The Impotence of Big Brother

Remember this when the NSA stammers out excuses as per why they need to monitor our phones and web activity:

The War On Terror Is Over. America Lost.

Official: Boston bombing suspect suffered a throat injury, may not be able to talk....

Official: Boston bombing suspect suffered a throat injury, may not be able to talk....

Jeeze, go figure. 

"The government has invoked the public safety exception, a designation that allows investigators to question the teen without reading him his Miranda rights and without a lawyer present"

Stripped of his rights AND given a severe throat injury to be sure he can't speak.

Sheesh, cover all the bases much?

http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/20/us/boston-attack/index.html

Their Way Around That Pesky 4th Amendment

The former CIA Director, Michael Hayden is proposing "what many others federal officials are hopeful for," a separate internet that is not privacy protected under the beloved fourth amendment.

In other words, a separate internet for banking, health related, military, etc - where any government (a.k.a. corporate) bureaucracies have free legal reign to search and seize any or all of your info to use as they see fit.

According to these goons, it is after all, that pesky fourth amendment that is making our present day internet so vulnerable to (make believe)"cyber attacks."

Read the original propaganda here: Former CIA Director: Build a new Internet to improve cybersecurity (notice in the article how folks who value privacy are being called "hobbits.")
(Link: http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20110706_1137.php)

This "4th Amendment Free" internet will start off with financial, transportation and communications infrastructure as indicated in this article, but this will of course be the beginning of the end. Slowly over time we will see more an more sites become 4th Amendment free in the name of cyber-security. This direct attack against privacy is being played very carefully and remember civil liberties erode slowly and legally over time.

NOTHING should fall outside the 4th Amendment- keep a vigilant eye on this one....

Somebody's Watching You

There was an interesting story published in the New York Times by Steve Lohr in the New York Times called, Computers That See You and Keep Watch Over You

Here are some of the more interesting quotes from it:

• A computer-vision system can analyze a woman’s expressions as she watches a movie trailer or shops online, and help marketers tailor their offerings accordingly. Computer vision can also be used at shopping malls, schoolyards, subway platforms, office complexes and stadiums.

• Google has also introduced an application called Goggles, which allows people to take a picture with a smartphone and search the Internet for matching images. The company’s executives decided to exclude a facial-recognition feature, which they feared might be used to find personal information on people who did not know that they were being photographed.

• “It’s a world where technology more fundamentally understands you, so you don’t have to understand it,” said Alex Kipman, an engineer on the team that designed Kinect.

• The two women are the co-founders of Affectiva, a company in Waltham, Mass., that is beginning to market its facial-expression analysis software to manufacturers of consumer products, retailers, marketers and movie studios. Its mission is to mine consumers’ emotional responses to improve the designs and marketing campaigns of products.

• John Ross, chief executive of Shopper Sciences, a marketing research company that is part of the Interpublic Group, said Affectiva’s technology promises to give marketers an impartial reading of the sequence of emotions that leads to a purchase, in a way that focus groups and customer surveys cannot. “You can see and analyze how people are reacting in real time, not what they are saying later, when they are often trying to be polite,” he said. The technology, he added, is more scientific and less costly than having humans look at store surveillance videos, which some retailers do.

• At work or school, the technology opens the door to a computerized supervisor that is always watching. Are you paying attention, goofing off or daydreaming? In stores and shopping malls, smart surveillance could bring behavioral tracking into the physical world.

Read the whole article here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/02/science/02see.html?_r=1goglle

The Last American in Government

Goodbye 2010. Hello 1984.

Anyone not caught up on their dystopian literature needn't bother trying. Instead, just pick up a current newspaper or open any technological news source on line where you'll be bombarded with real-life evidence that the most outrageous dystopia ever written about is the one we current live in.

Austin Carr of Fast Company wrote an interesting and disturbing piece today titled: Iris Scanners Create the Most Secure City in the World, Welcome Big Brother






What baffles me is how guy's like Carter discount concerns about the nightmarish future that products and the philosophies that introduce products like this bring to our world. It seems that in spite of knowing the negative impacts that will undoubtedly come of these scanners, development persists. Instead of asking themselves, how will this product harm mankind they seemingly ask, How can WE be the FIRST to get this to market?

This is a man with no moral conscious whatsoever. How else can you explain the quote,"When you get masses of people opting-in, opting out does not help. Opting out actually puts more of a flag on you than just being part of the system. We believe everyone will opt-in."

The Secret Police of Corporate Emerica

"Top Secret America" Washington Post Investigation Reveals Massive, Unmanageable, Outsourced US Intelligence System

Among the findings: An estimated 854,000 people hold top-secret security clearances. More than 1,200 government organizations and nearly 2,000 private companies work on programs related to counterterrorism, homeland security and intelligence in 10,000 locations.

