BIG BUSINESS GONE WILD, OR DEEP STATE?
COMPILATION AND COMMENTARY
BY LUCY M WARNER
MARCH 13, 2017
March 13, 2017
ABOUT THOSE TRUMP WIRETAPS, STARTING WITH THE LATEST STORY – WE’RE GETTING USED TO THE WHITE HOUSE STAFF COMING BEFORE THE PRESS AND EXPLAINING WHAT HE REALLY MEANT. THIS IS GETTING TIRESOME. IT’S TIME TO IMPEACH HIM. WE DID NOT ELECT A LIAR OR JESTER IN CHIEF, I DON’T BELIEVE.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/13/politics/sean-spicer-donald-trump-wiretapping/
Spicer: Trump didn't mean wiretapping when he tweeted about wiretapping
By Jeremy Diamond, CNN
Updated 3:58 PM ET, Mon March 13, 2017
(CNN)The White House on Monday walked back a key point of President Donald Trump's unsubstantiated allegation that President Barack Obama wiretapped his phones in Trump Tower during the 2016 election.
Namely, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Trump wasn't referring to wiretapping when he tweeted about wiretapping.
"I think there's no question that the Obama administration, that there were actions about surveillance and other activities that occurred in the 2016 election," Spicer said. "The President used the word wiretaps in quotes to mean, broadly, surveillance and other activities."
6 days later, no more clarity from Trump on wiretapping claims
Wiretapping is a narrowly defined surveillance activity that involves tapping into "a telephone or telegram wire in order to get information," according to Merriam-Webster dictionary.
Spicer also said that Trump was referring to the Obama administration broadly -- and not accusing Obama of personal involvement -- when he tweeted that "Obama had my 'wires tapped' in Trump Tower" and accused Obama of being a "bad" or "sick guy."
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Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my "wires tapped" in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!
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Is it legal for a sitting President to be "wire tapping" a race for president prior to an election? Turned down by court earlier. A NEW LOW!
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How low has President Obama gone to tapp my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!
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Spicer's comments came on the same say [sic] as the deadline for the Justice Department to provide evidence to the House Intelligence Committee to back up Trump's claim. The White House has so far refused to provide any evidence, and numerous former officials have denied the existence of any warrant to wiretap Trump Tower.
A week earlier, Spicer said Trump's tweet "speaks for itself" and declined to provide any further explanation.
Tapper: Not even Trump's team believes claims 01:45
But Monday, Spicer was open to providing an interpretation for Trump's tweet, saying the President told Spicer he was referring to means of surveillance beyond wiretapping in his tweets accusing Obama of doing just that.
Spicer doesn't reject concept of 'Deep State'
But in each of the four tweets Trump fired off leveling the accusation, Trump referred specifically to phone tapping -- and only used quotation marks in two of those.
"Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my 'wires tapped' in Trump Tower just before the victory," Trump said in his first tweet.
"Is it legal for a sitting President to be 'wire tapping' a race for president?" he asked in the next.
Then, Trump tweeted that Obama "was tapping my phones in October" and had stooped low "to tapp (sic) my phones during the very sacred election process."
Kellyanne Conway full interview on New Day 20:32
But Spicer was not the only White House official to provide an alternative definition of the word "wiretap" despite Trump's clear language.
White House counselor Kellyanne Conway also addressed the wiretapping claims in an interview Sunday with the Bergen County Record, suggesting that other covert surveillance methods used by the CIA -- as revealed by Wikileaks last week -- could have been used in Trump Tower by the Obama administration.
5 memorable moments from Kellyanne Conway on "New Day"
"Do you know whether Trump Tower was wiretapped?" Bergen County Record columnist Mike Kelly asked Conway on Sunday.
"What I can say is there are many ways to surveil each other," Conway said, before suggesting that surveillance could take place through phones, TVs or "microwaves that turn into cameras."
DEEP STATE –
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/10/politics/trump-deep-state-sean-spicer/
Spicer doesn't reject concept of 'Deep State'
By Kevin Liptak and Hunter Schwarz, CNN
Updated 7:11 AM ET, Sat March 11, 2017
Washington (CNN)Asked whether a "deep state" of entrenched government employees exists, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Friday that some federal employees were working to advance the previous administration's agenda.
