All Discussions Tagged 'personal' - 12160 Social Network2024-03-28T08:24:17Zhttps://12160.info/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=personal&feed=yes&xn_auth=noTwo dead, one wounded after gunman opens fire at Shops at Merrick Parktag:12160.info,2017-04-10:2649739:Topic:16765312017-04-10T05:42:08.494ZCentral Scrutinizerhttps://12160.info/profile/H0llyw00d
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<p class="published-date">A gunman opened fire inside the Equinox fitness…</p>
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<p class="published-date">A gunman opened fire inside the Equinox fitness center at the Shops at Merrick Park early afternoon Saturday, leaving two dead and one person wounded at the upscale Coral Gables mall anchored by Neiman Marcus and Nordstrom, police said.</p>
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<div id="story-body-items"><div class="byline element-spacing-small"><p><a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/coral-gables/article143519519.html" target="_blank">BY DAVID J. NEAL, CHARLES RABIN, MIMI WHITEFIELD AND PATRICIA MAZZEI</a></p>
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<div class="dateline-storybody"><div id="story-target" class="clearfix"><div id="content-body-16194140-143519519"><p>A popular personal trainer who apparently had been fired from his job earlier in the day fatally shot one of his former co-workers and critically wounded another at the Equinox fitness center in Coral Gables on Saturday afternoon before killing himself.</p>
<p>The 12:55 p.m. shooting shut down the upscale Shops at Merrick Park mall and scattered scores of scared shoppers and Equinox members onto the surrounding streets, many of them clad in exercise clothes and holding nothing but their workout towels. Witnesses identified the shooter as.......<a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/coral-gables/article143519519.html" target="_blank">Miami Herald</a></p>
<p>Read more: <a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article143612964.html" target="_blank" title="">Before shooting, Equinox gunman was fired ‘due to work place violence,’ police say</a></p>
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</div> The US government is out of options. You’re nottag:12160.info,2015-09-17:2649739:Topic:15879022015-09-17T05:45:06.296ZCentral Scrutinizerhttps://12160.info/profile/H0llyw00d
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<p> Six months ago, on March 16, 2015, the government of the United States of America once again reached its statutory debt limit.</p>
<p>In other words, the Land of the Free had maxed…</p>
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<p> Six months ago, on March 16, 2015, the government of the United States of America once again reached its statutory debt limit.</p>
<p>In other words, the Land of the Free had maxed out its credit card and was legally barred from borrowing a penny more.</p>
<p>That’s pretty sad when you think about it.</p>
<p>The supposedly richest country in the world is such a deadbeat that they had borrowed the maximum amount of money as permitted by its own law.</p>
<p>They call it the ‘debt ceiling’. And the only way to borrow more is for Congress to pass a new law… something that, embarrassingly enough, has occurred dozens of times over the past few decades.</p>
<p>The US is undoubtedly addicted to debt.</p>
<p>So much so, in fact, that even when the government hits the debt ceiling, it still doesn’t deter them from borrowing.</p>
<p>Rather than shocking them into taking drastic action to reduce the debt, they just find creative ways to keep borrowing that don’t –technically- count towards the debt ceiling.</p>
<p>In the words of the United States Secretary of the Treasury, they’re known as ‘extraordinary measures’.</p>
<p>And in a letter to Congress that he sent last Thursday, Secretary Lew described “the extraordinary measures we have taken to avoid default,” which include grabbing money from federal retirement funds.</p>
<p>It’s truly pathetic– to be so dependent on debt that even when you legally breach your credit limit, your only option is to start stealing from your employees.</p>
<p>That’s not how it works in the real world. Responsible adults have to figure out a way to make ends meet.</p>
<p>Too much month at the end of the money means making tough decisions, and, at a minimum, is treated as a personal crisis.</p>
<p>For the US government, however, overspending is an entitlement that’s now built into the system.</p>
<p>It’s just business as usual for these guys… and it’s truly incredible how cavalier they are about such a devastating weakness.</p>
<p>Here’s some hard facts: there are basically three categories of government spending.</p>
<p>First is what’s called Discretionary Spending. This is what Congress debates about endlessly—deciding how much money each department of government will receive every fiscal year.</p>
<p>Then there’s the Mandatory Spending. These are programs like Social Security, Medicare, etc. which are set by law.</p>
<p>Congress doesn’t have to debate anything with these programs, the money just automatically gets sucked out of the Treasury, just like your monthly mortgage payment.</p>
<p>Last is interest on the debt, which, sadly, is so big that it has its own category.</p>
<p>Right now the system is so screwed up that if you add up the Mandatory Spending programs AND interest on the debt, the total is nearly as big as ALL of the government’s tax revenue.</p>
<p>In other words, you could eliminate nearly every department of government—Homeland Security, the State Department, etc. and the US government would still likely be running a deficit.</p>
<p>And that problem is only going to get worse. By the government’s own estimates, the long-term shortfall in its major mandatory entitlement programs is more than $42 trillion.</p>
