China, USA, Profit and Police State 2.0

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The equipment and integrated security systems used to detain Olympic protesters will remain long after the Olympics, to be used, many fear, on China's own population in almost daily crackdowns on both domestic and international protesters who have had to contend with a brand new surveillance system that China set up ahead of the games. This includes 300,000 security cameras and an estimated 100,000 security officers on duty in Beijing. Some of the biggest beneficiaries of this surveillance boom are US hedge funds and corporations, including Cisco, General Electric, Honeywell and L1.


There is an incredible operation going on in China to use the latest, what's now called homeland security technology—networked surveillance cameras, biometric identification cards, facial recognition software—networking all of these cameras and running the software through it as a way to control an increasingly rebellious population. There's an incredible statistic from 2005 that there were 87,000 mass incidents, which means protests and riots, across the country.

So it is already being used as a way to control the population and also to keep an eye on what in China is called the floating population, the migrant population, who are displaced by mega projects, who travel to cities like Beijing and Guangzhou and Shenzhen looking for work. This is a mobile population that is right now 130 million people. And this technology is used to keep track of those people, because in a sort of Maoist time in China, you had—where people stayed in their communities, you had networks of control and surveillance that were really about people snitching on their neighbors. When people are moving across long distances, the technology is replacing that. So "Police State 2.0" is really about upgrading the surveillance system, with the help of US companies like Cisco, General Electric, Honeywell, IBM, Google, Yahoo. We have heard about this. But in terms of building the surveillance state, one company to really watch is L1. They are doing the fingerprinting and iris scanning in the United States, and they've been selling this software to Chinese companies that are embedding it in their Golden Shield network.

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[andyly0071]

USA is so hypocrotic after their bankers robber the whole world including china, what a filthy gang of SOBs

[pr0gm3r]

This is not capitalism that Karl Marx wanted. China has miss interpreted the Communist Manifesto. The true intention of Marx is to eradicate inequality and social stratification. But that doesn't mean to monitor everyone to be equal under government control.

[brahmbhattbhavna]

FSTV SUCKS

[massemorder1]

you dam trator you should get indited for assist a coup helping rapers make rape hostages breeding at child age

u can see a muslim in israel jerk.

muslims die fast and hard iff i take american people and norweagans along i dont care - and hamburg . friesland north off hamburg in wargame after french people

Die muslims 30 % off world babies and 60% off world teens die.

somalia bigger than usa on 10 year olds smaller than norway 40 years ago.

usa bigger than indian population ever. 1900

[massemorder1]

u dont think about u are poorest country ever .

and that child killers made somalia grow bigger than usa - 1/20. in 30 years

so stop to pay 1 dime to argentina nazi or arab emirates .

there are no way i am gonne let u live any off u iff u let zombies take over paraguay they are my ugly dolls

so u tighten up those gigantic 4 years old or i take suisde.

they not pritty enough to be pregnant even.

u know when i am sending muslims to earth in 2964 years -with dynasour penis for fuck

[Gregman420]

I hope someday humanity (Chinese and the West) will learn to harness their great power for positive goals. Humanity doesn't have a chance unless the greatness of its peoples work together for a common cause. We have so much potential!

[DurAR89]

I didn't know there were Germans so well informed of American Politics. Peace +5