[…] the CIA. The FBI ‘is now the prime functionary of the Deep State. The politicized leadership at the very top has turned it into a tool of surveillance and suppression of American citizens’. Now the question one has to inevitably ask oneself is when has the FBI not played this role? To be fair, […]
[PDF file]: […] wearing plain clothes, and shot dead in highly controversial circumstances. This is wrong on at least two levels. Firstly, it was a combination of MI5 and Spanish surveillance that followed them across the border.12 Secondly, Taylor’s use of ‘confronted’ might imply that a clear warning had been given before each killing; but that certainly […]
[PDF file]: […] states of 500 years ago? But in the USA, the subject of 95% of this book, there is no war. There is conflict and oppression and mass surveillance and Red Squads in-all-but-name in all the cities, with computers up the wazoo and big budgets. But the US cities are not yet in a state […]
[…] our environment, with the risk of adverse impacts on flora and fauna. 5. 5G will increase energy consumption. 6. 5G will usher in a regime of total surveillance. 7. 5G will create an insatiable need for rare earth elements and more toxic e-waste. 8. 5G from space is a tragedy of the cosmic commons. […]
[…] wearing plain clothes, and shot dead in highly controversial circumstances. This is wrong on at least two levels. Firstly, it was a combination of MI5 and Spanish surveillance that followed them across the border.13 Secondly, Taylor’s use of ‘confronted’ might imply that a clear warning had been given before each killing; but that certainly […]
[PDF file]: […] Daniel Schorr in the Village Voice newspaper. Lest we forget, Church was marginalized, lost his Senate seat to a well-funded campaign, and, as we know, the domestic surveillance by the CIA and NSA and whoever else continued unchecked, at least until the Snowden revelations. Church’s committee was regularly lied to by its witnesses and […]
[…] wearing plain clothes, and shot dead in highly controversial circumstances. This is wrong on at least two levels. Firstly, it was a combination of MI5 and Spanish surveillance that followed them across the border.13 Secondly, Taylor’s use of ‘confronted’ might imply that a clear warning had been given before each killing; but that certainly […]
[PDF file]: […] prison to start rebuilding his life by setting up a small removals business. This became increasingly difficult due to what he alleged was ‘highly intrusive and unlawful surveillance’ including interference with his phones, mail and emails. This had the effect of blocking him from going about his everyday affairs whilst preventing potential customers making […]
[…] pro Russia? https://www.emptywheel.net/2018/07/31/without-integrity-the-debunking-ofthe-metadata-debunkers/ Duncan Campbell William Binney and the whole DNC hacked thing. Boy this is complex – beyond my ken. ……… Barton Gellman on Snowden and surveillance https://www.theatlantic.com/ magazine/archive/2020/06/edward-snowden-operation-firstfruits/610573/? utm_source=digg The Channel 4 News chief who sparked an impartiality row with No 10 by calling Boris John a “known liar” is to step […]
[PDF file]: […] Hank Greenspun at the Las Vegas Sun. (Kalmbach testimony, 3 HJC 615-617). O’Brien later observed, ‘As the target of Watergate, I was at various times placed under surveillance, my telephones were wiretapped, my files were ransacked. But for me the stunning manipulation of the power of the IRS can be considered the most shocking […]
