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Fwd: Peering into Your Life: Top Strategies of the Surveillance Society...
Fr: Re: The Rise of the Surveillance Industrial Complex – It's Coming For You... Surveillance and security products, and the industries that manufacture and sell them, can be important and useful to protecting one's property and family. These companies deserve all the success they can create through market competition and providing value to public.That said, a whole lot of technology companies are working for Uncle Sam. And, to the extent these advances are being turned inward against the American people, I have deep concerns.The Rise of the Surveillance Industrial ComplexEven a high-ranking Obama administration official acknowledges the use of spy technology against the masses:"We are seeing a growing number of repressive regimes get hold of the latest, greatest Western technologies and use them to spy on their own citizens for the purpose of quashing peaceful political dissent or even information that would allow citizens to know what is happening in their communities," says assistant secretary of state for human rights Michael Posner in a recent speech.Of course, Mr. Posner failed to mention that the most widespread use of government-sponsored spy cams against residents of Western democracies is right here in America!Back in 2002, at the first Intelligent Support Systems World Conference (aka The Wiretappers' Ball), only 35 people attended. Today, this closed, by-invitation-only event hosts five conferences worldwide and attracts hundreds of vendors, thousands of buyers, and sells an estimated $5 billion in surveillance gear to government agencies, both foreign and domestic. These events are not open to the public.According to reports from the Washington Post and Wikileaks, the products for sale include, but are not limited to:
- Technology that allow governments to track hundreds of cellphones at once;
- E-mail interceptors that read e-mails by the tens of thousands;
- Programs that make an owner's own computer take a picture of him or her and send the image to government goons – or anyone else;
- Programs that send phony updates for iTunes, Adobe Acrobat, and other popular programs in order to infiltrate personal computers, much like a virus or malware;
- A suitcase-sized device capable of monitoring Web traffic from public WiFi hotspots such at cafes, airports, and hotels;
- Bogus cellphone towers that let government employees track phones up to three miles away and listen to calls;
- And more...
It's Way beyond Nanny or Big Brother Micro-Managing Our Daily Lives...A lot of Western-made surveillance technology is ending up in the hands of abusive governments, according to numerous reports. Most recently, discoveries have been made where tyranny thrives such as Egypt, Syria, China, and even Libya."You need two things for a dictatorship to survive – propaganda and secret police," said Representative Christopher H. Smith (R-N.J.), in a report by the Washington Post. "Both of those are enabled in a huge way by the high-tech companies involved."Indeed, there has been some U.S. effort to regulate how and who can buy this technology overseas, but, according to the Washington Post, the "overwhelming U.S. government response has been to engage [the Wiretapper's Ball] not as a potential regulator, but as a customer."At the October conference, state and local law enforcement agencies attended, as well as more than 35 federal agencies according to Telestrategies president and conference organizer Jerry Lucas. The agencies included the FBI, the Secret Service, each military branch, the IRS, Agriculture Department, the Fish and Wildlife Service, the Postal Inspection Service, and more.These surveillance technologies will be used for crime stopping. However, what's disturbing is the potential for abuse and how innocent law abiding citizens will get caught in indiscriminate surveillance dragnets and logged into government databases.Sponsored Message from Independent Living News
The Surveillance Industrial Complex Does Not Bode
Well for Your Right to be Left AloneSurveillance chills free speech and liberty. Power corrupts and seeks to gain more power. And when power-hungry bureaucrats get an inch, they demand entitlement to the whole mile.There are a number of cases involving law enforcement abusing surveillance technology, such as GPS and cellphone tracking without a warrant. One of my close associates has spent many hours inside a municipal communication center that processes 9-1-1 calls and dispatches police, fire, and ambulance calls for several communities. These "comm centers" are the central nervous systems of local law enforcement and are frequently staffed by retired, disabled, or off-duty police officers. They are loaded up with many types of advanced technology.The scary part is that between phone calls or during slow periods, comm center employees tend to have a lot of time on their hands – and vast databases and law enforcement techno-tools at their disposal. I'm sure the great majority of these public servants are completely trustworthy. All I'm pointing out is that the opportunity for abuse and invasion of your privacy is present in virtually every state and local communication/dispatch facility in the nation. And there is a growing trend to ignore the rights of innocent, lawful citizens that should concern everyone.
