One of the curses of being highly intuitive is you may perceive things way before others do. You want to warn people of possible dangers but without hard proof, you have no way of showing them why you believe so and so is a dangerous person working to degrade and erode democracy in the free… Read More Opinion – Hostile foreign operators in Canada
Normally I would write several paragraphs on this but I’m somewhat sleep-deprived today. For me, a full sleep cycle as I see it can be as brief as an hour and 15 minutes but it varies. A good uninterrupted nap will fix everything. It always does. But until then, I’ll link to a search I… Read More Has Putin Undone Gorbachev?
The news of Julian Assange’s pending extradition to the US led me to Wikipedia, where I read about him and learned of this video. Mildly surprised to see it freely available on YouTube, I was shocked and dismayed while watching it. I am not making a value judgment. I think being in a chopper in… Read More WikiLeaks: Collateral Murder (Iraq, 2007) – YouTube
Irish security services have been closely monitoring the activities of Russian spies operating from its embassy in south Dublin for “several years”, with intelligence gathered being shared “when necessary” with the security agencies of friendly nations such as the US and the UK, sources have confirmed. Source: Spying on the spies: How the garda keeps… Read More Spying on the spies: How the garda keeps tabs on Russian agents working from Dublin – Independent.ie | Opinion
many of us in the free world can still watch various perspectives. For now, anyhow. One of the nicest new channels I have discovered is Euronews. It’s available on smart TV in Canada thru the Haystack News app and probably on other apps, depending on your TV’s OS. Just now I watched one of my… Read More While Putin shuts down everything but his own narrative…
U.S. and European leaders are clearly awakening to the threat, but if the displacement of global democratic norms by authoritarian powers is to be reversed, the world’s democracies will have to mount a much more serious and comprehensive response. At stake is the right of people everywhere to live freely within an international system that… Read More The Growing Threat of a World Run by Dictators | RealClearPolitics | Opinion
FBI Special Agent Nick Shenkin, the Director of the Strategic Technology Task Force for the FBI’s San Francisco Field Division, spoke out about the threat in an interview published on Thursday. Source: FBI warns Big Tech that employees may be SPYING for China and Russia | Daily Mail Online Opinion: A long time ago when the… Read More FBI warns Big Tech that employees may be SPYING for China and Russia | Daily Mail Online | Opinion
U.S. social media giant Facebook should be more transparent about how it is reducing the political content Canadians are seeing as they prepare to head to the polls in the federal election, New Democrat Charlie Angus says. Source: Facebook draws fire over plan to reduce political content Opinion: Facebook’s faceless ‘algorithm’ is back at it… Read More Facebook draws fire over plan to reduce political content | Opinion
If we extrapolate from the current trend lines, democracy will be gone in a couple decades, melted away like the polar ice. But although down, democracy is not out. Source: Democracy Is Taking a Beating, but It’s Not Out Opinion: A better-than-average piece. Unlike some Marxists and other academic eggheads too scared or stunned to… Read More Democracy Is Taking a Beating, but It’s Not Out | Opinion
‘Before we go I have a message for Harry who is now attacking one of America’s most sacred rights, the freedom of speech’ Source: Sean Hannity attacks Harry as ‘royal pain in the ass’ Opinion: Ha ha. It must be difficult to leave the pampered yet restricted realm of royalty to realize that life in… Read More Sean Hannity attacks Harry as ‘royal pain in the ass’ | Opinion
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