Shadow Government

[Blue Frost]

The Right under Bush bought it also, and I am one of them with the Patriot act.
I came to my senses soon after though when I found out what it was.
The House, and senate as well as out shameful media should have fought it tooth, and nail no matter what the party .
They can pretty it up with a nice name, but that don't make it good for anyone that cares for freedom.

[Blue Frost]

This isn't just government, it can be any group or individual, and who is to say it couldn't be used for the spread of something nasty, or just poison.

[Blue Frost]

Look at the potential, especially when people don't stand up against a president that targets his own people.

Death from a swarm of tiny drones: U.S. Air Force releases terrifying video of tiny flybots that can can hover, stalk and even kill targets

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... rgets.html

[Gary Oak]

I have recently wondered if Obama's excessive " I care " act isn't to make his being a psycho impossible for most to believe

[Blue Frost]

Labeling stuff with cute caring phrases, and patriotic ones is the most easy way to fool a population, just look at Hitler.

[Gary Oak]

I can see Obama saying with the I care tone of voice that he constantly bombards us with saying that this is necessary and for our own good and that he is pushing these televisions on us because he cares. They will be able to go right into our homes and know everything that is going on. Are they going to be recording all of our conversations too ?


Big Brother Televisions: Intel Latest Firm To Announce TV Box That Spies On You

http://www.dailymail.co.uk
Campaigners today warned of a 'seismic shift' in privacy invasion after it emerged that Intel was the latest company set to market a television set-top box equipped with a camera that stares back at viewers.

The company, which makes the microchips found inside most personal computers, has launched an entirely new division, Intel Media, to make and market the Orwellian streaming-television product.

Erik Huggers, vice-president of Intel Media, said the new service would offer users a TV 'that is much more personal, that learns about you, that actually cares about who you are.'

The camera, Intel claims, will enable them to personalise the interactive features of their product, so that different members of the same household can be served programming and advertising specific to them.

Intel is only the latest company to develop a television product that contains a camera and sensors designed to watch what viewers are up to.

In U.S. Patent Application 20120304206 the company suggests it could detect when people are 'cuddling' then show 'a commercial for a romantic getaway vacation, a commercial for a contraceptive, a commercial for flowers, etc.'.

Microsoft also recently registered a patent for technology to allow its Kinect motion sensor to figure out how many people are in front of it then stop playback if it detected more people than the copyright terms allowed. Google TV proposed a similar patent that would use video and audio recording devices to do the same.

And Comcast in 2008 patented a monitoring technology that would recommend content to users based on people it recognised in the room.

The surge in products that look back at you will no doubt spark associations with George Orwell's dystopian classic Nineteen Eighty-Four, in which an oppressed population live in fear of surveillance through two-way 'telescreens'.

The book's hero, Winston Smith, is only able to keep a diary - a banned activity - because one corner of his old-fashioned flat is out of the view of the telescreen's camera.

Erik Huggers, vice-president of Intel Media, spoke to AllThingsD's Dive Into Media conference this week, where he gave official confirmation of Intel's long-rumoured entry into the telescreen market.

'This thing looks like a leap in time of 10-20 years compared to what you have today, that is much more personal, that learns about you, that actually cares about who you are' Erik Huggers, vice-president of Intel MediaHe said: 'This thing looks like a leap in time of 10-20 years compared to what you have today, that is much more personal, that learns about you, that actually cares about who you are.'

He added: 'We think there's real value in the ability to actually identify the various users. Today television doesn't really know anything about you and it's the same television service for everyone in the household.'

Challenged about the privacy implications surrounding a television service which is designed to look back at the viewer, he said: 'We think there's real value in the ability to actually identify the various users.

'Today television doesn't really know anything about you and it's the same television service for everyone in the household.'

Dutch-born Mr Huggers gave a personal example drawn from his own family life, where his children's use of his Netflix account means that when he and his wife use it the service often suggests cartoons for them to watch.

'My kids may watch programming geared toward them, and I

[Blue Frost]

They can already hack into webcams with ease, baby cams, and anything wireless so TV is no big jump.
Vans that drive by your house can see right through your walls, and the listening devises are so easy now days .
The little bots they create can even creep right into your bedroom without your knowing.

[Chris Patton]

I can see drones being used in the near future to search for people. spy on citizens ,target citizens,etc...



Televisions That Spy On You
by Gary Oak

[Blue Frost]

I think they may want to work on this.

