Big Brother Becoming Pervasive
America is being turned into the kind of surveillance society that even George Orwell would have laughed off as too crazy to contemplate. Microphones that record conversations are
now being installed on buses
throughout the country.
Similar devices are also being included
with new “smart†street lights currently being erected in major cities.
The new wave of “smart†technology in televisions, computers and cellphones is also ensuring that consumers are doing Big Brother’s job for him, by bugging their own homes with sophisticated two-way surveillance equipment, from
TVs that spy on viewers
to set-top boxes that utilize technology that records conversations in order to
bombard users with invasive targeted advertising
.
Virtually every new technological device now being manufactured that is linked to the Internet has the capability to record conversations and send them back to a central hub. Is it really any wonder therefore that former CIA director
David Petraeus heralded
the arrival of the “smart home†as a boon for “clandestine statecraft�
Will a new renaissance for privacy rights begin to dominate in 2013, or will Big Brother simply get more sophisticated in the plethora of ways it monitors American citizens?
NSA Spying No Longer a Secret
NSA whistleblower William Binney
recently revealed
that the FBI and other federal agencies record and store the emails of all American citizens.
Binney also warned
that the National Security Agency is storing all electronic communications and analyzing them in real time, adding that the federal agency has a Google-style capability to search all conversations for keywords.
Since 2008, the NSA has had the legal power to intercept all phone calls, emails and text messages sent by American citizens without probable cause. However, although long suspected, the agency has never admitted that it is analyzing the content of such messages, conceding only that persons, dates and locations are part of the snooping process.
However, in a
sworn declaration
to the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Binney, a former NSA employee with the signals intelligence agency within the DoD, divulged that the federal agency, “has the capability to do individualized searches, similar to Google, for particular electronic communications in real time through such criteria as target addresses, locations, countries and phone numbers, as well as watch-listed names, keywords, and phrases in email.â€
Will 2013 mark the year that the 4th amendment was enforced to scale back widespread eavesdropping on the American people, or will mass surveillance continue to grow and metastasize?
The Era of Drones
A bill passed by Congress in February paves the way for the use of surveillance drones in US skies on a widespread basis. The FAA predicts that by 2020 there could be up to 30,000 drones in operation nationwide.
As we have previously highlighted
, the whole direction of drones and automated robot technology being developed by the likes of DARPA is all geared towards having machines take the role of police officers in pursuing and engaging “insurgents†on American soil.
With more and more police departments and federal agencies turning to drones, 2013 will likely see them begin to flood America skies as the right to privacy becomes an antiquated concept.
The TSA Occupies America
Despite being embroiled in constant scandals, abuses of power, and exposure of its workforce as pedophiles and criminals on an almost daily basis, the TSA is only being given more power and funding.
The
federal agency recently announced
that it is is seeking permission from the Office of Management and Budget to conduct “security assessments†on highways as well as at 140 other public transportation hubs, including bus depots and train stations.
If approved, it would allow the TSA to to “conduct transportation security-related assessments during site visits with security and operating officials of surface transportation entities.â€
In other words, get ready for TSA agents to be groping Grandma on the interstate at some point in 2013.
Will the recent movement to stand up against TSA tyranny snowball and lead major airports to kick out TSA agents and replace them with private screeners, or will 2013 mark the year that the TSA became a literal occupying army throughout America?
Foreign Policy: Backing Terrorists, More Regime Change
The Obama administration is
openly backing Al-Qaeda terrorists in Syria
who after they have deposed President Bashar Assad have vowed to attack the United States in a bid to impose global Sharia law. These same terrorists killed U.S. troops in Iraq and yet the administration has signaled that hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to the so-called “rebels†will be followed by military might.
In pursuing the same disastrous policy as it did in Libya, the U.S. government is virtually guaranteeing that there will be more attacks on U.S. interests like September’s Benghazi assault led by the very same militants put into positions of influence by NATO and the U.S.
Will 2013 see a more sensible approach to foreign policy or will the Obama administration continue to support terrorists in order to dismantle the few “rogue states†left in the world that are not controlled by the globalists?
2013: Collapse, Re-Birth or Stagnation?
Amidst the myriad of assaults on America as a free country, the globalists themselves admit that a mass uprising against this onslaught is beginning to undermine the agenda for total authoritarianism.
During a recent speech
in Poland, former US National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski warned fellow elitists that a worldwide “resistance†movement to “external control†driven by “populist activism†is threatening to derail the move towards a new world order.
Will 2013 mark the year America died, or the year that the re-birth of America as land of the free, home of the brave truly began? Or will we still be here in 12 months time lamenting the gradual decline and fall of the United States as it slowly disappears off the pages of history in a similar fashion to the former Soviet Union?
One thing we know for sure is that if 2013 is anything like 2012 – we’re going to be in for one hell of a ride.
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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for
Infowars.com
and
Prison Planet.com
. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a host for Infowars Nightly News.
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