A "Disney approach" to NSA Total Surveillance

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A "Disney approach" to NSA Total Surveillance

Postby Hugh Manatee Wins » Fri Feb 29, 2008 12:34 am

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I smell... a RAT! Image

Disney's lead engineer...
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http://www.nsa.gov/releases/relea00042.cfm
National Security Agency Hires New Associate Director for Research
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Dr. Haseltine brings more than 23 years of private-industry experience to NSA/CSS, most recently serving as the Executive Vice President, Research and Development at Walt Disney Imagineering in California. Prior to over 10 years at Walt Disney Engineering working in various research and development senior leadership positions, Dr. Haseltine was employed by Hughes Aircraft as their Director of Engineering.


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Dr. Eric Haseltine is a neuroscientist and executive who used to work for Disney.

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“In other words, if you listen to extremely faint signals over a large period of time, [they will] tell you things,” he said. “We call that ‘turning volume into your friend.’ ”
-NSA's Dr. Haseltine, formerly of Disney (CIA for kidz!)
, describing the challenge of Big Brother's massive warrantless surveillance of the American people.

Golly, Dr. Haseltine, I smell mendacity!

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Try listening to this signal and turn up the "volume"-

Data mining our lives makes your Big Brother NSA not "our friend," despite your Mr.Science-speak 'wonder of ideas' language
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also used to peddle NASA's weaponizing of space.

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Disney, NSA, Madison Avenue, DARPA, Pentagon...all the same folks at a certain level synthesizing surveillance and social engineering.

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Welcome to the new improved counter-insurgency culture
of...Better Psy-Ops Through Science. (Umm. Lemony!)


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Disney has been a major force in US government propaganda since World War II and especially afterwards due in no small part to the extreme right wing attitudes of its namesake and founder who had to make nothing but war propaganda and training films during WWII when the Office of War Information took Disney over and OWI's Bureau of Motion Pictures rewrote Hollywood scripts for the war effort.

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Disney, along with Hollywood, remained a government asset when World War II was over serving to create the militarized personalities wanted in America's children by the National inSecurity State using:

> gender role-modeling
> stereotypes
> linguistics
> memory neuroscience
> and anthropomorphism (cute animals).


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During the Cold War Walt Disney helped make children's television a medium for CIA's new covert domestic propaganda function which it carries out today in all media.

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http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB78/docs.htm
Document 4: United States Embassy, Iran Cable from Edward C. Wells to the Department of State. "Motion Pictures--The Film Two Cities," May 16, 1950.
Source: National Archives. Record Group 59. Records of the Department of State. Decimal Files, 1950-1954.

Suggests Walt Disney might help out with propaganda.


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review excerpt by Phil Shannon of Marc Eliot's book-
“Who’s afraid of the Big Bad Walt?”, read the placards of striking Disney cartoonists in 1941, mocking the popular lyric from Walt Disney’s Three Little Pigs. They were on to something, because Disney, whose name is synonymous with “wholesome family entertainment”, had a dark side every bit as bad as his cartoon wolf.

Disney spied for the FBI for a quarter of a century, red-baited and wrecked Hollywood careers and lives, and teamed up with organised crime to deny his workers a union. He was a virulent anti-Semite strongly sympathetic to fascism.


In the 1950s Walt Disney worked with America's "ex-Nazis" like Heinz Haber...
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...and Wernher von Braun (who used slave labor to make V2 rockets for Hitler)...
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...to propagandize children into loving nuclear technology and missiles by making them Cool!...
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...so the post-WWII generation wouldn't be horrified into rejecting the new permanent Total War Doctrine that made all civilians part of the War Machine all of the time.

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Both George Lucas ('Star Wars'-1977) and Disney ('The Black Hole'-1979) conditioned American children with movies to accept space weapons before the Pentagon programs were publicly announced during the Reagan administration.

Potential military recruits were warned with Disney pictograms of the danger of both
the Red Menace (Communism) and............................................. the Black Hole (women)...WHY DOES THIS SPACESHIP HAVE A PENIS?!
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So Dr. Disney Haseltine was already engineering for a spooky government psy-ops outfit before moving to the NSA where he now wields
A SAP against our heads...meaning he is unleashing onto the American public...
Atypical
Signal
Analysis and
Processing
.....the better to detect the NOT NORMAL among us by keeping profiles of everyone in a vast computer database as if J. Edgar Hoover ran NASA.

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Disney performed a similar function for the US government during and after World War II, embedding a state-sanctioned NORMAL attitude in children to accomplish what propaganda science calls-
"reducing the sphere of unpredictability."

Gender role models anchored predictable economic roles and continue to be a primary motivational tool for military recruiting by glorifying male status while minimizing female status.

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Ever since World War II the US government has worked hard to keep Americans in a war time state of mind for economic, social control, and military recruiting purposes.

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Unlike during Walt Disney's lifetime, today women are also recruited out of necessity and a few aggressive female role models have been added for this purpose-
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...but most remain weak and passive-
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...or evil
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...to encourage boys to identify only with male role models to prepare them for potential military recruiting.
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"Reducing the sphere of unpredictability" has been a goal of government propaganda beaurocracies since the 1930s and is done by pouring psychological operations (propaganda'n'stuff) IN to the public's collective mind
while monitoring what then comes OUT of it to adjust the dosage based on feedback analysis.

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Ah, many don't know that surveillance is part of applying propaganda. Yup.
Finding out what people think and how they respond to specific psychological operations helps improve its application.

Like finding out if you hit a target and how to re-aim.

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The internet is perfect for both instant analysis of psy-ops and surveillance.
But the NSA is digitizing ALL the forms of communication it can to apply the same surveillance analysis to the very activities that make up the daily lives of Americans.

"Why? Because we like you!"
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So Dr. Disney Haseltine is the Big Brother doing the National Security Agency's
Total Information Awareness surveillance and data mining of our everyday lives
cleverly called by NSA a nice sterile academic name..."informatics."

