Tag Archive: Big Brother


You Are Probably Participating In The Facial Recognition Database Like It Or Not

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June 17, 2013

Over 200 Million People Are In The Facial Recognition Database

 

 

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” Using the vague criteria of “law enforcement purposes”, the United States has more than 200 million Americans filed away in various facial recognition databases.  If you have a driver’s license or any other government photo ID, your face is probably one of them.

 

The Washington Post reported:

Law enforcement use of such facial searches is blurring the traditional boundaries between criminal and non-criminal databases, putting images of people never arrested in what amount to perpetual digital lineups. The most advanced systems allow police to run searches from laptop computers in their patrol cars and offer access to the FBI and other federal authorities.

 

Only 13 states have not gone into full-out Big Brother mode with facial recognition…yet.  At this time, the states without the technology are Alaska, California, Wyoming, Arizona, Mississippi, Louisiana, Missouri, Michigan, Ohio, Virginia, Maryland,  Maine, and New Hampshire.  However, even though they don’t have the technology to readily identify residents, they still have millions of photos in their databases.

Here’s the breakdown of who has a photo database:

  • The State Department has about 15 million photos of passport or visa holders
  • The FBI has about15 million photos of people who have been arrested or convicted of crimes
  • The Department of Defense has about 6 million photos, mainly of Iraqis and Afghans
  • Various police agencies and states have at least 210 million driver’s license photos “

 

 

 

 

 

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Apple Claims iMessage & Facetime Are NSA Free

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June 17, 2013

Apple: iMessage And FaceTime Are Safe From The NSA’s Prying Eyes

 

 

” Here’s how to have a secret conversation the government can’t access: Just use iMessage, Apple’s text-messaging service that, the company now says, is encrypted and can’t be read by anyone except the sender and the recipients.

Apple has added its voice to a growing chorus of Silicon Valley companies calling on Washington for more transparency regarding its data-collection practices. In a statement released Monday, Apple disclosed new details about the requests for user information it fields from the government.

For the six months ending May 31, the company reported getting between 4,000 and 5,000 law-enforcement data requests, which altogether cover between 9,000 and 10,000 specific user accounts (“or devices,” Apple says). Some fraction of that number is made up of FISA warrants and national security letters, but it’s not clear how many or what the distribution looks like.

The firm also disclosed just what kind of data it does not make available to law enforcement—mainly, the end-to-end encrypted content Apple is unable to track, such as text and multimedia messages sent over Apple’s iMessage service, as well as video chats using FaceTime.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Sunday Steyn

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June 16, 2013

Big Politically Correct Brother

 

 

” A few weeks after 9/11, when government was hastily retooling its 1970s hijacking procedures for the new century, I wrote a column for the National Post of Canada and various other publications that, if you’re so interested, is preserved in my anthology The Face of the Tiger. It began by noting the observation of President Bush’s transportation secretary, Norman Mineta, that if “a 70-year-old white woman from Vero Beach, Florida” and “a Muslim young man” were in line to board a flight, he hoped there would be no difference in the scrutiny to which each would be subjected. The TSA was then barely a twinkle in Norm’s eye, and in that long-ago primitive era it would have seemed absurd to people that one day in America it would be entirely routine for wheelchair-bound nonagenarians to remove leg braces before boarding a plane or for kindergartners to stand patiently as three middle-aged latex-gloved officials poke around their genitals. Back then, the idea that everybody is a suspect still seemed slightly crazy. As I wrote in my column, “I’d love to see Norm get his own cop show:

“Captain Mineta, the witness says the serial rapist’s about 5′10″ with a thin mustache and a scar down his right cheek.”

“Okay, Sergeant, I want you to pull everyone in.”

“Pardon me?”

“Everyone. Men, women, children. We’ll start in the Bronx and work our way through to Staten Island. What matters here is that we not appear to be looking for people who appear to look like the appearance of the people we’re looking for. There are eight million stories in the Naked City, and I want to hear all of them.”

A decade on, it would be asking too much for the new Norm to be confined to the airport terminal. There are 300 million stories in the Naked Republic, and the NSA hears all of them, 24/7. Even in the wake of a four-figure death toll, with the burial pit still smoking, the formal, visible state could not be honest about the very particular threat it faced, and so in the shadows the unseen state grew remorselessly, the blades of the harvester whirring endlessly but, don’t worry, only for “metadata.”

As I wrote in National Review in November 2001, “The bigger you make the government, the more you entrust to it, the more powers you give it to nose around the citizenry’s bank accounts, and phone calls, and e-mails, and favorite Internet porn sites, the more you’ll enfeeble it with the siren song of the soft target. The Mounties will no longer get their man, they’ll get you instead. Frankly, it’s a lot easier.” As the IRS scandal reminds us, you have to have a touchingly naïve view of government to believe that the 99.9999 percent of “metadata” entirely irrelevant to terrorism will not be put to some use, sooner or later.” 

 

 

As Usual Steyn Is Required Reading

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Google Project Loon … Universal Internet Access Or Universal Big Brother ?

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June 16, 2013

Google Project Loon: Using Balloons To Beam Internet From Stratosphere To Isolated Communities [VIDEO]

 

 

” Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) wants everyone in the world to be on the Internet, but two out of three people in the world still don’t have access. To address this problem, Google unveiled on Friday its latest “moonshot” solution to the problem: balloon-powered Internet access.

In a blog post, Google said that some of the biggest obstacles to universal Internet access are the geographical ones posed by jungles, archipelagos and mountains. These obstacles increase the cost of Internet connectivity, making it too expensive for most  inhabitants of these places to afford. Google’s planned solution to this problem is to avoid these obstacles altogether by using a ring of balloons in the stratosphere that will drift on stratospheric winds to beam Internet access to the hard-to-reach places below.”

 

 

 

    So what will it be ? The internet that as recently as just a few short weeks ago was looked upon as THE force for liberation of the people and the greatest tool for freedom since Gutenberg’s printing press has a taint about it now thanks to the US government , PRISM and the NSA .

   The stench of PRISM would not have been possible without the cooperation of the ISP giants such as Google and Facebook and now we are faced with not only a complete lack of trust in our government , but  private information businesses as well .

  That makes Google’s Loon Project a double-edged sword … Is it to be a Sword of Damocles ?

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As Public Comes To Grips With Scope Of Surveillance State Anger Grows

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June 16, 2013

As Public Concerns Grow, Congress Spooked Over Spying

 

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” The American people are growing increasingly concerned about reports of domestic spying. And Congress isn’t sure how to respond.

The public’s views have been evolving over the past week and a half. When news broke earlier this month that the National Security Agency could tap data from phone and Internet companies, most people accepted the tradeoff between security and privacy. Members of Congress routinely defended the programs.

