Corbett Report: Episode231 - The Revolution of the Mind

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from corbett report: We live in an era of upheaval with the word “revolution” on the tip of many a tongue. But what kind of revolution is it to be? Join us this week on the podcast as we scour the secret text of Emmanuel Goldstein and the scientific philosophy of Thomas Kuhn in search of the only revolution that matters: the revolution of the mind.


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police state updates: cctv, census & complaints

beyond orwell: the electronic police state, 2010*
20 signs that the US is rapidly becoming totalitarian big brother police state*
uk schoolkids 'routinely monitored' by cctv*
video: dhs unveils mobile mind screening checkpoints*
'minority report' digital billboard 'watches consumers shop'*
tracking electric use could allow utilities to track you, too*
dhs, industry to try fusion centers for classified data swap*
irs cranks up hysteria in wake of joe stack attack*
video: did you get your unconstitutional census form yet?*
census data not so confidential after all*
mexican military copter hovers over texas homes* 
mexican military copter over US neighborhood*
ohio keeps prisoner alive so that he can be executed*
US citizen accused in yemen killing had been under fbi watch*
child rape charge rocks tsa*
tsa to make full body scans mandatory at US airports*
100s in US file complaints over naked body scanners*
run, run, the dangerous conspiracy theorists are coming*
man wearing 'freedom or die' t-shirt stopped at airport*
'freedom or death' t-shirt described as 'incitement to terrorism' by airport security*
domestic cyber terrorist sought in poughkeepsie*
jihad jamie, colorado mom is arrested in terror plot*
video: corporate media hypes another blond terrorist*
some thoughts on 'jihad jamie' & 'jihad jane'*
copblock.org: standing your ground or provoking police?*
military exercises on tap for ft mccoy*
hr646: US preparing for civil unrest*

and finally: meridian naval air station in miss. ready for military exercise: 'solid curtain/citadel shield 2010' on 3/22*
navy commands in hawaii to conduct anti-terror exercise next week*

corbett report: episode114 - newspeak is doubleplusungood

from corbett report: The war on consciousness continues in the battlefield of the mind. Words are our weapons and we are being disarmed. Fight back by equipping yourself with the infowarrior's best friend: vocabulary.

download episode114 [49.6mb mp3]


the latest corbett report audio interviews:
#122 - greg nikolettos, #123 - f. william engdahl, #124 - kevin annett, #125 - chris geo & sociostudent & #126 - dave darby & neil foster

previous episode: episode113 - meet george soros

ridley scott & dicaprio travel to 'brave new world'

flashback: 'brave new world' for hollywood*
from reuters: Ridley Scott is going back to the futurism. The "Blade Runner" director is joining forces with Leonardo DiCaprio to take on one of the most highly regarded dystopian works of literature, Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World."

Both are producing the Universal project, which DiCaprio would tentatively star in and Scott direct. The studio has brought on "Apocalypto" scribe Farhad Safinia to write the script; he's expected to be working shortly.

Scott has mentioned casually in interviews that he's interested in the 1931 novel, whose film rights are owned by DiCaprio's Appian Way production company, prompting a flurry of rumors on sci-fi and other blogs over the past year. But the studio details as well as DiCaprio's personal involvement always have been murky...

Huxley sets his book in a seemingly perfect 26th century world that has achieved harmony by tightly controlling birth, which takes place mainly in laboratories, and outlawing family. The world is populated by a series of five castes, each with its own defined roles.

Characters who figure in are Bernard, a lower-caste member, and Lenina, the woman with whom he is infatuated. DiCaprio would likely play Bernard, who is persecuted when the leaders of the society find his behavior antisocial.

Dystopian stories have sometimes proved difficult to film. George Orwell's "1984" has had several theatrical turns, including Michael Anderson's Columbia version in 1956 and the somewhat better regarded John Hurt vehicle 25 years ago.

flashbacks: aldous huxley’s mind control & depopulation interview & the future has caught up with us

june 8, 1949: orwell’s big brother 60yrs later

from wired: Sixty years ago today, Nineteen Eighty-Four is published. It’s official: In the face of the monolithic state, the little guy has no chance at all.

