|
Tuesday November 17th, 2009
|
|
Monday November 16th, 2009
|
Council recruits army of snoopers to spy on Londoners
posted 11/16/2009, 7:58 AM (This is London) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
View from the hill: Harrow is seeking “Neighbourhood Champions” who will report anti-social behaviour using a special website
A London council is recruiting 2,000 residents to report on their neighbours and join a growing network of “citizen snoopers” in the capital.
“Neighbourhood Champions” will be expected to pass on evidence of graffiti, fly-tipping, litter and excessive noise.
They could eventually be trained to report child abuse, domesti... (more) |
|
Thursday November 12th, 2009
|
Police prepare drill for plague at school
posted 11/12/2009, 11:23 PM (Northwest Herald) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian] LAKE IN THE HILLS – Citizens infected with a fictitious pneumonic plague will line up outside Lincoln Prairie Elementary School on Saturday to help test the site as a medication dispensary in case of an emergency.
The Lake in the Hills Police Department is carrying out the test as part of a grant from the McHenry County Department of Health for its emergency health plan. In case of a biological terrorist attack or widespread disease outbreak, the site would be able get medicine t... (more) |
|
Wednesday November 11th, 2009
|
State to 'spy' on every phone call, email and web search
posted 11/11/2009, 5:37 AM (The Telegraph) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian] Every phone call, text message, email and website visit made by private citizens is to be stored for a year and will be available for monitoring by government bodies.
All telecoms companies and internet service providers will be required by law to keep a record of every customer's personal communications, showing who they have contacted, when and where, as well as the websites they have visited.
Despite widespread opposition to the increasing amount of surveillance ... (more) |
Justice Dept. Asked For News Site's Visitor Lists
posted 11/11/2009, 5:37 AM (CBS News) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
In a case that raises questions about online journalism and privacy rights, the U.S. Department of Justice sent a formal request to an independent news site ordering it to provide details of all reader visits on a certain day.
The grand jury subpoena also required the Philadelphia-based Indymedia.us Web site "not to disclose the existence of this request" unless authorized by the Justice Department, a gag order that presents an unusual quandary f... (more) |
|
Tuesday November 10th, 2009
|
Environment boss wants to put carbon tax on driving, heating and holidays
posted 11/10/2009, 6:05 AM (The Daily Mail) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian] Drivers, households and holidaymakers should be hit with a carbon tax to tackle global warming, the head of the Environment Agency will say today.
Lord Smith, the former culture secretary, wants to see personal carbon allowances for individuals to cut greenhouse gases by penalising people for using too much fuel.
Every time someone used their car, took a flight or turned their central heating on, their personal allowance would go down.
Lord Smith, ... (more) |
Everyone in Britain could be given a personal 'carbon allowance'
posted 11/10/2009, 6:05 AM (The Telegraph) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian] Everyone in Britain should have an annual carbon ration and be penalised if they use too much fuel, the head of the Environment Agency will say.
Lord Smith of Finsbury believes that implementing individual carbon allowances for every person will be the most effective way of meeting the targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
It would involve people being issued with a unique number which they would hand over when purchasing products that contribute to thei... (more) Taxed for living. |
|
Thursday November 5th, 2009
|
Olympic protesters are 'terrorists'
posted 11/05/2009, 8:43 PM (VicNews) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian] People who protest the Winter Olympics are nothing more than "terrorists" with "limited intellect," Liberal Burquitlam MLA Harry Bloy said in the legislature Monday.
Bloy's comments come in support of a private member's bill motion by Richmond Centre MLA Rob Howard to welcome the Olympic torch to B.C., and recognize the unprecedented economic opportunity the Winter Olympics and Paralympics will bring.
