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‘in moments of crisis, people are willing to hand over a great deal of power to anyone who claims to have a magic cure—whether the crisis is a financial meltdow
by ddmma 7y ago
‘in moments of crisis, people are willing to hand over a great deal of power to anyone who claims to have a magic cure—whether the crisis is a financial meltdown or, as the Bush administration would later show, a terrorist attack’ (Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine)
- dredmorbius 7y agoSpeaking of Klein, she'll need to add a few elements to her Pandemic Shock Doctrine script: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/03/17/we-know-script-naomi-klein-warns-coronavirus-capitalism-new-video-detailing-battle https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/03/17/we-know-script-...
- ddmma 7y agoThe updated edition should contain a special chapter on the underground agenda from Davos or whatever G meetup
- chippy 7y agoKlein has gotten lost in the anti-Trump personality rhetoric, she should re-gain her focus on the critic of society / anti capitalism roots. Basically a Democrat would be doing the same things as Republicans with regards to her warnings but you don't get as many books sold if you say that. And its more comfortable to think that if you just change one person it will all change than knowing that one removing person really doesnt change much.
- srcmap 7y agoMaybe law can be created to allow state/local government to collect and use such info when "declaration of local infectious deceases emergency" by state governor. Especially allow for department of public health to access the Google's Sensor Vault data in emergency situation. I would support that BUT I also understand how that might open the "pandora's box" for all other government requests/laws like the existing geofencing warrant.
- ta999999171 7y agoYeah, the US has been in a continually renewed state of emergency longer than anyone reading this would have guessed...decades. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_emergencies_in_the_United_States https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_emergencies...
- vsareto 7y agoIf the government asked for constant location data in exchange for $1k / month "UBI", most people would take that, and they'd be silly not to because that's likely the highest price their data will ever fetch.
- saagarjha 7y agoA number of people would probably sell their kidneys, too, for the same reason.
- borvel 7y agoThings don't happen by coincidence. If we ever wake up from this human containment experiment, we may find ourselves in a world where the panopticon is already in place, and there is no escape . The intelligence agencies are watching us. The tech companies are watching us, and many people in this forum have contributed to that. 5G is the new incarnation of the surveillance state. It connects with every available device in its vicinity. It can generate 3D images of the insides of buildings. But the mm frequencies are absorbed by the transmitter's surroundings, so we need transmitters everywhere. If the frequencies get absorbed by trees, then they also get absorbed by the human body and brain. This massive project is not about giving people faster internet speeds.