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This week on Waking Up Orwell **** KPDO PREMIERE DELAYED*** The station, in an ambitious 4 day effort to install new programming board, is still in it's testing stages and will be automated 9/29/2010. This gives us an additional week to upgrade graphics, develop the website and come up with ways to promote the show. " 22nd Century" music by Kelis THIS WEEKS NEWS: This about sums the national state of affairs pertaining to civil liberty this week. "A bad weekend for civil liberties" http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/9/27/905707/-A-bad-weekend-for-privacy,-civil-liberties DIY Government http://beatthechip.blogspot.com/2010/09/upgrades-and-exemptions-electronic.html This weeks bid for sanity is to add your public comments about the Dept. Homeland Security's request to for exemption from legal conditions set by the ECPA or Electronic Privacy Act of 1974 to monitor e-mail, phone calls, and anything else that creates a record from an electronic pulse. Big Thanks to Lady Axxiom for throwing this out there. PUBLIC COMMENT DETAILS HERE: http://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2010/09/10/2010-22639/privacy-act-of-1974-implementation-of-exemptions-department-of-homeland-securityall031-information Public Knowledge about ECPA, COICA and a return to the days of the "clipper chip" with special guest, Art Brodsky. http://www.publicknowledge.org/ Jessica Sundin for the Minnesota Anti-war Committee tells us what it's like when the FBI raids you when they HAVE a warrent. More news about "improper" FBI conduct. http://www.antiwarcommittee.org/ Professor and social anthropologist, Janine Wedel, teaches us about the world of Washington D.C.'s Shadow elite public-private policy drivers called "flexians". http://janinewedel.info/pubs.html Tony Fish reverse engineers the properties of a digital footprint towards the body of online reputation. http://www.mydigitalfootprint.com/footprint-ugc/