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Re: Shadow Government
Conservatism most likely, you know just like it gave the IRS the right to audit me several times.
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I can see Obama doing whatever he can to eliminate the freedom of speech that the constitution he studied in university ensures Americans. This quote from this article is very correct "Likewise, the Obama administration has been no friend to free speech" September 30 isn't far away so we don't have long to see what kind of damage this does.
September 30th - Beginning Of The End For Free Speech On The Net?
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News Image By PNW Staff September 05, 2016
The first step toward the global suppression of free speech on the Internet will take place at midnight on September 30, when the Obama administration cedes control of the World Wide Web to foreign interests.
L. Gordon Crovitz of The Washington Post has penned two pieces outlining the collision course of American free speech. The first, "Stop Obama's Internet Giveaway" in March, 2016, and a recent follow-up piece called "An Internet Giveaway to the U.N." discuss the potential fallout of not preventing President Obama from allowing a government contract with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to expire.
Under Obama's direction, the Commerce Department was charged with ending American oversight and ensure that foreign entities could not make an internet power grab.
Crovitz rightly disagrees with that outcome, stating that "because of the (Obama) administration's naiveté or arrogance, U.N. control is the likely result if the U.S. gives up internet stewardship..."
Without a U.S. agreement to operate with antitrust exemptions, ICANN would likely seek to be overseen by another agency, organization or foreign power. As a non-profit, the body's rules and regulations are determined by a board and the shift would be a tremendous opportunity for countries that routinely suppress free speech, such as Russia and China, to infiltrate, gain authority and impose their worldviews on a global scale.
Likewise, the Obama administration has been no friend to free speech. Government employees in the administration have already been accused of suppressing opposing political views.
In particular, the Internal Revenue Service came under scrutiny for targeting conservative political groups and impeding their ability to gain non-profit status before the last presidential election.
In a recent article, The Daily Wire charges that "The lobbying for the end of U.S. control of the Internet intensified due to Edward Snowden. After Snowden's leaks of the National Security Agency's government surveillance emerged, ICANN and other foreign governments used the U.S.'s use of surveillance in other countries as reason to end U.S. control of Internet governance."
Snowden, a whistleblower, leaked classified information which many viewed as war crimes by the U.S. military to the non-profit journalistic organization WikiLeaks. Snowden has been living as an exile in Russia and has been charged in absentia by the United States under the 1917 Espionage Act for absconding with classified documents.
In recent months, WikiLeaks also made a splash by releasing Democratic National Committee communications that suggested the party skewed its dealing against presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.
Although shutting down an online organization such as WikiLeaks would run contrary to the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment, countries like Russia and China, among others, may be more inclined to end the dissemination of such sensitive materials. Under a different set of standards, such information could be kept from the public going forward.
The Daily Wire goes on to point out that once the U.S. surrenders control over ICANN, "it will likely fall under the (International Telecommunications Unit) ITU's control and risk being subject to censorship."
Journalists at both The Daily Wire and Wall Street Journal agree that handing over control could have dangerous ramifications.
"Even more chilling is the fact that ITU had passed a treaty that provided 'authority to governments to close off their citizens' access to the global Internet'" and creating 'a digital Iron Curtain.'"
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Wisconsin Sen. Sean Duffy have introduced a bill to stop the shift in internet power and Investor's Business Daily noted as far back as three years ago Cruz was concerned about this day arriving.
"The likes of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Chinese President Xi Jinping should not dictate what can be read, written, distributed, bought and sold on the internet," the former presidential candidate wrote. "Countries that do not give their own people the right to speak freely deserve no say in what Americans can say and do on the internet."
The Texas senator has also called for potential administrative regulations to prevent opening this Pandora's Box. And even before the clock strikes midnight on U.S. free speech protections, the seeds of China's influence are already being sown.
ICANN CEO Fadi Chehadé recently agreed to become a senior advisor to China's World Internet Conference, which is an organization Beijing has developed directly to compete with ICANN. According to The Washington Post, "Its goal is to replace the open Internet with full government control and global censorship."
When confronted by Sen. Cruz about China's internet censorship and relationship with ICANN, Chehade appeared to threaten that if the America retains oversight, it "would have grave repercussions on the U.S."
Recent studies show that 66 percent of Americans oppose relinquishing control of the internet and 69 percent say that it's either "somewhat" or "very likely" that a country like China, Russia or Iran would attempt to seize control.
As University of Surrey Prof. Alan Woodward succinctly put it, this is "about who officially controls the foundations of the internet/web addresses and domain names, without which the network wouldn't function."
Read more at http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/articl ... WWywvHz.99
September 30th - Beginning Of The End For Free Speech On The Net?
image: http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/images ... 052016.jpg
News Image By PNW Staff September 05, 2016
The first step toward the global suppression of free speech on the Internet will take place at midnight on September 30, when the Obama administration cedes control of the World Wide Web to foreign interests.
L. Gordon Crovitz of The Washington Post has penned two pieces outlining the collision course of American free speech. The first, "Stop Obama's Internet Giveaway" in March, 2016, and a recent follow-up piece called "An Internet Giveaway to the U.N." discuss the potential fallout of not preventing President Obama from allowing a government contract with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to expire.
Under Obama's direction, the Commerce Department was charged with ending American oversight and ensure that foreign entities could not make an internet power grab.
Crovitz rightly disagrees with that outcome, stating that "because of the (Obama) administration's naiveté or arrogance, U.N. control is the likely result if the U.S. gives up internet stewardship..."
Without a U.S. agreement to operate with antitrust exemptions, ICANN would likely seek to be overseen by another agency, organization or foreign power. As a non-profit, the body's rules and regulations are determined by a board and the shift would be a tremendous opportunity for countries that routinely suppress free speech, such as Russia and China, to infiltrate, gain authority and impose their worldviews on a global scale.
Likewise, the Obama administration has been no friend to free speech. Government employees in the administration have already been accused of suppressing opposing political views.
In particular, the Internal Revenue Service came under scrutiny for targeting conservative political groups and impeding their ability to gain non-profit status before the last presidential election.
In a recent article, The Daily Wire charges that "The lobbying for the end of U.S. control of the Internet intensified due to Edward Snowden. After Snowden's leaks of the National Security Agency's government surveillance emerged, ICANN and other foreign governments used the U.S.'s use of surveillance in other countries as reason to end U.S. control of Internet governance."
Snowden, a whistleblower, leaked classified information which many viewed as war crimes by the U.S. military to the non-profit journalistic organization WikiLeaks. Snowden has been living as an exile in Russia and has been charged in absentia by the United States under the 1917 Espionage Act for absconding with classified documents.
In recent months, WikiLeaks also made a splash by releasing Democratic National Committee communications that suggested the party skewed its dealing against presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.
Although shutting down an online organization such as WikiLeaks would run contrary to the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment, countries like Russia and China, among others, may be more inclined to end the dissemination of such sensitive materials. Under a different set of standards, such information could be kept from the public going forward.
The Daily Wire goes on to point out that once the U.S. surrenders control over ICANN, "it will likely fall under the (International Telecommunications Unit) ITU's control and risk being subject to censorship."
Journalists at both The Daily Wire and Wall Street Journal agree that handing over control could have dangerous ramifications.
"Even more chilling is the fact that ITU had passed a treaty that provided 'authority to governments to close off their citizens' access to the global Internet'" and creating 'a digital Iron Curtain.'"
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Wisconsin Sen. Sean Duffy have introduced a bill to stop the shift in internet power and Investor's Business Daily noted as far back as three years ago Cruz was concerned about this day arriving.
"The likes of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Chinese President Xi Jinping should not dictate what can be read, written, distributed, bought and sold on the internet," the former presidential candidate wrote. "Countries that do not give their own people the right to speak freely deserve no say in what Americans can say and do on the internet."
The Texas senator has also called for potential administrative regulations to prevent opening this Pandora's Box. And even before the clock strikes midnight on U.S. free speech protections, the seeds of China's influence are already being sown.