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"Informatics?" Cool!
Gosh, who doesn't want to be..."informed?" Sounds downright democratic, doesn't it?
As in "...an informed electorate..."

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Wrong! This is an INFORMED ON electorate which is also deliberately MISinformed.

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(oops- apologies for the above embedded slur I just noticed. The graphic was too good to pass up. Hmm...error or a little psy-ops viral marketing?
...right on topic!)


What a nice racket for Dr. Haseltine.

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He goes from working for the Rat to BEING the rat in our kitchen-
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...recording everything possible about us to make predictive software that keeps an eye out for 'unusual' behavior. And this is the new improved 'normal' for American government.

Thus the daily lives of all Americans have now become the 'internet' that NSA and DARPA 'search' for signs of potential 'Against-Us-ism' Image of any kind they want to observe and study. Like reading. Or worse, writing. On the internet!
You know those types.

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Alarmingly, there are millions of Americans just watching TV and movies
...and not READING.

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"It's a small world after all..."

This means their behavior is very predictable and 'normalized' since their vocabularies and attitudes are based on materials largely provided by US government social scientists starting before Pearl Harbor in 1941.

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"It's a small...small...world."

But then there are...the people UN-NORMALIZED and therefore...
unpredictable.

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Government does not like them and often the feeling is mutual.

But Dr. Disney Haseltine's Atypical Signal Analysis Processing will watch them and...
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May, 2001- "Disney's Dr. Haseltine delights school kids at the NIH during
Brain Awareness Week." (That's a real press release, not a joke.)

http://www.nih.gov/news/NIH-Record/05_1 ... tory05.htm

A lively speaker, Haseltine brought a Disney approach to the slides that demonstrated how the brain works.


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“Mr. Wolf, will you be back for Fascism Awareness Week?”
“Red Riding Hood, why is Hugo Chavez on your atypical MySpace page?
Oops…forget I said that. Resume your stress position.”

NIH press release on Brain Awareness Week:
"The goal was to stimulate interest in research and show how science crosses disciplines and offers exceptional career opportunities."


Especially in a police state and if you're... with us, not against us!
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>Total Information Surveillance Needs You.<

http://newsinitiative.org/story/2006/09 ... overnments

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"These new finger scanners will replace Walt Disney World's geometry readers by the end of September."

"The federal government may have wanted Disney's expertise because Walt Disney World is responsible for the nation's largest single commercial application of biometrics, said Jim Wayman, director of the National Biometric Test Center at San Jose State University.

"The government was very aware of what Disney was doing," he said. "Everybody's interested in a successful project."

"Industry insiders say Disney has expressed interest in an even more advanced form of biometric technology _ automated face recognition. It has been touted as a way to pick criminals and terrorists out of a crowd."

"Another company, California-based A4Vision Inc., confirmed meeting with Disney officials in the past year to present its A4 facial recognition system to Disney."

"A4Vision is funded in part by the Department of Defense and In-Q-Tel, the CIA's venture capital firm for new technologies."

January, 2005 - Dr. Disney Haseltine is now at the National Security Agency making sense out of all the "dots" (hunh? Does he mean..us?) and in an online article uses a romantic analogy about how hard it is-
“...looking for a long time at a big universe for a distant planet...”

Um, what is that romantic puff all about? The preamble to ‘Star Trek?’
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*Warning: Mr. Science-speak alert!*
Ah, I’ll bet he’s blowing smoke.
Hey wait a minute. Back to Earth, rat man!

He really means data mining everything anyone does, says, or writes
looking for
“actionable information.”


The FBI has already been recording over 10,000 PER YEAR who-mailed-who names and addresses off our letters-
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/200 ... titialskip

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ALL letters are about to be tracked and data-mined starting possibly in January, 2009 as better reported in this security issues article with the disturbingly accurate headline of
"U.S. Post Office to Enable Wholesale Surveillance of Mail"
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2 ... ffice.html

And all because of an illegal Bush signing statement from December, 2006-
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/n ... ail04.html

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So Mr. Eric Disney/NSA Haseltine is busy…
analyzing ALL POSSIBLE illegally obtained information about our lives!

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Why?

As the Wolf said to Little Red Riding Hood,
“...the better to see and steer you with, my dear.”

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...Walt Disney's pal, J. Edgar Hoover, and Hitler's pal, Joseph Goebbels, are watching from Hell over drinks and
toast the progress of the American National inSecurity State.

“Salud.” – *clink*
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http://www.gcn.com/print/24_2/34877-1.html

NSA looks to informatics to connect dots

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Current apps cannot filter data quickly, finely enough, agency’s research chief says

Every bit counts—literally—at the National Security Agency.

That’s why NSA needs new informatics software that can gather individual bits of information from many sources and assemble them to produce “actionable knowledge,” said Eric Haseltine, NSA research director.

Today’s commercial intelligence software just isn’t powerful enough to do the job of sorting through the immense amount of data NSA collects, Haseltine said at a recent meeting of the Technology Council of Anne Arundel County, Md.

“In our business, actionable knowledge is someone we need to get before they get us,” he said. Haseltine envisions software that can, as he says, connect the dots. It must distinguish among people, places, events and time in documents and then relate these data entities to those in other documents and produce a summary of the combined elements.

To get this new analysis software, NSA has awarded a one-year, $445,000 contract to the Chesapeake Innovation Center of Annapolis, Md., to seek out information assurance technologies and informatics software being developed by industry and academia.

NSA is experiencing a vast increase in the data it must monitor, Haseltine said. New communications mediums such as instant messaging, cellular telephones and Web pages flood the organization.

But when NSA invited a representative from a large Silicon Valley relational database-mining company to discuss ways of capturing, filtering and ingesting such data, the agency found the company had little to offer.

“We told him our problems and he said, ‘That’s way beyond anything we can do,’ ” Haseltine recalled.


NSA is looking for software that can pinpoint trends buried within large data sets, using a minimum of data. Haseltine likened the process to how astronomers find planets in other solar systems that cannot be viewed through telescopes. They record individual photon activity, or “tiny little signals” for extended periods.

