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1984 revised/revisit... readers digested and regergitated for 2008
( My rewriting of select parts of 1984 to bring it up to date,
rewriting history if you will, just changing enough facts,
to suit my needs....subject to change if need be)
(I got the power to do that you know)
Do you see what kind of world we are creating?
It is the exact opposite of the founding fathers imagined.
A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of
trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow
more merciless as it refines itself.
Progress in our world will be progress toward more pain.
Never again will you be capable
of ordinary human feeling.
Everything will be dead inside you.
Never again will you be capable of love,
or friendship, or joy of living, or laughter,
or curiosity, or courage, or integrity.
A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness,
a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with
a sledge hammer, will flow through you like an electric
current, turning your will into a grimacing, screaming
lunatic, one rage felt as an abstract, undirected which
could be switched from one object to another
like a flame in the wind
As the one's in power seek more power entirely for
its own sake. They are not interested in the good
of others; They are interested solely in power.
Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness or healthcare shared
with other's in this world..... only power, pure power.
What pure power means you will understand presently.
The world today is different from all the segment's
of society of the past, whether distinguished by wealth, family
or military powers, in that we now know all of what you are doing.
There was of course no way of knowing whether you are being
watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system,
they plugged in on any individual wire was not guesswork.
It is now conceivable that they watch everybody all the time.
If not, at any rate, they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to.
You now have to live it, make it habit that will soon became instinct
in the assumption that every sound you made every motion you make
was or will be overheard and viewed except in darkness,
every movement; every phone call; every website visited; scrutinized.
It is the ideal set up by those in power, it is something huge,
terrible, and glittering, a world of steel and concrete,
of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons a nation
of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity,
all thinking being told to think the same thoughts and shout
the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing,
persecuting, three hundred million people all with the same face.
being sold the same thoughts.
All the others, even those who resembled ourselves,
were of no comparison of today, they were cowards and hypocrites.
The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very
close to us in their methods, but they never had the
courage to recognize their own motives the real potential
of all that power.
They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they
had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time,
and that just round the corner there lay a paradise
where human beings would be free and equal.
We are not like that.
We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention
of relinquishing it. Power is not a means: it is an end.
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to
safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution
in order to establish the dictatorship.
The object of persecution is persecution.
The object of torture is torture.
The object of power is power."
There will be no loyalty, except those with power.
There will be no love, except the love of power.
There will be no laughter, except the laugh
of triumph over a defeated enemy, even if it takes a thousand years
There will be no art, no literature, no science.
When we are omnipotent there will be no need of science.
There will be no distinction between beauty and ugliness.
There will be no curiosity, no need for the enjoyment
of the process of life.
All competing pleasures will be destroyed.
But always do not forget this,
always there will be the intoxication of power,
constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler.
Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill
of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy
who is helpless and was never shown or to be known.
They are not content with just your obedience,
nor even with your submission. They want you to
surrender, and make you think it was because
of your own free will.
They know that they can never destroy us because we
resists them; so long as we resists them they can never destroy us.
Oh how they try to convert us, capture our inner mind,
reshape our thoughts.
With tails of all the evil, Yet we all know
it is all an illusion broadcast to us by them;
To bring us over to there side,
in appearance,they try genuinely, heart and soul.
It is intolerable to us that an erroneous
thought should exist anywhere in the world,
however secret and tourcherous it may be.
Until instance of our death we cannot permit this,
Before you become hollow, squeezed empty, total desensitized.
Picture if you will our not to distant future,
Imagine a boot stamping and weatherboarding
along with death and destruction
in the face of humanity forever.
Maybe it was for only yesterday, today and tomorrow
PEACE, FREEDOM, STRENGTH
rewriting history if you will, just changing enough facts,
to suit my needs....subject to change if need be)
(I got the power to do that you know)
Do you see what kind of world we are creating?
It is the exact opposite of the founding fathers imagined.
A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of
trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow
more merciless as it refines itself.
Progress in our world will be progress toward more pain.
Never again will you be capable
of ordinary human feeling.
Everything will be dead inside you.
Never again will you be capable of love,
or friendship, or joy of living, or laughter,
or curiosity, or courage, or integrity.
