Big Brother 226 articles
Big Brother
Mind Control: Orwell, Huxley, and Today’s Reality
In 1984, George Orwell paints a picture of a dark, gray world. People are afraid to say anything contrary to the official party line, and surveillance is universal. Even thinking contrary to the party is a crime, and thoughtcrimes may be treated by radical psychological intervent...
Censorship and Orwellian “Double Think”: Official Discourse in the US
An infirmity once characterizing the past century’s most severe totalitarian regimes has now taken root in Western public discourse and practice, a process akin to Orwellian “double think” acting as a form of de facto censorship preempting consideration of major issues and ...
The Rise of the Global Digital Surveillance
Books have been written about President Eisenhower’s famous farewell warning in 1961 about the “military-industrial complex,” and what he described as its “unwarranted influence.” But an even greater leviathan today, one that the public knows little about, is the “int...
Big Brother Surveillance Admitted: Smart Meters Are Spying Devices
Industry mouthpiece SmartGridNews finally admitted that “smart” meters are surveillance devices. Of course they didn’t quite put it that bluntly. In fact, they celebrate the ability of utilities to know what appliances people use as another tool to help craft th...
10 Things We Didn’t Know Before Snowden
Welcome to the post-Snowden era, where everything you say or do can be monitored by secret services - regardless of a court of law. One year on,here are the top 10 revelations showing us how the world has been fundamentally transformed by state snooping.1. Everything you do onlin...
The US Police State is Worse Than Orwell Ever Imagined
The United States pretends to be a home of freedom and democracy. In fact, the US is rapidly degenerating into a police state and a worse dystopia than George Orwell imagined in his book, 1984.John W. Whitehead describes below the prison that is being constructed for all of us. T...
The Orwellian Social Structure of the USA
America is being nudged and now pushed into the heinous world of Agenda 21. However, I believe that when self-preservation takes over, the use of force will be necessary to get most people to willingly go along with this encroaching tyranny. This is another topic for another arti...
TOP 30 Known NSA Spying Techniques
The scope of the National Security Agency’s spying abilities has increased dramatically in the last few of years. Rumors have been circulated for years about the agencies clandestine abilities. Many of those rumors have been confirmed, thanks to leaked documents and whistleblow...
Chicago PD Uses Computer to Predict Crimes — The Only Thing I Predict is ABUSE
We've talked a lot over the years about the attempts to get out "ahead of crime" by using computer programs and algorithms to try and predict who might commit a crime.Predictive computing can then either target specific areas or specific people that might be in need of some extra...
NSA Helped UK Agency to Intercept and Store the Webcam Images of Millions
Britain's surveillance agency GCHQ, with aid from the US National Security Agency, intercepted and stored the webcam images of millions of internet users not suspected of wrongdoing, secret documents reveal.GCHQ files dating between 2008 and 2010 explicitly state that a surveilla...