CIA made doctors torture suspected terrorists after 9/11, taskforce finds

Doctors were asked to torture detainees for intelligence gathering, and unethical practices continue, review concludes

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/04/cia-doctors-torture-suspected-terrorists-9-11?CMP=twt_fd

The CIA’s harsh interrogations of terrorist detainees during the Bush era didn’t work, were more brutal than previously revealed and delivered no “ticking time bomb” information that prevented an attack, according to an explosive Senate report released Tuesday.

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/2ornmm/the_cias_harsh_interrogations_of_terrorist/

Beyond Torture: The CIA’s Shameful Kidnapping of a 12-Year-Old Girl

The U.S. and U.K. collaborated to snatch Khadija al-Saadi’s family in Hong Kong and deliver them into the custody of a murderous dictator.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/08/beyond-torture-the-other-shameful-thing-the-cia-is-trying-to-suppress/375706/

CIA prisoners ‘tortured’ in Arab jails

A former CIA official has confirmed suspicions that dozens of terror suspects have been flown to jails in Middle Eastern countries where torture is routinely practised, and without reference to courts of law.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/file_on_4/4246089.stm

CIA ‘tortured and sodomised’ terror suspect, human rights court rules

Landmark European court of human rights judgment says CIA tortured wrongly detained German citizen

http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2012/dec/13/cia-tortured-sodomised-terror-suspect?CMP=twt_gu

54 countries helped CIA to kidnap, detain and torture – report

http://rt.com/news/countries-helped-cia-render-472/

A staggering map of the 54 countries that reportedly participated in the CIA’s rendition program

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/02/05/a-staggering-map-of-the-54-countries-that-reportedly-participated-in-the-cias-rendition-program/

7 things you should know about Diego Garcia and renditions

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/11/7-things-diego-garcia-rendition-flights-documentaton-water-damage

Italy Convicts 23 Americans In CIA Terrorist Kidnapping Case

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/04/italy-convicts-23-america_n_345274.html

Polish agents tell of CIA jails

Polish intelligence sources have for the first time confirmed that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) ran a secret prison facility on Polish soil.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7601899.stm

The hidden history of the CIA’s prison in Poland

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/the-hidden-history-of-the-cias-prison-in-poland/2014/01/23/b77f6ea2-7c6f-11e3-95c6-0a7aa80874bc_story.html

European court says CIA ran secret jail in a Polish forest

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/24/us-cia-jails-poland-idUSKBN0FT0TX20140724

Hush money: CIA paid Poland to host its secret prisons and detainees

http://rt.com/usa/212967-cia-paid-poland-prisons/

CIA Holds Terror Suspects in Secret Prisons

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/01/AR2005110101644.html

Lithuania hosted secret CIA prisons

The CIA set up at least two secret detention centres in Lithuania after the 11 September 2001 terror attacks on the US, a Lithuanian inquiry has found.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8426028.stm

CIA ‘secret prison’ found in Romania – media reports

The CIA operated a secret prison in the Romanian capital Bucharest where terrorism suspects were interrogated, an investigation by the Associated Press and German media has found.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16093106

EXCLUSIVE: CIA Secret ‘Torture’ Prison Found at Fancy Horseback Riding Academy

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/cia-secret-prison-found/story?id=9115978#.UXxde0pcnn4

The CIA’s Secret Sites in Somalia

Renditions, an underground prison and a new CIA base are elements of an intensifying US war, according to a Nation investigation in Mogadishu.

http://www.thenation.com/article/161936/cias-secret-sites-somalia#axzz2fAYlmtH8

Northern Virginia officials worry secret CIA facility could scuttle hopes for landing FBI HQ

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/northern-virginia-officials-worry-cia-facility-may-scuttle-bid-to-land-fbi-headquarters/2013/03/23/867ce358-924a-11e2-bdea-e32ad90da239_story.html

US confirms existence of secret prison network

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/sep/07/usa.guantanamo

British gave ‘full co-operation’ for CIA black jail on Diego Garcia, report claims

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10758747/British-gave-full-co-operation-for-CIA-black-jail-on-Diego-Garcia-report-claims.html

Revealed: Senate report contains new details on CIA black sites

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/4/9/senate-cia-torture.html

“Little Guantanamo”–Secretive “CMU” Prisons Designed to Restrict Communication of Jailed Muslims and Activists with Outside World

http://www.democracynow.org/2009/4/17/little_guantanamo_secretive_cmu_prisons_designed

New documents point to CIA rendition network through Djibouti

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/5/8/djibouti-reprievereport.html

At CIA’s ‘Salt Pit’ prison, torture reigned, with little oversight

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/at-cias-salt-pit-prison-torture-reigned-with-little-oversight/ar-BBgAaEW

UK provided more support for CIA rendition flights than thought – study

The Rendition Project suggests aircraft associated with secret detention operations landed at British airports 1,622 times

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/22/uk-support-cia-rendition-flights

US hid UK links in CIA torture report at request of British spy agencies

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/dec/11/cia-torture-report-british-spy-agencies-discussed-redactions

US accused of holding terror suspects on prison ships

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jun/02/usa.humanrights

Obama Administration Questioning Suspected Terrorists On Ships Rather Than CIA ‘Black’ Sites

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/08/obama-terrorists-ships_n_4063003.html

As U.S.-Afghanistan Sign Troop Deal, CIA-Backed Warlord Behind Massacre of 2,000 POWs Sworn-In as VP

http://www.democracynow.org/2014/9/30/as_us_afghanistan_sign_troop_deal

With Bags of Cash, C.I.A. Seeks Influence in Afghanistan

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/29/world/asia/cia-delivers-cash-to-afghan-leaders-office.html?_r=0

How the US sent $12bn in cash to Iraq. And watched it vanish

Special flights brought in tonnes of banknotes which disappeared into the war zone

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/feb/08/usa.iraq1

C.I.A. Spent Millions to Support Japanese Right in 50’s and 60’s

http://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/09/world/cia-spent-millions-to-support-japanese-right-in-50-s-and-60-s.html

CIA Gave Aid to Tibetan Exiles in ’60s, Files Show

http://articles.latimes.com/1998/sep/15/news/mn-22993

CIA Made False Claims Torture Prevented Heathrow Attacks

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-12-10/cia-made-false-claims-torture-prevented-heathrow-attacks

CIA admits ‘concealing significant actions’ from Congress under Bush

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/09/cia-congress-leon-panetta-bush

CIA to reveal decades of misdeeds

The US Central Intelligence Agency is to declassify hundreds of documents detailing some of the agency’s worst illegal abuses from the 1950s to 1970s.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6229750.stm

CIA documents reflect troubled times

The newly released documents known within the Central Intelligence Agency as the “Family Jewels” give a history of the agency’s misdeeds covering several decades.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6243704.stm

Judge Rules CIA Committed Fraud In Court

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/20/judge-rules-cia-committed_n_241417.html

CIA Apparently ‘Impersonated’ Senate Staffers To Gain Access To Documents On Shared Drives

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141022/08465028908/cia-apparently-impersonated-senate-staffers-to-gain-access-to-documents-shared-drives.shtml

Report: CIA Deleted Computer Records About Senate Spying

http://dailycaller.com/2014/10/24/report-cia-deleted-computer-records-about-senate-spying/

The CIA Crosses Over

Even as a Congressional commission investigates the agency’s cold war incompetence, the CIA has expanded a high-risk plan to spy on U.S. economic competitors. our exclusive report exposes this secret program.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/1995/01/cia-crosses-over

TIL that the CIA, in South Vietnam, in a program called “Operation Phoenix,” secretly, without trial, EXECUTED at least 20,000 (!!) CIVILAINS who were suspected of being members of the Communist party. Holy shit.

http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/dnc66/til_that_the_cia_in_south_vietnam_in_a_program/

C.I.A. Taught, Then Dropped, Mental Torture in Latin America

http://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/29/world/cia-taught-then-dropped-mental-torture-in-latin-america.html

Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Hemisphere_Institute_for_Security_Cooperation

Secret Wars of the CIA John Stockwell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmYZ_kWHk3Q

CIA activities in the Americas

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_the_Americas

Operation Condor Trial Tackles Coordinated Campaign by Latin American Dictatorships to Kill Leftists

http://www.democracynow.org/2013/3/7/operation_condor_trial_tackles_coordinated_campaign

Operation Charly

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Charly

Death Flight Tale Rekindles Memories of ‘Dirty War’ : Argentina: Ex-officer describes throwing leftists out of planes into sea. Thousands believed victims of this policy.

http://articles.latimes.com/1995-03-13/news/mn-42225_1_dirty-war

The Dark Knight Rises: Bane “crashing this plane” HD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRCM0jWEQjQ&t=53s

TIL that the CIA has been involved in several drug trafficking operations, one of which involved importing cocaine into the US, selling it via street gangs, and using the profits to fund the Contras in Nicaragua.

http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1bm2w3/til_that_the_cia_has_been_involved_in_several/

CIA Drug Trafficking Town Hall Meeting with Director John M. Deutch (1996)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4avQxHvP60A&feature=share

COVERT CONNECTIONS?

NOVEMBER 18, 1996 TRANSCRIPT

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/race_relations/july-dec96/cia_11-18.html

Investigative Reporter Gary Webb Who Linked CIA to Crack Sales Found Dead of Apparent Suicide

http://www.democracynow.org/2004/12/13/investigative_reporter_gary_webb_who_linked

Ex-L.A. Times Writer Apologizes for “Tawdry” Attacks Jesse Katz admits that attacking journalist Gary Webb’s CIA-cocaine expose ruined Webb’s life

http://www.laweekly.com/2013-05-30/news/gary-webb-jess-katz-crack/full/

Managing a Nightmare: The CIA Reveals How It Watched Over the Destruction of Gary Webb

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/09/25/managing-nightmare-cia-media-destruction-gary-webb/

Cocaine, Conspiracy Theories, & the C.I.A. in Central America

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/special/cia.html

Barry Seal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Seal

The Real Drug Lords: A brief history of CIA involvement in the Drug Trade

http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-real-drug-lords-a-brief-history-of-cia-involvement-in-the-drug-trade/10013

From the Wilderness – The CIA Connection

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgvqiWun0x8&feature=gv

Bill Clinton’s Lies About CIA Drug Trafficking In Mena, Arkansas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDMktUYvC7k

CIA Gun Running Drug Smuggling And Money Laundering In Mena Arkansas – CBS Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfubBWNFNH0

CIA Gun Running Drug Smuggling And Money Laundering In Mena Arkansas – CBS Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yc3Zmz3z3M

The Activities at Mena – MENA is no myth!

http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/MENA/mena.php

Russell Welch

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Welch

16 kg of Cocaine seized at UN headquarters in New York

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/oz1ly/16_kg_of_cocaine_seized_at_un_headquarters_in_new/

CIA Torture Jet crashed with 4 Tons of COCAINE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oszATUJ4IRE

more

U.S. Government Helped Rise of Mexican Drug Cartel: Report

Mexican newspaper reveals secret arrangement between DEA and Sinaloa cartel

http://world.time.com/2014/01/14/dea-boosted-mexican-drug-cartel/

U.S. Agents Aided Mexican Drug Trafficker to Infiltrate His Criminal Ring

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/09/world/americas/us-agents-aided-mexican-drug-trafficker-to-infiltrate-ring.html

U.S. Agents Launder Mexican Profits of Drug Cartels

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/world/americas/us-drug-agents-launder-profits-of-mexican-cartels.html?_r=1&src=recg

The DEA Is Laundering Money For Mexican Drug Cartels (12-07-2011)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVKa1lZ1c-s&feature=youtu.be

How a big US bank laundered billions from Mexico’s murderous drug gangs

As the violence spread, billions of dollars of cartel cash began to seep into the global financial system. But a special investigation by the Observer reveals how the increasingly frantic warnings of one London whistleblower were ignored

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/03/us-bank-mexico-drug-gangs

STUNNING! Banksters launder foreign drug cartel money as Wells Fargo invests in for-profit prisons

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/04/12/1082753/-STUNNING-Wells-Fargo-launders-Mexican-drug-cartel-money-then-invests-in-for-profit-prisons

HSBC ‘sorry’ for aiding Mexican drugs lords, rogue states and terrorists

Executive quits in front of US Senate as bank faces massive fines for ‘horrific’ lapses that resulted in laundering money for drugs cartels and pariah states

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/jul/17/hsbc-executive-resigns-senate

Vatican finds hundreds of millions of euros ‘tucked away’: cardinal

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/2o9ar5/vatican_finds_hundreds_of_millions_of_euros/

Vatican Bank ‘investigated over money-laundering’

The head of the Vatican Bank, Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, is under investigation as part of a money-laundering inquiry, police sources say.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11380628

Vatican Bank mired in laundering scandal: Police seized euro23 million in Vatican assets; there are suspicion that clergy may have acted as fronts for corrupt businessmen and Mafia

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/ekvc2/vatican_bank_mired_in_laundering_scandal_police/

U.S. adds Vatican to money-laundering ‘concern’ list

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/qnldd/us_adds_vatican_to_moneylaundering_concern_list/

Vatican cleric Scarano charged with money-laundering

A senior Italian cleric has been charged with laundering millions through the Vatican bank, police say.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25831234

Vatican admits secretly bugging its own clergy

The Vatican admitted on Thursday that it had secretly bugged clergy within the Holy See as part of the investigation into the Vatileaks scandal, which resulted in the Pope’s butler being imprisoned for stealing confidential pontifical documents.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/vaticancityandholysee/9900802/Vatican-admits-secretly-bugging-its-own-clergy.html

The DOPE-mobile: Diplomatic car belonging to Vatican stopped at French border carrying four kilos of cocaine worth an estimated £500,000

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2758755/Diplomatic-car-belonging-Vatican-stopped-French-border-carrying-four-kilos-cocaine-worth-estimated-500-000.html?ito=social-twitter_mailonline

Vatican cocaine-filled condoms parcel seized by German customs officers

Package sent to the Vatican from a South American country contained 14 condoms filled with £33,000 worth of liquid cocaine

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/23/vatican-cocaine-condoms-parcel-seized-package

British Bank Agrees To $340 Million Settlement Over Laundering Charges

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/08/14/158790727/british-bank-agrees-to-340-million-settlement-over-laundering-charges

HSBC fined $27.5m for ‘money laundering’ Mexican regulator acts week after US Senate alleged that British banking giant allowed drug cartels to launder money.

http://www.aljazeera.com/business/2012/07/201272683513872418.html

HSBC wins OK of record $1.92 billion money-laundering settlement

(Reuters) – A federal judge has approved HSBC Holdings Plc’s (HSBA.L)(HBC.N) record $1.92 billion settlement with federal and state investigators of charges that it flouted rules designed to stop money laundering and thwart transactions with countries under U.S. sanctions.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/02/us-hsbc-settlement-laundering-idUSBRE9611B220130702

Wachovia and U.S. Settle a Money Laundering Case

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/18/business/18launder.html?_r=1&src=twr

Banks Financing Mexico Gangs Admitted in Wells Fargo Deal

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-06-29/banks-financing-mexico-s-drug-cartels-admitted-in-wells-fargo-s-u-s-deal.html

Report: Wachovia bank helped launder Mexican drug money

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2010/06/report-wachovia-bank-helped-launder-mexican-drug-money/1#.UDZfNKCRfn7

Bank of America to pay $16.6 million to resolve U.S. sanctions violations

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/24/us-bankofamerica-sanctions-settlement-idUSKBN0FT1V220140724

U.S.: Iraqi audit to huge money laundering

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2012/10/30/us-iraq-money-laundering/1668925/

Citi, Deutsche Bank, Bank Of America Were Channels For Sending Drug Money To Colombia, Court Filing Shows

http://www.ibtimes.com/citi-deutsche-bank-bank-america-were-channels-sending-drug-money-colombia-court-filing-1686232

Western banks ‘reaping billions from Colombian cocaine trade’

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/uhj7j/western_banks_reaping_billions_from_colombian/

WikiLeaks: Cables reveal U.S.-Cuban cooperation over drug smuggling

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/12/16/wikileaks.smuggling/index.html?hpt=T2

L.A. is ‘epicenter’ of cartel money laundering, U.S. official says

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-garment-district-raids-20140910-story.html

FedEx Money-Laundering Charge Adds Pressure to Drug Case

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-19/fedex-money-laundering-charge-adds-pressure-to-drug-case.html

West Texas attorney found guilty of conspiring to launder $600 million for Mexican drug cartel

http://www.startribune.com/nation/229562301.html

U.S. Soldiers Involved in Drug Smuggling Ring

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/US/story?id=1252876

Exclusive: U.S. Navy SEAL Smuggled 10 Kilos Of Cocaine Into Miami

http://www.buzzfeed.com/aramroston/exclusive-us-navy-seal-smuggled-10-kilos-of-cocaine-into-mia

U.S. probes allegations Afghan Air Force involved in drug running

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/08/us-afghanistan-airforce-narcotics-idUSBRE8270DU20120308

Nugan Hand Bank

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nugan_Hand_Bank

Bank of Credit and Commerce International

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_Credit_and_Commerce_International

NYSE Chief Meets Rebel in Colombia

http://articles.latimes.com/1999/jun/27/news/mn-50699

FARC

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FARC#Financing

Premier Executive Transport Services

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premier_Executive_Transport_Services

Tepper Aviation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tepper_Aviation

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6tg07uxYs1rw6lx6o1_500.gif

Shah of Iran – Jewish Media Control & Jewish Lobby

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaOFPzNfXmA

Guardian Story on Israel and N.S.A. Is Not ‘Surprising’ Enough to Cover

http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/16/guardian-story-on-israel-and-n-s-a-is-not-surprising-enough-to-cover/?smid=tw-share&_r=1

PRESIDENT NIXON ON THE JEWISH QUESTION

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzF80OPxXrE

‘I am very good at working with Jews’: Chinese tycoon attempts to buy The Wall Street Journal

http://metro.co.uk/2015/01/19/i-am-very-good-at-working-with-jews-chinese-tycoon-attempts-to-buy-the-wall-street-journal-5028208/

Comments on Israel by Top Contender for Defense Secretary Are Scrutinized

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/19/us/politics/chuck-hagel-candidate-for-defense-post-criticized-by-jewish-leaders.html?_r=1&

Helen Thomas – “You Can Call The President Anything You Want But You Can’t Say Anything Against Israel”

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/ijynp/helen_thomas_you_can_call_the_president_anything/

Helen Thomas: I Could Call Obama Anything Without Reprimand; But If I Criticize Israel, I’m Finished

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/f45rv/helen_thomas_i_could_call_obama_anything_without/

In an effort to prove to Oliver Stone that Jews do NOT control the media, several influential Jews conspire to ensure his new series does not air

http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/cvwfy/in_an_effort_to_prove_to_oliver_stone_that_jews/

Oliver Stone forced to apologize for saying Jews control the media by the Jews who control the media.

http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/cuc3o/oliver_stone_forced_to_apologize_for_saying_jews/

Hollywood execs may blacklist Cruz, Bardem for accusing Israel of ‘genocide’

http://rt.com/usa/179544-penelope-cruz-blacklist-israel/

Marlon Brando Very Angry at Jews in Hollywood

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN17c2v2Vgk

2010 Oscars Jews Own Hollywood What A JOKE!.m4v

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMQzylG4ujs

Biden Talks of ‘Outsized Influence’ of Jews: ‘The Influence Is Immense’

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/biden-talks-outsized-influence-jews-influence-immense_728765.html?nopager=1

Arrests over anti-Semitic remarks on Facebook

Five men and a 15-year-old youth have been arrested in East Renfrewshire and Glasgow after anti-Semitic remarks were posted on social network site Facebook.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-18087379

Twitter sued £32m for refusing to reveal anti-semites – French court ruled Twitter must hand over details of people who’d tweeted racist & anti-semitic remarks, & set up a system that’d alert police to any further such posts as they happen. Twitter ignored the ruling.

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1av04v/twitter_sued_32m_for_refusing_to_reveal/

Three men arrested for anti-Semitic tweets after Premier League match

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/13/us-soccer-england-racism-tweets-idUSBRE9BC0D520131213?feedType=RSS

French court backs ban on comedy show deemed anti-Semitic

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/01/10/uk-france-antisemitism-idUKBREA090HG20140110

Italy expels imam for preaching hatred against Jews

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/2cpur8/italy_expels_imam_for_preaching_hatred_against/

Priest banned from using social media sites for six months after posting ‘anti-Semitic’ comments claiming Israel was behind 9/11

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2946831/Priest-banned-using-social-media-sites-six-months-posting-anti-Semitic-comments-claiming-Israel-9-11.html

Pentagon’s Pundits: A Look at the Defense Department’s Propaganda Program

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/4/22/pentagons_pundits_a_look_at_the

Rendon Group

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendon_Group

“The Media-Lobbying Complex”: Investigation Exposes Undisclosed Corporate Ties of Network Political Pundits

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/2/24/the_media_lobbying_complex_investigation_exposes

Pentagon military analyst program

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_military_analyst_program

U.S. military behind Africa news websites

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/nov/13/us-military-behind-africa-news-websites/

Wikileaks megadump reveals US pays local Afghan media to run psyops

http://boingboing.net/2010/07/27/wikileaks-dump-revea.html

TIL that the US created and still runs the Office of Strategic Influence to psychologically influence its population to support the War on Terror through propaganda

http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/tm4su/til_that_the_us_created_and_still_runs_the_office/

US ends ban on ‘domestic propaganda’

http://rt.com/usa/smith-mundt-domestic-propaganda-121/

Democrats, Republicans go after data-driven TV ads that know — like, really know – voters

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/08/22/democrats-republicans-go-after-data-driven-tv-ads-that-know-like-really-know-voters/

With new “news media” guidelines, White House ever-closer to instituting an Official Press

http://boingboing.net/2013/07/13/with-new-news-media-guidel.html#more-242501

Feds Collaborate With Wikipedia Editors to Improve ‘Wikipedia Entries Related to Government Publications’

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/feds-collaborate-wikipedia-editors-improve-wikipedia-entries-related-government-publications_794261.html

TV tricks of the trade — Quotes and cutaways

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07NMglQX6gE

News station deceptively edits a 4 year old boy’s interview

http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/2mj5kc/news_station_deceptively_edits_a_4_year_old_boys/

Questions of racism in hurricane photo captions; Yahoo responds

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Blogs_raise_questions_of_racism_in_hurricane_photo_cap_0902.html

Reddits admins (at the request of mods from /r/politics and others) have forced me to cripple ModerationLog less than a week before a major election.

http://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalModeration/comments/12otmi/reddits_admins_at_the_request_of_mods_from/

“In the final week of the 2012 election, MSNBC ran no negative stories about President Barack Obama and no positive stories about Republican nominee Mitt Romney, according to a study released Monday by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism.”

http://www.reddit.com/r/TrueReddit/comments/1404xm/in_the_final_week_of_the_2012_election_msnbc_ran/

TIL the no politics rule has become stricter for the election season.

http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/10m9tq/til_the_no_politics_rule_has_become_stricter_for/

I am Barack Obama, President of the United States — AMA

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/z1c9z/i_am_barack_obama_president_of_the_united_states/

Just pointing out the user who got “lucky” with Obama still has yet to comment again………..

http://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/15or6u/just_pointing_out_the_user_who_got_lucky_with/

I am Al Gore, founder and chairman of the Climate Reality Project – AMA

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/138yi5/i_am_al_gore_founder_and_chairman_of_the_climate/

TIL that during Reddit’s early days, the founders created hundreds of false accounts in order to make the site seem more popular and diverse.

http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/172175/til_that_during_reddits_early_days_the_founders/

How Former Treasury Officials and the UAE Are Manipulating American Journalists

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/09/25/uae-qatar-camstoll-group/

Pierre Omidyar on PayPal Blocking WikiLeaks Funds—and Upcoming ‘Anonymous’ Trial

http://www.thenation.com/blog/177450/pierre-omidyar-pay-pal-blocking-wikileaks-funds-and-upcoming-anonymous-trial#

How The Washington Post’s New Owner Aided the CIA, Blocked WikiLeaks & Decimated the Book Industry

http://www.democracynow.org/2013/8/7/how_the_washington_posts_new_owner

Bloomberg News reaffirms ban on writing about Mike Bloomberg

The news organization owned by Bloomberg LP has an unusual, self-imposed policy preventing itself from writing about its founder.

http://web.archive.org/web/20140313053614/http://features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2013/12/13/michael-bloomberg-news-ban/

ABC brass nixed Barbara Walters’ pick of Edward Snowden as year’s most fascinating person

Michael Bolton’s happy to be backup at charity gala; Will Ferrell keeps Ron Burgundy at a distance

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/confidential/walters-top-pick-edward-snowden-didn-fascinate-abc-article-1.1536685

Verizon is launching a tech news site that bans stories on U.S. spying

http://www.dailydot.com/politics/verizon-sugarstring-us-surveillance-net-neutrality/

Exclusive: CBS forced CNET staff to recast vote after Hopper won ‘Best in Show’ at CES

The Dish Network’s Hopper wasn’t simply in the running: it had actually taken the top prize

http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/14/3874682/exclusive-cbs-forced-cnet-editors-to-recast-vote-after-hopper-win

Gaming The System: How A Gaming Journalist Lost His Job Over A Negative Review

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/03/21/gaming-the-system-how-a-gaming-journalist-lost-his-job-over-a-negative-review/

Emails: Vice Requires Writers to Get Approval to Write About Brands

http://gawker.com/this-is-how-your-vice-media-sausage-gets-made-1641615517

BuzzFeed Deleted Posts Under Pressure from Its Own Business Department

http://tktk.gawker.com/buzzfeed-deleted-posts-under-pressure-from-its-own-busi-1697762873

Daily Telegraph Journalist Quits With Dramatic Resignation Letter Alleging “Fraud On Its Readers”

Peter Oborne has handed in his resignation, claiming the newspaper has downplayed its coverage of the HSBC scandal because the bank is a major advertiser.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/jimwaterson/peter-oborne-quits-the-telegraph

This Is The Critical HSBC Story Deleted From The Daily Telegraph Website

Peter Oborne, the paper’s chief political commentator, has quit the newspaper and alleges that HSBC holds sway over some of the newspaper’s financial coverage.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/jimwaterson/hsbc-story-deleted-telegraph-website

Sharyl Attkisson resigns from CBS, partly due to “liberal bias”

http://hotair.com/archives/2014/03/10/sharyl-attkisson-resigns-from-cbs-partly-due-to-liberal-bias/

Slashdot Burying Stories About SlashdotMedia Owned SourceForge

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/37zz9m/slashdot_burying_stories_about_slashdotmedia/

What Is Russia Today?

The Kremlin’s propaganda outlet has an identity crisis

http://www.cjr.org/feature/what_is_russia_today.php?page=all

Russia Today Anchor Resigns Live On Air

“I cannot be part of a network funded by the Russian government which whitewashes the actions of Putin.”

http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/russia-today-anchor-resigns-live-on-air

Russia Today London correspondent resigns in protest at ‘disrespect for facts’ over Malaysian plane crash

http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/russia-today-london-correspondent-resigns-protest-disrespect-facts-over-malaysian-plane-crash

MoD serves news outlets with D notice over surveillance leaks

BBC and other media groups issued with D notice to limit publication of information that could ‘jeopardise national security’

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/17/defence-d-bbc-media-censor-surveillance-security

2006 Ivory Coast toxic waste dump

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_C%C3%B4te_d%27Ivoire_toxic_waste_dump#Minton_Report_and_legal_controversy

BBC airs fake video of medic claiming chemical weapons in Syria

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1nwlov/bbc_airs_fake_video_of_medic_claiming_chemical/

Spy agencies’ bosses told initial questions before public grilling by MPs

http://www.gloucestershireecho.co.uk/Spy-agencies-bosses-told-initial-questions-public/story-20091525-detail/story.html

‘We aired lies’: Al Jazeera staff quit over ‘misleading’ Egypt coverage

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1i0z18/we_aired_lies_al_jazeera_staff_quit_over/

“It appears that the UK government is…intentionally leaking harmful information to The Independent and attributing it to others”

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1kxsd1/it_appears_that_the_uk_government_isintentionally/

CBC’s flagship news program sold favorable coverage to the Harper government, then lied about it

http://boingboing.net/2013/11/13/cbcs-flagship-news-program-s.html

Exclusive: How Ukraine Wooed Conservative Websites

http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/exclusive-how-ukraine-wooed-conservative-websites

This is what it looks like when a billionaire influences an election. Rupert Murdoch controls 65% of all newspaper circulation in Australia, and 14 of 21 metro daily and Sunday papers.

http://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/1kudkv/this_is_what_it_looks_like_when_a_billionaire/

All major commercial TV networks in Australia refusing to air ad critical of Murdoch’s biased coverage of the election.

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1lp329/all_major_commercial_tv_networks_in_australia/

Murdoch editors told to ‘kill Whitlam’ in 1975

http://www.smh.com.au/national/murdoch-editors-told-to-kill-whitlam-in-1975-20140627-zson7.html

News of the World phone-hacking whistleblower found dead

Death of Sean Hoare – who was first named journalist to allege Andy Coulson knew of hacking – not being treated as suspicious

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/jul/18/news-of-the-world-sean-hoare

Reporter on Unpublished Bloomberg Article Is Suspended

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/18/world/asia/reporter-on-unpublished-bloomberg-article-is-suspended.html?_r=1&

Bloomberg editor quits over China story

http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2014/03/bloomberg-editor-quits-over-china-story-185626.html

Guardian blocked in China after story about leadership’s offshore wealth

Access to the front page of newspaper’s website blocked and availability of other stories intermittent

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/22/guardian-blocked-china-leaderships-offshore-wealth?CMP=twt_gu

China expels journalists over stories of party’s wealth Austin Ramzy

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/01/29/china-expels-us-reporter-austin-ramzy/5005889/

Turkey bans reporting on corruption investigation of ex-ministers

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/26/us-turkey-corruption-idUSKCN0JA1OR20141126

CIA Pitches Scripts to Hollywood

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/09/cia-pitches-hollywood/?utm_source=co2hog

Hollywood and the war machine Empire examines the symbiotic relationship between the movie industry and the military-industrial complex.

http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/empire/2010/12/2010121681345363793.html

25 years later, how ‘Top Gun’ made America love war

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/25-years-later-remembering-how-top-gun-changed-americas-feelings-about-war/2011/08/15/gIQAU6qJgJ_story.html

Top Gun versus Sergeant Bilko? No contest, says the Pentagon

Scripts can often be the first casualty in Hollywood’s theatre of war

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/aug/29/media.filmnews

Pentagon, Hollywood Pair up for Transformers Sequel

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2008/12/pentagon-holl-1/

Pentagon Swaps Killer Drone for Hollywood Access

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2008/09/pentagon-swaps/

Hollywood a longtime friend of the CIA

High-level access granted to filmmakers researching a movie about the Osama bin Laden raid is just the latest episode in an increasingly close, cooperative arrangement that has spanned administrations.

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/may/26/nation/la-na-cia-hollywood-20120527

Newly Declassified Memo Shows CIA Shaped Zero Dark Thirty’s Narrative

http://gawker.com/declassified-memo-shows-how-cia-shaped-zero-dark-thirty-493174407

WATCH: How the CIA Helped Make “Zero Dark Thirty”

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/government-elections-politics/secrets-politics-and-torture/watch-how-the-cia-helped-make-zero-dark-thirty/

“Man of Steel”: Pentagon propaganda flick

The new “Superman” features F-35 fighter jets that haven’t even been approved to fly

http://www.salon.com/2013/05/06/man_of_steel_pentagon_propaganda_flic_partner/

CIA and Pentagon have long-running influence over Hollywood’s representation of military

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/01/22/cia-and-pentagon-have-long-running-influence-over-hollywoods-representation-of-military/

Pentagon Quit The Avengers Because of Its ‘Unreality’

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/05/avengers-military/

The Department of Defense gets a first look at ‘Godzilla’

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/reliable-source/wp/2014/05/15/the-department-of-defense-gets-a-first-look-at-godzilla/

‘Godzilla’ Military Advisor Explains Red Flares

http://www.businessinsider.com/godzilla-military-advisor-explains-red-flares-2014-5

The military-entertainment complex: Call of Duty makers have close ties with the Pentagon

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/the-military-entertainment-complex-call-of-duty-makers-have-close-ties-with-the-pentagon/

State Dept. wrote to Sony for help in countering Islamic State, Russian narratives

http://rt.com/usa/250733-sony-state-russian-narrative/

Intelligence Policy Bans Citation of Leaked Material

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/09/us/politics/obama-policy-bans-employee-use-of-leaked-material.html

NSA director forgets name of NSA program, hopes nobody is recording his speech

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/05/28/nsa-director-forgets-name-of-nsa-program-hopes-nobody-is-recording-his-speech/

Former NSA chief calls Snowden ‘he who will not be named’

http://thehill.com/policy/technology/209135-former-nsa-head-calls-snowden-he-who-will-not-be-named

Former NSA Lawyer Asks Google To ‘Forget’ All Of Techdirt’s Posts About Him

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140609/06552627523/former-nsa-lawyer-asks-google-to-forget-all-techdirts-posts-about-him.shtml

NSA Tried To Delete Court Transcript In Lawsuit Over Deleting Evidence

http://dailycaller.com/2014/08/08/nsa-tried-to-delete-court-transcript-in-lawsuit-over-deleting-evidence/

CIA Plans to Shutter Public Access to Foreign News Service…after more than 50 Years

http://www.allgov.com/news/controversies/cia-plans-to-shutter-public-access-to-foreign-news-serviceafter-more-than-50-years-131010?news=851356

CIA closes office that declassifies historical materials The Historical Collections Division is the latest casualty of sequester cuts. The office handling Freedom of Information Act requests will take over the work.

http://articles.latimes.com/2013/aug/21/nation/la-na-cia-sequester-20130822

Federal libraries, archives shutting down

Researchers, academics, genealogists losing important research tools for their work

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/federal-libraries-archives-shutting-down-1.1139085

Conservative party deletes archive of speeches from internet

Decade’s worth of records is erased, including PM’s speech praising internet for making more information available

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/nov/13/conservative-party-archive-speeches-internet

North Korea erases Jang Song-thaek from web archives

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/16/north-korea-erases-kim-jongun-uncle-archives

Memory hole

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_hole

Google Starts Removing Search Results Under Europe’s ‘Right to be Forgotten’

Search Engine Updated Technical Infrastructure Overnight to Start the Implementation

http://online.wsj.com/articles/google-starts-removing-search-results-under-europes-right-to-be-forgotten-1403774023

Wikipedia link to be hidden in Google under ‘right to be forgotten’ law

Request for blocking of search results granted to anonymous applicant is first to affect an entry in the online encyclopaedia

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/02/wikipedia-page-google-link-hidden-right-to-be-forgotten

Google Grants Majority of ‘Right to Be Forgotten’ Requests

Statistics Come as 91,000 People Request Removal of Some Search Results for Their Names

http://online.wsj.com/news/article_email/google-grants-more-than-half-of-right-to-be-forgotten-requests-processed-so-far-1406223241-lMyQjAxMTA0MDIwNDEyNDQyWj

Google was required to delete a link to a factually accurate BBC article about Stan O’Neal, the former CEO of Merrill Lynch.