Not anymore. By week’s end, polls suggested a groundswell of concern and lawmakers were hearing from constituents. Conversations at the Capitol had a new hue: Sure, the government says it has safeguards in place so it won’t listen to my calls and read my emails – but can it ever really control some rogue operator? And where is all that data? Who’s in charge?“

 

    This is what happens when the MSM finally starts doing it’s job . People , even the “low info” people , become informed about the abuses being heaped upon them by a Statist government in the name of “national security” and , low and behold , they let their representatives have an earful . Good for them and good for US . We say Bring It On …

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Congressional Snowjob Alert … Some NSA Info To Be Declassified … To Defend Snooping

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June 14, 2013

NSA Will Declassify Some Information On Surveillance Program

 

 

” National Security Agency’s collection of phone and email data so they can show Americans it has helped stop terrorism.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Michigan, said Thursday he will put forward information as soon as next week, “that I think will allow the American public to better understand,” the NSA surveillance, which was leaked last week by a government contractor.

Rogers made the pledge after the head of the National Security Agency told lawmakers at a closed-door hearing that the government is not eavesdropping on America’s phone calls or reading their emails.”

 

The snooping did a great job in Boston and Ft Hood .

 

” Alexander said the NSA activities follow a strict “compliance regime” and are overseen by Congress, the Obama administration and the courts.”

 

    That’s confidence inspiring … the foxes minding the hen house . It’s a shame that all three branches of government have become so discredited through partisanship and corruption that the people can only view them all as adversaries as opposed to watchdogs .

 

 

 

 

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Statism Comes To Your Car … Electronic License Plates

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June 13, 2013

Switch to Electronic License Plates Could Improve SC Highway Safety

 

 

 

 

” South Carolina is considering a proposal, still in its early stages, to switch from metal license plates to new electronic license plates, or e-tags, as a way to improve highway safety.

“It’s the first of its kind,” says David Findlay, co-founder of Compliance Innovations, the South Carolina company that created the e-tags.  “It’s not an LCD or an LED. What it’s made of is electronic paper. It’s a new technology that allows you to hold the image with no power whatsoever for over 10 years. The only time it needs power is when you’re changing the status or the image on the plate.”

That power comes from the vibrations of your car, and from a transparent film over the tag that collects solar power.

The reason e-tags should improve highway safety is because the tags would be electronically linked to the DMV, so if a driver’s license has been suspended or his insurance has lapsed, the DMV would send a signal to the license plate. The word “SUSPENDED” or “UNINSURED” would appear on the license plate.

If your car is stolen, the DMV could make the tag read “STOLEN”. The state could also use the tags during Amber Alerts or other emergencies.”

 

 

 

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“1984″ Surges On Amazon’s Hot Sellers List

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June 11, 2013

‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ Sales Spike Amid Surveillance Disclosures

 

 

 

 

” One of the hottest beach reads this summer is “Nineteen Eighty-Four.”

The spate of disclosures about America’s surveillance apparatus appears to have spurred not only allusions to Orwell’s dystopian classic, but also a surge of book sales.

According to Amazon.com Inc. sales data posted earlier Tuesday, one edition of the 64-year-old book jumped more than 7,000% in its overall sale rankings since the beginning of the week. Ranked 13,074 on Monday, the title is now in the top 200.

Editions of  “Nineteen Eighty-Four” now occupy at least four out of the top 50 spots in Amazon’s “movers & shakers” list of big gainers over the last 24 hours.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Privacy In The Age Of PRISM … Tips And Software To Help

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June 11, 2013

5 WAYS TO THWART THE NSA AND GOV’T FROM SPYING ON YOU

 

 

 

 

” Those concerned about their communication privacy — be it over the phone or on the Web — may then be wondering: Is there anything to be done? Is full privacy even possible?

We went searching and found a few answers. Here are a few tips:

1. Go off the grid:

2. Keep your browsing quiet:

3. Encrypt. Encrypt. Encrypt:

4. Secure phone conversations:

5. Avoid cellphone tracking:

Is full privacy even possible?

Tech experts say even some encryption services have left backdoors for law enforcement purposes. And Smith said completely preventing metadata being collected from phone communications isn’t entirely possible either. The tips mentioned above are just a few ideas to increase privacy.

Zaborszky said unless one isolates oneself from how the rest of society uses technology, it’s not possible to avoid all snooping.

“But it is important to know that it’s not the technical side of things that is the weak link, but the legal side and the fact that most of these companies are based in the USA and are bound by US laws,” he noted.”

    Each of the headings is filled with tips , links to useful software sites , videos and further elaboration on minimizing your web presence . Well worth the read .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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George Orwell Knew What He Was Talking About

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June 10, 2013

NSA PRISM: 3 Ways Orwell’s ’1984′ Saw This Coming

 

 

 

 

 

” In light of the PRISM revelation and the government’s collaboration with private industry in its efforts to collect data, we find ourselves thinking about literary master George Orwell, author of such dystopian achievements as “Animal Farm” and “1984.” The more we think about Orwell’s writings, the more we wonder if he saw all of this coming. Here are three examples that prove he did.

1. Big Brother Is Watching You

This line is uttered all throughout “1984″ and refers to the all-seeing, all-knowing entity that dominates the minds of Oceania’s populace, where 1984 takes place. If the PRISM revelation is any indication, Big Brother certainly is watching us.” 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The NSA/Corporate Snooping Cooperative

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June 10, 2013

Just How Much Did Tech Companies Play Footsie With the NSA?

 

 

 

” How complicit are tech companies in the National Security Agency’s massive spying scheme? They certainly bear some responsibility, but the rules under which the surveillance is conducted make it unclear — perhaps deliberately — the extent to which companies have resisted or folded, and also limit the channels available to the more privacy-minded to put up a fight.

News reports make it clear that many companies not only cooperated with the NSA, but even modified their systems to allow government spooks easier access to data. Others are known to have been less willing to make life easy for snoops.

Make no mistake, even the Twitters of the world are required to surrender information about their users when ordered to do so under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. And, they are forbidden to tell targeted users, civil liberties advocates or the public at large anything about such orders. Resistant companies can appeal, but only through the secretive process allowed them by the law. And we know that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court approved all but one of the 1,856 surveillance requests it received in 2012. One was withdrawn. None were disapproved. So, even the most privacy-minded tech executives have limited options when it comes to protecting their cutomers’ information.

From Reuters:

U.S. Internet companies that want to resist government demands to hand over customer data for intelligence investigations have few legal options, due to the classified nature of such probes and a court review process shrouded in secrecy.

Some of the complaints about government pressure from business executives are, no doubt, sincere. But take them all with a grain of salt.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Neil Cavuto Goes Off On Liberal Mouthpiece Julian Epstein – ” Cut His Damn Mike ”

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June 9, 2013

Neil Cavuto Goes Off on Liberal Mouthpiece Julian Epstein – “Cut His Mic!”

