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Wired into the hive: One Hundred Fears of Solitude by Hal Crowther

13/8/2010, www.telegraph.co.uk  One Hundred Fears of Solitude by Hal Crowther: extract “’…with me no matter where I am – I wouldn’t mind if I could have them implanted in my body’. “Alone with his thoughts”, now a literary anachronism, was a commonplace reality. Without that freedom to disconnect, then and now, I for one would [...]

Edible microchip pill monitors your compliance

SilenceMeansConsent.com Chip and pill: The hi-tech tablet that will text you when it’s time to take another dose (www.dailymail.co.uk, 14 August 2010) “The chips in the pills send signals to a patch attached to the patient’s shoulder when swallowed… “The system, known as Raisin, also monitors heart rate, heart activity and how well the patient [...]

Government-sponsored drug experimentation on children and other abuse

SilenceMeansConsent.com The Hidden Tragedy of the CIA’s Experiments on Children (www.truth-out.org, 11 August 2010) Article discusses:   Project Paperclip, Nazi scientists.  CIC “Rough Boys” and CIA interrogators using metrazol (causes brutal convulsions), LSD and mescaline on prisoners.     Use of metrazol-like drugs today on victims of rendition at “black sites”.   Censorship of this subject at Guantanamo [...]

Instead of freedom, cashless society vending machines

SilenceMeansConsent.com Vending Machines Of The Future (www.myfoxny.com, 11 Aug 2010) “Next Generation Vending and Food Service is experimenting  with biometric vending machines that would allow a user to tie a credit card to their thumbprint…. “The machines include internally mounted cameras to monitor what is going on outside of the machine…. “…machines that use retinal [...]

Australian smart meters to “help” families by choking off their power

Victorians facing soaring bills could have power rationed (www.heraldsun.com.au, August 10, 2010) “VICTORIANS hit with soaring electricity bills could have their power rationed under a smart meter plan. “Some companies want to “choke” or restrict amounts delivered to homes to help families cope with costs….” “supply capacity control” “credit management tool” Smart meters are being [...]

Zero privacy while flying, constant personal surveillance

SilenceMeansConsent.com “Plans to install cameras on planes raise civil liberties alarms in UK” (Russia Today, YouTube.com) Britain looks into in-flight surveillance cameras (rt.com, August 10, 2010) “…conversations and movements monitored while they’re flying due to a European Union project going ahead. “It is at the University of Reading that scientists are developing the new in-flight [...]

Zbigniew Brzezinski “Between Two Ages”, Part 2

Comments on Between Two Ages by Zbigniew Brzezinski By Alan Mercer,  http://www.silencemeansconsent.com (From Between Two Ages: America’s Role in the Technetronic Era, 1971, Viking Press, New York) Continued from Part 1 Brzezinski (p. xiv), writing in the late 60′s, writes about the emerging “post-industrial” society, but he uses his own term “technetronic” instead: “the most [...]