Is Big Brother Watching? Heather Brooke Talks about “Data Dealing”
Posted by Michelle Moquin on August 25th, 2011
Good morning!
Who cares about what websites you visit, the phone calls you make and e-mails you send, who’s texting you, what your Tweeting, and your FaceBook status? Hmm…well lots of people who want to know everything about you so that they can sell the information to who’s ever interested. And just who’s interested? Governments…and yes, corporations.
With all of the talk about Murdoch and phone hacking, an even bigger scandal is happening and could affect everyone. Heather Brooke, the girl who played a role in the WikiLeaks scandal and exposed MP’s expenses scandal, talks about an even bigger scandal: Data Dealing.
Here’s the write:
Heather Brooke: Data Dealing Is A Bigger Scandal Than Phone Hacking
When the woman who exposed the MPs expenses scandal says she’s uncovered the next big public outrage, it’s impossible not to take notice.
Heather Brooke explains to the Huffington Post UK why data dealing is even bigger than phone hacking and the reasons she lost faith in WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
Somewhere in an upmarket central London restaurant over lunch the negotiations started at £100,000. Heather Brooke witnessed the document with the names, addresses and telephone numbers of every voter in Britain go on sale.
The investigative journalist and campaigner says the attempt to sell the electoral register was just one example of data dealing – the burgeoning trade in personal information that could affect any citizen with an online profile.
“I don’t think people have any idea that this goes on all the time. There are corporate private investigators, companies doing very forensic background checks on people. They buy data, they get their own data … They don’t want their industry publicised”, she says.
The phone hacking scandal exposed how the private lives of celebrities and the bereaved had been targeted by journalists. But according to Brooke, her latest investigation will show now everyone’s details are up for grabs, and not by reporters, but by companies.
“Phone hacking, that’s just touching the surface of that whole industry in personal information which is vast, huge, it’s massive,” she says.
Two years ago a wave of public outrage forced the Home Office to abandon plans to set up a so-called ‘Big Brother database’ to collect information about every website you visited, phone call you made and email you sent. In the new information era exposed by Brooke in her forthcoming book, that doesn’t matter, companies can just piece together that information about you anyway.
And she says they can use instant message conversations, pictures, the texts you receive and your Facebook status.
Brooke warns corporations and governments are a “customer” for information, and they want it for a reason: “It’s trying to predict the behaviour of different people and it’s making decisions about who it thinks are going to be trouble makers, not based on what you’ve actually done but based on what they think you’re going to do in the future.”
She doesn’t subscribe to the ‘if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about’ philosophy: “If you believe the promise that an authoritarian state makes that if it has enough knowledge on every citizen it will keep people safe. I think that’s a false promise. It doesn’t actually happen. If that was the case then East Germany would be a really incredible place to live and in fact it wasn’t, it was really horrible, most of these places were really horrible.”
And as the amount of data about people increases – google searches, text messages, emails, chat logs, purchases – so does the value of what it says about you. The websites you like to go to, the products you like to buy, and what exactly you might get up to in your spare time. And with more data comes opportunity for democracy – or suppression.
Brooke explores this in new book, ‘The Revolution Will Be Digitisied’, part crash course in information held by the government and corporations, and part thriller, focusing on the drama surrounding WikiLeaks’ attempts to expose US diplomatic cables and the gradual implosion of the organisation.
For Brooke it comes down to the dangers when there is a concentration of power – either with WikiLeaks or in government. The investigative journalist and campaigner made it clear she was not afraid to take on vested interests during her five year campaign to expose MPs’ expenses. And she says pockets of public outrage when it emerges that iPhones keep track of everywhere you go aren’t enough.
She’s scathing about David Cameron’s response to the riots in Britain, proposing to monitor social networks like BBM and Twitter.
“I think it’s interesting the political reaction is ‘we have to start surveying all the social networks’. That’s the instant reaction. That’s what I mean about how the revolution will be digitised because it totally shakes up power structures, it does put power in the hands of people, including the proletariat, chavs, whatever you want to call them. They’re on social networks now, they can organise, they can communicate. And people that are in power, in the more elitist bastions of power, they find that really frightening. It’s challenging, it’s frightening, they don’t know what to do, their kind of instant reaction is: let’s shut it down.”
