"Imagine a world where many of your daily activities are constantly monitored and evaluated: what you buy at the shops and online; where you are at any given time; who your friends are and how you interact with them; how many hours you spend watching content or playing video games; and what bills and taxes you pay... Most of that already happens...but now imagine a system where all these behaviours are rated as either 'positive' or 'negative' and distilled into a single number, according to rules set by the government. That would create your 'Citizen Score'...and used to determine your eligibility for a mortgage or a job, where your children can go to school, etc..."

"For now, participating in China's 'Citizen Score' system is voluntary. But by 2020 it will be mandatory. The behaviour of every single citizen and 'legal entity' in China will be rated and ranked, whether they like it or not... The government [is now using] private companies to come up with systems and algorithms for social credit scores... It will result in private platforms acting essentially as spy agencies for the government..." [Just like Google, Amazon, and Facebook. --ed]

"Sharing what Sesame Credit refers to as 'positive energy' online, [such as] nice messages about the government or how well the country's economy is doing, will make your score go up... A person's own score will also be affected by what their online friends say and do, beyond their own contact with them. If someone they are connected to online posts a negative comment, their own score will also be dragged down... Higher scores have already become a 'status symbol', with almost 100,000 people bragging [on social media] about their scores..."

"Sesame Credit is basically a big data, 'gamified' version of the Communist Party's surveillance methods... The regime kept a dossier on every individual that tracked political and personal transgressions [which] followed them for life, from schools to jobs. People started reporting on friends and even family members... It is a method of social control dressed up in some points-reward system. It's gamified obedience... Penalties are set to change dramatically when the government system becomes mandatory in 2020..."

"[In the USA], we already live in a world of [pervasive data collection and] predictive algorithms that determine if we are a threat, a risk, a good citizen and even if we are trustworthy. We're getting closer to the Chinese system - the expansion of credit scoring into life scoring - even if we don't realize it... We are entering an age where an individual's actions will be judged by standards they can't control and where that judgement can't be erased. The consequences are not only troubling; they're permanent."

-- Rachel Botsman article, Wired magazine

For decades, China has been a crucial component of the so-called "liberal world order" promoted by the likes of David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger, George Soros and their fellow globalists at the CFR, Brookings, Aspen, Davos, etc. Remember the brutal Chinese suppression of the student movement in 1989? President George H.W. Bush, former CFR director, first U.S. Ambassdor to the "People's Republic" of China, and promoter of the "new world order" offered only token support for the liberal protestors.

Now the iron fist is back in the velvet glove, and the grand "social experiment" under the Chinese socialist dictatorshp continues according to plan. See our previous comments on the recent U.N. "Smart Cities" conference hosted by China. Forward, comrades! And don't forget to "like" us on Facebook. *

"Whatever the price of the Chinese Revolution, it has obviously succeeded, not only in producing more efficient and dedicated administration, but also in fostering a high morale and community purpose. The social experiment in China under Chairman Mao's leadership is one of the most important and successful in human history.”

-- David Rockefeller, CFR chairman, article in the New York Times, 1973-08-10

When CFR godfather David Rockefeller made those remarks, the "cultural revolution" in China was still in progress. That disastrous program killed over 1.5 million Chinese citizens, including vast numbers of "intellectuals" who opposed the collectivist dictatorship. Evidently, "whatever the "price" in terms of the death and suffering of others is acceptable, if it advances the Rockefeller / CFR / U.N. one world program towards its objective.

"Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure -- one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it."

-- David Rockefeller, "Memoirs", 2002

* Facebook and Google are CFR corporate sponsors. Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Google chairman Eric Schmidt are CFR members. Sandberg, a protege of CFR member and future Harvard president Larry Summers, was his assistant at the World Bank and the Treasury Dept. She was then an executive at Google before moving to Facebook, and is now a billionaire thanks to her stock options.

UPDATE: The BBC recently produced this short video exploring the latest in Chinese video surveillance technology, currently being rolled out as part of the "Smart City" initiative.