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/19/top_secret_america__washington_post



Read Washington's Covered Response here:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/2010/07/washington_reacts_to_top_secre.html

Police Murder Children on Tape and Still Walk Free

Family of Slain 7-Year-Old Aiyana Jones Files Lawsuit Against Detroit Police

OFFICER JOSEPH WEEKLEY of the Detroit Police Department is murderer and human scum of the worst kind. He should be prosecuted and sent to jail for the heinous killing of an innocent 7 year old girl. Instead, this child-killing scumbag was demoted temporarily to a desk job within the Detroit Police Department.

REMINDER:

They're coming for you and yours soon. You're not doing enough to stop these things from happening.

Be Tasered from 30 Yards Away

New Weapon Made in Scottsdale Lets Cops Taser You With a Shotgun

Land of the Free?

If the American Gestapo stops you for an impromptu interrogation - here's what happens if you still believe you have rights...

One Step Closer to Removing Religion

Remember what the Guidestones say, "Rule passion - faith - tradition - and all things with tempered reason."

The New Order will seek to disassemble all of the traditional major religions and skew mankind's beliefs so that no entity is above government in the hearts of men.

In the EU, where the NWO was born - Belgium is on the forefront of this deconstructive process as according to Time Magazine. Judging by the comments on this article, Islam is target number one.

Belgium Moves Closer to Europe's First Burqa Ban
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/08599197735000

Every Step You Take - Every Word You Say

A couple of very intriguing Op-Eds were published today regarding the Fourth Amendment and your privacy related to your cell phone.

Be sure to stay-tuned and watch closely how this all plays out. As the ACLU states, "This is the first time a federal appellate court has heard arguments on the legality of the data-collecting methods. It’s about protecting innocent people from unjustified violations of their privacy."

The government is arguing that based on precedents from the 1970s, any record held by a third party about us, no matter how invasively collected, is not protected by the Fourth Amendment.

Bill to Kill Habeas Corpus in the United States

I heard on NPR about a debate going on regarding suspects being held for alleged affiliation with the 911 hijackings. NPR was discussing the "threat" of having these suspects come to trial in NYC and the "emotional harm" it would have on the citizens of NYC. It also had a brief discussion with Bloomberg stating that hosting "these trials not only put New Yorkers in grave danger, but also would cost the city a huge sum of money in extra security costs."

NPR then cut to some brief sound clips of New Yorkers being stopped in the street and asked how they felt. ALL of the clips were of people suggesting that the military hold the trials in a secured location off-shore somewhere. Of course NOBODY expressed the dangers this kind of president will have on the future of Habeas Corpus as we know it!

Read this transcript from "Your World With Neil Cavuto," February 2, 2010 show:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,584706,00.html

Pay attention to quotes like, "you are going to give Khalid Sheikh Mohammed four years of a platform to spew hate. And, keep in mind, he beheaded Daniel Pearl and was the mastermind — and he has already acknowledged both — was the mastermind of resulting in killing almost 3,000 people on 9/11."

So much for innocent until proven guilty! And we should deny a civilian trial on the grounds that the defendant will "spew hate" and say things we might not like? In essence this bill directly attacks habeas corpus AND free speech!

Apparently, in defense of attacks against our "freedom," the government continually "suspends" those very liberties that make us "free."

Keeping in mind the information I posted in yesterday's entry, things are getting darker for Liberty as we know it here in The United States...

Intelligence Chief Says U.S. Can Take Out American Terrorists

Read this Direct Re-Post from ABC News story by Jason Ryan
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/license-kill-intelligence-chief-us-american-terrorist/story?id=9740491

The director of national intelligence affirmed rather bluntly today that the U.S. intelligence community has authority to target American citizens for assassination if they present a direct terrorist threat to the United States.

"We take direct actions against terrorists in the intelligence community; if … we think that direct action will involve killing an American, we get specific permission to do that," Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair told the House Intelligence Committee.

Rep. Peter Hoekstra D-Mich., addressed the issue at today's hearing.

"The targeting of Americans -- it's a very sensitive issue, but again there's been more information in the public domain than what has been shared with this committee," he said.

"There is no clarity." Hoekstra said. "What is the legal framework?"

"Whether that American is involved in a group that is trying to attack us, whether that American has -- is a threat to other Americans. Those are the factors involved." Blair explained. "We don't target people for free speech. We target them for taking action that threatens Americans."

According to U.S. officials, only a handful of Americans would be eligible for targeting by U.S. intelligence or military operations. The legal guidance is determined by the National Security Council and the Justice Department.

In the past, the U.S. has killed Americans overseas but they were viewed as "collateral damage." In 2002, the CIA killed American-born Kamal Derwish, a member of the "Lackawanna 6" terror group during a CIA Predator drone strike. Derwish was driving in a car with other members of al Qaeda, the government said.

