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From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 21:01 Alabama legislature. * THAT IS TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION. * * If DPS gets by with this, the information on your driver's license * will be "scanned" into a computer and stored. The police can find out * anyplace you use your driver's license -- where you bank, how often, * where you shop, what you buy, where you go -- anyplace your driver's * license is used for "i.d." and is "scanned". Every store you do * business with can ALSO store all this information about you on THEIR * computers, wherever you use your driver's license. It has nothing to do * with driving or "making the roads safe." It has EVERYTHING to do with * making it easy for police and others to spy on you and control you. * * The same company making the national I.D. card for Communist China * will be providing the technology to Alabama to make this happen. Seven * months ago, the laboratory that makes the equipment for the * fingerprinting, barcoding and scanning, brazenly announced it has a * contract with the State of Alabama, and only recently,
From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 22:44 -- there ARE STILL POOR PEOPLE! # # Wanda: Hey, good thinking Biff! # And while we're at it, why don't we eliminate the FIRE DEPARTMENT? # After all -- there ARE STILL FIRES! # And talk about FAILURES -- what about the MEDICAL INDUSTRY? # Why, there are still SICK PEOPLE everywhere you look! # # Wanda: And why don't we shut down the POLICE DEPARTMENT as well -- # since there are STILL CRIMINALS! # For that matter, why have any laws at all? # People still BREAK them ALL THE TIME. # # Biff: Look, it made sense when Rush said it. # # Wanda: I'm sure it did, sweetheart. # Say, shouldn't his show be cancelled? # After all -- there are STILL LIBERALS... * "Can Unemployment Fall Further Without Setting Off Inflation?" * By Richard W. Stevenson, The New York Times, September 7, 1996 * * Six percent unemployment of the able-bodied population is the point where * the Federal Reserve Board usually kicks in to raise interest rates. [the * presidential campaigns are in their final stages between Dole and Clinton * at this time] * * The Federal Reserve Board is expected to raise interest rates now that * unemployment has reached 5.1 percent, so that the number of unemployed * people will go up. * * SEVEN MILLION PEOPLE ARE CURRENTLY UNEMPLOYED. # Tom Tomorrow # # Since the time in the 1970s when President Nixon ordered a nationwide # salary fr
From: Risto Lankinen on 19 Apr 2008 00:06 and indeed most other countries, in that there are NO specified * or defined limits to its powers. * * The NSA can (and does) do just about whatever it wants, whenever, and * wherever it wants. Although little known in both the U.S. and elsewhere, * the NSA is quite literally the most powerful organization in the world. * * Not limited by any law, and answerable only to the U.S. National Security * Council through COMSEC, the NSA now controls an information and * surveillance network around the globe that even Orwell, in his novel * "1984", could not have imagined. * * Most people believe that the current "computer age" grew out of either * the space program or the nuclear weapons race; it did not. * * ALL significant advances in computer technology over the last thirty * years, from the very beginnings of IBM, through to the super computers * of today, have been for the NSA. In fact, the world's very first super * computer, the awe-inspiring CRAY, was built to specification for the * NSA, and installed in their headquarters in 1976. * * The entire twentieth century of development of computer technology has * been the result of the NSA's unquenchable th
From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 20:48 ambassador; o aid politicians, political parties, or factions in an allied country to gain partisan advantage o spy on its allies o spy on its own citizens; and o perform "favors" that helped its allies evade domestic laws against spying. [snip] Although I visited NSA headquarters at Fort Meade dozens of times, it was at the Special Collection Services (SCS) at College Park, Maryland, that I received my covert operation training and assignments. This facility, set in suburban Washington, DC, dealt exclusively with covert operations. [The facility was relocated closer to Fort Meade in the early 1990s] The first time I was driven there in 1978, I entered through a strip mall and then through a door in the back of a restaurant; the second time, via a dry cleaners. These dinky businesses in a fake shopping center were all owned, operated, and staffed by US espionage agencies. From the street, the installation's high-tech capacity, its antennae and satellite receptors, were camouflaged and it is unlikely that neighbors suspected anything out of the ordinary. But the inside was anything but ordinary. There were scores of rooms crammed with administrative functions, equipment, wires, jury-rigged gizmos, a currency bank, and computers. Every electronic intercept capability NSA denied having was right there. In a small black box, not much bigger than a briefcase, was "Oratory." This portable key-word selection computer could be taken almost anywhere and set to pick out pre-selected words and automatically monitor and record fax, voice, or teletype messages that contained them. Developed by NSA, "Oratory" was "tempest-proof" (i.e. shielded to prevent emmisions that could lead to detection), small, virtually indestructible, and easy to
From: S.C.Sprong on 18 Apr 2008 23:59
Jane" * * These days much of the nation's political debate focuses on children - or * on the needs and interests of children as defined by politicians. * * Mr. Horn, who was chief of the Childrens Bureau in the Bush Administration * added, "A cynic would say that children are being used as props or proxies." Color me cynical. It should be noted, of course, that uncrackable encryption called PGP is available worldwide for free for all common platforms of computers, that McCain's bill would do NOTHING to address that (not possible anyway), and so his argument WAS A TOTAL SHAM. No newspaper in the country will explain that in their coverage. The sole purpose of the McCain bill was to protect ECHELON. # "The McCain Mutiny", By Todd Lappin, Wired Magazine, June 1997 # # Question: How will we break the stalemate between the interests of # industry and law enforcement in setting cryptographic policy? # # McCain: It's pretty clear that the administration's crypto proposals # will have a harmful effect upon the industry. But we can't completely # ignore the warnings we get from the heads of the FBI and the National # Security Agency. We need to find a middle ground or else the president # will veto the crypto bill and I doubt we can override the veto. I am sure Senator McCain has no idea what the NSA is really doing. Noone told him about domestic ECHELON, or how powerful keyword monitoring is. ****************************************************************************** War #4 - Terrorism --- -- --------- Until Timmy McPinhead decided to follow the Government's lead on killing people ---that it is okay to kill people to make a point---terrorism was always referred to as being by "foreign" agents. After the explosion, President Clinton called for FBI agents to be able to tap phone |