A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness,
a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with
a sledge hammer, will flow through you like an electric
current, turning your will into a grimacing, screaming
lunatic, one rage felt as an abstract, undirected which
could be switched from one object to another
like a flame in the wind
As the one's in power seek more power entirely for
its own sake. They are not interested in the good
of others; They are interested solely in power.
Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness or healthcare shared
with other's in this world..... only power, pure power.
What pure power means you will understand presently.
The world today is different from all the segment's
of society of the past, whether distinguished by wealth, family
or military powers, in that we now know all of what you are doing.
There was of course no way of knowing whether you are being
watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system,
they plugged in on any individual wire was not guesswork.
It is now conceivable that they watch everybody all the time.
If not, at any rate, they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to.
You now have to live it, make it habit that will soon became instinct
in the assumption that every sound you made every motion you make
was or will be overheard and viewed except in darkness,
every movement; every phone call; every website visited; scrutinized.
It is the ideal set up by those in power, it is something huge,
terrible, and glittering, a world of steel and concrete,
of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons a nation
of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity,
all thinking being told to think the same thoughts and shout
the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing,
persecuting, three hundred million people all with the same face.
being sold the same thoughts.
All the others, even those who resembled ourselves,
were of no comparison of today, they were cowards and hypocrites.
The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very
close to us in their methods, but they never had the
courage to recognize their own motives the real potential
of all that power.
They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they
had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time,
and that just round the corner there lay a paradise
where human beings would be free and equal.
We are not like that.
We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention
of relinquishing it. Power is not a means: it is an end.
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to
safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution
in order to establish the dictatorship.
The object of persecution is persecution.
The object of torture is torture.
The object of power is power."
There will be no loyalty, except those with power.
There will be no love, except the love of power.
There will be no laughter, except the laugh
of triumph over a defeated enemy, even if it takes a thousand years
There will be no art, no literature, no science.
When we are omnipotent there will be no need of science.
There will be no distinction between beauty and ugliness.
There will be no curiosity, no need for the enjoyment
of the process of life.
All competing pleasures will be destroyed.
But always do not forget this,
always there will be the intoxication of power,
constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler.
Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill
of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy
who is helpless and was never shown or to be known.
They are not content with just your obedience,
nor even with your submission. They want you to
surrender, and make you think it was because
of your own free will.
They know that they can never destroy us because we
resists them; so long as we resists them they can never destroy us.
Oh how they try to convert us, capture our inner mind,
reshape our thoughts.
With tails of all the evil, Yet we all know
it is all an illusion broadcast to us by them;
To bring us over to there side,
in appearance,they try genuinely, heart and soul.
It is intolerable to us that an erroneous
thought should exist anywhere in the world,
however secret and tourcherous it may be.
Until instance of our death we cannot permit this,
Before you become hollow, squeezed empty, total desensitized.
Picture if you will our not to distant future,
Imagine a boot stamping and weatherboarding
along with death and destruction
in the face of humanity forever.
Maybe it was for only yesterday, today and tomorrow
PEACE, FREEDOM, STRENGTH
How to Remove and Replace Window Regulator and Motor Assembly on 1984 Mercedes 300SD
Above is a picture of the window motor and regulator assembly on a 1984 Mercedes 300SD. It is held in place with 6 fasteners. Three nuts on the motor assembly section and three bolts on the regulator arms.
Above is a picture of the window motor and regulator assembly on a 1984 Mercedes 300SD. It is held in place with 6 fasteners. Three nuts on the motor assembly section and three bolts on the regulator arms.
US 2017: under surveillance, or is it today or yesterday
“The Chinese proverb and curse says,
‘May you live in interesting times’.”
In the first decade of the twenty-first century,
we live in profound uncertainty,
faced with issues unprecedented in the history of the human race.
This vision of the future has been compiled
on the orders of the information commissioner.
It is what the world will look like 10 years from now.
This study is based the vision of the future, not on wild
hypotheses but on existing technology, statements made
about the intentions of government and private companies
and studies by other think tanks
I fear that we are, in fact, waking up to a
surveillance society that is already all around us.
