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The Global Currency Exchange

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My comment : 5:58 Yup, he's surrounded by 350 million people making money. So what are you all going to do? From the outside the USA just looks like a bunch of people pretending to laugh at a joke that isn't funny.  Subscribe to  I've Had it Podcast . Lena Petrova (who used to be an auditor)  My comment : That was really helpful, thank you. Can you do a talk one day about the difficulties of auditing the US Department of Defense? I forget how many trillions (27?) are unaccounted for. The question I have is why this doesn't seem to matter. Is it just because the international currency markets are driven by need and that this problem is just assumed to be one that will never be addressed by any administration, or by the US Supreme Court or any international body like the UN Security Council?  Subscribe to  World Affairs in Context .  Alastair Crooke  He says Iran has an equation: security for all or security for no-one; prosperity for all or prosperity ...

Defensive Security and Olive Badger

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The next episode is out! See  Episode 344 . First story: ComputerWeekly:  Emergency Microsoft, Oracle patches point to wider cyber issues . I think I used to write for that publication in Hong Kong in 1990,...  Third story: The Hacker News:  The Hidden Cost of Cybersecurity Specialization: Losing Foundational Skills .  Subscribe to  Defensive Podcasts . My comment : We can completely rethink the way we use personal data. Most of the time none of that personal data is in active use. It is just there "in case someone needs it" most of it is never needed, so why does it need to exist as a separate copy on a cloud server volume somewhere? Instead you could store a token which represents a commitment by the person to provide some data item, such as their date of birth, on request. Then if the company needs to verify their age it can just use that commitment token to do it, it never actually needs to know their date of birth. Similarly, it doesn't need their nam...

Robert Elder - World Domination Day #347

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See  https://patreon.com/RobertElderSoftware . See  Julie Nolke - When Trump Invades  and  One of My Co-conspirators is Being Oppressed by the Deep State .  33:18 For more on decentralised computing see  Ian Clarke on Freenet  and  Ian Clarke Answering Questions About Freenet .  Subscribe to  Robert Elder Software .  Craig Gentry on fully homomorphic encryption, presented at Eurocrypt 2021. 16:42 Applications. Privacy-preserving analysis of genomic data. 18:41 Private information retrieval.  Subscribe to  The IACR . 

Afshin Rattansi Interviewing Brian McGinnis

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Sgt. Brian McGinnis, US Senate Candidate for the Green Party in North Carolina. He had his arm broken while being dragged out of a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing while protesting the war on Iran. I've watched that clip three times now and it gets nastier each time,...  Brian McGinnis is a very impressive person. Lindsey "jack rabbit" Graham , Rep. (SC) was on the Senate Armed Services Committee from 2003-2019, selling Patriot batteries to gulf states and anti-tank weapons, and Abrams tanks , to Ukraine. Subscribe to  Going Underground .  I hope he is elected.  SSgt. Bryce Lockwood is the only Marine to survive the attack on the USS Liberty, he was an intelligence officer serving as a Russian linguist aboard Liberty. USS Liberty was attacked in 1967 by Israel during the Six-Day War, and it was excused as an “accident”.  To this day, 51 years later, the attack on the USS Liberty has yet to be investigated by Congress – as per Article 1, Section 8, Clause ...

Julie Nolke - When Trump Invades

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"We had them in 1814!" They (Britain/Canada) burned down the White House . I didn't hear about that until 2018! Subscribe to  Julie Nolke . 

Impact

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Network (1975)

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I'd never heard of this until 5 minutes ago. I reckon John Gage found a copy of this movie whilst he was browsing through the "Sale" box at his local video rental store sometime in 1984 and came up with the slogan "The Network is The Computer". It was all a ploy to get Larry Ellison to buy Sun in 2009 because he was the Chosen One,....  Subscribe to  Pedro Palatnik .  See  Olive Badger on Software  and Audrey Henson on Oracle and Healthcare Data . Subscribe to  Tech Impact Report . 

Defensive Security in the Movies

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Subscribe to  PD TV . Subscribe to  Paramount Plus .  Subscribe to  The Guardian .  Maybe I over-interpreted the compliance reference, but,...  What do you think?  Delve accused of misleading customers with ‘fake compliance’ . Subscribe to  Defensive Podcasts . See  Olive Badger on Software . 

Rachel Blevins talking to Elijah Magnier

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My comment : If you Google Elijah Magnier then the search prompt offers you "Elijah Magnier Internet Personality" I noticed the same with Patrick Henningsen. Magnier has decades of experience covering conflicts in the ME. I guess that's why he's just an Internet personality not a proper TV personality. See also this comment : And this comment : And this one : My other  comment : Interesting. That explains quite well the pile of BS that C. W. Lemoine posted on his YT a few hours ago. He says he doesn't want to go to jail. If you look up CSAR then you don't read about operations like this. See his video below.  Subscribe to  Rachel Blevins . He writes books and reviews films, like Critical Drinker does,... but with combat experience.  My comment : 3:48 "One of C-130s allegedly got stuck, and they sent in another C-130, to pick everyone up, and then they scuttled the two C-130s and MH-6s and brought the wizzo home safely." On foot then, or did they sti...

Panagis Polykretis on Problems in Medical Publishing

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This is beautifully presented in the Church of St. Bartholomew on Monte Oliveto in Florence . See his Substack page  Only relentless determination gets dissenting data published in peer-reviewed journals .  See the commentary here  https://www.oncotarget.com/article/28829/text  and the paper Exploring the potential link between mRNA COVID-19 vaccinations and cancer: A case report with a review of haematopoietic malignancies with insights into pathogenic mechanisms  here  https://www.oncotarget.com/article/28827/text/ . See also  Clare Craig and John Campbell on her new book Spiked  and  Audrey Henson on Oracle and Healthcare Data  and links therein. Yes, you do need to read them all and listen to what people say in the videos, otherwise you won't understand what you are reading here right now.  So, Computer Science departments at even minor Universities, try just a little bit harder please ! And  Happy Easter Everyone .  ...