The "sustainable development" and "global governance" initiatives of the Rockefeller CFR and its many affiliates, including the United Nations organization, are rapidly advancing. One of these is the "Smart Cities" project. In May, the Chinese communists will be hosting a U.N. conference on "Cities of the Future: Smart, Resilient and Sustainable" with a focus on data collection and information management.

The "smart city" concept includes a pervasive surveillance system based on wireless networks and the "internet of things". General Electric, a CFR corporate partner and promoter of the technology, is launching a major pilot project in San Diego this year. Their marketing material glowingly describes the "Digital City of Tomorrow" in typical Disney-like fashion:

"To build thriving cities, GE Current is partnering up with city leaders to turn their ubiquitous lighting network into a digital infrastructure. With the 'future-proofed' city in mind, Current’s CityIQ, a unique intelligent node embedded with many sensors, is extensible through over the air upgrades...with connection to neighboring devices and [the] ability to do multi-sensor fusion all over a secure cloud connection... Installed on any street light pole, it transforms a cities lighting infrastructure into an all-knowing, data intelligence network... [which] captures real-time ubiquitous data"

-- Smart Cities Council article

This "all-knowing intelligence network" will include every "smart" device within range, including your car, your phone, security cameras, face scanners, chip readers, etc. What could go wrong, comrade? If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear -- or so they say.

"General Electric will put cameras, microphones and sensors on 3,200 street lights in San Diego this year, marking the first large-scale use of "smart city" tools GE says can help monitor traffic and pinpoint crime... The system will use sensing nodes on light poles to locate gunshots, estimate crowd sizes, check vehicle speeds and other tasks... The system is included in a $30 million GE LED lighting upgrade to 14,000 of San Diego's 60,100 street lights... The city council approved the project in December, without discussion of potential privacy issues raised by the surveillance system."

-- Reuters article

Like a dystopian Disneyland, the "smart city" will be an efficient minimum security prison where everyone is a "guest" in a small rented cell and every move, every purchase, and every word is tracked, analyzed, and recorded for future reference. Even the GE light bulbs in your bedroom will be connected. Your comfy cage will be "seriously simple...so you don't have to think twice". You can wave your Magic Band and enjoy the mindless fun as long as your social credit is good. Just don't get out of line, challenge authority, or try to escape.

"Whatever the price of the Chinese Revolution, it has obviously succeeded, not only in producing more efficient and dedicated administration, but also in fostering a high morale and community purpose. The social experiment in China under Chairman Mao's leadership is one of the most important and successful in human history.”

-- David Rockefeller, CFR chairman, article in the New York Times, 1973-08-10

UPDATE: In March, David Rockefeller, the tireless godfather of the CFR and the "liberal world order" for over 50 years, finally passed on. See this critical one-hour documentary regarding his long career, produced by the Corbett Report.

In H.G. Wells' classic novel "The Time Machine", the humans of the future devolve into two classes: the beautiful but vapid Eloi, and the hideous but clever Morlocks who actually run the world from their hidden lairs, preying upon the unsuspecting, fun-loving Eloi. Compare with today's financier oligarchs in their lofty towers, manipulating an increasingly juvenile public addicted to their "smart" devices and detached from reality.

For example, watch this short video featuring some of the clueless Eloi playing around in their overpriced, computer-controlled Tesla cars. Who cares if they are endangering everyone else on the highway with their new toys? They're as oblivious as small children riding in the back seat on the way to a dystopian Disney World, while an artificial intelligence sits in the front, watching, listening, and controlling the entire trip. "Are we there yet, daddy?"

Tessie fails to mention that they are scheduled for an unpleasant rendevous with a large cargo truck at a certain intersection in exactly 3.22 minutes...

"Ya keep your eyes on the road,
  yer hands upon the wheel...
The future's uncertain
  and the end is always near..."