“In other words, if you listen to extremely faint signals over a large period of time, [they will] tell you things,” he said. “We call that ‘turning volume into your friend.’ ”


Mehmet Dalkilic, an associate professor at Indiana University’s School of Informatics, defines informatics as the study of how humans use IT.

“Scientists can no longer be experts in IT,” he said. Given the growing complexity of most IT products, professionals are finding it more difficult to make full use of the capabilities of new software. Conversely, most technology specialists do not fully understand their users’ domains, so it becomes increasingly difficult for them to know which new capabilities to add to a program. Informatics bridges the two worlds, he said.

Semantic thumbnails

Dalkilic himself is heading up a project to develop “semantic thumbnails,” a method of automatically summarizing text documents by using controlled domain vocabularies to highlight important parts of documents.

Search engines can use semantic thumbnails to produce more accurate results.

Perhaps the key to working with large amounts of data is not relying solely on the software applications themselves, but placing them within a larger iterative process that can filter out the unwanted data.

This is the approach taken by Rand Corp. of Santa Monica, Calif. The nonprofit research organization has developed a new workflow schema that could help U.S. intelligence agencies better sift through massive amounts of data, said John Hollywood, a Rand researcher who helped craft the architecture.

“We specifically designed it for counterterrorism, but a lot of the overall approach would apply to a wide range of intelligence analysis,” Hollywood said.

The Atypical Signal Analysis and Processing architecture sorts data through multiple steps. Data about suspicious people, places, things and financial activities is first collected from a number of government external databases. This information is supplemented by field reports of unusual activity.

Software agents scan the information for relationships and form hypotheses about how the different bits are related. The system then prioritizes its findings and alerts human analysts to the most important outcomes.


Doing it all

“You’re filtering incoming information, flagging the most useful pieces, linking incoming data elements together and generating hypotheses of the information,” Hollywood said.

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...how appropriate, a Rand technician named... John Hollywood.

"See you real soon!"

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Postby Hammer of Los » Fri Feb 29, 2008 7:46 pm

One of your best posts yet Hugh. This is why you should have a blog of your own. In the classic Hugh style, it is simultaneously enlightening, entertaining, horrifying and comical. A unique combination, peculiar to yourself. You should write a book.

Keep on keeping on man.

Yes, yes, I know I am a toadying sycophant. Sorry 'bout that.

I wonder how many of us have started to refer to Disney as "CIA for Kidz!" I know I have, much to my poor long-suffering wife's chagrin!

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Postby teamdaemon » Sat Mar 01, 2008 11:10 am

Dr. Haseltine was employed by Hughes Aircraft


Better watch out man it sounds like they're on to you!

Excellent post.
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Postby elfismiles » Sat Mar 01, 2008 11:42 am

Hammer of Los wrote:One of your best posts yet Hugh. This is why you should have a blog of your own. In the classic Hugh style, it is simultaneously enlightening, entertaining, horrifying and comical. A unique combination, peculiar to yourself. You should write a book.
:lol:


I told Hugh that over a year ago I think; that he should have his own blog.

Hey Hugh! Would you mind if someone else set one up for you? All your stuff should be collected in one place.

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Postby Penguin » Sat Mar 01, 2008 3:02 pm

Thanks again Hugh, this is good stuff!
Btw, i think these links might interest you guys, I bumped upon them when I noticed DoD Information Networks IP addresses showing up blocked by my automatic IP range blocking tool..I googled DoD networks and what do you know, I found a PeerGuardian forums thread where several people were complaining about large numbers of gov/mil/intel/corp networks scanning them..Here are the links..

http://forums.phoenixlabs.org/showthrea ... 27&page=16
original thread,
And on this thread some replies by me that were moved to General discussions because of my, uhm, political views :) (props to those forum admins! at first I thought they had simply deleted em :) )

http://forums.phoenixlabs.org/showthread.php?t=16298

And another users question:

http://forums.phoenixlabs.org/showthread.php?t=16307
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Disney's new Gitmo Ride.

Postby Hugh Manatee Wins » Sat Mar 01, 2008 7:23 pm

And now for a story about Disney's concern for public safety...

http://www.woostercollective.com/2006/09/breaking_the_story_disneyland_doesnt_wan.html

September 8, 2006
BREAKING: The Story Disneyland Doesn't Want You To Know

Families visiting Disneyland on their holiday this week saw a life-size Guantanamo bay inmate standing inside the Rocky Mountain Railroad ride at Disneyland in Anaheim California.

The sculpture, consisting of an inflatable doll dressed in an orange jumpsuit with its hands and feet manacled remained in place for one and a half hours before Disneyland's security staff shut down the ride and removed it amid fears over public safety.

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A Scanner Darkly

Postby Hugh Manatee Wins » Sun Mar 02, 2008 3:19 pm

Penguin wrote:Thanks again Hugh, this is good stuff!
Btw, i think these links might interest you guys, I bumped upon them when I noticed DoD Information Networks IP addresses showing up blocked by my automatic IP range blocking tool..I googled DoD networks and what do you know, I found a PeerGuardian forums thread where several people were complaining about large numbers of gov/mil/intel/corp networks scanning them..Here are the links..

http://forums.phoenixlabs.org/showthrea ... 27&page=16
original thread,
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Interesting IP sniffing stuff.
There is no Fourth Amendment on the internet or elsewhere, for that matter.

But this shouldn't inhibit anyone. Quite the contrary!
Propagandize them right back, I say. Turn-about is fair play.

There is a two-way dynamic despite the one-way mirror set-up.
We should be encouraged to educate ourselves and any scanners who you'd otherwise never get a chance to influence. "Greetings, fellow Americans." 8)

"About that WTC controlled demolition and Operation Mocingbird..." Heh.

