SURVEILLANCE STATE

'Mind-reading device' recreates what we see in our heads. Mind reading could become a reality after scientists unveiled a device which translates what we are seeing in our heads onto a screen. Mind-reading research: the major breakthroughs. US scientists have unveiled a device which translates what we are seeing in our heads onto a screen. Here are a few other "mind-reading" breakthroughs.

President Barack Obama waited until New Year's Eve to take an action that I suspect he wanted his willfully deluded followers to have a good excuse not to notice. On that day, Obama issued an unconstitutional signing statement rewriting a law as he signed it into law, a practice that candidate Obama had rightly condemned. The law that Obama was signing was the most direct assault yet seen on the basic structure of self-governance and human rights that once made all the endless U.S. shouting of "We're number one!" significantly less ludicrous. The National Defense Authorization Act is not a leap from democracy to tyranny, but it is another major step on a steady and accelerating decade-long march toward a police-and-war state.

I was initially quite impressed with the research by Stephen St. John about how "shadows" proved the Dulles Airport "surveillance video" of alleged "Flight 77 hijackers" to have been faked. There is no doubt that the security camera was facing north on 9/11/01, departing passengers walked south towards the camera, and any south-pointing shadows cast by the sun would have been impossible...

Problem is, the dark shapes beneath the pedestrians in the video aren't "shadows"; they're reflections.

One reason why Wall Street’s criminals have not been indicted or sent to jail is that they have become the police.

I didn’t hear about this. Did any of you?

Originally triggered by a case of police brutality, the London riots soon became a generalized expression of malcontent from today’s young proletariat.

If you want to overcome their mind lock you need to destroy their shutters before they come down on you. How can you defeat an enemy with centuries (if not millenniums) of experience in all sorts of warfare and virtually unlimited resources? The answer is obvious, even to someone who hasn't studied the Chinese classic 'The Art of War': Avoid up-hill battles and attack the enemy with overwhelming force where he is weak.

In research published in the Journal of Transportation Security, physicists Leon Kaufman and Joseph W. Carlson of the University of California San Francisco say body scanner machines can easily be duped.

While the purpose of the scanners is to find contraband hidden on the body, some weapons and explosives would not be visible to the devices say the researchers, who are known for their work in creating magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines used in hospitals.

The main lead in the case of the dead British spy Gareth Williams is a couple described as being of "Mediterranean appearance", who are known to have visited his intelligence services-owned London apartment in the weeks before his death. (The building is owned by a private company, New Rodina, whose details are hidden as it is registered in the British Virgin Islands, and the owner operated through a law firm known as Park Nelson that no longer appears to exist.) The couple "had a set of keys to the flat", and the outer door had "apparently been locked from the outside when police arrived on the scene".

The showing of the movie " Gasland", a film critical of natural gas drilling, was among events on a list called "dates of interest" in an official intelligence bulletin from the Pennsylvania Office of Homeland Security sent to local law enforcement statewide. But the discovery that the state was keeping tabs on a long list of peaceful groups stunned Pennsylvania's governor, who ordered an immediate stop to it.