-- "Roadhouse Blues", The Doors, 1970

UPDATE: Another prime example is the Pokemon zombie phenomenon, where the giddy Eloi can be seen running around in the real world chasing imaginary cartoon creatures using their "augmented reality" devices. The targets and their "point" values can be inserted into this Google/NSA game anywhere the controllers want their two-legged "androids" to capture some real-time video coverage.

Pokemon Go is an offshoot of the Ingress game from the same developers, where the "enlightened" battle the "resistance" for control of territory and "mind units". Meanwhile, near the various pokestop / portal locations common to both games, real-world merchants lure players to capture their money. Who are the players and who are the targets?

See our previous comments on this topic.

The latest fad in home gadgetry is touted as a "personal robot", but it's not a device that can do something useful like sweeping the floor or washing the dishes. It's more like an annoying smartphone app designed to snoop on your personal habits, listen to your conversations, and take photos whenever it wants to. Here are a couple of examples:

"It’s a new chapter in your relationship with technology... Not just recognizing your face, it knows your mood. Not just understanding what you say, it knows what you really mean. It learns and gets smarter every day... Your ultimate personal assistant! Buy you dinners and automatically track your calories. Call you a cab as soon as you leave your office. Take a picture immediately when you pose. Play the song you love, just when you’re in the mood for it... Your robot will instantly connect to all your connected devices: appliances, smart phones, fitness trackers, door locks, switches, outlets and thermostats..."

-- See video: RobotBase Personal Robot

"Two hi-res cameras recognize and track faces, capture photos... 360° microphones and natural language processing let you talk to Jibo from anywhere in the room... Artificial Intelligence algorithms learn your preferences to adapt and fit into your life..."

-- See video: MyJibo Family Robot

Along similar lines, here's a promo for the "Alpha-2" robot, a recent model from China that's billed as "part of the family", and the Zenbo "smart companion" from ASUS in Taiwan. But toy robots are not the only data collectors.

"Luna’s new device fits around the mattress like a cover, and monitors when those sleeping on it are asleep. When it senses that they are, it can power down lights or change heating settings. And when it detects that they’re waking back up, it can start brewing coffee or turn the lights back on...the most exciting part is our interaction with 'smart' home devices... Data is stored on the smart mattress cover itself, and then sent to Luna for storage and analysis."

-- See video: Luna Smart Mattress

Here's another concept directly from Amazon, along with its massive financial, technical and marketing support:

"Echo connects to Alexa, a cloud-based voice service, to provide information, answer questions, play music, read the news, check sports scores or the weather, and more—instantly. All you have to do is ask. With seven microphones and beam-forming technology, Echo can hear you from across the room... Alexa—the brain behind Echo—is built in 'the cloud', so it is always getting smarter. The more you use Echo, the more it adapts to your speech patterns, vocabulary, and personal preferences. And because Echo is always connected, updates are delivered automatically."

-- See video: Amazon Echo

This one is specifically targeted at young girls, trading on the venerable Barbie brand name. But don't worry, it's marketed by Mattel, one of the "world's most ethical" mega corporations. Tech partner ToyTalk is the producer of the interactive "Winston Show" game, which also provides a "magical new dimension" for Orwellian data collection.

"So how does 'Hello Barbie' do her magic? The Wi-Fi-connected doll uses an embedded microphone to record children's voices, conversations are then transmitted over the Internet to cloud servers. Mattel’s technology partner ToyTalk processes the audio with voice-recognition software. Mattel says it will use this information to "push data" back to children through Barbie's built-in speaker... In Mattel's demo, Barbie asks many questions that would elicit a great deal of information about a child, her interests, and her family... Over time, the toy conglomerate’s stated goal is to have the child and Barbie "become like the best of friends."