<p>If you add the $18 trillion (and rising) in US debt, America’s total liabilities exceed $60 trillion.</p>
<p>This is not a drill. This is real world, and the situation is dire.</p>
<p>Oh there’s just one more thing.</p>
<p>The Treasury Department (by its own admission) is running out of money.</p>
<p>In the same letter to Congress from last week, Secretary Lew disclosed that the Treasury Department’s cash balance had fallen below its minimum level.</p>
<p>He also mentioned that his extraordinary measures were running out, urging Congress to please please please raise the debt ceiling for the 79th time since 1960.</p>
<p>The Treasury Department is out of options. And candidly, the government itself is running out of options.</p>
<p>Now, tonight there’s apparently another debate of leading Presidential candidates.</p>
<p>If asked what they’ll do about the US debt, there will probably be a lot of high-sounding language and tough talk.</p>
<p>But at the end of the day, the cold reality is that the government has no choice but to default.</p>
<p>They could default on their creditors like China who have purchased trillions in US debt. But that would only temporarily solve the problem, not to mention cause a catastrophic financial crisis across the entire world.</p>
<p>Or they could default on the Federal Reserve, which also owns several trillion dollars in US debt. Though that would cause an unprecedented currency crisis and a run on the US dollar.</p>
<p>Most likely, they’ll default on the promises they’ve made to their citizens.</p>
<p>Namely, they’ll default on their obligation to maintain a sound and stable currency; and their obligation to provide retirement income from the Social Security program that people will have spent their entire lives paying into.</p>
<p>This is something you can absolutely count on.</p>
<p>Of course they’re going to tell you that if you’re dissatisfied, the only thing you can do is go to the voting booth and cast a ballot.</p>
<p>And in the meantime they’ll parade a bunch of candidates around who will tell you every lie that you want to hear.</p>
<p>“Social Security is fine.”</p>
<p>“We can get the debt under control.”</p>
<p>It’s all a bunch of BS.</p>
<p>The truth is that while the government has no good options remaining, you have very powerful options and solutions at your disposal as long as you have the courage to look at objective data and stop believing their lies.</p>
<p>This is no time for ‘hope’. Rational people have Plan B. It’s time to make sure yours is airtight.</p>
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</div> Internal Revenue Service believes the theft of about 100,000 taxpayers' personal data from its computer system originated in Russiatag:12160.info,2015-05-27:2649739:Topic:15610472015-05-27T20:34:17.870ZHunter N. Gathererhttps://12160.info/profile/HunterNGatherer
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<p><span class="articleLocation">WASHINGTON</span> The U.S. Internal Revenue Service believes the theft of about 100,000 taxpayers' personal data from its computer system originated in Russia, CNN reported on Wednesday.</p>
<p>The tax agency's criminal unit is leading an investigation into the cyber attack,<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/27/us-usa-tax-cybersecurity-idUSKBN0OC2O120150527?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=twitter">http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/27/us-usa-tax-cybersecurity-idUSKBN0OC2O120150527?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=twitter</a></p> 12160: Facebook, Google, MSM, Eugenics, Censorship and the Progressive Agendatag:12160.info,2014-08-13:2649739:Topic:14948232014-08-13T23:41:30.086ZDon Mashakhttps://12160.info/profile/DonMashak
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/111140350?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-right" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/111140350?profile=original" width="750"></img></a> Recently Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook admitted to experimenting on its users without their knowledge. The nature of these experiments smells of Progressive Eugenics. This writer informed his followers of Mark Zuckerberg’s experiments on Twitter using the following Tweet:</p>
<blockquote><p style="margin-left: .5in;">Caught working on #Progressive #Eugenics Agenda again; Facebook…</p>
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<p><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/111140350?profile=original"><img class="align-right" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/111140350?profile=original" width="750"/></a>Recently Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook admitted to experimenting on its users without their knowledge. The nature of these experiments smells of Progressive Eugenics. This writer informed his followers of Mark Zuckerberg’s experiments on Twitter using the following Tweet:</p>
<blockquote><p style="margin-left: .5in;">Caught working on #Progressive #Eugenics Agenda again; Facebook Says It’s Sorry.We’ve Heard That Before <a href="http://nyti.ms/1mBqRKp" target="_blank">http://nyti.ms/1mBqRKp</a> @TweetCongress</p>
<p style="margin-left: .5in;">Don Mashak on <a href="http://twitter.com/dmashak" target="_blank">Twitter as @DMashak</a></p>
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<blockquote><p style="margin-left: .5in;">“Facebook offered up an apology to its users on Sunday, after it came to light that the company had <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/30/technology/facebook-tinkers-with-users-emotions-in-news-feed-experiment-stirring-outcry.html?_r=0">manipulated the news feeds of more than half a million people</a> so it could change the number of positive and negative posts that appear from their friends. Facebook’s in-house data science team carried out the project, it said, as a way to examine the “emotional impact of Facebook” on its users. Along with two university researchers, the team published the results of the study in an academic journal.”</p>