George Orwell’s dystopian novel, one to stand alongside Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World as a towering work of futuristic pessimism, posits a grim society where the government is all powerful and all knowing and the individual spirit has been effectively extinguished. Big Brother, a seemingly benevolent but terribly vengeful ruler who may or may not exist, is the personification of the state. To keep the masses docile and pliant, books are banned, surveillance is everywhere and all information is closely guarded by the state. (Huxley envisioned a different future, one which perhaps more closely mirrors our present: In Brave New World, there is no reason to ban a book, since people are too busy pursuing their hedonistic distractions to bother picking one up.)

Nineteen Eighty-Four is told through the eyes of Winston Smith, a minor civil servant in the Ministry of Truth whose job it is to rewrite history for the totalitarian state of Oceania. His spirit hasn’t been entirely quashed, though, and he chafes under the yoke, eventually joining a rebellion against the state. He is soon betrayed, arrested and tortured. In the end, Smith wins his freedom by accepting the assertion that 2 + 2 = 5.

The book yielded a bounty of new coinages: “Thought Police”, “doublethink,” the aforementioned “Big Brother” and the especially sinister “Newspeak” all entered the language through Nineteen Eighty-Four. Even the author’s pseudonym (his real name being Eric Arthur Blair) became a chilling adjective: “Orwellian” is applied to any characteristic display of totalitarian might.

Nineteen Eighty-Four is often described, mainly by conservatives, as an attack against socialism. Orwell, who called himself a socialist although contemporary scholarship suggests his political philosophy was ambiguous and fluid, disputed this. He made it clear on at least one occasion that his novel was aimed squarely at totalitarianism, which he considered a perversion of socialism. His 1944 novel, Animal Farm, was a pointed attack against the Soviet system, which Orwell believed had betrayed socialism’s true spirit.

In any case, Orwell didn’t live to see the long-range social impact of his work. He had been in poor health for years and died in January 1950, only 46.

flashbacks: orwell's house surrounded by cctv cameras &
the future has caught up with us

oligarchy in the uk: obamessiah, g20 & the bankster nwo

... our misleaders gathered to pose as saviors from an econocrash that they created... and now, the g20 has come down from the mountain with 6 commandments toward the new world order...

ahead of g20, council told to switch off illegal £15m cctv
from guardian: The security operation at this week's G20 summit was thrown into chaos last night when it emerged that the entire network of central London's wireless CCTV cameras will have to be turned off because of a legal ruling. The Department for Transport (DfT) has ruled that Westminster council's mobile road cameras - a third of the authority's CCTV network - "do not fully meet the resolution standards required" and must be switched off by midnight tomorrow. The blackout begins on the eve of the summit, when world leaders arrive in the capital and protesters take to the streets.

where is the new jfk we expected?

'the beast': obamamobile guards against emp attacks
from bbc: You can take the man out of the White House. But you can't take the White House away from the man. And US President Barack Obama has arrived in London for the G20 summit with a large contingent of the White House staff with him. Hundreds of security guards, doctors, chefs and others are accompanying President Obama on his visit, and the entourage includes a number of presidential vehicles - including his new armour-plated limousine, The Beast, and aeroplane, Air Force One. The 4,000 sq ft Boeing 747 is fully equipped for the president to work while he is in the air. The exercise-loving president will even be able to use the onboard gym to keep fit inflight. The plane is fitted with some robust security equipment including shields to protect its instruments from an electromagnetic pulse. The communications equipment is even capable of withstanding radiation from a nuclear attack.

