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I have been saying for years that the Big Brother society is already far more deeply entrenched in our lives than even some more aware people realise.
The thing to understand is that the most insidious technology and surveillance is never made public and only comes to light when it seeps out through leaks or accident. No-one knew publicly the extent of government phone tapping in the United States until it came out through non-official routes and even that was only a fraction of what is actually happening minute by minute.
I have also said again and again that it is in the apparently trivial and insignificant that the true extent of control and surveillance can be recognised. For instance, take the wheelie bin.
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What can a simple rubbish bin with wheels have to do with the agenda for global control? What could be more innocent than putting out the trash? Answer one: plenty, it seems. Answer two: the age of innocence is over until we have removed the soulless ones who are leading us, pipes-a-playing, into the Orwellian nightmare.
It has emerged that half a million British wheelie bins have been microchipped, mostly by German-based companies, with the rest of the country apparently destined to follow. Similar systems are at work throughout Europe. Yep, microchipping has now reached the trash can, as they say in America, and it is being dubbed 'chip and bin' after the credit card chip and pin system in the UK.
The microchips transmit information from the bin to a central database with the potential to keep a record of what rubbish each householder throws out. Even the garbage is no longer private.
None of this was stated publicly so some kind of debate could ensue. It was done without telling anyone and only found its way into the media this week when a council official mentioned the chips at a Rotary Club dinner. If they are even secretly bugging your bin, what the hell else is the Hidden Hand doing without our knowledge?
(please log in to view the image) An every day scene all over the 'developed' world, but now details of your life can be 'read' as the wheelie bin is emptied
The London Mail on Sunday describes how the bin-bugging system works:
'With the bugging technology, the electronic chips are carefully hidden under the moulded front "lip" of wheelie bins used by householders for non-recyclable waste. As the bin is raised by the mechanical hoister at the back of the truck, the chip passes across an antenna fitted to the lifting mechanism. That enables the antenna to "read" a serial number assigned to each property in the street.
A computer inside the truck weighs the bin as it is raised, subtracts the weight of the bin itself and records the weight of the contents on an electronic data card.
When the truck returns to the depot, all the information collected on the round is transmitted to a hand-held device and downloaded on to the council's centralised computer. Each household can be billed for the amount of waste collected - even though they have already paid for the services through their council tax.'
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We're watching you ...'
The official justification for bin-bugging is to 'improve efficiency' and, get this, to settle disputes between neighbours about the ownership of wheelie bins. Martin Smith, head of Environmental Services at Kennet District Council, said:
'These are simply chips that will enable us to sort out disputes between householders about whose wheelie bin is whose. If there are any arguments we can just send out an officer to scan the chip and settle the argument. There is a debate in Government over the possibility of introducing charges but that's not what we had in mind when we ordered the chips.'
So they planning to spend two pounds to bug every wheelie bin in Britain, and fifteen thousand pounds to fit the technology to every waste truck, just to decide arguments on who owns a wheelie bin??
Something comes to mind ... oh yeah ...
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They also talk about the need to recycle waste more efficiently, but this, too, is, well, rubbish. The real reason is control. Some waste disposal specialists say the idea is to gather the information to fine people for not putting the right waste in the right bin and, stands back in amazement, the Blair government is preparing to give councils new powers in this regard.
Steve Foster, sales director of PM OnBoard, which fits weighing equipment to waste disposal trucks, said his company already had a full database of names and addresses and they were ready to introduce new fees for rubbish collection as soon as the law allows.
But still the true reason is beyond even that.
The mass of surveillance in all areas of our lives need to be seen as a whole, not just as individual parts. The bin bugging is significant in the way it highlights how Big Brother is infiltrating the fine detail of our lives, but it is even more important when viewed with all the other gathering intrusions.
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Walk across towns and cities today and you are likely to pass from camera to camera recording your every movement. Go into a store or an ATM and the same happens. When your children go to school they are increasingly watched by cameras, preparing the next generation to accept this intrusion as a normal part of life.
Traffic cameras check your speed and a few miles an hour over the limit, no matter what the circumstances (unless you are a police officer), means an instant fine in the UK.
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The satellite network can already photograph your licence plate from space and soon all new cars will have to carry chips that connect them to satellites to track the details of your every journey.
They are also preparing for the satellite system to connect with the human microchips planned to be introduced as soon as the public has been manipulated enough by the 'war on terror' to allow it.
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When you work at the computer or use the phone you are being recorded by a system searching for key words or, if you are on their watch-list, every word. A glimpse at the scale of phone tapping in the United States has more recently come to light, but the true and enormous extent of Internet tracking, email surveillance and web surfing is not publicly known.
The sum total of all this, and so much more, is to turn people into a bar-coded 'commodity' tracked and recorded every day of their lives. What you say, where you go, what you buy, what you eat, what you drink, even what you throw in the rubbish bin are all being downloaded into vast data bases. Privacy? How do you spell that again, it's one of those old words my mother talked about, isn't it?