<p style="margin-left: .5in;">“Google, too, <a href="http://macography.net/the-list-of-google-apologies-google-apologizes/">is familiar</a> with issuing its own apologies, not the least of which includes an admission of <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/15/business/15google.html">inadvertently grabbing personal user information</a> from unlocked wireless networks.”</p>
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<p>You can learn more about the Progressive Movements foundations in Eugenics in these three articles:</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1220" target="_blank">Eugenics & the Progressive Movement</a></li>
<li><a href="http://youtu.be/vvDAf78ren4" target="_blank">Progressive Movement & its Racist Eugenics Fabian Roots</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/345274/progressive-racism-paul-rahe" target="_blank">Progressives, President WoodrowWilson, Eugenics & Scientific Racism</a></li>
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<p>This writer can only describe this activity of Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook as creepy, Orwellian and terrifying. And yet, as this more recent article reports, this appears to be just the tip of the “creepy” Progressive Eugenics iceberg:</p>
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<li style="margin-left: 0.5in;">10 Other Facebook Experiments On Users, Rated On A Highly-Scientific WTH Scale <a href="http://onforb.es/1ni0HRS">http://onforb.es/1ni0HRS</a></li>
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<p>Yet this is not the only way Facebook, Google and the Main Stream Media (MSM) are complicit in advancing the Progressive Agenda. To being with, one must remember that Progressive Philosophy specifically maintains that Educated Elites have superior knowledge to the alleged ignorant masses and should be free to act because of their superior knowledge. However, in America they run smack into long standing traditions of individualism and the Democratic Process. And so the Progressives have to dance around this alleged intellectual superiority of the Educated Elites.</p>
<blockquote><p style="margin-left: .5in;"><em><u>The real mass media are basically trying to divert people. Let them do something else, but don’t bother us (us being the people who run the show).</u> Let them get interested in professional sports, for example. Let everybody be crazed about professional sports or sex scandals or the personalities and their problems or something like that. Anything, as long as it isn’t serious. <u>Of course, the serious stuff is for the big guys. "We" take care of that.</u></em></p>
<p style="margin-left: .5in;"><a href="http://www.chomsky.info/articles/199710--.htm">Noam Chomsky 1997</a></p>
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<p>Saul Alinsky, author of Rules for Radicals, also called for controlling the flow of information to the masses. Level 6 of his 8 <a href="http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sites/default/files/styles/image_content_width/hash/b0/db/b0dbc515171fa31726d7571ae9a1a08b.JPG?itok=c_PmWig1" target="_blank">Leverls of Control to transform a Society to Socialism</a> calls for:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>5) EDUCATION: Take control of what people read and listen to, take control of what children learn in school.</em></p>
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<p>Yet, news is not a priority to most Americans. Each of us rank and file Americans is preoccupied with our lives and a job that we need to sustain our life style. And therefore, we must prioritize activities with what is left of our limited free time. </p>
<blockquote><p style="margin-left: .5in;"><em>“It is also in the interests of the tyrant to make his subjects poor... the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.”</em></p>
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<p>As a result, for the vast majority of us, only the news that is easiest to find and/or stumble upon, is the information we receive. And, as we have seen, our government and MSM uses their control of the information WE THE PEOPLE, to our detriment:</p>
<p>To make matters worse, the Progressive President Barack Obama Administration began pressing for even tighter control of the flow of information to the Public in 2012 and earlier this year:</p>
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<li style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><a href="http://rt.com/usa/white-house-systems-order-142/#.UxfHYoY05g8.twitter" target="_blank">2012 - White House gives Homeland Security control of all communication systems</a></li>
<li style="margin-left: 0.5in;">2014 - FCC Wants To Spy On Newsrooms <a href="http://youtu.be/XJ31Jx9ZlLg" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/XJ31Jx9ZlLg</a> Pls wake up America-More #Progressive Agenda, causing your submission by controlling info</li>
<li style="margin-left: 0.5in;">2014 - <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/07/08-1" target="_blank">38 Journalism Groups Urge President to Stop Excessive Controls on Public Information</a></li>
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<p>From these three sources and this writer’s two recent articles that immediately follow, this writer asserts as fact that our government is trying to control the information the masses recieve:</p>
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<li style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/is-progressive-common-core-simply-pure-evil" target="_blank">Is Progressive Common Core simply pure evil?</a></li>
<li style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/who-establishes-truth-america" target="_blank">Who establishes Truth in America?</a></li>