According to Hansard, Bloy expressed his pride at being Canadian ... (more) |
|
Wednesday November 4th, 2009
|
Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad.
posted 11/04/2009, 4:54 PM (Boingboing) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian] The internet chapter of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secret copyright treaty whose text Obama’s administration refused to disclose due to “national security” concerns, has leaked. It’s bad. It says:
* That ISPs have to proactively police copyright on user-contributed material. This means that it will be impossible to run a service like Flickr or YouTube or Blogger, since hiring enough lawyers to ensure that the mountain of material uploaded every second is ... (more) |
Draft of secret copyright treaty should give you chills
posted 11/04/2009, 4:54 PM (SiliconValley.com) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian] As the latest round of talks on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement goes on in secret (for unspecified national security reasons), some information on the U.S.-written draft of the Internet chapter has begun to leak out, and, as feared, the heavy hand of the entertainment industry is readily apparent and the implications for Internet service providers, consumers and innovation in general are grim. Being rendered near speechless, I’ll let others summarize:
* Jolie O’Dell at... (more) |
ACTA -- A Patriot Act For the Internet
posted 11/04/2009, 4:52 PM (Huffington Post) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian] This week 40 or so countries are meeting in South Korea to consider text for a new international agreement on the enforcement of intellectual property rights. It is called the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). The term "counterfeiting" is designed to demonize the agreement critics as friends of organized crime, much like the name of the Patriot Act seemed better than the "Elimination of Civil Liberties Act." It is really an agreement that addresses a wide range of intellectual pro... (more) |
1,600 are suggested daily for FBI's list
posted 11/04/2009, 4:50 PM (Washington Post) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian] Newly released FBI data offer evidence of the broad scope and complexity of the nation's terrorist watch list, documenting a daily flood of names nominated for inclusion to the controversial list.
During a 12-month period ended in March this year, for example, the U.S. intelligence community suggested on a daily basis that 1,600 people qualified for the list because they presented a "reasonable suspicion," according to data provided to the Senate Judiciary Committee by the FBI in ... (more) |
|
Tuesday November 3rd, 2009
|
'V' aims at Obamamania
posted 11/03/2009, 11:11 PM (Chicago Tribune) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
Imagine this. At a time of political turmoil, a charismatic, telegenic new leader arrives virtually out of nowhere. He offers a message of hope and reconciliation based on compromise and promises to marshal technology for a better future that will include universal health care.
The news media swoons in admiration -- one simpering anchorman even shouts at a reporter who asks a tough question: "Why don't you show some respect?!" The public is likewise smitten, except for a few nut c... (more) InformationLiberation Analysis:
I watched this show on Tivo, it was very sophisticated predictive programming and actually very well made (considering the vast majority of trash propaganda they put out with no effort), Aliens invade and troops are out on the street "protecting" everyone, the Aliens pose as saviors (using world government talking points) but are revealed to be sinister quietly to the main characters, don't worry though some of the Aliens are good and on our side (who could have guessed). It was jam-packed with predictive programming, some of which is detailed in this article. Overall the show had a half-way decent message so I would look for it to turn into some serious propaganda as it continues (they always start off good to suck people in then they twist it all into some world government propaganda). - Chris
Flashback: The Prophet Hologram
... Then there's the prophet hologram - "the projection of the image of an ancient god over an enemy capitol whose public communications have been seized and used against it in a massive psychological operation."
Flashback: Airborne Holographic Projector
"The holographic projector displays a three-dimensional visual image in a desired location, removed from the display generator. The projector can be used for psychological operations and strategic perception management. It is also useful for optical deception and cloaking, providing a momentary distraction when engaging an unsophisticated adversary."
 |
Only 28% of High School Students Familiar With Constitution
posted 11/03/2009, 6:05 PM (News 9) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian] OKLAHOMA CITY -- Only one in four Oklahoma public high school students can name the first President of the United States, according to a survey released today.
The survey was commissioned by the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs in observance of Constitution Day on Thursday.
The Oklahoma City-based group enlisted national research firm, Strategic Vision, to access students' basic civic knowledge.
Brandon Dutcher is with the conservative think tank an... (more) |
|
Monday November 2nd, 2009
|
Using Cash Sign Of Terrorist, According To FBI
posted 11/02/2009, 4:27 AM (Infowars) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian] Are you in the market for a patriotic tattoo, maybe the Gadsden flag? Forget about it. Unless you want the local tattoo artist to inform on you.
The FBI, in league with the Bureau of Justice Assistance (part of the Department of Justice), has launched a program that harks back to East Germany's Stasi.
