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Why Do We Expose Ourselves?
WHY DO WE EXPOSE OURSELVES? AMONG CRITICS OF TECHNOLOGICAL SURVEILLANCE, there are two allusions so commonplace they have crossed into the realm of cliché. One, as you have probably already guessed, is George Orwell’s Big Brother, from 1984. The other is Michel Foucault’s panopticon — a vision, adapted from Jeremy Bentham, of a prison in which […]
They Tell Us Nothing But Lies — Paul Craig Roberts
They Tell Us Nothing But Lies — Paul Craig Roberts A British governmental inquiry has concluded that Russian President Putin “probably approved” the killing of Alexander Litvinenko by polonium poisoning. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article44002.htm As no evidence is provided for the surmise, we can conclude that this report on an unresolved event that happened a decade ago is part […]
George Orwell, Edward Bernays & Perpetual War
George Orwell, Edward Bernays & Perpetual War Another horrific act of terror, another shrill chorus calls the faithful to war. It’s a recurring phenomenon in this early Twenty-first Century. The horrible news crashes from the heavens like a meteor, violently jolting us from the Saint Vitus Dance of our produce-consume existence. Our screens with all the […]
Fourth Turning–Our Rendezvous With Destiny
FOURTH TURNING – OUR RENDEZVOUS WITH DESTINY We are now in the seventh year of this Fourth Turning. A famous quote from the seventh year of the last Fourth Turning portended the desperate, bloody and ultimately heroic trials and tribulations which awaited generations of our ancestors. What will be our rendezvous with destiny? “There is a […]
FBI says that citizens should have no secrets that the government can’t access: the Orwellian cyber police state has arrived
FBI says that citizens should have no secrets that the government can’t access: the Orwellian cyber police state has arrived The police and surveillance state predicted in the forward-looking 1940s classic “1984” by George Orwell, has slowly, but steadily, come to fruition. However, like a frog sitting idly in a pan of steadily-warming water, too […]
The End of Freedom of Speech in Spain
The End of Freedom of Speech in Spain Spain has shown that it is fully on board with the Brussels authoritarian direction of ending democracy. Those in power have simply convinced themselves that the people do not understand what is good for them so they must impose their will upon the people but raw force. […]
Free Trade is Plutocratic Propaganda
Free Trade is Plutocratic Propaganda With the looming Trans-Pacific Partnership dominating the headlines, now is a good time to revisit an old scam called “free trade.” In 2003, Kevin Flanagan was an information technology employee at Bank of America. They told him he was being replaced with foreign labor, and he was ordered to train his replacement. […]
Ukraine Goes Full Orwell, Unleashes “Ministry Of Truth” | Zero Hedge
Ukraine Goes Full Orwell, Unleashes “Ministry Of Truth” | Zero Hedge. Officially called “The Ministry of Information Policy,” Mashable reports the Ukraine government has established a department that critics are calling the ‘Ministry of Truth’ in a dystopian reference to George Orwell’s 1984 (apparent instruction manual). Run by a close ally of President Poroshenko’s close ally, while […]
Forget Orwell and Rand, We’ve Gone to Full On Plato | First Rebuttal
Forget Orwell and Rand, We’ve Gone to Full On Plato | First Rebuttal. Lately, we hear a lot about Orwell’s “1984″ and Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” but perhaps the best crystal ball to our current state of affairs is Plato’s Republic. You see both Rand and Orwell were describing a world outside of themselves. A world they couldn’t understand […]
30 Years Later, America Truly Is Becoming A ‘1984’ Society
30 Years Later, America Truly Is Becoming A ‘1984’ Society. If only George Orwell could see us today. When he wrote “1984” back in 1948, he probably never imagined that the “totalitarian, bureaucratic world” that he imagined would ever actually become a reality. But that is precisely what is happening. We live at a time […]
