Inside an NSA Blacksite - Trevor Paglen

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/03/31/Agency_in_Surveilled_Space-Who_is_Watching

Artist and author Trevor Paglen describes what he claims to be a San Francisco-based National Security administration "black site" used to monitor telecommunications.

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A Roundtable Discussion of Agency in Surveilled Space: who is watching, who is being watched, who decides which spaces are visible to the camera and which are effectively invisible, off-limits to authorities.

The panelists will examine how engineers, artists, and activists intervene in surveillance systems to subvert, invert, and redefine these relationships, and how the principle of "sousveillance" - meaning surveillance from "below," or watching the watchers - applies.

It features artists and engineers who collaborate to produce software and hardware applications that access and visualize data usually obscured from public view; artists whose projects have questioned the rhetoric of surveillance by intervening more playfully in the expected aesthetics or power dynamics; and activists who monitor post-9/11 surveillance by intelligence agencies and its effects on immigrant and dissenting communities - The New School

Trevor Paglen is an artist, writer, and experimental geographer working out of the Department of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley.

His work involves deliberately blurring the lines between social science, contemporary art, and a host of even more obscure disciplines in order to construct unfamiliar, yet meticulously researched ways to interpret the world around us. His most recent projects take up secret military bases, the California prison system, and the CIA's practice of "extraordinary rendition."

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[alienmoonbase]

If you had 100 people in a room who saw a UFO, if they would go the the NSA or any other intelligence services for answers you'd get about 3 people.

American do NOT trust the intelligence services. I don't trust them, and neither should you.

[FistInTheAir420]

"they gotta protect us...that's their job."

Really?

Protecting us is what they say their job is, but if you've done any research on the US Intelligence Community you know that 'Protecting Us' actually makes up a very small part of what they spend billions of dollars a year on.

[Dmac11a666]

Is this the new SASS system?

[TheAngryarchangel]

ok

[AlexandreTERRAT]

@FistInTheAir420 That did not prevent terrorists from sending you two aircraft over New York besides the travil provide that hackers around the world to demonstrate that in the virtual world you are vulnerable as they were thousands of Japanese killed you

[reksub10]

@libertyordeath21 yeah you are correct i should have said the states has a facade of being run as a capitalist country,,,,

[libertyordeath21]

@reksub10 just so you know the UNITED STATES IS NOT A CAPITALIST COUNTRY...although it claims to be...YOU CAN NOT FIND ONE LEGETIMATE CAPITALIST OR "FREE MARKET" ECONOMIST WHO JUSTIFIES A CENTRAL BANK...Moreover Clearly a Central Private bank is the ANTITHESIS of Free Markets..Capitalism, is an economic system based upon free markets and Healthy Competition...Clearly with the introduction of the Federal Reserve a Central Bank this country abandoned capitalism..

[tangel476]

@FistInTheAir420

Actually they watched their own spies as well as potential ones.

[nofxmike06]

Narus STA 6400-Semantic traffic analyzer. aw gotta get meh wanna dooohs

[MiKikaIwaShizaru]

The Black World infrastructure has become a greedy Frankenstein, eating taxpayer money and stomping out any semblance of U.S. democracy and civil liberties, all in the name protecting us from "terrorism". The founding fathers would be well past appalled at the things our secret government rationalizes and does. Who is overseeing these monsters? Granted, some of their many tentacles are keeping an eye on terrorists, but surely, they see supporters of oversight as the enemy. I weep for democracy.

[reksub10]

the staes is a capatalist country so they have to protect all the corporate secrets and spy on the public for advertising targeting and for gaps in the market or disscusions about new technologies ,they try and catch every angle so as to make a buck from it or to stop someone else(china) from getting in there 1st