"I think that there's no question when you have eight years of one party in office, there are people who stay in government -- and continue to espouse the agenda of the previous administration," Spicer said.
What's a 'Deep State'
"So I don't think it should come as any surprise there are people that burrowed into government during eight years of the last administration and may have believed in that agenda and may continue to seek it," he went on. "I don't think that should come as a surprise."
Spicer denied that the CIA was working to identify those people and remove them from office.
"That's not part of the CIA's mandate under any circumstances," he said.
But to some, "Deep State" has a far more insidious meaning than just government bureaucrats and Obama appointees still working in Washington.
Rep. Mike Kelly, a Pennsylvania Republican, alleged last weekend -- without evidence -- that Obama and his family were living in Washington in an attempt to undermine Trump's presidency.
"He's only there for one purpose and one purpose only and that is to run a shadow government that is totally going to upset the new agenda," Kelly said during an event in his home district.
Obama and his family rented a home in Washington after departing the White House so their youngest daughter could finish high school.
Kelly, in his remarks, alleged that Obama-era federal employees were rejecting the new administration's directives.
"The same people were there and they don't think the new owners or the new managers should be running the ship," he said.
Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Kentucky, told CNN's Kate Bolduan last month he disagreed with "a lot of people here in Washington and maybe some supporters of Trump who say that this is an effort by the Obama administration to undermine the Trump administration."
"I'm worried it's something deeper than that," Massie said. "I'm concerned that it's an effort on those who want a provocation with Russia or other countries to sort of push the president in the direction. So I don't think it's Trump vs. Obama, I think it's really the Deep State vs. the president, the duly elected president."
The phrase, as it's used by Massie, was popularized in Turkey. In 2012, a CNN report described it as a "term many Turks use to refer to alleged criminal networks within security forces and the government bureaucracy." It was first used in The New York Times in reference to Turkey in a 1997 article that defined it as "a set of obscure forces that seem to function beyond the reach of the law."
It has since been used to describe unelected but influential members of groups including the bureaucracy or the military in countries like Egypt and Russia, and increasingly in some circles, the United States.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2017/03/13/conway-suggests-surveillance-trump-went-beyond-phones/Bu8o5p3Hq16QUboCqFtltN/story.html
Conway disputes that she suggested surveillance of Trump went beyond phones
By Associated Press ASSOCAITED PRESS
MARCH 13, 2017
Photograph -- White House counselor Kellyanne Conway
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senior White House adviser Kellyanne Conway says the government has many options available to conduct surveillance against citizens beyond wiretapping.
In an interview with the Bergen County Record published Sunday, Conway had said that people should think beyond wiretapping in terms of monitoring individuals, saying ‘‘there are many ways to surveil each other.’’
Her remarks came after a congressional aide’s statement over the weekend saying the House intelligence committee had asked the Trump administration to provide by Monday evidence that Donald Trump’s phones at Trump Tower in New York were tapped. Trump has alleged that then-President Barack Obama ordered the surveillance — a charge that Obama has denied.
James Clapper, who was Obama’s director of national intelligence, has said that nothing matching Trump’s claims, made in a Twitter post, had taken place.
Conway told the Bergen County Record, ‘‘You can surveil someone through their phones, certainly through their television sets — any number of ways.’’
Conway told ABC’s ‘‘Good Morning America’’ Monday that ‘‘of course I have no evidence for this,’’ saying that’s why there’s a need for an investigation.
‘‘I wasn’t making a suggestion about Trump Tower,’’ she told the network. She said she was answering a question about surveillance ‘‘generally,’’ and without specific reference to the current controversy.
She also tweeted about the interview:
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1/2: On wiretap claims, I have said many times that we are pleased the House/Senate Intel Committees are investigating & will comment after
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2/2: response to Bergen Record was about surveillance articles in news & techniques generally, not about campaign. Headline just wrong.
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FBI director James Comey has privately urged the Justice Department to dispute Trump’s claim but has not come forward to do so himself.
