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Category Archive for 'Paranoia Strikes Deep'

AT&T and Verizon win Homeland Security contracts! (Oddly, nothing for Qwest.)

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“Oh, they’re not as bad as Nixon.”
Actually, yes they are - and so far, they’re getting away with it. Thanks, librul media!
You really need to read this.

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Prediction

I was having brunch with a friend yesterday, another former political operative, and we were talking about the election. He confessed that he was a little worried that “someone” would shot McCain and wound him, turning him into a hero. I said that was a little far-fetched, and he responded, “Then why has he turned […]

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Four easy steps:

Try to leave a comment on a blog post
Become indignant when that comment doesn’t immediately make it’s way past the comment spam filter
Fail to make use of the easy to use contact form linked at the very top of the blog in question in order to inform the blog administrators that your comment […]

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Welcome to 1984. Not that we weren’t already there, just here’s your proper welcome and your tinfoil hat.

It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a […]

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Maybe this will help us remember who the real enemy is:
On Friday, the White House issued a new executive order effectively gutting the Intelligence Oversight Board (IOB), “created in 1976 in the wake of widespread abuses by U.S. intelligence agencies.” Under the order, many of the IOB’s investigative powers will now be transfered to DNI […]

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For Bush and the telecoms. Glenn Greenwald:
The Senate today — led by Jay Rockefeller, enabled by Harry Reid, and with the active support of at least 12 (and probably more) Democrats, in conjunction with an as-always lockstep GOP caucus — will vote to legalize warrantless spying on the telephone calls and emails of Americans, and […]

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Stands for Fucking Crazy Clowns, the people who apparently think you excrete through your gluteus maximus:
WASHINGTON - The Federal Communications Commission has proposed a $1.4 million fine against 52 ABC Television Network stations over a 2003 broadcast of cop drama NYPD Blue.
The fine is for a scene where a boy surprises a woman as she […]

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If you can’t get the book, at least watch this - because, as Lambert points out, rarely are we cynical enough:

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See, I told you Microsoft was the Evil Empire. This is very alarming and I can’t help but wonder whether this wasn’t a government request. Take a look at their newest idea:
Every aspect of computer users’ lives — from their heartbeat to a guilty smile — could be monitored and immediately analysed under the futuristic […]

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Apparently the real reason we can’t run Obama is because those crazy colored people will be rioting in the streets if he loses.
Like this riot in Florida from 2000:

You guessed it: The Republicans are back to peddling fear.

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Big Brother

Anyone who thinks this won’t be used for political purposes is dreaming:
CLARKSBURG, W. Va. — The FBI is embarking on a $1 billion effort to build the world’s largest computer database of peoples’ physical characteristics, a project that would give the government unprecedented abilities to identify individuals in the United States and abroad.
Digital images of […]

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Joe Conason interviews the Big Dog in Salon:
The Bush administration has sharply criticized the deal you made with North Korea as a failure, because it was revealed that they have begun to clandestinely reprocess uranium and built at least a couple of nuclear weapons. What is your response to that criticism? How should the United […]

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