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Monday, April 13, 2009

Electronic Frontier Foundation on MSNBC:

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Labels: obama, police state

Sunday, December 28, 2008

Can't have them keep running their mouth off about how President-alleged Barry was born there...

From the most widely-read newspaper in Nigeria, Punch 20 Dec 2008:

"The Kenyan government has blocked members of President-elect Barack Obama’s extended family from talking to the media.

Allafrica.com reports that the Kenyan government told family members that they would have to ask for official permission before issuing any statement concerning Obama. It said the government would also vet all those seeking information about the family.

“We are doing this because we want to ensure better flow of information. The government has decided that you should inform its officers who will be based here if you want to address the media,” Athman Said, an Under-Secretary in the Ministry of Heritage, told the Obama family in Kogelo on Thursday.

A proposed Obama Cultural Home, comprising a museum, a gallery, a library and a leadership centre would be put up in Kogelo, Said told the family. A cultural officer, Dorcas Obege, will also be assigned to Kogelo to vet visitors and others seeking information about the family.

Said, who led a delegation from the Department of Culture, said the government had set aside Sh30 million to upgrade the proposed Obama cultural home. Athman said his department was liaising with the United States government to have Obama’s published and un-published materials on display at the proposed library while it would also a video of Mama Sarah Obama, the president elect’s step-grandmother, telling the history of the Obama family.

The government has graded all the roads leading to Kogelo and set up a police station within the home to protect [sic] the Obama family.

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Labels: obama, police state

Sunday, October 19, 2008

A press release from Missouri Governor Matthew Blunt, :

"Gov. Blunt Statement on Obama Campaign’s Abusive Use of Missouri Law Enforcement

JEFFERSON CITY - Gov. Matt Blunt today issued the following statement on news reports that have exposed plans by U.S. Senator Barack Obama to use Missouri law enforcement to threaten and intimidate his critics.

“St. Louis County Circuit Attorney Bob McCulloch, St. Louis City Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce, Jefferson County Sheriff Glenn Boyer, and Obama and the leader of his Missouri campaign Senator Claire McCaskill have attached the stench of police state tactics to the Obama-Biden campaign.

“What Senator Obama and his helpers are doing is scandalous beyond words, the party that claims to be the party of Thomas Jefferson is abusing the justice system and offices of public trust to silence political criticism with threats of prosecution and criminal punishment.

“This abuse of the law for intimidation insults the most sacred principles and ideals of Jefferson. I can think of nothing more offensive to Jefferson’s thinking than using the power of the state to deprive Americans of their civil rights. The only conceivable purpose of Messrs. McCulloch, Obama and the others is to frighten people away from expressing themselves, to chill free and open debate, to suppress support and donations to conservative organizations targeted by this anti-civil rights, to strangle criticism of Mr. Obama, to suppress ads about his support of higher taxes, and to choke out criticism on television, radio, the Internet, blogs, e-mail and daily conversation about the election.

“Barack Obama needs to grow up. Leftist blogs and others in the press constantly say false things about me and my family. Usually, we ignore false and scurrilous accusations because the purveyors have no credibility. When necessary, we refute them. Enlisting Missouri law enforcement to intimidate people and kill free debate is reminiscent of the Sedition Acts - not a free society.”
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Labels: obama, police state

Tuesday, October 07, 2008

From WorldNetDaily :

"NAIROBI, Kenya – The government of Kenya is holding WND senior staff reporter Jerome Corsi in custody at immigration headquarters after police picked him up at his hotel just prior to a scheduled news conference in which he planned to announce the findings of his investigation into Barack Obama's connections in the country.

Corsi had promised a news conference today that would "expose details of deep secret ties between U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and a section of Kenya government leaders, their connection to certain sectoral groups in Kenya and subsequent plot to be executed in Kenya should Senator Obama win the American presidency."

[...]

Corsi was set to show Obama and Odinga have been in direct contact since the senator's visit to Kenya in 2006. He was to claim Obama advised Odinga on campaign strategy and helped him raise money in the U.S. for the Kenya presidential campaign.

Corsi was to report Odinga's 2007 presidential campaign strategy called for exploiting anti-Kikuyu tribal sentiments, claiming victory and charging voter fraud even if the campaign knew the election had been legitimately lost. Odinga, Corsi said, also was willing to fan the flames of ethnic tribal tensions and use violence as a last resort by calling for mass action that led to the destruction of properties, injuries, loss of life and the displacement of over 500,000 Kenyans. The purpose was to compel the Electoral Commission of Kenya to declare him the winner or enable him to declare himself the winner by force.
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Labels: obama, police state

Sunday, September 21, 2008

From the Liberatrian Party Sep 18, 2008:

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"There is something inherently wrong with the government forcibly keeping people away from their homes and property," says Bob Barr, the Libertarian Party's nominee for president, in response to the government's continuing and heavy-handed attempt to bar Hurricane Ike evacuees from returning to their homes in Texas.

"There is, of course, an obvious risk to returning to a disaster area," says Barr. "However, government should not forcibly prevent evacuees from returning to their own houses and property. It is their choice, for better or for worse, to return to their homes."

Galveston officials initially allowed residents to return, but soon after rescinded the policy for fear of traffic backups and other problems. In some parts of Texas, martial law is being considered to forcibly expel hundreds of residents who refuse to leave their homes.

"It is absurd to keep people from their property when they willingly return or have remained," Barr observes. "Instead, the government makes them refugees, reliant on the inefficient and expensive 'charity' of government."

"During hurricane Katrina, the government said, 'Trust us,' and look what happened. Now, the government is saying the same thing again," notes Barr. "Yet, many of these people would be better off on their own instead of in the hands of FEMA or some other government agency."

"Government has no right to keep people from their property," Barr insists. "Let the people go home."

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• Ike evacuees try to sneak back in

  Labels: bob barr, police state

From The Newspaper.com:

"Private companies in the US are hoping to use red light cameras and speed cameras as the basis for a nationwide surveillance network similar to one that will be active next year in the UK. Redflex and American Traffic Solutions (ATS), the top two photo enforcement providers in the US, are quietly shopping new motorist tracking options to prospective state and local government clients. Redflex explained the company's latest developments in an August 7 meeting with Homestead, Florida officials.

"We are moving into areas such as homeland security on a national level and on a local level," Redflex regional director Cherif Elsadek said. "Optical character recognition is our next roll out which will be coming out in a few months -- probably about five months or so."

The technology would be integrated with the Australian company's existing red light camera and speed camera systems. It allows officials to keep full video records of passing motorists and their passengers, limited only by available hard drive space and the types of cameras installed. To gain public acceptance, the surveillance program is being initially sold as an aid for police looking to solve Amber Alert cases and locate stolen cars.

"Imagine if you had 1500 or 2000 cameras out there that could look out for the partial plate or full plate number across the 21 states where we do business today," Elsadek said. "This is the next step for our technology."

ATS likewise is promoting motorist tracking technologies. In a recent proposal to operate 200 speed cameras for the Arizona state police, the company explained that its ticketing cameras could be integrated into a national vehicle tracking database. This would allow a police officer to simply enter a license plate number into a laptop computer and receive an email as soon as a speed camera anywhere in the state recognized that plate.[...]

In the UK, officials are planning to dramatically expand the use of average speed cameras that track cars over distances as great as six miles. Records on all vehicle movements taken from a nationwide network of cameras will be stored for five years in a central government Automated Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) server, allowing police to keep tabs on criminals and political opponents. Work on the data center in north London began in 2005 and officials expect real-time, nationwide tracking capability to be available by January.
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Labels: police state

Monday, September 15, 2008

From American civil Liberties Union, Sept. 12 2008:

"Following a briefing today at the Department of Justice (DOJ), the American Civil Liberties Union reiterated its deep concern over new guidelines that would govern FBI investigations. The new guidelines would lower standards for beginning "assessments" (precursors to investigations), conducting surveillance and gathering evidence, and would replace existing guidelines for five types of existing guidelines: general criminal, national security, foreign intelligence, civil disorders and demonstrations.

