Canadian journalist Naomi Klein paints a chilling picture of a 21st century high-tech surveillance state in China in this "Rolling Stone" exclusive.

Worth reading very closely.

We've long suggested that VC readers familiarize themselves with Catherine Austin Fitts' analysis of the global "tapeworm economy" at work.

The "military/industrial/security" state - biometrics, facial recognition,
24/7 surveillance - is all part of the new frontier" - piles of cash to
be made setting up a world that would make George Orwell AND Aldous
Huxley blanch.

In a Free Vermont, we ought to consider methods to ensure that a high-tech surveillance state would simply ot be possible.