privacy

Bouncing Parliament: Surveillance by Emergency in the UK

You have to give him some credit. The soul of the prison warder who inhabits the public school boy is not always easy to contain. Unrestrained, and lacking sound judgment, he is bound to spring out, however democratic, or liberal, a system can be. Prime Minister David Cameron, on the issue of jamming through bills connected with increased surveillance powers, has just about gotten what he wants. The rule in his playbook here: call anything you don’t want looked at a matter of emergency.

Through the Looking Glass Darkly

One day while Alice is winding up a ball of wool that Kitty persists in undoing, she gets it into her head that there must be a world behind the looking glass (mirror) where everything is backward. Suddenly, she finds herself up on the mantelpiece staring into the looking glass. Then she walks through to the reality on the other side to find a world that is set up like a chessboard and chess pieces are animated human-like creatures. The reflected reality is the opposite of real reality. Time goes backwards.

Edward Snowden says: "We have an [intelligence] oversight model that could work; the problem is when the overseers aren’t interested in oversight"

At SXSW, Edward Snowden's lawyer, Ben Wizner of the ACLU, with ACLU technology specialist Chris Soghoian at his left, questions the remotely connected Snowden."The problem is when the overseers aren’t interested in oversight, . . . when we have James Clapper, the director of National Intelligence, in front of [a congressional committee] and he tells a lie that they all know is a lie, because . . . they have the questions a day in advance, and no one says anything, allowing all Americans to believe this is a true answer.

The One Percent Freezes the Sharpened Bone and Waits for Blood

Jeff Drones for Dildos Bezos . . .  The TakeOver . . . The End Times . . .  Useless Collective Consumerism . . . The Empire is Daft and Dangerous!
Oh, hell, I’ve been challenged to write some positive stuff on the DV blog, like, what, five straight blogs in a row that are all hopeful, positive, about the real heroes and heroines and hard-working people who never get their day in the limelight, day in court, or 15 petrabytes of fame.