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Researchers Use WiFi Radar to Covertly Monitor the Movement of People Through Walls
Posted by EndlessMemories in Big Brother, Control Grid, News, Technology on August 7, 2012
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by: Madison Ruppert
August 7, 2012
In today’s world, the seeming safety and privacy provided by four walls and a roof is quickly diminishing with microchips enabling mobile devices to see through walls, microchips allowing mobile devices to provide ultra-precise location information, the hijacking of cell phone camerasand even stealthily recording sound and other environmental information, supposedly for advertising purposes.
Of course, those examples represent just one of the many ways in which our privacy is being invaded and diminished with a vengeance in the United States today.
Now new method is being explored by researchers which could allow people to use so-called “bistatic WiFi radar” at a distance in order to covertly detect and monitor people moving behind walls.
The researchers published the findings in a paper called “Through-the-Wall Sensing of Personnel Using Passive Bistatic WiFi Radar at Standoff Distances” in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, volume 50, Issue 4.
The emphasis appears to be the ability to detect people “uncooperatively and covertly,” something which is also becoming increasingly important in facial recognition technology and other biometric technologies.
The researchers, who are affiliated with the Department of Security and Crime Science at the University College London in the United Kingdom, have demonstrated the first successful through-the-wall (TTW) detection of moving people using passive WiFi radar.
The federal government is spying on every single American, say NSA whistleblowers
Posted by EndlessMemories in Big Brother, Control Grid, News, Whistleblowers on August 5, 2012
via: NaturalNews
Saturday, August 04, 2012
By: Ethan A. Huff
[NaturalNews] Two former high-ranking officials at the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), a federal bureaucracy that collects data and intelligence on foreign communications for national security purposes, have come forward with allegations that the NSA actively monitors Americans as well. According to testimonies from both Thomas Drake, a former NSA senior official, and Kirk Wiebe, a former NSA senior analyst, the agency actively monitors and collects intelligence on every single American as part of a massive spying operation.
RT.com first broke the story after Drake and Wiebe, on two recent but separate occasions, disclosed inside information about the NSA’s spying activities to reporters. During a recent interview with Eliot Spitzer, host of Current TV’s “Viewpoint” program, Drake explained how the 9/11 terrorist attacks were a catalyst for redefining America as a “foreign nation” in order to legitimize unwarranted surveillance of innocent Americans — and he says this backdoor spying program continues to this day.
“When you open up the Pandora’s Box of just getting access to incredible amounts of data, for people that have no reason to be put under suspicion, no reason to have done anything wrong, and just collect all that for potential future use or even current use, it opens up a real danger,” said Drake during the interview.
“And for what else could they use that data (other than for future prosecutions unrelated to terrorism or for blackmail purposes), particularly when it’s all being hidden behind the mantle of national security.”
Binney expressed similar sentiments during a recent interview with journalist Geoff Shively, according to RT.com, in which he disclosed that the federal government is basically collecting whatever data it possibly can on every single American. This is made even easier, of course, by social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Foursquare, Path, and many others that actively monitor and track people’s every action.
Mega Stun Gun Introduced to DOD’s Non-Lethal Arsenal
Posted by EndlessMemories in News, Police State & Police Brutality, Technology on July 16, 2012
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by: Brandon Turbeville
Monday, July 16, 2012
If 500 hundred deaths and countless abuses at the hands of taser-friendly police is not enough to garner any concern by the average American, then perhaps the new “Nano-Second Electrical Pulse” Mega Stun Gun being introduced by the Department of Defense might do the trick.
The new stun gun was recently unveiled at the DOD’s Non-Lethal Weapons Industry Day and it works by hitting the target individual with alarmingly high voltage for a very short amount of time – i.e. billionths of seconds. However, the amount of electricity fired into the person’s body, while not specified in terms of exact voltage, will be enough to not only stun the individual but render them unconscious.
The victim is supposed to be able to regain consciousness as soon as the flow of electricity stops. However, the Pentagon is predictably working on yet another version of this “improved” stun gun that will render the victim unconscious for several minutes.
The ethical issues surrounding the invention and deployment of such technology, particularly on the streets of the United States are legion. As Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai writes for Wired,
How dangerous a device like that could be is unclear. Stun guns have a long and well documented history of abuse — even students and grandmas have been victims of overzealous, Taser-happy police officers. And their use, despite being labeled “non-lethal,” can be deadly. According to Amnesty International, at least 500 people have died after being shocked with tasers. In 2008, a jury in San Jose deemed the company that produces the stun gun, Taser International, responsible for the death of Robert Heston, a 40-year-old man who was shot by the cops multiple times. The jury found that the company failed to warn the police that repeated discharges could have a deadly effect on the target.