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<p>Before the Internet became well established, the elite MSM had pretty much perfected control of the flow of information to the masses.</p>
<blockquote><p style="margin-left: .5in;"><em>The elite media set a framework within which others operate. If you are watching the Associated Press, who grind out a constant flow of news, in the mid-afternoon it breaks and there is something that comes along every day that says "Notice to Editors: Tomorrow’s New York Times is going to have the following stories on the front page." The point of that is, if you’re an editor of a newspaper in Dayton, Ohio and you don’t have the resources to figure out what the news is, or you don’t want to think about it anyway, this tells you what the news is. These are the stories for the quarter page that you are going to devote to something other than local affairs or diverting your audience. These are the stories that you put there because that’s what the New York Times tells us is what you’re supposed to care about tomorrow. If you are an editor in Dayton, Ohio, you would sort of have to do that, because you don’t have much else in the way of resources. If you get off line, if you’re producing stories that the big press doesn’t like, you’ll hear about it pretty soon. In fact, what just happened at San Jose Mercury News is a dramatic example of this. So there are a lot of ways in which power plays can drive you right back into line if you move out. If you try to break the mold, you’re not going to last long. That framework works pretty well, and it is understandable that it is just a reflection of obvious power structures.</em></p>
<p style="margin-left: .5in;"><a href="http://www.chomsky.info/articles/199710--.htm">Noam Chomsky 1997</a></p>
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<p>The net effect of this framework is that the elite at the top of the news and information pyramid control the flow of information to WE THE PEOPLE. In current parlance, the Elite MSM "Spammed" America's news distribution network. As a result, those of you with.....</p>
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<p>Thank you, my fellow citizens, for taking your valuable time to read and reflect upon what is written here.</p>
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<p>If what is written here rings true to you, perhaps you should contact your local elected officials and let them know. If you are afraid of repercussions, snail mail it anonymously and ask them to respond in the local paper or their own monthly/quarterly internet newsletter. Even if this article refers to something outside you geographic area, it still likely applies to your location. Remember all those taxpayer training junkets we taxpayers send the bureaucrats on? They all learn the same “livestock management” techniques to use on WE THE PEOPLE.</p>
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<p>And that leaves WE THE PEOPLE with this conundrum: While our #Government works full time with compensation and funded with our money for the cause of #Tyranny; WE THE PEOPLE are forced to work part time without compensation for the cause of #liberty with what is left over of our time, money and energy.</p>
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<p>Finally, this article is written with the same intentions as Thomas Paine <a href="http://ushistory.org/paine" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://ushistory.org/paine</a>. I, Don Mashak, seek no leadership role. I, Don Mashak, seek only to help the American People find their own way using their own “Common Sense” <a href="http://amzn.to/kbRuar" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://amzn.to/kbRuar</a></p>
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<p>Data brokers” track, categorize and sell personal health information for marketing use, a new US Senate report reveals. Data groupings include rape victims and HIV-positive individuals, those with depression and dementia, and womens’ gynecologist visits.</p>
<p>Hundreds of so-called <em>“data brokers”</em> in the US maintain databases made up of Americans’ sensitive health details. A report by the Senate Commerce Committee says the companies are legally allowed to withhold from individuals…</p>
<p>Data brokers” track, categorize and sell personal health information for marketing use, a new US Senate report reveals. Data groupings include rape victims and HIV-positive individuals, those with depression and dementia, and womens’ gynecologist visits.</p>
<p>Hundreds of so-called <em>“data brokers”</em> in the US maintain databases made up of Americans’ sensitive health details. A report by the Senate Commerce Committee says the companies are legally allowed to withhold from individuals what data is collected, how one is categorized and who buys the information.</p>
<p>The report on the global multi-billion dollar industry was released Wednesday ahead of a committee hearing on such practices. Though the report does not detail wrongdoing, it does point out the reams of consumer data made available to marketers in the digital era. The information is used for targeted advertising across the web.</p>
<p><em>“Millions of consumers are now using computers, smart phones, and tablets to make purchases, plan trips, and research personal financial and health questions, among other activities,”</em> the Senate report explains. <em>“These digitally recorded decisions provide insights into the consumer’s habits, preferences, and financial and health status.”</em></p>
<p><em>Continue reading at: <a href="http://endthelie.com/2013/12/19/%E2%80%8Bdata-brokers-selling-personal-info-of-rape-victims-to-marketers-report/">http://endthelie.com/2013/12/19/%E2%80%8Bdata-brokers-selling-personal-info-of-rape-victims-to-marketers-report/</a></em></p> AMERICANS' PERSONAL DATA SHARED WITH CIA, IRStag:12160.info,2013-11-14:2649739:Topic:13576812013-11-14T14:26:38.161ZCentral Scrutinizerhttps://12160.info/profile/H0llyw00d
