"Dante once said that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in periods of moral crisis maintain their neutrality."
~ JFK
Curious words - According to Dr. Robert Beard, found on Imgur
Samizdat: How The Soviet Union’s Unique Literary Phenomenon Became a Caricature
'The Sartre and de Beauvoir of Ukraine'
In the Irish Times Lara Marlowe profiles The Sartre and de Beauvoir of Ukraine: how two literary academics became wartime resistance leaders -- Tetyana Oharkova and Volodymyr Yermolenko.
A 1965 television interview with a 107-year-old Irish farmer (born in 1858) on all the changes he’s seen during his life. Q: “What would you say was the biggest change?” A: “Well, machinery.”
Airlines Sell 5 Billion Plane Ticket Records to the Government For Warrantless Searching
404 Media no paywall: “A data broker owned by major U.S. airlines is selling masses of customers’ travel data to the government. New documents we just got show this includes “5 billion ticketing records for searching capabilities.”
Where people went, how they paid, and even where they plan to go in the future are all in this tool, with little indication that a warrant or other legal mechanism is used to search it. The full story and the documents are below. This article was primarily reported using public records requests. We are making it available to all readers as a public service.
A data broker owned by the country’s major airlines, including American Airlines, United, and Delta, is selling access to five billion plane ticketing records to the government for warrantless searching and monitoring of peoples’ movements, including by the FBI, Secret Service, ICE, and many other agencies, according to a new contract and other records reviewed by 404 Media. The contract provides new insight into the scale of the sale of passengers’ data by the Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC), the airlines-owned data broker.
The contract shows ARC’s data includes information related to more than 270 carriers and is sourced through more than 12,800 travel agencies. ARC has previously told the government to not reveal to the public where this passenger data came from, which includes peoples’ names, full flight itineraries, and financial details…”
The NYPD Is Teaching America How To Track Everyone Everyday Forever
The New York Times – [no paywall]: “…Most of this material — gathered by social media analysis, drone surveillance and more — will never be reviewed by any court and will be entirely inaccessible to anyone outside of law enforcement. For almost 90 percent of the technologies it deploys, the department has stated that it has no obligation to obtain a warrant.