In 2008, a missile strike in Somalia killed American Ruben Shumpert, a Seattle man suspected of being an Islamist radical. Shumpert was wanted by federal authorities on gun and counterfeit currency charges. He had agreed to plead guilty but fled the country days before sentencing in 2004.

The Yemeni-American cleric Anwar al Awlaki, who has become a prominent influence with al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, was at a meeting with leaders of the terror group when U.S. officials knowingly launched a cruise missile strike to eliminate the terror leaders. Several people were killed but Awlaki survived.
The disclosure about detailed guidance to target Americans as part of terror plots comes amid fresh warnings about increased threats and concerns about new al Qaeda attacks.

"We have been warning in the past several years that al Qaeda itself and its associated affiliates and al Qaeda-inspired terrorists remain committed to striking the United States," Blair said today, "and in the past year we have some names that goes behind these warnings."

Blair cited the cases of Colorado terrorism suspect Najibullah Zazi, the accused Christmas Day bomber Farouk Abdulmutallab and Major Nidal Hasan, who was charged in the November 2009 Fort Hood shooting that killed 13 people.

"We have made complex, multi-team attacks very difficult for al Qaeda to pull off, but as we saw with the recent rash of attacks last year…identifying individual terrorists, small groups with short histories using simple attack methods, is a much more difficult task," Blair said.

Blair added that radicalization and recruitment foments suicide bombers. "Al Qaeda's radical ideology seems to appeal strongly to a group of disaffected young Muslims, and this is a pool of potential suicide bombers and this pool unfortunately includes Americans," Blair said.

The DNI said that Internet and social media sites have become critical to terrorism recruitment efforts. Speaking about the Hasan case and his alleged Internet communications with al Awlaki, Blair said, "The homegrown radicalization of people in the United States…is a relatively new thing."

Blair said U.S. intelligence was rapidly working to counter the emerging problem. "There are some technical things, which are making it more difficult, with the use of social networking as opposed to simply looking at a Web site and responding by e-mail."

Blair said this is "a threat, which may be increasing. We're taking it more and more seriously and this is a -- this is something that is very -- is potentially very dangerous to us because of all of the -- for all of the reasons of the rights that American citizens have.

"We may be shooting behind the rabbit here and it's moving faster than we thought and we're spending a lot of additional effort on that, to try and understand it." Blair said.

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I really liked how they make it a point to discuss the "threats" that the internet cause our security in that article and how Blair says the rights we have as americans are a political obstacle to controlling that threat...

These cases that this article speaks of - are the direct way to further fascist infiltration into legislation.

Further U.N. Attacks on Your Free Use of the Internet

Let's face it - this is the information age, and all ages must come to an end eventually. Especially if FREE and UNLIMITED information, opinion, speculation, and whistle-blowing are involved!

More and more attempts by the NWO are popping up in the media. Watch this unravel very carefully, especially when upper level globalization thugs like the U.N. start tightening the iron glove.

Here's a recent finding proposing a "driver's license" for internet users! A World I.D. Card perhaps?
UN Agency Calls for Global Cyberwarfare Treaty
http://rawstory.com/2010/01/agency-calls-global-cyberwarfare-treaty-drivers-license-web-users/

My favorite quote from this is, "We need a kind of World Health Organization for the Internet." FANTASTIC, considering the W.H.O. created the Swine Flue pandemic and over-exaggerated it's danger to sell deadly vaccines!

I also enjoyed the line by the Kudelski salesman that said, a new internet might have to be created forcing people to have two computers that cannot connect and pass on viruses. "One internet for secure operations and one internet for freedom."

Maybe the U.N. should just be shut down so countries can regain some sense of sovereignty and individuals can live free of threats to their liberty? How about that instead?

classic...

Taxi to the Dark Side

Through The Tele-Screens

"Terrorism and Child Pornography Used to Justify Surveillance Society"


It's just as Orwell said:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/7054432/Terrorism-and-child-pornography-used-to-justify-surveillance-society-says-academic.html

DO WHAT'S RIGHT MASSACHUSETTS

If you're a Massachusetts resident, be sure to get out and vote for your Senator. All this talk and desire for change is only talk. Unless you are participating you are part of the problem.

And oh yeah - contrary to mainstream media's portrayal of the campaign, there are more than two people running...

From what I see so far, there is a healthier alternative in the campaign, potentially bringing a welcomed perspective through his common sense approach. I found a refreshing outlook worth voting for.

Do what you can to remind all eligible Massachusetts voters that these alternatives do exist and that this election doesn't have to end humdrum and drab. Encourage a vote that will help initiate some real change for once.