Operation ENDURING PAYDAY

[Octafish]

All the total war without end on terror is...

All the spherical military industrial intelligence domestic surveillance on We the People is for...

All the revolving door between Wall Street and Washington, the Pentagon and Booz Allen Etc is about...

All the federal budget for the connected few without peace dividend is about...

All the Justice for "Just-Us" from 5-4 pretzeldents to Secret Courts stacked by neoconhenchmen is about...

All the "money trumps peace" crowd understands...

Is to keep the U.S. taxpayer spigot to the federal trough running.

So the 1-percent's satraps can eat well and the 1-percent they serve can continue living in the style to which they've become accustomed.

Remember, they may be used to it. [font color="blue"]They are not entitled to it.[/font color]

[AzDar]

1. K & R

[Octafish]

3. Investigate Booz Allen Hamilton, not Edward Snowden

The firm that formerly employed both the director of national intelligence and the NSA whistleblower merits closer scrutiny
by PratapChatterjee
guardian.co.uk, Friday 14 June 2013

Military contractor Booz Allen Hamilton of McLean, Virginia, has shot into the news recently over two of its former employees: Edward Snowden, the whistleblower who has just revealed the extent of US global spying on electronic data of ordinary citizens around the world, and James Clapper, US director of national intelligence.

Clapper has come out vocally to condemn Snowden as a traitor to the public interest and the country, yet a review of Booz Allen's own history suggests that the government should be investigating his former employer, rather than the whistleblower.

Clapper worked as vice-president at Booz Allen from 1997 to 1998, while Snowden did a three-month stint at their offices in Hawaii in spring 2013 as a low-level contract employee. Both worked on intelligence contracts, which are estimated to make up almost a quarter of the company's $5.86bn in annual income. This past weekend, Clapper condemned Snowden's leak about US government surveillance, telling NBC News's Andrea Mitchell:

"For me, it is literally – not figuratively – literally gut-wrenching to see this happen because of the huge, grave damage it does to our intelligence capabilities. This is someone who, for whatever reason, has chosen to violate a sacred trust for this country. I think we all feel profoundly offended by that."

The following day Snowden replied from a hotel in Hong Kong, in an interview with Glenn Greenwald of the Guardian:

"The government has granted itself power it is not entitled to. There is no public oversight. I realised that I was part of something that was doing far more harm than good."

Booz Allen reacted with anger in a press statement released hours later:

"News reports that this individual has claimed to have leaked classified information are shocking, and if accurate, this action represents a grave violation of the code of conduct and core values of our firm."

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/14/edward-snowden-investigate-booz-allen

Funny, people I talk to about all this are outraged. Like us, AzDar, they think the USA is supposed to be a democracy.

[newfie11]

2. K&R

[Octafish]

4. United Stasi of America light artist is a wanted fugitive.

'United Stasi of America': Light Artist Wanted by Berlin Police

By Charles Hawley
Der Spiegel, July 12, 2013

Berlin police are investigating a light artist for projecting the phrase "United Stasi of America" onto the the US Embassy in Berlin. The phrase refers to the former East German secret police and was meant as a protest against American spying. But can the artist really be prosecuted?

It was meant to be a publicity stunt -- a political prank aimed at voicing displeasure over vast US Internet surveillance and spying activities. But Oliver Bienkowski, the light artist who projected the words "United Stasi of America" onto the US Embassy late Sunday night now finds himself in hot water with the Berlin police after authorities opened an investigation.

Officially, a Berlin spokesman confirmed on Friday, Bienkowski is suspected of having violated a law against "insulting organs and representatives of foreign countries." So far, however, the artist has not yet even been approached by the authorities, though the Berlin police said he would soon be invited in for questioning.

The projection, which included an image of Internet activist and hacker icon Kim Schmitz, aka "Kim Dotcom," took place at around 1 a.m. local time on Sunday night and lasted for a mere 30 seconds before police guarding the embassy asked him to move on. "Stasi" is a reference to the infamous East German Ministry for State Security, which managed a vast network of spies and informants in communist times -- but which also persecuted the state's political opponents.

Bienkowski told SPIEGEL ONLINE that his goal was to "do things that people will see and try to get them to think." Specifically, he wanted to voice criticism of US web surveillance, the vast scope of which was revealed recently by whistleblower Edward Snowden. Bienkowski says he even spent €5,000 ($6,500) out of his own pocket to finance the costs of the guerilla light projection.

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http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/united-stasi-of-america-artist-wanted-by-berlin-police-a-910818.html

As you and the spirit of Smedley Butler know, newfie11, not even a single photon that goes against message can be tolerated in a police state.

[newfie11]

5. Good for him

How long before America wants him permanently detained such as the reporter in Yemen. I do not recognize my country anymore.

It is a sad and scary world we live in. I am glad I am old but cry for my children and grandchildren.

[Hydra]

6. Remember 1984

The Inner Party didn't have luxury lifestyles. That's not what they are after. Power- the power to control, torture and kill as they please. Power to be above the law, but hold everyone else in its thrall.

"The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power."