Every Breath You Take, Every Move You Make – 14 New Ways That The Government Is Watching You

From: Excerpts from an article from The End of America.

#1 In many areas of the United States today, you will be arrested if you do not produce proper identification for the police.

#2 The federal government has decided that what you and I share with one another on Facebook and on Twitter could be a threat to national security.

#3 New high-tech street lights that are being funded by the federal government and that are being installed all over the nation can also be used as surveillance cameras, can be used by the DHS to make "security announcements" and can even be used to record personal conversations.

#4 More than a million hotel television sets all over America are now broadcasting propaganda messages from the Department of Homeland Security promoting the "See Something, Say Something" campaign. In essence, the federal government wants all of us to become "informants" and to start spying on one another constantly.

#5 The FBI is now admittedly recording Internet talk radio programs all over the United States.

#6 TSA VIPR teams are now conducting random inspections at bus stations and on interstate highways all over the United States.

#7 Thermal imaging face scanners are becoming much more sophisticated. Law enforcement authorities in the western world are getting very excited about "pre-crime" tools such as this that will enable them to "prevent crimes" before they happen.

#8 Another "pre-crime" technology currently being tested by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is The Future Attribute Screening Technology (FAST) program.

#9 Sadly, "pre-crime" technology is even being used on our children. The Florida State Department of Juvenile Justice has announced that it will begin using analysis software to predict crime by young delinquents and will place "potential offenders" in specific prevention and education programs.

#10 Our children are being programmed to accept the fact that they will be watched and monitored constantly.

#11 The U.S. government is also increasingly using "polls" and "surveys" as tools to gather information about all of us.

the FBI is now instructing store owners to report many new forms of "suspicious activity" to them. According to the document, "suspicious activity" now includes the following....

*paying with cash

*missing a hand or fingers

*"strange odors"

*making "extreme religious statements"

*"radical theology"

*purchasing weatherproofed ammunition or match containers

*purchasing meals ready to eat

*purchasing night vision devices, night flashlights or gas masks

Do any of those "signs of suspicious activity" apply to you?

#13 In some areas of the country, law enforcement authorities are pulling data out of cell phones for no reason whatsoever.

#14 The government can spy on us and record our conversations seemingly without any limitation, but in many areas of the country it has become illegal to watch them or record them in public.

Read the full article here.

You're being watched

Few people even consider the invasive nature of CCTV-cameras. This project dramatizes surveillance.

Drone Planes Headed for the USA

CIA officers say drones are doing more harm than good.

Numerous innocent Pakistani and Afghan people have been the victims of America’s drone planes. The UN has called these drone attacks illegal.While the CIA claims that these highly precise drones are used only to target enemies, it is a well established fact a great number of innocent civilians have been killed as well; for instance the 23 Afghan civilians killed in February. One estimate suggests that "approximately 30 per cent of the total reported fatalities" have been civilians.

But while concern over the drone attacks is growing, there is actually people that want to bring these vehicles of murder into home skies. "The Federal Aviation Administration has been asked to issue flying rights for a range of pilotless planes to carry out civilian and law-enforcement functions" in the US, reports the Associated Press.

This just opens a can of worms in my mind. Surely it will be easier to hijack / hack an unmanned plane and fly it into a building. There's even concern, raised by other people, that the controller and the plane may lose contact and the planes plummet into buildings. Then there is the trouble with these pilotless planes flying in busy airspace, creating possible collisions with other planes, weather balloons, and the like. Not to mention that these planes -- some so small that they can enter a building through an open window -- will most definitely be used as an extension of CCTV spying on people.

This will be just one more, of the already ridiculously many, steps towards America becoming an Orwellian state. Welcome to the land of the free.

America -- Land of the Free; or is it?!

In what was possibly the most surreal, horrific, and unimaginable thing I have ever witnessed in my life, 1200 Riot Police and Military Personal rabidly attacked a group of well under 300 American citizens, many of them just students that were unaware there was even a protest going on. They then expanded their perimeter and shut large areas of Oakland down. This is how my last experience at the G20 in Pittsburgh went down, out of control authorities mercilessly attacking an unarmed crowd with batons, tear gas, pepper spray, sound weapons, and rubber bullets. Around 10pm on Friday night, long after the vast majority of dignitaries and protesters had left, it became evident that the outrageous show of force by the Military and Police was not enough to stave off their thirst for blood. Read more here...

