Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
After Blocking Zero Hedge and Others, NZ Telcos Demand Big-Tech Censorship Surge to “Protect Consumers”
March 21st, 2019People are emailing me about these bans. I just now browsed (on a remote machine under my control) ZeroHedge, Gab and Dissenter without any problems on Spark, the largest ISP in NZ. Also, my small, regional ISP has not blocked any of these sites. Whatever is happening with regard to sites being blocked in NZ, […]
New Zealand: The Most Hysterical Reaction to an Event I’ve Seen Since 9/11
March 17th, 2019Even before the Christchurch incident, I never bothered advocating for gun rights in New Zealand. Besides rural people, who tend to own guns, you have near total ignorance combined with a long running social engineering program designed to create a very anti-gun climate here—and that’s on the best of days. The average person here thinks […]
New Zealand: Dozens Killed in Terrorist Attack
March 15th, 2019I’ve been reading through Brenton Tarrant’s manifesto, The Great Replacement. As I was reading, I kept thinking, “This sounds familiar. Where I have seen this before?” It has been a while since I’ve thought about Pol Pot, but Tarrant is hoping to bring about a sort of white man’s version of the Khmer Rouge. If […]
U.S. Government Will Be Scanning Faces at 20 Top Airports
March 13th, 2019Via: BuzzFeed: For Hasbrouck, the big takeaway is that the broad surveillance of people in airports amounts to a kind of “individualized control of citizenry” — not unlike what’s already happening with the social credit scoring system in China. “There are already people who aren’t allowed on, say, a high-speed train because their social credit […]
Zuckerberg Wants Facebook to Build a Mind-Reading Machine
March 11th, 2019Via: Wired: Of course, Facebook already follows you around as you make your way through the world via the GPS in the smartphone in your pocket, and, likewise, follows you across the internet via code implanted in your browser. Would we really let Facebook inside those old noggins of ours just so we can order […]
Zuckerberg Wants Facebook to Build a Mind-Reading Machine
March 11th, 2019Via: Wired: Of course, Facebook already follows you around as you make your way through the world via the GPS in the smartphone in your pocket, and, likewise, follows you across the internet via code implanted in your browser. Would we really let Facebook inside those old noggins of ours just so we can order […]
China’s “Democracy” Includes Mandatory Apps, Mass Chat Surveillance
March 7th, 2019Change the proper nouns and it would read like the situation in Europe or the U.S. Via: ArsTechnica: As the National People’s Congress gathers in Beijing for the beginning of China’s “Two Sessions” political season, state media is making an international propaganda push on social media—including on platforms blocked by China’s “Great Firewall”—to promote China’s […]
Dr. Martin Pall: “The 5G Rollout Is Absolutely Insane.”
February 25th, 2019Via: Nick Pineault: More: 5G: Great risk for EU, U.S. and International Health! Compelling Evidence for Eight Distinct Types of Great Harm Caused by Electromagnetic Field (EMF) Exposures and the Mechanism that Causes Them by Martin L. Pall, PhD
China’s Powerful Surveillance State Has Created at Least Four Billionaires
February 23rd, 2019Via: Bloomberg: Before he became a billionaire, Dai Lin would ride his bike to work, pedaling through the streets of Tianjin to the headquarters of Tiandy Technologies Co., the camera maker he built with support from China’s government. When Dai started his company in 1994, roadside surveillance cameras were rare in China. Now they’re everywhere […]
China’s Social Credit System: Millions Banned from Taking Flights, Trains
February 20th, 2019Via: South China Morning Post: Millions of Chinese individuals and businesses have been labelled as untrustworthy on an official blacklist banning them from any number of activities, including accessing financial markets or travelling by air or train, as the use of the government’s social credit system accelerates. The annual blacklist is part of a broader […]