The rewritten guidelines have been drafted in a way to give the FBI the ability to begin surveillance without factual evidence, stating that a generalized "threat" is enough to use certain techniques. . . The guidelines would also give the FBI the ability to use intrusive investigative techniques in advance of public demonstrations. These techniques would allow agents to conduct pre-textual (undercover) interviews, use informants and conduct physical surveillance in connection with First Amendment protected activities.

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Labels: police state

Tuesday, September 02, 2008

It appears many people of South Louisiana are turning into well-trained monkeys of the police state. Sad. From Times-Picayune Sept. 2:

"New Orleans residents should not expect to return to their homes until Thursday morning at the soonest, a spokeswoman for Mayor Ray Nagin said Tuesday morning. With an estimated 77,000 Entergy customers blacked out across the city and hospitals still operating below capacity, Ceeon Quiett said New Orleans is not ready to welcome home as many as 300,000 residents who evacuated in advance of Hurricane Gustav.

City officials started allowing essential recovery workers back into the city Tuesday morning, she said. Categorized as Tier 1 under the city's re-entry plan, the group includes first responders, hospital and utility workers, government contractors and subcontractors that provide critical services and volunteer rescue and response organizations.

The city is still working on logistics with the state to bring home residents who left town on state-chartered buses through the city's free evacuation program, she said. That process should happen before week's end, she said.

The city likely will open Wednesday morning to Tier 2 workers, including employees of building supply companies, medical supply companies and financial institutions, Quiett said. Tier 3 personnel, including gas station operators, grocers and other retailers could get in by Wednesday afternoon, she said.

Quiett stressed that residents not carrying placards issued by the city to companies and organizations that requested priority reentry will not be allowed beyond checkpoints being manned at all roads into the parish by Louisiana National Guard soldiers and state troopers.

Until Nagin issues the order to allow ordinary residents back into the city, she said, a mandatory evacuation and dusk-to-dawn curfew remains in effect. . .

A pair of Jefferson Parish sheriff's deputies used their vehicles to block off the westbound West Bank Expressway at Stumpf Boulevard. They were motioning most unidentified cars and trucks to the shoulder so they could question drivers.

Emergency and utility vehicles, including Cox Cable vans, were allowed to pass the barricade without stopping.

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Road blockages and police checkpoints are up on both sides of the Causeway bridge, as well as all major eastbound entrances into Jefferson Parish, including Interstate 10, Airline Highway and Jefferson Highway.

Other checkpoints include I-55 southbound at Louisiana 22 in Ponchatoula, just before the elevation Manchac Bridge, westbond U.S. 90 in eastern New Orleans, and U.S. 90 in Avondale at the Jefferson Parish/St. Charles line, according to State Police spokesman Joey Pigalia.

Checkpoints are currently in place on both sides of the Causeway bridge, Interstate 10 eastbound at the Interstate 55/Louisiana 51 interchange, Jefferson Highway and Airline Highway near Louis Armstrong International Airport.

Officials at the Airline Highway roadblock also reported a smoothly-running, fairly hassle-free checkpoint. Aside from a few stragglers being turned away, most residents appear to be following the rules and staying put until further notice
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Labels: police state, weather control

Monday, July 28, 2008

Labels: bob barr, bush crime family, impeachment, police state

Monday, July 14, 2008

George Bush with a tan:



Labels: obama, police state

Thursday, July 10, 2008

Electronic Frontier Foundation also announced plans to sue.

Press release from ACLU SOURCE-DATE-HERE:

"The American Civil Liberties Union filed a landmark lawsuit today to stop the government from conducting surveillance under a new wiretapping law that gives the Bush administration virtually unchecked power to intercept Americans' international e-mails and telephone calls. The case was filed on behalf of a broad coalition of attorneys and human rights, labor, legal and media organizations whose ability to perform their work - which relies on confidential communications - will be greatly compromised by the new law.

The FISA Amendments Act of 2008, passed by Congress on Wednesday and signed by President Bush today, not only legalizes the secret warrantless surveillance program the president approved in late 2001, it gives the government new spying powers, including the power to conduct dragnet surveillance of Americans' international communications.

"Spying on Americans without warrants or judicial approval is an abuse of government power - and that's exactly what this law allows. The ACLU will not sit by and let this evisceration of the Fourth Amendment go unchallenged," said ACLU Executive Director Anthony D. Romero. "Electronic surveillance must be conducted in a constitutional manner that affords the greatest possible protection for individual privacy and free speech rights. The new wiretapping law fails to provide fundamental safeguards that the Constitution unambiguously requires."

In today's legal challenge, the ACLU argues that the new spying law violates Americans' rights to free speech and privacy under the First and Fourth Amendments to the Constitution. The new law permits the government to conduct intrusive surveillance without ever telling a court who it intends to spy on, what phone lines and email addresses it intends to monitor, where its surveillance targets are located, why it's conducting the surveillance or whether it suspects any party to the communication of wrongdoing.

Plaintiffs in today's case are:



The Nation and its contributing journalists Naomi Klein and Chris Hedges


Amnesty International USA, Global Rights, Global Fund for Women, Human Rights Watch, PEN American Center, Service Employees International Union, Washington Office on Latin America, and the International Criminal Defence Attorneys Association


Defense attorneys Dan Arshack, David Nevin, Scott McKay and Sylvia Royce

"As a journalist, my job requires communication with people in all parts of the world - from Iraq to Argentina. If the U.S. government is given unchecked surveillance power to monitor reporters' confidential sources, my ability to do this work will be seriously compromised," said Naomi Klein, an award-winning columnist and best-selling author who is a plaintiff in today's lawsuit. "I cannot in good conscience accept that my conversations with people who live outside the U.S. will put them in harm's way as a result of overzealous government spying. Privacy in my communications is not simply an expectation, it's a right."

The ACLU's legal challenge, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York today, seeks a court order declaring that the new law is unconstitutional and ordering its immediate and permanent halt.

In a separate filing, the ACLU asked the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) to ensure that any proceedings relating to the scope, meaning or constitutionality of the new law be open to the public to the extent possible. The ACLU also asked the secret court to allow it to file a brief and participate in oral arguments, to order the government to file a public version of its briefs addressing the law's constitutionality, and to publish any judicial decision that is ultimately issued.

[...] In 2006, the ACLU filed a lawsuit against the National Security Agency (NSA) to stop its illegal, warrantless spying program. A federal district court sided with the ACLU, ruling that warrantless wiretapping by the NSA violated Americans' rights to free speech and privacy under the First and Fourth Amendments of the Constitution, ran counter to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and violated the principle of separation of powers.[...]

More information: www­.aclu.org/faa

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Labels: NSA, police state

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Labels: bob barr, police state

Monday, June 23, 2008

A Capitol Hill source close to Larry Sinclair reports:



Larry Sinclair is free!

Sinclair was transfered from DC jail to a Delaware courtroom this morning.

The Delaware judge immediately released Sinclair on his own recognizance after a perfunctory hearing this afternoon.

Apparently, the "fugitive warrrant" used was not really issued from Delaware

But rather the "fugitive warrant" was fabricated in DC -- perhaps likely by the US Attorney's office. This of course suggests high level political corruption.


Labels: obama, police state

Sunday, June 22, 2008

SHOCKER! Emporer Obama's ready to listen in. From WashingtonPost.com:

"Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) today announced his support for a sweeping intelligence surveillance law that has been heavily denounced by the liberal activists who have fueled the financial engines of his presidential campaign.

