Archive for the 'COINTELPRO' Category
Air Force Wants to Track You Forever With a Single Camera Click
May 19th, 2011Via: Wired: Don’t bother with the iris scanner or the fingerprinting machine. Leave the satellite-enabled locators and tell-tale scents back on the base, military manhunters. If an Air Force plan works out as planned, all you’ll need to track your prey is a single camera, snapping a few seconds of footage from far, far away. […]
Not The Onion: Blackwater Alumni Start Corporate Intelligence Firm Called Operation Jellyfish
May 15th, 2011I’m standing by to hear that this is a hoax. (Please, tell me this is a hoax.) Until then, why not put these slimy, primitive tentacles to use for all of your corporate intelligence needs? I think that Operation Cthulhu would have been better.Cthulhu Awakening Front Via: Wired: Veterans from the most infamous private security […]
FBI Hijacks ‘Coreflood’ Botnet
April 17th, 2011Alternate headline: FBI Obtains Distributed Denial of Service Capability for Free. Interestingly, in other recent news, the government is stepping up propaganda efforts on the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace scheme, which is ‘voluntary‘, of course… Translation: They want you to use NSTIC. They want you to want to use it. There are […]
Police Increasingly Peeping at E-Mail, Instant Messages
April 14th, 2011This article ignores the existence of the NSA’s large scale, warrantless intercept program that’s running inside the U.S. Via: MacWorld: Law enforcement organizations are making tens of thousands of requests for private electronic information from companies such as Sprint, Facebook and AOL, but few detailed statistics are available, according to a privacy researcher. Police and […]
The Sock Puppet Industrial Complex: U.S. Trains ‘Activists’ to Evade Security Forces
April 11th, 2011If any component of this is noteworthy, it’s the scale. The core of this is as old as the hills. Many of the TwitFace kids today haven’t even heard of the The Mighty Wurlitzer, but every crop of kids that fascists harvest are generally ignorant of who they’re actually serving, and there’s a fresh crop […]
Social Computing Data Repository
March 24th, 2011Via: Arizona State University: Social Computing Data Repository hosts data from a collection of many different social media sites, most of which have blogging capacity. Some of the prominent social media sites included in this repository are BlogCatalog, Twitter, MyBlogLog, Digg, StumbleUpon, del.icio.us, MySpace, LiveJournal, The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW), Reddit, etc. The repository contains […]
FBI Tries to Blackmail Honorably Discharged Marine Into Becoming an Informant Because He Emailed a Muslim Cleric for Advice on Raising Children
March 22nd, 2011Man oh man. I think we need to let the mighty eagle soar once more for this one: Via: Chicago Sun Times: Abe Mashal, a 31-year-old dog trainer from St. Charles, says FBI agents told him he ended up on the government’s no-fly list because he exchanged e-mails with a Muslim cleric they were monitoring. […]
Second ATF Agent Talks About Sanctioned Gun Trafficking to Mexican Drug Cartels
March 22nd, 2011Via: CBS: South of El Paso, Texas, on Mexico’s side of the border, lies Juarez – the most dangerous city in the world. CBS News investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson reports ATF Special Agent Rene Jaquez has been stationed there for the past year, trying to keep U.S. guns from being trafficked into Mexico. “That’s what […]
Attempts to Replace Confetti Currency Federal Reserve Notes with Precious Metals Are, ‘A Unique Form of Domestic Terrorism’
March 20th, 2011The source for all the quotes in this post is a U.S. Department of Justice Press Release that appears on the web site of the Charlotte field office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. http://charlotte.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel11/ce031811.htm I didn’t link directly to this because my guess is that you wouldn’t be doing yourself any favors by clicking […]
ATF Memo On Operation That Allowed Weapons Shipments To Mexican Drug Cartels: Fortunately, Coverage By Mainstream Media, “Seems To Have Fizzled”
March 6th, 2011Via: CBS News: As CBS News investigates “gun walking” allegations — that ATF let thousands assault rifles and other weapons get into the hands of criminal suspects — ATF bosses have remained largely silent. We’ve had ongoing requests for information and on camera interviews with both ATF and the Department of Justice since prior to […]
