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Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades.
In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.
Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.
The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.
Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific technological elite.
Don't forget that warning about the corruption of government contracts and academia.
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True enuff - Aussie-feared China in time has no qualms about dealing harshly or violently wid any Islamist threat to its interests, but right now e.g. Okinawa-Senkakus + SCS its focii/priority is reducing US power-n-influence in East-South Asia + "breaking out" of the "first island chain" vee US-Allies, NOT any Islamist threat to OZ + Kiwi-land [New Zealand].
At last check, China was attempting bilateral rapperochement wid Papua-New Guinea as per strategic natural resources includ "rare-earth" minerals. An [anti-US] PLA presence in Papua-New Guinea can certainly help the Aussies restrain the growing Islamist regional threat - THE QUESTION IS WHETHER AUSTRALIA WANTS THE PLA TO BE THAT CLOSE TO ITS SHORES.
[ProPublica] Officials say National Security Agency intercepts stopped David Coleman Headley's planned attack in Denmark, but sources say a tip from the British led to his capture after the U.S. failed for years to connect multiple reports of terror ties.
What we are left with is a rigid set of official lies and government propaganda.
1) "Profiling" is worse than terrorism
2) Terrorism is generic, unpredictable
3) Islamic movements such as MB are evolving toward Jeffersonian democracy; give them time and money
4) "Islamophobia" must be eradicated -- like the plague
Adhering to this ideology, "naturally" Uncle Sam must see every American as a suspect. "Naturally," 100 million Verizon customers "must" have their phone records "mined," or "stockpiled" or whatever verb best describes this meta-government, mass computerized intrusion that is so very, very ripe for politicized targeting and widespread abuse. "Naturally," the now-infamous PRISM program permits, as Jed Babbin writes at the American Spectator, "the FBI or NSA to have its own equipment on-site at [various Internet companies] and that equipment is apparently enabled to penetrate and access the SIGADs in question without any further interaction with the Internet company." "Naturally," there must be still more and deeper state supervision of Americans to fend off the enemies of this ideological state, whoever they might be. The undifferentiated paranoia this reflects is distinctly Soviet.
The post-9/11 hyperstate, then, isn't acting to pre-empt jihad terrorism or vectors of sharia aimed at our Constitution; it is acting to implement its own perverse ideology -- an ideology influenced if not entirely fostered by an Islamic decepetion operation. Pure and unscathed even by what the Michael Haydens of the intel world likely consider the odd attack, this ideology becomes more important to our leaders than anything else. Such leaders include Michael Hayden, FBI Director Mueller, JCC Gen. Dempsey, not to mention Presidents Bush and Obama.
Their ideology -- that Islam has nothing to do with this latest historical cycle of jihad we are living through -- has become more important to them than public safety, facts, liberty itself.
Is it really such a leap to see how opponents of the ideology become enemies of this state?
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HHHHHMMMMM, HHHHHMMMMM, so IIUC the issue is between the slowly growing Radical Islamist-Jihadist-Terror threat to CONUS-NORAM, versus a post-2015 "borderless", "anti-electoral", "anti-nationalist", "anti-sovereign" Amerika under OWG-NWO, Global Fed "Unions", + Global Socialist Order???
* FYI DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > US NSA TO CONTINUE GLOBAL SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM.
The Scandals they are nothing + do nothing agz the NSA, CIA, + other US INTEL Agencies.
As also complemented by ...
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > "WE WILL ALL HAVE AN RFID CHIP UNDER OUR SKIN BY 2017": NBC PREDICTION | THE NEWS INFORMER.
versus
* SAME > OPED:"US CONSTITUTION MAKES NO EXCEPTION TO NATIONAL SECURITY", as per the General-vs-Specific Warrants required for the US Govt. to collect information on US Citizens-Residents in violation of their Privacy Rights + other Civil Liberties.
One edition of George Orwell's classic novel about totalitarian government had jumped from No. 7397 on Amazon's best-seller list to No. 125.
The revelations about government surveillance have introduced a new generation of readers to Nineteen Eighty-Four, as sales of George Orwell's dystopian classic soar.
Perhaps there is hope that the "Kool-Aid" is wearing off, but is it too late ? Tune-in to Rantburg around November 2014 for the answer.
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The wholesale snooping on citizens makes one wonder if Islamist terrorism is the greatest we face as a nation. What would the Founding Fathers think of what's going on?
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IMA waiting for PRISM harvested data to be linked to the IRS, Tea Party, NRA, Benghazi, Fort Hood, Boston Bombers, and/or Champ's re-election. The unfunny Clapper humour will suddenly terminate if that happens.
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Tiny particles of sulfate, called aerosols, cooled the Northern Hemisphere, shifting tropical rainfall patterns southward, away from Central Africa,
So all we need is some global warming to bring the rain back, right?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
What we are left with is a rigid set of official lies and government propaganda. 
