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How America Tortures – a new report with drawings and a movie

December 13, 2019 Comments Off on How America Tortures – a new report with drawings and a movie
 How America Tortures by M. P. Denbeaux, & Seton Hall University. (2019) This report includes eight drawings by Abu Zubaydah, a Guantanamo detainee, illustrating his experiences during torture sessions. Abu Zubaydah is also a figure in the movie discussed below. This report is really a short book, some 95 pages --->> read more -->>
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Revisiting MetaData – Your Life Made Visible

November 17, 2016 Comments Off on Revisiting MetaData – Your Life Made Visible
In the current moment much of the concern about privacy online and otherwise has been overwhelmed by Trump, inequality, racism and other matters. The NSA and other spies, government and corporate, are not taking a vacation.  I wrote earlier about this in  “The Uses of Metadata – an experiment you can --->> read more -->>
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The Uses of Metadata – an experiment you can conduct with your own life’s metadata

July 9, 2013 Comments Off on The Uses of Metadata – an experiment you can conduct with your own life’s metadata
With the recent revelations of the NSA vacuum cleaner collecting metadata about every aspect of our lives we have been subjected to calming incantations, “We are only collecting metadata, we aren’t looking at the content”. As I (and many others) have pointed out earlier, this is complete nonsense.  3640
James_R._Clapper_Director of National Intelligence
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NSA Vacuuming, Meta Data, Mistaken Misleading Metaphors

June 17, 2013 Comments Off on NSA Vacuuming, Meta Data, Mistaken Misleading Metaphors
NSA’s gathering of Meta Data Compared to Corporate Use of Information In the current discussions of the government’s wholesale seizure of the meta data of our personal digital lives there is regular comparison to the acquisition and use of information about our digital lives by corporations. At the moment corporate --->> read more -->>
LAURA POITRAS credit: Ruby Washington/New York Times photographer - borrowed w/o permission
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Dangers of the US Security State

June 16, 2013 Comments Off on Dangers of the US Security State
There are those, in response to the recent revelations of the US government vacuum cleaning our lives through the NSA and other secret programs, who take the line that the innocent have nothing to fear from the government. Here is an example of why no one should take such a --->> read more -->>
NSA is listening to everthing
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US Vacuum Cleaning Our Privacy – the bigger story

June 8, 2013 Comments Off on US Vacuum Cleaning Our Privacy – the bigger story
There has rightfully been considerable outrage over this week’s revelations that the Federal government has been sucking up information on virtually every aspect of our lives, email, telephones calls, pictures, credit card and banking transactions, and so on. Unfortunately almost all of this discussion is taking place without a useful --->> read more -->>
Secret Sentry by Mathew Aid
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Yottabytes and the National Security State

October 17, 2009 Comments Off on Yottabytes and the National Security State
The current New York Review of Books has an article by James Bamford, “Who’s in Big Brother’s Database” that reviews the new book by Mathew M. Aid, The Secret Sentry: The Untold History of the National Security Agency . I have gotten in line at my local library to read --->> read more -->>
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Pondering at the Food Coop

November 1, 2008 Comments Off on Pondering at the Food Coop
November 1, 2008 So, here I am having coffee and my favorite lunch, a toasted bagel with peanut butter thinking about the approaching election. Finally this will conclude what has been an overly long campaign, but one with enormous pleasures. Assuming that Obama is not just a curiosity to all --->> read more -->>