Posted on 16 July 2008 by admin
David Edwards and Nick Juliano / Raw Story | Wednesday, July 16, 2008
The post-9/11 airline watch list that is supposed to keep terrorists off of airplanes has swelled to more than 1 million names, including at least one investigative reporter who had been critical of the Transportation Security Agency, which maintains the watch list.
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Posted on 16 July 2008 by admin
Matthew Hickley / UK Daily Mail | Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Plans for a massive database snooping on the entire population were condemned yesterday as a ‘step too far for the British way of life’.
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Posted on 13 July 2008 by admin
Mike Finch / American Free Press | Sunday, July 13, 2008
A net-neutrality activist group has uncovered plans for the demise of the free Internet by 2010 in Canada. By 2012, the group says, the trend will be global.
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Posted on 13 July 2008 by admin
David Edwards and Muriel Kane / Raw Story | July 12, 2008
It was recently reported that the Department of Homeland Security has expressed interest in a “safety bracelet” for air travelers that would include personal information and would not only track the wearer but also be capable of remotely delivering a taser-like shock.
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Posted on 11 July 2008 by admin
Nick Juliano / Raw Story | Friday, July 11, 2008
For more than 20 years, Chris Hedges reported from around the globe as a foreign correspondent for the New York Times and other outlets, working from countries with little to no respect for a free and independent press, where his phone was bugged and he was trailed by government agents to prevent dissidents and whistle-blowers from speaking to him.
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Posted on 10 July 2008 by admin
Thomas Ferraro / Reuters | Wednesday, July 9, 2008
President George W. Bush won final congressional approval on Wednesday of liability protection for telecommunication companies that took part in the warrantless domestic spying program he began after the September 11 attacks.
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Posted on 10 July 2008 by admin
David Icke.com | Thursday, July 10, 2008
This is what David Icke has sought to ask of David Davis, the man who instigated the ‘Big Brother’ by-election because he said he wanted a debate on the Big Brother State. A debate on his own terms, that is, and the terms of his Neoconservative allies, and certainly not a debate on global Big Brother with David Icke.
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Posted on 10 July 2008 by admin
Bradley Olson / Baltimore Sun | Wednesday, July 9, 2008
With Congress on the verge of outlining new parameters for National Security Agency eavesdropping between suspicious foreigners and Americans, lawmakers are leaving largely untouched a host of government programs that critics say involves far more domestic surveillance than the wiretaps they sought to remedy.
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Posted on 09 July 2008 by admin
PHILLIP DOE / Counterpunch | July 9, 2008
Jonathan Swift, the great Irish political writer and satirist, is not alone in observing that great nations rarely fall from outside threats or attack. More often they decline and fall from internal corruption. The Congress is deaf to this warning it appears, for last week they passed legislation that is advertised as reforming FISA.
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Posted on 09 July 2008 by admin
Andrew Porter / London Telegraph | July 7, 2008
The cost of Britain’s “surveillance society” measures is now running at £20 billion, a new report reveals today.
The amount is equivalent to £800 per household and includes £19 billion for the planned ID card system and £500 million for CCTV cameras.
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