Group discussion > Is "Big Brother" Watching YOU?
Is "Big Brother" Watching YOU?
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GT
843 days ago |
What do you think about Google Street View cameras in YOUR neighborhood?
- Great Entertainment
- Handy Reference
- Invasion of Personal Privacy
These days, better think twice before doing anything questionable ... or downright illegal ... like cutting down trees in Vancouver! Check this news story from CBC.ca ...
Google camera appears to catch illegal tree-cutting
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Sal
843 days ago |
I'm beginning to wonder real hard about who google is. I wrote on the WF that Kurt Vonegut was a favorite of mine and went to facebook a few hours later and there's ads for his books all over the page. They can zoom my house, which is very coincidental in light of the fact that the census is now putting each home on gps. I'm not liking anything I see going on - GPS on cars - GPS on cellphones, Cameras in parks, on street corners, I bet there is someone somewhere that you can tell me exactly what my underwear looks like. I don't like it......not one bit.
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GT
843 days ago |
Hi, Sal: You have expressed my concerns about "Street Views," GPS, et al, exactly.
While I am apprehensive about all of that intrusion, I have to say I'm probably more a part of the problem than the solution in that I'm not doing anything about it! I'm sitting back, resigning myself to "the inevitable." But is it really inevitable? Or can we rise up and challenge it?
I know this will sound crazy, but I can also envision a not-too-distant time when we will all be made to carry implanted GPS/ID chips of some sort. And just like "Street View" and current GPS technology, it will come upon us subtely, in such a way that it lulls us into accepting it as being inevitable and "natural."
Rise up, oh sheep that we are! Baaa
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ThomM
843 days ago |
I have issues with it myself, though I've never seen a street view of my house that wasn't at least a year old. In fact I just checked again and it shows my house in the summer with a truck in my yard that hasn't been there in 2 years.
But that's just what they are showing me. Who knows how up to date they can be if you have alittle pull with G.
Sal, black?
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Sal
843 days ago |
Ah I feel better now, Thom. You are right, the info is outdated. LOL.
If you go and research mind control patents they had over 150 a few years back. Tommy in the WF made a list of them and I went and looked them all up for more info. If people knew what can be done to them via their cell phones they would go drop them in some very deep water and never go near them again. Anything you hook to a cable has two way capability - working in your undies? LOL - not here, no way. Hahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
And tinfoil isn't just for hats anymore - those vans that drive by to pick up signals? Windows are a problem but you can put some one way mirrors on them, but a coat of any shiny metal will bounce their signals. Why have a hat when you can protect your whole house. I wonder what the satellites would pic up if you did the complete outisde of your home in mirrors? LOL.
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GT
843 days ago |
Hey, Sal ... Stealth homes! Invisible to radar and satellites.
I suspect your home would appear either as a blank spot on the map, or as a burst of light. In either case, it might raise suspicions and you'd get LOTS of those vans driving by!
By the way, "Street View" is static, single-shot pics that can go out of date quickly, as you two have pointed out. But people of the world are also getting into posting Street Video. More people (and communities) are setting up street and neighborhood video cams and streaming it to the Net.
My wife tuned into a network of "Parade Cams" during last year's New Orleans Mardi Gras and could watch people and parades any time of the day for several days. (I don't know if the cams operate year round, or just through Mardi Gras.)
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ThomM
843 days ago |
Every now and then I hit up the different cams set up around NY.
I have a friend that has a few set up out at the Tug Hill Plataeu.
Anyways back to google streetview. Last year I brought it down to where I could look up and down my road. It seemed like when I did that, the camera angle was from the top of the telephone pole across the street from me. No matter what direction I tryed that was always the view point.
Even if we get the outdated images, that doesn't mean current ones don't exist.
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ThomM
843 days ago |
Sal, Jessie Ventura did an interesting episode on mind control.
It wasn't so much about mass mind control as it was about the govt. having 'sleepers' among us.
