16-Year-Old Launches Organization to Battle Warrantless Surveillance

Bran­don Keibler, Founder and Direc­tor, Project Dig­i­tal Privacy Bran­don Keibler is just your ordi­nary 16-year-old from South­ern Indi­ana. At least that’s what some peo­ple might think. How­ev­er, hav­ing become an activist at four­teen and help­ing to estab­lish the Restore the Fourth orga­ni­za­tion, this young man has just launched an orga­ni­za­tion to encour­age grass­roots efforts aimed […]

Wolf Lessons from North Carolina

Jim Beers, retired Refuge Man­ag­er, Spe­cial Agent, & Wildlife Biol­o­gist U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Last Fri­day, 30 Jan­u­ary, I wrote a piece, Kudos to North Car­oli­na and Her Wolves that Nev­er Were, com­pli­ment­ing the recent suc­cess of some men in North Car­oli­na regard­ing how to stand up to the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment and the Endan­gered […]

Medical mafia calling for gunpoint quarantines of citizens who refuse vaccinations

Fed­er­al offi­cials want to order a quar­an­tine for a South Pasade­na woman and grad stu­dent whose sis­ter recent­ly con­tract­ed a case of measles at near­by Dis­ney­land, but she is resist­ing the push because, she says, she does­n’t have the disease. Twen­ty-six-year-old Ylsa Tellez’s younger sis­ter, 24-year-old Mau­ra Tellez, was one of more than two dozen […]

Watch Out for That Puddle, Soon It Could Be Federally Regulated

FA Note:  This Op-Ed appeared in the Wall Street Jour­nal Decem­ber 7, 2014. The authors are Reed Hop­per and Todd Gaziano, with Pacif­ic Legal Foundation.  The EPA wants to rede­fine ‘the waters of the Unit­ed States’ to mean vir­tu­al­ly any wet spot in the country. Get­ty Images Ear­li­er this year the Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Agency and […]

Why Anita Hoge Needs to Testify Before Congress

Every Amer­i­can needs to hear what Ani­ta Hoge said on the Rense Radio inter­view Fri­day night.… What we found in con­tracts we requested was that Penn­syl­va­nia was the model to cre­ate a nation­al I.D. for every per­son in the Unit­ed States, start­ing at birth;  they called it a womb to work­place database  and it includes every individual.… [They […]

“They Never”, “They Always”

Jim Beers, retired Refuge Man­ag­er, Spe­cial Agent, & Wildlife Biol­o­gist U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service A pack of “five to six” coy­otes just killed a full grown horse, iron­i­cal­ly owned by the Coun­ty Sheriff’s Depart­ment, in a pad­dock between Detroit and Flint, Michi­gan.  The local “wildlife tech­ni­cian” said he “can count on zero fin­gers the […]

The TSA Wants To Read Your Facebook Posts And Check Out Your Purchases Before It Will Approve You For PreCheck

from the ah,-now-I-understand-the-phrase-‘documented-citizen’ dept The TSA is dis­ap­point­ed that so few Amer­i­cans have opt­ed out of its bot­tle-toss­ing, pack­age-grop­ing screen­ings by sign­ing up for its PreCheck pro­gram. For a few years now, the TSA has been sell­ing trav­el­ers’ civ­il lib­er­ties back to them, most recent­ly for $85 a head, but it’s now mak­ing a seri­ous […]

Revealed: Canadian Spy Program Illustrates “Giant X-Ray Machine Over All Our Digital Lives”

Lat­est rev­e­la­tion from Snow­den archive shows CSE has been mon­i­tor­ing, ana­lyz­ing, and track­ing mil­lions of peo­ple who uti­lize pop­u­lar file-shar­ing websites Rapid­share was one of three file-shar­ing web­sites tar­get­ed in the spy agen­cy’s sur­veil­lance. (Pho­to: Evan Mitsui/CBC) New­ly released doc­u­ments con­tained in the archive of mate­ri­als leaked to jour­nal­ists by NSA whistle­blow­er Edward Snow­den reveals […]

