13 July 2018 — Statewatch
Press release 12 July 2018: For immediate release: Please re-tweet from: https://twitter.com/StatewatchEU
Statewatch launch new Observatory as interoperable Justice and Home Affairs databases morph into a centralised Big Brother database
“The time to ring the alarms bells is not when Big Brother is in place but when there are the first signs of its construction.” (Tony Bunyan, Statewatch Director)
27 July 2013 — RT
[A Snoopers’ Charter: Watch your privacy take yet another step down the tubes if Cameron’s proposal for compulsory monitoring and censorship of your Web access comes to pass. It’s the next step in state spying on your Web habits and all of it allegedly to stop people accessing child pornography (as if it would!). WB]
UK Prime Minister David Cameron has expanded on his recent set of guidelines for an internet filter that would block pornographic content by default. This has aroused further controversy, as other content may now also face the filter.
Internet service providers from the Open Rights Group have confirmed the news, following Cameron’s Monday revelation that by the end of 2013, broadband subscribers will have to make do with a compulsory system installed everywhere to monitor various content the government deems harmful.
These include social media, gambling and pornography as well as other adult-orientated sites.
24 July 2013 — Black Agenda Report
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford19 July 2013 — Black Agenda Report
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford1 July 2013 — Anti-Fascist Calling…
With the Obama administration in full damage control mode over revelations of blanket surveillance of global electronic communications, new documents published by The Guardian, including the draft of a 2009 report by the NSA’s Inspector General marked Top Secret and a Secret 2007 Justice Department memo prepared for then US Attorney General Michael Mukasey, show that “a federal judge sitting on the secret surveillance panel called the Fisa court would approve a bulk collection order for internet metadata ‘every 90 days’.”
30 June 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation
Europe and the US are being rocked by scandals related to the creation of a system of total surveillance and control over the population of the planet. In the middle of June, human rights defenders from the American Civil Liberties Union sued the US government and US intelligence agencies for wiretapping. Continue reading
20 June 2013 — Global Research
Spying on its citizenry reflects one of the most defining police state characteristics. Post-9/11, America crossed the line.
8 June 2013 — The Real News Network
Larry Wilkerson: The NSA’s illegal gathering of almost all means of communication sacrifices privacy without improving national security
15 April 2013 — antiwar.com
Almost thirty years ago, cultural critic Neil Postman argued in Amusing Ourselves to Death that television’s gradual replacement of the printing press has created a dumbed-down culture driven by mindless entertainment.
6 February 2013 — RT
2 February 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation
02.02.2013 | 00:00 | Dmitry MININ
The main surprise of Israel’s latest elections for the19th Knesset was the Yesh Atid party («There is a future»), established less than a year ago it came in second with 19 seats, and is led by 49-year-old Yair Lapid. Some (political opponents) predict it will soon collapse, others (supporters) unquestionably see him as a future leader of the country, still others view Lapid as a product of political technologies grown overseas and grafted onto Israeli soil, similar to the leaders of the «color revolutions» in Eastern Europe, but more subtly so: «no protruding ears» or visible external shocks… Continue reading
1 January 2013 — NO2ID
January 2012
· The year started with a handful of census refuseniks getting fined for not handing over their personal details to the Office of National Statistics. The 2011 census was bigger than ever, and particularly controversial both because of the involvement of BAE systems, and a change in the law that destroys the confidentiality of census information.
3 April 2012 — Media Lens
George Galloway’s stunning victory in last week’s Bradford West by-election afforded a rare opportunity to witness naked imbalance, establishment scorn of any challenges, and blatant anti-Muslim propaganda in the corporate British media.
25 January 2012 — Access Now
If you thought SOPA and PIPA were bad, let us introduce you to their Big Brother, ACTA.
We helped stopped SOPA and PIPA. Now let’s help defeat their Big Brother, ACTA! Sign the Petition
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is an international treaty that threatens free speech and your privacy online. Imagine if your ISP could censor their networks, police what you did online, and with greater ease turn your information over to authorities. That’s the danger that ACTA poses, and it’s got to be stopped. Continue reading
2 December 2011 — williambowles.info
Crime and Punishment Bradley Manning’s Leaks Didn’t Actually Hurt Anybody But …
Queerty
It’s no blood, no foul when it comes to Bradley Manning. This week his lawyers stated that the alleged WikiLeaks culprit and confirmed Queerty reader didn’t actually cause any damage by releasing classified government documents. …
http://www.queerty.com/bradley-mannings-leaks-didnt-actually-hurt-anybody-but-lets-torture-him-anyway-20111201/
20 June 2011 — williambowles.info
WikiLeaks: Few Cubans can name US-backed dissidents
MiamiHerald.com
Yet respondents identified an average of only 1.5 of the seven dissidents on the list, or fewer than one in four, according to the dispatch, which is part of the huge cache of State Department documents obtained by WikiLeaks and passed to McClatchy and …
http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/06/18/2273188/wikileaks-few-cubans-can-name.html Continue reading
1 January 1, 2011 — Global Research – TheNewAmericanEmpire.com
‘They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.’ — Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790), American inventor, journalist, printer, diplomat, and statesman (1775)
‘Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security.’ — Norman Vincent Peale (1898 –1993), American Christian preacher and author
11 October, 2010 — Global Research – Antifascist Calling… – 2010-10-10
As they walked along the busy, yellow-lit tiers of offices, Anderton said: “You’re acquainted with the theory of precrime, of course. I presume we can take that for granted.” — Philip K. Dick, The Minority Report
What do Google, the CIA and a host of so-called “predictive behavior” start-ups have in common?
They’re interested in you, or more specifically, whether your online interests–from Facebook to Twitter posts, and from Flickr photos to YouTube and blog entries–can be exploited by powerful computer algorithms and subsequently transformed into “actionable intelligence.”
And whether the knowledge gleaned from an IP address is geared towards selling useless junk or entering a name into a law enforcement database matters not a whit. It’s all “just data” and “buzz” goes the mantra, along what little is left of our privacy and our rights.
Increasingly, secret state agencies ranging from the CIA to the National Security Agency are pouring millions of dollars into data-mining firms which claim they have a handle on who you are or what you might do in the future.
The New Dark Age 