"Inevitably that conceptual subversion finds its way home, along with the technology that enables officials to promote comfortable illusions about surgical killing and non-intrusive surveillance. Take, for instance, the Holy Grail of drone persistence, a capability that the United States has been pursuing forever.
The goal is to deploy solar-powered drones that can loiter in the air for weeks without coming down.
Once you can do that, and you put any typical signals collection device on the bottom of it to monitor, unblinkingly, the emanations of, for example, the different network addresses of every laptop, smartphone, and iPod, you know not just where a particular device is in what city, but you know what apartment each device lives in, where it goes at any particular time, and by what route.
Once you know the devices, you know their owners. When you start doing this over several cities, you’re tracking the movements not just of individuals but of whole populations.
All the pieces in what has become this Govt fit nicely within a Corporatocracy.
Those that actually participate in the illusion of elections might find this article out today interesting. If you want to believe what MSLSD and Fox tell you, just move along.
https://theintercept.com/2016/05/03/edward-snowden-whistleblowing-is-not-just-leaking-its-an-act-of-political-resistance/