ICANN CEO Fadi Chehadé recently agreed to become a senior advisor to China's World Internet Conference, which is an organization Beijing has developed directly to compete with ICANN. According to The Washington Post, "Its goal is to replace the open Internet with full government control and global censorship."
When confronted by Sen. Cruz about China's internet censorship and relationship with ICANN, Chehade appeared to threaten that if the America retains oversight, it "would have grave repercussions on the U.S."
Recent studies show that 66 percent of Americans oppose relinquishing control of the internet and 69 percent say that it's either "somewhat" or "very likely" that a country like China, Russia or Iran would attempt to seize control.
As University of Surrey Prof. Alan Woodward succinctly put it, this is "about who officially controls the foundations of the internet/web addresses and domain names, without which the network wouldn't function."
Read more at http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/articl ... WWywvHz.99
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Re: Shadow Government
My guess there will be a free web in the future, one not with this one. Who says this has to be the only web you know.
You know if we had a real law abiding government Obama would not be president in the first place, he, and may other would be in prison for life.
You know if we had a real law abiding government Obama would not be president in the first place, he, and may other would be in prison for life.
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Re: Shadow Government
if Obama was in prison he would be constantly dropping the soap in the showers
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This is the issue with the country now, they are not working for the people.
The FBI is not American anymore, who are they working for ??? Obama is not the supreme power, Hillary is guilty, and needs put away with Obama, and company.
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The FBI is not American anymore, who are they working for ??? Obama is not the supreme power, Hillary is guilty, and needs put away with Obama, and company.
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I don't take his word for this, but it does sound like Obama, and the likes. Look at the gun running to Mexico by Obama, and Holder, Obama arming terrorist in the middle east, and elsewhere.
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Gang Members Implicate U.S. Gov’t in Dumping Crates of Guns in Chicago
Posted on September 14, 2016 by Isaac Davis
chiraq
There is a well-documented history of the U.S. government supplying weapons and arms to both friends and foe for political purposes and for profit. In addition to publicly known global arms deals to U.S. political allies like Israel and Saudi Arabia, revelations about the rise of ISIS indicate that U.S. arms and military trainees have been a critical factor in the rise of the terror group.
From 2006 to 2011 the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms ran a gun smuggling operation into Mexico to ostensibly dismantle Mexican drug gangs, accomplishing the precise opposite however, in what has affectionately become known as Fast and Furious. Further back in time we have covert operations like Oliver North’s Iran Contra scandal of the mid 1980’s, and America’s involvement in arming rebels in Central America to destabilize uncooperative governments. The list goes on.
Furthermore, it is alleged that the CIA, DEA and other government agencies have been involved for decades in the destruction of American communities by covertly shipping in drugs. Former DEA agent Cele Castillo has been persecuted by the U.S. government for seeking accountability of the George H.W. Bush administration for drug smuggling into the U.S. He would know as he was directly involved.
Former L.A. police narcotics officer Michael Ruppert alleged in the mid 1990’s that the CIA was directly involved in running drugs throughout the Unites States, corroborating information presented in the book, Dark Alliance, by investigative journalist Gary Webb whose death in 1994 by two gunshot wounds to the head was deemed a suicide. Michael Ruppert committed suicide in 2014.
“I will tell you, Director Deutch,” Ruppert said, “emphatically and without equivocation that the agency has dealt drugs throughout this country for a long time.” ~Mike Ruppert
‘Freeway’ Ricky Ross was California’s most successful drug kingpin during the explosion of the crack epidemic in the 1980’s, and later implicated the CIA as the source for cocaine. Presidents Reagan, Bush Sr. and Bill Clinton are all implicated in the revelations of drug-running in the U.S. during the ’80’s an ’90’s in Mena, Arkansas, which also links the Arkansas State Police to smuggling, culminating in the suspicious murder of Vince Foster.
Again, the list goes on and on, however with the recent rise of violence in Chicago involving over 3000 shooting victims in 2016 so far (January 1st to September 13th), it appears that another case of U.S. sponsored gun-smuggling and intentional destruction of inner-city communities may be at play.
In a publicly available video testimony an ex-Chicago gang member describes how crates of fully automatic firearms would regularly be found in alley ways and back streets of urban Chicago at the early hours of the morning, giving free, illegal weapons to the gangs of Chi-Town, which is now often referred to as Chiraq because it is a war zone.
He refers to it as a diabolical plot, a plan, affecting only low-income areas, pointing out that many of the firearms being found were class-3 automatic firearms, which can only be purchased at certain retailers under intense federal scrutiny. He notes that criminals aren’t allowed to buy firearms in the first place, yet the guns are everywhere, so where are they coming from?
Watch the full interview here:
BBC News recently produced a short documentary about gun violence in Chicago with gang members saying things such as, ‘it’s like crates of guns got dropped off.‘
Chicago has some of the strictest gun restrictions in the United States with some of the highest rates of gun violence. Gang members are not buying them legally, and the police are pulling guns off the street on a daily basis, so where are they coming from?
Something doesn’t add up.
Read more articles by Isaac Davis.
Isaac Davis is a staff writer for WakingTimes.com and OffgridOutpost.com Survival Tips blog. He is an outspoken advocate of liberty and of a voluntary society. He is an avid reader of history and passionate about becoming self-sufficient to break free of the control matrix. Follow him on Facebook, here.
This article (Gang Members Implicate U.S. Gov’t in Dumping Crates of Guns in Chicago) was originally created and published by Waking Times and is published here under a Creative Commons license with attribution to Isaac Davis and WakingTimes.com. It may be re-posted freely with proper attribution, author bio, and this copyright statement.
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Gang Members Implicate U.S. Gov’t in Dumping Crates of Guns in Chicago
Posted on September 14, 2016 by Isaac Davis
chiraq
There is a well-documented history of the U.S. government supplying weapons and arms to both friends and foe for political purposes and for profit. In addition to publicly known global arms deals to U.S. political allies like Israel and Saudi Arabia, revelations about the rise of ISIS indicate that U.S. arms and military trainees have been a critical factor in the rise of the terror group.
From 2006 to 2011 the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms ran a gun smuggling operation into Mexico to ostensibly dismantle Mexican drug gangs, accomplishing the precise opposite however, in what has affectionately become known as Fast and Furious. Further back in time we have covert operations like Oliver North’s Iran Contra scandal of the mid 1980’s, and America’s involvement in arming rebels in Central America to destabilize uncooperative governments. The list goes on.
Furthermore, it is alleged that the CIA, DEA and other government agencies have been involved for decades in the destruction of American communities by covertly shipping in drugs. Former DEA agent Cele Castillo has been persecuted by the U.S. government for seeking accountability of the George H.W. Bush administration for drug smuggling into the U.S. He would know as he was directly involved.
Former L.A. police narcotics officer Michael Ruppert alleged in the mid 1990’s that the CIA was directly involved in running drugs throughout the Unites States, corroborating information presented in the book, Dark Alliance, by investigative journalist Gary Webb whose death in 1994 by two gunshot wounds to the head was deemed a suicide. Michael Ruppert committed suicide in 2014.
“I will tell you, Director Deutch,” Ruppert said, “emphatically and without equivocation that the agency has dealt drugs throughout this country for a long time.” ~Mike Ruppert
‘Freeway’ Ricky Ross was California’s most successful drug kingpin during the explosion of the crack epidemic in the 1980’s, and later implicated the CIA as the source for cocaine. Presidents Reagan, Bush Sr. and Bill Clinton are all implicated in the revelations of drug-running in the U.S. during the ’80’s an ’90’s in Mena, Arkansas, which also links the Arkansas State Police to smuggling, culminating in the suspicious murder of Vince Foster.
Again, the list goes on and on, however with the recent rise of violence in Chicago involving over 3000 shooting victims in 2016 so far (January 1st to September 13th), it appears that another case of U.S. sponsored gun-smuggling and intentional destruction of inner-city communities may be at play.
