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WIKILEAKS: Surveillance Cameras Around The Country Are Being Used In A Huge Spy Network

David Seaman, David Seaman Online | Aug. 10, 2012, 2:49 PM | 12,908 | 44

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The U.S. cable networks won't be covering this one tonight (not accurately, anyway), but Trapwire is making the rounds on social media today—it reportedly became a Trending hashtag on Twitter earlier in the day. Trapwire is the name of a program revealed in the latest Wikileaks bonanza—it is the mother of all leaks, by the way. Trapwire would make something like disclosure of UFO contact or imminent failure of a major U.S. bank fairly boring news by comparison.
And the ambitious techno-fascists behind Trapwire seem to be quite disappointed that word is getting out so swiftly; the Wikileaks web site is reportedly sustaining 10GB worth of DDoS attacks each second, which is massive.
Anyway, here's what Trapwire is, according to Russian-state owned media network RT (apologies for citing "foreign media"... if we had a free press, I'd be citing something published here by an American media conglomerate): "Former senior intelligence officials have created a detailed surveillance system more accurate than modern facial recognition technology—and have installed it across the U.S. under the radar of most Americans, according to emails hacked by Anonymous.
Every few seconds, data picked up at surveillance points in major cities and landmarks across the United States are recorded digitally on the spot, then encrypted and instantaneously delivered to a fortified central database center at an undisclosed location to be aggregated with other intelligence. It’s part of a program called TrapWire and it's the brainchild of the Abraxas, a Northern Virginia company staffed with elite from America’s intelligence community.
The employee roster at Arbaxas reads like a who’s who of agents once with the Pentagon, CIA and other government entities according to their public LinkedIn profiles, and the corporation's ties are assumed to go deeper than even documented. The details on Abraxas and, to an even greater extent TrapWire, are scarce, however, and not without reason. For a program touted as a tool to thwart terrorism and monitor activity meant to be under wraps, its understandable that Abraxas would want the program’s public presence to be relatively limited. But thanks to last year’s hack of the Strategic Forecasting intelligence agency, or Stratfor, all of that is quickly changing."
So: those spooky new "circular" dark globe cameras installed in your neighborhood park, town, or city—they aren't just passively monitoring. They're plugged into Trapwire and they are potentially monitoring every single person via facial recognition.
In related news, the Obama administration is fighting in federal court this week for the ability to imprison American citizens under NDAA's indefinite detention provisions—and anyone else—without charge or trial, on suspicion alone.
So we have a widespread network of surveillance cameras across America monitoring us and reporting suspicious activity back to a centralized analysis center, mixed in with the ability to imprison people via military force on the basis of suspicious activity alone. I don't see how that could possibly go wrong. Nope, not at all. We all know the government, and algorithmic computer programs, never make mistakes.
Here's what is also so disturbing about this whole NDAA business: "This past week's hearing was even more terrifying. Government attorneys again, in this hearing, presented no evidence to support their position and brought forth no witnesses. Most incredibly, Obama's attorneys refused to assure the court, when questioned, that the NDAA's section 1021 – the provision that permits reporters and others who have not committed crimes to be detained without trial – has not been applied by the U.S. government anywhere in the world after Judge Forrest's injunction. In other words, they were telling a U.S. federal judge that they could not, or would not, state whether Obama's government had complied with the legal injunction that she had laid down before them. To this, Judge Forrest responded that if the provision had indeed been applied, the United States government would be in contempt of court."

http://www.businessinsider.com/trapw...to-know-2012-8

[wllsqyuipknczx]

If true, that is some serious stuff right there. And . . . I just know it's true. It's so cliche to reference, but 1984 is here.

[RerRibreLok]

[MilenaMKB]

We are going to be a safe as London in no time flat

[JaK_MarkoV_Pi]

dam

[jesyflowers]

We are going to be a safe as London in no time flat

London is so safe 'cause no one has any guns, like Chicago.

