This one is important. Be sure to read the entire article at Zero Hedge. MadHedgeFundTrader is dead on in his analysis of the tracking systems currently used by corporations and even small businesses–and particularly by the ‘social networking’ sites. If you’re on the ‘net’, then your life is an open book. The ‘total information’ age [...]

(CNN) – Law enforcement officers may secretly place a GPS device on a persons car without seeking a warrant from a judge, according to a recent federal appeals court ruling in California. Drug Enforcement Administration agents in Oregon in 2007 surreptitiously attached a GPS to the silver Jeep owned by Juan Pineda-Moreno, whom they suspected [...]

(BBC News) — Young people will resort to changing their names in order to escape their previous online activity, Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt has said. Mr Schmidt told the Wall Street Journal he feared they did not understand the consequences of so much information about them being online. The company has invested considerably in [...]

(VENTUREBEAT.COM) — Radio frequency identification (RFID) tags are becoming pervasive as the barcodes of the 21st century. They are being used in everything from Wal-Mart merchandise to U.S. passport cards. But the problem, as demonstrated by hacker Chris Paget at the Defcon security conference today, is that they have no security and can be read [...]

LC.ORG — /snip/Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution expressly states that Congress has the authority to “establish a uniform Rule of Naturalization.” The Constitution therefore establishes that the matter of immigration is to be the sole prerogative of the federal government so that state laws are pre-empted./snip/ PID: Question. Does this mean states [...]

(The American Spectator) — As over-leveraged investment houses began to fail in September 2008, the leaders of the Republican and Democratic parties, of major corporations, and opinion leaders stretching from the National Review magazine and the Wall Street Journal on the right to the Nation magazine on the left, agreed that spending some $700 billion [...]

MOSCOW, June 11 (REUTERS) — Russia’s parliament on Friday voted to boost the powers of the successor to the Soviet KGB, allowing it to summon people it believes are about to commit a crime and threaten jail for those who disobey its orders. Rights groups said the proposed regulations could be used by the FSB [...]

(PC MAGAZINE) – The National Security Agency (NSA) on Thursday confirmed the existence of a program known as “Perfect Citizen,” but denied assertions that it is a secret monitoring plan that will deploy sensors to detect attempted cyber attacks on private and government computer systems. The Wall Street Journal this week published an article that [...]

(HUMAN EVENTS) — Last night, as part of a procedural vote on the emergency war supplemental bill, House Democrats attached a document that “deemed as passed” a non-existent $1.12 trillion budget. The execution of the “deeming” document allows Democrats to start spending money for Fiscal Year 2011 without the pesky constraints of a budget. The [...]

(AP) — A top counterterrorism official on Wednesday defended the government’s right to target U.S. citizens perceived as terror threats for capture or killing, citing the example of the renegade al-Qaida-linked cleric Anwar al-Awlaki. Michael Leiter, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, would not say whether al-Awlaki is on a U.S. targeting list, but a [...]

(HEARKEN THE WATCHMEN) — In a development little noticed by the American public, President Obama’s subordinates have quietly let it be known that he reserves the right to have American citizens overseas assassinated. Not imprisoned. Not spied upon without a warrant. Killed in cold blood with no oversight whatsoever. via Appoint For Us a King.

(SALON.COM) — When The Washington Post‘s Dana Priest first revealed (in passing) back in January that the Obama administration had compiled a hit list of American citizens targeted for assassination, she wrote that “as of several months ago, the CIA list included three U.S. citizens.” In April, both the Post and the NYT confirmed that [...]

(ZDNET) — A new US Senate Bill would grant the President far-reaching emergency powers to seize control of, or even shut down, portions of the internet. The legislation says that companies such as broadband providers, search engines or software firms that the US Government selects “shall immediately comply with any emergency measure or action developed” [...]

(AMERICAN FREE PRESS) — Bilderberg-controlled news outlets in Europe and the Western Hemisphere are conditioning the public to accept two of the super-secret elite’s major goals in advance of its meeting June 4-7 in Sitges, Spain: a U.S. attack on Iran and a financial bailout of Greece and other European Union EU countries. via BILDERBERG: [...]