A “Potemkin Village” is made from fake storefronts built to fraudulently impress a visiting czar and dignitaries. The “front organization” is torn down once its specific message/purpose ends. Step one (PDF): Facebook sets up special pay-to-play access (competitive advantage) to user data and leaks this privileged (back) door to Russia. (October 8, 2014 email in … Continue reading Is Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO) a Front Organization for Facebook?→
There’s a lot of chatter about Epstein conspiracy theorists, which I may run risk of getting bundled into given my recent post about his peculiar counterfeit passport. However, I’d like to keep my post as factual as possible, as I attempted to do in the passport blog post analysis. Here are some references that may … Continue reading The Assassination of Epstein→
On this day in 1886 a Civil War veteran from Texas, Albert Richard Parsons, was falsely accused along with several others of a conspiracy to murder in Chicago, Illinois. By 1893 they were pardoned, yet it was too late to save them from being put to death by police. Why did the American justice system … Continue reading This Day in History: 1886 Haymarket Affair→
In private circles I was agitating for a while on the humanitarian crisis in North Korea. Although I have collected a bit of data and insights over the years it just hasn’t seemed like the sort of thing people were interested in or asking about. Not exactly good conversation material. Then earlier this year I … Continue reading The DPRK Humanitarian Crisis→
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