From www.truthseeker.ca
Authored by Nafeez Ahmed via Medium.com, reposted on zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden,
Aug 29, 2017
Inside the secret network behind mass surveillance, endless war, and Skynet... Part II
Mass surveillance is about control. It’s promulgators may well claim, and even believe, that it is about control for the greater good, a control that is needed to keep a cap on disorder, to be fully vigilant to the next threat. But in a context of rampant political corruption, widening economic inequalities, and escalating resource stress due to climate change and energy volatility, mass surveillance can become a tool of power to merely perpetuate itself, at the public’s expense.