Category Archives: Politics

Time for More Tor: How to Set It Up

By Robert Fischer | Published: August 11, 2011

It is looking like the US government is going to pass a bill which requires your ISP to track everything you do on the internet and store that information for 12 months: see here for more. This means that every website you visit and every plaintext password you send across the internet will be tracked. [...]

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Nuclear Rationality

By Brian Hurt | Published: March 20, 2011

In the wake of Fukushima, an awful lot of irrationality has been going around about nuclear power. Some of it, I’ll grant, is on the anti-nuclear side of things. Especially with people thousands of miles away being terrified of radiation. But, at least from what I’ve seen, far more of it has been on the [...]

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Why does this ad make me more inclined to vote for Rand Paul?

By Brian Hurt | Published: October 16, 2010

As you read this, please remember that I strongly disagree (and that’s putting it nicely) with Libertarianism, and that I’m a liberal, progressive, and staunch Democrat (if I leave the Democratic party, it’ll be to the left). But yeesh…

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Ten Million Dead- a response about H1N1

By Brian Hurt | Published: October 9, 2010

This will be a short (and hopefully not too incoherent) post, as I’m still recovering from a cold. But I have to respond to Robert’s post on the overhyping of the H1N1 Avian flu. First of all, there’s a reason why the CDC has kittens every time flu season rolls around. This is because the [...]

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H1N1 Swine Flu “Pandemic” Was Commercially-Constructed Fear Mongering

By Robert Fischer | Published: October 8, 2010

Back when the fear of the Swine Flu was at its highest, I was calling shenanigans. It seemed just too coincidental that the flu vaccine was generated just in time for a flu to surface which was going to kill us all—unless we get the vaccine and thereby lined the pockets of pharmaceutical companies, of [...]

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