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/29ql68/google_was_required_to_delete_a_link_to_a/

Google deletes ‘tens of thousands’ of celeb nude pics

Google has removed “tens of thousands” of nude pictures stolen from celebrities and published online.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/29473557

US news media to be monitored to curb leaks

A series of leaks prompts move by US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta, in an effort to stop release of government secrets.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2012/07/20127205441433206.html

Gov’t obtains wide AP phone records in probe

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/govt-obtains-wide-ap-phone-records-probe

The Justice Department Investigated a New York Times Reporter, Too

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/05/justice-department-investigated-new-york-times-reporter-too/65600/

Fox News reporter secretly monitored by Obama administration: court documents

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57585845/fox-news-reporter-secretly-monitored-by-obama-administration-court-documents/

FBI Spent 44 Months Probing Leak To TSG

“Stubborn Ways” focused on classified CIA report

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/investigation/fbi-leak-investigation-746902

Snowden Document: NSA Spied On Al Jazeera Communications

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/nsa-spied-on-al-jazeera-communications-snowden-document-a-919681.html

U.S. Government Designated Prominent Al Jazeera Journalist as “Member of Al Qaeda”

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/08/u-s-government-designated-prominent-al-jazeera-journalist-al-qaeda-member-put-watch-list/

GCHQ captured emails of journalists from top international media

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/19/gchq-intercepted-emails-journalists-ny-times-bbc-guardian-le-monde-reuters-nbc-washington-post

Report: Government Spying Causing Self-Censorship, Privacy Fears Among US Writers

http://washington.cbslocal.com/2013/11/12/report-government-spying-causing-self-censorship-privacy-fears-among-us-writers/

Leak investigations are indeed having a chilling effect

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2013/05/20/leak-investigations-are-indeed-having-a-chilling-effect/

Police face legal action for snooping on journalists

‘Domestic extremists’ unit kept a secret database of details on journalists including medical history of family members

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/nov/20/police-legal-action-snooping-journalists

London police spend millions snooping on journalists, FoI request reveals

http://rt.com/uk/219939-journalist-foi-spy-police/

American journalist Charles Horman was murdered with the help of the US government, a Chilean court finds

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/29niwf/american_journalist_charles_horman_was_murdered/

Colombia’s army intelligence chief furloughed over list of potential spying targets

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/10/28/colombia-army-intelligence-chief-furloughed-over-list-potential-spying-targets/

Nixon plot against newspaper columnist detailed

New book provides details of campaign to discredit — or even kill — Jack Anderson

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/39157420/ns/politics/t/nixon-plot-against-newspaper-columnist-detailed/#.VV5B3FVVhBd

Obama-We’re the Most Transparent and Ethical Administration in U.S. History!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXWTdTnhebs

White House: No more drone killings information will be released

http://dailycaller.com/2013/02/07/white-house-no-more-information-about-drone-killings-will-be-released-to-public/?onswipe_redirect=no

Robert Gibbs: I was told ‘not even to acknowledge the drone program’

http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/02/24/robert-gibbs-i-was-told-not-even-to-acknowledge-the-drone-program/

Guantanamo detainees’ hunger strikes will no longer be disclosed by U.S. military

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/guantanamo-detainees-hunger-strikes-will-no-longer-be-disclosed-by-us-military/2013/12/04/f6b1aa96-5d24-11e3-bc56-c6ca94801fac_story.html?wpisrc=nl_headlines

Govt asks judge to halt plans for tape release

http://www.theguardian.com/world/feedarticle/11591978

Obama Withholding 2,100 Iraq and Afghanistan Torture Photos ‘Worse than Abu Ghraib’

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/obama-administration-ordered-explain-withholding-2100-iraq-afghanistan-torture-photos-hold-1471251

Obama Claims Executive Privilege Over 15,000 Fast and Furious Docs

Withheld documents include emails between Holder and wife

http://freebeacon.com/issues/obama-claims-executive-privilege-over-15000-fast-and-furious-docs/

Admin Won’t Release Final HealthCare.gov Premiums Until After Elections

http://dailycaller.com/2014/10/09/admin-wont-release-final-healthcare-gov-premiums-until-after-elections/?advD=1248,1626

How much do Obama’s fundraising trips cost? Mum’s the word

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-much-do-obamas-fundraising-trips-cost-mums-the-word/

Blue on blue: Helen Thomas hammers Gibbs on Obama’s phony town hall

http://hotair.com/archives/2009/07/01/blue-on-blue-helen-thomas-hammers-gibbs-on-obamas-phony-town-hall/

Obama, the puppet master

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/02/obama-the-puppet-master-87764.html

Reporter: White House Aide Told Me Not To Talk To Crowd At Michelle Obama Campaign Event

http://washington.cbslocal.com/2014/09/30/reporter-white-house-aide-told-me-not-to-talk-to-crowd-at-michelle-obama-campaign-event/

White House bans cameras at daily news briefing

http://www.examiner.com/article/white-house-bans-cameras-at-daily-news-briefing

SF Chronicle video prompts White House threat

http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/SF-Chronicle-video-prompts-White-House-threat-2373849.php

Hope and Change: Obama eliminates transparency czar

http://hotair.com/archives/2010/08/13/hope-and-change-obama-eliminates-

Ironic? Transparency board meeting behind closed doors

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/post/ironic-transparency-board-meeting-behind-closed-doors/2011/11/17/gIQAYKinUN_blog.html

The White House is tired of responding to petitions

The We the People website has raised the threshold for a White House response

http://www.salon.com/2013/01/16/the_white_house_is_tired_of_responding_to_petitions/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews

The FCC can’t handle all the net neutrality calls it’s getting, urges people to write emails instead

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/255mqp/the_fcc_cant_handle_all_the_net_neutrality_calls/

‘Obama administration is far worse than the Bush administration’ on transparency: Claim

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2013/10/10/obama-administration-is-far-worse-than-the-bush-administration-on-transparency-claim/

Study: Obama Administration More Secretive Than Ever

The administration cited national security concerns a record 8,496 times as an excuse for withholding information from the public, a 57% increase from the year before

http://time.com/27443/study-obama-administration-more-secretive-than-ever/

Journalists criticize White House for ‘secrecy’

http://www.ap.org/Content/AP-In-The-News/2014/Journalists-criticize-White-House-for-secrecy

8 ways the Obama administration is blocking information

http://blog.ap.org/2014/09/19/8-ways-the-obama-administration-is-blocking-information/

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Saving Private Lynch story ‘flawed’

Private Jessica Lynch became an icon of the war, and the story of her capture by the Iraqis and her rescue by US special forces became one of the great patriotic moments of the conflict.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/correspondent/3028585.stm

Pentagon unit held ‘phony’ ceremonies for MIAs, using planes that can’t fly

http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10/10/20889368-pentagon-unit-held-phony-ceremonies-for-mias-using-planes-that-cant-fly?lite

FEMA STAGED FAKE NEWS CONFERENCE on CALIFORNIA FIRES

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fiq-o8fMHn0

FEMA Meets the Press, Which Happens to Be . . . FEMA

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/25/AR2007102502488.html?referrer=reddit

The CIA isn’t reporting any data to federal transparency site

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/08/06/fearing-the-mosiac-effect-the-cia-declines-to-report-its-unclassified-contracts-to-federal-transparency-site/?tid=rssfeed

USA Today: “The White House is removing a federal regulation that subjects its Office of Administration to the Freedom of Information Act, making official a policy under Presidents Bush and Obama to reject requests for records to that office.”

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/2za9d9/usa_today_the_white_house_is_removing_a_federal/

Massachusetts SWAT teams claim they’re private corporations, immune from open records laws

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/295lqs/massachusetts_swat_teams_claim_theyre_private/

AP Journalists: The NYPD ‘Less Transparent’ Than CIA, FBI And NSA When It Comes To FOI Requests more secretive

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130904/14594124405/ap-journalists-nypd-less-transparent-than-cia-fbi-nsa-when-it-comes-to-foi-requests.shtml

Police union files injunction to halt Sun-Times, Tribune FOIA requests

http://chicago.suntimes.com/news-chicago/7/71/145756/police-union-files-injunction-to-halt-sun-times-tribune-foia-requests

U.S. Navy mistakenly sends how-to memo on dodging FOIA requests

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jan/8/us-navy-mistakenly-sends-how-to-memo-dodging-foia/

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Using Private Email, Hillary Clinton Thwarted Record Requests

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/04/us/politics/using-private-email-hillary-clinton-thwarted-record-requests.html?_r=3

Holder Used Secret Email Address, Too

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/03/10/holder-used-secret-email-address-too/

Colin Powell says he doesn’t have any of his State emails

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/colin-powell-hillary-clinton-email-state-department-115870.html

The CIA and Homeland Security want to delete almost all their emails

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2ngoo2/the_cia_and_homeland_security_want_to_delete/

School District Wants to Censor American History Curriculum to Make It More Patriotic

http://www.reddit.com/r/nottheonion/comments/2hhwz9/school_district_wants_to_censor_american_history/

Harold Hamm, the billionaire founder and CEO of Continental Resources told a University of Oklahoma dean he wanted scientists dismissed who were researching links between oil and gas activity and this state’s earthquake surge

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/36i7tq/harold_hamm_the_billionaire_founder_and_ceo_of/

School cancels reading program rather than promote “hacker culture”

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/06/school-bans-cory-doctorows-novel-for-lauding-hacker-culture/

Japan urges US publisher to remove comfort women from textbooks

Foreign ministry request to McGraw Hill over wartime sex slaves comes after Japanese publisher said it would delete passages

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/15/japan-urges-us-publisher-delete-references-comfort-women

Leading Climate-Denier Harvard Scientist Caught Accepting Bribes from Fossil-Fuel Corporations as well as the Koch Brothers.

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/2woukp/leading_climatedenier_harvard_scientist_caught/

http://endtimeinfo.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/2999956188_79574c5bca_z.jpg

New York City wants citizens to help the police issue more tickets for idling vehicles. In return, you get a 50% cut of the ticket.

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/2yjttf/new_york_city_wants_citizens_to_help_the_police/

Homeland Security taps new partner in terror fight: Wal-Mart

By month’s end, 588 stores will participate in ‘See Something, Say Something’ campaign

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/40552073/ns/us_news-security/t/homeland-security-taps-new-partner-terror-fight-wal-mart/#.UuggRPuIbn4

Homeland Security Releases ‘See Something, Send Something’ App

http://fox8.com/2014/04/12/homeland-security-releases-see-something-send-something-app/

FBI asks public to help identify homegrown terrorists

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-fbi-terrorism-help-met-20141007-story.html

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Coca-Cola Pushing Big Brother – Surveillance State – 1984 – Commercial 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkC2qgIMI_E&t=02m03s

Amex Secure World

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vQoBTnnc44

Pillsbury Doughboy Gigglingly Crashes Geico Ad Whats he happier than!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z51E2o2J2-E

TV Commercial – Charmin Ultra Strong – Airport Security – Enjoy the Go

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tplUhksGXxo

TSA Kids Animation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHjlN5lzCjM#t=0

NFL teams were paid $5.4 million by Dept. of Defense to salute U.S. troops during games

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/35f1hi/nfl_teams_were_paid_54_million_by_dept_of_defense/

Welcome to the FEMA Corps Inaugural Class

http://www.dhs.gov/blog/2012/09/14/welcome-fema-corps-inaugural-class

Obama Nazi Musical Yes We Can

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB3YTAhFxwk&bpctr=1367223696

TRAVIC – Transit Visualization Client

http://tracker.geops.ch/?z=14&s=1&x=-8235743.4976&y=4971840.9526&l=transport

Justice Department working on national car-tracking database

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/01/27/justice-department-working-on-national-car-tracking-database/

State Plans to Share License Photos Far and Wide Despite DMV Objection

http://www.allgov.com/usa/ca/news/california-and-the-nation/state-plans-to-share-license-photos-far-and-wide-despite-dmv-objection-150320?news=856007

DEA using license-plate readers to take photos of US drivers, documents reveal

ACLU publishes DEA documents that show license plate-scanners also record humans, as face recognition helps government be ‘even more sure of exactly who they are surveilling’

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/05/aclu-dea-documents-spy-program-millions-drivers-passengers

License plate readers used to record attendees at political rallies

http://rt.com/usa/license-lpr-obama-palin-675/

DEA admits plan to monitor license plates at gun shows, says it was ‘never authorized’

http://rt.com/usa/227207-dea-gun-show-license-plates/

Virginia Towns Using Federally-Funded License Plate Readers To Collect Local Taxes

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150330/08345330483/virginia-towns-using-federally-funded-license-plate-readers-to-collect-local-taxes.shtml

LAPD: All cars are under investigation

http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/the-stream/the-stream-officialblog/2014/3/25/lapd-all-cars-areunderinvestigation.html

Philly PD Declares All Drivers To Be ‘Under Investigation’ While Denying Request For License Plate Reader Data

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150409/17104430605/philly-pd-declares-all-drivers-to-be-under-investigation-while-denying-request-license-plate-reader-data.shtml

ACLU: License Plate Scanners Are Logging Citizen’s Every Move: It has now become clear that this automated license plate readers technology, if we do not limit its use, will represent a significant step toward the creation of a surveillance society in US

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/mlim2/aclu_license_plate_scanners_are_logging_citizens/

Your car, tracked: the rapid rise of license plate readers

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/08/your-car-tracked-the-rapid-rise-of-license-plate-readers/

Police cameras quietly capture license plates, collect data

http://www.startribune.com/local/minneapolis/165680946.html?refer=y

U.S. Customs Tracks Millions Of License Plates And Has Shared Data With Insurance Firms

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/08/21/documents-show-u-s-customs-tracking-millions-of-license-plates-and-sharing-data-with-insurance-firms/

Navy database tracks civilians’ parking tickets, fender-benders, raising fears of domestic spying

http://washingtonexaminer.com/navy-database-tracks-civilians-parking-tickets-fender-benders-raising-fears-of-domestic-spying/article/2546038

Pentagon preparing for mass civil breakdown

Social science is being militarised to develop ‘operational tools’ to target peaceful activists and protest movements

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/jun/12/pentagon-mass-civil-breakdown

Inside the Ring: Directive outlines Obama’s plan to use the military against citizens

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/may/28/inside-the-ring-directive-outlines-obamas-policy-t/

New Army Manual Calls for the Use of Lethal Force Against Peaceful Protesters

http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2014/08/18/new-army-manual-calls-for-the-use-of-lethal-force-against-peaceful-protesters/

U.S. Army Techniques Publication 3-39.33: Civil Disturbances

https://publicintelligence.net/usarmy-civil-disturbances/

Troops referred to Ferguson protesters as ‘enemy forces’, emails show

Documents detailing military mission during unrest over the police killing of Michael Brown designated ‘enemy forces’ to include ‘general protesters’

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/17/missouri-national-guard-ferguson-protesters-email

When we hear members of the NYPD union leadership talking about being forced to become a “wartime” police department, who exactly are they going to war with?

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/2q9wwe/when_we_hear_members_of_the_nypd_union_leadership/

Obama Signs NDAA with Signing Statement

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/nxu96/obama_signs_ndaa_with_signing_statement/

Obama Administration Asks Judge to Undo Order Against NDAA Indefinite Detention

http://www.democracynow.org/2012/5/29/headlines/obama_administration_asks_judge_to_undo_order_against_ndaa_indefinite_detention#.T8TtpiV_sOQ.reddit

NDAA Signed Into Law By Obama Despite Guantanamo Veto Threat, Indefinite Detention Provisions

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/03/ndaa-obama-indefinite-detention_n_2402601.html

Supreme Court Makes Big Decision On When Cops Can Enter Your Home

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/25/supreme-court-police-searches_n_4854440.html

Durham police officer testifies that it was department policy to enter and search homes under ruse that nonexistent 9-1-1 calls were made from said homes

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/2al1fy/durham_police_officer_testifies_that_it_was/

In a 5-4 decision, Supreme Court rules that people arrested for any offense, no matter how minor, can be strip-searched during processing.

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/rpp6g/in_a_54_decision_supreme_court_rules_that_people/

Homeland Security Approves Their Right To Search and Seize Your Electronics Without Suspicion

http://www.forbes.com/sites/tarunwadhwa/2013/02/14/homeland-security-approves-their-right-to-search-and-seize-your-electronics-without-suspicion/

Obama just signed an executive order that lets the government seize suspected hackers’ money and stuff

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/31e5ge/obama_just_signed_an_executive_order_that_lets/

Rhode Island Cops Now Using Dogs To Detect Hard Drives, Memory Cards And Other Electronics

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140707/11434227803/rhode-island-cops-now-using-dogs-to-detect-hard-drives-memory-cards-other-electronics.shtml

Here Are The 23 Executive Orders On Gun Safety Signed Today By The President

http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2013/01/16/here-are-the-23-executive-orders-on-gun-safety-signed-today-by-the-president/

The House passed bill H.R. 347. A bill that makes it illegal to protest at buildings or events where Secret Service are protecting someone. Rick Santorum was granted Secret Service protection today.

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/qatc0/the_house_passed_bill_hr_347_a_bill_that_makes_it/

Obama signs bill extending lifetime Secret Service protection for former presidents

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/276569-obama-signs-bill-extending-lifetime-secret-service-protection-for-former-presidents

Obama just banned protesting Military funerals.

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/xsjhi/obama_just_banned_protesting_military_funerals/

Executive Order — National Defense Resources Preparedness

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/03/16/executive-order-national-defense-resources-preparedness

Obama executive order expands Homeland Security reach into local law enforcement

http://dailycaller.com/2012/10/29/obama-executive-order-expands-homeland-security-reach-into-local-law-enforcement/

Court OKs warrantless use of hidden surveillance cameras

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57542510-38/court-oks-warrantless-use-of-hidden-surveillance-cameras/

President Obama signs executive order allowing the federal government to take over the Internet in the event of a “national emergency”. Link to Obama’s extension of the current state of national emergency, in the comments.

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/wc8md/president_obama_signs_executive_order_allowing/

Obama signs secret directive to help thwart cyberattacks

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/obama-signs-secret-cybersecurity-directive-allowing-more-aggressive-military-role/2012/11/14/7bf51512-2cde-11e2-9ac2-1c61452669c3_story.html

Attorneys: Obama’s ‘secret’ cyber security law may allow ‘military deployment within the U.S.’

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/11/15/attorneys-obamas-secret-cyber-security-law-may-allow-military-deployment-within-the-u-s/

Highly anticipated executive order on cybersecurity signed

http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/282699-obama-signs-cybersecurity-executive-order-

White House says ‘cyber threats’ include web site defacement, IP theft

http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/14/3989686/white-house-says-cyber-threats-include-web-site-defacement-ip-theft

So much for the Constitution or due process, there is now a secret panel of government officials that can place Americans on a “kill list” for assassination.

www.reddit.com/r/worldpolitics/comments/l2w09/so_much_for_the_constitution_or_due_process_there/

Secret ‘Kill List’ Proves a Test of Obama’s Principles and Will

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/world/obamas-leadership-in-war-on-al-qaeda.html

Report: Undercover cops infiltrated Occupy LA

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2011-12-03/police-occupy-LA/51606342/1

Police admit to infiltrating Occupy Austin, may have acted as provocateurs

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/31/police-admit-to-infiltrating-occupy-austin-may-have-acted-as-provocateurs/

Undercover Cop Draws Gun on Protesters in Oakland

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/2oz93y/undercover_cop_draws_gun_on_protesters_in_oakland/cmrvocs

Surprise, Homeland Security Coordinates #OWS Crackdowns

http://wonkette.com/456282/surprise-homeland-security-coordinates-ows-crackdowns-nationwide

Twitter turns over Occupy user’s data to police

www.reddit.com/r/occupywallstreet/comments/qfx3k/twitter_turns_over_occupy_users_data_to_police/

Homeland Security Monitoring Social Networking Websites Feb 16, 2012)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUXcrX94xI

Twitter joke led to Terror Act arrest and airport life ban

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/article1870913.ece

‘I’m going to destroy America and dig up Marilyn Monroe’: British pair arrested in U.S. on terror charges over Twitter jokes

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2093796/Emily-Bunting-Leigh-Van-Bryan-UK-tourists-arrested-destroy-America-Twitter-jokes.html

Obama Fights to Retain Warrantless Wiretapping.

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/pypn7/obama_fights_to_retain_warrantless_wiretapping/

Obama lays framework for purge of online opponents

http://www.examiner.com/article/obama-lays-framework-for-purge-of-online-opponents

FBI requests $41 million to battle ‘wiretap unfriendly’ online correspondence

http://rt.com/usa/fbi-wiretap-unfriendly-online-correspondence-795/

Obama’s Enemies List

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204573704577189520334363222.html

Strassel: Obama’s Enemies List—Part II

First an Obama campaign website called out Romney donor Frank Vandersloot. Next the IRS moved to audit him—and so did the Labor Department.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444464304577537233908744496.html

IRS apologizes for targeting conservative groups

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/05/10/irs-apology-conservative-groups-2012-election/2149939/

IRS’s tea-party noose tightens: Targeting campaign was directed by HQ in Washington, D.C. – not by a few ‘rogue agents’ in Ohio, documents reveal

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2628347/IRSs-tea-party-noose-tightens-Documents-partisan-targeting-campaign-directed-headquarters-Washington.html

Emails Reveal Lois Lerner’s ‘Secret Research Project’

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Lois-Lerner-IRS-targeting-scandal-IRS-and-tea-party-IRS-and-conservatives/2014/09/05/id/592782/

“Operation Choke Point”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/05/24/operation-choke-point/

Operation Choke Point: the stop-and-frisk tactic of the financial industry

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/mar/23/operation-choke-point-payday-lenders-issa-banks

Feds Warrantlessly Track Americans’ Credit Cards in Real Time

http://www.reddit.com/r/business/comments/efcqt/feds_warrantlessly_track_americans_credit_cards/

Banks Now Eyeing Cell Phone Metadata To Determine Your Loan Risk

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150502/08183230858/banks-now-eyeing-cell-phone-metadata-to-determine-your-loan-risk.shtml

Motel 6 giving police names of guests

The names of Motel 6 guests, which police then check for outstanding warrants, is one of five steps Motel 6 corporate managers agreed to take in response to a string of high-profile incidents and concerns the establishment was becoming a haven for passing criminals.

http://www.providencejournal.com/article/20150414/NEWS/150419569/13748/NEWS/?Start=1

DHS will ask stores to watch customers’ buying habits for terrorist clues

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/sep/10/dhs-will-ask-stores-watch-customers-buying-habits/

Dept. of Homeland Security to introduce a laser-based molecular scanner in airports which can instantly reveal many things, including the substances in your urine, traces of drugs or gun powder on your bank notes, and what you had for breakfast. Victory for terrorism?

http://www.reddit.com/r/TrueReddit/comments/wp1ue/dept_of_homeland_security_to_introduce_a/

New sensors will scoop up data in Chicago

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-big-data-chicago-20140621,0,3075626.story

San Francisco streetlights will spy on passersby

http://rt.com/usa/news/san-francisco-city-surveillance-691/

Homeland Security’s ‘Pre-Crime’ Screening Will Never Work

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/04/homeland-securitys-pre-crime-screening-will-never-work/255971/

New police radars can “see” inside homes; At least 50 U.S. law enforcement agencies quietly deployed radars that let them effectively see inside homes, with little notice to the courts or the public

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2t1or5/new_police_radars_can_see_inside_homes_at_least/

NYPD designates mosques as terrorism organizations

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/08/28/nypd-mosques-terrorism-organizations/2712773/

911 caller blows NYPD’s cover for safe house where detectives monitored Muslim Rutgers students.

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/x4ixt/911_caller_blows_nypds_cover_for_safe_house_where/

Judge tosses lawsuit over FBI surveillance of California mosques

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/15/us-usa-mosque-lawsuit-idUSBRE87E03Y20120815

http://i.imgur.com/muquYNC.jpg

CIA Aided Program to Spy on U.S. Cellphones

Marshals Service uses airborne devices that mimic cell towers to scan data on thousands of cellphones

http://www.wsj.com/articles/cia-gave-justice-department-secret-phone-scanning-technology-1426009924

U.S. using fake cellphone towers on planes to gather data: WSJ

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/13/us-usa-security-cellphones-idUSKCN0IX2SQ20141113?feedType=RSS&feedName=technologyNews

the FBI is operating a small air force with scores of low-flying planes across the country carrying video and, at times, cellphone surveillance technology – all hidden behind fictitious companies that are fronts for the government, The Associated Press has learned

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/386wzc/the_fbi_is_operating_a_small_air_force_with/

Police Are Testing a “Live Google Earth” To Watch Crime As It Happens

http://gizmodo.com/police-are-testing-a-live-google-earth-to-watch-crime-1563010340/all

New surveillance technology can track everyone in an area for several hours at a time

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/new-surveillance-technology-can-track-everyone-in-an-area-for-several-hours-at-a-time/2014/02/05/82f1556e-876f-11e3-a5bd-844629433ba3_print.html

Surveillance planes spotted in the sky for days after West Baltimore rioting

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/surveillance-planes-spotted-in-the-sky-for-days-after-west-baltimore-rioting/2015/05/05/c57c53b6-f352-11e4-84a6-6d7c67c50db0_story.html

Army Readies Its Mammoth Spy Blimp for First Flight

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/05/massive-spy-blimp/

Blimps to bolster Washington’s air shield in test

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/01/us-usa-blimps-raytheon-idUSBRE91018320130201

Surveillance aircraft floating high above Maryland

http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/national/surveillance-aircraft-floating-high-above-maryland/752/?clsrd

Forget drones: These tethered blimps can spy on cities below

Meet the “Blimp in a Box,” recently purchased by an Ohio public agency.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/08/forget-drones-how-about-tethered-blimps-to-spy-on-cities-below/

Welcome, Nato, to Chicago’s police state

www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/tvz44/welcome_nato_to_chicagos_police_state/

Things are getting scary in Anaheim, everyone should know about this

http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/xhrp4/things_are_getting_scary_in_anaheim_everyone/

Ferguson police tear gas Al-Jazeera news crew, SWAT team moves in to dismantle their equipment

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/2dj1k7/ferguson_police_tear_gas_aljazeera_news_crew_swat/

No-Fly Zone over Ferguson MO bans News Copters from Reporting on Protests

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/2dfswt/nofly_zone_over_ferguson_mo_bans_news_copters/

U.S. approved Ferguson no-fly area to block media

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/11/02/ferguson-flight-restrictions-helicopters-protests/18380867/

Rex 84

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rex_84

FBI’s Cold War plans included martial law, rounding up 13,000 people

http://rt.com/usa/228063-fbi-planc-martial-law/

PROFUNC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROFUNC

Enemies of the State

http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/episodes/2010-2011/enemies-of-the-state

http://imgur.com/NUGdA

Bloomberg: Police Drones are Here, Get used to it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AS8f3EZ6t8

Eric Holder: Drone strikes against Americans on U.S. soil are legal

http://washingtonexaminer.com/eric-holder-drone-strikes-against-americans-on-u.s.-soil-are-legal/article/2523319

A Map of Where All the Drones Live in the United States

http://gizmodo.com/a-map-of-where-all-the-drones-live-in-the-united-states-1343156089

Justice Department memo reveals legal case for drone strikes on Americans

http://openchannel.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/04/16843014-exclusive-justice-department-memo-reveals-legal-case-for-drone-strikes-on-americans?lite

Police agencies in the United States to begin using drones in 90 days

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/qgopm/police_agencies_in_the_united_states_to_begin/

Justice Department issues policy on domestic drone use

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/8041e46a7a3a4fb4bc85acb05598fecc/justice-department-issues-policy-domestic-drone-use

Oops! Air Force Drones Can Now (Accidentally) Spy on You

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/05/air-force-drones-domestic-spy/

Revealed: 64 Drone Bases on American Soil

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/06/64-drone-bases-on-us-soil/

US Navy Plans Drone Base Near Malibu

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2013/02/23/us-navy-plans-drone-base-near-malibu/

Is The NYPD Experimenting With Drones Over The City? Evidence To Yes

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/01/23/is-the-nypd-experimenting-with-drones-over-the-city-evidence-points-to-yes/

Sheriff’s Office wants to fly drones over Orange County skies

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-drones-sheriff-orange-20130112,0,4271383.story

‘Eye in the sky’ drones flying in San Diego County

http://www.cbs8.com/story/21078595/eye-in-the-sky-surveillance-drones-flying-in-san-diego-county

LAPD adds drones to arsenal, says they’ll be used sparingly

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-lapd-adds-drones-to-arsenal-20140530-story.html

Boston police chief wants drones for next year’s marathon

http://rt.com/usa/boston-marathon-surveillance-drones-452/

Mueller: FBI uses drones for surveillance over US soil

The FBI has used drones for surveillance in limited cases over US soil, FBI Director Robert Mueller has told a US Senate committee.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22976598

Feds announce test sites for drone aircraft

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/feds-announces-test-sites-drone-aircraft

Report: SJPD is first local agency to get a drone

http://abc7news.com/technology/report-sjpd-is-first-local-agency-to-get-a-drone/229565/

Cupid Drone armed with taser gaining interest from military

http://www.myfoxdc.com/story/25053736/cupid-drone-armed-with-taser-gaining-interest-from-military

African firm is selling pepper-spray bullet firing drones

The maker of a drone that fires pepper spray bullets says it has received its first order for the machine.

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27902634

Now, drones to be used to disperse mobs in Lucknow

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/lucknow/Now-drones-to-be-used-to-disperse-mobs-in-Lucknow/articleshow/46794530.cms

http://i.imgur.com/5De06.gif

FBI launches $1 billion face recognition project

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21528804.200-fbi-launches-1-billion-face-recognition-project.html

FBI Agrees to Share Facial Recognition Searches with All Police Departments

http://www.allgov.com/news/top-stories/fbi-agrees-to-share-facial-recognition-searches-with-all-police-departments?news=845099

Undercover cops secretly use smartphones, face recognition to spy on crowds

http://blogs.computerworld.com/privacy/21010/undercover-cops-secretly-use-smartphones-face-recognition-spy-crowds

Police use face scans in the field

http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/nov/08/cir-facial-recognition-software-san-diego/

New Jersey Bans Smiling in Driver’s License Photos

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/09/new-jersey-bans-smiling-in-drivers-license-photos/

California gets face scanners to spy on everyone at once

http://rt.com/usa/news/california-facefirst-surveillance-recognition-908/

Smile, Seattle! Police Now Can Use Facial Recognition Software

http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/smile-seattle-police-now-can-use-facial-recognition-software-n51311

Surveillance companies threaten to sue Slate reporter if he writes about new face recognition tech at the Statue of Liberty. So he writes about it anyway and calls them out.