A world in which our nation uses fleets of tiny spyplanes
to watch its citizens, preemptive justice that is what
they will call it, the underclass trapped in ghettos
under constant state surveillance, the worker drones, now
forced to take on the lifestyle and values of the
megacorporation they work for, the super rich hiding out
in gated communities constantly monitored by cameras and
private security guards.
Pervasive surveillance aimed at tracking and controlling people
and preempting behavior, that glimpse of the future is fairly conservative.
There once were independent watchdog's warning against
government and private companies invading the privacy
of citizens and exploiting the masses of information currently
held by the Surveillance Network on each and every one of us.
Here’s how 2017 might look…
The Jones family are returning to The America Union.
It’s hard to know the difference between the countries
by what the family experience at the border.
The America's, Europe, Asia, Africa, all member countries
of the New World Order have outsourced their immigration
and border control services to massive a private companie.
In this, lets give the company the name BorderGuard.
Thanks to the never-ending war on terror, these
governments have developed “smart borders” using
hidden surveillance technologies.
Cameras and scanners at passport control monitor faces,
irises and fingerprints checking them off against records
of biometric passports, the regional ID card system and
or chip implants.
BorderGuard has access to state and transnational
databases and can also data mine information on
individuals, such as consumer transactions, via a
paid for service provided by specialist companies
trading in information held on every individual
in the land.
For families like the Jones, crossing borders is
relatively swift and painless. The wealth of information
held on them means they can be quickly identified and
processed. But citizens of nations not signed up to the
BorderGuard scheme face hostile and lengthy
investigations while crossing frontiers.
Racial profiling is now the norm. Certain ethnec and
racial features inevitably mean being pulled to oneside,
whether or not you carry a biometric passport or ID card.
Brandscapes Retail chains and mega-malls now use huge
shared databases, which began with data mining
reward card information, to create a “brandscape”
for every shopper.
Smart tags buried in a shopper’s clothing “talk” to
scanners in shops. The system then connects to consumer
databases, revealing where the clothing was bought and
by whom and what other purchases the person has made.
The system knows who you are, where you live, what you
like and don’t like. Intelligent billboards at eye level
then immediately flash up adverts tailored to the consumer
profile of the individual.
The wealthiest consumer citizen can even become a
cashless shopper. For, a chip, remember the chip?, can be
implanted in the human body which is loaded with a
person’s bank and credit details.
From then on, it’s their arm that will be scanned in a
shop, not their credit card. Chiped shoppers also get
first class service in mega-malls, with special lounges,
spas and massage facilities reserved only for them.
Urban myths, however, are springing up that muggers are
targeting these elite consumers and cutting the chip from
their arms. There are also concerns about hackers being
able to upload viruses to the chip or empty the
chipholder’s account.
Tagged Kids Scandals about child abductions and murders
during school hours mean teachers prefer tagging a child
to facing legal liability for their injury in a court.
Drug testing in schools has also become an accepted part
of life following pressure by the government to identify
problem children earlier and earlier in life. What
children eat in schools is also monitored by parents,
as boys and girls are required to swipe their school
card every time they visit the cafeteria. The card
contains information on school attendance, academic
achievement, drug-test results, internet access and
sporting activities. The card’s records are used to
assess whether the child has passed or failed their
citizenship program.
Shops are also monitoring children in order to tap into
the lucrative youth market. Children today are gradually
becoming socialized into accepting body surveillance, so
location tracking and the remote monitoring of their
dietary intake will be quite normal.
Most cities are divided, the gated private communities,
patrolled by corporate security firms, which keep
insurance costs to a minimum. They hire private
companies are tasked to deal with social evils.
Offenders have the option of having a chip voluntarily
implanted in their arm so they can be monitored at home
using scanners and sensors.
We now can be subject to area-wide curfews, following
outbursts of antisocial behavior, which ban anyone
under 18 from entering or leaving the area from dusk
until dawn.
Community wardens armed with Tasers enforce the law.
CCTV cameras can be viewed by residents at home on
their television’s security channel.
In gated communities, meanwhile, no-one can get in or out
unless their car’s number plate is authorized by the
automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) devices located
on gates.
There are now so many ANPR cameras across the land
that it’s almost impossible to drive the length of a street
without details of your car being logged by the state.