video: the obamas meet the inbred uk royalty

obama gives the queen of an ipod
from csmonitor: Well, it’s better than giving her a bunch of DVDs that don’t work. President Obama went to the Buckingham Palace today in London where he and first lady Michelle had a lovely tea with the Queen of England. The press corps from both sides of the Pond was paying close attention to this meeting. After all, it was another gift exchange. Something the president didn’t do too well the last time out. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown gave Obama an ornamental pen holder carved from the timbers of the HMS Gannet — an anti-slave ship from the 1800s. President Obama, on the other hand, treated the gift exchange like a Secret Santa party forking over a bunch of American movies on DVDs. If that wasn’t bad enough, it turns out they didn’t work. They weren’t compatible with British DVD players. Read all about this here.

g20 meetings: the european union is in tatters

brown invokes 'god' & the new world order in st paul sermon
from daily mail: Gordon Brown has made an overtly religious call for a new world order based on the 'deep moral sense' shared by all faiths. Making the first speech by a serving Prime Minister at St Paul's Cathedral in London, he quoted scripture as he urged people to unite to forge a new 'global society'.

and all the other insane developments...
rasmussen polls on non-existent 'global currency' issue
(left cover/foundation gatekeeping from thinkprogress)*
cfr unveils global governance agenda*
video: hannity agrees with 'conspiracy people' on new world order*
world bank pres admits agenda for global govt*
max keiser & the bankster bonus face off*
US signals new era for global economy*
bilderberg-chairman: 'bilderberg helped create the euro'*
mexico's president given a copy of 1984 by the queen*
queen elizabeth's gift to calderón: a limited edition 1984*

high schoolers arrested for reading '1984' over intercom

from south coast today: Two students were arrested and another 15 to 20 staged a sit-in at Old Rochester Regional High School Wednesday in a protest that began after students briefly commandeered the intercom system during MCAS testing, school officials and students said. Thomas Buckley... and Zachary Sherman... were charged with disorderly conduct, disturbing the peace and disturbing the school, according to police reports... According to ORR High School Principal Sheila Haskins, one of the students read a passage from something they apparently were studying in an English or history class. Exactly what they read wasn’t clear, but Ms. Haskins said it might have been excerpts from a Fidel Castro speech. That was reflected in police reports. However, some students said it was a passage from George Orwell’s novel, “1984.”

uk teachers fear big brother takeover

from press association: Teachers warned of an "Orwellian" surveillance culture developing in schools as more classrooms are fitted with CCTV cameras to monitor pupils' behaviour. The Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) voiced concern over how increased monitoring of lessons and pressure to get better exam results risks undermining the quality of education.

New school buildings are being fitted with cameras to make sure children can be caught if they misbehave, according to Julia Neal, president of the ATL. "They (cameras) are probably put in to monitor behaviour," she said, speaking at the ATL annual conference in Torquay. "But because they are there they can then be used in other ways as well." She predicted that by 2013, the Government's focus on test results and school league tables - combined with increased observation of lessons - could have "led to a world with Orwellian overtones... It might be a far-fetched notion that Big Brother will be watching over schools in the next five years, but you only have to listen to what ATL delegates talk about this week to see the current reality of an over-measured, over-monitored education system," she said.

related: pupils 'to take allegiance oath'
from bbc: School-leavers should be encouraged to swear an oath of allegiance to Queen and country, says a report commissioned by Gordon Brown on British citizenship. Report author, ex-attorney general Lord Goldsmith, says it would give teenagers a sense of belonging... However, John Dunford from the Association of School and College Leaders said the citizenship ceremony was "a half-baked idea".

