Complete waste of taxpayer money. This world of surveillance is based solely on fear and completely contrary to trust, good will, and the idea of humanity.
We are slowly anesthetizing ourselves to what the oligarchical elite is frameworking to be complete control based on monetary wealth and military industrial proliferation.
It must have been exciting when technology brought such breakthroughs as the telephone and radio. Now, technology is bringing ever more profit to the 1% and things are coming out that we the people know nothing about and that are used against us. Is there anyone in America today that can honestly say the future looks bright? But there is a glimmer.
9/11 was a turning point that leveraged fear to undermine our freedom and turn us against each other. The end of the twin towers was a momentary event. The demolition of the things we hold dear is ongoing with Trump speeding up the process. Come November we the people will after two very long years have a way to register our outrage and cage the Trump gang using Congress the way the founders intended. Then, after enduring two more years of Trump ranting and raging in frustration, out with him and his accomplices including J.D. Vance. Additional benefit, the removal of Israel from involvement in US government.
That is the hope, that there is some correcting, rebalancing force or mechanism that will become activated. I'm not so sure. Why? A few reasons - AIPAC owns the Congress. Republicans, thoroughly craven and useless, true unpatriotic patriots, could well retain control in both chambers. "We have two wings of the same party, the corporate party," Chris Hedges. It's been said that Israel told Kissinger, then relayed to Nixon, that it threatened to go nuclear in the '73 war unless it received desperately needed munitions from the U.S. They were on their way in short order afterwards. Israel is approaching that level of desperation now, and may go beyond it. The first atomic explosion turned the desert of New Mexico to a glass-like man-made substance called "trinitite." The same portends for the deserts of the Middle East.
Maybe I'm pessimistic and cynical by nature, but what I said above, is it exaggeration, or perception?
[Addendum] With every reference to AIPAC or Israel, whether explicit or implied, I should have added the following descriptor: "utterly ruthless."
There is no doubt about America having been and still to a large extent being in the grip of Zionism, but the hold is being loosened. For example, Mamdani. Another indicator comes from Haaretz in Israel in a story with the title: "In Blow to AIPAC, Democrat Who Accused Israel of Genocide Wins NJ Election".
This is happening across the country as AIPAC struggles to keep its contributions in the dark by coming up with PAC's with misleading names. Here in IL, the AIPAC supported candidate for the 9th District came in third place. The 40+ Dem senators who lined up with Bernie to (unsuccessfully) stop bulldozers and bombs being sent to Israel is a phenomenon never before seen when even one senator voting against anything for Israel was rare. The ten-year "Memoranda of Understanding" that send currently almost $4 billion a year to Israel will not be renewed.
36 Republicans in the House are retiring while candidates for the House are no hesitating to mention Israel and not in a positive way. American Zionists are a small percentage of the electorate. Their power had come from fabulous wealth (many billionaires) and great organization indicated by the power of AIPAC until now.
The primary reason for the collapse of Zionist power is the revelation of what Israel is all about with the slaughter in Gaza, the ongoing terror in the West Bank, the proudly atrocious comments from Netanyahu and government ministers and the ability of social media to punch through all attempts and censorship. There is definitely a way to go shaking free of Israel, but I think the destination is clear and the move toward it irreversible. America has been had since 1967 Americans have awakened to it and are unwilling to continue being duped.
As I call out liberty and justice for all on the street, I have yet to have anyone counter it with an argument. Ethnic cleansing sucks no matter who is doing it, where or when.
BTW, "utterly ruthless" is a good way to put it. I have no doubt that a good number of American Zionists would sell out the US for Israel, so fanatic is the movement. President Biden is an example and Trump, while not declaring himself a Zionist has provided our military power to Israel. We are way down but I see upward movement.
The examples you bring up are a necessary anodyne, an indication that maybe that "rebalancing force" I had mentioned is indeed swinging into action, at its own pace (although too slow for me, but then again, who am I in "the grand scheme of things"?). Very hard for me to deal with the fact that the wanton depravity of the Israelis/Zionists has not been swiftly, decisively dealt with. No great revelation from me, but there is something terribly wrong with the world.
Zionism about 140 years old, the illegitimate "state" of Israel 78 years in a little over a month (May 15, 1948, another occasion that should be labeled "A date that will live in infamy"). Again in the grand scheme of things, maybe not all that long once they (soon?) come to an end. Of course their stain on the human record is indelible. But from what you suggest, Churchill's words may prevail, that "the life of the world will move forward into broad, sunlit uplands."
I think bigotry and guilt are the pair that made Israel possible. Zionism was having a very hard time before WW2 with the holocaust. Jews wanted to live in the US, not Palestine which was considered a backward, desert land where a rough and challenging life could be expected, not at all European.