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<div class="entry-content story_body"><p><span class="dateline">WASHINGTON</span> — U.S. agencies collected and shared the personal information of thousands of Americans in an attempt to root out untrustworthy federal workers that ended up scrutinizing people who had no direct ties to the U.S. government and simply had purchased certain books.</p>
<p>Federal officials gathered the information from the customer records of two men who were under criminal investigation for purportedly teaching people how to pass lie detector tests. The officials then distributed a list of 4,904 people – along with many of their Social Security numbers, addresses and professions – to nearly 30 federal agencies, including the Internal Revenue Service, the CIA, the National Security Agency and the Food and Drug Administration. Although the polygraph-beating techniques are unproven, authorities hoped to find government employees or applicants who might have tried to use them to lie during the tests required for security clearances. Officials with multiple agencies confirmed that they’d checked the names in their databases and planned to retain the list in case any of those named take polygraphs for federal jobs or criminal investigations.</p>
<p>It turned out, however, that many people on the list worked outside the federal government and lived across the country. Among the people whose personal details were collected were nurses, firefighters, police officers and private attorneys, McClatchy learned. Also included: a psychologist, a cancer researcher and employees of Rite Aid, Paramount Pictures, the American Red Cross and Georgetown University.</p>
<p>Moreover, many of them had only bought books or DVDs from one of the men being investigated and didn’t receive the one-on-one training that investigators had suspected. In one case, a Washington lawyer was listed even though he’d never contacted the instructors. Dozens of others had wanted to pass a polygraph not for a job, but for a personal reason: The test was demanded by spouses who suspected infidelity.</p>
<p>The unprecedented creation of such a list and decision to disseminate it widely demonstrate the ease with which the federal government can collect and share Americans’ personal information, even when there’s no clear reason for doing so.</p>
<p>The case comes to light amid revelations that the NSA, in an effort to track foreign terrorists, has for years been stockpiling the data of the daily telephone and Internet communications of tens of millions of ordinary Americans. Though nowhere near as massive as the NSA programs, the polygraph inquiry is another example of the federal government’s vast appetite for Americans’ personal information and the sweeping legal authority it wields in the name of national security.</p>
<p>“This is increasingly happening – data is being collected by the federal government for one use and then being entirely repurposed for other uses and shared,” said Fred Cate, an Indiana University-Bloomington law professor who specializes in information privacy and national security. “Yet there is no constitutional protection for sharing data within the government.”</p>
<p>Several people who were on the list not only were stunned to learn about it, but they also questioned how the government could legally collect and share their information when they have no direct link to the inquiry. All of them said they were too nervous to be identified because they feared further scrutiny from the federal government or they didn’t want their names published by the media.</p>
<p>“When it comes to national security, the government has a lot of leeway,” said one Washington lawyer whose husband landed on the list after the lawyer bought a book about how to pass lie detector tests. “But to me, this list raises First Amendment, due process and privacy issues.”</p>
<p>The lawyer doesn’t work for the federal government. The husband is a government employee but isn’t required to take a lie detector test for a security clearance. “I’m concerned this may harm his career even though there’s no reason that it should,” said the lawyer, who added that they planned to ask the government to take the husband’s name off the list. “It’s very alarming and McCarthy-esque in its zeal. To put a person on a secret list because they bought the ‘wrong book’ or are associated with someone who did is overly paranoid."</p>
<p>While the collection of the information likely passes constitutional muster, the federal agencies involved may have violated their own privacy policies by sharing the personal information of people who aren’t government employees, several legal experts agreed. Some federal security officials also questioned how useful the list would be. Not only are the polygraph-beating techniques unproven, but confirming that they’ve been used is nearly impossible as well, scientists agree. In fact, the polygraph itself is deemed so unreliable that most courts don’t allow the results to be submitted as evidence against criminal suspects.</p>
<p>Federal agencies, however, are under increased pressure to detect security violators, also known as “insider threats,” ever since former NSA contractor Edward Snowden leaked documents earlier this year outlining the agency’s extensive collection of telephone and Internet data.</p>
<p>The Snowden case is only the latest in a series of what the government condemns as betrayals by “trusted insiders” who’ve harmed national security. As a result, the Obama administration has been pressing a government-wide crackdown on security threats that requires federal employees at agencies from the NSA to the CIA and the Peace Corps to the Department of Education to keep closer tabs on their co-workers and exhorts managers to punish those who fail to report suspicious behavior.</p>