In a publicly available video testimony an ex-Chicago gang member describes how crates of fully automatic firearms would regularly be found in alley ways and back streets of urban Chicago at the early hours of the morning, giving free, illegal weapons to the gangs of Chi-Town, which is now often referred to as Chiraq because it is a war zone.
He refers to it as a diabolical plot, a plan, affecting only low-income areas, pointing out that many of the firearms being found were class-3 automatic firearms, which can only be purchased at certain retailers under intense federal scrutiny. He notes that criminals aren’t allowed to buy firearms in the first place, yet the guns are everywhere, so where are they coming from?
Watch the full interview here:
BBC News recently produced a short documentary about gun violence in Chicago with gang members saying things such as, ‘it’s like crates of guns got dropped off.‘
Chicago has some of the strictest gun restrictions in the United States with some of the highest rates of gun violence. Gang members are not buying them legally, and the police are pulling guns off the street on a daily basis, so where are they coming from?
Something doesn’t add up.
Read more articles by Isaac Davis.
Isaac Davis is a staff writer for WakingTimes.com and OffgridOutpost.com Survival Tips blog. He is an outspoken advocate of liberty and of a voluntary society. He is an avid reader of history and passionate about becoming self-sufficient to break free of the control matrix. Follow him on Facebook, here.
This article (Gang Members Implicate U.S. Gov’t in Dumping Crates of Guns in Chicago) was originally created and published by Waking Times and is published here under a Creative Commons license with attribution to Isaac Davis and WakingTimes.com. It may be re-posted freely with proper attribution, author bio, and this copyright statement.
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Re: Shadow Government
I have wondered for a long time if the CIA hasn't hijacked the American leadership and gives orders to the president and not the other way round. I think I may know who controls the CIA but I can only speculate. I really am so far away from the top rungs of power that I am sure there is an infinite amount at that level that I don't know.
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I think Bush Sr. was one of the tops there, that says something, kind of like Putin in the KGB. The whole system is messed up, and under their control, and who ever controls them, big banking, and guess who else with the Fed.
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Once called a conspiracy theory, NSA remote bugging of your iPhone is now confirmed
NaturalNews) It has been said that one person's conspiracy theory is another's truth, depending on your interpretation of reality. Well, thanks to the rapid advances in technology - and a post-constitutional federal government, things that were once widely thought to be beyond the scope of reason are no longer so.
Take, for instance, recent reports that a special unit of the National Security Agency, called the Tailored Access Operations unit, has "burrowed into nearly all the security architecture made by the major players in the industry -- including American global market leader Cisco and its Chinese competitor Huawei, but also producers of mass-market goods, such as US computer-maker Dell," Germany's Der Spiegel has reported.
But that's not all. As the magazine has further reported, the NSA is also capable of hacking your iPhone and other communication devices.
'Dropout Jeep'
The way in which the NSA accomplishes this little spy technique is through software called "Dropout Jeep," which the agency describes thusly: "DROPOUT JEEP is a software implant for the Apple iPhone that utilizes modular mission applications to provide specific SIGINT functionality. This functionality includes the ability to remotely push/pull files from the device. SMS retrieval, contact list retrieval, voicemail, geolocation, hot mic, camera capture, cell tower location, etc. Command, control and data exfiltration can occur over SMS messaging or a GPRS data connection. All communications with the implant will be covert and encrypted."
The manner in which the NSA gets to "own" your iPhone is described in a chart republished by ZeroHedge here.
Jason Applebaum, who spoke of these new revelations recently at the 30th Chaos Communications Congress, also made some ominous observations about the NSA capabilities:
Do you think Apple helped them build that? I don't know. I hope Apple will clarify that. Here's the problem: I don't really believe that Apple didn't help them, I can't really prove it but [the NSA] literally claim that anytime they target an iOS device that it will succeed for implantation. Either they have a huge collection of exploits that work against Apple products, meaning that they are hoarding information about critical systems that American companies produce and sabotaging them, or Apple sabotaged it themselves. Not sure which one it is. I'd like to believe that since Apple didn't join the PRISM program until after Steve Jobs died, that maybe it's just that they write s--tty software. We know that's true.
As to the NSA's special TAO unit, Spiegel describes how it can penetrate "erected" walls, using the NSA's ANT division's 50-page catalog of "backdoor penetration" techniques:
These NSA agents, who specialize in secret back doors, are able to keep an eye on all levels of our digital lives -- from computing centers to individual computers, from laptops to mobile phones. For nearly every lock, ANT seems to have a key in its toolbox. And no matter what walls companies erect, the NSA's specialists seem already to have gotten past them.
This, at least, is the impression gained from flipping through the 50-page document. The list reads like a mail-order catalog, one from which other NSA employees can order technologies from the ANT division for tapping their targets' data. The catalog even lists the prices for these electronic break-in tools, with costs ranging from free to $250,000.
What about a company built on privacy?
And, of course, as taxpayers, you are funding this constant constitutional usurpation of your privacy. Worse, it appears that some American companies might actually be involved as well.
The damage that has been done already is irreversible, but as ZeroHedge suggests, perhaps there is a company - maybe Blackberry, which has been "left for dead" - which could re-capture the market by touting absolute privacy:
How ironic would it be if Blackberry, left for dead by virtually everyone, began marketing its products as the only smartphone that does not allow the NSA access to one's data (and did so accordingly). Since pretty much everything else it has tried has failed, we don't see the downside to this hail mary attempt to strike back at Big Brother and maybe make some money, by doing the right thing for once.
It's a nice thought. We'll see how it plays out. In the meantime, be careful what you say and who you talk to, especially online.
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/043439_NSA_i ... z4KfuH70pb
NaturalNews) It has been said that one person's conspiracy theory is another's truth, depending on your interpretation of reality. Well, thanks to the rapid advances in technology - and a post-constitutional federal government, things that were once widely thought to be beyond the scope of reason are no longer so.
Take, for instance, recent reports that a special unit of the National Security Agency, called the Tailored Access Operations unit, has "burrowed into nearly all the security architecture made by the major players in the industry -- including American global market leader Cisco and its Chinese competitor Huawei, but also producers of mass-market goods, such as US computer-maker Dell," Germany's Der Spiegel has reported.
But that's not all. As the magazine has further reported, the NSA is also capable of hacking your iPhone and other communication devices.
'Dropout Jeep'
The way in which the NSA accomplishes this little spy technique is through software called "Dropout Jeep," which the agency describes thusly: "DROPOUT JEEP is a software implant for the Apple iPhone that utilizes modular mission applications to provide specific SIGINT functionality. This functionality includes the ability to remotely push/pull files from the device. SMS retrieval, contact list retrieval, voicemail, geolocation, hot mic, camera capture, cell tower location, etc. Command, control and data exfiltration can occur over SMS messaging or a GPRS data connection. All communications with the implant will be covert and encrypted."
The manner in which the NSA gets to "own" your iPhone is described in a chart republished by ZeroHedge here.
Jason Applebaum, who spoke of these new revelations recently at the 30th Chaos Communications Congress, also made some ominous observations about the NSA capabilities:
Do you think Apple helped them build that? I don't know. I hope Apple will clarify that. Here's the problem: I don't really believe that Apple didn't help them, I can't really prove it but [the NSA] literally claim that anytime they target an iOS device that it will succeed for implantation. Either they have a huge collection of exploits that work against Apple products, meaning that they are hoarding information about critical systems that American companies produce and sabotaging them, or Apple sabotaged it themselves. Not sure which one it is. I'd like to believe that since Apple didn't join the PRISM program until after Steve Jobs died, that maybe it's just that they write s--tty software. We know that's true.
As to the NSA's special TAO unit, Spiegel describes how it can penetrate "erected" walls, using the NSA's ANT division's 50-page catalog of "backdoor penetration" techniques:
These NSA agents, who specialize in secret back doors, are able to keep an eye on all levels of our digital lives -- from computing centers to individual computers, from laptops to mobile phones. For nearly every lock, ANT seems to have a key in its toolbox. And no matter what walls companies erect, the NSA's specialists seem already to have gotten past them.
