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Rob Instigator 06.07.2013 01:38 PM

ANONYMOUS leaks NSA documents
 
http://gizmodo.com/anonymous-just-le...ium=socialflow

The NSA has been sharing their metadata with foreign governments. The One World Government is already here and we are coming late to the party.

dead_battery 06.07.2013 03:15 PM

what is bad about the idea (its only an idea) of a one world government? i mean apart from idiotic biblical fantasies of the tower of babel.

Rob Instigator 06.07.2013 03:18 PM

I have always thought a one world government is inevitable, but what we are now living under is a one-world SHADOW government, created and run purely for the benefit of the most rich and the most powerful families in the world, while they spend what is a pittance to them to convince the rest of us that there still exist nations separate from each other.

Bytor Peltor 06.07.2013 03:22 PM

NY Times - "Obama Administration has lost all credibility"......talk about being a day late and a dollar short.

h8kurdt 06.07.2013 03:38 PM

The annoying thing is what can the "regular" people do about it? The governments may stop it, only for it then to carry on under a different name (as has already with this). I'd like to see a revolution as 6th form student that sounds and actually see people pissed off. However, apathy is becoming a bigger problem these days.

Rob Instigator 06.07.2013 03:46 PM

No one cares because the new XBOX will keep full on Big Brother surveillance on us.

The government can use any smartphone as a "bug" even if it is powered off. They could only do that with the explicit collaboration of the TelCom companies. One rich fuck scratches the back of another....

h8kurdt 06.07.2013 03:48 PM

Yeah having a camera on you all the time, whether it be on the Kinetic for the XBox or the webcam on your laptop, has always seemed a bit too 1984 for my liking.

dead_battery 06.07.2013 03:50 PM

its funny cos if they didnt check your phone records and thus let terrorist attacks slip through you'd just blame them for staging a false flag attack.

Rob Instigator 06.07.2013 04:00 PM

We have to take their word, (the word of the same FUCKS who lie to us on the REG) that they have stopped terror attacks, or prevented terror attacks.
Yet two bros from Chechnya can set off bombs at the biggest marathon in the country.
The entire nation needs to re-read 1984.

dead_battery 06.07.2013 04:29 PM

so the government is not powerful enough to stop 2 guys bombing a marathon. and you are angry at the government trying to extend its power to stop terrorists.

also there is noone alive and in power today in the us who actually wants to impose the kind of order featured in the novel 1984.

Rob Instigator 06.07.2013 04:31 PM

they have had these "powers" since 2007, dig?

You don't know the mind of the super-rich, super-educated sociopath out for world domination. They really do exist.

dead_battery 06.07.2013 05:14 PM

neither do you, because you are fantasizing. world domination? give me a fucking break!

but ahh. fuck this. i dont even care. sick of pointing out how stupid and ill informed this paranoia is. you can all battle your imagination. ill just keep working towards that nwo pay cheque.

h8kurdt 06.07.2013 05:15 PM

So you're happy that all this information can be given to governments so easily? I've said many times on here I don't buy into conspiracies involving government created bombings etc, but the evidence of this is there for all to see.

afreespirit 06.07.2013 07:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
No one cares because the new XBOX will keep full on Big Brother surveillance on us.

The government can use any smartphone as a "bug" even if it is powered off. They could only do that with the explicit collaboration of the TelCom companies. One rich fuck scratches the back of another....


That collaboration might not willing. Big Government has big sticks it can use to force cooperation; IRS, FBI, EPA etc.

SuchFriendsAreDangerous 06.07.2013 07:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
http://gizmodo.com/anonymous-just-leaked-a-trove-of-nsa-documents-511854773?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_twitter& utm_source=gizmodo_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

The NSA has been sharing their metadata with foreign governments. The One World Government is already here and we are coming late to the party.


This "one-world" government has always existed, it just changes shape and form as it evolves and devolves cyclically across time. The Fathers observed this power as "Satan" and believe it a spiritual entity and direct power. However, from the atheistic perspective, we can call this a Jungian archetype for the negative, selfish, and violent tendency in the human psyche which we all infinitely possess. This force drives and compels humans in a weird, centripetal yet conversely centrifugal direction. We are brought together in our mutual selfishness to do harm, and yet this very behavior is self-destructive and pushes individuals away. Again, the Fathers attribute this to a negative spiritual entity, but for the sake of argument, we can assume these demons are our own. They have always been there. In Egypt. In Babylon. In Alexander's Macedon. In Rome. In Byzantium. In the Holy Roman Empire. In the United Kingdom. In our post-modern American empire. Its all the same shit. The same negative forces compel humans towards selfish lusts for power, and this action interconnects many in a chain. This chain leads directly to death, as attested to the 200,000,000 deaths in the past hundred years of war. Imagine that, TWO HUNDRED MILLION deaths. Sad. Whether its the Devil, or just ourselves, either way, we have to manifest positive energy against this self-destruction, only love can save us, and this selfish lust for power will always try to destroy.

