mosaic of the surveillance area.  During a typical mission the camera and system will collect 1 million terabytes of data.  The video makes the point that all data is archived away for later use.  More good stuff in the short video.  




 
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[QUOTE=Seawolfe]Check this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?QGxNyaXFJsA&feature=player_embedded
The video tells about the Argus camera on UAVs (Predator & Global Hawk).  Argus is a 1.8 billion pixel camera system that  has 6 inch resolution (I heard it's better) from 17.5K feet while looking at an area of 15 square miles.  The camera is really 368 cameras that form a mosaic of the surveillance area.  During a typical mission the camera and system will collect 1 million terabytes of data.  The video makes the point that all data is archived away for later use.  More good stuff in the short video.

Thanks Seawolfe. I am continually amazed at our advances in video technology i.e. the new NVidia chip which has hundreds of processors and may be the fastest graphics chip in the world. As with the atomic bomb, we face, as inventors and developers of technology the moral issue of if we develop these kind of toys, what will they do with them? 

There is no doubt that we now possess the capability to store the sum total of all human knowledge eventually at the crystalline lattice level and to be put into robot military who in addition to the current levels of surveillance will make war, torture, spying, and the end to freedom of any kind for anyone except the elite in power.

Do we rise above the technology and bring back the basic integrity, morality, and sense of what is right versus what is possible?

I pray for our president every night.  I am not especially enamored by his performance, track record, or mind set being a Leo as myself and having this incredible drive and ego which could make a great leader but can also cause one to ignore the voices of wisdom and experience of others.

So, you know - he has a shot coming up where he will address the American people and try to take on one of the most powerful groups on the planet - our Intelligence group which operates in the shadow land beyond the law and with budgets and money only God really knows the extent of.

Good luck and I hope we can show some restraint and decency to return some privacy and restore the basic tenants of the our Constitution.  Every great leader in history who lived to be loved, respected, and honored with a legacy of helping rather than hurting the American people, had to make the choice of doing the right thing, no matter who said what.

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http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/15/opinion/bergen-nsa-obama-phone/index.html?hpt=hp_bn7

(CNN) -- On Friday President Obama will address the nation about the NSA's controversial surveillance programs. He is expected to announce some substantive changes to those programs which collect data about the phone calls of every American.

After the first leaks by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden were published in June, Obama defended the NSA's surveillance programs during a visit to Berlin, saying: "We know of at least 50 threats that have been averted because of this information not just in the United States, but, in some cases, threats here in Germany. So lives have been saved."

Similarly, Gen. Keith Alexander, the director of the NSA, testified before Congress that "the information gathered from these programs provided the U.S. government with critical leads to help prevent over 50 potential terrorist events in more than 20 countries around the world."


comment: Given there were 50 threats that were stopped and also given that some of us perhaps have taken a personal interest in stopping such threats, could this have been done by other means than the massive invasion of privacy with alternate interrogation and data mining methods than recording every email and phone call in America and cyber reading them and filtering the content?

Perhaps so. It is up to those of us who have the capability to offer alternatives and other methods to be allowed to present them and develop them.  This should be a part of the new programs and direction. Not the massive integration of high tech in a network which spans the Globe - but specific artificially intelligent driven nanotechnology which can make decisions far wiser and not causing the collateral damage of hundreds of thousands in a nightmare prison, when only a few were a threat.

Smaller government, smaller more effective teams can replace the huge waste of resources and brute method assembly of a database robbing every person of their privacy.

Let us hope a New Year will bring this about. Let us hope that those of us who dream and are idealists who can make such things possible, will be allowed to do so.

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Bottom line - hundreds of thousands (at least) computer have been spied on whether or not they were even connected to the Internet and now we will finally be told if some are going to get a break after every email and phone call was recorded and stored.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/17/politics/obama-nsa-changes/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

Changes imposed by the President will permanently place his signature on the intelligence initiative and help define his legacy as a chief executive who promised a more open and transparent government when he entered the White House five years ago.


comment: This problem would not have even been addressed if Edward Snowden had not leaked the documents to the press. The most significant part is that with plants on computers, people, and vehicles, even without internet one still has little privacy anymore.  Stay tuned.

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http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/17/politics/obama-nsa-changes/index.html?hpt=us_c2

Reviewing the information which was uncovered and the specific data collection  centers which have been built and continue to operate, this broadcast, the order, and the action were both inaccurate and meaningless.

The data on all phone calls and emails will continue. The planting  of government software, key logging and enforced cooperation of all major communication companies, major search engine providers, will continue to be harvested and utilized without warrant in a clear violation of the the Constitutional protection against unreasonable search and seizure. Welcome to 1984. 

With huge advances in technology this will become even more efficient and the huge cores built by Microsoft and in place will continue to gather zeta-bytes  which will be dispersed to private industry as well as be online to the government on private citizens in the United States.

Conclusion: How unfortunate that this technology and ability will not be used to research the cures for our major diseases, ways to end a massive change in our ecosystem and weather which may result in catastrophic changes to our world, and a loss of the ability  to write a friend a private note without it being scanned, stored, and filed with a billion others to be accessed and used by millions of strangers.

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We have not only reached the world of 1984 - we have gone beyond the wildest imagination of how bad it would get.

Is this okay? Will the American people simply take a deep breath and say - okay - fine?

