Category Archives: Big Government

The FBI’s Strange Anthrax Investigation Sheds Light on COVID Lab-Leak Theory and Fauci’s Emails – Glenn Greenwald

Mainstream institutions doubted the FBI had solved the 2001 anthrax case. Either way, revelations that emerged about U.S. Government bio-labs have newfound relevance. — Read on greenwald.substack.com/p/the-fbis-strange-anthrax-investigation

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What a Wuhan lab leak would really mean – UnHerd

Scientists and the media eagerly denounced credible evidence as a conspiracy theory — Read on unherd.com/2021/05/what-if-there-was-a-lab-leak/

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Nuclear Weapons Are Core to U.S. Foreign policy

The document about a 1958 crisis shows officials eagerly making the case for atomic warfare against China. — Read on theintercept.com/2021/06/01/daniel-ellsberg-china-atomic-nuclear-weapons/ “THE WHOLE IDEA is to kill the bastards,” Gen. Thomas Power, commander of America’s nuclear forces from 1957 to … Continue reading

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Corona Update 2020-03-13

Unfortunately, the good folks at JohnHopkins, from where I normally pull the Corona daily data, seem now to have some inconsistencies in their datasets; for instance, neither Italy, Spain nor Finland, according to those datasets, showed any new cases between … Continue reading

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Corona outbreak – why isolation of infected people matters

Just hacked a simple simulation on the spread and effects of a virus, like the Corona virus that is in voque as we speak. The model is very simple, with the following assumptions/constants: The population size is constant, in the … Continue reading

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Collect it all: America’s surveillance state – Fault Lines – Al Jazeera English

Collect it all: America’s surveillance state – Fault Lines – Al Jazeera English.

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Must See: Living in a surveillance state – Mikko Hypponen

Absolute “Must See” Ted talk on why the mass surveillance performed by NSA, GCHQ, FRA and others is absolutely detrimental to democracy, liberty, freedom, society and you, and why Open Source could help saving your privacy. “your favorite search engine … Continue reading

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To change a deterministic,badly behaving (evil) System, you need to act from outside the system

Professor Peter Ludlow of Northwestern University wrore a brilliant piece in NYT’s Opinion pages on the moral and ethics of whistleblowing, examplified by e.g. Manning and Snowden. A lot of people have argued that by blowing their whistles, Manning and … Continue reading

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Consequences of total surveillance

Innovation, risk taking, creativity, motivation, drive, participation, cooperation,  interest, social cohesion, quality, focus, energy, stamina, determination and overall well being, all suffer from mass surveillance: in nations, societies, organizations, corporations, businesses, schools as well as in families. In essence: people … Continue reading

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Massive UK government IT-program ditches Agile in favor for Waterfall

DWP, UK Department of Work and Pensions, drops Agile for its £2B Universal Credit program. I find it amazing,  amuzing, ironic as well as sad to continuously having to observe our industry’s desperate search for the next silver bullet, regardless … Continue reading

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