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Another mass shooting grabs the attention of the nation, and while the essential details of the story are yet to emerge, the media has already cast their villain, video games. In their quest to demonize their #1 competition, they once again rob the people of a balanced dialog. We’ll do our best, to fix that.
Plus: The world economies dodged a major bullet by the name of Larry Summers. We’ll dig into this parasites destructive past and why this week was a victory for everyone.
The it’s your feedback, our follow up, and much much more.
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NSA is CRAZY
During an interview at the Techcrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco, Mayer was asked why tech companies had not simply decided to tell the public more about what the US surveillance industry was up to. “Releasing classified information is treason and you are incarcerated,” she said.
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court is revealing information about the NSA’s collection of Americans’ phone records, called the Section 215 Bulk Phone Metadata Collection Program. According to a declassified brief released Tuesday by FISA Court Judge Claire Eagan, not a single telecom company has challenged the legality of the NSA’s collection of their customers’ metadata. The court briefing also went on to say that it believed members of Congress were fully briefed on the program. RT’s Sam Sacks has the reaction from members of Congress about the first brief the FISA Court declassified of its own volition.
“I appreciate that the consumer-centric IT firms that you referenced [Yahoo, Google, Microsoft] that it’s important to grandstand a bit, and waive their arms and protest loudly so as not to offend the sensibility of their customers,” Stratton said.
“This is a more important issue than that which is generated in a press release. This is a matter of national security.”
Brazilian President Dilma
Rousseff has canceled a state visit to Washington in October
over reports that the United States spied on her personal
communications and those of other Brazilians, a leading
Brazilian newspaper reported on Tuesday.Rousseff’s visit, scheduled for Oct. 23, was conceived to highlight the improvement in ties between the two biggest economies in the Americas and Brazil’s emergence over the past decade as a regional power.
The trip has been seen as a platform for deals on oil exploration and biofuels technology, and Brazil’s potential purchase of fighter jets from Chicago-based Boeing Co.
The itinerary includes a state dinner at the White House, the only such event offered by the Obamas this year.
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Navy Yard shooting
A former Navy man launched an attack Monday morning inside a building at the Washington Navy Yard, spraying gunfire on office workers in the cafeteria and in the hallway at the heavily secured installation, authorities said. Thirteen people were killed, including the gunman.
Elisabeth says that Navy Yard shooter Aaron Alexis, a 34-year-old IT contractor, was clearly influenced to go shoot up the Washington Navy Yard… by his gaming habit.
“What about frequency testing?” she added. “How often has this game been played? I’m not one to get in there and say, monitor everything, but if this, indeed, is a strong link, right, to mass killings then why aren’t we looking at frequency of purchases per person? And also, how often they’re playing and maybe they time out after a certain hour.”
- [Video games getting blamed for Navy Yard attack… (https://www.gamezone.com/originals/2013/09/17/video-games-getting-blamed-for-navy-yard-attack-is-misdirection-and-irresponsible-of-mainstream-media)
But the Telegraph describe the “darker side to Alexis’s character” – the side that saw him playing violent “zombie” video games in his room for hours at a time.
Larry Punts
“Conditions in the job market today still are far from what all of us would like to see,” Bernanke said at a news conference after the policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee voted to continue its bond-buying program at the same pace.
The unemployment rate has dropped from 8.1% when the stimulus program began a year ago to 7.3% last month, Bernanke said.
The figure is close to the 7% level Bernanke has said the Fed wanted to see at the end of the bond-buying program.
But he noted that the rate still is “well above acceptable levels.”
During his time as Treasury Secretary in the Clinton administration, Summers earned his reputation as a deregulator. Summers urged Congress to repeal parts of a Depression-era rule called Glass-Steagall, which prevented financial institutions from simultaneously acting as investment banks, commercial banks and insurance companies. This move paved the way for banks to become larger than ever.
Also in the late ’90s, Summers pushed back against a movement to regulate complex derivatives. Some say, both those decisions played a role in precipitating the 2008 financial crisis.
The Memo confirmed every conspiracy freak’s fantasy: that in the late 1990s, the top US Treasury officials secretly conspired with a small cabal of banker big-shots to rip apart financial regulation across the planet. When you see 26.3 percent unemployment in Spain, desperation and hunger in Greece, riots in Indonesia and Detroit in bankruptcy, go back to this End Game memo, the genesis of the blood and tears.
Syria
According to a State Department official’s account of the negotiations, which began Thursday evening and ended Saturday afternoon with a framework accord to secure and eliminate Syria’s chemical weapons, it was a deal that almost did not happen.
In the end, the deal was written entirely by the U.S. side. The Russians agreed to it in an impromptu poolside conversation between Kerry, Lavrov and their deputies, who dragged over chairs to join them. Kerry made final edits to the draft on an iPad in his hotel room.
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