John Petersen: Adam Gopnik Is Intelligence Intelligent? Are Spies More Trouble Than They’re Worth?

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Are Spies More Trouble Than They’re Worth?

The history of espionage is a lesson in paradox: the better your intelligence, the dumber your conduct; the more you know, the less you anticipate.

The universal law of unintended consequences rules with a special ferocity in espionage and covert action, because pervasive secrecy rules out the small, mid-course corrections that are possible in normal social pursuits.

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Berto Jongman: USA Social Credit System from #GoogleGestapod

07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 10 Transnational Crime, 11 Society, Commerce, Corruption, Government, IO Impotency, Officers Call

Fast Company: Silicon Valley Is Building a Communist-style ‘Social Credit’ System

… a range of ways in which western citizens are being systematically rated, and in some cases excluded, by corporate America. These include insurance companies scanning the social media feeds of applicants, an app called “PatronScan,” that logs the face and name of troublesome bar and restaurant clientele, and the growing tendency of services like Airbnb, Uber, and WhatsApp to ban users for arbitrary reasons.

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John Whitehead: The American Gulag — Police State, Predatory Mental Illness Lies, Disarming Veterans…

07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 11 Society, Corruption, Government, Officers Call
John Whitehead

The American Gulag: Brick by Brick, Our Prison Walls Get More Oppressive by the Day

The age-old practice by which despotic regimes eliminate their critics or potential adversaries by making them disappear—or forcing them to flee—or exiling them literally or figuratively or virtually from their fellow citizens—is happening with increasing frequency in America.

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