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Freedom Where Did You Go?

Postby armati on Sun Sep 23, 2018 2:36 pm

Freedom Where Did You Go?
September 22, 2018


Paul Craig Roberts

My Generation is the last one to have known privacy and to have lived out most of our lives in freedom.

I remember when driving licenses did not have photos and most certainly not fingerprints. A driving license was issued on proof of birth date alone.

Prior to the appearance of automobiles IDs did not exist in democratic nations. You were who you said you were.

The intrusive questions that accost us every day, even when doing something simple as reporting a telephone or Internet connection being out or inquiring about a credit card charge, were impermissible. I remember when you could telephone a utility company, for example, have the telephone answered no later than the third ring with a real person on the line who could clear up the problem in a few minutes without having to know your Social Security number and your mother’s maiden name. Today, after half an hour with robot voices asking intrusive questions you might finally get a real person somewhere in Asia who is controlled by such a tight system of rules that the person is, in effect, a robot. The person is not permitted to use any judgment or discretion and you listen to advertisements for another half hour while you wait for a supervisor who promises to have the matter looked into.

The minute you go online, you are subject to collection of information about yourself. You don’t even know it is being collected.

According to reports, soon our stoves, refrigerators, and microwave ovens will be reporting on us. The new cars already do.

When privacy disappears, there are no private persons. So what do people become? They become Big Brother’s subjects.

We are at that point now.

This interview witth Julian Assange is worth the 53 minutes: https://www.rt.com/news/438968-assange- ... -blackout/

Think about Assange for a minute. He has done nothing wrong. There are no charges against him. All charges have been dismissed. But he cannot walk out of the Ecuadoran Embassy in London without being seized by the British police and handed over to Washington whose prosecutorial apparatus intends to prosecute Assange for treason although he is not a US citizen but an Australian and Ecuadoran citizen.

What did Assange do? Nothing but practice journalism. His problem, his only problem, is that his journalism embarrassed Washington, and Washington intends revenge.

Law is nowhere in the picture. The UK is breaking all known laws including its own by the forced detention of Assange in the Ecuadoran Embassy.

The US in its determination to get Assange has no law whatsoever on which to stand. It only has raw unbridled power that can operate without law.

In other words, the Anglo-American world is totally lawless. Yet the Russian government holds firmly to its delusion that the US and Britain are countries with which agreementts can be made.

The digital world makes Big Brother’s Memory Hole possible. No need to burn books. Just push a button and information disappears.

As I write Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Apple, and so forth are all making non-approved information disappear.

In a digital world, not only can our identities be stolen—indeed, it can be stolen multiple times so that there are many of you at the same time—but we can also be erased. Poof—push a button and there you go. This makes murder easy. You never existed.

As I said before and will say again, the digital world and artificial intelligence are a far worse disaster for mankind than ever was the Black Plague. All the smart people busy at work creating the new world are destroying the human race.
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Re: Freedom Where Did You Go?

Postby Symmetry on Sun Sep 23, 2018 7:47 pm

Urgh- the quote and url buttons are your friends here, armati, not your enemies.
the world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it- Albert Einstein
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Re: Freedom Where Did You Go?

Postby KoolBak on Mon Sep 24, 2018 9:16 am

So you'd rather have your entire family contract the black plague than have a facebag account?

Sure as HELL glad we aint related.

PS...thassa reeeeaaal nice soapbox dude ;)
"Gypsy told my fortune...she said that nothin showed...."

Neil Young....Like An Inca

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Re: Freedom Where Did You Go?

Postby tzor on Mon Sep 24, 2018 10:49 am

KoolBak wrote:So you'd rather have your entire family contract the black plague than have a facebag account?


That's not what he wrote.

On the other hand, those who survived were generally wealthy because all their relatives died and left them money. (Oh wait it was actually wages.)
How The Bubonic Plague Made Europe Great (NOTE this article was from 2008 so it's clearly not a play on Trump's slogan.
Consequences of the Black Death from Wikipedia.

I'm not seeing Facebook increasing my income anytime soon.
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Re: Freedom Where Did You Go?

Postby KoolBak on Mon Sep 24, 2018 11:27 am

tzor wrote:
That's not what he wrote.



:lol:
"Gypsy told my fortune...she said that nothin showed...."

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Re: Freedom Where Did You Go?

Postby armati on Mon Sep 24, 2018 12:04 pm

Im beginning to think trolling happens when a person doesnt understand what their reading.
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Re: Freedom Where Did You Go?

Postby KoolBak on Mon Sep 24, 2018 3:36 pm

Ha! I made you think!

Sorry for the derail...not intended.

Back to thread ;o)
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Re: Freedom Where Did You Go?

Postby spurgistan on Sat Sep 29, 2018 5:00 pm

armati wrote:Im beginning to think trolling happens when a person doesnt understand what their reading.


they're
Mr_Adams wrote:You, sir, are an idiot.


Timminz wrote:By that logic, you eat babies.
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Re: Freedom Where Did You Go?

Postby armati on Sat Sep 29, 2018 5:36 pm

I stand corrected.
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Re: Freedom Where Did You Go?

Postby ConfederateSS on Sat Sep 29, 2018 6:07 pm

-----"WITH THE WIND"... :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: ... O:) ConfederateSS.out!(The Blue and Silver Rebellion)... O:) ..."Frankly, I don't give a DAMN!"...Cue music... ;)
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Re: Freedom Where Did You Go?

Postby Symmetry on Sat Sep 29, 2018 8:49 pm

Oh great, this guy is back.
the world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it- Albert Einstein
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Re: Freedom Where Did You Go?

Postby DoomYoshi on Sun Sep 30, 2018 4:46 am

The three men I admire most
the father, son, and the Holy Ghost
they caught the last train for the coast
the day the freedom died
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Re: Freedom Where Did You Go?

Postby ConfederateSS on Sun Sep 30, 2018 7:50 am

-----Never left...Been fighting Robots... :D :D :D ...Some of us, come here to play R.I.S.K. ;) :lol: ... O:) ConfederateSS.out!(The Blue and Silver Rebellion)... O:)
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Re: Freedom Where Did You Go?

Postby Symmetry on Mon Oct 01, 2018 3:39 pm

ConfederateSS wrote:-----Never left...Been fighting Robots... :D :D :D ...Some of us, come here to play R.I.S.K. ;) :lol: ... O:) ConfederateSS.out!(The Blue and Silver Rebellion)... O:)


Still flying the stars and bars in support of slavery nation, I see.
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