Sen. John McCain, an influential Republican, said Sunday: ‘‘I think the president has one of two choices: either retract or to provide the information that the American people deserve, because, if his predecessor violated the law, President Obama violated the law, we have got a serious issue here, to say the least,’’ the Arizona senator said.
Trump asserted in a tweet earlier this month: ‘‘Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!’’ He continued the allegation against former Obama in other tweets but offered no evidence.
The request for evidence by Monday was made in a letter sent to the Justice Department by the House committee chairman, Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., and the panel’s ranking Democrat, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said the congressional official. The aide wasn’t authorized to discuss the request by name and requested anonymity.
http://www.ketv.com/article/congressional-deadline-arrives-for-doj-evidence-on-trump-wiretap-claims/9125477
Congressional deadline arrives for DOJ evidence on Trump wiretap claims
As Congress' deadline looms, calls for President Donald Trump to produce evidence have grown louder, including by some in his own party
CNN | By: Theodore Schleifer and Manu Raju, CNN
Updated: 8:26 AM CDT Mar 13, 2017
WASHINGTON —
The Department of Justice is under pressure to provide any documents related to President Donald Trump's accusation -- presented so far without evidence -- that the Obama administration wiretapped his phones at Trump Tower during the campaign.
The House Intelligence Community has set a Monday deadline for the DOJ to provide the evidence, a source familiar with the matter has told CNN, and has sent letters throughout the intelligence community this week to obtain records related to Russia.
Former President Barack Obama has denied the allegations through a spokesman, and his former director of national intelligence, James Clapper, also has publicly refuted them. Sources have told CNN that FBI Director James Comey also pushed back against Trump's claim.
Trump has not publicly provided any evidence for his allegations, first made more than a week ago. Sunday night, Kellyanne Conway, a top adviser to the President, appeared to expand the allegations by suggesting to the Bergen Record there could have been even wider spying of the Trump campaign, including the use of microwaves and television sets. Like the President, however, she did not provide any evidence, and later said she was speaking generally about surveillance.
As Congress' deadline looms, calls for Trump to produce evidence have grown louder, including by some in his own party.
"The President has one of two choices: either retract or provide the information that the American people deserve," Sen. John McCain told CNN's Jake Tapper Sunday on "State of the Union." "I have no reason to believe that the charge is true, but I also believe that the President of the United States could clear this up in a minute."
Two congressmen privy to sensitive intelligence information said this weekend that they, too, had no information currently to support Trump's claims.
The House Intelligence Committee's top Democrat, Rep. Adam Schiff, said on ABC's "This Week": "I don't expect we'll see evidence of this."
And House Speaker Paul Ryan, asked directly on CBS News' "Face the Nation" if he had seen evidence of the wiretaps, said: "No."
Conway said Sunday that "surveillance" could go beyond the tapping of phones.
"What I can say is there are many ways to surveil each other," Conway told the Record. "You can surveil someone through their phones, certainly through their television sets --- any number of ways."
She went on to allege that the spying could have been done with "microwaves that turn into cameras," adding: "We know this is a fact of modern life."
Conway also reiterated Trump's request that an investigation into the wiretapping claims be included into a congressional investigation into Russia's alleged meddling in the 2016 election.
Pressed on ABC's "Good Morning America" Monday morning about her comments to the Record, Conway said she was speaking about "surveilling generally" and "wasn't making a suggestion about Trump Tower."
"I have no evidence," Conway said, "but that's why there is an investigation in Congress."
She later tweeted that the Record's headline -- "Kellyanne Conway suggests even wider surveillance of Trump campaign" -- was "just wrong."
"Response to Bergen Record was about surveillance articles in news & techniques generally, not about campaign. Headline just wrong," Conway said.
CNN's Eli Watkins and David Wright contributed to this report.