In his most substantive break with the Democratic Party's base since becoming the presumptive nominee, Obama declared he will support the bill when it comes to a Senate vote, likely next week . . .

"Given the legitimate threats we face, providing effective intelligence collection tools with appropriate safeguards is too important to delay. So I support the compromise, but do so with a firm pledge that as president, I will carefully monitor the program," Obama said in a statement hours after the House approved the legislation 293-129.

This marks something of a reversal of Obama's position from an earlier version of the bill, which was approved by the Senate Feb. 12, when Obama was locked in a fight for the Democratic nomination with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.).

Obama missed the February vote on that FISA bill as he campaigned in the "Potomac Primaries," but issued a statement that day declaring "I am proud to stand with Senator Dodd, Senator Feingold and a grassroots movement of Americans who are refusing to let President Bush put protections for special interests ahead of our security and our liberty."

Sens. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) and Russ Feingold (D-Wisc.) continue to oppose the new legislation, as does Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.). All Obama backers in the primary, those senior lawmakers contend that the new version of the FISA law -- crafted after four months of intense negotiations between White House aides and congressional leaders -- provides insufficient court review of the pending 40 lawsuits against the telecommunications companies alleging privacy invasion for their participation in a warrantless wiretapping program . . .

"The immunity outcome is predetermined," Feingold wrote in a memo today. . .

"It restores FISA and existing criminal wiretap statutes as the exclusive means to conduct surveillance -- making it clear that the President cannot circumvent the law," Obama said today.

Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.), the most prominent Republican opponent of the compromise bill, issued a statement today calling that exclusivity provision "meaningless because that specific provision is now in [the] 1978 act." Specter said Bush just ignored existing law in starting the warrantless surveillance program.
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Labels: obama, police state

Thursday, June 19, 2008

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  On Wednesday, Larry Sinclair issued a statement to the world regarding presumptive U.S. President Barack Hussein Obama's crack-smoking ways. In a brazen act of Gestapo-type terror tactics, US Marshals kidnapped Sinclair immediately after this performance at the National Press Club in Washington, DC.
  
  Other audio files of this press conference circulating on the Internet are missing the crucial final minutes of the press conference concerning the murder of Donald Young, restored exclusively by Total411.info .
  
  This MP3 also contains audio of the aborted Whitehouse.com press conference which immediately followed Sinclair's, concerning that organization's bribe-taking from the Obama campaign.

  Labels: crack cocaine, obama, police state, revere radio

Monday, April 21, 2008

• MP3 DOWNLOAD of the latest Total Information Radio
  
  
• IVAW seizes National Archives
  
  
• Bob Barr on terrorist bogeymen
  
  
• Onion News: Suspicious package industry takes major hit
  
  
• Woman arrested at Jefferson Memorial for questioning fed
  
  
• Ron Paul on the Bank bailouts $ the Federal Reserve
  
  
• Zappa/Duran guitarist Warren Cuccorullo talks 9/11 TV fakery with Deadline Live
  
  
• Music: Cuccorullo debuts "We're All Targets"
  
  
• Ron Paul speaks to the Freedom Rally @ US Capitol
  
  
• Dr. James Fetzer (Scholars for 9/11 Truth) speaks to the Freedom Rally
  
  
• Libertarians for Justice debuts - new 9/11 caucus in the LP
  
  
• FLASHBACK: 4-16-07 suppressed MSNBC report on another Va Tech gunman.
  
  
• Nico "Hitler" Haupt vs. Alex "Revere" Jones
  
  
• Dweezil Zappa & Ozzy Osbourne: Stayin' Alive

  Labels: fetzer, police state, revere radio, Ron Paul, tvfakery

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

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• Ron Paul on the economy and vs Ben Bernanke
  
  
• Mukasey's wild new 9/11 lie
  
  
• PumpItOut.com investigates the 9/11 Theresea Renault mystery
  
  
• The mystery of the US Capitol's cornerstone
  
  
• Ventura for President?

  Labels: 9/11, masons, police state, revere radio, Ron Paul

Monday, April 14, 2008

From TheAgitator.com April 13:

"[Saturday night], a group of about 20 D.C.-area libertarians headed down to the Thomas Jefferson Memorial for some flash mob fun. The prank was harmless revelry: To ring in Jefferson’s birthday, we would meet on the steps of the memorial at 11:55pm, wearing iPods, then dance for about 10 minutes, capture the whole thing on video, and leave...

By the time we arrived it was already over. The National Park Police broke the whole thing up just a few minutes in, punctuating their lack of a sense of humor by arresting one of the dancers . . . She was cuffed, taken out to a paddy wagon, then booked and held at a Park Police station. Everyone I spoke with says there was no noise, there were no threats, and no laws broken (the park police I spoke with–including the arresting officer (who, oddly enough, denied to me that he was the arresting officer)–declined to say why she had been arrested).

The police refused to answer any questions, referring all calls to the communication number of the Park Police, which at this hour is closed. They also refused to give their badge numbers...

She was barely even dancing. Her crime was apparently to ask “why?” when the park police told the group they had to disperse. Note too that this was at around midnight. No one was bumping into tourists, or obstructing anyone’s way. I guess the only conclusion, here, is that it’s apparently illegal to dance on the steps of the Jefferson Memorial–even with headphones. You know, post 9-11 world and all. Harmless fun will be interpreted in the most threatening context imaginable. Whimsy and frivolity will not be tolerated.

Of course, the real irony here is that all of this happened at the Jefferson Memorial, in observance of Jefferson’s birthday. Go out to celebrate the birth of the most hardcore, anti-authoritarian of the Founding Fathers, get hauled off in handcuffs. The photo’s almost poetry, isn’t it? One of history’s most articulate critics of abuse of state authority looks on as a park police cop uses his elbow to push a female arrestee into one of said critic’s memorial pillars.

The people I spoke with say the other officer pictured in the foreground of this photo told the rest of the group to “shut the fuck up.” When one person politely asked why it was unnecessary to use the word “fuck,” the officer replied that if the guy who asked the question used any more profanity, he too would find himself arrested.
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Labels: police state

Sunday, April 13, 2008

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• New wiretapping whistleblower speaks
  
  
• Verdicts in three "Ed Brown 4" trials
  
  
• Sonny Bono was murdered
  
  
• Heath Ledger was murdered
  
  
• Ron Paul on the emerging surveillance state

  Labels: police state, revere radio, Ron Paul

Monday, February 04, 2008

Call your U.S. Senators today at 202-224-3121 and tell them not to cave to the Bush regime's police state. Background from ACLU :

"On the eve of Groundhog Day . . . both the House and Senate passed a 15-day extension to the Protect America Act in response to President Bush’s claims that the “flow of vital intelligence” would be disrupted if Congress could not meet the February 1 deadline. [Senate debate] will take place Monday and Tuesday.

The following may be attributed to Caroline Fredrickson, Director of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office:

“The Senate stands on the verge of making a huge mistake by endorsing the administration’s massive, untargeted and warrantless surveillance and the illegal actions by the telecoms. At this point, we're asking the Senate to stand up to the administration and pass a bill that gives priority to the constitutionally protected privacy interests of all Americans - not to the nefarious power grab of an administration now bordering on the brink of irrelevance. There are several amendments that could improve the bill, including those to strip immunity out and prevent bulk collection of communication.

“Our demands are simple: stay true to your oath to protect the Constitution. Stand up against an overreaching executive branch and don’t grant blanket immunity to huge corporations that sold out Americans’ privacy. What have we come to when we have to plead with our members of Congress to look out for our interests over the president’s?

