Police State

CSIS Returns to Six Nations Pow-Wow to Recruit Natives

http://www.mediacoop.ca/story/csis-returns-six-nations-pow-wow-recruit-n...

"CSIS is stepping up its recruitment of Aboriginal people..."

NSA Power Doubles Every 4 Years - Assange

http://rt.com/news/assange-nsa-surveillance-doubles-872/

"The world is witnessing the creation of a new world order that involves the security state apparatus as an overwhelming force, Julian Assange said during his speech at OHM 2013, Observe, Hack, Make Conference.

'We are seeing the doubling of the power of the national security agency every four years,' Assange said..."

Our Man in Moscow  -  by Pepe Escobar

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/World/WOR-01-020813.html

"...Obama revealed himself once again as a mediocre politician and an incompetent negotiator. Putin devoured him as a succulent serving of eggs benedict. Glenn Greenwald will be inflicting death by a thousand leaks - because he is in charge of Snowden's digital treasure chest.

For the moment, what we have is an Orwellian/Panopticon complex that will persist with its unchecked powers; an aphasic populace; a quiet invisible man in a Moscow multitude; and a POTUS consumed with boundless rage.

Watch out. He may be tempted to wag the (war) dog."

Surprise. Stephen Harper’s U.S. border deal does imperil Canadian sovereignty: Walkom

The U.S. government wants American police agents working in Canada exempted from Canadian law. If this is a surprise, it shouldn’t be.

The secret American demand was unearthed this week by Canadian Press reporters looking into Ottawa’s much ballyhooed border deal with the U.S.

Announced in 2011, the so-called North American perimeter security pact would give Washington the right to have its agents and police officers operate alongside their Canadian counterparts within Canada.

In return, the Americans have said they’ll make it easier for trucks to travel back and forth across the border between the two countries.

While details of the pact remain sparse, it appears to give American agents working in so-called “integrated teams” the power of Canadian peace officers — including the right to carry weapons and use them on Canadian soil.

The Conservative government has said only that U.S. agents operating in Canada will be involved in “intelligence and criminal investigations” and that uniformed U.S. officers will help patrol the land border from the Canadian side.

Theoretically, Canadian agents could operate with similar powers in the U.S. in order to provide an appearance of reciprocity.

“This declaration is not about sovereignty,” Prime Minister Stephen Harper said when he announced the new arrangement two years ago.

In fact, it very much is.....

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/08/01/surprise_stephen_harpers_u...

Spying Scandal Revelations Haunt David Cameron

http://www.presstv.com/detail/2013/08/21/319822/scandal/

"David Cameron ordered his top civil servant Sir Jeremy Wood to collect sensitive material, submitted to the Guardian by US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden to be published.

UK's Guardian Raided By Intel Agency Over Snowden Leaks (and vid)

http://www.presstv.com/detail/2013/08/21/319773/uks-guardian-raided-by-i...

"GCHQ forced them to destroy technical equipment or hand over information relating to the case of Edward Snowden. Guardian editor, Alan Rushbridger says the paper will continue to 'do patient, painstaking reporting on the Snowden documents.' There has been no comment from GCHQ.."

Comment with George Galloway MP : Britain To Destroy NSA Files (and vid)

http://www.presstv.ir/Program/320083.html

[British PM] Cameron ordered his top civil servant Sir Jeremy Heywood to collect sensitive material which has been leaked to the paper by Snowden to be published..."

The RCMP Has Stopped Responding to Information Requests

http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/the-rcmp-has-stopped-responding-to-inform...

"...due to sheer incompetence or simply just a symptom of a growing attitude within circles of authority...the RCMP has completely stopped responding to access-to-information requests."

because they can..

CSIS Agent Targeted Kanesatake Man Over Greece Trip (and audio)

http://aptn.ca/pages/news/2013/09/20/csis-agent-targets-kanesatake-man-o...

