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Thursday, November 2, 2006 |
Independent: "Britain has sleepwalked into becoming a surveillance society that increasingly intrudes into our private lives and impacts on everyday activities, the head of the information watchdog warns.
New technology and invisible techniques are being used to gather a growing amount of information about UK citizens. The level of surveillance will grow even further in the next 10 years, which could result in a growing number of people being discriminated against and excluded from society, says a report by the Information Commissioner, Richard Thomas. "
"The Information Commissioner, Richard Thomas, is today launching a public debate on the on the implications of living in a surveillance society. The Information Commissioner's Office is hosting the 28th International Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners' Conference, which starts today in London, where Richard Thomas will warn that we are waking up to a surveillance society."
Full report (pdf).
AnotherDayInTheEmpire: "As usual, when it comes to surveillance and the panopticon state, the ACLU misses the point. In response to the discovery of the son of the Total Information Awareness, Tangram, described as 'a program in which former TIA contractors build on existing TIA research to create a new, enhanced form of the program', according to Justin Rood, the ACLU tells us the state is 'misdirecting resources towards this kind of fanciful, science-fiction project... while neglecting the basics' of what Shaun Waterman of the UPI calls 'good counter-terrorist detective work'.
In fact, since the vast majority of terrorists out there are working directly or indirectly for the Pentagon, CIA, MI6, or Mossad, no 'good counter-terrorist detective work' is required. John Negroponte, CFR member and former overseer of the El Aguacate torture and murder dungeon in Honduras, now Director of National Intelligence, is building upon Iran-Contra criminal John Poindexter's Total Information Awareness, a 'closed-loop' snoop system supposedly closed down on October 1, 2003.
Of course, cutting edge snoop technology and programs are never closed down and TIA lived on, thanks to the NSA under the classified annex to the 2004 DOD Appropriations Act. It now appears TIA finally surfaced in Negroponte's office and is called Tangram. It is 'a computer system capable of data-mining huge amounts of information about everyday events to discern patterns that look like terrorist planning,' although 'officials have said it is being tested without using any data about Americans'.
Naturally, the truth is the exact opposite - the system is designed specifically to data-mine 'huge amounts of information about everyday events to discern patterns that look like terrorist planning', that is to say planning, or for that matter even discussion, by people opposed to the unitary decidership of Bush and the neocons."
12:10:29 PM 
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MediaMatters: "An internal ABC Radio Networks memo obtained by Media Matters for America, originally from a listener to The Peter B. Collins Show, indicates that nearly 100 ABC advertisers insist that their commercials be blacked out on Air America Radio affiliates. According to the memo, the advertisers insist that 'NONE of their commercials air during AIR AMERICA programming'. Among the advertisers listed are Bank of America, Exxon Mobil, Federal Express, General Electric, McDonald's, Microsoft, Wal-Mart, and the U.S. Navy."
Morons: "Peter B. Collins: I just got, and I got this from a source I will thank but not identify, an email that went out today from ABC Radio Networks. And it is a blackout, and it reads this way: 'Please be advised that Hewlett Packard has purchased schedules with ABC Radio Networks between (certain dates). Please make sure you black out this advertiser on your station, as they do not wish to air on any Air America affiliates. Please see below for a complete list of advertisers requesting that none of their commercials air within Air America programming.'
There are almost a hundred corporations listed here. I'll just buzz through a couple. Allstate, Avon, Bank of America, Bayer, BMW, a bunch of over the counter medications, Gold Bond and others. Cingular wireless. Clorox. Coke. Dell. Denny's. Discovery Channel. eHarmony - the progressives don't do online dating? Epson, Exxon, FedEx, Frito Lay, GE, Goodyear, Heineken, Hershey's, Hewlett Packard, Home Depot, Hormel. These are the largest advertisers in network media in the country, and they're all on a list that says don't go on progressive radio."
Help the progressive talk radio station survive its troubled times.
11:22:29 AM
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SFGate: "A thick glass window exploded at the four-story San Jose-based PayPal headquarters Tuesday night, a San Jose fire captain said.
Investigators believe an explosive device caused a six-by-seven-foot window to shatter, although they only found remnants of what that they think broke the window, Capt. Jose Guerrero said. 'Whatever it was, it disintegrated,' he said."
There are several possible explanations. One is that Bush passed by and did one of his farting jokes, the second is that Bin Laden secretly infiltrated the PayPal offices and is trying to undermine the financial traffic in the States, third: Capt. Jose Guerrero wanted to liven things up a bit to put himself in the picture as a guerrero against terror, and fourth it is possible the window just exploded under the force of unbalanced tensions in the glass, fifth ...
What the heck, watch the latest Fiore animation instead.
11:11:16 AM
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