The holocaust produced guilt in the West that could be employed to get support for Israel. It certainly had an effect in the US where Jewish advocates were pressing the case quite a number of whom did not intend to move to Israel but were dedicated to its creation. Chaim Weizmann had the ear of Truman and would become Israel's first president.
But bigotry was (is) involved. Whereas Ashkenazi Jews, white Europeans, were integrated into US culture, Arabs and Jews from the Middle East (Mizrahim) were nowhere to be seen in 1940's America. Thus, "they are just like us" was easy to pull off, white people who could, by appearance, be American, were fighting their way into what could be presented as a backward barbarian land of dark skinned people to which Americans could not relate, except in the American Negro at the time who white thought needed to pull himself up by his own efforts. So, there was "defending a villa in the jungle", "a land without a people for a people without a land", etc. Americans ate it up.
There are many American Zionists who have this outlook now. They will tell you that they are Zionists because they think Jews should have a homeland of their own and say nothing about the impossible to separate ethnic cleansing to make that happen. Call it yin without yang thinking. The Palestinians are not mentioned because they are of no significance, invisible, only the homeland is important, though it was the Palestinian homeland that had to be cleared.
Now, with Gaza opening eyes, Americans are seeing the other side of the story, the continuing story that shows Israel for the awful project it has always been, unless seen through Zionist eyes. Think of the fondness felt for the antebellum south, always expressed by white people, never expressed by black people.
Always fanatic, Zionism was willing to deal with Hitler to get Jews to Palestine (it flopped) and was willing to use physical threats in the displaced persons camps after WW2 to force Jews to indicate they wanted to go to Palestine rather than anywhere else (mostly the US). Killing Jews who happened to be in the King David Hotel when it was bombed by Zionists was no problem. Today, slaughter in Gaza was no problem, ongoing terror in the West Bank is no problem. Fanaticism with more horror to come.
How would Hitler have responded to an appeal to the Golden Rule? How about Stalin? How about Netanyahu? Fanaticism doesn't end well for those hypnotized by it, but it does end.
There’s nothing I can add to this, save the role of the British who facilitated Ashkenazi presence in Palestine in order to further their strategic interests in the region and to divert their going to Britain. The newly arrived Jews were favored by the British over the indigenous population, to the extent of the Jews learning from them how to brutalize a population, and thus the groundwork for Western interference and turmoil in the region was established. Had the British, and the French, and then the left-holding-the-bag U.S. after the mandate not imposed themselves on the region, Jews native to Palestine and Palestinians would be living in harmony as they had for centuries.
And in the end the British tried to stop Jews from entering Palestine. Their mandate came to an end and they jumped out of the fire. It was a mess and the Zionists took advantage of the British arms they had stashed away along with the military training many had from fighting with Britain in WW2. They sure have had a smooth run for most of the time since thanks to Uncle Sam provide seamless cover for anything and everything right up to now.
That's something out of Black Mirror or any number of dystopian police state films from the past 30 years. If ICE or any federal agency actually equip and deploy agents using those spy glasses in the USA, it has to be immediately challenged in court as an grossly unconstitutional violation of First and Fourth Amendment rights--given that their use would amount to the large scale identification and recording of people in public spaces without their consent. At this point it's difficult to say whether the Trump Administration or tech companies constitute the more serious threat to personal privacy and civil liberties in the USA. Along with local law enforcement and their CCTV and Flock cameras and databases, the Trump Administration and tech companies are on track to outdo the Chinese government's use of surveillance tech and data to control and punish people on a mass scale.
who is making them [company], where are they made [country], does tech implant into glasses ie so two or more companies or is it one provider, how much is the contract?
This is the beginning of the war between biometric identification and biometric blockers. And the blockers will eventually lose this war.
Look, ubiquitous surveillance is happening. It's just too easy to do it. Imagine billions of tiny floating cameras powered by solar and the normal electromagnetic fields pervading us.
What we need to push for is EQUAL ACCESS to this data. As long as anyone can spy on anyone else, we're in a reasonable standoff.
Delete every picture of yourself online today. Or as many possible. Delete your social media accounts. If you really need a photo tweak your pics subtlely (eyebrows, nose width, cheekbones, hairline) to mess with facial recognition. At protests wear sunglasses, hats and boring clothes. Always, always leave your phone at home.
Complete waste of taxpayer money. This world of surveillance is based solely on fear and completely contrary to trust, good will, and the idea of humanity.
We are slowly anesthetizing ourselves to what the oligarchical elite is frameworking to be complete control based on monetary wealth and military industrial proliferation.
Thanks for all you do Ken.
