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deRodes
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 Posted: Thu Sep 3rd, 2009 07:49 pm

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Life With Big Brother

By Chelsea Schillin

The White House is hiring a contractor to harvest information about Americans from its pages on social networking websites such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr.

The National Legal and Policy Center, or NLPC, revealed the White House New Media team is seeking to hire a technology vendor to collect data such as comments, tag lines, e-mail, audio and video from any place where the White House "maintains a presence" – for a period of up to eight years.

"The contractor shall provide the necessary services to capture, store, extract to approved formats, and transfer content published by EOP (Executive Office of the President) on publicly-accessible web sites, along with information posted by non-EOP persons on publicly-accessible web sites where the EOP offices under PRA (Presidential Records Act) maintains a presence," the posting states.

Excerpt from White House New Media solicitation of bids

According to the 51-page solicitation of bids posted Aug. 21, the purpose of the mining and archiving project is to "comply with the Presidential Records Act," though the listing does not specify how the information will be used. It states that the government is currently collecting data from social networks both programmatically and by use of daily screenshots.

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The program is expected to be fully operational within 30 days after the contract is awarded to a vendor.

The White House pages at Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, YouTube and Flickr contain thousands of comments from Americans – both supportive and critical of the administration and its policies.

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Contractors must agree to keep information disclosed by the EOP in the "strictest confidence" and restrict access "to those employees who must have the information to perform the work provided herein on a 'need-to-know' basis."

NLPC warns, "[V]irtually any communication mentioning the president or the administration could become subject to collection and archiving under the act. This is not out of an 'abundance of caution,' but out of an over-abundance of power. President Obama should make sure that this plan goes no further."

'Fishy' info on health care

As WND reported, the Obama administration has made several efforts to collect information about citizens in the past. The White House announced a program Aug. 4, pleading with people around the nation to forward to a White House e-mail address anything they see "about health insurance reform that seems fishy."
Scary chain e-mails and videos are starting to percolate on the Internet, breathlessly claiming, for example, to 'uncover' the truth about the president's health insurance reform positions. There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain e-mails or through casual conversation. Since we can't keep track of all of them here at the White House, we're asking for your help. If you get an e-mail or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, demanded that President Obama either halt the "snitch" program or define how he would protect the privacy of those who send or are the subject of e-mails to the flag@whitehouse.gov e-mail address.

"I am not aware of any precedent for a president asking American citizens to report their fellow citizens to the White house for pure political speech that is deemed 'fishy' or otherwise inimical to the White House's political interests," the Texas senator wrote in a letter to Obama.

"By requesting that citizens send 'fishy' e-mails to the White House, it is inevitable that the names, e-mail addresses, IP addresses, and private speech of U.S. citizens will be reported… You should not be surprised that these actions taken by your White House staff raise the specter of a data collection system."

'Compelling need' for cookies

WND has also reported that the Obama administration has announced plans to lift a government ban on tracking visitors to government websites, and potentially, collect their personal data through the use of "cookies" – an effort some suspect may already be in place on White House sites.
A ban on such tracking by the federal government on Internet users has been in place since 2000, however, the White House Office of Management and Budget now wants to lift the ban citing a "compelling need."

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In fact, according to the Electronic Privacy and Information Center, federal agencies have negotiated agreements and contracts with social networking sites like Google, YouTube, SlideShare, Facebook, AddThis, Blist, Flickr and VIMEO to collect information on visitors for federal websites. All of these private companies are known to have agreements with federal agencies, but the public has never seen them.

In public comments submitted to the Office of Management and Budget, EPIC notes it has obtained documents that show federal agencies have negotiated these contracts with the private sector in violation of "existing statutory privacy rights." Those agencies include: Department of Defense, Department of the Treasury, and the National Security Agency.

There are suspicions the White House is already involved.

According to Obama "technology czar" Vivek Kundra, the "compelling need" driving this major policy reversal is the administration's desire to create "more open" government and to "enhance citizen participation in government."



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 Posted: Fri Sep 4th, 2009 12:39 am

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Hello deRodes!

  Thanks for this.  Witnessing this progression of Big Brother is going at rapid speed

with stuff like this.. Amazing this idiot.  I can see how this might be helpful for spying

on the terrorists but they use secret code words so it could not help I would think.

 

My lates outrage is his address to the schools. After the Washington Post article

and all the outrage the White House now says he will change his request for the

children to write him a letter telling him how they can help???!!! To Kindergarten and

up.  Needless to  say all the people are talking about how the Communists and Hitler

and Stalin went after the youth.

