Intel Wants Brain Implants in Its Customers' Heads by 2020

11-21-2009 • PopSi

Researchers expect brain waves to operate computers, TVs and cell phones

Citizens exercise right to refuse federal Identity Toll

11-20-2009 • BeatTheChip.org

The frequency of identity tolls will continue to escalate as long as the legal precedents are tolerated by citizens. 24 state governments recently refused the hefty demands on identity in the Real ID Act. These States punted the regulations along wit

ADL Calls Alex Jones “Conspiracy King,” Insinuates He Should be Removed from Society

11-18-2009 • Alex Jones' Infowars Website (www.infowars.com

The ADL has launched a new purge against its political enemies in the form of a major report that equates skepticism and distrust of government with “a toxic atmosphere of rage,” which is threatening to boil over in the form of violence, specifically

“Army Surveillance of Civilians” (1972) (Publisher: But they wouldn't still be doing this... rig

11-17-2009 • www.thememoryhole.org

“Army Surveillance of Civilians: A Documentary Analysis” by the Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights, Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate (1972). Posted online by The Memory Hole. (Thanks to Susan Maret, coeditor of Government Secrecy:

Office of Personnel Management Memo Details Purge of Republicans from Federal Civil Service

11-12-2009 • Mondo Frazier

A memo from the Office of Personnel Management is using a new trick to purge Republicans from the Civil Service beginning in January 2010. Chicago Rules come to Washington.

Improving Homeland Security at the State Level

11-11-2009 • U. S. Central Inteligence Agency

Following the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, a revolution has been underway in the relationships of federal, state, and local homeland security, law enforcement, and intelligence organizations. At the federal level, the Department of Homelan

No Knock Warrant from the Air?

11-03-09 • Gmoney

The stated mission of the Office of CBP Air and Marine is to protect the American people and critical infrastructure by using an integrated and coordinated air and marine force to detect, interdict, and prevent acts of terrorism arising from unlawful

Madmen In Control-While Rome Burned

11/07/09 • www.areyouawakenet@ning.com

Nero's rule is often associated with tyranny and extravagance. He is known for a number of executions, including those of his mother and adoptive brother, as the emperor who "fiddled while Rome burned", and as an early persecutor of Christians.

81-year-old Tasered by Eielson Air Force Base police

11-04-2009 • NewsMiner.com

FAIRBANKS — An 81-year-old man was Tasered during a traffic stop last week.

It is the second time since 1998 that police have had to make a show of force during a traffic stop to arrest Glen M. Wilcox, a Fairbanks-based Episcopalian priest

UK Nanny State: Parents May No Longer Watch Own Children at Playground

11-03-2009 • pat

Some UK government types decide that it’s no longer acceptable for parents to watch their own children at the playground. Parents might be pedophiles. It's Bedlam in Britain.

I WILL NOT ALLOW the state to force me to drug my kid - PERIOD!

10/29/2009 • MyNameIsBen.org

New website from Jim Kaiser, telling the side of the "kidnapping" story that most of the media doesn't want to tell. Your comments are appreciated and your donations to my defense fund are even more appreciated. Don't forget to subscribe to the site

Air Force Bugbots Micro Air Vehicle (MAVs) buglike drones

10-25-2009 • Design World HT Chris Martenson

Can you say “Big Brother is watching”? The Air Force is developing technologies that will give our military a tremendous advantage. But can this technology be used abused? Check out this video presentation of the MAV (Micro Air Vehicle) and decide fo

FILM REVIEW: "One Mainframe to Rule Them All"

10-20-2009 • BeatTheChip.org

One Mainframe to Rule Them All - is a 50 minute documentary produced by Greg Nickolettos. The film starts with a monologue from Nazi Nexus author Edwin Black on WWII datalust and IBM. It then swiftly moves to current events surrounding injectible ide

OnStar Halts California High-Speed Pursuit

10-20-2009 • Officer.com

[It's started!] When two Visalia, Calif., police officers swung their cruisers behind a sport utility vehicle that had been carjacked at gunpoint early Sunday, they prepared for a dangerous high-speed chase. The 2009 Chevrolet Tahoe roared away wi

Is Google Becoming Big Brother?

10-16-2009 • Newsbusters

“Big Brother is Watching You!” Such was the cautionary phrase the citizens in George Orwell’s “1984” were regularly reminded of. According to a recent article in Mother Jones, today it is Google that is watching you:

FBI Using DMV Photos to Search for Fugitives

10-13-2009 • Officer.com

In its search for fugitives, the FBI has begun using facial-recognition technology on millions of motorists, comparing driver's license photos with pictures of convicts in a high-tech analysis of chin widths and nose sizes.

Video: Wi-Fi Imaging Lets You See Through Walls

10-13-2009 • Popular Science

SWAT teams and rescue workers may soon take advantage of wireless networks to locate people moving around inside buildings. We previously examined this nifty wireless concept that uses off-the-shelf technology to locate humans to within 3 feet on th

FBI Building “Multi-Modal Biometrics” Database

10-13-2009 • Cryptogen/Computer World

Voice scans. You know, in case you use a phone that isn’t registered to you.

FBI delves into DMV photos in search for fugitives

10-13-2009 • AP/Google

In its search for fugitives, the FBI has begun using facial-recognition technology on millions of motorists, comparing driver's license photos with pictures of convicts in a high-tech analysis of chin widths and nose sizes.

Radio eyes peer through walls and darkness

10-12-2009 • Russia Today

A method of tracking of people’s movements behind walls or total darkness has been developed. Its inventors have come up with dozens of applications, from dealing with hostage crisis to taking care of elder people.

Telephone Company Is Arm of Government, Feds Admit in Spy Suit

10-09-2009 • Wired

The Department of Justice has finally admitted it in court papers: The nation’s telecom companies are an arm of the government — at least when it comes to secret spying.

Relatives question why government officials kidnapped Tenn. baby

10-08-2009 • AP

Maria Gurrola, still recovering from stab wounds and a collapsed lung, started crying and shaking when she learned week-old Yahir Anthony Carrillo and his three siblings would be put into foster homes. "She said them taking the kids away was a worse

FAST: DHS Funds Body Signals Scan Project

10-07-2009 • Mondo Frazier

If a Dept of Homeland Security-funded project is successful, airport travelers in the near future will be scanned for body signals. It’s being touted as “convenient”, and it will be–if your signals are just right. But if they’re too high or too low,

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano and Girl Scouts of the USA CEO Kath

09-08-2009 • Girls Scouts & DHS

—designed to engage Girl Scouts and their families in personal preparedness for all emergencies—and announced a new affiliation between DHS Citizen Corps and the Girl Scouts to advance community preparedness nationwide. http://www.girlscouts.org/new

FTC trains government focus on … bloggers

10-05-2009 • Hot Air

These new rules insinuate themselves into regulating free speech, and worse, they give no clear guidelines on the scope of the enforcement or the methods of disclosing properly to avoid the FTC’s wrath. They aim a bazooka at a gnat in terms of publi

Brewery's Nanny State beer swipe

10-04-2009 • BBC News (h/t The Agitator)

A brewery has launched a low alcohol beer called Nanny State after being branded irresponsible for creating the UK's "strongest beer". Campaigners welcomed the 1.1% alcohol Nanny State but said the name showed a lack of appreciation of the problem

Welcome to governmentattic.org

09-30-2009 • governmentattic.org

governmentattic.org provides electronic copies of hundreds of interesting Federal Government documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. Fascinating historical documents, reports on items in the news, oddities and fun stuff and governme