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DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)
Thu Jul 10, 2014, 12:32 AM Jul 2014

'The US is out of control and will continue to infringe the rights of privacy'



RT * Published on Jul 9, 2014

A German intel staff has been arrested for spying for the US, the second double-agent exposure in a week. RT asks ex-MI5 officer Annie Machon what NSA is looking for in other countries mobile phone records and will Germans push back against their allies.


- You know, the reporter raised an excellent point. What is the NSA after? Why don't they believe their ally isn't hiding something? Is this about the missing gold?

Or are they just after Anglea's ''selfies?''



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'The US is out of control and will continue to infringe the rights of privacy' (Original Post) DeSwiss Jul 2014 OP
Well I can guess what they are after. zeemike Jul 2014 #1
''especially the dirty stuff....'' DeSwiss Jul 2014 #4
Well I was thinking of the real dirty stuff...like sex zeemike Jul 2014 #7
Okay, well just out of curiousity I Googled the words.... DeSwiss Jul 2014 #10
Oh my! zeemike Jul 2014 #11
THE BIG PICTURE IS INTENSE, NO? drynberg Jul 2014 #8
''Chaos must happen for the veils to fall down.'' DeSwiss Jul 2014 #15
The Puppet! eom littlemissmartypants Jul 2014 #2
I get it. delrem Jul 2014 #3
Please leave me alone. littlemissmartypants Jul 2014 #13
Yep. DeSwiss Jul 2014 #5
sez the OP. delrem Jul 2014 #6
Don't ever worry about being controversial.... DeSwiss Jul 2014 #9
Thanks DeSwiss for another littlemissmartypants Jul 2014 #12
Gratias, Amatorem Veritatis. DeSwiss Jul 2014 #16
K&R...and when you have time.... KoKo Jul 2014 #14
Will do! DeSwiss Jul 2014 #17

zeemike

(18,998 posts)
1. Well I can guess what they are after.
Thu Jul 10, 2014, 12:55 AM
Jul 2014

Anything and everything, especially the dirty stuff, because information is power...and now we have the tools to gather it all and use it when we need it.

 

DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)
4. ''especially the dirty stuff....''
Thu Jul 10, 2014, 06:48 AM
Jul 2014

Hmmm, I'm not sure what constitutes ''dirty'' anymore. In politics, this is especially so. Criminality and malfeasance is laughed at so often, no one expects the system to be just. When was the last government official was fired? Four jets supposedly hijacked in American airspace during 911, and no one even got bad performance review?

The exposures of criminality and outright violation of Constitutional protections via lawyer's opinion, have rendered our ''rights'' a moot point(s). Because nothing we've seen up til' now has truly reverberated -- not here. And until they do so here the rest of the world can only try to provoke an outcome to serve as the catalyst.

- Then again, that's why DHS bought 1.6 billion of rounds of ammo. For practice.

zeemike

(18,998 posts)
7. Well I was thinking of the real dirty stuff...like sex
Thu Jul 10, 2014, 08:25 AM
Jul 2014

I mean like if they discovered that Merkil had a lover, or if she liked it kind of kinky...that kind of information opens up all kinds of opportunities.

But your right criminal activity is not frowned on today...in fact is some circles it is admired.

And as a note, I just watched a documentary on 911 and they said that the officers in charge of air defense were all promoted after the attack...so criminals reward those who help them.

 

DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)
10. Okay, well just out of curiousity I Googled the words....
Thu Jul 10, 2014, 08:50 AM
Jul 2014
Merkel (Before & After) -



Sexy -


Côté Décolletage!

and Kinky -



drynberg

(1,648 posts)
8. THE BIG PICTURE IS INTENSE, NO?
Thu Jul 10, 2014, 08:32 AM
Jul 2014

The world is very quickly becoming very "unbalanced" and social/climate/environment factors, mostly due to our poor sheparding of our resources and their poorly done records of this misuse. Our very American freedoms are being negated by the Supremes and their heart breaking legal decisions. Stand Up and ACT!

 

DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)
15. ''Chaos must happen for the veils to fall down.''
Thu Jul 10, 2014, 08:14 PM
Jul 2014
- I read that somewhere, many years ago......

delrem

(9,688 posts)
6. sez the OP.
Thu Jul 10, 2014, 07:19 AM
Jul 2014

ouch!
I mean that uncontroversially, as a good finis that doesn't exactly put me in a good light.

 

DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)
9. Don't ever worry about being controversial....
Thu Jul 10, 2014, 08:33 AM
Jul 2014

...because that's what we're here for!

- That, and generally farting around.....







''Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.'' ~Brendan Gill

KoKo

(84,711 posts)
14. K&R...and when you have time....
Thu Jul 10, 2014, 02:43 PM
Jul 2014

please watch Assange Interview Part II....it's excellent!

Goes along with your OP.

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