[bonyrek]

i was wondering how cash strapped municipalities ALWAYS had megabucks available for high tech surveillance cameras on every major intersection.

[joulseenjoync]

i was wondering how cash strapped municipalities ALWAYS had megabucks available for high tech surveillance cameras on every major intersection.

What's noteworthy is that the more middle class a neighborhood/area, the more likely there'll be at least four 'traffic' cameras at the most minor traffic light intersections, while on the dark side of town one very rarely sees these 'traffic cameras' even on heavily traveled intersections. Very peculiar.

[greeferweq]

What's noteworthy is that the more middle class a neighborhood/area, the more likely there'll be at least four 'traffic' cameras at the most minor traffic light intersections, while on the dark side of town one very rarely sees these 'traffic cameras' even on heavily traveled intersections. Very peculiar.

They probably destroy them every Saturday night

[ZIDouglas]

i was wondering how cash strapped municipalities ALWAYS had megabucks available for high tech surveillance cameras on every major intersection.

They get it from the Gubbermint and what gubbermint wants it always has money for.


Remember those Digital Box converters?

Flu Vaccines.

Gun buy Backs.

Anything to keep you further under their control they got TONS of cash.

[wCYvMKAc]

What's noteworthy is that the more middle class a neighborhood/area, the more likely there'll be at least four 'traffic' cameras at the most minor traffic light intersections, while on the dark side of town one very rarely sees these 'traffic cameras' even on heavily traveled intersections. Very peculiar.

Thats as damning a proof as we need to hurl their " its about fighting crime" excuse back in their face. we know theres way more crime in,as you say, "the dark side of town".

[Kk21pwa9]

Thats as damning a proof as we need to hurl their " its about fighting crime" excuse back in their face. we know theres way more crime in,as you say, "the dark side of town".

Whether the excuse is 'fighting crime' or 'facilitating the flow of traffic' (lol), neither is true, all indications are that the producers are being watched.

[nizcreare]

What's noteworthy is that the more middle class a neighborhood/area, the more likely there'll be at least four 'traffic' cameras at the most minor traffic light intersections, while on the dark side of town one very rarely sees these 'traffic cameras' even on heavily traveled intersections. Very peculiar.

They probably destroy them every Saturday night

No, it's that they won't make a dime citing folks in the bad areas of the city. The money comes from the middle class folks who pay their fines.

[Stacypettlerr]

wow. This is basically proof that I'm being tracked whenever I go anywhere. I mean, how hard is it to take a picture of a license plate number and record when and where it was seen?

[beepbeet]

what i want to know is, which digital camera company got the contract ?

it sounds like these are glorified high-res webcams.

buy them from Newegg for $100, sell them to DHS for $1000 ... use the profits to buy PM's ?

[Aceroassert]

what i want to know is, which digital camera company got the contract ?

it sounds like these are glorified high-res webcams.

buy them from Newegg for $100, sell them to DHS for $1000 ... use the profits to buy PM's ?

You're not thinking big enough

It costs, on average, $31,847 per month to operate each red light camera intersection in Philadelphia
http://mainlinemedianews.com/article...e152011988.txt It cost the city $2,200 each day to operate one red light camera ($66k per month per camera)
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/coun...years-but-why/

[BuyNetHosting]

how much you wanna bet its a jewish co or one that has ties to the IDF? at least the tracking software.

[emuffette]

i was wondering how cash strapped municipalities ALWAYS had megabucks available for high tech surveillance cameras on every major intersection.

but those cameras are profit centers. they give cities the technical ability to crank up the traffic fines as needed to balance the budget.

sort of like those children's stories where there's a troll hiding under every bridge.

[VewCoorkPow]

Orwell and Huxley would be so proud.....This technology was 'created' by 3 ex-CIA agents..... LOL

Another 'Evil' Corporation:

http://www.abraxascorp.com/

"There is no place in New York City that you can go; outside or inside, that you are not on camera. We call it 'The Eye of God".

[b91ZmxzX]

I wonder if this would work to foil the license plate reading part of the system?

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