PROGRAMMABLE HOME DEVICES -- CAN BE GOOD, CAN BE VERY BAD. BE THAT AS IT MAY, I HAVE NO BELIEF AT ALL IN THE IDEA THAT THE BARACK OBAMA THAT I HAVE SEEN REPEATEDLY DEALING WITH NATIONAL AND WORLD AFFAIRS IS A CRIMINAL. TRUMP, NOW THAT'S ANOTHER KETTLE OF FISH.
http://www.snopes.com/2017/03/13/kellyanne-conway-microwave-spying/
Kellyanne Conway Explains Microwave Oven Surveillance Remarks
White House advisor Kellyanne Conway raised eyebrows when she mentioned microwave ovens as possible surveillance tools during a news interview.
By Kim LaCapria
In a 12 March 2017 interview with Bergen County Record columnist Mike Kelly, White House advisor Kellyanne Conway posited that microwaves ovens can be used as surveillance tools, a remark that captured the attention of the news media almost immediately:
Kelly claimed “microwaves … turn into cameras” during the interview at her home in Alpine, New Jersey, which she maintained was “a fact of modern life”:
Conway … suggested that the alleged monitoring of activities at Trump’s campaign headquarters at Trump Tower in Manhattan may have involved far more than wiretapping.
“What I can say is there are many ways to surveil each other … You can surveil someone through their phones, certainly through their television sets — any number of ways.”
Conway went on to say that the monitoring could be done with “microwaves that turn into cameras,” adding: “We know this is a fact of modern life.”
In their coverage of Conway’s assertion regarding microwaves, the Washington Post surmised Conway was referencing recent news involving WikiLeaks and surveillance agencies:
Conway’s reference is apparently to a trove of alleged CIA hacking documents that were released by WikiLeaks last week. One of the tools described how Internet-connected Samsung TVs could effectively be turned into microphones — a tool dubbed “Weeping Angel.”
(For what it’s worth, the former head of the CIA, Michael Hayden, denied that such tools were being used against Americans: “I can tell you that these tools would not be used against an American.”)
So Conway wasn’t totally freelancing here, and she seemed to be riffing off something she had read in the news.
The inference that Conway was accusing former President Barack Obama of having surveilled Donald Trump’s campaign via microwave ovens at Trump Tower was one she disputed in a series of tweets:
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1/2: On wiretap claims, I have said many times that we are pleased the House/Senate Intel Committees are investigating & will comment after
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2/2: response to Bergen Record was about surveillance articles in news & techniques generally, not about campaign. Headline just wrong.
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Conway later appeared on multiple morning news shows and fielded questions about her microwave-related remarks, asserting she did not intend to insinuate President Obama had ordered such technologies be used to monitor Trump. On ABC’s Good Morning America, George Stephanopoulos asked Conway for evidence to support her claims, and Conway replied that she did not have any information to substantiate the claim and stated she was speaking broadly about surveillance in general (not specifically about President Trump and his predecessor).
During a separate television appearance, Conway reiterated that she did not intend to accuse President Obama of having used microwaves to spy on Trump (in the process prompting a new round of media derision for proclaiming that “I’m not in the job of having evidence”):
In response to a similar line of questioning on CNN’s “New Day,” a program Conway and other White House officials have largely avoided in recent weeks, the counselor to the president said it was not her responsibility to provide evidence for an allegation.
“I’m not Inspector Gadget. I don’t believe people are using the microwave to spy on the Trump campaign,” she said. “However, I’m not in the job of having evidence. That’s what investigations are for.”
CNN host Chris Cuomo pushed Conway on the issue, asking her why she even raised the use of household gadgets for surveillance purposes if it were not her intention to imply that Obama had done just that inside Trump Tower. “The question is why were you doing that?” Cuomo said. “Because this goes to personal integrity.”
“I’m allowed to talk about things that are in the news without you questioning anybody’s personal integrity,” Conway replied. Accusations that she intentionally leveled an allegation against Obama without evidence have come from at least in part from “other people who don’t necessarily want Donald Trump to be the president,” she said.
President Trump obliquely referenced the controversy in a 13 March 2017 tweet:
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It is amazing how rude much of the media is to my very hard working representatives. Be nice, you will do much better!
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Kellyanne Conway’s remarks prompted the expected jokes as well as a parody Twitter account:
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God damn it. I think she's on to me. I must have blinked while I was heating up her coffee.
