Media is doling out in bite-sized bits what we already knew: we are being tracked and traced, recorded and stored.The Guardian recently told us that – shock – Google is storing lots of information about us; meanwhile, the wildly different Independent gently awakens us to the fact that Facebook is doing something almost identical. Both articles contain […]
The Internet is the nervous system of a mass control and surveillance grid governing economic, informational and social life. Its chaotic freedom drew everyone in. Now that we’re all plugged in, the door can come down behind us.In its early years, the Internet was like the Wild West. It was a rugged, shooty-killy kind of […]
Next month the UK will go through the motions of a plebiscite on whether to stay in the EU. As someone who monitors media rather than believes it, I have found it interesting to observe the use of propaganda aimed at nudging – in the Thaler and Sunstein sense – people towards the ‘correct’ choice.Thaler […]
A recent article in the UK’s Daily Express cites a poll in which almost 80 percent of the respondents said they would be ready to emigrate to Russia to take up Putin’s offer of free land to foreigners.The article reads: “Disillusioned by life in modern Britain, 78% of more than 22,000 respondents replied ‘Yes! Bargain’ to […]
Each leader the West wants to take down is really the same stock character brought back in slightly different attire after the commercial break; Saddam, Gaddafi and Assad are all the same guy: the archetypal Darth Vader to our Luke Skywalker.Within this simplistic, childlike meta-narrative nothing the baddies do can be good. As those in […]
Western children are being indoctrinated with a philosophy fed into their young minds via media and education, one in which the usual claims to ‘compassion’ and ‘inclusivity’ are used as cover.Gender is fundamental. It lays the groundwork for who you are and your role in the tribe. For this reason – one must assume – […]
No matter what the question, the liberal response is the same: native Europeans need to understand, ‘celebrate’ difference, and be willing to integrate alien ideologies – because it’s so enriching. But if it is all so enriching, liberals struggle to explain to themselves and others why Islamic communities are not ‘celebrating’ their own differences.On March […]
Bombing – and more specifically terrorism – is back in the headlines. This time it is Brussels. It hardly ever goes away. It’s like someone put it there.But it wasn’t always like this. The threat used to be called the Soviet Union. But that went away. And then a new threat came along, just in […]
The new trade negotiations – TTIP – sound dull. It combines the US and EU markets to make the process of fleecing the sheep simpler and cheaper for the wolves. Standard procedure, you may say – and you would be right.But what is interesting is that any pretense at democracy has been dropped from the […]