This, at least, is the impression gained from flipping through the 50-page document. The list reads like a mail-order catalog, one from which other NSA employees can order technologies from the ANT division for tapping their targets' data. The catalog even lists the prices for these electronic break-in tools, with costs ranging from free to $250,000.
What about a company built on privacy?
And, of course, as taxpayers, you are funding this constant constitutional usurpation of your privacy. Worse, it appears that some American companies might actually be involved as well.
The damage that has been done already is irreversible, but as ZeroHedge suggests, perhaps there is a company - maybe Blackberry, which has been "left for dead" - which could re-capture the market by touting absolute privacy:
How ironic would it be if Blackberry, left for dead by virtually everyone, began marketing its products as the only smartphone that does not allow the NSA access to one's data (and did so accordingly). Since pretty much everything else it has tried has failed, we don't see the downside to this hail mary attempt to strike back at Big Brother and maybe make some money, by doing the right thing for once.
It's a nice thought. We'll see how it plays out. In the meantime, be careful what you say and who you talk to, especially online.
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/043439_NSA_i ... z4KfuH70pb
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I wish I had the money to run for president, i would be on some hit list though.
This stuff would stop with all the over spying, and the CIA would be dismantled with it's leaders jailed. No Lobbies in Washington, or at least people in prison for accepting bribes from them
There is so much wrong today, and it's got much much worse the last 20 years or so. .
This stuff would stop with all the over spying, and the CIA would be dismantled with it's leaders jailed. No Lobbies in Washington, or at least people in prison for accepting bribes from them
There is so much wrong today, and it's got much much worse the last 20 years or so. .
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I think virtually all Christians could see this coming.
Biochip Technologies: From Fringe To Mainstream
Biochip technology is becoming big business, but not everyone is embracing the changes. There are concerns about the potential dangers these technologies can offer.
Right now, implants are already being designed that will provide your medical information, act as a key to your home, and store business card information.
These are not wearable devices that you can put on and take off, but actual implantable devices that are placed under the skin. The implants work through RFID technology, which can be read by smartphones and readers that allow people access to buildings through ID cards or badges.
Current estimates indicate that some 50,000 people around the world may already have these implants and be using them for access to their homes and businesses, contact details, and more.
While it is becoming a popular trend in some circles, there are real worries about where the use of these kinds of devices may take society.
The tags only work when the scanner activates them, so there is no worry about dead batteries, and they take only seconds to implant under the skin. That makes it sound almost too easy to get and start using these implants for all sorts of daily things.
Will This Become Mandatory?
One concern for many people is that the "chipping" of human beings may eventually become mandatory. Similar to how pet owners in some areas have seen the optional chipping of pets now become mandatory. In that case, these chips would be needed as identity markers, much the same way people now carry a driver's license or ID card.
The implants could also be used to open doors, pay for things, and store medical and other types of data. But the argument against this is strong, coming from both religious individuals who feel the implants are similar to the "mark of the beast" that is mentioned in the Bible, and scientific individuals who worry about the long-term health effects of the chips on the human body.
Will New Advancements Mean Additional Implants?
As technology moves forward, more options will be available to be implanted in human beings. These implants are the size of a grain of rice, but how many of them is too many, and how much data can they hold? Will they ever fail and need to be removed or replaced?
With so many questions still circulating when it comes to how these implants will be handled, it is entirely possible that advancements in technology will mean that new and better implants will come along.
Since there are a number of good choices for placement of these implants, people could theoretically have an increasingly large number of them for different information and functions.
But What About Informed Consent?
Among the biggest hurdles to the use of these tags is consent. While a healthy, competent adult could certainly choose to have a tag implanted, there may be others who would not be able to say yes or no to the procedure.
That can include very young children, and the elderly who may have Alzheimer's disease or other types of dementia.
Additionally, those who have mental impairment or mental illness may struggle with understanding what the tag is for, and may not be able to consent to its usefulness and implantation.
Viruses and Hacking of People Instead of Machines
Computers and RFID scanners can get hacked. So can humans, if they have these implants. While storing data on a chip located inside the body may seem like the ultimate way of being safe when it comes to protecting information, that information can still be stolen under the right conditions.
In theory, medical data, access to a home or a secure facility, and anything else that was stored on the implant could be the target of a hacker and could be something that a person would not want accessed by others.
Controlling this kind of attack is very difficult, and data breaches happen every day in the technology sphere. Avoiding that with humans when it's so common with machines may not be realistic now, and may never be realistic, putting many people's data at near-constant risk.
One can only imagine what would happen to a society that relies on such chip implants to function if it were struck with a widescale virus. In 2010, Dr. Mark Gasson from the University of Reading had a chip inserted in his hand which was then infected with a virus.
In trials, Dr Gasson showed that the chip was able to pass on the computer virus to external control systems and if other implanted chips had then connected to the system they too would have been corrupted, he said.
"With the benefits of this type of technology come risks. We may improve ourselves in some way but much like the improvements with other technologies, mobile phones for example, they become vulnerable to risks, such as security problems and computer viruses."
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Biochip Technologies: From Fringe To Mainstream
Biochip technology is becoming big business, but not everyone is embracing the changes. There are concerns about the potential dangers these technologies can offer.
Right now, implants are already being designed that will provide your medical information, act as a key to your home, and store business card information.
These are not wearable devices that you can put on and take off, but actual implantable devices that are placed under the skin. The implants work through RFID technology, which can be read by smartphones and readers that allow people access to buildings through ID cards or badges.
Current estimates indicate that some 50,000 people around the world may already have these implants and be using them for access to their homes and businesses, contact details, and more.
While it is becoming a popular trend in some circles, there are real worries about where the use of these kinds of devices may take society.
The tags only work when the scanner activates them, so there is no worry about dead batteries, and they take only seconds to implant under the skin. That makes it sound almost too easy to get and start using these implants for all sorts of daily things.
Will This Become Mandatory?
One concern for many people is that the "chipping" of human beings may eventually become mandatory. Similar to how pet owners in some areas have seen the optional chipping of pets now become mandatory. In that case, these chips would be needed as identity markers, much the same way people now carry a driver's license or ID card.
The implants could also be used to open doors, pay for things, and store medical and other types of data. But the argument against this is strong, coming from both religious individuals who feel the implants are similar to the "mark of the beast" that is mentioned in the Bible, and scientific individuals who worry about the long-term health effects of the chips on the human body.
Will New Advancements Mean Additional Implants?
As technology moves forward, more options will be available to be implanted in human beings. These implants are the size of a grain of rice, but how many of them is too many, and how much data can they hold? Will they ever fail and need to be removed or replaced?
With so many questions still circulating when it comes to how these implants will be handled, it is entirely possible that advancements in technology will mean that new and better implants will come along.
Since there are a number of good choices for placement of these implants, people could theoretically have an increasingly large number of them for different information and functions.
But What About Informed Consent?
Among the biggest hurdles to the use of these tags is consent. While a healthy, competent adult could certainly choose to have a tag implanted, there may be others who would not be able to say yes or no to the procedure.
That can include very young children, and the elderly who may have Alzheimer's disease or other types of dementia.
Additionally, those who have mental impairment or mental illness may struggle with understanding what the tag is for, and may not be able to consent to its usefulness and implantation.
Viruses and Hacking of People Instead of Machines
Computers and RFID scanners can get hacked. So can humans, if they have these implants. While storing data on a chip located inside the body may seem like the ultimate way of being safe when it comes to protecting information, that information can still be stolen under the right conditions.
In theory, medical data, access to a home or a secure facility, and anything else that was stored on the implant could be the target of a hacker and could be something that a person would not want accessed by others.
Controlling this kind of attack is very difficult, and data breaches happen every day in the technology sphere. Avoiding that with humans when it's so common with machines may not be realistic now, and may never be realistic, putting many people's data at near-constant risk.