"On Thursday, September 19th, 2013 I received this phone call from Agent Francois Allard of the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service...

'It kind of creeped me out,' said [Clifton] Nicholson, who travels in 'left leaning and anarchist circles' and he hung out with communists and anarchists while he was in Greece attending a festival in Athens."

'Don't Talk, Don't Listen to CSIS'

http://theredflag.ca/node/228

CSIS WATCH

http://www.peoplescommission.org/en/csis/

"If CSIS comes knocking, know your rights"

Security Disservice  -  by Frank Lenk

http://www.nowtoronto.com/news/story.cfm?content=194544

"Think spying on citizens is just a Yankee affair? You'd be wrong..."

'US Unchained Itself From Constitution': Whistleblowers on RT After Secret Snowden Meeting (and vid)

http://rt.com/news/rt-whistleblowers-snowden-prize-983/

"A group of US whistleblowers and activists has presented Snowden with a Sam Adams Award for 'Integrity in Intelligence', in Moscow on Wednesday..."

'Racist' LA Police Dogs Only Bite Latinos and African Americans

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/racist/la-police-dogs-o...

"A new report focusing on the Canine Special Detail of the LA Sheriff's Department (LASD) has uncovered a vast increase in the number of minority individuals bitten by police dogs since 2004.

And in the first six months of this year, every single victim of a bite by an LASD dog was African American or Latino..."

Homeland Security Pick Johnson, Advocate For Drone Killings: Dankoff (and vid)

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/10/19/330229/obama-nominee-johnson-pro...

"Press TV has conducted an interview with Mark Dankoff, political commentator, about Obama's nomination of Pentagon lawyer Jeh Johnson for the new head of Homeland Security..."

'Unacceptable and Shocking', France Demands Explanation For NSA Spying

http://rt.com/news/france-nsa-shocking-spying-478/

"France has called for an explanation for the 'unacceptable' and 'shocking' reports of NSA spying on French citizens. Leaked documents revealed the spy agency records millions of phone calls and monitors politicians and high profile business people.

The US Ambassador to France Charles Rivkins was summoned to the French Foreign Ministry to account for the espionage allegations on Monday morning..."

No such complaints or outrage against US surveillance in its Canadian satrapy.

Stop Watching Us

This video is a call to action released in support of the Stop Watching Us: Rally Against Mass Surveillance being held in Washington, DC, on Saturday, Oct. 26, the 12th anniversary of the Patriot Act. Formed in June 2013, the StopWatching.us coalition is comprised of more than 100 public advocacy organizations and companies from across the political spectrum demanding that Congress investigate the full extent of the NSA's spying programs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGmiw_rrNxk

NSA Leaks on Canadian Surveillance Coming, Greenwald Says (podcast)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/nsa-leaks-on-canadian-surveillance-coming-g...

"Reporter in Edward Snowden NSA leaks says there are many documents about Canada.."

glad you liked it paolo..

CSEC: The Spies Next Door  -  by Ian Macleod

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/CSEC+spies+next+door/9172097/story.html

"This ultra-secret government installation is being built by private enterprise with private money raised on the open market. Greenwald said he is preparing to release more classified documents from Snowden outting government spying here and Canada's intimate relationship with the NSA..."

NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking

The National Security Agency is secretly piggybacking on the tools that enable Internet advertisers to track consumers, using "cookies" and location data to pinpoint targets for government hacking and to bolster surveillance.

The agency's internal presentation slides, provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, show that when companies follow consumers on the Internet to better serve them advertising, the technique opens the door for similar tracking by the government. The slides also suggest that the agency is using these tracking techniques to help identify targets for offensive hacking operations....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/12/10/nsa-uses-go...

Canadian Spy Agency Set Up Covert Sites Worldwide At NSA's Request

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/14/cses-d14.html

"...Needless to say, the NDP, Liberals and for that matter the Green and Bloc Quebecois, have not alerted Canadians to the significance  of the Snowden revelations and of CSEC's intimate role in the NSA's global spy network, let alone drawn the crucial political inferences concerning CSEC's complicity in illegality and indifference and hostility to Canadians' democratic rights."

