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Why Are Americans Paying to Be Searched, Spied On, Shot At and Robbed Blind by the Government?
The State Department wants $400,000 to purchase a fiberglass sculpture of a camel looking at a needle for its new embassy in Pakistan. They’ve already spent their allotted $630,000 to increase the number of
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More Torture Pics: Torture by U.S. continues under Obama administration
We have been hearing all the gush about how the Obama Administration will make a clean break from the illegal practices of the Bush Administration but the Obama DOJ is maintaining the position espoused
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CIA Torture and the Threat of Dictatorship
Only one conclusion can be drawn from the report published in the Washington Post Tuesday giving grisly details of CIA torture of prisoners and systematic lying by government officials to cover it up: the
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Gates Foundation Lobbies for Feds to Collect Data on College Graduates’ Lives
A study released by the Gates Foundation is promoting a system that would track the careers of college graduates long after they receive their degrees, attacking the National Association for Independent Colleges and Universities
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Sen. Feinstein Suddenly Discovers Surveillance can be Bad…if She’s being Spied on
Being a staunch defender of government spies comes at great risk, considering such loyalty means standing by those whose very business is to snoop and lie for a living. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-California) now
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California Police Unveil Armored Surveillance Vehicle
“We are focusing on public areas, we’re not trying to impede anyone’s privacy” Police in Modesto, California unveiled a newly acquired surveillance vehicle this week which will video and audio record local residents throughout the
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Dragonfly: World’s Smallest Autonomous Drone Takes Flight
The mimicking of nature heralds a new focus in the development of drones. While DARPA and their contractors have been working on true nano surveillance with biological components, it is the modeling of
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NY State Hires Bill Gates Firm to Collect Data on Children
New York state authorities are outsourcing data collection on school kids. The program, which is to be launched state-wide, is supposed to gather information on students starting from the age of five to better
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White House: No more information about drone killings will be released to public
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters Thursday that the Obama administration will not be releasing any more information about the controversial use of drones to kill American citizens
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CIA confirms agency obliged to follow federal surveillance law
The CIA has confirmed that it is obliged to follow a federal law barring the collection of financial information and hacking into government data networks. But neither the agency nor its Senate overseers will say
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New surveillance technology can track everyone in an area for several hours at a time
Shooter and victim were just a pair of pixels, dark specks on a gray streetscape. Hair color, bullet wounds, even the weapon were not visible in the series of pictures taken from an airplane
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Obama faces backlash on executive power
For a man who prides himself on winding down two wars, President Barack Obama certainly has started up a lot of new ones. There’s the war on coal. The war on gun owners. Even the
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Rise Of The Insect Drones
Nature spent millions of years perfecting flapping-wing flight. Now engineers can reproduce it with machines. Five years ago, Richard Guiler and Tom Vaneck were sitting at a bar a few blocks from their office, trying
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Massive US airships to conduct 24/7 domestic aerial surveillance
The US Army plans to deploy two massive airships with powerful surveillance systems over the US state of Maryland to monitor the country’s East Coast round-the-clock, heightening privacy concerns. The airships, known as aerostats, will
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Bill Gates Says Government Spying Isn’t Always Bad
Bill Gates has strong opinions when it comes to world poverty, but the tech titan-turned-philanthropist takes the middle ground on government spying. Speaking with Fusion’s Jorge Ramos in an interview set to air on Tuesday,
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Dianne Feinstein spots drone inches from face
Sen. Dianne Feinstein says she once found a drone peeking into the window of her home — the kind of cautionary tale she wants lawmakers to consider as they look at allowing commercial drone
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US Army To Have ‘Nano’ Insect Drones By 2030s, Internal Roadmap Reveals
The US Department of Defense has released its ‘roadmap’ for bringing new and ever-more-subjectively-terrifying robots to the battlefield. The ‘Unmanned Systems Roadmap’ document actually addresses overall cuts to the budget for drones, down to $4.1
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US National Security Agency (NSA) ‘spies on US for Israel’
An American company bids on a military project in Africa. It finds its prime competitor is an Israeli company that submitted not just a superficially identical proposal but the same typographical and syntax errors
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Google Is Testing A Program That Tracks You Everywhere You Go
Google is beta-testing a program that tracks users' purchasing habits by registering brick-and-mortar store visits via smartphones, according to a report from Digiday. Google can access user data via Android apps or their Apple iOS
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Obama causing the entire world to hate America: Spying, currency devaluation, torture and more
Barack Hussein Obama is without question the most divisive president of our generation, even more so than the hapless Jimmy Carter, who at least managed to broker a peace deal between Egypt and Israel
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