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1ddd3g/surveillance_companies_threaten_to_sue_slate/

WIKILEAKS: Surveillance Cameras Around The Country Are Being Used In A Huge Spy Network.

http://www.reddit.com/r/AnythingGoesNews/comments/y0ijh/wikileaks_surveillance_cameras_around_the_country/

Papers released by WikiLeaks show US department of homeland security paid $832,000 to deploy TrapWire system in two cities

http://www.reddit.com/r/evolutionReddit/comments/y7yur/papers_released_by_wikileaks_show_us_department/

This MasterCard with a built-in fingerprint sensor is coming in 2015

http://www.theverge.com/tech/2014/10/17/6994017/mastercard-with-fingerprint-sensor-coming-2015

MasterCard joining push for fingerprint ID standard

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2013/10/02/mastercard-fingerprint-fido/2910241/

http://beforeitsnews.com/mediadrop/uploads/2013/38/6d06cfeb0399a1aca92153b3382d81b01c26ea30.jpg

Barclays brings finger vein biometrics to internet banking

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-09/05/barclays-finger-scanner

Police Agencies Are Assembling Records of DNA

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/13/us/police-agencies-are-assembling-records-of-dna.html?hp&_r=0

Just like fingerprints: Supreme Court says police can take DNA from arrestees without warrants

http://www.startribune.com/209921201.html

New York State Set to Add All Convict DNA to Its Database

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/14/nyregion/dna-database-pensions-and-redistricting-are-part-of-talks-on-major-albany-deal.html?_r=2&hp

California DNA collection law upheld

http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_25384632/california-dna-collection-law-upheld

The U.S. Is Building Massive DNA Databases

Cops can collect DNA when making an arrest, sometimes before charging a person with a crime. This practice poses a threat to the civil liberties of innocent people

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=united-states-building-massive-dna-databases

Tennessee police to perform “no refusal” blood-draw DUI checkpoints this Labor Day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-pUSBdBfUc

North Texas Drivers Stopped at Roadblock Asked for Saliva, Blood

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/North-Texas-Drivers-Stopped-at-Roadblock-Asked-for-Saliva-Blood-232438621.html?_osource=SocialFlowFB_DFWBrand

Federal contractors set up roadblocks in 30 U.S. cities to harvest DNA samples

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjSWa7iFcFs#t=22

Pa. town latest to force drivers over and ask for cheek swabs for federal study

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/12/18/pa-town-latest-to-force-drivers-over-and-ask-for-cheek-swabs-for-federal-study/

Concern and confusion over swab/blood test checkpoints

http://www.cbs42.com/news/alaska/concern-and-confusion-over-swabblood-test-checkpoints

LAPD deploys drug detection swab test at sobriety checkpoints

http://rt.com/usa/portable-drug-test-lapd-902/

St. Louis to become a DUI “No Refusal Zone”

http://fox2now.com/2013/12/30/st-louis-to-become-a-dui-no-refusal-zone/

Cops to Use Portable Drug Test at New Year’s DUI Checkpoints

The new technology will allow authorities to test drivers for narcotics using a mouth swab

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Authorities-Announce-New-DUI-Technology-Ahead-of-New-Years-Holiday-237546481.html

Colorado drivers will be asked to give blood to test for cannabis: “You’re going to lose your license longer by refusing.”

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1u8ryd/colorado_drivers_will_be_asked_to_give_blood_to/

New blood warrant application created for marijuana DUIs

http://www.king5.com/news/marijuana/New-electronic-blood-warrant-database-for-marijuana-DUIs-265473021.html

The government has your baby’s DNA

http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/02/04/baby.dna.government/

Ancestry.com Caught Sharing Customer DNA Data With Police

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/ancestrycom-caught-sharing-customer-dna-data-police-no-warrant

When Seeing and Hearing Isn’t Believing

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/dotmil/arkin020199.htm

Governments begin to Build Voice Print Databases

http://www.allgov.com/news/top-stories/governments-begin-to-build-voice-print-databases-121006?news=845876

Welcome to the Biometric Center of Excellence (BCOE)

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/fingerprints_biometrics/biometric-center-of-excellence/

FBI’s Biometric Program Blends Criminal And Non-Criminal Data For ‘Efficiency,’ Obsessed With Tracking Care Providers

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140925/05433028634/fbis-biometric-program-blends-criminal-non-criminal-data-efficiency-obsessed-with-tracking-care-providers.shtml

Los Angeles County to collect more personal data

http://www.desertsun.com/story/news/nation/california/2014/09/30/los-angeles-police-data-california/16478305/

Businesses, governments harvest voice data

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/10/13/voice-biometrics/17185957/

Banks want to harvest your ‘voiceprint’ in the fight against fraud

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/technology/banks-want-harvest-your-voiceprint-4438010

http://i.imgur.com/0LnxG.jpg

TSA is officially allowed to lie to you in order to cover its ass

http://boingboing.net/2013/09/04/tsa-is-officially-allowed-to-l.html

Homeland Security training TSA workers to save themselves in shooting

http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/freedom-press-not-free/2013/jan/26/homeland-security-training-tsa-workers-save-themse/

Security Check Now Starts Long Before You Fly

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/22/business/security-check-now-starts-long-before-you-fly.html?hp&_r=0

TSA rail, subway spot-checks raise privacy issues

http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/28/travel/tsa-vipr-passenger-train-searches/index.html?hpt=hp_c1

The TSA’s mission creep is making the US a police state

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/apr/18/tsa-mission-creep-us-police-state

TSA spotted at train station. They call themselves the “Viper” team

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/16r2dh/tsa_spotted_at_train_station_they_call_themselves/

T.S.A. Expands Duties Beyond Airport Security – New York Times

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1jtdtx/tsa_expands_duties_beyond_airport_security_new/

Mission Creep: This Tennessee Highway Is Now Patrolled by TSA

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/10/mission-creep-this-tennessee-highway-is-now-patrolled-by-tsa/247243/

Police agencies admit saving body scan images

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38561251/ns/technology_and_science-security/t/police-agencies-admit-saving-body-scan-images/

All Three Branches Agree: Big Brother Is the New Normal

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/10/big-brother-new-normal/

Armored truck with cameras will roam St. Pete neighborhoods

http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/story/20046476/2012/11/08/armored-truck-with-cameras-will-roam-st-pete-neighborhoods

New Equipment Helps Buffalo Police Oversee Chippewa

http://www.wkbw.com/video/New-Equipment-Helps-Buffalo-Police-Oversee-Chippewa-180433481.html

Jersey City Unveils 3-Story High ‘Eye In The Sky’ Surveillance Tower To Fight Crime

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/12/11/jersey-city-unveils-3-story-high-eye-in-the-sky-surveillance-tower-to-fight-crime/

The Police State Comes To Arkansas

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/radley-balko/the-police-state-comes-to_b_2321878.html

Senate votes to let the NSA keep spying on you without a warrant until 2017

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/15kpup/senate_votes_to_let_the_nsa_keep_spying_on_you/

Obama Signs FISA Warrantless Wiretapping Program Extension Into Law

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/30/obama-fisa-warrantless-wiretapping_n_2385690.html

DHS Determines 13 States Meet REAL ID Standards

http://www.dhs.gov/news/2012/12/20/dhs-determines-13-states-meet-real-id-standards

REAL ID Enforcement Begins in 2014, 21 States Compliant

http://www.sacbee.com/2013/12/20/6016990/real-id-enforcement-begins-in.html

FHP announces daytime driver license, vehicle inspection checkpoints

http://www.abcactionnews.com/dpp/traffic/traffic_news/fhp-announces-daytime-driver-license-vehicle-inspection-checkpoints

The No-Fly list has been increasingly used on American citizens while they’re out of the country, effectively exiling them

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/17xhqm/the_nofly_list_has_been_increasingly_used_on/

Homeland Security opening private mail

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/10740935#.URtWe_Jcnn4

U.S. Post Offices Have Installed Hidden Spy Cameras to Film Customers

http://gizmodo.com/u-s-post-offices-have-installed-hidden-spy-cameras-to-1691112318

Mysterious spy cameras collecting data at post offices

http://kdvr.com/2015/03/11/mysterious-spy-cameras-collecting-data-at-post-offices/

Arizona town mounts dozens of new license plate readers in fake cactuses

Town manager tells local TV station that they’re just meant to look nice.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/05/arizona-town-mounts-dozens-of-new-license-plate-readers-in-fake-cactuses/

American cities installing ominous surveillance tech despite NSA scandal

http://rt.com/usa/seattle-vegas-spy-tools-546/

US DHS Funds Installation Of White Boxes That Track Population Of Entire City!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj0fAKwtyG4

Seattle police department has network that can track all Wi-Fi enabled devices

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/10/seattle-police-department-has-network-that-can-track-all-wi-fi-enabled-devices/

Seattle police deactivate surveillance system after public outrage

http://rt.com/usa/seattle-mesh-network-disabled-676/

500 trees along I-5 will be removed for cameras

http://blogs.seattletimes.com/today/2014/03/500-trees-along-i-5-will-be-removed-for-cameras/?syndication=rss

12K cameras to give Atlanta police broader window to city

http://www.ajc.com/news/news/12k-cameras-to-give-atlanta-police-broader-window-/nd2Sh/

Strict curfew restrictions go into effect in city

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-curfew-effect-20140807,0,4145976.story

Holder announces task force on ‘homegrown’ terrorists

http://www.latimes.com/la-na-nn-holder-terrorism-task-force-20140601-story.html

Obama Administration Reports That More Than 100,000 Americans Are Domestic Terrorists

http://www.reddit.com/r/AnythingGoesNews/comments/q431n/obama_administration_reports_that_more_than/

Terrorist database continues to grow at rapid rate

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/terrorist-database-continues-grow-rapid-rate

Blacklisted: The Secret Government Rulebook For Labeling You a Terrorist

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/07/23/blacklisted/

Is Your Child a Terrorist? U.S. Government Questionnaire Rates Families at Risk for Extremism

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/02/09/government-develops-questionnaire-see-might-become-terrorist/

Barack Obama’s Secret Terrorist-Tracking System, by the Numbers

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/08/05/watch-commander/

Meet the Muslim-American Leaders the FBI and NSA Have Been Spying On

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/07/09/under-surveillance/

Revealed: Hundreds of words to avoid using online if you don’t want the government spying on you (and they include ‘pork’, ‘cloud’ and ‘Mexico’)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2150281/REVEALED-Hundreds-words-avoid-using-online-dont-want-government-spying-you.html

President may order killing of American terrorists, Holder says

The attorney general offers a rationale for how the airstrike that killed U.S. citizen Anwar Awlaki in Yemen last year is in line with the Constitution.

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/mar/05/world/la-fg-holder-awlaki-20120306

Attorney General Secretly Granted Gov. Ability to Develop and Store Dossiers on Innocent Americans

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/12/gov-dossiers-on-us-citizens/

Police teach tactics for handling ‘sovereign citizens’

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-sovereigns-20130406,0,3800088.story

Dealing with threat of sovereign citizens

http://www.myfoxmemphis.com/story/22379045/dealing-with-the-threat-of-sovereign-citizens

Knezovich facing protest over MRAP flap

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GM3-ezC2qw

WAKE UP HUNDREDS OF TANKS AND ARMOR MOVING IN CALIFORNIA COMING

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=VkYfSXy7XGo

Police Hold Shooting Drills “They’re Pretending To Be Angry PARENTS At A School”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xsPaFjslZM

Machine Gun Fire over Biscayne Blvd. with Little Bird fly over.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLpfPkaas_Q&feature=youtu.be

The Running Man Opening Scene

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJPPQ4wJ2So&t=2m04s

LAPD And Special Forces Conduct Military Maneuvers In The Skies Above Downtown LA

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2012/01/25/lapd-and-special-forces-conduct-military-maneuvers-in-the-skies-above-downtown-la/

Don’t mind the helicopters, it’s just practice, Miami-Dade police say

http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/01/21/3193887_dont-mind-the-helicopters-its.html#dsq-form-area

Machine gun fire from military helicopters flying over downtown Miami Fl.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri9ioCbqJCU&feature=share

Urban warfare exercise in Tinley Park frightens some residents

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/suburbs/tinley_park/chi-tinley-park-urban-warfare-exercise-20130424,0,4056874.story

Army drill scares residents on Houston’s south side

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=8971311

Army to use old jail in Galveston for training exercises today

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news%2Flocal&id=8973256

Shuttered Northridge Mall transformed into simulated war zone

http://fox6now.com/2013/04/07/shuttered-north-ridge-mall-transformed-into-simulated-war-zone/

Helicopters over French Quarter part of planned training exercise

http://www.nola.com/military/index.ssf/2013/04/helicopters_over_french_quarte.html

Intense Raw Video: Massive Counterterrorism Drill Makes Downtown Los Angeles Look Like Urban War Zone

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/06/06/would-you-believe-this-photo-was-taken-in-l-a/

Military training exercises underway in skies over Valley

http://www.azfamily.com/news/Military-training-exercises-underway-in-skies-over-Valley-232604101.html

Military conducts training exercises in and around Chicago

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-07-23/news/chi-military-conducts-training-exercises-in-and-around-chicago-20130723_1_exercises-military-helicopters-military-personnel

U.S. Special Forces behind last month’s training in New Orleans, military confirms

http://www.nola.com/military/index.ssf/2013/05/us_special_forces_behind_last.html

Zombies under attack in counterterrorism training program

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/16/13899038-zombies-under-attack-in-counterterrorism-training-program

The Army Built a Fake City in Virginia to Train Its Troops

http://gizmodo.com/the-army-built-a-fake-city-in-virginia-to-train-its-tro-1520646265

Homeland Security drill simulates dangerous World Series scenario at PNC Park

http://www.wtae.com/news/homeland-security-drill-for-world-series-scenario-at-pnc-park/25373562

Special Ops exercise makes big splash in Tampa

http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/story/25579164/special-ops-exercise-makes-big-splash-in-tampa

Officials to hold largest security drill in Boston’s history

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/05/01/participate-massive-security-drill-planned-over-weekend-boston-area/7dBmVJaLqhjWHoqoYsKB8K/story.html

Homeland Security Enlists Clergy to Quell Public Unrest

http://www.ksla.com/story/6937987/homeland-security-enlists-clergy-to-quell-public-unrest-if-martial-law-ever-declared

Police: ‘Do not be alarmed,’ mock terrorism exercise tonight at Greenwood Mall

http://www.indystar.com/story/news/local/johnson-county/2014/08/17/police-alarmed-mock-terrorism-exercise-tonight-greenwood-mall/14202953/

Low-Flying Helicopters In Twin Cities Part Of Military Exercise

http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2014/08/18/low-flying-helicopters-in-twin-cities-part-of-military-exercise/

NORAD conducting exercise Tuesday in Washington area

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/norad-conducting-exercise-tuesday-in-washington-area/2014/08/19/0e3e9554-278f-11e4-86ca-6f03cbd15c1a_story.html

Mock nuclear explosion drill being conducted next week

http://www.kotatv.com/news/nebraska-news/mock-nuclear-explosion-drill-being-conducted-next-week/28036776

Mpls. City Council Member Demands Answers about Military Helicopter Training

http://kstp.com/news/stories/s3551823.shtml

Why Did a Military-Style Helicopter Land in Downtown Dallas Tuesday Evening?

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/09/10/why-did-a-military-style-helicopter-land-in-downtown-dallas-tuesday-evening/

Militarized Cops Pretend to Fight Terrorists in Oakland

http://www.vice.com/read/militarized-cops-pretend-to-fight-terrorists-in-oakland-912

Military training drills taking place in Broward

http://www.wsvn.com/story/28539409/military-training-drills-taking-place-in-broward

Marines to train in Los Angeles for urban combat

http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/dec/04/marines-to-train-in-los-angeles-for-urban-combat/

Military helicopter to land in Muskegon Heights for training-exercise practice

http://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/index.ssf/2015/04/military_helicopter_to_land_in.html

Helicopters flying over Dallas part of Special Operations training

http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/2014/12/helicopters-flying-over-dallas-part-of-special-operations-training.html/

Fleet of Government Aircraft Flying Secret Missions over U.S. Cities

https://medium.com/@MinneapoliSam/fleet-of-government-aircraft-flying-secret-missions-over-u-s-cities-84cbdf57dfbb

The Globalization of Governmental Murder

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/obama-assassination-program-092910?src=rss

With Control of Drone Strikes, Is Counterterror Chief John Brennan the U.S. “Assassination Czar”?

http://www.democracynow.org/2012/5/24/with_control_of_drone_strikes_is

Obama assassinates 16 year-old, Colorado-born, United States citizen.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/lt8zl/obama_assassinates_16_yearold_coloradoborn_united/

How Team Obama Justifies the Killing of a 16-Year-Old American

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/10/how-team-obama-justifies-the-killing-of-a-16-year-old-american/264028/#

Holder: We’ve Droned 4 Americans, 3 by Accident. Oops.

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/05/4-americans-drone/

The NSA’s Secret Role in the U.S. Assassination Program

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/02/10/the-nsas-secret-role/

White House: No more drone killings information will be released

http://dailycaller.com/2013/02/07/white-house-no-more-information-about-drone-killings-will-be-released-to-public/?onswipe_redirect=no

http://www.baltimorecitycouncil.com/Jacks_Journal_Pages/February_6/parade.gif

Pentagon Has ‘Everything Must Go’ Sale

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

See the weapons, vehicles, and other equipment police in your area have acquired from the military. Searchable by state and county.

http://www.reddit.com/r/InternetIsBeautiful/comments/2e55qi/see_the_weapons_vehicles_and_other_equipment/

Visualized: Police Militarization in Florida

http://fcir.org/2015/05/10/visualized-police-militarization-in-florida/

San Diego Police Department orders and receives 147 Bayonet Knives from the Military Surplus program.

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/2e69te/san_diego_police_department_orders_and_receives/

Every item distributed to local law enforcement by the Pentagon’s 1033 program over two years

https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2014/aug/15/we-have-pentagon-1033-program-data/

40 Percent of “Used” Military Equipment Given to Police Is Brand New

http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2014/09/10/40-Percent-Used-Military-Equipment-Given-Police-Brand-New

War Gear Flows to Police Departments

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/27ov7z/war_gear_flows_to_police_departments/

Mapping the Spread of the Military’s Surplus Gear

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/08/15/us/surplus-military-equipment-map.html?_r=0

Here’s A Breakdown Of The Military-Style Gear Used On The Streets Of Ferguson, Missouri

http://www.businessinsider.com/military-gear-police-ferguson-2014-8

Florida, Alabama and Texas are among the most enthusiastic recipients of surplus military gear

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/08/15/florida-alabama-and-texas-are-among-the-most-enthusiastic-recipients-of-surplus-military-gear/

SWAT gets MRAP war vehicle for raid missions in Farmington, New Mexico

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJqWDqv62M0

Spoils of war: Police getting leftover Iraq trucks

http://news.msn.com/us/spoils-of-war-police-getting-leftover-iraq-trucks

DHS-HSI Homeland Security Investigations El Paso SRT MRAP Armored Vehicle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pS9aw5pcJo&feature=player_embedded

Heavily-armored DHS vehicles seen on road

https://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2012/09/20/heavily-armored-dhs-vehicles-seen-on-road/

Meet the new Boss in Town: ICE spawns… HSI Homeland Security Investigations, for great justice & cocaine cowboys

http://hongpong.com/archives/2012/04/12/meet-new-boss-town-ice-spawns-hsi-homeland-security-investigations-great-justice

Wisconsin and Minnesota To Get “Top Secret” $19 Million DHS Domestic Security Force

http://www.southmilwaukeenow.com/blogs/communityblogs/230749791.html

Wisconsin agencies have $28M in surplus military gear

http://www.wausaudailyherald.com/story/news/investigations/2014/08/20/wisconsin-agencies-m-surplus-military-gear/14362257/

Milwaukee Police Purchase Massive Tank To Patrol Streets

http://govtslaves.info/milwaukee-police-purchase-massive-tank-to-patrol-streets/

Dallas County Now Has Its Very Own Bulletproof, “Mine-Protected” Military SUV

http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2013/09/dallas_county_now_has_its_very.php

WLPD receives armored military vehicle through federal program

http://www.purdueexponent.org/city_state/article_8ed51601-e141-5257-a543-324245911b84.html

Murfreesboro Police Get Really Cool New SUV…

http://wgnsradio.com/murfreesboro-police-get-really-cool-new-suv–cms-14496

CPD unveils armored, bulletproof, land mine-resistant SWAT car

http://www.wistv.com/story/23948845/cpd-unveils-armored-bulletproof-land-mind-resistant-swat-car?clienttype=generic&mobilecgbypass&utm_content=buffer1c0cc&utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=Buffer

Ohio State University Police bring in military vehicle

http://thelantern.com/2013/09/ohio-state-university-police-bring-in-military-vehicle/

Fort Pierce Police Department unveils new armored vehicle

http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/region_st_lucie_county/fort_pierce/fort-pierce-police-department-unveils-new-armored-vehicle

Salinas police unveil new armored rescue vehicle

http://www.thecalifornian.com/article/20131217/NEWS09/312170042/Salinas-police-unveil-new-armored-rescue-vehicle?nclick_check=1

MILITARIZED: Police in Indiana town score mini-resistant armored vehicle

The chief of West Lafayette police said the Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle would serve as a ‘shield’ for SWAT teams.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/police-indiana-town-score-mini-resistant-armored-vehicle-article-1.1578890

Prepared for disaster: Mine-resistant, bulletproof military truck added to Saginaw County Sheriff’s fleet

http://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2014/04/prepared_for_disaster_mine-res.html#incart_river

Washington City Council Approves MRAP Request

http://www.kcrg.com/news/local/Washington-City-Council-Approves-MRAP-Request-248497811.html

Vt. police get armored tactical vehicle

http://www.wcax.com/story/24775148/vt-police-get-an-armored-tactical-vehicle

Police ‘Tank’ Purchase Riles New Hampshire Town

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/16/police-tank-purchase-new-hampshire_n_1279983.html

Gainesville PD gets special response vehicle

http://www.kxii.com/home/headlines/Gainesville-PD-get-special-response-vehicle–260364811.html

Here’s The Crazy Cache Of Military Weapons Arizona’s Cops Have At Their Fingertips

http://www.businessinsider.com/arizona-has-this-massive-military-grade-weapons-cache-2014-6

ACLU calls into question why small town police department has two grenade launchers

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/2a4x4d/aclu_calls_into_question_why_small_town_police/

Redwood City Police Get $750K Military-Style Tanker

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Redwood-City-Police-Get-750K-Military-Style-Tanker-266320161.html

Tampa Bay law enforcement sees value in military’s MRAPs

http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/tampa-bay-law-enforcement-sees-value-in-militarys-mraps/2188369

Delaware police request surplus military gear

http://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/nation/military/2014/08/09/delaware-police-request-surplus-military-gear/13844553/

Hamilton Co. receives former military APC free for SWAT team

http://www.wlwt.com/news/hamilton-co-receives-former-military-carrier-free-for-swat-team/27842708

San Diego school takes MRAP to store ‘medical supplies,’ ‘teddy bears’

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/sep/15/san-diego-school-takes-mrap-store-medical-supplies/

Military rifles, armor sent to Texas school police

http://www.khou.com/story/news/investigations/2014/09/05/military-rifles-armor-ammo-sent-to-texas-school-police/15112731/

more

Davis Police Accepting MRAP Raises Concerns About Department Militarization

http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2014/08/20/davis-police-accepting-mrap-raises-concerns-about-department-militarization/

Citing unsettling Ferguson images, Davis to return armored vehicle

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-davis-armored-vehicle-ferguson-images-20140829-story.html

San Jose Police Returning Mine-Resistant Armored Truck To Feds Amid Militarization Debate

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/08/29/416281-mrap-san-jose-police-returning-armored-transport-amid-militarization-debate-tank-armored-mine-fedeal/

L.A. schools police will return grenade launchers but keep rifles, armored vehicle

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-schools-weapons-20140917-story.html

more

Biggest thing on four wheels I’ve ever seen was on the highway today. Surprised to see where it was from.

http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1rezpc/biggest_thing_on_four_wheels_ive_ever_seen_was_on/

The Ohio State University Police Department recently bought a new vehicle. If you ask me it’s a bit excessive for a college campus.

http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/1m22e6/the_ohio_state_university_police_department/

So this thing rolled into Colorado today…

http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/22nson/so_this_thing_rolled_into_colorado_today/

My hometown Sheriff’s department just got this.

http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/268d9x/my_hometown_sheriffs_department_just_got_this/

My county’s sheriffs department got a new truck. Looks like they are preparing for the zombie apocalypse.

http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/27ip8k/my_countys_sheriffs_department_got_a_new_truck/

Looks like my small Arkansas town is ready for another civil war. [x-post r/pics]

http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/2dfxa7/looks_like_my_small_arkansas_town_is_ready_for/

This seems unnecessary

http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/370q08/this_seems_unnecessary/

Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) G20 Pittsburgh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSMyY3_dmrM

Chicago Police Department bought a sound cannon. They are going to use it on people.

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/tmx6h/chicago_police_department_bought_a_sound_cannon/

LRAD used at #occupywallstreet raid

http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/mcv34/lrad_used_at_occupywallstreet_raid/

Military device used on Detroit protest against #WaterShutoffs

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/07/21/1315395/-Military-device-used-on-Detroit-protest-against-WaterShutoffs#

This Is the Sound Cannon Used Against Protesters in Ferguson

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/08/14/lrad_long_range_acoustic_device_sound_cannons_were_used_for_crowd_control.html

Watch: NYPD uses military-grade sonic weapon on Eric Garner protesters

http://www.rawstory.com/2014/12/watch-nypd-uses-military-grade-sonic-weapon-on-eric-garner-protesters/

Newly Obtained Records Reveal Extensive Monitoring of E-ZPass Tags Throughout New York

https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-future/newly-obtained-records-reveal-extensive-monitoring-e-zpass-tags-throughout-new-york

Miss a Payment? Good Luck Moving That Car

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/09/24/miss-a-payment-good-luck-moving-that-car/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0

Driver beware: Your new car may be spying on you

http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/driver-beware-your-new-car-may-be-spying-on-you-1.2296165

Feds Requiring ‘Black Boxes’ in All Motor Vehicles

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/12/black-boxes-privacy/

Ford Exec: ‘We Know Everyone Who Breaks The Law’ Thanks To Our GPS In Your Car

http://www.businessinsider.com/ford-exec-gps-2014-1

FBI: GPS track led to Phila. abduction suspect’s arrest

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-gps-track-led-to-philadelphia-abduction-suspects-arrest-in-carlesha-freeland-gaither-case/

Carmakers keep data on drivers’ locations

http://web.archive.org/web/20140113004509/http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20140107/AUTO01/301070017

TomTom admits police used data for speed traps

http://web.archive.org/web/20110501003501/http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2011/04/27/business-telecommunications-equipment-eu-netherlands-earns-tomtom_8438128.html

High-speed chase ends when OnStar halts stolen SUV

http://web.archive.org/web/20091022121735/http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091019/ap_on_bi_ge/us_car_fights_back_2

Automated cars from Minority Report

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vrxyr1CjiSM&t=26s

Public Buses Across Country Quietly Adding Microphones to Record Passenger Conversations

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/12/public-bus-audio-surveillance/

New TriMet buses can record conversations

http://www.kgw.com/news/local/New-TriMet-buses-record-conversations-191078271.html

MBTA Buses Get Live Video Technology

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2014/02/10/mbta-buses-get-live-video-technology/

MTA To Install Cameras, Audio Recorders On Metro-North, LIRR Trains

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/03/19/mta-to-install-cameras-audio-recorders-on-mnr-lirr-trains/

Hertz installs cameras and microphones in rental cars

Technically Incorrect: Some of Hertz’s NeverLost systems now have cameras and mics — which the company claims it doesn’t intend to use at this time.

http://www.cnet.com/news/hertz-installs-cameras-and-microphones-in-rental-cars/

FBI admits Patriot Act snooping powers didn’t crack any major terrorism cases.

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/36v8l2/fbi_admits_patriot_act_snooping_powers_didnt/

Surprise! Controversial Patriot Act power now overwhelmingly used in drug investigations

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/2krxpy/surprise_controversial_patriot_act_power_now/

DEA Agent: We Were Told Not to Enforce Drug Laws in Rich White Areas

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/2yfsv9/dea_agent_we_were_told_not_to_enforce_drug_laws/

Exclusive: TSA ‘Behavior Detection’ Program Targeting Undocumented Immigrants, Not Terrorists

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/04/06/exclusive-tsa-behavior-detection-program-targeting-immigrants-terrorists/

How the NYPD’s Counterterrorism Apparatus Is Being Turned on Protesters

http://www.vice.com/read/how-the-nypds-counter-terror-apparatus-is-being-turned-on-police-protesters-119

5 Tools the Police Are Using in Their War Against Activists

http://www.thenation.com/article/206217/5-tools-police-are-using-their-war-against-activists

Is Reddit about to Digg™ its own grave? Leaked discussion from private sub-reddit showing that Reddit admins, including co-founder /u/kn0thing, are meeting with, “experts and activists” and may be looking at limiting site freedoms against people or groups deemed offensive.

http://www.reddit.com/r/undelete/comments/2uo2yt/is_reddit_about_to_digg_its_own_grave_leaked/

reddit announces sitewide effort to enforce new anti-harassment rules

http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/05/reddit-announces-sitewide-effort-to-enforce-new-anti-harassment-rules/

A joke making fun of Reddit CEO Ellen Pao is removed for “harassment” after receiving more than 3000 upvotes.

http://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/378smw/a_joke_making_fun_of_reddit_ceo_ellen_pao_is/

Reddit CEO Ellen Pao: “It’s not our site’s goal to be a completely free-speech platform”

http://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/36l1pw/reddit_ceo_ellen_pao_its_not_our_sites_goal_to_be/

Users lash out at Reddit boss for ‘deleting’ posts on hubby’s lawsuit

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/2zokqg/users_lash_out_at_reddit_boss_for_deleting_posts/

We are Glenn Greenwald & Murtaza Hussain, who just revealed the Muslim-American leaders spied on by the NSA & FBI. Ask Us Anything.

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2a8hn2/we_are_glenn_greenwald_murtaza_hussain_who_just/cisiv2g

Why Reddit moderators are “censoring” Glenn Greenwald’s latest bombshell

http://www.salon.com/2014/02/28/why_reddit_moderators_are_censoring_glenn_greenwalds_latest_bombshell_partner/

I have identified a list of keywords that are banned from /r/technology. Putting one in the title of a post will result in that post not showing up in the feed.

http://www.reddit.com/r/undelete/comments/22yewf/i_have_identified_a_list_of_keywords_that_are/

PSA: I have temporarily disabled new submissions to /r/news because reposts about the Wisconsin shooting are coming in as fast as I can remove them

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/xq2os/psa_i_have_temporarily_disabled_new_submissions/

WTF, Reddit?!

http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/v0kiu/wtf_reddit/

Hi /r/news, how are you? We are preparing a list of “banned domains” to have a bot automatically remove as frequent sources of inappropriate submissions. Post your suggestions, as well as any other comments or questions about /r/news moderation.

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/18jgbj/hi_rnews_how_are_you_we_are_preparing_a_list_of/

Concerning Recent Changes in Allowed Domains

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1pedlv/concerning_recent_changes_in_allowed_domains/

Moderators Must Hate Dogs

http://www.reddit.com/r/AdviceAnimals/comments/1hgl3h/moderators_must_hate_dogs/

[#35|+888|206] Redditor BashCo calls out a false claim by Reddit Admin Deimorz that nobody is using voting to suggest support for the recent changes to voting on the site

http://www.reddit.com/r/undelete/comments/28t078/35888206_redditor_bashco_calls_out_a_false_claim/

The MPAA Is Trying (and Failing) to Take Down an Entire Subreddit

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/293tw9/the_mpaa_is_trying_and_failing_to_take_down_an/

Oh No! Web Sheriff Targets ‘Pirating’ Reddit Users

http://torrentfreak.com/oh-no-web-sheriff-targets-pirating-reddit-users-140907/

Reddit bans all “Fappening” related subreddits

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/2foqu1/reddit_bans_all_fappening_related_subreddits/

Reddit Bans User Accounts After Receiving Takedown Requests From Sony Over Leaked Documents

http://www.businessinsider.com/reddit-bans-user-accounts-after-receiving-takedown-requests-from-sony-over-leaked-documents-2014-12

Time to talk

http://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/2fpdax/time_to_talk/

more

http://www.reddit.com/r/HailCorporate/

Wieden + Kennedy Seeks Help on Old Spice in Crazy, Epic Job Listing One week, 10 insane social challenges By Tim Nudd

http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/wieden-kennedy-seeks-help-old-spice-crazy-epic-job-listing-144871

How they film old spice commercials

http://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/1w7x03/how_they_film_old_spice_commercials/cezqrn5?context=3

The Reddit Marketing Field Guide [Infographic]

http://www.prestigemarketing.ca/blog/the-reddit-marketing-field-guide-infographic/

Reddit Hates Marketing. How to Market on it Anyway.

http://adage.com/article/special-report-sxsw/reddit-hates-marketing-market/292068/

Boiled camera cooks up some shill drama when OP admits to being paid by the camera’s company

http://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/2elipa/boiled_camera_cooks_up_some_shill_drama_when_op/

An exercise in greed. Can I buy my way to the front page? Gold for every upvote/comment.

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1hgg4j/an_exercise_in_greed_can_i_buy_my_way_to_the/

http://buyredditvotes.com/

https://www.facebook.com/buyredditaccounts

Can Hollywood’s star machine master Reddit’s ‘Ask Me Anything’?