Revealed: al-Qaeda's 22 tips for dodging drones
Al-Qaeda's list of 22 tips for dodging drone attacks - including at least one believed to originate with Osama bin Laden - has been found hidden inside a manila envelope in a building abandoned by Islamists in Mali.
http://www.readability.com/read?url=htt ... .html%3Ffb
7:20PM GMT 21 Feb 2013


The document includes advice such as "hide under thick trees" (believed to be bin Laden's contribution), and instructions for setting up a "fake gathering" using dolls to "mislead the enemy".

Found by the Associated Press in a building in Timbuktu, the ancient city occupied by Islamists last year, the document is believed to have been abandoned as extremists fled a French military intervention last month. It is a Xeroxed copy of a tipsheet authored by a Yemeni extremist that has been published on some jihadi forums, but that has made little appearance in English.

The list reflects how al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghbreb anticipated a military intervention that would make use of drones, as the war on terror shifts from the ground to the air.

The document also shows the coordination between al-Qaeda chapters, which security experts have called a source of increasing concern.

"This new document... shows we are no longer dealing with an isolated local problem, but with an enemy which is reaching across continents to share advice," said Bruce Riedel, a 30-year veteran of the CIA, now the director of the Intelligence Project at the Brookings Institute.

While some of the tips are outdated or far-fetched, taken together, they suggest the Islamists in Mali are responding to the threat of drones with sound, common-sense advice that may help them to melt into the desert in between attacks, leaving barely a trace.

"These are not dumb techniques. It shows that they are acting pretty astutely," said Col Cedric Leighton, a 26-year-veteran of the United States Air Force, who helped set up the Predator drone program, which later tracked Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan.

"What it does is, it buys them a little bit more time - and in this conflict, time is key. And they will use it to move away from an area, from a bombing raid, and do it very quickly," he said.

The success of some of the tips will depend on the circumstances and the model of drones used, Col Leighton said. For example, from the air, where perceptions of depth become obfuscated, an imagery sensor would interpret a mat stretched over the top of a car as one lying on the ground, concealing the vehicle.

New models of drones, such as the Harfung used by the French or the MQ-9 "Reaper," sometimes have infrared sensors that can pick up the heat signature of a car whose engine has just been shut off. However, even an infrared sensor would have trouble detecting a car left under a mat tent overnight, so that its temperature is the same as on the surrounding ground, Col Leighton said.

Unarmed drones are already being used by the French in Mali to collect intelligence on al-Qaeda groups, and US officials have said plans are underway to establish a new drone base in northwestern Africa.

The US recently signed a "status of forces agreement" with Niger, one of the nations bordering Mali, suggesting the drone base may be situated there and would be primarily used to gather intelligence to help the French.

The author of the tipsheet found in Timbuktu is Abdallah bin Muhammad, the nom de guerre for a senior commander of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the Yemen-based branch of the terror network.

The document was first published in Arabic on an extremist website on June 2, 2011, a month after bin Laden's death, according to Mathieu Guidere, a professor at the University of Toulouse.

Prof Guidere runs a database of statements by extremist groups, including al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, and he reviewed and authenticated the document found by the AP.

The tipsheet is still little known, if at all, in English, though it has been republished at least three times in Arabic on other jihadist forums after drone strikes took out US-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen in September 2011 and al-Qaeda second-in-command Abu Yahya al-Libi in Pakistan in June 2012.

It was most recently issued two weeks ago on another extremist website after plans for the possible US drone base in Niger began surfacing, Prof Guidere said.

"This document supports the fact that they knew there are secret US bases for drones, and were preparing themselves," he said. "They were thinking about this issue for a long time."

The idea of hiding under trees to avoid drones, which is tip No 10, appears to be coming from the highest levels of the terror network. In a letter written by bin Laden and first published by the US Center for Combating Terrorism, the terror mastermind instructs his followers to deliver a message to Abdelmalek Droukdel, the head of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, whose fighters have been active in Mali for at least a decade.

"I want the brothers in the Islamic Maghreb to know that planting trees helps the mujahedeen and gives them cover," bin Laden writes in the missive. "Trees will give the mujahedeen the freedom to move around especially if the enemy sends spying aircrafts to the area."

Hiding under trees is exactly what the al-Qaeda fighters did in Mali, according to residents in Diabaly, the last town they took before the French stemmed their advance last month. Just after French warplanes incinerated rebel cars that had been left outside, the fighters began to commandeer houses with large mango trees and park their four-by-fours in the shade of their rubbery leaves.

Hamidou Sissouma, a schoolteacher, said the Islamists chose his house because of its generous trees, and rammed their trucks through his earthen wall to drive right into his courtyard. Another resident showed the gash the occupiers had made in his mango tree by parking their pickup too close to the trunk.

