The British Ministry of Defense issued a D notice on 17 June to British media organizations, which were supposed to refrain from reports on the spying programs which could potentially “jeopardize national security”.
Full link to D Notice :
http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/chinapoli ... -in-china/
However the BBC DID report on the outcome of the NSA vote " In a 205-217 vote, lawmakers rejected an effort to restrict the National Security Agency's (NSA) ability to collect electronic information."
Full link to article :
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23445231
The result of this vote was widely expected as the Banks "frankly own the place"
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) has been battling the banks the last few weeks in an effort to get 60 votes lined up for bankruptcy reform. He's losing.
On Monday night in an interview with a radio host back home, he came to a stark conclusion: the banks own the Senate.
"And the banks -- hard to believe in a time when we're facing a banking crisis that many of the banks created -- are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. And they frankly own the place," he said on WJJG 1530 AM's "Mornings with Ray Hanania.
Next Steps : Lawsuits
An unlikely coalition of advocacy groups are taking the NSA to court, claiming the bulk surveillance it conducts on Americans phone records and their online habits is unconstitutional. One of them is aiming beyond the NSA itself, and at the companies the NSA partners with for much of that data.
The NSA's relationship with those companies is critical, since much of the telecommunications infrastructure of the United States is owned and operated by private firms.
While the lawsuits face significant obstacles, they stand a chance of splitting the financial and legal interests of the telecoms firms and and Internet Service Providers from those of the NSA – something that could restrict the surveillance efforts more than any legislation Congress is likely to pass.
"Without the companies' participation," said former NSA codebreaker William Binney, "it would reduce the collection capability of the NSA significantly."
The lawsuits, which take several different paths to blocking the bulk surveillance, are proliferating quickly.
Full link to article :
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/ju ... NTCMP=SRCH
When Dr Carroll Quigley wrote his scholarly , 1300 page book of dry history , it was not intended for the masses (Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in our Time - New York , Macmillan 1966 )
It was to be read by the intellectual elite and to that select readership he cautiously exposed one of the best kept secrets of all time - but unexpectedly it began to be quoted in the journals of the John Birch Society (
http://www.jbs.org). On December 9 , 1975 Dr Carroll Quigley wrote in a personal letter :
" Thank you for your praise of Tragedy and Hope , a book which has brought me headaches as it apparently says something which powerful people do not want known ". To understand why "powerful people" would want to suppress this book , note carefully what follows. Dr Quigley describes the goal of a secret network of world financiers as follows :
" nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each Country and the economy of the World as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the Central Banks of the World acting in concert , by secret agreements arrived at in frequent meetings and conferences "
The elite believe that the "big decisions" are far too important to be left "to the people", and so most of the "international institutions" that have been established by the elite operate independently of the democratic process.