<p>Officials say that one of the reasons for retaining the list of nearly 5,000 names is to help federal agencies detect future security violators, such as the next Snowden. It’s unclear how helpful such a list would be in that regard, though. Snowden underwent two polygraphs for his NSA job but he wasn’t found to have used polygraph-beating techniques to pass them, officials familiar with his tests told McClatchy. The NSA refused to comment.</p>
<p>Customs and Border Protection, the Department of Homeland Security agency that’s leading the polygraph investigation, has described it as important in rooting out crooked customs officials at the U.S.-Mexico border. Customs’ internal affairs division launched the polygraph inquiry after identifying 10 applicants who’d received the lie detector training from one of the instructors. Customs then assembled the list of customers’ names earlier this year as a result of court-approved search warrants that remain under seal in the criminal investigation, known as Operation Lie Busters.</p>
<p>Federal authorities acknowledge that the mere teaching of such techniques is protected by the First Amendment. However, prosecutors have pursued a novel legal theory in order to seek criminal charges. They assert that instructors who help federal applicants or employees try to hide lies during government polygraph tests are guilty of obstruction.</p>
<p>One of the Customs and Border Protection internal affairs officials involved in the case has urged authorities across the country to keep track of people who learn the techniques. The methods, known as countermeasures, include controlled breathing, muscle tensing, tongue biting and mental arithmetic.</p>
<p>“You have access to all of this data – all of their financial records, all of their telephone records, all of their transactions . . . ,” Customs official John Schwartz said in a June speech to police polygraphers that McClatchy attended. “Then we can look at that list and determine for ourselves if we are good or not good at detecting these countermeasures.”Schwartz didn’t return calls about the case. Customs spokesman Michael Friel said that “since the matter is under investigation it would be inappropriate to comment at this time.”</p>
<p>In an email disseminating one version of the list in a spreadsheet, Defense Department official Frank Maietta asked polygraph managers at each agency to check the list for any federal workers or job applicants who might have gotten training.The agencies included federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies such as the FBI and the Defense Intelligence Agency and others such as the Department of Energy and the Transportation Security Administration. McClatchy contacted the federal agencies that received the list from Schwartz and Maietta but most refused to respond to questions, citing the criminal investigation. Several, however, defended their overall adherence to privacy laws.</p>
<p>In the email to the agencies, Maietta, a polygraph official with the Defense Intelligence Agency, described the information as “merely a mailing list obtained from this case.”</p>
<p>“There’s no indication that any of these individuals did anything wrong, actually received hands-on training, took a polygraph anywhere, utilized countermeasures or are with any federal agency," he wrote in the email in May.</p>
<p>Maietta said an earlier request for the same database check resulted in “very few” responses.</p>
<p>“Some of you indicated your agencies would not allow you to share information,” he wrote.</p>
<p>Nonetheless, the search eventually yielded dozens of federal applicants, several security officials with knowledge of the case told McClatchy. As fresh personnel information was gathered, officials updated the lists and circulated them across the government.</p>
<p>However, only a small percentage of the people on the list were employees with security clearances, said the officials, who asked to remain anonymous because of the sensitivity of the matter. They included one NSA contractor who feared revealing financial problems, a potentially career-ending admission.</p>
<p>Of the several hundred people who might have been linked to the Defense Department, however, a fraction underwent lie detector tests. Also, a portion of them hadn’t worked for the department since the 1980s.</p>
<p>“There was serious effort put into this list but it turned out to be a whole lot of nothing,” said one federal security official with knowledge of the overall effort who asked not to be named for fear of retaliation. “Only a handful of federal employees were directly involved.”</p>
<p>Sex offenders appeared on the list, including convicted child molesters who have to undergo post-conviction polygraph testing in some states, officials confirmed. But such offenders generally are monitored by state or local authorities, not the federal agencies that received the list. Federal prosecutors also don’t have the jurisdiction to seek charges related to those offenders.</p>
<p>Many, if not all, of the 4,904 names appear to be customers of an instructor who hasn’t been prosecuted and may never be. Federal agents collected the data in a search of Oklahoma instructor Doug Williams’ computers and business records. Williams, however, has said that he hasn’t committed a crime.</p>
<p>So far, one instructor has been prosecuted. Chad Dixon of Indiana began serving eight months in prison this month after pleading guilty earlier this year to obstruction charges, mainly as a result of an undercover sting. Dixon was recorded telling undercover agents that they shouldn’t tell federal officials about learning the techniques.</p>
<p>Despite Dixon’s criminal investigation, one of the numerous nurses on the list questioned why federal agencies would have a legitimate interest in her personal information.</p>
