Tag Archives: surveillance

Crafty

08-12-01 – 12:41:am

Nice:
rsync.net Warrant Canary
Existing and proposed laws, especially as relate to the US Patriot Act, etc., provide for secret warrants, searches and seizures of data, such as library records.
Some such laws provide for criminal penalties for revealing the warrant, search or seizure, disallowing the disclosure of events that would materially affect the users of a service [...]

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Skyhooks

08-08-07 – 08:37:am

Short history of the recent military/intelligence uses of balloons, starting with the Imperial Japanese Army’s incipient use of the jet stream to deliver fusen bakudan (”balloon bombs”) to the US.
Project MOGUL was first conceived by Dr. Maurice Ewing of Columbia University, NY, and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, MA. Dr. Ewing had conducted considerable research for [...]

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Sloop John Beta

08-06-02 – 07:30:am

Ships are much older than planes, so even the most outlandish stories about “ghost” ships seem much more venerable (and therefore normal). There are occasional supernatural tales about planes, but they sound a bit silly: for example, stories about the mysterious disappearance of Flight 19 in the Bermuda Triangle (part the early 1970s rise of [...]

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Meet the new octopus, same as the old octopus

08-05-26 – 09:16:pm

Radar’s story about “Main Core” sounds like Christic Institute stuff bubbling up again.

According to a senior government official who served with high-level security clearances in five administrations, “There exists a database of Americans, who, often for the slightest and most trivial reason, are considered unfriendly, and who, in a time of panic, might be incarcerated. [...]

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Bee theft

08-05-04 – 10:14:pm

Beehive theft is on the rise:
Gulf News (Al Nisr Publishing/Al Nisr Media FZ: “Haagen-Dazs ice cream announced a $250,000 campaign to help fund research into pollination and colony collapse disorder [CCD] at two universities.”
Gadsden [AL] Times: “Kelton said the hives are so new he had not branded them with his mark, which is registered with [...]

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