Seattle police have network capable of tracking all Wi-Fi devices, discovering past locations and more
By Madison Ruppert
Editor of End the Lie
November 11, 2013
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The Seattle Police Department purchased a network in February to be used by emergency responders, though it is also capable of tracking devices with Wi-Fi enabled, revealing past location data and more.
Tracking smartphones with Wi-Fi enabled has become somewhat common. One company tracked pedestrians around London via high-tech trashcans and the practice of tracking shoppers via Wi-Fi is now widespread.
However, the “mesh network” purchased by Seattle police goes beyond just tracking location. It can find what applications have been downloaded, what type of device it is, the device’s IP address and both current and past locations of the device.
The network, which police point out has not been turned on yet, can capture the information about the past 1,000 times a device attempted to connect to a Wi-Fi signal, according to Raw Story.
“They now own a piece of equipment that has tracking capabilities so we think that they should be going to City Council and presenting a protocol for the whole network that says they won’t be using it for surveillance purposes,” Jamela Debelak of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said to KIRO.
Currently, a draft policy for the use of the network is being reviewed by the Seattle city attorney’s office that will eventually make its way to the city council. There is currently no timeline for the review.
While the Seattle Police Department maintains that the network is not being used, KIRO notes that “the network appears to be online,” something which the department could not explain.
The mesh network is comprised of 160 wireless access point mounted on poles around Seattle. Every time a device’s Wi-Fi antennae searches for a Wi-Fi signal and one of the access points recognizes it, the system can store that data.
The network was purchased with a $2.6 million Department of Homeland Security grant.
“Once these kinds of tools are in place, they don’t go away,” Brendan Kiley of The Stranger said to KIRO. “Even if we assume that the mesh network was installed by good people for good reasons, there’s no reason to believe that the people controlling the network in the future will use it for the public good.”
Kiley called for a serious public conversation about the network, along with clear rules about how the technology can be used.
Earlier this year, it was noted that the Seattle Police Department was establishing a large network of surveillance cameras around the city.
“We believe that people should be free to move about without having the government track their movements unless there really is reason to believe they’re engaged in some criminal activity,” Debelak said.
However, city council member Bruce Harrell said that it is necessary for the police department to collect some of the information.
Harrell said that if something like the Boston bombing were to occur, the police would want to capture information about the people that were there.
He also said that the department has to go to the public before they hit the “on” button.
Yet KIRO noted that the “network shows up online in public places usually as intersections in the city such as, ‘4th&Pike,’ ‘4th&University’ and ‘3rd&Union.’”
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Massacred Christians Left In 2 Mass Graves By Obama Armed Syrian Rebels
Friends of Syria
November 12, 2013
Syrian/Al-Qaeda rebels funded and armed by Obama did this. That makes Obama guilty of war crimes and mass murder.
The bodies of 30 Christian civilians, including women and children, killed by Islamist militias, have been found in two separate mass graves, in the city of Sadad. The number of Christian civilians confirmed dead in this small town halfway between Homs and Damascus has reached 45. Many are injured and several are missing.
According to eyewitnesses, many of the civilians were killed by militia gangs of ‘Al- Nusra Front’ and ‘Daash’. The city has been completely destroyed and looted. Some of the militants who invaded the city were holed up in the Syriac Orthodox Church of St Theodore, which was profaned. Sadad is an ancient Syriac village which dates back to 2000 BC located in the region of Qalamoon, north of Damascus. It had 14 churches, a monastery, temples, historic landmarks and archaeological sites.
Archbishop Selwanos Boutros Alnemeh said: “What happened in Sadad is the most serious and biggest massacre of Christians in Syria in the past two and a half years… 45 innocent civilians were martyred for no reason, and among them several women and children, many thrown into mass graves. Other civilians were threatened and terrorized. 30 were wounded and 10 are still missing.
G_K
Syria News
Five Children Killed and 27 Injured by Militant Attack on School in Damascus
FSA Crimes
November 11, 2013
Aftermath of last week’s shelling of the Aaisha al-Sidiqa School in Damascus.Five children were killed and 27 people wounded when mortar rounds hit a school in the Syrian capital Damascus on Monday, state television reported.
“The toll in the terrorist targeting of the St. John of Damascus school with mortar rounds has risen to five dead, all of them children, and 27 injured,” a news alert on Syrian state television said.