“Unfortunately, this debate has been set up to fail civil liberties and the Constitution. What’s happened to the outraged majority of last August? Where is the indignation our leaders felt after being ‘forced’ to pass the Protect America Act? If senators actually go against the will of the American people and pass this bill, not only will we never get the truth behind the domestic spying program, we will have watched our Congress sanction it.”

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Labels: police state

Monday, January 14, 2008

From WashingtonPost.com January 12, 2008:

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Report: TSA Site Exposed Travelers To ID Theft

A House of Representatives panel yesterday released a damning report about a Transportation Security Administration Web site built to address grievances from travelers errantly flagged by the government's no-fly list. It conluded that cronyism and a lack of oversight exposed thousands of site visitors to identity theft.

The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform began its investigation into security lapses at the TSA's Traveler Redress Web site last year, after Security Fix and other media outlets pointed out that the site accepted Social Security numbers and other sensitive information from travelers without encrypting the data, potentially allowing hackers to intercept the data. Wired.com noted in its coverage that the site was so laden in spelling errors that it resembled a phishing Web site, the sort typically set up by scammers to lure people into giving away personal and financial data.

The report, which liberally cites content and reader comments from Security Fix and Wired.com, found that the TSA awarded the contract without competition to Boston, Va based Desyne Web Services, and that the guy in charge of awarding the contract had previously worked at Desyne and was good friends with the owner. To date, Desyne has been awarded more than half a million taxpayer dollars worth of no-bid contracts by the TSA, according to the report.

The site's security weaknesses remained undetected by the TSA for more than four months, despite congressional testimony from TSA Administrator Kip Hawley that the agency had assured "the privacy of users and the security of the system" before its launch, the report notes. "Thousands of individuals used the insecure website, including at least 247 travelers who submitted large amounts of personal information through an insecure webpage."

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Labels: police state

Thursday, December 13, 2007

A release from Arizona state senator, Karen Johnson, Dec. 12, 2007:

"Sen. Karen Johnson statements on enhanced driver’s license

Last Thursday, Gov. Napolitano went to Washington, D.C. and signed an agreement with the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security to implement an “enhanced driver’s license” in Arizona – that is, a driver’s license that will be a “3-in-one” card – a driver’s license, a passport, and a REAL ID. She made that agreement without knowing what the REAL ID card will consist of – the final regulations on the Real ID have not even been made public yet – and without knowing the cost to the state of Arizona.

Who is the governor to say what we are going to do? She is just one branch of our state government.

The following states have enacted legislation refusing to comply with the REAL ID Act:

Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Maine, Michigan, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Washington.

In the last legislative session, Arizona nearly passed such a bill. (SB 1152, which I sponsored, would have prohibited implementation of the Federal Real ID Act. It passed the Senate 23-5 and included bipartisan support.)

So what is it that so many state legislatures know that our governor doesn’t seem to understand?

Officials, especially on the national level, forget that they do not give orders, they take orders from constituents. The aforementioned states understand this intrusion and the nightmares likely to follow.

I oppose making our driver’s license into an identity card for a number of reasons:



First, the agreement the governor signed hands over to the federal government a great deal of state power and authority. This agreement gives to the Dept. of Homeland Security the power to (1) establish minimum “business standards” for the licenses (whatever that means) (2) establish how the Dept. of Motor vehicles will handle background checks (3) set standards for protecting personally identifiable information (4) determine the criteria for issuing the license and (5) establish the standards for the “facilitative technology” that will be embedded in the license. This is a huge transfer of power from the state to the federal government. I believe in state’s rights, and do not support abdicating our state sovereignty to a bunch of bureaucrats in Washington, D.C.


Second, creating an enhanced driver’s license turns our state Dept. of Motor Vehicles into a federal national security agency. That is a radical change in purpose that the legislature has neither studied nor contemplated.


Third, the technology required by the REAL ID Act could turn driver’s licenses into tracking devices, allowing computers to track people’s whereabouts. Today, with handheld technology available to read RFID chips at a distance, no rational person can assure Americans that their personal data will not be stolen and abused. This isn’t Nazi Germany, and I oppose requiring people to carry tracking devices in their pockets.


Fourth, there is no evidence that requiring people to carry identity cards will thwart terrorism. Terrorists are adept at getting around security and I have no doubt they will easily circumvent any card we can come up with.


Finally, an identity card does nothing to secure our borders. A fence across the border and well-armed guards would provide 90 percent of the protection needed. If the governor is willing to spend millions of dollars on a three-in-one card, then I’d prefer to see those millions spent on border protection.

Right now you could march an Army across our southern border, and no one would know it – and I can guarantee you that those soldiers wouldn’t be carrying an identity card so we could track them!!

These are just a few of the reasons I oppose the three-in-one card. I also have a number of questions for the governor. For example,



The Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI) will not be fully implemented until the summer of 2008. Why would the governor agree to requirements that have not been fully developed, let alone implemented?


The memorandum of agreement (MOA) between the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the governor claim, “a driver’s license can be enhanced to securely denote identity and citizenship.” Just how secure will these new licenses be . . is that guaranteed?


By signing the MOA, the governor has committed Arizona to complying with standards established by DHS. What are those standards and what does the DHS business plan call for? Have the business plan and standards been developed and who gets to participate in their development?


What happens at the termination of the agreement on July 31, 2009? If the agreement ends but the enhanced license is valid for 5 years, will they still be valid if the MOA is not?


If the state opposes the implementation of the REAL ID Act due to a lack of funding, why has the governor agreed to this enhanced driver’s license in a MOA that specifically states “DHS is not intended to provide any funding or financial support for the State for this project”?
(NCSL study determined a cost of over $11 billion dollars for the 50 states to implement the Real ID.)


In the governor’s news release she states the 3-in-1 ID will require legislative approval. Why didn’t she wait to get that approval prior to signing the agreement? Is the agreement still valid if she does not get legislative approval?

Never in the history of our country have we ever required our citizens to carry an “internal passport” in order to move about and live their lives. Introducing identity cards into our culture and our laws is the very essence of tyranny. I will oppose that with every ounce of strength I have.
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Labels: homeland security, police state, real id

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

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• comments on the assassination of John Lennon ; Jack Blood archive via nw0.info
  
  
• EXCLUSIVE information on the new thoughtcrime bills in Congress
  
  
• Ron Paul on Iran; Ron Paul blimp
  
  
• BREAKING NEWS -- 9/11 researchers send 9/11 video-faker running like a little girl
  
  
• Brian Wilson mashes himself
  
  
• CLG update on mall shooting; earlier report

  Labels: 9/11, assassination science, beatles, false flag, iran, police state, revere radio, Ron Paul, tvfakery

Sunday, December 09, 2007

From the American Civil Liberties Union:

"The following can be attributed to Caroline Fredrickson, Director of the Washington Legislative Office of the ACLU.

"This past August, Congress rushed through wiretapping legislation that allowed the government to scoop up all of our international communications without any court review, or any finding of wrong-doing. In the next several weeks the Senate is going to make a choice between two bills – the Bush Administration’s bill to make this awful law permanent, or a more moderate version that at least attempts to rein in the President’s unfettered power.

"The Administration bill basically writes August’s mistake in stone. It does nothing to protect Americans’ communications and violates the Fourth Amendment requirement that courts supervise any spying on American soil.

"The current Administration bill is even worse than the 'Protect America Act,' though, in that it gives complete immunity to the telecoms which spied on us after 9/11. The Attorney General will be able to single-handedly kill any pending case – and then gag the judge from ever publicly discussing whether the company participated in the illegal program.