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That's not what your oatmeal told me this morning! https://twitter.com/kellyannepolls/status/841253603335647236 …
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http://abcnews.go.com/Business/household-products-spying/story?id=19974898
9 Household Products That May Be Spying on You
Column by ADAM LEVIN (@adam_k_levin) , Credit.com
Aug. 18, 2013
For Americans concerned about their privacy, the NSA data grabs are daunting, but what about the data grabs happening inside your own home, perpetrated not by the government, but by your coffee machine?
Consider every appliance and every piece of home electronics that you own. Does it gather data about how you use it? Does it connect to the Internet? If so, it could be used to spy on you. Your mobile devices, your TV, and now various other types of home appliances can be wired into a network that can track you. If those networks are hacked, information about your habits and behaviors could be available to people with nefarious goals. The same technological innovation that empowers us also makes us vulnerable to those who would exploit such advances against us.
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Your Television
Ever wonder how your TV remembers what shows you've watched, which ones you plan to watch, and how long you watched last episode of "Homeland" before falling into nightmare-ridden sleep?
It does it all by connecting to the Internet. Therein lies its weakness. Computer Security firm ReVuln proved last year that it could hack Samsung's newest televisions, accessing users' settings, installing malware on the TVs and any connected devices, and harvesting all the personal data stored on the machine. They could even switch on the camera embedded in the TV and watch viewers watching the set.
Samsung says it patched the security flaw. That said, who's to say that Samsung is the only brand to have experienced a security issue?
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Your Cable Box
Companies including Google and Verizon are reportedly developing cable boxes with built-in video cameras and motion sensors. The idea is that if the camera detects two people canoodling on the couch, they might be delivered ads for a new romantic movie, while a roomful of children would see ads for an Air Hogs remote control helicopter.
If that freaks you out, think what government intelligence agencies or hackers could do with such a device.
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Your Dishwasher, Clothes Dryer, Toaster, Clock Radio and Remote Control
This may sound fantastical, but no less an expert on spying than former CIA Director David Petraeus believes that even mundane appliances like your dishwasher could soon be used to gather intelligence about you. Appliances including dishwashers, coffee makers and clothes dryers all now connect to the Internet. This helps the manufacturers troubleshoot performance and improve energy efficiency, and it gives owners the chance to order a fresh cup of coffee or a dry bin of clothes from their phone, computer or tablet.
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Knowing when you make your coffee sounds innocuous enough, but that little piece of data could help snoopers geo-locate you, and learn your habits and schedule for all manner of malfeasance. Petraeus told a group of investors last year that such technology will be "transformational" for spies --could "change our notions of secrecy." I think it could help criminals, too.
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Your Lights
The same technology that enables monitoring of your home appliances also could allow would-be spies to monitor your lights. In addition to tracking your schedule, taking control of your home lighting system could help robbers invade your home by turning off the lights and keeping them off during an invasion.
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Your Heat and A/C
The Nest thermostat tracks homeowners' heat and air-conditioning habits, learns their preferences, and over time tweaks their HVAC systems to reach the desired results with the least electricity. Users also can change the settings via the Internet when they're away from home.
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Hackers already have started taking apart the Nest thermostat to customize it. Thieves and snoopers could do the same.
6.
Security Alarms
For years, home security systems were hardwired to a service provider's operations center. Now they are wirelessly connected to many users' phones and tablets. This allows us to keep tabs on our homes at all times, from all places. But what's the point of having a security system if robbers can hack it?
7.
Insulin Pumps and Pacemakers
Forget about hacking your house. What about hacking your body? In 2012, White Hat hacker Barnaby Jack, recently deceased, proved he could kill a diabetic person from 300 feet away by ordering an insulin pump to deliver fatal doses of insulin. This summer he announced he could hack pacemakers and implanted defibrillators.
"These are computers that are just as exploitable as your PC or Mac, but they're not looked at as often," Jack told Bloomberg. "When you actually look at these devices, the security vulnerabilities are quite shocking."
8.
Smartphones
Think of every spy gadget dreamt up by Q in James Bond films. Microphone, still and video camera, geo-locating device, and computer software that can steal your personal passwords, hack your bank accounts, hijack your email and take control of other devices.
