Former Comcast, Verizon Attorneys Run FCC, Want to Kill the Internet

This one is on Obama --

Former Comcast and Verizon Attorneys Now Manage the FCC and Are About to Kill the Internet | VICE United States: "Many have expressed shock that the Obama administration would walk back one of its biggest promises. On the campaign trail, Barack Obama said that he is a strong supporter of net neutrality. During a question and answer forum in Iowa, Obama explained, “What you’ve been seeing is some lobbying that says that the servers and the various portals through which you’re getting information over the Internet should be able to be gatekeepers and to charge different rates to different Web sites … And that I think destroys one of the best things about the Internet—which is that there is this incredible equality there.”"

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Why I'm burning my last bridge with Obama (video)

Why I'm burning my last bridge with Obama - YouTube: "Why I'm burning my last bridge with Obama"

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Rand Paul: Obama tells us "if you like your privacy, you can keep your privacy" (video)

Sen. Paul Responds to President Obama's NSA Speech- January 17, 2014 video above - Jan 17, 2014
Sen. Rand Paul joins Wolf Blitzer of CNN with reaction to President Obama's plan to 'reform' the NSA. Rand Paul says Obama said (more or less): "if you like your privacy, you can keep your privacy" 

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Why Obama Targets Whistleblowers

The REAL Reason U.S. Targets Whistleblowers | Washington's Blog: " . . . Obviously, the government wants to stop whistleblowers because they interfere with the government’s ability to act in an unaccountable manner. As Glenn Greenwald writes:

It should not be difficult to understand why the Obama administration is so fixated on intimidating whistleblowers and going far beyond any prior administration – including those of the secrecy-obsessed Richard Nixon and George W Bush – to plug all leaks. It’s because those methods are the only ones preventing the US government from doing whatever it wants in complete secrecy and without any accountability of any kind.

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Welcome to the Police State of the Bush-Obama era

Definition of Police State: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_state

Woman Forced To Strip And Serve Jail Time For Overdue Ticket -
http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2013/10/24/woman-endures-strip-search-jail-time-for-overdue-ticket/#comment-1096583897

One comment (of many):
"We the People have allowed brutality to creep into local policing. It started with the torture of enemy combatants in Iraq & Guatanamo. We sanction drone strikes that kill civilians. We turn away when the NSA scoops all our communications. We've allowed the creation of for-profit prisons, which actively lobby politicians and judges for more prisoners. (1 of every 100 americans is in jail.) We've allowed the police to militarize their weaponry and start buying tanks for civilian patrol. . . . We allow extended detention of American citizens at border crossings. This is the result. The entire country and culture must reject this or it will continue on this trajectory. Time to be brave." (source: http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2013/10/24/woman-endures-strip-search-jail-time-for-overdue-ticket/#comment-1096583897)

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Swartz Case, Obama, Holder, US DOJ gone wild

If you voted for Obama -- you're guilty too!

4 Shocking Things From the Secret Service File On Aaron Swartz: " . . . Among the documents released are accounts of the several raids the federal government made on Swartz's property. In these accounts are pages upon pages of lists of all of the property the government confiscated from him. Pages worth of hard drives, phones, computers, iPods, and compact discs were seized. The poor guy must have had a dozen iPods taken from him. . . . One thing they seized is so petty, it defies any reasonable explanation I can think of. The federal government of the United States of America, in the course of an official investigation, using a federal search warrant, seized Aaron Swartz's Rock Band controller. Yes, the irrelevant random video-game accessory. . . ." (read more at the link above)

A video-game accessory -- how low can you get?

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Noam Chomsky Calls Out Obama as a War Criminal

Noam Chomsky Weighs In On Syria Strike: "A U.S.-led attack on Syria without United Nations support would be a war crime regardless of congressional approval, Noam Chomsky, the antiwar activist and author, said in response to President Barack Obama's announcement that he would seek Hill approval. "As international support for Obama’s decision to attack Syria has collapsed, along with the credibility of government claims, the administration has fallen back on a standard pretext for war crimes when all else fails: the credibility of the threats of the self-designated policeman of the world," Chomsky told HuffPost in an email." (read more at link above)

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Obama a/k/a "George Bush 2.0" supported by Michele Bachmann!

"Tonight on MSNBC, we show you an eloquent & impassioned speech in defense of the Obama WH's position on NSA - from Rep Michele Bachmann"
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) July 24, 2013

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"deserve neither liberty nor safety"

Germans Loved Obama. Now We Don’t Trust Him. - NYTimes.com: "Perhaps instead of including a quote from James Madison in his speech, arguing that “No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare,” Mr. Obama should have been reminded of the quote from another founding father, Benjamin Franklin, when he said, “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”" (read more at link above)

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Cleta Mitchell says Obama IRS abuses continue

Same-o at the O-bama

The Weekend Interview with Cleta Mitchell: How to Investigate the IRS - WSJ.com: The woman who helped expose IRS abuse of conservative activists has more news to share: The abuse continues, and she sees no evidence that the White House, the IRS or the Justice Department is doing anything to end it. "This is not in the past tense. This is still going on," says Cleta Mitchell, perhaps the country's pre-eminent expert on campaign-finance and political tax law. (read more at link above)

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Two US military attaches shot at Venezuela strip club

First the Secret Service guys in Colombia, and now "US military attaches" in Venezuela--Can any of these guys working for Obama on "the taxpayer dime" stay out of South American bars and strip clubs?

