Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection searching private planes without warrants

Pilots Want To Know Why The DHS/CBP Are Searching Their Planes Without Warrants.

So yes, contrary to some misleading pushback, the government is reading your email and has been since at least 2001.

Some of the information on NSA spying programs that Obama continued were known thanks to Bush-era whistlerblower William Binney. One of the programs Binney blew the whistle on was STELLARWIND which, based on the Guardian report, it seems Obama continued.

republican minority voter outreach continues unabated

Latinos don’t “have any Republican inclinations at all” because “they’re running an illegitimacy rate that’s just about the same as the blacks are.” 

Latinos “come from a country where they have no experience with limited government. And the types of rights we have in the Bill of Rights, they don’t understand that at all, you can’t even talk to them about what the republican principle is.”

The governing republican principle is mean spirited and racist. 

While Wendy Davis filibustered the fascist texas abortion law, some asshole conservatives firebombed her office

There were staffers inside.  So why is this not attempted murder?

The FBI has been turned into a private detective for corporate America

One remarkable exchange revealed that the Coca-Cola company was asking Stratfor for intelligence on dealing with PETA, and the Stratfor Vice President for Intelligence remarked in a leaked email that "The FBI has a classified investigation on PETA operatives. I'll see what I can uncover." Suggesting, of course, that not only did Stratfor have access to the classified material, but that it would be provided to Coca-Cola. The FBI had been turned into a private dick for corporate America.  

The FBI, arguably itself responsible for the information being released, needed to get the toothpaste back into the tube, decided that one way to staunch the distribution of the Stratfor data would be to stomp on Barrett Brown and his Project PM. A warrant was issued for Brown's laptop, presumably on the assumption that incriminating information would be found there.  

When the FBI went to serve the warrant on Brown he was not home but at his mother's house, and he sensibly decided to stay there. The FBI returned with a warrant to search his mother's house, retrieved his laptop, and found exactly nothing incriminating. Deciding they needed a way to turn up the heat on Brown, they initiated charges against his mother for obstruction of justice.   

So, what did Barret Brown expose?

It appears that in many respects the U.S. Government and in particular the Department of Justice is now working for private intelligence firms. This is evident when, for example, Stratfor asks for FBI classified files on PETA or the Department of Justice is used to try and punish journalists for probing into these private intelligence companies.

Is this bad? Peter Ludlow, please summarize.

In The Nation I argued that what we are in effect witnessing is the failure of the rule of law, but on reflection the situation is actually much worse than that. It is not as though the rule of law has simply broken down; it has been inverted from a system that protects us from powerful interests to one that is in the service of powerful interests, and one that will come down with all its might on someone, like Barrett Brown, who attempts to expose this new reality. It is the subversion of the rule of law. 

Is Barret Brown going to prison for a long time? Try 90 years.

Are we at a point in society where we think that 90 years is no longer enough?

Yes. Yes we are.  

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever

Its better for you to burn and die at the stake than live with a heart that does not love MY God the way I think YOU should. -Terry Gross

But reality, it turns out, has a well-known Keynesian bias.

K-Thug.

NSA pays Endgame Systems to Zero Day attack all your tablet, laptop and phone data

Endgame Systems provides the NSA with capabilities to break into your internet connected devices such as cell phones, tablets, desk tops, and lap tops. Your digital life is at their fingertips.

Endgame also offers its intelligence clients—agencies like Cyber Command, the NSA, the CIA, and British intelligence—a unique map showing them exactly where their targets are located. Dubbed Bonesaw, the map displays the geolocation and digital address of basically every device connected to the Internet around the world, providing what’s called network situational awareness.

Your home wireless router has a backdoor for the NSA and FBI to use against you

Backdoors are implemented in routers and switches so law enforcement officials can track the Internet communications and activity of an individual or individuals under surveillance. They are required by law to be incorporated in devices manufactured by networking companies and sold to ISPs

Several sources stated that the NSA has had a security backdoor in Windows since 1999 and later Linux and OS X and despite denials by Apple about PRISM cooperation these are reputed to exist in iOS as well. I can see a great new Anti-Backdoor industry rising up from the Anti-virus providers.

We are now hearing about a vast array of other devices – medical, nuclear power stations and more industrial systems all with backdoors.  I am going to stop now – I could go on and list backdoors found in home routers including Linksys, Asus, Belkin, Netgear, Billion and dozens of other high end commercial routers but I think you get the point. The moment you connect to the internet someone is watching.

Glomar response, Glomarization or Glomar denial refers to a "neither confirm nor deny" response from the US Government

You know, from the USNS Glomar Explorer. Don't remember? It was a Hughes front for the CIA. Global Marine Explorer.

In a stunning act of judicial activism the republican supreme court just fucked millions of American voters. Just like the founding fathers wanted

Go Wendy Davis GO!

Pat Robertson: US Abortion 'Holocaust' Worse than Nazi Germany, Will Lead to 'Wrath of the Lord'

Oh, fuck you pat. You worthless coward.

In the ship's wardroom, 20-year-old Marion G. "Pat" Robertson, a second lieutenant straight out of officer's training at Quantico, Va., was telling them that his father, A. Willis Robertson, was a U.S. Senator from Virginia and that he was going to have Pat reassigned. Sure enough, when the First Marine Division docked in Kobe, Japan, Robertson, his college buddy Edwin Gaines and four other young officers were taken off the ship and detailed to Otsu—ostensibly to train soldiers coming off the front lines.

Einstein once said that segregation was a "disease of white people"

Watch out Apartheid Israel. Even Albert thinks you are a disease. And he's from your tribe.

Meet republican asshole, Supreme Justice Samuel Alito

Sammy Alito.

Sammy Alito has a problem with people not agreeing with him...and his horrible legal analysis. Ginsburg's dissents were in two employment discrimination cases where the Roberts' Court...continued its nearly 100 percent record of ruling for the greatest "persons" in the world, corporations.

A Giant Dick.

Only in Washington DC do observers watch the body language and gestures of Supreme Court Justices, but it's telling that a consensus is emerging that Justice Samuel Alito is an irredeemable penis. He is probably George W. Bush's most lasting legacy to the nation. He's like the Hurricane Katrina that keeps on giving.