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http://forums.phoenixlabs.org/showthread.php?t=1227&page=16
Keep in mind this is ALL while the computer is sitting idle and unused with no net accessing programs open to draw any fire. Most happened over a 12 hour period while i worked and slept. Start at the end of the blocks then scroll up. I've got:
>the DOD Network information center
>Computer Sciences Corp
>Australian Dept of Defence
>Interland, Texas Intstruments
>EDS
>Boeing
>Norfolk Naval Shipyard
>Dept of Social Security of UK
>Halliburton Company
>IBM
>DINSA Ministry of Defence
>Cogent Comm.
>Harris Controls
>Natl. Weather Service HQ
>Florida Dept of Transportation
>Toshiba
>HQ of Marine Corps
>USDA Office of Operations
>US POstal Service
>the European Space Agency
>the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (Kabul, Afghanistan)
>Hale and Dorr
>Saudi Business Machines
>Military Medical Academy
>Ministry of Informatics and Communications
>ARMYNET network
>Dept of Justice
>Army Information Systems Command FTDEVENS-NET2(NET-147-165-0-0-1)


......it keeps going on. WTF is all that for?
Looks like all these govt computers are just randomly scanning the internet
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Re: Disney's new Gitmo Ride.

Postby Joe Hillshoist » Mon Mar 03, 2008 1:39 am

Hugh Manatee Wins wrote:And now for a story about Disney's concern for public safety...

http://www.woostercollective.com/2006/09/breaking_the_story_disneyland_doesnt_wan.html

September 8, 2006
BREAKING: The Story Disneyland Doesn't Want You To Know

Families visiting Disneyland on their holiday this week saw a life-size Guantanamo bay inmate standing inside the Rocky Mountain Railroad ride at Disneyland in Anaheim California.

The sculpture, consisting of an inflatable doll dressed in an orange jumpsuit with its hands and feet manacled remained in place for one and a half hours before Disneyland's security staff shut down the ride and removed it amid fears over public safety.

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Fucking turrists, nowhere's safe...
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terrists? tourists?

Postby Seamus OBlimey » Mon Mar 03, 2008 3:09 pm

Team focuses on web paedophiles
By Sophie Pierce
BBC News, Devon

An office block on a Devon industrial estate is not the most likely place to find detectives at the forefront of tackling internet-related paedophile crime.

But this is the home of Devon and Cornwall Police's Force Online Investigation team, which has seen a huge increase in its workload.

Det Insp Simon Snell, who heads the unit, says the number of paedophiles using the internet to target and abuse children is still growing worryingly.

"We dealt with 250 cases last year, and we have between 20 and 30 new cases coming in every month," he said.

"To put it in perspective, the amount of illegal material stored on our server has increased twelvefold in the last three years - from 5,000 gigabytes in 2005 to 60,000 in 2007.

"We currently have 5.5m indecent images on it relating to numerous investigations."


Paedophiles use the internet not just to view images, but to distribute them and network with other offenders.

The growth of social networking sites has led to "grooming" - where offenders make contact with children online with a view to meeting up with them in the real world.

Det Insp Snell thinks this is a particularly worrying development.

"This is significantly concerning us at the moment," he said.


"We have had cases where children have given out their names and addresses and other personal details, enabling the paedophile to track them down and make contact.

"We even had one case at a Devon school where five pupils were all in contact with the same person, who they didn't realise was a paedophile."


The Force Online Investigation Unit has a team of specially trained civilians, called digital evidence investigators, working alongside detectives.

When an offender's computer is seized it is brought to a secure area known as the Acquisitions Room.

Steve Slater, manager of the separate High Tech Crime Unit, which works with the Force Online Investigation team in dealing with paedophile cases, says great care has to be taken as the evidence has to stand up in court.

"We physically examine the computers here, photograph them and remove the hard drive," said Mr Slater.

"We then take a forensic copy of the suspect's drive and then store it to our systems."

Once the computer has been dealt with, the digital evidence investigators have to go through the images to determine their severity; they categorise them on a scale of one to five.

There is no alternative to looking at the images - a distressing task.

However, once an image has been categorised, it does not have to be viewed again, as one of the investigators, Nick Tallamy explained.

"A digital fingerprint is made of the image, so if it re-occurs then we don't actually have to re-examine it," he said.

Mandatory counselling

The managers of the unit are acutely aware of the impact on staff of having to look at images of children being abused.

Everyone has mandatory counselling every six months, and if someone feels they cannot deal with a particular issue then they can walk away from it.

Det Insp Snell says it is a very challenging area of police work, but he finds focussing on the end result helps.

"I think what keeps you sane is that it's really rewarding to take kids away from abusive situations, to prevent abuse happening.

"Yes, it is distressing, some of the images we have to look at are horrendous, but if you find that's no longer a problem for you, then it's time to get out."

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Postby streeb » Mon Mar 03, 2008 3:20 pm

I wonder how many of us have started to refer to Disney as "CIA for Kidz!" I know I have, much to my poor long-suffering wife's chagrin!


Heh heh - yep, count me in. Taking our Sleeping Beauty-obsessed daughter to Disney's Princess on Ice was especially hard on my poor family. Especially after Mulan waved her arm around the auditorium and declared, "Look at all those little warriors out there!" (I shit thee not)
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Postby Luposapien » Mon Mar 03, 2008 5:10 pm

Slightly off-topic. But something to think about the next time you hear someone relating self-defeating or suicidal group-think to lemmings.

Lemmings don't actually commit suicide. It's just a myth, largely extant due to the Disney "nature" film White Wilderness.

http://www.wildlifenews.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=wildlife_news.view_article&issue_id=6&articles_id=56

In 1958 Walt Disney produced "White Wilderness," part of the studio's "True Life Adventure" series. "White Wilderness" featured a segment on lemmings, detailing their strange compulsion to commit mass suicide.

According to a 1983 investigation by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation producer Brian Vallee, the lemming scenes were faked. The lemmings supposedly committing mass suicide by leaping into the ocean were actually thrown off a cliff by the Disney filmmakers. The epic "lemming migration" was staged using careful editing, tight camera angles and a few dozen lemmings running on snow covered lazy-Susan style turntable.

