"No matter how sophisticated, how cynical the public may become about publicity methods, it must respond to the basic appeals, because it will always need food, crave amusement, long for beauty, respond to leadership. if the public becomes more intelligent in its commercial demands, commercial firms will meet the new standards. If it becomes weary of the old methods used to persuade it to accept a given idea or commodity, its leaders will present their appeals more intelligently. Propaganda will never die out. Intelligent men must realise that propaganda is the modern instrument by which they can fight for productive ends and help to bring order out of chaos."

"... the international Echelon spy system, whose existence was acknowledged by officials in 2000, is capable of "hoovering up" millions of phone calls, faxes and emails a minute. The system's super-powerful voice recognition capability enables it to filter billions of international communications for whatever key words or word patterns are programmed in."