"The totalitarian state watches everyone, but keeps its own plans secret. Privacy is seen as dangerous because it enhances resistance. Constantly spying and then confronting people with what are often petty transgressions is a way of maintaining social control and unnerving and disempowering opposition....
“And even when one shakes real pursuers, it is often hard to rid oneself of the feeling of being watched -- which is why surveillance is an extremely powerful way to control people."

This is so topical, it could have been written this morning.

Good stuff! Wow! I too am bookmarking this site.
Thank you khalling.

This is a great site. I have it bookmarked and will read it until it shrugs. Thanks for posting it.

Love their mission statement: . . promoting capitalist acts between consenting adults.

The researchers demonstrated a remarkable ability to hindcast.....“we can now predict the lull in warming of the past 16 years with surprising accuracy.”

I'm adding it to my RSS Feed Reader.