Infrastructure, such as control systems for power plants, water-purification systems, and even control over private automobiles in motion now are easily hacked by highly-advanced cyber technologies in the hands of major governments and just waiting for the signal to 'push the button'. [You cannot afford to be uniformed on this topic.] [...]
Recently, YouTube suddenly shut down the If Americans Knew YouTube channel. The channel contained 70 videos providing fact-based information about Israel-Palestine.
People going to the channel saw a message telling them that the site had been terminated for “violating YouTube guidelines”— implying to the public that we were guilty of wrongdoing. And ensuring they didn’t learn about the information we were trying to disseminate.
Image: Yonatan Shapira, former Israeli Air Force pilot, now solidarity activist, speaks to seminarians in Oslo, Norway, September 23, 2014. (courtesy The Electronic Intifada)
Why would US leaders, lawmakers, intelligence and law enforcement agency administrators allow foreign intelligence and espionage agencies and their front companies unfettered, unexamined, long-term access to vast audiences of American children and young adults? And does not that question represent legitimate and vital concerns regarding privacy, public health, public safety, and national security?