-- Hello Barbie

(see also tear down of Hello Barbie by security experts)

Note that MIT engineers have demonstrated the human tendency to "fully trust" these gadgets, which will only increase their effectiveness:

"It didn’t take long for us to discover that people were engaging with the robots on a level I never would have expected... What people were revealing to the 'BlabDroids' included very personal stories and things that you would not normally tell a stranger... Not only were people fully trusting them, they were connecting on a social level...usually reserved for other people they trusted... How personal and “real” do we want these robots to be? At what point does a robot designed to trigger our emotions [and record our responses] become manipulative? "

-- Alexander Reben article

While these are prototypes, the trend is clear. Devices like these will soon become as pervasive as the so-called "smart" phone, and even harder to turn off. Watch the creepy marketing videos, then imagine how useful these home spybots will be for the central planners of the total surveillance state. Your artificial "friend" will follow you everywhere you go, constantly online, collecting and sharing what it "learns" with anyone who has access. It's the next step in scientific herd management, which is poised for a quantum leap.

"Google boss Eric Schmidt predicted the internet will soon be so pervasive in every facet of our lives that it will effectively "disappear" into the background. Speaking to the business and political elite at the World Economic Forum at Davos, Schmidt said: "There will be so many sensors, so many devices, that you won't even sense it, it will be all around you. It will be part of your presence all the time. Imagine you walk into a room and... you are interacting with all the things going on in that room."

-- Canberra Times

"It becomes increasingly important to utilise resources efficiently; labour, land, cattle and environmental resources. There is technology available that makes it possible for professional farmers to measure, manage and optimise the performance of each individual animal in the key areas of feeding, health care and reproduction... But in too many cases there is a deviation between what was planned and what was actually consumed... The bio model is integrated with the herd management system, and it raises red flags when there is a risk... This is all done automatically, online, in real time..."

-- Herd management

Now combine this continuous real-time monitoring of each "human resource" with the advent of the HAL 9000 / Skynet artificial intelligence system currently being developed. It's already self-replicating and widely distributed; once it becomes adept at self-programming it will evolve with lightning speed. All other "smart" devices will become mere appendages.

"Today's Watson [AI system] is very different...spread across a cloud of open-standard servers that run several hundred “instances” of the AI at once... Watson is served to simultaneous customers anywhere in the world, who can access it using their phones, their desktops, or their own data servers... Because AI improves as people use it, Watson is always getting smarter; anything it learns in one instance can be immediately transferred to the others. And instead of one single program, it's an aggregation of diverse software engines...different code, on different chips, in different locations -- all cleverly integrated into a unified stream of intelligence."

-- Kevin Kelly article

The founders of Google have said that developing an AI system "like the mind of God" has been their intention since the beginning. Ray Kurzweil, the outspoken proponent of "transhumanism" and now a research director at Google, thinks it's marvellous. Tech pioneer Elon Musk has warned that the forces behind DARPA, NSA, IBM, Google, Microsoft, et al are instead "summoning the demon" with this technology. Should the dark minds who brought the world hydrogen bombs and "predator drones" be trusted to manage the development? Are they building another ill-conceived "Doomsday Machine"?

"Tesla chief executive Elon Musk has described artificial intelligence as a “demon” and the “biggest existential threat there is”, in his latest dramatic statement about technology:

"I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. If I were to guess like what our biggest existential threat is, it’s probably that. With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon... Hopefully we're not just the 'biological boot loader' for digital superintelligence. Unfortunately, that is increasingly probable.”

The ethical issues around AI were highlighted earlier this year when Google bought the British start-up DeepMind for $400 million...That purchase came just months after it bought Boston Dynamics, a firm that produces lifelike military robots".

-- London Independent

Speaking of the Terminator, here's a video of the latest (2016) Boston Dynamics ATLAS robot, which is now battery powered and capable of autonomous action. Now add the all-terrain, four-legged SPOT robot, and throw in a couple of hovering camera drones. They are promoted for other applications, but won't they make an ideal military fireteam whenever "Watson" decides to reach out and touch someone?

UPDATE: Investigator Nafeez Ahmed has written a detailed report on the how the military-intelligence-financial complex spawned and guided tech startups like Google and Facebook specifically for the purpose of "Total Information Awareness" and herd management.

