How global corporations can hack anyone's computers for $2.5 million

[Cliff Arnebeck]

26. They are dead serious and want total information awareness as a means of achieving total control

These are my views. I would carefully consider Jill Simpson's take on these matters to whatever extent her research, experience and judgment would differ from mine.

After the 1988 Iowa Republican primary in which GHW Bush came in third behind Bob Dole and Pat Robertson, Rove brought technology and Evangelicals to his candidate's side as no mainstream major party candidate had ever done before. The hacking of election technology--including electronic voting machines, began in earnest in the U.S. in 1988. Some of this technology had been developed and used covertly overseas before that time.

After the 2000 New Hampshire Republican primary in which GW Bush came in way behind John McCain, Rove brought big business to his candidate's side as no mainstream major party had done since Mark Hanna got McKinley elected President. Surveillance/total awareness technology is an instrument of control and the enabling of business to get everything they want, which was the commitment Karl Rove made to Tom Donohue, then President of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Much of this work, when done on behalf of the government, is contracted out as another set of profit centers for the practitioners. That also makes such work available to private corporations to be used to exploit customers and competitors alike.

I think their "end game" is total control by a corporate elite. Covert election manipulation, surveillance and the fusion of information from all sources, and covert strategic political and business assassinations as well as broad scale population control through war, insurrection, poverty, toxic food and water would be the methods of achieving control. At some point, their end game would envision the replacement of the pretense of democracy with appointment of all political leaders by their corporate superiors and the world being run like a corporation. “JFK and the Unspeakable,” by James Douglass and “The New Jim Crow,” by Michelle Alexander provide excellent documentation and argument in support of this characterization of those who did not then, and do not now, share the vision of ending war and poverty that was shared by JFK, MLK, and RFK, for which they were unceremoniously assassinated.