As I was walking to the bank, I began counting surveillance cameras that I walk passed. Chicago has been installingCCTVcameras at what could be considered an alarming rate over the last few years. I counted 23 unique cameras in proximity to my person as I walked to my destination.
Nearly every intersection in the Loop has at least one, sometimes two, dome-shaped cameras attached to traffic light poles. The same could said about intersections throughout the rest of the city. Many downtown buildings are armed with surveillance cameras to defend themselves against something.
Here is a 2003 map of surveillance cameras located in the Chicago Loop. This map was created by Bill Brown of the New York Surveillance Camera Players . Brown counted 227 cameras within the Loop in 2003. This inspired me to begin creating an updated map.
"Late Tuesday, photographs taken by another protester surfaced, showing the trio lying prone on the ground. The photos show the soles of their boots adorned by yellow triangles. A police officer kneeling beside the men has an identical yellow triangle on the sole of his boot."
"A video, posted on YouTube, shows three young men, their faces masked by bandannas, mingling Monday with protesters in front of a line of police in riot gear. At least one of the masked men is holding a rock in his hand.
The three are confronted by protest organizer Dave Coles, president of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada. Coles makes it clear the masked men are not welcome among his group of protesters, whom he describes as mainly grandparents. He urges them to leave and find their own protest location.
Coles also demands that they put down their rocks. Other protesters begin to chime in that the three are really police agents. Several try to snatch the bandanas from their faces.
Rather than leave, the three actually start edging closer to the police line, where they appear to engage in discussions. They eventually push their way past an officer, whereupon other police shove them to the ground and handcuff them." Full Article --TheStar.com)
"Featuring: Steven Spielberg, StanDeyo, Jacques Vallee, Prof. Allen Hynek, Stanton Friedman, Margaret Mead, Ken Arnold, Betty Hill, Rev. William Gill, Klaus Nobel, RAAF Sqdn Ldr White, Ray Palmer and Colin Cameron. This amazing UFO documentary film was produced in 1977."
After much searching, I finally found some information on the emergency notification system that was recently installed downtown Chicago.
This system was manufactured by a company called Federal Signal Corporation, University Park, IL. This specific device is part of the Modulator Series Siren family. It produces siren tones and digitally recorded voice messages. Go to the Modulator web page to listen to some creepy audio samples.
I would not be surprised if this system could be used as a *live* public address system, too.
I'm going to begin hosting skypecasts with the intention of initiating a vocal dialogue between the "gold panners" of non-consensus reality. This will create an opportunity for people to discuss and share information in an open forum.
These discussions will be recorded and will be available for persons to download.
My Skype username is: trappedinmatter. Add me as a contact and let me know your interested in participating in the skypecasts, or just wanna chat. I will notify everyone in advance of the planned date and time for the session.
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Has anyone seen a this device erected in your area?
While meandering downtown Chicago, I witnessed two guys working for Horizon Contractors, Inc. wiring this new device for service. I asked one of the contractors what the thing was and he replied, "It's an emergency notification system... a giant speaker."
This is device is located on the southwest corner of South Wacker Drive and West Madison Street.
I'm trying to find more information on this contraption. Horizon Contractors, Inc. doesn't appear to have a web presence.
"The glass "beehive" ornament at the peak of the ziggurat holds a deep blue light, a prominent feature of Grant Park's night skyline. Before Christmas the light changes to green. The 20-foot beehive beacon is supported by 4 stone bisons, which symbolize industriousness, thrift, and strength."
(what does the fourth stand for?)
"The beehive originally held 4 searchlights which shone in the 4 cardinal directions."
"The building was originally named after S.W. Straus & Co., a dealer of investment bonds and one of the leading financers of major real estate in Chicago during the late 19th and early 20th century."
found this interesting bit about S.W. Straus & Co.: (read it in context HERE)
William Randolph Hearst's motive in supporting Roosevelt was a matter of urgent personal necessity. Hearst had repeatedly earned the enmity of Rockefeller. In the late 1920's Hearst and Brisbane had expanded their real estate holdings tremendously, financing them through S. W. Straus and Company which they are reputed to have controlled. When the American Bank and Mortgage Company, a competing real estate mortgage house affiliated with the RockefellerMorgan interests, collapsed directly after the 1929 panic, Hearst and Brisbane saw an opportunity to boost S. W. Straus and Company and their bonds. They ran a running campaign which on one day demanded criminal prosecution of the crude frauds perpetrated by the American Bond and Mortgage Company, and on the following day called on the public to buy, as the safest type of investment, S. W. Straus and Company bonds. "Never A Loss In Fifty Years" was the slogan of the Straus Company that they hammered away in their columns.
Some things seem so obvious once you SEE them. Don't forget to look up.
As I was walking to the bank, I began counting surveillance cameras that I walk passed. Chicago has been installing CCTV cameras at what could be considered an alarming rate over the last few years. I counted 23 unique cameras in proximity to my person as I walked to my destination.