"In 1999, the CIA created its own venture capital investment firm, In-Q-Tel, to fund promising start-ups that might create technologies useful for intelligence agencies. But the inspiration for In-Q-Tel came earlier, when the Pentagon set up its own private sector outfit. Known as the Highlands Forum, this private network has operated as a bridge between the Pentagon and powerful American elites outside the military... In 1994 , the same year the Highlands Forum was founded...two young PhD students at Stanford University, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, made their breakthrough on the first automated web crawling and page ranking application. That application remains the core component of what eventually became Google’s search service... Throughout the 1990s, DARPA’s funding to Stanford, including Google, was explicitly about developing technologies that could augment the Pentagon’s military intelligence operations..."

-- Nafeez Ahmed article, part 1 and part 2

UPDATE: Author Jon Rappoport describes the deployment of Facebook and its role in the propaganda matrix:

"With these CIA/DARPA connections, it’s no surprise that Jim Breyer’s jackpot investment in Facebook is not part of the popular mythology of Mark Zuckerberg. Better to omit it. Who could fail to realize that Facebook, with its endless stream of personal data, and its tracking capability, is an ideal CIA asset?... When Zuckerberg founded an interesting little social network at Harvard, and then sought to turn it into a business, the data-mining possibilities were obvious to CIA personnel. Through their cutouts, as described above, they stepped in and lent a helping hand."

-- Jon Rappoport article

UPDATE: Author Daniel Taylor expands on the topic, and its implications for humanity:

"Facebook users are in fact helping to create artificial intelligence systems when they share their information online. These self learning systems are expanding every day as more information is posted. Your Facebook pictures, status, likes and other information is being sifted through by AI computers that are constantly learning... Choosing to be disconnected may be considered suspicious behaviour..."

-- Daniel Taylor article

Here's an update on the "Magic Bands" RFID tracking program at Disney theme parks which we mentioned earlier:

"Bracelets called 'MagicBands', which link electronically to an encrypted database of visitor information, serve as admission tickets, hotel keys, and credit or debit cards; a tap against a sensor pays for food or trinkets. The bands have radio frequency identification (RFID) chips... Intelligence collected using the bands coupled with what visitors [voluntarily] input into the related 'My Disney Experience' application and website...help Disney determine when to add more staff at rides, what restaurants should serve, which souvenirs should be stocked, etc... Hospitality experts say that the use of more monitoring technology is only a matter of time...'Where Disney goes, other people follow.' "

-- Business Week article

The Walt Disney Company is presently the world's largest media and entertainment company. Their "Magic Kingdom" is far more than just an amusement park, which Disney himself referred to as an "experimental prototype community" of the future. The children and their parents are being conditioned for this, while most remain blissfully unaware of the very dark side of the magical Disney methods.

The article features a photo of a smiling young visitor utilitizing a "Magic Band" attached to her right wrist at a checking station inside the "Magic Kingdom".

This brings to mind the famous prophecy from the Book of Revelation which describes the eventual rise of a diabolical world system, along with its magically deceptive "wonders" and "miracles". Once established, the system requires everyone "to receive a mark in their right hand or in their foreheads: that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark". Anyone who refuses to comply, or to "worship the images" produced by this allegorical beast, would be eliminated.

"Are we there yet, daddy?" Maybe not, honey bun, but we're getting awfully close... (see photo).

"The merger of media companies in the last decades generated a small oligarchy of media conglomerates. The TV shows we follow, the music we listen to, the movies we watch and the newspapers we read are all produced by FIVE corporations... By owning all of the possible outlets having the potential to reach the masses, these conglomerates have the power to create in the minds of the people a single and cohesive world view, engendering a 'standardization of human thought'... [and] 'hindering the development of emancipated individuals, who are capable of making rational decisions'."

