Police State

It's tough for government scientists etc in Canada and the US. Not much protection or protocol for whistleblowers. Truth movement and sicentists for accountability are not on good terms with governments in either country.

Situation pretty bad.

Obama Gives Himself Control of All Communications Systems in America

http://rt.com/usa/news/obama-president-order-communications-770/

"US President Obama quietly signed his name to an Executive Order on Friday, allowing the White House to control all private communications in the country in the name of national security..."

Sieg Heil!

I read the Executive Order.  It's nothing but an appeasement of the conservative wing of his party and the GOP.  If you read it carefully, it is simply an establishment of another layer of bureaucracy to deal with the Homeland Security activities already sanctioned.

He/they control shit.

World Wants Obama's Hands Off the Internet's Off Switch

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2012/07/world-wants-obamas-hands-o...

"..potential criticisms basically boil down to a line in section 5.2 It states that the Secretary of Homeland Security will 'oversee the development, testing, implementation and sustainment' of national security and emergency preparedness measures on all systems, including private non-military communications networks.' That's the passage thought to refer to the proverbial 'on/off' switch to the Internet..."

Stratfor Emails Reveal Secret Widespread TrapWire Surveillance System

http://rt.com/usa/news/stratfor-trapwire-abraxas-wikileaks-313/

"Former senior intelligence officials have created a detailed surveillance system more accurate than modern facial recognition technology - and have installed it across the US under the radar of most Americans, according to emails hacked by Anonymous...In one email from 2010 leaked by Anonymous, Stratfor's Fred Burton allegedly writes,

'God Bless America. Now they have EVERY major HVT in CONUS, the UK, Canada, Vegas, Los Angeles, NYC as clients..."

Apps designed to help protect you from police brutality

Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP: G20 Report goes easy on the JIG

Last year I requested the documents from the CPC-RCMP regarding the G20 summit to try and figure out how they were processing the complaints against the RCMP and why the G20 cops got off scott free. What I got back was this huge file including presentations from the G20ISU-JIG, as well as interviews with the head of the G8-G20ISU-JIG Rod McCann and others involved with the G8G20ISU. I've skimmed the doucments, but the main takeaways that I get from these documents are the following:

http://www.mediacoop.ca/blog/infil00p/15855

'Christopher Dorner was summarily executed by fire'  (and vid)

http://rt.com/programs/breaking-set-summary/state-union-cispa-manufactured/

Check out opening piece on Abby Martin's show on the future of policing in America as evidenced by the Christopher Dorner fugitive case...the real 'terrorists' are with the State.

Dornier didn’t seem to understand how acts of violence committed by the police state against citizens of LA are replicated by the US government and deployed on a far larger scale against people around the world many times over.  He was an Obama supporter in all things apparently.  Commoditized, patriarchal societies do not seem capable of avoiding the production of figures like Dornier, Stack, Holmes, McVeigh, Lepine, et al, because such societies can only be maintained through the use of violence.  By the time someone is confronted with an event or a series of events in their lives, which begins to re-mold their entire perspective on the society around them, it is likely already too late to prevent them from becoming the supremely violent individuals who they feel they need to be in response.  Sometimes all it apparently takes is the slightest grasp on reality and their position within it to bring about the inevitable results from people at the end of their rope.  The society around them has never offered an alternate means of escape from misery, largely because it is impossible for society to conceive of a means of escape from itself.  It actively seeks out and conspires to shut down all possible escape in fact.  Individuals are left to their own devices, and they take as their cue the only examples they've ever been provided with for getting results.  Anyway, I still hold that several concepts found within Bloom Theory contain some of the most plausible explanations available, certainly in comparison with the non-explanations we usually encounter in the media.  Dornier's case is tragic because he had everything else right concerning the LAPD.

Is This Fucking Afghanistan?!?!  -  by Arthur Silber

http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.ca/2013/02/is-this-fucking-afghanistan....

"...Just as the fish rots from the head, the horrors start with the president. Why should Obama be the only one to have a Murder Program...? In addition to pursuing its goal of global hegemony, the United States government uses foreign countries as a lethal laboratory in which to practice the techniques it intends to use domestically, at home within US borders."

I am constantly surprised Manning is given the opportunity to commit suicide (or helped along) so he doesnt get a soap box and a object lesson taught to any potential 'traitors' in the future

There remain very few public spaces these days, if any, where we are not subjected to the gaze of interconnected levels of security and surveillance.  The other day I observed one of those ubiquitous ceiling bubbles that had been installed in the dining room of a family restaurant, presumably staring down at patrons while they eat, for it was located nowhere near the one positioned over cashier's station where employees are being constantly monitored.  With local grocer chains, there are four observable levels of surveillance (cameras, doorway merchandise alarms, cashiers, patrolling security guards) that begin the moment one enters the parking lot, and continues throughout, until municipal street cameras take over at the point where corporate retail cameras leave off.  Trails and roads in the forest are increasingly being monitored as well.  I think people pretty much have to assume that retail dressing rooms have very discreet pinhole cameras installed, because despite all the effort being put into observing everything else, the dressing room still represents a gap in the panoptic coverage, at least until body scanners at the retail exits become the latest reality.  Eventually, policing services will become increasingly privatized and globalized.  If the City of Calgary for example can recruit eastern Canadian police school graduates, and lower paid workers from overseas can work the mines in BC, there's nothing to prevent work visas from being issued to keep up with the increasing demand in security services.  Thus far the general public has shown itself to be in full agreement with any and all measures, including body scanners at airports, torturing people in dungeons for information, ill-treating people detained by the police as their just reward for even being noticed by police, wars everywhere, all with no conceivable limit in sight as to what people are prepared to acquiesce to.  Immediate neighbors, or the multitude of blank stares that one encounters on a daily basis as the normal face of the general public, readily serve in an auxiliary role as witnesses, snitches, security guards in their own right, who are as part and parcel to the all encompassing police state as the water-boarding official, or the guy who follows people around at the produce section.  And if all this weren’t' bad enough, the watchers watch one another.

American imperialists are paranoid and fearful of anti-war peace activists. The holy bomb is all they have propping them up today. Without it they are nothing andwould have zero power to blackmail other nations.

yes and this regime manifests even in spaces assumed 'free' or 'progressive'. And increasingly close to home too. Alas this goes mostly unchallenged even by so-called 'progressives'. Deviants are penalized and most just avert the eyes and keep their heads down. Courage is rare. Compliance and complicity the norm.