Chicago - A message from the station manager

By Scott Jones/Serbin Media

The 2014 midterm election is less than three months away, and if you think you know who’s getting your votes this year, think again: your vote is being manipulated. Bill Maher’s Flip a District campaign to manipulate a Republican candidate out of office and replace him with a Democrat is one example of pure manipulation, but it’s far from the only one. Politicians and their campaigns will do everything to manipulate your thinking.
Colin Christopher is a clinical hypnotherapist and author of Success Through Manipulation: Subconscious Reactions That Will Make or Break You. Colin has studied the thoughts, beliefs, philosophies and behaviors of what makes people do what they do for more than 15 years.
He says every public official has teams who research what voters think about the candidate and his opponents. They then create a plan to change the voter’s perceptions, greatly manipulating the public’s opinion and in many cases significantly changing the outcome of the election.
He says there are many ways politicians manipulate your thinking to win your vote:

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Posted on August 7, 2014

Illegal Spying Below

By The Electronic Frontier Foundation

To celebrate the Fourth of July, EFF teamed up with Greenpeace and the Tenth Amendment Center to launch an airship (yes, you read that correctly) over the NSA’s sprawling data center in Utah. Acclaimed filmmaker Brian Knappenberger documented our campaign in a short, powerful video. Check out the video and share it with your friends.

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Posted on August 6, 2014

The Beachwood Radio Hour #17: Candid Chicago

By Steve Rhodes

Featuring Ald. Patrick J. O’Connor, God’s Special Creature.
Plus: Lollapaloozers, The Political Odds, Derrick Rose Is A Saboteur, The Cub Factor, Junkies In Narcissistic Denial, Crime Is Down & Weekend Classifieds.

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Posted on August 2, 2014

The Beachwood Radio Hour #16: Peotone Saves Lives

By Steve Rhodes and J.J. Tindall

Plus: Festival City. Privatizing Montrose Beach. The State of Illinois Building Sucks. So Does The Pritzker Pavilion. Red Light Rahmpage Redux. CPS Passes Fictional Budget. Our Putrid Police Chiefs. Mayor Jet Noise.

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Posted on July 26, 2014

The FBI’s Fantastical Terror Plots Ensnare Otherwise Innocent Americans

By Human Rights Watch

“The U.S. Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have targeted American Muslims in abusive counterterrorism “sting operations” based on religious and ethnic identity. Many of the more than 500 terrorism-related cases prosecuted in U.S. federal courts since September 11, 2001, have alienated the very communities that can help prevent terrorist crimes.”

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Posted on July 23, 2014

Smith v. Obama

By The Electronic Frontier Foundation

The Electronic Freedom Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union and the American Civil Liberties Union of Idaho have announced they will join Anna Smith’s legal team in her challenge of the government’s bulk collection of the telephone records of millions of innocent Americans.
Smith, an emergency neonatal nurse and pregnant mother of two, filed her suit against President Obama and several U.S. intelligence agencies shortly after the government confirmed revelations that the National Security Agency was conducting bulk collection of telephone records under Section 215 of the Patriot Act.
Smith, a customer of Verizon wireless, one of the companies that was ordered to disclose records to the NSA, argued the program violated her First and Fourth Amendment rights by collecting a wealth of detail about her familial, political, professional, religious and intimate associations.

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Posted on July 17, 2014

The Beachwood Radio Hour #14: Chicago’s Special Creatures

By Steve Rhodes

In this episode: Downtown Sounds. Chiraq Is Neither Chicago Nor Iraq. Peas In A Pod: Madigan & Burke. Scott Waguespack For Mayor. Chicago’s [Topic] Deserts. This Week’s Worst Employer In Chicago. This Week’s Worst Judge In Chicago. Smells Like Chicago’s Sports Media.

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Posted on July 12, 2014

EFF Sues NSA Over FOIA

By The Electronic Frontier Foundation

The Electronic Frontier Foundation on Tuesday filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the NSA and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to gain access to documents showing how intelligence agencies choose whether to disclose software security flaws known as “zero days.”
A zero day is a previously unknown security vulnerability in software or online services that a researcher has discovered, but the developers have not yet had a chance to patch. A thriving market has emerged for these zero days; in some cases governments – including the United States – will purchase these vulnerabilities, which they can use to gain access to targets’ computers.

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Posted on July 2, 2014

How A Country Club Hills Eminent Domain Tax District Bill Turned Into Navy Pier Inc.

By Jon Markel

After reading the Sun-Times piece on Navy Pier that was the subject of last Monday’s Papers column, I was curious to see who in our esteemed General Assembly voted for this massive change in how the largest tourist attraction in Illinois and our massive convention center is managed. It took a while to find it because I was looking for something with a title referencing Navy Pier, Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority, McCormick Place or similar. Turns out the title I should have been looking for is “SB0028 QUICK-TAKE-COUNTRY CLUB HILLS.”
What the what?!

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Posted on July 1, 2014

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