Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
British Government Plans to Train 60,000 Workers to Look Out for Potential Terror Attacks
March 25th, 2009Statue of workers and Police officer in front of the Stasi archives, Mitte district, Berlin. Via: Guardian: “Today, not only the police and security and intelligence officers and our armed forces, but also the emergency services, local councils, businesses and community groups are involved in state-of-the-art civil contingency planning,” Brown said. “Tens of thousands of […]
Obama Administration: Constitution Does Not Protect Cell-Site Records
March 19th, 2009In my case, there’s no way the programs I want to talk to Congress about should be public ever, unless maybe in 200 years they want to declassify them. You should never learn about it; no one at the Times should ever learn about these things. —Russell Tice, Former NSA SIGINT Officer All of these […]
Pentagon Dirigible Would Stay Aloft for Ten Years; Constantly Monitor Activity on the Ground
March 13th, 2009Don’t miss the part about the energy source. You’ll love this: The dirigible will be filled with helium and powered by an innovative system that uses solar panels to recharge hydrogen fuel cells. Military officials said those underlying technologies — plus a very lightweight hull — were critical to making the project work. “The things […]
Secret State Police Report: Ron Paul, Bob Barr, Chuck Baldwin, Libertarians are Terrorists
March 13th, 2009Via: Prison Planet: Alex Jones has received a secret report distributed by the Missouri Information Analysis Center (MIAC) entitled “The Modern Militia Movement” and dated February 20, 2009. A footer on the document indicates it is “unclassified” but “law enforcement sensitive,” in other words not for public consumption. A copy of the report was sent […]
Frightening Google Stories Du Jour
March 12th, 2009First up, Google is going to start using behavioral targeting technology to serve ads: Google has long resisted the emerging but controversial method of showing ads to Web surfers based on the kinds of sites they’ve previously visited. The company appears to have gotten over its reservations. On Mar. 11, Google said it will begin […]
Terrorist Watch List Hits 1 Million
March 11th, 2009You want growth? We got growth. Via: USA Today: The government’s terrorist watch list has hit 1 million entries, up 32% since 2007. Federal data show the rise comes despite the removal of 33,000 entries last year by the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Center in an effort to purge the list of outdated information and remove […]
Northern Ireland Murders
March 10th, 2009Elements of the Republican movement have been playing a larger role in the government than at any point since the establishment of British rule in Northern Ireland. I could be wrong here, but it seems like someone doesn’t want that to continue. In addition to the two British Army soldiers that were killed, a police […]
Change We Can Believe In: How About the End of Farmers Markets? Say Hello to H.R. 875: Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009
March 9th, 2009Update: The Husband of the Bill’s Sponsor Does Work for Monsanto Reader CW tipped me off to this. It checks out. Rosa DeLauro is married to Stanley B. Greenberg. Here’s a bio on Greenberg: Stanley B. Greenberg is Chairman and CEO of Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research. He has served as polling advisor to President Bill […]
UK: Why Are We Fingerprinting Children?
March 8th, 2009Via: Guardian: As voters express concern about surveillance technology, is it becoming second nature to the Facebook generation – used to publishing intimate details of their private lives on the worldwide web – who, in later life, may be less vociferous in their opposition to such schemes? An increasing number of today’s schoolchildren are forgoing […]
UK: Police Building Photo and Video Database of Protesters, Journalists
March 8th, 2009Via: Guardian: Police are targeting thousands of political campaigners in surveillance operations and storing their details on a database for at least seven years, an investigation by the Guardian can reveal. Photographs, names and video footage of people attending protests are routinely obtained by surveillance units and stored on an “intelligence system”. The Metropolitan police, […]
