Along with fellow ‘new wave’ science fiction writers like Brian Aldiss and Michael Moorcock, Ballard revolutionised the way British people saw ourselves, our present and our futures. He recognised that the real danger to society was not some distant dystopia, but a current and ongoing nightmare of consumer-driven ennui, a lethargic cultureless space of casual selfishness and lost ideals. Anticipating academics like Baudrillard and Marc Auge by some years, he saw the future in what Nairn called ’subtopia’: suburbs, industrial ruins, traffic islands, gated communities. He once said that the airport departure lounge was the apotheosis of western civilisation and its ultimate destination.

While I have not read every Ballard book, I have read a few and one of my most favorite is High Rise, which I have heard might be a movie one day. Imagine living in a high rise as civilization degenerates, and the building turns into a society of sorts with the rich living at the top, the middle class in the middle, and the lower class at the bottom. It’s been 20 years since I read it and I have to pull it out again.

Empire of the Sun was a good movie set in Japan during the war, and Crash was from 1996, though I think that’s the one with Robert Blake that Eraserhead made?

I searched Blockbuster for The Atrocity Exhibition & Low Flying Aircraft and they were no where to be found. Maybe more of his books will be made to film. It’s estimated he wrote 40,000,000 words, which is a lot of writing.

JG, we will miss you…

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Seems there are spy schools in S. Korea to train people how to spy on their neighbors and how to operate hidden cameras to record the really serious crimes like, get ready, smoking cigarettes in the a non-specific smoking area or giving away, GASP, free plastic bags at the store. Line up the bastards and shoot them at dawn, this is serious crimes here…

The British have also been encouraging people to rat out people who illegally dump and pay some hefty rewards of 500 Pounds or $758!

UK Children aged eight enlisted as council snoopers (report ‘enviro-crime’) Daily Telegraph ^ | Sept 6, 2008

The youngsters are among almost 5,000 residents who in some cases are being offered £500 rewards if they provide evidence of minor infractions.

One in six councils contacted by the Telegraph said they had signed up teams of “environment volunteers” who are being encouraged to photograph or video neighbours guilty of dog fouling, littering or “bin crimes”.

We can only imagine this crap coming to a city near you. However, with a small device called a hidden camera detector like the LensFinder RF Dual Mode Hidden Camera Detector, you can rat out the rats.

The LensFinder Dual Mode Bug Detector is unlike any other hidden camera or hidden bug detector, in that you can detect hidden microphones, and wired or wireless cameras, in a small and discrete device that fits in a purse or pocket, and costs less than $200.

For finding hidden RF bugs (tiny microphones that transmit your conversation over regular radio waves), which are sold openly in China/Taiwan, the Lens Finder will let you know when it finds one and can detect frequencies between 1Mhz to 6Ghz.

AM & FM radio transmits between 30–300 MHz. Most wireless cameras operate in 2.4GHz, though there are 1.2MHz and 5.8MHz cameras also. The LensFinder finds most bugs and wireless cameras, except ultra high frequency devices.

The unit will identify the frequencies one of two ways, with 4 LED’s that light as you get closer to the signal, and a vibration mode.

For finding hidden cameras, wired or wireless, the unit also operates as a laser scanner that will set off a series of 4 Bright LED’s that will flash brightly. Don’t look at them, instead point them at where you think a camera lens might be, and look through the protected lens. The blinking lights will reflect back to you when you point them at a camera lens.

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Protecting your privacy…

Christopher Winkler
Spy & Surveillance Expert
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And for a while, this creature, the Federal Government did exactly what they envisioned. It allowed the 13 States (Actual separate countries), to flourish and they delegated few and separate powers as outlined in the Constitution and Bill of rights to the newly created Government. Anything not mentioned was to revert back to the States or the People. People were free to pursue their dreams without the Government on their backs taxing them and telling them what they can and can’t do.

Fast forward to the 21st Century; it appears we have come full circle. Slowley, silently, the people who we elected to protect us have screwed us. Tens of thousands of laws control us and mandate how we are to act, and to coerce trillions of our dollars as tribute to the Great and Powerful Oz. Don’t resist, or you get thrown in a cell somewhere to rot under recent laws that pretty much shred the Constitution.

I have always been a Libertarian, and the only time I vote Republican is when there is a huge chance there would be a Democrat President, and that makes me do my part to prevent it. I don’t approve of much of what George W. has done, as it’s as bad as what any Democrat can do; stifle free speech, make us criminals for breathing, and grow the Government by leaps and bounds.

Now we have two candidates that are on opposite sides of the political spectrum; One is the leftest of the left, a hardcore Socialist, Marxist, and Fascist. The other is an old Government war pig who is an entrenched insider.

Yet again we have to choose between the lesser of two evils. With the country basically dissing Ron Paul, and saying we do not care about smaller government, less taxes, and to be left alone. What is scary is how far Socialism has spread in the USA since the Founders created this experiment.

Now we have Obama who wants to “spread the wealth around,” who wants to take from me my hard earned pay, and give to someone who won’t work. Obama wants to give tax refund checks to people who don’t pay taxes, to give away trillions of dollars to guarantee an education, health care, and to save the world.

