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28 Mar, 3 tweets, 1 min read
DWOE (domestic war on extremism) inbound

"Several members of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday voiced their support for expanded authorities for the NSA and U.S. Cyber Command to conduct more intelligence gathering domestically.."

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"...something that the Biden administration already is exploring, according to Gen. Paul Nakasone, who leads both agencies."

defenseone.com/technology/202…
NOTE: the authorization will provide the cover for expanded operations against all types of domestic threats.

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John Robb Profile picture
19 Jan
This video is a good example of the extremist rhetoric being used to fuel hysteria in the US.

"Trump will lead his army of domestic terrorists"
@donwinslow crosses the line between the public debate over a complex issue and agitprop aimed at inciting violence against Americans.
The fact that this video still has a platform after being seen by ~3m people shows that the social networks aren't trying to stop violence, they are trying to gain political favor.
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John Robb Profile picture
13 Jan
Non-sequitur of the day.

Always loved this quote by Manstein.

"There are only four types of officer. First, there are the lazy, stupid ones. Leave them alone, they do no harm…"

1/n
"Second, there are the hard-working, intelligent ones. They make excellent staff officers, ensuring that every detail is properly considered."

2/n
"Third, there are the hard-working, stupid ones. These people are a menace and must be fired at once. They create irrelevant work for everybody."

3/n
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John Robb Profile picture
13 Jan
The Long Night Ahead
(from 2017)

The REAL danger facing a world interconnected by networking isn't disruption. As we have seen on numerous occasions, the danger posed by disruptive information and events is fleeting.

1/n
"Disruption, although potentially painful in the short term, doesn't last, nor is it truly damaging over the long term. In fact, the true danger posed by an internetworked world is just the opposite of disruption."

2/n
"This danger is an all-encompassing online orthodoxy. A sameness of thought and approach enforced by hundreds of millions of socially internetworked corporations. A global orthodoxy that ruthless narrows public thought down to a single, barren, ideological framework."

3/n
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John Robb Profile picture
5 Jan
Classic:

Extra vaccines left available after the scheduled people get their shots. They go bad in an hour or so.

There's a scramble to find people to vaccinate. Bureaucrats in charge of the facility warn everyone not to get a vaccine out of turn (or else).

Vaccines spoil.
America doesn't have any organizational flexibility anymore.

No can do. Let's make it work.

Everything seems brittle.
People don't want a vaccine?

Who cares?

There's a hundred million-plus that do.

Focus on them. Get it done.
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John Robb Profile picture
22 Dec 20
Who gets vaccines first?

“Older populations are whiter... Society is structured in a way that enables them to live longer. Instead of giving additional health benefits to... them, we can start to level the playing field a bit.”

Harald Schmidt PhD UPENN

nytimes.com/2020/12/05/hea…
"In a meeting last month, all voting members of the committee (of independent health experts advising the CDC) indicated support for putting essential workers ahead of people 65 and older and those with high-risk health conditions."
“To me the issue of ethics is very significant, very important for this country, and clearly favors the essential worker group because of the high proportion of minority, low-income and low-education workers among essential workers.”

Peter G. Szilagyi, MD UCLA
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28 Nov 20
"racing to enact the biggest change to the federal civil service in generations, reclassifying (tens of thousands of) career employees at key agencies to strip their job protections and leave them open to being fired"

washingtonpost.com/politics/trump…
FWIW, this should happen after every policy disaster.

For example, after the financial crisis, everybody in top positions with an influence on economic/financial policy prior to the crisis should have been fired/blacklisted from government service/consulting.
There's a long list of policy disasters over the last 25 years, yet all of the people involved never paid any price for their bad decision making.

We did.
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