"In 1931, when Brave New World was being written, I was convinced that there was still plenty of time. The completely organized society, the scientific caste system, the abolition of free will by methodical conditioning, the servitude made acceptable by regular doses of chemically induced happiness, the orthodoxies drummed in by nightly courses of sleep-teaching - these things were coming all right, but not in my time, not even in the time of my grandchildren....Twenty-seven years later,...I feel a good deal less optimistic... In the West,...individual men and women still enjoy a large measure of freedom. But...this freedom and even the desire for this freedom seem to be on the wane."
Aldous Huxley Brave New World Revisited 1958
Airline passengers have 'no right' to refuse naked body scanners
"The option of having a full-body pat-down search instead, offered to passengers at US airports, will not be available despite warnings from the government's Equality and Human Rights Commission that the scanners, which reveal naked bodies, breach privacy rules under the Human Rights Act."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jan/26/new-body-scanners-heathrow
Airport Scanners Can Store, Transmit Images
"Contrary to public statements made by the Transportation Security Administration, full-body airport scanners do have the ability to store and transmit images, according to documents obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center."
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/01/airport-scanners/
CCTV in the sky: police plan to use military-style spy drones
"Police in the UK are planning to use unmanned spy drones, controversially deployed in Afghanistan, for the "routine" monitoring of antisocial motorists, protesters, agricultural thieves and fly-tippers, in a significant expansion of covert state surveillance."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jan/23/cctv-sky-police-plan-drones
Military-style spy planes 'to be used to target civilians in the UK'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1245446/Military-style-spy-planes-used-target-civilians-UK.html
The 20,000 snooper army: Vast number of town hall bureaucrats get power to enter your home without a warrant
"These include checking for fridges which do not have the correct eco-friendly energy rating, making sure a hedge is not too high and inspecting a property to ensure 'illegal or unregulated hypnotism' is not taking place. Town halls are also carrying out thousands of 'spying' missions under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act. The law was passed nine years ago to fight terrorism, but access to the spy powers has been extended to 653 state bodies - including 474 councils."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1238800/The-20-000-snooper-army-Vast-number-town-hall-bureaucrats-power-enter-home-warrant.html
BBC: Polio Vaccine Gave Cancer Causing Virus To Millions
http://www.wiseupjournal.com/?p=1320
LABOUR'S NANNY STATE GUIDE TO BEING A GRANDPARENT
"5. Help with burns and scalds: A burn is caused by direct or very near contact with heat or a flame." Worried grandparents should help out by trying to cool the affected area." (What would we do without the Government's advice?)
http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/153006
Care homes forcing elderly to have feeding tubes fitted
"This is a widespread problem. Many care homes say they will not take a patient until they have had a gastrostomy. There is no reason for them to do that. They should have nursing support."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/jan/06/care-homes-elderly-feeding-tubes
Ex-IBM Employee reveals TV Abandoned Analog Band to Make Room for RFID
"Clearing out the high power analog tv emissions will improve signal to noise ratio for RFID emitting in the 700MHz band, and potentially allow passive satellite tracking of these RFID signals."
http://qbit.cc/ex-ibm-employee-reveals-tv-abandoned-analog-band-to-make-room-for-rfid/
An introduction to New Technologies (Part I)
"In 2006, IBM received a patent approval for an invention called, Identification and tracking of persons using RFID-tagged items."
http://www.michaeljournal.org/newtechno.htm
Army Funds ‘Synthetic Telepathy’ Research
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2008/08/army-funds-synt/
Pentagon Preps Soldier Telepathy Push
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/05/pentagon-preps-soldier-telepathy-push/
Monkey Brain Controls Walking ‘Bot
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2008/01/when-our-roboti/
Northrop To Develop Mind-Reading Binoculars
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2008/06/northrop-to-dev/
How Terahertz Waves Tear Apart DNA
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/24331/
The future of brain-controlled devices
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/12/30/brain.controlled.computers/?imw=Y
Audiences experience 'Avatar' blues (IT'S JUST A MOVIE)
"Ever since I went to see 'Avatar' I have been depressed. Watching the wonderful world of Pandora and all the Na'vi made me want to be one of them. I can't stop thinking about all the things that happened in the film and all of the tears and shivers I got from it," Mike posted. "I even contemplate suicide thinking that if I do it I will be rebirthed in a world similar to Pandora and the everything is the same as in 'Avatar.' "
http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/11/avatar.movie.blues/index.html
Happiness In Slavery
"If the government does not directly seize the nation’s private wealth, then it will require $389,610 from each and every citizen to balance the country’s books.”
http://revoltoftheplebs.wordpress.com/2010/01/25/happiness-in-slavery-4/
Giant statue of Lenin and Mao the talk of Richmond
"METRO VANCOUVER - A public art installation depicting Russian Communist leader Vladimir Lenin and a feminized Chairman Mao Zedong in the heart of Richmond's business district has the whole town talking."
http://www.vancouversun.com/life/Giant+statue+Lenin+talk+Richmond/2384389/story.html
