These programs were never about terrorism: they’re about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They’re about power.
– Edward Snowden
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- There will come a time when it isn’t ‘They’re spying on me through my phone’ anymore. Eventually, it will be ‘My phone is spying on me’. – Philip K
- Under observation, we act less free, which means we effectively are less free. – Edward Snowden
- Edward Snowden isn’t a traitor. He reported the crime of conspiracy to deny citizens of their constitutional rights. NetworkEtiquette.net – David Chiles
- How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism? – Howard Zinn
- Terrorism is the war of the weak and war is the terrorism of the strong. – Martin Bell
- How can you have a war on terrorism while war itself is terrorism! – Howard Zinn
- terrorism is adamant. Fight against requires endurance, specific Counter-terrorism, Intelligence and swift operation – Michael Harris
- Terrorism has nothing to do with religion, Islam or otherwise. Terrorism is born of fundamentalism not of religion. – Abhijit Naskar
- Terrorism has no religion is a theory, and the religion of terrorism is a real threat and practical thing. – Satyendra Singh Shyamal
- A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom. – Martin Luther King Jr
- There are three basic flavours of incentive: economic, social and moral. – Steven D Levitt
- America – a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose. – Herbert Hoover
- Now, in the modern money economy everything in the nature of a social-economic occurrence consists in human actions and behaviour. – Oskar Morgenstern
- The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty. – John Maynard Keynes
- An economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human. – Edward Abbey
- And I’m not spying! I’m evaluating!--œIt’s the same difference! – Kim Harrison
- Call it what you like, my lady, but it is still spying. – Jessie Clever
- It occurred to Gavin that the first thought a groom had upon spying his bride shouldn’t be to wonder whether or not she wore knickers. – Kerrigan Byrne
- Being extra nice to someone can be a form of manipulation–kindness is an exercise of power in its own right. – Wang Anyi
- Harun AlRashid known for his wealth & diplomatic relations, sent an embassy to France that included an elephant & a water clock – Firas Alkhateeb
- During Uthman’s caliphate, a Muslim embassy was sent to China to establish diplomatic relations – Firas Alkhateeb
- You are intelligent, you are diplomatic, you are beautiful, and you are and always will be…[he kisses her]…MINE… – Neil Jordan
- Florence which included diplomatic missions to various European courts. – Niccol Machiavelli
- at Florence which included diplomatic missions to various European courts. Imprisoned – Niccol Machiavelli
- You have immense power–power to overcome, power to achieve, power to possess, and power to prosper, making you incredibly irresistible. – Anitra SheltonQuinn
- If politics left out the manipulation of money, I would perhaps view it more than a partisan traffic jam that never ends. – Zephyr McIntyre
- The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I’ll bet you never guess. From the inside, how can you? – Vernor Vinge
- The central element in the economic problem of money is the objective exchange-value of money, popularly called its purchasing power. – Ludwig von Mises
- need is not demand. Effective economic demand requires not merely need but corresponding purchasing power. – Henry Hazlitt
- Social Security is neither social, nor secure. – Edw C Young
- Being denied their original birth certificates isn’t just a problem for adoptees. It’s a social problem, requiring social change. – DaShanne Stokes
- Following trends on social media will not lead to social consciousness. – Carlos Wallace
- Individual liberty may be unable to solve every social problem, but collective violence is unable to solve any social problem. – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
- Social media is just that – social. – John Patrick Hickey
- There is a difference between a church that prays and a praying church. One has prayer programs. The other develops a prayer culture. – Daniel Henderson
- The wealthy, Jesus says, can only get into heaven through the eye of a needle; the same applies to churches wealthy in numbers and programs. – Mark Galli
- Many churches have molded their programs around the community-”not the Word of God. – Billy Graham
- If I could offer only one tool to help you attract more of what you want, it would be what is commonly called NAPS (Night Audio Programs). – Stephen Richards
- They just want to control the population through fear and manipulation – Anon
- Everything is temporary. Well, except government programs. – Brooke Bida