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Binney is the NSA executive who created the agency’s mass surveillance program for digital information, who served as the senior technical director within the agency, who managed six thousand NSA employees, the 36-year NSA veteran widely regarded as a “legend” within the agency and the NSA’s best-ever analyst and code-breaker, who mapped out the Soviet command-and-control structure before anyone else knew how, and so predicted Soviet invasions before they happened (“in the 1970s, he decrypted the Soviet Union’s command system, which provided the US and its allies with real-time surveillance of all Soviet troop movements and Russian atomic weapons”). McGovern … Continue reading →

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For planned obsolescence to work, you’ve got to keep the conveyor belt rolling. And most of all, prevent anyone from getting off. It is a problem if people “cling” to their old cars instead of regularly trading them in – ideally, to be crushed – for new ones – hopefully, heavily financed. But how to get rid of the old cars when people decline to get rid of them voluntarily? Democratic politicians in Oregon have just the thing. It is House Bill 2877 and – if it becomes law – it will impose heavy taxes on cars 20 years old or more … Continue reading →

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In Part One of this article, I analyzed the similarities of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy to Strauss & Howe’s Fourth Turning, trying to assess how Donald Trump’s ascension to power fits into the theories put forth by those authors. In Part Two of this article, I compared and contrasted Donald Trump’s rise to power to the rise of The Mule in Asimov’s masterpiece. Unusually gifted individuals come along once in a lifetime to disrupt the plans of the existing social order. Despite the forlorn hope Donald Trump or some other savior can reverse our course, decades of missteps, dreadful decisions, … Continue reading →

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By Dr. Mercola Daylight saving time (DST), the practice of moving the clock one hour ahead in the summer and then back an hour in the fall was used during World War I in the hope it would save energy. Over the coming decades, the world experienced unexpected repercussions from the time change — so much so, in fact, that many would like to stay at one time, all the time. The issue of abolishing DST is backed by good reasons and scientific evidence. The original intention was to give you more access to daylight hours, but you may experience … Continue reading →

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On the evening of March 27, I clicked a link to an article in The Washington Post. Within seconds, the page went blurry, and I got an ad asking me to pay for a subscription. I then went to the home page. I could see the headlines for all of the articles, and all of the headlines were hotlinks. I clicked on several articles, and the same thing happened again. The article went blurry, and up popped an advertisement asking me to pay for a subscription. I rejoiced. I saw this as the suicide of The Washington Post. Approximately seven … Continue reading →

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The Road To Serfdom (authored by F.A. Hayek, first published in 1944) Excerpts from Chapter 11 – The End of Truth Annotated via Crossroad.to/heaven, “The most effective way of making everybody serve the single system of ends toward which the social plan is directed is to make everybody believe in those ends. To make a totalitarian system function efficiently, it is not enough that everybody should be forced to work for the same ends. It is essential that the people should come to regard them as their own ends.”[p.171] Berit’s comment: Ponder that statement. It helps explain the significance of universal … Continue reading →

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Judge in Hawaii extends order blocking Trump’s travel ban

Turkey says ‘Euphrates Shield’ operation in Syria ‘successfully completed’

Theresa May admits freedom of movement could continue after Brexit

Britain can still change its mind & stay, say EU lawmakers

Will Britain Be Handing Over Its Nuclear Deterrent As Part Of The Brexit Deal with the EU?

Corbyn backs referendum on re-uniting island of Ireland to solve Brexit border issue

European Commission blocks London Stock Exchange’s planned tie-up with Deutsche Börse

“An expression used to describe everything from remotely disabling a city’s power grid to stealing a Facebook password”