Think Government Is Corrupt? You May Face 10 Years In Jail
posted 02/08/2010, 11:30 PM (Prison Planet) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian] Subversives who think government is corrupt and should be controlled by the people face 10 years in prison and a $25,000 dollar fine if they fail to register with authorities in South Carolina, in another chilling example of how free speech and dissent is being criminalized in America.
The state's "Subversive Activities Registration Act" is now officially on the books and mandates that "Every member of a subversive organization, or an organization subject to foreign control, every foreign agent and every person who advocates, teaches, advises or practices the duty, necessity or propriety of controlling, conducting, seizing or overthrowing the government of the United States "¦ shall register with the Secretary of State."
Of course, the right to overthrow a government that has become corrupt, abusive and completely unrepresentative of its electorate is enshrined in the Declaration of Independence -- that's how America came to be a Republic in the first place -- advocating or teaching that the people should "control" the government via their elected representatives is a basic function of a democratic society, but this law effectively makes it a terrorist offense.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem mos... (more)
This is also straight out of Cass Sunstein's paper where he says the government can tax so-called conspiracy theorists.
The block was only removed early this morning following a raft of complaints after both websites were unavailable on many ISP's since Friday.
As the New Zealand based InfoNews website reported yesterday, both ... (more)
ObamaNet: The coming online censorship
posted 02/08/2010, 11:29 PM (Liberty Features Syndicate) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian] Perhaps the Obama administration and Democratic majority overestimated their ability to sell the American people on proposed radical changes to our political and economic systems, as the federal health care takeover has ground to a near halt, and an increasing number of administration officials are being exposed for far-left statists with a sinister, unconstitutional agenda.
But those in power show no signs of being bothered by something as trivial as the will of the people, and c... (more)
New Monopoly Game is Cashless
posted 02/08/2010, 11:10 PM (Yahoo Finance) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian] Hasbro has unveiled the design of the new 75th anniversary edition of their classic board game, Monopoly, set to hit stores in fall of 2010. “Monopoly: Revolution Edition” is slick and round instead of dull and square, with debit cards and an ATM instead of paper money and a banker, clear plastic representations of the classic tokens (bye-bye, little boot!), and clips of popular songs (like Rihanna's “Umbrella,” Daniel Powter's “Bad Day,” and Beyonce’s “Crazy in Love”) that play after certain ac... (more)
FBI wants records kept of Web sites visited
posted 02/08/2010, 11:02 PM (CNET News) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian] WASHINGTON--The FBI is pressing Internet service providers to record which Web sites customers visit and retain those logs for two years, a requirement that law enforcement believes could help it in investigations of child pornography and other serious crimes.
FBI Director Robert Mueller supports storing Internet users' "origin and destination information," a bureau attorney said at a federal task force meeting on Thursday.
As far back as a 2006 speech, Mueller had ... (more)
Under an agreement that is still being finalized, the National Security Agency would help Google analyze a major corporate espionage attack that the firm said originated in China and targeted its computer networks, according to cybersecurity experts familiar with the matter. The objective is to better defend Google -- and its u... (more)
Google's link with security agency upsets bloggers
posted 02/08/2010, 11:02 PM (The Age) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian] GOOGLE'S decision to enlist the help of the National Security Agency to deal with cyber attacks has caused alarm among internet groups and bloggers who fear that personal information could be accessed by the US government.
It was reported last week that Google had turned to the NSA, which conducts surveillance and code-breaking for the US government, in the wake of a cyber attack it believes came from China.
Sources say that the agreement will not allow the NSA to v... (more)
"According to the nation's intelligence chiefs, a terror attack in the United States will likely be launched within the next six months, reports WLS.
"ABC News has learned some of the intelligence has come from the accused Chri... (more)
Time Magazine Pushes Draconian Internet Licensing Plan
posted 02/04/2010, 3:54 AM (Infowars) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian] Time Magazine has enthusiastically jumped on the bandwagon to back Microsoft executive Craig Mundie's call for Internet licensing, as authorities push for a system even more stifling than in Communist China, where only people with government permission would be allowed to express free speech.
