3 Aug 2013
Nigel Farage on racist UK home office campaign on illegal immigrants
Financial Tapeworms - Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert with Greg Palast
Drones and Right to Privacy - Ludwig von Mises Institute
By James E. Miller: On August 6th, the small town of Deer Trail, Colorado is set to vote
on an ordinance that will permit the hunting of unmanned surveillance
drones. The author of the ordinance, Phillip Steel, claims the gesture
is “symbolic.” In an interview
with a local ABC News affiliate, Steel attested that he does “not
believe in the idea of a surveillance society.” The Florida Legislature
recently passed a law barring federal government drones from “gathering evidence or other information” on citizens of the state. A handful of other American states are pursuing measures to limit the spying operations of Uncle Sam’s unmanned aerial vehicles.
The pushback against Washington’s snoop activities is a
nice development. It’s unfortunate that these state laws and local
ordinances will not amount to anything significant. The federal
government is the divine master of what was once known as the individual
states. Federalism – the idea that sovereignty is shared between
hierarchical governing bodies under one umbrella of monopoly authority –
is a long-dead concept of American lore. The states have been
subservient to a national Leviathan since the War for Southern
Independence. If the Constitution was supposed to balance the powers
between state legislatures and Congress, it has been a miserable
failure. Like pigs at the trough, the “laboratories of democracy” lined
up to feed on an endless stream of Washington money that came with
strings implicitly attached.
Addicted to Power - A Conversation with Dr. Mark Skousen + Psychopaths Among Us - A Conversation with Michael Cross
Marc Faber on Chinese foreign exchange reserves & the Sino-American geopolitical standoff
FBI employs hackers, has software that can remotely activate cell phone, laptop microphones and more
By Madison Ruppert: A new report reveals that the FBI directly employs multiple hackers
who create custom surveillance software for the bureau, some of which is
capable of remotely activating the microphones on cell phones and
laptops, among other features.
The FBI is known for using technology shrouded in secrecy, some of which is based on legal grounds which have been questioned by critics with some maintaining that the FBI deceived judges in deploying it.
Malicious software, or malware, aimed at enabling government surveillance has also been heavily marketed directly to the US government.
It’s also important to note that the US government is now the world’s largest buyer of malware.
Yet the government doesn’t just buy software from the private sector, anonymous former US officials told the Wall Street Journal that the FBI also “employs a number of hackers who write custom surveillance software.”
The FBI is known for using technology shrouded in secrecy, some of which is based on legal grounds which have been questioned by critics with some maintaining that the FBI deceived judges in deploying it.Malicious software, or malware, aimed at enabling government surveillance has also been heavily marketed directly to the US government.
It’s also important to note that the US government is now the world’s largest buyer of malware.
Yet the government doesn’t just buy software from the private sector, anonymous former US officials told the Wall Street Journal that the FBI also “employs a number of hackers who write custom surveillance software.”