'Snowden Vindicated': Judge Rules Against 'Indiscriminate' NSA Spying

Snowden: "Today, a secret program authorized by a secret court was, when exposed to the light of day, found to violate Americans’ rights."

In the biggest legal blow to the National Security Council since the dragnet spying scandal broke in June, a federal judge ruled Monday that the U.S. government "almost certainly" violated the constitution by mass collecting data on nearly every single phone call within or to the United States.

“Today, a secret program authorized by a secret court was, when exposed to the light of day, found to violate Americans’ rights," declared NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden in a statement on the ruling released by journalist Glenn Greenwald Monday afternoon. "It is the first of many."....

https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/16-7

Canada's Spy Agencies Need Tighter Control: Editorial

http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/2013/12/29/canadas_spy_agencie...

"The chilling ruling from Justice Richard Mosley, of of the country's most respected security experts, is a stinging indictment of the way CSIS operates along with its partner, The Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC).

Someone must answer for the spy agency's attempt to game the court..."

The European periphery as a political laboratory

quote:

Social Engineering

It is becoming ever more clear that the austerity policies applied in the periphery of the EU are part of a wider and more ambitious experiment of social engineering, a sort of neoliberal laboratory where new modes of governmentality are being tested before being generalized to the rest of the Eurozone. This is obviously not a prophecy or an inevitable outcome, since it depends on several factors and is open for questioning; but rather an attempt to devise a recognizable pattern in different national contexts, a logic behind the major political decisions, and a strategic horizon that enables us to struggle against capitalist austerity without struggling for capitalist development.

The new modes of governmentality that are taking shape imply the transference of fundamental components of sovereignty from national elected governments to international institutions; the commodification of aspects of social life previously guaranteed by state provision or produced in common; the transformation of political choices in technical imperatives crystallized in law; and the reinforcement of the repressive state apparatus. They require the suspension of both democracy and the rule of law, as a condition to cut down what remains of the welfare state and establish a high profit rate for capital investors.

The breaking up of more resilient forms of working class militancy through repression of strikes and union picketing, along with the renewed persecution of those who survive on the margins of capitalist society (immigrants, but not only immigrants) through a wide set of extra-legal activities, are different sides of a process that also includes the widespread development of firms of private security and the militarization of civil police, the multiplication of CCTV surveillance in sensitive urban areas, and a harder legal punishment for minor crimes (such as shoplifting). If we add to all this the reinforcement of the far-right and the pre-emptive criminalization of anarchist and radical left ideas, methods and organizations, we get a clear picture of the state of exception that came to stay: an economy of fear is fundamental to this regime of accumulation.

http://roarmag.org/2014/01/austerity-europe-neoliberal-laboratory/

..informative interview,

Snowden-Interview in English by perkin2

Cannonfire; Mind Blowing!

http://cannonfire.blogspot.ca/2014/02/mind-blowing.html

"Glenn Greenwald has just published the most mind-blowing document I've ever seen. Ever."

'Mind Blowing' indeed. Lots of them...

How the NSA Plan to Infect 'Millions' of Computers With Malware  -  by Ryan Gallagher, Glenn Greenwald

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/22535-focus-how-the-nsa-p...

"...The classfied files - provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden - confirm new details about ground-breaking surveillance technology the agency has developed to infect potentially millions of computers worldwide with malware 'implants'.

The clandestine initiative enables the NSA to break into targeted computers and to siphon out data from foreign Internet and phone networks.

Under cover of secrecy and public debate, there has been an unexpected proliferation of aggressive surveillance techniques.

'Hacking routers has been good business for us and our 5-eyes partners [Canada is one] for some time,' notes one NSA analyst in a top-secret document dated December 2012..."