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Creating a Suspect Society: The Scary Side of the Technological Police State
Creating a Suspect Society: The Scary Side of the Technological Police State “If, as it seems, we are in the process of becoming a totalitarian society in which the state apparatus is all-powerful, the ethics most important for the survival of the true, free, human individual would be: cheat, lie, evade, fake it, be elsewhere, forge […]
Freedom Where Did You Go?
Freedom Where Did You Go? My Generation is the last one to have known privacy and to have lived out most of our lives in freedom. I remember when driving licenses did not have photos and most certainly not fingerprints. A driving license was issued on proof of birth date alone. Prior to the appearance […]
Big Brother Facebook: Drawing Down the Iron Curtain on Yankeedom
Big Brother Facebook: Drawing Down the Iron Curtain on Yankeedom Leading a double life When my partner, Barbara, first opened an account on Facebook, she used it in a way that most people in Yankeedom use it. Her network was an eclectic assortment of family, current and former workmates, new and old friends, neighbors and […]
Uncle Sam is Biggest Brother
Uncle Sam is Biggest Brother (Guest article by Phil Hart) Back in the 1770’s there was a collection of radicals, who were highly educated in the natural law and the errors and successes of past political and economic systems. They were American Colonists with names like John Hancock, Samuel Adams, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, et. […]
The global village and the surveillance society
The global village and the surveillance society Media savant Marshall McLuhan coined the term “global village” in 1962 in his book The Gutenberg Galaxy. Today, we take the concept of an electronically connected global population with instant access to practically every plugged-in person on the planet as a fact of life. We often see our […]
India’s Big Brother: Fingerprint and Eye Scans Required for Food and Medicine
India’s Big Brother: Fingerprint and Eye Scans Required for Food and Medicine India collects biometric data on 1.3 billion residents for use in a nationwide identity system called Aadhaar. The New York Times notes Big Brother has Arrived in India. Seeking to build an identification system of unprecedented scope, India is scanning the fingerprints, eyes […]
Big Brother Arrives: China Bans People With “Bad Social Credit” From Planes, Trains
Big Brother Arrives: China Bans People With “Bad Social Credit” From Planes, Trains Two years ago, we reported that various cities throughout China are currently piloting a “social-credit system” that will assign a “personal citizen score” to every single person based on behavior such as spending habits, turnstile violations and filial piety. Hangzhou’s local government […]
Big Brother = You
Big Brother = You Giorgione The Tempest 1508Happy belated new year. Belatedly. Thought I’d sit out a few days, since there wasn’t much news to be expected. And it did pan out that way, other than Trump bogarting the limelight; but then, that isn’t really news either. Anything he says or does triggers the expansive […]
Big Brother Is Here: Twitter Will Monitor Users Behavior ‘Off Platform
Big Brother Is Here: Twitter Will Monitor Users Behavior ‘Off Platform‘ In perhaps the most intrusive move of social media platforms’ efforts signal as much virtue as possible and appease their potentially-regulating government overlords, Twitter has announced that it is cracking down on what it defines at hate-speech and not just by looking at its […]
Are You Ready to Die?
Are You Ready to Die? Glenn Greenwald of The Intercept exposes the fake news put out by the US Department of Homeland Security (an euphemistic name for a Big Brother operation that spies on US citizens) that Russia hacked 21 US state elections, news that was instantly spread around the world by the presstitute media. […]
Welcome to 1984: Big Brother Google now watching your every political move
Welcome to 1984: Big Brother Google now watching your every political move © Hoxton / Paul Bradbury / Getty Images Google has taken the unprecedented step of burying material, mostly from websites on the political right, that it has deemed to be inappropriate. The problem, however, is that the world’s largest search engine is a left-leaning […]
The Global Elites’ Secret Plan for Cryptocurrencies
The Global Elites’ Secret Plan for Cryptocurrencies Interest in Bitcoin is red hot at the moment. It’s impossible to open a website, listen to a podcast, or watch a video in the financial space without hearing about the meteoric rise in the price of Bitcoin. Maybe you know a “Bitcoin millionaire” who bought five hundred […]
The CIA and Me: How I Learned Not to Love Big Brother
The CIA and Me: How I Learned Not to Love Big Brother Photo by Andrea Yori | CC BY 2.0 In the wake of the 2001 terrorist attacks, Washington pursued its elusive enemies across the landscapes of Asia and Africa, thanks in part to a massive expansion of its intelligence infrastructure, particularly of the emerging […]
Ever more official lies from the US government
Ever more official lies from the US government The false reality constructed for Americans parallels perfectly the false reality constructed by Big Brother in George Orwells’ dystopian novel 1984. Consider the constant morphing of “the Muslim threat” from al-Qaeda to the Taliban, to al-Nusra, to ISIS to ISIL, to Daesh with a jump to Russia. […]
