The
New Paradigm
Computer technology is no longer a tool of industrial society,
it's at the heart of society...a new society which is in the process of
establishing itself and the new parameters by which it will function and
govern. While we're all playing with our gadgets, the social fabric is being
re-woven and as I've indicated I think most people are in fact missing the
magnitude and fundamental nature of the change.
There are things happening, voices in the wilderness
but if you spend your time plugged into the mainstream you are sure to be
missing it. I go online and deliberately watch some mainstream news from time
to time. It's all smut and entertainment. There literally is no actual news
programming coming from American networks anymore. If that's your source for
insight and information then you're going to be completely in the dark.
Whether you like Michael Hastings or not, the
circumstances and timing of his death are more than a little suspicious. What
is the significance of his reporting? What was he revealing about the new
paradigm? The Stratfor Leaks are devastating to the Establishment. They contain
so many informative clues as to the nature of the Security State. His reporting
had helped (whether he meant to or not) to bring down Stanley McChrystal and he
was in the process of writing about John Brennan.
If after Assange and Snowden you have any doubts that
the government is absolutely going after whistleblowers, leakers and the
journalists who are facilitating these activities then read the story of
Barrett Brown. While Brown is certainly not heroic, moral, or perhaps even a
very intelligent character, the way the government went after him over Stratfor
is worth considering.
Again as some have pointed out...when Ellsberg leaked
The Pentagon Papers, the Nixon administration went after him but no one really
considered going after the New York Times.
Today, the actual media outlets that publish the leaks are
being labeled as terrorists. This allows the government to move against them in
violation of any concept of transparency or due process. The military has a
chain of command which is supposed to create accountability. In fact it is often
used to suppress dissent or concerns regarding legality. The new privatized
world does not even possess these mechanisms. If anything there are arbitration
boards which if you know anything about those, they're something of a joke and
heavily weighted against anyone who would raise a concern.
If the government is breaking the law and there's no
way to report it, if all whistleblowing is gagged...then any notion of
democracy or representative government has ended.
We're
all terrorists now...
If you write in a manner critical of government policy
and your criticisms happen to vaguely coincide with the criticisms levied by an
official 'terrorist' group...then you can be accused of collaboration and can
be labeled a terrorist.
My writings could be labeled as terroristic. Even the fact
that you're reading them can mean you're collaborating with terrorists.
Do I think they're going to come after you or me? No,
not particularly. But the net is being cast over a wider sea and the forces in
our society are dynamic. Today all is well, but what about tomorrow?
Is it just about Islamic terrorism?
The Corporate powers behind industrial agriculture are
pushing for a terrorist designation not just for the ELF (Earth Liberation
Front) activist-saboteurs but anyone who even photographs or gathers evidence
from a farming site.
The banking and insurance industries want regulation
and control. Too much is on the line to consider operating otherwise. They fear
alternative economies, cyber-currencies, leaks and loopholes.
The
Corporatocracy
There are many lessons to be learned from Wikileaks and
the Snowden files but one really telling point concerns the degree the
government is in collaboration with Corporate Interests.
Orwell couldn't have even dreamed of this. While his
ideas seemed nigh on impossible when we actually reached the year of 1984 (as
we all watched the Apple Macintosh commercial)...within just a few short years
we have reached Orwell's vision, and surpassed it.
He envisioned a surveillance state but couldn't have
imagined an era with programmes like 'Upstream' which taps into hardware, let
alone the PRISM programme. This isn't a partisan issue. It was started by Bush
and continued by Obama. There's been no 'change'.
But perhaps even more disturbing, what we really have
is the TIA (Total Information Awareness) project dreamed up by John Poindexter.
Even though the project was officially killed in 2003, it has lived on in
mutated form. Orwell couldn't have dreamed of the data collection and filtering
capacity...let alone the ability to cross reference, analyze and synthesize the
data. Cloud Computing isn't just about storing your hard drive online. This is
a whole new way of sifting information and cross-referencing it. The dystopian
nightmares of Philip K. Dick are on the verge of becoming true. We're on the
cusp of thought-crime becoming a reality.
The kinds of Thought-crime the Establishment is going
to notice are not coming from the Christian Right or the Tea Party. That is
unless they turn violent, which they might in a few years.
They engage in political criticism, but they are
partisans with their party-backers in control of vast swathes of the government
and many of the institutions engaged in the actual surveillance.
The real dissidents are people like me... people who
are criticizing the heart of the system and trying to expose it. Unlike the whistleblowers,
hacktavists, and leakers my goals are not political but I doubt a government
official is going to pick up the nuance of what I'm saying. The bottom line is
my words are subversive to the established order.
Under the new paradigm if I'm criticizing US foreign
policy or Globalization I can be accused of aiding and abetting the enemies of
the United States.
But if the Church has baptized these practices and
joined in them, then I am duty bound to speak and expose their works of
darkness. Thankfully in the past we've had an open society with free speech.
That era may be coming to an end and we need to be thinking about what that
means.
The Capitalist system wedded to an incomprehensibly
vast Military Complex has generated a host of shadowy hedge-fund created firms
like Endgame which seek to infiltrate networks, engage in espionage and
sabotage. Agents Provocateurs have been utilized and I believe some of these
private contractors exist for this purpose.
Who are the people in these hedge-funds? Where are they
raising their investment money? The ties to the intelligence community are hard
to dispute. Are these the same people operating in the black budget world... a
realm where the intelligence agencies raise their own funds through legitimate
and often illegitimate business? This is the shadow-world of drug money,
organized crime and money laundering. One is reminded of the BCCI and Vatican
Bank scandals. Like TIA, they fold, fall into the shadows, morph and reappear.
Character assassination and intimidation are the name
of the game. Not only are these agencies and corporations pushing for backdoor
access into software and cyber networks, they want the 'keys to the kingdom' as
Lavabit found out after Snowden appeared on the radar.
They wanted the SSL protocols so that not only could
they surveil, they could masquerade as the webhost itself. Any company
unwilling to submit faces severe repercussions. And yet in this case the 'they'
(meaning the authorities) are often working at the behest of other corporations
or the authorities are themselves 'other corporations' hired by the government.
It's amazing how this is working out. The lines are completely blurred.
I applaud Ladar Levinson's integrity to simply suspend
operations rather than surrender his data (and integrity) to a government now
completely out of control.
These same cyber intimidators pursue anyone who seeks
to circumvent their sentry networks. You can attempt to utilize networks like
TOR in order to communicate and web-surf anonymously...something now critical
for investigative journalism... but the cyber-mercenaries (who again sometimes
work 'officially' for the government and sometimes don't) will attack your
computer with Malware and if that fails, agents will show up at your door. The
use of drone technology is also worth noting. Predator drones firing missiles
over American cities isn't likely, but UAV's will be increasingly utilized in
the realm of surveillance. The legal framework has already been established.
If you seek to circumvent the Insurance and Banking
cabal or the IRS they will sabotage your systems and steal your goods. The
Bitcoin project has learned this the hard way. While some have scoffed at the
apparent suicide of a Bitcoin related CEO, there's a long track record that
gives anyone who is watching a reason to be suspicious.
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