Send your kid to college: support the Surveillance State
The NSA is alive and well on campuses
By Jon Rappoport
What are college students focusing on these days---apart from
sex, booze, and drugs? Well, moral values, if you can call a deep
desire for "free everything" a value. And maybe "feeling triggered" and
"needing a safe space" is also, somehow, a value. As is demanding that
many words be excised from the English language, because they might
offend someone who is a member of a designated victim-class. College is
quite a scene these days.
Once upon a time, college students were aware of the maxim:
follow the money. They did research and discovered what kind of money
was keeping their schools afloat. It was an instructive exercise, and it
made professors and administrators very nervous, for the right reasons.
Therefore, a different kind of propaganda had to be sprayed
on students; the most shallow kind of "social justice" possible---in
order to divert these boys and girls from revealing the underlying
corruption of their adult minders. Hence, China-style political
correctness.
These days, students are, for the most part, oblivious to how their colleges and universities are funded.
I'm not talking about donations from graduates and boosters,
or revenue generated from televised football games. I'm talking, for
example, about secretive government agencies.
CIA, NSA, DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency).
At WikiLeaks, Julian Assange posted an overview (10/7/2007),
"On the take and loving it---academic recipients of the US intelligence
budget."
Consider Assange's stunning conclusion: "Over the last
decade, U.S intelligence funding of academic research has taken on
cavalier, even brazen qualities. This article reveals over 3,000
National Security Agency and over 100 Defense Intelligence Agency funded
papers [written by professors] and draws attention to recent unreported
revelations of CIA funding for torture research."
Torture research. If people need evidence that the CIA's MKULTRA is still alive, there it is.
Assange: "The NSA has pushed tens or hundreds of millions
into the academy [colleges] through research grants using one particular
grant code. NSA funding sources are often nakedly, even proudly,
declared in research papers ('I may be nothing, but look, a big gang
threw me a sovereign'). Some researchers try to conceal or otherwise
downplay the source using accepted covers, weasel words and acronyms,
yet commonality in the NSA grant code prefix makes all these attempts
transparent. The primary NSA grant-code prefix is MDA904."
"An examination of academic papers referencing the code gives
the impression that most or all research grantees know the true source
of their funding. These are not academics who have been fooled. These
are willing, even eager, participants."
The NSA uses a number of "contracting and grant making light
covers," Assange writes. Among them: Maryland Procurement Office,
Department of Defense, DOD, ARDA."
Naturally, all the NSA grants to academics are for research
on how to spy. Don't be fooled by the numerous NSA awards for work in
abstract mathematics. The NSA's interest in math per se is zero. The
Agency seeks to apply the research to universal snooping.
College students who claim to be activists can dig into records and discover what grants the NSA is making to their professors.
The students can name names. They can make the facts public
on campus and stage protests. They can demand de-funding and cutting NSA
relationships. They can refuse to enroll in those professors' classes.
A quick search led me to two high-ranked American colleges,
Bard and Claremont McKenna. Bard openly offers its faculty assistance in
applying for grants. Among the funding sources listed: NSA.
An article at the Claremont McKenna site celebrates a $40,000
NSA grant to Professor Lenny Fukshansky, a mathematician, to further
his work in "Analytic techniques and algebraic constructions in
geometric lattice theory."
Nothing to see there, students. It's just lattices. How could
NSA use them, other than to hang plants in their offices to brighten
the environment?
"Hi, I'm Professor Genius-IQ Doofus. I work for the
Surveillance State. Don't bother turning off your cell phones while
you're in class. The NSA is spying on you through them, and I'm helping
the NSA. Now let's learn some kick-ass math."
If college students followed these trails, they would
eventually discover something far more shocking. The Surveillance State
itself is part of a technocratic agenda of control. Patrick Wood alludes
to this in his brilliant 2015 book, Technocracy Rising. The
"scientific" transformation of political power involves engineering
society from top to bottom, and fitting every citizen into a detailed
plan of permitted energy consumption.
Instead of worrying about whether holiday cookies shaped like
evergreen trees or personal pronouns or bathrooms align with
politically correct standards, students could turn their attention to
how the world is being stolen out from under seven billion people.
Of course, students would prefer to think that theft is
actually a signal of a coming utopia. The State is mommy, daddy, and a
messiah. The State is good. "From each according to his ability, to each
according to his need."
Memo to parents: Yes, send your kids to college. It'll only
cost you tens of thousands a year. Or your kid could take out a student
loan and owe a couple of hundred thousand after he graduates and can't
find a job because he has no skills. It's a great deal.
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