In Philadelphia, the FBI has instructed tattoo shops to rat out their customers if they demand privacy, insist on paying with cash, engage in "suspicious behavior,... (more) |
|
Sunday November 1st, 2009
|
Ultrasecret NSA Has Conspicuous Role in New Federal Cybersecurity Center
posted 11/01/2009, 6:18 PM (Newsweek) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian] Congress and civil libertarians have always been twitchy about involving the ultrasecretive National Security Agency--masters of electronic spying--more deeply in domestic security matters. Revelations that George W. Bush authorized the NSA (Motto: Never Say Anything) in the wake of 9/11 to expand warrantless electronic eavesdropping on Americans caused heartburn for both intelligence officials and private industry. Dragged into the controversy were phone companies and Internet service providers... (more) |
|
Saturday October 31st, 2009
|
Government considers cutting home internet service during pandemic
posted 10/31/2009, 11:09 PM (Computerworld) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian] The U.S. has a dark box of options for keeping Internet traffic flowing during a pandemic, including restricting the bandwidth capability of home modems.
The feds have already shown their willingness to impose their power on carriers because of national security, something that happened after 9/11 with the Patriot Act. If a pandemic keeps large numbers of the workforce at home and causes network congestion, the U.S. government will likely act again.
Most busines... (more) The government's answer to their crimes and lies being exposed by the internet. - Chris |
|
Friday October 30th, 2009
|
Two Teenagers Nabbed For Spreading Rumour On Flu Vaccination In Seoul
posted 10/30/2009, 3:25 PM (Bernama) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian] Police on Thursday caught two Seoul high school students for spreading false rumors about vaccinations against Influenza A (H1N1) through the Internet and cellphone text messages, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported.
One of the students, a freshman, was accused of uploading groundless rumors about flu vaccination on an Internet web site, claiming all vaccinated people, particular teens, would die, Yonhap cited the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, as saying here.
... (more) |
|
Thursday October 29th, 2009
|
Cops Disguised as Homeless Bust Drivers in Houston
posted 10/29/2009, 3:37 PM (Click2Houston) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian] The Houston Police Department launched a new creative campaign to crack down on dangerous and aggressive drivers, KPRC Local 2 reported Wednesday.
The plan calls for putting plainclothes officers in different locations around the city to spot drivers who are speeding, not wearing seat belts, or changing lanes erratically.
In one tactic, senior Houston Police Officer William Dodson will dress in street clothes and stand at a street corner with a sign in his hand. ... (more) |
New game lets players massacre civilians
posted 10/29/2009, 3:28 PM (Raw Story) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
A new video game allows players to pose as Russian ultranationalist terrorists and massacre civilians with assault weapons in an airport.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is set for release Nov. 10, in time for the American holiday shopping season. Its predecessor sold 14 million copies and earned myriad "game of the year" awards.
But the latest incarnation is drawing fire. The game allows players to pose as terrorists -- and play in first-person view -- engaging in v... (more) |
Obama signs hate crimes bill into law
posted 10/29/2009, 3:28 PM (Politico) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian] President Barack Obama signed expanded hate crimes legislation into law Wednesday, drawing praise from his attorney general and a tearful response from Judy Shepard, the mother of Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old Wyoming college student who was killed in 1998 because he was gay.
“After more than a decade of opposition and delay, we’ve passed inclusive hate crimes legislation to help protect our citizens from violence based on what they look like, who they love, how they pray or who ... (more) |
|
Tuesday October 27th, 2009
|
Homeland Security Could Block Websites During Swine Flu Pandemic
posted 10/27/2009, 11:57 PM (Prison Planet) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian] The government is being encouraged to prepare to block websites and Internet traffic in the event of a worsening swine flu pandemic that results in network congestion, a move that represents a potential end run around the agenda to regulate the world wide web.
A report by the General Accountability Office warns that a severe pandemic, or a worsening of the H1N1 outbreak, could result in 40 percent absentee rates at work and school, meaning that the Internet would be overloaded wit... (more) |
Government May Block Websites During Pandemic
posted 10/27/2009, 11:57 PM (Reuters) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian] WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Securities exchanges have a sound network back-up if a severe pandemic keeps people home and clogging the Internet, but the Homeland Security Department has done little planning, Congressional investigators said on Monday.
