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In reply to the discussion: Corruption in he upper echelons of the NSA and intellligence services? [View all]woo me with science
(32,139 posts)4. Huge K&R. You're damned right it's corruption.
That's appalling, even if not surprising from these vultures. It stinks to high heaven.
And it's just *one* currently visible protuberance of the hideous, antidemocratic, corporate-bloodsucking-money-thieving-authoritarian iceberg of corruption that is the NSA.
Why do plutocrats put a sweeping, Constitution-assaulting, spying infrastructure into place? To create total information awareness, power and control; to spy on competitors and politicians; to facilitate their corporate predatory agenda; to prevent investigation of their abuses by a free press; and to crush dissent by protesters and the citizens they are systematically exploiting, stripping of their rights, and impoverishing.
What is the NSA really for?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024215519
NSA Spying Not Very Focused on Terrorism: Power, Money and Crushing Dissent Are Real Motives
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023923016
The U.S. Governments Secret Plans to Spy for American Corporations- by Glenn Greenwald
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025494273
Corporate Espionage and the Secret War Against Citizen Activism
http://www.democraticunderground.com/111643982
Snowden: NSA conducts industrial espionage too - CBS News
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/snowden-nsa-conducts-industrial-espionage-too/
Keiser Report: CIA, NSA & Economic Espionage (E498) (second half with Greg Palast)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017146372
Spooky Business: Corporate Espionage Against Non-profits
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024106205
NSA data could be most useful for connected types on Wall Street.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022983519
NSA SPYING - Another Side Of The Story-- Data Privatized For CORPORATE USE
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023164662
The NSAs Corporate Collaborators
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/05/09/the-nsas-corporate-collaborators/
NSA and Corporate Cooperation Revealed
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-van-buren/nsa-and-corporate-coopera_b_4516581.html
AT&T Tells Shareholders to Mind Their Own Business on NSA
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024154316
NSA spied on EU's Anti Trust Chief
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024204596
2011: Wall Street firms spy on protesters *with* police in tax-funded center
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023286585
OUTRAGEOUS: Our Tax Money Funds Gov Surveillance Center In Lower Manhattan--& Wall St Is Part Of It!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2178769
Report Details How Counter Terrorism Apparatus Was Used to Monitor Occupy Movement Nationwide
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12527647
The NSA's Cyber-King Goes Corporate
Here's why Keith Alexander thinks he's worth a million dollars a month.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/07/29/the_crypto_king_of_the_NSA_goes_corporate_keith_alexander_patents
Raiding the "Corporate Store": The NSA's Unfettered Access to a Vast Pool of Americans' Phone Data
http://metamorphosis.democraticunderground.com/10023397695
"Clear evidence of collusion between TransCanada and the federal government assisting local police to unlawfully monitor and harass political protestors
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023049508
Just the tip of the iceberg...Yeah, I'd get rid of the question mark in the OP title, too.
Huge K&R. To the Greatest Page.
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Corruption in he upper echelons of the NSA and intellligence services? [View all]
JDPriestly
Oct 2014
OP
Yes, Corporations are the new 'countries'. And naturally those Corporations are not happy
sabrina 1
Oct 2014
#7
I call it "Neo-Feudalism," as the power of companies today resembles that of the
KingCharlemagne
Oct 2014
#23
In other news, water is wet. Sorry not trying to say this is not important info. It is a great post.
greatlaurel
Oct 2014
#6
I am trying to think of ways to explain to DUers that events like the American Revolution
JDPriestly
Oct 2014
#13
You are spot on. The people (not all but a good percentage) in charge will use the info to further
greatlaurel
Oct 2014
#14
I'll haver to reread Guns of August. Tuchmann is a great writer. One of my favorites.
JDPriestly
Oct 2014
#12
Corruption is not a major theme, but it is there insidiously wreaking havoc.
greatlaurel
Oct 2014
#15
A lot of those folks were working hard under enormous pressure and are real patriots." Obama
Tierra_y_Libertad
Oct 2014
#30
The corruption in these high security agencies is legion. That's why the President is not really in
kelliekat44
Oct 2014
#33