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Research grants by NSA and CIA for mass surveillance is what led to the creation of Google

Jeff Nesbit
Quartz
Fri, 08 Dec 2017 16:44 UTC
google offices
© Reuters/Brian Snyder
Two decades ago, the US intelligence community worked closely with Silicon Valley in an effort to track citizens in cyberspace. And Google is at the heart of that origin story. Some of the research that led to Google's ambitious creation was funded and coordinated by a research group established by the intelligence community to find ways to track individuals and groups online.

The intelligence community hoped that the nation's leading computer scientists could take non-classified information and user data, combine it with what would become known as the internet, and begin to create for-profit, commercial enterprises to suit the needs of both the intelligence community and the public. They hoped to direct the supercomputing revolution from the start in order to make sense of what millions of human beings did inside this digital information network. That collaboration has made a comprehensive public-private mass surveillance state possible today.

The story of the deliberate creation of the modern mass-surveillance state includes elements of Google's surprising, and largely unknown, origin. It is a somewhat different creation story than the one the public has heard, and explains what Google cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page set out to build, and why.

But this isn't just the origin story of Google: It's the origin story of the mass-surveillance state, and the government money that funded it.
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TV

Surveillance footage of the New York attack released immediately, yet a month later nothing from Las Vegas

Matt Agorist
Free Thought Project
Mon, 11 Dec 2017 12:00 UTC
terrorist by the name of Akayed Ullah NY bomb
On Monday morning, a 27-year-old alleged terrorist by the name of Akayed Ullah walked into the underground tunnel between Times Square and the Port Authority Bus Terminal and detonated a crudely-made pipe bomb. Luckily no one but Ullah was seriously injured.

After the blast, which happened at 7:20 am during rush hour, the suspect was almost immediately identified and a profile of him released.

Ullah is from Bangladesh and had been living in Brooklyn. He arrived in the United States in February of 2011 and had a visa. He came in with his parents and 3-4 siblings and subsequently obtained a Green Card and became a permanent U.S. resident, according to CBS news.
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Jet5

Poland balks at "unacceptable" $10.5 billion cost for US Patriot missiles that don't work


RT
Tue, 12 Dec 2017 09:30 UTC
US Patriot surface-to-air missile battery
© Peter Andrews / ReutersUS Patriot surface-to-air missile battery at an army base in Morag, Poland May 26, 2010
Poland has been pushing toward the purchase of a medium-range air-and-missile defense system for many years, settling on an unprecedented configuration of the Patriot system, but was surprised by the high price tag presented when the U.S. State Department cleared the sale of half of the Patriots Poland plans to buy.

According to the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, when it notified Congress last month of the potential sale, the deal could cost the country $10.5 billion for four systems - that is roughly 37 billion zloties - which already exceeds by 7 billion zloties what Poland has said it would spend on the entire program.

The DSCA announcement only marks the progress in the first phase of the acquisition. Poland would like to see a second round of Patriot systems with a 360-degree detection capability and the first four retrofitted with the new radar in a subsequent deal.


Comment: Poland's Patriot missile system purchase is a paid bribe to America


Comment: Also See:

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Rocket

Issue of Russian S-400 delivery to Turkey will be resolved this week


RT
Mon, 11 Dec 2017 13:57 UTC
S-400 air defense system
© Sergey Malgavko / Sputnik
A Russian-Turkish deal on Moscow supplying Ankara with its S-400 air defense systems will be finalized this week, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said following his meeting with the Russian president in Ankara.

Russian and Turkish officials will be meeting to seal the deal, Erdogan told the media in the Turkish capital where he held talks with President Vladimir Putin Monday. The Russian leader also confirmed that "perspectives for wider military and technical cooperation" were discussed during the bilateral negotiations.

Putin said they had an "open and constructive conversation,"adding that further steps to enhance trade and economic ties had been explored.
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Info

Putin's withdrawal from Syria: A political & legal analysis

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Tue, 12 Dec 2017 13:28 UTC
Vladimir Putin Syria speech
Putin's withdrawal announcement does not spell the end of Russian involvement in Syria or signal the end of the war in Syria

President Putin's brief stop-over visit to Russia's Khmeimim air base in Syria is in danger of being over-analysed.

At a time when President Putin is undertaking a tour of the Middle East it would have been politically speaking extremely unwise for him not to have made a stop-over to meet the Russian troops at the Khmeimim air base whom Putin himself sent to Syria.

A failure to do so might have conveyed the impression that Putin takes these troops for granted, an impression which Putin is far too good a politician to want to give.
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Sheriff

FBI directors Mueller and Comey ignored dozens of female agents who were sexually abused by colleagues and extorted at alarming rate


True Pundit
Wed, 06 Dec 2017 13:20 UTC
Robert Mueller and James Comey russiagate hoax
Robert Mueller and James Comey
Spanning more than a decade, former FBI directors Robert Mueller and his successor and protégé James Comey relied on their inner circles to help cover up a surging and troubling amount of sexual misconduct complaints filed by physically violated and emotionally battered female FBI agents.