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 Posted: Fri Sep 4th, 2009 02:32 am

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Chilling.  No way will I visit the Whitehouse website now.  I emailed Bush all the time, knowing I was kept anonymous,  and told him exactly what I felt about the various policies.  Bush had samples of emails read daily and all emails were scanned to compile daily opinion  summaries.  I did that once for Obama and they sent me spam ever since!



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Visit it one more time to verify that his age is 52 at one site and 48 at the other.

Did his mother take a newborn or a four-year-old to Seattle with her to go to study anthropology at the university there?

I think it was a four-year-old, one born outside of the US.



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WEll that is a bomb....!

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You're welcome, QueenB!

 
Obama wants a sea of socialist brown shirts

By Dr. Laurie Roth

Obama is planning to speak with our kiddies live from the White House Sept. 8th at 12:00 Eastern time. Secretary Arne Duncan sent a letter to School Principals announcing the 20-minute speech by the President and offering questions and suggestions for discussion. All of us can apparently watch this socialist, manipulative speech to our children. The address will be streamed live.

The Dept. of Education is expecting our kids to read books on Barack Obama and his special life. This is supposed to happen before the speech. One of these books is Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope. Let’s have a moment of silence. In reading excerpts from this book you would think you were reading about Abraham or Jesus Christ. It is the story of a disenfranchised, almost hopeless black man who miraculously rose up through the ranks with the motto “Yes! We can!” You can read a few of the Messiah set up excerpts at the PUMA site taken from the official publisher.

Ever since Barack Obama was young, Hope has lived inside him. From he beaches of Hawaii to the streets of Chicago, from the jungles of Indonesia to the plains of Kenya, he has held on to Hope. Even as a boy, Barack knew he wasn’t quite like anybody else, but through his journeys he found the ability to listen to Hope and become what he was meant to be: a bridge to bring people together.
His mama, white as whipped cream; his daddy, black as ink…

He was there in Chicago because he cared about these people. They were his family. People in Kenya were his family. Indonesians were his family. And no matter where he was, the world was his home. And who he was could be summed up in one word: loveable.

Let us catch them young, inspire them to support the underdog, struggling minority who made it to the top with hope and dreams. Never mind that Obama, though not raised in a traditional family, went to the finest and private schools and high end Universities, has owned million dollar homes for years, made tons of money for years and has millions in the bank. What a suffering horror show that reflects most of America!

Of course Obama will plant dreams in the children of internationalism, globalism, hope against all odds and he of course will be the messiah and encourager of all that. No doubt he will urge them to work hard in school, dream big and give back some to Uncle Sam/Obama in exchange for future college tuition. Naturally, he will determine where they serve, what pittance they get paid and what freedoms they give up while doing that service for the king and Messiah. Could this service eventually include turning friends and family in for disagreeing with the messiah?

This is classically what we saw in Germany by Hitler. He created his brown shirts throwing out dreams, hopes and promises in exchange for loyalty. He got it all right! The youth thought they were doing their duty, securing their future and serving their brave and honorable President. Obama assume the position. Oh yes, the suffering servant already has and is acting like a dictator but the poles continue to show ground being lost with the American people SO let us go for the kiddies.

I predict a series of talks to our children from the President in the months ahead. I called my children’s schools today and our Superintendent’s office to find out their exact plans and announce that I would be in their class that day listening in and taking notes. I highly suggest you either pull your kids out of class that day or show up with them and discuss the speech with them thoroughly.







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Look at what they want them to read before they hear him speak!  Oh my holy Jesus

have mercy on this megolomaniac.

All our black children have never had a successful person to read about of color!!??

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Phil , we can count on you to come up with the graphics!!  Oh lord , If this was posted on Now Public ...?????????

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The state ideological apparatuses of the secular government we have now is beginning to assimilate the trappings and symbols of religion.   Christians can smell a rat a mile away and Jung discussed this in his books such as The Undiscovered Self, but people without a strong knowledge of the existence of the authority that is higher than any mortal is susceptible to the mass-minded thinking the government desires to evoke.



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Queenie and I have both read that book, and I, by some twist of fate, have two copies of it.

In that book Jung says that only about 40% of the population is mentally sane, judging from the results of plebiscites.

I would like to know which ones he looked at and how his logic went, based on the data.

Clearly, the independents who "fell" for Obama are capable of recovering from the "possession", while a good 40% are not and will go down with his ship.



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