The aesthetics of surveillance Security has been incorporated into the design
of architecture and infrastructure so that it is almost unnoticeable now.
Anti suicide bomber triggers, outside embassies and
government buildings are secreted in the ground, being
activated in an emergency by the security sensors.
Anti government protesters are monitored by small
remote control spyplanes, which were introduced
during a temporary security alert but remained
and became permanent fixtures.
CCTV is now embedded at eye level in lamp-posts to
enable the use of facial recognition technology.
Individuals can be monitored by camera by private
security contractors, and held for the local authority
to question them in the event of any questionable event took place.
Helmet-mounted cameras scan the biometrics of anyone
being questioned. All guards and police are also now
monitored by surveillance devices in their handheld
computers. Ironically, this has triggered civil
liberties concerns within the police union.
As an example of how police might treat dissenters.
When taken into custody by private security
guards one undergoes the usual DNA swab, which
is analysed instantaneously, and hands over his
ID card for scanning. ID cards are still theoretically
voluntary, but not having one makes life almost
impossible.
If one doesn’t have a card, it means they can’t apply
for a government job or claim benefits or student loans.
one can’t travel by plane or even train. To make matters
worse, one is deemed a high category suspect and is
routinely stopped and brought in to the nearest police
station for questioning.
Once released, police monitoring systems piggyback on
your hand-held device to track your travels across the
city. you will also been put on a communications
watchlist which means all internet and e-mail traffic
is saved by your ISP and passed to police. As most
phone calls are online now, police also get access
to these communications as well.
Call centers monitor everything and surveillance
information is used to recruit staff. Potential
employees are subjected to biometric and psychometric
testing, as well as lifestyle surveys.
Their lives outside work, and their background, are
the subject of scrutiny. It is felt to be increasingly
important that the lifestyle profile of the employee
match those of the customers to ensure better customer
service. Recruitment consultants now frequently discard
anyone which does not volunteer health information.
Once hired, staff are subjected to sporadic biometric
testing which point to potential health and psychological
problems. Thanks to iris-scanning at a gym connected to
the company, employees can be pulled up at annual
assessments for not maintaining their health.
Periodic psychometric testing also reveals if staff
attitudes have changed and become incompatible with
company values.
Big Brother is looking after you. Homes in the ever
growing number of retirement villages are fitted with
the telecare system, with motion detectors in every
room, baths with inbuilt heart monitors, toilets which
measure blood sugar levels and all rooms fitted with
devices to detect fire, flood and gas leaks.
Panic buttons are also installed in every room. Fridges
have RFID scanners which tell the neighborhood grocery
store that pensioners are running short on provisions.
The goods are then delivered direct to the doorstep.
Huge databases in hospitals are able to compare tests on
patients throughout the country. This allows doctors to
red flag risk factors earlier than ever before, meaning
that a patient’s statistical risk of suffering, for
example, a heart attack, are predicted with much greater
accuracy. The hospitals will be locked in a battle with
insurance companies who want access to health information
for commercial purposes.
The temptation for the hospitals is the large amounts of
money on offer. The fact is Iceland has sold its national
DNA database to private companies for research and profit
in 2004.
The data shadow Those rich enough can sign up to is the
“personal information management services” (Pims)
which monitor all the information that exists
about an individual, a person’s so-called “data shadow”.
The Pims system corrects incorrect information held by government or private companies.
Those who can’t afford Pims have to live with the impact
that incorrect data can have on their lives, such as
faulty credit ratings. Some are condemned to a purgatory
of surveillance and an inability to access information.
But for other people total surveillance has become an
accepted way of life. Some voluntarily carry out
surveillance on their whole lives.
©2007 newsquest (sunday herald) limited. all rights reserved
FAIR USE NOTICE: This blog contains modified copyrighted material.
This material is made available for educational
purposes, to advance understanding of human rights,
democracy, scientific, moral, ethical, and social justice
issues, etc. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such
copyrighted material as provided for in Title 17 U.S.C.
section 107 of the US Copyright Law. This material is
distributed without profit.
“The Chinese proverb and curse says,
‘May you live in interesting times’.”
