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Do the three million university undergraduates glued to Facebook know that it was begun
with venture capital provided by Stanford graduate Peter Thiel (PayPal, The Diversity Myth, on
the board of VanguardPAC) and Accel Partners, whose manager chaired the National Venture
Capital Association (NVAC) and was on the board of BBN Technologies that spearheaded
ARPANET and thus the Internet? Or that the NVAC board was graced by the CEO of In-Q-Tel,
whose mandate is to “nurture data mining technologies”?
Facebook is actually a user-friendly human network analysis and behavior model-building
engine. In fact, says computer engineer and founder of the Free Software Foundation Richard
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Stallman, Facebook is a surveillance engine mapping your personality and selling your
information, whose algorithms in Google Search are deciding what news and political opinions
you should see while sending the rest elsewhere (or nowhere). In fact, web personalization is
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why real activism will never happen on Facebook or the Internet. Eli Pariser explains in his
book The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web is Changing What We Read and How
We Think:

. . .the Internet has unleashed the coordinated energy of a whole new generation of activists—it’s easier than ever to
find people who share your political passions. But while it’s easier than ever to bring a group of people together, as
personalization advances it’ll become harder for any given group to reach a broad audience. In some ways,
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personalization poses a threat to public life itself.

1 Wood, Patrick, “Technocracy Endgame: Global Smart Grid.” The August Forecast & Review, May 16, 2013. Also see
Marion King Hubbert, Howard Scott, Technocracy Inc., Technocracy Study Course. New York, 1934.
2 Zbigniew Brzezinski, Between Two Ages: America’s Role in the Technetronic Era. New York: Viking Press, 1970.
3 Peter Kirby, Chemtrails Exposed: A History of the New Manhattan Project, 2012.
4 The Aviary was a collection of military and intelligence scientists and officers in the 1980s studying artificial telepathy
(remote viewing). See artificialtelepathy.blogspot.com/2006/06/aviary-key-players-of-1980s-and-1990s.html.
5 Smirnov is credited with inventing the LIDA in the 1970s, but it was actually invented by Dr. José Delgado, U.S. Patent #
3,773,049. For a fictionalized account of how it works, read Evelyn Waugh’s 1957 novel The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold.
6 “Mind control: The Zombie Effect.” Pravda.ru, November 10, 2004, www.pravdareport.com/science/tech/10-11-
2004/7346-0/
7 “Cary Grove Drill To Include Shooting Blanks In Hallways.” CBS Chicago, January 29, 2013.
8 Sharon Weinberger, “The ‘Voice of God’ Weapon Returns.” Wired, December 21, 2007.
9 John Grant, “Americans Love a Good Killer.” CounterPunch, May 11–13, 2012.
10 1988 Presidential candidate acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in New Orleans.
11 Carolyn Williams Palit, “What Chemtrails Really Are.” Rense.com, November 9, 2007.
12 Patrick Wood, “Technocracy Endgame: Global Smart Grid.” Also read Wood’s “Smart Grid: The Implementation of
Technocracy?” The August Review, March 2, 2010.
13 Ali Abunimah, “How Israel helps eavesdrop on US citizens.” The Electronic Intifada, 3 November 2008. Israel’s NSA is
called Unit 8200.