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Trump Administration To Launch Massive Spying Database To Assist With Deportations

MintPress - 2017-03-03 - Original post - Cached copy

A young girl helps hold a U.S. flag as a group marches through downtown heading to the Texas Capitol during an immigration protest, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017, in Austin, Texas. (AP/Eric Gay)
(REPORT) — The database, expected to be operational by September, will collect bulks of information on potential deportees.
Software company Palantir is gearing up to finalize the development of a massive intelligence database pitted to serve as “the engine for Donald Trump’s deportation machine,” according to an investigative report by the Intercept.

The CIA and Hollywood episode 5 The Social Network

Porkins Policy Review - 2015-04-27 - Original post - Cached copy

Thomas Sheridan joins us to talk about the 2010 film The Social Network, which tells the story of the origins of facebook.  We discuss the class struggle portrayed in the story, the mechanism by which the film could have been influenced by the CIA, the archetypes in the finely-produced melodrama that plays out, the CIA’s silicon valley network which is conspicuous by its absence from the narrative, and the meaning of the movie’s dark and brooding tone.  We also get into some unusual areas, including the mystery of the sub sandwic

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