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-hollywood-publicity-machine-reddit-ask-me-anything-zach-braff-morgan-freeman-oblivion–20130501,0,1006687.story

[recap] The True(er) Story about Warner Bros and the Getaway Scam of r/Movies

http://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1ll4wl/recap_the_trueer_story_about_warner_bros_and_the/

r/WoW Announcement: Kotaku may no longer be submitted to this subreddit

https://archive.today/GSsfj

Reddit slams Wired over article on how to cheat random-acts-of-pizza/

http://www.dailydot.com/news/reddit-wired-cheat-random-acts-of-pizza/

Dear Wired Magazine, this isn’t cool.

http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1iuhqg/dear_wired_magazine_this_isnt_cool/

How The Atlantic successfully spammed Reddit

http://www.dailydot.com/society/atlantic-slaterhearst-jared-keller-reddit/

Gaming site IGN banned from Reddit for vote manipulation

http://www.dailydot.com/news/ign-reddit-ban-vote-cheating/

Reddit bans libertarian magazine “Reason”

http://www.dailydot.com/news/reddit-reason-ban-spamming-vote-manipulation/

Is Reddit turning a blind eye to spam?

http://www.dailydot.com/news/reddit-spam-amazon-affiliate-posts/

PSA: RT.com has been banned for spam and vote manipulation

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1lbrt6/psa_rtcom_has_been_banned_for_spam_and_vote/

The Russian news site RT.com has been banned from the popular Reddit forum r/news for spamming and vote manipulation.

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1lecql/the_russian_news_site_rtcom_has_been_banned_from/

RT.com partially banned by Reddit – RT Answers Back.

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1lenw6/rtcom_partially_banned_by_reddit_rt_answers_back/

Year-long e-sports site ban shows the dangers of gaming reddit

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/07/year-long-e-sports-site-ban-shows-the-dangers-of-gaming-reddit/

FBI says agent impersonated AP reporter

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/89470f11697641518c1043aab01773ac/fbi-admits-agent-impersonated-ap-reporter

FBI cut hotel Internet access, sent agents to “fix” it without warrants

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/10/fbi-cut-hotel-internet-access-sent-agents-to-fix-it-without-warrants/

How the FBI Sabotaged Black America – YouTube.flv

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ah_cR_uP40Y

“The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther”

http://www.democracynow.org/2009/12/4/the_assassination_of_fred_hampton_how

Dr. King family’s civil trial verdict: US government assassinated Martin

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/01/dr-king-familys-civil-trial-verdict-us-government-assassinated-martin.html

Memphis Jury Sees Conspiracy in Martin Luther King’s Killing

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/09/us/memphis-jury-sees-conspiracy-in-martin-luther-king-s-killing.html

What an Uncensored Letter to M.L.K. Reveals

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/magazine/what-an-uncensored-letter-to-mlk-reveals.html

FBI monitored and critiqued African American writers for decades

A new book reveals the extent to which J Edgar Hoover’s bureau kept files on well-known black writers between 1919 and 1972

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/09/fbi-monitored-african-american-writers-j-edgar-hoover

“Disreputable if Not Outright Illegal”: The National Security Agency versus Martin Luther King, Muhammad Ali, Art Buchwald, Frank Church, et al.

Newly Declassified History Divulges Names of Prominent Americans Targeted by NSA during Vietnam Era Declassification Decision by Interagency Panel Releases New Information on the Berlin Crisis, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Panama Canal Negotiations

http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB441/

Just Being Black Was Enough to Get Yourself Spied on by J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI

The files obtained during the break-in in Media, Pennsylvania, revealed that African-Americans didn’t have to have radical ideas, or engage in violence, to merit surveillance.

http://www.thenation.com/article/178029/just-being-black-was-enough-get-yourself-spied-j-edgar-hoovers-fbi

FBI Director Defends Police, Says Everyone’s A Little Bit Racist

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/02/12/everyones-little-bit-racist-says-fbi-director/

‘Mohammed Raghead’ – the name the FBI were giving to Muslim-American ‘Joe Bloggs’

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/mohammed-raghead–the-name-the-fbi-were-giving-to-muslimamerican-joe-bloggs-9594332.html

US secretly created ‘Cuban Twitter’ to stir unrest

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/us-secretly-created-cuban-twitter-stir-unrest

Glance: Draft Messages for Secret ‘Cuban Twitter’

https://web.archive.org/web/20140414110516/http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/glance-draft-messages-secret-cuban-twitter-23247011

US built dozens of Twitter-like services around the world to promote political debates

http://www.theverge.com/2014/4/27/5658058/us-built-social-media-networks-around-the-world

USAID programme used young Latin Americans to incite Cuba rebellion

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/04/usaid-latin-americans-cuba-rebellion-hiv-workshops?cmp=wp-plugin

US sent Latin youth undercover in anti-Cuba ploy

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/us-sent-latin-youth-undercover-in-anti-cuba-ploy/2014/08/03/2c9f5786-1b5a-11e4-9b6c-12e30cbe86a3_story.html

U.S. Cuban ‘Twitter’ Was Part of Bigger Plan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ3sIH0F2wU

USAID op undermines Cuba’s hip-hop protest scene

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/7c275c134f1b4a0ca3428929fcece82d/us-co-opted-cubas-hip-hop-scene-spark-change

American given 15 years in prison in Cuba

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/american-given-15-years-in-prison-in-cuba/

Al Qaeda-Linked Syria Group Enjoying USAID? You’ve Got to See This to Believe It

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/09/24/al-qaeda-syria-enjoying-usaid-youve-got-to-see-this-to-believe-it/

Why the U.S. Paid Karzai’s Top Aide

The Afghan president’s top aide was on two USAID contractors’ payroll, drawing more than $100,000 a year as part of a program to install West-backed technocrats in the government.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/12/18/how-the-u-s-paid-top-karzai-aide.html

Jason Chaffetz rips USAID over ‘slush fund’ to Afghan government

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/04/03/jason-chaffetz-rips-usaid-over-slush-fund-to-afghan-government/?intcmp=latestnews

Arrest Warrant Out for USAID Contractor in Afghanistan

http://www.thenation.com/article/arrest-warrant-out-usaid-contractor-afghanistan#

Bolivia’s Morales Expels USAID For Allegedly Seeking To Undermine Government

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/01/bolivia-morales-expels-usaid_n_3193115.html

USAid covertly influencing political processes, says Russia

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/sep/19/usaid-covertly-influence-politics-russia

Tear gas breaks up rally in Kenya as gov’t accuses US of planning to topple government

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/02/13/tear-gas-breaks-up-rally-in-kenya-as-govt-accuses-us-planning-to-topple/

USAid ‘not plotting to topple Kenya government’

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-26186188

USAID to Pull Out of Ecuador

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/usaid-to-pull-out-of-ecuador/

Exclusive: US bankrolled anti-Morsi activists

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/07/2013710113522489801.html

USAID director in Egypt quits over funding for pro-democracy groups

http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/08/12/161903.html

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2zxxjY7Y01qmqh7go1_r1_250.gif

State Department Announces New “Long-standing” Policy Against Backing Coups

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frO1T3vZNrA

Strategy of tension

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategy_of_tension

Operation Gladio – BBC Timewatch

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXavNe81XdQ

Turkey blocks YouTube after audio recording leaked

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/03/27/turkey-blocks-youtube/6958649/

National Archives: French planted ‘bomb’ in London to test security

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/national-archives-french-planted-bomb-in-london-to-test-security-9035751.html

Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warrior#France_implicated

Obama Admits US Involvement in Iran Coup in 1953, But Doesn’t Admit American Involvement in False Flags

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/06/obama-admits-us-involvement-in-iran-coup-in-1953-but-doesnt-admit-american-involvement-in-false-flags.html

1953 Iranian coup d’état

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax#U.S._role

Operation Ajax

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax

SECRETS OF HISTORY

The C.I.A. In Iran

http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/mideast/041600iran-cia-index.html

U.S. Military Wanted to Provoke War With Cuba

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=92662&page=1#.UXuUlkpcnn4

TIL about Operation Northwoods. A plan that called for CIA to commit genuine acts of terrorism in U.S. cities and elsewhere. These acts of terrorism were to be blamed on Cuba in order to create public support for a war against that nation, which had recently become communist under Fidel Castro.

http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/md1gv/til_about_operation_northwoods_a_plan_that_called/

WikiLeaks has published over 40,000 secret documents regarding Venezuela, which show the clear hand of US imperialism in efforts to topple popular and democratically elected leader Hugo Chavez

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/197ari/wikileaks_has_published_over_40000_secret/

Declassified documents add to proof that US helped cover up 1940 Soviet massacre

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/znh3b/declassified_documents_add_to_proof_that_us/

Lessons from failed Cold War spy mission in China

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/9135114

CIA – Freedom Fighter’s Manual

http://www.ballistichelmet.org/school/free.html

THE BUSINESS PLOT TO OVERTHROW ROOSEVELT

http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/Coup.htm

Gulf of Tonkin incident

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_Incident

Bush-Blair Iraq war memo revealed

The New York Times says it has seen a memo which shows that the US president was firmly set on the path to war two months before the 2003 Iraq invasion.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4849744.stm

WikiLeaks Honduras: State Dept. Busted on Support of Coup

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/wikileaks-honduras-state_b_789282.html

Hard choices: Hillary Clinton admits role in Honduran coup aftermath

http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/9/hillary-clinton-honduraslatinamericaforeignpolicy.html

Covert United States foreign regime change actions

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert_U.S._regime_change_actions

Arms Cache Most Likely Kept in Texas by the C.I.A.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/05/us/arms-cache-most-likely-kept-in-texas-by-the-cia.html?hp

Governments from Around the World – Including Western, Islamic, Asian and African Nations – ADMIT They Carry Out False Flag Terror

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/07/governments-around-world-admit-carry-false-flag-terror.html

Operation Washtub (Nicaragua)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Washtub_(Nicaragua)

Evidence Reveals Canada, UK Involvement in Venezuela Coup Plot

http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Evidence-Reveals-Canada-UK-Involvement-in-Venezuela-Coup-Plot-20150213-0035.html

The British-American coup that ended Australian independence

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/23/gough-whitlam-1975-coup-ended-australian-independence

http://www.adsavvy.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/creepcamz.jpg

http://www.adsavvy.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/watchful_eyes.jpg

Red-faced: 18mn mugshots stored on police database despite court ruling

http://rt.com/uk/228899-police-mugshots-database-court/

Treasure Map: The NSA Breach of Telekom and Other German Firms

According to top-secret documents from the NSA and the British agency GCHQ, the intelligence agencies are seeking to map the entire Internet, including end-user devices. In pursuing that goal, they have broken into networks belonging to Deutsche Telekom.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/snowden-documents-indicate-nsa-has-breached-deutsche-telekom-a-991503.html

Operation AURORAGOLD: How the NSA Hacks Cellphone Networks Worldwide

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/12/04/nsa-auroragold-hack-cellphones/

The Great SIM Heist: How Spies Stole the Keys to the Encryption Castle

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/02/19/great-sim-heist/

NSA ‘third party’ partners tap the Internet backbone in global surveillance program

’Third parties’ give NSA access to international fiber-optic cables, sharing massive amounts of phone and Internet data, new Snowden documents show. Germany and, by all accounts, Denmark, are among the partners in the NSA mass surveillance program codenamed RAMPART-A.

http://www.information.dk/501280

Mastering the internet: how GCHQ set out to spy on the world wide web

Project Tempora – the evolution of a secret programme to capture vast amounts of web and phone data

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/21/gchq-mastering-the-internet

NSA shares raw intelligence including Americans’ data with Israel

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/11/nsa-americans-personal-data-israel-documents?CMP=ema_follow

Cash, Weapons and Surveillance: the U.S. is a Key Party to Every Israeli Attack

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/08/04/cash-weapons-surveillance/

The NSA’s New Partner in Spying: Saudi Arabia’s Brutal State Police

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/07/25/nsas-new-partner-spying-saudi-arabias-brutal-state-police/

Exclusive: NSA pays £100m in secret funding for GCHQ

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/aug/01/nsa-paid-gchq-spying-edward-snowden

US and UK struck secret deal to allow NSA to ‘unmask’ Britons’ personal data

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/20/us-uk-secret-deal-surveillance-personal-data

British Spy Chiefs Secretly Begged to Play in NSA’s Data Pools

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/04/30/gchq-prism-nsa-fisa-unsupervised-access-snowden/

British spy agency has secret access to the world’s Facebook posts, phone calls, emails and internet history

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1gswc8/british_spy_agency_has_secret_access_to_the/

UK government to monitor web and email use under new legislation set to be announced soon

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/rnqst/uk_government_to_monitor_web_and_email_use_under/

GCHQ to trawl Facebook and Twitter for intelligence

Civil liberties fears as eavesdropping agency recruits maths, physics and computing experts to analyse social networks

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/oct/31/gchq-facebook-twitter

Masters of the Internet: GCHQ scanned entire countries for vulnerabilities

http://rt.com/uk/181084-gchq-scans-entire-countries/

NSA/GCHQ: The HACIENDA Program for Internet Colonization

http://www.heise.de/ct/artikel/NSA-GCHQ-The-HACIENDA-Program-for-Internet-Colonization-2292681.html

British Telecom has GCHQ backdoors in all of its modem/routers

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2kyvnf/british_telecom_has_gchq_backdoors_in_all_of_its/

New Snowden docs: GCHQ’s ties to telco gave spies global surveillance reach

Access through “partners” such as Cable & Wireless pulls in gigabits globally.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/11/new-snowden-docs-gchqs-ties-to-telco-gave-spies-global-surveillance-reach/

Operation Socialist: How GCHQ Spies Hacked Belgium’s Largest Telco

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/12/13/belgacom-hack-gchq-inside-story/

Secret Malware in European Union Attack Linked to U.S. and British Intelligence

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/11/24/secret-regin-malware-belgacom-nsa-gchq/

Regin Malware Unmasked as NSA Tool after SPIEGEL Publishes Source Cod

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/regin-malware-unmasked-as-nsa-tool-after-spiegel-publishes-source-code-a-1015255.html

‘A’ for Angela: GCHQ and NSA Targeted Private German Companies and Merkel

Documents show that Britain’s GCHQ intelligence service infiltrated German Internet firms and America’s NSA obtained a court order to spy on Germany and collected information about the chancellor in a special database. Is it time for the country to open a formal espionage investigation?

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/gchq-and-nsa-targeted-private-german-companies-a-961444.html

Belgacom Attack: Britain’s GCHQ Hacked Belgian Telecoms Firm

A cyber attack on Belgacom raised considerable attention last week. Documents leaked by Edward Snowden and seen by SPIEGEL indicate that Britain’s GCHQ intelligence agency was responsible for the attack.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/british-spy-agency-gchq-hacked-belgian-telecoms-firm-a-923406.html

The U.S. Government’s Secret Plans to Spy for American Corporations

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/09/05/us-governments-plans-use-economic-espionage-benefit-american-corporations/

Britain under attack from 20 foreign spy agencies including France and Germany

Spies from 20 foreign intelligence agencies, including Nato allies such as France and Germany, are attempting to steal Britain’s most sensitive secrets.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/4548753/Britain-under-attack-from-20-foreign-spy-agencies-including-France-and-Germany.html

The Kremlin’s New Internet Surveillance Plan Goes Live Today

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/11/russia-surveillance/all/

It’s official: Russia’s FSB will keep an eye on social media

http://rt.com/politics/179116-russia-fsb-social-media/

Russian ‘Sandworm’ Hack Has Been Spying on Foreign Governments for Years

http://www.wired.com/2014/10/russian-sandworm-hack-isight/

India’s government can now snoop on all Internet communications: “The government has given itself unprecedented powers to monitor private internet records of citizens”

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1dxupd/indias_government_can_now_snoop_on_all_internet/

NSA trying to map Rogers, RBC communications traffic, leak shows

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/nsa-trying-to-map-rogers-rbc-communications-traffic-leak-shows/article23491118/

CSE tracks millions of downloads daily: Snowden documents

Global sites for sharing movies, photos, music targeted in mass anti-terror surveillance

http://www.cbc.ca/news/cse-tracks-millions-of-downloads-daily-snowden-documents-1.2930120

CSE admits it ‘incidentally’ spied on Canadians

http://www.theobserver.ca/2014/01/03/cse-admits-it-incidentally-spying-on-canadians

CSEC used airport Wi-Fi to track Canadian travellers: Edward Snowden documents

Electronic snooping was part of a trial run for U.S. NSA and other foreign services

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/csec-used-airport-wi-fi-to-track-canadian-travellers-edward-snowden-documents-1.2517881

What do we know about Canada’s eavesdropping agency?

Communications Security Establishment mines metadata of phone calls and emails

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2013/06/12/f-communication-security-establishment-canada.html

Wireless firms agree to give Ottawa ability to monitor calls, phone data

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/mobile/out-of-sight-officials-tell-wireless-firms-to-let-them-monitor-devices-data/article14331615/#dashboard/follows/

Communication Security Establishment’s cyberwarfare toolbox revealed

Mexico, North Africa, Middle East among targets of cyber-spy hacking

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/communication-security-establishment-s-cyberwarfare-toolbox-revealed-1.3002978

Revealed – Australia’s own PRISM facility

The Defence Department is building a new secret communications facility designed to handle the ‘data deluge’ of electronic intelligence the US shares with Australia. PRISM is in town.

http://www.itwire.com/it-policy-news/govenrment-tech-policy/60282-revealed-%E2%80%93-australia%E2%80%99s-own-prism-facility

Reuters: Australia passes new security law vastly expanding the government’s power to monitor computers; journalists could be imprisoned for up to ten years simply for reporting on national security matters.

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/2hyqyr/reuters_australia_passes_new_security_law_vastly/

French agency spies on phone calls, email, web use, paper says

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/04/us-france-security-idUSBRE9630FS20130704

Orange Gives All Of Its Data To France’s NSA

http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/20/orange-gives-all-of-its-data-to-frances-nsa/?ncid=rss

French spy software targeted Canada: report

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/french-spy-software-targeted-canada-report/article17608109/

German officials admit using spyware on citizens, as Big Brother scandal grows

http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/german-officials-admit-using-spyware-citizens-big-brother-scandal-grows-120103

German citizens’ communication data reportedly passed to NSA

http://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/german-citizens-communication-data-reportedly-passed-to-nsa/ar-BB7kAZ6

German spy agency to ‘monitor Facebook, Twitter in real-time’

http://rt.com/news/162812-germany-spy-monitor-facebook/#.U4osMKPGN70.twitter

Greek wiretapping case 2004–2005

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_telephone_tapping_case_2004%E2%80%932005

Scotland Yard spied on critics of police corruption

Exclusive: undercover officers in Special Demonstration Squad targeted political campaigns against Metropolitan police

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/24/metropolitan-police-spying-undercover-officers?CMP=twt_fd

The NSA’s mass and indiscriminate spying on Brazilians

As it does in many non-adversarial countries, the surveillance agency is bulk collecting the communications of millions of citizens of Brazil

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/07/nsa-brazilians-globo-spying

Brazil Says It Spied on U.S. and Others Inside Its Borders

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/05/world/americas/brazil-acknowledges-spying-on-diplomats-from-us.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0

Snowden Docs: U.S. Spied on Negotiators At 2009 Climate Summit

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/29/snowden-nsa-surveillance-_n_4681362.html

NSA: Australia and US used climate change conference to spy on Indonesia

Australian agency helped carry out mass surveillance of hosts as Kevin Rudd walked world stage at 2007 Bali conference

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/02/nsa-australia-bali-conference-spy-indonesia

Snowden documents reveal British climate espionage – Copenhagen climate summit targeted

http://www.information.dk/514368

Spying by N.S.A. Ally Entangled U.S. Law Firm

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/16/us/eavesdropping-ensnared-american-law-firm.html?hp&_r=1

Oil Espionage: How the NSA and GCHQ Spied on OPEC

America’s NSA and Britain’s GCHQ are both spying on the OPEC oil cartel, documents from whistleblower Edward Snowden reveal. The security of the global energy supply is one of the most important issues for the intelligence agencies.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/how-the-nsa-and-gchq-spied-on-opec-a-932777.html#ref=rss

U.S. government spied on Brazil’s Petrobras oil firm: Globo TV

http://ca.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idCABRE9870AD20130908

Report: Canada spies targeted Brazil mine ministry

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/report-canada-spies-targeted-brazil-mine-ministry

NSA disguised itself as Google to spy, say reports

If a recently leaked document is any indication, the US National Security Agency — or its UK counterpart — appears to have put on a Google suit to gather intelligence.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57602701-38/nsa-disguised-itself-as-google-to-spy-say-reports/

Quantum Spying: GCHQ Used Fake LinkedIn Pages to Target Engineers

Elite GCHQ teams targeted employees of mobile communications companies and billing companies to gain access to their company networks. The spies used fake copies of LinkedIn profiles as one of their tools.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/ghcq-targets-engineers-with-fake-linkedin-pages-a-932821.html

NSA infected 50,000 computer networks with malicious software

http://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2013/11/23/nsa-infected-50000-computer-networks-with-malicious-software/

US spy agency ‘taped millions of French calls’

http://www.thelocal.fr/20131021/us-snooped-on-70-million-phone-calls-in-france

Revealed: How the Nsa Targets Italy

http://espresso.repubblica.it/inchieste/2013/12/05/news/revealed-how-the-nsa-targets-italy-1.144428

NSA Collected Data On 60 Million Phone Calls In Spain Over Course Of One Month: Report

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/27/nsa-spain_n_4168523.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003

Spain colluded in NSA spying on its citizens, Spanish newspaper reports

El Mundo says it has document detailing collaboration between US intelligence agency and foreign countries

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/30/spain-colluded-nsa-spying-citizens-spanish-el-mundo-us

GCHQ and European spy agencies worked together on mass surveillance

Edward Snowden papers unmask close technical cooperation and loose alliance between British, German, French, Spanish and Swedish spy agencies

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/01/gchq-europe-spy-agencies-mass-surveillance-snowden

NSA files: Australian spies scooped up thousands of email accounts to help US

More than 250m address books gathered each year by NSA and its partner agencies, Edward Snowden reveals

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/16/nsa-files-australian-spies-scooped-up-thousands-of-email-accounts-to-help-us

Norway’s military intel chief admits to phone spying outside country, data-sharing with allies

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/norways-military-intel-chief-admits-to-phone-spying-outside-country-data-sharing-with-allies/2013/11/19/8c00b370-5119-11e3-9ee6-2580086d8254_story.html

Norway´s secret surveillance of Russian politics for the NSA

The Norwegian Intelligence Service conducts surveillance of politicians, energy policy and other civilian «targets» in Russia – and provides this information for the USA.

http://www.dagbladet.no/2013/12/17/nyheter/samfunn/politikk/utenriks/overvaking/30877258/

Eyes everywhere: NSA’s second tier spying partners identified

http://rt.com/news/denmark-nsa-signit-partner-516/

Sweden aids NSA-led hacking ops: report

Sweden cooperated with the United States in operations to hack into computers and carry out internet surveillance on Swedes, according to documents leaked by NSA-whistleblower Edward Snowden.

http://www.thelocal.se/20131211/sweden-aided-in-nsa-hacking-operations-report

Sweden spied on Russia for NSA: report

Sweden helps the United States National Security Agency (NSA) spy on Russia, leaked documents from whistleblower Edward Snowden reveal.

http://www.thelocal.se/20131205/sweden-spied-on-russia-for-nsa-report

Onyx (interception system)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onyx_%28interception_system%29

Secret files scandal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_files_scandal

Data Pirates of the Caribbean: The NSA Is Recording Every Cell Phone Call in the Bahamas

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/05/19/data-pirates-caribbean-nsa-recording-every-cell-phone-call-bahamas/

‘Country X’: WikiLeaks reveals NSA recording ‘nearly all’ phone calls in Afghanistan

http://rt.com/news/160988-wikileaks-nsa-phone-afghanistan/

Britain’s GCHQ monitored Irish internet traffic

http://rt.com/news/210071-gchq-tapped-irish-cables-snowden/

Government accused of cowardice over tapping of cables

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/government-accused-of-cowardice-over-tapping-of-cables-1.2022045

A Two-Faced Friendship: Turkey Is ‘Partner and Target’ for the NSA

Documents from the archive of whistleblower Edward Snowden reveal wide-scale spying against Turkey by America’s NSA and Britain’s GCHQ. They also show the US worked closely with Ankara to battle Kurdish separatists.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/documents-show-nsa-and-gchq-spied-on-partner-turkey-a-989011.html

Report: BND-NSA collaboration deeper than thought

http://www.dw.de/report-bnd-nsa-collaboration-deeper-than-thought/a-18425290

Witness: German intelligence helped NSA to tap Internet hub

http://www.dw.de/witness-german-intelligence-helped-nsa-to-tap-internet-hub/a-18110559

NSA spied on EU politicians and companies with help from German intelligence

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/04/nsa-spied-on-eu-politicians-and-companies-with-help-from-german-intelligence/

Spying Close to Home: German Intelligence Under Fire for NSA Cooperation

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-intelligence-agency-bnd-under-fire-for-nsa-cooperation-a-1030593.html

Germany has spied on Turkey since 1976: Focus magazine

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/23/us-germany-turkey-spying-idUSKBN0GN0HW20140823

Germany gives huge amount of phone, text data to U.S. – report

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/12/uk-germany-spying-idUKKBN0NX1IN20150512?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

Berlin spied on France for the NSA, German media say

http://www.france24.com/en/20150430-berlin-spied-france-usa-nsa-german-media-elysee

NSA asked Germany ‘to spy’ on Siemens

http://www.thelocal.de/20150510/nsa-asked-germany-to-spy-on-siemens

CIA Spied on Senate Committee Investigating CIA

http://www.allgov.com/news/controversies/cia-spied-on-senate-committee-investigating-cia-140310?news=852644

The CIA’s Other Spy Scandal: Agency Monitored Emails Between Congress & Whistleblowing Officials

http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2014/8/1/the_cias_other_spy_scandal_agency

Russ Tice, Bush-Era Whistleblower, Claims NSA Ordered Wiretap Of Barack Obama In 2004 skied

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/20/russ-tice-nsa-obama_n_3473538.html

The NSA refuses to deny spying on members of Congress

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/01/04/the-nsa-refuses-to-deny-spying-on-members-of-congress/

NSA Whistleblower: NSA Illegally Spied On General Petraeus and Other Generals, Supreme Court Justice Alito and All of the Other Supreme Court Justices, the White House Spokesman, and Many Other Top Officials

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/06/nsa-whistleblower-nsa-spyed-on-to-gain-leverage-general-petraeus-and-other-generals-supreme-court-justice-alito-and-all-of-the-other-supreme-court-justices-and-the-white-house-s.html

GCHQ intercepted foreign politicians’ communications at G20 summits

Exclusive: phones were monitored and fake internet cafes set up to gather information from allies in London in 2009

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/16/gchq-intercepted-communications-g20-summits

G20 summit: NSA targeted Russian president Medvedev in London

Leaked documents reveal Russian president was spied on during visit, as questions are raised over use of US base in Britain

Exclusive

New Snowden docs show U.S. spied during G20 in Toronto

Surveillance during 2010 summit ‘closely co-ordinated with Canadian partner’ CSEC

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/new-snowden-docs-show-u-s-spied-during-g20-in-toronto-1.2442448

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/16/nsa-dmitry-medvedev-g20-summit

The United States Wiretapped The Mail Of The European Parliament

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1gz9xy/the_united_states_wiretapped_the_mail_of_the/

‘Success Story’: NSA Targeted French Foreign Ministry

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/nsa-targeted-french-foreign-ministry-a-919693.html

New NSA documents: U.S. intelligence heard from the United Nations headquarters

New documents prove to SPIEGEL information: Even the United Nations headquarters in New York was tapped by the U.S. NSA, although an agreement prohibiting just that. Even the U.S. Consulate in Frankfurt served as a listening post.

http://translate.google.de/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spiegel.de%2Fpolitik%2Fausland%2Fnsa-hoerte-zentrale-der-vereinte-nationen-in-new-york-ab-a-918421.html

UK ‘spied on UN’s Kofi Annan’

British spies listened in to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan’s office in the run up to the Iraq war, former UK cabinet minister Clare Short says.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/3488548.stm

NSA spied on Indian embassy and UN mission, Edward Snowden files reveal

Documents released by US whistleblower show extent and aggression of datamining exercises targeting its diplomatic ally

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/25/nsa-surveillance-indian-embassy-un-mission

NSA Spied On Brazil, Mexico Leaders, Glenn Greenwald Says

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/01/nsa-brazil-mexico-glenn-greenwald_n_3854246.html

Fresh Leak on US Spying: NSA Accessed Mexican President’s Email

The NSA has been systematically eavesdropping on the Mexican government for years. It hacked into the president’s public email account and gained deep insight into policymaking and the political system. The news is likely to hurt ties between the US and Mexico.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/nsa-hacked-email-account-of-mexican-president-a-928817.html#ref=rss

Embassy Espionage: The NSA’s Secret Spy Hub in Berlin

According to SPIEGEL research, United States intelligence agencies have not only targeted Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cellphone, but they have also used the American Embassy in Berlin as a listening station. The revelations now pose a serious threat to German-American relations.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/cover-story-how-nsa-spied-on-merkel-cell-phone-from-berlin-embassy-a-930205.html

U.S. now bugging German ministers in place of Merkel: report

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/23/us-germany-usa-spying-idUSBREA1M0IK20140223?r=t

Reports: NSA first targeted German Chancellor Schröder, then Merkel

http://www.dw.de/reports-nsa-first-targeted-german-chancellor-schr%C3%B6der-then-merkel/a-17408683

GCHQ and NSA targeted charities, Germans, Israeli PM and EU chief

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/dec/20/gchq-targeted-aid-agencies-german-government-eu-commissioner

Germany ‘spied’ on John Kerry and Hillary Clinton – Der Spiegel

Magazine claims foreign intelligence agency BND collected the phone calls by accident within the context of other operations

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/16/germany-spied-john-kerry-hillary-clinton-der-spiegel

Wiretapped: Israel Eavesdropped on John Kerry in Mideast Talks

New information indicates that Israeli intelligence eavesdropped on telephone conversations by US Secretary of State John Kerry. Sources told SPIEGEL the government then used the information obtained from the calls during negotiations in the Mideast conflict.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/israel-intelligence-eavesdropped-on-phone-calls-by-john-kerry-a-984246.html

Australia’s spy agencies targeted Indonesian president’s mobile phone

Secret documents revealed by Edward Snowden show Australia tried to monitor the mobile calls of Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and his wife

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/18/australia-tried-to-monitor-indonesian-presidents-phone

NSA monitored calls of 35 world leaders after US official handed over contacts

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/24/nsa-surveillance-world-leaders-calls

Report says U.S. tapped cardinals’ phones ahead of conclave

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/report-says-us-tapped-cardinals-phones-ahead-of-conclave/2013/10/30/9293708a-419f-11e3-b028-de922d7a3f47_story.html

‘Royal Concierge’: GCHQ Monitors Diplomats’ Hotel Bookings

Britain’s GCHQ intelligence service monitors diplomats’ travels using a sophisticated automated system that tracks hotel bookings. Once a room has been identified, it opens the door to a variety of spying options.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/gchq-monitors-hotel-reservations-to-track-diplomats-a-933914.html

NSA Admits to Spying on Princess Diana

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/dec98/diana12.htm

Obama halted NSA spying on IMF and World Bank headquarters

(Reuters) – President Barack Obama has ordered the National Security Agency to stop eavesdropping on the headquarters of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank as part of a review of intelligence gathering activities, according to a U.S. official familiar with the matter.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/31/us-usa-security-imf-idUSBRE99U1EQ20131031

New Zealand Spied on WTO Director Candidates

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/22/new-zealand-gcsb-spying-wto-director-general/

New Zealand Used NSA System to Target Officials, Anti-Corruption Campaigner

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/14/new-zealand-xkeyscore-solomon-islands-nsa-targets/

NSA Spied on Chinese Government and Networking Firm Huawei

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/nsa-spied-on-chinese-government-and-networking-firm-huawei-a-960199.html

Russian researchers expose breakthrough U.S. spying program

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/16/us-usa-cyberspying-idUSKBN0LK1QV20150216

​NSA spies on OSCE HQ in Vienna – report

http://rt.com/news/160708-nsa-spy-osce-vienna/

NSA spying in Vienna detailed at Chaos meet

http://www.thelocal.at/20141231/nsa-spying-in-vienna-detailed-at-chaos-meet

Vodafone reveals existence of secret wires that allow state surveillance

Wires allow agencies to listen to or record live conversations, in what privacy campaigners are calling a ‘nightmare scenario’

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jun/06/vodafone-reveals-secret-wires-allowing-state-surveillance

Vodafone-Linked Company Aided British Mass Surveillance

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/11/20/vodafone-surveillance-gchq-snowden/

AT&T getting secret immunity from wiretapping laws for government surveillance

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1d0zm5/att_getting_secret_immunity_from_wiretapping_laws/

These Are The Prices AT&T, Verizon and Sprint Charge For Cellphone Wiretaps

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/04/03/these-are-the-prices-att-verizon-and-sprint-charge-for-cellphone-wiretaps/

Verizon, AT&T, Others Make Big Bucks Sharing Customer Data

http://www.pcworld.com/article/259628/verizon_atandt_others_make_big_bucks_sharing_customer_data.html

C.I.A. Is Said to Pay AT&T for Call Data

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/07/us/cia-is-said-to-pay-att-for-call-data.html?_r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1385743233-CYYARbVJ5cIPE0ZxQ5NMSg&

Verizon draws fire for monitoring app usage, browsing habits. Verizon Wireless has begun selling information about its customers’ geographical locations, app usage, and Web browsing activities, a move that raises privacy questions and could brush up against federal wiretapping law.

