Rich: Rolling Stone journalist Michael Hastings was working on a story about the CIA before his death and had contacted a Wikileaks lawyer about being under investigation by the FBI hours before his car exploded into flames.

The whole world is pissed at us because of the NSA, and how we said, “Oh, we don’t use it to spy on our people, only to spy on other people.” So the foreigners are pissed off—any time they communicate with the US, they’re being tracked and taped. But I believe they use it for the US too.

The media’s grip on collective belief, and the keyword-state correlation idea, and the general algorithm that can be extracted from your dissertation topic—these all tie together.

If the major networks can control your emotions enough to distract you from (or desensitize you to) what’s really going on, then you are a bona fide victim of mind-control. You are being made to believe in a certain fiction. For example, we are told we should believe that wiretapping without a warrant is justifiable because it helps stem terrorism. Another: It’s OK to have drones as long as they’re only used for spying.

I’m pretty sure Bush set this stuff up after 9/11. Hopefully Obama does something to help the problem. They’re trying to ban guns. They’re violating a lot of Constitutional rights right now. Like freedom of speech and press, the Fourth Amendment, the Second Amendment.