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“It’s All About Keeping You Safe” … Sure

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June 8, 2013

Government Says Secret Court Opinion on Law Underlying PRISM Program Needs to Stay Secret

 

 

 

” In a rare public filing in the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), the Justice Department today urged continued secrecy for a 2011 FISC opinion finding government surveillance to be unconstitutional.  Significantly, the activities at issue were carried out under the controversial legal authority that underlies the National Security Agency’s recently-revealed PRISM program.

EFF filed a suit under the Freedom of Information Act in August 2012, seeking disclosure of the FISC ruling.  Sens. Ron Wyden and Mark Udall revealed the existence of the opinion, which found that collection activities under FISA Section 702  “circumvented the spirit of the law” and violated the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures. But, at the time, the Senators were not permitted to discuss the details publicly. Section 702 has taken on new importance this week, as it appears to form the basis for the extensive PRISM surveillance program reported recently in the Guardian and the Washington Post.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Washington Post Offers In-Depth Article On PRISM … British Intelligence Has Access Too

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June 8, 2013

U.S., British Intelligence Mining Data From Nine U.S. Internet Companies In Broad Secret Program

 

 

 

 

” The program, code-named PRISM, has not been made public until now. It may be the first of its kind. The NSA prides itself on stealing secrets and breaking codes, and it is accustomed to corporate partnerships that help it divert data traffic or sidestep barriers. But there has never been a Google or Facebook before, and it is unlikely that there are richer troves of valuable intelligence than the ones in Silicon Valley.

Equally unusual is the way the NSA extracts what it wants, according to the document: “Collection directly from the servers of these U.S. Service Providers: Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube, Apple.”

London’s Guardian newspaper reported Friday that GCHQ, Britain’s equivalent of the NSA, also has been secretly gathering intelligence from the same internet companies through an operation set up by the NSA.

According to documents obtained by The Guardian, PRISM would appear to allow GCHQ to circumvent the formal legal process required in Britain to seek personal material such as emails, photos and videos from an internet company based outside of the country.”

 

 

Despite the spate of corporate denials it would appear that they are all willing participants … shame .

 

 

” In exchange for immunity from lawsuits, companies such as Yahoo and AOL are obliged to accept a “directive” from the attorney general and the director of national intelligence to open their servers to the FBI’s Data Intercept Technology Unit, which handles liaison to U.S. companies from the NSA. In 2008, Congress gave the Justice Department authority for a secret order from the Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Court to compel a reluctant company “to comply.”

In practice, there is room for a company to maneuver, delay or resist. When a clandestine intelligence program meets a highly regulated industry, said a lawyer with experience in bridging the gaps, neither side wants to risk a public fight. The engineering problems are so immense, in systems of such complexity and frequent change, that the FBI and NSA would be hard pressed to build in back doors without active help from each company.“

 

The money quote …

 

“As it is written, there is nothing to prohibit the intelligence community from searching through a pile of communications, which may have been incidentally or accidentally been collected without a warrant, to deliberately search for the phone calls or e-mails of specific Americans,” Udall said.

 

 

 

Related:

Google CEO Larry Page On PRISM: ‘What The…?’

Apple: ‘We Have Never Heard Of PRISM’

Dissecting Big Tech’s Denial of Involvement in NSA’s PRISM …

Google and Facebook Double Down on Prism Denials

PRISM’s NSA fallout: Apple, Google, Facebook issue denials …

Evolution Of The PRISM Denials: This May Be Why They Seem …

Apple, Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Microsoft, Paltalk, AOL issue …

Liberal England: PRISM: Should we believe the internet companies …

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Every Call You Make , Every Search You Take … We’ll Be Watching You

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June 7, 2013

Is Big Data Turning Government Into ‘Big Brother’?

An aerial view of the NSA's Utah Data Center in Bluffdale, Utah, Thursday, June 6, 2013. The government is secretly collecting the telephone records of millions of U.S. customers of Verizon under a top-secret court order, according to the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. The Obama administration is defending the National Security Agency's need to collect such records, but critics are calling it a huge over-reach. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

An aerial view of the NSA's Utah Data Center in Bluffdale, Utah, Thursday, June 6, 2013.

” The revelations that the National Security Agency is perusing millions of U.S. customer phone records at Verizon Communications and snooping on the digital communications stored by nine major Internet services illustrate how aggressively personal data is being collected and analyzed.”

” Personal data being collected and analyzed” … aggressively  … If that doesn’t strike fear in your heart you must be a federal employee …

” Former NSA employee William Binney told The Associated Press that he estimates the agency collects records on 3 billion phone calls each day.”

   All in the name of “national security” of course . It’s for your own benefit , even if you are too obtuse to recognize that fact .

” PRISM gives the U.S. government access to email, documents, audio, video, photographs and other data belonging to foreigners on foreign soil who are under investigation, according to The Washington Post. The newspaper said it reviewed a confidential roster of companies and services participating in PRISM. The companies included AOL Inc., Apple Inc., Facebook Inc., Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Yahoo Inc., Skype, YouTube and Paltalk.”

   The government would never do anything to squander the huge reserves of public trust with which it is embued , ask the Tea Partiers .

” In a sign of the NSA’s determination to vacuum up as much data as possible, the agency has built a data center in Bluffdale, Utah that is five times larger than the U.S. Capitol —all to sift through Big Data. The $2 billion center has fed perceptions that some factions of the U.S. government are determined to build a database of all phone calls, Internet searches and emails under the guise of national security. The Washington Post’s disclosure that both the NSA and FBI have the ability to burrow into computers of major Internet services will likely heighten fears that U.S. government’s Big Data is creating something akin to the ever-watchful Big Brother in George Orwell’s “1984″ novel.” 

” The first step in saving our liberty is to realize how much we have already lost, how we lost it, and how we will continue to lose it unless fundamental political changes occur.”

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Watch What You Say … The NSA Is Listening

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June 7, 2013

 

The NSA Is Building The Country’s Biggest Spy Center 

 

Photo: Name Withheld; Digital Manipulation: Jesse Lenz

 

 

” Under construction by contractors with top-secret clearances, the blandly named Utah Data Center is being built for the National Security Agency. A project of immense secrecy, it is the final piece in a complex puzzle assembled over the past decade. Its purpose: to intercept, decipher, analyze, and store vast swaths of the world’s communications as they zap down from satellites and zip through the underground and undersea cables of international, foreign, and domestic networks. The heavily fortified $2 billion center should be up and running in September 2013. Flowing through its servers and routers and stored in near-bottomless databases will be all forms of communication, including the complete contents of private emails, cell phone calls, and Google searches, as well as all sorts of personal data trails—parking receipts, travel itineraries, bookstore purchases, and other digital “pocket litter.” It is, in some measure, the realization of the “total information awareness” program created during the first term of the Bush administration—an effort that was killed by Congress in 2003 after it caused an outcry over its potential for invading Americans’ privacy.