- Guilty until proven innocent. Already, the feds have expanded the propaganda campaign to be suspicious of everyone. In a past Executive Bulletin, I touched on how a financial transaction of only a few thousand dollars can get you written up on a Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) by your bank, insurance agent, or broker and get you logged into a government database of suspicious individuals. This snitching culture is further expanded with the Department of Homeland Security's "See Something, Say Something" campaign. In effect, the government asks ordinary citizens to act as secret police and snitch on their neighbors for no reason except suspicion.
- Unreasonable searches. The TSA began by conducting unreasonable strip searches on little old ladies at airports. Now, they've begun spreading their tentacles onto our highways, bus terminals, ports, and train stations.
- Restricted speech "zones." These are quarantined areas where the Bill of Rights has been effectively amended to read, Void Where Prohibited by Law. Restricted speech zones came into expanded in use during the Bush administration, restricting public protestors to voice their opinions in a physically enclosed and dedicated area. Today, many U.S. colleges have these "speech zones" painted directly onto campus quads; conditioning America's future generations to accept that free speech isn't truly free. (Possibly another reason not to bear the cost of a higher college education).
- Freedom of speech on the Internet is not inviolate either. The government has been looking for ways to censor the Internet and recent battles over the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), modeled after China's Internet censorship policies, may help give feds an Internet "kill switch," according to many legal analysts.
There isn't enough room to list the hundreds of other examples. (Please watch the release of the all-new 2012 edition of what was once my all-time best selling manual, Secret Battle Strategies for the War on Freedom, detailing the vast number of assaults to personal liberty that are in play today).The point is this: as technology makes it easier for government and its techno-cronies to exert more pressure on the innocent and erode their rights, the more often they'll feel compelled to do so; all under the pretext of providing "security."The question many are asking is, security from whom? From criminals, or from our own elected officials and their politically connected cronies?The Biggest Danger – Slowly Being Boiled Like Frogs..."Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty – power is ever stealing from the many to the few... The hand entrusted with power becomes... the necessary enemy of the people. Only by continual oversight can the democrat in office be prevented from hardening into a despot: only by unintermitted Agitation can a people be kept sufficiently awake to principle not to let liberty be smothered in material prosperity." – Wendell PhillipsDo not let gradualism slowly extinguish your rights and liberties, nor condition you and your family to grow accustomed to these assaults and accept them as "normal."Lee Bellinger's Executive Bulletin, our Ready for Anything Report, our special reports, manuals, and white papers, and flagship monthly Independent Living newsletter will all help you stay vigilant over the assaults to your privacy and rights, plus offer you practical steps to protect your spending power, save money, improve your health and wealth, and prepare for emergencies.The January edition of Independent Living has a significant article by me that goes into far more detail about the situation suggested in this email. If you are an active subscriber, watch for Independent Living in your mailbox in the coming New Year!Your in Freedom,
Lee Bellinger, Publisher
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Rio's Welcome Sign (2016 Olympics)
Subject: Rio's Welcome Sign (2016 Olympics)
Beautiful & amazing.
2016 - Rio de Janeiro
" Solar City Tower ", built atop
the island of Cotonduba
will be the welcome symbol to
the 2016 Olympic Games
in Rio de Janeiro .
It will be seen by the game visitors and participants as
they arrive by air or water.
The tower, captures solar energy. It will supply energy
for all of the Olympic city, as well as also for part of Rio ..
It pumps up water from the ocean to create what
appears like a water fall and this fall stimulates turbines
that produce energy during the night.
It will also hold the Olympic flame.
The Tower possesses an amphitheater, an auditorium, a cafeteria and boutiques. Elevators lead to various observatories. It also has a retractable plat-form for the practice of bungee jumping.
At the summit is an observation point to appreciate the scenery of the land and ocean, as well as the water fall.
Solar City Tower will be the point of reference for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro .
How amazing is that?
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Fwd: Fw: MUST READ ABOUT McDONALD'S
Subject: MUST READ ABOUT McDONALD'S
I'm sure those of you who aren't in the cattle business don't understand the issues here. But to those of us whose living depends on the cattle market, selling cattle, raising the best beef possible...This is frustrating. This will keep us from ever stopping there again, even for a drink.