The department does not even have a plan to start work on the issue, the General Accountability Office said.
But the Homeland Security Department accused the GAO of having unrealistic expectations of how the Internet could b... (more) |
|
Monday October 26th, 2009
|
Police Define Political Activism As ‘Domestic Extremism’
posted 10/26/2009, 6:54 PM (Infowars) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
Police in Britain have defined political activism as "domestic extremism" and are treating people who attend demonstrations as criminals, cataloguing them on multiple national databases as well as tracking their vehicle license plates to enable them to be targeted for stop and search harassment.
People of any political persuasion protesting any cause whatsoever, right or left-wing, are having their details stored on a network of nationwide intelligence databases overseen by ... (more) |
Police in £9m scheme to log 'domestic extremists'
posted 10/26/2009, 6:54 PM (The Guardian) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
Police are gathering the personal details of thousands of activists who attend political meetings and protests, and storing their data on a network of nationwide intelligence databases.
The hidden apparatus has been constructed to monitor "domestic extremists", the Guardian can reveal in the first of a three-day series into the policing of protests. Detailed information about the political activities of campaigners is being stored on a number of overlapping IT systems, even if the... (more) |
Grandmother who objected to gay march is accused of hate crime
posted 10/26/2009, 6:49 PM (The Daily Mail) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
After witnessing a gay pride march, committed Christian Pauline Howe wrote to the council to complain that the event had been allowed to go ahead.
But instead of a simple acknowledgement, she received a letter warning her she might be guilty of a hate crime and that the matter had been passed to police.
Two officers later turned up at the frightened grandmother's home and lectured her about her choice of words before telling her she would not be prosecuted.
... (more) |
|
Thursday October 22nd, 2009
|
CIA To Monitor Internet Chatter For Anti-Government Sentiment
posted 10/22/2009, 8:32 PM (Infowars) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
In the 2005 movie V For Vendetta, a film about a totalitarian society ruled by a fascist government with an iron surveillance fist, there's a scene where state spooks drive down a residential street with a gadget that records the conversations people are having inside their homes and gives them a rating on how antagonistic towards the authorities they are.
A frighteningly similar scenario is now on the horizon with the news that the CIA's investment arm In-Q-Tel is putting c... (more) |
Massive Gene Database Planned in California
posted 10/22/2009, 8:09 PM (Technology Reviews) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian] Plans for genetic analyses of 100,000 older Californians--the first time genetic data will be generated for such a large and diverse group--will accelerate research into environmental and genetic causes of disease, researchers say.
"This is a force multiplier with respect to genome-wide association studies," says Cathy Schaefer, a research scientist at Kaiser Permanente, a health-care provider based in Oakland, CA, whose patients will be involved. Researchers will be able to s... (more) |
|
Wednesday October 21st, 2009
|
|
Monday October 19th, 2009
|
Government Propaganda To Infest Network TV Shows
posted 10/19/2009, 10:17 AM (Prison Planet) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
An insidious brainwashing program set to be launched next week will “organically” weave the government’s political propaganda into prime time network television shows, with positive talking points about Obama’s environmental, bailout, health care and “servitude” agenda being seamlessly integrated into the content of dramas, reality shows and comedies.
... (more) |
|
Thursday October 15th, 2009
|
Battening Down the Hatches: Secret State Monitors Protest, Represses Dissent
posted 10/15/2009, 9:14 AM (Dissident Voice) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian] As social networking becomes a dominant feature of daily life, the secret state is increasingly surveilling electronic media for what it euphemistically calls “actionable intelligence.”
Take the case of Elliot Madison. The 41-year-old anarchist was arrested in Pittsburgh September 24 at the height of G20 protests.
Madison, a social worker and volunteer with The People’s Law Collective in New York City, was busted by a combined task force led by the Pennsylvania Stat... (more) |
Child porn threat to airport's 'virtual strip search' scanners
posted 10/15/2009, 9:13 AM (The Register) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian] Manchester Airport has rejected claims its new body scanners will fall foul of child pornography laws, claiming that because they use X-rays "they do not make an image".