Your smartphone has all these things. In addition, the U.S. military disclosed last year it created an app called PlaceRaider that uses a phone's camera, geo-location data and its accelerometer to create a 3D map of the phone's surroundings.
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Your Tablet and Computer
Most tablets and computers have all the same tools as smartphones and some have even more. If your phone can spy on you, they can too. Even more so than our smartphones, we unwittingly stuff them with every imaginable tidbit of sensitive personal information from lists of passwords, to tax and financial information, to geo-tagged photographs, to the innermost secrets that we exchange with our friends.
Our privacy is threatened. Every day our most precious asset (our identity) is put at risk by us and those who wish to track our every movement, word, thought and search. We need a national conversation – where everyone participates – about just how widespread such monitoring has become. General Petraeus is dead on. Such devices could and inevitably will change our notions of secrecy. Let's not simply opt for progress without proper safeguards.
This work is the opinion of the columnist and in no way reflects the opinion of ABC News.
Adam Levin is chairman and cofounder of Credit.com and Identity Theft 911. His experience as former director of the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs gives him unique insight into consumer privacy, legislation and financial advocacy. He is a nationally recognized expert on identity theft and credit.
COULD THIS BE “FAKE NEWS,” MEANT TO SHAME CONWAY WITH AN IGNORANT COMMENT? MAYBE AND MAYBE NOT. I AM SURPRISED THAT A LITTLE KNOWN NEWSPAPER CALLED BERGEN RECORD, OF THE GANNETT PUBLICATION FAMILY, SERVING THREE COUNTIES IN NEW JERSEY, HAD AN ACTUAL INTERVIEW WITH TRUMP REPRESENTATIVE KELLYANNE CONWAY. IF THEY ARE AFRAID OF CNN AND OTHER MAINSTREAM SOURCES, THEY COULD HAVE GONE TO BREITBART. MORE INTERESTINGLY, IN SEARCHING THE TITLE “BERGEN RECORD,” I FOUND THAT IT IS THE ORIGINAL SOURCE NOTED ON GOOGLE FOR THE INTERVIEW, AND THAT THERE IS A TRULY INSCRUTABLE FOREIGN LANGUAGE VERSION OF IT. FROM GOOGLING THE LANGUAGE THERE, I CONCLUDED THAT IT IS PROBABLY IS TURKISH, A NATION WHICH HAS POLITICAL TIES WITH RUSSIA. SO ARE FOREIGN LANGUAGE SPEAKERS ESPECIALLY INTERESTED?
THERE BEING A TURKISH LANGUAGE SOURCE REMINDS ME OF ANOTHER ARTICLE RECENTLY ON RUSSIA RELATED REPORTS OF AMERICAN NEWS AS BEING ORIGINATORS OF “FAKE NEWS,” OR DISINFORMATION. DOMAIN NAMES WERE DISCOVERED TO BE FROM ALBANIA, MACEDONIA AND ELSEWHERE, YIELDING FALSE REPORTS, SOME PRETTY BIZARRE. SEE: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-38168281, “The city getting rich from fake news,” By Emma Jane Kirby, BBC News. SEE ALSO YESTERDAY’S ARTICLE, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-fake-news-russia_us_58c34d97e4b0ed71826cdb36, WHICH STATES THE SANDERS CAMPAIGN OF 2016 WAS ALSO SO TARGETED. GIVEN WHAT HAPPENED TO CLINTON AT THE DNC, THIS COULD INDEED BE RUSSIANS MANIPULATING AMERICAN NEWS FOR TRUMP’S AND RUSSIA’S ADVANTAGE.
ABOUT THE BERGEN RECORD, GOOGLE MENTIONS OTHER NEWSPAPERS THAT USED THEM AS THEIR SOURCE FOR THIS SAME STORY, AND THAT THEY PROBABLY BROKE IT. THE CONWAY INTERVIEW WAS APPARENTLY WITH THEIR STAFF. IT SEEMS SO, ACCORDING TO KETV.COM, IN OMAHA, NEBRASKA, AND USA TODAY. I CAN’T HELP WONDERING WHY.