But “this is more than just a data center,” says one senior intelligence official who until recently was involved with the program. The mammoth Bluffdale center will have another important and far more secret role that until now has gone unrevealed. It is also critical, he says, for breaking codes. And code-breaking is crucial, because much of the data that the center will handle—financial information, stock transactions, business deals, foreign military and diplomatic secrets, legal documents, confidential personal communications—will be heavily encrypted. According to another top official also involved with the program, the NSA made an enormous breakthrough several years ago in its ability to cryptanalyze, or break, unfathomably complex encryption systems employed by not only governments around the world but also many average computer users in the US. The upshot, according to this official: “Everybody’s a target; everybody with communication is a target.” “

 

 

   While this article is a couple months old we thought it more relevant than ever given recent revelations of the NSA demanding ALL Verizon phone records .

     We are in a battle for our privacy and the adversary is not international … no , the enemy is our own government . We are paying for the weapons of the destruction of liberty . Our fore-fathers would be appalled . The federal government makes King George look like a benevolent uncle in comparison .

 

 

 

 

 

 

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DHS , IRS , DoJ … They’re All Corrupt And They Are All Spying On Us

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May 23, 2013

Editor’s Note : This story first appeared a year ago but we missed it . However , in light of recent revelations regarding what seems to be normal procedure for various agencies of the federal government we thought it would be of interest to our readers .

 

 

Dept. of Homeland Security Forced To Release List Of Keywords Used To Monitor Social Networking Sites

 

 

 

 

” In a story appearing earlier today on the U.K’s Daily Mail website, it was reported that the DHS has been forced to release a list of keywords and phrases it uses to monitor various social networking sites. The list provides a glimpse into what DHS describes as “signs of terrorist or other threats against the U.S.”

The list was posted by the Electronic Privacy Information Center who filed a request under the Freedom of Information Act, before suing to obtain the release of the documents. The documents were part of the department’s 2011 ’Analyst’s Desktop Binder‘ used by workers at their National Operations Center which instructs workers to identify ‘media reports that reflect adversely on DHS and response activities’.”

 

 

” (Update 1: Reading through the Desktop Binder, I discovered the DHS Twitter account is @dhsnocmmc1 and DHS appears to be using tweetdeck to monitor the various keywords. See Page 38 – Also interesting to note they seem to be using a Mac Mini as a server, and no password vaults. All Passwords appear to be shared in a plain text word document.)

(Update 2: On page 37, DHS instructs analysts to accept invalid SSL certificates forever without verification. Although invalid SSL warnings often appear in benign situations, they can also signal a man-in-the-middle attack.Not a good practice for the security conscience. Thanks to @obra on twitter for the tip.)”

 

 

    Here are some of the keywords DHS is monitoring . Go here to see the whole list and read the DHS Desktop Binder.

 

 

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Read up on how your government is reading your stuff 

                You can read the original article at the DailyMail.co.uk

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The State Of Statism

Filed under: Arrogance, Civil Liberties, Constitution, Corruption, Hope and Change, Hypocrisy, Law Enforcement Thuggery, Lies, Police State, Politics, Privacy, Shame, Statism — 1 Comment
May 23, 2013

DOJ: We Don’t Need Warrants For E-Mail, Facebook Chats

 

 

 

 

” The U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI believe they don’t need a search warrant to review Americans’ e-mails, Facebook chats, Twitter direct messages, and other private files, internal documents reveal.

Government documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union and provided to CNET show a split over electronic privacy rights within the Obama administration, with Justice Department prosecutors and investigators privately insisting they’re not legally required to obtain search warrants for e-mail. The IRS, on the other hand, publicly said last month that it would abandon a controversial policy that claimed it could get warrantless access to e-mail correspondence.”

 

 

 

 

 

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Hidden Clause In Amnesty Bill To Create National ID System … Big Brother Looms

Filed under: Arrogance, Civil Liberties, Constitution, Corruption, Founding Fathers, History, Hope and Change, Hypocrisy, Individualism, Law Enforcement Thuggery, Liberty, Nanny State, Police State, Politics, Privacy, Scams, Shame, Statism — Leave a comment
May 12, 2013

Biometric Database Of All Adult Americans Hidden In Immigration Reform

 

 

” The immigration reform measure the Senate began debating yesterday would create a national biometric database of virtually every adult in the U.S., in what privacy groups fear could be the first step to a ubiquitous national identification system.

Buried in the more than 800 pages of the bipartisan legislation (.pdf)  is language mandating the creation of the innocuously-named “photo tool,” a massive federal database administered by the Department of Homeland Security and containing names, ages, Social Security numbers and photographs of everyone in the country with a driver’s license or other state-issued photo ID.

Employers would be obliged to look up every new hire in the database to verify that they match their photo.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Don’t Like CISPA ? Join The Blackout … Or Add A Twibbon To Your Profile Pic

Filed under: Arrogance, Civil Liberties, Corruption, Hope and Change, Hypocrisy, Internet Freedom, Law, Liberty, New Media, Police State, Politics, Privacy, Regulation, Shame, Statism — 1 Comment
April 22, 2013

Anonymous Leads 200+ Websites In April 22 Blackout To Protest CISPA

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” As various time zones begin ticking over to April 22, an Anonymous-led Web blackout has begun that will reportedly include over 200 sites suspending regular operations in protest of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) that recently passed the US House of Representatives.

Anonymous and other groups called for the blackout last week using the hashtags #CISPAblackout and #StopCISPA.

While the action is meant to be a repeat of last year’s anti-SOPA blackout, which included participation from Wikipedia and Google, Monday’s CISPA protest appears to be mostly limited to the hacker and Anonymous circles. At present, no major mainstream websites appear on the list of participants.

Beyond just standalone websites, some Anonymous and Occupy Facebook and Twitter accounts have agreed to go silent for the day. Others are using a twibbon campaign or a #StopCISPA profile picture.”

Other Websites

this is a list of other websites that have stated they will be joining in on the #CISPABlackout.

