Snowdon is a dummy

not really ignoring it, it just that most of that is now water under the bridge.

I am frankly tired of talking about this.

Because Israel is far worse than the US. E.g. the US could have colonized Japan, or Germany, or France after WW2. They didn't. The day Israel not only gives back to west bank to a Palestinian government, but also lends funds for the reconstruction and development of the West Bank, like the US did for West Germany, you will have a point.

... over and over ...

According to a landmark, comprehensive study of all of Israel’s wars, by Zeev Maoz, Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Davis, former head of the Graduate School of Government and Policy and of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University, and former academic director of the M.A. Program at the Israeli Defense Forces’ National Defense College:
“. most of the wars in which Israel was involved were the result of deliberate Israeli aggressive design.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/07/03/nsa_xkeyscore_stasi_scandal/

Use Tor or 'extremist' Tails Linux? Congrats, you're on an NSA list
Penguinista mag readers, privacy-conscious netizens and more targeted, claims report
By Iain Thomson, 3 Jul 2014

Alleged leaked documents about the NSA's XKeyscore snooping software appear to show the paranoid agency is targeting Tor and Tails users, Linux Journal readers – and anyone else interested in online privacy.

At the heart of the claims is this sample configuration file for the XKeyscore system.

The top-secret documents were apparently obtained and studied by members of the Tor project and security specialists for German broadcasters NDR and WDR. In their analysis of the divulged data, the team accuses the NSA of, among other things:

Specifically targeting Tor directory servers
Reading email contents for mentions of Tor bridges
Logging IP addresses of people who search for privacy-focused websites and software
And possibly breaking international law in doing so.
We already know from leaked Snowden documents that Western intelligence agents hate Tor for its anonymizing abilities. But what the aforementioned leaked source code, written in a rather strange custom language, shows is that not only is the NSA targeting the anonymizing network Tor specifically, it is also taking digital fingerprints of any netizens who are remotely interested in privacy.

These include readers of the Linux Journal site, anyone visiting the website for the Tor-powered Linux operating system Tails – described by the NSA as "a comsec mechanism advocated by extremists on extremist forums" – and anyone looking into combining Tails with the encryption tool Truecrypt.

If something as innocuous as Linux Journal is on the NSA's hit list, it's a distinct possibility that El Reg is too, particularly in light of our recent exclusive report on GCHQ – which led to a Ministry of Defence advisor coming round our London office for a chat.

If you take even the slightest interest in online privacy or have Googled a Linux Journal article about a broken package, you are earmarked in an NSA database for further surveillance, according to these latest leaks.

You should know better than to try and sell me your lies,

usato.

The White House has moved closer to a rapprochement with Germany after a series of spy scandals prompted Barack Obama to dispatch some of his most senior officials to Berlin.

In an unusual step, the US president sent his chief of staff, Denis McDonough, and a senior counter-terrorism advisor to Germany to lay the foundations of a new, intelligence-sharing understanding between the two countries.

Following the meeting on Tuesday, both sides confirmed they had agreed to a formal dialogue which would lead, eventually, to a set of “guiding principles” over the relationship between its respective spy agencies. It is expected to be completed after the summer.

Germany has come to accept that it will not achieve the “no-spy agreement” it had sought, after the whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed the National Security Agency had monitored chancellor Angela Merkel’s cellphone.

However, Berlin wanted a major political gesture from Washington in recognition of the intense public anger over Snowden’s revelations, which were inflamed over the last month after it emerged there were two suspected US spies in the German government.
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People are entitled to privacy on the Internet just as they have a right to privacy in all other areas of their lives. Why has there been no debate about this?
[...]
The debate on privacy and security needs to focus on the purpose and scale of surveillance and its place in a democratic society. What are the acceptable measures to fight crime and terrorism? Where does a line need to be drawn to protect the right to private life and protection of personal data in a digitalised world? This is not to say that all spying and surveillance operations are unacceptable - we understand the importance of these tools in the fight against terrorism. But we need to decide if this type of indiscriminate, untargeted mass surveillance, which includes every shape or form of data from people's day to day lives, is acceptable, and we need to allow people to have that discussion and make the decision for themselves. People are entitled to privacy on the Internet just as they have a right to privacy in all other areas of their lives.

We're all antisemites and Jew-haters

JTT loves to pound one message on a2k; a ******* bore. He's a sicko; a mental condition that doesn't allow him more normal outlook on life.

I've posted on a2k for a year and four months and during that entire period with one exception (when JTT disappeared from the board for a brief phase),

the poster in question has been relentlessly posting the same theme ad infinitum.

rather than just tying the hands of those who are trying to track terrorist.

According to reality, however, Israel's wars have all been self defense.