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What Would Happen If Martial Law Was Declared In America?

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In recent weeks, there has been a lot of concern that an upcoming eight week military exercise on U.S. soil known as “Jade Helm” is actually a dress rehearsal for the imposition of martial law in this country.  

As our world becomes increasingly unstable, and as our society rapidly decays from within, many believe that it is only a matter of time before the executive branch will have sufficient excuse to use the extensive martial law powers that it has been accumulating since 9/11.  When that day arrives, what will our nation look like?

Exposed: NSA program for hacking any cell phone network, no matter where it is

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Program could give a leg up to criminal hackers or spies of other countries.

Abstract: Motivated by revelations concerning population-wide surveillance of encrypted communications, we formalize and investigate the resistance of symmetric encryption schemes to mass surveillance. The focus is on algorithm-substitution attacks (ASAs), where a subverted encryption algorithm replaces the real one. We assume that the goal of ``big~brother'' is undetectable subversion, meaning that ciphertexts produced by the subverted encryption algorithm should reveal plaintexts to big~brother yet be indistinguishable to users from those produced by the real encryption scheme. We formalize security notions to capture this goal and then offer both attacks and defenses. In the first category we show that successful (from the point of view of big brother) ASAs may be mounted on a large class of common symmetric encryption schemes. In the second category we show how to design symmetric encryption schemes that avoid such attacks and meet our notion of security. The lesson that emerges is the danger of choice: randomized, stateless schemes are subject to attack while deterministic, stateful ones are not.

Are 'Slow-Drip' Snowden Leaks Just Conditioning Us to Accept Big Brother?

You know how the media likes to keep "shocking" us all with shocking new Snowden revelations every other week? Independent journalist Jon Rappoport put forth a really good theory on the mainstream media's continued slow-drip method of releasing Snowden leaks on NSA spying. Because come on — they're dragging this out longer than the credits for a Pirates of the Caribbean movie. Can it really all be chalked up to sensationalism and journalistic strategy? Afraid not. Rappaport says it's a bit more purposeful than that: "It's all about keeping the NSA story alive, in order that people know they're being spied on 24/7. That's the social engineering aspect. That's the game." Check out Rappaport's full article here: http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2014/03/24/the-story-the-washington-post-wont-print/ What do you guys think? Oh, and here's our SHOCKING mainstream media Snowden vid that garnered so much hate here: http://youtu.be/GqvE6aUuQbw

2014: A Brave New Dystopian "1984" World

While many have pointed out that the Middle-East/Far-East are drifting to a more "Orwellian" world and the West is a more "Huxleyan" environ, the merger of the two dystopias is seemingly growing each day. As The Guardian previously noted, Huxley's dystopia is a totalitarian society, ruled by a supposedly benevolent dictatorship whose subjects have been programmed to enjoy their subjugation through conditioning and the use of a narcotic drug - the rulers of Brave New World have solved the problem of making people love their servitude. On the Orwellian front, we are doing rather well – as the revelations of Edward Snowden have recently underlined. We have constructed an architecture of state surveillance that would make Orwell gasp.

The most striking parallel of course is that both men foresaw the future as totalitarian rather than democratic and free.

Both Big Brother’s world and the Brave New World are ruled by authoritarian elites of a basically socialist/communist nature, whose only real purpose is the maintenance of their own power and privileges.

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As The Guardian so appropriately summed up.

And Chris Hedges' infamous comparison of the two frightening visions of the future

Though, in our view, Emmet Scott summed up the present in relation to Huxley and Orwell's prophecies best:

Facebook's working on facial verification that's 'nearing human-level performance'

www.theverge.com

Identifying faces is a relatively simple task if you're a human, but it's been a long road for computers to do the same thing. Now Facebook says it's developed a technology for verifying whether two people in side-by-side photos are the same that comes pretty close to replicating human abilities. That project is called DeepFace, and according to Facebook it's 97.25 percent accurate, which is just shy the 97.5 percent humans have scored in the same standardized test. In order to pull off that feat, the technology maps out 3D facial features, then makes a flat model that's filtered by color to characterize specific facial elements. Facebook also says it's tapped into a pool of 4.4 million labeled faces from 4,030 different people on its network in order to help the system learn.

