Snowden: Governments Using Pandemic to Build “Architecture of
Oppression”
Snowden fears that world leaders will hold onto new emergency powers
well after the pandemic ends.
https://themindunleashed.com/2020/04/snowden-governments-using-pandemic-to-build-architecture-of-oppression-surveillance.html
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*(TMU <https://themindunleashed.com/>)* — In addition to quarantines and
lockdowns, some governments like those in China, Taiwan, and South Korea
have been using a surveillance strategy called “contact tracing” to
reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus.
While each country’s contact tracing program has slight variations, all
of them are essentially cell phone apps that keep a running record of
the user’s heath and the health records of all the people they come into
contact with.
If a cell phone comes in close contact with someone who might have the
virus, the user receives a text message informing them and then
instructing them to self-quarantine for 14 days.
However, the quarantine is not necessarily voluntary, depending on where
you live. In some countries, phones have been used as a sort of house
arrest ankle-bracelet that will notify authorities if the person being
monitored leaves the house for any reason.
These apps are being touted as the way to end the shut down in both
Italy
<https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-italy-technology/italy-working-on-coronavirus-tracing-app-to-help-lockdown-exit-idUSKCN21Q2XE>
and the UK
<https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/coronavirus-technology-apps-contact-tracing-surveillance-privacy-a9458366.html>
and it appears that officials are going to be taking things in that
direction.
At face value, it may appear that this could be a useful strategy in
preventing the spread of disease, but privacy advocates and tech experts
are concerned that this information could be misused and that the
unprecedented surveillance capabilities could be kept and held by
corrupt governments long after the pandemic is over.
In a recent interview
<https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bvge5q/snowden-warns-governments-are-using-coronavirus-to-build-the-architecture-of-oppression>
with /Vice/, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden expressed his concerns
about the coming surveillance program, calling it the “/architecture of
oppression/.”
/“Do you truly believe that when the first wave, this second wave,
the 16th wave of the coronavirus is a long-forgotten memory, that
these capabilities will not be kept? That these datasets will not be
kept? No matter how it is being used, what’ is being built is the
architecture of oppression/,” Snowden said.
Snowden recognized that the virus was a serious threat and said that the
intelligence community was well aware that it was only a matter of time
before a massive pandemic crippled the country, even back when he was
working in the NSA.
/“There is nothing more foreseeable as a public health crisis in a
world where we are just living on top of each other in crowded and
polluted cities, than a pandemic. And every academic, every
researcher who’s looked at this knew this was coming. And in fact,
even intelligence agencies, I can tell you firsthand, because they
used to read the reports had been planning for pandemics,”/ he said.
Snowden questioned the positive numbers that have come out of China in
recent weeks and pointed out that the Chinese government has been
credited with reducing the spread of the illness because they took such
draconian measures during the lockdown.
Perhaps their extreme strategy is not working as well as they say it is,
but since the government maintained tight control of any information
coming out of the country, it is impossible to say for sure.
/“If you’re looking at countries like China, where cases seem to
have leveled off, how much can we trust that those numbers are
actually true? I don’t think we can. Particularly, we see the
Chinese government recently working to expel Western journalists at
precisely this moment where we need credible independent warnings in
this region/,” Snowden said.
In a statement
<https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/04/apple-and-google-partner-on-covid-19-contact-tracing-technology/>
published on Friday, Apple and Google announced that they were teaming
up in a rare partnership to develop compatible contact tracing apps,
which they claim will work on an “opt-in” basis.
However, according to
<https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-10/apple-google-bring-covid-19-contact-tracing-to-3-billion-people?sref=StzN0HjU>
/Bloomberg/, the companies are planning to eventually build the contact
tracing into the device’s updates.
Apple and Google insist that you will still be able to opt-out of the
program if you don’t want to participate, but it is possible that
rankings on these apps could be used to gain entry into grocery stores
or larger businesses and events once the economy opens up again.
/“As authoritarianism spreads, as emergency laws proliferate, as we
sacrifice our rights, we also sacrifice our capability to arrest the
slide into a less liberal and less free world,”/ Snowden warned.
/By John Vibes <https://themindunleashed.com/author/johnvibestmu> |
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From South America, where payment must be made with subtlety, the Bormann
organization has made a substantial contribution. It has drawn many of the
brightest Jewish businessmen into a participatory role in the development of
many of its corporations, and many of these Jews share their prosperity most
generously with Israel. If their proposals are sound, they are even provided
with a specially dispensed venture capital fund. I spoke with one Jewish
businessmen in Hartford, Connecticut. He had arrived there quite unknown
several years before our conversation, but with Bormann money as his leverage.
Today he is more than a millionaire, a quiet leader in the community with a
certain share of his profits earmarked as always for his venture capital
benefactors. This has taken place in many other instances across America and
demonstrates how Bormann’s people operate in the contemporary commercial world,
in contrast to the fanciful nonsense with which Nazis are described in so much
“literature.”
So much emphasis is placed on select Jewish participation in Bormann companies
that when Adolf Eichmann was seized and taken to Tel Aviv to stand trial, it
produced a shock wave in the Jewish and German communities of Buenos Aires.
Jewish leaders informed the Israeli authorities in no uncertain terms that this
must never happen again because a repetition would permanently rupture
relations with the Germans of Latin America, as well as with the Bormann
organization, and cut off the flow of Jewish money to Israel. It never happened
again, and the pursuit of Bormann quieted down at the request of these Jewish
leaders. He is residing in an Argentinian safe haven, protected by the most
efficient German infrastructure in history as well as by all those whose
prosperity depends on his well-being.
http ://spitfirelist.com/books/martin-bormann-nazi-in-exile/
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Please consider seriously the reason why these elite institutions are not discussed in the mainstream press despite the immense financial and political power they wield?
There are sick and evil occultists running the Western World. They are power mad lunatics like something from a kids cartoon with their fingers on the nuclear button! Armageddon is closer than you thought. Only God can save our souls from their clutches, at least that's my considered opinion - Tony
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