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/11kirl/verizon_draws_fire_for_monitoring_app_usage/

Wireless providers side with cops over users on location privacy

The trade association representing AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint opposes a California proposal for search warrants to track mobile devices, claiming it will cause “confusion.”

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57418662-281/wireless-providers-side-with-cops-over-users-on-location-privacy/

AT&T Sued Over NSA Eavesdropping

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/01/70126

Verizon Sued For Giving Records To NSA

http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-250_162-1613877.html

NSA collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers daily

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/nsa-phone-records-verizon-court-order

AT&T Whistle-Blower’s Evidence

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/05/70908

AT&T engineer: NSA built secret rooms in our facilities Mark Klein, an AT&T engineer and witness in the EFF’s case against the company …

http://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2006/04/6585-2/

Room 641A

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

AT&T: We don’t have to disclose NSA dealings

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/12/06/att-says-it-doesnt-have-to-disclose-nsa-dealings/3894823/

Timeline of NSA Domestic Spying

https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying/timeline

Shia Labeouf: One-In-Five Phone Calls Are Recorded (2008-09-16)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ux1hpLvqMw

Shia Labeouf, who mentioned on Leno that an FBI Consultant said that “One-in-Five Phone calls are being recorded”, is now being pressured by the same FBI consultant to make a retraction.

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1g9hf8/shia_labeouf_who_mentioned_on_leno_that_an_fbi/

The Computers are Listening

How the NSA Converts Spoken Words Into Searchable Text

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/05/nsa-speech-recognition-snowden-searchable-text/

The Computers are Listening

Speech Recognition is NSA’s Best-Kept Open Secret

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/11/speech-recognition-nsa-best-kept-secret/

Report: FBI illegally collected phone records

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2010-01-19-fbi-phone-records_N.htm

U.S. secretly tracked billions of calls for decades

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/04/07/dea-bulk-telephone-surveillance-operation/70808616/

FBI taps cell phone mic as eavesdropping tool

http://news.cnet.com/2100-1029_3-6140191.html

FBI can secretly turn on laptop cameras without the indicator light

http://gizmodo.com/fbi-can-secretly-activate-laptop-cameras-without-the-in-1478371370

FBI Taps Hacker Tactics to Spy on Suspects

Law-Enforcement Officials Expand Use of Tools Such as Spyware as People Under Investigation ‘Go Dark,’ Evading Wiretaps

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424127887323997004578641993388259674-lMyQjAxMTAzMDAwMTEwNDEyWj.html

Can you hear me now? Feds admit FBI warrantless cellphone tracking ‘very common’

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/mar/29/feds-fbi-warrantless-cell-tracking-very-common/

Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers Without Courts

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/16/politics/16program.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&

Can You Hear Me Now?

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2006/12/can_you_hear_me/

NSA admits listening to U.S. phone calls without warrants

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1gfcha/nsa_admits_listening_to_us_phone_calls_without/

FBI quietly forms secretive Net-surveillance unit

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/u0sry/fbi_quietly_forms_secretive_netsurveillance_unit/

Pentagon sets up new spy agency to eavesdrop on a changing world

Defense Clandestine Service will focus on global threats and emerging economic and military powers

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/24/pentagon-new-spy-agency

U.S. Agencies Said to Swap Data With Thousands of Firms

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-14/u-s-agencies-said-to-swap-data-with-thousands-of-firms.html?y

Cisco purchase of CIA-funded company may fuel distrust abroad

http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/cisco-purchase-cia-funded-company-may-fuel-distrust-abroad

Larry Ellison’s Oracle Started As a CIA Project

http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/larry-ellisons-oracle-started-as-a-cia-project-1636592238/+barrett

Local cops in 15 US states confirmed to use cell tracking devices

Stingray use is widespread: Baltimore, Chicago, and even Anchorage have them.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/06/local-cops-in-15-us-states-confirmed-to-use-cell-tracking-devices/

Illinois buys cell-tracking gear complete with NDAs, no-bid process

Homeland Security grant funded secret buy of stingrays for state police.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/06/illinois-spent-over-250000-on-covert-cellular-tracking-equipment/

US pushing local cops to stay mum on surveillance

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/us-pushing-local-cops-stay-mum-surveillance

FBI gags state and local police on capabilities of cellphone spy gear

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/09/23/fbi-gags-state-and-local-police-on-capabilities-of-cellphone-spy-gear/

Emails Show Feds Asking Florida Cops to Deceive Judges

http://www.wired.com/2014/06/feds-told-cops-to-deceive-courts-about-stingray/

Judge allows US Marshals’ seizure of stingray records, dimisses lawsuit

What began as request for info on cell tracking records turns into surreal tale.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/06/judge-allows-us-marshals-seizure-of-stingray-records-dimisses-lawsuit/

ACLU: Most police track phones’ locations without warrants

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/04/03/tech/mobile/police-phone-tracking-gahran/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

“Do not mention to the public or the media the use of cellphone technology or equipment used to locate the targeted subject,” the Iowa City Police Department warned officer

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/ro3s4/do_not_mention_to_the_public_or_the_media_the_use/

Pricey ‘stingray’ gadget lets cops track cellphones without telco help

http://redtape.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/03/10986778-pricey-stingray-gadget-lets-cops-track-cellphones-without-telco-help

Cellphone data spying: It’s not just the NSA

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/12/08/cellphone-data-spying-nsa-police/3902809/

Feds Admit Stingrays Can Disrupt Cell Service of Bystanders

http://www.wired.com/2015/03/feds-admit-stingrays-can-disrupt-cell-service-bystanders/

Sacramento County sheriff acknowledges possession, use of cellphone surveillance technology

http://www.sacbee.com/2014/07/31/6596112/sacramento-sheriff-acknowledges.html

Documents: Tacoma police using surveillance device to sweep up cellphone data

http://www.thenewstribune.com/2014/08/26/3347665_documents-tacoma-police-using.html?rh=1

Secret Military Device ‘Hailstorm’ Used By Michigan Police, FOIA Request By Detroit News Denied

http://pontiactribune.com/?p=214

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Eyes on You: Experts Reveal Police Hacking Methods

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/eyes-experts-reveal-police-hacking-methods-24285294

Researchers Find and Decode the Spy Tools Governments Use to Hijack Phones

http://www.wired.com/2014/06/remote-control-system-phone-surveillance/

Judge says it’s OK to use your seized phone to impersonate you and entrap your friends

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/wvahz/judge_says_its_ok_to_use_your_seized_phone_to/

DOJ argues that if you’re arrested, the gov’t retains the power to steal your identity

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/2ilsr1/doj_argues_that_if_youre_arrested_the_govt/

Exposed: Inside the NSA’s Largest and Most Expansive Secret Domestic Spy Center in Bluffdale, Utah

https://www.democracynow.org/2012/3/21/exposed_inside_the_nsas_largest_and

The ATF Wants ‘Massive’ Online Database to Find Out Who Your Friends Are

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/04/atf-database

Reminder To Congress: Cops’ Cellphone Tracking Can Be Even More Precise Than GPS

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/05/17/reminder-to-congress-cops-cellphone-tracking-can-be-even-more-precise-than-gps/

Appeals Court OKs Warrantless Wiretapping

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/08/appeals-court-oks-wiretapping

Obama administration bypasses CISPA by secretly allowing Internet surveillance

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1e0amj/obama_administration_bypasses_cispa_by_secretly/

Leaked New World Order / Illuminati Recruiting Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ab-UfgptGc&t=13m27s

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NSA has massive database of Americans’ phone calls

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-05-10-nsa_x.htm

NSA’s Domestic Spying Grows As Agency Sweeps Up Data

Terror Fight Blurs Line Over Domain; Tracking Email

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120511973377523845.html?mod=hps_us_whats_news

Spy agency taps into undersea cable

http://www.zdnet.com/news/spy-agency-taps-into-undersea-cable/115877

NSA spying on Europe-Asia undersea telecom cables

http://tribune.com.pk/story/652494/nsa-spying-on-europe-asia-undersea-telecom-cables/

GCHQ taps fibre-optic cables for secret access to world’s communications

Exclusive: British spy agency collects and stores vast quantities of global email messages, Facebook posts, internet histories and calls, and shares them with NSA, latest documents from Edward Snowden reveal

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jun/21/gchq-cables-secret-world-communications-nsa

NSA’s Lucky Break: How the U.S. Became Switchboard to the World

http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2007/10/domestic_taps

Agreements with private companies protect U.S. access to cables’ data for surveillance

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/agreements-with-private-companies-protect-us-access-to-cables-data-for-surveillance/2013/07/06/aa5d017a-df77-11e2-b2d4-ea6d8f477a01_story.html?hpid=z3

THE SILENT POWER OF THE N.S.A.

http://www.nytimes.com/1983/03/27/magazine/the-silent-power-of-the-nsa.html?smid=tw-share

New York Times‘ NSA Whistleblower Reveals Himself

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/12/ny-times-nsa-wh.html

NSA Domestic Surveillance Began 7 Months Before 9/11, Convicted Qwest CEO Claims

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/10/nsa-asked-for-p.html

Exclusive: Inside Account of U.S. Eavesdropping on Americans

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Story?id=5987804&page=1

Nightline: The NSA Whistle-blower

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=2930944

NPR reminds us that the NSA is scanning through EVERYONE’s internet traffic.

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/elap0/npr_reminds_us_that_the_nsa_is_scanning_through/

Details Revealed on Secret U.S. “Ragtime” Domestic Surveillance Program

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/02/28/deep_state_book_uncovers_details_on_ragtime_domestic_surveillance_program.html

NSA Watching Reporters: Whistleblower

http://go.bloomberg.com/political-capital/2013-03-15/nsa-watching-reporters-whistleblower/

Drug Agents Use Vast Phone Trove, Eclipsing N.S.A.’s

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/02/us/drug-agents-use-vast-phone-trove-eclipsing-nsas.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes&_r=0

Shady Companies With Ties to Israel Wiretap the U.S. for the NSA

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/04/shady-companies-nsa/all/

Main Core

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Core

Feds Warrantlessly Track Americans’ Credit Cards in Real Time

http://www.reddit.com/r/business/comments/efcqt/feds_warrantlessly_track_americans_credit_cards/

EXCLUSIVE – U.S. to let spy agencies scour Americans’ finances

http://in.reuters.com/article/2013/03/13/usa-banks-spying-idINDEE92C0EH20130313

U.S. Collects Vast Data Trove

NSA Monitoring Includes Three Major Phone Companies, as Well as Online Activity

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324299104578529112289298922.html

‘Follow the Money’: NSA Spies on International Payments

The United States’ NSA intelligence agency is interested in international payments processed by companies including Visa, SPIEGEL has learned. It has even set up its own financial database to track money flows through a “tailored access operations” division.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/spiegel-exclusive-nsa-spies-on-international-bank-transactions-a-922276.html

IRS claims it can read your e-mail without a warrant. The ACLU has obtained internal IRS documents that say Americans enjoy “generally no privacy” in their e-mail messages, Facebook chats, and other electronic communications.

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1c2gpg/irs_claims_it_can_read_your_email_without_a/

IRS Among Agencies Using License Plate-Tracking Vendor

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-17/irs-among-agencies-using-license-plate-tracking-vendor.html

Exclusive: IRS manual detailed DEA’s use of hidden intel evidence

(Reuters) – Details of a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration program that feeds tips to federal agents and then instructs them to alter the investigative trail were published in a manual used by agents of the Internal Revenue Service for two years.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/07/us-dea-irs-idUSBRE9761AZ20130807?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&rpc=71&google_editors_picks=true

IRS apologizes for targeting conservative groups

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/05/10/irs-apology-conservative-groups-2012-election/2149939/

IRS Documents Reveal Agency Flagged Groups for ‘Anti-Obama Rhetoric,’ Big Three Refuse to Report

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304213904579093491966449908.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_RIGHTBelowPepperandSalt

Law Lets I.R.S. Seize Accounts on Suspicion, No Crime Required

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/26/us/law-lets-irs-seize-accounts-on-suspicion-no-crime-required.html

Some IRS bosses using audit quotas to rate agents despite 1998 law, IG warns

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/some-irs-bosses-using-audit-quotas-to-rate-agents-despite-1998-law-ig-warns/article/2554343

Canadian banks to be compelled to share clients’ info with U.S.

Starting July 1, banks must look for markers that identify accounts belonging to Americans

http://www.cbc.ca/m/touch/business/story/1.2437975

C.I.A. Collects Global Data on Transfers of Money

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/15/us/cia-collecting-data-on-international-money-transfers-officials-say.html?_r=0

Spies on the cloud? Amazon said working with CIA

Amazon is reported to be helping the CIA build out a cloud service worth up to $600 million over 10 years.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57575154-93/spies-on-the-cloud-amazon-said-working-with-cia/

Amazon’s Invasion of the CIA Is a Seismic Shift in Cloud Computing

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/06/amazon-cia/

CIA to start using Amazon Cloud System

http://www.msnbc.com/the-cycle/watch/cia-to-start-using-amazon-cloud-system-311316035705

How The Washington Post’s New Owner Aided the CIA, Blocked WikiLeaks & Decimated the Book Industry

http://www.democracynow.org/2013/8/7/how_the_washington_posts_new_owner

Homeland Security opening private mail

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/10740935#.URtWe_Jcnn4

Bush says feds can open mail without warrant

President Bush quietly has claimed sweeping new powers to open Americans’ mail without a judge’s warrant. Bush asserted the new authority…

http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2003508676_mail04.html

Law enforcement requests for postal info granted

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-03-05-mail_N.htm

Report Reveals Wider Tracking of Mail in U.S.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/28/us/us-secretly-monitoring-mail-of-thousands.html?_r=1

Ricin Suspect Was Tracked Via Mail Scanners

Feds: Postal Service photographs every piece of mail

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/woman-arrested-for-obama-bloomberg-ricin-letters-687435

U.S. Postal Service Logging All Mail for Law Enforcement

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/04/us/monitoring-of-snail-mail.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&

Senate votes to let the NSA keep spying on you without a warrant until 2017

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/15kpup/senate_votes_to_let_the_nsa_keep_spying_on_you/

Obama Signs FISA Warrantless Wiretapping Program Extension Into Law

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/30/obama-fisa-warrantless-wiretapping_n_2385690.html

U.S. Spy Law Authorizes Mass Surveillance of European Citizens: Report

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/01/08/fisa_renewal_report_suggests_spy_law_allows_mass_surveillance_of_european.html

The top secret rules that allow NSA to use US data without a warrant

Fisa court submissions show broad scope of procedures governing NSA’s surveillance of Americans’ communication

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/20/fisa-court-nsa-without-warrant

Fisa court oversight: a look inside a secret and empty process

Obama and other NSA defenders insist there are robust limitations on surveillance but the documents show otherwise

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/19/fisa-court-oversight-process-secrecy

Obama administration had restrictions on NSA reversed in 2011

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/obama-administration-had-restrictions-on-nsa-reversed-in-2011/2013/09/07/c26ef658-0fe5-11e3-85b6-d27422650fd5_story.html

In Secret, Court Vastly Broadens Powers of N.S.A.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/07/us/in-secret-court-vastly-broadens-powers-of-nsa.html?hpw&pagewanted=all&_r=2&

The FISA Court Knew the NSA Lied Repeatedly About Its Spying, Approved Its Searches Anyway

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1ku45t/the_fisa_court_knew_the_nsa_lied_repeatedly_about/

Secret U.S. court approved wider NSA spying even after finding excesses

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/19/us-usa-nsa-spying-idUSBRE9AI11Y20131119

Documents Show N.S.A.’s Wiretap Moves Before Congress’s Approval

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/28/us/documents-show-nsas-wiretap-moves-before-congresss-approval.html?_r=1

In NSA-intercepted data, those not targeted far outnumber the foreigners who are

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/in-nsa-intercepted-data-those-not-targeted-far-outnumber-the-foreigners-who-are/2014/07/05/8139adf8-045a-11e4-8572-4b1b969b6322_story.html

How Can Any Company Ever Trust Microsoft Again? “Microsoft consciously and regularly passes on information about how to break into its products to US agencies”

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1gsew1/how_can_any_company_ever_trust_microsoft_again/

How Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-collaboration-user-data

Hacked emails show what Microsoft charges the FBI for user data

http://www.dailydot.com/news/microsoft-compliance-emails-fbi-ditu/

Xbox Live among game services targeted by US and UK spy agencies

NSA and GCHQ collect gamers’ chats and deploy real-life agents into World of Warcraft and Second Life

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/09/nsa-spies-online-games-world-warcraft-second-life

Microsoft provides fusion center technology and funding for surveillance

Did you know Microsoft helps fund the National Fusion Center Association which, in turn, helps police departments buy surveillance tech? In fact, it provides fusion architecture and the Microsoft Fusion Core Solution.

https://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/microsoft-provides-fusion-center-technology-funding-surveillance

_NSAKEY

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY

NSA helped with Windows 7 development

Privacy expert voices ‘backdoor’ concerns, security researchers dismiss idea

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9141105/NSA_helped_with_Windows_7_development?taxonomyId=63

It’s Terrifying And Sickening That Microsoft Can Now Listen In On All My Skype Calls

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericjackson/2012/07/22/its-terrifying-and-sickening-that-microsoft-can-now-listen-in-on-all-my-skype-calls/

Skype developed a backdoor access system for the NSA before the Microsoft acquisition as part of a secret project involving only a dozen people and created by the government.

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1gq7x3/skype_developed_a_backdoor_access_system_for_the/

Report: Skype Formed Secret “Project Chess” to Make Chats Available to Government

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/06/20/project_chess_report_says_skype_worked_on_secret_project_to_provide_chats.html

Google Teams Up with CIA to Fund “Recorded Future” Startup Monitoring Websites, Blogs & Twitter Accounts

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/30/google_teams_up_with_cia_

Google Comes Under Fire for ‘Secret’ Relationship with NSA

http://www.pcworld.com/article/217550/google_comes_under_fire_for_secret_relationship_with_nsa.html

Court Rules NSA Doesn’t Have To Reveal Its Semi-Secret Relationship With Google

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/05/11/court-rules-nsa-doesnt-have-to-reveal-its-semi-secret-relationship-with-google/

Google Asks NSA to Help Secure Its Network

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/02/google-seeks-nsa-help/

Exclusive: Emails reveal close Google relationship with NSA

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/5/6/nsa-chief-google.html

How the CIA made Google

https://medium.com/@NafeezAhmed/how-the-cia-made-google-e836451a959e

Why Google made the NSA

https://medium.com/@NafeezAhmed/why-google-made-the-nsa-2a80584c9c1

How Google Transfers Data To NSA

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/06/11/how-google-transfers-data-to-nsa/?

NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/12/10/nsa-uses-google-cookies-to-pinpoint-targets-for-hacking/

NSA Planned to Hijack Google App Store to Hack Smartphones

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/21/nsa-five-eyes-google-samsung-app-stores-spyware/

Google: We scan all Gmail messages

http://rt.com/usa/google-terms-service-scan-964/

FBI Pursuing Real-Time Gmail Spying Powers as “Top Priority” for 2013

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/03/26/andrew_weissmann_fbi_wants_real_time_gmail_dropbox_spying_power.html

Use These Secret NSA Google Search Tips to Become Your Own Spy Agency

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/05/nsa-manual-on-hacking-internet/

Google handed over years of e-mails belonging to WikiLeaks chatroom admin Google informed two men that a US court order mandated secret searches in 2011.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/06/google-handed-over-years-of-e-mails-belonging-to-wikileaks-chatroom-admin/

GCreep: Google Engineer Stalked Teens, Spied on Chats (Updated)

http://gawker.com/5637234/gcreep-google-engineer-stalked-teens-spied-on-chats

http://i.imgur.com/5De06.gif

Optic Nerve: millions of Yahoo webcam images intercepted by GCHQ

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/27/gchq-nsa-webcam-images-internet-yahoo

N.S.A. Collecting Millions of Faces From Web Images

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/01/us/nsa-collecting-millions-of-faces-from-web-images.html?_r=0

FBI Prepares Vast Database Of Biometrics

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/21/AR2007122102544_pf.html

FBI moves forward with plans to build $1billion database of Americans’ photographs for new facial recognition software

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2200533/FBI-moves-forward-plans-build-1billion-photographic-database.html

FBI launches $1 billion face recognition project

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21528804.200-fbi-launches-1-billion-face-recognition-project.html

FBI Plans to Have 52 Million Photos in its NGI Face Recognition Database by Next Year

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/04/fbi-plans-have-52-million-photos-its-ngi-face-recognition-database-next-year

FBI launches national facial recognition system

http://www.myfoxny.com/story/26534182/fbi-launches-national-facial-recognition-system

FBI Agrees to Share Facial Recognition Searches with All Police Departments

http://www.allgov.com/news/top-stories/fbi-agrees-to-share-facial-recognition-searches-with-all-police-departments?news=845099

Undercover cops secretly use smartphones, face recognition to spy on crowds

http://blogs.computerworld.com/privacy/21010/undercover-cops-secretly-use-smartphones-face-recognition-spy-crowds

Facial Scanning Is Making Gains in Surveillance

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/21/us/facial-scanning-is-making-gains-in-surveillance.html?_r=2&ei=5065&adxnnl=1&partner=MYWAY&adxnnlx=1377084193-eHs5+6mHQnq4w0dhg9+sEw&

New Jersey Bans Smiling in Driver’s License Photos

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/09/new-jersey-bans-smiling-in-drivers-license-photos/

Say Cheese! Some States Put Drivers’ License Photos in Facial Recognition Database for Law Enforcement Use

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/06/17/say-cheese-some-states-put-drivers-license-photos-in-facial-recognition-database-for-law-enforcement-use/#

The Face Scan Arrives

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/30/opinion/the-face-scan-arrives.html?_r=0

Ohio admits facial recognition used to scour state driver’s license database without public knowledge

http://rt.com/usa/ohio-facial-recognition-database-031/

Tri-City hockey crowds to be taped for U.S. security research

http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2013/09/12/2570354/tri-city-hockey-crowds-to-be-taped.html

Beantown’s Big Brother: How Boston Police Used Facial Recognition Technology to Spy on Thousands of Music Festival Attendees

http://noisey.vice.com/blog/beantowns-big-brother

Biometrics Used to Detect Criminals at Super Bowl

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=98871

Police using facial recognition software to help ID G20 suspects

http://news.nationalpost.com/2010/07/15/police-using-facial-recognition-software-to-help-id-g20-suspects/

Facial recognition tech leads feds to fugitive after 14 years

http://www.cnet.com/news/facial-recognition-tech-leads-feds-to-fugitive-after-14-years/

http://i.imgur.com/5lBuvkD.jpg

in Michigan, cops are copying contents of iphones in 2 min. Even for minor traffic violations.

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/ryk7q/in_michigan_cops_are_copying_contents_of_iphones/

Privacy Scandal: NSA Can Spy on Smart Phone Data

SPIEGEL has learned from internal NSA documents that the US intelligence agency has the capability of tapping user data from the iPhone, devices using Android as well as BlackBerry, a system previously believed to be highly secure.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/privacy-scandal-nsa-can-spy-on-smart-phone-data-a-920971.html

The NSA has nearly complete backdoor access to Apple’s iPhone

http://www.dailydot.com/politics/nsa-backdoor-iphone-access-camera-mic-appelbaum/

iPhone Users Are ‘Zombies’ And Steve Jobs Was ‘Big Brother,’ According To The NSA: Report

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/09/nsa-steve-jobs_n_3895375.html

Leaked Memo Says Apple Provides Backdoor To Governments

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/o7w2z/leaked_memo_says_apple_provides_backdoor_to/

New Snowden documents show how the GCHQ tracked iPhone users

http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/17/7632407/new-snowden-documents-show-how-the-gchq-tracked-iphone-users

The CIA Campaign to Steal Apple’s Secrets

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/10/ispy-cia-campaign-steal-apples-secrets/

FBI has 12 MILLION iPhone user’s data – Unique Device IDentifiers, Address, Full Name, APNS tokens, phone numbers.. you are being tracked.

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/zbrfc/fbi_has_12_million_iphone_users_data_unique/

FBI says Carrier IQ files used for “law enforcement purposes” – Boing Boing

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/na2ku/fbi_says_carrier_iq_files_used_for_law/

Apple iTunes flaw ‘allowed government spying for 3 years’

An unpatched security flaw in Apple’s iTunes software allowed intelligence agencies and police to hack into users’ computers for more than three years, it’s claimed.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/8912714/Apple-iTunes-flaw-allowed-government-spying-for-3-years.html

Google ‘faces $22.5m fine for snooping on iPhone and iPad users’ (But it will take them just 17 hours to make)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2171417/Google-faces-22-5-fine-snooping-iPhone-iPad-users-But-just-17-hours-make.html

Google to Pay $17 Million to Settle Privacy Case

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/19/technology/google-to-pay-17-million-to-settle-privacy-case.html?_r=1&

Judge refuses to authorize FBI spy Trojan that can secretly turn your webcam into a surveillance camera.

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1d3i1z/judge_refuses_to_authorize_fbi_spy_trojan_that/

Exclusive: Apple Taps Former Navy Information Warrior for Global Director of Security

http://allthingsd.com/20110122/apple-taps-former-navy-information-warrior-as-global-director-of-security/

U.S. Military BANNED From Viewing WikiLeaks

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/05/us-military-banned-from-v_n_671967.html

Army reportedly blocking all access to Guardian coverage of NSA leaks

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1h82mm/army_reportedly_blocking_all_access_to_guardian/

DHS warns employees not to read leaked NSA information

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2013/07/15/dhs-warns-employees-not-to-read-leaked-nsa-information/?Post+generic=%3Ftid%3Dsm_twitter_washingtonpost

U.S. Military Bans The Intercept

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/08/20/u-s-military-bans-the-intercept/

Compartmentalization (information security)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compartmentalization_%28information_security%29

Foreign Officials In the Dark About Their Own Spy Agencies’ Cooperation with NSA

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/03/13/nsa-elected-officials-foreign-countries-unaware-countries-cooperation-us/

CIA chief announces new campaign to stop leaks

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/cia-chief-announces-new-campaign-to-stop-leaks/2013/06/26/1a15d464-deb1-11e2-ad2e-fcd1bf42174d_story.html

Unhappy With U.S. Foreign Policy? Pentagon Says You Might Be A ‘High Threat’

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/07/insider-threat-training_n_3714333.html

ATF threatens French-style firing squad for agents who leak secrets

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/15/atfs-prescription-leaking-secrets-firing-squad/

Veterans Are Being Threatened and Silenced by the US and UK Militaries

http://www.vice.com/read/soldiers-in-the-military-are-being-gagged-for-speaking-out

The Feds Cut a Deal With In-Flight Wi-Fi Providers, and Privacy Groups Are Worried

http://www.wired.com/2014/04/gogo-collaboration-feds/

The Little Known Spy Agency That Knows Your Flight Plans And Much More

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/12/14/the-little-known-spy-agency-that-knows-your-flight-plans-and-much-more/

Spy Plane Fries Air Traffic Control Computers, Shuts Down LAX

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/spy-plane-fries-air-traffic-control-computers-shuts-down-lax-n95886

flightradar24

LIVE AIR TRAFFIC

http://www.flightradar24.com/

ACLU: License Plate Scanners Are Logging Citizen’s Every Move: It has now become clear that this automated license plate readers technology, if we do not limit its use, will represent a significant step toward the creation of a surveillance society in US

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/mlim2/aclu_license_plate_scanners_are_logging_citizens/

Your car, tracked: the rapid rise of license plate readers

Largely unregulated, cameras now collect millions of travel records every day.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/08/your-car-tracked-the-rapid-rise-of-license-plate-readers/

Police cameras quietly capture license plates, collect data

http://www.startribune.com/local/minneapolis/165680946.html?refer=y

U.S. Customs Tracks Millions Of License Plates And Has Shared Data With Insurance Firms

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/08/21/documents-show-u-s-customs-tracking-millions-of-license-plates-and-sharing-data-with-insurance-firms/

Some Police Keep Car-Tracking Data Forever

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/07/17/some-police-keep-car-tracking-data-forever/

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper Indisputably Lied to Co

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v7YtTnon90

NSA chief: I didn’t lie to Congress about spying on millions of Americans—I just forgot about it

http://www.reddit.com/r/nottheonion/comments/3629vv/nsa_chief_i_didnt_lie_to_congress_about_spying_on/

Hank asks NSA director tough questions about wiretaps, e-mail intercepts

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYNXVgYhPOc&t=1m35s

Obama: If you can’t trust us, we’re going to have some problems

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ibc6QSV5ftw

Obama Caught Blatantly LYING About NSA Violating U.S. Citizens Pri

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zTJZ3nHsZY

Obama: ‘Nobody Is Listening to Your Telephone Calls’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-isKhdB9jYo

President Barack Obama on Tonight show with Jay Leno (Part 1/3) – August 6, 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOW0Z2Czgzk&t=6m46s

Theresa May: There is no surveillance state

“There is no programme of mass surveillance and there is no surveillance state,” Home Secretary Theresa May has said.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-28006739

Theresa May pushes for greater surveillance powers

Theresa May is continuing to push for a change in the law to give police and security services the power to access email and social media.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-28013805

New Zealand Launched Mass Surveillance Project While Publicly Denying It

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/09/15/new-zealand-gcsb-speargun-mass-surveillance/

Govt ‘lied’ to parliament about NSA spying

The government has been accused of lying to the Bundestag (German parliament) after it emerged last week that Chancellor Angela Merkel’s office knew German spies were conducting economic espionage on behalf of the Americans.

http://www.thelocal.de/20150429/govt-lied-to-parliament-about-nsa-spying

http://imgur.com/r/POLITIC/6TeuCqT

https://twitter.com/marissamayer/status/343505701143982080

Facebook, Google, Apple, Yahoo Make Similar PRISM Denials

http://mashable.com/2013/06/06/facebook-google-apple-prism/

Google CEO Larry Page denies involvement in PRISM, calls for ‘more transparent approach’

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1fvv9d/google_ceo_larry_page_denies_involvement_in_prism/

Apple: Prism ‘is news to us’ Apple first heard about Prism from the media, the company claims, as it discloses US government requests for information.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/10124536/Apple-Prism-is-news-to-us.html

Facebook CEO denies knowledge of NSA’s PRISM program

Mark Zuckerberg says press reports alleging that the social network gave the government access to its servers are “outrageous.”

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57588313-93/facebook-ceo-denies-knowledge-of-nsas-prism-program/

Facebook founder called trusting users dumb f*cks

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/14/facebook_trust_dumb/

Google CEO Eric Schmidt on privacy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6e7wfDHzew

Google CEO says privacy doesn’t matter. Google blacklists CNet for violating CEO’s privacy.

http://boingboing.net/2009/12/09/google-ceo-says-priv.html

Court Rules NSA Bulk Data Collection Was Never Authorized By Congress

http://www.wired.com/2015/05/breaking-news-federal-court-rules-nsa-bulk-data-collection-illegal/

The NSA collected more of your personal data than it was legally allowed to

http://www.engadget.com/2014/08/13/nsa-collected-more-data-than-it-was-allowed/

Review group says Obama can stop NSA phone surveillance ‘at any time’

http://rt.com/usa/228015-pclob-assessment-telephony-metadata/

NSA broke privacy rules thousands of times per year, audit finds

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-broke-privacy-rules-thousands-of-times-per-year-audit-finds/2013/08/15/3310e554-05ca-11e3-a07f-49ddc7417125_story.html

White House Tried To Interfere With Washington Post’s Report, And To Change Quotes From NSA

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130816/01314924200/white-house-tried-to-interfere-with-washington-posts-report-to-change-quotes-nsa.shtml

Key Takeaways From the Washington Post Report Detailing Thousands of Privacy Violations by the NSA

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/key-takeaways-washington-post-report-detailing-thousands-privacy-violations-nsa

Lawmakers Probe Willful Abuses of Power by NSA Analysts

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-23/nsa-analysts-intentionally-abused-spying-powers-multiple-times.html

NSA Officers Spy on Love Interests

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/08/23/nsa-officers-sometimes-spy-on-love-interests/

Snowden Docs Lead to Discovery NSA Employees Spied on Spouses, Girlfriends

http://www.newsweek.com/snowden-docs-lead-discovery-nsa-employees-spied-spouses-girlfriends-294994?piano_d=1

NSA employee spied on nine women without detection, internal file shows

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/27/nsa-employee-spied-detection-internal-memo

He Served in Silence

http://web.archive.org/web/20131001053436/http://www.e-felix.org/issue5/vamos.html

Exclusive: Inside Account of U.S. Eavesdropping on Americans

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/exclusive-inside-account-us-eavesdropping-americans/story?id=5987804

Snowden: NSA employees routinely pass around intercepted nude photos

“These are seen as the fringe benefits of surveillance positions,” Snowden says.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/07/snowden-nsa-employees-routinely-pass-around-intercepted-nude-photos/

NSA collected 56,000 emails by Americans a year: documents

(Reuters) – The National Security Agency may have unintentionally collected as many as 56,000 emails of Americans per year between 2008 and 2011 in a program that a secret U.S. court subsequently said may have violated U.S. law and the Constitution, according to documents released on Wednesday.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/22/us-usa-security-nsa-idUSBRE97K14Y20130822

NSA gathered thousands of Americans’ e-mails before court ordered it to revise its tactics

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-gathered-thousands-of-americans-e-mails-before-court-struck-down-program/2013/08/21/146ba4b6-0a90-11e3-b87c-476db8ac34cd_story_1.html

British Court Says Spying on Data Was Illegal

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/07/world/europe/electronic-surveillance-by-spy-agencies-was-illegal-british-court-says.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

GCHQ views data without a warrant, government admits

GCHQ’s secret ‘arrangements’ for accessing bulk material revealed in documents submitted to UK surveillance watchdog

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/oct/29/gchq-nsa-data-surveillance

UK government quietly passed new legislation that exempts GCHQ, police, and other intelligence officers from prosecution for hacking into computers and mobile phones

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/369esq/uk_government_quietly_passed_new_legislation_that/

WikiLeaks released 249 documents from 92 global intelligence contractors. These reveal how, US, EU and developing world intelligence agencies have rushed into spending millions on next-generation mass surveillance technology to target communities, groups and whole populations.

