On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 6:13 PM, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 27 Jan 2015, at 15:29, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: > > > > Hope this video has longer time online than most before being taken down > (apologies to any late readers): > > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4YOEHI8ctw&x-yt-cl=84838260&x-yt-ts=1422327029&feature=player_detailpage#t=3 > > > > I am a late reader, and > > "Citizenfour Edward Sno..." This video is no longer available due to a > copyright claim by Haut et Court. > Sorry about that. > > Pfft... > The removal is minor hypocrisy. Having seen the thing when it was on youtube, and heard how passionate the journalist and the filmmaker were, in doing their jobs for the guy who gave up his job/life.. to clarify growth of surveillance apparatus; with obvious implications of how filmmaker and journalist suffered loss of freedom to travel/communicate/privacy and how they are willing to suffer anything to get the truth out... it is a bit weird how unprofessionally the distribution is handled internationally. I've been hearing about the film for months now, at the same time was unable to figure out where I could go and see it locally. No proper distribution deal, one would think, and then the thing is posted online, which is consistent with "labor of passion and love; the truth has to get out no matter what", which a lot of creative types have to suffer to build a name in early years... and then suddenly, it is removed, with release dates scattered chaotically (in France set to March?). The filmmaker should pick her friends a bit more wisely perhaps when fighting for academy award, which leaves a weird aftertaste, even if I am sympathetic to the advocacy, originating from a background that definitely went overboard with secret police, at which time, big data was not yet an issue. > > > Yes, the NDAA seems to sell the soul of the Land of the Free to the devil, > but Prohibition was already a key step. > > Indeed the war on drug makes drug having abnormal prices and makes them > sold by targetting the poors, the sicks, the kids, directly on each corner > of all cities. The juicy benefits are used to corrupt the system to > continue prohibition, and perpetuate the lies, and to invest in distractive > wars, putting oil on the conflicts on the planet. I can't measure the > degree of dishonesty. The bank and the middle class is taken in hostage. > > Despite this, well thanks to this, there is a very simple algorithm to win > the war on terror: just stopping the war on drug. > > It doesn't mention NDAA specifically, but shows how controversial authority like it can be enforced globally, given increasing efficiency of intelligence services + big data, in view of increased linking of digital services used globally: this becomes "infallible proof machine". Thus it appears to matter less and less that somebody actually did/did not commit a crime, and more that we know his/her mobile phone was close to the street corner where some crime was committed, around the time in question. This increases leverage for established authority to interpret some situation to their advantage as floods of such data are then made available as justification. How to use such power responsibly when we know how sometimes, legal experts will bend certain things? Courts are reduced to secret "yes" committees here, and internal checks into abuse of the systems themselves is apparently carried out by colleagues or peers from the field. The film is worth the time if you like details; but perhaps not if you have to sign your details to some unknown website. No mistake: it takes sides; this is advocacy. Not least for the filmmaker and journalists. I'd still watch it a second time, if only for the chronology/facts of the affair and to see whether I missed something. They should have included the scene where the filmmaker reflects on her travel plans concerning invitation/nomination to academy awards, given that she is on the terror watch list with 1.2 million others ;-) PGC -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
