Hundreds In Texas Organize ‘Counter Jade Helm’ Surveillance Operation

Several hundred people in Texas have organized “Counter Jade Helm,” in response to the upcoming multi-agency, multi-state, artificial intelligence-run Jade Helm military drill set to begin on July 15th in Bastrop, Big Spring and Junction, Texas.

From what appears to be the official website CounterJadeHelm.info:

Counter Jade Helm, aka CJH, is a training exercise for the people. In response to the military’s multi-state training, called Jade Helm 2015, citizens will participate in an unofficial fashion to practice counter-insurgency, organizational and intelligence gathering and reporting skills.

CJH is not affiliated with the military’s training exercise.

The objective is not to stop or countermand the military’s training, but to practice our own skills. Anyone can participate. Groups within each state that will play host to the military are being established to streamline the process.

Individuals not wishing to be affiliated with a group can also submit information to this website for analysis and publishing.

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1 Million Gun Owners Thumb Noses, Violate N.Y. Gun Registration Law

One of the nation’s most ambitious gun registration schemes is a total failure, according to new statistics.

It is estimated that less than five percent of what gun control groups call “assault weapons” have been registered in New York state, more than two years after Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a law mandating it.

All total, 44,485 firearms by 23,847 people have been registered with the state police, The Albany Times Union reported.

The numbers were only released after attorney Paloma Capanna sued the state under the Freedom of Information Law.

State attorneys tried to block the release by claiming a database of firearms information was exempt from that law.

Even though 23,847 may sound like a lot, it is estimated that 1 million people in the state own such a firearm. That equates to a 2 percent registration rate.

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The Patriot Act Is Now USA Freedom Act 

How many times has the mainstream media mentioned the USA Freedom Act? Well, if you did hear of this legislation, you must have been watching C-SPAN or a foreign press channel.

Read a report from NPR, that government funded broadcast, which never fails to present a known editorial viewpoint.

“The USA Freedom Act extends many parts of the 2001 USA Patriot Act, which expires June 1. The measure’s fate in the Senate is less likely.

The surveillance issue has sparked “rare bipartisan unity” in the House, NPR’s David Welna reports for today’s All Things Considered. He notes that the push to change the law comes from Rep. Bob Goodlatte, the Republican chairman of the Judiciary Committee.

“Despite changes to the NSA bulk telephone metadata program announced by President Obama last year,” Goodlatte says, “the bulk collection of the records has not ceased, and will not cease, unless and until Congress acts to shut it down.”

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Worker Fired For Disabling GPS That Tracked Her At All Hours

Myrna Arias used to be employed by Intermex, which is a Miami based wire transfer firm that allows customers to send money to Central American nations. Her job was basically a sales position. She traveled to various Hispanic owned stores in California, offering to install Intermex money transfer machines. There was only one catch for this position though. She had to carry a company issued cell phone at all times, even during off hours.

The GPS in the phone allowed her boss to track her every movement, even when she was at home.

She claims that she didn’t mind the fact that the company was tracking her driving speed, and time spent at company locations. It’s not unreasonable for Intermex to make sure she’s using company time properly, especially for a job where management can’t directly observe their employees in the field. However, when her manager bragged that he knew how fast she was driving at every moment of the day, she decided to delete the company’s tracking app.

She claims that this eventually led to her job loss at the company. She tried to inform the manager that the 24 hour tracking was illegal, at which point she claims that he told her to tolerate the illegal intrusion. She’s now suing Intermex for $500,000 for invasion of privacy among other charges.

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Minority Report: Your Iris Can Now Be Scanned From Across The Room 

Biometrics has been coming for a long time, but as it is starting to be adopted everywhere, superficially for consumer verification and security purposes, the envelope is getting pushed as more invasive techniques are being developed and put in the hands of government, law enforcement agencies, and corporations.

Now someone has invented “long range” iris scans. In other words, they can literally scan your iris and identify you from across the room.

Via The Atlantic:

An officer pulls someone over on the side of the highway. The cop sits in the car a moment, runs the plates—they’re fine—and gets out of the car. As he or she approach the driver’s side window, the driver pulls out a gun, shoots the officer, and flees.

This is something close to what happened in Long Island earlier this year, when a Suffolk County police officer was shot during a traffic stop. Unlike the recent traffic-stop shooting in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, the suspect in the New York case, police told CBS, was a “known gang member.”

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So Why Are You Still In Your Chair, Americans? 

What if you discovered that Presidents Bush and Obama have both intentionally, willfully and with malice violated the law by authorizing mass spying on Americans that was never authorized by any law passed by Congress, and representations to the contrary were a lie?

Well, that’s what happened.

May 7, 2015 A federal appeals court ruled on Thursday that the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of U.S. phone records is illegal, dealing a startling blow to the program just as Congress is weighing reforms to surveillance authorities.

A three-judge panel of the 2nd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals deemed that dragnet collection of American call data does not constitute information relevant to terrorism investigations under Section 215 of the Patriot Act.

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Main Core, Jade Helm And Political Dissident Hit Lists 

Much is being written about “the list” in which independent Americans, who do not drink from the Obama Koolaid, are on a list which will ultimately result in their loss of freedom and very possibly their lives. Some people are calling this list, “Main Core”.

Advocates of the Main Core view state that a secret government hit list has been in place since the 1980’s. Some even wrongly suggest the Ed Snowden has revealed this information regarding Main Core to the world, when in fact, nothing could be further than the truth.

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8 Discrete Things You Wouldn’t Think Are Spying On You, But Are 

In this realm of technology and technological advances, we may have left ourselves open to being spied upon by the most unlikely sources.The latest recruit to be enlisted in the task of surveillance is in any department store or fashion outlet you may visit, mannequins.

The $245 billion dollar luxury goods industry currently avails itself of five companies in Europe and the U.S. that use the EyeSee polystyrene frame mannequins, whose eyes are equipped with police grade face-recognition cameras.

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US Police Departments Using “Spy Rocks” To Spy On Citizens Now (Yes. That’s Right. Spy Rocks.) 

An article on an annual border security expo for the so-called US “border-industrial complex” over at the London Guardian starts off by featuring spy rocks.

Yes. Exactly as it sounds.

Spy rocks.

Fake rocks with tiny cameras inside.

If it sounds like a lame episode of Inspector Gadget, that’s because it is like that, only this is real life, modern day Surveillance State USA.

Via The Guardian:

There were a couple of rocks on Carmi Peleg’s table, next to a small drone, but he did not really want to talk about them. Of course, they weren’t really rocks, but spy cameras, because this was the Border Security Expo, a surreal annual trade fair where surveillance companies flirt with US government officials in hopes of cashing in on the border technology bonanza.

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Congress Moves To Grant Even More Power To The NSA 

Privacy advocates are urging the House of Representatives and Senate to vote against bills that further increase the government’s widespread surveillance of citizens. The bills, called the “Protecting Cyber Networks Act” (H.R. 1560) and the “Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act” (S. 754) are the latest move by lawmakers to bolster the strength of the domestic spying apparatus.

One of the main objectives of the new laws is to eliminate consequences for companies that share their users’ private information with the government. The bills refer to this as “liability protection.”

Letters written to members of the House and Senate from a coalition of privacy advocates caution lawmakers that the bills.

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