As we reported earlier this week, during a recent conference at the Davos Economic Forum, Craig Mundie, chief research and strategy officer for Microsoft, told fellow globalists ... (more)
But cybercrime investigators are frustrated by the speed of traditional methods of faxing, mailing, or e-mailing companies these documents. They're pushing for the creation of a national Web interface linking police computers with those of Internet and e-mail providers so requests can be sent and received electronically.
Driver’s licenses for the Internet: A rebuttal
posted 02/04/2010, 3:47 AM (Infowars) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian] I read an article today. It was published in Time magazine, written by Barbara Kiviat, and entitled, "Driver's licenses for the Internet." The fear-mongering in this article was unabashed, as the very first sentence stated that even just discussing the current state of Internet security was "scar-y" with a hyphenated "y." This fear-mongering continues until the fifth paragrap... (more)
Campaigners claim the scanners, which act like a mini radar device 'seeing' beneath ordinary clothing, breach privacy rules under the Human Rights Act.
The exemption of under 18s from being scanned, which was in place during the trial of the machines in Manchester amid fears the scanners cou... (more)
No Genitalia Measurement, No Fly
posted 02/02/2010, 8:51 PM (Prison Planet) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian] Naked body scanning will now be compulsory at two of Britain’s biggest airports after the government announced people who refuse to let security thugs ogle their genitalia will be treated like terrorists and barred from flying.
“It is now compulsory for people selected for a scan to take part, or they will not be allowed to fly,” reports the BBC.
That ’s right – no optional pat down as we were told, if you think that having strangers leer over your naked bo... (more)
Labour has made 4,289 activities illegal since the 1997 election, at a rate of about one a day – twice the speed with which the previous Conservative government created crimes.
Gordon Brown was the worst offender, with his government inventing 33 new crimes a month. Tony Blair's adminis... (more)
Monday February 1st, 2010
Enemies Of Free Speech Call For Internet Licensing
posted 02/01/2010, 4:37 PM (Infowars) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian] Calls to introduce a licensing system to police the Internet on behalf of a powerful UN agency represent the latest salvo in a long-running battle to kill free speech on the web and bring an end to the powerful digital democracy that has devastated the carbon tax agenda of the UN by exposing the Climategate scandal.
UN International Telcommunications Union secretary general Hamadoun Toure told the World Economic Forum in Davos this past weekend that global... (more)
International Telcommunications Union secretary general Hamadoun Toure gave his warning at a World Economic Forum debate where experts said nations must now consider when a cyber attack becomes a declaration of war.
With attacks on Google from China a major talking point in Davos, Toure said the risk of a cyber conf... (more)
Phone call to WRH radio show from a mother whose daughter was F... (more)
The 2010 Census: Beware the States Assault on Privacy!
posted 01/29/2010, 5:16 PM (Gary D. Barnett) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian] The time is near for the national headcounters “SWAT” teams to once again begin their decennial assault on privacy. Some of those neighbors you thought to be decent people will now be hounding you incessantly to extract personal and private information that is none of theirs or the state’s business. Don’t be fooled by their claim that they are just doing their constitutional duty, as nothing could be further from the truth.
I have gone over this several times before, ... (more)
The next stage of the Home Office's attempts to get the cards accepted is to target those privacy-disregarding, Facebook-obsessed youths in the capital. People aged between 16 and 24 years old who hold a current or recently expired passport can apply for a card from 8 February.
Using the same lines as in Manchester, where the pilot was started, young people are told... (more)
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a privacy watchdog that participated in the lawsuit, described the judge's ruling as declaring "that mass surveillance of Americans is immune from judicial review."