SonikJesus 06.08.2013 03:09 AM

Its not paranoia. Its critical thinking, asking questions, not being a fucking sheep. Sure there are crazy stupid conspiracy theories out there but when it has to do with the government and the rich, that shits obvious. Do you really think people who know they are true are stupid? I mean take Rob, for example, hes definately not a dumbass. I'd say hes pretty intelligent. There's also a bunch of PHD fucks and former high ranking goverenment officials who have spoken.

And don't forget that throughout history, time ant time again, people have been more willing to give up their rights during times of fear. There is even proof of governments staging events to cause mass fear.

!@#$%! 06.08.2013 12:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Bytor Peltor
NY Times - "Obama Administration has lost all credibility"......talk about being a day late and a dollar short.


well, at least its credibility lasted more than dubya's, which was a stillborn after the florida theft election.

but shit is shit, regardless of party affiliation.

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Originally Posted by dead_battery
what is bad about the idea (its only an idea) of a one world government? i mean apart from idiotic biblical fantasies of the tower of babel.


what is bad is the lack of options. no place to run, literally or metaphorically. imagine heading south for a thousand miles and all you'd find is northern ireland.

dead_battery 06.08.2013 04:39 PM

nah. because you'd have another group of people vying to take control. all power structures create an outer circle of people wanting to take their place.

!@#$%! 06.08.2013 04:48 PM

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Originally Posted by dead_battery
nah. because you'd have another group of people vying to take control. all power structures create an outer circle of people wanting to take their place.


right, but there are different games with different rules. just like in nature different ecosystems organize themselves while keeping similar niches (nitrogen fixers, herbivores, prey, predators, scavengers, parasites, etc).

monocultures suck.

dead_battery 06.08.2013 05:07 PM

well humanity is a monoculture if you want to look at it like that.

!@#$%! 06.08.2013 05:18 PM

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Originally Posted by dead_battery
well humanity is a monoculture if you want to look at it like that.


of course we're moving towards homogenization, but we're not there yet completely, no.

travel a little while it still matters.

it's going to get worse.

dead_battery 06.08.2013 05:32 PM

can i travel to somewhere where i never have to hear your condescending advice to travel again?

!@#$%! 06.08.2013 05:45 PM

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Originally Posted by dead_battery
can i travel to somewhere where i never have to hear your condescending advice to travel again?

just pack your soylent and start hitchhiking the fuck out of that hellhole. ps- for someone with no self, your ego gets wounded easily (and neither this, nor that, was meant condescendingly).

dead_battery 06.08.2013 06:20 PM

all roads lead to nowhere.

dead_battery 06.08.2013 06:24 PM

and i just dont need constant advice about my personal life after each post i make. if you are so interested then ask me about it by pm or something.

!@#$%! 06.08.2013 06:55 PM

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Originally Posted by dead_battery
and i just dont need constant advice about my personal life after each post i make. if you are so interested then ask me about it by pm or something.

i'm not interested in an exchange abput personal lives here, i'm just responding to your ideas as somewhat of a perspectivist myself, e.g., kant wrote the way he did because he wrote while sitting down. etc. since in this kind of discussion there's no scientific objectivity (goodbye big narratives), personal bias must be taken into account.

and so, from what i've experienced first-hand, while 95% of human traits are obviously universal, we still have a bit left of "cultural diversity" on the planet, and it's worth witnessing and protecting it while we can (just like the fucking rainforests, etc.). i understand it if you haven't seen/lived such apparent chimeras, but they nevertheless exist and are worth knowing. and so, along those lines, the question of local vs. centralized decision-making is a politically and economically relevant one.

this all goes back to the issue of "what's wrong with a world government" (modernity vs post-modernity, if you will). potentially, a lot. and i'm not talking about alien lizard-people. i'm talking about the universal reproduction of america (so far, germans hate walmart greeters, thank fuck), or some bureaucrat in belgium deciding what sort of crops a subsaharan farmer should grow.