november clearinghouse

teachers, teens immerse selves in mock danger of '1984'*

mayor claims he was abducted by satanists*

video: rabbi weiss, outside annapolis peace confab, rips zionism*

teens go on homeland security scavenger hunt*

paul believes in threat of north american superhighway*

ron paul smear attempts reflect 'frightened' & 'insecure' establishment*

military families support ron paul's platform in zogby poll*

ron paul wins by double digits with religious voters in zogby poll*

ron paul's growing poll numbers vex mainstream press*

media hoax attempts to hide advance of north american union*

hollywood goes big on endgame zeitgeist*

rail passengers face anti-terror searches*

bbc to apologize for 9/11 truth hit piece?*

the farce of veteran’s day: a holiday for everyone except veterans*

constitutional amendment would aim to prevent white house political dynasty*

hr1585 authorizes plans for martial law*

video: 'jersey girl' patty casazza & bob mcilvaine*

US 5th fleet in gulf exercise to prepare for possible war in iran*

hitachi develops world's smallest rfid chip*

tiny chips in electronic dust to track us all*

(rfid) tag, you're it*

group sues to get clinton white house records*

nspd51 & the potential for a coup d'etat by national emergency*

US army: 5m acres needed for training facilities by 2011*

homeland security retreats from facets of 'real id'*

cointelpro redux: global order targets the 9/11 truth & patriot movements*

the shocking video hillary does not want you to see (part2)*

video: we are change seattle & thom hartmann*

9/11 survivor turned skeptic comes to portland*

richard syrett show 9/11 truth debate: richard gage vs ron craig*

9/11 group blasts gop hopeful giuliani*

'safe' uranium that left a town contaminated*

suicide rate for veterans twice that of other americans*

terror police shot man in coma*

new army chopper found unsafe*

brown steps up surveillance in uk*

the conspiracy nuts were right?!*

man tased for asking officer why he was stopped*

british gov't sorry over huge data loss*

here come the thought police*

wi-fi causing autism?*

high court to weigh ban on gun ownership*

video: romney: push poll charges are like 9/11 conspiracy theories*

giuliani defends patriot act, draws street escort from ron paul supporters*

video: lebanese leader pledges cash to straighten rice’s teeth & institutionalize bush*

whistleblower: nsa monitors all web traffic

from raw story: A former technician at AT&T, who alleges that the telecom forwards virtually all of its internet traffic into a "secret room" to facilitate government spying, says the whole operation reminds him of something out of Orwell's 1984.

Appearing on MSNBC's Countdown program, whistleblower Mark Klein told Keith Olbermann that a copy of all internet traffic passing over AT&T lines was copied into a locked room at the company's San Francisco office - to which only employees with National Security Agency clearance had access - via a cable splitting device.

news on the march

macho mistakes at ground zero
from new york times: As more and more workers who inhaled the dust at ground zero fall ill, it has become increasingly clear that much of the problem can be traced to the Giuliani administration’s failure to insist that all emergency personnel and construction workers at the site wear respirators...

uk spy drone takes to the skies
from this is london: The Microdrone, measuring only 2ft between the tips of its eight rotor blades, was originally designed for military reconnaissance.... The drone was unveiled the day after Hampshire Deputy Chief Constable Ian Readhead said the sheer number of CCTV cameras operating today was creating an "Orwellian" society.


the secret history of jerry falwell
from daniel hopsicker: At the same time the Rev. Jerry Falwell was accusing pagans, abortionists, feminists, gays, lesbians, the ACLU and People For the American Way of sharing responsibility for the 9/11 attack the televangelist owed over one million dollars in unpaid loans to the owner of the terror flight school in Florida which trained Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi... Falwell made no mention, then or ever, of his curious debt to secretive Green Bay financier Wallace J. Hilliard, whose flight school abetted, if unwittingly, the terrorist presence in the United States. Strangely, this is not Jerry Falwell’s only link to covert activity at the tiny Venice, FL airport.

chinese villagers riot over stricter population-control
from int'l herald tribune: An intensive campaign to enforce strict population-control measures prompted violent clashes between the police and local residents in southwestern China in recent days, witnesses said, describing the latest incident of rural unrest that has alarmed senior officials in Beijing.

orwell's house surrounded by cctv cameras

from bunch of nerds/this is london: A depressing reminder of Orwell’s classic novel, '1984', a recent study into CCTV camera usage for surveillance in Britain has came out with some startling results. Britain has over 4.2 million CCTV cameras on it’s streets, one for every 14 people in the country, and accounting for over 20% of CCTV cameras globally. It’s theorized that a normal Britain is caught on a CCTV camera hundreds of times a day in and around London. The most ironic piece of news associated with the report is the London neighborhood where Orwell lived until his death in 1950. Within 200 yards of Orwell’s former residence is over 32 CCTV cameras, including the gardens Orwell viewed from his windows, which are covered by 24-hour surveillance from 2 CCTV cameras.

