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All roads, bridges and trucks are racist and bigoted!

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The whole set of links in the supply chain is a bunch of Hitler-worshipping swamp dwellers.

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"I guess that doesn’t make much of a difference to a country that outsourced the handling of its transport agency’s entire cache of classified data to foreign contractors since it’s leaking like a sieve anyhow, but this sort of move is so obviously a legal prelude for establishing a thoroughly integrated digital identification."

Sorry but as typical American it's English only, so the links flew by me. But the spirit and focus of your writing needs no reference to get the point which is spot on.

In fact outsourced government phenomena began in the 1970's when I worked selling computer networks to Uncle Sam. One contract in particular that became known as PROMIS scandal that became a back door surveillance network. Robert Maxwell brokered a stolen version for Mossad w help and blessing of DoJ and it's still not set right.

It spanned years from RFP to award and then to see the dark shadows emerge. It was the beginning of the end. Having paid my dues on the wrong side of history & very richly rewarded the lessons fuel the passion for reform and to be sure history is protected and shared.

It was lucky for me to connect Bill Hamilton to both Whitney and Aaron. Fab to know there is no higher fact check and keep primary source current. All of this has been going on for a long time it's just scaled to an unsustainable secret.

Don't forget Snowden's power at NSA, to spy on anyone & see everything was as Booz Allen contractor in his 20's not a Federal employee. We the people have no voice in our governments our public officials and agencies are fully captured but first enjoy some of the backstory and human drama leading to this ginormous, technocratic coup attempt.

I think you'll enjoy this but there is no quiz! <3

https://www.activistpost.com/2019/09/octopus-promis-the-conspiracy-against-inslaw-software-and-the-murders-to-cover-up-a-scandal-bigger-than-watergate.html

https://www.mintpressnews.com/cia-israel-mossad-jeffrey-epstein-orwellian-nightmare/261692/

https://www.activistpost.com/2020/09/octopus-promis-the-rise-of-thought-crime-technology-were-living-in-orwells-1984.html

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Oh, the Swedish transport agency scandal was basically just a huge exposure of classified data due to an astonishingly stupid outsourcing contract. It wasn't even remedied until six months after the domestic intelligence services found out about it, and nobody probably knows how much was leaked.

Yet yesterday's news stated that in no uncertain terms that one in three of Russian diplomats over here are spies recruiting hostile agents, so there's that.

"In fact outsourced government phenomena began in the 1970's ..."

Wow, you must have some stories. I vaguely recall hearing about that scandal, and who knows how many back doors of various sorts have been integrated in the contemporary flood of apps and programs.

And thanks so much for the links! Might be worthwhile doing a longer piece on this aspect of the situation.

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"who knows how many back doors of various sorts have been integrated in the contemporary flood of apps and programs."

A good friend who prefers "infosec boffin" over geek shared the view, "There are only two types of users, ones who know they were hacked and those who don't. The volume of sites lacking the most basic protections for individual information is staggering." His crews worked on HTTPS Everywhere so there's something baked in for folks like me w no clue about the back end. https://www.eff.org/sh/HTTPS-EVERYWHERE

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Thank you for speaking up for the Canadian truckers - a bunch of warm-hearted freedom loving people. Please read up on what city of Ottawa officials are doing, they are really nasty goons. Also apparently now in English language, Freedom = antivaxxer!!

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Oh that's just amazing. Same thing over here, the movement that formally arranged the protests are being associated with bona fide national socialists, and of course "conspiracy theorists" and "antivaxxers", the latter of which apparently is a word in Swedish now

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Which is doubleplusfun since the 'vacc' in vaccine is pronounced the same as wax, so "antivaxxxer" (or anti-vaccine) sound like someone who is "anti" wax, or anti-waxing.

Of course, those of us old enough remember when the moral majority types labeled KISS as nazis due to the font used in the band's name...

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