The machines use low doses of radiation to deliver a 3D black and white scan of volunteer passengers' bodies to a human operator sat in front of a screen. The scans reveal objects concealed underneath their clothes - including genitals.
The airport says the technology will improve and speed up secur... (more) |
|
Wednesday October 14th, 2009
|
FBI delves into DMV photos in search for fugitives
posted 10/14/2009, 6:12 AM (Associated Press) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian] RALEIGH, N.C. – In its search for fugitives, the FBI has begun using facial-recognition technology on millions of motorists, comparing driver's license photos with pictures of convicts in a high-tech analysis of chin widths and nose sizes.
The project in North Carolina has already helped nab at least one suspect. Agents are eager to look for more criminals and possibly to expand the effort nationwide. But privacy advocates worry that the method allows authorities to track people w... (more) |
|
Tuesday October 13th, 2009
|
Telephone Company Is Arm of Government, Feds Admit in Spy Suit
posted 10/13/2009, 2:12 AM (Wired) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
The Department of Justice has finally admitted it in court papers: The nation’s telecom companies are an arm of the government — at least when it comes to secret spying.
Fortunately, a judge says that relationship isn’t enough to squash a rights group’s open records request for communications between the nation’s telecoms and the feds.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation wanted to see what role telecom lobbying of the Justice Department played when the government be... (more) |
Criminalizing everyone
posted 10/13/2009, 2:11 AM (Washington Times) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian] "You don't need to know. You can't know." That's what Kathy Norris, a 60-year-old grandmother of eight, was told when she tried to ask court officials why, the day before, federal agents had subjected her home to a furious search.
The agents who spent half a day ransacking Mrs. Norris' longtime home in Spring, Texas, answered no questions while they emptied file cabinets, pulled books off shelves, rifled through drawers and closets, and threw the contents on the floor.
... (more) |
|
Sunday October 11th, 2009
|
DHS Video Narrated By John Elway Portrays Average Americans As Terrorists
posted 10/11/2009, 9:21 PM (Infowars) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
A new video produced in association with the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI and narrated by former Denver Broncos quarterback John Elway urges people to report suspicious activity that could constitute terrorism, behavior that includes buying gold, owning guns, using a watch or binoculars, donating to charity, and all manner of mundane things.
The eight minute video was produced by the Colorado-based Center for Empowered Living and Learning (CELL) in conjunctio... (more) |
Police Support Stasi-Like Citizen Tattle Tale Program
posted 10/11/2009, 9:21 PM (Prison Planet) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
Police Chiefs across the country are supporting a “community watch” project in the name of anti-terrorism that encourages citizens to spy on each other and report any “suspicious” behaviour to police.
The terroristic characteristics that are to be reported under the iWATCH program include “wearing clothes that are too big”.
The AP reports:
Using brochures, public service announcements and meetings with community groups, iWATCH is designed to del... (more) |
Snoopers could win £1,000 prizes for monitoring CCTV cameras on the internet
posted 10/11/2009, 9:14 PM (The Telegraph) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
The new scheme, called Internet Eyes, involves web users scouring CCTV cameras installed in shops, businesses and town centres across Britain looking for offenders.
The cameras’ owners will be charged a fee for putting live footage from their cameras online, while members of the public who help catch criminals can win cash prizes.
