Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
Eye Scans, Fingerprints to Control NZ Borders
July 29th, 2008Mmm hmm. See: US, UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand Building Biometric Database. Via: Stuff: Border control staff will be able to use iris scans and finger printing to check passengers’ identities under major changes to New Zealand immigration rules. Despite criticism from Amnesty International at the level of secrecy permitted, the changes look set […]
America’s Army: Free Video Game, Social Engineering Tool, Surveillance Platform
July 27th, 2008This video game is nothing less than an automaton that shapes and then harvests teenage minds so that the U.S. Army can repurpose their bodies years later. I’ve looked at a lot of evil in my days, but this is palpable, murmuring, inky black evil; complete with automated meme delivery and driving, metrics, surveillance. Out […]
Radovan Karadzic’s Careless Phone Call
July 27th, 2008Via: Telegraph: THE breakthrough in the hunt for Karadzic came last month from a single telephone call. A Serbian security source said that the call, from Karadzic’s mobile phone, was his “fatal error”. For years, Serbian and international security services, including Britain’s GCHQ eavesdropping centre, had tapped the telephones of his family, relatives and friends […]
Exposing Bush’s Historic Abuse of Power
July 23rd, 2008Please see my heavily referenced post on MAIN CORE for more “current history” on this matter. The full text of this Salon piece follows. Via: Salon: Exposing Bush’s historic abuse of power Salon has uncovered new evidence of post-9/11 spying on Americans. Obtained documents point to a potential investigation of the White House that could […]
Maryland Police Infiltrated Activist Groups, Turned Over Information to Feds, Listed Citizens in Database as Committing Anti-War and Anti-Government Terrorism
July 20th, 2008Most of what is commonly referred to as “political activism” is viewed by the corporate state’s counterinsurgency apparatus as a useful and necessary component of political control. Political activism amounts to an utterly useless waste of time, in terms of tangible power, which is all the American Corporate State understands. Political activism is a cruel […]
ALL ITALIANS TO BE FINGERPRINTED
July 16th, 2008Via: Reuters: Italy may demand all its citizens be fingerprinted, a move aimed at defusing widespread criticism of government plans to force Roma people and their children to provide fingerprints as a way of tackling criminality. That policy has been condemned by the European Parliament, by Romania, where many Roma come from, and by religious […]
Terrorist Watch List Hits One Million Names
July 16th, 2008Via: ACLU: The nation’s terrorist watch list has hit one million names, according to a tally maintained by the American Civil Liberties Union based upon the government’s own reported numbers for the size of the list. “Members of Congress, nuns, war heroes and other ‘suspicious characters,’ with names like Robert Johnson and Gary Smith, have […]
U.S. Defends Laptop Searches at the Border
July 12th, 2008I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve posted about this situation. I can’t seem to get over how fully nutso fascist this is. I wonder what happens if they find that you’re using encrypted volumes, etc.? Via: Christian Science Monitor: Is a laptop searchable in the same way as a piece of luggage? The […]
Senate Approves Telecom Amnesty, Expands Domestic Spying Powers
July 10th, 2008The Obama cultists find the Kool-Aid to have a bitter aftertaste. McCain still doesn’t know which planet he’s on. The U.S. Ship of Fools sails on. Via: Wired: The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly voted Wednesday to grant retroactive amnesty to the telecoms that aided the President Bush’s five-year secret, warrantless wiretapping of Americans, and to expand […]
U.S. Army Contract for “Internet Awareness Services”
July 10th, 2008Via: Federal Business Opportunities: STATEMENT OF WORK The contractor shall conduct internet awareness services in support of the Governments activities to include Indications and Warning, Force Protection, and situational awareness. The purpose of the services will be to identify and assess stated and implied threat, antipathy, unrest, and other contextual data relating to selected internet […]