Your home appliances will soon be remotely controlled by the government

Increas­ing­ly, our free­dom and auton­o­my are threat­ened by those who seek to mon­i­tor and con­trol every aspect of our dai­ly lives. George Orwell’s “Big Broth­er” from the nov­el 1984 is a pale threat in com­par­i­son to the dystopi­an real­i­ty our lead­ers which have cre­at­ed for us since that book was pub­lished more than six decades […]

EFF’s Game Plan for Ending Global Mass Surveillance

 We have a prob­lem when it comes to stop­ping mass surveillance. The enti­ty that’s con­duct­ing the most extreme and far-reach­ing sur­veil­lance against most of the world’s communications—the Nation­al Secu­ri­ty Agency—is bound by Unit­ed States law. That’s good news for Amer­i­cans. U.S. law and the Con­sti­tu­tion pro­tect Amer­i­can cit­i­zens and legal res­i­dents from war­rant­less sur­veil­lance. That […]

In Response to EFF Lawsuit, Government Ordered to Release Secret Surveillance Court Documents Today

Update: The gov­ern­ment released two new FISC opin­ions this evening, both of which con­cern the tran­si­tion of NSA sur­veil­lance to the over­sight of the FISC in 2007. Nei­ther of the two doc­u­ments, avail­able here and here, is the Raw Take order or the 2008 FAA order. The gov­ern­ment has one addi­tion­al pro­duc­tion dead­line in this […]

How the UN Is Confiscating American Homes and Controlling All Food and Energy

In times of crises, the gov­ern­ment has proven, time and time again, that it can­not be count­ed on to ade­quate­ly pro­tect the Amer­i­can peo­ple. As the Amer­i­can peo­ple have not pre­pared for the com­ing dark days, they will be vul­ner­a­ble to star­va­tion, dehy­dra­tion, cholera, pan­demics and attacks from resource-defi­cient loot­ers. Will the gov­ern­ment be there […]

HealthCare.gov Sends Personal Data to Dozens of Tracking Websites

The Asso­ci­at­ed Press reports that healthcare.gov–the flag­ship site of the Afford­able Care Act, where mil­lions of Amer­i­cans have signed up to receive health care–is qui­et­ly send­ing per­son­al health infor­ma­tion to a num­ber of third par­ty web­sites. The infor­ma­tion being sent includes one’s zip code, income lev­el, smok­ing sta­tus, preg­nan­cy sta­tus and more. An exam­ple of per­son­al […]

Al Gore Wants to Ban Cars in Cities

If you live in a major city and own a car, you might not be able to keep your car in the city, or you might have to give up your car all togeth­er. You see, for­mer Vice Pres­i­dent Al Gore and his cur­rent part­ner in crime, for­mer Mex­i­can Pres­i­dent Felipe Calderon, are look­ing to […]

(Missouri conference) What Is The Role Of Public Schools

After sev­er­al years look­ing at Com­mon Core; where it came from, who sup­ports it, how it is being imple­ment­ed, its impact on teachers/students/parents, and lis­ten­ing to the com­plaints of parents/the gen­er­al pub­lic about it, I view Com­mon Core as a symp­tom, not the cause of the pub­lic out­cry over edu­ca­tion. I believe the rea­son most […]

One Bay Area

Michael Shaw FA Note: Grab your favorite cup of ______ and lis­ten to a very infor­ma­tive dis­cus­sion of One Bay Area. One Bay Area is America’s most exten­sive and expen­sive appli­ca­tion of Agen­da 21. Michael Shaw dis­cuss­es the One Bay Area Plan, ABAG, ICLEI, and COGs with host, KSCO San­ta Cruz sta­tion own­er, Michael Zwer­ling and var­i­ous […]

Smartphones will begin categorizing users’ mental health; gun seizures will follow

The Dig­i­tal Age has pro­duced some remark­able tech­nol­o­gy and will con­tin­ue to do so, but as each new inno­va­tion springs forth, more of us are find­ing that we are not as com­fort­able with it as we once thought we might be. One of the lat­est exam­ples comes from a new iPhone app that appears capa­ble of […]