Jailed for What You're Gonna Do

A couple of months old, but still relevant.



The fact that Rachel Maddow should take such a strong position against President Obama should in itself be something of note. She is considered one of the most liberal radio personalities in America.

Martial Law Exercise

Dear American serfs,

On July 27th through July 31st expect a martial law exercise across several states using US, Canadian, Australian, UK and corporate militaries. The National Level Exercise 2009 is in preparation for terrorists, and do not forget that you (yes you civilians) will be the test dummies. This, of course, makes complete sense, since it is in actual fact an exercise in preparation of you -- for when the day comes that you wake up and see yourselves slaves of a Big Brother state and you suddenly try to rise up against the Beast.

But don't worry; this coming couple of days is not the real thing. It is indeed just an exercise, and you will become exposed to more and more of these drills to desensitize you for the real thing.

The YouTube-video below is just to (--wet--) whet your apatite.

Joe the Plumber has no Privacy

Barack Obama and Joe the Plumber. Photo by Jae C. Hong, for the Associated Press.

Joseph Wurselbacher, better known as “Joe the Plumber”, has become an interesting mascot during the election race in the US. As an icon for the average middle class American, Joe the Plumber has been used by both Barack Obama and John McCain in their debates – especially the third debate on 15 October 2008.

Joe isn’t anybody unusual. He just happened to be someone who asked Obama a question [See YouTube-Video] about taxes, and then McCain took "Joe the Plumber" as a “face” for the typical American that would be affected by Obama’s suggested tax changes. [Here is more on Joe and the Obama-McCain debate.]

Now what interests me is not that the candidates are hijacking Joe the Plumber as a symbol for the middle class, but rather the sinister privacy breaches.

“State and local officials are investigating whether state and law-enforcement computer systems were used illegally to obtain personal information about "Joe the Plumber",” reports the Columbus Dispatch. The New York Times ads: “The illegal access case is just one of four similar incidents involving Wurzelbacher's information after the plumber shot into the news following McCain's repeated use of his name to highlight a point about Obama's tax plans.”

Here’s this guy; haphazardly his name is used by some politicians for their own agendas. And then suddenly, although quite innocent himself, he has “illegal” background checks done on him. Who is doing it? Of course both the McCain group and the Obama group are accusing each other. But that is not my issue; to me the real issue is that such privacy violations are happening all the time in America. It is just accidental that we actually heard about it in this case.

Indeed, Joe the Plumber is really an icon for the typical middle-class American; the typical American whose privacy is at stake.

America, noticed more soldiers back home?

From one of my favourite blogs, I linked to this article, “Brigade Homeland Tours Start Oct 1” on the Army Times-website. It is not unusual for an active-army unit to be “at home” in times of crisis – such as when a natural disaster struck, e.g. Hurricane Katrina. But it is very unusual in any other circumstances.

Clearly the Bush Administration expected serious civil unrest with the recent economic collapse. There must definitely have been fear of civilian “terror” – surpassing the fear of the terror in Iraq. The news article says that this home-based active army “…may be called upon to help with civil unrest and crowd control or to deal with potentially horrific scenarios such as massive poisoning and chaos in response to a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or high-yield explosive, or CBRNE, attack.”

What is really scary is the announcement that this active army on home soil is going to be a permanent feature. After this initial 12 months of the 1st Brigade Combat Team’s active duty on home soil, it is expected that “another, as yet unnamed, active-duty brigade will take over and that the mission will be a permanent one.”

America is moving towards a dictatorship regime with unprecedented speed. Everything is in place. With Bush’s signing of the “John Warner National Defense Authorization Act”, the president can declare Martial Law at a whim – he merely has to announce that there is some civil unrest and viola!, we have Dictator Mr. President.

Bible prophecy is occurring before our very eyes. The lamb is starting to speak like the dragon.

Here are two YouTube-videos to get you thinking...

Cut the silly jargon

Remember in George Orwell’s "1984" how Big Brother banned certain words from use? Well in a strange twist British bureaucrats have been warned to “lay off buzz words”. A list of 100 “non-words” were circulated. But unlike the Orwellian tale where the words are banned because of their potential to make people think—and entice rebellion—these “non-words”, often used at the level of local government, are banned because they confuse people.

Looking at the list I’ve come to the conclusion that the words were not chosen really too confuse, but rather to impress. They want to make it sound that what they are doing is more important than it really is.