Tomorrow may be too late

Former agency employee national security USA (NSA) Edward Snowden said, explaining his break with the American intelligence services: "I do not want to live in a world in which everything I say and do is recorded." That was five years ago, and the other day a book by journalist Johannes Breekers “Shut up, Alexa” (“Schnauze, Alexa!”) Was published in Germany, confirming that this is exactly what is happening.

The work of Breukers tells about the pervasive influence in the private life of a person from those forces that are known in Europe as "Big Brother".

In 1999, the television reality show "Big Brother" (Big Brother) appeared in the Netherlands. Soon it migrated to the UK, received extraordinary success and became popular all over the world.

The participants of the show, volunteers, were placed in isolation and lived in it for weeks, creating some kind of relationship among themselves, and any viewer could watch what they were doing, down to the details of their intimate life. It was life in front of the whole world.

Broekers' book tells that "Big Brother" has long gone beyond show business and is secretly watching every inhabitant of the "developed" part of humanity - the USA and Europe.

There are already many publications in the media that the "digital monopolies" of Facebook and Google create opportunities for penetration into the privacy of users. No one is surprised that for any household request you receive an unexpected wave of offers from a variety of addresses. This indicates that your profile has been processed, that you are registered with operators unknown to you. And intelligence agencies can always use such an array of data to their advantage. However, this is only the visible part of the work of "Big Brother".

About how deeply "digital monopolies" have penetrated people's lives, Breekers talks about the work of the American company Amazon. Since 2016, Amazon has been offering the Alexa device, which acts as a home assistant. "Alexa" controls the sounds in the home and responds to the orders of its inhabitants. The device operates in an interactive mode, that is, in a dialogue mode. For example, it will turn on your favorite music at your request, report the weather forecast, memorize the purchases made, and schedule appointments. "Alexa" can perform 50 thousand functions, in the near future it will be possible to rely on it for everything, including washing clothes, cleaning rooms, adjusting heating, etc.

It looks like extraordinary comfort, but every order that is given to "Alexa" goes to the servers of the "Amazon" system. It examines the habits and inclinations of a person, his behavior in everyday life, and the person turns into an absolutely transparent consumer. Amazon analyzes conversations and knows why, for example, the hostess prefers certain cosmetics, certain intimate care items, etc.

Amazon founder and owner Jeff Bezos Amazon started with a garage workshop and built the most expensive enterprise on the planet in 25 years. Today, Amazon is the largest online retailer in the world. Amazon has 2 million sellers offering their products. The firm controls computer centers, which tracks trading conditions and has 300 million user profiles. This “everything seller,” as Jeff Bezos calls himself, is on the path to “owning everything” and “knowing about everyone.”

The general public continues to be addicted to detective stories that feature spy bugs for listening, while real life a "superbug" from Amazon nested, recording every sound in the dwelling.

"Alexa" does not ask if she is allowed to record conversations. Of course, with a strong desire, you can achieve that Amazon will erase your records, but the main thing is that they have all been processed and analyzed. Weighed, measured, examined. So for comfort you pay with your right to privacy and, ultimately, freedom.

Amazon recently filed a patent that allows a machine to recognize the user's voice and be able to give him behavioral recommendations. For example, if you do not take an umbrella in rainy weather or dress too lightly. She will prescribe medication for you if she suspects you have an illness. All this develops an emotional relationship with the machine, especially in children. They will be more willing to communicate with "Alexa" than with their parents.

Meanwhile, it is known that Amazon has a low culture of internal relations. It pays employees poorly, arranges video surveillance of them, ruins entire industries, and is one of the largest tax evaders. However, Amazon "saddled the trend." Only in Germany this firm has more than 40 million clients.

Professor David Cheriton of Stanford says: “It looks like someone is depositing their brain with Bezos or instructing him to think for himself. One has only to enter these structures, it is very difficult to get out of them. If we start from spying on consumer behavior, then Amazon takes into account the ideas of thousands of firms that use its system. Not to mention the fact that the CIA is hosting a "secret cloud" of Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Today, Jeff Bezos owns a fortune of 150 billion dollars and is richest man planets. Only 58 states have more GDP than his fortune, and 135 states lag behind him. It's a lot of money and a lot of power.

Digital monopolies are rapidly becoming the "Big Brother" of humanity. Whether it's Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), or Google founder Larry Page, they were all in the early 1990s, when the Internet was still in its infancy, in the right place at the right time and able to see the possibilities of digital technologies. So there was new form"controlling capitalism", to which civil rights and personal lives are sacrificed.

People under "controlling capitalism" become one-dimensional consumers who play the game as long as they can pay. As soon as the ability to pay disappears, people are thrown out, but before that, a person is entangled in cobwebs from head to toe.

Johannes Breekers shares his personal experience: while there is still time to stop this danger and say: "Shut up, "Alexa", I do not use "Amazon"". And if this is not done, digital imperialism will finally suppress modern man the image of God. Tomorrow may be too late.

For these years, he is in great shape.
- Other than being dead?

