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Julian Assange needs to wake before dawn to get from Belmarsh Prison to the Old Bailey courthouse, where his extradition hearing resumed on 7 September, for four weeks. He gets dressed for court only to be strip-searched before being placed in a ventilated coffin Serco van for a 90-minute trip across London in peak-hour traffic. […]
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Kafka’s Nightmare Emerges: China’s “Social Credit Score”
May 8th, 2018 
Awake Goy China is rapidly building out a Total Surveillance State on a scale that far surpasses any government surveillance program in the West. The scope of this surveillance is so broad and pervasive that it borders on science fiction: Life Inside China’s Total Surveillance State (8 min video) China Aims For Near-Total Surveillance, Including in People’s Homes (“Sharp Eyes” […]
Posted in World News, World Politics 
Tags: china, Credit, emerges, kafka, nightmare, score, social 
No Comments »When Kafka met Orwell: Arrest by algorithm
July 4th, 2017 Awake Goy In April 2017, an extraordinary claim of the Israeli security services was published in Ha’aretz (Hebrew): over 400 Palestinians had been detained under suspicion they may be involved in future terrorist attacks. They were detained not on the basis of evidence, but on the decision made by an algorithm. The practice grew out of a […]