dead_battery 06.09.2013 05:40 AM

brah, kant may have written sitting down but he took the same walk at the same time in the same place every single day of his life.

brahbrah, haven't you read baudrillards take on native american reservations in simulation and simulacra?


read page 7, Rameses, or the rosy coloured resurrection. it makes it look like your protectionism of cultural diversity may in fact just be a more potent form of destruction.

also bizarre that you would equate one world government with loss of cultural diversity, because if anything a one world government would be more interested in preserving specific cultural heritages in order to prove its inclusiveness.

and a sub saharan farmer is gonna sell whatever crops he can sell, which means his decision will be based on what will be consumed by people in other countries. that isn't tyranny, thats an integrated global system were he has the option to sell abroad thanks to transport technology. aint nothing wrong with that.

and ameribrah, please will you and all the other ameribros stop flattering yourselves that you're in any position to form a one world government. please. this isn't 1998. ni hao motherfucker. stop shooting pistols in the air and dancing on the spot for a second, then you might hear the sound of a hundred doors closing and foreign diplomats whispering 'yes... china... new reserve currency... yes... i agree... the dollars day is over... yes..."

can also confirm that, in fact, the rest of the world FUCKING APED america due to its own wish to be like it. the height of this was the 90's when everyone was baffled that your free market fundamentalism seemed to be working so well and we all started making malls and copying your mannerisms cos it seemed like you had the secret. it wasn't cultural imperialism (except for the countries you invaded/staged coups in to steal resources from) it was a enthusiastic imitation. we sold our centuries of proud heritage for a greasy big mac, and it was so worth it, as we die in the gutter from diabesity we raise our pudgy fists in the air and gurgle 'FREEDUMB!'. our sagging, cholesterol clogged eyelids close for the last time a bald eagle flies past, waiting to consume our rancid flesh as our heart beats its last beat and we take our final breath.

Toilet & Bowels 06.09.2013 06:36 AM

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Originally Posted by dead_battery
brah, kant may have written sitting down but he took the same walk at the same time in the same place every single day of his life.

brahbrah, haven't you read baudrillards take on native american reservations in simulation and simulacra?


read page 7, Rameses, or the rosy coloured resurrection. it makes it look like your protectionism of cultural diversity may in fact just be a more potent form of destruction.

also bizarre that you would equate one world government with loss of cultural diversity, because if anything a one world government would be more interested in preserving specific cultural heritages in order to prove its inclusiveness.

and a sub saharan farmer is gonna sell whatever crops he can sell, which means his decision will be based on what will be consumed by people in other countries. that isn't tyranny, thats an integrated global system were he has the option to sell abroad thanks to transport technology. aint nothing wrong with that.

and ameribrah, please will you and all the other ameribros stop flattering yourselves that you're in any position to form a one world government. please. this isn't 1998. ni hao motherfucker. stop shooting pistols in the air and dancing on the spot for a second, then you might hear the sound of a hundred doors closing and foreign diplomats whispering 'yes... china... new reserve currency... yes... i agree... the dollars day is over... yes..."

can also confirm that, in fact, the rest of the world FUCKING APED america due to its own wish to be like it. the height of this was the 90's when everyone was baffled that your free market fundamentalism seemed to be working so well and we all started making malls and copying your mannerisms cos it seemed like you had the secret. it wasn't cultural imperialism (except for the countries you invaded/staged coups in to steal resources from) it was a enthusiastic imitation. we sold our centuries of proud heritage for a greasy big mac, and it was so worth it, as we die in the gutter from diabesity we raise our pudgy fists in the air and gurgle 'FREEDUMB!'. our sagging, cholesterol clogged eyelids close for the last time a bald eagle flies past, waiting to consume our rancid flesh as our heart beats its last beat and we take our final breath.


One aspect of American culture I think you could stand to benefit from is the trend to over-medicate.

dead_battery 06.09.2013 06:42 AM

brah, i'm just mentally chill.

deal with it.

!@#$%! 06.09.2013 12:14 PM

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Originally Posted by dead_battery
brah, kant may have written sitting down but he took the same walk at the same time in the same place every single day of his life.


i know this. i was just exemplifying. let me be less subtle then and address you: if you look at the world only from your own bedroom terminal you're going to miss a lot of nuance. sense-data and face-to-face human interaction cannot be replaced by theory written by a handful of male, white, european tenured professors and the hand-picked minority colleagues they endorse.

