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vaadu··on Omicron Update: Nov 27
Goldman Slams Omicron Panic: “This Mutation Is Unlikely To Be More Malicious; No Reason For Portfolio Changes.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/goldman-slams-omicron-pani...

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According to court documents, Maynard’s alleged arson spree included blazes he started in July and August behind crews fighting the Dixie Fire, which became the second biggest wildfire in California history, scorching more than 1,500 square miles (3,900 square kilometers) and destroying more than 1,000 structures.

And not isolated: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/24/us/palo-alto-fawn-fire-ar...

vaadu··on FBI used Etsy, LinkedIn to make arrest in torching of Philadelphia police cars
She crossed state lines?
vaadu··on SMS is not 2FA-secure
Governments and the security industrial complex do not want it fixed. Vulnerabilities in SS7 are features to exploit, not bugs.
vaadu··on Amazon Reconsidering Plan to Put Campus in New York City
He should relocate the jobs to Virginia with the Crystal Project. I live in Northern Virginia. For $750M we should get it all.
vaadu··on Google Employees Resign in Protest Against Pentagon Contract
I'm glad this attitude didn't exist in the 1940s. Otherwise we all might be speaking German.
vaadu··on How a Radio Shack Robbery Could Spur a New Era in Digital Privacy
Hopefully the ruling encompasses other modern technologies and methods for location tracking such as smart tag data, facial recognition and license plate readers. All of them result in data similar to person X was at location Y at time Z.
vaadu··on EFF to Court: The First Amendment Protects the Right to Record First Responders
Feedback could work if the fiction of qualified immunity were eliminated. If police officers were held to the same criminal standards as non-police it would make them think twice.
vaadu··on Hunting for a Canadian Legend: The Avro Arrow Jet Fighter
And the A5 Vigilante.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_A-5_Vigilante

US and Canadian intelligence had evidence that the KGB had a man on the inside of AVRO who was providing ARROW plans to the Soviets.

http://nationalpost.com/news/canada/the-spy-named-gideon-boo...

vaadu··on Where did wealthy inventor live in 1991? California’s taxman wants to know
He should have to pay based upon what the law says, not because of California's addiction to spending.
vaadu··on Ghana’s first satellite now orbiting earth
It's 2017. The space race has been over for decades.
vaadu··on Joe Walker: NASA's Forgotten Spaceman
The first civilian in space was Valentina Tereshkova https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronaut
vaadu··on Chelsea Manning Is Expected to Leave Prison, 28 Years Early
Snowden is a traitor. If he'd only released information on the NSA's domestic spying he would be a hero. His revelations about the NSA's foreign activities crossed the line.
vaadu··on In Support of Free Speech
The Nazis are the folks calling for censorship. The Ctrl-left folks better do some introspection or they will be next.

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/317248-dnc-boots-candid...

vaadu··on I Had My Electronics Seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection
The Huffington Post, really? They are nothing more that DNC staffers with bylines.
vaadu··on Surveillance Self-defense Against The Trump Administration
Against the Trump administration, really? The surveillance state was started in the Bush administration and expanded by Obama.

Please stop whining as if this is something new.

vaadu··on Russian Agents Are Not Behind Every Piece of Fake News You See
The washington post recently printed a staggering hypocritical article on fake news: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/russian-prop...

This is a rag that has been a sock puppet for the DNC since forever.

vaadu··on Judge blocks Obama overtime rule, putting it in jeopardy
The judge was not ruling on the substance of the overtime rule change, only whether the executive branch had the authority to make the rule change.

The judge determined that the overtime rule, which was created by the legislative branch, did not give the executive branch the authority to change the rule in the way the Labor dept. tried to.

vaadu··on A “nation-state” used Wikileaks to influence US election, the head of NSA says
How is this any different than what the CIA has done in the past to other countries?

Are the emails legitimate and do the American people have a right to know what's in them?

vaadu··on Internet Freedom Wanes as Governments Target Messaging, Social Apps
So Freedom wanes because governments are doing what internet monopolies(facebook and google) have been doing for years?
vaadu··on Voters Backed Donald Trump Because He ‘Just Got It,’ Says Investor Peter Thiel
People voted for Trump for 2 reasons, they were tired of business-as-usual from the out of touch elites and they saw the other candidate(Clinton) as having no redeeming value.
vaadu··on How Snowden's Disclosures Made All Our Data Safer
Snowden's revelations about domestic spying made the US safer. Snowden's revelations about non-domestic spying made the US weaker.

If all he'd done was the first he should be pardoned. Because he did the second he should get life without parole.

vaadu··on Don’t just pardon Edward Snowden; give the man a medal
He should be executed.

What he did revealing domestic government activities is clearly whistle blowing. What he did after that is inexcusable and on par with what the Rosenberg's did.

vaadu··on Don’t just pardon Edward Snowden; give the man a medal
When oaths conflict, lying to Congress is still a crime. His non-criminal response should have been "I am not at liberty to discuss program details" or something along those lines.
vaadu··on Hacker known as Guccifer sentenced to 52 months in prison
While Hillary's crimes get a pass.
vaadu··on Why It's Safe to Raise the Minimum Wage
The data is not conclusive. https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-08-11/early-ret...

"The best guess is that workers who remained employed saw a quarterly increase in earnings of about $184. If you live in a low-income household, $736 a year is a substantial sum. On the other hand, if you live in a low-income household, “no wages at all” is catastrophic.

Of course, these effects are likely to increase as the higher wages phase in. The earnings increases will grow, but so will the number of people who see their hours reduced or who can’t find work at all, or who have to take on a new and less attractive commute because they can no longer find a job in Seattle. We will have to wait to see whether the costs and benefits rise together, or one eclipses the other."

vaadu··on The Election Won’t Be Rigged, But It Could Be Hacked
The ID process doesn't have to be perfect, just effective enough to curtail most attempts at fraud. If ID didn't work why do so many other nations require it for voting and why does the US use it for buying a beer.

http://www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2016/08/Mandella-Regi...

vaadu··on The Election Won’t Be Rigged, But It Could Be Hacked
It could easily be rigged without a papertrail or having to show ID to vote.
vaadu··on Olympic executives cash in on a ‘Movement’ that keeps athletes poor
IOC, FIFA and UN are nothing but cesspools of corruption. The corrupt officials should get long jail terms.

The people doing the selections should be formal Olympic athletes.

vaadu··on After the coup, Turkey turns against America
What coup? This is looking more like the entire event was staged as a pretext for a complete takeover, similar to the Reichstag fire of 1930s Germany.
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