Federal Reserve to "monitor billions of conversations".

[HalfLotus]

Here Comes FIATtackWatch: Ben "Big Brother" Bernanke Goes Watergate, Prepares To Eavesdrop On Everything Mentioning The Fed

Two weeks ago, the media's heart went aflutter when it learned that the president had borrowed a page right out of ole' Joe McCarthy's communist witch hunt book with the launch of Attack Watch. The response by everyone, even fans of Obama, was immediate and brutal. Yet where Obama took about 24 hours to crash and burn, someone else has stepped in with a far stealthier method of ferreting out the traitors amongst us: none other than our old friends, the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States, which in a Request for Proposals filed to companies that are Fed vendors, is requesting the creation of a "Social Listening Platform" whose function is to "gather data from various social media outlets and news sources." It will "monitor billions of conversations and generate text analytics based on predefined criteria." The Fed's desired product should be able to "determine the sentiment [ED:LOL] of a speaker or writer with respect to some topic or document"... "The solution must be able to gather data from the primary social media platforms – Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, Forums and YouTube. It should also be able to aggregate data from various media outlets such as: CNN, WSJ, Factiva etc." Most importantly, the "Listening Platform" should be able to "Handle crisis situations, Continuously monitor conversations, and Identify and reach out to key bloggers and influencers." Said otherwise, the Fed has just entered the counterespionage era and will be monitoring everything written about it anywhere in the world. After all, why ask others to snitch for you and anger everyone as Obama found out the hard way, when you can pay others to create the supreme FIATtack WatchTM using money you yourself can print in unlimited amounts. And once the Internet is completely "transparent", the Fed will next focus on telephone conversations, and finally will simply bug each and every otherwise "private" location in the world. Because very soon saying that "printing money is treason" will be treason, and such terrorist thoughts must be pre-crimed before they even occur.

All we can say is we welcome our new Chairsatan Voldemort overlord. For it is truly he who must not be named henceforth.

Lick Fed boots else they'll switch to "crisis" mode - peddling real-time propaganda to "key influencers". Dang.

[Dinner]

I'm completely convinced. That bit of nonsensical gibberish was exactly what I needed to change my mind and turn my back on rational thought.

[Elok]

They're talking about collecting and organizing publicly available information. This is terrifying because...?

[KrazyHorse]

Unbelievable!

[HalfLotus]

Elok your ability to minimize is impressive.

[Elok]

You bolded bits about collecting info from Twitter, blogs, forums, YouTube, CNN...almost all information from these sources is public (exceptions being cases like access-restricted blogs, which a general sifting tool would not have access to). I could be mistaken, but I think the Fed is basically asking permission to reinvent or license the Google Ads algorithm.

[Aeson]

Google would crush them before they ever had a chance to compete for our mind-share.

[Aeson]

(I am firing up xRumer right now to send out triillions of instructions as to how/when to manipulate the USD:PHP cross as we speak. BB is going to be my *****!)

[loinburger]

I think I've discovered halflotus's not-so-secret identity

[HalfLotus]

You bolded bits about collecting info from Twitter, blogs, forums, YouTube, CNN...almost all information from these sources is public (exceptions being cases like access-restricted blogs, which a general sifting tool would not have access to). I could be mistaken, but I think the Fed is basically asking permission to reinvent or license the Google Ads algorithm.

They aren't asking permission, they're soliciting proposals from propaganda firms. And they're doing much more than collecting and analyzing.

What's a crisis situation? A blogger saying not nice things about the Fed? Or a Senator from Vermont revealing that the Fed secretly loaned out $16 tril to foreign banks?

How will they "reach out" to key "influencers"?

I realize that naive fools with a rosy view of the U.S. economic-political establishment see no evil in our dear leaders, but those with a more healthy skepticism of the U.S.'s secretive, corrupt economic elite see something else: A highly sophisticated propaganda machine to further lead their herd down the road of economic slaughter.

[HalfLotus]

Nice pics loin, but you're years behind. I know it's fashionable among establishment sheep to paint Fed foes in an extremist light, but it is actually Fed supporters who are a very small minority these days:

Bernanke Approval Rating In The Pits

Gallup Poll: Federal Reserve Makes the IRS Look Good

Majority of Americans Say Fed Should Be Reined In or Abolished, Poll Shows

[loinburger]

[Aeson]

That last one makes Republicans look way too human-like to be real

[Elok]

They aren't asking permission, they're soliciting proposals from propaganda firms. And they're doing much more than collecting and analyzing.

What's a crisis situation? A blogger saying not nice things about the Fed? Or a Senator from Vermont revealing that the Fed secretly loaned out $16 tril to foreign banks?

How will they "reach out" to key "influencers"?

I realize that naive fools with a rosy view of the U.S. economic-political establishment see no evil in our dear leaders, but those with a more healthy skepticism of the U.S.'s secretive, corrupt economic elite see something else: A highly sophisticated propaganda machine to further lead their herd down the road of economic slaughter.

My bad, I just skimmed it. On closer reading, they're not asking permission, they're inviting bids for companies to invent an algorithm to organize freely available online information into a more usable form. The most problematic thing about this is that it involves spending tax dollars.

Also, I insist you use the term "sheeple." Calling Loin a sheep is an obvious ploy to dehumanize him in anticipation of his assassination by your radical friends. Sheeple are people too! SHEEPLE ARE PEOPLE TOO!!

[Hauldren Collider]

at all those cartoons