SMILE - You're On Candid 2-Way Cable TV Camera!

"With a hocus pokus, you're in focus, you're the star today... Smile You're on Candid 2-Way Cable TV Camera!"

(Apologies to Candid Camera creator/host, Alan Funt - RIP)

Not unlike the telescreens in George Orwell’s novel 1984, TV’s will soon be able to watch and even thoroughly analyze everyone present in the devices’ vicinity.

The new generation of HDTV’s and cable receivers sold to the public contain features that are not very publicized by tech companies: Cameras, mics and sensors that have the ability of recording everything that is happening in the living room monitored by interactive cable telecomunications.

The telephone company Verizon, the same company that gave the NSA all of our private telephone records in their spying scandal, has recently filed a patent for a system that contain audio and video sensors coupled with facial and profile recognition software. That would allow the company to obtain information such as the number people in the room, their sex, their race, what they are doing and even what they are consuming while watching TV. The goal of such a system is to broadcast “targeted advertising” but crossing the line to outright spying on people is only footstep away.

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The set-top box uses "a depth sensor, an image sensor, an audio sensor, and a thermal sensor" to record what you're doing. As an example, Verizon notes the DVR box would send an ad for marriage counseling to an arguing couple, or ads for a romantic getaway or a commercial for contraceptives to a couple cuddling up. And we all thought Google ad targeting crossed the line.

Click on the hyperlink below to view patent filing:

Verizon Files Patent for Creepy Device To Watch You While You Watch TV

Picture this: You’re having an argument with your partner while watching television, and suddenly an advertisement comes on for marriage counseling. Or maybe you’re doing some weightlifting while a movie plays in the background, and ads for health food pop up on the screen.

In the past, it would have been mere coincidence. But in the future, things look set to change, thanks to Verizon’s “gesture recognition technology.”

The company has filed a patent, November 29, 2012 for a system designed to be used in the home to target advertisements at people. Using a combination of image and audio sensors, it would detect actions in your living room while you were watching TV. These sensors, deploying facial and profile recognition, would pick up “physical attributes” like skin color, facial features, and even hair length, and also detect “voice attributes” to help determine the tone of your voice, your accent, and the language you speak. Inanimate objects aren’t off-limits—the technology could also spot beer cans and wall art.

Combined, this would mean that your TV or set-top box would effectively be watching and listening to you while you snuggle up on the couch with your partner to watch the latest episode of Homeland. If the cuddling went a bit further, the chances are the technology would pick up the noises and start playing ads for “a commercial for a contraceptive” or “a commercial for flowers,” as outlined in the patent.

The patent also says if the device picks up that the user is “stressed” then it “may select an advertisement associated with the detected mood (e.g., a commercial for a stress-relief product such as aromatherapy candles, a vacation resort, etc.).” It adds that “If a couple is arguing/fighting with each other” the system “may select an advertisement associated marriage/relationship counseling.” And if the sensors detect that a user is a kid, the system will trigger “more advertisements targeted to and/or appropriate for young children.”

As Steve Donohue at FieceCable has noted, Verizon’s technology would operate in the same way Google targets Gmail users based on the content of their emails—only transposing that principle into the home by “scanning conversations of viewers that are within a ‘detection zone’ near their TV, including telephone conversations.” Of course, this is only a patent, so you don’t have to start eyeing your TV suspiciously—for now. ArsTechnica points out similar patents have been filed before and have yet to be put into practice. But that doesn’t make this latest incarnation any less creepy—and is perhaps an illustration of how surveillance-style technologies are increasingly encroaching on private life.

Source Bio:  Steve Donohue is editor of FierceCable. He has covered the cable industry, Internet video and the interactive television business since 1996 for several industry publications, including Multichannel News, Light Reading, Electronic Media, CableFAX Daily and Interactive TV Today. Donohue began covering cable TV and the Internet business in 1996 at CableFAX Daily and Internet Week in Washington, D.C., where his beats included Capitol Hill and the FCC. He moved to New York in 1998, where he covered the international TV business and the cable industry at Electronic Media. He joined Multichannel News two years later, and spent eight years there as national editor and editor of digital news. Donohue attended the CTAM U executive management program at Harvard Business School in 2001, and is a graduate of St. Bonaventure University, where he studied journalism and political science.

