California wants to control home thermostats
California - The conceit in the 1960s show "The Outer Limits" was that outside forces had taken control of your television set. Next year in California, state regulators are likely to have the emergency power to control individual thermostats, sending temperatures up or down through a radio-controlled device that will be required in new or substantially modified houses and buildings to manage electricity shortages. Click on "Original Article" for complete story Click Here for the original article By Felicity Barringer ...    Continue

Real ID: From No Fly to No Drive' Lists?
USSA - ABC breaks the ice for us: in the future, and not too far into it, the process of getting and renewing a driver’s license will become more difficult, stressful, and fraught with all manner of u...    Continue

DHS to Unveil New Driver's License Rules - RID's
Americans born after Dec. 1, 1964, will have to get more secure driver's licenses in the next six years under ambitious post-9/11 security rules to be unveiled Friday by federal officials. Continue

We Are All Prisoners Now
USSA - "They’re locking them up today They’re throwing away the key I wonder who it’ll be tomorrow, you or me?" ~ The Red Telephone (LOVE, 1967) At Christmas time it has been my habit to write a...    Continue

FBI aims for world's largest biometrics database
USSA - The FBI is embarking on a $1 billion project to build the world's largest computer database of biometrics to give the government more ways to identify people at home and abroad, the Washington ...    Continue

US Police Slogan: Go Out, Cause PTSD
USSA - The US police face a new scandal after revelation that the slogan of one its academies is ?Cause post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)'. The revelation came after a photograph of the graduat...    Continue

Bush sought domestic spying within two weeks of ta
USSA - Nearly 1,300 words into Sunday's New York Times article revealing new details of the National Security Agency's domestic eavesdropping program, the lawyer for an AT&T engineer alleges that "wi...    Continue

House Votes for Big Brother Public Wi-Fi Law
USSA - Nowadays, since “everything changed,” it is normal for Congress to rush legislation through without hearings or committee votes. Congress did this with the “Securing Adolescents From Exploit...    Continue

Mountain Dew Ad Campaign Portends Fascist Future
USSA - In a marketing strategy certainly in tune with the times, Mountain Dew envisions the not unlikely cocnept of a future fascist police state. An earlier Mountain Dew advert featured a hapless win...    Continue

Hearing Impaired Man Tased by Police
Kansas - Donnell Williams had just gotten out of the bath tub, wearing only a towel around his waist, when he turned the corner to see guns pointing right at him. "I ain't never been so scared," sa...    Continue