Posted on 11/03/2013 8:56:57 PM PST by Olog-hai
It seems that every day brings new claims and counter-claims about whos spying on whom. Governments are trying to limit the damage, but that damage is not limited to governments, expert Jeremie Zimmermann told DW.
Its something of historical amplitude and we still need to take some distance to be able to understand what is exactly going on. What we see is the unraveling of the very infrastructure for a total surveillance society that we are realizing, day by day, is already deployed all around the world under our feet. The infrastructure for surveilling everything about everybody all the time. What weve seen in totalitarian regimes when societies were being surveilledwe can think of the Stasi or of the KGBwere childs play compared to what we are witnessing today.
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AWESOME!!! Great graphic!!!
O’s brown shirts are marching lock step
None dare call it treason
Yes, sure. But back to a topic NSA is not equal to both Stasi and KGB. And KGB is not > GRU, they are different organizations. First is a civilian and second is a military agencies. For example first is used to blackmail a politician in Washington, DC, second to kill a rebel leader in the middle of the jungle. If you are to look for an analogies in mass culture imagine James Bond and John Rembo. If they were working for a Russian government then first is a SVR dept of KGB and the latter is a GRU agent.
GRU operations is not near the scale of SVR operations.
GRU might be famous for an overnight Czech or Afghanistan (Storm-333 op) takeover but SVR has brought you militant feminism, war on poverty, great society, affirmative action, abortion, gay marriage etc. Incompetent millenials are a product of SVR subversion of the family and public education too.
That likely had historical roots going back to Napoleon and Joseph Fouché, the head of the secret police.
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