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Human-to-Rat, Brain-to-Brain Control Achieved By Neuro Scientists

"Obviously, this latter possibility would need to be effected through an explicit arrangement and agreement between two consenting humans (and not a human animal pairing, which would seem to be highly unethical, to say the least). But of course, beyond the interpersonal sphere, there is the societal sphere and the need of some societies to control their citizens. BBI is essentially mind-control, and, while there are many good and even miraculous possibilities from this technology in the not-too-distant future, if it were to come under the exclusive control of an authoritarian or autocratic government, our brave new world could easily become Orwellian." Continue reading →

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1974 PSA Warned of High Tech Surveillance State for Behavior Control

"The clip below is of a public service message warning the public on the growing use of technology and surveillance by government and corporations (though who can really tell the difference these days) to control our lives. Sure, you say. We know all about that. Snowden has conclusively shown us with leaked documentation what our government is doing to us. Ah. But the film was not made last week or even last decade; it was filmed in 1974. Watch and listen. No, really listen. This message isn’t just to warn us about the coming technological surveillance state itself, but how its construct is to be used as a form of behavioral control on a mass scale." Continue reading →

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Get Ready for Endless Bogus Terror Alerts

"It didn’t take long for the pushback following outrage over revelations that we live in an all-encompassing high-tech Stasi police state. Edward Snowden made his revelations known exactly two months ago today . The government has responded by concocting yet another vague and unsubstantiated terror threat it describes as the most serious since the September 11 attacks. The latest terror alert is a precursor of things to come." Continue reading →

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Secret Service: Contact Us to ‘Report a Tweet’

"On a day when terror threats continued to dominate the U.S. headlines, the Secret Service — a division of the Homeland Security Department since 2003 — tweeted the following message: 'Contact your nearest field office with time-sensitive or critical info or to report a tweet,' said one message. In a separate tweet on Tuesday morning, the Secret Service asked, 'Have you seen any of our Most Wanted?' This tweet links to a list of suspects, most wanted for theft or fraud. None are listed as suspected terrorists. As of Tuesday morning, the Secret Service had more than 67,000 followers on Twitter." Continue reading →

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Congress Wants the IRS to Cancel Your Passport

"If you think your U.S. citizenship gives you the right to a U.S. passport, think again. The government has several ways to cancel or refuse to renew your passport. And now, Congress is poised to give it one more: if you owe money to the IRS. Hidden within the 2013 highway funding bill are a few paragraphs with the innocent-sounding title of the 'Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act.' Section 40304 of this act would revoke your passport if you have a 'seriously delinquent tax debt.' In other words, if you owe the IRS $50,000 or more, the Feds can revoke your passport. There's no hearing and no opportunity to contest this decision." Continue reading →

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Google: Motorola’s tattoos could replace passwords

"Motorola's senior vice president of advance research, Regina Dugan, a former head of the US Pentagon's Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency, demonstrated the silicon-based technology that uses bendable electronic circuits. Initially designed for medical purposes, Motorola hopes the ‘Biostamps’ could now be used for consumer authentication purposes. Motorola is also investigating the Proteus Digital Health pill. Its computer chip is powered by a battery using the acid in a user’s stomach. The pill creates a unique signal that can be picked up by devices outside the body and which could be used to verify a user’s identity." Continue reading →

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NYPD agrees to purge database of people stopped by police

"The New York City Police Department has agreed to purge a database of names and addresses of people stopped by police under the NYPD’s controversial stop-and-frisk program but later cleared of criminal wrongdoing. The department will cease collecting the information as part of a settlement ending a lawsuit filed in 2010 in state court by the New York Civil Liberties Union, which announced the agreement on Wednesday. The settlement applies to people issued a summons or arrested after a police stop but whose cases were dismissed or ended with a fine for a noncriminal violation." Continue reading →

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Snowden’s father says Putin will continue to stand firm

"Lon Snowden’s comments came on the day that President Barack Obama canceled a summit meeting with Putin planned for next month in retaliation for Russia giving refuge to Edward Snowden. “These games of ‘Well, I’m not going to go to this meeting,’ or ‘I’m not going to go to that meeting,’ … I do not believe that President Vladimir Putin will cave to that,” he said. The older Snowden, who was in the Coast Guard for about 30 years before he retired in January 2009, said he 'wouldn’t take the unauthorized release of classified information lightly, and I did not initially either. The fact is, is now I have a much greater understanding of what has occurred.'" Continue reading →

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IRS secretly used DEA surveillance database to launch investigations

"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. The practice of recreating the investigative trail, highly criticized by former prosecutors and defense lawyers after Reuters reported it this week, is now under review by the Justice Department. An IRS spokesman had no comment on the entry or on why it was removed from the manual. Reuters recovered the previous editions from the archives of the Westlaw legal database." Continue reading →

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Unhappy With U.S. Foreign Policy? Pentagon Says You Might Be A ‘High Threat’

"Watch out for 'Hema.' A security training test created by a Defense Department agency warns federal workers that they should consider the hypothetical Indian-American woman a 'high threat' because she frequently visits family abroad, has money troubles and 'speaks openly of unhappiness with U.S. foreign policy.' That slide, from the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), is a startling demonstration of the Obama administration's obsession with leakers and other 'insider threats.' One goal of its broader 'Insider Threat' program is to stop the next Bradley Manning or Edward Snowden from spilling classified or sensitive information." Continue reading →

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