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Track Phone First, Ask Questions Later

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For quite some time it has been apparent that secrets are everywhere. By quite some time, I mean since ages past. From Masons, to Illuminati, to the famous Knights Templar. Many organizations even today keep their secrets: CIA, NSA, etc., etc., etc. The NSA is an organization that takes our information and claims to use it for our safety but in recent news it has been criticized as a cell phone infiltrator. That’s right, though most of you have already heard about this and likely lost interest in it, the fact remains that all of your data are belong to US(A).  It is no lie that:

The National Security Agency has provided timely information to U.S. decision makers and military leaders for more than half a century.

and that:

NSA/CSS exists to protect the Nation.

but where do we draw the line? Is it really in our liberty to discuss anything at all without being overlooked or guided? Is there any safe place for our information?

Related Article: Gossip Through the Prism

Apparently nowhere it seems, as a federal appeals court recently ruled that warrants are not needed for tracking cell phones. Yes, this is very serious. Serious because now all of my talks about kittens and dogs will be recorded and every conversation about “how life is going” with my mother will be documented. Joking aside, a lot of people feel threatened by the means of a government, and the display of power that one such government sometimes abuses. What will all this hacking of civilians information yield? Maybe it will help with criminals at large and terrorists that are on the loose. To think, a world where the NSA finds them and the police get them.

Related Article: The Drones Are Coming

In lighter news, NSA chief will soon be at a conference for hackers in Vegas where he will likely speak out about the data mining and collecting that the NSA does. Let him speak, but surely everything he says will be watched and scrutinized. In fact, all we can do is scrutinize and wait to see what the Supreme Court will do and how it will weigh in on the warrant-less tracking. Cheers! But don’t forget, Big Brother is always watching. Or reading, err tracking?

Related Article: Not Another 9-11 Article

 

Sources:

Time: NSA Chief Speaks

Freemasons

Gawker: Illuminati

Knights Templar

Central Intelligence Agency

National Security Agency

Youtube: All Your Base Are Belong To US

Warrantless Cellphone Tracking is Upheld

Wondergressive: Gossip Through the Prism

Wondergressive: Not Another 9-11 Article

Wondergressive: The Drones Are Coming

Portugal Decriminalizes All Drugs; 10 Years Later the Results are Mind Blowing

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10 years ago Portugal decriminalized every single known drug in an attempt to alter the crime rate and addiction rate in the country.  Many analyzers doubted the controversial move and even bashed Portugal for being foolish.  Ten years later, the results speak for themselves.

First of all it’s still illegal to distribute and traffic drugs, but possession and use is no longer a criminal offense.  Each user is judged on an individual basis by legal experts, psychologists, and social workers. Method of treatment is decided in these courts, “where addicts and drug use is treated as a public health service rather than referring it to the justice system (like the U.S.)”

The results:

This isn’t new by the way.  Cannabis and other schedule substances in America have been decriminalized in The Netherlands for years, and major differences in addiction rate and crime can be observed, even after adjusting for population and other variables.

Enough is enough.  Over 50% of the inmates in American prisons are there for non-violent drug use.  Many times they were completely functioning, raising families, working a steady job, paying taxes, and ingesting their drug of choice reasonably and responsibly.  That’s millions of people in prison who are able and willing to be content, non-violent, productive members of the society that demonizes them and destroys their family and themselves forever.

Sensibility and rationality is far more sensible and rational.

Update:

For more information including graphs, statistics and in depth reading concerning Portugal’s drug policy: clicky and clicky.

For extensive information regarding other nations with progressive and effective drug policies: clicker and click.

Long Distance Quantum Teleportation is Reality

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Researchers in multiple locations around the globe have successfully teleported photons across distances greater than 100km. We aren’t ready to beam people up to the moon for a gravity-free lunar getaway just yet, but these recent breakthroughs are a monumental step in the right direction.

Just weeks after researchers in China quantumly teleported photons a distance of 100km, researchers from the University of Waterloo completed a similar teleportation near the Canary Islands over a distance of 143 km.

The technique used isn’t teleportation in the traditional Star Trek sense, it is an implementation of quantum entaglement. The photon being teleported isn’t moved anywhere. Essentially, its information is copied perfectly and instantaneously to another photon at an intended destination.  Quantum entanglement allows us to send and receive information without any error or delay whatsoever.

Using a new laser technology that ensures the laser beam remains focused and does not disperse, scientists are paving the way for a global quantum network, the next evolutionary step of the internet.  A quantum network “could form the backbone of an internet populated by quantum computers. In theory, each quantum processor/computer connected to the quantum network could be instantly linked to every other computer via an entangled pair of photons.”

Quantum teleportation also redefines privacy.  Because it is impossible to view an entangled particle, information that is entangled would be protected and guaranteed to be 100% secure.  Quantum cryptography will replace password protection in the future.

In lieu of recent breakthroughs, Kirk’s classic catchphrase may need to be changed;  “Entangle me up Scottie!”

 

EU Funds Orwellian Plan to Invasively Monitor Public’s Behavior

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In a push to prevent crime, the EU is beginning to implement various invasive techniques that monitor the public physically and virtually.

The name of the project is Project Indect, and its aim is to “develop computer programmes which act as “agents” to monitor and process information from web sites, discussion forums, file servers, peer-to-peer networks and even individual computers.”

The EU has increased its budget for fighting crime, terrorism and handling migration by 13.5% in the last 5 years.  Through profiling entire nations, the new collective European police force is “likely to gain access to sensitive information held by UK police, including the British DNA database. It also expects the number of UK citizens extradited under the controversial European Arrest Warrant to triple.”

The ‘1984’ style overhaul will even analyze and monitor personal computers and networks. Critics all around the world are calling this the beginning of a ‘European CIA.’

EU Orwellian Plan to Invasively Monitor Public’s Behavior

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In a push to prevent crime, the EU is beginning to implement various invasive techniques that monitor the public physically and virtually.

The name of the project is Project Indect, and its aim is to

develop computer programmes which act as ‘agents’ to monitor and process information from web sites, discussion forums, file servers, peer-to-peer networks and even individual computers.

The EU has increased its budget for fighting crime, terrorism and handling migration by 13.5% over the last 6 years.  Through profiling populations of entire nations, the new collective European police force is

likely to gain access to sensitive information held by UK police, including the British DNA database. It  also expects the number of UK citizens extradited under the controversial European Arrest Warrant to triple.

The ‘1984′ style overhaul will even analyze and monitor personal computers and networks. Critics all around the world are calling this the beginning of a ‘European CIA.’

 

Sources:

Telegraph: Orwellian Artificial Intelligence

Project Indect

European Union Financial Report

1984 by George Orwell