I want to share a film inspired by the case of Bradley Manning. Someone linked to it this week in the Greenwald comment section.
http://www.preventionofinjury.com/
I'll be interested to see whether the mention of Manning's name skyrockets the views on this post. Lately my other post with his name in it has consistently garnered
over twice as many views as the next runner up (the post in second place contains the word "sex", of course), in spite of having very little unique content. One calling card in particular made me raise a brow*. Hopefully the numbers are just an indication of growing popular interest in the subject at hand.
I don't want to be paranoid, but--given the
long list of keywords flagged and monitored by one arm of the Department of Homeland Security in 2011--I have to wonder if I might have been paid a few visits. By those bizarre standards, I've been seriously cranking out the IOIs since my parents got a modem in '95. More or less like everybody else.
Also... is this kind of talk considered "
aggressive counter-surveillance"? =/
Speaking of videos, there's a rather popular one going around right now. I present three more items of interest without further comment:
1)
http://pulitzercenter.org/sites/default/files/WhiteHouseLRAStrategy_opt.pdf
2)
http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2011-10-17-us-troops-hunt-al-qaeda-in-africa-not-the-lra
3)
http://imgur.com/K3mgn
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*I gather I'm
supposed to have seen it, since it would have been really, really easy to avoid leaving that trace. The implications of that drive-by greeting are kind of disquieting to me. Which may very well be the idea. So let's pretend it was just someone from this particular agency on their lunch break browsing the internet and happening to take an intense non-work-related interest in digging around on my wee little blog, shall we?