"The Senate must reject the Administration proposal and insist that:

"The bill sent to the president must not let the telecoms off the hook. We still don’t know what they did. We do know, however, that the companies won’t have any incentive to follow the law in the future if they get away without having to answer to their customers about why they violated the law.

"The bill sent to the president must not allow for massive untargeted dragnets that scoop up all of our international calls and emails. Smart – and constitutional – surveillance is actually targeted at bad guys.

"American communications must be protected by individualized court orders as the Constitution demands.

"In Saturday’s radio address and yesterday’s press conference, President Bush unveiled the fearmongering campaign he’s planning to unleash on Congress – not unlike last July when his push for power and the Protect America Act began. The president seems to be gearing up to launch the same campaign of fear and misinformation he so clearly won in August. This time, Congress must reject the administration’s bag of tricks and stand up for the Constitution."
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• Also see this "insider's guide" to pending FISA legislation from the Center for Democracy and Technology:

  This week or next, the full Senate will begin consideration of the FISA
  Amendments Act, S. 2248, pitting the President's call for "modernization" of the rules for
  intelligence surveillance against the desire of Democrats to re-establish judicial oversight
  of Executive Branch actions affecting the rights of Americans.
  The Senate will have before it two versions of S. 2248 - one that the Senate Intelligence
  Committee negotiated with the White House and one from the Judiciary Committee that
  declines to provide amnesty to telephone companies that assisted government
  wiretapping without a court order. Both bills would replace the Protect America Act –
  the Administration-backed bill Congress passed in August 2007 and which sunsets on
  February 1, 2008.
  In CDT's view, both Senate bills fall short of a House-passed measure, the RESTORE
  Act (H.R. 3773), which strikes a better balance between national security and civil
  liberties interests.
  
  [CONTINUED]

  Labels: police state

Wednesday, December 05, 2007

Ron Paul on immigration and borders

Jeff Hill of pumpitout.com interviews two more 9/11 witness

new revelations on cell-phone GPS tracking

Christmas in Fallujah

Larry Craig

Labels: 9/11, police state, revere radio, Ron Paul

Thursday, November 08, 2007

From DC Examiner Nov 6, 2007 :

"Privacy advocates are alarmed by a D.C. Department of Motor Vehicles initiative to embed SmarTrip computer chips inside every new D.C. driver’s license, making it easier than ever to track D.C. residents on their travels through the transit system.

The DMV will spend $830,000 a year to install SmarTrip chips in all driver’s licenses and identification cards starting in October 2008. SmarTrip “is the most efficient way of paying for transit service,” according to DMV documents, and lodging the chips in about 440,000 licenses “will allow all District residents access to SmarTrip cards and encourage transit use.”

DMV spokeswoman Janis Hazel said there was no plan to increase the cost of a driver’s license to offset the costs of the chip.

SmarTrip does, however, provide Metro and the government with a system to follow users...

“If you’re paying your fare with it, they’re going to have the ability to know by name who entered each Metro station at what time and who exited a Metro station at what time,” said Paul Stephens, director of policy and advocacy with the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse. “That can be used by the government to track your comings and goings. It’s an absolutely awful idea.”

Metro’s policy is to release Smar-Trip information to law enforcement purposes.

[...]Melissa Ngo with the D.C.-based Electronic Privacy Information Center said D.C. is “setting up an infrastructure where the government can track you all the time.” Combining a license, smart card, credit card and ID badge into one “leaves you open to identity theft on a variety of levels,” she said.

“It’s just not good security,” Ngo said.

The Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration has discussed a similar initiative...


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Labels: police state, real id, rfid

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

MP3 LINK


• Dr. Ron Paul on the death tax
  
• Update on FISA warrantless wiretapping debate in Congress
  
• Live consumer product testing -- organic hempmilk from Whole Foods
  
• More!

  Labels: police state, revere radio, Ron Paul

Labels: 9/11, police state

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

ACLU sent out this important alert this morning:

"Congress must remedy the situation it created in August when it handed the Bush Administration vast new powers to invade our privacy with no meaningful oversight from the courts or Congress. When Congress failed freedom, it caused a massive outcry from freedom-loving people across the country.

Tell your representative: Stand up for the Constitution, fix FISA.

As the result of the outcry, two bills were introduced yesterday to fix the disastrous Protect America Act that was rushed through Congress in August, rubberstamping the administration's warrantless wiretapping program. Both were efforts to fix FISA, but we must make it clear that only the FISA Modernization Bill does the job.

Tell your representative to support the FISA Modernization Bill instead of the RESTORE Act.

The RESTORE Act caves in to Bush’s fear-mongering in a major way by allowing for program or basket “warrants,” which aren't really warrants at all. They're the modern-day equivalent of allowing government agents to sit in our living rooms, recording our personal conversations. Only they're more frightening, because the government now has the capacity to monitor us remotely and without our knowledge, and to save the information in a secret database forever.

Please, call your representative now to stop basket warrants from being used against Americans.

Tell him or her to support the FISA Modernization Bill of 2007 instead of the RESTORE Act.

Here are some talking points for your call:

1. Please support the FISA Modernization Act of 2007 introduced by Representative Rush Holt, instead of the RESTORE Act. Only pass a FISA modernization bill that has individualized warrants.

2. Blanket or program “warrants” that allow the government to vacuum up the international telephone calls and emails of Americans aren’t really warrants at all, and they aren’t constitutional.

3. Americans are looking to Congress to stand up to the Bush Administration, not cave in to threats of being labeled soft on terrorism.

You can look up your representative's phone number and log your call here.

It’s no surprise that the Bush Administration is again using the threat of terror to bully Congress into giving them more power than they need to keep us safe. To counter these misrepresentations, Congress needs to hear that America can be both safe and free by passing a FISA Modernization bill that protects our constitutional rights.

Once you've called your representative, please tell us that you called and if possible, how your call went. This information is extremely helpful to our staff when they meet with Members of Congress, because they’re able to convey how many of their constituents care about fixing FISA. Please tell us if you called and how your call went.

Thank you for taking action and being involved.
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• More background available from ACLU here.

  Labels: police state

Thursday, September 13, 2007

Revere Radio followed up last night on reports of nationwide raids on supporters of Ed & Elaine Brown, tax resistors in New Hampshire. The special live report features contact information for federal and local authorities, to let them know that America is watching their actions.

Citizen protests are scheduled this morning for Jim Wells County Sheriff's Department in Texas [361-668-0341], where Reno Gonzalez is currently being held. Reno's brother Romeo Gonzalez told the Revere audience of the raid, and talk show hos Jack Blood also chimed in with a note of caution.

An AP account of the arrests follows. Although some charges were reported no warrants were produced at the time of the raid of the Gonzalez residence in Texas.

MP3 AUDIO PART ONE

MP3 AUDIO PART TWO

Associated Press :

"Four men accused of helping obstruct justice in the case of convicted tax evaders Ed and Elaine Brown have been arrested, U.S. Marshal Stephen Monier said Wednesday.

Monier said the men are Cirino "Reno" Gonzales, 30, of Alice, Texas; Daniel Riley, 40, of Albany, N.Y.; Jason Gerhard, 22, of Brookhaven, N.Y.; and Robert Wolffe, 50, of Randolph, Vt.

Charges range from accessory after the fact to possession and use of a firearm in relation to a crime of violence.

Officials believe that the men participated in various efforts to assist the Browns in avoiding justice at their rural home in Plainfield and conspired to impede federal agents.

The Browns, who were convicted in January and have refused to turn themselves in to authorities, claim the federal income tax is not legitimate. Supporters from across the country have visited them at their home, although some relationships have come to a bitter end: The Browns have squabbled with bloggers, radio hosts, and several spokesmen and assistants.

A Web site about the Browns says they're planning to hold a fundraising event on their property on Saturday.