Of course, while the technology itself is obviously dangerous, it is not so much the devices that are responsible for the deaths, as it is the fact that they have been placed in the hands of persons wholly incapable of operating them in a responsible manner.
New laser-based molecular scanner will tell the government everything about you from 164 ft away
Posted by EndlessMemories in Big Brother, Control Grid, News, Police State & Police Brutality, Technology on July 11, 2012
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by: Madison Ruppert
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
As ludicrously farfetched as the headline sounds, there is in fact a new laser-based scanner built by Genia Photonics – who is currently in “a strategic partnership and technology development agreement with In-Q-Tel” – which can detect traces of just about anything on your person from a stunning 50 meters, or 164 feet away in somewhere around 1/1000000000000th of a second.
One must realize that as disturbing as this may sound, it is really not all that shocking when you consider the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Future Attribute Screening Technology or the rise and continuing growth of nearly ubiquitous use of facial recognition technology.
Genia Photonics refers to the ability of these types of picoseconds synchronized programmable lasers to be used for “standoff threat detection.” Essentially, this is just a different way of saying the government will soon be able to scan your body, car or belongings for just about any molecule or substance they please without you knowing, all at unimaginable speeds.
If this is rolled out as soon as Tara O’Toole, under secretary for science and technology of the DHS, claimed it would be during her testimony on November 17, 2011, it will become just one of many parts of the American surveillance state.
Australian Thought Police Target Free Speech
Posted by EndlessMemories in Big Brother, Control Grid, News, Police State & Police Brutality on July 11, 2012
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by: Andrew Puhanic
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Australian health authorities have launched an attack on radio host Leon Pittard after a guest on his Fairdinkum Radio Show revealed the extent to which authorities are restricting free speech when it comes to discussing natural medicines.
The story began when Mr. Pittard posted an article and a podcast entitled “Australian government’s attack on health freedom,” which featured an interview between the radio host and Meryl Dorey of the Australian Vaccination Network.
During the interview, Ms Dorey referred to ‘Black Salve’, a product that is banned by the Theraputic Goods Administration. Her exact words were:
As a result of that experience she found a treatment that’s been used for at least 2000 years called black salve. And it’s a combination of herbs and minerals that is applied topically to cancer and it’s called nature’s scalpel. Now I’ve used it myself on a cancer that I had on my shoulder. I’ve got to tell you, it is like a scalpel, it cut it out in a perfect circle. And it got rid of it completely. So, the Australian government several years ago banned the use of black salve on humans and you could only buy it for animals. As of a couple of weeks ago you’re not even allowed to sell it for animal use. Original interview transcript
It is this small paragraph that has come under fire from the Therapeutic Goods Administration via their Complaints Resolution Panel, who have claimed to have received a complaint of 14 pages detailing regulation that has allegedly been broken.
The claim in the letter of complaint is that Meryl Dorey has advertised and promoted ‘Black Salve,’ a banned substance, and Leon Pittard has further promoted and advertised ‘Black Salve’ by publishing the interview. The letter from the complainant is clearly a carefully crafted document containing exhaustive legal language.
14 Incredibly Creepy Surveillance Technologies That Big Brother Will Be Using To Spy On You
Posted by EndlessMemories in Big Brother, Control Grid, Internet, Privacy & Communications, News, Police State & Police Brutality, Technology on July 10, 2012
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by: Michael Snyder
July 9, 2012
A company known as BRS Labs has developed “pre-crime” surveillance cameras that can supposedly determine if you are a terrorist or a criminal even before you commit a crime.Does that sound insane?
Well, authorities are taking this technology quite seriously. In fact, dozens of these cameras are being installed at major transportation hubs in San Francisco….
In its latest project BRS Labs is to install its devices on the transport system in San Francisco, which includes buses, trams and subways.
The company says will put them in 12 stations with up to 22 cameras in each, bringing the total number to 288.
The cameras will be able to track up to 150 people at a time in real time and will gradually build up a ‘memory’ of suspicious behaviour to work out what is suspicious.
#2 Capturing Fingerprints From 20 Feet Away
Can you imagine someone reading your fingerprints from 20 feet away without you ever knowing it?
This kind of technology is actually already here according to POPSCI….
Gaining access to your gym or office building could soon be as simple as waving ahand at the front door. A Hunsville, Ala.-based company called IDair is developing a system that can scan and identify a fingerprint from nearly 20 feet away. Coupled with other biometrics, it could soon allow security systems to grant or deny access from a distance, without requiring users to stop and scan a fingerprint, swipe an ID card, or otherwise lose a moment dealing with technology.
