From 3AM on Wednesday November 25, 2009, until 3AM the following day (US east coast time), WikiLeaks is releasing over half a million US national text pager intercepts. The intercepts cover a 24 hour period surrounding the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York and Washington.
The messages are being broadcast “live” to the global community — sychronized to the time of day they were sent. The first message is from 3AM September 11, 2001, five hours before the first attack, and the last, 24 hours later.
Text pagers are usualy carried by persons operating in an official capacity. Messages in the archive range from Pentagon, FBI, FEMA and New York Police Department exchanges, to computers reporting faults at investment banks inside the World Trade Center
The archive is a completely objective record of the defining moment of our time. We hope that its entrance into the historical record will lead to a nuanced understanding of how this event led to death, opportunism and war.
An index of messages released so far is available here.
The document-leaking site Wikileaks says it’s preparing to release 500,000 intercepted wireless pager messages from a 24-hour period encompassing the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Site operators say they plan to start rolling out the texts beginning at 3:00 a.m. New York time, paced to display as they were broadcast at the corresponding time on September 11, 2001. American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the World Trade Center’s North Tower at 8:46 a.m., and United Airlines Flight 175 hit the South Tower 17 minutes later.
“Text pagers are mostly carried by persons operating in an official capacity,” reads the description on the site. “Messages in the archive range from Pentagon and New York Police Department exchanges, to computers reporting faults to their operators as the World Trade Center collapsed.”
A sample of the alphanumeric pages appeared on the site Tuesday night.
8:36:03 AM
IRAQ SAYS IT SHOOTS DOWN U.S. RECONNAISSANCE PLANE…
“NYPD Ops Div” <|1 PCT WORLD TRADE CENTER|— 1 PCT – WORLD TRADE CENTER – POSSIBLE EXPLOSION WORLD TRADE CENTER BUILDING…
We are bombing Afganistan…
“While we are obligated by to protect our sources, it is clear that the information comes from an organization which has been intercepting and archiving national US telecommunications since prior to 9/11.”
“Whatever the price of the Chinese Revolution it has obviously succeeded… in fostering high morale and community purpose. General social and economic progress is no less impressive….The enormous social advances of China have benefited greatly form the singleness of ideology and purpose…. The social experiment in China under Chairman Mao’s leadership is one of the most important and successful in history.” New York Times, 8-10-1973.
Featuring Queen Elizabeth II and a model Chinese citizen.
China State Construction Engineering Corp, the largest contractor in China, has bagged a subway ventilation project worth about $100 million in New York’s Manhattan area, marking the construction giant’s third order in the United States’ infrastructure space this year.
The contract was given to China Construction American Co, a subsidiary, the Wall Street Journal quoted a source as saying.
“The new project, along with the $410-million Hamilton Bridge project and a $1.7-billion entertainment project it won earlier this year, signals China State Construction’s ambition to tap the American construction market,” said Li Zhirui, an industry analyst at First Capital Securities.
The so-called U-6 number is at the highest rate since becoming an official labor statistic in 1994.
The number dwarfs the statistic most people pay attention to—the U-3 rate—which most recently showed unemployment at 10.2 percent for October, the highest it has been since June 1983…the U-6 rate has expanded at an even more dramatic pace…
Complicating any efforts at revitalization, the city currently finds itself forced to make $4.2 million in monthly payments to UBS and other banks even as Bing is forced to lay off workers and cuts city services, according to a report published last week by Business Week.
In January, Detroit’s credit rating was slashed to junk status, triggering a fine-print clause in a prior deal the city struck to cut interest payments…
As a result, Detroit must cover the $4.2 million-a-month payment before funneling much-needed money to schools, transportation and other city departments.
“‘I wish to apply, under the Data Protecton Act, for any and all CCTV images of my person held within your system. I was present at [place] from approximately [Time] onwards on [date].’”
Click the Picture for more information on the evolution of 'Faceless' (PDF file)
In a society under the reformed‘Real-Time’ Calendar, without history nor future, everybody is faceless. A woman panics when she wakes up one day with a face. With the help of the Spectral Children she slowly finds out more about the lost power and history of the human face and begins the search for its future.
FACELESS was produced under the rules of the ‘Manifesto for CCTV Filmmakers‘. The manifesto states, amongst other things, that additional cameras are not permitted at filming locations, as the omnipresent existing video surveillance (CCTV) is already in operation.
MAKING-OF: The UK Data Protection Act and EU directives give individuals the right to access personal data held in computer filing systems. This includes images captured by CCTV recording systems. For a nominal fee (£10), an individual can obtain a copy of this data: financial or medical records, or video recordings. Other legislation states that the privacy of third parties must be protected. In CCTV recordings, this is done by erasing the faces of other people in the images – hence the ‘faceless’ world
“Faceless”, directed by Manu Luksch, and featuring the voice of Tilda Swinton, is a brave, atmospheric 50-minute film made under the guidelines of Luksch’s Manifesto for CCTV Filmmakers. It has been called ‘miraculous’ and ‘a wonderful metaphor for everyday life’, as well as ‘a novel way of avoiding the costs of creating a movie’.
“The FACELESS Project interrogates the culture of surveillance by
redeploying authentic CCTV images recorded in London, the most surveilled city on Earth. These images are heavily inscribed by laws
relating to privacy and freedom of informaton, and are in effect ‘legal readymades’.
In addition to a 50‐minute manifesto‐driven fiction film, a number of works in different media have emerged from the process of image acquisition.”
Plotting the Course for a New Police State Industry in Michigan
The mission of this group:
“To drive the development and growth of the Homeland Security Industry within the State of Michigan, placing it at the forefront of the State’s economic revitalization.”
Editor’s Note: All behavior and Information is potential evidence somewhere down the line if in the hands of government. The systems described in this overview are only the beginning of a shift toward automated selective enforcement of law. The potential for “function creep” will wow skeptics as well as folks concerned about liberty. “Life-Logging” plus Law Enforcement= Tyranny.
“On a Saturday afternoon last summer, Mark Rasch took his son to his baseball game at a park in Georgetown, Md. The ballpark is located in an area that has zone parking with a two-hour limit. Rasch was forced to park in a spot that was a bit of a hike from the ball field. He later eyed an opening closer to the park and moved his car there.
Game ended, Rasch packed up and was ready to pull away when he noticed a parking enforcement officer writing tickets. “I’m OK, right?” he asked, assuming that because he had moved his car she wouldn’t know he’d been parked in the zone for longer than two hours.
Wrong. The officer not only knew that he had moved his car but when and how long he’d been parked within the zone. Fortunately, she didn’t write him a ticket, as he was about to pull out. But the encounter left Rasch, who is a lawyer and a cybersecurity consultant, a little spooked at the realization of just how much information law enforcement is generating…”
Hollywood Movie Shoots Money Into Area - Make sure you see the video too. 'Red Dawn' filming wrapping up in Grand Ledge - Nice photo of the cave entrance. Film Being Shot at Local Park
Thanks Kelly for these photos of the Grand Ledge location. Looks like a cave or mine of some sort. They are suppose to be filming at this location for the next few days.
Mitch sent in some great photos of some of the cast. Chris Hemsworth (Jed), Edwin Hodge (Danny), Alyssa Diaz (Julie), and Connor Cruise (Daryl) have been seen happily hanging out with thie enemy. Read more for the larger pics.
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