Bloomberg News reports that two unidentified sources claim NSA knew about the Heartbleed web security flaw and exploited it for two years before Google discovered it and made it public last week.
Press TV invited me on their show to discuss this, the implications, what will be done. They also asked me about the growing militarized police state the US is becoming.
My take-- NSA is run by control freaks-- and is a totally top-down organization with the buck stopping with Obama. They want to own ALL the information and control it. Should we believe them when they deny having known? Absolutely not. They lied to us before about NSA and have not punished the liars. That shows the rot goes all the way to the top. We have NO reason to believe the denial.
As far as what will be done-- NOTHING. SCOTUS Chief Justice John Roberts appoints the FISA Court judges who have given NSA a pass. Anything that comes to the Supreme Court will also be given a pass. Congress could do something, but they're spineless.
As far as the US becoming a militarized police state-- it's all relative. There are worse, but the US is getting really bad. We just headlined an article on police getting away with murder in Albuquerque. And Obama has been funding the militarization of police to the tune of billions of dollars.
See the seven minute segment below. And add your take in the comments. Do you believe NSA's denial?
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Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness and empowering them to take more control of their lives one person at a time was too slow, he founded Opednews.com-- which has been the top search result on Google for the terms liberal news and progressive opinion for several years. Rob began his Bottom-up Radio show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly, also available on iTunes, covering the transition of our culture, business and world from predominantly Top-down (hierarchical, centralized, authoritarian, patriarchal, big) to bottom-up (egalitarian, local, interdependent, grassroots, archetypal feminine and small.) Recent long-term projects include a book, Bottom-up-- The Connection Revolution, (more...)
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