Light/Breezes

Light/Breezes
SUNRISE AT DEATH VALLEY-Photo by Tom Cochrun

Monday, July 9, 2012

FLASHES-BACK & FRICTION POINTS

A FLASH BACK

     It was on this day, July 9 in 1962 that some of Andy Warhol's 15 minutes of fame began.  The Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles opened an exhibition of the pop artist's iconic work pictured here.
      Hard to believe this "modern art" is 50 years along. And 
a half century seems a long 15 minutes doesn't it?
MODERN TRAVAILS
     Thanks to the NEW YORK TIMES we know our cellphone carriers responded to 1.3 Million "demands" from law enforcement agencies last year. 
      Text messages, caller locations and other information was sought for investigations.  Congress is conducting an investigation of its own on what the TIMES says is "an explosion of cellphone surveillance."
      I read the full 9/11 Commission Report and recommendations  and have followed changes in intelligence, security and law enforcement agencies since. So I wonder, despite the gathering of all of this data, are our security agencies sharp enough to do anything with it?  As a journalist I saw how vital information was mishandled, miscommunicated, not shared, was amassed without appropriate analysis and even misinterpreted by federal, state and local law enforcement, security and intelligence agencies.  I'm not convinced, nor are experts and those in the field, that things have improved much. That does not, however, negate the serious questions the data collection raises. 
      Just another entry in the age of Information Wars.   
DAY FILE
THE SHORE





See you down the trail.

9 comments:

  1. In the late hour of Sunday, after a four day drive, an Indianapolis friend returned from work and stay in California. Today's Pacific Coastal reminders are a welcome sampling to preserve her sanity with picture "therapy." I thank you, too. WE in the middle of the U-S have little to enjoy such as you do in "heaven." -=w=- Forget Warhol. Forget Fifteen Minutes. Who is counting anyway. -w-

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    1. Glad the California "cool" can help. Hope you guys get a break in the wx soon. It has been too torrid and drastically dry.

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  2. I bet your breezy coastal photos are a torment to those poor folks trapped inland with choking heat.

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    1. Stephen,
      It is awful, according to friends who say they are worried about loosing shrubs, bushes and even lawns.

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  3. Orly said he's a hot, dry, dead man in Noblesville. He and Judy are becoming regulars at the Dairy Queen.

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    1. I'll bet Orly is indeed a regular. More than that, he's probably become the local celebrity and star.

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  4. Hey, I just came from Dairy Queen. Love those Heath Bar Blizzards. That was my reward for being such a good patient today as my dermatologist took a squamous cell carcinoma out of my upper right arm. Many, many stitches and Judy says I'll have a scar to be proud of.

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    1. Saying this as a guy with many scars, you are proud of all of them!

      Heal quickly, and keep enjoying this heath bar blizzards.

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