US "invents" software to track press

[cyberpj]

US "invents" software to track press
Hoping to stamp out negative opinion
By Nick Farrell: Thursday 05 October 2006, 08:11

A GROUP of US universities, backed with Homeland Security Department cash, is developing software that could let a government monitor negative opinions of the United States or its leaders.

According to the New York Times, the 'sentiment analysis' software is designed to identify potential threats to the nation by looking at articles published by the alien press.

Intelligence gathering experts have been reading the papers for years to work out who does not like the US, but this software will allow fast and comprehensive monitoring of the global news media.

Apparently the software ignores the home press, which Homeland Security does not believe is a threat to the Government.

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34872

and more here:
Software Being Developed to Monitor Opinions of U.S.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/04/us/04monitor.html?ex=1317614400&en=f56ed0a299bbe0f2&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

I thought W didn't care what others thought?

[aquart]

1. Google news doesn't work?

[dipsydoodle]

2. You don't exactly need rocket science

to identify the known world.

[JohnWxy]

12. GReat editorial on 9/11 miniseries from Truthout.org - thanks!

" Clinton's dire public warnings about the threat posed by terrorism, and the actions taken to thwart it, went completely unreported by the media, which was far more concerned with stained dresses and baseless Drudge Report rumors. When the administration did act militarily against bin Laden and his terrorist network, the actions were dismissed by partisans within the media and Congress as scandalous "wag the dog" tactics. The news networks actually broadcast clips of the movie "Wag the Dog" while reporting on his warnings, to accentuate the idea that everything the administration said was contrived fakery.

In Congress, Clinton was thwarted by the reactionary conservative majority in virtually every attempt he made to pass legislation that would attack al-Qaeda and terrorism. His 1996 omnibus terror bill, which included many of the anti-terror measures we now take for granted after September 11, was withered almost to the point of uselessness by attacks from the right; Senators Jesse Helms and Trent Lott were openly dismissive of the threats Clinton spoke of.

Specifically, Clinton wanted to attack the financial underpinnings of the al-Qaeda network by banning American companies and individuals from dealing with foreign banks and financial institutions that al-Qaeda was using for its money-laundering operations. Texas Senator Phil Gramm, chairman of the Banking Committee, gutted the portions of Clinton's bill dealing with this matter, calling them "totalitarian."

In fact, Gramm was compelled to kill the bill because his most devoted patrons, the Enron Corporation and its criminal executives in Houston, were using those same terrorist financial networks to launder their own dirty money and rip off the Enron stockholders. It should also be noted that Gramm's wife, Wendy, sat on the Enron Board of Directors."

A FEW FACTS WE'LL NEVER HEAR ABOUT ON THE CORPORATE MSM.

[Jim__]

3. ...the software ignores the home press...

Of course it does. After all, this administration would never lie, would it?

[cyberpj]

9. And - "we're not monitoring USA phone calls" either. nt

[RaleighNCDUer]

17. Well, to be realistic, the home press has been more cheerleader

than critic for some time.

[LTR]

4. The 'alien' press?

I guess this would be a good idea, since we currently have no idea what those pesky martians are writing about us.

[AX10]

5. The DHS was a mistake.

[htuttle]

7. Yes, it's morphing into the Gestapo....

..as I feared it would.

[cyberpj]

15. And w/be impossible to dismantle as you'd be called soft on defense.

The damage since 2000 will last a lot longer than most realize.

[Old and In the Way]

6. Wouldn't it be easier to track favorable press?

[achtung_circus]

8. No,

they'd have to look harder and further and with fewer results to show for that work.

[JohnWxy]

10. THE INTERESTING POTENTIAL OF THIS SOFTWARE TO THE TOTALITARIAN MINDED NEO-

FASCISTS (euphemistically self-named Neo-cons) is to monitor U.S. publications.

"Mr. Kielman, the project coordinator, said questions on using the software were premature because the department was just now financing the basic research necessary to set up an operating system."

NOW IS JUST THE TIME TO VOICE CRITICISMS. ONCE IT'S IN PLACE IT'LL BE TOO LATE.

“There has to be guidelines and restrictions on the use of this kind of technology by the government,” Professor Wiebe said. “But it doesn’t mean it is not useful. It can just as easily help the government understand what is going on in places around the world.”

YEAH, 'GUIDELINES AND RESRICTIONS' ha-ha. We see how much "guidelines and restrictions (like th Constiution of the U.S.) mean to the Neo-Facists.

"“But it doesn’t mean it is not useful. It can just as easily help the government understand what is going on in places around the world.”

---Oh it'll be useful alright, to track any disagreement with the Neo-fascists here in the U.S.

Jesus, Ive said it before and I'll say it again -

"The Republicans have a frighteneing facility for the techniques of totalitarianism."

[w4rma]

11. They are writing an operating system for this?

Good grief. Just pick an existing operating system.

[bananas]

13. LOL

Just in case you weren't joking, they are writing a system that will actually be in operation, rather than just an experimental or theoretical research project.

[cyberpj]

14. And didn't our own congress just vote to give them this?

Not the software, but the permission to continue all their spying on anything and everything in the name of the war on terror.

[liberal N proud]

16. Yes, we are living in fascist times

They will arrest any reporter who dares mention the kings name or any of his court. They will send them to the torture camps to change them into republican operatives or vegetables (same thing).

[cyberpj]

18. I see this enabling better monitoring of who is addressing election fraud,

9/11 truth, and any of a number of issues they have worked very hard to keep down. They already own our media - now it's time to go bully the rest of the world.