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Originally Posted by dead_battery
brahbrah, haven't you read baudrillards take on native american reservations in simulation and simulacra?


read page 7, Rameses, or the rosy coloured resurrection. it makes it look like your protectionism of cultural diversity may in fact just be a more potent form of destruction.


like this, for example. i haven't read that, not yet anyway, but reservations have a long and complex chapter in the history of native extermination and apartheid by anglo invaders (the iberian invaders interfucked and created complex caste systems instead). and yes these places are potent forms of destruction but that doesn't mean they can't be appropriated by their occupants in different ways-- and i'm writing you from an actual native american reservation right now. but you can't summarize all this in one line though. come over and smell it for yourself.

but regardless, reservations were not created by self-determination, they were imposed by a foreign/ central (federal) government upon the people they intended to control. even today, indian reservations are under the supervision of the federal government, and the struggle for self-determination is ongoing.

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Originally Posted by dead_battery
also bizarre that you would equate one world government with loss of cultural diversity, because if anything a one world government would be more interested in preserving specific cultural heritages in order to prove its inclusiveness.


a single government wouldn't necessarily have to prove anything to anyone because they could theoretically afford to do their bidding unchallenged. again, we go back to the problem of remote control vs. local decision making-- just like free markets aren't perfect but are more efficient than planned economies, free societies tend to thrive vs. those ordained by supreme soviets & the u.s. department of the interior and the like.

now, i wouldn't be opposed to some sort of federated pact of non-aggression based around something like the universal declarationof human rights, but coming from a long line of nomadic peoples i'll always want a place to run away from my problems (some fights aren't worth fighting as you know). the perpetuation of social and cultural diversity ensures that one can always "get the fuck out of the country".

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Originally Posted by dead_battery
and a sub saharan farmer is gonna sell whatever crops he can sell, which means his decision will be based on what will be consumed by people in other countries. that isn't tyranny, thats an integrated global system were he has the option to sell abroad thanks to transport technology. aint nothing wrong with that.


that's not what i'm saying. i created a hypothetical example of central planning ("we'll need 100,000 new pairs of shoes next year").

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Originally Posted by dead_battery
and ameribrah, please will you and all the other ameribros stop flattering yourselves that you're in any position to form a one world government. please. this isn't 1998. ni hao motherfucker. stop shooting pistols in the air and dancing on the spot for a second, then you might hear the sound of a hundred doors closing and foreign diplomats whispering 'yes... china... new reserve currency... yes... i agree... the dollars day is over... yes..."


im not saying the u.s. will create a world government, but i am fucking terrified of china creating one precisely because of their centralized, top-down, authoritarian approach to government. however, china isn't quite a superpower just yet. they have a lot of challenges ahead.

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Originally Posted by dead_battery
can also confirm that, in fact, the rest of the world FUCKING APED america due to its own wish to be like it. the height of this was the 90's when everyone was baffled that your free market fundamentalism seemed to be working so well and we all started making malls and copying your mannerisms cos it seemed like you had the secret. it wasn't cultural imperialism (except for the countries you invaded/staged coups in to steal resources from) it was a enthusiastic imitation. we sold our centuries of proud heritage for a greasy big mac, and it was so worth it, as we die in the gutter from diabesity we raise our pudgy fists in the air and gurgle 'FREEDUMB!'. our sagging, cholesterol clogged eyelids close for the last time a bald eagle flies past, waiting to consume our rancid flesh as our heart beats its last beat and we take our final breath.


yeah that was a sad spectacle, ha ha ha.

anyway, the imitation of 'merica isn't america itself though. again, you don't get everything from books/tv/the internet. and i know i sound tiresome with this but for someone so preoccupied with ameribrahland you should come and visit, see for yourself, meet different kinds of people (a la borat), and you'll realize that while there is a large and obnoxious mainstream of american culture (ever watched the "today" show for breakfast? vomit...) there are also a myriad subcultures and a large underground at work, and part of the reason they exist is because the federal vs. state vs. local power struggles that remain at the core of american politics allow them to exist (there are a lot of "in-between" spaces to inhabit). this is a lot more complex in real experience than what reductionist approaches will show you through your bedroom window though, dr. faust.

tesla69 06.10.2013 09:09 AM

“What we disclosed is that the American government is surveilling its own citizens, people who are suspected of no wrongdoing,” he went on. “The only thing that has been damaged here is not national security. What has been damaged is the reputation and credibility of the political officials who want to hide behind top secret designations to conceal their own wrongdoing, and that’s really what they’re angry about.”- Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald

pokkeherrie 06.10.2013 09:29 AM

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Originally Posted by tesla69
“What we disclosed is that the American government is surveilling its own citizens, people who are suspected of no wrongdoing,”


Makes me wonder what sort of wrongdoings I, as a Dutchman, am suspected of by the NSA.

tesla69 06.10.2013 12:03 PM

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Originally Posted by pokkeherrie
Makes me wonder what sort of wrongdoings I, as a Dutchman, am suspected of by the NSA.


