''Govt. Spying Out of Control, Notes Judge Napolitano''

From The New American

''In an article posted by Libertarian-minded Judge Andrew Napolitano on LewRockwell.com on Thursday, Napolitano asserts that government spying has gotten out of control. According to Napolitano, both the Democratic and Republican Parties have justified the process of spying on American citizens and the violation of constitutional rights in the process, always under the guise of security, and in doing so, have violated their oaths to uphold the Constitution.''

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''Everyone in US under virtual surveillance'' - NSA whistleblower''

From RT.com

''California gets face scanners to spy on everyone at once''

From RT.com

''In a single second, law enforcement agents can match a suspect against millions upon millions of profiles in vast detailed databases stored on the cloud. It’s all done using facial recognition, and in Southern California it’s already occurring.

Imagine the police taking a picture: any picture of a person, anywhere, and matching it on the spot in less than a second to a personalized profile, scanning millions upon millions of entries from within vast, intricate databases stored on the cloud.''

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''FEMA and the National Security Police State''

From News With Views
By Darren Weeks

''Executive Orders have been on the books for a half century now, empowering the Federal Emergency Management Agency to take control of everything from public and private communications, energy and transportation to housing and more. Most disturbing is that these presidential decrees encompass the registration and seizure of people, including the separation of family members, should the government find it necessary.''

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''Big Brother alert: Microsoft wants to know how many friends you've got in your living room''

From The Telegraph

''One of Microsoft’s latest patent applications is a humdinger. It proposes to turn the Kinect camera into a snitch for movie studios, reporting back just how many friends you’ve got in your living room and what they’re watching. Think that sounds alarmist? Here’s what it actually says: “The users consuming the content on a display device are monitored so that if the number of user-views licensed is exceeded, remedial action may be taken.” It’s that blatant – a system to spy on private viewing habits.''

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''Sibel Edmonds on the US Police State''

From Corbett Report..............''SHOW NOTES AND MP3: http://www.corbettreport.com/?p=6049

Corbett Report Radio #249

Sibel Edmonds of BoilingFrogsPost.com joins us for a discussion on the police state in the US, the broken political system and the independent voices that are shining a light on it all. We also talk about the forthcoming Boiling Frogs Post DVD Vol. 2 and Sibel's memoir, Classified Woman.''

''S. Dakota County Sheriff Calls-In Predator B, Thermal-Imaging Drone, To Find Five Stolen Cows''

From 'There are no Sunglasses'

''Armed with a search warrant, Nelson County Sheriff Kelly Janke went looking for six missing cows on the Brossart family farm in the early evening of June 23. Three men brandishing rifles chased him off, he said.

Janke knew the gunmen could be anywhere on the 3,000-acre spread in eastern North Dakota. Fearful of an armed standoff, he called in reinforcements from the state Highway Patrol, a regional SWAT team, a bomb squad, ambulances and deputy sheriffs from three other counties.''

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''Whose data is it anyway?''

From Big Brother Watch

''Mastercard is the latest company to hit the headlines for its plans to mine customers data for insights that can be sold on.

The curious part is the company’s claim that they can use off-line data to help advertisers target you online. Arguing their system is proprietary, they don’t offer any detail on how this is possible without using some degree of personal information.''

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''Intensified Warrantless Spying in America''

From Steve Lendman Blog

''Newly released ACLU Justice Department documents and Kurt Eichenwald's just published book titled "500 Days: Secrets and Lies in the Terror Wars" provide new information on lawless spying in America.