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FOURTH TURNING: THE PEOPLE vs BIG BROTHER

“The risk of catastrophe will be very high. The nation could erupt into insurrection or civil violence, crack up geographically, or succumb to authoritarian rule. If there is a war, it is likely to be one of maximum risk and effort – in other words, a total war. Every Fourth Turning has registered an upward ratchet in the technology of destruction, and in mankind’s willingness to use it.” – Strauss & Howe

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“In the need to develop a capacity to know what potential enemies are doing, the United States government has perfected a technological capability that enables us to monitor the messages that go through the air. Now, that is necessary and important to the United States as we look abroad at enemies or potential enemies. We must know, at the same time, that capability at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left such is the capability to monitor everything—telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn’t matter. There would be no place to hide.

If this government ever became a tyrant, if a dictator ever took charge in this country, the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back because the most careful effort to combine together in resistance to the government, no matter how privately it was done, is within the reach of the government to know. Such is the capability of this technology.

I don’t want to see this country ever go across the bridge. I know the capacity that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we must see to it that this agency and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision so that we never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss from which there is no return.”

– Frank Church on Meet the Press regarding the NSA – 1975

Full Article by The Burning Platform

SHADE

Filmmakers and alternative media personalities Shepard Ambellas and Jason Bermas, have just wrapped up a highly controversial film likely to become blacklisted by many mainline sources. The film’s production period spanned nearly 2 full years and was shot at various locations throughout the U.S., encompassing over 20 of the top free-thinkers of today’s world, including activists, historians, journalists and musicians. The film, now available on many formats, exposes a sinister agenda that affects the entire population of the world, detailing how a handful of people at the top of the pyramid actually pull the strings on society, using humans a test subjects like Guinea Pigs in a massive  worldwide experiment.

US Government Launches $1 Billion Spy Satellite Into Space

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This week the US government Launched a $1 Billion spy satellite that is capable of “distinguish the make and model of an automobile hundreds of miles below”.

The disclosures involving this (and the prior) administration's Big Brother surveillance state, which would make Nixon blush with envy are now coming fast and furious (one wonders - why now: even that bastion of liberalism the NY Times, has turned against Obama). Although while the Guardian's overnight news that Verizon (and most certainly AT&T as well among others) was cooperating with the NSA on spying on US citizens, so far at least the internet seemed, if only to the great unwashed masses, immune. That is no longer the case following news from the WaPo exposing PRISM, a highly classified program, which has not been disclosed publicly before. "Its establishment in 2007 and six years of exponential growth took place beneath the surface of a roiling debate over the boundaries of surveillance and privacy." What PRISM does is to allow the NSA and the FBI to tap directly "into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio, video, photographs, e-mails, documents and connection logs that enable analysts to track a person’s movements and contacts over time."

Xbox One: Constantly Listening To Conversations

intellihub.com

Mick Meaney | With the announcement of Microsoft's next generation gaming console, the Xbox One, it has emerged that the new system carries a device that will be constantly listening' to gamer's conversations.

Do you hate paying taxes? Are you fighting foreclosure? Do you feel like no one should be allowed to commit violence against you and don't always blindly follow the commands of the authorities? Do you film encounters with police or believe gold makes better currency than Federal Reserve Notes? Well you might be part of a domestic terrorism movement and not even know it. On Friday, the Los Angeles Times posted an article attempting to define a domestic terrorist movement consisting of as many as 300,000 Americans. Some are even labeled as non-violent "paper terrorists".

Is there a more Orwellian term than "non-violent terrorist"?  If you can think of one please share it in the comments below.

While hosting his weekly radio show this past Friday, Your Royal Highness Mayor Michael Bloomberg explained to the serfs of NYC that privacy is dead and that you just "can't keep the tide" of the surveillance state from coming in.  His quotes perfectly demonstrate the attitude he takes toward his subjects and are quite revealing.  For instance:

“Everybody wants their privacy, but I don’t know how you’re going to maintain it.  It’s just we’re going into a different world, uncharted, and, like it or not, what people can do, what governments can do, is different.  And you can to some extent control, but you can’t keep the tides from coming in.” “The argument against using automation, it’s this craziness– oh, it’s Big Brother. Get used to it.”

“But what’s the difference whether the drone is up in the air or on the building? I mean intellectually I have trouble making a distinction. And you know you’re gonna have face recognition software.  People are working on that.” “We’re going to have more visibility and less privacy. I don’t see how you stop that. And it’s not a question of whether I think it’s good or bad. I just don’t see how you could stop that because we’re going to have them.”

Texas law Vaccinations WITHOUT parental consent

Proposed Texas law calls for allowing vaccination of children without parental consent.