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Fear the Military Industrial Complex, warns Edward Snowden

Daniel Guerin warned in his 1936 book Fascism and Big Business warned to be vigilant against ”an informal and changing coalition of groups
with vested psychological, moral, and material interests in the continuous development and maintenance of high levels of weaponry, in
preservation of colonial markets and in military-strategic conceptions of internal affairs.”

President Eisenhower updated this message with a similar warning to fear the rise of the “military-industrial complex.” Edward Snowden has updated the message that Americans must fear the rise of the “military-intelligence complex.”

Snowden Warns Americans: Fear The Military-Intelligence Complex The Testosterone Pit, By Chriss Street 2 Aug 13, : “….. the latest
depressing revelations about the rise of the military-industrial complex from whistleblower/traitor Edward Snowden as he accepted
political asylum in Russia today.

Snowden’s latest bombshell is the outing of the NSA’s XKeyscore software that is vacuuming up “nearly everything a typical user does
on the internet.” The top secret program allows civilian contractors in the U.S. to troll vast databases containing emails, online chats
and the browsing histories of millions of individuals around the world. The NSA boasts in training materials that XKeyscore is its
“widest-reaching” system for developing intelligence from the internet.

Snowden was already the “most wanted person on earth”, but after today’s disclosures, he must be on the Obama Administration’s secret
double most wanted man in the universe list. With his newly-awarded legal status in Russia, Snowden cannot be legally handed over or
kidnapped by the CIA. Snowden remains a very “marked man” and will need to stay in the public eye to avoid accidentally being
assassinated in some lonely hideout. Consequently, I believe that he will continue to talk to the international press…………
the training materials for XKeyscore detail how analysts can use it
to mine enormous agency databases by filling in a short “on-screen
form giving only a broad justification for the search”, without
obtaining a warrant from a judge. XKeyscore then provides the
technological capability if the NSA has the “metadata” of email or IP
address to perform Digital Network Intelligence (DNI) covering all
forms of electronic communications. In a 30 day period in 2012,
XKeyscore collected and stored at least 41 billion total records.

The most sophisticated aspect of XKeyscore turns out to not be its
impressive use of technology, but rather its clandestine
crony-cooperation from corporate fat cats at Apple, Google, Microsoft
and the other American based corporation. These corporatists have
struck the “grand bargain” to surreptitiously leak all their clients’
e-mail and IP addresses to the NSA, in return for being allowed to
offshore workers and tax liability.

In defense of indefensible spying on Americans, the NSA states: “These
types of programs allow us to collect the information that enables us
to perform our missions successfully – to defend the nation and to
protect US and allied troops abroad.” Some of this may be true, but
the Boston Bombing happened despite direct Russian intelligence agency
warnings about the militant activities of Chechen born Tamerlan
Tsarnaev went unheeded.

Daniel Guerin warned in his 1936 book Fascism and Big Business warned to be vigilant against ”an informal and changing coalition of groups
with vested psychological, moral, and material interests in the continuous development and maintenance of high levels of weaponry, in
preservation of colonial markets and in military-strategic conceptions of internal affairs.”

President Eisenhower updated this message with a similar warning to fear the rise of the “military-industrial complex.” Edward Snowden has updated the message that Americans must fear the rise of the “military-intelligence complex.”
http://www.testosteronepit.com/home/2013/8/2/snowden-warns-americans-fear-the-military-intelligence-compl.html

August 3, 2013 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized