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The Editor’s Notes
by Ken Holder
Yep, the sun does it. Yep.
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Letters to the Editor
from Jeff Fullerton, Anon. Reader, and A.X. Perez
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The Sandwich From Yesteryear
by L. Neil Smith
Watch your toes and pardon the rockers on my
hobby-horse. I have had an idea that won’t leave me alone until I write
about it. The aurocs, you probably know, was a kind of wild bovine critter
that lived and flourished in fairly recent prehistoric times. It ranged all
over the Old World, from Japan and what became Sahara country, to Europe,
where it first showed up about 270,000 years ago. (Homo sapiens arrived
there about 100,000 years ago, when Adam and Eve got expelled from the
Garden of Africa.
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Resolved: The Higher The Fewer
by Sarah A. Hoyt
Guys, pssst? Can someone check on the left? Because
something is seriously, bizarrely wrong. I mean, wrong enough that if the
left, collectively, tripped into a hospital’s ER, they’d be slapped with a
psychiatric hold. These people—collectively—are not well.
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War Is Coming!!! Are You Ready … Will You Fight?
by Don McDougall
Most of us don’t want a second Civil War, though many
of us will fight, and a very few even think war is a good idea. But the
obvious question is what would it look like?
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Open Source Healing
by Mimi Johnson and Jim Davidson
For the last few months, Mimi Johnson and Jim Davidson
have been working closely with the team at KanehCN3.com which is developing
Mimi’s inspirations and inventions into useful healing products. Our work
makes clear certain facts about the healing arts and the people seeking to
dominate them for exclusive profit. The current system is failing to heal
because healed people are not revenue resources for those seeking to profit
from their suffering. Other paths must now be explored.
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Edward Snowden’s Permanent Record
Reviewed by John Walker
The revolution in communication and computing
technologies which has continually accelerated since the introduction of
integrated circuits in the 1960s and has since given rise to the Internet,
ubiquitous mobile telephony, vast data centres with formidable processing
and storage capacity, and technologies such as natural language text
processing, voice recognition, and image analysis, has created the
potential, for the first time in human history, of mass surveillance to a
degree unimagined even in dystopian fiction such as George Orwell’s 1984
or attempted by the secret police of totalitarian regimes like the
Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, or North Korea. But, residents of enlightened
developed countries such as the United States thought, they were protected,
by legal safeguards such as the Fourth Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution, from having their government deploy such forbidding tools
against its own citizens. Certainly, there was awareness, from disclosures
such as those in James Bamford’s 1982 book The Puzzle Palace, that
agencies such as the National Security Agency (NSA) were employing advanced
and highly secret technologies to spy upon foreign governments and their
agents who might attempt to harm the United States and its citizens, but
their activities were circumscribed by a legal framework which strictly
limited the scope of their domestic activities. Well, that’s what most
people believed until the courageous acts by Edward Snowden, a senior
technical contractor working for the NSA, revealed, in 2013, multiple
programs of indiscriminate mass surveillance directed against, well,
everybody in the world, U.S. citizens most definitely included.
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Was Stalin Responsible for the Outbreak of the Cold War?
by Sean Gabb
This will be an essay with two main purposes. The first is
for me to explain whether or to what extent I hold Josef Stalin responsible
for the beginning of the Cold War. The second is to explain the
historiography of the beginning of the Cold War. This first is a matter of
analysing and judging a set of past events. The second is a matter of
discussing how others have analysed and judged these events.
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The New Censorship
by Sean Gangol
As long as I can remember, I have opposed censorship in
all forms. I would always roll my eyes at the parents that would complain
about the government not doing enough to keep their kids from viewing sex
and violence on all mediums. I remember when I took a sociology class in
college, one of my classmates who was a middle-aged woman said that it
wasn’t enough that we have computer programs that parents can use to block
websites that they would deem inappropriate for their children. She said
that she was worried about her son staying at the house of a friend who
didn’t have the same controls on his computer. She also mentioned the
possibility of kids developing hacking skills to get around the controls. I
wanted to tell her that it’s not the responsibility of the government to
shield her kids from the obscene and as incompetent as the government was at
everything else, it was unlikely that they would be able to prevent children
getting around whatever controls they would impose on internet users.
Instead I bit my tongue because I didn’t want to ruffle any feathers. What I
should have said was, “Be careful what you wish for. You may just get it.”
It’s an old cliché, but it’s one that always rings true.
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