Nine plaintiffs -- five customers of telecom compa... (more)
Privacy supremo Peter Fleischer told ComputerWorld in an interview that, "The unprecedented hacking"¦ and the threat of similar such attacks in the future emphasized the importance of internal analysis of logs."
Google has been under particular pressure in Europe to stick a time limit on how long it hangs onto informa... (more)
Thursday January 21st, 2010
Anonymous Facebook Employee: Everything You Do Is Tracked And Stored Forever
posted 01/21/2010, 3:55 PM (The Rumpus) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian] This past summer Facebook relocated from University Avenue in Palo Alto, CA -- where several buildings fan out along the downtown strip -- to a new central office in Stanford Research Park. A good friend and two-year veteran of Facebook invited me to check out the new space. When I arrived, a security guard handed me a non-disclosure contract to fill out, a requirement to enter the building. "Just making sure you're not a .Twitter spy," he said. I can therefore not describe the tour my friend ga... (more)
"Employee: See, the thing is -- and I don't know how much you know about it -- it's all stored in a database on the backend. Literally everything. Your messages are stored in a database, whether deleted or not. So we can just query the database, and easily look at it without every logging into your account. That's what most people don't understand."
The decree is ostensibly an enactment of a European Union (EU) directive on product placement and is due to go into effect at the end of January after being subjected to a nonbind... (more)
Such a scheme could raise “tens of billions of dollars” on behalf of the United Nations’ public health arm from a broad base of consumers, which would then be used to transfer drug-making research, development and manufacturing capabilities, among other things, to the developing... (more)
Among the beliefs Sunstein would ban is advocating that the theory of global warming is a deliberate fraud.
Sunstein also recommended the government send agents to infiltrate "extremists who supply conspiracy theories" to disrupt the efforts of the "extremists" to propagate their theories.
In a recent scholarly article, he and coauthor Adrian Vermeule take up the question of "Conspiracy Theories: Causes and Cures." (J. Political Philosophy, 7 (2009), 202-227). This is a man with the president's ear. This is a man who would process information and regulate things. What does he here propose?
The Educational System Was Designed to Keep Us Uneducated and Docile
posted 01/13/2010, 7:46 AM (The Memory Hole) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian] It's no secret that the US educational system doesn't do a very good job. Like clockwork, studies show that America's schoolkids lag behind their peers in pretty much every industrialized nation. We hear shocking statistics about the percentage of high-school seniors who can't find the US on an unmarked map of the world or who don't know who Abraham Lincoln was. Fingers are pointed at various aspects of the schooling system—overcrowded classrooms, lack of funding, teachers who can't pass co... (more)
The TSA specified in 2008 documents that the machines must have image storage and sending abilities, the Washington-based Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) said.
In the documents, obtained by the privacy group and provided to CNN, the TSA specifies that the b... (more)
As we have been warning all along, the tyranny now being metered out at airports was always intended to be rolled out onto the streets, with mobile metal detectors already being stationed at various transport hubs in the UK in the name of stopping knife crime. ... (more)
"We don't need to look at naked 8-year-olds and grandmothers to secure airplanes," Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, said Friday. "Are we really going to subject 2 million people per day to that? I think it's a false argument to say w... (more)
A friend of my brother's (who doesn't know much) was told to go into one of these machines and he intrinsically flat out refused, they "patted him down" (aka molested him) instead.
All those cancer concerns surrounding cell phones may have to make room for good news. Astonished scientists found that electromagnetic radiation from cell phones not only boosted the memories of young mice, but even reversed Alzheimer's symptoms in old mice. Their study marks the first to investigate how long-term electromagnetic radiation aff... (more)
It's another version of researchers promoting junk science at its best. The ludicrous study only done in mice, suggests that long-term exposure to electromagnetic frequencies (EMF) associated with cell phones may actually protect against, and even reverse, Alzheimer's disease.