I think you and I are not up to the task.

When all this filth of lust and murder foams up to their waists, all the whores and politicians will look up and scream: “Save us!” And I'll whisper, "No."

The night stinks of fornication and bad conscience.

Nixon, you idiot. Wow, I voted for the idiot five times.

Is it bean sauce?
- Bean-human.

When you walk through a city dying of rabies, past cockroach people looking for heroin and child pornography, do you feel normal?

People have been trying to kill each other since the beginning of time. Now we've got the power to get the job done.

We are the only ones who protect society.
- From whom?
- Don't you understand? From ourselves.

What happened to the American Dream?
- She became a reality.

I am a retired businessman.

It turns out that I have no friend closer than the enemy.

Born in 1918. Buried in the rain

No time for friends, only enemies leave roses.

Lives full of violence end with violence.

People are savages by nature, no matter how hard we try to hide or embellish it.

Good anecdote. Everyone laugh. Drumroll. Curtain.

Your finger stings like a battery.

You know how everything in this world works, except for people.

You are my only connection to the world.
- I don't need that kind of responsibility anymore.

My father was a watchmaker. He quit this job when Einstein discovered the relativity of time.

This symbolic clock is as useful to the intellect as a photograph of oxygen is to a drowning man.

living human body and dead contains an equal number of particles.

Too late. It has always been, always will be too late.

Leaving the world without nuclear reactors and oil wells is like weaning.

The only one with whom I felt a kinship died three hundred years before the birth of Christ.

People are being arrested. Rabid dogs are killed.

If the Lord saw us then, he decided not to interfere.

It is not God who makes the world so. We the people.

None of you seem to understand. They didn't lock me up with you. It was you who was locked up with me.

John sees a lot. But he doesn't see me.

Big shot, small world.

Why should I save the world if it has lost its meaning for me?

My red world means more to me now than your blue one.

Our new peaceful world will be indebted to your great sacrifice.

I have lived my life free of compromise.

Tell me how our conversation ends and we'll save time.

The existence of life is a highly overrated phenomenon.

The concept of a miracle is, by definition, meaningless. Only what can happen happens.

Long time no see.
Not as long as I'd like.

My whole life is one big mistake.

The world is paying for its flirtation with World War III.

The animal nature of man will inevitably lead to the destruction of the planet.

I can change anything except human nature.

I'm leaving this galaxy. I'll look for it sooner.

Nothing ever ends.

Who needs a cowboy for president?

Oil, PR, war Collon Michel

Are we always going to find out the truth too late?

Are we always going to find out the truth too late?

Every war starts with lies in the media, because governments need to win public support for the actions of the army.

As a rule, we learn the truth about the war only after many years. For example, the truth that the information about the attack by Vietnamese submarines on American ships in the Gulf of Tonkin, spread by the United States and which served as a pretext for unleashing the Vietnam War, was pure fiction. The fact that the information about the theft by Iraqis from Kuwait City of a large number of incubators for nursing premature babies was also completely fabricated in 1990 by an American firm specializing in PR. Too late, we realized that the media, using obvious lies and juggling of facts (see below), "justified" in advance the invasions of Grenada (1983), Panama (1989), Somalia (1993), Bosnia (1995) .

Are we forever doomed to learn the truth too late?

Far from it. Using the example of the war against Yugoslavia, the proposed book is designed to help the reader learn to distinguish truth from lies, from the abundance of impressive information about massacres, mountains of corpses, ethnic cleansing. The book discusses the means and methods of disinformation, as well as the basic principles of "military propaganda" used to manipulate public opinion.

Of course, the analysis of materials and facts that testify to the falsity of the media deserves extreme attention. However, it is more important to reveal the true goals of the great powers that inspire wars and participate in them. It is important to understand what these powers are hiding from the public.

Can we be sure that we know all the information about the "ethnic" conflict between Serbs and Albanians? Why was it kept from us that the Western secret services had been supplying weapons to the KLA for a long time, as they had been supplying them to Croatian and Islamic separatists long before the start of the war in Croatia and Bosnia in 1991? Who exactly fanned this conflict from behind the scenes?

Whose interests did the United States defend by systematically pushing the Serbs and Albanians to war? In particular, why was a deliberately unacceptable “agreement” proposed at Rambouillet, unacceptable because it implied the military occupation of all of Yugoslavia? Perhaps, in fact, it was about the fact that the United States, with the help of NATO, thus imposed itself on the whole of Europe as a gendarme?

We were told that NATO's intervention in Yugoslavia was for purely humanitarian reasons - the desire to protect the Kosovo Albanians. At the same time, NATO is arming Turkish generals who are bombing Kurdish refugees, while Madeleine Albright publicly admits that maintaining control of Middle Eastern oil is "worth killing five hundred thousand Iraqi children through an embargo." Whose interests are covered by this humanitarian curiosity?

