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Thursday, July 23, 2009

[ItsAllAboutMeMan] Fwd: A New NPR.org

Ah, NPR. When they aren't busy praising the US government's slide into tyranny and incompetence, they're trying to dictate our taste for us. Gotta love their bony little hearts.

Matt Love (ThePopeOfPop) wrote:

This is stupid. The email said I would get to vote for the best music of the year so far, but instead I get to chose music from a list you provide. You should have said "chose the best music from the attinuated little list we put together with the use of our attinuated little minds." The best album of the year is Cristalina by Lulina. Everything else is just jibba jabba.

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[ItsAllAboutMeMan] Fwd: [progressive] "The NSA is still listening to you" by James Bamford/salon.com 7/22/09

Let me put this as plainly as I can. Bush hates freedom. Obama hates freedom. Freedom gets in the way of them doing whatever they think the should be able to do, without control or restraint. Almost all politicians hate freedom. The ACLU is in favor of freedom, and you should stop slandering them for positions they have never taken, and things that they've never done. You should start supporting them, and you should forward this article to everybody you know who believes in freedom.

Have I made myself clear?

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Subject: [progressive] "The NSA is still listening to you" by James Bamford/salon.com 7/22/09
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The NSA is still listening to you

Bush went away, but domestic surveillance overreach didn't. It's now the law, and the ACLU is fighting back

by James Bamford

salon.com

7/22/09

This summer, on a remote stretch of desert in central Utah, the National Security Agency will begin work on a massive, 1 million-square-foot data warehouse. Costing more than $1.5 billion, the highly secret facility is designed to house upward of trillions of intercepted phone calls, e-mail messages, Internet searches and other communications intercepted by the agency as part of its expansive eavesdropping operations. The NSA is also completing work on another data warehouse, this one in San Antonio, Texas, which will be nearly the size of the Alamodome.

The need for such extraordinary data storage capacity stems in part from the Bush administration's decision to open the NSA's surveillance floodgates following the 9/11 attacks. According to a recently released Inspectors General report, some of the NSA's operations -- such as spying on American citizens without warrants -- were so questionable, if not illegal, that they nearly caused the resignations of the most senior officials of both the FBI and the Justice Department.

Last July, many of those surveillance techniques were codified into law as part of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Amendments Act (FAA). In fact, according to the Inspectors General report, "this legislation gave the government even broader authority to intercept international communications" than the warrantless surveillance operations had. Yet despite this increased power, congressional oversight committees have recently discovered that the agency has been over-collecting on the domestic communications of Americans, thus even exceeding the excessive reach granted them by the FAA.

I am an author and journalist specializing in national security issues and terrorism, and often communicate with parties in the Middle East as part of my work. Because of concerns that my communications might have been monitored, in early 2006, shortly after NSA's warrantless surveillance program was revealed by the New York Times, I became a plaintiff in a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union against the NSA that argued that the program was illegal and should be shut down. We prevailed in federal district court, with Judge Anna Diggs Taylor finding that President Bush had violated both the law and the Constitution, but lost on the government's appeal when the court ruled the plaintiffs could not prove that they were personally victims of the secret eavesdropping program. In a decision worthy of Lewis Carroll, the appeals court held both that the government could refuse to confirm or deny whether it had monitored plaintiffs' communications and that plaintiffs could not challenge the constitutionality of the program unless they could show that their communications had been monitored. A dissenting judge pointed out that the court's decision was inconsistent with Supreme Court precedent and would effectively render the program unreviewable by the courts.

On Wednesday, the ACLU will once again appear in federal court, this time in a separate lawsuit charging that the new FAA statute is unconstitutional. The ACLU is right. While the FAA prohibits the agency from intentionally "targeting" people within the U.S., it places virtually no restrictions on the targeting of people outside the U.S. even if those targets are communicating with U.S. citizens and residents. The law essentially allows the agency virtually unfettered access to the international communications of innocent Americans in clear violation of the Fourth Amendment.

Also troublesome is the fact that the FAA emasculates the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, the one independent check and balance between the agency and the American public. Originally established as a response to the discovery by Congress in the mid-1970s that the NSA had been illegally eavesdropping domestically for decades, the FISA court required the government to show that there was probable cause to believe that its surveillance target was an agent of a foreign government or terrorist group in order to obtain a necessary warrant. But the new law does away with this requirement, and now the NSA does not even have to identify the targets of its surveillance at all as long as it is targeting people outside the U.S., leaving the agency free, for example, to target human rights activists or media organizations overseas, even if they are communicating with family or editors back in the U.S. As former NSA "voice interceptor" Adrienne Kinne told me in my book, "The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA From 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America," [1] the agency targeted both groups during the Bush administration, including eavesdropping on intimate bedroom conversations.

