Mass Surveillance and State Control · The Total Information Awareness Project by Cohen, Elliot D. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Mass Surveillance and State Control

Contents Introduction Warrantless Mass Surveillance in a Culture of Control

A Culture of Control A Culture of Autonomy America as a Culture of Control Total Information Awareness A Plea for Constructive Change

1 Post-9/11 America’s Culture of Control

Restriction of Civil Liberties: The PATRIOT Act God as a Political Weapon of Mass Conformity Fear and Hate Mongering Manipulation of Mainstream Media and Telecoms The Net Neutrality Crisis The Supreme Corp Decision Changing the Rhetoric but not the Policy Militarism and Mind Control The Total Information Awareness Project

2 The Total Information Awareness Project

The Office of Strategic Influence The Information Awareness Office and the Total Information Awareness Project The TIA Technologies The Information Awareness Prototype System The National Security Agency’s Deployment of the TIA System The Risk of False Positives The Inherent Defect of TIA Algorithms Adding Full-body Scanning Technology Low Tech, Privacy-respecting Solutions Instead Abridgement of the Fourth Amendment Abridgment of the First Amendment Potential for Election Fraud

3 Legal Pretexts for Continuing the TIA Project*

H.R. 6304 Executive Order 12333 The New FBI Rules The Slippery Slope

4 The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review: Purveyor of “DoubleThink”

Compelled to Spy: The Case of Qwest Communications

5 The Military-Industrial Information Network

Data Warehousing and Data Mining The Google/DoubleClick Merger Facebook’s Ties to DARPA

6 Ignorance is Strength: Complicity of the Corporate Media Behemoths

Consolidation as a Major Factor in Mainstream Media’s Complicity with Government The Rise of Corporate Media Consolidation in America The Replacement of Investigative Reporting with Government Spokespersons Injection of Prepackaged News into the Mainstream Media Embedded Reporters as Purveyors of Government Propaganda Information Warfare: Deployment of TIA Technologies to Control Public Perception The Web of Military-Industrial Inbreeding behind the TIA Project

7 Web of Deceit: The Tenuous Future of Net Neutrality

The Brand X Case: How the Telecoms Took Control of the Internet Pipes While the Mainstream Media Censored the Story 2 The Telecom’s “Pay for Play” Plan: The Next Step toward the Demise of Net Neutrality The Congressional Battle over Net Neutrality Searching for Truth in a Web of Deceit

8 The Global Firewall: Internet as a Military Weapon of Mass Deception and World Domination

Stage 1: Corporatizing the Net Stage 2: Sanitizing/Propagandizing the Net Stage 3: Militarizing the Net Stage 4: Globalizing the Net Echelon: The Global Total Information Awareness Network

9 War is Peace: The War on Terror

America’s Orwellian War on Terror The War on Terror as Pretext for Preemptive War Preemptive War as a Pretext for Seeking Global Dominance

10 Obama’s War on Terror: Not Change We Can Believe In

The War on Terror: Not Really War Unmasking the War on Terror Fighting and Winning Multiple, Simultaneous Major Wars Designing and Deploying Global Missile Defense Systems The Use of Genocidal Biological Warfare for Political Expediency Rejection of the United Nations Control of Space and Cyberspace Ending the War on Terror

11 World Government, Incorporated: The Bilderberg Plan

The Bilderberg Plan The Council on Foreign Relations’ Global Governance Initiative Global Taxation without Representation NAFTA and the Trend toward World Unification From PNAC to Bilderberg: The Emerging One-world Ideology Bilderberg and Mass Media Censorship Bilderberg and the TIA Project The New World Order of Law Enforcement World Government: No Panacea for Liberals

12 The American Death Squads 13 Big Brother is (Literally) Watching You: The Manhattan Security Initiative

The Manhattan Security Initiative The London Ring of Steel Breaching the Divide between Public and Private Zones Shortcomings of Camera Network Technologies to Stop Terrorist Attacks The Need for Technologies that Balance Security against Privacy

14 Beyond 1984: New Frontiers of Mass Surveillance

Cell Phone Surveillance Radio Frequency ID Technologies and Government Surveillance An Emerging Internet of Humans RFID Surveillance Cameras in the City DARPA’s Persistent Stare Exploitation and Analysis System The DARPA/IBM Global Brain Surveillance Initiative

15 Reality and the Politics of Power

Mediated Reality The Control of Higher Education Surveillance Video Cameras in the Classroom Common Confusions about Freedom and Democracy

16 Freedom is Slavery: Authoritarianism and Emotional Manipulation in a Culture of Control

Authoritarianism Media Authoritarians Anonymous Authoritarianism The Kindling of Fear, Intimidation, and Blind Hatred Fearmongering Well Poisoning Tempering Hatred and Fear

17 An Ethics of Belief for a Free America

Clifford’s Ethics of Belief The Psychology of Rational Belief How Politico-Corporate Media Manipulation Works Bad Faith in America

18 Total Information Awareness and the Right to Privacy

Utilitarian attempts to justify the TIA Project The Right to Privacy The Right to Privacy as a Human Right A utilitarian Justification of the Right to Privacy Why the TIA System Wrongfully Violates the Moral Right to Privacy

19 Change We Can Believe In

What Americans Can Do Ending the Pseudowar on Terror Legal changes we can believe in

FISA Reform Retraction of FBI Racial Profiling PATRIOT Act Reform

Getting Rid of Military Commissions Changing the Corporate Landscape The Disposition of the TIA Network Toward a System of Universal Privacy Protection

Appendix Selected Organizations that Advocate for Constructive Change

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU, www.aclu.org) Center for Digital Democracy (CDD, www.democraticmedia.org/) Common Cause (www.commoncause.org) CorpWatch (www.corpwatch.org) Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF, www.eff.org) Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC, http://epic.org/) Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR, www.fair.org) Free Press (www.freepress.net) Media Access Project (MAP) (www.mediaaccess.org/) Open Congress (www.opencongress.org) OpenInternet (http://openinternet.gov/index.html) Project Censored (www.projectcensored.org/) Prometheus Radio Project (www.prometheusradio.org/) Public Citizen (www.citizen.org)

Notes

Introduction Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19

Bibliography Index

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