No Place To Hide

by Glenn Greenwald

The full force and impact of this book on NSA's full spectrum domestic and international surveillance cannot be stressed enough; what we have heard and read in various international news articles is gathered here at one source, to be read to fully grasp the enormity of it all!

When those of us who served in the military, and worked for various organizations for the NSA (Naval Security Group, or NSG, Army Security Agency, or the ASA, USAF Security Service), the agency was strictly forbidden from domestic surveillance --- for that way lies ultimate power!

During Reagan's administration, in 1988, the NSA was transferred from civilian status to the domain of the Department of Defense, under control of the Pentagon.

Such action initiated what Greenwald so aptly describes as its present incarnation of Orwellian dimensions.

Although Glenn cogently describes its financial intelligence spying, only those who have been diligently following the financial investigative journalism of Matt Taibbi, Pam Martens and Nomi Prins will fully appreciate the significance of this.

When NSA's full spectrum intelligence is disseminated to its clients --- the Department of the Treasury, the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Justice, etc. --- it is being likewise dispersed to Wall Street (DOT = Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase, DOA = Big Agra, or ADM, Cargill, Monsanto, etc., and DOJ = Wall Street's white-shoe firms, etc.).

This is a slight peek behind the curtain of the unholy financial-intelligence-complex which sits atop the pyramid of control.

Remember that Edward Snowden was a contractor with Booz Allen Hamilton, and has proven to the world his unimaginable and extraordinary access to the most senstive of NSA programs --- and who owns Booz Allen?

One of the top private equity/leveraged buyout firms (private banks), the Carlyle Group, with the likes of George H.W. Bush as a past advisor, and with the original seed money coming from the Mellon family.

Thusly we must ask just how much access to global financial intelligence do these private banks routinely enjoy, along with their publicly owned cousins, JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs?

When NSA intercepts shipments of routers, switches and other network devices to insert backdoor software and hardware to reroute data communications back to them --- it isn't about national security --- just financial intelligence --- had anyone of those traitors ever been concerned with real national security they would have sounded the alarm about the offshoring of jobs, technology and investment to China and elsewhere!

When the Boeing subsidiary, Narus (or other similar firms), aids totalitarian countries to capture pro-democracy activists for torture and death, so too does the NSA help in preemptive arrests of American activists and community organizers, as well as members of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

As one National Intelligence Officer is quoted in the book as stating, "...this is about vast profit..."

[Please see the bottom of p. 224 and top of p. 225 to understand why no one should give a rat's ass at the recent firing of New York Times executive editor, Jill Abramson.]

This is a fantastic book not to be missed!

Additional sources and pertinent sites:

http://electrospaces.blogspot....

https://www.aclu.org/sites/def...

http://www.mindmeister.com/326...

http://www.wikileaks-forum.com...

. . . I fully agree with everything he says.

Read Simon Head's latest book for the Amazon lowdown (Mindless), but recall that Jeff Bezos, besides attending those yearly meetings with the international finance and banksters doods, the Bilderbergers, was also with that famous junk bond firm, and when he went to Wall Street for more reinvestment in Amazon some years back, he claimed that they then had a global market reach, when in actuality Bezos was shipping random books to random Euro addresses and eating the damage. (Plus, there is that CIA cloud contract . . . )

I mean, Cloud Computing, is what the CIA is down with, right? What is the purpose of having all the data on someone else's servers that they have control over, huh?

. . . I mean, I read a bunch of books per month by people who say they are great, and their bios say they are great, and they usually have blurbs by others saying they are great, and when I'm done with the book I realize it is almost pure bullcrap! And that is what they pay these people for?

Well stated and spot on, jafac!

http://www.politico.com/story/...

Josh On (creator of theyrule.net and exxonsecrets.org, and a highly intelligent activist or hacktivist) stated the agenda behind the cloud, and i-pad, smart cellphones, etc., tech: to reduce the potential for user hacking and intellectual empowerment, and as you stated, wresting control.

Well articulated, Ms. P., very well articulated, but /.'s parent company has been offshoring jobs for quite some time, no doubt the agenda behind this repitition!

Well, I don't know about Australia, but you've certainly never worked in America!

Sweet jaysus, khasim, can you believe anyone in this day and age would suggest HTML5 is a programming language?????

Beware anyone quoting from joelonsoftware --- that clown is such a douchey!

This entire charade began when Seymour Cray put out a video throughout the industry, promoting the idea that it was best to hire newly minted college grads as they had no idea what was possible or impossible, and too many doucheys ate that stuff up.

Which is why Microsoft turned out such crap early on: the crappiest word processing software, the crappiest spreadsheet software, etc., 'cause their 20-somethings had zero experience in the workplace. Had they not had the DOS monopoly, things would have been entirely different.

Exactly why fewer and fewer commenters show up here with any intelligence whatsoever; majority of responses to my comments are individuals (trollbots? chatbots?) who obviously don't know how to use a search engine.

That cheaper nonsense is a National Association of Manufacturers (NAM --- first president and one of the founding members was George W. Bush's great-grandfather) and US Chamber of Commerce (USCoC) talking point forever, just doesn't cut it. Makes as much sense as hiring data entry operators to be sys admins, a common practise when I was much younger, and then the douchetards wonder why their companies go in the toilet. Too many programmers will work cheaper and cheaper (until, of course, a threshold has been reached whereupon there is no ROI in taking such jobs or going to work at such places), just to be able to program, etc.

Try again, sonny, it begins in one's thirties, at least. . .

It's often because the older candidates haven't successfully modernized their developer skills.

Another bullcrap excuse for the massive offshoring of jobs, and importing of foreign visa scab workers. Been hearing this excuse for decades, and still recall how, when I was at my true peak both knowledge-wise and skills-wise, just couldn't even get an interview if they had an inkling as to my age. Anyone wish to bet this clown is not affiliated with ITAA or whatever their latest name is?

commercializing technology projects from the NSA...

Ummmm.....if it's gov't tech, it's the people's technology, and therefore all profits should go to the IRS at the very least!