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SWITCHBOARD TO THE WORLD....Via Instapundit, Wired has an interesting piece this week about why it s so productive for the NSA to monitor telephone traffic going through U.S. switches. Short answer: thanks to interna stanley italia tional tariff agreements warning: irony alert for conservatives opposed to multinational treaties , it s often cheaper for small countries to route calls through the U.S. than it is to simply send them directly next door:International phone and internet traffic flows through the United States largely because of pricing models established more than 100 years ago in the International Telecommunication Union to handle international phone calls. Under those ITU tariffs, smaller and developing countries charge higher fees to accept calls than stanley mugs the U.S.-based carriers do, which can make it cheaper to route phone calls through the United States than directly to a neighboring country.....The United States, where the internet was invented, was also home to the fir stanley termosky st internet backbone. Combine that architectural advantage with the pricing disparity inherited from the phone networks, and the United States quickly became the center of cyberspace as the internet gained international penetration in the 1990s.....While nobody outside the intelligence community knows the exact volume of international telephone and internet traffic that crosses U.S. borders, experts agree that it bounces off a handful of key telephone switches and perhaps a dozen IXPs in coastal cities near under
WASHIN stanley cupe GTON Presiden stanley cup t Barack Obama will host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House later this month.The Sept. 30 meeting marks their first face-to-face talks since March, when the U.S. president visited Israel. Mr. Obama s trip was followed by a restart in peace talks between the Israelis and Palestinians.The White House says Mr. Obama and Netanyahu will discuss the peace talks, Iran, Syria and other regional issues. Mr. Obama and Netanyahu will both be in New York next week for meetings at the United Nations. Netanyahu says his stops in New York and Washington will focus on halting Iran s nuclear program.A group promoting a two-state solution for the Israel-Palestinian conflict, meanwhile, says Vice President Joe Biden will speak at its annual conference. Biden will address J Street on Monday. Peace talks resumed in July following efforts by Secretary of State John Kerry to bring the sides together. Martin Indyk, the t stanley cups uk op U.S. negotiator in those talks, will also address J Street on Monday.J Street has sometimes been at odds with other advocacy groups that are more staunchly supportive of Israel. The Washington Post first reported Biden s appearance. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-33cbda2c-2105-11e3-9283-005056850598, right-rail-recirc-item--id-33cbda2c-2105-11e3-928 Osfz Hawaiian Vacation Reveals Importance of Family, Friends to Obama
SWITCHBOARD TO THE WORLD....Via Instapundit, Wired has an interesting piece this week about why it s so productive for the NSA to monitor telephone traffic going through U.S. switches. Short answer: thanks to interna stanley italia tional tariff agreements warning: irony alert for conservatives opposed to multinational treaties , it s often cheaper for small countries to route calls through the U.S. than it is to simply send them directly next door:International phone and internet traffic flows through the United States largely because of pricing models established more than 100 years ago in the International Telecommunication Union to handle international phone calls. Under those ITU tariffs, smaller and developing countries charge higher fees to accept calls than stanley mugs the U.S.-based carriers do, which can make it cheaper to route phone calls through the United States than directly to a neighboring country.....The United States, where the internet was invented, was also home to the fir stanley termosky st internet backbone. Combine that architectural advantage with the pricing disparity inherited from the phone networks, and the United States quickly became the center of cyberspace as the internet gained international penetration in the 1990s.....While nobody outside the intelligence community knows the exact volume of international telephone and internet traffic that crosses U.S. borders, experts agree that it bounces off a handful of key telephone switches and perhaps a dozen IXPs in coastal cities near under