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[bobf <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

I know there are list members who are perfectly okay with having no privacy 
from the gov't or elsewhere, so you should delete now.

The first link is to an article specificially titled to rural America written 
by a rural American.  The second article is related but a bit more on the 
technical side of how information on almost everything can and is being 
tracked & recorded.

I spent part of my am, on the telephone, with a U.S. Attorney - civil not 
criminal-- it is mindblowing the minutia they already know about a citizen 
and, with these new funds and new laws for new technology, the amount of 
information to be collected is about to explode.

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Excerpt:

RFD America

News and Conservative Commentary From the Country
   
 Home Contact Writing Jobs About Smart Grid: Government spying targets Rural 
America


I’ve been reading the stimulus bill. When I saw the term Smart Grid on page 
72 of the “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009,” I stopped reading 
so fast I almost gave myself whiplash. If ...................

http://rfdamerica.com/?p=333


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Black Widow, NSA Spying Computer 


The NSA’s colossal Cray supercomputer, code-named the ‘Black Widow,’ scans 
millions of domestic and international phone calls and e-mails every hour. . 
. . The Black Widow, performing hundreds of trillions of calculations per 
second, searches through and reassembles key words and patterns, across many 
languages.’

Barack Obama will be in charge of the biggest domestic and international 
spying operation in history...............................

http://www.70news.com/2009/01/13/black-widow-nsa-spying-computer/