<p>“I’m not a federal employee. I’m a nurse,” she said. The 42-year-old woman declined to say why she’d sought the advice, but nurses are required to pass lie detector tests in some states for their licenses. “This does bother me,” she added about the effort. “My information was supposed to be confidential.”</p>
<p>The Supreme Court, however, has held that people who voluntarily turn over information to a “third party,” such as the polygraph instructors, would have no expectation of privacy under the Fourth Amendment.</p>
<p>“It doesn’t seem right to tar people and give them what is a scarlet letter of being likely liars just because they’ve been reading or thinking about beating lie detector tests,” said Lee Tien, a senior staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a civil liberties group. “But the fact is government agencies have an enormous free zone when collecting and sharing data.” Even so, it’s not clear under what circumstances various government agencies should continue retaining and sharing information about people whose only connection to the case was a book purchase. “I think it’s a fair question to ask,” said Stephanie Pell, a former federal prosecutor with the Justice Department’s National Security Division. “What is the government’s rationale for continuing to retain and share the information once it is established that all someone did was buy a book?”</p>
<p>Others assert that the government clearly overreached. Customs officials recently confronted leaders of the agency’s union about their purchase of Williams’ book on beating lie detectors. Joseph Martin, the president of the Arizona chapter of the National Treasury Employees Union, said his vice president bought the book so the union could urge members not to voluntarily undergo a polygraph, because of its unreliability.</p>
<p>“What business is it of the government’s if we bought this book?” he said. “We have a right to read about lie detectors and tell our members not to take them.”</p>
<p>A customs internal affairs policy allows for the collection and sharing of records on federal applicants and employees, but it doesn’t appear to permit it when it involves people who have no federal government ties.The Pentagon, however, said disclosures of personnel records for authorized law enforcement purposes were permitted, although it didn’t specifically address the issue of book-buying.</p>
<p>The FBI echoed that reasoning.</p>
<p>“The FBI routinely receives names of individuals from various law enforcement and criminal justice agencies to check previous criminal-history data or any other derogatory information that exists in our records,” bureau spokesman Paul Bresson said, adding, “After processing the names, we supply our results back to the submitting agency.”</p>
<p>The Air Force’s Office of Special Investigations checked the list “to only positively identify Air Force personnel,” spokeswoman Linda Card said. Defense Department policy “requires polygraph technical reports be maintained for a minimum of 35 years,” she said, without elaborating on whether the list could be kept that long.</p>
<p>The Pentagon’s inspector general, which also was involved in the database check <strong>,</strong> allows for the sharing of personal information of people who aren’t Defense Department employees “when their activities have directly threatened the functions, property or personnel of the Department of Defense.” Washington attorney Kel McClanahan called that interpretation “quite a reach” in this instance, because people who buy books on beating lie detectors aren’t necessarily a threat. Still, suing the government would be an uphill battle because the Privacy Act of 1974 leaves so much wiggle room for agencies to collect and share personal data for law enforcement purposes, said McClanahan, who handles lawsuits alleging privacy violations.</p>
<p>“Even the most extreme cases of overreach like this are virtually impossible to litigate because of a poorly written law from 1974,” McClanahan said. “This is merely a symptom of the problem.”</p>
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<p><b><a href="http://maps.google.com">Google Maps Street View</a></b> (<a href="http://news.cnet.com/%20http://www.webware.com/8300-1_109-2.html?search=street+view">more coverage</a>) is about the coolest mapping application I've ever seen. And the creepiest. On it, you can see people <a href="http://www.weburbanist.com/2007/06/08/google-street-view-popular-online-community-or-invasion-of-privacy/">walking into adult bookstores</a> (and you thought Google only tracked your porn habits online),…</p>
<p><b><a href="http://maps.google.com">Google Maps Street View</a></b> (<a href="http://news.cnet.com/%20http://www.webware.com/8300-1_109-2.html?search=street+view">more coverage</a>) is about the coolest mapping application I've ever seen. And the creepiest. On it, you can see people <a href="http://www.weburbanist.com/2007/06/08/google-street-view-popular-online-community-or-invasion-of-privacy/">walking into adult bookstores</a> (and you thought Google only tracked your porn habits online), license plates on cars parked in driveways, and women inadvertently (presumably) <a href="http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/013780.html">flashing their underwear at the Google cameras</a>.</p>
<p>But there's a way for users to block Street View images. Just as governments have asked Google to blur the overhead images of Google Maps, you can ask Google to censor street-level photos. It's easy: just click on "Street View Help," on the offending image, and then "Report inappropriate image."</p>
<p>Continue reading at: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-9727719-2.html">http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-9727719-2.html</a></p> Forget REAL ID -- The Global Smart-ID is coming!tag:12160.info,2013-08-12:2649739:Topic:12858882013-08-12T02:54:12.224Zmysteryhttps://12160.info/profile/mystery
