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John Robb: Canada Makes It Illegal to Wear Masks — Reflections on the Loss of Government Legitimacy (and Sanity) — Beards May Be Next…

Canada Makes the Automation of Tyranny Easier Here’s a sign of the times.  Canada has made wearing a mask at a protest a crime. Why did they do this?   It makes it easier for police to ID people using CCTV and social media photos after a protest occurs. It also makes it easier to …

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Anthony Judge: Vigorous Application of Derivative Thinking to Derivative Problems [Simplification: The Most Intelligent Essay You Will Ever Read About Loss of Legitimacy]

Vigorous Application of Derivative Thinking to Derivative Problems Transcending bewailing, hand-wringing and emotional blackmail Introduction Tracing back to the source of problems as necessary due diligence? Current examples of unsourced problems Terrorism and invasive surveillance as unsourced problems Exclusivism: gerrymandering, question avoidance, denial Recognizing the pattern of entanglement Immoral authority of Abrahamic religions? Simulation of …

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Steven Aftergood: Secret Surveillance and the Crisis of Legitimacy

Secret Surveillance and the Crisis of Legitimacy Intelligence, Leaks, Oversight, Secrecy In December 1974, when a previous program of secret government surveillance was revealed by Seymour Hersh in the New York Times, the ensuing public uproar led directly to extensive congressional investigations and the creation of new mechanisms of oversight, including intelligence oversight committees in …

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Berto Jongman: EU Loses One Trillion a Year to Tax Evasion — Comment on the Tax Gap, the Information-Sharing Gap, and the Legitimacy Gap

EU tax: Barroso urges full automatic exchange of data The head of the European Commission has told the European Parliament he wants EU-wide exchange of income data as part of the fight against tax evasion. Jose Manuel Barroso said he would urge Wednesday’s summit of EU leaders to support automatic exchange of people’s earnings data …

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Berto Jongman: Cyber-World Crisis of Legitimacy and Representation

The crisis of legitimacy and representation Matthew Carpenter-Arevalo ForumBlog.org, Dec 17th, 2012 The ongoing spat between the cyber community and the United Nation’s International Telecommunications Union (ITU) reveals a much larger crisis that the world is increasingly facing – the crisis of the legitimacy of representation. The UN and the Internet are arguably two of …

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