The "best tune" Judas Priest ever did, imo @ least?
"The Electric Eye"
It's actually very VERY profound, as to its lyrics - if you take a listen to it, (lyrics below), it'll make you realize this, & this is WHY I like Heavy Metal... it's sometimes very informative, &/or makes you THINK (&, it got me to look into the history of this madness, satellite surveillance, etc.)
Heavy Metal, imo @ least, is also often a form of protest - & this tune does "protest" in its own way (or rather, point out the 'downsides' of say, various technologies &/or practices).
Satellites... hmmm: Makes you realize 1984 was a LOT earlier (per the Orwellian view of it @ least) than that year, 1984 itself.
I.E.-> Ever since Eisenhower (& his predecessors as Presidents) got into the "space race" around 1946-1958 (& later per the Moon Race), we've been in the world of "Big Brother", bigtime... & when AT&T/Bell "got into bed w/ the gov't." as far as telecommunications too, around 1947.
E.G. -> The USA by using Werner Von Braun (WVB) & his team of rocket scientists, post WWII, who did have PART of it, via the A4/V2/buzz-bomb technology of the nazi regime under Adolf Hitler, well...
The U.S. Gov't. got ahold of WVB (because he certainly did NOT want to work under the Russians (& iirc, Sergei Korolev, their team lead scientist), who had GOOD REASONS to mistreat the nazi's)!
I.E.-> Because, for 1 thing (a horrible thing)? Well, they used their kids (russian & polish ones, this I KNOW for sure) as blood transfusions for the Nazi soldiers, as they did my own relatives no less (polish kids whom they murdered for this, & I know for a fact, because my parents had it happen to their relatives & my family were prisoners in Labor Camps (where non jews went, not death camps, but slave ones) under their regime also), & that is HORRIBLE, in the transfusion vampire-like draining of babies no less... totally heartless)
ALL governments, were after this, hugely... as it would affect the 'balance of power' & the biggest FEAR of those in power?? Losing that power, of course.
AND, yes, in a way, I don't blame the U.S. Gov'.t, because knowledge IS POWER, & it's only REALLY good, if you get it, first... & ICBM's certainly are (intercontinental ballistic missiles) a route to this, in application with satellite surveillance, NOT JUST ATOMIC BOMB DELIVERY MECHANISMS.
So, WVB & his team, plus later, along w/ the JPL (Jet Propulsion Labs) in California, & also later, the Naval "vanguard team" (failure initially, the rocket crashed on lift off on national TV no less, ugh!) were used for this effort!
It was also ALL completely "politically guided", because WVB was a ex-Nazi scientist in part (which was kept hidden from the masses in the US presses, no less), to get there, first... WVB's team, though RIGHT THERE with working stuff, was put out of commission (ordered to stop) & vanguard Navy stuff funded, instead... hmmm?
Yes: Making us look like the "losers" (to the dismay of the general US populace) yes, but intentionally so.
... & to get the Russians to go with the International Geophysical Year (IGY research to truly 'see' the earth & its dimensions, which are NOT round, but instead, actually 'pear shaped' in space) FIRST!
The IGY usage, was largely just a "pretense/mask/disguise" though... there is HUGE POWER in misinformation &/or ONLY PARTIAL INFO. released, too (so the russkies would look @ vanguard, via spies, & think "Ha, their JUNK, sucks... it'll never get there first!")
(This was all, also, so the Russians would not "flip" that we were sending spy satellites over their nation FIRST, because Von Braun's team using their multistage rockets to achieve escape velocity (Sir Isaac Newton discovery) for orbital placement of a satellite, could have done so, EASILY, & first!)
... & ALL, so the Russians/USSR could * THINK * they got to space first - which they did, via sputnik - making them think "OK, we 'won' & thus WE ARE SUPERIOR" etc. et al... which only functioned for 1 purpose: "Hey, you flew OVER US, first, russians... not the other way around", an excuse to go for it, on OUR end.
Thus, "cooling the russians' jets", for while @ least, whilst we were working on MORE than just that (getting a satellite up into orbit only)
It was an intentional deceit on the U.S.' part, even though it made us "look like the losers" in getting to space first!
In other words? Hey - Sometimes, it's "OK TO LOSE" in other words, to win in the end!
(& nobody does this, or KNOWS IT better, imo, than politicians (which is part of why I don't trust them - I always ask "why would you REALLY want this & that law passed" first, not only what you tell us, but your REAL reasoning beneath the pretty face you show us (which usually has a leering skull beneath it)))
Anyhow... & WVB's team using "REDSTONE" &/or one of its variants (a missile, multistage + satellite cone) could have beaten the USSR by A YEAR or more no less... & when 'push came to shove', w/ in 3-4 months after sputnik, they put up a satellite using WVB's team's tech... NOT the vanguard project (a ruse, one the russian KGB's spies would look @ & think "the US will never do it, look @ their junk!"... or outright failure due to anti-nazi feelings in gov't., doesn't matter really).
Yes, imo? It was intentional that we 'lost' the init. space race to get a satellite into orbit first (politicians! they're all the same, deceitful & treacherous imo), so the Russians would not retaliate via say, a nuclear retaliatory attack for us orbitting a satellite over their territories from high up in space (Hey, I'd be pissed too, if that went on... wouldn't you?)!
(Simply because the Russians are NOT stupid, far from it - as they were onto Eisenhower's TRUE motives, in espionage... & that was so they could be superior in gaining "intel" vs. say, UČ spyplanes (which, they did, 1000x better info., via satellite surveillances)).
Anyhow, so much for the "history lesson", the point is what this tune speaks of... & in short?
"There is NO PRIVACY, get used to it!"
* Welcome my friends, to the 21st century...
(&, I hope I expressed this & my point, accurately & well, because I have NOT been expressing myself well, all week (very sick, bad, BAD cold - messing with my mind & health bigtime (first time in a decade, gotta be, I am NOT 'taking it well' either - it's made me a useless wreck for the past week now almost))).
APK
P.S.=> Lyrics from "The Electric Eye":
Up here in space, I'm looking down on you
My lasers trace, Everything you do
You think youve private lives (Think nothing of the kind)
There is no true escape (I'm watching all the time)
I'm made of metal, My circuits gleam
I am perpetual (I keep the country clean)
I'm elected electric spy. I'm protected electric eye
Always in focus. You cant feel my stare.
I zoom into you, but You dont know I.m there
I take a pride in probing all your secret moves
My tearless retina takes pictures that can prove
I'm made of metal, My circuits gleam
I am perpetual. I keep the country clean
Electric eye, in the sky. Feel my stare, always there.
Theres nothing you can do about it (Develop and expose)
I feed upon your every thought, And so my power grows
I'm made of metal. My circuits gleam.
I am perpetual (I keep the country clean)
I'm elected, electric spy. I'm protected electric eye.
Protected. detective. electric eye
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