"Any state that has the capacity to monitor all its citizenry, any state that has the ability to snuff out factual public debate through control of information, any state that has the tools to instantly shut down all dissent is totalitarian. Our corporate state may not use this power today. But it will use it if it feels threatened by a population made restive by its corruption, ineptitude and mounting repression. The moment a popular movement arises—and one will arise—that truly confronts our corporate masters, our venal system of total surveillance will be thrust into overdrive."
"When you control the mail, you control information."
“There is no such thing, at this date of the world’s history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar weekly salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth; to lie outright; to pervert; to vilify; to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities, and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.”
– John Swinton, former New York Times Chief of Staff
“The CIA owns everyone of any significance in the major media.”
– William Colby, former CIA director
“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”
– William Casey, CIA Director (from first staff meeting, 1981)
“Deception is a state of mind and the mind of the State.”
– James Angleton, head of CIA counter intelligence from 1954-1974
” I will splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds.”
– John friend. Kennedy
“I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo.”
– Harry S. Truman
The Govt's treatment of MLK demonstrates the inherent danger of the unlimited surveillance state.
MLK proved Edward Snowden right
yea when the NSA was asked how much terrorism has it stopped it amounted to 1 event of an $8500 wire transfer to some terrorist organization....
you are more likely to be killed by a toddler than a terrorist. you are more likely to be killed by your furniture than a terrorist.
the military industrial complex moved from the germans, to the russians, to the terrorists. it always has an enemy. permanent war.
obama continued and accelerated the attack on civil liberties which began under bush. this is migrating to canada too.
As one threat (problem) dies in serving its purpose, a new problem will arise to take its place. Without a problem or a crisis, then of what purpose would gov't serve? Thus begs the question so few want to even ask!
To quote one of my favorite lines from the movie Apocalypse Now:
Boo! *big grin*I don't even think Klein is alive anymore, he has stopped posting here and his Facebook page(the last time I looked) has no recent posts and he was always posting on there about all the contests he was entering.
Boo! *big grin*
It's ALIVE !!!!!!!!Boo! *big grin*
UPS is watching you here.http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_last_gasp_of_american_democracy_20140105
usa dragnet surveillance state worse than stasi in east germany says journalist. america is the most spied on population in human history.
Boo! *big grin*
Well, I actually became very sick & had to seek great medical care, including living with my mom & later on with a brother. I was down to just 49 kg in weight.I guess with Harper, your ex prime minister(and dictator) , being out of office that the controls on internet access are loosened and that you are able to communicate across country borders again. Welcome back to the international community, Herr Klein.