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Fossil fools

samedi 30 décembre 2017 à 01:00

Fossil fools have funded fake news and fake science since the 1990s, but they needed to present it with a serious front. Now the Heatland Institute has decided, based on the strength of the US anti-rationality movement, to dispense with that and spew evident nonsense.

The organization calls itself "Heartland", but the name "Heatland" describes it more accurately.

Whistleblowing office

samedi 30 décembre 2017 à 01:00

The acting head of the official internal whistleblowing office for US intelligence agents was transferred to a no-op job for no stated reasons.

Perhaps he tried to actually do his job? As has been reported, that office has generally operated as a mousetrap to catch whistleblowers.

FBI film denouncements

samedi 30 décembre 2017 à 01:00

The FBI, advised by Ayn Rand, denounced films such as It's A Wonderful Life as Communist propaganda.

National IDs on Facebook

samedi 30 décembre 2017 à 01:00

Facebook now asks users in India to give their official biometric ID linkage.

Being used by Facebook was harmful already. This makes it more harmful because it enables Facebook's data about people to be linked easily with many other databases also indexed by national ID numbers.

This is an example of why a national ID number is harmful. Once everyone has that number, it becomes natural for every business or organization which has a database of people to index it by national ID number — and presto! they are all cross-linked.

Sexual pressure and unions

samedi 30 décembre 2017 à 01:00

For millions of working women to push away sexual pressure from their bosses, they need to form activist unions.