Currently IDair’s primary customer is the military, but the startup wants to open up commercially to any business or enterprise that wants to put a layer of security between its facilities and the larger world. A gym chain is already beta testing the system (no more using your roommate’s gym ID to get in a free workout), and IDair’s founder says that at some point his technology could enable purchases to be made biometrically, using fingerprints and irises as unique identifiers rather than credit card numbers and data embedded in magnetic strips or RFID chips.
#3 Mobile Backscatter Vans
Police all over America will soon be driving around in unmarked vans looking inside your cars and even under your clothes using the same “pornoscanner” technology currently being utilized by the TSA at U.S. airports….
American cops are set to join the US military in deploying American Science & Engineering’s Z Backscatter Vans, or mobile backscatter radiation x-rays. These are what TSA officials call “the amazing radioactive genital viewer,” now seen in airports around America, ionizing the private parts of children, the elderly, and you (yes you).
These pornoscannerwagons will look like regular anonymous vans, and will cruise America’s streets, indiscriminately peering through the cars (and clothes) of anyone in range of its mighty isotope-cannon. But don’t worry, it’s not a violation of privacy. As AS&E’s vice president of marketing Joe Reiss sez, “From a privacy standpoint, I’m hard-pressed to see what the concern or objection could be.”
You can see a YouTube video presentation about this new technology right here.
#4 Hijacking Your Mind
The U.S. military literally wants to be able to hijack your mind. The theory is that this would enable U.S. forces to non-violently convince terrorists not to be terrorists anymore. But obviously the potential for abuse with this kind of technology is extraordinary. The following is from a recent articleby Dick Pelletier….
The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) wants to understand the science behind what makes people violent, and then find ways to hijack their minds by implanting false, but believable stories in their brains, with hopes of evoking peaceful thoughts: We’re friends, not enemies.
Critics say this raises ethical issues such as those addressed in the 1971 sci-fi movie, A Clockwork Orange, which attempted to change people’s minds so that they didn’t want to kill anymore.
Advocates, however, believe that placing new plausible narratives directly into the minds of radicals, insurgents, and terrorists, could transform enemies into kinder, gentler citizens, craving friendship.
Scientists have known for some time that narratives; an account of a sequence of events that are usually in chronological order; hold powerful sway over the human mind, shaping a person’s notion of groups and identities; even inspiring them to commit violence. See DARPA proposal request HERE.
#5 Unmanned Drones In U.S. Airspace
Law enforcement agencies all over the United States are starting to use unmanned drones to spy on us, and the Department of Homeland Security is aggressively seeking to expand the use of such drones by local authorities….
The Department of Homeland Security has launched a program to “facilitate and accelerate the adoption” of small, unmanned drones by police and other public safety agencies, an effort that an agency official admitted faces “a very big hurdle having to do with privacy.”
The $4 million Air-based Technologies Program, which will test and evaluate small,unmanned aircraft systems, is designed to be a “middleman” between drone manufacturers and first-responder agencies “before they jump into the pool,” said John Appleby, a manager in the DHS Science and Technology Directorate’s division of borders and maritime security.
Although this is not new technology, law enforcement authorities are using our own cell phones to spy on us more extensively than ever before as a recent Wired article described….Mobile carriers responded to a staggering 1.3 million law enforcement requests last year for subscriber information, including text messages and phone location data, according to data provided to Congress.A single ‘request’ can involve information about hundreds of customers. So ultimately the number of Americans affected by this could reach into “the tens of millions” each year….
The number of Americans affected each year by the growing use of mobile phone data by law enforcement could reach into the tens of millions, as a single request could ensnare dozens or even hundreds of people. Law enforcement has been asking for so-called “cell tower dumps” in which carriers disclose all phone numbers that connected to a given tower during a certain period of time.
So, for instance, if police wanted to try to find a person who broke a store window at an Occupy protest, it could get the phone numbers and identifying data of all protestors with mobile phones in the vicinity at the time — and use that data for other purposes.
Perhaps you should not be using your cell phone so much anyway. After all, there are more than 500 studies that show that cell phone radiation is harmful to humans.
In David Cameron’s Orwellian Britain They Now Snoop on Seaside Postcards
Posted by EndlessMemories in Big Brother, Control Grid on July 7, 2012
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by: Richard Cottrell
July 5, 2012
A country crosses the Rubicon to a full blown totalitarian state when its agents decide to read the contents of seaside post cards.
In the future anyone sending the traditional vacation greeting ‘wish you were here’ to family and friends through the UK’s Royal Mail will do so in the knowledge that faceless clerks working for the intelligence services will try to decipher exactly what ‘having a lovely time’ really means.