"White Wilderness" was filmed in Alberta, Canada, a landlocked province, and not on location in lemmings' natural habitat. There are about 20 lemming species found in the circumpolar north - but evidently not in that area of Alberta. So the Disney people bought lemmings from Inuit children a couple provinces away in Manitoba and staged the whole sequence.
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Post Office added to TIA data mining

Postby Hugh Manatee Wins » Fri Mar 07, 2008 4:39 pm

"Wait a minute Mister Postman..."

A new bar code is being added to our mailed letters to add them to NSA-DARPA's Total Information Awareness data-mining map of everyone's behavior.

http://www.rigorousintuition.ca/board/viewtopic.php?t=16548

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Re: A "Disney approach" to NSA Total Surveillance

Postby MinM » Fri Nov 14, 2008 11:03 am

Hugh Manatee Wins wrote:Image
review excerpt by Phil Shannon of Marc Eliot's book-
“Who’s afraid of the Big Bad Walt?”, read the placards of striking Disney cartoonists in 1941, mocking the popular lyric from Walt Disney’s Three Little Pigs. They were on to something, because Disney, whose name is synonymous with “wholesome family entertainment”, had a dark side every bit as bad as his cartoon wolf.

Disney spied for the FBI for a quarter of a century, red-baited and wrecked Hollywood careers and lives, and teamed up with organised crime to deny his workers a union. He was a virulent anti-Semite strongly sympathetic to fascism.

Marc Eliot has a good book about the Gipper :thumbsup001:

Ronald Reagan: B Film Actor, Ladies’ Man and FBI Snitch

author: William Hughes e-mail:e-mail: liamhughes@comcast.net

Ronald Reagan's persona was crafted from 1937 to 1965, working in B films. The Shadow side of Reagan, however, reveals that he was a snitch for the FBI and ratted out his fellow members of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG), during the days of the "Red Scare." He also was a notorious womanizer, according to Marc Eliot's expose: "Reagan: The Hollywood Years." It was Reagan, too, as U.S. President, who ruthlessly busted PATCO in 1981.
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If you are a Hollywood film buff and a political junkie, too, as I am, you will just love Marc Eliot's latest book, "Reagan: The Hollywood Years." The author touches on Ronald Reagan's early days in Dixon, Illinois, but mainly focuses on his film career in which he was cast in one bad B movie after another. The main expose in this absorbing tome is that during the days of the "Red Scare," late 40s through the 50s, Reagan was a snitch for the FBI! The author writes that Reagan became a "secret informant, code name 'T-10,' for J. Edgar Hoover's red-baiting FBI." He regularly met with them in LaLaLand and "handed over names of Screen Actor Guild (SAG) members who 'might' be Communist sympathizers." Reagan would also contact his brother, Neil, "from a pay phone on Sunset Boulevard to pass along information" to the FBI. (2)

What brought Reagan, who served as President of SAG, (1947-52), and again in 1959, to do such a terrible thing? I think he was mostly a hollow type of man, vain, insecure and highly self- righteous. The record shows that to protect his rear end, he had become "a commie hunter;" he also carried a gun. The exact number of colleagues on whom Reagan ratted, will probably never be known. Once tagged as a Red "sympathizer," no matter how scanty the evidence, an individual was subjected to being "blacklisted" and barred from working in the Hollywood Industry. The fact that one's political beliefs were protected by the First Amendment didn't stop the witch hunts. Some victims of the blacklisting process were so scarred, that they committed suicide. Mr. Eliot mentions two: Philip Loeb and Barry Crum. (3)

Reagan arrived in Tinseltown in 1937. His prior drama experience came from stage work that he'd done back home in high school and at Eureka College. His also had a better than average speaking voice and projected a wholesome Midwestern look, just what Central Casting was seeking. Like today, however, you can't get the auditions, unless you have a good agent. Reagan was really lucky on that score. An acquaintance referred him to the William Meiklejohn's Agency, a well connected Hollywood player, that soon merged into the Lew Wasserman tent. A seven year contract with Warner Brothers quickly followed. Wasserman, a super agent, deserves the major credit for steering Reagan on his nearly 30 year, very lucrative career in Hollywood that lasted until 1965. It all led to the formation of his carefully crafted political persona that was to become his successful calling card.

That job Reagan did as a sportscaster of baseball games (1936-7) worked to his advantage, too. This was at a radio station in Des Moines, Iowa, where he broadcasted the games, giving a play-by-play account, via information coming over a wire. So, Reagan would be sitting in a studio describing a baseball game being played, say in Chicago. This called for him to make up or embellish things in order to enliven the broadcast. Reagan became an expert at "telling stories" and making things up. The telling story thing he got honestly from his father "Jack" Reagan--a shoe salesman. This skill would serve Reagan well, too, as U.S. President, (1981-89), in selling his disastrous "Voodoo Economics" to the people. (4)

Although the author does discuss in some detail Reagan's two marriages; first to Jane Wyman (1940-49), and then later to Nancy Davis (1952-2004), and also his relationship with his children, I'm going to mostly ignore that sensitive subject. I will only note that Ms. Wyman is one of my all time favorite actresses. Her role in the riveting film, "Johnny Belinda," is a classic for which she rightly deserved the "Best Actress" award in 1949. It was Ms. Wyman, who had first "urged" Reagan to run for the "Board of SAG," but she couldn't stand his right wing zealotry. His incessant "pontificating" about politics tended to "drive her crazy."

Hollywood, in Reagan's day, was then, as it is in 2008, the capital of the country as far as very attractive women are concerned. And, he wasn't shy about dating many leading ladies. In fact, Reagan's "love life was no secret...It was the talk of the town," writes Mr. Eliot. Some of the women worked with him at Warner Brothers. Later at the White House, at Cabinet meetings, Reagan would "gossip" in terms "quite graphically," about the many gals that he'd bedded over the years. It was "a very long list," according to the author, more than twenty, and it included some fabled female celebrities that would have made even Warren Beatty, a reported legendary womanizer, gasp in awe. (5) Mr. Eliot names Reagan's putative love interest.