He has some interesting stuff on his show 'Conspericy Theroy', and some interesting people.
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Sal
843 days ago |
Thom - no access here. What is Jesse's definition of a sleeper?
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ThomM
843 days ago |
Someone who is programed to preform a certain task on a given command.
The thing is they have no idea they are suppose to do it and have no memory of doing it if the task is preformed.
They did a simple demistration using hypnosis, but said the real methods used where more intense involving torture and other methods. He also intervoewed someone who claimed they where a sleeper and cited both the Robert Kennedy and King assanations as cases where the shooters could of been sleepers.
His shows are pretty interesting, some of his sources on different shows are people I see referenced and quoted a lot in the forums. His show on HARP was good, he even tried to gain access to the HARP facility in Alaska.
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Karen Blundell
839 days ago |
I totally disagree with them. I think it's an invasion of privacy...no wonder I want to someday buy my own island...
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GT
839 days ago |
Karen, that would be so cool, wouldn't it? A nice sunny, sandy tropical location (but one outside of the tsunami zone!)
Of course, even there a person would have to watch out for the Eye in the Sky. You'd need some kind of cloaking device or scrambler for all those satellites floating around! 
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Sal
839 days ago |
Thom - I can't remember which patents they are now, but there are patents out that use sonar impulses through cell phones to program people. The CIA has even come out recently and admitted that the Oklahomer bomber was nothing but one of their experiments.
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GT
838 days ago |
Sonar impulses to program people? That would definitely drive me batty!
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Sal
838 days ago |
I don't think they are consciously perceptable, GT. I have no clue how they work, but sonar is becoming a big control field -- there is a weapon now that will kill people within range using sonar and anyone outside of the kill range for a certain distance will be disabled temporarily. Our government has documents allowing them now to use such things on their own population, so if they don't like the way a demonstration is going, they could just let loose the sonar if they think they are in danger. Fortunately we have millions with guns who can shoot further than their sonar harm range. They have similar weapons that actually use lightning now, too.
It's going to be very difficult to take back a government that doesn't want to be contained anymore.
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GT
836 days ago |
That has always been the fear, that the government will command so much power on the basis of "protecting" us and our freedom that it will then be able to turn that power against the people it is supposed to protect.
In times past, the technology wasn't quite sufficient to give any one power group ultimate control. But nowadays ... Sonar? Lightening? Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of a global power consortium!
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Istvan Horvath
830 days ago |
Our cat is sitting in the window. For months - according to the street view 
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Dan C. Rinnert
830 days ago |
I remember reading about a drug raid conducted by police somewhere. Someone apparently reported seeing suspicious plants in this guy's yard. So, without any investigation, the police sent out the SWAT team. If I remember right, the guy was in his backyard and quite shocked by the guns suddenly pointing at him.
He later commented that he felt lucky he hadn't been cleaning his gun or something at the time; otherwise, who knows how things could have turned out.
The suspicious plants he was growing?
They were tomatoes.
How long before more stuff like that happens, especially with people "watching" with Google Street View and stuff like that?
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GT
829 days ago |
Istvan said: "Our cat is sitting in the window. For months - according to the street view"
LOL, we had a cat that could do that! She was an awesome hunter. Could sit watching a spot for hours on end ... and the mouse would always lose!
Here's a news item from The Register, UK, related to Dan's post, above:
Street View pulls Canadian murder scene
The Street View shot is just the after-scene with police tape, etc., but it sounds like it was a bit gruesome for some viewers and it was pulled from Street View.
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GT
829 days ago |
Hey, Dave. We might be on to something here! Who needs smoke and mirrors?
The technology still needs work. A quote from the Wikipedia entry states:
While it is theoretically possible to reduce an aircraft's RCS by wrapping the airframe in plasma, it may be very difficult to do so in practice.
It may be difficult at present, but awareness is the first step towards further development.
Hey Street View! Read my lips ...
... Oh, I guess you can't now, thanks to my new Plasma Shield! 
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