August 01, 2013
....And While We're on the Subject of Creepy....
Moments after putting up the previous post I was sent this:
Michelle's take on this is here.
Read both posts in full.
Michelle Catalano, who once had a blog called A Small Victory was one of those people who inspired me to start blogging a decade ago. She's gone on to write for Forbes and Boing Boing...and now she seems to be on a watch list.
...because we're apparently living in a panopticon...OK at least we're blogging in one.
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UPDATE: This is not quite as creepy as it seemed earlier today. The initial tip came from a previous employer rather than Google. However, do note in the Atlantic piece that the LE types seem to think that getting info based on search history is unremarkable and they follow such leads ' about100 times a week'.
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But wait...
There's more. However while no less creepy it's actually demonstrably partisan so as per policy it goes below the fold.
Ace who has been on the Benghazi debacle like ugly on a moose links to this CNN story in which some of the witnesses relate their experiences with the FBI and State Department 'investigators'.
Oh DO read he whole thing. Seriously. From this report it seems that there were multiple CIA agents on scene and they are being leaned on hard to prevent them from testifying.
UPDATE: Holy Crap
Yeah, that's creepy.
Then there is this.
Yes a newspaper editorial writer wrote an editorial. It went viral. Of course as it was critical of President Obama...he was fired for it. Of course this is not necessarily indicative of groupthink in our media and them kow-towing before the presidency because there were all those newspaper OP-ED writers who were fired for writing scathing editorials about Bush....oh wait...no there weren't.
So yes this is creepy too.
Finally there is this:
A few weeks old but if you followed the coverage of the Zimmerman trial the way things were covered up or mis-edited to make it a race issue and fit a certain political narrative is beyond creepy.
It's 10 minutes long. Watch the whole thing.
creepy....
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Michele Catalano was looking for information online about pressure cookers. Her husband, in the same time frame, was Googling backpacks. Wednesday morning, six men from a joint terrorism task force showed up at their house to see if they were terrorists. Which prompts the question: How'd the government know what they were Googling?
Michelle's take on this is here.
I’m scared. And not of the right things.
Read both posts in full.
Michelle Catalano, who once had a blog called A Small Victory was one of those people who inspired me to start blogging a decade ago. She's gone on to write for Forbes and Boing Boing...and now she seems to be on a watch list.
...because we're apparently living in a panopticon...OK at least we're blogging in one.
UPDATE: This is not quite as creepy as it seemed earlier today. The initial tip came from a previous employer rather than Google. However, do note in the Atlantic piece that the LE types seem to think that getting info based on search history is unremarkable and they follow such leads ' about100 times a week'.
******************
But wait...
There's more. However while no less creepy it's actually demonstrably partisan so as per policy it goes below the fold.
Ace who has been on the Benghazi debacle like ugly on a moose links to this CNN story in which some of the witnesses relate their experiences with the FBI and State Department 'investigators'.
In exclusive communications obtained by CNN, one insider writes, "You don't jeopardize yourself, you jeopardize your family as well."
Another says, "You have no idea the amount of pressure being brought to bear on anyone with knowledge of this operation.
Oh DO read he whole thing. Seriously. From this report it seems that there were multiple CIA agents on scene and they are being leaned on hard to prevent them from testifying.
UPDATE: Holy Crap
Yeah, that's creepy.
Then there is this.
Yes a newspaper editorial writer wrote an editorial. It went viral. Of course as it was critical of President Obama...he was fired for it. Of course this is not necessarily indicative of groupthink in our media and them kow-towing before the presidency because there were all those newspaper OP-ED writers who were fired for writing scathing editorials about Bush....oh wait...no there weren't.
So yes this is creepy too.
Finally there is this:
A few weeks old but if you followed the coverage of the Zimmerman trial the way things were covered up or mis-edited to make it a race issue and fit a certain political narrative is beyond creepy.
It's 10 minutes long. Watch the whole thing.
creepy....
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