by Glenn Greenwald

http://www.cato-unbound.org/2010/08/09/glenn-greenwald/the-digital-surveillance-state-vast-secret-and-dangerous/


From APFN daily update

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The Digital Surveillance State

Take a look at an excellent extended essay about surveillance in the USA, by Glenn Greenwald over at the Cato Institute. It's well worth reading the whole thing - it's a researched and scholarly piece. From the piece, two brief quotes: "There is no surveillance power too intrusive or unaccountable for our political class provided the word 'terrorism' is invoked to 'justify' those powers." And, "The Surveillance State already collects so much information about us, our activities and our communications — so indiscriminately and on such a vast scale — that it is increasingly difficult for it to detect any actual national security threats." Every day, collection systems at the National Security Agency intercept and store 1.7 billion e-mails, phone calls and other types of communications.

Alex Deane, Big Brother Watch

http://www.theoneclickgroup.co.uk/news.php?start=3820&end=3840&view=yes&id=5131#newspost

 

http://mindcontrol.twoday.net/search?q=surveillance
http://mindcontrol.twoday.net/search?q=National+Security+Agency

Establishment Media Pushes Brain Eating Vaccines

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Tuesday, August 3, 2010

The establishment media and the scientific dictatorship are promoting brain-eating vaccines that virtually lobotomize people and rewire their minds into a state of subservient compliance so that their natural instinct to get angry and rebel against the tyranny being imposed upon them is neutered and sterilized.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/establishment-media-pushes-brain-eating-vaccines.html

Marketing Börse (Pressemitteilung)

Das wirtschaftliche und politische Interesse an den Einsatzmöglichkeiten der Funktechnologie RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) wächst seit Jahren ...

http://www.marketing-boerse.de/News/details/Der-transparente-Mensch-%96-Ueber-Fluch-und-Segen-der-Funktechnologie-RFID/23977



http://mindcontrol.twoday.net/search?q=RFID

Shadowy Spy Group Building Dossiers On Internet Users For Feds


Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Monday, August 2, 2010

An organization that tracks 250 million IP addresses a day has been developing portfolios on Internet users and handing the information to U.S. federal agencies as the latest incarnation of the supposedly defunct Total Information Awareness spy program is revealed.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/shadowy-spy-group-building-dossiers-on-internet-users-for-feds.html

 

http://mindcontrol.twoday.net/search?q=Total+Information+Awareness
http://mindcontrol.twoday.net/search?q=spying

The American Conservative
by Kelley B. Vlahos

07/29/10

Obama seems driven to break every campaign promise he ever made and become the biggest Big Brother of them all. After flipping the script on Patriot Act reformists last year when he supported the extension of unconstitutional law enforcement provisions he once criticized, now he wants to broaden the amount of information the FBI can access without warrant for so-called counter-terror investigations …

http://tinyurl.com/2cmbr62



Surveillance: Big Brother wants more

Downsize DC
by Jim Babka

08/05/10

In the name of ‘fighting terrorism,’ President Obama wants to give the FBI more powers to monitor Internet activities without a judge’s approval. You may think this wouldn’t apply to you because you’re not a terrorist. You would be wrong...

http://www.downsizedc.org/blog/surveillance-big-brother-wants-more


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://mindcontrol.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://mindcontrol.twoday.net/search?q=Patriot+Act
http://mindcontrol.twoday.net/search?q=Federal+Bureau+of+Investigation
http://mindcontrol.twoday.net/search?q=surveillance
http://mindcontrol.twoday.net/search?q=law+enforcement
http://mindcontrol.twoday.net/search?q=terror

Wired
by Noah Shachtman

07/29/10

The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time — and says it uses that information to predict the future. The company is called Recorded Future, and it scours tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to find the relationships between people, organizations, actions and incidents — both present and still-to-come. In a white paper, the company says its temporal analytics engine ‘goes beyond search’ by ‘looking at the ‘invisible links’ between documents that talk about the same, or related, entities and events’...

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/07/exclusive-google-cia/



http://mindcontrol.twoday.net/search?q=Central+Intelligence+Agency

Video

"Could a media system, controlled by a few global corporations with the ability to overwhelm all competing voices, be able to turn lies into truth?..."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13062.htm

WendyMcElroy.Com
by Wendy McElroy

07/28/10

What is a fusion center? The answer depends on your perspective. If you work for the Department of Homeland Security, it is a federal, state, local, or regional data-coordination units, designed to improve the sharing of anti-terrorism and anti-crime data in order to make America safer. If you are privacy or civil-rights advocate, it is part of a powerful new domestic surveillance infrastructure that combines data from both the public and private sectors to track innocent people and so makes Americans less safe from their own government. In that respect, the fusion center is reminiscent of the East German stasi, which used tens of thousands of state police and hundreds of thousands of informers to monitor an estimated one-third of the population. The history of fusion centers provides insight into which answer is correct...

http://www.wendymcelroy.com/news.php?extend.3427


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://mindcontrol.twoday.net/search?q=Homeland+Security
http://mindcontrol.twoday.net/search?q=fusion+center
http://mindcontrol.twoday.net/search?q=surveillance
http://mindcontrol.twoday.net/search?q=stasi

In Frankreich mobilisiert eine Lobby der High-Tech-Industrie, um Zeitgenossen schon ab dem Kindesalter an die Allgegenwart der Kontrolltechnologien zu gewöhnen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/32/32992/1.html