David Isenberg via email. Source Article (PDF 4 Pages)
Graphic: WikiLeaks Good, STRATFOR Evil? A Documented Comparison
Analysis, Citizen-Centered, Collection, Strategy-Holistic Coherence, True CostStephen E. Arnold: Russian Made Surveillance Invades the US
IO Impotency
Russian Made Surveillance Invades the US
Posted: 09 Jun 2013 02:11 PM PDT
Russia and the U.S. don’t often agree when it comes to politics and social issues but it seems that the two can agree on the need for top grade surveillance technology. According to the Wired article “5 Russian-Made Surveillance Technologies Used in the West” Russia’s surveillance technology is being used all over the world including the United States. The Russian voice recognition technology Speech Technology Center or STC goes by the name SpeechPro in the United States. STC also has facial recognition tools.
“In December 2012, STC announced it had gone to Ecuador and installed “the world’s first biometric identification platform, at a nation-wide level, that combines voice and face identification capabilities. The system allows authorities to accumulate a large image database of criminals and suspects. STC also claims it has invented algorithms that deliver reliable results even when facial characteristics have undergone physical changes, and the system’s voice and face modalities can be used together or separately — a voice sample or facial image alone is sufficient to make an identification.”
The Russian company MFI-Soft has developed information security and telecommunications solutions targeted towards law enforcement agencies as well as voice over internet protocol (VoIP) internet service providers. The company works under the name ALOE Systems and it is an interception technology that provides detection, monitoring, storage and analysis of information traveling over the internet. With the popularity of mobile phones, interception technology has become extremely important. Discovery Telecom Technologies (DTT) produces the AIBIS system or In-Between interception System and it works by disguising itself as a cell tower and intercepting nearby signals which allows the operator to listen and record calls. SMS message and mobile internet access can be monitored and the system can also jam cell phone signals to help locate potential targets. New York City is looking into the software developed by the Russian firm Dorga.TV which will give passengers the ability to track public transport online. They can estimate the quickest routes as well as see when a bus is due. Looks like Russia has the surveillance world captivated.
April Holmes, June 10, 2013
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Mini-Me: DHS Insider – It’s About to Get Ugly [Possible Neo-Con Coup Angle?]
Corruption, Government
Huh?
DHS insider: It’s about to get very ugly
Seriously dangerous times ahead. Deadly times. War, and censorship under the color of authority and under the pretext of of national security
Doug Hagmann
Canada Free Press, 10 June 2013
EXTRACT
“If anyone thinks that what’s going on right now with all of this surveillance of American citizens is to fight some sort of foreign enemy, they’re delusional. If people think that this ‘scandal’ can’t get any worse, it will, hour by hour, day by day. This has the ability to bring down our national leadership, the administration and other senior elected officials working in collusion with this administration, both Republican and Democrats. People within the NSA, the Department of Justice, and others, they know who they are, need to come forth with the documentation of ‘policy and practice’ in their possession, disclose what they know, fight what’s going on, and just do their job. I have never seen anything like this, ever. The present administration is going after leakers, media sources, anyone and everyone who is even suspected of ‘betrayal.’ That’s what they call it, ‘betrayal.’ Can you believe the size of their cahones? This administration considers anyone telling the truth about Benghazi, the IRS, hell, you name the issue, ‘betrayal,’” he said.
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Anthony Judge: Vigorous Application of Derivative Thinking to Derivative Problems [Simplification: The Most Intelligent Essay You Will Ever Read About Loss of Legitimacy]
Ethics
Vigorous Application of Derivative Thinking to Derivative Problems
Transcending bewailing, hand-wringing and emotional blackmail
Introduction
Tracing back to the source of problems as necessary due diligence?
Current examples of unsourced problems
Terrorism and invasive surveillance as unsourced problems
Exclusivism: gerrymandering, question avoidance, denial
Recognizing the pattern of entanglement
Immoral authority of Abrahamic religions?
Simulation of consequences and possibilities of cognitive engagement
Psycho-sexual reframing of “growth” in response to “demand” in society
Conclusion
References
Jon Rappoport: Is Ed Snowden a CIA Dangle to China?
02 China, Government
NSA leaker: are there serious cracks in Ed Snowden's story?
First, I'm not doubting the documents Ed Snowden has brought forward. I'm not doubting the illegal reach of the NSA in spying on Americans and the world.
But as to how this recent revelation happened, and whether Ed Snowden's history holds up…I have questions.
Could Snowden have been given extraordinary access to classified info as part of a larger scheme? Could he be a) an honest man and yet b) a guy who was set up to do what he's doing now?
If b) is true, then Snowden fits the bill perfectly. He wants to do what he's doing. He isn't lying about that. He means what he says.
Okay. Let's look at his history as reported by The Guardian.
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Steven Aftergood: Secret Surveillance and the Crisis of Legitimacy
Corruption, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude, Military
Secret Surveillance and the Crisis of Legitimacy
Intelligence, Leaks, Oversight, Secrecy
In December 1974, when a previous program of secret government surveillance was revealed by Seymour Hersh in the New York Times, the ensuing public uproar led directly to extensive congressional investigations and the creation of new mechanisms of oversight, including intelligence oversight committees in Congress and an intelligence surveillance court.
The public uproar over the latest disclosures of secret domestic surveillance by The Guardian and the Washington Post different cannot produce a precisely analogous result, because the oversight mechanisms intended to correct abuses already exist and indeed had signed off on the surveillance activities. Those programs are “under very strict supervision by all three branches of government,” President Obama said Friday. In some sense, the system functioned as intended.
Nevertheless, all three branches of government performed badly in this case, by misrepresenting the scope of official surveillance, misgauging public concern and evading public accountability.
Official Dissembling and Misrepresentation
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David Swanson: Not Impeaching Bush Is Sure Paying Off!
Civil Society, Ethics
Not Impeaching Bush Is Sure Paying Off!
Many loyal Republicans opposed impeaching George W. Bush. So did most liberal and progressive activist groups, labor unions, peace organizations, churches, media outlets, journalists, pundits, organizers, and bloggers, not to mention most Democratic members of Congress, most Democrats dreaming of someday being in Congress, and — toward the end of the Bush presidency — most supporters of candidate Barack Obama or candidate Hillary Clinton.
Remarkably in the face of this opposition, a large percentage and often a majority of Americans told pollsters that Bush should be impeached. It's not clear, however, that everyone understood why impeachment was needed. Some might have supported a successful impeachment of Bush and then turned around and tolerated identical crimes and abuses by a Democrat, assuming a Democrat managed to engage in them. But this is the point: whoever followed Bush's impeachment would have been far less likely to repeat and expand on his tyrannical policies. And the reason many of us wanted Bush impeached — as we said at the time — was to prevent that repetition and expansion, which we said was virtually inevitable if impeachment was not pursued.
Can You Hear Me Now?
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