Airports Set To Become Primary Peddlers Of Child Porn
posted 01/06/2010, 7:39 PM (Infowars) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian] The establishment is ensuring that pedophiles and perverts are kept entertained at airport security checkpoints by mandating the mass rollout of naked body scanners that provide detailed images of your child's genitalia, to be enjoyed by officials sitting alone in back rooms.
Despite official assurances and media talking points that claim the naked body scanners now being implemented in airports worldwide do not show enough detail to be considered a violation of privacy, th... (more)
"Certainly the privacy concerns with these body-scan machines are very, very serious and they are being introduced without debate, without evidence and without any parliamentary oversight," Micheal Vonn of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association said Tuesday.
"Do the machines even work? They would not ... (more)
Privacy campaigners claim the images created by the machines are so graphic they amount to "virtual strip-searching" and have called for safeguards to protect the privacy of passengers involved.
Ministers now face having to exempt under 18s from the scans or face the delays of intr... (more)
The claim severely undermines Gordon Brown's focus on hi-tech scanners for airline passengers as part of his review into airport security after the attempted attack on Flight 253 on Christmas Day.
The Independent on Sunday has also heard authoritative claims th... (more)
Assembly Bill 91 establishes a pilot program in the counties of Alameda, Los Angeles, Sacramento and Tulare that will run from July 1 through Jan. 1, 2016. The program will require drivers convicted of driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol... (more)
One man convicted of sexually assaulting his 15-year-old girlfriend when he was 19 successfully challenged his sex offender registry classification, getting it dropped to Level 2 and removing his name from public view after a concrete chunk was thrown at his family's home.
Taking away the rights of certain disliked groups is just a pretext to take away everyone's rights.
It is safer to have criminals running around than to have a criminal government running every aspect of your life.
Of course the government needs criminals to justify its existence so don't expect any of these authoritarian laws to actually stop any crime, quite the opposite, they will instead treat everyone as criminals and throw 'innocent until proven guilty' out the window.
The U.S. had not wanted these scanners to be used previously because of privacy concerns but now the Obama administration has agreed that "all possible measures will be used on flights to the U.S.," Dutch Interior Minister Guusje Ter Horst told a news con... (more)
Scanners that show genitals, implants or prostheses to security staff would be unacceptable. Devices under development that give a blurred picture of body contours while still showing dangerous objects would be tolerable as long as they pose... (more)
"We need to get some broad based support, to capture the public's imagination... So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements and make little mention of any doubts... Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest." - Stephen Schneider, Stanford Professor of Climatology, lead author of many IPCC reports
"Unless we announce disasters no one will listen." - Sir John Houghton, first chairman of IPCC
"It doesn't matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true." - Paul Watson, co-founder of Greenpeace
"We've got to ride this global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic and environmental policy." - Timothy Wirth, President of the UN Foundation
"No matter if the science of global warming is all phony... climate change provides the greatest opportunity to bring about justice and equality in the world." - Christine Stewart, fmr Canadian Minister of the Environment
"The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe." - emeritus professor Daniel Botkin
"We require a central organizing principle - one agreed to voluntarily. Minor shifts in policy, moderate improvement in laws and regulations, rhetoric offered in lieu of genuine change - these are all forms of appeasement, designed to satisfy the public’s desire to believe that sacrifice, struggle and a wrenching transformation of society will not be necessary." - Al Gore, Earth in the Balance
"Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsiblity to bring that about?" - Maurice Strong, founder of the UN Environment Programme
"A massive campaign must be launched to de-develop the United States. De-development means bringing our economic system into line with the realities of ecology and the world resource situation." - Paul Ehrlich, Professor of Population Studies
"The only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another United States. We can't let other countries have the same number of cars, the amount of industrialization, we have in the US. We have to stop these Third World countries right where they are." - Michael Oppenheimer, Environmental Defense Fund
"Global Sustainability requires the deliberate quest of poverty, reduced resource consumption and set levels of mortality control." - Professor Maurice King
Saturday December 19th, 2009
Turning children into Orwellian eco-spies
posted 12/19/2009, 6:18 AM (Spiked Online) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian] There is a long and sordid tradition of trying to socialise children by scaring them. The aim of such socialisation-through-fear is twofold: firstly, to get children to conform to the scaremongers’ values; secondly, to use children to influence, or at least to contain, their parents’ behaviour.
