Category: Collaboration Zones

The NSO Group Story: Inspiring, Incriminating, or Obfuscating?

The Washington Post or Wapo to some in the DC orbit is an influential newspaper. The outfit has a connection to the world’s richest man. That billionaire’s idea for an online bookstore spawned a massive online service. One of the customers using that service was allegedly given some good news. The idea was that this particular customer could go elsewhere for online services. This factoid does not appear in “Somebody Has to Do the Dirty Work: NSO Founders Defend the Spyware They Built.” I mention this omission because the ties within the intelware and policeware industry are many and often quite important.

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My Growing Taboo Awareness (…for Wise Democracy)

“Taboo” means that if we act, speak or think in certain ways, something horrible is going to happen – usually social ostracism like loss of status, friendships, income, etc. We will be shunned and looked down on by many of our associates. As a form of peer pressure, it is a pretty big deal.

Taboos exist in most – perhaps all – societies. Taboos often exist to support social order and well being. In modern societies we see taboos against pedophilia, slavery, torture, and killing innocent people. Even if we didn’t have laws against these, social ostracism would go a long way to restraining such violations. Many of us have even watched certain frowned-on behaviors evolve into taboos, such as smoking and certain inter-gender behaviors, and from there evolve into laws.

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Biden Bows Before The Boss
The vast majority of America’s evangelical Christians have a HUGE blind spot: They cannot see the ruinous role that the State of Israel plays in world affairs—especially in U.S. affairs. Their misguided affection and support for the Zionist state—caused by more than 100 years of a massive misinterpretation of eschatology, which exchanges Christ-centered prophecy for Israel-centered prophecy—keeps them in a perpetual state of spiritual and governmental blindness.

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Warmongers Should Be Treated Like Serial Killers And Child Rapists

California Representative Ro Khanna announced on Monday that he’d just hung out with Iraq war architect Bill Kristol and had a wonderful exchange of ideas, fully discrediting the myth of the progressive Democrat with a single tweet.

“Bill Kristol is one of the most thoughtful voices in defending liberalism and democratic institutions in our country,” Khanna tweeted. “Learned a lot in our conversation about shaping also an inclusive narrative around American patriotism.”

When Khanna’s Twitter followers began reacting with shock and disgust at a congressman who is generally regarded as one of the most progressive elected officials on Capitol Hill saying sweet things about a murderous arch-neocon, he added:

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Problematic Sexual Paradoxes of Pandemic Response

Denial and unconscious cover-up in the light of Jung, Freud, and Sabina Spielrein

Contents:

Pseudo-relevance: science, scientism and pseudo-science?
Challenges of science upheld as an exclusive mode of inquiry
Vulnerability of collective initiatives to memetic diseases
Masks as symbols from popular perspectives
Pandemic implications from a professional “psychoscience” perspective
Implications of masking: sexual and otherwise
Strategic panic in response to vaccine hesitancy
Symbolism of obsessive sanitising as a preventive measure
Panic engendered by cultivation of fear of death
Interrelating the pandemic as symbol, as imagined and in reality
Eradication of evil in the guise of health misinformation?
Symbolic integration of a cognitive challenge of civilization?
Psychosexual connotations of a toroidal configuration
Configurative design clues from the traditional Ouroboros, Tesla and the Tokamak
Force-field analysis and pandemic responses
A 12-fold configuration of strategic responses to the pandemic?

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