Did NSA Put a Secret Backdoor in New Encryption Standard?

11-20-2007 •

You should worry about a new random-number standard that includes an algorithm that is slow, badly designed and just might contain a backdoor for the National Security Agency.

Required Reading for Ron Paul r3VOLutionaries

11-20-2007 • by Thomas J. DiLorenzo (LewRockwell)

After 9/11 the neocons who dominate the Republican Party commenced 3 separate wars: One in Afghanistan, another in Iraq, and the third against the civil liberties of the American people. As Judge Andrew Napolitano writes in his brilliant new book, A

Why L.A. police nixed plan to map Muslims

11-20-2007 • Christian Science Monitor

The Los Angeles Police Department's counterterrorism bureau proposed using US census data and other demographic information to pinpoint various Muslim communities...

Fox host 'for Tasing anyone in Code Pink' after Hillary heckled

11-20-2007 • RawStory.com

His answer to annoying anti-war types? Tasers or Billy clubs.

The Milgram Experiment Revisited

11-19-2007 • ABC News (google video)

ABC News conducts a special investigation to discover if individuals would respond the same way today to the Milgram Experiment as they did in the 1960's. The results are not encouraging. How far would you go to please an authority figure?

Is there a mental institution in your future, you rebel you?

11-19-2007 • Google Video

The U.S. Government now officially considers people who "make numerous references to the Constitution" to be "potential terrorists."

Cops offer to search children's bedrooms

11-18-2007 • AZ Daily Star (kudos Mark Y.)

Parents' OK could bust kids as young as 8 under new Tucson Police Dept. anti-gang effort. http://tinyurl.com/2uvv7w

In the U.S. of A., we are all suspects now

11-18-2007 • St. Petersburg Times

While reading this column, keep in mind that the 'liberal' 9th circuit court of appeals just torpedoed a lawsuit relating to this illegal spying under the guise of protecting 'state secrets'.

Chandler cops setup roadblock, interrogate drivers regarding area crime

11-17-2007 • East Valley Tribune

Incompetent police investigators haphazardly hunting the Chandler serial rapist, seized and interrogated 200 drivers absent reasonable suspicion or a warrant in the neighborhood where the attacker may have struck seven days earlier.

Georgia Police Turns Sonic Blaster on Demonstrators (VIDEO)

11-16-2007 • Wired

The Saakashvili regime in Georgia is using sound weapons against opposition protestors. This English-language footage from Russia Today shows riot police rolling through the streets of Tblisi in pickup trucks, small dishes in hand. A high frequency

Prosecutor threatening jail for parents who refuse mandatory injections for their kids

11-14-2007 • Washington Post

The parents of more than 2,300 Prince George's County students who failed to get forced vaccinations could face fines of $50 a day and up to 10 days in jail if their children don't meet immunization requirements, county officials said yesterd

Yahoo settles with jailed Chinese dissidents

11-13-2007 • MarketWatch.com

Yahoo Inc. on Tuesday settled a lawsuit filed by Chinese dissidents and their family members who accused the Internet company of complicity in their jailing, following a humiliating episode on Capitol Hill.

Pistol Packing Feds

11-13-2007 • FourmiLog

So, for about every 3000 residents of the U.S., there is one Federal agent entitled to carry a firearm to murder them on behalf of their consensual government. Now this may not seem like very many, but note that in the United States regular law enfor

‘This Is Called National Defense’ - by "Catch 22's" Joseph Heller

11-13-2007 •

Joseph Heller, the author of Catch-22, in the New York Times at some point in the mid-1970's. Try and find a more poignant, relevant, and well-written piece about government spying, wiretapping, and "national defense" that takes up only

Smoke Regulators Go After Private Apartments

11-12-2007 • Mondoreb

Smoke regulators are targeting private apartments and vehicles next. People cheering on smoke regulators might quiet down when the focus switches to other areas of private life.

INDOCTRINATE U:University of Delaware Requires Students to Undergo Ideological Reeducation

11-11-2007 • FIRE (re-posted as heard on Goyette)

The University of Delaware subjects students in its residence halls to a shocking program of ideological reeducation that is referred to in the university’s own materials as a “treatment” for students’ incorrect attitude

Intel official: Americans Must Expect Less Privacy

11-11-2007 • AP

Privacy no longer can mean anonymity, says Donald Kerr, the principal deputy director of the National Reconnaissance Office. Instead, it should mean that government and businesses properly safeguard people's private communications and financial i

Arizona team's tool seeks online terrorists

11-11-2007 • Arizona Republic

Researchers at the University of Arizona are developing a tool that uses clues to automate the analysis of online jihadism. The Dark Web project aims to scour Web sites, forums and chat rooms to find the Internet's most prolific and influential j

Pentagon Forecast: Cloudy, 80% Chance of Riots

11-11-2007 • Wired

The Pentagon is paying Lockheed Martin to try to predict insurgencies and civil unrest like the weather. It's part of a larger military effort to blend forecasting software with social science. (see where this going?)

DHS: New LED Flashlight will make Protestors Vomit

11-10-2007 • News Sophisticate

LED Incapacitators are coming to a police force near you. Funded by the Department of Homeland Security and produced by Intelligent Optical Systems, Inc., the wicked powerful vomit making flashlight.

Sober Diabetic Man Tasered, Accused of DUI

11-09-2007 • The Newspaper

Police in Ozark, Alabama on Tuesday used a taser on a sober man who was having a diabetic seizure.

LAPD to build data base on Muslim areas of So. California

11-9-2007 • LA Times

"We are seeking to identify at-risk communities," Downing said in an interview. "We want to know where the Pakistanis, Iranians and Chechens are."

UK: Eventually all DNA will be recorded

11-9-2007 • Daily Post

But as the percentage of the population being recorded inevitably grows, the government agenda remains obscure. We are approaching a state of affairs which would never have been countenanced politically, by stealth and default.

AT&T whistleblower: I was forced to connect 'big brother machine

11-8-2007 • Raw Story

"The entire data stream of those internet cables into the secret room -- and we're talking about phone conversations, email web browsing, everything that goes across the internet."

The Tyranny of the Minority

11-08-2007 • RidesAPaleHorse

We received a letter and the writer was angry. What upset the writer? The same thing that angers millions of Americans across the USA each and every day: an ever-increasing web of regulations, laws and edicts by--in many cases--unelected officials.

Battle over PATRIOT Act appeal brews as critical testimony is gagged

11-7-2007 • ArsTechnica

The government has appealed a federal court ruling that struck down the National Security Letter provision of the PATRIOT Act. The provision, used without probable cause or judicial oversight, gives the FBI the ability to secretly demand access to th

15,000 want off the U.S. terror watch list

11-7-2007 • USA Today

More than 15,000 people have appealed to the government since February to have their names removed from the terrorist watch list that delayed their travel at U.S. airports and border crossings, the Homeland Security Department says.

Real ID database creating hassles for motorists in compliant states

11-07-2007 • The Newspaper

As a result of adopting regulations designed to conform with REAL ID national identification card requirements, the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMW) has threatened to cancel the licenses of 206,000 of the state's 4.5 million motorists.