The original message is from theTexas Cattle Feeders Association American cattle producers are very passionate about this.
McDonald's claims that there is not enough beef in the USA to support their restaurants. Well, we know that is not so. Our opinion is they are looking to save money at our expense. The sad thing of it is that the people of the USA are the ones who made McDonald's successful in the first place, but we are not good enough to provide beef.
We personally are no longer eating at McDonald's, which I am sure does not make an impact, but if we pass this around maybe there will be an impact felt.
All Americans that sell cows at a livestock auction barn had to sign a paper stating that
we DO NOT EVER feed our cows any part of another cow.
South Americans are not required to do this as of yet.
McDonald's has announced that they are going to start importing much of their beef from South America . The problem is that South Americans aren't under the same regulations as American beef producers, and the regulations they have are loosely controlled.
They can spray numerous pesticides on their pastures that have been banned here at home because of residues found in the beef. They can also use various hormones and growth regulators that we can't.. The American public needs to be aware of this problem and that they may be putting themselves at risk from now on by eating at good old McDonald's..
American ranchers raise the highest quality beef in the world and this is what Americans
deserve to eat. Not beef from countries where quality is loosely controlled. Therefore, I am proposing a boycott of McDonald's until they see the light.
I'm sorry but everything is not always about the bottom line, and when it comes to jeopardizing my family's health, that is where I draw the line.
I am sending this note to about thirty people. If each of you send it to at least ten more (30 x 10 = 300) ... and those 300 send it to at l east ten more (300 x 10 = 3,000) .... and
so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth generation of people, we will have reached over THREE MILLION consumers!
I'll bet you didn't think you and I had that much potential, did you? Acting together we can make a difference. If this makes sense to you, please pass this message on..
David W. Forrest, Ph.D ., PAS, Dipl.
ACAP Department of Animal ScienceTexas A&M University
Phone (979) 845-3560
Fax (979) 862-3399
2471 TAMU College Station , TX 77843-2471Ken Martin
361.694.2838 mobile*no trees or animals were harmed while composing this e-mail*
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Fwd: Energize Alabama e-bulletin, Covered Bridge and Moss Rocks festivals
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Energize Alabama
-- e-bulletin -- October 19, 2011 --
-- e-bulletin -- October 19, 2011 --
Outdoor Festivals
Energize Alabama will have booths at two different festivals in the next couple of weeks.
At these booths, we demonstrate and explain energy efficiency, energy conservation and solar.
Come to these festivals if you are in the area, and volunteer with us if you will.
Blount County Covered Bridge Festival, Oneonta AL, Saturday October 22
This Saturday from set up at 8 a.m. until closing at 4 p.m. Come give us a hand for a couple of hours.
contact: Daryl Bergquist steward@otelco.net 205 429-3088
Moss Rocks, Hoover AL November 5 & 6
Energize Alabama is at the heart of the Eco-District of the 6th Annual Moss Rock Festival,
and we need volunteers!
and we need volunteers!
This one-of-a-kind outdoor fall festival at The Preserve in Hoover, will take place November 5 and 6.
We guarantee it will be a weekend where discoveries are the norm! Grab friends and family and get outside to explore nature at this premier eco-creative festival in Alabama.
Come enjoy artists, an eco-district featuring green living ideas, products, services and organizations, live music, engaging constructions and installations, geocaching, hybrid and fuel-efficient car exhibitions, a café, and the great outdoors.
Please consider coming out and lending a hand at the Energize Alabama booth - no experience necessary - on the job training! Call Stephen for more encouragement - 204-919-6231 or GreenWorks.sg@gmail.com.
Please consider coming out and lending a hand at the Energize Alabama booth - no experience necessary - on the job training! Call Stephen for more encouragement - 204-919-6231 or GreenWorks.sg@gmail.com.
Daryl Bergquist for Energize Alabama
Send an email to steward@otelco.net if you wish to be added to or dropped from receiving Energize Alabama emails.
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Fwd: FW: Smart Meters/listen to the video, very interesting
Subject: Smart Meters/listen to the video, very interesting
Subject: Smart Meters/listen to the video, very interesting
This is important to read... Smart Meters being installed by your electric company to track your patterns of electrical use - when you are home and when you are not. And they share the information!
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