Limitless Space: Computerized Dataveillance Since 9/11
By Chris Walsh Hundreds of state, local and federal databases clog our nation’s digital infrastructure, collecting, sharing and hoarding inconceivable amounts of information about ordinary people. From DHS to the DOJ to the DOE, from the state and local police all the way up to the military and CIA, our government is increasingly relying on [...]
Read More →Five Things That #OccupyWallStreet Has Done Right
By Mark Engler #OccupyWallStreet protests are now well into their second week, and they are increasingly capturing the public spotlight. This is because, whatever limitations their occupation has, the protesters have done many things right. I will admit that I was skeptical about the #OccupyWallStreet effort when it was getting started. My main concerns were the [...]
Read More →How Automatic License Plate Recognition Tracks Your Steps
By Lance Page As the surveillance state continues to expand, the push to track the movement of individuals across state borders has also expanded. Automatic license plate recognition technology is at the forefront of this move, not only capturing thousands of license plates per minute and storying the information in a database, but also recording the [...]
Read More →Baby Steps Towards an Asian NATO
Michael Mazza The American In our recent report on an Asian alliance structure for the 21st century—principally authored by my colleague Dan Blumenthal—we argued that in order to balance against China’s rising power, the United States should work towards a more tightly knit grouping of allies in Asia. We attempted to preempt the conventional counter-argument—that [...]
Read More →Keiser Report: ‘WW3 will make us all rich’
This week Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, whisper about dangerous talk for bailout artists and Big Brothers as Greece runs out of ink. They ask the US Federal Reserve Chairman to return the money he owes someone on Twitter and they google ‘Ben Bernanke’ and ‘Tim Geithner’ to save the government some money. In [...]
Read More →41,000 people in Michigan to lose welfare
UPI The Rev. Jesse Jackson and U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., joined 200 demonstrators to protest a law that will end welfare for about 41,000 people in Michigan. “They’re going to starve, they’re going to be evicted and some are going to die needlessly,” Conyers said Thursday in front of the Detroit state offices. The law, which goes [...]
Read More →China needs to see Europe debt plan
China Daily China cannot solve Europe’s debt crisis by buying high risk bonds without seeing a clear resolution plan, the chairman of the board of supervisors at China Investment Corporation said. “We in China are concerned about the unraveling of the situation in the (eurozone) region,” Jin Liqun, who is also the chairman of China’s [...]
Read More →North Korea accuses South Korea of airing propaganda broadcasts, warns of military clash
AFP via Defense News orth Korea blasted South Korea on Oct. 1 for propaganda broadcasts into its territory, saying the “despicable psychological campaign” could provoke a serious military clash. A spokesman for the Ministry of Post and Communications threatened “merciless punishment” by the army against broadcasters if the campaign persisted. The unidentified spokesman, quoted by [...]
Read More →Chinese paper calls China’s neighbors ‘mosquitoes’ that need to be taught a lesson
The Diplomat Southeast Asian nations are like ‘mosquitoes’ that need to be taught a lesson, according to the Global Times, which is published by the official Chinese Communist Party’s People’s Daily. ‘The Philippines, pretending to be weak and innocent, declared that mosquitoes are not wary of the power of the Chinese elephant,’ a writer using the pseudonym [...]
Read More →China warns India against collaborating with Vietnam over oil and gas exploration in South China Sea
The Diplomat China has warned India against collaborating with Vietnam over oil and gas exploration in the disputed South China Sea. The warning comes as reports suggest an Indian state-owned oil producer is about to start joint exploration of gas resources despite protests from Beijing, the official Global Times has reported. It’s a reminder of the dangers that still exist [...]
Read More →Internet firms co-opted for surveillance; Google Charges $25 to hand over data, Facebook do it for free
Reuters Internet companies such as Google, Twitter and Facebook are increasingly co-opted for surveillance work as the information they gather proves irresistible to law enforcement agencies, Web experts said this week. Although such companies try to keep their users’ information private, their business models depend on exploiting it to sell targeted advertising, and when governments [...]
Read More →Congress price cap to end free banking
PressTV Congress is to impose a new rule on banks, based on which banks will start charging customers extra fees for normal banking processes, Press TV reports. “There’s a mix of things that the [banks] are going to do, which is to raise debit card fees and, depending on the competitive markets, put fees on checking accounts. [...]
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