big brother camera creep : creeepyerrrr !

The creepy, creeping, Orwellian, Big Brother Ogle  of cameras is getting scarier.  Cameras as control technologies  has a long history. A colonial history that echoes through the history of Photography in our part of the world.   Military Cadets who  were to be sent to serve in the British Colonial Service were given special training in Photography.  Photography was itself  under the control of  The Political and Secret Department  of the British  ' India Office' in London.

To put it simply, loudly and clearly,  Cameras are about Control . They produce more than just innocent images of friends you  'Like'.


" Yes, I know: it sounds like a paranoid rant.

Except that it turned out to be true. News21, supported by the Carnegie and Knight foundations, reports that Disney sites are indeed controlled by face-recognition technology, that the military is interested in the technology, and that the face-recognition contractor, Identix, has contracts with the US government – for technology that identifies individuals in a crowd."

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/08/17-5

Ever since i read Naomi  Wolf's "The Beauty Myth" i have been a fan. I used it in a course that i once taught in   the National Institute of Fashion Technology in  New Delhi. 

Totalitarian states  are Military, order made States. Militarised Diplomacy is just part of  the game.  

war making on the cheap is now called Peacemaking.  how Orwellian is that??" Global Peace Operations Initiative"  is the new face of war . subsidised by the new Sepoys. History repeats itself. The old Brtish Empire was, after all.  made by  the Sepoys from India.  India -"the unlimited barracks that we do not even have to pay for"  -as one British old timer put it. .

GPOI is funded through the Peacekeeping Operations (PKO) account, which is managed by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs.

and remember the speech Hillary Clinton gave  at the Special Forces. gala dinner 

We also need diplomats and development experts who understand modern warfare and are up to the job of being your partners.

One of our senior Foreign Service officers, Karen Williams, is serving here in Tampa on Admiral McRaven’s staff. And under an agreement finalized this year, we are nearly doubling the number of military and Foreign Service officers who will be exchanged between the Departments of State and Defense. (Applause.) We know we need to better understand each other, and we know that through that better understanding there is even more we can do together.

http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2012/05/190805.htm

history repeats itself. across empires.