Monier said Gonzales was arrested in Alice, Texas; Riley in Cohoes, N.Y.; Gerhard at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo.; and Wolffe in Hartford, Vt.

"In this case, these men are alleged to have helped the Browns in their ongoing refusal to surrender to authorities," Monier said. "The Browns have engaged in a course of conduct that has led to further criminal investigations into their activity. Anyone who aids the Browns is subject to investigation, arrest and prosecution for serious felonies, which carry very heavy prison sentences."

Earlier this year, officials cut power and telephone service in an effort to ratchet up pressure on the couple convicted of scheming to avoid federal income taxes by hiding $1.9 million of income between 1996 and 2003. The Browns said they hadn't noticed the changes, they can survive on generators and they have 103 wooded acres to keep warm this winter. Their home is on an isolated dirt road and includes a turret that offers a 360-degree view of the property and a driveway that is sometimes barricaded with sport utility vehicles.

The Brown's phone numbers still appeared to be disconnected on Wednesday.

Also, heavily armed police once surrounded the Browns' home and readied for combat in June while they seized commercial property the couple owned in a neighboring town. SWAT teams, military and explosives vehicles marshaled in the tiny town and sparked rumors _ and expectations _ of a raid. U.S. marshals said it was only for surveillance.

Those authorities were seen by Riley, who was out walking the couple's dog when he was detained by marshals.

Since abandoning his federal trial and retreating to his home, Ed Brown has repeatedly said that any attempts to arrest him would result in a violent confrontation.

[...]

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US Marshal Monier's office in Concord, New Hampshire is reachable at (603) 225-1632. Monier is pictured at right.

Labels: police state, revere radio

Thursday, August 16, 2007

From SOURCE-PUBLICATION-HERE August 15, 2007:

"The U.S.'s top intelligence official has greatly expanded the range of federal and local authorities who can get access to information from the nation's vast network of spy satellites in the U.S.

The decision, made three months ago by Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell, places for the first time some of the U.S.'s most powerful intelligence-gathering tools at the disposal of domestic security officials. The move was authorized in a May 25 memo sent to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff asking his department to facilitate access to the spy network on behalf of civilian agencies and law enforcement.

Until now, only a handful of federal civilian agencies, such as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the U.S. Geological Survey, have had access to the most basic spy-satellite imagery...

According to officials, one of the department's first objectives will be to use the network to enhance border security, determine how best to secure critical infrastructure and help emergency responders after natural disasters. Sometime next year, officials will examine how the satellites can aid federal and local law-enforcement agencies, covering both criminal and civil law. The department is still working on determining how it will engage law enforcement officials and what kind of support it will give them.

Access to the high-tech surveillance tools would, for the first time, allow Homeland Security and law-enforcement officials to see real-time, high-resolution images and data,

[...]Plans to provide DHS with significantly expanded access have been on the drawing board for over two years. The idea was first talked about as a possibility by the Central Intelligence Agency after 9/11 as a way to help better secure the country. "It is an idea whose time has arrived," says Charles Allen, the DHS's chief intelligence officer, who will be in charge of the new program. DHS officials say the program has been granted a budget by Congress and has the approval of the relevant committees in both chambers.[...]

Although the courts have permitted warrantless aerial searches of private property by law-enforcement aircraft, there are no cases involving the use of satellite technology.

In recent years, some military experts have questioned whether domestic use of such satellites would violate the Posse Comitatus Act. The act bars the military from engaging in law-enforcement activity inside the U.S., and the satellites were predominantly built for and owned by the Defense Department.

According to Pentagon officials, the government has in the past been able to supply information from spy satellites to federal law-enforcement agencies, but that was done on a case-by-case basis and only with special permission from the president.

Even the architects of the current move are unclear about the legal boundaries. A 2005 study commissioned by the U.S. intelligence community, which recommended granting access to the spy satellites for Homeland Security, noted: "There is little if any policy, guidance or procedures regarding the collection, exploitation and dissemination of domestic MASINT." MASINT stands for Measurement and Signatures Intelligence, a particular kind of information collected by spy satellites which would for the first time become available to civilian agencies.

According to defense experts, MASINT uses radar, lasers, infrared, electromagnetic data and other technologies to see through cloud cover, forest canopies and even concrete to create images or gather data.

Tracking Weapons

The spy satellites are considered by military experts to be more penetrating than civilian ones: They not only take color, as well as black-and-white photos, but can also use different parts of the light spectrum to track human activities, including, for example, ... heat generated by people in a building.

[...] The full capabilities of these systems are unknown outside the intelligence community, because they are among the most closely held secrets in government...

Without proper oversight, only those inside the National Application Office will know what is being monitored from space.

[...]
Traditional users of the spy-satellite data in the scientific community are concerned that their needs will be marginalized in favor of security concerns. . .
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Labels: homeland security, police state

Friday, June 29, 2007

From The Independent [UK] 29 June 2007:

"President Nicolas Sarkozy's drive to stamp his personal authority on all aspects of French government has been extended to the country's famously quarrelsome security services.

The President has appointed a close ally to head the counter-espionage service, the DST (Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire), which is broadly the equivalent of MI5 in Britain. Bernard Squarcini, 51, who is known as le Squale - "the Shark" - has been given a potentially explosive mandate to absorb the other main internal security agency, the RG (Renseignements Généraux).

The two agencies, although both part of the Police Nationale, are tribally suspicious of one another and detest the idea of a merger. The unification is also strongly opposed by the Interior Minister, Michèle Alliot-Marie. This is one of several issues in which Mme Alliot-Marie is said to be determined to resist interference by the President in the day-to-day management of her ministry (which used to be run by M. Sarkozy).

In his six weeks in office, the President has already moved to appoint close allies as head of the national police service and as the police chief in Paris. One of his principal campaign managers has also been parachuted into the leading job in the most-watched French TV station, TF1.

As a result, the satirical newspaper Le Canard Enchainé has dubbed the all-controlling President "Le Tsarkozy".

M. Squarcini, the man who has been given a "licence to merge", is a Corsican-born career police officer and anti-terrorism expert. He was once deputy head of the Renseignment Généraux, which covers some of the functions of the Special Branch in Britain but also monitors horse-racing and betting. The RG's tasks are mostly repression of internal subversion and home-grown terrorism. M. Squarcini will now be expected to merge this agency with the DST, which is the main anti-foreign terrorism agency and counter-intelligence service.

Traditionally, the DST has largely spied on foreigners. The RG has mostly spied on the French (including on the DST).

The two agencies are already being brought under one roof in a modern building in Levallois-Perret, just outside the Paris city boundary.

[Squarcini]'s personal allegiance to the President will reinforce the impression of the creation of a Sarkozy State. The idea of merging the DST and RG is said to have been suggested to M. Sarkozy by M. Squarcini himself. President Chirac resisted the idea when he was still President...
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Labels: police state, sarkozy

Sunday, June 17, 2007

Representatives from Revere Radio Network, Genesis Communications, Republic Broadcasting, and We the People Radio Networks have convoyed to the rural New Hampshire home of Ed and Elaine Brown. The Brown family is under siege by federal agents for the purported crime of buying real estate with money orders.

Also in the peace convoy is Randy Weaver. Weaver's wife and son were killed by federal agents following a standoff in 1992. That standoff was precipitated by Weaver's refusal to work for the feds as an undercover agent in the militia movement.

A live report from the road was filed Saturday evening on the KingMob show on Revere Radio Network. LISTEN HERE - MP3 FILE.

Labels: police state, revere radio

Monday, June 11, 2007

It's for your own good! If the feds can't spy on you 24/7, you'll die!

