Facts like wisps of smoke
Tantalize with vapor form
Wind scatters substance
-Chip
===
Well, Chip Berlet huffed, and he puffed, and he huffed and he puffed, and he puffed and huffed; but he could not get the house down. When he found that he could not, with all his huffing and puffing, blow the house down, he said:
"garbage conspiracism....but the bulk of the claims in this absurd post were nonsense, drivel, hot air, snake oil, and informational cow patties with a thin icing of fact."
Joe W.
>From: "Chip Berlet" <c.berlet at publiceye.org>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
>Subject: RE: [lbo-talk] PTECH, 9/11, and USA-SAUDI TERROR
>Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 16:32:24 -0500
>
>Hi,
>
>See below...
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org
> > [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org] On Behalf Of Joseph Wanzala
> > Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 3:40 PM
> > To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> > Subject: RE: [lbo-talk] PTECH, 9/11, and USA-SAUDI TERROR
> >
> >
>
><<SNIP mountain of gibberish>>
> >
> > Total Information Awareness or TIA, an Orwellian nightmare of
> > data mining
> > that uses PROMIS-evolved technologies and artificial
> > intelligence, is now
> > operating and able to incorporate vastly divergent data bases
> > of personal
> > information on private citizens from computer systems using different
> > languages in near-real-time.
>
><<SNIP mountain of gibberish>>
>
>Aside from the possibility that the Promis code was stolen, the rest of
>this post was garbage conspiracism. Promis software was similar to
>Lotus Notes. There are a dozen similar information mining software
>packages available. The problem of government surveillance and privacy
>intrusion is real; but the bulk of the claims in this absurd post were
>nonsense, drivel, hot air, snake oil, and informational cow patties with
>a thin icing of fact.
>
>-Chip Berlet
>
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