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NSA collects millions of e-mail address books globally (and plenty more) / Washington Post
How does NSA avoid the legal restrictions that exist in FISA (the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) regarding data collection on US persons? The Post article is explicit about how the law is trampled by collecting the data on Americans from outside the US: from non-US nodes in the worldwide internet. And who maintains the web…
UK plans to use vaccine adjuvant if virus mutates
The UK head of immunization, Dr. David Salisbury, wrote today to the Guardian that the decision had been taken to add adjuvants to the H1N1 vaccine, if the virus mutates. Salisbury claims this would offer cross-protection. It might, but it might not. Until the virus mutates you won’t know. Salisbury contends that, “the UK has…
Euro-US Trade Accord Negotiations Now Involve Issue of Data Privacy/ Senator McCain says NSA head should resign or be fired / NY Times
Here is today’s NY Times’ update on negotiations between Germany and the US on spying; it appears we have not given Germany much besides a promise to leave Angela’s phone alone… Just as European and American negotiators resumed work on a groundbreaking trade accord meant to tie their two continents closer together, René Obermann, the…
NSA able to attack computers that are never connected to the internet/NY Times
So much for keeping your computer safe from spying–or even insertions and deletions–by using it only as a typewriter and file cabinet. Note the devices and programs used by NSA are at least 5 years old. Excerpts from the Times: WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency has implanted software in nearly 100,000 computers around the…
Monkeypox (16,000 cases, no deaths in West) now declared by WHO a global emergency. Get your vaccine! Then get a cardiologist!
Was monkeypox planned, in part, as way to get injections into Africans? Or as a way to get injections into recalcitrant westerners? From STAT: [Tedros took it upon himself to declare the global emergency, it seems. He is buddies with Bill Gates–Nass] In an unusual move, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus made the declaration even…
Biden seeks to recast pandemic fight/ WaPo
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/12/21/biden-omicron-speech-covid-testing-hospitals/ “For the Democratic Party, Biden’s message indicates a shift away from being the party associated with strict covid mitigation measures as vaccines are widely available and proven to work against the latest variant [???]. The change comes just before the start of a midterm election year in which Democrats are expected to face an uphill…