The flat’s rear windows are constantly viewed from two more security cameras outside a conference centre in Canonbury Place.

In a lane, just off the square, close to Orwell’s favourite pub, the Compton Arms, a camera at the rear of a car dealership records every person entering or leaving the pub.

Within a 200-yard radius of the flat, there are another 28 CCTV cameras, together with hundreds of private, remote-controlled security cameras used to scrutinise visitors to homes, shops and offices.

the future has caught up with us

from paul craig roberts: John Derbyshire is the sole remaining adult writing for National Review. In a recent issue he noted that Aldous Huxley’s novel, Brave New World, first published in 1932, now reads like contemporary news. Huxley’s fearsome predictions of a 26th century world have all come true six centuries early – in vitro fertilization, genetically modified crops, stem-cell research, promiscuous recreational sex, the demise of marriage and families, and the epidemic use of prescription and illegal drugs to escape from anxiety, frustration and disappointment.

Alas, Franz Kafka’s novel, The Trial, published in 1925 and George Orwell’s novel, 1984, published in 1949, also have been turned into period pieces by the practices of the Bush Regime.

In Kafka’s novel, Josef K. is arrested for reasons never given, tried for an unspecified crime, and executed.

The Trial is the model for the Bush Regime’s Military Tribunals, which permit execution on the basis of hearsay, secret evidence unknown to the defendant, or confession extracted by torture.

For the past five years, the Bush Regime has held people in secret prisons without warrants, charges, or access to an attorney. Most detainees have been tortured and abused. Bush’s real world victims suffer from more disorientation and hopelessness than Kafka’s character, Josef K.

In Orwell’s 1984, people are subjected to relentless spying. A state or alleged state of war is used to maintain total control over everyone. Lies have replaced truth, and the media serves as propagandist for the Ministry of Truth. The meaning of words, such as "freedom" has been perverted. The attitude of 1984’s all-powerful government is "you are with us or against us."

In the United States, each member elected to the House and Senate takes an oath to uphold the US Constitution, as does the president and vice president. Yet the Bush Regime drafted and Congress passed the Military Commissions Act, a constitutional monstrosity that denies the protection of law to everyone declared, without evidence, by the executive branch to be a suspected terrorist or enemy combatant.

The Military Commissions Act became law in "the land of the free" in 2006. The Act strips detainees of protections provided by the Geneva Conventions. The Act declares that no person "subject to trial by military commission under this chapter may invoke the Geneva Conventions as a source of rights."

The Act also denies detainees the protections of the US Constitution and Bill of Rights: "No court, justice, or judge shall have jurisdiction to hear or consider an application for a writ of habeas corpus filed by or on behalf of" a detainee. Some language in the Act refers to detainees as "aliens," but, ominously, other language does not limit the Act’s applicability to "aliens."

In Orwell’s novel, Winston Smith commits a thought crime, is arrested by the Thought Police, and imprisoned in the Ministry of Love. Winston’s dearth of rights under Big Brother is comparable to the absence of rights of detainees under the Military Commissions Act.

This dangerous legislation is the product of the same regime that resurrected the medieval practice of torture of prisoners and that has consistently lied about the reasons for the wars it has initiated.

Scholars, such as Philip Cooper of Portland State University, warn that the Bush Regime is using presidential signing statements to replace constitutional checks and balances with elevated executive powers associated with the unitary executive theory.

The unitary executive theory is a way to turn the US president into Big Brother. Already Bush is replacing Congress as the arbiter of law and the judiciary as the arbiter of rights. The media enable his usurpation, and the people, distracted by war and "terrorism," have their various forms of soma.

Amazing but true – three novels of the early 20th century predicted present-day America.

here is an hour-long piece by alex jones on orwell's 1984...