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Joy Garnett is a painter based in New York. She appropriates news images from the Internet and re-invents them as paintings. Her subject is the apocalyptic-sublime landscape, as well as the digital image itself as cultural artifact in an increasingly technologized world. Her image research has resulted in online documentation projects, most notably The Bomb Project.

Notable past exhibitions include her recent solo shows at Winkleman Gallery, New York and at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC; group exhibitions organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, P.S.1/MoMA Contemporary Art Center, Artists Space, White Columns (New York), Kettle's Yard, Cambridge (UK), and De Witte Zaal, Ghent (Belgium). She shows with aeroplastics contemporary, Brussels, Belgium.

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data-mining from hell :: you are a suspect: - NYTimes


NYTimes (you know it's bad when safire is worried...)
Nov 14, 2002
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/14/opinion/14SAFI.html

You Are a Suspect
By WILLIAM SAFIRE

WASHINGTON If the Homeland Security Act is not amended before passage,
here is what will happen to you:

Every purchase you make with a credit card, every magazine subscription
you buy and medical prescription you fill, every Web site you visit and
e-mail you send or receive, every academic grade you receive, every bank
deposit you make, every trip you book and every event you attend all
these transactions and communications will go into what the Defense
Department describes as "a virtual, centralized grand database."

To this computerized dossier on your private life from commercial sources,
add every piece of information that government has about you passport
application, driver's license and bridge toll records, judicial and
divorce records, complaints from nosy neighbors to the F.B.I., your
lifetime paper trail plus the latest hidden camera surveillance and you
have the supersnoop's dream: a "Total Information Awareness" about every
U.S. citizen.

This is not some far-out Orwellian scenario. It is what will happen to
your personal freedom in the next few weeks if John Poindexter gets the
unprecedented power he seeks.

Remember Poindexter? Brilliant man, first in his class at the Naval
Academy, later earned a doctorate in physics, rose to national security
adviser under President Ronald Reagan. He had this brilliant idea of
secretly selling missiles to Iran to pay ransom for hostages, and with the
illicit proceeds to illegally support contras in Nicaragua.

A jury convicted Poindexter in 1990 on five felony counts of misleading
Congress and making false statements, but an appeals court overturned the
verdict because Congress had given him immunity for his testimony. He
famously asserted, "The buck stops here," arguing that the White House
staff, and not the president, was responsible for fateful decisions that
might prove embarrassing.

This ring-knocking master of deceit is back again with a plan even more
scandalous than Iran-contra. He heads the "Information Awareness Office"
in the otherwise excellent Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency,
which spawned the Internet and stealth aircraft technology. Poindexter is
now realizing his 20-year dream: getting the "data-mining" power to snoop
on every public and private act of every American.

Even the hastily passed U.S.A. Patriot Act, which widened the scope of the
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and weakened 15 privacy laws, raised
requirements for the government to report secret eavesdropping to Congress
and the courts. But Poindexter's assault on individual privacy rides
roughshod over such oversight.

He is determined to break down the wall between commercial snooping and
secret government intrusion. The disgraced admiral dismisses such
necessary differentiation as bureaucratic "stovepiping." And he has been
given a $200 million budget to create computer dossiers on 300 million
Americans.

When George W. Bush was running for president, he stood foursquare in
defense of each person's medical, financial and communications privacy.
But Poindexter, whose contempt for the restraints of oversight drew the
Reagan administration into its most serious blunder, is still operating on
the presumption that on such a sweeping theft of privacy rights, the buck
ends with him and not with the president.

This time, however, he has been seizing power in the open. In the past
week John Markoff of The Times, followed by Robert O'Harrow of The
Washington Post, have revealed the extent of Poindexter's operation, but
editorialists have not grasped its undermining of the Freedom of
Information Act.

