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dram
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Comment #6691406
Corruption on this level only existed 50+ years ago. Nowadays our politicians, popes and corporations would never do what they'd did in the 20th century.
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Comment #6672100
I like the name didapper mail. A fun sounding duck inspired protocol.
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Comment #6558425
This says that debit cards are "online transactions" that could cost 10 cents vs 2% for an "offline" credit transaction - http://banking.about.com/od/checkingaccounts/a/debitvscred…
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Comment #6204713
The investigative reporter lives nearby. He recorded the surveillance camera playback with his camera or phone. Perhaps the recording of the playback slowed down the video slightly…
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Comment #6204518
Let's be fair. Krikorian had access to the ENTIRE video and this professor only a short Youtube video clip. Kirkorian wrote, "Three seconds later, another vehicle goes by, travelin…
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Comment #6202938
Here's a story about an FBI FOIA document that included the language, "planned to engage in sniper attacks against protestors in Houston, Texas, if deemed necessary." The plotters …
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Comment #6202904
Fair points but the author of the article, Kimberly Dvorak, appears convinced that Hastings' was murdered. It seems she found someone to support a theory that his car was travellin…
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Comment #6202349
The article and your comment are misleading. Despite the professor's calculation, it contradicts other evidence including the eye witnesses. Michael Krikorian observes that Hasting…
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Comment #6201412
The investigator that released the video wrote a good article debunking a lot of the claims out there- http://whowhatwhy.com/2013/07/14/the-michael-hastings-wreck-... Although I'd …
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Comment #6093268
Try renaming it gfacemail and hiring 50 Cent as a partner.
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Comment #6087454
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Keynesianism
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Comment #6062525
9/11 was definitely planned by KSM and indirectly by his nephew Ramzi Yousef. But it's also true that we accidentally let it happen. It's remarkable that this interview with Richar…
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Comment #6054429
He was responding to a retired US Senator who wrote him an e-mail. You think it's pompous to respond to him?
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Comment #5967190
Sounds like great news for Glenn Greenwald. Can we see the audit trail for Team Themis and understand more about how Palantir was contracted to be paid $3.6MM for malicious datamin…
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Comment #5962901
And in two sentences after your excerpt, it says it's closely related to the push for popular sovereignty. This "higher ideal" that the American and French Revolutions prided thems…
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Comment #5962888
But a US citizen's rights are not derived from the Constitution. It's clearly hypocritical to say a German has no natural right to privacy. We could declare war on Germany, then we…
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Comment #5956800
So from Wikipedia, Boundless Informant uses 504 separate DNR (electronic surveillance program records) and DNI (metadata) collection sources known as SIGADs. In a 30-day period, th…
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Comment #5956756
We should be doing this. The United States' organic law is based on natural rights. Defined as the innate right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Our rights do not com…
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Comment #5955945
I never realized how powerful HBGary was. I knew they employed dirty tricks but I did not know they had so many unpublished 0-day exploits and sophisticated rootkits. I had this im…
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Comment #5953471
For a social site, they are doing great but how could they possibly have any technology that the CIA would need? And while I realize their personas are a joke, to me, they represen…
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Comment #5948393
The NSA is wholesale collecting data and later using a secret court to authorize them to query their own databases [1]. PRISM is not just an interface. It is officially known as SI…
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Comment #5923692
This is the most interesting fact. There's video cameras everywhere and he had to know that. The reasonable answer seems to be a medical issue.
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Comment #5923668
There is also a black box (electronic data recorder) on that Mercedes. If something manipulated the system, you'd assume the EDR would record it. Not to mention it'd be a terrible …
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Comment #5922842
Well it is officially SIGAD US-984XN, so by its own definition it intercepts signals- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGINT_Activity_Designator It is not just an interface. The NSA i…