The Big Brother Conspiracy
• http://lewrockwell.comTracking our every move is big business too, says Jesse Ventura
Contents Pages by Subject
Surveillance
Britain to monitor citizens’ text messages and emails
• http://www.rawstory.com, By Agence France-PresseThe British government wants to expand its powers to monitor email exchanges and website visits, The Sunday Times newspaper reported.
New Counterorrism Guidelines Gives Authorities Vast Access to Private Info of Innocent Americans
• http://www.commondreams.org, by Trevor TimmOn Thursday, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder signed expansive new guidelines for terrorism analysts, allowing the National Counter Terrorism Center (NCTC) to mirror entire federal databases containing personal information and hold onto the informat
Paying for One's Slavery - Happily!
• msnbc via rense.comDuhhhhhhhhhhhh...
Surveillance system compares your face to 36 million others in a second
• .Recognized faces are displayed as thumbnails and grouped with matching footage, allowing the operator to look at all of the actions of a given person immediately.
U.S. relaxes limits on dataveillance for counterterrorism analysis centers
• NYTimes.comWASHINGTON — The Obama administration is moving to relax restrictions on how counterterrorism analysts may retrieve, store and search information about Americans gathered by government agencies for purposes other than national security threats.
NSA Building A $2 Billion Quantum Computer Artificial Intelligence Spy Center
• http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com, by Alexander HigThe NSA is a data center to house a 512 qubit quantum computer capable of learning, reproducing the brain’s cognitive functions, and programming itself.
The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)
• WiredCode-breaking is crucial, because much of the data that the center will handle—financial information, stock transactions, business deals, foreign military and diplomatic secrets, legal documents, confidential personal communications—will be heavily e
Speech-Jamming Gun!?!
• Extreme Tech via Rense.comOh SHUT UP!
FBI Turns Off Thousands of GPS Devices After Supreme Court Ruling
• The Wall Street JournalThe Supreme Court’s recent ruling overturning the warrantless use of GPS tracking devices has caused a “sea change” inside the U.S. Justice Department, according to FBI General Counsel Andrew Weissmann. Mr. Weissmann, speaking at a University of S
Secret documents reveal DHS lied to CONgress about tracking Americans on social media
• RawstoryOne of the nation’s leading electronic privacy groups claimed this week that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) misled members of Congress during a recent hearing on whether the Department is paying a defense contractor $11.4 million to keep t
Obama admin defends killing American terrorists [OK for US, not OK for Syria!]
• Pam Benson, CNNThe targeted killing of those suspected of engaging in terrorist activities against the United States, including American citizens, is justified and legal, according to the Defense Department's chief lawyer. Johnson reiterated Koh's assessment that
12 Ways Companies Spy On You
• Melanie HickenCompanies know a lot about you. Probably more than you're comfortable with.
Sportsmen Shoot Down Animal Rights Group’s Surveillance Drone
• The South Carolina Times & DemocratShooting down gov't drones is one thing,...but if they're private,...FIRE AWAY!!!
Food police reject preschooler's homemade lunch... in favour of chicken nuggets
• www.dailymail.co.uk'What got me so mad is, number one, don’t tell my kid I’m not packing her lunch box properly,' the mother from North Carolina, who wished to remain anonymous, told a local newspaper.
SOCIAL MEDIA "TACTICAL INTELLIGENCE COLLECTION": Spying and Propaganda using Facebook, Twi
• by Julie LévesqueA new study by the Mediterranean Council for Intelligence Studies’ (MCIS) 2012 Intelligence Studies Yearbook points to the use of social media as “the new cutting edge in open-source tactical intelligence collection”. IntelNews.org's Joseph Fitsanaki
How The Pentagon’s Top Killers Became (Unaccountable) Spies
• www.wired.comThis is what people think of when they imagine the Joint Special Operations Command, or JSOC — the secretive, über-elite military unit that killed Osama bin Laden.
Drones Will Be Admitted to Standard US Airspace By 2015
• www.popsci.comBy Sept. 30, 2015, drones will have to have access to U.S. airspace that is currently reserved for piloted aircraft. This applies to military, commercial and privately owned drones — so it could mean a major increase in unmanned aircraft winging thro
The EU is Considering Using Drones to Police Farm Subsidies, Enforce Environmental Rules
• www.popsci.comThe more progressive aviation framework in Europe means that government monitors potentially have a new weapon in their arsenals--unmanned aerial drones--to enforce regulations, and they’re starting with agriculture
Introducing the government’s newest unpaid spy: YOU
• www.sovereignman.com/Simon BlackOne of the most terrifying aspects of George Orwell’s seminal work 1984 was his description of how society had turned into one giant police agency.
Bill Clears Path For 30,000 Surveillance Drones Over US In Next Ten Years
• www.prisonplanet.comCritics warn military industrial complex pushing US “willy-nilly toward an era of aerial surveillance”
White House defends contraception rules as criticisms mount
• YahooThe Obama administration is willing to work with Catholic universities, hospitals and other church-affiliated employers to implement a new policy that requires health insurers to offer birth control coverage,
Black Hawks In Boston: The American Military Empire Comes Home
• John W. Whitehead, NJToday.netThe bedrock of the American republic is fracturing. The Constitution is being eviscerated by government leaders and their corporate allies. The system of checks and balances embodied in that document, the mechanism which prevents the United States fr
Cashless Society: Bank of America Refuses Cash for Mortgage Payment
• www.activistpost.comThe manager of the bank said it was against their policy to accept legal tender physical currency (aka U.S. dollars) as payment for BoA mortgages.
Study: Toxicity and Abuse Of Sugar Warrant Regulations Akin To Alcohol and Tobacco
• www.jonathanturley.orgResearchers at the University of California (San Francisco) are calling for regulations.government regulation of sugar that compares to alcohol and tobacco
OBD III: The Motor Law Realized (On Board Diagnostics)
• www.lewrockwell.com/Eric PetersYou know that “check engine” light on your dashboard? What if instead of just telling you that the car’s computer has detected some fault with the emissions control system, it told the government – via roadside readers and satellite uplinks?
Swarming
• Lew Rockwell blogThere is such a mass of swarming technologies being developed worldwide and the most important ones are the ones you cannot foresee from here—the real earth shattering "breakthroughs." We can see that drones and swarming [watch the chilling video], e
Photography & the First Amendment
Photography Is Not a CrimeYou would think that if you are in a public space and you can see something — an object, a person, an incident — then you could also photograph or film it. The reality is not that simple.
Entered By: Powell Gammill
Company hoarding license-plate data on US drivers
• ABC News (video)Capitalizing on one of the fastest-growing trends in law enforcement, a private California-based company has compiled a database bulging with more than 550 million license-plate records on both innocent and criminal drivers that can be searched by po
Supreme Court Court Rejects Willy-Nilly GPS Tracking
• David Kravets via WIRED.comThe Supreme Court said Monday that law enforcement authorities might need a probable-cause warrant from a judge to affix a GPS device to a vehicle and monitor its every move — but the justices did not say that a warrant was needed in all cases.
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