Rather like the grandson of a business founder tanking the family fortune.

The state of the world in the last few decades has much increased my understanding of the rise-and-fall cycles of the Old Testament.

panic of the elite Americans who are now trying to drive Trump from office. For those pressing needs include the restriction of competing labour inflows, and ever so liberal Silicon Valley tycoons would be totally lost without their Mexican gardeners, Asian chefs, Filipino childminders, and assorted immigrant dog-walkers and cleaners, along with their Indian programmers under special visas. “

I would say that it is the last item, the Indian programmers under special visas that is most important by far and away.

The importation of engineers, programmers and technicians under H1-B visas, purportedly to address an imaginary lack of sufficient American citizens with requisite skills to fill these positions, and which all the high-tech tycoons are in favor of, is nothing less than old fashioned union busting. Only now it’s being done against middle class professionals.

The outsourcing that really got underway in the 80’s and which subsequently gutted large swaths of American industry, not to mention working class families is now doing the same for the middle class. But it was only a matter of time.

The IEEE (that’s Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) has been talking about this for years. I recommend this link as a good place to begin.

This is the real story of the H-1B visa. It is a tool used by companies to avoid hiring American workers, and avoid paying American wages. For every visa used by Google to hire a talented non-American for $126,000, ten Americans are replaced by outsourcing companies paying their H-1B workers $65,000.

This is why, IEEE-USA opposes efforts to expand the H-1B visa program.

In contrast, IEEE-USA supports expanding green card programs to make it easier for skilled non-Americans to become American citizens. Unlike H-1B workers, green card holders are paid the same wages as Americans. If not, the green card holders simply quit and find a better paying job–something H-1B workers typically cannot do.

Green cards and immigration, therefore, build our nation’s skilled labor pool and strengthen our economy, while H-1Bs undermine both.

Couple this with the recent headlines about Apple removing Apps that would allow Chinese to circumvent internet censorship (this is only the latest example, there are many others), and you see a rich class intent on not only keeping their wealth and power, but on expanding both at any cost. (This is no different than what the ‘brick and mortar’ industries were doing prior to the internet when moving factories abroad. It’s just going higher ladder)

This expansion of wealth and power is being done at the expense of the working and middle classes. Many of whom clearly see their abandonment for what it is and did what they thought was in their interests, voted for Trump. Was there even another faintly realistic alternative?

Couple this frenzied greed with the useful idiots of the left who think that the only way to usher in the so-called ‘socialist utopia’ with the brave new world, high-tech nightmare of the information state run amok is by destroying the present economic/societal structure and we indeed have Huxley’s version of the modern totalitarian state, which is coming our way.

Neo, we are indeed seeing a hybrid of the two you mentioned in your post above.

Freedom has not been the default condition throughout history. It has been an anomaly, popping up now and then, only to sink under the weight of the decadent mediocrity that follows.

huxleys…

orwell wrote about what existed and adapted it (soviet union)…

huxley wrote about his brothers plans and his friends and about what they were doing.

the hybrid is not a hybrid..

ie. a dog is not a hybrid of a cow cause they both have four legs, what appears as hybrid is foundational to all forms of that kind of control state

i think if you go back i tried to put a history of huxley fmaily and his brother and their desire for a socilaist communist league of nations that would eventually be world government… that now is down the block from me for lunch.. the UN…

which was a great force against the US as most of the most powerful could gang up on her…

and economically its been gang bang the USA
redistrubute wealth from wealth states to poor states while making their people dysfunctional and causing self extermination in the dominant group that maintains culture law and so on.

not to hard..

the hard part is creating the mentality that the victims have of loving their destryction to the point that they would rather end it under the idea of saving it than actually learn or do a meaningful thing about it.

but isnt that the point of it?

but this face recognition stuff? old hat. they been doing it in the US in lots of places, trains, subways, sports stadiums, etc…

then there are other such things… been bringing it up for years… Facial recognition technology to help combat sport … – Herald Sun

and then there is the even cooler/creepier stuff that i was going to participate in when the navy and darpa had a request more than a decade to identify you by how you walk..

the coolest thing was the call to read iris (eyes) and identiify you from a distance of several football fields and through eye glasss!!!

The FBI has collected 430,000 iris scans in a so-called ‘pilot program …

and phones do the scans too…

Iris Scanner Identifies a Person 40 Feet Away – Seeker

Long-Range Iris Scanning Is Here – The Atlantic

ho hum stuff really…
you cant wake up way deep in this and THEN do sometning.. much easier to wake up and do something when its a tiny seedling, not a huge sequoia..

Now, given that i work on the cutting edge even if my employer dont, anyone want to know what i have invested in and what i work on? 🙂

funny people they always seem to come to the party late and then get all uppity when they find out that for decades they been subjected to the crap they dont pay attention to!!!!

im sorry but from this perspective and after reading for decades its interesting to watch…

here is a video from CNN
http://www.cnn.com/videos/tech/2015/04/10/long-range-eye-scanner-technology-orig-mg.cnn

want to see the micro drones about the size of a large insect that can explode or inject drugs, have cameras, etc.

I had exactly the same thought you did about Nazi Germany about one sentence into you post.

About a year ago there was a fascinating article about an English police operation that employs people who can remember faces for a long time and with great accuracy. They have been successful. Here is an article about the article (at http://www.npr.org/2016/08/17/490314062/new-yorker-the-detectives-who-never-forget-a-face), but I recommend the New Yorker original article if you can access it.

Having an extensive online medical history is another way that we might be helped and saved money by storing information about ourselves.

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They do have a reason (rational, if not existentially good), just not the one they are “playing” in public:
(ignore the click-bait headline; it’s a serious article making some good points)

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/trump-dynasty-luttwak/?utm_content=buffer270f1&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

“What was true of coal mining is just as true of much else that also directly attacks the interests of the American working classes, a categor­ization revived by Sanders explicitly and by Trump substantively — and it was the forty-fifth President’s grim inaugural speech warning that he would not forget them or their pressing needs, as the cynical had confidently assumed he would (the ex-economist Paul Krugman wrote that particular column several times in the New York Times during the campaign), that triggered the vehement panic of the elite Americans who are now trying to drive Trump from office. For those pressing needs include the restriction of competing labour inflows, and ever so liberal Silicon Valley tycoons would be totally lost without their Mexican gardeners, Asian chefs, Filipino childminders, and assorted immigrant dog-walkers and cleaners, along with their Indian programmers under special visas. “

Like sunglasses that trick facial recognition software into thinking you’re someone else.
https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/3/13507542/facial-recognition-glasses-trick-impersonate-fool
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Now you’re getting us into “Mission: Impossible” territory.

Like sunglasses that trick facial recognition software into thinking you’re someone else.
https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/3/13507542/facial-recognition-glasses-trick-impersonate-fool