Further removing the FISA court from any meaningful role, the new law even gags the judges, prohibiting them from asking the government who, what, where or why it is launching any particular surveillance program.

Finally, the FAA fails to place any meaningful limitations on the NSA's retention of phone calls, e-mail and other communications that it collects -- necessitating the colossal data storage mausoleums it is now building. The agency need only show that it has "reasonably designed" procedures to minimize information retention, which must give way to the NSA's need "to obtain, produce, and disseminate foreign intelligence information." And because "foreign intelligence" is very broadly defined, this allows the NSA to conduct immense data mining operations within those centers.

Among the most striking discoveries to come out of the Inspectors General report was that, despite the enormous expansion of the NSA's capabilities, including turning its giant ear inward for the first time in three decades, no one could point to any significant counterterrorism success. Instead, it warned that while the agency had little difficulty collecting vast amounts of data, the trouble was analyzing it all. It was a problem akin to Jorge Luis Borges' "Library of Babel," a place where the collection of information is both infinite and at the same time monstrous, where the entire world's knowledge is stored, but not a single word understood. In this "labyrinth of letters," Borges wrote, "there are leagues of senseless cacophonies, verbal jumbles and incoherences." In addition to the civil liberties and constitutional defects in the new surveillance law, another compelling argument against it is that it only increases the amount of "senseless cacophonies" in America's Library of Babel.

James Bamford is the author of three books on the National Security Agency, including his latest, The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA From 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America, [2] which has just been released in paperback.

Article printed from www.CommonDreams.org

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Wednesday, July 22, 2009

[ItsAllAboutMeMan] Fwd: [allstar] male hits celine dion ............. on youtube you've got to see this

Bait and switch. The whole title is "male hits celine dion highest note titanic "my heart will go on" (zoorro) see more video"

I thought i was going to see somebody punch out Celine Dion (long overdue) - instead it's just some castrado singing that wretched song

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"male hits celine dion ........." on youtube you've got to see this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QHYAyAaSNs

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Tuesday, July 21, 2009

[ItsAllAboutMeMan] Re: I AM HONORED TO DO THIS...(maybe, baby)

This, like almost everything I've read about the ACLU in chain emails, is false:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/cemetery.asp

I really don't understand the hostility to the ACLU - they support the civil liberties of everybody, secular and religious. They defend the rights of conservatives as well as liberals. See, for example:

http://blog.aclu.org/2009/06/18/aclu-sues-tsa-for-unlawful-detention-of-ron-pauls-campaign-for-liberty-treasurer/

The oppose the erosion of our constituional rights when they are under attack by liberals as well as conservatives:

http://criminaljustice.change.org/actions/view/please_reject_indefinite_detention

I don't know what part of the American Civil Liberties Union people don't like. Maybe the American part? I hear there's a lot of anti-American feeling in the world today, I guess it's not surprising there are people inside the borders that don't like the American Way. Maybe they'd like it better in Russia or China where they don't have anything like ACLU, where they arrest people for doing the things the ACLU tries to protect. Or maybe the Civil part? Maybe they'd prefer things if they were done the way the are in Honduras. Liberties? Well, if we had a military government like in Honduras, I guess we wouldn't have to worry about liberty.

> --- On Tue, 7/21/09, irishvio@aol.com <irishvio@aol.com> wrote:
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> From: irishvio@aol.com <irishvio@aol.com>
> Subject: Fwd: I AM HONORED TO DO THIS
> To: redd2trvl2@bellsouth.net, bentley5@bellsouth.net, lori38654@yahoo.com, diannagarner@comcast.net, bevhale@hotmail.com, cjohnson@odysseymed.com, salist@bellsouth.net, munstermarci@comcast.net, cpm5356@aol.com, rct1352@jaxnet.net, bythespirit2007@yahoo.com
> Date: Tuesday, July 21, 2009, 10:03 AM
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank & Diane Brown <fgdmbrown@comcast.net>
> To: Amber Rice <a.rice@markdunning.com>; Judith Mills <jamills10@aristotle.net>; Melinda Hunley Coates <nmhunley@bellsouth.net>; Jewel Gaston <jj131@cableone.net>; Betty Cecil <IRISHVIO@aol.com>; Peggy Huff <peggyhuff@comcast.net>; Ronnie Brown <dziggetai@bellsouth.net>; Delight Reisanuer <delightreisanuer@hotmail.com>; Carolyn Brown <mcrb0517@comcast.net>
> Sent: Mon, Jul 20, 2009 6:27 pm
> Subject: Fw: Fw: I AM HONORED TO DO THIS
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> Date: Monday, July 20, 2009, 8:55 AM
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> I AM HONORED TO DO THIS
>
> Did you know that the ACLU has filed a suit to have all military cross-shaped headstones removed and another suit to end prayer from the military completely. They're making great progress. The Navy Chaplains can no longer mention Jesus' name in prayer thanks to the retched ACLU and our new administration.
>
> I'm not breaking this one. If I get it a 1000 times, I'll forward it a 1000 times!
>
> Let us pray...
>
> Prayer chain for our Military... Don't break it!
>
> Please send this on after a short prayer.. Prayer for our soldiers Don't break it!
>
> Prayer:
>
> 'Lord, hold our troops in your loving hands Protect them as they protect us Bless them and their families for the selfless acts they perform for us in our time of need. Amen.'
>
> Prayer Request: When you receive this, please stop for a moment and say a prayer for our troops around the world.
>
> There is nothing attached. Just send this to people in your address book.. Do not let it stop with you. Of all the gifts you could give a Marine, Soldier, Sailor, Airman, &others deployed in harm's way, prayer is the very best one.
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> GOD BLESS YOU FOR PASSING IT ON!
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Sunday, July 19, 2009

