In George Orwell’s novel, 1984[16], the Ministry of Truth rearranges facts and rewrites history. On the face of the building in which it is housed are engraved these slogans: “War Is Peace; Freedom Is Slavery; Ignorance Is Strength”. Language ...
It took me quite some time to realize and finally get into the many unwritten Chinese rules as well, so to say that “Chinese are impolite” is only correct if one takes one’s own culture as an absolute yardstick. Expats are an uneven group and there are some of them who just never ...
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has prompted much ill-informed comment in nationalist circles. Many nationalists have chosen to believe an online fantasy world in which Vladimir Putin is really an Alt-Right or White Nationalist culture warrior...
Peter Strzok texts Lisa Page: “Here we go,” sending a link to the Times report titled, “Harry Reid Cites Evidence of Russian Tampering in U.S. Vote and seeks FBI inquiry.” That text appears to confirm that the political arm of the U.S. government was work...
The government detailed a little man by the name of Jerome Livshltz to go around to our various installations with me. Livshitz had taken part in the revolution of 1905, and had spent twelve years in the U.S.A. as a revolutionary, most of the time in jails…. ...
In the academic literature, these are called “man-in-the-middle” attacks, and have beenknownto the commercial and academic security communities. More specifically, they are examples of “man-on-the-side” attacks. They are hard for any organization other than the NSA to reliably execute, be...
Some of these devices are already in use in Kentucky jails, where the goal is to help prevent overdoses and other medical emergencies. Then there’s a much creepier use case: spying through walls. Patwari earned a “Wi-Fi Signals Can See Through Walls” headline back in 2009 when the...
It has a ring of truthiness for their listeners, who are primed to believe all bad things come from the left. The word "socialist" did appear in the party name, and thats enough to power propaganda. So many people will have picked up the meme without trying to figure out whether it ...
How does it do anything but cast Americans as ‘enemies’ to be defeated in a cynical ploy to sell as many weapons as possible?” he wrote. Share Advertisement 11:30 PM June 30 Tired of exporting campaign cash, these politicos are putting California first By ...
but for the "healing of the nations,"--the Frenchman, the German, the Italian, the Russian--for all those from whom it may be, in this world, its fruits have been farthest removed, but who, nevertheless, have "hungered and thirsted after righteousness," and who therefore "shall be fi...