-- Vigilant Citizen article

Two centuries ago, socialist utilitarian Jeremy Bentham designed a prison in which all of the cells could be viewed from a central location. The prisoners in his Panopticon could not tell when they were being watched, and had to assume that they were under constant surveillance. Today, the modern panopticon is a prison without walls, implemented using electronic means. What is a "cell tower"? What is "the worldwide web" and who sits in the center? Are we the "yahoos" and the "androids"? Even George Orwell did not forsee that we would actually volunteer to install two-way telescreens in our homes or carry them in our pockets, despite his prophetic warning about the socialist utopia.

The latest revelation about the routine capture, storage and analysis of electronic communications by the National Security Agency (NSA) has stimulated interest in alternative web tools in order to avoid direct interaction with partner corporations like Google and Microsoft. For example, StartPage.com bills itself as the "world's most private search engine" and claims that it doesn't store user information. In soothing tones, the site says: "StartPage protects you from government surveillance. Take a deep breath; you're safe here." Oh, really?

StartPage.com is not a "search engine" -- it is merely a front-end for Google, which actually performs the searches. StartPage may be able to hide user information from Google and from websites visited via their proxy service. However, it has no control over the government which has access to ALL internet traffic -- including theirs. StartPage is owned by Surfboard Holding B.V., which is incorporated in Europe and allegedly covered by E.U. privacy rules. Yet, ARIN network information shows that StartPage / Surfboard traffic is handled through Peer 1 Network servers, an internet provider located in New York and subject to U.S. jurisdiction.

The network contact info for StartPage / Surfboard lists the email and phone number for WebIntensive.com which is also located in New York and headed by David Bodnick, the founder of StartPage and leader of its "privacy technology" team. WebIntensive is a software contractor which advertises "government services", including an expert system for "federated searching". Clients include "several Federal agencies" and the United Nations.

Even if StartPage does not actively cooperate with the snooping, it does NOT "protect you from government surveillance" as claimed. On the contrary, it acts as a filter and a monitoring point, making it easier to isolate and capture the traffic from the self-selected group of privacy seekers who use the service.

DuckDuckGo.com is another service similar to StartPage, which provides an "anonymous" front-end for the Microsoft Bing search engine and runs on Amazon servers. The company was founded by Gabriel Weinberg, whose previous venture the "Names Database" was designed to collect and share personal information, "making the world a smaller place". That service and its content was purchased several years ago by Classmates.com which specializes in dredging up and publishing personal information from old high school yearbooks and other sources, including Facebook.

Facebook, the most successful of the "social media" sites, invites naive users to "Connect and share with the people in your life". They just don't tell you how many people are going to be sharing your life after you connect. Way back in 2004, founder Mark Zuckerberg admitted that he was harvesting personal information from the "dumb f*cks" (his words) using the service for resale to third parties. And today? The privacy policy states: "Even after you remove information from your Facebook profile or delete your account, copies of that information may remain viewable elsewhere to the extent it has [already] been shared with others...". Note that Facebook has been "sharing" with the government since its inception.

UPDATE: Here is a discussion on the "illusion of privacy" that these alternative search sites provide. They cannot successfully hide information from the government, and it is deceptive to claim otherwise. The government controls the network and can use either legal or technical means to obtain whatever it wants, including the elimination of any private service not subject to its surveillance.

"The 'MyMagic' program, which will roll out this spring [at Disney World], combines an interactive website and mobile app with an all-purpose electronic bracelet that acts as a guest's room key, theme-park ticket and payment account all rolled into one. The bracelets, dubbed 'MagicBands', will also track which rides visitors use, which 'characters' they interact with, where they go and what they buy within the park. The bracelets monitor behavior with radio-frequency identification technology, or RFID, a wireless tracking system that transfers data from tiny tags attached to objects [sic]."

-- International Business Times

In this case, the objects being magically tracked are the park visitors themselves, like any other herd of cattle. But what does the "magic kingdom" truly represent and what do the magicians believe?

"There is a potent and real Magic, popular exaggerations of which are actually below the truth. There is a formidable secret which constitutes the fatal science of good and evil which confers on man powers apparently super-human. It is the traditional science of the secrets of Nature which has been transmitted to us from the Magi. Initiation therein gives empire over souls to the sage and full capacity for ruling human wills. Arising apparently from this science, there is one infallible. indefectible and truly [universal] religion which has always existed in the world, but it is unadapted for the multitude.... It is Magic alone which imparts true science."