The project will be trialled in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warks, next month, but the consortium behind the idea hopes that it will eventually... (more) |
Clotaire Rapaille's Advice to the Tobacco Industry
posted 10/05/2009, 10:26 PM (SourceWatch.org) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian] Rapaille Associates worked on Philip Morris' Archetype Project, an effort to study the emotional reasons why people smoke, presumably so the company could better leverage these emotions in advertising and promotions. Rapaille noted that typically peoples' first experience with smoking involved seeing an admired adult do it, and having feeling that that they were excluded from the activity and strongly wanting to be included. Rapaille ultimately linked smoking with adult initiation rituals, risk ... (more) Gee whiz this is exactly what they are doing. |
Culture Creator: Interview with Psychiatrist turned Marketer Clotaire Rapaille
posted 10/05/2009, 10:26 PM (PBS.org) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
Can marketers really get inside a consumer's head to influence the choice they will make? For market researcher Clotaire Rapaille, the answer is yes. He believes all purchasing decisions really lie beyond conscious thinking and emotion and reside at a primal core in human beings. As chairman of Archetype Discoveries Worldwide, he helps Fortune 500 companies discover the unconscious associations for their products -- the simple "code" -- that will help them sell to consumers: "When you learn a wo... (more) |
Clotaire Rapaille - SUVs and the Reptilian Brain (60 Minutes)
posted 10/05/2009, 10:24 PM (CBS News) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
60 Minutes does an interesting piece on SUV's and the need for bigger and more powerful cars. Clotaire Rapaille explains that the reptilian in you is behind the need for bigger and more powerful SUVs. There'... (more) ...And now just a few years later they are completely reversing the trend and you're a horrible person if you own an SUV and a guilt free saint if you drive some go-kart. It is sad how easily people are played (and it's directly related to their level of awareness). - Chris |
|
Saturday October 3rd, 2009
|
|
Tuesday September 29th, 2009
|
ICANN Faces Globalist Takeover Tomorrow: "...governments that prevent their citizens from having unrestricted Internet access [will] tomorrow become the big shots in a worldwide Internet system"
posted 09/29/2009, 6:27 PM (Reporters Without Borders) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian] Reporters Without Borders prefers a continuation of the status quo in international Internet governance rather than the creation of an inter-governmental system to replace the existing oversight by ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), a California-based non-profit.
ICANN has until now supervised the Internet under a contract with the US government, but the contract expires tomorrow and so far no announcement has been made as to what will happen next. ... (more) As Jay Rockefeller said, the internet should have never existed, these people don't just muse aloud, they follow through with what they say, and this is how they are going to kill the internet.
Foreign governments with no accountability to US law will now control the web, the US will be able to distance itself from the way the web is run because ICANN is supposedly independent and voilà you have a heavily censored and controlled web under the guise of "democracy." How many times have we heard that con before.
It is really simple, they cannot compete with us on a level playing field, we are crushing them and their whole new world order is threatened by those of us who are pointing out the emperor has no clothes, their whole house of cards is coming down, and they themselves say it is either us or them, they cannot coexist with us because their power structure will evaporate overnight if the people achieve any decent level of freedom.
So this is their next step, terrify the public with some manufactured crises, claim the internet is under some massive threat, use that as a pretext for a global internet crackdown and begin to require "check and balances" in order to have a website online, and voilà you have the whole structure set up for quietly denying people their own websites and no one will even be able to hear about it. And that is just one scheme, they can achieve the same end in a million different ways.
One way they do this already in other countries is you buy "bundle" packages of websites for a lower price than the free internet and so long as you go to "sky news" and a few other approved sites it is cheaper, but for each website you visit outside of the package you bought, they charge you a few pennies, click around for an hour or so and your bill just doubled, in this way they don't even need to censor the net, the consumer censors themselves.
This is how these people operate, they don't take a vote and ask if it is alright with you if they steal from you, they just do it and to hell with what you think. Everyone needs to be using their freedoms wisely while they still have them, because they are working feverishly to bring this whole shebang to an end. - Chris, IL |
|
Wednesday September 23rd, 2009
|
"Intelligent" Pre-Crime Surveillance Cameras Coming Within Five Years
posted 09/23/2009, 11:31 PM (Prison Planet) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
Surveillance cameras that can identify suspicious individuals and prevent crimes before they take place could be rolled out all over the UK within the next five years scientists have claimed.
The program, named ISIS (Integrated Sensor Information System), presumably after the Pagan Goddess, is in development at Queen's University Belfast.
