Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
New Video Surveillance System Tags, Tracks and Follows
December 27th, 2011Via: Reuters: Software developed for closed-circuit television systems can identify individuals and track them across entire networks of cameras. Joel Flynn reports. Related: Coming Soon: Retroactive Surveillance on Anyone
The American Fascist Sandwich: Indefinite Detention and Internment Camps
December 27th, 2011Via: Activist Post: It’s time to dispense with semantic subtleties meant to placate and avoid offense. Diplomacy is reserved for those who are worthy. No more time to waste on pandering to, analyzing, intellectualizing or sugar-coating treachery. The State is the enemy of the people. Those responsible for instilling fear, subjugation, humiliation, imprisonment, torture and […]
For Bloggers at Risk: Creating a Contingency Plan
December 24th, 2011Via: Electronic Frontier Foundation: Therefore, all bloggers–whether well-connected or just starting out–should consider creating a plan in the unfortunate event they are detained. That said, there are numerous resources bloggers can use to stay informed when other bloggers in their country are detained, harassed, or surveilled; when their government is monitoring phone conversations or Internet […]
Smoke Screening
December 23rd, 2011Note: This article assumes the absurd, mainstream dogma about 9/11. Hold your nose if you click through. Via: Vanity Fair: As you stand in endless lines this holiday season, here’s a comforting thought: all those security measures accomplish nothing, at enormous cost. … As we came by the checkpoint line, Schneier described one of these […]
Local Cops Ready for War With Homeland Security-Funded Military Weapons
December 22nd, 2011Via: Daily Beast: Like Fargo, thousands of other local police departments nationwide have been amassing stockpiles of military-style equipment in the name of homeland security, aided by more than $34 billion in federal grants since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, a Daily Beast investigation conducted by the Center for Investigative Reporting has found. The […]
TSA Screenings Aren’t Just for Airports Anymore
December 21st, 2011Via: Los Angeles Times: The Transportation Security Administration isn’t just in airports anymore. TSA teams are increasingly conducting searches and screenings at train stations, subways, ferry terminals and other mass transit locations around the country. “We are not the Airport Security Administration,” said Ray Dineen, the air marshal in charge of the TSA office in […]
FBI Says Activists Who Investigate Factory Farms Can Be Prosecuted as Terrorists
December 21st, 2011Via: Green Is The New Red: The FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force has kept files on activists who expose animal welfare abuses on factory farms and recommended prosecuting them as terrorists, according to a new document uncovered through the Freedom of Information Act.
Russian Space Agency Bans Employees from Traveling Abroad
December 21st, 2011The past is never dead. It’s not even past. —William Faulkner Coming up next: Consequences for the families of those who leave anyway. Via: AFP: They may be working to reach the final frontier, but employees of Russian space agency Roscosmos face going no further than Russia for their holidays. Roscosmos’ new chief Vladimir Popovkin […]
Gigapixel Photography of Crowds
December 20th, 2011If you thought the one of Obombya’s inauguration was impressive/terrifying, try zooming in on this one. Via: gigapixel.com: The Vancouver Canucks Fan Zone along Georgia St. for Game 7 of the 2011 Stanley Cup Final was captured at 5:46 pm on June 15, 2011. It is made up of 216 photos (12 across by 18 […]
Programmers Win DARPA Prize for Reconstructing Shredded Documents
December 20th, 2011Make sure to keep reading to the end… Via: Bloomberg: To most people, 10,000 slivers of shredded paper are as good as trash. To three coders in San Francisco, they’re a challenge—especially when the jumbled mass of paper once made up five classified government documents. The trio were not hackers trying to steal state secrets, […]
