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Blackwater Founder Erik Prince: War on Terror Has Become Too Big

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“Erik Prince is not the kind of man one expects to make the case for slashing U.S. intelligence and military budgets.  ‘America is way too quick to trade freedom for the illusion of security,’ he told The Daily Beast. ‘Whether it’s allowing the NSA to go way too far in what it intercepts of our personal data, to our government monitoring of everything domestically and spending way more than we should. I don’t know if I want to live in a country where lone wolf and random terror attacks are impossible ‘cause that country would look more like North Korea than America.’  He said he will never work for the U.S. government again.”

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/11/19/blackwater-founder-erik-prince-war-on-terror-has-become-too-big.html

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Fifty States of Fear

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“Even though the U.S. has revoked freedoms during wartime (and for some groups in peacetime), for most of its history the people have not been under the yoke of an all-powerful sovereign. However, since 9/11 leaders of both political parties in the United States have sought to consolidate power by leaning not just on the danger of a terrorist attack, but on the fact that the possible perpetrators are frightening individuals who are not like us.  Last year President Obama brought the enemy closer to home, arguing that ‘we face a real threat from radicalized individuals here in the U.S.‘ — radicalized individuals who were ‘deranged or alienated individuals — often U.S. citizens or legal residents.'”

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/fifty-states-of-fear/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0

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Cage Complex: Why is America’s prison population soaring?

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“The United States leads the world, by a large margin, in the production of at least one thing: prisoners. We have 25 percent of the world’s inmates, but just 5 percent of the world’s population.  Where do they come from? Well, since the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, the number of American inmates has risen from approximately 300,000 to a currently estimated 2.3 million. This statistic points to the role of drug-related victimless ‘crime’ in creating prisoners.  There are other sources. The ‘private prison complex’ is a creation of crony capitalism through which privileged corporations are paid well for the ‘care’ of inmates and for leasing out prison labor to other businesses.”

http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/cage-complex

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Google Glass-wearing moviegoer interrogated by Homeland Security

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“An hour into watching Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit wearing his prescription version of Glass, he said, he’d been abruptly pulled from the theater and interrogated at length by ‘feds,’ who accused him of attempting to pirate the movie by recording it.  He also says theater employees had asked about his glasses in the past and never complained about him wearing them or asked him to take them off. Instead, he describes agents roughly yanking the glasses off his face during the film and five to ten cops and security guards waiting outside the theater.  As the Glass user base expands, we may well see patrons being asked to prove that they’ve turned off their glasses as well as their cellphones.”

http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/21/5331748/google-glass-wearing-movie-patron-questioned-for-piracy

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Removal of inmates ordered after fights staged by halfway house staff

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“Amid allegations that officers staged fights among offenders, in a letter Tuesday to Avalon Corrections Services Inc., the department said it is freezing the number of Oklahoma offenders it sends to the company’s facilities and allowing 10 days to transfer all 212 individuals in the Avalon Correctional Center, a 390-bed halfway house in Tulsa. Those offenders will be transferred to various other facilities in the state, possibly including another Avalon center, said Jerry Massie, Corrections Department spokesman.  The move comes in response to three investigations the department is conducting at the center.”

http://newsok.com/safety-concerns-prompt-oklahoma-corrections-officials-to-order-removal-of-inmates-from-private-center/article/3924046

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Dell apologizes for ‘inconvenience’ caused by NSA backdoor

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“Dell told an irate customer on Monday that they “regret the inconvenience” caused by selling to the public for years a number of products that the intelligence community has been able to fully compromise in complete silence up until this week.  Dell, Apple, Western Digital and an array of other Silicon Valley-firms were all name-checked during Appelbaum’s hour-long presentation Monday at the thirtieth annual Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg, Germany. One of the most alarming methods of attack discussed during his address, however, comes as a result of all but certain collusion on the part of major United States tech companies.”

http://rt.com/usa/dell-appelbaum-30c3-apology-027/

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Analysis Of National Data Finds No Benefit To Red Light Cameras

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“After outlining the statistical flaws in the model used by IIHS, the USF researchers applied more rigorous statistical techniques to the original IIHS data. The revised analysis considered 31 cities without cameras that had fatal red light running crash rates equal to 13 camera cities in the before period (Phoenix was excluded as an outlier). With these changes, the purported benefits of cameras disappeared.  The USF researchers note that their findings are consistent with a number of methodologically sound and independent analyses of red light camera results.”

http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/43/4304.asp

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Cops Could Use Data From Your Car’s GPS To Convict You Of A Crime

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“The cops don’t necessarily need a warrant to go to car companies and ask for your GPS data, William McGeveran, a law professor at the University of Minnesota, told Business Insider.  ‘Just the same way that law enforcement can go to your bank or dry cleaner and ask questions about your activities there, they could go to Ford,’ McGeveran said. ‘Under the third party doctrine, it suggests that when your activities give information to a company, you’re waiving your reasonable expectation of privacy, so it’s not required that there be a warrant.’  ‘There is not any special legal protection for location data,’ McGeveran said.”

http://www.businessinsider.com/can-cops-use-gps-to-convict-you-of-a-crime-2014-1

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Ford Exec: ‘We Know Everyone Who Breaks The Law’ Thanks To GPS

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“Because of the GPS units installed in Ford vehicles, Ford knows when many of its drivers are speeding, and where they are while they’re doing it.  Farley has since retracted his statements.  Farley was trying to describe how much data Ford has on its customers, and illustrate the fact that the company uses very little of it in order to avoid raising privacy concerns.  Rather, he said, he imagined a day when the data might be used anonymously and in aggregate to help other marketers with traffic related problems.”

http://www.businessinsider.com/ford-exec-gps-2014-1

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More DHS-funded Police Surveillance Cameras; No Drop in Crime

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“Thousands of surveillance cameras are showing up in cities across the country without a corresponding reduction in crime. Local leaders in Houston, like those in so many other cities across the country, have approved the installation of new surveillance cameras. In the article announcing the deployment of the new devices, KHOU reports, ‘The city has spent more than $18 million in federal money to build its camera system and has another $5 million in reserve.’  Not only are the cameras not bringing down crime, but the police — whose job it is to fight crime — are too busy filling out federal grant forms to be out protecting and serving.”

http://thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/17378-more-dhs-funded-police-surveillance-cameras-no-drop-in-crime

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