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avaistheone1

(14,626 posts)
Wed Jun 12, 2013, 03:44 PM Jun 2013

Did someone help Ed Snowden punch a hole in the NSA?

This is one of the best articles I have read about the potential problems of living in a total surveillance society. It is a good read and pretty mind-boggling. I fear how much of this is actually going on especially when some of the spies have so much to personally gain by controlling all of our personal information.

In real life, whether the prime criminal source is one monster corporation or the NSA itself, the outcome would be the same.

Total surveillance has unlimited payoffs when it targets financial markets and the people who have intimate knowledge of them.

“Total security awareness” programs of surveillance are ideal spying ops in the financial arena, designed to grab millions of bits of inside information, and then utilize them to make investments and suck up billions (trillions?) of dollars.

It gives new meaning to “the rich get richer.”


http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2013/06/11/did-someone-help-ed-snowden-punch-a-hole-in-the-nsa/

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Did someone help Ed Snowden punch a hole in the NSA? (Original Post) avaistheone1 Jun 2013 OP
This is the angle that I am most inclined to believe Duer 157099 Jun 2013 #1

Duer 157099

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1. This is the angle that I am most inclined to believe
Wed Jun 12, 2013, 03:58 PM
Jun 2013

It always, always, always comes down to: Follow The Money. Always.

Goldman Sachs, Chase, and Morgan consider trillion-dollar trading markets their own private golden-egg farm. They run it, they own it, they manipulate it for their own ends.

If NSA has been looking over their shoulders for the past 30 years, discovering all their knowledge, and operating a meta invasion, siphoning off enormous profits, NSA would rate as Enemy Number One.
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