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I looks like the No Quarter blog and its Twitter feed have been deleted from the ‘net. Free Republic has some ideas about why it may have happened. insanitybytes has some thoughts. In my opinion it came after he stated that British GCHQ spies on American citizens. Politico has more on that story. So if…

                        He will always be with us.

Spieder. Kind of a funny word. But in the vein of how we make up words these days. Spied. Spied upon. By a giant electronic spider. Spieder. That is what the NSA has going on in Utah. “I started to realize that it is just a data collection point. That they are collecting and storing…

The Fourmyle Circus

From Steve Bannon’s Twitter feed I got this link: Steve Bannon ‘under criminal investigation’ for voter registration fraud. What do they expect the outcome to be? Submitting false information on a voter registration form is a third-degree felony in Florida, punishable by up to five years in prison. However, Mr Bannon did not vote in…

(About 2 1/2 minutes) There is more on this story at Former Congressman Dennis Kucinich Warns Congress that CIA Wiretaps Are Real and It Happened to Him. Enter former liberal Congressman from Ohio, Dennis Kucinich (D) — disclosing the fact that he was wiretapped in 2011 and only learned about it after the Washington Times…

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(About 21 1/2 minutes) Former CIA officer Robert David Steele explains how Flynn was really fired because he was in possession of a high-level Washington DC pedophile list with many names. One of those names was Vice President Mike Pence’s “best friend”. So Dennis Hastert was not just an isolated case. Mentioned in the video:…

It turns out that it was Ronald Reagan who originally compromised American’s privacy. Executive Order 12333. On December 4, 1981, U.S. President Ronald Reagan signed Executive Order 12333, an Executive Order intended to extend powers and responsibilities of U.S. intelligence agencies and direct the leaders of U.S. federal agencies to co-operate fully with CIA requests…

(About 8 minutes) The question was (about 1:30 into the video) how much information can the government get from a US Citizen (communications) without a warrant? The answer is: NONE. Eric goes much deeper into the Constitutional implications at Massive surveillance by nameless apparatchiks, and the buck stops nowhere! Update: 9 March 2017 06:50z The…

(About 2 minutes) Anyone paying attention knew this was happening. Trump did us a favor by making it front page news. You can read more about it at Wikileaks Unveils ‘Vault 7’: “The Largest Ever Publication Of Confidential CIA Documents”; Another Snowden Emerges And CIA Contractor on #VAULT7 Leak: ‘There is Heavy Shit Coming Down’…

While these days I generally avoid politics like the plague, I have become more than a little annoyed by the uproar over Trump’s complaint — in a misspelled tweet, mind you — that he was wiretapped. Wiretapped? Of course he was! As anyone who has been following the news in the past decade knows, we have…

Yesterday morning I ate at a local Berkeley breakfast diner. The table tops are covered with copper, and someone went to a lot of trouble using a chemical (probably some sort of mild copper solvent, maybe even lemon juice) to put graffiti on a number of them which would be very difficult to remove, as you’d…

How low has President Obama gone to tapp my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 4, 2017 About 7 1/2 minutes H/T Sparta Report

We should start an immediate investigation into @SenSchumer and his ties to Russia and Putin. A total hypocrite! pic.twitter.com/Ik3yqjHzsA — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 3, 2017

A song for our times. Lawyers, Guns, and Money.

As a witness to the recent rioting in Berkeley (and as someone who has known the Berkeley left for years) I was dumbfounded by Robert Reich’s bizarre theory that the rioters in fact may have been secret right wingers affiliated with Breitbart: “There’s rumors that they actually were right-wingers. They were a part of a kind…