The CIA intercepted emails between members of Congress and whistleblowers reporting alleged wrongdoing by members of the Intellegence Community. From Sharyl Attkisson at thehill.com:
Posted in Civil Liberties, Crime, Government, Intelligence, Politics, Privacy, Surveillance
Tagged CIA, Whistleblowers
No matter who wins the elections, the Deep State will still be running things. From Bill Bonner at bonnerandpartners.com:
And so… the big day approacheth.
People look for their registration cards… and prepare to cast their votes. Blue? Red? Liberal? Conservative?
It’s hard not to get caught up in the us-versus-them spirit of it. Like watching a football game, it’s more fun if you take sides.
But the trouble with elections is that one of the candidates wins. And the winner is almost always a bigger jackass than the other guy.
Posted in Civil Liberties, Collapse, Debt, Economy, Government, Law, Politics, Privacy, Surveillance
Tagged 2018 elections, China, Social Credit System
The Chinese government has no intention of allowing the Chinese version of the web to become anything like the semi-freewheeling forum it is in the US. From P.W. Singer and Emerson Brooking at popsci.com:
The most ambitious project of mass control is the country’s “social credit” system. All Chinese citizens will receive a numerical score reflecting their “trustworthiness.”
The following is adapted from LikeWar by P. W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking, a book by two defense experts—one of which is the founder of the Eastern Arsenal blog at Popular Science —about how the Internet has become a new kind of battleground, following a new set of rules that we all need to learn.
“Across the Great Wall we can reach every corner in the world.”
So read the first email ever sent from the People’s Republic of China, zipping 4,500 miles from Beijing to Berlin. The year was 1987. Chinese scientists celebrated as their ancient nation officially joined the new global internet. As the Internet evolved from a place for scientists to a place for all netizens, its use in China gradually grew—then exploded. In 1996, there were just 40,000 people online in China; by 1999, there were 4 million. In 2008, China passed the United States in number of active internet users: 253 million. Today, that figure has tripled again to nearly 800 million (over a quarter of all the world’s people online).
Posted in Business, Civil Liberties, Economy, Government, Law, Media, Privacy, Surveillance
Tagged China, internet, snitches, Social Credit System
Here is a blueprint for how the globalists plan to dominate the world. From Jeremiah Johnson at shtfplan.com:
The actions that are taken are a three-pronged attack in order to foster in global governance, and they are as such:
The world war is the most important part of it all, in the eyes of the globalists. The Great Depression culminated in a world war, and periods of economic upheaval are always followed by wars. The war is most needed by the globalists because they need to rid the world of about 7 billion people. This is why such experimentation as you see progresses: infecting vectors such as mosquitoes with viruses that are almost immune to antibiotics, the unearthing of ancient viruses in the permafrost and frozen areas of the Arctic, and the insect-sized drones and smaller nanobots touted to bring a cure but in reality capable of delivering disease.
Posted in Civil Liberties, Collapse, Economy, Governments, Intelligence, Military, Privacy, Surveillance
Tagged China, Globalism, globalists, Social Credit System
China wants to become a first-class military and economic power with a nation of sheep. Something’s got to give. From Tyler Durden at zerohedge.com:
Citizens in one Chinese provincial capital can now be permanently blacklisted by China’s Orwellian digital panopticon ‘social credit system’ for simply failing to clean up after their pets.
It’s but the latest manifestation of the recently implemented, though long in development, nationwide social scoring credit system where people are ranked and punished or rewarded for their behavior, via The Telegraph:
Chinese cities are launching a scoring system for dog owners where anyone found failing to care for their pets could be forced to pay a fine – or even have their dog confiscated.
The credit system is already being enforced in the Chinese city of Jinan, and requires anyone with a dog to register with the police – with only one dog permitted per person.
The license starts with a dozen points and is embedded as a QR code on a dog’s collar. Points are then deducted for various infractions, such as walking a dog without a leash or tag, not cleaning up poo, or being reported for a disturbance. Owners are docked three points if dogs are walked without a leash, for example, which must be less than 1.5 metres in length and under the control of someone at least 18 years of age.
Posted in Civil Liberties, Government, Privacy, Surveillance
Tagged China, Social Credit System
China’s government, world leader in Orwellian surveillance and suppression, is passing on its tricks to other governments. From AFP at france24.com:
Governments worldwide are stepping up use of online tools, in many cases inspired by China’s model, to suppress dissent and tighten their grip on power, a human rights watchdog study found Thursday.
The annual Freedom House study of 65 countries found global internet freedom declined for the eighth consecutive year in 2018, amid a rise in what the group called “digital authoritarianism.”
The Freedom on the Net 2018 report found online propaganda and disinformation have increasingly “poisoned” the digital space, while the unbridled collection of personal data is infringing on privacy.
Posted in Civil Liberties, Governments, Intelligence, Privacy, Surveillance
Tagged China, internet, Tech infrastructure
Substantial segments of America look like they may go off the deep end, which of course will bring calls for the government to “do something,” which of course will further erode our dwindling liberties. From John W. Whitehead at rutherford.org:
“As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air – however slight – lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.” ― Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas
Yet another shooting.
Yet another smear of ugliness, hatred and violence.
Yet another ratcheting up of the calls for the government to clamp down on the citizenry by imposing more costly security measures without any real benefit, more militarized police, more surveillance, more widespread mental health screening of the general population, more threat assessments and behavioral sensing warnings, more gun control measures, more surveillance cameras with facial recognition capabilities, more “See Something, Say Something” programs aimed at turning Americans into snitches and spies, more metal detectors and whole-body imaging devices at so-called soft targets, more roaming squads of militarized police empowered to do more stop-and-frisk searches, more fusion centers to centralize and disseminate information to law enforcement agencies, and more government monitoring of what Americans say and do, where they go, what they buy and how they spend their time.
All of these measures play into the government’s hands.
All of these measures add up to more government power, less real security and far less freedom.
As we have learned the hard way, the phantom promise of safety in exchange for restricted or regulated liberty is a false, misguided doctrine that has no basis in the truth.
Things are falling apart.
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