One can only imagine what would happen to a society that relies on such chip implants to function if it were struck with a widescale virus. In 2010, Dr. Mark Gasson from the University of Reading had a chip inserted in his hand which was then infected with a virus.
In trials, Dr Gasson showed that the chip was able to pass on the computer virus to external control systems and if other implanted chips had then connected to the system they too would have been corrupted, he said.
"With the benefits of this type of technology come risks. We may improve ourselves in some way but much like the improvements with other technologies, mobile phones for example, they become vulnerable to risks, such as security problems and computer viruses."
Read more at http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/articl ... UJELsc6.99
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If i feel that under my skin Ill cut it out myself, no thanks.
I do believe it has a place, and some tracking should be done, like with criminals, and people with issues like Alzheimer.
I do believe it has a place, and some tracking should be done, like with criminals, and people with issues like Alzheimer.
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If I didn't have a reason to vote for Trump other than Hillary, here is a great reason.
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Re: Shadow Government
In Canada there was a stop Harper campaign which helped get in our latest shill Justin Trudeau. These stop _____ campaigns make me wonder who is behind them. it also seems like they are like Obama. Whatever they want is the wrong way to go.
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Same people same agenda. Like the Pope post you made earlier today, same people, same agenda.
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I think that that movie Minority Report is another example of them showing what they actually have in store for us. I remember when you could give the police a bogus name and they couldn't verify it.
Welcome To Minority Report - Where The Government Never Forgets A Face
The movie Minority Report, based on a short by Philip K. Dick, is a famous example of a techno-police state in the future where crime can be predicted and the perpetrators jailed while still innocent.
Yet the movie version also shows viewers another unsettling aspect of the future: omnipresent and interconnected facial recognition systems.
Everywhere Tom Cruise's character goes, he is recognized by interactive billboards, traffic systems and police cameras.
It is a vision of a world in which exposing your face in public means both instant and permanent recognition by automated systems that know you, track you and never forget.
Yet in some places, this is no longer fiction. Widespread facial recognition is now becoming a reality for many, especially in places such as New York City, and the consequences may be more sinister and far-reaching than most would think.
A recent Georgetown University study has examined the increasing reliance on facial recognition systems by American police.
The researchers found that upwards of 117 million Americans now have their unique facial geometry patterns stored in databases that are accessible to the police. The photos from drivers' licenses are now uploaded from 16 states into central FBI databases.
Grow a beard, change your makeup or cut your hair, but none of it will matter because the system is built to recognize your unique facial geometry.
Photos from mug shots, driver's licenses, surveillance cameras and myriad other sources are feeding these vast databases, Georgetown University found, and there is little oversight to restrict its use.
The ACLU has also been hard at work unearthing new plans to wire our cities for facial recognition and they have reported this week that Governor Andrew Cuomo's plan to invest $100 billion in New York's infrastructure also includes a plan to "reimagine New York's intersections and crossings for the 21st century" through the use of sophisticated cameras, license plate readers and facial recognition technology at key locations across the city.
Sensors and cameras, linked through automated recognition systems, will dot the city and closely monitor areas of interest.
In a recent report, the ACLU raises many questions that have been conveniently ignored by those eager to pass laws to expand police power.
Who will have access to this information? Who will New York City share it with? What restrictions will there be on its use? It is already clear that simply by walking through or near a tunnel, bus terminal, bridge or historic site an innocent person's facial data will be entered into a searchable database.
There have already been reports of police linking facial recognition systems with drones flown over crowds that automatically scan for known fugitives.
Police have scanned concerts with facial-recognition cameras mounted on drones in an effort to sort out criminals from the crowd, but there have also been reports of police using such systems over peaceful protests.
Think you can hide in the anonymity of a large peaceably assembled protest crowd to voice your concerns over government oppression? You could very well find a drone scanning your face and logging your identity for later arrest.
Turkey and Ukraine have both used cell phone tracking at demonstrations to log the identities of thousands of protestors who were later targeted, but facial recognition takes this frightening possibility one step further.
Facebook now boasts a 97.25% accuracy rate with photo recognition. Designed to automate the photo-tagging system, the fact is that a multi-billion-dollar mega-corporation has thrown its resources behind developing a technology capable of identifying anyone in any photo, a dream come true for an eager police state.
Stores are also beginning to employ facial recognition, much like the advertising screens in Minority Report, to target specific customers. It is almost time to say goodbye to anonymity in public now.
The ACLU reminds us in their report that such systems have a way of "creeping toward" ubiquity just as cell phone, email and social media monitoring already have.
Decades ago, we would have recoiled at the idea that we would all carry tracking devices in our pockets, that the government would have access to our private correspondence and that our digital photos and diaries would be equally open to the government.
But now the great majority accept this without a second thought. More protections now exist on collecting fingerprints than collecting facial scans or private cell phone data.
Chances are your photo is already in a database or will be soon. One step at a time, the State grows in its ability to monitor and control and any semblance of privacy slips away as even our faces betray us.
Welcome to our own real world dystopian Minority Report where the government never forgets a face.
Read more at http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/articl ... UHB30gx.99
Welcome To Minority Report - Where The Government Never Forgets A Face
The movie Minority Report, based on a short by Philip K. Dick, is a famous example of a techno-police state in the future where crime can be predicted and the perpetrators jailed while still innocent.
Yet the movie version also shows viewers another unsettling aspect of the future: omnipresent and interconnected facial recognition systems.
Everywhere Tom Cruise's character goes, he is recognized by interactive billboards, traffic systems and police cameras.
It is a vision of a world in which exposing your face in public means both instant and permanent recognition by automated systems that know you, track you and never forget.
Yet in some places, this is no longer fiction. Widespread facial recognition is now becoming a reality for many, especially in places such as New York City, and the consequences may be more sinister and far-reaching than most would think.
A recent Georgetown University study has examined the increasing reliance on facial recognition systems by American police.
The researchers found that upwards of 117 million Americans now have their unique facial geometry patterns stored in databases that are accessible to the police. The photos from drivers' licenses are now uploaded from 16 states into central FBI databases.
Grow a beard, change your makeup or cut your hair, but none of it will matter because the system is built to recognize your unique facial geometry.
Photos from mug shots, driver's licenses, surveillance cameras and myriad other sources are feeding these vast databases, Georgetown University found, and there is little oversight to restrict its use.
The ACLU has also been hard at work unearthing new plans to wire our cities for facial recognition and they have reported this week that Governor Andrew Cuomo's plan to invest $100 billion in New York's infrastructure also includes a plan to "reimagine New York's intersections and crossings for the 21st century" through the use of sophisticated cameras, license plate readers and facial recognition technology at key locations across the city.
Sensors and cameras, linked through automated recognition systems, will dot the city and closely monitor areas of interest.
In a recent report, the ACLU raises many questions that have been conveniently ignored by those eager to pass laws to expand police power.
Who will have access to this information? Who will New York City share it with? What restrictions will there be on its use? It is already clear that simply by walking through or near a tunnel, bus terminal, bridge or historic site an innocent person's facial data will be entered into a searchable database.
There have already been reports of police linking facial recognition systems with drones flown over crowds that automatically scan for known fugitives.
Police have scanned concerts with facial-recognition cameras mounted on drones in an effort to sort out criminals from the crowd, but there have also been reports of police using such systems over peaceful protests.
Think you can hide in the anonymity of a large peaceably assembled protest crowd to voice your concerns over government oppression? You could very well find a drone scanning your face and logging your identity for later arrest.
Turkey and Ukraine have both used cell phone tracking at demonstrations to log the identities of thousands of protestors who were later targeted, but facial recognition takes this frightening possibility one step further.
Facebook now boasts a 97.25% accuracy rate with photo recognition. Designed to automate the photo-tagging system, the fact is that a multi-billion-dollar mega-corporation has thrown its resources behind developing a technology capable of identifying anyone in any photo, a dream come true for an eager police state.
