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Chan790

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44. This is more like...

Sun Sep 7, 2014, 06:59 PM

Sep 2014

if I threw paint on you every day for years in the middle of Times Square in front of the whole wide world and one day I started denying that I had ever threw paint on you while I continue to daily engage in the act of throwing paint on you. A few years later, some journalist yells "Breaking News! Chan790 actually does throw paint on Vattel." The collective lack of shock to the report would be monumental.

It's not noteworthy because despite the denials, nobody ever really believed that we weren't engaging in economic espionage. Anybody that did believe it was a lame-witted dupe that deserved to be misled.

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The U.S. Government�s Secret Plans to Spy for American Corporations - By Glenn Greenwald [View all] kpete Sep 2014 OP

Well ... 1StrongBlackMan Sep 2014 #1

I wonder if THIS is the big fireworks show Greenwald promised the world.... Cali_Democrat Sep 2014 #6

On your view, exposing that the NSA currently does economic espionage of the sort it has denied Vattel Sep 2014 #8

Whether or not the NSA denies it is not the point of the person I replied to Cali_Democrat Sep 2014 #9

"Recycled information". By that logic... Marr Sep 2014 #11

exactly Vattel Sep 2014 #24

This is more like... Chan790 Sep 2014 #44

Really? Someone throws up a pretty link, and suddenly you say we have a hundred year old story DisgustipatedinCA Sep 2014 #12

What are you talking about? ... 1StrongBlackMan Sep 2014 #14

No, "repackaged supposition" would be the last part of that post I'd edit DisgustipatedinCA Sep 2014 #15

What??? ... 1StrongBlackMan Sep 2014 #19

I'm talking about someone who is not you. DisgustipatedinCA Sep 2014 #20

Okayyy ... 1StrongBlackMan Sep 2014 #22

Seriously didn't you get the memo? Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2014 #17

I like pictures too DisgustipatedinCA Sep 2014 #21

Your links don't even talk about economic espionage. So how are Greenwald's revelations old news? Vattel Sep 2014 #25

Economic espionage... Historic NY Sep 2014 #27

Of course they do Vattel Sep 2014 #29

Are you suggesting ... 1StrongBlackMan Sep 2014 #30

I have no idea what your point is supposed to be. Vattel Sep 2014 #32

I am saying that the US Government has been spying for corporate interests ... 1StrongBlackMan Sep 2014 #33

You were trying to suggest that Greenwald is not telling us anything significant. Vattel Sep 2014 #34

No, I'm not saying that .. 1StrongBlackMan Sep 2014 #35

So your point is only that what he has revealed has happened before. Vattel Sep 2014 #38

exactly ... 1StrongBlackMan Sep 2014 #40

I don't even like Greenwald, but I really hate Obama boot-licking. Vattel Sep 2014 #41

Yeah ... Right-O ... 1StrongBlackMan Sep 2014 #43

Enough with the "I'm not endorsing it" horseshit. Marr Sep 2014 #37

Okay ... 1StrongBlackMan Sep 2014 #39

Surprise. This is exactly what happens when "national defense" gets decided upon DirkGently Sep 2014 #2

I somewhat agree ... 1StrongBlackMan Sep 2014 #16

Who cares what the motivation? nt elias49 Sep 2014 #26

Only those that wish to solve the problem of governmental spying. eom 1StrongBlackMan Sep 2014 #31

I have wondered if the only purpose of our computers Trillo Sep 2014 #3

We've all been profiled by sites we visit, people we email. Nazi Germany would have loved the inter- blkmusclmachine Sep 2014 #4

''What we do not do, as we have said many times...'' Octafish Sep 2014 #5

Kick. Luminous Animal Sep 2014 #7

K & R !!! WillyT Sep 2014 #10

color me shocked rbrnmw Sep 2014 #13

Try a decade ... 1StrongBlackMan Sep 2014 #18

Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Sep 2014 #23

K&R for exposure. JEB Sep 2014 #28

A super secret hint on increasing credibility whistler162 Sep 2014 #36

Kick. Luminous Animal Sep 2014 #42