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Creeping Fascism, Part 1: Just The Beginning
Creeping Fascism, Part 1: Just The Beginning “Way crueler than any dictatorship” I keep a “creeping fascism” file with the intention of tracking governments’ erosion of their citizens’ rights and freedoms. But the file is filling up so fast that the first few articles in this series will have to be “data-dump” cut-and-past jobs rather […]
German domestic intelligence chief defends his efforts to police the “thought & speech patterns” of citizens, outlines the novel offence of “systematic delegitimisation of state conduct”
German domestic intelligence chief defends his efforts to police the “thought & speech patterns” of citizens, outlines the novel offence of “systematic delegitimisation of state conduct” The German Interior Ministry continues to defend its controversial and widely criticised plans to restrict the speech, travel and economic activity of political dissidents. The Federal Office for the Protection […]
Is China Really More “Dystopian” Than The UK?
Is China Really More “Dystopian” Than The UK? RT reported that the UK’s so-called “National Data Analytics Solution” will see an algorithm process whichever of 30 separate data points have been recorded about a person in local and national police databases in order to predict which members of the population are most likely to commit […]
The Police State Takes A Giant Leap Towards Pre-Crime
The Police State Takes A Giant Leap Towards Pre-Crime If you think we still have privacy rights or a 4th Amendment you are living in the past. Technology has moved past our individual rights and technology is now determining what day and time a crime will be committed in your neighborhood and produce a list […]
Censorship in the Digital Age
Censorship in the Digital Age The grand experiment with western democracy, badly listing thanks to broadsides from profiteering oligarchs, may finally run ashore on the rocks of thought crime. In the uneven Steven Spielberg project Minority Report, starring excitable scientologist Tom Cruise, Cruise plays a futuristic policeman who investigates pre-crimes and stops them before they […]
Censorship in the Digital Age
Censorship in the Digital Age The grand experiment with western democracy, badly listing thanks to broadsides from profiteering oligarchs, may finally run ashore on the rocks of thought crime. In the uneven Steven Spielberg project Minority Report, starring excitable scientologist Tom Cruise, Cruise plays a futuristic policeman who investigates pre-crimes and stops them before they […]
China Goes Full “Minority Report”, Creates “Pre-Crime” Program
China Goes Full “Minority Report”, Creates “Pre-Crime” Program By now, the world is largely familiar with Chinese President Xi Jinping’s fabled “Tigers and Flies” campaign. Since taking office in 2013, Xi has embarked on an ambitious effort to root out party corruption and ensure that the directives passed down from on high in the Politburo […]
The Pentagon’s secret pre-crime program to know your thoughts, predict your future
The Pentagon’s secret pre-crime program to know your thoughts, predict your future US military contractors are mining social media to influence your ‘cognitive behavior’ when you get angry at the state The US Department of Defense (DoD) wants contractors to mine your social media posts to develop new ways for the US government to infer […]
France Arrests 24 Climate Activists Using New “State Of Emergency” Laws, As Clashes Break Out In Paris – Live Feed
France Arrests 24 Climate Activists Using New “State Of Emergency” Laws, As Clashes Break Out In Paris – Live Feed As Intellihub’s Shepard Ambellas writes, one-hundred and fifty heads of government, a.k.a. the elite, are gathering over the course of the next few weeks for a massive climate summit that’s anticipated to attract and indoctrinate over 40,000 […]
‘Minority Report’ Is 40 Years Ahead of Schedule: The Fictional World Has Become Reality
‘Minority Report’ Is 40 Years Ahead of Schedule: The Fictional World Has Become Reality “The Internet is watching us now. If they want to. They can see what sites you visit. In the future, television will be watching us, and customizing itself to what it knows about us. The thrilling thing is, that will make […]
Do We Need to Bring Back Internment Camps?
Do We Need to Bring Back Internment Camps? Last week, Retired General Wesley Clark, who was NATO commander during the US bombing of Serbia, proposed that “disloyal Americans” be sent to internment camps for the “duration of the conflict.” Discussing the recent military base shootings in Chattanooga, TN, in which five US service members were […]
You May No Longer Think Wrong Thoughts, Citizen
You May No Longer Think Wrong Thoughts, Citizen Shortly after the election victory that probably surprised no-one more than himself, David Cameron launched into explaining to the hoi-polloi what further transmogrification of the State is in store now that he’s got a free hand. He inter alia elated the audience with the following zinger: “For […]
The World of Philip K. Dick is Almost Here
The World of Philip K. Dick is Almost Here Holographic Computers and Self-Directing Bullets Philip K. Dick was long viewed as a mere genre hack, although his fans always knew better of course. He used the medium of science fiction originally because it was the only way for him to make money as an independent […]
Cops scan social media to help assess your ‘threat level’
Cops scan social media to help assess your ‘threat level’. A national spotlight is now focused on aggressive law enforcement tactics and the justice system. Today’s professional police forces — where officers in even one-stoplight towns might have body armor and mine-resistant vehicles — already raise concerns. Yet new data-mining technologies can now provide police […]
