by Didact | Jun 30, 2013 | Uncategorized
It just gets worse every day: The NSA has been working with at least seven European other countries to collect personal communications data, according to Wayne Madsen, a former NSA contractor who has come forward because he does not think the public should not be...
by Didact | Jun 30, 2013 | Uncategorized
I’ve been meaning to publish this one for months now but have literally never bothered to sit down and hammer it out properly. Well, given that this weekend is all about setting aside some time to do things that must be done, here goes. The Libertarian...
by Didact | Jun 23, 2013 | Uncategorized
In which a woman who plainly thinks far too highly of herself completely misses the point: Men of my father’s generation would never have dreamed of telling their wives they could not have another child because they wanted more time to themselves. They just got...
by Didact | Jun 16, 2013 | Uncategorized
Your Faceborg profile may well be used against you: Since this story was first reported, we’ve been in discussions with U.S. national security authorities urging them to allow more transparency and flexibility around national security-related orders we are required to...
by Didact | Jun 16, 2013 | Uncategorized
Obarmy’s reaction to the outrage of the people at his efforts to establish an American Panopticon are exactly what I expected from a high Delta with a massive inferiority complex: President Obama said Friday that the programs have made a difference in tracking...
by Didact | Jun 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
Think what you will of Edward Snowden, but before you make up your mind,watch the entire interviewthat he did with The Guardian while on the run in Hong Kong. As far as I’m concerned, he’sa goddamn hero.This man sacrificed everything- a very lucrative...
by Didact | Jun 13, 2013 | Uncategorized
I have been following the Snowden affair with some considerable interest, not least because it vindicates every last bit of mistrust and hatred that I have for this country’s government. I plan to write at some greater length about this, mostly because as...
by Didact | Jun 10, 2013 | Uncategorized
My sister and I are very close, but in many ways we are as different as chalk and cheese. In no respect is this more true than in our choices of colleges and majors, and in our post-college careers. Speaking with her earlier today, I came to realise that Aaron Clarey-...
by Didact | Jun 9, 2013 | Uncategorized
As I mentioned previously in this post, one of the books that I’ve been reading through is highly relevant to the state of near-terminal decline and decay that Western civilisation finds itself in today. That book is Reagan’s War: The Epic Story of His...
by Didact | Jun 2, 2013 | Uncategorized
pumpsix returns with a good question on the Reagan Revolution: What do you think of Reaganomics? The idea, to me, seems so logical. More capital in the hands of those who can produce factories and jobs. However, I am constantly told that Reaganomics didn’t work....
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