Category Archives: learning
Pessimism, Fatalism, Realism, Optimism, Hope
This article was originally published by Doug “Uncola” Lynn at TheTollOnline.com When I first had the idea to write this piece, it was going to justify my own overwhelming sense of foreboding regarding future events that, to me, seem as inevitable as gravity drawing water down a drain. I wanted to defend my perspectives against […]
The Surveillance State: An Inexorable March Toward Totalitarianism
Authored by Jeremiah Johnson (nom de plume of a retired Green Beret of the United States Army Special Forces) via SHTFplan.com, The Surveillance State has slowed down its rate of growth since the President took office, however, it has not halted that growth. Instead, it lies festering below the veneer of daily events, inexorably growing […]
Some US Airlines Are Testing Mandatory Facial Recognition Scans On Americans Flying Abroad
Authored by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog, Just when you thought air travel couldn’t get any more invasive, authoritarian and downright miserable, the Department of Homeland Security and two U.S. carriers are determined to prove you wrong. Yesterday, Harrison Rudolph, a law fellow at the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law, wrote […]
The Transformation Of Our Nation Into A Surveillance State Is Almost Complete
Authored by Jeremiah Johnson (nom de plume of a retired Green Beret of the United States Army Special Forces) via SHTFplan.com, The headlines are awash with the recent tensions with North Korea, and most are focused intently upon this act of the play that has been running hot for several years, now. Akin to the […]
“Much Worse Than Watergate”, Former CIA Officer Admits Trump ‘Wiretapping’ Likely True
The "political appointees" in the intelligence community knew exactly what they were surveilling for, former CIA officer Col. Tony Shaffer told Fox News, adding that the case is "much worse than Watergate by an order of magnitude." While Trump was not physically wiretapped, with a wire into his phone, Shaffer said the "basic fundamental idea […]
Be Careful What You Wish For, Police Body-Cam Edition
Authored by John Rubino via DollarCollapse.com, After the recent deluge of videos showing police abusing and sometimes flat-out murdering more-or-less innocent citizens, the willingness of a growing number of cities to equip officers with video cameras has been hailed as a victory by civil libertarians. But what if those cameras also extend the surveillance network […]
5 Dystopic Movies That Are Coming True Right Now
From ‘border walls’ to ‘biometrics’ and from ‘economic collapse’ to the ‘surveillance state’, is life imitating art… or was it all a guidebook? As The Daily Sheeple’s Melissa Dykes notes, it’s actually kind of hard to watch some of these… things are hitting way too close to home these days.