The author also adds all kinds of juicy tidbits in his book to round out his characterization of Reagan. For example, Reagan was "jealous" of the actor Earl Flynn. Well, that one is easy to understand. Flynn was a dashing figure, a "top-of-the-line" star, compared to the boring, wooden Reagan. Also, Mr. Eliot reveals that Reagan loathed the Kennedy brothers, John and Robert, particularly Robert; and that he had a strong dislike for homosexuals; and enjoyed changing his shoes two or three times a day. Reagan also was quoted as saying that he didn't understand why actors "needed to have a union." This was another insight into his warped psyche. In August, 1981, then President Reagan ruthlessly fired the striking 11,345 air traffic controllers (PATC0)--busting the union. He did so even though PATCO, and the Teamsters, a national organization, had endorsed him for president over the Democrats' Jimmy Carter, in 1980. (6)

You might want to know where was the Uber-Patriot Reagan, during WWII? He was making "propaganda movies" in Hollywood, Culver City to be exact, for the government! His eyesight was supposedly "so poor he could be assigned only to limited duties in non combat situation." When I think about the real patriots that I knew when I was growing up in South Baltimore, who made genuine sacrifices in WWII, such as: Pete "Hooks" Williams, of the legendary "Darby's Rangers," who lost a leg at Normandy; "Rip" Burdinski, blinded; Charley Ellenberger, without both of his legs; and Harry C. Agro, who spent nearly three years subjected to vicious beatings every day in a horrific Japanese's POW camp, I want to scream out about the inequality of it all. (7) Reagan was oiling the propaganda machine, while my heroes were fighting the war. There is plenty more in Mr. Eliot's gem of a book, on a wide variety of interesting topics, too much for me to summarize here.

I think Reagan, as President of the U.S., pulled a con job on America! He served the Special Interests, not the people. Mr. Eliot's book opens up a window on the forces, during Reagan's Hollywood days, which helped to forge this B film actor's outlook on life. His harmful economic legacy is still with us today. (8)

Notes:

1. Arthur Miller's finest play was the "Crucible," which debuted in 1953. It was about the Salem witch trials, but it also served as an attack on the evils of McCarthyism, then rampant in the U.S.
2. Ronald Reagan's FBI File No. is #100-382196. Another author, Curt Gentry, in "J. Edgar Hoover," corroborates Reagan's spying on his fellow SAG members. He writes, at p. 354, that Reagan was a "confidential informant for the FBI since 1943."
3. "The Inquisition in Hollywood" by L. Ceplair and S. Englund.
4.
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedi ... -economics
5. http://www.donaly.com/don_alys_column27.html
6. http://www.counterpunch.org/macaray06302008.html and
http://socialistworker.org/2001/374/374_10_PATCO.shtml
7. http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/5060
8. http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Ronal ... egacy.html


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Postby JackRiddler » Fri Nov 14, 2008 12:07 pm

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This is a brilliant and fascinating thread. If it were a movie I'd want it never to end. This is the hidden history I would most like to see revealed in its true detail: the (semi-) covert engineering of myth (social dream) and society through the government-entertainment-corporate complex summed up in the HMW slogan, "Disney: CIA for Kidz!"

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Re: A "Disney approach" to NSA Total Surveillance

Postby MinM » Fri Oct 25, 2013 9:41 am

Image @BuzzFeedBiz: Why Disney Imagineering Might Be The Best Job Ever http://bzfd.it/1ai9ev9

Wonder if Hugh landed one of those coveted Imagineering gigs?
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Why Disney Imagineering Might Be The Best Job Ever

Some evidence from Twitter and Instagram. Don’t read this on a bad day at work.

posted on October 25, 2013 at 8:00am EDT
Sapna Maheshwari BuzzFeed Staff posted about an hour ago

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Working in Walt Disney Imagineering is one of the hardest careers in the world to land. Imagineers come up with every piece of Disney’s theme parks, and becoming one is a dream gig for many...

http://www.buzzfeed.com/sapna/why-disne ... ever?bftw=

Hugh Manatee Wins » Thu Feb 28, 2008 11:34 pm wrote:Image

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Disney's lead engineer...
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http://www.nsa.gov/releases/relea00042.cfm
National Security Agency Hires New Associate Director for Research
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Dr. Haseltine brings more than 23 years of private-industry experience to NSA/CSS, most recently serving as the Executive Vice President, Research and Development at Walt Disney Imagineering in California. Prior to over 10 years at Walt Disney Engineering working in various research and development senior leadership positions, Dr. Haseltine was employed by Hughes Aircraft as their Director of Engineering.


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Dr. Eric Haseltine is a neuroscientist and executive who used to work for Disney.

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“In other words, if you listen to extremely faint signals over a large period of time, [they will] tell you things,” he said. “We call that ‘turning volume into your friend.’ ”
-NSA's Dr. Haseltine, formerly of Disney (CIA for kidz!)
, describing the challenge of Big Brother's massive warrantless surveillance of the American people.

Golly, Dr. Haseltine, I smell mendacity!

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Try listening to this signal and turn up the "volume"-

Data mining our lives makes your Big Brother NSA not "our friend," despite your Mr.Science-speak 'wonder of ideas' language
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also used to peddle NASA's weaponizing of space.

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Disney, NSA, Madison Avenue, DARPA, Pentagon...all the same folks at a certain level synthesizing surveillance and social engineering.

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Welcome to the new improved counter-insurgency culture
of...Better Psy-Ops Through Science. (Umm. Lemony!)


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Disney has been a major force in US government propaganda since World War II and especially afterwards due in no small part to the extreme right wing attitudes of its namesake and founder who had to make nothing but war propaganda and training films during WWII when the Office of War Information took Disney over and OWI's Bureau of Motion Pictures rewrote Hollywood scripts for the war effort.

