https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/cricket-canada-funding-frozen-9.7198709?cmp=rss
“To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, . . .”
‚Thus begins Pierre-Joseph Proudhon’s famous quote defining the function of the political state. The surveillance states already in formation in Britain and the U.S. are nothing new. Only its technology and its capacity for totality. But this is a key consideration. No more escaping across the county line or hiding out in the hills. Everywhere and anywhere today is a social panopticon.
In earlier times of political opposition to the rulers, the names of rebels would be written in ink in a large ledger and later, on 3X5 cards, following reports from observers, undercover agents, and provocateurs. This was often sufficient to keep track of those who threatened the rule of capital and the state. Enough to often fill prisons and dungeons with those who refused their duty as loyal servants of the system.‘
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2026/04/26/files-on-the-fifth-estate/
#FifthEstate #Surveillance #FBI #Technology #Repression #State #UK #USA #Europe #Antireport
Surveillance before the internet
Fifth Estate advocated civil rights, opposition to the War on Vietnam and legalisation of marijuana; one of 500 so-called “underground radical publications” between 1965-1970. The publications had a combined circulation of four million all of which condemned the American system, its wars, and its empire.
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2026/04/26/files-on-the-fifth-estate/
RE: https://mastodon.social/@hadon/115406977473453181
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Person at NoKings 2 holding sign that says, "First they came for the media then ... we don't know what happened after that"
Wow, big surprise. You're saying that the #media giants in the #US, all bought up by the #EpsteinClass, are colluding to prevent the obvious link between #mossad and #Epstein?
I'm shocked at such a turn of events - flabbergasted, even - that the #FifthEstate being centrally controlled by #oligarchs would result in them burying the lead.
Opinion | The #Mainstream Media Still Won't Follow Up on the Epstein-#Israel Connection | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/media-epstein-israel

On top of the grotesque and horrifying photos and emails that appear to offer more evidence of systemic and widespread child abuse, the Epstein files revealed further allegations of his ties to Israel and its intelligence agency Mossad.
#Democrat #TX politician Jasmine Crockett is now making #headlines for her attempts to avoid bad press by throwing #media orgs out of her events, and having reporters removed by law enforcement.
https://www.semafor.com/article/02/24/2026/texas-senate-candidate-jasmine-crockett-escalates-her-war-on-the-press #TXpolitics #FifthEstate