From Federal Communications Commission May 31, 2007:

"FCC ADOPTS NOTICE OF PROPOSED RULEMAKING SEEKING COMMENT ON ENHANCED 911 LOCATION ACCURACY AND RELIABILITY REQUIREMENTS FOR WIRELESS CARRIERS AND INTERCONNECTED VOIP PROVIDERS

Washington, D.C. – The Federal Communications Commission today adopted a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) seeking comment on tentative conclusions and issues related to Enhanced 911 (E911) location accuracy and reliability requirements for wireless carriers and providers of interconnected voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services.

The NPRM seeks to ensure that E911 service meets the needs of public safety and the American people. The NPRM also takes into consideration the evolution in the use of wireless devices and the further development of location technologies. The primary objective is to advance policies, rules and initiatives that support the efficient and reliable transmission of meaningful automatic location information for wireless cell phone users and users of interconnected VoIP service to Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs) to better ensure rapid emergency response and save lives.

[...]

Public Safety & Homeland Security Bureau Contact: Carol Simpson at (202) 418-2391.
-FCC
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Labels: police state

Thursday, June 07, 2007

Total411.info has learned that two amendments will be debated in the U.S. Senate today which would strike from the "Secure Borders, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Reform Act of 2007" a requirement that Americans have a REAL ID national ID card (or biometric US passport) just to get a job! It's true, the "grand compromise" of "immigration reform" contains an "Electronic Employment Verification System" (EEVS) run by the Homeland Security Department -- a kind of "work / do-not-work" list!

The amendments striking the REAL ID provisions are the "Baucus-Tester Amendment # 1236" [EXCLUSIVE PDF] and the "Baucus-Tester-Obama Amendment" [EXCLUSIVE PDF]. You can call the U.S. Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121 to find your Senator's office and demand he support these amendments. You should also demand your Senators oppose ANY bill with any kind of EEVS "do not work" system. REAL ID and EEVS are radical anti-American programs and Senators should be told they will be held accountable if they support either.

Labels: homeland security, police state, real id

Wednesday, June 06, 2007

.. after asking Sir Rudy's henchman about WTC destruction foreknowledge.


More from Reason.com:

OK, here it is. The reporter was Matt Lepacek. I apologize for the quality of the video and for the occasional botched shot of the action. Quick rundown of the three (back-to-back clips):

1) Lepacek confronts Goeas as increasingly bewildered reporters look on. Goeas walks away and is sandwiched by Rudowski. Eventually, security pulls Lepacek away and he's arrested.
2) Rudowski is yanked out of the spin room.
3) Rudowski explains what just happened.

Labels: 9/11, police state, sir rudy

Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Contrary to the Reason report below, the Infowars reporter appears not to have been actually arrested until he began questioning why he was ejected from the hall by the cops. The microphone fed live to wearechange.org.

From Reason.com:

Alex Jones' Infowars Reporter Arrested in the Spin Room

Posted on June 5, 2007, 10:23pm | David Weigel
About 10 minutes after the debate ended, reporters from Alex Jones' Info Wars confronted Ed Goeas, who was spinning for Rudy Giuliani, and loudly asked what the mayor knew about 9/11. I rolled tape as Goeas took the bait, asking "Where are your credentials?" and "Do any real reporters have some questions?" But someone finally wrangled security and the reporter was escorted out, followed by a phalanx of cameramen.

It was surreal and I did a lot of interviewing after that moment, so it's a bit of a blur, but I'll post and upload the video a little later.



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OLD NEWS: A reporter affiliated with Infowars.com and/or GCN Radio Network has been handcuffed by police after being ejected from the post-debate "spin room" for apparently asking Sir Rudolph Giuliani about his contradictory statements regarding his foreknowledge of the destruction of the World Trade Center towers.

The man has apparently been arrested.

The event was streamed live over the front page of www.wearechange.org

Labels: 9/11, police state

Monday, March 12, 2007

CNN, March 12, 2007:

"... Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the suspected 9/11 mastermind; Ramzi bin al-Shibh, another key 9/11 planner; and Abu Faraz al-Libby, a top al Qaeda planner, separately appeared before three-judge panels last week, Pentagon official said.

Called combatant status review tribunals, the hearings determine whether detainees should be classified as enemy combatants, who can be held indefinitely and are eligible for military trials.

The men are part of a group of 14 detainees who were once held in secret CIA prisons before President Bush ordered their transfers to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in September.

Al-Libby and al-Shibh attended hearings Friday, while Mohammed faced judges Saturday at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, officials said.

Pentagon officials said another high-value detainee will go through a hearing Monday. The Pentagon did not identify the detainee.

Though similar hearings have been open to the media, last week's hearings were closed to reporters and the detainees' lawyers because of fears that detainees might divulge classified information, the officials said.

The hearings lasted between two and three hours, officials said. It could be weeks before the outcomes are known because the findings must be sent to higher authorities for approval.

All 14 men transferred to Guantanamo in September were given access to military advisers who assist them during hearings but offer no legal assistance. The men are given only an unclassified summary of the evidence against them.[...]
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Labels: 9/11, patsies, police state

Saturday, March 10, 2007

Top officers of many questionable corporations were paid off by manipulating stock options in the wake of the post 9/11 crash. A chart from Friday's Wall Street Journal report follows, full text here. One company implicated, police-state spycam-maker Affiliated Computer Systems, has a close relationship with defense contractor Lockheed.



Labels: 9/11, police state

Friday, March 09, 2007

From Daily Bugle via Marvel.com:

"MANHATTAN, New York — Steve Rogers, better known to the world as the star-spangled Captain America, was shot multiple times and killed on the steps of the Federal Courthouse in New York City. One shooter is in custody, but authorities are still seeking a second gunman whom they believe fired the fatal close-range shots that took the hero's life. Despite leading a squad of rebellious superheroes in direct conflict with the nation's Super Hero Registration Act.

[...]

Captain America was often a controversial figure, known for refusing to go along with the status quo and pointing out political corruption that sometimes went to the highest levels of the government. Rogers often said that he didn't represent the government, but instead represented the ideals of the American Dream, and was known for quoting the founders, from Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Paine, when giving speeches. He was a member of no political party and refused to take any side in partisan debates.[...]
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Labels: comix, police state

From Washington Times March 8, 2007:

" Homeland Security officials are testing a supersnoop computer system that sifts through personal information on U.S. citizens to detect possible terrorist attacks, prompting concerns from lawmakers who have called for investigations.

The system uses the same data-mining process that was developed by the Pentagon's Total Information Awareness (TIA) project that was banned by Congress in 2003 because of vast privacy violations.

A Government Accountability Office (GAO) investigation of the project called ADVISE -- Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization, Insight and Semantic Enhancement -- was requested by Rep. David R. Obey, Wisconsin Democrat and chairman of the House Appropriations Committee.

The investigation focuses on whether the program violates privacy laws, and the findings will be released after completion of the Iraq war supplemental spending bill, possibly as early as this week, a panel aide said.

The ADVISE and TIA data-mining projects rely on personal data to track individual behavior and consumer transactions to develop computer algorithms that create a pattern that some behavioral scientists say can predict terrorist behavior.

Data can include credit-card purchases, telephone or Internet details, medical records, travel and banking information.

Privacy concerns prompted lawmakers on both sides of the aisle to introduce legislation in January to require that government agencies disclose data-mining practices in regular reports to Congress.

"A serious discussion on the implications of data-mining programs is long overdue," Sen. Russ Feingold, Wisconsin Democrat and a sponsor of the bill, said yesterday. Sen. John E. Sununu, New Hampshire Republican, is also a bill sponsor.
[...]
"The ADVISE program is designed to extract relationships and correlations from large amounts of data to produce actionable intelligence on terrorists," the spending bill said. "A prototype is currently available to analysts in Intelligence and Analysis using departmental and other data, including some on U.S. citizens."