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Disney, along with Hollywood, remained a government asset when World War II was over serving to create the militarized personalities wanted in America's children by the National inSecurity State using:

> gender role-modeling
> stereotypes
> linguistics
> memory neuroscience
> and anthropomorphism (cute animals).


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During the Cold War Walt Disney helped make children's television a medium for CIA's new covert domestic propaganda function which it carries out today in all media.

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http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB78/docs.htm
Document 4: United States Embassy, Iran Cable from Edward C. Wells to the Department of State. "Motion Pictures--The Film Two Cities," May 16, 1950.
Source: National Archives. Record Group 59. Records of the Department of State. Decimal Files, 1950-1954.

Suggests Walt Disney might help out with propaganda.


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review excerpt by Phil Shannon of Marc Eliot's book-
“Who’s afraid of the Big Bad Walt?”, read the placards of striking Disney cartoonists in 1941, mocking the popular lyric from Walt Disney’s Three Little Pigs. They were on to something, because Disney, whose name is synonymous with “wholesome family entertainment”, had a dark side every bit as bad as his cartoon wolf.

Disney spied for the FBI for a quarter of a century, red-baited and wrecked Hollywood careers and lives, and teamed up with organised crime to deny his workers a union. He was a virulent anti-Semite strongly sympathetic to fascism.


In the 1950s Walt Disney worked with America's "ex-Nazis" like Heinz Haber...
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...and Wernher von Braun (who used slave labor to make V2 rockets for Hitler)...
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...to propagandize children into loving nuclear technology and missiles by making them Cool!...
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...so the post-WWII generation wouldn't be horrified into rejecting the new permanent Total War Doctrine that made all civilians part of the War Machine all of the time.

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Both George Lucas ('Star Wars'-1977) and Disney ('The Black Hole'-1979) conditioned American children with movies to accept space weapons before the Pentagon programs were publicly announced during the Reagan administration.

Potential military recruits were warned with Disney pictograms of the danger of both
the Red Menace (Communism) and............................................. the Black Hole (women)...WHY DOES THIS SPACESHIP HAVE A PENIS?!
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So Dr. Disney Haseltine was already engineering for a spooky government psy-ops outfit before moving to the NSA where he now wields
A SAP against our heads...meaning he is unleashing onto the American public...
Atypical
Signal
Analysis and
Processing
.....the better to detect the NOT NORMAL among us by keeping profiles of everyone in a vast computer database as if J. Edgar Hoover ran NASA.

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Disney performed a similar function for the US government during and after World War II, embedding a state-sanctioned NORMAL attitude in children to accomplish what propaganda science calls-
"reducing the sphere of unpredictability."

Gender role models anchored predictable economic roles and continue to be a primary motivational tool for military recruiting by glorifying male status while minimizing female status.

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Ever since World War II the US government has worked hard to keep Americans in a war time state of mind for economic, social control, and military recruiting purposes.

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Unlike during Walt Disney's lifetime, today women are also recruited out of necessity and a few aggressive female role models have been added for this purpose-
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...but most remain weak and passive-
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...or evil
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...to encourage boys to identify only with male role models to prepare them for potential military recruiting.
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"Reducing the sphere of unpredictability" has been a goal of government propaganda beaurocracies since the 1930s and is done by pouring psychological operations (propaganda'n'stuff) IN to the public's collective mind
while monitoring what then comes OUT of it to adjust the dosage based on feedback analysis.

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Ah, many don't know that surveillance is part of applying propaganda. Yup.
Finding out what people think and how they respond to specific psychological operations helps improve its application.

Like finding out if you hit a target and how to re-aim.

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The internet is perfect for both instant analysis of psy-ops and surveillance.
But the NSA is digitizing ALL the forms of communication it can to apply the same surveillance analysis to the very activities that make up the daily lives of Americans.

"Why? Because we like you!"
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So Dr. Disney Haseltine is the Big Brother doing the National Security Agency's
Total Information Awareness surveillance and data mining of our everyday lives
cleverly called by NSA a nice sterile academic name..."informatics."

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"Informatics?" Cool!
Gosh, who doesn't want to be..."informed?" Sounds downright democratic, doesn't it?
As in "...an informed electorate..."

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Wrong! This is an INFORMED ON electorate which is also deliberately MISinformed.

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(oops- apologies for the above embedded slur I just noticed. The graphic was too good to pass up. Hmm...error or a little psy-ops viral marketing?
...right on topic!)


What a nice racket for Dr. Haseltine.

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He goes from working for the Rat to BEING the rat in our kitchen-
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...recording everything possible about us to make predictive software that keeps an eye out for 'unusual' behavior. And this is the new improved 'normal' for American government.

Thus the daily lives of all Americans have now become the 'internet' that NSA and DARPA 'search' for signs of potential 'Against-Us-ism' Image of any kind they want to observe and study. Like reading. Or worse, writing. On the internet!
You know those types.

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Alarmingly, there are millions of Americans just watching TV and movies
...and not READING.

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"It's a small world after all..."

This means their behavior is very predictable and 'normalized' since their vocabularies and attitudes are based on materials largely provided by US government social scientists starting before Pearl Harbor in 1941.

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"It's a small...small...world."

But then there are...the people UN-NORMALIZED and therefore...
unpredictable.

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Government does not like them and often the feeling is mutual.

But Dr. Disney Haseltine's Atypical Signal Analysis Processing will watch them and...
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May, 2001- "Disney's Dr. Haseltine delights school kids at the NIH during
Brain Awareness Week." (That's a real press release, not a joke.)

http://www.nih.gov/news/NIH-Record/05_1 ... tory05.htm

A lively speaker, Haseltine brought a Disney approach to the slides that demonstrated how the brain works.


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“Mr. Wolf, will you be back for Fascism Awareness Week?”
“Red Riding Hood, why is Hugo Chavez on your atypical MySpace page?
Oops…forget I said that. Resume your stress position.”

NIH press release on Brain Awareness Week:
"The goal was to stimulate interest in research and show how science crosses disciplines and offers exceptional career opportunities."