That is up to the American people and those in countries all over the world who now cannot find a private spot to sit and talk to a friend in the view of a satellite which can read the letters of the dedication of their love to their sweetheart as they hand them a bracelet or engagement ring.  Those who bow in prayer in a quiet meadow will not be alone. Lovers in their most most private moments, and whether sick, in health, or even in death - until there is a change are events which will finally change and remove this technology, it will continue. I makes me deeply sad ever more so to know how little I could or ever hope to change this.

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Someone is listening and also someone is trying to do something about it - the invasive monitoring of all phone calls and emails of citizens in the United States.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/01/23/independent-federal-review-board-says-nsa-phone-data-collection-program-should/

An independent federal review board has said that the National Security Agency's phone data collection program is illegal and should be immediately shut down. 

The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) was scheduled to release its full report on the NSA program Thursday following a four-month review. Copies of the report were first obtained by The New York Times and The Washington Post. 

The report concluded that the NSA collection raises "constitutional concerns" with regard to U.S. citizens' rights of speech, association and privacy. "The connections revealed by the extensive database of telephone records gathered under the program will necessarily include relationships established among individuals and groups for political, religious, and other expressive purposes," it said. "Compelled disclosure to the government of information revealing these associations can have a chilling effect on the exercise of First Amendment rights."

The panel added that the program "lacks a viable legal foundation under Section 215 [of the Patriot Act], implicates constitutional concerns under the First and Fourth Amendments, raises serious threats to privacy and civil liberties as a policy matter, and has shown only limited value ... As a result, the board recommends that the government end the program."

comment: Just when you thought it was unsafe to go near the water (Jaws). Is there a glimmer of hope here that voices of reason and the people and others who have stated the release of this information to the press was better for American people?

Looks like it. 

Along with its call for ending bulk phone surveillance, the oversight board report outlined 11 other recommendations on surveillance policy, calling for more government transparency and other reforms aimed at bolstering civil liberties and privacy protections. The board called for special attorneys to provide independent views in some proceedings before the secret spy court -- as opposed to Obama's plan for a panel of experts that would participate at times. The board also urged the administration to provide the public with clear explanations of the legal authority behind any surveillance affecting Americans.

Legal opinions and documents "describing the government's legal analysis should be made public so there can be a free and open debate regarding the law's scope," the board said. Both the Bush and Obama administrations have been criticized by civil liberties advocates and by tech industry officials for failing to provide clear public explanations of the decision-making behind their surveillance policies.

comment: The Constitution of the United States is not just another piece of paper or laws; it is the foundation of basic rights and freedoms which should be held sacred and protected from indiscriminate and willful violation.

I am a patriot, a veteran, and I love America.  I am sure many global readers love their countries as well, would fight to protect them, and are a little appalled as they also found out the grisly details of the extent of snooping and loss of privacy.

This was a rare bit of good news I have found in the endless bad news I have been posting on for months.  It is extremely rare when a government assumes more power that the public ever gets it back without a revolution.  This would set the stage for more reforms and fixes which are badly needed and long overdue.

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http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/23/politics/nsa-telephone-records-privacy/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

What about security from spying in cyberspace?  Once again there is a focus and huge spin on one area (phone privacy) and very little on any type of relief as far to privacy on the Internet.

Yet, it does show that the President is listening and is making an effort to take some real steps against a huge problem. This is a good start in this area for a New Year and to begin the changes and send this to Congress who can begin to regulate what they did not even know existed.

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March 19, 2014 - Wednesday

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/03/19/nsa-reportedly-recording-all-phone-calls-in-foreign-country/?intcmp=latestnews


WASHINGTON –  The National Security Agency has been recording all of a foreign country's phone calls, then listening to the conversations up to a month later, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.

At the request of U.S. officials, the Post said it would not identify the targeted country or other countries where the program's use was envisioned by officials.


comment: Of course, this makes no mention as to the tracking and monitoring of all U.S. calls and emails, but a super sophisticated facility in the U.S. continues to do so. It is pretty much a given there is no privacy on the Internet or on your cell phone.

The executive branch and even Congress or the Senate is unlikely to do anything about this. If the president took a hard line and tried to modify this in any serious way, he would be impeached.

There will be no tearing down of the Data Center, only plans to add more capacity and more personnel.   Welcome to 1984.


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A rare cheer is heard as President Obama displays major cajones in taking on NSA. 

President Obama is calling on Congress to pass new legislation that would prevent the National Security Agency from collecting and holding vast amounts of data on Americans' phone calls. 

The president discussed the plans during a press conference at The Hague in The Netherlands. Previewing his proposal, he claimed it would address concerns about how the bulk data collection could be exploited. 

"I'm confident that [the proposal] allows us to do what is necessary in order to deal with the dangers of a terrorist threat but does so in a way that addresses some of the concerns that people have raised," Obama said. 

The New York Times first reported late Monday that the administration was expected to propose that Congress overhaul the electronic surveillance program by having phone companies hold onto the call records, according to a government official briefed on the proposal

comment: although this still does not address the email issues, it is a major step and even more so that he reaches out to Congress work with him.

It is ever too late to begin making the right moves and in a strong clear statement this is the voice of a leader.

It should be understood that the vast number of supporters who elected him are still looking to see a demonstration of courage against what could be a battlefield. There were articles which stated if he did this, there would be efforts to impeach him.

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