Reflections on a world with too much spying

Don’t worry, you didn’t miss anything. I just made ‘Wispgate’ up today. As Two-Face said to Indiana Jones, “I’m not trying to solve a puzzle here...” And as Han Solo said back to Agent K, “Well I am trying to solve a puzzle. And I just found a big piece.” — {May 2021 additions: See end of 2001 section.} Going to start off with a little fun, a little humor, and hopefully educational bit. Timelines are helpful tools for a number of reasons. For one, you know that a card in an orange was done long before you consciously chose the card that the magician tricked you into picking without you realizing it: https://mobile.twitter.com/clarisselou/status/1387523627277553670?s=21 GTFO indeed. Now have a quick gander at what the UK’s “NSA” refers to as Gambits for Deception. This is apparently sort of a standard list of things to do to confuse people as to the truth. Note the portion, bottom row, center column: “Time-shift perceived behavior.” The idea is to switch around the perceived order of ev

22 April 2021 note: Obviously, there is something that needs to be said about the state of mental health care in the United States. Bizarre experiments, some of which predated WWII and the formation of CIA, as well as general ignorance, lack of training, cruelty, neglect, etc. left Americans with some doubt as to the effectiveness and value of the mental healthcare system in the United States. Regardless of the cause or truth in any specific individual's case, we can thank billionaire tax cuts for a dwindling healthcare system for the most vulnerable, just as we have it to thank ultimately {through Federal money given to states mostly} for 90+% of all criminal cases never seeing a jury but instead plead down due to piling on additional charged to pressure defendants into doing so as well as being the most imprisoned nation on Earth, this so-called bastion of freedom. But I further pre-scold the reader for, on the one hand assuming people are "just crazy" and exhibiting a