For her, governments haven’t “evolved fast enough”: “People are used to getting a lot of information quickly and they’re used to being quite empowered as consumers and they go to governments expecting a similar treatment, they want to find data and they want to influence events quickly and yet they come into this brick wall. The government wants to know everything about them but isn’t willing to share any of that information.”
Julian Assange, of course, plays a part in her quest to free up data. Initially, she’s attracted to him (“He’s the world’s most famous leaker, I’m a freedom of information campaigner so we’ve a lot to talk about”). But he also unsettles her, telling her without fear she can become a “megalomaniac” like him. She says in her book “I couldn’t have felt less comfortable alone in that room with him”, and most strikingly, reveals that he asked her to be his Mary Magdalene and “bathe his feet at the cross”.
Now, Brooke says she would not have been tempted by Assange even if she were not married: “He did strike me as a kind of dangerous person.”
She says it was his domination of the WikiLeaks exposes that left her disillusioned with the founder.
“The values of WikiLeaks have been completely overshadowed by Julian Assange. And he’s trying to conflate the two as one. Which is why a lot of the good people left. The people that I thought were the best people left. It is basically the Julian Assange project now.
“I guess that’s the real disappointment in the book. There was this opportunity in 2010 to really revolutionise the way information was shared, and instead of that cause going forward and being the main thing it was subverted, I felt and I observed by Julian Assange to serve his own personal interest and protect himself from personal problems.”
She says the leaks on Iraq and Afghanistan could have actually changed government policy, if it weren’t for Assange.
“I think they could have had a pretty big effect on America’s view of that war. But … because of the way Julian personalised those stories and made them about him rather than the story itself.”
Suddenly we’re back to the hacking scandal again: “That’s all Nick Davies, right? Does Nick Davies give a press conference himself about Nick Davies? No he doesn’t, he lets the story speak for itself.
“That’s what Julian needs to take on board. If you’re really serious about wanting to change society you have to pull back off the story, let the facts speak for themselves and stop trying to micromanage the way the public interprets it.”
It’s clear that she’s angry at him, for subverting a cause – the campaign to free up data to create enlightened citizens – into a campaign about him.
“He took this cause and took an amazing opportunity that he had this incredibly powerful set of leaks and used it for his own self-aggrandisation and to save his own skin. In the sense that, initially’ when the allegations came in Sweden he wanted to use WikiLeaks donations for his legal defence, for that personal case… I just think that’s unforgivable. If you really believe in a cause let the cause speak for itself. And if you by your personality are damaging that cause, if you really believe in it you step aside.”
Then there’s Bradley Manning, the soldier who stands accused of giving the data to WikiLeaks.
“He sort of remains the unsung hero of this whole story. This is another reason why I’m so angry about the way Julian Assange this whole movement, this campaign. And that information, if it did come from him, he’s advanced his career off the back off this poor kid who’s sitting in jail. If anybody is responsible for what’s happened, it’s him, who put that into the public domain. We should be thinking about that, rather than Julian.
“It’s difficult to talk about because he hasn’t had his first hearing … The morality of whoever did it I think it raises a lot of moral questions about what we have a right to know in a democracy.
“Until Bradley Manning comes to trial nobody knows a) if he did it and b) what his ultimate reasons for doing so were.”
So what’s next for Brooke? After her role in two of the biggest scandals of the decade, WikiLeaks and expenses, she says it’s time to stand back.
“I think I’m going to write a novel. I’m just going to drop out. I feel pretty burnt, this was such an intense year. The fact that I started off writing a story which I was really interested in but initially I found it really difficult to sell this book. Nobody got what I was on about.
“They didn’t see it and they just thought ‘oh doesn’t sound like a story’… It was just so exhausting to be working on a story and then it just to kind of take off right before your eyes. And then I got embroiled in it, so then I became a character in my own story. I think I just want a break, just kick back.”
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Readers: I like this girl - she’s got gall, and one we should keep our eye on – perhaps Brooke’s upcoming book is worth a perusal? I don’t know about you, but I think this girl could be our modern day Nancy Drew of the media. Thoughts? Blog this BABE.
Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.
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August 25th, 2011 at 12:35 pm
Michelle:
Your post today is about freedom and the right to privacy all Americans think they have. Data Dealing robs us of these rights.
Unfortunately, Big Brother is watching and keeping databases on everyone for a variety of reasons that add up to a lack of privacy for all. Privacy is certainly a thing of the past. Any employer can find out anything about your past should you seek employment. There are commercials on TV stoking the fires, playing with our fears. They hit us with primal fears such as: “Would you hire just anyone to babysit your children without a background check? Would you date anyone without a background check? “They could by psychopaths or have a past — perhaps extortion, child molesting, or worse.”
Why must I buy all kinds of Spyware software for my computer if I want to use the internet? Why must I delete my tracking cookies?
The internet is a giant corporate marketing device in which data is sold back and forth so that corporations can hit the exact group they wish to advertise to.
Heather Brooke warns us that corporations and governments are a “customer” for information. “It’s trying to predict the behavior of different people and it’s making decisions about who it thinks are going to be trouble makers, not based on what you’ve actually done but based on what they think you’re going to do in the future.”
Many people believe the philosophy that if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about. This is how we lose our rights and freedom. Governments would love to profile us, categorize us and now computer memory is cheap enough for it to be cost effective.
As the amount of data about you increases; data about the websites you go to, the products you buy, and what your hobbies may be — as well as Google searches, emails, and purchases; says much about you and your lifestyle. This was private information at one time and should remain so.
HOWIE
August 25th, 2011 at 1:50 pm
Su:
Who died and made you the sole Su?
There are NO proprietary names on a blog. Maybe someone will claim George, or Helen, or Eric, or Dave, or Joan, or Lilly, or etc, etc, as their’s solely.
That’s nice but it carries no legal weight, I could be Beyonce, or Cher, or Michael Jackson, or you get the picture don’t you. A name is a name.
Get a real life. Now that may be a novelty for someone brassy enough to claim a name on a blog as a proprietary right, but hey, there is always a first time for every thing.
Su
Not You, the other one.
August 25th, 2011 at 7:46 pm
Hi Mischa, good one and when I was in advertising many moons ago, we called this info ‘pyschographics’ and it was all somewhat questionable then – and now, we have the internet and spyware and we have insiders who for a price will hack your texts/email and even download pics you didn’t take…and who knows what else…
You once posted about a software that allows he hacker to hear what you’re talking about when your cell phone is sitting on a table, there’s also spyware you can load into your friend/lover/spouses phone to track everything…and along with that, add the gps feature and you can have a stalker who doesn’t even have to work very hard.
It’s scary but will I give up my smartphone? Not yet…and no, I won’t – even knowing that my privacy has been compromised. Why should I give in? I just add in google searches on all kinds of things I couldn’t care less about just to throw them off their game, whatever the game is…what else can you do, it’s modern day living and with it comes this downside.
A lot of action with the aliens and wow, all my east coasties were scared by the quake…I wish there was a better way to settle squabbles between aliens and generals/governments than using ‘natural’ disasters.
Luv, Zen Lill
August 25th, 2011 at 9:34 pm
Hello, Miss Guam World is back.
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It took a 15-year hiatus, but on the evening of Sept. 2, one lucky girl will take the title of Miss Guam World 2011.
Fourteen young women ranging in age from 17 to 23 years old are vying for a beauty queen’s crown — and its benefits. For Guam, it’s another chance to put itself on the map.
During the reign of the 2011 Miss Guam World, she will be tasked with promoting the island through public appearances. The upcoming international 2011 Miss World competition in London won’t just be a battle for another crown for our girl, but an opportunity to educate her fellow competitors about Guam. With just over one month to prepare for the Miss World competition in November, will she be ready to compete and promote at the same time?
Absolutely, says Pinki Lujan, Miss Guam World pageant director. With a prepping committee on hand to coach the winner in the ways of pageantry, the folks behind Miss Guam World’s crown don’t seem too worried. After all, Guam has held a Miss World title before. Kimberly Santos wore the crown in 1980 after the reigning Miss World abdicated. Santos was the first runner-up.
