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Our civilized world is nothing but a great masquerade. You encounter knights, parsons, soldiers, doctors, lawyers, priests, philosophers and a thousand more: but they are not what they appear - they are merely masks.... Usually, as I say, there is nothing but industrialists, businessmen and speculators concealed behind all these masks.The Thing That Couldn't Die
- Schopenhauer
This new "pre-crime" detection facility was discovered via a June 2010 DHS document that was acquired by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). The document states that information is currently collected and retained on "members of the public" as part of the pre-crime system, which is called Future Attribute Screening Technology (FAST).
FAST is made up of algorithms that use factors including gender, age, ethnicity, heart rate, body movements, occupation, voice pitch changes, body heat fluctuations and breathing patterns to identify clues as to whether the individual(s) will commit a crime in the future.
The idea behind FAST is to prevent crimes from happening before individuals even have a chance to commit them based on the factors listed above. It is able to do this through the use of sensors that collect audio recordings, video images and psychophysiological measurements.
"The department's Science and Technology Directorate has conducted preliminary research in operational settings to determine the feasibility of using non-invasive physiological and behavioral sensor technology and observational techniques to detect signs of stress, which are often associated with intent to do harm," said Peter Boogaard, the deputy press secretary for the Department of Homeland Security.
Comment: The first line: "CEO pay rises 28 percent - in one year", is taken from the link that connected to the article above. It says a lot before the article downplays Occupy Wall Street. Statements like "Occupy Wall Street protesters are in the wrong place to picket the titans on this list" or "Wall Street is conspicuously absent from the top 10" which seems to imply there is a person walking around named Wall Street. It's all about perception management.
Everyone of these companies is traded on Wall Street, so why would the article say the OWS (Occupy Wall Street) people are in the wrong place? Is it to divide and conquer, cause dispersions, confuse, undermine the hope for change..?