More on the Surveillance Society in the US

Big Brother is becoming paranoid and insanely intrusive

Coupled with my earlier post detailing some of what Peter does it makes for a very disturbing picture.

Big Brother and the NSA - Streetlights that watch and Cell phone tracking while off

"They look like ordinary streetlights, shining down on Las Vegas sidewalks after the sun has set. But Sin City's new streetlights have a few special capabilities that have civil libertarians up in arms.

The city is installing Intellistreets, a brand of street lighting that is capable of recording video and audio of pedestrians and motorists. What happens in Vegas, it seems, no longer stays in Vegas."

So now you can legitimately say they are watching you, and be telling the truth.



"Tracking a cellphone is easy, especially for the National Security Agency. But can you track a cellphone that's been turned off?

It sounds impossible, but the NSA apparently has been able to track powered-down mobile phones since 2004, as reported by The Washington Post in July 2013.

The Post's mention of this ability was brief. It was buried within a longer narrative regarding the NSA's partnership with the U.S. military's Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) to track and kill high-profile al-Qaida targets in Iraq:"

So even if you turn it off the phone can still be tracked somehow.  And there IS a rumor that they can track a cell phone that has eve had it's battery removed for up to 10-12 hours after the battery was removed.   Yup, Cell phone do use some capacitors in their makeup, and a capacitor holds a charge for awhile until it's been used up or dissipated.

Just more things which if you had talked about it previously, you were considered some conspiracy nut.

Good thing The media is FINALLY reporting on this stuff.

Lizard Farmer - How They Hunt

"Biometric identification is real – you’re drivers license photo and thumbprint is in a database that routinely gets accessed at the state level and is available to the Feds (Fusion Center anyone). Facial recognition is how the Tsarnaev’s were initially ID’d.  Your communications meta-data is routinely being stored and accessed by the government. Your financial transactions records are stored by your banks and creditors.  All of this info is available through a rubber stamped fill in the blanks warrant."

 Even if you are not doing anything illegal, they are pulling this information to TRY to pin you on something.  Anyone who speaks out is considered a threat, whether or not you have done anything which could be considered illegal or not.  I'm quite sure that I'm on several lists.  With some of the weird things that have happened with my computers, my kids computers, my and my kids cell phones and other things.  If I'm NOT getting some electronic watching, there are an awful lot of coincidences.


How many times has your cell phone battery not lasted as long as you thought it should have?  How many times has your computer acted goofy and done something you didn't tell it to?  Why is your computer running so much slower these days?  And your internet speed is so slow?  Didn't that program update JUST the other day?  Why is it doing it again?  Does it look to you like the monitor settings have been changed?  You look down in the corner where the network icon is for you computer and HEY! why am I sending so much information upstream when I'm not even doing anything?

Do you ever get that little half second echo on your cell phone?  Have you had to pull the battery out of your phone because it's acting up?  Tried logging in to a website but it made you re-enter your password and do a verification of some type when you KNOW you entered it right?  Had your debit or credit card re-issued and when you call the bank they say your old card had been reported stolen, and you didn't make the report? And they have no record of who reported it stolen?

Does any of that familiar to you?


H/t WRSA

War on drugs? Or war on Civil Rights?

"LEAWOOD, Kan. (AP) — Two former CIA employees whose Kansas home was fruitlessly searched for marijuana during a two-state drug sweep claim they were illegally targeted, possibly because they had bought indoor growing supplies to raise vegetables."

It finally clicked.

The war on drugs and the war on terror and the war on poverty.  All these little political wars are really 1 war.  And that war is against our Civil rights, our Constitution and our future generations.

With the Patriot Act, several of our civil liberties were made easier to restrict and violate.  With the war on drugs, this erosion of our civil rights has been a slow steady progression.

Now with the technology available through drones, satellites, FLIR and who knows what else, the legality of their use off of the battlefield and by the civil government instead of the military still being questioned.  The current authorities seeming to use the Miles Vorkosigan Dictum of "It's better to ask for forgiveness, than to beg for permission", in their pursuit of information about everyone in this country. 

How many drones are flying over us now gathering information, where is their warrant?  What is the probable cause that allows them to even FILE for a warrant?  They don't have one, other than "For the greater good"  Whose good?

Why will it require multiple expensive lawsuits to force the government to follow the laws it is supposed to enforce?

Who watches the watchers?