Check out what they’ve done to have their voice heard! If you would like to add your site to the list, feel free to contact me atanonyops@gmail.com

http://friendlyneighborhoodanarchist.com/ 
http://dannykhaos.com/ 
http://nuclearcoffee.org/ 
http://anonplusradio.com 
http://anonyops.com/ 
http://www.geekrepublic.org/ 
http://hackarchives.org/ 
http://www.defterianaynosi.com/ 
http://brandonleestewart.blogspot.com/ 
http://prisonmovement.wordpress.com/ 
http://FilmsUCK.net 
https://cyberguerrilla.org/ 
http://cyberguerrilla.tk/ 
https://cyberguerrilla.org/ 
http://www.cripplingwow.webs.com/ 
http://pagan-chat.com/ 
http://www.warkclan.co.nr/ 
http://apexsec.webs.com/ 
http://sliverofjade.tumblr.com/ 
http://sliverofjade.blogspot.ca/ 
http://www.deeptrace.org/ 
http://www.gamerevolution.com/ 
http://techforpeople.org/ 
http://krasnek-andreas.blogspot.ro/ 
http://www.midwestsolutions.org/ 
http://www.timsommer.be/ 
http://www.renderedred.com/ 
http://www.work.renderedred.com/ 
http://landofnone.com/ 
http://www.bladedomainandhosting.com/ 
http://www.roundsquareart.com/ 
http://mythelogic.com/ 
http://headshothunters.com/ 
http://singamers.com/ 
http://xboxelites.com/ 
http://siteflaunt.com/ 
http://carboncyber.com/ 
http://codestr.com/ 
http://www.renderedred.org 
http://www.ctrlaltneu.net 
http://www.ototarbut.net 
http://www.jerusalemdigest.com 
http://www.reoriented.me 
http://www.little-gamers.com/ 
http://shaunie.me/ 
http://rpgamer.me/ 
http://win-get.tk/ 
http://theidealstate.com/ 
http://davis-blog.de.vu/ 
http://v3ct0ranon.tk/ 
http://medinitagamer.com/ 
http://themicrojet.com/ 
http://sweilem.tumblr.com/ 
http://sdbmusic.com/ 
http://www.ericrochford.com/ 
http://www.zero-security.org/ 
http://www.tier23.enjin.com/ 
http://propculture.com/ 
http://freebradleymanning.net/ 
http://rubbingalcoholic.com/ 
http://carb0n-c0pies.tumblr.com/ 
http://www.documentingdystopia.org/main/ 
http://globaledm.fm/ 
http://www.ashytojazzy.com/ 
http://www.cloudcraft.co/ 
http://halfbits.com/ 
http://blackout.ihubhost.net/ 
http://cloudchiller.net/ 
http://longlostfilm4.wix.com/longlostfilms 
http://www.lookthrumyeyes.com/ 
http://batboxsports.com/ 
http://uri.ariea.net/ 
http://www.flightofthebastards.com/ 
http://j3.technetron.com/ 
http://conscience-sociale.blogspot.com/ 
http://awak3n.net/ 
http://legalitpy.com/index.htm 
http://www.chris552299.com/ 
http://www.werstnet.com/ 
http://lyricpanic.tumblr.com/ 
http://www.ukchemicalresearch.org/ 
http://www.ukchemicalresearch.org/ 
http://superhighschoollevelmisogyny.tumblr.com/ 
http://221bitssmallerontheoutside.tumblr.com/ 
http://Cas-das-gay.tumblr.com/ 
http://Merlins-super-who-lock.tumblr.com/ 
http://im-samwinchester.tumblr.com/ 
http://acupuncturewi.com/ 
http://theinfojunkies.com/ 
http://starrchasers.com/ 
http://www.mymichaelonlineserver.com/ 
http://mbratz123.wix.com/monikamullins/ 
http://wilmarthcafe.org/ 
http://www.documentingdystopia.org/main/ 
http://subaruu.tumblr.com/ 
http://ashytojazzy.com/ 
http://FuzzTalkRadio.com/ 
http://illpoe.com/ 
http://relliumprime.com/ 
http://mankatomusiccalendar.com/ 
http://goodnightgolddust.com/ 
http://professorfresh.com/ 
http://legendtriforce.tumblr.com/ 
http://onetitwonder.tumblr.com/ 
http://socialjustice-ebooks.tumblr.com/ 
http://of-existence.tumblr.com/ 
http://www.life-pods.org/ 
http://jeremylaxxx.tumblr.com/ 
http://www.askfordreams.tumblr.com/ 
http://www.infosactu.com/blackout/ 
http://ashleymills.com/ 
http://iguru.gr/ 
http://michaeltaillard.com/ 
http://thealternativethoughts.blogspot.com/ 
http://shehab3451-hacking.tumblr.com/ 
http://t.co/G6fRpFXId8 
http://t.co/TfZFUwwaqu 
http://www.danielsn.com/ 
http://www.hmcv.co.uk/ 
http://www.martinmck.com/ 
http://blackout.martinmck.co.uk/ 
http://www.greatmarshskincare.com/Home.html 
http://beingcontrarian.tumblr.com/ 
http://n0where.net/ 
http://fearturkeygaming.tumblr.com/ 
http://irkensec.com/ 
http://anonymousopc.ucoz.com/ 
http://well-played.de/ 
https://3qu1n0xh4ck3rz.wordpress.com/ 
http://wikianonbg.com/ 
http://www.legitsource.net/ 
http://www.joeproxy.co.uk/cispa_blackout/ 
http://www.grandmstramrod.co.uk/ 
http://ienjoypocky.tumblr.com/ 
http://apcommunity.org/ 
http://mrmcqueenrecords.com/ 
http://pi-note.com/ 
http://vudu.sl/ 
http://sectord.in/ 
http://sonic-convergence.com/ 
http://state-lines.com/ 
http://www.papillion.me/ 
http://adcl.us/ 
http://ragingtech.com/ 
http://www.yongqung.netau.net/cispa/ 
http://blackout.johnmcmanusuk.com/ 
http://www.ukanonymousevents.com/ 
http://rzgjoe.com/blackout.html 
http://epe.si/ 
http://forum.epesibim.com/index.php 
http://www.racecarproductions.com/ 
http://www.grovespire.com/ 
http://neidstudio.com/ 
http://llamacage.com/ 
http://jeffavery.com/ 
http://blog.virginialocalmusic.org/ 
http://www.legitsource.net/ 
http://ellenpage.org/ 
http://ellen-page.net/ 
http://ellenpageonline.com/ 
http://geomodules.com/ 
http://www.visitccr.com/ 
http://ipenguincraft.tk/ 
http://trio-fi.tumblr.com/ 
http://www.premierpropertiesofsouthcarolina.com/ 
http://pardygames.com/ 
https://www.hostisto.com/ 
http://www.iny.me/ 
http://www.ridiculousfacts.com/ 
https://www.vastfiles.com/ 
http://nmgaming.net/ 
http://wrinklefreeit.com/ 
http://e22.se/ 
http://kklasen.net/ 
http://disk-one.se/ 
http://www.catware.fr/ 
http://www.tylermaschino.com/ 
http://www.avinchmc.co.uk/ 
http://www.hardcore-gamer.enjin.com/ 
http://michaeltaillard.com/ 
http://steadfast-hole-hearted.tumblr.com/ 
http://pinguinland.eu/ 
http://www.masterofmanythings.com/ 
http://www.breezestudios.de.vu/ 
http://www.kayfilms.com/ 
http://www.frostedsalt.com/ 
http://kablowsion.com/ 
http://okotto.com/ 
http://alexvasile.com/ 
http://wddij.com/ 
http://coolz3.com/ 
http://jailbreakpois0n.com/ 
http://wordsdontdoitjustice.com/ 
http://atlantakyusho.com/ 
http://empoweryourselfsolutions.com/ 
http://eko-technology.com/ 
http://otticalisotti.com/ 