When I was a schoolchild in Stalinist Hungary, we were frequently warned about the numerous threats facing our glorious regime. I also recall that we were encouraged to lecture our e... (more)
In the UK, legislation slated as the “Digital Economy Bill“, currently being debated in the House of Lords, would allow the Home Secretary to place "a tec... (more)
Infowars Reader Receives Threatening Letter from Census Bureau
posted 12/17/2009, 11:50 PM (Infowars) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian] The United States Department of Commerce will send out a threatening letter if a subject refuses to submit to the American Community Survey (ACS). The ACS is a project of the U.S. Census Bureau that replaces the long form in the decennial census. A census is required by the Constitution.
An Infowars reader has sent us a copy of this threatening letter. The anonymous recipient received the letter after he refused to fill out and send in the ACS form. “The Census people have bee... (more)
UK House of Lords Follow China and Australia, Propose Internet Censorship Bill
posted 12/17/2009, 12:46 AM (Infowars) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian] As China, Iran, and Australia initiate draconian efforts to shut down the internet as an alternative news source, the House of Lords in the United Kingdom is mulling a similar attempt to block dissenting voices. The so-called Digital Economy Bill, essentially ignored by the media, would allow the Secretary of State to “a technical obligation on internet service providers” at the whim of the government.
Francis Davey, who offers legal advice to technology and media firms... (more)
Instead, the cameras, which can be fitted with technology to recognise faces and give people a ticking off through speakers, will remain silent as they keep a watchful eye on about 200 hot spots in the borough.
The new community safety system launched on Monday, enabling Hounslow Council and the police to monitor thousands of peo... (more)
Thursday December 10th, 2009
Google CEO: Secrets Are for Filthy People
posted 12/10/2009, 2:46 AM (Gawker) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian] Eric Schmidt suggests you alter your scandalous behavior before you complain about his company invading your privacy. That's what the Google CEO told Maria Bartiromo during CNBC's big Google special last night, an extraordinary pronouncement for such a secretive guy.
The generous explanation for Schmidt's statement is that he's revolutionized his thinking since 2005, when he blacklisted CNET for publishing info about him gleaned from Google searches, including salary, neighbor... (more)
Wednesday December 9th, 2009
Yahoo Threatens Cryptome Over Leaked Surveillance Document
posted 12/09/2009, 12:06 AM (Infowars) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian] Yahoo, the internet corporation notorious for helping China implement totalitarian censorship of the web, has instructed its lawyers to go after Cryptome, a site that functions as a repository for information about freedom of speech, cryptography, spying, and surveillance.
Michael T. Gershberg of the law firm Steptoe & Johnson sent a DMCA takedown notice to John Young, Cryptome webmaster, on December 3. The law firm claims that Cryptome has violated Yahoo’s intellectual property r... (more)
Some impressive fear-mongering, sure. But it still pale... (more)
"We need to get some broad based support, to capture the public's imagination... So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements and make little mention of any doubts... Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest." - Stephen Schneider, Stanford Professor of Climatology, lead author of many IPCC reports
"Unless we announce disasters no one will listen." - Sir John Houghton, first chairman of IPCC
"It doesn't matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true." - Paul Watson, co-founder of Greenpeace
"We've got to ride this global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic and environmental policy." - Timothy Wirth, President of the UN Foundation
"No matter if the science of global warming is all phony... climate change provides the greatest opportunity to bring about justice and equality in the world." - Christine Stewart, fmr Canadian Minister of the Environment
"The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe." - emeritus professor Daniel Botkin
In response to a Freedom of Information Act request seeking details of Yahoo's! policies allowing the Justice Department to request wiretaps of its users and the amount they charge US taxpayers per wiretap -- the search engine leviathan declared in a 12-page letter that they couldn't provide information on their ap... (more)
Teaching the masses to live like slaves, one propaganda piece at a time.