AFP: Two US embassy personnel shot in Venezuela:
"Two employees of the US embassy in Venezuela were shot and wounded early Tuesday in the capital Caracas, in a murky incident that local media and a police source said took place at a strip club. . . . The Venezuelan media identified the two men as Roberto Ezequiel Rosas and Paul Marwin, and said they were military attaches at the embassy, but neither the State Department nor the embassy in Caracas would confirm those reports. . . A district policeman, who also spoke to AFP on condition of anonymity, said a shooting incident had been reported just outside the Antonella bar, involving three Americans. In the entryway of the club, there are photos of female strippers. . . ."

Just cattin' around I guess.

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Obama, civil liberty, and internet freedom

Oliver Stone's new book rips President Obama - Katie Glueck - POLITICO.com: "On civil liberties: “Among the greatest disappointments to his followers was Obama’s refusal to roll back the expanding national security state that so egregiously encroached on American civil liberties.”"

So much for being a "constitutional law professor."


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Universal Face Workstation: FBI to give facial-recognition software to law enforcement.

Universal Face Workstation: FBI to give facial-recognition software to law enforcement.: " In a blog post earlier this month, the Electronic Frontier Foundation said it was concerned that the “FBI wants to be able to search and identify people in photos of crowds and in pictures posted on social media sites—even if the people in those photos haven’t been arrested for or even suspected of a crime.” This sentiment was echoed in July by Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., during a hearing at the Senate judiciary committee’s subcommittee on privacy, technology, and the law. Franken said that he feared the FBI’s technology “could be abused to not only identify protesters at political events and rallies, but to target them for selective jailing and prosecution, stifling their First Amendment rights.” (The same fears punctuated the recent hysteria about TrapWire, which is not actually facial recognition software, contrary to widely published claims.) . . ."

Even if the people in those photos haven’t been arrested for or even suspected of a crime? Target them for selective jailing and prosecution, stifling their First Amendment rights?

Remember this is Obama's FBI when you vote in November! Otherwise, Big Brother cometh.


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Injustice Continues--US DOJ favors the Hollywood Oligopoly over innocent consumers

Injustice Continues as Megaupload User Data Negotiations Go Bust | TorrentFreak: "Months after the Megaupload raids and arrests the fate of the site’s user data is still unclear. The final negotiation round between the involved parties just went bust with Megaupload’s defense team holding the US Attorneys Office responsible. “They favor the Hollywood Oligopoly over innocent consumers who lost access to their data,” Megaupload lawyer Ira Rothken told TorrentFreak."

Remember that's Obama's DOJ--now you now why Obama raised all that campaign money from Hollywood moguls .

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Tech Figures Raised At Least $27 Million For Obama Campaign

Forced to buy "influence" to counter government interference and government collusion with Hollywood (see, e.g., Megaupload case), tech has no choice but to join this "racket"--

Tech Figures Raised At Least $27 Million For Obama Campaign: "As new media begins to gain political clout along with financial power, one potential loser is the entertainment world, long a fundraising hub for Democrats. And the two California power bases have dramatically different interests, a narrative that has has been developing with increasing clarity in recent years. Last winter's Capitol Hill showdown over two anti-piracy bills, known as SOPA and PIPA, showed the growing strength of the online platform(ie, Silicon Valley) vis-a-vis the content (Hollywood). Suddenly, as Wikipedia blacked itself out and protests sprang up off-line on both coasts, it seemed that Northern California was asserting itself politically in a new way."

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Niall Ferguson's "Why Barack Obama Needs to Go"

Niall Ferguson on Why Barack Obama Needs to Go - Newsweek and The Daily Beast: " . . . . Mitt Romney is not the best candidate for the presidency I can imagine. But he was clearly the best of the Republican contenders for the nomination. He brings to the presidency precisely the kind of experience—both in the business world and in executive office—that Barack Obama manifestly lacked four years ago. (If only Obama had worked at Bain Capital for a few years, instead of as a community organizer in Chicago, he might understand exactly why the private sector is not “doing fine” right now.) And by picking Ryan as his running mate, Romney has given the first real sign that—unlike Obama—he is a courageous leader who will not duck the challenges America faces. The voters now face a stark choice. They can let Barack Obama’s rambling, solipsistic narrative continue until they find themselves living in some American version of Europe, with low growth, high unemployment, even higher debt—and real geopolitical decline. Or they can opt for real change: the kind of change that will end four years of economic underperformance, stop the terrifying accumulation of debt, and reestablish a secure fiscal foundation for American national security. . . "

And don't forget what Obama did with NDAA! Hiss!!

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