Back after 15 years
The last Miss Guam World pageant was held in 1996 with Eileen Maravilla being crowned. Guam Delegate Madeleine Bordallo, a founding member of the Miss Guam World organization and now the honorary president, has told the Pacific Daily News that the reason why the pageant took a rather lengthy break was because it became hard for her to devote as much time to the contest as her political career took off.
In 1994 Bordallo became the island’s lieutenant governor, a post she held for eight years, and then in 2002 she became the island’s congressional delegate, a post she holds to this day. Bordallo has said she wanted to bring the pageant back but was having difficulty finding volunteers while she was in Washington, D.C. Renewed interest from members of the Miss Guam World organization led Bordallo to start it back up.
The biggest thing that separates this pageant from others is the fact that Miss Guam World is community-based, Lujan says.
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Hafa adai
Anna
August 25th, 2011 at 10:20 pm
Basically it is impossible to function while images of my desire flicker in and out of my vision as I move from room to room.
August 25th, 2011 at 10:24 pm
MONEY AND HAPPINESS: IT’S NOT ABOUT THE BLING
You know how people are always saying that money can’t buy happiness? It turns out they’re wrong!
I’ve recently seen not one but two studies that reveal some important findings on what cash can deliver in terms of quality of life.
It’s a compelling topic these days — not least of all because the economy is forcing lots of us to confront the question of what we really need in order to have a good life.
THE PRICE OF HAPPINESS
First comes a report from Princeton University published late last year in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Using data involving 450,000 Americans from the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, the researchers analyzed the relationship between household income and each respondent’s self-reported emotional state (what the researchers call “day-to-day happiness”) as well as their overall feelings about their well-being and “satisfaction” with life.
Happiness has a price tag: The researchers learned that happiness climbed right along with income up to about $75,000 per year, after which more income didn’t predictably buy more happiness.
But — here’s the interesting point — satisfaction with life overall did continue to rise right along with income beyond $75,000 per year.
People who earned more… and more… felt that much better about the quality of their lives.
IT’S ABOUT CHOICES…
And now we’ve just seen a second study on happiness, a meta-analysis (a study of other studies), that is quite remarkable.
Social scientists from the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand were looking to learn whether having money or having choices in life (“autonomy”) is more important for well-being.
They examined data from a huge sample (420,599 individuals from 63 countries spanning more than 30 years) —
some of these people were wealthy, some poor… some living in capitalist societies, some socialist… some in developed nations and others in countries that can still be classified as “third-world.”
Result: Regardless of where respondents lived, they tended to report greater well-being if they felt that they had autonomy.
And if money bought the ability to make more and better choices — as it does here in the US, for instance — it did indeed buy happiness.
In situations where money did not correlate with autonomy — you guessed it — no correlation with happiness or a better life.
WHAT’S NEW?
I put in a call to James Maddux, PhD, a psychology professor at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, and asked for his help in putting this information into context.
He told me that the real surprise is in the second study, that showed that across cultures, happiness depended upon having autonomy…
no matter what their background, humans want to have the chance at independent accomplishment.
Dr. Maddux explained that “in broad strokes, previous research has demonstrated that in Western cultures, like those in the US, Canada and Europe, autonomy and individualism correlated with happiness,
but not so in traditional Eastern cultures (such as Japan, China and India), where identity is collectivist, rooted less in personal identity than in what the group — your family, your community, your employer — has accomplished.”
Beyond that, said Dr. Maddux, the body of research studying the link between income and satisfaction with life has yielded some wisdom that is generalizable (and, frankly, familiar) to most people trying to find the correct balance between money and satisfaction in life…
There’s nothing magic about $75,000. The real point of that study, Dr. Maddux explained, is that it reinforces that being poor is no picnic.
“It is important to have enough income to meet your basic needs,” he said. Cost of living varies greatly depending on many variables —
where you live, how you are accustomed to living, whether you live alone or with a spouse or family, etc., so $75,000 represented a kind of a rough marker in the study.