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1mu6ui/wikileaks_released_249_documents_from_92_global/

Snowden docs reveal British spies snooped on YouTube and Facebook

http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2014/01/27/22469304-snowden-docs-reveal-british-spies-snooped-on-youtube-and-facebook?lite

N.S.A. Gathers Data on Social Connections of U.S. Citizens

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/us/nsa-examines-social-networks-of-us-citizens.html

NSA stores metadata of millions of web users for up to a year, secret files show

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/30/nsa-americans-metadata-year-documents

Meet Jack. Or, What The Government Could Do With All That Location Data

https://www.aclu.org/meet-jack-or-what-government-could-do-all-location-data

New documents show how the NSA infers relationships based on mobile location data

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/12/10/new-documents-show-how-the-nsa-infers-relationships-based-on-mobile-location-data/

NSA tracking cellphone locations worldwide, Snowden documents show

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-tracking-cellphone-locations-worldwide-snowden-documents-show/2013/12/04/5492873a-5cf2-11e3-bc56-c6ca94801fac_story.html?wpisrc=al_excl

Snowden Documents Reveal Covert Surveillance and Pressure Tactics Aimed at WikiLeaks and Its Supporters

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/02/18/snowden-docs-reveal-covert-surveillance-and-pressure-tactics-aimed-at-wikileaks-and-its-supporters/

US ‘operates 80 listening posts worldwide, 19 in Europe, and snooped on Merkel mobile 2002-2013’

US intelligence operates 80 listening posts worldwide, including 19 in European cities, and targetted Angela Merkel’s phone from 2002 to 2013, according to new eavesdropping leaks

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10407089/US-operates-80-listening-posts-worldwide-19-in-Europe-and-snooped-on-Merkel-mobile-2002-2013.html

New NSA Revelations: Inside Snowden’s Germany File

An analysis of secret documents leaked by Edward Snowden demonstrates that the NSA is more active in Germany than anywhere else in Europe — and that data collected here may have helped kill suspected terrorists.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/new-snowden-revelations-on-nsa-spying-in-germany-a-975441.html

Spying Together: Germany’s Deep Cooperation with the NSA

Cooperation between Germany’s foreign intelligence service, the BND, and America’s NSA is deeper than previously believed. German agents appear to have crossed into constitutionally questionable territory.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/the-german-bnd-and-american-nsa-cooperate-more-closely-than-thought-a-975445.html

Revealed: Britain’s ‘secret listening post in the heart of Berlin’

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/revealed-britains-secret-listening-post-in-the-heart-of-berlin-8921548.html

REVEALED: GCHQ’s BEYOND TOP SECRET Middle Eastern INTERNET SPY BASE

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/06/03/revealed_beyond_top_secret_british_intelligence_middleeast_internet_spy_base/

Exclusive Snowden document shows Canada set up spy posts for NSA

CSEC conducted espionage activities for U.S. in 20 countries, according to top-secret briefing note

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/snowden-document-shows-canada-set-up-spy-posts-for-nsa-1.2456886

Pine Gap

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Gap

Shoal Bay Receiving Station

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoal_Bay_Receiving_Station

The NSA Has Set Up Shop at the US Embassy in Mexico

http://www.vice.com/read/the-nsa-has-set-up-shop-at-the-us-embassy-in-mexico

Snowden files: Inside Waihopai’s domes

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/67082905/snowden-files-inside-waihopais-domes

NZ faces claims of spying on friends

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11341861

Snowden revelations / The price of the Five Eyes club: Mass spying on friendly nations

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11411759

German intelligence agency confesses to spy stations

Federal Intelligence Service attaches its logo to sites after amateur investigators post locations online

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/06/german-intelligence-agency-confesses-spy-stations

RAF Menwith Hill

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Menwith_Hill

Rudy Giuliani’s answer to everything

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSk4SUpWVuY

Revealed: NSA pushed 9/11 as key ‘sound bite’ to justify surveillance

An internal document recommended that officials use fear of attack when pressed to explain agency’s programs

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/10/30/revealed-nsa-pushed911askeysoundbitetojustifysurveillance.html

NSA program stopped no terror attacks, says White House panel member

http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/12/19/21975158-nsa-program-stopped-no-terror-attacks-says-white-house-panel-member?lite

NSA phone record collection does little to prevent terrorist attacks, group says

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-phone-record-collection-does-little-to-prevent-terrorist-attacks-group-says/2014/01/12/8aa860aa-77dd-11e3-8963-b4b654bcc9b2_story.html?tid=auto_complete

New Intel Doc: Do Not Be ‘Led Astray’ By ‘Commonly Understood Definitions’

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/09/29/new-intel-doc-led-astray-commonly-understood-definitions/

CIA misled on interrogation program, Senate report says

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/cia-misled-on-interrogation-program-senate-report-says/2014/03/31/eb75a82a-b8dd-11e3-96ae-f2c36d2b1245_story.html

http://imgur.com/r/POLITIC/6TeuCqT

NSA Prism program taps in to user data of Apple, Google and others

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-nsa-data?guni=Network%20front:network-front%20main-2%20Special%20trail:Network%20front%20-%20special%20trail:Position1

Revealed: how US and UK spy agencies defeat internet privacy and security

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-gchq-encryption-codes-security

Tech companies are cooperating with US intelligence agencies more than you think

http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/4/4493178/tech-ties-to-us-intelligence-agencies

Snowden document reveals key role of companies in NSA data collection

NSA leverages relationships with commercial partners to collect vast quantities of data from fibre-optic cables, file shows

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/01/nsa-data-collection-tech-firms

New NSA tool to quantify, track intelligence collection revealed – live

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/08/nsa-surveillance-prism-obama-live?guni=Network%20front:network-front%20full-width-1%20bento-box:Bento%20box:Position2#block-51b36893e4b0cc6424372292

What is the NSA’s PRISM program? (FAQ)

We now know that the NSA uses something called PRISM to monitor private Web data. Sounds like “1984.” What does it really mean?

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57588253-83/what-is-the-nsas-prism-program-faq/

Yahoo! Tried (but failed) not to be involved with PRISM

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1gbwil/yahoo_tried_but_failed_not_to_be_involved_with/

Google and Facebook DID allow NSA access to data and were in talks to set up ‘spying rooms’ despite denials by Zuckerberg and Page over PRISM project

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1fykzc/google_and_facebook_did_allow_nsa_access_to_data/

NSA paid millions to cover Prism compliance costs for tech companies

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/23/nsa-prism-costs-tech-companies-paid

UK gathering secret intelligence via covert NSA operation

Exclusive: UK security agency GCHQ gaining information from world’s biggest internet firms through US-run Prism programme

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jun/07/uk-gathering-secret-intelligence-nsa-prism?CMP=twt_gu

NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide, Snowden documents say

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-infiltrates-links-to-yahoo-google-data-centers-worldwide-snowden-documents-say/2013/10/30/e51d661e-4166-11e3-8b74-d89d714ca4dd_story.html

Librarians Use Shredder to Show Opposition to New F.B.I. Powers

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/07/national/07LIBR.html

Librarians Speak Out for First Time After Being Gagged by Patriot Act

https://www.aclu.org/national-security/librarians-speak-out-first-time-after-being-gagged-patriot-act

America’s Most Dangerous Librarians

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2008/09/americas-most-dangerous-librarians

Librarians won’t stay quiet about government surveillance

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/10/03/librarians-wont-stay-quiet-about-government-surveillance/

Prosecutors Are Reading Emails From Inmates to Lawyers

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/23/nyregion/us-is-reading-inmates-email-sent-to-lawyers.html?_r=0

American Bar Association Gives Lawyers Green Light To Scan Jurors’ Social Media Sites

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/22/jurors-social-media_n_5520132.html

UK admits unlawfully monitoring legally privileged communications

Intelligence agencies have been monitoring conversations between lawyers and their clients for past five years, government admits

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/feb/18/uk-admits-unlawfully-monitoring-legally-privileged-communications

A mass grave has been found on the outskirts the Mexican town of Iguala, where 43 students went missing on September 26th

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/2ibefx/a_mass_grave_has_been_found_on_the_outskirts_the/

Missing Mexico students: New ‘mass grave’ probed

Mexican authorities searching for 43 students who disappeared after clashing with police last month are investigating a suspected mass grave.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-29797884

Ottawa admits to tracking hundreds of protests

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/09/18/ottawa_admits_to_tracking_hundreds_of_protests.html

Quebec police admit they infiltrated protest canada

http://www.canada.com/mobile/iphone/story.html?id=66de9807-d2f0-444e-903e-1c0ba64556de

Facial recognition software to aid Calgary police in future investigations

1st police agency in Canada to use the software, say Calgary officials

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/facial-recognition-software-to-aid-calgary-police-in-future-investigations-1.2822592

WikiLeaks cables condemn Russia as ‘mafia state’

Kremlin relies on criminals and rewards them with political patronage, while top officials collect bribes ‘like a personal taxation system’

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/dec/01/wikileaks-cables-russia-mafia-kleptocracy

WikiLeaks cables link Russian mafia boss to EU gas supplies

Semyon Mogilevich, one of FBI’s most wanted people, identified as real power behind billionaire owner of Ukrainian-based RUE

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/dec/01/wikileaks-cables-russian-mafia-gas

DNC votes just as scripted as RNC’s: Delegates voices are equally ignored at ri

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUG_USh1OFM

U.S. MSM Completely Ignores Third Party Presidential Candidates Being Arrested Outside Debate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=W12qGr6v2zE&t=137s

Election ’08 : Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 08 Election

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBrDzZCOQtI

Diebold Pays $48 Million to Settle Bribery Charges

http://blogs.wsj.com/riskandcompliance/2013/10/22/diebold-pays-48-million-to-settle-bribery-charges/

Media Reacts To Conan’s Same-Sex Wedding News

http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/lz0io/media_reacts_to_conans_samesex_wedding_news/

Media Reacts: A Christmas Present Or Two Or Ten Edition

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM8L7bdwVaA

One media giant is monopolizing the entire local TV market

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CiNLtLcDaY&feature=share

Ever Wonder Why Your Local TV News Stations Run the Same Damn Stories?

http://www.motherjones.com/media/2014/04/fcc-pew-local-tv-news-consolidation

When Media Mergers Limit More Than Competition

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/26/business/a-21st-century-fox-time-warner-merger-would-narrow-already-dwindling-competition.html

Networks, AP cancel exit polls in 19 states

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2012/10/04/networks-ap-cancel-exit-polls-in-19-states/

In 1914 JP Morgan began to infiltrate leftwing political movements.This was easy to do since they were starved for funds and eager to reach the people. The purpose was to keep the powerful informed, allow the left to blow off steam and have a final veto on their publicity and possibly actions.

http://www.reddit.com/r/occupywallstreet/comments/1guwiw/in_1914_jp_morgan_began_to_infiltrate_leftwing/

Moelis, Rothschild Take Lead on Omnicom-Publicis Merger

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-28/moelis-rothschild-take-lead-on-omnicom-publicis-merger.html

Queen of England enacts state oversight of media

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1pl78c/queen_of_england_enacts_state_oversight_of_media/

Samsung allegedly pressures Korean newspaper to kill coverage of anti-Samsung film

http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/20/5432178/samsung-caught-pressuring-korean-newspaper-to-kill-article-about-another-promise

Australia bans reporting of multi-nation corruption case involving Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam

https://wikileaks.org/aus-suppression-order/press.html

Leaked New World Order / Illuminati Recruiting Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ab-UfgptGc

One Man and His Bot Have Written Almost 10% of Wikipedia

http://gizmodo.com/one-man-and-his-bot-have-written-almost-10-of-wikipedi-1605139128

TIL over 50% of all edits on Wikipedia are done by the 524 most active users

http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2gfaav/til_over_50_of_all_edits_on_wikipedia_are_done_by/

The 36 People Who Run Wikipedia

https://medium.com/matter/the-36-people-who-run-wikipedia-21ecca70bcca

Oil

Obama biggest recipient of BP cash

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0510/36783.html

Obama admin bans press from filming BP oil spill areas in the Gulf

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpJBsjKhRTo&feature=player_embedded

Coast Guard Under ‘BP’s Rules’

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6496749n

Obama went swimming in the Gulf. His children did as well. So he thinks it is safe. Why would he think that unless he has been lied to. Who has lied to him? Maybe the guy who lived rent free in a house paid for by a BP consultant?

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/d1ju3/obama_went_swimming_in_the_gulf_his_children_did/

Revealed: Obama hired media expert to monitor ‘negative’ coverage of BP oil spill

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1311643/Revealed-Obama-hired-media-expert-monitor-negative-coverage-BP-oil-spill.html

Exclusive: Professor who downplayed oil spill has federal government contracts

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/professor-downplayed-oil-spill-federal-government-contracts/

Panel: Gov’t blocked scientists on spill estimate

http://phys.org/news205605198.html

NBC’s Brzezinski: I’m “Working With The White House” On Oil Spill Talking

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/06/21/nbcs_brzezinski_im_working_with_the_white_house_on_oil_spill_talking_points.html

Halliburton pleads guilty to destroying Gulf spill evidence

(Reuters) – Halliburton Co has agreed to plead guilty to destroying evidence related to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Thursday.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/26/us-gulf-spill-halliburton-idUSBRE96O1HF20130726

Revealed: BP’s close ties with the UK government

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/20/revealed-bps-close-ties-with-the-uk-government

Food

http://imgur.com/4hoxL2Z

FDA won’t allow food to be labeled free of genetic modification – Monsanto owns the government.

http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/dgtw1/fda_wont_allow_food_to_be_labeled_free_of_genetic/

You’re Appointing Who? Please Obama, Say It’s Not So!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-smith/youre-appointing-who-plea_b_243810.html

The Unholy Alliance: Monsanto, Dupont & Obama

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ronnie-cummins/the-unholy-alliance-monsa_b_642385.html

Monsanto is found guilty of chemical poisoning in France. The company was sued by a farmer who suffers neurological problems that the court found linked to pesticides.

www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/pnhkj/monsanto_is_found_guilty_of_chemical_poisoning_in/

Wikileaks cables leaked information regarding global food policy as it relates to U.S. officials — in the highest levels of government — that involves a conspiracy with Monsanto to force the global sale and use of genetically-modified foods.

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/fz4ed/wikileaks_cables_leaked_information_regarding/

FDA whistleblowers say government retaliated with spyware

FDA whistleblowers are suing the government for intercepting e-mails and using …

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/02/fda-whistleblowers-say-government-intercepted-gmail-yahoo-messages.ars

Obama’s Science Commitment, FDA Face Ethics Scrutiny in Wake of GMO Salmon Fiasco: The FDA “definitively concluded” that the fish was safe. “However, the draft assessment was not released—blocked on orders from the White House.”

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/15oa8u/obamas_science_commitment_fda_face_ethics/

Big Food makes Big Finance look like amateurs: 3 firms process 70% of US beef; 87% of acreage dedicated to GE crops contained crops bearing Monsanto traits; 4 companies produced 75% of cereal and snacks…

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/le6o4/big_food_makes_big_finance_look_like_amateurs_3/

Free markets are dead: “Ninety-three percent of soybeans and 80 percent of corn grown in the United States are under the control of just one company. Four companies control up to 90 percent of the global trade in grain. Today, three companies process more than 70 percent of beef in the U.S”

http://www.reddit.com/r/occupywallstreet/comments/nikub/free_markets_are_dead_ninetythree_percent_of/

Glencore: Trading Away Life’s Essentials | The Beast File

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6rSBifsvwg&feature=youtu.be

Goldman bankers get rich betting on food prices … – The Independent

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/goldman-bankers-get-rich-betting-on-food-prices-as-millions-starve-8459207.html

Taping of Farm Cruelty Is Becoming the Crime

http://www.reddit.com/r/TrueReddit/comments/1bz86g/taping_of_farm_cruelty_is_becoming_the_crime/

Emails Reveal Dairy Lobbyist Crafted “Ag-Gag” Legislation Outlawing Pictures of Farms

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/28/emails-reveal-dairy-lobbyist-authored-ag-gag-legislation-outlawing-pictures-farms/

These 10 Companies Control Enormous Number Of Consumer Brands [GRAPHIC]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/27/consumer-brands-owned-ten-companies-graphic_n_1458812.html

AB InBev brands

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InBev_brands

Suntory

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suntory

Every Bite You Take

How Sysco came to monopolize most of what you eat.

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/food/2007/02/every_bite_you_take.html

Sysco to buy US Foods for about $3.5 billion

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/12/09/sysco-us-foods/3918499/

The Rise of Big Chocolate

Two mega-companies are trying to seize control of the world’s cocoa supply. What that means for poor African farmers and your favorite chocolate bar.

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/11/11/the_rise_of_big_chocolate?page=0,0

Heinz deal for Kraft expands food larder for Buffett, 3G

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/25/us-kraft-m-a-heinz-idUSKBN0ML0YK20150325

WikiLeaks cables: McDonald’s used US to put pressure on El Salvador

Burger giant tried to delay US legislation in order to aid lawsuit being fought in Central American country, cables reveal

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2010/dec/21/wikileaks-cables-mcdonalds-us-el-salvador

Corporate Members

http://www.cfr.org/about/corporate/roster.html

Barack Obama lies About His Ties to the CFR and NAU. TubeTruthers.com!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEnuhSScLgc

John Kerry and the Blurring of the Foreign and Domestic

http://blogs.cfr.org/patrick/2013/02/22/john-kerry-and-the-blurring-of-the-foreign-and-domestic/

Hitlery Clinton admits the CFR gives the Orders

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfXBwT8Tgbo&feature=related

Cheney on CFR, Council on Foreign Relations

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOAk-7F1EVU

Tim Geithner Joins CFR As “Tireless And Creative Practitioner And Thinker”

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-02-06/tim-geithner-joins-cfr-tireless-and-creative-practitioner-and-thinker

New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly to join Council on Foreign Relations

http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/23/us/new-york-ray-kelly-council-on-foreign-relations/

Council on Foreign Relations Meets with Google to Fight International Crime

http://www.activistpost.com/2012/07/council-on-foreign-relations-meets-with.html

Secret royal veto powers over new laws to be exposed

Information commissioner orders release of guide to how Queen and Prince Charles must be consulted before laws are passed

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/aug/31/secret-royal-veto-powers-exposed?CMP=twt_fd

Secret papers show extent of senior royals’ veto over bills

Court order reveals how approval of Queen and Prince Charles is sought on range of bills

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jan/14/secret-papers-royals-veto-bills

Prince Charles criticised for ‘planting moles’ in government departments

MPs are to raise the matter in the Commons after the heir to the throne was described as a ‘constitutional crisis in waiting’

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/aug/18/prince-charles-moles-government-departments

Prince Charles’s ‘black spider memos’ show lobbying at highest political level

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/may/13/prince-charles-black-spider-memos-lobbying-ministers-tony-blair

Humble and obedient? How ministers defied etiquette in replies to Charles

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/may/13/humble-and-obedient-how-ministers-defied-etiquette-in-replies-to-charles

The Royal Family are exempt from Freedom of Information requests and can veto BBC programmes. Why do we put up with this?

Their unchecked influence and lack of transparency defies belief

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/the-royal-family-are-exempt-from-freedom-of-information-requests-and-can-veto-bbc-programmes-why-do-we-put-up-with-this-9956702.html

TIL In 1995, current US House Speaker John Boehner was caught handing out cheques from the tobacco lobby on the floor of the House of Representatives just before a vote on cutting tobacco subsidies.

http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1tk5ah/til_in_1995_current_us_house_speaker_john_boehner/

Ex-Virginia governor Bob McDonnell charged with corruption

Republican and wife allegedly accepted Rolex, designer clothes and loan of Ferrari, jet and cash from tobacco company

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/22/ex-virginia-governor-charged-gifts-political-favours

Rothschild loses libel case, and reveals secret world of money and politics

Thanks to billionaire’s legal battle, we now know a lot more about how the super-rich work

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/rothschild-loses-libel-case-and-reveals-secret-world-of-money-and-politics-6720015.html

Rothschilds buy into Rockefeller wealth business

(Reuters) – Two of the most glamorous names in global finance are linking up, with the Rothschild banking dynasty agreeing to buy a stake in the Rockefeller group’s wealth and asset management business to get a long-sought foothold in the United States.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/05/30/us-rothschild-rockefeller-idUKBRE84T0CO20120530

Rothschilds to merge British and French banking operations to secure control

The Rothschild dynasty is to merge its British and French banking operations to secure long-term control of the business and to boost the firm’s financial strength ahead of the introduction of tougher capital requirements for banks.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/9189053/Rothschilds-to-merge-British-and-French-banking-operations-to-secure-control.html

SIX BLOCKS IN AREA; SITE OFFERED TO U.N. BY JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER JR.

http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10E11F93C5516738FDDAB0994DA415B8688F1D3

Hillary Clinton to star at Marjorie Margolies event

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/05/hillary-clinton-marjorie-margolies-106360.html

German politician posts anti-Semitic video of ‘Rothschilds controlling the world’

http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/German-politician-posts-video-of-Rothschilds-controlling-the-world-377832

Haiti: Leaked cables expose new details on how Fruit of the Loom, Hanes and Levi’s worked with US to block increase in minimum wage and how the country’s elite used police force as own private army

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/i9j2y/haiti_leaked_cables_expose_new_details_on_how/

WikiLeaks: US knowingly supported rigged Haitian election

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/hvboj/wikileaks_us_knowingly_supported_rigged_haitian/

WikiLeaks cables: Shell boasts it has infiltrated Nigerian government

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/eij37/wikileaks_cables_shell_boasts_it_has_infiltrated/

Secret papers ‘show how Shell targeted Nigeria oil protests’

Documents seen by The IoS support claims energy giant enlisted help of country’s military government

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/secret-papers-show-how-shell-targeted-nigeria-oil-protests-1704812.html

BBC: Halliburton Recently Paid a Quarter BILLION Dollars to have Nigeria Drop Its Charges Against Dick Cheney in Pipeline Bribery Case

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/eo77n/bbc_halliburton_recently_paid_a_quarter_billion/

Tobacco giant ‘tried blackmail’ to block Ugandan anti-smoking law

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jul/12/bat-blackmail-uganda-smoking-law-tobacco

Joe Biden’s son Hunter to head legal unit at Ukraine’s largest private gas company

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/may/13/joe-bidens-son-hunter-head-legal-unit-ukraines-lar/

£41k a month and 2% on top: Blair’s deal with Saudis leads to questions over former PM’s lucrative contract

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2827263/Blair-signed-secret-contract-Saudi-oil-firm-promising-41-000-month-slice-deals-helped-broker.html

Top ten chaebol now almost 80% of Korean economy

http://www.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_business/549028.html

Chaebols: Kings of the conglomerates

http://www.campdenfb.com/article/chaebols-kings-conglomerates

Chaebol

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaebol

Destruindo a Democracia em 2 minutos, por Patri Friedman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgJ644LPL6g

About 125 Americans control more than 40 percent of election contributions

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/33nknh/about_125_americans_control_more_than_40_percent/

76 people accounted for 41% of all individual and corporate donations made to the political parties and other political causes in Britain over the past five years

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/332s47/76_people_accounted_for_41_of_all_individual_and/

study concludes: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy

http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/233bb2/study_concludes_us_is_an_oligarchy_not_a_democracy/

US Is an Oligarchy Not a Democracy, says Scientific Study

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/230sgy/us_is_an_oligarchy_not_a_democracy_says/

Corruption across EU ‘breathtaking’ – EU Commission

The extent of corruption in Europe is “breathtaking” and it costs the EU economy at least 120bn euros (£99bn) annually, the European Commission says.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26014387

Corruption Costs European Union 120 Billion Euros a Year, Study Finds

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/04/business/international/European-Union-Report-on-Cost-of-Corruption.html?_r=0

‘Oligarchic tendencies’: Study finds only the wealthy get represented in the Senate

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/19/oligarchic-tendencies-study-finds-only-the-wealthy-get-represented-in-the-senate/

Millionaires run our government. Here’s why that matters.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/01/07/millionaires-run-our-government-heres-why-that-matters/

Congress Quickly And Quietly Rolls Back Insider Trading Rules For Itself

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130416/08344222725/congress-quickly-quietly-rolls-back-insider-trading-rules-itself.shtml

Congress Tells Court It Can’t Be Investigated for Insider Trading

http://www.reddit.com/r/nottheonion/comments/356tzx/congress_tells_court_it_cant_be_investigated_for/

Regulatory capture

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture

Defence officials prepare to fight the poor, activists and minorities (and commies)

The self-defeating logic of militarised social science targets anti-capitalist ‘extremists’ in the new ‘age of uncertainty’

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/jun/13/uk-defence-fight-poor-activists-minorities-marxists-commies

British Police Used A Secret Unit To Spy On Activists For 40 Years

http://www.businessinsider.com/operation-herne-sds-2014-7

British police admit to spying on journalists without a warrant

http://www.dailydot.com/news/plebgate-sun-operation-alice-ripa/

Silvio Berlusconi’s links with Italian organised crime confirmed

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/silvio-and-the-cosa-nostra-berlusconis-links-with-italian-organised-crime-confirmed-9358790.html

Propaganda Due

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_Due?x=y

Revealed: How gangs used the Freemasons to corrupt police

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/revealed-how-gangs-used-the-freemasons-to-corrupt-police-9054670.html

The corruption of Britain: UK’s key institutions infiltrated by criminals

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/the-corruption-of-britain-uks-key-institutions-infiltrated-by-criminals-9052617.html

Serco: the company that is running Britain

From prisons to rail franchises and even London’s Boris bikes, Serco is a giant global corporation that has hoovered up outsourced government contracts. Now the NHS is firmly in its sights. But it stands accused of mismanagement, lying and even charging for non-existent work

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/jul/29/serco-biggest-company-never-heard-of

The Biggest Company You’ve Never Heard Of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szNLMtgI7hU

Canadian Sex Worker kicked out of Senate hearings on controversial prostitution law after threatening to reveal list of Canadian federal politicians who use prostitution.

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/2g3ch2/canadian_sex_worker_kicked_out_of_senate_hearings/

Jehovah’s Witnesses destroyed documents showing child abuse allegations, court told in cover-up case

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/29f9wp/jehovahs_witnesses_destroyed_documents_showing/

Salvation Army ‘rented out’ boys at Sydney children’s home in Sydney to paedophiles

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/10606458/Salvation-Army-rented-out-boys-at-Sydney-childrens-home-in-Sydney-to-paedophiles.html

TIL that a woman, hired by Dyncorp to crackdown on forced prostitution on behalf of the UN, discovered that the UN police were the main perpetrators of forced prostitution and was later fired.

http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/15r2j4/til_that_a_woman_hired_by_dyncorp_to_crackdown_on/

WikiLeaks Reveals That Military Contractors Have Not Lost Their Taste For Child Prostitutes

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/08/wikileaks-reveals-that-mi_n_793816.html

The Whistleblower: Sex Trafficking, Military Contractors, and One Woman’s Fight for Justice

http://www.amazon.com/The-Whistleblower-Trafficking-Military-Contractors/dp/B005CDUBC2/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1331445269&sr=8-4

Sounds like Blackwater founder Erik Prince was operating a child prostitution service in Iraq

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389×6249748

1989 News: Call boys in Bush Sr’s Whitehouse

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5OJPeHCmhA

1989 #2 News: Call boys in Bush Sr’s Whitehouse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU-k-tfiPfs

1989 story about Bush Sr. Whitehouse call Boy sex ring

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2003/02/06/15709461.php

Nixon Tape Discusses Homosexuals at Bohemian Grove

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPb-PN9F2Pc

The Franklin Cover-Up – John DeCamp – Full film

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcWrrBceuP4

The Franklin Cover-up: Child Abuse, Satanism, and Murder in Nebraska

http://www.amazon.com/The-Franklin-Cover-up-Satanism-Nebraska/dp/0963215809/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1366098964&sr=8-1&keywords=franklin+coverup

Pentagon Child Porn Scandal: Security Agencies Were Left At Risk, Investigators Say

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/23/pentagon-child-porn-scand_n_656839.html

Investigator of Secret Service prostitution scandal also linked to prostitution

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/investigator-of-secret-service-prostitution-scandal-also-linked-to-prostitution/2014/10/28/7446a53c-5f0f-11e4-8b9e-2ccdac31a031_story.html

Secret Service Prostitution Scandal

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/secret-service-prostitution-scandal

A Party under Fire: A Scandal-Scarred GOP Asks, ‘What Next?’

