Random links of interest, concern or curiosity from the past week or so, that deserve at least a SHORT mention:

First, this week’s ORWELLIAN round-up; because it seems we get closer to 1984 every day
[It can’t be “paranoia” when it’s really happening] ~

 
Is Obama waging psychological warfare on Americans? ~ Short answer: “Yes.” Some extremely astute observations by Fox News’s Dr. Keith Ablow ~

…the president, with the help of his administration, is attempting to conduct psychological warfare on Americans who value autonomy and free will and free markets and small government, by convincing them that they are wrong-minded, prejudiced and pathological and should deeply question their beliefs—including some ensconced in the Constitution.

 
A Government’s Targeting of Conservatives and Pregnant Women ~ J. Christian Adams writing at P.J.Media. It’s not just happening at the federal level, the D.C. Public Employee Relations Board is engaging in discrimination, hostility and intimidation as well.
 
Obama’s Secret Invisible Government ~ Electronic spying, secret email accounts, ignoring FoIA requests; President Obama himself set the anti-transparency tone for his administration from the very beginning.
 
Obama DHS Purchases 2,700 Light-Armored Tanks to Go With Their 1.6 Billion Bullet Stockpile ~ from Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit. This is from March but it fits the theme so thought I’d throw it in here.
 
Will Electronic Tattoos Replace Internet Passwords And All Other Forms Of Identification? ~ We’ve been hearing about this more and more lately ~ ‘Human barcode’ could make society more organized, but invades privacy, civil liberties. They’ll sell it under the guise of security…

Technology is advancing at a faster pace than we have ever seen before, but at the same time the world is becoming an increasingly unstable place.
 
Could technology that enables us to interact with our environment using our minds actually be turned around and used to control our minds by a future tyrannical government?
 
Could technology that helps us identify one another on the Internet someday be used to brand us all like cattle and force all of humanity into a dark system of control and enslavement?

Nah…

And in other news ~

 
Bishop tells hostile crowd at gay marriage debate: my secretary was murdered by a gay activist ~ A 2002 tragedy that the media couldn’t be bothered with; didn’t fit the heterophobic LGBT narrative.
 
Genetic Recombination Study Defies Human-Chimp Evolution ~ Demolishing Darwinism one scientific discovery at a time.
 
Egyptian Activist Convicted Of Insulting Egyptian President; Similar Cases Skyrocket Under Morsi Rule ~ As the Muslim Brotherhood form of totalitarianism tightens it grip on the throat of freedom.
 
The Stunning Tornado Videos of Storm Chaser Tim Samaras ~ Short tribute (with videos) at National Geographic ~

A week before he died, he submitted what may have been the best, most complete video of a tornado being ‘born,’ in which he describes the formation as it’s happening.