After your needs are met, money counts for less. Once you’ve reached the point where you are comfortably able to pay your bills, earning more will make you happier… just not as much as you might guess.
Dr. Maddux said that “additional income buys additional happiness to a point… then a bit more money buys a bit more happiness… and so on… but for everyone, there comes a point when extra money isn’t really going to add anything to your life at all.”
Personal development matters. Using money to expand your knowledge and understanding (for instance, putting your dollars toward travel, education, the pursuit of special interests or donating money to philanthropy) increases happiness, Dr. Maddux noted.
Possessions can make you less happy. In contrast, “the body of research suggests that if you want additional money so you can buy stuff —
like cars, clothes and jewelry — with the goal of impressing or keeping up with others, these pursuits will actually diminish your happiness,” Dr. Maddux said, adding that “research shows that the pursuit of ’bling’ contributes to unhappiness because people probably are pursuing material goods at the expense of self-development and relationships.”
Personally, I am not surprised by these findings — they are entirely consistent with what I believe about every aspect of life.
Having the opportunity to function as an individual, free to work hard and to be rewarded for it — emotionally and financially — leads to great satisfaction. There is no better feeling than the feeling of accomplishment.
Source(s):
James Maddux, PhD, professor of psychology, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia.
August 25th, 2011 at 10:33 pm
Su, the other one
Yes, you certainly have a point, but on this blog I think that we can give some the proprietary right to use a name exclusively.
For instance, I like the idea that Doug,TMD has his title. I also like Howie, Zen Lill, George, WN and PrP, TAO, and a few others. But that is because they use the repeatedly and they are a bit unique to this blog.
But as for Su, well I only saw it once and so I guess it was not sufficient to claim uniqueness.
But let’s not take liberties with the core group. A little civility will keep things pleasant.
Kate
August 26th, 2011 at 7:14 am
When the House republicans return for the new sessions one of their marching orders will be to target the regulating authority of the EPA.
The party has received huge sums by polluting corporations. The payoffs is to get the republicans to stop the regulations that prevent them from polluting air, water and wild life habitats.
The corporations passed on some 40 anti-environmental provisions that they want the republicans to sponsor.
Look for the fight if the dems have found a pair.
Robert
August 26th, 2011 at 7:34 am
Michelle Bachmann knows that the republican’s rank and file will not support a woman for President of the USA, but they will support a woman for vice president because they believe that will siphon votes from Obama.
Therefore she is trying to show the party she can be that woman. Perry believes that the party’s rank and file will not support a mormon as it’s presidential candidate over a white male who is a christian so he is trying to show the party that he is that man.
The big money boys of the part support Rommey because he is one of theirs. They see Perry as a wanna be that has never met a bribe he didn’t like. While they like that, they prefer Rommey because he has a vested stake in managing and keeping the Perrys in their place.
August 26th, 2011 at 7:38 am
May I suggest that Y’all run down and see the movie “The Help.”
Oh, and why not just call it the Republikkkan Party, we know it is.
Alycedale
August 26th, 2011 at 7:48 am
Just so you know. Sometimes aliens punish those who renege on the promises they made when they bargained for leadership in a field.
Recently one who did such is now serving his sentence.
Greed!
Amazing how it can convince one who is given so much by by those with so much power that the money and power, and “genus” that they now have can render them immune from the giver’s reach.
Urte
August 26th, 2011 at 8:12 am
The Greed and Gaul of the American Corporation.
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I mean the gaul to tell me that they are really going to resell me the unit for $40 each year. The new models are now selling for $79.99.
Did they think that I was so stupid that I wouldn’t check? So I get to keep the old model for more than half its cost. How is it going to break down. It is a phone jack for heaven’s sake.
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Oh, and I can only pay $39.99 each year for 2 years. Why, well because even a stupid person like me may figure out that in 2 years the device will have improved so much as to make even an idiot like me realize that this is a stupid offer.
August 26th, 2011 at 8:19 am
AD, the Help was the best American movie I’ve seen in years. And I would suggest it to anyone with an OTW issue, it should fix that. – ZL
August 26th, 2011 at 8:21 am
I just want you to notice that while Newt Gingrich is supposedly writing his article to tell you about the loss of representation in congress because of the appointment of a new “Super Committee” he is really selling you Silver contracts.