Just last week, militants targeted another school, the Aaisha al-Sidiqa school in the Zahira neighbourhood of Damascus, with mortar fire injuring four first graders.
VIDEO — 7 cops watch man die then in frenzied craze beat dead body (+ lots of other police-brutality)
YouTube — David Vose
November 8, 2013
[Potent News editor’s note: I’m sure if the person who compiled this video wanted to he/she could have added enough footage to fit many hours of this brutality in the compilation. If this stuff is news to you then you haven’t been paying any attention at all.]
[h/t: Ryan Dawson]
VIDEO — Warsaw riot: Nationalists attack Russian Embassy
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November 11, 2013
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Communist Chinese troops ‘boots on the ground’ in Hawaii (Nov 12th)
by Frankie Gotz
Canadian Awareness Network
November 9, 2013
by: Kevin Whiteman
freepatriot.org
“For the first time in American history, troops from Communist China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) will openly be on sovereign American soil starting early next week, as reported by China’s governmental controlled Xinhua News Agency on Nov. 6, 2013.
Almost totally ignored by the American media, PLA troops will be in Hawaii from the 12th through the 14th of this month, to be hosted by the U.S. military’s Pacific Command, also headquartered in the Aloha State.
Communist Chinese troops will be participating in the U.S. government’s massive GridEx II military, quasi-military and civilian emergency response exercise.
The New York Times reported on Aug. 16, 2013 that GridEx II specifically is consists of:
… thousands of utility workers, business executives, National Guard officers, F.B.I. antiterrorism experts and officials from government agencies in the United States, Canada and Mexico are preparing for an emergency drill in November that will simulate physical attacks and cyberattacks that could take down large sections of the power grid.
They will practice for a crisis unlike anything the real grid has ever seen, and more than 150 companies and organizations have signed up to participate.
Three days after the NY Times article, the Department of Defense official website quietly noted rather generically that Chinese troops were invited to “attend next year’s Rim of the Pacific multilateral naval exercise.”
Not quite done yet, the American Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel appeared before the world’s press corps with Chinese Minister of National Defense Gen. Chang Wanquan.
The duo stated they’ve agreed “to expand the current system of defense exchanges and joint exercises.”
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In what the Beijing-ran news agency refers to as “non-traditional security areas,” the American commander of all US Forces in the Pacific, Admiral Samuel Locklear was quoted by Xinhua as “looking forward” to Chinese troops participating in the disaster relief drill.
“In relation to our ability to do this with our Chinese counterparts,” the Admiral said, “this kind of exercise gives us a place to start, and get into the rhythm of understanding and trusting each other.”
“I’m looking forward to it,” he added. “I think it will be a great exercise.”
~ SOURCE
Is it just me or is there a scary trend happening? We have the beloved Just Trudeau as candidate who is running to be Prime Minister in next election, openly stating he admires China for it’s dictatorship, do we really want this guy to be Prime Minister?
We see countless elitists organizations around the world , like the Canadian Council of Chief Executives (CCCE), perpetuating business into Asian countries and claim that China is the future. Andre Desmarias from the Power Corporation of Canada, who is part of the CCCE states that Canada bridges the gap between China’s collectivism and America’s individualism.
George H. W. Bush spoke of a new world order at the United Nations (UN) in 1991. Countless politicians around the world are talking about ‘one world government’ and blatantly use the term ‘new world order‘ in many speeches. We have foreign troops being deployed and being trained in Canada and the United States. What is going on? Why are foreign troops being trained here in North America?
Moa Zedong is the communist father of China, and it was the UN that put him in power. Canada is a signatory to the UN and is heavily involved with the organization since it formed after WWII. The UN openly states they want to establish a one world government under their control. The UN gives peace awards to dictators who commit genocide. People in Canada and the US better start waking up and paying attention to what’s going on, because in my opinion I see ourselves very slowly moving towards totalitarianism.
And what’s this GridEx training about? Will there be a false flag?
VIDEO — Dan Dicks Interviews Stefan Molyneux On Anarchy And The Non Aggression Principle
Press For Truth
November 10, 2013
In this Press For Truth interview Dan Dicks speaks with Stefan Molyneux on the philosophical aspects of anarchism and the move towards eliminating the initiation of force through the non aggression principle.
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