A lovely time making bombs perhaps? Is ‘the sea is a bit cold for the time of the year’ some kind of code to transmit concealed instructions to a cell of fiendish plotters?
God forbid that anyone should send love and kisses from anywhere east of Sussex and sign off ‘Mohammed.’ That will be quite sufficient to earn a 4 a.m. wake up call from Scotland Yard’s finest.
Nor is it just about plain old postcards by any means. A new bill crawling through parliament conveys the power to read inscriptions written on the outside of envelopes.
There used to be a very famous message popular with service personnel posted around the empire, who were inclined to inscribe BURMA on the back of coming home letters addressed to wives and girl friends. Decoded, it read: Be Undressed and Ready My Angel.
Lord knows what the censors might make of that in these days of synthetic paranoia manufactured by the denizens of law and order and the security-obsessed guards of the state.
Of course the whole thing is perfect nonsense. Who sends postcards in the age of the Internet, the iPhone, Blackberries and so forth? Intimacies are more likely exchanged electronically these days.
Unfortunately the snoops are listening in there too, so whichever means you employ to communicate, old fashioned steam mail or otherwise, all-knowing, all-seeing Big Brother is on your back.
In David Cameron’s Britain you are doomed to be cornered any route you take.
The extension of the security dragnet to picture postcards and the scrutinizing of scribbles on envelopes in search of some secret hint to blow things up, depicts a state which has broken loose on its hinges.
It has become the true Orwellian condition in which every citizen is a suspect, unless you happen to be a fully paid member of the one percent, a policeman, or a member of the Teflon secret services, HMG.
Let’s not forget, demands for Google user information increasing by a whopping by 25% last year. There is not the faintest reason to maintain this constant state of scrutiny over the private citizen, except to turn every individual into an object of perpetual suspicion.
The word ‘object’ – inferring a human being – conveys considerable weight there.
David Cameron’s administration treats the entire nation as though it were composed of idiots.
So the new powers forced on the Royal Mail will not actually be deployed, just ‘held in reserve’, the response to which is: why the hell bother anyway?
Of course mass sedatives supplied in the form of the recent jubilee jamboree go a long way to distracting the populace from the ever-tightening, strangling grip of the emerging British national security state.
In another garbled version of this story, which spineless parliamentarians swallowed unchallenged, the truly Orwellian sounding ‘Ministry of Justice’ instead of the Post Office already had the powers to read private mail, so the objective was simply to ‘extend’ existing powers.
Did anyone in the UK know that? Were they aware that any mail could be inspected so that all the detritus of private lives could be inspected at will?
I must say that my quarrel is less with sleepwalking Members of Parliament – or even an absent minded prime minister who recently forgot his young daughter after a restoring break from the pressures of high office at a country – than the docile masses who so willingly beckon their own enslavement.
As it is a government that came to power pledged to roll back ever expanding surveillance and intrusion has instead switched the destruction of civil liberties to overdrive.
Airports are madhouses, doctors carrying vital organ transplants are tossed off planes because the containers are the wrong shape or size, tourists are picked up for snapping popular attractions, nosey individuals are encouraged (and even paid) to snoop on their neighbors, spy cameras are fixed to rubbish bins and other street paraphernalia to maintain around the clock surveillance of every citizen, regardless of age.
British policemen on the beat look like Robocops. You wouldn’t dare ask one of these snarling armor-plated Bobbies for destructions, lest he should think you were on a mission to explode some infernal suicide device.
Yet there is a bitterly ironic aspect to the gloomy scenario, namely that the British government – and David Cameron personally – is ensnared in the massive rogue phone hacking scandal connected with the activities of the ravenous Murdoch empire in the United Kingdom.
I intend to return to this theme at a later date, but for the moment these are the quite astonishing edited highlights.
It transpires that for years a raunchy red top Sunday tabloid called the News of the World, owned by Rupert Murdoch’s flagship News International, indulged in serial ‘e-fracking’ of voice mails made by scores of politicians and public celebrities.
These quite shamelessly illegal indulgences extended to the veterans of Britain’s useless foreign wars, survivors of the July 2005 bombing of the London Transport network – and in one especially morbid episode, tapping the mobile phone of a murdered schoolgirl to discover if by some miracle she might still be alive.
Of course all this serial e-fracking was conducted in pursuit of sensational and salacious stories to boost circulation and advertising revenues of the newspaper known to generations of Britons as the Screws of the World.
What did the custodians of law and order do when confronted with the incontrovertible facts? Practically nothing.
Scotland Yard officers turned out to be culprits feeding juice tidbits to newspaper reporters including the News of the World hackers.
