{"id":36750,"date":"2016-04-25T12:37:12","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T16:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=36750"},"modified":"2016-04-25T12:37:12","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T16:37:12","slug":"google-r-us-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=36750","title":{"rendered":"GOOGLE R US (United States)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->San Rafael, CA<br \/>\nApril 24, 2016<\/p>\n<p>by Rich Scheck<\/p>\n<p>And you thought it was Goldman Sachs or Israel or the<br \/>\nMilitary Industrial Complex that secretly runs the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Well guess again folks: it&#8217;s Google! That&#8217;s right, the people who<br \/>\nbring you&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;everything you could possible want to know!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/theintercept.com\/2016\/04\/22\/googles-remarkably-close-relationship-with-the-obama-white-house-in-two-charts\/\">http:\/\/theintercept.com\/2016\/04\/22\/googles-remarkably-close-relationship-with-the-obama-white-house-in-two-charts\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3554953\/Google-staffers-meetings-White-House-staggering-427-times-course-Obama-presidency-averaging-week.html\">http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3554953\/Google-staffers-meetings-White-House-staggering-427-times-course-Obama-presidency-averaging-week.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So we definitely do not live in Kansas anymore. We live in the<br \/>\nworld of social media and the internet shaping our reality in ways<br \/>\nHuxley and Orwell could barely imagine.<\/p>\n<p>I have written about the Huxwellian world of the modern era in which<br \/>\ndistracting entertainment is combined with the total surveillance state<br \/>\nto maximize the public&#8217;s willingness and ability to obey.<\/p>\n<p>Please ask yourself what all those White House meetings with Google<br \/>\nemployees were about and why so many former government officials<br \/>\nnow work for them.<\/p>\n<p>The revolving door between business, government and the military<br \/>\nis an old phenomena that has a new wrinkle that should have us all<br \/>\nconcerned about what these guys are planning for our future.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I should &#8220;Google It&#8221; to find out. Just saying&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..??<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}