"Politics and the English Language," by George Orwell, 1946
posted 12/02/2009, 12:11 AM (Eric Blair (George Orwell)) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian] Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that we cannot by conscious action do anything about it. Our civilization is decadent and our language -- so the argument runs -- must inevitably share in the general collapse. It follows that any struggle against the abuse of language is a sentimental archaism, like preferring candles to electric light or hansom cabs to aeroplanes. Underneath this lies the half-consci... (more)
Understand this essay and understand the propaganda.
Last night at a meeting in Trinidad he reached agreement with Commonwealth leaders and Nicolas Sarkozy, the French President, to put forward a new £10 billion fund to tackle what Mr Brown said was “a climate emergency.”
He said the Launch Fund would allow the world to break the “deadlock” over a deal at Copenhagen and “get mov... (more)
It asks whether their children tell lies or bully others, and if they steal at home or from shops.
Parents are questioned over whether they have friends, if they can speak freely with others in their family and how well they did at school themselves.
The form also delves into family routines, questioning whether they eat t... (more)
"Microsoft has not and will not put 'backdoors' into Windows," a company spokeswoman said, reacting to a Computerworld story Wednesday. ... (more)
Tuesday November 24th, 2009
Intel wants a chip implant in your brain
posted 11/24/2009, 2:00 PM (PhysOrg) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian] (PhysOrg.com) -- Computer chip maker Intel wants to implant a brain-sensing chip directly into the brains of its customers to allow them to operate computers and other devices without moving a muscle.
Intel believes its customers would be willing to have a chip implanted in their brains so they could operate computers without the need for a keyboard or mouse using thoughts alone. The implan... (more)
Monday November 23rd, 2009
Britain's new Internet law -- as bad as everyone's been saying, and worse. Much, much worse.
posted 11/23/2009, 2:25 PM (Boing Boing) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian] The British government has brought down its long-awaited Digital Economy Bill, and it's perfectly useless and terrible. It consists almost entirely of penalties for people who do things that upset the entertainment industry (including the "three-strikes" rule that allows your entire family to be cut off from the net if anyone who lives in your house is accused of copyright infringement, without proof or evidence or trial), as well as a plan to beat the hell out of the video-game industry with a ... (more)
Sunday November 22nd, 2009
Modern Warfare 2: Massacre Civilians to Save the World
posted 11/22/2009, 11:56 AM (InformationLiberation) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian] In a sickening moral ploy players of Modern Warfare 2 are put undercover as a terrorist and instructed to murder civilians for the greater good. Reminiscent of the real undercover CIA murders of Operation Gladio, a real life "Modern Warfare 2" massacre, the players are instructed to murder civilians en masse` in order to "save lives."
The player is placed undercover into a terrorist group, he is told before the mission "You don't want to know what it's cost already to put you nex... (more)
The confirmation of the NSA's role, which began during the development of the software, is a sign of the agency's deepening involvement with the private sector when it comes to building defenses against cyberattacks.
"Working in partnership with Microsoft and (the Department of Defense), N... (more)
Maybe they should have went and helped the Climate Research Unit!
Law & Order Shills for Obamacare
posted 11/20/2009, 6:00 PM (Big Hollywood) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian] NBC's "Law and Order" is in its 20th season. The economy is weak, so they have devolved to converting White House talking points into weekly shows. Last week, "Doped" was a farcical equivalent of "Damien Thorn meets Karen Silkwood." Pharmaceutical companies and Doctors are worse than drug cartels. The killers in the previous week's episode on such cartels were more sympatheti... (more)
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)