President Obama Channels Lord Cromwell:

Seoul Times ^ | 07/23/2013 | John Stanton

[TexGrill]

Glenn Greenwald’s Snowden dossier concerning the American Leviathan’s practice of harvesting, storing and analyzing the information/conversations of its own and the world’s political, military, economic and cultural gate keepers is fascinating. This is so not due to the technological sophistication and global reach of the USA’s intelligence capabilities, but for what it implies about the current state and future of the collective nation-states known as Western Democracies. And it undercuts nearly every ideal in the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights, leaving the dry, functional and core text of the US Constitution as the last mooring line to—paraphrasing Russell Crowe in the movie the Gladiator—“The dream that was once the United States.” It also challenges the foundations of the “free” market and “free will”: but more on that in a moment.

[TexGrill]

Global business tip

[2ndDivisionVet]

Who explained to him who Lord Cromwell was? Reggie Love? Rachel Jeantel?

[familyop]

The author was confused.

"Samuel Moreland in the service of Charles II subsequently helped develop a system of opening , copying and resealing letters passed through the post office…The [Secret Office] ‘had tricks to open letters more skillfully than anywhere in the world…"

And Charles II was an immoral ass, like his father. ;-)

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

Charles I was morally pious, and was unlike many Kings of the time, loyal to his wife. I can’t really fault his morality, if not his politics.