The CCTV technology identifies suspicious individuals and behaviour and then acts to stamp out crimes before they happen, reports... (more) |
EU Plans Massive Surveillance Panopticon That Would Monitor "Abnormal Behavior"
posted 09/23/2009, 11:31 PM (Prison Planet) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian] The European Union is developing a 21st century panopticon, a beast surveillance system that critics describe as “Orwellian,” “sinister,” and “positively chilling,” that would collate data from numerous sources, including surveillance cameras and personal computers, in order to detect “abnormal behavior” across the entire continent.
In a broader sense, this is part of the move towards creating a pan-European federal police force, where information and powers are shared as part of ... (more) |
|
Friday September 18th, 2009
|
Carbon-rationing proposed
posted 09/18/2009, 9:35 PM (ITN) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian] The Government is being warned it may need to introduce "carbon-rationing" to cut pollution from everyday activities, such as filling up the car with petrol.
A report from the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has said that personal quotas for emissions may be needed if current policies fail to cut greenhouse gases.
These proposed "credits" would be used to buy gas and electricity for powering homes, fuel for cars and plane tickets for holidays. ... (more) |
Irish Government Moves to Impose Carbon Tax
posted 09/18/2009, 9:35 PM (Irish Times) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian] The Commission on Taxation has recommended the introduction of a carbon tax to help cut Ireland’s greenhouse gas emissions.
In a report published this morning, the commission said this tax should apply to all carbon-based fuels sold for use in Ireland and should be based on the tonnes of CO2 emitted by each fuel. It said the tax could raise €500 million per year.
“The tax should be clearly visible at the point of final consumption to ensure it is not seen as ‘just a... (more) |
France Mulls CO2 Taxes on Citizens
posted 09/18/2009, 9:35 PM (New York Times) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian] The French government plans next year to begin making heavy users of household and transport fuels bear more of the tax burden. President Nicolas Sarkozy is expected to say in coming weeks that such a shift is necessary to nudge French citizens toward cleaner alternatives.
The tax would reportedly start at roughly 14 euros (or $20) for each ton of CO2 emitted, and could rise to levels of around 100 euros ($143) for each ton by 2030. That could mean substantial increases in the pri... (more) |
France Passes Tough New Law Against Internet Piracy
posted 09/18/2009, 9:33 PM (Escapist Magazine) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian] France is getting tough on file sharing, passing a new "three strikes" law that will give judges the power to cut off internet access and impose other penalties on illegal downloaders.
Under the terms of the new law, people caught illegally downloading files will receive a warning by email on their first offense, followed by a warning sent through registered mail on the second. On the third offense, the user's details will be sent to a judge, who will have the power to cut off int... (more) Just an excuse to steal people's internet. |
Boston launches flu shot tracking
posted 09/18/2009, 9:33 PM (The Boston Globe) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian] Using technology originally developed for mass disasters, Boston disease trackers are embarking on a novel experiment - one of the first in the country - aimed at eventually creating a citywide registry of everyone who has had a flu vaccination.
The resulting vaccination map would allow swift intervention in neighborhoods left vulnerable to the fast-moving respiratory illness.
The trial starts this afternoon, when several hundred people are expected to queue up for ... (more) |
|
Wednesday September 16th, 2009
|
|
Thursday September 10th, 2009
|
Web-monitoring software gathers data on kid chats
posted 09/10/2009, 1:24 PM (Associated Press) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian] Parents who install a leading brand of software to monitor their kids' online activities may be unwittingly allowing the company to read their children's chat messages — and sell the marketing data gathered.
Software sold under the Sentry and FamilySafe brands can read private chats conducted through Yahoo, MSN, AOL and other services, and send back data on what kids are saying about such things as movies, music or video games. The information is then offered to businesses seeking... (more) When I saw the government promoting their own "web-safety" software a few weeks ago on TV I remember thinking, wow that must be a key logger, well, sure enough! - Chris |
|
Wednesday September 9th, 2009
|
Obama's school speech - a child's view
posted 09/09/2009, 7:07 AM (BBC) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian] US President Barack Obama has delivered a speech to American schoolchildren, broadcast live to classrooms across the country.
The BBC News website asked one audience member - 11-year-old Claire O'Donnell - to write about the speech.
"I was sitting in my fifth period class when I saw President Obama come on the screen. As soon as we saw him the class started clapping. Not everyone, but almost everyone.
