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Wikileaks Newslinks 21 December 2012
21 December 2012 — williambowles.info Julian Assange: WikiLeaks to release 1 million new documents CNN (CNN) — WikiLeaks is preparing to release more than a million documents next year, the controversial website’s founder said Thursday. Julian Assange did not provide details about their contents but said they “affect every country in the world.” He Continue reading
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Video: ‘Everyone in US under virtual surveillance’ – NSA whistleblower
The FBI records the emails of nearly all US citizens, including members of congress, according to NSA whistleblower William Binney. In an interview with RT, he warned that the government can use this information against anyone. (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Video: 'Everyone in US under virtual surveillance' – NSA whistleblower
The FBI records the emails of nearly all US citizens, including members of congress, according to NSA whistleblower William Binney. In an interview with RT, he warned that the government can use this information against anyone. (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Google starts watching what you do off the Internet too
The most powerful company on the Internet just got a whole lot creepier: a new service from Google merges offline consumer info with online intelligence, allowing advertisers to target users based on what they do at the keyboard and at the mall. Continue reading
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Orwellian “Eavesdropping on a Worldwide Scale”: United Nations asks for Control over the World’s Internet
Members of the United Nation’s International Telecommunications Union (ITU) have agreed to work towards implementing a standard for the Internet that would allow for eavesdropping on a worldwide scale. Continue reading
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Orwellian “Eavesdropping on a Worldwide Scale”: United Nations asks for Control over the World’s Internet
Members of the United Nation’s International Telecommunications Union (ITU) have agreed to work towards implementing a standard for the Internet that would allow for eavesdropping on a worldwide scale. Continue reading
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CIA-Sponsored Trolls Monitor Internet & Interact With Users to Discredit Factual Information by Susanne Posel
In July of this year it became apparent through a flood of mainstream media reports that the National Security Agency (NSA) was “desperate to hire new hacking talent to protect the nation’s critical infrastructure” yet the NSA is notorious for its surveillance programs on American digital activity. Continue reading
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Video: Assange to RT: Entire nations intercepted online, key turned to totalitarian rule
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says all the necessary physical infrastructure for absolute totalitarianism through the internet is ready. He told RT that the question now is whether the turnkey process that already started will go all the way. Continue reading
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Fighting ‘Terrorism’ or Repressing Democracy? Britain’s System of Mass Surveillance By Dr. Paul Anderson
The focus of critiques of authoritarianism today lies increasingly in the use by liberal governments of ‘exceptional’ powers. These are powers in which an imminent threat to national security is judged to be of such importance as to warrant the restriction of liberties and other socially repressive measures in order to protect national security. ‘Terrorism’… Continue reading
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Anonymous warns Israel: ‘No one cuts Gaza internet on our watch!’
The hacktivist group Anonymous is angry at Israel, and not just for launching deadly airstrikes on Gaza. Members say the Israeli government “crossed a line in the sand” when it threatened to sever internet and other telecommunications in Gaza. Continue reading
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Beyond Bayonets and Battleships: Space Warfare and the Future of U.S. Global Power By Alfred W. McCoy
It’s 2025 and an American “triple canopy” of advanced surveillance and armed drones fills the heavens from the lower- to the exo-atmosphere. A wonder of the modern age, it can deliver its weaponry anywhere on the planet with staggering speed, knock out an enemy’s satellite communications system, or follow individuals biometrically for great distances. Along… Continue reading
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Imperialism In The X-Factor Age By Colin Todhunter
In Vietnam, Agent Orange was dropped by the US to poison a foreign population. In Iraq and the former Yugoslavia, depleted uranium was used. In Western countries, things are a bit more complicated because various states have tended to avoid using direct forms of physical violence to quell their own populations (unless you belong to… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 8 October 2012: You look foreign: bring your passport, it’s what the UKBA would want
8 October 2012 — Statewatch e-mail: office@statewatch.org 1. EU: Western Balkan states held back by lawlessness2. EU: Council of the European Union: Common European Asylum System – State of play3. EU: EUROPEAN ARREST WARRANT: FINLAND, DENMARK & SWEDEN4. EU: Council of the European Union: Military Command and Control, JCOs and Auditors letter on Home Affairs funding Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 20 August 2012 (15/12)
012 — http://www.statewatch.org/ e-mail: office@statewatch.org 1. European Court of Human Rights to examine complaint against ban on anonymous prepaid mobile phone cards2. GREECE: Racist Violence Recording Network: Fatal attack on Iraqi in Athens Continue reading
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Anonymous calls for shut-down of TrapWire to start this Saturday
As details surface about a futuristic and frightening global surveillance network called TrapWire, members of the Anonymous collective are calling for citizens everywhere to voice their opposition and help end the system beginning this Saturday. Continue reading
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Looming Health Crisis: Wireless Technology and the Toxification of America By Prof. James F. Tracy
As a multitude of hazardous wireless technologies are deployed in homes, schools and workplaces, government officials and industry representatives continue to insist on their safety despite growing evidence to the contrary. A major health crisis looms that is only hastened through the extensive deployment of “smart grid” technology. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 26 June 2012 (12/12)
26 June 2012 — http://www.statewatch.org/ – e-mail: office@statewatch.org 1. TURKEY: Readmission: Council of the European Union rushes through agreement2. EU: DATA PROTECTION REGULATION: Council of the European Union position3. SLOVAKIA::ECHR rules against deportation of convicted terrorist because of risk of torture4. EU: Statewatch Analysis: The revised ‘Dublin’ rules on responsibility for asylum-seekers: a missed opportunity Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online11 May 2012 (10/12)
11 May 2012 — http://www.statewatch.org/ – e-mail: office@statewatch.org 1. EU: ACCESS TO EU DOCUMENTS: Presidency criticised: Even worse than the Commission2. EU: Visits campaign : Obstacles to the right to know: Migrant Camps in Europe3. EU-EAW: Council: practical operation of the European arrest warrant – Year 20114. EU: AI and ECRE Letter on behalf on 166 NGOs:Appeal to EU Continue reading
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Statewatch 11 May 2012: Support the “Call for an Open Europe”
“Access to documents in the EU is not a “gift” from on high to be packaged, sanitised and manipulated. It is a “right” which is fundamental in a democracy”: Tony Bunyan, Deirdre Curtin and Aidan White in Essays for an Open Europe Continue reading
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