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international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday September 13, 2012 01:12 by T
Things on the global Police State front get more frightening and ominous by the day. This latest announcement serves to underline that. The FBI has officially started rolling out a state-of-the-art face recognition project that will assist in their effort to accumulate and archive information about each and every American at a cost of a billion dollars. It is known as the Next Generation Identification (NGI) program. This report comes from Russia Today (rt.com) and quotes an article in New Scientist magazine. The project itself was announced back in 2005 and was part of a project to upgrade the existing Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS) that keeps track of citizens with criminal records across America. Related Feature on TrapWire: Stratfor Hacked Emails Reveal the TrapWire System run by Private Corporations run by ex-CIA/NSA people Related Links: TrapWire tied to White House, Scotland Yard, MI5 and others, claims hacked Stratfor email | ‘Total Information Awareness’ surveillance program returns, bigger than ever Freedom Not Fear: CCTV Surveillance Cameras In Focus US National Security Agency (NSA) related: NSA Watch | See Scandal | Echelon FAQ | Echelon Docs -These are a bit dated (circa 2000) so the system would be vastly more powerful now. | Intercept Capabilities -written 1999. | Ireland Joins Echelon - the US/UK Global Spy Network | Thousands of military drones to be deployed over US mainland | EU / Ireland / Indymedia Related: EU agrees rules for remote computer access by police forces - but fails, as usual, to mention the security and intelligence agencies, by Tony Bunyan | Spooky Tales From Rossport and MI5 | Search Engines Should Become Government Spies Says EU Parliament | EU Agree Plan for Police Forces to place radicals & protestors under Surveillance New Pan-European Intelligence Gathering Scheme Highlighted – RNU Internet Freedom Fighters Build a Shadow Web | Pirate Party Speaks Out Against Government Filtering Plans | Are government representatives and gardai poring over your private emails and texts without you even knowing? | Some observations on state repression | How are we to handle police intelligence with care? Swedish government adopts invasive wire-tapping measures -law allows govt to monitor all e-mail and telephone communications that enter, leave or even pass through Sweden.
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday September 13, 2012 00:59 by T
A series of reports from Russia Today (rt.com) and other sites have explained how activists reading through last year's hack by Anonymous of the Strategic Forecasting Intelligence agency (Stratfor) have revealed a little known system already in place and run by the Abraxas corporation although hints of the system were known years earlier. The email have since been released on WikiLeaks. Global Intelligence Files Related Feature on TrapWire: FBI begins installation of $1 billion face recognition system across America When you read this other story, it is evident that the capability has rapidly come together in the last few years for computer systems to now store billions of photographs and run continual analysis on them and other related data such as location info (GPS from your phone), phone call history, credit card & bank transactions, vehicle registration recognition and tracking by motorway + street overhead cameras etc Related Links: Abraxas and Trapwire: the technology and personnel revealed | Trapwire Article on Cryptogon | (Guradian) Trapwire surveillance system exposed in document leak | (ACLU) What to make of the Trapwire Story | Leaked Microsoft intelligence document: Here's what Microsoft will reveal to police about you
national / anti-capitalism Sunday August 05, 2012 23:51 by wageslave
Shell has been trying to get a tunnel boring machine into place in Rossport. This feature will serve as a jump off point for information on the progress of the operation and the efforts of Shell to sea protesters. It will be updated with links to new posts on the subject as they come in. Please make your way down to rossport if you can.
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international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday July 21, 2012 21:51 by lefty
Abstract: For most progressive activists, it is a given that the military-industrial complex is a clear and highly visible barrier to progressive social change. So it is particularly interesting to note that a number of groups involved in progressive activist education – which are held in high regard by activists – maintain strong links to military and political elites. One of the best known of these organisations is the US-based Albert Einstein Institution. This paper will provide a systematic analysis of the history of this Institution, and the key people associated with it, and demonstrate how their work is intimately linked to the international democracy-manipulating community – whose work is exemplified by the US-based National Endowment for Democracy, a group which is well-known for its support of the failed 2002 coup in Venezuela. This analysis will expose the crucial role such activist educators play in catalysing revolutions in countries deemed appropriative for regime change by transnational elites. In the light of the dubious nature of these educational activities, this paper will conclude by offering a number of suggestions for how concerned citizens and educators may counter the cynical (ab)use of activist education by political elites as a new and powerful tool of imperialism.
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international / miscellaneous Wednesday July 11, 2012 13:24 by José Antonio Gutiérrez D.
On 29th July we interviewed Fionuala Cregan on the Paraguayan crisis, its background and the Latin American context in which it takes place. She is based in Argentina and works with the Latin America Regional Office of Church World Service. She has also written for the Irish Times on Paraguay and has extensive research on the impact of agribusiness on Paraguayan peasants' lives. She has been a long term supporter of LASC. The views expressed here are her own. We hope that this interview will give a better insight into the developments in that country. Related Links: Paraguay: Obama's Second Latin American Coup | LASC statement on the Paraguayan Coup | Paraguay: Election ends six decades of one-party rule (WSWS) | Don't fence us in: Modern-day land grabs | Irish times article on coup | LASC website |
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