CONWAY’S MENTION OF “MICROWAVES TURNING INTO CAMERAS,” SOUNDS RIDICULOUS, THOUGH BOTH TVS AND MICROWAVE OVENS DO USE MICROWAVES IN THEIR REGULAR FUNCTIONING. THE ARTICLE I READ THAT PROBABLY CONWAY IS REFERRING TO – FROM A FEW WEEKS AGO -- STATES THAT BOTH CAMERAS AND AUDIO RECORDING DEVICES ARE EMBEDDED IN SOME MODERN HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES (CERTAIN BRAND NAMES) TO ALLOW THEM TO RECEIVE AND RESPOND TO VOICE COMMANDS; AND THAT THEY CAN ACTUALLY COLLECT DATA FOR THIRD PARTIES, ALLEGEDLY TO GUIDE THEIR ADVERTISING IN THE SAME WAY THAT COMPUTERS CAN KEEP TRACK OF WHAT WE ARE WRITING BY CAPTURING OUR KEYSTROKES AND THEREFORE THE INFORMATION CONTENT.
IT HAS ALSO BEEN ALLEGED THAT BOTH TVS AND COMPUTERS HAVE BEEN USED IN STALKING PEOPLE, LIKE YOUR TEENAGED DAUGHTER, CATCHING HER CHANGING CLOTHING, ETC. FACEBOOK WAS ACCUSED OF ACTUALLY COLLECTING AND USING OUR KEYSTROKES, HOPEFULLY FOR THEIR ADVERTISING EFFORTS. PERSONALLY, I DON’T GET TOO SPAZZED OUT ABOUT IT ANY MORE. I THINK THEY PROBABLY REALLY ARE USING IT FOR ADVERTISING, AND NOT TO COLLECT ENOUGH EVIDENCE AGAINST ME TO PUT ME INTO A BLACK SITE PRISON SOMEWHERE. BESIDES, MY APPLIANCES ARE ALL VERY OLD AND CHEAP, SO THEY ALMOST CERTAINLY HAVE NO CAMERAS THERE.
AS FOR HOME APPLIANCES BEING USED FOR SURVEILLANCE, THERE WAS A RECENT ARTICLE WITHIN THE LAST WEEK, AND A EARLIER ONE, SOME TWO OR THREE MONTHS AGO AS WELL. THAT ARTICLE MENTIONED MODERN TVS, COMPUTERS, MICROWAVES AND REFRIGERATORS AS HAVING EITHER CAMERAS OR RECORDING DEVICES WITHIN THEIR STRUCTURE, TO BE COMMAND-READY FOR RECEIVING VOICE INSTRUCTIONS AS TO THEIR FUNCTIONING. THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE WHEELCHAIR BOUND, AND CAN’T BE GETTING UP TO TURN OFF THE MICROWAVE WHO WOULD BE INTERESTED IN THIS. THE IDEA OF AUTOMATED HOUSES THAT DON’T REQUIRE HUMAN INTERVENTION IS BEING EXPLORED, AS ARE SELF-DRIVING CARS.
THOSE THINGS WERE FIRST MENTIONED SOME THIRTY YEARS AGO IN SCIFI, BUT ONLY NOW ARE THEY A REALITY. THAT ARTICLE DID MENTION SOMETHING DISTURBING TO ME, THAT ONES’ PRIVATE CONVERSATIONS ARE OR CAN BE STORED AND ACCESSED, WITH THE IDEA OF COLLECTING INFORMATION FOR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. THE ARTICLE DIDN’T SAY EXACTLY WHO IS COLLECTING THAT DATA. I DON’T WANT TO THINK IT’S THE NSA, FBI OR ONE OF THE THIRTEEN OR SO OTHER SECRET US GOVERNMENT BODIES, MENTIONED SEVERAL WEEKS AGO, IN ANOTHER ARTICLE. THE FACT THAT SUCH A DEVICE COULD BE USED TO SPY ON PEOPLE IS OUT THERE, BUT THE ARTICLE I SAW STOPPED SHORT OF SAYING IT ACTUALLY IS BEING SO USED.