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Nothing illustrates the gap between Washington and America better than the difference in reaction to the “Super Committee” that the debt ceiling deal set up to cut spending.
In Washington, a 12-member group with tremendous power to dictate the details of debt reduction is seen as a great idea.
Outside Washington, people applaud every time I condemn the process.
The rest of America sees a plan to skip 523 members of Congress while focusing power on a select 12 as a dangerous centralization of authority.
People instinctively understand that their Senators and Congressman will be on the outside lobbying the “powerful 12.”
Ninety-seven percent of the American people have now lost representation in critical decisions about the size and scope of their government.
The rest of America also intuitively understands the absurdity of reducing the 217 committees and subcommittees that normally contribute to policy decisions in the House and Senate to one “super” committee for the whole Congress.
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If every committee and subcommittee tackled an equal share of spending reductions, they would each be responsible for cutting $7 billion over 10 years. That would be about $700 million a year, which even overstates the goal because there would be some savings from not paying interest on the debt if spending is cut.
Of course, some subcommittees have very limited jurisdictions and should be assigned smaller goals. Others have huge jurisdictions (like Medicaid) and should have somewhat larger goals.
I have no doubt that 535 members in 217 committees and subcommittees, using all their staffs, would achieve smarter results than 12 people frantically looking for the big solution.
That big solution may be far worse than thousands of smaller cuts to eliminate the incredible waste that has become commonplace in Washington. The group Strong America Now estimates that Congress could save $500 billion per year simply by modernizing the federal government’s management system. They argue that the Lean Six Sigma technique for dramatic cost reductions could identify billions in savings with a careful examination of processes and expenditures across the government.
If that sounds implausible, consider that the Defense Department has already used Lean Six Sigma to save more than $22 billion, increasing productivity 1,000 percent in some facilities.
The Strong America Now estimate is more than three times the goal of the Super Committee. You can learn more about anti-waste budgeting and Lean Six Sigma in my newsletter here and at StrongAmericaNow.com.
For a full overview of my case against the Super Committee and an alternative method to balance the budget in a publicly accountable way, you should watch the speech I gave last Tuesday at the Heritage Foundation.
I think you will agree that targeted savings with full representation for all Americans is a better solution than unaccountability and concentrated power.
Let me know: Would you prefer the 12-member Super Committee or the involvement of all 535 members of Congress?
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August 26th, 2011 at 8:28 am
So you would attempt to surveil and track us? Why not surveil and track your coast from Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New York and New Jersey?
It could be interesting.
11ok65ru
August 26th, 2011 at 8:29 am
Please pay special attention to North Carolina.
August 26th, 2011 at 8:31 am
Urte:
If you are commenting about S.J. he deserves what he gets.
Those who can give can take away as well.
HOWIE
August 26th, 2011 at 8:40 am
So the republikkkans are taking a vote to find out if their rank and file believe that Obama is the blame for the lack of economic recovery.
Check out the way the questions are structured. And as Mike mentioned earlier, the republican party never misses an opportunity to sell its members some gold or silver.
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Maggie
August 26th, 2011 at 8:42 am
Michelle, all I can think is that what the corporations don’t know about us they will in a few more tries.
Your article makes me want to cry.
Lois
August 26th, 2011 at 9:31 am
RICK PERRY-
This guy, another lowlife, in a long line of racist, sexist, ageist, greedy evil bastards that are like , like vampires, sucking the life out of an entire nation. He’ll make an excellent Republiklan nominee.
August 26th, 2011 at 9:36 am
Shipping gut fat humans is a danger to the voyage. For every additional inch of waist we have to add 200 miles of capillaries. That increases the risk in Vamp space.
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September 17th, 2011 at 10:23 pm
rick otton…
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June 28th, 2013 at 9:24 pm
Hey just wanted to give you a quick heads up. The words in your content seem to be
running off the screen in Safari. I’m not sure if this is a format issue or something to do with web browser compatibility but I thought I’d post to let
you know. The style and design look great though! Hope
you get the issue fixed soon. Cheers