He started off smiling, which I t... (more) Soaked it up like a sponge.
"Afterwards I talked to my friends. One of them thought that he was a bit too demanding in saying that you "had" to get an education and "had" to remain in school."
I guarantee you this child is incredible. - Chris |
|
Tuesday September 8th, 2009
|
|
Saturday September 5th, 2009
|
WH, Dept of Education Revise Language on Students Outlining How they Can "Help the President"
posted 09/05/2009, 10:24 AM (ABC News) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian] In an acknowledgment that the Department of Education provided lesson plans written somewhat inartfully, surrounding the President Obama’s speech to students next Tuesday, the White House today announced that it had rewritten one of the sections in question.
President Obama will talk to students from Pre K thru 12th grade about personal responsibility and the importance of staying in school, White House aides said.
As one of the preparatory materials for teachers pr... (more) "Students should discuss, the lesson plan writes, 'What do you think the President wants us to do? Does the speech make you want to do anything? Are we able to do what President Obama is asking of us? What would you like to tell the President?'" (note this part was not revised)
Complete and total brainwashing. They want your children to write letters of support committing themselves to supporting their dear leader. This is the exact type of thing they have children do in North Korea. This is a mind control technique where you get a person to commit to something in writing because it puts huge amounts of social and mental pressure on them to be "consistent" and "follow through with their commitments." They can then push you and push you to "do what you committed to" and before you know it you're a slave to your trivial "commitment."
The media is defending this to the high hilt saying "who could be against the President telling their kid to stay in school and work hard?" Well, besides that not at all being what he is saying, even if that is all it was, the government should not be taking over the role of the parents, you want a telescreen in your home with Obama telling your kid to make sure to brush his teeth before he goes to sleep? "Be sure to use the extra fluoride toothpaste Billy!"
The media's only excuse these days is "Bush did it" as if that by extension makes it good or justifiable, I watched a few minutes of TV earlier and every single channel was spewing the exact same line. Bush was a fascist tyrant, they want you to think it is about left vs right and not freedom vs dictatorship. - Chris, IL |
Parents rebel against Obama TV speech to schools
posted 09/05/2009, 11:04 AM (WorldNetDaily) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian] Parents across the country are rebelling against plans by President Barack Obama to speak directly to their children through the classrooms of the nation's public schools without their presence, participation and approval.
The plans announced by Obama also have been cited as raising the specter of the Civilian National Security Force, to which he's referred several times since his election campaign began, but never fully explained.
"He's recruiting his civilian arm... (more) |
On Facebook, MySpace? Obama's got your e-mail
posted 09/05/2009, 10:24 AM (WorldNetDaily) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian] WorldNetDailyThe White House is hiring a contractor to harvest information about Americans from its pages on social networking websites such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr.
The National Legal and Policy Center, or NLPC, revealed the White House New Media team is seeking to hire a technology vendor to collect data such as comments, tag lines, e-mail, audio and video from any place where the White House "maintains a presence" – for a ... (more) |
|
Wednesday September 2nd, 2009
|
Don't let a president turn off the Internet
posted 09/02/2009, 1:28 AM (San Francisco Examiner) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian] Sen. Jay Rockefeller’s revised Cybersecurity Act of 2009 is worse than the original version he unveiled in April. That one drew well-deserved derision from civil liberties advocates left and right, along with Silicon Valley executives fearful that their company assets would be confiscated by government fiat. The West Virginia Democrat’s new version is full of vague legislative language that’s the public policy equivalent of throwing the barn door open to horse thieves.
As the Elec... (more) |
Senate Bill Would Give President Emergency Control of Internet
posted 09/02/2009, 1:28 AM (Fox News) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian] A Senate bill would offer President Obama emergency control of the Internet and may give him a "kill switch" to shut down online traffic by seizing private networks -- a move cybersecurity experts worry will choke off industry and civil liberties.
Details of a revamped version of the Cybersecurity Act of 2009 emerged late Thursday, months after an initial version authored by Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.V., was blasted in Silicon Valley as dangerous government intrusion.
... (more) | Next Page
Search Archives by Date
|