From what I've been reading, the NSA/PRISM is geared to assigning a threat matrix value to EVERYONE.

SuchFriendsAreDangerous 06.10.2013 12:13 PM

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Originally Posted by tesla69
From what I've been reading, the NSA/PRISM is geared to assigning a threat matrix value to EVERYONE.

Wait, did you honestly think anybody wasn't on the list?
 

h8kurdt 06.10.2013 12:28 PM

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Originally Posted by pokkeherrie
Makes me wonder what sort of wrongdoings I, as a Dutchman, am suspected of by the NSA.


Being Dutch probably.

tesla69 07.03.2013 01:33 PM

NY Times reporting today ALL U.S. mail sender/addressee gets scanned and recorded.

Morales forced to land in Austria, home of legacy nazi's, tells me the global nazi ring has becomie active.

Who is running the bug in the Ecuadorian embassy?

Funny how the crimes described by Snowden just aren't being discussed, all that matters in the MSM and Congress is where is he and how soon can we torture him?

Rob Instigator 07.03.2013 01:40 PM

Fuck all them assholes.

Every "real" news site is devoting more story and space to what kind of satan baby is gonna come out of Pippa Middleton's cooch-hole than what is happeing in Egypt.

mass rapes, women assaulted in the streets, all because them fucking idiots want "freedom" but they also want to maintain the patriarchal subjugation of women.

Rob Instigator 07.03.2013 01:41 PM

women make up over 52% of the population. they need to fucking take over again, and slap the tiny-dicked leaders of men down with a quickness.

SuchFriendsAreDangerous 07.03.2013 02:29 PM

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Originally Posted by tesla69
NY Times reporting today ALL U.S. mail sender/addressee gets scanned and recorded.


Well that's good, because nobody uses the mail anymore but Netflix and Amazon.com ;)

SuchFriendsAreDangerous 07.03.2013 02:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
women make up over 52% of the population. they need to fucking take over again, and slap the tiny-dicked leaders of men down with a quickness.


Who said they weren't already?

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The bodyguard who had written about women and the truth - it was Zerubbabel - spoke last. 14 "Gentlemen," he began, "the emperor is certainly powerful, men are numerous, and wine is strong, but who rules and controls them all? It is women! 15 Women gave birth to the emperor and all the men who rule over land and sea. 16 Women brought them into the world. Women brought up the men who planted the vineyards from which wine comes. 17 Women make the clothes that men wear; women bring honor to men; in fact, without women, men couldn't live. 18 "Men may accumulate silver or gold or other beautiful things, but if they see a woman with a pretty face or a good figure, 19 they will leave it all to gape and stare, and they will desire her more than their wealth. 20 A man will leave his own father, who brought him up, and leave his own country to get married. 21 He will forget his father, his mother, and his country to spend the rest of his life with his wife. 22 So you must recognize that women are your masters. Don't you work and sweat and then take all that you have earned and give it to your wives? 23 A man will take his sword and go out to attack, rob and steal, and sail the seas and rivers. 24 He may have to face lions or travel in the dark, but when he has robbed, stolen, and plundered, he will bring the loot home to the woman he loves. 25 "A man loves his wife more than his parents. 26 Some men are driven out of their minds on account of a woman, and others become slaves for the sake of a woman. 27 Others have been put to death, have ruined their lives, or have committed crimes because of a woman. 28 So now do you believe me? "The emperor's power is certainly great - no nation has the courage to attack him. 29 But once I saw him with Apame, his concubine, the daughter of the famous Bartacus. While sitting at the emperor's right, 30 she took his crown off his head, put it on her own, and then slapped his face with her left hand. 31 All the emperor did was look at her with his mouth open. Whenever she smiles at him, he smiles back; and when she gets angry with him, he flatters her and teases her until she is in a good mood again. 32 Gentlemen, if women can do all that, surely there can be nothing stronger in the world."
1 Esdras Chapter 4


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