NSA agents admit spying on Americans' private calls

NSA agents admit spying on Americans' private calls

David Murfee Faulk described to ABC's Brian Ross how he had listened to "personal phone calls of American officers, mostly in the Green Zone [in Baghdad], calling home to the United States, talking to their spouses and sometimes their girlfriends."

"Co-workers of mine were ordered to transcribe these calls," Faulk stated. "When one of my co-workers went to a supervisor and said, 'But sir, these are personal calls,' the supervisor said, 'My orders were to transcribe everything.'"

Adrienne Kinne, who like Faulk is an Arab linguist, said she had received the same orders and had listened to hundreds of Americans in the Middle East simply calling home. She emphasized that these were "Americans who are not in any way, shape, or form associated with anything to do with terrorism. It was just personal conversations that really nobody else should have been listening to."

When asked about President Bush's statement that the intercepts were directed only at known al-Qaeda suspects, Kinne stated, "That is completely a lie." She said that military officers, journalists, and Red Cross workers were among the people whose calls she transcribed.

Faulk told ABC that certain calls were even passed around among the intercept operators like office jokes. "I was told, 'Hey, check this out, there's some good phone sex.' ... It was there, stored the way you'd look at songs on your iPod."

Journalists, the Red Cross, and our soldiers. They are the "Terrorists" BushCo is tracking. Those who may dare to have a free thought, an opinion that is not in line with the policies of King George and his criminal empire.

We all knew this was the truth of the NSA spying program...

Further Down The Spiral

Dow plunges 679 for 6th triple-digit loss in a row

GM shares tumble 31 percent to 58-year low

Banks borrow record amount from Fed

New AIG loan renews concerns over insurer's health


The Dow closed at 8579, down over 39 percent from about a year ago. The largest drop in points ever, the largest drop in percentage points since the crash of 1987. Pelosi started mentioning a second bailout the other day, and the Federal Reserve is bypassing banks to loan directly to corporations. There now seems to be a snowball effect going on...

Get your money out of the large banks... There are sure to be more going down...

The S* is hitting the fan...

Major banks are failing left and right...

The 700 billion bailout is failing to curb the economic troubles...

The government and the federal reserve are handing out money like candy to keep the corporations afloat...

All around the world, banks are failing, and a coordinated interest rate cut failed to work...

The 3rd infantry 1st brigade, regular army, is now assigned to the streets of the Fascist States of America, under federal control...

The congress was threatened with martial law in America if the bailout did not pass...

FEMA is prepped and ready for martial law...



Beware... Be Safe... Be Armed...

The Raw Story | US residents in military brigs? Govt says its war

The Raw Story | US residents in military brigs? Govt says its war: "'What you assert is the power of the military to seize a person in the United States, including an American citizen, on suspicion of being an enemy combatant?' Judge William B. Traxler asked.

'Yes, your honor,' Justice Department lawyer Gregory Garre replied."

There it is people, straight from the mouth of the government. If they wish, you can be locked away for years, without charges, without trials, with virtually no hope to be freed, save the government's own pity on you...

Moles Wanted - City Pages (Minneapolis/St. Paul)

Moles Wanted - City Pages (Minneapolis/St. Paul): "What they were looking for, Carroll says, was an informant—someone to show up at “vegan potlucks” throughout the Twin Cities and rub shoulders with RNC protestors, schmoozing his way into their inner circles, then reporting back to the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, a partnership between multiple federal agencies and state and local law enforcement. The effort’s primary mission, according to the Minneapolis division’s website, is to “investigate terrorist acts carried out by groups or organizations which fall within the definition of terrorist groups as set forth in the current United States Attorney General Guidelines.”

Carroll would be compensated for his efforts, but only if his involvement yielded an arrest. No exact dollar figure was offered."

Those violent vegans must be stopped. God forbid they exercise their free speech rights during the Republican National Convention.

Now just remember everyone:

Free Speech = Terrorism
Peaceful Protesting = Inciting A Riot

Carbon nanotubes mimic asbestos in early study - Yahoo! News

Carbon nanotubes mimic asbestos in early study - Yahoo! News: "Strong, versatile little 'nanotubes' made out of carbon are considered future stars in nanotechnology research in medicine and industry. Now a study finds that longer threads of the stuff mimic the toxic qualities of asbestos, renewing questions about how carbon nanotubes can be used safely."

Soon after the invention of many of these carbon nano-objects, concerns were raised about the possibility of damage to the lungs, and even the possibility that the objects could be small enough to penetrate human cells. Now, this "early" study seems to confirm the potential dangers of these products. Early, however, is not the term I would use when referring to the study, as it is rather late. These carbon products have been experimented with for years now, and they have even made into mass-produced products, such as stain-free khakis. But hey, I guess it is less than the decades it took us to realize that asbestos was dangerous.

Food Crisis Rippling Out Like a “Tsunami” - CommonDreams.org

Food Crisis Rippling Out Like a “Tsunami” - CommonDreams.org: "UNITED NATIONS - “A rolling tsunami of social unrest is underway as we speak — hungry people are desperate people capable of taking desperate actions. This tsunami is rapidly enveloping the global South, and it won’t take much longer before it knocks at the door of the global North,” warned Vicente Garcia-Delgado, the U.N. representative for CIVICUS, the world alliance for citizen participation.

