Is the U.S. Government Evil? You Tell Me

by John W. Whitehead Is the U.S. government evil? You tell me. This is a government that treats its citizens like faceless statistics and economic units to be bought, sold, bartered, traded, tracked, tortured, and eventually eliminated once they’ve outgrown their …

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YOU PROBABLY THOUGHT THE SCIENCE WAS SETTLED: How Bad Is the Government’s Science? Policy makers often cite research to justify their rules, but many of those studies wouldn’t replicate.

How Bad Is the Government’s Science? Half the results published in peer-reviewed scientific journals are probably wrong. John Ioannidis, now a professor of medicine at Stanford, made headlines with that claim in 2005. Since then, researchers have confirmed his skepticism …

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For the first time, the U.S. government has publicly acknowledged the existence in Washington of what appear to be rogue devices that foreign spies and criminals could be using to track individual cellphones and intercept calls and messages.

https://apnews.com/d716aac4ad744b4cae3c6b13dce12d7e/APNewsBreak:-US-suspects-cellphone-spying-devices-in-DC The use of what are known as cellphone-site simulators by foreign powers has long been a concern, but American intelligence and law enforcement agencies — which use such eavesdropping equipment themselves — have been silent on the issue until …

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80,945 commenters were against the request. 75 were in favor. Yet the government goes ahead with it anyway. More signs that our democracy is dead.

State approves Nestle’s water withdrawal permit—Michigan approved a permit from Nestle to increase the amount of groundwater it pumps to 400 gallons of water per minute, Michigan received a unprecedented number of public comments on Nestle’s proposal. 80,945 commenters were …

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