Posted on 01/24/2015 7:58:44 AM PST by Enlightened1
The United States intelligence community funded, nurtured and incubated Google as part of a drive to dominate the world through control of information. Seed-funded by the NSA and CIA,Google was merely the first among a plethora of private sector start-ups co-opted by US intelligence to retain ‘information superiority.’
The origins of this ingenious strategy trace back to a secret Pentagon-sponsored group, that for the last two decades has functioned as a bridge between the US government and elites across the business, industry, finance, corporate, and media sectors. The group has allowed some of the most powerful special interests in corporate America to systematically circumvent democratic accountability and the rule of law to influence government policies, as well as public opinion in the US and around the world. The results have been catastrophic: NSA mass surveillance, a permanent state of global war, and a new initiative to transform the US military into Skynet.
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Good luck with that one.
Duck duck go is a search engine that does NOT do tracking. I use it instead of google or bing—I’m “cyber exposed” enough without their nefarious contributions.
Internet, tool of control by tyrants. Kinda puts porn in a whole new light. And also increases my respect for FR and it’s no ads stance.
Halfway through, Prof. Ullman responds to the author “I am not going to dignify this nonsense with a denial. If you won’t explain what your theory is, and what point you are trying to make, I am not going to help you in the slightest.”
I have to agree with him — what point is the author trying to make in this blather? I cannot discern a thesis anywhere.
It seems that he is arguing:
* We don’t have any enemies and don’t need intelligence or spies.
* Our enemies are soft teddy bears who actually mean us no harm and we alone are fostering “perpetual war.”
* Government should invent all of its own solutions and not work with private industry and universities where brilliant minds can be found.
* Technology development is static and we don’t need for our intelligence services to invest in new methods and techniques.
There is nothing new here at all. The entire article is weak and, frankly, not worth the time spent reading.
This strikes me as being written by a wannabe investigative journalist searching for a way to make his reputation. Or, perhaps, given that the author’s name is “Nafeez Ahmed,” there may be a sinister hidden agenda at work. I surprised he didn’t use a pseudonym like “Bob Smith.”
Mr. Ahmed “writes for the Guardian on the geopolitics of environmental, energy and economic crises on his Earth insight blog.” He is the author of “A User’s Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: And How to Save It” (2010), the first peer-reviewed academic work to analyse the intersection of climate change, energy depletion, food crisis, economic turbulence, international terrorism, and state-militarization.
His CV alone should set off your BS detectors.
“Good luck with that one.”
With Google Chrome, Google/Android or lawyers suing Google? :)
Haha! Ain’t that the truth!
Bingo! Clean and rinse regularly for that Google crap.
You’re exactly right. We are surrounded by enemies everywhere. And the government knows best. And secret government/industry agreements aren’t fascist.
Samaritan is not too far off in our futures.....
If one were to look at the history of Defense Communications Agency and AT&T/Ma Bell, you would find similar synergy.
Who would think the days of the “black helicopter” would seem tame in comparison to what black ops are being perpetrated on the public as they view their tiny screens.
“In sum, the investment firm responsible for creating the billion dollar fortunes of the tech sensations of the 21st century, from Google to Facebook, is intimately linked to the US military intelligence community; with Venables, Lee and Friedman either directly connected to the Pentagon Highlands Forum, or to senior members of the Forum.”
He is just giving you all the links between Google and the Intelligence Agencies. And it’s MASSIVE! I bet he does not even have 1/3 of all the connections?
“In sum, the investment firm responsible for creating the billion dollar fortunes of the tech sensations of the 21st century, from Google to Facebook, is intimately linked to the US military intelligence community; with Venables, Lee and Friedman either directly connected to the Pentagon Highlands Forum, or to senior members of the Forum.”
So Google and Facebook were funded, built and maintained by the Pentagon. They are NOT the companies we thought they were.
Oh and here is the writer’s background.
Dr Nafeez Ahmed is an investigative journalist, bestselling author and international security scholar. A former Guardian writer, he writes the ‘System Shift’ column for VICE’s Motherboard, and is also a columnist for Middle East Eye. He is the winner of a 2015 Project Censored Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism for his Guardian work.
Nafeez has also written for The Independent, Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Scotsman, Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, Quartz, Prospect, New Statesman, Le Monde diplomatique, New Internationalist, Counterpunch, Truthout, among others. He is the author of A User’s Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: And How to Save It (2010), and the scifi thriller novel ZERO POINT, among other books. His work on the root causes and covert operations linked to international terrorism officially contributed to the 9/11 Commission and the 7/7 Coroner’s Inquest.
Hilarious!
See post 34
I like the link. It’s spot on!
Thank you.
I wish more people read it.
I’ve always said that if the government announced they had created a website where you could do all your banking, post your private information, tell the world who your friends are and what you’re going to do plus state your political beliefs......very few would have signed up.
And don’t believe any of us are anonymous. The ip server address tells them who we are.
Someone once close to me announced on the internet for all to see that “this stupid POS thinks the government is using facebook to spy on us”. So, who’s the stupid POS now?
As for elections, I told my wife the other day that even if no one showed up to vote the media would report the election results showing how many voted, what their motivating factor for voting was, exit polls, etc. It would be simply be made up.
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