Bill Gates Rules the World

Data­bank­ing Every­body Everywhere (Source) From the arti­cle above, “Bill Gates: dig­i­tal learn­ing will rev­o­lu­tionise edu­ca­tion in glob­al south”, Cheap­er smart­phones and tablets, advances in soft­ware and bet­ter net­work cov­er­age will rev­o­lu­tionise the way chil­dren in devel­op­ing coun­tries learn over the next 15 years, accord­ing to the Microsoft co-founder and phil­an­thropist Bill Gates.… “The edu­ca­tion­al soft­ware is […]

Lamar Alexander’s Re-authorization of ESEA

Ani­ta B. Hoge A Pre­lim­i­nary Analy­sis of the Bill by Ani­ta Hoge Source: http://help.senate.gov/imo/media/AEG15033.pdf This bill was pre­sent­ed twice and referred to committee. Every Child Ready for Col­lege or Career Act of 2015 spon­sored by Sen. Lamar Alexan­der. This bill amends No Child Left Behind which is the Re-autho­riza­tion of the Ele­men­tary and Sec­ondary Edu­ca­tion Act of 1965 […]

ESEA & your property taxes!

Elim­i­nat­ing prop­er­ty tax­es aligns with the  ESEA Re-autho­riza­tion bill! The fol­low­ing alert by Ani­ta Hoge per­tains to a bill in the state of Penn­syl­va­nia (HB 76, The Prop­er­ty Tax Inde­pen­dence Act), but it could just as eas­i­ly apply to your local state. Do you know what it lurk­ing in your state’s leg­is­la­tion? Read this very impor­tant alert. Elim­i­nat­ing […]

Arkansas Takes Away 7 Homeschool Children because Father had Unapproved Mineral Supplement

FA Note: Lit­tle is heard today of what might be called “Sus­tain­able Med­i­cine”. It exists, but not specif­i­cal­ly with­in Agen­da 21. The Codex Ali­men­ta­r­ius Com­mis­sion was cre­at­ed by the UN, cov­er­ing all foods. The U.S. FDA’s pol­i­cy is that Codex super­sedes U.S. laws. Fur­ther­more, the U.S. pas­sage of CAFTA requires the U.S. to con­form to […]

Asset Forfeiture and the Cycle of Electronic Surveillance Funding

EFF Note: The bulk of the research in this post was com­piled pri­or to Attor­ney Gen­er­al Eric Hold­er’s sur­prise announce­ment that he is cur­tail­ing the fed­er­al equi­table shar­ing pro­gram. The post may be updat­ed as fur­ther ram­i­fi­ca­tions of the pol­i­cy deci­sion become clear. “You fol­low drugs, you get drug addicts and drug deal­ers. But you […]

HIPAA & FERPA

EXTREMELY IMPORTANT INFORMATION  ABOUT THE RULES FOR HIPAA AND FERPA  COVERING AN EDUCATION RECORD An Alert by Ani­ta Hoge Ani­ta B. Hoge EDUCATION RECORDS ARE NOT COVERED BY HIPAA. NO MENTAL HEALTH INTERVENTIONS AT SCHOOL ARE COVERED BY HIPAA. Expla­na­tion of HIPPA and FER­PA-Ear­ly Child­hood Data can be found in this doc­u­ment: A Look at Penn­syl­va­ni­a’s Ear­ly Child­hood Data System […]

Security is Not a Crime—Unless You’re an Anarchist

Rise­up, a tech col­lec­tive that pro­vides secu­ri­ty-mind­ed com­mu­ni­ca­tions to activists world­wide, sound­ed the alarm last month when a judge in Spain stat­ed that the use of their email ser­vice is a prac­tice, he believes, asso­ci­at­ed with terrorism. Javier Gómez Bermúdez is a judge of Audi­en­cia Nacional, a spe­cial high court in Spain that deals with […]