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In Stunning Reversal, DHS Says Russians Were Not Behind Attempted Wisconsin Vote Hacking
In Stunning Reversal, DHS Says Russians Were Not Behind Attempted Wisconsin Vote Hacking Just in time for the weekend, the Associated Press reported on Friday that the Department of Homeland Security had notified 21 states earlier that day that their election systems had been targeted by malicious cyber actors. The states and DHS quickly jumped […]
Certain U.S. Airlines Are Testing Mandatory Facial Recognition Scans on Americans Flying Abroad
Certain U.S. Airlines Are Testing Mandatory Facial Recognition Scans on Americans Flying Abroad Just when you thought air travel couldn’t get any more invasive, authoritarian and downright miserable, the Department of Homeland Security and two U.S. carriers are determined to prove you wrong. Yesterday, Harrison Rudolph, a law fellow at the Center on Privacy & […]
Mainstream Media’s Russian Bogeymen
Mainstream Media’s Russian Bogeymen Exclusive: The mainstream hysteria over Russia has led to dubious or downright false stories that have deepened the New Cold War, as Gareth Porter notes regarding last month’s bogus tale of a hack into the U.S. electric grid. In the middle of a major domestic crisis over the U.S. charge that Russia […]
CISA Is Now The Law: How Congress Quietly Passed The Second Patriot Act
CISA Is Now The Law: How Congress Quietly Passed The Second Patriot Act Back in 2014, civil liberties and privacy advocates were up in arms when the government tried to quietly push through the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, or CISA, a law which would allow federal agencies – including the NSA – to share cybersecurity, […]
The NSA’s Technotyranny: One Nation Under Surveillance
The NSA’s Technotyranny: One Nation Under Surveillance “The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control.”—William Binney, NSA whistleblower We now have a fourth branch of government. As I document in my new book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, this fourth branch came into being without any electoral mandate or constitutional referendum, […]
Militarization Is More Than Tanks and Rifles: It’s a Cultural Disease, Acclimating the Citizenry to Life in a Police State
Militarization Is More Than Tanks and Rifles: It’s a Cultural Disease, Acclimating the Citizenry to Life in a Police State “If we’re training cops as soldiers, giving them equipment like soldiers, dressing them up as soldiers, when are they going to pick up the mentality of soldiers? If you look at the police department, their creed […]
How a Department of Homeland Security Fusion Center in Texas Targeted Animal Rights Activists
How a Department of Homeland Security Fusion Center in Texas Targeted Animal Rights Activists Last September, a Facebook event caught the eye of a counterrorism specialist within the Texas Department of Public Safety. The email was among those released by the Austin Regional Intelligence Center (ARIC) last month. This same release revealed that ARIC took stock of potential […]
Department Of Homeland Security Issues Warning After “Mall Of America” Terror Threat
Department Of Homeland Security Issues Warning After “Mall Of America” Terror Threat First it was ruthless snow (in the winter), then we got a port blockade (caused by well-paid US workers demanding even more), and now, unveiling the last pillar of the holy trifecta of economic disappointment scapegoats, earlier today the secretary of the Department […]
The “War on Terror” Turns Inward – DHS Report Warns of Right Wing Terror Threat
The “War on Terror” Turns Inward – DHS Report Warns of Right Wing Terror Threat What you are about to read from CNN is just the very beginning of the intentional demonization of a growing segment of the U.S. population that rightly believes the government is run by a collective of thieving, corrupt, immoral sociopaths. This isn’t speculation […]
Why Is The Fed Hiring An “Emergency Preparedness Specialist Familiar With DHS Directives” | Zero Hedge
Why Is The Fed Hiring An “Emergency Preparedness Specialist Familiar With DHS Directives” | Zero Hedge. A few weeks ago, we reported that for some still unexplained reason, the US Treasury is ordering “survival kits” to its employees overseeing the federal banking system. To wit: The Department of Treasury is spending $200,000 on survival kits for all of […]
