In the past, reading a novel or book of nonfiction was a private matter, and publishers had no way of knowing how much you liked a book or if you flipped through it quickly or became immersed and enchanted. If they COULD know this, they would design books that were more compatible for readers’ tastes. Well, now with the kindle and other e-books, they’ve found a way to do this–and reading isn’t private anymore.

In the June 29th edition of the Wall Street Journal, Alexandra Alter writes: "Do most readers skip over the introduction, or read it closely, underlining passages and scrawling notes in the margins?"
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When you watch the "Arab Spring" protestors on the nightly news, there’s something you should know: our own government plans to monitor activity on social networks in order to get hints of political unrest. Facebook and Twitter each have close to a billion users, many of whom post daily updates on their thoughts and feelings. This amounts to self-surveillance–saving covert agencies the trouble and expense of physically spying on us.
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It is the intention of the United States government to destroy privacy in America, and a big part of this evil is the planned deployment of 30,000 drones that will be able to monitor in detail the movement and activities of every citizen of this country. The path to the surveillance state has been paved by the Supreme Court, which has ruled that citizens have essentially no right of privacy from being observed from overhead.
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What’s that up in the sky? Is it a bird, is it a plane, is it—a drone?

Due to a FOIA request, the government has been forced to reveal that there are at least 63 active drone sites around the US and they are SPYING on civilians! (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show). They are being launched from locations in 20 states, including Mississippi, Kansas, Arkansas, New Mexico, Ohio, California, Washington State, Texas, Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, North Dakota, Virginia, and Utah.
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