Bad enough, but even worse, the Yard did all it could to smother Murdochgate in its infancy, quite obviously responding to orders from a higher level. This of course was not remotely connected with the highly controversial bid by News International for those remaining shares of the highly lucrative BSkyB satellite broadcasting channel which they did not already own.
In a perfectly delicious turning of the tables, senior figures in Cameron’s government – and Cameron personally – were recorded in e-mail exchanges expressing warm sentiments to Murdoch executives, even as the row over the hacking scandal touched fever pitch.
All of this is part and parcel of the sick incestuous merry-go-round pursued by British political leaders, irrespective of theoretical ideological bent, to win the priceless electoral endorsement of Murdoch’s media empire.
The story stretches back to Margaret Thatcher who regarded ‘Dear Rupert’ as an ex-officio member of her cabinet.
Blair was even more obsequious, forever jetting around News International’s Nuremburg rallies of craven executives, preaching from tablets approved by the Dear Publisher in Chief.
We are introduced to Cameron’s rather glaring deficiencies of critical judgment, even one might say, his disregard of his fiduciary responsibilities as prime minister.
Not the least of these was his decision to hire (against sound industry advice) a former News of the World editor who was demonstrably on the bridge during the hacking affair, first as the Tory Party’s lavishly rewarded Director of Communications and subsequently his own personal media controller in Downing Street.
Cameron’s follies in the Murdochgate business are seemingly endless as he blunders from one indefensible stand to the next. A Liberal coalition minister responsible for policing monopolies was taken off the BSkyB case because he had the temerity to stand by the ethical standards approved by the very parliament of which the prime minister is a member.
The minister’s replacement, one of Cameron’s Old Etonian chums, promptly and predictably went native.
The PM is now embroiled in a blazing public row with the high court judge that he personally selected to inquire into media ethics in the wake of Murdochgate. The problem is that the official inquiry under way did not puff up the usual smokescreens, but instead went for the jugular of abysmal disregard for even basic ethics and standards which has corroded the UK media, including the BBC.
Even though the Sky bid is history, along with the now shuttered News of the World, Cameron clings to Murdoch like a survivor of the Titanic rowing towards the stricken ship. Thus, Cameron accuses Lord Leveson of using his intrusive and objectionable inquiry to gag the media and stifle the free press.
This is such a reckless and stupid charge in the wake of the phone tapping scandal, one can only be amazed at the prime minister’s bizarre sense of logic, and for that matter, those who surround him who are supposedly there to tender informed advice.
Wherever one looks, one sees the prime minister’s footprints. It does not help at all that two intimates of his super-rich set roosting in his plush Oxfordshire constituency have been charged with conspiring to pervert the course of justice in the hacking affair.
The fragrant flame-haired Rebekah Brooks, News International Chief Executive and another former editor of the Screws of the World, is in the dock alongside her husband Charlie, a well known figure on the British racing turf.
The case comes up for trial in the autumn, which rather guarantees that Cameron will find himself uncomfortably exposed as the Tory faithful gather for their annual gathering. The omens are not good.
Aside from Murdochgate, the recent local election results were deplorable for the Tories, there is open squabbling among the coalition crew and much touting of Borison Johnson the rowdy populist Mayor of London as leader in waiting.
For certain Murdochgate means dark skies over the annual Tory get-together.
The last occasion such a stench arose from the bowels of the Tory party was in the 1960s during the notorious Profumo affair which featured furious sexual romping connecting the defense minister, an alleged Russian spy and a gaggle of young hookers who became household names.
The setting was a palatial mansion on the banks of the River Thames. By all accounts the upper crust – including a spattering of royals – was out in force for the regular frolics organized by a society osteopath who subsequently died in police custody.
The Tory government was holed below the waterline. The PM, Old Etonian, ex-Guardsman Harold Macmillan was judged as not fully in charge of the ship or the crew and unceremoniously pushed out of office. The socialists, long believed to be dormant if not politically dead, broke 13 years of Tory rule shortly afterwards.
Macmillan was the last Old Etonian to roost in Downing Street. Well, until now that is. In the circumstances Mr. Cameron would do well to remember the age old dictum that déjà vu is invariably the ruling theme of all political cultures.
In any event as MPs prepare to set off for their long holiday recess, their seaside postcards should make for interesting reading in certain quarters.
Richard Cottrell is a writer, journalist and former European MP (Conservative). His new book Gladio: NATO’s Dagger At The Heart Of Europe is now available from Progressive Press. You may order it using the link below (or by clicking here – Gladio, NATO’s Dagger at the Heart of Europe: The Pentagon-Nazi-Mafia Terror Axis
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