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Ξ December 17th, 2007 | → | ∇ Blog |

I don’t know why others aren’t outraged. Without a doubt, there is a trend torwards national and/or global monitoring. Governments around the world are archtecting and implementing systems to spy on its citizens. For what purpose? They claim
its security, but I have my doubts. The better answer is control. “It turns out that the most efficient delivery system for capitalism is actually a communist-style police state, fortressed with American “homeland security” technologies, pumped up with “war on terror” rhetoric.” - NAOMI KLEIN (China’s All-Seeing Eye) Please read the articles below and draw your own conculsions.

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Internet Censorship is On it’s Way. The i-Patriot Act(8/5/2008) - Lawrence Lessig, a respected Law Professor from Stanford University told an audience at this years Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech conference in Half Moon Bay, California, that “There’s going to be an i-9/11 event” which will act as a catalyst for a radical reworking of the law pertaining to the internet.

UPDATE:
The Propaganda has begun (8/18/2008)
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US Govt. and Fox News violate propaganda laws(7/20/2008) Last week former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan appeared on MSNBC’s “Hardball with Chris Matthews” and said the White House distributed “talking points” to friendly Fox journalists.

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FISA Fight: Attack Of The Epic Failure It’s unbelievable that nearly three years of campaigning, legislating, debating, and shouting from the rooftops on this issue, one of the most important of the time, has had almost no effect. Worse yet, the new law that is about to be passed is the worst possible permutation imaginable–not only does it perform all the aforementioned perfidious tasks of justifying lawbreaking and expanding our surveillance state, it practically removes all oversight from the process and allows the surveillance system to be easily tailored to pick on purely domestic issues, ranging from illegal online gambling to P2P file sharing. (7/10/2008)

FISA = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Act
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The U.S. Senate this afternoon passed the FISA Amendments Act, broadly expanding the president’s warrantless surveillance authority and unconstitutionally granting retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies that participated in the president’s illegal domestic wiretapping program (7/10/2008)
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Congress is attempting to strip US District Chief Judge Vaughn Walker of his power following his ruling against the government regarding immunity for telecoms in the NSA wiretapping case. The only judge that wants to make telecoms pay for not following domestic wiretap laws is being stripped of his powers by congress. It’s clear that the US Govt. wants to let the telecoms off the hook for this one. Never mind the law. (7/7/2008)
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US Intelligence Agencies and Private Corporations begain spreading propaganda under Ronald Regan in the 1980’s. Here is the missing chapter from the Iran Contra Report called Launching the Private Network (7/1/2008)

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Bring Brother on the NY Transit system from Homeland SecurityHomeland security grants for the NYC MTA - posted (7/1/2008)

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Britan extends the time a prisoner can be held without being charged to 42 days. (6/12/2008)

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Sweden proposes wide ranging wiretap billSweden is getting into the act of spying on its own citizens. Sweden is on the verge of passing a far-reaching wiretapping program that would greatly expand the government’s spying capabilities by permitting it to monitor all email and telephone traffic coming in and out of the country. (5/5/2008)

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China extends “Seeing Eye”China has extended its spying on its own citizens. The purpose is to stop public gatherings that can turn political (5/5/2008)

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The FBI acknowledged Wednesday it improperly accessed Americans’ telephone records, credit reports and Internet traffic in 2006, the fourth straight year of privacy abuses resulting from investigations aimed at tracking terrorists and spies. (3/7/2008)

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Workers snooping through private databases(2/25/2008)

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The FBI is gearing up to create a massive computer database of people’s physical characteristics(2/5/2008)

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Telco immunity stalled: Senate blocks key vote (1/29/2008)

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Information is our only security weapon: Bruce Schneier(1/29/2008)

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Homeland Security invades college campuses - Free-speech zones. Taser guns. Hidden cameras. Data mining. A new security curriculum. Private security contractors. Welcome to the homeland security campus. (1/22/2008)

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US developing a Cyber-Security Policy US Tries to get access to All email, file transfers, and web searches without a warent (1/14/2008)

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The right to surveillance - An interesting take on surveillance. Worth the read (1/4/2008)

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Survellance Technology in use today - 12/17/2007

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NSA Backdoor in National Encryption Scheme - 12/17/2007

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NSA Copies all web traffic - 12/17/2007

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US propaganda / misinformation campaign targeted at US citizens regarding Cuba & Gitmo Bay Our govt. is NOT supposed to lie to us- 12/13/2007