Political awareness can overcome "Total Information Awareness," the
combined force of commercial and government snooping. In a similar
overreach, Attorney General Ashcroft tried his Terrorism Information and
Prevention System (TIPS), but public outrage at the use of gossips and
postal workers as snoops caused the House to shoot it down. The Senate
should now do the same to this other exploitation of fear.

The Latin motto over Poindexter"s new Pentagon office reads "Scientia Est
Potentia" "knowledge is power." Exactly: the government's infinite
knowledge about you is its power over you. "We're just as concerned as the
next person with protecting privacy," this brilliant mind blandly assured
The Post. A jury found he spoke falsely before.

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NEWSgrist: Amy Wilson | Conspiracy Theory http://www.newsgrist.net/newsgrist3-18.html


NEWSgrist: Amy Wilson | Conspiracy Theory

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Drudge Report
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Intruders Foundation
Glenn Beck Program: Coincidence or Conspiracy?
Paranoia Magazine: The Conspiracy Reader
NameBase: Citations to names involving assassinations, organized crime, transnational corporations...
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Dick Cheney: Star Report

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Re: Infinite Matrix... (a protest,)


hi yasir --
point taken but I still think the comment was meant to be pretty off-hand
(it's a blog afterall), and not meant to prick in the way you took it. bs
wasn't suggesting that the photograph of mushroom cloud + troops was
taking place in india or karachi (the source as I linked to it is quite
accessible, as you saw: http://www.geocities.com/firstpulseproj/BombProject ); in any case the Smiling Buddha test/s etc. were
all underground tests and the only pics you can get are of huge
subsidence craters... why karachi? because karachi is a nuclear meme. the
guy's a sci-fi author, not a social theorist, so he talks and jokes as
one; he's probably got a policy NEVER to be careful about what he says.
just a guess.

meanwhile, the india/pakistan tests and subsequent saber-rattling were a
freak-out, literally and literarily; they serve as a chilling reminder to
the west that they (we) have no control over this legacy of nukes and
their by-products and to feel comfy even in light of the currently
successful stop-gap of deterrence is difficult regardless... vive la
karachi; vive la nueva york; etc.

best wishes in any case,
joy garnett

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The Bomb Project: Special Announcement: 11/13 Helen Caldicott: New Nuclear Danger (Wed)


The Bomb Project: Special Announcement
http://www.thebombproject.org

...
11/13 Helen Caldicott: New Nuclear Danger (Wed)

Cambridge Forum
3 Church Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
http://www.cambridgeforum.org

Internationally renowned anti-nuclear spokesperson, Dr. Helen
Caldicott,
discusses "The New Nuclear Danger: George W. Bush's Military
Industrial
Complex" at Cambridge Forum, Wednesday, November 13th, 7:30 p.m. at
First
Parish, 3 Church Street, Harvard Square, in Cambridge. A
book-signing
will follow the lecture and discussion.

Moments after the September 11th attacks, the U.S. Department of
Defense
was dangerously close to a nuclear launch. With the majority of the
American public left in the dark, the Defense Department went on
Defcon 2,
its second-highest state of alert, ready to launch thousands of
weapons.
Though the end of the Cold War was supposed to bring the threat of
nuclear
war to an end, Caldicott contends that the threat has reappeared with
the
policies of the current Bush administration. Indebted to arms
manufacturers like Lockheed Martin, whose best interests are served by

aggressive weapons spending, the United States government is fostering

worldwide nuclear proliferation. Are we closer to a nuclear crisis
than we
think?

For 30 years, Dr. Helen Caldicott has been at the forefront of the
anti-nuclear movement. The former director of the Physicians for
Social
Responsibility (the U.S. chapter of the Nobel Prize-Winning
International
Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War) and a Nobel Prize
nominee,
her previous books include the landmark "Nuclear Madness" (Norton,
1978,
revised 1994) and "Missile Envy" (Morrow, 1984). Both the Smithsonian
Institute and Ladies Home Journal named her one of the most
Influential
Women of the Twentieth Century.

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