Two other U.S. officials told The Associated Press that all 12 were found to have ties with right-wing militia groups or posted extremist views online. The officials, a senior intelligence official and an Army official briefed on the matter, did not say which fringe groups the Guard members belonged to or what unit they served …
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Panel finds world not prepared for COVID-19; China, WHO acted too slowly – UPI.com
The Global World got away from the 5 Year Planners. Don’t worry. They’ll “build back better”. Instead of being chastened the lesson they seemed to have learned is their power did not extend far enough. By planning to extend their sphere into biotechnology, social networks and climate engineering all will be fixed.
Our Special Historical Moment
There are two, possibly three themes in this thoughtful email from a friend, who because of his public character, I’ve reproduced anonymously though with his permission. The email’s main points are: The world is in the midst of a paradigm shift comparable to the industrial or perhaps agricultural revolution; America and perhaps the West is …
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Pentagon Accelerates Efforts to Root Out Far-Right Extremism in the Ranks
A world that’s been locked down, surveilled, censored, deplatformed and purged must be wondering how much more progress it can stand. A whole lot more probably. People have no idea how defective they are deemed to be. If you didn’t know how virtuous it was you might get the wrong idea. WASHINGTON — The Pentagon …
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Uncle Roger comedian deletes video with China critic – BBC News
No laughing matter.
Biden indicates plans to cancel Keystone XL pipeline permit on 1st day in office, sources confirm | CBC News
Climate actions planned for first day. They include a raft of environmental policies to be enacted on the first day of his presidency, including re-joining the Paris climate accord. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/biden-keystone-xl-1.5877038
Flight From Digital Bondage
When the Lives of Others is a movie about you. New at the Belmont Club
Backing Up Your Social Media Data
Did you know you can back up your social media data? The Data Transfer Project was launched in 2018 to create an open-source, service-to-service data portability platform so that all individuals across the web could easily move their data between online service providers whenever they want. The contributors to the Data Transfer Project believe portability …
Maybe the Deplorables Are Today’s People of Color
Back in 1988 Bill Moyers was recalling Lyndon Johnson explaining how to keep whites poor by encouraging them to look down on “colored men”. During the motorcade, he spotted some ugly racial epithets scrawled on signs. Late that night in the hotel, when the local dignitaries had finished the last bottles of bourbon and branch …
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Taking Over Without a Shot
It’s a good thing Washington is immune to Chinese influence. “Its ultimate goal is to control what’s between the ears. That is, your brain or how you think, which [Beijing] hopes leads to a change of behavior,” Tzeng Yi-suo, director of the cybersecurity division at the government-funded Institute of National Defense and Security Research in …
Bidenomics Will Bankrupt Us
So argues David Goldman. Money is information. But if facts are anything you want them to be then you can create money out of nothing. Truth and money goes from being rooted in reality to a deep fake. So how can Bidenomics go bankrupt? It can happen if reality exists, if God is something you …
The Undeserving
What better way to demonstrate virtue than by intimidating the unworthy. Parler, which is a favorite of Trump supporters, was booted off Apple and Google’s platforms after the Capitol riots and Amazon took it off its cloud hosting service, Amazon Web Services. In response, Parler filed an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon. Amazon countersued, saying Parler’s …
“Cancel” Is Too Weak a Term
Following last year’s efforts to ban Trump Administration officials from speaking on campus, Harvard University students are now circulating a petition that calls for revoking degrees from Trump supporters and aides who attended the elite Ivy League institution The much more accurate term is “to unperson“, to create: an individual who usually for political or …
Forbidden Questions
There are two forbidden questions in public discourse today. The integrity of the 2020 elections; The origin of the Covid virus. John Hinderaker writes: “Democrats are making extraordinary efforts to suppress all discussion of whether Joe Biden actually won the 2020 presidential election. In fact, they go even farther: they want to suppress all discussion …
The Capitol Narrative Gets Complicated
Reality usually is. But in an ideological world where the good side and the bad must clearly distinguishable and never stray from their categories nobody is interested in the truth. “Journalism” becomes impractical; only polemic is possible. You’re stuck with the narrative you start. This is true of everything. Maybe even lockdown advocates knew this …
Google Blocks News
Google has admitted to hiding news stories from the top of its internet searches Readers of leading Australian outlets report no longer seeing latest top stories Search giant said it changed its algorithm as part of a ‘short-term experiment’ Move criticised as show of power as Google fights plans to make it pay for news …
Political Einsteins vs HAL
Won’t stop government from creating AI because: Politicians will be certain they can pay HAL off. Politicians will fund the construction of an AI agent to control AI. Artificial idiocy always beats artificial intelligence. Part of the team’s reasoning comes from the halting problem put forward by Alan Turing in 1936. The problem centres on …
Our Selective Blindness
Facial recognition can track one face from a billion yet databases can’t identify the Covid deaths in NY nursing homes. The press can investigate a high school yearbook photo from the ’80s but WHO can’t investigate the origins of the virus in China. Our magic world leans to one side. Tech doesn’t track what it’s …
WHO Sleuths Land in China
They expect to stay for a month but will start work immediately during their two-week quarantine, according to the WHO. WHO investigators have arrived in China for a COVID-19 origin probe. But they’re already downplaying expectations … They will head straight to hotel quarantine for two weeks. During that time, they’ll be continuing their work, …