Shortly after 9/11 the United States government created a Federal agency known as the Information Awareness Office — now defunct — but it had the most omnous New World Order-ish, Illuminatiesque, logo that we’d ever seen. Wikipedia writes about the organization:
The Information Awareness Office(IAO) was established by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency(DARPA) in January 2002 to bring together several DARPA projects focused on applying surveillanceand information technology to track and monitor terrorists and other asymmetric threats to national security, by achievingTotal Information Awareness (TIA). This would be achieved by creating enormous computer databases to gather and store the personal information of everyone in the United States, including personal e-mails, social networks, credit card records, phone calls, medical records, and numerous other sources, without any requirement for a search warrant.[1] This information would then be analyzed to look for suspicious activities, connections between individuals, and “threats”.[2] Additionally, the program included funding for biometric surveillance technologies that could identify and track individuals using surveillance cameras, and other methods.[2]
Following public criticism that the development and deployment of these technologies could potentially lead to a mass surveillance system, the IAO was defunded by Congress in 2003. However, several IAO projects continued to be funded, and merely run under different names
Creepy.
Karate classes are funny places. The good classes are set in tradition which is very strange to the beginner but taken very seriously by those who have been at it for a while. Anyone who teaches karate will agree that karate is not just a sport but an art. It therefore make since that you would want your students to really look the part both in the dojo and also around town and at tournaments. A well equipped class is a happy class that will feel proud of their club and want to continue learning this excellent sport.