Stephan: It is in the nature of surveillance entities to want to acquire more and more information about more and more people. That's what they do. This is the latest on America's emerging 'soft' police state. Much of the blame for this can be laid at the feet of Obama. It began with Reagan, but it has continued to grow like a cancer year by year, with the years of the Obama administration the worst of all.
I counsel you again to assume that everything you write, text, video, or say over an electronic medium is being recorded by some government agency, as well as a spectrum of corporations.
My prediction is that within a decade, if not before, there will be a public relations campaign, argued probably on the basis of assisting with health care -- 'even if you are unconsciousness we will know what to do' -- to start implanting information/GPS chips in children at birth, and in older people when they experience any kind of medical crisis. Within a generation everyone will be chipped. It will probably also have a financial angle -- 'this will replace credit cards and checks, and make it much easier for people to move around and pay for what they use.' Orwell on steroids is coming.
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NSA whistleblower William Binney was interviewed by internet journalist Geoff Shively at the HOPE Number 9 hackers conference in New York on Friday.
Binney, who resigned from the NSA in 2001 over its domestic surveillance program, had just delivered a keynote speech in which he revealed what Shively called ‘evidence which we have not seen until this point.