Stores are also beginning to employ facial recognition, much like the advertising screens in Minority Report, to target specific customers. It is almost time to say goodbye to anonymity in public now.
The ACLU reminds us in their report that such systems have a way of "creeping toward" ubiquity just as cell phone, email and social media monitoring already have.
Decades ago, we would have recoiled at the idea that we would all carry tracking devices in our pockets, that the government would have access to our private correspondence and that our digital photos and diaries would be equally open to the government.
But now the great majority accept this without a second thought. More protections now exist on collecting fingerprints than collecting facial scans or private cell phone data.
Chances are your photo is already in a database or will be soon. One step at a time, the State grows in its ability to monitor and control and any semblance of privacy slips away as even our faces betray us.
Welcome to our own real world dystopian Minority Report where the government never forgets a face.
Read more at http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/articl ... UHB30gx.99
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Perhaps wars will one day be fought with armies of robots fighting each other. One retired army guy said to me " all the guys who want to fight should go out into the desert and fight.
Dangerous Convergence Of Robot Autonomy And Artificial Intelligence
News Image BY NICHOLAS WEST/ACTIVISTPOST.COM NOVEMBER 07, 2016
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While debate surrounds the threat of autonomous "killer robots," the mechanized replacement of humans continues across the workforce.
The industrial robotics industry is logging record sales worldwide, and there appears to be no sign of a slowdown. The two leading countries are the US and China, with China leading the way.
The nature of robotics is also changing, as new developments in artificial intelligence are giving robots an increasing range of potential uses. One key area, of course, is security. Robot security guards have already begun appearing at prisons, care facilities, and schools, in various locations around the world.
One U.S. robot company, Gamma 2 Robotics, has designed several models for mass production.
A true mass roll-out of this fully autonomous security guard could significantly impact the 1.5 million humans that are currently employed in some form of security patrol.
RAMSEE advertises the following capabilities:
Is a physical presence that autonomously patrols without supervision
Provides real-time data: intruders, motion, heat, fire, smoke, gases & more
Is a human-machine interface that creates a powerful force multiplier
Significantly, Gamma 2 Robotics has partnered with Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure: "the global leader in public safety and security solutions."
However, RAMSEE is missing one thing: weapons. For that, we have to travel to China, where they seem to have embraced police robots full throttle.
In late 2015, I covered an announcement from China's Xinhua news agency where they announced the development and deployment of 3 weaponized "anti-terrorism" robots that would be far more active than a mere patrol:
"The toy-sized robots can coordinate with each other on the battlefield," said the report, following their unveiling at the 2015 World Robot Conference in Beijing.
The first model is known as a "reconnaissance" robot, which scouts for poisonous gases, dangerous chemicals and explosives before transmitting its findings back to base.
If this initial investigation detects a simple bomb is the source of danger, the second robot model - a small explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) machine - would be sent in to diffuse it.
But with other, more complicated threats, an attacker robot would start its mission, armed with "minor-caliber weapons, recoilless rifles and grenade launchers".
"With a sighting telescope, a trigger and a safe installed, the attacker can hit its target from a long distance," Xinhua said.
The local police force in Beijing was reported to be among the buyers for the three robots, which are priced at 1.5 million yuan (£156,000) for the set by manufacturers HIT Robot Group, who are based in the northern city of Harbin.
"Apart from anti-terror operations, they can also be applied in fire fighting, public security, forestry and agriculture," the company's sales manager Chen Deqiang said, according to Xinhua.
If we have learned anything about anti-terrorism efforts, authorities consider front-line deployment to be areas of public travel. We were given the TSA based on such notions, and have since witnessed its intrusive role in airports, and soon-to-be at other public transportation if authorities have their way.
China has gone to the next level with a robot TSA of sorts called AnBot that is equipped with what is essentially a taser-like device that is being fittingly compared to a cattle-prod.
It was first introduced at a tech show earlier in the year, and was speculated to have been designed for protest suppression. For now, its first job is to patrol China's Shenzhen airport.
Most alarming, however, is that it is tied to one of the most powerful supercomputers on the planet.
The back end of this "intelligent security robot" is linked to China's Tianhe-2 supercomputer, where it has access to cloud services. AnBot conducts patrols, recognizes threats and has multiple cameras that use facial recognition.
These cloud services give the robots petascale processing power, well beyond onboard processing capabilities in the robot.
The supercomputer connection is there "to enhance the intelligent learning capabilities and human-machine interface of these devices," said the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review, in a report released Tuesday that examines China's autonomous systems development efforts.
This link to "cloud services" is a new trend in robot artificial intelligence that also has been referred to as the Wikipedia for Robots - essentially an Internet Cloud Brain.
Through robot-to-robot information sharing they can speed up their learning process ... autonomously. Examples have included robots that can learn to cook, and robots that can learn the tasks involved in care-giving. However, when applied to policing, things become much more ethically troubling.
People were outraged in the U.S., for example, when a robot in Dallas was used to deliver a pound of C-4 explosive to a U.S. citizen whom the police deemed a sufficient threat worthy of immediate execution. At least, in that case, a human made the decision.
But it is being viewed as a tip-toe along the path to the widespread use of "killer robots" much as we have seen with the use of drones. Discussion was once limited to overseas - egregious enough - but there has been a growing voice of those who are urging weaponized domestic police drones.
As John Vibes wrote, it might be inevitable:
The Taser corporation is planning on building a drone that is equipped with a stun gun, according to a recent report by the Wall Street Journal.
Not only will the drones be equipped with tasers, but there is also talk of them being autonomous, meaning that an actual human won't necessarily be needed to fly the drone.
This is actually already being done in India, the first country to have approved the use of drones attached with "non-lethal" weapons.
And, just this week, British tabloid, The Sun, had a feature entitled "Vladimir Putin's Russia is preparing an army of robots and drones to take on its enemies, Deputy PM Dmitry Rogozin admits." Given the available facts, this title no longer seems so deliberately sensational.
Clearly we are entering a potentially dangerous convergence of expanding robotic artificial intelligence along with the political will to continue allowing robots more and more autonomy as they carry out the traditional duties of the military and police.
Some experts argue that the precision of robotics will curb many of the abuses we have seen from our military and police.
But is that the trend we are actually seeing? Or will automated systems of violent control inevitably lead to even greater industrial-level suppression and killing?
Originally published at ActivistPost.com - reposted with permission
Read more at http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/articl ... XY1Ufax.99
Dangerous Convergence Of Robot Autonomy And Artificial Intelligence
News Image BY NICHOLAS WEST/ACTIVISTPOST.COM NOVEMBER 07, 2016
Share this article:
While debate surrounds the threat of autonomous "killer robots," the mechanized replacement of humans continues across the workforce.
The industrial robotics industry is logging record sales worldwide, and there appears to be no sign of a slowdown. The two leading countries are the US and China, with China leading the way.
The nature of robotics is also changing, as new developments in artificial intelligence are giving robots an increasing range of potential uses. One key area, of course, is security. Robot security guards have already begun appearing at prisons, care facilities, and schools, in various locations around the world.
One U.S. robot company, Gamma 2 Robotics, has designed several models for mass production.
A true mass roll-out of this fully autonomous security guard could significantly impact the 1.5 million humans that are currently employed in some form of security patrol.
RAMSEE advertises the following capabilities:
Is a physical presence that autonomously patrols without supervision
Provides real-time data: intruders, motion, heat, fire, smoke, gases & more
Is a human-machine interface that creates a powerful force multiplier
Significantly, Gamma 2 Robotics has partnered with Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure: "the global leader in public safety and security solutions."
However, RAMSEE is missing one thing: weapons. For that, we have to travel to China, where they seem to have embraced police robots full throttle.
In late 2015, I covered an announcement from China's Xinhua news agency where they announced the development and deployment of 3 weaponized "anti-terrorism" robots that would be far more active than a mere patrol:
"The toy-sized robots can coordinate with each other on the battlefield," said the report, following their unveiling at the 2015 World Robot Conference in Beijing.