In the first decade of the twenty-first century,
we live in profound uncertainty,
faced with issues unprecedented in the history of the human race.
This vision of the future has been compiled
on the orders of the information commissioner.
It is what the world will look like 10 years from now.
This study is based the vision of the future, not on wild
hypotheses but on existing technology, statements made
about the intentions of government and private companies
and studies by other think tanks
I fear that we are, in fact, waking up to a
surveillance society that is already all around us.
A world in which our nation uses fleets of tiny spyplanes
to watch its citizens, preemptive justice that is what
they will call it, the underclass trapped in ghettos
under constant state surveillance, the worker drones, now
forced to take on the lifestyle and values of the
megacorporation they work for, the super rich hiding out
in gated communities constantly monitored by cameras and
private security guards.
Pervasive surveillance aimed at tracking and controlling people
and preempting behavior, that glimpse of the future is fairly conservative.
There once were independent watchdog's warning against
government and private companies invading the privacy
of citizens and exploiting the masses of information currently
held by the Surveillance Network on each and every one of us.
Here’s how 2017 might look…
The Jones family are returning to The America Union.
It’s hard to know the difference between the countries
by what the family experience at the border.
The America's, Europe, Asia, Africa, all member countries
of the New World Order have outsourced their immigration
and border control services to massive a private companie.
In this, lets give the company the name BorderGuard.
Thanks to the never-ending war on terror, these
governments have developed “smart borders” using
hidden surveillance technologies.
Cameras and scanners at passport control monitor faces,
irises and fingerprints checking them off against records
of biometric passports, the regional ID card system and
or chip implants.
BorderGuard has access to state and transnational
databases and can also data mine information on
individuals, such as consumer transactions, via a
paid for service provided by specialist companies
trading in information held on every individual
in the land.
For families like the Jones, crossing borders is
relatively swift and painless. The wealth of information
held on them means they can be quickly identified and
processed. But citizens of nations not signed up to the
BorderGuard scheme face hostile and lengthy
investigations while crossing frontiers.
Racial profiling is now the norm. Certain ethnec and
racial features inevitably mean being pulled to oneside,
whether or not you carry a biometric passport or ID card.
Brandscapes Retail chains and mega-malls now use huge
shared databases, which began with data mining
reward card information, to create a “brandscape”
for every shopper.
Smart tags buried in a shopper’s clothing “talk” to
scanners in shops. The system then connects to consumer
databases, revealing where the clothing was bought and
by whom and what other purchases the person has made.
The system knows who you are, where you live, what you
like and don’t like. Intelligent billboards at eye level
then immediately flash up adverts tailored to the consumer
profile of the individual.
The wealthiest consumer citizen can even become a
cashless shopper. For, a chip, remember the chip?, can be
implanted in the human body which is loaded with a
person’s bank and credit details.
From then on, it’s their arm that will be scanned in a
shop, not their credit card. Chiped shoppers also get
first class service in mega-malls, with special lounges,
spas and massage facilities reserved only for them.
Urban myths, however, are springing up that muggers are
targeting these elite consumers and cutting the chip from
their arms. There are also concerns about hackers being
able to upload viruses to the chip or empty the
chipholder’s account.
Tagged Kids Scandals about child abductions and murders
during school hours mean teachers prefer tagging a child
to facing legal liability for their injury in a court.
Drug testing in schools has also become an accepted part
of life following pressure by the government to identify
problem children earlier and earlier in life. What
children eat in schools is also monitored by parents,
as boys and girls are required to swipe their school
card every time they visit the cafeteria. The card
contains information on school attendance, academic
achievement, drug-test results, internet access and
sporting activities. The card’s records are used to
assess whether the child has passed or failed their
citizenship program.
Shops are also monitoring children in order to tap into
the lucrative youth market. Children today are gradually
becoming socialized into accepting body surveillance, so
location tracking and the remote monitoring of their
dietary intake will be quite normal.
Most cities are divided, the gated private communities,
patrolled by corporate security firms, which keep
insurance costs to a minimum. They hire private
companies are tasked to deal with social evils.
Offenders have the option of having a chip voluntarily
implanted in their arm so they can be monitored at home
using scanners and sensors.