<p>The grand plan for <a href="http://getmindsmart.com/Smart-IDecosystem.html" target="_blank">Global ID</a> is to give each person on the planet a way to identify themselves online. One ID number for each person, to signify all that they are. This is the full personal profile containing anything relevant for identification purposes. It means all our private details are being managed by a corporation, in the cloud.<br></br> <br></br> If you want to sign up to the online identity ecosystem, you can…</p>
<p>The grand plan for <a target="_blank" href="http://getmindsmart.com/Smart-IDecosystem.html">Global ID</a> is to give each person on the planet a way to identify themselves online. One ID number for each person, to signify all that they are. This is the full personal profile containing anything relevant for identification purposes. It means all our private details are being managed by a corporation, in the cloud.<br/> <br/> If you want to sign up to the online identity ecosystem, you can already do so through Google or Yahoo!, or by registering with the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.idecosystem.org/">Identity Ecosystem Steering Group</a> (IDESG).<a>[1]</a><br/> <br/> And if you don’t want anything to do with it, it’ll be tough, if not impossible, to get by in the future, because you’ll have to use your global ID to access all government services and healthcare services, to drive a car, and, once cash is gone, to pay for anything. Given the atmosphere of mistrust engendered by the system, and the constant fear of terrorism, over time it’s likely you’d need to ‘validate your identity’ to get insurance, to get a job, and to access buildings. <br/> <br/> <a name="more" id="more"></a></p>
<p><br/> In America, the Kantara Initiative (previously the Liberty Alliance) has been working with the Obama Administration to establish this global ID management system, and will soon be rolling it out nationwide, as a way to minimise fraudulent use of electronic health records (EHRs). The system is nearly up and running (trials have already begun), meaning anyone who wants to access healthcare in the US will have to produce their smart-ID first. Most of the time you’ll be required to provide three-factor authentication, which means something you KNOW (the one and only password), something you HAVE (the smart card/phone), and something you ARE (your biometrics).</p>
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<p>Continue reading at: <a href="http://www.activistpost.com/2013/08/forget-real-id-global-smart-id-is-coming.html">http://www.activistpost.com/2013/08/forget-real-id-global-smart-id-is-coming.html</a></p> Body Armor for Preppers: Should you?tag:12160.info,2013-05-09:2649739:Topic:11915532013-05-09T02:06:34.745Zmysteryhttps://12160.info/profile/mystery
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<p>Often on the Prepper Boards, Forums, etc. in the more machismo world of guns and fighting off the Mongolian Hordes come TEOTWAWKI the subject of Body Armor always comes up, quickly after is a discussion of what to get, where to buy it, etc.</p>
<p>However I want to broach the subject of SHOULD YOU even buy…</p>
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<p>Often on the Prepper Boards, Forums, etc. in the more machismo world of guns and fighting off the Mongolian Hordes come TEOTWAWKI the subject of Body Armor always comes up, quickly after is a discussion of what to get, where to buy it, etc.</p>
<p>However I want to broach the subject of SHOULD YOU even buy it?</p>
<h4>What is Body Armor/PPE</h4>
<p>Now a quick rundown of Body armor is needed.</p>
<p>There are three components to Body Armor</p>
<p><strong>The Vest:</strong></p>
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<p>These can vary from just a cloth shell to one replete with pouches and MOLLE straps to put various other pouches onto</p>
<p><strong>The Inserts:</strong></p>
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<p>These are the actual kevlar weave pieces that go inside the “shell” and provide the ballistic protection. These can be separate pieces that can be removed or sometimes they are one in part of the vest and sewn in.</p>
<p><strong>Protection levels:</strong></p>
<p>II- Will stop 9mm 124 Gr. FMJ(5″ barrel/1175 fps) to 375 Magnum 158 gr. (6″ barrel, 1395 fps)</p>
<p>IIIA- Will stop 9mm 124 Gr. FMJ (16″ Barrel/1400 fps) to 44 Magnum 140 gr. (6″ barrel, 1400 fps)</p>
<p><strong>Ceramic/Steel Plates:</strong></p>
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<p>Continue reading at: <a href="http://beforeitsnews.com/survival/2013/05/body-armor-for-preppers-should-you-2472182.html">http://beforeitsnews.com/survival/2013/05/body-armor-for-preppers-should-you-2472182.html</a></p> EU demands access to details of all UK drivers: 'Orwellian' move to hand out personal information to foreign police forcestag:12160.info,2013-01-09:2649739:Topic:10904812013-01-09T16:46:07.529Ztruthhttps://12160.info/profile/adap2k
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<p>'Brussels is demanding that 26 police forces across the EU should have access to the personal details of every motorist in Britain.</p>
<p>The Government is being threatened with fines totalling millions of pounds unless it obeys the ‘Orwellian’ edict. Foreign police also want open access to the UK’s national DNA database and fingerprint records so they can check them against crime scenes and camera footage.</p>
<p>MPs and civil liberties groups fear identity mistakes will lead to Britons being accused of crimes they have not committed.'</p>
<p><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2259319/EU-demands-access-details-UK-drivers-Orwellian-hand-personal-information-foreign-police-forces.html" target="_blank">Read more: EU demands access to details of all UK drivers: 'Orwellian' move to hand out personal information to foreign police forces</a></p>
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