Explicit e-mails with under-age male pages. Criminal lobbyists. Being on client lists for prostitution rings. FBI corruption investigations. And, now, soliciting sex in an airport bathroom. People are beginning to wonder: how low can Republican lawmakers go?

http://www.spiegel.de/international/a-party-under-fire-a-scandal-scarred-gop-asks-what-next-a-502653.html

Spitzer Is Linked to Prostitution Ring

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/10/nyregion/10cnd-spitzer.html

The D.C. Madam Case, All Sordid Out

http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2008-04-11/opinions/36798466_1_deborah-jeane-palfrey-prosecutors-shock-and-awe

Mike Horner Prostitution Scandal: GOP State Rep. Resigns After Name Reportedly Surfaces On Client List

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/24/mike-horner-sex-prostitution-scandal_n_1910647.html

FBI Ran Pedophile Ring to Nab Pedophiles

As late as last year, the FBI ran a child pornography operation in an attempt to nab its customers. The service ran for two weeks “while attempting to identify more than 5,000 customers, according to a Seattle FBI agent’s statements to the court.”

http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2013/05/30/FBI-Ran-Pedophile-Ring-to-Nab-Pedophiles

Charges refiled against former Pittsburgh cop accused of running prostitution ring

http://triblive.com/news/2222380-74/johns-police-criminal-charges-pittsburgh-prostitution-allegheny-charged-counts-county#axzz2Qc0wAaBg

Former TSA employee fined $500 for running prostitution ring

Man confronted by police in Silver Spring hotel in February

http://www.gazette.net/article/20120611/NEWS/706119952/1007/former-tsa-employee-fined-500-for-running-prostitution-ring&template=gazette

School board member convicted of running prostitution ring in California

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/08/16904911-school-board-member-convicted-of-running-prostitution-ring-in-california?lite

FBI dad’s spyware experiment accidentally exposes pedophile principal

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/146xzt/fbi_dads_spyware_experiment_accidentally_exposes/

Another One: Top Federal Judge Linked to Prostitution Ring

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4452917&page=1#.UW0JY0pcnn4

‘Comfort Women’ Controversy Comes to New York

http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/10/comfort-women-controversy-comes-to-new-york/

Pope Francis: ‘About 2%’ of Catholic clergy paedophiles

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-28282050

Pope begs forgiveness for ‘sacrilegious cult’ of Church sexual abuse

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/07/us-pope-abuse-idUSKBN0FC15J20140707

Vatican arrests former archbishop on paedophilia charges

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/23/us-vaitican-abuse-arrest-idUSKCN0HI28T20140923

Sex scandal rocks Vatican: Papal usher, chorister linked to gay prostitution ring

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/sex-scandal-rocks-vatican-papal-usher-chorister-linked-gay-prostitution-ring-article-1.172149

BBC News – Catholic Church loses child abuse liability appeal

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/wfq5e/bbc_news_catholic_church_loses_child_abuse/

Ireland admits involvement in Catholic laundry slavery

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57567706/ireland-admits-involvement-in-catholic-laundry-slavery/

Pope Francis Defrocks Pedophile Argentine Priest

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/09/pope-francis-excommunicate-priest_n_6122766.html

Two cases of child pornography possession in Vatican in 2014

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/31/vatican-childpornography-idINKBN0L40H920150131

Priest picked by Pope Francis as sex crimes prosecutor failed to report abuse complaints: report

The Rev. Robert Geisinger, the second-highest-ranking leader of the Chicago Jesuits in the 1990s, knew as early as 1995 about abuse accusations against the Rev. Donald McGuire, who was eventually jailed, according to legal documents. Geisinger was named by Pope Francis as the Vatican’s sex crimes prosecutor in September.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/pope-francis-sex-crimes-prosecutor-helped-hide-abuse-article-1.2021350

Cover-up claims revive sex scandal

Belgian establishment accused of closing ranks to block investigation

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/1999/apr/21/stephenbates

Belgium Pedophilia Scandal /Did Authorities Cover Up Its Scope?: Book Revives Fear of Grand Conspiracy

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/16/news/16iht-brussels.2.t.html?pagewanted=all

Child Sex Case Adds Outrage To Scandals Rocking Belgium

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1996-10-27/news/9610270253_1_marc-dutroux-minister-willy-claes-jean-marc-connerotte

Portugal’s elite linked to paedophile ring

Abuse was reportedly going on at Lisbon orphanage for 20 years

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/nov/27/childprotection.uk

Boy Scouts helped alleged molesters cover tracks, files show

When volunteers and employees were suspected of sexually abusing children, Boy Scout officials often didn’t tell police, files from 1970-91 reveal. In many cases they sought to hide the situation.

http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-boy-scouts-files-20120916,0,1641796.story#axzz2xIsUM5rH

Theme park employees caught in child porn arrests

http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/14/us/theme-park-employees-child-sex-stings/

Former acting HHS cybersecurity director convicted on child porn charges

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/08/26/former-acting-hhs-cybersecurity-director-convicted-on-child-porn-charges/

Hundreds held over Canada child porn

Police in Canada say 348 people have been arrested and nearly 400 children rescued during a three-year investigation into child pornography.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-24944358

Los Angeles Deputy City Attorney Arrested on Child Porn Charges

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Los-Angeles-Deputy-City-Attorney-arrested-on-child-porn-charges-the-City-Attorneys-Office-said-274174791.html

Incestuous child group sex ring uncovered in Alabama

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/2l124p/incestuous_child_group_sex_ring_uncovered_in/

Google Teams Up with CIA to Fund “Recorded Future” Startup Monitoring Websites, Blogs & Twitter Accounts

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/30/google_teams_up_with_cia_

Social Media Is a Tool of the CIA. Seriously

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/social-media-is-a-tool-of-the-cia-seriously/

Google Comes Under Fire for ‘Secret’ Relationship with NSA

http://www.pcworld.com/article/217550/google_comes_under_fire_for_secret_relationship_with_nsa.html

Exposed: Inside the NSA’s Largest and Most Expansive Secret Domestic Spy Center in Bluffdale, Utah

https://www.democracynow.org/2012/3/21/exposed_inside_the_nsas_largest_and

Court Rules NSA Doesn’t Have To Reveal Its Semi-Secret Relationship With Google

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/05/11/court-rules-nsa-doesnt-have-to-reveal-its-semi-secret-relationship-with-google/

Oakland emails give another glimpse into the Google-Military-Surveillance Complex

http://pando.com/2014/03/07/the-google-military-surveillance-complex/

The revolving door between Google and the Department of Defense

http://pando.com/2014/04/23/the-revolving-door-between-google-and-the-department-of-defense/

Google Judge Accepts $22.5 Million FTC Privacy Settlement

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-17/google-judge-accepts-22-5-million-ftc-privacy-settlement.html

Google illegally collected private info

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2011/01/117_79291.html

Spain privacy watchdog fines Google for breaking data law

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/12/19/us-spain-google-privacy-idUKBRE9BI12Z20131219

Google reaches antitrust deal with EU

The Internet search giant dodges $5 billion in fines with pledge to display rivals’ search results

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/2/5/google-reaches-antitrustdealwitheuavoidsfine.html

Google Streamlines Privacy Policy to Integrate its Products

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/01/google-streamlines-privacy/

On Profiling, And Google’s Big Double-Cross

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/04/opinion-singel-google-walls/

Exclusive: Darpa Director Bolts Pentagon for Google

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/03/dugan-darpa-google/

DARPA LifeLog

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_LifeLog

Pentagon Wants a Social Media Propaganda Machine

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/07/darpa-wants-social-media-sensor-for-propaganda-ops/

DARPA looking to master propaganda via ‘Narrative Networks’

http://phys.org/news/2011-10-darpa-master-propaganda-narrative-networks.html

Information Awareness Office

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Information_Awareness

Feds Look to Fight Leaks With ‘Fog of Disinformation’

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/07/fog-computing/all/

Your 119 Billion Google Searches Now a Central Bank Tool

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-02/your-119-billion-google-searches-now-a-central-bank-tool.html

Google to begin punishing pirate sites in search results

http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/10/3233625/google-search-ranking-copyright-dmca

Judge: Google didn’t follow “show your shills” order

Oracle admitted that it paid blogger Florian Mueller; Google was more vague.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/08/judge-google-didnt-follow-show-your-shills-order/

Google demotes its own Chrome browser search rankings after site is caught paying bloggers to hype it

Google is to manually ‘demote’ its Chrome browser – making it appear lower in searches Move comes after site paid bloggers to hype Chrome Move will see Chrome rank lower for two months Chrome predicted to overtake Internet Explorer in 2012

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2081978/Google-caught-paying-bloggers-promote-Chrome-browser–breaking-rules.html

Microsoft pulls the plug on paid IE social-media promotional campaign

Summary: Microsoft Internet Explorer officials are attempting to distance themselves from a paid social-media effort by an advocate marketing company meant to promote Microsoft’s IE browser.

http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-pulls-the-plug-on-paid-ie-social-media-promotional-campaign-7000030680/

The Best Book Reviews Money Can Buy

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/26/business/book-reviewers-for-hire-meet-a-demand-for-online-raves.html?_r=0

Telco Astroturfing Tries To Bring Down Reviews Of Susan Crawford’s Book

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130722/17503523891/telco-astroturfing-tries-to-bring-down-reviews-susan-crawfords-book.shtml

Yelp deems 20% of user reviews ‘suspicious’ A study of flagged write-ups shows how some try to game the system

The office of New York’s Attorney General announced Monday that it fined businesses over $350,000 for generating phony reviews online. Consumers are right to be suspicious of online product, restaurant, and hotel reviews: According to a new report — and the site itself — up to 25% of all reviews posted on Yelp YELP +0.08% are “suspicious” if not fraudulent.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/20-of-yelp-reviews-are-fake-2013-09-24?link=MW_latest_news

Astroturfers shut down after flooding Yelp and Google with fake reviews Companies paid freelancers $1 to $10 for each fake review, AG says.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/09/astroturfers-shut-down-after-flooding-yelp-and-google-with-fake-reviews/

Samsung Taiwan Apologises for Fake Negative Reviews of HTC Smartphones

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/459577/20130421/samsung-taiwan-fake-negative-reviews-htc-smartphones.htm

Samsung fined $340,000 for faking online comments

http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/24/5023658/samsung-fined-340000-for-posting-negative-htc-reviews

Insight: At Nestle, interacting with the online enemy

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/26/us-nestle-online-water-idUSBRE89P07S20121026

Papa John’s PR firm targets bloggers

http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/01/papa-johns-pr-firm-targets-bloggers-155409.html?hp=r5

Social Media Sock Puppetry

Lessons from failed practices in social media marketing.

http://www.forbes.com/2010/02/20/twitter-walmart-dell-technology-cio-network-social-media.html

YouTube strips Universal and Sony of 2 billion fake views

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/15b30s/youtube_strips_universal_and_sony_of_2_billion/

Facebook Advertising Exposed as Worthless – Millions and Millions of Dollars of Fraudulent Revenue – “Click Farming” – VIDEO

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/2khpq0/facebook_advertising_exposed_as_worthless/

NY Comic Con Takes Over Attendees’ Twitter Accounts to Praise Itself

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/10/new-york-comic-con-twitter-rfid/

Verizon led massive astroturf campaign to end NJ broadband obligation

Some Verizon “supporters” had no idea e-mails were sent on their behalf.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/04/verizon-led-massive-astroturf-campaign-to-end-nj-broadband-obligation/

This Is How Comcast Is Astroturfing the Net Neutrality Issue

By its own admission, Comcast is working with think tanks like the American Enterprise Institute. Fellows at the Institute are printing op-eds all throughout the media in support of killing Net neutrality–without disclosing the think tank’s ties to Comcast.

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/news/comcast-astroturfing-net-neutrality

Community Groups Were Duped Into Joining the Telecom Industry’s Anti-Net-Neutrality Coalition

http://www.vice.com/read/community-groups-were-duped-into-joining-telecom-industrys-anti-net-neutrality-coalition

Cable Companies Are Astroturfing Fake Consumer Support to End Net Neutrality

http://www.vice.com/read/cables-companies-are-astroturfing-fake-consumer-support-to-end-net-neutrality

Trolls Paid by a Telecom Lobbying Firm Keep Commenting on My Net Neutrality Articles

http://www.vice.com/read/trolls-paid-by-a-telecom-lobbying-firm-keep-commenting-on-my-net-neutrality-articles-806

Inside a Twitter Robot Factory

Fake Activity, Often Bought for Publicity Purposes, Influences Trending Topics

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304607104579212122084821400

How Paypal and Reddit faked their way to traction

https://medium.com/design-startups/9411fb583205

Fox commentator paid $50,000 to tout stock

Commentary: Contract terminated Tuesday following disclosure

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/fox-commentator-paid-50000-to-tout-stock-2013-06-18

Bloomberg News Pays Reporters More If Their Stories Move Markets

http://www.businessinsider.com/bloomberg-reporters-compensation-2013-12

Stealth marketing: Microsoft paying YouTubers for Xbox One mentions [updated]

Machinima campaign offered undisclosed money to videos promoting new console.

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/01/stealth-marketing-microsoft-paying-youtubers-for-xbox-one-mentions/

Sony’s Failed PSP Viral Marketing Stunt

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2006/12/sonys_failed_ps/

Sony Settles Manning Suit

http://www.eonline.com/news/48182/sony-settles-manning-suit

TurboTax maker linked to grassroots campaign against free, simple tax filing

Eight letters to feds/op-eds are all written after nudges from a PR firm repping Intuit.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/04/turbotax-maker-linked-to-grassroots-campaign-against-free-simple-tax-filing/

President of Japan Nuclear Operator May Resign Over E-Mails

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/08/world/asia/08japan.html?_r=2&

Big Food uses mommy bloggers to shape public opinion

http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/8/food-agriculturemonsantogmoadvertising.html

Here’s How Conde Nast and Mo Rocca Are Making Propaganda for Monsanto

http://gawker.com/heres-how-conde-nast-and-mo-rocca-are-making-propaganda-1616500527

Monsanto helps fund all-expense-paid ‘reporter boot camp’ for food writers

http://rt.com/usa/261377-monsanto-helps-fund-reporter-conference/

The Program Big Oil’s PR Firm Uses to ‘Convert Average Citizens’

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/a-top-pr-firm-promised-big-oil-software-that-can-convert-average-citizens?trk_source=homepage-lede

Coca-Cola has been paying fitness and nutrition experts to suggest its cola as a “healthy treat”

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/2z8sht/cocacola_has_been_paying_fitness_and_nutrition/

Fox News PR Used Fake Accounts To Push Back At Negative Commenters

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/21/fox-news-fake-accounts-comments_n_4135788.html

Operation Earnest Voice

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Earnest_Voice

HBGary’s high-volume astroturfing technology and the Feds who requested it

http://boingboing.net/2011/02/18/hbgarys-high-volume.html

Ntrepid

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ntrepid#Military_contract

How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/

Snowden Docs: British Spies Used Sex and ‘Dirty Tricks’

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/snowden-docs-british-spies-used-sex-dirty-tricks-n23091

War on Anonymous: British Spies Attacked Hackers, Snowden Docs Show

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/war-anonymous-british-spies-attacked-hackers-snowden-docs-show-n21361

The “Cuban Twitter” Scam Is a Drop in the Internet Propaganda Bucket

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/04/04/cuban-twitter-scam-social-media-tool-disseminating-government-propaganda/

US-run ‘Cuban Twitter’ categorized ‘political tendencies’ of users – report

http://rt.com/news/156064-cuban-twitter-category-politics/

Hacking Online Polls and Other Ways British Spies Seek to Control the Internet

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/07/14/manipulating-online-polls-ways-british-spies-seek-control-internet/

GCHQ’s “Chinese menu” of tools spreads disinformation across Internet

http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/07/ghcqs-chinese-menu-of-tools-spread-disinformation-across-internet/

Britain Used Spy Team to Shape Latin American Public Opinion on Falklands

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/04/02/gchq-argentina-falklands/

FBI uses phony profiles on social networks to track suspects

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2010/03/fbi-uses-phony-profiles-on-social-networks-to-gather-information-on-suspects/1#.T17Ypnlofn4

FBI Created Fake Seattle News Story to Catch Bomb Threat Suspect

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fbi-created-fake-seattle-news-story-catch-bomb-threat-suspect-n235346

NYPD social media policy allows catfishing – with the proper paperwork

“We look at social networking … our gang division, our borough personnel look at party advertisements.”

https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2015/feb/06/nypd-social-media-policy-allows-catfishing-proper-/

Mall of America Security Catfished Black Lives Matter Activists, Documents Show

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/18/mall-americas-intelligence-analyst-catfished-black-lives-matter-activists-collect-information/

Why Was an FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force Tracking a Black Lives Matter Protest?

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/12/fbi-appeared-use-informant-track-black-lives-matter-protest/

TIL that the US created and still runs the Office of Strategic Influence to psychologically influence its population to support the War on Terror through propaganda

http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/tm4su/til_that_the_us_created_and_still_runs_the_office/

Wikileaks leaks: CIA’s confidential idea’s on how to manipulate the population of Europe to get more support for the war in Afghanistan [PDF]

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/binry/wikileaks_leaks_cias_confidential_ideas_on_how_to/

Another Runaway General: Army Deploys Psy-Ops on U.S. Senators

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/another-runaway-general-army-deploys-psy-ops-on-u-s-senators-20110223

Pentagon Spending Billions on PR to Sway World Opinion

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/02/05/pentagon-spending-billions-pr-sway-world-opinion/

Army of fake social media friends to promote propaganda

http://blogs.computerworld.com/17852/army_of_fake_social_media_friends_to_promote_propaganda

US plans to ‘fight the net’ revealed

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4655196.stm

Exclusive: Military’s ‘persona’ software cost millions, used for ‘classified social media activities’

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/02/22/exclusive-militarys-persona-software-cost-millions-used-for-classified-social-media-activities/

Newest U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy: Trolling

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/07/counterterrorism-trolls/all/

Air Force Releases ‘Counter-Blog’ Marching Orders

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/01/usaf-blog-respo/

Obama confidant’s spine-chilling proposal

Cass Sunstein wants the government to “cognitively infiltrate” anti-government groups

http://www.salon.com/2010/01/15/sunstein_2/

Feds Look to Fight Leaks With ‘Fog of Disinformation’

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/07/fog-computing/all/

Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/g5tf8/revealed_us_spy_operation_that_manipulates_social/

Combating jihadists and free speech: How the U.S. military is using fake online profiles to spread propaganda

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1367535/U-S-military-using-fake-online-profiles-spread-propaganda.html

Pentagon Wants a Social Media Propaganda Machine

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/07/darpa-wants-social-media-sensor-for-propaganda-ops/

US State Department spent $690,000 to ‘buy’ Facebook ‘likes’

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1hmkeh/us_state_department_spent_690000_to_buy_facebook/

Defense Department Initiative Seeks to Analyze Social Media Patterns

http://techland.time.com/2011/08/02/defense-department-initiative-seeks-to-analyze-social-media-patterns/#0_undefined,0_

Somalia News Website Run By U.S. Military Aims To Counter Insurgents

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/13/us-military-runs-somali-propaganda_n_2122114.html

The man the State Dept. wants silenced

Guest Post: Peter Van Buren wrote a critical book about Iraq. Now the State Department is waging war against him

http://www.salon.com/2012/04/12/the_man_the_state_dept_wants_silenced/singleton/

Misinformation campaign targets USA TODAY reporter, editor

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/story/2012-04-19/vanden-brook-locker-propaganda/54419654/1

Propaganda firm owner admits attacks on journalists

http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/story/2012-05-24/Leonie-usa-today-propaganda-pentagon/55190450/1

Luring Young Web Warriors Is Priority. It’s Also a Game.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/25/technology/united-states-wants-to-attract-hackers-to-public-sector.html?smid=re-share&_r=0

US Army tries to infiltrate wikileaks via bribing supporters at MIT. Fails.

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/cvvxu/us_army_tries_to_infiltrate_wikileaks_via_bribing/

MIT students helped WikiLeaks suspect, hacker says

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/08/01/afghanistan.wikileaks.suspect/index.html?hpt=T1

Obama lays framework for purge of online opponents

http://www.examiner.com/article/obama-lays-framework-for-purge-of-online-opponents

FBI requests $41 million to battle ‘wiretap unfriendly’ online correspondence

http://rt.com/usa/fbi-wiretap-unfriendly-online-correspondence-795/

CIA tracks global pulse on Twitter, Facebook

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57318372/cia-tracks-global-pulse-on-twitter-facebook/

Homeland Security office OKs efforts to monitor social media

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Homeland_Security_office_OKs_efforts_to_monitor_social_media-179486081.html

US to scan status updates and tweets for bioterrorism evidence

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-11/13/scan-social-networks-for-bioterrorism

[WashingtonsBlog – 2009-2012] Multiple detailed and well-sourced posts pertaining to government and military manipulation of the internet

http://www.reddit.com/r/MilitaryConspiracy/comments/16kn5s/washingtonsblog_20092012_multiple_detailed_and/

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Obama’s White Whale How the campaign’s top-secret project Narwhal could change this race, and many to come.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/victory_lab/2012/02/project_narwhal_how_a_top_secret_obama_campaign_program_could_change_the_2012_race_.html

Obama Behavior Team to “Nudge” U.S. Toward Government Goals

http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/16408-obama-behavior-team-to-nudge-u-s-toward-government-goals

How The UK Government ‘Secretly’ Influenced Its Citizens’ Behaviours

Can governments influence the decisions and actions of their citizens without the public’s conscious knowledge? Since 2010, the U.K. government has had a taskforce, nicknamed the “Nudge Unit”, which utilises behavioural economics to come up with policies that can “encourage and enable people to make better choices for themselves.”

http://www.economywatch.com/features/behavioural-economics-the-uk-nudge-unit-success.18-09.html

Revealed: the MoD’s secret cyberwarfare programme

Multimillion pound project will look at how internet users can be influenced by social media and other psychological techniques

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/mar/16/mod-secret-cyberwarfare-programme

Army sets up new brigade ‘for information age’

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-31070114

How to win wars by influencing people’s behaviour

When terrorism is staged for YouTube and all sides are media-savvy, the military is turning to the behavioural sciences for help

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/mar/16/how-to-win-wars-by-influencing-peoples-behaviour

Military Report: Secretly ‘Recruit or Hire Bloggers’

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2008/03/report-recruit/

U.S. military behind Africa news websites

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/nov/13/us-military-behind-africa-news-websites/

Rights groups slam Raytheon secret software that tracks social media and ‘predicts’ people’s future behavior

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/02/10/rights-groups-slam-ratheyon-secret-software-that-tracks-social-media-and-predicts-peoples-future-behavior/

http://www.raytheon.com/capabilities/products/cybersecurity/hiring/index.html

Feds Creating Database to Track ‘Hate Speech’ on Twitter

$1 Million study focuses on internet memes, ‘misinformation’ in political campaigns

http://freebeacon.com/issues/feds-creating-database-to-track-hate-speech-on-twitter/

Military Scientists Use Yelp and Digg To Test Viral Marketing Skills

http://gizmodo.com/military-scientists-use-yelp-and-digg-to-test-viral-mar-1355346045

Revealed: Air Force ordered software to manage army of fake virtual people

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/02/18/revealed-air-force-ordered-software-to-manage-army-of-fake-virtual-people/

The government wants to study ‘social pollution’ on Twitter

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/truthy-project-is-unworthy-of-tax-dollars/2014/10/17/a3274faa-531b-11e4-809b-8cc0a295c773_story.html

Cops scan social media to help assess your ‘threat rating’

http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2014/12/12/police-data-mining-looks-through-social-media-assigns-you-a-threat-level/

Facebook tinkered with users’ feeds for a massive psychology experiment

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/29avny/facebook_tinkered_with_users_feeds_for_a_massive/

Facebook conducted hundreds of psychological experiments with few boundaries: WSJ

http://www.theverge.com/2014/7/2/5866315/facebook-data-science-team-conducted-hundreds-experiments

Facebook Is Studying Your Mom, Your Makeout Buddy, and Your 9/11 Conspiracy Theories

http://www.motherjones.com/media/2014/07/facebook-studies

Facebook data mining for political views

http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2014/10/facebook-data-mining-for-political-sentiment-197933.html

Facebook’s Emotion Study Follows Efforts on Voting and Organ Donation

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/528706/facebooks-emotional-manipulation-study-is-just-the-latest-effort-to-prod-users/

A 61-million-person experiment in social influence and political mobilization

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v489/n7415/abs/nature11421.html

Facebook mind control experiments linked to DoD research on civil unrest

http://rt.com/usa/169848-pentagon-facebook-study-minerva/

Air Force research: How to use social media to control people like drones

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/07/air-force-research-how-to-use-social-media-to-control-people-like-drones/

Pentagon’s Project Minerva Sparks New Anthro Concerns

http://www.wired.com/2008/05/project-minerva/

Project Camelot

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Camelot

The Military Doesn’t Want You to Quit Facebook and Twitter

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/the-military-doesnt-want-you-to-quit-facebook-and-twitter/373918/

Western Spy Agencies Secretly Rely on Hackers for Intel and Expertise

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/02/04/demonize-prosecute-hackers-nsa-gchq-rely-intel-expertise/

One in four US hackers ‘is an FBI informer’

The FBI and US secret service have used the threat of prison to create an army of informers among online criminals

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jun/06/us-hackers-fbi-informer?CMP=twt_gu

F.B.I. Informant Is Tied to Cyberattacks Abroad

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/24/world/fbi-informant-is-tied-to-cyberattacks-abroad.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes&_r=0

16-year-old gets a visit from the FBI for making a video that details how the United States is turning into a police state. “They wanted me to be an informant, to possibly put my life in danger, to help them arrest and gain intel on occupy protesters and hackers”

http://www.reddit.com/r/evolutionReddit/comments/zrqn0/16yearold_gets_a_visit_from_the_fbi_for_making_

FBI: We know you’re innocent, but you’re not getting off the No-Fly list unless you rat out your friends

http://boingboing.net/2013/09/28/fbi-we-know-youre-innocent.html#more-258571

“You Might Get Hit by a Car”: On Secret Tape, FBI Threatens American Muslim Refusing to be Informant

http://www.democracynow.org/2014/5/2/you_might_get_hit_by_a

Portland man: I was tortured in UAE for refusing to become an FBI informant

Yonas Fikre, who attends a mosque where at least nine of its members have been barred from flying, says the US no-fly list is being used to intimidate American Muslims into spying on behalf of US authorities

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/16/portland-man-tortured-uae-behest-of-fbi

Ex-Wikileaks man ‘deleted files’

A former Wikileaks spokesman claims to have deleted thousands of unpublished files that had been passed to the whistleblowing site.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14616899

WikiLeaks Volunteer Was a Paid Informant for the FBI

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/06/wikileaks-mole/

Top Silk Road drug dealer was an informant, then got arrested Steven Sadler, suspected of running “Nod” account, cooperated for two months.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/10/top-silk-road-drug-dealer-was-an-informant-then-got-arrested/

Kim Dotcom Ratted Out Rival File-Sharing Sites, Court Documents Claim

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/12/kim-dotcom-destroy-rivals/

Air Force informant program

Honor and deception

A secretive Air Force program recruits academy students to inform on fellow cadets and disavows them afterward

http://www3.gazette.com/projects/project/usafa-informant-program/

Police tried to spy on Cambridge students, secret footage shows

Officer is filmed attempting to persuade activist in his 20s to become informant targeting ‘student-union type stuff’

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/14/police-cambridge-university-secret-footage

Cambridgeshire police tried to turn political activists into informers

Force defends use of covert tactics against campaigners

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/mar/17/cambridgeshire-police-political-activists-informants?CMP=twt_gu

Prosecutors Are Reading Emails From Inmates to Lawyers

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/23/nyregion/us-is-reading-inmates-email-sent-to-lawyers.html?_r=0

BBC News – MI5, MI6 and GCHQ ‘spied on lawyers’

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-29939192

Project MERRIMAC

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MERRIMAC

Project RESISTANCE

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Resistance

Operation CHAOS

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_CHAOS

McCarran Internal Security Act

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarran_Internal_Security_Act

COINTELPRO

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cointelpro

Almost everyone involved in developing Tor was (or is) funded by the US government

http://pando.com/2014/07/16/tor-spooks/

XKeyscore exposed: How NSA tracks all German Tor users as ‘extremists’

http://rt.com/news/170208-nsa-spies-tor-users/

The NSA thinks Linux Journal is an “extremist forum”?

XKeyscore code for tracking Tor users also caught visitors to that website.

http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/07/the-nsa-thinks-linux-journal-is-an-extremist-forum/

NSA and GCHQ target Tor network that protects anonymity of web users

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/04/nsa-gchq-attack-tor-network-encryption

NSA tracks Google ads to find Tor users

The National Security Agency uses a bit of jiu-jitsu to turn the structure of Web ad networks against people who run Tor to remain anonymous.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57606178-83/nsa-tracks-google-ads-to-find-tor-users/

Use of Tor and e-mail crypto could increase chances that NSA keeps your data When it comes to surveillance rules, some US people are more equal than others.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/06/use-of-tor-and-e-mail-crypto-could-increase-chances-that-nsa-keeps-your-data/

Leaked NSA Doc Says It Can Collect And Keep Your Encrypted Data As Long As It Takes To Crack It

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/06/20/leaked-nsa-doc-says-it-can-collect-and-keep-your-encrypted-data-as-long-as-it-takes-to-crack-it/

Use of Tor helped FBI ID suspect in bomb hoax case

Tor can be an effective tool for covering your tracks, but not always.

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/12/use-of-tor-helped-fbi-finger-bomb-hoax-suspect/

Visit the Wrong Website, and the FBI Could End Up in Your Computer

http://www.wired.com/2014/08/operation_torpedo/

http://archive.org/web/web.php

http://archive.today/

http://redditcommentsearch.com/

http://www.redditinvestigator.com/

http://www.redditgraphs.com/

http://www.redective.com/

http://www.trackreddit.com/dashboard.php

http://www.unedditreddit.com/

https://search.wikileaks.org/

Wikipedia honcho caught in scandal quits, defends paid edits

High-placed editors at Wikipedia’s U.K. site were caught in a simmering paid-PR scandal. After news broke, one resignation and a little backpedaling has done little to solve the problem.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57518384-93/wikipedia-honcho-caught-in-scandal-quits-defends-paid-edits/

Wikimedia Foundation employee ousted over paid editing

Longtime advocate for female editors is dismissed after taking a $300 side job.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/01/wikimedia-foundation-employee-ousted-over-paid-editing/

Manipulating Wikipedia to Promote a Bogus Business School

http://www.newsweek.com/2015/04/03/manipulating-wikipedia-promote-bogus-business-school-316133.html

Corporate editing of Wikipedia revealed

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/19/technology/19iht-wiki.1.7167084.html?_r=2&

Microsoft Offers Cash for Wikipedia Edit

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/23/AR2007012301025.html

New York Times Has Been Editing Reporters’ Wikipedia Pages For Years

http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/new-york-times-has-been-editing-reporters-wikipedia-pages-fo

CIA, FBI computers used for Wikipedia edits

(Reuters) – People using CIA and FBI computers have edited entries in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia on topics including the Iraq war and the Guantanamo prison, according to a new tracing program.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/08/16/us-security-wikipedia-idUSN1642896020070816?feedType=RSS&feedName=technologyNews&rpc=22&sp=true

Political Staffers Tried to Delete the Senate Scandal (and Other Bad Behaviour) from Wikipedia

http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/political-staffers-tried-to-delete-the-senate-scandal-and-other-bad-behaviour-from-wikipedia

Wikipedia blocks ‘disruptive’ page edits from US Congress

Wikipedia administrators have imposed a ban on page edits from computers at the US House of Representatives, following “persistent disruptive editing”.

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28481876

An anonymous Wikipedia user from an IP address that is registered to United States Senate has tried, and failed, to remove a phrase with the word “torture” from the website’s article on the Senate Intelligence Committee’s blockbuster CIA torture report

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/2owgol/an_anonymous_wikipedia_user_from_an_ip_address/

Hundreds of anonymous Wikipedia edits made every month by a Government computer

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/technology/hundreds-anonymous-wikipedia-edits-made-5006043

Ukip MEP David Coburn banned from Wikipedia indefinitely

Online administrator blocks user account of ‘David Coburn MEP’ over attempts to alter article about the Ukip politician 69 times in six days

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/apr/29/ukip-mep-david-coburn-banned-wikipedia-indefinitely

Expenses and sex scandal deleted from MPs’ Wikipedia pages by computers inside Parliament

Exclusive: References to ‘chauffeur-driven cars’ and a criminal arrest wiped from online biographies in run-up to election

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/general-election-2015/11574217/Expenses-and-sex-scandal-deleted-from-MPs-Wikipedia-pages-by-computers-inside-Parliament.html

Russian government edits Wikipedia on flight MH17

A political battle has broken out on Wikipedia over an entry relating to the crash of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17, with the Russian government reportedly removing sections which accuse it of providing “terrorists” with missiles that were used to down the civilian airliner

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/10977082/Russian-government-edits-Wikipedia-on-flight-MH17.html

Wikipedia edits made by government sought to minimise high-profile killings

Articles pertaining to Jean Charles de Menezes and Damilola Taylor were edited using devices on government internet

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/07/wikipedia-edits-government-high-profile-killings

French intelligence agency bullies Wikipedia admin into deleting an article

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1bsmjv/french_intelligence_agency_bullies_wikipedia/

Wikipedia editors, locked in battle with PR firm, delete 250 accounts

Investigation follows reports that Wiki-PR scored Viacom, Priceline as clients.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/10/wikipedia-editors-locked-in-battle-with-pr-firm-delete-250-accounts/

Eric Garner’s Wikipedia page was edited from an NYPD computer, NYPD admits

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/03/16/eric-garners-wikipedia-page-was-edited-from-an-nypd-computer-the-nypd-admits/

Nonlinear warfare – A new system of political control 2014 Adam Curtis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyop0d30UqQ

Inside the Kremlin’s hall of mirrors

Fake news stories. Doctored photographs. Staged TV clips. Armies of paid trolls. Has Putin’s Russia developed a new kind of information warfare – fought in the ‘psychosphere’ rather than on the battlefield? Or is it all just a giant bluff

http://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/apr/09/kremlin-hall-of-mirrors-military-information-psychology

Attack of the Russian Troll Army: Russia’s campaign to shape international opinion around its invasion of Ukraine has extended to recruiting and training a new cadre of online trolls that have been deployed to spread the Kremlin’s message on the comments section of top American websites.

