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How about these nifty new gadgets? Coming soon to a city near you (although you may never know it). Full-Body Scan Technology Deployed In Street-Roving Vans
Deep Police State Surveillance and the Death of Democracy - by Tom Burghardt
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=30079
"...When President Obama signed the National Defence Authorization Act (NDAA) into law on December 31, he did more than simply facilitate on multi-billion dollar boondoggles for the current fiscal year, he set the stage for what journalist Christopher Ketchum called 'The Last Roundup,' and what James Bamford's source described as our approaching 'turnkey totalitarian state'..."
Brits To Pay $3 B To Be Spied Upon: Web, Email, Text
http://rt.com/news/uk-government-spy-law-082/
"UK taypayers will have to pay billions of dollars to have their web-surfing, email exchange, text-messaging and even Skype calls, monitored. In addition to the hefty price-tag, innocent Brits risk being misidentified as terrorists. However, the above figures are based on 2009 estimates, which mean the actual price, if it were estimated now, would be higher still.
British security agencies are pushing for a law, which would allow police to gain access to who you are calling, what sites you surf and how you play video games..."
our fences are moved ever closer
Canada's Jewish community establishes citizen security service to thwart anti-Semitic threats
This doesn't fit neatly here, but I find it troubling.
What? Like hiring JDL thugs? Or tithing synagogue members to hire X-E/Blackwater guards? Or pushing to enact "Stand your ground" laws like in the US?
and the program is run by a serving IDF Border Police officer. I wonder what the reaction would be if Toronto's Muslim community set up their own 'security and counterintelligence service' to 'prevent Islamaphobic attacks' and employed someone from Hizbollah or Hamas to run it? I sure hope people appreciate the implications of this, but like the JDL-EDL international hate alliance, these Zionist networks and initiatives seem to get a free pass here and absolutely everything is permitted because our government loves them, our opposition are "ardent supporters in all situations and circumstances" and they're Indigenous land thieves just like we are.
more info here:
http://rabble.ca/comment/1329707
I have no doubt this operation is also designed to investigate, profile and generate intelligence on the Palestinian solidarity movement here and Anti-Zionist activists, the information to be communicated to the relevent Israeli authorities. Likely you'll find a big fat grant from the Government of Canada to run this too. Like George Galloway said: Canada has become little more than an embassy for Benjamin Netanyahu..
Someone from CSIS would likely attend the meetings to offer up free designer vests and maps of public landmarks.
People only give these people the power to infiltrate with impunity at the voting booth when they usher in the political lackeys. We have a three headed Cerberus for a political system, chained down and trained to obey a gang of opportunistic parasites.
Sexual Humiliation, A Tool to Control the Masses - by Naomi Wolf
http://www.readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/10831-sexual-humiliat...
"Believe me: you don't want the state having the power to strip your clothes off. History shows the use of forced nudity in a state that is descending into fascism is powerfully effective in controlling and subduing populations.."
'US Plan Another 9/11 Style Attack?' (and vid)
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/235910.html
"A political analyst says that US government agencies are planning another 9/11 style attack, as the administration continues losing control of most of its citizens, Press TV has conducted an interview with Gordon Duff of Veterans Today to further discuss the issue."
750 million rounds of 40 cal. hollow-point ammo ordered by DHS. Must be planning to do one hell of a lot of shooting..
Hmm.... that's about 2.5 rounds per U.S. citizen. And what would it be costing said citizens from taxes, I wonder?
'I Was The Fall Guy': Julian Assange In His Own Words'
http://www.zcommunications.org/i-was-the-fall-guy-julian-assange-in-his-...
"..there's no longer a need to select who you intercept - you intercept everyone and you personally record the whole thing, and then if sometime in the future you become interested in someone, you have the whole archive of all their communications and you understand who they are and who their friends are. You don't even need intelligence agents to do this - there are algorithms that fan out and look at the network of people and how they're connected together. It's a kind of coming totalitarian surveillance-state.."
It's already here, but it is continuously expanding. The CSEC is moving into modern new digs at some point, to be constructed near the CSIS building, with perhaps a pedestrian tunnel between the two facilities. The Sir Leonard Tilley Building in Ottawa apparently doesn't cut it anymore. We only have to list a few of these unique monitoring institutions to suspect they'll be needing their own province before too long.
Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS)
Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC)
Canadian Forces Intelligence Branch (DND)
Criminal Intelligence Service Canada (CISC)
Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC)
Royal Canadian Mounted Police - National Security Criminal Investigations (RCMP)
Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA)
Chief of Defence Intelligence (Canada) (CDI)
Canadian Forces Information Operations Group (CFIOG)
Canadian Special Operations Forces Command (COMFOSCAN)
Thirteen Ways Government Tracks Us, by Bill Quigley
I think the STASI and KGB were prolly easier to get rid of than NSA and CIA spooks in our cell phones, emails, and social forums.
