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Edward Snowden was onto

NCD — Thu, 29 Mar 2018 00:24:46 +0000

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Edward Snowden was onto something on the excessive data mining of people's personal information and communications. But the danger is corporations and "Ayn Randian Libertarian" privacy obsessing billionaires who want to control the "masses"....not your government.

It would appear that only government can stop them, and the billionaires know that fact. So in their pursuit for more wealth and more power, they want to control your opinions, your cognition, your vote and ultimately, your government.

Kinda bored w hobbies of the

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 20:39:54 +0000

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Kinda bored w hobbies of the rich and obscurely famous.

Fascinating article.

barefooted — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 18:23:34 +0000

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Fascinating article.

During the two and a half years I’ve covered Mercer, I’ve come to think of him as a hard-right version of that guy in the beer commercials, the Most Interesting Man in the World. There seems to be an inexhaustible supply of incredible-but-true Mercer stories, including his pioneering research that begat Google Translate, his funding of a stockpile of human urine in the Oregon mountains, his million-dollar model train set, and his habit of whistling constantly, even during work meetings. The common threads in these stories are a fierce intelligence, a wide-ranging curiosity, and an utter indifference to the judgment of others. The story of his adventures in Lake Arthur, which hasn’t been previously reported, adds yet another strand.