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		<title>Must see:  Off the grid &#8211; Life on the Mesa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Good look at what life could be like in some parts of the US in a few years.

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		<link>http://www.technofascismblog.com/2011/04/02/must-see-off-the-grid-life-on-the-mesa-2240.html</link>
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		<title>10 ways a digital Big Brother can be good for you</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Orwell&#8217;s 1984, Winston was ultimately &#8220;convinced&#8221; that Big Bother was good too.    Now CNN plays the part of Winston&#8217;s conditioner, O&#8217;Brien, and tries to convince us&#8211;minus the rat cage, of course.
via CNN.com.
The opening passage from George Orwell&#8217;s &#8220;1984&#8243; depicts a guy  hustling up a stairwell that&#8217;s plastered with giant posters of a man&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.technofascismblog.com/2010/12/19/10-ways-a-digital-big-brother-can-be-good-for-you-cnn-com-2237.html</link>
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		<title>No escape from Sauron&#8217;s ever-watching eye</title>
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&#8220;A giant, lidless eye that never sleeps, ever watchful&#8221; that is how Sauron&#8217;s surveillance system was described in the Lord of the Rings.  And it&#8217;s the image that comes to my mind whenever someone advises me to flee the encroaching technofascism in the US.
Time and again people say to me, &#8220;Flee the U.S. fascist state [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.technofascismblog.com/2010/12/10/no-escape-from-saurons-ever-watching-eye-2203.html</link>
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		<title>Apple&#8217;s Steve Wozniak: &#8216;We&#8217;ve lost a lot of control&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[via CNN.com.
&#8220;We&#8217;re dependent on it,&#8221; he said at the museum, which holds one of  the world&#8217;s largest collections of vintage computers and sits about six  blocks from Google&#8217;s headquarters. &#8220;And eventually, we are going to have  it doing every task we can in the world, so we can sit back and relax.&#8221;
Wozniak&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.technofascismblog.com/2010/12/08/apples-steve-wozniak-weve-lost-a-lot-of-control-2200.html</link>
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		<title>Daniel Tammet and the Power of Perception</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve never heard of Daniel Tammet before, it&#8217;s probably because our mainstream press tends to focus on trivialities so much that the truly amazing stories go mostly unnoticed.  Daniel Tammet is a savant that can not only perform mental calculations out to 100 decimal places of accuracy, memorize PI to 22,000 decimal places, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.technofascismblog.com/2010/12/02/daniel-tammet-and-the-power-of-perception-2195.html</link>
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		<title>Race Is On to &#8216;Fingerprint&#8217; Phones, PCs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[via Wall Street Journal.
David Norris wants to collect the digital equivalent of fingerprints from every computer, cellphone and TV set-top box in the world.
He&#8217;s off to a good start. So far, Mr. Norris&#8217;s start-up company,  BlueCava Inc., has identified 200 million devices. By the end of next  year, BlueCava says it expects to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.technofascismblog.com/2010/12/02/race-is-on-to-fingerprint-phones-pcs-2193.html</link>
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		<title>Next step for body scanners could be trains, boats, metro</title>
		<description><![CDATA[via TheHill.com.
The next step in tightened security could be on U.S. public transportation, trains and boats.Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says terrorists will continue to look for U.S. vulnerabilities, making tighter security standards necessary.“[Terrorists] are going to continue to probe the system and try to find a way through,” Napolitano said in an interview that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.technofascismblog.com/2010/11/23/next-step-for-body-scanners-could-be-trains-boats-metro-2169.html</link>
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		<title>Full-body scanners popping up at courthouses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[via Yahoo! News.
Taking a trip during the holidays isn&#8217;t the only time that people might  get a full-body scan to pass through security. People heading to court  to testify at trial, get a restraining order, pay a ticket — or answer  criminal charges — could also face a full-body scan at courthouses.
The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.technofascismblog.com/2010/11/23/full-body-scanners-popping-up-at-courthouses-2167.html</link>
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		<title>CNN propaganda piece: Big Brother is wonderful</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Be sure to take an extra shot of doubleplusgood victory gin when you read this one.
Apparently, CNN is now pushing the benefits of 24/7 monitoring for everyone since it seems to work so well with the one elderly person mentioned in the article, who, they claim, does not consider this constant surveillance to be a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.technofascismblog.com/2010/11/19/cnn-propaganda-piece-big-brother-is-wonderful-2164.html</link>
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		<title>Google CEO: Android update &#8220;could replace credit cards&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[via CNN.
The next generation of Android is coming in a few weeks, and that update to the mobile operating system &#8220;could replace credit cards,&#8221; according to Google chief executive Eric Schmidt.At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Schmidt said Android 2.3 code-named Gingerbread will combine location services with &#8220;tap-and-pay&#8221; functionality.
&#8220;Imagine that instead of typing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.technofascismblog.com/2010/11/18/google-ceo-android-update-could-replace-credit-cards-2162.html</link>
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