Rand Paul, Glasshole
It must have been exciting when technology brought such breakthroughs as the telephone and radio. Now, technology is bringing ever more profit to the 1% and things are coming out that we the people know nothing about and that are used against us. Is there anyone in America today that can honestly say the future looks bright? But there is a glimmer.
9/11 was a turning point that leveraged fear to undermine our freedom and turn us against each other. The end of the twin towers was a momentary event. The demolition of the things we hold dear is ongoing with Trump speeding up the process. Come November we the people will after two very long years have a way to register our outrage and cage the Trump gang using Congress the way the founders intended. Then, after enduring two more years of Trump ranting and raging in frustration, out with him and his accomplices including J.D. Vance. Additional benefit, the removal of Israel from involvement in US government.
"Congress the way the founders intended."
That is the hope, that there is some correcting, rebalancing force or mechanism that will become activated. I'm not so sure. Why? A few reasons - AIPAC owns the Congress. Republicans, thoroughly craven and useless, true unpatriotic patriots, could well retain control in both chambers. "We have two wings of the same party, the corporate party," Chris Hedges. It's been said that Israel told Kissinger, then relayed to Nixon, that it threatened to go nuclear in the '73 war unless it received desperately needed munitions from the U.S. They were on their way in short order afterwards. Israel is approaching that level of desperation now, and may go beyond it. The first atomic explosion turned the desert of New Mexico to a glass-like man-made substance called "trinitite." The same portends for the deserts of the Middle East.
Maybe I'm pessimistic and cynical by nature, but what I said above, is it exaggeration, or perception?
[Addendum] With every reference to AIPAC or Israel, whether explicit or implied, I should have added the following descriptor: "utterly ruthless."
There is no doubt about America having been and still to a large extent being in the grip of Zionism, but the hold is being loosened. For example, Mamdani. Another indicator comes from Haaretz in Israel in a story with the title: "In Blow to AIPAC, Democrat Who Accused Israel of Genocide Wins NJ Election".
This is happening across the country as AIPAC struggles to keep its contributions in the dark by coming up with PAC's with misleading names. Here in IL, the AIPAC supported candidate for the 9th District came in third place. The 40+ Dem senators who lined up with Bernie to (unsuccessfully) stop bulldozers and bombs being sent to Israel is a phenomenon never before seen when even one senator voting against anything for Israel was rare. The ten-year "Memoranda of Understanding" that send currently almost $4 billion a year to Israel will not be renewed.
36 Republicans in the House are retiring while candidates for the House are no hesitating to mention Israel and not in a positive way. American Zionists are a small percentage of the electorate. Their power had come from fabulous wealth (many billionaires) and great organization indicated by the power of AIPAC until now.
The primary reason for the collapse of Zionist power is the revelation of what Israel is all about with the slaughter in Gaza, the ongoing terror in the West Bank, the proudly atrocious comments from Netanyahu and government ministers and the ability of social media to punch through all attempts and censorship. There is definitely a way to go shaking free of Israel, but I think the destination is clear and the move toward it irreversible. America has been had since 1967 Americans have awakened to it and are unwilling to continue being duped.
As I call out liberty and justice for all on the street, I have yet to have anyone counter it with an argument. Ethnic cleansing sucks no matter who is doing it, where or when.
BTW, "utterly ruthless" is a good way to put it. I have no doubt that a good number of American Zionists would sell out the US for Israel, so fanatic is the movement. President Biden is an example and Trump, while not declaring himself a Zionist has provided our military power to Israel. We are way down but I see upward movement.
The examples you bring up are a necessary anodyne, an indication that maybe that "rebalancing force" I had mentioned is indeed swinging into action, at its own pace (although too slow for me, but then again, who am I in "the grand scheme of things"?). Very hard for me to deal with the fact that the wanton depravity of the Israelis/Zionists has not been swiftly, decisively dealt with. No great revelation from me, but there is something terribly wrong with the world.
Zionism about 140 years old, the illegitimate "state" of Israel 78 years in a little over a month (May 15, 1948, another occasion that should be labeled "A date that will live in infamy"). Again in the grand scheme of things, maybe not all that long once they (soon?) come to an end. Of course their stain on the human record is indelible. But from what you suggest, Churchill's words may prevail, that "the life of the world will move forward into broad, sunlit uplands."
Thank you for what you said.
I think bigotry and guilt are the pair that made Israel possible. Zionism was having a very hard time before WW2 with the holocaust. Jews wanted to live in the US, not Palestine which was considered a backward, desert land where a rough and challenging life could be expected, not at all European.
The holocaust produced guilt in the West that could be employed to get support for Israel. It certainly had an effect in the US where Jewish advocates were pressing the case quite a number of whom did not intend to move to Israel but were dedicated to its creation. Chaim Weizmann had the ear of Truman and would become Israel's first president.
