SURVEILLANCE
The Case For Gold, Silver & Energy Has Never Been Stronger
KingWorldNews.com March 10, 2013 Today 40-year veteran, Robert Fitzwilson, wrote the following piece exclusively for King World News. Fitzwilson, who is founder of The Portola Group, urges investors to keep in mind, “Nothing has changed whatsoever as far as the case for gold and silver … The case for energy and the precious metals... »
Maine joins 29 other states considering legislation to restrict police use of drones
Madison Ruppert Activist Post.com Friday, March 8, 2013 State lawmakers in Maine have taken the initial steps towards limiting the use of drones by both state and local law enforcement, joining the many other states around the country also looking to regulate drone use. Similarly, cities including Seattle, Washington and Charlottesville, Virginia are pushing... »
White House: Secret spying on Americans immune to lawsuits
RT.com March 07, 2013 After the US Supreme Court upheld the right of the National Security Agency to wiretap Americans’ communications with foreigners without a warrant, the White House seeks to quash a similar lawsuit citing the plaintiff’s inability to provide evidence. Last week the justices ruled 5-4 against the American Civil Liberties Union... »
Drones: More in Africa; Will Track Gun Owners, Cellphones in U.S.
by Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. TheNewAmerican.com Monday, 04 March 2013 At home and abroad, the scope of the drone war is expanding and liberty is contracting. On February 22, President Barack Obama sent a letter to the speaker of the House and the president pro tempore of the Senate, informing them that he ordered... »
DARPA Wants a Searchable Database of All Your Conversations
The ultimate privacy killer Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com March 4, 2013 DARPA is working on an embryonic project that would store your every verbal conversation on an Internet server, creating a searchable chat database that would represent the ultimate privacy killer. Having failed to establish its infamous Total Information Awareness system, although the... »
“Homeland Security’s specifications say drones must be able to detect whether a civilian is armed”
DHS built domestic surveillance tech into Predator drones Homeland Security’s specifications say drones must be able to detect whether a civilian is armed. Also specified: “signals interception” and “direction finding” for electronic surveillance. by Declan McCullagh CNet.com March 2, 2013 The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has customized its Predator drones, originally built for... »
Records reveal drones used in US can intercept electronic communications, identify people
Madison Ruppert Activist Post.com Saturday, March 2, 2013 Disturbing documents recently obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) reveal that the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is operating drones in the United States that are capable of intercepting electronic communications along with recognizing and... »
Supreme Court: Citizens..(Slaves).. cannot challenge government surveillance laws
by: J. D. Heyes NaturalNews.com Friday, March 01, 2013 A “sharply divided” U.S. Supreme Court erected yet another barrier between the people and their government on Feb. 26 by ruling that ordinary citizens don’t have standing to question government surveillance laws. In a five to four ruling, a majority of justices threw out a... »
Documents Reveal US Marshals Using Spy Drones
Program has remained secret for seven years Steve Watson Prisonplanet.com Feb 28, 2013 Documents obtained by the ACLU have revealed that the U.S. Marshals Service has experimented with using drones for domestic surveillance. The documents, available on the ACLU website, were released via a Freedom of Information Act request. The rights groups says that... »
Big Brother? US linked to new wave of censorship, surveillance on web
By John R. Quain FoxNews.com February 27, 2013 Even the most open, democratic governments have sought laws and new forms of surveillance that many see as a new wave of censorship — and that includes the United States. The U.S. government asked Google for data on its users more than 31,000 times in 2012... »