(D)ARPA (Echelon) was the initiative, the communism block the 'motive', for a coherent military communication and control network, what partly today is the internet. It was very much in conjunction to what Russell was talking of in the late 40's.


”Long before the use of electricity as a source of power, it was used in the telegraph. This had two important consequences: first, messages could now travel faster than human beings; secondly, in large organizations detailed control from a centre became much more possible than it had formerly been.


The fact that messages could travel faster than human beings was useful, above all, to the police.” Bertrand Russell, The Impact of Science on Society, 1953 pg34

Some argue he was indeed privy or in fact part of 'above top secret' military operations with among others Vannevar Bush [3], John von Neumann and Albert Einstein. He initiated the Pugwash movement with debatable motives, the United States (with satellites) vs Russia (with satellites) with focus on nuclear scare tactics. The 'peace sign' was promoted and part of the flower power movement. Though a new Power was emerging as the solution, not necessarily West, but more likely a 'third' party like the UN (with satellites).


”...the preponderant Power can establish a single authority over the whole world, and thus make future wars impossible. At first this Authority will, in certain regions, be based on force, but if the Western nations are in control, force will as soon as possible give way to consent. When that has been achieved, the most difficult of world problems will have been solved, and science can be wholly beneficent.


I do not think there is reason to fear that such a régime, once established, would be unstable.” Bertrand Russell, The Impact of Science on Society pg 116


The only justifiable war left will be ”war on terrorism”, with an ever widening implication, also mentioned above. Anyone opposing wars (many wars justified in the name of 'democratization'), normally called pacifism, can now fall under terrorism as 'violent antiwar extremism', or 'tax resistance movement', (all under the Department of Homeland Security) and 'alternative media' ... etc


... So Internet is and always was a military apparatus, and as proprietary as that industry is why would they let it go freely for real 'democratic' movements? The bad news is that sadly much of discussions today concerning sociometric mapping and infringement on freedom and integrity is a diversion. They already had the power to control, subvert and surveil. The net would not have been built if were it not for furtherance of control. The good news is that every force has its equal counter force. To de facto execute all this control, much must go through legislative filters and laws. It has been under way the last decades, but we do now have a genuine sense that much is going on a very dangerous route. If you read this I know you can feel it. [länk]