[ItsAllAboutMeMan] Will no one rid me of this turbulent glurge?

The real story can be found at: http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/taps.asp

On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Rick REED <bythespirit2007@yahoo.com> wrote:

--- On Sat, 7/18/09, irishvio@aol.com <irishvio@aol.com> wrote:

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Subject: Fwd: Taps
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Sent: Fri, Jul 17, 2009 6:23 pm
Subject: Fw: Taps

I forgot the words.........for that I am ashamed.........

RjR

If
any of you have ever been to a military
funeral in which taps was played;
this brings out a new meaning of it.

Here
is something Every American should know. Until I
read this, I didn't know, but I checked it out
and it's true:

We
in the United States have all heard
the haunting song, 'Taps.' It's the song that
gives us the lump in our throats and usually
tears in our eyes.

But,
do you know the story behind the song? If
not, I think you will be interested to find out
about its humble beginnings.

Reportedly,
it all began in 1862 during the Civil War,
when Union Army
Captain Robert Ellicombe was with
his men near Harrison's Landing in
Virginia . The Confederate Army was
on the other side of the narrow strip of land.

During
the night, Captain Ellicombe heard the moans of
a soldier who lay severely wounded on the field.
Not knowing if it was a Union
or Confederate soldier, the Captain
decided to risk his life and bring the stricken
man back for medical attention. Crawling on his
stomach through the gunfire, the Captain reached
the stricken soldier and began pulling him
toward his encampment.

When
the Captain finally reached his own lines, he
discovered it was actually a Confederate
soldier, but the soldier was dead.

The
Captain lit a lantern and suddenly caught his
breath and went numb with shock. In the
dim light, he saw the face of the soldier. It
was his own son. The boy had been studying music
in the South when the war broke out.
Without telling his father, the boy
enlisted in the Confederate Army.

The
following morning, heartbroken, the father asked
permission of his superiors to give his son a
full military burial, despite his enemy status.
His request was only partially granted.

The
Captain had asked if he could have a group of
Army band members play a funeral dirge for his
son at the funeral.

The
request was turned down since the soldier was a
Confederate.

But,
out of respect for the father, they did say they
could give him only one musician.

The
Captain chose a bugler. He asked the
bugler to play a series of musical notes he had
found on a piece of paper in the pocket of the
dead youth's uniform.

This
wish was granted.

The
haunting melody, we now know as 'Taps' used
at military
funerals was born.

The
words are:

Day
is done.
Gone
the sun.
From
the lakes
From
the hills.
From
the sky.
All
is well.
Safely
rest.
God
is nigh.

Fading
light.
Dims
the sight.
And
a star.
Gems
the sky.
Gleaming
bright.
From
afar.
Drawing
nigh.
Falls
the night.

Thanks
and praise.
For
our days.
Neath
the sun
Neath
the stars.
Neath
the sky
As
we go.
This
we know.
God
is nigh

I
too have felt the chills while listening to
'Taps' but I have never seen all the words to
the song until now. I didn't even know
there was more than one verse . I also
never knew the story behind the song and I
didn't know if you had either so I thought I'd
pass it along.

I
now have an even deeper respect for the song
than I did before.

Remember
Those Lost and Harmed While Serving Their
Country.



Also
Remember Those Who Have Served And Returned; and
for those presently serving in the Armed
Forces.

Please
send this on after a short prayer.

Make
this a Prayer
wheel for our soldiers....please
don't break it .

I
didn't!

RjR

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