Archive for the 'Social Engineering' Category
Detroit News Opinion Piece: Too Many Poor People, Put Contraceptives in Water Supply
February 15th, 2012Via: Detroit News: Since the national attention is on birth control, here’s my idea: If we want to fight poverty, reduce violent crime and bring down our embarrassing drop-out rate, we should swap contraceptives for fluoride in Michigan’s drinking water. We’ve got a baby problem in Michigan. Too many babies are born to immature parents […]
NYPD “Stop and Frisks” Hit All-Time High
February 15th, 2012Via: NBC: The number of so-called “stop and frisks” is rising. City police officers stopped and questioned 684,330 people on the street last year, a record since the NYPD began yearly tallies of the tactic in 2002 and a 14 percent increase over 2010. It couldn’t be determined how many people were patted down during […]
Britain: TomTom Tech to Set Driver Insurance Premiums
February 9th, 2012Definitely watch, “15 Million Merits,” the second episode of Black Mirror, to see where this economic model is headed. The potential for nightmarish implementations of this is pretty much unlimited. Via: PC Pro: TomTom has signed a deal with an insurance company to use its satnav technology to measure driving ability to set premiums. The […]
Britain: Girls, 13, Given Contraceptive Implants at School
February 8th, 2012Via: Telegraph: Girls as young as 13 have been fitted with contraceptive implants at school without their parents knowing. The procedure was carried out in Southampton, Hants, as part of a government initiative to drive down teenage pregnancies. As many as nine secondary schools in the city are thought to have been involved. But it […]
The Army Wants You … to Be a Virtual Lab Rat
February 7th, 2012Via: Wired: American soldiers already prep for war using virtual worlds. One day, the Army hopes, you’ll join the GIs in a military-approved digital realm. In the Army’s latest call for research proposals, the service is looking for ways to develop a “Virtual Laboratory of Aggregate Behavior,” or VLAB. Put simply, the program would yield […]
Britain: Talking CCTV Cameras In Camden To Be Turned Off
February 7th, 2012They need to load the ED209 voice on that thing. Via: Telegraph: Pressure group Big Brother Watch had said that the cameras, which automatically warn everyone they see to leave, were only acceptable in a ‘in a police state’. In a statement issued this afternoon, Camden Council claimed that the camera’s pre-recorded American message should […]
Dimitri Christakis – Media and Children
February 6th, 2012Via: TEDxRainier:
Australia: No Opt-Out Rule for Airport Body Scanners
February 6th, 2012Via: ABC: Civil libertarians are worried by proposed legislation meaning passengers will not be able to opt out of undergoing full body scans at Australian airports. The Federal Government will introduce legislation this week so the technology can be rolled out in all of Australia’s international airports. The move follows a trial in Sydney and […]
They Just Love That Eye Symbolism
February 6th, 2012Ah, Madonna. At least she’s consistent. Below is a picture from the Stupor Bowl half time show. Vigilant Citizen‘s head will explode when he sees the video of this. Via: Daily Mail: — Update: Vigilant Citizen: Madonna’s Superbowl Halftime Show: A Celebration of the Grand Priestess of the Music Industry Research Credit: PF
‘Act of Valor’: Top to Bottom U.S. Navy Propaganda Film, Uses Active Duty SEALs as Actors, Raw Footage Kept for ‘Training and Other Purposes’
February 4th, 2012Via: Wikipedia: Act of Valor began as a recruitment video for the U.S. military’s Naval Special Warfare Command. In 2007, Mike McCoy and Scott Waugh of Bandido Brothers Production filmed a video for the Special Warfare Combatant-craft Crewmen SWCC which led the Navy to allow them to use SEALs for Act of Valor. None of […]
