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“The infrastructure for turnkey totalitarianism is there for an administration willing to break the law.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/o...
Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy: DOGE’s Construction of a Surveillance State (Gift Article)
DOGE is rapidly assembling a sprawling monitoring system, the foundation of many authoritarian regimes.
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April 30, 2025 at 3:41 PM
“The infrastructure for turnkey totalitarianism is there for an administration willing to break the law.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/o...
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/o...
Opinion | ‘A Huge Negative Shock’: Three Experts Game Out Recession Odds and Economic Uncertainty (Gift Article)
A look at tariffs, the Fed, the dollar and how uncertainty is wreaking havoc on financial markets.
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April 20, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/o...
When gold rises to new records and federal bonds are being sold off, it indicates that the dollar is falling against other currencies. Ironically, this is a direct result of poorly planned tariffs intended to reduce trade deficits- and actually increasing them. www.mining.com/gold-price-s...
Gold price surpasses $3,300 to new record as tariff war ramps up
Fueling gold's rally, US President Donald Trump on Tuesday ordered a probe into possible tariffs on all critical minerals imports.
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April 16, 2025 at 9:33 PM
When gold rises to new records and federal bonds are being sold off, it indicates that the dollar is falling against other currencies. Ironically, this is a direct result of poorly planned tariffs intended to reduce trade deficits- and actually increasing them. www.mining.com/gold-price-s...
Congratulations to me: I'm in FB jail now for posting in favor of Democracy. It's a thing of beauty, as Zuckerberg is clearly supporting fascism.
April 5, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Congratulations to me: I'm in FB jail now for posting in favor of Democracy. It's a thing of beauty, as Zuckerberg is clearly supporting fascism.
If you suspect surveillance, tracking or tapping of your cellular device by government or LE groups, there's a relatively inexpensive tool available that will detect such activities and warn you that such activity is in progress. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying
Rayhunter is a new open source tool we’ve created that runs off an affordable mobile hotspot that we hope empowers everyone, regardless of technical skill, to help search out cell-site simulators (CSS...
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March 8, 2025 at 12:10 AM
If you suspect surveillance, tracking or tapping of your cellular device by government or LE groups, there's a relatively inexpensive tool available that will detect such activities and warn you that such activity is in progress. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
Ignorance has proven very advantageous to the right. They want to improve their control by dumbing America down even further. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...
Why Do Republicans Want to Dismantle the Education Department? (Gift Article)
President Trump’s fixation reinvigorated the debate over the role of the federal government in education, and created a powerful point of unity between the factions of his party.
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March 7, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Ignorance has proven very advantageous to the right. They want to improve their control by dumbing America down even further. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...
Elon Musk is saying there are about 394 million social security recipients. A professor of finance at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign tells us “Elon’s 394 million is not the number of people receiving benefits. It is the number of people with Social Security numbers.” What a dope.
March 7, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Elon Musk is saying there are about 394 million social security recipients. A professor of finance at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign tells us “Elon’s 394 million is not the number of people receiving benefits. It is the number of people with Social Security numbers.” What a dope.
Sunset earlier this month at Roberts Beach on the central coast of California.
February 27, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Sunset earlier this month at Roberts Beach on the central coast of California.
As it turns out, raw pet food may be the Trojan horse bird flu uses to enter your home. Just like unpasteurized milk, raw foods in general have benefits- but they can also carry a variety of pathogens. ktvz.com/lifestyle/pe...
NW officials issue public health alert, raw pet food warning after 2 Portland-area cats contract bird flu, are euthanized
SALEM, Ore. (KTZV) -- The Oregon and Washington Departments of Agriculture warned pet owners Friday about the risks of raw pet food after tests confirmed Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) in tw...
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February 16, 2025 at 12:45 AM
As it turns out, raw pet food may be the Trojan horse bird flu uses to enter your home. Just like unpasteurized milk, raw foods in general have benefits- but they can also carry a variety of pathogens. ktvz.com/lifestyle/pe...
There is a musical instrument museum in the area of Scottsdale Arizona that I would strongly recommend to anyone spending time in that area. It covers a lot of the instruments used from very early times to contemporary pop. It also includes mechanized musical instruments like this large nickelodeon.
November 28, 2024 at 6:20 PM
There is a musical instrument museum in the area of Scottsdale Arizona that I would strongly recommend to anyone spending time in that area. It covers a lot of the instruments used from very early times to contemporary pop. It also includes mechanized musical instruments like this large nickelodeon.