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• UK: Army of ‘citizen snoopers’ recruited by council to spy on neighbours

  
  PogoWasRight.org — Authority: 147
  A council is enlisting 2,000 resident spies to report anti-social behaviour by their neighbours, it emerged today. The recruits, described by town hall chiefs as ‘Neighbourhood Champions’, will pass on evidence of graffiti, fly-tipping, litter and excessive noise. They could even be trained to report child ...
  1 day ago

• Guilty until proven innocent

  
  The Standard — Authority: 598
  We are continuing our chilling progress towards a surveillance state . The Criminal Proceeds (Recovery) Act 2009 is another brick in the wall. Apparently this act reverses the fundamental presumption of innocence with respect to assets (possessions, wealth). If the police decide that your possessions were gained ...
  3 days ago

• Chilling

  
  The Standard — Authority: 598
  The Search and Surveillance Bill is making its way though the bowels of the government law making process. This is a terrible law, described by the Human Rights Commissioner as “ disproportionately invasive ” and “ chilling “: Sweeping powers to spy, bug conversations and hack into private computers ...
  6 days ago

• TSA nominee up for Senate questioning November 10th

  
  Papers, Please! — Authority: 113
  The Senate Committee on Homeland Security has scheduled a hearing on Tuesday, November 10th, at 10 a.m. in Washington to consider the nomination of Erroll G. Southers to be Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for the Transportation Security Administration.None of the questions we think are important got asked ...
  1 week ago

• ‘The End of Privacy’ and the Surveillance-Industrial Complex

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 740
  National Public Radio’s All Things Considered ran a series on “ The End of Privacy ” all last week that’s worth a listen. They’re primarily concerned with the ways private companies have access to vast quantities of information about individuals in the digital age—something that civil libertarians have ...
  1 week ago

• The Cult Of The Imperial Presidency

  
  The Liberty Papers — Authority: 531
  Over the past 30 years, America has seen Presidential scandals ranging from Watergate to Iran-Contra to Travel-gate, Whitewater, the Lewinsky scandal, and the Valerie Plame affair. We’ve learned the truth about some of the truly nefarious actions undertaken by some of most beloved Presidents of the 20th Century, ...
  1 week ago

• U.S. Spies Buy Stake in Firm That Monitors Blogs, Tweets

  
  Illuminati Conspiracy Archive Blog — Authority: 425
  Noah Shachtman - October 19, 2009America’s spy agencies want to read your blog posts, keep track of your Twitter updates — even check out your book reviews on Amazon.In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putting cash into Visible Technologies, a software firm that ...
  2 weeks ago

• Domestic Extremists

  
  Ten Percent — Authority: 522
  I think the essence of the current expose of our police state is in Mark Thomas’ piece- The Metropolitan police circulated the card specifically for the Docklands biannual arms fair in London to help its officers identify “people at specific events who may instigate offences or disorder”. Which is such ...
  2 weeks ago

• Hate your neighbor? Turn her in....

  
  Can it happen here? — Authority: 131
  The LAPD apparently is advertising for a few good informants. Give em A for diversity in the ads cast -- and F for respect for people and privacy. Whatever happened to the idea that busybodies are anti-social? And they think they are on NCIS or Law and Order. Again nice cast diversity in this "training film." ...
  2 weeks ago

• Why shouldn’t we have to show ID when we fly?

  
  Papers, Please! — Authority: 113
  From time to time, people ask us, “But why don’t you want to show ID when you travel?  What’s wrong with that?” There are probably as many answers to that question as there are people who resist government demands to show ID when they travel, even when it’s scary and involves some personal risk to [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Softball questions for TSA nominee

  
  Papers, Please! — Authority: 113
  President Obama’s much-bleated nominee to head the Transportation Security Administration, Erroll Southers — faced only softball questioning at a confirmation hearing last week before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.  None of the questions we’ve raised for the nominee about TSA ...
  2 weeks ago

• Government Reasonability Quiz

  
  The Liberty Papers — Authority: 531
  On Monday morning around 5:30 a.m. in Springfield, Virginia, Eric Williamson was making coffee (in the privacy of his own home) in the buff. Unbeknownst to Williamson, a woman and her 7 year old son could see him in all his glory as they took a shortcut through his front yard. The woman, horrified that her and her ...
  2 weeks ago

• Prevent=Stasi

  
  Ten Percent — Authority: 522
  The government and police have repeatedly denied that the £140m programme is a cover for spying on Muslims in Britain. But sources directly involved in running Prevent schemes say it involves gathering intelligence about the thoughts and beliefs of Muslims who are not involved in criminal activity. Read the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Surveillance state

  
  The Standard — Authority: 598
  One of the most dishonest, yet most successful tactics of National in opposition was to rant on and on about the “Nanny state”. Here’s John Key fairly foaming at the mouth: I’ve had nine years of being told what lightbulb I can screw into the house, what shower I can take, what food I can eat, what things ...
  3 weeks ago

• I await the Pulitzer, Peabody, Governer Generals Award and unfathomable amounts of hysterical misplaced emotion for the book I can never quite finish.

  
  YOUNGFOX CANADA — Authority: 91
  Obama and the Nobel Prize: When War becomes Peace, When the Lie becomes the Truth Barack Obama war criminal Depraved Obscene Absurdities Obama Sends a Signal to the Few Remaining Suckers Who Believe in the Rule of Law
  4 weeks ago

• This economist doesnt look dismal

  
  Can it happen here? — Authority: 131
  Never thought Id see a Nobel Prize in Economics winner who looked like this. Elinor Ostrom is the first woman to get one of these. Her work is about creating rules for transactions around shared resources, or "commons," that make collective action rewarding (enough) for everyone involved. And where she ...
  4 weeks ago

• Hope And Change Update: Obama Backs Extension Of PATRIOT Act

  
  The Liberty Papers — Authority: 531
  The more things change, the more they stay the same: WASHINGTON — The Obama administration supports extending three key provisions of the Patriot Act that are due to expire at the end of the year, the Justice Department told Congress in a letter made public Tuesday. Lawmakers and civil rights groups had been ...
  7 weeks ago

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