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iWatch - be afraid; be very afraid - that's what that video really says
Here's a video for an (apparently) American citizen reporting initiative designed to instantly report anything suspicious. Nice pathos, etc. Note how easy it is now to report anything you don't like, or are afraid of, for whatever reason, as suspicious.
And to put things in perspective, I'm attaching a tiny bit of an historical document. It's in Russian, and heavily abbreviated in places, so I'll do a little translation for you. It's an excerpt from Troika sitting, Troika being a triplet, or Trinity, if you wish, of local executives, in the times of that document endowed with almost absolute powers over people. Including life and death.
so, it says, top to bottom, left to right, left column first.
Excerpt from a protocol
of a Troika session at USSR NKVD Directorate, at 26th of September, 1937
left column title: CONSIDERED
138. The case number 5504, convicting Minin Ivan Antonovich, born in MO (probably Moscow region), Kurovsky district, Zevnevo village. In 1918 served in gendarmerie with White army. Old Believer, illegal doctrinarian. Charged in that, being an old believer and doctrinarian, systematically, under the guise of religious exhortations, conducted active counterrevolutionary propaganda, brainwashing the believers in the counterrevolutionary spirit.
right column title: DECIDED
Minin Ivan Antonovich to be shot dead
signed: Troika secretary
Maemo Fremantle software goes public
Yay, we launched it! Fremantle aka Maemo 5 is public!!! http://bit.ly/sKuDG this was VERY long run :D
via Ping.fm
