THE EVER BUSY, BIG BROTHER.

          No matter how much we try, big brother just keeps on growing. Under the present system of corporate fascism, it will flourish, it is their chosen method of keeping control over us, the ordinary people. Secret rules and regulations, massive surveillance, back-door deals done between government and corporate bodies and more draconian punishments for offenders. It's all part and parcel of this corrupt system, don't expect it to function any other way. It can't be modified, made more open or fair, it has to be removed. That doesn't mean we sit back and wait for its collapse, we have to speak up and speak out at every turn, continually trying to hold back the stifling, creeping surveillance with what ever means at our disposal.

         This latest little pact by the corporate parasites need as much publicity as possible, spread it around, sign the petition.

 

This from STOP THE TRAP:

You could have to pay a big fine for simply clicking on the wrong link.

Right now, a group of 600 industry lobbyist "advisors" and un-elected government trade representatives are scheming behind closed doors to craft an international agreement called the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).

Why the secrecy? We know from leaked documents that the TPP includes what amounts to an Internet trap that would:

1. Criminalize some of your everyday use of the Internet,
2. Force service providers to collect and hand over your private data without privacy safeguards, and
3. Give media conglomerates more power to fine you for Internet use, remove online content—including entire websites—and even terminate your access to the Internet.
4. Create a parallel legal system of international tribunals that will undermine national sovereignty and allow conglomerates to sue countries for laws that infringe on their profits.

The TPP's Internet trap is secretive, extreme, and it could criminalize your daily use of the Internet. We deserve to know what will be blocked, what we and our families will be fined for.

If enough of us speak out now, we can force participating governments to come clean. Your signature will send a message to leaders of participating countries. Please sign the petition and share it with everyone you know 

79,789 people have signed (and counting).

SIGN THE PETITION:

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CONTROL OR FREEDOM????

        How far are you prepared to go along he road of the surveillance society? Some time ago I posted an article on grooming our  kids to accept a surveillance society. Since then nothing has been done to reverse that trend. Government after government increases or re-enforces that surveillance and it is still accepted that it has that right to monitor and control our every movement, all "for our own good" of course.
       This short video shows just how far they can and will go unless we the people tell them to FU** OFF and take control of our own lives and protect our kids from their menacing interference.

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ESCALATION!!!

    

    Since posting the previous article "A DAY'S KILLING AT THE OFFICE" I have learnt that the US has made Predator armed drones available in support of NATO for use in Libya. The precedent has now been set, armed drones will now become the preferred weapon of choice. We all know that the UK police, and other police forces no doubt, have been using smaller drones  for surveillance purposes, which no doubt could be armed with smaller weapons. The state now has the perfect Orwellian tools, CCTV cameras everywhere, small drones patrolling the skies above our cities, perhaps armed, and the armed Predator drone to sort out any trouble. All this from one central control room in an inconspicuous building sitting somewhere in a leafy suburb. Welcome to 1984.

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WHY YOUR EMAIL PROVIDER MATTERS.

     
       From the good people at riseup.net.

      OK, so you are using a corporate email provider. You aren't bothered that they mine your behavior to better sell your eyeballs to advertisers. One problem, however, is that governments around the world are using these private corporations as a vast multiplier of state power. The big email providers won't disclose how many requests for data they get from the government. Yahoo, for example, has said in court that they should not be forced to release this information because it would be too shocking for their customers [1].

That sounds bad. But it gets much worse. The Wall Street Journal, among others, has reported on how the US government uses email traffic to build a map of the relationship between everyone in the country:

      "According to current and former intelligence officials, the [NSA] now monitors huge volumes of records of domestic emails... [the telecoms] are giving the government unlimited access to a copy of the flow of [internet] communications." [2]

      The good news is that there are easy things you can do to prevent corporate and state surveillance. The most important step is to use a secure email provider. For more information, see:

https://help.riseup.net/security/measures/

[1] http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/12/wiretap-prices/

[2] Gorman, Siobhan. 2008. "NSA’s Domestic Spying Grows As Agency Sweeps Up Data: Terror Fight Blurs Line Over Domain; Tracking Email." Wall Street Journal. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120511973377523845.html

(depending on where you are, the url might not work, but there are many mirrors of the article)
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