" .. The world has been turned upside down. The pestilence of corporate totalitarianism is spreading rapidly over the earth. The criminals have seized power. It is not, in the end, simply Assange or Manning they want. It is all who dare to defy the official narrative, to expose the big lie of the global corporate state. The persecution of Assange and Manning is the harbinger of what is to come, the rise of a bitter world where criminals in Brooks Brothers suits and gangsters in beribboned military uniforms—propped up by a vast internal and external security apparatus, a compliant press and a morally bankrupt political elite—monitor and crush those who dissent. Writers, artists, actors, journalists, scientists, intellectuals and workers will be forced to obey or thrown into bondage. I fear for Julian Assange. I fear for Bradley Manning. I fear for us all. .. "
[The Death of Truth ]

The situation is horrid - efforts to silence alternate voices are rising, and they appear to be increasingly successful as years go by .... the clockwork to shut up unwanted information runs smooth, smoother through the years. Meanwhile the influence of the top 1% of earners & deciders gains momentum and it's only a question of time how long this will last without a backslash by those suppressed, including the sock puppet politicians who at this moment in time see themselves falsely 'on the right side' ....

Sometimes I call myself lucky to be a senior already, because the Apocalypse might not start until I'm dead & buried - hopefully!