Especially in a police state and if you're... with us, not against us!
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>Total Information Surveillance Needs You.<

http://newsinitiative.org/story/2006/09 ... overnments

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"These new finger scanners will replace Walt Disney World's geometry readers by the end of September."

"The federal government may have wanted Disney's expertise because Walt Disney World is responsible for the nation's largest single commercial application of biometrics, said Jim Wayman, director of the National Biometric Test Center at San Jose State University.

"The government was very aware of what Disney was doing," he said. "Everybody's interested in a successful project."

"Industry insiders say Disney has expressed interest in an even more advanced form of biometric technology _ automated face recognition. It has been touted as a way to pick criminals and terrorists out of a crowd."

"Another company, California-based A4Vision Inc., confirmed meeting with Disney officials in the past year to present its A4 facial recognition system to Disney."

"A4Vision is funded in part by the Department of Defense and In-Q-Tel, the CIA's venture capital firm for new technologies."

January, 2005 - Dr. Disney Haseltine is now at the National Security Agency making sense out of all the "dots" (hunh? Does he mean..us?) and in an online article uses a romantic analogy about how hard it is-
“...looking for a long time at a big universe for a distant planet...”

Um, what is that romantic puff all about? The preamble to ‘Star Trek?’
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*Warning: Mr. Science-speak alert!*
Ah, I’ll bet he’s blowing smoke.
Hey wait a minute. Back to Earth, rat man!

He really means data mining everything anyone does, says, or writes
looking for
“actionable information.”


The FBI has already been recording over 10,000 PER YEAR who-mailed-who names and addresses off our letters-
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/200 ... titialskip

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ALL letters are about to be tracked and data-mined starting possibly in January, 2009 as better reported in this security issues article with the disturbingly accurate headline of
"U.S. Post Office to Enable Wholesale Surveillance of Mail"
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2 ... ffice.html

And all because of an illegal Bush signing statement from December, 2006-
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/n ... ail04.html

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So Mr. Eric Disney/NSA Haseltine is busy…
analyzing ALL POSSIBLE illegally obtained information about our lives!

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Why?

As the Wolf said to Little Red Riding Hood,
“...the better to see and steer you with, my dear.”

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...Walt Disney's pal, J. Edgar Hoover, and Hitler's pal, Joseph Goebbels, are watching from Hell over drinks and
toast the progress of the American National inSecurity State.

“Salud.” – *clink*
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http://www.gcn.com/print/24_2/34877-1.html

NSA looks to informatics to connect dots

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Current apps cannot filter data quickly, finely enough, agency’s research chief says

Every bit counts—literally—at the National Security Agency.

That’s why NSA needs new informatics software that can gather individual bits of information from many sources and assemble them to produce “actionable knowledge,” said Eric Haseltine, NSA research director.

Today’s commercial intelligence software just isn’t powerful enough to do the job of sorting through the immense amount of data NSA collects, Haseltine said at a recent meeting of the Technology Council of Anne Arundel County, Md.

“In our business, actionable knowledge is someone we need to get before they get us,” he said. Haseltine envisions software that can, as he says, connect the dots. It must distinguish among people, places, events and time in documents and then relate these data entities to those in other documents and produce a summary of the combined elements.

To get this new analysis software, NSA has awarded a one-year, $445,000 contract to the Chesapeake Innovation Center of Annapolis, Md., to seek out information assurance technologies and informatics software being developed by industry and academia.

NSA is experiencing a vast increase in the data it must monitor, Haseltine said. New communications mediums such as instant messaging, cellular telephones and Web pages flood the organization.

But when NSA invited a representative from a large Silicon Valley relational database-mining company to discuss ways of capturing, filtering and ingesting such data, the agency found the company had little to offer.

“We told him our problems and he said, ‘That’s way beyond anything we can do,’ ” Haseltine recalled.


NSA is looking for software that can pinpoint trends buried within large data sets, using a minimum of data. Haseltine likened the process to how astronomers find planets in other solar systems that cannot be viewed through telescopes. They record individual photon activity, or “tiny little signals” for extended periods.

“In other words, if you listen to extremely faint signals over a large period of time, [they will] tell you things,” he said. “We call that ‘turning volume into your friend.’ ”


Mehmet Dalkilic, an associate professor at Indiana University’s School of Informatics, defines informatics as the study of how humans use IT.

“Scientists can no longer be experts in IT,” he said. Given the growing complexity of most IT products, professionals are finding it more difficult to make full use of the capabilities of new software. Conversely, most technology specialists do not fully understand their users’ domains, so it becomes increasingly difficult for them to know which new capabilities to add to a program. Informatics bridges the two worlds, he said.

Semantic thumbnails

Dalkilic himself is heading up a project to develop “semantic thumbnails,” a method of automatically summarizing text documents by using controlled domain vocabularies to highlight important parts of documents.

Search engines can use semantic thumbnails to produce more accurate results.

Perhaps the key to working with large amounts of data is not relying solely on the software applications themselves, but placing them within a larger iterative process that can filter out the unwanted data.

This is the approach taken by Rand Corp. of Santa Monica, Calif. The nonprofit research organization has developed a new workflow schema that could help U.S. intelligence agencies better sift through massive amounts of data, said John Hollywood, a Rand researcher who helped craft the architecture.

“We specifically designed it for counterterrorism, but a lot of the overall approach would apply to a wide range of intelligence analysis,” Hollywood said.

The Atypical Signal Analysis and Processing architecture sorts data through multiple steps. Data about suspicious people, places, things and financial activities is first collected from a number of government external databases. This information is supplemented by field reports of unusual activity.

Software agents scan the information for relationships and form hypotheses about how the different bits are related. The system then prioritizes its findings and alerts human analysts to the most important outcomes.


Doing it all

“You’re filtering incoming information, flagging the most useful pieces, linking incoming data elements together and generating hypotheses of the information,” Hollywood said.

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...how appropriate, a Rand technician named... John Hollywood.

"See you real soon!"

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