In which we travel into interesting waters . . . (for a fairly long trip, so be prepared) Dr. King's 1968 book, Where do we go from here: chaos or community? , is profound in that it criticizes anti-poverty programs for their piecemeal approach, as John Schlosberg of the Center for a Stateless Society [C4SS] observes: King noted that the antipoverty programs of the time “proceeded from a premise that poverty is a consequence of multiple evils,” with separate programs each dedicated to individual issues such as education and housing. Though in his view “none of these remedies in itself is unsound,” they “all have a fatal disadvantage” of being “piecemeal,” with their implementation having “fluctuated at the whims of legislative bodies” or been “entangled in bureaucratic stalling.” The result is that “fragmentary and spasmodic reforms have failed to reach down to the profoundest needs of the poor.” Such single-issue approaches also have “another common failing — ...
“A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives.” -- Charles Wheelan, "Naked Economics"
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Despite success creating magnificent supercomputers in Oak Ridge, the NSA realized they could not decode strong encryption in real time. Two responses followed:
1- They are creating an archive in Utah to duplicate ALL traffic on the internet for deciphering selectively at their measure.
2- Work to modify the infrastructure to allow real time manipulation in case of emergency.
Problem is that they are collecting your emails (all of them) and only admit to "interception" when they go back and read them. All without political discussion of the propriety of this policy.