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Wednesday, December 4, 2013

12-4-13 teacherken at Daily Kos

teacherken at Daily Kos:





Got a cell phone? The NSA knows where you've been and with whom
as you can read in this Washington Post story, just up, written in part by Barton Gellman using his access to the documents provided by Edward Snowden. The snips I offer will be without the hot links, which you can get from the original piece. The opening paragraph reads The National Security Agency is gathering nearly 5 billion records a day on the whereabouts of cellphones around the world, acco


12-2-13 teacherken at Daily Kos
teacherken at Daily Kos: President Obama’s immoral drone waris the title of this powerful Washington Post op ed by Pulitzer Prize winner Eugene Robinson.  Consider the opening U.S. drone attacks in Afghanistan, Pakistan and other countries may be militarily effective, but they are killing innocent civilians in a way that is obscene and immoral. I’m afraid that ignoring this ugly fact makes America