Using local police and military to brutalize anyone standing in the way of "progress" and to suppress organized opposition is nothing new.  In South America, police reaction to peaceful demonstrations against then proposed, and now agreed upon, bio-fuel deal with the United States offers a glimpse at how multinational corporate agendas are being enforced worldwide.

On Monday, the National Transportation Safety Board made flight restrictions implemented after the crash of Cory Lidle's single engine plane on October 11, 2006, permanent. 

Reports from Britain a few months ago expressing concern over that country's vast and continuously expanding surveillance state were met with little reaction from the islands inhabitants - Daily Mail.  Officials from the Home Office emboldened by its citizens show of apathy headed back to the lab and reached into their Orwellian bag of tricks to pull out this latest doozy:  

In early 2006, a fire ripped through an Akron Ohio airdock operated by Lockheed Martin, as reported by WKYC. The building that formerly housed the Goodyear blimp fleet was being renovated at the time of the blaze.  The airdock was being retrofitted to house and build the next generation in unmanned surveillance blimps.