While all these things are noble, no where is he or anyone in the US Government authorized to do this in the Constitution! They do it and no one complains, so it becomes accepted.

Everything FDR did is repugnant to the Constitution and this carries on to this day. We allow these treasonous acts to perpetuate and no one does anything about it. Welfare, Medicare, Social Security, entitlements, none of that is the job of the Federal Government, yet there is a growing Socialist class that feels the Government owes them everything.

And when I hear that Obama wants to take my taxes that are stolen from me and given to leeches, then send trillions of dollars to Africa, and basically pay people to vote for him, that is the last straw.

I really don’t care if this upsets you because what this jerk is proposing upsets me VERY MUCH. Oh, did I forget, he has little, if any experience running anything. Heck, Sara Palin has more experience running governments than Obama has. His resume is paper thin and if a white man tried to run on such lack of experience, his name would be ignored.

But Obama, he has been groomed for his greatest role and the powers behind the scene expect him to be their puppet. He is an actor, a charlatan, shyster, and a flim-flam man. Obama has spend his entire life in collage or in jobs where he never really had to run anything. He has never run a business, does not know what it’s like to meet a payroll, hire people, or even run a city, county, or state.

Obama has no military experience, and naively thinks he can negotiate with the enemy as our commander in chief. John F. Kennedy did that, and after that, the Russians almost put missiles in Cuba. As a Veteran, this guy would be a joke as a commander in chief.

He has always been around academia or government and I just read this interesting ebook from Dan Kennedy, who puts into words the nail in the coffin on why you should NOT vote for Obama.

Read this and weep: http://www.dankennedypolitics.com/obama.pdf

Christopher Winkler
EyeSpyPro.com

‘Surveillance-Industrial Complex’ Turbo-Charging Government Monitoring
The government is rapidly increasing its ability to monitor average Americans by tapping into the growing amount of consumer data being collected by the private sector, according to a major report released today by the American Civil Liberties Union.

It has a great report from the ACLU called: “The Surveillance-Industrial Complex: How the American Government is Conscripting Businesses and Individuals in the Construction of a Surveillance Society”

Happy Reading!

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Christpher Winkler
Spy & Surveilance Product Expert
EyeSpyPro.com

It seems the FBI has developed a secretive snitch network called InfraGard, which is made up of large corporations, bankers, utility companies; mainly companies that maintain or own the infrastructure of the country. It also includes 350 of the Fortune 500.

The FBI Deputizes Business
Today, more than 23,000 representatives of private industry are working quietly with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. The members of this rapidly growing group, called InfraGard, receive secret warnings of terrorist threats before the public does—and, at least on one occasion, before elected officials. In return, they provide information to the government, which alarms the ACLU. But there may be more to it than that. One business executive, who showed me his InfraGard card, told me they have permission to “shoot to kill” in the event of martial law.

Shoot to kill? Us? Martial law? Why on earth would we ever need that to come up? I don’t think the Founders of our country ever intended it’s little baby, the Republic to have the capability to change into a tyrannical government. While the people have slept for 150 years, things have slowly changed and we no are longer living in the land of the free. You did read the Martial Law Survival Guide over @ The Bacon Report?

This secret network is closed to us, the People who created the FBI in the first place. Well, we didn’t create the FBI, we created a Government that is suppose to serve us & it created the FBI.

Their website, www.infragard.net, looks innocent enough:

BECOME A MEMBER OF INFRAGARD

The benefits of joining InfraGard include:

Network with other companies that help maintain our national infrastructure. Quick Fact: 350 of our nation’s Fortune 500 have a representative in InfraGard.

Gain access to an FBI secure communication network complete with VPN encrypted website, webmail, listservs, message boards and much more.

Learn time-sensitive, infrastructure related security information from government sources such as DHS and the FBI.

Get invitations and discounts to important training seminars and conferences.
Best of all, there is no cost to join InfraGard

Now we have a Government that spys on us and makes us feel like criminals. I am sure AT&T is a member of this elite group, see a couple of our prior blog posts on this subject 38, 47, 67, 74.

This is an ultra elite group which you can only be invited to. Sorry, you, Joe Six-pack are not important enough to belong.

You won’t get the daily briefings on their secret, encrityped network:

The InfraGard website advertises this. In its list of benefits of joining InfraGard, it states: “Gain access to an FBI secure communication network complete with VPN encrypted website, webmail, listservs, message boards, and much more.”

InfraGard members receive “almost daily updates” on threats “emanating from both domestic sources and overseas,” Hershman says.

“We get very easy access to secure information that only goes to InfraGard members,” Schneck says. “People are happy to be in the know.”

People? Which people? Not us serf people, not me. I am not happy when I read stuff like this. I don’t know who to believe regarding 9/11 & the bogus wars on everything imaginable. I tend to not believe the official version of things and rely on other sources.

While on the surface, under all this war on terror rhetoric, this appears to be a good thing by making sure any wacko does not go and shut down the power grid or throw ricine in the water, it appears when they say they can shoot to kill, that to me is where I draw the line. When they enlist companies like AT&T to snoop on us and turn it over to the Government to hurt us, that is where I draw the line.

Where do you draw the line? Let me hear your comments, or do you even care???

Christopher Winkler
EyeSpyPro.com