Spies-R-Us
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Dangerous People Needed: “The Most Dangerous Man in America” By David Swanson
On Thursday night I had the privilege of viewing a premier of a film together with its star. The theater was in the U.S. Capitol, and the film was “The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers”. This is a powerfully and engagingly constructed film about one of the most effective… Continue reading
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WIKILEAKS NEWS: NYTimes Ed / Icelandic bank threats
Back in February 2008, WikiLeaks together with our boldest supporters, defeated an attack by Swiss Bank Julius Baer over “banking secrets” and, On Wednesday, the New York Times devoted an editorial to domestic intelligence “fusion centers” and possible violations of the Posse Comitatus Act. Posse Comitatus prevents the US military from being used as police.… Continue reading
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WIKILEAKS PRESS RELEASE: “Big Trouble in Little Paradise: the Turks and Caicos Islands takeover”
WikiLeaks has released a suppressed report laying at the center of UK plans to seize direct control of the Turks & Caicos Islands, a popular Caribbean tourist destination and tax haven. A British warship on patrol in the Caribbean sea, the HMS Iron Duke, is expected to support the takeover once the report is released. Continue reading
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Video: Shadow Secrets (2008)
This new film looks at the origins and history of the Afghan Mujahedin & al-Qaeda and their associations with various intelligence agencies including the CIA, FBI, MI6 and those of Saudi Arabia & Pakistan. Compiled, edited and produced by The Dossier Continue reading
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Network-centric Warfare: Dominating entire societies Worldwide through ubiquitous surveillance By Tom Burghardt
The technological fetishism of Pentagon war planners and their corporate enablers masks the deadly realities for humanity posed by the dominant world disorder that has reached the end of the line as capitalism’s long death-spiral threatens to drag us all into the abyss. Continue reading
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Inside the AT&T – NSA ‘Secret’ Relationship
Here’s an AT&T engineer explaining just what NSA wants to keep from American citizens: that the NSA is engaged in the warrantless surveillance of all communications (whether telephone conversations, emails, IMs or in other forms) involving AT&T customers. Continue reading
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Wikileaks slams arrest; releases latest Afghan death data
The report shows a dramatic escalation of the war and civil disorder. Coalition deaths increased by 35%, assassinations and kidnappings by 50% and attacks on the Kabul based Government of Hamid Karzai also more than doubled, rising a massive 119%. Continue reading
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WIKILEAKS: Change you can download: a billion in secret Congressional reports
The 6,780 reports, current as of this month, comprise over 127,000 pages of material on some of the most contentious issues in the nation, from the U.S. relationship with Israel to abortion legislation. Continue reading
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Wikileaks: “Germany’s spy chief threatens Wikileaks prosecution”
The head of the BND, Germany’s equivalent to the CIA, has threatened Wikileaks with “immediate criminal prosecution” if it does not remove all “files or reports related to the BND” Continue reading
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WIKILEAKS: US military’s human terrain system exposed
The end may be nigh for the US military’s controversial and sometimes fatal attempt to embed hundreds of anthropologists and social scientists into military units under the “Human Terrain Program” or HTS. Continue reading
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Tom Burghardt: Pointing the US Surveillance Apparatus at the American People
As we have seen throughout these eight long, dark years of the Bush administration, the geopolitical machinations of the U.S. ruling class have created nothing but disaster and suffering. From Afghanistan to Iraq and from Hurricane Katrina to the ongoing nightmare that is “Hurricane America” in the form of the recent $700 billion Wall Street… Continue reading
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UK: Government will spy on every call and e-mail
GCHQ, the government’s eavesdropping centre, has already been given up to £1 billion to finance the first stage of the project. Hundreds of clandestine probes will be installed to monitor customers live on two of the country’s biggest internet and mobile phone providers – thought to be BT and Vodafone. BT has nearly 5m internet… Continue reading
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Leaked UK gov’t doc reveals plan to “coerce” Brits into national ID register January 29, 2008
Taken from the leaked government document From: Cory Doctorow Phil from the UK anti-ID-register group NO2ID sends in this nugget — note the call to action there. We’ve got a sensitive government document revealing the British government’s plan to trick us into a database state and we need as many copies as possible, as quickly… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 15 December 2005 (42/05)
15 December 2005 — Statewatch Full contents see: www.statewatch.org/news 1. EU-USA: Rendition and removing refugees raise the same issue – transit flights 2. EU: European Parliament votes in favour of “deal” on mandatory data retention 3. EU Presidencies of the Council of the European Union: 2006-2018 4. Northern Ireland (Offences) Bill 5. Council of Europe… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 5 December 2005 (41/05)
5 December 2005 — Statewatch Full contents see: www.statewatch.org/news 1. EU: Commission proposes compulsory registration of NGOs 2. EU: Two reports on Human Rights Proofing EU Legislation and Scrutiny of Subsidiarity 3. EU: More openness or just a drop in the ocean? The need for Freedom of Information in the EU 4. EU: Mandatory data… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 23 November 2005 (40/05)
23 November 2005 — Statewatch Full contents see: www.statewatch.org/news 1. EU: Biometric EI ID Cards to be introduced by the back door 2. EU: Opinion of the Advocate-General on the European Parliament’s case on EU-US PNR deal 3. Russia: UK Human rights lawyer deported 4. UK: Health on-line: public attitudes to data sharing – NHS… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 10 November 2005 (39/05)
10 November 2005 — Statewatch Full contents see: www.statewatch.org/news Observatory on the surveillance of telecommunications in the EU UK-EU: Data retention and police access in the UK – a warning for Europe UK: Statement from the families of the men who have been detained pending deportation France: Statement opposing the state of emergency UK: Top… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 1 November 2005 (38/05)
1 November 2005 — Statewatch Full contents see: www.statewatch.org/news 1. EU: Mandatory data retention – Guide to the issues and documents 2. UK: Information Commissioner’s report on the ID Card Bill 3. UK: Home Office reports on racial incidents 4. European Civil Liberties Network (ECLN) 5. Spain: “Transparency and silence” report on freedom of information… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 27 October 2005 (37/05)
27 October 2005 — Statewatch Full contents see: www.statewatch.org/news “ESSAYS ON CIVIL LIBERTIES AND DEMOCRACY IN EUROPE” A collection of sixteen Essays were specially written for the launch of the “European Civil Liberties Network” (ECLN) on 19 October: www.ecln.org Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 12 October 2005 (35/05)
12 October 2005 — Statewatch Full contents see: www.statewatch.org/news 1. EU: Data retention: Council to back down over legal basis, but asks EP to rush through 2. EU: European Ombudsman finds Council has given no valid reasons for continuing to legislate behind 3. EU: Justice and Home Affairs Council, 12 October 2005, Luxembourg 4. Italy:… Continue reading
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