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Protecting Us from Our Freedoms: Congress Set to Renew Patriot Act Spy Provisions By Tom Burghardt
As night follows day, you can count on Congress to serve as loyal servants and willing accomplices of our out-of-control National Security State. Last week, in another shameless demonstration of congressional “bipartisanship,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) forged a filthy backroom deal… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 10 May 2011 (11/11): Welcome to the new world of the interception of telecommunications
Home page: www.statewatch.org/ e-mail: office@statewatch.org STATEWATCHING EUROPE: Civil Liberties, the state and the European Union Saturday 25 June 2011 (10.00-17.30) Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL Programme and Registration form: www.statewatch.org/conference/conference.pdf Book Online: www.statewatch.org/ordering/order.html Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 7 May, 2011: Weekend Edition – Chomsky: My Reaction to Osama bin Laden's Death
7 May 2011 — Information Clearing House Noam Chomsky: My Reaction to Osama bin Laden’s Death By Noam Chomsky We might ask ourselves how we would be reacting if Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush’s compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28045.htm Continue reading
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As Smartphone Scandal Grows, Tech Firms Run for Cover, Reap Windfall Profits
Recent revelations that Apple’s iPhone and iPad, Google’s Android and Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 operating systems collect, store and transmit records of users’ physical locations to central databases–secretly, and without consent–have ignited a firestorm over Americans’ privacy rights in an age of hypersurveillance. Continue reading
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European Conference marking Statewatch’s 20th anniversary
Conference: STATEWATCHING EUROPE: Civil Liberties, the state and the European Union Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 30 March 2011 (09/11)
30 March 2011 Home page: www.statewatch.org/ News Online: www.statewatch.org/news/newsfull.htm e-mail: office@statewatch.org You can now follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/#!/StatewatchEU 1. EU: Council of the European Union: FRONTEX: Proposal for a Regulation 2. EU: Council of the European Union: Handbook on EU-U.S. Mutual Legal Assistance and Extradition Agreements (MLATs) 3. EU: Council of the European Union:… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, No 2 of 2: 14 February 2011 (06/11)
14 February, 2011 Home page: www.statewatch.org/ News Online: www.statewatch.org/news/newsfull.htm e-mail: office@statewatch.org 1. EU-COE: Discussions on EU joining the ECHR: Working Document from the European Commission 2. Switzerland: Rights Groups Issue ‘Indictment’ of Bush 3. UK: Cameron’s Munich speech marks securitisation of race policy (IRR News Service) 4. Statewatch Analysis: Time to rethink terrorist blacklisting 5. … Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 21 January 2011: UK: Statewatch analysis: Six months on: An update on the UK coalition government’s commitment to civil liberties
Statewatch publishes a follow-up to its June 2010 analysis of the coalition government’s commitment to civil liberties: Within weeks of its formation in May 2010, the coalition government announced with much fanfare its intention ‘to restore the rights of individuals in the face of encroaching state power.’ Continue reading
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Huge spy hub uncovered in Israel — RT
It has been described as Israel’s ‘big ears’ – a huge facility where it is claimed phone calls and emails from all across the Middle East and beyond can be monitored for intelligence. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 30 December 2010: Guide to EU decision-making and justice and home affairs after the Lisbon Treaty
Home page: www.statewatch.org/ News Online: www.statewatch.org/news/newsfull.htm e-mail: office@statewatch.org Please complete our Survey of users: It is a very simple and takes only a couple of minutes to complete: www.surveymonkey.com/s/email_list 1. EU: Statewatch publication: Guide to EU decision-making and justice and home affairs after the Lisbon Treaty 2. EU: Statewatch Analysis: The EU Justice and Home… Continue reading
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Statewatch 21 December 2010 – Survey of users
The Statewatch website gets over 600,000 ‘hits’ per month. More than 9,000 people have joined the Statewatch e-mail list. We intend to update and improve our website and email alerting service and are seeking feedback from users to help us with this process. Continue reading
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Free access to two unique resources on civil liberties in Europe
Statewatch is pleased to announce free access to its specialist civil liberties websites Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 26 October 2010 (19/10)
Home page: http://www.statewatch.org/ e-mail: office@statewatch.org EU: European Commission: Data protection proposals EU-GREECE: EU sends border guards to Greece UK: New rights to protect Britons abroad European Commission: Report on third country nationals and trafficking European Parliament: Strengthening democratic scrutiny over EU external affairs EU: Rightwing parties plan opposition to EU centralisation and immigration USA: Electronic… Continue reading
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NO2ID Supporters’ Newsletter No. 159 – 11th October 2010
+ DOUBLE BILL + As the rest of the Newsletter shows, the database state is still far from dead. But the fight against it needs a new strategy to deal with the new situation. We have been taking advantage of the honeymoon period of the coalition to try and formulate the way forward, and are… Continue reading
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Global Research: US Elections, Global Banking, Nuclear Weapons and Democracy – Selected Articles 1-12 October, 2010
12 October, 2010 — Global Research America´s Shadow Class War and the 2010 Elections. The Rich are Getting Richer. – by E.J. Dionne Jr. – 2010-10-12 Inside the Global Banking Intelligence Complex, BCCI Operations Part II – by David DeGraw – 2010-10-12 No International Justice for Congo. UN Coverup of War Crimes – by Ann… Continue reading
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Obama Continues Most of Bush’s Wiretap Policies
Shayana Kadidal: Government refuses to disclose possible wiretapping of civil rights lawyers Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 6 October 2010 (18/10): France-Roma controversy
Home page: http://www.statewatch.org/ e-mail: office@statewatch.org EU: Council: France-Roma controversy – proposing the targeting of “mobile (itinerant) criminal groups”: “itinerant”=travellers=Roma EU-LIBYA: EU signs up to ‘unclear’ migration pact with Libya EU-PNR: Mandates: Council of the European Union EU: Council of the European Union: “State of play”: exploitation of children EU-USA: SWIFT-TFTP agreement: Question to European Commission… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online – 1 October 2010 (17/10)
Home page: http://www.statewatch.org/ e-mail: office@statewatch.org EU: Parliaments to have no say over the “harmonisation” of national ID cards EU: Schengen Information System: SIS II to hold 100 million records EU-FRONTEX: AI and ECRE: Briefing on Commission proposal USA: Government Accountability Office: Fusion centres UK: European Commission: Refer UK to Court over data protection EU: “State… Continue reading
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NO2ID Supporters’ Newsletter No. 158 – 23rd September 2010: Identity Documents Bill passes 3rd Reading
Challenging the authoritarian thinking behind the ID scheme was always going to be much tougher than defeating ID cards. Repealing the Identity Cards Act is essential, but has not killed the database state. We are still seeing ‘new’ bureaucratic project that simply re-package the same mass-surveillance concepts. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 20 September 2010 (16/10): European Parlianment Resolution passed by 337 votes to 245 calling on France to ‘immediately suspend all expulsions of Roma’, saying that they ‘amounted to discrimination’
Home page: www.statewatch.org/ e-mail: office@statewatch.org In 2010 an average of 432,649 pdf documents have been downloaded each month (January-August) from the Statewatch website: Researchers, NGOs, activist groups, lawyers, academics, students (completed dissertations), journalists – if you would like to get wider distribution for your work (articles, features, reports, studies) on civil liberties and justice and… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 