http://waydotnet.com/ 
http://cafa-energy.com/ 
http://studiotrolio.com/ 
http://hoboway.tumblr.com/ 
http://bitcatalog.tumblr.com/ 
http://j3.technetron.com/ 
http://xenobot.net/ 
http://devinlagrange.com/ 
http://www.vgpi.us.lt/ 
http://www.basecampnetworks.com/ 
http://www.vgcclan.com/ 
http://cursedout.com/ 
http://celestinetarot.com/ 
http://landstudy.org/ 
http://www.swiftdataservices.com/ 
http://www.itsatormato.com/ 
http://anoninsiders.net/ 
http://phillydeclaration.org/ 
http://bazaardaily.com/ 
http://iamlawrence.com/ 
http://www.community-gaming.net/ 
http://thetapedeck.net/ 
http://apollyondesigns.com/ 
http://flynndidy.com/ 
http://www.uisystems.us/ 
https://cubicwebs.com/blackout/ 
http://www.dontcomply.com/ 
http://thethreadsnyc.com/ 
http://www.gpfransen.eu/ 
http://www.aeridox.com/ 
http://shadesix.com/ 
http://www.mkcraft.net/ 
http://www.starrlightjewelry.com/ 
http://run2help.org/ 
http://donutdev.com/ 
http://rogyproductions.com/ 
http://unlicrea.com/ 
http://www.ilikeweirdstuff.com/ 
http://darkernet.in/ 
http://thetyk.blogspot.com/ 
http://lily-literally.tumblr.com/ 
http://www.lettersnstuff.com/ 
http://sandalian.com/ 
http://onewaymail.com/ 
http://www.squidblacklist.org/ 
http://haxradio.com/ 
http://thadoubleo.com/ 
http://thacommonwealth.com/ 
http://www.censorshipinamerica.com/ 
http://www.ipwnstore.me/offline/ 
http://www.ericsdigitaldesign.com/ 
http://www.occupyappleton.org/ 
http://dedicto.com/ 
http://azraelofthe8th.tumblr.com/ 
http://www.esotech.org/ 
http://pnwresistance.webs.com/ 
http://uniteblue.com/ 
http://proto-architecture.com/blog/ 
http://abetterpeople.org/ 
http://jredatabase.com/ 
http://tambnguyen.com/ 
http://everydayisordinary.tumblr.com/ 
http://ease-host.com/ 
http://www.f150online.com/forums/members/150004-animated_zombie.html 
http://www.toyotanation.com/forum/214918-animated_zombie.html 
http://www.tranquilocostarica.com/ 
http://mik3hunt.tumblr.com/ 
http://www.tektyfoon.in/ 
http://joannablackhart.tumblr.com/ 
http://azraelofthe8th.tumblr.com/ 
http://www.sanctumshow.tumblr.com/ 
http://panzondaground.tumblr.com/ 
http://www.anjelsyndicate.org/ 
http://eduardprogramming.blogspot.com/ 
http://ghost665.tumblr.com/ 
http://182productions.com/ 
http://bricky149.tumblr.com/ 
http://thefafclan.com/content/ 
http://apollyondesigns.com/ 
http://weaselpup.com/ 
http://mordhaus.servebeer.com/ 
http://www.rejecthaven.org/ 
http://greeen-t.tumblr.com/ 
http://www.hdspot.net/ 
http://cheapassfiction.com/ 
http://workingshirt.com/ 
http://freakoutnation.com/ 
http://www.a-revolt.org/ 
http://www.laurencehudson.com/ 
http://www.laurencehudson.com/ 
http://audiobookaneers.com/ 
http://www.allpoliticsissexy.com/ 
http://kudoshelp.com/ 
http://sndacechp.org/ 
http://vlsss.org/ 
http://ijcpr.org/ 
http://sndace.com/ 
http://rjashi.in/ 
http://btiesagar.com/ 
http://sshcjain-sagar.org/ 
http://apnadamoh.com/ 
http://khajurahohotel.com/ 
http://dmasagar.com/ 
http://kinpaku.tumblr.com/ 
http://kinpakuwolfe.blogspot.com/ 
http://www.lemuelkoh.com/ 
http://anchoringsailors.tumblr.com/ 
http://spiralnexus.net/ 
http://www.hiddenvillages.net/ 
http://lightningswrath.tumblr.com/ 
http://www.dreamscan.net/ 
http://blueboxgaming.net/ 
http://talktoloi.hj.cx/ 
http://www.stealthnetintelligencenetwork.org/ 
http://www.theacblog.com/ 
http://artoverlifestudios.com 
http://ngaotus.com/ 
http://bethritterguth.org/ 
http://collegeenglish.wikispaces.com/ 
http://thesoupfairy.maka.net/ 
http://youarenotalone.maka.net/ 
http://www.patriciapaquette.com/ 
http://www.classicallymish.com/ 
http://www.salvationcanada.org/ 
http://www.marcogomes.com/cispablackout/ 
http://debbie-cakes.tumblr.com/ 
http://debra-douglas.tumblr.com/ 
http://theryukudojo.com/ 
http://kyushocombatives.com/ 
http://modernarnisacademy.com/ 
http://drstephaniesears.com/ 
http://leesternthal.tumblr.com/ 
http://www.sosialtsenter.no/ 
http://jojotari.tumblr.com/ 
http://thejojoreblog.tumblr.com/ 
http://simsdramallama.tumblr.com/ 
http://waitisaidwhat.tumblr.com/ 
http://www.taomex.com 
http://www.silver-brite.com 
http://www.xcarex.com 
http://www.thetaogroup.com 
http://www.asiantao.com 
http://mlpos.tk/ 
http://www.occupythestage.net/ 
http://monmatia.com/ 
http://divisionbmx.net/ 
http://crowdfeed.net/ 
http://www.theworldofjoeriggs.com/ 
http://techminer.no-ip.org/ 
http://www.ificarium.com/ 
http://www.donkeyrescueresourcenetwork.com/ 
http://amerisec.org/ 
http://www.opjuly4th.com/ 
http://stleinc.com/ 
http://www.laptopenquire.com/ 
http://www.jadexcode.com/ 
http://www.reappropriate.co/ 
http://www.informandengage.com/ 
http://wtfrly.com/ 
http://xpherio.com/ 
http://monmatia.com/ 
http://fabulouslyjinxed.com/cispa_blackout/index.htm 
http://www.justinwedes.com/ 
http://aki.pw/ 
http://www.mafiamind.com/ 
http://idontcareimjustinspired.tumblr.com/ 
https://occupybustour.wordpress.com/ 
http://www.ImInItForTheScarves.com 
http://www.IOUNoteshare.com/ 
http://www.MuslimLearner.com/ 
http://www.lepostelectro.com/ 
http://www.allenjonesconsulting.com/ 
http://pnwresistance.webs.com/ 
http://www.foofoomart.com/ 
http://csrtorrington.com/ 
http://bizboro.com/ 
http://www.samaradesigns.com/ 
http://frickinexcuse.net/ 
http://janyaascrapbook.wordpress.com/ 
http://imusicplayer.com/ 
http://www.sleektalk.com/ 
https://theillusivewriter.tumblr.com/ 
http://www.tswhosting.com/ 
http://threeskateboarding.com/ 
http://www.peakoilblues.org/blog/ 
http://battlefieldpodcast.com/ 
http://sincerelychris.com/ 
http://xorcia.net/ 
http://xorcia.org/ 
http://www.extremecouponsandsavings.ca/ 
http://naturallygood4u.webs.com/ 
http://www.freeadvertising4ufree.webs.com/ 
http://providethecaption.com/ 
http://edm4l.tumblr.com/ 
http://mightymutantweidstuff.blogspot.ie/ 
http://www.drinkcocaine.com/ 
http://www.reduxdirect.com/ 
A total of 394 websites have pledged to join the protest against CISPA.