At a forum on the world food crisis held at the United Nations Friday, civil society groups stressed that over 800 million people are now at risk of starvation, while 100 million have joined the ranks of the extremely poor in just the last few months and are now living on less than a dollar a day.

The food price index of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation rose by 9 percent in 2006 and 23 percent in 2007. As of March this year, wheat and maize prices were 130 and 30 percent higher than a year earlier. Rice prices have more than doubled since late January."

I have seen prices here in the United States rise dramatically over the last year or two. Here, we have food pantries serving record numbers of people, and we are the rich superpower. I cannot imagine how life is in the "third world" countries right now with such significant price increases.

The Raw Story | Journal: US report on Iranian weapons in Iraq 'delayed significantly'

The Raw Story | Journal: US report on Iranian weapons in Iraq 'delayed significantly': "In a little-noticed story, the Los Angeles Times reported two weeks ago that American promises to offer proof that Iran was arming Iraqi militants had fallen through.

'A plan to show some alleged Iranian-supplied explosives to journalists last week in Karbala and then destroy them was canceled after the United States realized none of them was from Iran,' wrote the Times' Tina Susman. 'A U.S. military spokesman attributed the confusion to a misunderstanding. ... When U.S. explosives experts went to investigate, they discovered they were not Iranian after all.'

Now the Wall Street Journal has added a fresh twist to the mystery of the alleged Iranian arms, writing that 'the U.S. military, in a shift, has postponed the release of a report detailing allegations of Iranian support for Iraqi insurgents, according to people familiar with the matter.'"

The CIA operatives in Iran must have forgotten to write "Made in Iran" on the explosives with a Sharpie before sending them to the Iraq insurgents. So much for the "evidence," not that that will matter a whole lot if Bush decides to bomb Iran...

Clinton may take delegate fight to convention - Yahoo! News

Clinton may take delegate fight to convention - Yahoo! News: "Hillary Rodham Clinton says she is willing to take her fight to seat Florida and Michigan delegates to the convention if the two states want to go that far. In an interview with The Associated Press, Clinton was asked whether she would support the states if they continue the fight.

The presidential candidate said Wednesday, 'Yes I will. I will, because I feel very strongly about this.'

Clinton is calling for delegates from both states to be seated at the convention based on the primaries. Both states were stripped of their delegates because they voted early, violating national party rules. Clinton won both states; Barack Obama's name wasn't on the Michigan ballot."

I do not like either Democratic candidate, but I would much rather see Obama win the nomination than Hillary. Hillary seems like she will be continuing some of the current administration's war-mongering efforts, and a war with Iran is really the last thing we need right now. Hopefully, the delegate saga in Michigan and Florida will not skew the results in Hillary's favor.

NSA Destroyed Evidence of Domestic Spying

NSA Destroyed Evidence of Domestic Spying: "The National Security Agency, the top-secret spy shop that has been secretly eavesdropping on Americans under a plan authorized by President Bush seven years ago, destroyed the names of thousands of Americans and US companies it collected after 9/11 because the agency feared it would come under fire by lawmakers for conducting unlawful surveillance on United States citizens without authorization from a court, according to a little known report published in October 2001.

NSA lawyers advised the agency to immediately destroy the names of thousands of American citizens and businesses it collected shortly after 9/11 in its quest to target alleged terrorists in this country. NSA lawyers told the agency that the surveillance was illegal and that it could not share the data it collected with the CIA or other intelligence agencies.

The lawyers said the surveillance could result in numerous lawsuits from people identified in the surveillance reports, two former US officials told the Houston Chronicle in an October 27, 2001, report, and was illegal despite any terrorist threat that existed in the days following 9/11."

This really does not surprise me at all. Call me paranoid, but I assumed there was, and is, much more domestic surveillance going on than anyone would like to admit. Let's not forget, that some parts of Bush's spy program, like Email monitoring, have been show to have started even before the terror attacks on 9/11. This administration is simply out of control, and is bent on destroying the America that we once knew.

The Raw Story | Oil prices pass $133 after report of supply drop

The Raw Story | Oil prices pass $133 after report of supply drop: "Runaway oil prices blew past $130 a barrel for the first time Wednesday and kept going, while gasoline prices persisted in their own relentless climb, rising above $3.80 a gallon. Supply worries, rising demand and a slumping dollar are conspiring to make filling up the car — and paying for just about everything else — a growing burden for Americans."

I read another report that put the price up near 140 a barrel at one point today. It will not be long until the next psychological barrier of $200 is passed. Here in west Texas, our gas prices recently broke the equally scary psychological border of $4.00 a gallon, and are heading up fast. Over the span of two weeks, we have paid $3.937/gallon, $4.034, and the last time, a few days ago, we paid $4.109. The economy is in a midst of a downward spiral, and despite the government's assertions to the contrary, it is getting worse.