Archive for the ‘Surveillance State’ Category

Director of DARPA departs Pentagon for Google, further reinforcing government ties Source: End The Lie Regina Dugan, the director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), will be leaving the Pentagon’s mad scientist research agency for the corporate Big Brother known as Google. Dugan has only been at DARPA for less than three years and [...]

Source: Activist Post The Feds have been forced to release their social network monitoring manual, which contains the list of words the government watches on social media and news sites. Earlier the Huffington Post reported on the Feds have been forced to give up their list of words they monitor on Facebook, Twitter, and comments [...]

Source: Activist Post By: Paul Craig Roberts Washington’s Insouciance Has No Rival Is Obama a hypocrite or merely insouciant? Or is he an idiot? According to news reports Obama’s White House meeting on Valentine’s day with China’s Vice President, Xi Jinping, provided an opportunity for Obama to raise “a sensitive human rights issue with the [...]

How 60 Minutes Blew the Story Source:  CounterPunch By:  Pam Martens On September 25, 2011, just eight days after the Occupy Wall Street protests began in Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan, the much acclaimed CBS News program, 60 Minutes, aired a fawning look at the thousands of surveillance cameras affixed to buildings and lampposts throughout [...]

Source: Washington Times By: Shaun Waterman Obama Will Approve FAA Reauthorization Act; Clear Path for 30,000 Drones Over US by 2020 Look! Up in the sky! Is it a bird? Is it a plane? It’s … a drone, and it’s watching you. That’s what privacy advocates fear from a bill Congresspassed this week to make it [...]

Homeland Security Wants to Spy on 4 Square Miles at Once   Source: Danger Room By:  Spencer Akerman It’s not just for the Afghanistan and Iraq wars anymore. The Department of Homeland Security is interested in a camera package that can peek in on almost four square miles of (constitutionally protected) American territory for long, [...]

Source: End the Lie By: Madison Ruppert Today Google announced they will be making a change to their privacy policy, one which you cannot opt-out of. This change allows them to store and link data across their many web services in order to create a complete picture of what you’re doing online. If you’re using an [...]

By: Brandon Smith Source:  Alt-Market Only a few days ago I attended a community meeting here in the Flathead Valley of Montana which revolved around the first of a series of gubernatorial debates covered by webcast across the state.  The number of Republican candidates vying in the primaries of this election is a bit absurd, [...]

Source: The Intel Hub The underpinnings that fallaciously attempt to justify despotic regimes rely upon the perverted practice of controlling the public mindset in weak societies. The indisputable evidence that civilization is regressing at lightening speed is all us. Governments are becoming irrelevant with the passage of illegitimate authority consolidating into the hands of oligarchic [...]

Source:  The Intel Hub The Department of Homeland Security has installed over 75 CCTV cameras throughout downtown Indianapolis in preparation for the Super Bowl. A recent article from an Indianapolis ABC News affiliate highlighted these police state measures and, predictably, worshiped them: Homeland Security crews installed 75 cameras that will keep an eye on downtown Indianapolis and [...]