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Last edited by Deano on Sep 16th, 2006 at 12:17 AM
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The idea is to make surveillance and control so much a feature of life that we acquiesce to its dictates even without being forced to by a uniform or dark suit. The real goal of all this is to make people so servile and robotic that the cattle prods in their now endless forms become almost unnecessary. Unquestioning compliance alone will keep the sheep in the pen.
The principle they are using is the same as that used on laboratory mice or rats. You keep shocking them when they take a route in the maze you don't want and in the end they avoid those routes even without being shocked.
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This is where the true significance of the wheelie bin bugging can be appreciated. Think of all the times every day you are told what to do, either directly or by a sign of some kind. Think of all the times you are aware of the consequences of not complying with authority, for instance always watching for traffic cameras in case you go slightly over the limit, or the fear of authority that now pervades every airport. Imagine what driving will be like when your speed and location is constantly tracked from space wherever you are. Think of how many times you watch what you say because it might upset some authority or breach the ludicrous limits set by political correctness.
Now, be careful and aware of the consequences from authority if you don't throw out the rubbish in the 'right' way.
What all this does, and there are endless more examples, is to make people consciously and subconsciously aware of authority and fear not doing as they are told. As this happens more and more often in ever greater areas of our lives, there comes a point, different for each person, where they reach the stage of unquestioning, unthinking, acquiescence. They no longer need a shock, in other words.
In 1932, Aldous Huxley wrote in the way-ahead-of-its-time, Brave New World, that the infiltration of the mind by the state would continue through suggestion until ...
'... at last the child's mind is these suggestions, and the sum of the suggestions is the child's mind. And not the child's mind only. The adult's mind too - all his life long. The mind that judges and desires and decides - made up of these suggestions. But all these suggestions are our suggestions ... Suggestions from the State.'
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The goal is to subjugate the human mind to follow a pattern of response every bit as extreme as the laboratory rat walking round the maze without needing external intervention about which way to go. Unthinking acquiescence sums up this state of 'mind' - the comfort zone where conformity = comfort. An Internet article I saw this week put it all very well:
'The reconstruction of your consciousness into this automaton thing is being executed in such a manner that it goes virtually undetected; in fact you are doing it to yourself and don't even know it. Why with the proper incentive, you're doing it to yourself and just love it - look at all the "stuff" you have. You're so comfortable you have become passive, submissive, and you don't even have to think. You just go with the flow. It feels good and quite natural running on automatic.
However, disrupt your automatic mental state with even the simplest of problems - like misplacing your keys or wallet - and life becomes a living hell in your mind until you find those keys or wallet to re-establish your habitual routine. This becomes true of any little problem in life. You want it resolved as fast as possible, to stop the mental frustration, torment and confusion. You have become so addicted to living life under the control of others that even small annoyances become stressful events in your life.'
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How do we avoid such programmed conformity? Simple: we don't conform and we don't pressure others to do so - our children, friends or workmates. We celebrate diversity of thought and lifestyle instead of condemning it.
Nor do we accept the impositions of the State, like microchipped wheelie bins or whatever. Tom Seaman, a Wiltshire farmer, urged residents to protest by unscrewing the bugs from the bins and sending them back to the council. He said:
'This is a disgraceful backdoor policy. Monitoring devices have been secretly installed without a word of consultation or information. People should not damage council property but send these things back to their rightful owners and demand an explanation.'
What would happen if everyone, or significant numbers, did that? The policy would be unenforceable and it would have to stop. When enough people refused to pay Margaret Thatcher's deeply unfair 'Poll Tax' in the late 1980s the government had to throw it out.
WE have the power, but only if we choose to use it.
The creeping, step-by-step suffocation of our freedom through the Totalitarian Tiptoe will only be stopped when we decide to stop it - when we stand for what is right instead of jeering from across the street while not actually getting involved in action.
It really is choice time. We can sit and moan or we can stand and deliver. We can take our freedom back from the fascists or we can follow this fella ...
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Hardly a choice is it?
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its the fact that they want to know our every move imagine if an advertising company knew you're favourite band or comic they could seel something homing on you imagine if a ruler knew..
So...they are measuring how much waste a household produces so that the household can be charged for the amount of waste produced...there is no infringement of privacy, as implied by D's original post...the little chips cannot say what is in the bin...only how much it weighs...and because bins are filled with various products it is impossible to say whats in it. Simple as that, it seems the government is just concerned about the environment...thats all we can really see here...why keep it secret? Well that obvious...they want to test the system and put it in place before people can reject it as another funds raiser...even though I think most people would support this, pay per bin system...I think it's a great idea...it will reduce waste and encourage recycling thus saving the environment!
I think reading 1984 too many times isn't very conducive to good mental health.
__________________ In case we find ourselves starting to believe all the Anti-American sentiment and negativity, we should remember England 's Prime Minister Tony Blair's words during an interview. When asked by one of his Parliament members why he believes so much in America , he said:
"A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in... And how many want out."
read it once as an assignment but a BB society is coming in a town in england there are cameras that broadcast voice that tell you to stop littering if they want to clean up a city i think drug pushers are worse than litter
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