There is a culture of corruption in the FBI. Or the FBI is a culture of corruption.

"They (Mueller and Comey) didn't care as long as they were insulated politically," one female FBI insider said. "It's rampant. People wouldn't believe it. Agents are being sexually assaulted and they are terrified to speak out."
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War Whore

War is good for business: US military operations overseas lead resurgence of global arms sales


RT
Mon, 11 Dec 2017 13:10 UTC
soldier standing on tank
© Alaa al-Faqir / Reuters
The worldwide trade of weapons and military services rose for the first time in five years, hitting $374.8 billion in 2016, according to the annual report published by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) on Monday.

The research revealed last year marked the end of five consecutive years of decline with a 1.9 percent rise in the sale of arms globally. The number represents an increase of 38 percent since 2002. The SIPRI report covers the top 100 companies manufacturing weapons and offering military services.
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MIB

Ex-CIA director Michael Morell admits role in 'Deep State' war on Trump

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Mon, 11 Dec 2017 18:01 UTC
CIA Michael Morell
© Wiki Commons, DoDActing director of the CIA Michael Morell with Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta
in 2013.
An ex-spy chief who spoke out publicly against Trump while inspiring other career intelligence figures to follow suit has admitted his leading role in the intelligence community waging political war against the president, describing his actions as something he didn't "fully think through". In a surprisingly frank interview, the CIA's Michael Morell - who was longtime Deputy Director and former Acting Director of the nation's most powerful intelligence agency - said that it wasn't a great idea to leak against and bash a new president.

Morell had the dubious distinction of being George W. Bush's personal daily briefer for the agency before and after 9/11, and also served under Obama until his retirement. In the summer of 2016 he took the unusual step (for a former intelligence chief) of openly endorsing Hillary Clinton in a New York Times op-ed entitled, I Ran the C.I.A. Now I'm Endorsing Hillary Clinton, after which he continued to be both an outspoken critic of Trump and an early CIA voice promoting the Russian collusion and election meddling narrative.

As Politico's Susan Glasser put in a newly published interview, Morell "has emerged out of the shadows of the deep state" to become one of Trump's foremost critics speaking within the intel community. However, Politico summarizes the interview as follows:
But in a revealingly self-critical and at times surprising interview for this week's Global POLITICO, Morell acknowledges that he and other spy-world critics of the president failed to fully "think through" the negative backlash generated by their going political. "There was a significant downside," Morell said in the interview.

Comment: But he's not hyping it anymore it seems, what gives? Like the other Intel spooks ahead of him, he's one slimy character. See also:

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Flashlight

DOJ failed to interview FBI informant before it filed charges in Russian nuclear bribery Rosatom case

John Solomon
The Hill
Mon, 04 Dec 2017 11:51 UTC
ROSATOM
© TwitterRosatom
While he was Maryland's chief federal prosecutor, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein's office failed to interview the undercover informant in the FBI's Russian nuclear bribery case before it filed criminal charges in the case in 2014, officials told The Hill.

And the prosecutors did not let a grand jury hear from the paid informant before it handed up an indictment portraying him as a "victim" of the Russian corruption scheme or fully review his extensive trove of documents until months later, the officials confirmed.

The decisions backfired after prosecutors conducted more extensive debriefings of William Campbell in 2015, learning much more about the extent of his undercover activities and the transactions he engaged in while under the FBI's direction, the officials said.

The debriefings forced prosecutors to recast their entire criminal case against former Russian uranium industry executive Vadim Mikerinn - removing the informant as a star witness and main victim for the prosecution, the officials added.
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Cheeseburger

Trump accusers seek congressional probe of 'sexual misconduct'

Brooke Singman
Fox News
Tue, 12 Dec 2017 05:23 UTC
Trump accusers press conference
© CNN Newsource
Three women, who previously have accused President Trump of sexual misconduct, banded together Monday to call for a congressional investigation into the president - in what could be an opening effort to shift the sexual harassment spotlight from Congress to the White House.

The women revived their allegations during a press conference and television interview in New York City.

Trump has long rejected the accusations from over a dozen women who have made such claims against him, and the White House called the revived accusations "false." The three accusers spoke out Monday following high-profile resignations last week on Capitol Hill over misconduct claims.

Comment: We hope for the accusers' sake the women in the video have more meat to their stories than a couple of kisses and a look. We also hope, for sanity's sake, that Congress looks at this call for investigation as the joke that it is - a few cry-baby snowflakes who had their feelings hurt. It seems like the more people try to dig up actual dirt on Trump, the more of a non-issue things turn out to be (the Epstein association, Russian collusion, the Trump dossier, and these sexual assault allegations). See also:

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