In Timbuktu also, fighters hid their cars under trees, and disembarked from them in a hurry when they were being chased, in accordance with tip No 13.

Moustapha al-Housseini, an appliance repairman, was outside his shop fixing a client's broken radio on the day the aerial bombardments began. He said he heard the sound of the planes and saw the Islamists at almost the same moment. Abou Zeid, the senior al-Qaeda emir in the region, rushed to jam his car under a pair of tamarind trees outside the store.

"He and his men got out of the car and dove under the awning," said Mr al-Housseini. "As for what I did? Me and my employees? We also ran. As fast as we could."

Along with the grass mats, the al-Qaeda men in Mali made creative use of another natural resource to hide their cars: Mud.

Asse Ag Imahalit, a gardener at a building in Timbuktu, said he was at first puzzled to see that the fighters sleeping inside the compound sent for large bags of sugar every day. Then, he said, he observed them mixing the sugar with dirt, adding water and using the sticky mixture to "paint" their cars. Residents said the cars of the al-Qaeda fighters are permanently covered in mud.

The drone tipsheet, discovered in the regional tax department occupied by Abou Zeid, shows how familiar al-Qaeda has become with drone attacks, which have allowed the US to take out senior leaders in the terrorist group without a messy ground battle. The preface and epilogue of the tipsheet make it clear that al-Qaeda well realizes the advantages of drones: They are relatively cheap in terms of money and lives, alleviating "the pressure of American public opinion."

Ironically, the first drone attack on an al-Qaeda figure in 2002 took out the head of the branch in Yemen - the same branch that authoured the document found in Mali, according to Riedel. Drones began to be used in Iraq in 2006 and in Pakistan in 2007, but it wasn't until 2009 that they became a hallmark of the war on terror, he said.

"Since we do not want to put boots on the ground in places like Mali, they are certain to be the way of the future," he said. "They are already the future."

Source: AP

[Blue Frost]

How many of these are true ???
We may never know.

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[Tribrid Vampire]

How many of these are true ???
We may never know.

[video][/video]

Wow, good video. I believe all of them.

[Blue Frost]

LOL I do a few myself, but not all GF.
Hey hope your doing good today, and not as tired got some rest I hope.

[Gary Oak]

I have for a few years thought that there must be something in the works to replace those time consuming debit cards. Once everybody is hooked on debit cards then the next step I believe will begin. With everything so high tech won't we all be stuck if the sysptem goes down ?

Ready To Pay The Tab? Get Out Your Fingers; PayTango Bets On Biometrics

http://upstart.bizjournals.com

Could a new payment method that uses biometrics technology, or more specifically fingerprint scanning, replace our need to carry around a wallet full of credit cards? The team behind PayTango certainly hope so, although its technology is still in the testing mode.

The YC Combinator-backed startup, founded by four Carnegie Mellon University students who graduate later this year, has piloted the readers in three locations on campus.

To use the technology for the first time, the consumer touches the finger pad with their index and middle fingers and then swipes a credit card they want associated with their prints. It also asks for their mobile phone number. The reader plugs right into a merchant

[Blue Frost]

Not for me, and I take the chips out of my cards also for security reasons, and not to mention ring eyes. Biometrics isn't as bad as chipping in my opinion, and really a safer way to stop identity theft, but not sure if I like the idea of passing a copy of my print around town.

[Tribrid Vampire]

There's a chip in my phone where I can just tap to pay. Never tried it.

[Blue Frost]

if it's like in a credit card someone can walk along, and grab your info, they are not safe, or secure .
I'm not sure if they are the same, but they sound like it.

[Tribrid Vampire]

Kind of like a credit where you just tap to pay. You can do that with some phones.

[Blue Frost]

I would think someone can bump up next to you, and do the same, they just have to get close with credit cards.

[Gary Oak]

http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/ ... _20130504/

I have already posted about what I know on this topic on this thread

[Gary Oak]

Here is more on the surveilance trap



http://endoftheamericandream.com

Big Brother is watching everything that you do on the Internet and listening to everything that you say on your phone. Every single day in America, the U.S. government intercepts and stores nearly 2 billion emails, phone calls and other forms of electronic communication.

Former NSA employees have come forward and have described exactly what is taking place, and this surveillance activity has been reported on by prominent news organizations such as the Washington Post, Fox News and CNN, but nobody really seems to get too upset about it. Either most Americans are not aware of what is really going on or they have just accepted it as part of modern life. But where will this end?

Do we really want to live in a dystopian