Obama Adopts More Sons

School Bus Beating of 13 year old White boy by 3 Blacks

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Mainstream Media News Report  

Gulfport, Florida - August 5, 2013  Police released video last week of a horrible racial beating on a school bus. A white student was seen brutally beaten by three older black teens as he stood up to leave the bus. Three boys, all 15 years-old, were in the school bus attack; the ‘Petrified’ bus driver looks on as the windmilling fists and stomping feet rain down blows on the 13-year-old boy. The boy suffered two black eyes, bruising and a broken hand.

Gulfport police arrested three 15-year-old boys, who each face aggravated battery charges. One teen is also charged with taking cash from the younger boy. Police say the boy was kicked and stomped about 23 times.

Now Here’s the rest of the story… 

Police say the youths attacked the 13-year-old after he told officials at their dropout prevention school that one of them had tried to sell him drugs. After he wouldn’t buy drugs from the older black teens they stomped him 23 times.

People are outraged about this incident and want charges brought immediately - that's the good news. The bad news is they want to arrest and charge the 67 year old bus driver for not getting into the fight to stop it. Did you see those vicious kids?... and an old man, the bus driver can physically do anything?

Of course, the liberal media have chosen to ignore this brutal story - the big questions are:

1. Obama said he looked like Treyvon when he was young, so does he look like them too since Obama was dealing in marijuana and snorting cocaine like all of them too?
2. Obama wouldn't have been beat up on the bus because he would have bought dope from those boys, right? 
3. Is this a white racial "civil rights" violation for Eric Holder to file charges?

Obama wrote on his drug use in his book, Dreams. Here's are some excerpts:

"I blew a few smoke rings, remembering those years. Pot had helped, and Booze; maybe a little Blow when you could afford it."  (Blow is slang for Cocaine, to snort or inhale Coke in the nose)

"Junkie. Pothead. That's where I'd been headed: the final, fatal role of the young would-be black man. Except the highs hadn't been about that, me trying to prove what a down brother I was. Not by then, anyway. I got high for just the opposite effect, something that could push questions of who I was out of my mind, something that could flatten out the landscape of my heart, blur the edges of my memory."

Remember MLK? - Treyvon Is/Was No MLK!

Bill Whittle examines the death of Trayvon Martin and trial of George Zimmerman and asks: Is the acquittal of Zimmerman one of the great civil rights injustices of our time? ...Find out.

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During the period of discovery by both the prosecution and the defense, there were many persons interviewed for contemporaneous testimony about their knowledge of the neighborhood itself as well as about George Zimmerman.  So much was collected, but as one resident in the condo complex so rightiously described it, "the elephant in the room", certainly fits the crime to a tee.  The following is the exact full statement as reported.

In Reuters News Service on Wednesday, April 25, 2012 during the discovery of exculpatory evidence:

"Though civil rights demonstrators have argued Zimmerman should not have prejudged Martin, one black neighbor of the Zimmermans said recent history should be taken into account."

"Let's talk about the elephant in the room. I'm black, OK?" the woman said, declining to be identified because she anticipated backlash due to her race. She leaned in to look a reporter directly in the eyes. "There were black boys robbing houses in this neighborhood," she said. "That's why George was suspicious of Trayvon Martin."

Reported in Investors Business Daily, "The state of Florida withheld key exculpatory evidence by conveniently failing to mention a toxicology report finding traces of marijuana in Martin's blood and urine — which would have corroborated Zimmerman's remark to a 911 dispatcher that Martin acted like he was "on drugs." Police had trained Zimmerman to spot non-residents acting suspiciously in his townhouse complex, which had been the target of a rash of break-ins."

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Trayvon's Drank Is Lean - Skittles & Tea - It's Ecstasy!

Assistant Prosecutor Bernie de la Rionda holds Trayvon's Skittles & Arizona Watermelon Tea Drink he bought at 7-Eleven, but didn't say what was their use in the hip hop music gangsta rap culture.Assistant Prosecutor Bernie de la Rionda says, "the doomed teen was wearing a black hoodie and minding his own business" when he was fatally shot. Trayvon Martin is dead because in the eyes of George Zimmerman "he was up to no good." "Trayvon's crime was buying Skittles," the prosecutor said. 