Or maybe there is a whole secret program of action of this kind? In 1996, the head of the Belgian air force, General Van Hecke, warned: "If there is discord in Russia, Europe will have to intervene militarily and we will have a tenfold Yugoslavia." When the famous American strategist Brzezinski declares his desire to divide Russia into three parts, should we believe that the United States will carry out this program peacefully?

What are the next goals facing NATO? Who armed the separatists in Chechnya, and will it become the next Kosovo?

NATO's expansion to the East continues step by step. Next, the plans for the likely next wars will be considered: the Caucasus, Russia, maybe China ... However, first of all, economic goals will be analyzed, since in its advancement NATO seeks to establish control over the routes of oil and gas, these sources of colossal profits and keys to tomorrow's world.

The war against Yugoslavia is another form of battle that took place in Seattle due to unfair economic rules and laws imposed by multinational corporations. One American strategist said: "NATO's main responsibility is to bring more and more areas into the Western economic community." If this is true, then it turns out that NATO is an army defending the interests of transnational corporations.

And when NATO is at war, does the media tell us the whole truth about the war? What is hidden from us by using the term "mistake"? ("bavure")

Did NATO “by mistake” bomb two refugee columns, an international train, the Chinese embassy, ​​a market and a hospital in Nis, and numerous civilian targets? Is this organization really waging war with "civilized" methods?

There are many questions. We must find answers to these questions. Only in this way can we possibly avoid the next wars.

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When a relationship falls apart before our eyes, the first thing that comes to mind is to save it and fix the existing problem. Why do we wait until it's too late? This often happens with people who have been together for quite some time. They try to be calm until the moment when the explosion is actually brewing. In any long-term relationship, there is always a sleeping beast waiting to be awakened. This beast harbors all the secrets, anger, pain, hushed up problems, mistakes and petty sins that both of you have done in the past. This is why most people avoid bringing up a certain topic that will eventually wake up this beast. But the question is, why not just neutralize it? All these thoughts are running through the mind of your partner and you. You don't want to change anything because you're waiting. And you wait. And wait until it's too late.

The first thing you need to do is ask yourself WHAT are you both fighting? What made you stick together for so long? What keeps you in this relationship? If you have the answer, then the relationship is worth fighting for. If there is no response, it may be time to leave because it is too late to fight.

• Why?

WHERE and where did we go wrong? In most cases, because of the length of your relationship, you stop asking this question to yourself or your partner, because you yourself do not know the answer. You go with the flow, thinking that problems will also pass you by. The fact is that problems do not solve themselves, and the questions in your heads will remain unanswered if you do not voice them.

• When?

WHEN began misunderstanding, alienation and collapse? To fix the problem before it's too late, you must find the root cause. When did it start? When your partner forgot about your anniversary. Or when I forgot to pick you up from work. Or when he cheated on you a long time ago and you pretended you had forgotten about it. Go back in time and remind yourself when it all started.

When a relationship falls apart before our eyes, the first thing that comes to mind is to save it and fix the existing problem. Why do we wait until it's too late? This often happens with people who have been together for quite some time. They try to be calm until the moment when the explosion is actually brewing. In any long-term relationship, there is always a sleeping beast waiting to be awakened. This beast harbors all the secrets, anger, pain, hushed up problems, mistakes and petty sins that both of you have done in the past. This is why most people avoid bringing up a certain topic that will eventually wake up this beast. But the question is, why not just neutralize it? All these thoughts are running through the mind of your partner and you. You don't want to change anything because you're waiting. And you wait. And wait until it's too late.

• What?

The first thing you need to do is ask yourself WHAT are you both fighting? What made you stick together for so long? What keeps you in this relationship? If you have the answer, then the relationship is worth fighting for. If there is no response, it may be time to leave.

• Why?

WHY you fight each other instead of fighting together? This is a common mistake in every way. Sometimes we get so used to each other that we don't even consider it necessary to say what's going on in our heads. We just keep waiting until the other person realizes their mistakes. And when he does not realize them, our patience bursts and everything falls apart. This leads to the next question.

• Where?

WHERE and where did we go wrong? In most cases, because of the length of your relationship, you stop asking this question to yourself or your partner, because you yourself do not know the answer. You go with the flow, thinking that problems will also pass you by. The fact is that problems do not solve themselves, and the questions in your heads will remain unanswered if you do not voice them.

• When?

WHEN began misunderstanding, alienation and collapse? To solve the problem, you must find the root cause. When did it start? When your partner forgot about your anniversary. Or when I forgot to pick you up from work. Or when he cheated on you a long time ago and you pretended you had forgotten about it. Go back in time and remind yourself when it all started.

• Who?

WHO right? You or your partner? Your heart or head? This is the moment when you wonder if you are staying or going. This question makes people literally break down. How will you live without a partner for whom you have spent so many years of your life? How will you wake up every morning without it? And how can you continue to be with him if it does not bring you happiness or joy?

• How?

And now the last and most difficult question, when you have almost come to the “too late” line. HOW can you keep the relationship, and do you need it? Or HOW you to end the relationship with minimal emotional and mental losses?