In a addition, there are a number of Facebook pages and Twitter accounts that will be going silent all day. Some of these include Occupy Wall Street’s Facebook, and other Anonymous related Twitter / Facebook accounts.
What if I don’t have a website and want to help?

If you don’t own a website, you can help out by spreading awareness of CISPA. You can also assist by generally informing people about #CISPABlackout.

There has also been a twibbon campaign started to raise awareness about CISPA, and some people are changing their profile pictures on social networks to the one below!

 

 

Stop CISPA Image

http://www.cispaisback.org/ 
#CISPABlackout”
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House Republicans F**K Us All – Passes CISPA … Party Of Freedom My ASS

Filed under: Arrogance, Civil Liberties, Constitution, Corruption, Hope and Change, Internet Freedom, Law Enforcement Thuggery, Liberty, Police State, Politics, Privacy, Shame, Statism — 3 Comments
April 18, 2013

House Approves CISPA Over Privacy Objections

” The U.S. House of Representatives has voted to approve a controversial cyberthreat information-sharing bill, despite opposition from the White House and several privacy and digital rights groups.

The House on Thursday voted 288-127 to approve the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), a bill that would allow U.S. intelligence agencies to share cyberthreat information with private companies. It would also shield private companies that voluntarily share cyberthreat information with each other and with government agencies from privacy lawsuits brought by customers.

The bill would still need to be passed by the U.S. Senate before heading to President Barack Obama for his signature. The Senate declined to act on another version of CISPA during the last session of Congress, and earlier this week, Obama’s advisors threatened a veto, although that was before the House approved a handful of amendments intended to address privacy concerns.

CISPA would allow private companies to share a broad range of customer data with each other and with government agencies, privacy groups have complained.

Supporters, however, argued the legislation is needed to encourage better information sharing about active cyberattacks, resulting in better defense of U.S. networks. Federal law now prohibits intelligence agencies from sharing classified cyberthreat information with private companies.”

 Here is the vote list … Know your traitors . Statist Scumbags … and the republicans would have us believe that they are the party of liberty ? 

FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 192(Republicans in roman; Democrats in italic; Independents underlined)
H R 3523      RECORDED VOTE      26-Apr-2012      6:31 PM
QUESTION:  On Passage
BILL TITLE: To provide for the sharing of certain cyber threat intelligence and cyber threat information between the intelligence community and cybersecurity entities, and for other purposes

AYES NOES PRES NV
REPUBLICAN 206 28 7
DEMOCRATIC 42 140 8
INDEPENDENT
TOTALS 248 168   15

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Adams
Aderholt
Alexander
Altmire
Amodei
Austria
Bachmann
Bachus
Barletta
Barrow
Bartlett
Bass (NH)
Benishek
Berg
Biggert
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (NY)
Black
Blackburn
Bonner
Bono Mack
Boren
Boswell
Boustany
Brady (TX)
Broun (GA)
Buchanan
Buerkle
Burgess
Burton (IN)
Butterfield
Calvert
Camp
Campbell
Cantor
Capito
Cardoza
Carney
Carter
Cassidy
Castor (FL)
Chabot
Chaffetz
Chandler
Clyburn
Coble
Coffman (CO)
Cole
Conaway
Connolly (VA)
Cooper
Costa
Cravaack
Crawford
Crenshaw
Critz
Cuellar
Culberson
Denham
Dent
DesJarlais
Diaz-Balart
Dicks
Dold
Donnelly (IN)
Dreier
Duffy
Duncan (SC)
Duncan (TN)
Ellmers
Fincher
Fitzpatrick
Flake
Fleischmann
Flores
Forbes
Fortenberry
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen
Gallegly		 Garamendi
Gardner
Garrett
Gerlach
Gibbs
Gingrey (GA)
Gonzalez
Goodlatte
Gowdy
Granger
Graves (GA)
Graves (MO)
Griffin (AR)
Griffith (VA)
Grimm
Guinta
Guthrie
Hanabusa
Hanna
Harper
Harris
Hartzler
Hastings (WA)
Hayworth
Heck
Hensarling
Herger
Herrera Beutler
Hochul
Huelskamp
Huizenga (MI)
Hultgren
Hunter
Hurt
Israel
Issa
Jenkins
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, Sam
Jordan
Kelly
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kingston
Kinzinger (IL)
Kissell
Kline
Labrador
Lamborn
Lance
Langevin
Lankford
Larsen (WA)
Latham
LaTourette
Latta
Lewis (CA)
Lipinski
LoBiondo
Long
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Lummis
Lungren, Daniel E.
Manzullo
Matheson
McCarthy (CA)
McCarthy (NY)
McCaul
McIntyre
McKeon
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
Meehan
Mica
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Miller, Gary
Moran
Mulvaney
Murphy (PA)
Myrick
Neugebauer		 Noem
Nugent
Nunes
Nunnelee
Olson
Owens
Palazzo
Paulsen
Peterson
Petri
Pitts
Platts
Poe (TX)
Pompeo
Price (GA)
Quayle
Reed
Reichert
Renacci
Ribble
Rivera
Roby
Roe (TN)
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rogers (MI)
Rokita
Rooney
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Ross (AR)
Ross (FL)
Royce
Runyan
Ruppersberger
Ryan (WI)
Scalise
Schilling
Schmidt
Schock
Schrader
Scott (SC)
Scott, Austin
Scott, David
Sessions
Shimkus
Shuler
Shuster
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Smith (WA)
Southerland
Stearns
Stivers
Stutzman
Sullivan
Terry
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tiberi
Tipton
Towns
Turner (NY)
Turner (OH)
Upton
Walberg
Walden
Webster
West
Westmoreland
Whitfield
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Wolf
Womack
Woodall
Yoder
Young (AK)
Young (FL)
Young (IN)