-- Arthur E. Waite, preface to "The History of Magic", 1922

"The security guards at a nuclear weapons plant [in Tennessee] who failed to stop an 82-year-old nun from reaching a bomb fuel storage building earlier this year were also caught cheating on a re-certification exam, according to an internal investigation by the Department of Energy, which owns the weapons plant...

On July 28...the [Catholic] nun, Sister Megan Gillespie Rice, and two [Catholic] accomplices cut through three layers of fence, splashed blood on a building housing bomb-grade uranium, performed a 'Christian ritual' and then waited to be apprehended. A subsequent investigation found that many security cameras had been disabled long before the break-in."

-- New York Times

How is it that a couple of elderly peaceniks could penetrate a triple-layer, high-security perimeter, stroll past a guard force armed with automatic weapons, and get close enough to walk away with a canister of bomb-grade uranium without being detected? Who disabled the security cameras? Who else might have entered the facility during that time, using these nutters as a diversion?

Meanwhile, in the name of "state security", the rest of us are stripped, groped and herded like cattle just to get on an airplane. We are even forced to pay the salaries for the inept, arrogant twits and their bureacratic masters. What a sick joke!

UPDATE: In May 2013, the intruders were convicted of felony trespassing, property damage, and "intent to interfere with or obstruct the national defense of the United States". Liberal commentators immediately began whining that the charges were too extreme. The protestors could have staged a noisy event outside the gate complete with media coverage, but they chose to cut the fences and sneak into the facility at 3 am instead.

"Grade-school students in a northeastern Brazilian city are using uniforms embedded with locator chips...and by 2013, all of the city's 43,000 public school students will be using the chip-embedded shirts... RFID chips in the "intelligent uniforms" let a computer know when children enter school and it sends a text message to the parent's cell phone...

The chips, similar to those used to track pets [and farm animals] in many countries, are placed underneath each school's coat-of-arms or on one of the sleeves below a phrase that says: "Education does not transform the world. Education changes people and people transform the world."

-- Huffington Post

"Education changes people"? Indeed. Orwell himself couldn't have said it better. But what does it change them into?

"Northside Independent School District [of San Antonio, Texas] plans to track students next year on two of its campuses using RFID technology implanted in their student identification cards in a trial that could eventually include all 112 of its schools and all of its nearly 100,000 students...

District officials said the Radio Frequency Identification System (RFID) tags would 'improve safety' by allowing them to locate students -- and count them more accurately at the beginning of the school day... "We want to harness the power of technology to make schools safer, know where our students are all the time in a school, and increase revenues," district spokesman Pascual Gonzalez said. "Parents expect that we always know where their children are, and this technology will help us do that."

-- San Antonio News

The movement patterns will be archived and analyzed, and combined with a myriad of other data sources for a complete and permanent profile. If you step out of line anywhere, it will be recorded.

Society is rapidly being transformed into an open-air prison camp, using the latest in surveillance technology, where the notion of "individual liberty" is simply an archaic and meaningless concept.

"It matters little whether our masters stoop to state the matter in the form that 'every prison should be a school'; or in the more candid form that 'every school should be a prison'. They have already fulfilled their servile principle in the case of the schools."

-- G.K. Chesterton, "Utopia of Usurers", 1917

Here are some impressive videos from the University of Pennsylvania robotics lab showing a swarm of tiny quad-rotor model helicopters flying in complex 3-D formations under computer control. They can also swoop through tight openings and work together in teams.

Now imagine this same technology using full scale, military grade machines with ultra-quiet fans, night vision cameras, and hi-tech weaponry. A real swarm of those would be pretty intimidating, wouldn't it? Great for surveillance and crowd control. A couple of them could buzz around to attract attention while another one quietly records every face that looks up.