We now can be subject to area-wide curfews, following
outbursts of antisocial behavior, which ban anyone
under 18 from entering or leaving the area from dusk
until dawn.
Community wardens armed with Tasers enforce the law.
CCTV cameras can be viewed by residents at home on
their television’s security channel.
In gated communities, meanwhile, no-one can get in or out
unless their car’s number plate is authorized by the
automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) devices located
on gates.
There are now so many ANPR cameras across the land
that it’s almost impossible to drive the length of a street
without details of your car being logged by the state.
The aesthetics of surveillance Security has been incorporated into the design
of architecture and infrastructure so that it is almost unnoticeable now.
Anti suicide bomber triggers, outside embassies and
government buildings are secreted in the ground, being
activated in an emergency by the security sensors.
Anti government protesters are monitored by small
remote control spyplanes, which were introduced
during a temporary security alert but remained
and became permanent fixtures.
CCTV is now embedded at eye level in lamp-posts to
enable the use of facial recognition technology.
Individuals can be monitored by camera by private
security contractors, and held for the local authority
to question them in the event of any questionable event took place.
Helmet-mounted cameras scan the biometrics of anyone
being questioned. All guards and police are also now
monitored by surveillance devices in their handheld
computers. Ironically, this has triggered civil
liberties concerns within the police union.
As an example of how police might treat dissenters.
When taken into custody by private security
guards one undergoes the usual DNA swab, which
is analysed instantaneously, and hands over his
ID card for scanning. ID cards are still theoretically
voluntary, but not having one makes life almost
impossible.
If one doesn’t have a card, it means they can’t apply
for a government job or claim benefits or student loans.
one can’t travel by plane or even train. To make matters
worse, one is deemed a high category suspect and is
routinely stopped and brought in to the nearest police
station for questioning.
Once released, police monitoring systems piggyback on
your hand-held device to track your travels across the
city. you will also been put on a communications
watchlist which means all internet and e-mail traffic
is saved by your ISP and passed to police. As most
phone calls are online now, police also get access
to these communications as well.
Call centers monitor everything and surveillance
information is used to recruit staff. Potential
employees are subjected to biometric and psychometric
testing, as well as lifestyle surveys.
Their lives outside work, and their background, are
the subject of scrutiny. It is felt to be increasingly
important that the lifestyle profile of the employee
match those of the customers to ensure better customer
service. Recruitment consultants now frequently discard
anyone which does not volunteer health information.
Once hired, staff are subjected to sporadic biometric
testing which point to potential health and psychological
problems. Thanks to iris-scanning at a gym connected to
the company, employees can be pulled up at annual
assessments for not maintaining their health.
Periodic psychometric testing also reveals if staff
attitudes have changed and become incompatible with
company values.
Big Brother is looking after you. Homes in the ever
growing number of retirement villages are fitted with
the telecare system, with motion detectors in every
room, baths with inbuilt heart monitors, toilets which
measure blood sugar levels and all rooms fitted with
devices to detect fire, flood and gas leaks.
Panic buttons are also installed in every room. Fridges
have RFID scanners which tell the neighborhood grocery
store that pensioners are running short on provisions.
The goods are then delivered direct to the doorstep.
Huge databases in hospitals are able to compare tests on
patients throughout the country. This allows doctors to
red flag risk factors earlier than ever before, meaning
that a patient’s statistical risk of suffering, for
example, a heart attack, are predicted with much greater
accuracy. The hospitals will be locked in a battle with
insurance companies who want access to health information
for commercial purposes.
The temptation for the hospitals is the large amounts of
money on offer. The fact is Iceland has sold its national
DNA database to private companies for research and profit
in 2004.
The data shadow Those rich enough can sign up to is the
“personal information management services” (Pims)
which monitor all the information that exists
about an individual, a person’s so-called “data shadow”.
The Pims system corrects incorrect information held by government or private companies.
Those who can’t afford Pims have to live with the impact
that incorrect data can have on their lives, such as
faulty credit ratings. Some are condemned to a purgatory
of surveillance and an inability to access information.
But for other people total surveillance has become an
accepted way of life. Some voluntarily carry out
surveillance on their whole lives.