—- NOES    168 —

Ackerman
Akin
Amash
Andrews
Baca
Baldwin
Barton (TX)
Bass (CA)
Becerra
Berkley
Berman
Bishop (UT)
Bonamici
Brady (PA)
Braley (IA)
Brooks
Brown (FL)
Capps
Capuano
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Big Brother Rears It’s Head In Dayton Ohio

Filed under: Civil Liberties, Constitution, Corruption, Crime, Hope and Change, Hypocrisy, Law Enforcement Thuggery, Liberty, Photography, Police State, Politics, Privacy, Statism — Leave a comment
April 13, 2013

Ohio Town Wants To Implement Massive Aerial Surveillance Program

 

 

 

” Officials with the Dayton City Commission recently announced that they hope to sign a $120,000 contract with a local security company in order to give law enforcement agencies an eye-in-the-sky ability unheard of elsewhere in America. While the Federal Aviation Administration continues to ponder just exactly how unmanned aerial vehicles or drones will be able to conduct surveillance in the sky, sending manned aircraft through the clouds isn’t something that involves as many hurdles. That will make it all the easier if Dayton gets the go-ahead to sign-on to a pricey program being touted by Persistent Surveillance Systems.

To the Dayton Daily News, PSS’s Ross McNutt said the city would be allowed to access a video camera feed from a piloted aircraft that could be deployed to around 10,000 feet off the ground. PSS would provide the city with the plane and the pilot, and with the right know-how the police would be able to extensively monitor an area as large as the city’s entire downtown.

According to a slideshow presented before the City Commission earlier this year and since obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union, Dayton officials are looking at more than just a dinky plane outfitted with a couple of Kodaks. The city is apparently pursuing a program called “Trusted Situational Awareness,” which PSS says can collect real-time data and imagery to law enforcement so the police can identify and interrupt illegal activity while at the same time collecting “valuable forensic intelligence.” “

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Government Testing Gun-Detecting Drones Here In USA

Filed under: Arrogance, Civil Liberties, Conspiracy, Constitution, Corruption, Drones/UAV, Gun Control, Gun Rights, Guns, Law Enforcement Thuggery, Liberty, Natural Rights, Police State, Politics, Privacy, Science & Technology, Self-Defense, Shame, Statism — 1 Comment
April 10, 2013

[Video] BREAKING: Local News Reports Government Testing Gun Detecting Drones In Oklahoma

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Andrew K Dart Defensive Gun Use Compendium And So Much More

Filed under: Constitution, Corruption, Education, Gun Control, Gun Rights, Guns, History, Hypocrisy, Individual Responsibility, Police State, Politics, Statism — Leave a comment
March 25, 2013

Cases In Which Guns Saved Lives

 

 

    At the link you will find a massive page of documented cases of defensive gun use . If you scroll down to the bottom you will find the link to Andrew’s homepage which is a treasure trove of links to all manner of subjects of interest to those of us who oppose gun control , big government and statism. Poke around  and you are sure to find loads of information you can use for blogging purposes , to prove an argument or just for self-education . Bookmark it and use it for future reference . You’ll be glad you did .

 Below is just a small sampling of what is available from Andrew’s page . On the site all of the below listed topics are hot-linked and will provide you with hours of reading and research . I’e removed the links so as not o steal Mr Dart’s thunder . Go there and see for yourself . He has put an incredible amount of work into his site and it reads like an encyclopedia of statist references for the liberty-loving individual .

” Timely topics

Gun control  and  disingenuous arguments for gun control

Zero Tolerance insanity in public schools

Same-sex marriage
Major Nidal Malik Hasan and the Fort Hood shooting
The Food Police
Postage Rates and  Saturday deliveries

OFA
Welfare fraud, food stamps, and “disability” payments
The Proposed National ID Card
Obama’s drones and the secret kill list
Lies about the Benghazi terrorist attack
Cases in which guns saved lives
Gun control failures
Media bias related to firearms
Threats to the Constitution
RINOs
The United States has plenty of oil
President Obama manipulates the news media  … but they don’t care.

Secession
Impeachment

  The above is just a partial list of topics , there is plenty more to see and reference . 

   Below is a letter from Mr Dart to a fellow blogger in which he sets for his motivations .

Dear Mr. Cunningham, 

” Thank you for your message and the positive feedback about my web site.  Your comments are greatly appreciated, and because the whole operation is free of advertising, compliments from readers are my greatest reward.

Once in a while I may also get a message from someone who disagrees with*everything* I’ve said, and although that is informative, there is just no way to respond to someone like that.

You are correct in your assessment that I’m preaching to the choir, by and large, and most of my web site’s visitors are just looking for confirmation or reinforcement of their opinions.  By searching for my own name on the internet, I have also discovered that some groups on the far left point to me as an example of a right-wing fool.  That’s flattering.

In maintaining my web site, one of my goals is to counteract selective news reporting and to keep important events from disappearing down the media memory hole.  For example, the governor of North Carolina recently suggested that the 2012 elections should be suspended.  Naturally she kicked up a cloud of opposition, and the story soon faded from the headlines (in the few news outlets that mentioned it at all), but we must never forget that the idea came up, and it was a Democrat who brought it up.

My web site serves only to sound the alarm.  The solutions to our country’s problems, in my opinion, would be too “extreme” for our current crop of politicians to implement, as they would have to include such things as a complete turnover in Congress (term limits) and having the military patrol and enforce our border with Mexico (rather than living confortably in Japan or Germany).

Deeper than that, the people of our country are hopelessly divided into two groups:  The producers and the sponges.  A huge fraction of the population is living on government checks, and there’s no way they will ever vote to cut themselves off.  To put it another way, as long as the sponges are allowed to vote, the ratio of sponges to producers will increase — and yet the ratio is already too high to suddenly prohibit them from voting, even if the Constitution would allow such a change.  (The Constitution does not authorize direct payments to individuals, as far as I can tell, but nobody cares about that.)

The second deepest root is that both political parties constantly work to expand the government and, no matter which party is in power, no federal agencies are ever disbanded and dissolved.  Several major government operations have run out of things to do, yet they soak up billions of dollars every year.  Two examples are NASA and the EPA.  A few years ago I tried to assemble a list of all the federal departments, bureaus, institutes, commissions, and so on, and it soon became apparent that there’s no way for one person to find them all.  You can see my list at

http://www.akdart.com/gov1.html

Congratulations on helping to get Chris Gibson into the House of Representatives.  A quick Google search showed me his district.  Incidentally,  Albany, NY, is the farthest I’ve ever been away from home.  (My parents lived in New York until the 1940′s, on a farm outside of Hamilton.  Fortunately they moved to Texas before I was born.  The farm life is wonderful, I’m sure, but I don’t like snow.)

You are quite correct:  Sleepwalking is a dangerous thing.

Have a great day!

Andrew K. Dart

akdart.com “

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