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Gary North
Written by Gary North on March 15, 2012
My old friend and Constitutional lawyer John Whitehead has written an article on New York City’s police department. He begins with a quotation from Mayor Bloomberg. “I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world. I have my own State Department, much to Foggy Bottom’s annoyance. We […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on March 14, 2012
Drones keep getting cheaper. They keep getting more invasive. We read on the NPR site: But imagine thousands of drones flying over U.S. skies — something we may see in just a few years. In February, President Obama signed an aviation bill requiring the Federal Aviation Administration to make plans to integrate drones into American […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on March 14, 2012
The Department of Homeland Security is creating a computerized data base called a watchlist. It does not tell people when or why their names were added. How can you know how to get off the list? This data base will be shared with the FBI, which has its own list. The DHS wants partial exemption […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on March 8, 2012
There is a new cell phone application. It allows anyone with a smart phone to record anything suspicious and send it to the Department of Homeland Security. There is a pilot program in West Virginia. It will spread. Here is where it gets interesting. The DHS is using regional centers to collect and maintain this […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on March 8, 2012
In my youth, there was a movie called Forbidden Planet. It was a good movie. It was about a world that had been created by a race of super geniuses millennia earlier: the Krell. They had died out. They had become too dependent on their advanced technology Their technology had survived; they had not. For […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on March 8, 2012
In the weeks ahead, the government will explain to Congress what its new program will do to track immigrants on visas whose visas have run out. The government says this is required to reduce the likelihood of a terrorist attack. Excuse me? This is 2012. This is over a decade after 9-11, when some of […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on March 8, 2012
The Assassination Bureau is an unfinished short story begun by Jack London over a century ago. He could not figure out an ending for it. It is now becoming an official aspect of American government. I can see what ending is planned by the government. The notion that the White House can target Americans for […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on March 7, 2012
The Department of Homeland Security has compiled a list of words that will trigger software searches of social media sites. The DHS has been forced to surrender its social media manual. Earlier the Huffington Post reported on the Feds have been forced to give up their list of words they monitor on Facebook, Twitter, and […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on February 27, 2012
It’s really tough on Obama. Syria used to be the destination of choice for Americans to be sent to be tortured. Now, with all the bad press about Assad killing protesters, it’s bad public relations to fly Americans to Syria for torture. Assad is now officially a dictator, whereas before he was a partner. You […]
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