4 Jul 2009
Big brother is watching: The technologies that keep track of you
The furore around the Chinese government’s Green Dam software has raised the issue of the way modern technology is used to monitor our daily lives. Here, we list seven of the technologies that can be used to keep track of your movements.
CCTV
Closed-circuit television cameras were first used in Germany in 1942 to remotely monitor the launch of V2 rockets. Since then, CCTVs have become one of the most contentious pieces of technology in public use. The government and law enforcement agencies claim the use of video monitoring technology can help reduce crime and improve public safety; critics argue that the cameras serve only to displace crime to unmonitored areas, and do not act as a deterrent. With more than four million CCTV units in the UK, the network of cameras captures the average person around 25 times a day.
RFID tags
Radio frequency identification chips are already widely used in supermarkets and shops for the purpose of stock control, but some people fear their use could be widened to monitor the habits and behaviour of ordinary citizens. At the moment, these tags, which are little bigger than a grain of sand, are embedded into pints of milk and library books. When paired with an RFID reader, the tags can help to provide detailed information about items, such as their location, or how many there are. Although most people are happy for RFID tags to be used in stores to monitor stock levels, they’re less happy about the idea of the chips still sending out a signal once they leave the shop. On a benign level, such tracking capabilities would mean a store would know that people in Hertfordshire prefer blue cashmere jumpers, while those in Aberdeen favour the brown versions. But on a more sinister level, it could also enable them to glean an unprecedented insight into our personal lives, and target their brands to us accordingly. To those people who fear a “surveillance culture”, the ability to tag and track everything from our food to our clothes would be the next step on an already slippery slope.
More of the technologies that keep track of you on the Telegraph website
3 Jun 2009
Britain leads world in police state survey
A recent survey from internet security consultancy, Cryptohippie, suggests that the UK is setting the pace in at least one area - though being classified as the West’s most repressive regime when it comes to electronic surveillance might not be a title that this government is entirely happy to wear.
This result emerges from Cryptohippie’s recently published Electronic Police State 2008 (pdf). This is the first in what are intended to be a series of annual reports that will audit the "State use of electronic technologies to record, organize, search and distribute forensic evidence against its citizens".
The audit focuses on 17 factors, ranging from requirement to produce documents on demand, through to the extent to which states force ISP’s and phone companies to retain data, the blurring of boundaries between police and intelligence work and ultimately the breakdown of the principles of habeas corpus.
A simple five-point scoring system is used for each factor, with results totaled to produce an overall score. Some 52 major states are looked at, with final ranking apparently influenced by two quite different factors. On the one hand, states that are simply repressive are likely to score highly – and they do. The top four places in the survey are occupied by China, North Korea, Belarus and Russia.
21 May 2009
David Icke At The Oxford Union
“In this two-hour presentation at the world famous Oxford Union, David Icke encapsulates humanity’s current plight and how we can secure our freedom from the Hidden Hand behind global events.
20 May 2009
The Alex Jones Show - YouTube Exodus
We need to evacuate the 2000 + videos on the Alex Jones Channel immediately. We need to clone these videos around the Internet:
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel
19 May 2009
Bilderberg 2009 Attendee list
As expected, the participation list this year leaked again. On the Internet it is now only 2 places in the Greek language 
Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands
Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands
David Rockefeller, patriarch of the Rockefeller family, USA
Keith B. Alexander, Director of the NSA, USA
Timothy Geithner, USA, Secretary of the Treasury
Donald E. Graham (Washington Ρost Company)
Victor Halberstadt, Professor of Economics, Leiden University, Netherlands
Ernst Hirsch Ballin, minister of Justice, Netherlands
Richard Holbrooke, Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, USA
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, NATO Secretary General, Netherlands
Neelie Kroes, European Commissioner for Competition. Netherlands
David Petraeus, Commander, U.S. Central Command, USA
Jeroen van der Veer, CEO Royal Dutch Shell, Netherlands
Guy Verhofstadt, ex Prime Minister, Belgium
Nout Wellink, President of De Nederlandsche Bank, the Netherlands
Paul Wolfowitz, American Enterprise Institute, USA
See whole Bilderberg 2009 Attendee list on We Are Change Holland
18 May 2009
17 May 2009
David Icke on UK Surveillance Society
When you’ve got nothing to hide, so nothing to fear, WATCH THIS!
15 May 2009
The Final Push for World Government
Throughout the history of mankind, the elite have always fought for world empire. Now, using secrecy and international banking systems, they are making their final push for world government. Only an educated and informed public can stop them in their tracks.
Speaker at the beginning: Carl Sagan
14 May 2009
Eisenhower warns of the military industrial complex
Dwight D. Eisenhower exit speech on Jan.17,1961. Warning us of the military industrial complex.
13 May 2009
Youtube censors US journalist
Radio and internet journalist Alex Jones has been censored by the internet giant Youtube with the removal of the "Alex Jones Channel" from the site, causing revulsion across the United States and Europe, in what is increasingly being seen as another example of a "Big Brother" intervention in the democratic process.
Alex Jones best known for his investigative journalism around the 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Centre and his conspiratorial theories describes himself on his website infowars.com as:
"Syndicated radio journalist and documentary filmmaker Alex Jones has been on the front lines of the growing global information war from ground zero to the occult playgrounds of the power-mad elite."
Alex Jones Predicts 911
The "Alex Jones show" on YouTube was attracting around 1 million views a week, and was responsible for the "The Obama Deception" which has clocked 1,897,810 views.
YouTube apparently pulled the "Alex Jones Channel" from its site for a potential legal action from a US newspaper claiming a potential copyright breach over Jones use of its articles on his radio programme.
12 May 2009
Endgame
For the New World Order, a world government is just the beginning. Once in place they can engage their plan to exterminate 80% of the world's population, while enabling the "elites" to live forever with the aid of advanced technology. For the first time, crusading filmmaker ALEX JONES reveals their secret plan for humanity's extermination: Operation ENDGAME.
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10 Apr 2009
Keith Olbermann on Obama and Wiretapping
Countdown With Keith Olbermann on MSNBC had excellent coverage of and commentary on the Obama DOJ's radical new arguments in Jewel v. NSA, the EFF's lawsuit against the NSA for illegal surveillance. Here is the video:
Olbermann's second guest, GWU Law Professor Jonathan Turley, aptly summarizes why the new ruling is so disappointing:
"I think right now, the Bush people are bringing out their mission-accomplished sign, because they've not only gotten Obama to protect Bush and Cheney and others from any criminal investigation on torture, but he's now gone even further than they did in the protection of unlawful surveillance. This is the ultimate victory for the Bush officials. They have Barack Obama adopting the same extremist arguments, and in fact exceeding the extremist arguments made by President Bush...