Tag: fisa
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#MorningMonarchy: June 26, 2018
Sharing secrets, bombshell accusations and incompetent enemies + this day in history w/Clinton punishes Iraq and our song of the day by Stickybuds on your Morning Monarchy for June 26, 2018.
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#MorningMonarchy: February 5, 2018
A memo released, a person of interest and a preemptive attack + this day in history w/the Tybee Bomb and our song of the day by Middle Kids on your Morning Monarchy for February 5, 2018.
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#MorningMonarchy: January 22, 2018
Serial stowaway, unified flags and renewing surveillance + this day in history w/the Apple ‘1984’ ad and our song of the day by Beth Ditto on your Morning Monarchy for January 22, 2018.
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#MorningMonarchy: June 12, 2017
Portland militia, constitution rewrite and Saber Guardian + this day in history w/Medgar Evers assassinated and our song of the day by Death From Above on your Morning Monarchy for June 12, 2017.
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#MorningMonarchy: May 10, 2016
‘E.T. Candidate’, selective leaks and Lego hacks + this day in history w/the Astor Place Riot and our song of the day by Land Of Leland on your Morning Monarchy for May 10, 2016.
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#GoodNewsNextWeek: Open Source Beer, Choosing Organic, More Recess (Audio)
Scottish brewer keeps it real by opensourcing entire beer recipe catalog; People are making the conscious decision to buy organic food and reject conventionals; and finally some kids in Texas are getting triple the recess time.
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#GoodNewsNextWeek: People Picking Organic Quality Over Tainted Bargains (Video)
Scottish brewer keeps it real by opensourcing entire beer recipe catalog; People are making the conscious decision to buy organic food and reject conventionals; and finally some kids in Texas are getting triple the recess time.
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In Secret, Court Vastly Broadens Powers of #NSA
from NYtimes.com: In more than a dozen classified rulings, the nation’s surveillance court has created a secret body of law giving the National Security Agency the power to amass vast collections of data on Americans while pursuing not only terrorism suspects, but also people possibly involved in nuclear proliferation, espionage and cyberattacks, officials say. The…
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#DataDump: Megagovernment, Microbes and More
Wyden Protects Privacy, Blocks FISA Surveillance Law // Sen. Detours Obama Drive to Retain Controversial Wiretap Powers // Assange to Be Extradited to Sweden, Court Refuses Final Appeal // Feds Tell Megaupload Users to Forget About Their Data // Ret. Judge Against Outrageous Seizures in Megaupload Case // Microbes Capable Of Surviving On Mars Found
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#Obamessiah Fights to Retain Warrantless Wiretapping
The Obama administration is urging the Supreme Court to halt a legal challenge weighing the constitutionality of a once-secret warrantless surveillance program targeting Americans’ communications that Congress eventually legalized in 2008.
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domestic surveillance court approved all 1,506 warrants in 2010
from threat level: The secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court approved all 1,506 government requests to electronically monitor suspected “agents” of a foreign power or terrorists on U.S. soil last year, according to a Justice Department report released under the Freedom of Information Act. The two-page report, which shows about a 13 percent increase in the…
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house extends key patriot act provisions
“patriot act” extension lands on “president’s” desk from threat level: The House voted Monday to extend to December three expiring provisions of the Patriot Act spy legislation. The measure’s passage, by a 275-144 vote, was expected. The three provisions are expiring at month’s end. Rather than seriously debate or alter them, the House punted —…
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spy sat shootdown lies, ‘surveillence in a box’ & vidal
contradiction on spy satellite shootdown explanationfrom usnews: When the Pentagon ordered a Navy ship to shoot down a crippled U.S. spy satellite last February, it claimed the operation was necessary to prevent a harmful fuel from being dispersed in the atmosphere. At the time, critics charged that the Bush administration was using the toxic fuel…
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olbermann: bush creating ‘embryonic police state’
from raw replay: The Justice Department wants to revise the federal government’s rules for intelligence-gathering by state and local police making it easier to share anything they find about U.S. citizens with the federal government and then letting them retain that information for a decade. This video is from MSNBC’s Countdown, broadcast August 18, 2008.…