©2007 newsquest (sunday herald) limited. all rights reserved
FAIR USE NOTICE: This blog contains modified copyrighted material.
This material is made available for educational
purposes, to advance understanding of human rights,
democracy, scientific, moral, ethical, and social justice
issues, etc. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such
copyrighted material as provided for in Title 17 U.S.C.
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Big Brother Is Watching
This feels a bit like 1984...George Orwell's 1984, that is. Major league teams are monitoring players during the period between when they are notified they must take a drug test and when they provide a urine sample...and the players don't always know it's happening. So, what? Someone just follows them around until they pee in a cup, to make sure they don't get a clean sample somewhere? This is really what it's come down to?
Peace through Strength
So, you may read this headline and think, "Oh, here he goes. More references to 1984 seen through America today." Well, ironically, I didn't need to stretch or make up or apply something to make this scaryness fit.
Of course that line sounds familiar to you. But not quite right. The quote from 1984 is:
"War Is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength"
So where did I get that particular slogan from?
Pro-War protesters in DC for the 5th anniversary of the Iraq War... *dundundun*
Fits right into that literary slogan though, eh?
Crowds gather to denounce, support war
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hundreds of anti-war demonstrators and supporters of the U.S. policy in Iraq shouted at each other Saturday from opposite sides of a street bordering the National Mall as protesters formed a march to the Pentagon to denounce a war entering its fifth year.
The anti-war group carried signs saying "U.S. Out of Iraq Now," "Stop Iraq War, No Iran War, Impeach" and "Illegal Combat." The other side carried signs saying "Peace Through Strength," "al Qaeda Appeasers On Parade" and "We Are At War, Liberals Root For the Enemy."
Police on horseback and foot separated the demonstrators, who were on opposite sides of Constitution Avenue in view of the Lincoln Memorial. Barriers also kept them apart. (See the results of CNN's latest poll on whether Americans think the war is worth it)
Cheryl Davis, 62, a library assistant from Celina, Ohio, endured a nine-hour overnight drive in the wake of a late-winter storm to raise her voice against the conflict that has killed more than 3,200 members of the U.S. armed forces. "I just want peace," she said. "I just have to do my part." She had supported the Vietnam War when her ex-husband fought in it.
Protesters met at the starting point of the epic 1967 march on the Pentagon, which began peacefully but turned ugly in clashes between authorities and more radical elements of the crowd. More than 600 were arrested that day. It was there that anti-war activist Abbie Hoffman led the masses in chants, with the fanciful goal of levitating the building.
Veteran says he's conflicted
Saturday's march was the main event in anti-war demonstrations around the country.
Police on horses ensured anti-war protesters and counterdemonstrators stayed apart at the staging area. Several thousand people, many of them service members, rallied in support of the war. They played "The Battle Hymn of the Republic;" the anti-war crowd danced to Stevie Wonder's "Superstition."
Veterans, some from the Rolling Thunder motorcycle group, lined up at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
"I'm not sure I'm in support of the war," said William "Skip" Publicover of Charleston, South Carolina, who was a swift boat gunner in Vietnam and lost two friends whose names are etched on the memorial's wall.
"I learned in Vietnam that it's difficult if not impossible to win the hearts and minds of the people."
Park Police Lt. Scott Fear said more than 200 people were arrested from a crowd of several thousand protesters who marched to the White House on Friday night after a peace service at the Washington National Cathedral. Full story
Those arrested were handcuffed, taken away on buses and fined $100 for disobeying a lawful order or crossing a police line. They had demonstrated on the sidewalk in front of the White House, where protesters are required to continue moving.
The windows of the White House were dark, as President Bush was away for the weekend at Camp David in Maryland.
The church service and weekend protests drew John Pattison, 29, from Portland, Oregon, to his first anti-war rally. He said his opposition to the war had developed over time.
"Quite literally on the night that shock and awe commenced, my friend and I toasted the military might of the United States," Pattison said. "We were quite proud and thought we were doing the right thing."
He said the way the war had progressed and U.S. foreign policy since then had forced him to question his beliefs.
Source.Make sure you shout loud enough during those 2 minutes, friends. And remember, We are at war with Eastasia. We have ALWAYS been at war with Eastasia
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