5) another realization upon hearing the 30c3 talk of Jacob Appelbaum was the 'earth firewall' then indicates that the NSA controls the internet, and that it is not operating as a subset within it, and instead everything that occurs is within its domain....
The Internet is not controlled, i.e., there is a power vacuum that will soon be filled. There are many, many players and soon to be more. The question to be contemplated, if any, is this: Do you prefer that the competing claims of control over the Internet be resolved by way of (1) dramatic Balkanization or by way of (2) making the Internet an organ of world government? A thought experiment, if needing one: is VoIP a part of the Internet or is it not, that is do you have two networks in your home/office or one? --dan