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NSA history
NSA pre 9/11 timeline
NSA post 9/11 timeline
OR what ever other search term you want to use for NSA or maybe the history of intelligence gathering.

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Timeline of NSA Domestic Spying

https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying/timeline

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NSA uses ‘terrorism’ to justify mass surveillance that started long before 9/11 and the Patriot Act

http://npaper-wehaa.com/boulder-weekly/2013/06/20/#?article=1936457

excerpt:
But as the evidence points out, such a claim simply isn’t true. The NSA was clearly working hard to create systems that would collect massive amounts of phone and Internet data in 2001, prior to the attacks. For a plausible explanation for this behavior, we have to look at one of the most important underreported stories of our time. Literally underreported.

In 1996, New Zealand based journalist Nicky Hager shocked the world with his exposé on a global surveillance system known as ECHELON. Hager wrote a book about his findings, which were controversial enough that elements within the British government wanted to ban the book from being sold in the U.K. In the U.S., a summary of Hager’s ECHELON revelations was published in the award-winning Covert Action Quarterly in its winter 1996/1997 edition. That same story went on to be named as one of Project Censored’s 25 most important underreported stories of the year in 1998.

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July 29, 2013
8:21 pm

The Making of the U.S. Surveillance State, 1898-2020

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The Making of the U.S. Surveillance State, 1898-2020
http://hnn.us/articles/making-us-surveillance
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July 29, 2013
2:37 pm

Obamacare's Cost Of Control

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/07/28/
Obamacare-s-Cost-Of-Control

excerpt:
>Employers will no longer be able to write off the expense for coverage for their employees as a business expense, making them more likely to drop coverage.

>Employees cannot write off payment of health insurance premiums.

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July 28, 2013
12:34 pm

Watched a documentary last night

Buddhism
Watched the life of Siddhartha Gautama last night and his quest for meaning. I pretty much figured out what he was looking for before the story came to when he found his answer.
I have not studied Buddhism before or even knew who Siddhartha Gautama was.

They describe Buddhism as a religion in many articles I have just searched. I really do not consider it a religion. I consider it just passing on lifes meaning to the next generation.

I find this article to be of interest.

What is the purpose of life?
http://www.budsas.org/ebud/whatbudbeliev/133.htm

excerpt:
Religion teaches a person how to calm down the senses and make the heart and mind peaceful. The secret of calming down the senses is to eliminate desire which is the root of our disturbances. It is very important for us to have contentment. The more people crave for their property, the more they have to suffer. Property does not give happiness to man. Most of the rich people in the world today are suffering from numerous physical and mental problems. With all the money they have, they cannot buy a solution to their problems. Yet, the poorest men who have learnt to have contentment may enjoy their lives far more than the richest people do. As one rhyme goes:

'Some have too much and yet do crave
I have little and seek no more;
They are but poor though much more they have
And I am rich with little store.
They poor, I rich, they beg, I give;
They lack, I have; they pine, I live.'

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