But bigotry was (is) involved. Whereas Ashkenazi Jews, white Europeans, were integrated into US culture, Arabs and Jews from the Middle East (Mizrahim) were nowhere to be seen in 1940's America. Thus, "they are just like us" was easy to pull off, white people who could, by appearance, be American, were fighting their way into what could be presented as a backward barbarian land of dark skinned people to which Americans could not relate, except in the American Negro at the time who white thought needed to pull himself up by his own efforts. So, there was "defending a villa in the jungle", "a land without a people for a people without a land", etc. Americans ate it up.
There are many American Zionists who have this outlook now. They will tell you that they are Zionists because they think Jews should have a homeland of their own and say nothing about the impossible to separate ethnic cleansing to make that happen. Call it yin without yang thinking. The Palestinians are not mentioned because they are of no significance, invisible, only the homeland is important, though it was the Palestinian homeland that had to be cleared.
Now, with Gaza opening eyes, Americans are seeing the other side of the story, the continuing story that shows Israel for the awful project it has always been, unless seen through Zionist eyes. Think of the fondness felt for the antebellum south, always expressed by white people, never expressed by black people.
Always fanatic, Zionism was willing to deal with Hitler to get Jews to Palestine (it flopped) and was willing to use physical threats in the displaced persons camps after WW2 to force Jews to indicate they wanted to go to Palestine rather than anywhere else (mostly the US). Killing Jews who happened to be in the King David Hotel when it was bombed by Zionists was no problem. Today, slaughter in Gaza was no problem, ongoing terror in the West Bank is no problem. Fanaticism with more horror to come.
How would Hitler have responded to an appeal to the Golden Rule? How about Stalin? How about Netanyahu? Fanaticism doesn't end well for those hypnotized by it, but it does end.
There’s nothing I can add to this, save the role of the British who facilitated Ashkenazi presence in Palestine in order to further their strategic interests in the region and to divert their going to Britain. The newly arrived Jews were favored by the British over the indigenous population, to the extent of the Jews learning from them how to brutalize a population, and thus the groundwork for Western interference and turmoil in the region was established. Had the British, and the French, and then the left-holding-the-bag U.S. after the mandate not imposed themselves on the region, Jews native to Palestine and Palestinians would be living in harmony as they had for centuries.
And in the end the British tried to stop Jews from entering Palestine. Their mandate came to an end and they jumped out of the fire. It was a mess and the Zionists took advantage of the British arms they had stashed away along with the military training many had from fighting with Britain in WW2. They sure have had a smooth run for most of the time since thanks to Uncle Sam provide seamless cover for anything and everything right up to now.
That's something out of Black Mirror or any number of dystopian police state films from the past 30 years. If ICE or any federal agency actually equip and deploy agents using those spy glasses in the USA, it has to be immediately challenged in court as an grossly unconstitutional violation of First and Fourth Amendment rights--given that their use would amount to the large scale identification and recording of people in public spaces without their consent. At this point it's difficult to say whether the Trump Administration or tech companies constitute the more serious threat to personal privacy and civil liberties in the USA. Along with local law enforcement and their CCTV and Flock cameras and databases, the Trump Administration and tech companies are on track to outdo the Chinese government's use of surveillance tech and data to control and punish people on a mass scale.
"the Trump Administration or tech companies"
But: where does the Administration end, and the tech sector begin?
The federal government and the economic giants are conjoined... will it be different when the next guy gets in?
In case of emergency, break glass
lol!
who is making them [company], where are they made [country], does tech implant into glasses ie so two or more companies or is it one provider, how much is the contract?
Big Brother is Watching.
👀🥸
I’m a little surprised that Israel hasn’t already developed glasses that can identify anyone who opposes them. Or maybe they have…
We are so screwed.
This is the beginning of the war between biometric identification and biometric blockers. And the blockers will eventually lose this war.
Look, ubiquitous surveillance is happening. It's just too easy to do it. Imagine billions of tiny floating cameras powered by solar and the normal electromagnetic fields pervading us.
What we need to push for is EQUAL ACCESS to this data. As long as anyone can spy on anyone else, we're in a reasonable standoff.
Call and write your elected officials. Protest. These are our tools to look to for now against tyranny.
I can smell Suckerberg coming from 1,000 miles away
Delete every picture of yourself online today. Or as many possible. Delete your social media accounts. If you really need a photo tweak your pics subtlely (eyebrows, nose width, cheekbones, hairline) to mess with facial recognition. At protests wear sunglasses, hats and boring clothes. Always, always leave your phone at home.
Glassholes
Can't thank you enough for this, Ken, I know I will never be constipated in life from here on out, you've scared the s*** out of me.
Super creepy.
I've always wondered exactly how we won the wars for Iraq and Afghanistan.