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/274oup/attack_of_the_russian_troll_army_russias_campaign/

Internet Troll Operation Uncovered in St. Petersburg

http://www.sptimes.ru/index.php?action_id=100&story_id=38052

Salutin’ Putin: inside a Russian troll house

Former workers tell how hundreds of bloggers are paid to flood forums and social networks at home and abroad with anti-western and pro-Kremlin comments

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/02/putin-kremlin-inside-russian-troll-house

This Is How Russia Plans to Win the Internet War

http://time.com/3901303/kremlin-trolls-russia/

The Agency

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/magazine/the-agency.html?_r=0

Interview with Ex Russian Internet Troll Lyudmila Savchuk

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/interview-with-ex-russian-internet-troll-lyudmila-savchuk-a-1036539.html

Web brigades

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_brigades

From Britain to Beijing: how governments manipulate the internet

The Kremlin’s ‘cyber army’ is gaining increasing notoriety, but similar tactics are used to influence opinion around the world

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/02/russia-troll-factory-kremlin-cyber-army-comparisons

50 Cent Party

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party

China reportedly uses fake Twitter accounts to spread Tibet propaganda

http://www.theverge.com/2014/7/22/5925703/china-reportedly-uses-fake-twitter-accounts-to-spread-tibet-propaganda

Vietnam admits deploying bloggers to support government

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20982985

South Korean intelligence accused of spreading 1.2 million tweets to sway elections

http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/28/5154496/south-korea-nis-accused-of-twitter-smear-campaign-presidential-election

Turkey’s Government Forms 6,000-Member Social Media Team

Volunteers to Promote Ruling Party’s Perspective in Sphere Dominated by Protesters

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323527004579079151479634742.html?mod=wsj_share_tweet

Bureaucrats monitor online forums

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2010/05/23/social-media-government-monitoring.html

CTV Confirms Government(s) employing Internet Trolls, Shills & PR Agents to ‘correct misinformation’ – YouTube

http://www.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/167vxc/ctv_confirms_governments_employing_internet/

Israel to pay students to defend it online

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/08/14/israel-students-social-media/2651715/

The internet: Israel’s new PR battlefield

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-rise-of-digital-diplomacy-could-be-changing-israels-media-image/

Israeli army, Hamas military tap power of social media

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2012/11/21/israel-gaza-social-media/1719981/

Iran creates fake blogs in smear campaign against journalists in exile

BBC Persian staff victims of online identity theft designed to discredit them, with family in Iran facing harassment as well

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/24/iran-fake-blog-smear-campaign-journalist-bbc

The Federal Reserve Plans To Monitor Facebook, Twitter, Google News

http://www.fastcompany.com/1786730/federal-reserve-plans-monitor-facebook-twitter-google-news

Pentagon Plots Sim Iraq for Propaganda Tests

http://www.wired.com/2008/02/pentagon-wants-3/

Pentagon Forecast: Cloudy, 80% Chance of Riots

http://www.wired.com/2007/11/lockheed-peers

Christie Whitman says air is safe days after 911

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxdttHY59b4

Insider: EPA Lied About WTC Air

http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-500202_162-1985804.html

9/11 Dust Cloud Highly Toxic

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/september-11-toxic-world-trade-center-dust-cloud/story?id=14466933#.UZIDh0pcnn5

2,500 Ground Zero workers have cancer

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/2buudf/2500_ground_zero_workers_have_cancer/

U.S. accused of hiding chemical weapons exposure to its own troops

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/american-soldiers-exposed-to-chemical-weapons-during-iraq-war/

Import Alert 99-33

Import Alert Name: Detention Without Physical Examination of Products from Japan Due to Radionuclide Contamination

http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cms_ia/importalert_621.html

S. Korea bans imports of all fishery products from Japan’s Fukushima region

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2013-09/06/c_132697046.htm

Ban on Japanese fish remains in place due to Fukushima accident – oversight service

http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2013_09_20/Ban-on-Japanese-fish-remains-in-place-due-to-Fukushima-accident-oversight-service-5812/

Study finds parts of Japan no longer safe for farming

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2011/11/japan-nuclear-crisis-farm-land-contamination.html

Tracking the paths of ocean predators

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/tracking-the-paths-of-ocean-predators

Barack Obama to create world’s largest ocean reserve in the Pacific

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/25/barack-obama-worlds-largest-ocean-reserve-pacific

Fukushima er , Expert , says Radiation is Safe if you Just Smile

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c98_1377077392

Pharrell Williams – HAPPY (Fukushima, Japan) #happyfukushima

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-pk8z8rX2U&list=RDB-pk8z8rX2U

Revealed: British government’s plan to play down Fukushima

Internal emails seen by Guardian show PR campaign was launched to protect UK nuclear plans after tsunami in Japan

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/jun/30/british-government-plan-play-down-fukushima

Government’s move to monitor online sparks public outcry

http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201108116035

Michio Kaku on CNN_ Fukushima – They Lied to Us – June 21, 2011.flv

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2LYOTvC_KQ

http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view7/4553419/minority-report-gap-o.gif

Mannequins collect data on shoppers via facial-recognition software

http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2012-11-22/business/35510345_1_mannequins-facial-recognition-software-eyesee

Verizon Wireless sells out customers with creepy new tactic

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-lazarus-20140425,0,2539606.column#axzz2zuOq8SJA

IE mall tracks cellphones as shoppers wander

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/inland_empire&id=8443609

We’re watching: malls track shopper’s cell phone signals to gather marketing data

Using technology from Path Intelligence, major malls and retailers are …

http://arstechnica.com/business/2011/11/were-watching-malls-track-shoppers-cell-phone-signals-to-gather-marketing-data/

Attention, Shoppers: Store Is Tracking Your Cell

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/15/business/attention-shopper-stores-are-tracking-your-cell.html?_r=2&

Retailers use Wi-Fi on phones to track shoppers and build profiles

http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/retailers-use-wi-fi-on-phones-to-track-shoppers-and-build-profiles/

Devices tracking smartphones, other electronics to determine foot traffic in downtown Kalamazoo

http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2014/01/project_tracking_mobile_device.html

Shoppers’ faces to be scanned in advertising push at Tesco petrol stations across the UK

Supermarket giant Tesco is installing hundreds of hi-tech screens that scan the faces of shoppers as they queue at the till to detect their age and sex for advertisers.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/10423400/Shoppers-faces-to-be-scanned-in-advertising-push-at-Tesco-petrol-stations-across-the-UK.html

Exclusive: Hundreds Of Devices Hidden Inside New York City Phone Booths

Beacons can push you ads — and help track your every move. Update: Hours after BuzzFeed News exposed the devices, the city ordered the removal of the devices.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/exclusive-hundreds-of-devices-hidden-inside-new-york-city-ph#2guuic5

Hidden “Beacons” Were Also Installed In L.A. And Chicago

A BuzzFeed News investigation reveals the quiet spread of Gimbal Inc.’s phone-tracking technology in some of America’s largest cities.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/hidden-beacons-were-also-installed-in-la-and-chicago

Google abused its monopoly power, FTC experts found

http://money.cnn.com/2015/03/19/technology/google-monopoly-ftc/

Google threatened to remove Yelp and TripAdvisor from search results if they didn’t let Google use their reviews in Google Places

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2zrv2k/google_threatened_to_remove_yelp_and_tripadvisor/

German publisher caves to Google News after massive traffic drop

http://www.theverge.com/2014/11/5/7160587/german-publisher-axel-springer-google-news

Google is building up a digital superstate, says German media boss

Mathias Döpfner, head of Europe’s largest newspaper publisher, says internet search engine is abusing market dominance

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/16/google-building-digital-superstate-german-media-dopfner

You don’t have to be a conspiracy theorist to find Google alarming

Its colossal power has worrying implications not only for the health of Europe’s digital economy, but for the individual freedom of citizens

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/18/google-alarming-no-conspiracy-theorist

TIL the Food Guide Pyramid, MyPyramid, and MyPlate are scarcely supported with scientific evidence and more likely influenced by the agricultural industry’s most profitable commodities

http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/28q53i/til_the_food_guide_pyramid_mypyramid_and_myplate/

TIL starting in the 1960s, the American Heart Association advised the public to eat less saturated fat and switch to vegetable oils for a “healthy heart.” The American Heart Association was founded in part by the makers of Crisco.

http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2p2ub7/til_starting_in_the_1960s_the_american_heart/

An archive of over 300 official documents proves the sugar industry controlled a major federal dental program in 1971. The analysis, published in PLoS Medicine, reveals that all but one member of the government’s expert panel on sugar’s harms were also on the industry’s private panel.

http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/2ykzfi/an_archive_of_over_300_official_documents_proves/

Sugar Industry Influence on the Scientific Agenda of the National Institute of Dental Research’s 1971 National Caries Program: A Historical Analysis of Internal Documents

http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1001798

The swine flu fraud of 1976, on 60 Minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8elE7Ct1jWw&t=6m37s

Government to get special swine flu vaccine

http://www.thelocal.de/20091018/22649

H1N1 Vaccine: Do German Politicians Get a Better Shot?

http://content.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1932366,00.html

Second-Class Medicine: Germans Unhappy with Alternative Swine Flu Vaccine for Politicians

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/second-class-medicine-germans-unhappy-with-alternative-swine-flu-vaccine-for-politicians-a-656028.html

Narcolepsy link to Glaxo vaccine poses challenge for FDA

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/07/us-glaxo-narcolepsy-fda-idUSBRE9261D520130307

England too finds narcolepsy link with pandemic flu vaccine

http://blogs.nature.com/news/2013/02/england-too-finds-narcolepsy-link-with-pandemic-flu-vaccine.html

The Link Between an H1N1 Vaccine and Narcolepsy

http://healthland.time.com/2011/02/10/the-link-between-an-h1n1-vaccine-and-narcolepsy/

Swine flu shot linked to narcolepsy, study finds

http://vitals.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/26/17106380-swine-flu-shot-linked-to-narcolepsy-study-finds?lite

Why flu vaccine may cause narcolepsy

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/checkup/2011/02/why_flu_vaccine_may_cause_narc.html

Are Your Medications Safe? — The FDA buries evidence of fraud in medical trials. My students and I dug it up.

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/2w11x7/are_your_medications_safe_the_fda_buries_evidence/

GlaxoSmithKline faces bribery allegations in Poland

Former GSK sales representative tells BBC’s Panorama that doctors were paid to boost prescriptions

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/apr/14/glaxosmithkline-bribery-allegations-poland

Drugmaker GSK investigates alleged bribery in Iraq

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/06/us-gsk-mideast-idUSBREA350QE20140406

GlaxoSmithKline to pay £297m fine over China bribery network

Mark Reilly and executives face up to four years in jail over claims that sales team bribed doctors to prescribe company medicine

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/sep/19/glaxosmithkline-pays-297m-fine-china-bribery

Johnson & Johnson feels pain of $75m bribery fines

International pharmaceutical group Johnson & Johnson is to pay more than $75m (£45.9m) to UK and US authorities to settle corruption charges spanning three European countries and Iraq.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financial-crime/8439168/Johnson-and-Johnson-feels-pain-of-75m-bribery-fines.html

Johnson & Johnson to pay $2.2B in U.S. health care fraud settlement

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/johnson-johnson-to-pay-22b-in-us-health-care-fraud-settlement/

Pharma giant Pfizer fined for bribing officials in Eastern Europe and China

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/07/pharma-giant-pfizer-fined-for-bribing-officials-in-eastern-europe-and-china/

Europe Fines Drug Companies for Delaying Generics

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/business/global/eu-fines-drug-companies-for-delaying-generics.html?_r=1&

Doctors ‘influenced by drug companies’

Experts have called for new rules governing the relationship between the medical profession and the pharmaceutical industry.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2946276.stm

GPs ‘bombarded’ by drug companies

Drug companies are bombarding GPs with promotional materials and inducements, campaigners say.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6271086.stm

Are GPs in thrall to the drug companies?

Campaigners fear the pharmaceuticals industry, through its hard-nosed sales techniques, has too much influence over the drugs some doctors give to their patients. Lisa Reich reports

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/men_shealth/3314883/Are-GPs-in-thrall-to-the-drug-companies.html

Reports: Emails show alleged pay-to-play between drug companies, FDA

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/reports-emails-show-alleged-pay-to-play-between-drug-companies-fda/

Drugs policy advisor under fire over links to pharmaceutical company

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/drugs-policy-advisor-under-fire-over-links-to-pharmaceutical-company-6261736.html

Harvard Medical School in Ethics Quandary

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/03/business/03medschool.html?_r=4&emc=eta1&

Paid to Promote Eye Drug, and Prescribing It Widely

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/08/business/paid-to-promote-eye-drug-and-prescribing-it-widely-.html

South African PR leak exposes how big pharma subverts govt policy

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/international-business/South-African-PR-leak-exposes-how-big-pharma-subverts-govt-policy/articleshow/29358027.cms

Takeda fined $6bn damages over Actos cancer claims

Japanese pharmaceutical company ordered to pay billions of dollars in punitive damages over concealment of cancer risks

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/apr/08/takeda-eli-lilly-damages-actos-diabetes-drug-cancer-claims

Controversies – Manufacturer Tried to Hide Results of Testing of Blood Thinner Implicated in 1,000 Deaths

http://www.allgov.com/news/controversies/manufacturer-tried-to-hide-results-of-testing-of-blood-t-140209hinner-implicated-in-1000-deaths?news=852387

TIL nearly 100,000 hemophiliacs around the world were given blood products contaminated with hepatitis C or HIV. Bayer, Baxter and the other companies involved knew the products were contaminated but distributed them anyway. The FDA hushed up the matter and no executives have ever been investigated.

http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/117l5e/til_nearly_100000_hemophiliacs_around_the_world/

2 Paths of Bayer Drug in 80’s: Riskier One Steered Overseas

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/22/business/2-paths-of-bayer-drug-in-80-s-riskier-one-steered-overseas.html

Bayer Admits It Paid “Millions” in HIV Infection Cases — Just Not in English

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/bayer-admits-it-paid-millions-in-hiv-infection-cases-just-not-in-english/

Ranbaxy Laboratories knowingly sold inferior and dangerously contaminated generic drugs. When discussing the quality of AIDS drugs sold in Africa, an executive allegedly said, “Who cares? It’s just blacks dying.”

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1eo24y/ranbaxy_laboratories_knowingly_sold_inferior_and/

HIV-tainted blood scandal (Japan)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV-tainted_blood_scandal_%28Japan%29

Pharmaceutical firm dumps polio virus into Belgium river

http://www.digitaljournal.com/life/health/pharmaceutical-firm-dumps-polio-virus-into-belgium-river/article/404910

TIL that more than 20 people died in 1998 after being given synthetic blood in an FDA approved ‘no consent study’. Patients were selected at the accident scene or en route to the hospital to receive the fake blood.

http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/31uud9/til_that_more_than_20_people_died_in_1998_after/

Tamiflu: drugs given for swine flu ‘were waste of £500m’

Drug Tamiflu does nothing to halt the spread of influenza and Government wasted nearly £500 million stockpiling it over swine flu pandemic, study finds

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/swine-flu/10756200/Tamiflu-drugs-given-for-swine-flu-were-waste-of-500m.html

WHO swine flu experts ‘linked’ with drug companies

Key scientists behind World Health Organization advice on stockpiling of pandemic flu drugs had financial ties with companies which stood to profit, an investigation has found.

http://www.bbc.com/news/10235558

How Big Pharma Profits from Swine Flu

http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/nov2009/gb20091124_846373.htm

Swine Flu Brings Big Business for Doctors and Drug Companies

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/big-business-swine-flu/story?id=8820642

GlaxoSmithKline swine flu sales boost profits

GlaxoSmithKline saw profits rise to £2.2bn in first quarter thanks to swine flu vaccine

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2010/apr/28/glaxo-pharmaceuticals-sales-figures

CSL Projects Profit Drop as Swine Flu Pandemic Ends, Cutting Vaccine Sales

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-17/csl-s-annual-profit-falls-8-percent-as-currency-losses-undercut-drug-sales.html

Thousands of children in Irish care homes at centre of ‘baby graves scandal’ were used in secret vaccine trials in the 1930s

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2650475/More-mass-baby-graves-Ireland-Prime-Minister-Enda-Kenny-orders-investigation-memorial-800-dead-babies-planned.html

Drugs giants used Communist East Germany for ‘illegal’ trials

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/drugs-giants-used-communist-east-germany-for-illegal-trials-8612929.html

Using Africans as ‘Guinea Pigs’: Nigeria Takes On Pfizer over Controversial Drug Test

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/using-africans-as-guinea-pigs-nigeria-takes-on-pfizer-over-controversial-drug-test-a-517805.html

Special report: Big Pharma’s global guinea pigs

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/06/us-pharmaceuticals-trials-idUSTRE7450SV20110506

Have India’s poor become human guinea pigs?

Drug companies are facing mounting pressure to investigate reports that new medicines are being tested on some of the poorest people in India without their knowledge.

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-20136654

Syrian children’s deaths ’caused by vaccine mix-up’

Medics carrying out a vaccination programme in rebel-held northern Syria accidentally administered a muscle relaxant to up to 75 children, killing 15 of them, the opposition says.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29251329

Vaccine Mix-Up In Syria Not Uncommon In US, Canada

http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidkroll/2014/09/18/syrian-infant-deaths-vaccine-mixups-with-atracurium-not-uncommon/

VA hospital may have infected 1,800 veterans with HIV

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/06/30/va.hospital.hiv/

VA Hospital Slip-Up Infects 4 Patients With HIV

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/24/va-hospital-slip-up-infec_n_191296.html

Mexico Says Bacteria Contaminated Vaccine Blamed in 2 Deaths

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/mexico-bacteria-contaminated-vaccine-blamed-deaths-31023599

HPV vaccine Gardasil recalled over glass shards in vials

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hpv-vaccine-gardasil-voluntarily-recalled-due-to-glass-shards-in-some-vials/

Generic Lipitor lots recalled due to glass particles; Ranbaxy yanks 40 lots of the cholesterol drug

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/generic-lipitor-yanked-due-glass-particles-article-1.1208239

Children’s Tylenol maker to plead guilty for knowingly selling tainted drugs

http://rt.com/usa/239465-tainted-childrens-tylenol-guilty-plea/

TIL Albuterol, one of the oldest asthma medicines, typically costs $50 to $100 per inhaler in the United States, but it was less than $15 a decade ago, before it was repatented

http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2v8diu/til_albuterol_one_of_the_oldest_asthma_medicines/

TIL When the leading emergency asthma medication Albuterol’s patent expired, the patent holding pharmaceutical companies lobbied to have their own inhalers banned based on environmental issues, allowing them to file a new patent, and continue to monopolize the market.

http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/23tcxt/til_when_the_leading_emergency_asthma_medication/

“We did not develop this medicine for Indians…we developed it for western patients who can afford it,” says Pharmaceutical CEO on expensive cancer drug patent

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1vyyww/we_did_not_develop_this_medicine_for_indianswe/

The Obama administration and members of Congress are pressing India to curb its generic and inexpensive drugs which are essential to providing life-saving treatments around the world.

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1h9quo/the_obama_administration_and_members_of_congress/

Raise prices of leukaemia and ovarian cancer meds by 4,000 % or we won’t supply: Drug manufacturer Aspen Pharmacare threatens to cut off crucial treatment to Spain.

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1xpiso/raise_prices_of_leukaemia_and_ovarian_cancer_meds/

Big pharma ‘delaying’ cheaper drugs. “European patients, taxpayers and national treasuries are being fleeced of billions of euros because of the big pharmaceutical companies’ elaborate campaigns to delay the marketing of cheaper generic drugs, the European commission said.”

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/90ek4/big_pharma_delaying_cheaper_drugs_european/

Teva to Pay $512 Million to Settle Suit Over Delay of Sleep Disorder Drug

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/21/business/teva-to-pay-512-million-to-settle-suit-over-delay-of-sleep-disorder-drug.html

Pharmaceutical Companies Buy Rivals’ Drugs, Then Jack Up the Prices

List prices soar on Valeant’s heart medications and other firm’s drugs, driving up costs

http://www.wsj.com/articles/pharmaceutical-companies-buy-rivals-drugs-then-jack-up-the-prices-1430096431

Studies show how pesticides make bees lose their way

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/03/29/us-science-pesticides-bees-idUKBRE82S12P20120329

Pesticides linked to honeybee decline

The first study conducted in a natural environment has shown that systemic pesticides damage bees’ ability to navigate

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/mar/29/crop-pesticides-honeybee-decline?intcmp=122

Pesticides hit queen bee numbers

Some of the world’s most commonly used pesticides are killing bees by damaging their ability to navigate and reducing numbers of queens, research suggests.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17535769

Widespread impacts of neonicotinoids ‘impossible to deny’

Neonicotinoid pesticides are causing significant damage to a wide range of beneficial species and are a key factor in the decline of bees, say scientists.

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27980344

The U.S. Bans GMOs, Bee-Killing Pesticides in All Wildlife Refuges

The Fish and Wildlife Service will phase out genetically engineered crops and neonicotinoids by 2016.

http://www.takepart.com/article/2014/07/31/us-bans-gmos-bee-killing-pesticides-national-wildlife-refuges

Baltimore’s Kennedy Krieger Institute Sued Over Lead Paint Study

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/baltimores-kennedy-krieger-institute-sued-lead-paint-study/story?id=14536695

Unethical human experimentation in the United States

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentation_in_the_United_States

Edgewood Arsenal human experiments

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgewood_Arsenal_human_experiments

Past medical testing on humans revealed

Ugly US medical experiments uncovered In this June 25, 1945 picture, army doctors expose patients to malaria-carrying mosquitoes in the malaria ward at Stateville Penitentiary in Crest Hill, Ill. Around the time of World War II, prisoners were enlisted to help the war effort by participating in studies that could help the troops. A series of malaria studies at Stateville Penitentiary in Illinois and two other penitentiaries were designed to test antimalarial drugs that could help soldiers fighting in the Pacific. Shocking as it may seem, government doctors once thought it was fine to experiment on disabled people and prison inmates.

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-02-ugly-medical-uncovered.html

DECLASSIFIED HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NPUbEk-zCo

Plutonium Files: How the U.S. Secretly Fed Radioactivity to Thousands of Americans

http://www.democracynow.org/2004/5/5/plutonium_files_how_the_u_s

Judge sides with US servicemen used as guinea pigs in terrifying Cold War experiment

http://rt.com/usa/army-servicemen-cold-war-experiment-107/

Vets feel abandoned after secret drug experiments

http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/01/health/human-test-subjects/index.html?hpt=hp_c2#

Operation Delirium

Decades after a risky Cold War experiment, a scientist lives with secrets.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/12/17/121217fa_fact_khatchadourian?currentPage=all

U.S. Injected Gitmo Detainees With ‘Mind Altering’ Drugs

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/07/gitmo/

Police in Minnesota have been caught on video picking up teens, doing drug experiments on them, and then dropping them off at the local Occupy protest to discredit the movement.

http://www.reddit.com/r/occupywallstreet/comments/t5tnd/police_in_minnesota_have_been_caught_on_video/

Minnesota police under fire over claims they got Occupy protesters high

Officers reportedly gave marijuana and food to subjects as part of programme to test out the drug and ‘the munchies’

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/11/minnesota-police-occupy-officers-marijuana

Cops stonewalled drug probe

http://www.startribune.com/local/minneapolis/177405891.html?refer=y

LSD, Magic Mushrooms & CIA Mind Control Experiments! Documentary Video Full

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW5g597t0ZE

TIL in 1953, a US Scientist named Frank Olsen was administered LSD without his knowledge as part of the MKULTRA program. A week later, Olsen ended up dead. The CIA claimed Olsen jumped from a hotel window, but later paid the family $750K and a 2nd autopsy revealed he was likely assassinated.

http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/13rbhf/til_in_1953_a_us_scientist_named_frank_olsen_was/

Project MKOFTEN

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKOFTEN

TIL in a CIA program called “Operation Midnight Climax”, Prostitutes were enlisted by the CIA to lure men to ‘safehouses’ in San Francisco where they were administered LSD without their consent. CIA Agents would then watch them have sex with the prostitutes through 2-way mirrors.

http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1d5cko/til_in_a_cia_program_called_operation_midnight/

U.S. Apologizes for Syphilis Tests in Guatemala

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/02/health/research/02infect.html?_r=0

Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advisory_Committee_on_Human_Radiation_Experiments

Nevada Test Site

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada_Test_Site#Cancer_and_test_site

Project SUNSHINE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_SUNSHINE

In 1950’s, U.S. Collected Human Tissue to Monitor Atomic Tests

http://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/21/us/in-1950-s-us-collected-human-tissue-to-monitor-atomic-tests.html

World Wakes Up to Horrific Scientific History

http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=80970

The mysterious lab off New York’s shore

‘Lab 257’ offers horror stories — and dispute

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/books/04/02/lab.257/

Doctor accused of working on a virus that only targets black people

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/p0rka/doctor_accused_of_working_on_a_virus_that_only/

US military pondered love not war

The US military investigated building a “gay bomb”, which would make enemy soldiers “sexually irresistible” to each other, government papers say.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/4174519.stm

The U.S. Is Building Massive DNA Databases

Cops can collect DNA when making an arrest, sometimes before charging a person with a crime. This practice poses a threat to the civil liberties of innocent people

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=united-states-building-massive-dna-databases

The Big Question: Why is Britain’s DNA database the biggest in the world, and is it effective?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/the-big-question-why-is-britains-dna-database-the-biggest-in-the-world-and-is-it-effective-1818878.html

CIA organised fake vaccination drive to get Osama bin Laden’s family DNA

Senior Pakistani doctor who organised vaccine programme in Abbottabad arrested by ISI for working with US agents

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/11/cia-fake-vaccinations-osama-bin-ladens-dna

How the CIA’s Fake Vaccination Campaign Endangers Us All

The U.S. was wrong to use health workers to target Osama bin Laden

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-cia-fake-vaccination-campaign-endangers-us-all

Hacking the President’s DNA

The U.S. government is surreptitiously collecting the DNA of world leaders, and is reportedly protecting that of Barack Obama. Decoded, these genetic blueprints could provide compromising information. In the not-too-distant future, they may provide something more as well—the basis for the creation of personalized bioweapons that could take down a president and leave no trace.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/11/hacking-the-presidents-dna/309147/?single_page=true

UK, Israel seeking to develop SARS-like race-specific bio-weapon

British and Zionist health experts are working on a SARS-like race-specific bio-weapon, which could be capable of creating a global threat through triggering a massive ethnic cleansing, it has been claimed.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/10/09/265663/sars/

‘UK, US devising arms to wipe out races’

The UK and US militaries have been developing new biological weapons which are capable of terminating certain races, a Middle East expert tells Press TV.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/213377.html

PLA officer calls H7N9 virus a US ‘bio-psychological weapon’

http://www.scmp.com/comment/blogs/article/1209796/pla-officer-calls-h7n9-virus-us-bio-psychological-weapon

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During the 1950s the CIA developed cancer-causing drugs for use in political assassination – drugs that would produce what appeared to be ‘natural’ death.

http://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/16zjhh/during_the_1950s_the_cia_developed_cancercausing/

Scramble Some DNA With the Bio-Rad Helios Gene Gun

http://www.wired.com/medtech/genetics/magazine/15-09/st_tool

TIL the CIA has a gun that gives you a fatal heart attack. Meanwhile the peons are argue about magazine sizes for “assault” weapons.

http://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/18aswz/til_the_cia_has_a_gun_that_gives_you_a_fatal/

Hillary Clinton ordered US diplomats to steal DNA samples from other UN diplomats at the behest of the CIA.

http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/efhj9/hillary_clinton_ordered_us_diplomats_to_steal_dna/

TIL the CIA planned to assassinate Fidel Castro, who was an avid skin diver, by having James Donovan, a negotiator between the US and Cuba, present him with a skin-diving suit that was dusted with a fungus that would give Castro a debilitating and chronic skin disease.

http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/152xhe/til_the_cia_planned_to_assassinate_fidel_castro/

Julian Assange ‘has lung infection’

Julian Assange, who is living at the Ecuadorean embassy in London, has a chronic lung infection “which could get worse at any moment”, the country’s ambassador to the UK has warned.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20537157

Hugo Chavez respiratory infection causing ‘severe’ problems

Hugo Chavez is suffering breathing difficulties caused by a severe lung infection, according to the Venezuelan government.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/venezuela/9779589/Hugo-Chavez-respiratory-infection-causing-severe-problems.html

U.S. is giving South American leaders cancer, claims Chavez as Argentine president de Kirchner becomes FIFTH to contract disease

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2079680/Hugo-Chavez-says-US-giving-South-American-leaders-cancer.html

North Korea says U.S. created the Ebola outbreak

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/12/01/north-korea-says-u-s-created-the-ebola-outbreak/

Yasser Arafat ‘poisoned with Polonium’

Yasser Arafat may have been killed with a lethal dose of the highly radioactive substance Polonium, it has been claimed.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/palestinianauthority/9374010/Yasser-Arafat-poisoned-with-Polonium.html

Swiss forensic report on Arafat’s death

The 108-page report by Swiss scientists who say their data supports the theory that Arafat was poisoned with polonium.

http://www.aljazeera.com/investigations/killing-arafat/swiss-forensic-report-arafat-death-201311671255163780.html

Sophistication behind spy’s poisoning

The poisoning of the former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko would have required considerable scientific know-how, according to experts.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6190144.stm

Scientist: Yushchenko poisoned by TCDD, deadliest of dioxin

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/world/2004-12-17-ukraine-poison_x.htm

In the ’40s and ’50s the Canadian government intentionally withheld rations and vitamin supplements from hungry aboriginal children to see how starvation affects the body.

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1ijpiy/in_the_40s_and_50s_the_canadian_government/

Duplessis Orphans

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duplessis_Orphans

NASA makes their own rain clouds

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw1vm_wdpy0

GREENPEACE SPEAK UP ABOUT CHEMTRAILS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9z79OsszM4&feature=player_embedded

Operation Popeye

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Popeye

Project Stormfury

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Stormfury

RAF rainmakers ’caused 1952 flood’

Unearthed documents suggest experiment triggered torrent that killed 35 in Devon disaster

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/aug/30/sillyseason.physicalsciences

Charged Aerosol Release Experiment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charged_Aerosol_Release_Experiment

Stratospheric sulfate aerosols (geoengineering)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratospheric_sulfate_aerosols_%28geoengineering%29

Stratospheric Particle Injection for Climate Engineering

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratospheric_Particle_Injection_for_Climate_Engineering

http://www.ametsoc.org/searchresults.html?cx=006604013691433161533%3Acni8ugxqzym&q=HAMP&sa=Search&cof=FORID%3A11&siteurl=ametsoc.org%2Fsearch.html&ref=ametsoc.org%2F&ss=4575j7219867j7

Navy Research Paper: ‘Disrupt Economies’ with Man-Made ‘Floods,’ ‘Droughts’

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2008/02/navy-research-p/

Weaponizing the Climate: Geoengineering’s Military Potential

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/01/weaponizing-the/#previouspost

We tried to weaponize the weather

Cold War secrets: Melting polar ice cap with nukes, changing the sea level, even LSD weapons were all on the table

http://www.salon.com/2013/04/27/we_tried_to_weaponize_the_weather/

CIA backs $630,000 study into how to control global weather through geoengineering

Study part-funded by the CIA to investigate national security implications of geoengineering

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/cia-backs-630000-study-into-how-to-control-global-weather-through-geoengineering-8724501.html

Environmental Modification Convention

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_Modification_Convention

Obama Takes Bold Step to Geoengineer Climate Change

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-chameides/obama-takes-bold-step-to_b_5069973.html

Obama climate adviser open to geo-engineering to tackle global warming

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/apr/08/geo-engineering-john-holdren

U.N. urged to freeze climate geo-engineering projects

http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/10/21/us-geoengineering-idUSTRE69K18320101021

World’s biggest geoengineering experiment ‘violates’ UN rules

Controversial US businessman’s iron fertilisation off west coast of Canada contravenes two UN conventions

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/oct/15/pacific-iron-fertilisation-geoengineering

US geoengineers to spray sun-reflecting chemicals from balloon

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/jul/17/us-geoengineers-spray-sun-balloon

Can painting a mountain restore a glacier?

Slowly but surely an extinct glacier in a remote corner of the Peruvian Andes is being returned to its former colour, not by falling snow or regenerated ice sheets, but by whitewash.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10333304

Russia urges UN climate report to include geoengineering

The Russian government is asking for ‘planet hacking’ to be included in the climate science report, leaked documents show

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/19/russia-un-climate-report-geoengineering

Russian appeal of ‘weather control’

Standing by an open hatch on a Russian military plane high up in the sky is tricky.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8587725.stm

Rain out: China aims to control Olympics weather

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/weather/research/2008-02-29-china-weather_N.htm

Chinese scientists create second artificial snowstorm in Beijing

http://www.news.com.au/technology/chinese-scientists-create-second-artificial-snowstorm-in-beijing/story-e6frfro0-1225796559341

Artificial snowstorm brings chaos to Beijing

Chinese scientists have artificially induced the second major snowstorm to wreak havoc in Beijing this season, state media said, reigniting debate over the practice of tinkering with Mother Nature.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2009-11-11/artificial-snowstorm-brings-chaos-to-beijing/1138460

Beijing Weather Modification Office

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing_Weather_Modification_Office

As Water Supply Reaches Record Low, California Combats Drought With Black-Ops Weather Control Technology From Vietnam War

http://www.forbes.com/sites/williampentland/2014/02/04/as-water-supply-reaches-record-low-california-combats-drought-with-black-ops-weather-control-technology-from-vietnam-war/

Cloud Seeding During a Rare California Storm

http://fox40.com/2014/02/27/cloud-seeding-during-a-rare-california-storm/

Calgary hail shrunk by cloud-seeding planes

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-hail-shrunk-by-cloud-seeding-planes-1.889680

Calgary hail storm: Cloud seeding credited for sparing city from worse disaster

http://www.calgaryherald.com/Calgary+hail+storm+Cloud+seeding+credited+sparing+city+from+worse+disaster/7084924/story.html

BREAKING! CHEMTRAILS & Weather Modification on ABC News

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWaJlkyiZjE

FAUX News Puppets Leak Out Weather Modification On Texas, but STILL “PL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da5bRNNaKM0

County of Santa Barbara Public Works

Cloudseeding

http://www.countyofsb.org/pwd/pwwater.aspx?id=3740

Governments Turn to Cloud Seeding to Fight Drought

http://www.usnews.com/science/articles/2009/12/11/governments-turn-to-cloud-seeding-to-fight-drought

Seeding Clouds for Hydropower

http://blogs.kqed.org/climatewatch/2009/09/05/seeding-clouds-for-hydropower/

Drones Offer New Horizon, Solutions for Weather Modification

http://www.accuweather.com/en/features/trend/drones-weather-modification/28257378

Pentagon-sponsored study opens door for super lasers, weather control

http://rt.com/news/dressed-lasers-weather-rain-548/

Firing laser beams into the sky could make it rain, say scientists

Water droplets have been created by shooting lasers into the air. The technique might be used to create or prevent rain

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2011/aug/30/firing-laser-beams-atmosphere-rain

Controlling The Weather, Is It Possible

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0z7JOxQaO0

Scientists Create 52 Artificial Rain Storms in Abu Dhabi Desert

http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/01/03/scientists-create-52-artificial-rain-storms-in-abu-dhabi-desert/

Lower IQ in Children Linked to Chemical in Water

Babies born to mothers with high levels of perchlorate during their first trimester are more likely to have lower IQs later in life, according to a new study

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lower-iq-in-children-linked-to-chemical-in-water/

In Massachusetts, contaminated drinking water linked to stillbirths

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/10/06/in-massachusetts-contaminated-drinking-water-linked-to-stillbirths/

Protesters in Hong Kong Are Targets of Scrutiny Through Their Phones

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/02/business/protesters-are-targets-of-scrutiny-through-their-phones.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0

Advanced iOS virus targeting Hong Kong protestors -security firm

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/30/hongkong-china-cybersecurity-apple-idUSL2N0RV2D320140930