..in the late 80's the letter carriers still had there own union and this was their last strike as such. it was also a very dynamic strike.
..heard from union sources that a request was made to a friendly comrade at bc tel/telus to check if the union offices were being bugged. the answer that came back was that yes the lcuc was bugged but that cupw's office check had set off an alarm. this meant that the bug was permanent and had security features. the lcuc bug was temporary, strike duration.
..immediately following the lcuc strike, cupw went out. talking to a national officer they had created a test of planning a demo at a minister's residence. some people showed up only to find the police waiting for them.
..there was an rcmp inquirery where their was testimony by top rcmp brass that this went on a lot.
European Parliament Agrees to Send Airline Passenger Data to US
http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/public-sector/3352378/european-parli...
"EU politicians allege their colleagues 'held to ransom' by the US authorities over controversial PNR deal.."
Canada has also agreed. With little controversy. Most probably don't even know about it.
Weaponized Data: A New Front in Global Capital's Control Grid
http://antifascist-calling.blogspot.ca/2012/04/weaponized-data-new-front...
"From driftnet surveillance to data mining and link analysis, the secret state has weaponized our data, 'criminal evidence, ready for use in a trial,' Commenting, Salon's Glenn Greenwald pointed out that the 'domestic NSA-led surveillance state which Frank Church so stridently warned about has obviously come to fruition.
The way to avoid its grip is simply to acquiesce to the nation's most powerful factions, to obediently remain within the permitted boundaries of political discourse and activism. Accepting that bargain,' Greenwald noted, 'enables one to maintain the delusion of freedom - 'he who does not move does not notice his chains,' observed Rosa Luxemburg..."
and for now anyway, that surely appears to be the Canadian way.
The rise of Totalitarianism in Canada: A Time to Act
The author of this piece is the Anglican bishop of the diocese here (Quebec), and we went to school together. He has a long history of activism both inside and outside the NDP.
Good stuff Boom Boom. Pretty straight up for a C of E bible-thumper..
Also from Quebec: Manifesto for a Maple Spring
Hasn't been C of E for decades now. It goes by The Anglican Church of Canada (ACC).
'CISPA: Patriot Act for the Web' - Internet
http://rt.com/usa/news/cispa-patriot-web-swartz-081/
"The previous bills were about giving the government the power to censor the Internet. And this is more like a Patriot Act for the Internet. It sort of lets the government run roughshod over privacy protection and share personal data about you, take it from Facebook and Internet providers and use it without normal privacy protections that are in the law..."
New US Spy Service Targets China and Iran
http://rt.com/news/pentagon-service-clandestine-defense-817/
"China and Iran are the high priority targets for a new spy service created by the Pentagon. The Defense Clandestine Service is aimed at ramping up spying operations overseas, and suggests a shift in national threat assessment. The plan, approved by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta last week, will see hundreds of case officers working alongside the CIA..."
Is this still a democracy? You be the judge (borrowed from BNR)
excerpt:
As noted, abuse of the democratic process is hardly new. The decline of Canadian democracy is a long-running story. On abuse of power, the record of the Chretien government, as myself and other journalists reported at the time, was hardly pretty.
But with the billy-club governance of the Harper era, we are breaking new ground in the subverting of the democratic process. Technically we might still call it a democracy. In practice it's a democracy in name alone.
Re-Education Camps and Psy-Ops Missions Aimed at Activists
http://rt.com/usa/news/psyop-activists-internment-resettlement-526/
"An American military document just uncovered appears to detail a US Army plan that calls for detaining 'political activsts' at re-education camps staffed by military 'psy-ops' officers in both America and abroad.."
Life Under Constant Watch
Kelly Thomas Video: 'Dad They Are Killing Me' (and vid)
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31266.htm
"Two officers, Manuel Ramos and Jay Cincinelli are charged in Kelly's death.."
Canadian Anti-Masking Bill Imminent
http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/story/canadian-anti-masking-bill-imminent/...
"Bill C-309, known as the Concealment of Indentity Act was introduced by Conservative MP Blake Richards...In effect it will dramatically increase potential penalties for rioting and unlawful assembly while wearing a mask. NDP MP Charmaine Borg said that the bill 'takes away an individual's right to demonstrate anonymously..."
Regina Mom: Canada creeps toward becoming a closed society
excerpt:
Canada is creeping towards closing down as a society, to becoming a fascist state.