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This is a very detailed report with names, dates, organizations, etc...
Elections? They don't matter.
Professional sports? More like pro wrestling then we want to admit.
Capitalism? Oh ... you mean Socialism.
The News Business? They used to call it "advertising".
The Entertainment Business? They used to call it "propaganda".
History? Some of it's true ( I do believe Hitler killed 6 million Jews) but a fair amount of history is just story-telling.
The Internet? It's a tool of control by tyrants who manipulate the world.
I have made a special effort to delete anything related to Google from my computer. That Chrome crap is particularly hard to keep from infesting your computer during updates of other products.
Dr. Ahmed is also the leading stockholder of the Reynold's Aluminum Company's "Reynold's Wrap" Division, the world's leading manufacturer of "tinfoil".
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Dr. Ahmed also is a major contributor to The Guardian (no sarcasm)
Say what you will about the CIA, they seem to stay very, very busy.
When will the truth about Facebook’s origins emerge?
There's a pretty simple explanation for most of the mess described in the article. Back in the 90's the venture capitalists developed their own version of "crowd funding", namely that numerous deep pockets investors would back a startup and that startup would become the winner in some new area when it went public. The investors would get all their investments back (early money time 100, later money times 10) and they would start over and do it again. That is of course oversimplified and there were competitions regardless of the cooperation, but the big money in the markets could support several competitors.
Come 9/11 (and even before 9/11), a ton of taxpayer money got sunk into "counterterrorism" and associated data gathering. The data was gathered in huge volumes with needs for new sources and new ways of handling it. The key is that big taxpayer (now Fed printed) bucks were available for those companies. They would have open discussions like the ones pointed out in the article to better align the tech sector ideas with government needs all in an effort to tap into the gravy train.
It is the new way things are done. There are analytical tools at the forefront which have a giant thirst for new data sources and comb "open source" like the web including forums like this one for tidbits to add to the database. The current market dynamics are a little different than described in the article. There are huge commercial markets for these analytical tools and those markets are the ultimate driver of venture funding although the government largess is still a big part of it.
I remember the early search engines of the Internet very well. The old Yahoo! directory. AltaVista. HotBot. Lycos. Suddenly they were driven into obscurity by Google, which literally overnight became a verb for "searching the Web."
It's quite plausible that the government realized early on that of all the search engines, Google had the secret sauce by which to quickly capture and organize the information of the world.
If so, not a bad deal for Sergey and Brin who get to skateboard down the corridors of their giant company with an unlimited amount of money to come up with silly stuff like Google Glasses and cars that drive by themselves.
Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!
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Duck duck go is a search engine that does NOT do tracking. I use it instead of google or bing—I’m “cyber exposed” enough without their nefarious contributions.
Halfway through, Prof. Ullman responds to the author “I am not going to dignify this nonsense with a denial. If you won’t explain what your theory is, and what point you are trying to make, I am not going to help you in the slightest.”
I have to agree with him — what point is the author trying to make in this blather? I cannot discern a thesis anywhere.
It seems that he is arguing:
* We don’t have any enemies and don’t need intelligence or spies.
* Our enemies are soft teddy bears who actually mean us no harm and we alone are fostering “perpetual war.”
* Government should invent all of its own solutions and not work with private industry and universities where brilliant minds can be found.
* Technology development is static and we don’t need for our intelligence services to invest in new methods and techniques.
There is nothing new here at all. The entire article is weak and, frankly, not worth the time spent reading.
This strikes me as being written by a wannabe investigative journalist searching for a way to make his reputation. Or, perhaps, given that the author’s name is “Nafeez Ahmed,” there may be a sinister hidden agenda at work. I surprised he didn’t use a pseudonym like “Bob Smith.”
Mr. Ahmed “writes for the Guardian on the geopolitics of environmental, energy and economic crises on his Earth insight blog.” He is the author of “A User’s Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: And How to Save It” (2010), the first peer-reviewed academic work to analyse the intersection of climate change, energy depletion, food crisis, economic turbulence, international terrorism, and state-militarization.
His CV alone should set off your BS detectors.
If one were to look at the history of Defense Communications Agency and AT&T/Ma Bell, you would find similar synergy.
Jartran....
The CIA would have been very stupid not to exercise whatever influence it could on Google to support American interests as it understood them. Whether these accounts are accurate... no idea.
It still remains that a .com is generally located in the USA, that the country domain suffix for a foreign outfit is generally explicitly needed, and the Internet is, yeah, US biased. I do not complain about the inequality.
"Ingenious" means "totalitarian", apparently. How "ingenious"! ROTFLMAO!
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