US spy chief Clapper defends Prism and phone surveillance

[Peter Lemkin]

From the article on Head of NSA, above

"and putting the kill switch under the government's forefinger"

. Hey, folks, they are talking about shutting down the internet...or which parts of it or which of us they don't want using it!...and they apparently have that power now. Most of the large switching/routing nodes on the internet are either US or UK and Israeli owned and operated. A few are in Europe. Very few are elsewhere at the moment. Think you can build your own one? Good luck. We ARE talking about dark times ahead! I know some think there is enough redundancy in the Internet and enough of it outside the USA for this not to be possible. This is not my understanding, with the exception of little corners of it - but only the insider experts, like Snowden, know for sure. If they think they have a 'kill switch', they likely do. Some of the legislation passed or attempted to be passed lately on the Internet and its use would have or has given certain authorities in the US Executive [and private companies!] the permission to limit internet flow or shut it off, based on content and who's getting or sending it. Beware!:curtain: And if they really want to get nasty [oh, come on, these are honest men...HA!], much of internet traffic now travels at some point on a US owned satellite which, again, can be used to selectively or entirely shut down the internet. The military and corporations that work for it and the intelligence community all have their own 'internet' with their own satellites, etc. for it. See the quote by MM, below.....he died before the internet really took off, but somehow knew....