RUNNYMEDE GAZETTE' OCTOBER 2012 pdf
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RUNNYMEDE GAZETTE
OCTOBER 2012
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CONTENTS
EDITORIAL
NO BATTLE IS EVER WON
FROM WELFARE TO SMART METERS
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UK to
Introduce National ID Scheme Using Mobile Phones and Social Media Profiles
Brandon Turbeville; Activist Post
Smart Meters: How the Government Monitors Your Every Move
Susanne Posel; Activist Post
Proof Smart Meters Are Being Used to Spy On Us; Stop Smart Meters
Andrew Puhanic; Activist Post
Hegemony and Propaganda: The Importance of Trivialisation in
Cementing Social Control
Colin Todhunter; Global Research
THE PUTNEY DEBATE
John Papworth
The Empowering Truths of Mahatma Gandhi
Just Wondering; via Activist Post
Internet security; EU considers far-reaching Internet security
initiative
Homeland Security Newswire; via Activist Post
The EU suppresses free speech using
blasphemy laws
Eurorealist Blog via John Newell
The EU is not a “Person”:
Granting the Nobel Prize to the European Union is in Violation of Alfred
Nobel’s Will
Prof Michel Chossudovsky; Global Research,
The Fed’s “QE Infinity”: Money Galore… What Is It All About?
Ellen Brown; Global Research
11 Things That Can Happen When You Allow Your Country To Become
Enslaved By Bankers
Michael Snyder; Activist Post
POSITIVE MONEY
BULLETIN
Positive Money team
EDITORIAL
NO BATTLE IS EVER WON
No
battle is ever won in our centralised and corporate world. If it transpires …
as it often does … that we, the Great Unwashed, the Hoi Poloi, are not going to
ingest some new corporatist banquet at one sitting, then it will be carefully
sausage-sliced and presented to us one small, well-disguised mouthful at a
time, over whatever period it takes.
Whether
the issue is personal privacy, the demolition of local control and
accountability, the roll-back of civil liberties, 'European Integration', mass
state snooping … the list gets almost endless, it will be back in some form and
soon, most often massaged by some scare story or other.
So it is
with identity cards. We were not going to have them. The answer? Instead
introduce an all-embracing identity system, one step at a time over a period of
years. Cards will not then be necessary. It can all be done through facial
recognition, voice recognition, CCTV, spy drones, finger prints, DNA and even
systems which recognise personal characteristics such as gait and posture.
With
every new technology, and we seem to be getting something newer and more
menacing with every month that passes, we get ever closer to the great
Orwellian Panopticon.
FROM WELFARE TO SMART METERS
In his
book, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley may well have been the first person
to prophesy an era of compulsory consumption.
It now
appears that Iain Duncan Smith's Universal Credit will make it compulsory for
all people to have a bank account, a mobile phone, and own a computer, have
internet access and be computer literate. Doubtless there will be agencies
hovering to make a fat profit off the backs of those who do not fit the bill in
these respects.
But
that is the name of the game when government becomes little more than the
enabling agency and commission agent of large corporations, and the deep circle
of institutional corruption is completed.
What
was once a novelty gadget moves on a
slow but deliberate journey from option, through necessity (but still with
choice) to profitable coercion and compulsion.
So it is
with Smartmeters. The items from Susanne Posel and Andrew Puhanic speak for
themselves. That said, the Australian Origin Energy website is well worth a
look as an example of how our consent to have our data sold on to a spate of
state agencies and private corporations might very soon become an enforced
condition of having an energy supply.
The
North West Tenants' Association is amongst a few organisations to recently put
out a general alert regarding Smartmeters. If enough people can band together
to refuse to have these things installed, then this might be stopped. If that
actually happened then what else could happen? Again, it is time to stop
talking and start organising.
Frank
Taylor
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