{"id":49601,"date":"2019-11-14T06:32:20","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T11:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49601"},"modified":"2019-11-14T06:32:54","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T11:32:54","slug":"how-surveillance-and-propaganda-work-in-the-free-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49601","title":{"rendered":"How Surveillance and Propaganda Work in \u2018the Free World\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

How Surveillance and Propaganda Work in \u2018the Free World\u2019\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A Bloomberg report<\/a> of October 22 was concise and uncompromising in declaring Russia to be a surveillance state. Harking back to the good old days of the Cold War, as is increasingly the practice in much of the Western media, Bloomberg recounted that \u201cThe fourth of 10 basic rules Western spies followed when trying to infiltrate Russia\u2019s capital during the Cold War \u2014 don\u2019t look back because you\u2019re never alone \u2014 is more apt than ever. Only these days it\u2019s not just foreigners who are being tracked, but all 12.6 million Muscovites, too. Officials in Moscow have spent the last few years methodically assembling one of the most comprehensive video-surveillance operations in the world. The public-private network of as many as 200,000 cameras records 1.5 billion hours of footage a year that can be accessed by 16,000 government employees, intelligence officers and law-enforcement personnel.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Terrifying, one might think. Straight out of Orwell\u2019s 1984, that dystopian prediction of what the world could become, as noted<\/a> in one description of how the face of the state\u2019s symbolic leader, Big Brother, \u201cgazes at you silently out of posters and billboards. His imposing presence establishes the sense of an all-seeing eye. The idea that he is always watching from the shadows imposes a kind of social order. You know not to speak out against The Party \u2014 because big brother is watching\u2026 The face always appears with the phrase Big Brother is watching you.<\/em> As if you could forget.\u201d Such is the terrifying Bloomberg picture of Moscow where there are supposedly 200,000 video cameras. You can\u2019t blow your nose without it being seen. And wait for the next phase, in which Big Brother will hear you laugh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How Surveillance and Propaganda Work in \u2018the Free World\u2019\u00a0 A Bloomberg report of October 22 was concise and uncompromising in declaring Russia to be a surveillance state. Harking back to the good old days of the Cold War, as is increasingly the practice in much of the Western media, Bloomberg recounted that \u201cThe fourth of 10 basic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2472,83,12435,27580,2570,5570,655,694,8203,4622],"class_list":["post-49601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-big-brother","tag-bloomberg","tag-brian-cloughley","tag-caught-on-camera","tag-cctv","tag-mass-surveillance","tag-propaganda","tag-russia","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-surveillance-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49602,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49601\/revisions\/49602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}