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Undermining the American People’s Right to Privacy: The Secret State’s Surveillance Machine By Tom Burghardt
Hoping to forestall public suspicions of how things actually work in Washington, the administration has declared that “it will continue to block the release of additional documents, including communications within the Executive Branch and records reflecting the identities of telecoms involved in lobbying for immunity,” according to EFF’s Senior Staff Attorney Kurt Opsahl. Continue reading
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Mind Your Tweets: The CIA Social Networking Surveillance System By Tom Burghardt
That social networking sites and applications such as Facebook, Twitter and their competitors can facilitate communication and information sharing amongst diverse groups and individuals is by now a cliché. It should come as no surprise then, that the secret state and the capitalist grifters whom they serve, have zeroed-in on the explosive growth of these… Continue reading
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Big Brother “Fusion Centers” Part of US Domestic Intelligence and Surveillance Apparatus By Tom Burghardtf
Speaking at San Francisco’s Commonwealth Club September 15, Director of National Intelligence Admiral Dennis C. Blair, disclosed that the current annual budget for the 16 agency U.S. “Intelligence Community” (IC) clocks-in at $75 billion and employs some 200,000 operatives world-wide, including private contractors. In unveiling an unclassi?ed version of the National Intelligence Strategy (NIS), Blair… Continue reading
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ID Cards – a World View – by Nathan Allonby
Electronic ID cards have made alarming progress towards becoming universal, around the world. Already, over 2.2 billion people, or 33% of the world’s population, have been issued with ‘smart’ ID cards. Of those, over 900 million have biometric facial and fingerprint systems. On present plans, over 85% of the world’s population will have smart ID… Continue reading
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Global Research: Wealth Inequality and the New World Order Selected Articles 11-14 August
14 August, 2009 — Global Research Study: Global warming bill could cost 2.4 million jobs, $1,250 per household – by Mike Sunnucks – 2009-08-14 Troop rise in Afghanistan still option for US: Gates – 2009-08-14 Ex-ISI Chief Says Purpose of New Afghan Intelligence Agency RAMA Is ‘to destabilize Pakistan’ – by Jeremy R. Hammond –… Continue reading
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Video: Liberty – Protecting Civil Liberties Promoting Human Rights: Where do they go?
Over the last few years the Government has mislaid a staggering amount of our personal information. In this clever short film, Liberty asks whether they can be trusted with even more data. Narrated by Liberty supporter Simon Callow and made voluntarily for Liberty by professional film-maker Will MacNeil, with post-production by Unit, the film underlines… Continue reading
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Internet Threatened By Censorship, Secret Surveillance, And Cybersecurity Laws By Stephen Lendman
Net Neutrality must be defended at all costs. Preserving a viable, independent, free and open Internet (and the media overall) is essential to a functioning democracy, but the forces aligned against it are formidable, daunting, relentless, and reprehensible. Some past challenges suggest future ones ahead. Continue reading
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Investigative journalism under threat from new regulations By Charles Arthur
Worries focus on the fact that every government department, local council and even quango can access this telephone and internet data, given a judge’s clearance. What will they use it for? Continue reading
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UK Revealed: police databank on thousands of protesters Paul Lewis and Marc Vallée
Films and details of campaigners and journalists may breach Human Rights Act http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.2187361 Shocking footage shot by police, accompanied by their own critical commentary, shows how their officers monitored campaigners and the media – and demanded personal information – at last August’s climate camp demonstration in Kent Continue reading
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Police State: Liberty groups unite to defend UK rights
The government and the courts are collaborating in slicing away freedoms and pushing Britain to the brink of becoming a ‘database’ police state, a series of sold-out conferences in eight British cities heard yesterday. Continue reading
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Tom Burghardt: Preemptive Policing & the National Security State: Repressing Dissent at the Republican National Convention
19 November 19, 2008 Global Research Antifascist Calling… With “preemptive policing” all the rage in Washington, the whistleblowing website Wikileaks has done it again, exposing how repressive trends in the U.S. had real world consequences for democracy during September’s Republican National Convention (RNC) in St. Paul, Minnesota. On November 15, the global whistleblowers published a… Continue reading
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Christopher Parsons: Britain’s Digital Surveillance: Hiding from Her Majesty’s ‘Black Boxes’
I want to address that deficiency, calling attention to the Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technologies that will presumably be responsible for examining, categorizing, and heuristically evaluating the data flowing across British ISPs’ networks. Continue reading
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THE ALTERNATIVE CONSULTATION ON EU JUSTICE AND HOME AFFAIRS POLICY
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UK plans to use internet ‘black boxes’ to monitor emails
Home Office officials have told senior figures from the internet and telecommunications industries that black box technology could automatically store raw data before transferring it to a giant government-controlled database, according to the Independent. 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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The Corporate Security State: RFID Chip in Passport and Driver’s License
Since the late 1990s, corporate grifters have touted the ‘benefits’ of the devilish transmitters as a ‘convenient’ and ‘cheap’ way to tag individual commodities, one that would ‘revolutionize’ inventory management and theft prevention. Indeed, everything from paper towels to shoes, pets to underwear have been ‘tagged’ with the chips. ‘Savings’ would be ‘passed on’ to… Continue reading
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The State under siege or is it the people? By William Bowles
Not since the 1920s has the capitalist state been so threatened but ironically not by revolution but by its own complete lack of creditability. On every front its actions are being questioned as never before, whether its actions in far-off lands or its domestic policies. Continue reading
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Why I’m still a lefty or the rake’s progress by William Bowles
I’ve come to the conclusion that the UK exists in some kind of parallel universe, outside of normal space and time. A medieval bubble of a place, where ‘tradition’ has replace reason, where animals engender more concern than people. A place where mediocrity rules and which appears to be hurtling back into the past at… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 