This column is by Peter Ludlow ("The Stone"), and remarkably it appears in the NYTimes, which has shamelessly conveyed much of the disinformation that has poisoned our polity these 12 years. "The modern American surveillance state is not really the stuff of paranoid fantasies; it has arrived." Government agencies and also private intelligence firms are involved "not just with the concealment of reality, but with the manufacture of it." When corp ...

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This column is by Peter Ludlow ("The Stone"), and remarkably it appears in the NYTimes, which has shamelessly conveyed much of the disinformation that has poisoned our polity these 12 years. "The modern American surveillance state is not really the stuff of paranoid fantasies; it has arrived." Government agencies and also private intelligence firms are involved "not just with the concealment of reality, but with the manufacture of it." When corporations hack into your emails for their own profit, this is a legitimate exercise in data collection. But when activists hack into corporate computers and reveal to the public that we are being manipulated, the Obama Justice Dept goes after them with a vengeance. The line between public relations and psychological warfare has disappeared.

Authors Bio:

Josh Mitteldorf, de-platformed senior editor at OpEdNews, blogs on aging at http://JoshMitteldorf.ScienceBlog.com. Read how to stay young at http://AgingAdvice.org.

Educated to be an astrophysicist, he has branched out from there to mathematical modeling in a variety of areas, including evolutionary ecology and economics. He has taught mathematics, statistics, and physics at several universities. He is an avid amateur pianist, and father of two adopted Chinese girls, now grown. He travels to Beijing each year to work with a lab studying the biology of aging. His book on the subject is "Cracking the Aging Code", http://tinyurl.com/y7yovp87.