Eichenwald described "the most dramatic expansion of NSA's power and authority in the agency's 49 year history." It was devised days after 9/11, he said. In fact, it began much earlier. ''

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Zerohedge: ''Uncle Sam Prepares To Unleash Up To 30,000 Drones Over America For "Public Safety"

From ZeroHedge

''The Federal Aviation Administration is working towards putting the finishing touches on rules and regulations for widespread domestic drone use, and the agency expects as many as 30,000 UAVs will be in America’s airspace by the decade’s end. As Russia Today notes, given that the department has already addressed the issue of acquiring drones to give the DHS a better eye of domestic doings, though, those law enforcement operations in question could very well transcend away from legitimate uses and quickly cause civil liberty concerns from coast-to-coast. All drones will be equipped with Electro-Optical/Infra-Red sensors, as well as the technology to sniff out certain chemicals from thousands of feet above our heads. Have no fear though, since the "Robotic Aircraft for Public Safety" program is for your own protection, we are sure Janet Napolitano would suggest.''

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''Cell-phones tracked without warrants''

From RT.com...........''The US government is continuing to update the latest methods of surveillance and here is the newest: first the US Justice Department argued in court yesterday that authorities should be able to get their hands on minute-by-minute movements of cell-phone users over a 60-day period without having to ask a judge to approve a warrant. Second - the California legislature passed a bill stating that law enforcement agents and other government entities be required to obtain a valid search warrant in order to access location-specific information submitted or received by electronic devices, but Governor Jerry Brown vetoed it. Declan McCullagh of CNET joins RT's Kristine Frazao for more.''

UK: "The Big Brother Scenario''

From Big Brother Watch

''New high definition CCTV cameras that are capable of identifying and tracking a person’s face from half a mile away are being rolled out across UK cities without public consultation.

The Independent has highlighted the use of the increasingly sophisticated cameras which they claim may be in breach of human rights laws. Andrew Rennison, the new surveillance camera commissioner, has predicted that there will be a public outcry if facial recognition systems and HD cameras are allowed to loom over our public areas.''

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UK: ''The Great DNA fishing trip''

From Big Brother Watch

''Across the country, police forces are now busy tracking down people to hand over a DNA sample, not based on any current suspicion of committing an offence but purely because of historical offences that took place decades ago.

The civil liberties implications of this kind of operation are clear. People, currently not under suspicion for any crime and who have served their punishment for past offences, are now hunted down simply in the hope that the force will get lucky and clear up a case.''

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''Cops Track Your Face through Phones | Big Brother Watch''

From RT.com

UK: ''100,000 CCTV cameras in secondary schools and academies across England, Wales and Scotland''

From Big Brother Watch

''Based on data covering more than 2,000 secondary schools and academies, Big Brother Watch warns that there are more than 100,000 CCTV cameras in secondary schools and academies across England, Wales and Scotland.''

With some schools seeing a ratio of one camera for every five pupils, more than two hundred schools using CCTV in bathrooms and changing rooms and more cameras inside school buildings as outside, the picture across the country will undoubtedly shock and surprise many.

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UK: ''Soldiers on call to break strikes''

From The Telegraph

“It is hard to think that the Armed Services would be happy to be used in this highly political way. It would mark the UK out from other similar advanced democracies.” 

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''Marine detained for Facebook posts speaks out''

From RT.com.......''Last week a judge found that there was no legal basis to hold Brandon Raub in a psychiatric ward against his will. This after the Twenty-six year old Raub was taken away by authorities for controversial posts to his Facebook page. He was arrested outside his Virginia home on August 16 and was confused asking the authorities about what crime he committed. The FBI found his posts to be anti-American and "terrorist in nature." John Whitehead, the marine's attorney joins RT's Liz Wahl to discuss what does this case mean for freedom of speech in the US.''

''FBI Agrees to Share Facial Recognition Searches with All Police Departments''

From ALLGOV

''Police departments across the United States will soon have access to facial recognition software developed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

Under the expanding pilot project, the FBI will provide its Universal Face Workstation to police for free. The program will allow local law enforcement to compare photos of suspects against a repository of nearly 13 million criminal mug shots.''

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''Marine Brandon Raub released from psych ward after being detained over Facebook posts''

From RT.com

''Police allowed to track cell phones without warrants''

From RT.com