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Weekend Open Forum
It's the weekend and time to let your hair down and enjoy a spirited conversation with the Confidential crew.
Confidential Daily Comment
Driving the Surveillance State
The surveillance state is creeping into every aspect of our lives. Soon it will be driving with you too.
2 min read
The most outrageous actions of government are often hiding in plain sight.
Even when these abuses are identified, unless the media takes note little is usually made of them.
Instead, the complaining is left to those that can be condemned as 'conspiracy theorists' and thus discredited in the eyes of the general public by government and media alike.
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