According to a Congressional Research Service (CRS) report in March 2003, TIA planned "to use data mining technologies to sift through personal transactions in electronic data to find patterns and associations connected to terrorist threats and activities."

"Recent increased awareness about the existence of the TIA project provoked expressions of concern about the potential for the invasion of privacy of law-abiding citizens by the government, and about the direction of the project by John Poindexter, a central figure in the Iran-Contra affair," the CRS report said.[...]

ADVISE was initiated in 2003 following the demise of the TIA project.

The new system includes data-mining tools to digest "massive quantities of information from many different sources" to find "hidden relationships in the data," according to a 2004 report by Sandia National Laboratories and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on a Homeland Security workshop that outlined this and other technology under development.

The technology is expected to analyze more than 3 million "relationships" or connections per hour, says the report, which included an example of how friends, family members, locations and workplaces can be linked by pinging the data.

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Labels: police state

Monday, March 05, 2007

Before the Presidents' Day recess, Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Israel) quickly and quietly pushed through his Senate Homeland Security Committee the "Improving America's Security by Implementing Unfinished Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007." That bill will be debated by the full Senate this week, beginning today. [OFFICIAL PDF COPY] The 258-page bill is Lieberman's version of the police-state measure which was the first item to pass the U.S. under Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

The full Senate is set to take up the measure on the floor in the next week or two. To tell your Senators to oppose and filibuster this legislation, the number for he Congressional switchboard is as always 202-225-3121.

Civil liberties experts inside Washington have pointed Total911.info to the following provisions in particular as troubling:


• Section (j)(1)(a-c) of the bill would have President Bush produce a report within six months on whether it is "feasible" to continue to protect the privacy rights of Americans.
  
  The President would recommend whether provisions of the 1975 Privacy Act which bar federal agencies from sharing information on Americans with each other willy-nilly should be "replaced" with so-called "mission-based" or "threat-based" access to information about Americans, defined basically by whether the information is wanted for an "authorized purpose", which the Executive Branch gets to define and decide for itself. If the bill were to pass in current form, we could expect a report before the end of the year recommending the destruction of the Privacy Act, the cornerstone of federal privacy protections.
  
  
• Section (j)(1)(d) of the bill calls for a report that would legitimize data-mining of information about Americans by normalizing the use of "anonymized data." This may sound pro-privacy but it really only means "encrypted," which means that private information about Americans is not really "anonymous." Such data can be decrypted by numerous government agents as desired.
  
  
• The so-called "Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board" would remain a joke. Title V of S.4 exacerbates the serious problems of the Privacy Board recommended by the 9-11 Commission. This arm of the Executive Office of the White House would now be authorized to review and comment on not just "regulations, executive branch policies, and procedures " -- but legislation proposed in Congress as well!
  
  The confirmation process proposed in Lieberman's bill is a joke as well. If a nominee is denied a vote in committee or delayed in the full Senate, the nominee to continue to serve for up to a year at a time. Lieberman's plan also allows a partisan majority to be a quorum for action and allows the president to set the terms for each of the members, possibly entrenching this Bush board firmly into some or all of the next term.
  
  
• Lieberman would also give the "Privacy Board" a subpoena power -- but not over privacy-violating government agencies! A majority of the Board could request that the Attorney General issue a subpoena to persons "other than departments, agencies and elements of the executive branch."
  
  
• Lieberman's bill would fund so-called "fusion centers" for gathering intelligence at the state and local not just for alleged "terror" threats but, under Title I Subtitle B, any "criminal or terrorist activity." This is just a mechanism for the Department of Homeland Security to gather information on Americans through sweeping up the files of local and state law enforcement agencies. "Fusion centers" will amount to little more than the vertical intergration of local police departments and the Department of Homeland Securoity to produce a domestic intelligence agency like Britain's MI5.

  Labels: 9/11, lieberman, police state

Friday, March 02, 2007

Increased awareness of the dangers of radio-frequency identification chips has forced a retreat by the Department if Homeland Security as they finally issue draft regulations for the REAL ID Act, a law which will complete the transformation of state drivers' licenses into a national ID card.

The new regulations also attempt to preempt a rising tide of rebellion to REAL ID from state governments by pushing back the compliance deadline and opening up the money spigot to reimburse states for some of the costs of the measure.
Some excerpts:

"Under section 205(b) of the Act, DHS may grant an extension of time to meet the requirements of the Act if the State provides adequate justification. DHS recognizes that many States need a final rule in order to guide their implementation efforts. Many States have informed DHS that, absent sufficient time to consider and act upon the final rule, the States will not be in a position to comply with the Act and the final rule. In recognition of this fact, DHS is establishing a mechanism where States can request an expedited extension of the compliance deadline. States may request an extension based on the lack of a final REAL ID rule by filing such a request no later than October 1, 2007. Based on information already received by DHS, and absent extraordinary circumstances, an extension request will be deemed justified for a period lasting until, but not beyond, December 31, 2009.

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Section 202(b)(6) of the Act requires that the driver’s license or identification card include the person’s address of principal residence. Many States have laws that allow addresses to be kept confidential in certain circumstances; for example, where the disclosure of an address may jeopardize the personal safety of such an individual, such as victims of domestic violence, judges, protected witnesses, and law enforcement personnel. Some States provide the standards for address confidentiality through legislation or in their exceptions processing. Most States retain the “real” address in their database, but often protect it so that only authorized personnel have access to the “real” address. In addition, most States do not have the “real” address in the machine readable technology barcode. Rather, the machine readable zone contains only what is on the face of the driver’s license or identification card.

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The proposed regulation would mandate the use of the PDF-417 2D bar code as the common MRT standard and DHS proposes to adopt most of the mandatory data elements described in the 2005 AAMVA Driver’s License/Identification Card Design Specifications, Annex D, as its MRT data elements model. PDF417 is a two dimensional, open source (public domain) barcode that is used to store and transfer large amounts of data inexpensively. PDF stands for “portable data file” in that the barcode acts as an independent database that travels along with the item, document, or card on which it is affixed. The printed barcode symbol consists of several linear (minimum 3, maximum 90) rows, each of which is like a small linear barcode made up of code words that can carry up to 1.1 kilobytes of machine-readable data in a space no larger than a standard bar code. The American National Standards Institute has published a standard for PDF417, and AAMVA has approved the use of PDF417 for driver’s licenses and identification cards. The PDF417 barcode can be read by a standard 2D barcode scanner.

The AAMVA list of data elements includes expiration date, bearer’s name, issue date, date of birth, gender, address, and a unique identification number.21 DHS proposes that States consider storing in the machine-readable zone (MRZ) only the minimum data elements necessary for the purpose for which the REAL IDs will be used. DHS requests comments on what data elements should be included in the machine readable zone and the privacy considerations regarding the selection of such data elements and this technology.

Encryption. Annex D of the AAMVA standard requires that all of the data on the 2D bar code be unencrypted. Although DHS leans toward requiring encryption for the data stored in the 2D bar code on REAL ID driver’s licenses and identification cards, DHS believes that access to this information by law enforcement is essential to the requirements of the Act and invites comment on how to provide this access and the protection of the information at the same time.

Because 2D bar code readers are extremely common, there is a possibility that the data could be captured from the driver’s licenses and identification cards and accessed by third parties by reading the driver’s license or identification card’s 2D bar code. For example, a bar could scan the 2D barcode to verify that the individual presenting the driver’s license or identification card was 21 or over, and at the same time could conceivably obtain the person’s name and address off the barcode and compile a list of names and addresses of its patrons, which it could subsequently sell or use.

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Monday, January 29, 2007

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