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194.823 Pazar[1]
Resmî site NorthJersey.com
The Record (günlük konuşma dilinde The Bergen Record veya The Record of Hackensack[2]), Hackensack, New Jersey'de yayımlanan günlük bir gazete. New Jersey'deki günlük gazeteler arasında en çok tiraja sahip ikinci gazetedir, en çok tiraja ise The Star-Ledger gazetesi sahiptir.[3] North Jersey Media Group'un yayınlarından biridir. Woodland Park merkezli Herald News, daha çok Passaic County bölgesinde hizmet veren bir gazete olup, The Record'un bir yayınıdır.
Kaynakça[değiştir | kaynağı değiştir]
^ "2007 Top 100 Daily Newspapers in the U.S. by Circulation" (PDF). Burrelles Luce. 2007-03-31. 21 Mayıs 2012 tarihinde kaynağından arşivlendi. Erişim tarihi: 2007-05-30.
^ See, e.g., 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary
^ New Jersey Press Association: Member Newspapers - Dailies, erişimtarihit 19 Şubat 2007
Dış bağlantılar[değiştir | kaynağı değiştir]
NorthJersey.com, The Record'un websitesi
North Jersey Media Group (ana şirket) websitesi
TRANSLATED:
https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Record_(Bergen_County)
The Record (Bergen County)
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
See the Record page for other meanings of the title .
The Record
Kind Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner North Jersey Media Group
Editor Frank Scandale
General center 150 River Street
Hackensack , New Jersey 07601 United StatesUnited States of America
Circulation 170.408 Daily
194.823 Sunday [1]
Official site NorthJersey.com
The Record ( The Bergen Record or The Record of Hackensack [2] ) isa daily newspaper published in Hackensack , New Jersey . Among the daily newspapers in New Jersey, the second has the most circulation, the most circulation is The Star-Ledger . [3] It is one of the publications of North Jersey Media Group . Herald News ,based in Woodland Park , is a newspaper in the area of Passaic County and a publication of The Record .
References [ change | Change source ]
^ "2007 Top 100 Daily Newspapers in the US by Circulation" (PDF). Burrelles Luce. 2007-03-31. On 21 May 2012 from sources archived . Access date: 2007-05-30 .
^ See, eg, 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary
^ New Jersey Press Association: Member Newspapers - Dailies, Accessibility Date 19 February 2007
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BurrellesLuce
BurrellesLuce
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History[edit]
Founded in 1888 by Frank Burrelle and Robert Luce, BurrellesLuce is one of many media monitoring service providers in the United States. This company’s CEO and chairman is Robert C. Waggoner. BurrellesLuce is headquartered in Florham Park, New Jersey and has offices throughout the United States.[1]
Timeline[edit]
In 1888, Burrelle's Press Clipping Bureau was founded by Frank Burrelle in New York City. Around the same time, Robert Luce founded Luce Press Clippings in Boston.[2]
In 1935, Burrelle's achieved national newspaper coverage.[2]
In 1951, Southwest Clippings—operated by the French family—purchased Luce Press Clippings from Harvard.[2]
In 1984, Burrelle's created Express to send the day’s headlines and brief news summaries to executives via fax machine.[2]
In 1994, Burrelle's introduced NewsAlert, an online news monitoring service.[2]
In 2003, Burrelle's Information Service and Luce Press Clippings merged, forming what is known today as BurrellesLuce.[2]
In 2007, BurrellesLuce introduced a new web portal called BurrellesLuce 2.0.[2]
In 2008, BurrellesLuce compiled a ranking chart showing the circulation of the top 100 newspapers, blogs, and consumer magazines.[3][not in citation given]
AS THE WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE ABOVE SHOWS, BURRELLESLUCE IS NOT A SHADOWY AND DANGEROUS ORGANIZATION, BUT A CLIPPINGS SERVICE SOME USE TO TRACK THE MENTIONS OF THEIR NAME IN THE PRESS. I USED TO KNOW A MAN WHO USED ONE OF THOSE.
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