The first model is known as a "reconnaissance" robot, which scouts for poisonous gases, dangerous chemicals and explosives before transmitting its findings back to base.
If this initial investigation detects a simple bomb is the source of danger, the second robot model - a small explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) machine - would be sent in to diffuse it.
But with other, more complicated threats, an attacker robot would start its mission, armed with "minor-caliber weapons, recoilless rifles and grenade launchers".
"With a sighting telescope, a trigger and a safe installed, the attacker can hit its target from a long distance," Xinhua said.
The local police force in Beijing was reported to be among the buyers for the three robots, which are priced at 1.5 million yuan (£156,000) for the set by manufacturers HIT Robot Group, who are based in the northern city of Harbin.
"Apart from anti-terror operations, they can also be applied in fire fighting, public security, forestry and agriculture," the company's sales manager Chen Deqiang said, according to Xinhua.
If we have learned anything about anti-terrorism efforts, authorities consider front-line deployment to be areas of public travel. We were given the TSA based on such notions, and have since witnessed its intrusive role in airports, and soon-to-be at other public transportation if authorities have their way.
China has gone to the next level with a robot TSA of sorts called AnBot that is equipped with what is essentially a taser-like device that is being fittingly compared to a cattle-prod.
It was first introduced at a tech show earlier in the year, and was speculated to have been designed for protest suppression. For now, its first job is to patrol China's Shenzhen airport.
Most alarming, however, is that it is tied to one of the most powerful supercomputers on the planet.
The back end of this "intelligent security robot" is linked to China's Tianhe-2 supercomputer, where it has access to cloud services. AnBot conducts patrols, recognizes threats and has multiple cameras that use facial recognition.
These cloud services give the robots petascale processing power, well beyond onboard processing capabilities in the robot.
The supercomputer connection is there "to enhance the intelligent learning capabilities and human-machine interface of these devices," said the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review, in a report released Tuesday that examines China's autonomous systems development efforts.
This link to "cloud services" is a new trend in robot artificial intelligence that also has been referred to as the Wikipedia for Robots - essentially an Internet Cloud Brain.
Through robot-to-robot information sharing they can speed up their learning process ... autonomously. Examples have included robots that can learn to cook, and robots that can learn the tasks involved in care-giving. However, when applied to policing, things become much more ethically troubling.
People were outraged in the U.S., for example, when a robot in Dallas was used to deliver a pound of C-4 explosive to a U.S. citizen whom the police deemed a sufficient threat worthy of immediate execution. At least, in that case, a human made the decision.
But it is being viewed as a tip-toe along the path to the widespread use of "killer robots" much as we have seen with the use of drones. Discussion was once limited to overseas - egregious enough - but there has been a growing voice of those who are urging weaponized domestic police drones.
As John Vibes wrote, it might be inevitable:
The Taser corporation is planning on building a drone that is equipped with a stun gun, according to a recent report by the Wall Street Journal.
Not only will the drones be equipped with tasers, but there is also talk of them being autonomous, meaning that an actual human won't necessarily be needed to fly the drone.
This is actually already being done in India, the first country to have approved the use of drones attached with "non-lethal" weapons.
And, just this week, British tabloid, The Sun, had a feature entitled "Vladimir Putin's Russia is preparing an army of robots and drones to take on its enemies, Deputy PM Dmitry Rogozin admits." Given the available facts, this title no longer seems so deliberately sensational.
Clearly we are entering a potentially dangerous convergence of expanding robotic artificial intelligence along with the political will to continue allowing robots more and more autonomy as they carry out the traditional duties of the military and police.
Some experts argue that the precision of robotics will curb many of the abuses we have seen from our military and police.
But is that the trend we are actually seeing? Or will automated systems of violent control inevitably lead to even greater industrial-level suppression and killing?
Originally published at ActivistPost.com - reposted with permission
Read more at http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/articl ... XY1Ufax.99
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Trump has given so many millions hope. I hope that he comes through and is the hero we all hope he will be.
Trump should resist neocon & shadow gov’t influence to justify people’s hopes – Ron Paul to RT
Donald Trump’s success or failure as the next US president will largely depend on his ability to keep his independence from the “shadow government” and elite structures that shaped the policies of previous administrations, former presidential candidate Ron Paul told RT.
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US Elections 2016Trump, 70, enters the US presidency a political virgin, whose policies will be shaped by advice offered by his political cabinet.
“Unfortunately, there has been several neoconservatives that are getting closer to Trump. And if gets his advice from them then I do not think that is a good sign,” Paul told the host of RT’s Crosstalk show Peter Lavelle.
The retired Congressman said that people voted for Trump because he stood against the deep corruption in the establishment, that was further exposed during the campaign by WikiLeaks, and because of his disapproval of meddling in the wider Middle East.
“During the campaign, he did talk a little bit about backing off and being less confrontational to Russia and I like that. He criticized some the wars in the Middle East at the same time. He believes we should accelerate the war against ISIS and terrorism,” Paul noted.
US doesn’t even have 2 parties, just one endorsing inflationism, Fed & IRS – Ron Paul to RT Trump’s ability to honor his campaign rhetoric will depend on the role of the so-called “shadow government,” and the president’s ideals to stick to his beliefs.“We look at the president, we look at what he said, we look at what he might do when you look at his advisors,” Paul said.
“But quite frankly there is an outside source which we refer to as the 'deep state' or the 'shadow government'. There is a lot of influence by people which are actually more powerful than our government itself, our president,” the congressman said.
“Yes, Trump is his own guy, more so than most of those who have ever been in before. We hope he can maintain an independence and go in the right direction. But I fear the fact that there is so much that can be done secretly, out of control of our apparent government and out of the view of so many citizens,” he added.
Paul said will be hard for Trump to follow through on his NATO policies. During the campaign Trump suggested that the US disengage from the alliance completely because some of its members are not living up to various financial obligations.
But overall Paul thinks Trump will defend the US position in the world.
“He does not like to get pushed around so if it looks like we’re getting pushed around in the world his reflexes will be rather quick and they are not going to be wishy-washy, and that should concern people as well,” Paul said.
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Trump should resist neocon & shadow gov’t influence to justify people’s hopes – Ron Paul to RT
Donald Trump’s success or failure as the next US president will largely depend on his ability to keep his independence from the “shadow government” and elite structures that shaped the policies of previous administrations, former presidential candidate Ron Paul told RT.
Trends
US Elections 2016Trump, 70, enters the US presidency a political virgin, whose policies will be shaped by advice offered by his political cabinet.
“Unfortunately, there has been several neoconservatives that are getting closer to Trump. And if gets his advice from them then I do not think that is a good sign,” Paul told the host of RT’s Crosstalk show Peter Lavelle.
The retired Congressman said that people voted for Trump because he stood against the deep corruption in the establishment, that was further exposed during the campaign by WikiLeaks, and because of his disapproval of meddling in the wider Middle East.
“During the campaign, he did talk a little bit about backing off and being less confrontational to Russia and I like that. He criticized some the wars in the Middle East at the same time. He believes we should accelerate the war against ISIS and terrorism,” Paul noted.
US doesn’t even have 2 parties, just one endorsing inflationism, Fed & IRS – Ron Paul to RT Trump’s ability to honor his campaign rhetoric will depend on the role of the so-called “shadow government,” and the president’s ideals to stick to his beliefs.“We look at the president, we look at what he said, we look at what he might do when you look at his advisors,” Paul said.
“But quite frankly there is an outside source which we refer to as the 'deep state' or the 'shadow government'. There is a lot of influence by people which are actually more powerful than our government itself, our president,” the congressman said.
“Yes, Trump is his own guy, more so than most of those who have ever been in before. We hope he can maintain an independence and go in the right direction. But I fear the fact that there is so much that can be done secretly, out of control of our apparent government and out of the view of so many citizens,” he added.
