Ten Ways We’re Being Tracked, Traced, and Databased

Smile. You’re being watched.

The war on terror is a worldwide endeavor that has spurred massive investment into the global surveillance industry – which now seems to be becoming a war on “liberty and privacy.”  Given all of the new monitoring technology being implemented, the uproar over warrantless wiretaps now seems moot.  High-tech, first-world countries  are being tracked, traced, and databased, literally around every corner.  Governments, aided by private companies, are gathering a mountain of information on average citizens who so far seem willing to trade liberty for supposed security.

Read the list at Activist Post.

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On Gulf Coast, British Petroleum Supersedes U.S. Authority

Behold the corporate militarization of the U.S. Gulf Coast. There are several interesting things about this clip. Perhaps most interesting is the way in which the state trooper recedes into the background when the British Petroleum security guy shows up. It’s quite clear that British Petroleum security supersedes all government authority, including that of the U.S. federal government. The Gulf Coast is effectively a Constitution-free zone.

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