His only "crime was buying skittles" and an Arizona Tea at the neighborhood 7-Eleven on his way over to where he was staying? - I don't think so!... Not after knowing about his whole background about possession of stolen jewelry from school lockers, painting graffiti on classroom doors, expelled twice from school and then of "Tray's" badass rap culture act with his black gangsta hoodie, arm and wrist tattoos, bottom front row gold capped teeth, toking marijuana buds, drug pusher dealing and martial arts street fighting.

That same fateful night Tray was already an expelled student who was sent from his own house to go over town to live at his Dad's girl friend's townhouse community where Zimmerman lived. Tray only needed to add his Robitussin cough syrup - the only thing left to do that Trayvon was gonna mix into his Arizona Watermelon tea with Skittles from the 7-Eleven for a euphoric Ecstasy high.

Skittles, Arizona Iced Tea, Robitussin = ‘Drank’ Or ‘Lean’

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Lean is highly intoxicating and the side affects are severe. Check out this video, it explains a lot about how Lean is a mixed cocktail drink originating in the Southern Rap culture. It is a mixture of Promethazine and Codeine cough syrup and a soft drink such as Sprite (usually). While other soft drinks may be used, Sprite was the original and now also Arizona Watermelon for Drank/Lean with skittles dropped into it for extra sweetness instead of Jolly Ranchers hard candies.

There are some variations of Lean. For example, Promethazine and Codeine syrup is usually Purple in color. But there are other colors of syrup that work the same way. There is a golden-colored syrup (hydrocodone based) and other colors as well.

"Lean slows you down. It makes you feel good. It’s meant to be sipped on, and it taste damn good. One of the best feelings you will ever experience. Euphoria with a hint of sedation. …”

 Pimp C - Died 33 yrs.old 02/06/08

Lean is also the drug mixture that killed Rapper Pimp C who boasted of his affinity for codeine cough medicine combined with a number of mixers.

DXM” is an abbreviation for the cough suppressant Dextromethorphan Hydrobromide — which is the active ingredient in the cough-syrup brand Robitussin.
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DXM causes physical and psychological effects that may be frightening or unpleasant… Psychological effects can include profound disorientation, depression, a feeling of personal disintegration, or a feeling of “unreality” and disconnection that may persist for days. Chronic use may cause depression, psychological dependency, and possibly brain damage. Large doses may be associated with psychotic breaks…

“What’s the DXM Trip Like?” - that depends on how much you take. There are four different kinds of experiences, based on the dosage; these are called plateaus:

The first plateau is a mild stimulant effect with a little bit of a buzz, and has been compared to MDA [a more psychedelic cousin of MDMA -aka-"Ecstasy"].

The second plateau is more intoxicating and has been compared to being drunk and stoned at the same time.

The third plateau is dissociative, like a lower dose of ketamine.

The fourth plateau is fully dissociative like a higher dose of ketamine.

You should not attempt higher plateau doses unless you have someone with you who can take care of you in case you get sick or freak out. It does happen on DXM.”

See Obama TKO on House Floor!

Epic 1-Minute TKO Beatdown Of Barack Obama On House Floor

No Sucker Punches - Great Uppercuts to the Jaw!

Obama TKO on the mats!

"With an endless parade of distractions, political posturing and phony scandals, Washington has taken its eye off the ball.  And I am here to say this needs to stop.  Short-term thinking and stale debates are not what this moment requires.  Our focus must be on the basic economic issues that the matter most to you – the people we represent," Obama said. Did he just forget to mention the people who died - or were they just "phony" too?

Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-Okla.) took to the House Floor Monday and delivered a brief – yet awesome skewering of Barack Obama, his administration and his vice president.

I have read some real scathing emails calling Jim Bridenstone a bigot and racist for what he said on the House floor. Here is an excerpt from an actual email written & posted in the Independent Journal Review comments section:

Tyler Eaves · Web Developer at The Daily Reflector  June 4, 2013 at 9:27pm

If by "truth" you mean a few issues the GOP is trying to make America care about. How many american servicemen have died in Iraq? How many thousands, with how many tens of thousands maimed for life? While the GOP was silent. Yet now the elephants are trying to manufacturer(sic) outrage over a handful? Something stinks here, smells like elephant dung to me.   (Bold Italics emphasis added)

Kool-Aid for Everyone!

It looks like this guy bought Obama's rhetoric that the scandals were "phony". So, he concluded that the "elephants", Republicans, are "trying to manufacture outrage" and "over a handful". This guy describes the lives lost as an "Outrage over a handful" - so a single life is not precious or important to this guy?