Paul said will be hard for Trump to follow through on his NATO policies. During the campaign Trump suggested that the US disengage from the alliance completely because some of its members are not living up to various financial obligations.
But overall Paul thinks Trump will defend the US position in the world.
“He does not like to get pushed around so if it looks like we’re getting pushed around in the world his reflexes will be rather quick and they are not going to be wishy-washy, and that should concern people as well,” Paul said.
Where to watch Schedule
https://www.rt.com/usa/366404-trump-ron-paul-crosstalk/
Re: Shadow Government
Could it be that the governments are flooding the drugs and muslims in order to get the law abiding masses want a police state ? This would be one way to do away with the freedoms that the founding fathers tried to ensure the USA with their brilliant American constitution.
Social Media Surveillance Coming To A Computer Near You
A whole host of reasons are being given to justify the increased surveillance and data mining of social media and the wider Internet itself: terrorism, suicide prevention, precrime detection of violence and other illegal acts, and even teenage alcohol abuse.
This is being done at the federal level most egregiously with the declaration that the feds have now been given the green light to hack millions of private devices with only a single warrant.
It has the potential to form massive data sweeps that collect information from the many on the suspicion of the few.
One of the safeguards against such federal intrusion is state and local government resistance; and while this trend of pushback is indeed developing, too many local police departments are willing to treat their their citizens as guilty until proven innocent.
One of the key tools of this spreading surveillance state has been social media and Internet monitoring software.
Many police departments and the federal government have taken the position that what can be found on social media is information from participants released willingly into the public domain, so it's fair game for analysis.
However, as just one example in California revealed, these programs are being put in place without public notice, and the instances of abuse are already mounting ... especially when it comes to monitoring dissent.
The American Civil Liberties Union of California has obtained thousands of pages of documents pertaining to California law enforcement agencies secretly purchasing social media surveillance software.
The ACLU of California filed open records requests with 63 police departments, sheriffs, and district attorneys across California and found that at least 20 agencies across California are in possession of social media monitoring tools.
"We found no evidence in the documents of any public notice, debate, community input, or lawmaker vote about use of this invasive surveillance," the ACLU writes. "And no agency produced a use policy that would limit how the tools were used and help protect civil rights and civil liberties."
The ACLU reports that tools like MediaSonar, X1 Social Discovery, and Geofeedia "have been marketed in ways to target protesters." The records show that Geofeedia's marketing materials refer to unions and activist groups as "overt threats," and suggest the product can be used in ways that target activists of color.
At least 13 California law enforcement agencies have used or acquired Geofeedia.
An announcement from the Boston PD demonstrates that they appear willing to go to a whole new level of monitoring, which goes far beyond social media and would include just about anything that appears on the Web.
The Boston Globe recently reported on the capabilities of this new software that will cost taxpayers $1.4 million for the privilege of having their free speech subjected to scrutiny and their civil liberties undermined:
The software would be able to search blogs, websites, chat rooms, and social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube. It would provide law enforcement officials with an address of where the content was posted and allow police to create a "geo-fence" that would send alerts when new posts are made within an area that meets specified search criteria.
In addition to the troubling concept of having Big Brother looking over the shoulder of anyone typing anything anywhere on the Internet is the stated desire to establish connections between users, opening people up to guilt by association merely by finding themselves within a thread of discussion that may have drawn the attention of the alogrithmic overlord:
According to department records, the proposed software will be able to collect data and alert law enforcement "in near-real-time to significant or threatening social media or online open source content based on user input."
The software will also be able to augment use of terms, slang, and verbiage relevant to the user, and determine relationships among various users.
As Kade Crockford, director of the Technology for Liberty Program at the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, correctly highlights, there is a lot of noise on the Internet and the completely innocent use of certain words and phrases can draw a target on just about anyone, while also calling into question the effectiveness of such data sweeps:
Take, for example, the ways in which "bomb" is used, she said: "That party was the bomb."
"There is a lot of noise on the Internet, and the vast majority of it has nothing to do with crime,' she added.
The growing threat of mass surveillance and the development of a pre-crime society will continue unless people speak up.
Originally published at Activist Post - reposted with permission.
Read more at http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/articl ... 4bW27x4.99
Social Media Surveillance Coming To A Computer Near You
A whole host of reasons are being given to justify the increased surveillance and data mining of social media and the wider Internet itself: terrorism, suicide prevention, precrime detection of violence and other illegal acts, and even teenage alcohol abuse.
This is being done at the federal level most egregiously with the declaration that the feds have now been given the green light to hack millions of private devices with only a single warrant.
It has the potential to form massive data sweeps that collect information from the many on the suspicion of the few.
One of the safeguards against such federal intrusion is state and local government resistance; and while this trend of pushback is indeed developing, too many local police departments are willing to treat their their citizens as guilty until proven innocent.
One of the key tools of this spreading surveillance state has been social media and Internet monitoring software.
Many police departments and the federal government have taken the position that what can be found on social media is information from participants released willingly into the public domain, so it's fair game for analysis.
However, as just one example in California revealed, these programs are being put in place without public notice, and the instances of abuse are already mounting ... especially when it comes to monitoring dissent.
The American Civil Liberties Union of California has obtained thousands of pages of documents pertaining to California law enforcement agencies secretly purchasing social media surveillance software.
The ACLU of California filed open records requests with 63 police departments, sheriffs, and district attorneys across California and found that at least 20 agencies across California are in possession of social media monitoring tools.
"We found no evidence in the documents of any public notice, debate, community input, or lawmaker vote about use of this invasive surveillance," the ACLU writes. "And no agency produced a use policy that would limit how the tools were used and help protect civil rights and civil liberties."
The ACLU reports that tools like MediaSonar, X1 Social Discovery, and Geofeedia "have been marketed in ways to target protesters." The records show that Geofeedia's marketing materials refer to unions and activist groups as "overt threats," and suggest the product can be used in ways that target activists of color.
At least 13 California law enforcement agencies have used or acquired Geofeedia.
An announcement from the Boston PD demonstrates that they appear willing to go to a whole new level of monitoring, which goes far beyond social media and would include just about anything that appears on the Web.
The Boston Globe recently reported on the capabilities of this new software that will cost taxpayers $1.4 million for the privilege of having their free speech subjected to scrutiny and their civil liberties undermined:
The software would be able to search blogs, websites, chat rooms, and social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube. It would provide law enforcement officials with an address of where the content was posted and allow police to create a "geo-fence" that would send alerts when new posts are made within an area that meets specified search criteria.
In addition to the troubling concept of having Big Brother looking over the shoulder of anyone typing anything anywhere on the Internet is the stated desire to establish connections between users, opening people up to guilt by association merely by finding themselves within a thread of discussion that may have drawn the attention of the alogrithmic overlord:
According to department records, the proposed software will be able to collect data and alert law enforcement "in near-real-time to significant or threatening social media or online open source content based on user input."
The software will also be able to augment use of terms, slang, and verbiage relevant to the user, and determine relationships among various users.
As Kade Crockford, director of the Technology for Liberty Program at the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, correctly highlights, there is a lot of noise on the Internet and the completely innocent use of certain words and phrases can draw a target on just about anyone, while also calling into question the effectiveness of such data sweeps:
Take, for example, the ways in which "bomb" is used, she said: "That party was the bomb."
"There is a lot of noise on the Internet, and the vast majority of it has nothing to do with crime,' she added.
The growing threat of mass surveillance and the development of a pre-crime society will continue unless people speak up.
Originally published at Activist Post - reposted with permission.
Read more at http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/articl ... 4bW27x4.99
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Re: Shadow Government
They always want more control, and laws, people want more laws even if they don't need more, and have enough already.
Just like the Jews in the old testament wanting a king like everyone else, it just brought troubles, and destruction to them.
Just like the Jews in the old testament wanting a king like everyone else, it just brought troubles, and destruction to them.
"Being alone isn't what hurts. It's when the people around you make you feel alone" ~ Naruto Uzumaki, an Anime Character